In the keynote lecture at ContERN 2012, Wouter Hanegraaff said “I have coined the term, the new term ‘entheogenic esotericism’ for it, I’ve Googled it and nobody had used it before.” – Wouter Hanegraaff, 2012, lecture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIMjjPg7uU&t=80s at 1:20,
Video title:
“Entheogenic Esotericism” (Wouter J. Hanegraaff, keynote, ContERN 2012)
akshually,
In 2001 I wrote ‘entheogenic esoteric’.
In 2004 I posted to Egodeath Yahoo Group email list and Yahoo Groups webpages:
Subject: Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism
June 12, 2004
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-66/#message3335 –
“Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism. Entheogens are the key to esotericism. This is the simplest possible theory of esotericism, and the most natural, the least contrived and strained. Theories of esotericism that are not based on entheogens suffer from the problem of grandiose verbiage, unmet promises and claims, chronic vagueness, excuses for lack of potent and prompt efficacy, and no ability to deliver the experiences which are talked about. Drug-free esotericism doesn’t work; it is not effectively ergonomic.”
These weren’t minor random posts or off-hand points; the opposite. Rather, I’ve been loudly hammering away fervently asserting that authentic esotericism is none other than entheogenic plant-based esotericism, steadily since at least 2001, 11 years before Hanegraaff; not merely mentioning the idea, but vigorously maximally asserting the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Esotericism – even by that literal name “Entheogenic Esotericism” since 8 years before Hanegraaff’s 2012 research and idea development.
Chapter 19: Entheogenic Esotericism (2012)
https://www.academia.edu/3461770/Entheogenic_Esotericism_2012_
- Fearful Scholars Avoiding Deisidaimonia by Imagining Non-Drug Entheogens
- Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
- Non-Drug Psychedelics
- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Hanegraaff)
- Hanegraaff on Entheogens in Antiquity
See Also
Scholarly Fail-Quotes Hall of Shame > Non-Drug Entheogens: “Entheogenic religion does not imply substances” (Hanegraaff)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/scholarly-fail-quotes-hall-of-shame/#Non-Drug-Entheogens
The Egodeath theory 