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Contents
- Chris Bennett quotes
- Jerry Brown quotes
- Cyberdisciple quotes
- Erik Davis quotes
- Max Freakout quotes
- Wouter Hanegraaff quotes
- Thomas Hatsis quotes
- Clark Heinrich quotes
- Ronald Huggins quotes
- Jan Irvin quotes
- John Lash quotes
- Andy Letcher quotes
- End Note 31: Stamets 1996
- End Note 33, Henrietta Leyser (Competent Historian on this matter)
- Letcher: Ignorant Mycologists should have reached out to consult the art historians, who are competent on this matter
- FALSE CLAIM BY LETCHER RE: CLAIMS OF SECRECY BY MUSHROOM THEORISTS; STRAWMAN FALLACY
- {king hung from tree}
- I predicted Letcher would have to use the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy
- Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 1
- Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 2
- Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 3
- Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 4
- The Isolation fallacy
- Paul Lindgren crediting
- Erwin Panofsky quotes
- Carl Ruck quotes
- Samorini quotes
- Charles Stang quotes
- Gordon Wasson quotes
- See Also
Motivation of this Page
motivation of this post: these quotes, moved from “Egodeath Mystery Show Ep259 Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship (November 28 🦃, 2024)” could be used by my draft article:
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/cubensis-driven-entheogen-scholarship-the-most-productive-relevant-and-rewarding-approach/
Chris Bennett quotes
Rev 22:2 – twelve different fruits ever month produced by tree of life; this means hemp, 12 uses.
Rev 22:2 KJB: leaves + 12 fruits. = cubensis + 12 other entheogens. 13 enths at the conclusion of the Bible, is brought to you by me/ by the maximal entheogen theory of religion, against the mere Moderate paradigm that’s held by Bennett & Heinrich & everyone except Samorini, Brown & Brown, & me.
Heinrich quote re: Rev 22: tree of life = 1 entheogen = Amanita only.
Jerry Brown quotes
St. Walburga tapestry — 2016 & 2019 – “oh wait, tapestry shows serrated base, cancel our field research trip, b/c Amanita base dosn’t have serrations” – “this is our best, outstanding example & proof of why you should not read mushroom imagery as mushroom.” “We are superior b/c field trip… on our field trip [they didn’t go to the abbey] we relied on a hi-res pic from Irvin’s book. Irvin is wrong and misid’d it as aman b/c he has low-res pics.” Irvin: she holds an Amanita msh. Browns: She is known, via texts and art elsewhere, to hold a vial, therefore can’t be Amanita msh. Cybermonk: the tapestry shows her holding a vial that’s shaped like Amanita.
Great Canterbury Psalter > “Creation of Plants” — 2016/2019: “Amanita, psil, pan, psil” – starts from right, calls parasols “pan”! Arthur has excuse for “opium, rue, psil, Amanita”: he’s trying to read “Creation of Plants” as Soma recipe. Dec 13 2020 i id’d as pan, lib, cub, ama, matching my many photos and specimens viewed growing.
Cyberdisciple quotes
The best writing on the topic – Huggins and Hatsis should be replying to Cyberdisciple’s writings.
… the field has an obsession with “secrecy”, an obsession the field should discard. … the “secret psychedelic use” model has always had a problem with evidence. If … the use of psychedelics in a religion was kept secret, known only to a few, the researcher can only bring so much evidence of psychedelics to bear. If we have a ton of evidence for psychedelics, the “secret psychedelic use” model starts to look untenable.
Erik Davis quotes
Stace 1960, James 1902? Psychedelic Science’s basis of ‘mysticism’ is “long in the tooth” “Stace = 64 years outdated, this “scientific foundation” of psychedelic mysticism research.
Max Freakout quotes
“Per Ruck, everyone was using entheogens, but no one really knew about it – so which is it?” Transcendent Knowledge podcast.
compare Cyberdisciple paragraph “untenable”.
Wouter Hanegraaff quotes
“I coined the term Entheogenic Esotericism” – actually, I posted against Hanegraaff, a post titled exactly that, 8 years before his awful article/ keynote/ chapter in Christopher Partridge’s book Contemporary Esotericism.
There are only three approaches to studying history of Western Esotericism:
- Social-science reductionism
- Religionism/ mystical practice with Eranos’ urgency to save the world from modern meaninglessness. Implies essentialism about Transcendent Knowledge, which is the worst thing ever.
- Radical empiricism, ie what did the ancient author mean? Don’t judge; instead, understand & explain. Radical empiricism is WH’s approach, which in practice means:
- Deleting all the stars from the sky/ the ogdoad bc they are tainted with heimarmene and we can’t allow that; we Radical Empiricist scientific academic historians can’t have the Saturn gate dumping you into a fatedness prison.
- Redefining ‘entheogen’ to mean literally anything at all — just like Favre’s checklist of esotericism traits is so easy to fulfill, every practice in the world fits the definition of Western Esotericism.
- These are the options, for historical research.
- But where does the Egodeath theory fit in? a Cog Sci/ Engr/ STEM simple summarized clearly succintly communicated useful practical helpful explanatory model.
Yet he himself does a sloppy job of my approach, “what did the author mean?”
I explain better than Hane, re: fixed stars in Ogdoad cosmos level 8 = the harrowing experience of eternalism in the ASC that WH tries to write about but
“Whether to put the fixed stars in Saturn moving planetary sphere 7 or in Ogdoad level 8 is an open question to me.”
“Passing through Saturn gate means moving from heimarmene to freewill.”
“Ogdoad level 8 is the same thing as Ennead level 9: it means being above the heimarmene-ruled cosmos.”
Thomas Hatsis quotes
book: Plainc fresco shows “fall of man theology, therefore can’t be mushroom”
Lack of Prohibition decree proves lack of The Mushroom (Amanita).
Text [read literally & reduc’ly in OSC] constrains artists’ message. [Huggins 2024 uses same arg from text, Brown does version of that re: researching St. Walburga’s item that she trad’ly holds.] omg its a tree/vial!!! who knew?! so, it can’t mean mushroom.
Clark Heinrich quotes
Heinrich in _Strange Fruit_ wrongly says Allegro says that Jesus was the leader of a mushroom cult.
Strange Fruit: When couldn’t get their mushroom (Amanita), they fell back on a substitute, psilocybin mushrooms.
Ronald Huggins quotes
branching
false decision in his Conclusion section of Forest article: “how to tell if image is a tree or is a mushroom.” Also literalism, reductionism, moving goalpost, motte and bailey, bait & switch.
Got him right in the subtitle: Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest (Huggins 2024).
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case – Ronald Huggins, 2024, aka Hatsis Jr.
I accept your conditions of proxy debate: To prove all pilzbaum are mushrooms, we shall use branching in Great Canterbury Psalter as the proxy battle.
See folio webpages f134, f145, & f177.
Panofsky is able to tell an arbitrary cover-story fairytale (non-purposeful; sloppy, accidental, directionless corruption of prototypes; artists lack intentionality), and then Panofsky acts like that storytelling ability constitutes winning the debate.
But Pan’s arg is a non-sequitur (ie does not follow).
Development from pine to mushroom does not imply purposelessness; development from pine to mushroom proves purposefulness. My assertion is less of a non sequitur; is more compelling.
My storytelling/ interp, artists in this genre purposefully meaning mushrooms and non-branching experience from msh, is detailed and non-arbitrary, and thus compelling: not arb storytelling like Panof’s “development from pine to mushroom”, but effective explanation of these entire images.
Jan Irvin quotes
Irvin uses Hopkins’ synthesis psilocybin caps research findings to prove how great Amanita’s effects are. By silently shell-game redefining the vague, ambiguous term ‘the mushroom’. Just before the image gallery in THM.
Irvin in THM: “Hofmann here writes about psil mushroom, which is irrelevant to THM.”
Irvin: always lists Amanita first, psilocybin as an afterthought in a mere supporting, usually silent, role.
The front & back covers of books ALWAYS splatter Amanita photos + art, NEVER psilocybin photos or art.
“Ruck tries to limit The Mushroom (Amanita) to “Christian mysticism and so-called heretical sects”); that is completely unfounded; see my book AstroSham 2006, which shows there is sufficient evidence that [normal common] Christianity itself is based on entheogens.”
But the Conclusion section of AstroSham 2006 begins: “The secret [Amanita] was guarded and held only by kings, priests, and elites” – so, Irvin deleted that “restricting” sentence from AstroSham 2009.
Irvin 2006 himself tries to limit/ restrict the presence of “entheogens” (by which Irvin means and is thinking of exclusively Amanita only), even though per Irvin 2008, such an assumption of restricting entheogens in Christianity is “completely unfounded”, as Irvin realized after our conversations about Wasson/ Allegro and my conclusion of my Plainc article.
John Lash quotes
“discovery of a lifetime” – trip to Paris 2006/2007?, uploaded May 2008. re: Great Canterbury Psalter.
“I hate Wasson’s stupid theory about spread of Amanita. Cubensis is better.”
“Wasson’s theory, including considerable departures from it” – irrational non-academic framing, to give ALL credit for ALL entheogen ideas as if owned by Wasson and thought of by Wasson – yet Lash rejects Wasson’s Amanita theory.
Thank god no one else uses the locution “Wasson’s theory”.
But see the atrocious quote by Ruck, p 14 ConjEden, “Wasson’s conclusion” [quote] – otoh, see Irvin’s almost as bad attribution of pilzbaum to Allego [quote], as if Allegro wrote anything on the topic, which he didn’t – Irvin’s dirty move to try to falsely give credit to Allegro, to counter Ruck’s dirty move of falsely giving credit to Wasson.
Credit goes to Panofsky / Brinckmann and especially to Samorini; and to Paul Lindgren Great Canterbury Psalter 2000 (cover of Arthur 2000, credited in Conjuring Eden 2001 in Entheos issue 1).
Then credit goes to Lash 2006-2008, then me 2020-2022 decoding leg-hanging mushroom tree f134 (continuing decoding that image into 2024).
Why was entheogen scholarship so slow to inventory Great Canterbury Psalter? b/c entheogen scholars don’t give a sht about psil; they only care about Amanita, and Eadwine has minimal Amanita imagery b/c he strongly prefers Cubensis.
And b/c Great Canterbury Psalter didn’t come online until 2020, color-corrected in 2021, 5 years after I formed hypoth Dancing Man 2 legs mapped to 2 mental worldmodels (possibilism & eternalism) [Xmas 2015 at Egodeath Yahoo Group].
I cannot allow Moses and Jesus to have had Psilocybin mushrooms, bc Christianity and Moses and Jesus are bad.
Allegro and Wasson do not own entheogen scholarship. Stop identifying entheogen scholarship with “Allegro’s theory” or “Wasson’s theory”. It’s not 1970 anymore. Get up to date. Phase 2 began 1997 when Samo announced “next i will cover Panof’s hundreds pilzbaum.”
Andy Letcher quotes
Backtracking: ok we admit we were wrong in negativity; we now admit there IS liberty cap naturally in England. Next he will admit cubensis by same token.
“Bernward door is not secret, therefore not evidence for a secret mushroom cult, therefore not mushroom.”h pp 35-36, Shroom, 2006/2007.
Letcher wrote, in Shroom:
“if the ancient cultures did centralize the use of magic mushrooms they would have depicted this fact in their artwork.
“The trouble is that it is not always easy to tell whether something that looks to us like a mushroom really was intended to be one, and a magic one at that.
“The context in which the art appears is often the only thing that can help us decide, as the following example, taken not from prehistory but from the Middle Ages, demonstrates.
“In Hildesheim in Germany there is a magnificent Gothic cathedral, which is renowned for its pair of cast bronze doors.
“Each contains eight panels depicting biblical images, but one in particular has caught the attention of mushroom theorists, for there, on the right-hand door, is a panel that seems to show human figures dwarfed by what looks extremely like a giant Liberty Cap.”
[sic; not one; several of door/column are discussed in Conjuring Eden – the ISOLATION fallacy]
“Various writers have suggested that this is evidence for a medieval magic mushroom cult persisting secretly in spiite of Christian oppression.
“Some mushroom-loving craftsman must have slipped the mushroom into the image as a hidden but demonstrative gesture of defiance for the benefit of the members of his secret cult.31 [para break, page break to p. 36:]
“Sadly, careful consideration … [todo: transcribe] … …
“The image on the door is simply a stylized representation of that most biblical of plants, the fig-tree.33”
Endnote 33 on p. 305: “Henrietta Leyser, pers. comm.”
End Note 31: Stamets 1996
Letcher’s endnote 31, p. 305: “Gartz 1996; Stamets 1996” [no page #s].
dk about Gartz, but Stamets’ book p. 15 shows the panel, but does not contain any commentary framing like “secret, hidden” – against Letcher’s claim.
Letcher falsely claims that writers assert Bernward door shows “secret hidden Liberty Cap”. False.
Letcher’s endnote 31, p. 305: “Gartz 1996; Stamets 1996” [no page #s]. dk about Gartz, but Stamets’ book p. 15 shows the panel, but does not contain any commentary framing like “secret, hidden” – against Letcher’s claim.
Stamets only writes this, about the panel picture:
“From the bronze door of a cathedral in Hildesheim, Germany, a bas-relief (circa A.D. 1020) depicting God, Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit–a taxonomic facsimilie of Psilocybe semilanceata, the Liberty Cap or Witches’ Hat Mushroom.”
— p. 15, Stamets, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, 1996.
No “secret” or “hidden”. The concept of “secret” re: Bernward door 1020 AD is no closer than p. 14 describes “Eleusinian mysteries. … no revelation of the ceremony’s secrets could be mentioned.”
Stamets’ body text and caption don’t associate “secret” with this door.
End Note 33, Henrietta Leyser (Competent Historian on this matter)
End note 33 on p. 305 in Shroom: “Henrietta Leyser, pers. comm.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Leyser – “English historian, expert on the history of medieval England”
Letcher: Ignorant Mycologists should have reached out to consult the art historians, who are competent on this matter
Oh Ho, we have here an instance of “The blithely ignorant mycologists should have consulted art historians, who are competent on this matter [while censored by Wasson at the same time: Panofsky’s strong, double citation of Brinckmann 1906].”
Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/wasson-academic-fraud-berates-mycologists-not-consulting-art-historians-same-time-censoring-brinckmann-citation-urged-by-panofsky-twice/
Why “consult”? What does “consult” mean? It means, per end note 33 on p. 305 in Shroom, “pers. comm.” – because the “competent on this matter” art historians wrote NOTHING; PUBLISHED 0 SENTENCES, on this topic/ matter on which they are “competent”.
FALSE CLAIM BY LETCHER RE: CLAIMS OF SECRECY BY MUSHROOM THEORISTS; STRAWMAN FALLACY
misrepresentation of Stamets’ book; & cites (Argument from Authority) “pers. comm.” from Leyser, who provides literalistic reductionistic reading as “tree”
{king hung from tree}
[8:30 am Dec. 4, 2024] {king hung from tree} serves as a way to depict {death}, {king}, and {tree} together. king fastened to wood or hung from tree, like Absalom hung while riding donkey/horse. King Pentheus in a tree, not hung / dead in tree.
Thanks Letcher for the checkable citation 31 that DISPROVES your body text assertion.
Do I have to photograph Stamets’ page to prove it? I transcribed the caption above.
Stamets only says a description of the scene; Stamets presents no “Secret, Hidden” framing regarding the mushroom imagery.
My 2007 book review of Shroom criticized how very little evidence/ images Letcher considered.
I noticed him selecting a few images in isolation, to shoot down each isolated one that he picks, using logical ad hoc fallacies.
My review is at Amazon and at Egodeath.com http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm#_Toc164518584 , and is at the “Egodeath Yahoo Group” Max Freakout archive: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4577 – April 2, 2007.
After my review, I next posted:
“Letcher’s book poses as having shown that the entheogen or mushroom theory of religious origins is nothing but an unjustifiable recent modern fabrication, a popular urban myth. But the book actually discusses only a few pieces of evidence, and very briefly, as the foundation for such a view. The large amount of valuable new commentary he presents on various aspects of modern mushroom history and scholarship obscures his paucity of basic evidence and arguments against the entheogen theory of religion.” – https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4578
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=letcher+shroom – relevant, other ppl commenting on Shroom: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4546 (March 29, 2007);
I predicted Letcher would have to use the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy
ahaahahaha CALLED IT – Scientific Prediction Confirmed: before I read the book, I wrote: Message: 4549 March 29, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4549 —
“One aspect to look for when refuting this book is the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy: see whether the author separates into isolation each instance of possible historical or literary evidence for psychoactive use, then state that for each isolated instance, there’s not compelling evidence to support this instance being evidence of religious psychoactive use.”
That page lists article:
Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of
Psychedelic Consciousness
by Andy Letcher
http://www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/mad-thoughts-mushrooms-discourse-power-study-psychedelic [404 as of Dec. 4, 2024]
Accepted for publication by the journal Anthropology of Consciousness,
Fall 2007
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mad+Thoughts+on+Mushrooms%22+Letcher — found it:
https://www.academia.edu/2546250/Mad_Thoughts_on_Mushrooms_Discourse_and_Power_in_the_Study_of_Psychedelic_Consciousness
https://www.academia.edu/9185967/Dr_Andy_Letcher_Making_sense_of_magic_mushrooms – “consideration of how it [the mushroom experience] has been interpreted throughout history. For, contrary to received wisdom, very few cultures have decoded the mushroom as we do. Along the way he will ask whether magic mushrooms bring genuine transcendence, or if the experiences they occasion forever bound by culture.”
How do “we” decode the magic mushroom experience?
1) Writers who lack the Egodeath theory present the following as “science”: “Dread is of ego dissolution. Resisting ego dissolution is the cause of bad trips. The solution is to surrender.”
2) How do pilzbaum artists — via branching-message mushroom trees, {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs — decode the magic mushroom experience?
“Relying on branching thinking causes loss of control. Rely on non-branching thinking, to pass through the gate into Eternalism compatibility, the promised land.”
Relying on branching thinking causes loss of control. Rely on non-branching thinking, to pass through the gate into Eternalism compatibility, the promised land.
pilzbaum artists
3) The Egodeath theory decodes the magic mushroom experience as psychedelic eternalism = same decoding as pilzbaum artists, expressed in non-analogy, using analogy to explain.
Psilocybin mushrooms bring genuine transcendence, which is psychedelic eternalism; the experiences that mushrooms cause are not forever bound by culture.
That is proved by the match between:
- My 1988 block universe eternalism model of mental model transformation.
- Folio webpages f134, f145, & f177 in Great Canterbury Psalter, by Eadwine in 1200 AD.
pp 29-30 of “Conjuring Eden” lists 4 tassel trees (Liberty caps) on the Bernward Column:
Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 1
Commissioning of the apostles [16] online pic. https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/16commish.jpg. p29 Ruck writes: “First is the Commissioning of the Twelve Apostles, which in itself is significant, seventh [panel] in the series, but the double-branched Tree, missing a limb, also serves for the adjacent previous sixth scene, the Healing of the Leper, with Christ in his role as drug-man. [16][online gallery pic 16] For the Commissioning episode, the missing third branch is supplied by the haloed head of Christ, as if He himself were its Fruit! (Fig. 21)” [see my photo of p. 30 below]
thanks for not showing the branching point to check for cut right branch – illiterate modern artists have no idea what they’re looking for.
Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 2
Ruck writes: “Next and fourteenth in the series [of panels] is the Transfiguration, a triple Tree, as the eyes of the Disciples are opened to his Divinity. [17]” [online gallery pic 17]
Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 3
Ruck continues: “Next and seventeenth is the curious episode of Zacchaeus, the tax collector.121 [18] [online gallery pic 18] Wanting to see Jesus but being too short, he climbed a sycamore-fig, a double-tassel tree, and was invited to entertain the Lord in his house. But the very next episode, … is the Cursing of the Fig Tree.122 [19] The tree is now only a leaf, without fruit, that is to say, its taseled top, for Chris went to the tree and found it fruitless. …” [online gallery pic 19]
Zachaeus, the Tax-Collector, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim.
https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/18Zach.jpg
Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 4
Ruck continues (p. 30, right column, top): “Finally, immediately next and nineteenth in the series [of panels], the Tree is again the umbrella shade, single-tasseled, for the Healing of the Sick at Gennesaret on the Sea of Galilee.123 … manna …” No pic in issue or online gallery?
[5:44 am Dec 4 2024] discovered cpl things:
1) Letcher Shroom isolates the Blame panel of Bernward, and doesn’t cite Conj Eden. But ConjEden ALSO shows a second mushroom art in Bern: p. 30, “21. Christ Commisssionting the Apostles. Jesus’ haloed head replaces mushroom cap. Bernward Column” –
2) Jesus halo is aimed at by CUT BRANCH. Jesus is made = cut branch. todo: do i have that pic at this site? [added it now, below: photo of Entheos page 30]. An image is mentioned but not shown at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/ – see “Letcher” at that page, and click the Image Search links there.
That’s a May 27, 2023 page (I’m listening to Egodeath Mystery Show new Ep263b = recorded on May 23, 2023, listening on Dec 4 2024).
eg: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M2A0DA/transfiguration-of-jesus-romanesque-bronze-relief-on-the-bernward-M2A0DA.jpg – again in YET ANOTHER liberty cap image from Bernward, cut branch points at Jesus’ halo. [5:56 am Dec. 4, 2024] —
x https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/19fig.jpg
[19] Cursing of the Fig Tree, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim. from https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm which supplements [bold numbers] Conj Eden article.
See various Bernward pics at https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm – a couple shown below. Read pp. 29-31 of Conjuring Eden – important notes about meaning of branching.
In “Conjuring Eden” pp. 29-31, Hoffman/Ruck/Staples thinks {cut branch} of pilzbaum means “indication that the person ate the mushroom”.
Actually, mainly, {cut branch} means non-branching, means psychedelic eternalism.
The Isolation fallacy
Explain away each instance by ad hoc dismissal of each instance in isolation. Act like a given art work only contains 1 instance – in all Bernward art, only discuss and acknolwedge 1 instance of mushroom imagery.
But “A single instance is an anomaly; two instances is a Pattern. – Cybermonk” Does Shroom cite ConjEden, which covers 2 or 3 instances in Bernward? The Column contains multiple liberty cap trees – add these to the Door Blame scene’s liberty cap tree, that’s at least THREE liberty cap trees =- all with cut branch – by Bernward, not one, per Letcher 2006.
Brown 2016 shows how many Bernward mushroom trees? Here’s yet ANOTHER on column: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M2A0BA/jesus-cleansing-a-leper-romanesque-bronze-relief-on-the-bernward-column-M2A0BA.jpg
another: https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardColumn_38.jpg
Paul Lindgren crediting
front matter Arthur book 2000
footnote page 1 of Conj Eden 2001
Erwin Panofsky quotes
branching: a pilzbaum can’t purposefully mean a mushroom, b/c there’s at least traces of branching in Pilzbaum.
Plainc can’t be mushroom, b/c there are many images like it. QED. (a non sequitur)
Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/
Carl Ruck quotes
p14 Eden article: “Wasson’s hypothesis … hundreds of pilzbaum … Wasson’s conclusion” – infuriating to me & Irvin, at “conclusion”. Liar!
“Pilzbaum look like mushrooms and that’s what they are, mushrooms and nothing else.”
“This will shut up the deniers: dancing man has a red cap.”
[actually, Blue]
[file under: Red Shift; Blue/Red balance.]
Samorini quotes
In 1997 article, Samo announced “next i will cover Panof’s hundreds pilzbaum.” I highlighted the passages. Try copypaste from PDF.
Charles Stang quotes
Roland Griffiths admitting MEQ is Unicorns and Rainbows, Directed Stang to Bunk CEQ — oops dropped 18 of 21 Angst effects questions – Dragon 1, Hopkins 0.
Gordon Wasson quotes
“My wife and I were the first to discover The Mushroom [kiddie Amanita] in our own cultural history, ie in India.”
“Panofsky wrote me a letter in 1952, here it is” [while Wasson censors Panofsky’s two strong citations recommending Brinckmann’s “little” 1906 86-page book not in English; 2 photostats showing pilzbaum; half of letter 1; & the existence of letter 2].
“I reached out and consulted the top 18 competent art historians [b/c they wrote 0 sentences about pilzbaum] and was impressed by the celerity with which they all disavowed mushrooms, like trained seals barking.”
See Also
pending
The Egodeath theory 