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The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified extent into the 13th century with reoccurrences in the 18th century and mid-20th century, as he interprets the fresco of the Plaincourault Chapel to be an accurate depiction of the ritual ingestion of Amanita muscaria as the Eucharist. Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as a historical figure and was a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
Allegro was a scholar who came to the conclusion that the Eucharist itself was an amanita muscaria mushroom, and that transubstantiation involved this mushroom.
He writes this book called The Sacred Mushroom in the Cross, where he believes that the entire story of Christianity is connected to the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility cults.