Log of Discoveries & Achievements

Michael Hoffman, Jan. 4, 2021

Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 19, 2026

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[1985]

[1986]

[1987]

April 1987: Father died, I switched from college ruled blank books 8″ tall 6″ wide, to expansive, Wide Ruled binder filler sheets, and invented the acronym; ie, concept-label abbreviation, eg:
mental construct processing [MCP]

loose mental functioning binding [LMFB]

June 1987, learned to type on IBM PC; made dense idea development files with no carriage returns, using the acronym + concept-label technique.

[1988]

Jan. 11, 1988: Biggest breakthrough. block-universe eternalism. Combined:

  • loose cognition
  • absolute four-dimensional spacetime​
  • two mental models per the Way of Zen by Alan Watts.

Not analogies or history yet: Not yet Rock lyrics, myth themes, or art motifs as analogies.) No idea of the ahistoricity of religious founder figures yet.

That’s dividing into 4 quadrants; instead, to see which 4-5 ideas I brought together that day, list the 12 principles 1988-2005, before I condensed to 4 main areas (analogy; psychedelics; eternalism; cybernetics).

[1989]

[1990]

[1991]

[1992]

[1993]

[1994]

[1995]

[1996]

[1997]

A kind of breakthrough: writing my 1988 article was too hard, so aimed merely for an outline summary – perfect!

That’s comparable to struggling to write article for church 2025, finally succeeded by saying: NO pages of text; you’re only allowed a single slide deck slide outline.

That mentality was 2025 breakthrough in composing the article for the church Reader. That article ended up
* 2 pages of text,

  • 2 pages of text
  • 1 page for f11 (upper half + lower half)
  • 1 page for f109 & f134
  • 1 page for f145 & f177

The article didn’t include f107, which I finished (the bulk of) decoding today, January 19, 2026. But, I could easily tack-on that picture, b/c — a 2025 breakthrough — I quit trying to list features of a particular image; separated general list of motifs, from simply presenting pictures.

[1998]

A breakthrough for me: I went to have Mystery religion. Mystery religion` Mr. Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul to confirm my technical theory of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, and met with Freke & Gandy: their book Jesus Mysteries showed I can’t get religious founder figures to corrob my theory (they don’t literally exist); I would have to get MYTHIC figures/mythemes to corrob my theory, I instantly realized. That proved to be green lights all the way; I was off and running (1998-1999). I then entered, for the first time, the field of entheogen scholarship, with my technical theory outline in hand: the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

[1999]

[2000]

Per Coraxo’s correction of me, stop saying gnostics affirmed eternalism/ determinism. They move past sphere 8 fixed stars (determinism/ eternalism), their spirit leaves soul behind in sphere 8, spirit rises to sphere 9. As soon as he corrected me, I read Ulansey and learned to apply 2 models:

  • from possibilism to eternalism [Classical Antiquity]
  • from possibilism to eternalism to transcend eternalism [Late Antiquity eg gnosticism, Xy, neoplatonism, hermetism, Mithraism, Jewish latest theme; all religions brands per Luther Martin & Justin Sledge]

[2001]

[2002]

Delcared Declared maximal entheogen theory of religion when Apples of Apollo reverted from 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) back to mere 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm);

The Ruck committee retreated from Samorini 97 & 98, and Paul Lindgren’s Great Canterbury Psalter discovery of mushrooms, to push “the engine of the mystery religions is Secret Amanita”.

I broke away from Ruck committee at that point.

[2003]

Spring: 2nd post calling for maximal entheogen theory of religion, against – what turned out to be – the minimal/moderate flip-flop, the “secret Amanita cult” theory.

My view is:

  • consistently Maximal
  • explicit not secret
  • Based on Psilocybin, not Amanita, as mixed wine initiation sacred meals.

Explicit Cubensis paradigm = my MAXIMAL Explicit Cubensis paradigm
vs. Rucks’ flipflopping Minimal/Moderate, Secret Amanita paradigm

p.m. January 19, 2026 i like idea of prefixing Maximal, or “Minimal/Moderate”:

  • the Maximal Explicit Cubensis paradigm – consistent, coherent.
  • the Minimal/Moderate Secret Amanita paradigm – waffle, incoherent, kettle logic.

[2004]

Good year: kept reading ancient Magic; Alchemy; Astral ascent mysticism – each topic revealed sacred/mythic eating & drinking; determinism; and also transcend determinism (for materials after 150 AD; Late Antiquity).

Feb. 20, 2004: When I first decoded {snake} = worldline = eternalism = non-branching

(Build-up:) April 26, 2002, message 753: worldline like snake frozen in ice

Subject: Labyrinth, Balaam’s donkey, Golden Ass, Damascus
April 26, 2002
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-15-2002-04-23/#message753 –

“A person’s entire worldline of mental constructs is frozen in spacetime like a thread in a marble slab or like a snake frozen in ice — understanding this vividly amounts to the experience of control-death or cyberdeath. That’s the thought that kills the childself.”

(Build-up:) Apr. 27, 2002, message 760: “Stiff wavy snake – frozen worldline”

I state the equation as a puzzle/topic, but don’t elaborate; it is not a treatment, it is an item in a list:

Page title:
Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 15 (2002-04-23)
Subject: Planned topics/themes/puzzles
April 27, 2002
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-15-2002-04-23/#message760 –

“Stiff wavy snake – frozen worldline”

This extremely brief mention is definitely the idea, but oddly I don’t elaborate until (unless I use ‘serpent’, I’ll search that next) two years later.

Very strangely, after that, I mention two girls looking in chest and seeing something that frightens them to fall to death, yet I fail to say what they see: they see a snake (serpent body of father).

Feb. 20, 2004, Posting 3160 (First Full Assertion)

This is the first posting that proves I can articulate and present the decoding, vs. merely mentioning it as a barest label: (search serpent though):

Subject: Re: Snake referring to visual distortion, turning staff to snake
February 20, 2004, Posting 3160
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-62/#message3160
Note by the thread title, I am working on this developing this area for a long time before I finally write:

“A snake is shaped like a no-choice labyrinth path, like a person’s worldline
frozen into the block universe. To mentally perceive your frozenness of
worldline is like seeing a snake, and may be metaphorized as prophetic viewing
of the future or coming inevitable fall of king ego’s kingdom/kingship.”

Mar. 4, 2004, Message 3206

Message: 3206
March 4, 2004
Subject: Re: Metaphor: Averted gaze. To look is to die.

“The snake wrapped around the lion-headed figure is the linear worldline of
one’s life: the Fates’ thread. One leg on ground, one leg up isn’t so much a
mushroom allusion; it is first of all the idea that the transcendent psyche
stands partly on ego, partly on divine magic air. Thus Jesus’ foot elevated,
Mithras’ one foot on the ground, dancing Shiva with one foot on the air, and
so on. One leg up is readable as magical transcendence of Fate/ heimarmene/ cosmic determinism.”

I stuck with that “one foot up” reading during 2004-2015.

Christmas 2015, looking at the Hatsis-provided Dancing Man salamander image in article Roasting the Salamander, I instead conjectured {right leg down; left leg up} = relying on eternalism-thinking instead of possibilism-thinking.

I confirmed that hypothesis, (right = eternalism) in mid-November 2020 and integrated the Nov 29 2013 {non-branching} motif.

Then I back-applied that decoding-cluster/network to my other work & art images decoding around the key date March 21, 2022 (March-May 2022 broadly) when I coined the phrase “branching-message mushroom trees” in reply to Brown who sent me & Cyberdisciple Marcia Kupfer’s passage about “youths in trees cutting branches”.

(I cover this trajectory in Idea Development page 18.)

Oct. 29, 2004, Post 3611 Fully Nails It

Currently searching archives on Serpent to find first statement “serpent = worldline”… found it.

Note the long term ongoing thread working on decoding snake & serpent.

This post nails it: “snake, serpent and worldline and girls falling. Interesting: it presents the 3 bunk (weak/ merely incidental/ bonus) readings and then as if no better, the correct, main/primary solution: the shape of the snake is nonbranching.

Subject: Re: Snake referring to visual distortion, turning staff to snake
October 29, 2004, Post 3611
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-71/#message3611 –

“Snake and no-choice labyrinth and meander all have similar spatial geometry. The snake is wise because it has elixir of death, has rebirth, moves like visual waving distortion, and knows about the 1-D worldline frozen into the heimarmene-ruled block universe. When you mentally perceive your experienced life as a 1-D worldline timelessly frozen into the block universe, your sense of open steersmanship dies, like seeing the attractive and deadly gorgon-face of the snake-haired Medusa and being thereby turned to stone.

Thus the snake is shown wrapped around the heimarmene-ruled celestial globe, or penetrating through it. The snake is wise about determinism, but I see the snake as representing attaining the jump from ignorance to fatal awareness of determinism, not the second major leap, which is the truly divine leap from
awareness of determinism to transcendence of cosmic determinism.

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/garrison_essay.shtml — “The females who commit suicide in a state of madness are Agraulos and Herse, daughters of
Cecrops, the half-serpent man. … when Athena gave to these girls for rearing
the offspring of Hephaestus’ aborted attempt to impregnate her, she instructed
them to keep the child hidden in a chest. While sister Pandrosos obeyed, the
other two girls failed to heed her warning and upon seeing the snaky child
within went mad and hurled themselves from the [why do i omit rock cliff?!] … though the girls’ own father was half-snake, the sight of such an infant drove them insane.””

First Use of First Decoding of “Non-branching” in Religious Philosophy vs. in Myth

In religious philosophy, I meaning mention non-branching quite early, intelligently, articulately, very verbosely at length fully, in 2001:
Subject: Religion as revelation of determinism
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-6-2001-11-11/#message297 –

“What word most forcefully shuts out possibility of
confusion? “Determinism”. Determinism is usually mis-defined as
predictionism and domino-chain causality, instead of the non-
branching singleness, fixity, and even pre-existence of the future.
Still, after correction, “determinism” implies far more principles of
High Religion than do the terms “unity”, “love”, “enlightenment”,
or “truth”.

“Unity” is not the key to high religion. Neither is “consciousness”
or “love”. “Determinism” is the key to the knowledge revealed in
high religion.”

Hilarious ironic!

Kafei later saw my use of the word ‘determinism’ and not unreasonably, assumed that just like everyone else and the practically formal definition of ‘determinism’ , Kafei assumed I meant domino-chain determinism, rather than what I meant, eternalism.

I posted about eternalism the same day as finishing the final rev of my main 2006 article, in 2007. (check adding intro ~June vs. breaking up sentences I think September 12, 2007). https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#main-article-published-date –

“Body Published October 2, 2006.

Intro added on June 15, 2007.

Broke up long sentences Sep. 12, 2007.”

I should have written in that post:

“What word most forcefully shuts out possibility of confusion? ‘eternalism’.”

At least, I covered how confusing my “shuts out confusion” word ‘determinism’ is.

Jun. 12, 2004: Extremely Pointed Post “Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism”, 8 years Before Hanegraaff 2012 Keynote Article “Entheogenic Esotericism”

find at youtube Entheogenic Esotericism Hanegraaff
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Entheogenic+Esotericism+Hanegraaff

Vid title:
“Entheogenic Esotericism” (Wouter J. Hanegraaff, keynote, ContERN 2012)
Darth Wouter; Wouter “Star Destroyer” Hanegraaff; talk on Jul. 27-29, 2012.
YouTube channel: ContERN Administrators
(Contemporary Esotericism Research Network)
Uploaded Nov. 21, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIMjjPg7uU

Conf intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwwbIiOlxYQ
vid title: Introducing the Contemporary Esotericism conference (2012)
desc: This is the welcome address and introductory lecture to the First International Conference on Contemporary Esotericism, held at Stockholm University, Sweden, July 27-29, 2012. The lecture (Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm) introduces ContERN, the theme of the conference, and discusses the need for interdisciplinary research on contemporary esotericism.”

Channel notes:
“Welcome to the YouTube channel of the Contemporary Esotericism Research Network.

“Here you’ll find academic lectures in the field of Western esotericism. To learn more about this field and about what our group does, please check out the website and get involved in our Facebook discussion group.”

ContERN website
https://contern.org

Facebook
https://facebook.com/groups/ContERN/?fref=ts
Channel info:
https://www.youtube.com/@conternadministrators9954

Desc of video:

“Wouter J. Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam) introduces the notion of entheogenic esotericism in this keynote lecture to the First International Conference on Contemporary Esotericism (Stockholm University, 2012).

“Hanegraaff argues that the use of psychedelic substances in not only Western esoteric currents, but in contemporary religion more broadly, has not been sufficiently recognized in academic studies.”

But what about non-drug entheogens ; non-drug psychedelics? He forgot to dance and lie and prevaricate per standard academic ABD Apologists.

ABD Apologists: Anything But Drugs is to be considered a “reasonable” and “evidenced” cause of the intense mystic altered state.
abd

Hanegraaff lists the tiresome dance, all the ways of producing extreme, transformative intense mystic altered state, without psychedelics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIMjjPg7uU&t=210s (3:30)

Mentions Ann Taves near 4:00.

I wrote “Entheogenic Eternalism” … no, “Entheogenic Esotericism” 8 years before Wouter Hanegraaff’s 2012 keynote article “Entheogenic Esotericism”, and when I did so it was to chastise him as severely as possible.

Search “Entheogenic Esotericism”
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=%22Entheogenic+Esotericism%22 – found it:

Subject: Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism
June 12, 2004
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-66/#message3335 –

“Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism. Entheogens are the key to
esotericism. This is the simplest possible theory of esotericism, and the
most natural, the least contrived and strained. Theories of esotericism that
are not based on entheogens suffer from the problem of grandiose verbiage,
unmet promises and claims, chronic vagueness, excuses for lack of potent and
prompt efficacy, and no ability to deliver the experiences which are talked
about. Drug-free esotericism doesn’t work; it is not effectively ergonomic.”

Date of Hanegraaff article:
https://www.academia.edu/3461770/Entheogenic_Esotericism_2012_
No month/day.
Amazon claims “January 1, 2013”. Copyright page claims “First published 2013”.
https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Esotericism-Gnostica-Egil-Asprem/dp/1908049324/ –

Date of my post: June 12, 2004

Date of Hane article: Acadamia.edu Hane clearly claims “2012”. Suppose he submitted it June 12, 2012, so that the book could ship Jan. 1, 2013.

Date of Hanegraaff article: June 12, 2012 (we know 2012, we don’t know the month & day)

2012 – 2004 = I posted the title “Entheogenic esotericism” 8 years before Hanegraaff.

[2005]

[2006]

64-page article “Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita”

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

Oct. 2, 2006: Write Body of Main Article

Not included the intro/ summary in article page; that’s on home page.

Too-long sentences.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#main-article-published-date –

“Body Published October 2, 2006.”

[2007]

Jun. 15, 2007: Move Intro Summary into Main Article

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#main-article-published-date –

“Intro added on June 15, 2007.”

Sep. 12, 2007: Break up Long Sentences in Main Article

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#main-article-published-date –

“Broke up long sentences September 12, 2007.”

Sep. 12, 2007: First Posted the Word ‘Eternalism’ (& ‘Superdeterminism’)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#First-post-of-eternalism – the recent date at which I researched the date.

September 12, 2007
Subject: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unreality of Time
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897

[2008] Hiatus from Public Posting

[2009] Hiatus from Public Posting

[2010] Hiatus from Public Posting

Walked around paths in mushroom forest preserve every year: branching paths, branching trees: “Isn’t branching vs. non, like I poisted in 2001 re: Physics domain, an ancient Greek key mytheme?

[2011] Hiatus from Public Posting, to September

Breakthrough: Nov, Confirmed branching vs. non-branching is key mytheme.

[2012]

Breakthrough: Nov, Confirmed branching vs. non-branching is key mytheme.

[2013]

Nov. 2013: Confirmed {branching} is a major myth in esoteric art

Breakthrough: Nov 2013, Confirmed branching vs. non-branching is key mytheme. via two pictures, while studying liberty caps: Douris Jason; Cranach: Eve Tempted by Serpent in Campbell The Power of Myth.

[2014]

[2015]

Dancing Man: Hypothesis: {weight on R foot} = eternalism-thinking; {L foot} = possibilism-thinking

Confirmed that hypoth in Nov. 2020 via f134 row 1 of 3, Great Canterbury Psalter, left 2/5 of the row, only; blurry image uploaded by John Lash appar. 2008.

Thanks to Thomas Hatsis’ formal article for UK zine, presenting hi res Dancing Man to entheogen scholars for first time.

See also Ronald Huggins’ 2022 article “Dizzy, Dancing or Dying?” for another exercise in fallacious arg’n.

[2016]

[2017]

[2018]

[2019]

[2020]

Nov. 10, 2020, Brown asked Compelling Evidence and Criteria of Proof

This was impetus lead-in for re-finding Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, spawning dedic article about that.

From email: November 10, 2020, Brown asked whether Cyberdisciple and I had written about Compelling Evidence and Criteria of Proof, for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Nov. 16, 2020: Decoded Eadwine Initiation Image Row 1 Left

Sep. 2020 – Feb. 2021: Accomplishments of Past 6 Months

  • Rebutted vial argument that the vial is not Amanita; proved it is vial designed to look like Amanita.
  • Wrote Criteria article
  • Wrote Canterbury article; decoded the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image, proving 70 mushroom trees in heart of Christian art/history, used for peak religious experiencing.
  • Proved leopard drinking from Amanita, in Dionysus Thiasus Triumph mosaic.
  • Identified mushroom-shaped grape-baskets in Montecassino.
  • Defined Grid Game & Forgot Plots for esotericism including for ahistoricity & for entheogens.
  • Decoded initiation at Eleusus: Lesser Mysteries are for learning book theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism; Greater Mysteries for firsthand initiation. Mapped to the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.
  • Documented rules for guides, examiners, candidates, based on the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.
  • Created gallery of lifted garments images indicating ASC.
  • See About page: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/about/#Highlights-Tour-of-this-EgodeathTheory-WordPress-Site
  • Created WordPress site
  • Made gallery of “all” mushrooms in Christian art.
  • Made Core Concepts collection page
  • Made Key Mythemes collection page
  • Uploaded Egodeath Yahoo Group posts.
  • Mastered vocalizing
  • Master mic usage
  • Created a series of voice recordings/ Egodeath Mystery Show episodes.

[2021]

[2022]

Mar. ~6, 2022, Brown Sent “Youths in Trees Cutting Branches”

from email; check date. todo [see just below for proof of such dates]

Mar.-Apr. 2022 Decoded {Handedness} & {Non-Branching} in Familiar Images

read my posts here to retrieve the dates – todo

Mar. 21, 2022: Branching-Message Mushroom Trees

Top-10 dates to memorize are bold red.

2025/02/25 – Confirmed date. Gmail search results view does NOT show the specific date of the containing post; you have to display all the posts in the thread, find the specific post that contains the string “branching-message mushroom trees”, and then look at the date.

The Subject line of the email thread is “Parasol Panaeolus Graves“. The thread began March 20, 2022, and ends Feb 10, 2023 – the latter is displayed in search results, confusingly. I captured it:

“branching-message mushroom trees email.jpg” 95 KB 8:45 pm Feb. 25, 2025
My email sent March 21, 2022, with first mention of “branching-message mushroom trees”.

.png to try clearer:

“branching-message mushroom trees email.png” 203 KB 8:45 pm Feb. 25, 2025
My email sent March 21, 2022, with first mention of “branching-message mushroom trees”.

Monday, March 21, 2022:
Prof. Brown sent me the 2019 article’s Kupfer passage about youths in trees, and,

Monday, March 21, 2022, 10:14 AM:
I first wrote the phrase “branching-message mushroom trees“, in email to Brown & Cyberdisciple. See section “Major Date: I First Wrote “branching-message mushroom trees” on March 21, 2022″ in Idea Development page 16. Also see:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Amanita-Imagery-Indicates-Psilocybe-Use

Monday, March 14, 2022
Finished new article,
The 75 Mushroom Trees of the Canterbury Psalter
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/
One week later, now knowing the 75 trees, this m-tree catalog set me up to comprehend branching-message mushroom trees as an intentional feature, the extreme opposite of a bug or arbitrary whim or mere clever problematization joke.

1:17 a.m. November 17, 2020
I decoded John Lash 2008 crop of leg-hanging mushroom tree. See bottom/start of Idea Dev p. 1:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/realtime-discovery-log/#micaci

Sunday, March 13, 2022
Finished project: Read-aloud the article,
Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe:
Article read-aloud & bonus commentary (4:00:36)
Read-aloud recording info:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#ep79

Jan 6 2021
dragon teeth = blade (in idea development page 8)

Jan 6 2021
Finally announced the “flash in back of mind 5 times” idea, fire-breathing dragon. .

More mapping of mytheme {caduceus}. [January 6, 2021] (see idea development page 8)

Jul. 4, 2022: {branching-message mushroom trees}

{branching-message mushroom trees} as a Major, Named Motif

todo – look up these dates by searching at this site (I posted tons of date-time stamps for each discovery), log them officially here for reference. In some cases get date of emails.

Announced at Facebook – which is hens-teeth rare, so, easy to retrieve that date – a good, pinpointed date at which I fully got the comprehension and recognition of the motif, {branching-message mushroom trees}.

/ end of section

[2023]

Feb. 9, 2023 – Decoded Hand Shapes, Fingers, Thumb, Mapped to Possibilism & Eternalism: Entry into Jerusalem, St. Martin Church

Today, January 19, 2026, having discovered patterns in Canterbury f107 (especially the mushroom-tree touching guy with hand-shapes), I can now say that I have fully corroborated the hypothesis of Feb. 9, 2023, that branching vs. non-branching morphology formed by hand/ finger/ thumb, maps to possibilism & eternalism.

Feb. 9, 2023, into Feb. 10: Emailed Brown the Fingers Shapes etc.

orig write-up:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/#Brown-Feb-9-2023

copy of Announcement of Decoding:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-%e2%9e%b3%f0%9f%96%96%f0%9f%8c%b4%f0%9f%94%aa%f0%9f%8d%84%f0%9f%96%bc%f0%9f%94%8d%f0%9f%94%ac%f0%9f%a7%90/#identified-sticks-and-feathers-match-finger-shapes

It took 10 months, 19 days, to get from:

  1. branching-message mushroom trees
  2. finger/object shapes at Jesus’ hands in St. Martin: branching vs. non-branching.

That’s a year Probably soon after March 21, 2022 (date of email thread w/ Brown re: branching-message mushroom trees / St. Martin “Entry into Jerusalem”).

p.m. January 19, 2026 — that hypothesis is further confirmed, by Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f107.

todo: keyboard shortcut – my fav 6 Great Canterbury Psalter images: url for my fullscreen image.

  • f11
  • f107
  • f109
  • f134
  • f145
  • f177

Might want in a keyboard shortcut for an image:

  • Descriptive name of image
  • Library full-res url
  • WordPress gallery url

Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f134: leg-hanging mushroom tree, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom,
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/eadwine-leg-balancing-image-2023-01-09.png
f134u [= f134 + urls]

After exe’ing the keyboard shortcut, if want inline picture w/ credit etc, have to:

  • Manually enter an Image block, pasting that WordPress image url.
  • Link the pic to the lib url.
  • Add credit caption below pic.
  • Set scale to Full. todo: can’t set resolution, after pasting URL in new Image block.

eg:

Crop by Michael Hoffman
Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f134: leg-hanging mushroom tree
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom
Fullscreen zoom of WordPress image

To do that right, requires a lot of extra work beyond typing the keyboard shortcut – but it’s optional work. The keyboard shortcut is sufficient.

keyboard shortcut:

Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f107, lifted from ossuary by Christ, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f107.item.zoom, https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/canterbury-f107.jpg, https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/16/canterbury-f107-lifted-up-from-ossuary-by-right-arm/
f107u

todo: update sidebar nav to add f107. What emoji? __ R hand palm: either:
✋🖐

✋🖐

{Fingers held together} matches the genre, but {fingers splayed} is more obvious in a way.

A Teaching Aid Ready-to-Hand: The YI Hand Shape; Fingers; and Thumb

God gave us 4 fingers & 1 thumb, on each hand, enabling us to teach each other w/ a teaching aid ready-to-hand.

Using a single hand, we can represent I vs. Y;
eternalism; non-branching mono-possibility, vs.
possibilism; branching possibilities.

Feb. 26, 2023: Horses Looking at Non-Branching and Held Up by God by Right Hand, in f177

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 26, 2023

I remember, and want to continue to remember, how it felt after I had the huge f134 decoding Nov 2020, but still then was puzzling over f145 & f177 – making inroads there but still was puzzling.

My annotated crop is used at top of https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/
the official place for it would be f177 dedicated page, “row 1 L” section:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/12/4-horses-mushroom-tree-right-foot-balancing-great-canterbury-psalter-f177/#Row-1-Left-Looking-Lines

Then I discovered — while puzzling over the BOTCHED CROSS-UNDER of tree f177 row 1 left — with 4 horses… eventual outcome after refinement: the two items that the horses look at are affirmed and connected together: non-branching (middle cap of tree) + 2-level control (God holding up by R hand).

Mar. ~26, 2023: Proved Blue Vase f134 row 3 middle Contains Cubensis

Got unexpected confirmation that the blue vase f134 row 3 middle contains Cubensis Golden Teacher: he’s looking up at grain dispens bins which contain mushroom shapes.

I speculated about that around a year earlier, jokingly, stupidly never attempted at that time to look for proof; was completely surprised and felt stupid when finally realized, opened eyes, that the proof is provided by Eadwine.

Blue Krater Looks at Mushroom Bins

Crop by Cybermonk
“Canterbury-f134-blue-krater-looking-msh-bins.jpg” 741 KB [8:26 p.m. March 26, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom#

Crop by Cybermonk
“Canterbury-f134-blue-krater-looking-msh-bins.jpg” 741 KB [8:26 p.m. March 26, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom#

[2024]

Nov. 7, 2024: Splendor Solis: Philosophers Beside the Tree

Nov 2024: Splendor Solis – see idea development ~22: Phils beside tree.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/21/splendor-solis-philosophers-beside-the-tree/
Which Idea development page is that period?

Find “splendor” in:

Nov. 2024: Folded Legs in Tauroctony

Folded legs in tauroctony perceived more clearly than before. Legs are angled making interp hard: solution: the folded leg proves weight not on that leg, therefore weight is to be read as on other foot.

Nov 2024: Ppl get tricked by “crossed legs” of Cautes & Cautaupates, but more to the point is, which foot is their weight on?

Versions of Taur’y have tendency to combine “weight R foot / torch up” in most cases, more often than the reverse. like 2/3.

Dec. 15, 2024: Spain Painters, too, Have {balance scale} & {mushrooms): f221: Cubensis Traders Weighing, Storing, Ingesting

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Dec. 15, 2024

A recent discovery w.r.t. Jan. 2025.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#f221-cubensis-traders
Apparently Dec. 15, 2024.

[2025]

Jan. 13, 2025: Great Canterbury Psalter f11 Day 1, Day 3, & Day 4

January 13, 2025, Midnight start of day, two combined f11 discoveries:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/#Pinned-Content

After weeks/months, following intuition that Day 3’s four plants have a meaningful pattern, first I tried analyzing pairs of plants – failed, but built up a database of analysis.

Discovered not pairs but read L to R as increasing comprehension & elaboration of branching form:

trident, IYI, YI, IY/YI

Idea development 23 has record.

Discovered Eadwine provided evidence to confirm my indirect certainty that Day 1 balance scales contain Golden Teacher Cubensis or rather are pointed to by Panaeolus & Amanita in Day 3 below it.

Jan. 28, 2025 (incomplete): “5” [sic, 8] Instances of {balance scale} near {mushrooms} in Great Canterbury Psalter

Last night Jan. 28, 2025 surprised to count so many, 5 [2026/01/14: correction: 8] instances, in art gathered at bottom of new idea development page 24.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/29/idea-development-24/#balance-scale-and-mushroom

2026 or late 2025: list of {balance scale} motif 8x:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#balance-scale

Jan. 13, 2025: f11 Day 1 & Day 4: Proof “Creation of Light” Balance Scale Bowls Contain Mushrooms

Crop and Annotations by Michael Hoffman , f11
[1:15 am Jan. 13, 2025]
Y Y I I

Day 1 & Day 4: Proof that Day 1 Creation of Light Scale Balance Bowls Contain Mushrooms

Jan. 13, 2025: f11 Day 3 “Creation of Plants” Branching Form Develops from III, IYI, YI, IY/YI

Crop and analysis by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025

Day 3: Branching Form Develops toward Increasing Comprehension from Left to Right: III, IYI, YI, IY/YI

Jan. ~27, 2025: f11 “Tree of Knowledge” Grid of Liberty Caps w L & R arms Proves Grid = Branching

Crop by Michael Hoffman, f11
{cut right branch}

Eat from Tree: Arms/Branches of Each Liberty Cap in Grid of Cap Indicates Mushroom-Trees within Mushroom-Trees, Proving every grid-cap = multiple/ branching

Includes {cut right branch} cross-under under cap/crown matching Dancing Man and the two adjacent trees.

To get a date, check https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/, near Jan 27, 2025.

Apr. 22, 2025: “2POV” Concept; Integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism Thinking; Marriage; Two Pairs of Eyes

Crop by Michael Hoffman
“f134 boxes on pairs of sets of eyes.jpg”, Aug. 28, 2025, 4:05 pm

Could do a box in lower right: oxen pair with fool.

  • oxen = eternalism-thinking (wisdom)
  • fool = possibilism-thinking

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/21/idea-development-page-28/#Email-to-Wrmspirit-April-22-2025

Formal summary later: Aug. 29, 2025:

My page about the idea after it fully developed into the “2POV” concept-label: August 29, 2025:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/29/end-up-permanently-having-two-vantage-points-of-view-across-both-states-of-consciousness/

[2026]

Jan. 19, 2026: Canturbury f107 Confirms Use of Finger, Thumb, Hand Shapes Mapped to Branching vs. Non-Branching

Roots of this breakthrough: Feb. 9, 2023, emailed Brown the Fingers Shapes etc. Announcement of Decoding:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-%e2%9e%b3%f0%9f%96%96%f0%9f%8c%b4%f0%9f%94%aa%f0%9f%8d%84%f0%9f%96%bc%f0%9f%94%8d%f0%9f%94%ac%f0%9f%a7%90/#identified-sticks-and-feathers-match-finger-shapes

Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 19, 2026

Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f107, lifted from ossuary by Christ

Full max zoom resolution at library site:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f107.item.zoom

Fullscreen image from WordPress gallery:
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/canterbury-f107.jpg

My page about the image:
✋ Canterbury f107: Lifted Up from Ossuary by Right Arm
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/16/canterbury-f107-lifted-up-from-ossuary-by-right-arm/

Feb. 3, 2026: Hand-Shape Theory

The official breakthrough announcement webpage/evidence was started at:
[10:00 p.m. Jan. 30, 2026]

The photos of me at sacred garden house church displaying hand shapes:
[1:01 pm Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026]

This is the old problem of, when I have a week-long huge breakthrough (jackpot week), which one day to designate, for simplicity?

During the midst of the jackpot, you know it’s big, but don’t yet know how big, until the jackpot has played out… which takes years.

eg Nov 2020 Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, but not until mid 2022, did I apply that decoding to the pictures in The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/

f11 row 2 left: Day 4 of Creation: four pilzbaum without branches, & plants (Bible: Sun, moon, & stars)

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 4, 2025

Features:

  • thumb against open book = eternalism-thinking – mentioned this decoding a few days before today; today is Feb. 5, 2026.
  • R hand pinkie & ring visually cut the middle & index fingers. figured out a few days ago, not sure I logged this decoding, b/c overwhelmed with jackpot of too many discoveries too quickly, with this week’s jackpot week: hand-shape theory. today is Feb. 5, 2026.
  • Hand-Shape Theory. I declared Tue., Feb. 3, 2026 the official representative day for peak breakthrough of hand-shape theory.

Status of this Page

Very incomplete. This is far from a list of my breakthroughs. It’s just a start; a framework w/ some examples filled in. eg, my tradition is, since like 1987:

Every 6 months, list my accomplishments of the past 6 months. Expect at least 2 breakthroughs every year from 1987 or 1988 – 2026.

Motivation for Creating this Page

new Log file: motivation: i need a page where during the day, 15x/day, make a quick entry, like the below mockup:

  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021] now i solved x.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021] now y.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021]now solved z.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021]got email from scholar asking if we (cyb) wrote a Criteria article.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021] started writing Crit articel.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021] crit article reached 50 pages.
  • [# a.m. January 3, 2021] started decoding the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader. within the “Crit” article at (eg; fakedate) 6pm Nov 10, 2020.
  • section on Hanging reached 11 pages, so I’m breaking to sep article. 12:30 am Nov 11, 2020 (eg, fakedate).
  • sent article for Peer review. [dts]
  • proof article [# a.m. January 3, 2021] – solved upturned palm & face xrpn.
  • Criteria article: Add Ack section, maybe dedicate to Brown, or Dedication note.
  • Proof article: add dedic to brown note, or, in Hisotry article, ie Methologdy Decoding Canterbury Image article, list the Hsistory of that aritcle. BETTER RECORD THE HISTORY NOW, WHILE FRESH.
    • Date on which I rebutted the Vial moderate argument in Brown’s article and notified them. In my posting about Hatsis’ book. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#nav-amanita-vial
    • DATE ON WHICH BROWN ASKED WHETHER WE DEFINED CRITERIA.
    • DATE I STARTED THE “CRITERIA” ARTICLE.
    • DATE I ADDED CANTER TO CRIT ARTICLE
    • DATE I MOVED CANTER SECTION 11 PAGES INTO SEP PROOF ARTICLE AFTER THE LITTLE SECTION GREW TO 11 PAGES AND RISING FAST. HOW MUCH HAD I SOLVED, THAT WAS LIKE 6 HOURS OF DECODING-WORK ON THE BLURRY YELLOW NO-CONTEXT CROP OF MUSHROOM TREE. HOW MANY DAYSS TO (MOSTLY) SOLVE TOP ROW? HOW MANY DAYS TO (MOSTLY) SOLVE WHOLE IMAGE EG HE’S DUMBER THAN AN OX. Too much work to accurately figure these durations! My logging, yeah, it’s a start. But… I need a more proper log! AS SUCH! I COULD reuse my “History of Devleoping the Egodeath Theory” page, but…… i dunno, i really better do a REAL LOG FILE AS SUCH! (done; created present page)
    • [12 Noon January 3, 2021] Solved Pink’s banquet palm up, & facial expression. (the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image)

See Also

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