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Mushrooms, myth, & Mithras : the drug cult that civilized Europe / Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark A. Hoffman, Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruck, Carl A. P., author.
- Gonzalez Celdran, Jose Alfredo, 1963- author.
- Hoffman, Mark A. (Mark Alwin), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amanita muscaria--Religious aspects--Mithraism.
- Amanita muscaria.
- Mithraism.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, California : City Lights Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prelude: The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of Religion
- Preface: Also Sprach Zarathustra
- One: The Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras
- Two: Becoming One with God
- Three: The Water Miracle
- Four: Death by Bull's Blood
- Five: Mushrooms, Gorgons, and the Spring of Perseus
- Six: Attis under the Same Cap
- Seven: Pater, Magister Sacrorum
- Eight: A God for the End of Time
- Nine: The Bread of Heaven
- Ten: The Drama in the Sky
- Eleven: Freemasonry and the Survival of the Eucharistic Brotherhoods
- Envoi
- Appendix: The Mirgia Mushroom Among the Mithraic Yezidi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-285) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87286-852-4
- OCLC:
- 1245669228
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