Between 2007 and 2021 the website went through three versions and three forums. This is a map of what the Internet Archive kept, and where to find it.
The 2007 site
Every page of the Society's first website, in the order of its menu, kept on this site with the permission of Teeter's family. Each opens just as it looked, with Teeter's own texts and pictures, from the copy the members kept online in 2016. Links inside the old pages work, so you can wander the old site as its visitors once did.
The community moved three times. The first two forums were partly saved; the last one turned the Internet Archive away, so only the titles of its topics survive.
The member count reached 250 in October 2012 and never rose again. The busiest moment on record was 18 people online at once, on 12 January 2014.
Later the boards were open to members only, and guests saw just their outline: a members' area for cultivation and news; “The Ambrosia Society” with general discussion, off-topic talk, “The ambrosial watch” (photographs of the fleece, bread and ambrosia) and “Sacred fruit delightful sights”; a section on the mushroom with articles, symbolism and video; and testimonials.
Threads that survived in full
Only two complete conversations made it into the archive. Both are on this site in full, translated, with a link to the Internet Archive copy.
“Donald E. Teeter has passed”
General discussion · 9 posts · November 2012 – March 2013
Terry Arnett Jr. opened the thread on 1 November 2012 with the news of Don's death on 29 October, his family's blessing to carry on the website and his work, and an invitation to the all-day memorial on 5 November.
Members wrote in over the following weeks. One had come to the Society through Herb of Immortality; another called Don a true pioneer whose ideas time would test; a third remembered talking with him once on the phone about a first order.
Terry answered each of them and set out what should come next: local chapters across the country and the world, video and photo tutorials, more frequent newsletters. He remembered Don's patience, and his belief that the Society's work would only be valued long after its founders were gone.
Don retold the Chinese legend of Han Hsiang, one of the Eight Immortals, who answered his uncle's call to study with a poem about living among the mountain mists, growing the magic fungus and filling an empty cup with wine by a single word. His source was a journal on sacred-texts.com.
A week later another member replied that this was a way of life still out of reach for them, but one worth striving for.
Everything about Teeter and the Society that we found outside its own sites: his television interview, letters and essays, the tribe.net community, the successor project Ambrosia House, editions and translations of his book, citations and the sources he used. Each with a short description and a link to where it lives.
Titles are given as the members wrote them, with the author and the date of the last post where the archive kept them. This is the full list recovered from every snapshot; the text of the posts was lost, apart from the two threads above.
“How to make Ambrosia”, 2015The only video on the Society's YouTube channel, published on 4 December 2015. It demonstrates Teeter's method of making Ambrosia.Description and transcript →Watch on YouTube ↗
Videos with Teeter and the Society
Each with its description and the full text of what is said.
No issues of the Society's newsletter survive, and most forum posts after 2015 are lost. If you kept any of them, please share them with us: sobolvolodumyr@gmail.com