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

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This was Allegro's view, stated in a letter to John Strugnell dated 6 February 1957, cited in Judith Anne Brown (2005). Writing about mushrooms is awesome because you get to use fun words like hypnotic, sacrament, mushroom-cult, ecstasy, deity, comatose, etc. Former owner's book stamp is marked on the edge of the book; Pages are yellowed; Front wrapper have deep crease along the spine; Wrappers have edge-wear and soiling; text is clean, neat and tight).

All anger and/or fear – trying to act as if it’s something else, anything other than classic animal behavior, primate style. Even got quite annoyed at a few parts, because it seemed like the guy was just pushing it a bit too much.

Yes, because Rush has demonstrated that the mushroom does play a particular role in Christian art, something hitherto ignored by religious scholars in the main. Allegro’s findings were so dangerous to Christianity that the Catholic Church hindered the publication of his book. Perhaps the most damning is the origin of the latin word “phallic” which is derived from the Sumerian word for “bore" and “drill", but it is also the ancestor for the most popular Canaanite fertility god, Baal. It may also be a leap to say that these examples of mushrooms depicted in Christian art necessarily mean that the religion is based on the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms.

It also shines light on to the potential reasons the first Christians were persecuted so by the Romans. Allegro’s claim that the name of Jesus was rooted in an ancient Sumerian name for a mushroom that means “semen, which saves” is a great example of the self-promoting, weirdo academic playbook. It's filled with ancient word spellings and how those words changed trough the ages and got combined into different words and it's more boring than it sounds.Of the ancient mystery-cult religions there were many prostitutes who copulated with the priests and other male worshipers. His book, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll, was released in 1960, while the official publication had to wait another two years.

But not sure the supposed existence of a trippy cult, disproves the existence of messiah (Christ or whoever), reason?It is more readable now after Brian Muraresku's "Immortality Key", but I got to admit that I have no idea what to do with it. However, a bunch of idiots then took these New Testament stories literally, concluded that Jesus was an historical person, and — voila! There is a language that predates both Hebrew and Greek, and it could be the bridge between the two.