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PufPuf23

(9,874 posts)
14. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 07:03 PM
Jul 2020

Here you go.

Personally I recommend mushrooms without Jesus. The last time I ate psychically active mushrooms (or similar substance) was at a Dead concert in 1988 Oakland.
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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 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)

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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 mid-20th 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cross

https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushroom-Cross-Christianity-fertility/dp/0982556276/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Sacred+Mushroom+and+the+Cross%3A+A+Study+of+the+Nature+and+Origins+of+Christianity+Within+the+Fertility+Cults+of+the+Ancient+Near+East&qid=1595372098&sr=8-1

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Probably telling the truth soothsayer Jul 2020 #1
Oh, I thought you were doing a play by play of Trump's HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #2
Has Jesus been reached for comment? Cirque du So-What Jul 2020 #3
Ha! ZZenith Jul 2020 #4
Bet Jesus is plenty pissed Cirque du So-What Jul 2020 #5
All is forgiven. ZZenith Jul 2020 #6
How not to do mushrooms. Newest Reality Jul 2020 #7
okie dokie left-of-center2012 Jul 2020 #9
Is Sen. Paul looking to hire a new chief of staff? gratuitous Jul 2020 #8
Dear fellow Christians, Goodheart Jul 2020 #10
Quite a few people have done 'shrooms' with Jesus. kentuck Jul 2020 #11
"Jesus made the mistake of going into the bathroom and looking into the mirror JDC Jul 2020 #12
Okay, but why naked though? Yavin4 Jul 2020 #13
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross PufPuf23 Jul 2020 #14
Loser. I did mushrooms with GOD. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #15
well, i believe the "used mushrooms" part 0rganism Jul 2020 #16
sounds like fun prodigitalson Jul 2020 #17
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