This post is based on my Comment below Prof. Jerry Brown’s comment at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/our-god-and-savior-wasson-creator-of-mushrooms-who-owns-all-your-thoughts-and-experiences-regarding-entheogens/comment-page-1/#comment-1307
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at this site, find: posts about Lash’s planned book about this art, his archived 8-9 articles on this topic https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/wise-as-serpents-entheogenic-religion-and-the-paris-eadwine-psalter-john-lash/
This blurry & heavily cropped image-fragment from John Lash proved plenty to kick off 48 hours of decoding success by applying the Entheogen Mytheme theory from the Egodeath theory, so Cyberdisciple provided the URL for the entire row and 3 rows and psalter, world’s greatest mushroom crop; world’s greatest image.
The only thing as impossibly amazing, unexpected, & surprising as Eadwine’s ability to encode Psilocybin Eternalism in an image is the ability of the Egodeath theory in 2020 to receive and decode this the greatest cybernetic message transmission of all time, and decode the mytheme {branching-message mushroom tree} in 2022.
Eadwine used the era’s {branching-message mushroom tree} symbol-technology – highly efficient.
2006 juvenile immature entheogen scholarship sees “look mommy, theres a mushroom” (picture: kiddie amanita 🍄 )
2022 mature reading of the message:
left = branching-possibilities illusion, right = non-branching reality
In 2020, I wrote here at EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com a couple pages about the process of writing the article about criteria of proof and defining compelling evidence for mushroom imagery and Christian art.
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Scientific-Theory-Methodology
Cyberdisciple saved the day to meet the specifications for the article by formulating the categorization scheme idea, which I then refined and wrote up.
I initially titled the article to deliver an abstracted-out theoretical description of what such criteria of proof “would be” and what such compelling evidence “would be”.
Left = branching illusion cloak, right = non-branching unveiled reality.
The youth holds a curved sword in his right hand 😑 – it says so right in Brown’s book, next to the tapestry rejection page because real Amanita specimens lack serrations on the base.
Do not mention the curved pruning knife in the upper right. If an entheogen scholar doesn’t mention it, it must not be there.
(Brown needs to lay off his heroic doses of Wouter Hanegraaff’s non-drug entheogens.)
Meta-Theory Title, Exhibit-Driven Content
The intent and title of the article was a dry neutral abstract theory of laying out the theoretical “criteria of proof”, and what would hypothetically constitute “compelling evidence”, for general-purpose use for communal judging and interpreting (translation: thumb angle = 👍 vs. 👎 ) the Brown mushroom imagery art database.
The art evidence database/ catalog is proposed at the end of the 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Secret Hallucinogens in Secret Christianity.
The present site is that evidence catalog, including links to Irvin’s Holy Mushroom, John Rush, & Fulvio Gosso’s pair of books in Italian – search present site or Brown Hancock site article:
“by Fulvio Gosso and Gilberto Camilla, who in 2007 and 2016, respectively, published volumes one and two of Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo: Evidenze nell’arte sacre (Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art).
“The two volumes describe fifty-two color plates showing psychedelic mushrooms, both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe-varieties, mainly in medieval Christian artworks from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Holland, and Russia.”
url https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Gospels-History-Hallucinogens-Christianity/dp/1620555026/
But the actual content of the article was a huge jackpot-fest of presenting a rapidly expanding gallery and exhibits of smoking-gun art examples with successful theoretical interpretation.
That success bred even more success, leading to re-finding the image of the two guys in the Cubensis tree – blurry and cropped severely with no consciousness of the existence of the surrounding 90% of the image – the greatest image ever.
That treatment section quickly mushroomed overnight into 11 pages, so I broke it out into a separate article about the Eadwine Mushroom Psalter’s crowning image (which led to my gallery articles of all 75 mushroom plants of the psalter, with morphology inventoried).
When I later tried to read aloud the original article, I detected two problems:
The actual content of the article was all examples of breakthroughs.
Only one page delivered the abstract theory, a Radical Maximal, expansive and requisitely greedy classification scheme, of assessing mushroom imagery – against the stingy Moderate/Minimal bias, which removes 5/6 of the evidence types and narrows the radar to only attempt to see Amanita, in text, explicitly – and only “devotional” texts count.
Also the title would instantly lose, because it was neutral, in an intensely biased reception context.
The long article delivered a 1-page compact classification scheme for types of evidence, overwhelmed by massive evidential instances including the spinoff articles that its successful method spawned.
The classification scheme is extracted or abstracted from the method I developed through decades of research & theory-construction about mytheme interpretation referring to the temporary experience of no-free-will/ block-universe eternalism in the loose cognitive association binding state from psychedelics.
The psilocybin eternalism experience leaves the mind with an additional mental worldmodel of time, control, and possibilities after returning to the ordinary state which is tight cognitive association binding which gives the freewill, branching possibility model of control-in-world.
I retitled the article more vigorously, announcing that here is compelling evidence demonstrating the criteria.
It remains an exercise for the Brown Evidence Database Committee to reverse-derive a mind-dulling 20-page theoretical hypothetical description of how one would have to go about assessing mushroom imagery if we didn’t already have the completed conclusions and evidence at this site and Egodeath.com.
We have that conclusive evidence along with the complete successful interpretive framework and Radical Maximal strategy that is required, to make perceivable the clear and obvious conclusive evidence.
I never dreamed that it was possible to have the perfect evidence for the Egodeath theory in an image, though my 2006 main article already had the Eustace cathedral and Dionysus/Ariadne branching-message images at start and end, which I didn’t recognize until Brown in March 2022 sent me the 2019 article’s version of the “youths in trees cutting branches” passage.
My 2006 main article was at the start of the Psychedelic Renaissance, according to the book How to Change Your Mind – like my breakthrough Core theory was in 1988, the Second Summer of Love in the Psychedelic 80s.
A proper full article about “The Criteria Would Be”? Such an article, at this late date after the breakthrough dust has already settled, seems like a counter-indicated scenario, acting AS IF the breakthrough hadn’t already happened.
While writing the article, the situation blossomed, obviating the article as it was initially framed.
The latter is not only now irrelevant, but inappropriate, given the new situation.
The new question for the new reality, the new, changed situation, is:
What criteria and meta-theory of evidence can we derive & back-extract from the done deal of the Egodeath theory breakthrough (the Entheogen Eternalism Mytheme theory)?
What other, competing theory and evidence database is there? Parasols of victory?
Convert those parasols of victory into switching from the Ergot/Amanita Primacy axiom to the Psilocybin Primacy axiom, arrived along with the Psilocybin Eternalism theory; the Egodeath theory.
The biggest impediment to entheogen scholarship is entheogen scholars.
Brown’s Hancock site article broadens out from the Amanita Primacy dead-end and disproves Hatsis’ delusional false wishful fantasy that Plaincourault (which is abnormal and deviant in being an Amanita-styled branching-message mushroom tree) is “the linchpin”.
The opposite is the case – as Panofsky said, the Plaincourault fresco is merely one of thousands of instances, the opposite of a special linchpin.
Brown’s Comment
December 8, 2022
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the mention in your recent Wasson post. I think you saw this below in my reply to Hatsis on Graham Hancock’s website last year – a reply which benefited greatly from David’s input.
But just in case, I am sending you the relevant section of this article – available at:
Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/
Best wishes, Jerry
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Article excerpt:
Mushroom images in art: The field is also in need of robust categories for classifying depictions of mushrooms in art.
For example, Samorini proposes a two-fold typology of mushroom trees, using the Plaincourault Amanita muscaria and the Saint Savin psilocybin mushroom as ideal types.
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/#sdendnote21sym
Researcher Michael Hoffman defines three categories for classifying mushroom images: literal depictions of mushrooms, stylized depictions of mushrooms, and depictions of mushroom effects which suggest altered states of consciousness.
I find Hoffman’s categories useful for classifying the two varieties of MICA [Mushrooms in Christian Art] that we photographed at the following religious sites. The text in parentheses indicates the black and white Figure (Fig.) or color Plate (P) in The Psychedelic Gospels that displays our photographs of these images.
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Type of Evidence
See table layout at section of Hancock webpage.
Table column:
Amanita muscaria
Psilocybe varieties
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Literal – taxonomically accurate images:
Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland (Fig. 1.1)
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/#sdendnote22sym
St. Michael’s Church, Germany (Fig. 11.2)
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/#sdendnote23sym
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Stylized – mushroom-like shapes:
Great Canterbury Psalter, England (P12)
Church of St. Martin de Vicq, France (P6)
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ASC – images suggesting altered states of consciousness:
Chapel of Plaincourault, France (P5)
Chartres Cathedral, France (P18)
/ end of article excerpt from Comment
Mushroom Kingdom
Super Mario Mushroom Kingdom movie
Ardent Advocates commit the historiography methodological error of seeing mushrooms everywhere.
Brown warns us not to be ardent advocates, and he vows and swears that he is not, and has never been, an ardent advocate of mushrooms in Christian art, and has proved his cred by throwing a sacred tapestry in the river, to the smirking applause of the anti-mushroom Psychedelic Witch.
That’s how he got Thomas Hatsis (the definitive great Historian) to approve of him 👍
url https://youtu.be/QAJhyQGKdc0
The Egodeath theory 