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. – QUACK, J. F. – WITSCHEL, C. (eds): Entangled Worlds: Religious Confluences between East and West in the Roman Empire. The Cults of Isis, Mithras, and Jupiter Dolichenus. Tübingen 2017, 113–182. 31 For the entire compilation of relics, see TÓTH, I
formation of European and Christian practices through the traditions of Mithraism from the Zoroastrian practices of Persia ( Hoffman, Ruck, & Staples, 2002 ). They propose that the Mithraic practices involved the further evolution of these earlier mushroom
) 105. On crucial meaning of the lyre as an instrument of peace and harmony, with close connection to Apollo and Mithras, see Mastrocinque (2022) 92–96. 65 See Braswell ( 1988) 379; Meusel (2020) 391–392, with respect to Indo-European parallels
Mythras , Ruck analyzed entheogenic connections to the Roman cult of Mithras ( Ruck, 2011 ). More controversial is the assertion that magic mushrooms are connected to Christianity (ancient or even modern), based on the references to mushrooms depicted in
cities with a strong military presence. The cult of Mithras is prominently attested in six votive inscriptions in flawless Latin. 49 Two reasons are to be accounted by for this correctness: the first one is abbreviations which reduce the likelihood of
://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889185 Hoffman , M. A. , Ruck , C. , & Staples , B. ( 2002 ). The entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras . Entheos, 2 ( 1 ), 13 – 46
Hindu mythology. The haoma cult that was transmitted to Persia by migrants from Central Asia was integral not only to Zoroastrianism but also to the later cult of Mithras, which, from the latter part of the first millennium BCE until the early
Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply
Commentaries on: McCarthy & Priest (2024). Psychedelic Christianity: From Evangelical hippies and Roman Catholic intellectuals in the sixties to clergy in a Johns Hopkins clinical trial
persistent feature across diverse Greek mythological figures ( Ruck, Staples, & Heinrich, 2001 ). Early Christianity incorporated Greek influences in Mithraism and Zoroastrian entheogenic practices ( Hoffman, Ruck, & Staples, 2002 ), which diffused with the
“ traced through the Greco-Roman World, through the worship of Mithra and the Hebrew Scriptures into the activities of the early Christians and from there to the ‘hidden tradition’ of alchemy’ ” ( Marshall, 1999 ). Water-soluble psychoactive alkaloids from
