SOMA AND THE FLY-AGARIC

SOMA AND THE FLY-AGARIC

(Ethno-Mycological Studies No. 2)

by

R. Gordon Wasson

Book Details:

Book Description: Cambridge, 1972, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 62pp., Illustrated. SEWN WRAPPERS (NOT GLUED). First Edition. Privately Printed. FIND CONDITION, SMYTH SEWN WRAPPERS (Not a glued paperback). Purchased new and never read---THIS IS A NEW COPY

(LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES ONLY) The book is finely printed in Italy by the press of Stamperia Valdonega. The title page is printed in red and black ink.

This book is not the same as the author's large book on Soma. The information in this book is not contained in the author's large book on Soma. OUT OF PRINT, AND NOW SCARCE

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

FOREWARD BY RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES

CHAPTER 1: Introduction

CHAPTER 2: Chemistry and Pharmacology of Soma

CHAPTER 3: The Persona of Soma

CHAPTER 4: Was There A Soma-Urine

CHAPTER 5: Questions of Exegesis

CHAPTER 6: Conclusion

CHAPTER 7: An Excursus: Early Man and Plant Hallucinogens

APPENDIX 1: Resent Bibliography on A. muscaria

APPENDIX 2: Manner of Ingesting the Fly-Agaric Among Siberian Natives

APPENDIX 3: Professor Marija Gimbutas on Uses of Fly-Agaric in European Russia.

APPENDIX 4: Principle Reviews of Soma

Entheogens

Psychedelics

Hallucinogen

Haoma

DMT

Mushrooms

Psilocybin

Amanita muscaria

Ethnobotany

Ayahuasca

Zoroastria