Michael Hoffman Jan 18 2025 1:04 am
Contents:
- Intro
- Background of John Rush
- Books
- Rush’s Approach to Art
- The {mushroom hem} motif
- The {celestial erection} motif
- Passing Student Includes {phallic garment} motif
- Put Weight on Right foot non-branching control to avoid loss of control on Psilocybin
- Chariot Wipeout
- Transformation from autonomous control to 2-level, dependent control
- See Also
- My John Rush Pages
- Archive.org – Image Gallery Not Archived
Intro
John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D. (1943–2024)
[Jan 18 2025 1:04 am] I just did a more vigorous web search for John Rush site and found this info.
http://clinicalanthropology.com has been down since late 2024.
I was trying to use John Rush mushroom imagery in Christian art gallery online.
I have his DVD of Brown-certified blurry images.
Background of John Rush
Inner Traditions book publisher:
https://www.innertraditions.com/about-us
https://www.innertraditions.com/author/john-a-rush — publisher blurb:
“John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D. (1943–2024), was a retired
professor of anthropology and
naturopathic doctor.”
Books
“Author of many books, including
Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World,
Spiritual Tattoo,
The Twelve Gates, and
The Mushroom in Christian Art,
Day 3, f11, row 1 right: Paul Lindgren 2000 discovered the image.
https://www.amazon.com/Mushroom-Christian-Art-Development-Christianity/dp/1556439601/
“He also edited several books, including
Entheogens and the Development of Culture
https://www.amazon.com/Entheogens-Development-Culture-Anthropology-Neurobiology/dp/1583946004/ – John Rush, editor, 2013
RELATED LINKS:
Author’s Website: https://www.clinicalanthropology.com – been down since late 2024
/ end of publisher blurb
The Mushroom in Christian Art
John Rush
2011, 1st. Ed.
https://www.amazon.com/Mushroom-Christian-Art-Development-Christianity/dp/1556439601/
Paul Lindgren 2000 discovered the image. Day 3, f11, row 1 right.
Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity
John Rush
2022; 2nd Ed.
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mushrooms-Origin-Christianity-John/dp/B09VWP4CV1/
Rush’s Approach to Art
John Rush is central to Psychedelics and entheogen scholarship.
I agree with John Rush’s general approach to art interpretation.
All religious art is Psilocybin art.
Jungianism forces a thick obscuring overlay onto actual myth.
My thick, heavy-handed interpretative overlay is thicker and more obscuring than your thick, heavy-handed interpretative overlay.
The data trembles when it sees my forceful, coercive theory coming:
the diamond hammer of interpretation.
The {mushroom hem} motif
Rush oddly didn’t come up w/ a term – a concept-label — for {mushroom hem} motif; he uses awkward unwieldy wording only.
The {celestial erection} motif
The {celestial erection} motif is very common theme in Christian mushroom art, found together with {branching-message mushroom trees}, {mushroom hem}; mushroom imagery along with 3-5 other motifs.
{lifted garment} was my original reject term.
The better new term is {phallic garment}.
Rush’s term {celestial erection} is superior to my new term in most ways.
A b.s. euphemism term from me: my new term {phallic garment} is adequately semi-specific.
Rush owns the {celestial erection} motif.
Rush didn’t form a term for {mushroom hem} like he did for the {celestial erection} motif.
In John Rush’s book (Amanita-fest cover):
- He defines term {celestial erection} motif.
- He describes, but doesn’t define a useful term for {mushroom hem}.
Passing Student Includes {phallic garment} motif
For my present purpose, this specific crop is perfect and happens to exactly match what blurry inkjet crop John Lash uploaded to web around 2008, that I decoded in blurry form in Nov. 2020:
The hanging red guy is indicated as stable self-control in the Psilocybin peak window.
Classroom in f134 row 1 left: passing student on left, is indicated as stable and transformed from (relying too much on) possibilism to eternalism (as a new established capability and compatibility, the helpless thought-receiver.
Control that is {stable} is indicated by the leftmost student in many ways:
- Standing on right foot.
- Displaying right hand.
- Unfurrowed brow.
- John Rush’s {celestial erection}.
- (Black-line) {mushroom hem} near ground.
- Weight on right foot.
- Weight on right foot touching {stable column base}.
- Strongly passing student.
- Student is able to explain the relative handedness of the hanging guy decently well
- Student can explain how red guy is indicated as stable self-control in the Psilocybin peak window.
The basic elementary concept:
{weight on left foot} = naive possibilism-thinking (bad, unstable)
{weight on right foot} = eternalism-thinking (good; stable)
Put Weight on Right foot non-branching control to avoid loss of control on Psilocybin
Stable balance control requires standing on right foot (ie, repudiating branching possibility control steering, abandon relying on autonomous control as foundation.
You guys are standing with weight on left foot — on Psilocybin, that’s unstable, causes loss of control, control instability, experiencing the threat of loss of effective control of your control-thinking.
experiencing the threat of loss of control
In its destined drive to unfold and transform, the mind is made to trip up its own control system, to perceive the hole, thorn in the side, wound in the side where blade touches.
The control-vulnerability opening in the side, through which to transform and die to the temporary child immature form, and switch to the adult mature final form non-temporary, imperishable.
Use childish thinking 100% of the time, but now, qualified possibilism-thinking not naive possibilism-thinking – includes eternalism-thinking.
On a daily basis, use qualified possibilism-thinking.
Even during the peak state*, employ (transcendently, at arrm’s length observing it) childish egoic control, the egoic control system.
*very, very, very high, enabling the capability of maximum freakout.
The cure to be cleansed: sacrifice the childish temporary thinking as if possibility branching is real and along with autonomous control steering in a branching world.
literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control
The Control Seizure potential through which maturation transformation:
the passageway gateway gate of death and sacrifice and birth through the side.
{weight on right foot} = eternalism-thinking (good; stable)
{weight on right foot} = non-branching control thinking (good; stable)
{weight on right foot} = heimarmene-thinking (good; stable)
{weight on left foot} = naive possibilism-thinking (bad, unstable)
{left limb} of tree or person = branching possibility steering
= temporary child state perishable, transient, provisional, vulnerable to collapse when illuminated made perceptible during loose cognitive association binding,
The peak window of the mystic altered state that’s designed to transform from child immature mental worldmodel to adult, mature,, final form, imperishable, non-transient, eternal life, live forever.
Stable practical steady control, while very very very high loose cognitive association binding , loose mental functioning binding
maximum freakout capability: mellow how?
Solution: Repudiate branching control, to avoid losss of control (control instability); affirm non-branching (and image f177: 2-level dependent control.
Chariot Wipeout
“f76 chariot wipeout.jpg” 360 KB, 12:49 am Jan. 18, 2025
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f76.item.zoom#
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f76
Transformation from autonomous control to 2-level, dependent control
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level control
analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level control
See Also
My John Rush Pages
John Rush’s No-Mushrooms Narrative vs. His Evidence Base
John Rush – Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity – 2nd Edition – Ahistoricity, entheogen scholarship
Search site for “John Rush”:
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=%22John+Rush%22
Archive.org – Image Gallery Not Archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20231206134324/https://www.clinicalanthropology.com/category/books/
d/k if latest, didn’t check any other dates.
The Egodeath theory 