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Persephone's Quest

Summary

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (1986), edited by R. Gordon Wasson with Carl Ruck and others, argues that the use of psychedelic mushrooms and plants was central to the origins of world religions.

Core Contribution

Systematic argument for entheogenic origins of major world religions.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • entheogens
  • mushrooms
  • religion origins
  • mystery religion

Historical Influences

Wasson's earlier work Eleusinian mysteries research

Intellectual Lineage

R. Gordon Wasson Carl Ruck ethnomycology

Allied Works

The Road to Eleusis Soma

Contemporaries & Peers

The Road to Eleusis

Minds Influenced

Entheogen research religious origins scholarship

Intellectual Posterity

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