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

by Brian C. Muraresku

If you die before you die, You won’t die when you die.

experiences with Ayahuasca have been persuasive, perhaps in very much the same way that the experiences of pilgrims to the ancient Greek sanctuary of Eleusis were persuasive and

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“Always being?” “Always being. So being now and always. There’s no beginning or end. Every moment is an eternity of its own.”

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“Once you’ve plunged into the ocean, does it really matter whether or not you believe in water?”

“to be the student and beneficiary of all traditions, and the slave to none.”18

God does not reside in a holy book. Whether it’s the Bible or the Qur’an, the mystics have never found God by reading about God.

For the mystics, the only way to know God is to experience God. And the only way to experience God is to unlearn everything the ego has been trying so vigorously to manufacture since our infancy. In order to stop wetting the bed and become productive members of society, that “deep, inner-peace circuitry of the right hemisphere” has been sidelined along the way. To bring it back online, say the mystics, the simplest and most effective method is to die before you die.

It’s why a fundamental concept for the Kabbalists, the mystics of Judaism, is Ayin (Nothingness). “When a man attains to the stage of self-annihilation he can thus be said to have reached the world of the divine Nothingness.

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Despite the fact that there are more surviving works of Galen than of Homer, Pindar, Herodotus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle combined, none of his pharmaceutical treatises has ever been translated into English.22

Limnio from the Kikones vineyard, named after the ancient wine-making tribe that Homer placed in Thrace,

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The real problem is not those three items, but greed, selfishness and apathy. And for that we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.”34

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“That is one of the major mistakes people are making if they think about former beer-making. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with heat. Just take the cereal and put it in water. That’s it.” “And that will ferment?” “Yes, the yeast is coming from your hand,” replies the brewer. “And there’s really enough to kick-start the fermentation process?” “Yeah, you have enough. If the yeast is active and vital enough, then fermentation will start. Because our body has an entire microbiome on the skin.”

The Stone Age inhabitants of Turkey did not just influence the Stone Age inhabitants of Greece. They became the Greeks.

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