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The authors (a mycologist, chemist, and classics scholar, each
respected in his field) make an informed and plausible case that
the famed Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for a period of
nearly two millennia in antiquity entailed psychoactive substances
in a ritual context. In so doing, they find valuable lessons for
the modern world in the solution of an ancient mystery. Although
controversial when first published, the book's hypothesis has got
much more serious attention in recent years, as scholars have
increasingly come to realize the prime importance of entheogenic
substances in religious rituals worldwide.All three authors have
written significant books and papers relating to entheogens, and
this book presents an authoritative exposition of their
discoveries. This will be the first popularly accessible edition of
a work that has acquired a cult reputation in the three decades
since its first publication, and will attract an audience of
open-minded students of earth-based spiritual practices as well as
those familiar with the authors in related contexts. Its underlying
theme of the universality of experiential religion, and its
suppression by forces of exploitation and repression, should give
it a receptive audience among many who are interested in earth
religions and the reconciliation of the human and natural worlds.
This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive
mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and
Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known
ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these
mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples,
here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for
his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens,
or "god generated within."
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