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: He suggested the New Testament stories were actually encrypted descriptions of psychedelic experiences rather than historical events. Academic and Popular Reception

The central argument of the book is deceptively simple: Allegro asserts that the New Testament is not history, but a coded fertility cult manual. He claims that early Christian scribes were using Sumerian and Hebrew etymology to hide references to a sacred, hallucinogenic mushroom.

: A 13th-century chapel painting in France that some argue depicts Jesus next to a mushroom-shaped tree , used by supporters as iconographic evidence.