Did ancient Greek priestesses brew a mind-bending potion drunk by Cicero and Marcus Aurelius?
Rachel Nuwer: “The findings back up the hypothesis that people were producing and ingesting LSD-like compounds thousands of years ago, says John McCorvy, a neuropharmacologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin who was not involved in the research. 'LSD is known to evoke higher order philosophical and cosmological thinking, so it is possible the Eleusinian rituals were key toward seeding deeper questions in our species in ancient times.'”
Did ancient Greek priestesses brew a mind-bending potion drunk by Cicero and Marcus Aurelius?