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 (#646)

Welcome to The Tim Ferriss Present, the place it’s normally my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out their routines, habits, et cetera that you would be able to apply to your individual life. 

This time round, we’ve a really particular version that includes Dr. Mark Plotkin and Brian C. Muraresku. 

Mark takes over my duties as host and interviews Brian for an episode of the Vegetation of the Gods podcast. You, my pricey listeners, are listening to the audio earlier than anybody else, so this can be 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 plenty of fascinating floor.

So, who’s Dr. Mark Plotkin? Mark (@DocMarkPlotkin) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Group, which has partnered with ~80 tribes to map and enhance administration and safety of ~100 million acres of ancestral rainforests. He’s greatest recognized to most people because the writer of the guide Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, one of the crucial standard books ever written in regards to the rainforest. His most up-to-date guide is The Amazon: What Everybody Must Know. You could find my interview with Mark at tim.weblog/markplotkin. 

And the visitor at present 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 Historical past of the Faith with No Identify is Brian’s debut guide. In 2020, it turned a New York Instances bestseller, and Audible named it “Better of 2020” within the Historical past class. His web site is brianmuraresku.com. You too can 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 non secular scholar Karen Armstrong, ignored points of influential thinker William James’s profession, historical wine and historical beer, experiencing the divine inside us, the significance of “tikkun olam”—repairing and bettering the world as we go—and far, way more. 

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Join with Brian Muraresku:

Web site | Twitter | Instagram

• Join with Dr. Mark Plotkin:

Web site | Vegetation of the Gods Podcast

Amazon Conservation Group | Twitter | Fb

• The Immortality Key: The Secret Historical past of the Faith with No Identify by Brian Muraresku | Amazon
• Vegetation of the Gods: Their Sacred, Therapeutic, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Rätsch | Amazon
• Mark’s Evaluation of The Immortality Key | American Botanical Council
• Again to the Future | Prime Video
• The Eleusinian Mysteries: the Psychedelic Cult That Thrived For Almost 2000 Years | Gizmodo
• Roots: The Saga of an American Household by Alex Haley | Amazon
• The Odyssey by Homer | Amazon
• Eleusis: Mysterious Historical City Named European Tradition Capital | Greece Is
• Kykeon: The Mysteries of An Historical Psychoactive Drink | Truffle Report
• The Street 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 Examine of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Inside the Fertility Cults of the Historical Close to East by John M. Allegro | Amazon
• Rick Doblin — The Psychedelic Domino That Ideas All Others | The Tim Ferriss Present #440
• The right way to Change Your Thoughts: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Dependancy, Despair, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan | Amazon
• This Is Your Thoughts on Vegetation 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 Fuel) | Drug Science
• The Nitrous Oxide Thinker | The Atlantic
• Peyote: The Sacred Cactus | Vegetation of the Gods
• Did the Romans Principally Steal All Their Concepts from Historical Greece? | Quora
• Gnosticism | Web Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Dionysian Mysteries | Wikipedia
• Mark 4:11 KJV | Bible Gateway
• The Affect of the Thriller Religions on Christianity | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Analysis and Training 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+ Periods, Fundamentals, Superior Subjects, Science, Church buildings, Learnings, Warnings, and Past | The Tim Ferriss Present #523
• Zoroastrianism | Wikipedia
• Alcohol within the Bible | Wikipedia
• The Demise of Socrates – Wikipedia
• What Killed Socrates? Toxicological Concerns and Questions | Postgraduate Medical Journal
• Early Christians Would possibly Have Been Excessive on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine | Vice
• Hallucinogens, Therapeutic, Tradition, and Conservation | Vegetation of the Gods
• Detection of a Beer Brewed at Godin Tepe (Iran) 5,500 Years In the past | Beer Research
• The Position of Cult and Feasting within the Emergence of Neolithic Communities: New Proof from Göbekli Tepe, South-Japanese Turkey | Antiquity
• Which Got here First, Beer or Bread? | Quora
• The First Wine & Beer: Chemical Detection of Historical Fermented Drinks | Analytical Chemistry
• Midas Contact | Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales
• Mushroom Knowledgeable Exhumes the Stoned Ape Idea | Large Assume
• How the Drunken Monkey Speculation Explains Our Style for Liquor | The Atlantic
• The Worth of Reality | Philosophy Discuss
• Pontifical Fee for Sacred Archaeology
• What’s Communion? Its Which means and Symbolism Defined | Bible Examine Instruments
• This Hallucinogenic Fungus Would possibly Be Behind the Salem Witch Trials | Uncover Journal
• Altered Minds: Mescaline’s Sophisticated Historical past | Nature
• The World’s Largest Psychedelic Analysis Heart | The Tim Ferriss Present #385
• US Veterans with PTSD Flip to Psychedelic Medicine Abroad as VA Frustration Grows | Navy SEALs
• Roland Griffiths, PhD — Life’s Final Glide Path, An Sudden Stage IV Prognosis, Dealing with Demise, How Meditation and Psychedelics Can Assist, and The Artwork of Dwelling a Lifetime of Gratitude | The Tim Ferriss Present #641
• The God Paradox: Brian Muraresku & Karen Armstrong | After Skool
• What Is a Zen Koan? Historical past 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 Expertise | Neuroscience of Consciousness
• The Immortality Key: Psychedelics and the Historical Age with Brian Muraresku & Prof. Carl Ruck | Jordan Peterson
• Lucy In The Sky With Nazis: Psychedelics and the Proper Wing | Psymposia
• Excessive Instances Journal
• Kambo: The Controversial Drug Derived from Pressured-Out Frogs | The Guardian
• Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World | My Jewish Studying

SHOW NOTES

• [07:24] Who’s Brian C. Muraresku?
• [09:19] The Eleusinian mysteries.
• [11:51] The ridicule of Carl Ruck.
• [16:18] Why are these concepts solely being accepted now?
• [18:22] How the Eleusinian mysteries influenced Christianity.
• [23:54] A mind-altering Eucharist?
• [28:07] The function of beer and wine within the basis of civilization.
• [31:31] Patrick McGovern.
• [33:33] Stoned apes and/or drunk monkeys?
• [39:04] Altering attitudes on the Vatican.
• [40:13] What’s happening at Harvard Divinity Faculty at present?
• [43:14] Karen Armstrong and the God paradox.
• [50:57] Ethnobotanists discover pals in unusual locations.
• [51:55] Doing good on this planet primarily based on the otherworldly.
• [54:21] What’s the Amazon Conservation Group (ACT)?
• [56:10] Psychedelics at Harvard didn’t start with Leary and Alpert.
• [58:35] Studying from previous errors and respecting the heritage of compounds from which we profit.

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