The sacred mushroom and the cross
About this book
The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. 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 the ritual ingestion of Amanita muscaria as the Eucharist. Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure and was a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 2 readers · 349 pages · ≈ 6 h 28 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read The sacred mushroom and the cross?
About ≈ 6 h 28 m — 349 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The sacred mushroom and the cross?
349 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The sacred mushroom and the cross?
It sits on the Religion, Mythology, History shelves.
Is The sacred mushroom and the cross in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The sacred mushroom and the cross?
John Marco Allegro (1923–0).