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The sacred mushroom and the cross

by John Marco Allegro

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Podcasts that mention The sacred mushroom and the cross by John Marco Allegro

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The Joe Rogan Experience episodes that mention The sacred mushroom and the cross by John Marco Allegro

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2322 - Rebecca Lemov

Published on May 15, 2025

He wrote uh the sacred mushroom and the cross which is a fascinating book about the dead sea scrolls and he's got a very controversial perspective on Christianity and his perspective was and this guy was an ordained minister who was agnostic because he he was an ordained minister but then we started studying theology he started seeing all these parallels to all these various religions and he was like well you know clearly like it's not one religion has it right?

Joe Rogan mentions this book by John Marco Allegro about the Dead Sea Scrolls and its controversial perspective on Christianity.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 34:29

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2319 - Rick Doblin

Published on May 9, 2025

The the aminated mascaria one though I always go back to the sacred mushroom in the cross because that was what John Marco Allegro believed was the early days of Christianity.

Joe Rogan mentions the book by John Marco Allegro in the context of discussing Amanita Muscaria and its potential connection to early Christianity.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:03:33

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2091 - Diana Walsh Pasulka

Published on June 27, 2024

He was one of the people who studied the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he studied the Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years and wrote The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross! Okay, yes, I do know that book!

Diana Walsh discusses John Marco Allegro's background as a minister, mentioning his book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross', which delves into the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Joe Rogan expresses his familiarity with the book but does not elaborate on its significance.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:15:48

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1606 - Ali Siddiq

Published on June 27, 2024

There's a book from the 1970s called the sacred mushroom and the cross by a guy named john marco allegro and john marco allegro was a scholar who was hired by the commission that was overseeing the dead sea scrolls translation

Joe Rogan mentions a book from the 1970s by John Marco Allegro about the origins of Christianity and psychedelic mushrooms, and asks Jamie to pull up the cover.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 03:03:04

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1746 - Blaire White

Published on June 27, 2024

and when he translated dead sea scrolls over I believe it was over 14 years he wrote a book called the sacred mushroom in the cross and what he said was that all of this stuff that you're reading is you know you're you're there's translations you're translating things from ancient hebrew which is a language is based on numbers right like ancient hebrew letters doubled as numbers because there was no there was no numbers so the letter a was also the number one so like it's really weird but you gotta think about this and i'm i hope i'm not [ __ ] this up but the way it was explained to me was that language in ancient hebrew had numerical value that words had numerical values like the word love and the word god they have the same numerical value like that they're using these words in the cert like the way you would place the letters the same it was because it had a number value to it that we don't think of when it gets translated to greek into latin to english yeah and so he read this all these years and he came to the conclusion that this is all a misunderstanding and then our version of what christianity is it's a crazy book

Joe Rogan mentions a book by John Marco Allegro about his translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and his theory about ancient Hebrew and the origins of Christianity.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:04:03

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1805 - Mike Tyson

Published on June 27, 2024

There was a book that this guy wrote in the 1970s a guy named john marco allegro he wrote a book on psychedelic mushrooms and jesus it was called the sacred mushroom in the cross

Joe mentions this book and its author, describing its controversial theory about Christianity and psychedelic mushrooms.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:42:17

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1874 - Dave Attell

Published on June 27, 2024

and that's uh the subject of a book called um the sacred mushroom and the cross This guy John Marco Allegro who is hired to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls

Joe Rogan mentions this book by John Marco Allegro, discussing its theory about the origins of Christianity and psychedelic mushrooms.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:16:05

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1888 - Michael Shermer

Published on June 27, 2024

well you know that is also John Marco allegro's thoughts oh right The Sacred Mushroom in the cross

The host mentions John Marco Allegro's book and its controversial theory about the origins of Christianity.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 2:37:44

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1939 - B-Real

Published on June 27, 2024

and then he wrote this book The Sacred mushroom and the cross and in the book he was saying this is all about consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals

Joe Rogan mentions a book by John Marco Allegro about the origins of Christianity being related to psychedelic mushrooms.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 41:37

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1958 - Andrew Huberman

Published on June 27, 2024

in fact John Marco Allegro one of the head um the guys who is hired to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls he wrote a book called The Sacred Mushroom in the cross after translating the Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years his belief was that the entire Christian religion was initially based on psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals and so he wrote this book that was bought out by the Catholic church

Andrew Huberman mentions this book by John Marco Allegro, describing its controversial thesis about the origins of the Christian religion being based on psychedelic mushrooms, and notes it was reportedly bought out by the Catholic church.

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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2000 - Duncan Trussell

Published on June 27, 2024

that's why that John Marco Allegro book is so fascinating oh dude sacred Mushroom in the cross yes that's what our book is fascinating because that guy studied the Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years and he was an ordained minister who became agnostic

Duncan mentions John Marco Allegro's book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross', describing it as fascinating and explaining its controversial thesis about the origins of Christianity based on the author's study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:51:15

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2002 - Amanda Feilding

Published on June 27, 2024

Have you read uh John Marco of the gross book The Sacred Mushroom in the cross

Joe Rogan asks the guest if she has read this book by John Marco Allegro.

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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2043 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Published on June 27, 2024

that's the mushroom that John Marco Allegro wrote about when he wrote that book The Sacred Mushroom in the cross he was a guy who deciphered the Dead Sea Scrolls

A guest mentions a book by John Marco Allegro about mushrooms and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:45:58

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2074 - Shane Gillis

Published on June 27, 2024

But there's a book, there's literally a book based on some of the things they think from this called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by this guy named John Marco Allegro.

Shane Gillis discusses the book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross' by John Marco Allegro, outlining its exploration of the theory that the concept of Christ may have been influenced by the psychedelic effects of mushrooms.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:03:16

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1543 - Brian Muraresku & Graham Hancock

Published on September 30, 2020

uh and so john marco allegro author of the sacred mushroom in the scroll so he releases that book in 1970 and he claims that uh christianity is the guys for a near eastern fertility cult and it's i mean i think it's very interesting but there aren't many linguists who who support the proposition

Brian Muraresku discusses John Marco Allegro and his controversial book 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross'.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 30:08

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1329 - Brian Moses

Published on August 2, 2019

i think it was the the cross book that you've talked about the sacred cross or oh the sacred mushroom in the cross

The speaker recalls a rumor from the 90s about being put on a list for buying this book.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:43:16

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1318 - Hotep Jesus

Published on June 27, 2019

well there's a book called the sacred mushroom in the cross It's by John Marco Allegro and he was a biblical scholar that was one of the guys that was assigned to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls

The host mentions the book "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" by John Marco Allegro and its controversial thesis about the origins of Christianity.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:47:40

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1136 - Hamilton Morris

Published on June 27, 2018

and the Christian myth it was one of his books and that was the second book that he published after the sacred mushroom in the cross

Hamilton Morris mentions this as one of Allegro's books, published after "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross".

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:48:50

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1123 - Kevin Smith

Published on May 31, 2018

Yeah the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Christian myth and the sacred mushroom in the cross books on that

Kevin Smith mentions "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" in the context of discussing the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian myths.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 02:47:47

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1105 - Michael Hunter

Published on April 17, 2018

I mean there's so many parallels it's really kind of [ __ ] crazy and that's cool yeah it's a great book so he wrote this book called the sacred mushroom in the cross that was bought out by the Catholic Church

Joe Rogan mentions a book by John Marco Allegro that discusses the origins of Christianity being linked to psychedelic mushroom rituals.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:07:27

Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1068 - Michael Shermer

Published on January 24, 2018

and he deciphered them for over 14 years and wrote a book called the sacred mushroom and the cross and his interpretation was that the entire Christian religion was a massive misunderstanding

The speaker discusses John Marco Allegro's work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and his controversial book.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 24:59

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