The Religion with No Name · reading guide
Resources
Everything below is derived from this case's own source records — 24 of them — plus a small curated shelf of learning materials. Verification labels say exactly how much checking stands behind each record; nothing here is a recommendation to believe, only to read.
Primary literature10
Papers, preprints, and reports the case draws on — the records to read before trusting any summary, ours included.
- SRC-ANTONOPOULOS-2026paper · 2026
Investigating the psychedelic hypothesis of kykeon, the sacred elixir of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Antonopoulos, Romanos K.; Dadiotis, Evangelos; Ioannidis, Kostas; Cheilari, Antigoni; Mitsis, Vangelis; Garcia-Campaña, Ana M.; Gámiz-Gracia, Laura; Hernández-Mesa, Maykel; Narváez, Alfonso; Hoffman, Mark A.; Ruck, Carl A. P.; Gonou-Zagou, Zacharoula; Aligiannis, Nektarios; Magiatis, Prokopios
- SRC-CASTRO-2025paper · 2025
Lysergic Acid Amide (LSA), an LSD Analog: Systematic Review of Pharmacological Effects, Adverse Outcomes, and Therapeutic Potentials
Castro, P. S. C. C.; Leopoldo, K.; Pedro, M. O. P.; Takitane, J.; Bombana, H. S.; Negrão, A. B.; Scholz, J. R.; Castaldelli-Maia, J. M.
- SRC-LUKE-KOH-2025paper · 2025
Antikyran Hellebore in the Time of Caligula
Luke, Trevor S.; Koh, Andrew J.
- SRC-ANTONOPOULOS-2025preprint · 2025
Investigating the psychedelic hypothesis of kykeon, the sacred elixir of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Research Square preprint, version 1)
Romanos K. Antonopoulos; Evangelos Dadiotis; Kostas Ioannidis; and 11 more (as listed by Research Square)
- SRC-TANASI-2024paper · 2024
Multianalytical investigation reveals psychotropic substances in a ptolemaic Egyptian vase
Tanasi, Davide; van Oppen de Ruiter, Branko F.; Florian, Fiorella; Pavlovic, Radmila; Chiesa, Luca Maria; et al.
- SRC-GUERRA-DOCE-2023paper · 2023
Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysis
Guerra-Doce, E.; Rihuete-Herrada, C.; Micó, R.; Risch, R.; Lull, V.; et al.
- SRC-ROBINSON-2020paper · 2020
Datura quids at Pinwheel Cave, California, provide unambiguous confirmation of the ingestion of hallucinogens at a rock art site
Robinson, David W.; Brown, Kelly; McMenemy, Moira; Dennany, Lynn; Baker, Matthew J.; et al.
- SRC-ARIE-2020paper · 2020
Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad
Arie, Eran; Rosen, Baruch; Namdar, Dvory
- SRC-GRIFFITHS-2006paper · 2006
Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance
Griffiths, R. R.; Richards, W. A.; McCann, U.; Jesse, R.
- SRC-WEBSTER-2000paper · 2000
Mixing the Kykeon
Webster, Peter; Perrine, Daniel M.; Ruck, Carl A. P.
Critiques & counter-analyses5
Sources whose evidence in this case predominantly undermines the featured hypothesis. Read these with the same seriousness as the supporting work.
- SRC-DIDACHEarchive · c. 50–120
The Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), chapters 9–10, trans. M. B. Riddle (Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 7)
New Advent
- SRC-JUSTIN-APOLOGYarchive · c. 155
Justin Martyr, First Apology, chapters 65–67, trans. Dods & Reith (Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 1)
Justin Martyr; New Advent
- SRC-MOSURINJOHN-2026paper · 2026
Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience
Mosurinjohn, Sharday; Ascough, Richard
- SRC-REASON-2025webpage · 2025
The Strange Case of The Immortality Key
Kitchens, Travis; Reason
- SRC-BROWN-2021paper · 2021
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name (review)
Brown, Jerry B.
Books & primary texts4
Book-length treatments, including proponent primary texts.
- SRC-MURARESKU-2020book · 2020
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Muraresku, Brian C.
AI-verified citationbrianmuraresku.com ↗ - SRC-JUAN-TRESSERRAS-2002book · 2002
Estudis dels residus orgànics per a la identificació de possibles ritus i ofrenes (pp. 548–556); Els productes vegetals per a ús domèstic a partir de la caracterització de microrrestes vegetals i compostos orgànics (pp. 477–481) (chapters in Mas Castellar de Pontós (Alt Empordà): Un complex arqueològic d'època ibèrica (Excavacions 1990–1998), ed. E. Pons i Brun; Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya–Girona)
Juan-Tresserras, Jordi
UnverifiedSupports ×1no public link on record - SRC-BURKERT-1987book · 1987
Ancient Mystery Cults
Burkert, Walter
Unverifiedno public link on record - SRC-WASSON-1978book · 1978
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Wasson, R. Gordon; Hofmann, Albert; Ruck, Carl A. P.
AI-verified citationContext ×1no public link on record
Datasets, archives & records2
Datasets, artifact records, and archival material.
- SRC-IRENAEUS-AH1archive · c. 180
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book I, chapter 13 (on Marcus), trans. Roberts & Rambaut (Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 1)
Irenaeus of Lyons; New Advent
- SRC-HOMERIC-HYMNarchive · 1914
Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Hymn 2), trans. H. G. Evelyn-White
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Web & commentary3
Webpages, press, and commentary — useful for orientation, weak as evidence.
- SRC-ATHANATOS-YAPPwebpage · 2026
Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (Athanatos Foundation project page)
Athanatos Foundation
- SRC-MURARESKU-SITEwebpage · 2024
brianmuraresku.com — author's presentation of The Immortality Key
Muraresku, Brian C.
- SRC-CSWR-2021webpage · 2021
Video: Psychedelics: The Ancient Religion with No Name? (Charles Stang in discussion with Brian Muraresku, with transcript)
Stang, Charles M.; Muraresku, Brian C.; Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
grouping is derived: a source lands under “critiques” when its evidence records in this case predominantly undermine the featured hypothesis · every entry links to its full provenance record