The {shadow} is specifically identified by the Egodeath theory as the threat of loss of control in the loose cognitive association binding state from Psilocybin.
The shadow is the non-branching serpent dragon monster threat of catastrophic loss of control, and of non-viable control instability.
The shadow threat is resolved and accommodated by the mind being made to consciously put trust in the transpersonal uncontrollable source of control thoughts.
The mind is made tranquil, transformed, and harmonious by being made to adopt a 2-level control model, instead of the egoic model of control, which is experienced as autonomous monolithic control agency steering in a tree of branching possibilities into an open future.
‘The unconscious’ doesn’t mean personal autobiography details per the ordinary-state limited Psychology view.
‘The unconscious’ means the altered-state mind’s standard experience of psilocybin eternalism including the attractive threat of the control vortex climax transformation {gateway} (Grof’s {birth canal passage}) to eternalism-thinking.
Why ‘Psilocybin’
In my writings, “Amanita” 🍄 is the billboard for Psilocybin, and “Psilocybin” means chemicals that produce classic psychedelic effects, such as eternalism experiencing, such as Mescaline, Ergot, & 4-ACE.
I employ the term ‘Psilocybin’ strategically in order to force people to not be able to avoid & replace & substitute BS that doesn’t work, or that hasn’t been proved to produce the exact same effect as Psilocybin, such as non-drug cave meditation imagination exercises.
And to highlight that our own religious religious history uses Psilocybin, so fully repeal Psilocybin prohibition.
And because redosing psilocybin is an efficient intensity curve.
And because Psilocybin is being legalized.
And because it’s easy to cultivate. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/#Episode-15 – https://youtu.be/b1uoASqG4xQ –
Charles Stang
Charles Stang’s recent videos on entheogens – Muraresku interview https://youtu.be/r8VCBNGBeqg
John Vervaeke’s interview of Stang re divine double: https://youtu.be/HOIjuWYhJNQ
Zoom meeting: Charles Stang on Corbin, Plato, & the Divine Double https://youtu.be/Fq0B6kP68zQ
Charles Stang hosts, Christian Greer interviews Gary Laderman & Erik Davis https://youtu.be/ymfw3VOgy6g
26:15 – dark side of psychedelic mystic experience
Psilocybin Mushroom Companion
Panic from threat of loss of control in book The Psilocybin Mushroom Companion, Michelle Janikian, 2019 – https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/07/standard-hazy-trip-advice-on-surrender-to-shadow-trust-submit-and-let-go-of-control/
Effects Index
Josie Kins’ Psychedelic Effects Index on fear of losing control – https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death#fear%20of%20losing%20control
My Article Summary Sections
My 1997 summary’s sections about control loss: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/self-control-cybernetics-dissociative-cognition-mystic-ego-death/#tioscc and https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/self-control-cybernetics-dissociative-cognition-mystic-ego-death/#sdsvop
My 2006 main article’s section 4 of 4, about control loss: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/#Self-Control-and-the-Hidden-Source-of-Thoughts
Section from webpage “Strict Requirements for Teachers, Initiation Guides, and Students, Prior to Initiation”; excerpted from the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image article), re: steering toward the shadow: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/strict-requirements-for-teachers-initiation-guides-and-students-prior-to-initiation/#Message-Mandatory-for-Utilizing-Psychedelics
SHWEP – Charles Stang on the Divine Double
Charles M. Stang on the Divine Double in Late Antiquity
Charles M. Stang Doubles Down
https://shwep.net/podcast/charles-m-stang-doubles-down/ –
E C J Williams comments:
“the double has a negative shade. Carl Jung notes that when contact is first made with the unconscious, it is often in the form of a stranger breaking into the house, and is seen as a threat to the individual.
“If the seeker is not searching for the divine and is simply fated to meet their double, would not the first contact [with the double, aka the unconscious] be felt as a threat?
It is after all a serious challenge to the ego, and like Near-Death Experiences will utterly change everything the individual knows about themselves.”
Clark Aitkins comment:
“the modern notion of a dark double. … Jung’s notion of the shadow.”
The Egodeath theory 