Carl Ruck is an American classicist at Boston University, a co-author (with R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann) of The Road to Eleusis (1978), which argued that the Eleusinian Mysteries involved a psychedelic drink (kykeon) derived from ergot.
Co-developed the psychedelic hypothesis of the Eleusinian Mysteries; coined the term 'entheogen.'
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