eleusis

Jules Cashford joins me for this conversation.  It's a welcome interruption to the solo shows I've been doing this year.  We had planned to talk back in 22', so I was pleased to have that plan come full circle, and manifest.  We talk mainly about Eleusis.  The moon, the goddess, and the subjects of all her books make entrances into our conversation as well.  If you're not familiar with Jules' work, you will be now.  Enjoy

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The wise and whimsical, Sarah Zucker returns!

Sarah is a mythopoetic, psychedelically-inspired artist and writer who's been featured in the New York Times Magazine, and CNBC. She's also a Jeopardy! champion.

In this one, we muse about the importance of reconnecting with wonder, the puzzle that is the so-called mystery initiations of the ancient world, whether or not human beings have an essential spiritual purpose, how Sarah stays connected with creative inspiration, and more!

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Dr. Carl Ruck and I begin our conversation discussing the book The Road to Eleusis, wherein “the classist” Dr. Ruck and coauthors R. Gordon Wasson, “the mycologist,” and Dr. Albert Hoffman, “the chemist,” released a controversial theory that psychoactive entheogenic sacramental ceremonies are often discovered at the root of many religious and spiritual traditions throughout history – and especially within the Greek Eleusinian Mystery tradition that lasted around 2000 years. Throughout the interview we explore subjects including classical sources, interpretation of ancient texts, religion and consciousness, entheogens and psychedelics, the political difficulty of the psychedelic sacrament, academia and censorship, drugs and cult ritual practices, the nature of myth, drugs and addiction, polyethnicity, myth and metaphor, consciousness, and our symbiotic relationship to the earth.  

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Carl A.P. Ruck is an authority on the ecstatic rituals of the god Dionysus. With the ethno-mycologist R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann, he identified the secret psychoactive ingredient in the visionary potion that was drunk by the initiates at the Eleusinian Mystery. In Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, he proclaimed the centrality of psychoactive sacraments at the very beginnings of religion, employing the neologism “entheogen” to free the topic from the pejorative connotations for words like drug or hallucinogen.

Check out Prof. Ruck’s latest project: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgiwjbne3bj7c24/CarlRuck.mp4

Research Interests: 

Greek drama, Dionysian festivals and rituals, ancient Mystery religions, Orphism, Zoroaster, Mithraism, ancient Christian heretical sects, the role of entheogens in the evolution of human consciousness and religions, Mythology, secret sacraments in medieval and Renaissance art, ancient and medieval eschatology, fairy-tales and European folklore, secret societies and craft guilds, prehistoric rock art, Greek epigraphy, structural linguistics, Latin and Greek grammar, Mesoamerican shamanism.

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On episode 78 we welcome Brian Muraresku to discuss the origins of religious rituals and their associations to psychedelic use, the history and rites of the ancient mystery schools, their understanding of immortality and how it differs from the notion of an afterlife, Brian’s relationship with Graham Hancock, the development of Christianity and the subsequent banning of the mystery tradition, the archeo-chemical evidence for psychedelic use in the Abrahamic religious traditions and primitive societies, the psychotherapeutic effects of and resurgent research into psychedelics, and the leading roles that women played in the ancient mystery schools.

Brian Muraresku is author of the bestselling book THE IMMORTALITY KEY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RELIGION WITH NO NAME, with a forward by Graham Hancock. The book explores the role that psychedelics have played in the formation of Western civilization.

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Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt returns!

Peter is a philosopher of mind with a focus on panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter is the author of the book Noumenautics and his work was the inspiration behind the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

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Peter Sjöstedt is a philosopher of mind with a focus on panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter is the author of the book Noumenautics and his work was the inspiration behind the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

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A love story of life and death, journey with Campbell into the beautiful tale of the mother goddess Demeter, her daughter goddess Persephone, and Hades - the bad boy god of the Greek Underworld. Listen to their tale and learn the mysteries that lie within... Walk the path of the ancient Mystery Religion of Eleusis to discover how the ancient goddess Persephone held the secrets of life, death, and the rebirth of the human soul in her hands... until her worship was outlawed. 

Shownotes & Recommended Resources:

Eleusis: Archetype of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerenyi,

Plato and the Mysteries of Eleusis by Edouard Schure,

The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts by Marvin Meyer,

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. 

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