John A. Rush

AUTHOR PROFILE

AUTHOR PROFILE

John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D. is a retired Professor of Anthropology, with

specialties is biological anthropology, information theory and human

information processing, and symbolism and myth. Dr. Rush is also

a retired Naturopathic Doctor, with specialties in nutrition, cellular

toxicity, and medical hypnotherapy. His publications include Witchcraft

and Sorcery: An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult (1974), The

Way We Communicate (1976), Clinical Anthropology: An Application

of Anthropological Concepts within Clinical Settings (1996), Stress and

Emotional Health: Applications of Clinical Anthropology (1999), Spiritual

Tattoo: A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding,

and Implants (2005), The Twelve Gates: A Spiritual Passage through the

Egyptian Book of the Dead (2007), Failed God: Fractured Myth in a

Fragile World (2008), The Mushroom in Christian Art: The Identity of

Jesus in the Development of Christianity (2011), editor of and contributor

to, Entheogens and the Development of culture: The Anthropology

and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience (2013), What Darwin and

Dawkins Didn’t Know: Epigenetics, Symbiosis, Hybridization, Quantum

Biology, Topobiology, the Sugar Code, and the Origin of Species

(2020), Cat Tales: Origins, Interactions, and Domestication of Felis

Catus (2021), Endocellular Selection: Evolution without Darwin (2021),

Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (2022), Magic, Myth

and Religion: the Origin of Myth and Ritual Expression (2023), and

Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World (2023).