Nice promotional video by Gnostic Media for the 40th anniversary edition of John Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which argues that Christianity has its roots in a very ancient Near Eastern fertility cult which worshipped the hallucinogenic amanita muscaria mushroom. (See the article Jesus Cult Conspiracy Theories on this site for an overview of alternate theories about the origins of Christianity, including a brief review of the book). Allegro is a little hard to understand in this video, but he says, among other things, that Jesus, if he existed, had nothing to do with the Christos cult, which had been around for a very long time and had been forced to go underground, eventually finding its subterranean expression in the Christian religion. Allegro's theory is controversial, to say the least, but you have to wonder what all those mushrooms are doing in Christian art.
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