183. The Immortality Key; Psychedelics and the Ancient Age | Brian Muraresku & Prof. Carl Ruck

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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This podcast was recorded on May 14th, 2021. In today’s episode, Dr Jordan Peterson is accompanied by author Brian Muraresku and Professor Carl Ruck to unravel the secrets of ancient Greek culture and religion. They embark upon the sinuous journey of discussing psychedelics in Ancient Greek religion, and how both Brian and Professor Ruck became deeply invested in understanding the subject. Today we meet with Brian Muraresku, who tells us why and how he was drawn to research the role of psychedelics within Western civilization. Muraresku is also the author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name. Carl Ruck is an American professor who’s known for his extensive research on mythology and religion regarding the sacred role of entheogens; a selection of psychoactive plants that are known for inducing altered states of reality or consciousness. Ruck co-authored the book The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, and is currently teaching mythology classes supporting this theory at Boston University.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. This is season 4, episode 37. In this
0:06.3	episode, my dad is joined by Brian, Mirra Rescue, and Carl Rock. Brian is the
0:11.5	founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation, an author of
0:16.7	the Immortality Key, the secret history of the religion with no name. Carl Rock
0:22.4	is a professor and researcher best known for his work in mythology and religion
0:26.4	on the sacred role of psychoactive plants that induce an altered state of
0:31.3	consciousness. Together they discuss psychedelics in religion, visionary and
0:37.2	hallucinogenic experiences ties between Greek mythology and Christianity and
0:42.0	more. I hope you enjoy this episode. What about Jung? Do you think that he
0:47.2	experimented with hallucinogens? Who? Carl Jung, because he knew things. He
0:52.0	knows things that you just can't believe anybody could know. We know he spends a
0:56.3	year in TOS. I have a house in TOS and that year is not documented but he was
1:06.8	experimenting with mind altering substances. Silicide? Probably. Was that before
1:14.9	after the red book, do you know? I think the red book came out of that.
1:20.1	Hello everyone. I'm pleased to talk with two people today. First with author Brian C.
1:47.8	Murerscu and then later in the discussion with Professor Carl AP. Rock, professor
1:54.2	of classical studies at Boston University. Mr. Murerscu, the author, wrote the
1:58.8	recent book The Immortality Key, the secret history of the religion with no
2:03.7	name which was published by St. Martin's Press in 2020. That's the book here. I
2:09.2	read it from cover to cover last month. It was as excitingly plotted as Dan
2:15.5	Brown's Da Vinci code which is really saying something given that was a best
2:21.2	selling novel and this is actually a work of adventure, nonfiction, inquiry and
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