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the entheogenic roots of Christianity, including The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist ( 2001 ), Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe ( 2011 ), and The Effluents of Deity: Alchemy and
oppositional forces, and Iranian priests served as libation pourers, keepers of sacred fires, and preservers of powerful chants, charms, and spells. The Gatha sections of the Avesta are contemporaneous with the Rig Veda, and the Zoroastrian deity Mithra
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
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
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
://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
“ 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
