Mind Meld 229 | The Immortality Key -- Die Before You Die with Brian Muraresku

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This mind meld is sponsored by the mushroom alchemists at Four Sigmatic! Get up to 39% off their cognitive-boosting potions here.

Brian Muraresku is the bestselling author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. It's a vast, highly entertaining investigation of the use of visionary substances in the ancient world and, more deeply, what spirituality really was to our ancestors.

In this mind meld, we riff on--

Ancient initiatory traditions like the Eleusinian and Dionysian mysteries.
The lost art of greek contemplative practices
Why modern religions have largely become inert
How to connect back to the numinous directly
Was the original eucharist psychedelic?
Why the secret of it all is to “die before you die.”

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0:00.0	Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.
0:03.7	Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome,
0:22.8	my dear Wonder Dippers. If you listen, you know, the opening well-wishing and hyperbole
0:31.2	about the forthcoming episode is always guaranteed, but it makes me wish I'd saved
0:38.9	something extra for this one. Some special never before used flurry of impassioned verbiage, some special
0:49.8	gushing incantation of mirth and gratitude and excitement because this
0:56.0	Mind Meld my friends is the one I've been most excited about, maybe ever.
1:03.6	As you may have noticed, my interests tend to be interests of intersection,
1:10.4	I suppose, you know, how the ancient overlaps with the new I've even made up phrases for it
1:17.6	I don't know if I'm the originator of them but I say them all the time, i.e. the techno-darma, i.e. techno-delic.
1:26.6	And most of the time, I'm using these phrases just to point to something general, and as of yet unformed flavor of novelty that is suggesting something,
1:41.6	but not entirely defined.
1:45.0	But this time, the terms not only apply in a
1:50.0	obtuse way, but a specific one and we have the source of it of one of the most exciting
1:59.3	electric collisions of ancient and new I've ever heard of right here on the show. His name is
2:08.0	Brian Murrescu. He is the author of the truly, truly remarkable book,
2:15.0	The Immortality Key, The Secret History of the Religion with No Name.
2:20.0	Its ambitiousness is rivaled only by its success.
2:25.7	I'm telling you.
2:27.6	And I don't mean that just in a commercial sense,
2:30.6	but in the sense that I think Brian really pulled off what he set out to do.
2:38.9	He hit the bullseye.
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