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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Considering that Allegro’s conspiracy theory starts off at guano-level idiotic and only gets more ridiculous the more you look into it, it’s a bit odd that Rogan pushes it. If all you know of Rogan is his stint encouraging contestants to snort rancid pig entrails on “Fear Factor,” don’t let that fool you. Feats of actorly endurance are all the rage at the moment, and now Succession's Sarah Snook is getting in on the action, playing all 26 roles in a West End production of The Picture of Dorian Grey.

To some biblical scholars in Britain, the new book looked like the psychedelic ravings of a hippie cultist. To others, it was merely an outlandish hoax. One described it as reading "like a Semitic philologist's erotic nightmare." [3] Reaction [ edit ] The book has been described as "notorious" and as "one of the strangest books ever published on the subject of religion and pharmacology". [4] There was a media frenzy when it was published in 1970. This caused the publisher to apologize for issuing it and forced Allegro's resignation from his university position. [1] [5] Judith Anne Brown suggested that the book was "difficult to read and difficult to summarize, because he follows clues that criss-cross different cultures and lead into many-layered webs of association". [5] Mark Hall writes that Allegro suggested the scrolls all but proved that a historical Jesus never existed. [6] [ clarification needed] Philip Jenkins writes that Allegro was an eccentric scholar who relied on texts that did not exist in quite the form he was citing them, and calls the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross "possibly the single most ludicrous book on Jesus scholarship by a qualified academic". [7] Reconsideration [ edit ] I feel that Allegro gives a good explanation for the motivation of a group of people to value the mushroom's psychoactive effects as the hand of god. How else would someone try to explain such an experience without the slightest hint of how biochemistry really works? If someone honestly reads Allegro's text with this in mind, it's hard to see how he can be totally wrong.EAOR is where Allegro’s exploitation of the bad reputation earned and ‘enjoyed’ by psychedelics and leaders of the movement from our distinguished Learies to our illustrious Mansons (“and a nice lot too”) – reaches its zenith. So if there’s anything left of your poor shattered delusion, any least shreds to lovingly protect against any further damage –

Historian Tom Rowsell examines how ancient prejudices against traditional polytheistic religions still result in exclusion from powerful institutions, which claim to promote diversity and interfaith dialogue. urn:lcp:sacredmushroomcr0000alle:lcpdf:70c5f1d4-4cf9-40f5-a8f8-1c21b98932af Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sacredmushroomcr0000alle Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2jm550826f Invoice 1652 Lccn 73111140 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9334 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA404095 Openlibrary_edition One result of this letter seemed to be that his appointment at Manchester was not to be renewed. [14] However, in July after several uneasy months the appointment was renewed. [15] After service in the Royal Navy during World War II, Allegro started to train for the Methodist ministry but transferred to a degree in Oriental Studies at the University of Manchester. In 1953 he was invited to become the first British representative on the international team working on the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls in Jordan. The following year he was appointed assistant lecturer in Comparative Semitic Philology at Manchester, and held a succession of lectureships there until he resigned in 1970 to become a full-time writer. In 1961 he was made Honorary Adviser on the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Jordanian government. Read more about Modern Javascript and the five year anniversary of my book, Functional Programming in JavaScriptAllegro went on to write several other books exploring the roots of religion; notably The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth, which relates Christian theology to Gnostic writings, classical mythology and Egyptian sun-worship in the common quest for divine light. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth His work is very well researched. Half of the book is bibliography. That being said, the work is incomplete. He lays some very solid groundwork for what could be an entire new field of study. There are a lot of asterisks. The sheer number of references and the obvious intentional obfuscation is compelling. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East J.M. Allegro (1958). "Fragments of a Qumran Scroll of Eschatological Midrashim". Journal of Biblical Literature. 77 (4): 350–354. doi: 10.2307/3264674. JSTOR 3264674.