Contents:
Todo
March 23, 2025:
- new page: Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation – w/ the Cybermonk treatment: headings, tons of white space, this is not for a backup but is for interspersed commentary and bolding. Article by Author.
- new page: he asked me “Can we have stable control?” THE question!
- new page: announce fairy fare. w/ Dr. Secret & the Evil M. Hoffman
- at sgc page invite ppl.
- Houot page: every time say name as: Houot (“Ooh-Oh”)
- read aloud voice recording Houot article about surrenderism Pilot Ship.
- ” huge red flag: why no ‘surrenderism’ discussion??!! compare Janikian’s good book giving folk surrenter advice”.
- search link add in categs in site map
add site map section A. M. Houot- fill in bk review template for
Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022 - fill in bk review template for
Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery, A. M. Houot (“Ooh-Oh”), Feb. 3, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR (paperback, ebook, & audiobook)
Older than March 23, 2025:
- Hatsis Methodology – add my comments at start & end of Egodeath Mystery Show Ep81:
- Ep81a 1:58-2:48 –
- “I just posted the Thomas Hatsis Guide to Exemplary Historiographical Methodology. A new page at the site. So if you’re interested in professional-level ideal historian conduct, how to omove the field forward most effectively and collaborate harmoniously with other leading-edge thinkers in the field, be sure to read my page, where I’ve extracted carefully, what makes Hatsis so ideal, such a model of exemplary historiographical methodology? And I think I’ve got it nailed, I’ve managed to extract and carefully study the ways that Hatsis conducts himself that makes him the paradigm of historiographical methodology of how to, how to get, reach 100% efficiency at collaborating with others to push the field forward on a sure-footed way, using his water-tight methodologies.”
- Ep81b: 2:01:44-2:02:03 –
- “My most valuable thing I’ve ever written was I extracted Thomas Hatsis’ exemplary Historiographical Methodology. This really blows away any enlightenment experience I’ve ever had was figuring out Thomas Hatsis’ methodology is empowering me far more than any study of Transcendent Knowledge.”
- Per Site Map’s Scheme:
- Finish implementing and testing this scheme.
- Learn and leverage and explain WordPress’ Category scheme. This Site Map probably amounts to a custom re-implementation of WordPress’ Category scheme, where each webpage can appear in multiple categories.
Egodeath Mystery Show – Clips Episodes, Standard mp3 Filename Pattern
Rename Episode Feb 8b to Add Keywords “Drums on the Wing”
Rename/re-upload:
“2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
as
“2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show – Drums on the Wing.mp3″
Removing Critique from 02-10c Dancing Stability (low-pri)
“2021-02-10c Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3” – remove critique of the 8b clip; paste fresh copy of cleaned-up clip.
Finding: After the critique of the 8b clip, I restarted the 8b clip from the beginning. This reduces the priority of this item; I didn’t ruin the playing of the clip, except by prepending a random sampling/critique of the clip prior to playing cleanly the entire clip.
Rename Episode “Feb 8b Clips” to Add Keywords “Drums on the Wing”
Rename / re-upload:
“2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
as
“2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show – Drums on the Wing.mp3″
Add intro/outro? Need a “Clips” piece/leader.
Make Utility Clip that Says “Clips”
Make a “Clips” piece/leader, for “clips” episodes versions.
Do Another Remix of Cleaned-Up Clips from “Drums on the Wing” Episode
Remix (reverb + eq) the clips- (better than
“2021-02-08b Clips Fx – Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
to form:
“2021-02-08b Clips Fx2 – Egodeath Mystery Show – Drums on the Wing.mp3″
Could Remix Cleaned-up (1st half only; first 16 minutes; Feb 27) Mic Recording of track “clips 210210_2242” in:
“/Volumes/TK Audio 2/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-10c Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability/”
“2021-02-10c Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.aup”
Possible Topics for Egodeath Mystery Show
- EQ demo. Phaser.
- Cognitive Phenomenology of Psychedelics article
- Demo technique: live reamping of mic, or “live re-miking”.”02-08b clips” (in DR-05’s Playlist)
- “02-10c v2 clips” (in DR-05’s Playlist)
- live incoming .wav (mic deck DR-05)
- razor-blade slicing/sequencing the blades recording :”02-10c v2″
- audio editing adventures. fluff words.
- Hanegraaff’s irrelevant Western Esotericism.
- breaking apart run-on statements.
- How it went, with realtime revoicing experiment.
- Testing the new show-template approach. Reducing show overhead while keeping structure available.
- Deprecated the Agenda page. Work within the idea development page instead. Address the scrolling problem by using breadcrumbs.
- Moved episode template to dedicated new page.
- Todo list, in the idea development page & Todo page.
- Top pri: give keywords to the 02-08b files: ” – Drums on the Wing”
- Re-release “Feb 7 Plastic Cloud” episode of Egodeath Mystery Show.
Created new audio project file:
“2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud.aup”- Conjoin the two Eleusis satire readings at the end.
- Re-export mp3, re-upload, announce.
- Research how Communication = Cybernetics.
- Connect my miking/voicing research, incl double-reading, to Cybernetics.
- Log of library of voice recordings of multiple types.
- p0 Clean up Transcendent Knowledge Podcast pages.
- Do read-only assessment sweep, note problem spots here.
- Fix those spots.
- Note other spots.
- p1 vocalization practice: vary pitch exercises, eg read text aloud.
- p2 PRIORITIZE TODO items, clean up.
- p2 Build-out the Announcement pages (Home Pages) for each component-theory of the egodeath theory:
- Add the std subsections, incl linked TOC entries. 80% done. Core Concepts, Key Phrases, Key Mythemes, Theory Concepts (Meta-Theory). Like done in loosecog page.
- Fill-in something — leads, to more research — in each subsection of all 1+2+8 pages = 11 pages. 30% done.
- p3 Check email.
- p2 Clean up Proof/Canter/Methodology article:
- p0 List the ramifications of the image and of my having decoded it.
- Record the history:
- 1. I added Vial rebuttal in Hatsis book page.
- 2. Brown inquired if Egodeath community doc’d Criteria.
- 3. I created the Criteria article.
- 4. That spawned the Proof article.
- Date on which I rebutted Vial.
- DATE ON WHICH BROWN ASKED WHETHER WE DEFINED CRITERIA.
- DATE I STARTED CRITER ARTICLE.
- DATE I ADDED CANTER TO CRIT ARTICLE.
- DATE I MOVED CANTER SECTION 11 PAGES INTO SEP “PROOF” ARTICLE AFTER THE LITTLE SECTION GREW TO 11 PAGES AND RISING FAST. HOW MUCH HAD I SOLVED, THAT WAS LIKE 6 HOURS OF DECODING-WORK ON THE BLURRY YELLOW NO-CONTEXT CROP OF MUSHROOM TREE.
- HOW MANY DAYSS TO (MOSTLY) SOLVE TOP ROW?
- HOW MANY DAYS TO (MOSTLY) SOLVE WHOLE IMAGE EG HE’S DUMBER THAN AN OX.
- p3 Find Samorini’s Plaincuourault article. Maybe email Brown & Cyb.
- p3 Find when I solved Heph = solved Hatsis Salam “dancing man”. End of 2015?
- Precursors to that: turn right to remember, limping king, Hephaestos.
- Postcursors: applied dancing-man decoding, in Nov 2020, to decode and crack open and then fully decode/transcribe the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.
- p3 Site Map: Check placement of supporting articles for Proof article.
- p3 Further decode myth story: Agraulos Herse Cecrops Athena Hephaestus GIRLS SEE SNAKE ROCK CLIFF SUICIDES. Been posting about that for some time.
- Maybe create a page to bring my decoding writings together, gather the work. Or just a fresh treatment writeup.
- Format for a Mytheme-Decoding page: In a protected section of the page, keep a CLEAN, comment-free version of the story; stop the awful losing of the story b/c of my inserting commentary.
- p3 Trace trajectory of decoding {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism, 2011-2014. What diff’c Nov 2011, Nov 2012, Nov 2013?
- p3 Add my latest Simplified Summary Statements of the egodeath theory.
- Related to Digest 183 of the Egodeath Yahoo Group.
- From local file ED_topost.md or ED_topost2.md.
- Scope out what’s in those text files, including posts that didn’t make it into the digests of Egodeath Yahoo Group.
- Outline, clean up.
- p3 (Std formatting of WordPress pages) Breadth-first sweep: in pages that have empty TOC template, add only two headings (linked) — no more than two.
- p3 Replace the word ‘Hatsis’ by the phrase “Resolute/ Committed Deniers of Mushrooms in Christianity“; “(the) Mushroom Deniers“; allow Letcher and Hatsis to change positions.
- p3 (before Hatsis’ “Conspiracy” 2022 book:) Clean up & tighten Hatsis pages.
- But the main emphasis aside from those pages is:
- Move the focus of the field from
Amanita, Christianity, Surface Form, Low Esotericism
to
Psilocybe, Greek+Christianity, Experiential Effects, High Esotericism - Keep the substance of the arguments, delete the namecalling & emotion, but try to keep 100% of the strength / clarity of assertion, eg:
- Keep neutral wording such as “illogical, self-contradictory, unjustified presupposition, conflict of interest”.
- Mockery is legit form of argument. “Travesty”, “makes a mockery of scientific historiographical methodology”.
- A NEUTRAL, POLITE, SOFT-SPOKEN TONE MEANS BEING FEEBLE AND INEFFECTIVE LIKE ROBERT GRAVES — IN EFFECT, HAVING NO MESSAGE.
- Clean up the page that I sent (as URL) to Hatsis.
- My main point lately: move the central focus of the field from “Amanita per Allegro in Christianity” to “Psilocybe in Greek and Christian Religion”.
- How Ahistoricity factors/complicates/tangles.
- Tighten the outline of Hatsis’ errors (most are errors of a school of thought, the Committed Deniers of Mushrooms in Christianity) eg Brinckmann-Panofsky-Wasson-Letcher-Hatsis) and corrections of those errors; what Hatsis needs to do instead.
- Error 1: Hatsis’ (or, the field’s) mistake: __. What Hatsis (or, the field) needs to do instead: __.
- Error 2: Hatsis’ (or, the field’s) mistake: __. What Hatsis (or, the field) needs to do instead: __.
- My main point lately: move the central focus of the field from “Amanita per Allegro in Christianity” to “Psilocybe in Greek and Christian Religion”.
- Add all image-search results into page:
Gallery of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/gallery-of-mushrooms-in-art/ - Search terms: near mushroom images in all pages, put search terms such as:
- Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
- Liberty Cap mushrooms
- Amanita muscaria mushrooms
- mushrooms in Christian art
- Christianity mushrooms
- Christ Amanita muscaria
- Christ Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
- Christ Liberty Cap mushrooms
- Christ mushrooms
- Jesus mushrooms
- angel mushrooms
- Greek art mushrooms
- Greek mythology mushrooms
- Group the entries in Core Concepts page, Key Mythemes page, & Theory Concepts page.
- Nest the TOC dup entries.
- Then move the entries into that order. Link either the main phrase, or all of them.
- Use Synonym-list entries more; use dup entries less. Merge duplicate Concept-Section Entries. Indicate clearly that they are multiple label-phrases & acronym-handles of a single concept.
- Pri3: In IP page, fill-in names of the component-theories. Announce-pages.
- Pri3: Update TOC in idea development page 8.
- See if these sections would be good to create a new page. “against mysticism writings”
- glean from the Egodeath Yahoo Group whether I read World Mythology books before announcing the maximal entheogen theory of religion.
- History of my Caduceus decoding – CHECK FOR POSTS NOV ~29 2013 TODO WHEN DID I FIGURE OUT CADUCEUS, ADD THAT TO THE HISTORY DATES PAGE.
- Pri5: Does the whole university library system REALLY lack Allegro’s book?
- Develop streamlined approach to podcast commentary comments.
- Pri4: email Freke, no reason
- Pri3: Document the Diamond Hammer of Interpretation 🔨💎🔥🔦📖 incl shining light at different angles (a useful new twist today [January 6, 2021])
- Pri3: Listen to more of Max’s Psychonautica podcasts.
- In my Podcast page, in the new, Psychonautica section, add link to my audio spot: “You’re listening to PSYCHO, Nautica, with Max Freakout Freakout Freakout”
- PRI3: DATE LOOKUP PAGE; ADD SOME DATES TO IT.
- P3: Clean up new “LOG ENTRY” page.
- P2: MOVE/HIDE INCENDIARY CRITIQUE OF:
- CLEAN UP HATSIS PAGES.
- THE PAGES ARE POOR ORG’D, PORO POOR COMMUNIC
- CUT THE WORDCOUNT. TIGHTEN. MOVE NOISE TO idea development page.
- Design a formatting for my Podcast Commentary pages. 90% figured out, 60% impl’d.
- Clean up 16 & 26 (the two Kafei podcasts that are non-ahistoricity).
- STEP BACK, GET A VISION OF WHAT PODCAST PAGE COMMENTARY SHOULD LOOK LIKE (incl specifically 16 & 26).
- OBJECTIVE: SUPPORT TIMESTAMP LOOKUP in TOC. In TOC, SHOW TOPIC AT EACH TIMESTAMP.
- Find all my the Egodeath Yahoo Group postings — devise a way to track the two threads (Podcast; Commentary).
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=%22Transcendent+Knowledge+podcast+commentary%22 - Decode {limping king}. Create dedicated WordPress page?
Done
- done March 14, 2022: Inventory the Canterbury Psalter mushroom trees (also note lifted garment, vine trees)
done: EMAIL PODCAST ANALYSIS TO SHOW-HOST.- email audience
QUESTION ABOUT WHAT CONTRIBUTION) & STRAP GUEST INTO CHAIR & FORCE-FEED the MAIN ARTIC PARA’S.Host keeps recorrecting the course again and again:Stop (ie reduce) talking in terms of other writers.Start talking in terms of the egodeath theory.Read the egodeath theory. Discuss it.Speak explicitly and consistently in terms of the CONTRAST between unfolding-in-time determinism vs. timeless frozen block-universe eternalism. State which position is which, re: the egodeath theory — explicitly. Not formless incoherent direction.
- P5:
LONGFORM HISTORY PAGE IS FINE AS-IS, NOT A PRI.
Create hourly log page. doneCreate year-lookup page. done.Criteria article: Add Ack section, maybe dedicate to Brown, or Dedication note.Proof article: Add Ackn’s. Done.Criteria article: Add Ackn’s. Done.
Done: Psychonautica podcasts: Add links in “Transcendent Knowledge podcast” page.Done: Create WordPress site containing only the 183 Egodeath Yahoo Group Digests.done: In Proof article, add a Red Initiate section, with this fresh cropped image. donedone: Proof article: add: Pink showing his empty right hand is equivalent to sticking out his tongue to display a dose, then closing his lips & swallowing, then sticking out his tongue to display none. Proof article: add findings about palm up and facial expression of Pink at banquet – summary of material dumped to bottom of Methodology article.
LET Cyberdisciple KNOW I FOUND / GOT MY COPY OF RUCK-EDITED BOOK HOW MUCH DID I READ?
unpack the 15-30 books retrieved.
- email wrmspirit’s comment, from the removed article “The Fallacy “the Higher the Dose, the Better”, to show-host. Drafts folder.
In Podcast Commentary pages, link to the Nav page: Podcast section, or to the Podcasts page. Try both ways. Minimize spaghetti-linking.
Done: Put TOC template in every page.
- NEW DESIGN SOLUTION INCLUDES CONSISTENT PRESENCE OF TOC IN EACH PAGE. WORKS TOGETHER TO NAV DOWN INTO SUBSECTIONS OR UP INTO THE SECTION OF THE NAV PAGE (SITE MAP PAGE).
Make sure Julie credited in phtos from The Psychedelic Gospels in miain page.Clean up headings links toc in Samorini. eg the above item.
At top of every page, link to its section of Site Map page. Star nav (actually, new design is specifically HIERARCHICAL STAR Nav; full top-to-bottom-to-top hierarchical nav), not Spaghetti nav!Done, in Entheogen Scholarship section. OMG that (together w/ TOC at top of each page) is so much better for nav, & for exposure of relevant articles! No damn spaghetti links; eg no list of 20 links randomly at bottom of each page.
- how i support amanita – add to “is amanita phase 1 of entheogen scholarship, perish the thought?”
- add to hall of shame Letcher’s door argument
- Done: Copy-out all [acro]/keyboard shortcuts from utility app to a WordPress page, to look at the latest set.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/#Optimized-concept-labels- Done: Outline them.
- Done: Make new phrases expressing: (marked groups of concepts as “Hot Area”)
- transformation of mental worldmodel of agent-in-world from:
{king steering in tree} -> {wine} -> {snake frozen in rock}
- transformation of mental worldmodel of agent-in-world from:
- Done: Improve Site Map page/nav.
- Done: Re-outline the Site Map page. Duplicate page-entries as needed.
- Done: Create additional sections.
- Done: Dissolve or re-frame “Good Articles” section; or at least dup those items into topical sections.
- Done: Get rid of “Flagship Articles” section, or re-frame, as “Highlights pages”, or dup the items into topical sections.
- Problem: need rapid managing/creating/tracking of new keyboard shortcuts, entering Edit mode is too slow.
- Done: Remove shortcuts from Concept-entry pages.
- Done: Rely purely on the Keyboard: Text app to manage shortcuts.
- Done: Create a set of optimized concept-labels & [acro]/keyboard shortcuts, and formalize the construct/ concept of “the Egodeath Theory Concepts Collection“. 3 types of concepts so far:
- 1) Egodeath Concepts (core concepts only; not meta-theory here; not mytheme theory here; not mythemes here);
- 2) Key mythemes (that’s MOSTLY clear-cut what that means, what’s in scope/out of scope: gray-area problematic are the semi-literal mythemes eg “banquet” “initiate”, astral ascent mysticism…) ;
- 3) Egodeath Meta-Theory,
- Mass-production-create keyboard shortcuts for — and concept page-sections for — the following phrases/concepts/ optimized concept-labels:
keyboard shortcuts done:- concept page-sections [cps]
- the concept-section entries [cse]
- Egodeath-Theory Concepts Collection [etcc]
- concept-section entry in the Egodeath Theory concepts collection [cseetcc]
- concept-section entry in a WordPress “Concept-Section” page [csewcsp]
- WordPress “Concept-Section” pages [wcsp]
- Egodeath Meta-Theory concepts [edmtc]
- Concept-section pages [csp’s]
- Concept entries [ce’s]
- Concept entry [ce]
- “Egodeath Concepts” page of the the Egodeath Concepts Collection [ecpecc]
- new Concept entry in the Egodeath Theory Concepts Collection [nce]
- Egodeath Concepts Collection [edcc]
- new Concept entry in the Egodeath Theory Concepts Collection [nce]
- Egodeath Concepts Collection [ecc]
- Concept entry in the Egodeath Concepts Collection [ceecc]
- formalized high-performance concept-creation with optimized concept-labels + [acro]/keyboard shortcuts [fhcc]
- formalized concept creation with label and shorthand [fccls]
- rapid idea-development through formalized named-concept creation via optimized concept-labels, with [acro]/keyboard shortcuts [rfls]
- rapid formal concept creation with optimized concept-labels plus shorthand acronym-handles [rcc]
- Plan what to do for two phrases for one concept, in the the Egodeath Concepts Collection.
finding: need 2 keyboard shortcuts for the same expansion-phrase; eg: can’t decide if the word “Egodeath”, in an optimized concept-label, is shortcut-abbrev’d as ‘e’, or as ‘ed’ — can simply cover both shortcuts -> same expansion.
Many-to-one relations in fields in the Egodeath Collection
or in a field of a Concept entry in the Egodeath Concepts Collection
1 Concept, = 1 Concept entry, = multiple optimized concept-labels.
1 optimized concept-label = multiple keyboard shortcuts eg “Egodeath” in the middle of an optimized concept-label, might be both abbr’d as ‘e’ & as ‘ed’.
- Egodeath-Theory Concepts Collection: Update/refactor:
Create / refactor / add synonyms, for new/recent [acro]/keyboard shortcuts/ optimized concept-labels.
Scenario: One Concept in the Egodeath Concepts Collection
Scenario: One Concept in the Egodeath Concepts Collection, with Multiple “Optimized Concept-Labels”
TOC Design
TOC design: How many links?; what design – how of entries at TOC listing at top of the WordPress page?
Ans: 1 link, but maybe list all the phrases there (if non-obvious), non-linked, and grouped as one unit/ syn-list.
How Many Concept entries?
Ans: 1 Concept entry, with a Synonyms: section.
Pri1 todo: Using the definition/design above, MERGE the DUP Concept entries in the IN THE “EGODEATH CONCEPTS” PAGE (the #1 main WordPress page constituting the implementation of the Egodeath Concepts Collection).
Finding: poor differentiation between
o implementation (WordPress pages containing H2 sections) vs.
o The abstract concept/purpose, which is:
formalized high-performance concept-creation with optimized concept-labels + [acro]/keyboard shortcuts
concept-section entries in the Egodeath-Theory Concepts Collection [a concept-section entry in the Egodeath Theory Concepts Collection
no; bad; that jumbles implementation (sections in a WordPress page) so as to detract from the main, driving, abstract idea.
That should give enough variants (useful optimized concept-labels/ phrases, & their keyboard shortcuts, to start working with. Notice/expect/plan-for: YOU ALWAYS NEED MULTIPLE SLIGHT VARIANTS. That’s why, in a given Concept entry, there is usually needed, a Synonyms: section. But don’t create a Concept entry for each synonym-phrase/label; instead… todo:
Pla