John Rush’s No-Mushrooms Narrative vs. His Evidence Base

Contents:

The “Amanita-Only, Early-Only” Narrative of Rush’s Book Blurb

John Rush’s Book Blurb and the Narrative It Pushes: Amanita only, not Psilocybin; original Christianity, not medieval Christianity

http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/category/books/

3 times the blurb specifies Amanita, 0 times Psilocybin.

Narrative: Amanita Only, Not Psilocybin

Key to color highlighting: Due to pop connotations (“urban dictionary”), the non-qualified word “mushroom” is assumed to mean specifically Amanita only, unless multiple species is suggested by the wording.

Amanita / Psilocybin (& Amanita)

[the cover has a large Amanita]

“Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity analyzes the prevalence of a specific motif – the mushroom – in Christian art, proposing that this image is evidence of the true foundation of Christianity and the Catholic Church. Examining Christian art from 200 CE to the present, author John Rush argues that Jesus was not an actual, historical person, but a personification of the Holy Mushroom, Amanita muscaria and the mystical experience brought about by the ingestion of mind-altering plants and fungi by early, experimentally minded Christian sects.

“Drawing on primarily historical sources, Rush traces the history – and pictured face – of Jesus, which was constructed and codified only after 325 CE. In the process, he shows how the mushroom was very much apparent, though often disguised, in the early years of Christian art, thus revealing the nature of the original Christian cults, rites, and rituals – including mushroom use. Jesus, Mushrooms, and Origin of Christianity emphasizes Jesus’ message of know thyself, seek wisdom, and be a decent person, which leads to peace, love, and spiritual growth, asserting his symbolic murder was a conspiracy by powerful reactionary forces who replaced his message with the oppressive religious-political system that endures today. Rush’s brilliant exposition of Amanita muscaria use by early Christians challenges mainstream views of Western religious history and is both provocative and persuasive.”

Narrative: Original Christianity, Not Medieval Christianity

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In early Christianity / In medieval (& early) Christianity

Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity analyzes the prevalence of a specific motif – the mushroom – in Christian art, proposing that this image is evidence of the true foundation of Christianity and the Catholic Church. Examining Christian art from 200 CE to the present, author John Rush argues that Jesus was not an actual, historical person, but a personification of the Holy Mushroom, Amanita muscaria and the mystical experience brought about by the ingestion of mind-altering plants and fungi by early, experimentally minded Christian sects.

Drawing on primarily historical sources, Rush traces the history – and pictured face – of Jesus, which was constructed and codified only after 325 CE. In the process, he shows how the mushroom was very much apparent, though often disguised, in the early years of Christian art, thus revealing the nature of the original Christian cults, rites, and rituals – including mushroom use. Jesus, Mushrooms, and Origin of Christianity emphasizes Jesus’ message of know thyself, seek wisdom, and be a decent person, which leads to peace, love, and spiritual growth, asserting his symbolic murder was a conspiracy by powerful reactionary forces who replaced his message with the oppressive religious-political system that endures today. Rush’s brilliant exposition of Amanita muscaria use by early Christians challenges mainstream views of Western religious history and is both provocative and persuasive.”

Never Trust an Entheogen Scholar: God Holding Mushrooms, Found by John Rush

Score on confirmation lookups of scholarly citations: 0 for 4

After hallucinogenic mushrooms, Rush’s gallery proves, against Brown’s excessive skepticism, that God holds a mushroom in right hand, and there’s a mushroom touching left index finger:

God holding a hallucinogenic mushroom in right hand. Also, a hallucinogenic mushroom touching left index finger. Found by John Rush; I cannot take credit for this find. Below God are the four sacred plants: Poppy, Rue, Cannabis, Henbane, and Amanita.

The image in the gallery Rush site – plate where book says God is holding “something”: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WAX43XRkr5H6ee_WNC3KoMDntwMw5leZ – plate 3: 18b. Cited / stated on page [ch 1 plate 9a] of 2nd edition of book – found the plate with the text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11d1cQj1wHIvubLydqVh_0s4uyenqwzf0/view?usp=sharing — Plate 1:9 – btw, per a topic in this episode, the below screenshot is an example of better-than-citation: a “photograph” of an author’s text/page:

Consider the high degree of stylization: compare botanical specimens of Cubensis against plant 3, and Amanita vs plant 4.

With that high degree of disparity in mind, then consider matching plant 1 to Panaeolus & plant 2 to Liberty cap.

Templates. 😑

Elsewhere on this site, eg:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/#f11
I’ve correctly identified the 4 plants, against everyone else: left to right:

  1. Panaeolus
  2. Liberty Cap
  3. Cubensis
  4. Amanita

The other articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art

Book: Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity, 2022 2nd Edition

Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity
John Rush
2022 2nd Edition
Foreward to 1st 2011 edition by Martin Ball
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mushrooms-Origin-Christianity-John/dp/B09VWP4CV1 –

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The Illusion that Irvin in 2022 Praises This Pro-Mushrooms Book

In the Egodeath Mystery Show podcast, listening to my reasoning about Jan Irvin’s praise of Rush’s book & Jan’s date being 2022 vs 2011, I saw a vulnerability in my spoken reasoning; I conjectured while listening to the episode: “BUT WHAT IF IT’S A SLIGHTLY MODIFIED/UPDATED 2011 BLURB?”

I looked up Rush’s 1st edition and CONFIRMED MY NEGATIVE CONJECTURE, and thus confirmed my initial conjecture, that this Irvin blurb was written in 2011 EVEN THOUGH the blurb NOW SAYS “ON WEBSITE”.

I verbally said “this proves”, but listening, I retorted “Not necessarily! This is a 2nd Edition, remember!

The blurb might have been merely updated changing it from “dvd” to “website” – I then confirmed that’s the case!

Rush’s 1st Edition has the same review blurb by Irvin except it said “on the DVD”.

I could not believe that Irvin 2022 would say an entheogen scholarship book is “enlightening”.

https://www.clinicalanthropology.com/the-cat-gallery/

Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World (Rush 2023)

Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World
John Rush
October 3, 2023

https://www.innertraditions.com/books/cats

Cat Tales: Origins, Interactions, and Domestication of Felis catus (Rush 2021)

Cat Tales: Origins, Interactions, and Domestication of Felis catus
July 17, 2021
John Rush

https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Tales-Origins-Interactions-Domestication/dp/B099N82CZ9 –

Motivation for this page

I had to search hard to find this valuable section:

This page is copied from page section:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#John-Rushs-Book-Blurb-Narrative
find: Key to color highlighting

See Also

John Rush gallery
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/john-rush-gallery/

John Rush – Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity – 2nd Edition
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/05/09/john-rush-jesus-mushrooms-and-the-origin-of-christianity-2nd-edition/

John Rush’s No-Mushrooms Narrative vs. His Evidence Base
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/john-rushs-no-mushooms-narrative-vs-his-evidence-base/

Book citation:
Rush, John. (2022). Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity. https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mushrooms-Origin-Christianity-John/dp/B09VWP4CV1/

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