Michael Hoffman, January 14, 2023 5:38 am UTC+0
Contents:
- News Flash! Apparently Griffiths Considers the HRS Questionnaire’s Effect “It was difficult to control my thoughts” as “Not Challenging”!!
- Motivation for This Page/Post
- Retraction of My Error: Griffiths Team Did Not Do a Decent Job Picking the Initial Item Pool
- Closed Science Is Pseudo-Science: Only Insiders Are Allowed to Access Psychedelic Psychometrics “Science”
- No One at the Bridge: Not Challenging
Astounding Omissions of Negative Psychedelic Effects from the Challenging Experiences Questionnaire’s (CEQ’s) Initial Item Pool – This Closed Science Is Pseudo-Science
News Flash! Apparently Griffiths Considers the HRS Questionnaire’s Effect “It was difficult to control my thoughts” as “Not Challenging”!!
Discovered/realized 8pm January 13, 2023, Cybermonk.
Page title:
HRS – “Hallucinogen Rating Scale” Questionnaire
Section heading in that page:
Bizarre Omissions from CEQ Initial Item Pool
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/hrs-hallucinogen-rating-scale/#Bizarre-Omissions-from-CEQ-Initial-Item-Pool
Did Griffiths deliberately omit “control challenges” from CEQ?
Omitted:
OAV 1994 #54: I was afraid to lose my self-control.
HRS #: It was difficult to control my thoughts.
I’ve written and spoken in Egodeath Mystery Show a lot (mostly not uploaded Egodeath Mystery Show recordings) about question 54.
But today, Jan 13 2023, 8pm, I discovered — while reading aloud in voice recording my Jerry Brown thread page, section:
Page title:
Critique of Griffiths MEQ30 and other ME questionnaires (Brown Thread)
Section heading in that page:
CEQ Deletes the Main Negative Psychedelic Effects – Part 1
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/critique-of-griffiths-meq30-and-other-me-questionnaires-brown-thread/#CEQ-Deletes-the-Main-Negative-Psychedelic-Effects
— that Griffiths looked at the HRS question “It was difficult to control my thoughts” and reckoned “Nope, not potentially a challenging experience. Omit from Initial Item Pool.”
Combine that with “We would NOT expect that HRS’ Volition category of effects are potentially significantly challenging.” (CEQ article Griffiths 2016)
No surprise that Griffiths, who defined in Science-based scientific terms, what exactly and scientifically constitutes “a complete [newbie] mystical experience”, cannot even IMAGINE that “It was difficult to control my thoughts” is challenging.
Motivation for This Page/Post
This staggering realization warrants a dedicated announcement, it’s on the same order as Griffiths’ omitting Question 54, “I was afraid to lose my self-control” from the CEQ Initial Item Pool and final set of CEQ items.
I did a whole investigation driven by the HUGE omission of 1994 OAV question 54, “I was afraid to lose my self-control.”
Today, I found an equally massive, shocking, stunning omission:
Griffiths chose not to add Rick Strassman’s HRS question “It was difficult to control my thoughts” to the CEQ’s Initial Item Pool – unbelievable! inconceivable!
“It was difficult” is not challenging??
Griffiths has NO IDEA what control-challenges are, and cannot even imagine or comprehend what such challenges would be; the possibility of control loss constituting a challenge.
Griffiths is doing a massive anti-Science sanitizing and whitewashing, even during the early relatively generous phase of forming of the Initial Item Pool of 64 items from the 3 main questionnaires.
Retraction of My Error: Griffiths Team Did Not Do a Decent Job Picking the Initial Item Pool
I said and wrote that CEQ team did a decent job of picking the Initial Item Pool of 64 challenging effects from 3 questionnaires.
I was wrong. Or they were only relatively decent in picking items for the CEQ’s Initial Item Pool.
Closed Science Is Pseudo-Science: Only Insiders Are Allowed to Access Psychedelic Psychometrics “Science”
Caveat: this Pseudo-Science of Psychedelic Psychometrics, which stands or falls with the “scientific” basis of Walter Stace’s 1960 book Mysticism and Philosophy, is CLOSED SCIENCE.
Unlike real Science, “the public” is not able to and not allowed to see the HRS questionnaire and which items are in which categories and tally the items.
“Sorry, our Science field that we fabricated behind closed doors (and hid behind the obscuring cloak of vague math, never discussing the actual effects that we omit and delete) is copyrighted, so there’s no correction mechanism via public Science.”
No One at the Bridge: Not Challenging
Artist: Rush
Song: No One at the Bridge
Year: 1975 – same year as Dittrich’s APZ questionnaire, which has 22 questions forming in 1985 the ‘A’ category of O/A/V: Oceanic Boundlessness/ Angst (Dread of Ego Dissolution (DED)) / Visionary Restructuralization.
Video with ships & sea imagery & animation:
url https://youtu.be/70BgSKTBh9s –
Video of album side with lyrics,
No One at the Bridge starts at 5:20
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElZA5XnH9w&t=320s –
The Egodeath theory 