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Eleusis

Oct 10th, 2025
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  1. Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience. Mosurinjohn, S., Ascough, R. 2025. Psychedelic Medicine. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. doi: 10.1177/28314425251361835. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/28314425251361835
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  3. "This article corrects an idea in psychedelic science and culture that the ancient Eleusynian Mysteries used psychedelics, as claimed by Carl Ruck and co-authors in The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978),"
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  6. Natural ergoamides are still interesting and unbelievably underrated, though. They're most commonly found in certain Convolvulaceae seeds, such as "ololiuhqui":
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  8. Grof: Have you actually tried the [ololiuhqui] yourself?
  9. Hofmann: Yes, I did. But, of course, it is about ten times less active; to get a good effect, you need one to two milligrams.
  10. Grof: And what was that experience like?
  11. Hofmann: The experience had some strong narcotic effect, but at the same time there was a very strange sense of voidness. In this [void], everything loses its meaning. It is a very mystical experience.
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  13. Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann. 1984. MAPS Bulletin 9.2, Fall 2001: 22–35
  14. http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11222gro.html
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  17. See the first post on my profile for more info and a microphoto of ergot.
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