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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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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The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea by Joan E. Taylor (Dec 14, 2012) ISBN 019955448X Oxford University Press p. 305 Hoffman, Michael (2006) "Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita". Journal of Higher Criticism. Read more about Modern Javascript and the five year anniversary of my book, Functional Programming in JavaScript I feel that Allegro gives a good explanation for the motivation of a group of people to value the mushroom's psychoactive effects as the hand of god. How else would someone try to explain such an experience without the slightest hint of how biochemistry really works? If someone honestly reads Allegro's text with this in mind, it's hard to see how he can be totally wrong.

As the 1960s wore on, his theories became increasingly distinctive, and his obsession with mushrooms grew. In 1967 he acquired a following among adherents of the counter-culture by tracing the roots of Christianity to this ‘a phallic, drug-taking mystery cult’, the Essenes. Robert E. Van Voorst Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence Eerdmans Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-8028-4368-9 p. 77 With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the US is poised to be the world leader in fighting climate change. In his books The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979), Allegro put forward the theory that stories of early Christianity originated in this Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of psychedelic mushrooms, and that the New Testament was the coded record of this shamanistic cult. Throughout the years on his podcast, Rogan has proved himself to be sharp yet humble, a man with a discerning mind who is happy to toss ideas around but is hesitant to speak too authoritatively on subjects outside his expertise. So why would he buy into a conspiracy theory that could best be described as the intellectual equivalent of, well, snorting rancid pig entrails? Mushrooms Are a Poor Substitute for the Real Jesus

Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown If you're not in the linguistics field or have no interest in ancient communities and their writings and just thought that mushrooms are cool and the idea of psyhadelics being at the root of religions was cool - don't do it, watch a video or something.

It's author - John M. Allegro - with Masters degrees in Ancient Languages, Hebrew, and Ancient Studies - he was THE MAN asked to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls! 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. It was written by John Marco Allegro (1923–1988). [1] [2] Theories [ edit ] But since I have had my own Psychedelic experience, I can imagine how it might have worked out for ancient people tripping on Mushrooms and actually experiencing God like entities and forming a religion out of it. I grew up with Christianity forcefully shoved down my throat despite frequent and vigorous protests. I no longer hold the stark views against Christianity that I did in my youth. Nonetheless, this book had me smiling and even laughing at the possibility of Allegro being correct. And, mostly because I want it to be true, I do believe he is onto something.

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This book starts with a hefty dose of genitally themed etimology before going into cults and mushtooms. Unbeknownst to us, we were hiking among living deities! The nectar of the gods! THE IMMORTAL MUSHROOM-SACRAMENT OF ANTIQUITY! (Writing about mushrooms is awesome because you get to use fun words like hypnotic, sacrament, mushroom-cult, ecstasy, deity, comatose, etc.) As their differences deepened, Allegro came to resent and despise their tradition and belief system (Christianity) – on which opposition to his views stood. a b c Philip R. Davies, "John Marco Allegro", in Lawrence H. Schiffman; James C. VanderKam, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Vol.1. Oxford. p.18. ISBN 0195137965. Years later, having gotten two degrees in religion and having read some of Allegro's other work, I returned to this book, hoping that I now knew enough to evaluate it.

It's been five years since I published my book, Functional Programming in Javascript. And since then a dramatic shift in the programming language has unfolded. His argument was primarily based on his hell-bent belief that Christianity was a cryptic version of ancient sex cults inspired by the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria, and Jesus in the Gospels, a code for a type of hallucinogen. You know how when the song Mellow Yellow came out, lots of people thought it was coded instructions for smoking banana peels? The thesis of this book is that, in a similar vein, the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament were written to share coded information about the safe use of mushrooms. George J. Brooke, "Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in the United Kingdom", in Devorah Dimant, ed. (2012). The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research. Leiden: Brill. pp.453–454. ISBN 978-9004208063.

The Joe Rogan Psychedelic Mushroom Theory

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.” If that’s the case, permit me a moment to engage in some debunkery. Why did the authors of the New Testament write the stories they wrote? For Christians, the answer is simple: because it’s true. Weston W. Fields (2009). The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History. Vol.1. Leiden: Brill. pp.212–213. ISBN 978-9004175815. Allegro's book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) argued that Christianity began as a shamanistic cult. In his books The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979), Allegro put forward the theory that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of psychedelic mushrooms, and that the New Testament is the coded record of this shamanistic cult. [23] [24] Allegro further argued that the authors of the Christian gospels did not understand the Essene thought. When writing down the Gospels based on the stories they had heard, the evangelists confused the meaning of the scrolls. In this way, according to Allegro, the Christian tradition is based on a misunderstanding of the scrolls. [25] [26] He also argued that the story of Jesus was based on the crucifixion of the Teacher of Righteousness in the scrolls. [27] Mark Hall writes that Allegro suggested the Dead Sea Scrolls all but proved that a historical Jesus never existed. [28]



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