Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 130: 2015-01-05

It would be most worhwhile to trace in my posts the trajectory of these threads of research including the January 21, 2014 follow-on solutions of the staff of Asclepius, Moses’ brass snake on a pole for healing (Jesus is compared to that in the New Testament), and Jesus’ stauros/ pole/ stake/ tree/ cross; king Jesus died/swooned on a “tree”, hung from the tree.

“My established principle or recognition that snake means eternal world model and my hypothesis of branching myth themes, and my work on interpretation of tree of knowledge of good and evil, which were two or three separate research threads, suddenly were placed in direct contrast, not merely accumulation.”

Roots in 2003: heimarmene-snake posts.

2006, 2007: eternalism first post.

2011-2012: stag hydra typhon crossroads mushroom branchless trees: initial tentative hypothesis that *nonbranching* (of possibilities; monopossibility) is the principle being depicted.

2013 peak; confirmation beyond my greatest expectations of what confirmation of the hypothesis is possible!!: the threads come together in Cranach’s painting “Eve tempted by serpent”, supplemented by Douris’ Jason/snake kylix. Head of person on snake body often positioned *where tree trunk meets branches of tree* (I’m introducing this newish latter point the past couple days).

2014 follow-on confirmations: staff of Asclepius, Moses’ snake on pole; Heracles’ club; Abraham’s ram caught in a bush. Any pair of key mythemes (king ram bush tree snake pole) implies the entire system of analogies describing entheogens revealing Eternalism.

A “new” breakthrough realization of mine always has roots, less well interconnected though.

— Michael Hoffman, theorist of ego death

Parrallelomania: Greek myth vs. Bible mytheme-pairs:

Tree in the garden of Hesperides (jason/snake kylix) =
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden

Staff of asclepius =
Moses’ brass snake on a pole

King Pentheus in a tree (Dionysus)
King Jesus hung from the tree/cross

— Michael Hoffman, the interdisciplinary theorist of ego death
Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.

Any system that doesn’t assert Eternalism, asserts Possibilism.

Any system that isn’t experiential preserves Possibilism thinking, and fails to actually produce Eternalism thinking.


Any system of Transcendent Knowledge that doesn’t centrally emphasize:

Eternalism (monopossibility, possibility nonbranching, no-free-will); clarity about the essentials; experiential cognition

defaults to advocating:

our original sin; Possibilism (multipossibility, possibility branching, free will); confusion about the essentials; nonexperiential cogitation


The Egodeath theory is the ultimate Eternalism-advocating, sytematic, simple, pure, consistent, principled, STEM system of Transcendent Knowledge.

I criticize Quantum Physics, nonduality spirituality, Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Catholicism, and moderate Calvinism, and hyper-Calvinism with PSA and ECT.

Thise are false and ineffective systems, because they aren’t centered on the experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism. They fail to recognize interdisciplinary connections.

Only the Egodeath theory is an efficient, clean, STEM-conformant, effective system of Transcendent Knowledge.

Only the Egodeath theory is explicitly centered on the experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism, including entheogens, loose mental construct processing per a proper STEM Cognitive Science analysis, and mapping to religious mythic metaphor.

The Egodeath theory explains specifically why other systems are failures, so it is the superior and ultimate, true and correct explanatory framework of our religious revelatory potential of the mind, conformant with Sam Harris’ Cognitive Science assertion of no-free-will.

The Egodeath theory is superior to such assertions and represents the complete ultimate development of Cognitive Science assertions of no-free-will.

The Egodeath theory enables EXPERIENCING the complete shift from Possibilism to Eternalism, envisioned with all tools: metaphor, determinism, Relativity, monopossibility, Reformed.

The Egodeath theory is properly interdisciplinary, and experiential, unlike Sam Harris.

— Michael Hoffman, the interdisciplinary EXPERIENTIAL Cognitive Science theorist of ego death
Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.

Recognizing all forms of Possibilism religion

There are only two religions, or systems of Transcendent Knowledge: Possibilism, or Eternalism.

Religion (our actual true religious potential) is the experiential shift from:
Possibilism thinking and experiencing
to
Eternalism thinking and experiencing
including the adjustment and revision of our ideas about our personal control power.

Any religion or system of Transcendent Knowledge that is not focused on this specific shift, is irrelevant and nonsense and is not actually religion.

There is only one true religion: the religion of experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism, both in our thinking and in our experiencing.

The Egodeath theory is the full development of the one true bona fide religion, the religion of the experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

All other religions are not actually religion (they are mis-focused), or are incompletely developed.

They are either Possibilism religion, such as PSA and ECT that contaminate the otherwise no-free-will hyper-Calvinism, or they are in sufficiently developed ineffective attempts at Eternalism religion.

Only the Egodeath theory is consistent Eternalism religion, and is experiential, and is fully developed, and is mapped to other domains (interdisciplinary mapping of the new theory/paradigm to the previous attempted theories/paradigms).

— Michael Hoffman, the
experiential, consistent, fully developed, interdisciplinary, Eternalism, STEM cognitive science, effective
theorist of ego death
Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.

insufficiently developed ineffective attempts at Eternalism religion, such as Sam Harris on no-free-will.

1600 BC (500 BC?): The tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden, containing a snake, and fruit of the tree.

1500 BC (500 BC?): Moses’ healing brass (rigid) snake on a pole (debranched tree).

500 BC Ancient myth; Jason/snake kylix; Typhon, father of all monsters; the king sees snakes at a mixed-wine banquet and is frozen into a rock statue.

300 BC: Staff of Asclepius the Healer (snake on a debranched tree).

150 AD: Transition from no-free-will as terminal point in religious maturation (tree/snake contrast, repudiating tree and affirming snake), to transcending no-free-will (rising above the sphere of the fixed stars).

1079: Anselm: block time.

1530: Reformation. Lucas Cranach’s painting “Eve tempted by the serpent” highlights branching.

1884: Flatland, by Edwin Abbott.

1908: McTaggart’s Linguistics-based block time is published. Minkowski’s 1907 Physics-based block time is presented. A big year for block time.

1988: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (my core theory; my Phase 1 work), presenting limits on personal control power in light of 1908 Minkowski block time and Alan Watts’ personal noncontrol in his 1955 book _The Way of Zen_ (similar to his article “Zen and the Problem of Control”) — as the true definition of ego transcendence, rather than nonduality as the focus of ego transcendence. Nonduality as the focus of ego transcendence is the theory advocated by Ken Wilber and Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; I fought against that theory as the old theory that my paradigm supercedes, having greater explanatory power and scope.

1997: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (my core theory, without myth or history) is summarized at the Principia Cybernetica website on the World Wide Web.

2001: I realize and announce that myth describes no-free-will on the World Wide Web. November 12, 2001. This is the first breakthrough in Phase 2 of developing the Egodeath theory (phase 2 extends the core theory into history and myth). Translating all key myth in terms of {entheogens revealing Eternalism} takes through early 2014.

2006:

I added {mapping to religious mythic metaphor} in my main article 2006 on the World Wide Web.

The Entheogen Theory of Relig and Egodeath (could be titled the “{Metaphor Describes Entheogens Revealing Eternalism} theory…” or the {Entheogen-induced experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism} theory of what is revealed in religion in the mystic altered state.

2013:

November 29, 2013: My confirmation of several threads come together: snake in myth (the #1 frequent mytheme) depicts the block universe worldline (heimarmene snake), branching imagery in myth, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil containing a snake.
December 3, 2013: Video lecture and announcement posting on the World Wide Web.

2014:

My core theory and its deciphering of myth and its mapping to myth is confirmed further by solving and deciphering the Staff of Asclepius the Healer.

January 21, 2014, Post-It Note explanation given to Karen the barista, photo has that datetime stamp. Mentioned the Asclepius solution in email to M.F. in early 2014.
Followed by Moses’ healing snake on a pole; a rigid brass snake on a debranched tree.

Healing = experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

The experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism is characterized as healing and is the model for analogy for physical healing, or making whole.

When we experientially shift from Possibilism to Eternalism, we are made whole and healed.

When OSC (tightcog) returns, we experientially return to Possibilism (egoic freewill thinking), but we eventually retain and remember the concepts and experiences of Eternalism from the ASC (loosecog).

Announced all the 2014 breakthroughs on the World Wide Web around December 14, 2014, through January 5, 2015.

2015:

I posted on the Web extensive connections between block time and other fields (Reformed theology, myth, religion, the sphere of the fixed stars in post-150 AD systems including Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Philosophy of free will, Catholic theology).

The true essence of Religion is the experiential shift from OSC-based *Possibilism* thinking and experiencing, to ASC-based *Eternalism* thinking and experiencing.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of Egodeath

Acronyms:

OSC – ordinary state of consciousness (tight mental construct association; tightcog)
ASC — altered state of consciousness (loose mental construct association; loosecog)

tightcog — the tight cognitive association state, the mind’s default state. Tight mental functioning binding (TMFB) per my 1987 terminology.
loosecog — the loose cognitive association state induced by entheogens. Loose mental functioning binding (LMFB) per my 1987 terminology.

ECT — eternal conscious torment (punishment-Hell, complement of reward-Heaven)
PSA — penal substitutionary atonement (created by Anselm in 1079)

God, in Reformed theology: Ow, my puppet kicked me! Bad puppet! Some nerve, you have! I sentence you to ECT, for rebellion against my power!

Moses’ horns or rays depict awareness of the illusory nature of possibility branching.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of Egodeath

Prohibitionist Terr*rists (puppets of god)
Dr*g Policy Reformers (puppets of god)

Terr*rist or “peace *fficer”? How to tell the difference?

Before the U.S. can be positioned to criticize Islam, the U.S. must end Prohibition.

Prohibition is nothing but a massive human rights violation, including legalized robbery (forfeiture) and legalized murder (military-style raids).

The pot is calling the kettle black: Prohibition is as bad, destructive, badly motivated, uncivilized, unenlightened, and barbaric as Shariah law.

To hide from himself and cast himself outward into the illusion of multiple control agents, God prohibited psychedelics.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of Egodeath

Companion to the Philosophy of Time (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Adrian Bardon (Editor), Heather Dyke (Editor)
2013
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470658819/
Should contrast Possibilism, not Presentism, to Eternalism.
Based in OSC ratiocination, not ASC experiential.
No myth.

Against armchair philosophy, against armchair theories of myth, myth and philosophy is something to be experienced intensely, out-of-control, compelling your thinking and feeling and sensation.

The moment you say ‘philosophy’, as in philosophy of time, get a lobotomy: it connotes a modern limited idea: we’re going to time travel and go here and there, and everywhere we go, we are going to limit our thinking to a stiff, preconceived modern notion of what philosophy is.

This is the downfall of the transition to modern rational enlightenment: ‘rationality’ is assumed to be the ordinary state of consciousness, with no concept of experiencing a shift from the possibility world model to the eternity world model.

How good can a book be, in the isolated field of so-called religion, understood in a rational modern enlightenment sense, when it is systematic theology that is all limited to the assumption of the ordinary state of consciousness, with the fatal assumption constraining our thinking right out of the gate, that the Eucharist is merely a symbol.

The Eucharist mixed wine propelling philosophy and propelling myth is a psychedelic inducing the intense experience of our kingly steering power dying on the possibility branching tree, and then the intense experience of living in a reconfigured mental world model as a snake embedded frozen into the space time rock cave.

Modern philosophy of time fails to see the subject as a matter of intense negative fantastic breathtaking awesome experiential, cognitive phenomenology such degraded philosophy fails to see thinking about time as a matter of compelling experiential phenomenology.

We end up with altered-state intense experiencing downshifted into the hardly experiential ordinary state of experiencing time

There is no comparison between experiencing time in the ordinary state versus altered state phenomenology.

This is a serious major reductionism.

Modern philosophy is experientially reductionist.

Modern thinking about myth and religion is serious reductionism, from intense experiencing of the shift from possibility to eternity world model, to merely single-state tight cognitive association conjecture, as if we are inexperienced children speculating about climax, without even really having the concept of climax as an intense experience.

The modern field of philosophy and the modern field of religion strangely both, in practice, make the same mistake of removing or omitting the altered state experiential shift, so they cannot recognize myth.

Myth describes intense experiencing, but philosophy, considered in the modern enlightenment rationalist way, knows nothing of the idea of experiencing philosophy and experiencing religion and experiencing myth.

When you experience myth of block time, eternity world model, death and reconfigured life afterwords, this involves rationality in conjunction, in concert with experiencing.

Modern philosophy, and modern religion, assumes there is only rationality, and not also intense experiencing, an experiential shift in conjunction with rationality.

Heavy acid rock, and mythology in religion, both are intensely negative: you FAIL, possibility thinking DIES, you are R*PED and raptured, OVERPOWERED; you PANIC, it is AWESOME, it is out of the ordinary to experience the WRATH of holding inconsistent ideas about the source of your control power; you experience profound LOSS OF CONTROL.

But modern reductionism limits us to a safe crib, protected from intensity. We are shielded from adult thinking and adult experiencing of intense CATASTROPHE collapse that forcefully compels and FORCES upon us a reconfiguration into a new mental world model.

Real philosophy kicks your *ss to HELL and back and lifts you to heaven. Real philosophy it is an overpowering experience, not feeble speculative armchair philosophy, as in the experientially reductionist so-called “philosophy” of time.

Real philosophy of time kicks your *ss to hell and back, and shakes your foundation into rubble, and forces new thinking through new experiencing.

— Michael Hoffman, phablet voice dictator of what myth, philosophy, and religion are really all about: the ego death theorist

That was one of my best posts ever.

Next I will post the posting again with a couple of periods added and a superfluous ‘it’ removed; slightly more polished and stylistically consistent without changing the style.

Against armchair philosophy, against armchair theories of myth, myth and philosophy is something to be experienced intensely, out-of-control, compelling your thinking and feeling and sensation.

The moment you say ‘philosophy’, as in philosophy of time, get a lobotomy: it connotes a modern limited idea: we’re going to time travel and go here and there, and everywhere we go, we are going to limit our thinking to a stiff, preconceived modern notion of what philosophy is.

This is the downfall of the transition to modern rational enlightenment: ‘rationality’ is assumed to be the ordinary state of consciousness, with no concept of experiencing a shift from the possibility world model to the eternity world model.

How good can a book be, in the isolated field of so-called religion, understood in a rational modern enlightenment sense, when it is systematic theology that is all limited to the assumption of the ordinary state of consciousness, with the fatal assumption constraining our thinking right out of the gate, that the Eucharist is merely a symbol.

The Eucharist mixed wine propelling philosophy and propelling myth is a psychedelic inducing the intense experience of our kingly steering power dying on the possibility branching tree, and then the intense experience of living in a reconfigured mental world model as a snake embedded frozen into the space time rock cave.

Modern philosophy of time fails to see the subject as a matter of intense negative fantastic breathtaking awesome experiential cognitive phenomenology. Such degraded philosophy fails to see thinking about time as a matter of compelling experiential phenomenology.

We end up with altered-state intense experiencing downshifted into the hardly experiential ordinary state of experiencing time.

There is no comparison between experiencing time in the ordinary state versus altered state phenomenology.

This is a serious major reductionism.

Modern philosophy is experientially reductionist.

Modern thinking about myth and religion is serious reductionism, from intense experiencing of the shift from possibility to eternity world model, to merely single-state tight cognitive association conjecture, as if we are inexperienced children speculating about climax, without even really having the concept of climax as an intense experience.

The modern field of philosophy and the modern field of religion strangely both, in practice, make the same mistake of removing or omitting the altered state experiential shift, so they cannot recognize myth.

Myth describes intense experiencing, but philosophy, considered in the modern enlightenment rationalist way, knows nothing of the idea of experiencing philosophy and experiencing religion and experiencing myth.

When you experience myth of block time, eternity world model, death and reconfigured life afterwords, this involves rationality in conjunction, in concert with experiencing.

Modern philosophy, and modern religion, assumes there is only rationality, and not also intense experiencing, an experiential shift in conjunction with rationality.

Heavy acid rock, and mythology in religion, both are intensely negative: you FAIL, possibility thinking DIES, you are R*PED and raptured, OVERPOWERED; you PANIC, it is AWESOME, it is out of the ordinary to experience the WRATH of holding inconsistent ideas about the source of your control power; you experience profound LOSS OF CONTROL.

But modern reductionism limits us to a safe crib, protected from intensity. We are shielded from adult thinking and adult experiencing of intense CATASTROPHE collapse that forcefully compels and FORCES upon us a reconfiguration into a new mental world model.

Real philosophy kicks your *ss to HELL and back and lifts you to heaven. Real philosophy is an overpowering experience, not feeble speculative armchair philosophy, as in the experientially reductionist so-called “philosophy” of time.

Real philosophy of time kicks your *ss to hell and back, and shakes your foundation into rubble, and forces new thinking through new experiencing.

— Michael Hoffman, the ego death theorist; phablet voice dictator of what myth, philosophy, and religion are really all about

I posted that great post as a comment on a review of the Philosophy of Time book at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2QNRW6WIBPU1Z/ref=cm_cr_rev_detup_redir?_encoding=UTF8&asin=0470658819&cdForum=FxSMJNER33VABK&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx1HS7EER894KCF&newContentID=MxNW3COW9RKPV2&store=books#MxNW3COW9RKPV2

November 29, 2013 —

My {e equals MC squared}-equivalent breakthrough equation:

tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism

Entheogens induce an experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Neoplatonism and Quantum Physics and Gnosticism are popular because they are a semi-covert effort of sneaking back in egoic freewill multipossibility branching, after the assertion of no-free-will in block time in Relativity (Minkowski 1908) and in snake-not-tree banqueting religion up to 150 AD.

‘Spirit’ outside the realm of no-free-will is no use, serving no purpose, unless it is covert egoic freewill power.

‘Spirit’ (pneuma) postulated above fate-ruled soma and psyche, is egoically motivated, introducing confusion to shelter freewill thinking like Jonah’s bush that the worm ate.

We should construct moral ethics in submission (conformity) to Eternalism, not shirk and taint and evade Eternalism by blending back in Possibilism, like mixing egoic punishment-Hell with transcendent no-free-will hyper-Calvinism.

Don’t attempt to “transcend” no-free-will; to attempt that is a euphemism for denying Eternalism and reasserting egoic confused Possibilism thinking. Honor, not evade, Eternalism. The alternative is animal confusion, egoic delusion.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

What do Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Quantum Physics, Integral Theory, freewill theory, and systematic theology all have in common? They are all fantastically complicated, laden with obscure jargon, and have a negative stance toward no-free-will.

Apophatic transrational quantum nonduality is nothing but a shield for freewill assertion.

Like Jonah’s tangled bush that shields him from the harsh light of the sun (before the spacetime worm worldline eats the possibility-branching bush), these sky castles exist for purpose of preserving animal confusion, to provide a place for egoic freewill confusion and incoherence to hide.

The Egodeath theory, the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, is Eternalism and can be summarized in complete detail in a few pages. Here there is nowhere for egoic freewill confusion to hide.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Instead of cogsci moving into “embodied cognition” with great fanfare, cogsci should move into ASC, loosecog, following the Egodeath theory, with great fanfare. Or continue fizzling out while neurobaloney runs off with all your lunch money.

M hoffman

Announcing a sub-theory name:

the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth

the Egodeath theory = the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence + the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth

Acronym notation:
EDT = CTET + EETM

‘myth’ means *religious mythic metaphor*, such as king Jesus, who is like Moses’ healing brass serpent on a pole, sacrificed hung on the tree to cancel our sin to give purification and athanatos and heal to reconnect minds to the source of thoughts and actions.

We elect are made to awaken to the controllership that gives rise to everyone’s thoughts, prohibitionist and reformer alike frozen together in spacetime rock — that same rock that the thief of Transcendent Knowledge, Prometheus, is chained to for eternity, until the end of time.

I have needed a label to refer exclusively to the Phase 2 portion of my theory work, about myth, religion, history, and ahistoricity, as opposed to the Phase 1 core theory.

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is my Phase 1 work, 1985-1998. It is timeless and technical, non-metaphorical, no myth, no history, no metaphor reliance.

The Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth is my Phase 2 work, 1999-2014. In 1999 I sought to show that the New Testament affirms the technical core theory, the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

In 2001, I discovered and recognized that myth describes not merely visionary plants per Clark Heinrich, but particularly, no-free-will, recast in 2013 as Eternalism — intense *experiential* Eternalism.

Carl Ruck = the entheogen theory of myth, without Eternalism.

I characterize Ruck as the moderate entheogen theory of religion or myth.

The Egodeath theory, specifically the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth, presents the maximal entheogen theory of religion, which inherently leads to Eternalism.

Carl Ruck and the moderate entheogen theory of religion (Mark Hoffman of Entheos journal) lacked awareness and coverage of the intense experiential shift of consciousness specifically from Possibilism to Eternalism that is inherently induced by entheogens.

This is the THE ULTIMATE THEORY: the Egodeath theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence + the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Myth describes visionary plants inducing intense experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism including block time and no-free-will. That is the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth.

Every word must be redefined into 2 senses, one conformant with block time, Eternalism, static dynamics. Linguistic philosophers have work to do here. In this marble slab, a vein moves through it. The vein approaches the edge. The width of the vein changes as you move toward the edge of the slab. The vein doesn’t change.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

I made substantial contributions and paradigm revisions to fields in my Phase 2 (1999-2014) work on the Egodeath theory, which can be considered as part of the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth:

Ahistoricity of religious founder figures

History of visionary plants in religion and culture

World myth in religions

History of no-free-will and block time

Chronology revisionism (helps see church fathers as fictional)

Experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism described in myth — this fed back into my core theory from Phase 1.


I consider interdisciplinary studies part of my Phase 2 work, even though immediately after my January 1988 core theory breakthrough, I hit the library and built my library in order to communicate the core theory (the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence) to all fields.

Due to my growing knowledge, inherently my Phase 1 work esp. 1985-1987 leading up to the breakthrough was less interdisciplinary than today in 2015. I was reading Ken Wilber in 1986, in order to survey many fields.

All would-be systems of Transcendent Knowledge are covert freewillist projects to the extent they don’t assert and halt at Eternalism and no-free-will:
Neoplatonism
Gnosticism
Mithraism
Integral Theory
Nonduality spirituality and (nondrug) meditation
Shamanism
McKennaism; pop entheogen spirituality
Moderate Calvinism/Reformed
Hyper-Calvinism/Reformed that mixes-in punishment-Hell and penal substitutionary atonement
Quantum Physics
Catholic theology, its moral ethics

The post-150 AD movements to evade no-free-will (see Cosmology and Fate by Lewis) succeeded in burying and obscuring no-free-will by sheer quantity of obscuration.

No-free-will was effectively suppressed and relatively forgotten, compared to the heyday of no-free-will and intense experiential Eternalism during the Hellenistic era 323 BC – 31 BC.

I reject all systems of Transcendent Knowledge as inauthentic and delusion-sustaining, except a few, and I reject these few as experientially and theoretically inadequate:
Relativity correctly halts at no-free-will, block time, Parmenides, Eternalism.
Ramesh Balsekar (Advaita) and
Timothy Freke (New Age) assert no-free-will as Transcendent Knowledge.

There is only one system of Transcendent Knowledge that is authentic, experientially adequate, theoretically adequate, and STEM-appropriate and useful such as for Cognitive Science research: the Egodeath theory, including the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Ken Wilber writes of “the Atman project” — substitution projects attempting immortality. I characterize all systems of Transcendent Knowledge that are averse to no-free-will, as “freewill recovery projects”.

Neoplatonism is a freewill recovery project, against the Hellenistic no-free-will era.

Gnosticism is a freewill recovery project, against the Hellenistic-era no-free-will religion covered by Luther Martin’s book Hellenistic Religions.

Quantum Physics is a freewill recovery project, against Relativity’s block time, Eternalism, Parmenides, and no-free-will.

Catholic theology is a freewill recovery project, against Luther’s assertion of no-free-will.

Moderate Calvinism is a freewill recovery project, against hyper-Calvinism that asserts no-free-will and God as author of sin, evil, rebellion, and confusion.

We seek Transcendent Knowledge in ways that prevent Transcendent Knowledge; we want Transcendent Knowledge but we insist of taking our egoic freewill meta-steering possibility-steering power and our possibility-branching open future with us.

“Give me Transcendent Knowledge, and give me freewill steering power in a possibility branching universe.”

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Another development in Christian thinking: John MacArthur’s Strange Fire conference and video sermons or talks against Pentacostal enthusiasm. I’m not a video viewer but I saw a video of MacArthur at his (I think) church’s podium talking skeptically at length about literally “transcendent knowledge, special knowledge, revealed, mystic revelation” and suchlike phrases. I felt love and connection for him, much in common. He was speaking my language in a questioning skeptical but open-minded way. I have the answers for his questions and I agree with him that charismatic Christianity is bunk. There is better. Charismatic is inauthentic. Sincerity isn’t so much the issue. He sees people as misguided and I agree. He doesn’t know how we can have authentic enthusiasm, I do. I hope to find and post the video link. I loved hearing him talk my language and I resonate with his sincerity. I don’t care about gay issues, they side-track Transcendent Knowledge. Same with evolution debates — a pox on both houses. I am filled with caring about entheogens and eternalism and intense experiencing combined with rationality. And passion for theory development.

— — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

What people want, in paranormal psychedelic open-future manyworlds quantum nonduality hyperdimensional string theory supernatural Possibilism-explosion.

There is such an enthusiastic gee-whiz popularity in magical thinking. This is a substitute for the fantastic realization of the emphatically *closed* revelation of Eternalism.

There are two ways to Believe in fantastical things. The revelation of Eternalism and the closed future, and of pure metaphoricity in the Bible and myth, is exciting.

People are correct to pursue ecstatic revelation, otherworldly journeys.

To say there’s no fantastic otherworld is wrong. The issue is, in which direction does the true ecstatic revelation lie?

Heavy acid rock converges in a particular, controlled, closed direction “Last night I had a vsion of Eternalism, inability, presetness, unuvoidability.”

I enjoy reading pop folk uncontrolled otherworldly books, but truly, such paranormal supernatural quantum strangeness is a substitute uncontrolled malformed metaphor or analogy for the true fantastic revelation, of Eternalism per the Egodeath theory.

The Bible is revealed as coherent anti-supernatural rational metaphor describing entheogens revealing Eternalism.

I do the miracles Jesus said I would if I Believe in him. I cast out demons, I walk on water, I raise the dead, I heal sickness.

This is all recognized as rational coherent metaphor and Hellenistic deliberate systematic misleading.

The Bible encourages supernaturalist egoic confusion, then reveals nonconfusion, the fantastic ego-depressing closed future that shatters the childish logically uncontrolled world of egoic thus supernatural thinking such as the fantasy of freewill possibility thinking.

— Michael the miracle worker, Believer in Christ

Charismatic paranormal supernatural as encouraged in the surface reading of the Bible is a temporary immature substitute for the real bona fide adult revelation of altered state perception of Eternalism. The supernatural paranormal that is extremely popular is a toy plastic imitation steering wheel on the wrong side of the car while the adult is actually doing the driving.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Imitation transcendence versus bona fide transcendent knowledge. The children are entertained by mystic tall tales in the Bible and in quantum physics books and in McKenna books of pop psychedelics, in preparation for the real revelation of inability, closed future Eternalism, and death of childish free will power steering thinking, and the death of the world of multi possibility branching that children live in.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Graham Hancock and McKenna and Ken Wilber and the supernatural are training wheels in preparation for the Egodeath theory. Fantastical pop supernaturalism is deliberate misleading to prop up the most-delicate ego illusion (necessary for God’s projected-outward drama of separate agencies) and preparation for true adult wonders.

M hoffman

I do the miracles Jesus said I would if I Believe in him. If you Believe the Bible, you Believe me. I cast out demons, I walk on water, I raise the dead, I heal sickness, I forgive sins.

— Michael

I make the blind see; I make the paralyzed walk.

I make the deaf hear.

I calm sea-storms and save from shipwreck. If you Believe in me, you are a Believer in Christ and the prophets, and you are a Believer in the Bible.

This faith is not from yourself, but was given to you by God, put into your mind before the beginning of time, lest anyone boast.

— Michael

I pick up vipers without being harmed. You too shall perform all these signs and wonders and more if you are among the Believers.

— Michael

I don’t have time to correct each pastor. But Christians need to know where the Egodeath theory stands on the debates.

John MacArthur might be a good point of reference for me to correct and relate the Theory to. I do not mock Christians; I love and respect my brothers in Christ. I love, honor, respect, and look up to John MacArthur, although he is to date a hopeless literalist.

MacArthur is one of my circa 1999 instructors authors in Reformed theology, where I was a little ahead of the popular pack in discovering no-free-will in Christianity, having previously read formerly ignorant authors such as Dave Hunt who subsequently wrote What love is this?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._MacArthur

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Contrasting modern Christianity or John MacArthur’s understanding versus the Egodeath theory (the Entheogen Eternalism theory of religious mythic metaphor)

The Egodeath theory explains an understanding of religious mythic metaphor that describes visionary plants revealing Eternalism.

visionary plants = mushroom mixed wine.

Eternalism = block universe, block time, time as a spacelike dimension, and our lives as a snake-shaped worldline that is, in a way, frozen motionless — in a way — into the spacetime block.

　

No one goes to a literal punishment-Hell or reward-Heaven.

The “two races” — those fated and fixed in the spacetime rock … sort out the two kinds of spacetime worm worldlines: any particular person’s worldline either leads from Possibilism to Eternalism, or doesn’t.

The set of the saved (elect) is those worldlines that move from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Those predestined for perdition are those worldlines that stay in the Possibilism mental worldmodel and don’t move to the Eternalism mental worldmodel.

Neither race is “going to heaven” after they die bodily or “going to hell” after they die bodily.

For the race of people who never are turned and never convert to Eternalism:

‘hell’ means (according to their thinking) freewill egoic Arminian punishment-Hell.

‘heaven’ means (according to their thinking) freewill egoic Arminian reward-Heaven.

The race of people who are eventually turned and convert from original sin (the original misconception, Possibilism) to Eternalism, initially think in terms of freewill-agents’ punishment-Hell and reward-Heaven.

But upon turning and converting, this elect race re-conceives ‘hell’ as control-turmoil battling in the mystic altered state induced by mushroom mixed wine, and ‘heaven’ as repudiating freewill thinking, after the illusory freewill demon is cast out.

‘hell’ means conflict loss of control turmoil and sea-storm experience of battling against one’s own source of one’s thoughts, in the mushroom-induced loose cognitive association state, producing a reconfigured mental worldmodel, in an intense experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Double predestination is the case. But ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ shift in meaning.

Everything is predestined and static; motionless motion, like a vein in marble slab can be said to “move through” the slab though it is stationary, in another distinct sense.

There is change, in one sense, not another. See book The End of Time, chapter “Static Dynamics”, by Julian Barbour. “Metastatic dynamic”, is my ~1988 phrase; Julian Barbour has a chapter “Static Dynamics”.

　

The blood of Christ is as psychoactive as ever; this refers to ingesting mixed wine, which is mushroom wine.

The wine pitcher (amphora) contains a mushroom alcohol extraction concentrate.

In the mixing bowl (krater) at a religious mythic party (banquet), water is mixed with a mushroom alcohol extraction concentrate.

‘blood of Christ that saves” refers to entheogen (typically mushroom) extraction; mixed wine, which is intensely psychoactive, the effects of which are described by religious mythic metaphor.

To outsiders, ‘wine’ means alcohol wine diluted with water.

To insiders, ‘wine’ means psychoactive mushroom wine or equivalent.

　

I am the systematic complete STEM Cognitive Science dispensation of the late-modern era, including and incorporating the intense experiential reports of Eternalism from the prophets, the poets of Heavy Acid Rock; find my postings about “lyrics” at Egodeath.com and at the Egodeath Yahoo group. For example, Rush (band), Caress of Steel (album), Fountain of Lamneth (album side), No One at the Bridge (song). Beatles (band), Help! (song). (I am the one who on the World Wide Web first recognized and pointed these out as acid lyrics.)

To make hyper-Calvinism (ie Reformed theology) consistent, remove inherently freewillist punishment-Hell.

In religious mythic metaphor, ‘hell’ actually refers to the mental state of fighting against the mind’s source of thoughts in the loosecog state.

　

Religious founder figures are fictional, not historical individuals: the ahistoricity of Adam, Jesus, Paul, church fathers, Mohammed, and Buddha. The genre of the New Testament is Hellenistic religious fiction, myth, and mystery religion — religious mythic metaphor with deliberate misleading, to conceal and then reveal higher meaning. For example, in John’s gospel mystic tall-tale, Jesus merely swoons on the cross, per blood and water immediately flowing forth. To recognize this type of meaningj-shifting is to “Believe”. Blood and water also alludes to mushroom mixed wine.

　

The Bible is serious metaphor, not serious literalism.

The Bible is metaphorical description, of entheogen Eternalism.

To take the Bible seriously and literally is to be a clueless literalist that Jesus admonishes.

MacArthur and almost everyone in the modern era including Reformed and Charismatics, has been an outsider, failing to understand Jesus’ parabolic meaning. Hellenistic double-meaning is attributed to the Jesus figure.

　

Charismatics aren’t conformant to the New Testament or Hellenistic culture and double-entendre literature including riddling misleading of outsiders.

Modern charismatics lack understanding of entheogens revealing Eternalism; they lack the Egodeath theory; they lack understanding of religious mythic metaphor that describes visionary plants revealing Eternalism.

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist.

I am the one who figured out this entire theory, 1985-2015, and published it on the World Wide Web since 1997 and online forums since around 1990.

The entire community rallied to give me lots of rich intellectual resources and encouragement to accomplish the greatest thing I could think of, because I was identified as highly intelligent since 5th grade and beyond. I felt a responsibility to accomplish something truly exceptional, being gifted and having the advantage of many influential adults. And I was driven by need to cure my cross-time control integrity malfunctioning through mental analysis of personal control across time.

Video lecture:
What has happened after the ‘strange fire’ conference

http://youtu.be/bYulTGso804

At 34 minutes to 43 minutes, John MacArthur discusses *experiencing* transcendent knowledge, as opposed to remaining in the default ordinary state of consciousness while attempting to read and attempting to study and recognize the meaning in scripture.

Relevant to mushroom mixed wine annointing in the Holy Spirit.

John MacArthur doesn’t respond to the Egodeath theory on how the loose cognitive association state induces the experiential shift from the possibility world model to the eternity world model and comprehending metaphoricity.

There is ample support for the Egodeath theory and the signs and wonders that I perform as Jesus said we would when interpreted correctly according to the Egodeath theory.

Yes everyone else is false prophets in the charismatic literalist movement. But the ego death theory fulfills the claims of scripture that John MacArthur cannot otherwise explain how are fulfilled.

Jesus gives food, bread to people and their eyes are distinctly at that moment opened to understand and recognize the meaning of scripture. John M has no explanation for that. The Egodeath theory perfectly explains it and is the only possible coherent transcendent understanding and recognition of what the metaphors in Scripture must refer to.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

I am a type, the Egodeath theory is a type of Reformed Continuationist view. Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism Reformed Continuationist, without punishment-hell or reward-heaven but rather, mystical experiential comprehension of these.

Michael

Heaven and Hell as entheogen experiences: Robert Graves figured it out in 1957. See my Graves posts.

Michael

Hell is unbiblical anyway, eternal conscious torment. The bible is manifestly not for the purpose of telling us how to go to heaven instead of hell after we literally bodily die. Support for hell in the Bible is weaker than a thread; it is shockingly absent.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Hell and heaven and the notion that Christianity is for that purpose is mere tradition, mere Catholic tradition which is heresy and unbiblical.

To read hell into the Bible, the notion that the Bible’s purpose is go to heaven and avoid hell after you die, is to import tradition and heresy into the Bible.

Per Church of Christ (Disciples), stick to only the Bible. Do not import later tradition into the Bible.

Michael the Archangel

The biblical gospel good news announcement:

Jesus has brought the just kingdom of God. Jesus brings us into the kingdom of God through having us ingest the mushroom mixed wine in a Christian banquet. Ingesting the wine reclining on bench at table fastens us to the physical tree and transforms our worldmodel to Eternalism and egalitarianism.



The unbiblical Catholic gospel good news announcement:

Jesus died for us so that we can go to heaven instead of hell after we die.



The pagan good news gospel, which the New Testament is a retort and response and rebuttal to:

Jupiter’s Caesar Augustus brings us into the Roman Imperial system through ingesting mushroom mixed wine in the emperor cult banquet and pagan mystery cultic banquets, where reclining on bench at table fastens us to the bench and transforms our worldmodel to Eternalism and hierarchical society.

　

The danger of John MacArthur being Reformed, is that Reformed is a *tradition* and is contaminated still with Catholic tradition. Pop Reformed thinking, even in John Calvin’s own hyper-Calvinism, remains far too Catholic in its assumptions and conceptions of what salvation is about. Reformed thinking remains impure and corrupted with the original sin of freewill thinking and the Possibilism mental worldmodel. Reformed thinking is inconsistent, doesn’t go far enough, retains punishment-thinking, fails to forgive perfectly like Jesus, and therefore falls well short of the consistent, pure Eternalism that drives the Holy Bible (despite the Bible’s urging to do good).



John MacArthur theorizes about who is sanctified. Only those who intellectually, and possibly also experientially, comprehend the Egodeath theory are actually sanctified. Even the “moderate hyper-Calvinists” — “Arminian-still hyper-Calvinists” — mix Catholic traditional freewill punishment-hell into their no-free-will theology; they correctly assert that God is author of confusion, evil, sin, and rebellion, but then in animal-like self-contradictory muddled thinking, they combine that with punishment-hell inherited from the unbiblical Catholic tradition.



Regardless of his impurity-riddled hyper-Calvinism and his conduct of life, MacArthur is not sanctified yet; he is still in his sin, our original confusion, the Possibilism mental worldmodel. MacArthur has not yet been thoroughly turned by the Holy Spirit of clear thinking to the Eternalism mental worldmodel.



The Catholic tradition, inherited like corrupt DNA by the Reformed supposed “scripture only” tradition, holds that Christianity and the Bible are focused on, and are for the purpose of, going to heaven instead of hell after you die. The Reformed *tradition* is not the Bible. Insofar as the Reformed tradition mixes-in egoic punishment-hell and reward-heaven into no-free-will Eternalism and into the Bible, the Reformed tradition is unbiblical. Like the Churches of Christ non-denomination, discard post-Bible traditions of confessionalism, denominations, and Catholic, pagan-influenced tradition. Live in the New Testament era, no later.



Restrict worship practices per the New Testament. Going beyond the New Testament in worship and purpose is unbiblical and heads toward paganism and Popery and selling indulgences to escape hell or purgatory to get into heaven after you die — a project which increases egoic delusion of freewill moral agency steering in a possibility branching tree, which is a deluded and confused conception of personal power and the shape (topology) of the world, building up the animal-like demonic illusion. Post-Bible tradition leads to profiteering, distracting from comprehending revelation of meaning by the Holy Spirit upon receiving from Christ his body and blood, mushrooms and mushroom wine extraction.

　



Christians incorrectly project New Testament (and later) interpretation back onto the Eden tree tale. The theme of “original sin” is not present within the Eden tree narrative. We must sever-away the New Testament, “original sin” reading, in order to read the Eden tree narrative as it stands in itself. See the book _What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?_



‘Original sin’ actually means the natural initial misunderstanding and shorthand confusion, held by children, animals (and animal-like demons, figuratively speaking), that the world is open-possibility future (Possibilism) and that we have meta-steering power, egoic control power, to steer in kingly fashion into any of the possibility branches. When we cast out demonic confusion, the mind recognizes and repudiates the original sin, adopting Eternalism with a single, preset, pre-existing future, and a snake-shaped invisible railway frozen like a marble statue suspended in the spacetime rock block.

　



Reformed thinkers incorrectly project the Catholic tradition, the Catholic religion of “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die”, back onto the Holy Bible. The theme of “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die” is not present within the Bible, Old Testament, or New Testament. See N.T. Wright, and Rob Bell (Love Wins). We must sever-away the Catholic, “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die” reading, in order to read the Bible, Old Testament, and New Testament narrative as it stands in itself.





The gospel is not instructions on how to go to heaven not hell after death.



What ‘the gospel’ actually is:



Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

N. T. Wright

January 6, 2015

http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Good-News-Gospel-Makes/dp/0062334344/

　

The Bible, after later Catholic tradition is deleted, isn’t about how to go to reward-heaven instead of punishment-hell after you bodily die. The Bible is about awakening to the kingship or steering controllership of the Creator of the spacetime block including your entire pre-set frozen stream of thoughts frozen into the past and future. The set of the Elect awaken consciously to the kingship kingdom of God, of Jesus who awakens us and restores us to wholeness (nonduality) and is the avatar of God, displacing such claims by humans such as Caesar Augustus.



The purpose, project, focus, and motivating concern of the Bible is to support deluded childish thinkers doing good prior to initiatory revelation and mental-model turning, and to then reveal for adults the Eternalism mental worldmodel. The Bible in its mature adult revelatory phase is powered by the psychoactive mixed wine, which is the vehicle for the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible activated by the Holy Spirit in mixed mushroom wine and mushroom bread turns the mind away from the Possibilism mental worldmodel.



The Bible used a strategy of leveraging the altered-state Holy Spirit power revelation toward constructing a just, egalitarian social-political system, against and in rebuttal to Roman Imperial Theology. This strategy is given to the Elect frozen into the spacetime block, even as the Roman Imperial strategy of Caesar Augustus and Jupiter is given to its followers frozen into the spacetime block.



The New Testament is a rebuttal to how the Roman Imperial system used mushroom mixed wine to justify the hierarchical system of society. The New Testament presented a contradictory possibility of using mushroom mixed wine to justify instead an egalitarian system of society. Hierarchy favors the few at the top who hold the most power. Egalitarianism favors the majority at the bottom and middle of the power pyramid, and that is why egalitarian anti-hierarchy Christianity, as a social-support network modelled on the synagogue system was numerically popular and victorious and spread quickly.

　



Mark Driscoll of crashed-and-burned Mar$ Hill Church (it died a few days ago at the end of 2014, due to excess bad judgment), invaded MacArthur’s Strange Fire conference in a stunt to try to promote his latest plagiarized book that used payola to inflate it into phony “bestseller” status. Christianity Today — the publication of SATAN, of pseudo-Christianity for outsiders, who Jesus doesn’t recognize as his — says that this deception, gaming the system, against the efforts of the New York Times bestseller list, is fine and is not unethical. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2015/01/07/eric-metaxas-to-christianity-today-getting-on-best-seller-lists-is-good-stewardship/



— The Michael Channel

_______________________________________

Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship

John MacArthur

November 12, 2013

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Fire-Offending-Counterfeit-Worship/dp/1400205174/

From the publisher:

“What would God say about those who blatantly misrepresent His Holy Spirit; who exchange true worship for chaotic fits of mindless ecstasy; who replace the biblical gospel with vain illusions of health and wealth; who claim to prophesy in His name yet speak errors; and who sell false hope to desperate people for millions of dollars?



The charismatic movement has always been a breeding-ground for scandal, greed, bad doctrine, and all kinds of spiritual chicanery. As a movement, it is clearly headed the wrong direction. And it is growing at an unprecedented rate.



From the Word of Faith to the New Apostolic Reformation, the Charismatic movement is being consumed by the empty promises of the prosperity gospel. Too many charismatic celebrities promote a “Christianity” without Christ, a Holy Spirit without holiness. And their teaching is having a disastrous influence on a grand scale, as large television networks broadcast their heresies to every part of the world.



In Strange Fire, bestselling author and pastor John MacArthur chronicles the unsavory history behind the modern Charismatic movement. He lays out a chilling case for rejecting its false prophets, speaking out against their errors, showing true reverence to the Holy Spirit, and above all clinging to the Bible as the inerrant, authoritative Word of God and the one true standard by which all truth claims must be tested.”

I am going to repost with tighter spacing, identical content.
I am reading in a phablet web interface and optimizing for that.

The biblical gospel good news announcement:

Jesus has brought the just kingdom of God. Jesus brings us into the kingdom of God through having us ingest the mushroom mixed wine in a Christian banquet. Ingesting the wine reclining on bench at table fastens us to the physical tree and transforms our worldmodel to Eternalism and egalitarianism.

The unbiblical Catholic gospel good news announcement:

Jesus died for us so that we can go to heaven instead of hell after we die.

The pagan good news gospel, which the New Testament is a retort and response and rebuttal to:

Jupiter’s Caesar Augustus brings us into the Roman Imperial system through ingesting mushroom mixed wine in the emperor cult banquet and pagan mystery cultic banquets, where reclining on bench at table fastens us to the bench and transforms our worldmodel to Eternalism and hierarchical society.

　

The danger of John MacArthur being Reformed, is that Reformed is a *tradition* and is contaminated still with Catholic tradition. Pop Reformed thinking, even in John Calvin’s own hyper-Calvinism, remains far too Catholic in its assumptions and conceptions of what salvation is about. Reformed thinking remains impure and corrupted with the original sin of freewill thinking and the Possibilism mental worldmodel. Reformed thinking is inconsistent, doesn’t go far enough, retains punishment-thinking, fails to forgive perfectly like Jesus, and therefore falls well short of the consistent, pure Eternalism that drives the Holy Bible (despite the Bible’s urging to do good).

John MacArthur theorizes about who is sanctified. Only those who intellectually, and possibly also experientially, comprehend the Egodeath theory are actually sanctified. Even the “moderate hyper-Calvinists” — “Arminian-still hyper-Calvinists” — mix Catholic traditional freewill punishment-hell into their no-free-will theology; they correctly assert that God is author of confusion, evil, sin, and rebellion, but then in animal-like self-contradictory muddled thinking, they combine that with punishment-hell inherited from the unbiblical Catholic tradition.

Regardless of his impurity-riddled hyper-Calvinism and his conduct of life, MacArthur is not sanctified yet; he is still in his sin, our original confusion, the Possibilism mental worldmodel. MacArthur has not yet been thoroughly turned by the Holy Spirit of clear thinking to the Eternalism mental worldmodel.

The Catholic tradition, inherited like corrupt DNA by the Reformed supposed “scripture only” tradition, holds that Christianity and the Bible are focused on, and are for the purpose of, going to heaven instead of hell after you die. The Reformed *tradition* is not the Bible. Insofar as the Reformed tradition mixes-in egoic punishment-hell and reward-heaven into no-free-will Eternalism and into the Bible, the Reformed tradition is unbiblical. Like the Churches of Christ non-denomination, discard post-Bible traditions of confessionalism, denominations, and Catholic, pagan-influenced tradition. Live in the New Testament era, no later.

Restrict worship practices per the New Testament. Going beyond the New Testament in worship and purpose is unbiblical and heads toward paganism and Popery and selling indulgences to escape hell or purgatory to get into heaven after you die — a project which increases egoic delusion of freewill moral agency steering in a possibility branching tree, which is a deluded and confused conception of personal power and the shape (topology) of the world, building up the animal-like demonic illusion. Post-Bible tradition leads to profiteering, distracting from comprehending revelation of meaning by the Holy Spirit upon receiving from Christ his body and blood, mushrooms and mushroom wine extraction.

　

Christians incorrectly project New Testament (and later) interpretation back onto the Eden tree tale. The theme of “original sin” is not present within the Eden tree narrative. We must sever-away the New Testament, “original sin” reading, in order to read the Eden tree narrative as it stands in itself. See the book _What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?_

‘Original sin’ actually means the natural initial misunderstanding and shorthand confusion, held by children, animals (and animal-like demons, figuratively speaking), that the world is open-possibility future (Possibilism) and that we have meta-steering power, egoic control power, to steer in kingly fashion into any of the possibility branches. When we cast out demonic confusion, the mind recognizes and repudiates the original sin, adopting Eternalism with a single, preset, pre-existing future, and a snake-shaped invisible railway frozen like a marble statue suspended in the spacetime rock block.

　

Reformed thinkers incorrectly project the Catholic tradition, the Catholic religion of “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die”, back onto the Holy Bible. The theme of “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die” is not present within the Bible, Old Testament, or New Testament. See N.T. Wright, and Rob Bell (Love Wins). We must sever-away the Catholic, “Christianity is about going to heaven instead of hell after you die” reading, in order to read the Bible, Old Testament, and New Testament narrative as it stands in itself.

The gospel is not instructions on how to go to heaven not hell after death.

What ‘the gospel’ actually is:

Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

N. T. Wright

January 6, 2015

http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Good-News-Gospel-Makes/dp/0062334344/

　

The Bible, after later Catholic tradition is deleted, isn’t about how to go to reward-heaven instead of punishment-hell after you bodily die. The Bible is about awakening to the kingship or steering controllership of the Creator of the spacetime block including your entire pre-set frozen stream of thoughts frozen into the past and future. The set of the Elect awaken consciously to the kingship kingdom of God, of Jesus who awakens us and restores us to wholeness (nonduality) and is the avatar of God, displacing such claims by humans such as Caesar Augustus.

The purpose, project, focus, and motivating concern of the Bible is to support deluded childish thinkers doing good prior to initiatory revelation and mental-model turning, and to then reveal for adults the Eternalism mental worldmodel. The Bible in its mature adult revelatory phase is powered by the psychoactive mixed wine, which is the vehicle for the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible activated by the Holy Spirit in mixed mushroom wine and mushroom bread turns the mind away from the Possibilism mental worldmodel.

The Bible used a strategy of leveraging the altered-state Holy Spirit power revelation toward constructing a just, egalitarian social-political system, against and in rebuttal to Roman Imperial Theology. This strategy is given to the Elect frozen into the spacetime block, even as the Roman Imperial strategy of Caesar Augustus and Jupiter is given to its followers frozen into the spacetime block.

The New Testament is a rebuttal to how the Roman Imperial system used mushroom mixed wine to justify the hierarchical system of society. The New Testament presented a contradictory possibility of using mushroom mixed wine to justify instead an egalitarian system of society. Hierarchy favors the few at the top who hold the most power. Egalitarianism favors the majority at the bottom and middle of the power pyramid, and that is why egalitarian anti-hierarchy Christianity, as a social-support network modelled on the synagogue system was numerically popular and victorious and spread quickly.

　

Mark Driscoll of crashed-and-burned Mar$ Hill Church (it died a few days ago at the end of 2014, due to excess bad judgment), invaded MacArthur’s Strange Fire conference in a stunt to try to promote his latest plagiarized book that used payola to inflate it into phony “bestseller” status. Christianity Today — the publication of SATAN, of pseudo-Christianity for outsiders, who Jesus doesn’t recognize as his — says that this deception, gaming the system, against the efforts of the New York Times bestseller list, is fine and is not unethical. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2015/01/07/eric-metaxas-to-christianity-today-getting-on-best-seller-lists-is-good-stewardship/

— The Michael Channel

_____________________________________________________

Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship

John MacArthur

November 12, 2013

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Fire-Offending-Counterfeit-Worship/dp/1400205174/

From the publisher:

“What would God say about those who blatantly misrepresent His Holy Spirit; who exchange true worship for chaotic fits of mindless ecstasy; who replace the biblical gospel with vain illusions of health and wealth; who claim to prophesy in His name yet speak errors; and who sell false hope to desperate people for millions of dollars?

The charismatic movement has always been a breeding-ground for scandal, greed, bad doctrine, and all kinds of spiritual chicanery. As a movement, it is clearly headed the wrong direction. And it is growing at an unprecedented rate.

From the Word of Faith to the New Apostolic Reformation, the Charismatic movement is being consumed by the empty promises of the prosperity gospel. Too many charismatic celebrities promote a “Christianity” without Christ, a Holy Spirit without holiness. And their teaching is having a disastrous influence on a grand scale, as large television networks broadcast their heresies to every part of the world.

In Strange Fire, bestselling author and pastor John MacArthur chronicles the unsavory history behind the modern Charismatic movement. He lays out a chilling case for rejecting its false prophets, speaking out against their errors, showing true reverence to the Holy Spirit, and above all clinging to the Bible as the inerrant, authoritative Word of God and the one true standard by which all truth claims must be tested.”

I suspect that Luther and Calvin and hyper-Calvinists knew that punishment-hell contradicts hyper-Reformed no-free-will and is unBiblical, but they knowingly and strategically retained the freewill Catholic doctrine of “Jesus died so you can go to heaven instead of hell after you die” cynically to control and threaten the masses.

This would explain the unbelievable blatant contradiction that Frank obvious contradiction between transcendent (Eternalism) hyper-Calvinism and egoic (Possibilism) punishment-hell.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

When John MacArthur, guilty of Serious Literalism (lower, outsider Crhistianity) states gravely “Souls are at risk, in charismatic heresy!”, he is spouting Catholic heresy! in that his mental association network considers the goal of salvation to be the Catholic doctrine that The gospel is that Jesus died to so that we may go to Heaven instead of hell after we die — that we *deserve* (that’s egoic free will thinking) punishment, eternal conscious torment (ECT) in hell.

Yes souls are at risk of remaining in their sin that is failing to awaken as an adult to Eternalism, failing to be predestined to ingest mushrooms mixed wine which is the forceful calls of turning our attention around repenting and adopting and seeing Eternalism.

Those lost souls are predestined to remain in their delusion of vulnerability to freewill ego-punishment-hell instead of getting their hoped for freewill ego reward in heaven after they bodily die.

My predestined mission assignment is to reveal the gospel to the entire world, that God’s just kingdom has arrived for those who are predestined to be made by Jesus to ingest Jesus’ mushroom mixed-wine at his banquet, and be thereby hung on the illusory multi-possibility tree with him, united and married to him in the body of Christ.

— Michael the Archangel, helpless puppet of God frozen in space time rock unchanging.

I only speak the words that God puts in my mouth.

My Catholic brothers tripping suspended in spacetime rock — all traditions have some saveed regenerated minds turned to look behind them to see:

Metaphoricity

Eternalism

through

loose mental association
through
Entheogens fated

That Entheogenic loose cognitive Eternalism experiential realization and fated revelation IS Happening to Catholics here and there — it is not happening to the hyper Calvinist Protestants very much either. but one must be cautious in

Do not underestimate the power of the force of Entheogen Eternalism spread like spiritual pneumatic annointing seed throughout the frozen spacetime rock.

There is banqueting and Salviafic freezing into 4-D Rock here and there having a filtering affect to gather mystic altered state metaphor themes in myth and religious lore.

Supreme Court, don’t underestimate the extent of Christ’s Holy Entheogens revealing Eternalism (the ultimate religious tradition of revelation) within all traditions.

Recent books proved that all the famous Catholic mystics tripped out on plant drugs, that was the source of their inspiration to tell their devotional mystical tall tales and metaphors while meaning-shifting from the possibility meaning network to the eternity meaning network.

Catholic mystics wrote scientifically about the cognitive science of the experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

But those books were burned.

My great question is:

To what extent were visionary plants used throughout our own Christian history?

But a better question even than that is:


To what extent have people throughout history used visionary plants and fully undergone and understood an experiential shift from Possibilism vs. Eternalism?


This happens frequently throughout the space time block of human history, in all religions, all systems of transcendent knowledge, all areas, all regions, in all times.

It’s the same as with advanced tricks in electric guitar equipment usage: people repeatedly discover equipment approaches, but these do not become mainstream and they have to be re-discovered in isolated spots. The general population of guitar users remains unaware of them and and practice

You have to continually repeatedly rediscover the techniques yourself; this special knowledge stays below the threshold of propagation that’s needed for it to become common knowledge.

Individuals have the experiential shift from possibility to eternity world model, but this remains fragmented and does not become mainstream much.

There is always an ongoing selection process to preserve the best metaphor description of the visionary plant experiential shift from the possibility to eternity mental model.

Myth has been preserved largely to the extent that myth resonates with the Eternalist Entheogen revelation.


Focusing on loose cognitive processing versus focusing on entheogens

My Phase 1 work deliberately avoided focusing on the chemical and deliberately put all focus on what I would later identify with cognitive science. That is my leading-edge custom-designed innovative framework of thinking in terms of mental construct processing (MCP), loose mental association state, loose mental functioning binding (LMFB).

I developed this conceptual terminology as soon as I switched from prose paragraphs in 1986 to a reset at a particular identifiable point in time around April with the start of a new binder of Pentel P205 pencil on spacious ruled binder sheets with heavy use of acronyms, instead of fornal sentences in a smaller more cramped blank book the blank books.


Binder sheets expansive, versus blank books cramped and ill-prepared for expansive thought

I only intended to fill-in the few pages of the first blank book in order to in January 1986 stop having cross time control integrity malfunction, so that I would plan and do my homework and studies.

I expected to do for far too many things and had poor sense of that my only priority was should be studying.

I thought it would be two weeks at most to figure out ego transcendence Scientifically and rationally and how personal control works and how to not have malfunctioning personal self control power across time, such as planning to study STEM and then recording Rock albums instead and experimenting with electric guitar.

I didn’t have good idea development techniques because I didn’t think I needed them. The project seemed too small to bother.

By March 1987 I was getting good at thinking profoundly and confident in getting insights into thinking immediately every day. Like a giant Titan, my mental power was growing and I needed better pencil and paper technique.

I stepped all the way back and asked what am I trying to accomplish here exactly, and I used acronym notation around April 1987 and my thinking innovation really took off from there, breaking through January 1988, combining personal non-control of Watts with block time of Minkowski, together with my custom tuned terminology and theory of the loose cognitive association state.

Music and now lots of added electric guitar and the college bands musician network continued to take top priority. The deadhead and musician network gave me high inspiration. 1967 was 19 years in the past, a generation, dead but not long dead, and now in 2015 1967 and 1986 seem about one year apart. The 80s were an echo of the 60s.

I was at the peak: 1987, 1988 I did my greatest work, in the second psychedelic UK rave summer of love. Sgt. Pepper finally came out and it was a big deal you could hear the piano bench squeak at the end it was more time travel bandwidth into the recording studio then people ever had on vinyl 1987 was a more solid tunnel, window, tele-phone into 1967 then 1968 was, in terms of fidelity and clarity. Various psychedelic albums were becoming available in perfect ideal (so we thought) format.

Sometimes we wonder why some CDs sounded so murky, because they were random nth generation copies of master tapes. I need caress of steel on remastered cd. My vinyl sounds better than my quick job CD from who knows what generation tape copies. My poor cd does not make me feel time travel into 1975 recording studio.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

Dear U.S. Supreme Court:

Stop listening to that pop-culture buffoon, Terence McKenna, who falsely cried that the Catholic church never used psychedelic plants equivalent to the Indians’ peyote. McKenna accused the Catholic church of always substituting regular wine for the traditional, authentic, psychoactive mushroom mixed-wine.

His accusation was not the conclusion of any sustained research; it was merely a thoughtless and unsustainable assumption motivated by wanting to slander and delegitimate the Catholic church.

White man has a strong tradition of psychedelic mushrooms in the Bible and throughout Christian practice, since the New Testament was written, and since our ancient Greek heritage with mixed-wine banqueting, and since our Old Testament heritage, all through the entire span of our own, white, European, Mediterranean cultural historical traditional mainstream practice.

You argued that Indians may be permitted to use their peyote (mescaline, a psychedelic) because they have used it for a “long time”, where “long time” is defined as 1900, 100 years prior to your verdict.

You state as a fact the baseless, uncritical, taken-as-granted assumption that white man has no psychedelic tradition in Christianity. This is completely false and the opposite of the truth.

You are using outsider misinterpretation of religion, criticized by Jesus as incomprehension of his meaning, to dictate insider religious practice. Insiders, those who comprehend Jesus’ meaning, cannot let the outsiders dictate based on misunderstanding and spiritual blindness, our authentic religious practices that are the tradition.

The New Testament psychoactive mixed wine banqueting tradition ever since year 30 AD and Augustus Caesar, used for the insiders, psychoactive mushroom concentrate mixed-wine diluted with water, as in ancient Greek banqueting tradition and tradition all throughout our Greco-Roman culture in religious banqueting parties and in all of the mystery religions, including emperor cult per Plecket’s article.

Your argument that Indians may use peyote because of their tradition since 1900, actually implies that white man may use mushrooms and the equivalent in our mainstream Christian practice.

Against your baseless assumption that rests on no research or critical thinking whatsoever, we have a tradition of ingesting visionary plants as the main meaning of the New Testament reception of the Holy Spirit when receiving wine and bread from Christ that opens our eyes to see clearly and no longer be spiritually blind — since long, long before the year 1900.

Whites’ use of visionary plants as the origin and mainstream practice of our religion goes back to the year 30 and ancient Greece of 500 BC, the Old Testament era, and back into the most ancient prehistory, as early as the earliest contrast of tree vs. snake in the garden of Eden, and the Greek garden of the hesperides, in primordial time.

Our Biblical religious mythic metaphor, based on very ancient Near East traditions, describes the use of visionary plants revealing an intense experiential shift from the possibility mental world model (a branching tree) to the eternity mental worldmodel (snake-shaped world lines frozen in block time per Einstein and Minkowski 1908).

Tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism, a most-traditional realization revealed by psychoactive plants since greatest antiquity. Jesus commands and predestines us to ingest his mushroom bread he gives us and to drink his mushroom wine he gives us.

You took the wrong, false side in opposing Jesus’ command and predestined delivery to us of his healing medicine which transforms our mental world model, turns us to look back behind our thinking and see the true source of our thoughts in God’s creation rather than in ourselves as the ultimate authors of our thoughts.

Check your religious assumptions and change your thinking to align with Christ’s delivery of visionary plants through the core and heart of our religion’s tradition.

Our strong White tradition is thoroughly grounded in Greek antiquity as reflected in myth and mystery religion.

Entheogen scholars such as Carl Ruck, Mark Hoffman, Clark Heinrich, Dan Merkur, and I have easily proved and demonstrated that visionary plants such as mushrooms are the thoroughly the backbone of mainstream religious practice in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian history. There is no shortage of evidence for this; there is an abundance, a plethora of evidence including the evidence of depictions and descriptions of visionary plant induced experiencing in myth.

White man’s religious tradition of visionary plants, at the very heart and core of our own traditional practice, goes much further back than the Indians’ practice which you used to justify their peyote use, to the Old Testament.

The Old Testament contains myth which is metaphor describing the use of the visionary plants to reveal the eternity world model and perceiving God’s control of his creation and God’s authorship of all thoughts that are embedded in His Creation.

Your argument in favor of allowing peyote use by Indians logically necessitates that you even more so permit white man to continue his strong inspired tradition that is Christian religion, to use and continue using, as we always have throughout our Protestant Reformed, Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Greek, ancient Roman, and Ancient Near East history, mushroom mixed wine and equivalent visionary plants as the vehicle for the Holy Spirit in our religious traditional practice.

This practice was not eliminated with the beginning of the Catholic church. We have easily more than enough evidence to demonstrate that the practice of visionary plants as the Eucharistic vehicle of the Holy Spirit always continued, in official theology and in folk Catholic practice.

My grandfather’s mother in Oklahoma was American Indian. I grew up within the Jewish temple and in the Churches of Christ, Restorationist movement, which strives in its practice to restrict itself to mimicking and reproducing the New Testament worship practice, and strives to reject all later post-biblical tradition, confessionalism, and denominationalism.

— Michael Hoffman, the interdisciplinary theorist of ego death
Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.

The only possible way to cure religion is by being religion, by standing within the very wellspring of religion, and being much more religious than the religious who are mere outsiders.

Atheists who don’t know the ego death theory are incapable of comprehending religious mythic metaphor meaning and are incapable of killing bad religion and giving birth to bona fide revelation.

This is how the preset block universe, that dictates everyone’s thoughts and actions, is constitutionally structured by the Creator.

— Michael the Archangel

The only sense in which it is possible to get rid of religion, is to displace illegitimate religion and replace it by authentic religion.

It is certainly not possible to eliminate authentic religion, given that the no-free-will rationality which atheists call for is precisely the content and nature of what is revealed in authentic religion, which is a matter of *recognizing* the meaning and the agreement, as when atheist Eastern spirituality advocate and Cognitive Scientist Sam Harris calls for casting out the demon delusion of free will, sacrificing our childish thinking, and purifying our mental model of the world and our power within it.

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death