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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen

David Spess

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The most comprehensive examination to date of the mysterious elixir soma and the Vedic rituals surrounding it. This book provides, for the first time, an accurate identification of soma, the mysterious divine nectar, and its religious and ritual use as given in the RgVedic hymns. After summarizing all previous research on this subject, the author goes far beyond his predecessors and shows that soma provides an important key to the understanding of the earliest methods of medicine, psychology, magic, rejuvenation, longevity, and alchemy. With the renewed interest in the ritual use of psychoactive substances, shamanism, psychic phenomena, and alternative modalities of healing, this book provides a much needed bridge between Eastern and Western esoteric traditions. Contained within the enigmatic verses about soma in the RgVeda is a secret about ourselves and the nature of our relationship to the universe, and this is revealed in the cosmological framework of the soma rituals.

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