Michael Hoffman, a.m. Feb. 19, 2026
Contents:
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- Citation & Link: The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East (Allegro 1970, Irvin 2009)
- Citation Keyboard Shortcut [JI09]
- Motive for this Page
- Diagram
- The Central, Middle Beam Is Assigned to “Left Branch”, via YI Form, Sweeping from Bottom Up
- No One Knows What Irvin’s Private View on Allegro and Entheogen Scholarship Is Anymore, After His 2015 Switch from Gnostic Media to Logos Media
- See Also
Citation & Link: The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East (Allegro 1970, Irvin 2009)
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
November 12, 2009
Amazon author errors corrected by Michael Hoffman:
John M. Allegro (Author), Jan Irvin (Introduction, Publisher), Judith Brown/Allegro (Foreward), Carl A. P. Ruck (Appendix: Fungus Revivivus)
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushroom-Cross-Christianity-fertility/dp/0982556292/ —
Citation Keyboard Shortcut [JI09]
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East (Allegro 1970, Irvin 2009), https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushroom-Cross-Christianity-fertility/dp/0982556292/ & https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/19/the-sacred-mushroom-and-the-cross
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Motive for this Page
This book is central.
You suck if you don’t have Irvin’s books.
I don’t have this book. I need it.
I need the Fung Rev apx. DanMan cap silences Deniers: has red [sic; blue] cap.”
The biggest f-up & faceplant by Ruck.
“So, no mushrooms in Christian art.“
Diagram
“Sacred Mushroom and the Cross Diagram.jpg”, 58 KB, 8:21 Feb. 19, 2026
OH SH!T ITS BACKWARDS on the cover of some editions or printings of Allegro’s book.
I am too lazy to find crop in WordPress gallery, so, here’s a fresh crop.
Corrected/REVERSED by Michael Hoffman.
The Central, Middle Beam Is Assigned to “Left Branch”, via YI Form, Sweeping from Bottom Up
- Fails to preserve YI branches, a key motif defining the genre/ visual language.
Corrupt. Falsifies color palette of DanMan, and here FALSIFIES BRANCHING FORM TO FORCE TO BE PLAIN MUSHROOM at top.
So, no mushroom imagery in Christian art. (j/k) - Fails to preserve orientation handedness – has what would be a valid {cut right branch}, shown as generally less valid (it is against the Reference norm grain) {cut left branch}.
- Omits {stand on right foot}, a key motif defining the genre/ visual language.
yes there are {cut left trunk} or {cut left branch}, IY tree instances – that were understood to go against the Ref norm, of YI. eg Day 3 plant 4 Amanita tree: IY/YI (which is not a simple, pure IY form).
todo: find instances of simple IY tree, against the Ref std norm of YI handedness orientation.
Diagram fails to preserve offset trident YI form under crown.
Visually ILLITERATE like I was in 2006/2009.
Photo of 1970 book:
https://www.biblio.com/book/sacred-mushroom-cross-study-nature-origins/d/1587976732
No One Knows What Irvin’s Private View on Allegro and Entheogen Scholarship Is Anymore, After His 2015 Switch from Gnostic Media to Logos Media
Irvin’s income is from this popular smear-and-titillate book; he’s not going to announce the fact that he mostly flipped his values since 2009.
These are NOT the views of Irvin 2015+, but Irvin 2009:
2009 blurb:
“Where did God come from?
“What do the bible stories really tell us?
“Who or what was Jesus Christ?
“This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion.
The ancient fertility cult at the heart of Christianity.
The living power of cultic rites and symbols.
The sacred mushroom as the emblem and embodiment of divinity.
The secret meaning of biblical myths.
The language of religion that links us to our ancestors.
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro’s quest through a family tree of languages to find the truth about where Christianity came from.”
/ end of 09 blurb
See Also
Search Cyberdisciple site for “allegro”:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=allegro
Classics scholar, PhD in Transcendent Knowledge, member of the evil class “academics”; so, everything he says is false
Site Map > Jan Irvin
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Jan-Irvin
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