Masonry and the Mysteries of Eleusis Revisited: Threshing Floors and Waterfalls

There are two types of initiation. Formal initiation plants the seeds that through time might blossom into actual initiation. To ensure that formal and actual initiation coincided, psychedelic drugs served in the ancient Mysteries.

Reclaiming Shamanic Dreaming from the Roots of Western Culture

The practice of dream incubation is well documented
throughout the ancient world. Over the centuries, as the Church rose to power
and supplanted pagan social structures, spiritual leaders began pulling away
from the idea that dreams can contain wisdom, leading to a loss of this
important ability that is still practiced in indigenous societies.

Our Native Mind: Shamanic Song among the Ancient Celts

Indigenous, shamanic ways of healing and prophecy are not
foreign to the West. Rather, they are simply unrecognized. Native symbiosis in
a living, sentient cosmos is found at the very origin of the European literary
tradition.

The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of Religion

It has been speculated that the rapid increase in hominid brain size 1.5 million years ago occurred when our ancestors began to consume consciousness-altering
foods. Perhaps our species became truly human when we began eating sacred foods ritualistically in groups, in what can be seen as First Suppers.