massive body of knowledge -> artist encodes in a small simple art image -> interpreter decodes the small simple art image -> massive body of knowledge
The body of knowledge is specialized; it is standardized as well, but it is mode- specific or state-specific, such that no amount of interpretation in the ordinary state would ever reconstruct it because it’s a realm of experiencing outside of the ordinary state domain and then even if you do assume it’s based in a altered state even if you specifically assume that it’s based in the Psilocybin Loose cognitive state it is still tricky to get to understand the whole convention language of analogy.
Compare my 2013 formula:
tree vs snake = possibility thinking vs eternity thinking
Now consider the different, equivalent formula:
left vs right = branching vs nonbranching
thats my 2020 or fully grasped 2022 formula
how can I create art Image that expresses the ego death Theory the two ways of thinking the two modes of consciousness then we need to assume that that’s what is being described and then the question for us as interpreters but also now the question for us as artists because we are now artists who are now able to do the encoding and we are no longer struggling to decode but now we become encoders so interpreting this plain grilled image
now read this plane crawl fresco image as an artist, as a creator, given that you know that your job is to express through analogies the ego death Theory, Witches a Binary Theory:
how are you going to represent, in your art piece, analogies to map this binary Egodeath Theory system?
given that it’s a binary system, you can take advantage of things like left versus right, the fact we have two limbs called left and right, and it is easy to depict Branching and to depict nonbranching
we can use, we can depict cut branches then we can depict Mushrooms
and then if we depicting Mushroom as a tree , then we can add branching and non-Branching, and make statements about left versus right , and we can assign left to be one mental model and one state of consciousness, and assign right – right hand, right arm, right leg – to map to the other mental model / experiential mode, because what we need to convey is a contrast between two different systems, two different states, two different ways of thinking, and we have two different arms, we have two different legs , and it is easy and viable to depict Branching
and so what we can do is create Branching tree Mushroom tree, and then stick a snake in the tree
oh that’s what I was going to mention again:
in the Plaincourault Fresco, we have a snake versus tree contrast, and we also have left versus right, both in the ramifications holding up the main cap and Eve standing with her left foot on top of her right foot
so I am in one “dimension” , we have the non-Branching Snake contrast against the branching tree
and then we have the left ramification and the right ramification
and the left arm and the right arm the left foot and the right foot of Eve
and so we have these various contrasts.
then we can map the contrast to each other.
we can see that binary contrast number one , is like binary contrast number two, is equivalent to binary contrast number three.
so we get the three-part formula:
tree versus Snake =
Branching Versus nonbranching =
left versus right.
And this is the combination that we see in many art pieces in antiquity and Middle Ages
people , the artists took advantage of this to transmit the ego death Theory; Transcendent Knowledge; possibilism Versus eternalism.
in so far as Transcendent and Knowledge is a binary system, we can depict contrasts:
Branching Versus nonbranching
left versus right
snake versus tree
to represent what we are really concerned about, which is more abstract than strictly Branching
and that is possiblism versus eternalism – those two words taken in their broad sense, to include the control aspect, of moving from autonomous control to dependent control – all done through the Mushrooms.
so that if we not only depict Branching in nonbranching , but if we choose to do that through a mushroom, that gives us kind of a fourth element: the transformation causal element
or you could associate the mushroom with the altered state in contrast to the ordinary state for example imagine if a vine leaf tree paired with a Mushroom tree or we have contrast like non-Branching Spear versus and Branching Branch then hold those with the left and right hand and then show mushrooms in the hem.
The nature of esoteric art is that the artist has the entire, completed Egodeath theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control, & literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control, and Psilocybin mushroom loose cognition.
The task of the artist’s drawing (roasting salamander dancing man) or masterpiece (Dionysus mosaic, Canterbury F134 comic panel with mushroom tree with two men and sword) alike, is to elegantly communicate and represent the entire whole body of Transcendent Knowledge in an image.
Underestimate this art at your peril! but there is a subtle misrepresentation there in saying that on the one hand you can describe this is very advanced knowledge or on the other hand you can describe it instead as very specialized knowledge this is sort of like basic knowledge of the loose cognitive state the reason that modern people are so stupid that they take all the way from 1985 until 1922 to figure it out 2022 to figure it out is that in order Innoway yes it is advanced and complicated and difficult is that in order Innoway yes it is advanced and complicated and difficult
but on the other hand the reason that it’s hard to figure out is that it’s because it state specific it is specialized specifically in the sense of that it is state specific and then we have lots of metal bands metal artists almost routinely are saying the same thing because it is mud specific mode specific specific to the cognitive mode we have been saying things like there’s no one there to stay
steering in a tree
there’s no one there to steer
we have another band saying “the path for you is decided”
and another band saying “help”
and another band saying and another band sing saying “the little doll is you, nowhere to run”
so it is I guess you could say it’s a mixture of mode-specific knowledge and “advanced” description of mode-specific knowledge, so that’s a double barrier
because even the people who do access the correct mode such as Metal artists do not automatically understand the ultra efficient conventions developed since antiquity and middle ages of “left Limb equals initial Branching-Thinking; Right Limb Equals eventual nonbranching Thinking”
that is a very advanced, efficient standardized convention that is also hard to access because it is state-specific, mode-specific
its thus
A description of a realm of experiencing, a mode of experiencing, that is specialized – or at least, not what people in the ordinary state experience.
On the Ineffable
people in the modern age then say that the loose cog state is “ineffable” , and they write lots of books with lists of the top 12 standard experiences – at the same time as they say it’s “ineffable”, which is pretty much completely meaningless.
I stumbled today and it was ineffable.
I couldn’t describe the experience in words,
words are no good; words are no use to describe any experience. Especially if you write in Alan Watts zen poet mode, and revel in not mastering language and specificity.
so everything is ineffable
sex for example is ineffable
it’s sort of an untestable descriptor, “x is ineffable”
I had a good omelette today that I made and it was ineffable, it was so good, words cannot describe experiencing – buy my book to read all about it
and then I had kind of just a weird mood today, and it was ineffable
and I wondered what Miss Reyes him was like , mithras , initiation into the cult of Mithras , and I decided that it was ineffable.
then I had to take an exam on advanced physics, and I saw the questions and they were ineffable.
then I saw an explanation of why mushroom trees were not mushrooms, by Erwin Panofsky, and I found his argumentation to be ineffable.
then I received an email from Thomas Hatsis saying something incomprehensible and sloppily expressed about “the shape of liberty cap is anachronistic” and I found his email communication to be ineffable.
Next topic : “X is an illusion.”
Art Interpretation
The successful esoteric art interpreter MUST bring this most-lofty expectation & understanding of the artists’s communication context:
1. given/assume: the artist has the entire Egodeath theory, including the fully mature May 1, 2022 full comprehension that left limb = possibilism, right = eternalism.
2. given /assume: the artist knows the standard ways & the established efficient conventions to convey Transcendent Knowledge.
Those are the KEY expectations for reading / interpreting esotericism art images.









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Forcing Your Interpretation as an Artist, to Maximally Transmit Transcendent Knowledge
We are used to my forced vigorous commitment to decoding mythemes – but consider the complementary persoective of the encoder, the message sender: suppose you have studied the Egodeath theory findings produced by 1985-2022, and you know left vs right = tree vs snake = possibilism vs eternalism
that is precisely specifically what I was missing what I failed to grasp and perceive Thanksgiving 2013 because soon after that I made the brilliant formulation extremely ergonomic very effective of tree versus Snake Equals eternalism Versus possibilism Versus a eternalism but if only I had said this little bit to add another = as I am always grouping things together like
Such as you can continue the equation as
egoic Versus Transcendent
literalist versus analogy
ordinary state versus Altered State
autonomous control versus dependent control
those on the outside those on the inside
mortals versus immortals
non-initiates versus initiates
LEFT VS RIGHT
those who he ahead of time during creation he puts on his left versus on his right
The psychics versus the pneumatics
exoteric versus Esoteric
But I feel that the more important part of the equation I did identify :
tree versus snake equals Possibility versus eternity thinking
Branching Versus nonbranching
left versus right
delusion versus enlightenment equals
illusion versus reality Equals
clothing versus naked Equals
flesh versus skeleton