Psychedelics

Travis Kitchens | 12.16.2024 12:49 PM

The pope met an emissary from the psychedelic world at a "holy meeting" at the Vatican, where a Jesuit lawyer named Brian Muraresku presented Pope Francis with a manifesto for a psychedelic "New Reformation."

Popes and reformations do not historically get along, but Francis accepted a copy of Muraresku's 2020 book The Immortality Key at the meeting, which took place in late 2021 or early 2022. The book argues that psychedelics might rescue a "dying faith" and save Western civilization.

Though the science journalist Michael Pollan has called it "groundbreaking," The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a dubious Da Vinci Code–style thriller. Trade publishers would otherwise have little interest in a 400-page........

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