The Immortality Key

The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

De: Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword

Narrado por: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku

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

PJ

PJ, be proud! Exceptional author! Incredible passion. Great legacy to leave behind! I would join him on this adventure if I could!

Science helping shed light on history/religion!

I'm not the best with reviews, but if you're into science and facts supporting ideas that challenge the rigidity of what seems to be a false narrative force-fed to us as truth through modern day academia, then this will be up your alley. All of that told very elegantly but without overwhelming the audience with big words or scientific jargon. I hope you enjoy!

A comprehensive new lense

I dont think I've ever written a review for anything I've read since college but this book is exceptional. It is so much more than a book about occasional historic 'drug use'. This book, better than any other I've read, offers an undeniably sound timeline of continued ceremonial psychedelic use spanning back to some of our earliest known human artifacts. Simultaneous to pulling together this astonishing timeline of psychedelic use Brian graciously uncovers a not so surprising multi millenia effort by the Church to eliminate this ancient tradition.

This book is all I want to talk about!!

Mind Blown!

Just wow! Despite the well documented history of wantan destruction by the Catholic Church in the name of God, I was still disgusted by the details uncovered in this book. Now I understand why the Church stopped at nothing to ensure Christianity became the world's dominant religion. The only solace I have is knowing these days are coming to an end. The world is waking up. We are again embracing the Devine Femanine. We now know what all those old white guys were afraid of. We are taking back our earth, one ritual at a time. We're coming for you Church! Your days are numbered.

Fake

Graham Hancock has obviously never used a tile saw. Water + Saw = cut rock

Time Well Spend

Very fascinating book! Brain did a wonderful job making this book interesting and well explained. It has sparked an interest in me.

a book we all who are religious need to hear.

fascinating start to finish. highly recommended. I think this work is vital for all who take interest or believe in God or any religious systems.

Brings credibility to old hippy legends...

Brian C. Muraresku's The Immortality Key investigates the influence of the pagan's sacrament and belive of life after death had on early Christianity. Yes, another book about the Church hiding the truth, I love them! Though there is a lot of conjecture and speculation, it would seem that the hippy legend of an ancient psychedelic drink that expands consciousness is very true. Brian's research shows that there was a shared sacrament across cultures that spread from Minor Asian to Europe. What I found most interesting was how he used his knowledge of pagan and classic symbolism to reexamine Christian text for the search for clues. Though Jesus has been shown to be a derivative of Dionysus before, the evidence and ancient texts presented show that the early Christians weren't just influenced but rather coopted pagan rituals and sacraments. Those of us that like to delve into historical conspiracies, you won't be disappointed by the audiobook.

Great book

I heard about this on a podcast and it sparked my interest. I flew through it and it was laid out in a packed down to earth manner that made it very easy to comprehend. Will definitely listen to it again.

Learning foreign language

It had so much information I had to go back and listen again quite a few times especially during some of the longer latin lessons. The author really dotted his t’s and crossed his i’s. Very little room for argument about this topic now. Religion is psychedelic!