Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy
$59.90
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2002
Summary
An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine.
- Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries.
- Contends that the famed philosophers’ stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom.
- Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson’s hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric mushroom in generating religious vi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780892819973 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0892819979 |
| Author: | Clark Heinrich |
| Publisher: | Inner Traditions Bear and Company |
| Imprint: | Inner Traditions Bear and Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 203mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“No researcher to date has tackled the subject with Heinrich’s painstaking ingenuity. His conclusions are as fascinating as they are certain to be controversial.”
”… fascinating, scholarly and original … I love it.” * Terence McKenna, author of Foods of the Gods and True Hallucinations *“No researcher to date has tackled the subject with Heinrich’s painstaking ingenuity. His conclusions are as fascinating as they are certain to be controversial.” * Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions *”[An] extraordinary and beautiful book… . I read it with the highest interest and enjoyed enormously following its excursions into the realm of myths and the origins of religions, into fascinating possible connections. I have learned a good deal.” * Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD and coauthor of Plants of the Gods *
About The Author
Clark Heinrich
Clark Heinrich has been an ethnobotanist since 1974 and has completed years of study with masters of yoga philosophy and Western mysticism. The coauthor of The Apples of Apollo, Heinrich lives in the coastal mountains of central California.
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