Psychedelic Bullshit evaluates The Immortality Key and challenges claims that ancient Greek religion centered on psychedelic sacraments and erased entheogenic history

Ancient Greek religion and the Eleusinian Mysteries sit at the center of a critique of strong psychedelic revisionism tied to The Immortality Key. The core claim under scrutiny is that early Western religion was fundamentally shaped by entheogenic sacraments and that later institutions suppressed this history, and the evaluation pushes back on the evidence, logic, and historical method behind that conclusion. Classical sources, ritual interpretation, and comparative claims about wine, kykeon, and visionary experience are treated as disputed terrain rather than settled proof of psychedelic use. The discussion highlights problems such as overstated certainty, selective reading of evidence, and leaps from suggestive parallels to sweeping civilizational narratives. Broader stakes reach beyond one book. Psychedelic history, spiritual legitimacy, and public understanding all depend on distinguishing intriguing hypotheses from well-supported reconstruction, especially when ancient mystery traditions are used to validate modern psychedelic culture.