
Entheogens and the Development of Culture
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Fourteen essays by a wide range of contributors-including founding president of the American Anthropological Association's Anthropology of Religion section Michael Winkelman, PhD; Carl A. P. Ruck, PhD, Boston University professor of classics and an authority on the ecstatic rituals of the god Dionysus; and world-renowned botanist Dr. Gaston Guzma, member of the Colombian National Academy of Sciences and expert on hallucinogenic mushrooms-demonstrate that altering consciousness continues to be an important part of human experience today. Anthropologists, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the effects of mind-altering substances on the human mind and soul will find this book deeply informative and inspiring.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Mind-Altering Substances, Decision Making, and Culture Building
- Chapter 2: Altered Consciousness and Drugs in Human Evolution
- Chapter 3: Cannabis and the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 4: Hildegard of Bingen: Unveiling the Secrets of a Medieval High Priestess and Visionary
- Chapter 5: The Milk of the Goat Heiðrun: An Investigation into the Sacramental Use of Psychoactive Milk and Meat
- Chapter 6: The Significance of Pharmacological and Biological Indicators in Identifying Historical Uses of Amanita muscaria
- Chapter 7: Enter the Jaguar
- Chapter 8: Ravens' Bread and Other Manifestations of Fly Agaric in Classical and Biblical Literature
- Chapter 9: Democracy and the Dionysian Agenda
- Chapter 10: Virgil's Edible Tables
- Chapter 11: The Genesis of a Mushroom/Venus Religion in Mesoamerica
- Chapter 12: Sacred Mushrooms and Man: Diversity and Traditions in the World, with Special Reference to Psilocybe
- Chapter 13: The Soma Function in Jung's Analytical Psychology
- Chapter 14: R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth: Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology, and the Psychedelic Revolution
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