Contents:
- Intro
- 👎👎 Down with Your Buddha Statue, Your “Meditation”, and Your Stupid U2 Too 🙉
- Meditate on: Avoid Ego Death from Psilocybin Eternalism
- Video: The Case Against Buddhism
- Book: A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real (Wallis 2018)
- Ancient Boomer Orientalism
- U2
- BOW DOWN TO THE GOD OF BOOMERS: The Almighty Meditation and Buddha Statues ☸️ 🙌
- BOW DOWN TO THE GOD OF WASSON/ ALLEGRO/ RUCK/ HEINRICH/ IRVIN/ RUTAJIT / JOHN RUSH: The almighty Secret Amanita 🤫🍄 🙌 😲
- The Secret Egodeath Theory 🍄🍄
- Too damn many Amanitas 🚫🍄
- Secrets of Eleusis 🍄🍄
- Secrets of Mithraism 🍄🍄
- Secrets of Consciousness 🍄🍄
- About My Excerpting
- See Also
Intro
Meditation is misused for bunkness. Meditation is pushed to get rid of psychedelics.
Search Egodeath Yahoo Group for “Meditation Is Bunk”: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=%22meditation+is+bunk%22
👎👎 Down with Your Buddha Statue, Your “Meditation”, and Your Stupid U2 Too 🙉
Here’s the article from Matthew Johnson that famously tells psychedelic therapy clinic guides to lose the Buddha statue:
Consciousness, Religion, Gurus: The Pitfalls of Psychedelic Medicine
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/consciousness-religion-gurus-the-pitfalls-of-psychedelic-medicine-matthew-johnson/
“For today’s psychedelic scientists and clinicians, frameworks of concern are likely to resemble a loosely held eclectic collection of various beliefs drawn piecemeal from mystical traditions, Eastern religions, and indigenous cultures, perhaps best described by the term “new age,” although they could come from any religious or spiritual belief system.
“It is important to operate instead from a secular framework that is nonetheless open to working with patients or participant of any religious/spiritual background.”
“It has unfortunately become fashionable and commonplace for statues of Buddha to be present in psychedelic session treatment rooms. … the introduction of such religious icons into clinical practice unnecessarily alienates some people from psychedelic medicine, e.g., atheists, Christians, and Muslims.”
- Do not include religious icons in treatment settings.
The article doesn’t say whether “surrender, submit, accept” is “empirical” or is “non-empirical religious/ spiritual/ metaphysical belief”.
The folk wisdom technique – or “non-empirical religious belief”? – of “surrender, submit, accept not having control” is cataloged in Michelle Janikian’s 2019 book Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion. See my post:
Standard Hazy Trip Advice on Surrender to the Shadow, Trust, Submit, and Let Go of Control
The Matthew Johnson anti-statue article doesn’t say whether psilocybin eternalism is “non-empirical religious/ spiritual/ metaphysical belief”.
The Egodeath theory is scientific, organized, rational, coherent, empirically evidence-based.
It would be a crime to not teach language, math, or Transcendent Knowledge per the Egodeath theory.
The Egodeath theory is psilocybin-compatible gnosis, on a silver platter, made effortlessly available.
Everyone says “submit, surrender, accept your lack of control over the experience” – let us discard this garbled folk packaging of the truth, and replace it by a completed, orderly, well-formed, mature statement of the same thing, but far superior, more compact, efficient, elegant, effective. The Egodeath theory.
Not dirty, confused, inarticulate, low-grade, ineffective.
Meditate on: Avoid Ego Death from Psilocybin Eternalism
If Boomers rebelled against their parents’ Christianity, I rebel against the Boomers’ stupid Buddhism (orientalism fetish) and their stupid meditation baloney fake religion, which serves only the purpose of eliminating, avoidance of, and substituting for the real deal, which is psychedelics.
The irony is that the Egodeath theory originates from my 1987 intensive critical reading of Alan Watts’ 1957 book The Way of Zen because of his cybernetic self-control aspect.
Ken Wilber’s model of transcending a lower-level mental structure, which covertly equates spiritual development with 30+ years of Advaita meditation.
In January 1988, I disproved Ken Wilber’s model of Ego Transcendence and mental development, which is the the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology model.
Wilber’s description of healthy transcendence is helpful, but Integral Theory has no engine, just an empty slot “30+ years of Advaita meditation”, with a vague definition of Transcendent Knowledge, retreating into “it’s ineffable”.
Wilber lacks psychedelics, so he can only make excuses for the failure of transformation which meditation has produced.
Eternalism is explained instantly or not at all, in a given model.
Sam Harris and Ramesh Balsekar assert no-free-will, but the Egodeath theory asserts it fully.
Video: The Case Against Buddhism
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/03/11/case-against-buddhism
re: book, A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, by Glenn Wallis
Video and webpage about the video, March 2019 –
“Presented as a rational, scientific, and practical religion, modern Buddhism appears to have all the answers.
“Even the secular forms of mindfulness promise ever-increasing practitioners that Buddhist meditation will provide the solutions to all their mental, emotional, and spiritual issues.
“In his new book, A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, scholar Glenn Wallis argues that there is, and that Buddhism as we know it “must be ruined.” “
The same webpage has a transcript of the video, below the video:
“Western Buddhism has been shaped by Enlightenment, Romantic, and Protestant thinking. It claims ancient legitimacy, while ignoring the irrational aspects of the early Buddhist scriptures, such as the stories of Buddha’s magical powers, his teachings on rebirth, and the prevalence of yakas, devas, and a host of other invisible beings.
“Today, the Buddha is depicted as an empirically minded scientist, and Buddhism has been praised as the most scientific of religions.
Because of these and other doctrinal alterations, especially those focusing on well-being, Wallis writes that Western Buddhism has become the perfect ideological supplement to rabid consumerist capitalism.
“Buddhism as we know it is inseparable from the neoliberal ideology in which it has flourished.
“In its packaging and marketing of itself, Buddhism negates the very teachings it aims to convey.
“the history of Western Buddhism is one of evading the consequences of its own thought.
“we don’t want to accept Buddhism’s most fundamental truths, such as there’s no such thing as self and that all of this is suffering.”
That sounds like critiques in Ken Wilber’s book the Atman project, about substitution projects.
Vague, low-grade expressions like “self is an illusion” are why the STEM-framed Egodeath theory is needed, with its superior lexicon and relevance for learning and acclimating to psilocybin eternalism. -cm
“such language of an unknowable x that the teacher nonetheless knows is a standard authoritarian move in an obscurantist mystical rhetoric.”
Well put. The Egodeath theory is the cure for exactly this specific problem, the inexcusable glorifying of incomprehension and poor expression and communication ability.
If gnosis can be put plainly and efficiently summarizable, then it should be – and it is, and now it has been so summarized as scientific knowledge, a laminated summary sheet, a Jack Chick festival pamphlet, a .pdf. -cm
Book: A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real (Wallis 2018)
A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real
Glenn Wallis
Sep. 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Critique-Western-Buddhism-Ruins-Buddhist/dp/1350155217/
Blurb
“What are we to make of Western Buddhism?
Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought.
This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.”
Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.”
Yet these preeminent human truths are universally shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism.
The author’s critique of Western Buddhism is threefold.
It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes;
negative, in employing the “democratizing” deconstructive methods of François Laruelle’s non-philosophy; and
re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle’s concept of philofiction.
Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, A Critique of Western Buddhism suggests a possible practice for our time, an “anthropotechnic”, or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven.”
Ancient Boomer Orientalism
Down With Boomer Orientalism – Stick with Our Own Greek Religion, not Egyptian Orientalism Fetish
Western Civ :: orientalism (Edward Said) =
Christianity :: Boomer Buddhism =
Ancient Greeks :: Egyptian oriental religions
Clinical therapy psychedelics :: indigenous Ayahuasca
U2
I actually like U2, but I understand the sympathy:
People have asked of pop cult, “why do you simply expect me to like U2, and you simply assume (& presume) that I like them.
U2 is just shoved on us everywhere we go, as if it’s “our” music.
The band U2 is shoved in our face like you have to like them.
It’s a forced, fake astroturfed popularity, by dictate from above.
“We’ve taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing, the pictures that give pleasure to your eye” – Peart
BOW DOWN TO THE GOD OF BOOMERS: The Almighty Meditation and Buddha Statues ☸️ 🙌
I definitely feel negative about Boomer Buddhism being shoved on us like we just have to like it – yet I feel merely neutral, apathetic about Christian elements given to me as if I’m automatically supposed to positively value Christianity.
Well I refuse to like your meditation & Buddha statue & Boomer orientalism fetish.
Just because you tell me that I’m supposed to like meditation & Buddhism, and I have to like it.
I resent that I’m simply expected to like Buddhism, by Boomers.
I refuse to like Buddhism, and your MEDITATION IS BUNK 👎👎 – except where it comes from Psilocybin.
Get your Meditation Religion Dogma and Buddhism out of my face.
Buddhism being shoved in our face by boomers.
Boomer Buddha: count me out; not a fan; reject 👎
It is simply assumed that you are a fan (of meditation, of Buddha statues, of U2, of Amanita theory).
BOW DOWN TO THE GOD OF WASSON/ ALLEGRO/ RUCK/ HEINRICH/ IRVIN/ RUTAJIT / JOHN RUSH: The almighty Secret Amanita 🤫🍄 🙌 😲
What’s in the lid-covered basket revealed by the hierophant? 🤔 ?
OMG NO FRIGGIN WAY, ITS A SECRET AMANITA!! 😲 🤯 😵
Your Secret Amanita you’re pushing is bunk too.
“Secret” and “Amanita” are used as a superficial billboard to sell books to a popular audience. Like titling my work:
The Secret Egodeath Theory 🍄🍄
jumbo kiddie mushrooms 🍄🍄 and the puerile marketing word ‘secret’
Too damn many Amanitas 🚫🍄
Carl Ruck gets paid by the number of times he writes the word ‘Amanita’ and the number of times that he shows infantile Secret Amanita pictures on the covers of his books on every one of his books: Eleusis 🍄🍄, Mithraism 🍄🍄, Consciousness 🍄🍄, etc.
Secrets of Eleusis 🍄🍄
Secrets of Mithraism 🍄🍄
url https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Myth-Mithras-Civilized-Europe/dp/0872864707/
Secrets of Consciousness 🍄🍄
url https://www.amazon.com/Entheogens-Myth-Human-Consciousness-Carl/dp/1579511414/
About My Excerpting
Excerpts and commentary by Cybermonk. See link for exact quotes.
This is a pretty strict/ explicit condensing; not a free paraphrasing.
I should write up defining a couple degrees of condensing, and link to it, for definitions of how strict this quoting is – pretty strict/ faithful quoting in this case; not an aggressive condensing/ paraphrasing.
I added bold.
See Also
Roland Griffiths and Jordan Peterson – Psychology of Psychedelics
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/roland-griffiths-and-jordan-peterson-psychology-of-psychedelics/
Includes transcription from my Idea Development page 15 section “Peterson Busts Griffiths for Self-Contradiction”
Best section/quotes:
Idea Development page 15
Section heading:
Peterson Busts Griffiths for Self-Contradiction
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15/#Peterson-Busts-Griffiths-for-Self-Contradiction
Above that is a related section:
Idea Development page 15
Section heading:
Jordan Peterson Roland Griffiths Interview
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15/#Peterson-Griffiths-Interview
The Egodeath theory 