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Oct 2020
1h 7m

The Secret History of Religion

Goop, Inc. and Audacy
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Brian Muraresku—author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name—spent twelve years entrenched in connecting the dots between the use of mind-altering drugs and the foundation of Christianity as we know it today. Many of us are familiar with the holy wine present at ancient religious celebrations. But what was actually in that w ... Show More
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