BRIAN C. MURARESKU graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. He lives outside Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters. In 2016, Muraresku became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. Their work has been featured on CNN and ESPN, as well as The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. In arbitration with the NFL in 2018, Muraresku represented the first professional athlete in the United States to seek a therapeutic use exemption for cannabis. The Immortality Key is his debut book.
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Immortality Key is an astonishing and remarkable book that explores
the mysterious links between psychedelic drugs, human
consciousness, and the origins of Christianity. It presents truly
ground-breaking research on many levels, tracing the use of
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God
"An outstanding inquiry into the power of the Mysteries in the
ancient world. A sweeping, persuasive argument from a true
Renaissance intellect. The writing is most vivid." --Gregory Nagy,
Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Harvard
University "A fascinating analysis of the mystical roots of ancient
religion, and a rediscovery of a forgotten ritual for the modern
world." --Deepak Chopra "In Brian Muraresku, the psychedelic theory
of religion has its newest and most accomplished scholar-historian
(who also happens to be very funny). This is no crackpot idea. This
is genuine scholarship at its deepest, most comparative, and most
conceptually radical. The breadth of the investigation is simply
astonishing: the Eleusinian Mysteries; the cosmic love of God;
Göbekli Tepe and Indo-European studies; Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and
Catalan; flying witches and the long religious war on women; the
Vatican Secret Archives; democracy, ethics, and the unity of
humankind; hard archaeochemical and DNA evidence; the first
(Dionysian) miracle of Christ in the Gospel of John; the political
radicalism of the Eucharist; LSD-laced graveyard beer and
psychedelic wine. Buckle up tight, Toto. You were never in Kansas.
It's Oz everywhere and always." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, Associate Dean
of Faculty and Graduate Studies, Rice University, author of Esalen:
The Religion of No Religion
"Muraresku has successfully unwrapped one of history's greatest
riddles with a measured, skeptical eye. His ability to sift through
the evidence with an open mind and discriminating wit keeps the
pages turning." --Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and
Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A
Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife
"Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key connects the lost,
psychedelic sacrament of ancient Greek religion to early
Christianity -- exposing the true origins of Western Civilization.
Muraresku brings to light a secret with the capacity to
revolutionize our understanding of the past and chart a bold, new
course for the future." --Graham Hancock, New York Times
Bestselling Author of America Before
"In The Immortality Key, Muraresku reconstructs the forgotten
history of psychedelics in the development of Western civilization.
His analysis of the roots of Christianity will shake the foundation
of organized religion and point the way to a revolution in
consciousness." --Andrew Weil, M.D. "An impeccably researched
journey to the crossroads of history. The questions are
provocative, the disclosures earth-shaking. By deciphering the
relationship between Jesus and Dionysos, Brian Muraresku has
achieved nothing less than a radical re-envisioning of the
Christian story." --Mark Arey, Former Director of the Office of
Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America "A timely message, given the
re-emergence of psychedelic research for end-of-life distress. A
tour de force on the perennial quest to unlock the mystery of
death. A spiritual adventure page-turner that's not easy to put
down. And a mystery tour well worth taking." --Anthony P. Bossis
Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York
University School of Medicine "With his new book, The Immortality
Key, Brian Muraresku offers an invigorating look at the birth of
religion as the ancient secret of dying before dying, providing us
with a rejuvenating blast of what my friend Huston Smith described
as authentic enthusiasmos, an ecstatic experience of the god
within." --Phil Cousineau, author of Once and Future Myths, and
coauthor with Huston Smith of And Live Rejoicing: Chapters from a
Charmed Life
"A manifesto, briskly paced and engaging from page one, on the very
real possibility of a psychedelic eucharist. I strongly recommend
this intriguing, provocative, and thoughtful book." --Julie
Holland, MD, author of Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection
From Soul to Psychedelics
"In his Introduction alone, Muraresku captures the excitement of
what psychedelics can offer our species in this time of crisis.
What an exhilarating adventure into the heart of the Ancient
Mysteries, and the psychedelic key to Eleusis. Somewhere over the
rainbow, my dear friend Albert Hofmann is smiling. The secret is
out!" --Amanda Feilding, Founder and Director of the Beckley
Foundation "Like a modern-day Galileo, combining meticulous
scholarly analysis with highly rarefied fieldwork, Muraresku is
willing to bravely challenge sacred cow orthodoxies, unafraid of
where the facts and evidence lead him. He has the standing and
erudition to do so. Deftly weaving in humor and contemporary
policy, Muraresku's book is of utmost urgency in the search for
what it means to be alive and inevitably die. This page-turner
presents the hard archeological evidence substantiating the
LSD-like chemical presence in the Eleusinian and Dionysian
Mysteries, which carried on for thousands of years, reappearing in
democratized form as the Eucharist in the mystery cult of early
Christianity before its suppression under the Roman Empire. Here
revealed are the true origins of the dominant religion of Western
civilization, and the lengths to which its early progenitors went
to preserve female spiritual leadership, and the psychedelic
sacrament that was their lodestar." --Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD,
PhD, Co-Founder and Co-Director, AIMS Institute; Affiliate
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Geography,
University of Washington "Psychedelic Eucharist anyone? This
amazing researcher Brian Muraresku has uncovered what has been
called the biggest secret in history. Really enjoying reading The
Immortality Key, it places the psychedelic truth in more
irrefutable historic context." --Alex Grey, CoSM "An old-fashioned
detective story, like The Da Vinci Code. Except it doesn't suck.
And it's about psychedelics." --Sean Illing, Vox "Structured as a
travel diary, in the style of a real-life Da Vinci Code, The
Immortality Key tells the story of a dozen-year quest for
Christianity's psychedelic roots. A thorough work, performed
assiduously." --Ido Hartogsohn, Haaretz
"likely to become a classic study... THE IMMORTALITY KEY lands
another powerful blow against the logic and rationale of the drug
war and offers a cogent argument in favor of the responsible use of
entheogens...it's a ripping read, one that roughly hews to the form
of a mystery - or maybe a Dan Brown conspiracy thriller. That's an
awful lot for an author to accomplish in a first book, but
Muraresku has done it all deftly, and given the movement for
cognitive and religious freedom some great material to work with."
--Clifton Ross, Quillette
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