| American journalist, banker, and writer. Founder of the science of
ethnomycology (the study of mushrooms and culture).
Coiner of the word "entheogen".
Author of the book Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
which asserts that the Soma of the Rg Veda was derived
from the mushroom Amanita Muscaria.
With Carl Ruck and Albert Hoffman, wrote the book
The Road to Eleusis
which claims that the visions experienced by
initiates
of the
Eleusinian Mysteries
were caused by LSD
from ergot. | 
