Amanita Muscaria Part 2: Soma and The Mushroom Messiah

Was the REAL Jesus not a man, but a mushroom shrouded in metaphor to survive Roman persecution? Did amanita muscaria inspire pre-Hindu Vedic priests to craft literally thousands of hymns? When the stakes are this high, can Jamie “pull that up?”

Today we're continuing on our trip down Amanita Lane talking about two dudes and their much disputed mushroom theories! We start off with Robert Gordon Wasson and his Soma Hypothesis, in which he argues amanita muscaria was the true identity of the plant god Soma from the Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda. Then we go deeper down the rabbit hole with John Marco Allegro, who claims that the beloved Jesus Christ was in fact a cover up for the horny mushroom rituals too wild to be written down. Finally, we cap things off with a classic trip report that really brings everything together in one glorious golden shower.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

John Marco Allegro interview with Van Kooten & De Bie; recorded for Dutch TV [1976]

John M. Allegro, "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" [1970]

R. Gordon Wasson, "Soma: divine mushroom of immortality" [1968]

Carl Ruck in Altered States, "Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution" [2010]

John Brough in Indologica Taurinesia, "Problems of the 'Soma-mushroom' theory" [1973]

LustLover, on Erowid, "The Golden Rain of the Gods" [2003]

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