Idea Development page 6

Kinda sorry I wasted time on John Lash’s deleted mushroom articles, but he is an example of garbage or garbled reasoning in the field, and of highly distorting bias, like framing Gnosticism’s {Archons} as literalized UFO extraterrestrial aliens — a conflict of geocentric vs. sun-centric cosmology, for starters. And back-projecting Late-Modern-era mythmaking, onto Antiquity.

2008 Jan Irvin “The Holy Mushroom” Episode

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2008/11nov/RICR-081109.html – “

Episode title:
Jan Irvin – The Holy Mushroom
November 9, 2008
Jan Irvin is an independent researcher, author and lecturer [previously] in archaeoastronomy, astrotheology, ethnopharmacology, shamanism, symbolism, ancient and modern mythology, fertility cults, and ancient and modern religion.

He co-authored the book “Astrotheology & Shamanism: Unveiling the Law of Duality in Christianity and Other Religions” with Andrew Rutajit.

He also co-produced the DVD “The Pharmacratic Inquisition“, also with Andrew Rutajit.

He is the curator of the official website for John Marco Allegro [did he transition that to Judy Brown?], the much criticized Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, and has contributed much to the re-examination of many of Allegro’s theories.

He contributed research toward the academic article “Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita“, with Michael Hoffman.
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

He brings with him over 15 years of research into the study of ethno-pharmacology and drugs.

For the first hour, Jan discusses his book “The Holy Mushroom – Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity”, a critical re-evaluation of the schism [I’m glad he doesn’t mis-call it a “debate”! -mh] between John Allegro and Gordon Wasson over the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity that is presented in John Allegro’s book, “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross”.

[The above misrepresents the scope of the Wasson-Allegro schism.

The schism between Wasson-Allegro wasn’t about “the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity that is presented in John Allegro’s book”; the expressed schism was restricted to the single, highly charged proxy issue, the single mushroom tree of Plaincourault and the 1952 censored letter from Panofsky, and the Ramsbottom letter that exposed Pope Wasson saying “rightly or wrongly we” (the Pope & Wasson) are going to reject Plaincourault as representing mushrooms. -mh]

During hour two, we talk more about the schism between John Allegro and Gordon Wasson and the symbolism behind the concept of Jesus as a mushroom and the fact that some cardinals and bishops to this day are dressed up as mushrooms. [Amanita, b/c visually striking -mh]

We talk about religious art work that contains references to the* mushroom, the Mandeans, Lucifer, the Devil, the Jesus Seminar, symbolism in St. Marks Basilica in Venice and much more.”

[*WHOA careful with the ‘the’!
mushroom != Amanita !
-mh]

Relevant links
theholymushroom.com — n/a, domain sold to a mushroom spore company
gnosticmedia.com — n/a, redirects to https://logosmedia.com/
pharmacratic-inquisition.com – n/a, genero heath mirror site now
John Marco Allegro
Dead Sea scrolls
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita <- egodeath.com
Entheogen
Ethnomycology
Ethnobotany
Andrija Puharich
Save the Gnostics

Books & DVDs
The Holy Mushroom <– 404, but see Amazon.
AstroTheology & Shamanism

John Lash Likes Entheogens, and Hates Abrahamic Religion, Therefore, Abrahamic Religion Cannot Have Included Entheogens

John Lash likes entheogens, and hates Abrahamic religion, therefore, Abrahamic religion cannot have included entheogens.

That is a policized, retarded travesty of entheogen scholarship.

F*ck all this politicized motivation for disallowing Christianity from having used mushrooms for religious experience.

“Do not look for mushrooms in Christianity, because Christianity is evil, so must not be allowed to have mushrooms.”

https://nemeta.org/home/projects/

“As soon as possible following the launch, NEMETA will propose its initial book project: Gnostic Sabotage in the Book of Revelation. Subtitle: How Christianity Carries the Seeds of Its Own Destruction. Needless to say, this is a sensational title bound to incite controversy and attract attention from Christians. the potential market is huge. Christians will buy it just to hate it and tear it apart. John has chosen this book for conversion — changeover from IT/electronic format to material artifact you can hold in hour hands — precisely to exploit its controversial potential. Like Not in His Image, Gnostic Sabotage contains a massive load of ideological semtex [? cut off]

Handled correctly, such a project could bring considerable financial return to NEMETA. … Other titles in waiting:”

[I advocate making money.

I’m against politicizing religion or mushroom scholarship to a priori disallow mushrooms from “our” religion, Greek & Christian religion. -mh]

Lash Article: Wasson and Company: The Entheogenic Theory of Religion

God I HATE how these writers attribute everything, the entire field of mushroom shcolarship, to Wasson & Allegro!

full article:
Wasson and Company: The Entheogenic Theory of Religion
https://web.archive.org/web/20110612022630/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/WassonAndCo.php —

“Wasson and Company is a section of Psychonautics dedicated to research and evaluation on the controversial topic of the entheogenic theory of religion: that is, the claim that the religious experience of the human species originated in altered states induced by the ingestion of sacred medicine plants such as the amanita muscaria mushroom or other psychoactive fungi.

R. Gordon Wasson receiving psilocybin mushrooms
from the Mazatec curandera Maria Sabinas

Although there are important antecedents, [GRAVES, BLAVATSKY, SALARI…] the argument for the entheogenic basis of religion can be said to have been formally launched by R. Gordon Wasson in his book, Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Initially, due in part to the influence of his Russian wife, Valentina, Wasson posited the existence of a prehistorical shamanic mushroom cult in the Ural mountains. He sought to prove that the natural sacrament and inebriant of this cult was the fly-agaric, amanita muscaria, which he identified with the Vedic inebriant, soma. Variations of the Wasson thesis, [GODDAMN STOP EQUATING THE FIELD WITH A PERSONALITY!] including some considerable extrapolations and departures from it [<– STRONG DISAGREE W/ THIS FRAMING], have been advanced by
John Allegro,
Ralph Metzner,
James Arthur,
Terence McKenna,
Benny Shannon,
Jim de Korne,
and many others.
[JOHN RUSH]

[MY RESEARCH IN MUSHROOM SCHOLARSHIP IN NO WAY “COMES FROM” OR IS A “DEPARTURE FROM” WASSON. WASSON IS IRRELEVANT! I GOT THE MALFORMED ENTHEOGEN BRICK, BUILDING BLOCK TO REPAIR AND SUPPORT MY EGODEATH THEORY, FROM HEINRICH, RUCK, M HOFFMAN… NOT FROM ALLEGRO OR WASSON. STOP IT WITH THE PERSONALITY/FIELD CONFLATION.

STOP MAKING EVERYONE IN THE FIELD A SLAVE OF POPE WASSON & ALLEGRO! WASSSON & ALLEGRO ARE IRRELEVANT, NOT THE GUIDING STAR TO STEER THE UNIVERSE OF THIS TOPIC BY. -MH]

Most recently, John Rush. Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World.

The Entheogenic Catch-22

At the outset, let me emphasize that I differ from most of the other exponents of this theory in two key respects, each of which implies a kind of Catch-22 in the theory. To refresh your memory, Catch-22 is defined like this:

1. A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.
2. The rules or conditions that create such a situation.
2. A situation or predicament characterized by absurdity or senselessness.
3. A contradictory or self-defeating course of action.

First objection: I draw a strong distinction between religious experience and religion as such, i.e., dogma, hierarchy, institution, ritual and regalia. I reject the claim (expounded by Benny Shannon) that authoritarian religious dogmas such as the Ten Commandments could have been derived from visionary states induced by sacred plants. Consistent with this stance, I reject the notion that

genuine visionary revelations given by plant-teachers became corrupted or co-opted into dogmatism and blind beliefs.
I insist that the corruption of paternal/authoritarian religion was present from its inception, a calculated and deliberate strategy for behavioral control.

[WHAT’S YOUR POINT? THAT HAS F*CK-ALL TO DO WITH ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP; To what extent mushrooms in Christianity? -MH]

I argue that religious belief-systems and associated rules that locate their origin and authority in a paternal off-planet deity cannot have been derived from visionary trance induced by sacred plants,

[who cares where worldly mundane rules came from. IRRELEVANT.]

for such plants are teachers given by nature to assist the human species in maintaining continuity with nature and, when required, healing its rupture from nature due to socialization of the species. The second part of this proposition states my assumption—pet theory, if you like—that

sacred planets teach and inspire our connection to the earth, so they cannot be cited as the source of off-planet dogmas or anti-natural belief-systems.

[YOU ARE CONFUSED AND IRRELEVANT. -MH]

Catch-22:
psychoactive agents designed and provided by nature to connect the human species to nature
cannot induce
visions that turn humankind against nature in favor of off-planet divinity
, as all the major religions do.

[YOU ARE GETTING LOST IN YOUR OWN THEOLOGICAL WRONG CONFUSED SPECULATIONS IRRELEVANT. STAY ON TOPIC. YOUR “OBJECTION” TO “THE THEORY”[SIC] IS IRRELEVANT GASEOUS VAPOUR. -MH]

[DUMB*SS LASH THINKS ALLEGRO BELIEVES IN MR. HISTORICAL JESUS!:]

John Lash wrote: “associations between psychoactive mushrooms and the historical Jesus, famously argued by John Allegro in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross“

[WHY SHOULD ANYONE WASTE TIME READING LASH WHEN HE CATESTROPHICALLY BOTCHES ALLEGRO’S AHISTORICITY POSITION?
Clark Heinrich’s book commits same major egregious error.

DUDE YOU DIDN’T EVEN READ ALLEGRO, DID YOU?! Manifestly not!

YET YOU PRESUME TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR PROJECTED FANTASY OF “WHAT ALLEGRO WROTE”, OR “THE ALLEGRO THEORY” — YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND SH*T ABOUT ALLEGRO THE ACTUAL MAN AND HIS ACTUAL REAL BOOK.]

Second objection: I discount the widely accepted
associations between psychoactive mushrooms and the historical Jesus, famously argued by John Allegro in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
In my view as a comparative mythologist, a great part of Allegro’s conflation of mushroom/penis/savior is unfounded, if not downright fatuous. His scholarship is excellent except when he gets lost in word games with terms in lost languages. In parallel with my objection in the first point, I reject the idea that true, pure, or genuine teachings of Jesus existed, having been derived from visionary trance induced by sacred mushrooms, [THAT’S NOT ALLEGRO’S POSITION, DUMB*SS!] but then were later repressed, distorted, coopted or otherwise corrupted by those who wished to profit from such visions while prohibiting them to the world at large.

[ALL OF THAT IS IRRELEVANT/PERIPHERAL TO THE FIELD, TO THE CENTRAL QUESTION: To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?]

Catch-22: The supposed original teachings of Jesus as leader of a Palestinian mushroom cult [NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ALLEGRO’S POSITION!] cannot have been corrupted into the message of the New Testament because
that message is proven by historical and textual analysis to be a systematic contrivance that does not require a hidden or esoteric message for its basis.
In short, the NT cannot be corrupted or encoded mushroom shamanism [MISSING PERIOD/TEXT]

[ANYONE TALKING OF “MUSHROOM SHAMANISM” IS WORKING IN SOME TOTALLY DIFFERENT FIELD THAN my field:
Psilocybe in Greek & Christian religion & mixed-wine banqueting. -mh]

[whatever you think the position is that you are objecting to — as confused as Letcher — is irrelevant to the real field of
mushroom scholarship about Psilocybe Mixed Wine.

Your position is irrelevant, because your imagined “position objected to” is garbled by you, and irrelevant. -mh]

Various points of difference and my reason for them can be found in the files linked from this page.
Principally, I object to attributing
paternal dogmatic religion such as the Mosaic cult of Yahweh
to
visionary trance induced by psychoactive plants

[at best, those are secondary, peripheral issues, not
the center of the field, of mushroom scholarship:
To what extent mushrooms in Christianity? -mh]

because that argument lends a kind of legitimacy to belief-systems which are hostile to the Goddess and the earth. [you are twisting the field into political proxy, stop it -mh] I insist that
endorsing this argument turns out to be a good thing for religion, making it look good because
its basis is presumed to have been an authentic visionary revelation,
but a really bad thing for psychonautic visionary practice. I oppose
Shannon and others mainly on this point:
they give manistream[sic] religion a specious provenance and false legitimacy.

[Lash has bias against religion, which bias is driving his confusion regarding mushrooms in that religion.
LASH IS SO CONFUSED AND JUMBLES SO MANY DISTORTED VIEWS, HE CAN’T CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO THE proper field. -mh]

“Finally, I would point out that in my opinion it is no coincidence that
the argument for “Moses on marijuana or mushrooms” attained international press coverage at the very moment that governmental agencies around the world commenced a brutal crackdown on psychoactive plants, homeopathic medicine, and natural remedies. Tell me, if you can:

Why did media interest in Shannon’s thesis [why call the entire field (as you mis-see it) as “Shanon’s thesis”? -mh] come at a moment when the practice of psychoactive shamanism around the world came under extreme threat?

Dead Sea ET Cult

In Not in His Image, I argued that the Zaddikim of the Qumran settlement were a UFO cult [Lash is a confused literalist -mh], not a mushroom cult. In that same book I showed that
disciplined use of psychoactive planets in the Mysteries was guided by a master narrative, the myth of the fallen goddess, Sophia.
This myth includes an episode that explains the origin, nature, and effects of alien intrusion upon the human mind—the riddle of the Archons.
I contend that

Archontic suggestion or subliminal entrainment by that one identified species of predatory psychic entity can account for the salvationist belief-systems and paternal/authoritarian religion in human history.

Gnostics of the Pagan Mysteries were trained clairvoyants, clairaudients, and adepts of astral projection and lucid dreaming.
Like the new seers of Carlos Castaneda[FRAUD], they were able to explore the Nagual, navigate the supernatural layers of the universe, and investigate other dimensions and alien entities, including inorganic beings like the Archons. In short, they were past masters of the noetic sciences and experts in parapsychology.

The Gnostics attributed Judeo-Christian religion to mental aberrations due in part to the intrusion of extraterrestrial predators, the Archons.
[SEE my recent aside, mytheme: {giants abduct/lust for virgin daughters of men}; find “daughter” in present page, “idea development page 6”. Lash ought to write “extra-cosmic”, or “supra-lunar”, not “extra-terrestrial”. -mh]
Their characterization of the m.o. of these entities accords closely with the “spiritual control program” attributed by Jacques Vallee to ETs, whom he called “messengers of deception.” Not agent of evil, please note. The Apocryphon of John and other Gnostic texts describe the Archons in exactly the same manner.

Following the Gnostic view, I attribute Judeo-Christian religion (the Abrahamic creeds) to the influence of these “messengers of deception,” rather than to visions and revelations inspired by psychoactive plants, or a later distortion of such visions and revelations. On the contrary, such visionary experience, or trance learning, offers healing insight and corrective instruction against Archontic deviation. Such is my position on entheogenic revelation contrasted to mainstream religious doctrines, rites, and rules.

[summary: Lash likes entheogens, and hates religion, therefore, our religion (which is bad) cannot have included entheogens. -mh]

Fail-Safe

Noetic sciences in the Mysteries carried a fail-safe against the risk of tricking ourselves into delusional beliefs by the cleverness of our own minds. To safeguard their investigations, the telestai (“those who are aimed,” self-designation of initiates in the Mysteries) used sacred plant-teachers that enabled them to learn directly from Gaia, and correct errors in their mystical vision of the earth and humanity. They would have argued that such plants cannot impart to our minds any teaching, belief, or dogma of a paternal, off-planet, authoritarian, anti-feminine bearing. Sacred plants are emissaries of the living earth, the Aeon Sophia who morphed into the planet. In shamanic trance induced by psychoactive plants, the telestai detected what deviates us from rapport with nature. I conclude that

It is absurd to speculate that the plant-teachers provided by Gaia to keep us sane and align us to her purposes could have been the source of an off-planet religion, deviating us from our rapturous bond with the planet.

But hold on a second. The famous account by Michael Harner of his shamanic initiation with ayahuasca lends a further twist to this scenario. Harner saw dragon-like entities in long-boats sailing through the sky. In the altered state, he understood these entities to declare that they were the creators of humanity. When he recounted this incident to an old-timer who had monitored his ayahuasca session, the veternan shaman replied with a chuckle, “They always say that, but they are liars.”

Note well: it was not the plant entity of ayahuasca itself who spoke to Harner claiming to be the off-planet or ET creator of the human race. That was the claim of skybound entities who appeared in the ayahuasca-incuded trance. This distinction supports my view that ancient seeers who investigated the cosmos in altered states induced by sacred plants were able to detect alien deception and intrusion. They had the power of true discernment, just like the old ayahuascero who wisened up Michael Harner.

Knowing how we can be deviated was one of the primary concerns of the Pagan initiates of the Mysteries. Like them, I have encountered Archon/ETs in lucid dreams and other altered states, with and without the assistance of plant teachers. But I have learned what to make of these encounters, and how to distinguish predatory entities from belevolent or neutral ones, through long and disciplined practice with sacred plants, the medicine of true vision.

Harner’s anecdote is extremely instructive. It shows how two aspects of Gnostic teaching dovetail into a single, supremely important insight:

Cognitive ecstasy induced by sacred plants exposes the alien factor in our own minds and the cosmos at large, providing a crucial discrimination:
anti-human and anti-nature beliefs attributed to an off-planet deity arise with that alien factor and not from the plant-teachers who alert us to its presence.

Gnostic teaching in this vein were tremendosly[sic] sophisticated.

[call John Lash garbled, but he’s no more garbled and irrelevant, putting forth confused, tangential, arbitrary argumentation, than Letcher, and maybe Hatsis.

WHY DID LASH’S NEW WEBSITE OMIT ALL HIS MUSHROOM COVERAGE? -mh]

Eadwine Psalter

The centerpiece of the study of entheogenic religion is the Paris Eadwine Psalter, a one-of-its-kind manuscript from the 13th century which I had the good fortune to discover in the National Library in Paris in September 2007, just prior to the publication of my book, Not in His Image.

This portal page is in development… (12 Nov 2009 Flanders)

/ end of Lash article

Trying to Look at the Eadwine Psalter or “Paris Eadwine Psalter” – A Copy of Canterbury Psalter? Confusing & Unclear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadwine_Psalter

unresponsive link from wiki:
http://sites.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/r_17_1/manuscript.php?fullpage=1

try link at
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/

finally:
https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/viewpage.php?index=1229

https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/uv/view.php

https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/uv/view.php?n=R.17.1&n=R.17.1#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=11&xywh=-1651%2C-2%2C6247%2C4025

slow site! No confirmation yet of same images as Canterbury. Frustrating and confusing. I cannot confirm that the Canterbury mushroom tree pictures also appear in Earlwine Psalter as people seem to be saying.

The pictures here at Lash article archive, are defeinitely same team as Great Cant Ps, but aren’t at Eadwine Ps aka Cant Ps. WTF!!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20111019025829/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/MysticJesus.php

Article: “Illuminated Heresy: More Images from the Paris Eadwine Psalter” (Lash 2007)

Illuminated Heresy: More Images from the Paris Eadwine Psalter
https://web.archive.org/web/20170623210846/http://metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/IlluminatedHeresy.php —

“A recent trip to Paris afforded me the chance to visit the National Library of France and acquire some inkjet reproductions of the Paris Eadwine Psalter. With a couple of exceptions, where the source is wrongly attributed to “the Canterbury Psalter,” this material appears exclusively on the Internet on metahistory.org. Gaze and wonder!

Here is the same folio page shown in another view with color values adjusted to how it looks on microfilm—rather faded. I have not yet seen or handled the original MS so I do not know if its colors correspond to the gloriously preserved tones of the other version, or if this is a photoshop effect.

Scholars take the Sermon on the Mount for an illustration of Psalms 2, with allusion perhaps to verse 6, “Yet I have set my king upon the holy hill of Zion.” In the scant literature I have been able to find on the Paris Eadwine Psalter, we are told that the lavish imagery of the MS is linked textually to the Old Testament books describing early events in the ecclesiastical story of humankind, mainly Genesis, and to the Psalms.

Lately we are hearing a lot of chatter about entheogens in the Old Testament, suggesting that Moses was “high” on Mount Sinai in ways that have not previously been considered. Benny Shannon seems to have kicked off the discussion, which involves a variation of the ecclesiastical mushroom cult proposed by Carl Ruck, a spinoff of the Allergo thesis (The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross), itself a spinoff of the Wasson thesis. [I hate several aspects of this narrative. -mh] Biblical Entheogens by Shannon, just out in March 2007, looks set to stir up a lot of controversy, not to mention loud protests from the Catholic Church and other defenders of ye ol’time relijun, salvationist-style. Paul Krassner has now jumped into the fray, as doubtless many others will do in short time.

I can only wonder how the revelations of the Paris Eadwine psalter will affect this debate. One possibility: since the Paris MS does not show amanitas, it may influence the prevalent tendency of Allergo, Ruck, and others to identify the fly-agaric as the entheogenic sacrament of choice among the Christian fold. In other words, it will support speculation that Christianity arose from a mushroom cult in Palestine. I strongly oppose this thesis.

[THE “MUSHROOM CULT” NOTION IS CONFUSED, UNCRITICALLY PRESUPPOSES THE RARITY/ABNORMALITY OF ENTHEOGENS. -MH]

Another possibility: close analysis of MS 8846 may suggest the survival of non-Christian cultic practices in Europe, late remnants of the Mysteries. If so, we will have to consider how
Mystery cult revelations of the magic mushroom
differed from
the visionary states experienced by the ecclesiastical elite who, according to Ruck and others, kept the secret to themselves.
I have some thoughts on this issue, to be presented in a look at the “Good Friday Experiment” coming up in The Psychonautic Adventure, G2.

[“how differed from” is crap writing! Unclear, packed with misguided assumptions, leading to confusion, leading to the kind of garbled, confused & confusing, roundabout writing typical of the minimal & modertate entheogen theorists. -mh]

Typically, the MS presents botanically pictured fungi of different species or genii along with a stylized version, the omphalos-bud, as I am calling it. Beneath the Savior [where? vague! THERE ARE 2+5+3 MUSHROOM TREES IN the whole image; WHICH ONE ARE YOU FOCUSING ON??] are two [sic; five] botanical images, white (left) and brown (right), The brown mushroom [the rightmost m-t of the group of 5?] sprouts from the same trunk as a blue omphalos-bud. In the upper right, under the angelic finger [upper right of whole image], two botanical specimens with their caps shredding sprout from the same trunk as a blue omphalos-bud. Just to the left, an ochre-colored omphalos-bud shares the trunk with a brown mushroom.

Did the visionary artists who conceived and oversaw the making of the psalter want to signify that both [be specific!] kinds of mushroom, literally represented and stylized, have the same source? They both come from the fruiting body of the mycelium. The blue-staining properties of the Psilocybe genus, indicative of tryptamines, are continually emphasized by the distinct bluish color of the trunks of the fruiting bodies. Elsewhere in the MS the botanically represented specimens display the same coloring.

is #2 a combined Vine-Leaf Tree / Mushroom Tree?
the blue strand-plants — nonbranching laurel strands like Greek-myth trees?

Close up, the mushroom mountain has some intriguing details. The omphalos buds [right side of tree 2, tree 3, left side of tree 5] appear in three different types, (left to right):
a composite of mouth-like nodules (recalling a venus fly-trap) ,
white mini-mushrooms [Liberty Caps – doesn’t Lash know anything? confusing writer, and ignorant -mh] in a lattice, and
oblique, tree-shaped triangles. The mini-mushroom head is strikingly juxtaposed to the world globe at the tip of the long inverted cross held by the Savior. In Christian symbology, the fusion of cross and globe signifies the reign of dominator religion across the entire planet. Here, with the staff pointed down, it may carry another message. The ecclesiastical staff touches or almost merges with the mini-mushroom cluster—as if to say, “The true power of the world comes from here?“

The two lower mushrooms are clearly represented as botanical specimens, [literal depictions, vs. stylized depictions & depictions of effects -mh] although the one on the right may incorporate other plant imagery [vine-leaf?]. Otherwise, the mushroom mount is composed of clustered dark ringlets with some kind of white-flowered plant sprouting from them. These delicate plants have ochre buds or flame-like blossoms at the top. Botanical identification? I can’t say. However, speaking as a psychonaut, I can attest that the ringlets resemble a sight I have frequently seen in visionary trance: [here instead of proper Mythemeland tradition, he gets too modern -mh] supple conduits that wind endlessly into hyperspace. I take these conduits to be micro-tubular channels in the atmospheric body of Gaia. Paracelsus called them iliastri, threads of star-matter. They are closely associated with DNA which is structurally arranged by microtubules. The unidentified plants have three stems, recalling the triplets of DNA. Could the leaves on the plants be a way of picturing letters in the genetic code?

Christ tempted by an antlered [= branching; possibilism-thinking -mh] shaman-devil in a mushroom grove.

Stay tuned for most on the Paris Eadwine Psalter in Savior, Hanged Man, Dancer. You ain’t seen nuthin yet!
[
Mystic Jesus: Hanged Man and Dancer: Gnostic Heresy in the Paris Eadwine Psalter
https://web.archive.org/web/20111019025829/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/MysticJesus.php
]

jll: May 2007 Andalucia

/ end lash article

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/52/3c/f8523c7d7d01a68398008139eed8efdf.jpg
red garment lifted on left, lifted pink cloth on shoulder.

John Lash Site – Entheogens, Mushroom Psalters

his new site: http://nemeta.org – it appears that all of his ‘mushroom’ content has been omitted. The articles are all at wayback machine; use the links below, via internet archive.

PSYCHONAUTICS

Originally conceived in three parts, but only Part 1, covering the years 1935 – 1965, has been completed so far: The Psychonautic Adventure. Right now I can’t say if or when I will complete the two remaining parts, generation two 1965 – 1995, and the current generation, 1995 – current. The remainder of this classroom consists of two folders:
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Psychonautics1.php
this 2011 link works:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110611235620/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Psychonautics1.php

/Eadwine [folder name]

The Discovery of a Lifetime describes how I found in the National Library in Paris a medieval ms. of the 13th Century, the Paris Eadwine Psalter, the only copy in existence, lavishly illustrated with Daliesque images of psychoactive mushrooms.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/Discovery.php
[be sure to shield Mr. Historical Moses & Mr. Historical Jesus from this taboo discovery! -mh]

Entheogenic Revelation: The Paris Eadwine Psalter outlines my proposed book on the Wasson theory of the origin of religion (working title “Paradise Denied‘), a project that did not get sold. It relates the Eadwine psalter to the Mysteries, in particular to perception of the molecular structure of DNA in a heightened state induced by psychoactive plants.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/EadwinePsalter.php
[or a vision of the intertwined frozen worldlines of the the control-thought inserter/injector & the control-thought receiver/receptacle, per the later depiction of the caduceus -mh]

Illuminated Heresy presents further commentary with illustrations from the Eadwine psalter, including one image of Christ tempted by an antlered shaman-devil in a mushroom grove.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/IlluminatedHeresy.php
[the right-hand tree is a combined vine-leaf tree & mushroom tree -mh]
this 2017 link works:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170623210846/http://metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/IlluminatedHeresy.php
all are dup of Canterbury mushroom trees.

Mystic Jesus: Hanged Man and Dancer offers yet more jaw-dropping images from the Eadwine psalter, included Christ inverted and an explicit cameo of Jesus dancing with Mary Magdalene. All in all, extraordinary evidence for Gnostic heresy and entheogenic mysticism preserved in this unique medieval text.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/MysticJesus.php

Forbidden Fruit: The Psalter of Saint Louis compares images of another psalter containing entheogenic imagery with the Eadwine illustrations.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/ForbiddenFruit.php

/Wasson

The Entheogenic Theory of Religion sets out my strong objections to the trendy notion (coming from Benny Shannnon, John Rush, and others) that patriarchal figures like Moses and Jesus [who existed ahistorically, in Mythemeland -mh], iconic proponents of salvationist religion, acquired their message by inspiration from sacred teacher plants.
http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/WassonAndCo.php
works:

Wasson and Company: The Entheogenic Theory of Religion
John Lash
https://web.archive.org/web/20110612022630/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/WassonAndCo.php

The Oldest Taboo in the World: Introduction to Wasson Book (incomplete and unpublished). Considers the taboo encoded in the Old Testament myth of the Temptation of Adam and Eve, forbidding the eating of sacred plants that give wisdom or a divine or god-like nature. [golden apples of tree in garden of hesperidess grants immortality, original dwellers in garden: Zeus & Hera -mh]

The Banker and the Bruja: Chapter One of Wasson Book – describes the meeting between R. Gordon Wasson and the Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina, resulting in the handover of psychoactive plant mysticism by its indigenous practitioners, making it known to the world at large.

/ end Lash site content

Confirmed that Vine-Leaf Trees Pair with Mushroom Trees, by a Combined “Mushroom+Vine-Leaf Tree” in Typo-Titled, Wrong-Psalter Video

[8:26 p.m. December 22, 2020] —

I’m getting more confirmation: Feeling generally that I made the correct bet/investment. I’m getting more evidence, sufficient to defend the case that the dud mushroom trees in Canterbury are vine-leaf trees.

Confirmed: Grape leaves ARE sometimes, in important art, shown as tripartate, like the vine-leaf trees in Canterbury, confirming that those trees are specifically a vine leaf (grape vine leaf or possibly ivy vine leaf). The stylization is emphatic in this art style, so we are looking for a stylistic match, not a botanical literal match. Especially match stylized grape leaves in Greek & Christian art, with the stylized vine-leaf trees in Canterbury — more than comparing to specimen photos.
Confirmed: Vine leaves ARE paired with mushroom caps: proof: multiple mushroom trees in Canterbury Psalter have a mushroom cap and a leaf.

Also confirmed: lifted garment in greek & Christian art: the Maenad’s cloth in the Dionysus Triumph mosaic is lifted on the right, just like Dionysus’ garment is lifted to the left; both are lifted by explicit, hardly-hidden mushroom shapes (though I believe that I didn’t see the mushroom in Dionysus garment in 2006, but only closer to 2019 or 2020).

Heading

copy of a John Lash article where he discovers the two psalters and notes the censorship of their mushrooms. https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_84.htm
orig: http://www.metahistory.org/sitemap.php

Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree

[11:59 a.m. December 22, 2020] I just got corroboration of pairing of mushroom trees + vine-leaf trees where vine = nonbranching: the tree on the right side of the devil temptation scene, has both a vine-leaf, on the left, and a cubensis/liberty-cap, on the right.

Score:

Hatsis: -1 — incorrectly said in a “Pyschedelic”[sic] debate video clip that this Canterbury Psalter image is from the “Edwin-Paris Psalter”, not the same psalter as the Canterbury Psalter with its mushroom trees. It is at least incorrect to say as Hatsis does, that this image isn’t in the Great Canterbury Psalter. This situation looks confusing – two copies of these pictures?

Hoffman: +1 — got confirmation of pairing mushroom trees with vine-leaf trees representing nonbranching.

There may be copies of the image in both psalters, which according to Wiki are “the Eadwine Psalter” and “the Great Canterbury Psalter”, not “the Eadwine-Paris Psalter”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadwine_Psalter

The below section is a snapshot of my updated weblog “Post” page:

Images of Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art/ —

Folio 15 – Devil, Combined Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom

Pyschedelic Christianity : A Scholarly Debate on the Holy Mushroom Theory
[sic 1st word]
YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian, 1:07:15 —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4037s
Hatsis incorrectly claims it’s from Paris Psalter.

In the video, Hatsis incorrectly claims that this image is from a different psalter, the “Edwin-Paris Psalter”.

The Paris Psalter links below don’t show the image, but the Canterbury Psalter site shows the image:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Psalter

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10515446x/f1.item.zoom
hi-res Zoom of Folio 1 of Paris Psalter

I proved that the above mushroom shapes represent Psilocybe deliberately used for religious experiencing:

The “Hanging-over-God’s-sword” mushroom-tree image by the same team is either meaningless, or represents trained, expert, peak-state use of Psilocybe as I proved.
The same team painted all these mushroom images in this work, the Canterbury Psalter.
Therefore all 65-70 mushroom plants illustrated by this team in this Canterbury Psalter, including the three mushroom trees in the above image, represent the use of Psilocybe to induce religious experiencing.

The vine-leaf trees which are coupled with these mushroom trees, by this team of illustrators, also indicate the routine, trained, efficient use of Psilocybe, to reveal non-branching of possibilities, destroying egoic possibilism-thinking.

The Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader, depicts not puzzlement over “the shadow” like today’s braggart hubristic Psilocybin therapists (Muraresku), but the opposite: the image provably depicts a Psilocybe expert-level direct engagement with the {serpentine dragon monster}, and reconciling with eternalism; learning how to deal with the pre-existence of control-thoughts, which kills, disproves, and effectively disempowers egoic control agency.

Alan Moore on Eternalism

From Cyberdisciple’s copy

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/author-alan-moore-eternalism-and-psychedelics/ —

Alan Moore discusses eternalism with regard to his novel Jerusalem (published 2016) here: https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/moore-on-jerusalem-eternalism-anarchy.html —

Jerusalem deals with the idea of eternalism: everything that has happened is happening right now and forever.

Could you explain your views on this?

My conception of an eternity that was immediate and present in every instant – a view which I have since learned is known as ‘Eternalism’ – was once more derived from many sources, but a working definition of the idea should most probably begin with [

Minkowski’s Block Universe
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/

– mh]

[Minkowski] stated that we exist in a universe that has at least four spatial dimensions, three of which are the height, depth and breadth of things as we ordinarily perceive them, and the fourth of which, while also a spatial dimension, is perceived by a human observer as the passage of time.

The fact that this fourth dimension cannot be meaningfully disentangled from the other three is what leads [Minkowski] to refer to our continuum as ‘spacetime’.

This leads logically to the notion of what is called a ‘block universe’, an immense hyper-dimensional solid in which every moment that has ever existed or will ever exist, from the beginning to the end of our universe, is coterminous; a vast snow-globe of being in which nothing moves and nothing changes[no meta-change], forever.

Sentient life such as ourselves, embedded in the amber [rock] of spacetime, would have to be construed by such a worldview as massively convoluted filaments [snakes/worms, thread of life cut by the fates] of perhaps seventy or eighty years in length, winding through this glassy and motionless enormity with a few molecules of slippery and wet genetic material at one end and a handful or so of cremated ashes at the other.

It is only the bright bead of our consciousness moving inexorably along the thread of our existence, helplessly from past to future, that provides the mirage [eh “ego is illussion” doesn’t tell whole story, partly real] of movement and change and transience.

A good analogy would be the strip of film comprising an old fashioned movie-reel: the strip of film itself is an unchanging and motionless medium, with its opening scenes and its finale present in the same physical object.

Only when the beam of a projector – or in this analogy the light of human consciousness – is passed across the strip of film do we see Charlie Chaplin do his funny walk, and save the girl, and foil the villain.

Only then do we perceive events, and continuity, and narrative, and character, and meaning, and morality.

And when the film is concluded, of course, it can be watched again.

Similarly, when our individual four-dimensional threads of existence eventually reach their far end with our physical demise, there is nowhere for our travelling bead of consciousness to go save back to the beginning [gnostic rebirth is diffent, forgetting eternalism and being reincarnated into the egoic mental worldmodel] , with the same [type of egoic thinking reasserting/re-entrenching itself] thoughts, words and deeds recurring and reiterated endlessly, always seeming like the first time this has happened except, possibly, for those brief, haunting spells of déjà vu.

[deja vu kills; the devastating experience of remembering loss-of-control pre-existent, unavoidable; then the rescue from the fated doom-pseudo-remembering]

Of course, another good analogy, perhaps more pertinent to Jerusalem itself, would be that of a novel.

While it’s being read there is the sense of passing time and characters at many stages of their lives, yet when the book is closed it is a solid block in which events that may be centuries apart in terms of narrative are pressed together with just millimetres separating them, distances no greater than the thickness of a page.

As to why I decided to unpack this scientific [ancient archaic mystic entheogenic] vision of eternity in a deprived slum neighbourhood, it occurred to me that

through this reading of human existence, every place, no matter how mean, is transformed to the eternal, heavenly city.

Hence the title.

/ end moore

Core Theory Phrases

todo: group items within each group.

[acro]/keyboard shortcuts mgmt

2020 incl text file take time to optimize the phrases, & to manage/improve shortcuts.
Page view groups the phrase by topical outline, to develop a lexicon subset for that outline item eg 10 phrases about the personal control system; unlike util app. v1 of my [acro]/keyboard shortcuts page failed bc failed to reoutline. Word made quick business out of building up an outline while sorting phrases into the outline.

v1. 1987 acro’s

v2. 2010 Mobile: Phrase/Shortcut pairs in Text Replacement in Settings: General, for touchscreen soft keyboard.

v3. 2016 desktop Replace/With pairs. Desktop sorts by Shortcut|Phrase pairs, labelled as Replace|With sort-column headings. Failed to manage and practice them, used a tiny few, very heavily; unbalanced usage, underutilized.

v4. 2020 my latest, Nov/Dec 2020 set of literal *keyboard* shortcuts. Marked a text dump of the 2016 [acro]/keyboard shortcuts, putting – or + whether it’s most excellent and recommended/useful. deleted the – shortcut/phrase pairs. added, get quicker at it and hard is making use of them, that’s why I had to go to the hassle of dumping/copying this batch to the Core Concepts page after the beneficial exercise i did of sorting the Phrases, the optimized concept-labels.

not a concerted effort to employ as impressively as my acro’s empowered by writing-thinking-reading loop in 1987.

I have not lived up to that much taking advantage to speed writing and give lexicon construct

Engineer the Optimal Lexicon to discuss (to model, to theory-construct, for theory revision, developing an explanatory framework, for demonstrated expansion of explanatory power, expanding the power and scope of seeing and understanding things that are observed and experienced in the altered state, seeing and understanding that kills the autonomous freewill-premised personal control system.

Mythemes

{impure thinking} {cannot bear to see & look} at the {dragon}, {torch light}, {king} {turn to stone for eternity} {stuck forever in the rock Hades & Persephone -ruled rock underworld of the rock catacombs sacred meals of Psil mixed-wine banquets {called and brought to the banquet by the serpent god} that made you come here to the god’s banquet

worship snake god = think in terms of levels of control, changi

The impure thinking of the {virgin child (youth/maiden)} not yet {passed through the fire} to {burn off the perishable part; become immortal; eternal life; no longer virgin; died; purified; cleansed; adult} now.

Instantaneous or a drawn-out series.

Drawn-out Series:

Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism,

Mithraism levels of initiation,

levels of planetary orbs geocentric orbs

earth luna mercury venus sun jupiter saturn fixedstars;

outside the orbs is empyrium EMPYREUM dwelling place of God and of all the Elect.

Mythemes Triggered by Elevated Rlying-Ram Awareness to Save Prixis the Brother as Ascend Higher Lose Balance Fall Back Down to the Underworld from the elevation of the immortals who have eternal life the elect born from the rock transcend eternalism rock move the pole star of the no-so-fixed stars.

Outside the Lion ruler king is outside the sphered fate ruled hiemarmene serpent-wrapped cosmos orbs

earcht earth moon mer ven sun mars jup sat fs emp.

it really centers around fixed stars: Saturn harvest possibilism-thinking childhood model of time & ctrl, is considered the gatekeeper/filter portion of the eternalism fixed stars level.

naturally one immediately wants to brag of transcending fatedness, so the empyrium.

3 components , don’t need lower plants.

You need 3 orb-levels:the Saturn level” is really not a level but a Gateway component of the 3-item system modeled as 3 orbs by rough analogy.

the childhood possibilism mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control

Mythemes

{child youth virgin maiden caught abducted climaxed, snake revealed in lidded basket by Cautopates’ torch light and cauduceus aimed highlighting the rock-carved snake-basket}

{Cautes the upward torch-light illuminator showing the higher level of fate-ruled control, Sol the unveiled male partner frozen in rock,
who helps undermine and overpower the projected image of the simple autonomous control agent, virgin maiden abducted raptured wrestled submitted overpowered climaxed impreg married by the god gave birth to divine immortal child}
[todo: list of ways the mind’s personal control system is like a female.]
Mithraism Bride level of initiation.
the church of the elect is the Bride of Christ.

child} thinking {cannot bear to see} {the rock dragon king frozen in rock powerless} the {virgin maiden is lifted swept away by the god} who [list of ways the personal control system is like a female]

child-thinking cannot bear the sight of peak-state transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism.

to explain Mystery Religion initiation and Hellenistic mythology.

[acro]/keyboard shortcuts mgmt

Get faster at defining.

Spend time improving the ourline-grouped — several areas are marked where better set of phrases is needed, the most succinct way and what the heck is the shortcut? I f I can looked up phrase i can find shtct, to use/learn.

Practice sessions, drills, would be needed, as one test of the goodness merit of a usefulness of the set of phrases. Usefullness is a function of practice and management eg WordPress page ediable copy of the strings. …

define [acro]/keyboard shortcuts faster, which means using util app primarily, yet, also while defining them, sometimes, management at the WordPress page (Core Concepts).

Core Concepts window not open for editing all the time.

Do not let the heavyweight management WordPress page be an impediment; don’t do page-first/primary.

continue to use util app heavily, and but also,

do something anything, with an editable copy.

Some usage of direct util app, and some usage of the WordPress mgmt page, is more important than worrying about syncing app w/ editable WordPress page w/ the optimized concepts optimized concept-labels, Phrases in the mobile & desktop Text Shortcuts.

Unhelpfully, shortcuts are not shown with the phrases.

Limitation: this list of phrases does not include the Shortcuts; only the Phrases. Showing the phrases and seeing their shortcuts is important for management and usage, keep page open for viewing.

mgmt page editable: add notes about optimizing, where to improve, challenges of expression.

Constant flow of new best-ever phrases, but don’t get to view those.

Lazy option: Get good at looking thorugh the util app, know it well/thoroughly. Not able to outline or take notes, there.

Mobile device shares all the “Phrase” & “Shortcut” pairs with the desktop’s “Replace” & “With” column headings.

Choosing Your Religion = Creating Your Religion

If you have the moral authority and responsibility to PICK your brand of religion, then you have the moral authority and responsibility to CREATE your brand of religion.

Choosing from pre-fabricated religion brands/versions that someone else created, is equivalent to creating your own religion brand.

If you don’t have the authority to create your own brand of religion, then neither do you have the authority to select which brand of religion (that someone else created) you affirm.

No Interest in Amanita, Scopalamine, Cannabis, Opium – for Western Religious History & Mythology

Apples of Apollo (Ruck, Staples, Heinrich)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/apples-of-apollo-ruck/

The book Apples of Apollo, which I read when it was published in late 2000, didn’t do it for me, then, or now.

Heinrich’s book Strange Fruit about Amanita is at least a fine colorful picture-book.

Since 2001, I’ve been looking for something other than “analogies for Amanita”.

Ruck puts forth analogies for the Amanita plant forms, as if that is interesting; that analogy-identification is presented as if the Amanita form is the interesting, fascinating, soul-shaking thing that is revealed in the mystic peak intense altered state.

I quickly get bored with such mytheme-decoding, and come away feeling empty-handed, short-changed. It’s reductionist; the peak mystic-state experiencing is reduced down to merely a physical plant.

Plants are boring, which is why from October 27, 1985 to January 11, 1988 (Phase 1 of Transcendent Knowledge development), I never wrote about “psychedelics”, but only wrote about “loose cognitive binding”.

I’m far more interested in the mixed-wine banqueting to induce peak mystic-state experiencing, because most of the mythemes there describe the experiencing, not the plant.

Ruck’s books are all about entheogenic plants, not about entheogenic experiential phenomenology.

Ruck maps mythemes to a plant; but the Banqueting Tradition in Antiquity maps mythemes to things that are observed and experienced in the altered state.

I’m bored by mythemes describing the Amanita plant forms; I’m quite interested in mythemes describing Psilocybe effects.

See also my review of the “consciousness” book by Ruck & Hoffman.
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness (Ruck & Hoffman)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/entheogens-myth-and-human-consciousness/

Mytheme: {giants abduct virgin daughters of men}

[12:20 a.m. December 19, 2020]

{giants abduct virgin daughters of men}
{men} doesn’t mean men
{abduct} doesn’t mean abduct
{virgin} doesn’t mean virgin
{daughter} doesn’t mean daughter

the male the control-thought inserter and the eternalism-transformed mind has become one of the immortals having eaten of the golden apple in the Garden of Eden and become live forever, non dying, a thantos non-die-able because already be die’d, lost virginity at being overtaken and undermined and disproved.

{abduction/ sacrifice/ marry/ die/ give birth/ purification/ reborn/ made whole} – they are distinct concepts, but they necessarily occur in one and the same movement: When the mind was pulled upward into the Saturn/ Fixed Stars/ Empyrium level, that pulling-upward drove transformation of the model of self-in-world.

Idea Development Page Section (as a WordPress “Post”), vs. a WordPress weblog “Post”, vs. a WordPress web “Page”

finding [10:20 p.m. December 22, 2020] — there is no line-wrapping advantage to placing a the Egodeath Yahoo Group Digest in a “Page” rather than a “Post”.
The TOC at top is slightly cleaner with the Page (wide) approach.
Page:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-69/
Post:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-70/

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Finding:

The authoring experience is always narrow-column, for both the “Post” and “Page” format (middle third, when browser window is wide).
- When the “Show More Settings” pane on right is hidden, the fixed-width text column is centered.
- When the “Show More Settings” pane on right is displayed, the fixed-width text column scoots left but is centered within the left 2/3 of window; wrapping stays same.
The reading experience is narrow-column for the WordPress weblog “Post” format (middle third, when browser window is wide).
The reading experience is wide-column for the WordPress web “Page” format (left 2/3, when browser window is wide).

Objection to the weblog “Post” format: I doubt I want every section in this scratchpad page, to become a separate webpage.

I prefer longer pages with internal structure & navigation, and a shorter Site Map nav page.

Best general webpage length is 7 printed pages, but I prefer longer for my material, more like 12 pages.

[9:11 p.m. December 21, 2020]

When I work-up content at this WordPress site, should I do it in the form of:

A section in a long Idea Development Page Section (as a WordPress weblog “Post”).
A section in a long Idea Development Page Section (as a WordPress web “Page”).
A dedicated short WordPress weblog “Post”.
A dedicated short WordPress web “Page”.

Idea – Create an idea development page that’s implemented as a WordPress web “Page” rather than the present, WordPress weblog “Post” format.

Transitioning Articles from Weblog “Post” Format to Web “Page” Format

So far, no great glitches in the wider-column Page format vs the presnt, Post format.

I plan to copy content for 4-5 articles from weblog “Post” format to web”Page” format, keep the 4-5 orig Posts (empty), and link from them to the new, Page format. I don’t see any difference re: image width; no indication that Galleries should be moved. WordPress, for weblog Posts, has a “Gallery” format I haven’t tried.

Proof (Page started)
Criteria (need as Page)
1997 theory-spec
2006 main article – TOC links need relinking anyway.

maybe: Images of Mushrooms in Christian Art, see if it gains width for images.

Misusing WordPress “Posts” for Articles, Misusing WordPress “Post” Idea-Development Pages as Weblog Posts

Like how I have to manually add-in timestamps in the present “weblog Post” page: [ p.m. December 20, 2020] , shows I am misusing WordPress.

Should I stop using Posts and use Pages instead, for my articles/pages?

Should I stop using the present Idea Development pages, and use “Posts” as designed, instead? A section of present idea development page, would instead be a “weblog Post”.

World Ended Today on 12/21/2112 (December 21, 2112)

In the middle of my Nov 2011-Nov 2013, two-phase breakthrough toward
{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism.

It Was Clear I Must Explain Enlightenment Myself, for Everyone

It Was Clear from the Start in 1985: I’d Need to Think-Through Enlightenment Myself & Explain It for Everyone; the Books and Other Writers Got Nothing for Us

Reading others’ writing – cons: lowers IQ; gets pulled into a partly malformed perspective. I was told to read Wilber to get a broad relevant view, therefore I knew books had no explanation of transcendence.

It was all too clear what the situation was: roundabout fluff and poetic vague talk about transcendence;

I profitably analyzed Rock lyrics instead of getting much light from Pop Spirituality (closeted Pop Sike Cult).

Lots of Metal but lots of Pop FM Rock, every radio band had to have a Sike song else poser. Name a band — what’s their Sike song? What is the most Sike song from any band?

Metal bands were far wiser than Pop Spirituity.

Hanegraaff proved New Age Pop Spirituality was closeted Pop Sike culture

Pop New Age Spirituality = closeted Pop Sike Cult

My Non-Review of Rinella’s Pharmakon

Customer Review
Michael Hoffman
5.0 out of 5 stars A huge advance in entheogen history scholarship
Reviewed on March 10, 2012
Verified Purchase
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R29TWQI7705KLY/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl

This is a long, densely informative book, with thoroughly documented scholarly references, and it ventures into an area that has been little explored but badly needs more coverage.

The book is too substantial; it’s daunting to review, but reviews are needed, such as describing what each chapter covers and what is significant and surprising that Rinella brings to light in each chapter. Certainly, this book more than earns its place within any entheogen history collection. It will be much-cited by other books in this area.

Entheogen scholars are discovering that visionary plants are the origin of religion. There has been a cover-up, censorship, and misrepresentation of drugs, and of the nature and origin of religion — suppressing the drug-origin of religion, and the place of visionary drug-plants in Western antiquity. This book reveals aspects of how different the truth is from the current official story of where religion has come from. Rinella reveals how various positions and conflicts between drugs and politics played out in antiquity.

The official story is crumbling and the truth of the matter is being revealed, helped greatly by this book, which had to fight its way through the publication process and which provides one model of how to meet the unreasonably high bar for quality of scholarship, to make it past the forces of censorship that maintain the current total bias and misrepresentation of the nature of religion and the central place of drug-plants in Western cultural history.

One must wonder how many other good manuscripts have been suppressed, and how much other solid scholarship has been blocked and thwarted by the official culture and its systems of approving knowledge. Multiple grad students have told me of their plight: they know there is a gold mine of paradigm-changing evidence that is well past-due to be explored formally and published, and research in entheogen history would benefit tremendously from being supported within the academic system, but for reasons of cultural politics, is not supported, but is vehemently suppressed. “I want to study this area in grad school. But there’s an extreme bias against even mentioning these ideas, against even turning our attention in this direction, of even proposing to look and see what evidence exists.”

It is as if the official culture realizes that if we permit our attention to be turned in this impermissible direction, the current conception of both religion and drugs (and Philosophy, and culture…) is certainly doomed to be straightaway revealed as resting on an entirely false “mythology of origin”. It’s as if the grad students propose to their committees that we put aside the adherence to the reigning pretence, stop burying our heads in the sand, stop denying the existence of this subject, and actually investigate and put forth this suppressed and forbidden matter into public view.

This situation is somewhat similar to sex research in the early 20th Century, and is actually quite closely related to the recent situation with the subject of Western Esotericism, which was taboo and was instantly dismissed out-of-hand, as being inherently unacceptable as a topic of academic historical research, until recently. The entire idea of “the role of drugs in our religious history” is altogether culturally taboo; the very idea is not permissible to think, mention, or countenance, according to official culture. So Rinella’s book is a major drug-politics victory, that has helped to clear the way to start to make it permissible to ask the question, for the first time, “To what extent were drugs used in our religious and cultural origins?”

/ end of book non-review

My November 23, 2011 Proto-Breakthrough Toward My November 29, 2013 Completed Breakthrough, on “{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism”

[9:48 p.m. December 20, 2020] This post doesn’t cover nonbranching though. Find ‘branch’ in Digest 111 instead: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-111/

Subject: Mythic metaphor code fully cracked
Date: November 23, 2011
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-110/#message5622 — below, I’m editing the shorthand for clarity; see post for original.

At the end of time (which is today, November 22, 2011), all mysteries are unveiled, all wisdom is revealed.

[except for More Connections, November 29, 2013.
I probably started writing at 11pm Nov 22, posted at 1am Nov 23. “Today = 22” was true at time of writing that start of post, not when posted.
The intellectual work was done during Nov. 22nd & preceding days.]
-mh2020]

The entire language of myth has fully opened, more than in 2001-2007 — continuing same vein as 2007, but I only had a view through the crack then, now it’s blown all the way open — the turning point was when I got radicalized in reaction to Rinella’s taking the moderate entheogen theory too far to conservative, and he raised question of the political downsides of mushroom mysteries, that harmed the demos.

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Actually, the contention in Athens was about the political downside & abuse of the revealed secret of non-kubernetes, and Heimarmene-dunamis, actually, more specifically than Rinella’s too-vague “mushroom use”.

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I told-off* the entheogenist for being weak-minded and complicit in Prohibition, in the bunk story the Establishment is coercing their weak, compromised minds into caving into.

We must think as an independent press!

Quit giving an *inch* to the Establishment!

Do the radical opposite of the view they advocate.

Purely and totally ignore them.

Refuse to be the slightest bit influenced by the Establishment view, that creeps and infests the minds of the purportedly leading-edge scholars.

Weed out that confused, inquisitional thinking from your mind.

[*not sure what I was referring to – my critique of Letcher? My Rinella book non-review was later, according to Amzn, reviewed on March 10, 2012.
Heres my non-review — the book is over our heads. Requires stepping up quite a bit, to review.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R29TWQI7705KLY/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl -mh2020]

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Be a pure, unchained, radical, independent thinker: follow venerable manly Edwin Johnson: per Robert Price:

How tragic; we can no longer take the received views for granted; we have to actually think, now.

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Set up an echo chamber — that’s how I achieved my great breakthrough Sep-Nov 2011: by making my thinking as simple and purely extreme as possible, hammering repeatedly in my echo chamber, screaming louder to drown out the voices of the Establishment contaminating my thinking, covertly inserted into my brain by remote control — and, chillingly, taking over Ruck’s brain, too, making him part of the Establishment Borg, so that we get the most sinister: revolutionary rebellion co-opted by the Establishment, complicit, coerced.

[eh, *qualified* “revolution”. Rinella’s book breaks my accustomed categories; I’m cautious about judging his book; I’d have to carefully re-read and reconsider where Rinella’s coming from — not some usual prefab stock position. -mh2020]

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The Establishment has infiltrated the minds of Rinella and Ruck, to corrupt their would-be “alternative” views.

Mother Jones has been bought out by Mega News Corp.

Books by Andy Letcher rushed out by big-name Establishment presses, making loud-sounding arguments about nothing in particular, a shell game, in which we nod our heads in dizzied consent that this constitutes an argument:

“The mushroom on the church door is evidence that there’s no hidden mushrooms in Christian art.
Therefore I have shown there’s no evidence for mushrooms in religion; such use is late 20th C only.”
Letcher

Yes Letcher, truly you have a dizzying intellect, I give in!

Movie: Princess Bride, “battle of the wits” scene, after convoluted but futile argument. 2:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSx3zNZOaU &t=170s

You are right (in your theory and position, whatever it is, that shifts on every other page, as needed, to give the right surface impression of something having been proved).

Any other views, all of them are wrong, whatever they are.

His book has all the logical structure of a pile of oatmeal.

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I haven’t seen argumentation with that level of soundness since I tore Wasson to shreds leaving nothing standing, regarding Plaincourault and related proxy issue of the supposed nonuse of mshr throughout Xn history, in Our religion.

When Hoffman was done with the temple of [Pope] Wasson, not one stone was left standing on the other.

Not to mention contributions from Irvin and Letcher toward same. [todo: review Letcher’s critique of Wasson.]

Wasson is forced to start from scratch with a *genuine* investigation of these Christian history questions this time.

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Ruck does well so far as he goes, in sticking to his guns even more, when the Establishment-hypnotized know-nothings say “Ruck can’t be right, because he sees mushrooms all throughout myth.”

That’s the same argument as I totally demolished from Wasson/Panofsky: “Plaincourault fresco cannot be mushrooms, because there are hundreds of what the art historians call ‘mushroom trees’ known in art.”

[the “argument-from-familiarity-with-stock-answer-to-explain-away” fallacy I wrote about below, earlier today -mh2020]

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That’s a kind of begging the question; of assuming that which is to be proved, with the superficial air, tone, and style of writing that tries to covertly mask-over that bunk move;

Wasson/Panofsky *assumes* as an uncritical presupposition, that mushroom-trees can’t represent mushrooms, and then uses that assumption *as if a conclusion of considered thinking*, to argue that this Plaincourault instance must “therefore” not represent mushrooms.

[Oh, but the CELERITY! the celerity with which the Top Art Historians toss-forth the Correct Party Line, PROVES they must be correct!

An argument-from-swiftness-of-spitting-forth-the-party-line, so impressive! -mh2020]

Just slather-on proving-sounding, argumentation-sounding, logic-sounding words, on top of a total non-argument.

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To boot, in addn, Wasson puts forth a crass brazen Argument From Authority:

“The art authorities are familiar with these m-trees and they know that these m-trees don’t represent mushrooms.”

That statement *is* the argument; there is no reasoned argument behind, under, prior to, supporting that statement; we are supposed to gullibly *imagine* such.

How weak are our minds?!

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Such was my hue & cry leading to my great complete breakthrough: the collapse and fall of the Myth Empire by the Diamond Hammer of Interpretation:

myth means cybernetics, heimarmene, & mushrooms

[therefore any decoding of myth must be of the form, which is a huge advantage & head-start:

“myth is a description by analogy, of {things that are observed and experienced in the altered state}:

which specific altered-state things for this particular mytheme; and
what is the greatest analogous aspect? -mh2020]

I suppose I got good at myth interp as cyb/heim/mshr by 2007 (proved by [Egodeath Yahoo Group] posts & main article) — but this lang interpretation skill is a matter of degree of fluency, and I got way more fluent, literate, skilled, clear on the grammar of myth, along w/ tightening my theory-interp/technique a la defining tinier, denser, simpler, more rigid and hard-*ssed, toughened, more firmly *committed*, zealous, …

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I am known on the Web as “the Entheogen Fundamentalist”, take that to heart, own that, yes, we need to rise up to be that!

We must quit failing to be fundamentalists, radicals, purists, extremists — then we can as I have now fully proved break through into coherence and truth and remove the worm of Establishment programming, virus contaminating our thoughts, programmed by the Demiurge and his rulers of this passing age.

The Diamond Hammer of Interpretation:

mythos = kubernetes’, heimarmene dunamis, kai mukes.

Including narrowing the vague concept of “it means entheogens/psychedelics” to: “it means ingesting [*PSILOCYBE*] mushrooms, which make the mind perceive the uncontrollable (by executor mind) source of thoughts”.

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The God part of the brain, the unknown Controller X, *can* control my thoughts (directly or as creator/programmer of my frozen worldine instruction-thread),

but me/mind as local executor, control unit, cannot, can only *receive* and mechanically *read and process* the command-instructions that Controller X, via his Heimarmene-vine instruction-thread, forcibly injects and transmits into my mind, thus remotely controlling my thoughts, making me will to do things, by “his” command.

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I am Controller X,

[Controller X is the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts, but it’s a multi-level puppethood control hierarchy, per a Tauroctony: THATS WHY THEY NEED A *PAIR* OF TORCHBEARERS, CAUTES *AND* CAUTOPATES; TO ILLUMINATE TWO (OR MORE) DISTINCT SOURCES OF CONTROL — THUS PRODUCING LOCAL NONCONTROL — ARE MADE PERCEPTIBLE.
Creator -> (Controller X is ultimately at this level)
block universe ->
worldline ->
the control-thought inserter at a given time ->
the control-thought receiver at that time

-mh2020]

and so I control and program everything that happens in the world; Controller X is me; I am transpersonal (you are deluded and crazy).

I thus insert my own commands into my mind, forcing myself to will things, indepdendently of my will.

I am the executor, the helpless reactive mechanical vessel who God forces command-thoughts into.

I am Sol, the totally overpowering Programmer, the source of all of everyone’s thoughts.

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I am Luna, the Executor, in whom Sol inserts thoughts. I am Mithras, who is forced to perceive the fountain gushing fecund thoughts into the loosened mind. I am the bull, discarded, dualistic, egoic thinking, and I control the power of freewill. I am the serpent of hiemarmene, inevitably led to drink the mshr blood from the receptive vessel forcefully filled with transcendent thoughts, that is neither bone, nor metal, nor wood. I am a program er. Metaprogramming is forced upon the steersman, who is made, his will is coerced and turned against itself, by entities he is forced to believe in.

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I am Controller X: I force my control-thoughts into my mind against its will, coercing the will, injecting my payload of control-overriding software into the helpless obedient vessel executor control unit, weak, obedient, female telepresence hardware dancing at my remote command.

/ end of the Egodeath Yahoo Group posting

Check also the subsequent digest, #111, same day continued with more postings:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-111/

Whether to Put a Major Article into a Web “Page” Rather than a Weblog “Post”, to Gain Column Width when Wide Window

Flip between these two versions of the flagship article, when the laptop window full-width vs. narrow-width.

Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe — weblog “Post” format (WordPress terminology).
- URL has date.
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/proof-that-the-canterbury-psalters-leg-hanging-mushroom-tree-is-psilocybe/
- Listed in “Recent Articles” sidebar widget.
- Has “Prev/Next” weblog post links at end.
- Has date shown at top.
- Ton of whitespace on left & right, when window is wide. Narrow reading column.

Proof Canterbury Psalter’s Mushroom Trees Are Psilocybe – wide, web “Page” instead of weblog “Post” version (Dec. 20, 2020 experiment). Assume using the WordPress “Blank” page-template.
- No date in URL:
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/proof-canterbury-psalters-mushroom-trees-are-psilocybe/
- Listed in “Pages” sidebar widget which you can turn on.
- No “Prev/Next” post links at end.
- No date shown at top automatically.
- No whitespace on left. Same whitespace as a “Post”, on right.

todo: maybe: delete the content from the original, “Post” (weblog posting) version of my long, article posts. Replace by a link to the same content placed into a new “Page” (“Blank” template). Update Site Map to add new, “Page” links and clarification of the Post link vs. Page link.

Before doing that, try adding tons of content to the About Page, see if it malfunctions during editing like before.

Ancient History of Egodeath Site: CybTrans.com, February 14, 1997 (24 Years Ago)

CybTrans.com Page with Outline of Topical Pages

CybTrans.com, site title:
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

The early-1997 CybTrans.com site nav page is a mini version of the 2007 Egodeath.com site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970214094018/http://www.cybtrans.com/philosph/postings.htm

Weirdly, this comprehensive outline page failed to link to the main, 1997 theory-spec, below.

If it’s zoomed too big, press Command+[-] or Windows+[-] to shrink text.

For questions about the site, the email address is shown:
unit1 at cybtrans com

To create most of the pages at CybTrans.com, I broke up my huge Word file (often rearranged using Outline view) that contained all my writings in the early-mid 1990s.

The structuring at CybTrans.com represents a topical outline view of my giant idea-development Word file I worked-up from around 1988-1997.

Theory-Spec/Summary:
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

Here’s a full copy of the 1997 theory-spec that I posted to Principia Cybernetica site, from my February 14, 1997 CybTrans.com site, just days after my early Feb Principia Cybernetica site Comment on the Philosophy article:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970214094005/http://www.cybtrans.com/egodeath/egodeath.htm

including the final section, which was a separate post at PC site:
The Egoic and Transcendent Mental Models and the Rationality of Ego Death

I wrote the article at CybTrans.com, and then copy/pasted to Principia Cybernetica. Strangely, the article is not listed in the main, detailed outline page.

Idea Development file with fragments

“Idea development file (fragments) 1/9/97 Idea development file (unrefined fragments) 1/9/97″. https://web.archive.org/web/19970214104005/http://www.cybtrans.com/philosph/study.htm

Older Domains, Before Anyone Else Heard of the Web

As far as I could tell, I was one of the first 3 people at WELL dialup site to announce the World-Wide Web, probably in 1993, because I was doing research on hypertext technology, since 1989.

I want to use the Lynx character-mode browser like back then, the pre-Mosaic (on DOS-PC) days.

My first, non-domain name site address (1994?) was something like:
http://www.best.com/archangl/

Looks like at one point (1995, = cybtrans.com?), a URL of mine was:
http://www.serv.net/~hoff/

Web Browser History
https://broadbandnow.com/internet/w/wi_browse.htm —
“Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer, called WorldWideWeb, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, 1991, introducing the web to the high energy physics community, and beginning its spread.”

“Mosaic. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the NCSA released the first version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993.”

The character-mode browser on which I discovered the Web, before anyone else even on the WELL:

“Lynx. The University of Kansas had written a hypertext browser independently of the web, called Lynx, used to distribute campus information. A student named Lou Montulli added an Internet interface to the program, and released the web browser Lynx 2.0 in March, 1993. Lynx quickly became the preferred web browser for character mode terminals without graphics, and remains in use today. Resources include the Browser.org Lynx page.”

Before the Web

You’d hop from one directory-archive to another, using Archie or something of that generation. So, the Lynx browser was like a character-mode improvement on that.

The Letcher-Panofsky Intelligence Test

final draft of article, better:
The Letcher-Panofsky Intelligence Test
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/the-letcher-panofsky-intelligence-test/

To read this website, you must first pass this Letcher-Panofsky intelligence test.

Which picture matches the following picture: picture A, B, or C?

Picture A:

Picture B:

Picture C:

Notes

https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/uploads/7/1/9/5/71959193/8004644_orig.jpg
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/mushroom-of-the-month/december-2015-psilocybe-cubensis — “Psilocybe cubensis is the most well-known psilocybin mushroom, due to its wide distribution and ease of cultivation. The species was first described in 1906, as Stropharia cubensis. ‘Psilocybe’ is from Greek psilos (ψιλος) and kubê (κυβη); “bald head”.

Email to Jerry Brown about the Evident Failure of Art Historians to Ever Critically Discuss Mushroom Trees Anywhere

Hi Jerry,
Thanks, I thoroughly read the partial translation. The word ‘mushroom’ (-trees) doesn’t appear in that portion.

The translation helped me: Using Brinckmann’s “vine leaf” and “grapevine leaf” hint, I now have a new relevant solution and hypothesis: a new explanatory construct: “vine-leaf trees” (bolstering my theory that “mushrooms reveal ego-killing nonbranching of possibilities”).

Now I have a sound, coherent, integrated explanation for the pairing of the exciting mushroom trees and the boring, dud non-mushroom trees that have vine-leaves instead of mushroom caps:

{vine, grapevine leaves} = the ego-shattering perception of non-existence of branching possibilities, in the intense peak altered state.

That’s thanks to Brinckmann, whose work I am now using against Panofsky & Wasson & Letcher & Hatsis, & Wasson’s other art historian Meyer Schapiro.

The Incredible Shrinking “Art Historians Have Already Discussed Mushroom-Trees” Claim by Panofsky

The translation covers Chapter 1 of 5, and the final quarter of Chapter 5. The translation covers 1.25 chapters out of 5, = 25% of Brinckmann’s book, by chapter-count.

At most, this book could have 65 pages of coverage of mushroom trees — I don’t believe that this book has ANY coverage of mushroom trees. The whole situation is a bluff, a smokescreen.

Art historians have managed to “explain-away” the problematic explanandum/data, by reasoning using the fallacy of “argument-by-familiarity-of-explanation”: “We are familiar with these mushroom trees, and we are familiar with baselessly asserting that they must not mean mushrooms.”

The super-popularity of mushroom shapes in the art of Christendom is problematic data like the precession of Mercury, or failure of planets to follow math of the Old Theory: it’s a piece of data that refuses to fit into the Old Explanatory Theory.

Hatsis claims it’s a problematic datum, that the texts don’t discuss mushrooms – he doesn’t know how to read Mythemes though; his expertise at historical research renders him incompetent at reading mythemes (in contrast to Cyberdisciple, who reads languages including Mythemese).

The art historians by 1952 were familiar with mushroom-trees and had informally settled on dismissing the import, as “mere arbitrary random accidental stylization”. So what, so far as that goes; the sheer fact of familiarity means nothing, regarding correct interpretation and proper debate.

The art historians never critically debated the matter, either among themselves, or with the mycologists or proto- “entheogen scholars”.

The art historians merely informally settled on a folk explanation, a stock “explanation”; a rote, standard pseudo-explanation for themselves.

There does not exist any proper write-up among art historians on the pros and cons, the merits or deficiencies, of the “mushrooms mean mushrooms” position.

There is no evidence anywhere, that art historians have ever discussed or debated whether the superabundant mushroom trees represent religious use of mushrooms.

Art historians have never critically discussed the pros and cons of the “mushrooms mean mushrooms” view, despite Wasson saying “I was struck by the celerity with which they all recognized the art motif.” Big deal! So what!

Wasson’s argument-from-celerity is a worthless, meaningless fallacy, that can be turned against him, as follows:

The celerity (rapid familiarity) of the art historians actually indicates against Wasson — let me translate Wasson’s statement into English:

“All the art historians have noticed the superabundance of mushrooms in art, and so they formed a pseudo-explanation to explain-away ‘mushrooms mean mushrooms’, based on the ‘argument-from-familiarity’ fallacy.” Period. That is the situation.

For an art historian to rapidly say “Yes, we’re familiar with the mushroom trees”, provides zero evidence to deny that mushroom shapes mean mushrooms.

Wasson tries to foist on us, the ‘argument-from-familiarity’ fallacy: “We all know the pseudo-explanation for the explanandum (the dense super-abundance of mushrooms in Christian art), therefore, that explanation is correct.”

Wasson’s “celerity” sentence commits the “argument from familiarity-with-the-pseudo-explanation” fallacy.

No real “discussion” ever took place — not in Panofsky’s censored letter, nor in Brinckmann’s puny, diminutive, ever-shrinking book’s alleged “coverage” or “treatment” of the question of:

“Do mushroom shapes, manifestly popular in religious art as the explanandum, represent religious use of mushrooms? If not, why not?

On what justified basis can we deny that the strangely popular, dense presence of mushroom shapes in art, represent religious use of psychoactive mushrooms?”

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* 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.
– Wasson, “The Sacred Mushroom”, letter to the editor in The Times Literary Supplement, August 21, 1970

— excerpt from http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889198

* In 2006, I was unware that Pope Wasson had censored the Brinckmann citation from Panofsky’s letter. How could I write “entire letter”, when there are ellipses?! I was impressed by how confusingly Wasson wrote.

POPE WASSON HERE AGAIN CENSORS BRINCKMANN FROM PANOFSKY’S LETTER; SO, MULTIPLE TIMES!

Irvin’s book, per Search Inside at Amazon, doesn’t contain the word Brinckmann; Wasson very effectively censored Brinckmann from me & from Irvin, though not from Brown, who published the full, complete photographs of Panofsky’s two letters to Wasson, including the censored citation of Brinckmann’s puny book which makes a mockery of Panosky’s implied claim that art historians have properly discussed whether entheogenic mushrooms are represented in Christian art.

I was underinformed in 2006, but I was still right: there is no such discussion record, because no such discussion was ever had, and the impressive vanishing slimness of Brinckmann’s book proves it.

Art historians had nothing but a non-scholarly, golf-course agreement to explain-away the problem of frequent mushroom shapes in Christian art.

Wasson repeatedly censored the citation of Brinckmann’s pathetically puny and far-from-convincing book, which Panofsky himself calls “small”, and which provides no evidence of why we should deny that entheogenic mushrooms are represented by the frequent mushroom shapes in Christian art.

I eagerly await the English-translated pages of Brinckmann’s book showing a critical weighing of the pros and cons of the “mushrooms mean mushrooms; mean psychoactive mushrooms for religious experiencing” interpretation (which Hatsis simply rebuts by sheer fiat and by demanding literalist realist botanical depiction within non-realist, stylized art, and expecting literal discussion of mushrooms in texts).

I’m not holding my breath.

There is no actual coverage of mushroom trees in Brinckmann’s book or any other book, article, or letter.

There was only backyard over-the-fence discussions, “Gee, there sure are tons of these mushroom trees all over the place. They can’t mean psychoactive mushrooms for religious experiencing; so they must be accidental stylization.”

THAT is the alleged per Panofsky, the implied-by-Panofsky, “scholarly discussion” of the matter.

The alleged “familiarity” of “the art historians” with “mushroom trees”, amounts to NOTHING but baseless assumption and non-explanation, “It’s just a random coincidental stylization, that mushrooms are densely found in non-realism Christian art.”

The art historians have a way of explaining-away the datum, which is no explanation, and explains nothing.

There has been no proper discussion, ever, of why the mushroom shape appears so frequently in Christian art.

Celerity; rapidity of showing one is familiar that the problematic data exists, counts for nothing.

Rapidity of spitting-forth the baseless, party-line pseudo-explanation counts for nothing, and is a form of empty “argument from authority”.

“All the art historians rapidly spit-forth this explaining-away, therefore they are correct.”

Wasson’s ‘celerity’ sentence is an “argument-by-familiarity” fallacy.

No one explains why the stylization is so fond for skewing in the specific direction of mushrooms, in fantastical religious & mythology art.

Given: Religious art shows mushroom shapes densely.
Given: Mushrooms cause religious experiencing (Psilocybe ideally so; & superior to other plants or methods).
On what defensible basis, then, can art historians deny that mushrooms represent psychoactive mushrooms used for religious experiencing?

The art historians’ position, their baseless denial of entheogenic mushrooms in Christian art, makes no sense.

Their argued defense for their position against the simple alternative, has never been spelled out — not in Brinckmann, not in letters, not anywhere — because the 1952 art historians have no principled defense of their assumed stance, that can stand up to critique and scrutiny.

The art historians did not reach their position through sound justification; only through folk-explanation, sheer convention and tradition of explaining-away — a tradition which they all had to learn to respond to “with celerity“, because the problematic data is so manifest, well-known, and unavoidable, pressing itself upon the art world as a problem demanding an explanation.

“Why are there so damn many of these mushroom shapes all over the place in art?! We have to solve this problem by explaining-away these problematic data somehow — what is our ‘with celerity’ party-line, canned-response going to be, to save our Bad Old Theory from the problematic data that won’t fit our presupposition-based bias?“

It is a big problem for the art historians that there are mushrooms everywhere in Christian art, so to get anywhere in their field, they have to learn to respond with celerity coughing-up the correct pseudo-explanation, to Save the Old Theory/Position, to toe the party line — “with celerity“!

65 Proven Psilocybe Mushroom Trees in Christian Art

I counted some 65-70 mushroom trees in the Canterbury Psalter.

I proved that the hanging-above-sword mushroom tree must be Psilocybe or else it makes no sense (by my argument from “analogy-based description of peak effects”).

I thereby proved that all 65-70 mushroom trees in the Canterbury Psalter, by the same team, must represent Psilocybe — not only “Parasols of Victory”; not only “Italian Pine trees”.

I’ll let the experts Hatsis & Panofsky debate-out that last dispute, of which of the densely found mushroom trees in Christian art are Assyrian Parasols of Victory, and which of them are Italian Pines.

Not that it matters at all; not that either of them cares at all which explanation is deemed “correct”, just so long as the pseudo-explanation is: Anything-But-Mushrooms!

Thanks
— Michael

Next Version of Set of Optimized Concept-Labels (Shortcut Expansion Phrases)

[ p.m. December 20, 2020] <– use this [acro]/keyboard shortcut much more often; [dts]. updated the [acro]/keyboard shortcuts: keyboard shortcut phrase:
[#:## a.m. December 20, 2020]

[11:45 a.m. December 20, 2020]

todo – I’m currently dumping my “v2” set of [acro]/keyboard shortcuts — just the optimized concept-labels, not the shortcut acro’s, at bottom of Core Concepts page.

I need to get a better, outline-org’d look at them, and work on them tuning them as a set.

As I write, I need better and better phrasings, so I write out the phrasing — I try — but I need to get a better look at what’s so inadequate with the current set of expansion-phrases; the current generation of optimized concept-labels.

A correct generation numbering would be like:

April 1987
January 1988
2010 mobile multitouch expansions
2016 first attempt at defining a set of desktop keyboard shortcuts , but only learned/used like 5% of those.
Nov 2020 the first truly systematic intensive attempt to define a set of phrases, essentially became the Core Concepts WordPress page.

So NOV 2020 was v1 of FORMAL SET of expansion-phrases, & literal keyboard (not touchscreen) shortcuts, so yes,

My current DUMP-AND-REFACTOR task is indeed v2 OF FORMAL LITERAL [ACRO]/KEYBOARD SHORTCUT EXPANSION PHRASES.

DUMP = extracting all my expansion phrases from util app into Core Concepts page, then outline-org’g them, to analyze gaps, better wording.

What’s defined in the util app now, is considered, the result of my Nov 2020 re-do effort, in which I put + or – in front of each expansion-phrase (each allegedly “optimized” concept-label), deleted all the – items from the util app, then continued to add MANY, MASS-PRODUCTION OF ADDING NEW “OPTIMIZED CONCEPT-LABELS”, but now it’s time to take stock.

THE RIGHT PHRASING I WANT TO USE AS I TYPE, IS *NEVER* DEFINED YET; the whole exercise is FUTILE, due to ever-improving the “optimized concept-labels”.

The futile task of carving in stone the optimized concept-labels, is the most efficient way to craft optimized concept-labels.

Since April 1987, use of acro’s was always an ongoing process; I always defined a new acro abbr in every paragraph; multiple new ones per page, for some 600 pages, April 1987-February 1988.

600 pages * 4 new acro’s per page = 2,400 acronyms defined, in 1 year.

I generate 2,400 new optimized concept-labels (phrases useful for writing about the Egodeath theory) per year.

October 19, 1988 Early-Draft Wording, from “Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence”

Here are selections from my January 6, 2013 posting at the Egodeath Yahoo Group:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-123/#message6259

August 12, 1988 was my handwritten 1st-draft manuscript. The printed draft that is transcribed here was written two months later.

Since the January 11 1988 breakthrough, I had been needing & planning to write an article. Drafting such an article actually happened on a no-technology, remote vacation getaway, August 12, 1988.

____________________________

[Jan 6 2013 writeup:]

The following sections (Principles) came into my October 19, 1988 draft, after a September draft. [after my August 12, 1988 initial handwritten draft -mh2020] These show that I gained a solid, articulate grasp around that point in time, of the control instability vortex, and the difficulty of piecemeal incrementally strategically reconfiguring and destabilizing the personal control system while having to stay safe and stable. These are a few selected sentences from the sections. The content in this draft is shockingly advanced, conceptually complete with closure, and rock-solid; it was 50 years ahead of its time in 1988 and remains 50 years ahead of its time in 2013. [[2020]]

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To preserve the historical accuracy of these condensed excerpts, [square brackets] indicate major insertions of 2013. [[double square-brackets = 2020]] … I here remain faithful to the draft but I do condense and clarify the draft wording slightly, where necessary for flow and comprehensibility.

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… I’m constantly forgetting and rediscovering as though new, ideas within this domain. Forgetting mental connections remains a problem, in gaining transcendent knowledge or knowledge in any field, like you could learn a lot of electric guitar and then have to re-learn and re-practice it. This is one reason why no matter how advanced your knowledge of my Egodeath theory is, all indications are that you remain constitutionally susceptible to pride and humiliation, wrathful reminder of vulnerability to your own control-instability potential [[falling back into {reincarnation} into naive rather than qualified egoic control thinking and thus remain {mortal, impure, polluted-thinking} susceptible to ego {death}; die-able]] .

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By October 1988, my draft of the Theory article contained the core of the 2013 ideas [[I wrote that in Jan 2013; big breakthrough was 11 months afterwards in Nov 2013, tightening the connections I had made a year earlier, November 23, 2011 –mh2020]], already essentially fully developed and already partly applied to religious myth at that time, during the 3 years since October 1985. By October 1988, the Egodeath theory was born fully formed [[Like decoding a mytheme, there are always more connections to make, and over the years one must refresh the connections -mh2020]] seemingly at a point in time, like Athena’s birth, because the loosecog phenomena innately fit together into a coherent system [[that’s why “by coincidence” all my ideas concur with the SET of gnostic ideas as divided-out by Elaine Pagels’ first 3 boooks]], with consistent phenomena noted by sustained intensive thorough investigation.

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From my October 19, 1988 draft titled:

Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence

with a cover page added soon after, showing the article title instead as:

The Theory of Ego Transcendence

I decided: forget the transient stupid, passing, clueless misconception of ego transcendence that the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology happened to have in the passing dark ages of the 1980s.

Mine is *the* theory, of all time, not merely “the new” theory of the day relative to 1988.

Later, as an improving pendulum-swing, I added the qualifier:

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence

which means, as opposed to the 1988 Journal of Transpersonal Psychology’s theory of what ego transcendence is about and amounts to, which is a vague oneness unity consciousness model.

My theory, in contrast, is centered around the dynamics and mental model of personal self-control cybernetics.

It is better to be specific, ‘Cybernetic’, rather than dated and relevant to a point in time, ‘New’.

I realized that my theory won’t be “new” for long; it would be like Einstein
[[sic; Minkowski:
Minkowski’s Block Universe
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/]]
titling a 1905 article as “The New Model of Spacetime”, 83 years ago.

The title “The Theory of Ego Transcendence” suffers from being vague, like “Transcendent Knowledge”.

Now I could clarify further as:

The Cybernetics/Eternalism/Loose-Cognition Theory of Ego Transcendence

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From my October 19, 1988 article draft, “Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence”.

Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence

Principle 14: Intention

There are virtually potential futures, but only a single actually potential future. [[the branching possibilities model, vs. the pre-existence, monopossibility model -mh2020]]

Thus where a mental system has an intention-set, this intention-set was part of the single-possibility actual ground of being, and arose as such, though the style of its arising may have been as [[if]] an original product of a virtual ego conceived as a First Cause, or homunculus.
[[monolithic simple egoic autonomous source of control, originator of control-thoughts -mh2020]]

If the issue is to keep some intended control, the difficulty of keeping control is none other than the difficulty of keeping the intention to keep control.

And there is no way to secure the intention to keep control.

Upon grasping this, it makes sense to pray to God that the ground of existence is such that the intention to control is to happen.

[[if you fail to keep intending to keep control, control is lost. -mh2020]]

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What I will (regarding my intention) will happen, but I can’t ultimately control what I will will.

Control is always limited to its own level.

There is always a level above the control level in question, which controls the control; or, which controls my intention.

[[The above is a well-articulated 1988 precursor to an expression of the idea I articulated in late 2020, that Mithraism’s Taruoctony means switching from an “autonomous simple monolithic controller” model, to a “4 levels of control” model:

Creator outside the block universe, like {lion-headed snake-wrapped god born from the rock}; the Empyrium, per Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism.
Block universe w/ worldline of personal control-thoughts. {rock-carved snake-basket}; cista mystica.
the control-thought inserter. {Sol}.
the control-thought receiver. {Luna}.

Loosecog awareness stands outside of all this, like the sum of all of the {looking} depicted in a Tauroctony:

Sol looking at the sacrifice.
Mithras looking back at Sol.
Torchbearer looking at the {snake carved in rock} under the bull.
Torchbearer looking up at Sol behind & above the bull.
The bull looking…
Luna not looking.

Good images of Tauroctony:
Page title:
Mithraism – Think with the Female+Male Mind of Mithras
subsection:
Mithraism — Think with the Female-Male Mind of Mithras, Look at Sol not Just Luna, Blade Ego-Bull and Its World, in Its Vulnerable Control-thought Receptacle
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/mithraism-think-with-the-femalemale-mind-of-mithras/#Think-with-the-Female-Male-Mind-of-Mithras

If the mind identifies the local locus of control with the control-thought receiver (Luna):
4) the control-thought receiver is profoundly at the mercy (thus, bull’s power is stabbed) of
3) the control-thought inserter, which is profoundly at the mercy of
2) the worldline of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe, which is profoundly at the mercy of
1) the Creator; the lion-headed ultra-transcendent god residing outside the fate-controlled sphere of the fixed-stars.

{Mithras} is the god-mode mind, which perceives all of this.

Think with the mind of Mithras; such mind/ god-mode thinking, by virtue of experiencing, perceiving, and understanding levels of control and dependence, necessarily sacrifices naive egoic autonomous control (the {bull}, sacrificed in the course of gaining fertile new life/ the new mental worldmodel).

I am satisfied with this decoding of the Tauroctony!!

I proudly sign my name to this decoding; this explanation of what is revealed in the Mystery Religion of Mithras.

This explanation satisfactorily AND SIMPLY accounts for the figures in the Tauroctony.

Luna also represents naive possibilism-thinking; the mental worldmodel which conceptualizes self-in-world as egoic autonomous monolithic control-agency steering in a tree of branching possibilities into an open future. -mh2020]]

Principle 15: The control vortex, the timed trap of revelation, and the wall of insanity

The advanced mind which develops transcendent knowledge must walk along the border of genius and insanity.

He has the genius to dismantle his sanity, the keys to his own self-annihilation.

Of course this situation is indeterminate and unstable, and any egoic functioning would dictate life and death wariness of this realm of forbidden knowledge.

This knowledge is like the ark of the covenant.

At this point in development of knowledge and intelligence, is it first conceived that too much truth can be detrimental, due to its destabilization attributes.

It is very likely many minds have understood or at least grasp this momentarily, but to do so is true ego death, and panic might be inevitable along with the terrified resealing of Pandora’s box [[early mytheme, in 1988]] or the resealing of the seven seals [[early mytheme, in 1988]].

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The virtual ego system is both necessary for life and also incompatible with truth, so that momentary correct indexing (comprehension of connected ideas) in the terrible awe of the presence of God is the best that a mind can do, and the rest of the time, the mind must for its very life, use egoic indexing.
[[qualified possibilism-thinking, rather than naive possibilism-thinking -mh2020]]

If a mind continued to grasp transcendent indexing, it would risk going insane.

The test of revelation: there are filters [[gateway barriers/veils/walls]] of insanity and tabooness and control discomfort which cause any mind flirting with correct revelation to contract again into egoic functioning. [[{reincarnation}, as failure to remember & {bring back the prize of} eternalism-thinking -mh2020]]

The revealing, heroic, Michaelian, Satan-slaying mind must fight the dragon or dragons of egoic indexing and win, somehow overcoming the wall of insanity which protects the group mind’s immersion in epistemological error.

[[That’s is a rare example of a 1988 use of mythemes rather than modern scientific direct-description: Biblical, not Hellenistic:
{heroic, Michaelian, Satan-slaying, fight dragon}
-mh2020]]

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This mind must be able to draw upon any field or approach to special knowledge in order to keep walking the line of insanity/genius until the puzzle is solved, instead of going insane and failing to crystallize and retain understanding and development of it.

At first it will seem that correct indexing can only result in total disintegration of egoic functions, good and bad.

[[the problem/work to be done: must move from naive to qualified possibilism-thinking, not destroy childhood possibilism-thinking wholesale. As warned by Ken Wilber. –mh2020]]

But the mind must keep the assumption of sufficient integration as it harvests more and more correctly conceived principles.

[[harvest is a mytheme, though here inchoate in 1988. There I’m discussing increasing the number of connections, per Thagard. -mh2020]]

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One safety tool is controlled revelation, in which insights are seen grasped in limited number or depth from within the secure stability of egoic indexing.

[[the problem of how to steal/snatch the apple of immortality from the snake;
how to obtain the fruit of insanity/non-control, without going insane/out of control;
how to rebuild your hovercraft/flying carpet while riding on it in mid-air. -mh2020]]

But this intention cannot be secured, especially in the loose mental functioning binding mode, and there is always the danger of compulsive realization of the disruptive potential, forming the negative recursion potential issue.

All gaining of correct transcendent indexing implies (triggers, elicits, carries, or brings up) the problem of negative recursion potential.

Principle 16: Recursive assumption and negative recursion potential

Knowing “you can do whatever you imagine by positive thinking“, or positive recursive assumption, implies its complement.

I’m only as stable as my preprogrammed assumption of stability that is fated on my near-future worldline.

With advanced analysis in the loose mental functioning binding mode, this assumption is unhinged, and I realize that I could as validly assume I am to go insane.

Here stabilization structure becomes vividly logically indeterminate, and a properly functioning egoic conceptual system will likely run for its egoic life, go sub-genius, seeking stupidity, to quit thinking with hyper-clarity, or back out by prayer — unless it realizes that, too, is a product of assumption.

[[crawling desperately on the carpet looking down and away, and pleading not to see the loss-of-control attractive threatening monster; not to be too smart and perceptive -mh2020]]

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If there’s auto-assumption, there will be auto-recontraction into the egoic conceptual system, producing stability of control due to egoic functioning. [[Ken Wilber. {reincarnation}. -mh2020]]

Will there be auto-assumption?

That is logically indeterminate, if one starts with neutral assumption.

So if a temporary genius considers the stability of his sanity with neutral assumptions, he concludes that the continuing presence of his sanity is logically recursively indeterminate.

And in such manner is the negative recursion potential unavoidable, by correct neutral ultimate assumptions.

A genius finds his actions depend on his original assumptions, which have no logical basis.

Thus the sanity of the genius rests on nothing logically solid, only purely arbitrary assumptions which are logically indeterminate.

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Truth presents a trans-rationality problem: the truth sets you too free, free to the point of disintegrative arbitrariness.
[[Terrence McFakea secretly stopped taking mushrooms because “mushrooms revealed the unliveable absence of meaning, all valuation” — that explanation by McKenna can be read as “because my self-control system lost all ballast”. Existential vertigo is related to absence of self-control stability. -mh2020]]

The mind is then out of control, as it has accessed forbidden control.

Its [[the mind’s]] greatest hazard is its own potentials, as manifested in alcoholism.

The mental functioning is stuck in a problem producing/transcending cybernetic locked loop, in which the egoic control system is perpetually challenging itself.

If I should assume pure logical analysis, I could not stop myself from contamination by this mental plague, face to face with the fact of absolute destiny, even of the details of my choosing.

[The various loosecog dangers are distinct: gaining full unguided unconstrained control brings a distinct danger; being subject to whatever is on one’s near-future worldline is a different distinct danger. -mh2013]

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There is no controller homunculus to constrain the control system; there is simply the control system itself.
[[strains of Alan Watts’ book The Way of Zen. I need to mention more his essay which I discovered long after Dec. 1987, “Zen and the Problem of Control”. -mh2020]]

I cannot prevent myself from logical analysis, so if I should assume purely logical analysis, I could not stop myself from contamination by this mental dynamic.
[[careful, might need to adjust that concept-usage, to rightly conform with the mytheme-cluster
{impurity, impure, purification, contamination, pollution, purity, wash clean, cleanse}
-mh2020]]

If I assume logical analysis to deal with this problem, I will find that there can be no logical solution, thus no solution in the logical sense.

It is logically indeterminate whether I will be doomed [[and blessed! -mh]] to contact the detrimental knowledge or not, and I cannot in any way secure myself from the caustic concept.
[[the dragon monster guards the treasure! they are a package deal; we can’t simply call dragon-threat purely “detrimental” — the self-control disaster threat, the transcendent self-threatening potential, is that which produces and teaches enlightenment, salvation, regeneration. -mh2020]]

If fear occurs upon realizing this, it’s not correctly understood as fear of a specific event due to my loss of control, but the very state of loss of control.

I’m afraid of the state of loss of control.

The purpose of fear is to negatively control.

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Egoic security requires faith in personal (egoic) will power.

When will power is seen to be logically indeterminate and arbitrary, the control system becomes indeterminate, and fear of loss of control happens along with the (now endangered, in belief and actuality) state of presence of control.

In fact, there is always control, but theological indeterminacy and invalidity of control disrupts the integrity parameter of control.

[There’s always personal control present, including during divine possession in loosecog, but the control parameters change. -mh2013]

There’s an ominous widening of the “virtual potentials” or “virtual future“.

[The mind becomes more broadly capable during loosecog, able to envision great and psychotic-like capabilities and construct unconstrained harmful possibility scenarios. -mh2013]

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During tight mental functioning binding, the control area is sufficiently bounded and dynamically balanced that life is fairly stable.

But loose mental functioning may allow this balance to fail, resulting in mis-control, a breakdown of the control system or at least a bypassing of secure control.
[[as the ram ascended up to god-mode thinking, Prixus’ sister Helle looked down from the rescuing-from-sacrifice flying golden-fleece ram, lost her balance, and fell back down into the sea and drowned, died. -mh2020]]

Control is beyond control.

Principle 17: The analyzability of the middle realm of human experiencing apart from the low quantum and high ineffable realms

[Here I render loosecog cognitive phenomenology (the realm of religious mystic experiencing and insight) independent from all other fields: Relativity, QM, Wilber’s level 12 1/2 of transrational ineffability. -mh2013]

If the arm of the virtual ego is illusory, it remains so regardless of whether consciousness is a determining factor of quantum level measurements, and regardless of the ultimate high ineffable level of the ground of being.

— Michael Hoffman, January 5, 2013, original research findings based on theory-development since 1985.
Copyright (C) 1988, 2013 [[& Dec 20, 2020]] Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.

4-Quadrant Diagram Before “{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism” (January 11, 2013)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-123/#message6275 (January 11, 2013) —

post 6275: todo: do more 2020 review/analysis of this posting.

Max efficient compact model:

tightcog gives autonomy/Possibilism; [ = upper left, lower left]
loosecog gives puppethood/Eternalism [ = upper right, lower right]

Voice dictate

The goal is not to model the truth of physics but rather to accurately and efficiently model the truth of how the mind’s experiencing is shaped and characterized in tight cog versus loose cog

in tight cog experiencing is shaped as autonomy, possiblism with branching future possibilities, naïve realism of perception, and literalism of reading

in loose cog experiencing is structured as puppethood, non-control, 2 layer control with hidden uncontrollable thought source and helpless thought receiver, block universe eternalism with worldline monocoursal non-branching possibility, meta perception and unreality and explicit mental construct processing with pure awareness separated out from mental construct binding, and metaphoricity metaphor awareness consciousness of analogies

this the goal of good theory in the field of loose cog studies or ego death theory : efficiency not accuracy of describing individual things but rather the goal is to come up with an extremely simple model explanatory that has extremely broad explanatory power regardless of that mere facts and data and reality

the main driving concern is not truth data facts history but rather accuracy of generalization in characterizing thinking feeling and perceiving in the tight cognitive binding state and the loose cognitive binding state

what is revealed in loose cog is a mental model alternative which can be described as a single subject that is really conceived or as two or three or four or 12 subjects regardless of whether the subject of rethinking is presented as one subject or divided into two distinct subjects such as control model and time model or four subjects such as self time control and possibility or 12 subjects as I attempted in 1988 through maybe 2005

it was a breakthrough in efficiency of theory structuring to present what is changed in your mental model divided into two subjects : control and time, or personal control agency and block universe time and possibility

axiom: however many subjects you divide it into 1,2,4 or 12 these mental model areas that are transformed in loose cog always transform interlocked together

even though the topics or subjects are distinct they all change together as a system and they each arise together and arise distinctly and independently

these phenomena and thoughts and perceptions and feelings or sensations arise independently but they are mutually supporting ; the arrows of influence go every way and moving from tight cog to loose cog, it’s not only that a changed view of time causes you to have a changed view of control; also your changed view of control causes you to have a changed view of time

time feels frozen in loose cog and Control feels gone in loose cog and the feeling of non-control suggests frozen time and the feeling of frozen time suggests non-control

it is a holistic shift from the holistic tight cog mental model (and experiencing; thinking feeling perceiving ) to the holistic loose cog mental model plus the mystic does not assert in isolation the eternalism model of time nor does the mystic assert in isolation non-control

the mystic asserts the entire system as we see in myth and religious writing it makes little difference whether you depict time in myth or possibility branching or the king losing his power it is all one system

in todays breakthrough in efficiency and simplicity of theory especially a four quadrant diagram that is universally equivalent to all mythic figures of snakes kings time branching possibility all of those , and hunting searching the mind and Elevated awareness unbound from mental construct processing , and being in love and attracted to the God that kills oneself upon seeing the God’s power , and hero and monster guarding the treasure that is attractive , all of that is suggested efficiently in four quadrants

on the left is tight cog which gives egoic thinking

the upper left box is the mental model of egoic control ,the egoic mental model of control labeled
Autonomy
or other one word label

lower left : egoic mental model of time labeled
Possiblism
( branching future)

The right side is tight [sic; loose] cog binding, which is transcendent mental model

upper right: the transcendent mental model of control labeled
Puppethood
(non-control, two level control: hidden uncontrollable thought source and helpless thought receiver )

lower right :the transcendent mental model of time labeled
Eternalism
(block universe single pre-existing future with no meta-change)
[used both the tech-term ‘eternalism’ and the common language “pre-existing”]

we could merge the time model and control model in one box “the mental model of time self ,control and possibility “, but per myth and rock lyrics the most efficient way to present all the data the topics that are changed remapped in the mental model is as two groups :control and time

[todo: resume 2020 analysis of this post, or delete the below portion of the oddly long post. My motivation for retrieving this posting was just to check my planned Quadrant Diagram cover-art, vs. the Nov 2013 2-item condensed equivalent, the formula: {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism. -mh2020]

in 2006 I thought metaphor is not what is revealed , loose cognition and mental model transformation is not whats revealed

what’s revealed is mainly not one monolithic subject but two distinct subject areas in theory of religion and in myth and rock lyrics

those two main distinct interlocked subjects are control and time

all the details of what mental model topics change can be placed into those two key fields and in January 1988 I pictured when reading “way of Zen”, Minkowski space time frames of reference possibly going back to Edwin Abbott around 1880 with roots in theology of god’s eternal perception and predestination when relativity started in 1905
[Flatland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott ]

Relativity distracted everyone from the ego death implication of Monkowski [Minkowski] space-time diagrams which clearly depict the theology eternal and some perspective and the antiquity idea of and ask experience of frozen time block universe time as space bike [time] dimension which is not an idea that requires Einstein and special relativity in modern 20th century but is self evident in intense loose cog state

The ancients knew more, and more relevant, content in cognitive science and philosophy of space-time than the stupid modern non-thinkers, single state thinkers childishly limited to the ordinary state of consciousness in the dark ages of the 20th century

what kills the ego is not [allegedy “Einsteinian” but actually Minkowskian -mh2020] relativity but Minkowski space time especially particularly time as a spacelike dimension which happens to be precisely the mystic model of time and people object to determinism but especially people object to pre-existence of the future because that above all kills the ego and
[[I didn’t voice-dictate — I didn’t say “people object to Eternalism (tech-term); I said closer to “people object to pre-existence of the future (ie “people object to the existence of future control-thoughts)” -mh2020]]

people should have recognized that this is exactly what is revealed in religion and the Mystic state both the eternal model of time and yes absolutely the ramifications that go with it of non-existence of the moral agent and implies no free will which is exactly the concern the focus of religion and mysticism

but people didn’t understand religion mysticism or metaphor so they did not recognize that the adventures of a square by Edwin Abbott taken up by Rudy Rucker in 1976 first edition of the fourth dimension indeed does talk about the God eternal point of view that reduces us to puppets and snake shaped world lines frozen in space time

yes absolutely time as a spacelike dimension leading up to relativity absolutely has ramifications of ego nullity but people didn’t know enough about myth and mystic perception and theology to recognize that time as a spacelike dimension and its implication of noncontrol is exactly the heart of religious revelation in the loose cog state

The latest fad by materialist reductionism is to claim that no-free-will follows from reductionist science

they are ignorant as a rock about the mystic state and myth and religious experiencing and theology and religion or they would realize that no free will per the block universe eternalism model particularly time as a space like dimension regardless of quantum mechanics is exactly the concern of mystic religion and transforming ideas about moral agency

these scientists have a immature outsiders view a non-initiate view of religion reading it completely literally
[they lack literacy at the language of Mythemese -mh2020]

they fail terribly totally to recognize that no-free-will, and the resulting supposedly problem unacceptable of personal non-control, is what is actually experienced vividly, not merely abstractly thought about, revealed in the mystic peak entheogen state that is esoteric insider religion real religion interpreted intelligently not childishly like these ignorant atheist reductionist scientists who are bad philosophers and ignorant of mystic experiencing or reading deciphering mythic metaphor
[ie, Sam Harris writes a pro-entheogen Spirituality book, and a no-free-will book, and fails to perceive that they are the same subject — while he disparages religion/ Christianity, which is actually saying the same thing (articulated & described using the language of Mythemese) as his no-free-will book & his pro-entheogen spirituality book. -mh2020]

All throughout the ignorant single state modern era people [William James] stupidly only objected to causal chain determinism and time as a spacelike dimension saying these are unacceptable this view must be rejected because it eliminates moral responsibility and free will and leaves no role for the self and personal agency
[see the new book reviewed at the “Society of Ancient Esotericism” (I there conflated two weak organization names into 1 good name) website .com not .org, about debates about no-free-will/fate.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/ancientesotericism-org-western-esotericism-scholarship/
AncientEsotericism.com http://ancientesotericism.com
is the website for the
Network for the Study of Ancient Esotericism (NSEA),
a thematic network associated with the
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)

https://ancientesotericism.com/news/ —

TWO NEW BOOKS ON PROVIDENCE AND FATE:
DID GOD CARE? (Burns)
FATE, PROVIDENCE AND FREE WILL (BROUWER AND VERMICATI (EDS.))
Sep. 8, 2020
“Two new titles dealing with providence, fate, and free will in Roman philosophical and religious literature of the first centuries CE“
https://ancientesotericism.com/2020/09/18/two-new-books-on-providence-and-fate-burns-did-god-care-brouwer-and-vermicati-eds-fate-providence-and-free-will/
]

they were blind, these points are precisely the points that are revealed in the mystic state but people failed to connect these ideas because they were ignorant of deciphering myth and recognizing metaphor in which religion has always asserted time as a space like dimension, block universe eternalism and everything that implies for the illusion of self personal control autonomy and personal control power which is all exactly what is revealed in esoteric religion

but people simply dismissed that without, they dismissed these supposedly objections such as non-control without even realizing that they were exactly rejecting that which is experienced and felt and perceived in the loose cog state

I am the first modern theorist to explicitly recognize in summary the extremely efficient depiction moving from egoic mental model on the left to transcendent mental model on the right which is goes along with switching from the tight cognitive binding state on the left to the loose cognitive binding state on the right

regarding the subjects which change in the mental model it is best it is most efficient to present the monolithic change as two subjects: the control model and the time model so that:

in tight cognition the mind is programmed to hold and think and feel and perceive the autonomy control model in conjunction with the possibilism time model and

in the loose cognitive state the mind is programmed to have and think and feel and perceive structured as the puppet could control model in conjunction with the eternal is him time model

the control vortex loss of control dynamic is part of the process of mental model transformation and recognition of metaphor is part of the transformation process and meta-perception perceiving mental construct processing as such factors in

but mainly what is revealed in the mystic state is grouped under the subject heading of control and time

those are the master themes interlocked though distinct

I do not say that Eternalism is the truth and that is reality that is revealed , that the enlightened person must agree with is eternalism

rather I say absolutely and efficiently that tight cog makes you have the possibilism perspective and loose cog makes you have the Eternalism perspective in conjunction with , in tight cog makes you have autonomy and loose cog makes you have puppethood

The breakthrough today is simplifying like myth not even sentences:

Tight cog: egoic mental model , autonomy, possiblism; also naïve realism, and literalism

loose cog: transcendent mental model, puppet hood, uncontrollable thought source& helpless thought receiver, eternalism block universe worldline; meta-perception = awareness unbound from mental construct processing to look at it, and metaphor awareness, also perception solipsism the bubble of awareness like in a cave of mental constructs experienced as a small room filled with television screens

but my main most efficient most compact myth depiction ,the shortest formula most potent and efficient is:

loose cognition gives autonomy and possiblism feeling
tight cognition binding gives puppet hood and eternalism feeling

Islaam is a religion in the shape of a people worshipping a big cube of marble sent down as message from heaven to earth, message of block universe eternalism together with puppet hood, personal noncontrol.

when the block universe meetyourright fell to earth it killed many heathen unbelievers in no free will and eternalism and noncontrol but by a miracle Mohammed who believed correctly in these things survived and walked away to have a future

I am a nature worshiper I worship rocks and snakes and trees especially trees without branches also sacred springs from which streams flow and caves and a fork in the path where a decision is forced to occur

Original research findings by Michael Hoffman, theorist of ego transcendence since October 1985

/ end post 6275

New Hypothesis-Construct: “Vine-Leaf Trees”, as a Companion to “Mushroom Trees”, = non-branching revealed by Psilocybe

[1:37 p.m. December 20, 2020] —

Brown thought he maybe saw an English version of the book, but I couldn’t find such. I didn’t hear back from German entheogen scholar Christian Ratsch.

I just found a significant word-mistranslation. Brinckmann actually wrote ‘grapevine’ where this translator wrote ‘vine’.

The translation is of Chapter 1 of 5, and of the final quarter of Chapter 5.

Those chapters don’t seem to have the word ‘mushroom’ — SO PANOFSKY’S CLAIM THAT “THE ART HISTORIANS HAVE DISCUSSED mushroom trees” is shrinking and shrinking, down to what, 3.75 short chapters at most?

3.75/5 of 86 pages = 0.75 * 86 = 65 pages of “coverage” of the topic, in one book by one art historian, in 1906?

THAT’S ALL YOU GOT??

No wonder Pope Wasson censored Brinckmann’s name & book, it is so puny and underwhelming coverage of the matter, the topic of mushroom trees!
to try to “refute” the mycologyists (NOT Allegro!; long before him): Rolfe1925, Ramsbottom 1949 & 1953, Brightman 1966.

Allegro’s book “The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East” was 1970 (2009 Irvin reissue).

Wasson & Panofsky first claimed that the mycologists (NOT Allegro!!) were wrong about this one image, Plaincourault, in 1952 — 18 years (2 decades) before Allegro’s book!
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889188

The translation from German to English so far, is now clearly presented in my WordPress page:

Brinckmann, Mushroom Trees, & Asymmetrical Branching
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

[11:45 a.m. December 20, 2020] —

How unrealistic the depicted vine-leaves are, is the same as how unrealistic (ie stylized) the mushroom stems & caps are.

Stylized mushroom-like trees.
Stylized ivy-leaf/ grape-leaf /vine-leaf-like trees. ‘vine leaves’ is Brinckmann’s term, nicely broad, including both ivy and grape leaves, as depicted by Greek images & photographs. Like I have a gallery page at ego death .com side by side muhroms and phtos mushrom art, mushroom photos, and Italian Pine photos. Similarly I need a WordPress page side-by-side:
Grape leaf photos
Grape leaf depictions in Greek & Christian art
Ivy leaf photos
Ivy leaf depictions in Greek & Christian art (including “dud mushroom trees”). Vine-Leaf Trees Depicting Non-Branching

Until I have reason not to, I’m tentatively categorizing the dud non-mushroom trees as “vine-leaf trees” per Brinckmann.

I cannot tell what his view is there, because only 1.25 chapters of 5 are translated to English.

I will try one more time to see if his german text at ‘vine’ points to a Plate Diagram image so I can see what shapes he means by ‘vine leaves’.

Brinckmann Identifies the Non-Sphere Trees, Non-Mushroom trees, to Be Vine Leaf Trees, = Non-Branching

update [12:33 p.m. December 20, 2020] —

image searches are inconclusive, neither confirming nor disconfirming, but I can conclude that it won’t be easy to disprove my hypothesis that the dud mushroom trees are — as Brinckmann seems to be saying — “vine-leaf trees“. I’m not getting definitive confirmation, I’m not getting definitive dis-confirmation. I’m spoiled, normally I get definitive confirmation.

This situation is what separates the theory-construction men from the boys. Are you able to continue developing a new explanatory framework while not having immediate confirmation; INVESTMENT IN a likely promising new explanatory framework.

To be a leading-edge winning investor, ahead of the curve, you have to be willing to invest in the new explanatory framework.

People who are never willing to invest in a not-fully-proved new explanatory framework, cannot ever be leading-edge. They are laggards, retarded by skepticism.

next todo: check German pages of the English translation, at “vine leaf” (4 hits), to see if he points to a Plate Diagram illustration to show what shape he means by “vine leaf”.

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[December 19, 2020]

Today, reading translated portions of Brinckmann’s book, he frequently talks of vine leaves coming out of an oak trunk. He sees it as stripped-down.

What he’s saying could be highly significant for the Egodeath theory — the Mytheme theory.

If we consider the “dud mushroom trees”, that are styled like mushroom trees except they have 3-part vine leaves instead of a sphere atop the stems, this is almost as helpful for the Egodeath theory (the Mytheme theory portion) as mushroom trees, and complements mushroom trees nicely, reinforcing the theme of “non-branching”.

Folio 92 – Does Brinckmann Consider These to Be “Vine Leaves”? Vine = Non-Branching

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f92.item.zoom

Would Brinckmann say the leaves of the Pink Key Tree are “vine leaves”? {vine} is a major mytheme in the Mytheme theory, equivalent to {snake}, meaning non-branching; ie eternalism.

[12:12 p.m. December 20, 2020] Compare images of Thyrssus open-scaled pine cones with ivy leaves. I posted about that maybe 2011, you take the linear ivy leaves, per ancient Loose Cognitive Science, each leaf is a snapshot of your control-thoughts arrayed along your pre-existing worldline, then arrange them per pre-existence per gnosticism, all together at once, in an open-scaled pine cone on the thyrssus. thyrssus ivy leaves https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=thyrssus+ivy+leaves – a couple hits.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=thyrssus
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dionysus+ivy
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=grape+leaf

http://www.greatdreams.com/blog/dionysus.jpg
http://www.greatdreams.com/blog/dee-blog93.html

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/17/c3/dd17c396067275518dd3ee20afb273e0.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/519954719472896136/

http://afewshotstoshaman.blogspot.com/2009/01/heart-of-matter_15.html
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DeutwC_pLZ0/SW9DyouGBtI/AAAAAAAAAt0/miJk0Jfu–o/s1600-h/IB-Dionysus+Kleophrades.jpg

http://ii.designtoscano.com/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=/images/toscano/source/KY4054_1.tif&cvt=jpeg

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/e6b0c-thyrsus.1992.11.0054.jpg
http://afewshotstoshaman.blogspot.com/2009/01/heart-of-matter_15.html

Maenad-with-thyrsus-stuffed-with-ivy-leaves-holding-a-leopard-and-wearing-a-leopard.png
the 1-dimensional Amanita-Allegro orbiters exclaim “spots! proves Amanita!”

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

The Correct Name of This Field:
Psilocybe in Greek & Christian art & in the mixed-wine banqueting tradition throughout Antiquity

The proper name of the field is certainly not “The Holy Mushroom Theory”, or “the Allegro theory”, or “the Allegro-Amanita theory”, or “the Jan Irvin Holy Mushroom theory”, or “the ‘spread of secret Amanita cult’ theory”.

This scholarly field of research, a subfield of entheogen scholarship, is:

Psilocybe in Greek & Christian art & in the mixed-wine banqueting tradition throughout Antiquity

I Have Provided 64 Proven Instances of Psychoactive Mushrooms in Christian Art Intended for Religious Experiencing, Depicting an Initiation Training and Banqueting Tradition

[10:14 p.m. December 22, 2020] – vine-leaf trees bolster mushroom trees.

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There are big stakes / gains, riding on my decoding of the the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader. The same team did that whole set of images with mushroom trees throughout.

My proving that the one tree means Psilocybe, therefore proves that all of the mushroom trees by that team, mean Psilocybe.

My “complete” inventory WordPress page is missing about 3 images of mushroom trees; there were too many to harvest.

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/

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/

Page title:
Hatsis’ Errors about Western Mushroom Scholarship
Subsection:
Explain This Mushroom Tree: Balancing on an Italian Pine, with God’s Sword Underneath? Only Makes Sense if Psilocybe
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/inventory-of-hatsis-errors-and-falsehoods/#Explain-Mushroom-Tree-Balancing-Sword

There are 64 mushroom trees in the Canterbury Psalter, by the same team.

My solving, my positively proving and identifying that the Hanging mushroom tree is Psilocybe, just gained the field a set of 64 PROVEN INSTANCES OF INTENDED PSILOCYBE MUSHROOMS IN CHRISTIAN ART causing self-threatening & ego transcendence per the RELIGIOUS EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBE.

The scholarly field of research:

Psilocybe in Greek & Christian art & in the mixed-wine banqueting tradition throughout Antiquity

First I solved (decoded; explained) the hanging/sword mushroom tree with no context.
Then I solved the entire top row of the image.
Then I solved the entire image.
Then I did an inventory of all mushroom trees in the Canterbury Psalter.

The Argument “Not All Mushrooms in Art Are Psychoactive” Is an Attempt at Statistical Sleight-of-Hand

Brinckmann’s argument, to dismiss and explain-away all mushrooms in Christian art, sounds similar to a comment that Letcher made on his blog in 2016, in direct response to my writings.

I have not read anything by Letcher or Hatsis in response to my writings.

Letcher wrote:
“The rule is this. Not everything that looks like a mushroom in art is a mushroom. Not everything that is a mushroom is a magic mushroom. Just because it’s a magic mushroom doesn’t mean that it was used intentionally for its psychedelic effects. Just because it’s used intentionally, doesn’t mean that it’s used for religious purposes.”

That’s from https://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2016/06/shroom-ten-years-on.html?fbclid=IwAR3S3YrcDgFEv3yMKrabZzfQrRlEcIAwCutX–b1RlI95CIQx-Idwuk4DPg)

Letcher is very close to stating truth: simply invert what he wrote.

The rule that’s closer to truth, is this:

Everything that looks like a mushroom in art is a mushroom.

Everything that is a mushroom is a magic mushroom.

It’s a magic mushroom, which means that it was used intentionally for its psychedelic effects.

Because it’s used intentionally, that means it is used for religious purposes.

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(Though I reject the brittle distinction between “not for religious intent” or “for religious intent”.)

There’s also false implicit math or statistics in Letcher’s argument.

When he says “Not all”, he’s trying to imply a statistical fact like “Therefore 50% are not” or “therefore 99% are not”.

Ultimately, the debate comes down to arguments over percentage.

Do you agree that at least one person used mushroom in Christianity? Yes.

Ok, so now, our dispute is simply a matter of whether it’s 1%, 50%, or 99%.

We agree it wasn’t 0% or 100%. Everyone agrees that the % is > 0% and < 100%.

The whole dispute is whether the % is closer to 0% or 100%.

Is it closer to 25%, 50%, or 75%?

It is a worthless truism to say “Not 100% of mushroom shapes in Christian art represents use of mushrooms in practice, and the intention of representing psychoactive mushrooms.” Everyone agrees, “not 100%”.

Saying “Not 100%” does nothing to answer the real question:

Are mushrooms in Christian art closer to 10% intended, or 90% intended, to represent psychoactive mushrooms?

Letcher-Hatsis when pressed will say “closer to 0%”, I say “closer to 100%”.
We both agree with the vague, worthless truism, “Not all…”

The “not all” argument is an attempt to cheat on the % question. It doesn’t work, on me.

I readily agree that “not all”. My position is, it’s closer to 99% than 1%.

I Am Awarding Doctoral, Ph.D. Degrees in Transcendent Knowledge, to Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple

Doctor of Philosophy in Transcendent Knowledge, University of Egodeath

Justification for Awarding Some University Degrees

This awarding of degrees is essentially serious, even if there is a joking aspect. My justification is posted in the thread linked below; thread title, I am the University.

The Egodeath theory is THE theory; THE science; the ultimate concern of universities and degrees.

What I do, Transcendent Knowledge development, comes from good private universities, and represents the paradigmatic spirit of The University; Transcendent Knowledge development is definitive of what the University is about.

I wrote about the idea that “I am Science”.
Subject: Scientific theory explaining altered-state revelation
October 29, 2012 (8 years ago)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-117/#message5947

I made a thread “I am Science…”:
Subject: I am Science, Religion, and the University
December 24, 2014 (6 years ago)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-127/#message6523

The Contributions and Work in the Field, of Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple

By any reasonable (albeit informal) standard, Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple have been major, 1st generation researchers & communicators within the Egodeath theory. They could hardly have done more.

Bachelor degrees under-represent their level of understanding & contributions within the field of Loose Cognitive Science & the Egodeath theory; the Cybernetic theory; the Mytheme theory.

The below is not an attempt to specify and enumerate or list their contributions, but is merely an example of their contributions.

Max Freakout — podcast series, explaining & communicating the Egodeath theory.
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episodes
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/

Cyberdisciple — WordPress pages, showing how to apply the Mytheme theory to reading ancient Greek texts.
http://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com
If I create a Site Map for Cyberdisciple’s WordPress site, it will become evident his greater-than-Thesis amount of contributions.

No one has done more work than, or anywhere near as much work as, Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple, within the Egodeath theory explanatory framework.

I’m not aware of anyone else who’s done major contributions to understanding, expanding, and/or communicating the Egodeath theory.

Doctor of Philosophy in Transcendent Knowledge, University of Egodeath

Congratulations.

— Professor Michael Hoffman, Doctor of Philosophy, Transcendent Knowledge, University of Egodeath (2014). Formulator and discoverer of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Egodeath theory, including the Cybernetic theory & the Mytheme theory (analogical psychedelic eternalism) of religious mythology.

Professor Loosecog

3 Bachelor Degrees in Transcendent Knowledge, Granted in 2015

In the Egodeath Yahoo Group thread I am Science, Religion, and the University, at the start of 2015, I granted degrees.

BSTK – Bachelor of Science in Transcendent Knowledge, University of Egodeath

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My motivation now is, I gave credit to “Cyberdisciple and Dr. Jerry Brown” in my Brinckmann page, but I (unusually) wanted to credit “Dr. Cyberdisciple” or “Cyberdisciple, PhD in Transcendent Knowledge”.

I am no respecter of degrees and titles; I almost never write “Dr.”, “Professor”, or “PhD”, but instead I force names into my rigid standardized pattern: you get one first name, and one last name, that’s it.

“Max Freakout” deserves more honor than something like “Doctor R. Danny Blaise Staples, PhD”. (By coincidence, I came across my obit-posting for Staples just now, when searching my archives for ‘bachelor’.)

I consider:

A bachelor’s degree indicates understanding and ability to work in the field.
A PhD degree represents significant contributions within the field.

Lack of a Degree-Granting System

There are no plans at present to award degrees, because it would take a large effort & time, to set up a proper system of awarding degrees. I don’t know anything about university policies for granting degrees and how this would apply to the Egodeath theory.

I appreciate Dan’s directing me to Irvin’s later work around 2015, and he I believe understands the Egodeath theory and is a long-time follower of the Egodeath theory.

Last I contacted him, it bounced back.

No one speaks for me, and no one has the right to pretend to speak for me. Any assertions about my experience are speculation, not established fact.

Those are the existing instances of what earned bachelor degrees, and what earned doctoral degrees.

There are no plans at this time to set up a workable system for granting degrees in the Egodeath theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence; in Transcendent Knowledge.

Summary of the Egodeath theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/first-blog-post/
Comment:

iiswhatiis commented:
December 6, 2020
“You are a Modern Day Prophet Michael Hoffman. I aspire to having you award me with a Bachelor of Science in Transcendent Knowledge. Thank you for your hard work and dedication, I would be lost without you.”

Translation of Brinckmann’s 1906 book from German to English – All Mushrooms in Christian Art Are Italian Pines (not Assyrian Parasols of Victory!)

Brinckmann, Mushroom Trees, & Asymmetrical Branching
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

Translation of Brinckmann’s book Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings from German to English — translation of Chapter I, and the final quarter of the final chapter, Chapter V.

According to the top art historian Panofsky (learned, learned!), this book proves that all the depictions are Italian Pines.

But the other expert — a trained historian, who even reads Greek & Latin (though not Mythemese, despite claiming to be a witch), says:

They are all Assyrian Parasols of Victory, not Italian Pines (even more learned!).

This historian is astute, emphasizing in a video lecture in front of an audience with Prof. Brown, that a medieval bestiary is “completely secular!” so doesn’t count. He needs to inform & correct the mistaken scholars who claim that a bestiary is for teaching Christian morality.

Which expert is right? It doesn’t matter whatsoever, just so long as it’s ANYTHING BUT MUSHROOMS! Thanks to Pope Wasson & Church Lady Letcher-Hatsis for protecting us by propping up the story, that the countless mushrooms all throughout Christian art are anything but mushrooms.

Also, the mixed-wine banqueting tradition of Antiquity, across Hellenistic & Christian religion, was, by the same token, by the same, sound, learned reasoning, ANYTHING BUT PSILOCYBE MUSHROOMS.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/
Citation info from that page:

Baumstilisierungen in der mittelalterlichen Malerei
(Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings)
Albert Erich Brinckmann, 1906
86 pages
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8AgwAAAAYAAJ/mode/2up
The 9 plates, at the end, are copied to the present page.
6 plates with some 10 plant schematizations each, and 3 plates with 4-5 works of art:
o Jesus riding a donkey (same as cover)
o 2-in-1: Vegetation + small rearing horse
o a) Eden tree, b) reclining/tree/horse
http://amzn.com/3957383749

Graves: Food for Centaurs — Mushrooms in Greek Religious Myth

Food for Centaurs
Robert Graves
(1960) (1957?)
is it “What Food the Centaurs Ate”?
CSP Chrestomathy:
https://airtable.com/embed/shrmG2oJ0uy1cXgiU/tblMODVIRtVywJ1bl/viwEahEnJIPGaz2GU/recweNN5XwYdNRolz —

The meaning of “ambrosia,”
the food of the gods, like
“nectar,” their drink is:
“that which confers immortality.”
… At this point, I wrote down the Greek words of the ambrosia recipe, as follows, one underneath the other:

MELI
UDOR
KARPOS
ELAIOS
TUROS
ALPHITA

Next I wrote down the nectar recipe, namely honey, water, and fruit:

MELI
UDOR
KARPOS
And also, while I was about it, the recipe for kukeon [Demeter’s drink during her search for Persephone] …

MINTHAION
UDOR
KUKOMENON
ALPHITOS …

So, if mushrooms were ambrosia, and if ambrosia was mushrooms, be pleased to examine those three sets of initial letters
M-U-K-E-T-A <– ambrosia recipe ogham
M-U-K <– nectar recipe ogham
M-U-K-A <– kykeon recipe ogham

… ogham … what the ancient Irish bards called the device of spelling out a secret word by using the initial letters of other ordinary words.

MUKETA answers the question: “What do the gods eat?”; for MUKETA is the accusative of MUKES (“mushroom”). …

MUKA is an earlier form of the word MUKES (“mushroom”). (pages 264-265)

In the chapter “Centaurs’ Food” Graves supports the Wassons’ [Graves’?] claim that hallucinatory agents were used in the Eleusinian Mysteries with [by here providing] citations of ancient Greek poetry, plays, statuary, and vase-art.”

12 20 am dec 19 2020 giants men abduct virgin daughters –
men doesn’t mean men
abduct doesn’t mean abduct
virgin doesn’t mean virgin
daughter doesn’t mean daughter

the male the control-thought inserter and the eternalism-transformed mind has become one of the immortals having eaten of the golden apple in the Garden of Eden and become live forever, non dying, a thantos non-die-able b/c already be die’d, lost virginity at being overtaken and undermined and disproved, when the mind pulled upward, it drove transformation of the model of self-in-world.

Recognizing Thematic Matches between Old Testament, New Testament, and Greek Mythology

Hellenic Gods
nav page
https://sites.google.com/a/hellenicgods.org/www/essays

another site last night was weird Christian motivation, he wrote a book, that Greek myths are really the Bible myths (actual real historical events!) rewritten. I mostly disagree.

But, in the course of his confusion, he’s done what the wimps dont: he’s mapped Christian myths to Greek myths. Certainly Old Testament. New Testament? To find him I searched like:
eve eden tree garden hesperides snake apple
Zeus and Hera were the original occupants of the garden of the Hesperides three nymphs (= virgin maidens?) who tended the guarding serpent guarding the golden apples that grant immortality. and tended the tree.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hesperides+eden+snake

Fact-Checking — The Facts of the Matter, on Nymphs as Virgin Maidens

Britannica – Philosophy & Religion – Ancient Religions & Mythology
Nymph – Greek mythology
https://www.britannica.com/topic/nymph-Greek-mythology —

“Nymph, in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities. The nymphs were usually associated with fertile, growing things, such as trees, or with water. They were not immortal but were extremely long-lived and were on the whole kindly disposed toward men.”

Fertile, female, not immortal — that’s pretty equivalent to {virgin maiden}. However, if they are divinities, this implies they know Transcendent Knowledge, therefore cannot mystically die egodeath. Ambiguous.

If they are mortal, that means by definition, they are {virgin}; that is, they have not yet been made to undergo the mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Hesperides
https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Minor_Gods/Hesperides/hesperides.html —

“The Hesperides in Greek mythology were the nymphs of the sunset.

Different sources name different parents for the Hesperides; they may have been

daughters of the Titans Atlas and Hesperis;
[daughters of] Erebus and Nyx;
[daughters of] Nyx alone;
[daughters of] Phorcys and Ceto; or of
[daughters of] Hesperus.

todo: paste image of computer reconstruction of the temple image of the 3 hesperides.

todo: do something with these images – make a page about Eden tree & Hesperides tree. https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/eden-there-was-hesperides-ancient-greek-religious-art-presents-different-021562

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“It was usually thought that there were three Hesperides, although some sources name four or seven.

They were responsible of taking care of a garden in the western end of the world, near the Atlas mountains in Africa.

The so called Garden of the Hesperides belonged to the goddess Hera, in which there was a grove of apple trees that bore golden apples.

The golden apples were believed to give immortality [non-die-ability] to anyone who consumed them.

Not trusting the Hesperides to guard the apple trees on their own, Hera also placed a hundred headed [irony: a branching non-branching serpent -mh] dragon named Ladon that never slept.

[never slept = never closed its eyes = to see the dragon monster is to cybernetically die. This explanation by Britannica is weak: no mention of eyes, only “heads”. -mh]

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“A golden apple that was taken from the Garden of the Hesperides was what eventually caused the Trojan War.

Eris, goddess of strife, managed to steal an apple from the garden, inscribed the words “To the fairest” and threw it amidst the goddesses that attended at a wedding she was not invited to.

The apple was then given by Paris, prince of Troy, to Aphrodite, who promised to give him Helen as his wife, thus triggering the events of the Trojan War.”

Centaurs’ Food Graves

I swear no one has mapped parallels between Old Testament, New Testament, and Greek Myth. Hard to find?

Literalists Suck at Recognizing Thematic Matches between Old Testament, New Testament, Greek Myth

Around 2001, I was the first to match talking donkey Balaam vinyard angel of death on his way to curse the Israelites but blessed them instead = Paul on road to persecute Christians but proselytized for them instead.

Years later, I found two puny treatments in Bible scholars’ study guides.

Narrow and Broad Names of the Most Important Subfield of Entheogen Scholarship

In summary:

The short, specific field-name is better; tho it lacks the greedy broad scope, it absolutely prevents b.s. of having the wrong focus. Due to present f’d-up circumstances of all the Allegro-Amanita Orbiting, that is wrecking the field, locking-down the explicit correct central focus (Psilocybe in Greek & Christian) is much more important than greedy scope, in the name of the field.

Interesting, it’s narrow re: single-plant (hundreds of species contain psilocybin though), but where I still go broad here, is, by combining narrow “Greek” plus narrow “Christian”.

I don’t go full-broad (Hellenism + Christendom) — but that extra scope can piggyback onto the highly specific narrow field name, just fine, not a significant problem — whereas the other problem is a HUGE problem, where I fail to absolutely explicitly specify & lock down the MUST-HAVE NONNEGOTIABLE presence of Psilocybe — absolutely no bullsh*t switch-out of conflating “mushrooms” as “Amanita” may be allowed; that is TOP PRIORITY, due to the present f’d-up circumstance.

Normally, I’d choose — as the main name of the field — the greedy, general title (“mushrooms”), but due to the chronic main strategy of the Allegro-Amanita-Orbiting Bozos, their noxious strategy of always re-reading “mushrooms” to mean “the Allegro-Amanita paradigm that we imagined & strawmanned into existence, which Allegro wouldn’t even recognize, and would disavow”, it is highly dangerous and ineffective, to allow the vulnerable-to-misreading term, ‘mushroom’, IT IS UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO BOZOS, NECESSARY TO SPECIFY ‘PSILOCYBE’ INSTEAD OF ‘MUSHROOMS’ in the main title of the field, at this time. If you have to pick just one title of the well-scoped/ well-centered field of scholarly study.

Don’t put some imagined Allegro-Amanita-Christian theory at
the center of the field
the star you navigate by
the boundary and outer perimeter of your thought

Put the Psilocybe-Banquet-Greek-Christian theory at
the center of the field
the star you navigate by
the boundary and outer perimeter of your thought

Did the Allegro-Amanita Bozos contribute to the field? Yes: by being such dimwits, that they FORCED the field to explicitly be named PSILOCYBE, instead of “Mushrooms”.

Both of these field-names are designed to maximally clash with, and shut down, the confusions of the Perpetual Allegro-Amanita Orbiters who try hard to pull the entire field into their orbit of confusion and small-minded thinking; their trap they are trying to set for the field.

the scholarly field of Psilocybe mushrooms in Greek and Christian religion <– very good

the scholarly field of Psilocybe in Greek and Christian religion <– good

the scholarly field of Psilocybe banqueting in Greek and Christian religion <– nice scope! specific+broad; and the central key question of Psilocybe mixed-wine banqueting conjoins at the esoteric heart the supposedly “independent” & “different” Greek & Christian religions.

the scholarly field of mushrooms in Hellenism and Christendom <– won’t work; ‘mushrooms’ will be hijacked and derailed into “Amanita”, by the Allegro-Amanita Orbiters

the scholarly field of Psilocybe in Hellenism and Christendom – ‘helle- does nothing but confuse, not clarify. Say ‘Greek’ and there are no immediate pressing questions, no tone of unclarity and uncertainty. same w/ ‘Christendom’; it raises 100 questions and resolves none. KISS; less is more.

Sometimes it seems like I do nothing but work on improved phrasings & lexicon for the field all day.

[acro]/keyboard shortcuts: rm ->

Religious mythology is description-by-analogy of repeatedly taking psychedelics, producing transformation of the experiential mental worldmodel from literalist ordinary-state possibility-branching to analogical psychedelic pre-existence.

Cautes the upward light-bearer left, handing a horn of Psilocybe wine to Sol, the fate-steered source of control-thoughts, dining with the mind of Mithras.
Cautopates the downward light-bearer right, snake revealed in basket, two worldline-guided control-centers (king snake + queen snake co-controllers).

Luna doesn’t see this; or, she turns to remember to look back behind her. d/k what’s to the left.

Broad Name of the most important Field of scholarly study/research/investigation/theorizing:

Mushrooms in Hellenism and Christendom

Specific Name of the most important Field of scholarly study/research/investigation/theorizing:

Psilocybe in Greek and Christian religion

Do not go into to destroy Allegro-Amanita field. Rather, replace that field, centered on Allegro-Amanita, by the better-scoped field, centered on Greek-Christian Psilocybe.

Stop putting
Allegro-Amanita-Christian
at the center of the field, and instead put
Psilocybe-Greek-Christian
at the center of the field.
Psilocybe-Hellenistic-Christian – clarifying words always add some confusion. ‘Greek’ has sufficiently broad connotations.

So does the term ‘Christian’ suffici broad — if you aren’t aspie, “well technically,

the term ‘Christian’ could be taken in a narrow sense, to exclude heretics & therefore esoterictericists”

mytheme-illiterate outsider

exoteric esotericist

exoteric would-be historian of esoteric explanandum

well technically ackshually a medieval bestiary isn’t necessarily (luxury color illustrated) Christian morality stories, it could be just a Love Bestiary rather than a Christian moralism story crafted by the same team that does the Psalters. See, it’s TOTALLY SECULAR. <facepalm> Flunkd esotericism 101 todo: clip of someone saying that, emphatically: *totally completely secular* bestiaries are genre-independent and

Christian morality teachings in the form of text descriptions.

color illustrated, in king’s gold luxury version

The benefits of nailing-down the dead center, far outweigh the benefits of greedy broad scope, because, if you specify the broad scope, there is tons of room to get mis-steered by the idiot-crowd of Allegro-Amanita Orbiters — it is wide-open vulnerable to the field-killing bozos.

Conversely, if you commit to the single-chemical fallacy, (narrowing the stated focus from ‘mushrooms’s down to just ‘Psilocybe’ … yet, broadening the evidence-base and scope challenge, of adding “Greek” religion as well as in “Christian” religion. These terms each have narrow and broad senses, ‘Christian’, ‘Greek’. It’s really the idiot Allegro-Orbiters who have the single-plant fallacy, literally. I propose any of hundreds of Psilocybin-containing mushroom species, whereas the ill-labelled “Holy Mushroom” gang is TRULY single-plant fallacy, in equating “the” theory with specifically Amanita M only. That’s a true case of single-plant – 1 specific species of musrhoom, only; no mention by this crowd of Psil and certainly not a page that co-discussees the two in the form of the Universal Hellenistic Banqueting Tradition with Mixed Wine where you are fused into the rock bench, tied to the underworld by snakes. Hercules pulled Theseus away but couldn’t pull king pirithous because the king is frozne in rock by snakes for eternity, he had to be left behind to get back up here to this level of god-thinking of the immortals ambrosia muka nectar the drink of the immortals kukeon mixed wine ~~

… I am not just disappointed in his Eden tree coverage or mushrooms in Christian art; I’m equally disappointed in his total bellyflop coverage of Greek mushroom use and myths.

If you commit the too-specific-center-of-field error, that is not a signifanct prlbl.em, becuse any broad stuff can piggyback no problem, eg Egyptian mysteries are not Greek but nothing stopping from adding-in Osisirs to Dionyssis. What problems with what weighting/urgancy need to be solved:

Factor A: desire greedy scope of explanatory framework.

Factor B: desire Psilocybe, Greek, Christian.

Factor C: MOST IMPORTANT!!, NEGATIVE GOAL: Don’t want the Allegro-Amanita-Bozos to derail the field from Psilocybe to Amanita, or to restrict the universe of thinking, to Allegro’s tiny bounded area, any more than I’d want Robert Graves’ little spot-treatment here or there (very weak, very spotty).

Allegro’s VIGOR is great; his limited horizon isn’t.

Graves has a broad horizon, but no focus, no vigor — he treats a little case here, a little instance there; no grand, bold theorizing like Allegro.

Bozos: Stop putting Amanita & Allegro at the center of “the field”. Stop treating Greek and Christian religion as if separate — simultaneously treat Psilocybe in Greek & Christian religion. Put Psilocybe in dead-center. You can whine about “single-plant fallacy” all you want; the important thing is, to get the center-focus right. The central plant is not Amanita, Cannabis, Scopolamine, or Opium; THE *CENTER PLANT* is Psilocybe. The important rleigion is no religion is not Christianity; the important religion is Mystery Religion/Hellenistic especially Greek if I have to place one at center, and Christianity. The center of “the field” needs to put 3 things in it:

Psilocybe

Greek religious mythology & Mystery Religions and the Banqueting Tradition

Christian religious mythology & initiation & the Banqueting Tradition

Where Bozos say “The Holy Mushroom”, I instead say “The Mixed-Wine Banqueting Tradition”. idgaf about greek or Christian; I only want their mixed-wine sacred meal banquet — just give me the engine, I’ll deal w/ it from there.

I’M TRYING TO GET YOU OUT OF THE ALLEGRO-AMANITA GHETTO, AND GET YOU TO STOP DRAGGING THE WHOLE FIELD — OUT OF SLOPPINESS AND IGNORANCE — INTO YOUR ALLEGRO-AMANITA GHETTO, YOUR SHORT-SIGHTED CUL DE SAC, YOUR OFF-BASE MONO-MANIA DEAD-END THAT YOU’VE CREATED FOR THE FIELD.

Hanegraaff Article about Promethea Comic

todo: add link, in my Promethea WordPress page:
done, at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/promethea-comic-video-commentary/

https://www.academia.edu/28890953/Alan_Moores_Promethea_Countercultural_Gnosis_and_the_End_of_the_World_2016_

Hanegraaff Tries to Imply that Non-Entheogenic Methods Are Equally Effective as Entheogens

There’s no such thing as “broadly entheogenic methods that don’t use entheogens”. It’s like “Angels that are not angels but are devils”.

“Entheogenic methods that don’t use entheogens.”

Double-talking snake-oil salesman! HOLD ONTO YOUR WALLET!

oh, boo, foul! reading Hanegraaff article about Promethea, he mentions his other article which I slammed in an Egodeath Yahoo Group posting — I absolutely cry FOUL! AT THIS horrible idea, this intellectual theft, this OLD sleazy trick of STEALING CREDIT from entheogens:

I emphatically reject and condemn Hanegraaff’s proposal — an invitation to abuse which we’ve seen all the time — of “Entheogenic Religion in a wider sense”. His “Entheogenic Religion in a wider sense” is pure bull and an invitation to lie and steal credit from entheogns and falsely pretend that the “other methods” are therefore EQUAL.

He covertly embeds the assertion, the false implication, that the “broader sense” — ie non-entheogenic ways — are EQUAL TO entheogens.

Hanegraaff writes:

“Hanegraaff 2013b.

In this article I draw a distinction between Entheogenic Religion in a strict sense (defined by the use of psychoactive substances) and in a wider sense (referring to the use of other techniques for altering consciousness, such as specific breathing techniques, rhythmic drumming, ritual prayer and incantations, and so on).

For a short systematic overview of these different types of trance induction and their relevance to religion, cf. Hanegraaff 2015.

Entheogenic Religion becomes Entheogenic Esotericism if these entheogenic experiences are interpreted in terms of previous traditions currently classed under the “esotericism” rubric (for a short overview, see Hanegraaff 2013a, 18–44).”

Hanegraaff, Wouter J. 2013b. “Entheogenic Esotericism.” Pages 392–408 in Contemporary Esotericism. Edited by Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm. Sheffield: Equinox.

Not Just Complain About Bad Going-ons Harming the Field; Define How the Field Is Done Right

I almost posted a comment to https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/addendum-to-allegro-article-how-to-accurately-assess-allegro-quotations-from-allegros-introduction-about-philology-and-against-history/

but need that text in WordPress pages so I put the comment text instead in:

OLD, accidental URL:
Page title:
Definition of New Field: the Maximal Mushroom Theory of Western Religion
Subsection:
Differentiate Between the Field of Study, Personalities, and Theories
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/definition-of-new-field-the-maximal-mushroom-theory-of-western-religion/#Differentiate-Between-the-Field-of-Study-Personalities-and-Theories

NEW, designed URL:
Page title:
Defining the Scholarly Field of “Mushrooms in Western Religion”
Subsection title:
Differentiate the Scholarly Research Field of “Mushrooms in Western Religion” vs. Specific Personalities and Their Particular Theories
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/defining-scholarly-field-of-mushrooms-in-western-religion/#differentiate-field-vs-personalities-theories

policy todo: shorter, keyword-leveraging filenames & section anchor labels. The above URL should be instead: bold the keywords:

definition of new field: the maximal mushroom [psilocybe?] theory of western religion
differentiate between the field of study, personalities, and theories

I’m abandoning that wording. fresh:

defining scholarly field mushrooms in western religion – differentiate field from personalities and theories

The url would be: …. easier to create the WordPress page/anchor: resulting, improved URL: [moved to above]

Dup’ing Progress into the Idea Development Page

The other night when I was moving forward at 100MPH and then I copied a historical record-snapshot of my ideas from a page to here, then I got confused by the dup section, and instantly slammed into a 0 MPH brick wall.

Instead, I just write whatever the hell, on whatever WordPress page I happen to be at.

I think of this idea development page as a kind of digest, it should be a running log of what I’m up to on various WordPress pages, in sequential/digest order.

Site Map Done

I finally made the Site Map worthy. The worst thing with “weblog” assumed design, is, it’s not topical outline accessible; it’s chronological. That doesn’t work. Like I’m thinking of outlining Cyberdisciple’s WordPress pages, because it’s opaque what’s there. I went with slight selective duplication of page entries within the Site Map page. I’m pleased with what I was able to do for Nav at my WordPress site, for Mobile (= narrow browser-window breakpoint) as well as Desktop (= wide browser-window breakpoint).

Addendum to Allegro Assessment Article

Addendum to Allegro article; How to accurately assess Allegro; quotations from Allegro’s introduction about philology and against history
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/addendum-to-allegro-article-how-to-accurately-assess-allegro-quotations-from-allegros-introduction-about-philology-and-against-history/ — a reading/markup copy of Cyberdisciple’s WordPress page:

Addendum to my Allegro article.

Allegro is not an entheogen scholar.

Allegro’s book is singular and remarkable, and should be considered on the book’s own terms.

The details of his work cannot be evaluated outside of the anthropological “fertility philosophy” theory and his linguistic method.

He cannot be incorporated into the field of “entheogen studies” or “psychedelic history” or whatever.

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Allegro’s book is a demonstration of method.

Allegro demonstrates his method of tracing Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic words to Sumerian roots.

Each chapter is a fresh demonstration of this method.

Allegro’s method finds that words in the later languages refer to words having to do with reproduction and fertility in Sumerian.

Allegro has one trick, and he performs that trick very well every chapter, for 200 pages.

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Allegro is not a pioneer in finding mushrooms in Christian art.

He mentions only Plaincourault, and then only in passing.

Allegro is monomaniacally focused, hyper-focused, obsessively focused on his linguistic method.

There are no “students of Allegro” when it comes to mushrooms in Christian art because Allegro did not discuss mushrooms in Christian art.

He mentions only Plaincourault, and then only in passing.

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Writers err when they try to pluck out an individual topic, such as his treatment of the virgin birth, from Allegro’s book and evaluate the merits of Allegro’s interpretation of that topic considered in isolation.

Allegro’s interpretation of any given individual topic is governed by and determined by his linguistic method and fertility philosophy theory.

Writers who evaluate an individual topic of Allegro’s book in isolation from the linguistic method and fertility philosophy theory distort Allegro for their own purposes.

The book will never fit into another field, such as “entheogen scholarship” or “psychedelic history.”

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Allegro’s book is a demonstration of linguistic method wedded to fertility philosophy theory.

Allegro in his introduction grounds his linguistic method in the fertility philosophy theory:

“The seed of God was the Word of God.” (p. xx)
“The Word that seeped through the labia of the earth’s womb became to the mystic of less importance than the Logos which he believed his religion enabled him to apprehend and enthuse him with divine omniscience. But the source was the same vital power of the universe and the cultic practice differed little.” (p. xx)
“The names of the plants were spun out to make the basis of the stories whereby the creatures of fantasy were identified, dressed, and made to enact their parts.” (p. xxii)
“Every aspect of the mushroom’s existence was fraught with sexual allusions, and in its phallic form the ancients saw a replica of the fertility god himself… our present study has much to do with names and titles. Only when we can discover the nomenclature of the sacred fungus within and without the cult, can we begin to understand its function and theology.” (p. xxiii)
“For the first time, it becomes possible to decipher the names of gods, mythological characters, classical and biblical, and plant names. Thus their place in the cultic systems and their functions in the old fertility religions can be determined.” (p. xxiv)
“Even gods as different as Zeus and Yahweh embody the same fundamental conception of the fertility deity, for their names in origin are precisely the same.” (p. xxiv)

His book is not a work of history. Allegro openly states throughout his introduction that his wook is a book of philology, not history:

“Above all, it is the philologian who must be the spearhead of the new enquiry [into Sumerian origins of Old and New Testaments]. It is primarily a study in words.” (p. xxiv)
“What follows in this book is, as has been said, primarily a study in words. To a reader brought up to believe in the essential historicity of the Bible narratives some of the attitudes displayed in our approach to the texts may seem at first strange. We appear to be more interested with the words than with the events they seem to record; more concerned, say, in the meaning of Moses’ name than his supposed role as Israel’s first great political leader.” (p. xxvi)
“The breakthrough here is not in the field of history but in philology. Our fresh doubts about the historicity of Jesus and his friends stem not from new discoveries about the land and people of Palestine of the first century, but about the nature and origin of the languages they spoke and the origins of their religious cults.” (p. xxvi-xxvii)
“The enquirer has to begin with his only real source of knowledge, the written word… if we want to know more about early Christianity we must look to our only real source, the written words of the New Testament. Thus, as we have said, the enquiry is primarily philological.” (p. xxvii)
“The New Testament is full of problems… it is not until the language problems have been resolved that the rest can be realistically appraised.” (p. xxvii)
“In any study of the sources and development of a particular religion, ideas are the vital factor. History takes second place.” (p. xxviii)
“Of course, history now and again forces itself on our attention… [examples of historical questions about the Old Testament]… These and many other such questions are raised afresh by our studies, but it is our contention that they are not of prime importance. Far more urgent is the main import of the myths in which these names are found. If we are fight… it matters comparatively little whether these characters are historical or not.” (p. xxix)
“Ours is a study of words, and through them of ideas. At the end we have to test the validity of our conclusions not against comparative history … but against the overall pattern of religious thought as it can now be traced through the ancient Near East from the earliest times.” (p. xxx)

Complain all you want about Allegro’s lack of historical rigor.

Allegro does not care.

He tells you at the very beginning of his book that he does not care about “history.”

His book is a book of philology, not history.

[that’s like my interpretation strategy: instead of mind-reading and arguing over what some guy thought an art image meant 2500 years ago, I ask:

“How is this image most analogous to things that are observed and experienced in the altered state?”

Not “What did everyone 2500 years ago think it meant?”

Similarly, Rock lyrics mapping to the Cybernetic theory (psychedelic eternalism):

You will get the worst, garbage answer, by asking a Rock god what his lyrics mean.

Forget him; what he says is irrelevant.

What the Rock lyricist, or ancient Greek poet, afterwards says his words meant, is irrelevant.

It is a math problem: not a social-interview problem or a mind-reading problem or a History problem.

How is lyric-line L, most analogous to “things that are observed and experienced in the altered state”?

What does it mean to THE MUSE OF INSPIRATION, not what does it mean to the dumb sap that the muse used as a channel. -mh]

Pointing out that Allegro’s book is not history is irrelevant.

Allegro himself tells us that his study is not a historical study in his introduction!

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If you want to prove Allegro right or prove Allegro wrong, you have to talk about his linguistic method and his fertility philosophy theory.

The entirety of Allegro’s book rests on the combination of lingustic method and fertility philosophy theory.

Each individual topic Allegro discusses [mushrooms, Plaincourault] is embedded in his linguistic method and fertility philosophy theory.

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Allegro’s book is a self-reflexive contemplation on his linguistic method of revealing the fertility reference embedded in language:

“The seed of God was the word of God” (p. xx).

Translation: The fertility philosophy is the linguistic method.

Condensed: The fertility is the philology.

[{fertility} mytheme decoding: added to the Key Mythemes catalog:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/#fertility

{fertility}

The mind is made to sacrifice and abandon the trouble-causing “possibility-branching” mental worldmodel (literalist ordinary-state possibilism), and is simultaneously given the improved, durable replacement mental worldmodel: pre-existence of control-thoughts; analogical psychedelic eternalism.

In the Mithraism Tauroctony diagrammatic scene, the bull is sacrificed by blade-wound-insertion, due to the mind-of-Mithras turning to the right to look back and up behind, to Sol, the control-thought inserter.

As the bull is disproved, disrupted, sabotaged, and seen through, the ear of grain — the fruit, the new life — is produced.

Sending Kore (virgin maiden) to Hades’, gives rise to Queen Persephone in Hades, and Queen Demeter aboveground.

-mh]

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To accurately assess Allegro, we have to talk about both his linguistic method and the intellectual background of his fertility philosophy theory as a unit. Critiquing Allegro for his ‘history’ or his interpretation of visual art makes no sense, because his book is not a work of history nor does he interpret visual art in any meaningful way (besides his passing reference to Plaincourault).

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Allegro himself does not talk about the intellectual background of his fertility philosophy theory, and is perhaps unaware of the background.

He presents fertility philosophy theory as a conclusion derived from the linguistic method.

The two [fertility theory & linguistic method] are in fact intertwined, in Allegro’s intellectual world.

Each assumes the other, in Allegro’s intellectual world.

My article on Allegro points out that Allegro’s fertility philosophy is derived from early anthropological theorizing about religion and myth.

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Allegro’s book is a monstrum, a singular oddity.

Please, let Allegro go!

Read Allegro’s book if you want to marvel at a rare and wonderous creature.

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Incoming Ideas

Caduceus Mushroom Trees

Lash’s Deleted Mushroom Articles Are Yet another Negative Example, of How Not to Frame & Approach the Field of “Western Mushroom Scholarship”

2008 Jan Irvin “The Holy Mushroom” Episode

John Lash Likes Entheogens, and Hates Abrahamic Religion, Therefore, Abrahamic Religion Cannot Have Included Entheogens

Lash Article: Wasson and Company: The Entheogenic Theory of Religion

Trying to Look at the Eadwine Psalter or “Paris Eadwine Psalter” – A Copy of Canterbury Psalter? Confusing & Unclear

Article: “Illuminated Heresy: More Images from the Paris Eadwine Psalter” (Lash 2007)

John Lash Site – Entheogens, Mushroom Psalters

Confirmed that Vine-Leaf Trees Pair with Mushroom Trees, by a Combined “Mushroom+Vine-Leaf Tree” in Typo-Titled, Wrong-Psalter Video

Heading

Folio 15 – Devil, Combined Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree

Alan Moore on Eternalism

Core Theory Phrases

[acro]/keyboard shortcuts mgmt

Mythemes

levels of planetary orbs geocentric orbs

the childhood possibilism mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control

Mythemes

[acro]/keyboard shortcuts mgmt

Choosing Your Religion = Creating Your Religion

No Interest in Amanita, Scopalamine, Cannabis, Opium – for Western Religious History & Mythology

Mytheme: {giants abduct virgin daughters of men}

Idea Development Page Section (as a WordPress “Post”), vs. a WordPress weblog “Post”, vs. a WordPress web “Page”

Transitioning Articles from Weblog “Post” Format to Web “Page” Format

Misusing WordPress “Posts” for Articles, Misusing WordPress “Post” Idea-Development Pages as Weblog Posts

World Ended Today on 12/21/2112 (December 21, 2112)

It Was Clear I Must Explain Enlightenment Myself, for Everyone

My Non-Review of Rinella’s Pharmakon

My November 23, 2011 Proto-Breakthrough Toward My November 29, 2013 Completed Breakthrough, on “{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism”

Whether to Put a Major Article into a Web “Page” Rather than a Weblog “Post”, to Gain Column Width when Wide Window

Ancient History of Egodeath Site: CybTrans.com, February 14, 1997 (24 Years Ago)

CybTrans.com Page with Outline of Topical Pages

Theory-Spec/Summary: Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

Idea Development file with fragments

Older Domains, Before Anyone Else Heard of the Web

Before the Web

The Letcher-Panofsky Intelligence Test

Picture A:

Picture B:

Picture C:

Notes

Email to Jerry Brown about the Evident Failure of Art Historians to Ever Critically Discuss Mushroom Trees Anywhere

The Incredible Shrinking “Art Historians Have Already Discussed Mushroom-Trees” Claim by Panofsky

65 Proven Psilocybe Mushroom Trees in Christian Art

Next Version of Set of Optimized Concept-Labels (Shortcut Expansion Phrases)

October 19, 1988 Early-Draft Wording, from “Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence”

Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence

The Theory of Ego Transcendence

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence

The Cybernetics/Eternalism/Loose-Cognition Theory of Ego Transcendence

Introduction to a New Conceptual System of Ego Transcendence

Principle 14: Intention

Principle 15: The control vortex, the timed trap of revelation, and the wall of insanity

Principle 16: Recursive assumption and negative recursion potential

Principle 17: The analyzability of the middle realm of human experiencing apart from the low quantum and high ineffable realms

4-Quadrant Diagram Before “{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism” (January 11, 2013)

New Hypothesis-Construct: “Vine-Leaf Trees”, as a Companion to “Mushroom Trees”, = non-branching revealed by Psilocybe

Brinckmann Identifies the Non-Sphere Trees, Non-Mushroom trees, to Be Vine Leaf Trees, = Non-Branching

Folio 92 – Does Brinckmann Consider These to Be “Vine Leaves”? Vine = Non-Branching

The Correct Name of This Field:Psilocybe in Greek & Christian art & in the mixed-wine banqueting tradition throughout Antiquity

I Have Provided 64 Proven Instances of Psychoactive Mushrooms in Christian Art Intended for Religious Experiencing, Depicting an Initiation Training and Banqueting Tradition

The Argument “Not All Mushrooms in Art Are Psychoactive” Is an Attempt at Statistical Sleight-of-Hand

I Am Awarding Doctoral, Ph.D. Degrees in Transcendent Knowledge, to Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple

Justification for Awarding Some University Degrees

The Contributions and Work in the Field, of Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple

3 Bachelor Degrees in Transcendent Knowledge, Granted in 2015

Lack of a Degree-Granting System

Translation of Brinckmann’s 1906 book from German to English – All Mushrooms in Christian Art Are Italian Pines (not Assyrian Parasols of Victory!)

Graves: Food for Centaurs — Mushrooms in Greek Religious Myth

Recognizing Thematic Matches between Old Testament, New Testament, and Greek Mythology

Centaurs’ Food Graves

Literalists Suck at Recognizing Thematic Matches between Old Testament, New Testament, Greek Myth

Narrow and Broad Names of the Most Important Subfield of Entheogen Scholarship

Mushrooms in Hellenism and Christendom

Psilocybe in Greek and Christian religion

Hanegraaff Article about Promethea Comic

Hanegraaff Tries to Imply that Non-Entheogenic Methods Are Equally Effective as Entheogens

Not Just Complain About Bad Going-ons Harming the Field; Define How the Field Is Done Right

Dup’ing Progress into the Idea Development Page

Theory-Spec/Summary:
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

The Correct Name of This Field:
Psilocybe in Greek & Christian art & in the mixed-wine banqueting tradition throughout Antiquity