Persephone's quest : entheogens and the origins of religion

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Title:

Persephone's quest : entheogens and the origins of religion

Author:

Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-

ISBN:

9780300052664

Personal Author:

Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-

Publication Information:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986.

Physical Description:

257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject Term:

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.

Plants -- Religious aspects.

Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic -- Religious aspects.

Added Author:

Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-

Ruck, Carl A. P.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168023652460	200.1 W323P 1986	1	Searching... Unknown

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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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