Brian C. Muraresku - The Immortality Key
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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Today’s book is:
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience!
WIth a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter
A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and a real-life quest for the Holy Grail.
The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since the Stone Age?
There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and its miraculous contents have never been found. In the absence of any hard data, whatever happened at the Last Supper remains an article of faith for today’s 2.5 billion Christians. In an unprecedented search for real answers, The Immortality Key examines the archaic roots of the ritual that is performed every Sunday for nearly one third of the planet. Religion and science converge to paint a radical picture of Christianity’s founding event...and, after centuries of debate, to solve history’s greatest puzzle once and for all.
Before the birth of Jesus, the Ancient Greeks found salvation in their own sacraments. Sacred beverages were routinely consumed as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries – elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death. The best and brightest from Athens and Rome flocked to the spiritual capital of Eleusis, where a holy beer unleashed heavenly visions for two thousand years. Others drank the holy wine of Dionysus to become one with the god. In the 1970s, renegade scholars claimed this beer and wine – the original sacraments of Western civilization – were spiked with mind-altering drugs. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogenic drinks in antiquity. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. But the smoking gun remains elusive.
If these sacraments survived for thousands of years in our remote prehistory, from the Stone Age to the Ancient Greeks, did they also survive into the age of Jesus? Was the Eucharist of the earliest Christians, in fact, a psychedelic Eucharist?
With an unquenchable thirst for evidence, Brian C. Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof. He tours the ruins of Greece with its government archaeologists. He gains access to the hidden collections of the Louvre Museum to show the continuity from pagan to Christian wine. He unravels the Ancient Greek of the New Testament with a Catholic priest. He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianity’s oldest monuments. He breaches the secret archives of the Vatican to unearth manuscripts never before translated into English. And with leads from the archaeological chemists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he unveils the first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs in classical antiquity.
The Immortality Key reconstructs the suppressed history of women consecrating a forbidden, drugged Eucharist that was later banned by the Church Fathers. Women who were then targeted as witches during the Inquisition, when Europe’s sacred pharmacology largely disappeared. Have the scientists of today resurrected this lost technology? Is Christianity capable of returning to its roots?
Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.
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I will observe that Brian “studied” under the Jesuits, who have been playing a key role in the revival of the archaic mystery schools and the psychedelic reppaterning of the Western psyche around a new Gaia-centric “consciousness.” Lots of Earth Mother stuff. Psychedelics, aliens and secret “gnosis” are some among the other common themes being pushed by today’s Luciferian tribe.
Notice Tucker Carlson’s insistence on aliens being supernatural beings that have been here for a very long time, supposedly duking it out and using humans as their puppets, with the government supposedly covering up the secret knowledge involved in all this. Psychedelics cults are simply another variation on the same thing, promoting the sacred wisdom hidden from us by everyday reality, which you can now get a fast track to thanks to a mushroom…
It’s pure gnosticism and it’s very pervasive.
If one buys into these things, I’m sorry but they’ve definitely not gone very far enough down the rabbit hole. Revisit MK-Ultra and then read the Immortality Key, or just listen to Brian speak.
I’ve listened to Brian’s interviews. He tends to use ambiguity in a very methodical way, leaving things open, making “suggestions” without definitely saying something.
That’s not by chance or just some kind of scholarly posture of humility.
In hypnosis, the power of suggestion is well known. Images are conjured in the imagination, suggestions are made, and then things are left “open” without ever telling anyone to believe anything. The art lies in being vague, but systemically so, such that through a series of vague statements one arrives at a definite idea, which he believes he came to on his own.
Once someone gets to that point, it becomes very hard to change their mind because they’re convinced they came to the idea on their own and it’s now part of their identity.
The bad guys are crafty, but not wise… which is why they have to rely on these kinds of clever tricks.
Influential people and academia, not to mention new world religionists, have been very publicly, with the aid of msm, promoting psychedelics fervently for the last couple of years. They place worms on the hooks to grab different people's attention and give a gloss of legitimacy to what they're promoting, such as linking the drug to religious worship, or women being treated unfairly; it is so woke and such a giveaway. This is part of the agenda to weaken people and cultures.