Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

R. Gordon Wasson,Stella Kramrisch,Carl Ruck,Jonathan Ott

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Country
United States
Published
29 July 1992
Pages
257
ISBN
9780300052664

Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

R. Gordon Wasson,Stella Kramrisch,Carl Ruck,Jonathan Ott

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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