The Immortality Key by Brian C. Muraresku
Brand: St. Martin's Publishing Group
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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 the reallife quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations. The most influential religious historian of the 20th century Huston Smith once referred to it as the bestkept 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 todays 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 Christianitys founding event. And after centuries of debate to solve historys 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 socalled 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 mindaltering 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 selfproclaimed 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 twelveyear 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 the worlds most controversial priest. He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianitys 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 Europes sacred pharmacology largely disappeared. If the scientists of today have resurrected this technology then Christianity is in crisis. Unless it returns to its roots. Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock the New York Times bestselling author of America Before The Key to Earths Lost Civilization. show more
Condition : New
Author : Brian C. Muraresku
Weight : 850
Publisher : St. Martins Publishing Group
Language : English
EAN : 9781250207142
ISBN10 : 1250207142
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20191008
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : 480 Pages
Dimensions : 176 X 321 X 36