1:20 pm November 25, 2024, Michael Hoffman
Ordinary-State, Literalist, Reductionist Misreading of Esoteric Art: The Perspective of Those on the Outside
Inside the gates of the City of God in Rev 22, is cybernetic peace and control stability; the bride of Christ; lower control agency made to submit to the higher, uncontrollable root of control-ability; the hidden, uncontrollable, mysterious source of thoughts.
Outside the gates are the tormented, blade-poked, demon-harassed, flame-roasted, wailing and gnashing of teeth, autonomous self-control grinding its gears trying to bring childish, polluted thinking through the psychedelic eternalism gate.
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Cyberdisciple wrote:
“Reading secondary scholarship can be useful: it can serve as launching pads to new heights of interpretation.
“I set as a test experiment, to see what value there is in reading and commenting on secondary scholarship.
“As I was reading, more and more connections started to click, like turning the lights back on in this part of my thinking.
“Then I started to make new connections between the topics.”
I often experience that I grasp and figured out something new, even though I seemingly wrote the idea before.
Connections and perspectives are increased, like added connections in a Paul Thagard computer model of a historical paradigm shift in a field of knowledge.
A superpower that an effective scholar must have is, the ability to transform other scholars’ garbled, mis-framed, confusion-driven, clueless writings, by Those on the Outside.
Never write off a scholar altogether in a given field, especially a field that is underrepresented and only has a handful of scholars contributing any writings on the topic.
I have benefitted enormously by engaging and transforming the writings and arguments that are contributed by deniers of mushrooms in Christian history, even though they contribute an exercise on logical fallacies and wrong framing:
Wasson, Panofsky, Bennett, Letcher, Hatsis, and Huggins.
Their on-topic though badly argued writings have the potential for an astute scholar to transform them productively.
Thomas Hatsis, previously pushing against former entheogen scholar Jan Irvin, has lately contributed less on the topic of mushrooms in Christian art.
But Ronald Huggins (Hatsis Jr.) has stepped in to fill the roller derby skates of the banana Thomas “Allegro is my favorite author” Hatsis 🍌🛼 to keep the river of logical fallacies productively flowing.
Huggins contacted Wouter “Stumbling on a rock is an entheogenic practice because it can produce the same effects as a high dose of Psilocybin” Hanegraaff, in the Dizzy Salamander article.
None of them could figure out the (literalist, reductionist, ordinary-state) reason why the salamander is replaced by a Phoenix after the man kills the salamander.
🔱🔥🦎–>🐦🔥 🖼️🧐🤔🤷♂️
“The question of how a salamander came to be depicted as a bird is beyond the scope of the present essay.
“The author [Huggins] consulted Professors Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Peter J. Forshaw of the University of Amsterdam, both specialists in Western esotericism and Hermetic philosophy.
“They were also puzzled by the images though noting their similarity to standard depictions of the Phoenix.”
I haven’t seen such puzzlement from the top historian of Western Esotericism since Hanegraaff wrote:
Saturn [the Hebdomad; the 7th sphere] … Whether the fixed stars should be included or should rather be associated with the Ogdoad [the 8th sphere] remains an open question for me.
Wouter Hanegraaff, footnote 114, page 294, Hermetic Spirituality
For his dizzy article, Huggins recently contacted Letcher Hatsis (the Psychedelic Witc– Historian) in order to copypaste the same level of quality of argumentation — “sound, tried and true historiographical methodology; see my articles somewhere on the web.”
Sound methodology such as using bad argumentation and mistranslated texts, read reductionistically as if literalist writing, to constrain the meaning of the accompanying art, as if the artist’s intent is just to illustrate the text, and has no other purpose, agenda, and message to communicate.
Huggins wrote “the weight of Hatsis’ arguments has not really been appreciated within the PMT [Psychedelic Mushroom in Christian Art Theorists] community.”
I fully appreciate the weight of the failed psychedelic witch’s argumentation.
Artists purposefully present mushroom imagery in Christian art together with {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, to depict how the threat of loss of control teaches, prods, and drives mental model transformation from the branching-possibilities model of control with automous control agency, to the eternal non-branching model with 2-level control.
The final result of this mental model transformation is figured as a marriage pact from Mithras to Sol to authorize Sol as a stable, viable, effective, consciously virtual-only control agent and locus of controllership.
Sol is vulnerable to Mithras as the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts, frozen in the heimarmene rock of pre-existing fatedness.
Sol is trained and taught by Mithras, to be reshaped and brought into full practical conformity with eternalism, in a sense stepping outside of the heimarmene serpent-wrapped cosmic rock, spiritually lifted up into the Empyrian beyond the rule of fatedness by the rock-born god, Mithras.
— Michael Hoffman, November 25, 2024
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/
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