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The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion
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- 9781250207142
- Book Title
- Immortality Key : the Secret History of the Religion with noname
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History
- Topic
- Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Ancient / General, Ancient, General, Christianity / General
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- 9.6in
- Item Weight
- 25.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! 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 20th 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, 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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St. Martin's Press
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1250207142
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9781250207142
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Book Title
Immortality Key : the Secret History of the Religion with noname
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Ancient / General, Ancient, General, Christianity / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History
Number of Pages
480 Pages
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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
9.6in
Item Weight
25.4 Oz
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Br128.G8m95 2020
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"A fascinating analysis of the mystical roots of ancient religion, and a rediscovery of a forgotten ritual for the modern world." --Deepak Chopra "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife "Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future." --Graham Hancock, New York Times Bestselling Author of America Before "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "An outstanding inquiry into the power of the Mysteries in the ancient world. A sweeping, persuasive argument from a true Renaissance intellect. The writing is most vivid." --Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Harvard University "An impeccably researched journey to the crossroads of history. The questions are provocative, the disclosures earth-shaking. By deciphering the relationship between Jesus and Dionysos, Brian Muraresku has achieved nothing less than a radical re-envisioning of the Christian story." --Mark Arey, Former Director of the Office of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife, "A fascinating analysis of the mystical roots of ancient religion, and a rediscovery of a forgotten ritual for the modern world." --Deepak Chopra "Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future." --Graham Hancock, New York Times Bestselling Author of America Before "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife, "A fascinating analysis of the mystical roots of ancient religion, and a rediscovery of a forgotten ritual for the modern world." --Deepak Chopra "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife "Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future." --Graham Hancock, New York Times Bestselling Author of America Before "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "An outstanding inquiry into the power of the Mysteries in the ancient world. A sweeping, persuasive argument from a true Renaissance intellect. The writing is most vivid." --Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Harvard University "An impeccably researched journey to the crossroads of history. The questions are provocative, the disclosures earth-shaking. By deciphering the relationship between Jesus and Dionysos, Brian Muraresku has achieved nothing less than a radical re-envisioning of the Christian story." --Mark Arey, Former Director of the Office of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America "In Brian Muraresku, the psychedelic theory of religion has its newest and most accomplished scholar-historian (who also happens to be very funny). This is no crackpot idea. This is genuine scholarship at its deepest, most comparative, and most conceptually radical. The breadth of the investigation is simply astonishing: the Eleusinian Mysteries; the cosmic love of God; Göbekli Tepe and Indo-European studies; Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Catalan; flying witches and the long religious war on women; the Vatican Secret Archives; democracy, ethics, and the unity of humankind; hard archaeochemical and DNA evidence; the first (Dionysian) miracle of Christ in the Gospel of John; the political radicalism of the Eucharist; LSD-laced graveyard beer and psychedelic wine. Buckle up tight, Toto. You were never in Kansas. It's Oz everywhere and always." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, Rice University, author of Esalen: The Religion of No Religion "A timely message, given the re-emergence of psychedelic research for end-of-life distress. A tour de force on the perennial quest to unlock the mystery of death. A spiritual adventure page-turner that's not easy to put down. And a mystery tour well worth taking." --Anthony P. Bossis Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine "With his new book, The Immortality Key , Brian Muraresku offers an invigorating look at the birth of religion as the ancient secret of dying before dying, providing us with a rejuvenating blast of what my friend Huston Smith described as authentic enthusiasmos , an ecstatic experience of the god within." --Phil Cousineau, author of Once and Future Myths , and coauthor with Huston Smith of And Live Rejoicing: Chapters from a Charmed Life, "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, "A fascinating analysis of the mystical roots of ancient religion, and a rediscovery of a forgotten ritual for the modern world." --Deepak Chopra "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife "Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future." --Graham Hancock, New York Times Bestselling Author of America Before "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D., "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife, "Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new course for the future." - Graham Hancock, New York Times Bestselling Author of America Before "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife, "Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest riddles with a measured, skeptical eye....Muraresku's ability to sift through the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife "In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D.
Table of Content
Table of Contents FOREWORD by Graham Hancock INTRODUCTION: A New Reformation PART ONE: Brewing the Psychedelic Beer CHAPTER 1: Identity Crisis CHAPTER 2: Fall from Grace CHAPTER 3: Barley Meal and Laurel Leaves CHAPTER 4: Secret of Secrets CHAPTER 5: The Beatific Vision CHAPTER 6: Graveyard Beer CHAPTER 7: The Kukeon of Catalonia EPILOGUE TO PART I PART TWO: Mixing the Psychedelic Wine CHAPTER 8: The Drug of Immortality CHAPTER 9: Vineyards of Heaven CHAPTER 10: Holy Elixirs in the Holy Land CHAPTER 11: Drunk With the Nectar of Eternity CHAPTER 12: All This Was Not Just Picnicking CHAPTER 13: The Holy Grail CHAPTER 14: A Gnostic Eucharist CHAPTER 15: Mystery Coast Highway CHAPTER 16: The Gospel of Infinity and the Toad Eucharist CHAPTER 17: Our Eyes Have Been Opened AFTERWORD ENDNOTES
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2020-017251
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204.2
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Dewey Edition
23
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