Contents:
- The Secret Theory of Secret Mushrooms in Secret Art & Secret Cults, by Secret Carl “Mr. Secret” Ruck
The Absolute High Dose, to – by Sheer Brute Force of Extreme Overdose – Bust into the Elite Club of Famous Mystics, Who Wrote that “Blah Blah…
Seemingly self-parody of a podcast guest who talks always & exclusively in terms of “the Absolute” and “high dose”, and can’t give you the time of day without reverently citing the profundities of some famous Great Mystic at length, while completely botching and ignoring the Egodeath theory.
My entire project of creating the Egodeath theory was because of quickly assessing in 1985 that these mystics are not wrong, but have nothing useful to contribute. No wonder they have a disease in their field, of burning all their writings as worthless. They are correct.
How valuable are my 5 blank books that I wrote and got rid of? My initial 5 notebooks that I wrote Oct 1985-March 1987 would be of historical interest only, of, my initial approach, which didn’t work: egoic thinking chastising itself to try harder. Spiritual self-help.
Citing “M. Hoffman” to Differentiate from “M. Hoffman”
To differentiate between Mark Hoffman, Michael Hoffman, and Michael Hoffman, I clarify by abbreviating as follows:
- “M. Hoffman” –> refers to Mark Hoffman
- “M. Hoffman” –> refers to Michael Hoffman
- “M. Hoffman” –> refers to the other Michael Hoffman
Hope this helps.
Universal Decoding of Every Mytheme
General Decoding Guide:
- The rock alter of sacrifice refers to you.
- The sacrificial knife refers to you.
- The bull in the tauroctony refers to you.
- Sol steering the chariot in the tauroctony refers to you.
- Luna refers to you.
- The grain sprouting from the bull’s tail refers to you.
- The two torchbearers shining light on the mind’s goings-on are you.
- The snake carved in rock below the bull is you.
- Mithras refers to you.
- Mithras in a tree refers to you.
- Mithras turning to the right to look up and back behind him to look at Sol and simultaneously insert the blade into the bull’s shoulder wounding it, refers to you.
- The caduceus held by Hermes or by the torchbearer Cautopates refers to you.
- The lion-headed snake-wrapped rock figure refers to you.
General Decoding Guide:
{snake} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
{skeleton} as in Eve in the Plaincourault image, refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state. Brown’s explanation or decoding of {skeleton} gives this level or type of explanation.
{king} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
{mixed wine banqueting} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
Hope this helps.
It is called a general decoding guide. And I here deliver on that promise.
Dumber than an Ox
He’s a nice guy, but the oxen have more wisdom.
In this image from the Canterbury Psalter, the theme is:
- right foot grounded = right foot/hand/limb/branch = good = enlightened = eternalism-thinking = stable personal self-control system (monopossibliity).
- left foot grounded = left foot/hand/limb/branch = bad = deluded = possibilism-thinking = unstable personal self-control system (illusion of egoic control steering in a branching-possibilities tree).
https://confidenceandjoy.com/dumber-than-an-ox/
I’m Calling Your Bluff — “Andy Letcher” & “Tom Hatsis” Are Clearly the Same Guy
You can’t fool me — either “Andy Letcher” is nothing but a pseudonym used by the actual person Tom Hatsis, or else “Tom Hatsis” is nothing but a psyeudonym used by the actual person Andy Letcher.
They commit the exact same fallacies in their books, when they fumblingly attempt to address the good, broad question “To what extent mushrooms in Christianity”, which they conflate like a motherf*cker with the specific, narrow, bad, invented-and-perpetuated-by-them, strawman position, “the secret Amanita cult theory”.
The only person I know of in the field of mushroom scholarship who is trying hard to spread the idea of a “secret Amanita cult theory” is one Mr. Letcher Hatsis himself, to create an easy-to-shoot-down, easy target, an obviously bad theory, to make himself look good.
Actually, much of the blame goes to Allegro, Wasson, Irvin, and Ruck. Letcher Hatsis is responding to a garbled situation in the field, a situation which has its roots in:
- Allegro’s malicious intent on embarrassing and discrediting Christianity.
- Wasson’s defensive reaction against Allegro, by censoring mushrooms in Christian art and doing a cover-up operation on behalf of the Pope.
- Irvin’s uncritical cheerleading of Allegro, around 2010. Irvin overemphasized Amanita at the expense of Cubensis and Liberty Caps, setting up a bad situation for opportunist Letcher Hatsis to push against to make himself look good.
- Ruck’s ridiculous overuse of the concept ‘secret’, which he doesn’t understand. Maybe for sensationalist marketing reasons. Letcher Hatsis is rightly pushing against this, as am I; but he is sloppy, failing to differentiate between some 5-7 distinct issues/questions, and equating ‘secret cult spread’ with the entire field, the entire set of broad, neutral, well-specified, and narrow/specific questions such as:
- To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?
- To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?
- To what extent was the Eucharist recognized as mushrooms?
- To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?
- To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?
Scholars’ Failure to Debate Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/scholars-failure-to-debate-mushrooms-in-christian-art/
Parasols of Victory
I sarcastically refer to Cubensis, Liberty Caps, and Amanita mushrooms in Greek & Christian art as “Parasols of Victory”, mocking the “Anything But Drugs” interpretation bias — a bias which has literally become a joke, making the progenitors of this obvious fallacy a laughingstock.
Mushroom Trees Debunked
YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrfeNp1FSUY
Fallacies he commits:
- Inconsistently changing the claim/objective/scope. slip-n-slide
- Conflating one case (Amanita) with all possible cases (Cubensis forms, Liberty Cap forms, & Amanita forms) and silently flipping back and forth between the two different scopes as if they are the same scope.
- Conflating some 7 distinct questions, as if it’s a given — needing no careful definition — the position of “secret Amanita cult” theory vs. the broad entire set of distinct questions, such as 5-7 distinct questions to be broken out from the broad question, “To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?”
Letcher & Hatsis, and Allegro’s book re: Plaincourault, have a really sloppy lack of constraining WHAT SPECIFIC THEORY ARE WE PRESENTLY DEBATING; AND, IS THAT THEORY WORTH CENTERING DISCUSSION AROUND?
This problem plagues that entire school — if not the entire field! — Brinckmann/ Panofsky/ Wasson/ Letcher/ Hatsis: they can’t make up their mind what position they are arguing against; they treat all 5-7 distinct questions as being no different. Probably applies to Allegro/Irvin, too. Consider also, poor specification of issues, by Ruck and by John Rush.
A hazy untenable mess of a confusion of a “conversation” or “debate” is the result.
The Secret Theory of Secret Mushrooms in Secret Art & Secret Cults, by Secret Carl “Mr. Secret” Ruck
God f*cking dammnit Carl STOP F*CKING SAYING “SECRET” EVERY OTHER WORD!; you are just confusing yourself and the field and the opponents of the field!
I DECLARE A MORATORIUM ON THE WORD ‘SECRET’ IN ALL BOOK TITLES, CHAPTER TITLES, AND SECTION HEADINGS.
Oh look how helpful, a planned book from Hatsis, to dig himself and the field even deeper into their rut of confusion, by using the similar word ‘conspiracy’:
Video title:
Psanctum Oddcast Ep 3 Chris Bennett and Brian Muraresku
YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian [= Tom Hatsis]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7yiTwLr6o – The video’s SHOW MORE notes say:
“… forthcoming books … “The Sacred Mushroom Conspiracy” (spring, 2022).”
STOP SAYING ‘Secret’ or ‘Conspiracy’; YOU ARE JUST CONFUSING YOURSELVES!
Stop fusing together and conflating the plain, neutral, broad question of “To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?“, with your monomaniacal fixation on the narrow, charged, freighted, particular notion of “secret”, which you don’t even understand.
The ORIGIN of the concept ‘secret’ — the ultimate referent of the idea ‘secret’ — is the revelation in the altered state, of how the mind’s personal control system works.
Uncovering the cista mystica snake-basket engine under the hood; popping the hood of the personal control system.
The root concept of ‘secret’ does NOT refer to some secret doctrine that is told; and NOT some stupid “secret cult”.
It’s the INNER SECRET of how the mind’s personal self-control system works, including:
- The control-thought inserter/injector (like a {phallus} or {penetrating blade} placed/ spread/ distributed along its {snake}-shaped worldline.
- The control-thought receiver/receptacle (like a {cup} or {female} or {wound} placed/ spread/ distributed along its {snake}-shaped worldline.
- Awareness in the ordinary state of consciousness; the mind of Luna, the Virgin Maiden, who has never perceived the mind’s control-thought inserter in the altered state.
- Awareness in the altered state, in the loose cognitive association state, the {winged eye}; the mind of Mithras, looking back and up to Sol, the control-thought inserter.
Italian Pines a.k.a. “Mushroom Pines”
link to section of Criteria article. I sarcastically refer to Cubensis, Liberty Caps, and Amanita mushrooms in Greek & Christian art as “Italian Pines” aka “Mushroom Pines”, mocking the “Anything But Drugs” interpretation bias — a bias which has literally become a joke, making the progenitors of this obvious fallacy a laughingstock.
Article title:
Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
Subsection title:
Stylized Cubensis Clusters, Literal Liberty Caps
Relevance: Mockery of the ludicrous, way-overbroad attempt to explain-away the many mushroom depictions as “the leading expert art historian” Panofsky uses Brinckmann’s thin 1906 book to do, as “the hundreds of mushrooms in Christian art are just stylized Italian pines.”
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#spcllc
Brinckmann, Mushroom Trees, & Asymmetrical Branching
I show all of Brinckmann’s 1906 plates here. Censored by Pope-buddy banker Wasson.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/
Unbelievably Stupid, Dense, Dimwitted Assertions Printed in Books by Lofty Scholars
Scholarly Fail-Quotes Hall of Shame
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/scholarly-fail-quotes-hall-of-shame/
Hellenistic Mystery Religions = Native Christmas Shamans’ Secret Amanita Cult
This joke was inspired by Hatsis’ debunking of the “Amanita is a Christmas tradition” myth. However, I advocate spreading this myth, which is spiritually true even if literally false. It’s a good myth, a true myth.
The official position of the Egodeath theory is that all Hellenistic Mystery Religions were based on Amanita.
Dionysus = Persephone = Osiris =🎄🍄🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🎁
Bringing initiates the Ho-Ho-Holy Spirit!
Here is scholarly proof that all Hellenistic Mystery Religions were based on Amanita:
Video:
Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani
YT ch: New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
At 2:20, Jason Jorjani asserts: “They also drank wine at these Mithraeum communion banquets, and the wine was laced with Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which were intended to produce a kind of out-of-body experience.” —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQ0i_1eoJ8&t=135s
Some say Amanita is a poor pick and that Psilocybe is more ergonomic.
Those people are heretics contradicting the Prophet, John M. Allegro (don’t forget the ‘M’ — or else you are accursed).
The Egodeath theory 