url https://youtu.be/ZV6sCbvsRsI
August 23, 2022
Like everyone in the Psychedelic Renaissance, he rails against the reductionistic “healing” narrative, argues for Mystery Prankster and for Religious aspects as the real interest.
omits Browns’ mushrooms in Christian history
1:00:00 – Davis cautions about perennialism, but barely specifies the objection – vague objections against a “perennial” approach/ framing/ view, define your terms.
Contrast what Davis claims is problematic about Huxley’s mescaline book Doors of Perception/ Heaven & Hell, vs. later Jan Irvin’s condemnation of Huxley.
If you are going to disparage a perennial framing, define & articulate what you specifically mean. What is the approach and why is it bad?
The altered state must remain exploring Mystery. But I strive to collapse the mystery, correctly, without reductionism of that into some other external consideration like mundane conduct of life Healing.
The Egodeath theory has solved the Mystery, producing a thimble-sized succesful explanation of the Shadow dragon gate treasure sacrifice, and opened the way to enter the intense loose cog state.
Don’t like what’s revealed? Too bad, it’s the Science. No one promised that everyone would like Transcendent Knowledge, per wish fulfillment of what delusion expects enlightenment to be.
Atman is the greatest affront to egoic expectations of increased freewill power, like Ramesh Balsekar’s offensive asserting that no-free-will is the Satori.
I didn’t invent the Natural Law, I just derived the summary formulas of electromagnetism. Maxwell & Faraday.
The Egodeath theory is the Maxwell equations of the loose cog state.
Complainers’ job is idle unproductive complaints.
I have found the way to effectively organize everyone’s assertions.
People now recoil against crazy wisdom aka abuse of clients – abusive egoic gurus (at end).
prankster vs religious reverence
like Cyberdisciple posting about reductionism of psychedelics to “therapy” & against instrumentalism, the altered state is valuable in and of itself, it is an end and an ultimate value itself, independently of instrumental application of benefits for some mundane purpose
Davis’ vague caution about perennial rigid framing/ casting psychedelic gnosis into a particular frame, which Huxley is accused of a narrowing psychedelic perennialism – it should be done right, i argue.
My critique of the Perennial model is that it it has arbitrary noise and does a poor job of what it ought to be doing; it does not succeed at reaching its goal, and it talks too much in terms of superficial surface “beliefs” and is roundabout.
Here’s what the muddled “perennial view” is really about, underneath the noise overgrowth or Jungian-like, obscuring overlay:
the psilocybin eternalism toggling from naive possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking (including qualified possibilism-thinking).
The Egodeath theory’s history aspect is not focused on pushing a history narrative but explaining the science of:
Momentarily turn on the light switch to see eternalism (non-branching possibilities, preexistent control-thoughts unavoidable), that perceiving flips the mind’s mental model to add eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking – that is a tiny elegant potent explanation of how the mind, all minds, work.
40:00 – I disagree with the claim that people have culturally pre-loaded expectations shaping their ergot experience.
Davis agrees: Albert Hofmann didn’t have priming for his first experiences – though check Jan Irvin’s hermeneutics of suspicion that the bad guys fabricated all of the bicycle ride foundation myths.
I would not assume that your experience is set by other people. I assume that a person’s experience is sui generis.
I also think set and setting is overemphasized, as if it is determinative.
Davis ought to cover foundation mythmaking according to Irvin, who calls BS on all of the ergot foundation myths and Wasson’s fake tale of the forest walk, ritually recounted in every single retelling of that foundation myth.
Academics keep projecting their own soaking-up of the framing propaganda, onto normal people.
Normal people have no preconceptions, they have not read 100 books and watched video propaganda.
Stop exaggerating how much people are primed to have certain thoughts.
The default is that people are ignorant and have no expectations about the experience.
People’s experience comes from the psychedelic experience itself, not from the spin agendas that are trying to sell them.
Cliff Burton of Metallica (or Neil Peart or Bob Daisley) didn’t ask someone what he would experience; he made his own interpretation and directly, straightforwardly described his own experiential observations.
If you hate that, then you hate how the mind works.
People don’t need to like how the mind works.
Late Antiquity disliked heimarmene/ fatedness, all the more because they believed in it.
My role is to helpfully, clearly, and simply explain how the eternalism altered state experiential mode works and is described by world mythology.
A big theme of this talk is re-indigenization, but Davis omits branching-message mushroom trees. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art
“Everything is indigenous if you go back far enough.”
Indigenous elders blotter wisdom preservation, we have our own peyote-like 20th Century indigenous practice.
Davis creates and mentions a giant gap between Eleusis and the Cask of ’43 ergot pop sike cult.
Davis is right to caution about we must be conscious of our narratives – but he robs us of our Christian history of psilocybin Christianity, and Eleusis (like Plaincourault) is abused to remove all other sacred meals and the mixed wine banqueting symposium party tradition.
The Eleusis Ergot Primacy fallacy, and the Plaincourault Amanita Primacy fallacy, cause blindness and removal of Psilocybin from Western religious history.
The Egodeath theory 