Idea Development page 3

Quotes from Panofsky & Wasson — The Cover-up, Censorship by Order of the Pope, Fraud camp, Pure Argument from Authority
The hucksters foisting Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism on the populace, suppress mushrooms (the real flesh of Christ) along with suppressing Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

Those Bickering Soma Entheogen Scholars

Why There Are No Psychoactives in Medieval Texts: Ye Old War on Druggs, but How to Correctly Characterize It? Aaron Leich’s Forward to Chris Bennett’s book

Why Didn’t Wise Guys in 500 B.C. Document How Mystery Religion Initiation Works, a la How the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence in 1999 Started Explaining Religious Mythology?

Why Did All Eras of “Smart” People (Ancient, Medieval, Classical/ Early Modern Esotericism) FAIL to Document “Mystery-Religion”-type Initiation (eg the Canterbury Mushroom/ Sword/ Bible-Reader Self-Threatening Image) a la my 1988 Cybernetic Theory or 2006/2013/2020 Mytheme Decoding?

certainly the order of “which comes first” (in my OWN history, not in Greek history!) In Greek history, first they had Mythemes, then they had PHilosoophy but — FOR WHATEVER REASON — they didn’t document how Initiation works. WHY NOT????? That is a BIG question. Was there a law, “you may only write using mythemes? Was it beyond their capa’y?

Why no surviving Antiquity writings, “HOW EXACTLY, M-R INITIATION WORKS”???

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
BY JOE SHMOE COPYRIGHT (C) 550 B.C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

I Wrote Core/Cybernetic Theory First (Needed Dictionary), Mytheme Theory Second (Needed Alphabetical List) – Why Did Ancients Have Myth Nailed, But Positively Sucked at Documenting Mystery-Religion Initiation in the Form of “Philosophy”, or Declined to Try?

is: 1) dictionary/glossary, = Core theory 1985-1997. I’m getting confirmation that yes, there were no mythemes in 1997 theory-summary. That Prin Cyb’a Pri-o-Disco theory-spec’n to prove I was first, has almost no mythemes, and does express pretty 100%, the Core theory; the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.
2) mytheme list extravanza

Nifty, I’m using some of my 1997 article in the glossary (not really in the Mythemes list, so far) — but definitely, how I’d write-up a subject, one of the 12 principles of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence per 1988, or one of the 9 sections of the 1997 article, would be different were I to do a fresh writeup today.

It is turning out that, each entry in the Mytheme List or in the Glossary of Egodeath, is a paragraph; but a free-form paragraph — I’m going to have to add horizontal lines between each entry:

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It’s a Dictionary of Egodeath Terms & Concepts, with the link labeled as “Glossary”.

formal def’s are from Oxford Dictionaries, below.

diction – The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
“Wordsworth campaigned against exaggerated poetic diction”
synonyms:
phraseology · phrasing · turn of phrase · choice of words · wording · language · parlance · usage · vocabulary · terminology · expression · idiom · style · locution · lingo · idiolect

Possible page titles:

Altered State Glossary
Glossary of the Altered State
Glossary of Egodeath
Glossary of Egodeath and Loosecog
Glossary of the Egodeath Theory and the Loose Cognitive State
Glossary of the Egodeath Theory
Glossary of Egodeath Theory Terms
Egodeath Glossary
Dictionary of Egodeath Theory Terminology and Altered-State Phenomena.
Domain-specific dictionary of the Egodeath theory and altered-state phenomena.

Mytheme List
Mytheme Dictionary
Dictionary of mythemes in terms of the Egodeath theory.

dictionary

“A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.”

“A reference work on a particular subject, the items of which are typically arranged in alphabetical order. eg “a dictionary of quotations“.”

synonyms: lexicon · wordbook · glossary

Dictionary of the Egodeath Theory
Dictionary of Egodeath
Egodeath Dictionary

glossary

an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.

“brief” is debatable;
how long is a dictionary entry?
how long is a glossary entry? 1-2 full sentences.

Glossary of the Egodeath Theory <– elaborate construction sounds odd; ‘dictionary or ency’ would sound ok
Glossary of Egodeath
Glossary of Egodeath Terms <– sounds natural
Egodeath Glossary <– sounds natural

For a 1-word link, ‘Glossary’ definitely works better than ‘Dictionary’. Implies topical; giving domain-specific term usage.

lexicon

the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
eg “the size of the English lexicon”

a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, or Arabic.
eg “a Greek–Latin lexicon”

Lexicon of the Egodeath theory
Lexicon of Egodeath
Egodeath Lexicon
the Egodeath lexicon <– the only lexicon term that makes sense

encyclopedia

a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.

from enkuklios paideia; ‘all-round education’.

encyclopedia of the Egodeath theory
encyclopedia of Egodeath
Egodeath encyclopedia

3 Tabs with Articles Open for Editing: Idea Dev, Mytheme List; Glossary

I could do a ton of mytheme-related theory-development work purely by updating the mytheme list + glossary – which is really like a… an encycopedia format, what do they call that, not a “word dictionary” but a “concept dictionary” for a domain, like a “dictionary of mythology”, in particular.

In fact, my 1997 writeup was a merely adequate time-buyer, a placeholder, a Priority of Discovery stake in the ground, and – main point:

My 2007 Egodeath website is so good, aside from needing more mytheme work, that you could consider this WordPress site to be largely, a re-organization, particularly, serving to deliver the Dictionary/ or Glossary as I probably posted around 2012 saying that a Glossary is needed. When I envisioned making an Egodeath Wiki-pedia, … that’s equivalent to whatn I’m doing now, not at ED at the moment but at WordPress site;

A most notable thing about the WP site, is the Dictionary/Glossary of egodeath terms/concepts — and also, not so much envisioned as needed in 2007 & ~2012, the Dictionary of Mythemes.

The Decoded Mytheme Language as Speaking in a Unknown Foreign Tongue; {speaking in tongues}

I’m speaking in tongues, the mytheme language.

A mytheme is a description by analogy, of something that is experienced or perceived in the altered state (loosecog).

A (weak) idea I got, a minute after the following start-point.

Video:
Explaining the Faith: Understanding the Holy Spirit
57:30 (57:42-58:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexDHK9Xhtc&t=3430

Mytheme decoded: {billowing cloth, breath} = hidden uncontrollable source of control-thoughts made visible in the loose cognitive state

[30:3 a.m. hs December 1, 2020]

Mytheme decoded: {billowing cloth, spirit, ASC} = hidden uncontrollable source of control-thoughts made visible in the loose cognitive state. I didn’t understand why the ASC is depicted as billowing cloth. Now I understand, or hav identified a good way to make sense of an isomorphim, how is ASC like a billowing cloth? power that propels, (a ship) that’s invisible, except when there’s a cloth, that makes the wind visible, like a horizontally blown flag, rippling. The billowing cloth makes the wind’s invisible power visible. Let’s see if I can make a satisfying Mytheme-glossary entry.

Hey lets for the first time make a hyperlink destination halfway down in a different page:

{billowing cloth}

Glossary entry: mytheme

mytheme {spear in side, wound, female vulnerability}

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mytheme {spear in side, wound} = {Zeus drove a shaft through Prometheus’ middle} = the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts in the mind = {female, initiate, vulnerable to penetration, giving death and new birth}

[9:38 p.m. November 30, 2020] I may have something re: decoding {spear in side}.

Connect it to the massive connections I already have — did I decode this particular connection already?

It doesn’t feel like it. Sort of, not.

The process of decoding includes requirement, mapping mytheme-clusters to other mytheme-clusters.

I got the idea reading Egodeath Yahoo Group 2001 archives – supporters gave me a very good format, not like the garbled archive Yahoo corp emailed me.

You may think this is a rerun. My main article might have seemingly these same connections.

Yet I still struggle to make this particular new(??) connection until now: remember how I posted like 2011 about (or 2006 main article?

No, I think my 2011 era figured out that initiate = female because the mind is (now perceptibly revealed as) helplessly subject to the forced unstoppable injection of thoughts.

Doesn’t main article 2006 say exactly this – or not?? I’m sure my “female” decoding work was 2011.

The {spear, blade, knife} goes into the wound/side/vulnerability — that THAT EXISTING DECODING-MAPPING IS CONNECTED NOW TO IDEA: thought-injection of control thoughts — isn’t this the first time I connected these two ideas, so, DECODED: why the spear wound kills and gives birth through that vulnerability in the side opening: that opening is, where the control-source injects thoughts; that spot is normally {veiled}, where Zeus {in the dark penetrates Semele every night}, but when she begs to see him, Semele sees Zeus injecting thoughts into her; ego death, she gets zapped to smithereens.

spear = wound = hole in side = vulnerability = see the control-thought-injecting going on causes ego death = helpless female thought-receiver so THE WOUND THAT THE BLADE/SPEAR/SACRIFICIAL KNIFE GOES INTO *IS* THE PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED, FEMALE, HELPLESS THOUGHT-RECEIVER.

Here’s the Yahoo Group log that solved the un-closed decoding, bringing closure — pretty big for me., my understanding. Been struggling to Complete this mytheme decoding of “spear in the side”.

I conjoined the two solutions, to complete this solution:

female helpless thought receiver, receptacle for control-thoughts.

spear wound side vulnerability

It SEEMS SO OBVIOUS/simple/natural NOW, but I actually believe this is the first time I hooked up those two idea-clusters.

bottom of super-long post: apparently I’m replying to a question about the Egodeath theory from Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis, and recent books/podcasts: 2001 I wrote of Prometheus: “Zeus drove a shaft through his middle.”

I propose that {spear in side} or {shaft through one’s middle} describes the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts in the mind.

Group: egodeath	Message: 32	From: Michael Hoffman	Date: 22/06/2001
Subject: Reason forces postulating Transcendent Reason

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As an aside, I did find a couple references to a piercing shaft involved in
Prometheus’ binding:

Hesiod, Theogony, 521-25: “And devious Prometheus [Zeus] bound with
inescapable chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a
long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver [ = organ of will &
intention]; but by night the liver grew as much again as the long-winged bird
devoured in the whole day.”

— Michael Hoffman
http://www.egodeath.com — simple theory of the ego-death and rebirth
experience
Group: egodeath
Message: 33
From: Michael Hoffman
Date: 23/06/2001
Subject: Why explain Christianity as mystery-religion
>I hope Rev. H. founds an entheogenic kabbalah temple.
> I also hope that Mr. Hoffman establishes his entheogenic Protestant church.

MichaelH wrote:
I’ll probably remain strictly a theorist. I don’t have time or patience for
rituals. I should envision an entheogenic Gnostic initiation-oriented church,
but my first audience is the thinking individual explorer online. Lately, I
wonder “What does the church of the placebo sacrament mean to these people?
What do they get out of it?” Basically, social interaction and an orientation
in life.

[… start of another superlong, big brain post. I go for more the 200-character posts, myself]

Got Egodeath Yahoo Group Backup as Web-Ready HTML Files

Got Egodeath Yahoo Group Backup as Web-Ready HTML files, by date (not by thread), with dates, and with all group participants’ posts. Thanks to supporters.

My 1997 Theory Summary at Principia Cybernetica

Section removed from WordPress copy of article.
Thanks to supporters for help with URLs and copies.

This 1997 announcement-outline, Theory-specification, should represent my Core theory (the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence) portion of the entire Egodeath theory — it should not represent my Phase 2 work, the Mytheme theory. I want to frame them as two distinct, co-corroborating component-theories, making up the entire whole Egodeath theory.

The question of the moment is, how much mytheme-decoding is here? This supposedly is a pure representation of my 1988 Core theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, without any dependence on, or coverage of, religious mythology.

To what extent does this outline-summary use religious mythology, or descriptive analogies from acid-inspired Rock lyrics (you might be able to find, because I decoded that, from around 1991)?

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1997 was the early search engine era; D.E.C.’s Alta Vista website.

Post 1 of 2 b/c length-cap. I followed up in Feb 1997 by making a 2nd post with the missing section.

todo: My Egodeath.com site is missing the final section:
http://egodeath.com/intro.htm

This is a backup copy of my 1997 World-Wide Web posting as a comment on the “Philosophy, Introduction” article at the Principia Cybernetica website.

Location of this article at Principia Cybernetica

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html
Bottom section:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.0.html
Annotation on the “Philosophy, Introduction” article:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PHILOSI.html

See also:
The Egoic and Transcendent Mental Worldmodels
http://egodeath.com/egoictranscendentmentalmodels.htm

Email to Wouter Hanegraaff

Hi Professor Hanegraaff,

Topics in this email:
1. My new articles are available.
2. I bought your book on New Age when it first came out.
3. I’ve read many of your books and articles.
4. Clarifying what Religionism is, given that you want to make religion relevant and appealing to students, and place Religion (including Esotericism history) front and center in the Humanities.
5. Two recent books I want to read. Criticism of two entheogen scholarship books.

1. My new articles

Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/proof-that-the-canterbury-psalters-leg-hanging-mushroom-tree-is-psilocybe/
One of my flagship (top 5) articles. Huge ramifications.

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/
Written at the request of Jerry Brown, author (with Julie Brown) of the book The Psychedelic Gospels.

Scholars’ Failure to Debate Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/scholars-failure-to-debate-mushrooms-in-christian-art/
The top half is a good summary of the situation.

Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/ptolemaic-astral-ascent-mysticism/
Cool subject. Just a casual page, but it’s by me, so: Transcending astral fatedness involved ingesting holy food, ambrosial water, and astrological medicine (Fowden 1986).

2. I bought your book on New Age when it first came out

Around 1995, in Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park near Stanford University, I asked the bookseller: “Are there any books analyzing the New Age, like from an Esoteric Tradition point of view?” His answer was “No; you should write a book on that subject.”

Then your book came out in late 1997, conveniently saving me a slight hassle, of writing your book.

New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
Wouter Hanegraaff
http://amzn.com/0791438546
1997

I don’t think I read much of that book by you, though; I may have analyzed the section headings, and read a few sections.
I went to thin out my library and throw away a New Age book, and I couldn’t: it contained some legit traditional esoteric knowledge.

3. I’ve read many of your books and articles

Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge In Western Culture
Wouter Hanegraaff
http://amzn.com/1107680972
February 2012; March 2014

Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Wouter Hanegraaff
http://amzn.com/1441136460
February 2013

I like your expose articles that revealed semi-covert use of entheogens in New Age.

4. Clarifying what Religionism is, given that you want to make Religion (including scholarly research of the history of Esotericism) relevant, appealing, and front and center in the Humanities

I’ve found it difficult to understand what you mean by ‘Religionism’, after reading many pages about it.

My own approach was first not esoteric, but an Engineering, Science, Cognitive Science approach.

Only after I formed my core theory of ego transcendence in the altered state, did I investigate Esotericism and religious mythology.

I know a lot now about ego death and Esotericism, yet, I’m not entirely sure of your distinction between a good scientific empirical approach to studying the history of Esotericism, vs. a Religionist approach.

Are you forbidding students and other scholars of the history of Esotericism from having religious experiencing, or being fully interested in first-hand, intense, transformative, esoteric religious experiencing?

That doesn’t sound like a way to appeal to students, at all, which you are trying to do, to frame Religion as the centrally important topic in the Humanities.

How can an Empiricist (rather than Religionist) approach to Esotericism historical scholarship, possibly help and contribute to, the personal, first-hand, esoteric, higher-than-exoteric, intense religious experiencing of students?

Youths and maidens desire and are innately drawn to intense Mystery Religion initiation; the classic, full-on, self-transcendence experience.

It sounds like that desire, that draw, is thwarted, if Religionism is to be avoided like the plague, when doing historical scholarship, using the scientific, objective, Empirical approach.

How can a student be motivated to study Esotericism, how can that be at all appealing, if the rule is, all Religionism must be totally avoided?

It sounds like a contradiction.

You are trying hard to promote Esotericism study, and yet you seem to assert that Religionism (whatever that means), must not be allowed or permitted, as a factor that motivates and spurs-on students in their eagerness (as you want them to have) to do research and scholarship in the history of Esotericism.

You are trying to advocate Western Esotericism and Religion studies as the most important and central topic of all, yet I don’t think you have written a simple, clear explanation of the difference between the Empirical vs. Religionist approaches, that is appealing, for a popular audience.

I’d expect a popular audience to reject a boring, sterile, reductionist, too-straight-laced, experience-forbidding approach, called “the Empiricist approach to the study of Esotericism & Religion.”

It sounds dull and inhumanly narrow; reductionist — it appears that all the excitement and motivating appeal is in the forbidden approach, Religionism.

I’d expect students to be much more attracted to what you disparage and reject, and demonize, as “the Religionist method” (read: the cool, fun, interesting, forbidden approach — don’t let Professor Hanegraaff catch you; you could get kicked out of the programme! Be sure to keep it on the down-low — Professor No-Fun is strictly anti-initiation!

The subject of Empirical vs. Religionist method in scholarship of the history of Esotericism is crucial for you, so maybe you’ve written a popular introductory article on it, in the style of the book:

Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism
Marco Pasi (Editor), Peter Forshaw (Editor), Wouter Hanegraaff (Editor)
http://amzn.com/9463720200
July 2, 2019

One article of yours that I read recently, seemed like it had an incidental definition of ‘religionism’ that finally clarified what you mean. I think your idea is probably simple enough, but is expressed unclearly.

(I’m trying to recall which article, has a surprisingly clear, succinct summary of Empirical vs. Religionist methods, though that wasn’t a focus of the article.)

Maybe I’ll check:
“For an early programmatic statement on empirical versus religionist and reductionist method in relation to esotericism, see Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Empirical Method in the Study of Esotericism,” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 7, no. 2 (1995): 99–129.

5. Two recent books I want to read. Criticism of two entheogen scholarship books

I’ve been taking a break from books – I have 100 boxes of books in storage, my library became a monster I had to suppress back into hiding in the wellspring in the storage cave.

I want to read:
Studies in Hellenistic Religions
Luther Martin
http://amzn.com/149828308X
February 26, 2018
“Essays on Graeco-Roman religions, mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism.
Spatial, communal, and cognitive(? check this) approaches to the study of ancient religions.
Structures and dynamics of religions past.
For scholars using recent historical research to confirm, evaluate, extend, or refute the hypotheses offered here.”
Nice cover art of Ptolemaic spheres cosmology.
Table of Contents looks extremely relevant, and his book Hellenistic Religions was essential.

I want to read:
Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed about Christ
Richard Carrier
http://amzn.com/1634311949
October 20, 2020
New book (looks similar to Earl Doherty’s book on the subject, The Jesus Puzzle).
Inferior art on front cover, an unworthy depiction of Ptolemaic cosmology – I hope his text is more inspired.
It should be highly readable and an efficient summary of his thick research books.

Disappointing book:
Hatsis’ book was a huge disappointment (but I’m not that surprised) — practically no coverage of mushrooms in Greek or Christian art, and what little he writes on those topics, is a solid wall of basic, embarrassing mistakes – he’s completely unqualified to write on those particular topics; he hasn’t read the scholarship in the field.
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions [not really]: Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, and Ecstatic States
I guess he contributes to other topics in the field of entheogen scholarship, but I’m only really interested in mushrooms in Greek and Christian art, in the field of entheogen scholarship now.

Disappointing book:
The new book The Immortality Key by Muraresku isn’t very good or worthy scholarship.
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
September 29, 2020
#1 New Release in Ancient Civilizations.
He has a weak, very inadequate understanding of Mystery Religions, and entheogens throughout Hellenistic religion.
The book is selling well and is considered influential.
The book is not very effective at all, in trying to cover entheogens in Mystery Religion.
The qualified reviewer, Cyberdisciple, panned The Immortality Key (dismissed it), after extensive analysis and critique of the book’s scholarship:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=Muraresku
Hopefully, scholars do better, more well-informed Empirical historical scholarship on Esotericism, than the book The Immortality Key.

Cheers
— Michael Hoffman
the Egodeath theory

I need to link my 2007 website, http://egodeath.com, to my new WordPress site.

Copied Main Article (2006) and Core Theory Specification Outline (1997) to this WordPress Site

It worked out well, copying the main article from ED site to here. Nice to see another framing of the article. Damn, my 1997 & 2006 articles are so well-written, makes me look a fool. I have made zero progress in 23 years.

Those articles look pretty good, the author seems mostly solid. I should probably read them to see what’s in them, especially the 1997 article, now that I know mytheme-decoding.

‘trap’ is discussed in the 1997 theory-specification/summary, an idea/ write-up worth reviewing (ie critically reading), to help future mytheme-decoding — I should not have had to so struggle to grasp why mushrooms were called “the sacrament of apolytrosis“; it’s straight out of my 1997 article. Mushrooms entrap personal control agent, and then set free.

“sacrament of apolytrosis” is a half-description, saying only Part 2 of the high drama, that mushroom mysticism “releases you from a trap” — yeah, from the {trap} & {pit} (Jonah’s prayer) that you discovered and fell into thanks to mushroom mysticism!

{pulled from out of the pit/trap/net-entanglement by your own struggle to secure control that’s increasingly evading control the harder you try}

Alan Watts was pretty good at describing “the ego is a trap set to catch itself”, in my Oct-Dec 1987 intensive reading his book my father gave me for my 21st birthday, The Way of Zen — but he lacks block-universe loosecog no-free-will/monopossibility.

In Dec 1987, when I figured out what Watts was trying and failing to communicate, I was mad at him for his failure there, to realize that the solution to his explanation was to bring-in the missing concept of no-freewill; or ‘determinism’ as I said at the time.

In early 1988, I read good thin red book cast as discussion of freewill problem.

Thin book by Cliff Blah: A Conversation on Freewill and Determinism.

Watts’ His later, L-25 books don’t cover those either (block universe non-power no-free-will, no-free-will/monopossibility , loosecog — all the 4-5 key topics which I brought together systemically, successfully, for my giant January 11, 1988 breakthrough, forming the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, summarized in article drafts throughout 1988, then finally posted 1997 at Principia Cybernetica (pretty good job of boiling down the most intense mystic sh*t).

Then I tried to write a proper article as planned & intended from Jan 1988 onward, VERY DIFFICULT.

My Egodeath Yahoo Group literally personally assisted me in boiling down my greedy article — I paid one group member — GET THAT WORDCOUNT DOWN to a particular number — to boil it down, producing my 2006 main article, not read-aloudable, it turned out; too complex sentences.

I broke up the overcomplex-structured sentences in 2007, to produce the unexpected final draft, which has been unchanged ever since.

I’ve been writing 1 sentence per paragraph, ever since that failure to be read-aloudable (for my voice recording of the main article), in 2006. 8th-grade readability = short words; short sentences; short paragraphs; short subsections. Don’t be all “apolytrosis” 5-syllable words, or you’ll never catch on.

Around 2010-2012, I started planning a wikipedia-clone (topical break-out) of the Egodeath theory, but this WP is good.

How to Market a Mushroom Sacrament that Causes Seizure and Reset? Frame It as the “Sacrament of Apolytrosis”, Leveraging Today’s Popular Mythemes, of {ransom price paid (= the sacrifice), to release prisoner tied to physical object with ropes, threatened with death/ inexorably destined for death}

Valentinian Gnostics’ product marketing plan for framing their mushroom mysticism as positive-only, leveraging mystic themes of the day, {ransom price paid (= the sacrifice), to release prisoner tied to physical object with ropes, threatened with death/ inexorably destined for death} – frame our mystic “seizure-and-reset” product as the “sacrament of apolytrosis“!

1. You have a problem! (I do?) You are trapped and destined for seizure-death! (I am?)

2. Buy our product, which solves your problem! Our product is called “Release from Entrapment by Our Product”! aka:

the sacrament of apolytrosis

I copied my pair of posts from 1997 Principia Cybernetica site, to here. 12-point, 12-paragraph summary of the Core theory; the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (which has no significant mytheme decoding). I posted that to the Egodeath Yahoo Group, in a dedicated thread.

Principia Cybernetica
Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

no fkkin way, found it, by “Mark Hofmann” (me):
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html
Annotation on the “Philosophy, Introduction” article:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PHILOSI.html

That article is also at: http://egodeath.com/intro.htm

Copied to WP as:
Self-control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/self-control-cybernetics-dissociative-cognition-mystic-ego-death/

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{electric chair} – Metallica’s album cover Ride the Lightning seems like a restylization of ELO’s album cover Face the Music. todo: Create separate WP “Rock Music Alphabetical Mytheme list” page about decoding Rock lyrics?
Mystic-State Allusions in Rock Music
http://www.egodeath.com/#mysticstaterockallusions

Argument in favor: 3-way co-confirmation of the Egodeath theory as I’ve always leveraged since 1998-2013 a 2-way cross-corroboration or, an
n-way cross-corroboration of the New Theory:

o the Egodeath theory (the Cybernetic theory + the Mytheme theory including peak-experiencing Rock lyrics; the Mytheme theory of religious mythology and of acid-inspired Rock lyrics):
agrees with
o Religious mythology
agrees with
o Acid-inspired rock lyrics peak themes
agrees with
o Gnostics/esoterics (vs. what she labels as “Orthodox”/exoterics) per Pagels’ 1st 3 books
agrees with
o Canturbury Psalter entire image with mushroom tree/ sword/ hanging/ freaking-out self-threatening Bible reader in center of the image next to happy upside-down self-blading guy.

Reminder: re: exo/eso term’y: As I posted i’m sure at Yahoo Group: I determined that:
Pagels in her first print run of hardcover The Gnostic Gospels which I have, she botched a typo which was later corrected, of ‘s’ vs ‘x’. In her first 3 books, I think she uses the term’y “Gnostic vs Orthodox”; she never (through her 3rd book, TGG) switches to F&G’s terminology in their book The Jesus Mysteries, “exoteric vs. esoteric” Christians.

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intersting: how decoding / breakthrough works: sheer quantity of connections! I’m successfully, very, SOLVING the concept of “apolytrosis” by sheer force of sheer QUANTITY of mappings to isomorphic other mythemes … and by the ability to so ramp-up the rate of connection-making; (that’s the “rush of success/ jackpot” that I sense and experience upon “breakthrough”) — the TRAJECTORY, the rate-of-increase of connection-making, proves the New Theory. vs. loss of control: the rate-of-increasing-failure heading straight down to hell.

Is the New Theory (or “the old way of thinking about control”) leading ever-upwards, or ever-downwards? Every time I grab that power of my old egoic control thinking, it yanks me down, pulls me into vortex of FAILURE — that is cybernetic control death.

“Release me from that failure/downward spiral — every time I think about control (while still relying on egoic-premised, Possibilism-premised thinking), it faster and faster yanks me into total loss of control; instability “shrieks”.

apolytrosis: deus ex machina.

deus ex machina rescues, resets from outside that failed, fully seized system where mind was made to will its destruction in order to grasp the nature of control in order to try to save itself by increased understanding of control which led to total failure and loss / disappearing/ vanishing of all control. APO LYTROSIS SET THE CONTROL-SYSTEM FREE WITHOUT HARM.

decoding = sheer quantity of seeing/ recog’g same theme, isomorphic theme, across many images — when you get in the headspace to look for the theme (like I was the first in Modern times to do toperceive “rock”as a maximally widespread top-5 mytheme) — the theme of “release from death/ doom/ seizure/ hell/ purgatory”.

for more about this idea-development, & pics, see Glossary: {release}. including “deus ex machina”.

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Consider image; woman = Heimarmene. God controls Fate; Fate controls the mind:

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an idea-flit at main article sarcastic “john” (shows totally a maiden) – the “initiate” is shown as emphatically female. i felt a “deepening of understanding/connections”. (?) what is that “deepening”, generally? caption: “John the Evangelist has been shown as blessing a cup of the Eucharistic sacrament shown as a snake.” almost seems an error — part of the idea-flit — isn’t that picture an error ie its isomorphic with the Hygeia daughter of (prove this w/ image search) Aeslecipius instead? mislabelled as “JOhn”?! example of “pagan” mythemes rebranded as Christian.

nov 30 my main article says cup — its a mini-krater
http://www.egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/SnakeCup_HiRes.jpg

personal-size krater

{bowl of hygeia}
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bowl+of+hygeia
the worldline {snake} brings together the mind and the entheogen, causing {healing} of mental self-conflict of personal control power seizure (it introduces the seizure problem and (irony reversal) solves that problem, same as the promise of apolytrosis: marketed as:
the Mushroom of Release from Certain Entrapment and Destruction
downplay the truth: it’s actually:
the Mushroom of Seizure Panic Ego Destruction and Then Release http://www.egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/StJohnSnakeCup_HiRes.jpg

here we go, high-res color orig: https://poisonhistory.wordpress.com/
A copy at pinteerest is captioned “St. John the Evangelist Expelling Poison” (? Should read like “expelling demon, purging impurity/pollution”?

{branching, non-branching, ironic branching, multi-headed snake, ivy non-branching, underside of mushroom cap has branches that are alarming/remarkable to see as a message/revelation}

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I just [10:23 nov 29 2020] got vindication of a speculation of maybe 2015, that the Omphalus has a net. I didn’t research it then, not sure why not. It’s the cybernetic struggle that causes control-death and reset, {entrapment by the mind’s own struggles, death, and rebirth (release)}.

wik–“Most accounts locate the Delphi omphalos in the adyton (sacred part of the temple) near the Pythia (oracle). The stone sculpture itself (which may be a copy), has a carving of a knotted net covering its surface, and a hollow center, widening towards the base. The omphalos represents the stone which Rhea wrapped in swaddling clothes, pretending it was Zeus, in order to deceive Cronus. (Cronus [compare Jupiter -mh] was the father who swallowed his children so as to prevent them from usurping him as he had deposed his own father, Uranus).”

This wording is good: I was having trouble seeing how any defeat could be “ineveitable” and “surely doomed” so that you can prophecy, “the king is usurpingthe throne and is , at banquet , inveitably, INEXORABLY going to be overthrown”, but now I remembered! — here’s how teh sstye system crash is known to be inevitable, why the mind can predict the future doom with certainty:

{net, trap, omphalus} = the cybernetic struggle that causes control-death and reset, {entrapment & defeat by the mind’s own struggles, death, and rebirth (release)}. The harder the personal control system inspects and probes itself, and inspects it vulnerability and defends against it, the system has to identify and probe what the vulnerability is, in order to defend better against it, and the system heads increasingly toward system crash, self-cancellation, instability.

I really like this webpage frameowrk: of the PAIR OF PAGES:
1) MYTHEME-GROUP ALPHAETICAL LIST. Now, I always have a place to go, ROUTINELY, *mass-production* assembly line, when I make progress decoding a mytheme — can work it out at bottom of the mytheme page. and/or here in an “Idea Development page”. I have a place to put the worked-out, “new”/completed-decoding mytheme.
2) TECHNICAL the Egodeath theory REFERENT ASC-PHENOM GLOSSARY.

Mythemes Page & Glossary (Referent Domain) Page Design

Design 1: Top-of-site menu, left 2 items load pages titled:

Mytheme List

Egodeath Glossary

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Design 2: Top-of-site menu, left 2 items load pages titled:

Mytheme List

Altered State Glossary

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Design verdict: “Egodeath Glossary” is heaveyhanded, a very specific tone/emphasis, “all-in” on the {death} aspect. “Altered State Glossary” is more broad, open, neutral.

Mytheme List
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/

Altered State Glossary
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

There’s a lot to like, in this design. 👍

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This DOES give me a weird idea: have the hot-text read:

Mythemes –> Referents

Mythemes –> ASC Phenomena

Mythemes –> Phenomena

Mythemes –> Observables

Nah, pro

There is only one possible way: PROTOTYPE IT; TRY IT.

fail; no overall gain. remember, the more words/junk you add, the more confusion goes w/ it. I tried:

Mythemes –> Glossary

It looked weirder than simple current design. Added cleverness, NO GAIN.

Now, past hour, I have odd idea of 3 such lists:

1. Mythemes

2. Referents — things that the mind perceives in the ASC.

3. Theory junk — entries such as “the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence”, “the maximal mushroom theory of Christian art”… these are NOT things you see… well, kinda. In a way, you DO see “the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence” in the altered state.

WTf is a word for “things perceived”? observables?

jeez hold on, hands are falling off, talk about keyboard shortcuts:

Top Pri (now that I created a Glossary):
Add to the Glossary, my keyboard shortcuts.

In the top-of-page menu for my WP site, I added a Mythemes link in upper left, and a Glossary link in upper right. The problem of context: in my lexicon, I think of it as:

Mytheme domain
Referent domain

But the hyperlinked word ‘Referents‘ in a top-of-page nav menu, lacks context, so lacks any meaning. ‘Glossary’, the meaning is well-understood, standard, familiar. When you load that “Glossary” page, the title of the page is:

Glossary of Altered State Phenomena

When you click the “Mythemes” link to the left of it, the title of the page is:

Top Priority: Stop Repeatedly Defining & Re-Typing-out the Basic Terms/Concepts; Leverage the Glossary! Forget the Newbies!

Glossary for the Egodeath Theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

removed from Glossary – self-evident:

About this Domain-Optimized Lexicon

This domain-specific lexicon (the terms and their definitions) enables both efficient writing and thinking, and clarity for beginners.

The field of Loose Cognitive Science; Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism; the Egodeath theory, needs this efficient field-specific, tailored, professional, tuned lexicon, for efficiency — including acronyms.

I broke through to high efficiency of idea-development in April 1987 when I leveraged acronyms, in conjunction with a new style of concepts, such as “mental construct processing”.

This lexicon, defined in a centralized location here, helps obviate having to define terms for beginners every time I use the term. I no longer have to write so many verbose inline definitions.

This Glossary page enables me to write both for peers and for rank beginners/outsiders.

Each entry’s definition first presents an 8th-grade level, plain, common-language sentence, then a 200-character chat-postable phrasing, and then a technically precise sentence.

/ end of section “removed from Glossary – self-evident”

Multiple Mytheme-Clusters Cross-Decoded: {ransom, embedded in tree trunk, apolytrosis}

Note Nov 30 2020: main article at egodeath site: “The entheogenic altered state was integrated into culture, using metaphor to map all domains together. Altered-state experiencing served as a standard point of reference for banquets and parties, civic processions, punishment, release of captives, sport, taxation, and alliances.”

Mytheme-systems/ mytheme clusters decoded: LONG LIST: {Dionysus/Caesar held captive for ransom payment, to release unharmed} -> side-decoding burst out from that: {Osiris embedded in TREE TRUN)

[here’s how I did it re: completely decoding Osiris {encased in tree trunk}] –

the connection from Dionysus to then Caesar I couldn’t fit in “rock” so I substituted “tied to woOd”, that reminded me of Isisis embeedded in rock”, CROSS-SOLVING MYTHEME-STORY DECODING;

I “KNOW ALL PARABLES”. How the entire language of mythemes works; I HAVE DECIPHERED THE ENTIRE HIEROGLYPHIC LANGUAGE OF TEH WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS EGYPSHUNS!

I AM FLUENT AT MYTHEMESE, I was *fluent before, but less fluent than now*.

UNLIKE 2002 OR 2006, OR EVEN 2011 & 2013, I HAVE NOW ATTAINED COMPLETE FLUENCY AT MYTHEMESE.

Assisted by yesterday’s realization that a “complete” “decoding” of “a mytheme” has a high requirement, A REQUIREMENT THAT AS A GRADER, I NOW HAS A SYSETM TO GRADE THE “COMPLETENESS” OF A DECODING OF “A MYTHEME”, THE STUDENT MUST / TRANSLATOR MUST LIST MAPPINGS:

A “complete decoding” of a mytheme requires identifying connections:

1. among mythemes

2. from mythemes to referents

3. among referents

look, i’ve already defined ‘referents’ a miilon times, SEE THE GODDAM GLOSSARY!!!! I HAVE *GOT* –TO STOP NEEDLESS TYPING!

Top Priority: Stop Repeatedly Defining & Re-Typing-out the Basic Terms/Concepts; Leverage the Glossary! Forget the Newbies!

I *LOVE* THIS RECENT USE OF “ABSOLUTE MINIMUM # OF WORDS”, KISS!! YOU ond’t alays have to spell out greedily the full spec’n tech’l accuracy every time.

WHAT – IS – THE – BASIC – IDEA :

As a grader, all I’m looking for is: DO YOU HAVE THE 3 KEY WORDS, OR NOT?!!

fck this keyboard’s too stiff 😥 my hands!

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2 things about my discovery process of in-tree-trunk that I dondt know at the moemnt; it is interesteing that I don’t know testhese at the moemtn:

Unknown #1

o PRESENTLY UNKNOWN: Was it Osiris, or someone else, who was encased in tree trunk? Fact-check the facts of this historical event. No time; maybe i’m bothching the hell out of the myths and getting the facts all wrotng but i emphasize here: IT DOESN’T MATTER IF IT WAS DIONYSUS ENCASED IN TREE TRUNK OR OSIRIS RANSOMED BY PIRATES AND HE TURNEED INTO LION AND SACRED THEM TO “JUMP OFF THE SHIP OVERBOARD”;

the *essential* point is the mythems, not the stupid bedtime storytime-narrative names:

In the narrative story “there was an {evil ungodly king} named “Bob”, who wanted to {kill the hero}, so sent him on a {mission} in a {strange remote land} to {retrieve a treasure} of {snake-rock-fruit} {guarded by a serpentine monster}.”

The stupid name “Bob” (ie “Osiris”) doesn’t matter at all. What matters is, the mythemes. The name “Bob” is the very least important part.

I copied the above mytheme-narrative to the Mytheme List page, cleaned up/expanded as:

Mytheme List, with Decodings
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/

{evil ungodly king} wanted to {kill the hero}, sent him on a {mission} in a {strange remote land} to {retrieve, bring back a treasure} of {snake-rock-fruit/ a rock-sacrificed flying ram on a tree} {guarded by a serpentine monster} won by a {potion from sorceress} to {avert and un-summon} {serpent-monster’s gaze}
(“avert monster’s gaze by giving it an entheogen” is a mytheme reversal/ inversion.)

Unknown #2

o PRESENTLY UNKNOWN: (meta-theory/Thagard: these unknowns are “post-experiment follow-up adjustments and priority-of-discovery checks”, “mop-up after the rush of discovery”)

Did I already LARGELY decode the mytheme {encased in tree trunk} in the 2002 era [ie sometime near the middle of the 1999-2006 period] (short of, my 2013 complete decoding of {tree vs. snake})?

Check Yahoo Group posts/dates.

[8:55 a.m. November 29, 2020] – SOLVED IT!! I GRASPED FOR THE FIRST* TIME.

*Doubtful ackshually… these things (decodings) always have roots.

I probably wrote a completely awesome explanation of {pirates holding Dionysus captive for ransom to set him free} in 2002 and just forgot.

I do remember reading & discussing/posting about the mystic-metaphor tall-tale of Caesar held captive on the shore, {held tied fastened to solid wood} (block universe) by {ropes (worldline) with rising tide; held in a cybernetic situation that will surely {inevitably, inescapably lead to doom/death/catastrophe} (shown in HBO series Rome, seen in 2005/6) in 2002 and forgot it), THE PIRATES .

mytheme decoded (COMPLETELY; more than previous, incomplete decoding of ~2002(?): Osiris in TREE *TRUNK*, GET IT?! GET it? HUH HUH HUH!!

I have “more connections explained in a build-out of the New Theory” compared to ~2002(?) work on this mytheme of {encased in tree} — because NOW I also possess, now I have grasp/ mapping, decoding, of the ENTIRE {tree vs. snake} / huge group of mythemes of “non-branching” which I LACKED in the 2002 era (that’s the middle of the period from:

1998: tried to map the Cybernetic theory to “what Jesus knew”, and wwas given book on Roman or Mystery Religion; & got Strange Fruit book. that led me to start work on mytheme decoding. roughly 1998.

By 2006, I wrote great article about essentially, decoding mythemes by mapping them to the Cybernetic theory.

Later, in 2011/2013 I IMPROVED (added many many connections ) onto the already pretty darn fluent 2006 language-skill, a huge build-out of the 2006 theory in 2011 then 2013. <– to understand the process of “you get it, now you GET IT, NOW YOU REALLY REALLY GET IT COMPLETELY”, COMPARE MY “FIGURING OUT” OF BRANCHING TREE/SNAKE IN NOV 2011 VS “COMPLETING THE MAPPING” IN NOV 2013.

That distinction right there, between my “understanding” in Nov 2011 vs. my “complete understanding” in 2013, says “everything” about how exactly, “theory expansion/addition (not so much, “theory-replacement”) works.

I’m always right, so I have zero experience with “theory-replacement”, only “unstoppable ever-expanding universe” of the Egodeath theory’s the Mytheme theory. j/k, 1988 was a kind of “theory-replacement”… hm.

otoh, you could say that my new articles on mushrooms in Christian art, & Greek art, based on CYBERNETICS which NO ONE* BUT ME understands ; my theory is totally unlike any existing Old Theory of myth or entheogens.

my theory = the Egodeath theory = the Cybernetic theory + the Mytheme theory.

The latter 2 component theories (Cybernetic & Mytheme), incorporate and integrate the topics of loosecog & Eternalism; Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism, contrasted against Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism.

heading

The ‘literalist vs. analogy’ part of the terms “Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism” and “Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism” does not apply within the 1988-1997 Core theory; the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

Any analogy/metaphor/mythemes beyond the minimum that scientific explanation requires, are to be considered, by definition, part of the Mytheme theory, not part of the Cybernetics theory.

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My theory is uncontested; there IS NO “Old Theory” to be replaced by my “New Theory”.

The “Old Non Theory” vs. the “New Theory” — Thagard’s concept is a flop, inapplicable, my constribution is NOT “theory replacement”; it is pure Discovery.

Check Thagard’s book Conceptual Revolutions for that distinction in each topical chapter (each area/field of Science, one per ch.)

Conceptual Revolutions
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/conceptual-revolutions/

I do “theory creation”, not “theory replacement” — unless you want to grace Hatsis/Wasson/Letcher / Minimalists by calling them a “theory” (choke) — a fragmented heap of confusion, more like. my theory covers / connects too many topics

The Old Theory = 10 fields, each one fragmented heap of confusion

The New Theory = 1 grand integrated scheme i have contributed for the FIRST TIME, where previously there was NONE; there was , prior to my system, NO SUCH “EXPLANATORY SYSTEM” sweeping acorss & integrating 10 “separate” domains.

the fragmented “set” or motley fragmented assortment of “old theories” eg lame theories of myth based in OSC, that made no connection toloosecog or cybernetic self-control instbility/reset/reconfiguration.

Scholars come to my site, my articles, they see my Actual Theory (of myth mushrooms cognition cybernetics block-universe-Eternalism), and they have NOTHING to compare my theory against! They are either a scholar of ahistoricity of Jesus eg Earl Doherty (& Richard Carrier trailing behind him), or of Esotericism (Richard Smoley), or of Entheogens (Carl Ruck & Clark Heinrich (they map mushrooms to myth but fail to map cybernetics & block universe Eternalism ), or of No-Free-Will (as an isolated topic) eg Sam Harris,

Incomparable in scope of even ATTEMPTED explanatory power.

There simply is no “Old Theory” that can even be compared to my “New Theory”.

What does Thagard say about this????

Name one other theory that explains/connects myth & mushrooms & cognitive-cybernetics & block-universe Physics models of time: there is NONE!!!

what a joke, to characterize this si

*(among published mainstream scholars of myth & mushrooms)

side note while writing-up a big rush of decoding of {captive by pirates} mytheme: Osiris {embedded in a tree} = embedded in {block universe {rock} – idea! [9:14 a.m. November 29, 2020] — “branching tree’s trunk” is non-branching solid matter like rock; embedded in tree TRUNK (non-branching) = snake carved in stone on rock altar of sacrifice to the gods to honor them.

“Groking” is alwas a MATTER OF DEGREE/ # OF CONNECTIONS.

Sacrament of Apolytrosis, Setting Free from Cybernetic Seizure Trap

Until you sacrifice (“pay”) your childish Possibilism-thinking, you are threatened with cybernetic death.

Upon payment of the release-price, you are released from the threat, of inexorably escalating cybernetic anti-control, cyber-death.

Like Caesar held captive for ransom, tied with rope to wood while the tide rises and rises, inevitably bound to escalate to the point of killing him. Things keep going toward a direction of ratcheting tigher, with more paranoia, more self-testing, the ram gets itself stuck in the thicket of self-challenging, self-battling, probing the power of control, and its vulnerability-opening right at the source where control-thoughts enter the mind and the local control system is incapable of stopping those thoughts being injected by the pre-existing frozen worldline as time moves forward into the near future.

mushrooms = the sacrament of apolytrosis =

the sacrament of {demanding payment}

the sacrament of being {captured}

the sacrament of {paying the release-price}

the sacrament of being {threatened with death} unless the {price is paid}

the sacrament of release from {threat of death}, {upon payment of the price}

Upon payment of the {release-price} (which is, repudiating Possibilism-thinking, converting to Eternalism-thinking), you are released from the threat (or, from the frustration of the still-polluted, unresolved self-testing & investigation problem), of cybernetic anti-control, cyber-death.

Why did mushroom-Christians (aka gnostics, esoterics, the race of Pneumatics) refer to mushrooms as “the sacrament of apolytrosis”?

Why did esoteric Christians refer to mushrooms as “the sacrament of apolytrosis”?

How are mushrooms like {releasing from captivity and threatening-to-death}?

How is {releasing from captivity and threatening-to-death} like the referent domain, of [things that are experienced in loosecog]?

How is:
{releasing from captivity and from threatening-to-death unless a ransom price is paid}
isomorphic with:
loosecog experiences

Put so rightly, the question answers itself.

self-control is threatned to death until the mind (is made to; passive sense/tense)

Until you sacrifice your childish Possibilism-thinking, you are threatened with cybernetic death.

like the referent domain, of [things that are experienced in loosecog]?

ychedelicHY did they refer to mushrooms as “the sacrament of releasing from captivity and threatening-to-death”

apolytrosis: a ransoming; some kind of “paying” of some kind of “price” to “set free, release” a person from some kind of “trap”.

DO NOT THINK IN TERMS OF “WHAT DID PAUL MEAN 2000 YEARS AGO”;

THE MATH PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED IS:

IN WHAT WAY IS XYZ ISOMORPHIC WITH THE EXPERIENCES IN THE PEAK ALTERED STATE AFTER A SERIES OF ALTERED-STATE SESSIONS COMBINED WITH DEEP PHILOSOPHY/ MENTAL WORLDMODEL RE-CONSIDERATION AND TESTING OF PERSONAL CONTROL POWER IN THE ALTERED STATE?

passage copied from “Idea Development page 2” from maybe Nov 26, 2020, Thanksgiving Day:

Take what’s buried and covered-up (hidden and secret occluded “sacrament of apolytrosis“), and instead, make it the primary identifier.

Speak Plain English: call a mushroom a mushroom. [1-2 days later, I’m thinking about it differently. YES, NO PROBALEM, THE SACRAMENT OF APOLYTROSIS IS CERTAINLY MUSHROID, BUT THE *POINT* OF THE NAME, YOU HAVE TO DECODE!!! The question we’re faced with here is, WHY did they refer to mushrooms as “the sacrament of releasing from captivity and threatening-to-death”? -mh Nov 29 2020 11:58 a.m.]

sacrament of apolytrosis

Strong’s: apolýtrōsis
https://www.biblehub.com/greek/629.htm —

apolýtrōsis (“redemption, re-purchase“),

[Christ takes a wrecked, broken, failed, destroyed, doomed-for-harm, accursed, control-seized, sunk-ship, DEFEATED, CAPSIZED CYBERNETIC PERSONAL CONTROL SYSTEM, and re-sets it, “deus ex machina”, rescuing from certain shipwreck, salvation and rescue from outside the system as his slave owing him his life, transformed and un-harmed. -mh]

[“from outside the system” — Carrier: “Christ from outer space”, ie: from Empyreumoutside the heimarmene-ruled spheres]

“apolýtrōsis (“redemption, re-purchase“), emphasizes the distance (“safety-margin”) that results between the rescued person, and what previously enslaved them. For the believer, the prefix (575 /apó) looks back to God’s effective work of grace, purchasing them from the debt of sin and bringing them to their new status (being in Christ)“

/ end of passage from “Idea Development page 2” from maybe Nov 26, 2020, Thanksgiving Day

Math Proof/Solution

Procedure:

Don’t let complexity detail obscure. Quite simple 3 aspects of decoding:
BASICALLY: COMPLETELY DECODING A MYTHEME REQUIRES DOING THE FOLLOWING:
o Identify the connections among mythemes.
o Identify the connections among referents.
o Identify the connections from mythemes to referents.

Draw the following diagram:

Circle 1: Mythemeland; the domain of mythemes, colorful stylized analogies/metaphors.
Arrows/lines among the mythemes inside this domain-circle.

Circle 2: Referentland; the domain of referents (ASC phenom); the domain of things experienced/seen in the ASC; of control instability/ cancellation/ reset/ transformation of mental model.
Arrows/lines among the referents inside this domain-circle.

Arrows between the two domains (mythemes & referents): mapping-arrows/ lines between the two domains.

/ diagram specification

More detail of those 3 regions /domains of making connections:
o List the mythemes
o Inter-map the mythemes to each other
o List relevant items from the referent domain (things seen/experienced in the advanced altered state, including things perceptible/experienced in OSC + things perceptible/experienced in the ASC)
o Discuss the relation among the referent things; discuss the cybernetics, loosecog phenom (not primarily relying on or leveraging mytheme analogies, but speaking as directly, scientifically, explicitly, clearly as possible).

GIVEN the mythemes:

{ransoming, ransom price, [here’s where I grokked dionsys lion pirates, a story i (re-)read yesterday! [8:55 a.m. November 29, 2020] youth Dionysus kidnapped and held for ransom by pirates who demand a price for his release, to set him free/ release him from captivity and threatening his death}

{ransom payment}

{paying price ” to “set free, release” a person from some kind of “trap, prison, captivity, unfreedom leading to death”}

{set free, release}

trap, prison, trapped, caught in a terrible disastrous entrapment, captivity, unfreedom leading to death

The following mythemes to map to the referent domain:

Referent domain to map mythemes to:

THE EXPERIENCES IN THE PEAK ALTERED STATE AFTER A SERIES OF ALTERED-STATE SESSIONS COMBINED WITH DEEP PHILOSOPHY/ MENTAL WORLDMODEL RE-CONSIDERATION AND TESTING OF PERSONAL CONTROL POWER IN THE ALTERED STATE

In the peak state, doom and dire sinking ship, no hope, accursed, the doom is certainly on its way, as remembered timelessly, this is how it went when at this specific particular place of dread and doom.

It’s over; but yet, one ends up walking way, transformed, unharmed, set free from the trap of doom.

link to blade , re “caress of steel” the close call of the self-threat blade that instructs and transforms thinking upon fully grasping and seeing the vulnerability and the nature of the control-source.

re: caress of steel: a close call with self-threatening; that close call is cybernetic death and forced mental transformation to fully grasp the vulnerability which completely counters personal control power and forces a change of mental model.

Mytheme: {blade & harvest} = ripe for sacrifice, to gain Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/mytheme-blade-harvest-mature-for-sacrifice-to-gain-eternalism/

Mytheme: {spear/dagger/wound} = cybernetic death & rebirth
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/mytheme-spear-dagger-wound-cybernetic-death-rebirth/

Correctly Identifying Isomorphism (from the Mytheme to the Referent Domain) Is Vastly More Important than “What Did that Artist Think It Meant?”

It doesn’t matter what the artist thinks they meant when they were inspired writing poetry.

What matters is thoroughly mapping the domain of mythemes to the domain of altered-state-experiencing referents (aspects of altered-state experiencing; which includes things that you can see in the ordinary state plus things that you can perceive only in the altered state).

I don’t care what the Plaincourault painter thought {Eve’s skeleton remains and is revealed} means; I care only:

In what way is {skeleton} isomorphic with:
mental worldmodel transformation in loosecog, from Possibilism to Eternalism, as the model of personal control, time, and possibility. It’s a math problem, not a historical problem of “what, in fact, was that particular person actually thinking?”

This point isn’t an issue with Rush lyrics, because Neil Peart has a solid understanding of mythemes.

Lyrics Poetry Mytheme Decoding: {Necromancer}

Rush Lyrics Alluding to Mystic Dissociative Phenomena
http://www.egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22913
Lyrics are used here for academic analysis.
Album: Caress of Steel
Song: The Necromancer [ego death, vanished sense of self, under the control of the uncontrollable hidden controller]

the forbidding lands of the Necromancer. [altered-state land]

the intensity of his dread power can be felt, weakening the body [the mind’s sense of power shifts from local autonomous control, to the outside, uncontrollable controller]

they will become empty, mindless spectres, stripped of will and soul [control-power and the usual apparent ability to control the will, vanish]

their thirst for freedom [experiencing no-free-will]

Three trav’llers ford the river [cross into altered state]
The road is lined with peril, [self-control seizure, loss of control, while pursuing highly desired Transcendent Knowledge about control]
and the air is charged with fear. [fear of non-control due to future control-thoughts already being cast in stone in the block universe along the worldline lying ahead unavoidable]
The shadow of his nearness [the uncontrollable controller is sensed, perceived almost directly, with no personal locus-of-control over that sensed, inner-penetrating control-force]

the Necromancer keeps watch with his magic prism eyes. [visual distortion in ASC]

He views all his lands [awareness is raised up out from its usuall embededness & immersion in egoic mental construct processing and self-control ystesm, to be able to now look at self-control function from outside that system, a God’s-eye view]

and is already aware of the three helpless invaders trapped in his lair… [apolytrosis to set free … resume here. below are old v1 comments, replace; redo-from scratch.

Brooding in the tower, [non-compassionate higher-level all-powerful control agent]
watching o’er his land,
holding ev’ry creature,
helplessly they stand. [helplessness]

Gaze into his prisms, [altered-state perceptual blurring, compare “sea spray blurs my vision”]
knowing they are near.
Lead them to the dungeons.
Spectres numb with fear,
they bow defeated. [search “bow”] [defeat of ego power during ego death]

Enter the Champion.

Prince By-Tor appears

to battle for freedom from chains of long years.

The spell has been broken…

the Dark Lands are bright,

the Wraith of the Necromancer

soars away… in the night.

Stealthily attacking,
By-Tor slays his foe.
The men are free to run now <– apolytrosis
from labyrinths below.
Wraith of the Necromancer
shadows through the sky;
another land to darken
with evil prism eye.

Apolytrosis

Cyberdisciple’s clear definition helped; it’s strange how I start muddled, and then when I “get it”, it can seem so obvious.

Cyberdisciple wrote:
“The captive is freed and returned home, once something has been paid [the mind is made to sacrifice its illusion-based presumptions; paying that, causes reset and release] as ransom to the captor.”

https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ἀπολύτρωσις

Valentinians/ Gnostics/ esoterics / higher Christians used the mushroom sacrament of apolytrosis.

“after-redemption”, “after-release” —
Cyberdisciple applied Greek + the Egodeath theory to explain meaning of “apolytrosis” clearly, relevantly, simply.

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Email to Joshua Bempechat at Ancient Psychedelia

Hi Joshua,

I fully decoded the complete, hi-res image that contains your cropped “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.

New article:
Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/proof-that-the-canterbury-psalters-leg-hanging-mushroom-tree-is-psilocybe/
That decoding revealed enormous ramifications.

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/
The article from which I broke out the Canterbury article when it quickly took off and became long.

Scholars’ Failure to Debate Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/scholars-failure-to-debate-mushrooms-in-christian-art/

You have a cropped portion of the image at:
https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/canterbury-psalter/

Happy Thanksgiving!

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theory

Email to Richard Smoley

Hi Richard,

My new articles are ready to read.

I have, and have read, the set of Gnosis issues.

Happy Thanksgiving!

— Michael Hoffman
the Egodeath theory

https://www.gnosismagazine.com/back_issue_list/back_issue_list.html

Infuriating, Arbitrary, Smug Smear-Piece Article Against Psychedelics (Go Absolutely to Hell, All Entheogen-Minimalists, Frauds, Charlatans, Thieves, Counterfeiters) – An Academic Exercise in POMPOSITY Like Wasson’s Hall of Shame Quotes; as Smug and Condemnatory, as Full of Baloney

Why do I even read these gravy-train conventional thinkers? No wonder I tore up some representative books and pissed on the pile in 1995 — best thing I ever did, GARBAGE. Served me well!

These huckers of confusion, these failures at mystic transformation, who fail to engage the demon dragon, serve to put off real mysticism, DRY WELLS; THEY NEITHER PASS THROUGH THE GATE, NOR LET ANYONE ELSE ENTER IN.

Article title:
Drug-Induced Mysticism Revisited
2011
https://charles-upton.com/2018/02/25/on-psychedelics-and-or-entheogens-drug-induced-mysticism-revisited/

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Drug-Induced+Mysticism+Revisited%22%2C+Charles+Upton

It would be amusing to modify and invert his article (hit-piece) to smear and defame his group instead of the entheogenists as he does.

INFURITATING ARTICLE SUGGESTED TO ME (AGAIN) BY ACADEMIA.ORG, (SECOND TIME READING, IS JUST AS MADDENING. IT’S NOTHING BUT A CHEAP, UNCONTESTED SMEAR-PIECE, A HIT-PIECE AGAINST PSYCHEDELICS, AN ATTACK TO DAMN THEM WITH FAINT PRAISE – nay, to wholesale demonize the flesh of Christ given by God, vehicle of the Holy Spirit!

“Since religions are founded by Divine action through prophets and avatars (Buddhism possibly excepted yet Gautama Buddha is considered to be the ninth Avatar of Lord Vishnu within the Hindu tradition), to say that they have been initiated by psychedelics is to deny that God can act on His own initiative, and consequently to deny God.

“It is to make “religion” an entirely human affair, and thus to posit something that does not fit the definition of that word.”

A SOLID WALL OF ARBITRARY BRAIN-SALAD BULLSH*T. WHAT ARE YOU SELLING IN PLACE OF ENTHEOGENS — AND WHY DOESN’T YOUR PRODUCT WORK?

“No religious tradition claims to have been founded on the basis of psychedelic experience; such claims emanate from users of psychedelics who like to project their fantasies upon traditions they in no way intend to follow.”

“Anyone who thinks that Moses met God on Sinai or Jesus became “Christ” after eating some mushroom, because how else could they have done it, has no sense of the sacred whatsoever.“

WELL $&&&*&#@$ YOU, TOO! What an aggressive bully!

The gods have a message for him, and it’s not a Y-shaped message; it’s closer to an upside-down Y configuration.

He’s dead wrong, and totally nasty, rude, and demeaning — a classic combination.

“Within certain contexts and in certain yugas it might have been spiritually possible to open initiates to the graces of an already established spiritual Way through the use of psychedelics, but such things are certainly not possible to us in our own time, except at great cost—and with what coin could we pay that cost, poor as we are?”

“In any case it is certain that the establishment of a legitimate spiritual Way through the use psychedelics has never been either possible or necessary.”

OH, IS THAT SO? ON WHAT AUTHORITY?

“BECAUSE I SAY SO.” Wow, real convincing.

We have heard QUITE ENOUGH; INDEED, FAR MORE THAN ENOUGH, of YOUR guys’ lame view, your salesman schtick.

YOU GUYS HAVE HAD YOUR CHANCE.

YOU FAILED, NOW GET (the hell) OUT OF THE WAY.

Our question in response is:

What ELSE is on offer, from other quarters? Does anyone have a product on offer, that ACTUALLY WORKS?!

He SPEAKS FALSEHOOD –*PROVED* RIGHT HERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES, HE BLASPHEMES the REAL FLESH OF CHRIST, THE HOLY SPIRIT:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

We reject your bogus proposal — frauds, cons, hucksters of verbal spaghetti, driven by pure prejudice; empty, false words piled up so high they fall over; arbitrary verbal spew meaning nothing.

You are trying to replace Christ with yourself, your bunk non-product you are hawking —

PACK UP YOUR SNAKE OIL AND GET OUT OF TOWN AND DON’T COME BACK

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%22snake+oil%22

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)
Psychedelics & the Path: Intro Quote

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Gnosis #26 (Winter ’93): Psychedelics & the Path
https://www.gnosismagazine.com/issue_contents/contents26.html
Includes interview with Ram Dass, psychedelic trips by Jean-Paul Sartre and Adele Davis, Roger Walsh on “Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical,” Bruce Eisner on Ecstasy, more.

“I see psychedelics as a catalyst and a door opener; I don’t see them as a full path.”

-Ram Dass, from The GNOSIS Interview with Ram Dass

oh stfu, wtf does that mean? It’s the main (read: only) tool that can be, and traditionally has been used, reliably and immediately, for complete mental-model transformation. No funding of fake gurus required.

What f*cking snake-oil bullsh*t that doesn’t work, are YOU selling, Rammed Azz?

STOP PARTICIPATING AND COLLABORATING IN THIS DAMNED ACCURSED DEMONIC COVER-UP!

I read this issue when it came out, and I recognized it — and the Tricycle Buddhism special issue on Psychedelics, the same sh*t, as a way to COVER-OVER the topic, not “cover” the topic.

My historical entheogen scholarship since 1993 or 1999 has been a reaction to these bullshit issues of Gnosis & Tricycle, which damn psychedelics with faint praise, when it’s psychedelics that are the real deal — not ersatz “Esotericism”, ersatze “the Mass”, and ersatz “Meditation” — hucksters all, selling snake-oil, that doesn’t work, while badmouthing the plants that created and provide actual mystic altered state.

What brand of bullsh*t do you want to buy, sucker?
Fraudulent Esotericism?
Fraudulent Catholicism?
Fraudulent Buddhism?

BOW DOWN to psychedelics, you PRETENDERS trying to foist Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism on people and calling it “mystic enlightenment”.

You want actual mystic enlightenment, instead of EMPTY CLAIMS from fake religion, fake “esotericism”, fake “meditation”, and the phony magical-thinking “Mass”?

Important Profoundity Paragraph of Mythem-Clusters Decoding

important paragraph came out of the rebuttal to the quote from R.A.:

Honor, worship, reverence, fear, respect, and honor the true {flesh of Christ} the {savior} from outside the mind’s personal self-control system, who {fishes you out} and {purifies you of polluted thinking} (Naive-Possibilism-thinking) and {regenerates} your mind, and makes your mind {sacrifice illusion to pay the ransom to release you from cybernetic disaster, catastrophe, entrapment and doom}, that invokes and {summons} the actual, real {demon, bedevilling} viable self-control, and then {saves the helmsman’s ship from sinking}, {paying the price} — your {firstborn child}-self/thinking — that {pays the price to set you free from peak-state self-harm demonstration, apolytrosis}, and then {releases you for free}, unharmed, back into the remaining peak-window of the altered state session, now laughing and shaking your head and praying in trembling, God-fearing and grateful prayer, giving thanks for your close-call demonstration release, the {caress of the threatening and instructive steel blade of death and cybernetic disaster}, then after that loose cognitive association session subsides, back into the ordinary-state world, now {reborn} and {made complete, purified, garment washed white}, without an illusion-premised mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control.

—

From my critical discussion of Muraresku’s chicken-out-while-bragging-to-the-heavens claims, of having out-done Mystery Religion:

😱

as the Chorus, I can’t bear to watch;
shielding my eyes to avert the wrathful gaze
of the madness-inducing fury of the gods
as they strike him down, King Muraresku

Gods, please do not strike me down; I bow to you; I honor you; I sacrifice to you, Zeus Meilichios, all-powerful over my control-thoughts. 🙏🐍🐉

These fraudsters always brag to the skies about how superior their methods are, over those flimsy and ineffectual psychedelics; their heavily marketed bunk product that they are selling instead, trying to foist-off onto their marks; then when you call them on their bullsh*t products that in fact don’t work, they puss-out and say “We only claim that meditation delivers relaxation, why you being so mean to us? 😢”

Define the concep of “mark”; victim/target of a con artist selling bunk counterfeit product that doesn’t work:

The Entheogen Diminishment Industry: The Very Definition of Con, Scam; Targeting “Marks”

Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
Redirected from: Mark (victim)

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)
Psychedelics & the Path: TOC

group this h2 section w/ the intro quote maybe w/ my reaction.
Want only 1 section/TOC entry, for this mag issue.

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993): Psychedelics & the Path
https://www.gnosismagazine.com/issue_contents/contents26.html

10
Alternative Realities
Viewing Drugs Rationally
A column by Stephan A. Hoeller

14
Introduction: The Fires of Artifice
by Richard Smoley
Do psychedelics really tell you the truth about yourself?

18
Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical
by Roger Walsh
How “artificial” experiences compare with the ecstasies of contemplatives.

22
Drugs and the Path
Truth, illusions, and punctured auras – a variety of spiritual teachers give their views.

26
Using Drugs Wisely
by Myron J. Stolaroff
A veteran researcher suggests how to get the best out of psychedelic experience.

31
Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right
by a Psychedelicist
Should mind-changing drugs be protected by the Constitution?

34
Two Classic Trips
by Thomas Riedlinger
Adelle Davis loved it, but it was a bummer for Jean-Paul Sartre.

42
The GNOSIS Interview with Ram Dass
by Jay Kinney and Richard Smoley
A lively discussion about LSD, spirituality, the ’60s, and gurus.

51
The Sobriety That Surpasses Intoxication
by Kabir Helminski
Does traditional spirituality offer something better than drugs?

54
Ecstasy Revisited
by Bruce Eisner
What the rave scene and cutting-edge psychology have in common.

60
Gracie’s Visible Language
by Gracie & Zarkov
Why language may be “the most alien artifact we have.”

64
Gerald Heard: Soul Guide to the Beyond Within
by John V. Cody
A glimpse of the visionary who turned on the California elite years before Timothy Leary.

71
Book Reviews
Brother Twelve by John Oliphant, foreword by Colin Wilson
Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by G.R.S. Mead
Plotinus: The Enneads: A New, Unabridged, and Definitive Edition of the Classic Translation by Stephen MacKenna
Egypt: Moulids, Saints, Sufis by Nicholass H. Biegman
The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey edited by Raymond Lifchez
Islamic Spirituality II: Manifestations edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review edited by Hershel Shanks
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe by Valerie I.J. Flint
Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self by Kabir Edmund Helminski
The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation by Thomas Keating
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, read by Sidney Lanier
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth as told by Tony Hillerman, read by Debra Winger
The Golden Key: A Fairy Tale by George Macdonald, read by Michael Zebulon
The Mystic Quest: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism by David S. Ariel
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom
Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann
The San Francisco Oracle Facsimile Edition edited by Allen Cohen

Email to Sam Woolfe

Hi Sam,

After seeing your images at:

The Psychedelic Origin of Christianity
https://www.samwoolfe.com/2013/04/the-sacred-mushroom-and-cross-by-john.html

I fully decoded the complete, hi-res image that contains your cropped “mushroom tree/ sword” image.

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/
The article from which I broke out the Canterbury article when it quickly took off and became long.

Scholars’ Failure to Debate Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/scholars-failure-to-debate-mushrooms-in-christian-art/

Happy Thanksgiving!

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theory

> Thank you for sharing this, very interesting!
> — Sam

Pursuading Scholars to Convert to the Egodeath theory’s Maximal Mushroom Theory of Christian Art

At my weblog posting:
Difficulties of Being an Esoteric Christian
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/difficulties-of-being-a-christian/comment-page-1/#comment-80
Wrmspirit wrote:

“Wishing you a peaceful Thanksgiving, and to let you know how grateful, how thankful, I am for the Egodeath Theory and to be able to read your writings and witness your uncovering discoveries for the world to see.

“I also give thanks to all the scholars who don’t quite get it yet as they provide the contrast necessary for growth through differentiation and hope that one day they may move through their boundaries and open into the space of clarity that is theirs to see and breathe from too.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

/ end of comment on weblog posting

comment 2 at that page:

w wrote (condensed):

Regarding suppression of mushrooms, and the controversy around whether mushroom trees in Christian art represent psychoactive mushrooms (together with suppression of the entire framework of Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism that goes along with entheogens):

History repeats itself.

The political realm (externally and internally) has always plagued egos.

The more power that egos get, the stronger the greed and desire for control.

Suppression (of mushrooms, and of the concomitant Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism) was enforced, to try to maintain power and control over the masses.

It wouldn’t be surprising at all if the Catholic Church was partly responsible for suppression of the authentic Eucharist.

This isn’t an intellectual opinion; this is simply based on common sense, and an awareness of human nature.

A political force has been tightly braided, throughout history, from the beginning.

Where there’s politics, there’s suppression, including of mushrooms & the concomitant Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

/ end of w’s comment 2 on weblog

What Does the Phrase “Big Breakthrough” Mean? Define It, Like Yesterday’s Defining of “Complete Decoding” (of a Mytheme)

> I love your emojis. They tell a whole story just like cave drawings have always done.

I absolutely love emojis. I’ll consider using them more.

https://emojipedia.org

> Christmas and Easter and the transition of seasons in the ordinary world have so much more meaning and depth now through the Egodeath Theory’s possibilism/eternalism.

I can probably find a million exceptions, but it seems like October (start of mushroom season), November, December, & January are my “big breakthrough” season:
October 1987 – January 1988
November 2011
November 2013
November 2020

But what does “big breakthrough” mean?

What, specifically, does the phrase “big breakthrough” mean?

How can I prove that I made a ‘big breakthrough’?

How can I measure / quantify “big”?

I made huge progress yesterday defining what, specifically, a “complete decoding” (of a mytheme) must mean.

Defining what the phrase “big breakthrough” must mean for the Egodeath theory, must be similar to defining what a “complete decoding” (of a mytheme) means.

I should express that in terms of Paul Thagard’s model of how theory-revision and theory-replacement works, such as [need to identify good examples]:

o Replacing a large set of connections by a different set;

o Inverting a hierachy (simply b/c I remember this from Thagard)

o Moving the center — as in, correcting a “category error” about what kind of writings (genre) the books of the New Testament are.

A Given; a Fact: All Religions Everywhere Always Have Some Entheogen Use

Yes there is Some Usage of Entheogens in Christianity in the Modern Era

A book by someone like Huston Smith (he’s “cool”), said that an Orthodox monk told him “we have a better way to reliably induce the mystic state” (pretty clearly implying the way that works).

There are stories about Hasidics found carrying things.

It is not clear to what extent, in modern era. It IS clear that there is SOME usage in modern era.

eg some number of people have been alchemically inspired during church service; “far from unheard of”.

“Usage exists.”

Do they use some, yes or no, in the modern era? The answer is Yes.

Defining “some” – that’s another matter.

Questions from Cyberdisciple

Additions from Cyb Nov 28 2020:

“Evidently there has been suppression in the Prohibitionist 20th century.

“What sort of suppression was there before Prohibitionist laws?

“That’s the question that Moderates should answer, instead of projecting back 20th century-style Prohibition onto earlier eras.”

_____

“Moderates start by assuming a negative: that mushrooms were not used commonly.

“They assume they were somewhat rare, or are self-contradictory on this point, and act as though they were completely suppressed somewhere by someone.

“Moderates assume that the knowledge was lost until c. Wasson in the 50s.”

/ end nov 28 additions

What profit in suppressing Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism, and selling Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism?

What is the motive for suppressing mushrooms and promoting literalist ordinary state possibilism?
Answer: $
eg Brown didn’t even bother to specify why it’s a total, worst-case problem (a problem that mitigates against the credibility of Wasson re: mushrooms in Christianity), that Wasson was Pope-buddy/banker.

[joke: what’s the meaning of any mytheme; mytheme {m}?
Answer: rebirth in the ASC.
A shallow tautology answer, that fails to differentiate mythemes or ASC phenom/ experien/ observ.

What’s 248 x 84.3?
Answer: a number. <– um, correct?]

When did supposed entheogen suppression start, in Christianity?

If we argue against all the Moderates that want to assert some sort of priest suppression in antiquity (middle ages, renaissance), when did it start?

When did the Catholic eucharist stop normally being psychedelic?
Answer: According to Pagels, during Valentinus’ time, Valentinians/ Gnostics/ esoterics / higher Christians used [mushroid] sacrament of apolytrosis (“after-redemption”, “after-release” – pls apply Greek + the Egodeath theory to explain meaning of “apolytrosis” ), while at the same time, lower Christians / “orthodox” / exoteric Christians, used the inert Mass.
In the same, oil & water congregation.

Prot stopped shrooming when?

When did the various Protestant churches stop offering a psychedelic eucharist?

I’m thinking it was certain factions/ circles eg groups of monastic monks who taught each other how to use it; how accomodate their mind to harmless seizure & mental model transformation, how to interpret myth — the Lesser Mysteries book-learning preparatin training and exams you have to pass before real deal firsthand.

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“Your idea development is tending towards the Reformation and Counter-Reformation as the key battle ground.”

w/ Chron’y Revisionism, there’s an interesting foreshortening: everything before the printing press appears at the same distance (Edwin Johnson argues); there’s no difference in tone/character of writing, between 1525 vs. 1200 vs 400 vs 100 A.D. According to Johnson. It all has the same undifferentiable character: Church Fathers, Luther, read like the same factions of monks wrote them all, he argues. Same battles, same writing style.

“I know antiquity the best,

“I know fairly well the middle ages and renaissance in Italy (or what the unrevised chronology conventionally understands those periods to be). They seem psychedelic to me, with not obvious suppression of psychedelics.”

Chrono-Vertigo

“It is a major challenge to think in the Edwin Johnson chronology.

“It is mind blowing to think about, always has been since I encountered it via your work in the early 2000s.

“Makes me feel like the rug has been swept out from under me.

“The simple take away is to be agnostic about all historical narratives before the printing press (c. 1440, in conventional dating).”

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From the main article:
http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm#_Toc177337612

The adept use and comprehension of metaphor faded after the battle between politicized Christianity and Scientism around 1700, leaving a long-term standoff between mystically neutered religious literalism versus exclusively ordinary-state-based Science.

The culturally predominant type of religion in the modern era neutralized and reduced the traditional initiation system by a combination of non-transformative surface ritual and intellectual speculation based only in the ordinary cognitive state.

—

The modern cultural experience resulted from the predominance of the ordinary cognitive state.

The lack of culturally integrated altered-state initiation caused the egoic mental world-model, which is based in only a single cognitive state, to become completely predominant.

/ main article excerpt

—

“I had to catch myself while working a the post about Muraresku.

“I was going to write something that implied that The Egodeath Theory and the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion draws down the date for widespread drug use in Western religion to c. 1700, but that’s not right.

“I was thinking of the above part of the main article, but had misremembered its import (or perhaps never sorted it out very clearly).

“The statement is not about psychedelic use, but about metaphor.”

—
“I’m interested in the topic of literalist interpretation’s rise to dominance in the modern era.

“Public and scholarly discourse about religion is hampered by it. Modern books are constrained by their failure to comprehend religious metaphor.

“I want to read more about the c. 1700s period, and now also the Reformation/Counter-Reformation that directly preceded it.”

—
“Hanegraaf’s Rejected Knowledge book fits in with the above, since he relates the rejection of esotericism with the Rationalist, Science-first, Enlightenment.

“The Moderate position is that mushrooms, even if used somewhere at some time, were definitely suppressed, so much that mainstream culture forgot about them until the 60s.”

—
“When does the Maximal Theory ‘end’, chronologically speaking?

“Per the Maximal Theory are we to say that mushrooms have always been used in religion?

“Is it tied to the fading of ‘adept use and comprehension of metaphor’ per the above in mainstream culture?”

—
“When did Christian churches switch from authentic initiation to ‘non-transformative surface ritual’?”

Mytheme: {clothing/ flesh removed, revealing naked body/ skin/ skeleton}

This particular decoding led to a meta-level really great re-definition of what the very idea of “decoding” outght to require, to adequate deescribe per Thagard “I kinda got it before, but now I had a breakthrough and now i REALLY REALLY GET IT” — UM could you be more articulate? Did you “understand” “Eve saw she was naked”, mystically, or do not not undersatnd it? How well do you understand it? –> what doese or should that mean, “How well did you decode that mytheme?”

This is not the first time these ideas have flickered half-consciously through my mind, to background-churn and work on them. I immediately read Browns’ eagerly awaited, pre-ordered book The Psychedelic Gospels, and read his {skeleton} passage that I think is in there, so you could say that my “sudden solving this decoding out of nowhere” has roots going back to when that book came out, and you can trace my decoding back to … 1986 or something crazy, getting ever weaker, weaker, right now I’m just about to score an ‘A’, I’m on the verge of earning an ‘A’ grade, regarding my mytheme-decoding of {removing clothing, revealing/exposting the skeleton}. Back in 1986, “I heard of {naked}, but I would now score MH1986 with an ‘F’ for my richness of grasp of {naked/skeleton/exposed} mytheme. Suppose (quick sketch): in terms of theory-connection-growth per Thagard:

1986 ‘F’ grade

1999 ‘D’ grade – sparse, vague answer

2002 ‘C-‘ grade

2006 ‘B’ grade – superior, but w/ room for improvement

2013 ‘A-‘ — got the essentials, need polish — [at this point had/developed/worked out brilliant idea/list on how to define “adequate decoding of a mytheme“]

2020 solid ‘A’ grade, reached pretty easily

What Makes for a Good, Thorough “Decoding of a Mytheme”?

Answer bubbled up from far down below in this page: [8:44 p.m. November 27, 2020]

What constitutes a good, complete, satisfying decoding?
1. Map the isolated mytheme to the referent domain (something experienced or perceived in ASC).
2. Mapping the mytheme to other mythemes of some 4 types: duo-pairs/complements; near-synonyms, & antonyms.
3. Mapping all the related mythemes to the referent-domain.

What’s the difference between ‘decoding’ vs. ‘mapping’ a mytheme?

A decoding is a set of mappings. ! YAY! totally makes sense, for lexicon! I been sloppy using these terms but only intuitively. So glad to define this true SYSTEM. Copy to the “theory of myteheme…. page

I retitled the Theory of Mythemes article to:

Theory of Mythemes; Decoding a Mytheme; & Mappings in a Decoding

retitle? eg Theory of Mythemes, Decoding, and Mapping. I find that I use those terms ‘decoding‘ & ‘mapping‘ and think about them thus: a decoding is a simple grand single thing. ie: eg:

“I decoded {foot/leg}! yay!”

But what’s involved in that “decoding”? MANY MAPPINGS.

Mappings among mythemes, w/ the new/incoming mytheme.

Mappings from that set of mythemes to referents.

Mappings (? relationships?) among referents. <– UNCLEAR if it makes sense to have this category. This would be “the ‘Core theory’ component of the Egodeath theory, ie the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence”.

I don’t think or feel that the concept of “mapping” applies.

My main sense of the term ‘mapping’ was simple: you map 1 mytheme to 1 referent. Oversimplistic.

Consider instead, 3 terms:

Among mythemes in Mythemespace, you “relate” them (4 types of relations).

Between a mytheme and a referent, you “map” the m to the r.

Among elements of Referentspace, you … “connect”??? eg:

In ASC, awareness or mind is able to observe the workings of the personal control system, and see the snake} worldline and {wellspring w/ dragon hiding} unstoppable/uncontrollable source of thoughts.

Maybe this form of formulation could be good:

A decoding of a new incoming mytheme consists of:

Specifying the set of relations among new mytheme and other mythemes

Specifying the set of mappings from those mythemes to referents

Specifying the set of connections among referents in REferentspace

A decoding of a mytheme is a set of mappings: ( say 5 things about those “mappings” — in the Mythemes domain (“Mythemeland”),

1. you must show the relation of the “new mytheme” with all known mythemes — there are 4 types of relationships — and,

2. you must map all mythemes that connect w/ the “new mytheme”, to the Referent domain (aka “Referentland”) — and,

3. thirdly, to complete the set, you must make sure to cross-map and items in Referentspace to each other, that are affected by the above mappings from Mythemespace to Referentspace.

To fulfill Paul Thagard’s model.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/theory-of-mythemes/
Cross-link that page with:
Scientific Reproducibility of Mytheme Decoding
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/scientific-reproducibility-of-mytheme-decoding/

Toward a “complete” decoding of the mytheme {flesh removed, revealing skeleton}:

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2 hours earlier:

content below was started in the line above, “2006 ‘B’ grade – superior, but w/ room for improvement”:

add-in mappings ACROSS MYTHEMES. SO:

WHAT CONSTITUTES A “GOOD MAPPING/DECODING” IS *NOT ONLY* MAPPING TO A REFERENT, BUT, ALSO, MAPPING TO OTHER MYTHEMES.

You often have pairs; mytheme-contrast-pairs, eg {tree vs. snake}, or {clothed vs. naked} — the most oversimplistic, inadequate notion of what’s involved in decoding/mapping, is to have, in total isolation, a singl mytheme (and only one variant of it — eg, fail to connect snake to ivy), mapped to a referent, and, FAILING TO MAP THE ANTONYM-MYTHEME, THE COMPLEMENT-MYTHEME in the case of contrasted-pair, duo-mythemes like {clothed vs. skeleton-revealed}.

Not only is Eve {naked} (no clothing), she goes further: which Brown seems to get and grasp: her very skeleton even *under*, hidden by her skin, is revealed (MUST map to “burn away the perishable flesh” or you cannot score an ‘A’ grade for “decoding/mapping”.

My definition in the past failed to emphasize enough, the types of OTHER mythemes that you MUST map to, to score an ‘A’ grade and do an “adequate mytheme decoding/mapping”.

Even in the present section of this idea-dev file, I falsely inadequately define “decoding” as “map a mytheme to its referent”.

That definition of “decoding a mythem” is bad, it gets an ‘F’ or a ‘C’ at best. My feeling is, you have done a poor job of decoding if:

o you vaguely map all mythemes to the “universal referent”, Possibilism vs Eternalism.

o you specifically map an isolated mytehem to a single referent: {rock} = block universe}. but fail to discuss:

o the paired mytemes (eg {snake} is paired with {block universe}),

o the complementary mythemes (eg {tree} is the mutually exclusive opposite of {rock}),

o the alternative adjacent mythemse eg {branching vs nonbranching}.

https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p142.xml

Reading Brown’s (ie Jerry & Julie Brown’s) article, I had a little(?) idea —

[note a few minutes later, [6:48 p.m. November 27, 2020]:

It’s going well, I have somethiung like 10 (?) other mythemes mapping-reconnections falling into place, the ivy tendrils are reconnecting (per Thagard’s model of theory-expansion/revision).

I want to take snapshot for Brown (just as a token & soveneir of appreciation), but I don’t want to psychologically disrupt and block my flow of successfully turning-the-crank to see how big my jackpot winnings are;

how many mytheme-language items are connected (that I must discover/recognize) to the {clothing-hiding vs. skeleton-seeing} mytheme?

{veil/unveil; lid on basket/ lid off basket to reveal hidden serpent; hidden vs. revealed; darkness vs. light (illumination)} —

the {skeleton} has special connotation, of “there is an underlying systemic structure of yourself” –

eg the specific mytheme {skeleton) with its distinctive connotations & emphases, directs the attention to Eve’s “body”, NOT to “seeing a serpent” or “frozen into block universe”.

Lazy vague “mytheme decodings” that get an ‘F’ or a ‘C’ grade — it’s like my joke:

“Here’s a geernal key to this Canterbury puzze

From
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/mytheme-a-ram-caught-in-a-thicket-by-his-horns/ —

General decoding key:
o Abraham is you.
o Isaac is you.
o The bush is you.
o The sacrificial knife is you.
o The rock altar for sacrifice is you.
o The ram is you.

Hope this helps.

/ joke

New joke for this {clothing} decoding problem:

All mythemes mean “Possibilism vs. Eternalism”. So, here’s a universal solution (mapping-to-analogy-referent) for all mythemes:

{mytheme M} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!

THEREFORE:

{clothing vs. skeleton} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{veiled vs. unveild} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{hidden then revealed} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{child vs. adult} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{darkness vs. light} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{xx} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!
{xx} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism– in the entheogenic altered state!!!

Hope this helps.

Q.E.D.

This raises the great question:

WHAT CONSTITUTES AN ‘A’ GRADE, “ADEQUATE” OR “COMPLETE” DECODING (MAPPING TO REFERENT ITEM OF THE ALTERED STATE) OF A MYTHEME)?

‘F’ grade: All mythemes refer to (or describe-by-analogy, in the altered state) Possibilism vs. Eternalism

‘F’ grade: All mythemes refer to Possibilism vs. Eternalism. Therefore:

{removing clothing, revealing skeleton}

{Eve saw that she was naked} = the mind in the ASC sees its underlying functioning. (true, but vague — not an ‘A’ grade answer/mapping, to referent itesms/aspects of the wordl of the altered state, let’s make NEW TERM/LABEL/CONCEPT akin to “Mythemeland” —

Mythemeland

Alteredstateland — confusing, ambiguous — it sounds more like Mythemeland, than referentland.

Referentland (I dislike the tone of OSC, but, that’s kinda good exagerrating the difference between Mythemeland vs. Referentland[ASC]). To confuse the matter: in OSC, the truth that’s visible only in the ASC is veilded —

Eternalism is the case when in OSC and when in ASC.

When in OSC, the appearance of Possibilism overlays the occluded reality of Eternalism.

Possibilism-thinking overlays the underlying hidden truth, of Eternalism) .

“Altered-State-land” (or: Referentland, but I agree on emphasing ASC!, NOT OSC, DUMMIES!), meaning, all things that can be observed and experienced in ASC, including eg the block universe, one’s own worldline, or {wellspring} of thoughts (which you are powerless to stop, and you have no control over).

The set of {all possible “things” or dynamics or reality-aspects that can be noted and observed and experienced in the altered sate — especially the distinction between “things in reality ” vs. “workings of the mind”.

So we want to “map” from Mythemeland to Referentland (domain). A domain-mapping.

Examples of things in Mythemeland

Simply copypaste from my Mythemes page:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/

Added {clothing removed, naked, revealing skeleton} to that page, with decoding(s)/ mappings to Referentland items.

Need like “mythemes” a term “referents”.

Map mythemes to referents.

That’s good terminology/lexicon.

{king, tree, wine, snake, rock, dragon, treasure, sacrifice, branching, non-branching}

Narrative Sequence Clusters in Mythemeland

{wine cup with apprehension, speared dead king fastened to tree, lifted up like healing snake, reborn from rock tomb}

{man rides without steering-reins, carried by donkey/horse along path to see debranched tree trunk with snake winding up it, carved on on rock sarcophagus}

{king steering in a tree, drinks wine, becomes snake in rock}

Examples of things in Referentland

block universe, worldline, source of control-thoughts, mental model, Possibilism mental model, Eternalism mental model, personal steering-control power}

‘C’ grade: {rock} means block universe. {clothing} means lower, deluded thinking.

‘B’ grade: {removing clothing, thus revealing maiden’s/female-minds skeleton} means getting rid of egoic control thinking.

By “little”, I mean, a mytheme-decoding breakthrough solution that I just had a few seconds ago, or 1 or 2 minutes ago, that still has as-yet-unknown magnitude, regarding how many other interconnected mytheme-meanings are also unlocked/decoded/ successfully reconnected systemically.

Brown comments on:

Eve has been reduced to a skeleton in Plaucourault fresco —

the entheogen state the ASC, gnosis, in the peak state upon the moment of seizure and power-cancellation and mental conversion, and purification, the egoic thinking is like clothing that has been removed; the self control [6:13 p.m. November 27, 2020; day after Thanksgiving Day] system is perceptible, revealed, x-ray vision ; the egoic perishable “clothing” has …

Brown has shown capability/aptitude at mytheme-decoding, which is largely a perspective, one that Hatsis shows zero aptitude for.

At this point, I can only say this *could* be a significant-sized decoding, a mini-breakthrough…. still playing-out the solution-idea to see where it leads.

It is correct, but I’m not sure how “big” of reconnections of the New Theory (per Paul Thagard’s book Conceptual Revolutions) result from playing-out this “vein” of “mining” this mytheme to decode it: how widespread is the mytheme of “ego is like clothing”; “Possibilism-thinking is like clothing”?

When you remove Possibilism-thinking in the ASC, {clothing ~= child/youth/maiden} = the perishable part of the mind’s freewill-premised self-control system and the branching-possibilities worldmodel that’s concomitant with it, that leaves the real, hidden, skeleton, underlying part of the mind’s control-system that was hiding there underneath the clothing the whole time but your mind just couldn’t see it.

{clothing removed; perishable part removed, burned away} means something about:

The known referent-targets that mythemes likely refer to are:

Naive-Possibilism-thinking <– clothing

Eternalism-thinking <– able to see just the remnant, what remains of the mind’s now-perceived underlying self-control system after the clothing of egoic thinking has been removed

but x-thinking won’t work.

What is underlying isn’t “x-thinking”, it is X as reality about how thinking works; the hidden nature of the mind’s control-system, the hidden uncontrollable source of thoughts; the (in the ASC, the mind as) FEMALE’S HELPLESS RECEIVING OF THOUGHTS INJECTED WITH NO ABILITY TO STOP AND RESIST THEM (rapture of Ganymede by Zeus’ eagle; Christian rapture where the female maiden (the initiate) is swept away by force, overpowered at the wellspring of thoughts which the mind cannot control.

The skeleton must be decoded, and clothing. {clothing} vs. {skeleton}; decode (ie map/resolve the analogy to direct identified mental things)

decode mytheme {clothing vs. skeleton}

{clothing} = the overlay, of delded illusory thinking; Possibilism-thinkiing. Done., QED

Now, rightly specify what {skeleton} analogy resolves to, refers to: the underlying reality. Be more specific. The fact of Eternalism (not Possibilism), in the world of spacetime, time, control, source of thoughts, and how the mind really works.

{normally hidden skeleton that’s revealed when child-thinking is removed & seen through} = the block universe, the pre-existing personal worldline of self-control thoughts unveiled; veil removed, (I feel comfortable with {veil} , what do I always say, what’s been my decoding of {veil}? {lifting the lid}. {clothing = lid of cista mystica}.

Qualified-Possibilism-thinking <– I wouldn’t so much say that “this is the part of the mind’s self-control mental worldmodel that remains after the perishable part is burned-away in the ASC.

Decode the mytheme {removes clothing; underlying skeleton revealed/exposed}; ie, map the mytheme to a directly identified referent, about how the mind works and transforms in the ASC/ loosecog state.

Other major mythemes that don’t seem directly mapped by {removes clothing; underlying skeleton revealed/exposed}

{fire/light} of ASC/ loose cognitive association state

{rock} = block universe

{serpent, vine, ivy} = worldline embedded in block universe (thus making personal control power vanish, upsetting egoic control stability)

“What Remains” is basically, Eternalism-reality, now consciously mapped & modelled by the mind, as Eternalism-thinking.

The underlying reality hidden by Naive-Possibilism-thinking, is, Eternalism. {skeleton under clothing} = the Eternalism reality that’s normally (in OSC) and initially (until initiation) hidden underneath Naive-Possibilism-thinking.

Draft 1 of Email to Jerry Brown

Hi Jerry,

The little news: I’m making good progress on decoding {revealing skeleton}, which you insightfully started to decode in your book, as I recall, which I read and noted at the time.

The big news: similar to your question about what constitutes compelling evidence & criteria of proof, I’m now in the process of formulating a much richer definition of what exactly it means to do a good, complete job of “decoding a mytheme” — the answer is:

A *good*, ‘A’ grade (vs. ‘C’ or ‘D’ grade) mytheme-decoding requires identifying network-connections among related mythemes (opposites, paired-items, variants, synonym equivalents.

All of those interconnected mythemes must also be mapped to non-mytheme referents (eg aspects of how the mind works in the ASC), not just a simple mapping from one isolated mytheme to one isolated referent.

When there’s the feeling of satori-like, revelatory breakthrough of “full, rich understanding of all things”, that means, you grasp not merely the isolated mapping of 1 mytheme ({no clothing, no skin/flesh}, but rather, much more:

understand “all things”, ie cross-mapping synonym-mythemes, antonym-mythemes, duo-paired mythemes or complement-pair mythemes, variant mythemes, — all of them mapped to non-mytheme-domain referent items, in the referent-domain.

One vivid helpful idea or picturing — almost a mytheme in itself? like the word “the Otherworld”:

Mythemeland, and Referentland — (two domains) — don’t juust map 1 item from Mythemeland (a domain) to Referentland (the other domain);

to score an ‘A’, you must map systemically, a given mytheme to other mythemes that fit 5 different types of relationships (complement or dyad/duo-pair; synonym, antonym) AND map all of those to Referentland.

Ultimately, like Paul Thagard’s model in the book Conceptual Revolutions, when you add-in another mytheme (as I’m doing these days) into a well-mappped-out explanatory framework, that requires showing ALL ways that the “new” mytheme maps to *all* related mythemse (relationships of ~5 types) AND,

map the “new” mytheme to all the referents that are releavnt — so,

You really have to map the new mytheme into a system-of-mythemes, (so, a set of mappings within Mythemeland domain) and then,

you have to do many new connections/amppings from the Mytheme domain to the Referent domain, that involve the new myteheme.

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Draft 2 of Email to Jerry Brown

Hi Jerry,

I’m in the midst of thoroughly decoding/mapping {revealing Eve’s skeleton}, which your book smartly started analyzing.

I think you (the Browns) have the right mentality for decoding mythemes; an aptitude, in contrast with some other, too-brittle scholars.

Maybe because of your “assignment” of specifying what constitutes “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof”, in the course of “decoding“(?) the mytheme {removed flesh, revealing skeleton}, for the first time, I broadened my definition of what an “adequate decoding/mapping” of a mytheme requires.

What constitutes a “complete” decoding of a mytheme:

1. Mapping an isolated mytheme to the referent domain, is only the start. A complete, satisfying mapping also requires:

2. Mapping the mytheme to other mythemes of some 4 types: duo-pairs/complements; near-synonyms, & antonyms.

3. Mapping all the related mythemes to the referent-domain.

As soon as I intuitively felt I had a jackpot, that I had “decoded” your mytheme, the question arose, though:

What exactly constitutes a “breakthrough” or a “full decoding” of a mytheme?

Specifying that, turned out to be almost more valuable than your particular mytheme puzzle.

Cyberdisciple and I boiled down the answer to your original question “what constitutes “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof””, to (shown in the ToC at top):
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/

A Spectrum of Criteria of Proof, for Identifying Mushrooms in Art or Texts
Six types of evidence: [text|art] x [literal|stylized|effects]
1. Literal depictions of mushrooms (in art & in texts)
2. Stylized depictions of mushrooms (in art & in texts)
3. Depictions of mushroom effects (in art & in texts)

Your book identified the following mytheme to be decoded: {flesh removed, revealing skeleton}

In the course of decoding that mytheme, at the meta-level, for the first time, I asked:

What, specifically, constitutes a good, complete, satisfying decoding?

Answer:
1. Mapping an isolated mytheme to the referent domain.
2. Mapping the mytheme to other mythemes of some 4 types: duo-pairs/complements; near-synonyms, & antonyms.
3. Mapping all the related mythemes to the referent-domain.

Toward a “complete” decoding of the mytheme {flesh removed, revealing skeleton}:

Draft 3 of Email to Jerry Brown

While decoding the mytheme {exposed/revealed skeleton} which you present as a problem to solve, I was happy to “get traction” and make good progress.

But then I went up to meta-level and I came up with a nice, far more adequate definition of the whole exercise, what it really should mean, to do a “complete decoding & mapping of a mytheme”.

I initially was happy that my flash of solution was panning out and I wanted to send you a souvenir of my in-process successful decoding — but then, the higher-level question I started working out successfully, is, What exactly is a “good, satisfying, successful decoding of a mytheme?

So I’m not sending you a messy souvenir or summary here of my decoding of {exposing skeleton}.

My progress so far on that particular question, and the higher-level questions:

What constitutes a “good”, “complete” decoding?

What’s the difference between ‘decoding’ vs. ‘mapping’ a mytheme?

Draft 4 Email to Jerry Brown

Hi Jerry,
fyi
I made progress toward full success in decoding the mytheme-cluster
{clothing/ flesh removed, revealing naked body/ skin/ skeleton}
which is great, but — due to critically observing my successful rapid process of “decoding”, I ended up going to the meta-level, to theorize and finally adequately specify what a “complete” decoding should amount to.
That build-out of my Theory of Mythology was influenced by your question:What constitutes “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof”?

It’s rough, not cleaned up yet, and given my wonderful new, specified criteria for “complete” decoding of a mytheme, I can estimate I’m 80% done decoding this mytheme-cluster, including your specific mytheme, {clothing/ flesh removed, revealing naked body/ skin/ skeleton}.

Therefore the remaining work would be:
o Finish the remaining 20% of mappings from your mytheme:
{flesh removed, revealing skeleton}
to other mythemes, eg
{clothing/ flesh removed, revealing naked body/ skin/ skeleton}
o Format/write-up my decoding.

I should re-check what you wrote about it.

pssh I laughed when I saw you refer to Eliade — good luck (doubtful):

eh, I’d grade it like ‘C’ grade. oooh, ouch, ding — the grader’s red ink: LOL you wrote:
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p142.xml

“Eve is not a weak-willed[<– extremely ambiguous & maximally problematic; heart of the matter]woman [<– oh no ooh ouch you missed it — “woman” means “vulnerable part of the initiate’s self-control system in the mind; you took ‘woman’ literally] who is responsible for the original sin … she … leads humanity to exercise-free will [<– max’ly problematic!] and achieve higher consciousness. [<– correct] “
“Mircea Eliade (1974), one of the world’s preeminent authorities on shamanism, writes that “Bone represents the very source of life, both in humans and animals. To reduce oneself to the skeleton condition is equivalent to re-entering the womb of this primordial life, that is, to a complete renewal, mystical rebirth” (p. 63). [<–bleh, ‘D’ grade. vague, trite, superficial, pop jargon. I’VE GO TO STOP READING YOUR GUYSS’ INTERPRETATION– MY IQ IS FALLING FAST -mh]

“Medieval churches frequently preserved the bones of saints as sacred relics. [<–EH, ok, i grant you 1 point: I can do a little of interest w/ that: a cross-mytheme mapping, of type “synonym”: the {imperishable} part of a person is like {bones} -mh]

“In this context, the skeletonization of Eve suggests that she has crossed the threshold of an entheogen-inspired journey of death and rebirth, [<– eh nah, that’s like my joke, “all mythemes mean enlightenment in the ASC”. a truism — lacking all detail. Student scores are based on amount of detail/mappings, both among mythemes, and from mythemes to referents (referents = things that can be observed in the ASC”)] a central theme in shamanism.”

Interesting realization: I can “grade” others’ attempts to decode.

“Mytheme {m} means enlightenment in the mushroom-induced altered state”
— I want to give 0 points for any mapping like that, due to lack of specificity, but, some ppl are far dumber than that and aren’t in the ballpark at all — they think it’s about OSC; they try to map mythemes to items that are observed/experienced in the OSC. I grant you 1 point, bc you found the ballpark, congrats.

“the skeletonization of Eve suggests that she has crossed the threshold of an entheogen-inspired journey of death and rebirth, … shamanism.” <– I grant 1 point out of … 100 (?) for that correct truism.

You wrote: “{skeleton} means something about entheogen-induced ASC”. Correct. What’s shocking to me is, Brown & Co. — his field of scholars — they think it is a “daring observation” and “bold conflusion” that “the skeleton means entheogens”.

For the Egodeath theory, that’s simply a GIVEN — not an “explanation” of a mytheme’s meaning!

sub-junior -level enteheon scholarship. the fallacy: “the discovery is, ITS entheogens OMG!!! uh, yeah, so, but… what’s the specific meaning of {skeleton} GIVEN that it must map to “something experienced in ASC”.

What aspect of ASC experience is “like a skeleton”? You FAILED to specify THAT.

My joke:

Give Brown and his group of scholars these mythemes to decode, and their answers are like parrots, truisms & tautologies that show they aren’t quiet brain-dead: CONGRATS, you realize “these mythemes have something to do with ASC rebirth”.

But this whole exam, I’m grading on, this homework, is the question,

GIVEN that all mythemes are descriptions of things experienced/observed in ASC, WHICH specific things, WHICH specific aspects of ASC experiencing/observation, do these particular mythemes describe, by analogy? Why pick the particular theme, “skeleton”?

I’m not seeing analogies mapped, here.

Sure, skeleton = death…. = spiritual death and rebirth. any fool knows that. Its a kinda literalistic, physical-limited mode of reading of mythemes.

That low-grade, low-quality explanation reminds me of the low, mundane hypothesis “The {snake} mytheme means, toxin poison death, and it sheds its skin, like rebirth”. FAIL.

Topics Covered in “Idea Development page 1”

Not sure why I created this section, but I did add headings and TOC in that file:

Idea Development page 1
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/realtime-discovery-log/

That page contains some cool pics and very good explanations of Theory, and history of how I first got started decoding the complete “mushroom tree/ sword” Canterbury image.

I’m not sure how the above page relates to the following page:

Methodology for Decoding the Canterbury Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/methodology-for-decoding-the-canterbury-leg-hanging-mushroom-tree/

I added a heading & phrase in “Idea Development page 1“:

Canterbury Mushroom-Thicket Image Shows There’s Been a Big Cover-up; Blowing the Lid off “the Minimal-Mushroom Cover-up“

New phrase!
the minimal-mushroom cover-up
instead of:
the minimal mushroom theory/scholars/theorists

This image, the paragraph before & after it, are copied from “Idea Development page 1:” When I saw this image, around [7:06 a.m. November 23, 2020], that’s the moment when I grasped — clearly, more than in 2002 with Pagels’ first two books when every single view of the Paul/Gnostic crowd exactly lined up with my system of views — that there’s been a big cover-up.

copied section:

But I’m happy because the very first page I looked at [in the Canterbury Psalter, other than the mushroom-sword image], the first image to meet my eye, on another page, praise the Lord, is a long-shot that I was trying to link to the Bible reader image in the hanging-mushroom image —

The mind’s self-control system in the loose cognitive state is like a ram caught by its own struggling power become powerless, in a branching mushroom tree.

Topics to Focus On

Info about these topics is in
Idea Development page 2
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/idea-development-page-2/

Entheogen Scholars Are Converging on Perceiving a Medieval “Ye War on Druggs” – What Kind of Cover-up Was It?

Per Pagels, Paul/Heracleon/Valentinians held that:
“Greeks” = Mushroom “Gnostic” Esoteric {Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism}
“Jews” = Fake-Eucharist “Orthodox” Exoteric {Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism}

Real Protestants Hold to Mushroom (Esoteric, Gnostic) Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism

Luther Protested Against For-profit Suppression of Mushrooms (= Entire “Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism” view/ framework/ paradigm/ revealed worldmodel) and Substituting for It Bunk, Literalist, Mushroom-Suppressing, “Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism” – Luther Was Not Just Arguing About Mushrooms (or Freewill btw)

Luther’s “Greeks”/ Gnostic/ Esoteric camp protested for
the Entire View/ Worldmodel:
{Mushrooms/ Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism},
against
Insti Cath Ch’s “Jews”/ Orthodox*/ Exoteric camp
the Entire View/ Worldmodel:
{Mushroom-Suppression/ Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism}
*Orthodox in Elaine Pagels’ sense; opposing the “Gnostics”.

Gnostics vs. Orthodox = Greeks vs. Jews = Esoteric vs. Exoteric

Pagels: “Gnostics vs. Orthodox“

Freke & Gandy: “Esoteric vs. Exoteric“

Paul (Heracleon? Valentinus?) per Pagels: “Greeks vs. Jews“

Hoffman: Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism vs. Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism

Hoffman: ASC vs. OSC

Hoffman: Loosecog vs. Tightcog

Blowing the Lid off the Huge Cover-up of the “Mushroom Mystic-State Analogies” Nature of Christianity:
“Gnostic” or”Esoteric Christianity” Means Mushroom Christianity

Books About Mushroom Christians (“Gnostic/Esoteric” Christians)
The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis (1973)
The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters (1975)
The Gnostic Gospels (1979)
My set of views matches the mushroom Christians in the 3 books above.

The Age of Entheogens [, The Pharmacratic Inquisition, and The Entheogenic Reformation] & the Angels’ Dictionary (1995)

The Jesus Mysteries: How the Pagan Mysteries of Osiris-Dionysus Were Rewritten as the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1999)

Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed about Christ (2020)

Helleno-Christianity
Forming a label of my religion, which combines Greek “Paganism” (Mystery Religion & religious mythology decoding) with Christianity (an esoteric version of Barton/Stone Restorationism).

The Cover-up of Mushrooms [together with the concomitant Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism] in Christianity and in Buddhism [selling snake-oil [the Meditation industry & the fake-Eucharist Mass industry] Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism in place of it, for profit]
The malformed “secret mushroom cult” notion serves to mask the actual situation, that there’s been a cover-up of normal mushroom use in Christianity. Priests are huckster who suppress mushrooms and sell snake oil [the Meditation industry & the fake-Eucharist Mass industry] for personal profit. Ott’s Entheogenic Reformation.

Chronology Revisionism: All Ancient Texts Were Written in “1500 A.D.” in Competing Monastic Forgery-Mills
Blow open your mind & theory-possibilities with Edwin Johnson’s Chronology Revisionism.

This Isn’t a Cubensis with Liberty Caps; It’s an Impressionistically Rendered Italian Pine with Umbrella Pines

👈 These aren’t the shrooms you’re looking for.
“These aren’t the shrooms we’re looking for.”
👈 Move along.
“Move along. Move along.”

From High-Resolution Complete Canterbury Psalter, folio 11
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item

There are Liberty Cap mushrooms in the cap of the mushroom tree, depicted literally; this is an example of “Literal Depictions of the Physical Form of the Mushroom”.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=liberty+cap+mushroom

Actually, for those on the outside, that mushroom-tree is a “schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree“, as art historian Brinckmann explained in his 1906 book, as cited by the top art historian, to the Pope’s banker, Wasson.

The umbrellas depicted on the cap are further proof that it’s an umbrella pine ( Italian stone pine; Pinus pinea); therefore this image definitely does not represent a Cubensis mushroom with Liberty Cap mushrooms on the cap.

You see, unbeknownst to mycologists, medieval artists worked off of templates, which got screwy over the years, as the top art historian Panofsky explained in a letter to Pope-banker Wasson.

When re-printing Panofsky’s letter in his book SOMA, Wasson, probably to save on printing costs, replaced Panofsky’s citation of Brinckmann by elipses; and so the matter was settled by the top art historians, based on discussions that settled the matter back in 1906.

Panofsky’s letter citing Brinckmann’s book is typewritten on “THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY” letterhead; therefore, the matter is settled.

The image above, and paragraphs below it, were copied from:
Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/

High-Resolution Complete Canterbury Psalter, folio 11 with the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree, also called an umbrella pine, so you can plainly see for yourself that it is an Italian pine tree, not a mushroom.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

Quotes from Panofsky & Wasson — The Cover-up, Censorship by Order of the Pope, Fraud camp, Pure Argument from Authority

The hucksters foisting Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism on the populace, suppress mushrooms (the real flesh of Christ) along with suppressing Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

“… the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms … and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous. The Plaincourault fresco is only one example – and, since the style is provincial, a particularly deceptive one – of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as a ‘mushroom tree’ or in German, Pilzbaum. It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown of course to mycologists. … [<– Wasson, be sure to censor Brinckmann’s book here – thx – the Pope] What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable. – Erwin Panofsky in a 1952 letter to Wasson excerpted in Soma, pp. 179-180

The above quote is copied from the article:
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
Section: Panofsky, 1952
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889188

Section/clip added to the “Criteria” article; more Sick Burn

Further proof that Pope Wasson is correct and you shouldn’t trust your lying eyes:
Italian Stone Pine Information – How To Care For Italian Stone Pines
Pine
By Teo Spengler
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/pine/italian-stone-pine-information.htm
“Italian stone pine (Pinus pinea) is an ornamental evergreen with a full, high canopy that resembles an umbrella. For this reason, it is also called the umbrella pine. These pine trees are native to southern Europe and Turkey, and prefer warm, dry climates.”

As you can plainly see, it’s a match; this Psalter image isn’t a Cubensis with Liberty Caps; it’s an impressionistically rendered Italian pine, with Umbrella pines in its canopy.

Here’s what you need to know, from the topmost art historian, to stop making your blunder:

“the style is provincial, a particularly deceptive one – of a conventionalized tree type … which art historians actually refer to as a ‘mushroom tree’ … It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree … there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development … the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable”

— Panofsky quote excerpts

I strongly agree with Panofsky that this artist’s botched attempt to depict an Italian pine with Umbrella pines in its canopy “became quite unrecognizable”; it became so unrecognizable, it accidentally ended up looking exactly like a Cubensis with Liberty Caps in its cap — unbeknownst, of course to the artist, who was working off prototypes; who “hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.” I’ll say!

/ end of added section/clip

Brown’s article showing the Panofsky letter — without Brinckmann’s book being censored and replaced by ellipses:
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p142.xml
Find: May 2, 1952 (3rd hit)

Especially note the citation of Brinckmann’s book at the bottom of the second paragraph, which Wasson in SOMA quietly replaced by ellipses.

Wasson’s silent replacement of the Brinckmann citation by ellipses is outrageous hiding of scholarly work which would be needed, to substantiate the extremely bold claim (thus extremely in need of substantiation) of the top art historian Panofsky, that “art historians have already discussed” mushroom trees in Christian art.
[see “hall of shame” below, or nearby, for exact quotes]

Some excerpts from my article; wasson writes: (bold-ital is mine)

I checked with other art historians including Meyer Schapiro, and found that they were in agreement. I was struck by the celerity with which they all recognized the art motif. [translation: all the Establishment art historians are in cahoots with the Minimal view, to suppress the many mushrooms they found in Christian art. -mh]

One could expect mycologists, in their isolation, to make this blunder. [YOU are the “blunder”, Wasson! and your crony “top art historians”, liars & dolts, imbeciles and cover-up history-artists, the whole damned lot of them — THOSE ON THE OUTSIDE. -mh] Mr. Allegro is not a mycologist but, if anything, a cultural historian. On page 229 of his book, in his notes, he shows himself familiar with my writings. Presumably he had read the footnote in which I dismissed the fresco on page 87 of Mushrooms, Russia & History and, more especially, Panofsky’s [censored-by-Wasson!! no Brinckmann cite. why not??] letter reproduced on page 179 of SOMA. He chooses to ignore the interpretation put on this fresco by the most eminent art historians.” / end of wasson quote

doozies from Wasson; Hall of Shame, of Wasson quotes (ie the minimal-mushroom cover-up camp‘s quotes):

Hall of Shame, of Quotes from the “minimal-mushroom cover-up camp” (in this case, Wasson)

[top, most-eminent] art historians … were in agreement

the celerity [swift immediacy] with which they [ie the top, most-eminent art historians] all recognized the art motif

mycologists, in their isolation, … make this blunder

the most eminent art historians

/ Hall of Shame quotes

WASSON’S ARGUMENT IS 100% *ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY*, ONLY; HE CENSORS BRINCKMANN’S BOOK!

The situation is a perfect example of the “argument from authority” fallacy.

Excerpt from my Plaincourault article:

Wasson wrote in a public letter, about whether the Plaincourault tree was Amanita:

Sir, I have just read John M. Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (reviewed in the TLS on May 28 [1970]). I will refrain from passing on his philological evidence, which others have already treated thoroughly. But I will call your readers’ attention to a question of art history, that I have not seen mentioned in the various reviews that have come to my attention.
Facing page 74 of his book Mr. Allegro exhibits a photograph of what he calls “a Christian fresco showing the Amanita muscaria as the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden”. His publishers have reproduced a mirror-image of this on each of the end-papers of the book and also on the jacket.
This fresco, an expression of French provincial Romanesque art, was first called to the attention of the learned world in the Bulletin of the Société Mycologique de France in 1911 (vol. xxvii, p. 31). It has been picked up frequently in mycological publications, especially in England. Mycologists speak only to each other and never to art historians. Had they done so, the story would have been different.
I drew attention to this error in our Mushrooms, Russia & History (1957) and at greater length in my SOMA: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (1969). In this last book I quoted from a letter that Erwin Panofsky had written me in 1952: [Wasson presents again here the entire [my article is misleading – it’s the entire *censored* excerpt; missing the Brinckmann cite -mh Nov 28 2020] Panofsky excerpt shown in Soma]. I checked with other art historians including Meyer Schapiro, and found that they were in agreement. I was struck by the celerity with which they all recognized the art motif.
One could expect mycologists, in their isolation, to make this blunder. Mr. Allegro is not a mycologist but, if anything, a cultural historian. On page 229 of his book, in his notes, he shows himself familiar with my writings. Presumably he had read the footnote in which I dismissed the fresco on page 87 of Mushrooms, Russia & History and, more especially, Panofsky’s letter reproduced on page 179 of SOMA. He chooses to ignore the interpretation put on this fresco by the most eminent art historians. – Wasson, “The Sacred Mushroom”, letter to the editor in The Times Literary Supplement, August 21, 1970

/ end of excerpt from my Plainc article:
Title of my article:
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
Subsection:
The Shallow Wasson/Allegro Discussion of the Plaincourault Amanita Question
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889198

Wasson’s hiding of Panofsky’s citation of Brinckmann’s book is censorship by the order of the Pope, who was evil, and tried to suppress mushrooms and substitute a fake, demonic, inert “Mass”, to knowingly trick people into magical thinking, in order to personally profit from lying and replacing the real flesh of Christ (mushrooms) that actually regenerates and leads to knowledge of God, by a demonic substitute.

The Pope ordered Wasson to censor this lead to Brinckmann’s flimsy-as-can-be book, in order to make money for himself and his gangsters, the entheogen-cover-up hucksters who sell the snake-oil of Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism, who, along with covering-up mushrooms, also, in the same vein, strategically cover-up the entire framework which mushrooms bring, Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

Those Bickering Soma Entheogen Scholars

A Rebuttal to Criticisms of The Cannabis Soma Theory in “Secret Drugs of Buddhism” by Mike Crowley
By Chris Bennett, February 4, 2020
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2020/02/04/a-rebuttal-to-criticisms-of-the-cannabis-soma-theory-in-secret-drugs-of-buddhism-by-mike-crowley/

“This article is Part 4 of a series on The Soma-Haoma Question, and other articles thus far include:

1) The Soma-Haoma Question

2) The Cannabis Soma/Haoma Theory: A Synopsis Based on the Latest Textual and Archeological Evidence

3) The Mushroom Soma Theory: A Critical Analysis

5) ‘Secret Drugs of Buddhism’, Soma, and the Sad State of Entheogenic Anthropology

6) Haoma and Harmaline: A Critical Analysis

Why There Are No Psychoactives in Medieval Texts: Ye Old War on Druggs, but How to Correctly Characterize It, without Committing the Presentism Fallacy?

This section has been Cancelled — Topic Forbidden, by the Order of Pope Wasson. The mushrooms you are seeing, you are not seeing.

Audience for article: Hanegraaff, Hatsis.

Book:
Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult
Chris Bennett, 2018
http://amzn.com/1634241657 — Description keywords/excerpts:
“cannabis and other psychoactive plants held a prominent and important role in the Occult arts of Alchemy and Magic,
in ritual initiations of certain secret societies.
the important role cannabis played in helping to develop modern medicines through alchemical works.
spagyric alchemy,
alchemists such as Zosimos, Avicenna, Llull, Paracelsus, Cardano and Rabelais. medieval and renaissance magic
recipes with instructions for its use appear in a number of influential and important grimoires such as the Picatrix, Sepher Raxiel: Liber Salomonis, and The Book of Oberon.
Detailed historical references
Allegations the Templars were influenced by the hashish ingesting Assassins of medieval Islam
whether myths of the Grail are derived from the Persian traditions around the sacred beverage known as haoma, which was a preparation of cannabis,opium and other drugs.
Many of the works discussed have never been translated into English, or published in centuries.
The unparalleled research in this volume
a potential perennial classic on the subjects of both
medieval and renaissance history of cannabis
the role of plants in the magical and occult traditions.”

End of Aaron Leich’s Forward to Chris Bennett’s book:

“Cannabis and other mind-altering substances have been an underground and occluded fact of the Western Mystery Tradition all along.

“So buckle in!

“You’re about to learn some of your favorite occult philosophers most likely took a few strange drugs in their day.”

Articles by Chris Bennett:
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/author/chris-bennett/

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2020/05/29/ancient-judaic-use-of-cannabis-for-shamanic-ecstasy-verified-by-archeological-evidence/

Ancient Judaic Use of Cannabis for Shamanic Ecstasy Verified by Archeological Evidence

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I Wrote Core/Cybernetic Theory First (Needed Dictionary), Mytheme Theory Second (Needed Alphabetical List) – Why Did Ancients Have Myth Nailed, But Positively Sucked at Documenting Mystery-Religion Initiation in the Form of “Philosophy”, or Declined to Try?

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lexicon

encyclopedia

3 Tabs with Articles Open for Editing: Idea Dev, Mytheme List; Glossary

The Decoded Mytheme Language as Speaking in a Unknown Foreign Tongue; {speaking in tongues}

Mytheme decoded: {billowing cloth, breath} = hidden uncontrollable source of control-thoughts made visible in the loose cognitive state

mytheme {spear in side, wound, female vulnerability}

Got Egodeath Yahoo Group Backup as Web-Ready HTML Files

My 1997 Theory Summary at Principia Cybernetica

Location of this article at Principia Cybernetica

Email to Wouter Hanegraaff

1. My new articles

2. I bought your book on New Age when it first came out

3. I’ve read many of your books and articles

4. Clarifying what Religionism is, given that you want to make Religion (including scholarly research of the history of Esotericism) relevant, appealing, and front and center in the Humanities

5. Two recent books I want to read. Criticism of two entheogen scholarship books

Copied Main Article (2006) and Core Theory Specification Outline (1997) to this WordPress Site

Mythemes Page & Glossary (Referent Domain) Page Design

Mytheme List

Egodeath Glossary

Mytheme List

Altered State Glossary

Top Pri (now that I created a Glossary): Add to the Glossary, my keyboard shortcuts.

Top Priority: Stop Repeatedly Defining & Re-Typing-out the Basic Terms/Concepts; Leverage the Glossary! Forget the Newbies!

About this Domain-Optimized Lexicon

Multiple Mytheme-Clusters Cross-Decoded: {ransom, embedded in tree trunk, apolytrosis}

heading

Sacrament of Apolytrosis, Setting Free from Cybernetic Seizure Trap

Math Proof/Solution

The following mythemes to map to the referent domain:

Referent domain to map mythemes to:

Correctly Identifying Isomorphism (from the Mytheme to the Referent Domain) Is Vastly More Important than “What Did that Artist Think It Meant?”

Lyrics Poetry Mytheme Decoding: {Necromancer}

Apolytrosis

Email to Joshua Bempechat at Ancient Psychedelia

Email to Richard Smoley

Infuriating, Arbitrary, Smug Smear-Piece Article Against Psychedelics (Go Absolutely to Hell, All Entheogen-Minimalists, Frauds, Charlatans, Thieves, Counterfeiters) – An Academic Exercise in POMPOSITY Like Wasson’s Hall of Shame Quotes; as Smug and Condemnatory, as Full of Baloney

PACK UP YOUR SNAKE OIL AND GET OUT OF TOWN AND DON’T COME BACK

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)Psychedelics & the Path: Intro Quote

Important Profoundity Paragraph of Mythem-Clusters Decoding

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The Entheogen Diminishment Industry: The Very Definition of Con, Scam; Targeting “Marks”

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)Psychedelics & the Path: TOC

Email to Sam Woolfe

Pursuading Scholars to Convert to the Egodeath theory’s Maximal Mushroom Theory of Christian Art

What Does the Phrase “Big Breakthrough” Mean? Define It, Like Yesterday’s Defining of “Complete Decoding” (of a Mytheme)

A Given; a Fact: All Religions Everywhere Always Have Some Entheogen Use

Questions from Cyberdisciple

What profit in suppressing Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism, and selling Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism?

When did supposed entheogen suppression start, in Christianity?

Prot stopped shrooming when?

Chrono-Vertigo

Mytheme: {clothing/ flesh removed, revealing naked body/ skin/ skeleton}

What Makes for a Good, Thorough “Decoding of a Mytheme”?

Examples of things in Mythemeland

Examples of things in Referentland

Draft 1 of Email to Jerry Brown

Draft 2 of Email to Jerry Brown

Draft 3 of Email to Jerry Brown

Topics Covered in “Idea Development page 1”

Topics to Focus On

This Isn’t a Cubensis with Liberty Caps; It’s an Impressionistically Rendered Italian Pine with Umbrella Pines

Quotes from Panofsky & Wasson — The Cover-up, Censorship by Order of the Pope, Fraud camp, Pure Argument from Authority

Section/clip added to the “Criteria” article; more Sick Burn

Some excerpts from my article; wasson writes: (bold-ital is mine)

Hall of Shame, of Quotes from the “minimal-mushroom cover-up camp” (in this case, Wasson)

Excerpt from my Plaincourault article:

Those Bickering Soma Entheogen Scholars

Why There Are No Psychoactives in Medieval Texts: Ye Old War on Druggs, but How to Correctly Characterize It, without Committing the Presentism Fallacy?

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Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)
Psychedelics & the Path: Intro Quote

Gnosis Issue 26 (Winter 1993)
Psychedelics & the Path: TOC