John Marco Allegro

Author : John M. John M. Allegro
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505452808
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross written by John M. John M. Allegro and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first published statement of the fruits of some years' work of a largely philological nature. It presents a new appreciation of the relationship of the languages of the ancient world and the implication of this advance for our understanding of the Bible and of the origins of Christianity.

Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth written by John Marco Allegro and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M Allegro
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 0989328007
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book The End of a Road written by John M Allegro and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, John M. Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, arguing that the early Christians belonged to a drug cult, their sacrament consisting of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The book contained a large amount of linguistic data to support Allegro's speculations. In his follow-up book, The End of a Road, Allegro considered the philosophical ramifications of having undermined Christianity and hence, for many people, religion altogether. He argued that abandoning religion is not tantamount to abandoning morality; rather, it should enable a more honest and straightforward approach to morality. This new edition includes a new foreword by Judith Anne Brown, author of John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as two new essays. These are an essay by Franco Fabbro discussing a mushroom mosaic in an early Christian church in Aquileia; and an essay by John Bolender discussing the vagueness of the concept of religion, which raises questions about the precise target of Allegro's polemic and challenges attempts to defend religion as a biological adaptation.

Author : Jerry B. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620555034
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychedelic Gospels written by Jerry B. Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for centuries • Follows the authors’ anthropological adventure discovering sacred mushroom images in European and Middle Eastern churches, including Roslyn Chapel and Chartres • Provides color photos showing how R. Gordon Wasson’s psychedelic theory of religion clearly extends to Christianity and reveals why Wasson suppressed this information due to his secret relationship with the Vatican • Examines the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels to show that visionary plants were the catalyst for Jesus’s awakening to his divinity and immortality Throughout medieval Christianity, religious works of art emerged to illustrate the teachings of the Bible for the largely illiterate population. What, then, is the significance of the psychoactive mushrooms hiding in plain sight in the artwork and icons of many European and Middle-Eastern churches? Does Christianity have a psychedelic history? Providing stunning visual evidence from their anthropological journey throughout Europe and the Middle East, including visits to Roslyn Chapel and Chartres Cathedral, authors Julie and Jerry Brown document the role of visionary plants in Christianity. They retrace the pioneering research of R. Gordon Wasson, the famous “sacred mushroom seeker,” on psychedelics in ancient Greece and India, and among the present-day reindeer herders of Siberia and the Mazatecs of Mexico. Challenging Wasson’s legacy, the authors reveal his secret relationship with the Vatican that led to Wasson’s refusal to pursue his hallucinogen theory into the hallowed halls of Christianity. Examining the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the authors provide scriptural support to show that sacred mushrooms were the inspiration for Jesus’ revelation of the Kingdom of Heaven and that he was initiated into these mystical practices in Egypt during the Missing Years. They contend that the Trees of Knowledge and of Immortality in Eden were sacred mushrooms. Uncovering the role played by visionary plants in the origins of Judeo-Christianity, the authors invite us to rethink what we know about the life of Jesus and to consider a controversial theory that challenges us to explore these sacred pathways to the divine.

Author : John Allegro
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 098932804X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen People written by John Allegro and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts — books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others — and sets out the complicated parade of plots, counter-plots, betrayals, and insurrections in a brisk and highly readable sequence. His main theme is how the conception of the Jewish nation as a divinely chosen race was planted as a political ambition among the exiled Jews. Bringing together old customs and stories, the idea was fired by the longing of the Babylonian Jews for their traditional homeland. Many of them grew prosperous outside Palestine, and their wealthy communities manipulated the wish for identity in the idea of an exclusive Judaism embodied as a political state and fighting for autonomy against local and imperial neighbors — more dream than fact. The author writes that “When the ‘new Judaism' came to be hammered out after the return from captivity, it was around these ancient customs and a historicized mythology that it was fashioned.” The religion was devised not, as popularly presented, by gift of the desert god Yahweh who had manifested himself in opposition to the Canaanite fertility god Baal but by reinterpreting the Sumerian idea of a life-giving god over many generations. For there was no fundamental opposition — the god-names originally meant the same. This second edition features a new introduction by James M. Donovan.

Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Manner of Men written by John Marco Allegro and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722104927
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Download or read book Lost Gods written by John Marco Allegro and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. R. Irvin, 1st
Publisher : Gnostic Media Research & Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780982556207
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Mushroom written by J. R. Irvin, 1st and published by Gnostic Media Research & Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & White edition, second printing. Christianity and the Piltdown Hoax (one of the largest academic scandals in history) share many similarities: In both stories the information was constructed and then salted into the information stream, and, through the word of noted scholars, presented as fact, the truth. Scholars have egos and once committed to their ideas through scholarly publications, faculty meetings, and conferences, have difficulty seeing, hearing, or even appreciating an adverse view. To waver from a strongly held opinion could spell academic ruin and withdrawal of acclaim. This leads to lively debate, counter stories, and even character assassination if one side or the other is being out trumped in the symbolic mèlée. Jan Irvin (The Holy Mushroom) has captured what we might call an "anthropology of clarification" regarding whether or not mushrooms, and mind-altering substances in general, played any role in the development of not only Judaism and Christianity but the total culture in play at that time. It is now recognized in many academic communities (anthropologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists) that sufficient evidence exists of the importance of these substances, both textual and visual, to say "yes" in very large letters. It is no longer theory. The questions Irvin asks are these: "If mind-altering substances did play this major role, then how would this affect our interpretations of the Bible and the Qur'an? Would this shed light on the origins of mystical experiences and the stories, for example Abraham hearing voices and Ezekiel's convenient visions? What would this suggest about the shamanic behavior of Jesus? What impact would this have on organized religion?" These are bold questions. This is a very useful volume for those interested in the Holy Mushroom and the politics of truth. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated; great bibliography. Professor John A. Rush, Sierra College

Author : Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414340664
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Copper Scroll written by Joel C. Rosenberg and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 4 in the bestselling 5-book thriller series that has sold over 1.2 million copies! In 1956, a scroll was uncovered that shocked the world. The world is about to be shocked again. On June 1, 1956, the New York Times broke a story that captured the imagination of the world. Another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, unlike any before it, describing unimaginable treasures worth untold billions buried in the hills east of Jerusalem and under the Holy City itself. In the years that followed, some scholars came to believe the Copper Scroll could be history’s greatest treasure map, one that could lead to the discovery of the Second Temple treasures and the building of the Third Jewish Temple. But the scroll’s code has never been broken, and experts from all sides warn that any effort by Israel to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem would undoubtedly unleash a war of biblical proportions. Now, more than fifty years after the Copper Scroll was unveiled, New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg takes you on his most exciting and heart-pounding ride yet. Saddam Hussein is gone Yasser Arafat is dead A new Iraq is rising But so, too, is a new evil, and now White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy find themselves facing a terrifying new threat triggered by an ancient mystery.

Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasure of the Copper Scroll written by John Marco Allegro and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: