Persephone's quest : entheogens and the origins of religion / R. Gordon Wasson ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-1986.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986]

Summary:

In the opening chapter of my SOMA I said that there always hovered in my mind's eye the admonitory finger of Tristram Shandy's warning against the occupational hazard of those who advance hypotheses: 'It is in the nature of a hypothesis when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment, and from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows stronger by everything you see, hear, or understand.' I was reasonably sure of by ground but also I knew how fallible I was, and I added Laurence Sterne's danger sign, in case I had committed a blunder. Nevertheless now it turns out that I was right the first time, and I present this book with the proofs from various angles corroborating each other. We are well beyond the stage of hypotheses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0300038771

OCLC:

18130458