Contents:
- Key Questions for Any Entheogen Scholar, and My Answers
- What was “Mixed-Wine”, “Holy Bread”, “Ambrosia”, “Nectar”, and “Kykeon”, Throughout the Ancient Banqueting Tradition (Greek & Christian)?
- Did mystic-state religious experiences happen, in the history of religion?
- Were many of the mystic-state religious experiences induced by mushrooms (in terms of numbers and percentage)?
- If they weren’t induced by mushrooms, then how did they come about?
- Are religious myths metaphorical descriptions of the mystic altered state?
Reasons Why the Maximal Psilocybe Theory of Greek & Christian Mixed-Wine Banqueting Tradition
No one has looked for mushrooms in texts or art yet. The best lens is the Egodeath theory. Various types of evidence have been forthcoming.
It’s a necessary piece of the puzzle to make everything fit together.
Entheogen scholarship is only one of many fields I repair and incorporate together.
Mushrooms are a mainstay in Christianity & myth.
The meta-theory best incorporates the maximal mushroom theory, modelled on Psilocybe. I’m willing to sacrifice historical certainty, to construct a simple, clear-cut model, based on the relatively well-known and well-evidenced mushroom as the eucharist — not the speculative and counter-indicated cannabis.
Psilocybe is the most optimal entheogen to reproduce the depicted effects.
Were I initiator, Psilocybe is the most desirable to produce the sought effects.
All indicators are, Psilocybe is the normal reference Christian entheogen.
Not cannabis, scopolamine, opium, or ergot.
Text and art and myth indicates Psilocybe form & effects — not cannabis etc.
Psilocybe mushrooms are the most ergonomic, the most focused in their entheogenic effect.
Mushrooms were manifestly the preferred entheogen.
Mushrooms are the norm for Christian art.
Psilocybe = Cubensis; Liberty Caps; & Amanita representing Psilocybe.
Psilocybe is a primary entheogen.
Psilocybe is definitive of psychedelic effects.
Psilocybe is short-lasting; lends well to redosing.
Psilocybe is reliable.
Psilocybe is ergonomic.
Psilocybe is flexible. Eat raw, eat dried, mix into buns marked X which obv refers to celestial 23-degree cross of Heimarmene-transcendence; like Mithraism, be busted out of heimarmene-prison — at the cost of:
- Your childhood kingthink.
- The simple autonomous egoic locus of control.
- The false, illusory egoic foundation and source of control.
- A false-primary control source.
- {evil king}
- {usurper of throne of the true king}
Psilocybe is safe biologically; non-toxic.
Psilocybe gives classic entheogen effects.
Psilocybe is flexible for dosage mixing into bread or wine.
Psilocybe is depicted in countless Christian art works, and we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg, in my Christian mushroom gallery, because people have been brainwashed into closing their eyes and not looking for mushrooms; clear-thinking people ought to open their eyes and be actively looking for mushrooms.
There is no shortage of evidence; it is easy to find and photograph and upload many more instances of mushtoomrs in Christian art.
We haven’t even gotten started rounding up Pope Wasson’s crews’ censored collection of the alleged “hundreds of instances” they’ve been censorting to withhold as Pope Wasson censored Brinckmann.
[todo: quote the Vatican-Puppet Art Expert Panofsky.
- Pope Brinckmann
- Pope Panofsky
- Pope Wasson
- Jester Letcher
- Jester Hatsis
The Expert Popes of Proclamation and their Court Jesters agree:
For you people, there are no mushrooms in Christian art.
— and that’s Ex Cathedra, dammit!
There is a glut of evidence; images of literal mushrooms, stylized msurhooms, and depictions of effects.
There is no cannabis depicted in Christian art, but tons of mushrooms.
Mushrooms are commonplace in Greek & Christian art.
Church Fathers write about the Eucharist in psychedelic ways, fitting the mind’s built-in, innate, psychedelics response; transformation caused by ingesting the flesh of the gods.
I only treat “mushrooms in Christian art” as one part of a much more widely scoped, entire explanatory framework, that includes:
- The Egodeath theory, which has two parts:
- The Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (psychedelic eternalism)
- The Mytheme theory (the “analogical psychedelic eternalism (pre-existence)” theory of religious myth).
- Decoding Rock lyrics as description of the intense mystic altered state.
- The maximal entheogen theory of religion and culture.
- The maximal mushroom theory of Christianity.
It is *not* the case that my views on mushrooms in Christian art is an isolated theory, that I arrived at in isolation.
I came to the field of entheogen scholarship and mythology in 1998, bringing to it, an already fully formed theory, Core theory, the Cybernetic theory, psychedelic eternalism; loose cognitive association binding.
How the mind changes and transcends egoic thinking, in the loosecog state.
I merely had to realize, see, and confirm, by reading World Mythology, and by playing “spot the entheogen”, that mythology confirms my core theory’s eternalism (eg snake = worldline, rock = block universe, king in tree = ego steering), and also that mythology corroborates the “loosecog” aspect of my core theory, that is, mushrooms are shown in myth.
I was NOT merely playing “spot the mushroom” as an isolated game/activity, like the emphasis in the field of entheogen scholarship.
I was as interested in finding correlation/corroboration for non-psychedelics aspects of my Core theory, in myth.
Not that surprisingly, my entire set of views (including the maximal mushroom theory of Christianity) had a clear match with:
- The entire set of views depicted in world religious mythology (including Greek & Christian religious myth).
- The whole integrated coherent set of views held by Freke & Gandy (Freke’s sprirituality book’s section on no-free-will); their book on Jesus’ ahistoricity; (Freke’s spriituality book’s section on entheogens).
- Valentinian Gnostics as described by Ealine Pagels, extreacted/summarized by me around 2002.
I got that confirmation, including of mushrooms in normal mainstream Christianity, around 2002.
History of the Egodeath theory & specifically of the Mytheme theory, which includes the maximal mushroom theory of Christianity:
1988: I discovered the Core theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence. I started trying to write an adequate, compelling, non-arbitrary, non-random article about the technical, scientific, modern, directly described Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.
1997: I published Core theory outline-spec, as a fallback, since it was hard to write a good, appropriate article about the Core theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.
1998: I started working on Mystery Religions & mythology.
1999: I read Clark Heinrich’s book Strange Fruit (1995). I read all the entheogen scholarship books.
Clark Heinrich, Carl Ruck, and Mark Hoffman connected mythology & mushrooms.
2001-2002: I posted announcements that mythology corroborates my Core theory (the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence). I posted announcements proposing & introducing the maximal entheogen theory of religion and culture.
2006: I finally wrote a proper (excellent, worthy, readable, appealing) article about the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, as I had intended since discovering the Core theory in January 1988 — but, now, including the Mytheme theory:
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.
It’s as if, to accomplish my 1988 goal of writing an adequate, compelling, non-arbitrary, non-random article about the technical, scientific, modern, directly described Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, I had to add colorful, descriptive Mytheme decoding, per the Mytheme theory.
2010-2013: Further intensive work on decoding mythemes, including in Western Esotericism & Mystery-Religions; decoding “scenes” eg Tauroctony & Western Esotericism diagrammatic images.
Quadrants Diagram: {king steering in tree} -> {wine} -> {snake frozen in rock}
Branching, rock; quadrants for my book cover art diagram to express something like:
- Upper left: egoic agent
- Lower left: branching world in the ordinary state of consciousness.
- Upper right: transcendent agent
- Lower right: non-branching, monopossibility, block universe frozen rock world.
find “quadrant” in the Egodeath Yahoo Group digests. found it! easy!
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-124/#message6344 — excerpt from my December 2, 2013 post:
Must-read posts; or, important powerful useful touchstone ideas I’ve kept appreciating:
Idea/post 1.
My description of a 4-quadrant diagram, ~Feb. 2013 posting:
We change from a mental model of
[upper left:] Autonomy (King) steering in a
[lower left:] possibility-branching tree (Tree; bush; reinforced by motif of Antlers behind & plant-branch in front of Eve’s branching legs — a phallus in contrast is non-branching, snake-shaped; worldline-isomorphic.)
to a mental model of
[upper right] puppet/slave
caught motionlessly in
[lower right] a worldline-tube (of subjective experiences including control-intention thoughts) frozen into the changeless rock universe (Eternalism; Rock motif, snake/serpent/worm)
/ end of excerpt from post-breakthough post, December 2, 2013 posting
Psilocybe Is the Ideal Entheogen for the Banqueting Tradition
The words ‘Gnosticism’ and ‘Esotericism’ mean entheogen, especially Psilocybe, causing transformation from possibilism to eternalism from literalist ordinary-state possibilism to analogical psychedelic eternalism.
That transformation didn’t originate from Cannabis, Opium, Scopolamine, or Amanita; that primary original source of transformation from possibilism to eternalism came from skilled use of Psilocybin such as in cultivated banqueting parties with re-dose rounds of Psilocybe mixed-wine.
The main typifying archetypal correct original definition of ‘Gnosticism‘ and ‘Esotericism‘ and Mystery Religions, is the use of Psilocybe to cause transformation from possibilism to eternalism; from literalist ordinary-state possibilism to analogical psychedelic eternalism.
the branching-possibilities mental worldmodel of time and control
the frozen block universe pre-existing control thoughts, {snake frozen in rock} worldline; a puppet rail of pseudo freewill based the personal control system, steering so as to create the future from a range of possibilities. From {king steering in a tree}, to {snake-puppet frozen in rock}. Dionysus doll toys top I need a puppet mytheme dammit! The Little Doll Is You yeah, no where to run (Major-scale upbeat light-hearted uplifting music mood) inappropriate affect
lyrics here for Dionysian scholarly study Symposium with the horses bouncers for those rowdy academics at the Symposium Conference party but they were tied to the rock benches by snakes and when Herakles pulled them he could only… sigh don’t type, just quote my article.
ok I wrote about virgin maiden Kore turning into Queen Persephone Queen Ruler of the Underworld Married to Hades the King of the Underworld who abducts virgin maidens and transforms their thinking about the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts so they are no longer virgins but have gotten impregnated with the new replacement model of life, local agency exposed and tripped-up and disproved, by an overpowering message that is sent by the Creator of control-thoughts.
The uncontrollable source of control-thoughts made the virgin vanish in power and the mind transformed into the adult mental worldmodel, the Eternalism mental worldmodel of the mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control — pre-existence of personal control-thoughts from possibility-branching to the pre-existing block universe.
winnow thresher and Queen of the Underworld, wife of King Hades
Key Questions for Any Entheogen Scholar, and My Answers
A key, differentiating set of questions to separate the esoteric men from the exoteric boys:
What was “Mixed-Wine”, “Holy Bread”, “Ambrosia”, “Nectar”, and “Kykeon”, Throughout the Ancient Banqueting Tradition (Greek & Christian)?
Psilocybe.
Did mystic-state religious experiences happen, in the history of religion?
yes
Were many of the mystic-state religious experiences induced by mushrooms (in terms of numbers and percentage)?
yes, large, 100%
All of the mystic-state religious experiences were induced by entheogens, typically Psilocybin mushrooms.
If they weren’t induced by mushrooms, then how did they come about?
n/a
All mystic-state religious experiences were induced by entheogens, typically Psilocybin mushrooms.
Are religious myths metaphorical descriptions of the mystic altered state?
yes
The primary referent of myth is:
things that are observed and experienced in the entheogen-induced, loose-cognitive, altered state;
particularly, centered around the climactic peak-state transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism.
Evidence Type: Stylized Description, in Texts
I read just enough of the Church Fathers to confirm, as the Theory predicts, they talk about bread and wine entheogenically, in a way which is most ideally fulfilled by Psilocybe.
As the “History of Esotericism” portion of the Egodeath theory predicts.
Lyrics – Little Dolls (Bob Daisley)
Ozzy Osbourne – Selected lyrics for Dionysian scholarly study
He’ll show you no mercy
Your image in his hands
It’s useless to try
Escaping his curses
Tortured and flaming
You give birth to hell
Living a nightmare
It’s a pity
You’ll pray for your death
No where to run
Your fate is in his hands
Your time has come
You’ll live to his command
I’m warning you
The worst is yet to come
The killer who
Remains a mystery
I that believe in the stories of old
Would never fight it
Demons and curses that play on our soul
Like something ignited
You never imagined such a fate could follow you
You never thought it was true
And when it’s your time
I wonder how you’ll do
Your kind of trouble’s
Running deeper than the sea
But whatcha gonna do about it?
You broke the rule
You’ve been a fool
The little doll is you, yeah!
Wrything and screaming
He’ll show you no mercy
Your image in his hands
It’s useless to try
Escaping his curses
Companion song:
The Twilight Zone, by Rush
http://www.egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22939
Does Dionysus Have a Doll/Puppet, as the Egodeath theory Predicts?
Article:
THE TOYS OF DIÓNYSOS
Site:
HellenicGods.org
https://sites.google.com/a/hellenicgods.org/www/the-toys-of-dionysos
[9:16 p.m. December 17, 2020] Decoding, I have the feeling of something tugging on the line, I have a catch: ‘knucklebones’ = ‘jointed doll’ – of bones? then from there, read about …
I need to read more myths and myth references, such as following links in Wikipedia Greek Myth entries, which pays off richly.
My lookups always turn up interesting fruit full connections on something or other.
Golden Apples of Immortality in the Garden of the Hesperides Guarded by a Serpent-Dragon Monster of Looking
{golden apples guarded by the serpent dragon fire monster blasting too much light, too much perception, it breaks and bursts and flips the {childhood} {perishable} temporary mental worldmodel of mind into its adult configuration, resulting in {IMMORTALITY, becoming IMPERISHABLE};
changing from the DIE-ABLE state to the NON-DIE-ABLE state} including from literalism to analogical thinking; immortality meant esoteric mystic sense, not literal sense.
Recognized consciously as being embedded in the block universe, powerless to change, only able to manifest the future and worldline of now’s, early ones filled with mental images of possibilism, the mental world shaped as a king steering in a tree; transformation of the mental world model from model of agent-in-world, from a:
{king steering in a tree, wine transforms, snake frozen in rock}
In one tauroctony, or rather a banqueting scene, is shown a snake basket – helpful for solution!!
cista mystica; a lid-lifted snake-basket: the torch man brings a horn of wine to king sol at banquet with Mithras representative of god Lion outside the orbs of the cosmos in Emperium with God Creator,
Cautes and Cautopates – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cautes_and_Cautopates
About the apple like Eden, Hesperides garden apple fruit of the tree and snake is IMMORTALITY, live forever — MORE PROOF OF DECODING PARALLELS IS THE WAY TO GO… TWO BOTH Christian GREEK – ADD TO list of independent co-proving systems: break out “religious mythsm” into two sources of cross-proof/support:
Why don’t scholars treat these together? Why does a book either talk about Hesperides’ golden apple snake guarded, and the Eden alt config of same. Lest they eat of the golden apple and live forever it grants IMMORTALITY the golden apple (good match for choosing to depict Amanita rather than Cubensis or Liberty Caps, tho Eve has both. that is (obv Amanita strong candidate for artistic rep’n)
Greek myth; hellenistic, “pagan”, Ancient Mediterranean
Christian myth; Christendom
Historians need to take my lessons on the Mythemese language required to be fluent at .
Get better at reading texts by learning Mythemese, as Cyberdisciple demonstrates.
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.
Mythemes: Trapped in the Underworld for Eternity, Can’t Come Back
so if you can please understand
you might not come back
You, the personal egoic control agent, are not supposed to come back as Kore the virgin maiden, but as Queen Persephone who has known God thorugh seeing his will inside her, making her childhood thinking die, disproved, as a passive reflection, a projected mask-image depicting a substantial locus-of-control, but the false king is mocked in his caught in the tree. [8:55 pm Dec 16 2020] check if they are mocking the king in the tree.
Alchemy Woodcuts, Western Esotericism Mytheme Images
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/alchemy-woodcuts-western-esotericism-mytheme-images/
THEORY CONFIRMED BY EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE RESULTS, AGAIN.
- There is a fool/dunce head at bottom of tree.
- Woman on left is alarmed, apprehending the fool/dunce at the base of the tree.
- Woman on right is wagging finger smiling at king caught up in his tree.
Article:
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Section:
The Physical Fastening of All Thoughts and Actions
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm#_Toc177337625 —
“King Hades imprisoned Persephone’s would-be suitors (and abductors) by fusing them to a magical bench and binding them to it with snakes while bringing them ‘mixed wine’.
It was possible for Heracles to free the divine hero Theseus, but Heracles had to leave king Pirithous behind, fused into the banqueting bench in Hades for eternity, because the whole world shook when Heracles pulled him.
This myth describes the dissociative-state sensation of physical embeddedness in the timeless block-universe, followed by abandoning the former pseudo-sovereign model of one’s personal control agency.” – mh2006
Going to abduct and marry Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, wife of Hades, King of the Underworld.
At banquet with King Hades on a magical rock bench, the snakes bring mixed wine Psilocybe wine.
Body is bound to the magical stone bench by snakes.
Hero Theseus was freed from the Heimarmene Trap, but the false king Pirithous had to be left in Hades for eternity, because when Heracles tried to pull king Pirithous, the whole world of rock shock, everyone fastened embedded in the rock world, all those types of false king egos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirithous
“Pirithous was set to marry Hippodamia, their offspring being Polypoetes. The centaurs were guests at the party, but they got drunk and tried to abduct the women, including Hippodamia who was carried off by the intoxicated centaur Eurytion or Eurytus.
“The Lapiths won the ensuing battle, the Centauromachy, a favorite motif of Greek art.
___
“Pirithous and Theseus pledged to carry off daughters of Zeus; Theseus chose Helen of Sparta and together they kidnapped her when she was 13 years of age and decided to hold on to her until she was old enough to marry.
“Pirithous chose a more dangerous prize: Persephone herself. They … traveled to the underworld. When they stopped to rest, they found themselves unable to stand up from the rock as they saw the Furies appear before them.”
Mytheme: {rescue}
“Heracles freed Theseus from the stone, but the earth shook when he attempted to free Pirithous. He had committed too great a crime for wanting the wife of one of the great gods as his own bride. …
“The rescue of Theseus and Pirithous …in Attic comedy:
“Heracles attempted to free them from the rock to which they had been bound [by snakes, at banquet – this article is mystically weak, told by outsider] in the Underworld (for having tried to carry off Persephone). He succeeded in freeing only Theseus and left behind his buttocks attached to the rocks.”
attempted to free them from the rock to which they had been bound … succeeded in freeing only __, and left behind __, attached to the rocks.
“Due to this, Theseus came to be called hypolispos, meaning “with hinder parts rubbed smooth.”
“Pirithous was worshiped at Athens, along with Theseus, as a hero.”
The Egodeath theory 