The road to Eleusis

Hardbound; 149 pp., including color illustrations, black-and-white illustrations, and bibliographic references in footnotes. From the Publisher's Note: "'The Road to Eleusis,' when first published in 1978, was No. 4 in the Ethno-mycological Studies series of R. Gordon Wasson and his colleagues. That series concluded with No. 11, 'The Sacred Mushroom Seeker,' a festschrift for Gordon Wasson, edited by Thomas J. Riedlinger. "This edition includes a preface by the historian of religion, Professor Huston Smith; 'Hindsight' by Professor Carl Ruck; 'Entheogens,' first published in 1979 in the 'Journal of Psychedelic Drugs" Vol. 11 (1-2); and an afterword by Dr. Albert Hofmann, 'The Message of the Eleusinian Mysteries for Today's World,' which first appeared in 'Entheogens and the Future of Religion' (1997), edited by Robert Forte as No. 2 in the Entheogen Project Series of the Council on Spiritual Practices. This second edition of 'The Road to Eleusis is No. 4 in the CSP Entheogen Project Series which is devoted to furthering the religious possibilities of entheogens. . . ." Contents: Preface to the second edition / Huston Smith Hindsight / Carl A.P. Ruck Foreword / R. Gordon Wasson I. The Wasson road to Eleusis / R. Gordon Wasson II. The challenging question and my answer / Albert Hofmann III. Solving the Eleusinian mystery / Carl A.P. Ruck IV. Ancillary data V. The Homeric hymn to Demeter VI. Documents / Carl A.P. Ruck VII. Entheogens / Carl A.P. Ruck; Jeremy Bigwood; Danny Staples; Jonathan Ott; R. Gordon Wasson Afterword / Albert Hofmann