"The content of those Mysteries is, together with the identity of India's sacred soma plant, one of the two best kept secrets in history, and this book is the most successful attempt I know to unlock it " PROFESSOR , HOUSTON SMITH
ROAD TO ELEUSIS
Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
R.G. GORDON WASSON ALBERT HOFMANN
CARL A. RUCK
BOLDLY SIGNED BY AUTHOR & CLASSICS SCHOLAR PROFESSOR CARL
RUCK ( WORLDS LEADING AUTHORITY ON THE USE AND
IMPLICATIONS OF HALLUCINOGENS IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD ) ALSO SIGNED BY PUBLISHER AND RARE BOOK DEALER WILLIAM DAILY
EXPANDED AND ENLARGED
20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
( GORDON WASSON ) ETHNO - MYCOLOGICAL STUDIES
No. 4
LIMITED PRINTING
psychedelics , hallucinogens , drugs , preperation , use , implications , secret mystery knowledge
....we are prepared to offer another mushroom
Claviceps purpurea, as holding the secret to
the Eleusinian Mysteries.
That there might be a common denominator
between the Mexican mushroom Mystery and the
Mystery of Eleusis had struck me at once. ( from chapter one pp 27 by Gordon Wasson )
This Book is a Fine Press Volume Printed in Verona , Italy
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( Following the Tradition of Wassons other Fine Press Volumes )
Fine High Quality Stout
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Wrapped in a illustrated
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Wonderfully Illustrated
in Color and Black and White with Map , Drawings , Photographs etc.
THIS VOLUME IS SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR AND CLASSICS SCHOLAR CARL RUCK & ALSO SIGNED BY PUBLISHER AND RARE BOOK DEALER WILLIAM DAILEY this volume was published unsigned @ $50.00 16 years ago and this edition is out of print and is in excellent condition
This volume contains most
significant contributions by Albert Hofmann , Gordon
Wasson , Jonathan Ott , Houston Smith , Carl
A.P. Ruck , Danny Staples & Jeremy Bigwood that
are not found in the 1978 edition . This Edition is the Updated and Final
Edition .
....we are prepared to
offer another mushroom
Claviceps purpurea, as
holding the secret to
the Eleusinian Mysteries.
That there might be a common denominator
between the Mexican mushroom Mystery and the
Mystery of Eleusis had struck me at once. ( from chapter one pp 27 by Gordon Wasson )
following comments
from the dust wrapper of this expanded edition : WHICH CONTAINS DATS NOT FOUND IN 1978 EDITION
Here is an
important book "The Road To Eleusis"
that has not received, so far, the attention it deserves, and I am very glad
that a new expanded edition is now available. The real breakthrough is the discovery of Albert
Hofmann, the distinguished Swiss
chemist who gave the world LSD, only to have his "child of sorrows"
rejected. He establishes beyond the
shadow of a doubt, I think, that the drink served during the initiation rites
at the Eleusinian Mysteries contained ergot. This—and no theatrical effects, as often
assumed—fully accounts for the marvelous visions of another world that made
this religious experience so unique. This book opens up new perspective for all
serious students of the Classics and ancient culture. Georg
Luck Professor of classics Emeritus, Hohns Hopkins , University
"This interpretation
seems to solve the Mystery at last... The solution here offered by Wasson, Hofmann and Ruck is
simple and elegant, like all good solutions, and leads us to wonder why it
hadn't been hit upon sooner... Thanks to Wasson's perspicacity, we have here
yet another astonishing chapter in the history of ethnomycology which for the
first time places the sacred mushroom in our own cultural
past..." - Jonathan
Ott, author of Pharmacotheon
"The ideas which
the authors—the banker, the chemist, and the Classicist—brought forth have been
largely unchallenged and ignored by specialists in the culture of ancient and
classical Greece. The situation seems to fulfill the rule of thumb that when
ideas are controversial they are discussed, when they are revolutionary, they
are ignored." — Terence McKenna, author of Food of the Gods
"The content of
those Mysteries is, together with the identity of India's sacred soma plant,
one of the two best kept secrets in history, and this book is the most
successful attempt I know to unlock it. Triangulating the resources of an eminent Classics scholar, the
most creative mycologist of our time, and the discoverer of LSD, [The Road
to Eleusis] is a historical tour de force while being more than
that. For by direct implication it raises contemporary questions which our
cultural establishment has thus far deemed too hot to face." — Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions