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Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku Hunt Ancient Psychedelics on Joe Rogan's Podcast

10/1/2020

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This week, Graham Hancock appeared alongside his self-described protege, author Brian Muraresku, on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss spirituality, archaeology, and psychedelic topics. Truthfully, I don’t really have a lot to complain about in the general thesis that ancient people were aware of and used mind-altering substances, or that such substances may have impacted their experiences of the divine. However, I feel like Muraresku overstates the case, particularly when he argues that scholarship has forbidden any discussion of the subject since a damnatio memoriae pronounced on the 1978 book The Road to Eleusis and its argument about psychedelics in Greece. For decades, dozens of books have covered the subject, so it is not a forbidden topic, or at least hasn’t been in thirty years.
Muraresku, a lawyer (his resume is included in the John Podesta Wikileaks email dump) and author of The Immortality Key (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), argues that early Christians used psychedelic substances which influenced their experiences of the divine. He ties this to other ancient mystery rites, including the Eleusinian Mysteries. He laments that “we are not taught” about the Eleusinian Mysteries in high school mythology classes before claiming that the mystery of Eleusis involved imbibing psychedelic potions. The latter point is not all that controversial; the use of substances in ancient Greek religion has been studied for decades, but the former point is strange. First, I was taught about Eleusis in my high school Classics courses, but second, what schools still teach Classics? A declining number. Classics have been in decline in American schools for half a century—more, if you count the decline of Greek from the middle nineteenth century—and the decentralized nature of American schooling means that it’s impossible to generalize from one’s personal experience without actual data.
 
He argues that the Greeks lacked a vision of the afterlife—“You just disappear into Hades to do God knows what”—and therefore needed the Mysteries to imagine a better afterlife. That’s not true. Homer records an elaborate vision of the afterlife and its unsatisfying milieu in the Odyssey, at the dawn of Greek culture. What the Greeks hoped to avoid was standing-room-only general admission to the moaning holding pen of Hades, for Eleusis promised a path to a better quality of afterlife. But he overstates the importance of imbibing the mixed drink kykeon to the Mysteries, since kykeon wasn’t limited to them. It’s mentioned in Homer, discussed in the Homeric hymns, and was a common drink of peasants. The Mysteries were a collective experience, not an individual one. However, Muraresku and Hancock believe kykeon was a psychedelic drink on the strength an argument in The Road to Eleusis that its barley contained ergot, a claim with only some ambiguous evidence to support it.
 
I’ll stop here and say that Muraresku and Hancock openly lie about a Classical text to try to make their point. They argue that the kykeon was a closely guarded secret (remember: it was a standard peasant drink) and that the Athenian aristocrat Alcibiades was condemned for drinking it recreationally, outside the sacred space. That is false. In his Life of Alcibiades 19, Plutarch makes very clear that Alcibiades was sentenced to death for blasphemy for a parody performance, not drinking a very common, low-status peasant drink:
During this time Androcles, the popular leader, produced sundry aliens and slaves who accused Alcibiades and his friends of mutilating other sacred images, and of making a parody of the mysteries of Eleusis in a drunken revel. They said that one Theodorus played the part of the Herald, Pulytion that of the Torch-bearer, and Alcibiades that of the High Priest, and that the rest of his companions were there in the rôle of initiates, and were dubbed Mystae. Such indeed was the purport of the impeachment which Thessalus, the son of Cimon, brought in to the assembly, impeaching Alcibiades for impiety towards the Eleusinian goddesses. (Loeb translation)
Plutarch goes on for pages about how Alcibiades’ enemies whipped up enmity against him and got him brought to trial, but the gist of it is that his trial was for blaspheming the gods with his parody of the Mysteries. Drinking peasant drinks wasn’t the issue.
 
Hancock argues that psychedelics provide a direct experience of immortality and the foundation of religion, arguing that only psychedelics give access to that realm. He blasts his “critics” for failing to accept the moral teachings of the entities one meets while on psychedelics. I don’t want to press the issue too much, but the altered states of consciousness unlocked that way are not exclusive to psychedelics. Altered states of consciousness can occur in many different ways, and there is no need to specifically argue that magic mushrooms and the like are the only way reach that state. That might have been Hancock’s path, but it is not the only one. Hancock even cites David Lewis-Williams’s work on the subject of prehistoric altered states of consciousness but ignores Lewis-Williams’s argument that any path to altering consciousness can reach the same end.
 
Anyway, much of the discussion repeats Hancock’s usual thoughts about liberalizing drug laws, disapproval of politicians, and other social issues. Muraresku tries to make a case that early Christians spiked their wine with psychedelics, and some of his evidence is suggestive, though not conclusive. He make other claims that are less secure. He argues that a terra cotta bas relief of Triptolemus from a fourth-century BCE temple at Mas Castellar in Girona, Spain is evidence of clandestine psychedelic Eleusinian Mysteries blasphemously performed outside of Greece. As should be evident from his appearance in dozens of pieces of Greek literature, such as Apollodorus (1.5.2) and a whole (lost) play Sophocles once wrote about him, his life was no secret. He is frequently depicted in Greek vase art all over the Mediterranean, so an image of him is no evidence of Mysteries, only myth. The Triptolemus fragment was found alongside ritual cups and a bust of Demeter. A vase contained evidence of beer, yeast, and ergot.
 
As should be obvious, not all worship of Demeter is an Eleusinian Mystery, and kykeon isn’t the mystery itself. The mystery itself involved a myth of death and rebirth involving a sheaf of wheat. It’s also not entirely pleasant to find that in his book, Muraresku claims that the Mysteries—and the Spanish chapel—are survivals of the “skull cult” of Göbekli Tepe, a 10,000-year survival for which no evidence exists but which is popular among fringe types.
 
Hancock and Rogan have a long rant about academics being engaged in a “propaganda war” against drugs, and they’re not wrong that social pressure and government policies had restricted exploration of ancient use of substances.
 
In the last 40 minutes or so, Hancock gets to his more familiar complaints about ancient history and his argument for a lost, Atlantis-like Ice Age civilization. This involves him and Rogan complaining about oppressive academics and repeating all his usual claims, no matter how many times they’ve been debunked. It’s worth noting that Hancock claims that one time while on drugs he saw flying saucers and Grey space aliens and worried that he would be abducted by the aliens. Rogan claims to have similarly met jesters who flipped him off, a gesture he considered a profound message. Hancock argues that such beings are not imaginary but rather are interdimensional beings that we can contact through our consciousness. Against that view, I will ask this: Why do these beings sit around waiting for us to show up so they can deliver bizarre monologues and obscene gestures? Is that what you would do if some weirdo popped into your house? Do they just stop work, or drop their knitting, whenever a human pops by? One might argue that if the other realm were truly real, the beings ought to be indifferent or frightened or even confused as often as they are pompous pontificators.
 
Muraresku ends the interview by announcing he is looking to launch a reality TV series searching for ancient psychedelic drugs and will begin pitching it soon. Hancock ends by praising Michael Shermer for announcing he would reassess his views of Hancock in light of evidence for a Younger Dryas comet impact. Shermer referred to evidence that a comet hit the Earth in 10,500 BCE, a subject on which I remain agnostic if skeptical, but Hancock and Rogan imply that Shermer meant that he would now accept the existence of Atlantis. This isn’t the case, and the existence of a comet impact has no direct relevance to the question of whether Atlantis existed.
44 Comments
It's a fact
10/1/2020 03:05:50 pm

It's a fact that Christianity - and indeed the Bible itself - is founded on psychedelics. This can be very easily demonstrated.

Centuries of Biblical scholarship has been a total waste of time in its warped desire to prove the historical existence of Jesus Christ and to prove that the Gospels date back to the first century - despite the fact that no first century Christians mentioned the existence of the Gospels or their contents,

Sure, the crucifixion is mentioned in first century Christian texts, but not mentioned within historical context of a Trial by Pontius Pilate. The cross within first century Christianity was a source of religious inspiration and not a historical execution.

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Kent
10/1/2020 09:07:07 pm

I'd be interested in seeing those "first century Christian texts".

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HEY KENT
10/5/2020 09:32:17 am

Justin Martyr was the first ever Christian to mention the existence of written Gospels around 130AD. Do you know any Christian before Justin Martyr ?

orang
10/2/2020 05:54:29 pm

"... the crucifixion is mentioned in first century Christian texts"

Hmmmm. News to me.

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Yon
10/2/2020 06:39:57 pm

Ha ok...

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Problem
10/1/2020 03:09:10 pm

The problem with disclosing the identity of the psychedelic drug that the Bible and Christianity is based upon is that it would open a toxic can of beans where New Agers would have a field day synthesising and mixing that information with all sorts of goofball ideas. It would create a whole new genre of New Age hysterics and gobbledygook.

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Kent
10/2/2020 01:40:03 am

How would New Agers synthesize what would be today be considered underage girls and killing people to take their houses? This has riled me to the point where I need to lay down in a bed of soothing acacia.

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HEY KENT
10/6/2020 03:51:00 pm

New Agers can see the kitchen sink everywhere. The kitchen sink exists everywhere. Syncretism is part of their MO., Everything is connected and there are no coincidences.
And the same applies to you - the historical Christ exists during the first century.

cesarassiCesar
10/1/2020 03:30:24 pm

“And I caught sight of mighty Heracles (that is to say, his shade; for he himself rejoices in the feats of deathless gods)”.

Odyssey XI, 602-2.

Plotinus (c. 205-270 AD) comments this passage of the Odyssey when Odysseus visits Hades and sees the shade of Hercules, which is not the true hero.

“The poet [Homer], too, in the story of Hercules, seems to give this image separate existence; he puts the shade of Hercules in the lower world and Hercules himself among the gods: treating the hero as existing in the two realms at once, he gives a twofold Hercules. It is not difficult to explain this distinction. Hercules was a hero of practical virtue. By his noble serviceableness he was worthy to be a God. On the other hand, his merit was action and not Contemplation which would place him unreservedly in the higher realm. Therefore while he has place above, something of him remains below.”

Plotinus Enneads I.1.12.

It seems that for the ancient Greeks what goes to Hades is not the true person, but something left behind. The afterlife is according to the status of the soul of each one.

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Doc Rock
10/1/2020 05:38:33 pm

Non-drug induced altered states of consciousness generally take much more time and effort and doesn't sound as sexy. Talking about dropping wacky substances and quickly seeing and hearing funny things sells more books and certainly peaks Rogan's interest.

Anthropologists have been researching, writing, and teaching about cross-cultural drug use since waaaaaay before Hancock left journalism and ventured into La La land. Never heard of them being involved in propaganda to suppress research on the topic.

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E.P. Grondine
10/2/2020 10:05:22 am

Hi Doc -

For your entertainment:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/07/17/monticello-mellow/4db4c762-9892-4d05-b12e-8769151892a9/

Yours truly on the front page of the Outlook section of the Washington Post. This has important bearing on the laws for the use of heroin for the relief of terminal pain.

You may want to read my book "Man and impact in the Americas", which deals with the impact hazard, which is a deadly serious threat to all Americans.

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Kent
10/2/2020 02:25:33 pm

No one cares about heroin for pain relief. There is no shortage of opiates.

No one wants to read your book "Man and E.P. Grondine Pimping His Tiny Typed Badly Designed Book in the Americas". Jason should charge you advertising rates.

E.P. Grondine
10/3/2020 11:22:00 am

Hi Kent -

I am glad that you have no problem with the use of heroin for the relief of terminal pain. In Britain they usually use the Brompton Cocktail, Nwo either the physicians in Britain are incompetent, or some of our legislators are practicing medicine without a license.

Fifty years ago a young friend of mine died of cancer and he really needed the Brompton Cocktail.

I did as well as I could.

As far as type size and readability goes, it is best to use Adobe founts, as the express uniformly.across all devices This is not true for TrueType fonts. I did as best I could, given my stoke damage.


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Kent
10/3/2020 05:38:59 pm

Fifty years ago? Don't care. "Tiny type" is the main complaint of your reviewers on Amazon. Reviewers of the paper edition. I'm playing along with the delusion that there's an electronic edition. You can say "Adobe founts" until the cows come home but it doesn't make you sound any smarter. Just the opposite in fact.

Patrick Leary
10/1/2020 10:53:22 pm

Someone like Elisa Guerra-Doce has forgotten more about ancient drug use than the pseudoscientists will ever know.

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Kent
10/2/2020 02:16:58 pm

Because of her drug use?

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Bezalel
10/2/2020 12:40:46 am

Anyone who spends sufficient time and effort studying and practicing the mysteries (Egypt, Greece, Christian, Middle eastern, eastern, modern freemasonry, etc) learns that it is not about any afterlife, but about the here and now

This is why one Egyptian tome (as example) is titled the book of "coming forth by day"...meaning having a death experience (initiation) without actually physically dying.

Baptism or being "born again" same concept...but willfully garbled by conservative types.

"Dying so that ye may live" as Jesus supposedly said if you believe in special red-colored text.
Raising Lazarus same thing
Heirs of Osiris same thing
The acorn disintegrates and "dies" but the tree lives afterward, same thing
Metamorphosis
Mithras
Yahda yahda countless others

One way of stimulating this was through drugs of course, but not necessary

Kinda basic



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Kent
10/2/2020 07:14:02 am

"policies had restricted"

policies *have* restricted

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max
10/2/2020 09:07:19 am

Aliens: just another effort to make humans the centre of the universe again.

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E.P. Grondine
10/2/2020 09:39:12 am

Hi Jason -

"Hancock ends by praising Michael Shermer for announcing he would reassess his views of Hancock in light of evidence for a Younger Dryas comet impact. Shermer referred to evidence that a comet hit the Earth in 10,500 BCE, a subject on which I remain agnostic if skeptical."

While the impact geoblemes have not been located yet or confirmed, the secondary evidence of the impacts, the outflows and gamma ray productions, is pretty much definitive:
https://youtu.be/TbM4vHcRyz0

I'll have to take a pass on discussing ancient European drug cults with you here, other than to note that why we expect anciert man in Europe to be different than man in the Americas, is an interesting question, given what we know with certainty about Mesoamerican .civilizations.

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Doc rock
10/3/2020 08:25:02 am

Even if there was a YDI it is a different issue from Hancock's fantasy civilization. I only have a loose grasp of the legitimate literature on YDIH, but I believe that the most recently published stuff that came out earlier this year, I think, is not exactly supportive of it. That means Hancock won't bring it up except to casually dismiss it as part of the conspiracy to suppress the truth.

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Kent
10/3/2020 05:47:21 pm

When someone who asserts the existence of herds of 7 foot tall Indians asserts a Younger Dryas Impact, I consider the source and view it askance with a jaundiced eye. Also like you said, actual research.

E.P. Grondine
10/4/2020 11:32:14 am

Hi Doc -

There were actually two impacts:
https://youtu.be/TbM4vHcRyz0

Carefully note the production of gamma rays in large hyper-velocity impacts.

As far as there timing goes, carefully note that the Younger Dryas is at a different date. This mis-naming persists. I prefer Holocene Start Impact Events, which is probably what will finally be used. What a mess.

I have a collection of Native American memories of the HSIE, which did not post to academia. I will try to fix this soon.

Let me be clear: the people of the United States face a real threat from asteroid and comet impact. NASA is the responsible agency, and they will put the NEOcam in orbit in 2022. That is one of the best expenditures of public money I've ever seen.

To conclude, there have not only been large impacts, there have been "small" ones, and any study of man's past can not ignore any of them. Read my contributions to the Cambridge Conference for an introduction to the field.

Mr. Hancock is a commercial writer, and a successful one. I my self prefer Andrew Collins.

Nerd11135
10/2/2020 07:57:18 pm

[Muraresku, a lawyer (his resume is included in the John Podesta Wikileaks email dump) ]

Based on your description that sounds like a great place for him. Maybe right after one of those photos of Podesta posing with a weird-looking statue that causes so much pearl-clutching among Conservatives. And, of course, right before a picture of a UFO and a printed copy of an E-Mail from Ancient Aliens asking him if he'd like to appear.

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Kal
10/3/2020 09:45:44 pm

Hancock is actually nuttier than he seemed on the old shows.
If he wants to do some psychedelic mushrooms or some peyote, fine but don't tell us that it's enlightening. It's not another world. It's in your head, man. The human brain is not fully understood. When you mess with it, weird stuff happens.

You just know John of Patmos island must have found some bad wheat or something to come up with someof those images in Revelation, but it doesn't debunk the whole thing.

Rogan admitting to doing some drugs doesn't surprise at all. (No relation to Seth Rogan I gather).

Also all the pseudoscience is mixed up, but not going to bother with that. The Sphinx and the valley of the Kings did have some water erosion. The Nile flooded annually for thousands of years. It doesn't have to be in the ice age. It did during the time of Ramses and Khufru. That's not mystical. The erosion is just not that old.

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Suzanne Olsson link
10/4/2020 10:02:07 am

I am usually reluctant to post here because it feels as though you are all talking about Mars...while I am focused on Venus. I turned away from Graham Hancock books and theories long ago, at the first hint he was using drugs to gain his "insights". Being a practicing Christian/Buddhist, I dont approve. The fifth tenant of Buddhism forbids alcohol specifically and all mind-altering drugs indirectly in the belief that they take one away from the truth, not closer to it. Obviously drug usage was well-known in the ancient world..Didn't Socratese himself drink the Hemlock tea as a form of death-- by choice? But it is a long stretch to assume the entire Bible is based on drug experiences. I would be the first to argue that point! A glass of water can be half-empty, or half-full depending upon its context. Ancient writings are the samed- accurate interpretation depends upon a lot of missing factors. I'll leave you with this link to article on Buddhism and use of alcohol and drugs...just dont do it. https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/2015/07/the-fifth-precept-and-the-power-of-renunciation/#:~:text=Abstaining%20from%20intoxicating%20drinks%20and%20drugs%E2%80%94the%20fifth%20ethical,misconduct%2C%20and%20lying%20all%20directly%20involve%20other%20people.

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Kent
10/4/2020 02:42:56 pm

On my planet Buddhism has no tenants and Christian/Buddhist is a dog taking cat for a walk.

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Jim
10/5/2020 10:46:01 pm

"On my planet Buddhism has no tenants"

Do they all own their houses ?

Drugs & Buddhism
10/5/2020 07:03:26 am

For drugs and Buddhism, check out books by Allan Hunt Badiner, Michael Crowley and Ann Shulgin, Douglas Osto for starters.

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Elmore Pumares
10/4/2020 10:12:33 am

Quite a tragedy that classics are not an important part of "higher" learning any longer, and have not been for some time. Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this in his excellent "Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom".

This lack of "perpective" leaves the door wide open for what is rightfully regarded by many as "fringe" writers and commentators espousing minimally researched suppositions almost as if they're trying to push some kind of agenda that does not further learned enquiry and discussion. I always get this feeling while watching the, unfortunately, highly influential Rogan...



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Suzanne Olsson link
10/4/2020 04:22:21 pm

Elmore, well stated, sir.

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Fringe Writers
10/5/2020 06:59:46 am

The fringe writers are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, You just cannot get more fringe than those examples of [second century] historical fiction. Show what exists in first century Christian texts that corroborate the material in the epistles of Paul, the epistle of Peter and the Early Church Fathers - their sacred text was the Old Testament.

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Charles Verrastro link
10/5/2020 10:04:00 am

"During this time Androcles, the popular leader, produced sundry aliens and slaves who accused Alcibiades and his friends of mutilating other sacred images..."
AHA! So there WERE Aliens involved!! Obviously miffed that their status as Sky Gods was being belittled by an ungrateful creation of their DNA experiments. One day soon, if there is any justice, they will deal as harshly with blasphemers like Jason as they did with Alcibiades.
But seriously, I managed to begin my study of Latin early only through being enrolled in a Parochial school (and having both a lay teacher and a priest give simultaneous instruction in Ancient and Middle (Church) Latin. I was able to go on to Classical Greek in University. Neither offers any courses in either of the "Dead Languages" today. I support the recent emphasis on practical vocational instruction in schools but not at the expense of eliminating the humanities, scholarship and the fine arts in higher education.
I have been open to the possible use of hallucinogens in sacred rites, as such drugs were commonly said to be used in ancient texts and are well documented by anthropologists in more recent times. Having long studied the figure of Cagliostro and reading both the trial documents and his own Egyptian Rite ritual I suspected there was some use of an introduced substance, but wasn't conversant enough in DMT or the effects of Acacia to see how it played a part in his cult (and possibly Masonry itself). I should have read my copy of Culpepper more closely when it classified Acacia and the Manna Tree together.

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Larry storch
10/6/2020 11:52:55 am

Victor Davis Hanson is a extremist Neocon lunatic who crazily supported the Iraq invasion and occupation and who continued to be an apologist for the disaster even after his new hero Trump managed to figure out that Iraq was a total debacle. You might as well cite a flat-earther as an expert on a question of cosmology.

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Elmore Pumares
10/6/2020 04:56:31 pm

You may have a point... Politics aside, Hanson wrote an excellent book. With respect to the Iraq war, he "posited that preemptive war, so reviled by many today as immoral, is certainly not unknown in history; a preemptive conflict is judged to be just or unjust based on its context and its success. He cited the historical prevalence of preemptive wars: the Athenian expeditions against Sparta; the American attack on the Barbary pirates; and the American invasion of Mexico. Even in recent memory, the United States has engaged in preemptive warfare, by attacking Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Few of these wars, if any, are today considered unjust, despite their preemptive nature". ....I read somewhere "separate text from context and all that remains is a con".....

Non-induced altered states of mind
10/5/2020 05:57:26 am

Saying that Christianity is based on mind-expanding drug is nothing to do with selling books or sounding sexy. The celebration of the Mass existed during the first century long before the existence of Gospels and the belief in a Jesus Christ that had arms, legs a torso and a head.

Show one first century Christian text where the crucifixion of Christ is mentioned depicted as a historical execution under Pilate, or a reference to John the Baptist, or a reference to Mary Magdalene - or indeed a reference to any other person or event found in the Gospels. The Gospels and the things mentioned in the Gospels only date from the second century.

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Bezalel
10/9/2020 08:19:51 am

"Show one first century Christian text where the crucifixion of Christ is mentioned depicted as a historical execution..."
Preach

By any modern definition of what constitutes "evidence", a walking talking 1st century man named Jesus who arose after being crucified didn't exist, never happened
Period
Regardless of how many uptight Christians bitch, complain, spit, foam at the mouth and twist-fart in their chairs the fact remains: FAIRY TALE; DID NOT HAPPEN.

People who believe fairy tales are real should not ever be in a position to draft laws, execute them or interpret the constitution for others in this country. Hello Antonio Scalia and goodbye.

Stop voting for these idiots or don't vote at all please
Thanks

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Kent
10/9/2020 08:39:39 pm

So, by implication no Jews or Muslims either? Gotcha.

Clarification
10/10/2020 04:31:12 am

There was no historical Jesus Christ before the crucifixion. Never mind after the crucifixion. The crucifixion and Jesus Christ was originally something else before it was turned into a historical event during the second century.

Bezalel
10/12/2020 12:14:25 am

Kent:

Ummm, depends
Your inference, not my implication.
First, Neither most Jews, nor any Muslims hold a belief in the fairy tale that "God-man-born-of-a-virgin Jesus" incarnated, and rose from the dead after being crucified.

Do they believe OTHER fairy tales are real? Global floods, Moses parting seas, Elijah raptured, Mohammed on flying carpets, etc?
Most Jews don't; they recognize and accept what myth and psychology are all about, and they DON'T attempt to proselytize or change laws to suit their particular myths. Find me some that do if you disagree.
Christians usually do both those things btw, ALL THE TIME, especially in the US of A.

Muslims in USA?
Not sure, but some probably do
If so, then yeah...no voting!!!

Kent
10/13/2020 07:38:51 am

Jews believe Exodus was real, they believe science fiction spoke to Moses and take a look at the Talmud when you get a chance.

Also they took 40 years to walk from Egypt to Israel.

Muslims believe that an angel spoken to Muhammad and that Muhammad flew on an electric horse from Mecca to Jerusalem.

Both groups are every bit as crazy as Christians,

Charles Verrastro link
10/7/2020 03:18:35 pm

Thought I'd share this as I just came across it in my mail today. Not particularly in depth, but the incident it starts with brought back some (unpleasant) memories for me. My Sicilian grandparents regularly took me mushroom hunting in the woody areas, but having just moved to a new residential development with manicured lawns and stray pets I mistook a single nondescript white mushroom bordering my garden for standard fare and cooked it up in my breakfast omelet. A few hours later I rushed to the Emergency room and was having my stomach pumped. Found out it was a relatively new phenomenon of a species that only appeared in closely manicured grassy areas that small pets wander over. Who knew? My family still brings that one up when the subject turns to identifying plants.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland

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Anthony G.
10/8/2020 10:30:07 am

Demeter/Athena = Planet Mercury
Persephone/Aphrodite = Planet Venus

"They said that one Theodorus played the part of the Herald, Pulytion that of the Torch-bearer, and Alcibiades that of the High Priest..."

Sounds like someone had a public threesome.

The planet Mercury rising from the top of the Sun is both the birth of Athena, and the Sprig of Whatever marking the grave. Wheat/Acacia. This knowledge is still preserved within medieval architecture. Specifically a stained glass face of Zeus with an Oculus in the top of his head. This can be seen in this picture.


https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7QYGvDL136E/XRlU8ydon5I/AAAAAAAABpg/VevvH30Oah0ul9MJOCjOB7-kpLgyTuqFwCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_1936.JPG


Zoom in on the window at the far right. The Zeus face resembles Ming from the Flash Gordon movie. He has eyebrows, pupils, and a killer mustache. His identity is given away by the Oculus at the top of his forehead. When this Oculus is illuminated, Athena springs forth. Could be seen as Hiram with a sprig of Acacia.

The substances ingested are irrelevant.

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Kent
10/9/2020 08:08:43 am

Said the teacher's voice from the Peanuts cartoons. "Mercury rising from the top of the sun"??? Document, document, document.

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          • Termier on Atlantis
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        • Lost Cities >
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        • The Many Wives of Jesus
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
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          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
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        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
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        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
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        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
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        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
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        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
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        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
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        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
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        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
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        • The Moon Hoax
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        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
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      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
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      • Defining a Zombie
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      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
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      • The Mysterious Stranger
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      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
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        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
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      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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