The Society
The Ambrosia Society
An educational, scientific, sacramental and fraternal association founded by Donald E. Teeter in Texas. Its website ran from 2007 to 2021.
What the first Society set out to do
- Return what Teeter called the real Holy Grail to people who had lost the ancient secret.
- Share the ancient Sacrament with those who wished to know it.
- Study and teach the secrets of the Sacrament hidden in the world's ancient religious texts.
- Stand together for the religious freedom of its members.
- Plant sacred groves and found local Ambrosia Houses as centres of the Society.
It was organised under Texas law as an unincorporated nonprofit association and called itself international: anyone who wished to share in its work could join.
A word from the founder
Teeter wrote that he had researched the sacred mushroom for more than thirty-seven years, that he had found a living reality behind the sacred myths, and that this knowledge was the common inheritance of all people. He founded the Society to preserve, expand and spread it, and gave his book away free of charge.
“The Holy Grail is not a myth, but a living reality”
Membership in the first Society
Membership was open to any adult, 18 or older, who wished to serve the Society's aims. Applicants printed and signed a membership form, pledging among other things to “do no harm”, chose a yearly or a lifetime membership and sent it by post.
Members took on different roles: some taught, some gathered or grew the mushroom, some carried on the research, and some simply spread the word.
Each member received an account for the members' pages: a private forum, a cultivation help board moderated by Teeter and the founding members, and a place for testimonials.
Lectures
Teeter offered lectures to colleges and organisations. They usually ran for three hours and moved from comparative religion through the ambrosia of the Greeks and the Soma of the Vedas to the Philosophers' Stone and the Holy Grail.
A short history
- 2001Teeter publishes The Sacred Secret: The Return of the Christ.
- 2005First edition of Amanita Muscaria: Herb of Immortality. A revised softcover follows in 2007.
- 2007ambrosiasociety.org goes online with the Research Center, the sacred texts and the free ebook. The Society films a dried mushroom “resurrecting”.
- 2008A members' forum and a photo gallery open, and the first Ambrosia Society laboratory is set up.
- 2009The forum moves to new software and stays there until the 2015 rebuild.
- 2012Donald E. Teeter dies on 29 October. With his family's blessing, members keep the website going.
- 2013By May 2013 intruders have hidden spam text in the code of the old front page, under the memorial notice. It is never cleaned, not even in the copy kept after the 2015 rebuild.
- 2015The site is rebuilt with a new forum, a video tutorial and a copy of the 2007 site kept as an archive.
- 2019–2021The hosting account is suspended in early 2019. The site is back by December 2019, suspended again by August 2020, and gone in 2021.
- 2026This restoration brings the Research Center back from the Internet Archive.
Pages of the Society's website
Everything the Society wrote about itself on its websites of 2007–2016: who they were, how to join, how to help, the friends and the bookstore.
Friends of the Society
The Ambrosia Society would like to thank the many people, organizations, and websites that have helped to spread the lost knowledge of our ancestors. Below is a list of links to sites that have provided support and/or contain recommended reading for everyone interested in Amanita Muscaria and the Eternal Fleece.
Please Email us if you know of a link that should be added.
Gardens of the Ancients - Gardens of the Ancients is a unique Herb Emporium and Nursery located in Austin, Texas. The Gardens carries over 300 different bulk medicinal and culinary herbs, tinctures, a great selection of essential oils, specialty health products, and many other homemade herb products.
The founding members of the Ambrosia Society would like to publicly extend their warmest gratitude to Dave Schanzle from Gardens of the Ancients and the founder of Flower of Life Healing Ministries for all his support in helping make the Ambrosia Society possible.
Sacred Texts - The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
Rig Veda - A searchable database of the Rig Vedas.
Entheos - ENTHEOS is a community of enthusiasts, scholars and scientists who share a common interest in the role of entheogens as it pertains to human spirituality.
JesusNeverExisted.com - Kenneth Humphreys has organized a site compiled of many different articles and links with the purpose of proving that the Jesus Christ of the Christians never existed.
Alchemy Web Site - Over 150 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 2400 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2500 images, over 240 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy. This site is organised by Adam McLean, the well known authority on alchemical texts and symbolism, author and publisher of over 50 books on alchemical and Hermetic ideas.
My Holy Grail - An organization put together by Pastor David, founder of the Sacred Mushroom Church of Switzerland, with the intent of furthering the research and distribution of our Sacrament.
Gnostic Media - Home site of Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit, authors of the Pharmacratic Inquisition and Astrotheology & Shamanism.
Mormon Elixirs - A website by Robert T. Beckstead who delves into the question: "Did Joseph Smith Use Psychedelic Substances to Facilitate Visionary Experiences?"
About this restoration
This site is an independent restoration of the Society's public record.
With the permission of Teeter's family, his original pages are republished here in full and free of charge, just as the Society published them. Each Research Center page also has a short retelling in our own words, and every copy links back to the Internet Archive, where the originals were preserved.
If you have documents, photos or newsletters from the first Society, please write to us: sobolvolodumyr@gmail.com