The Immortality Key: Brian Muraresku on the psychedelic roots of Christianity
Vito Corleone/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’re in the middle of a psychedelic renaissance. Mainstream books like Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind (2018) and a wave of promising research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics have produced a ton of interest in a class of drugs once considered taboo. But a new book, The Immortality Key, has opened up a fascinating discussion about the historical role of psychedelics in the Western world, going all the way back to ancient Greece. The best way I can describe it is to say it’s an old-fashioned detective story, l...
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