Brian Muraresku - The History of Psychedelics in Religion

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Connor Beaton

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Did psychedelics play a role in mystical insight, human ingenuity, and the development of Western civilization? Is there a secret religion hidden underpinning the most ancient spiritual practices of Greece, Turkey, and elsewhere? Join me and Brain Muraresku for a mind-bending look at our history as a civilization, as spiritual beings, and how psychedelics might be intertwined into it all. This was a deeply fascinating talk; sit back and enjoy! Brian C. Muraresku graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. He lives outside Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters. Connect with Brian -Book: The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name -Website: https://www.brianmuraresku.com/ -Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianmuraresku -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_muraresku/ -LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-muraresku-76983a27 Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For the mystics, the only way to know God is to experience God.
0:14.5	And the only way to experience God is to unlearn everything the ego has been trying
0:19.8	so vigorously to manufacture since our
0:23.4	infancy. In order to stop wetting the bed and become productive members of society,
0:28.7	that, quote, deep inner peace circuitry of the right hemisphere, end quote, has been
0:34.7	sidelined along the way. To bring it back online, say the mystics, the simplest
0:41.3	and most effective method is to die before you die. So that's a quote from the book, Immortality
0:50.1	Key by my guest today, Brian Mararescu. Brian graduated 5 Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree
0:58.4	in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. As an alum of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar,
1:05.7	he has been practicing law internationally for 15 years and he lives outside of Washington,
1:10.3	D.C. with his wife and
1:12.1	his two daughters. Now, what's interesting is that the book that we're about to discuss and the
1:19.4	concepts that we're about to dive into are very different from the bio that I just read you.
1:26.1	So Brian is the author of the New York Times best-selling
1:28.8	book, The Immortality Key, The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. Huh. What an interesting
1:37.4	title. So here's a little bit about the book. It's a groundbreaking dive into the role
1:42.0	that psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization
1:46.1	and the real life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the church to his foundations.
1:51.9	Okay, so what?
1:53.5	What are we talking about?
1:55.3	So this is a bit of like an Indiana Jones style, real life, archaeological, ancient Greece, historical quest to unearth exactly
2:08.1	that, the Holy Grail. And on this journey, Brian talks about this religion that was nameless,
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