Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Mind-Altering Substances, Decision Making, and Culture Building John A. Rush 1
Chapter 2 Altered Consciousness and Drugs in Human Evolution Michael Winkelman 23
Chapter 3 Cannabis and the Hebrew Bible Chris Bennett Neil McQueen 51
Chapter 4 Hildegard of Bingen: Unveiling the Secrets of a Medieval High Priestess and Visionary Gerrit J. Keizer 85
Chapter 5 The Milk of the Goat Heiðrun: An Investigation into the Sacramental Use of Psychoactive Milk and Meat Alan Piper 211
Chapter 6 The Significance of Pharmacological and Biological Indicators in Identifying Historical Uses of Amanita muscaria Kevin Feeney 279
Chapter 7 Enter the Jaguar Mike Jay 319
Chapter 8 Ravens' Bread and Other Manifestations of Fly Agaric in Classical and Biblical Literature Edzard Klapp 333
Chapter 9 Democracy and the Dionysian Agenda Carl A. P. Ruck 343
Chapter 10 Virgil's Edible Tables Carl A. P. Ruck Robert Larner 387
Chapter 11 The Genesis of a Mushroom/Venus Religion in Mesoamerica Carl de Borhegyi Suzanne de Borhegyi-Forest 451
Chapter 12 Sacred Mushrooms and Man: Diversity and Traditions in the World, with Special Reference to Psilocybe Gastón Guzmán 485
Chapter 13 The Soma Function in Jung's Analytical Psychology Dan Merkur 519
Chapter 14 R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth: Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology, and the Psychedelic Revolution Jan Irvin 565
Index 617