Outtakes from “Key Concepts” & “Key Mythemes” Pages

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Contents:

• Strategy
• Overflow
• About (from Key Concepts page, formerly “Direct Dictionary”)
• Old Entries from Key Concepts Page
• Old Table of Contents for Key Mythemes Page (Alphabetical Letter Sections)
• Old Table of Contents for Core Concepts Page (Alphabetical Letter Sections)

Strategy

The List of Key Mythemes is far too slow to edit, and bloated, and was exploding in size, as if to be a 4-pound, 1500-page, yet all-the-more clueless, Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism — an exhaustive exercise in those-on-the-outside missing the point and the engine driving the whole thing.

List of Key Mythemes, Briefly Showing How the Altered State Is Described by Analogies
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/

Move images and text from that page to here.

Cut its complexity and wordcount.

Move all non-essentials here.

Cap its total length.

Cap each entry’s length.

Cap the number of entries.

Do not try to cover every specific particluar myth.

Focus less on specific myths eg Persephone, restrict it to general-purpose mythemes, not particular storytime narraive applications.

Overflow

As in David Ulansey’s book on Mithraism. See:
Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/ptolemaic-astral-ascent-mysticism/

In this image: the {woman} = Heimarmene. God controls Fate; Fate controls the mind. Todo: find hi-res orig.

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https://www.bing.com/search?q=integrae+Naturae+Speculum+Artisque+imago+Robert+Fludd

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bowl+of+hygeia

from https://poisonhistory.wordpress.com/ —
note about research tools: i am able to right-click an image in browser and click “Search Bing for Image“

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Wiki: “Only initiates knew what the kiste, a sacred chest, and the calathus, a lidded basket, contained.” A serpent would be a sound guess:

LESSER ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES
https://hemlockandhawthorn.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/lesser-eleusinian-mysteries/ —

“Purified, the initiate is prepared to approach the goddess. In the final scene on the urn, Heracles approaches Demeter who is seated on the kiste, the basket [chest, box, trunk] holding the sacred ritual objects of the Greater Mysteries–

“I fasted; I drank the draught; I took from the chest; having done my task, I placed in the basket, and from the basket into the chest” (Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks).

“Heracles reaches out his right hand to touch the snake coiling from the kiste to the goddess’s lap, while the mystes, the successful initiate carrying a bundle of some sort, touches the snake of all divine mysteries fearlessly. Demeter is not careless, but she does not even look at Heracles in the depiction on the urn, instead gazing behind her at the return of Persephone [{turn to look to the right}; to remember Transcendent Knowledge], which she bars from Heracles’ sight, just as she defends the kiste, as these are mysteries only intended to be revealed at the rituals in autumn.”

top-10 mythemes:

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

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

{tree} is a concrete specific instance of the abstract general mytheme-theme, {branching}.

Branching, being abstract, is also a technical term within the Egodeath theory.

serpent is synonym of snake.

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https://www.bing.com/search?q=deus+ex+machina – “an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.”

wik: “glish ‘god from the machine’) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence.[2][3] Its function can be to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending, or act as a comedic device.”

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todo: paste screen capture of the lion-faced serpent (you can imagine it just fine though)

Zeus and Semele

Normally, it was dark when Zeus and Semele had intercourse, with him injecting thoughts into her, without her seeing that situation.

She wanted to see her lover, Zeus.

But when he shined light with the smallest of his thunderbolts to let her {see} him, it completely zapped her to smithereens, giving birth to Dionysus.

The Myth of Semele, Zeus and the Birth of Dionysus
https://www.nirvanicinsights.com/semele-zeus-dionysus

In Mark 9:14-29, Jesus exorcises the ego-demon from a youth supported by his father. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A14-29&version=KJV

“Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; [childhood-suited naive-Possibilism-thinking is stupid animalish confusion, bedevilling self-control stability in the altered state -mh ]

¹⁸ And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. [the disciples couldn’t succeed at permanently doing away with Naive-Possibilism-thinking and securing Eternalism-thinking upon return to OSC. -mh ]

²⁰ And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, [like a prophet before an angel -mh] and wallowed foaming.

²¹ And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

²² And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

²⁴ And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. [egoic Naive-Possibilism-thinking, stop re-entrenching; finally be gone/purged, and stop bedevilling/ destabilizing personal control power in the altered state, secure Eternalism-thinking to be remembered after returning to the OSC.]

²⁶ And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

{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 Mytheme list” page about decoding Rock lyrics?
Mystic-State Allusions in Rock Music
http://www.egodeath.com/#mysticstaterockallusions

From my main article (2006):
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

The above diagram shows Eternalism (the block universe) containing frozen, pre-existing worldlines of control-thoughts. 

The three worldlines with a dot in the middle represent {the elect}, those who are predestined to be initiated; mystically “saved” and “regenerated”, who become aware that their future stream of control-thoughts is already cast in stone and pre-existing with no ability to change (that is, control) their future thoughts.

About (from Key Concepts page, formerly “Direct Dictionary”)

Decoding a mytheme means making mental, all-way connections among mythemes and referents. The Mytheme List page contains mythemes, as mytheme list entries.

This Dictionary page contains ASC referents, as “term” entries in this page of dictionary term entries, in this Dictionary/Glossary of Egodeath Theory Terms and ASC Referents. Referents of mytheme-analogies are: things experienced & observed in the altered state (that is, the loose cognitive association binding state from ingesting entheogens, which are: cognitive loosening agents).

See Also

Book:
The Angels’ Dictionary
Entheogen religion terminology.
That’s Part 2 of the book:
The Age of Entheogens [, The Pharmacratic Inquisition, and The Entheogenic Reformation;] & the Angels’ Dictionary
Jonathan Ott
1995
http://amzn.com/0961423471
My review:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R22RVGR2PFJN69/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0961423471 —
Michael Hoffman
5.0 out of 5 stars 
Reviewed on March 23, 2002
One of the best on the entheogenic origin of religions

Rock lyrics from Rush / Neil Peart, for academic analysis:

{Memory banks unloading},
{Bytes break into bits} [cognitive dis-integration, loose cognitive binding of mental construct sets],
{Unit One’s in trouble and it’s scared out of its wits} [the personal control system is you peaking in an intense session; frightening panicked control-loss escalating, scared witless to realize that nothing restrains the mind; the control system can’t restrain the flow of willing that the Ground of Being injects into it like a {vulnerable female overpowered};
{Guidance systems break down} [self-control cybernetic breakdown];
{A struggle to exist — to resist} [hanging onto the ego-structure is almost impossible in a sea of cognitive fragmentation and transcendent clarity of thought and perception]
{A pulse of dying power, in a clenching, plastic fist} [hand appears as a cartoon representation only, and one’s power is seen to arise prior to oneself — one’s stream-of-will is given to oneself]

From “mythic motifs” in gnosticism, very good video below by Laurence Caruana, for those on the inside who speak Mythemese, who know this ultimate mental game, as the present pair of Dictionary pages teaches most efficiently.

THE GNOSTIC WORLDVIEW – A Lecture by LAURENCE CARUANA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBn6ZKrQKo&t=5793s
best-in-class video
(not necessarily the exact timestamp)

{Mythemeland}

the realm of things that are observed and experienced in the altered state, specifically described by analogies, rather than directly described as in Loose Cognitive Science-land.

{no escaping alive, cave, rock cave, helmsman, steersman, underworld, die, no return}: {sealed the entrance, so that none would escape} – {rock cave} = mind in ASC seeing block universe in the {cave} of the altered-state mind; the egoic {kubernetes steersman helmsman} (egoic personal control agency) cannot survive seeing the block universe; Naive-Possibilism thinking {dies} in the {rock cave}, cannot come out; Persephone is {abducted} into Hades’ {rock underworld} where illusory egos {die} and do not {return}.

{path}

{snake, way} = worldline frozen into the block universe

{sealed the entrance, so that none would escape} – {rock cave} = mind in ASC seeing block universe in the {cave} of the altered-state mind; the egoic {kubernetes steersman helmsman} (egoic personal control agency) cannot survive seeing the block universe; Naive-Possibilism thinking {dies} in the {rock cave}, cannot come out; Persephone is abducted into Hades’ {rock underworld} where illusory egos {die and do not return}.

Book:
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World
Going outside the cosmic spheres, to move the pole star, being independent of fate; precession of the equinoxes: the purported “fixed stars” move! And so can you be free from the rule of Heimarmene; fatedness; no-free-will.
David Ulansey, 1989
http://amzn.com/0195067886
See also:
Valentinian Freewill Compatibilism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/valentinian-freewill-compatibilism/

astral ascent mysticism – The series of altered-state initiation sessions is pictured as moving up through the orb spheres of the moving “planets”, including Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the fate-ruled sphere of the Fixed Stars, then outside the spheres, transcending fate, into the Empyreum, to be able to move the pole-star to shift the heavens: HEAVEN IMPERIUM – DWELLING PLACE OF GOD AND OF ALL THE ELECT. As in David Ulansey’s book on Mithraism. See:
Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/ptolemaic-astral-ascent-mysticism/

the maximal ahistoricity theory of religious founder figures — Jesus, Paul, Moses, Augustine (maybe), are all in the genre of mystical fiction, not the genre of historical reportage.

We are saved in an intelligible, tangibly experienced way, by the vision of king Jesus;

Christ fastened to and crucified on a tree, & then reborn from a rock cave tomb; we are not magically saved (somehow) by literal blood violence and harm done to Mr. Historical Jesus.

This apathy about whether there was an identifiable single historical figure on which the massively mystic-state vision of Christ was built, is a standard part of standard esoteric position/view/paradigm, per Pagels’ first 3 books and the quasi-sequel to those, The Jesus Mysteries (Freke & Gandy).
Esoteric Christianity Books: Pagels; Freke & Gandy
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/esoteric-christianity-books-pagels-freke-gandy/

Normally, for convenience, the mind uses linguistic and conceptual associations in a rigid, rutted, and repetitive way, debates are permanent standoffs, because the same cliched assumptions are carelessly adhered to every time words are used – such as assuming that ‘determinism’ must be conceptualized as in-time, linear-flowing, domino-chain causality, as opposed to holistic, all-at-once causality per an Eternalism view of the block universe, in which worldlines at all times exist.

Mastery of semantics enables one to release one’s assumptions about every single word in an argument, not just a key term in isolation.

mushroom

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

mushroom art — https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+art
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/
Gallery of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/gallery-of-mushrooms-in-art/

mushroom “usage vs. depiction” delta – how much did Greeks & Christians use mushrooms? How much did they depict mushrooms? Those two quantities are not necessarily the same.

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Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism — astral ascent mysticism.

Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/ptolemaic-astral-ascent-mysticism/

Old Entries from Key Concepts Page

referent

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

Something that can be experienced, perceived, or observed in the ASC; the loose cognitive state. This includes
1) things that can be experienced and observed in the OSC (tight cognitive association binding state), although now experienced within the altered state, and
2) things that can only be perceived and experienced in the ASC.

referent domain

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

religious mythic metaphor = religious mythology

repudiate

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

deny the truth or validity of, refute, rebut, disclaim, disavow, dismiss, negate, cancel, set aside, revoke · rescind · reverse · retract · overrule · override · overturn · invalidate · nullify · declare null and void, refuse to accept, refuse to be associated with, reject · renounce · abandon · forswear · give up · turn one’s back on · have nothing more to do with · wash one’s hands of · have no more truck with · abjure · disavow · recant · desert · discard · disown · cast off · lay aside · cut off · rebuff · forsake · disprofess

In Mithraism initiation, the “candidate-in-prep-training-for-initiation”, in a ritual, has to refuse the crown.

meta-theory; theory expansion and theory replacement

specialized concept (move into Transcendent Knowledge development?)

Thagard, Paul

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

model of theory expansion and theory replacement, in his book Conceptual Revolutions. See also: Transcendent Knowledge development.

theory

see the Egodeath theory

transformation of the mental worldmodel

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

from Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism to Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism

trap

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Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

virtual egoic control agent

See egoic control agent.

worldmodel

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

key concept

A mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and personal control power.

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The vanishing of the experience of personal control power.

Entheogen Eternalism

the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth

the Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

entheogen-based cybernetics testing

Possible E Entries

the Egodeath Yahoo Group

entheogen-based cybernetics testing

the Eternalism-Cybernetics Theory of Ego Transcendence

egoic control system

egoic control thinking

ego death

the Egodeath theory

entheogen-induced experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism

Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

Eternalism mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control

egoic personal control system

egoic personal control-system’s power

Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

egoic thinking

eternalism-thinking (along with qualified possibilism-thinking)

Eternalism

eternalism-thinking

fatedness

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

freewill-premised thinking

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

Pagels uses this term to mean “esoteric Christians”.
Esoteric Christianity Books: Pagels; Freke & Gandy
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/esoteric-christianity-books-pagels-freke-gandy/

instability

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Definition:

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Mythemes:

monopossibility

Synonyms:

Definition:

Concept type:

Mythemes:

Old Table of Contents for Key Mythemes Page (Alphabetical Letter Sections)

Contents — Alphabetical (Older Entries Only) – todo: delete this Alpha part of Toc

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• A mythemes
  • {abandon}
  • {abducted}
  • {altar}
  • {ambrosia}
  • {angel}
  • {anguished}
  • {approach}
  • {appease}
  • {astral}
  • {astral fatedness}
  • {astral ascent mysticism}
  • {astrological medicine}
  • {affliction}

• B mythemes
  • {banquet}
  • {beard}
  • {billowing}
  • {bones}
  • {bowl}
  • {bride}
  • {branching}

• C mythemes
  • {calming}
  • {capsize}
  • {captive}
  • {cave}
  • {child}
  • {Christ}
  • {Christian}
  • {clothing}
  • {Cyclops}

• D mythemes
  • {death}
  • {demon}
  • {demonic}
  • {doorway}
  • {dragon}

• E mythemes
  • {elect}
  • {embedded}
  • {escape}
  • {evil}
  • {expel}

• F mythemes
  • {fasten}
  • {fate}
  • {feline}
  • {female}
  • {fire}
  • {flesh}
  • {frenzy}
  • {furies}

• G mythemes
  • {garment}
  • {gate}
  • {gatekeeper}
  • {giving birth}
  • {God}
  • {guard}
  • {guarded}

• H mythemes
  • {hair}
  • {Heimarmene}
  • {helmsman}
  • {hero}
  • {holy food}
  • {hidden}
  • {honor}
  • {hunter}

• I mythemes
  • {immortal}
  • {imperishable}
  • {impurity}
  • {initiate}
  • {initiated}
  • {initiation}
  • {invisible}
  • {ivy}

• J mythemes

• K mythemes
  • {king}

• L mythemes
  • {left}
  • {lion}

• M mythemes
  • {Maenad}
  • {maiden}
  • {male}
  • {mania}
  • {mask}
  • {mercy}
  • {message}
  • {mother}

• N mythemes
  • {naked}
  • {net}
  • {non-branching}

• O mythemes
  • {one eye}
  • {otherworld}

• P mythemes
  • {payment}
  • {pneumatic race}
  • {partner}
  • {perishable}
  • {pollution}
  • {potion}
  • {princess}
  • {prize}
  • {prophecy}
  • {purification}

• Q mythemes
  • {quest}
  • {queen}

• R mythemes
  • {ransom}
  • {ransom price payment}
  • {redemption}
  • {release}
  • {released}
  • {release from captivity upon payment}
  • {release price}
  • {rescue}
  • {rescued}
  • {returning home}
  • {reveal}
  • {ride}
  • {right}
  • {rock}
  • {ruler}

• S mythemes
  • {salamander}
  • {sphere of Saturn}
  • {sphere of the fixed stars}
  • {spying}
  • {savior}
  • {salvation}
  • {sacrifice}
  • {satisfied}
  • {scroll}
  • {see}
  • {serpent}
  • {ship}
  • {shipwreck}
  • {skeleton}
  • {snake}
  • {snake-bite}
  • {snake biting itself, coil of a serpent, ouroboros}
  • {Sophia}
  • {spirit}
  • {steal}
  • {steering}

• T mythemes
  • {threatening}
  • {torn}
  • {touch}
  • {transform}
  • {trap}
  • {treasure}
  • {tree}

• U mythemes
  • {unharmed}
  • {underworld}
  • {unshakeable}
  • {unmovable race}

• V mythemes
  • {veil}
  • {veiled}

• W mythemes
  • {wind}
  • {wine}
  • {winnow}
  • {woman}
  • {wound}

• X mythemes

• Y mythemes

• Z mythemes

Old Table of Contents for Core Concepts Page (Alphabetical Letter Sections)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Contents:

• A concepts
  • the altered state

• B concepts
  • the block universe
  • branching

• C concepts
  • control cancellation
  • control-thought injector
  • cybernetic self-control climax
  • cybernetic non-control
  • calming

• D concepts

• E concepts
  • entheogen-based cybernetics testing
  • the egoic control system
  • egoic control thinking
  • ego death
  • entheogen-induced experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism
  • the eternalism mental model of time, possibility, and control
  • entheogens
  • egoic personal control agent
  • the egoic personal control system
  • the egoic personal control-system’s power
  • the eternalism state of consciousness
  • egoic thinking
  • eternalism-thinking (along with qualified possibilism-thinking)
  • eternalism
  • eternalism-thinking
  • eternalism-thinking + qualified-possibilism-thinking
  • ego transcendence
  • elevated awareness

• F concepts
  • freewill thinking

• G concepts

• H concepts
  • the hidden, uncontrollable source of control-thoughts
  • the mind’s innate transformation sequence

• I concepts
  • the intense mystic altered state
  • instability of the self-control system

• J concepts

• K concepts

• L concepts
  • the loose cognitive state
  • loose cognitive association binding
  • loose cognitive binding
  • loose cognitive binding state
  • loose mental construct association binding
  • loose mental construct binding
  • levels of control

• M concepts
  • mental construct processing
  • mental construct relationship matrix
  • mental worldmodel
  • mental worldmodel transformation
  • mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism
  • mental model transformation

• N concepts
  • no-free-will
  • the normally hidden, uncontrollable source of control-thoughts
  • naive possibilism-thinking
  • from naive possibilism-thinking, to eternalism-thinking along with qualified possibilism-thinking
  • nondual unity oneness awareness
  • the normally veiled, uncontrollable source of control-thoughts
  • non-branching

• O concepts
  • the ordinary state of consciousness

• P concepts
  • the presumed basis & source of personal control thoughts
  • personal control system
  • psychedelic eternalism
  • the personal egoic control system
  • the psychedelics-induced experiential shift from possibilism to eternalism
  • the possibilism mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control
  • psychedelic pre-existence
  • personal self-control power
  • the personal self-control system
  • possibilism
  • possibilism-thinking
  • psychedelic
  • pre-existence
  • possibility-branching
  • the pre-existing worldline of personal control-thoughts
  • personal egoic control agent
  • puppethood

• Q concepts
  • qualified possibilism-thinking

• R concepts

• S concepts
  • the self-control system
  • seeing the uncontrollable source of control thoughts
  • self-control paranoia

• T concepts
  • the transcendent control system
  • transformative cybernetic seizure
  • transcendence
  • tight cognitive binding
  • the tight cognitive binding state
  • Transcendent Knowledge
  • transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism
  • transcending no-free-will
  • things that are observed and experienced in the altered state
  • transformation from possibilism to eternalism
  • transformation from possibilism to the eternalism mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control
  • transcendent thinking
  • the eternalism mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control

• U concepts
  • the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts

• V concepts
  • the virtual egoic control agent
  • vulnerability

• W concepts
  • the worldline of control-thoughts

• X concepts

• Y concepts

• Z concepts