Michael Hoffman, Sunday, March 23, 2025

Contents:

• Motivation of this Page
• The Censored Panofsky Sentence About the Two Mushroom-Tree Art Instances That Panofsky Sent to Wasson
• Key Words
• Contrast Between the Instances’ Key Words
• Page 180 of SOMA: Proof of Insincerity & Duplicity: “Consult Art World” in Same Paragraph as Censors Brinckmann Citation and Description of Two Attached Mushroom-Trees
• Proof of Duplicity and Insincerity of Wasson
• “Wasson’s conclusion”, p. 56 of “Daturas for the Virgin”
• Gallery
• Every Instance of Miniature, 990, Mushroom-Like Shape
• Candidate 1 and Working Hypothesis: The First Mushroom-tree Panofsky Sent Wasson
• Every Instance of Glass Painting, Thirteenth Century, Emphatic Mushroom-Like Crown
• Candidate 2 and Working Hypothesis: The Second Mushroom-tree Panofsky Sent Wasson
• See Also

Motivation of this Page

The first step in identifying which two mushroom-tree art images Panofsky sent Wasson is to prepare a mission template to capture that information; this page.

I have already emailed Dr. Secret and the Evil M. Hoffman at Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔 Wasson headquarters asking if the Huggins secret drawer W3.2 at Wasson Archive contains the two mushroom-trees Panofsky sent Wasson.

Jan Irvin was prohibited from accessing the Huggins drawer (footnote citation in Ronald Huggins’ 2024 article “Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case”) , as Irvin throughly documented in The Holy Mushroom 2008. [check/give cit.]

Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Tina and R. Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives, ecb00001, series IV, drawer W3.2, folder 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

No guarantee that Dr. Secret & the Evil M. Hoffman saw my email, and no guarantee I saw their reply [todo: check].

See copy of my email at this site (todo: link). Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck, Mark Hoffman.

The only question is which of these art works, from the two comprehensive galleries shown below, Panofsky sent to Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔 Wasson in 1952.

This page shows every art image fitting the descriptions:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-7

The Censored Panofsky Sentence About the Two Mushroom-Tree Art Instances That Panofsky Sent to Wasson

Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.

Panofsky Letter 1 to Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔 Wasson May 2 1952, sentence 7, https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-7

Key Words

• miniature
• 990
• mushroom-like shape

• glass painting
• thirteenth century
• emphatic mushroom-like crown

Contrast Between the Instances’ Key Words

• miniature vs. glass painting
• 1000 AD vs. 1250 AD
• mushroom-like shape vs. emphatic mushroom-like crown

Page 180 of SOMA: Proof of Insincerity & Duplicity: “Consult Art World” in Same Paragraph as Censors Brinckmann Citation and Description of Two Attached Mushroom-Trees

This proves insincerity and duplicity and thus proves academic fraud committed by Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔 Wasson:

In the same paragraph, Wasson wrote:

• Ellipses ( . . . . ) instead of “If you are interested, I recommend a little book by A. E. Brinckmann, Die Baumdarstellung im Mittelalter (or something like it), where the process is described in detail. Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.”
• “the mycologists have refrained from consulting the art world“

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Transcription-of-Letter-1

Proof of Duplicity and Insincerity of Wasson

If Wasson were sincere in telling mycologists (affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art) to consult the art world, Wasson would not have replaced Panofsky’s two sentences by ellipses, and Wasson would have published both letters from Panofsky and the two instances of mushroom-tree art.

This is proved, an exposed cover-up operation by Wasson to mislead the public and misrepresent Wasson’s conclusion, as leaked by Ruck (Wasson’s confidant) et al.

“Wasson’s conclusion”, p. 56 of “Daturas for the Virgin”

p. 56 of “Daturas for the Virgin”, Ruck et al, Entheos 2, 2001: “Wasson’s conclusion” Placed After Wasson’s Genesis Text Proposal and then “substantiated by many depictions of the Paradise Trees as mushrooms”

See The Holy Mushroom, Jan Irvin, 2008 p0. 100-105 criticizing this “Wasson’s conclusion” passage as the opposite of history re: Wasson’s publicly claimed position he tried to force on mycologists.

todo: transcribe section “Mushroom-apples”

Wasson privately believed mushroom imagery in Christian art, as leaked by p. 56 of “Daturas for the Virgin”, Ruck et al, Entheos 2, 2001, where Ruck writes “Wasson’s conclusion”, after giving Wasson’s Genesis tree of knowledge / Amanita connection followed by the argument – as supporting evidence – for hundreds of Paradise trees as mushrooms.

Ruck says, and necessarily implies, that Wasson concluded mushroom-trees mean mushrooms.

Wasson acted like he believed mushroom imagery in Christian art, when he wrote like “I am prepared to weather the coming storm”, where Wasson leaked and revealed his belief in mushroom imagery in Christian art, given that there cannot be a coming storm from his infinitely feeble, weak, indirect, extremely distant and vague association he asserted between Genesis text tree of knowledge, snake, and Amanita.

Wasson wrote “this story”, strictly meaning Genesis text tree of knowledge story, not all Paradise trees or all mushroom-trees.

To propose a novel reading of this celebrated story is a daring thing: it is exhilarating and intimidating. I am confident, ready for the storm.

Wasson, Persephone’s Quest, p. 74

For details and quotes, Find “storm” in Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm.

Wasson believed mushroom imagery in Christian art; mushroom-trees mean mushrooms, and that fits his statement about the coming storm from his belief: not Wasson’s publicly lied-about, negative belief, but Wasson’s actual, privately held, positive belief, reflected in his words “coming storm” and Ruck’s words “Wasson’s conclusion”.

Gallery

Every Instance of Miniature, 990, Mushroom-Like Shape

Candidate 1 and Working Hypothesis: The First Mushroom-tree Panofsky Sent Wasson

What’s a better candidate?

Every Instance of Glass Painting, Thirteenth Century, Emphatic Mushroom-Like Crown

Candidate 2 and Working Hypothesis: The Second Mushroom-tree Panofsky Sent Wasson

What’s a better candidate?

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8AgwAAAAYAAJ/page/n77/mode/2up

See Also

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)

Site Map: Erwin Panofsky
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Panofsky

• Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed – 2025/01/06
  • Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed – 2023/