Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 150: 2016-03-06

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Group: egodeath Message: 7770 From: egodeath Date: 06/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7773 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: Re: Applying core enlightenment to daily thinking?
Group: egodeath Message: 7774 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7775 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7776 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7777 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7778 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7780 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7781 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7782 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Dosage format for legalizing
Group: egodeath Message: 7783 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Dosage format for legalizing
Group: egodeath Message: 7784 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Dosage format for legalizing
Group: egodeath Message: 7785 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7787 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7788 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7789 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7791 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Applying core enlightenment to daily thinking?
Group: egodeath Message: 7792 From: egodeath Date: 13/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 7793 From: egodeath Date: 16/04/2016
Subject: Environmental impact of Prohibition
Group: egodeath Message: 7794 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Re: 2015 International Drug Reform Conference, entheogen enlightenme
Group: egodeath Message: 7795 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Re: Best glass oil rig design
Group: egodeath Message: 7796 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Cannabis as entheogen
Group: egodeath Message: 7798 From: egodeath Date: 23/04/2016
Subject: The Egodeath theory vs. panacea expectations
Group: egodeath Message: 7799 From: egodeath Date: 24/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 7800 From: egodeath Date: 26/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 7802 From: egodeath Date: 01/05/2016
Subject: Maximal drug policy reform, complete repeal of Prohibition
Group: egodeath Message: 7803 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/05/2016
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 7804 From: egodeath Date: 08/05/2016
Subject: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7806 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7808 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7810 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7812 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7813 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7814 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7815 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7820 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7822 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Advantage of psilocybin capsules over LSD
Group: egodeath Message: 7823 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Re: Advantage of psilocybin capsules over LSD
Group: egodeath Message: 7824 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7826 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Profit motive for suppressing entheogens
Group: egodeath Message: 7827 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7828 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7829 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7830 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7832 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7833 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7834 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7835 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7836 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Group: egodeath Message: 7837 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast



Group: egodeath Message: 7770 From: egodeath Date: 06/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
That’s the deal. I support Buddhist meditation if this esoteric Buddhism (Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism) is made available to all who desire it.

— Cybermonk
Group: egodeath Message: 7773 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: Re: Applying core enlightenment to daily thinking?
Metaphysical enlightenment about control, time, and possibility is a practical prerequisite before being able to use psychedelics for general purposes such as Cognitive Science research.

To make psychedelics (cognitive association looseners) safe for utilizing them for various purposes, it is necessary to explore, test, and map out the dangers of vulnerability to loss of control. The would-be user of psychedelics for various purposes asks “Am I vulnerable, is my control reliable, safe, stable, and secure?”

The king asks “Is my throne secure? I will send out spies to test people and look for vulnerabilities, look for ways that my throne can be overthrown.” In this sense, the king (control agent, steersman) ends up working against himself, looking for ways to undermine his power.

Paranoia, suspicion, feedback, a control-seizure vortex, whirlpool, maelstrom builds itself up, a self-reinforcing dynamic structure, a net-trap that catches and ratchets tighter the more the mind identifies and perceives it. To see the vulnerability is to fall prey to the vulnerability, to construct and realize the fatal practical control-loss problem.

Personal control power as normally conceived in the ordinary state is a projected illusion and arrangement of mental constructs which is a convention but is unrealistic, involving an imaginary source of power projected by the mind, the power purportedly originating from and wielded by the virtual ego.

That power is thrown into panic upon perceiving the real situation of where control power comes from.

Control power comes from outside the conscious projected locus of control, and the mind is forced into this perceived configuration, the mind is forced to trust its source of control thoughts; there’s no alternative to falling into line with the perceived situation.

The attribution of control power forcibly is shifted, is made to shift, from the projected virtual ego as the source of control thoughts, to the actual source of control thoughts coming in from outside of the projected, mentally constructed center of control.

Not that you save yourself by deciding to trust; rather, you are *made* to trust when you see that your power comes from not the accustomed imagined locus of control, the projected virtual ego, but rather from the pre-given, unalterable, external source of your own control thoughts.

This is the core of what religious mythology is about. Disempowerment, non-control, nonduality, frozen time, experienced in the entheogen-induced Eternalism state of consciousness.

After learning the unveiled source of control thoughts and therefore learning to trust it and recognizing the way in which your control is inherently vulnerable, the loose cognitive association state (psychedelics) can be utilized for general purposes. Religious mythology helps describe these classic dynamics of control in the loose cognitive state.

Thus we pass through the guarded conditional gate and are able to enter into the garden, the Loose Cognitive Science research laboratory, without getting ejected, thrown out, by control instability confusion.

The requirement in order to be permitted and able to utilize psychedelics, is that we must get religion, which means learning to trust the uncontrollable source of control thoughts, which practically requires literacy of how religious mythology metaphorically describes this process of remapping the source of control power.

Copyright (C) 2016 Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7774 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
An alternative to titling my theory “the Egodeath theory” or titling my core theory “the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence”, is “the Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence”, where Eternalism also means cybernetic noncontrol and is experientially induced by entheogens (cognitive association looseners).

the Entheogen-Eternalism-Cybernetics Theory of Ego Transcendence

can be abbreviated as

the Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence

which can be taken to include the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth.

It’s useful to have flexible labels. Labels aside, I like the structure of having 3 labels:

The overall complete theory
o The half of the theory that covers loose cognition, Eternalism, metaperception, mental construct processing, and cybernetics noncontrol. 1985-1997, with Eternalism/monopossibility explicitly highlighted in 2013.
o The half of the theory that covers religious mythology and entheogens, mapped to the above, core theory. 1998-2016.

Thus I want a set of 3 labels crafted together as a set. Around 2010 I typically wrote:

the Egodeath theory
o the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
o the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth

Lately in 2016 I lean toward the set of labels:

the Eternalism Egodeath theory
o the Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
o the Entheogen Eternalism Theory of Myth

There’s a tradeoff between concise and precise labelling. Labelling includes sets of verbose and terse labels, eg:

Loosecog
The loose cognitive association binding state

the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
the Entheogen-Eternalism-Cybernetics Theory of Ego Transcendence

the Egodeath theory
the Entheogenic Eternalism Cybernetics Egodeath theory

The important thing is to separate and cross-map the technical theory of how mental model transformation works, vs. how that is metaphorically described by religious mythology.

Copyright (C) 2016 Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7775 From: egodeath Date: 07/03/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
I have sacrificed alot to refine the Egodeath theory. People must specialize, due to constraints. It can feel daunting to me, how much mundane activity I have to do now to organize my life. It is tempting to escape into what I do best: developing the Egodeath theory. I wish to be free of entrapments of having to take care of mundane business, but the Egodeath theory was always developed under an oppressive to-do list, so this situation now is really about the same as always: in 1985, I struggled to enjoy and be enlightened while happily doing mundane things, balancing the 4 (becoming 5) areas I identified in 1988:

1985:
Engineering (livelihood)
Guitar
Social
Support (mundane tasks)

1988:
Engineering (livelihood)
Transcendent Knowledge
Guitar gear
Social
Support

What I ended up focusing on vs. sacificing:
Focused on:
Engineering
Transcendent Knowledge
Guitar gear

What I ended up sacrificing:
Social
Support

In fact, what I have to catch up on is not just mundane support tasks, but also social.

Other people don’t know about or understand Transcendent Knowledge and religious mythology, because they are too busy with livelihood social and support tasks as well as any special-interest they are committed to. So it was left to me to specialize in acquiring for everyone in a civilized, useful scientific way, Transcendent Knowledge. But I long for, and need a lot of. organizing mundane tasks, as well as social.

Ideally I want to, I have always wanted to enjoy the mundane Support tasks, supported somehow by enlightened Transcendent Knowledge. That was the great expectation and dream initially propelling all of this research in my initial phase 1985-1987.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7776 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7777 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Letcher Hatsis can dismiss the mushroom theory of Christianity by conflating it with Allegro’s secret Amanita cult interpretation and applying the minimal entheogen theory of religion: “Inferior peoples use hallucinogenic drugs in a degenerate phase of religion, but no true Christians used mushrooms. We should interpret mushroom shapes as anything but mushrooms. We should ignore blatant mushrooms because they fail to be what we disprove: a *secret*, *Amanita* cult. Therefore we have disproved the mushroom theory of Christianity.” Richard Evans Schultes (the Golden Guide) and Wasson would approve. There may be mushrooms in others’ religions, but there are not mushrooms in our own religion.

Let Letcher Hatsis try to dismiss the mushroom theory of Christianity while he knows the interpretive paradigm option, the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

From within this paradigm, it’s a coherent given that religions (for example, the Bible) describe Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism and come from visionary plants. The entheogen basis of Christianity is sometimes explicit, sometimes suppressed, sometimes veiled then revealed in the altered state.

This paradigm combines all types of evidence, all evidential data of all types, theory of Eternalism, theory of the altered state, theory of metaphor, and interpretation and cultural analysis.

Letcher Hatsis has been extremely weak at theory and at data coverage regarding the extent of mushrooms in Christianity. He restricts himself to considering Allegro’s theory and analysis, and an inadequate set of art data.

My theory, my interpretation and analysis, my evidential data, and our data now go far beyond the little Allegro bubble that Letcher Hatsis limits himself to in his grand debunking of the entheogen theory of Christianity by attacking the secret Amanita cult as imagined by Allegro.

In Athens, it is not permitted to reveal the mysteries of Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism to the uninitiated.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7778 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Letcher Hatsis can dismiss the mushroom theory of Christianity by conflating it with Allegro’s secret Amanita cult interpretation and applying the minimal entheogen theory of religion:

Inferior peoples use hallucinogenic drugs in a degenerate phase of religion, but no true Christians used mushrooms. We should interpret mushroom shapes as anything but mushrooms. We should ignore blatant mushrooms because they fail to be what we disprove: a *secret*, *Amanita* cult. Therefore we have disproved the mushroom theory of Christianity.

Richard Evans Schultes (the Golden Guide) and Wasson would approve. There may be mushrooms in others’ religions, but there are not mushrooms in our own religion.

Let Letcher Hatsis try to dismiss the mushroom theory of Christianity while he knows the interpretive paradigm option, the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

From within this sophisticated, adequate paradigm, it’s a coherent given that religions (for example, the Bible) describe Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism and come from visionary plants. The entheogen basis of Christianity is sometimes explicit, sometimes suppressed, sometimes veiled then revealed in the altered state.

This paradigm combines all types of evidence, all evidential data of all types, theory of Eternalism, theory of the altered state, theory of metaphor, interpretation of ahistoricity, and interpretation and cultural analysis.

Letcher Hatsis has been extremely weak at theory and at data coverage regarding the extent of mushrooms in Christianity. He restricts himself to considering Allegro’s theory and analysis, and an inadequate set of art data.

He exclaims that the “Jesus was secretly a mushroom” theory is so easy to disprove, that the whole field of visionary plants in religion has been made to look like a joke not worthy of serious academic study.

Letcher Hatsis limits his thinking to the narrowest Allegro theory, conflates that with the broad entheogen theory of religion, stays ignorant of my sophisticated paradigm, then says that we must drive out Allegro, Rush, Irvin, and anyone else who argues that Christianity has mushrooms.

My theory, my interpretation and analysis, my evidential data, and our data now go far beyond the little Allegro bubble that Letcher Hatsis limits himself to in his grand debunking of the entheogen theory of Christianity by attacking the secret Amanita cult as imagined by Allegro.

In Athens, it is not permitted to reveal the mysteries of Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism to the uninitiated.

Low, exoteric, outsider academics are committed to literalist historicist ordinary-state Possibilism.

High, esoteric, insider academics are committed to Metaphorical (including ahistoricity) Entheogenic Eternalism. The only paradigm that succeeds at understanding entheogens in religion including Christianity is this complete theory including ahistoricity and Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7780 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
I would delete post 7777 as a draft, but that would be bad luck.

Ram Dass is often a purveyor of magical and paranormal thinking, and is responsible for entheogen-diminishment fallacies, and propagates the Prohibition-friendly narrative about graduating from psychedelics to meditation.

His fake legend about the guru unaffected by acid — not even getting dilated pupils! — is Prohibitionist propaganda.

Any assertion made by Prohibition is a lie. Half the assertions made by collaborationists with Prohibition are lies.

Ram Dass is just one more suppressor of the truth, an entheogen-diminisher and dissimulator. We’ve heard quite enough from that Prohibition-collaborationist entheogen-diminishing psychedelic old guard, mixing truth and falsehood.

It is imperative that we flip the narrative.

To make progress, we must move beyond the compromised mis-leaders and confused pioneers in the field of entheogen scholarship.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7781 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
A variation of “follow the money” is follow the book sales or follow the popularity contest. What do people want to be told? What woo will they most buy?

In 1967-1990, consumers of woo in the era of Prohibition want to be told that you graduate from psychedelics to meditation and that the enlightened guru is immune to acid because being enlightened is like blissful tripping 24×7.

So that’s what Ram Dass fed the consumers of woo. He told people what he was permitted to tell them and what they desired to be sold. He sold it and they bought it.

Where there is a demand, there will be a supply. The demand to be told an entheogen-suppressing narrative was due to excessive dosages, overwhelming effectiveness, and Prohibition censorship.

Acid should’ve been in 10 mic doses, not 250 mic doses.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7782 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Dosage format for legalizing
Doses should be physically large, fairly pricey, and weak (10 ug), and the dosage and chemical abbreviation should be clearly imprinted on each dose. This gives the right impression about the amount taken.

Add warnings about timing of redosing, and a warning that cannabis increases the effect.

4 HO DiPT or other short-lasting equivalent would have a more ergonomically controllable intensity curve.


When doses are physically tiny, dirt cheap, and very strong, it is too easy to underestimate the amount taken.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7783 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Dosage format for legalizing
Advice with a somewhat bitter taste, for harm reduction, needs to give the experiential impression of poison medicine for healing, it should read as taking a hallucinogenic psychotomimetic entheogenic potion.

Copyright (C) 2016 Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7784 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Dosage format for legalizing
The antidote should be with it. Brakes for the gas pedal.
Group: egodeath Message: 7785 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
A kind of dedicated commitment is needed to a paradigm, to develop and use it as a point of reference. Ahistoricist Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism is the simplest, most elegant, clearest point of reference with greatest explanatory power.

Fully try ahistoricism, metaphoricity, entheogenic explanation, and Eternalism with noncontrol/monopossibility. Why these components? Parsimony, compactness, potency, concentratedness.

Metaphysical enlightenment can be boiled down to Eternalism, entheogen-induced. The efficient, effective interpretation of religious mythology is in terms of this Entheogen Eternalism.

Ontology isn’t king. Theory Rules.

The most compact, efficient, effective explanatory paradigm is Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism. It has the greatest explanatory power. It is the simplest explanation. That’s why the complete Egodeath theory compells commitment as a research paradigm.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7787 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
Even if the Egodeath theory is true, is it useful and relevant? How useful and relevant is the Egodeath theory?

I lately differentiate practical enlightenment vs. metaphysical enlightenment. Words have flexible meaning. Here by ‘practical’, I mean for daily OSC conduct of life, not referring to practical for scholarship or the ASC.

The Egodeath theory is the most compact, useful, and relevant explanatory paradigm for scholarly R&D and for utilizing the loose cognitive binding state.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7788 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
My role is not necessarily to prove claims. My role is to define specific claims for the Eternalism Egodeath theory.

The Egodeath theory makes no claims to provide practical enlightenment for self-improvement in daily conduct of life in the OSC.

That was my initial motivation in 1985-1987, to maximize and debug cross-time control integrity and to gain the expected full personal control of thinking, feeling, and action across time.

Then I took a detour 1988-1997 to define core metaphysical enlightenment.

Then I took a detour 1998-2016 to map that to religious mythology.

Now I could return to that expectation, now demoted to the question of “To what extent can metaphysical enlightenment give better personal control integrity and practical effectiveness in daily life?

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7789 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Suppression of entheogen basis of religion
In 1985-1987, I had no particular desire or passion for metaphysical enlightenment; that was not what motivated me.

What I cared about deeply that motivated me to think and develop ideas, was gaining the expected practical control of my thinking and my actions across time, the ability to plan and do consistently with integrity, not self-conflict, dissonance, or friction.

I only desired metaphysical enlightenment as a seed core around which I would construct the desired thing, which was cross-time control integrity, and incidentally control of thinking and feeling.

Imagine in April 1987 I give me the finished Egodeath theory and I retain my pursuit of cross-time control integrity. Would I still focus on chasing that expected dream-promise, that gold? Or would I, like I did upon discovering the core theory in January 1988, turn my attention away from pursuing the low gold of cross-time control integrity (“worldly power”), focusing instead on the high gold of the Egodeath theory? I’d likely have a sudden decline in paying attention to mundane self-improvement and enjoyment, to propagate the Egodeath theory, which eclipses practical conduct of life in importance, interest, novelty, profundity, intellectual import, and excitement.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7791 From: egodeath Date: 08/03/2016
Subject: Re: Applying core enlightenment to daily thinking?
Metaphysical enlightenment is relevant to practical aspects of life, but not to daily conduct of life except in particular ways in particular lives. Interpretation of religion can affect daily life. Esoteric understanding gives immunization against exoteric religion.

There is some kind of applicability of metaphysical enlightenment to daily conduct of life in the ordinary state, but that overlap is not what we might expect it to be.

By many measures, including some practical measures, the Egodeath theory is tremendously relevant to life.


It is easier to list the specific ways in which metaphysical enlightenment is *not* applicable to daily conduct of life:

Metaphysical enlightenment will not make all your problems go away and give you maximal full control over your thinking, feeling, and actions across time consistently.

Metaphysical enlightenment is not a psychological panacea or a little yellow pill to help you through your busy day.

Metaphysical enlightenment is not like blissfully tripping out being high except without ever having to come back down.

Ram Dass said after his decades of intensive spiritual work, his neuroses have not decreased at all.

After my 1985-2016 30 years of perfect development of my perfect theory of metaphysical enlightenment, my practical psychological problems are the same as before, except I understand the limits of control better.

My understanding of religion and other topics has increased astronomically. I have a theory that changes the world but doesn’t change my practical ability of self-control in daily conduct of life.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7792 From: egodeath Date: 13/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Transcendent Knowledge podcast episode 1: Max Freakout interviews Cyber Disciple about his trajectory into the Egodeath theory. In-depth, on-topic.

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-ep-1/
Group: egodeath Message: 7793 From: egodeath Date: 16/04/2016
Subject: Environmental impact of Prohibition
Group: egodeath Message: 7794 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Re: 2015 International Drug Reform Conference, entheogen enlightenme
Today is the middle day of UNGASS 2016.

Re-legalize all psychoactives like in the 1800s, eliminate asset forfeiture, eliminate the drug schedules, eliminate enforcement/Prohibition squads, stop punishment for psychoactives, close prisons, release the drug war prisoners, stop spraying poison on crops.

— Michael Hoffman

#ungass2016
Group: egodeath Message: 7795 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Re: Best glass oil rig design
I proposed this best design idea. Snake on debranched tree.
Group: egodeath Message: 7796 From: egodeath Date: 21/04/2016
Subject: Cannabis as entheogen
Rather than the artificial UK hallucination that there is such a thing as “skunk” as distinct from cannabis, I propose an actual meaningful distinction: between ingesting cannabis via lungs versus stomach.

Hypothesis: Ingesting cannabis via stomach is entheogenic.

— Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com), April 20, 2016
Group: egodeath Message: 7798 From: egodeath Date: 23/04/2016
Subject: The Egodeath theory vs. panacea expectations
The Egodeath theory vs. panacea expectations and marketing-promises

Recent books advocating no-free-will argue that society would be better. It’s a leading-edge hot topic. If we follow the inherent trajectory from entheogens, we naturally end up mostly in the OSC with mostly Possibilism, qualified by the powerful experiential perspective of a series of transient revealings of Eternalism in the ASC.

We do not end up naturally in a permanent altered state with thoroughgoing Eternalism perspective. Advocates of no-free-will have a brittle extremist model that we must choose Possibilism or Eternalism, a binary wholesale choice.

Speculating on the pros and cons of no-free-will for society is like speculating on whether enlightenment will solve all our problems in daily practical life and self-management. Or speculating on what would happen if we re-legalized.

Entheogen advocates speculate on what would happen to save the world and save the planet if society integrated visionary plants. We must recognize speculation as such. Prohibitionists constantly state as fact that the sky would fall if we stop ratcheting up Prohibition and stop allowing civil asset forfeiture and mass incarceration.

“We must sent the right message — ie escalate the WoD — or our youth will succumb and society will collapse; we need total war against this threat or else society will collapse. We need infinite weapons including spraying poison and driving growers into clearcutting the rainforest, to avert this crisis. Legalizing would cause the sky to fall.” Advocates of various positions put forth lots of conjecture, often stated as fact, about what would happen if.

The Egodeath theory brackets-off any speculative promises that entheogens and no-free-will/monopossibility are a panacea that will cure society and the planet and personal self-control management.

The proven benefit of the Egodeath theory is that it gives a degree of coherence and lots of explanatory power. Beyond that is marketing of conjectures.

Most entheogen advocates and most no-free-will advocates and most nonduality enlightenment advocates sell their position as a panacea. I am instead committed to *sound theory*, bracketed off from conjectured outcomes of universal complete assent to the Entheogenic Eternalism Egodeath theory and what the outcome and results of that assent would be.

The Egodeath theory is not motivated by pursuing conjectured outcomes, but rather is motivated by explanatory power and worldmodel coherence explaining what we perceive in the transient ASC.

I’m putting all focus on getting that right. Not promising that the world will be a better place, except I promise that the world will be a more conceptually coherent place.

In our long wish list to save society and the planet and personal management, I fulfill one particular wish: the wish for conceptual coherence and explanatory power.

I advocate re-legalizing like in the 1800s, but I’m not selling that by promising society will be saved, promising a grand vision for future society. The Egodeath theory is revolutionary as an explanatory paradigm — this does not imply the Egodeath theory will save society and the planet and fulfill our untrammelled wishes and expectations.

I work as an activist alongside advocates of enlightenment and relegalizing and no-free-will and ahistoricity, but without selling and marketing and promising the conjectured speculated practical benefits — I’m cautious and skeptical and somewhat pessimistic. Where success is guaranteed is in *explanatory power*, not outcomes for society and the planet and personal self-management/conduct of daily life.

Revelation promises whiter whites in perfected laundry, peace between the threatening lion and the lamb, justice, repairing the soul and world, and universal reconciliation. Fine visions and motivations. Sober cautious attitude needs to accompany the motivating vision.

What we can confidently celebrate now is coherent successful theory of the dynamics and trajectory of the loose cognitive state and theory explaining the history of the altered state in religion and culture.

We can celebrate the definite surge of drug policy reform and the rapid spread of ahistoricity, bringing conceptual coherence, such as explaining the lack of physical evidence for the existence of Christianity in the early centuries, and explaining the mushrooms in religious depictions throughout history.

I do not unreservedly celebrate the destruction of exoteric literalist Christianity.

Certainly Prohibition is a harm-maximizing fraud and must end. Problems will exist; the Egodeath theory and the explanatory enlightenment it brings is not a panacea and wish-fulfillment projection canvas.

— Michael
Group: egodeath Message: 7799 From: egodeath Date: 24/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Episode 2: Max Freakout’s trajectory into the Egodeath theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyrqfBbc8Mc

Phase 1 of my development of the Egodeath theory focused on self-control limits in light of Minkowski/Parminides block time; metaperception; and loose mental construct association binding. 1985-1997. The technical core, without mythic metaphor.

Phase 2: history, myth, religion, metaphor regarding Phase 1 topics. 1998-2016
Group: egodeath Message: 7800 From: egodeath Date: 26/04/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Egodeath Theory and Rock

The Egodeath theory came up through Rock, within the 80s college band network 1982-1988.

The last part of my Phase 1, after the 1988 breakthrough, was mapping Rock lyrics to the Egodeath theory, early 1990s.

Bowie and Prince were notable before and during the creation of the Egodeath theory.

I saw Prince last year, he ROCKED.

I inherited an excellent Prince painting on my dorm wall 1986-1987, the dramatic time of the creation of the Egodeath theory. I have pics.

I made a good effects Special Prince Mix like the Residents’ Beatles mix. I have the double-speed master cassette.

We were initiated in a Space Oddity psychedelic oil light show graduation before high school in the legalization window of the late 70s bay area.

It was the high 80s, the Egodeath project:

lead-in starting such as Spring semester 1985 encounter group spiritual self-help ideas,

taking a productive new approach in writing and idea-development when my father died in Spring 1987,

climaxing Spring 1988.

Each of those are turning-points.

Lots of 60s, 70s, and 80s Rock, is the ground from which the Egodeath theory came up, electrical music engineering.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 7802 From: egodeath Date: 01/05/2016
Subject: Maximal drug policy reform, complete repeal of Prohibition
Maximal drug policy reform, complete repeal of Prohibition

Drugs are the vehicle of the Holy Spirit given by God, who makes people ingest them, or who hides himself from them.

Prohibitionists are now being put on trial and are recognized as a harmful, destructive, toxic menace to society.

Support, favor, pardon, compensate, and respect the victims of the WOD. Release, pardon, apologize, restore voting rights, help and favor the fraudulently accused and persecuted people.

Stop government involvement in drug regulation.

Eliminate the drug schedules.

End civil asset forfeiture.

The UN digs its heels in and refuses to do the action that Mexico has cried out for: stopthedrugwar.com

The UN did a coverup to hide any acknowledgment of the legalization revolution in formation all around the incorrigible UN dead-set on absolute Prohibition.

The falsely so-called consensus document of UNGASS 2016 says only one message: we refuse to quit Prohibition.

The UN refuses to acknowledge the revolution around them pressing in on them from all sides, coming from Washington and Colorado, and coming at them from a rapidly growing mainstream majority turning against Prohibition, demonization, and harm-maximization.

Mexico called the UN to meet sooner than 2019, in an emergency session to change the treaties, their interpretations and implementations to end the WOD in Mexico.

The UN consensus outcome document was delivered back to Mexico and sent out into a global dissensus.

The death-penalty-for-drugs nations produced this forced consensus document: we will persist in militarized harm maximization, and persection shall continue as official policy.

The UN refuses to acknowlege Mexico’s request for regime-change. The UN met to cover-up Mexico’s call for them to meet. The UN refuses to permit a debate on the Prohibition treaties or acknowledge the increasing demand for debate and for repealing Prohibition and for harm reduction.

The UNGASS 2016 official finale song and dance — the three days of 4/20 week after a year of preparing their coverup of the dissent — their rehearsed performance of “everyone agrees that Prohibition is good”, was delivered to widespread and increasing dissent inside and outside the walls. The UN inner circle perpetuators of death penalty and harm maximization are being fought against from all sides.

The more intransigent the UN becomes, the more radicalized people and groups are quickly becoming, to not only reform Prohibition, but eliminate the current regime entirely, get rid of the schedules, legalize everything, completely repeal Prohibition, roll it back to where it didn’t exist, in 1850. Prohibition is toxic and must be eliminated.

The treaties are harmful. Prohibition is harmful. The world is increasingly rejecting the treaties and repealing Prohibition.

Every factor is increasingly pointing to the full elimination of Prohibition, re-legalizing everything.

Any change would be better than Prohibition, which is harm maximization.

‘Decriminalization’ means no change; continuing the official escalation of Prohibition.

The government cannot be trusted to regulate; they have forfeited any say or involvement.

The opposite of Prohibition, taken to the maximum, is the most beneficial. That is the consensus outcome of half the world after the UN presented the consensus outcome document to Mexico: completely repealing Prohibition is required now, and all the more so, since the UN treaties refuse to stop ratcheting-up Prohibition.

The UN policy has become
the death-penalty-for-drugs nations’ policy.

The UN restated their official consensus position statement, omitting the demonizing 1998 slogan “a drug-free world, we can do it”.

Legalization, complete repeal of Prohibition, is the legitimate and right way.

The government should not be involved in psychoactives regulation and has no authority on it; they have forfeited their credibility. It is wrong to disparage substances.

The government is corrupt and malicious and has no authority to regulate or meddle or advise or be involved in any way.

Prohibitionists forfeited everything, all credibility, all legitimacy, and are revealed as criminals and con artists, purely harmful, malicious people attacking others under the pretense of helping society.

Prohibitionists owe reparation to the victims of Prohibition.

Eliminate the officials and organizations who are fighting certain drugs, particularly cannabis.

We didn’t need government regulation of psychoactive drugs in 1850; from the beginning of time until late modernity, the world didn’t need Prohibition.

Prohibition pretends to be about health, but that is a lie, a con, a fraud, a put-on. Prohibition is motivated instead by illegitimate profit and by racism and to suppress anti-war people, by Nixon through his drug schedules.

Past and future use of entheogens is set in stone. Controller X made Prohibition and repeal happen at this point in the frozen timeless Eternalism block, temporarily closing and then opening the door to mushroom-revealed Eternalism.

The more the UN Prohibitionists refuse to acknowledge the revolutionary rejection of Prohibition by the nations, the louder and more insistent and widespread are the demands for complete repeal of Prohibition.

Radical drug policy reform, complete repeal of Prohibition, has become the mainstream position, against the Prohibitionists, the sham now exposed. The Prohibitionists are recognized as the real enemy, by the mainstream.

The calls for complete repeal of Prohibition are quickly increasing, while the UN reaffirms their WOD death penalty escalation and harm maximization.

The UNGASS 2016 consensus outcome document confirms that the UN policy is harm maximization, death penalty, demonization, and environmental harm.

A Prohibition-free world by UNGASS 2019, we can do it!

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 7803 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/05/2016
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 7804 From: egodeath Date: 08/05/2016
Subject: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Episode 3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ykgeO6CD6RM

– The uptake of a radical new paradigm
– The various established explanatory paradigms within popular psychedelia
– The psychotherapy model of entheogen use
– New Age nonduality theories such as Martin Ball’s entheological paradigm, and its limitations
– Neuroscientific studies of entheogens such as recent research from Robin Carhart-Harris
– Physicalist and idealist perspectives on entheogens
– Different versions of no-freewill
– Altered state revision of implicit assumption frameworks
– Psychedelics as “assumption revealers”
– Plato’s cave allegory and its application to altered state phenomenology
– The effect of the altered state on ancient Greek culture
– Interpreting classical literature in light of altered state dynamics
– Carl Ruck’s writing on ancient culture and entheogens
– Minimal, moderate and maximal theories of entheogen history
– Botanical identification of entheogenic plants in ancient culture
– Various writers in entheogenic history of religion such as Scott Teitsworth, Clark Heinrich, Dan Merkur and Gordon Wasson
– Academic self-reinforcing feedback loops and resistance to radical paradigm revision
– Limitations of John Allegro’s entheogenic theory of Christianity
– Luther Martin’s book ‘Hellenistic religion’ which emphasises heimarmene as a key concern of ancient religion
– Over-emphasis on Eleusis in academic writings on ancient mystery religions
– Michael Rinella’s book ‘Pharmakon’
– The entheogen-diminishing strategy of relegating entheogens to footnotes and introductions
– The importance of placing entheogens front and centre in historical study
– Luke Timothy Johnson’s entheogen diminishment in his writing/speaking on Christianity
– William Alston’s book on religious experiencing ‘Perceiving God’
– Alston’s concept of ‘over-riders’ which invalidate religious experiences
– Tom Hatsis’ writings on entheogen history and witchcraft
– The distinction between Michael Hoffman’s writing style and the theoretical content
– Academic scholarship vs. Internet scholaship
– Blindness to prohibitionist assumptions among drug policy reform activists
– Hatsis’ dismissal of entheogen theory of Christianity
– Hatsis’ study of scolpolamine plants in ancient witchcraft practises
– Drug policy reform activism and outrageous anti-drugs propaganda
Group: egodeath Message: 7806 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
‘Entheogen, spiritual, mystical, religious, God’ – the problem with these words or constructs is not that they are artificial, arbitrary, culturally constructed, or imported/ inserted/ overlaid.

Rather, understanding of these terms is too vague, prior to having the Egodeath theory.

When a person ingests cognitive looseners, the person often reports religious experiencing — truly and rightly, but too vaguely, until understanding the Egodeath theory.

The mind recognizes religious experiencing, upon switching from Possibilism to the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

Labelling this experiential mode as ‘religious’ is no more arbitrary than labelling this experience as ‘ego death’.

Without the Egodeath theory (the Eternalism/Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence), the term ‘ego death’ is vague and indirect, and people debate what ‘ego death’ refers to.

There is nothing culturally fabricated about ego death (properly identified), or about religious experiencing (properly identified).

Ego death, religious entheogenic experiencing, the mystic-state cybernetic revelation (unveiling), is a real, specific dynamic capability or function of the mind, regarding personal control power, but what ‘religious experiencing’ or ‘entheogenic experiencing’ refers to must be properly specified and identified: personal control power reconfiguration in the shift from Possibilism to the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

The mind has the potential to switch from Possibilism to the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

The mind can have either of these two mental models and experiential modes: Possibilism and Eternalism.

When the mind switches from the Possibilism mental model and experiential mode to the Eternalism mental model and experiential mode, the mind (informally yet intensely) recognizes this as the shift into religious experiencing, correctly labelling Eternalism consciousness as entheogen, God consciousness, spirituality, religious experiencing.

Hallmarks: cessation of feeling of originating control from the local control agency.

Feeling externally controlled.

Feeling cybernetically disempowered, centering control around external factors (that which is the source of control-thoughts).

Dependency of local, Possibilism-shaped agency’s control-power on a more underlying, overarching source of control power.

The forced, necessary requirement (recognized fact of dependency and epiphenomenal illusion) of local control depending on more ultimate transpersonal control — local control has to consciously trust in the transcendent source of control, because the latter is manifestly (when tested and inspected) the basis, source, origin of local control power.

Critics of the supposedly culturally constructed and arbitrary language of ‘entheogen, mystic, religious, God, spiritual’ should not dismiss these terms, but need to accurately identify their referent as {the shift of experiential understanding of personal control power, upon changing from Possibilism to Eternalism in the loose cognitive binding state induced by psychedelics}.

— Michael Hoffman
Copyright (C) 2015 Egodeath. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7808 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Critics say that it is arbitrary to describe psychedelics as entheogenic/mystic/religious/spiritual.

In fact psychedelics’ main effect is switching the mind from Possibilism to Eternalism, as a mental model and experiential mode of thinking and feeling.

This switch from Possibilism to Eternalism is the real referent of religion, mysticism, and spirituality.

In fact, therefore, psychedelics’ main effect is producing religious experiencing, in that psychedelics’ main effect is switching the mind from Possibilism to Eternalism, and the switch from Possibilism to Eternalism is the main referent of religion, mysticism, and spirituality.

Entheogens reveal God or the divine, which specifically means that psychedelics produce the shift from Possibilism thinking and experiencing, to Eternalism thinking and experiencing, including ego death, loss of the sense of locally originating personal control power, and unity specifically regarding control-power origination.

The source of a particular mind’s control-thoughts is experienced and recognized as the same as the source of every mind’s control-thoughts.

When a mind is in Eternalism consciousness, or God-type consciousness, that mind perceives that it is firmly connected with the same source of control-thoughts that drives all minds, including crazy and destructive minds.

Individual minds are forced to think and do and feel, what the source of all thoughts has caused and pre-created them to be doing and feeling and thinking, at all points in each person’s worldline frozen in spacetime.

The Egodeath theory directly and explicitly (per modern Science) expresses and identifies these dynamics, unlike perennial philosophy, which is indirect and filled with arbitrary noise such as superficial correspondences taken literally.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7810 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
People try to pit reason against religion.

High reason is high religion.

Reason needs to be informed by the altered state, of loose cognitive binding.

Religion comes from psychedelics, which produce a shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Religion proper is informed and produced by the altered state.

Low reason is against low religion such as literalism.

What’s needed is recognition of high religion by high reason.

Altered-state reason recognizes the referent of altered-state religion.

Sam Harris advocates no-free-will and pits it against religion; he failed to recognize high religion, which asserts or reports no-free-will.

Degraded Science is pitted against degraded religion; neither is informed by the altered state.

People start in the OSC; they first think about both Science and religion in terms of the initial state of consciousness, which is the Possibilism state of consciousness.

Later, some minds receive entheogens and develop the Eternalism state of consciousness, which recognizes high religion; the result is high Science, Loosecog Science, rightly scientific when understanding is direct and explicit about transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Psychedelics are directly about transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism, and are indirectly about religion, God, mysticism, entheos, and spirituality; the latter terms are indirect. The Egodeath theory is direct.

The New Testament mocks exoteric literalism, using the idea of veiling understanding and then selectively revealing/unveiling the actual meaning and referent of religious myth and metaphor.

Posing a riddle and revealing the resolution.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7812 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
1. A mind is made to ingest psychedelics (an event in frozen spacetime with preexisting future).

2. Psychedelics cause loose cognitive binding.

3. Loose cognitive binding produces Eternalism-consciousness.

4. Eternalism-consciousness is labelled as ‘religion’, ‘mysticism’, ‘spirituality’, ‘entheos’.

5. High, esoteric religion is taken by non-experienced minds in the low, exoteric sense. But now step 3 is developed per Science together with explaining step 4, preventing that reductionist misunderstanding of ‘religion’ as low, exoteric religion.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7813 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
American modern rational scientific atheist Buddists/meditators are calling for Buddhism stripped of the superstitious irrational hocus-pocus of karma-and-rebirth. But with misunderstanding; failure to recognize 2-state meaning- switching; failure to recognize metaphor describing entheogen-induced transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

The goal of right-mindedness is to stop being reborn *into egoic, Possibilism thinking* after each *altered-state egodeath* experience.

The goal is to retain a clear, mature, full mental model of that which is revealed in the loose cognitive state. Not to stop literal rebirth after literal death.

The goal of entheogenic meditation is to end egoic, Possibilism-premised expectations of full personal control power.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7814 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Entheogens produce religion rightly understood; high mysticism; esoteric spirituality.

Entheogens directly produce the shift from Possibilism to Eternalism.

When ‘religion’ is mistaken to mean low, exoteric religion, it’s wrong to characterize psychedelics as entheogenic.

When ‘religion’ is recognized as high, esoteric religion, it is correct, though vague and indirect or roundabout, to characterize psychedelics as entheogenic.

Psychedelics are psycholytic (loosening of cognitive binding) and through cognitive loosening, psychedelics are directly Eternalism-producing.

By virtue of producing Eternalism-consciousness, psychedelics are, indirectly speaking, entheogenic.

Psychedelics are the source of religion, which is an indirect way of saying that psychedelics produce Eternalism-consciousness, including timeless noncontrol (that is, a transformation of the fundamental assumption-set about personal control power).

Religion proper — high, esoteric, original, source religion — is Eternalism-consciousness, which is induced by psychedelics.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7815 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Would-be rational Western modern Buddhists are really wanting high, Esoteric Buddhism, rejecting low, exoteric Buddhism.

This hot current debate (looking for authentic Buddhism without magical supernatural superstitious thinking) is resolved by the Egodeath theory, which explains the relationship between exoteric, misunderstood religion (in all religions) and esoteric, recognized religion.

The entheogen eternalism Egodeath theory explains Literalist OSC Possibilism in relation to Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

Books by Stephen Bachelor et al.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7820 From: egodeath Date: 26/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 7822 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Advantage of psilocybin capsules over LSD
Short duration, combined with redosing, to quickly reach the ideal cognitive loosening and stay at that level and then rapidly descend to tightcog when desired. Like ancient mixed wine usage.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7823 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Re: Advantage of psilocybin capsules over LSD
Thread: Advantage of psilocybin capsules over LSD
Group: egodeath Message: 7824 From: egodeath Date: 27/05/2016
Subject: Re: The Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence
Osto presents a limited view from within dominant assumption-sets — he provides a study limited from within the conventional debate between conventional Western Buddhism and conventional psychedelic spirituality.

The Egodeath theory originates from outside that convention. Thus incommensurate paradigms; not to say those conventional debaters couldn’t understand the Egodeath theory, but rather, their debate positions fail to engage with my third option.

Similarly, the debate between impoverished (ordinary-state) atheism vs. impoverished (ordinary-state) religion: that debate has little to contribute, and the Egodeath theory stands outside that limited domain of debate.

Psychedelics vs. Buddhism, and atheism vs. religion, are failed initial theories, that fall before the entheogen Eternalism Cybernetics Egodeath theory. Those debates appear to offer two alternatives, but really, each debate amounts to a little cage: the unimaginative cage of psychedelics vs. Buddhism, and of atheism vs. religion. Neither has any traction to critique the Egodeath theory.


Overestimating amount of psychedelics experiencing: few writers on religion or psychedelics have a significant amount of loosecog experiencing. Almost all who write on the subject are dabblers, beginners. Benny Shanon is not a dabbler. A few mushroom and MDMA experiences barely qualifies a writer as a beginner. Most books about psychedelics are written by dabblers interviewing rank beginners.

Copyright (C) 2015 Egodeath. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7826 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Profit motive for suppressing entheogens
Suppressing entheogens is in the interest of many, various parties and industries.

It’s in the financial interest of the Buddhist church to suppress and deny that meditation came from entheogens.

It’s in the interest of the Catholic church to suppress and deny that Christianity came from entheogens.

It’s in the interest of the American meditation industry to suppress and deny that meditation came from entheogens.

False authorities profit by the strategy of selling placebo ineffective meditation in place of actual effective historically grounded visionary plants, which are the actual source of meditation and enlightenment.

Demonize and de-legitimize the real, effective approach to meditation and spirituality — visionary plants — and perpetually sell people inert, ineffective, empty promises that are never fulfilled, and sell the never-fulfilled, substitute promise of religious fulfillment to them in place of the effective original source of religion — visionary plants.

Drug-free meditation serves to prevent enlightenment and transcendent fulfilment — psychological maturation and completion of transformation — in order for false authorities to profit.

Not “back to the texts” per the Reformation, but rather, *back to the plants*, per the real reformation, the Entheogenic Reformation.

The *moderate* entheogen model of religion serves to block the truth and prop up a false, substitute story that profits the pretended authorities on religion. The maximal entheogen theory of religion breaks that bogus profit model; which theory, is political and economic.

The Establishment status quo is propped up on a foundation of lies: the pretence that entheogens are a mere simulation, or are at best an alternative to authentic historical origins of religious experiencing.

Entheogens are *not* an alternative, semi-legitimate means of religious enlightenment and psychological fulfillment; entheogens *are the* authentic, efficacious means of religious enlightenment and psychological fulfillment.

Drug-free meditation is inauthentic and ineffective — and is a fraudulent means for false authorities to profit.

The tradition of artificial substitute religion obscures and puts entheogens off-limits, to profit from a false history of how religion comes about.

Sell the evil (delusion-sustaining) moderate entheogen paradigm to people, in such a way that while you relucantly admit that psychedelics are effective like the promised potential of your artificial religion product, frame psychedelics as artificial and illegitimate.

Trick people into taking as granted that no true religious person used psychedelics for enlightenment, moral regeneration, or enlightenment. Where evidence proves that a religious person used visionary plants, treat this as a bad data point that doesn’t count.

Sell books by striving to diminish the use of psychedelics in religion and Plhilosophy.

The Establishment, invested in the strategy of lies and suppression of entheogen history and efficacy, will pay you, like they paid Letcher, to write incoherent, self-contradictory, and specious arguments, only permitting bits of evidence to be discussed, badly, then pretend to have debunked the overall entheogen theory of religion.

Then when your falsehoods and flimsy arguments are exposed, quietly and privately admit this, while continuing to sell your book that’s a heap of weak arguments, paid by the Establishment press.

It’s in the financial interest of the paper products industry to suppress and deny that hemp is a better source.

It’s in the financial interest of the pharmaceutical industry to suppress and deny that cannabis cures many ailments.

It’s in the financial interest of the pharmaceutical industry to suppress and deny that laudanum and simple natural poppy extract taken via stomach have a long history and are effective.

Follow the money, trace and recognize the conflict of interest, track the incentives to profit from suppressing the truth.

Who profits by falsely demonizing psychoactives? Who pays, as an investment, to prop up Prohibition? What industries profit, by lying, for Prohibition for Profit? Who funds the fight against repealing Prohibition?

Religious posers as authorities profit by claiming that they, rather than visionary plants, provide religion (and do so by people perpetually giving them money).

Tricycle magazine, Zig Zag Zen, Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America, the Gnosis issue on psychedelics, and the latest pseudo-enlightened books about psychedelics, sell in a way that’s profitable to Establishment interests, by permitting the acknowledgment that visionary plants are dimly like religion and meditation, but severely limiting and containing, circumscribing and quarantining, this acknowledgment.

Only permit writings that stay within the boundaries of the entheogen-diminishing moderate entheogen model of religion. Prevent writings that escape that cage and recognize the true, maximal entheogen theory of religion.

Prostitutes all, selling their integrity by the strategy of displacing entheogens, these parties use a strategy of substituting themselves and their fabricated ineffective products, selling indulgences and suppressing the natural products that actually deliver the promised effects and originated the effects.

Demonize psychoactives in order to fabricate false, harmful industries of militarized policing-for-profit, imprisonment-for-profit, destruction of other lives for your own crooked profit, an income based on lying and destruction.

There is an enormous difference between the moderate vs. maximal entheogen models of religion. These are two opposed models of history and the world and of the nature and source of religion.

Saying psychedelics are “like” meditation and religious transformation, is the opposite worldmodel as recognizing that psychedelics are the *source* of meditation and religious transfiguration — financial profits are affected.

Drug-free religion and meditation are evil — delusion-sustaining — when they deny and suppress their entheogen origin.

Authentic meditation is entheogen meditation or at least acknowledge the efficacious entheogen origin of meditation.

Revealing the truth of the entheogen origin of Christianity is of ultimate importance, but also crucial for pop Western spirituality is revealing the truth of the entheogen origin of meditation.

Entheogens are not “like” meditation; meditation *comes from* entheogens.

Meditation does not come from drug-free meditation; that’s a profoundly false, and delusion-sustaining origin story — the great entheogen cover-up, a strategy pursued by many parties, who profit by selling a phony, ersatz, fraudulent, and harmful substitute for the actual source of religion and enlightenment: visionary plants.

It’s a universal strategy of profit through substitution of ways that promise but never deliver, in place of the way that delivers on the promises and is the source of religion — visionary plants.

Psychedelics are not easy, cheating, a shortcut, an unnatural way to steal enlightenment. Drug-free religion is the false, fraudulent, ineffective, phony, evil, ersatz substitute, that serves to prevent religious enlightenment while endlessly profiting the false authorities.

The revolutionary Reformation is the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

What stands in the way of Reformation is the effort to contain and suppress the actual origin and efficacious means, psychedelics — that effort is Zig Zag Zen and the narrow range of views permitted, various degrees of grudgingly damning entheogens with faint praise, debating whether the artificial simulation provided by psychedelics should be accepted or not, and shutting out any thinking in terms of {religion comes from psychedelics}.

How many “enlightened” writings on psychedelics consider whether religion comes from visionary plants, as the normal, grand front entrance, relegating drug-free means as merely a side door or back-door entrance?

Thinking is gradually heading in that direction. At the top of that hill already is a mansion waiting, built, completed: the Egodeath theory.

One means of accessing religious consciousness is illegitimate and ineffective, a simulation, ersatz: the “anything but psychedelics” model of religion.

Psychedelics are not a simulation of meditation; rather, drug-free meditation is a simulation of entheogens.

This revelation stands against the many artificial, fraudulent industries that are based on a foundation of lies and substitution, replacement of entheogens by profitable false promises and false history, the tradition of lying for profit, substitution-for-profit, the profitable replacement of efficacious entheogens by inefficacious and inauthentic approaches that never deliver and are therefore ongoing sources of profit — selling indulgences, in place of the genuine Eucharist which regenerates and fulfills.

— Michael Hoffman
Copyright (C) 2015 Egodeath. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7827 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0YMy392UXE&feature=em-subs_digest

Cutting edge conversation between Max Freakout and Cyber Disciple. In this episode Max and Cyb talk about Martin Ball’s entheological paradigm – his model of entheogenic ego transcendence, and how it relates to the ego death theory. Topics covered include:

A review of the various explanatory paradigms in pop-psychedelia

Martin Ball’s various activities, and his attitude of public openness towards entheogens

Ball’s entheological paradigm, its relation to religion and new age systems of thought

Ball’s critiques of entheogen scholars such as Terence Mckenna, his opinions about Mckenna’s 2012 prophecy and reification of DMT machine elves

Ball’s concept of spatial non-duality and its relation to block universe determinism/eternalism and cybernetics

Ball’s concept of energy and its relation to loosened cognition
Ball’s concepts of “ego”

Mental representation and perceiving the true nature of reality in the altered state

Propositional/epistemological truth compared to accurate modelling

Michael Hoffman’s theory of dual mental worldmodels

Cultivating mindful states of awareness

Martin Ball’s entheogenic yoga postures

Ken Wilber’s non-entheogenic model of non-duality

Expectations of what enlightenment ought to be

Potential for disappointment with altered state eternalistic enlightenment

Indigenous shamanistic interpretations of entheogens and their potential to heal or benefit

Ego-as-agent and ego-as-awareness
Platonist philosophy and its relation to the ego death theory

Martin Ball’s treatment of control loss and bad trips

Pros and cons of smoking tryptamines instead of oral ingestion

Ramifications of Martin Ball’s excessive focus on 5-meo-dmt

Inaccuracy of scientific claims about DMT being present in the brain
Intellectual commitment to the entheological paradigm

Ball’s lack of metaphor-savviness

Meaning of letting go or surrendering in the altered state

Ball’s hands-on entheogenic therapy sessions


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Begins with a review of the typical paradigms in contemporary pop psychedelia.

Main content of the episode is a critique of Martin Ball’s Entheological Paradigm as representative of New Age psychedelic spirituality.
Group: egodeath Message: 7828 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Control, rather than unity, is the heart of enlightenment and ego death and mental worldmodel transformation.

The necessary proper center of the scientific, rational, efficient model of ego transcendence is control, not unity. A theory centered on unity is unstable and premature.


Sacrifice is of control assumptions.
Sacrifice is central.

Controller x makes the mind sacrifice; the center of action-initiation is the divine, not the agent/puppet.

You are rescued by you adopting repentence – but the driver of this action of sacrifice is {that which creates/controls all control-thinking}.

The sacred meal sacrifice-affirmation banquet party is initiated by the god, not by the awakened follower.


No-free-will is experienced and is directly related to control power. No-free-will is found across religion, psychology, and philosophy. Unity is a rare topic.

Knowledge of good and evil is control agent relevant. Moral schemes are for control. Enlightenment is knowledge of egoic control thinking (Possibilism and egoic moral control punishment-threats and rewards) and transcendent rethinking of the moral control model.

Newbies experience (spatial) unity, oldhands experience control loss/ limitations/ constraints/ sacrifice.

Mental transformation isn’t forced by unity, but by control dynamics/ disproof/ failure/ emergency/ crisis/ seizure/panic.

Control-overpowering is the heart of Mitrhras bull sacrifice & figure of crucified king/ controller/ steersman, Dionysus’ boat steersman follower.

Acid-inspired Rock seeks to reflect the most intense experiencing: control-loss, not unity sensation.

We are, first and foremost, control agents. Ego death is the making-fail of control. Ego death is not caused by unity consciousness. The beginner’s initial experience of unity leads to subsequent profoundly problematized control.

Trusting (recognizing the source of control-thoughts) and surrender is not about unity, but about the foundation of personal control power.


Martin Ball glorifies 5-meo-dmt and hasn’t used lsd. Unlike acid-rock lyricists who ultimately report on the control-loss panic enlightenment shock.

Mythic imagery depicts control loss, above the concommitant rock-universe unity experience and mode of mental worldmodel.

Trembling transformation occurs by threatening control, by learning how to trip up and make control fail, not by mere unity sensation.

Unity sensation is at the threshold of control-preservation panic and attraction, seduction.

The strange attactor leading to fascinating death and reconfiguration is potent control-death, not impotent unity sensation. Unity-focus is a substitute for control-failure and transformation.

Theory of religion centered on unity protects and sustains delusion and Possibilism-thinking. Control dynamics reveal Eternalism, causing the mythological classical described effects, and mental model transformation.

Unity experiencing causes little mental model transformation. Control failure causes the deep transformation described by religious myth.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7829 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Ball mis-leads people in that he leaves them, like Wilber and drug-free meditation, vulnerable and unstable, without a durable, clear, specific (scientific) model to reconcile the control-limit realization.

Woe to the advanced tripper who is only armed with Wilber and Ball — they are irrelevant and unhelpful when it is time to sacrifice control-assumptions and adopt the classic innate transcendent Eternalism control-assumptions.

Those writers are not wrong, so much as halting prematurely, and inadequate as the requisite, stabilizing guides to mental-model reconfiguration.

The Egodeath theory recognizes in religious historical writings the depiction of the control threat and the nature of {being made to sacrifice control-assumptions}.

The Egodeath theory unlocks the wealth of religious descriptions of encountering Eternalism, noncontrol, metaperception, loose cognitive binding, and cybernetic death and reconfiguration.

Trembling, seizure, control death, sacrifice, and rescue from control-harm — Ball provides vague “trust”, surrender, and unity — true so far as his explanations go, but falling well short of advanced psychedelic experiencing and asking the crux of problematizing questions, a passionate pursuit of ecstatic shock and rapture, the taking and overpowering of the control-thought-receiver by the source of all control-thoughts.

Ball and all are halfway there, at best; providing a preliminary setup, but not arriving at the real full-fledged, explicitly explained dynamics of mental-model transformation in the loose cognitive association binding state, which is induced by psychedelics.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7830 From: egodeath Date: 28/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Bob Daisley’s Diary of a Madman song order starts with unity experiencing placed in the beginner stage, with no-free-will, and noncontrol puppethood in the later, advanced peak stage.

Entheogen knowledge or theory is immature, outside the Egodeath theory. Ball is a beginner-to-intermediate acting as the guide for beginners. His theory of surrender and trust is inarticulate and vague, though correct and useful for a crude, little-developed rescue or salvific life-preserver – he provides minimal life preserver.

Knowing to trust per Ball, you’ll survive but not comprehend the dynamics of relying consciously in the uncontrollable source of preexisting control-thoughts. Nor leverage religion’s description of sacrifice, stone, king, tree, snake, conversion, gateway, prayer.


Watching my body disappear into the crowd

Destiny planned out
The little doll is you
Group: egodeath Message: 7832 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
From Unity Possibilism upon initial trips (start of Side 1):
Watching my body
Disappear into the crowd
You don’t need a ticket to fly with me
I’m free, yeah

To Noncontrol Eternalism upon furthur trips (start of Side 2):
Destiny planned out
Nowhere 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
Your kind of troubles
Running deeper than the sea
When it’s your time I wonder how you’ll do
You broke the rules
You’ve been a fool
The little doll is you

The current ill-informed fad of entheogenic *unity* experience, with the barest vague note of requiring “trust and surrender” without real explanation, is a sign of inexperience, beginner to intermediate level, sophomores leading freshmen, lacking the authority of full mature experience, of full mental development restoring a new stability.

Ball is a false authority, just as meditators with decades invested in simulated cargo-cult imitative meditation lack authority — not yet having put personal control on trial and discovered how to trip up control and seduce it into climactic failure leading to control-power death and rebirth in new, eternalist configuration.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7833 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
A benefit of full entheogenic initiation is completed mental maturation, full psychological development: the ability to be stable and enter into the loose cognitive state while retaining stability while demonstrating the ability to steer in and out of personal control instability.

Analogy: the trusting wife submitting to being overpowered. Ariadne peacefully trusting Dionysus to steer the chariot in the wedding procession victory triumph. Ancient conceptions of s*x and marriage and birth were heavily shaped by entheogen cybernetic loosecog Eternalism analogies.

The mind that is not fully developed cannot pass through this gate, fails to meet the required conditions, is not allowed to banquet in peace and stability, but is in strife, kicked out of the walled gated garden banquet party by control-turmoil, battling against the mind’s own foundation source of control-power.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7834 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Religious metaphor mythology analogy description, when misread per Literalist OSC Possibilism, misleads and hinders.

Religious metaphor mythology analogy description, when read per Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism, amplifies and clarifies.

Prohibition is samsara is Possibilism, the illusion of nonunity separate control agents with the power of steering into the open multipossibilty future.

Prohibition blocks the bursting of childish thinking. The result is virgin adults, developmentally stunted childish adults who think as a child (noninitiate), retaining the immature, Possibilism delusion.

Repeal of Prohibition is nirvana is Eternalism. Snakes embedded in rock. Replacing the epiphenomenal illusion of autonomous control by recognition of a pair of distinct interrelated cybernetic functions: the local control-thought receiver, and the veiled uncontrollable source of control-thoughts, that which created the spacetime block including control-thoughts.

Semele wanted Zeus to reveal himself to her. He revealed his power, perceiving his power killed her power, and Semele gave birth to Dionysus, a new model steersman paradigm.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7835 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
The Egodeath theory explains religious mythology.

Religious mythology corroborates the Egodeath theory.

The Egodeath theory and religious mythology elucidate each other.

The ability of the Egodeath theory to make sense of religious mythology corroborates the Egodeath theory.

I first received the riddles of mythology upon reading Ken Wilber’s Up from Eden around 1987. There is a little religious mythology in my initial drafts for the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology in 1988 and in my 1997 summary at Principia Cybernetica.

JTP should publish one of my 1988 drafts of my main article, fulfilling resolution. My snakes demolish Wilber’s snakes.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7836 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Per Maslow, the mind’s highest appetite or drive is self-transcendence.

The Egodeath theory provides this benefit: the most efficient way to self-transcendence, the highest-level fulfilment, fully efficient fulfilment of the mind’s highest-level drive, direct fulfilment of the mind’s drive for self-transcendence.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7837 From: egodeath Date: 29/05/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Neurosubstitution and Neuroreductionism

It is a certain *kind* of reductionism (as with Martin Ball) to mis-indentify beginner-to-intermediate-level phenomenology (nondual unity, with the added inarticulate ‘shadow’ + ‘surrender’ epicyclic corrections) with advanced-level phenomenology (noncontrol Eternalism seizure, battling dragon gating access to treasure demanding the sacrifice of the maiden princess, the ruler’s childness).

The full developmental cycle is *reduced* to the first half of the developmental cycle. A truncation type of reductionism.


James Kent Neuroreductionist? James Kent’s PIT Psychedelic Information Theory defines a certain blend of cognitive, neuroscience, and the altered state.

PIT is a heap of psychedelics-focused neurowhatever with a decorative dash of cognition; experience-description like Shanon Antipodes. His focus on neuro makes for underattention to cognitive phenomenology.

I weave together my specialized optimized custom lexicon with shared standard common lexicon. My ‘mental construct processing’ & ‘loose cognitive binding’ + our ‘cog sci’ = ‘loose cognitive science’.

Between neurowhatever and cogsci,
a useful bridge is Thagard’s network node modelling + the Egodeath theory’s mental construct processing & loose cognitive binding (loose cognitive science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind (with the altered state added), cognitive phenomenology (Shanon includes ASC). Thagard’s contrast of neurocomputing vs. nodal modelling.

My model from early 1987 is neutral/ flexible/ agnostic regarding representation-nodes vs. distributed: mental construct association matrixes. My approach circumvents that distinction at issue, by identifying a more directly, experientially relevant conceptual construct: mental construct processing (MCP), including loose cognitive binding.

Thagard as bridge between the cogni vs. neuro paradigms:

Cognitive science
Thagard’s modelling
Neurocomputing/neuroscience

Where people ought to be thinking largely (if not entirely) in terms of cognitive phen and mental construct association & representation networks, dynamic mental-construct association matrixes, they substitute writing in terms of neural networks. Reduction, distortion, a proxy subject.

Neuro has its place, in multistate studies, but should not covertly substitute for the direct modelling of cognition. The Egodeath theory doesn’t draw from Neuroscience, but is close to CogSci.

The least off-base approach is CogSci. It doesn’t take too many fixes to enable CogSci to fit the Egodeath theory. Neuroscience requires heavy modification, to link to the Egodeath theory.

The Neurofoo paradigm/framework should not lead away from and mis-lead, should not serve to shut out and avoid the cognitive representation/ cognitive phenomenology/ mental construct processing approach. Representationalism vs. distributed network, a debate within cogsci/philomind.

Neurotheology – with and without the ASC. High vs. low neurowhatever.
Neuroreductionism
Neuroshamanism
Neurocognition
the Neurocognitive approach
Neurofoo
Neurowoowoo
Neurorepresentationalism
Neurophenomenology
Neurogullibility
Neuropseudoscience
Neurocargocultism
the Neurocult
Neurosubstitution for cognitive phenomenology
Neurospirituality
Quantum Neurodynamics
Nondual quantum neurobullshamanism will set you free and give you the blissful enlightenment you’ve always dreamed of.
Magic dust: a dash of quantum, a pinch of neuro, a sprinkle of shaman, ready for market

High neurowoowoo is superior to low neurowoowoo.

The neuro vs. cogni approaches, with and without ASC/ loose cognitive binding.


Neuroscience serves as a proxy covertly substituting for cognitive science (mental construct processing and loose cognitive binding per the Egodeath theory). Where you should discuss mental construct networks and binding shift, you substitute a discussion of neural networks.

This is a debate within cognitive science/ philosophy of mind, of PDP parallel distributed processing and the Churchlands’ neural nets, as an approach/ explanatory model, vs. cognitive — though the ASC is omitted.

Cogsci discusses hardware (neuro) vs. minds/software (cogni), distributed net (Churchland) vs. modular symbols/ nodes/ representationalism. Thagard chapters on competing computer modelling approaches: Churchland’s [pdp] approach vs [opposite, approaching the Egodeath theory’s MCP+LCB component].

The {mental construct representation} aspect of cogsci. My {mental construct association matrixes} model has both representation-node and distributed-network qualities.

— Michael Hoffman
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