LSI, Ancient LSD, Secret of the Eleusis Kykeon and Vedic SOMA

I am a lab chemist with decades of experience studying psychedelics. I studied chemistry, attending 4 years at Texas A&M University and 2 years at Texas Lutheran University.

I grew up reading Graham Hancock’s books, which have been a huge inspiration for me. Books from “Fingerprints of the Gods” to “The Message of the Sphinx”, to “The Mars Mystery”, and “America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation.” I have also read over 200 books on psychedelics in my lifetime and store them in 2 bookshelves. I have read Graham Hancock’s book “Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind” twice, and I appreciate that Graham also had multiple experiences with a variety of potent psychedelics. I quote Graham Hancock in several passages in my new book.

My book, LSI, Ancient LSD, Secret of the Eleusis Kykeon and Vedic SOMA, explores the history of the Greek Eleusis Kykeon and the Indian Vedic SOMA ritual psychedelic beverage and describes how I successfully simulated these ancient brews over 5 years ago to arrive at psychedelic effects just as powerful as LSD but beyond LSD, like a combination of ALD-52 (anxiety free version of LSD also discovered by Dr. Hofmann) and mescaline. This is a “brand new ancient psychedelic”, as I like to call her (feminine teaching spirit).

I was recently interviewed by Dr McKenna about my research on his show “Brainforest Café” on YouTube. It will go up on April 20, 2026: https://mckenna.academy/mka-podcast/

One of the main points of the interview is how I described to Dr. Mckenna how people have been consuming the HBWR (Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds) wrong for decades. They were never meant to be “eaten” whole or consumed raw, as this can cause nauseating side effects. Instead, I relay to Dr. Mckenna how my book in Chapter 5 (3 simple steps illustrated with pictures) explains how the HBWR seeds, which originate in India, can have the LSA extracted from them using a mortar and pestle just as the ancients did in Vedic India, leaving behind the nauseating shell debris from the seeds, which gets thrown away. The word SOMA, as I explained to Dr. Mckenna, literally means in Vedic Sanskrit “to extract, to distil, to sprinkle,” which is exactly what I do in my highly successful experiments.

In this article, I will introduce readers to some key aspects of my findings.

What’s in the Brew?

The cover of my book illustrates how women prepared the highly psychedelic or entheogenic SOMA brew in ancient Vedic India and poured it for men seated or reclining before the fire in the Zoroastrian temple.

The LSI brew consists of 60ml (2 oz) water with the dissolved LSA extract from the seeds combined with 40mg tartaric acid powder (used in wine making and baking available worldwide) and 3 grams of Japanese Aojiru barley powder, all of which is stirred for 10 minutes, then consumed. There are no side effects, no nausea, no vasoconstriction, no cramping, just pure psychedelic bliss. The effects of the brew are fully described later in this article.

Chapter 5 of my book describes, in 3 super simple steps using only a few over-the-counter materials (HBWR seeds, mortar and pestle, etc.), how the LSA from 25 HBWR seeds converted to LSI felt exactly like 100ug LSD, and how 40 HBWR seeds’ LSA converted to LSI felt exactly like 160ug LSD or 550mg mescaline. The experience is noted as being even better than LSD, as LSI incorporates an extra carbon molecule, which makes it much more like the Heavenly mescaline than LSD, way more euphoric, colorful, and music-enhancing than LSD.

I have consumed the brew 8 times (once a month), each time arriving at a profound psychedelic state lasting 8 hours. I found the experience to be my favorite of all the psychedelics I have consumed over a 30-year period, having taken LSD two hundred times, Ayahuasca 120 times, and zero nausea bridgesii cactus tea over 130 times. I refer to this LSI brew as an “ultimate psychedelic” with zero or no anxiety, being just as powerful each time as the Heavenly mescaline.

HBWR (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds) were a strong possible candidate for SOMA, described as a vine. Claviceps Paspali ergot infects and grows on the cereal grain barley of ancient Greece. HBWR seeds and Claviceps paspali ergot are ancient, rich sources of LSA or Lysergic acid amide that can be turned into LSI (just as powerful as LSD) very easily.

Ergot (Claviceps purpurea) on wheat spikes. Photo burgkirsch 2003 (CC BY-SA 2.5)

The Priest served the psychedelic kykeon beverage to 300 initiates every September like clockwork for 2000 years.

The great hall in Eleusis, Telesterion, was one of the primary centers of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Image by Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Votive plaque depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries. National Archaeological Museum, Athens (PD)

My book “LSI, Ancient LSD, Secret of the Eleusis Kykeon and Vedic SOMA” delves into the history of the Greek Eleusis Kykeon and India’s Vedic SOMA ritual psychedelic beverage and demonstrates how I successfully simulated these ancient, profoundly psychedelic brews in 3 easy steps, using only a few over-the-counter materials.

The easy process takes less than 1 hour to complete. During the process, most of the time is spent waiting between the two 10-minute stirring steps, and 35 minutes waiting during the evaporation step, where the LSA extract is then scraped up from a brownie dish and stirred for 10-minutes during the last stirring step with the 3 grams of Aojiru Japanese barley powder in 2oz water, then consumed.

Five years ago, I simulated both of these brews many times by extracting the LSA from HBWR (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds, which originate in India) in 2 easy steps illustrated in Chapter 5 of the book, then stirred for 10 minutes in 2oz acidic water stirred with 3 grams of Aojiru young barley grass powder (which comes in individual 3 gram nitrogen sealed packs, 46 to a box) to arrive at psychedelic effects just as powerful as LSD and beyond LSD to something that feels like a combination of ALD-52 (anxiety free version of LSD that is more colorful, euphoric & music enhancing) and mescaline.

Ancient SOMA

On page 65 of “The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants”, Christian Ratsch said, “The baby Hawaiian wood rose is a possible candidate for the SOMA plant, which was described as a vine.”

Argyreia nervosa is a plant species commonly known as Hawaiian Baby Woodrose. Image by Patrice78500 (PD)

I believe there is a strong possibly my brew as prepared in Chapter 5 of my book is SOMA, said to be from a vine, as my successful experiments in Chapter 5 show that all the ritual preparers had to do in India Vedic tradition was add the extract of HBWR, a plant which originates in India, now Hawaii, to young barley grass powder (offered during rituals) very high in isovaleraldehyde, valeraldehyde, and crotonaldehyde and consume together to form LSI, LSV and LSCr, producing effects exactly like LSD but even beyond LSD like a combo of ALD-52 plus mescaline.

The Vedas are scriptures of Hinduism. The Rigveda Samhita is dated between 1500 to 1200 BCE. Image from Mrs Sarah Welch (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The oldest references to ancient SOMA are found in the Rig Veda—a collection of ancient Sanskrit hymns, considered one of the oldest sacred texts in Hinduism and part of the larger body of Vedic literature. Composed around 1500–1200 BCE, it consists of 1,028 hymns divided into 10 books, or mandalas, which praise various deities and discuss cosmological origins, prayers, and philosophical ideas. It is foundational to Hindu beliefs, rituals, and philosophy, though its content is also studied for its historical and linguistic significance.

The young barley grass, high in the 3 aldehydes, was one of the most respected cereal grains of the Rigveda. Barley (yara) was ground, cooked into meals, and even offered during rituals.

The Aojiru young barley grass powder supplies extremely high levels of the 3 aldehydes: isovaleraldehyde, valeraldehyde, and crotonaldehyde which condense onto the amide of LSA when stirred for 10 minutes in tartaric acid acidified water, forming a 2oz brew containing Lysergic Acid Isovaleraldamide, Lysergic Acid Valeraldamide, and Lysergic Acid Crotonaldamide for a triple psychedelic combination just as powerful as LSD, but even beyond LSD as mentioned above.

Chapters 3 and 4 of William Scott Shelley’s 2018 book “SOMA and the Indo-European Priesthood, Cereal Cultivation and the Origins of Religion” verify my successful LSI experimental results as he writes how “SOMA was mixed with barley”.

Omitting the 3 grams of barley results in just your typical “LSA” experience— sedating and uncomfortable with no visuals. Tartaric acid (used in wine making and available worldwide) is the only acid used for acidifying the brew in the experiments illustrated in the book; no other acid will work. Tartaric acid participates in hydrogen bonding and is an important catalyst for the aldehyde condensation reaction.

Shelley, in his 2018 book, writes how barley is the color of SOMA, and barley was mixed with SOMA. Which is exactly what I do during my preparation. As described at the end of my interview with Dr. Mckenna, I did not realize that Shelley wrote about the ancients mixing SOMA with barley until I cracked open the book to provide a reference for my book after it was written, as I had discovered the important role barley plays in my 2oz elixir on my own, only later to discover Shelly wrote about how the ancients mixed SOMA with barley! I told Dr. Mckenna about this, and he was so fascinated by this discovery that he is also providing a link to Shelley’s book on my interview, which goes up April 20^th, 2026.

My book not only relates directly to Shelley’s book but also to Brian Muraresku’s book “The Immorality Key”, and also to Albert Hofmann (inventor of LSD) & Professor Carl Ruck’s book “The Road to Eleusis”.

My very potent 60ml non-alcoholic LSI brew, detailed in chapter 5, is also a golden green color, just as SOMA was said to be.

The Soviet archeologist Viktor Sarianid, in 2003, wrote that he had discovered vessels and mortars used to prepare SOMA in Zoroastrian temples in the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex. He said that the vessels have revealed residues and seed impressions (quite possibly from HBWR seeds) left behind during the preparation of SOMA.

I also used a vessel, mortar and pestle in Chapter 5 to prepare a combo of LSI + LSV + LSCr from the extract of HBWR seeds combined with the young barley grass cereal grain.

William Scott Shelley writes: “Barley (yara) was ground, cooked into meals, and offered during rituals, mixed with SOMA, this ritual ancient psychedelic beverage was then given by the women to the men seated in front of the fire in the Zoroastrian temples of ancient Vedic India.”

SOMA is described as a divine elixir, a ritual beverage said to grant immortality, wisdom, and even direct connection to the gods.

According to Michael Wood, the references to immortality and light are characteristics of an entheogenic experience. I certainly think so as well.

Ancient texts describe SOMA as being stimulating, enhancing alertness and awareness, and associated with energy. Some references link it to the warrior-god Indra, who was said to drink it before battle, which supports the idea of a stimulant-like effect.

Texts mention that both the Vedic and Iranian versions of SOMA enhanced alertness and awareness. The term tapas, meaning heat, excitement, or energy, is also associated with SOMA.

The results of my experiments certainly reveal the pleasant stimulant effects that last until midnight if consumed at 3 pm, no different from the stimulant effects of LSD, ALD-52 or mescaline, and of course the profound entheogenic effects that last 8 strong hours with a 10-hour total duration.

In the Vedas, SOMA is both a plant and a god.

The Rigveda (8.48.3) says:

ápāma sómam amŕ̥ tā abhūma

áganma jyótir ávidāma devā́n

kíṃ nūnám asmā́n kr̥ṇavad árātiḥ

kím u dhūrtír amr̥ ta mártiyasya.

This is translated as:

“We have drunk the soma; we have become immortal; we have gone to the light; we have found the gods. What can hostility do to us now, and what is the malice of a mortal, o immortal one?”

Chapter 5: Theoretical Simulation of the Claviceps Paspali based Eleusis Kykeon:

Experiment 1: 25 HBWR seeds yielded 130mg LSA extract residue (25 x .04mg LSA per seed) = converted to LSI/LSV/LSC= felt exactly like 100ug of LSD, but even beyond LSD (like combo of ALD-52 + mescaline)

Experiment 2: 25 HBWR seeds yielded 139mg LSA extract residue (25 x .04mg LSA per seed) = converted to LSI/LSV/LSC again felt exactly like 100ug of LSD, but even beyond LSD (like combo of ALD-52 + mescaline)

Experiment 3: 30 HBWR seeds yielded 160mg LSA extract residue (30 x .04mg LSA per seed) = converted to LSI/LSV/LSC felt exactly like 120ug of LSD, but even beyond LSD (like combo of ALD-52 + mescaline)

Experiment 4: 40 HBWR seeds yielded 215mg LSA extract residue (40 x .04mg LSA per seed) = converted to LSI/LSV/LSCr felt exactly like 160ug of LSD, but even beyond LSD (like a combo of ALD-52 + mescaline)

Valentine’s Day Experiment 4 from the book:

.04mg LSA per HBWR seed x 40 seeds was the equivalent of 160ug of LSD. I had hours of the most incredible colored closed-eye visions. The music enhancement was heavenly, and the euphoria was extreme.

Of all the trips of my life, this was at the very top, just as sacred, visual, euphoric, colorful, and music-enhancing as any of my highest 550mg mescaline trips. I had the time of my life with my wife, the best Valentine’s Day ever. I took it at 3 pm and fell asleep by midnight. Highest euphoria, open & closed eye visuals. I will always use this dose of elixir brew.

I am still in shock at the complete lack of side effects – no nausea, no vasoconstriction, no cramping, just pure psychedelic bliss — going up to 40 seeds converted to LSI, equivalent to 160ug LSD. I don’t see any side effects occurring, even going up to 50 seeds or 200ug LSD equivalent.

She is a perfect “ultimate psychedelic” — the ancients knew their Sacred stuff.

Step-by-Step Description of the Experience

1) The experience lasts 8 strong anxiety-free hours with a 10-hour duration.

2) There is a pleasant stimulation all night long into the wee hours of the morning, just like ALD-52 or mescaline exerts.

3) The strength becomes stronger and stronger until she reaches a peak at 3.5 hours.

4) There are profound Spiritual revelations, insights and intense healing. She is a feminine teaching spirit.

5) A brilliant diamond-like shimmering of all visuals, infinitely fascinating.

6) Tracers with open eyes as powerful as lightning strikes, none of the choppiness of LSD visuals, rather the visuals are flowing.

7) Intense, bold neon-like colors are seen all night, just like a combo of ALD-52 + mescaline, far, far more colorful than LSD. I have seen neon colors like purple-yellows, red-greens, and orange-blues that don’t belong on this earth.

8) Infinite way over the top euphoria felt all night (just like a combo of ALD-52 + mescaline). Anyone who has ever had cactus understands the mescaline euphoria I am talking about.

9) The beauty seen with open eyes is infinite and divine, no words to describe. This was one of the main reasons I took this psychedelic, the enhancement of beauty is just so over the top, extreme and heavenly.

10) The closed eye-colored geometrics seen, which progress to real visions the longer the eyes are kept closed, are just like what you see on a combination of LSD + mescaline, hundreds and hundreds of beyond 4k visions, many of them playing as if in a movie.

11) The music enhancement is just incredible and heavenly. I’ve felt more with this LSI, LSV and LSCr combo than with any traditional psychedelic except for mescaline, that I was an extraterrestrial being, immersing myself in new sensory phenomena for the first time. Where LSD heightens and clarifies the sense of hearing, this Eleusis kykeon brew simulation produces auditory hallucinations, heightening the hearing sense but also causing sounds to be quite different from normal. I am a music lover and always listen to house music most of the night during experiences. On LSI, LSV & LSCr combo, every instrument and beautiful voice stand out on their own, and every song is “epic”. Like hearing a song for the very first time.

12) As for aphrodisiacal use of LSI, LSV & LSCr combo, wow! It brought out energies in me that I never knew I had.

13) There is zero or no anxiety with this potent 3 psychedelic combo, just like with ALD-52. This would explain why there were no bad trips reported in the Eleusis Kykeon literature.

14) There are no physical side effects: no body load, no nausea, no vasoconstriction, no cramping, just pure psychedelic bliss.

15) The next morning (I would typically get 6 hours sleep after the experience) I felt re-born with a massive serotonin “reset”. I would go walking in nature with my shih tzus the following morning, and all of nature looked brand new, with a sense of curiosity about nature’s divinity.

Note: Morning glory (MG) seeds did not work, only HBWR seeds worked to simulate the kykeon and Vedic SOMA in the experiments in the book ages ago…my results with up to 150 morning glory seeds were extremely disappointing (even below threshold effects), I believe the mg seeds are mainly 75% clavine alkaloids with less than 25% LSA, the levels of LSA in MG seeds being probably around .001mg per seed vs HBWR seeds at .04mg per seed. The morning glory seeds resulted in zero entheogenic effects, no euphoria, no stimulation, no visuals, and even no physical symptoms like dilated pupils.

Brand New Ancient Psychedelic

Vecktor (an advanced chemist like myself, from 1998) said to me (personal communication 20 years ago, when I had discovered LSH or Lysergic Acid Hydroxyethylamide):

“You have probably rediscovered something that has long been a curiosity, for example, on the now defunct blacklight site, there was a TLC posted of morning glory seed extract treated with (1) methanol, (2) acetaldehyde-methanol or with (3) acetaldehyde in pH=4 water. Both the extract treated with (2) acetaldehyde-methanol and with (3) acetaldehyde in pH=4 water showed a clear difference in the alkaloid profile, with a shift to several new non-polar spots which couldn’t be identified. Very likely, the LSA converted to LSH (LSA + acetaldehyde adduct = LSH). IIRC Erhlichs was used to develop the plates, so these were indole compounds.”

In Chapters 4 and 7 of the book, I also provide 4 scientific papers which back up my successful experimental results.

The extremely high levels of the 3 aldehydes in young barley grass are perfect aldehydes for the formation of what I like to call this “brand new ancient psychedelic”.

For example, the aldehyde: cinnamaldehyde does not work as it contains twice the number of hydrogens and carbons as isovaleraldehyde (my discovery) and 3-aminopentane (Dr. Nichol’s discovery), thus cinnamaldehyde will not fit into the brain receptor that LSD and LSI fit.

The rats responded to Dr. Nichol’s discovery as if they had been given LSD, paper here.

My discovery and Dr. Nichol’s discovery are both extremely similar:

1) This aldehyde discovery that works – isovaleraldehyde has 5 carbon groups and 11 hydrogens, just like 3-aminopentane, which was found by Dr. Nichols to have activity very similar to LSD in the rat assays, as the rats reacted to it as if they had been given LSD. Anything beyond this, like cinnamaldehyde with a very high molecular weight, has way too many carbons and hydrogens (almost double) and will result in weak effects, as it does not fit into the receptor.

2) The important thing to note from Table 3 in Dr Nichol’s paper, in the far-right column, is the fact that LSD has a potency in rats in the drug discrimination behavioural assay of 48 nanomoles per kilogram of rat body weight. Only two other compounds have comparable activity: entries 6 and 16. Entry 16 is 3-aminopentane, and has a potency in rats in the drug discrimination behavioral assay of 52 nanomoles per kilogram of rat body weight.

3) This aldehyde — isovaleraldehyde also looks exactly like the tail end of DMT and psilocin, with the same chemical formula of CHO CH2 CH2 2(CH3).

4) BOTH have exact same molecular weights of 87 similar to diethylamine molecular weight of LSD at 73g/mol.

And yes, LSI worked extremely well! Every time I had drunk the 60ml non-alcoholic Eleusis & SOMA simulation brew, I tripped balls, as the saying goes. It was my all-time favorite psychedelic. I prefer it to LSD by miles, as LSI is more colorful, more music-enhancing, more euphoric, and has no anxiety (just like ALD-52). LSI is stimulating all night just like ALD-52 or mescaline. However, it’s easier to fall asleep on than LSD, as I noted in my interview with Dr. Mckenna. I can drink LSI at 3pm, and be able to fall asleep by midnight every time. This I greatly appreciate!

40 HBWR seeds converted are the equivalent of 160ug LSD.

50 HBWR seeds converted are the equivalent of 200ug LSD.

And there are zero side effects —no nausea, no vasoconstriction, no cramping, no anxiety, just pure psychedelic bliss

Peering into the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image by NASA (PD)

Questions and Answers:

1. What is being formed from LSA extracted from the seeds when stirred with barley in acidic water?

In simulating the Eleusis Kykeon in chapter 5, we are forming very high amounts of:

a) LSI or Lysergic Acid Isovaleraldamide with the adduction or condensation product formed from the aldehyde: isovaleraldehyde at the NH amide of LSA.

b) LSV or Lysergic Acid Valeraldamide with the adduction or condensation product formed from the aldehyde: valeraldehyde at the NH amide of LSA.

c) LSCr or Lysergic Acid Crotonaldamide with the adduction or condensation product formed from the aldehyde: crotonaldehyde at the NH amide of LSA.

7.5 amounts of isovaleraldehyde C5 H10 O

13.0 amounts of valeraldehyde C5 H10 O

7.6 amounts of crotonaldehyde C4 H6 O

Compare to diethylamine C4 H11 N used in the synthesis of LSD.

Isovaleraldehyde in peppermint is at levels only 1/100th of the above at .070.

You only need to look at a bottle of isovaleraldehyde to see how close the chemical formula of C5 H10 O on the label is to diethylamine C4 H11 N used in the synthesis of LSD.

I can feel this extra carbon donated from isovaleraldehyde and valeraldehyde is hitting all the extra adrenal receptors (A2A, A2B, A2C), and beyond that, mescaline and DMT both hit with great strength, while LSD only hits one adrenal receptor (A2A).

No other herb on the planet has these magnificent, very high levels of all 3 aldehydes forming LSI, LSV, and LSCr for a triple psychedelic combo.

This is a very important 2022 herbal paper entitled “Assessing the product quality and biological activities of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grasses at different harvest times” by Jing-Kun Yan, Ting-Ting Chen, Xu Chen, Yujia Liu, Chenghong Liu, and Lin Li.

In this paper, on page 5, we see that isovaleraldehyde is found at an incredibly high level of 7.52 during the Z21 growth state (young barley with main shoot and 1 tiller), just like our Aojiru 100% Japan domestic-grown young barley grass powder.

2. How do we know the kykeon was a psychedelic drink?

This is well supported by the infamous scandalous event that took place in 415 B.C., when the powerful political and military leader of Athens, Alkibiades, stole the kykeon at Eleusis and entertained himself and his friends with it.

Another conclusion can be inferred from this incident: the ingestion of the kykeon must have been a pleasant and therefore sought-after experience.

This was confirmed by many writers of antiquity, including Plato and Socrates, who participated in the mysteries, and to my knowledge, there are no reports on bad trips in the ancient texts that have been preserved.

We also know that on the last night when the 300 initiates drank the kykeon, they stayed up all night having visions. The several times I drank LSI over 5 years ago, I experienced a pleasant stimulation just like ALD-52 for 8 strong hours with a 10-hour duration. I have timed the peak each time at 3.5 hours in.

Numerous scholars have proposed that the power of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon’s functioning as an entheogen, or psychedelic agent. The use of potions or philtres for magical or religious purposes was relatively common in Greece and the ancient world.

The initiates, sensitized by their fast and prepared by preceding ceremonies (set and setting), were propelled by the effects of a powerful psychoactive potion into revelatory mind states with profound spiritual and intellectual ramifications.

3. There are no reports of “bad trips” at Eleusis after the kykeon was drunk. Why is this?

I believe this has to do with the fact that LSI (my discovery) and ALD-52 (also discovered by Dr. Hofmann, along with LSD) have over double the 5-HT1a agonism at brain receptors (80% of brain 5-HT) or serotonin blocking activity of LSD. I believe LSI also has this same potent serotonin-blocking ability based on chemical-structure analysis.

4. Do we have any modern-day proof that ergot was used in the Eleusis kykeon?

(STRESERRAS, MATAMULA 2005) Discovery of fragments of ergot (fungi containing LSD-like psychedelic alkaloids) in a temple dedicated to the two Eleusinian Goddesses excavated at the Mas Castellar site (Girona, Spain) provided some legitimacy for this theory. Ergot fragments were found inside a vase and within the dental calculus of a 25-year-old man, providing evidence of ergot being consumed. This finding seems to support the hypothesis of ergot as an ingredient of the Eleusinian kykeon.

5. What important scientific paper forms the basis for the experiments and successful results in the book?

In the 1992 paper titled “Tryptophan analogues form adducts by cooperative reaction with aldehydes and alcohols or with aldehydes alone: Possible role in ethanol toxicity,” researchers James E. Austin and Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat demonstrated that while some tryptophan analogues require both an aldehyde and an alcohol to form stable adducts, others—specifically unsubstituted indole (just like our indole ergoline LSA from the seeds)—can form adducts in water acidified to ph=4 with stirring and with aldehydes alone in vivo (in the liver).

I cite 3 other scientific papers in the book, which all back up my successful experimental results.

Why expose this discovery now?

I believe the Spirit world is showing humanity this LSI, LSV, LSCr combo discovery to expose the historical and theoretical mystery of the Eleusis brew. In my philosophical view of the modern world, I perceive it in turmoil. Man has increased his technological knowledge at a rate that has far, far exceeded his spiritual growth, and nature would prefer to rebalance this out-of-control behavior that is threatening our very existence. The unprecedented rise of AI currently threatens hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions of future jobs. The extreme amounts of carbon in the atmosphere threaten our very survival on this planet. We may only have 50 years left on this planet, many top scientists say, before humanity’s population takes a serious nose-dive due to extreme climate change and climate disasters.

In the 2008 book “Hofmann’s Elixir, LSD and the New Eleusis”, Amanda Feilding writes that Dr. Hofmann wrote: “It is my fond hope that this will advance, because we need a new type of Eleusis, lest our world be destroyed.”

It is my hope with my new book that others will appreciate the important and kind words of Dr. Hofmann. By exposing the secret of the ancient Eleusis kykeon and Vedic SOMA through my laboratory experiments, my hope is also that of Dr. Hofmann’s, that this exposed secret will lead to a new hope for humanity.

Illustration – Demeter and Persephone, Triptolemus as a child (bas-relief from Eleusis, Athens). This famous marble relief shows Demeter handing wheat sheaves to Triptolemus while Persephone blesses him (PD)

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