John Allegro and Amanita Muscaria

[cronxeh]

Allegro was a brilliant student of Semitic languages at
Manchester University and went on to study Hebrew dialects at
Oxford University.

In 1953, he was named to an international team formed to
decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in caves at
Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea six years earlier.

The scrolls, which spanned from about 100 B.C. to 70 A.D.,
included the oldest known manuscripts of books from the Old
Testament. Allegro's gift for deciphering minute texts was
crucial. His book, "The Dead Sea Scrolls," was published in 1956
and became a bestseller.

Allegro's subsequent notoriety caused derision in the
scientific community but developed a cult following in the early
1970s. Allegro, in his 1970 book "The Sacred Mushroom and the
Cross," contended that Judaism and Christianity were in fact
products of an ancient sex-and-mushroom cult.

He theorized that Jesus's last words on the cross were not a
lament to God but "a paean of praise to the god of the mushroom."

Although trained for the Methodist ministry, he became a
fervent anti-Christian devoted to debunking the story of Jesus.

Allegro also published a 1966 book, "Search in the Desert,"
about an unsuccessful search for lost scrolls in the Judean
Desert.

The mushroom is Amanita Muscaria, and surprisingly it is not on a DEA control list, which makes it legal. John Allegro wrote several books and he claims that early Christianity came from practices of using that mushroom, and that all statements made about Jesus are actually about that mushroom. Simply put early people worshipped the mushroom - as it was given life by the Sun - and it was red, so they naturally assumed it is the living god on Earth. Particularly interesting is that this wasnt the first case of such practices, and could be traced back to Indian religions and Judaism.

One of his books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879757574/?tag=pfamazon01-20


The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross -

 

[brewnog]

The bit about an "ancient sex and mushroom cult" made me giggle.

Seriously though, how could you question anyone who studied at the University of Manchester? It must be true!

 

[hypatia]

Be careful if you want to munch some, 2 varieties of the species are deadly. The rest of them will make you want to puke.
They grow in many places around the world, and the sex aspect of them is well known.

 

[stoned]

i only wish that guy could shed more light on hebrew religion instead inventing some fantastic tales about christianity.i know it is fashionable nowadays to spew dirt on christians and catholics but let's be fair, i rather be catholic and believe in new testament than believe in horrific and super fantastic tales of old testament.

 

[PIT2]

Why hang a guy who eats mushrooms on a cross? Or was it a mushroom on the cross?
And who or what is God according to this theory?

 

[cronxeh]

no

the cross is the mushroom

if you go to any church and you'll see the sign "The Christ Has Risen" you'll see the sun rays somewhere there, and the cross - its a mushroom. The 'myth' has risen. :)

 

[juju]

Hi,

What it boils down to is that the early christians were a bunch of mushrrom eating hippies and that Joshua ben Joseph was either there leader and/or the mushroom itself.

I kinda liked the book.

I myself prefer small doses of the psylicybin type.

juju

 

[cronxeh]

Yes let's not discuss that in here..

Instead I suggest to anyone interested in more info to look at this (3 hours long, but very informative and mind opening about number of things):

http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/nontesters/pharmacratic/

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Philip K. Dick's The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer talks about this with some interesting ideas. It's fiction, and labeled as such. ;-p