Thomas Sedlak

Jesus was a psychedelic prophet. Apparently, all we have left of the original Eucharist is just a placebo. In the Greek mystery religions, secret hallucinogenic recipes were passed down in families, from mother to daughter, for thousands of years. Jesus and his followers openly shared their recipes (although some people didn't follow the Eucharist recipe well enough, and entire congregations of early Christians got poisoned, and many died. The word enthusiasm is based on an  ancient Greek word, from their mystery rites - meaning to take God inside - and to be possessed by God. The eucharist was a continuation of these Greek mystery rites. The Gospel of John basically argues that Christianity is not unlike Dionysian mystery rites. The Gospel of John has sections which copy Euripides play The Bacchae, which was written more than four hundred years before Jesus's birth. The Roman Senate outlawed the Bacchanal in 186 B.C.E. (unless someone had permission from the Senate, and no more than five people participated, and only women could become trained priests). Christianity can be seen as the return of the Bacchanal. Services were in people's homes, and women played a central role. Men slowly coopted power in the church, pushed women aside, and outlawed the most popular Greek mystery festivals in 394 A.D. (which had been run by women for thousands of years). It took more than a thousand years to eradicate the hallucinogenic eucharist completely - through the relentless war on the pagans, the gnostics, the heretics, and culminating in the inquisition and the torture and murder of the "witches" (the priestesses who facilitated the hallucinogenic eucharist).