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Plants of the Gods: S4E2. Part 1 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The Plan at a Certain Line or Shamanic Magic Happening That People Are Realizing

William James didn't like peyote, it made him very sick. In fact, William James wrote that it wasn't until I took nitrous oxide that I began to understand Hegel. The Comanche War Chief said the reason that these indigenous religions and syncretic religions combine things like Catholicism and indigenous belief systems has a grip. And this is the proposition of the mysteries that belong to the pagan world too. Like there's no controversy among Christian scholars about whether or not early Christianity was born with secrets.

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