Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness

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Entheogens, Myth and Human Consciousness is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments entheogens in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are autobibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic. A great mystery of altered states of consciousness and species development is expanding with new archeological and anthropological discoveries. Religious story telling (myth) is a timeless journey. Surprisingly it's not about truth. It's about finding one's self in the midst of the discovery of the "Other." It is the story of what is separate and unknown that creates self-consciousness. Our entire life consists ultimately in the discovery of the "Other," which gives meaning to the discovery of the self. The arts and language are the fossil remnants scattered on our path.

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Carl A. P. Ruck: Professor of Classics, Boston University Education: Clark University, psychology 1953. Yale University, pre-medical, psychology, Classical Philology: BA University of Michigan, Classical Philology: MA 1959. Harvard University, Classical Philology: PhD 1965. Published Books: IG II2 2323 The List of Victors in Comedy at the Dionysia (Leiden: Brill, 1967). Pindar: Selected Odes (with W. Matheson) (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1967). Mark Alwin Hoffman Editor, Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality