The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East

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You know how when the song Mellow Yellow came out, lots of people thought it was coded instructions for smoking banana peels? He is a Lutheran pastor in Missouri and the creator of Lutheran Satire, a series of comical videos intended to teach the Lutheran faith. Whether he used sacred mushrooms or saw it has his Eucharist is secondary and should not supplant the human beings divine potential but bring it out, help him make it manifest, not substitute his soul for a temporary state. They started out with a shitty language with no real alphabet, and by the end of their civilization they had a real alphabet with consonants and vowels.

Which makes sense when you consider the eucharist otherwise it sounds like a barbaric cannibalism ritual. It is our conviction that either he [Allegro] has misread the texts or he has built up a chain of conjectures which the materials do not support. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The only reason I am not giving it 5 stars is because it's very dense and it would take a PhD in linguistics to fully evaluate the author's claims, so I'm left not really knowing how much of the book to believe.but you can probably guess why: the conclusion of this work is essentially to say that the Jewish and Christian religions are by no means indigenous to the Dead Sea area, but are rooted in previous Sumerian psychedelic mushroom cults, and so really undermines the "right of first occupancy" arguments relied upon by zionists. However, the book is a fascinating read to anyone who is open to new ideas, however absurd they may be. Van Voorst Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence Eerdmans Publishing, 2000.

Critical reaction was swift and harsh: fourteen British scholars (including Allegro's mentor at Oxford, Godfrey Driver) denounced it. The sacred mushroom was at the center of the Israeli cult(s), it was their god-endowed plant that gave them temporary access to heaven and immortality. Cineworld has cancelled all screenings of The Lady of Heaven, a new film focusing on the life of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Oh, and the reindeers were never a part of the story until in 1822, when Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem “A Visit From St. Feats of actorly endurance are all the rage at the moment, and now Succession's Sarah Snook is getting in on the action, playing all 26 roles in a West End production of The Picture of Dorian Grey.

He was keen to photograph the site of Qumran and various texts, providing an important source of information for posterity. Allegro’s claim that the name of Jesus was rooted in an ancient Sumerian name for a mushroom that means “semen, which saves” is a great example of the self-promoting, weirdo academic playbook. The answer is found in a bit from the interview with Malice, where Rogan, an outspoken skeptic of organized religion and a hallucinogen aficionado, argues that, at their best, most religions are nothing more than ethical systems intended to inspire us to be better people — something, he notes, you can also achieve by tripping on mushrooms. John Marco Allegro was a scholar who challenged orthodox views of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible and the history of religion, with books that attracted popular attention and scholarly derision. When they transcribed the Gospels based on the stories they had heard, the evangelists confused the scrolls’ meaning.

Terence McKenna in Food of the Gods also claims that the fruit which Adam and Eve ate from was a symbol for a psychedelic mushroom since it gave them “knowledge” (e. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 book about the linguistics of early Christianity and fertility cults in the Ancient Near East. In the same way that Hera, the goddess of family and childbirth, appealed to overly nervous, distrusting helicopter moms in Ancient Greece, “vaccines cause autism” appeals to overly nervous, distrusting helicopter moms today.

While this book will be beyond most readers as it was for me, most of Allegro's other works are quite accessible. The Sumerian word for mushroom can be traced to the word for “key”, and the name Peter can be traced back to the Hebrew word for mushroom. I remember seeing a 'documentary' on YouTube when I was like 17, which for about 3 hours, documented mushroom symbology in various parts of the Catholic Church and beyond. But not sure the supposed existence of a trippy cult, disproves the existence of messiah (Christ or whoever), reason?

The historian Dr Henry Chadwick wrote in the Daily Telegraph that there was “no particle of evidence for all this exciting conjecture.

Jesus Christ was a mushroom, according to a well-respected British academic who turned his career upside down after a mind-boggling career change. Well, on a more somber note, the book’s author has some brilliant but gut wrenching insights in places. When taking my first Hebrew Scriptures course, our professor, Grinnell College Chaplain Dennis Haas began a lecture with a display of this book, saying how he had been shocked by its thesis that the roots of Judaism and Christianity were in a psychedelic fertility cult. As is often the case with outlandish conspiracy theories, you may find yourself thinking, “I know that’s wrong, but I don’t know why it’s wrong.