Video upload date: April 8, 2021

“In this lecture, Professor Wouter Hanegraaff from the University of Amsterdam discusses the relevance of entheogens to theurgy and ritual evocation in Roman Egypt, with special attention to the story of Thessalos, the so-called Mithras Liturgy, and the Neoplatonic practice of Iamblichus.

If we deny or marginalize the clear evidence for entheogenic practice in these contexts- while acknowledging the spectacular visions and experiences that are claimed in the texts-it is hard to avoid traditional pathologizing interpretations of experiential practices that, in fact, can be rationally accounted.”

Chapter 19: Entheogenic Esotericism (2012)

https://www.academia.edu/3461770/Entheogenic_Esotericism_2012_

• Fearful Scholars Avoiding Deisidaimonia by Imagining Non-Drug Entheogens
• Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
• Non-Drug Psychedelics
• Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Hanegraaff)
• Hanegraaff on Entheogens in Antiquity