| In a message dated 4/9/2001 4:05:05 PM Central Daylight Time,
Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de writes:
Sorry, aol does not always send messages where they might naturally go -- or where they are aimed. John Allegro, a good biblical scholar who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls among other things, published "The [Sacred?] Mushroom and the Cross" (or maybe it was the other way round) and a couple of other books in which he claimed that the whole Jesus story was a cover myth for a magic mushroom cult, Amanitism (or Muscarism, if you will). He goes into some detail about the code involved: the cross is the cross-section of a mature A.m. (iffy), the virgin birth has to do with the womb-shaped preemergent fruiting body (if I remember the terminology correctly; pi,er will correct if I don't) -- it is the picture of that critter that is so impressive. The kingdom of heaven is the muscarine buzz, the bread of heaven is A.m. chunks, the wine of heaven is probably Soma, the indian sacred drink which, by another scholarly group with better credentials, is identified as the urine of muscarine intoxicated adepts -- rich in a hallucinogenic metabolite of muscarine which has the advantage of not being fatal in such small doses. And so on. I re Robin-CA, I disremember what was made of the phallic side of A.m. (a representation of Shiva in Indic lore, I think) but it may have been minor, since the mushroom of choice is not one of the fungi call phalloides (but then, umbrellas counted for Freud, and A.m. is surely as good as a bumbershoot). |