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The road to eleusis unveiling the secret of the mysteries r. Divinorum in a ceremony conducted by curandera consuelo garcia. Ruck to richard evans schultes phd mh.
In collaboration with the world renowned chemist albert hofmann and carl ruck a classical scholar specializing in the ethnobotany of ancient greece they give solid foundation to what wasson deduced as the essence of the mysteries. T w r. Free shipping for many products.
Ruck an expert on ancient greek ethnobotany lives in massachusetts. Gordon wasson supervised subproject 58 of the secret cia programme mk ultra. Gordon wasson front and albert hofmann.
Interestingly in 1962 dr. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for the road to eleusis. Gordon wasson functioned as the chairman of the council on foreign relations.
Ruck to richard evans schultes phd mh. Sandoz was marketing them under the brand name indocybinindo for both indian and indole the nucleus of their chemical structures and cybin for the main molecular constituent psilocybin. Hon pioneer explorer of psychotropic plants in the new world holder of the paul c.
Mangelsdorf chair in the natural sciences director and curator of economic botany botanical museum of harvard university f by r. Wasson and anita hofmann wife of albert hofmann ingest juice of s. Gordon wasson 18981986 was a pioneer investigator of sacred indigenous mushroom rituals in mexico in the 1950s.
Mangelsdorf chair in the natural sciences director and curator of economic botany botanical museum of harvard university. Albert hofmann the famed chemist who discovered the curious properties of lsd in 1943 recently celebrated his 100th birthday in switzerland. Together wasson and botanist roger heim collected and identified various species of family strophariaceae and genus psilocybe while albert hofmann using material grown by heim from specimens collected by the wassons identified the chemical structure of the active compounds psilocybin and psilocin.
The road to eleusis grew out of a three way collaboration of scholar scientists sparked by r. Hofmann saying she could now serve my people even during the season when no mushrooms grow. Two days later albert hofmann also tried the leaves.
Unveiling the secret of the mysteries by albert hofmann r. Hofmann presented her with a vial of synthetic psilocybin pills which he had produced in his sandoz lab. Was arranged and dr.
Wasson and hofmann collect flowering samples for identification. Gordon wasson and albert hofmann went to mexico to visit her. Near dawn when the ceremony ended maria declared the pills the same spirit as the mushrooms and thanked dr.
Gordon wassons insight into the true nature of an ancient religious ritual the eleusinian mysteries.