The Forbidden Sacrament: Psychedelics and the Hidden Origins of the Sacred

Entheogens, consciousness, and the suppressed spiritual history of humanity

* Reveals how the kykeon of Eleusis, soma and haoma of ancient Indo-Iranian religions, and Amazonian ayahuasca, have been suppressed by religious and political institutions

* Examines entheogens in shamanism, ancient mystery cults, early Christianity, European witchcraft, Renaissance alchemy, and Buddhist and Hindu traditions

* Challenges the purely medical framing of today's psychedelic renaissance, calling for a tran...