The Corruption of Art by Entheogen Scholars

Contents:

• Intro
• TOO MANY MUSHROOMS
• Glad I Rated the Book Shroom as 4 Stars, not 3 Stars
• todo: headings
• Entheogen Scholars, WRITE EXPLICITLY ABOUT CUBENSIS ON BOVINE CATTLE DUNG IN ENGLAND, GODDAMIT! Stop Your Silent, Prejudiced Lying & Information Blackout!

Huggins’ 2024 article “Dizzy” article has side-by-side of the above two versions of the image.

Why the F doesn’t Huggins cite my superior article http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – BOGUS! My article already addressed Huggins’ games and objections way back in 2006.

From https://www.britannica.com/topic/zodiac –

♈ Aries (Ram)
♉ Taurus (Bull)
♊ Gemini (Twins)
♋ Cancer (Crab)
♌ Leo (Lion)
♍ Virgo (Virgin)
♎ Libra (Balance)
♏ Scorpius (Scorpion)
♐ Sagittarius (Archer)
♑ Capricornus (Goat)
♒ Aquarius (Water Bearer)
♓ Pisces (Fish)

Bottom band of woodcut, Left to Right (= Earth POV):
Cancer (Crab), Leo (Lion), Virgo (Virgin), Libra (Balance), Scorpius (Scorpion), Sagittarius (Archer).

Upper band of woodcut, Right to Left:
Capricornus (Goat), Aquarius (Water Bearer), Pisces (Fish), Aries (Ram), Taurus (Bull), Gemini (Twins).

page 2 of Entheos Issue 3:
First Printing, September 2002. 200 copies. This is copy 140.
All graphics, layout and printing performed by Entheomedia.
Cover: A fresco of the Taurocthony from the Mithraum at Marino located in the Alban Hills, near Rome.
Editor, Graphics & Layout Mark Hoffman
We are very happy to welcome Michael Winkelman, … to our Editorial Advisory Board!

Intro

Jerry Brown missed this aspect — deliberate corruption of art — when criticizing reliance on blurry Internet images. The situation is worse than that.

Letcher calls out Kat McKenna for redrawing the mushroom cave shaman with clear mushrooms unlike the cave photo. However, a cave photo of the figure is shown in Samorini’s book — Letcher’s case is weak. The cave photo looks fairly clearly like mushrooms, and Kat did a reasonable job of producing a cleaned up drawing based on this justifiable reading.

The cover art of Entheos journal 2002 is deliberately shifted red and hides the blue-stemmed psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg, I just now realized and figured out to solve a mystery since 2002. Realized/solved 9:30 PM May 24, 2023.

I was able to figure this out and recognize what’s going on here with this poor quality picture which I had been wondering about for the past two years and I have also been wondering for a very long time like since 2005, and I have stated many times I’ve how incredulous I was over the years:

It’s unbelievable that the Ruck committee wrote a major long article about Mithraism, which became a book about Mithraism, for issue number 3 of this journal, but they leapt at the red and white colors (Amanita!) and yet they never mentioned the Psilocybin Mushroom in Mithras’ leg!

Mystery: why is the art quality so bad on the cover of this Entheos issue?

the tauroctony is reversed, which shows the complete cluelessness (not that I understood yet the {handedness} motif, until 2015-2023).

The solution is that the art was deliberately shifted and forced into the red to try to make it have Amanita colors, red and white.

I was able to recognize that explanation tonight when pulling out this issue for the first time since 2006.

I was now able to recognize what’s going on here is a deliberate corruption of art in order to force the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

I can think of three violations done by entheogen scholars here:

2002: Entheos journal cover tauroctony image forced red, thus obscuring the blue-stemmed psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg.

2008: The Holy Mushroom, Jan Irvin. An instance that I wrote about recently the 2008 book the holy mushroom by Jan Irvin gallery color version of the book does have a color version of the dancing man bestiary image, but the colors are awful.

The colors are awful because they are skewed to the red, which is how I recognized tonight the same corruption applied to Entheos journal issue three.

2009: in the Ruck appendix article Fungus Revivivus in SMC book by Allegro, published by Irvin, Carl Ruck falsely states that the dancing man salamander bestiary image has a mushroom tree with a “red” and white cap.

This is plainly false, as Thomas Hatsis exposes; it is a light blue cap — why didn’t Jan Irvin correct Ruck? Doesn’t Irvin’s 2008 book the holy mushroom have a color version of this dancing man image? Yes, but it is corrupted.

Jan Irvin 2008 & 2009 is participating in a corruption of art (the salamander image) to try to force it to be Amanita.

I recently exposed Jan Irvin’s 2008 book the holy mushroom’s gallery for deliberately trying to force the “dancing man” mushroom tree cap to be red instead of light blue.

Pictures: see my main page about dancing man salamander bestiary. Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian)– main page about this.

and see my main page about Entheos journal. Entheos Issues 1-4, Mark Hoffman

TOO MANY MUSHROOMS

I am debating photographing my issue three with the tauroctony Mithraism on the cover, reversed stupidly to show Mithras standing on left leg instead of right.

but I am somewhat running out of server space for images, because too many mushrooms.

Glad I Rated the Book Shroom as 4 Stars, not 3 Stars

Against Letscher 2006 book Shrooms which says that there is no history… you have to understand this book as a counter narrative.

his book is to tell a counter-narrative against the 2005 popular England narrative of psilocybin enthusiasts who want to claim that there is a so-called “cult tradition”, meaning religious tradition of “the magic mushroom” in Europe history.

Andy Letcher tries to deliver a critique of Wasson and of allegro and of Carl Ruck and of McKenna. These are highly valuable critiques, must-read.

Pay Closest Attention to Word Choice by Entheogen Scholars that I Would Never Employ

Andy Letcher uses cringey word choice: prissy, smug, tries to ingratiate himself with an imagined Establishment mainstream, tut-tutting, prohibitionist, puerile attitudes that he strikes an affectation stance and pose; posture; posturing of mocking pop drug users.

it is a very annoying posturing and word choice — especially critique every word: every word is loaded and laden with a moralizing affectation.

Letcher Seeks to Debunk 5 Things

Andy Letcher is inconsistent in what he is disproving.

That’s because he delivers distinct disproof of these four entheogen scholars, and he also gives a general disproof.

Letcher delivers five disproofs, with his general this disproof that there was “a sacred mushroom secret underground sect cult tradition”.

url https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060828285/ —

Entheogen Scholars’ Bizarre Cult of the Word ‘Cult’

all you people drive me nuts

you and your stupid word ‘cult’

what the hell is with your stupid word ‘cult’ that all of you keep repeating

“cult, cult, cult” 🙉 😖

“A secret cult tradition didnt exist!” brittlely proclaims Letcher, with nary a thought of a non-secret, non-cultic use.

every other word, it’s always ‘cult’.

what the hell are you even talking about?!

you’re all insane, what the F!

Their mal-word ‘cult’ connotes “religious but not institutional mainstream” tradition history in Europe.

4-hour Voice recording yesterday About Book Shroom

In the recording, I go into some depth of analysis of how I am in a different, incommensurable paradigm, different than the field of entheogen scholarship and different than Lecher’s rebuttal to that field.

Recording 5476 has high-quality, interesting miking of voice, no guitar for the most part, and therefore should be very easy and fast to produce and upload as the Egodeath Mystery Show.

The Mytheme theory tested and corroborated once again! 🎉

I also discuss a recent successful problem-solving of the Eustace window, with the right-hand paw of the lion touching the supposedly bad branching cubensis tree — but actually, specifically, touching the right-hand branch of the branching cubensis tree, which branch is considered to be equal to represent non-branching — thus supporting, rather than refuting, my Egodeath theory of myth! 🎉

The Real Question: To what extent psilocybin eternalism in myth?

After yesterday’s recording session, my idea that I did not have a chance to record was that:

My specialty is myth, not “religion”; psilocybin eternalism in myth.

My Phase 2 work is to cooroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (the Core egodeath theory; the Theory of Psychedelic Cybernetic Eternalism ) by proving that myth is primarily depiction of psychedelic eternalism.

My Phase 2 work (1998-2023) is to prove that myth is primarily depiction of psychedelic eternalism.

Twice the (messy, overgrowth analogies) footprint, of my simple Core theory, so took twice as long:

1985-1997 Core theory: 12 years.

1998-2023 Mytheme theory: 25 years.

Alien to Letcher Hatsis, I prove that myth is psychedelic eternalism.

That theory-proof happens to entail proving that there’s a history of psil mushroom (& Amanita imagery/tropes) use for Transcendent Knowledge in Europe.

But that’s not my paradigm-driving concern.

Forget my misrepresentative call of 2006, calling for:

To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?

My ACTUAL search from 1998-2023 has been:

To what extent psilocybin eternalism in myth?

eg the Eucharist as described in systematic theology and by the Church fathers.

I never looked for “a secret mushroom cult tradition”.

Letcher Hatsis’ would-be rebuttal doesn’t touch the Egodeath theory’s paradigm of entheogen scholarship.

Entheogen Scholars, WRITE EXPLICITLY ABOUT CUBENSIS ON BOVINE CATTLE DUNG IN ENGLAND, GODDAMIT! Stop Your Silent, Prejudiced Lying & Information Blackout!

I am most loudly yelling at entheogen scholars: goddammit, TALK ABOUT CUBENSIS IN ENGLAND/EUROPE!

Stop giving that topic the silent treatment information blackout cover-up operation, like done by Paul Stamets where everybody always shines the spotlight on making a strong vigorous proof by emphasizing that the cow is sacred because of dung in the subtropical area —

but as loudly as they make THAT point, they are equally silent in their bunk and bogus implicit false assertion that there never grew cubensis on cattle dung in England/ Europe.

If these unthinking, incoherent, anti-psilocybin, prejudiced entheogen scholars were to make an explicit assertion of this key crucial topic, instead of limiting themselves to making only an implicit assertion of the stupid position, it would become clear how ludicrous and ridiculous it is to claim that somehow, there is cattle dung in England yet no cubensis mushrooms —

which doesn’t make any sense at all, and you have some verbose explaining to do, if you are going to try to explicitly foist your bunk claim on us.

Please EXPLICITLY CLAIM that there’s no cubensis on cattle bovine dung in non-subtropical areas.

Entheogen scholars, I dare you to put forth of this ludicrous, false shared presupposition, that all the stupid people in this field all share, and they all are dead silent on this topic; they never ever make a peep about this bunk implicit assertion that they all hold in the submerged 90% part of their iceberg presupposition network.

Against Andy Letcher, I do not have a theory of religion, but I have a theory of myth, which includes religion.

By focusing on psilocybin across history, I greedily encompass 20th C ergot too.

By focusing on myth across history, I greedily encompass religion too.

My center of focus is more myth than religion. I needed in 1998 Mr. Jesus & Mr. Paul to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

I immediately found they don’t exist, so I switched (per The Jesus Mysteries book) to looking to myth, containing psilocybin eternalism/”determinism”, to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

Religious mythology is replete with psilocybin eternalism, against Letcher who pleases conventional mainstream publishers in 2006 by claiming there is no tradition of secret cult use of The Mushroom, against the trendy — Letcher cashing in — reaction to England legalizing psil mushrooms at that time.

The book Shroom is a mainstream-publisher, hasty, shallow, rush job, conventional book, that is NOT engaging with or rebutting psilocybin eternalism in myth.

Religious mythology is (above all) depiction of psilocybin eternalism, I recognized and proved since 2000.

That’s not in the paradigm that Letcher Hatsis lives within.

I solved disproving Letcher, via an alien trajectory, an incommensurable paradigm, by making an end-run around his incredibly brittle network of presuppositions.

Which Thomas Hatsis (the leader of the Disciplaeie Allegroiaei) then copy/pasted, except to assert scopolamine ointment, against Letcher.

I am saying that there is psilocybin mushroom effects imagery in myth — and thus side-step the whole confusion about the nature of religion.

Letcher’s book Shroom is a rebuttal of the 2005 popular England claim, that there is a tradition of specifically religious spiritual mystical use of psilocybin mushrooms.

Letcher strives to disprove that there was such a “secret cult spiritual tradition”, and he absolutely conflates, in a way that I can’t even grasp.

I talk about this in the recording.

for Letcher it is a oxymoron: non-secret mushroom use would be an oxymoron; it is literally unthinkable to him.

Andy Letcher is incapable of thinking the thought of “non-secret mushroom use”.

In his mind, he is not able to differentiate “secret” distinct from “mushroom use”, because he thinks that:

GIVEN (100% firmly bc 100% unconsciously):

The world is separated into an oppressor suppressor prohibitionist mainstream, divided against an underground counterculture oppressed suppressed psychedelics users.

When the entire field of entheogen scholarship takes this as a unconscious axiom, even retained by Thomas Hatsis and Andy Letcher in the very midst of them debunking popular theories, they continue to think in these rutted assumptions, that the only possible theory of mushrooms is inherently & necessarily a theory of “secret suppressed counterculture” use, against an ALWAYS prohibitionist mainstream.

http://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com: “Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity”

Letcher unthinkingly, unconsciously takes it for granted that, a fact given to him by God directly, a fact of the universe is that everybody knows that:

Mainstream institutional culture is inherently prohibitionist, and any use of religious use of mushroom is always, inherently counterculture, underground, suppressed, and secret.

To Letcher, to propose that the Bernward door contains “mushrooms” is exactly identical, the same thing as asserting that the door contains “secret mushrooms”.

As atrocious and maddening as Letcher’s awful treatment of the Bernward doors, nevertheless we can deduce from that a valuable realization about what went wrong in entheogen scholarship’s bad, bunk paradigm:

the “secret Amanita counterculture” paradigm, against my Samorini-like “psilocybin Eucharist mainstream” paradigm.

Ruck’s very PARADIGM is “secret Amanita”.

That is the only theory that Andy Letcher is capable of imagining himself to be disproving.

The idea of “secret” is impossible to distinguish from the concept of “mushroom”, in Letcher’s confused, unthinking, unconscious mind.

Thomas Hatsis is less radical than Letcher, who denies a history of religious scopalamine use. Hatsis positively asserts scopalamine ointment tradition* and so he is an entheogen scholar. Letcher denies any religious tradition history of mushroom use.

*Watch out! loaded word choice! The Entire predominant conventional lexicon in this field is tainted.

Hatsis is a debunker following (copypaste) Letcher’s form and ruts of thinking.

I would feel lonely, and the only person on earth who is able to analyze and separate the two ideas of secret and mushroom, except that there is one person who followed in my wake, and that is a Jan Irvin 2008.

Irvin’s 2008 book The Holy Mushroom consistently, clearly calls to separate the concept of “secret” from the concept of mushroom use.

— despite the false claims of Thomas Hatsis, who mis-labels Jan Irvin as a “‘Secret’ Christian Amanita ‘Cult’ theorist”.

Jan Irvin, like John Rush, almost always means amanita, even re-painting the bestiary salamander image from blue to red by sheer force — just like I recognized tonight was done to the cover 2002 Entheos journal Mithras image.

Jan Irvin 2008 clearly says that we need to stop assuming that mushroom use was secret.

If it weren’t for 2008 Jan Irvin, I would feel like I’m the only person on earth who is able to differentiate the idea of “secret” versus the word “mushrooms”.

Jerry Brown also calls for a re-rethinking the idea of “secret”, though he doesn’t do quite a good and vigorous of a job as is needed there.

Brown 2016 & 2019 at least raises the question of: what sense of the word “secrecy” (he turns around and subtitles the book with the word ‘secret’). Given proof of mushroom imagery in MAINSTREAM cathedrals, illuminated manuscripts, and churches (like Irvin 2008).

Letcher Hatsis is incapable of comprehending the separation of “secret” from “mushrooms”, following the unreflective mental rut set by Allegro & Ruck.

Cybermonk May 24, 2023