> We all know Plato's report on the trial of Socrates. Now for the rest of
> the story, get a copy of "The Road to Eleusis" by ethnobotanist RG
> Wasson. Who figured out that Kykeion, the sacred potion dispenses by the
> Caryatids in the Telestrion hall was made of barley infected with ergot.
>
> Claviceps Purpurea. Notorious for making people crazy in the middle ages
> before it killed them. But if grown on barley rather than wheat or rye,
> it does not have strychnine, but instead has lysergic acids. The Greeks
> were acid heads. Which explains a lot about their originality.
>
> Now, at the trial, we see Socrates was charged with "profanation of the
> Mysteries", a charge, if you read the report, he never answers. His
> student Alcibiades had stolen Kykeion from Eleusis, and brought it back
> to Athens to throw parties with. Like stealing the communion wine to get
> drunk on.
>
> But Alcibiades was the charismatic son of the most prominent political
> family, and the Athenians didnt dare go after him. Socrates would do.
> After all, the heirophants from Eleusis came to Athens well before Komos
> to hold initiation instruction, and the 4000 who showed up for this,
> filled all the hotels in Athens. If the secret if Kykeion got out,
> Athens stood to loose a very profitable cash cow.
>
> If this kind of thing had happened in Miami or Los Vegas, they would
> have strung Socrates up, and not bothered with a trial. Everybody thot
> Socrates put Alcibiades up to it, and we dont see where Socrates, in his
> own defense, tries to refute that.
>
> Wasson's book includes a chapter submitted by Albert Hoffman of Sandoz
> labs, the 'discoverer' of LSD who looked at Wasson's data and says it
> was right on. But just like 911, I have been called names for providing
> the above thumbnail outline. Wasson's book is still in print.
>
> After Pericles expanded the Great Telesterion hall, the largest such
> structure in the ancient world, 4000 "Mystai" assembled at the Acropolis
> every year at Komos to walk "The Sacred Way", and when they arrived,
> everyone knew they would be told to never divulge what went on in the
> Great hall. This went on for nearly 1000 years until Justinian had the
> place pounded into rubble. After leaving the "Mystai" (yes, that's where
> we have the word 'mystery' from) were known as "Epoptes" (one who's eyes
> were opened). and if you add it up, its nearly 4 million people over the
> course of all those centuries.
>
> NOBODY EVER RATTED. And yet, it Christianity that claims to be moral. Is
> this a change in the zeitgeist? I dont know any stupid airheads. But
> every young woman I know has used LSD, and understands how the Greeks
> could show us such an example of integrity. None of them are Christian,
> nor are they comfortable with "wiccan" either cause they didnt get their
> religion from fluff bunny books at Barnes & Noble.
>
> They all also know what a bullschitt rap the official 911 report is. If
> you consider that decreasing numbers of smart young women will no longer
> be supporting the church, you can see a zeitgeist change coming.