Michael Hoffman, Dec. 30, 2024, 10 pm

Contents:
- Intro
- Motivation for this page
- Will I Do another Live Broadcast Episode?
- Segments for Live Broadcast format
- Recent Episodes
- Episodes that have a dedicated webpage
- Episodes Listed in Idea Development pages
- Gold Clips Project
- “Post-Assembled Impromptu” format episodes
- “Live Broadcast” format episodes
- Egodeath Mystery Show, Episodes 12-264 (2021/02/04-2024/12/28)
- Egodeath Warmup Show (2021/01/31-)
- Egodeath Show, Episodes 1-11 (2021/01/28-2021/02/04)
- Recording with Header (2021/01/28)
- Recording without Header (2021/01/20-27)
- Voice Effect Art Recordings 2016
- Recordings at Egodeath.com, 2007
- Recordings Log, Up to #6290
- See Also
- Transcendent Knowledge podcast
- Psychonautica podcast
- Iboganautics podcast (Houot)
Intro
I have all episodes on my mobile device, Egodeath playlist. I’m learning how to find episodes – this page will help that.
I thought of Egodeath Show: 2021/02/04:
I thought of Egodeath Mystery Show: 2021/02/04:
Egodeath Show/ Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-04b) Quiet Mystery Test: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-04b.mp3” 3:05:51 (Episode 12)
My recent context for that history research was to find when I abandoned the Live Broadcast format. On 2024/12/24, I wrote about that at:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/episode-template-for-egodeath-mystery-show/ – section “Comments about this page & approach 4 years later”
I love my Feb 7 2021 episode that my mobile player defaulted to and kept wanting to play, where near the start, I read — Plastic Cloud episode/ album — Rolfe & Rolfe 1925 book passage “A Curious Myth”.
- Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-07) Plastic Cloud:
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3”- Re-Released as
“2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud.mp3″, on Feb. 22 (Episode 16)
(I have the .mp3 file — the shorter, de-duped one – and the source project too; been considering re-releasing it for download.)
- Re-Released as
Nov. 2020 was article compelling evidence & criteria of proof and for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art, which spawned Great Canterbury Psalter discoveries starting with leg-hanging mushroom tree.
I had 1-2 screenshots of Great Canterbury Psalter back in my Brown-cited 2006 gallery supporting my Wasson article.
The other day I found the audio project for that Feb 7 2021 Plastic Cloud / A Curious Myth episode, and I found the mp3 file (not just imprisoned on mobile device), so I can repro it – the initial version of mp3 flawed at end, had repeat passage; 2nd version replaced it, shorter w/ dup removed.
Motivation for this page
Need a place I can find and record this history.
Recently I researched history of Egodeath Mystery Show to find when I abandoned the “Live Broadcast” format and switched to the FAR more relaxed and unstressful “Post-Assembled Impromptu recordings” format. But now I lost track of where I wrote that date, probably Idea development page 21 or 22.
I keep re-researching dates and episodes – this page locks that down as the official spot to record history.
I’m often searching for episodes of Egodeath Mystery Show, very confusing: some are in idea development pages, later are dedicated pages, and the early history is choppy as the show name or concept of show faded-in around late Jan 2024.
Another huge change, noted in my recent review, was: that Feb 7 2021 episode was “live broadcast” format: a very exciting and fake format, requiring lots of preplanning and practice and discarding flubbed first 4-5 attempts. Too exciting, too Live.
Will I Do another Live Broadcast Episode?
Requires planning, timing, practice, throwing away 4-5 first takes. I never do or much need Vocalization Warmup segment anymore, so THAT structure is unneeded… I don’t even remember the sequence of Segments.
Segments for Live Broadcast format
omg at start of episode I listed what I’d be talking about. High prep/ high pressure.
- The “Intro” Segment
- Recording Header
- Playlist
- The “Show Format” Segment
- The “Voice & Mic Technique” Segment
- The “Warmup Reading” Segment
- The “Egodeath Theory” Segment
- Esoteric Agenda
- The “Not a Music Show” Segment
- The “Outro” Segment
It takes so much prep! No way to guarantee content quality, Live, “talk about X”. That’s a reason to abandon it. The “gold clip” hunt came from that Live Broadcast format. I’d have to try to use that format, to comment further on its pros & cons.
eg, from https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/idea-development-page-11/#2021-02-18b-Egodeath-Mystery-Show —
Show Prep
- Prep the agenda: Copy template from Show page to Agenda page
Board of Mystics – Esoteric Agenda
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/board-of-mystics-meeting-agenda/ - Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).
From Site Map:
- Egodeath Mystery Show
- General info about the show
- Agenda items about the Show-Format.
- Episode Template for Egodeath Mystery Show
- The generic template to copy for each episode.
- Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show
- Warmup readings.
Recent Episodes
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep264: Failed Amanita Hypothesis (July 16, 2023)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep263: Lion’s Paw, Eustace’s Child (May 23, 2023)
- Egodeath Mystery Show, Ep262: Transcending Eternalism (Nov. 22, 2024)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep261 Competent Art Historians Wrote Nothing (Nov. 17 & 26, 2024)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep260 Debunking Psychedelic Science (Oct. 22, 2023)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep259 Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship (November 28 , 2024)
- Podcast recorded: Debunking Psychedelic (Pseudo-) Science
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep258 Canterbury Psalter Images Tour (June 18-June 19, 2023)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep257 Successful Failure of Control (April 27-28, 2023)
- Egodeath Mystery Show Ep256 Stable Standing (April 25-26, 2023)
Episodes that have a dedicated webpage
apparently the first were:
- Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 96: Interpretation Derby
- Egodeath Mystery Show episode 99: Psilocybin Wins Everything
- Egodeath Mystery Show episode 98: Insincere Interpretations – todo: in Idea development page https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Ep98-Bluff-Interpretations link to that page.
see if 97 is in an Idea Development page. find: “Egodeath Mystery Show episode 97” – confirmed:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Ep97-Umbrella-to-Mushroom
Idea development page 13 ranges from Ep 73 to Ep 188 – a lot! 189-73= 116 episodes listed in a single Idea development page?! 264 episodes (+ some pre-episodes); 116/264 = 44% of the 264 episodes are in a single Idea development page. Many of these – higher numbers – also have dedicated webpage. Confirmed page 13 is the longest, 183 sheets.
99 has both a dedicated page and a section in an Idea development page:
“Tons of valuable strategic summary:”
Dedicated page:
Egodeath Mystery Show episode 99: Psilocybin Wins Everything
idea development page section:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Ep99-Psilocybin-Wins-Everything
Episodes Listed in Idea Development pages
Gold Clips Project
Find “gold clip” at this site. For a period, I was marking Gold Clips and planning to assemble them into a Gold Clips episode.
Some episodes are cursed, some are charmed / blessed, like Lion’s Paw recently: after a few episodes that were hard to record, hard to produce, and flawed result eg I was getting muted, then I recorded a single recording 4 hours long, single pass, effortless, easy to produce, good sounding, piece of cake, content good.
“Post-Assembled Impromptu” format episodes
It looks like the transition was after Ep 70.5 – after that I did a lot of episodes that were special, like hours of reading aloud eg. I more “forgot” about the “Live Broadcast” format, due to its sheer unwieldiness, rather than consciously deciding “I’m officially negatively assessing that format and not going to use it anymore.”
hearkens back to the first few 1-off short topical recordings uploaded raw w/o any Show / Episode framing.
“Live Broadcast” format episodes
Ep __ through Ep __
oh yeah, THIS question is what drove my recent research about history of Egodeath Mystery Show — “WHEN DID I ABANDON THE LIVE BROADCAST FORMAT?” ANS: __ apparently final one with “intro” segment is 70.5: Egodeath Mystery Show episode 70 1/2 – Wisdom Folly – recorded April 1, 2021, uploaded June 11, 2022.
Egodeath Mystery Show, Episodes 12-264 (2021/02/04-2024/12/28)
latest episode of Egodeath Mystery Show:
Egodeath Mystery Show Ep264: Failed Amanita Hypothesis (July 16, 2023); recorded July 16, 2023, produced Dec. 28, 2024;
url: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/egodeath-mystery-show-ep264/
The first episode called Egodeath Mystery Show is numbered as ep 12, continuing the numbering from the Egodeath Show episode 11.
Egodeath Warmup Show (2021/01/31-)
oldest/first:
What the concept was for Warmup Show: I needed and wanted the vocal practice, but separated and removed from real episodes. These days, 2024, I’d just record a recording but be sure NOT to mix real content with throwaway vocal practice. Stop recording, to switch modes.
Egodeath Show, Episodes 1-11 (2021/01/28-2021/02/04)
todo: Recount history circumstances of when I thought of a show (“the egodeath show”) as opposed to uploading 1-off recordings. The moment I started recording episodes of “the Egodeath Show”, I thought of recasting as “the Egodeath Mystery Show”.
final; most recent episode of “the Egodeath Show”:
- Egodeath Show (2021-02-04) Constructing Analysis Tools:
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-04.mp3” 3:04:11 (Episode 11)
earliest/first episode of “the Egodeath Show”:
- Egodeath Show, Episode 1 (2021-01-28)
Track Title: “Playing the Grid Game of Entheogen Scholarship”
“Ep1 Secret Grid Game.mp3” 2:09:56
The transitional episode, can be considered both the final episode of The Egodeath Show and the first episode of Egodeath Mystery Show:
- Egodeath Show/ Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-04b) Quiet Mystery Test: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-04b.mp3” 3:05:51 (Episode 12)
Feb 2021
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/idea-development-page-10/ – newest: Egodeath Show (2021-02-02) ;
oldest/first:
- Egodeath Show, Episode 1 (2021-01-28)
Track Title: “Playing the Grid Game of Entheogen Scholarship”
“Ep1 Secret Grid Game.mp3” 2:09:56
Recording with Header (2021/01/28)
Jan/Feb 2021
Newest/final:
Oldest/first:
On my mobile device: Music app: Playlists > Egodeath > swipe down to show Search box > “old secret”. song name: “Old Secret Entheogen Paradigm”.
The content is solid, but I can hear my lisping error, that flared up in early Feb 2021 (to my confusion & shock). “center of the field” sometimes “shenter of the field”. Overuse of “sh” instead of ‘s’ is an extremely common tic/ “virus”/ accent, eg:
“Ishrael” instead of “Israel”;
“shtrength” instead of “strength” – was my lisp related to that bad, popular accent?
“Shiimultaneously,”
Yet my voice tone is quite good in “Old Secret” episode – there’s much good. But, the good aspects made me drop my guard at many points, and it took all of 2021 to train and debug my voice.
The fact that I can plainly hear my often lisp/slur (on half of s’s; the other 50% are fine), is a huge good sign that I don’t produce it anymore. I had to learn to hear mis-vocalizations, during 2021.
Mostly-nervous throat clearing. A lot; repeated. Backing away from mic would help. Not 4″! too close; hard to work with; requires excess cleanup.
At 3:45, I list the fallacies.
Too-close miking, is difficult to work with, and amplifies mouth noises.
Miking: Used Right mic of TASCAM DR-05 stereo field recorder. A couple months later, I hypoth’d that my lisping was partly caused by compensating for this ultra-bright mic.
Not much of a header; gave miking info, planned content = “11 entheogen diminishment fallacies.”
Recording without Header (2021/01/20-27)
Jan 20 2021
Newest/final:
Oldest/ first:
Voice Recording (2021-01-20):
“2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3” 53:44
That’s listed at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/idea-development-page-10/
Voice Effect Art Recordings 2016
Check the Egodeath Yahoo Group/ Max Freakout Archive https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/
After my 2007 recordings, 1987-era recordings, and 2016 recordings, I concluded that I am experienced and can let down my guard. Then in 2021 Feb, I discovered:
- often awful vocalization, not reliable (or lozenge – worst mistake ever; most horrible/unlistenable recording I ever released)
- often awful miking/tech, not reliable.
- often awful content, not reliable, eg typing.
That’s why my Feb 2021 recordings near start of Egodeath Mystery Show are heavily filled with vocalization refinement work, & miking R&D.
… because I wanted to be able to guest on Max Freakout’s Transcendent Knowledge podcast. For that goal:
- I now am solid/reliable at vocalization unless my voice is shot in evening; — UK is my morning, so probably good there.
- My content is solid / reliable.
- My miking for that… is semi-routine in some ways but have to pull together for specialty hookup.
Recordings at Egodeath.com, 2007
http://egodeath.com – find “mp3”
Recordings Log, Up to #6290
Recordings Log, Up to VOX_TK_6290.wav
/Documents/TK/Recordings Log Egodeath Mystery Show.md
Tons of recordings not produced or uploaded. I try to listen to them all, that have Transcendent Knowledge content.
See Also
Site Map > Egodeath Mystery Show
- Egodeath Mystery Show – compare to the present page 2024/12/30
- General info about the show
- Agenda items about the Show-Format. – ie. Live Broadcast format
- Episode Template for Egodeath Mystery Show
- The generic template to copy for each episode.
- Warmup Readings for the Egodeath Mystery Show
- Warmup readings.
Transcendent Knowledge podcast
Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple (usually) – Transcendent Knowledge podcast at YouTube
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episodes
site map: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Transcendent-Knowledge-Podcast – pages dedicated to some indiv. episodes
Psychonautica podcast
Max Freakout – Psychonautica podcast (2007-2009)
Psychonautica Podcast with Max Freakout
Iboganautics podcast (Houot)
https://amhouot.com/iboganautics/
Contents v2 planned
- Egodeath Mystery Show – Latest Episodes 2024/12/28 [_ items]
- Egodeath Mystery Show – First Episodes (Feb 2021) [_ items]
- Egodeath Show -Final Episodes (Feb 2021) [264 items]
- Egodeath Mystery Show – Live Broadcast Planned Segments
- Egodeath Mystery Show – Post-Assembled
- Egodeath Mystery Show – Read Aloud
- Egodeath Show – Initial Episodes (Feb 2021)
- Egodeath Warmup shows (Feb 2021) [~3 items]
- voice recordings – With Header – 1-16 (Jan-Feb 2021) [16 items]
- voice recordings – Without Header – 1-16 (Jan-Feb 2021) [16 items]
- 2016 voice effects art pieces [~4 items]
- 2007 mp3s at Egodeath.com [~8 items]
- 1995 MicroCassettes [~125 items]
- 1987 Cassettes [~3 items]
- Intro
- Commentary
- See Also
Commentary
latest ep: rec 2023/07/16, prod 2024/12/28
Hard to outline b/c unclear history of types.
It’s hard to plan outline of types, b/c so much is unclear at the start, how it grew from:
impromptu rant about my followers overclmpicating the Egodeath theory
too-exciting live format
low-key early episodes, “charmed”
Charmed Episodes or Recordings
A recent “charmed” epi:
hit record, talk for 4.5 hours,
minimal production,
ship it. result: excellent:
content;
vocalization; &
tech use. not to forget
transcribe to dedicated page
when was first dedicated webpage for an episode.
todo: add new episodes to idea development pages nearby date [of recording, or producing?] where would announced. eg pages 19-22.
voice recordings 1-16: shifts back & forth from no header to with header, and, header can be near unnoticeable, like “Gonna talk about x, which … ” – hardly a header.
Hypothesis: The set of segmaent live broadcast started as parts of a short header.