Under construction, in that I’m still differentiating what needs to be covered in this type of page, vs. eg in a short About page (About This Website 1-pager).
Cybermonk 10:21 p.m. February 27, 2023
Contents:
- Possibly See the To-Be-Repaired “About” Page Instead
- Motivation for Creating this Page
- Just the Basic FAQs
Possible Breakout of Related Pages
- Welcome/Intro: The broadest, shallowest page of the bunch. A little intro, a little history, a little explanation of content, a little About Me, etc. A few of the main articles described.
- About: Short. 1-pager. About the website, more than about the Theory. You Are Here at this site instead of somewhere else. This site contains 2020-2023 content; in contrast, see Egodeath.com for content written 1988-2007, and see the Egodeath Yahoo Group for 2001-2019 content.
- History: Formatted / arranged by date.
- Summary: A heap of competing nutshell summaries.
- Possibilism vs Eternalism – summarize per field of Philosophy, point out the obvious tree vs. snake contrast, and add Control but state that Control (autonomous/monolithic vs. dependent/ 2-level) must be distinctly highlighted and (at a more detailed level) cannot be adequately covered under the umbrella of “Philosophy of Time: Eternalism”.
Just the Basic FAQs
Publications: Egodeath.com 1995-2007, the Egodeath Yahoo Group 2001-2019, EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com 2020-2023.
Topics: religious mythology as description of classic psychedelics (especially Psilocybin) experiencing, especially the main “effect” which is transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
Character of the body of knowledge: the Egodeath theory is a structured theory, explicit, very summary-driven.
The Egodeath theory aka the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism is a revolutionary new explanatory framework paradigm.
If a theory is not usefully summarizable, it’s baloney and a put-on and isn’t really a theory.
Creator; brains behind the op: Michael Hoffman / Cybermonk.
How long been working on: 37 years. October 26 or 27, 1985. Back to the Future day. 2023/02 – 1985/10 = 2022/14 – 1985/10 = 37 years 4 mo = 37 1/3 years; 37 years.
Motivation for creating the Egodeath theory: 1985-1987 answer: I need to repair my control malfunction per Self Help New Age Humanistic/Transpersonal Psychology, and Ego transcendence will be a needed component, and mystics SUCK at expressing ego transcendence / Transcendent Knowledge (they LIKE being inarticulate, foggy, poetic, beyond comprehension),
so I will raid and invade their area and strip gnosis out of their undeserving hands and show them how it’s done effectively, per STEM approach of figure sht out and explain it effectively, directly, and efficiently.
I expect a kind of posi-control (I don’t think I was necessarily being extremist or perfectionist, but I may well have been, in lots of ways). Expect non-dysfunctional cross-time control.
January 1988 answer: It turns out, the nature of Transcendent Knowledge and ego transcendence is drastically different than the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology or Wilber’s engine-missing complicated Integral Theory.
Turns out, “reducing the size of your ego” is entirely confused, and ego transcendence is actually a matter of absolutely totally cancelling out the ego entirely by switching to a different, block universe worldmodel.
My project switched from focusing on trying to get a kind of control, to focusing on documenting the real nature of ego transcendence: communicating a technical, cognitive-experiential theory.
The engine is missing from Integral Theory b/c Wilber provides Advaita meditation as if it’s an effective engine, which it isn’t at all — pretty much the exact opposite; the best way of preventing enlightenment is meditation, or what passes for “meditation”).
Thomas Robts and Michael Winkelman have a good summary article in book Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology which confirms my recent suspiciions of why Transpersonal Psychology is bunk, including Stan Grof (psychedelics in service of the “personal trauma remembering and processsing” paradigm).
If you’re looking for ways to avoid enlightenment, and prevent it through the ploy of inert substitute replacement, I give top recommendation to Transpersonal Psychology. Guaranteed no threat to egoic delusion.
Background qualifications: Religiously diverse childhood upbringing: Jewish, Christian, Occult/Esoteric, Restorationist Christian (missing is Catholic), also unavoidable Buddhist aspects, early Ken Wilber, then mid-period Wilber; Alan Watts: Way of Zen (article: Zen and the Problem of Control, in 1960 book This Is It).
Childhood/high school: Possessed & crazed by music, Rock, electric guitar, Beatles (childhood picks: the Psychedelic albums), Animals (childhood track picks: Sandoz).
Motivation for Creating this Page
50% chance I’ll abandon this new page and repair the About page instead. Unless it makes sense to have both an About page and an Intro/ Orientation/ Welcome Mat / “What the F Is This” page.
For my 2023 article, I need to NOT make the same mistake I made for 2006 article, of failing to have an intro summary.
I recently assessed this website for Intro perspective eg for Matthew Johnson scoping this site. It failed. I have like 6 Intro pages, none of them meet elementary basic requirements for About/ Welcome Mat / Where Am I & What’s The Deal?
List of Failed Intro Pages
The About Page
- Fails to have a date.
- It just skips intro, just like so many product guides – so hard for people to take a “first day kindergarten welcome introduction”.
- My lack of Intro reflects my lack of social niceties.
- Remember that although I’m proud of the Intro of my main 2006 article, I failed to have it IN the article until a YEAR later! (Sep 12 2007 vs Oct 2 2006 IIRC.)
Mechanical webpage type: – A Wide “Page”, Not a “Post” with Date URL
As I recall, the closest I have to the elementary basic welcome mat orientation is the About page, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/about/ which is in the banner at top of site consistently.
What’s lacking / failing in the About page: tbd
Examples of Sensible Welcome Mat/ About/ Initial Orientation Pages
Wikipedia Entry About Wikipedia
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page – the very first words are:
Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
6,624,710 articles in English
and the word “Wikipedia” is linked, to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia – “This article is about the online encyclopedia.”
Paragraph 1:
“Wikipedia[note 3] is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki.
“Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.[3]
“It is consistently one of the 10 most popular websites ranked by Similarweb and formerly Alexa; as of 2022, Wikipedia was ranked the 5th most popular site in the world.[4]
“It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through donations.[5]”
I would start off instead talking about the really great sentence 1 & Paragraph 1 style of approach:
Sentence 1 = the very first most elementary thing you need to know, in plain language.
Paragraph 1 = Same: The very first most elementary things you need to know, in plain language. If nothing else, know these 2-3 points about the topic.
Page: “History of Developing the Egodeath Theory”
Again, a bona fide Intro/Welcome / About page would have a SECTION about history of devmt, but would not be EXCLUSIVELY framed & focused that way.
Sure, this page is RELEVANT and is an ASPECT of Welcome Mat / Initial Orientation, “Where Am I?”
History of Developing the Egodeath Theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/history-of-developing-the-egodeath-theory/
About the Egodeath Theory, Including the Cybernetic Theory & the Mytheme Theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/about-the-egodeath-theory-the-cybernetic-theory-the-mytheme-theory/
Page: “Summary of the Egodeath theory” (and Why It’s Not a Suitable Intro Page)
This page is actually a heap of summaries competing against each other.
A real bona fide Welcome/ About/ Intro/ Orientation page would have SOME summary, a summary SECTION, but would not just be a bare heap of summaries competing against each other.
This didn’t intend to end up so rough, so lacking a lead-in: because I put all focus on multiple summaries, there is no intro.
Summary of the Egodeath theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/first-blog-post/
Page: “Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control” (and Why It’s Not a Suitable Intro Page)
Too in-depth.
The Welcome About article should have a nutshell summary section, not be entirely focused on transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
This is set up to dive into this particular key topic — un-framed.
I doubt this page can serve as the needed kind of welcome mat/ orientation welcome session/ invitation:
Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/possibilism-vs-eternalism-2-models-of-time-and-control/
The Egodeath theory 