The Secret History of Religion
the goop podcast
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Is It Really a Book or a Man?
How did this illegal cult convert half the roman empire, some thirty million people? It's what my friend bart ermin, the early christian scholar, he calls one of the greatest cultural transformations in history. But you have to find the secret sauce. And when i look at eleusis and what the ancient greeks were doing, it begs the question whether there was an experience that was past from the earliest greeks to the earliest christians. The honest approach is that we just don't know....
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