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
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The Immortality Key - The Ellucinian Mystery
Brian Plaken: In antiquity, Ellusis was a place where people went to become immortal. He says the best and brightest of both Greece and Rome visited it for about 2,000 years. They would have an encounter with goddesses that made all previous seeing seem like blindness, he says. And only those who drank this potion achieved immortality, but in fact survived death, Plaken writes.
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