Michael Hoffman, completed Dec. 23, 2024
Contents:
- Intro
- Cyberdisciple’s WordPress Site
- Pages (no date in URL)
- Categories
- Posts, by Topic
- Robert Graves (Entheogen Articles 1957-1973)
- Ancient Literature (Theory); Psychedelics in Antiquity
- Psychedelic Academia
- Chemical Muse (Hillman)
- Ustinova
- Ancient Literature, Specific Works
- Theologies of Arrival
- Historical Literary Studies
- Historiography
- Altered States in Antiquity
- Pharmakon (Rinella)
- Ancient Psychedelics and Analogy Symbols
- Mushrooms in Christian art; pilzbaum
- Theories of Mythology
- Entheogen Scholarship; Ancient Psychedelics
- The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross (Allegro 1970)
- Psychedelic Science, Therapy
- The Immortality Key (Muraresku, 2020)
- Carl Ruck
- Thomas Hatsis
- Promethea (Alan Moore)
- Horace
- Homer
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- The Iliad (Homer)
- Herodotus
- Rock Lyrics
- Transcendent Knowledge podcast
- James Kent, Dose Nation, Transcendent Knowledge podcast
- Latin, Greek
- Repeal of Prohibition
- The Mytheme theory; Analogies, Metaphor, Myth
- Planned Postings and Research
- Greek Religion: Cognitive Baloney
- Concept of ‘Cyberdisciple’
- The Egodeath theory, Cybermonk
- Theory Terminology; Concept Labels
- Free will vs. Determinism
- SORT
- 404
- Posts, by Date
- Page Formats at WordPress
- About This Site Map
- See Also
Intro
This webpage by Cybermonk is a guide to https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com, to see what the hell is there, for the first time visible as of December 23, 2024.
Site Map for present site: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/
Status: Decently organized posts by topic, as a quick first pass.
todo:
- Dissolve the “SORT” section; move those final 10 articles into categories.
- Merge 1-item categories into bigger categories.
Cyberdisciple’s WordPress Site
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com
Site Map at Cyberdisciple site:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/site-map/
a competing site map 🤨 🛼🤜💥🤛🛼
Announcement of that Site Map:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/announcement-site-map-of-cyberdisciple-wordpress-com-published/
Pages (no date in URL)
- Home – not really a Page; the root URL; content changes.
- About
- Site Map
- Autobiography
- tabula rasa (Latest Updates)
- Greek and Latin Literature and Art Post Archive – a site map.
- Evaluating Theories of Mythology
- Evaluating ‘Entheogen’ Scholarship
- Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
- Contact and Copyright
Categories
Useless UI at WordPress – instead of returning a list of article titles, displays each entire article, in series:
- academia
- books
- comics
- General
- music
- pop sike
- Pre-modern art and society
- theory
- transcendent knowledge podcast
Posts, by Topic
Robert Graves (Entheogen Articles 1957-1973)
Scans of Robert Graves’ principal writings about psychedelics in Greek myth and religion
Assessing Robert Graves’ 1950s psychedelic scholarship on Greek myth/religion/art
Bad anthropology; Robert Graves; moderate entheogen theory
Book: Brown and Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels
Ancient Literature (Theory); Psychedelics in Antiquity
historical scholarship in the light of metaphysical enlightenment per the Eternalism theory
Ancient literary techniques: mythology – 2009/07/30
Key paradigm shift for Classics
Classical Lit: metamorphosis; Orpheus; Roman myth/history
classical literature and egodeath, preliminary notes
For Researchers of Antiquity – 2012/12/19
Conference Panel: Greek Shamanism Reconsidered
Psychedelic Academia
Academia produces conformists to status quo – 2017/05/07
Experience applying theory in academia work – 2009/06/20
Attitudes towards Entheogens in Classics Academia
The Humanities did not and could not have produced EDT
Re: Assignment from Prof. Loose-Cog
Book (Italian): Tra la vigna et la croce (‘between the vine and the cross’
Academic specializing and evidence-first research prevents paradigm revolution
Defining my academic background
Chemical Muse (Hillman)
Hillman, 2008. The Chemical Muse
Narco Polo blog; DCA Hillman, Chemical Muse
Ustinova
Book: Ustinova. 2018. Divine Mania: Alterations of Consciousness in Ancient Greece
Ustinova – Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
Review and study guide for Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
Ancient Literature, Specific Works
The charges against Socrates as depicted in Plato’s Euthyphro – 2017/07/23
Greek Philosophers: Pherecydes of Syros
Intoxication in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi
Socrates, Oracle at Delphi, dialogue
Hesiod, Theogony. Commentary (work-in-progress)
Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος (Apollonios Rhodios) (first half 3rd cent. BC): Argonautica
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 – c. 35 BC): The Jugurthine War
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC): Bucolics/Eclogues
Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499): Letters
Theologies of Arrival
Book: Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE
Historical Literary Studies
Historical literary studies in light of Egodeath Theory
Debranched tree in Odyssey, Book 23
body/soul distinction = ego/transcendent control systems – 2015/04/23
Historiography
Religion-myth and actual history: Examples from Classical Antiquity
Altered States in Antiquity
Pharmakon (Rinella)
Reading: Michael Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Ancient Psychedelics and Analogy Symbols
Woodcut of Perseus and Andromeda
Images of debranched tree in Roman victory monuments
Baby Dionysus steers Pan/Satyr by his horns
Stag vs. Snake on Byzantine mosaic
Happy Halloween: Baby or Mushroom?
Teaching gesture, up and down; Raphael School of Athens
Poppy flowers on ancient architecture
debranched tree and Roman military
Tree, Snake, Mushroom/psychedelic: abundance of evidence
Hygieia and snake statues from travels
Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey
Carved Doors of Santa Sabina, Rome
Cupids Performing Tauroctony on Temple of Venus Genetrix at Forum of Caesar in Rome
Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol
Amanita Jewelry found in recently discovered Anglo-Saxon gold hoard
Apollo and Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; branching / non-branching laurel
Statius, Emperor Worship, Imperial Banquets
Sophocles, Irony, and Metaphor
Entheogens in ancient Assyrian and Persian art – 2010/01/18
Mushrooms in Christian Art; pilzbaum
Cybermonk’s Guide to Logical Fallacies made by the deniers in the debate about Mushroom Trees in Christian art – 2024/11/25
Mushrooms in Christian art discussed by Tom Hatsis and Jerry Brown at Graham Hancock’s site – 2022/02/25
Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett – 2021/09/26
Theories of Mythology
this is a “page” (not a “post”; lacks date in url), linked at top of site: https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/evaluating-theories-of-mythology/
Evaluating theories of mythology – 2015/07/06 – this is a post. Lags behind the page above.
Entheogen Scholarship; Ancient Psychedelics
Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity; outlining research questions
Ancient Sparta suppressed entheogens?
The Eleusis Meme: Over-focus on ergot at Eleusis limits discussion of psychedelics in Western premodernity – 2021/02/02 – entheogen scholarship
Entheogen scholars, move on from mystery cults – 2016/02/18
New Books received – The Holy Mushroom; Failed God – 2008/11/14
First Impressions of Irvin, “Holy Mushroom” and Rush, “Failed God”
Book: Rush, J, ed. 2013. Entheogens and the Development of Culture
Book: P. Devereux, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
Book Review: Alan G. Sumler, 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Book: S. Teitsworth, Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds
The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross (Allegro 1970)
Psychedelic Science, Therapy
Proponents of psychedelic therapy typically occlude realities of economics and access – 2020/10/23
The Immortality Key (Muraresku, 2020)
Moving on from Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/17
Graham Hancock foreward to Muraresku, The Immortality Key
Correcting Key Points in Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/24
Strict evidence and loose history: methodology problems in Muraresku ‘The Immortality Key’
Hopkins/NYU therapy model of psychedelics guides Muraresku, The Immortality Key
Media Hype about Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/10/11
Carl Ruck
Entheogen podcast, Carl Ruck interview – 2015/10/14
Carl Ruck article on Wasson and backstory of Road to Eleusis
Reading Carl Ruck 1: Structuralism and Myth-Ritual Theory in 1976 Iamos/Ion article.
Bibliography of Carl A.P. Ruck
Thomas Hatsis
tom hatsis; primacy of cog sci, eternalism, metaphor
Article: Hatsis, T. “Born of a Version” – 2016/09/06 – Hatsis
Promethea (Alan Moore)
Promethea #29. Reading and Commentary videos – Promethea, Moore
Promethea 28 reading and commentary videos – Promethea, Moore
Author Alan Moore, eternalism and psychedelics – Promethea, Moore
Horace
Homer
Homeric Apocrypha: Battle of Frogs and Mice
Homeric heroes; burial vs. mutilation; immortality via narrative song and rock grave-marker – 2024/07/05
Development page for commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/17
Banqueting central to Homer Odyssey – 2020/05/24
References for posts commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/16
Ahistoricity of the Trojan War and Homer – 2021/11/17
Egodeath summaries of Iliad and Odyssey – 2020/08/24
The Odyssey (Homer)
Homer, beginning of Odyssey and ‘choice of Achilles;’ kleos, psyche, nostos
Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 – 2019/12/31
Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 – Jan 28, 2020
Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 – 2020/07/15
The Iliad (Homer)
Fate, the gods, fixed future, determinism in the Iliad – 2021/11/17
Analogies for altered state, fixed future, control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Altered state, loose cognition, psychedelics in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Homer, Iliad – 2019/11/03
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 1 – 2019/06/18
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 8 – 2019/10/31
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 10
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 11
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 12
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 13
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 14
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 15 – 2019/11/03
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 16
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 17
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 18
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 19
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 20
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 21
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 22
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 23
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 24
Herodotus
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (c. 484-425), Histories
Herodotus update: updated decoding of Gyges story; 1.13
Herodotus 1.16-1.22, Alyattes and Miletus
Herodotus, 1.22-23: Arion and the dolphin
Herodotus 7.103-4; Xerxes (Persian) and Demaratos (Spartan); hierarchical vs. egalitarian
Rock Lyrics
Altered State allusions in Rock lyrics
The Arcade Fire – My Body is a Cage
The Arcade Fire – Other notable Arcade Fire lyrics
The Beatles, Got to Get You Into My Life
The Beatles, Run for Your Life
The Beatles, coded warfare, allusions, cannabis and lsd timeline
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Bob Dylan, altered state allusions
Hawkwind – Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
The Incredible String Band, A Very Cellular Song
King Crimson, One More Red Nightmare
Led Zeppelin, Going to California
Rush – Witch Hunt – 2022/06/18
Rush – From the Rush album, Presto, 1989
Rush – Neil Peart, Rush: on coded lyrics
Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Max Freakout, YouTube
Cybermonk site: list of Transcendent Knowledge episodes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/
Episode 2, Apr 23, 2016 – Max’s history
Episode 1, Apr 5, 2016 – Cyb’s history
Episode 3, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Episode 4, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Episode 5, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – 2016/06/30
Episode 6: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Episode 7, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Episode 8, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge
Episode 9, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Episode 10, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato
Episode 11, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato, pt. 2
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episodes 12-14
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 15
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 16
tk 17 = kent 1
tk 18 = kent 2
tk 19 = kent 3
tk 20 = kent 4
tk 21 = kent 5, 7
tk 22 = kent 6, 8
n/a = kent 9, 10
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Epp. 23-24
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 25 – 2020/07/05
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 26
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 27
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 28
James Kent, Dose Nation, Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Notes on Dose Nation Final 10: General and Speculation – 2020/03/31
Kent part 1
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 17: James Kent, ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 1
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 1
Kent part 2
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 18: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 2
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 2
Kent part 3
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 19: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 3
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 3
Kent part 4
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 20: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 4
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 4
Kent part 5
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, ep. 21: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 5 – apparently also covers Kent part 7 (according to https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/notes-on-dose-nation-final-10-ep-7-summary-of-dose-nation-approach-additional-notes-on-prohibition-and-on-huxley-doors-of-perception/)
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 5
Kent part 6
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 22: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 6 & part 8.
Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 6
Kent part 7
“This episode should be first in the series, not seventh. It’s probably the only one you really need to listen to in order to understand James Kent and his approach.”- https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/notes-on-dose-nation-final-10-ep-7-summary-of-dose-nation-approach-additional-notes-on-prohibition-and-on-huxley-doors-of-perception/
Kent parts 8/9/10
Kent 8 is covered in Transcendent Knowledge podcast 22.
Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 8, 9, 10 – 2020/04/11
Cybermonk site: list of Transcendent Knowledge episodes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/
tk 17 = kent 1
tk 18 = kent 2
tk 19 = kent 3
tk 20 = kent 4
tk 21 = kent 5, 7
tk 22 = kent 6, 8
n/a = kent 9, 10
Latin, Greek
Classics Department Announcement: Learning Latin and Greek Languages
Repeal of Prohibition
Growing outrage over phony War on Drugs
Dr. Carl Hart on drug policy – 2013/08/17
Questioning agenda of advocates and repealing prohibition linked
Yahoo shutting down groups; follow Egodeath Theory blog instead
Pro-Prohibition ‘activism’ funded by Pharma, Police, Prisons, Alcohol
New Yorker magazine article on Ayahuasca culture in US
The Mytheme theory; Analogies, Metaphor, Myth
On decoding – 2019/12/01
Planned Postings and Research
Research questions on mystery religions and metaphor – 2010/09/20
Notes and research questions on ancient history and altered state experiencing – 2010/09/20
Checking back in; more writing soon
Greek Religion: Cognitive Baloney
Book: Larson, J. 2016. Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach – 2016/07/08
Concept of ‘Cyberdisciple’
Cyber/Psyber Disciple; ancient Greek and Latin words related to pseudonym
The Egodeath theory, Cybermonk
Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry
Controllership, not oneness – pop sike theory
Ego Death theory as superior religious system
To Introduce the Ego Death Theory
Spontaneous summary of Egodeath Theory for a friend
Egodeath Core Theory (Phase 1) and Metaphor (Phase 2)
Unexpected side effect of studying Ego Death Theory: adept cultural critic – 2016/05/29
Michael Hoffman Interview on Expanding Mind podcast with Erik Davis
Theory Terminology; Concept Labels
Eternalism superior term to Heimarmene/Cybernetics
Conference Panel: Cognitive Classics
Free will vs. Determinism
New book on Agency in Greek Tragedy – free will vs. determinism
Review of new German book on Fate in Homer – free will vs. determinism
Immediate follow-up on altered state nullity of will in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi – 2008/08/15 – free will vs. determinism
Altered state entrapment and nullity of the will in a passage of Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind) – free will vs. determinism
Stoicism = nofreewill, not compatibilism – 2015/01/04
Free will in Stoicism – 2013/02/07
SORT
Against Brad Warner and pro-meditation, anti-entheogen arguments – 2014/12/08
on the practice of physics in Stoicism
Quotations from ancient philosophers on the flight of the soul – 2014/02/28
Book: Drugged, Richard J. Miller
Pierre Hadot on Greco-Roman philosophy
Plato’s Socrates: the true ruler rules unwillingly
Alcaeus 42: interpreted according to the theory of altered state analogy
The mythic mindset; ancient historiography – 2010/09/16
Alan Watts This Is IT and further reading – 2008/07/13
404
404 – cyberdisciple at other sites – 2020/03/31
/ end of Posts by Topic
Posts, by Date
At WordPress, “Posts” have date in URL. (“Pages” lack date in URL, and are listed at top of Cyberdisciple’s site.)
Newest first. Updated December 20, 2024.
Cybermonk’s Guide to Logical Fallacies made by the deniers in the debate about Mushroom Trees in Christian art – 2024/11/25
Homeric heroes; burial vs. mutilation; immortality via narrative song and rock grave-marker – 2024/07/05
Witch Hunt – 2022/06/18
Mushrooms in Christian art discussed by Tom Hatsis and Jerry Brown at Graham Hancock’s site – 2022/02/25
Analogies for altered state, fixed future, control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Altered state, loose cognition, psychedelics in Iliad – 2022/01/07
Development page for commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/17
Fate, the gods, fixed future, determinism in the Iliad – 2021/11/17
Ahistoricity of the Trojan War and Homer – 2021/11/17
References for posts commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/16
Happy Halloween: Baby or Mushroom? – 2021/10/31
Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett – 2021/09/26
Reading Carl Ruck 1: Structuralism and Myth-Ritual Theory in 1976 Iamos/Ion article.
Bibliography of Carl A.P. Ruck
Hawkwind – Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
Book Review: Alan G. Sumler, 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 28
Hesiod, Theogony. Commentary (work-in-progress)
The Eleusis Meme: Over-focus on ergot at Eleusis limits discussion of psychedelics in Western premodernity – 2021/02/02
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 27
Scans of Robert Graves’ principal writings about psychedelics in Greek myth and religion
Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity; outlining research questions
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 26
Correcting Key Points in Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/24
Moving on from Muraresku, The Immortality Key
Classics Department Announcement: Learning Latin and Greek Languages
Strict evidence and loose history: methodology problems in Muraresku ‘The Immortality Key’
Proponents of psychedelic therapy typically occlude realities of economics and access – 2020/10/23
Hopkins/NYU therapy model of psychedelics guides Muraresku, The Immortality Key
Questioning agenda of advocates and repealing prohibition linked
Yahoo shutting down groups; follow Egodeath Theory blog instead
Graham Hancock foreward to Muraresku, The Immortality Key
Media Hype about Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/10/11
Homeric Apocrypha: Battle of Frogs and Mice
Promethea #29. Reading and Commentary videos
Book: Ustinova. 2018. Divine Mania: Alterations of Consciousness in Ancient Greece
Egodeath summaries of Iliad and Odyssey – 2020/08/24
Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 – 2020/07/15
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 25 – 2020/07/05
Promethea 28 reading and commentary videos
Banqueting central to Homer Odyssey – 2020/05/24
Author Alan Moore, eternalism and psychedelics
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Epp. 23-24
Checking back in; more writing soon
Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 8, 9, 10 – 2020/04/11
Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 6
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 5
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 4
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 3
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 2
Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 1
404 – cyberdisciple at other sites – 2020/03/31
Notes on Dose Nation Final 10: General and Speculation – 2020/03/31
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 22: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 6
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, ep. 21: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 5
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 20: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 4
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 19: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 3
Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 – Jan 28, 2020
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 18: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 2
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 17: James Kent, ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 1
Tree, Snake, Mushroom/psychedelic: abundance of evidence
Hygieia and snake statues from travels
Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 – 2019/12/31
On decoding – 2019/12/01
Homer, beginning of Odyssey and ‘choice of Achilles;’ kleos, psyche, nostos
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 16
Homer, Iliad – 2019/11/03
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 24
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 23
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 22
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 21
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 20
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 19
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 18
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 17
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 16
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 15 – 2019/11/03
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 14
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 13
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 12
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 11
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 10
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 8 – 2019/10/31
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 15
Greek Philosophers: Pherecydes of Syros
Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 1 – 2019/06/18
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episodes 12-14
The charges against Socrates as depicted in Plato’s Euthyphro – 2017/07/23
Episode 11, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato, pt. 2
Academia produces conformists to status quo – 2017/05/07
Episode 10, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato
Assessing Robert Graves’ 1950s psychedelic scholarship on Greek myth/religion/art
Bad anthropology; Robert Graves; moderate entheogen theory
Episode 9, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Book: Brown and Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels
Episode 8, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Pro-Prohibition ‘activism’ funded by Pharma, Police, Prisons, Alcohol
New Yorker magazine article on Ayahuasca culture in US
Article: Hatsis, T. “Born of a Version” – 2016/09/06
Episode 7, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Neil Peart, Rush: on coded lyrics
Carl Ruck article on Wasson and backstory of Road to Eleusis
Defining my academic background
Cyber/Psyber Disciple; ancient Greek and Latin words related to pseudonym
Episode 6: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Book: Larson, J. 2016. Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach – 2016/07/08
Herodotus, 1.22-23: Arion and the dolphin
Bob Dylan, altered state allusions
Beatles, coded warfare, allusions, cannabis and lsd timeline
Episode 5, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – 2016/06/30
Book: Rush, J, ed. 2013. Entheogens and the Development of Culture
Unexpected side effect of studying Ego Death Theory: adept cultural critic – 2016/05/29
Episode 4, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
Episode 3, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
historical scholarship in the light of metaphysical enlightenment per the Eternalism theory
Entheogen scholars, move on from mystery cults – 2016/02/18
Michael Hoffman Interview on Expanding Mind podcast with Erik Davis
Herodotus 1.16-1.22, Alyattes and Miletus
Herodotus update: updated decoding of Gyges story; 1.13
Teaching gesture, up and down; Raphael School of Athens
tom hatsis; primacy of cog sci, eternalism, metaphor
The Humanities did not and could not have produced EDT
Re: Assignment from Prof. Loose-Cog
Book (Italian): Tra la vigna et la croce (‘between the vine and the cross’
Entheogen podcast, Carl Ruck interview – 2015/10/14
Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος (Apollonios Rhodios) (first half 3rd cent. BC): Argonautica
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 – c. 35 BC): The Jugurthine War
Book: Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC): Bucolics/Eclogues
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (c. 484-425), Histories
Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499): Letters
Historical literary studies in light of Egodeath Theory
Evaluating theories of mythology – 2015/07/06
Led Zeppelin, Going to California
Debranched tree in Odyssey, Book 23
body/soul distinction = ego/transcendent control systems – 2015/04/23
Images of debranched tree in Roman victory monuments
Baby Dionysus steers Pan/Satyr by his horns
Stag vs. Snake on Byzantine mosaic
Eternalism superior term to Heimarmene/Cybernetics
Conference Panel: Cognitive Classics
Conference Panel: Greek Shamanism Reconsidered
Stoicism = nofreewill, not compatibilism – 2015/01/04
Poppy flowers on ancient architecture
debranched tree and Roman military
Against Brad Warner and pro-meditation, anti-entheogen arguments – 2014/12/08
The Incredible String Band, A Very Cellular Song
Academic specializing and evidence-first research prevents paradigm revolution
Woodcut of Perseus and Andromeda
on the practice of physics in Stoicism
Quotations from ancient philosophers on the flight of the soul – 2014/02/28
Book: Drugged, Richard J. Miller
Herodotus 7.103-4; Xerxes (Persian) and Demaratos (Spartan); hierarchical vs. egalitarian
Dr. Carl Hart on drug policy – 2013/08/17
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
King Crimson, One More Red Nightmare
From the Rush album, Presto, 1989
Free will in Stoicism – 2013/02/07
Book: P. Devereux, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
Book: S. Teitsworth, Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds
For Researchers of Antiquity – 2012/12/19
Socrates, Oracle at Delphi, dialogue
Pierre Hadot on Greco-Roman philosophy
Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey
Carved Doors of Santa Sabina, Rome
Cupids Performing Tauroctony on Temple of Venus Genetrix at Forum of Caesar in Rome
Review and study guide for Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
Plato’s Socrates: the true ruler rules unwillingly
Research questions on mystery religions and metaphor – 2010/09/20
Notes and research questions on ancient history and altered state experiencing – 2010/09/20
Alcaeus 42: interpreted according to the theory of altered state analogy
The mythic mindset; ancient historiography – 2010/09/16
Reading: Michael Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol
Spontaneous summary of Egodeath Theory for a friend
Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry
Entheogens in ancient Assyrian and Persian art – 2010/01/18
Narco Polo blog; DCA Hillman, Chemical Muse
Ustinova – Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
The Beatles, Got to Get You Into My Life
Amanita Jewelry found in recently discovered Anglo-Saxon gold hoard
Religion-myth and actual history: Examples from Classical Antiquity
Apollo and Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; branching / non-branching laurel
Ancient literary techniques: mythology – 2009/07/30
Statius, Emperor Worship, Imperial Banquets
Experience applying theory in academia work – 2009/06/20
Ancient Sparta suppressed entheogens?
Sophocles, Irony, and Metaphor
Attitudes towards Entheogens in Classics Academia
Egodeath Core Theory (Phase 1) and Metaphor (Phase 2)
First Impressions of Irvin, “Holy Mushroom” and Rush, “Failed God”
New Books received – The Holy Mushroom; Failed God – 2008/11/14
New book on Agency in Greek Tragedy
Review of new German book on Fate in Homer
Key paradigm shift for Classics
Classical Lit: metamorphosis; Orpheus; Roman myth/history
Intoxication in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi
Immediate follow-up on altered state nullity of will in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi – 2008/08/15
Hillman, 2008. The Chemical Muse
classical literature and egodeath, preliminary notes
Other notable Arcade Fire lyrics
The Arcade Fire – My Body is a Cage
Altered State allusions in Rock lyrics
Alan Watts This Is IT and further reading – 2008/07/13
Growing outrage over phony War on Drugs
Ego Death theory as superior religious system
To Introduce the Ego Death Theory
Beginnings – oldest post, 2008/06/22.
I started hiatus Jan. 2008 (- Sep. 2011)
Page Formats at WordPress
WordPress has two page formats:
- “Pages” – URL has no date. Wider text area.
- “Posts” – URL has date. Narrow text area. I don’t like “weblog” or “blog”. I’ve been missing “posts” a la the Egodeath Yahoo Group. So I’m using the WordPress term, “post” but I might also use “webpage” to refer to the WordPress “post” format.
About This Site Map
The driving idea prior to the idea of this present webpage is
I’ll bet I could jump in to cyberdisciple website and read while voice recording
I could do all kinds of interesting content by jumping in unprepared
but he has not created a site map and so we have to rely on the dubious ineffective organizations nav schemes which WordPress weblog has provided:
1) their search which gave me a terrible formatting with no summaries of the hits of the pages, at Least on mobile
2) Another arrangement they provided is “by date” – that’s of no use to me , I mean, that’s good supplemental information, but terrible for navigation.
3) And then there’s keywords, which relies on cyber disciple who I think he does apply keywords to each web blog post, but again I think
when I click a keyword on mobile, it gives me no , it’s stupid, it gives me no lines summary;
I want a list of 25 hits/pages, with two lines per page, and mobile does not give me that view.
it stupidly gives me the full entire damn articles in sequence, massive quantities, – this does not work at all.
Ever since I first examined the web log format, I thought this is really bad, making the primary navigation of the information content by date; that’s a stupid random –
date organization should be available, but should not be the primary organization scheme.
I found a great solution to this, by creating a site map : a structured static hierarchical site map, manually crafted format, at word press
and then the other scheme that is provided by weblogs is keywords
but I would have to examine the wordpress UI both on desktop and on mobile , because they are significantly different
I want to do a keyword search “show me all of his articles were all of my pages about keyword foo”
And then give me a one line short one line summary of all 25 hits
or generate some kind of a hierarchy view listing all keywords; all of the pages at the site, every single web blog page, organized somehow by keyword
this is something I have not implemented; I have only begun to experiment with applying keywords to my weblog posts at WordPress
recently due to mobile editing and needing a very streamlined low overhead unstructured with little only little structure of content creation has driven me to use wordpress weblog posts UI design, as designed, rather than only using very manually crafting intensive desktop driven manual layout to do / craft heavy custom site navigation.
including my long actually somewhat complex idea development pages which were designed to be low overhead – given a desktop keyboard and big display.
that format is low overhead, sort of in some ways, except for having to craft the table of contents entries individually.
the long idea development pages, become slow and unresponsive, and so I have to halt and create a new idea development page when it becomes too long.
also I have experienced some data loss when editing a given page with desktop and then with mobile and then with desktop- I lost data
the longer the page, the greater the risk of data loss and malfunction.
even Microsoft word has the same problem
these tools can’t handle my big long and girthy ideas
See Also
My Pages about Cyberdisciple’s Work
My own site’s Site Map has a Cyberdisciple section that lists my pages about Cyberdisciple’s work:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Cyberdisciple
The Egodeath theory 