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The Path to the Gods through Psychedelics
Did the Classical Greeks and early Christians believe you can achieve spiritual enlightenment by taking a drug?
Did the Greeks of the Classical era drink a psychedelic concoction during their mystic rituals that gave them access to The Mysteries of their gods and provide them with evidence of the soul’s survival in death? In the ‘The Immortality Key’ by Brian C Muraresku, the author sets out on a global hunt to provide evidence for this theory.
The centre of these Greek rituals was at Eleusis. A Roman initiate, Praetextatus maintained that access to The Mysteries held, ‘the entire human race together’ and without it life would become ‘unliveable.’ After two thousand years of living in the absence of any further psychedelic epiphanies only we can answer if life is not liveable. With our continued rape of the Earth’s resources putting us on the edge of extinction, and at odds with the environment that sustains us, the answer seems clear.
Not only was a ‘god pill’ used in pagan ceremonies, Muraresku contends that it was continued in the early Christian rites, before being reduced to a placebo when Christianity was taken over as a state religion, becoming part of the prevailing patriarchal order. The bureaucrats took control, and its vibrant essence…
