Bread of heaven or wines of light: entheogenic legacies and esoteric cosmologies.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs December 1, 2006 Frederick R Dannaway, Alan Piper, Peter Webster 4 citations
This is an article in two parts. The first part discusses current research in psychoactive preparations of ergot in various religious systems with a particular emphasis on Persian, Greek, Jewish and Islamic sources. Certain poems, hadith, and scriptural writings suggest an entheogenic heritage to various ancient sects that exerted and received philosophical and ritual influences over large...