The Psychedelic Eucharist
The "Holy" Roman Catholic Church
Christ’s message was revolutionary in so many ways especially the idea that women and the poor were equal to all men. The Christian ceremony involving the psychedelic eucharist created believers who would discover Kingdom of God within their hearts. And so it was written:
The Kingdom of God is Within You.
Luke 17:20-25
This is why for the first 300 years of its existence, Christianity was an illegal cult. In North Africa, in the 3rd century, converting to Christianity was a crime punishable by death. This was primarily because Christian beliefs turned the Roman structure of power and authority on its head. Christianity was a revolutionary movement. Odd then that Constantine, when he became the Roman Emperor in 313 AD, proclaimed Christianity as the religion of the empire when he hadn’t even converted.
Was that because the life and teachings of Jesus moved him or because he had a political plan to create state-sponsored religion? If one were a power-hungry dictator, the best way to stop a movement based on freedom and equality would be to take it over. And that is precisely what the Roman Empire did with the Catholic Church as its vehicle for control. By 380 AD, the merger of state power and religious institutionalism gave rise to the Roman Catholic Church as it became the Roman Empire's official religion and the seat of power in the region.
It wouldn’t take long before big government, power, and bureaucracy would come to usurp Jesus and his teachings. Emperor Constantius II elevated the church's bureaucracy to new levels of Power. Soon religious authorities began to ban the use of psychedelic sacraments in religious ceremonies - persecution that lives on to this day.
History tends to repeat itself. After the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, the world’s governments declared war on drugs to harass and control the hippie movement. The same thing happened to the early Christian movement. The rich and the powerful could not allow the people to begin to think for themselves.
In AD 364, Emperor Valentinian abolished all nocturnal celebrations to shut down the mysteries. In AD 392, Emperor Theodosius outlawed the Mysteries20. According to Praetextatus, a wealthy aristocratic priest of the Roman Empire, the temple of Demeter, which housed the Elusian mysteries, believed there was something indispensable that was lacking from this curated version of the Christian faith. He prophesied that humanity would be doomed without the original psychedelic sacrament inherited from the ancestors.
The shamanic practices of many cultures were virtually wiped out with the spread of Christianity. In Europe, starting around 400 CE, the Christian church was instrumental in the collapse of the Greek and Roman religions. Beginning with the middle ages and continuing into the Renaissance, remnants of European shamanism were wiped out by campaigns against witches. The Catholic Inquisition often orchestrated these campaigns.
In the Caribbean and Central and South America, Catholic priests followed in the footsteps of the Conquistadors. They were instrumental in destroying the local traditions, denouncing practitioners as "devil worshippers" and having them executed.
The persecution of psychedelic sacraments was maintained through the lineage of the Roman Catholic church. Why else would they maintain the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Latin: “Index of Forbidden Books”), a list of books the church considered dangerous to the faith of Roman Catholics? The list contained works by botanists like Otto Brunfels(1488-1534) and Konrad Gesser (1516-1565). Why would the Vatican fear plants and herbs if the sacraments and the eucharist were psychedelics in nature?21.
The ultimate question is why the Vatican is maintaining secret archives in the first place. It's because the lost history of Christianity's origin threatens the Church Institution's power. By censoring the original sacred sacrament of Christ, the Church maintains its illusory monopoly on religion, where gatekeepers attempt to control access to religious revelation. Who needs the fancy building, priest, confession, and the Bible - when all you need is access to the sacred psychedelic sacrament?
The Psychedelic Eucharist
Some may try to claim the Eucharist is a "placebo." In its present form, the Eucharist works for many people. However, it doesn't seem to be working for 69% of American Catholics, who say they don't believe in the Catholic Church's central doctrine of transubstantiation – that the bread and wine of the Eucharist become the body and blood of Jesus.
For many, the power of the Eucharist has lost its meaning. How could that kind of Eucharist have converted half the Roman Empire, some 30 million people, to the new Christian faith in only 350 years?
The Sacred Mushroom is embedded in christian art as the fruit Eve gives Adam because Holy Communion is a living experience. Jesus took psilocybin mushrooms and was illuminated by the living consciousness of Goddess Sophia. Early Christians embedded this message of Christ in art. This was because most people were illiterate and the visual symbols became the guide. In the The Immortality Key, The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, Brian C. Muraresku presents evidence that about 2,000 years ago, the first generations of Christians used bread and wine in a communion-type sacrament, much like today. Only they were infused with psychedelic plants and fungi. In the author’s words:
It was normal practice for the early adherents of Christianity to meet secretly in small groups to eat the bread and drink the wine of Holy Communion and afterward to experience powerful and deeply meaningful beatific visions
The idea of using psychedelic wine to find the divine was not original to the Christians23. It was co-opted from the ancient Greeks. In the centuries before Jesus, spiritual pilgrims celebrated the Greek God Dionysus much the same way. They partook in a ceremony that involved drinking spiked wine to “remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state.” It was an attempt not just to honor Dionysus but to “become one with him.”
By tapping into an existing ritual and using “the magic wine,” Muraresku speculates that “the same people who were attracted to the cult of Dionysus were attracted to Jesus.” The name of the deity changed, but the sacraments remained the same.
The purpose of drinking the psychedelic wine was not to merely become intoxicated. It was to achieve a state of mind that led to direct experiential communion with God. For these early Christians, “to know one’s self at the deepest level is to know God,” and by drinking this wine, they “became identified with God himself” and could actually “become one with Jesus.” Much like earlier, true believers became one with Dionysus. The idea of looking within to find God was found in early Gnostic texts like The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Several texts make clear that Jesus did not intend to idolize him as an external God but wanted us to realize “the divine spark that lives in us” and “experience that divinity here and now.” The Gnostics believed that this “state of transformed consciousness” helped them “gain personal entry to the Kingdom of Heaven.” It was heaven, not in the skies but all around them, right here on earth. Without the Eucharist, there is no Christianity. John is the only Gospel that records the wine miracle at Cana- the first miracle that launches Jesus’s public mission. As far as we can tell, John did not want to leave any room for misinterpretation. Jesus would ultimately refer to himself as the “True Vine.” Jesus, whom we know, was raised among the vineyards of Galilee, where thousands of jars were found with remnants of psychedelic wine. The “true drink” was no ordinary drink. It was God’s medicine.
I tell you for certain that you must be born again before you can see God’s Kingdom - John 3:3
I am here to give sight to the blind - John 9.39
I tell you for certain that you will see heaven open and God’s angels going up and down - John 1:51
This sight doesn’t come about by accident in the Gospel of John. Access to the Kingdom of Heaven is not based on blind belief; you had actually to do something. You had to sample the “true drink.”
Elaine Pagels points out that these rituals, which included secret meetings and magical sacraments, “did not lead to mass religion.” If the psychedelic wine was the secret to finding the spirit of Jesus and even God himself, and it could be created by any layperson who knew how to make it, what was the need for the church? Big brother steps in, aka the early Roman Catholic church.
The evidence shows that women often led these early Christian ceremonies, with men playing a secondary role. This lasted until the rise of Roman Catholicism in the second half of the 4th century when a religion dominated by men took steps to marginalize the women in the church. They also removed the psychedelic elements from the sacrament, “reducing Holy Communion to an empty symbolic act, devoid of its powerful experiential content.” By the fourth century AD, the Church’s processed version of Christianity featured a Eucharist of ordinary bread and wine.
By 400 AD, Muraresku reports that the leaders of the new and increasingly powerful church banned the Gnostic texts and eliminated what was deemed “pagan temples, shrines and religious sites,” in many cases burning them to the ground. What also were banned were many Christian sects “that thrived in the second and third centuries AD, condemned as heretical and erased from the history of the faith.”
Archeological Evidence of Psychedelic Sacraments
According to evidence in Ancient Mesopotamian documents, Assyrian Medical Tablets, and the Bible, Jesus used cannabis-infused oil16.
“And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them” (Mark 6:13).
According to Dr. Ethan Russo, Assyrian medical tablets in the Louvre collection translate to “So that god of man and man should be in good rapport, with hellebore, cannabis, and lupine you will rub him.”
“Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole Earth, and every tree that has fruit in it.” (Genesis 1:29-30)
With instructions like these, would Jesus ignore a seed-bearing plant as aesthetically beautiful, aromatic, and therapeutic as cannabis?
Jesus and his apostles used cannabis-infused “holy oil” to treat lesions, the pain of crippled limbs and swollen muscles, leprosy, and the “Hand of the Ghost,” which is likely to be what is known today as epilepsy.
In the Indian Vedas - Cannabis is 1 of the 5 essential plants - the books describe how to use Cannabis to heal leprosy.
Another clue is the inclusion of “kaneh-bosem” as an ingredient in Jesus and his disciples’ anointing oil. For a while, no one paid attention to this mystery ingredient. But researchers have since found that kaneh-bosem is likely a reference to cannabis. If you type “kanehbosem” (without the hyphen) into Google Translator as a Yiddish word, the English translation is “cannabis.”
“There can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion,” Carl Ruck, a professor of classical mythology at Boston University18. “The easy availability and long-established tradition of cannabis in early Judaism would inevitably have included it in the [Christian] mixtures.” In other words, Jesus (raised as Jewish) would have used Judaic practices in his healing ceremonies. The names Christ and Messiah mean The anointed and refer to the Holy oil of Exodus 30:23.
Chris Bennet, the author of Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible, believes that those anointed with Jesus’ oils were also experiencing cannabis’ psychoactive properties. “The surviving Gnostic descriptions of the effects of the anointing rite make it very clear that the holy oil had intense psychoactive properties that prepared the recipient for entrance into ‘unfading bliss,” Bennet writes in his book19.
If Jesus and his apostles were using cannabis, it would make sense that they would also be using psychedelic wine or magic mushrooms, or both. However, one big question remains: the sacraments of bread and wine are central to Christianity - if Christian holy wine used to be psychedelic - why isn’t it anymore? Perhaps it has something to do with big government and politics.
Depictions of Magic Mushrooms in Early Christian Art
In the book The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, authors Jerry B. and Julie M. Brown detail evidence of psychedelics in Christian artwork. Dr. Brown believed in Carl Sagan’s saying, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” so the couple did extensive field research and traveled to different ancient cathedrals across Europe and middle-east to gather visuals and evidence before publishing their book. Their research illuminates the history of Christianity's relationship to psychedelics.\
“Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshiped the sacred mushroom — the Amanita Muscaria — which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug), came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth. When the secrets of the mushroom cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folktales. This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament." - John Marco Allegro, English archaeologist & Dead Sea Scrolls scholar
The chief aim of their journey was to challenge the traditional understandings of the Judeo-Christian religion. During a Church of Saint Martin in France tour, Julie first noticed the detailed, wall-length fresco of Jesus entering Jerusalem. There, above the men welcoming Jesus, were five psilocybin mushroom caps.
Consistent with the Romanesque style, the mushroom caps were as large as the men’s heads, indicating their importance in the artwork. Everything about the artwork indicated it was Jesus riding through the gates of Jerusalem on a donkey during Passover. This is the holiday we now refer to as Palm Sunday. The fresco also depicts an angel purifying a man (thought to be the prophet Isaiah) with a mushroom, suggesting that it may have been psilocybin that inspired his prophetic visions. The curious discovery of mushrooms is hidden in plain sight, even in ornately decorated clothing.
“We contemplated the incontrovertible facts portrayed in the wall paintings before us: the pictorial fusion of Jesus entering Jerusalem with the purification of Isaiah; Jesus with arms outstretched toward the large psilocybin mushrooms in the Entry; the joyful youth cutting down mushrooms with a long knife on the towers of Jerusalem over the scene of the Last Supper; the otherworldly expressions of Jesus and his disciples leaning on the table; and the orderly row of mushrooms cleverly hidden in the hems of the disciples.” - Jerry Brown6
1. Canterbury Cathedral in England
Canterbury Cathedral in England is one of the most famous churches for Christians, and when the Browns visited this church, they uncovered a psychedelic painting. Christ encircled with plants at the bottom. And these are not ordinary plants but psilocybin mushrooms, including Amanita muscaria, blue psilocybin, and two other varieties of Psilocybe 7.
A psychedelic painting in Canterbury Cathedral in England. Note the mushroom-like figures below Jesus.
2. The mural titled Altar frontal from La Seu d'Urgell or of The Apostles
Note that the Twelve Apostles have their eyes focused not on the face of Jesus but on the mushrooms. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 12th century
3. St. Michael’s Church, Germany
The church contains a painting of the Jesse Tree in which a tree grows from Jesse, founder of the lineage of the major kings of Israel, from whose tribe it was predicted that the Messiah would be born. This painting shows the Temptation scene from the Garden of Eden with a backdrop of a psilocybin red-and-gold mushroom cap. Note that the scene below is superimposed over an encoded Amanita mushroom cap.
4. The Mosaics at the Basilica of the Nativity
5. Church of Saint Martin de Vicq, France
The church of Saint Martin de Vicq in central France had a fresco portraying Christ's entry to Jerusalem. And how could we miss the five psilocybin mushrooms over the heads of the youth welcoming Christ?
The fresco in the church of Saint Martin de Vicq with five psilocybin mushrooms (see: top right corner)
Yeshua: the Psychedelic Wine Guy
As one of the highest living masters in history, Yeshua returned from the east to share these teachings with the people. He taught the eternal gospel of love and oneness and used his full faculties and gifts to heal men, women, and children. The ritualistic use of the psychedelic sacraments left a huge impression on early Christian cults.
While it’s impossible to verify that Jesus did eat psilocybin mushrooms, there is clear evidence that he consumed psychedelic wine. Early shamans used psychedelics for healing, and Jesus was known as a powerful healer. For example, there is the story of Jesus healing a leper. The Great Canterbury Psalter, a masterpiece of medieval poetry and prayers, this story is different from the version in the Bible.
Here, the leper holds a scroll in his left hand, which translates as “Master, if you want, you may cleanse me,” but rather than pointing the scroll at Jesus, he points to Jesus’ scroll. Jesus’ scroll says, “I want to be cleansed.”
Similarly, the author of The Great Canterbury Psalter relayed other stories of psychedelic mushrooms. It is thought that perhaps this story indicates Jesus has realized the healing powers of the magic mushrooms. Yeshua HaMaschiach means Jesus the Messiah. Yeshua fulfilled at least 300 prophecies during His earthly ministry. As the Jewish messiah, he brought the hidden Torah back to the Jewish people.
In his famous “sermon on the mountain,” recorded in Matthew chapter 5, amazing declarations were made, and when we understand them in their proper Hebraic light, we can see that they were subtle addresses of the Lost Torah. He ends these glimpses of what it means to live not only by the black fire but by the white fire of the Torah in Matthew 5:48.
Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect
There are a couple of things we need to understand about this statement. In the first place, the word that is translated “perfect” literally means “be complete.” So often, the New Testament and the Old Testament will describe people as being upright and righteous—not in the sense that they have achieved total moral perfection, but rather that they have reached a singular level of maturity in their growth in terms of spiritual integrity. However, in this statement, it’s certainly legitimate to translate it using the English word perfect. For example, “Be ye complete as your heavenly Father is complete.” Now remember that our heavenly Creator is perfectly complete! So if we are to mirror God in that way, we are to mirror God in moral excellence as well as in other ways. In fact, the basic call to a person in this world is to be a reflection of the character of God. That’s what it means to be created in the image of God.
Yeshua commanded of us to be perfect because He had just revealed prematurely some of the New Torah that Judaism says Messiah is expected to give to us. He showed glimpses of what it means to live the perfect Torah—the union of the two Torahs together and without lack. He could thus make that request of us to be perfect in our performance of the Torah, to stand in the fire and be fire, as the Midrash Tanchuma and Talmud, tractate Chagigah had previously asserted. We see another instance of the Messiah calling us to be more than we are and perform the white fire of the Torah in John 13:34.
A new commandment I give to you, that you shall love one another; how that I have loved you even you shall love one another.
He dictates a new commandment, which is to love each other. This is really the original commandment found in Leviticus 19:18 to love our neighbor, but Yeshua has invoked upon it the deeper reality of what that means. He does this with the qualification of “how that I have loved you.” We are not to love just “as you love yourself,” but to look to the perfect example of love, of the Messiah who lays down His very life for us, as the standard of love we are to live. This is the white fire that surrounds the black fire of the second greatest commandment. Living from a place of loving-kindness is to live in the perfect image of God for God is Love.
Put simply, Yeshua the Messiah called for all beings to live the two Torahs right now in this world when we understand the context of these passages! He has already initiated teaching the revealed Torah and its unrevealed deeper intents, just like Judaism has told us Messiah shall do! With eyes of flesh we might see just one single written Torah preserved in the Hebrew text for us to perform as a religious document. But if we look closer with the eyes of faith, we are able to glimpse the second Torah that vivifies and gives even deeper meaning to the written text. In order to appreciate what He has given us, we must seek to know the Torahs in their fullest measure and expression: the black and the white fire united together.
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