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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J.M. Allegro (1956). "More Unpublished Pieces of a Qumran Commentary on Nahum [4Q pNah]". Journal of Biblical Literature. 75: 304–308. But right now we are at a revolutionary time in the human story or rediscovering our past, who we are and where we came from.

Allegro saw himself as a publicist for the scrolls. His books, talks and broadcasts promoted public interest in the scrolls and their significance. At first, the rest of the team encouraged his efforts, which after all were intended to help fund their research. But they thought he went too far in raising questions about the parallels between Essenism and Christianity, and doing so in public. He was accused of stirring up controversy at the expense of scholarship.The foundation on which he built it was a moonbeam in a jar – his supposed 'discovery' (as he heralds it) of hitherto unknown 'relationship' (he 'discovered') – between Semitic languages he'd studied, and – the Unsolved Mystery language Sumerian, in which he was no expert – but thought he'd try "playing one on TV."

John Marco Allegro was a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (never ordained, though, as Rogan claims) who blazed his own path by embracing agnosticism and seeking to find a naturalistic explanation for the origins of Christianity. Taylor, Joan E. (2012). The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford University Press. p.305. ISBN 978-0-19-955448-5. It's been five years since I published my book, Functional Programming in Javascript. And since then a dramatic shift in the programming language has unfolded.

Allegro began to argue against most authorities in the field – and probably just a few more people, too – that Jesus was a walking mushroom. He was also pugnacious in his argument that the God of the Old Testament was “a mighty penis in the heavens who in a thunderous climax of the storm ejaculated semen upon the furrows of Mother Earth”. For such a dry book, this one really got my imagination going. Allegro is the philologist who translated The Dead Sea Scrolls. After initial acclaim, he was ostracized for carrying that work to its conclusion. I.e religion, ancient translations, ancient cultures, psychedelic altered states of consciousness etc.) John Strugnell published a severe critique of the volume, "Notes en Marge du volume V des 'Discoveries in the Judean Desert of Jordan'" in Revue de Qumran. Allegro's minimalist approach has received widespread scorn in the scholarly world, which nevertheless had the opportunity to analyse the Allegro texts for decades while waiting for other editors to publish their allotments. The first part of Strugnell's allotment was published in 1994. [21] Change of direction [ edit ]

J.M. Allegro (1962). "Further Light on the History of the Qumran Sect". Journal of Semitic Studies. 7: 304–308. doi: 10.1093/jss/7.2.304. Messiahs, Avatars are common in every religion; god-men are actively created, supported by Priests, Kings, political actors (and burned at stake when inconvenient) to keep the masses ignorant- go to villages in ‘modern’ South Asia and you will find sleight of hand artists posing as religious healers, but always supported by local honchos just so the villagers stay under a cloud of illiteracy, launder money, supply narcs, other vice trade.. Years later, having gotten two degrees in religion and having read some of Allegro's other work, I returned to this book, hoping that I now knew enough to evaluate it. J.M. Allegro (1985). Physician, Heal Thyself. Amherst, United States: Prometheus Books. ISBN 9780879753054. a b c Flint, Peter & VanderKam, James (2005). The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp.324–. ISBN 978-0-567-08468-2.Jesus,” or “Yeshua” in its Hebrew form, does not mean “semen, which saves” in ancient Sumerian. It simply means “savior,” as the angel indicates in Matthew 1. In the same way you don’t have to be an expert in first-century Levantine weather patterns to know that the “ actually, Jesus walked on a floating ice patch” is stupid, you don’t have to be a scholar of ancient Sumerian fungi taxonomy to know that when Allegro made his claims about the origin of the name “Jesus,” he was simply full of, well, a common form of mushroom fertilizer. 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. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.

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. Finally they wrote a big fictional Bible, that kept their lore alive, ensured that their cult and main product line survived through time..”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 This is surely no surprise, because then as now, the psychedelic experience is one of THE most powerful experiences we are ever going to have, and thus this has inevitably inspired creative imagination for millennia. As well as this there happened the corresponding cosmological myths too. I tentatively conclude Allegro's theory (SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS), as he crafted it to appear – isn't really anything of the sort. All anger and/or fear – trying to act as if it’s something else, anything other than classic animal behavior, primate style. You know the routine, as you show and tell. Good old make-believe but without the fun – staged with grim determination as if it has some “point” for making, like “something to say.” And – there it is, verbatim, Cineworld has cancelled all screenings of The Lady of Heaven, a new film focusing on the life of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.