John M. Allegro

British Dead Sea Scrolls scholar — who controversially argued in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) that early Christianity derived from a fertility cult using Amanita muscaria mushrooms — whose academic career was destroyed by the book.

Creates the psychedelic origins of Christianity hypothesis — Allegro's Sacred Mushroom (arguing that the word 'Jesus' and other biblical names are encoded Sumerian names for the Amanita muscaria mushroom) is the most linguistically elaborate psychedelic-origins theory in biblical scholarship.