The Eleusinian Mysteries: An Ancient Greek Mystery Religion

If you want to help support me and the creation of better videos, please consider subscribing to me on Patreon! Sign up for personalized coaching at my website: This video uses information from the Road the Eleusis by Carl Ruck, Gordan Wasson, and Albert Hoffmann and Psychological Aspects of Kore by Carl Jung. In this video I describe the Eleusinian mysteries and why the whole thing may have been kept secret. The Evening of Departure by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Artist: 0:00 Intro 0:52 The Psychology of Religion 1:20 The Eleusinian Mysteries and Cults 2:57 Shrouded in Mystery 4:26 What was in the Kukeon? 6:12 Altered State of Consciousness 8:00 The myth of Demeter and Persephone 9:25 Psychology of the Myth 12:55 Why we need myths