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TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).

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