Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach

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December 4, 2024, Michael Hoffman
Cubensis-driven overflow
This is a draft article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​, a companion article in support of article:
Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability

Contents:

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  • Goal: Correct Rolfe “It’s impossible to say if Plaincourault has a traditional foundation”
  • Goal: Science-based (not folk myth based) psychedelic science & entheogen scholarship
  • Goal: Equip Cognitive Scientists to endure psychedelic eternalism
  • Goal: Open the gate for Loose Cognitive Science
  • Goal: Define Psychedelic Cognitive Science & Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion
  • Goal: Restore the role of Great Canterbury Psalter folio webpage image f134 (leg-hanging mushroom tree) as a teaching instrument.
  • Goal: Correct Brown’s error in this journal re: botching St Walburga tapestry Amanita imagery identification. [jps related]
  • Goal: Teach historical psychedelic Christianity.
  • Goal: Put pilzbaum Deniers on notice that their args will be routinely subjected to logical-fallacies critique & analysis to figure out which logical fallacies they are committing this time.
  • Goal: In CEQ, delete the sheister “Grief” fake factor; restore the “Dread regarding Control” factor. [jps related]
  • Goal: Warn about non-drug “entheogens”, against entheogenic esotericism
  • Goal: Bust Wasson; explain full expose [jps 2019 related]
  • Goal: Kill off the fallacious move, “Mycologists need to ‘consult’ ‘competent’ art historians.”
  • Goal: Reply to McCarthy & Priest [jps 2024 quotable]
  • Goal: Deliver Eadwine’s 1200 AD transmission of branching-message mushroom trees; give voice to the pilzbaum artists
  • Goal: Establish a Forbidden Word List
  • Goal: End the rehashed parroted narratives of Pop Secret Amanita Suppressed by the Big Bad Church that’s Perma Prohibitionist
  • Goal: Correctly assign credit for pilzbaum to Samorini, not Wasson or Allegro
  • Goal: Make the field (entheogen scholarship; Psychedelic Cognitive Science) understand that we don’t know anything, cannot make premature conclusions.
  • Goal: Move Past Mysticism; provide psychedelic eternalism as alternative to vague mysticism and reductionist materialism
  • Goal: Move the field (entheogen scholarship & Psychedelic Cognitive Science) forward, fully incorporating/digesting Brown 2019’s two Panofsky-to-Wasson letters
  • Goal: Establish that Christianity has a fully developed psilocybin tradition
  • Goal: Trashcan the CEQ-POS questionnaire; replace by my ECQ.
  • Goal: Require Open Science for Psychedelic Science: questionnaires must be publicly accessible, articles presenting them must be clear and easy to read, must have forum for critique and correction of malformed instruments [relates jps]
  • Goal: Identify exactly: What is there to be afraid of? [relates jps]
  • Goal: Provide stable control for Psilocybin users; open the gate for Loose Cog Science
  • Goal: Move FORWARD productively in psychedelic eternalism , Loose Cog Sci, entheogen scholarship. [jps – Wink/brown imploring deaf ears McC/Priest ignored them in Reply to Replies]
  • Goal: Everyone recognize and comprehend psychedelic eternalism
  • Goal: Make entheogen scholarship retract “No Cubensis in Europe.” [relates jps]
  • 1915: EVERYONE KNOWS THERE’S NO PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM IN MEXICO CULTURAL HISTORY, JUST PEYOTE. 😑
  • 1925: EVERYONE KNOWS THERE’S NO PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM IN EUROPE CULTURAL HISTORY, JUST AMANITA. 😑
  • Goal: Kill the myth “Europe = Amanita, Americas = Psilocybin”. [relates jps]
  • Goal: Debunkers of Pop Secret Amanita, stop conflating that with entheogenic Christianity history
  • Goal: End the Amanita Primacy Fallacy in entheogen scholarship [relates jps – M Hoffman giant section on Amanita Section #1, tiny odd wording in “Psilocybin & other minor misc stuff” section #99]
  • Goal: Follow Panofsky’s Brinckmann Citation and Photostats [relates jps]
  • Bibliography
  • See Also

Outline Design Strategy

todo: read local file “/TK/Idea Dev 2024-12.md” and update the structure here according to the plans there.

todo: strategy: identify 5 topics to teach psychedelic church in person:
{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Introduction

The Explicit Cubensis Paradigm Is Productive

The Secret Amanita Paradigm Is Not Productive

The Explicit Cubensis Paradigm Is Relevant

The Secret Amanita Paradigm Is Not Relevant

The Explicit Cubensis Paradigm Is Rewarding

The Secret Amanita Paradigm Is Not Rewarding

Goal: Understand astral ascent mysticism pivoting around fixed stars heimarmene Ogdoad zodiac

Goal: Help go through the Gates; Identify Peak Fear as Forced Loss of Control

Explain summarize Core theory ie psychedelic eternalism incl dependent 2-level control.

Bad trip: What exactly is there to be afraid of?

Goal: Explain how to restabilize control

How exactly to restabilize control to become eternalism-immunized/ compatble, cleansed/ purified/ undefiled? [add]

Goal: Deliver 13 entheogens in Rev 22:2 as Tree of Life, 22:14

BIBLE STUDY: Rev 22:2, 22:14 [add]

Cubensis in Europe / England, FALSE KNOWLEDGE NEGATIVITY BLINDNESS.

Christianity has a fully developed Psil tradition.

The Amanita Primacy Fallacy is rubbish, gives us but more takes away from us.

How to adjust how we relate to Amanita.

Perspective: at this time, Psilocybin is spreading – people need to know psychedelic eternalism.

Teach psychedelic eternalism and help people read about psychedelic eternalism in Christian art.

Goal: Separate Amanita from Psilocybin; Abandon Failed Hypothesis “Sacred Mushrooms” Grouping Amanita with Psilocybin

Against the 1957 Hypothesis that we can helpfully lump together as useful explanatory analytical construct “The Sacred Mushroom”

Specify sep’ly:

  • The Sacred Amanita, like Datura: deliriant
  • The Sacred Psilocybin Mushrooms eg Panaeolus/ Cubensis/ Liberty Caps.

Goal: Correct Rolfe “It’s impossible to say if Plaincourault has a traditional foundation”

Rolfe 1925, The Romance of the Fungus World, p. 291: “A Curious Myth”
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/warmup-readings-for-the-egodeath-mystery-show/#The-Romance-of-the-Fungus-World

todo: in that section, correct the date of Plaincourault per Samorini 1997: over 100 years earlier. not 1291 AD, but 1184 AD, per endnote 4.

Also Abbot Rignoux wrote fresco is “mushroom” as early as ~1890, not French group 1910 pub’d 1911.

Entheogen scholarship includes errors, young field; reset everything we “know”. Every field must continually correct its errors.

AGAINST WASSON, this is definitely Amanita, integrated with branching motif etc.

Wasson is wrong, the mycologists are right, and WASSON HAD TO LIE, DECEIVE, AND CENSOR, AND BLOCK PANOFSKY, AND BLOCK BRINCKMANN, AND INSULT MYCOLOGISTS.

THE MYCOLOGISTS ARE RIGHT.

WASSON (BANKER FOR POPE = 100% EXTREME CONFLICT OF INTEREST) IS POSTURING, FAKE, A PUT-ON, PLAY-ACTING, CON ARTIST BLUFFING, DUPLICITOUS, RUDE, POMPOUS, LIAR, DECEIVER, CENSOR, CHARLATAN, OBSTRUCTIONIST, FRAUD, PHONY, DISHONEST, caught red-handed censoring the art authorities at the same time as berating stupid ignorant mycologists for failing to “consult” the art authorities; exposed as a fraud by the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2019 Browns.

Huggins allies with the dishonest Wasson, passing silently over Wasson’s censorship while Huggins tries to quietly draw attention to Panofsky’s 2nd letter, as if nothing noteworthy, as if we had the letter since 1952.

Who do you side with: phony lying deceiver pretender? or truth and honesty?

Egodeath Mystery Show Ep16, Feb. 7, 2021: Read aloud “A Curious Myth”: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/idea-development-page-11/#Mystery-Show-2021-02-07

Goal: Science-based (not folk myth based) psychedelic science & entheogen scholarship

format: 1-2 takeaway injunctions. 2 quotes without commentary. can quote my writings. But quotes take excess wordcount, which is why these articles journal are written voiced as they are w/ footnotes.

Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins call to differentiate folk stories vs. sceintific historiography per W Hanegraaff.

Hane calls for historiography (of Western Esotericism) that’s empirical science based, not based on myth or mythical history.

Letcher debunks folk myth but overshoots, denying any use of mushroom in Christian history. I’m against Secret Amanita, and Letcher is as well, yet we are in incomm paradigms.

Letcher debunks pop S A, but falsely claims no mushroom in Christianity history.

My paradigm is the Explicit Cubensis paradigm, which is not addressed by Letcher even though I’ve been publishing the maximal entheogen theory of religion since 2002.

Goal: Equip Cognitive Scientists to endure psychedelic eternalism

Goal: Open the gate for Loose Cognitive Science

Goal: Define Psychedelic Cognitive Science & Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion

Goal: Restore the role of Great Canterbury Psalter folio webpage image f134 (leg-hanging mushroom tree) as a teaching instrument.

Goal: Correct Brown’s error in this journal re: botching St Walburga tapestry Amanita imagery identification

Goal: Teach historical psychedelic Christianity

Goal: Put pilzbaum Deniers on notice that their args will be routinely subjected to logical-fallacies critique & analysis to figure out which logical fallacies they are committing this time

Goal: In CEQ, delete the “Grief” fake factor; restore the “Dread regarding Control” factor

Goal: Warn about non-drug “entheogens”, against entheogenic esotericism

Hanegraaff 8 years before his keynote article

what Hane wrote about non-drug entheogens and Erik Davis egged him on, I strongly disagree with Davis.

No more stealing credit from Psilo to falsely elevate alleged techniques that cannot work, don’t say “non-drug contemplation can produce same effects as high-dose Psil”.

“can” is a false binary word implying 100% efficacy, but it’s 0%. “can” is a euphemism for “doesn’t”.

Cybermonk: Hey Hane, forget about non-drug esotericism.

Hanegraaff 8 years later: Hey, good idea: e e = non-drug esotericism. Everything is an entheogen.

Erik Davis: Great idea (in comment replies to Hane probably at acad.edu).

Cybermonk: Worst idea from any academic ever.

Goal: expose of Wasson’s Duplicity, Censorship, and Bluff Pseudo-Academic “Consulting” Argument from Authority

list what he omitted / suppressed, 5 things.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
Michael Hoffman, March 2006, Journal of Higher Criticism
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
section: Panofsky Argument is Anti-Entheogen Apologetics, Lacking Compellingness
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889217

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“Wasson doesn’t provide any citations of published scholarly studies of ‘mushroom trees’ or ‘Pilzbaum’, where we can weigh the merit of the art historians’ confident consensus and see how or whether they’ve addressed the most-persuasive objections to their consensus view.”

…

“Wasson doesn’t show us any citations of published scholarly studies of ‘mushroom trees’ or ‘Pilzbaum’: the result is 1-sided apologetics; within this presentation, we are only permitted to hear the opening assertions and position statement of one party in the debate, not to see how that position responds to the other side’s objections. 

Given that Wasson bandied-about this Panofsky excerpt for at least 17 years (1953-1970), and criticized Allegro for not accepting it, it’s remarkable that in Soma, the letters to the Times, or the letter to Allegro, Wasson didn’t go to the trouble of providing citations of the eminent art historians’ published studies on Pilzbaum.  These would need to be studies that convincingly show why the mushroom-and-tree interpretation is surely wrong – studies that would need to convince those who are not already convinced or too-easily convinced.  If no such compelling studies exist, Wasson is wrong to insist and assert as fact and as sound scholarly conclusion, as he does, year after year, that the mycologists’ view is a “misapprehension”, “error”, “blunder”, and “a naive misinterpretation”.

“With no citations given of published, thorough studies, the result is an argument from authority.  Wasson’s unscholarly attitude and method here, toward his readers, is striking.  We’re not even supposed to wonder how exactly the art historians reached their conclusions on this highly relevant and interesting matter; we’re to mentally picture hazy, idealized, intensive scholarly research, producing unimpeachable, compelling results, and imagine the conclusions as having been tested in the fire of robust critical examination.  Either this, or we’re supposed to be impressed and compelled solely by the arguments contained in Panofsky’s letter, as though it were impossible to think of any objections to his sparse argumentation.” – mh 2006, section “Panofsky Argument is Anti-Entheogen Apologetics, Lacking Compellingness”, http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889217

Goal: Kill off the fallacious move, “Mycologists need to ‘consult’ ‘competent’ art historians”

Rule: ACADEMICS ARE REQUIRED TO PUBLISH their views on pilzbaum, else doesn’t count – ie, counts as a ruse, a bluff; dishonest, insincere, unbelievable, a put-on; bad-faith argumentation.

A coerced faith-statement/ confession, doesn’t count, compromised; conflict of interest.

Historians and art historians must follow standard academic practice: publish else you’re just bluffing and making up claims, sheer assertions.

As everyone already knows, you must provide citations along with such claims to be

OH YES WE ARE SUPER FAMILIAR WITH PILZBAUM, WE’RE ALL OVER IT – YET, WE HAVE NOTHING TO CITE?! Not surprised, sounded like BS. At least real BS grows cubensis.

Goal: Reply to McCarthy & Priest

Pair of articles about Psychedelic Christianity in 2024 Journal of Psychedelic Studies.

Goal: Deliver Eadwine’s 1200 AD transmission of branching-message mushroom trees; give voice to the pilzbaum artists

Medieval 900-1300+ AD.

Goal: Establish a Forbidden Word List

Goal: End the rehashed parroted narratives of Pop Secret Amanita Suppressed by the Big Bad Church that’s Perma Prohibitionist

Goal: Correctly assign credit for pilzbaum to Samorini, not Wasson or Allegro

Correctly assign credit for pilzbaum to Samorini 1996-1998, not to Allegro (Irvin 2008), not to Wasson (Ruck 2001, Lash maybe).

Goal: Make the field (entheogen scholarship; Psychedelic Cognitive Science) understand that we don’t know anything, cannot make premature conclusions.

Get Stamets to retract “cube – not known in Spain” and “cube grows in subtropical”. Follow the high-credibility approach of Samo’s article about Lib Cap in Italy.

Sloppy, careless, lackadaisical non-science – WHERE ARE THE RESEARCH PAPERS DEVOTED TO FINDING CUBE IN EUROPE/ENGLAND?

Everyone wants the LACK of psil in Europe.

They don’t see it because they want it to not be there. So they can stick with parroting the “everyone knows” stories, instead of bothering with finding truth.

Change to doing EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION instead of presuppositions taken as if factually established after critical inquiry.

Goal: Move Past Mysticism; provide psychedelic eternalism as alternative to vague mysticism and reductionist materialism

Trashcan “MEQ” as denatured mock-mystical, and CEQ as worse – explain what to be afraid of and the transformation targeted / taught by the Teacher of Righteousness.
Moving Past Mystical Experiencing Questionnaire 🦄🌈

Goal: Move the field (entheogen scholarship & Psychedelic Cognitive Science) forward, fully incorporating/digesting Brown 2019’s two Panofsky-to-Wasson letters

Goal: Establish that Christianity has a fully developed psilocybin tradition

Goal: Trashcan the CEQ-POS questionnaire; replace by my ECQ

Reductionism is treating topic A as if topic B, discarding the essence of topic A.

Reductionism: treating mystical experience as if political unity, discarding mystical experience.

Unity Mysticism Is Fake, Reductionist Political-Unity Agenda: the kind of esotericism Wouter Hanegraaff rejects as “perennialist religionist”: this is the religionist confabulated synthetic artificial false model of mystical experience:

perennialism is actually defined as: unity boundary lifting to create political international unity. REductionist. Get rid of real mystical experience (control model transformation), to replace that by fake “mystical experience” conceived as “boundary cessation, to cause mystical unity to cause international political unity“

determinism is universally ubiquitously defined specifically as domino-chain causality. the opposite end of spectrum from eternalism.

The Spectrum of Variants from Determinism to Eternalism

  1. determinism (= domino-chain causality).
  2. superdeterminism.
  3. strong determinism (article by Chen).
  4. eternalism described by Josie Kins/ effectindex.com.
  5. all-at-once universe per Emily Adlam.
  6. eternalism per the Egodeath theory; non-branching, single future, future exists, 4D spacetime block universe eternalism PLUS/ including, the control model transformation concomitant.

I INSTANTLY noticed when read-aloud page 1 of James 1893 article The Dilemma of Determinism: he argues in terms of domino-chain causality, BUT what he is actually hating is Eternalism.

James tries to make domino-chain causality produce block-universe eternalism.

James is conflating two different models: determinism vs. eternalism.

Kyle Bromhall’s article points out the same thing, though instead of “eternalism” KB uses “logical determinism” ie article by Taggert on A series vs B series: the truth value … whether statements about the future have a truth value.

though kb takes the project in opposite direction from me (todo: specify my disagreement re big picture).

Hidden agenda of “common-core mysticism”/ “perennialism”/ “mysticism = non-boundary unity” = trojan horse for international political unity

the Egodeath theory is against the model called “common-core mysticism” and the model called “perennialism” and the model of mysticism that takes for granted that the essense of mystical experience is boundary suspension and unity” — because those are dishonest and reductionist, ultierior motive, they are incorrect and they are false pretences:

The reason why everyone says (falsely) mystical experience = unity experience, is because:

  • a stolen brief sensation of unity = beginner mystical experience.
  • the focus on unity was fake and invented by 1890 indian guru for pupose of political international unity.

Travis Kitchens wrote: “There’s the philosophy of James, Strassman says, and then there’s his theology, which was inspired by his connection with Swami Vivekananda.” — https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/21/idea-development-page-28/#letchers-2006-book-ruining-the-field-despite-my-high-profile-critical-book-review – todo: trace that reference, what does Strassman or Kitchens say, where, about James’ fake model “mystical experience = boundary-suspending unity” that’s reductionist trojan horse for international unity?

Like Eranos esotericism that’s co-opted for political or existential ends, discarding actual esoteric Transcendent Knowledge, per “religionism” and “perennialism” as criticized by Wouter Hanegraaff. “Traditionalism”. Cultural/political activiism abusing mystical experience theory:

Reductionism: Putting forth a non-boundary, unity model of mystical experience, for the purpose of serving a political agenda of international unity.

To accomplish political unity, we fabricated a model of mystical experience = unity, non-boundary. Trace this back to Vivekananda, James, Stace, Leary/ Pahnke, Richards, Griffiths. Highlight “unity” or “suspend boundary” in world mysticism, and omit phen’y of control transformation.

Mystical experience is control-model transformation, not non-boundary unity

the “non-boundary unity” model of mystical experience
nbum

non-boundary unity
nbu

“unity mysticism” vs. “control-transformation mysticism”

control-transformation mysticism
ctm

cybernetic mysticism

the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
vs
the Unity Theory of Ego Transcendence

10:01 am May 12, 2025 – in jan 1988 i didn’t label the bad old theory of ego transcendence vs. my good new theory. I named the new theory the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence – vs. what Ken Wilber / the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology theory? Ken Wilber says and everyone says that ego transcendence is about “unity” or “No Boundary”

Where did everyone get the false notion that mystical experience, ego transcendence, Transcendent Knowledge, satori, metaphysical revealation, psychedelic experiencing, or purification is about “unity” (boundary suspension between self vs. other) rather than about control transformation?

Swami Vivekanandi, Wm James, Stace, Leary/ Pahnke, Richards, Griffiths.

No Boundary: An Illuminating Overview of Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Ken Wilber, 1979
https://www.amazon.com/No-Boundary-Illuminating-Overview-Approaches/dp/0916820114/ —

unity mysticism
um

Mystical experience in fact is about control transformation (per Alan Watts), not about boundary suspension unity or non-boundary unity.

EVERYONE has embraced the 1890 fake false model of mystical experience as non-boundary unity [a false front for political unity], and ignored the true model of mystical experience as control-model transformation.

Mystical experience has been reduced and replaced by political unity agenda.

To do that, accounts of mystical experience got rid of control transformation, and replaced that by a focus on non-boundary unity.

There are two competing models of mystical experience:

  • the “non-boundary unity” model of mystical experience
  • the “control transformation” model of mystical experience

the “control transformation” model of mystical experience
cxmme

control-model transformation
cmt

everyone approaches psychedelics expecting to get — per Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) — non-boundary unity; to their surprise, what they get instead is control transformation.

whitewash and replace:

  • replace control transformation by non-boundary unity, in the model of mystical experience.
  • replace unpl chall exp by pleasant non-boundary unity (oceanic).

“oceanic” – read this cynically as trojan horse for political international unity; political unity.

“oceanic mysticism” is a cover-word euphemism (trojan horse) for political unity agenda. So is “common core common-core mysticism and perennialism; the giveaway is that common-core mysticism and perennialism is always, universally defined SPECIFICALLY as non-boundary unity.

Is common-core mysticism and perennialism the case, given that mystical experience is control-model transformation? Everyone: “God no!”

Is common-core mysticism and perennialism the case, given that mystical experience is non-boundary unity? Everyone: “Yes!”

common-core mysticism and perennialism, “positive-balanced”, BOUNDARY MYSTicism = nondual unity oneness model of mysticism

That is the source of the bogus, political unity model of mystical experience, confabulated by:

  1. Indian guru 1890.
  2. Wm James 1902.
  3. Walter Stace 1960.
  4. Tim Leary & Walter Pahnke 1962.
  5. Wm Richards 1975.
  6. Roland Griffiths 2006, using Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ).
  7. Hopkins group 2016, the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ).

An Indian guru 1890 invented fake “mysticism” model, “positive-balanced”, agenda being political unity foisted as “unity experience” – that’s the origin of boundary mysticism (unitive, nondual, oneness) – fake oneness model of mystical experience, agenda = political unity.

James 1902 adopted that “political unity = spirtual unity = mystical experience = oneness” fake model of , fabricated and confabulated model of mysticism – REDUCTIONIST.

ECQ – “Eternalism and Control Questionnaire”
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/eternalism-and-control-transformation-effects-in-the-psychedelics-effects-questionnaires/

Goal: Require Open Science for Psychedelic Science

Psychometrics questionnaires must be publicly accessible, articles presenting them must be clear and easy to read, must have forum for critique and correction of malformed instruments.

8th grade level readability.

Goal: Identify exactly: What is there to be afraid of?

What’s There to Be Afraid Of? Identifying the Shadow Dragon Monster
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/whats-there-to-be-afraid-of-identifying-the-shadow-dragon-monster/

Folk non-science: “On psychedelics, dread is of ego dissolution. The cause of bad trips is resisting ego dissolution. The solution is to surrender.”

Goal: Provide stable control for Psilocybin users; open the gate for Loose Cog Science

Strict Requirements for Teachers, Initiation Guides, and Students, Prior to Initiation
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/strict-requirements-for-teachers-initiation-guides-and-students-prior-to-initiation/

Goal: Move FORWARD productively in psychedelic eternalism , Loose Cog Sci, entheogen scholarship

Not get hung on badly argued uninformed writings of the Pop pilzbaum Deniers.

Goal: Everyone recognize and comprehend psychedelic eternalism (vs. possibilism)

(they have more trouble with Possibilism though)

Represented via {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Goal: entheogen scholarship must be directed toward Repeal of Psil Prohibition

– not folk morality tales of identity formation by laboring to construct a barrier between us heretic psychedelic vs them mainstream prohibitionists for eternity 

Goal: Make entheogen scholarship retract “No Cubensis in Europe”

Excellent quote in Wasson Russia vol 2, emailed to Cyberdisciple Dec 9 2024, about the folly of centuries of denying there’s Psil use in Mexico. Mycologists switched from centuries of confident proclamation of no mushroom in Mexico – now look how that is dominant established fact to the extreme; everyone now conflates Psil with Mexico. Yet we now face the identical sitation in Europe: Experts have known forever that Europe has Amanita the “secret Amanita cult”, but that Europe lacks a Psil/ Cubensis/ Panaeolus/ Liberty Caps tradition.

1915: EVERYONE KNOWS THERE’S NO PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM IN MEXICO CULTURAL HISTORY, JUST PEYOTE. 😑

1925: EVERYONE KNOWS THERE’S NO PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM IN EUROPE CULTURAL HISTORY, JUST AMANITA. 😑

Goal: Kill the myth “Europe = Amanita, Americas = Psilocybin”

Premature false confidence in a stumbling faltering new field, entheogen scholarship.

Goal: Debunkers of Pop Secret Amanita, stop conflating that with entheogenic Christianity history

Goal: End the Amanita Primacy Fallacy in entheogen scholarship

Goal: Follow Panofsky’s Brinckmann Citation and Photostats

Brinkmann book research German:

What page # discusses development of trees from pine to mushroom imagery?

What page # says that that development was universal & widespread & gradual/ smooth?

What page # discusses corruption of prototypes?

What page # says that that gradualness of development from pine to mushroom shape proves that the artist had no purpose in making viewers think of a mushroom? … says development from pine to mushroom proves that the development is unintentional, with no purpose for the mushroom imagery?

What page # mentions branches as conflicting with the mushroom imagery?

Does Drawer W3.2, Folder 20 include two photostats of pilzbaum?

  • A 990 miniature showing the start of development from pine to mushroom.
  • A 1200s glass painting showing an emphatic mushroom crown/ cap.

Bibliography

See Also

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