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...her is a good one. So is Chloroform. Have any of you read The Road to eleusis. That’s about the Eleusinian Mysteries, and argues, its by Wasson and...

...d, everybody who was anybody in the ancient world made the journey to eleusis (1:23:00) to celebrate the greater mysteries, which were celebrated i...

...tized beer lay behind the Eleusinian Mysteries. As you probably know, eleusis was a cult site near Athens where every September for 2,000 years a g...

...on to that? Yes, well it’s an interesting question, it has to do with eleusis, and as you probably know, eleusis was a major prophetic mystery site...

...just a pervasive cancer on the Western mind ever since the burning of eleusis. I mean we just can't get enough of it. You know, we may look with ho...

...were handed on to the main land of greece and became the mysteries at eleusis and uh and other cult sites it was said by the commentators contempor...

...tical impulse in Hellen- in Hellenistic religion, at the mysteries at eleusis for example. What the ancient authors said, what was practiced secret...

...enistic cosmology -- was a cult of ergotized beer. Every September at eleusis, this Mystery was carried out, and everyone who was anyone participat...

...thing else, having read the book. The evidence is overwhelming. Well, eleusis was the central wellspring of mystery for the Western mind for 2000 y...

...old, old memory of a kind of paganism that was old 5,000 years before eleusis laid its cornerstone. I wrote a book called The Archaic Revival, in w...

...edelic mysteries in Europe, probably up until the time of the fall of eleusis. Hermeticism is only one heterodox strain among many that were in exi...

...ancient Judea, you have an anticipation of the Messiah. If you are at eleusis, at the height of the practice of the Eleusinian mysteries, you have ...

...f language, well, then, it only ceased, uh, two thousand years ago at eleusis when triumphant Christers stomped out paganism wherever they found it...

...the time when the barbarian hoards poured into Europe. The sacking of eleusis and all that. I see uh, punk culture as the harmonic response to the ...

...the world. It's been two thousand years since the mystery was real at eleusis, and in that two thousand years, we have wandered far, far into confu...

...n psychedelic plants, so that the mystery was confined to places like eleusis and peripheral cults like the, possibly the mushroom berserkers or A ...

...rs, anyone who was anyone in the ancient world made the pilgrimage to eleusis, and had this experience which Gordon Wasson and Carl Ruck * have arg...

..., everyone who was anyone in the ancient world made the pilgrimage to eleusis and had this experience, which Gordon Wasson and Carl Ruck have argue...

... period of 2,000 years everyone who was anyone made the pilgrimage to eleusis and had the experience, and it put the stamp on Greek drama, Greek ph...