Hey, this is Sean Ramos for the host of Vox's Daily News podcast today explained, but of course

I'm here once again to introduce Vox conversations where we're bringing you conversations between

some of the brightest minds and smartest people we know on today's show once again, back

by popular demand.

Vox is Sean Iling, who's going to be talking about the little known history of psychedelics

and spirituality in the Western world with Brian Murerescu author of the immortality key.

We're going to be answering some questions that my mom is maybe not going to be thrilled

about.

Did psychedelic drugs play an important role in the rise and spread of Christianity and

could they save the church today?

Here's Sean Iling.

We've heard a lot of talk about psychedelics in recent years.

We've heard about psychedelics everywhere in mainstream books and popular science journals,

in TV shows and movies.

We're in the middle of something like a psychedelic Renaissance and I'm extremely

here for it.

I've covered the psychedelic beat for Vox for a while now, writing about the underground

scene and some of the recent breakthroughs in the scientific research on psychedelics.

But today we're going to look to the past with a guest who has opened up a fascinating

name is Brian Murerescu author of the immortality key, a fantastic new book about what he calls

the secret history of psychedelics.

This is really an old fashioned detective story like the Da Vinci code except it doesn't

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