The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

by Brian C. Muraresku

atheists and mystics both essentially believe in nothing. The only difference is that mystics spell it with a capital N.

“Nothing could be more alarming to the ecclesiastical hierarchy,” the philosopher Alan Watts once observed, “than a popular outbreak of mysticism, for this might well amount to setting up a democracy in the kingdom of heaven.”32

Either way, Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World—which framed this investigation in the first chapter—lends exquisite detail to the annihilation of the “world’s first public library” and its “hundreds of thousands of volumes.”

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Their re-creation, still available for purchase as Midas Touch,