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An edition of Mushrooms, myth, and Mithras: the drug cult that civilized Europe (2009)

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City Lights
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Subjects

Mithraism, Amanita muscaria, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience, Religious aspects of Amanita muscaria, Mushrooms, Entheogens, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Origins of Religion, Mysticism, Ethnomycology, Ethnobotany, Origins of Civilization, Paganism, Sacraments

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Mushrooms, myth, and Mithras: the drug cult that civilized Europe
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Table of Contents

Preamble : the first supper: the shamanic origin of religion
Preface : Also sprach Zarathustra
The entheogenic eucharist of Mithras
Becoming one with God
The water miracle
Death by bull's blood
Ass's ears
Fire, mushrooms, and sexual procreation / R. Gordon Wasson
Mushrooms, gorgons, and the spring of Perseus
Menhirs
Attis under the same cap
The Persian, keeper of the fruits
Pater, magister sacrorum
A God for the end of time
The drama in the sky
Freemasonry and the survival of the eucharistic brotherhoods.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
299/.15
Library of Congress
BL1585 .R83 2009, BL1585 .R83 2011, BL1585.R83 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL22501338M
ISBN 13
9780872864702
LCCN
2008037005
OCLC/WorldCat
244661170
Library Thing
6425755
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5073596

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