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Persephone's Quest Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
by Wasson, R. Gordon, Kramrisch, Stella, Ott, Jonathan
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- ISBN-13: 9780300052664
- ISBN: 0300052669
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
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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 used by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or 'god generated within.'Wasson, R. Gordon is the author of 'Persephone's Quest Entheogens and the Origins of Religion' with ISBN 9780300052664 and ISBN 0300052669.
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