Persephone’s quest : entheogens and the origins of religion

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Prelude
Chapter 1 Persephone\'s Quest
Interlude
Our discoveries:
1. Soma and the Vedic Culture
2. The Mystery of Eleusis 
3. Our first Velada
4. The Grecas
5. The New World and the Thunderbolt
6. The Meaning of Kakuljá Huracan 
7. A Glimpse of the Domestic Use of Soma
8. The Chinese and the Nivkhi 
9. Greece and Soma
10. Soma among the Mediaeval \'Monsters\'
11. The Chukotka
12. The Fool\'s Mushroom
13. \'Happiness Mushroom\'  14. The British and the \'Nameless Mushroom\'15. The Vikings and Soma
16. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Epilogue: the Age of the Entheogens
Unfinished Business
Chapter 2 Lightningbolt and Mushrooms
Chapter 3 The Mahavira Vessel and the Plant Putika
The Secret of the cut-off Heads
The Elixir of Life: Soma and Putika
Putka and the Santal of Eastern Bihar
The Mahavira Vessel 
The later and separate Lives of Mahavira and Putika
Chapter 4 The Last Meal of the Buddha
What was Sukara-Maddava? The Santal and the PutkaThe Buddha\'s Last Meal
The Indus Valley and Kashmir
Memorandum by Walpola Rahula on the early Sources for the Meaning of Sukaramaddava
Epilogue
Chapter 5 Carved \'Disembodied Eyes\' of Teotihuacan
PART TWO Poets, Philosophers, Priests: Entheogens in the Formation of the Classical Tradition
Chapter 6 Mushrooms and Philosophers
Shade-foots
The Scene of Necromancy
Peisander and the Affair of the Profanations
The Swamp of Dionysus
Tongue-in-Bellies and Revealers
Socrates as Profaner of the Mysteries MushroomsAja Ekapad
Prometheus as Shade-foot and the Theft of Fire
Philosophers
Chapter 7 The Wild and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides\' Bacchae
The Discovery of Wine
The Reconciliation with Primitivism
The Making of Wine
The mad Ring and the God
Double Birth and the God\'s Surrogate
The first Birth
The second Birth
The Paradigm of Actaeon
The Regression of Cadmean Thebes
From Pollution to Fertility
Toward an Understanding of Tragedy
Chapter 8 The Offerings from the Hyperboreans
Introduction The Route for the OfferingsHyperboreans
The Garden of Apollo
Lycians
Apollo
Sacrifice
Thargelia
Soma
Daphnephoria
The Secret Offering
Notes on the Essays in this Book