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Blue tide : the search for soma

Title
Blue tide : the search for soma / Mike Jay.
Author
Jay, Mike, 1959-
Publication
Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, c1999.

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182 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this psychedelic plant which, when drunk, takes its subjects to the realm of the gods. But, in the later Hindu tradition, soma is declared to have been lost, and its use abandoned. The botanical identity of soma remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world. Blue Tide tells the story of the search for soma, and uses a diverse range of approaches—travel and ethnography, science and narrative history, detective story and first-person drug experiences—to examine the question of its nature and identity.
Subject
  • Soma
  • Hallucinogens > Religious aspects
Call Number
JFE 99-14718
ISBN
1570270880
OCLC
43037483
Author
Jay, Mike, 1959-
Title
Blue tide : the search for soma / Mike Jay.
Imprint
Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, c1999.
Research Call Number
JFE 99-14718
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