The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross ruined John’s career.
The book was the culmination of twenty years’ study, for it grew out of everything he had learned about the development of Semitic and proto-Semitic languages. He meant it to launch his name upon history as a world thinker. He hoped it would illuminate the origins of thought and language, so that people could better understand where they came from, shed the trappings of religion, and take true responsibility for what they did to each other and their world. For further reading try, http://johnallegro.org/main/index.php...( )
Allegro's theory that Jesus was a code name for a hallucinogenic mushroom is frankly bizarre, but Allegro is a genuine scholar who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls etc. ( )
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The book was the culmination of twenty years’ study, for it grew out of everything he had learned about the development of Semitic and proto-Semitic languages. He meant it to launch his name upon history as a world thinker. He hoped it would illuminate the origins of thought and language, so that people could better understand where they came from, shed the trappings of religion, and take true responsibility for what they did to each other and their world. For further reading try, http://johnallegro.org/main/index.php... (