Through studying Sumerian cuneiform texts which go back to B. But in the outrage The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross raised among Christian critics, scholars failed to follow up on the main ideas — a way of understanding the fertility concept at the root of religion, and the way language and religion grew up together: the origin of myth and philosophy.
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross was universally vilified after its first publication in May Ruck publicly endorsed the overall thesis of The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. It uses iconographic and symbolic evidence to substantiate many of his claims and brings together years of research and hundreds of references, many of which have only come to light since the publication of The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross in Albin Michel,, Paris, Rauschgift als Ursprung unserer Religionen.
Roma, Cesco Ciapanna, Il Fungo Sacro e la Croce. De Heilige Paddestoel en het Kruis. They cont. The Holy Mushroom Author : J. Christianity and the Piltdown Hoax one of the largest academic scandals in history share many similarities: In both stories the information was constructed and then salted into the information stream, and, through the word of noted scholars, presented as fact, the truth.
Scholars have egos and once committed to their ideas through scholarly publications, faculty meetings, and conferences, have difficulty seeing, hearing, or even appreciating an adverse view. To waver from a strongly held opinion could spell academic ruin and withdrawal of acclaim.
Jan Irvin The Holy Mushroom has captured what we might call an "anthropology of clarification" regarding whether or not mushrooms, and mind-altering substances in general, played any role in the development of not only Judaism and Christianity but the total culture in play at that time.
It is now recognized in many academic communities anthropologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists that sufficient evidence exists of the importance of these substances, both textual and visual, to say "yes" in very large letters. It is no longer theory. The questions Irvin asks are these: "If mind-altering substances did play this major role, then how would this affect our interpretations of the Bible and the Qur'an? Would this shed light on the origins of mystical experiences and the stories, for example Abraham hearing voices and Ezekiel's convenient visions?
What would this suggest about the shamanic behavior of Jesus? What impact would this have on organized religion? This is a very useful volume for those interested in the Holy Mushroom and the politics of truth.
Detailed and wonderfully illustrated; great bibliography. Professor John A. Rush, Sierra College. Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, arguing that the early Christians belonged to a drug cult, their sacrament consisting of hallucinogenic mushrooms. In his follow-up book, The End of a Road, Allegro considered the philosophical ramifications of having undermined Christianity and hence, for many people, religion altogether.
He argued that abandoning religion is not tantamount to abandoning morality; rather, it should enable a more honest and straightforward approach to morality.
Rejecting arguments that the elusive philosophers' stone of alchemy and the Hindu elixir of life were mere legend, Clark Heinrich provides a strong case that Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric mushroom, played this role in world religious history. Working under the assumption that this "magic mushroom" was the mysterious food and drink of the gods, Heinrich traces its use in Vedic and Puranic religion, illustrating how ancient cultures used the powerful psychedelic in esoteric rituals meant to bring them into direct contact with the divine.
He then shows how the same mushroom symbols found in Hindu scriptures correspond perfectly to the symbols of ancient Judaism, Christianity, the Grail myths, and alchemy, arguing that miraculous stories as disparate as the burning bush of Moses and the raising of Lazarus from the dead can be easily explained by the use of this strange and powerful mushroom.
While acknowledging the speculative nature of his work, Heinrich concludes that in many religious cultures and traditions the fly agaric mushroom--and in some cases ergot or psilocybin mushrooms--had a fundamental influence in teaching humans about the nature of God. His insightful book truly brings new light to the religious history of humanity. Score: 5. Not only have plants supplied mankind with a never-ending food source, the necessary nourishment for our bodies, and life itself, but they have also served us in another way: an extremely important and intricate one, yet an often overlooked one.
Allegro may be one of the most explosive works regarding early Christianity. The book centers on the revelation by Allegro that the Dead Sea Scrolls show Jesus Christ to be a symbol rather than actual person.
The symbol that Allegro refers to is Christ representing a highly coveted Gnostic sacrament, Psilocybin laced mushrooms. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. There are a few very interesting chapters but the rest if the book is mediocre, but the finally story at the end of the book shows how much our media is censored.
There's nothing inherently unreasonable about any of this. The basic idea is that the fundamental beliefs of Christianity and other religions originated in ancient fertility cults which used psychedelic mushrooms to make contact with God.
It was written by John Marco Allegro — The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity , and many other religions, lay in fertility cults , and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era , and to some unspecified extent into the 13th century with reoccurrences in the 18th century and midth century, as he interprets the fresco of the Plaincourault Chapel to be an accurate depiction of the ritual ingestion of Amanita muscaria as the Eucharist.
Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure and was a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
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