Editing Entheogen (section)

=== Middle East ===

It has been suggested that the ritual use of small amounts of [[Harmal|Syrian rue]]{{by whom|date=December 2020}} is an artifact of its ancient use in higher doses as an entheogen (possibly in conjunction with [[Dimethyltryptamine|DMT]]-containing acacia).{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

[[John Marco Allegro]] argued that early Jewish and Christian cultic practice was based on the use of ''[[Amanita muscaria]]'', which was later forgotten by its adherents,<ref name="ref1">
{{cite book
 | last = Allegro
 | first = John Marco
 | year = 1970
 | title = The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
 | publisher = Hodder and Stoughton
 | isbn = 0-340-12875-5
}}</ref> but this view has been widely disputed.<ref name="Taylor2012">{{cite book |author=Taylor, Joan E. |title=The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWIMFY4VnI4C&pg=PA305 |year= 2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-955448-5 |pages=305}}</ref>