Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Marco Allegro certainly thought so. His 1970 book about the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts on early Christianity, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, "is remembered as a quintessential example of academic suicide". But in the 21C, psychedelic science has caught up with him. Jesus wasn't a mushroom, but the human sense of the divine could be.
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @Catcher 10 Mar
reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 10 Mar
"Jesus" was just a story to manipulate those of the plebe. and start a revolution and then a large company or organization (the fucking church)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 10 Mar
i have also heard of the Christ oil - referring to the ritual of putting sacred oil on the forehead (or penis head), as part of the pagan sexual worship of a sorceress-goddess, but also as part of traditional Christian rituals.
this also ties into the analogy of the mushroom-head being the penis head, and the idea that we are farmed by the mycelial network, etc. then there are the semen retention practices, popularized by reddit, for harvesting and releasing the kundalini energy along the spine, from the sacrum to the pineal gland.
whether something is from the pagan, exoteric, or esoteric religion, or science-based, i don't particularly care. the cover stories are tales, like mnemonics for learning the basics. what is more interesting to me is whether a practice is based in truth and produces positive results, or just a waste of time and effort. entheogens can be very helpful for establishing new connections between previously isolated pockets of consciousness.
the entire picture of reality is impossible to convey by logic or abstract thought alone, gotta use both. unfortunately most people are stuck either in the right or left brain hemisphere, and refuse to activate the other side.
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