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definitely parasols of victory – positively identified

Debating in isolation about the Plaincourault fresco is a proxy, a cop-out. Scholars don’t want to engage and admit mushrooms in (Hellenistic and) Christian history, so instead of scholars engaging honestly and directly with my trademark question:

“To what extent mushrooms in Christian history?”

scholars instead limit the spotlight to a single, proxy topic, treated as if the entire subject can be settled by treating this single case as the whole theory stands or falls based on it. Just like Eleusis is mis-used as a proxy (and replacement) for the use of visionary plants in all Hellenistic mystery religion.

A dirty, deception-based strategy that scholars use: eliminate all use of visionary plants throughout Hellenistic mystery religion, by exclusively focusing on Eleusis, as a proxy.

A dirty, deception-based strategy that scholars use: eliminate all use of visionary plants throughout Christian history, by exclusively focusing on Plaincourault, as a proxy.

‘Mushrooms’ here means psilocybe and amanita, but mostly psilocybe, due to its reliable effects and no plant-preparation required. In art, 4 forms: panaeolus, cubensis, liberty cap, amanita.

Parasols of victory (not Italian pine trees, as the top art expert claimed).

Being a Witch who Coaches Roller Derby Is Fine, but Self-Presentation as Threatening, Aggressive, Ego-focused, and Intimidating Prevents Being Perceived as an Idea-Focused Scholar

It would be an ad hominem fallacy to criticize a person’s scholarship because the person is (self-identified as) a witch and roller-derby coach.

It is fair and relevant and valid to avoid interacting with a person who strives to act intimidating, who strives to act threatening (“I will crush your ego!!”), who strives to act aggressive, in the field and conduct of scholarship, who strives to conduct themselves as a witch in a roller derby instead of conducting themselves like a scholar is (ideally) expected to self-present, as civil and cooperative in working together to move the field ahead, and focused on the ideas in the field rather than on destroying the ego of other personalities in the field as if we are separate competing teams in a roller derby league, adopting and committing to an emphatically adversarial stance on a personal (or personality) level.

If a person demands to be perceived as a historian, then act like it; conduct yourself like one would expect a historian to present themselves.

If you present yourself as a witch that coaches roller derby, in the field of scholarship, instead of demonstrating your focus on the ideas in the field, how can you demand that people perceive you as a scholar and interact with you as a scholar, when you also demand that they interact with you as one would expect in a contact-sport roller derby?

If your motivating concern is to crush the opponent team’s egos, you demonstrate lack of being motivated by the ideas in the field. These are ideally considered to be mutually exclusive motivations.

As a scholar, why do you interact with scholars: to crush their egos? Or to move the ideas in the field forward? Which is it? It is self-defeating to present oneself as threatening, aggressive, and intimidating on a personal level, while claiming to also want to be respected as a historian (or scholar, or theorist).

Livestream: Psychedelic Mysteries and Entheogenic Sacraments: A Critical Historical Perspective (Sep. 27, 2021)

Psychedelic Mysteries and Entheogenic Sacraments: A Critical Historical Perspective
Casey McFarlane, Chris Bennett, Dennis McKenna & Tom Hatsis

https://www.facebook.com/psychedelichistorian/videos/1673793052823419

Tom Hatsis’ Reply to Me

September 28, 2021

Hi Michael, 

Doing quite well, as I hope you are too. 
Thanks for tuning in yesterday. 

The shape of the Liberty Cap is anachronistic. The thing is, you are all looking for mushrooms in Christian art because Allegro said there were amanita muscaria (not psilocybe) buried in text (not art). I’ve talked to Carl Ruck about this and he agrees with me – Allegro was wrong about the etymological thing. So you are sort of in this hypocritical position where you don’t even believe the very foundation from which you base your theory. There is an irony here that is so symphonic in its poetical implications. So, in short, the Liberty Cap claim does not amount to much. You want to move the conversation away from the fly agaric because there is no evidence for it. Sorry, dude, but I’m not fooled by your sleight of hand at all. 

I never said that every supposed image was a parasol of victory. There are in fact 5 different categories that every mushroom you or anyone else has ever put forth falls into. I wrote about them in an article that appears in PsyPress UK (though it’s about ten years old at this point), titled “The Dogmatists’ Debacle.” Peep it. 

I focus on amanita muscaria because that’s what Allegro based this whole nonsensical conspiracy theory on. It seems that you all (you, Jerry Brown, John Rush, etc) want me to move away from it because it undermines your entire conspiracy theory hypothesis. And I agree. It completely annihilates it, which is easy because you are literally using the same “logic” that “flat earthers” use. 

Bestiaries are secular texts. Baseball games are secular activities. Sorry to be the one to tell you this. I really don’t know what else to say. I don’t need to exaggerate anything because your arguments are so poorly constructed it really is child’s play to dismantle them. Also – it’s not just bestiaries. I can point to many of the same image problems in any medieval medium you prefer. It all comes out of the wash the same. 

I have discussed your coverage of my work in the past. My colleagues think you’re a laughing stock and we’ve gotten more than a few chuckles out of you. However, I have a heart and after several of them started to insult you in ways that I found uncalled for and mean, I stopped mentioning you at all. In short, I avoid mentioning you because, quite frankly, I’m embarrassed for you and leave your work out of discussions for the same reason I don’t steal candy from babies. 

I’m interested in finding the historical truth of these topics. If there are mushrooms in Christian art, I’d be more than happy to change my mind. But you have proved unpersuasive to me and everyone else who has thought about these issues in a serious and sincere way. 

The Canterbury Psalter does not show psilocybe mushrooms. Saying it over and over to yourself like a mantra does not make it so. 

I’m still willing to do a live interview with you on these topics, but I’m guessing you are a little too worried to speak to someone like me (who knows what they are talking about) because we both know that your ego – not any real evidence – is driving your belief. And we both know I can crush that. 
So step up to the plate or it’s time we go our separate ways. 

While you decide how you’d like to move forward, I leave you with this to consider.
Since you are pretending to be a historian, let’s put you through the kind of rigorous exercises that historians use to gauge historical probabilities. You want to play with the big kids, so please consider that the “holy mushroom” fails all the safeguards of history that protect good ideas from ridiculous ones. If not, please explain your hypothesis in the following terms. 

1.Multiple Independent Contemporary Attestation 
2. Explanatory Scope
3. Anachronisms (y’all got a BIG problem here!) 
4. Ad Hoc explanations (here too 😉 ) 
5. Hard to Vary (holy shit is this a VERY BIG problem for you!)
6. Explanatory Power (ditto)

Or just ignore this email. I really don’t care either way. You aren’t bringing any good arguments to the table, so this is really just becoming a waste of my time anyway. Otherwise, please engage with the criteria above and prove me wrong. If not, then there is no reason for me or any other historian to take you seriously. 

That said, I wish you peace and happiness in life. 

– Tom

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#biblio – it lists the article:
The Dogmatist’s Debacle: Questioning Holy Mushroom History as Found in the Writings of Jan Irvin
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-dogmatists-debacle

Looks like a bluff: he shows no specific evidence of knowing my ideas, only generic, universal, vague insults. What he shows instead is total mischaracterization of my work so what he’s describing is his own thinking and that of eg Irvin, in place of showing any hints/clues that he knows my perspective. He just seems like on autopilot; generic responses, no advancement of his thinking.

He gives both directions of indication that he is bluffing and/or so totally wrapped in his own thinking, he doesn’t my view (writings). I demonstrate that I’ve read his works; he gives zero demonstration of having looked at my writings.

Hatsis projects the “historian” identification onto me, but I am a theorist, of mytheme interpretation, and of the altered state; I’m not self-identified as a “historian”.  That’s projection by Tom of his own values & brand positioning/aspiration onto me/us. I even signed my name to him as “the theorist of…”; not “historian”.

He doesn’t seem to understand my position about Liberty Caps.  When he says ‘parasol’, he must say also ‘Liberty Cap’ and address that.  He says that is “anachronism”(?)

I’m not following his list of criteria.  We’re not engaging.

His first sentence is remarkable: “You look for msh in art because Allegro …”  He projects his roots (his early gullibility that he reports being embarrassed about) onto me/us.  My trajectory 1985-1998-2002-2006-2021 has nothing to do with Allegro, but Hatsis cannot imagine not being initially influenced by Allegro, as Tom was.  He’s mad at his past self, and is now lashing out at others for making the mistakes he made.

“You want to move the conversation away from the fly agaric because there is no evidence for it.” I want the field to stop putting Amanita at the center and put Psilocybe at the center because Psilocybe reliably (as McK arg’d yest. against scopalamine) induces the classic loose-cognitive experiences matching world religious mythemes, and Psilocybe requires no preparation, and is ubiquitous in several forms (paneolus, liberty cap, cubensis) throughout eras and regions.

He’s incorrect in every aspect of trying to characterize my view. I assert that there is evidence for Amanita; but nevertheless, I call to stop putting Amanita in the center and put Psilocybe in the center instead.

I haven’t read any discussion of my writings, so I don’t know if Hatsis read my articles at all.  I see no evidence of such.  His email is bafflingly vague and abstract.  I’d have to properly rewrite his email for him and then reply to that.  Don’t know if I’ll reply any time soon; he’s free to read my writings, if he actually cares about the field.

He says I didn’t go on his show because of my ego and how he’d crush it.  We learn about his thinking/ center of emphasis here, not mine.  His eager relishing in lobbing acerbic insults (a mis-focus) and the excess exposure, are why I declined his initial invitation.  I would first have phone calls with him, because it seems he doesn’t understand me at all. He seems totally incurious.

“Ep72a Christian Mushroom Art.mp3” & 72b

September 28, 2021

Reading aloud Cyberdisciple’s article / weblog posting of September 26, 2021, titled:

Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/criticism-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art-by-tom-hatsis-and-chris-bennett/

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      • Made several lengthy side-commentaries
      • Gathered typo fixes.  
    • At the end of Episode 72b, I read-aloud Tom Hatsis’ reply to me, and comment on it.
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Timestamps in “Ep72a Christian Mushroom Art.mp3”

  • 0:00 – start reading Cyb’s article, up to critique of concept “followers of Allegro”.
  • 44:06 – continues not reading article, but my John Lash comparison where Lash equates everyone on earth for all time as a Follower of Wasson (vs. of Allegro) – himself silently excepted, of course.
  • ~49:00 – i resent being (indirectly, implicitly) misrep’d as “follower of Allegro”, that’s false in every way, it’s a cheap smear effort to elevate oneself.
  • 51:15 – Lash and Heinrich screwed up and wrote that Allegro asserted that Mr. Historical Jesus used mushrooms.
  • 1:00:47 – resume Cyber’s article , section “John Marco Allegro, SMC, and his “Students”
  • 1:10:00 “brazenly combining the ahistoricity…” (article) “distracted many scholars”. I ask Cyb “which scholars cited allegro favorably/championed him?”
  • ~1:20:00 Hatsis is serving a needed role of correcting pop approval of Allegro
  • ~1:23:00 I’m midway along a spectrum of “scholar” and “popularizer” but it’s complicated. I’m an original theorist, first of the nature of ego transcendence (summarized at Principia Cybernetica on www in Feb 1997, core theory), not so much about entheogens in history (made perceptible by my system of mytheme decoding as analogy describing ASC experience of non-control) until 2000-2003 then especially 2006.
  • ~1:27:00 scholars, stop using the word & concept ‘secret’. ask neutral question, “to what extent mushrooms in Christian history” (a big part of the climax point of my 2006 Plaincourault article).
  • 1:30:45 “stop citing allegro positively. drop Allegro” (I slightly disagree)
  • 1:34:00 odd that Hatsis connects topic of Art with Allegro, who was text.
  • 1:40:00 “nonetheless, the categories “discipuli allegri” and “holy mushroom theory”, “
  • 1:44:24 mic level check, music moment
  • ~1:48:00 surveying all the h2 headings of the article, with electric guitar in background
  • ~1:51:07 Hatsis rightly treats the problem not of Allegro but of the pop use of pop version of Allegro. skimming section headings, “”Scholar” as Brand and Style”. Cyb contributes / tackles articulating the need to focus on ideas in the field, not personalities, low, content-ignoring personal attacks & insults (see Hatsis’ content-thin, insult-filled email to me today). “Psychedelic Witch” / .com, pushing Scopalamine pet plant fixation, rebranded to “Psychedelic Historian”.
  • 1:55:00 Hatsis himself initially fell into pop culture so now he’s lashing out overcompensating slurring and smearing everyone else for what he originally did, embracing mushrooms or probably, Amanita conflated with mushrooms. / stop being shackled by ‘secret’. Need to re-conceptualize ‘secret’, not make the familiar connotations the center.
  • 1:57:00 Dr. Carl “Mr. Secret” Ruck. stop ‘secret’, stop Allegro as center of field, stop posturing as “Real Historian” and be it. Secret. Allegro. Brand (= topic of personality smears/ attacks/ insults).
  • 2:00:00 finished surveying the headings of the article. “Finding Psychedelic in History and the Understanding of “Secrecy and Mystery” – after short break. Brief electric guitar, ice water.
  • Reading section: “Finding Psychedelics in History and the Understanding of “Secrecy and Mystery”. Confirmed ~2:04:00 the Figure 8 mic polar pattern rejects this quiet keyboard, barely audible.
  • The purpose of these podcasts (Egodeath Mystery Show) is not to popularize the Egodeath theory, but to test microphones. Discovered I been using a Limiter (not really triggering it tho, it appears) – found that Phantom Power is on, to a ribbon mic (thought to cause death of mic/ a severe violation).
  • ~2:07:00 YouTube vid of trying to destroy 4 ribbon mics b/c Bandrew of Podcastage wussed out and wouldn’t do his Pizza Plosive test (which he always does for every mic) on the precursor of my R40 ribbon mic, the MXL R144 ribbon mic.
  • 2:10:00 have I been plosiving this mic?
  • The subject of this podcast (the Egodeath Mystery Show) is microphone demonstrations for myself. To do these mic demonstrations, I’m employing Cyber’s article that he wrote yesterday.
  • 2:11:00 – Pausing to cool the room. Electric guitar.

Timestamps in “Ep72b Christian Mushroom Art.mp3”

  • 0:00 – 42% down the article. “Here I have to say that they are on to something” “wrong direction”. Overemph “secret”.
  • 1:30 – list of overuse of “secret” – Robert Graves: Cyb’s correct approach of asking “What is his contributions and limitations?” Not “is he a good guy, or a bad guy (wholesale)? in-group, or out-group?”
  • 4:30 example: Allegro doesn’t belong in the field, but he employs “secret”.
  • Ergot itself is … my aside: the secrete that’s revealed is not the entheogen, tho closely “associated”.
  • My aside: my critique of “it could be the accomplishment of a lifetime to discover evidence of msh in Christian art” (Chris said in stream yesterday). “Discovering evidence’ requires forming a good Theory framework to perceive and gather data/evidence. Methodology/theory reveals the evidence, like perceiving a 3-d stereogram requires the right suitable focusing.
  • 8:12 they act like what’s revealed in Mystery Religions is the plant itself.
  • …
  • ~1:34:45 Reading Hatsis’ email reply to me.
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Deciding now how to handle text reaction to Hatsis’ email, eg post it here & comment on it? [done, a little] My voice commentary at end of the 4.5-hour recording covers my reply well, though most of his email is obscure/abstract/vague to me. I might record a clean, straight-through reading of Cyb’s article, later.

Playlist

We’re listening to Illumination Valve, loft session 3. Distortion: Fender Blues Jr. III with two EL84 valves, driven by MXR 10-band EQ, through the stock Eminence Fender Special Design guitar speaker.

134__ The timestamp is x. (after intro)

The Content Segment

  • Read the posting.
  • every time, read the phrase aloud as:

discipuli Allegri (“students of Allegro”)

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

3:22:47 + 1:05:45 = 4.5 hours. timestamp after stop recording

Publishing the Episode

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Broken Keyboard Keys: a, e, >

I probably have to replace this keyboard. Thanks to typing at WordPress to create this site.

Email to Tom Hatsis after livestream with McKenna & Bennett

September 27, 2021

Points to cover about mushrooms in Greek & Christian art & mythology

Hi Tom, 
Hope it’s going well.

Suggestions Re: today’s livestream:

Mention the shape of Liberty Caps. 

Explain how the wide range of mushroom shapes in Christian art can all be dismissed as parasols of victory.

Mention my article proving 70 psychoactive mushroom trees in the Psalter.

Don’t overfocus on Amanita, narrowly, conflating Amanita with mushrooms as if synonyms.  

Don’t exaggerate the distinction between “secular” vs. “religious” works, in the case of the bestiary.  

Address my coverage of your work.

You are interested in finding mushrooms in Christianity, so you should mention my analysis of the Canterbury Psalter.

This section of my (2nd) website:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art
consists of these two articles and a gallery:

I am looking forward to your book or books, about psilocybe and related topics in (broadly) Greek and Christian history.  The field needs internal critique, done well.  I encourage people to bridge and co-solve two domains together: Hellenistic & Christian.  That combination has paid off for me, in reading mythemes as description of the mystic altered state.

Chris said discovering evidence and proof of mushrooms in Christian art would be the achievement of a lifetime, but as I see it, that doesn’t go as far as it needs to.  

The real, overall achievement is to explain ego transcendence as an altered-state experience of pre-existence of future control-thoughts and frozen time, and to decode mythology as focusing on branching (the “tree” model of time, possibility, & control) vs. non-branching (the “snake” model of control). 

Proving mushrooms in Christian art, as in the Great Canterbury Psalter, is not a standalone achievement, but is a part of that broader achievement.

The full set of key religious mythemes needs to be decoded and recognized as description of the altered state from sacred eating and drinking.  
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/mytheme-list/

— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death (as analogical psychedelic eternalism & non-control), Egodeath.com & egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Cyberdisciple’s Posts September 2021

Cyb’s Summary Review of the book The Immortality Key

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/cyberdisciple-reviews-brian-murareskus-the-immortality-key-summary-and-collection-of-posts/

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About the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology & psychedelics –

Psychedelic Induced Transpersonal Experiences, Therapies, and Their Implications for Transpersonal Psychology
Thomas Roberts & Michael Winkelman, 2013
https://www.academia.edu/4674528/Psychedelic_Induced_Transpersonal_Experiences_Therapies_and_Their_Implications_for_Transpersonal_Psychology

May 1988 Voice Recording:
Transcendence Theory

It sounds very high pitch (my voice is mostly unrecognizable) as if speed of this tape playback is too fast (confirmed the speed is slightly too fast) – but, the speed of speaking is natural. It sounds scrawny, thin-nasally, and young punk. I pronounce “now” like “naa-ah”, almost southern (no “oh” at the end). I hear traces of the lazy-tongue slurring. The articulation/enunciation is mostly clear.

Side A 1/4 through seems to prove that this was made not with a boombox, but with a 4-track deck at std speed. Two different talking, in L & R ch. I say calmly “Is it really so necessary to be so agitated, …” am I playing a previous recording?? “Maybe this recording is a completion of my first recording.” “The previous tape, a motivational tape, was made at a time when as I recall, …. now I’m so much calmer. The previous recording was so agitated against myself. Now I can’t imagine being in that state… in the last couple days since I made that tape.” “Now I’m so calm, could I even make a serious tape like that now? … I should try doing that now. My underlying attitude now is different.” I talk about, essentially, tone of voice and egoic overtones of self-command attempts, attempting to talk sternly to command oneself across time like I did in 1986 in frustration / expectation of self-control. There is a laxness of pronunciation, under-enunciation (not slop though; just over-relaxed).

Side A starts with is a metaprogramming self-cajoling project, commanding myself separately in Left & Right channels separately, simultaneously. Pretty long. Is this dubbed from 4-track cassette deck/mixer to boombox? But the mic sounds really odd, like a midrangy/bright built-in mic…? No bass. Because my 1988 voice has no bass??

Side A, 8% in, I list classes/topics:

  • Atomic Physics
  • Signals and Systems
  • Thermodynamics
  • Electromagnetics
  • Physics, Science

“Tomorrow” came out as “tomorrah” a little.

The special features include alternating mic w/ from radio, FM stereo, the studio track by Santana – Black Magic Woman, which I can use to check the tape speed and thus my speaking pitch in 1988, 33 years ago.

Confirmed: The tape is running slightly fast/ high pitch on this player, but, only a little; my voice must have been about 80% as elevated-pitch as this tape makes it sound. I could slow down the recording.

Tape Side A label is “Voice – study intent”, the case is marked “Dialogue”, TDK SA90, Side A, song snippets & guitar lead are mostly through side A, left supply reel is almost at the first bar eg 80% through side A. His guitar lead is at eg 4:34 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0 “Santana – Black Magic Woman (Official Audio)”. Maybe it’s a cassette recorder boombox with electret condenser mic, but maybe 4-track.

Bonus: at the end of the Santana song, the tape has my electric guitar playing too (probably Marshall 4010 JCM 800 50-watt tube amp).

Light-hearted playful tone, some solid content reveling commentary on cross-time self-struggle, and casual cussing in a relaxed tone. talking about worrying, stress, but the tone sounds pretty relaxed/casual/playful, not stern, I joke about yelling at myself but even then it sounds playful. “That tape represents me, so I’m worrying about the quality” (I say jokingly). I talk about making a tape that doesn’t bore the future audience. Too bad the speed is a little fast/ high pitch, not sure how nasally/ thin/ high my voice actually was – I may have to slow playback.

Idea of missing a hw assignment; pretty heavy stress is evident, joking about getting a degree and failure, “this is serious sht” (I joke ironically), “wheres a tall building”, death… light-style joking, about heavy stuff.

Little bass in voice. Light, high pitch, thnner, nasal, gentle (though w/ intense stress – held at an ironic distance – and casual heavy cussing). 1988 When I mimic a tone of anger, it’s still thin and joking sounding, not “heavy/ serious” in tone. in 1988 my speech is fairly clear but not particularly cultivated – it’s hit-or-miss articulation/enunciation.

occasional mouth-smacking

My 1988 articulation/ pronunciation, “accent” is so different in many ways. A light, young, gentle tone of voice. Sounds like an early 1980s Metal/Stoner young high school / college kid. No heavy bass pitch or frequencies, and no substantial emphasis – a gentle, scrawny voice. I’ll have to watch my videotape of the Summer 1988 Theory Announcement Party, and listen to my voice there.

1988 when I talk quietly, it sounds more balanced than now, its not a ton of bass + hoarse treble; it has some midrange instead of all that bass. higher pitch = more midrange than bass, when quiet.

“I’m beyond stress” The voice seems natural/ regional accent, not a cultivated deliberate wway; seems like surfer/stoner casual. Not very sloppy; it’s just an accent, slightly. High pitch — partly from tape speed slightly fast, but mostly true high pitch.

“Am I gonna get myself into a panic” … “that transcendence development sht, it’s all negative development, I’ve had enough negative development! (cussing) Is transcendence theory nothing more than negative?” “Pessimistic sht, does it have to be so negative?” Stressed.

my 1988 voice has so much light weight, high pitch… while wrestling w/ stress. It’s such a tiptoeing light weight delicate way of talking, with lots of cussing.

“toward transcendence theory”. I keep mentioning “transcendence theory“.

I pronounce “now” as “naa ah”. Side B 50% through: “studying in the next week, for finals” suggests late May, 1988.

I mention getting 91 (of 100), A-, on an exam, as an outstanding achievement: this would be the exam about Spacetime and Relativity, in which I got an all-time high grade that professor ever saw. The professor I knew from high school, college Greek Dance class. That semester, I was not living on campus, so I recorded it at my cottage – which is unusual so I should be able to reconstruct the memory of recording the tape.

I also have a set of 3 90-minute tapes from Dec 31 1989, includes mono good left-of-dial college radio in background. Same gentle, high pitch, narrow-band proununciation with “naa ah” instead of “now”. A little sloppy/casual tech/engineer discussion talking style. No aggression, but analysis in tone of voice. Passive gentle tone of voice, while analytical idea development. Pretty clean recording technique… no real problem with filler words, eg. Mouth smacking is the only thing that really stands out, and the “now” … the casual lax enunciation of college techie. thin nasal / “has a cold” type of voice. Which I’ve heard lately in my morning voice and wondered about.

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mic tracking file 210406_2365.wav reading Cyberdisciple re: modes vs models vs description of modes/models. Miking/voicing: SM57 direct rec’g, Noon.

todo: extract good parts from April 1 tracking files.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=alan+watts+grooves+limerick

Limerick by Alan Watts

There once was a man who said “Damn,
For it certainly seems that I am
a creature that moves
in determinate grooves,
I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram”

“A tram is a public transport vehicle, usually powered by electricity from wires above it, which travels along rails laid in the surface of a street [rock pavement].”

There was a young man who said though,
it seems that I know that I know
what I would like to see is the I that knows me
when I know that I know that I know

Ep71 TK28 Reaction Video

“Ep71 Core – TK28 Reaction Video.mp3” – new – half the length

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-04-04:
    https://we.tl/t-UlA4T0L1uq – core
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Half the length of the full version of the episode.
    • Reaction commentary playing back Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 28 about Egodeath theory basics – my comments only, not any audio from the original podcast by Max & Cyb.
    • Clearer audio: Applied mud cut smile-frown EQ in software. -4dB @ 125Hz, +4dB @ 2kHz except -2dB@20kHz.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:36:00 (vs. 3:24:00)
  • Filesize: 81 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps mono
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • copy track
  • delete Max & Cyb audio.
  • normalize.
  • eq.
  • auto-delete silence (1s; aggressive)
  • restore silence at start/end.
  • export mp3
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link

“Ep71 TK28 Reaction Video.mp3”

Download Info

Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-04-03:
https://we.tl/t-0Ce4FeISKD

Episode theme; overall description:

Reaction commentary playing back Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 28 about Egodeath theory basics.

The first 3 1/4 hours is discussing IP philosophy problems & obstacles. The final 5 minutes is reaction content.

Filename: see section heading above.

Track name: same as filename, without extension.

Length: 3:24:00

Filesize: 178 MB

Bitrate: plan 210 kbps mono

Timestamps in .mp3:

0:00 –

Errata
  • Mic tone matching: Too little midrange, too much bass. Solution: move mic back from 8″ to 14″, and speak louder. At 14″, ok to switch from Omni to Cardioid. This distance, voice volume, and polar pattern will match the Blue – Yeti typical main usage.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wavs
  • conjoin wavs
  • split, discard Left ch, pan to Center
  • expect to skip: normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details
  • Angle: 22°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck (no recording)
    • gate
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 2103##_####.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210403_2410.wav (~3:22:00) & 11.wav (~2 minutes)
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • Episode #71
    • p.m., April 3, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Reaction commentary playing back Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 28 about Egodeath theory basics.
    • ~3:24:00
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Turn gain to edge-of-distortion, talk with quiet attack at start of words; speak with smooth volume. Using compressor meter calibrated to match audible distortion when speak too loud.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Omni.
    • Distance: 8″, 22°. No gate/limiter/eq. Mixer deck, no mic deck recording. Max has stereo mic drift, but I might discard left channel, to get stable clearest result. No editing is planned, so I can easily try either way. Max was louder in right-drift channel, so his voice is probably clearer in Right channel.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.

/ end of section ““Ep#.mp3”

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episode 28

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Episode 28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7hBuvUmiI

Max and Cyber explain the core, phase 1 part of the ego death theory. Topics covered include:

  • Mental modelling
  • The egoic and transcendent mental worldmodels
  • States of consciousness, ordinary and altered
  • Stages of psychospiritual development
  • Tight and loose cognitive association binding, dissociation
  • Mental representations and their referents
  • Metaperception, explicit representationalism
  • Conceptions of person-hood
  • Cybernetic homunculus, control agency
  • Popular attitudes and misperceptions about ego death
  • Cybernetic instability, control-death
  • Fatedness and its transcendence
  • The will to exist in Schopenhauer’s philosophy
  • Postulating higher control, humble prayer
  • Helpless dependence on higher control, Schleiermacher’s theology
  • Struggling to control the future, panic-attack freakout
  • Physical metabolism and thought-processes

Headache > Gnosis

I had a headache during the first voice recording of 2021: “My followers are taking something that is the epitome of simple …” – “2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3″

Glut of Exoteric Esotericism: All “Esotericism” Is Fake

What Is Relevant

Long Form without Jargon

Transcendent Knowledge (gnosis) is mental worldmodel transformation
from
autonomous control within a possibility-branching world with open, non-existent future
to
dependent control within an eternally pre-existing world with closed, pre-existent future

Short Form without Jargon

Transcendent Knowledge (gnosis) is mental worldmodel transformation
from
autonomous control within a possibility-branching world
to
dependent control within an eternally pre-existing world

Short Form with Jargon

mental worldmodel transformation from
autonomous control within possibilism
to
dependent control within eternalism

Inferior Religion, Science, and Esotericism That Have All Lost Their Way

Transcendent Knowledge (Gnosis) is mental worldmodel transformation from [autonomous control within possibilism] to [dependent control within eternalism]. Systems of esotericism tend to obscure this, not deliver this.

  • “religion” = a bunch of irrelevant BS
  • “Science” = a bunch of irrelevant BS
  • “spirituality/gnosis/esotericism” = a bunch of irrelevant BS

in theory, there’s exoteric & esoteric. in practice, there’s exoteric & exoteric pseudo-esoteric. Nothing is less relevant to Transcendent Knowledge than what passes for “esotericism”.

Exoteric Christianity is far from Transcendent Knowledge. Is pseudo-esoteric Christianity really any better than exoteric Christianity, any closer to actual Transcendent Knowledge? All pop spirituality is a fake alternative; fake 3rd option; fake esotericism; it *claims* to be contrasted to exoteric religion, but it’s a dud; exoteric esotericism.

What evidence is there for Transcendent Knowledge being mental worldmodel transformation from autonomous control within possibilism to dependent control within eternalism, given that so few people – when lacking a highly cultivated societal initiation system to guide this transformation – actually undergo this transformation? What is the evidence?

  • mythology
  • Rock lyrics in select songs, typically the most intense psychedelic inspired songs
  • the 10 psychedelic effects (on newbies; not tracing the trajectory leading to mental worldmodel transformation)
  • the centrality of the topic of no-free-will in religious philosophy in world religion.

This is the way the mind is supposed to (& designed to) transform and react to the series of immersions in loosecog when pursuing greater more coherent model of personal control:
mental worldmodel transformation from autonomous control within possibilism to dependent control within eternalism.

Mystery Toys

I had this puzzle. I’m looking for a mysterious Sufi puzzle, probably Unicef.

I solved this puzzle.
https://www.facebook.com/unicefpuzzlecollection/photos/a.602639993232260/604081646421428/

I was raised a spiritual occult child, an experiment hazy non-direction some vague high expectation, lack of particular objectives.

1973: colorful astrology trays, better colors than anything I’m finding.

Egodeath Mystery Show episode 70 1/2 – Wisdom Folly – recorded April 1, 2021, uploaded June 11, 2022

see also Idea Dev pg 13 for info: Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 70.5 – Wisdom Folly – recorded April 1, 2021 – June 11, 2022

“Ep70.5 Wisdom Folly.mp3”

“Ep# Idea Dev page 12.mp3” (on hold)

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Voice compress.
Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • Episode #, 9 p.m., April 1, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • I’m switching from covering drug-based entheogens to non-drug entheogens, per Hanegraaff who is rummaging around in the trash-can of rejected knowledge (= gnosis). 🗑 = 💡
    • New focus: Dismantling social structures, which are the opposite of mystic gnosis, per Christopher Partridge. The more you dismantle all structures, the more mystical you are. Mysticism = countering culture; this is how Partridge steers and pursues Wisdom. All structures are flawed; the solution is to get rid of structure.
    • Read-aloud the text I developed in Idea Development page 12 as outcome of voice recording.
    • Transcendent Knowledge podcast More Basic 28.
    • No one actually switches form from literalist ordinary-state possibilism to analogical psychedelic eternalism, but they are wrong; the Theory is correct.
    • Possibly re-read Brown’s articles.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • No more attention to vocalizing: I’m reverting to my default tone of irate, overcaffeinated, sharp, bitter cussing.
    • They’ve been miniaturizing the 1176 volume-dynamics compressor, it’s so small now, i accidentally swallowed it, lodged in my throat, and so my voice can’t go loud anymore, but the side-effect is that i finally have that even, smooth voice i’ve been trying to get.
      • Intonation, prosody, smooth flow calm relaxed – no direct attention to pitch varying is actually needed; I now instead think that the main problem I’ve had is too-loud attack of each syllable or word (compared to the body of the syllable, or compared to the other words in the phrase), and that the opposite, good tone I sometimes produce isn’t actually marked by varying pitch, but rather, by smoothness/evenness of volume across a syllable and across a phrase. Install voice compress. (Audio terminology: By convention, “equalize” means equalize the volume across the frequency spectrum, and “compress” means equalize the volume across time.)
  • Miking:
    • Mic: I’m switching back to just using the $3 headset that came with my computer. In early 2007 when I first tried to use that dynamic headset mic to read-aloud my 2006 main article, the hiss was louder than my voice, but my fixation on such details just got me sidetracked into irrelevant audio high-fidelity focus.
    • Polar pattern: Wide Cardioid
    • Distance: 7″ 45° aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.
Playlist

We’re listening to __

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Voice compress.

Agenda items about the show format should be in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

We’ve finished the “Show Format” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.

Agenda items about Voice & Mic Technique should be in the “Voice & Mic Technique” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Voice & Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Voice compress.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Egodeath Theory should be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Esoteric Agenda
  • x

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
  • x

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

__ timestamp after stop recording

Publishing the Episode

sections to move to top when publishing the episode

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-__:
    TBD
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • __
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: __
  • Filesize: __
  • Bitrate: __
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • todo:
  • create audio project file
  • add recg’s from Apr 1 a.m., condense. find Partridge & Hanegraaff passages.
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • gate
    • eq – for cardioid, -3dB basscut, 8k/16k cut (gentle smilefrown)
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210401_2241.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 2103##_####.wav – n/a
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

/ end of section ““Ep71.mp3”

Heading – Brown

https://www.spreaker.com/user/freespeechnetwork/jerry-julie-brown-confessions-of-psyched
Richard Miller’s podcast
Jerry & Julie Brown
mindbodyhealthpolitics.org
“I welcome Jerry B. Brown, PhD and Julie Brown, coauthors of The Psychedelic Gospels.

“Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and the Founding Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, where he teaches an online course on “Psychedelics and Culture.”

“Professor Brown researches, writes and teaches on psychedelics and religion as well as on psychedelic therapy.

“Hear about their extensive research throughout Europe as well as their Confessions as Psychedelic Elders and why they think this is an exceptional time for psychedelics.

“Jerry and Julie are married and are veteran psychonauts as well as diligent scholarly researchers.”
March 31, 2021

“Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy,” Psychedelics Today, 2020. https://psychedelicstoday.com/2020/05/28/mystical-experience-and-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy-insights-from-guided-imagery-therapy-with-cancer-patients/

The Psychedelic Society of London, Events section https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk – several interesting workshops – looking for Browns’ in May 2022 = https://dandelion.earth/events/601d44ca20afba000da3f999
“Foundations of Psychedelic Study with Jerry Brown, Ph.D.
Mon 3rd May 2021, 7pm – Mon 24th May 2021, 9pm UK time

“Psychedelics are a hot topic in the news these days. But they have been an object of fascination and study for centuries. In this four week course, we will take an academic approach to psychedelics as we explore their historical origins, the current role of the Psychedelic Renaissance, and the potential future of these drugs as therapeutic treatments.

If you’d like to get a foundation in the historical context of psychedelic movements and learn about the ways these drugs are shaping new movements, this is the course for you.

COURSE OUTLINE

WEEK 1: Ten Landmarks in Psychedelics History
An overview of the field from Albert Hoffman’s discovery of LSD in 1938 and to current decriminalization movements, including:

discovery of a living magic mushroom cult in Mexico
identification of Soma in the Hindu Rigveda
milestones in ethnomycology
psychedelic initiations of Timothy Leary, Michael Harner
Woodstock Music Festival
1970s U.S. Controlled Substances Act
Old World vs. New World narcotics
Johns Hopkins pioneering psilocybin studies
Psychedelic Renaissance; and the New Science of Brain Neuroimaging https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=phrenology – where is the “gullibility to PR propaganda” part of the brain?? 🤔 🧠 i think its indicated by orange 🔶

WEEK 2: Past: Psychedelics in Shamanism and World Religions
Does Christianity have a Psychedelic History? Based on stunning images of psychoactive mushrooms (both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe varieties) in early and medieval Christian art, we explore Christianity’s hidden psychedelic history.

Beyond Christianity, there is growing evidence of entheogens both in shamanism (reindeer herders, Mazatec) and in major world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Ancient Greece (Eleusis).

WEEK 3: Present: Psychedelics for Passion and Purpose
While there is robust discussion about seeking the divine through psychedelics, these “mind scopes” may also lead to personal transformations by resolving conflicts or challenges that we all face from time to time.

Participate in an intimate conversation about personal psychedelic journeys that allowed me to find a passionate life purpose ( through psilocybin mushrooms); to choose love over fear in entering into a lifelong relationship (through LSD); to and overcome a deep, rare, late-in-life depression (through ayahuasca).

WEEK 4: Future: Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
The Johns Hopkins and NYU studies of psilocybin’s impact on cancer patients found that “In both trials, the intensity of the mystical experience described by patients correlated with the degree to which their depression and anxiety decreased.”

This final week explores the future role of mystical experience in psychedelic therapy, for both psychological (depression) and possible physical (cancer) healing, in the context of emerging psychedelic-assisted therapy centers in the U.S. and Europe.

About your Facilitator

“Jerry B. Brown, PhD, is an anthropologist, author and activist. He is Founding Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, where he currently teaches an online course on “Psychedelics and Culture.” Professor Brown writes on psychedelics and religion as well as on psychedelic therapy.

  • He is the lead co-author of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (2016);
  • “Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019;
  • “Ayahuasca, Depression and Me,” Chacruna Institute, 2019; and
  • “Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy,” Psychedelics Today, 2020.”

Psychedelics and Religion, with Darren Springer
https://dandelion.earth/events/5ffc803cc3b62e000d633c7d
Thu 29th Apr 2021, 7pm – 9:30pm UK
“How do holy books refer to the use of psychedelics?

“What esoteric and occult practices do these religions contain that are connected to psychedelics?

“Darren Springer and Sanae Orchi will share their personal research, taking you on an exciting exploration of these questions and how they can impact your life today.

“In Africa, ancient glyphs and writings suggest that psychedelics have played a pivotal role in the development of various cultures on the African continent and continue their world wide influence today.

“We will explore the crucial role of magic mushrooms and sacred plants in the foundations of organised religions such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as well as fraternities and secret societies.

“Delving into holy texts, Darren and Sanae will share numerous references to psychedelic plant use and entheogenic ceremonial rites.

“You will be taken on a thought provoking journey exploring hidden and taboo teachings, and how they have become encoded or suppressed in religions today.

“Darren Springer and Sanae Orchi will bring it all home.

“This knowledge can empower and bring you closer to the roots of your religious foundations regardless of your current relationship to religion.

“The esoteric practices taught in ancient times are as relevant now as ever, and are key to our liberation once you have true understanding of these teachings.

“Ep70 Anti-Art Historian.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2022-03-19:
    https://we.tl/t-9ovHjb4PsM
    For immediate listening, there’s an in-browser “preview” feature (.mp3 player) in the download dialog box – it’s magnifying glass on Desktop, a “View” link on mobile). No login or email needed.
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-30:
    https://we.tl/t-Y462aQxabX
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Critique of Hatsis’ anti-art evidence premise. The Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image supports his argument against the idea that “the Church was intent on suppressing visionary plants and that’s why there’s no mushrooms in Christian texts” (as he would describe the position he’s against).
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 45:37
  • Filesize: 52 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Errata
  • “70 mushroom trees” – should be “75”. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/
  • All throughout this re’g, I under-represent the text evidence, saying there’s little text evidence. Actually there is lots of text evidence, using description but not direct statement that Euch = mshr. This rec’g fails to represent the description of Eucharist msh in Fathers writings eg. Check my summary below of Cyberdisciple’s outline of types of evidence:
    • Literal depictions of mushrooms (in texts) <- Hatsis arbitrarily dismisses all evidence except for this one type, even though the other evidence helps his case against the premise that “the Church suppressed visionary plants”
    • Stylized depictions of mushrooms (in texts)
    • Depictions of mushroom effects (in texts)
    • Literal depictions of mushrooms (in art)
    • Stylized depictions of mushrooms (in art)
    • Depictions of mushroom effects (in art)
  • This small, omni mic of field recorder is insanely bright. I want to upload and hear it — working with this bright mic Jan 20-Feb 7 is suspect of causing me to slur and mute my s’s & t’s to compensate. Here I produce s’s & t’s at full volume here, DANGER of hearing-strain, too much treble. BEWARE TOO MUCH TREBLE during playback.
  • I need to voice it better. It’s not bad, but I should aim higher.
    • Transcribe to text, fix the text, then read-aloud the text with good voicing. this deck has halfspeed playback.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav & intro wav
  • append 3/30 recg to the 3/29 recg, prepend intro
  • tighten Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • Episode #70
    • First 15 minutes from March 29 (yesterday 4pm) + another half-hour (today March 30 a.m.), 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
  • Vocalization theme:
  • Miking:
    • Mic: DR-05
    • Polar pattern: Omni
    • Distance: 7″.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.
Miking Details
  • Angle: 45°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Mic tracking file: 210330_2188.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

/ end of section ““Ep#.mp3”

Voice Recording: Mushrooms Support Hatsis

update March 30, 2021: made a pretty good morning 48:00 recording (same tape deck/bright mic) outlining what Hatsis and I need to discuss.

Before I tightened the *total* of the 18+45 min. recgs down to 45:37 total, I wrote:

  • with a intro and outro to form an episode of Egodeath Mystery Show. 48+19 minuutes = 67 minutes episode. need more discussion of broad tratmnt of the egodeath theory not just isolating my entheogen scholarship and apologizing for & ignoring Ahistoricity & Thjeory of mental worldmodel transformation.
  • Hatsis’ new Henbane (scopolamine) vid this morning, IS HENBANE EUCHARIST? NO; MUSHROOMS ARE SUPERIOR TO HENBANE FOR THEORY, B/C MSH = EUCHARIST.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8xRGJDV0k
    Magic Herbs: Henbane
    “In this video, I discuss the history of henbane as a magical, a medicinal, and an entheogenic plant.
  • Topics discussed:
    • Effects of henbane ingestion
    • Magical practices with henbane from medieval times
    • Medieval medicinal prescriptions
    • Its use in early modern flying (or “witches’) ointments
Download Info

DEPRECATED: (USE EPISODE 70 INSTEAD, ABOVE; TIGHTENED THE BELOW + APPENDED TO THE BELOW):

  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-29:
    https://we.tl/t-gSCHXmdx9s (i plan to replace/extend this rec’g)
  • Content theme; overall description:
    • Hatsis should leverage my decoding of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.
    • Bright treble, might be fatiguing.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 18:48
  • Filesize: 21 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –

A pretty good 18:47 voice recording about Hatsis needing my art evidence to support his recent video’s argument against “the church elim’d visionary plants from Day 1”.

Errata: see Ep70 section above.

Mushrooms in Support of Hatsis’ Argument Against Big Bad Church Eliminating Visionary Plants

Video talk:
Medieval Christians and Psychedelics
YT ch: Psychedelic Historian (Thomas Hatsis)
March 24, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCPiAIbid1w
“In this video I show a few ways medieval Christians used psychoactive plants. This process challenges one of the more prominent current myths about psychedelics and religion: namely, that said Christians engaged in a “cover up” of these practices.”

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Miking Details
  • Angle: 45°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • gate
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210329_2187.wav
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  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
  • Time and date:
    • voice rec’g
    • 4:00 p.m., March 29, 2021.
  • Theme; overall description:
    • Hatsis should leverage my decoding of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image
  • Vocalization theme:
    • stay conscious/mindful/ controlled
  • Miking:
    • Mic: TASCAM DR-05 w/ small-diaphragm condenser, right ch, stereo mode, discard left, balance right center
    • Polar pattern: omni
    • Distance: 1/2″ + (7″ 45°)
    • EQ (on mixer recording): n/a

Jumbojies

put emoji in h2, save, view rendered heading (emoji), select, copy, paste into edit mode anywhere – result: jumbo:

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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ketos+myth
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cetus+myth

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Johnny Mac Bible

John MacArthur has just released a Bible translation (New Testament, Psalms, & Proverbs) striving to go back to authorial intent. per Grace to You YT ch new vid. The Legacy Standard Bible (LS).
https://www.gty.org/store/bibles/44LSBNT/the-legacy-standard-bible-new-testament-pocketsized –
“Pocket-Edition New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs
The Legacy Standard Bible preserves the accuracy and integrity of your favorite translations, while refining the clarity and consistency of the text. Developed by the faculty of The Master’s University and Seminary, this pocket edition of the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs is perfect to keep with you on the go.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeplRwavGUs

The Precise Parallel New Testament

re: NT, I’m spoiled by a Parallel New Testament and multiple translations online eg BibleGateway. http://biblegateway.com “Which translation?” My answer: “These 7 and the Greek all at the same time.” (re: New Testament)

Book:
The Precise Parallel New Testament
John Kohlenberger (Editor)
Amplified Bible
Hardcover, 1995
http://amzn.com/0195284127

  • Greek Text
  • King James Version
  • The Amplified Bible [synonym list]
  • Rheims Bible [Catholic]
  • New American Bible [Catholic]
  • New International Version [Evangelical]
  • New Revised Standard Version
  • New American Standard Bible [Evangelical]

“The Precise Parallel New Testament presents seven of the most well-known New Testament translations side by side on each page along with the original Greek text.

Comparing these translations verse by verse brings to light important differences in language and interpretation among seven works based on the same original language documents.

The translations included in The Precise Parallel New Testament have all at one time been considered the most accurate versions of their eras.

This volume reveals how the perception of accuracy has changed over the years.

The emergence of new scholarship and the growing importance of issues such as inclusive language have forced revisions of older versions such as the King James and the Rheims.

These changes have caused more contemporary translations to emerge including The New American Standard, considered the closest approximation to a word-for-word translation of the original texts, and The Amplified Bible, which reflects word for word accuracy in a different way by providing alternative translations of certain words within the text to make their meaning clearer.

The Precise Parallel New Testament includes translations spanning the widest range of Christian perspectives.

The Rheims and the more contemporary New American Bible are preferred by Catholics.

The New International Version and The New American Standard present a more evangelical view in their interpretation.

The New Revised Standard Version is favored by mainline Protestants for its accuracy and sensitivity to issues such as inclusive language.

This volume gives remarkable insight into the effects time and different faith orientations have had on translation of this fundamental work.

The Precise Parallel New Testament is an invaluable resource for readers with a deep interest in the study of language and the Bible.

It is also an excellent reference tool for pastors and language scholars.

  • Gives insight into the influences of different faiths and social views on translation of the Bible.
  • Presents seven of the most well-known Bible translations side by side for comparison with the original Greek.”

“Ep69 One Good Science.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-28:
    https://we.tl/t-GSruQ0oql0
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Critique of Tart’s article States of Consciousness and State-Specific Sciences
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:20:58
  • Filesize: 85 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –

The contributions and limitations (missteps) of Tart’s article. His self-contradiction about the capability of Science to use more than just materialist explanation. Bad call for “sciences” isolated from each other as “state-specific sciences”.

Cognitive Science has already succeeded at explaining the psychedelic state, which is the loose cognitive association binding state. In proper appropriate terms (engaging with the explanandum, not reductionistically avoiding the explanandum); in terms of cognitive phenomenology. “Based in” both states. Explaining relation of ordinary state & altered state, how they react/ interact in a series. How a series of immersions in the loosecog state works to transform the mental worldmodel.

Cognitive Science (the egodeath theory; Transcendent Knowledge as modelling the mental worldmodel transformation from analogical psychedelic eternalism to literalist ordinary-state possibilism to analogical psychedelic eternalism; from autonomous control within possibilism, to dependent-control within eternalism) has already succeeded at explaining the psychedelic state, which is the loose cognitive state (other states are mere footnotes eg schizophrenia, dreaming, cannabis, meditation).

Ambiguity and shifting meaning of Tart’s phrases eg “a state-specific science”. WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? Tart too much isolates states; he reifies & erects needless and unhelpful barriers and boundaries.

An SSS means a state-specific science.

  • Tart implies we need the following state-specific sciences eg:
    • Ordinary state: need a SSS of how the ordinary state works and a SSS about how each field of science works per the ordinary state.
    • Dreaming state: need a SSS of how the dreaming state works and a SSS about how each field of science works per the dreaming state.
    • Psychedelic state: need a SSS of how the psychedelic state works and a SSS about how each field of science works per the psychedelic state.
  • eg:
  • SSS’s based in the Ordinary state
    • A SSS[in ordinary state][about how the ordinary state works]
    • A SSS[in ordinary state][about how Chemistry works]
    • A SSS[in ordinary state][about how Physics works]
    • A SSS[in ordinary state][about how (general) Cog Sci/Cog Phen’y works] <– Cog Sci
  • SSS’s based in the Dreaming state
    • A SSS[in dreaming state][about how the dreaming state works]
    • A SSS[in dreaming state][about how Chemistry works]
    • A SSS[in dreaming state][about how Physics works]
    • A SSS[in dreaming state][about how (general) Cog Sci/Cog Phen’y works]
  • SSS’s based in the Psychedelic state
    • A SSS[in psychedelic state][about how the psychedelic state works] <– Loose Cognitive Science
    • A SSS[in psychedelic state][about how Chemistry works]
    • A SSS[in psychedelic state][about how Physics works]
    • A SSS[in psychedelic state][about how (general) Cog Sci/Cog Phen’y works]
Errata
  • the mastering might be perfect. or maybe, too bright, maybe, for some speakers, because I cut mud too much. even though i cut air. result is (maybe) too much 2k-4k. can’t go back and use mic deck, b/c I heavily edited the mixer deck rec’g.
Post-Processing Steps
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Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 45°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • gate
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210328_2186.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210328_2409.wav < use (has mudcut/aircut)
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Recording Header (only 30 seconds to finish entire Intro segment!)
  • Time and date:
    • 10a.m., March 28, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • __ read again Tart SSS article, rewriting it
  • Vocalization theme:
    • vary pitch, access full range of pitch, stay mindful & in control of voicing
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid (reference)
    • Distance: 1″+7″ 45°
    • Mic deck processing: Limiter>Gate
    • Mixer deck processing, add: eq mudcut, aircut

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“Egodeath Theory” Segment

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Esoteric Agenda

~~block list: blah blah. imitating buzzer sound. hate. well,

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The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

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“Ep69 take 1 – Reading Voice.mp3”

a bunch of interesting developments came out of this 6.5 hour tracking session.

  • my criticisms of Tart’s 1972 article in Science magazine are peripheral and superficial eg his butchering of language by writing “marijuana intoxication”. my biggest and only real dispute has been the ‘s’ at the end of “we need state-specific sciences”.
  • I’m only interested in Loose Cognitive Science, which studies mental transformation in the loose cognitive association binding state. That is the most important and gateway of all the plural sciences he’s calling for, and that (Loose Cognitive Science) is practically the point of this article.
  • His wording … I only have quibbles about Tart’s wording, not his substance to any major extent.
  • “eastern religion” is a big issue with lots of connotations, in the 1972 “science vs mysticism ” context.
  • the best Science students were driven off by malformed, hostile “science”; science was recognized as acting suicidal by denying & demonizing & pathologizing everything except hard physical science. Students of 1972 said “THIS IDIOTIC STANDOFF OF RETARDED “RELIGION” VS. RETARDED “SCIENCE” IS STUPIDITY.
    • EASTERN RELIGION = ALTERED STATES = NEITHER IDIOT Christianity NOR IDIOT HARD-SCIENCE. (“eastern religion” = gnosis = the altered state; gnosis = the gem of the altered state, = meditation, = Eastern (not stupid retard 1950 exoteric-only Christianity). Eastern religion doesn’t throw away or pathologize the mystic state like brain-dead modern Christianity and brain-dead modern Science do. WORTHLESS MODERN RELIGION, AS WELL AS BLIND & WORTHLESS AND RUDE HARD-SCIENCE MODERN SCIENCE… BOTH ARE GOD-FORSAKEN, LACKING HIGHER TRUTH THEY FALSELY CLAIM TO OWN. THE 3RD OPTION OR TOUCHPOINT OF AUTHORITY IS THE MYSTIC STATE, WHICH RELIGION SHOULD DELIVER AND SCIENCE SHOULD ENGAGE TO EXPLAIN AND MAP OUT.
  • Science is not limited to physical world explanation, Tart argues. science is an approach, not welded to physical-only realm. Science is about figuring sht out — regardless of physical or mystic-state cognitive phenomenological/ experiential, Tart argues.

Voice findings:

  • for deliberate, cultivated, control intonation: breaking the boundaries between reading writing speaking listening.
  • desire retaining high pitch, broaden downward from there.

Miking findings:

  • off-axis means less bright and wetter, pairing factors differently than the polar pattern dial.
  • huge extent of voice’s midrange cut when quiet talking, means need midrange boost at night.
  • farther is more stable, and wetter is needed at night.
    • but hiss factors-in when quiet.
  • close-in is good for isolation. you might supercardioid on-axis closemic purely for isolation, then add eq/rev as needed from there.

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
Recording Header (only 30 seconds to finish entire Intro segment!)
  • Time and date:
    • Episode #69
    • 1:30 p.m., March 27, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
  • Vocalization theme:
    • LOOSEN-UP THE VOCAL TRACT/ MENTALITY.
    • open exploratory varying the pitch/tone. neutral-positive, unbounded intonation.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: continuously varying, handheld
    • Distance: 7″.
    • EQ (on mic recording): expander & limiter
    • EQ (on mixer recording): not sure if will use mixer deck
Playlist

We’re listening to __

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
_46_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
_54_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about the show format should be in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

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The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
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  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
  • LOOSEN-UP THE VOCAL TRACT/ MENTALITY.
  • open exploratory varying the pitch/tone. neutral-positive, unbounded intonation.

Voice & Mic Technique

takeaway – best idea – COMBINE WRITING READING SPEAKING THINKING all at the same time; FEEDBACK, LEVERAGE MULTI MODES TOGETHER

discovery : 7″ means 8″. 7″ from 1″ in front of upper lip = 8″

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The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
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  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

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“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_44032_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Egodeath Theory should be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Esoteric Agenda
  • x~~

ersatz
[ˈerˌzäts, ˈerˌsäts]ADJECTIVE(of a product)
made as, or used as, a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
“ersatz coffee” <- evil
synonyms: artificial · substitute · imitation · synthetic · fake · false · faux · mock · simulated · pseudo · sham · bogus · spurious · counterfeit · forged · pretended · so-called · plastic · [more]not real or genuine.”ersatz emotion”synonyms:imaginary · imagined · pretended · make-believe · made-up · fantasy · fantasized · fancied · dream · dreamed-up · unreal · fanciful · invented · fictitious · fictive · [more]

  • put damn on block list

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The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Varying” technique.
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

timestamp after stop recording:
210327_2185.wav = 6:27:39 mic deck
210327_2408.wav = 1:36:34 mixr deck which started late

Publishing the Episode

sections to move to top when publishing the episode

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-__:
    TBD
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • __
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: __
  • Filesize: __
  • Bitrate: __
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
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  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 45°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • gate
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 2103##_####.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 2103##_####.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

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Gnostics Believed Whatever You Are Against – THOSE DAMNED GNOSTICS!!

Book:
Rethinking “Gnosticism”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category
Michael A. Williams, 1996
http://amzn.com/0691005427 –
“Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of “secret teachings” in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found “gnosticism” compelling.

“Yet the term “gnosticism,” which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon.

“Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked category of ancient “gnosticism” and the ways it has been described.

“Presenting such famous writings and movements as the Apocryphon of John and Valentinian Christianity, Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic.

“He provides an eloquent, systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches.

“The modern construct “gnosticism” is not justified by any ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited religious features that supposedly define gnosticism phenomenologically turn out to be questionable.

“Exploring the sample sets of “gnostic” teachings, Williams refutes generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of protest, parasitism, and elitism.

“He sketches a fresh model for understanding ancient innovations on more “mainstream” Judaism and Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false stereotypes from which the category “gnosticism” has been constructed.”

reviewer: “The word ‘Gnostic’ has been adopted and applied to any number of teachers and philosophies and theologies and all too many [such characterizations] are not that well researched and all too many self-serving rather than serving a higher cause.”

All you who disparage “Gnostics”: you are full of it and I cannot take you seriously. You’re just making sht up, freely fabricating cartoonish bad-guys of your own creation.

If you are a determinist: gnostics were freewillists.
If you are a freewillist: gnostics were determinists.

If you are an ascetic: gnostics were libertines.
If you are libertine: gnostics were ascetics.

If you are Protestant: Catholics are Gnostics.
If you are Catholic: Protestants are Gnostics.

If you advocate X: gnostics advocate X’.

If your keys went missing: those damn Gnostics took em! 😡

“Gnostics” are a handy, completely flexible projection-canvas – one reason Michael A Williams book ditches the concept of “gnostics”.

Gnostic Media Forever 🎉

1970 cover image art
2009 cover image art

The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross:
A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East

Anniversary Edition
John M. Allegro (Author),
Jan Irvin (Introduction),
Carl A. P. Ruck (Foreword),
Judith Anne Brown (Foreword) (daughter)

Irvin’s edition printed Plainc on back cover.
Hatsis said:

  • 1st printing of SMC had the front cover image plus maybe Michelel Boury’s repro’n or orig.
  • later removed Plaincour image. (d/k about cover art)
  • Hatsis pointed out that Irvin put Plainc img back into SMC reprint.
2009 Reprint by Gnostic Media
  • Publisher : Gnostic Media Research & Publishing; Anniversary edition (November 12, 2009)
  • 416 pages

Front flap of first ed.

I think this is claimed to be hardcover, w/ its front flap also shown. At the site it’s cropped too close to see that it’s hardcover.

Gnostic Irvin Confirmed Shallow

explain what was meant by “Irvin 2009 is shallow”. Irvin 2021 vs Irvin 2009.

gnosticmedia became logosmedia

Irvin 2019 says
Logos is good, Gnosticism is bad.
does he say gnosis is bad?

Irvin wants to say
Aristotle is good, Plato is bad.
Irvin 2019 mentions multiple, different Plato conceptions.

Pick Any Poisoned Option

Which one do you support:

  • clown-mode “religion”
  • clown-mode “science”
  • clown-mode “gnosis”

🤡 🤡 🤡

  • Clown 1: Malformed, corrupt, faux, imposter “religion” (what passes for “religion”; what’s passed-off and foisted-off on us as “religion”)
  • Clown 2: Malformed, corrupt, faux, imposter “science” (what passes for “science”; what’s passed-off and foisted-off on us as “science”)
  • Clown 3: Malformed, corrupt, faux, imposter “gnosis” (what passes for “gnosis”; what’s passed-off and foisted-off on us as “gnosis”) – a phony, ersatz “solution” to a phony, ersatz, false dichotomy of fake, imposter religion vs. fake, imposter science.
Pick Any Poisoned Option (in 1972, 1986, or 2021)
  • 1972 – Tart article in Science mag says students are rejecting Science in University because Science strove to be butthead idiocy, it put down religion, mystic state, altered state, consciousness; Idiot Jerk (imposter) “Science”.
  • 1986 – I read everything, and instantly saw that no one has a clue. Not mystics, not Transpersonal Psychology, not the Altered States people. Roll-up sleeves, STEP ASIDE, I’ll handle this and make sense; IT’S NOT HARD, you just have to try for actual understanding and not be gleefully reveling in anti-rationality “ineffable” spouting nonsense “You create reality; one’s mind creates reality”, & defeatist “Only poetry can state Transcendent Knowledge.”
  • 2021 – current year.

A False Dichotomy with a False 3rd Option

Shifting Sands and Positions

not clear what position Irvin is heading toward in:

  • Persian mysticism/ gnosticism (bad, per Irvin) vs Perennial Philosophy (good, per Irvin) – unspun 175 37:45. primacy of consciousness is false version of Christianity per Irvin.
  • a contradiction is not necessarily false <- irvin / jones say bad idea, against Logos.
  • I’m mad about changing “physically measuring affects the thing” to “conscious observation affects the thing”. My critique agrees w/ Irvin’s critique of Quantum Physics interp. Harriman 2011 series on Unspun is recommended by Irvin 2019 here. 175 50:00~
  • Trivium,
  • gnosticism,
  • “Hermeticism is literally the same as Gnosticism” – Steve Jones
  • dead sea scrolls intrigues,
  • shroud of Turin intrigue,
  • Sufi mysticism,
  • the modern fairytales (literally)
  • the psychedelic revolution,
  • Francis Yates / Bruno
  • Platonism,
  • Ficino,
  • Hanegraaff’s correction of Ficino vs the L guy,
  • Hermeticism,
  • the false doctrine that “there is no truth”, “mind creates reality”
  • the Humanists,
  • early modern occultism,
  • promoting the fall of humanity,
  • debunking QM,
  • ahistoricity.
  • Transpersonal Psychology, Humanism, Human Potential movement,
  • Christianity per the feel-good and “primacy of consciousness” selling of Christianity (create your own reality = false Christianity)
  • Philosophia Perennis
  • Satan the father of lies
  • Jones & Irvin assert that truth is conformity of mind to reality. I agree.
  • Against pushing the idea of reality conforming to one’s mind.
  • I’m against logical contradiction, as is Logos / Trivium. Mind needs to conform to reality, not vice versa.
  • Destroying the trivium & Logos , Steve Jones”What Christianity is really about = the Trivium / Logos”, John 1-17. argument betwen Kant vs Decartes – Oxford free lectures on Thomas Reed [“he is the Protestant version of the Logos”] prebyterians (guest Steve Jones), the logical foundation of common sense = foundation for u.s.
  • I would expect Irvin to go too far and discard the valid aspects of Plato. I consider Plato and Perennial Wisdom malformed.
  • I HOLD THAT EVERYTHING IS MALFORMED; all existing systems of High Philosophy are malformed and irrational. The real, rational basis for high knowledge is mental worldmodel transformation from literalist ordinary-state possibilism to analogical psychedelic eternalism. Including from mental model of autonomous control to dependent control.
  • Steve Jones
  • 2019
  • book:
  • http://amzn.com/0359965989
  • blurb: “An analysis of the events surrounding the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their influence on Church theology particularly the influence on Vatican II. The book asks whether there was a covert agenda by examining actual historical accounts and quotes by those involved. “
  • i think Jones said (importance of enunciating!) “remember, Christianity isn’t just only religion”. Irvin’s series “Debunking Quantum Physics”. “A lot of this hits people pretty hard. Maybe after a lifetime, maybe there’s another way.”
  • The Death of Tradition: The Creation of the Dead Sea Scrolls Myth

i think Jones said at the end of first episode, “remember, Christianity isn’t just only religion”. Irvin’s series “Debunking Quantum Physics”. “A lot of this hits ppl pretty hard. Maybe after a lifetime, maybe there’s another way.”

“Zoroastrian cult rather than on “truth is God”. scholars doubted authenticity of DSS. the 1940s Catholic theologians were all in on this way of thinking, they needed a way to rationalize the direction they were about to take the church.” – Jones.

Irvin is against pope … Irvin may be against Plato-type mysticism, and is for Aristotle. (probly false dichot). How to know when you are being duped, = the Logos/Trivium. The study of false argumentation.

Aristotelian logic is the foundation of understanding reality.
Plato is bad because he teaches the primacy of consciousness. That’s egoic, Irvin says. [define ‘consciousness’, whose, which -cm]

The newager is god. You create … one’s mind creates reality. To Irvin, gnosis doctrine = mind creates reality, so “gnosis” is = falsehood, lying, anti-reality.

does Irvin explicitly disparage gnosis?

what is gnosis?

per the egodeath theory:

gnosis (Transcendent Knowledge) is mental worldmodel transformation
from
literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous-control
(autonomous control within possibilism),
to
analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent-control
(dependent control within eternalism).

gnosis (Transcendent Knowledge) is mental worldmodel transformation from (autonomous control within possibilism), to (dependent control within eternalism).

I reject gnosis and perennial philosophiy insofar as it’s irrational and garbled, not conforming to reality. ditto Christianity & science – or what passes for them. Beware malformed version of Perennial Philosophy.

Blavaatsky – legitimize the corpus Hermeticum, re-found in Renassance, knit back together the E and W church. Plethon re-indoctrinates Christianity with Corpus Hermeticum. (which Hane is revising the history of). Golden Dawn is being let into the church, bringing with them the condemned Corp Herm, undoing Christian doctrine.

  • Irvin: “expose Acharya S, Baigent & Leigh, Atwill, Freke & Gandy, promoting all this….; (failed to complete sentence!) “a conspir to attack Christianity to promote this….” irvin probably means: bad people, like Gnostics are advocating that reality conforms to mind, against the Logos/ Trivium, which says that Reason says one’s mind conforms to reality.

Irvin 2009 != Irvin 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvokGS33w4I –
UnSpun 174 – Steve Jones: “Philosophia Perennis: The Rise & Fall of Tradition
“exposing the attempted destruction of Christianity and the west through Gnosticism and fake Christian history. A reasonable Christianity is what Irvin praises… Logic, logos, Reaasson. Irvin de-mythologize Logos to reveal that Logos is Reason instead, not a mythology figure. “Conspiracy to delegitimate Christianity, the past 2-3 yeas, trying to mislead ppl away from Christianity, selling it as a love cult . Christianity is actually about Logos, non-contradiction, understanding Logos, truth is God, Jesus is the truth/ way / life, Satan is the father of lie/lying”

Steve Jones has been researching the fall of the Christian Church for nearly twenty years. He is former faculty of both Nashotah Episcopal Seminary as well as St. John’s/Northwestern Military Academy. He was also formerly in charge of Liturgy & Music for the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee. Jones is perhaps most noted for his research and compilation of the Divine Liturgy of the Sarum Rite, a work now accepted by many Eastern Orthodox as an authentic liturgy of the Church. He has several books to his credit including research into the authenticity of the Book of Esther. His present interest is in the clandestine leveraging of the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

My touchpoint is analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control, is the driver of Trivium, Gnosticism, perennial philosophy, Christianity, Christian mysticism, Catholicism experiential revelation, and everything else.

POS butterfly keyboard is failing! TOO MUCH TYPING BROKE MY HANDS AND KEYBOARD TOO.

the cultural battles between:

  • phony posturing imposter “religion” (exoteric all the way),
  • phony posturing imposter “science” (the “hard science” put-on; consciousness is an embarrassment to be disavowed and denied) , and
  • phony posturing imposter “perennialism” (purportedly “a-rational ineffable spiritual gnosis & paranormal”)
  • We are given a choice of 3 poison brands to pick from, 3 false, malformed armies or “sides” to join.
  • (a pox on all three of your houses: we do need a revolution, my kind of revolution, the Egodeath Theory revolution (analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control)
  • http://amzn.com/0595151965
  • “States of Consciousness, a classic by world authority Charles T. Tart, is a basic understanding of how the mind is a dynamic, culturally biased, semi-arbitrary construction and system.
  • A systematic exploration of how and why altered states can come about and their possibilities.
  • As a student of his remarked, For the first weeks of class I didnt understand what those diagrams were about, but Ive realized the book is all about the way my own mind works!
  • Useful in understanding some of the important ways your mind works before you start altering it.”
  • Strangely, I don’t think I have this book. Does the book include the article from Science?

Same pdf, at Academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/25585623/States_of_Consciousness_and_State_Specific_Sciences

http://amzn.com/0062508563 –

Transpersonal Psychologies: Perspectives on the Mind from Seven Great Spiritual Traditions
1992
Charles T. Tart (Editor)

Book:
Self-Initiation: Secrets of Spiritual Enlightenment
Mike Bhangu, 2020
http://amzn.com/198873570X

“Ep68 Multistate Science.mp3”

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    • Read Charles Tart’s State-Specific Sciences 1972 article in Science magazine.
      • Roughly, the article body is the whole recording except the first 35 minutes and final 35 minutes. Although 3.5 hours is long, the episode has high integrity: reading his page about the article, then the article body, then the end-matter of the article. With the right amount of critique.
      • Including 4 letters and his reply.
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  • 2:53:33 – References at end of article
    • 3:03:19 – Four Letters to the Editor of Science
    • 3:21:23 – Tart’s reply to the 4 of 100 letters
    • 3:29:56 – miking & Outro
    • 3:30:16 – end

There are good ideas in Tart’s article, along with flaws.

  • weak: state-specific sciences
  • fair: multistate Science
  • best: Loose Cognitive Science

Errata

  • two intro’s at start
  • 1:25~ ftp diversion, final page of his pdf
  • too long – should make one mp3 per document, regardless of length.
    • i hate not knowing what document i’m currently listening to. one mp3 per document. Use the “show” & “music” format (or a distinctive vocal clip) to differentiate & announce the documents I’m reading. imagine NPR use of short music clips.
    • Separate the end-material from the main article body of Tart article, two mp3s. Similar principle as fade-up music in-between sections.
    • 68a: Tart webpage
    • 68b: Tart article body. Music not needed at sections: Progress shows where you are in article.
    • 68c: Reference & Letters at bottom of article PDF
  • when speaking quiet at night, mic can sound too dark & dry.
    • Prefer the wet mic patterns; Figure 8 sounds better, more open than in-between Supercardioid & Figure 8. When very quiet talking, try full-on Omni (bright/wet).
    • Figure 8 in bluebuds too mud + too bright.
  • todo: write letter to editor of Science magazine critiquing the article & letters.
  • add to Block List:
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    • quite
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The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

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This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

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“Ep68prep Pre-Tart.mp3”

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    • No Egodeath theory content. Mainly research on pronunciation.
    • Ended up being a semi-“private”, Take 1 that was intended for Ep68 but never did get to the Tart content.
    • Pretty in-depth main focus on General American Accent vs. Received Pronunciation.
    • Good soundtrack – Pop Sike Comp: An Overdose of Heavy Psych.
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American Announcer Accent
Announcer Accent
Broadcast/Announcer Voice
Broadcast English
Casual Standard Voice

affable[ˈafəb(ə)l]ADJECTIVEfriendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.”an affable and agreeable companion”synonyms:friendly · amiable · genial · congenial · cordial · warm · pleasant · pleasing · nice · likable · personable · charming · agreeable · sympathetic · benevolent · benign · good-humored · good-natured · kindly · kind · courteous · civil · gracious · approachable · [more]

General American
General American Accent
NBC Standard Pronunciation
Network English
Network Pronunciation
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Standard American
Standard American English

prosody
the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
the theory or study of prosody.
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
“the salience of prosody in child language acquisition” · [more]

Standard Speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English
General American is thus sometimes associated with the speech of North American radio and television announcers, promoted as prestigious in their industry,[45][time needed][46] where it is sometimes called “Broadcast English“[47] “Network English“,[4][48][49][50] or “Network Standard“.[2][49][51] Instructional classes in the United States that promise “accent reduction“, “accent modification”, or “accent neutralization” usually attempt to teach General American patterns.[citation needed] A common experience among many American celebrities is having worked hard to lose their native regional accents in favor of a more mainstream General American sound,[citation needed] including television journalist Linda Ellerbee, who stated that “in television you are not supposed to sound like you’re from anywhere“,[52] as well as political comedian Stephen Colbert, who said he consciously avoided developing a Southern American accent in response to media portrayals of Southerners as stupid and uneducated.[45][46]“

aka Standard American English (SAE), or “Standard American” – JESUS WHAT IS THE NAME OF IT, THE CAN’T EVEN AGREE AT ALL WHAT THE DAMN THING IS CALLED. EVERY SINGLE EXPERT CALLS IT DIFFERENT.

One expert uses the phrase “network pronunciation“, then “the NBC standard” : 37:08
Do You Speak American? Doc’y by Robert MacNeil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOTzkejL7ks&t=2220s

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Standard+American+English

https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/standardamerican/ –

“The “unaccented” variety that is sometimes called Standard American or Standard Speech is one taught by accent coaches. This form is actually an idealized dialect – meaning, it’s not really spoken anywhere, but instead is acquired through professional training. Actors and professional communicators (including some from the Midlands!) often take classes in “accent reduction” to lose any regional or social sounds in their speech. It takes a lot of work.

Natalie Baker-Shirer, an accent coach and acting teacher at Carngie Mellon University explains:

“Standard Speech” is spoken nowhere in America, as such. It is based on RP (British Received Pronunciation) which was adopted with American alterations in the early 20th century by linguist William Tilly. These alterations, this authentic “American” sound was loosely based on the speech of North Eastern population of the US. It was spoken by the cultured, well educated, well traveled people of the time. Listen to old movies to hear it.”

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We’re listening to the Pop Sike Comp An Overdose of Heavy Psych.

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  • todo: in Voice/Mic page, add section on Fun/ Serious/ Angry tone.

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Critique of Voicing
  • When I use tone of voice to express disagreement, it sometimes comes across sounding really angry & serious & condemnatory – which is misrepresentative. Solution: practice reading-aloud critiques. Interesting how much of my speech does not have this problem… since my mood is steady. If my mood is steadily the mood of critique, how come *sometimes* – almost at random points – I sound really angry? I’m going to have to set up a watch/flag for hearing and halting when my voice sounds angry – not sure I’m able to hear this, though.
    • That is a top factor. When I clean-up files (micro-editing), I delete cuss words and condemnatory or inflammatory or “charged” or “strong” words. They are jarring, off-putting, harsh, unpleasant. A “sharp” tone reads really harshly. Like when I say, sharply, “That’s FALSE!!” 😡 😡
    • There are places where it’s totally clear that I’m doing a routine functional read-aloud and yet I have that sharp tone in my voicing of some words. It’s a mis-voicing using some type of sharp or staccato elocution that needs analysis & control.
    • Practice read-aloud in an angry vs serious vs fun vs neutral tone. eg the A Curious Myth passage from Rolfe. Imagine that Panofsky & the Art Historians Squad (Scholars for Hire) are reading this controverted passage.

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Hanegraaff on Mushrooms

https://www.academia.edu/33982045/Academic_Suicide_on_John_Allegro_and_the_Mushroom_Hypothesis_

In footnote 4, Hanegraaff states Irvin’s old domain, “www.gnosticmedia.com”

1996 Cover:

https://www.boekenplatform.nl/new-age-religion-and-western-culture-550392
https://s.boekenplatform.nl/bk/15/83/ea/new-age-religion-and-western-culture.jpg

Mycological Esotericism

Fairy ring at Hanegraaff’s About page
https://www.wouterjhanegraaff.net/about
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/17c6c-3cb226_8e3a058ac10040b584eb25a85ea7db1emv2.png

“… a scholar in the humanities, it actually fits this pattern that as a teenager I joined the Dutch Mycological Society and became a devoted collector of mushrooms. I found myself instinctively attracted to those twilight realms of the natural world that tend to be overlooked by biologists concerned with daytime creatures such as animals and plants… But while I enjoyed their fairy-tale aura of mystery and magic, studying mushrooms in fact gave me an early training in empirical research, attention to detail, and systematic scientific thinking from which I have profited ever since.” – WH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring#/media/File:Plucked_from_the_Fairy_Circle.png
https://www.wouterjhanegraaff.net/western-esotericism-a-guide-for-the
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3cb226_3a2298a593734ad7bc275a1b6b86badb~mv2_d_1672_2458_s_2.png

“Western esotericism has been a pervasive presence in Western culture from late antiquity to the present day, but until recently it was largely ignored by scholars and surrounded by misconceptions and prejudice.

This accessible guide provides readers with the basic knowledge and tools that will allow them to find their way in this bewildering but fascinating field.

What is it that unites phenomena as diverse as ancient gnosticism and hermetism, the ‘occult sciences‘ of astrology, alchemy, and magic, rosicrucianism, as well as Christian theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, and contemporary New Age spiritualities?

What can the study of them teach us about our common cultural and intellectual heritage, and what is it that makes them relevant to contemporary concerns?

How do we distinguish reliable historical knowledge from legends and fictions about esoteric traditions?

These and many other questions are answered clearly and succinctly, so that the reader can find his or her way into the labyrinth of Western esotericism and out of it again.”

(I’ve read that book)

“Ep67b Hanextravaganza part 2.mp3”

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  • 5:00 – poorly framed Gnosis vs poorly framed Science vs poorly framed Religion.
  • 6:15 – rejecting Jungianist psychologized religion (I might agree w/ that critique on some points, but since I slice everything differently than everyone else, it’s always a complex “I partly agree and partly disagree”).
  • 37:00 Charles Tart’s multi-state science https://www.bing.com/search?q=Charles+Tart%27s+multi-state+science https://blog.paradigm-sys.com/state-specific-sciences-altered-state-origin-of-the-proposal/
  • ~45:00 Hane’s article Humanities – important critique from me, about the right balance between 3 factors he discusses:
    • gnosis/ altered state
    • primary literary sources
    • Theory; explanatory framework/ interpretive lens

“Ep67a Hanextravaganza part 1.mp3”

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  • ~2:11:00 – A stupid, dumb, low-IQ way of dividing things (hopeless & beyond any redemption; a God-forsaken fundamental false dichotomy):
    • the intellect, rationality, Science, Reason, things we can talk about;
      “vs.”
    • the altered state, the mystic state; gnosis
  • ~2:15:00 (wrapping to Part 2/ Episode 67b 0:50 – I’ve already done it, proving that everyone is wrong about the nature of gnosis and they grossly overstate the limits of Reason and language.) Another idiotic, futile, self-defeating division, tripartate, overused: A self-defeating division:
    • faith
    • Reason
    • gnosis
  • What’s really going on: the single-state Science fallacy; the “single-state Reason” fallacy. The proper approach is per Charles Tart: multi-state Reason/ Science/ knowledge/ discursive language/ rationalism/ intellect. Stop conflating ordinary/altered states with reason/unreason. Similar to Wilber: don’t conflate States & Stages.
  • GNOSIS, Transcendent Knowledge, CAN AND SHOULD BE FULLY DESCRIBED DIRECTLY IN MODERN, SCIENTIFIC, CLEAR, DIRECT LANGUAGE & DIAGRAMS. JUST LIKE ANY TOPIC. LANGUAGE IS AS ADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE & EXPLAIN GNOSIS (Transcendent Knowledge), AS ANY TOPIC SUCH AS FISHING OR BODYBUILDING.
Esoteric Agenda

https://www.academia.edu/31610387/The_First_Psychonaut_Louis_Alphonse_Cahagnets_Experiments_with_Narcotics_2016_
The First Psychonaut? Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet’s Experiments with Narcotics (2016)
“This article calls attention to the important but neglected French Mesmer-ist, Spiritualist, Swedenborgian, and occultist Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885), while concentrating on his significance as a forgotten pioneer of modern entheogenic esotericism. Like other occultist practitioners during the period prior to modern Theosophy (notably Emma Hardinge Britten and Paschal Beverley Randolph), Cahagnet was convinced about the spiritual potential of narcotics as a powerful tool for inducing transcendental vision. The article describes and contextualizes his systematic experiments with narcotic suffumigations made from plants traditionally associated with necro-mancy and witchcraft, as well as his spiritual visions induced by the eating of Hashisch dissolved in coffee. Cahagnet appears to stand at the origin of an underground tradition of visionary practice that would be continued and further developed by Britten, Randolph, and other esoteric practitioners since the 1860s. While most scholars have tended to play down the role of narcotics in these contexts, these may well have been crucial to how spiritual vision came to be understood in the occultist movement.”

“J: You wrote an article about Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet, who you consider to be perhaps one of the very first psychonauts. Can you describe his story?

H: Well, you’ve really been reading my stuff. Thank you, I feel flattered! [both laughs] 

Cahagnet was a French spiritualist. An interesting guy, not an intellectual, he worked with his hands but was very smart, very intelligent. I have a liking for him. He was working with somnambulic visionaries. Artificial somnambulism, as it was called, was this technique for bringing people into a trance state, during which they would claim to travel into spiritual realms and to other worlds. It was very popular at that time. Magnetizers were mostly men and the persons who went into a trance were usually women. So Cahagnet wrote three volumes about his experiments with somnambulic women. They told him the most amazing stories about other realities, other worlds, they traveled to other planets, they saw angels and all kinds of stuff like that. So Cahagnet got quite frustrated: he wanted to see it all for himself too. But he had no talent for trance himself; and even if you did go into somnambulic trance, you would lose you consciousness and afterwards wouldn’t remember anymore. But he wanted to go there in a conscious state, he wanted to experience it himself. And so he started experimenting with drugs. He tried to find old recipes and hallucinogenic plants. He was really willing to go out there, but nothing worked. He actually poisoned himself several times, got very sick, but nothing worked. Until one day he found “hashish of the orient.” Just in a pharmacy: it was legal at that time, you could just buy it.

J: Really?

H: Yes, that’s a bit hard to imagine now. Hashisch had this aura of “oriental mystery.” Cahagnet didn’t smoke it, he dissolved it in coffee, drunk it, and then a couple of hours later it begun to work. He had this absolutely amazing experience, that he say answered all his questions: he got the sense of a complete overview of his whole life. It’s actually quite funny to read the “trip report” of somebody who had no predecessors and absolutely no idea of what to expect. After this, he started to organize sessions with people that he invited to his apartment in Paris. He handed out the hashish to them and became the center of a kind of psychonautic community. And he wrote a book about it. It’s almost never quoted but I think it’s actually a very important text. It was read by most of the founders of the occultist movement for decades after that, and was quite influential. 

J: And what’s the name of the book?

H: In French: Sanctuaire du spiritualisme (Sanctuary of Spiritualism, 1850). It was translated into English as The Celestial Telegraph (same year).

“The Celestial Telegraph” Cahagnet
The complete photographed book:
https://archive.org/details/celestialtelegra00caha/page/n5/mode/2up

J: Why did this entheogenic breakthrough remain hidden from the wider public?

H: Well, it was basically a minority religion. I don’t think that it was kept secret deliberately. Spiritualism was actually a kind of mass movement at that time, and entheogenic practices spread to some extent in that context. Occultists came out of spiritualism but developed their own rituals, techniques and practices. There was a discrete culture of entheogenic usage in occultism, which has not been systematically studied until quite recently: see Christopher Partridge’s book High culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World, which is very valuable. Still, much of this is still largely unexplored territory.

J: How does Aleister Crowley and his famous love for drugs and bizarre sexuality fit into this atmosphere?

H: I have to say that I’m not a specialist of Crowley. I prefer to look at things that are people are not studying, and it almost seems as though everybody is studying nothing but Crowley these days…

J: OK, I understand.

H: But anyway, Crowley was experimenting certainly with mescaline, with hashish, at one point with heroin, and that got pretty fatal, because he ended his life as an addict. We just heard at this conference that this was the cause of his death – I didn’t know that. Basically I can repeat what was said earlier [in the conference]. On the one hand there is this practice of ritual magic, which requires disciplines, focus, attention and so on. On the other hand, there is the use of drugs in occultism, because they open up the mind to other dimensions than normal rational consciousness. Basically, it seems that Crowley was interested in anything that could get him there. And there’s a certain tension I think, between those two approaches.”

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“Religious Drugs” Workshop/Conference Feb. 2020 – Keynote: Hanegraaff

Interview of Hanegraaff on Entheogens, 2020:
https://wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2020/09/enter-gods-interview-with-jana.html?fbclid=IwAR3JHBirFRTR00NBsAMy0Z_ON9jSPd0fC467tCodfkSig3wXR3mC6PLNiO8

http://religiousdrugs.com

http://religiousdrugs.com/program/

The Reasonable Irrational: History of Religions and the Pathologization of Entheogenic Experience

Hanegraaff keynote:
The Reasonable Irrational: History of Religions and the Pathologization of Entheogenic Experience

Confirmed Keyspeaker

Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff – professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

Wouter J. Hanegraaff  (1961) studied classical guitar at the Municipal Conservatory at Zwolle (1982-1987) and Cultural History at the University of Utrecht (1986-1990), with a specialization in alternative religious movements in the 20th century.

From 1992-1996 he was  a research assistant at the department for Study of Religions of the University of Utrecht, where he defendedhis dissertation 
New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought on 30 november 1995 (cum laude). [thanks for writing exactly the book I had been wanting: esotericism in New Age]

From 1996 to 2000 he held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Dutch Assocation for Scientific Research (NWO), and spent a period working in Paris.

On 1 september 1999 he was appointed full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.

From 2002-2006 he was president of the Dutch Society for the Study of Religion (NGG). From 2005-2013 he was President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

In 2006 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, KNAW); since 2013 he is an honorary member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

The Reasonable Irrational: History of Religions and the Pathologization of Entheogenic Experience

On the basis of several case studies of entheogenic religion from late antiquity and the early modern period, I will be making some general points about the widespread tendency among scholars of religion to neglect straightforward empirical evidence for the use of psychoactive substances or dismiss its relevance.

There are some perfectly understandable reasons why specialists are wary or afraid to discuss this topic seriously and prefer to avoid it.

Yet, in some specific cases we have direct and irrefutable proof that impressive visionary experiences were induced by the ritual ingestion of entheogens, while in some other cases the entheogenic hypothesis has superior explanatory power in comparison to alternative interpretations.

Dismissing this hypothesis without solid arguments has the effect of unnecessarily pathologizing radical visionary experiences for which we have in fact a perfectly rational explanation.

What does mean “mystical” in context of experience with psychedelics? Critique of perennialism in experimental psychology

Jana Nenadalová and Adam Karásek
Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University
http://religiousdrugs.com/jana-nenadalova-and-adam-karasek/

“Experimental research on mystical experience induced by psychedelics suffer by two major problems.

“General theoretical problem lies in conceptualization of mystical experience, specifically in the idea, that mystical experience is sui generis and that psychedelics like psilocybin or LSD are controllable shortcuts to this kind of experience.

“Major methodological problem concerns primarily theoretical background of mysticism scales, which are composed in the same (perennialistic) way as the theory.

“Thus, psychedelic experience with sustained positive outcome is primarily seen as mystical.

“We will try to show, that considering experience with psychedelics mystical is not theoretically tenable.

“However, we cannot ignore that higher subjective ratings of mystical experience can predict sustainable positive changes in participants.

“Thus, we argue that concept of universal mystical experience should be replaced by more empirically valuable subjective ratings of experience with psychedelics.”

Myopic Metaphors in Mind [Against ‘Ineffable’]

Reanne Crane
University of Kent
http://religiousdrugs.com/reanne-crane/

“In my paper, I critique the ubiquity of the term ‘ineffable’.

“I do not dispute that religious experiences/psychedelic states of consciousness are incompatible with ‘normal’ rhetoric.

“However, it seems that ‘ineffable’ has become simply another reductionist category that discourages further inquiry;

“‘ineffable’ dissuades users and researchers from devoting critical and creative attention to narratives, and also undermines the evidence that some linguistic capacities appear to be enhanced by altered states of consciousness.

“I will explore the metaphysical implications of the metaphors through which we tend to talk about extraordinary experiences, semantic activation in altered states, and the importance of replacing the concept of ‘ineffable’ with ‘incompatible’.”

Reconfiguring Christian Experience with LSD

Robert Dickins
Queen Mary, University of London
http://religiousdrugs.com/robert-dickins/

The emergence of the Psychology of Religion in the work of philosopher William James was in part predicated on his experiences with psychoactive substances, particularly nitrous oxide and mescaline.

Placing them within the context of mysticism, he believed no account of religious psychology would be complete without taking into account the effects of certain visionary plants and substances.

In the 1950s and 60s a large-scale engagement with this thesis was undertaken by psychologists, psychotherapists and philosophers researching d-Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

Paying particular attention to a Christian context, this paper explores LSD’s role as a form of experimental heresy, which took religious claims about the mystical experience seriously while attempting to use a secular, scientific approach.

Of particular interest is the Marsh Chapel experiment, the writings of Adelle Davis, and countercultural approaches within Christian communities.

Utilizing a historical and literary approach, this paper explores these experimental heresies as a boundary that deterritorialized both scientific and religious orthodoxy during the mid-twentieth century.

Irvin Skeptical About Narrative

Irvin recounts his discovery of fakeness, around 1:04:00 UnSpun 201, October 6, 2020, Steve Jones episode. 47:00 in the YT vid 47 * 60 = 2820 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeWhpKWLlks&t=2820s
Article: Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth (Jan 2009, Purdue had wanted to house Irvin’s research, until this article).

The entire field attacked Irvin then, uniformly & in chorus, which caused him to turn critical attention to the entire field and fact-checking down the primary sources.

They’re complicit in an agenda.

Then more attacks came, but never addressing Irvin’s citations.

The field tried to get Irvin back onto the official narrative.

Joe Rogan turned against Irvin then. They had been friends for 8 years.

Rogan took Irvin’s early work and ran with it and became the poster boy for psychedelics, then when Irvin turned against his earlier work, …

if Irvin had continued pushing his early work, he’d be a popular, top podcaster. 52:20 guest asks what was Irvin’s aha moment.

55:16 (YoutTube not podcast) “The moment I had that epiphany that something was wrong. Used bookstore in Chico CA, book with painting by Ivan Bilibin.

Ivan Biliban’s paintings showing Amanita and/or Psilocybe, possibly before 1939
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ivan+bilibin+mushroom

https://readrussia.org/images/uploads/563/russian-tales.jpg

After Irvin turned against Wasson and went against the narrative…

1:11:30 – in a bookstore history section, painting by Russian painter Ivan Bilibin 1890s book, showing both Psilocybe and Amanita together in one painting.

That was Irvin’s moment of questioning the entire field of entheogen scholarship.

That made him question the official historical narrative of the entire field of ethnomycology.

Irvin’s Brain says re: date of identifying psilocybin mushrooms,

“the credit for discovering the magic mushrooms has been given to Richard Schultes (1939), and later R.G. Wasson.

“Actually, at the time Schultes was in the Sierra Mazateca, working on his PhD thesis (Schultes 1941).

“He was accompanying Reko, who had been puzzling out the mushroom mystery since 1919.

“During the late 1930s Reko sent specimens he had collected to various American taxonomists for identification. He later said this about the American botanist:

“I have to mention these details, now that an ambitious young Harvard student, having turned literary pirate, has taken credit for my discoveries (The identification of Teonanacatl, by Richard E. Schultes, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, Febr. 21, 1939), after I had communicated to him the results of my prolonged investigations and invited him on a botanical expedition to Huautla de Jiménez during the summer of 1938, where I gave him numerous samples of the aforesaid mushroom, which had been finally positively identified by Dr. Linder as Paneolus campanulatus L. var. sphinctrinus (Fr.) Bresadola. “

The Early History of Salvia divinorum
Leander J. Valdés III
http://www.sagewisdom.org/earlysdhistory.html
HTML with permission and changes from
The Entheogen Review (2001) X: 73-75

THE ENTHEOGEN REVIEW
The Journal of Unauthorized Research
on Visionary Plants and Drugs

http://www.entheogenreview.com

Overemphasis on Amanita in European Religious History

Historical Roots of Making Amanita the False Center of European Mushroom History

Winkelman’s Introduction Article in the Special Issue on Psychedelics in History and World Religions – Asserts Global Psilocybin, Yet Obsesses on Amanita, in Europe

Introduction: Evidence for entheogen use in prehistory and world religions
Michael Winkelman
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p43.xml

Winkelman’s long introduction article focuses on psilocybin worldwide, and mentions Brown’s findings of psilocybe in Christian art. BUT nevertheless, when it comes to Europe, he ignores psilocybin and goes *crazy* striving to use the word “Amanita Muscaria” at every possible opportunity – when he could & should have used the neutral, broad word ‘mushroom’.

In the Europe sections, count the number of times Winkelman chooses to use the word ‘mushroom’, ‘Amanita’/’Muscaria’, ‘psilocyb’, & ‘entheogen’.

Winkelman uses Amanita far, far too often – his entire mission in life, in those sections, is to use the word ‘Amanita’ or ‘Muscaria’ as often as possible, at every possible opportunity.

SECRET teachings

Book:
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly Hall (1928)
http://manlyhallsociety.com/secret-teachings/

Rolfe’s Book The Romance of the Fungus World (1925) – No Psychoactive Mushrooms Other than Amanita

Mycologists in 1925 (until 1939) had no awareness of psilocybin; the only psychoactive mushroom the 1925 mycologists are aware of is Amanita.

Book:
The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in its Numerous Guises, both Real and Legendary
Robert Rolfe; R. T. Rolfe & F. W. Rolfe
1925
https://archive.org/details/romanceoffungusw00rolf/mode/2up
Foreword by John Ramsbottom (1924)
ISBN: 0486231054
1925 (1974 reprint)

Dover changed to “Imaginary”, orig = “Legendary”

University Course on Religion ie Psychedelics. Southern Oregon University, “Introduction to Religion”

“Humanities depts are closing”. – Martin Ball

“Southern Oregon University is a public university in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded in 1872 as the Ashland Academy, has been in its current location since 1926, and was known by nine other names before assuming its current name in 1997. Its Ashland campus – just 14 miles from Oregon’s border with California – encompasses 175 acres. Headquarters for Jefferson Public Radio, and public access station Rogue Valley Community Television.”

Martin Ball’s YT ch:
https://www.youtube.com/user/EntheogenicEvolution/videos

One of Martin Ball’s podcast guests was with https://circle.tamintegration.com/courses/2020-psilocybin-summit/

Around 41:00 in this podcast , with Thomas Roberts, for the book Mindapps, Martin Ball says that his course on religion before laid off due to low enrollment in the humanities, he taught as a course on psychedelics. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/entheogenic/episodes/2020-08-17T10_59_25-07_00

Book:
Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design
Thomas B. Roberts
Foreward by James Fadiman
http://amzn.com/B07JZFXRDY
Park Street Press
June 18, 2019

“An exploration of “mind design” technologies and practices–mindapps–that boost intellectual capacity and enable new ways of thought and action

• Reveals how mindapps transform the patterns of our mind-body complex and help generate new ideas by enabling access to new mind states

• Examines the singlestate fallacy–the myth that useful thinking only occurs in our ordinary awake mental state

• Explores a wealth of mindapp practices and techniques, including

  • microdosing with psychedelics,
  • yoga and
  • martial arts,
  • hypnosis,
  • breathing techniques,
  • lucid dreaming,
  • rites of passage,
  • biofeedback and
  • neurofeedback, and
  • transcranial brain stimulation

Just as we can write and install apps in our electronic devices, we can construct “mindapps” and install them in our brain-mind complex, and as just as digital apps add capabilities to our devices, mindapps can expand our mental powers and creative abilities, allowing us to intentionally redesign our minds.

Using psychedelics as the prime example, Thomas B. Roberts explores the many different kinds of mindapps, including meditation, other psychoactive plants and chemicals, sensory overload and deprivation, biofeedback and neurofeedback, hypnosis and suggestion, sleep and lucid dreaming, creative imagery, transcranial brain stimulation and optical brain stimulation, rites of passage, martial arts and exercise routines, yoga, breathing techniques, and contemplative prayer.

He also looks at the future of mindapps, the potential for new mindapps yet to be invented, and how installing multiple mindapps can produce new, yet to be explored mind states.

Drawing on decades of research, he shows how psychedelics in particular are “ideagens”–powerful tools for generating new ideas and new ways of thinking.

Uniting the many forms of mindapps into one overall Multistate Mind Theory, Roberts examines the singlestate fallacy–the myth that useful thinking only occurs in our ordinary awake mental state–and demonstrates the many mind-body states we are capable of. He shows how mindapps not only allow us to design and redesign our own minds but also offer benefits for

  • artistic performance,
  • mystical and spiritual experience, and
  • scientific research

by improving

  • creativity,
  • open-mindedness,
  • problem solving, and
  • inner-brain connections.

Reformulating how we think about the human mind, Mindapps unveils the new multistate landscape of the mind and how we can each enter the world of mind design.”

Voice Recording Reading Selections from Bennett & Hanegraaff
“Bennett Hanegraaff Lost Key.mp3”

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    • For links, see a couple pages below. I did a little tightening and cleanup but the raw file was already pretty listenable.
  • 0:00 – Typing then reading-aloud then deleting the typing segment will produce a good recording AND good text.
  • 0:38 – Chris Bennett’s critique of Muraresku.
  • _ – Hanegraaff’s Feb 2020 interview about entheogens
  • Talks from the Religious Drugs workshop conference.
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http://religiousdrugs.com/call-for-papers/

“The purpose of this workshop is to explore the role of entheogens in its various religious and spiritual expressions: historically, culturally and finally from the methodological approach taken by various research fields. It will be moreover, directed at clarifying the purpose, importance and relevance that the various forms of entheogens and mind-altering substances cover for the individual mystical and religious traditions. Emphasis will also be placed on the combination with ritual, meditation and biofeedback.

“The workshop will moreover encourage the discussion, analysis and questioning of research methods and methodologies such as: The ethics of the researcher in connection to the use of substances as part of participatory observation. Enquiries into the analysis of ecstatic and religious states in cooperation and compared to the descriptions of laboratory tested altered states of consciousness. Comparative methodologies and cooperation in different fields of research are encouraged.”

Post-keynote Interview of Hanegraaff on Entheogens, maybe Feb/March/Sep 2020: originally in Dutch, translated to English:

https://wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2020/09/enter-gods-interview-with-jana.html?fbclid=IwAR3JHBirFRTR00NBsAMy0Z_ON9jSPd0fC467tCodfkSig3wXR3mC6PLNiO8

http://religiousdrugs.com

http://religiousdrugs.com/program/

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/03/14/the-immortality-key-lost-on-the-road-to-eleusis/

Type while recording (a lot/ often), read-aloud what was typed (this is the payoff: produces good text in the idea development page and produces good audio), then delete the typing session from the recording.

Every 10 minutes, state the context: what am I doing? In a recording.

Read-aloud Bennett’s critique of TIK.

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“Ep64 Ideal Esotericism.mp3”

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    • Almost all of this episode is Egodeath Theory commentary – reading and commenting on the Journal of Psychedelic Studies, special issue on Psychedelics in History and World Religions https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/2054.3.issue-2.xml ; Volume 3 (2019): Issue 2 (Jun 2019): Editor: Michael Winkelman. Includes Browns’ article.
    • I read parts of Winkelman’s long introduction article, which focuses on psilocybin worldwide BUT when it comes to Europe, he ignores psilocybin and goes *crazy* using the word “Amanita Muscaria” at every possible opportunity: https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p43.xml
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The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • Episode 64
    • 8p.m., March 17, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Critique of wiki “Western Esotericism”
    • Imagining the good aspects of the book TIK. Cyberdisciple’s review of Brown’s review of Muraresku’s book.
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    • Should I resort to transcribing then read-aloud text?
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Esoteric Agenda
  • Egodeath theory:
    • Read-aloud Cyberdisciple re: Brown’s “maximal”
    • Critique of wiki “Western Esotericism”.
    • Possible critique of Brown’s critique of Mur’s book.
    • My critique is pretty minor or insubstantial: Mur’s inflated claim, bragging combined with diminution of goals: “By reducing our ambition, we have out-done the mysteries.”

Rolfe Book Online

Rolfe book from University of British Columbia Library is back online at archive.org! The Romance of the Fungus World

🎉 📗 📖 📚 🏛️ 🏫

https://archive.org/details/romanceoffungusw00rolf/page/n7/mode/2up

Controlled Voicing While Speaking Off-the Cuff – Effectively Impossible?

The Ideal Results from the Alternative Approach: Transcribe to Text & then Read-Aloud

My attempt was mostly a failure. I failed to criticize Brad in a controlled voice. Instead, which would help, I could demonstrate exactly the ideal desired result by transcribing to text and reading-aloud that transcription:

  • play back my off-the-cuff, poorly voiced, harshing on Brad the Enlightened Zen Master,
  • transcribe that to text
  • edit that text
  • read-aloud that text
    • revoice from text as casual standard voice;
    • low pitch, fun tone, casual wording
    • not high pitch, serious tone, formal wording
  • voice actor / voiceover artist / elocution
  • the “write->speak->rewrite” feedback loop, combines the powers of speech & text.

“Ep63 The Esotericism Key.mp3”

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    • A pretty clean take, not much requiring cleanup. If I read a passage twice to get it right, that gives the benefit of double-reading.
    • A clean read-aloud of Cyberdisciple’s and Brown’s critiques of the book The Immortality Key. No critique from me yet.
    • A clean read-aloud of the wiki article Western Esotericism. No critique from me yet.
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“Ep63 preview Esotericism Key.mp3”

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    https://we.tl/t-MQhj9iITqv (truncated preview version. real version is above)
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • śNot cleaned up yet, but it’s a clean take. If I read a passage twice to get it right, that gives the benefit of double-reading.
    • A clean read-aloud of Cyberdisciple’s and Brown’s critiques of the book The Immortality Key. No critique from me yet.
    • Not complete content yet: 2/3 through a clean read-aloud of the wiki article Western Esotericism. No critique from me yet.
    • No outro yet.
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    • 210317_2157.wav – failed to unpause, had to stop recording in order to listen to where it left off: restart from top of Academic Study section. Not in Preview mp3.
    • 210317_2158.wav – Academic Study section of wiki article W Esotericism; Outro. Not in Preview mp3.
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This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

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    • Episode 63
    • 8p.m., March 16, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Read-aloud Cyberdisciple’s updated review of Immortality Key, Brown’s review of Immortality key, and the Wiki article “Western Esotericism”.
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    • Is off-the-cuff controlled voicing impossible?
    • Get better at read-aloud.
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“Egodeath Theory” Segment

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Esoteric Agenda
  • Read-aloud Wiki article Western Esotericism (good article) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism
  • 39:30 start
  • 1:24:30 ending in mid-article for the night with “His Traditionalist ideas would have a strong influence on later esotericists like Julius Evola (1898–1974) and Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998).” Resume here. (2157.wav, 9:17 then it failed to unpause. last phrase caught: “external links”. Resume w/ section heading “Academic study”, added 210317_2158.wav w/ end & outro.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiLB_Mm6qic
    “13 questions to Wouter Hanegraaff” on YouTube. An interview of Hanegraaff, including autobio. sons of ministers become historians of religion. Classical Guitar major. Cultural History after, did dissertation on New Age movement, became his book. Esoteric Currents in W Culture. Halfway through studying Guitar, switched to cultural intellectual history, history of religion. History of Ideas, U of Utrecht Amsterdam. Found book in German, folklore renaiss early model book Pansophie: A History of White & Black Magic. Forgotten traditions, neglected, marginalized by mainstream histroiography. The other book: dutch edited , 3 main components: Reason, Faith, Gnosis.
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  • Find SAMORINI GIORGIO, 1997, L’albero-fungo di Plaincourault/ The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault, Eleusis, 8:29-37

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The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

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Publishing the Episode

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Moderate, Reasonable Brown vs. the Too-Far Maximalists

Brown argues against the maximal entheogen theory of religion – in contrast, I agree with Muraresku about how religion works when done right, not nece’ly how ppl attempted to access the mystic altered state.

I reject Brown’s list of “alternative ways of the mystic altered state” – list of bunk futile — ie I agree with Muraresku’s position as stated by Brown and rejected by Brown; I side with Muraresku against Brown here.

If I can trust Brown’s depiction of Muraresku’s position.

All true religion esotericism comes from plants, not from other, fake, ineffective positions.

I agree with the position statement that Brown attributes to Muraresku on this point aka the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

Muraresku and I both assert and commit to the explanatory framework of the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

“TIK argues that this entheogen-induced ecstatic vision, the ego-death experience that allows you to “die before you die” thus granting the living a reassuring glimpse of immortality, has over millennia and in diverse cultures served as the common element in the “religion with no name.”

“The pervasive underlying premise of TIK is that all religion originates from the ingestion of psychedelic concoctions of mind-altering beer and wine. And, conversely, that the only religious experience sufficiently reliable, fast-acting and powerful enough to convert the masses into true believers is an altered state of consciousness induced by psychedelics.”

Component Phrases from Brown’s Characterization of Muraresku’s Position (= the maximal entheogen theory of religion)

this entheogen-induced ecstatic vision, the ego-death experience

die before you die

granting immortality

the common element in the ecstatic source of religion

all religion originates from psychedelic

the only religious experience sufficiently reliable, fast-acting and powerful enough

altered state of consciousness induced by psychedelics

Cyberdisciple’s Analysis

Chris Bennett posted a long criticism of The Immortality Key: 

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/03/14/the-immortality-key-lost-on-the-road-to-eleusis/

Bennett complains that his books weren’t cited, even though Muraresku had privately praised them.

Michael Rinella makes a similar complaint in a 1-star Amazon review of The Immorality Key: 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R16N1YOEHHDUQ6/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1250207142

(“I don’t see how a book like this could be published in 2020 and yet somehow lack a single reference to a scholarly work on virtually the same subject, my own Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity (2010).

“Instead, it seems to be a rehash of arguments of The Road to Eleusis, a work originally published in the late 1970s, with some additional material on the early Christian era.

“Hillman’s work is a chapter he was forced to excise from his dissertation, stretched out to the length of a book.” – Rinella)

“Authors are annoyed that Muraresku’s Da Vinci Code-like book is a best-seller with lots of media hype, while their scholarly books attract a fraction of the interest.

“I think Brown is overstating Muraresku’s position about the origin of all religions. I do not think that Muraresku asserts and commits “to the explanatory framework of the maximal entheogen theory of religion”.

“It’s hard to tell because Muraresku does not clearly state what his position is on “the origin of all religions.”

[that’s always the problem; how to fill-in the Grid Game (of where plants were used, when) when writers obscure what their position is – cm]

“When Brown writes “the pervasive underlying premise of TIK is that all religion originates from the ingestion of psychedelic concoctions of mind-altering beer and wine,” he attributes more to Muraresku than Muraresku actually asserts. Brown reads that “pervasive underlying premise” into Muraresku’s book.

“Brown should define “originates” more clearly. Does he mean historically / chronologically or does he mean that the basic, starting point of ‘religion’ lies in drug experiencing for everyone regardless of the time they live in.

“There’s a chance that I’m wrong about the above and that somewhere in his book Muraresku states something like Brown wants about the origin of all religion.

“Certainly Muraresku does not practice “the maximal entheogen theory of religion” in our Egodeath community way when he discusses Greek, Christian, Roman, Near-Eastern, Prehistoric religions. 

“He writes as though evidence of psychedelics is hard to find and routinely forbids himself from looking for evidence in religious groups due to arbitrary social categories.

“Even if Muraresku does state something like the “maximal entheogen theory of religion” (I doubt he does), he fails to use the maximal theory when discussing religions.

“In one part when discussing ‘paleo-Christianity’ vs. ‘Church Fathers,’ Muaresku opposes “mystics” (authentic psychedelic eucharist takers) and “bureaucrats” (offering substitute eucharist).

“In another place he opposes “elites” (who guard the psychedelic sacrament for themselves) and “common people” (who are prevented from taking the psychedelic).

“In another place he opposes “Greek” psychedelic users to “Roman” non-psychedelic users.

“In other spots “women” know how to prepare the psychedelic drink while “men” do not. 

“In other spots he seems to claim that psychedelic religion is built into the DNA of Indo-Europeans (by implication not in the genetics of other groups).

“One of the editors of the journal where Brown published the review is Michael Winkelman, author of Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing.
https://www.amazon.com/Shamanism-Biopsychosocial-Paradigm-Consciousness-Healing/dp/031338181X

“In his book, Winkelman treats drugs as just one way of “altering consciousness,” lumping them together with hypnosis, dance, and meditation (at least in the table of contents).

“Winkelman edited the special issue of the journal devoted to “Psychedelics in History and World Religions” in which Jerry and Julie Brown’s article “Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels” appeared.”

Cyberdisciple’s Updated Review of Muraresku’s book The Immortality Key

Cyberdisciple wrote:

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/correcting-key-points-in-muraresku-the-immortality-key/#comment-2451
“Brown’s comment [linked above] prodded me to update my post [critique of Muraresku’s book The Immortality Key], now with critiques of Chapter 13.”

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/correcting-key-points-in-muraresku-the-immortality-key — “Updated 15 March 2021 with Table of Contents” + ch. 13

copy of w’s comment for reading/analysis

“the word ‘maximal’ as in the maximal entheogen theory of religion may sound like the broadest view, the greatest possible highest view for religious experience.”

[maximal can be broadened to apply to: maximal plants, maximal exp’c, & maximal esotericism (per my definition) -cm]

“When ‘maximal’ is placed into context as descriptive for religious esotericism, ‘maximal’ becomes limiting for the mystic altered state when it refers to only plant-based psychedelics.

“The focus should be placed upon the mystic altered state, regardless of all possible means of attaining the mystic altered state. Then what is labeled as ‘moderate’ becomes less restrictive and limiting for the mystic altered state than the use of the word ‘maximal.”

[my 1988-1997 Theory’s wording didn’t push chemicals, and was surprisingly open to other alleged means of accessing the loose cognitive association state, including schizophrenia because I believe schizophrenia does give loose cognitive mystic-state experiences. 1998-2002 I added “maximal” and specified chemicals -cm]

“Christianity may provide evidence of plants.”

“Christianity is not an original religion.”

[I don’t know what ‘original’ means here. -cm]

“There may be other catalysts beside plants that transition the mind into the mystic altered state.”

[That is 100% hazy, vague, & vaporous. What are these other alleged catalysts, and why should they be elevated to the efficacy level of plants? I’ll stick with the proven (plants), until some concrete, specific alternative is proved. To be saved, we must ingest the flesh of Christ. -cm]

“Focus should be placed on the importance of the mystic altered state, rather than on the catalyst for that state.”

“The word ‘maximal’ is limiting and restrictive for the mystic altered state by only including plant-based entheogens.”

[this move is “limiting” and “restrictive” only in a totally vague, hypothetical, vaporous, conjectured sense. I took the above strategy of staying open in 1997, and got no benefit from doing so. My explanatory emphasis has always been on the loose cognitive state, not the trigger for it. -cm]

Brown – Book Review of The Immortality Key, Journal of Psychedelic Studies

Hello Michael,

Here’s my recent Book Review of the NYTimes Bestseller, 
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name.

Review link:  
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/aop/article-10.1556-2054.2021.00170/article-10.1556-2054.2021.00170.xml

Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D.
Founding Professor of Anthropology
Florida International University
Coauthor, The Psychedelic Gospels
www.psychedelicgospels.com

Show Format/ Segment Length

  • Fake placeholder quick “segment length” mockup:
    • Intro segment done at 1:00
    • private only – Show Format segment done at 3:00
    • private only – Vocalization Review segment done at 5:00
    • Warmup Reading segment done at 7:00
    • Egodeath Theory segment done at 1:30:00
    • Not a Music Show segment done at 1:58:00
    • Outro segment done at 1:59:00

“Ep62 Hidden Agenda.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-14:
    https://we.tl/t-YO3mF4MKVf
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Entirely Egodeath Theory content: reading & commenting.
    • Read from the removed Rolfe book Romance of the Fungus world.
    • Read Wiki article on Mystery Religions.
    • Read Dale Pendell book blurbs.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:31:55
  • Filesize: 100 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 (mono source)
  • Timestamps in .mp3: (these won’t be much use – they are for the original master tape, not for the greatly trimmed mp3. the “+” items are retained in the .mp3 file)
  • +0:00 – Intro
  • +045 miking summary
  • done~~-1:07 distance talk
  • ~~+1:51 eq: none. “finished intro”
  • done~~-2:07 “this is start of Show Format seg”
  • -9:54 demo of mic patterns (made sep. mp3 from “Show Format” track, 7:38-11:14).
    • good voicing/talking about mic & voice & show format.
  • +1:16:48 critique of Meditation bad arg at wiki Ego Death article
  • done~~-12541 resume Voczn review
  • -12934 everyone jealous of broadcaster skills. need to create Instructional material about casual standard voice separated/divorced from “broadcaster” concept. Body of Knowledge about how to speak properly, is much needed. the broadcasters at YT have way way better voice & mic technique than the poser amateurs who strawman their skills.
  • -15116 resume Vocalization Review.
  • ~~+20100 “start of Warmup Reading segment”. Meditation Hucksters more.
  • done~~-20536 voczn review for Warmup reading.
  • ~~+20656 modified reading of Romance of the Fungus World.
  • done~~-21242 BAD NEWS the nice green yellow Rolfe book has been removed!! from archive.org.
  • -21641 “read the subheadings”
  • ~~+21918 Preface of Rolfe book
  • +25523 Dale Pendell
  • +30609 Rolfe book more reading
  • +32056 Dale Pendell
  • wikip articles especially mystery-religions. all the rest is Egodeath Theory content. Detailed original timestamps/topics are below, in Warmup Reading segment.
orig timestamps logged during recording:
  • done: Vary & demo the mic polar patterns.
  • 3 review outlines
    • Feb 7 review outline (could transcribe by modding the Feb 15 outline)
    • Feb 15 snapshot (archived in the Egodeath Mystery Show page)
    • Subsection “Standard Voice Practice” in “Voice & Mic Technique” page – longer.
  • 15:30 been talking about where to keep show format & voice/mic agenda items.
  • 25:00 ” watching mic & voice vids, web.
  • 3450 critiquing voicing / tone of previous episode.
  • 4127 repitched electronically.
  • 50:01 updating agenda in voicing page.
  • 58:02 Voice Review, updating the page/agenda/ TOC. Reorg’d page.
  • 1:05:25 Review of Voczn
  • ~1:24:00 critique of meditation hucksters, to try to voice in casual standard voice
  • 1:30:00, 14126 – Against critiques of announcer voice
  • 1:50:10 – abstracting out casual standard voice body of knowledge from various bickering applications that strawman this body of knowledge/ skill -set.
  • 2:00:39 – finished Review of Voczn
  • 2:10:35 warmup reading, substituting the egodeath theory for fungi hobby.
  • 2:22:56 reading India library Rolfe preface.
  • 24303 reading Intro chap of Rolfe from India copy of book
  • 3:02:47 read amazon Dale Pendell’s book that’s an alchemy play (20014), and 2nd edition of PharmakoGnosis (2010).
  • 3:13:15 reading subheads of ch 4 of Rolfe
  • 3:23:06 read more subheads. Pendell Poea book 2nd edition.
  • next, wiki mystery-religions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries <– done
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism <– only read Contents
  • 3:33:13 reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries
  • 3:43:00 “
  • 4:03:14 finished Mysteries article, commented on two slicing approaches in “perennial phil” –
    • mine is exo/eso regardless of religious brand.
    • other major perennnialists advocate that “perennialism means affirming non-bible brands, & rejecting Bible religions – big mistake.

I am not releasing the 4-hour Full episode; I am only releasing this ALL-EGODEATH-CONTENT, essentially a Core version of the episode is the only publicly released version. I removed the Agenda-management discussion (retained in source .wav and audio project). Removed great discussion on Broadcasters and removing from them the casual standard voice technique to be general-use.

Total length 1:31:55 after removing voice/mic/show-format content and condensing. The removed, good Voicing content and Mic demo content is separate tracks in the audio project file.

  • “Mic Patterns Demo from Ep62.mp3” – not included in episode 62. 7MB. 320kbps. uploaded https://we.tl/t-IEuAKtOpCf “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/Ep62 Hidden Agenda/Mic Patterns Demo from Ep62.mp3″
    • not from episode:
      • Feb 26: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/Polar Patterns demo/Polar Patterns demo.mp3″
      • Mar 14: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/Pattern Eq Demo/Pattern Eq Demo.mp3″
      • Mar 14: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/Pattern Eq Demo/Pattern Eq Demo All 9 Rapidly.mp3″

“Broadcasters from Ep62.mp3” – same. 320kbps. 89 MB. not uploaded

“Show Format Voicing from Ep62.mp3” – same. 320kbps. 171 MB. not cleaned up. not uploaded

Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • mark timestamps
  • somehow trim .wav or move non-publish parts to sep track.
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of mic demo
  • transfer mp3 to music player
    • transfer mp3 to music player: mic demo
    • transfer mp3 to music player: broadcasters
    • transfer mp3 to music player: show-format/voice
  • upload mp3
  • upload mp3 of mic demo? broadcasters? show-format/voice?
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210314_2150.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: none
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

this will be 2-part, or 2-version: 4:07:45 total.

  1. public-use: Intro + Egodeath Theory content + Outro
  2. private-use: The removed parts (show format, voice, mic, music discussion).
  • part 1: voice/mic / show format.
  • part 2: readings. Rolfe Romance of the Fungus world; Dale Pendell, ; wiki: mystery-religion initiation articles.

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • Episode 62, 11a.m., March 14, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    (about 12 words, to bake into the audio, predicting topics & differentiating from other episodes. Only 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!)
    • Whatever happens to be in the rolling agenda.
    • I’m now an expert on miking for speech.
    • Using the timer every 10 minutes to log a timestamp and topic of what I’ve been talking about.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Moving among the 3 modes
      • Pitch Grounding technique
      • Force Pitch Down technique
      • Casual standard voice
    • Hearing the various polar patterns of a dual-capsule LDCM mic.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: I’m starting by using the Wide Cardioid pattern, in-between the bright/wet Omnidirectional pattern, and dark/dry Cardioid pattern.
    • Distance: 7″.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.
Playlist

We’re listening to nothing.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
_202_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
_217_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about the show format should be in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

  • 7:33 discussing spectrum of #keystrokes to begin recording a show, where are agenda items maintained.

We’ve finished the “Show Format” segment.
_918_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
931__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Voice & Mic Technique should be in the “Voice & Mic Technique” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Voice & Mic Technique
Subsection: Agenda Items to Work on During the Show

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
20101 The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_20111_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
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“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Egodeath Theory should be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Esoteric Agenda

  • Genesis 2 (you may eat from Tree of Life), 3 (you are kicked out b/c you might eat from Tree of Life), & 4 (Cain & Abel)
  • I’m an expert on miking for speech, given that I watched a bunch of vids today and learned almost nothing.
    • Need to highlight both:
      • Where is mouth aimed
      • Where is mic aimed
  • Search for vids and webpages about casual standard voice. Still coming up next-to empty handed.
Enlightenment’s Evil Twin: The Control Vortex Guarded Gate?

From wik: Ego Death article:

“Shinzen Young, an American Buddhist teacher, has pointed at the difficulty integrating the experience of no self.

“He calls this “the Dark Night”, or “falling into the Pit of the Void.”

“It entails an authentic and irreversible insight into Emptiness and No Self.

“What makes it problematic is that the person interprets it as a bad trip.

“Instead of being empowering and fulfilling, the way Buddhist literature claims it will be, it turns into the opposite.

“In a sense, it’s Enlightenment’s Evil Twin.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death#Dark_Night_and_depersonalisation – “Willoughby Britton is conducting research on such phenomena which may occur during meditation, in a research program called
“The Dark Night of the Soul“.

She has searched texts from various traditions to find descriptions of difficult periods on the spiritual path,[web 5] and conducted interviews to find out more on the difficult sides of meditation.[web 4][note 8]”

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
__ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
  • x

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

__ timestamp after stop recording

Publishing the Episode

sections to move to top when publishing the episode

/ end of section ““Ep62.mp3”

“Ep61 Back in Golden Era.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-12:
    https://we.tl/t-28yOSgJHWC
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:25:34
  • Filesize: 100 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
    • 0:00 – Intro: Pub recording from end of Satanic Majesties.
    • _ – Legacy vintage reading of Vocalization principles from the golden era back when the Show used to be good (Feb. 15, 2021).
    • _ – Goals for these recordings; measure of success: to produce clips.
    • 56:00 – Readings from Rolfe’s 1925 book The Romance of the Fungus World.
  • Time and date:
    • Episode 61
    • 9p.m., March 12, 2021.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Egodeath content: Start here: At ~56:00, Readings from Rolfe’s 1925 book The Romance of the Fungus World.
    • Goals for these recordings; measure of success: produce clips.
    • Not much Egodeath content. Largely for my show-structuring work, show-strategizing. This is a mechanical practice episode, focused on the show format.
    • Live-show format is hard. But there have been lots of good clips, and I do have a process to mark timestamps and produce a Core version of an episode.
      • The show is a clip-generating machine/approach.
      • Last episode has good content / clip – reading Ego Death article at Wiki.
    • A legacy, vintage reading of the Vocalization Review points like way back in the golden era of February 15th, almost a month ago.
    • Frequent varying of mic pattern.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Points of failure:
      • immediately getting to the point, right from the start
      • completing sentences, and
      • keeping pitch down (ie transcendently managing my voice, or, using casual standard voice) while speaking off-the-cuff.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Continuously varying among Omni, Wide Cardioid, Cardioid, Supercardioid, & Figure 8.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.
Errata
  • 50:00 I underestimate the previous episode, #60. Episode 60 has Egodeath content at the end, as asserted here, but also, that episode has a lot of good Egodeath content throughout; so I made a Core version of the episode (Ep60 Core).
  • Next up, need to work on tone: This recording at one point has angry tone, oddly/strangely, when discussing viable expectations/standards for voice recordings.
    • Not a Pitch error; maybe it’s a Mindfulness error; it’s definitely a “serious tone vs fun tone” error, but I haven’t yet analyzed “fun tone”.
    • I’d expect a neutral-toned discussion, not an angry tone – this is evidence of a sheer habit of framing ideas with a negative tone or stance or perspective.
    • I can think of other incongruous use of a tone that reads as angry: a technical gear-usage technique summary video I made for someone.
    • I just watched a YT’er on mic technique, he seemed just like me: in discussing technical options for mic placement with pros/cons, he read (came across) as hyper-caffeinated and angry; “angry energy”.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • tighten gaps
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: none
  • Mixer tracking file: 210312_2400.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Playlist

We’re listening to the recording at the end of Their Satanic Majesties Request. At the end, again, plus part of the song Gomper.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
_148_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
_154_ The timestamp is x.

  • Status of Agenda Management: TRAINWRECK. There’s no good way. For speed of moving through the episode fast (while live on-air w/ continuous music & timestamps), I need to put top priority on my needs for scrolling through the episode’s template, with a finite amount of material copied to there; the rolling agenda items for:
    • show-format work
    • voice/miking technique development
    • egodeath theory topics

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

We’ve finished the “Show Format” segment.
_354_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_400_ The timestamp is x.

Vintage Golden-Era Traditional High-Point Copy / Reconstruction of This Section Just Before I Moved It To the Ambitious New Page “Voice & Mic Techniques” (but note it was *constantly* changing)

Legacy Vocalization Section, February 15, 2021; Preserve As-Is:

[I’m keeping this copy in idea development page 12, but the main bak of this section is now at bottom of Egodeath Mystery Show page]

The following was from the final read-alouds of this section/segment in episodes of the Egodeath Mystery Show, just on the cusp of creating the page “Voice & Mic Technique”, where I moved these items out to become, mostly, the section “Standard Voice Practice” in that new page.

Review of Vocalization; “this is the start of the Vocalization Review segment” (legacy)

Special Focus for Vocalizing in This Episode
  • Open the back-of-mouth chambers and top of throat.
    • Exercises. Pull up and back. Experiment from tight to pressed open and upward.
  • Push pitch down consistently, continuously.
    • Pitch Grounding technique while off-the-cuff speaking, as an exercise.
  • Staying mindful of vocalization techniques while doing off-the-cuff commentary in the main segments. No particular focus but just trying to stay cognizant overall.
  • Off-the-cuff mindfulness: controlled vocalizing while doing off-the-cuff speaking.
  • Standard voice; transcendent voice.
Read-Aloud Techniques
  • Read each heading twice.
  • Read each sentence twice, defined as 3 lines.
  • Read each paragraph twice, defined as 7 lines.
  • Read a complete paragraph before commenting.
  • Separate the reading of a paragraph from the commenting on a paragraph.
  • Contiguous unbroken long stretches of reading.
  • State my commentary at end of paragraph. debatable!
  • Turn any text into standard vocalization.
  • Double-reading.
  • Read-aloud each sentence twice.
  • Don’t read footnote numbers in mid-sentence.
  • Don’t read author citations that are in mid-sentence.
Standard Reference Speaking and Tone
  • Exaggerate the bass, treble, and pitch swing.
  • Practice standard reference vocalizing.
  • Speak low pitch with a neutral-positive tone.
  • Speak low pitch with a smile, or neutral at least.
  • How to speak low-pitch without sounding forceful, but rather, neutral; nor soft.
  • No particular character or inflection of feeling.
  • No odd resonance.
  • No character or attitude skew.
  • Generic reference speech.
  • Standard voice.
  • Straight-up standard pronunciation.
  • Neutral-medium pace as mid-point.
  • Not lax, not edgy.
  • Neutral non-emphasis.
  • Neither soft tone nor aggressive.
  • Neutral in tone.
  • Functional & plain.
  • Regular matter-of-fact speech.
  • No attitude or tone skew.
Vocal Apparatus
  • Back top of throat.
  • Lower chest.
  • Tip of tongue.
Pitch
  • Force pitch downward hard.
  • Vary the pitch from low to very low.
Pronunciation & Enunciation
  • Consistently hype the letters: ‘c d s t w x z’.
  • Never slur; always pronounce the ‘s’.
  • Separate each word.
  • Pronounce every letter of every word.
Speed
  • Neutral fast low-pitch.
  • Vary the speed from slow to fast (fast & smooth).
  • Separate each word.
  • Pronounce every letter of every word.
  • Repeat botched statement correctly.
Conversation Technique
  • Start a sentence, then finish it.
    • Don’t produce uncompleted sentences.
    • Don’t interrupt myself.
  • Talk about “we, us, community, conversation”.
  • Skip straight to the point.
    • Think of key words, then construct statement around them.
    • What are the 5 key words you need to say? Start by saying those.
  • Speak simply, with only 1st-order detail.
  • Stay on a topic more, without jumping among topics.
  • Use segments to stay on-topic and separate the topics.
Mic Technique
  • Ride the mic gain.
  • Move aside/back from the mic slightly, to inhale.
  • Ride the music gain.
  • Fade-up guitar leads.

/ end of Preserve/Legacy section

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The “Warmup Reading” Segment

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_3304_ The timestamp is x.

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_3500_ The timestamp is x.
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“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_3508_ The timestamp is x.

Esoteric Agenda
  • Live-show format is hard. But there have been lots of good clips, and I do have a process to mark timestamps and produce a Core version of an episode.The show is a clip-generating machine/approach.
  • Last episode has good content / clip – reading Ego Death article at Wiki.
  • A legacy, vintage reading of the Vocalization Review points like way back in the golden era of February 15th, almost a month ago.
  • Frequent varying of mic pattern.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Points of failure:
      • immediately getting to the point, right from the start
      • completing sentences, and
      • keeping pitch down (ie transcendently managing my voice, or, using casual standard voice) while speaking off-the-cuff.

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_13945_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
_13956_ The timestamp is x.

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

/ end of section ““Ep# Key Words.mp3”

“Ep60 Core – Loosecog Trajectory.mp3” – new, Mar. 13

This is a shorter, tightened, Core version of the episode.

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-13:
    https://we.tl/t-2mhAYe9zt6
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • The newbie mind has 10 standard experiences in the loose cog state. These must be structured and directed, to lead to the mind’s potential transformation. To understand esotericism & Transcendent Knowledge.
    • My commentary on Wiki article Ego Death.
    • Background music: album: Their Satanic Majesties Request.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 46:33 (vs. Full version 1:33:54; as typical, 50% the length)
  • Filesize: 118 MB
  • Bitrate: 320 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 – Intro. Briefly: Ten standard effects of loosecog, vs. trajectory; & Wiki article Ego Death.
  • 3:51 – Ten standard effects of loosecog, vs. trajectory.
  • 13:32 – Wiki article Ego Death.
Errata
  • A mic-tech comment slipped-in at the start.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • copy the Mixer wav used for Full episode
  • tighten Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link

“Ep60 Loosecog Trajectory.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-11:
    https://we.tl/t-KGYHM89EKS
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • 1. Because people don’t identify the key driving themes (as a coherent set & trajectory giving a 2nd worldmodel) from the mind in the altered state, there’s confusion.
      • Analogical psychedelic eternalism + dependent control. Mental worldmodel transformation.
    • 2. Read latest version of wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
      • The oldest page of History has my edits of this page, 1 year 1 month into the article’s history.
      • “Ego dissolution” & “Ego loss redirects to “Ego death”; the bad guys lost. Wiki should reflect language usage (“ego death”), not engineer language usage (“people ought to instead say ‘ego dissolution'”).
    • Vary the mic polar pattern.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:33:54
  • Filesize: 171 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • +0:00 – Intro
  • -1:15 – start of Show Format segment
  • +2:50 – read verbose agenda about the egodeath theory
  • done~~-5:02 voice mic tech
  • ~~+11:39 “I really do like the idea of see what happens, the egodeath theory
  • done~~-13:50 about segments, voicing
  • ~~+36:16[modded] keep, after the the egodeath theory segment announce.
  • done~~-36:10 – Egodeath Theory segment announce. Music: end of album end of song (On with the Show), then start of album (Sing This All Together).
  • modded: 36:23 supercardioid
  • ~~+39:08 START HERE for Core content[sort of; there’s some hidden before this – see the Core version of this episode] – Egodeath Theory content. The mind has 10 standard experiences in the altered state, but those need to be structured and directed, to reach the potential mental worldmodel transformation.
  • +41:05 – Music: Citadel.
  • ~~-41:17 – Music comment
  • -41:50 – New polar pattern: Figure 8. Mic demo.
  • -43:43 – Music: end of Citadel. Song: In Another Land.
  • modded: +44:44 keep
  • ~~-44:53 – wrestled mic cable. (handheld)
  • ~~+45:47 – Egodeath theory con’t: mystery-religion initiation did the coherent complete trajectory, not just newbie 10 experiences that the newbie mind undergoes in altered state.
  • done~~-51:39 – Mic: Omni pattern.
  • _______________________
    ~~+52:20 – Egodeath theory: Ego Death article at Wikipedia.
  • done~~-53:20 – Music: Sing This All Together (See What Happens) climax gateway passage.
  • ~~+53:48 – going through the gate
  • done~~-53:50 – Music
  • ~~+54:23 – Grof literalism.
  • done~~-55:39 – Music
  • ~~+56:02 – Ego Death wiki.
  • done~~-1:12:01 music
  • ~~+1:14:31 – Ego Death wiki.
  • done~~-1:27:52 music
  • ~~+1:28:17 – Ego Death end of wiki statement.
  • done~~-1:28:25 – Music, segment announcements.
  • ~~+1:32:19 – Outro announce.
  • 1:33:54 – end.
Errata
  • In header I said “no eq”. Actually the entire episode has -3dB broad mudcut; slight smile-flat curve.
    • Notes: That mistake probably gave ideal results (compromise) for the variety of polar patterns; that gentle eq curve probably made the Omnidirectional pattern slightly too bright and the Supercardioid pattern slightly too dark (relative to the music & depending on the particular playback system frequency response).
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: none, which means I can’t create a Core version of the episode with purely mic, or with a smooth auto-ducked music background.
  • Mixer tracking file: 210311_2398.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
Recording Header
  • Voice & Mic Technique:
    • 3. Vary the mic polar pattern.
    • Contrast the 3 voices:
      • Pitch Grounding
      • Force Pitch Down
      • casual standard voice
    • Do confusing alternation between:
      • reading-aloud,
      • off-the-cuff or commenting, and
      • playing a past voice recording.
  • Show Format:
    • Lots of short defined segments, flexible list of them.
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    (about 12 words, to bake into the audio, predicting topics & differentiating from other episodes. Only 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!)
    • __
  • Vocalization theme:
    • __
  • Time and date:
    • Episode 60
    • 8p.m., March 11, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser mic.
    • Polar pattern: All of them. (Omnidirectional, Wide Cardioid, Cardioid, Supercardioid, & Figure 8.)
    • Distance: 6″, 45°, aimed 1″ in front of upper lip.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none. broad mud-cut -3dB, used w/ all polar patterns.
Playlist

We’re listening to the album Their Satanic Majesties Request.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
_54_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
_118_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about the show format should be in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

We’ve finished the “Show Format” segment.
_1804_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_1827_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Voice & Mic Technique should be in the “Voice & Mic Technique” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Voice & Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_3242_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_3333_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_3559_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_3614_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
  • Egodeath Theory:
    • 1. Because people don’t identify the key driving themes from the mind in the altered state, there’s confusion.
      • analogical psychedelic eternalism + dependent control. mental worldmodel transformation.
    • 2. Read latest wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
      • The oldest History has my edits of this page, 1 year 1 month in.
      • “Ego dissolution” redirects to there; the bad guys lost.

Agenda items about Egodeath Theory should be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Esoteric Agenda
  • x

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_1:28:48_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
_12954_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
  • x

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
_13128_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

_13354_ timestamp after stop recording

/ end of section ““Ep# Key Words.mp3”

“Ep59 Anczyk Review of Contemporary Exotericism.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-11:
    https://we.tl/t-WXGUzi586D
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Read-aloud of this 4-page book review, with a little commentary at the end.
  • https://www.academia.edu/12287041/Contemporary_Esotericism_edited_by_Egil_Asprem_and_Kennet_Granholm_New_York_Routledge_2013
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 22:41
  • Filesize: 29 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 – Intro/header
  • 0:59 – Reading (1x, straight-through)
  • 11:50 – reduce bass (indirectly increases the treble). bass: “The conclusion a reader may reach…”, 3s silence, then treble: “is that a study of these trends and their cultural expressions,”
  • 13:56 – Meta-commentary/technical
  • 16:23 – My comments about the field
More Comments

Adam Anczyka & Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska write:

“The editors mention in their chapter on ‘Constructing Esotericism’ (25–48) some of the terminological issues implicated in the use of the term ‘esotericism.’ They suggest that it is more a constructed idea than an analytical, natural category. They point out that the main problem is that historically and doctrinally diverse movements and ideas were gathered together under the umbrella term ‘esotericism’ by believers and academics alike. It resulted in specifically sociological and psychological effects, as many people affiliate themselves with the ‘esoteric’ and sometimes use the term to self-depict their beliefs. However, it is difficult to stop using the term in scholarly research, simply because it has become a part of a popular discourse. Most people know intuitively what ‘esoteric’ means, and to which religious or spiritual groups the term may refer. Even the editors of the book entitled it ‘Contemporary Esotericism,’ which illustrates the power of the term. Certainly they do explain in what context the notion is used, and on what bias it was constructed, but – concerning the variety of content found inside – we thought that a better title would be a plural form of the concept like ‘Contemporary Esotericisms’ or ‘Contemporary Esoteric Movements,’ which would be in line with the editors’ plea concerning the watchful usage of ‘esotericism’ in scholarly works (37–38).”

That pluralization of a term is a trope; a stock move. Scholars have similarly recommended we talk about “Christianities” or “Gnosticisms”.

I have specified “the esotericism of Valentinian gnostics as described by Pagels’ first 3 books”. Pagels in those books doesn’t use the term ‘esotericism’. Freke & Gandy use the term ‘esotericism’ in their book The Jesus Mysteries.

Regardless of all discussion of whatever, the key and highest thing is always: mental worldmodel transformation from literalist ordinary-state possibilism (with autonomous control) to analogical psychedelic eternalism (with dependent control). That core is easy to see in mystery-religion initiation; in the Mystery Religions. What varies is surface theme; what’s constant is the underlying essence (analogical psychedelic eternalism).

Partridge thinks bad = Christendom, good = anti-Christendom revolution & rebellion (counter-, alternative, non-mainstream, etc). Then he notes he’s painted himself in a corner, when the non-mainstream (ie the non-Christendom) becomes normal and dominant, he has to invent the self-countering term, “occulture”, which is intended by him as an ironic oxymoron (when considered within his explanatory framework).

In contrast, I think bad = the exoteric layer of all brands of religion, good = the esoteric layer of all brands of religion.

Mic: Noise Report

Amazingly, even with no Noise Gate, the background noise is only audible at points, such as 11:17 & 11:08. The Supercardioid polar pattern rejects most off-axis noise (45° back angle rejection), and (the slight) body noises were worse than external noises. I wish I had done part of the recording with Omni mode, for comparison. Can the Supercardioid polar pattern be used in place of a noise gate? The relation between EQ, polar pattern, and noise rejection. I’d like to have some recordings / episodes that freely vary the polar pattern.

Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • cut gaps
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    (about 12 words, to bake into the audio, predicting topics & differentiating from other episodes. Only 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!)
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Casual standard voice with Pitch Forced Down technique.
  • Time and date:
    • Episode #59
    • 8am, March 11, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Supercardioid.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): About 60% through (12:22 in raw rec’g; 11:50 in .mp3, “is that a study of these trends and their cultural expressions,”), I added eq to to mud-cut, and turned on Expander / Noise Gate. Before that, it’s raw mic + Limiter.
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210311_2149.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210311_2396.wav <- used
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

/ end “ep59”

“Ep58 Contemporary Exotericism.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-10:
    https://we.tl/t-n2yWIY8L4h
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Conference keynote presentations for Contemporary Esotericism book http://amzn.com/1138856118
    • https://contern.org/online-lectures/
    • “Introduction and Welcome” – Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm. With my clarifications/ commentary/ reaction. Conference on Contemporary Esotericism, 2012. ContERN, the theme of the conference, interdisciplinary research on contemporary esotericism.
    • Christopher Partridge: Occulture Is Ordinary article presentation. Only the start & audience questions. With my reaction/clarifications/ commentary.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 2:12:51
  • Filesize: 157 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Playlist

Album: Their Satanic Majesties Request. Songs:

  • sing this all together (see what happens) 7:58 long
  • she’s a rainbow 4:35
  • the lantern 4:24
  • gomper 5:12
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210310#_2148.wav (gaps b/c reaction vid)
  • Mixer tracking file: 210310_2395.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.
Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    (about 12 words, to bake into the audio, predicting topics & differentiating from other episodes. Only 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!)
    • Hanegraaff keynote video reaction (in three artificial voicings)
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Alternating between three artificial voicings.
  • Time and date:
    • Episode 58
    • _:00 p.m., March 10, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Wide Cardioid.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ (on mixer recording): none.
Playlist

We’re listening to the album Their Satanic Majesties Request. Songs:

  • sing this all together (see what happens) 7:58
  • she’s a rainbow 4:35
  • the lantern 4:24
  • gomper 5:12

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
_53_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Show Format” Segment

This is the start of the “Show Format” segment.
_126_ The timestamp is x.

Agenda items about the show format should be in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Page: Egodeath Mystery Show
Subsection: Agenda Items for Working on the Show-Format
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/egodeath-mystery-show/#Agenda-Items-for-Working-on-the-Show-Format

We’ve finished the “Show Format” segment.
_528_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_633_ The timestamp is x.

Agenda items about Voice & Mic Technique should be in the “Voice & Mic Technique” page, but they could also be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Voice & Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_2352_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_2412_ The timestamp is x.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_2618_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

“Egodeath Theory” Segment

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” segment.
_2742_ The timestamp is x.

  • Alternate between:
    • The “Pitch Grounding” technique.
    • The “Pitch Forced Down” technique.
    • Casual standard voice.

Agenda items about Egodeath Theory should be in this episode template in the “Intro” segment or in the “Egodeath Theory” segment.

Esoteric Agenda

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_20212_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
_20849_ The timestamp is x.

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
_21148_ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

_21254_ timestamp after stop recording

/ end “2021-03-__ Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”

Next Episode

The next voicing-intensive episode or practice session, has to:

  • make a strong distinction between mere read-aloud, and the incomparably harder off-the-cuff voicing.
  • Use artificial-sounding voicing the entire episode.
  • Re-demo Broad Cardioid polar pattern w/o TEN TIMES making mistakes of naming! Get It Straight, poser, stop making mistakes in polar pattern names! Clearly, my attention to artificial voicing was extremely distracting, so I made wording mistakes left & right.
  • plan accurately which segments will need to use which voicing technique. You can’t say “use Pitch Grounding the entire episode” and then say as part of the episode, “practice revoicing the previous episode”, without resolving that disparity/ contradiction.

“Ep57 Over the Voice Hump.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-09:
    https://we.tl/t-6qvjlbpuUm
  • Length: 2:14:48
  • Filesize: 161 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Mostly Mic demo, Voice work, & Music. Egodeath theory content starts at 1:48:44.
    • This episode (until the Egodeath content) uses a mix of “Pitch Grounding Technique” (artificial sounding) & new, “Force Pitch Down” Technique (semi-natural sounding).
    • Mic Tech Demo of using the continuously variable Polar Pattern pot on the large-diaphragm condenser mic as a Tone control (a tilt eq) by swinging around Wide Cardioid (from Omnidirectional = too bright, to Wide Cardioid = balanced eq, to Cardioid = too dark).
    • Here I try to revoice the previous (High Performance) episode, but it was voiced so well [yeah but much of that was merely read-aloud, which is 100x easier than off-the-cuff], there’s not much room for improvement – which is good news.
      • This revoicing practice is a Long segment; main segment of this episode. Not sure how listenable the main, “revoicing” segment is. Some is amusing. That segment is successful [yeah but largely just read-aloud, which is easy to voice well & doesn’t count] – unlike my Esotericism coverage here, where I revert from Cultivated to Wild voicing.
    • 1:48:44 Hanegraaff and Esotericism coverage.
      • New critique of his self-contradiction about hyperventilation:
        • Hane: “Hyperventilation can be entheogenic in its effect.”
        • Also Hane: “Grof was forced to switch from plants to hyperventilation, otherwise he certainly would have stayed with plants.”
      • Mostly my usual criticisms of the first pages of his Entheogenic Esotericism article, which he paraphrases. This is a few minutes of my doing a Reaction Video.
    • Album: Side 1 of Satanic Majesties Request.
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 – Intro segment
  • 2:05 – Voice & Mic Technique segment
    • Brief mention of using the Wide Cardioid continuously variable Polar Pattern pot at a Tone control.
  • 5:02 – Warmup Reading segment
    • 5:30 – Warmup reading of the paragraph that was censored by Wasson from Panofsky’s letter. Read using the “Pitch Grounding” Technique (extremely artificial).
  • 7:03 – Egodeath Theory topical segments (incidental Egodeath Theory content only)
    • 7:32 – read the entire short Esoteric Agenda (read using the “Pitch Grounding” Technique).
    • 8:15 – Miking: Mic Tech Demo: Using the continuously variable Polar Pattern pot on the large-diaphragm condenser mic as a Tone control (a tilt eq) by swinging around Wide Cardioid (from Omnidirectional = too bright, to Wide Cardioid = balanced eq, to Cardioid = too dark).
      • The twist: this demo uses the “Pitch Grounding” Technique (extremely artificial).
    • 12:34 – Voicing: the Pitch Grounding Technique is easy b/c it’s so extreme, it’s easier to remember to do, than the “Force Pitch Downward” (less extreme) technique.
    • 13:46 – Voicing: LONGEST SEGMENT OF THIS EPISODE: Voicing exercise/demo: Revoicing previous recording of complaining/critical statements about negativity & pseudo-critique of Transcendent Knowledge development (complaining/criticizing is challenging material to revoice well).
      • I create or at least officially/formally define the “Force Pitch Downward” technique, which is less unnatural than the extreme “Pitch Grounding” Technique.
    • 1:18:28 – Music: Citadel.
    • 1:19:24 – Music: The albums I played in late 1987 while working up to explaining Satori in the Way of Zen by Alan Watts by adding no-free-will.
  • 1:21:34 – Agenda navigation.
  • 1:22:31 – The “Not a Music Show” segment.
    • 1:23:11 – “Transcendent Distancing from Voicing“; Mindful Voicing.
      • Defining:
        • 1. the “pitch grounding” technique (so extreme, easy to lock-in).
        • 2. the “driving pitch down” technique (semi-natural). aka the “pitch force downward” technique.
        • 3. “casual standard voice” (ideal; the goal I’m approaching).
      • The steps toward Transcending the voice – the first step is to distance from the accustomed, “egoic”, automatic voice by using any artificial voice consistently.
      • Wild vs. Cultivated; Egoic vs. Transcendent use of voice. To *perform* voicing = to *transcend* the voice.
      • Establishing a transcendently distanced relation to the voice.
      • At this next, temporary stage, I’m purely trying to “break” the lack of mindfulness of voicing, by using artificial voice, *not* yet the ideal desired voicing.
      • 1:35:11 – in next episode, alternate “pitch force downward” technique & casual standard voice.
      • 1:35:40 – I AM PRONOUNCING THAT I HAVE MADE IT OVER THE HUMP IN THIS EPISODE THROUGH ALT’G PITCH FORCE DOWNWARD & PITCH GROUNDING TECHNIQUES & THAT I MADE GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN “HIGH PERF” EPISODE. [then i immediately forget, and revert from Cultivated to Wild Voicing for the rest of the episode]
    • 1:36:12 – Music: Influential album Satanic Majesties. Remastering. Artwork too small unless album sleeve. 3D cover. The exciting Psychedelic era of 1987 when all these albums were coming out, sparkly newer-than-ever, crystal clearer than listeners ever heard before.
      • 1:43:46 – Agenda check. Music continues.
      • 1:45:49 – Voicing check [I rate my revoicing segment too highly, b/c much of it was just read-aloud, which is easy. I’m about to entirely forget voicing for the rest of the episode.]. Music continues.
      • 1:46:22 – Mention finding Hanegraaff keynote (YouTube audio). Music continues.
  • +1:48:44 – EGODEATH THEORY CONTENT STARTS HERE, and my controlled voicing totally gets thrown out the window, just like that: My reaction to video playback of Hanegraaff’s keynote talk, Entheogenic Esotericism. 2012 keynote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIMjjPg7uU
    • 1:51:05 is a new criticism – hyperventilation; Hane contradicts himself, citing breathing techniques as if an effective trad’l technique, but he says too, that Grof was forced to change to it, from plants. Get your story straight.
    • Most are my usual criticisms, worth hearing again here, for the first few pages.
    • 1:58:19 – Reading text at the video, about ContERN conference.
    • 1:59:54 – Scope out website ContERN.org; Contemporary Esotericism Research Network.
    • 2:07:19 – I react to the Comment by P. at https://contern.org/online-lectures/wouter-j-hanegraaff-entheogenic-esotericism/ : “Is there any evidence of “entheogenic esotericism” in the Western world from between, say, the 1750’s and the 1850’s? I read the (brilliant) Deveney book on Paschal Beverly Randolph, which mentions entheogenic drug use amongst certain French Spiritualists in the 1850’s. So I wonder: How much further back can we trace this thing [entheogens], in a modern Western context?“
  • 2:09:14 – Music: 2000 Man
  • 2:11:50 – end of “Not a Music Show” segment
  • 2:12:27 – About important Psych jam freakout song “Sing This All Together“, 8 minutes, influential.
  • 2:14:10 – Outro
Errata
  • Analyze: how the hell did the Voice/Mic segment not contain the massive Voice work, and why did the massive Voice work happen within the Egodeath Topical segment???? wtf. too complicated with 3 agendas spread among 3 pages (idea development, voice/mic, show-format page).
  • In Hanegraaff reaction, I pretty much totally forget controlled voicing.
    • My plan to use the “Pitch Grounding” technique the whole episode was incoherent: to execute the plan to revoice playback of the previous episode, I had to, in midstream, invent/define the milder “Force Pitch Down” technique, and also I had to use Casual Standard Voice. The ill-considered original plan fell apart by the time I hit the most difficult scenario, of off-the-cuff reaction to Hanegraaff video.
    • Next episode: *start* with off-the-cuff reaction to Hanegraaff video alternating between “pitch grounding” & “force pitch down” (a near-impossible challenge?)
    • A success: Until the “revoice the previous episode” part, I remembered to use Pitch Grounding (easy extreme technique).
    • A success: All the way until the Hanegraaff vid, I remembered to use either Pitch Grounding (extreme), or the newly identified Force Pitch Down technique (less extreme).
    • A failure: Only at, starting with the Hanegraaff vid toward the end of the episode, did I forget mindful voicing.
  • During Mic Demo, I said “Supercardioid” instead of “Wide Cardioid”, multiple times. (The mistake is obvious, from the context, when I hear it played back.)
  • During start of playing Clip of Complaining, I incorrectly said “I’m now using Omni mode, of LDCM mic.” Idiot! Obviously I’m using Wide Cardioid, as I had just stated. Jesus, get it straight!
  • I said “wording” instead of “voicing”, 4 times.
How Suddenly My Controlled Voicing Was Forgotten, at 1:48:44 out of 2:14:10

I hope, upon playback, there are only a few spots where I fail to deliberately control my vocalizing. As a transitional, stepping stone phase, I hope this entire episode sounds artificially voiced, it’s probably 90%, and climbing.

Nope; fail at maybe 3/4 of the way through; during Hanegraaff video, I forget to use distanced, artificial, transcendent voicing. Reborn again into Egoic Sleep.

This is why I still have to use beginner level training wheels of using nothing but the extreme (thus easy) “Pitch Grounding” technique for the *entire* episode no matter what type of segment comes up.

Or, I need to toggle among:

  • pitch grounding (extreme, so easy to remember to do)
  • force pitch down (less extreme, so more difficult to remember to do)
  • casual standard voice (hard to remember to do; tend to revert to my mindless default wild voice)
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • skip normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 35° [relative to the aim-point], aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210309_2391.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210309_2141.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!
    • Play & Pause the previous episode, to revoice the most criticizing-toned passages.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Use the Pitch Grounding Technique during entire episode. Bass. Pitch. On. Every. Word.
    • On the mic, use variable Wide Cardioid polar pattern as a Tone control.
  • Time and date:
    • 4p.m., March 9, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Wide Cardioid. Demo of using as a Tilt Eq.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: none, or inverse of the Wide Cardioid setting.
Playlist

We’re listening to the album Their Satanic Majesties Request, by the Rolling Stones.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_210_ The timestamp is x.

Voice & Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
434__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
_507_ The timestamp is x.

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
641__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

“Egodeath Theory” Topical Segments

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments.
709__ The timestamp is x.

Esoteric Agenda
  • done: Play & Pause the previous episode, to revoice the most criticizing-toned passages. 46:54 start of final, Mindful section of previous episode.
    • uclip 31:26-32:04 – thats what critical input amounts to, provide
      shorter version: -__31:37~~
  • done: Use the Pitch Grounding Technique during entire episode.
  • done: Miking:
    • Use variable Wide Cardioid polar pattern as tilt eq (Tone control). No eq.
    • Also in-between Supercardioid & Figure 8, as tilt eq.

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments.
1 22 08__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda.
1:22:38__ The timestamp is x.

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
2 11 55__ The timestamp is x.
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show. 2 14 20

2 14 48__ timestamp after stop recording

Publishing the Episode

sections to move to top when publishing the episode

/ end “2021-03-__ Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”

Variable Mic Polar Patterns

Variable Mic Polar Patterns
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/voice-and-mic-technique/#Variable-Mic-Polar-Patterns

Next Episode

  • Play & Pause the previous episode, to revoice the most criticizing-toned passages.
  • Use the Pitch Grounding Technique during entire episode.
  • Miking:
    • Use variable Wide Cardioid polar pattern as tilt eq (Tone control). No eq.
    • Also in-between Supercardioid & Figure 8, as tilt eq.

“Ep56 Core – High Performance.mp3”

This is a Core version of the episode “Ep56 High Performance”.

  • Half the length of the full episode.
  • No music focus.
  • No voice & mic technique focus, except to practice critical commentary while using controlled voicing with deep pitch/ fun tone/ casual wording (instead of high pitch, serious tone, and formal wording).
  • Slight cleanup/tightening.
  • Clips about a topic are now contiguous.
    • Grouped the final passage on Audience Feedback (where I focus more on repeating for re-voicing) with the other, earlier passages.
Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-08:
    https://we.tl/t-LlGWncsDvp
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    Core (50% shorter) version of the episode.
    • In-depth analysis of Panofsky’s uncensored letter to Wasson, and the accompanying copies of paintings.
    • Audience Feedback channel.
    • Christopher Partridge’s reductionist, heavy-handed framework of “contemporary esotericism = social rebellion against Christendom”.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:41:58
  • Filesize: 176 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 – Intro. War against the audience. Goal: Complain using low-pitch tone.
  • 3:03 – Deep analysis/critique of Panofsky’s letter that Wasson censored.
  • 28:25 – New! Audience Feedback channel.
  • 55:58 – Christopher Partridge’s anti-Christianity agit-prop reductionism of mystic experiencing to Social Science counter-Christendom rebellion.
    • 1975-1985 wasn’t “counter” culture enough, so he simply deletes & skips over that period.
    • Hanegraaff fills-in that period with New Age & Shamanism entheogens.
    • I fill-in that period with Inspired Rock.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • move Aud Fdbk from end to main
  • in audio project file, copy track
  • normalize vol of clip
  • note final timestamps.
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav, using short format.
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link

“Ep56 High Performance.mp3”

Above, a Core version of this episode is also available.

I’m trying reverting to an old naming pattern, for simple episode numbering + maximum keywords on narrow music player display.

filename pattern not used:
“2021-03-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – High Performance.mp3”

Download Info
  • group the clips about:
    • Panofsky/Brinckmann (2 clips, divided by song)
    • Partridge good parts
    • criticizing the audience (3-4 clips)
    • Lightning Hail
    • Live revoicing transcribing song lyrics
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-07:
    https://we.tl/t-r44kMt8Rmm
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • 58:45 clip – Audience input -> 🗑
    • Warmup segment
      • 22:30 (START HERE) – A deep critical reading of Panofsky’s letter that Wasson censored
        – Gold Clip-set 🎙 👑 🏆 🍄
      • the two art “specimens” attached to the letter: from 50% mushroom-shaped italian pine, to 100% mushroid tree. 2nd part at ~48:00-~54:00+
    • i ought to have logged these – check show notes ~1:35:00-2:48:00+ Christopher Partridge occludes 1975-1985 Rock Festival culture because it fails to support his extremist “counter-culture rebellion” narrative. I try to read preview pages from 2-3 of his books, but several pages of the Re-Enchantment book’s “Festival Culture” section are not available. Sociology Reductionism per Robert Segal’s advocacy of Reductionism. Hanegraaff is specifically against saying “occult is really about social rebelling” – exactly what Partridge does; Hane likely is quietly criticizing Partridges’ extremist reductionism, “all contemporary non-Christian religion is propelled and centrally focused as rebelling against Christendom.” It’s easy to parody Partridges position, he’s so over-the-top reductionist, hell-bent on forcing all spiritiaulity into “rebel against the social system”. CP reads like a propagandist, an anti-Christian activist. For CP, “counter” = Good, “traditional (= Christian) culture” = Bad. Cartoonish Partridge.
      • What does Hanegraaff say against Partridge’s Occulture(tm)?
      • CP pushes “occult = rebelling against social structures” a la
        Robert Segal’s Reductionism of Religion to Social Science
    • Hail storm via Omnidirectional microphone.
    • Voice Actor samples – nothing surprising, but Voices.com has interesting categories & many clips. My “Voice & Mic Techniques” page could be made into an outstanding, leading page, probably, unless I can find some decent URLs.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 3:03:51
  • Filesize: 226 MB
  • Bitrate: 210 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • +0:00aup – intro. delet Hane. band Wildflowers, song More Than Me.
  • +1:00aup – Announce “fin’d Intro”.
  • +1:26aup – “This is the start of the Voice/Mic seg”.
  • done~~-1:32aup – music continues (More Than Me)
  • -14500aup – voice/mic content.
  • ~~+4:57aup – “I was crit’g ppl in high pitch”
  • done~~-5:50aup Chris Carpenter song The World is Closing In on Me
  • -637aup “do entire episode using pitch grounding”
  • ~~+7:11aup “complain while using pitch grounding” [delete some snippets within here]
  • +7:42aup “war against audience”
  • done~~-8:10aup urls for voice
  • -903aup next track Brink of Death
  • -9:21aup “I’m gonna cross off”
  • -949aup Agenda
  • -19:34: Voice & Mic Technique; straighten out Agenda items (skip)
  • ~~+20:28aup “finished Voice/Mic segment”
  • +20:46aup “Start of Warmup reading segment”
  • done~~-20:51aup The song “Brink of Death” (produced by W Carlos) starts.
    ________________________
  • ~~+21:11aup I start a serious reading… of Plainc. “Panofsky’s letter censored by Wasson”
  • done~~-21:36aup “here comes Carlos” ; w. carlos produced song w/ synth.
  • ~~+23:21aup “The Plain is only one example” Plaincourault/ Panofsky‘s letter
  • +25:22aup Echo on Panofsky
    • done~~-35:53aup – Synth where? Lyrics search (Brink of Death, by Childe Harold) [move out?]
    • -40:21aup “Most likely I would have to transcribe it myself”. Vocal Transcription.
    • -46:11aup “Clocks floyd first?”
    • ~~+47:08aup– Panofsky resumes, “If you are interested, little book”
    • done~~-58:30aup “looking for the next good track” – Fly, by JK & Co. keep music?
    • ~~+59:33aup – i read aloud my writing about Panofsky leetter “Transcribed by me…”
    • +10011aup – “We fin’d Warmup”
      ______________________
  • +10033aup “This is the start of “egodeath theory topical segments”.
  • done~~-1:00:45aup “new show format
  • ~~+1:01:05aup “We have an audi fdbk ch, I’ll play clip.” Audience Feedback channel -> 🗑 Playing a new clip that was made for this episode.
  • done~~-1:04:41aup Fly resumes.
  • –1:04:51aup “Had to reboot”
    • ~~+1:05:57aup – Audience Feedback: A reading from a private document, similar to the clip.
    • done~~-1:10:09aup band (1:08:30 per flaky timestamp): Cabaret Voltaire – song: Nag Nag Nag, punk low-fi connection: speaker -> mic
    • ~~+1:11:58aup – Audience Feedback: Resume reading similar to clip.
      timestamps lacking “aup” are inaccurate by 2 minutes
    • done~~-1:13:04aup “Im reading”
    • ~~+1:13:10aup reading cont
    • done~~-1:18:40aup format of show, or, switching topics, working session, obstacle to progress. “audience feedback: done: 1:19:40”
    • -1:20:00 – Format of show: the 5 pages for the show
    • -1:22:39aup – filename format of the show episodes, need short
    • ~~+1:24:59aup – “It was a big big project, which is why I don’t need” Audience Feedback (aka poison “input” & vague negativity).
      • 1:22:04 per flaky timestamp: It took a full two days to organize the 55 episodes so far!
      • The # of times I’ve taken input from other people since 1985: 0.
      • Ignoring other people’s input, because axiomatically, input from onlookers is always, reliably, wrong/ false/ defeatist/ bad/ toxic/ negative/ naysaying/ etc.
        (now at 47:11aup2 ~~ in aup2;/ move the final part to here.done)
    • done~~-1:29:01aup “Show format version 56” (Agenda)
      __________________
  • ~~+1:30:36aup “I do want to get on the fest cult” Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 1. Music chapter: Festival Culture section. page 156 the ch starts.
    • done~~-1:30:46aup “mixer issue” done dele’g at 1:30:45 but del mic posn after that
    • done~~~-1:32:29aup(now, after del’g some) initial diversion: mic aim 1/2″ in front of mouth.
    • ~~~+1:34:41aup(now, after deleting some) “Adorno and popular music”
    • -1:31:17aup song: Fly.
    • ~~+1:32:37aup “I want to talk about Festival culture” (start of Partr.)
    • +1:33:30 Re-Enchantment TOC. Finding page 156 hits on festival culture.
  • DONE~~-2:20:50aup – Agenda (no more Partr.)
  • ~~+2:22:12aup – “we’ve fin’d topical segments”
    __________________
  • +2:23:28aup (now 1:34:40 in aup2)- “This is the start of the Not a Music Show segment”. Audience Feedback. (more emphasis on voicing, this time) [group with other clips above]
  • done~~-2:32:29aup – Voice/Miking, Voice Actors site
  • ~~+3:00:04aup – “we’ve finished the Not a Music Show segment” [keep with the Start announcement above] (now ends at 1:43:47aup2)
  • done~~-3:00:12aup – song announcement: Picture, song: Evolution.
  • -3:00:54aup – “ive been doing vocal transcriptions”
  • ~~+3:02:55aup – “we’ve finished the Not a Music Show segment”
  • +3:03:17aup – outro announce
  • +3:03:51aup – end

“aup” = reference timestamps from audio project file.

done: 13400aup2 is a mess, clean up.

Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drive
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 25°, aimed 1/2″ in front of upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210307_2388.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210307_2138.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: “2021-03-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – High Performance.aup”

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
fade music

Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    (about 12 words, to bake into the audio, predicting topics & differentiating from other episodes. Only 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!)
    • Hanegraaff’s Keynote talk, Entheogenic Esotericism
    • Festival Culture in Partridge’s Re-Enchantment book or Lyre of Orpheus
    • We now have a channel for audience feedback about this show.
    • Episode numbering.
    • The use of the Rolling Agenda.
  • Vocalization theme THROUGHOUT THIS EPISODE:
    • Practice. The. Pitch. Grounding. Technique.
      to. revoice. from high serious formal to low fun casual.
  • Time and date:
    • 12:30 p.m., March 7, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Omni.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: none.
Playlist
  • We’re listening to:
    • Compilation: A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych
    • Band: Wildflowers
    • Song: More than Me

fade music

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
102_ The timestamp is x. fade music
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
130__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Casual Standard Voice

Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
_1934_ The timestamp is x. fade music
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
2048__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
10014 The timestamp is x. fade music
move “current segment” sign to next segment

“Egodeath Theory” Topical Segments

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments.
10037__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Esoteric Agenda

~~

Move to here, the items that didn’t get covered/resolved in the latest episode of Egodeath Mystery Show.

  • done: Audience feedback channel -> 🗑
    • done: clip: “New Recording 84”
    • done: reading draft
  • done: Episode numbering
    • done: Show format version 56 –
  • done: Rolling Agenda
    • done: Warmup Readings: Panofsky Letter
  • done: ~~Festival Culture in Partridge’s Re-Enchantment book or Lyre of Orpheus
  • skip, hook up mixer first: Hanegraaff’s Keynote talk, Entheogenic Esotericism

Site map: Refactored pages for the Egodeath Mystery Show. a copy is below.

Hanegraaff Keynote
Group: egodeathMessage: 3335From: Michael HoffmanDate: 12/06/2004
Subject: Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism
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.

— Michael Hoffman

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments.
22222__ The timestamp is x. fade music
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment, to do selected work items from the Esoteric Agenda. [EGODEATH THEORY ITEMS, VOICE & MIC ITEMS, SHOW-FORMAT ITEMS]
22238__ The timestamp is x. fade music

  • x

fade music

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
__30258 The timestamp is x. fade music
move “current segment” sign to next segment

The “Outro” Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

__ timestamp after stop recording

Publishing the Episode

sections to move to top when publishing the episode

/ end “2021-03-07a Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”

Refactored Pages for Egodeath Mystery Show

master copy is at site map
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show

Experimental & Exploratory Audio Medium/Format for Transcendent Knowledge Development

People would be wise to copy whatever content they get from me, because my way is to suddenly stop producing content in that domain, while I’m working in a different domain.

Cowbell Found in the Field Recording

I just heard what I’ve been looking out for since Feb. 8: at 1:10:45 in Egodeath Mystery Show episode 2021-02-08c, audience shouts “more cowbell”, in my field recording of animals.

Made-Up, Artificial Critical Statement

I posted the following comment at https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-ep-26/ —

Regarding my statement or construction “It is impressive and admirable, the consistent dedication to falsehood which the Exoteric Paradigm has.” —

Wrmspirit makes sound points regarding the statement. The context for making the quoted statement is important.

My only purpose of formulating the quoted statement was to explore the challenge of how to combine a positive tone of voice, with a productive critical mentality.

The fear is that if I speak in a positive tone of voice, I will lose the ability to provide useful critique of anything.

The quoted statement is just a quick, artificial, made-up, throwaway example of trying to say some extremely critical point in a positive tone of voice.

The topic of positive vs. negative tone applies to both text and speech. When writing my main 2006 main article, I was advised to make positive statements (in text) about what is the case, rather than focusing on making critical, negative statements about incorrect ideas.

/ end of copy of Comment

Strategy/Notes for Refactoring Pages & Content
  • p1: separate the rolling agenda from the template instance.
  • Separate the agenda items that are about Egodeath Theory from the agenda items that are about voicing, miking, & show-format.
    • pages:
      • show-episode template – Store this to be in a dedicated template-only page.
      • template instance – Store this in a “per-episode templates w timestamps” page.
      • agenda – Store this in the idea development page, at least the items that are Egodeath Theory content. not voice & miking, not show-format.
      • voice/mic tech – Store these agenda items in the “voice & mic technique” page.
      • show-format agenda items – Store these in the overall “Egodeath Mystery Show” page.
      • download info – Store this in the idea development pages.
      • warmup readings – Store this in the “warmup readings” page
The Least Info Needed in the Idea Development Pages
  • download info
  • the agenda items/notes/outcomes/ idea development that are about Egodeath Theory
  • (not the agenda items about voice/ mic/ show-format)

“2021-03-05b Egodeath Mystery Show – Reading Madly Backwards.mp3” 1:46:10

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-06:
    https://we.tl/t-ewM8oPqnL2
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Only a little Egodeath theory content.
      • 26:00 – Ruck’s {wild vs. cultivated} mytheme = egoic vs transcendent thinking.
    • 2 hours of Voice/Mic/Warmup.
    • Tried new flatter set of segments.
    • ~1:33:00 – Reading paragraphs’ phrases’ words in reverse order.
    • Read most of the “Voice & Mic Techniques” page.
    • Played the first half of a Pop Sike compilation on Repeat Track, read liner notes.
    • discussed? Making a show-format that is simple, repeatable, and flexible.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:46:10
  • Filesize: 169 MB
  • Bitrate: 260 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project file
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210305_2384.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210305_2135.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
fade music

Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: 30 seconds to get through the Intro segment!!
    • see Download section above
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Only a single segment to discuss Vocal Skills Report, Voice Principles Review, and/or Mic Technique, with large amount of variation in each episode.
  • Time and date:
    • 9:20 p.m., March 5, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid, mostly Omni (announced throughout show; explicit)
    • Noise Gate: yes
    • Limiter: yes
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: smile-flat (mud-cut).
Playlist

fade music

We’re listening to the Pop Sike compilation, A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG-8Bne6KU

The Gurus

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
112 The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
132__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Casual Standard Voice

Mic Technique

We’ve finished the “Voice & Mic Technique” segment.
11257__ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
11533__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
14147 / 2:02:07 The timestamp is x. fade music

end of episode

/ end “2021-03-5b Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”

Wait

We’re listening to the Pop Sike compilation, A Lethal Dose of Hard Psych.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG-8Bne6KU

“2021-03-05a Egodeath Mystery Show – Heavy Dose of Re-Enchantment.mp3” 2:51:35

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-05:

    https://we.tl/t-OqAHGPrAte (210 kbps, 216 MB) – I’ll evaluate this smaller lo-fi file to see how swishy the music sounds, since the music already had lossy compression. The voice/mic will sound fine at this rate.

    https://we.tl/t-4BEZg66Hmd (320 kbps, 412 MB 🐷 )
  • Length: 2:51:35
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Hanegraaff (& Partridge)
      • My 2016 posts mentioning Re-Enchantment book & Hanegraaff’s sudden awakening to psychedelics in contemporary esotericism in 2009.
      • Hanegraaff’s web search failed to find my on-point hard-hitting use of the phrase “Entheogenic Esotericism” in 2004 (on the WWW), eight years before him. So, he incorrectly says in his keynote talk, that he’s the first to coin the term.
    • 1:27:00 – Partridge – 2-volume 2004 books, Christopher Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West.
      • I critically read the Tables of Contents & book blurbs about both volumes.
      • I confirm that Partridge (2005) has a giant gap 1975-1985 where, according to him, there was no psychedelics culture.
    • Music compilation: A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych.
    • Show Format: I give more structure to the segment “Esoteric Agenda”, to more highlight “Egodeath Theory topical segments”.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
The Gurus

We’re listening to:

Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • skip import Mic Deck wav
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • skip normalize vol of Mic wav
  • hand-normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • skip export mp3 of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav 320 kbps
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav 210 kbps
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3 320 kbps
  • upload mp3 210 kbps
  • copy download link to this Download section (both bitrates)
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file (both bitrates)
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: 0-25°, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Chain:
    • mic
    • preamp
    • limiter
    • volume pot
    • mic deck
    • eq
    • echoplex
    • reverb chamber
    • mixer (2-Track = mic; Line = stereo feed)
    • mixer deck (stereo)
  • Mic tracking file: 210305_2382.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210305_2133.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Download Info section)
    • A minimalist, speed-walkthrough of the Show segments.
    • Scope out Partridge’s Re-Enchantment volumes 1 & 2.
    • Do selected work items from the Agenda, during the “Not a Music Show” segment.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Vocal Report: Reverse voicing of read-aloud vs. commentary.
    • Mic Tech: Excess Compressor/Limiter.
    • Vocal Review: Repeat Phrase using the Pitch Grounding Method.
  • Time and date:
    • 10:00 a.m., March 5, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: slight mud-cut, slight air-cut.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
__206 The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Vocal Report” Segment

This is the start of the “Vocal Report” segment.
2:33__ The timestamp is x. fade music

We’ve finished the “Vocal Report” segment.
12:42__ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Vocal Review” Segment

This is the start of the “Vocal Review” segment.
13:07__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Casual Standard Voice

We’ve finished the “Vocal Review” segment.
_14:30_ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Mic Technique” Segment

This is the start of the “Mic Technique” segment.
_19:51_ The timestamp is x. fade music

Mic Technique
done: demo of excess Compression (of volume dynamics)
done: demo of Noise Gate

We’ve finished the “Mic Technique” segment.
30:06__ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
__30:40 The timestamp is x. fade music

Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment.
33:47__ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment

This is the start of the “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment. In this Super-Segment, the Board of Mystics does the following:

  1. DONE (after I initially forgot): First, do a fast read-through of the Agenda.
  2. DONE: Then, do one or more Egodeath Theory topical segments from the Agenda.

done: After those topical segments, during the “Not a Music Show” segment, do work-items from the agenda.
35:03__ The timestamp is x. fade music

“Egodeath Theory” Topical Segments

This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments. The timestamp is __ done: COPY THESE NEW “EGODEATH THEORY TOPICAL SEGMENTS” HEADINGS TO THE SHOW TEMPLATE.

“Egodeath Theory” Topical Segment #1: Re-Enchantment
  • Read TOCs:
    The Re-Enchantment of the West: Volume 1 & 2
    Christopher Partridge, 2005 –
  • done: Read blurb (with reversing voices:
    • read the sentences using “off-the-cuff” voice;
    • critique the sentences using “read-aloud” voice):
  • “As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary [16 years ago] West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities.
  • Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates.
  • After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities.
  • Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion[sic], which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu.
  • Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment.
  • Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West.”
  • done: Read my “Re-Enchantment” posts:
  • done: read blurb for vol 2 :
  • “The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity.
  • Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion.
  • In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed ‘occulture’.
  • Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture.
  • Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West.
  • Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence.”
“Egodeath Theory” Topical Segment #2: Hanegraaff 2012
  • Hanegraaff’s web search for “Entheogenic Esotericism” failed to find my 2004 posting (there was a world-wide web URL until Yahoo Groups removed their web UI around October 2020(?)); Hanegraaff said in his keynote talk that “therefore” he was the first to coin the term. Hanegraaff was not, in fact, the first to coin the term; I posted the term to the Web 8 years before his 2012 chapter/article.
    https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-66/#message3335 – June 12, 2004:
Group: egodeathMessage: 3335From: Michael HoffmanDate: 12/06/2004
Subject: Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism
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.

— Michael Hoffman

We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments. The timestamp is __

Show Format
  • DONE: p2: Add the segment Intro/Outro clips to the Intro/Outro audio project.
  • done: record sub-segment intros outros for within Agenda supersegment.
    • scripts:
      • This is the start of the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments. The timestamp is
      • We’ve finished the “Egodeath Theory” topical segments. The timestamp is
  • p4: Record “Special-Episode” intros: “Core episode”, “Clips episode”. Print mud-cut eq. Scripts:
    • This is a Core version of a previous, full episode.
    • This is a Clips version of a previous, full episode.
  • done: p1: Flatten the “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment, keep the emphasis on recurring “Egodeath Theory” Topical Segments. vs. the come-and-go other segments.
Vocalizing
  • done: p1: Practice reverse voicing: read-aloud a book in my soft off-the-cuff voice, alternate w/ commenting / critique in casual standard voice.
  • Vocal Report: Reverse voicing of read-aloud vs. commentary.
  • done: Mic Tech: Excess Compressor/Limiter.
  • done: Vocal Review: Repeat Phrase using the Pitch Grounding Method.

We’ve finished the “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment.
20135__ The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Not a Music Show” Segment

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment.
In the “Not a Music Show” segment, the Board of Mystics does selected work-items from the Esoteric Agenda.
20206__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Playlist

We’re listening to:

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment.
25011 The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Outro” Segment

This is the start of the “Outro” segment.
25108 The timestamp is x. fade music

2:53:08__ timestamp after stop recording

/ end “2021-03-05a Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”

Do?

  • Maybe record the following clips:this is the  ego  death  mystery  show,  with  cyber  monk.  
  • ego death  theory  dot  word  press  dot  com.
  • we’ve finished the “intro” segment.  the timestamp is
  • this is the start of the “voice & mic technique” segment.  the timestamp is
  • we’ve finished the “voice & mic technique” segment.  the timestamp is
  • this is the start of the “warmup reading” segment. the timestamp is
  • we’ve finished the “warmup reading” segment.  the timestamp is
  • this is the start of the “ego death theory” topical segments.  the timestamp is
  • we’ve finished the “ego death theory” topical segments.  the timestamp is
  • this is the start of the “not a music show” segment, to do selected work items from the esoteric agenda.  the timestamp is
  • we’ve finished the “not a music show” segment.  the timestamp is
  • this was the  ego  death  mystery  show

Done Agenda Items

  • done: Record segment Intro/Outro clips. Print mud-cut eq. Scripts:
    mic deck: 210305_2381.wav – dry, only Limiter.
    mixer deck: 210305_2132.wav – reverb, mud-cut, air-cut. CAD M39 cardioid 6″ 20° mid-upper-lip.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Vocal Report” segment. The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Vocal Report” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Vocal Review” segment. The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Vocal Review” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Mic Technique” segment. The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Mic Technique” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment. The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Warmup Reading” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment. In this Super-Segment, the Board of Mystics does the following:

  1. First, do a fast read-through of the Agenda.
  2. Then, do one or more Egodeath Theory topical segments from the Agenda.
  3. After those topical segments, then during the “Not a Music Show” segment, do work-items from the agenda.
    The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Not a Music Show” segment. In the “Not a Music Show” segment, the Board of Mystics does selected work-items from the Esoteric Agenda.
The timestamp is

We’ve finished the “Not a Music Show” segment. The timestamp is

This is the start of the “Outro” segment. The timestamp is

  • done: Communication: Sophisticated vs 8th grade use of language.
  • done: Hanegraaff’s efforts to redefine all words, starting with ‘esotericism’ & ‘entheogens’.
  • done: Main topic: Implement a “Turn the Crank” approach: Using the Rolling Agenda + show template, to support a “hit record and jump in” approach (2 takes) producing a good episode every time, with least effort (1 planned prep/throwaway take). “fill in the blank” + pre-filled / pre-readied agenda carried over from last episode.
    • done: Take 1 (throwaway/warmup): paste empty show template & move-in the rollover agenda items, clean them up.
      • done: next episode: during warmup, improve the template.
    • done: Take 2 (keeper): do the show using the quick-prepped template/agenda.
    • done: Design the show template to enable doing purely practice shows w/ (if nece) token content in the Agenda segment.
    • done: Abandon “bad” takes, but keep the agenda items & template fixes that were made during the “bad” takes. Take 1 = updating the agenda and overall episode template or this copy of the episode template.
  • done: Understand and use the 3 distinct functions of the 3 topical outlines in the episode template:
    • In the Recording Header section, it starts with a “12-Word Content Plan” within the first 20 seconds of the episode, to immediately differentiate the episode from the other episodes, in audio form during playback.
    • The “Rolling Agenda” (aka the “Esoteric Agenda for the Board of Mystics”) is the main, complete, detailed outline.
    • In the Download Info section, the “24-Word Overall Description Summary” describes the episode after-the-fact, to differentiate the episode from the other episodes, when reading in text form at an Idea Development page.
  • done: Keep focus on the Board of Mystics.
  • done: Make a long list of short potential segments.
    • Intro
    • Voczn Report
    • Voczn Review
    • Voc Warmup Reading
    • Mic Tech
    • Rolling Agenda
    • This Is Not a Music Show
    • Outro
      ____
    • done: Add/define the segment “This Is Not a Music Show”. -> play music while doing Agenda item work. to do during next episode Take 1 warmup/prep.
    • done: Add/define the segment: “Vocalization Report”. discuss now, implement/do during next episode Take 1 warmup/prep.
      • Distinct from Voczn Review.
      • Where to store outline list of points to re-assess? in the show template.
      • Recent results and grade for:
      • pitch
      • smoothness
      • pacing/speed
      • mindfulness: found great tech: Expander.
      • casual wording
      • fun tone
      • remembering Pitch Grounding
      • NR tech
  • done: Stop going into mumble mode – don’t alternate between casual standard voice & mumble (which is, quiet, sloppy, & high pitch). Use Noise Gate to help enforce this: IF YOU MUMBLE, YOU WILL GET MUTED!!
    • An aggressive Threshold setting on the Noise Gate can help force you to
    • Teaches you to clean up voczn.
    • Teaches you to never mumble.
    • Teaches you to become hyper-aware of vocalizing with deliberation! 🎉 🤯 🤐 😇 😃 🎙
    • Teaches you to type quietly and speak loudly.
    • This mere, narrow, “volume” focus successfully drives & enforces my entire Mindfulness of deliberate vocalizing! 🎉 😃 🎙
    • Teaches you to improve your signal/noise ratio of speaking: either full volume, or shut up/ complete silence.
    • The Right Target to Aim for in Creating Any Voice Recording is:
      • Always produce voice recordings with maximally sharp contrast between speaking with deliberation, vs. dead silence; being completely quiet.
    • Beware of the hyper-enunciation that the Noise Gate encourages. (We *do* need practices with hyper-enunciation.)
Mic Technique
  • done: Break Mic Technique out from Vocalization Technique segment & page; Create a Mic Techniques page.
  • done: Make diagram of gear chain & recording decks.
  • done: Mix eq’d mic rec’g w/ reference music, to get rid of mismatch where bassy mic + bright music.

“2021-03-04a Egodeath Mystery Show – Eden Partridge.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-04:
    https://we.tl/t-wKus0A6FfQ
    Fast-paced, content-packed, long; I expect this episode is solid. I ran out of time or would’ve done the “This Is Not a Music Show” segment while doing some work-items on the Agenda.
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • 1) Read the agenda items for improving format of the show to make it repeatable good quality/structure.
    • 2) Discuss Eden, Garden, two trees (of death & life), & guarded gate. See notes in Agenda segment below.
    • 3) 59:10 Survey/critique two recent books by Partridge: High Culture, & Orpheus pop music book. See notes in Agenda segment below.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 3:14:40
  • Filesize: 254 MB
  • Bitrate: 210
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
  • 59:10 Survey (initial blurb) two recent books by Partridge: High Culture, & Orpheus pop music book.
  • 1:37:00 read from book Lyre of Orpheus
  • 1:55:00 read from book High Culture
    • 2:24:00 I say: a far better model is provided by mystery-religion initiation, of what is comprehensible and teachable about the otherworld mode. When you talk about mystic experience, you must check it with the mystery-religion initiation ancients who produced completed initiates. I proved that words ARE capable of extensively describing the altered-state experience. I explained the full course of completed initiation: eg, my 2006 main article, and Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image article.
    • 2:26:00 ” completed mystery-religion initiation breaks the false model of mysticism.
Errata
  • 1:07:00 annoying pasting Partridge info from Amazon to here – should have Paused to do this work.
  • Should have closed window & turned off fan. White noise halo is annoying.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create project
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • skip import Mic Deck wav
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • skip normalize vol of Mic wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • skip export mp3 of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Limiter: MXR, on Mic recording.
  • Chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
  • Mic tracking file: 210304_2377.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210304_2128.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

Stuff I Read-Aloud During Show

The “Intro” Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
fade music

Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Download Info section)
    • A “can’t fail” show template.
      • Using the Rolling Agenda.
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Noise Gate to enforce mindfulness.
    • Repeat Phrase using the Pitch Grounding Method, for low pitch, fun tone, and casual wording.
  • Time and date:
    • 12:30 Noon, March 4, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser.
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid, maybe variable.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: slight mud cut & air cut. may be variable.
Playlist

We’re listening to the song __, from the album, by the band __.

fade music

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
046 The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Vocalization Success Report” Segment
The “Review of Casual Standard Voice” Segment

This is the start of the segment “Review of Casual Standard Voice, and Mic Technique”.
101 The timestamp is x. fade music

open for edit: Casual Standard Voice

We’ve finished the segment “Review of Casual Standard Voice, and

205 (end voc) The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
344 The timestamp is x. fade music

open for edit: Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show

That ends the Warmup Reading segment.
634 The timestamp is x. fade music

The “Mic Technique” Segment

Ths is the Mic Technique”.

214__ start of mic tech segment:
335 END OF Mic segment.

The “Esoteric Agenda” Super-Segment

In this next segment, the Board of Mystics goes through the rolling agenda.
641 The timestamp is x. fade music

First do a breadth-first pass, NO EDITS!
timesstamp: 15:55
Next, in this episode, depth coverage of the “Egodeath theory” agenda items/segments. start: 1646

Idea! do work items (from Agenda)/typing during the “This Is Not a Music Show” segment

Egodeath Theory

Gen2:

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every* tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

*that would include the Tree of Life, eating from which grants living forever!

Gen3:

22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

NIV:

ch 2:

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree* in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

*that would include the Tree of Life, eating from which grants living forever!

ch3:

22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Addendum after the show:

Tree of Immortality in Garden

https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/cherubim-1/ –

“2. The Garden as the Abode of the Gods:

“If we read between the lines of the Paradise account in Ge (compare Genesis 3:8), the garden of Eden, the primeval abode of man, reveals itself as more than that:

“it was apparently the dwelling-place of God. In the polytheistic story of the creation of the world and early life of man, which, while in several respects analogous (compare Genesis 3:22), is devoid of the more spiritual notions of Hebraism, the garden was the abode of the gods who alone had access to the tree of life from the fruit of which they derived their immortality.

“Adam, before the fall, is conceived as a superhuman being; for while he is forbidden to taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the way to immortality is open to him; for it is only after transgressing the Divine command that he merits death and becomes mortal.

“The choice of immortal innocence and mortal knowledge lay before him; he elected death with knowledge.”

/ end of Addendum after the show

Cain & Abel is next: Gen4:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%204&version=KJV

that ends the topical segment on the angel guarded eden gate: 57:16.

Topical Segment: Partridge
start time: 59:10

  • Scope out Partridge books:
  • The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
  • by Christopher Partridge | Nov 18, 2013 (2021 – 2013 = 8 years ago) [copyrigtht page: 2014]
  • “The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters.
  • It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made.
  • Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance.
  • Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures.
  • He shows how popular music’s power to move, to agitate, to control listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the profane.
  • In particular, he argues that popular music can be important ‘edgework,’ challenging dominant constructions of the sacred in modern societies.
  • Drawing on a wide range of musicians and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and the study of religion,
  • The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance and the progressive potential of popular music.”
  • Book: High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World (Partridge)
  • High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World 
    Hardcover – July 3, 2018 (2021 – 2018 = 3 years ago)
  • by Christopher Partridge (Author) –
  • “History is littered with evidence of humanity’s fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states.
  • From early Romanticism to late-nineteenth-century occultism and from fin de siècle Paris to contemporary psychedelic shamanism, psychoactive substances have played catalyzing people[sic].
  • Yet serious analysis of the religious dimensions of modern drug use is still lacking.
  • the use of drugs and the pursuit of transcendence from the nineteenth century to the present day.
  • Beginning with the Romantic fascination with opium, it chronicles the discovery of anesthetics, the psychiatric and religious interest in hashish, the bewitching power of mescaline and hallucinogenic fungi, the more recent uses of LSD, as well as the debates surrounding drugs and religious experience.
  • This fascinating and wide-ranging sociological and cultural history fills a major gap in the study of religion in the modern world and our understanding of the importance of countercultural thought, offering new and timely insights into the controversial relationship between drugs and mystical experience.”

Topical Segment: Partridge
end time: __3:13:41

Done
  • Done: In the Intro/Outro audio project, takes: From episode “2021-02-23a Egodeath Mystery Show – DJs per Time of Day.mp3”, CLIP THIS FOR REUSE – 14:11-16:40 – “This is the morning DJ” announcements – Add it to the intros/outros audio project. ego mystery death show etc DJ Gruff -> DJ Cyber rock -> DJ Frozen Rock; “the morning DJ Frozen Rock” “new dawn” (leads into 16:20 topic of Max Frost song lyrics) Mystery Death Ego Show / Death Show (etc)

“2021-03-02b Egodeath Mystery Show – Excess Effects.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-03:

    https://we.tl/t-tNRQRozgwK – 320 kbps, 486 MB 🐷
    “2021-03-02b Egodeath Mystery Show – Excess Effects.mp3”

    https://we.tl/t-V9FSz5Bxue – 210 kbps, 252 MB
    “2021-03-02b Egodeath Mystery Show – Excess Effects 210.mp3”
    This ok-fidelity version should be good for most people; there’s nothing particularly special in this episode, little Egodeath theory content.
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Esoteric Agenda)
    • not much Egodeath theory content.
    • demo of Mic Processing (Expander, Limiter, Looper/Layerer, etc)
    • Vocalization Report
    • demo of skills required to read-aloud from article “Cog Phen’y of Metaperception”. Pacing. Adding gaps/inhale-spots. Adding line breaks.
    • demo of Revoicing an Idea Development recording
      • wow, speech during idea development is crazy fast-paced!
        • need to develop Fast Casual Standard Voice,
          including Fast Quiet Casual Standard Voice.
    • Music: Compilation: A Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 3:22:30 (we got a lot done in the long Agenda)
  • Filesize:
    • 486 MB 🐷 (320 kbps) <- the Excess mascot. i wanted to see how big a 3:22:47 (max tape deck length) mp3 file can be: half a Gig.
    • 252 MB for the 210 kbps lower-fidelity version.
  • Bitrate: 320 kbps & 210 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Esoteric Agenda
  • Repeat Phrase using the Pitch Grounding Method, for
    • done: low pitch [Pitch Grounding will help].
    • done: casual wording [rapid progress].
  • Drama of the Feb 28 production effort.
    • done: Mic demo took two major edit cleanups to get it right.
    • done: my Feb 28 Hanegraaff critique take (recording effort) paid off – glad I stuck to it and didn’t trashcan that recording. There are moments when I complain too much, but the voicing is 6 out of 10 (not too bad; semi-conscious/mindful – but tons of room for improvement)
      • done: Demo revoicing this “critique of Hanegraaff” recording during the present episode.
        • Finding: wow, idea development is FAST PACED!!! no wonder it’s so hard to stay mindful & do casual standard voice.
    • done: I trashcanned my Feb 28 initial reading of Cog Phen article, smartly. The fresh read-aloud today was faster, easier, better, than pointlessly reclaiming (hopeless) Feb 28th’s Take 1.5.
  • done: Applying excess processing & looping/layering on the mic.
  • done: reading-technique “1.5x reading” is really good, to pull pitch down.
    • done: Pacing is bad tho: too-fast read-aloud followed by too-slow semi-off-the-cuff. Bring these two to parity.
  • how it’s coming with vocalization;
    • done: “2021-03-01a Egodeath Mystery Show – Pitch, Grounding, Technique.mp3” – a really good effective technique
    • done: I feared my 7-hour Feb 28 recording session incl Hane, I thought my complaining would be badly voiced, but pretty good – but SO much better at 1:36:30 when I go into Deliberate/Conscious/Mindfulness mode. So much room for improvement.
    • done: Real good voicing during reading today of Cog Phen article.
    • done: Bass EQ vs bass pitch; Cardioid prox’y-effect bass-boost, vs. bass spectrum resonance in voice.
    • done: When did the “Vocalization Review/Warmup” tradition start? ans: by episode 3, Jan 30 2021.
      • a long-standing tradition since this show started many decades ago since… what was the first voice recording in 2021 that I did a Vocalization Review/Warmup? ~kind of: voice rec’g file: “Vocalization Troubleshooting.mp3” on Jan 23, 2021. episode 1 of “the Egodeath Show” was Jan 28.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • create audio project
  • connect mixer recorder
  • skip import Mic Deck wav 210302_2354.wav, and 1-2 previous
  • import Mixer Deck wav 210302_2111.wav (max; 3:22:47), runs into 210302_2112.wav (8s)
  • skip normalize vol of Mic wav
  • skip normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • skip export mp3 of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Limiter: MXR, on Mic recording.
  • Chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
  • Mic tracking file: 2102##_####.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 2102##_####.wav
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Download Info section)
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Casual standard voice.
    • Repeat Phrase using the Pitch Grounding Method, for low pitch [Grounding will help], fun tone [yet to really address/explore this], and casual wording [rapid progress].
  • Time and date:
    • 9_:00 p.m., March _, 2021.
  • Miking theme:
    • Dynamics:
      • excess expander.
      • excess compressor.
    • Time Effects:
      • excess delay.
      • excess reverb.
    • Re-miking: Do some Mic Recording/Playback in realtime.
    • Looper/layerer: Record a demo piece, “Why Looping Playback Is Super Annoying”.
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser.
    • Polar pattern: random variable.
    • Distance: random variable.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: excess random variable.
Playlist

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
508 The timestamp is x. fade music

Review of Casual Standard Voice, and Mic Technique

This is the start of the segment “Review of Casual Standard Voice, and Mic Technique”.
1109__ The timestamp is x. fade music

CURRENT SEGMENT

Warmup Reading [not done – instead I read from article “Cog Phen’y of Metaperception”]

🎵 Not a Music Show 🎶 🎸 🥁 🎹

idea for episode of Egodeath Mystery Show, w/ lots of music. eg:
“2021-02-29a Egodeath Mystery Show – This Is Not a Music Show.mp3”
(there are no 02-29 episodes)

“Cog Pheny of Metaperception (raw mic rec’g).mp3”

For my own technical comparison purposes, I’m providing myself with this near-raw mic deck tracking recording. (The only processing I printed to this recording is Limiter.)

  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-02:
    https://we.tl/t-lW2Vac0VYW
  • Description: 
    • Raw mic recording; no processing or clean-up.
    • Read-aloud of the article Cognitive Phenomenology of Metaperception.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 54:49
  • Filesize: 132 MB
  • Bitrate: 320
  • No gap-reduction.
  • No Egodeath Mystery Show intro or outro.
  • No cleanup of the Header at start, or the Footer at end.
  • No expander (background noise reduction).
  • Has limiter.
  • No eq.
  • No normalizing the volume.
  • No aggressive use of 210 kbps; this is 320 kbps mp3, from mono file.
  • The filename is for a standalone voice recording, not for an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show.

Main motivation for adding this alternate version of the recording: it bugs me, the lack of bass in my trebly mobile speakers, from the 02a episode version of this recording.

The main sonic difference vs the equivalent episode of Egodeath Mystery Show: This mp3 has more bass; no eq was applied. Cardioid polar pattern at 6″ = proximity effect = bass boost, which complements mobile device speakers and earbuds which are too trebly and weak in the bass.

ALTERNATE SOLUTION, TO PLAY “2021-03-02a Egodeath Mystery Show – Cog Pheny of Metaperception.mp3” WITH MORE BASS: ON MOBILE DEVICE, SETTINGS: MUSIC: EQ: BASS BOOST.

I want to compare raw recording vs. the dynamics expander – the level of nuisance noise in the background.

Errata
  • I have a limiter on the mic deck (heard here), not only on the mixer deck.

In “2021-03-02a Egodeath Mystery Show – Cog Pheny of Metaperception.mp3”, I removed too much bass, for my trebly speakers. I also aggressively did lossy compression. I should’ve merely applied an industry-standard slight mud-reduction around 250 Hz, instead of a full-on -6dB smile in the bass freqs.

“2021-03-02a Egodeath Mystery Show – Cog Pheny of Metaperception.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-02:
    https://we.tl/t-QqzL9Fg6al
  • Episode theme; overall description: 
    • Read-aloud of the article Cognitive Phenomenology of Metaperception.
      • Reading pattern: Read a sentence verbatim, then re-read key phrases, to paraphrase. Similar to my reading of M. Hoffman’s article Entheogens and the Ancient Mystery Religions. Not double-reading, but 1.5x reading.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 53:21
  • Filesize: 66 MB
  • Bitrate: 210
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • create audio project
  • skip import Mic Deck wav
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • skip normalize vol of Mic wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • trim intro
  • add intro
  • trim outro
  • add outro
  • skip export mp3 of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Limiter: MXR, on Mic recording.
  • Chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
  • Mic tracking file: 210302_2350.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 210302_2110.wav – adds expander, eq (bass cut -6dB smile via 10-band), & limiter (plan to use this, not the mic rec’g – I want to hear processed)
  • Project path: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-03-02a Egodeath Mystery Show – Cog Pheny of Metaperception”
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
Recording Header
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Morning casual standard voice.
  • Time and date:
    • 12:30 p.m., March 2, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: smile-flat.

Use “analogical psychedelic eternalism” as Shorthand Abbreviation for “analogical psychedelic eternalism & dependent-control”

analogical psychedelic eternalism ~= analogical psychedelic eternalism control-dependent-control

Art Mytheme {pulled out from the jaws of Hell} ~= {human head, snake body}

the mouth of hell, Jesus pulling the saints out from, as, a serpent. Thus we have the common art mytheme of “person with snake body”.

“2021-03-01a Egodeath Mystery Show – Pitch, Grounding, Technique.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-01:
    https://we.tl/t-Rdcjv6hErI
  • Length: 1:00:06
  • Filesize: 144 MB
  • Episode theme; overall description:
    • Morning vocal warmup.
    • Demo of reverberative space.
    • Demo of the Pitch Grounding Technique.
    • How it’s going with last night’s show that I have to finish recording.
    • Egodeath theory content, scattered throughout the episode: Toward a Parody of Hanegraaff’s position:
      • Never try to understand passing through the dragon-guarded gate to Completion of Initiation.
      • Always restrict yourselves to studying, in detail, the superficial surface forms of Esotericism.
      • Define the field, explicitly, as: the Exoteric, outsiders’ study of Esotericism’s surface forms.
      • Grid Game/ Forgot Plots, ultimately litmus test: the plots represent *real* esotericism; that is: the Forgot plot (the Forgot curve) ultimately represents: to what extent did people pass through the dragon-guarded gate of control-basis transformation?
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Bitrate: mobile device app’s “Lossy” option, then 320 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • transfer voice recording from mobile to computer
  • import Mic wav
  • normalize vol of Mic wav
  • delete bang
  • export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Project path: __
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension

Stuff I Read-Aloud During Show

Intro Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see the Download Info section)
  • Vocalization theme:
    • Morning casual standard voice.
    • Repeat phrase for low pitch, fun tone, and casual wording.
    • Repeat phrase with the Pitch Grounding Technique.
  • Time and date:
    • ~11 a.m., March 1, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: phone bottom mic
    • Polar pattern: Omni
    • Distance: 6″, 0° (+- 30°). Also arm’s length reverb demo.
Outro

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

“2021-02-28b Egodeath Mystery Show – Hanegraaff vs the Dragon Gate.mp3”

Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-02:
    https://we.tl/t-T7UxjCiA9J
  • Episode theme; overall description: 
    • Hanegraaff’s irrelevant, superficial Western Esotericism, from his 1995 article where he summarizes Faivre’s six features of Esotericism.
      • The irrelevance of Hanegraaff’s “esotericism”.
      • Critique of Faivre’s 6 attributes of Esotericism, in Hanegraaff’s 1995 article.
      • Esotericism vs Exotericism – analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control.
      • Faivre & Hanegraaff are superficial and irrelevant, studying not analogical psychedelic eternalism, but, surface forms (while ignorant of analogical psychedelic eternalism & dependent-control).
      • The result is a detailed survey of confusion, with no sense of what’s most important (analogical psychedelic eternalism).
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension.
  • Length: 1:49:11
  • Filesize: 262 MB
  • Bitrate: 320
  • Timestamps in .mp3:
  • 0:00 –
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • In audio project, copy 1st wav, omit parts.
  • copy 2nd wav, omit parts.
  • copy shortened copy of 2nd wav to end of 1st wav
  • add outro.
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Limiter: MXR, on Mic recording.
  • Chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
  • Mic tracking file: 2102##_####.wav
  • Mixer tracking file: 2102##_####.wav – see my hidden draft page “Bak – The Egodeath Mystery Show” for intensive 2/28 details.
  • Project path: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-28 Egodeath Mystery Show – MicCalib Hane CogPhen”
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
Recording Header
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see the Download Info section)
  • Vocalization theme:
    • x
  • Time and date:
    • 1:00 p.m.-10 p.m., February 28, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid. (double-check my records)
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: smile-frown.
Playlist

We’re listening to the song __, from the album, by the band __.

  • Song: Flowers, by Tea Company. 2-3 other songs. From a pop sike comp or two.

“2021-02-28a v2 Egodeath Mystery Show – Mic Rec Tricks.mp3” – fixed; v2

Motivation for v2 replacing v1 (which had filename
“2021-02-28a Egodeath Mystery Show – Mic Rec Tricks.mp3”):

  • v1 had random playing of mic recordings, because I couldn’t figure out how to get out of a certain play mode.
  • v1 had fast-forwarding through a voice recording, which sounds broken.
Download Info
  • Download/preview link for 1 week after 2021-03-02:
    https://we.tl/t-ZB3gCe5q1k <- v2
  • Episode theme; overall description: (see also the Recording Header section)
    • Demo of mic recording/playback/processing techniques.
    • A few Pop Sike songs, liner notes.
    • Incidental Egodeath theory content.
  • Filename: see section heading above.
  • Track name: same as filename, without extension. Includes “v2”.
  • Length: 34:05
  • Filesize: 82 MB
  • Bitrate: 320 kbps
  • Timestamps in .mp3: these timestamps after 12:33 are for the deprecated v1. List of the topics sequence & durations.
    • 0:00 false start, phaser on mic
    • 0:46 real Intro
    • 3:31 “finished intro segment”
    • 3:35 music , “liner notes take time to read” band: Waters; song: Mother Samwell. tape flanging.
    • 5:53 “this is not a music show”
      • 5:49 – song Roxanne starts, by Chaparral Trio.
    • 6:08 “This episode will demo:
      • eq’ing mic
      • Demo of live remiking
      • For substance in this episode, I might read:
        • Hanegraaff 1995 [see episode 02-28b] &
        • Cognitive Phen’y [see episode 03-02a]
      • ~6:00 Deleting fluff words during editing
      • ~6:00 Defining “casual wording”
      • ~6:24 Many tricks are possible from audio voice editing.”
    • 7:43 (7:08 in v2) (agenda continues) “Irrelevance of Hanegraaff’s esotericism”
    • 8:02 (7:25 in v2) “I’m using 8b clips to demo remiking. revoicing defined.
    • 9:07 “remiking defined.”
    • 10:34 “I’m stopping mic recording now, to make a test/calib recording”
    • 10:53 creating the mic calibration recording: “beginning of loop … ” (fade out)
    • 11:05 first playback of the calib rec’g: “beginning of loop…” (1.5 minutes)
    • 12:33 2nd playback of the calib rec’g: “beginning of loop…” (1.5 minutes)
      — timestamps above might be good for v2. below are for v1, not v2: —
    • 14:23 live mic again
    • 14:40 demo of phaser
    • 15:59 “I will next re-play the new calib file 210228_2328.wav that I made above, now through Phaser.”
    • 16:32 – intro w/ phaser.
    • 17:37 good: i find and play the correct loop
    • 18:00 two different takes of show intro, with phaser.
    • 18:42 “I’m not so much demo’ing eq at the moment; 4 different modes of Phaser”.
    • 19:10 another intro / phaser
    • 19:32 “a new loop, …” <– I start playing the desired file, not at start.
    • 20:27 live mic through phaser: “As gray traces of dawn tinge the Eastern sky, three men of Willowdale…“
    • 21:20 seems to be back to playing the desired file, through phaser. continues…
    • 21:51 “beginning of loop”
    • 22:27 live mic w/ delay
    • 23:12 “found the manual. useful mic rec’g techniques.”
    • 23:54 play 8b clips. phaser.
    • 25:36 continue playing, now w/ slow, now especially, Fast playback.
    • 26:11 add reverb. phaser cont
    • 34:47 reverb w/ 8b clip.
    • 36:18 delay w/ 8b clip.
    • 37:19 eq w/ 8b clip.
    • 38:46 philosophy of bias of eq. music.
    • 39:27 Agenda review.
    • 27:10 v2 (was 40:28 for v1) liner notes: “this… is tea company. the song is “come and have”… “and i can get more info”
    • 40:52 music resumes
    • 41:04 liner notes
    • 43:47 this is not a music show
    • 44:18 record changer
    • 45:04 Flowers (song)
    • 46:26 new segment, “This is not a music show”
    • 47:28: outro/end.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy download link to this Download section
  • test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC
  • link TOC heading to present section
  • test the TOC link
Miking Details

For basic miking info, see the “Recording Header” section.

  • Angle: on-axis, aimed at upper lip.
  • Pop filter/windscreen: none.
  • Limiter: MXR, on Mic recording.
  • Chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
  • Mic tracking file: 210228_2327.wav-~210228_2337.wav
    • for gory details, see Private: Site: Posts: Drafts: “Bak – The Egodeath Mystery Show”
  • Mixer tracking file: 210228_2106.wav
  • Project path: “/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-28 Egodeath Mystery Show – MicCalib Hane CogPhen”
  • Project filename: same, with .aup extension
  • Track within project: “Mic Tricks v2 – clips from 210228_2106.wav to become “2021-02-28a Egodeath Mystery Show – Stupid Mic Tricks.mp3””

Stuff I Read-Aloud During Show

Recording Header
  • Time and date:
    • 1:00 p.m., February 28, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • EQ on mic recording: none.
    • EQ on mixer recording: smile-frown, or various (demo).
Playlist
  • song: Mother Samwell. band: Waters.
  • song: Roxanne. band: Chaparral Trio. eg at 5:49 & 8:50 in this v2 episode.
  • song: Flowers. band: Tea Company.
  • song: Come and Have Some Tea with Me. band: Tea Company.

Those songs are from a below comp. I have the set of four compilations including these two.

Deleting Junk from the Recalled “2021-02-28a Egodeath Mystery Show – Mic Rec Tricks.mp3”

Timestamps for the v1 reject mp3 (not for v2 mp3):

  • 0:00 false start, phaser on mic
  • 0:46 real Intro
  • 3:31 “finished intro segment”
  • 3:35 music , “liner notes take time to read” band: Waters; song: Mother Samwell. tape flanging.
  • 5:53 “this is not a music show”
  • 6:08 “this ep will demo eq’ing mic”, “demo of live remiking; substance: I might read… deleting fluff words during editing; casual wording. many tricks possible from audio voice editing.”
  • 7:43 (agenda continues) “Irrelevance of Hanegraaff’s esotericism”
  • 8:02 “I’m using 8b clips to demo remiking. revoicing defined.
  • 9:07 “remiking defined.”
  • 10:34 “I’m stopping mic recording now, to make a test/calib recording”
  • 10:53 creating the mic calibration recording: “beginning of loop … ” (fade out)
    done: keep entire first loop, then fade-out beginning of loop 2, delete loop 3:
  • 11:05 first playback of the calib rec’g: “beginning of loop…” (1.5 minutes)
    done: 2nd playback: fade out after the start:
  • 12:33 2nd playback of the calib rec’g: “beginning of loop…” (1.5 minutes) seems fair quality. muddy, then bright, then good.
  • done:14:00 3rd playback of the calib rec’g: “beginning of loop…” (1.5 minutes)
  • 14:23 live mic again
  • 14:40 demo of phaser
  • 15:59 “I will next re-play the new calib file 210228_2328.wav that I made above, now through Phaser.”
  • done:16:15 – I SCREW UP AND DON’T KNOW HOW TO GET OUT OF “PLAY AREA = FOLDER” MODE TO SELECT THAT FILE. So you confusingly hear me fumbling playing many different voice recordings, totally not planned or wanted or controlled. CHAOS.
  • 16:32 – intro w/ phaser.
  • done: 16:42 – random pbk, delete.
  • 17:37 good: i find and play the correct loop (but next,….)
  • done:17:56 i terminate that recording pbk… not nece a problem… random recordings CHAOS.
  • 18:00 two different takes of show intro, with phaser.
  • done:18:25 “I’m stuck in Playlist mode, need the instructions”
  • 18:42 “I’m not so much demo’ing eq at the moment; 4 different modes of Phaser”.
  • done:18:59 resume random chaos playing wrong files.
  • 19:10 another intro / phaser
  • done:19:20 random chaos files.
  • 19:32 “a new loop, …” <– seems like I start playing the desired file, not at the start.
  • 20:27 live mic through phaser: “as gray traces of dawn, tinge the Eastern sky, three men of Willowdale”
  • 21:20 seems to be back to playing the desired file, through phaser. continues…
  • 21:51 “beginning of loop”
  • done:22:15 live mic again – really? or not??
  • 22:27 live mic w/ delay
  • 23:12 “found the manual. useful mic rec’g techniques.”
  • 23:54 play 8b clips. phaser.
  • 25:36 continue playing, now w/ slow, now especially, Fast playback.
  • 26:11 add reverb. phaser cont
  • done:26:56 annoying jump. and pointlessly play entire 8b clip, why? delete. annoying jumping.
  • 34:47 reverb w/ 8b clip.
  • 36:18 delay w/ 8b clip.
  • 37:19 eq w/ 8b clip.
  • 38:46 philosophy of bias of eq. music.
  • 39:27 Agenda review.
  • done:39:56 mic adjust – DELETE. (keep music bits around here)
  • 40:28 liner notes: exact words: “this… is tea company. the song is “come and have”… “and i can get more info” = new 27:10
  • done40:47 stupid comment, delete
  • 40:52 music resumes
  • 41:04 liner notes
  • 43:47 this is not a music show
  • 44:18 record changer
  • 45:04 Flowers (song)
  • 46:26 new segment, “This is not a music show”
  • Outro: it’s a sep track to mix.
  • 47:28: end.

“2021-02-27a Egodeath Mystery Show – Revoicing 10c in Realtime.mp3” 🧪 ⚗️

🧪 ⚗️

Download Info

This experiment gathered lots of valuable data, but it’s a failure as far as the quality of the re-voicing. I had to go back to the source, 10c clips, and alter that to make that more amenable to re-voicing. This mp3 might be supplemented/replaced by another pass.

  • Download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-PjpJ9RmKJm
  • Length: 1:35:54
  • Filesize: 106 MB
  • Overall description: Experimental. 🧪 ⚗️
    • Realtime revoicing of “2021-02-10c Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3” by listening to the master recording for that episode in headphones, and recording the mic of my saying aloud (in morning casual standard voice) the words I’m hearing.
      • Initial proof-of-concept demo: Ideally, this recording would be an ideally voiced version (in morning casual standard voice) of the same words that are in the original 10c Clips episode.
      • Aiming for medium, standard speed.
      • The 10c Clips recording is bad: it has no inhale-gaps; it is much too fast-paced; for example, sentencesentence with no gap at all. Inhale gaps ought to be 2s or 3s; 5s when changing topics. I was forced to quickly develop techniques of using Playback Pause & Record Pause.
      • Another, ideal-sounding Proof-of-Concept demo would be to first transcribe to text, a recording of my spoken off-the-cuff idea development, such as “My followers” from “Voice Recording 1” of 2021, and then *read-aloud* that text transcription, at the optimal rate & voicing.
    • Guitar auto-ducking demo. 20:39 long, from 32:09 to 52:48. Also a few minutes at end.
    • Includes some demo of quiet casual standard voice.
  • Timestamps:
  • 0:00 –
Errata
  • I say aloud, “smilefrown eq”, but this .mp3 has no EQ on the mic.
    • This .mp3 has music, but that doesn’t mean that this mp3 uses the Mixer deck recording; the music was added by importing the guitar mp3 into the audio project, then applying ducking to destructively modify that imported guitar track.
    • I didn’t end up using the Mixer recording (which has EQ on the mic).
    • I used the mic deck recording, which has no EQ.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • connect recorder drives
  • create audio project file
  • import Mic Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mic wav
  • add guitar track
  • add some 6s silences to voice track
  • apply Auto Duck to guitar track
  • clean up/ delete/tighten voice track
  • export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link

Intro Segment/Header (0:30)

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com

  • Recording header:
  • Content:
    • A live re-voicing of “2021-02-10c Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3”
  • Vocalization:
    • Morning casual standard voice.
    • Repeat phrase for low pitch, fun tone, and casual wording.
  • Time and Date:
    • 9 a.m., February 27, 2021.
  • Miking:
    • Mic: CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser.
    • Distance: 6″.
    • Position: On-axis, aimed at upper lip.
    • No pop filter.
    • Polar pattern: Cardioid.
    • Limiter.
    • EQ: smile/frown.
    • Mic tracking file: 210227_2102.wav
    • Mixer tracking file: 210227_2326.wav
  • BE DONE AT 0:30!
  • The timestamp is x.131

fade music

Playlist

We’re listening to:

  • Song: Hang Back Freaky, by Illumination Valve (with Auto-Duck 🦆).
    20:39 long, from 32:09 to 52:48.
    Added in Post-Production, by importing .mp3.

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

“Review of Standard Voice” Segment

This is the start of the “Review of Standard Voice” segment.
143__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Read from Casual Standard Voice, then return here.

We’ve finished the “Review of Standard Voice” segment.
34:14 The timestamp is x. fade music

“Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
3424__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Read from Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show, then return here.

That ends the Warmup Reading segment.
3553__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Main Agenda

In this next segment, the Board of Mystics goes through the esoteric agenda.
3608__ The timestamp is x. fade music

  • revoice the master tape cleaned up of “2021-02-10c Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3” in morning casual standard voice.
  • practice and define “morning fast casual standard voice“
  • practice using Playback Pause and Record Pause.

That ends the main agenda, and the discussion of x.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Outro Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

  • 2:01:26 timestamp, filename

Production Info

Log of Takes
  • filename – mic|mixer – content to use
    • 2102##_####.wav – mic|mixer – desc
    • 2102##_####.wav – mic|mixer – desc
    • 2102##_####.wav – mic|mixer – desc
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 210 kbps
  • normal miking: CAD M39 6″ distance. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. 0 degrees. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. +-3dB Smilefrown eq on mixer deck which I halted halfway; use the mic deck rec’g only (that recording, which is heard in the final result “__.mp3”, has no EQ).
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
Show Prep
  1. Prep the agenda: Copy template from Show page to Agenda page
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/
  2. Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).

Heading

The cleaned-up voice recording with feet, that I only did 1 pass thru to re-process:
“2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
“2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show.aup”

“2021-02-25a Egodeath Mystery Show – Psychohallucidelyticogens.mp3”

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-nRitD3k49b
  • description:
    • Entirely on-topic Egodeath theory substance; no off-topic or peripheral.
    • Words for psychedelics; pros/cons of the words on offer to “fix” previous names of loosecog agents:
      • psychotomimetics
      • hallucinogens
      • psychedelics
      • psycholytics
      • entheogens
      • cognitive loosening agents
    • That’s from 1) a Feb 23 phone mic recording (unreleased; clips only); 2) yesterday’s Feb 24 episode of Egodeath Mystery Show.
    • The below, afterwards, is also from that Feb 24 episode:
      • 59:53 Avoiding characterizing the completed initiate as “surfing/approaching loss of control”, because that’s the perspective from the beginner’s point of view. The {balance} mytheme; new balance; new mode of control-stability.
      • Why am I the first to inventory the mushrooms in the Canterbury psalter?
  • filesize: 101 MB
  • length: 1:06:56
Playlist
  • Pop Sike compilations (snippets embedded in Feb 24 clips; may include):
    • Psychedelic Crown Jewels, Vol. 1
    • A Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych – Authentic Way Col Sixties Artifacts

Intro Segment

Header (to be finished at 0:30!):

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
Content: This episode covers:

  • words for psychedelics;
  • avoiding saying “approaching loss of control”, because that’s the perspective from the beginner’s point of view;
  • and: why am I the first to inventory the mushrooms in the Canterbury psalter?

This episode consists of voice recording clips from an unreleased phone-mic recording from Feb 23rd (two days ago), and from yesterday’s Feb 24th Egodeath Mystery Show.

Voicing: repeat phrase for low pitch, fun tone, casual wording.

Date/time: It’s now 5pm on February 25, 2021.

Miking: I’m using the CAD M39 LDCM, 4.5″, 0°, aimed at upper lip, no pop filter, set to polar pattern of Wide Cardioid (halfway between Cardioid & Omnidirectional, to get only half the bass boost, and to let in half the room reverb).

repeating the header: I plan to repeat this header info later in this show.

  • DONE AT 0:30!

This episode will combine:

  1. intro / header for Part 1 (from Phone)
    1. content:
      1. Discussion of words for ‘psychedelics’; 30 minutes of discussion form phone mic on Feb 23, two daays ago. points that will be covered (as clips previously voiced).
    2. master recording/tracking file: “New Recording 63.m4a”.
    3. voicing: the Feb 23 phone clips were done in the middle of hardcore voice/mic technique practice, so should be great (“low pitch, fun tone, casual wording”).
    4. date/time: __
    5. miking: __
  2. Feb 23 undeleted phone-mic walkaround discussion of the pros &cons of the words on offer: ‘psychotomimetics, hallucinogens, psychedelics, psycholytics, entheogens, cognitive looseners’.
  3. intro/header for Part 2 (lg dia condender mic on – initially, for “words” section, Omni pattern).
    1. content:
      1. 1st group of clips from that episode:
        orig wav = “210224_2078.wav”.
        0:00-3:03 keep intro.
        Omit junk here
        orig wav 41:34.358–50:40 essentially done; covered, by conjoining two recording sessions, in episode __: clip this: “entheogen is not the real word”.
        done: Omit junk here
      2. orig wav 59:01–1:07:54. could clip this: Reading from M Hoffman article, critiquing the section “25.2 HERMENEUTICS AND A DEFINITION OF TERMS”, about etymology “Do I have any other points about the words on offer?”
        done: Omit junk here
      3. orig wav 1:38:22–1:43:56. could clip this: I covered all the points about the different words. They don’t cause hallucinations.
        done: Omit junk here
        2nd group of clips from that episode: contiguous, no need to edit:
      4. orig wav 3:01:24-3:02:05 Could clip this: Dancing with the two sides of the dragon gate.
        no need to omit anything here
      5. orig wav 3:02:05-3:04:49 clip this: entheogens scholars are driven away from Psalter.
        no need to omit anything here
      6. oriv wav 3:04:49-3:07:40 clip this: {balance}, far side of dragon gate; don’t say “surfing w/ loss of ctrl”.
        done: omit end
    1. master recording/tracking file: ““2021-02-24a Egodeath Mystery Show – Pop Myke.mp3”, which is to say, audio project file w/ extention .aup, same filename; the real master is “210224_2078.wav”.
    2. voicing: casual/relaxed/ unhurried; same as the microcassette 1995 tone of voice.
    3. date/time: around 9pm, Feb 24, 2021.
    4. miking: CAD M39, initially in Omni polar pattern (for the “words” part), 0°, 4.5″, aimed at upper lip, no pop filter. Limiter (MXR – M76), no EQ. Later, Cardioid polar pattern, for bass boost and no room reverb.
  4. Play the Feb 24a clips (new clips; things I said within the 24a episode
    1. Mostly “the words on offer”; also
    2. why am I the first to inventory msh trees in the Psalter?
    3. {balance} mytheme.
  5. outro

I’m using the CAD M39 microphone, at 4.5″ distance, in Wide Cardioid polar pattern, with no EQ, with MXR limiter. fade music

Production Info

Post-Processing Steps

I produced this differently:

  1. I imported the .m4a into the audio project and omitted parts.
  2. I imported the Feb 24 .wav file and omitted parts.
  3. I recorded CAD mic to DR05 to record intro, outro, and mid-show re-intro reminder-header.
  4. I imported the intro/outro (210225_2079.wav).
  5. I sequenced the intro, m4a, mid-show re-intro, feb 24 wav, & outro, selected all, then Tracks: Align Tracks: Align End-to-End.
  6. Muted the unwanted intro/outro tracking-track.
  7. Selected all desired tracks, then exported as mp3.
  • done:
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
    • optional: import Mic Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
    • optional: normalize vol of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
    • optional: export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Log of Takes

see track names in project file:

  • New Rec 63; “New Recording 63.m4a”
  • 2078 clips; 210224_2078.wav
  • intro outro tracking – 210225_2079.wav
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps
  • miking:
    • iPhone bottom mic 4.5″ 0°.
    • CAD M39 same. Aimed at upper lip. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. No eq.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
Show Prep
  1. Prep the agenda: Copy template from Show page to Agenda page
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/
  2. Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).

“New Recording 63.m4a”

I will incorp the “words for psychedelics” discussion from that Feb 23 phone-mic recording into episode 25a of Egodeath Mystery Show. Timestamps of the parts to clip: (done: reduced to 30:19)

  • omit __ “Remarkable speed of improvement toward low pitch, fun casual.”
  • 0:10-0:22 header
  • omit “end header, 23 seconds, wanto check the date but, 23 is accurate, it is remarkable the rate of increase by this technique…”
  • 6:37.750-10:41 starting with: “‘Thus’ is one…” – names of psychedelics.
  • done: omit “because.. there i swallowed on mic” “the newest idea is repeat idea, not repeat phrase”
  • 11:28-15:40 words for ‘psychedelics’
  • done: omit “put it this way…”
  • 17:37-17:53 “Psychedelic was the first adequate…”
  • done: omit “clearing throat mic violation”
  • 18:30-40:02 “the word psychedelic…”
  • done: omit to end: “now back to low pitch, fun tone, causual wording”

“2021-02-24a Egodeath Mystery Show – Pop Myke.mp3”

Production Info

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-XUiaCwVQNU
  • description:
    • Casual show w/ lots of Pop Sike rare singles.
    • Demo’d CAD M39 mic.
    • Previous day’s hardcore series of handheld miking/voicing practice recordings.
    • Pros/cons of words like ‘entheogens’.
    • Scoped-out Feb 10’s four episodes, looking to extract clips from them.
  • filesize: 337 MB
  • length: 3:09:09

Content

Timestamps for clips from “2021-02-24a Egodeath Mystery Show – Pop Myke.mp3” that were (together w/ un-deleted phone mic rec’g of New Recording 63 (42:30 long)) used to form 25a episode
  • 41:34-50:40 could clip this: “entheogen is not the real word”.
  • 59:01-1:07:54 could clip this: Reading from M Hoffman article, critiquing the section “25.2 HERMENEUTICS AND A DEFINITION OF TERMS”, about etymology “Do I have any other points about the words on offer?”
  • 1:38:22-1:43:56 could clip this: I covered all the points about the different words. They don’t cause hallucinations.
  • done, I think: create a show / clip , clip rollup show, combining:
    • 1. the recovered recording 23 from Feb 23, 42:30 minutes long (iPhone bottom mic (nominally Omnidirectional) 4.5″ 0° upper lip),
    • 2. then followed by the clips from ep 24a (find “clip this” in present section), about the words on offer (what miking? CAD M39 4.5″ 0° upper lip, which polar pattern? definitely not Cardioid; most likely True Omnidirectional, per 50:38. 34:05 pretty much proves; “This is still the Omni polar pattern.”)
Content

Feb 25 Content:

  • Feb 25:
    • mobile recording discarded: the words on offer to “fix” previous names of loosecog agents. Pros/cons of the words:
      • hallucinogens
      • psychotomimetics
      • psychedelics
      • entheogens
      • psycholytics
      • cognitive loosening agents
  • voice focus planned
    • got CAD M39 large diaphragm condender mic (sounds like SM57, but no hiss – good for Late Night quiet).
      • Demonstrations of cardioid polar pattern vs. Omni, ramif for bass & reverb.
      • Continuously variable polar pattern pot.
    • Yesterday, I did some 8 hours of hardcore miking/vocal practice with handheld recorder/mic.
      • “parking” the mic to point at cloth; only delivering phrases to mic (not mouth noises or throat clearing)
    • Got goodies from storage – albums, mic, tapes of voice 1989, windscreen for SM57.
    • Albums & pop sike singles compilation albums incl
      A (Foo) Dose of (Bar) Psych, x4
      We Can Fly – vol 1-4
      Beyond the Calico Wall
    • thick folder of Hanegraaff article printouts- proof i read tons of his articles every line
    • cad m39 lg dia cond mic
    • microcassette player w tape that says Good Content, could be from ~1995
    • theres probly a 1987 good voice cassette tape (good voicing and miking and content), did i copy/upload to egodeath site?
  • date & time of day
  • what mic/ miking/position
    be DONE AT 0:30
  • done: incorp latest header from voice recordings into Egodeath Mystery Show template. Must say date, time, miking, including ep# eg “24a”, “24b”.
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • connect recorder drives
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Log of Takes
  • 210224_2078.wav – mixer
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps
  • normal miking: CAD M39 large dia cond mi. Variable polar patterns demo’d, from Omni to Cardiod (& some Figure 8). 4.5″ distance. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. 0°. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. No eq. Occasional fx.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
Show Prep
  1. Prep the agenda: Copy template from Show page to Agenda page
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/
  2. Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).
Playlist
  • Pop Sike compilations:
    • Psychedelic Crown Jewels, Vol. 1
    • A Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych – Authentic Way Col Sixties Artifacts
Errata/ Things to Improve
  • Get to the damn point! START by saying the 5 key words, the conclusion, the executive takeaway FIRST! There are times here where I do the ol’ “There’s somethign I found, which I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but I think blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah: The cat sat on the mat.
  • Music too quiet. Watch the meter. Force music up to -20dB.
  • Negative song looped while I was busy w/ mic off, typing. “Daddy drop dead” song.

“2021-02-23a Egodeath Mystery Show – DJs per Time of Day.mp3”

Download Info
Content
  • This episode is mostly about voice at time of day. This entire recording has been cleaned up; clean/efficient/fast-paced.
    • 3 or 4 different voices at different times of day
  • 12:29 “I’ve been sss- Tripped” (echo on tripped) – Blue Oyster Cult lyrics processing (the printed lyrics i saw online wrongly said “t-tripped”; Errata for the 22a episode); the correct Egodeath lyrics transcription is “s-tripped”. I think the printed liner lyrics might say “stripped” (check my LP), but he actually sings “sss tripped” w/ echo on “tripped”.
  • 13:43 2 seconds of singing range explore – pursue this more.
  • 14:11 “This is the morning DJ” announcements – From episode “2021-02-23a Egodeath Mystery Show – DJs per Time of Day.mp3”, CLIP THIS FOR REUSE; add it to the intros/outros audio project. ego mystery death show etc DJ Gruff -> DJ Cyber rock -> DJ Frozen Rock; “the morning DJ Frozen Rock” “new dawn” (leads into 16:20 topic of Max Frost song lyrics) Mystery Death Ego Show / Death Show (etc)
  • 16:40 Show-Intro announcements like lyrics of Shape of Things to Come (from memory; inaccurate lyrics)
  • 17:24 I’ve been meeting some really well-informed people in dream land
  • 18:42 Max Frost actual lyrics of song Shape of Things to Come: “There are new thoughts, ready and waiting…”
  • 22:50 changing the worldmodel vs. destroying the world
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • share rec’g from mobile to computer
  • import m4a into new project
  • cleanup wav
  • export mp3
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps
  • mobile device bottom mic 4.5″ 30° aimed at upper lip (so, no eq, no limiter, no popfilt)
    • keyboard shortcut for degrees: Shift+Option+8 aka Shift+Alt+8

Added to show page template, to say what time of day:

  • the show header
    • must say
      • what mic
      • what time of day <– important for research about voicing
    • Nice to say:
      • date
      • planned intended topics; motivation for hitting Record. even if i don’t cover those topics, it’s good context to know.

The original “structured recording header” concept, that begat the Egodeath Mystery Show. I first defined the Header concept in https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/idea-development-page-10/#Voice-Recording-2-for-Jan-26

  • 2 content ideas
  • 2 vocalization focus ideas
  • 2 technical points, usually what mic/miking, and what date. Date has been forgotten, and I should practice saying header – or even going so far as to artificially add it, post-recording.

“2021-02-22a Egodeath Mystery Show – Blue Axis Sabbath.mp3”

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-fFhLz8KvNw (260 kbps, 250 MB)
    • filesize: 260 kbps = 250 MB: C.E. album sounds swishy
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-OEOKym9zAa (320 kbps, 343 MB)
    • filename: “2021-02-22a Egodeath Mystery Show – Blue Axis Sabbath 320.mp3”
    • title: “2021-02-22a Egodeath Mystery Show – Blue Axis Sabbath 320”
    • Assessed whether 320 kbps 🐷 sounds less swishy. Inconclusive, so far.
  • length: 2:23:05

Content

  • Read-aloud & vocal technique, mic technique, and music/lyrics.
    • Mixing practice.
    • On-axis 4.5″ mic technique
    • Started w/ pop filter, then ditched it to be able to see.
    • Placed mic setup off-center, to enable moving out of or into the miking pickup zone.
    • Working on no breathing or mouth noises, while on-axis in sweet spot.
  • I read-aloud all the book titles from my Bibliography of my 2006 main article, looking for Astral Ascent Mysticism.
  • Read-aloud lyrics for 2-3 of the Classic Rock songs played in the background.
  • Developed a piano-referencing pitch range to find my desired voice character, eg for read-aloud of M Hoffman’s article Entheogens and the Ancient Mystery Religions.
    • I read-aloud random passages, adjusting pitch-range.
Playlist

I read some lyrics aloud.

Read-Aloud Bibliography
  • I read-aloud book titles from my Bibliography of my 2006 main article, looking for Astral Ascent Mysticism:

Arbel, V. Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature. Albany: SUNY, 2003.

Ashton, J. The Religion of Paul the Apostle. New Haven: Yale, 2000.

Balsekar, R. Who Cares? The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar. Redondo Beach: Advaita, 1999.

Barton, T. Ancient Astrology. London: Routledge, 1994.

Bryan, C. Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower. New York: Oxford, 2005.

Collins, J. J. (editor), and M. Fishbane (editor). Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys. Albany: SUNY, 1995.

Crowley, M. Secret Drugs of Buddhism. Forthcoming, and presented at Entheogenesis Conference 2004.

Culiano, I. Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein. Boston: Shambhala, 1991.

Cumont, F. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. New York: Dover, 1960 (1912).

Davies, S. Jesus the Healer: Possession, Trance, and the Origins of Christianity. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Detering, H. Der Gefälschte Paulus; The Fabricated Paul: Early Christianity in the Twilight. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1995.

Doherty, E. The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus. Ottawa: Canadian Humanist. 1999.

Drews, A. Die Petruslegende; The Legend of Saint Peter: A Contribution to the Mythology of Christianity. Frankfurt: Neuer Frankfurter, 1910, 1924.

Fishbane, M. The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism. Seattle: University of Washington, 1994.

Forte, R. (editor). Entheogens and the Future of Religion. San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997.

Fowden, G. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton: Princeton University, 1986.

Freke, T.; and P. Gandy. The Complete Guide to World Mysticism. London: Piatkus, 1997.

Grof, S. (editor), and C. Grof (editor). Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1989.

Grof, S.; and C. Grof. Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Heinrich, C. Strange Fruit: Alchemy and Religion: The Hidden Truth. London: Bloomsbury, 1994.

Hoffman, M. A. (editor). Entheos: The Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality. Entheomedia.org, 2001-2002.

Hoffman, M. A., C. A. P. Ruck, and B. Staples. “The Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras”. Entheos 2.1:13-46 (2002).

Hoffman, M. S. “Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita”. Journal of Higher Criticism, in press, 2007.

Hoffman, M. S. “The Bubble of Simulation: Subjective Experience as a Virtual Environment”. Fringe Ware Review 5:22-24, 1994.

Hofmann, A.; R. E. Schultes; and C. Ratsch. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers. Rochester: Healing Arts, 1992 (1979).

Johnson, L. T. Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension in New Testament Studies. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1998.

Kubby, S. The Politics of Consciousness: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. Port Townsend: Loompanics, 1995.

Martin, L. H. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University, 1987.

Merkur, D. Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions. Albany: SUNY, 1993.

Merkur, D. The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience. Rochester: Park Street, 2001.

Metzner, R. The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience. Novato: Origin, 1997 (1986).

Nasrallah, L. An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. Cambridge: Harvard, 2003.

Oaklander, L. N. (editor), and Q. Smith (editor). The New Theory of Time. New Haven: Yale, 1994.

Oaklander, L. N., and Q. Smith. Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Pagels, E. The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters. Harrisburg: Trinity, 1992 (1975).

Pleket, H. W. “An Aspect of the Emperor Cult: Imperial Mysteries.” Harvard Theological Review 58:331-47 (1965).

Pilch, J. J. Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles: How the Early Believers Experienced God. Collegeville: Liturgical, 2004.

Ruck, C.; B. Staples; and C. Heinrich. The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist. Durham: Carolina Academic, 2001.

Rucker, R. The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Russell, D. Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: Patriarchy and the Drug War. Camden: Kalyx, 1998.

Shanon, B. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience. New York: Oxford University, 2002.

Smith, D. E. From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.

Taylor-Perry, R. The God Who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed. New York: Algora, 2003.

Thagard, P. Conceptual Revolutions. Princeton: Princeton University, 1992.

Thompson, M. M. The God of the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

Ulansey, D. “The Eighth Gate: The Mithraic Lion-Headed Figure and the Platonic World-Soul”. Forthcoming; online.

Vernant, J-P.; and P. Vidal-Naquet. Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece. New York: Zone, 1988 (1972).

Wasson, R. G.; A. Hofmann, and C. Ruck. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries. Los Angeles: Hermes, 1998 (1978).

Watts, A. “Zen and the Problem of Control”, in This Is It and Other Essays. New York: Vintage, 1973 (1958).

Wegner, D. White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control. New York: Guilford, 1989.

White, R. Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1997.

Williams, M. A. The Immovable Race: Gnostic Designation and the Theme of Stability in Late Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
    • optional: import Mic Deck wav n/a
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
    • optional: normalize vol of Mic wav n/a
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
    • optional: export mp3 of Mic wav n/a
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy heading to TOC, link
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
Log of Takes
  • filename
    • 210222_2077.wav – mixer
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps
  • normal miking: Shure SM57 mic. 4.5″, on-axis. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. Limiter. No eq.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode

Heading

Added “riding the mic sweet spot” to casual standard voice page, to read-aloud those mic principles.

“2021-02-21a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Master Tape.mp3”

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-SusEhbnlwn
  • description:
    • Reading Comments at Cyberdisciple’s site.
    • Preparing to do a double-reading of M. Hoffman’s article Entheogens and the Ancient Mystery Religions. Testing a brighter mic position.
    • A somewhat scattered tour of master tape Egodeath Mystery Show episode:
      “Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3” (it would be nice to get more familiar with this master tape and add more timestamps, practice this more.)
    • See Esoteric Agenda below.
  • filesize: 253 MB
  • length: 2:33:30
Esoteric Agenda
  • Read Comments at Cyberdisciple’s page on Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 26. Mostly Wrmspirit’s Comments, & one of my Comments.
    https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-ep-26
  • Discussed miking and voicing a re- double-reading of Hoffman’s article. Did some practice double-reading of M. Hoffman’s article Entheogens and the Ancient Mystery Religions.
    • Discussed mic positions’ effect on bass and treble, in preparation for a re-do of reading Hoffman article.
  • Played master tape of the beloved, solid, ambitious Feb. 7 episode of Egodeath Mystery Show, “Plastic Cloud”. 💕 🎙 🕰 🎶
    • Whimsical hyper-reading of Rolfe book passage (twice).
    • Despite some slurring on Feb 7, I nailed the exercise of saying “botched statement”.
    • Within the master tape, I found the {balance} mytheme discussion, = retaining control. Added the 42:00-46:00 timestamp to idea development page 11 in those show-notes. Played that entire “clip” (directly playing portions of that master tape).
    • I updated the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page, to add another “recording type”: I didn’t literally prepare any clips (as such) from Feb 7 show, but I played passages from that master tape; EXPLORED the previous episode and discussed passages from that show (interesting approach, using an entire master tape, not an mp3, nor a wav clip).
    • This suggests a Mystery Show format: giving a tour of the master-tapes archive.
    • 1 57 31 “new” variant of recording types: loading a previous episode’s master tape and exploring it during the current episode.
    • 2 12 06 critiquing Feb 7 Plastic Cloud episode master tape. Inconsistent ‘s’ slurring.
    • Again playing the full first 5 minutes of the Feb 7 show, a lovely show episode (while learning to press P key to pause and freshly comment about that episode).
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
    • optional: import Mic Deck wav
  • delete loud parts at end
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
    • optional: normalize vol of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
    • optional: export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Log of Takes
  • filename – mic|mixer – content to use
    • 210221_2072.wav – mixer
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps
  • normal miking: Shure SM57 mic. 4.5″ distance. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. 0-25 degrees. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. No eq.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode (didn’t record) > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode

Intro Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
February 21, 2021.
To differentiate this episode: I might cover the following: 30 seconds; 4 items, 6 words each

I’m using the Shure SM57 microphone, at 4″ distance, approximately on-axis, with no EQ, with limiter. 

Playlist

We’re listening to:

We’ve finished the “Intro” segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

“Review of Standard Voice” Segment

This is the start of the “Review of Standard Voice” segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Read from Casual Standard Voice, then return here.

We’ve finished the “Review of Standard Voice” segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

“Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Read from Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show, then return here.

That ends the Warmup Reading segment.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

That ends the main agenda, and the discussion of x.
__ The timestamp is x. fade music

Outro Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

  • __ timestamp, filename
Show Prep
  1. Prep the agenda: Copy template from Show page to Agenda page
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/
  2. Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).

Forgot Plots:
“Forgot Late/ Forgot Steadily/ Forgot Early”
= the Maximal/ Moderate/ Minimal Entheogen Theories

Maximal theory (Hoffman): ……. 10 9 0 – “falls late” curve
Moderate theory (Ruck): …………. 10 5 0 – “falls steadily” curve
Minimalist theory (McKenna): … 10 1 0 – “falls early” curve

Forgot Plots:
“Logarithmic vs. Exponential Fall” Is Ambiguous;
“Falls Late/ Falls Steadily/ Falls Early” Is Direct Description; or:
“Forgot Late/ Forgot Steadily/ Forgot Early”

When it comes to decline-curves, the terminology of “logarithmic vs exponential” is inconclusive.

According to the Maths synth module:
The “falls early” curve (Minimalist; McKenna) is an exponential decline (not logarithmic, as I’ve been saying).
The “falls late” curve (Maximalist; M. Hoffman) is a logarithmic decline (not exponential, as I’ve been saying).

After looking at image search results, the terms “exponential” and “logarithmic” are ambiguous, for declines.

It might be justifiable to call the “falls late” curve “exponential decline”, as I’ve been doing. I’d have to get into the math to check how the terminology usage works.

In recordings, I described the “falls late” curve as “exponential decline” as, “at first, the decrease per year is slight, and then later, the decrease-per-year becomes greater; an exponential increase in the rate of decline”.

It’s probably best to avoid the vague, indirect “log/exp” terms, and simply describe, instead, “the declines early” & “the declines late” curves. McKenna’s curve falls-off early; Hoffman’s curve falls late.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=logarithmic+fall
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=logarithmic+decline
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=logarithmic+reduction
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=logarithmic+decrease

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=exponential+fall
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=exponential+decline
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=exponential+reduction
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=exponential+decrease

The Two-Level Personal Control System (Personal + Transpersonal)

At present, I have not read the comments at the below page.

I posted a Comment at:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-ep-26/ –

The person in the mystic state experiences being God as higher, transpersonal controller.

Sophia discovers her higher partner.

Everything in myth is aspects of oneself, the initiate.

The personal, lower self is distinct from the transpersonal, higher self.

The “overall person” (or initiate) includes the formerly unknown, higher, transpersonal component of control, as well as the lower, personal, controller portion of the “personal+transpersonal” control system.

The ‘personal’ control system includes the lower, ‘personal’ component of the personal control system, and the higher, transpersonal component of the personal control system.

See the image of Jesus and Sophia dancing, both with lifted garment indicating the higher state of awareness about the two levels of control.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/lifted-garment-mushroom-folds-in-christian-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-holy-spirit-altered-state/#Jesus-and-Dancer

Compare the two snakes (male ruler/controller & female ruler/controller) intertwined in the caduceus.

The word ‘person’ or ‘personal’ is ambiguous, and means both:
o Specifically the lower control-component (the passive thought receiver).
o Both of the levels of control: the control-thought inserter and the control-thought receiver); the personal and transpersonal levels.

In gnosticism, when Sophia wasn’t aware of her higher partner, and she tried to produce enlightenment, the result was a monster, Yaldabaoth: the lion-headed serpent-monster.

The well-formed mental worldmodel of control requires accounting for one’s higher, transpersonal level of control (the uncontrollable higher controller, uncontrollable by the lower, local locus of control), and recognizing the limits & dependency of the lower, local locus of control.

Double Reading of M. Hoffman Article Entheogens and Ancient Mystery Religions

Consider doing a morning double-reading of M. Hoffman’s article Entheogens and Ancient Mystery Religions.

Not like my first time’s approach I gave to M. Hoffman, “read a paragraph, then paraphrase it”. I should listen to that full recording first.

A double-reading would give higher comprehension and better overall result, than my initial format (“paragraph then paraphrase”).

My first read-aloud recording of this article (Feb 2) was a reading of each paragraph (ie on a per-paragraph scale), followed by a paraphrase of the paragraph. Included References/Biblio at end.

A double-reading would replace my own, choppy paraphrase, by a smooth 2nd reading, on a per-sentence scale. And would replace the initial read-through of a paragraph, by a per-sentence doulbe-reading. Omit References. Focus just on learning Hoffman’s headings & sentences, as-is. Far more scalable and repeatable than inventing a paraphrase on the spot.

New addl type of modifcation of a read-through:

  1. Create recording of double-reading an article body.
  2. Read footnotes / Biblio, not recording.
  3. Record various critiques, as a prep.
  4. Then Play back and Pause the double-reading, and intersperse my reaction/critique/ comments.

Extracting Panofsky Clips

Consider clipping just the Art portions from the first 47 minutes of the “Ourgument” episode of Egodeath Mystery Show. What are all the passages I’ve ever recorded re: Panofsky? Do a “clips rollup episode” of all those.

1:45 – Art: represent all artists, especially esoteric religious artists. always mean mushrooms.
~10:00 Art: the book will convince
~12:00 “I’m scrolling down” <- del
13:00 Grid: the grid game explained/summarized, from last show, to be here independent of previous episode. Points explained. 200 vs -200, don’t change; we’ll change never.
~15:45 Art: the book will convince, devastating. bedtime cover story.
17:00 Art: artists given messed-up templates
19:00 Art: asked boss, copy machine. job desc. ital pines templates, badly malformed due to incompetence. follow your directives.
23:30 Grid: grid game again. briefly? unreasonable committed believer in plants.

Defining “clips rollup episode“, “full episode“, “core episode“, & “clip“, for Egodeath Mystery Show

Spectrum of recording complexity approaches:

see Egodeath Mystery Show page

Robert Segal’s Reductionism of Religion/ Myth as Social Structures

Shouldn’t Cyberdisciple list Robert A. Segal himself as a theorist specifically within the category of “Myth-ritualist theory” or “Functionalism“? Is Segal a good guide to categories of theories/ interpretations of religion/ myth? Segal advocates a Social Science interpretation/ explanation of religion/ myth.

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/evaluating-theories-of-mythology/ – begins by mentioning Segal, but doesn’t list Segal himself in any view in section “Variants and Theorists”.

The post only mentions Segal as a *guide to* theories of myth, in paragraph 1, and doesn’t present Segal himself as a particular theorist advocating specifically the Reductionist (ie Social Science) approach to the interpretation of religion/myth and/or the historiography of religion/myth.

What theory of Myth does Segal himself believe and advocate? Segal owns the advocacy of the Social-Science Reductionist approach to interpretation of religion, I tentatively suggest.

Cyberdisciple’s post begins:

“Evaluating Theories of Mythology

“This post will evaluate theories of mythology. Initially I drew from Robert A. Segal, Myth. A Very Short Introduction and Eric Csapo, Theories of Mythology for 19th and 20th century theories. Like a reviewer of Csapo’s book on Amazon, I find Segal’s a better introduction, Csapo’s a better analysis and critique. Read Segal for the quick and dirty, dig into Csapo for social context and method. Both make clear how 19th century all theories of myth have been, even the 20th century ones, before the Egodeath theory. Mythology as a discipline is tied to European imperialism and social Darwinism, ‘evolutionism’.

“I’m added summaries of ancient Greek approaches, mostly drawn from Luc Brisson, How Philosophers Saved Myths. I’m considering these summaries of ancient Greek approaches partial approximations because our understanding of what the Greeks meant needs to be revised in light of the Egodeath Theory.”

from “Empirical_Method_in_the_Study_of_Esoteri.pdf” 1995 Hanegraaff article:

article, Robert A. Segal, 1983, In defense of reductionism,

“In defense of reductionism” robert segal
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22In+defense+of+reductionism%22+robert+segal

The article:
https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/LI/1/97/683591

In Defense of Reductionism
Robert A. Segal
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 1, March 1983, Pages 97–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LI.1.97
Published: 01 March 1983

wik lacks a Robert Segal page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_interpretation_of_religion#Gnosticism – “On the other hand, it is clear from a comparison of Jung’s writings and that of ancient Gnostics, that Jung disagreed with them on the ultimate goal of the individual. Gnostics in ancient times clearly sought a return to a supreme, other-worldly Godhead. In a study of Jung, Robert Segal claimed that the eminent psychologist would have found the psychological interpretation of the goal of ancient Gnosticism (that is, re-unification with the Pleroma, or the unknown God) to be psychically ‘dangerous’, as being a total identification with the unconscious. To contend that there is at least some disagreement between Jung and Gnosticism is at least supportable: the Jungian process of individuation involves the addition of unconscious psychic tropes to consciousness in order to achieve a trans-conscious centre to the personality. Jung did not intend this addition to take the form of a complete identification of the Self with the Unconscious.”

The terms ‘the conscious’ and ‘the unconscious’ are terrible, vague, off-base, ineffective theory-constructs.

2nd line of footer says:

Segal = the social-scientific study of religion and myth

reductionism means the theory/interpretation

religion & myth is social science

religion and myth are understood by science of sociology.

Religion and myth are sociological constructs

Religion/myth is social stuff, so is understood by social science.

To scientifically understand and study religion/myth, we must use social science.

The right way to understand religion/myth, is through social science.
That view is known as “Reductionism”; the Reductionist view.

The Reductionist view of Western Esotericism is the Social Science approach/perspective on Western Esotericism.

Western Esotericism = Social Science.

To understand Western Esotericism, approach Western Esotericism through the Social Science approach.

March 8, 2021 Addition

Evaluating Theories of Mythology
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/evaluating-theories-of-mythology/

From what I gather from Hanegraaff’s 1995 article, Robert Segal himself should be listed as a theorist in the body of the article.  Not just at the top, as a provider of a categorization scheme to place other scholars into.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/idea-development-page-12/#Robert-Segal’s-Reductionism-of-Religion-Myth-as-Social-Structures

from “Empirical_Method_in_the_Study_of_Esoteri.pdf” 1995 Hanegraaff article:
article, Robert A. Segal, 1983, In defense of reductionism

Wouter Hanegraaff’s 1995 article: “Empirical method in the study of esotericism”
https://www.academia.edu/1761692/Empirical_Method_in_the_Study_of_Esotericism_1995_
3 approaches: Religionism, Reductionism, Empiricism
Journal: “Method & Theory in the Study of Religion”

Segal is the leading advocate of “Reductionism”.  In the context of Theory of Religion, this “Reductionism” means that to explain religion, mysticism, or spirituality, means explaining those in terms of Social Science.  

Per Segal’s Reductionism, when you have explained religion, mysticism, or spirituality in terms of Social Science, you have finished explaining religion, mysticism, or spirituality.
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Christopher Partridge appears to be this type of reductionist.  His area of research is contemporary counter culture, with extreme hyper-emphasis on “counter”, which for him, means an entire, heavy interpretive framework: his trademark term ‘occulture’. 

His model seems as breathtakingly superficial as any exoteric esotericism.

“2021-02-20a Egodeath Mystery Show – At War with the Exoteric Mystics.mp3”

Recommended re: what’s wrong with Mystics. Entire episode is on-topic.

Throwaway morning vocal warmup show with no Egodeath core theory content, except that there’s no vocal warmup, and it’s only Egodeath core theory content.

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-MpvumYS97K
  • Filename: see Heading above.
  • description:
    • what’s wrong with Mystics.
    • Exoteric esotericism.
    • The Forgot Plots of enlightenment, corresponding to of plants.
    • Hanegraaff is a crypto-Reductionist; Hanegraaff approves of Clifford Geertz’ definition of ‘esotericism’ as “skilled concealment and skilled revealing FOR THE PURPOSE OF HAVING SOCIAL CONTROL OVER OTHER PEOPLE”. I recommend that Hanegraaff combine good Religionism with good Empiricism; but instead, it appears that Hanegraaff approves of combining Reductionism (ie Social Science explanatory approach) with Empiricism, to explain religion/ myth/ esotericism.
  • filesize: 47 MB
  • length: 50:54

Errata

Hanegraaff’s 2012 article – I said “Clifford Geertz”, meant “Michael Taussig” said…. –

“after its sensational and exhibitionistic public phase during the 1960s, the use of psychedelics in a spiritual context evolved after 1970 into a private and discreet, individualist practice, which continued to have a considerable impact on New Age religion because of the types of religious experiences and visions that it produced or facilitated.

This makes it into an aspect of “esotericism” in the specific dictionary sense of secrecy and concealment – but not of the well-known discursive practice of secrecy as “skilled revelation of skilled concealment” (as elegantly formulated by Michael Taussig (in “Viscerality, Faith, and Skepticism”, 273)), where secrets are forms of social capital that impart power to those who are in a position to hide or reveal them.

Instead, we are dealing with practices of secrecy and concealment born simply out of social or legal necessity.

The obvious difficulties of finding hard data under such conditions are not a sufficient reason to ignore this dimension of New Age, for at least two reasons.

First, simply by being more attentive to it, evidence relevant to entheogenic esotericism may be noted and recognized that would otherwise be overlooked: authors and practitioners do make references to it, but often just in passing and by means of coded language (e.g. “power plants” and “psychotechnologies” rather than “drugs” or “psychedelics”).

Second, even where there is no strict empirical proof of entheogenic esotericism, it may still be the most plausible explanation in specific cases, such as those discussed above.

The assumption that spectacular experiences as reported by Capra and Roberts [or any esotericists ever, in any era -cm] happened “just like that” (because we cannot think of anything better), are unsatisfactory and in fact rather lazy from an intellectual point of view [for an example of such laziness, see Hanegraaff himself re: any esotericism in pre-modern eras -cm]: until somebody comes up with a better explanation, it seems much more reasonable to attribute them, at least provisionally, to the use of substances that are known from clinical research to have exactly these kinds of effects.”

Post-Processing Steps

from mobile device mono Voice memo app, not sm57/dr-05.

  • done:
  • connect recorder drives
  • determine which wavs
  • import Mixer Deck wav
    • optional: import Mic Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
    • optional: normalize vol of Mic wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
    • optional: export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 260 kbps

“1997 Egodeath Core Theory Spec.mp3”

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-XjtdmBg2Av
  • description: Read-aloud of 1997 Core Theory Spec; the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence. Double-reading; each sentence twice. No music.
  • filesize: 135 MB
  • length: 56:20
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • connect recorder drives
  • import Mic Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mic wav
  • remove silences/gaps
  • export mp3 of Mic wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Log of Takes
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename;
    “2021-02-19a Egodeath Mystery Show – 1997 Core Theory.aup”
  • bitrate: 320 kbps
  • normal miking: Shure SM57 mic. 4″ distance. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. ~45 degrees. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. No eq.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode

“2021-02-19a Egodeath Mystery Show – 1997 Core Theory.mp3”

Download Info
  • download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-7F2FjnDBra
  • description:
    • Updated, streamlined template for the Egodeath Mystery Show.
    • 3 techniques for revoicing speech to casual standard voice.
    • New WordPress page, “casual standard voice”.
    • Several possibilities for long show episodes, shortened episodes, and extracted clips.
    • Reading aloud the 1997 Core Theory article.
    • LP: Volume 4, by Black Sabbath.
  • filesize: 228 MB
  • length: 1:35:14
Post-Processing Steps
  • done:
  • determine which wavs
  • connect recorder drives
  • import Mixer Deck wav
  • normalize vol of Mixer wav
  • export mp3 of Mixer wav
  • transfer mp3 to music player
  • upload mp3
  • copy dl link to this Download section
  • test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
  • copy heading to TOC, link
Detailed Description

In the main segment, the Board of Mystics goes through the esoteric agenda:

  • Updated, streamlined template for the Egodeath Mystery Show.
  • 3 techniques for revoicing speech to casual standard voice.
    • while speaking, no recorder, repeat phrase.
    • record speech, play in headphones while revoicing to create a fresh new 2nd-gen recording with only the 1st-gen words, but not the 1st gen voicing.
    • mix playback of 1st-gen speech, pause it, the record 2nd gen speech; result recording alternates between 1st gen and 2nd gen voicing.
  • New WordPress page, “casual standard voice”.
  • FORGOT to do this – critique & revoice with vary-pitch 17d (the lozenge episode, which starts to define “quiet casual standard voice”.
    • findings in episode 17d:
      • the mouth noises are bad,
      • the voicing is good, toward defining “quiet casual standard voice”.
      • quiet casual standard voice – add varying the pitch
  • Several possibilities for multiple forms of a given recording, for the Egodeath Mystery Show; various multiple possible versions/ formats/ outputs/ clips.
    • long show episodes, “full version of the episode”
    • shortened episodes “core version of the episode”
    • extracted standalone clips.
  • Reading aloud the 1997 Core Theory article.
    • I read the first sections from WordPress copy of the article. I read the later sections from Principia Cybernetica website, as posted
    • plans for multi-recording the 1997 article. two versions simultaneously produced – “dance mix” & the condensed voice-only mix (both a double-reading and a single-reading version)
    • engage the mic recorder
    • 8 pages, 3247 words
    • Using a revoicing technique: Repeat Sentence form, to target casual standard voice.
    • Haven’t pre-read.
    • Voice state right now: Average.
    • Early evening volume; 7/10. (3 p.m. = 10/10; 3 a.m. = 1/10).
Log of Takes
Production Notes
  • Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
  • bitrate: 320 kbps
  • normal miking: Shure SM57 mic. 4″ distance. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. ~45 degrees. No pop filter or windscreen. Limiter. No eq.
  • normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode

Intro Segment

This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk.
egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
This episode covers: 30 seconds; 4 items, 6 words each

  • Updated, streamlined template for the Egodeath Mystery Show.
  • 3 techniques for revoicing speech to casual standard voice.
  • New WordPress page, “casual standard voice”.
  • Several possibilities for long show episodes, shortened episodes, and extracted clips.
  • Reading aloud the 1997 Core Theory article.

I’m using the Shure SM57 microphone, at 4″ distance, with no EQ, with limiter.

Playlist

We’re listening to:

“Review of Standard Voice” Segment

This is the start of the “Review of Standard Voice” segment.

Read from Casual Standard Voice, then return here.

“Warmup Reading” Segment

This is the start of the “Warmup Reading” segment.

Read from Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show, then return here.

Main Agenda

In this next segment, the Board of Mystics goes through the esoteric agenda.

Outro Segment

This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.

OFF AIR

Episode Agenda for the Egodeath Mystery Show <- follow realtime live updates here as the Board of Mystics updates the Esoteric Agenda
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/

Making a Voice Assessment/Revoicing Routine

to make next episode: record half hour start. Play that back, mixing in new mic – pause and revoice.

Not the best approach: making a 3-hour recording, then hearing it the next day and hearing that it was all voiced not very well. Instead, leverage the power of .wav playback in the visual, audio editor app, on a shorter , near-real-time scale.

  1. Do: Record my voice as I type & talk.
  2. Generate half an hour of voice recording
  3. load that into the audio editor app
  4. Play/ pause/ re-record/ re-voice the first voice rec’g, as “layer 2”.
  5. Read-aloud, and talk about, the new, “casual standard voice” page.

This new page has helped a lot! I did a read-aloud of it, came out pretty great:
Casual Standard Voice – combine that page with:

  1. Speak off the cuff, record that.
  2. Play back that recording while generating a new, fresh voice recording.
  3. Pause playback and revoice correctly.
  4. Listen to 2nd recording – it is great, the revoicing that I achieved/produced.

Not sure there’s any point to my doing that exercise over older recordings. My time is better spent on refining / revoicing brand new recordings. Focus on developing my ear, hearing and recogtnizing the great intended voicing result, casual standard voice.

My most recent results fixed many errors, and introduced some new errors (hyper-enunciation).
The Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-07) Plastic Cloud
eg:
11:58 “time stamp 12 minutesh” – not a middle-of-tongue slurring; it’s closer to the tip, almost a whistle, sometimes a whistle.
13:10 “I want to make a shingle mp3″ (I slurred it w/ front of tongue, not middle of tongue)
14:08 “hear the flawsh“

  1. My phase 1 was: slurring and tight honky back of throat and high pitch.
  2. My phase 2 was: hyper enunciation and high too-gentle pitch.
  3. My phase 3 is: Casual Standard Voice

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3 thoughts on “Idea Development page 12”

  1. goods found at storage:

    box of pop sike singles compilation albums incl
    A (Foo) Dose of (Bar) Psych, x4
    We Can Fly – vol 1-4
    Beyond the Calico Wall

    thick folder of Hanegraaff article printouts- proof i read tons of his articles every line

    cad m39 lg dia cond mic

    microcassette player w tape that says Good Content, could be from ~1995

    theres probly a 1987 good voice cassette tape (good voicing and miking and content), did i copy/upload to egodeath site?

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  2. Science cannot diminish the worth and aesthetic value of poetry in motion without erasing itself in the process.

    Just as a bird can’t be diminished by its wings, the heart can’t be diminished by its valves, and the ocean can’t be diminished by its waves.

    There is no division between science and poetry when both become an expression of the mystic altered state…

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