TY - BOOK AU - Ruck,Carl AU - Alwin Hoffman,Mark AU - González Celdrán,Jose Alfredo TI - Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe SN - 9780872868526 AV - BL1585 .R835 2011 U1 - 299/.15 PY - 2021/// CY - La Vergne PB - City Lights Publishers KW - Amanita muscaria-Religious aspects-Mithraism KW - Mithraism KW - Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prelude: The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of Religion -- Preface: Also Sprach Zarathustra -- One: The Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras -- Two: Becoming One with God -- Three: The Water Miracle -- Four: Death by Bull's Blood -- Five: Mushrooms, Gorgons, and the Spring of Perseus -- Six: Attis under the Same Cap -- Seven: Pater, Magister Sacrorum -- Eight: A God for the End of Time -- Nine: The Bread of Heaven -- Ten: The Drama in the Sky -- Eleven: Freemasonry and the Survival of the Eucharistic Brotherhoods -- Envoi -- Appendix: The Mirgia Mushroom Among the Mithraic Yezidi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors N2 - A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6483870 ER -