The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name

Before the birth of Jesus, the Ancient Greeks found salvation in sacred beer and wine routinely consumed as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries-- elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death. In the 1970s renegade scholars claimed these beverages--the original sacraments of Western civilization--were spiked with mind-altering drugs. In recent years, vindication for the disgrace theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogens by out ancestor.