Why My January 1988 Non-Branching Block Universe Ego Transcendence Realization Was Slam-Dunk Certain

Initial page content posted 10:49 p.m. March 1, 2023, Cybermonk

Contents:

• Intro
• Recent Voice Recordings Have Direct Good Discussion of Merit of Branching
• Why My January 1988 Non-Branching Block Universe Ego Transcendence Realization Was Slam-Dunk Certain
• Why Medieval Artists Are Completely Correct in Making {branching} Their Main Motif to Represent Transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
• Planned Topic: Appreciation of the Egodeath Community – move to Idea Dev p 18
• YI Tree Pairs: Why Short Tree Is Truth

Intro

The merit of ‘branching’ in explanatory theory in Physics/Time & in Myth/Art motifs.

I’m talking-through and writing-out my history of writing or explaining ego transcendence in terms of ‘branching’ and block-universe “non-branching”.

I have to do a good job of explaining why branch, branching, tree, egoic thinking, possibilism-thinking; non-branching = eternalism-thinking. My 2006 article omits non-branching (unlike 1997 summary).

{non-branching} (in Physics, in myth) is the main thing lacking or weak or not pointed enough.

I have to explain now the under-covered topic, of why non-branching summarizes the 2007 article and completes it, for closure of theory.

My 1997 myth-excluding, Core theory writeup has more on non-branching than my 2006 myth article.

Recent Voice Recordings Have Direct Good Discussion of Merit of Branching

Feb 26-28 2023 voice recordings eg 4759.wav have direct on-topic treatment.

todo: transcribe/summarize here, or produce & upload recordings as an Egodeath Mystery Show episode.

todo: copy early strong the Egodeath Yahoo Group posts to here though they are at egodeath.com, paragraphs gather about non-branching in Physics models of time, around 2001.

Why My January 1988 Non-Branching Block Universe Ego Transcendence Realization Was Slam-Dunk Certain

The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology & what became Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory as of 1988, put forth a weak hazy concept of the nature of ego transcendence.

Their grammar-challenged titled chapter in the new book Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, by Thomas Roberts & Michael Winkelman do a good job, a clear writeup, of confirming my withering suspicions/ characterizations of why I reject the explanatory paradigm of Transpersonal Psychology.

Article title:
Moving Past Mysticism: Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism Provides Scientific Basis, Superseding “Mysticism, Meditation, & Psychotherapy” Framework
Section heading:
Psychedelic Induced Transpersonal Experiences, Therapies, and Their Implications for Transpersonal Psychology (Roberts, 2013)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism-provides-a-scientific-explanatory-basis-for-mystic-state-experiencing/#Psychedelic-Induced-Transpersonal-Experiences

I agreed with Alan Watt’s model of sudden transformation of mental worldmodel, against Wilber’s SLOW (= never) model of 30 to 100 years of Advaita Meditation to accomplish nothing.

According to Wilber & Transpersonal Psychology, how ego transcendence works is that you do Advaita Meditation + Couch Psychotheraphy to recover trauma memories and process them, for 30 to 100 years, in order to accomplish nothing. And you should retain but reject and incorp into your new self … you should identify with and subsume your earlier developmental structures.

I agree with 1% of that.

According to Alan Watts, how ego transcendence works is, you meditate for indeterminate time until Zen Master Brad magically hits you with a stick and thus magically, suddenly for no reason, transmits a sudden change of your mental worldmodel from egoic thinking to transcendent thinking.

I agree with 1% of that.

In January 1988, in the window-walled, ivy-covered computer lab across the yard from my brick university dorm building, I managed to successfully explain ego transcendence in agreement with such confused thinking that Watts, Wilber, & the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology put forward 1957-1988, by a FAR SIMPLER, FAR MORE POTENT explanatory model: block-universe eternalism completely cancels out egoic thinking and supplants it, moving wholesale from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking.

It was night & day difference: my tiny, elegant, clear, potent model, vs. tons and tons of confusion and ineffective sawdust about reducing the size of your ego through 30-60-100 years of meditation to accomplish nothing.

This was not a moderate difference; this was night vs. day: endless heaps of noise and ineffective practice & explanations, OR, my tiny, elegant, successful model.

My only challenge at the point was not how to make my explnation successful, but merely, how to communicate clarity and a new technology to a backwards, confused world packed full with pseudo-explanations, like in 2023 we have the Amanita Primacy Fallacy, we have entheogen scholarship gone off the rails generally like Letcher Hatsis complains about, we have substitute for explanation, such as Clueless Pseudo-Science Lexicon Terms and Pseudo-Explanatory Constructs Such as ‘Naturalism’, ‘Ego Dissolution’, ‘Neuroplasticity’, ‘Nondual Unity Connectedness’, & ‘Default Mode Network’.

I wish to photograph and transcribe my earliest, August 1988 draft article as a point of reference, but really no need; it’s represented perfectly in my 1997 theory summary spec, and since Mr. Historical Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul both refused to reify and corroborate my theory, I instead added myth & esoteric art in the (lacking {handedness} & {non-branching}) great 2006 / 2007 main article.

Instead of in, say, November 14, 2001 (key date) writing that the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology article, I instead jumped from the short 1997 summary-spec outline, to the myth-connected 2006/2007 main article.

I have to double-check, but a day ago, when finding when I wrote about branching and snake, I rediscovered a milestone date, November 14, 2001, when on a grand scale, I realized there is a branch option: EITHER freewill fog and nothing is explicable, OR, myth is description of eternalism in the altered state.

url for the Egodeath Yahoo Group by find: branch and view first posts, 2001, archive 1: tbd, I briefly skimmed the hits the other night, it was striking how strongly I wrote (not about myth) in terms of non-branching, re: two competing models in Physics (and in Philosophy of Time, and in Reformed Theology).

Why Medieval Artists Are Completely Correct in Making {branching} Their Main Motif to Represent Transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

‘branching’ is discussed twice in my 1997 summary theory spec; find ‘branch’: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/self-control-cybernetics-dissociative-cognition-mystic-ego-death/#budaac

Site Map section
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-articles

Find ‘branch’ in page https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-1/

“Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis,
http://www.levity.com/techgnosis/tgtoc.html – 404, so see:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011116031148/http://www.levity.com/techgnosis/tgtoc.html [poor/vague, need proper reference]
asked the following. Michael Anderson [member #1 of the Egodeath community, ie the first post’er, & guitar amp’ist] asked the same question.”

Find “14” in archive 5:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-6-2001-11-11/ – found it, a post about the Nov. 14, 2001, a branching choice between two worldmodels.

Insanely long epic (probably good) post. It is strangely rooted in like Freke & Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries, which is somewhat founded on Elaine Pagels’ first 3 books including The Gnostic Gospels.

Because posted prior to Valentine’s 2004, therefore it’s at Egodeath.com too.

Suitable post Subject:

Subject: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
November 15, 2001 (about a November 14, 2001 milestone realization)
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-6-2001-11-11/#message285 –

“A couple years ago [referring to ~1995 salvation experience of repudiating possibilism-thinking, probably], the Holy Spirit revealed two paths open to me: The Branch appeared — two ways appeared before me which I didn’t then identify with the Christian hell and heaven as deliberately designed, opposing systems of thinking. I chose determinism and knew I had entered heaven, I knew my sin was in principle cancelled and rooted out, but still didn’t know how this deterministic sin-cancellation connected with 2-level original Christianity.”

… goes on for hundreds of pages

Planned Topic: Appreciation of the Egodeath Community

Your posts are alive immortalized and imperishable for eternity in the Max Freakout Archives of the Egodeath Yahoo Group.

The Kafei Distinction, Between Determinism vs. Eternalism

Though Kafei used term “the absolute”, it is the Kafei distinction — between “determinism” vs. “eternalism” (which Kafei calls “the absolute”).

Kafei essentially pointed out that it doesn’t work, the 2006 main article’s redefinition of determinism to mean eternalism rather than in-time domino-chain determinism w/ non-existing future.

Recently I discovered very interesting date coincidences: including: the final day of finalizing the main, 2006/2007 article, Sep 12, 2007, interleaved with that announcement post, were/are posts (good posts) about Eternalism & Superdeterminism. At the Egodeath Yahoo Group archive.

IOW When I finalized my 2006 main article, I should have search/replaced determinism by eternalism.

But was drowning in death at the time, and then took hiatus from public posting 3.75 years starting 2008.

YI Tree Pairs: Why Short Tree Is Truth

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-24-top –

[11:40 p.m. March 1, 2023] why in a YI tree pair in this genre, the short little tree is considered truth, but the tall, serpent filled, multi-cap branching big tree is considered false:

Given a standard tree:

Closer to the ground = non-branching trunk = truth.

High branches = more branching = less true.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/#Plate-9 –