Saint Martin Frescos 🌴🔪🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Contents:

• Intro
  • 2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels
  • 2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art
  • Browns’ Works
• About the Church and Frescos

• Image 1: Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
• Golden Munich Psalter’s Entry into Jerusalem
• Brown, 2016, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
• Brown, 2019, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
• Book: Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (John Rush)
• John Rush, 2022, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
  • John Rush’s Commentary & Blurry Internet Image
    • The Blurry Internet Image from Rush Gallery: Entry into Jerusalem
    • “Entry into Jerusalem clearly represents mushrooms being handed out” (John Rush)
    • Awkward Gallery UI
• Browns’ Commentary on Entry into Jerusalem
  • The Fresco Shows Caps That Are Not Visible
  • Brown & Brown Visit the Art in Person with Their Paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”
• Psychedelic Eternalism commentary on Entry into Jerusalem
  • Features
• Exhibit A: What a Feather Looks Like
  • Random Example #2 of What a Feather Looks Like
  • Random Example #3 of What Feathers Look Like
• Exhibit B: What Sticks Look Like
• Photos of the Sticks & Feathers and Finger-Shapes
  • 1964 Photos of Saint-Martin de Vic church at France-Voyage
  • agefotostock Entry into Jerusalem Photos
• I See Caps that Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible
• Image Search and Panorama
• Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown See Too Many Mushrooms Everywhere
  • The Fresco Here Shows Sticks and Feathers, not Mushrooms or “Plants”
  • Decoded Items & Hands Held Out as Non-Branching Parallel Sticks + Branching Feathers, Matching the Contrasted Right- and Left-Hand Finger Shapes
  • Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
    • I Report that I See Caps That Are Not Visible
    • Where Are the Gates?
    • Key date: March 21, 2022
    • Balaam as Rider on Donkey Passing Through Guarded Gate
      • Announced Decoding Balaam April 26, 2002
      • Caveat About Technique for Finding Oldest Posting Date
• Fallacy Demonstrated: Must Travel and See Art First-Hand to Accurately Interpret It
  • Projecting Too Many Mushrooms, in person!: the “Travel” fallacy

• Image 2: Purification of Isaiah’s Lips

• Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem
  • The Draping-Walls Guy’s Right Foot Is on the Gate Hinge

• Image 4: Last Supper

• Image 5: Last Supper detail: Mushroom Hem

• Image 6: Scroll: The Prophet Isaiah Goes Forth

• Motivation for Creating this Page 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐
• % of Psilocybin vs. Amanita Finds/ Sites in the Book
• Technical Notes on Image Resolution
  • For Full-Resolution Brown Photos: Download PDF, Fullscreen in Acrobat, Zoom
  • What Part of “Full Screen” Do You Not Understand? 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐
• Todo
• See Also

/ end of Table of Contents

Intro

This page covers the frescos in Church of Saint Martin de Vicq, France, that are presented and analyzed in Browns’ 2016 book & 2019 article.

I provide a psychedelic eternalism analysis.

The page scope & structure is per the order in Browns’ 2016 book and Browns’ 2019 article.

2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels

The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/

2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art

Page title:
Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works
Section heading:
Entheogens in Christian art (Brown & Brown 2019)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Entheogens-in-Christian-art

To see best resolution, download the PDF, view fullscreen in Acrobat.

Browns’ Works

Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works (The Psychedelic Gospels)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/

About the Church and Frescos

In the 2019 article:
The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/
Brown wrote:

“The small parish Church of Saint Martin de Vicq (Saint Martin) is located in the village of Nohant-Vic in the Indre department of Central France 50 miles east of Plaincourault.

“In the 11th century, the church belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Déols in the old province of Berry.

“At that time, it consisted of a simple nave and choir.

“At the beginning of the 12th century [1100], a semicircular apse was built and an exceptional set of murals was painted, first rediscovered in 1849.

“Restoration began in 1987 and was completed in 1991.

“A plaque describes the murals as “the work of an artist of genius,” which “portray the theme of Redemption, from the Error of Adam to the Last Judgment.”

“Typical of the fresco cycles found in the region, these paintings are the creation of a single workshop, usually consisting of a lone painter, perhaps
with an assistant to help with the plastering and preparation of the pigments.

“We traveled to Saint Martin because a book (Irvin, 2008) and an article (Samorini, 1998) included photographs of psilocybin mushrooms in one of the wall paintings.”

“During our visit, we found that the panoply of frescoes in Saint Martin represented an illustrated Bible including a veritable Christology.

“Among them, we found several mushroom-tree images – significantly more than the single mushroom group mentioned in the literature [appar. Irvin + Samorini] – illustrating key scenes in the life of Jesus.”

/ end of excerpt from Browns 2019 article

Image 1: Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem

Features:

• every figure’s hands in the entire wall depict YI contrast. thumb vs. fingers = IY. JEsus fijngers using two hands.
• clean robes under right foot donkey jesus, jesus above donkey
• {right foot forward} posture – genuflect? see all instances, incl. Golden Psalter.

Golden Psalter
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todo: draw white box around {branching} & {handedness} motifs.

To see best resolution, download the PDF, view fullscreen in Acrobat.

The above Entry Scene is the Highest Resolution .png I Can Provide Extracted from Brown 2019 Article.

Golden Munich Psalter’s Entry into Jerusalem

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-54-top

Features: [11:00 pm Feb. 26, 2025]

• {bent left leg}: tree guy, gate guy, donkey front and back reverse, colt front leg
• legend: Jesus rides a colt that never been ridden before.
• bible: put cloaks on the donkeys as saddles.
• in tree {right foot down} balanced on cut right branch that is held by the guy passing through the gate – he is holding the cut branch that he’s standing on in his R hand, like same as gate guy.
• Gateway has five ball-stem {mushroom roof toppers}, on five roofs:
• top – two red roof caps with white spots.
• gate guy showing L hand in typical pose for this genre, no thumb, purely branching – but not splay like Peter R hand fingers.
• mushroom {mushroom hem} in rff right foot forward guy genuflect saddle for jesus
• center – roof blue liberty cap
• left – dancing man cap on left: white on blue donuts

Brown, 2016, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“Jesus is sitting on an ass with his arms reaching out toward the youths who are greeting him. One of the youths is leaning forward, holding on to the stem of an oblong mushroom in his left hand, while offering Jesus three stems with his right hand, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

Brown & Brown, 2016, page 112.

Transcribed by Michael Hoffman from paperback, Jan. 30, 2025

Brown, 2019, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youth who with his other hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Copypaste from Brown 2019 PDF: bold added.

Book: Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (John Rush)

Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity
February 22, 2022 (2011 1st Ed.)
John Rush
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mushrooms-Origin-Christianity-John/dp/B09VWP4CV1/ –

John Rush, 2022, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.”

– John Rush, 2nd Ed 2022 of 2011 book, p. 207

John Rush’s Commentary & Blurry Internet Image

Features:

• Hands:
• L hand hold branching 3- or 4-diamond frond branching
• R hand hold single non-branching diamond frond pointing at Jesus donkey finger shapes.
• L hand of out-of-frame mushroom palm holding branches , similar branching form as this youth.
• One youth holds branching, the other youth holds blade in right hand to cut the branching. While stand on right foot.
• Feet:
• Both of the diamond-frond youths {stand on right foot}; {right foot down}, left foot lifted/ left leg bent. {right leg straight, left leg bent}

ward less branching.

Tauroctony (Mithraism) {right leg straight, left leg bent}

The Blurry Internet Image from Rush Gallery: Entry into Jerusalem

Here’s my obscenely high-res, pixel-wasting screenshot capture of Rush’s super-blurry image.

“Entry into Jerusalem John Rush Gallery screenshot.png” 5.6 MB, stamp: [12:04 p.m. Noon, February 13, 2023]

image direct link: it’s cryptic/unreliable; not uploading it. Manually nav to it.

Per Rush, you can plainly see that God in “Creator of Plants” image holds a mushroom (show the Eadwine pic of God’s clearly empty hand).

Likewise, here you can CLEARLY see mushrooms being handed out to or by Jesus on donkey, after the hallucinogenic mushrooms take effect:

“Entry into Jerusalem clearly represents mushrooms being handed out” (John Rush)

p. 207: (2nd Edition) –

“This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.”

The above is an exact quote, sans extra words.

Awkward Gallery UI

Gallery, for Chapter 3, the single image (Entry into Jeru.)
(Rush’s gallery UX works better for me on mobile than desktop):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WAX43XRkr5H6ee_WNC3KoMDntwMw5leZ
His page says “Download” from here – poor UX for viewing online (if desktop), and each pdf is HUGE (gigabytes).
Here’s the main page you get, to access his gallery:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DWV7GTNHrB-ksj4ZqdZfyNGhPZvN5Ogi

Book page 207, 2nd Edition

Browns’ Commentary on Entry into Jerusalem

The Fresco Shows Caps That Are Not Visible

Entry into Jerusalem: Julie Reports Seeing That Caps Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible

Kupfer: “toward the gate; they crowd the gate; gate, gate” – WHAT GATE; THERE IS NO GATE!

— false. Update [8:06 p.m. February 15, 2023] – you can’t tell in this image but lower left is apparently the gates; the foot on the left is on the gate hinge:

I made a {gate} crop from the web original image downloaded jpg sample. Gate is lower left, as far as I can tell:

“france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-FMC1JC gate-crop.jpg” – I appended “gate-crop” in alamy’s filename. 32 KB [8:21 p.m. February 15, 2023]
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

Check out this page with their related stock photos:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

[written before finding the above alamy wide-shot photo:]

It is quite a beautiful gate, you must admit — like the “plant-like objects with stems and caps held out as a gift to Jesus who is reaching out to accept it.”

(Except, no, no, no, no, and no.) Horse feathers!
Which they also didn’t mention; {feathers}.

Art as Rorschach blotter for Brown & Brown to project and read-in, and not see.

The dialog while Brown, Brown, & Brown wrote their 2016 book:

“Brown, do you see painted-over caps?”

“Yes, Brown, I see very clearly painted-over caps above the mushroom stems of the plant-like gift.”

Brown & Brown Visit the Art in Person with Their Paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”

Brown & Brown (& Brown) visit the art, in person, looking at it with their paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”

👨‍🎨🎨🖌🍄🖼🍄🖌🎨👩‍🎨
“There, Fixed It for You!”

Psychedelic Eternalism commentary on Entry into Jerusalem

I announced decoding of finger shapes = sticks + feathers, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023.

I originally announced it in short email pointing to a long draft email at:
Page title:
Idea Development page 17
Section heading:
Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/#Brown-Feb-9-2023

I moved that announcement to below.

Features

• Donkey’s 100% weight = Jesus’ = right foot, on top of curved {doorway} (*= gate).
• Great Mystery of Browns’ Missing Gate; everyone (Kupfer) talks about “gate gate gate, “approaches crowded gate” — BUT THERE IS NO GATE!
• There’s a physical {doorway} which Jesus/Donkey stands on 100% {standing with weight on right hoof/ heel/ foot/ leg/ hip/ toe/ leg}. 🚪

I need the full room views.

Exhibit A: What a Feather Looks Like

Random Example #2 of What a Feather looks like

Julie Brown’s comment on this held item: “I am reporting only what I see. I see that the mushroom cap has been painted over or somehow obscured, and I see that the mushroom stem has been re-painted beyond all recognition.” Conclusion: OMG ITS A MUSHROOM!!

John Rush’s comment on this held item: “This painting clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.” [condensed]

[noon February 13, 2023] decoded by Cybermonk: beardless youth holds feathers in a [branching} configuration, IN CONTRAST TO bearded man holds 1 removed feather in a non-branching shape.

(been wondering about this ever since Cyberdisciple provided this image – why did not this particular point strike me: youth holds branching shape, adult non-)

Random Example #3 of What Feathers Look Like

Re-crop to contrast the two held feathers in the Cyberdisciple image.

challenge in this genre, is that we must —

as the artist, you must present branching IN CONTRAST AGAINST non-branching.

ditto for the interpreter: you are not looking for “branching”, you are not looking for “non-branching”; what you are looking for is moving from “branching” to / contrasted against “non-branching”.

On the micro scale, the (removed & thus negated) single feather has branching – true; granted — but it’s relative. His feather — man’s feather is relatively non-branching compared to the youth’s feather-pair held in a very Y configuration/ shape/ morphology.

But, on the macro scale, the youth holds a pair of feathers in a Y shape, just like mushrooms (which cause the altered-state revelatory experience of non-branching) are depicted by adding branches to convey a message that there is no branching (ie eternalism is the case).

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Exhibit B: What Sticks Look Like

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sticks

Photos of the Sticks & Feathers and Finger-Shapes

1964 Photos of Saint-Martin de Vic church at France-Voyage

Here’s a good {sticks and feathers}: “photos … 1964” 2016-1964 = Browns’ photos are 52 years later than these photos appar’ly:

Saint-Martin de Vic church
https://www.france-voyage.com/travel-photos/saint-martin-vic-church-1964.htm
This site’s Entry photos look dark like I grabbed before.
“photos 1964” sounds right/familiar.

agefotostock Entry into Jerusalem Photos

About agefotostock
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/AboutUs.aspx

Perhaps the crispest photos of Entry I found are these agefotostock photos, which I color-corrected.

At least one of the photos is hosted in page:
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/the-religious-frescoes-in-the-saint-martin-de-vic-church-listed-in-1850-thanks-to-george-sand-s-intervention-the-romanticism-of-george-sand-s-black-valley-in/GPT-36PF0084

jpg https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/15c59666d052eb655fc5aa8a0046be63/gpt-36pf0084.jpg
looks different.

I found the URL source for the below in my Idea Development page 17.

The containing page:
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/entry-of-jesus-into-jerusalem-detail-from-a-fresco-in-the-church-of-saint-martin-vic-sur-saint-chartier-france-12th-century/DAE-10400530 (very red)

[11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023] made 3rd crop from new source:
“agefotostock-com entry jeru recolored hands sticks.jpg” 17 KB – added to caption below.

todo: check and fix the dates and filesizes for these crops.

.fresh attempt to outdo earlier crop:
“sticks and feathers agefotostock-com dae-10400530-jpg corrected.png” 1.6 MB [2:29 .m. February 13, 2023]
https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/8b6ecbc54bf13b7a9a8d09f0be5039d4/dae-10400530.jpg
Crop, image processing, and interpretation by Cybermonk [11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023]

I See Caps that Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible

Julie on mushrooms in 2016: “I see caps that are not visible, maybe they’ve been painted over.”

Browns on hallucinogenic mushrooms in 2019 article: (copy/paste exact quote): “a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible),”

In other words:

I see sticks, therefore, I see stems of a plant that has caps that are not visible.

That’s a biased, forced reading – exactly what Browns claim that John Rush & Irvin (the Ardent Advocates) do.

Here is Julie revealing her own Ardent Advocate impulse, but it’s wrong here.

The held, depicted objects are sticks and feathers, contrasted like eternalism vs. possibilism.

The held sticks are held non-branching, straight, held relatively together, not apart.

Image Search and Panorama

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=church+saint+martin+fresco&tbm=isch
https://www.google.com/search?q=saint+martin+de+vic+church+fresco&tbm=isch

HERE’S the kind of panorama I need!
Moved one of the available pics to Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem section below.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown See Too Many Mushrooms Everywhere

Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown see too many mushrooms everywhere: they claim mushrooms are depicted, but the fresco here shows sticks and feathers, not mushrooms

John Rush boldly states in 2nd edition of Jesus/Mushrooms book that handing out mushrooms is clearly visible — based on his Brown-certified Blurry Internet Images. Plate 3-4b: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WAX43XRkr5H6ee_WNC3KoMDntwMw5leZ – it was difficult to get to, so here’s a screenshot of what Rush calls clearly visible handing out of msuhrooms. In this case, Brown follows suit and is unduly overly influenced by Rush’s hallucinations, and so a couple days ago I … and today Feb. 13 2023, I realized the irony, that Browns in this case allowed themselves to be overly influenced by Rush’s hallucination, and they themselves FANTASIZE and PROJECT: in the book by esoteric travologue fictional author Brown, Jerry says:

Julie, only tell me what you actually see in this fresco.

Julie replies: “What I see is caps that have been obscured or painted over so that they are not visible.”

Jerry: Ok, thanks for reporting what you see. Bulletin: MUSHROOMS ARE CLEARLY SEEN BEING DISTRIBUTED.

The Fresco Here Shows Sticks and Feathers, not Mushrooms or “Plants”

What the fresco shows: sticks and feathers. Today (Feb. 13 2023) I realized the irony, of Browns saying Ardent Advocates go too far – in this case, Browns followed the Ardent Advocates and themselves go too far.

Rush & Browns do not go too far, in that these frescos do explicitly depict Psilocybin mushrooms.

But being the usual “spot the mushroom” type of entheogen scholars, they are too literally, in too many instances in this fresco, looking for literal depictions of mushrooms, but instead, the morphology held out by Jesus and guy in tree is not literal mushrooms, but rather, the primary EFFECT of mushrooms, which is transformation from possibilism to eternalism, figured/ depicted as branching vs. non-branching – along with {handedness}, such that:

{left} = {branching} imagery = possibilism-thinking

{right} = {non-branching} imagery = eternalism-thinking

I have decoded this motif art genre motif into a trio of motifs found woven together: in brief:

• mushroom imagery
• handedness imagery
• non-branching imagery

thus a grand formula announcement is:

Grand-Formula Announcement

mushroom = handedness = non-branching

the {mushroom/ handedness / non-branching} compound/ motif-cluster

I am the modern-day discoverer of the Medieval art {mushroom/ handedness/ non-branching} motif-cluster

Heading

You should be moderate and discerning like Cybermonk, sit in the exact middle of the road like me.

Don’t see mushrooms everywhere.

I wrote up a couple days ago revealing the magic trick hallucinations that Dr. Brown’s Magic Tour tries to foist on the hapless readers by their setup:

“Do you agree to report only what you see?”

“Yes. I see that caps and stems are meant to be shown but something else was painted over that, instead.”

–> Announcement: Our Description of What We See Is Caps and Stems; clearly mushrooms are shown being handed out, just as John Rush primed us to expect to see – and so you too shall be set up with our expectation.”

Decoded Items & Hands Held Out as Non-Branching Parallel Sticks + Branching Feathers, Matching the Contrasted Right- and Left-Hand Finger Shapes

Decoded the Items Held Out & Gestures in Entry into Jerusalem Scene, as non-branching parallel sticks + branching feathers, matching left- vs. right-hand finger shapes (Feb. 9, 2023 Announcement)

The following Feb 9 into 10 (2023) decoding was moved to here from Idea Dev page 17: decoding of finger shapes = sticks + feathers, isomorphic contrast — meaning, transformation from possibilism (branching) to eternalism (non-branching).

Page title:
Idea Development page 17
Section heading:
Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/#Brown-Feb-9-2023

Start of “sticks and feathers identified” content copied from Idea Dev p 17 into thie St Martin page:

Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem

Draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

I decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.

Jesus’ branching, left hand, held-apart fingers contrasted against non-branching, held-together right-hand fingers

matches the contrast:

branching feathers contrasted against non-branching sticks

ultimately describes:

mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism

I finally adequately decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.  
It took less than a year (2022-03-21 to 2023-02-09).
Or it took 2023-2016 = 7 years.

The key theme to look for is items & imagery that contrasts {branching} vs. {non-branching}. 
= appearance vs. reality.
= the ordinary-state appearance of possibilism vs. altered-state revealed eternalism.

200 KB “Brown 2 hands sticks feathers processed from pdf take2.png”
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/brown-2-hands-sticks-feathers-processed-from-pdf-take2.png

17 KB “agefotostock-com entry jeru recolored hands sticks.jpg”  
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/agefotostock-com-entry-jeru-recolored-hands-sticks.jpg

1.8 MB “nonbrown fingers splayed nonbranching branches lightened.png”
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/nonbrown-fingers-splayed-nonbranching-branches-lightened.png

“Entry into Jerusalem – Blessing Mushroom” 304 KB
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/entry-into-jerusalem-blessing-mushroom-1.png

Jesus is similarly here contrasting non-branching fingers vs.branching Pilzbaum.  

A mostly branching Pilzbaum; the youth is standing with {right foot} on a {cut branch}.  

The above crop/scene is from Golden Munich Psalter’s Victory Entry into Jerusalem {gate}: art & analysis:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

I Report that I See Caps That Are Not Visible

Book p 112: “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”

That fails to happen: why are we asserting “whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured”.  

We’re talking about “tops” — that you DON’T SEE.  

This violates the explicit agreement and commitment.  Julie agrees to “just stick with the facts, what you actually see” — yet straightaway is talking about imaginary “tops”, what “tops”?  

“I see invisible tops”??  

“offering Jesus three stems[true?] with his right hand, whose tops[what tops?] have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

Julie violates the request and her commitment to fulfil it, speculating imaginatively about “stems” and “tops”.  

We don’t know that the sticks are “stems” (fair interp.), and especially, where did these hallucinogen “tops that aren’t visible” come from?  

What “tops”?  

The 2-way-confirmed agreement was “only talk about what you SEE in the fresco.”  

There are no tops seen, so what rhetoric-justification is there for claiming we’re only talking about what’s shown, what you SEE, and then proceed to talk about “tops” that are somehow NOT visible – yet still asserted to be there, directly violating the explicit set-up agreement!  😄

The result is a mis-framing rhetoric move: we agree to only report facts, for the purpose of reporting imagined things that aren’t there and then claiming that we are reporting things that ARE there.

What happened is precisely NOT “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”  “Sure.  … three stems, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

That’s a hallucinogen-based, forced reading of the sticks-and-feathers that ARE visible.

What’s held out is sticks and feathers (that is what’s visible, what is seen), but Brown — under the explicit 2-way agreement to only stick to what IS seen — said “stems and tops”.  

“Stems and tops is an imported interpretation, added TO what’s actually seen, and is NOT sticking to the facts.

We don’t know they’re stems; and, there are no tops seen, despite trying to cover-over that reality by the set-up of “we’re strictly reporting what we actually see.”  

What’s being obscured here is the fact that tops are NOT seen, that there are no tops.

Actually, Jesus displays two hands with finger shapes held toward the youth’s items, and the youth holds out sticks and feathers toward Jesus’ finger shapes.

So, what we are given, that demands interpretation, is sticks and feathers, held toward Jesus’ displayed finger-shapes.

Both figures present branching vs. (ie. contrasted against) non-branching forms to each other’s forms/shapes, matching the contrast presented by the other figure.

Where Are the Gates?

Later, I found the panorama and I think I see gates below tower to left, as expected. [note February 15, 2023]

Kupfer: “The second phase of the episode on the west wall isolates the walled city of Jerusalem.  Youths, their mouths open in song, crowd the gates; others within the city drape the walls or cut away at the treetops””

What gates?!  Where?

I need photos of St. Martin: gate?  Isn’t there a gate somewhere?  I found the full curved knife the Browns didn’t show the holder of, upper right of Entry scene.

Browns’ 2019 article’s wording:

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youths who with his other [must say “left”] hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Browns’ 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels p. 112:

“his [Jesus’] arms reaching out toward the youths … One of the youths is leaning forward , holding on to the stem … in his left hand, while offering Jesus three stems with this right hand, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

No “feathers” mentioned??

White painted feathers + deterioration + blurry internet photos.

“stems” = sticks; sticks have no branching (after {removing branching twigs}) and not forming a Y shape, but a II or |i| shape.

Y/II

Y contrasted against II

Y vs. I  morphology.  The {king/steersman} {holding the donkey reins} is killed at the {vulnerability} by the {spear} {blade} which {removes branching}.

Book p. 112:

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no, beardless youth] on top of the tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem of a mushroom.”

Article: “Jesus with arms outstretched toward the large psilocybin mushrooms in the Entry“

Not false, but, a motif-driven description must highlight that Jesus is displaying finger shapes, toward something near (b/c distance is important): the sticks and feathers held out toward Jesus’ finger-shapes.

A victory procession train.

What gate? Where?  I don’t see it.  It must be there; {gate} is central.  Why is no gate shown?  Need full 360 photo coverage.  

The donkey’s {right foot} is above a {doorway} = gate.

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=st.+martin+entry+into+jerusalem+fresco&tbm=isch

* Not plant-like gift.  Sticks & feathers.  Sticks are non-branching or removed branching.  Feathers are branching.

* Not arms receiving; not offering a gift.  Jesus & the youth are holding out matching contrasting pairs of shapes: branching & non-branching.  

Jesus’ left fingers are branching like the feathers, right held together non-branching like the sticks.

* “stem” but it’s a more-branching-tree stem, than the right hand placement & plant.

Branching = possibilism-thinking.  

Non-branching = eternalism.  

The mind in the altered state, the main “effect” of Pilzbaum, is transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism.  

My 1988 article draft contrasted the two mental worldmodels (egoic & transcendent) – here they are depicted, as {branching} contrasted with {non-branching}.

“On the far right of the fresco stands another youth holding the stem of a diamond-shaped frond (possibly a palm frond) in his left hand and a long slightly curved sword in his right hand.”

*  “diamond frond” – I have identified this plant as Psilocybe semi-lance-ata; I have identified this plant and its motif-network usage.

*  Not a curved sword; holding the non-branching middle of a spear aimed at king Jesus’ side.  

A curved lance — or semi-lance, from the relatively non-branching plant held by {right hand}.

“We can only speculate why a mushroom tree is growing on top (or out of) the roof of a stone tower.”

Above the gate.  

Browns wondered about why the plant grows from a “stone tower” – I wrote elsewhere about {rock} before; but now, I note that the tower {guards} the {gate}.

{through the gate} is all-important, and requires a {key/ password/ sacrificial payment} and to {remove outer garment/cloak} of appearances.

Key date: March 21, 2022

I am posting this decoding-announcement in this key thread that contains Professor Brown’s milestone providing of the March 21, 2022 Marcia Kupfer heavily highlighted passage about youths in trees cutting branches.

My March 21, 2022 reply that is the first place I ever wrote the important lexicon-phrase {branching-message mushroom trees}.

1. Browns had to write Kupfer’s passage in their 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels with faint emphasis, and I highlighted it there when the book first shipped.
2. But Browns had to try again and put that Kupfer passage in their 2019 article Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels, with strong emphasis this time.
3. But that didn’t get through to me either, so finally Professor Brown had to personally email me the heavily highlighted version of their passage, to make me finally see the passage in its fullness.

Now, Feb. 9, 2023, I have finally tonight adequately decoded/interpreted the Browns’ tree-guy’s items held out to match Jesus’ finger shapes, together with Jesus’ finger shapes which I don’t think the Browns noted in the book or article.  

For St. Martin frescos, you get 1 point every time you write “left” or “right” re: hand or foot or plant side.  

This genre employs motifs/ depictions/ images of {handedness} + {non-branching}; ie:

{left} contrasted against {right} = 

{branching} contrasted against {non-branching} =

possibilism contrasted against eternalism.

Book p. 112: (the 2nd copy in this message):

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no; a beardless youth] on top of the [gate-guard] tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem …”

p. 112: “Walking directly behind Jesus are two men, possibly disciples, holding their arms up in the gesture of standing in awe.”

Don’t the Entry two guys behind Jesus have halos?  Yes, the near guy has Amanita undercap; gold circle in red band.   So, definitely disciples. (Or, less likely, Old Testament figures.)

Aggh! Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photos.

Not gesture of awe — take greatest note of Jesus’richer gestures/ finger shapes.  Remedied above.

They are — flexibly, one way or another — gestures of non-branching (or, gestures of “contrasting non-branching against branching”), with left hand, displaying finger shapes, like Eadwine’s initiation image classroom testing scene, but with slightly different meaning choices to express the same message of contrast.

Both scenes (Entry & Exam) depict “branching vs. non-branching” shapes in flexible ways. 

Avoid magical thinking, even “left vs. right” isn’t rigidly, statically sancrosanct; isn’t the message of inherent import.

What’s important for you as a mystic artist is to depict that you comprehend that the message is “non-branching contrasted against branching”, referring to possibilism vs. eternalism world models.

Magical rigid thinking won’t do; there is no magical hand gesture that’s the correct answer, statically.  

Instead, you as an artist have to invent your own expression to prove you comprehend the message – not the envelope, not the outer form, but the principle.

Here is Eadwine’s class exam scene with Browns’ “gesture of awe”, but in this meaning-scheme, these failing students indicate (by displaying left hand) “rely on egoic, autonomous control in a branching world” like the left side of the pink key-tree.
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-93.png –

/ end of draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

/ end of sections copied from Idea Dev p 17

Balaam as Rider on Donkey Passing Through Guarded Gate

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 46 top: Balaam
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-46-top

“Image 46 Balaam.png” 4.6 MB, stamp: [12:22 a.m. February 12, 2023]
url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=46&r=-0.094,0.093,1.332,0.697,0

Features:

• Angel stands on {right foot}.
• Left foot touches donkey’s feet.
• How about if I only announce when a Golden image doesn’t have mushroom hems?

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=46&r=-0.094,0.093,1.332,0.697,0

Announced Decoding Balaam April 26, 2002

When did I first post Balaam: apparently April 26, 2002.

Balaam, 1999 = Paul = angel gate, non-branching path, rider on donkey, it is very hard to find theologians sensibly covering Balaam and its equivalence to Paul and Jesus on donkey.

• I first posted about Balaam here: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-15-2002-04-23/#message753 26/04/2002 April 26, 2002.

Caveat About Technique for Finding Oldest Posting Date

[re: Entry into J scene]

Note: I have not proved that the bottom-listed archived the Egodeath Yahoo Group page at WordPress Search = the oldest posts.

• April 26, 2002 is earlier than Valentines day 2004, therefore those my earliest Balaam postings are copied to Egodeath.com, threaded but foolishly lacking dates (have one of my grad students add dates to Egodeath.com from the Egodeath Yahoo Group archive).

Fallacy Demonstrated: Must Travel and See Art First-Hand to Accurately Interpret It

Projecting Too Many Mushrooms, in person!: the “Travel” fallacy

A critique of the “must travel” fallacy.

Critique Browns’ claim that travel makes you see clearly instead of projecting/ reading into “I strictly report what I see: I see caps that have been painted over so are obscured, not visible” –

How is in-person hallucinating/projecting any better than projecting onto blurry internet photos?

Following in the ardent footsteps of advocate John Rush who wrote “This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out”,

Julie Brown saw first-hand “that the caps have been made not visible“ –

What kind of Wassonian mealy-mouthed double-talk is this?

Welcome to the wack world of entheogen scholarship.

I had to fight against earlier entheogen scholars’ mis-reading and projection and interpolation into the evidence, to think & see clearly.

Only by examining Browns’ blurry internet photos (eg Acrobat PDF fullscreen, & from Browns’ Word .doc file) along with multiple other ppls’ Blurry Internet Photos (eg 1964 french tourism site) was I able to get a still-hazy look at the STICKS & FEATHERS, which is what’s in fact shown.

Though, I wish to see & photograph Martin myself.

Image 2: Purification of Isaiah’s Lips

“Brown Purification of Isaiahs Lips pdf fullscreen.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [2:19 p.m. February 12, 2023]

url https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem

On March 21, 2022, Prof. Brown sent the Marcia Kupfer passage — the version from the 2019 article with extra highlighting more than book — and I replied the same day with like “youths in trees cutting branches? (sarcastically) I agree, she’s insightful, and I just happen right now to be developing ideas about cutting branches.” My wording is in Idea Development Page 13:

Page title:
Idea Development page 13
Section heading:
Amanita Imagery Indicates Psilocybe Use
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Amanita-Imagery-Indicates-Psilocybe-Use

Here are the paragraphs at the start of my March 21, 2022 reply to Brown (evidence that I was already at full momentum that prepared me for the recognition of motifs & the ensuing breakthroughs):

“I’m recognizing and formulating the art construct of “branching-message mushroom trees“, “non-branching-revealing mushroom trees”, or “branching mushroom trees”, contrasted against Brinckmann’s “vine-leaf trees“.

Branching-message mushroom trees and vine-leaf trees are depicted and contrasted by Eadwine’s illuminated manuscript artist group.

Branching-message mushroom trees add branches and cut-off branches.”

[sarcasm paragraph — “best positioned” refers to a really bad hack “journalist’s” article – instead of me pushing against Kupfer, I feigned alignment:]

“I’m enthusiastic about art experts (who obviously are best positioned to tell us that mushroom imagery doesn’t represent mushrooms) who explain that the youths are removing branching from a tree.

Scholars’ attempted off-base explaining-away of mushroom evidence provides yet more material to assemble into a coherent, compelling explanation: the new, entheogenic explanatory theory of religious history and how the mind works in the Eucharist-induced Holy Spirit state.”

/ end of excerpt from my March 21, 2022 reply to Brown

The Draping-Walls Guy’s Right Foot Is on the Gate Hinge

Here’s a suitably awkward venture to interpret the awkward perspective: [February 15, 2023]: I propose that the hammering-draping-walls guy’s RIGHT foot is on the gate hinge.

What it would mean to stand on gate hinge is not clear except a general association with “right leg = go through gate”.

The perspective is dizzying regardless of whether that’s intended as left or right leg – neither one “works”, fits the perspective.

Either it’s an awkward left leg depiction, or it’s an awkward right leg depiction – so we cannot settle this interp based on which is more natural.

L or R are equally awkward.

Given that left leg = possibilism-thinking, it makes no sense to connect {left foot} to {gate}.

I propose/suppose we are to imagine his left leg on wall on back side of tower.

My proposal is very visually awkward and unnatural – matched only by how visually same if we see his left leg.

We see his stomach so it’s got to be his right leg.

“Brown Towers of Jerusalem pdf fullscreen.png” 4.1 MB, stamp: [2:25 p.m. February 12, 2023]

url https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Phantom Knife at Left Elbow

[2:36 p.m. February 12, 2023] Cybermonk – I just noticed a PHANTOM KNIFE at left elbow.

From 1980s restoration?

From Julie Brown on hallucinogenic mushrooms with paintbrush in hand fixing the art’s error:

“I see caps that have been painted over so they’re not visible.”

Copied from 2019 article pdf:

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youth who with his other hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Julie Brown Does Exactly What Browns Accuse Ardent Advocates of Doing: Seeing Mushrooms Everywhere, by Forced Reading/ Projection

So if I show Julie Brown a stick, she says she sees a mushroom stem with no visible cap.

WAITAMINUTE, WHO IS IT WHO “SEES MUSHROOMS EVERYWHERE” EVEN WHERE NOT PRESENT?

I have caught Julie Brown doing EXACTLY what Browns accuse John Rush of doing, seeing mushrooms everywhere by forced reading/projection.

Found Brown’s 2nd “knives” in Tower Scene, at Alamy’s Panorama Photos

In one spot in book or article, Brown I think (I wrote about this here before) says “knives” with ‘s’, in the tower scene.

To the right is an additional knife to the right of the vertical missing paint, 70% to the right in this image, thus removing 1 error that I claimed from Browns’ analysis/writeup.

Gate found?? who knows. Employ the Julie Brown “only report what you see” approach:

I see a gate that is missing or has been painted over so it is not visible.

Image 4: Last Supper

I think Brown’s Word file has the right-hand mushroom, it’s not in pdf. I think I made an image from Brown Word file that shows that, in my gallery here.

“Brown Last Supper pdf fullscreen.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [2:52 p.m. February 12, 2023], extracted from pdf by Cybermonk

https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 5: Last Supper detail: Mushroom Hem

Photo Credit: Julie M. Brown
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
“Brown Last Supper detail pdf fullscreen.png” 3.8 MB, stamp: [2:59 p.m. February 12, 2023]

Article States 3 Mushroom Hems, Book Lists 7

Book lists 7 on p 114:

“left of Jesus. … four … caps … also a mushroom in … to the right of Jesus, as well as two more at the top of Judas’s robe”

4+1+2 = 7 mushrooms hems.

From 2019 pdf, copied: Brown wrote:

“Finally, if we look closely at the robes of the disciples seated to the left of Jesus, we see discretely drawn into the folds of the hems are three distinct umbrella-shaped, mushrooms caps whose stems are all linked together (Figure 12).”

Here’s my crop not from Browns’ detail plate, from my own crop from their big photo:

“Brown Last Supper detail from full photo pdf fullscreen.png” 389 KB, stamp: [3:11 p.m. February 12, 2023], crop by Cybermonk

Photo Credit: Julie M. Brown
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 6: Scroll: The Prophet Isaiah Goes Forth

Bearded guy with disc/ring halo holds unrolled scroll in hands.

Book only; not in the .pdf. p. 116.

Motivation for Creating this Page 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Scope is valid: the set of fresco scenes, which go beyond what Browns covered.

In March-April 2022 when I did ten days straight of breakthroughs as fast as I could type, by back-applying the Eadwine initiation image to my familiar (since 2006-2022) images, I repeatedly exclaimed “Why don’t I have a page for this piece of art, for my worthy decoding breakthrough?”

I am not sure I want or can maintain a page for each art work decoding.

I am not committed to that design.

But the St. Walburga non-entheogenic Walburga tapestry non-Amanita Amanita image, which brown places at the head of their brilliant gallery of entheogenic art, as an example of non-entheogenic art, is the start of this website content within the … which fed into the Hatsis articles/pages at Octt 2020 for-real start of this site.

This site started in 2016 to supplement the availability-challenged Egodeath.com site.

Then the Egodeath Yahoo Groups were swept out from under us around 2019 (2020?), so at that time, I for real made this site built out this site. Dates are at the Egodeath Yahoo Group archive final page and home page:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com

In 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels, Browns cover this.

% of Psilocybin vs. Amanita Finds/ Sites in the Book

Brown counts 7 Amanita locations and 5 Psil, but, if we ignore GCP, that’s 6 Aman vs 5 Psil, which is 5/… depends on counting dups; basically 50/50 almost.

Great Mushroom Psalter barely gives lip service to Amanita; it’s all Psilocybin.

Technical Notes on Image Resolution

For Full-Resolution Brown Photos: Download PDF, Fullscreen in Acrobat, Zoom

I’m getting close to that high resolution here at WordPress site, but the PDF isn’t really exporting full resolution when select “Save Picture” or”Copy Image” button in Acrobat.

How to View Brown Image at Highest Possible Upstream Resolution: Download the PDF, view in Acrobat, fullscreen, zoom

Zooming Browns’ PDF fullscreen in Acrobat is probably signif. crisper than this screencap as filtered through WordPress:

best view of my .png: in browser, right-click, copy image address, paste into a new browser window and then go fullscreen; if WordPress UI junk STILL wastes pixels, try again/ try harder until its FULL SCREEN – I MEAN IT!

Here is the URL to open in new window with no WordPress UI wasting half the screen: https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/brown-entry-pdf-fullscreen-screencap-best-res.png – then go full screen using the two keyboard shortcuts in Chrome/Mac.

CONFIRMED: The PDF in Acrobat is crisper (more sharply pixellated, ironically) than my softened (w/ freewill fog) .pdf here.

The upstream downloaded zoomed .pdf is going to be the highest resolution available, and is guaranteed, rather than “maybe” a bitwise-true export.

As far as I can tell, no matter how I extract/create a .png from the .pdf, it’s NOT bitwise-true.

Do not view Browns’ PDF in-browser at academia.edu; very blurry there.

What Part of “Full Screen” Do You Not Understand?
🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Why I have to WASTE my time capturing online art here: Golden Ps. source site when click “full screen” fills 60% of your monitor, and WASTES 40% of the pixels.

So, in 10 simple steps, you can view eg https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/entry-into-jerusalem-golden.png literally actually full screen for non-drug meditation, i mean contemplation, purposes.

“Chrome” is ironically meant name; it REMOVES UI chrome/cruft /pixel waste. GIVE ME MY FULL SCREEN! Not 1 px x 1 px of remaining space for image and the UI geniuses are busy figuring how to cram more UI chrome over that, too.

1. Right-click any image at my WordPress site, and then select Copy Image Address.
2. In a new browser window, paste the .png URL string.
3. If WordPress STILL fills 60% of your monitor with unwanted screen-wasting UI junk (advertising WordPress UI instead of CONTENT, try again in a new window.
4. Finally you have accomplished FULL SCREEN 100%.
5. Mac Chrome keyboard shortcuts: you have to know/use both keyboard shortcuts together:
6. Control+Command+F = full screen, meaning not full screen.
7. Shift+Command+F = toggle menu junk and Address Bar.
   Practice, practice, practice those hand shapes; see:

Muscle-Memory Hand Shapes to Accomplish Actual Full Screen, not “Half-Screen Full Screen” 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Dup copies of images png files:

The above was my non-final attempt at full resolution:
“Brown Entry full photo from pdf Save Picture button.png” [10:11 a.m. February 11, 2023] only 1.4 MB?? dinky. that MIGHT be accurate per provided in .pdf. compare png in https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
The png-in-webpage is very blurry.

Todo

Add my various crops especially Entry.

Link remaining TOC items.

See Also

Decoding Browns’ Saint Martin Fresco: Mushroom Trees, Branches, Tree Shapes, Knives, Donkey, Finger Shapes, Youths, Gated Stone Wall
September 7, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/decoding-browns-saint-martin-fresco-mushroom-trees-branches-knives-donkey-youths-gated-stone-wall/

2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels

The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/

2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art

Page title:
Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works
Section heading:
Entheogens in Christian art (Brown & Brown 2019)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Entheogens-in-Christian-art

Browns’ Works

Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works (The Psychedelic Gospels)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/

Marcia Kupfer

“In Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative, art historian Marcia Kupfer (1993) devotes a chapter [see] to the history and interpretation of the Saint Martin murals.”

Brown 2019 References section lists two Marcia Kupfer books:

Kupfer, M. (1993). Romanesque wall painting in Central France: The politics of narrative. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Romanesque-Wall-Painting-Central-France/dp/0300057202/ –

Kupfer, M. (2003). The art of healing: Painting for the sick and the sinner in a medieval town. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Healing-Painting-Sinner-Medieval/dp/0271023031/ –