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.