PTSF 35 (with Brian Muraresku)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, the typical Solidarity Fridays format is switched up yet again, this time with Joe interviewing author of best-selling book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and recent Joe Rogan Experience guest, Brian Muraresku. Because where do you go after Joe Rogan? Psychedelics Today, of course. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muraresku discusses how his fascination with Latin and Greek and the 1978 book, <em>The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries</em> (by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. P. Ruck) and its proposal of a psychedelic sacrament of sorts being imbibed at the Rites of Eleusis led him to spend about 12 years searching for evidence to prove it. From the idea of "graveyard beer," to Alcibiades and the profanation of mysteries, to wine parties to interact with the dead called refrigeriums, Muraresku dives deep into his findings: that the wine they drank was, at the least, spiked with herbs and spices to create something very different and likely hallucinogenic, that participants were seeking immortality, a euphoric ecstasy, and communion with both God and the dead, that both the Dionysian Gospel and Christianity are heavily related to the Rites of Eleusis, and that these ceremonies don't appear to have been isolated to Eleusis- that people took what they learned and practiced elsewhere, in what Denise Demetriou refers to as "open-access sanctuaries."<br /></span></p> <h2>Notable Quotes</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Some of the legacies of this civilization, from democracy and the arts and sciences to literature and philosophy and the very concept of a university- all these inheritances are the things that we associate with the very literate Greeks. And there stands Euelisis at the center of it all. ...And they [the Rites] were