Persephone's Quest


By: R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Jonathan Ott; Carl A. Ruck

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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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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."

Title: Persephone's Quest

Author Name: R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Jonathan Ott; Carl A. Ruck

ISBN Number: 0300052669

ISBN-13: 9780300052664

Location Published: Yale University Press: 1968

Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Categories: Drugs
, Occult, Metaphysical & Spirituality

Seller ID: LED00896