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Book Description: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1/1/1978, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. 1ST. 0156252791 Some visible wear, and minimal interior marks. Bookseller Inventory # GHT2564RRGG09192011H14396A

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Book Description: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. 0156252791 Light rubbing to covers. Front cover creased at lower corner. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. With 14 illustrations, 8 in color. Presented here is an astonishing solution to the Mysteries of Eleusis, the secret religious rites of ancient Greece that have remained a riddle for the Western World for close to 4,000 years. Acting on an insight into the-true nature of the rites, R. Gordon Wasson sought the collaboration of Albert Hofmann, the renowned chemist who', discovered LSD, and Carl A. P Ruck, a classical scholar specializing in Greek ethnobotany. Wasson, the author of three books on the role of hallucinogenic mushrooms in human societies, has already uncovered the mushroom cult of Mesoamer-ica and identified the-elusive "Soma" of the Vedic hymns. Closely coordinating their research, the three scholar-scientists first offered documentation on the religious rites at an International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms in late 1977. These sensational findings, given herein a much expanded version, leave little doubt that the ancient secret of Eleusis has at last been unveiled. Your order ships by the next business day!. Bookseller Inventory # WB033226

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Book Description: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Paperback. Book Condition: GOOD. Bookseller Inventory # B10676760

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Book Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1978. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? Tall. 126 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 610984

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Book Description: Harvest /HBJ Boo. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edges foxed. Corners scuffed. Bookseller Inventory # 1045142

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Book Description: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Softcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Scholar's name stamped to ffep (P. Stork). Very light edgewear. Very light creasing to front wrap. ; Ethno-Mycological Studies, No. 4; 126 pages; The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen. The authors then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritual rituals across history and cultures. Although controversial when first published in 1978, the book’s hypothesis has become more widely accepted in recent years, as knowledge of ethnobotany has deepened. The authors have played critical roles in the modern rediscovery of entheogens, and The Road to Eleusis presents an authoritative exposition of their views. The book’s themes of the universality of experiential religion, the suppression of that knowledge by exploitative forces, and the use of psychedelics to reconcile the human and natural worlds make it a fascinating and timely read. Bookseller Inventory # 8698

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Book Description: Soft cover. Book Condition: Good. Bookseller Inventory # 001756

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Book Description: Harcourt, NY, 1978. PAPERBACK. paper edition. 126pp, color, b/w illustrations. octavo paper Ethno-mycological Studies #4 slight cover wear otherwise very good. Bookseller Inventory # 16061

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Book Description: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York and London, 1978. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 126 pp. 1st paperback edition. Illustrated with 14 color and b/w photographs. A very good copy. Bookseller Inventory # 102410

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Book Description: Harvest/HBJ, 1978. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Black cover w/ white titling and a color photo of an Ancient urn. Contents include: The Wasson Road to Eleusis (R. G. W. ) A Challenging Wuestion and my Answer (A. H. ); Solving the Eleusinian Mystery (C. A. R. P. ); Ancillary Data; The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Translated by Danny Staples). 12 pages of color and b/w photos. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bookseller Inventory # 025627

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