The Immortality Key. The Secret History of Religion With No Name

A revolutionary study on the role psychedelics played in Western humanity’s communion with the divine—

and an answer to a 2,000-year-old mystery that could shake the Christian Church to its foundations.

Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca, there was Eleusis: the spiritual capital of antiquity. It promised immortality to Plato and the other great minds of Ancient Greece with a simple formula: Drink this potion, and you will see God. Shrouded in mystery for millennia, this ancient Greek sacrament was buried when the newly converted Roman Empire wiped out Eleusis in the fourth century.

In the 1970s, renegade scholars claimed that the ancient Greek potion was psychedelic—just like the original Christian Eucharist that replaced it. The fast-developing field of archaeobotany and archaeometry proved that hallucinogens were indeed used in antiquity. With a single dose of psilocybin, psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins University and NYU have turned self-proclaimed atheists into believers. Yet, no one had ever discovered undeniable scientific proof of drug use at Eleusis, let alone during the era of early Christianity.

Brian Muraresku’s ten-year investigation connects the psychedelic sacrament of Ancient Greek religion to early Christianity. Drawing on unpublished archival documents, ancient science and literature, biblical scholarship, and art, Muraresku reveals the hidden key to eternal life, leading us to the edge of what clinical psychologist William Richards calls an "unbelievably vast unexplored territory."