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Critique of Mystics’ Books: Against Mystics’ Writings

I Created the Egodeath Theory Because No Writers Properly Explain Transcendent Knowledge

All books that tried to explain mystic knowledge, were and are wholly inadequate, irrelevant, and unhelpful. If that weren’t the case, I wouldn’t have created the Egodeath theory, starting in 1985.

In 1985, I read the field of spiritual self-help and enlightenment books, and it was all too clear, that none of the explanations came anywhere near to what they should have been.

No writers on enlightenment were holding relevant, correct objectives or approaches. That was true in 1985 and remains true in 2021 (aside from my 1988 Cybernetic theory and my 2003 Mytheme theory).

That is why I rolled up my sleeves and said:

“Step aside; I need this knowledge.

“I’m sure Transcendent Knowledge exists to be found and figured out and explained clearly and properly, per modern, direct scientific and engineering explanation, with clear systematization.

“I’ll have to figure out Transcendent Knowledge myself.

“Afterwards, I’ll have to formulate Transcendent Knowledge myself, for everyone.

“I will figure out Transcendent Knowledge and then explain it properly.”

To figure out Transcendent Knowledge, starting in 1986, I read Ken Wilber and Alan Watts.

The Wilber & Watts books were given to me by my father, around 1985.

I also read a handful of other books that my father gave me, or that I got from the university bookstore.

In late 1987 and early 1988, I corrected the malformed explanations provided by Ken Wilber and Alan Watts.

I copied the present section to top of History article.
History of Developing the Egodeath Theory

Lyrics of Acid-Metal Song Little Dolls, for Instruction of the Absolute High-Dose Mystics, by the Famous Great Mystic Bob Daisley, who Wrote “…

2:17 = 137s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA1CKGGPYPA&t=137s

light-hearted Major key:
transcription by Michael Hoffman, for instruction of mystics

YOU NEVER IMAGINED SUCH A FATE COULD FOLLOW YOU
YOU NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS TRUE!
AND WHEN IT’S YOUR TIME, I WON,-DER HOW, ⚡️ YOU’LL DO
(I, WON, DER, HOW, YOU’LL, DO)
YOUR KIND OF TROUB,LE’S RUNNING DEEPER THAN THE SEA
(I WONDER WHAT YOU’RE GONNA DO, ⚡️ ABOUT IT)
YOU BROKE (THE RULE)
YOU’VE BEEN (A FOOL)
THE LITTLE DOLL IS YOU, YEAH!

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
THE KILLER WHO ⚡️ REMAINS A MYSTERY

Over the Top

Reading stacks of Mystics’ books, reverently parrotting mystics’ writings by heart.

Ludicrously over-the-top mushroom valuation – immature & foolhardy extremism, “more is always better”; trying to bust into the Famous Mystics Club by sheer brute-force of extreme OD.  

If you meet him, you’ll know it: he’ll loudly ask you, first thing: “Have you done massive dosage like I always do??  As the famous Mystic X said, blah blah…”

My Two-Word Critique of All Systems of Transcendent Theology

not wrong,

The So-Profound Writings of the “Great Mystics” –> 🗑

In early 1988, after my breakthrough, I said: I need to read the WORTHLESS JUNK, WHAT PASSES FOR “WRITING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT IN 1988”, in order to communicate to people what enlightenment is REALLY about.

Contrast that with the worshipful, reverent attitude of people who fanboy the writings of Professional Certified Mystics –> 🗑

… fervently reading the so-profound, writings, of the Famous Professional Mystics, and reciting them by heart, taking EVERY OPPORTUNITY to cite the Great Mystics (pffft!) — and criticizing websites as, THIS EGODEATH WEBSITE IS SO TERRIBLE, BECAUSE IT FAILS TO GIVE CITATIONS FOR MY GLORIOUS MYSTIC-SH*T WRITERS!! 😭

ROFL!

😂 😂 😂

Books Retrieved

My present library consists of just the following books: apologies to those who mistakenly think that the Famous Professional Mystics have written anything worth reading, unfortunately I am not able to cite them at the present time; check back in: Never.

I heard that the Egodeath website has a few book-citations of that mystic sh*t – sry about that, I’ll try to get around to deleting those.

🎉 The Psychedelic Gospels

🎉 The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time <– William James finally accepted the “Iron Block Universe” at end of life.

🎉 Brick Greek Myths (lego, large format)

🎉 A Christian View of the Mushroom Myth – King.

🎉 Ruck et al – The Hidden World (fairytales)

🎉 Art and Myth in Ancient Greece – Carpenter

🎉 Thagard – The Cognitive Science of Science

🎉 Rush – Entheogens and the Development of Culture

🎉 Jesus: Neither God nor Man: The Case for a Mythical Jesus – Doherty’s 2nd Ed. thick book.

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today

What’s So Great About Christianity

Spiritual Disciplines – Eranos Yearbooks Bollingen Series XXX 4 <– got from free library at the Auto Dealer Service shop 😍🚘🛠📚💕 has a Sun & Moon Light Reflection article that helped mytheme decoding. Fav activity is finding good books in odd memorable quirky places

Augustine – A Very Short Introduction – as far as i can tell (low certainty; hypothesis, but I think Leighton Flowers said this sequence):
The battle of the Fake Augustines:
“Early-period” = no-free-will
“Mid-period” = freewill
“Late-period” = no-free-will

How to Write Short

Moira : Fate, Good, and Evil in Greek Thought – compare the new new books at Ancient Esotericism website, one written by the book reviewer there (see a previous idea development page).

Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge

From Religion to Philosophy – A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation

The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions
Theosophical Publishing House = WHY BLIND TO Mystery Religions?
APPARENTLY CONFIRMS CYB’S Cricitique… 1 sentence about Eleusis; Mithraism is a mere interjection in support of the Christianity section;
WHY ARE THE Mystery Religions CENSORED OUT OF HISTORY???? LIKE ENTHEOGEN books in (literally) the esoteric bookshop (I asked theosophical manager, he explained that there’s no psychedelics books in the store (false!) because psychedelics burn a hole in your spirit-body), they are scattered to the winds, hidden and scattered —

  • NO “PSYCHEDELICS” OR ENTHEOGENS SECTION IN ANY ESOTERIC BOOKSHOP; AND,
  • NO Mystery Religions SECTION IN ANY NEWAGE ESTOERIC BOOKSHOP.
    ASK HANEGRAAFF WHY THAT IS. What few Mystery Religion and psychedelics books there are, hidden in the bookshop, are all dissolved into other sections, footnoted, buried in the Underworld of Footnotes, FOLDED-TO-DEATH INTO OTHER TOPICS.
    • F THAT! per Cyberdisciple’s Revolution of the Footnotes, MAKE CHAPTERS 1-3 CALLED “THE GREAT MUSHROOM Mystery Religions INITIATIONS & the Mushroom Banqueting Symposium Tradition”.

My 1999 sequence /trajectory, pivotal around King’s book – Look at King’s Book to see how it gave rise to my Phase 2 work: the Mytheme theory.

Book:
A Christian View of the Mushroom Myth
John King

imagine: I came to King’s Book for Literalist Expectation/ Thinking (after Strange Fruit), but I left King’s book now having Mythic Thinking/ Expectation. King’s Book Is the Moment I Switched to Mythic Thinking. King’s Book Transformed My Thinking from Literalist to Mythemic.

Compare
Doherty’s Neither God Nor Man, &
Carrier’s Jesus from Outer Space.
King’s book conversion, Immediatley post-Heinrich Strange Fruit
& post- friend-gave Mystery Religions book – which (Mystery Religions) isn’t covered by Gnosis Mag (nor Eso/ Metaphysical Newage bookshops) wtff!
After King’s book conversion from Literalist-Historicist to Mythemist,
F&G Book Came Out, Jesus Mysteries
then World Mythology books, and (afterwrards???) announce the maximal entheogen theory of religion. todo: glean from the Egodeath Yahoo Group whether I read World Mythology books before announcing the maximal entheogen theory of religion (added to todo list at top of idea development page 8).

Did I read World Mythology books before, or after, I announced THE MAXIMAL ENTHEOGEN THEORY OF RELIGION?

1986: What psychedelic is the scroll eaten in Revelation?

1988: the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

1992: Rock Lyrics mapped to the Cybernetic theory.

1997: Published the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence in condensed outline/summary spec form.

1998: I was given my first book on Roman(?) Mystery Religions. (Determine which book.)

We are debating how much that friend gets credit for making me enter my Phase 2 theory development; Transcendent Knowledge development.

I had read Gnosis mag — which was putting out its final, Spring 1999 issue just after I was given that book, but, Historical Newage Esotericm like Gnosis magazine fails to cover Mystery Religions.

CHECK GNOSIS MAG ISSUES LIST for Mystery Religions. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/27/idea-development-page-3/#etrs https://www.gnosismagazine.com/back_issue_list/back_issue_list.html OMFG CONFIRMED – NO MENTION OF Mystery Religions IN GNOSIS MAGAZINE ISSUES LIST! 😱 🤯 😵 *WHY NOT*?! WTF IS UP W THAT?! WTH is wrong w/ Newage Theosophical Esotericism bookshops such that they are BLIND to Mystery Religions?! email Smoley asking WTH!

1998: How does Jesus corroborates the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence? But why did he get himself crucified?

1999: Heinrich Strange Fruit: Allegro said Jesus used mushrooms. scroll in Rev = Amanita.

1999 grad library: look up: to learn more to research more about Jesus using mushrooms, and Amanita scrolls in Revelation, look up “mushroom christian” in computer card catalog in the grad lib.

The university’s library system had no Allegro book, but found King’s book.

I read King’s book: “Allegro said Jesus IS mushrooms.”

🤔 🤔 🤔 <– moment of conversion from Literalist Historicist to Mythicist / Mythemeist. Re-look at King’s book now from POV of: THIS BOOK (after a fashion) CONVERTED ME FROM “TRY TO CONFIRM THAT MR JESUS CONFIRMS the Egodeath theory – (BUT WHY DID JESUS – THE IDEAL RATIONAL PERSON – GET HIMSELF CRUC’D??)” TO “MYTHIC JESUS CONFIRMS the Egodeath theory”

I expected Jesus to confirm the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence. Why did he deliberately get himself crucified?

There is no Jesus. Jesus is analogy. Jesus as analogy confirms the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

todo: confirm: Does the whole university library system REALLY lack Allegro’s book? I know they did lack it! I’m sure none of the libs had it – Yet they have King’s RESPONSE book about Allegro’s book?!

When did I finally get Allegro’s book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross?

Hypothesis: ALLEGRO’S BOOK HAD NO direct INFLUENCE ON ME, only *through* King’s book; ie by the time I got Allegro’s book, the idea of mushrooms + ahistoricity had already been digested by me to change the Egodeath theory, via King’s book,

and via some Peter / Paul ahisty’ book in lib too at some year in that ~2000 era.

I don’t think I recorded my log of book reading dates.

IT WOULD BE NICE IF I HAD LOGGED MY BOOK READING YEARS. EG IN TRANSITIONAL PERIOD FROM PHASE 1 TO 2, AROUND 1997-2001.

Allegro’s book was 100% disappointing and irrelevant & worthless, by the time I finally got it; it turned out to be just some stupid shallow anthropology-philology book w/ NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE beyond King’s book’s ideas.

King’s book about Allegro’s book — or rather, about the idea of ahistoricity + mushrooms – transformed my world.

Allegro’s book (read directly) was nothing but an annoyance, a let-down, and an obstacle to the field of {entheogen scholarship – and- mythemes}.

The best-case ideas are ahist + mushroms.

The worst-case expression of those ideas, is Allegro’s book.

Allegro’s book is the worst-possible packaging, of the best-possible ideas.

1999-2000 post to JesusMysteris & Gnost yahoo groups. (Gnostm group name: see Digest 1 of the Egodeath Yahoo Group.)

2001: Met w/ F&G (Jesus Mysteries). todo: email Freke. review list of his books. Which of his books do I have? TFW no card catalog 😞 I could probably sketch that outline rn off top of my head. especially if i see his books list.

2000: Read the entheogen scholarship books. snake = shed skin, toxin.

2002: Announce the maximal entheogen theory of religion. Embedded in the maximal entheogen theory of religion, is my new, mytheme decoding theory.

2003: decode {snake} = worldline.

200x: decode {rock} = block universe.

20xx: decode {tree}.

2011/2013: decode {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism.

Look at King’s book from that POV / timeline-trajectory of concerns.

Gnosis Magazine – Mystery Religions Never Existed

https://www.gnosismagazine.com/back_issue_list/back_issue_list.html

Quick Exercise: Below, I have highlighted Mystery Religions, in Salmon.

Confirmed, Mystery Religions never existed, according to Gnosis mag; but in the modern era (only), Psychedelics exist.

Gnosis #1 (Fall-Winter ’85-’86) Gnosticism: Ancient & Modern <– start of mag = start of the Egodeath theory dev’mt, Back to the Future OCT 26 1985. the LIFESPAN OF NGOSI GNOSIS MAG EXATLY EXACTLY MATCHEDS MY PHASE 1 WORK OCT 1987-1997, I HAD A LOW-KEY VISION OF LABYRINTH — MILD YET SPOT-ON PROFOUND, BRACKETED AT SOME POINT WITHIN 86-87 ACADEMIC YEAR, LIKE SEP 96-DEC 97. (PHASE 2 WORK/PRECURSOR, AT END OF PHASE 1). 1998-1999-2000 IS DEFINITELY START OF MY PHASE 2; BY 2002-2003, WAS HUMP OF LOCKING-ONTO PHASE 2 WORK,

PHASE 2 HYPOTHESIS-ANNOUNCEMENTS AROUND 2002-2003.

PHASE 2 SUMMARY WAS PUBLISHED 2006,

HIATUS DEC 2007-SEP 2011.

PRECURSOR PHASE 2 WORK DURING PHASE 1 (WHICH IS 1985-1997)

REV’N SCROLL WONDERING, WAS WITHIN [JUN 1986- MAY 1987].

ROCK LYRICS DECODING ~1992.

MONOCOURSAL-LABYRINTH VISION WAS WITHIN [SEPTEMBER 1996-DECEMBER 1997]

Includes the Mysterious Revelations of Philip K. Dick, an interview with Gnostic scholar Gilles Quispel, and David Fideler and Stephan Hoeller on the Gnostic myths, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #2 (Spring-Summer ’86) Magic & Tradition
Includes “Magic & Religion: Hidden Partners?,” magical autobiographies, an interview about magic and healing with Diane di Prima, and Joscelyn Godwin on Hermetic academia, more.

Gnosis #3 (Fall-Winter ’86-’87) Kabbalah
Includes an overview of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, interview with Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Stan Tenan’s higher geometry of Genesis, a reader’s guide to Kabbalah, more.

Gnosis #4 (Spring-Summer ’87) Heresies and Heretics
Includes June Singer on Jung’s gnosticism and contemporary gnosis, the legend of the Cathars, an interview with J. Gordon Melton, and a new Islamic heresy, more.

Gnosis #5 (Fall ’87) Oracles & Channeling
Includes recognizing inner teachers, pitfalls of A Course in Miracles, interview with medium Ann Toth, the Oracle of Apollo, Philip K. Dick short story, Jewish oracles, the Chaldean Oracles, the Enochian Calls, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #6 (Winter ’87-’88) Secret Societies
Includes Robert Anton Wilson on the Priory of Sion, an interview with a Great Druid, Christopher McIntosh on the Rosicrucians, R.A. Gilbert on Freemasonry, plus Invocation of the Black Sun, more.Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #7 (Spring ’88) Esoteric Spirituality
Includes a critical look at Rene Guenon and Traditionalism, the “Work” of the Sufis, esoteric teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Schwaller de Lubicz, Ibn ‘Arabi, and Murat Yagan interview, more.Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #8 (Summer ’88) Alchemy
Includes an interview with working alchemist Art Kunkin, Robert Anton Wilson on sexual alchemy, Stephan Hoeller on Jung and alchemy, David Fideler on the Rose Garden of the Philosophers, more.Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #9 (Fall ’88) Northern Mysteries
Includes Edred Thorsson on Runes and Woden, Celtic spirituality, John and Caitlin Matthews on the Grail, a look at writings about occult influences on the Third Reich, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #10 (Winter ’88-’89) Jung & the Unconscious
Includes an interview with June Singer, Stephan Hoeller on Jung and the occult, Dennis Stillings on “Invasion of the Archetypes,” Robert Anton Wilson on synchronicity, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #11 (Spring ’89) Ritual
Includes “Why Ritual Works” according to Hawaiian Huna, an interview with Colin Wilson, whirling dervishes, wilderness rites of passage, Stephan Hoeller on the Mass, the esoteric significance of baseball, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #12 (Summer ’89) Sects & Schisms
Includes a look at the current Satanism scare, articles on Scientology, Rosicrucians, wandering bishops, and the amazing story of the Moorish Science Temple, more.

Gnosis #13 (Fall ’89) The Goddess
Includes modern Goddess worship, Michael Grosso on visions of Mary, Caitlin Matthews on Sophia, Dawn Kolokithas on the Muse, the Black Goddess, “Goddess in the Metropolis,” more.

Gnosis #14 (Winter ’89-’90) The Dark Side
Includes examinations of Julius Evola’s uneasy mix of Fascism and the esoteric, Peter Lamborn Wilson on the Yezidis of Iran, critiques of Foucault’s Pendulum, “Darkness on the Path,” and an interview with kahunas, more.

Gnosis #15 (Spring ’90) Ancient Civilizations
Includes Peter Balan on the Maya, interviews with Bika Reed and John Michell, articles on Catal Huyuk, the Kushite kingdom of Meroe, the Delphic Oracle, and the spirit of Egypt, more.

Gnosis #16 (Summer ’90) Orthodoxy
Includes John Garvey on Eastern Orthodoxy and esotericism, interviews with Orthodox abbot Father Herman, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and Roger Garaudy, and a look at the Russian mystic Soloviev, more.

Gnosis #17 (Fall ’90) Sex & Spirituality
Includes the path of Aphrodite, the history of sex magick, coitus reservatus and mystical sex, an Islamic perspective on sexuality and marriage, and the relevance of Wilhelm Reich, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #18 (Winter ’91) The Middle Ages
Includes looks at medieval mystics Meister Eckhart, Raymond Lully, and Abraham Abulafia, Tarot origins, the esoteric twelfth century, and Ezra Pound’s research into the Cathars and troubadours, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #19 (Spring ’91) The Trickster
Includes the Fool and the Jester, West Africa’s trickster god Eshu, Dr. Gene Scott profile, Khezr the “green man,” Paul Krassner, and eight pages of Illuminati satire, more.

Gnosis #20 (Summer ’91) Gurdjieff & the Fourth Way
Includes “The Fourth Way and Inner Transformation,” an interview with Jacob Needleman, Kathleen Speeth, Fourth Way cosmology, the Work today, Gurdjieff and Kabbalah, and possible sources of Gurdjieff’s teaching, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #21 (Fall ’91) Holy War
Includes articles on the Crusades, the Islamic concept of jihad, an interview with Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Hildegard of Bingen, Orthodox Christianity on internal warfare,”No Peaceful Warriors!” and more.

Gnosis #22 (Winter ’92) Dreams
Includes Sufi teachings about dreams, shared dreaming, Fred Alan Wolf on dreams and quantum physics, a Celtic view of dreams, the ethics of dreamwork, and profile of Karlfried Graf von Durckheim, more.

Gnosis #23 (Spring ’92) Gnosticism Revisited
Includes Stephan Hoeller on definitions of Gnosticism, a view of ancient Gnostics and sacramental sex, Gnosticism and social action, Peter Lamborn Wilson on spiritual anarchy in colonial America, Kathleen Raine interview, more.

Gnosis #24 (Summer ’92) Saints & Scoundrels
Includes interview with David Steindl-Rast on saints and the contemplative life, the Hell-Fire Club, Cagliostro, Aleister Crowley, Tsar Nicholas, the cranky saints of Ireland, more.

Gnosis #25 (Fall ’92) Groups & Communities
Includes critique of Robert Bly, history of the Black Muslims, the Brethren of the Common Life, Kabir Helminski on Sufi groups, symposium on the Spirituality of the Future, more.

Gnosis #26 (Winter ’93) Psychedelics & the Path
Includes interview with Ram Dass, psychedelic trips by Jean-Paul Sartre and Adele Davis, Roger Walsh on “Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical,” Bruce Eisner on Ecstasy, more.

Gnosis #27 (Spring ’93) Sacred Art & Music
Includes cathedral symbolism, “Orpheus and the Mysteries of Harmony,” healing sound and color, Rudolf Steiner’s Eurythmy, Orthodox icons, the art of tattoos, more. Available as high quality photocopy reprint.

Gnosis #28 (Summer ’93) One God or Many?
Includes Charles Tart interview, Mme. Blavatsky’s Mahatmas, the gods of the African diaspora, the meaning of tree myths, and Gnosticism vs. conservative Christianity, more.

Gnosis #29 (Fall ’93) The Body
Includes the subtle bodies, interview with Michael Murphy, Self Observation, Moshe Feldenkrais, ancient Egyptian view of embodiment, a pagan defense of hunting, more.

Gnosis #30 (Winter ’94) Sufism
Includes history of Sufism in North America, Sufism and psychology, readers’ guide, women and Sufism, Murat Yagan on the Source of Sufism, Sufi poetry, and interview with Refik Algan, more.

Gnosis #31 (Spring ’94) Russia and Eastern Europe
Includes underground spiritual schools now surfacing in Russia, a look at the Bogomil Gnostics of Bulgaria, a history of Russian esotericism, Slavic shamans, more.

Gnosis #32 (Summer ’94) Pop Culture & the Esoteric POP CULT
Includes looks at creators of comics, SF, and rock music who have esoteric intentions, interview with Helen Palmer, examination of the occult in romance novels, more.

Gnosis #33 (Fall ’94) The Earth
Includes power spots, interview with Sterling Bunnell, shamanism in Ecuador, Peter Lamborn Wilson on “Chaos, Eros, Earth, and Old Night,” Steiner’s cosmology, geomancy, more.

Gnosis #34 (Winter ’95) Healing
Includes interview with Barbara Brennan, the art of psychic healing, animal totems, reflexology, Richard Grossinger’s critique of holistic healing, and Thomas Keating’s Centering Prayer, more.

Gnosis #35 (Spring ’95) The Spirituality of America
Includes interview with Karen Armstrong, the New England Transcendentalists, the surprising occult roots of Joseph Smith, Alison Hawthorne Deming on the Puritans, Quetzalcoatl, more.

Gnosis #36 (Summer ’95) The Inner Planes
Includes interview with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Siobhan Houston on Chaos Magic, Murat Yagan’s Kebzeh teachings, John Dee, Emanuel Swedenborg, Kabbalah, more.

Gnosis #37 (Fall ’95) Tenth Anniversary Issue
Includes interviews with Huston Smith and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, contemplative prayer, the Stoics, the Lovecraft Mythos, and a symposium on the present state of Esotericism, more.

Gnosis #38 (Winter ’96) The Stars ASTRAL ASCENT MYSTICISM
Includes interview with Graham Hancock, Is Astrology True?, critique of ET channeling, interview with Robert Powell on Sophia, Star-gods of Neoplatonism, C.C. Zain, Robert Hand on Ancient Astrology, more.

Gnosis #39 (Spring ’96) East Meets West
Includes Guru lowdown, Advaita and Western Seekers, interviews with the Big Kahuna and Tarthang Tulku, Quakers and Buddhists, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Pagan Dharma, Peter Lamborn Wilson on pilgrimages, more.

Gnosis #40 (Summer ’96) Hermeticism
Includes Alchemy, Hermes, Renaissance Hermeticism, interview with a French alchemist, Swordsmanship as Western martial art, the Enochian Apocalypse, new Emerald Tablet translation, and secret Knights of Malta manuscript, more.

Gnosis #41 (Fall ’96) The Cosmic Joke
Includes J. Gordon Melton on Ramtha, an interview with Claudio Naranjo, The Wizard of Oz, as allegory for the soul’s way home, the PR problems of Christianity today, Agnosis parody, more.

Gnosis #42 (Winter ’97) Death & The Afterlife
Includes Castaneda’s Don Juan, the case against reincarnation, Edgar Cayce’s afterlife visions, mystical bonds beyond death, more.

Gnosis #43 (Spring ’97) Love, Sacred & Profane
Includes interviews with John Welwood and Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi, the War Against Love, S&M’s spiritual implications, Walt Whitman, Jacob Needleman, Golden Dawn Sex Magick.

Gnosis #44 (Summer ’97) Freemasonry
Includes the initiatic symbolism of Masonry, Masonry vs. Catholicism, Arturo Reghini, was George Washington a Satanist?, an interview with Christopher Knight, a bibliography of Masonry.

Gnosis #45 (Fall ’97) Esoteric Christianity ESO Christianity
Includes Father Origen of Alexandria, Jacob Boehme, an interview with Nicholas Whitehead, Celtic Christianity, the Penitent Brothers of New Mexico.

Gnosis #46 (Winter ’98) Divination
Includes Mary Greer on new oracles, Tarot origins, astrology, the I Ching, Geomancy, Gurdjieff on Inner Animals and an interview with Liza Wiemer.

Gnosis #47 (Spring ’98) Prayer & Meditation
Includes Larry Dossey and E.J. Gold interviews, solar worship, Sardello on the soul in prayer.

Gnosis #48 (Summer ’98) Witchcraft & Paganism
Includes Chas Clifton on the nature of Paganism, Starhawk and Carol Christ interview, the surprising (and recent) origin of Wicca, the Goddess movement, an exposé of some recent “Celtic spirituality” books, more.

Gnosis #49 (Fall ’98) The New Age
Includes D. Patrick Miller on the media’s view of alternative spirituality, José and Lloydine Argüelles interview, Bob Banner on leaving a spiritual community, Carole Brooks Platt on inner voices, Robin Robertson on active imagination, more.

Gnosis #50 (Winter ’99) Good & Evil
Includes an interview with Robert Anton Wilson, Stephan A. Hoeller on the Gnostic view of evil, Jack Boulware on Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, a Satanic perspective on doing good, sex abuse by spiritual teachers, more.

Gnosis #51 (Spring ’99) The Grail
Includes interview with R.J. Stewart, John Matthews on Healing the Wounded King, Ean Begg on Jung and the Grail, the Priory of Sion Hoax, and much more.

What Years I Had Tiny Library vs. Huge Library

Intellectual Autobiography Reconstruction – re: What Books Did I Have When
Tiny Library, No Reading

Band House Aug 1982-July 1983

Cottage + Dorm Aug 83 – Jun 84?

Cottage Jun 84-Dec 85

Tiny Library, Moderate Reading

Jan 86 – June 86 Cottage + Dorm 1st floor

Cottage + Dorm 3rd floor June 86-June 87

Apt + Cottage June 87-early Jan 88

Tiny Library, Heavy Reading

Jan 88-July 88 cottage

aug 88-june 89 townhouse + cottage

late 89-1990 cottage

1990-1991 apt – small brick shelves – therefore, at this surprisingly late date, I must have still had very few books; therefore most of my “explosion of reading books” through this era (starting 1988) was still library usage, *not* personal library; my own lib must have been still, TINY.

In early 1988, after my breakthrough, I said: I need to read the WORTHLESS JUNK, WHAT PASSES FOR “WRITING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT IN 1988”, in order to communicate to people what enlightenment is REALLY about.

Big Library, Heavy Reading
🪄 *bing* Instantly a Big Library Appears

1991-1996 big house at big university – bought first – Personal Library – Huge Sudden Acquisition of Many Books, Seemingly Overnight Instantly, Oak bookcases

1996-1997 med house at big university

Bigger Library, Heavy Reading

1999-2002 bigger lib

Huge Lib, Heavy Reading

2003-2007 HUGE lib

Huge Lib, Little Reading

2008-2009 huge lib , little reading

Small Lib, Med Reading

2010-2014

Small Lib, Little/Moderate Reading

2015-Oct 2019

Tiny Lib, No Reading

Nov 2019-Dec 2020

jan 2 2021 retrieved handful of books listed here.

Books I Didn’t Know I Had

Just the titles: most happy about, first: ….

Earlier Notes of Finding Books

i’ll list some 15 books retrieved, later.

Funny! – I wanted to purchase Ruck’s book about Fairytales and King’s book about Allegro – turns out, I already have them!

Man, my library needs a database. My book boxes are actually highly organized.

And I have Thagard: The Cognitive Science of Science, who knew?

New Age Gnosticism, April D deConick – I read it cover to cover, but gotta review these/this stuff.

Glanced through Irvin/Rutajit again — books – sorry, but Zzz 😴 superficial, limited. Sorry, just doesn’t inspire much. I try; I look through them, I do read them. Books like these are why the world needs the Egodeath theory, to provide the missing main course of edification, the engine for the plane.

There Is Not a Special Class of People to Whom the Egodeath Theory Doesn’t Apply

People Who Know the Egodeath Theory, Rightly Say that the Egodeath Theory Applies to Everyone; the Egodeath Theory Has Never Asserted that There’s a Special Class to Whom the Egodeath Theory Doesn’t Apply

If there’s anyone who is trying to make Transcendent Knowledge exclusive, it’s not the people who know the Egodeath theory.

The people who know the Egodeath theory do not try to make Transcendent Knowledge exclusive.

Some people were hearing “the Egodeath theory doesn’t apply to mystics”, and I found a place where hyperbole was said, that did indeed – when heard out of context – give the impression that the Egodeath theory doesn’t apply to mystics.

I was glad to hear all of the people who know the Egodeath theory, saying clearly, that the Egodeath theory applies to everyone.

There is no special class of people to whom the Egodeath theory or Transcendent Knowledge doesn’t apply.

Such a concept or construct (the existence of a special class of people to whom the Egodeath theory doesn’t apply), plays no part in the Egodeath theory –

  • Neither in the Phase 1 Core theory (the Cybernetic theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence),
  • Nor in the Phase 2, Mytheme theory (the “analogical psychedelic pre-existence” theory of religious mythology).

Against Explanations in Terms of “Psychology”. Here’s My Explanation in Terms of Psychology

I deny that I’m talking about any particular person. This website never discusses particular people. But I find this explanatory hypothesis interesting.

The following is a Psychological explanation, which is therefore bunk, because the field of Psychology is hokum. But let us play that game.

Suppose Joe S. wants to elevate himself over other people; that’s his motivation — a reasonable motivation with much merit, as long as you avoid cheating and malformed reasoning. I’m all about elevating people.

Joe S. wants to elevate himself up into the Club of the Mystics, by deliberately picking and *only*, exclusively using the search term “the Absolute”, precisely *because* he knows that no one else (the commoners) uses that term.

Joe S. is a *expert* on the phrase “ground of being” — in fact, he’s such an expert, he’ll rattle off at the drop of a hat, the etymological historiographical derivation of the phraseology “the ground of all being”, that it was coined in 1928 while Paul Tillich was driving to a breakfast meeting, the eggs were salted a bit much that morning…

THEN IF YOU’RE SUCH AN EXPERT ON THE PHRASE “THE GROUND OF BEING” that you chastise the show-host “Don’t you know, the phrase “the ground of being” is simply a synonym for “the Absolute”?”

😲 🤯 😵

At this point, we all expect the show-host to grab the guest by the collar and shake him so vigorously his eyeballs rattle, and scream back SO WHY DIDN’T YOU SEARCH ON THE SYNONYMOUS PHRASE “the ground of being”?????? ARE U INSANE? WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?!”

My explanation: “Because [in a tone of disdain] THAT phrase is used by commoners; it’s not exclusive to us Special People, us Mystics.”

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mystic —
“A person who claims to attain, or believes in the possibility of attaining, insight into mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge, as by direct communication with the divine, or immediate intuition in a state of spiritual ecstasy. A person initiated into religious mysteries.”

Joe S. wants to elevate himself over other, ordinary people. So as his strategy, he finds deliberately a term which almost no one else uses, “the Absolute” (which is the exact “same thing” (in his mind) as the most-precious, precious phrase “high dose”).

Lowly, ordinary people, mere commoners (those ignorant “unfolding in time” people), use the popular term “the ground of being”. So let’s exclusively use, attach oneself to, and magically charge-up, the term “the Absolute”, and identify with that rarely used term, because it’s rarely used.

And then exclaim how strange it is that almost no other smart people use that specific, exclusive, magically charged term.

(‘magically’ — see, I’m employing “explanation through Psychology theory”, which is hokum and bunk. But let us do this exercise, to form this interesting explanatory hypothesis.)

Let us designate a Special Class of Superior, Essentially Different People, called, “Mystics”. Let us then associate & identify oneself with this Special Class of Different, Elevated People.

It becomes then CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT to detect and determine who’s in the club, and who’s out. You accomplish that by loudly and immediately interrogating everyone you meet, “Are you in the Absolute High Dose club?”

And you accomplish that elite membership-detection by machine-searching the Web for the particular phrase “the absolute high dose” and seeing with glee that almost no hits are returned – thus demonstrating how exclusive the Club of the Mystics is.

Then, it follows from logic & Reason, that “who’s in the exclusive elite club” is the same thing as “those who take the absolute high dose (preferably frequently)”.

To get into the exclusive elite club of The Mystics, requires passing through the narrow gateway that’s guarded by a dragon-serpent-angel, wielding fire-blades; that gateway being, “specifically”, taking the absolute high dose.

Several elements of that distorted model are correct.

A well-formed model is that there are “two races” metaphorically speaking: possibilism-thinking vs. eternalism-thinking .

Desiring to elevate “Mystics” into a Special Class and identify with that class; and deliberately picking a search-term which almost no one else uses (“the Absolute”); and conflating the particular concept-label “the Absolute” with “high dose”, to such a complete extent that you form a fused concept “the Absolute High Dose”, AMOUNTS TO A POORLY FORMED VERSION OF CORRECT THINKING — correct thinking which is, the “two races” or “two classes of people” realization, which is pretty true.

Ordinary, exoteric people indeed have unfolding-in-time, naive possibilism-thinking; while the mystic, esoteric elite have timeless, eternalism-thinking (along with qualified possibilism-thinking).

Though, against Valentinus, I ask: this bit of your metaphor-based model is rough, it doesn’t quite cohere: when a person converts from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking, do they then “switch races”????

A Malformed Version of Correct Thinking
  • Desiring to elevate “Mystics” into a Special Class and identify with that class.
  • Deliberately picking a search-term which almost no one else uses (“the Absolute”).
  • Conflating the particular concept-label “the Absolute” with “high dose”, to such a complete extent that you form a fused, undifferentiated concept “the Absolute High Dose“, and then use that fused-concept to drive your thinking, values, and argumentation.
Extra, Bonus Bunk Pseudo-Explanation

While we’re on the subject of bunk, Psychology-based, pseudo-explanations, here’s another one of mine:

All this attention lately, this propagandized media-machine hyping of “low dose”, has spawned its monstrous nemesis and opponent, “the absolute high dose”.

If my theory is correct, then we can expect to see, and predict the existence of, podcast episodes that scathingly disparage and demonize this hyped new concept of “low dose”, and swing to the opposite extreme overshoot, of enthusing instead, about “tripping really, really hard.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-xfMkHyuQ&t=1374s

😄 😄 😵

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