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Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity
    #7131507 - 07/05/07 07:50 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

Sunday Mirror Series, 1970

By John Marco Allegro



In 1970, the famed Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Marco Allegro published the following series of articles in the London Sunday Mirror, UK. This series of articles was to announce that Christianity is based on a fertility-mushroom/drug cult, and that Jesus was none other than the mushroom itself.



Contrary to popular opinion (Wasson in Forte, 1985; Ott: Pharmacotheon, 1993, 1996), this serialization of John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross was not run in The News of the World. Wasson and Ott’s contentions against “Allegro’s theory” have likewise been put under serious question. See the following sources:



For more information:

The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross by John Allegro (1970)

The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Judith Anne Brown (2005)

Astrotheology and Shamanism by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit (2006)

www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com www.gnosticmedia.com

Wasson and Allegro on Amanita Mushroom Trees in the Bible by Michael Hoffman

http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm



This series of articles kindly provided to Jan Irvin by Judith Anne Brown and the Allegro Estate in March, 2005.



Contents:



Sunday Mirror: February 15, 1970 no. 357

Famous scholar challenges the faith of centuries - CHRIST AND THE SACRED MUSHROOM by DAVID YORK

This news article was the first to break about John Allegro’s May, 1970 book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.



Sunday Mirror series by John Marco Allegro:

THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS: BEGINNING THE MOST CHALLENGING BOOK FOR YEARS by JOHN ALLEGRO

The first published extracts from John Allegro’s May, 1970 book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.



(Part 1) April 5, 1970 - BEGINNING THE MOST CHALLENGING BOOK FOR YEARS

(Part 2) April 12, 1970 - JOHN ALLEGRO’s controversial theory that strikes at the very foundations of Christianity

(Part 3) April 19, 1970 - WORSHIP BY ORGY TURNED THESE WOMEN INTO WITCHES

(Part 4) April 26, 1970 - ABRACADABRA –the magic phrase hidden in the Lord’s Prayer









Sunday Mirror

February 15, 1970 no. 357



Front page:

Famous scholar challenges the faith of centuries







CHRIST AND THE SACRED MUSHROOM

By DAVID YORK




Lecturer John Allegro examines a dried specimen of the sacred mushroom.

‘Some will accuse me of blasphemy’



A DISTINGUISHED British scholar has written a sensational book that is certain to cause the greatest upheaval in orthodox Christian thinking since Charles Darwin said Man was descended from the ape.



For he not only argues the non-existence of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, but claims that Christianity itself – as well as Judaism and other religions of the near and Middle East—are no more than hangovers from an ancient fertility cult.



Expert

The author of this remarkable book is 47-year-old John M. Allegro, lecturer in Old Testament and Inter-Testamental Studies at Manchester University, and a philologist—a student of words and language.



He is also one of the world’s greatest experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Mr. Allegro told the Sunday Mirror yesterday: “Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth.

“When the secrets of the cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folk tales.

“This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament. They are a literary device to spread the rites and rules of mushroom worship to the faithful.”



Challenge

Such a claim, such a challenge, to orthodox belief, coming as it does from one of the country’s leading experts in his field, is something of a religious H-bomb—threatening a shattering fall-out.

The controversy it will arouse must certainly lead to furious and acrimonious debates and schisms that will divide, not only Christians but Jews, Mohammedans and others whose religions have their origins in the areas covered by Mr. Allegro’s researches.

It is a fundamental challenge. To many it might suggest not only that there was no Christ or Moses,



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THE SACRED MUSHROOM

From Page One



Not only-to use Mr. Allegro’s own words – “that the stories in the Gospels and Acts were a deliberate hoax,” but also that there is no God.

Mr. Allegro bases his claims on his researches into the oldest written language known to us—Sumerian “Cuneiform” text dating back to 3500 BC. From this ancient tongue he believes came the language of the Bible.

And so, he says, we no longer have to take the New Testament story at its face value. We can trace the proper names and words used in it back to their true and original meanings.

“It is this,” says Mr. Allegro, “That reveal the cult of the phallic mushroom.”

Mr. Allegro’s book, which is to be published throughout the world, is bound to lead to fierce arguments. He says: “I’ll doubtless be accused by some of blasphemy. But these conclusions are the result of purely scientific dispassionate research.



Languages

“When I left the Royal Navy in 1947 I began to train for the Methodist Ministry as a theological student at Manchester University. This led me to a study of the ancient Semitic languages – including Old Testament Hebrew and Aramaic—and I became progressively more interested in the language and less in theology.

“Then came my appointment as the first British representative on the Dead Sea Scrolls editing team in Jerusalem.

From my work on these texts, the next step was a re-examination of New Testament names and titles, and to the realization that more lay behind them than was generally appreciated.

“And so I probed deeper—to the very beginnings of civilization. To Sumerian. And this book is the result.”

Mr. Allegro’s book, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, is to be published by Hodder and Stoughton in May.

Why are they handling it? Says their managing director, Mr. Robin Denniston: “John Allegro unquestionably raises fundamental and revolutionary religious questions.

“But even if he can be challenged on some of his interpretations, our feeling is that this is a serious and deeply important contribution to an area of knowledge which is of vital concern, not just to the Christian community, but to every literate person.”



ANOTHER GREAT SUNDAY MIRROR SERIES BEGINS TODAY



Sunday Mirror

April 5, 1970 Page 9



THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS

BEGINNING THE MOST CHALLENGING BOOK FOR YEARS

by JOHN ALLEGRO


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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: Brian]
    #7131612 - 07/05/07 08:36 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Following John Allegro's work on The Dead Sea Scrolls, and the publication of his own book, The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956):

"...it seems that he suffered a profound and personally catastrophic loss of faith. Not only was he unable to square the supposed inviolate truth of the Bible with the newly emerging textual and archaeological findings, but he also found the Church's resistance to those same feelings unbearable - they denied him an easy way of reconciling his own inner conflict. Something in him snapped and he developed an almost pathological hatred of Christianity....Allegro wanted nothing less than to demolish Christianity and erase it utterly from modern life. 'Throw itout,' he cried, 'with the rest of the discredited cult of the sacred mushroom.' He saw himself as a devoted Samson-like figure, bringing down the edifice to which he had devoted his life. He chose to do this by using all his masterful scholastic skills to fabricate a lie so convincing that people would abandon Christianity, and religion more generally, in droves. And of the whole sorry mushroom-cult story, the only part he actually believed was that Christianity was a sham....It need hardly be said that the years of resentment had, at the very least, clouded his judgement, for his plan backfired spectacularly. To his horror, one imagines, the public found the idea of his supposed sex and drug mushroom cult titillating and rather appealing, and while his own reputation lay in tatters, the integrity of the Church was actually strengthened by the scandal....Allegro's book, its radical ideas and the moral panic it triggered have been largely forgotten, but every so often new books are issued that reiterate the conspiracy...But beyond feeding the appetities of conspiracy-hungry mushroom enthusiasts, these sorts of unfounded speculations have made no religious or cultural impact, consigned as they are to the lunatic fringe."

- Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher, 2007, pp. 162-164

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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #7131704 - 07/05/07 09:10 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Well,:mushroom2: it's still on the Lips of Many & has recently been translated to German by Pastor David Jan Schlesinger( from a Swiss Jail, for Sacred Mushroom Distribution))


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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #7144794 - 07/08/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Andy Letcher is a hack, and Christianity is a sham...

The Goose has a Crown on it's neck for a reason, Manna does indeed = Shrooms!

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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: Dr.Wiggins]
    #7149094 - 07/08/07 11:49 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

First get published, then maybe you want to talk about some theology before you pontificate. What Is and what appears to be are radically different.

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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #7150897 - 07/09/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

actualy I did read that Andy Letcher Book, & I thought it was Low on facts & loaded with His Theory,I wouldn't recomend it, & the Guy isn't even Experienced with sacred Mushrooms;(neither was Allegro)
The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross was translated by a sincere scholar, who was as surprised about the content of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" as his fellow Scholars, , Because You & most people don't believe what it says does not mean it's not True
&:rolleyes: it's not going to make any Real difference to My Life if it's True or Not, :eek:I abandoned all Religeon Long ago & went for Direct Knowledge of the Living Energy which Creates & Makes this Whole thing Work::D


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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: Brian]
    #7151389 - 07/09/07 01:32 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

I will accept Letcher's biographical account of John Allegro's degredation from scholar. Letcher documents his sources, and it has nothing to do with what I choose to believe. Allegro's work and book on The Dead Sea Scrolls is something I am familiar with as well. His thesis on Amanita muscaria is fanciful at best. That mushroom does not even lend itself to any regularity of experience, not to mention that it has a rhizomorphic symbiosis with certain trees (pines, firs) that do not grow in the Middle East. Jews of 1st century Judea would have not consumed mushrooms of any kind because they are not considered kosher.

There are other more convincing arguments about the non-historicity of the Man Jesus/Issa/Y'shua (see The Laughing Jesus, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, and The Jesus Mysteries - all by Freke & Gandy; or the original modern thesis by Albert Schweitzer in his The Quest of the Historical Jesus).

You needn't get defensive about your own beliefs, nor should you assume that you know what "most people" believe since you don't know most people. The Truth should have a real difference on your life and Truth needs to be constantly uncovered. You believe, for example, as I do, that Ultimate Truth can be experienced directly, unmediated by the trappings of religion. However, if you are devoted to Truth, then I can assure you that your journey is far from over.


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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #7152453 - 07/09/07 05:14 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

your journey is far from over.


no beginning, no ending, no you.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Sacred Mushrooms & Christianity [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #8887075 - 09/06/08 02:21 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Right on':cool:
Lunatic Fringe:tongue2::super:


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