Letcher Disproved 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship (Secret Amanita Paradigm) by Using 2nd-Gen (Explicit Psilocybin Paradigm)

Michael Hoffman

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Contents:

• MICA Deniers Say Affirmers Are Supposed to Care What Art Historians Think about Mushroom-Trees, as “Expert Authorities on Related Matters”, Even Though Art Historians Have Never Given Any Thought about Either Mushrooms or Trees
• Letcher Efficiently Used 2nd-Gen Entheogen Scholarship to Demolish 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship
• p. 13, “”Conjuring Eden” – first page
• p. 14, “”Conjuring Eden”, Ruck Committee; Written by the Secret Amanita Paradigm
• p. 15, “Conjuring Eden” – Secret Initiates Having The Mushroom (kiddie Amanita, a non-psychedelic)
• The Allegro-Plus-Ruck, Secret Amanita Paradigm that Misled the World into a Non-Psychedelic, Dead End
  • The Death Blow Dealt by Letcher Using Only a Single Instance of Non-Secret Art; King Secret Held up for Ridicule, 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship a Laughingstock
• 2nd-Gen Entheogen Scholarship Freely Plunders, Reworks, Transforms, Selects, Rejects, and Recombines Elements from 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship
  • A Limited Type of Respect, Along with Healthy Productive Disrespect
• Greedy Advocacy of All Psychoactives Is a Guaranteed Failure at Repealing Psilocybin Prohibition
• Motivation for this Post
• See Also

MICA Deniers Say Affirmers Are Supposed to Care What Art Historians Think about Mushroom-Trees, as “Expert Authorities on Related Matters”, Even Though Art Historians Have Never Given Any Thought about Either Mushrooms or Trees

The present section is a jump to the master section, which is:

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/16/wasson-told-ruck-he-knows-that-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art-means-mushrooms/#the-EXPERTS-never-thought-about-either-mushrooms-or-trees

Letcher Efficiently Used 2nd-Gen Entheogen Scholarship to Demolish 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship

Thanks Max Freakout for contributing Gartz 1996 book research, it’s paying off with many points.

The evidence that destroyed 1st-gen entheogen scholarship, magic weapon provided to him by the 2nd-gen entheogen scholar gods, was: non-secret, Psilocybin art (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) — which disproves the Secret Amanita paradigm.

Stamets & Gartz 1996 were operating from within 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

Andy Letcher inadvertently used efficiently, 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship to demolish 1st-gen entheogen scholarship.

Shroom, p. 35: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in” – misattributed to 2nd-gen entheogen scholars, actually asserted by 1st-gen entheogen scholars.

Shroom, p. 35: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in” – misattributed to 2nd-gen entheogen scholars, actually asserted by 1st-gen entheogen scholars.

The evidence that destroyed 1st-gen entheogen scholarship was non-secret, Psilocybin art (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) — which disproves the Secret Amanita paradigm.

By virtue of Letcher in fact using Stamets and Gartz, Liberty Cap mushroom-trees, on explicit Bernward Door, Andy Letcher was confused and botched attributions.

Letcher misunderstood himself to be taking down Stamets+Garts, mis-attributing to them, 1st-gen entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

Letcher didn’t realize they are in a different, superior paradigm, and so he severely mis-attrbituted in endnote 31, falsely claiming that Stamets Gartz are included in: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in”.

The whole time I read the book Shroom cover to cover in April 2007, I asked:

Who is he arguing against?!
Who is he arguing against??!
Who is he arguing against??

Interesting question, it turns out.

I did not know to inspect endnote 31 at that time.

My attention was to the entire book Shroom, but especially p. 35-36 because those were the ONLY pages about mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Yet that so much fits ALL THE MORE PERFECTLY.

1 drop of dragon blood from 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship poisoned to death 1st-gen entheogen scholarship, so potent that even not knowing what he was doing, ie who he was mis-attributing, Letcher in fact took down 1st-gen entheogen scholarship = Allegro with Ruck specifically building on Allegro, both fixated on Secret Fairytale Fantasy, instead of on psychedelic effects.

Letcher mistakenly thought he was employing (1st-generation) entheogen scholars to hold up for ridicule and then easily sacrific the magic mushroom fantasy — but in fact, he took down the Allegro Ruck paradigm by employing 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship writers Stamets+Gartz who are not secret.

Like on Psilocybin holding up for ridicule egoic steering power, like easily stepping outside the egoic personal control system to blade its vulnerability in sacrifice on the rock altar with fire on branches, and blade, and child – to enter through the gateway.

Letcher using 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship to hold up for ridicule and easily demonstrate the vulnerability of 1st-gen entheogen scholarship (despite him not realizing that’s what he was doing):

Figure 1. Sacrifice of Isaac. Canterbury Psalter

Paul Stamets & Jochen Gartz do not employ “secret/ suppressed” — ironically, given how Letcher cites & mis-attributes “secret” to them, ironically, and they are 2nd-generation entheogen scholars in that they use Psilocybin mushroom-trees, not Amanita art.

Like my approach, the only thing S+G wrote is 6 words: no social drama narrative of barrier wall construction by them with “The Mushroom” (fantasy fairytale kiddie Amanita) on one side (within their fabricated counterculture members-only walled group cult), and real Christianity on the other side.

Paul Stamets & Jochen Gartz only wrote: “Tree of knowledge as Liberty Cap”.

Not a drama tale of alien infiltration by closed, bounded, members-only, heretical sects, so called by Pope Ruck, who decrees that any individual who ingested The Mushroom was instantly turned into “member of heretical secret closed sect cult community group”.

I write “Allegro+Ruck” because the combination of Allegro and then Ruck building on Allegro’s “secret suppressed Amanita” fairytale was a one-two punch that misled the pop world into the Secret Amanita paradigm – a titillating made-up social drama narrative requiring no delivering of psychedelic effects at all; having nothing to do with actual psychedelic effects, but, purely a storytelling drama ABOUT the mythic-realm, fantasy super-psychedelic, The Mushroom, kiddie Amanita.

Build that barrier wall, storytellers Allegro+Ruck – Allegro wrote “our primitive ancestors were so crude, they were impressed — like professors in Anthropology dept. — by the changing surface shape and colors of Amanita.

Allegro actually wrote that – revealing how HE thinks, the mode in which 1st-gen entheogen scholarship operates: fantasy, social drama narrative, Academic sky-castle DEPARTMENT OF MYTHMAKING; DEPARTMENT OF FANTASY SKY-CASTLE WEAVING, home of 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm). Massive projection.

Who is inventing tabu and suppression, superstition, and suffering confusion about reality vs. imagination? 1st-gen entheogen scholars under the conditions of Psilocybin Prohibition.

And all it took from Letcher – without even knowing what he was doing – was 1 drop of dragon blood, 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship, to shatter 1st-gen entheogen scholarship. He didn’t NEED to get endnote 31 attribution right, to demolish 1st-gen entheogen scholarship.

Letcher is confused though; he conflated 1st-gen entheogen scholarship with the entire proposal of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

The proposal of mushroom imagery in Christian art is very much not the same thing as 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

Interesting transitional crossover by Letcher, accidentally using 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship to demolish 1st-gen entheogen scholarship.

Zero social drama narrative, you can roll up your sleeves all you want to analyze the narrative from Stam+Gar — but there is none to read or analyze at all. You go on the hunt to attack their the Secret Amanita paradigm narrative – and Alderaan is just … gone. Not there.

What’s there instead is 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship, proto-, in 1996, same year as Samorini presentation in San Francisco, yielding the 1997 & 1998 articles announcing 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship.

THERE ARE NO TEXT STATEMENTS TO ANALYZE FROM STAMETS+GARTZ, because they write literally nothing other than SHEER SIMPLE RAW PLAIN PRESENCE of mushroom (in characteristic 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship fashion) – not ADDING “secret suppressed”, barrier construction, social drama narrative of academic made-up Anthropology Dept. theory fabrication sky-castle, like the 1st-gen Allegro+Ruck paradigm.

The Allegro+Ruck paradigm does not employ or require the plant to have any psychedelic effects, but instead, as Ruck & Wasson tripped and failed on Amanita while Staples tripped on Psilocybin and ran circles around them.

What 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship Academic Anthropology tabu DEPARTMENT OF FAIRYTALE STORY FABRICATION FICTION FANTASY, the suitable mushroom is fairytale fantasy mythic-realm Amanita deliriant, which requires no psychoactive effects at all, just children fairytale storybook fantasy.

The fact that Amanita doesn’t transformation from possibilism to eternalism, and doesn’t cause psychedelic effects, makes it much better for Allegro-Ruck purposes than Psilocybin.

The motivating purpose of Allegro+Ruck is telling an Anthropology Dept. invented fairytale fantasy of social drama narrative STORY ABOUT the super-Psychedelic, better-than-any-Psychedelic, Amanita.

Dale Pendell, inspired, muses:

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/12/06/pharmacognosis-book-on-amanita-pendell/

! Emphatically vindicated!

Now in 2025 I answer my 2007 question: especially re: Shroom p 35:

Who is Letcher arguing against?

Answer:

Letcher THINKS he is arguing against “1st-gen” entheogen scholars Stamets+Gartz, but he is ACTUALLY arguing against 1st-gen entheogen scholars Allegro+Ruck, by using the 2nd-gen entheogen scholars Stam+Gartz:

• They don’t use the “secret because suppressed” scholars’-fantasy fairytale CONSTRUCT.
• They don’t use fantasy fairytale super-psychedelic Amanita; they use actual psychedelic Psilocybin.

— proving my idea of dividing 1st vs 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship.

Letcher proved I am right making that “generations” division, like Stamets p. 14 does and like Brown 2019 does.

Though Letcher botched – but, his botching endnote 31 contributes toward my narrative: it figures, that he made that particular mistake; it’s fitting; it all fits together.

Perfect!

Letcher did not perceive 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship; did not perceive the crucial distinction between 1st vs. 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship.

What position did Andy Letcher in Shroom 2006 IMAGINE himself to demolish?

Mushroom imagery in Christian art, broadly.

What position did Letcher ACTUALLY demolish, by unknowingly employing 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)? Wielding what weapon?

1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm), by applying the 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

I then posted in April 2007 my influential review about which Letcher replied to me by name with interesting argumentation: the “you can’t prove [sequence]” argument, which I proved in Nov. 2020 all of those points and Maximal Peak religious experience too, by using Eadwine’s well-stocked Cubensis bins and his refinement of the mushroom-tree genre, in Great Canterbury Psalter.

p. 13, “”Conjuring Eden” – first page

p. 14, “”Conjuring Eden”, Ruck Committee; Written by the Secret Amanita Paradigm

p. 15, “Conjuring Eden” – Secret Initiates Having The Mushroom (kiddie Amanita, a non-psychedelic)

Ruck paradigm, the Secret Amanita paradigm, strives to construct a barrier to keep Amanita from being in Christianity – his entire motivation and scheme collapses if you remove Prohibition, or remove his fabricated construction, “Prohibitionist mainstream vs. closed, Amanita-having counterculture.”

Letcher took the oppotunity to shatter this entire 1st-gen entheogen scholarship paradigm of the Secret Amanita paradigm, by simply using a single instance of art that cannot possibly be forced by Ruck into Ruck’s invented framing as “hidden, suppressed, limited, secret” –

“Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in. – that’s Letcher, Shoom, 2006, p. 35-36, where Letcher holds up 1st-gen entheogen scholarship for ridicule while he smashes it to smithereens using a single instance of art, on Bernward Door.

Letrcher mis-attributes the Allegro-and-Ruck one-two punch that misled pop followers into the Secret Amanita paradigm, misattributes it to Gartz and Stamets 1996, who wrote nothing at all having anything to do with any narrative – they simply wrote “door has liberty cap” – nothing else.

The door has 3 Liberty Cap mushroom-tree, the column has 4 Liberty Cap mushroom-trees. With other mushroom imagery as well, that I discovered recently; {floating mushroom hem}, mushroom roof toppers, {mushroom hems}, Lib Cap roofs, mushroom gate toppers in chandelier.

The Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees of the Bernward Doors and Column

Bernward Doors and Column, Hildesheim

Andy Letcher should have said the two by far the main culprits: Allegro, with Ruck eagerly building on Allegro’s Secret obsession/fixation, as Ruck said in recent Mururesku-tour YouTube video, “I thought Allegro’s book was extremely interesting.” Red flag. Allegro = Secret Christian Amanita Cult, which all the deniers are right to ridicule, as I ridicule that self-defeating dead end approach that’s NOT EVEN PSYCHEDELIC!

GTFO, subsuming Psilocybin to Amanita, that’s entirely backwards. Wasson wrote that his Amanita hypothesis was a failure.

Amanita is NOT like Psilocybin and – like heavy breathing or Datura – does not produce mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism, which is the only criterion that matters for Transcendent Knowledge and religious myth.

Entheogen scholarship cannot move forward except through rejecting 1st-gen entheogen scholarship, using 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship instead: the Explicit Cubensis paradigm.

The Allegro-Plus-Ruck, Secret Amanita Paradigm that Misled the World into a Non-Psychedelic, Dead End

The Death Blow Dealt by Letcher Using Only a Single Instance of Non-Secret Art; King Secret Held up for Ridicule, 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship a Laughingstock

Carl “Dr. Secret” Ruck loves Allegro Sacred Mushroom & The Cross b/c it is 100x as much about Secret than psychedelics and in fact Sacred Mushroom & The Cross has honthing nothing to do w/ psychedleics – any more than Datura & Amanita are “psychedelics”; they are deliriants.

Ruck has no interest in psychedelics, he is only motivated by Secret and to do that, he must prevent real Christianity from having The Mushroom (kiddie Amanita, a non-psychedelic).

Ruck frames all evidence as alien infiltration, and tells contradictory narrative tales of limiting The Mushroom to hereitc closed bounded sects communities (members only), or 1-2 elites, only – NOT the mass of people in Christndom, that would destroy Ruck’s paradigm and fundamental motive, which is Secret, not psychedelics.

Psilocybin is disrespected by being forced into a subservient role serving the glory of the non-psychedelic, Amanita, in the Allegro-Ruck the Secret Amanita paradigm.

2nd-Gen Entheogen Scholarship Freely Plunders, Reworks, Transforms, Selects, Rejects, and Recombines Elements from 1st-Gen Entheogen Scholarship

A Limited Type of Respect, Along with Healthy Productive Disrespect

2nd-gen entheogen scholarship Plunders Disrespectfully 1st-gen entheogen scholarship: No Commitment to Paradigm 2 Has No Respect for Paradigm 1, Not Constrained… De-Comm Paradigm 2

2nd-Gen Entheogen Scholarship Must Totally De-Commit from Paradigm 1 and Reject Sacred Cows and Not Be Bound by Respecting the Wise Fools Who Went Before, Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Dwarves

That’s a truism.

All scholarship involves some skepticism about other theories and other takes, other readings.

2nd-gen entheogen scholarship PLUNDERS RUDELY the Junked Treasures from 1st 1st-gen entheogen scholarship but always REFRAMES AND REPURPOSES AND TRANSFORMS THE previous scheme, entirely selectively.

I have a certain respect for Allegro, and Ruck, and Graves, Graves, Wasson, Allegro, and Ruck; I have assessed their pros and cons always.

Lazy scholars shirk their work and simply embrace or rject in lazy wholesale way, that’s not effective progress.

I adopt some aspects from Graves, Wasson, Allegro, and Ruck, from the Secret Amanita paradigm, but I always transform – an analogy of imind mind: the Egodeath theory depends on the building blocks that Ruck has provided – but, always transforming the previous theory’s malformed building blocks to become well-formed, to fit them into the Egodeath theory; the new explanatory framework.

Greedy Advocacy of All Psychoactives Is a Guaranteed Failure at Repealing Psilocybin Prohibition

No one ever had mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism without using Psilocybin.

pros of that blunt statements:

cons of that blunt statements:

We are committed to all psychoactives. Shotgun strategy, defocused.

We focus all our firepower on Psilocybin. Rifle strategy; focus.

Let me know when you’re done burning up & squandering all the resources on cannabis, Amanita, Datura, kitchen sink, then maybe you’ll have a penny left over for Psilocybin, which every academic in the cabal is striving to suppress (we agree to lie collectively that heavy breathing = Psilocybin, so it’s ok), and which every meditation huckster is fighting to suppress and compete against (“Is Psilocybin a legitimate new fake simulation of the true original non-drug way of meditation?”)

You guys have have MDMA, Amanita, Datura, cannabis.

I’ll just settle for my little single-plant fallacy: Psilocybin thank you very much.

mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism
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mental worldmodel transformation from the Possibilism to the Eternalism model of time, self, possibility, and control (“will”)
should be:
m w t p e m

mental worldmodel transformation from the Possibilism to the Eternalism model of time, self, possibility, and control
mwtpem

todo: eternalism YouTube videos: errors:

• They contrast eternalism vs. presentism, should contrast eternalism vs possibilism instead.
• They do metaphysics; they should instead do cybernetic phenomenology instead.
• They are a package deal, that’s a bad package. eg perennialism” is wildcard covert package deal bait & switch: you agree with these two points? then you have silently, unknowingly also signed on to TWO HUNDRED packaged agendas, which are changing constantly.

Moshe Idel (scholar of Jewish mysticism) says “the word ‘perennialism” doesn’t mean anything, because it means something different for each person.

Write simplified assertions for clarity and telegraphic abbrev.

Motivation for this Post

Needed to move out these sections to leave a focused article about Pinocchio Wasson:
By Writing “Wasson’s conclusion”, Ruck Leaked that Wasson Knew that Mushroom Trees Mean Mushrooms

Wasson lied about his view; and Ruck leaked Wasson’s privately held, actual conclusion: mushroom-trees mean mushrooms.

See Also

• The Old, “Secret Entheogen” Paradigm vs. the New, “Explicit Psychedelic” Paradigm
• Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach – 2024/11/20
• Against Assumption of Suppression – Reblog of Cyberdisciple’s Post
• Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom (Letcher 2006, UK)
• Letcher’s False Citation: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in, such as Stamets & Gartz”
• Bernward Doors and Column, Hildesheim
• The Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees of the Bernward Doors and Column
• Conceptual Errors, Misinterpretations, and Bad Argumentation from Entheogen Scholars
• We the Monks team, to You Hatsis, Ruck, & Panofsky

• Deniers’ Logical Fallacies in the Pilzbaum (Mushroom Trees) Debate
• Ancients Were Wrong in Pushing Secret Amanita Mysteries and Garbled Pop Physics Mysticism

• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep254 Psychedelics vs. Amanita (April 21 & 28, 2023)
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep253 Prohibition-Friendly Entheogen Scholarship (April 21, 2023)
• Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity (Cyberdisciple 2020)
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep252 The Wall Built by Entheogen Scholars (April 20, 2023)
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep251  Entheogen Prohibitionist Scholarship (April 19, 2023)
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep250 “All Entheogens” Means Amanita Only (April 24, 2023)

• Announcement: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm, April 18, 2023
• How the Amanita Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Discredited and Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246  Mainstream Psilocybin Control Re-Stabilization (April 18, 2023)
• The Amanita Paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Paradigm
• The Holy Mushroom (Irvin 2008) Calls to Abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise, But Remains Stuck in Amanita Primacy Fallacy
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep245  Secret Amanita vs. Psilocybin Eucharist (April 8-10, 2023)
• The Entheogen War: “Secret Amanita Cult” Prohibitionists vs. “Psilocybin Eucharist” Repealers
• Roasting Entheogen Scholarship: How the Field of Entheogen Scholarship Was Wrecked by the Amanita Primacy Fallacy
• AHAHAHA Hatsis Did Totally Bust Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck for Taunting Based on WRONG Guess that Salamander Cap Is Red and White 
• Idea Development page 26 (2025/03/12) – Find 1st-gen, Bern
• Idea Development page 25 (2025/02/25) – Find 1st-gen, Bern

• 3-Phase “Transcendent Possibilism” vs. 2-Phase “Eternalism” (Transcendent Egoic Thinking)