Episode #1543
Brian Muraresku & Graham Hancock
Books mentioned
The Immortality Key
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
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Soma
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Rig Veda
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The Emperor Wears No Clothes
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Attorney and scholar Brian Muraresku and author Graham Hancock discuss evidence for psychedelic substances in ancient religious rituals, including the Eleusinian mysteries and early Christianity. They explore spiked wine and beer in antiquity, prehistoric cave art as shamanic visions, and Hancock's arguments for an older Sphinx based on water erosion.
What they talked about
- Psychedelic use in ancient Greek and Christian rituals
- The Eleusinian Mysteries and the kykeon potion
- Archaeological evidence for spiked wine and ergot
- Carl Ruck's hypothesis and the Louvre vase discovery
- Paul's letters and the Corinthian Eucharist controversy
- Cannabis and incense in early Christian worship
- Graham Hancock's lost civilization theory and Younger Dryas impact
- Cultural suppression of psychedelic knowledge
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