{"id":102998,"date":"2020-02-28T04:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ancient-greece-revisited-did-the-greeks-trip-on-lsd"},"modified":"2020-02-28T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:27:40","slug":"ancient-greece-revisited-did-the-greeks-trip-on-lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ancient-greece-revisited-did-the-greeks-trip-on-lsd","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greece Revisited : Did the Greeks Trip on LSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Knz4EO0Vw2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 2000 years, as many as three thousand Greeks shared similar visionary experiences in the town of Eleusis while celebrating the great Eleusinian Mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>In this inaugural video of \u201cAncient Greece Revisited\u201d we explore the possible use of psychedelics in the Greek world. We follow a thread connecting the most sacred of rituals, the \u201cGreat Mysteries of Eleusis,\u201d to the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in the midst of WW2, and from there, to a new, psychedelic view of the entirety of Greek culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 2000 years, as many as three thousand Greeks shared similar visionary experiences in the town of Eleusis while celebrating the great Eleusinian Mysteries. In this inaugural video of \u201cAncient Greece Revisited\u201d we explore the possible use of psychedelics in the Greek world. We follow a thread connecting the most sacred of rituals, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103004,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102998\/revisions\/103004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}