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The Immortality Key
- The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse
This program includes a Foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.
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?
With an unquenchable thirst for evidence, Muraresku takes the listener 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?
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
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- Maria Nicol
- 24-12-20
An awakening for some, a truth for all.
Having spent the best part of my adult life investigating an alternate, more believable, version of history, this book delivers with exacting accuracy. A recent personal psychedelic experience is perfectly described within the pages here, on several occasions from varying times in history, which resonates with me, and I believe with an new breed of spirituality , more than any of the established religious accounts. A must read for new seekers of truth, excellent content and superbly researched, complimented with Brian’s personal narration. 5/5.
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- Reimo Tugi
- 24-08-21
Enthusiastic
The book, if taken in bite sized portions, offered a delightful insight into the brushed-under-the-carpet part of catholic church and it's perverted take on divinity. Well researched, well presented and hopefully to become well inspired by for the younger folks. Muraresku's knowledge in ancient Greek surely helped to legitimize the whole ordeal and after listening to the book not only grew my appetite for old-school eucharist but in general solidified even further my reverence for the healing nature of nature. 'Highly' recommended heehee!
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- Simon L
- 26-02-21
Absolutely Amazing!
A throughly researched book that successfully continues the quest for the earlier religion forcefully taken over by the Catholic Church. Readers of Graham Hancock will love it and everyone else is sure to have their eyes opened!
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- Joey Sieses
- 22-01-21
Insanely fascinating
This book is mind boggling and provides fascinating points of view about the origin of religion. The author has a pleasant storytelling voice that captivates you the entire ride. No ragrets listening to this.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-08-22
The crossroads of our civilisation raised from the dead
This is an astonishing piece of work that raises the foundations of our civilisation at a time when we need it most. A fascinating narrative driven by the authors search for the real holy grail. The psychedelic cup thats the source of our western civilisation.
This book threatens to bring full circle the psychedelic revolution in the ancient Indo-european and Greek world and the current psychedelic revolution in our western world.
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- Zilvinas
- 15-07-22
Wow
we still have the traces of all of it in Lithuania and I'm proud of it.
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- Deborah
- 19-10-20
Fascinating and eye-opening
I absolutely loved this book and fully intend on listening to it many more times to be able to accurately recall its findings with the many people I have already discussed the book with.😁 this is a fascinating and eye opening listen and I can't thank Brian enough for putting in the hard work to bring this book to us, presenting well written credible summary of his findings.
I heavily encourage all people regardless of your respective faiths to read this as it has -in my opinion, implications for all of human kind. Great work Brian and thank you again!
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-10-20
truly enlightening and enlightened
enlightening and terrifying to see the suppression of such life changing and affirming knowledge. a delight to listen to. hope there's much more from this author
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- Erik Gjessing
- 25-10-20
Incredibly interesting and thought provoking
An incredibly interesting and thought provoking book that really makes a good case for the use of drugs in the Greek, Roman and Palo-christian world.
The story is told as a personal voyage of curiosity which most of time time captures the reader. Sometimes, however, it can become a bit tiring and distracting.
Overall a great book that highlights the much needed research on the topic of antique drug-use.
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- Nikita
- 02-11-20
The book that will open your eyes
One of the or the most influential book of the 21st century.
Could we be blinded all this centuries? Intentionally blinded by the institutions that were supposedly set up to preserve our moral values and connect us with the divine?
Brian Muraresku takes you on a fascinating journey to discover how a religion with no name has influenced the cultural development of humankind since the last ice age til the dawn of christianity. The religion that was based on the concept of practicing to die before you die - by means of ingesting psychedelic substances and connecting with the divine - and praised by the likes of Socrates and Pythagoras.
The religion that was intentionally silenced by the bureaucracy of the most influential institution of western civilization - Roman Catholic church. And not only silenced, but also vilified and erased from our collective psyche. The author makes a compelling case for the war of Catholic church on heresy and witchcraft to be the roots of the war on drugs, which was later continued by US bureaucrats - all in a bloody quest against the development of endogenous spirituality without the consent of church fathers or, later, the government.
This book will open your eyes to the true history of religion. And make you reflect on the true meaning of the global psychedelic revolution that is currently underway. All in the best tradition of a proper scientific research.
As a bonus, the book is very well narrated by the author. Frankly, it's the first audiobook I listen to where jokes sound like actual jokes as the the author gives them just the right flavor.
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