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Contents
> Introduction> Core Function> Symbolic Axis> Civilizational Context> Audience> Axis of Union> Consciousness Stage> Consciousness Note> Energetic Signatures> Vibrational Meaning> Key People> Role / Archetype> Sources> Topics> Sequences> Library

Albert Hofmann - Reopening the Eleusinian Gate

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1943

Albert Hofmann discovers LSD-25 and experiences its full psychoactive potential.

This moment reactivates, in modern form, an initiatory path humanity had forgotten since the closure of Eleusis.

Hofmann instantly recognizes the resonance: a key to the ancient Mystery experience reappears inside the scientific laboratory. He later identifies LSD as a possible analogue to the kykeon, the initiatory sacrament of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

CORE FUNCTION

Symbolic Axis

Chemistry ↔ Mysticism / Science ↔ Revelation / Mind ↔ Matter

Civilizational Context

Audience

Number of people affected or witnessing the event.

Axis of Union

Consciousness Stage

Description / Insight

Hofmann’s discovery reopens the door to direct mystical experience within a scientific framework.
Only a few years earlier, he had studied ancient Greek pharmacology and speculated about psychoactive elements in the kykeon.
When LSD revealed its visionary power, it echoed the initiatory pattern of Eleusis — death, dissolution, and rebirth of perception — but now through molecular chemistry instead of temple ritual.
Later scholars (Ruck, Wasson, Hofmann in The Road to Eleusis, 1978) proposed that the Eleusinian sacrament contained ergot-derived alkaloids, linking modern psychedelics to the ancient Mysteries.

Consciousness Stage

Consciousness Note

What began as ritual agriculture returns as laboratory synthesis. The separation between science and spirit momentarily collapses: chemistry becomes alchemy again.
Hofmann’s “bicycle day” thus stands as a modern echo of the ancient anodos — the ascent from shadow to light — renewing the timeless quest for the union of opposites.

Energetic Signatures

Vibrational Meaning

Key People

Role / Archetype

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LIBRARY

LSD: My Problem Child
Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
Albert Hofmann
In this autobiographical reflection, Albert Hofmann recounts the accidental discovery of LSD-25, the famous “Bicycle Day” experience, and his lifelong conviction that this molecule could reawaken humanity’s spiritual connection to nature. Hofmann explores LSD not as a drug, but as a doorway to the same sacred experience once cultivated in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Road to Eleusis
Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Albert Hofmann
R. Gordon Wasson
This groundbreaking work bridges modern chemistry and ancient spirituality. The authors, an ethnomycologist, a chemist, and a classicist, propose that the sacred drink used for over two millennia in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the “Kykeon,” contained a psychoactive compound derived from ergot, the same fungus from which Albert Hofmann later synthesized LSD-25. By aligning historical research, chemical analysis, and mythological interpretation, they suggest that the Mysteries of Eleusis were not symbolic rituals, but direct initiations into divine consciousness.