The Immortality Key
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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Narrated by:
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Graham Hancock
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Brian C. Muraresku
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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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- Philip
- 06-04-21
Excellent. A completely undeniable work for this
Could put it down, whatever your knowledge and understanding of the history of religion, this book will open your eyes further.
Obviously well researched on the ground as well as academically, the author puts the ball in the net or over the line, the passes coming from antiquity and blackballed scholars just decades ago.
The phenomen revealed and so well articulated is for everyone on the planet, although few will ever experience it which is understandable.
However experience is one thing, simply knowing can be just as enlightening.
That is the key to the experience of the book. Nothing lasts forever, apart maybe from the human desire to know what is life and death really is.
It seems we have had the answer from the very beginning ,despite those who try and impose constructed truth and will still have it in centuries to come.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-03-21
Superb
A superb detective and journalistic work tracing clues through millenia to bring the truth of the human condition and the great lie told to us into clear focus
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- matrix101
- 15-11-20
challenge what you may think you know
definitely worth a try, I went in with an open mind and left with open eyes
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- Dj D.
- 19-02-21
Excellent
As an atheist this was a great listen. Biblical plagiarism has survived for too long!
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- Alexander
- 12-08-21
Amazing
Just amayzed how deep it goes on the research.
The only thing I was getting angry when I was hearing it, was the Greek words totaly wrong pronounced.
I am Greek and my ears wore in pain each time the narrator was telling a Greek word.
I hope the next time, after so much research he will bother more to find out how the words and names are pronounced correct.
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- louise burton
- 21-07-21
Great subject matter
Really fascinating and compelling subject matter but I found it it a little difficult to follow at times as it jumped around a bit. Thoroughly convincing though.
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- David
- 17-02-21
The real Da Vinci code
A real life Da Vinci code solved. Enthralling from beginning to end. Felt like going on a journey through the ages.
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- Dan
- 21-10-20
Amazing
A fascinating and in depth view into a topic few have dared to broach before.
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- David Hughes
- 26-10-20
Very enjoyable
I really enjoyed this audiobook. However, I felt the author became a little too obsessed with the drug connection at the expense of the many other factors that influenced the development of Christianity. It does seem that the early Gnostic Christians were able to become 'enlightened' through tripping on a psychedelic cocktail. Regardless of the arguments to support this view, what I found most disturbing was the persecution of the so called witches and quite often, their daughters as well. The barbaric burnings at the stake and the the overall treatment of women....denying them their rightful place in society. Jesus must be appalled at some of the things done in his name. The research for this book is superb with the narration being crisp and informative.
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- Virginia
- 14-05-23
Brilliant!
I love this book and keep returning to to it. Brian Muraresku’s sparkling intelligence is a joy. Flawless, top class narration
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