Crucifiction and the mysteries of early Christianity
Jun 2, 2024 23:32:17 GMT
Post by Stella on Jun 2, 2024 23:32:17 GMT
Let's consider the possibility that Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom.
This is not my opinion. This was the thesis of a certain British archaeologist and Dead Sea scrolls specialist John M. Allegro (1923-1988) in his book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross' published in 1970 by Hodder and Stoughton. The book is all about the development of language into myths, religions, and cultic practices in world culture.
Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified extent into the 13th century with reoccurrences in the 18th century and mid-20th century, as he interprets the fresco of the Plaincourault Chapel to be an accurate depiction of eucharistic ritual ingestion of Amanita muscaria. Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure but was rather a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
In a post I wrote a couple of years ago titled 'Religious attachments' I put out a timeline of development of religions as a process of development of culture arising out of the two original religions, Hinduism and Judaism, then a second wave of religions - Christianity and Buddhism - and then a further third wave of religions, e.g. Islam and Sikhism.
Sure you can become attached to a particular religious belief and ideology, and even compare different religions, but to do so essentially you're also participating in the development of religious culture as a process. The only real difference between any religion is it's founding premise, position relative to time and culture in the process, and superficial or surface level doctrines and beliefs. The mystical traditions and teachings are the same and the cosmology is based on one of three models - God as an actor and dramatist (Brahma, from Hinduism), God as a Creator and designer (Abrahamic religions) and Nature (Taoism and the Dao).
Please keep in mind that this is going to be a 'wandering' type post that goes all over the place as we explore early Christianity. Some heresy will be involved because this is a sensitive subject area for the Church. The Church wants you to believe that the Bible is true and Christianity is all cut and dried. But such exploration is necessary to get a gist of the mystical principles and reasoning involved.
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This is not my opinion. This was the thesis of a certain British archaeologist and Dead Sea scrolls specialist John M. Allegro (1923-1988) in his book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross' published in 1970 by Hodder and Stoughton. The book is all about the development of language into myths, religions, and cultic practices in world culture.
Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified extent into the 13th century with reoccurrences in the 18th century and mid-20th century, as he interprets the fresco of the Plaincourault Chapel to be an accurate depiction of eucharistic ritual ingestion of Amanita muscaria. Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure but was rather a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
In a post I wrote a couple of years ago titled 'Religious attachments' I put out a timeline of development of religions as a process of development of culture arising out of the two original religions, Hinduism and Judaism, then a second wave of religions - Christianity and Buddhism - and then a further third wave of religions, e.g. Islam and Sikhism.
Sure you can become attached to a particular religious belief and ideology, and even compare different religions, but to do so essentially you're also participating in the development of religious culture as a process. The only real difference between any religion is it's founding premise, position relative to time and culture in the process, and superficial or surface level doctrines and beliefs. The mystical traditions and teachings are the same and the cosmology is based on one of three models - God as an actor and dramatist (Brahma, from Hinduism), God as a Creator and designer (Abrahamic religions) and Nature (Taoism and the Dao).
Please keep in mind that this is going to be a 'wandering' type post that goes all over the place as we explore early Christianity. Some heresy will be involved because this is a sensitive subject area for the Church. The Church wants you to believe that the Bible is true and Christianity is all cut and dried. But such exploration is necessary to get a gist of the mystical principles and reasoning involved.
Continue reading