Ecstasy as Technology: The Forgotten Science of Dionysus
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Antoine explores the hidden architecture of human experience and the movement that brings consciousness back to the body, the heart, and the inner truth. His work weaves ancient wisdom, lived experience, and embodied clarity to support those called to remember who they are and why they came here. He walks this path in service to Life, sharing what he has learned with anyone who feels the resonance.
Related books
Dionysus in Thrace
The Controversial Origins of the Greek God of Ecstasy
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In this continuation of his lifelong research on Eleusis, Carl A.P. Ruck traces the roots of Dionysus — god of wine, madness, and resurrection — back to Thrace, a region bridging Greece and Asia Minor. He reveals that Dionysian ecstasy was not symbolic intoxication but the actual experience of divine union through psychoactive sacraments. By linking Dionysian worship to earlier shamanic traditions, Ruck shows how the god of theater, intoxication, and rebirth encoded the initiatory technology of direct communion with the living cosmos. The book challenges the sanitized, academic view of Greek religion, restoring its original entheogenic and ecstatic core.