The Psilocybin Connection
Research & scholarshipThe clinical era
Khamsehzadeh ties mushrooms to mind and human development. Wide-ranging.
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Reportage & memoirThe clinical eraHistory, culture & policy
What it is
A best-selling investigation, with a foreword by Graham Hancock, into the possibility that psychedelic sacraments shaped ancient Greek religion and early Christianity. Muraresku, a classicist and lawyer, recounts a roughly decade-long search across museum collections, archaeological sites, and archives in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany for chemical and textual evidence of a 'drugged' ritual drink. The book presents a contested historical thesis rather than scientific findings; it anchors the collection's deep-history and cultural-legitimacy thread. It reached the New York Times bestseller list.
The record
- Author
- Brian C. Muraresku
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- ISBN
- 9781250207142
- Kind
- Reportage & memoir
- Subject
- History, culture & policy
- Era
- The clinical era
- Links checked
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