Christianity was debunked a long time ago
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 1970
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 1970
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross ruined John’s career.
The book was the culmination of twenty years’ study, for it grew out of everything he had learned about the development of Semitic and proto-Semitic languages. He meant it to launch his name upon history as a world thinker. He hoped it would illuminate the origins of thought and language, so that people could better understand where they came from, shed the trappings of religion, and take true responsibility for what they did to each other and their world.
None of this got past the initial shock-waves. The mushroom cloud spread more derision than enlightenment.
Underpinning
The Sacred Mushroom is the idea that fertility must be of fundamental importance to primitive religion, as it is to life. John set out this concept in a preliminary plan of the book, sent to the publishers Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., on October 23, 1968:
The most important thing in life was life itself, and life is rain. The reasoning is simple. Rain begets vegetation on the earth as spermatozoa beget offspring in the womb. God, the Creator, the source of rain, must therefore be the sperm of creation and the heavenly penis from which it spills. The storm is the orgasm of God. The drops of rain are the ‘words’ of God. Earth is the womb of creation.
In The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, John set out to trace the expression of this simple philosophy through the sacred literature of the ancient world.
‘The source of this breakthrough has been the oft-attempted but hitherto inconclusive search for a common denominator to the language groups of Sumerian, Indo-European, and Semitic. It is now possible to decipher some important proper names in the old hymns and epics in all these literatures, and to check and cross-check our results with the other languages.’ John Allegro
John’s linguistic clues criss-cross different cultures and lead into many-layered webs of association. They led him to believe that a fertility cult based on using the sacred mushroom, amanita muscaria, as a gateway to divine understanding, was at the root of many religions, including Christianity. The mushroom was seen as a symbol of God on earth. But because mushroom lore was secret, he reasoned that it had to be written down in the form of codes hidden in folk tales. “This is the basic origin of the stories of the New Testament. They were a literary device to spread the rites of mushroom worship to the faithful…The stories of the Gospels and Acts were a deliberate hoax. Through studying Sumerian cuneiform texts which go back to 3500 B.C., we can trace the proper names and words used in the Bible back to their original meanings.”
There are problems with the ‘deliberate hoax’ idea. And John’s etymologies needed more substantiation – not enough was known at the time about the language of Sumer to verify many of his suggestions. However, in the outrage
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross raised among Christian critics, scholars failed to follow up on the main ideas – a way of understanding the fertility concept at the root of religion, and the way language and religion grew up together: the origin of myth and philosophy.
In January 2006, Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit published
Astrotheology & Shamanism: Unveiling the Law of Duality in Christianity and Other Religions. This book, which is dedicated to John, was the first to make a serious examination of John’s proposals. The book substantiates many of his claims via iconographic and symbolic evidence and brings together years of research and references, many of which have been released since the publication of
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. After 36 years, John’s idea of a Grand Unifying Theory of Religion may be coming to fruition.
After the publication of
The Sacred Mushroom, John was criticized for making up many of his religious concepts, not only of drug use, but of fertility worship. Below is an extensive bibliography of materials used by Irvin and Rutajit in their study,
Astrotheology & Shamanism. Many of the references, such as Frazer, Wasson, Graves, Ramsbottom, Rolfe, and many others, were also used by John. Included are references to several excellent books on ancient fertility worship: Inman, Howard, Goldberg, etc. Both Inman and Howard discuss fertility worship in Christianity at length.
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross was published by:
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1970 - 1st edition ISBN:0340128755
Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1970 - 1st US Edition
Abacus Books, Soft Cover ISBN:0349100659
Bantam Books, New York, New York, 1970 - Mass Market Paperback
Don Mills: Paper Jacks, Ontario, Canada, 1971 ISBN:0773710000
Other languages:
Ed. Albin Michel,, Paris, 1971. br. 1ère édition française: Le Champignon sacré et la Croix
Wien; München; Zürich: Fritz Molden: Der Geheimkult des heiligen Pilzes. Rauschgift als Ursprung unserer Religionen
The Sacred Mushroom will possibly be scheduled for reprint, planned for sometime in 2007.
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Arthur, James, Lectures and Audio Recordings:
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· Magic Mushrooms and the History of Santa Claus and Christmas, 12/02 with Caroline Casey
· Entheo-Mycology, 2002 with Jeff Rense
· Mushrooms and Mankind, 12/19/02 with Jeff Rense
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Hall, Manly P., Lectures and Audio Recordings:
Audio Series:
· Alchemy - ISBN: 0-89314-002-3
· Astro-Theology: How Astrology Has Influence Mankind - ISBN: 0-89314-011-2
· The Atom in Religion and Philosophy - ISBN: 0-89314-013-9
· Studies in Man, Grand Symbols of the Mysteries - ISBN: 0-89314-268-9
Lectures:
· Alchemy as a Key to Social Regeneration
· Secret Teachings of All Ages: Initiation of the Pyramid
· Winter Solstice: Annual Rebirth of the Universal Soul
· Christian Gospels That Were Never in the Bible
· Hidden Church of the Holy Grail
· When the Invincible Sun Moves Northward: The Solar Christmas
· Jacob’s Ladder That Leads to the Stars
· Precious Stones in Lore and Legend
· Love of Truth
· Second Coming of the Santa Claus Spirit
· Physical Body as a Universal Symbol
· Sacred Mysteries of the Human Body
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· Massey, Gerald, Gerald Massey's Lectures - Kessinger Publishing 1997, ISBN: 1564591743
· Maxwell, Jordan, Matrix of Power, How the World has Been Controlled by Powerful People Without Your Knowledge - The Book Tree, 2000, ISBN: 1-58509-120-0
· Maxwell, Tice, Snow, That Old-Time Religion: The Story of Religious Foundations - The Book Tree, 2000, ISBN: 1-58509-120-0
- Maxwell, Jordan, Lectures and Audio Recordings:
· Ancient Symbolism
· Cracking the Code
· Dark Side of Religion
· Men In Black
· Misunderstood Religion
· Religious-Political Symbols
· Symbolically Speaking
· Symbolism and Secret Societies
· Symbolism in the U.S.
· Toxic Religion
· The Story Your Church Did Not Tell You
Series:
· Continuence of Religo Political P 1 of 5
· Astro-Theology P 2 of 5
· From Ancient Times P 3 of 5
· Symbols of All Times P 4 of 5
· Symbols of Satan P 5 of 5
· McKenna, Terence & Dennis, The Invisible Landscape: Mind Hallucinogens and the I Ching - Harper Collins, 1993, ISBN: 0-06-250635-8
· McKenna, Terence, The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFO’s, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History - Harper Collins, 1991, ISBN: 0-06-250613-7
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· McKenna, Terence, True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise - Harper Collins, 1993, ISBN: 0-06-250545-9
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· Robinson, Rowan, The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World’s Most Extraordinary Plant - Park Street Press, 1996, ISBN: 0-89281-541-8
· Rolf, R.T., & F.W, The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in Its Numerous Guises, Both Real and Legendary – 1925, Dover, 1974, ISBN: 0-486-23105-4
· Roob, Alexander, The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism - Taschen, 2001, ISBN: 3-8228-1514-4
· Ruck, Staples, Heinrich, The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist - Carolina Academic Press, 2001, ISBN: 0-89089-924-X
· Russell, Dan, Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: The Birth of Patriarchy and the Drug War - Kalyx.com, 2000, ISBN: 0965025349
· Sacks, David, Language Visible Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z. - Broadway, 2003, 0-7679-11725
· Sacred Writings 5: Hinduism; The Rig Veda - Montilal Banarsidass
· Samorini, Giorgio, Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness - Park Street Press, 2002, ISBN: 089281986-3
· Schiaparelli, G., Astronomy in the Old Testament - Oxford, 1905
· Schultes, Hofmann, Rätsch, Plants of the Gods, revised - Healing Arts Press, 2001, ISBN: 089281979-0
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· Shulgin, Alexander & Ann, Pihkal A Chemical Love Story - Transform Press, ISBN: 0-9630096-0-5
· Shulgin, Alexander & Ann, Tihkal The Continuation - Transform Press, ISBN: 0-9630096-9-9
· Slattery, Elisa, “To Prevent a ‘Shipwreck of Souls’: Joann Weyer and ‘De Praestigiis Daemonum’ ” Published in “Essays in History,” by the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Volume 36, (1994), Pg. 76.
· Smith, Morton, Jesus the Magician – Harper & Row, 1978, ISBN: 0-06-067413-X
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