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

Absolutely outstanding! A must for the collection!

I am only on chapter three and it has me locked in like a high school freshman reading Dan Brown for the first time! Graham Hancock is a modern day genius and Brian may be on the verge of breaking through...

Well done

The story was well written and evidence presented in a very well thought out manner. I'm glad I listened to the author read it, as I feel I would have bogged myself down trying to work out words in ancient languages. The author did a fantastic job in both writing and reading this book

PJ -it was worth it!

Loved you on Rogan, super fascinated by this subject and will soon get grahams book as well as filling your journey! Can’t wait

lots of really good info

I really don't like how he read the book. I think the book would have been read better by somebody who reads books for a living. Also something is missing from the book. I just can't put my finger on what it is. Its a good book and worth the read.

Can't do 6 stars so 5 it is.

I sincerely hope the author finds a new investigation or a continuation of this one. Can hardly wait for another. This one is worth two listens and some branch off related titles mentioned within as well.

Important Research

Lots of mind blowing moments. Final chapter fascinating. A real life Davinci Code, I say with hesitation.

incredible!

This is the book that I needed to read when I was studying psychology and theology. The whole thing makes sense now.

Finally someone that thinks like I do.

For years I've theorized that the Mormon faith is based off of John Smith's travels west to avoid persecution living off the land. encountering mushrooms 🍄 before having his visions of the holy spirt that spoke to him about the golden plates that gave way to the sequel to the Bible know as the book of Mormon. I've dabbled in numerous hallucinating plants, mostly that lead to the same outcome. I am part of something bigger then me and that love and kindness is all we need to achieve a better 🌎 for everyone.

Pagan continuity hypothesis w psychedelic twist

Excellently researched, fantastic storytelling. Highly recommend.

I've gifted this book, both print and audio to several friends.

Eye-opening and beautifully presented

Very well and eloquently presented information that will certainly help cement the beginnings of other future serious research in the matter. An incredible glimpse into our human past and our own spiritual evolution through the millennia.