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

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

I hope this saves your marriage

I purchased this audio book to save the authors marriage. I hope things are well Brian. I heard you on Joe Rogan and loved the interview. I enjoyed hearing about the book and your process of writing it. I am writing this review before I listened to the book. If this saves your marriage please name you first born after me Matthew lol jk. looking forward to listening to this.

Best book Ive listened to all year! ❤️

Intrigue, facts, science and history crescendoing through the last chapter. Bravo! Crazy making because it seems true... mind is blown.

well researched and presented

got this one on a bit of a whim, but it was a great surprise. the author thoughtfully guides the reader through subjects including skull cults, graveyard beers, witches, Jesus, Vatican archives, psychedelics, the war on drugs and how it all ties back to the last supper. Great read.

Finally, the answers I've been seeking for so long

This book answered so many of my questions. Opened so many more doors into truth.

Excellent read, this book is essential.

This book provides a critical narrative to the origins of religion as a whole, and more specifically the Christian religion. Furthermore, it brings accountability to the Catholic Church for their leadership’s innumerable heinous crimes against women (also men, and really anybody who was a scholar of “heretical” material) and the dissemination of ancient pharmacological knowledge, among other things... Today’s world is one of forgotten knowledge that once connected us deeply to the planet and cosmos.

Brian is a hero for putting the many hard years of work into this. It should be a required text for any course on Western civilization.

Booms please!

Filled a hole left by catholicism and wonder! A big fat juicy wonder hole.

Very Good Book

I liked how he talked about the ancient brewing methods to then connect it to the wine in the eucharist.
It is interesting how psychedelics have been taboo, and now that people are waking up, I am excited for them to see what they can offer. Whether the visions or experiences are true or not, no one can deny how fishy it is that people tried to hide this recipe for millenia.
Power to the people, let them see God, and realize that Kim-Jong-Un is only human. This brew would help a lot of people over the world to truly see what they need to see.
Cheers.

Utterly fascinating

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am very intrigued by the subject matter and how the author presented it in manner that leaves the reader enough room to formulate their own opinions without forcing his own theories completely upon you. I also found it responsible and respectful that the author is a “psychonaut virgin” giving his presentation of the material that much more credibility.

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awesome book! eye opening. I hope it leads to greater understanding of the beginnings of our collective past.

Amazing book and so well researched

I can’t believe how brilliant Mr. Muraresku is! As a person who was raised in the Catholic Church and someone who 40+ years ago experimented with LSD, I now have a much richer understanding of my experiences. However, this book blew me away! At first I thought his ideas were crazy until I listened to his thorough research. I can’t say enough about how amazing this book is. It made me rethink pretty much everything I was taught I not only loved his theory that the Eucharist was originally a drug-infused drink that sparked a world religion along with an inquisition that murdered thousands of innocent people but I also really enjoyed his writing style. Everyone should read this book!