Gordon Wasson Ruck
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Gordon wasson ruck. The book the road to eleusis. To richard evans schultes phd mh. 411 rating details 79 ratings 6 reviews.
Mangelsdorf chair in the natural sciences director and curator of economic botany botanical museum of harvard university f by r. The road to eleusis unveiling the secret of the mysteries r. Hon pioneer explorer of psychotropic plants in the new world holder of the paul c.
Some of us formed a committee under the chairmanship of carl ruck to devise a new word for the potions that held antiquity in awe. Unveiling the secret of the mysteries by albert hoffman. Mangelsdorf chair in the natural sciences director and curator of economic botany botanical museum of harvard university.
This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient greece eurasia and mesoamerica. The road to eleusis grew out of a three way collaboration of scholar scientists sparked by r. Gordon wasson carl ap.
Hon pioneer explorer of psychotropic plants in the new world holder of the paul c. Gordon wassons primary documents artifacts and personal effects outside of harvard university as well as several other coherent archives and thousands of rare and related volumes. Gordon wasson albert hofmann carl a.
Ruck a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. In the course of cia funded research wasson made contributions to the fields of ethnobotany botany and anthropology. Gordon wasson makes a case that the psycho active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus claviceps purpurea.
Ruck stella kramrisch jonathan ott. Unveiling the secret of the mysteries co authored by ruck with albert hofmann and 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 evi.
The road to eleusis. Gordon wasson is regarded as the discoverer of the magic mushrooms. 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.
Robert gordon wasson september 22 1898 december 23 1986 was an american author ethnomycologist and vice president for public relations at jp. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Gordon wassons insight into the true nature of an ancient religious ritual the eleusinian mysteries.
Furthermore the book introduced for the first time the term entheogen as an alternative for terms such as psychedelic hallucinogen and drug that can be misleading in certain contexts. Ruck to richard evans schultes phd mh. The growing archive preserves the largest and most historically significant collection of r.
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