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Gory AllegoryDoubt it.
John Marco Allegro (1923-1988) was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar who wrote a book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. The book was controversial and caused a media frenzy when it was published in 1970.
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What is the Holy mushroom theory?
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Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure but was rather a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin. His unconventional claims have been subject to ridicule and scorn.
I thought she meant the John who wrote the zonked-out fantasy Apocalypse.