A review by kat2
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

informative medium-paced

4.0

This book brings together a wealth of multidisciplinary research connected to the use of psychedelics in religious ritual, from prehistory to the present. For me, the hypothesis that psychedelic experience is at the heart of all religion was interesting, as well as the focus on women as priestesses forced out of the early Christian church and branded witches. The prose is “caffeinated,” as John McPhee would put it, and stuffed with cliches, but I read all the way through to learn more.