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Contents:

• Intro/Motivation for Page
• How to Convert the Bible’s Bountiful Payload Delivery from 13 Different Plants, to Hemp Only
• The Hypothesis of mushrooms in Christian art is so weakly founded, all it has is mere pictorial evidence
• Evidence, Indicators, and Proof that in “Day 1: Creation of Light”, the Bowls of the Balance Scale Contain Mushrooms
• vs. Defeatist Crybaby Bennett “It’s TOO HARD 😭 to find evidence” 🙈
• More than Enough Evidence to Support The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
• Citation: Book: Drugs and the Bible
• All Data Is theory-laden; “Evidence” Consists of Theory + Interpretation + Reasoning + Data + Evidence; Paradigm for Conceptualizing “Evidence + Argumentation”
• The prototypes made me do it!
• Article: “The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels” (Bennett, Aug. 2021)
• Bennett, deleter of 12 of 13 plants in Rev 22:2 during his “inspiration”, by rewriting the Bible from “twelve manner of fruits/crops” to “twelve uses of hemp“
• There’s Too Little Evidence, It’s Too Scarce, Completely Arbitrary, No Way to Tell, No Way to Substantiate the Case for mushrooms in Christian art
• Article: Bennett vs. Brian Muraresku (Travis Kitchens, 2024/12/23)
• Article: Robert Forte vs. Brian Muraresku (Travis Kitchens, 2025/01/02)
• Grab Your Masonry Mortar Bucket and Spade: Dividing Reality into
  the Enterprise vs. Grassroots;
  the Establishment vs. the Counter-Culture;
  Mainstream vs. Underground Heretical “groups”
• Hatsis Sites
• See Also

Intro/Motivation for Page

motive for page: I can’t find readily my link to Bennett 2021 negative article, and even if I find the url at this site, how will I find it again?

I’ve now read Bennett’s 2021 article a couple times, and right now I need to quote from it, where WUSS Bennett can’t handle investigative scholarship that’s any harder and more disadvantaged than easy-mode, well-evidenced Cannabis.

I treat as barely a footnote, Bennett’s article around the era of Hatsis vs Brown at Hancock site.

To make this page, used Cyberdisciple site, who wrote about the 2021 Bennett article when it became available in the /__trashed/ dump at Cannabis Culture site.

How to Convert the Bible’s Bountiful Payload Delivery from 13 Different Plants, to Hemp Only

Bennett FRAMES this as “MY single-plant fallacy is WELL EVIDENCED”, “YOUR single-plant fallacy is VERY POORLY EVIDENCED.”

For one thing, Chris, MAN UP. Act like a REAL investigator … but please do better than recent article recounting how your inspiration to write your 2001 book was:

“OMG I HAD AN INSPIRING VISION OF REV 22:2 – THE 12 DIFFERENT CROPS OF FRUITS EVERY MONTH [not to mention healing leaves] IS 12 USES OF HEMP! 🤯”

For another thing, Bennett is blinded by negative mental attitude and defeatist expectations and presuppositions.

branching-message mushroom trees or mushrooms in Christian art is NOT difficult to find evidence for.

The Hypothesis of mushrooms in Christian art is so weakly founded, all it has is mere pictorial evidence

This is as good as no evidence at all; worthless imagery – I applied Huggins’ rules in his Panofsky-based Conclusion section of his “Foraging Wrong” article, and I firmly concluded: TREE, not mushroom:

That image is useless, worthless evidence – it could be anything, but Panofsky’s watertight argumentation via Huggins PROVES that this MUST be a tree, probably Letcher’s fig tree, as confirmed by “consulting” top Historian Henrietta Leyser, “pers. comm.”

Also note Pan “at least traces ramif:”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-2-6
“But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.”

Oh wait, this image looks like a mushroom, no branches, therefore, DOESN’T COUNT.

• If the mushroom tree lacks traces of branching, DOESN’T COUNT; fails to qualify as mushroom-tree. So, not mushroom.
• If the mushroom-tree has traces of branching, DOESN’T COUNT, because it looks nothing like mushrooms, due to the branches. (Which look like mushrooms.) So, not mushroom.

Also, Letcher’s logic of reasoning:

• If mushroom imagery is hidden, DOESN’T COUNT, because only mainstream, open, explicit images count. And also: they must be proved to be an unbroken, continuous, mainstream tradition. So, not mushroom.
• If mushroom imagery is not hidden, DOESN’T COUNT, because entheogen scholars claim there’s secret, suppressed, hidden, cultic mushrooms, here disproved. So, not mushroom.

https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/28/shroom-a-cultural-history-of-the-magic-mushroom-letcher-2006-uk/

A GREAT MYTH OF ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP IS THAT EVIDENCE IS SCARCE, LITTLE, WEAK, HARD TO COME BY.

image: f134 dispensary – from my f134 page > Row 2 Middle

Evidence, Indicators, and Proof that in “Day 1: Creation of Light”, the Bowls of the Balance Scale Contain Mushrooms

image: f11 Day 1 & 4. from my g c p Commentary page, section f11 6 Days of Creation:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#Day-1-Day-4 —

vs. Defeatist Crybaby Bennett “It’s TOO HARD 😭 to find evidence” 🙈

😭🙈

More than Enough Evidence to Support The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion

Actually we have TONS of evidence, far more than required, to conclude and reason that of course religion … the origin and inspiration for religion is Golden Teacher.

I treat benn two ways: now 3 ways, come to think of it:

• book,
• article involving brown,
• new article re: Mura.

Citation: Book: Drugs and the Bible

Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible
by Chris Bennett (Author), Neil McQueen (Author), Richard Cowan (Foreword)
March 23, 2001 [the Egodeath Yahoo Group started June 2001]
https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Violence-Bible-Chris-Bennett/dp/1550567985/

My review of his book, signed, I don’t like the title. Drugs & Bible.

That book has an insane TOC in middle of book for stupid Part 2 that restarts numbering from 1. WTF CHRIS ARE YOU STONED?

I don’t have an official place to point out that his reading of Rev 22:2 is terrible, disastrous, extremely negative and unrewarding, THINK SMALL, forego big victories.

Rev 22:2 gives us tree of life with 12 different crops every month, plus leaves healing nations – after Bennett is done WASTING the 13-plant tree of life, all he gives us is merely Cannabis, nothing else. His ambition is too little: he only speculates when he’s on very well evidenced ground with text quotes…

All Data Is theory-laden; “Evidence” Consists of Theory + Interpretation + Reasoning + Data + Evidence; Paradigm for Conceptualizing “Evidence + Argumentation”

Bennett has no Theory.

The Brown Database concept has some room for Theory, but is too isolating of only mushroom imagery, with no more sense of the central importance of branching trees than ignoramus, dull-witted Art Authorities, who are so expert that they have written NOTHING about trees (per Huggins) or mushroom-trees.

The Art Authorities are expert on “related matters of art” – translation: they know something about other topics, but NOTHING about this topic. You MUST “consult” them in person, because they have written NOTHING on this topic, with a single exception, the censored – oh I meant per Huggins, the “noted” book by Brinckmann –

• a recent book, 1906;
• a thick book (86 pages),
• packed with disproof of psychoactive mushrooms (written before art historians had the concept of psychoactive mushrooms).
• We know for certain pilzbaum don’t look like mushrooms, because Artists consistently moved from Pine to Mushroom imagery, proving that there was no purpose for forcing viewers to think of mushrooms.

The prototypes made me do it!

• Left: Entheogen scholars finding mushroom-trees imagery by medieval artists.
• Middle: Medieval artists per Panofsky.
• Right: The Panofsky-confabulated mythical Prototypes.

Center: pilzbaum artist disavowing the mushroom imagery, blaming it on the Prototypes that the artist was unwillingly forced and uncomprehendingly forced to paint, per the #1 top art authority, Panofsky.

The “development process product” prototypes of trees, that artists were forced to adhere to, certainly & definitely proved to be purposeless, because Pine steadily were made to look increasingly like mushrooms.

. . . . 🔍🧐🤔🤨 And I really recommend to consult the [censored] by [censored], and I’ve attached two [censored].

Photo of Bernward Door panel from https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/

“The prototypes made me do it! I disavow pilzbaum!” — the pilzbaum artists & today’s art authorities.

The Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism, including the mytheme theory, is up to the task of identifying the integrated combination of art motifs: {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Article: “The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels” (Bennett, Aug. 2021)

The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels
By Chris Bennett on 
August 5, 2021
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/

Cyberdisciple wrote 2021/09/26 at https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/criticism-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art-by-tom-hatsis-and-chris-bennett/ —

“Chris Bennett’s recent [2021/08/05] article  https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/ criticizing Jerry Brown and Julie Brown’s The Psychedelic Gospels.” https://psychedelicgospels.com

Bennett __trashed his article.

Terrible title! Impossible gibberish. Awful idea – possibly even worse than Kitchens’ random-word-generated article titles.

Bennett, deleter of 12 of 13 plants in Rev 22:2 during his “inspiration”, by rewriting the Bible from “twelve manner of fruits/crops” to “twelve uses of hemp“

Frail, timid, weakling, spoiled & privileged baby scholar Bennett wrote in his __trashed article:

“Now never mind the obvious similarity to a cannabis leaf in these images, despite the clear archeological evidence in the Holy Land for cannabis as a ritual incense in a 8th century BCE Jewish temple, or its 4th century CE use both topically and as an incense for medical purposes from Bet Shemesh Israel, I could never see myself making the sort of claims about these images, that the Brown’s do about mushrooms, solely on interpretations of medieval art, with no evidence that humanity in Europe were even aware of many of the mushroom species suggested, let alone their ingestion.”

Mushroom-trees: the art historians describe as “trees that look like mushrooms; pilzbaum; mushroom-trees” at least since 1906 describe “just for convenience in discusssion [Wasson]”.

The lack of evidence we have, proves that the pile of evidence depicted in art DOESN’T COUNT.

Spoiled, weakling scholar Bennett continues:

“I prefer things, like actual textual references, etymological research and most of all archeological evidence.

“However, there are some clear cases of Cannabi-Pareidolia* out there, notably the QAnon activist couple Alan Gordon and Anne Armstrong, who share a love for cannabis and clear as day messianic complexes, and who point to imagery of cannabis in all sorts of Catholic context, that in many ways makes even the claims of the Browns seem more reasonable.”

*Zero people find the word ‘Pareidolia‘ meaningful – bad choice; ineffective writing

Depictions of mushrooms by pilzbaum artists counts for zero. Only text counts. Only archaeology counts.

There’s Too Little Evidence, It’s Too Scarce, Completely Arbitrary, No Way to Tell, No Way to Substantiate the Case for mushrooms in Christian art

We are helpless, blocked, and without any resources, we cannot do any productive scholarly discovery and conclusions unless we have Chris’ arbitrary forms of evidence.

😭👶😩 🚫🖼🍄🌳 🙈

Article: Bennett vs. Brian Muraresku (Travis Kitchens, 2024/12/23)

Part 1: Dec. 23, 2024
by Travis Kitchens
https://vegetabletelevision.substack.com/p/what-we-do-is-secret

Provided by Cyberdisciple.

At end of 2024 (i was informed by the Egodeath community – article (awfully titled by random words) – a pair of articles.

1) article: Bennett got ripped off of credit by Muraresku;

from Idea Development page 22:
Bennett vs. Muraresku TIK Article by Travis Kitchens; Part 1

Article: Robert Forte vs. Brian Muraresku (Travis Kitchens, 2025/01/02)

Part 2: Jan. 2, 2025 – Forte & Pinchbeck, but great irony, I accused back in the day, “PINCHBECK IS FAKE ASTROTURF INVADER”, I decided.
by Travis Kitchens
https://vegetabletelevision.substack.com/p/what-we-do-is-secret-1ac

Provided by Cyberdisciple.

2) article: star ship Enterprise: Ruck publisher Robert Forte got ripped off of credit by Muraresku.

I’m sure Michael Pollan and Brian Mura are TOTALLY ORGANIC, “JUST HAPPENED”, lucky break.

from Idea Development page 22:
Forte & Pinchbeck vs. Muraresku TIK Article by Travis Kitchens; Part 2 (Jan. 2, 2025)

Grab Your Masonry Mortar Bucket and Spade: Dividing Reality into
the Enterprise vs. Grassroots;
the Establishment vs. the Counter-Culture;
Mainstream vs. Underground Heretical “groups”

Warmed-over “Oppressor vs. Oppressed” narrative framework.

Surprise natural accidental unexpected bestseller books by Pollan and Mura, engineered by gigantic megacorp who invested zillion $ to MAKE Pollan’s book and Mura’s book “bestseller” – fake, forced, planned, invested, engineeered.

idea development 22 > section:
Who the F Is this Invader of Our Space, Michael Pollan/ Brian Muraresku/ Roland Griffiths?

Books by the Enterprise, for the Enterprise. Unlike Ruck Committee, that is “grassroots”.

Be extremely cautious and wary of employing the sword of division, or the brick and mortal wall-construction activity, masonry-construction activity that you do when you employ the concept of “the Enterprise vs. grassroots”, as Robert Forte employs.

Hatsis Sites

Hatsis went from decent wording to insulting Irvin by name in his revised article titles, article titles designed to insult, styled as an insult. Terrible idea, probably in most cases. Small minded.

Hatsis abandons his blog.

Abandons his Ars site.

Abandons his Witch domain.

His new Historian domain is down, and has just a portion of his published article with now a corrupted title: “Roasting the Salamander” published PDF became garbagized as “Roasting Jan Irvin” broken incomplete webpage 404.

https://www.facebook.com/psychedelichistorian/
http://psychedelichistorian.com – 404
Web Search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=psychedelichistorian.com
Seems lots of resources. Links to books.

See Also

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/criticism-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art-by-tom-hatsis-and-chris-bennett/