Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."

• The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
• Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis
• The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes
• The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist
• Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
• The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
• The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
• Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
• Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers