Name: Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis
SKU: 1795116
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Author: Carl a. P. Ruck

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Carl a. P. Ruck

Publisher

Ronin Publishing

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

1579510302

ISBN13

9781579510305

Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis

Carl a. P. Ruck (Author) · Ronin Publishing · Paperback

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Synopsis "Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis "

In the ancient world, men and women joined cults known as Mysteries to unite with the deities of the otherworld and achieve eternal life. The most important of the Mysteries existed for two millennia at the village of Eleusis. Its deities were Demeter and Persephone, interchangeable in their roles as mother and daughter. The initiations and other rituals of this goddess-based cult were a profound secret: divulging information was punishable by death. For centuries, scholars have probed the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries and kykeon, its sacramental Eucharist — a sacred drink containing psychoactive chemicals similar to those in LSD. Their discoveries have been buried in the arcane language of alchemy, the occult sciences, and secret societies. Here, in prose accessible to all readers, Carl Ruck unravels the Mysteries, revealing the awesome powers of the goddesses, as well as the pagan underpinnings of Western culture.

Carl a. P. Ruck

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Carl A. P. Ruck is an American philologist and scholar specialized in Greek mythology and the study of entheogenic substances in religious and cultural contexts. His work falls within the genres of history of religions, ethnobotany, and classical studies, focusing on the use of psychoactive plants in antiquity.

Among his most notable works is The Road to Eleusis (1978), co-written with Albert Hofmann and R. Gordon Wasson, where the role of entheogenic substances in the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries is explored. He is also the author of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess (2006), where he analyzes the role of hallucinogenic mushrooms in religious traditions. His work has been influential in understanding the connection between mythology and entheogens.

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