John Allegro's 1970 argument — that Christianity originated as a mushroom fertility cult, and that biblical names are encoded references to Amanita muscaria — the most linguistically elaborate psychedelic-origins theory in religious history.
Creates the most detailed psychedelic Christianity hypothesis — Sacred Mushroom's Sumerian etymological analysis (however academically rejected) is the most systematic attempt to argue for psychedelic origins of religion through linguistic evidence.
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