The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

by Brian C. Muraresku

wine mixed with black nightshade (Solanum nigrum). Dioscorides specifically characterizes it as psychedelic, saying a decoction of its root taken with wine produces “not unpleasant visions” or phantasias ou aedeis (φαντασίας οὐ ἀηδεῖς).