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 a real-life quest for the Holy Grail.The most influential religious historian of the twentieth 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?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 today’s 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 Christianity’s founding event...and, after centuries of debate, to solve history’s 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 so-called 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 mind-altering 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 self-proclaimed 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, Brian C. Muraresku takes the reader 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?Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.
✔ Autor(s): Brian C. Muraresku
✔ Titel: The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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✔ ISBN-10: 1250803985
✔ Sprache: Deutsch
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Lesermeinungen The Immortality Key von Brian C. Muraresku
Rosamunda Klinke
Ein spannender Thriller voller unerwarteter Wendungen. Die Handlung ist rasant und die Charaktere sind vielschichtig und faszinierend. Jede Seite bringt neue Überraschungen und hält die Spannung aufrecht. Der Protagonist ist clever und mutig, was die Geschichte noch fesselnder macht. Perfekt für Fans von spannungsgeladenen Krimis. Ein Buch, das man nicht aus der Hand legen kann. Ein packendes Lesevergnügen.
Anneli Dorman
Ein tief bewegender Liebesroman, der das Herz erwärmt. Die Protagonisten haben eine Chemie, die spürbar ist, und ihre Reise ist sowohl romantisch als auch emotional. Die wunderschöne Prosa und die detaillierten Beschreibungen lassen die Leser in die Geschichte eintauchen. Eine Geschichte, die zeigt, dass wahre Liebe alle Hindernisse überwinden kann. Perfekt für romantische Seelen. Eine Lektüre, die zum Träumen einlädt. Ein Buch, das man immer wieder lesen möchte.
Odila Harpe
Ein magischer Realismus-Roman, der die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fantasie verwischt. Die poetische Schreibweise und die mystischen Elemente ziehen den Leser in eine verzauberte Welt. Jede Seite ist voller Wunder und überraschender Ereignisse. Eine Geschichte, die die Fantasie beflügelt und zum Träumen einlädt. Ideal für Fans von magischem Realismus. Ein Buch, das die eigene Vorstellungskraft herausfordert. Ein unvergessliches Leseerlebnis, das lange nachklingt.
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