Священный гриб и Крест.
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 1970
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross ruined John’s career.
The book was the culmination of twenty years’ study, for it grew out of everything he had learned about the
development of Semitic and proto-Semitic languages. He meant it to launch his name upon history as a world thinker.
He hoped it would illuminate the origins of thought and language, so that people could better understand where they
came from, shed the trappings of religion, and take true responsibility for what they did to each other and their
world.
None of this got past the initial shock-waves. The mushroom cloud spread more derision than enlightenment.
Underpinning The Sacred Mushroom is the idea that fertility must be of fundamental importance to primitive
religion, as it is to life. John set out this concept in a preliminary plan of the book, sent to the publishers
Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., on October 23, 1968:
The most important thing in life was life itself, and life is rain. The reasoning is simple. Rain begets vegetation
on the earth as spermatozoa beget offspring in the womb. God, the Creator, the source of rain, must therefore be
the sperm of creation and the heavenly penis from which it spills. The storm is the orgasm of God. The drops of
rain are the ‘words’ of God. Earth is the womb of creation.
In The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, John set out to trace the expression of this simple philosophy through the
sacred literature of the ancient world.
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