Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on Entheogen-Use in Early Christian Ritual
Journal of Ancient History January 31, 2014 Jerry B. Brown, Matthew Lupu 5 citations
It is the aim of this paper to establish a temporal and cultural link between entheogen-use[1] in Classical mystery cults and their possible use in a segment of the early Christian Gnostic Church. As early Christianity was heavily influenced by the Classical world in which it first developed, it is essential to examine the evidence of entheogen-use within Classical mystery cults, and explore...