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

by Brian C. Muraresku

If the answer to the first question is “yes,” and the roots of Western civilization were soaked in mind-altering drugs, then the recent experiments at Hopkins and NYU would appear to be anything but a modern fad. Indeed, it would force a massive reassessment of our current relationship with naturally occurring substances that were not only sacred, but indispensable to the architects of democracy and the world as we know it. If the answer to both questions is “yes,” then the new Reformation is as well grounded and historically oriented as Martin Luther’s Reformation, and it becomes an immediate reality for the tens of millions of SBNRs and religiously disillusioned. But more pressingly, today’s 2.42 billion Christians (almost one-third of the global population) will have to decide whether they will continue sipping from a placebo amid “ninety minutes of boredom,” or join the revolution that just might rescue a dying faith and a civilization on the edge of extinction. Two thousand years in the making, the crisis is real. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.