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

In its heyday the temple attracted the best and brightest Athens had to offer, including Plato. To keep his experience classified, the godfather of Western philosophy used vague, cryptic language to describe the “blessed sight and vision” he witnessed “in a state of perfection”—

the newest Florentine got to work writing Oratio de hominis dignitate (Oration on the Dignity of Man): the

Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change. Therefore I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools

“Rather than having women in the control of men,” says Dr. Fiachra Mac Góráin, a classicist at University College London, “this cult is putting young, impressionable men under the control of women.”41 In a staunchly patriarchal society like Rome, that was an act of war. So the authorities made the flood of magical wine slow to a trickle.

After my Ayahuasca experiences I’m no longer so sure that logic and reason can effortlessly reduce us to our bodies in this way. On the contrary, I’ve seen much to convince me that although consciousness manifests in the body during life it is neither made by the body, nor confined to the body, nor inevitably extinct on the death of the body.

copies of the trippy vegetation until my neck can’t take it anymore. In the middle of the bull’s-eye, the focal point of this entire chamber, two men flank a veiled woman. She is clothed from head to toe in a white robe. Only her face is visible. The males are dressed like the fungal surfers that surround them, complete with elaborate sandals. The

As part of the Sacred Weeds series that aired on the UK’s Channel 4 in 1998, Sherratt and his colleagues (an Egyptologist, an ethnobotanist, and a pharmacologist) enlisted two courageous volunteers to drink some wine-soaked flower concoction in the first televised re-creation of the ancient sacrament. After a nice fit of the giggles, the restless d

How psychedelics were the shortcut to enlightenment that founded Western civilization: first in the Eleusinian Mysteries, then in the Dionysian Mysteries.

If we all died before we died, maybe we’d all discover the big secret that was known to the initiates of the Mysteries. We are all God.