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The Accidental Prophet
The Accidental Prophet
The Accidental Prophet
Preface………………………………………………………………......2
Entheogens………………………………………………………………4
Prophet is making…………………………………………………...12
Wasson (1968) suggested that soma, the magical nectar of the Hindu
Vedas, was actually an infusion of a hallucinogenic mushroom,
Amarita muscaria. The sacred drink employed in the ancient
Zoroastrian religion, the homa or haoma, was suggested to be a
psychoactive agent as well, the constituent plant of which is the
mideastern shrub Peganum harmala, harmal in Arabic. Indeed,
Flattery and Schwartz (1989) proposed that the Indian soma too was
made of this plant, not of a mushroom, as originally suggested by
Wasson. Wasson and his collaborators (Wasson et al., 1978; 1986)
argued that at the center of the famous Greek mysteries of Eleusis
was the consumption of another psychoactive brew, one containing
ergot alkaloids. A most forceful broad historical analysis highlighting
the essential role of entheogens in the development of human
culture is presented in Ott (1995).
The origins of Soma’s use goes back into the shadowy time of pre-
history and to the common Aryan ancestors of the Persian
Zoroastrian religion, and the Vedic religion of India The Aryans (using
the word in its narrower sense, as comprising the two peoples, the
Indians and the Iranians, who called themselves by that proud name)
had lived together for long ages in one land, had spoken one tongue
and had followed one religion.
The lands today's Afghanistan and Bactria were the regions where
the Aryans had long carried on their activities.
More recently, suggestions have been made that the two great
monotheistic religions of the West, Judaism, and Christianity, also
have their roots in the consumption of psychoactive substances.
Analyzing the Hebrew Bible suggested that the Manna that the
people of Israel received from heaven during their wandering
through the Sinai desert was actually an entheogen. The non-
canonical Gospel of Thomas, found in Hag Hammadi library, is quite
conducive for an entheogenic reading that the references to the
Manna are the only explicit references to an entheogen in the bible.
It seems that there are in the Old Testament several other allusions
that may indicate possible entheogenic use in early Hebrew religion.
Admittedly, none is direct. The following comments are presented
not as demonstrative arguments, but as food for thought; obviously,
all I shall say here is speculative.
In the west child marriages and sex with children is illegal, however,
in the Islamic world, it is permitted with impunity wrapped around
“Sunnah” meaning the way of the Prophet. That is to say, if the
Prophet can marry a child bride, therefore, it is also allowed for a
grown Muslim man to marry a child bride following the example of
Mohammad’s marriage to Aisha.
Pedophilia:
Science terms Pedophilia as a psychiatric disorder, a condition
characterized as a paraphilia in which an adult experiences an
exclusive or persistent sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
Pedophiles often show tenacious and focused sexual attraction to
prepubescent children, and appear to have specific arousal to
pedophilic stimuli of erotic excitement. Physiological measures
beseech repeated sexual encounters with children or recurrent
abnormal sexual desires toward children in spite of the fear of being
apprehended.
They may also similarly fantasize about the act of sexual engagement
with children, who are generally at pre-pubescent or undeveloped
age. Today Pedophilia or Pedosexuality is considered taboo and is
illegal in most societies; however, this is not the case in Islamic Law.
In fact, the following Quranic verse endorses pedosexuality with girls
who have not yet menstruated.
Ibn Abi Asim narrates in al-Aahaad, and Ibn Rahawayh and Ibn
Hanbal and al-Tabari in al- Tarikh and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir and al-
Hakim and al-Bayhaqi from many sub-chains (turuq)from
Muhammad bin Amr bin Yahya bin Abd al-Rahman bin Haatib from
Aisha that she had said:
The playing with dolls is forbidden in Islam, but it was allowed for
Aisha seems to be an observable marker. Aisha went through the
usual pedophilic grooming process by the prophet in the guise of a
caretaker when she was little.
Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated from Urwa from Aisha that she said:
I used to play with dolls in the presence of the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, and my friends would play with me.
When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, entered, they would hide from him and he would call them to
join me and they would play with me. He also mentioned the hadith
that Abu Dawud mentions in his Sunan from Aisha that she said:
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani said in his commentary: “Ibn Abi Aasim reported
via Yahyaa ibn Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Haatib from Aisha that the
Prophet sent Khawlah bint Hakeem to Abu Bakar to ask for Aisha’s
hand in marriage. Abu Bakar asked her, Is she right for him? Because
she is the daughter of my brother”.
Mohammad remains the master of inventing new rules out of thin air
among all religions and ‘Quranic verses of convenience ‘illustrates no
shortage of it. Islamic traditions say that Abu Bakar wanted Fatima’s
hand-in-marriage in exchange for Aisha. Upon which Mohammad
refused by asserting that Fatima is reserved for Ali.
Abu Bakar’s statement “is she right for him” followed by a passive
objection But I am your brother, Indicates his astonishment that an
ongoing relationship between two spoken brothers was not sufficient
enough so one has to offer his pre-pubescent daughter to the other.
Usually, a marriage involved an exchange of dowry between parties,
however, Abu Bakar did not receive dowry or Fatima in exchange,
although did acquire Caliphate is questionable.
Followers of Islam claim the Prophet’s marriage with Aisha was for
the use of partnerships between two families rather than an
emotional or domestic relationship often overlook Mohammad’s
earlier erotic dreams about Aisha’s silk dress being uncovered.