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

the sacred mushroom and the cross,

or even give me when I was living with you, you actually, I was a dick.

I left down the fucking floor.

Like one of the reading materials you gave me during that wonderful time was this insane book about how Jesus and Christianity has its roots in psilocybin.

But like if you just for the sake of this rant, if you look at Jesus as psychedelics, it makes a lot of sense because what Jesus is saying is you don't need a priest class to communicate with the divine.

there's the sacred mushroom in the bible John Marco Allegro's book about the Dead Sea Scrolls where he thought that the entire Christian religion had its origins in fertility rituals and psychedelic mushroom therapy that they were all having these rituals and consuming these mushrooms that's the Elysianian mysteries that they all got together and drank some sort of a potion the kookion that was a psychedelic potion and they devised democracy and they figured out all sorts of very unusual philosophies from these psychedelic experiences

what was the book I think it was the the crossbook that you've talked about the sacred cross or oh the sacred mushroom in the cross wasn't really that's the one I would heard of it could it I'm that my rumor might get passed around a lot yeah nine years or something

Well, there's a book called The Sacred Mushroom in the Cross. It's by John Marco Allegro and he was a biblical scholar that was one of the guys that was assigned to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls.

do you know of that book I believe that's the title well it's another book you read and you think well I have no idea what it's a study of mushroom symbolism in Christianity and it's another book that you know it claims that Christianity was heavily influenced by psilocybin use and it was published in the 1960s it's an amazing book but it's another book you read and you think I have no idea what to do with that I have no place to put that book

I read the sacred mushroom in the cross years ago and I thought he's a linguist and he claims to have gathered an immense amount of linguistic data suggesting that early Christianity was a mushroom cult.

I think people read that book and they think oh it's like John Allegro's the sacred the mushroom in the sacred cross do you know of that book I believe that's the title it's another book you read and you think well I have no idea what it it's a study of mushroom symbolism in Christianity and it's another book that you know it it claims that Christianity was heavily influenced by psilocybin use and it was published in the 1960s it's an amazing book but it's another book you read and you think I have no idea what to do with that I have no place to put that book

It's this guy John M Allegro and back in the 70s in this book called the sacred mushroom and the cross. He he argued that it was that the ultimate roots of Christianity and a bunch of other religions by the way, he's not just talking about Christianity comes from fertility cults that are based on the same. Interaction with psychoactive substances.

He took a step further than a lot of other people and said Jesus Christ never existed as an historical figure but was this kind of code for lack of a better word for mushrooms and just to be clear spoiler. A lot of scholars do not agree with him and a lot of people were offended.

I'm sure that's what many would call sacrilege.

our present concern is to show that Judaism and Christianity are cultic expressions of an endless pursuit by man to discover instant power and knowledge.

Granted the first proposition that the vital forces of nature are controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence, these religions are logical developments from older, cruder fertility cults.

These were the drug herbs, the science of whose cultivation and use had been accumulated over centuries of observation and dangerous experiment.

Those who had this secret wisdom of the plants were the chosen of their God. To them alone, had he vouchsafed the privilege of access to the heavenly throne.

Instigated probably by members of the cult swayed by their drug induced madness to believe God and called them to master the world in his name.

It's this guy John M Allegro and back in the 70s in this book called the sacred mushroom and the cross. He he argued that it was that the ultimate roots of Christianity and a bunch of other religions by the way, he's not just talking about Christianity comes from fertility cults that are based on the same. Interaction with psychoactive substances.

He took a step further than a lot of other people and said Jesus Christ never existed as an historical figure but was this kind of code for lack of a better word for mushrooms and just to be clear spoiler. A lot of scholars do not agree with him and a lot of people were offended.

I'm sure that's what many would call sacrilege. But that is fascinating.

our present concern is to show that Judaism and Christianity are cultic expressions of an endless pursuit by man to discover instant power and knowledge.

Granted the first proposition that the vital forces of nature are controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence, these religions are logical developments from older, cruder fertility cults.

These were the drug herbs, the science of whose cultivation and use had been accumulated over centuries of observation and dangerous experiment.

Those who had this secret wisdom of the plants were the chosen of their God. To them alone, had he vouchsafed the privilege of access to the heavenly throne.

Instigated probably by members of the cult swayed by their drug induced madness to believe God and called them to master the world in his name.