Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Speculation, Classes from
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Mark takes over my duties as host and interviews Brian for an episode of the Plants of the Gods podcast. You, my pricey listeners, are listening to the audio earlier than anybody else, so it is a Tim Ferriss Present unique. I’ve beforehand featured a few of my favourite episodes from that podcast at tim.weblog/plantsofthegods. These episodes cowl loads of fascinating floor.
So, who’s Dr. Mark Plotkin? Mark (@DocMarkPlotkin) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which has partnered with ~80 tribes to map and enhance administration and safety of ~100 million acres of ancestral rainforests. He’s finest identified to most of the people because the writer of the e-book Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, one of the crucial common books ever written concerning the rainforest. His most up-to-date e-book is The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know. Yow will discover my interview with Mark at tim.weblog/markplotkin.
And the visitor at the moment is Brian C. Muraresku. Who’s Brian? Brian (@BrianMuraresku) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown College with a level in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name is Brian’s debut e-book. In 2020, it grew to become a New York Instances bestseller, and Audible named it “Better of 2020” within the Historical past class. His web site is brianmuraresku.com. It’s also possible to discover him on Instagram @brian_muraresku.
It is a tightly packed 55-minute interview. Mark and Brian cowl the Eleusinian Mysteries, the pagan continuity speculation, early Christianity, classes from famed spiritual scholar Karen Armstrong, neglected elements of influential thinker William James’s profession, historical wine and historical beer, experiencing the divine inside us, the significance of “tikkun olam”—repairing and enhancing the world as we go—and far, way more.
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#646: Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Speculation, Classes from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and A lot Extra
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- Join with Brian Muraresku:
- Join with Dr. Mark Plotkin:
Website | Plants of the Gods Podcast
Amazon Conservation Team | Twitter | Facebook
- The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian Muraresku | Amazon
- Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Rätsch | Amazon
- Mark’s Review of The Immortality Key | American Botanical Council
- Back to the Future | Prime Video
- The Eleusinian Mysteries: the Psychedelic Cult That Thrived For Nearly 2000 Years | Gizmodo
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley | Amazon
- The Odyssey by Homer | Amazon
- Eleusis: Mysterious Ancient Town Named European Culture Capital | Greece Is
- Kykeon: The Mysteries of An Ancient Psychoactive Drink | Truffle Report
- The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A.P. Ruck | Amazon
- Was the Kukeon a Psychedelic Beer? | r/AskHistorians
- The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East by John M. Allegro | Amazon
- Rick Doblin — The Psychedelic Domino That Ideas All Others | The Tim Ferriss Present #440
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan | Amazon
- This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan | Amazon
- Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics | The Tim Ferriss Present #365
- Michael Pollan — This Is Your Thoughts on Vegetation | The Tim Ferriss Present #520
- Lophophora Williamsii (Mescal, Mescal Buttons, Peyote) | North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) | Drug Science
- The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher | The Atlantic
- Peyote: The Sacred Cactus | Plants of the Gods
- Did the Romans Basically Steal All Their Ideas from Ancient Greece? | Quora
- Gnosticism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Dionysian Mysteries | Wikipedia
- Mark 4:11 KJV | Bible Gateway
- The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
- Ayahuasca and Creativity by Benny Shanon | MAPS
- Harmala Alkaloid | PsychonautWiki
- Chemically-Induced Otherworldly Experiences of Zoroastrians in Iran | ESPD 55
- Dennis McKenna — The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Classes, Fundamentals, Superior Matters, Science, Church buildings, Learnings, Warnings, and Past | The Tim Ferriss Present #523
- Zoroastrianism | Wikipedia
- Alcohol in the Bible | Wikipedia
- The Death of Socrates – Wikipedia
- What Killed Socrates? Toxicological Considerations and Questions | Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine | Vice
- Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture, and Conservation | Plants of the Gods
- Detection of a Beer Brewed at Godin Tepe (Iran) 5,500 Years Ago | Beer Studies
- The Role of Cult and Feasting in the Emergence of Neolithic Communities: New Evidence from Göbekli Tepe, South-Eastern Turkey | Antiquity
- Which Came First, Beer or Bread? | Quora
- The First Wine & Beer: Chemical Detection of Ancient Fermented Beverages | Analytical Chemistry
- Midas Touch | Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales
- Mushroom Expert Exhumes the Stoned Ape Theory | Big Think
- How the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis Explains Our Taste for Liquor | The Atlantic
- The Value of Truth | Philosophy Talk
- Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology
- What is Communion? Its Meaning and Symbolism Explained | Bible Study Tools
- This Hallucinogenic Fungus Might Be Behind the Salem Witch Trials | Discover Magazine
- Altered Minds: Mescaline’s Complicated History | Nature
- The World’s Largest Psychedelic Analysis Heart | The Tim Ferriss Present #385
- US Veterans with PTSD Turn to Psychedelic Drugs Overseas as VA Frustration Grows | Navy SEALs
- Roland Griffiths, PhD — Life’s Final Glide Path, An Surprising Stage IV Analysis, Going through Loss of life, How Meditation and Psychedelics Can Assist, and The Artwork of Residing a Lifetime of Gratitude | The Tim Ferriss Present #641
- The God Paradox: Brian Muraresku & Karen Armstrong | After Skool
- What Is a Zen Koan? History and Interpretation of Koans | Being Zen
- Zen Grasp Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Unusual and Highly effective World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Present #560
- Henry Shukman — Zen, Instruments for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Utilizing Wounds because the Doorway | The Tim Ferriss Present #531
- Roland Griffiths | Horizons New York 2022
- Self Unbound: Ego Dissolution in Psychedelic Experience | Neuroscience of Consciousness
- The Immortality Key: Psychedelics and the Ancient Age with Brian Muraresku & Prof. Carl Ruck | Jordan Peterson
- Lucy In The Sky With Nazis: Psychedelics and the Right Wing | Psymposia
- High Times Magazine
- Kambo: The Controversial Drug Derived from Stressed-Out Frogs | The Guardian
- Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World | My Jewish Learning
SHOW NOTES
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- Who’s Brian C. Muraresku?
- The Eleusinian mysteries.
- The ridicule of Carl Ruck.
- Why are these concepts solely being accepted now?
- How the Eleusinian mysteries influenced Christianity.
- A mind-altering Eucharist?
- The function of beer and wine within the basis of civilization.
- Patrick McGovern.
- Stoned apes and/or drunk monkeys?
- What’s occurring at Harvard Divinity Faculty at the moment?
- Karen Armstrong and the God paradox.
- Ethnobotanists discover buddies in unusual locations.
- Doing good on this planet primarily based on the otherworldly.
- What’s the Amazon Conservation Crew?
- Psychedelics at Harvard didn’t start with Leary and Alpert.
- Studying from previous errors and respecting the heritage of compounds from which we profit.
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