Gnostic Media on Dec 28th 2009
Gnostic Media Newsletter for December 2009 / January 2010
I will be giving a talk at the Living Temple Bookstore in Huntington Beach, CA on December 29, 2009 at 6:30 to 9 PM. The subject is The Mysteries of Christmas. The address is 7561 Center Ave #40, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 – and you’ll need to call in advance to reserve your seat at 714-891-5117. Seats are $15. The event will be shown live on the internet for a fee, so go to http://www.TheLivingTemple.com for more information.

John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross NOW IN PRINT and shipping!
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross was one of the most controversial books written in the twentieth century. Not since Darwin’s On the Origin of Species had a book caused such outrage. John Marco Allegro was a respected Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and had just left his post as a lecturer at Manchester University. His infamous1970 book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross revealed that Judeo-Christianity is based on an ancient fertility-mushroom cult.

THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS BY JOHN MARCO ALLEGRO – 40th Anniversary Edition
Universally reviled on its first publication in May 1970, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross ruined John Allegro’s career. The book claimed that Christianity, like other Western religions, was rooted in an ancient fertility cult whose phallic god seeded the earth with life. The rites and symbols of this cult, passed on through generations of priests and kings, were still live and potent at the supposed time of Jesus – so potent that they were kept secret by cult members and suppressed by the rulers of church and state. Distorted, disguised, lost in translation, they were nevertheless still there, and surfaced from time to time in the traditions and iconography of the developing church.
“The concerted and biased attempts to destroy Allegro’s discoveries have failed. The confirmatory evidence is mounting in his favor. The critics can now raise their voices again. Let us hope that they do, since the matter is not settled, but they should be advised to do so with more careful consideration. This book that many have prized in secret is now available again. It demands the serious consideration of theologians, mythologists, and students of religion. No account of the history of the Church, both West and East, can afford to leave the poor despicable fungus unconsidered, nor the role that entheogens in general have played in the evolution of European civilization.”
~ Professor Carl. A. P. Ruck
The 40th anniversary edition contains:
• The entire Sacred Mushroom and the Cross as John Allegro intended it, including the massive endnotes.
• Publisher’s note by Jan Irvin, author of The Holy Mushroom, Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity.
• Foreword by Judith Anne Brown, John Allegro’s daughter and Author of John Marco Allegro, The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Afterword and endorsement by famed ethnobotanist and classics Prof. Carl. A. P. Ruck of Boston University
This is the first time this book has been in print in more than 25 years! Order your copy now!
Hardcover – $35.00
Softcover – $24.00
John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross is now available for ORDERING at http://www.gnosticmedia.com.
Podcast guests. www.gnosticmedia.podomatic.com
• Dec 21 – Steven Zarlenga – The American Monetary Institute – part 2
• Dec 28 – James Orac – Triptamine Palace, 5-MeO-DMT
• JAN 04 – Josh Homan – Ayahuasca tourism in Peru
• Jan 11 – Robert Forte – author of Entheogens and the Future of Religion
• Jan 18 – Steve Bayer – author of Singing to the Plants
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