Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness

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ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments – entheogens – in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic. A great mystery of altered states of consciousness and species development is expanding with new archeological and anthropological discoveries. Religious story telling (myth) is a timeless journey.

Surprisingly it’s not about truth. It’s about finding one’s self in the midst of the discovery of the Other.” It is the story of what is separate and unknown that creates self-consciousness. Our entire life consists ultimately in the discovery of the Other,” which gives meaning to the discovery of the self.

The arts and language are the fossil remnants scattered on our path. Author Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark A.

Hoffma Author Info Carl A. P. Ruck is a classical scholar and professor who has explored the use of entheogens in ancient Greek religion, notably co-authoring work on the Eleusinian Mysteries and the sacramental use of kykeon.

Mark A. Hoffman is an independent scholar in Religious Studies and Philosophy, the longtime editor of Entheos: The Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, co-author of multiple books with Carl Ruck on entheogens and ancient mystery religions, and the founding director of the Wasson–Ruck Entheogenic Research Institute and Archives. ISBN-13 978-1579511418 Publisher Ronin Publishing Publication Date January 8, 2013 Binding Paperback Condition New Page Count 224 Pages