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Herbal Magick, Sacred Plants & Entheogens

The Road to Eleusis

Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries

by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann & Carl A. P. Ruck

A collaborative book by an ethnomycologist, the chemist who discovered LSD and a classicist, proposing that the kykeon of the Eleusinian Mysteries contained an ergot preparation. It includes a translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and remains the founding text of the entheogenic theory of Eleusis.

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