The Immortality Key

The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

By: Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword

Narrated by: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

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

©2020 Brian C. Muraresku and Graham Hancock (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Phenomenal research and great story telling

Read by the author and feels more like he is telling us the story of his adventure in discovering rare gems hidden in dark corners of history. The historical information is remarkable. I am personally a believer in his theory. I think he has made a great case. An absolute must read!

Masterpiece!

Full review to come after I process the wealth of knowledge presented in this reading!

Exceptional work with unprecedented research!

An insight into the twisted history of religion. A trigger to investigate our true past.

A powerful book a must read for all believers

I didn’t think a book like this would bring tears to my eyes but some how it did. Thank you Brain for such dedication to the truth, it is said that the truth will set you free but first it will piss you off. When it comes to the practices of knowing thy self this book is an ABSOLUTE. For history is told to us by the victors and in this powerful book Brain gives us the truth of what really lays at the heart of Christianity and if you are a believer I would ask you that with an open mind and heart to read this book because this information can change our humanity that is in such obvious need for connection with divinity and while these things are not brain candy they are great technology’s that people have died to make sure that we get to experience for our selfs because they knew that it could help us become one again.

This book could change the world

I am so impressed with this book! The work that Brian Muraresku did to research it is very evident in all of the incredible knowledge that he shares with us in this piece. This book has the potential to change the way that we look at religion, religious experience, and our understanding of history. I hope I can convince my friends to read this book, including you, the reader of this review. This book rocks.

Awesome heresy!

Other than a small helping of what appears to be some forgivable confirmation bias, this is a great read! Well written and read by the authors!

best book I've ever listened to

Well researched and fascinating topic. I am looking for more like this as I'd love to learn more.

exceptional!!!

Grateful for your contributions to humankind. Nancy drew and scooby would have never reveled this mystery!

one of the best reads for 2021

Loved it, very informative and well written. I would highly recommend this to everyone and anyone.

A Lifetime of Truth and Power

My God....

What to say? Step 1: buy this book. Step 2: question everything.

Brian has created a truly monumental work of historical quest and inquiry. None of us know what really happened with the origins of Western Spirituality. But the evidence he presents, the leads he follows and the power he uncovers is and are monumental. By all means, think for yourself...and support this amazing work!