Haha that's awesome! Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU As a kid I read a book which seriously mad

Haha that's awesome! Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU As a kid I read a book which seriously made the case that Jesus was a magic mushroom - the English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John M Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) "Allegro's book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) argued...that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of Psilocybin mushroom, and that the New Testament is the coded record of this shamanistic cult. ...that the authors of the Christian gospels did not understand the Essene thought..[that] the Christian tradition is based on a misunderstanding of the scrolls. ...that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient 'sex-and-mushroom' cult."[0] Well, I learnt since that Santa Claus is a mushroom myth[1], and the soma of the Vedas (the earliest Hindu texts) sure sounds like mushrooms.. edit: Added last paragraph and..Ok downvoter, care to explain? Maybe you have some good reason, but it just makes me dislike HN when people downvote for apparently no reason but..well, who knows. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Allegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Allegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cr... [1] I read about that in Scientific American 20ish years ago. Some interesting leads here: http://www.google.com/search?q=scientific%20american%20santa%20claus%20mushroom http://www.google.com/search?q=scientific%20american%20santa...