The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen. The authors then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritu...

Unlock the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A deep exploration of secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two millennia.Uncover the evocative history of The Road to Eleusis. Once held in hushed whispers, the Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of secret rituals and initiations in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. They stood as an enigmatic cornerstone ...

"From now on any comprehensive study of Ancient Mexican civilization must start from (and with) your discoveries."--Octavio Paz"The late Mr. Wasson is the Abraham of the reborn awareness in Western civilization of the presence of the shamanically empowering mushroom."--Terence McKenna.In 1957 Life magazine created a sensation by publishing an article about the experiences of a JP Morgan executive who took mind-altering mushrooms with a shaman woman in Mexico. The story captur...

«Das Mysterium von Eleusis war das bestgehütete Geheimnis der Antike. Jedes Jahr, fast zwei Jahrtausende lang, zogen Wallfahrer auf der Heiligen Straße von Athen nach Eleusis, fasteten und umtanzten den der Göttin Demeter geweihten Brunnen im Vorhof des Heiligtums. Die Nacht verbrachten sie in der Mysterienhalle, einem großen fensterlosen Saal. Priester bereiteten einen 'heiligen Trank', den die Teilnehmer gemeinsam zu sich nahmen — und dann geschah es. Eine so unmittelbare und unaussprech...

I misteriosi culti celebrati per quasi due millenni a Eleusi, in Grecia, hanno appassionato per secoli studiosi, intellettuali e ricercatori: le testimonianze degli iniziati raccontavano di impressionanti rivelazioni sul significato della vita e della morte, di visioni sconvolgenti, di indicibili esperienze di unione con la natura, di estatici viaggi capaci di trasformare profondamente la vita di chi, durante il rituale, assumeva una sacra bevanda. "La strada per Eleusi" è il libro in cui ...

One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. Mr. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom - none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the centre of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen. In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the r...

Vor etwa 3500 Jahren kam ein Volk, das sich als 'Aryas' bezeichnete und zur indoeuropäischen Sprachfamilie gehört, und nahm das Tal des Indus in Besitz. Mit einem Kulttrank verehrten sie einen ihrer Haupt-Götter, den mondgestaltigen Soma. Dieser Trank wurde nach diesem Gott Soma benannt und war das Extrakt einer besonderen Pflanze. Generationen von Forschern versuchten das Geheimnis dieser Pflanze anhand des Rig Veda, einer uralten Sammlung von Zauberhymnen, zu ergründen. Erst 1968, nachde...

A Wall Street banker, a mysterious shaman, and the psychedelic history of mushrooms that changed the world.In 1955, R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., ventured deep into the mountains of Mexico on a quest that would ignite a global revolution. He wasn't seeking gold or lost ruins, but a mysterious fungus used for centuries in sacred indigenous ceremonies: the magic mushroom.Guided by the legendary Mazatec shaman, this book delves into ...

Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the field, the book reveals the inside story of how the war was actually plan...

Oakes Plimpton is retired and lives in Arlington Mass. with his wife Pat Magee. He had worked for The Nature Conservancy in D.C., and the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, but dropped out in 1972 to spend a year on a communal farm in New York State chronicled in a iUniverse self-published book "1972 Farm Journal" (stories of his younger partners also collected, with photographs and drawings). Still involved with farming, he volunteers for Boston Area Gleaners. He continues his interes...

Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the field, the book reveals the inside story of how the war was actua...

La biografia della sciamana María Sabina, libro cult edito da Savelli nella mitica collana Il pane e le rose nel 1974, oggi torna in libreria con una nuova edizione arricchita dai contributi di Giorgio Samorini, Piero Cipriano, Vanni Santoni e Nicola Lagioia.María Sabina è la sciamana, la sabia mazateca, che ha fatto conoscere all’Occidente il magico mondo dei funghi psichedelici: per la prima volt...