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Podcast #025 - The Hidden World - An Interview with Prof. Carl A. P. Ruck
April 05, 2009 09:26 PM PDT
What do Snow White, Red Riding Hood, werewolves, ogres, fairies, Apollo, Wily Bears, dwarfs, Saint Anthony's fire, Bacchus and drugs have to do with each other? What are the origins of the ancient European myths, legends and fairy tales? Did Europe have an ancient history embedded in drug shamanism from where these stories originate? And what were the Eleusinian Mysteries? Has this area of study been suppressed in the U.S. by other scholars? Professor Carl Ruck has been on this show before in podcast #001. He's just come back from Greece and Eleusis and he's here to talk about the ancient mysteries of Europe. Professor Carl A.P. Ruck is one of the original founders of the fields of ethnomycology and ethnobotany. He was the primary contributor to the famed book The Road to Eleusis, now out in a 30th anniversary edition. He also contributed to Persephone's Quest with Gordon Wasson and Jonathan Ott. He's also co-authored books such as The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes, and Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist; and Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess, and The Hidden World, and is also co-author of the upcoming book Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe. He invented the word ENTHEOGEN. He's also the professor of the Classics department at Boston University. Order The Hidden World: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/1594601445 |
Podcast SummaryGnostic Media Research & Publishing's podcast with host Jan Irvin.A show that takes you far beyond the commonly understood concepts of religious practice, history, philosophy, the ancient mysteries, and politics, into the heart of cognizance itself. My focus is to bring together the leading independent and academic scholars from their respective fields of study to discuss shamanism, entheogens / psychedelics, religion, fertility cults, archaeoastronomy, direct religious experience, politics, and much more. My hope is that by providing a forum where both academic and independent scholars can present their ideas and research in a complete format, I will help to facilitate further understanding in these related fields - not only for the listening audience, but also for the researchers and everyone involved. Here the word 'gnostic' pertains to knowledge, and not necessarily dogmatic "Gnostic" teachings. The word gnostic has it's origins in the word 'knowledge' or to know [Greek gnosis, knowledge, from gignoskein, to know]. This is a one of a kind show, so sit back and relax as I take you on journey through time to deepest recesses of your mind. Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is an independent researcher, author and lecturer in ancient and modern religious practices. He's the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity; A critical re-evaluation of the schism between John M. Allegro and R. Gordon Wasson over the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity presented in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, © 2008. For more information, please see TheHolyMushroom.com  Jan is the co-author of Astrotheology & Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots, © 2006/2009, and co-producer of The Pharmacratic Inquisition DVD, 2007, with Andrew Rutajit. See www.gnosticmedia.com and Pharmacratic-Inquisition.com   He is the publisher of the upcoming 40th anniversary edition of John Marco Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and is also the curator of the official John Allegro website and has contributed much to the re-examination of many of Allegro’s theories. See JohnAllegro.org   Stumble It!
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