I found and confirmed and snagged a full-page screenshot of this HUGE elementary error by Ruck. Good tip from Hatsis and am really glad to confirm Ruck has gone off the deep end on his red and white obsession that I have to battle against to do constructive theory work.
With Hatsis’ lead in hand, I used full-text search at Amazon to target the page on the first try: https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushroom-Cross-Christianity-fertility/dp/0982556292/ –
Ruck wrote the following honker that Hatsis totally busted him for; here’s my screenshot:
One mystery remains: Why didn’t Irvin catch this huge error when publishing the Allegro 2019? From Irvin’s 2008 color book The Holy Mushroom, Irvin knew the cap isn’t red & white. 🤷♂️
I used Hatsis’ article quoted passage of Ruck’s appendix that’s in Allegro’s SMC book that Irvin republished.
I hate Ruck’s mis-steering the field obsessively based on the colors red and white.
Amanita is a 4th-rate, stomach-hurting deleriant than has nothing to do with psychedelic effects except to serve as a billboard for psilocybin, real, serious, adult mushrooms.
Yet Ruck banked the entire field on OBSESSION over Amanita (like many other sensationalists in the field).
Ruck actually proposes that the engine of the mystery religions is Amanita!
There’s NO WAY that would work!
Psilocybin would work PERFECTLY for that.
And Ruck pull quotes me before, alas, I learned to make a sharp, hard-line gatekeeping differentiation between mushrooms meaning kiddie Amanita, vs. mushrooms meaning actual, real, psychedelic mushrooms: Psilocybin.
So Ruck presents me as if I asserted:
Mixed wine all throughout in Hellenism is mushroom 🍄 wine [picture kiddie Amanita 🍄]
Cybermonk
So I am happy to see Ruck faceplant himself in his aggressive taunting misfire, https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/ — Hatsis totally caught Ruck making this huge false statement: Hatsis quotes Ruck asserting:
“One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians: a painting from a 14th century alchemical manuscript, now in the Bodleian library [sic] in Oxford. It is a treatise discussing the “salamander.” A drawing in the manuscript depicts a man apparently intoxicated, dancing or perhaps staggering, with one hand to his forehead, suggesting that he is dizzy or that he has just had an intense revelation. In the other hand, he holds a mushroom, which he evidently picked from a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted [with] white, and similar mushrooms branch from its stipe-like trunk…7″
[7] Carl A. P. Ruck, Fungus Redivivus: New Light on the Mushroom Controversy in John Marco Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 40th Anniversary Edition (Gnostic Media, 2009), pg. 376. … as Rush’s above quote indicates, this image is supposed to “silence the art critics”.”
/ end of Hatsis citation of Ruck
One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians: a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted with white, and similar mushrooms branch from its stipe-like trunk:
“Figure 1 (above) is the image in question. As should be demonstrably clear, the supposed “red cap spotted white” mushroom that Ruck describes isn’t that at all. The cap is unmistakably blue; the trunk inarguably green (amanita stems are white). “
Hatsis FTW! 🎉 🏆 🍄–>🗑🔥
DOWN WITH THE AMANITA PRIMACY FALLACY, MAKE WAY FOR REAL PSYCHEDELICS: PSILOCYBIN, and adult-level theorizing.
— Cybermonk 11:11 p.m. March 26, 2023
Dancing Man Has Helped Me Put Down the Amanita Primacy Fallacy and Clear that Obstacle Out of the Way 👍
See Also
Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian)
Links to Hatsis articles, including the .pdf and the cheapened webpage semi-version of the Hatsis Salamander article:
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis – direct links:
Article 2 (original PDF title, with appendixes):
Roasting the Salamander: Mushroom Cult Theorists Vs. Critical Historical Inquiry
August 18, 2013 (home page archived then has this article)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160218214557/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf
I’ve explained the esoteric mystic-state analogies in the right-foot “dancing man”/salamander image:
Salamander Mushroom Tree Right Side Cut (Dancing Man; Roasting Salamander Bestiary Image)
Article 2 (later HTML page title, missing appendixes):
Roasting Jan Irvin: Critical Historical Inquiry vs. Pseudointellectualism
Displayed date: November 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin
Good images of mushrooms in art demonstrating that there aren’t mushrooms in art.
The Egodeath theory 