Did the Greeks trip on LSD? | Ancient Greece Revisited

Let’s discover the connection between lsd and the Eleusinian Mysteries: There was a road in ancient Athens that led to Eleusis, where the famous and sacred Eleusinian mysteries of the Greek world took place. So begins our journey to rediscover Ancient Greece through this first episode of the Ancient Greece Revisited series. For the centuries following their eventual end, the Mysteries of Eleusis managed to remain what they always were ... a mystery. Until, that is, a Swiss chemist experimenting with the medicinal properties of the “ergot“ fungus, stumbled upon a compound destined to change the world ... LSD. After ingesting a minute quantity of his new substance by mistake, and experiencing its miraculous effects in the first recorded “trip“, Albert Hofmann went on a quest to find his “child’s“ distant relatives, until, like the goddess Demetra who founded the Eleusinian mysteries ... he reached ... Eleusis. #lsd #ergot #eleusinianmysteries #ancientgreecerevisited #AGR #hofmann Writer and Presenter - Mic