The Apples of Apollo
Subtitle: pagan and Christian mysteries of the Eucharist
By: Carl A.P. Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples, Clark Heinrich
Contributors: Staples, Blaise D. 1948-; Heinrich, Clark, 1945-
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience; Amanita muscaria -- Religious aspects; Mysteries, Religious; Christianity and other religions; Lord's supper -- History of doctrines
Description: "Christianity evolved within the context of Judaic and Hellenistic healing cults, magic, shamanism, and Mystery initiations. All four of these inevitably imply a sacred ethnopharmacology, with traditions going back to earlier ages of the ancient world.

When the apostle Paul proclaimed the new Christian Mystery to the factious congregation at Corinth, there was no one who would not understand that this Eucharist was meant to replace the pagan Mystery that had been celebrated for over a millennium just a short distance away up the shore at the sanctuary of Eleusis. These essays attempt to uncover the original food of the sacramental communion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index