Bibliography

The Eleusis Challenge

Following are some of the best sites to help delve deeper into the Mysteries:

James P. Allen. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Society of Biblical Literature. Kindle Edition.

Darrel W. Amundsen. Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1996)

Ernst Arbman. Ecstasy or Religious Trance in the Experience of Ecstatics and from the Psychological Point of View. Volume 1: Vision and Ecstasy. Scandinavian University Books, Uppsala, 1963

Aristophanes, The Frogs, Penguin Classics, 1964.

Aristotle. Poetics. Kindle edition.

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C. Bagley et al. Sexual and Physical Child Abuse and the Development of Dissociative Personality Traits: Canadian and British Evidence from
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Anne Baring and Jules Cashford. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. London: Penguin, 1993

Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis. New York: New York Academy of Science, 1924.

Simon Bennett. Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece: The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.

M. F. Benningfield. The Use of Hypnosis in the Treatment of Dissociative Patients. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 1(2) 1992

E. Boswell. “Exposition and Oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family,” American Historical Review 89 (1984) 10-33

Vikki Bramshaw. Dionysos Exciter to Frenzy: A Study of the History and Myths of the God Dionysos. Avalonia. Kindle Edition.

Walter Burkert. Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 Cardena, Etzel, Steven Lynn, and Stanley Krippner, eds. Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence. New York: American Psychological Association, 2004.

Timothy L. Carson. “Chapter Seven: Betwixt and Between, Worship and Liminal Reality.” Transforming Worship. St. Louis, MO: Chalice, 2003.

Clement of Alexandria. Exhortation to the Greeks, Loeb Editions, no. 92, 1919.

Kevin Clinton. Myth and Cult: The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Stockholm, Svenska Institute, Athens, 1992.

I.P. Cory (2014-01-19). The Ancient Fragments Containing What Remains of the Writings of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho. The Pergamum Collection. Kindle Edition.

Michael B. Cosmopoulos. Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. New York: Routledge, 2003, p. 178.

Dalai Lama XIV (2014-10-08). Four Essential Buddhist Texts (Kindle Locations 1387-1391). Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Kindle Edition.

Rosalie David. Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt. Penguin UK. Kindle Edition.

d’Aquili, Eugene. “Human Ceremonial Ritual and the Modulation of Aggression.” Zygon 20, no. 1 (1985): 21–30.

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———. “The Myth-Ritual Complex: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis.” Zygon 18, no. 3 (1983): 247–269.

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d’Aquili, Eugene, Charles Lauglin, and John McManus. The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biological Structural Analysis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

d’Aquili, Eugene, and Andrew Newberg. The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.

Gerald J. Davis. (2014-07-16). Gilgamesh: The New Translation (pp. 20-21). Insignia Publishing. Kindle Edition.

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Rene Descartes (2012-05-12). A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences. Kindle Edition.

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E.R. Dodds. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. p. 84.

Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation. tr. Trask, Willard R. (New York, 1958)

Epictetus. Discourses, Walter Scott Library.

Lewis Richard Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, Volume III, Oxford, 1907

James George Frazer, The Golden Bough Part IV Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild Vol. I. (New York, 1935)

___, The Golden Bough Part IV Adonis Attis Osiris Vol. II. (New York, 1935)

Sigmund Freud. Future of an Illusion. New York: Doubleday-Anchor. 1957

___. Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices. Standard Edition of the Works of Sigmund Freud. Volume IX. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959.

Marija Gimbutas. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 6500-3500 BC Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Clifford Gertz. The Interpretation of Cultures, New York: Basic Books, 1973

Mark Golden. “Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens,” Phoenix 35 (1981)

Neil Goodman. “The Serotonergic System and Mysticism: Could LSD and the Nondrug-Induced Mystical Experience Share Common Neural
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Michael Grant. The Rise of the Greeks. NY: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1987.

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William V. Harris, “The Theoretical Possibility of Extensive Infanticide in the Graeco-Roman World,” CQ 32 (1982) 114-116

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Calvin Hall. A Cognitive Theory of Dreams. https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/hall_1953b.html

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Herodotus. An Account of Egypt. Kindle Edition.

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Carl Kerenyi. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1967.

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Eva C. Keuls. The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Samuel Noah Kramer. Sumerian Mythology. Kindle Edition.

Henry Lawton. The Psychohistorian’s Handbook. New York: The Psychohistory Press, 1988.

David Leeming. The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

Bruce Lincoln. (1979): ‘The Rape of Persephone: a Greek Scenario of Women’s Initiation’, in: Harvard Theological Review 72, pp 223-235.

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Jeremy Naydler. Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition

Andrew Newberg. Principles of Neurotheology. London: Ashgate, 2011.

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Rudolf Otto, John Wilfred Harvey (2013-03-18). The Idea of the Holy: an Inquiry into the Non- Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational (Kindle Locations 112-117). Kindle Edition.

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Proclus Diadochus. On the Signs of Divine Possession. (From: Psellus’ Accusation against Michael Cerularius before the Synod) Stephen
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Carl A. P. Ruck (2016-01-18). Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis (Kindle Locations 1235-1238). Ronin Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Richard Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Rätsch. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers. Rochester,
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Emily Teeter. Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

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