7th book of 2024 completed:

The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku is a deep dive into the Christian sacrament of Eucharist. Brian argues, with very persuasive research and detail, that Paleo Christians used psychedelics during the first four centuries of Christianity while the religion was practiced secretly to evade Roman authority.

This sheds incredible light on a practice that helped convert pagans and kept the flame of early Christianity lit; only to have the practice systematically snuffed out so that only the priests of the newly founded Roman Catholic Church could consecrate and transubstantiate bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

This was one of many historical battles between decentralization and authoritarianism, with the latter winning handedly. But former may very well be having a comeback.