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The article “Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine” incorrectly and vaguely claims that the Holy Grail will be found by Koh at MIT.
by Ed Prideaux, October 20, 2020
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqej4/early-christian-communion-wine-hallucinogenic
“What’s the next step in uncovering psychedelic wine and its connection to early religion? How can scholarship proceed from The Immortality Key? The aim of the book was to amass the hard evidence – mainly from archaeobotany and archaeochemistry – that provides proof of concept for much further study and analysis. It doesn’t claim anything definitive about the earliest days of Christianity. Science will have to lead the way.
“But we should all be paying attention to Andrew Koh, the MIT scientist who’s researching “spiked” wine and other pharmacology and medicine across the ancient world and beyond. Part of his work is tracking down fresh, uncontaminated vessels in Galilee, and elsewhere across the Mediterranean where the first Christian communities took root.
“The ergotized beer at Mas Castellar de Pontós and the psychedelic wine at the Villa Vesuvio are some of the most compelling finds that have ever emerged in the hunt for the original sacraments of Western civilization. They are game changers. Not because of their intrinsic value, or our ability to speculate on the wider use of psychedelic potions among the Ancient Greeks and early Christians. But because they should excite the academic community, our religious institutions and the public at large to find out more. Over the next ten years [2020-2030], this new science may actually find the Holy Grail, so to speak. And Andrew Koh is the guy who’s going to do it.”
What does he mean by “find the Holy Grail, so to speak”? The Holy Grail has already been found, 25 years ago (1995) and 14 years ago (2006).
Heinrich, Ruck, Hoffman, Arthur, Ratsch, et al already wrote journal issues and books identifying “the original sacraments of Western civilization”; “psychedelic potions among the Ancient Greeks and early Christians“. They found the Holy Grail plants, while I clearly explained the Transcendent Knowledge which visionary plants reveal (as well as finding additional plant representations). The heyday of this research was around 2003.
Around 1957, Robert Graves identified Greek mythology and Mystery Religion as mushroom-based.
Clark Heinrich identified the Holy Grail plant as Amanita, by 1995.
The Egodeath theory found what mental transformation (gnosis) such visionary plants deliver, by 1988 (Core theory), 1997 (summarized on the Web), 2006 (Myth added), or 2013 (Myth condensed).
In 1986, I was working on identifying the ingested scrolls of the Book of Revelation. Heinrich also answered that question in 1995, which solution I read in 1999.
Chapter “The Mysterious Grail” in book:
Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods: A Speculative History (= 1st Ed., 1995)
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (= 2nd Ed., 2002)
http://amzn.com/0892819979
Clark Heinrich
Amanita is a colorful stand-in for psilocybin mushrooms and the visionary loose cognitive state brought by visionary plants. Brown & Brown: “The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity” (2016).
The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is both the mushroom and the experiential transformative knowledge that it delivers, con-substantial.
The block-universe worldline snake brings the fruit, the gnosis, the loose cognitive association binding state, the mental transformation regarding time and control, from Possibilism to Eternalism.
The Egodeath theory 
Muraresku has an overly narrow conception of what counts as ‘evidence’ and ‘proof’ of drugs in religious history. He so idolizes laboratory scientists that only a chemical analysis from a scientist that shows a drug found on a drinking vessel at a religious site counts as evidence to him that drugs were used in religious history. It’s an absurd standard that I will write about more in my next set of posts about his book, now that I’ve written about the therapists.
He subordinates all other fields and types of evidence, including theoretical reflection on what counts as evidence and how to arrange it, to that of laboratory science. He simply doesn’t mention scores of books on drugs in religious history, including many of Ruck’s, whom he otherwise publicizes and praises.
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“1988 (Core theory), 1997 (summarized on the Web), 2006 (Myth added), or 2013 (Myth condensed)”
To some extent, the pattern of Transcendent Knowledge development or writing was:
1988 – Expansive writing of Core theory
1997 – Condensed summary of Core theory
2006 – Expansive writing of Myth theory
2013 – Condensed summary of Myth theory
That’s a useful way of keeping track of milestone dates (even though it’s uneven or rough).
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Heinrich is at least indirectly referenced, in the book The Immortality Key, which cites the book:
The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist
http://amzn.com/089089924X
Carl Ruck, Blaise Staples, Clark Heinrich
2000
Internet better than Bibliography:
At Amazon, at The Immortality Key, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250207142
the section “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” reveals the truth, that there are many books that already discovered the visionary plants in Mystery Religion & Christianity.
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