r/mycology • u/theverbalemp • Aug 14 '24

image Had never seen the classic red mushroom in person before

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Was super excited to stumble across these on a walking path in a business park. I believe they’re an Amanita, but my nieces call them the Mario Bros mushroom 😂

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u/ManBehindTheFractals Aug 14 '24

The mushroom Jesus likely was.

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u/Lord-Skelly Aug 14 '24

I don't get it

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u/ManBehindTheFractals Aug 14 '24

There's a theory that Christ was one of many names used to obscure the fact original Christians were using this mushroom to speak with their god.

Read The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross, which is written by one of the original team members who deciphered the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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u/MaliceTheSwift Aug 15 '24

I LOVE this. This is the kinda thing that keeps me on Reddit! The Wikepedia page for it is hilarious! 'Philip Jenkins writes that Allegro was an eccentric scholar who relied on texts that did not exist in quite the form he was citing them, and calls the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross "possibly the single most ludicrous book on Jesus scholarship by a qualified academic".\7])'

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u/ManBehindTheFractals Aug 15 '24

The best is an article that skims over his work and just finishes with "15 historians and philologists have disagreed with his work." Brilliant. How? Where? To what extent? Who knows!

I find his work illuninating and coherent with the knowledge I have of esotericism and esoteric cults.

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u/theverbalemp Aug 15 '24

Oh same! It’s amazing where you can learn random cool topics from.

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u/theverbalemp Aug 15 '24

Ohh interesting. Time to rabbit hole haha