Persephone's quest / R. Gordon Wasson -- Lightningbolt and mushrooms / R. Gordon Wasson -- The Mahāvīra vessel and the plant Pūtika / Stella Kramrisch -- The last meal of the Buddha / R. Gordon Wasson -- Carved 'disembodied eyes' of Teotihuacan / Jonathan Ott -- Poets, philosophers, priests : entheogens in the formation of the classical tradition / Carl A.P. Ruck -- Mushrooms and Philosophers -- The Wild and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides' Bacchae -- The Offerings from the Hyperboreans
Summary
This book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica
