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I compare Jan Irvin’s partial truths and good questions/ suspicions/ scorched-earth accusations vs. the better parts of sound research from entheogen scholars.
Irvin’s latest series never really seems to get into full-on contrarian discussion of Physics, but covers a great set or nexus of relevant topics.
At 6:00, Dan Merkur discusses the pattern across religions, of professional mystics teaching each other while the masses avoid bad trips.
His website covers these professional psychedelicists which is to say, mystics, unpublished.
Merkur asks good questions, like the Conclusions section of Browns’ article about Wasson/ Alleggro/ Plaincourault: what exactly is the psychedelic tradition WITHIN the medieval Catholic church, and when was that tradition forgotten, and why? Merkur can handle nuance and balance, unlike brittle black-and-white coverage by Jan Irvin and John Rush.
Steve Jones 3 videos with Jan Irvin 6 months ago confirms Irvin’s latest brittle simplistic back-and-white anti-entheogen views: https://youtu.be/ThmfrMg5fYk
Irvin, like TRP magazine author James Kent, flipped from simple positive cheerleader to wholesale negative views, only focusing on negative history and effects and potentials of the loose cognitive state.
Irvin covers too many alternative views on too broad a sweep of topics, without really summarizing specifically his views, so it is hard for me to identify my many points of agreement and dispute.
Irvin raises interesting points along with bad takes, jaundiced views, like people complained about the immature 1st edition of Acharya S’ book Christ Conspiracy before Robert Price’ rewritten 2nd edition.
The Egodeath theory 