They were written by a human while high on mushrooms His hallucinations were what made him think it was god speaking to him. almost all of the old testament references to visions were mostlikely as a result of the use of hallucinogenic drugs
The Ten Commandments form part of a mushroom myth in the Old Testament story of Moses and Mount Sinai.
Even the two slabs of stone on which the “Ten Words” were inscribed by the finger of God originated from the “bun” shape of the primitive writing tablet, resembling the top of a mushroom. Indeed, it is from one of the names of the fungus that, through Greek and Latin, we derive our word “tablet.”
The Old Testament Story of Moses and the Ten Commandments
THE name of the sacred mountain, Sinai, comes, as we can now see, from a Sumerian word meaning “brazier.”
This accounts for its description as “wrapped in smoke…like the smoke of a kiln” (Exodus 19.18)
The fiery-topped Amanita Muscaria seemed to the ancients like a brazier.
When Moses, the serpent-mushroom character, meets Jehovah there and receives the “tablets of testimony,” he finds after the interview that his face is glowing so much that people are afraid to approach him (Exodus 4.30).
The substance of the Ten Commandments, hover well rooted some of them may have been in ancient tribal laws, owe their form and position in the story to word-play on ancient mushroom names.
The ancient Israelite religion of Jehovah worship was based largely on the mushroom cult. Many other of the old myths about the patriarchs—stories like Jacob and Esau, representing the stem and red cap of the sacred fungus respectively—now reveal for the first
time their mushroom connections.
The earlier legends are not cryptic writings, like those of Jesus and his friends. They are merely mushroom folk-lore, illustrating in entertaining story form, aspects of the mysterious fungus.
Later the cult came under pressure from a new “orthodoxy” in Judaism which tried to root out all traces of the fertility religion that gave it birth.
The sacred mushroom cult then went underground, to reappear with even more disastrous results in the first and second centuries AD, when the drug-crazed “Zealots” (another pun on a mushroom name) and their successors again challenged the might of Rome.
A “reformed” Christianity then drove its drug-takers into the desert as “heretics,” and eventually so conformed to the will of the State that in the fourth century it became an integral part of the ruling establishment.
By then its priests had forgotten the codes and the true meaning of Christ’s name—and were taking the words of the hoax literally—trying to convince their followers that the Host had miraculously become the flesh and juice of the god.
But, as I said at the beginning, what matters is the moral teaching of the Bible.
Can it be argued that the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount embody a store of moral idealism that will serve mankind for a long time –irrespective of their origins?
If some aspect of the Christian ethic still seem worth while today, does it add or detract from their validity that they were promulgated two thousand years ago by worshippers of the Amanita Muscaria?
For more information see the following sources:
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross by John Allegro (1970/2009 – with an addendum by Prof. Carl A.P. Ruck)
The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Judith Anne Brown (2005)
Astrotheology and Shamanism by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit (2006/2009)
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity by Jan Irvin (2008)
Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World by Prof. John Rush (2008)
Wasson and Allegro on Amanita Mushroom Trees in the Bible by Michael Hoffman and Jan Irvin (2006)
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