Weak model: ego reduction and dissolution a la the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; ego loss/suspension/ dissolution/ lifting.
Strong model: Loose cognitive, block-universe ego cancellation; ego death. Ramesh Balsekar in What Is Enlightenment? magazine shocking Ken Wilber by asserting no-free-will.
In 2022, I so heavily leverage religious myth explanation as a achievement in itself, that it becomes hard to imagine and remember the great breakthrough and claim and appreciate and grasp what the core theory breakthrough was in 1988 per the 1997 outlined summary announcement at Principia Cybernetica website.
in 2005, Erik Davis book Led Zeppelin 4 captured my transitional Rock lyrics application of the Core theory, as one instance of metaphorical description which then led to my mytheme decoding theory 1999-2006-2022.
I have to differentiate and distinguish between the two integrated legs of the Egodeath theory:
the Loose Mental Construct Processing, Block-Universe Cybernetics theory.
the Entheogen Mytheme theory of psilocybin eternalism.
I cannot short-change the 1988 Core theory through overemphasis or lopsided emphasis on the achievement of the 2003 Mytheme theory.
It is good that I have the 1997 summary outline of the core theory with almost no employment of or application to myth.
But I also need as a point of reference and a value system achievement check the original draft of the 2006 article before any myth was added: there are two candidate reference versions of my 1988 original summary article, both of which were woven into the Egodeath.com site:
The August 1988 handwritten initial draft.
The final draft in the series, possibly July 1989.
The 1988 article is some 12 summary principles sections, similar to the 1997 summary which is at both of my sites.
The 2006 main article alternates these principles with myth and mythic art, and uses only 4 main principles instead of 12 top-level principles.
Currently I summarize the payload of the Theory as: no-free-will and non-branching possibilities and preexisting 2-level dependent control (you don’t control the source of your control-thoughts), in the psilocybin loose cognitive association state.
Grouped as 4 principles per my 2006 main article:
cybernetics = preexisting 2-level dependent control (you don’t control the source of your control-thoughts),
determinism = no-free-will and non-branching possibilities
dissociation = psilocybin loose cognitive association state.
metaphor = myth describes psilocybin eternalism
My father’s PhD dissertation is Emancipation of the Individual in the Writings of Karl Marx.
My 1988-1998 Core theory lacks entheogen history and mytheme decoding, though I identified the altered state effects description in Rock lyrics by then.
The Egodeath theory 