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— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzM88_jHYA
℗ 1976 Warner Records Inc.

email sent May 5, 2025, 9:45 pm

Technologically Enthusiastic about Transcendent Knowledge audio content discussion.

Discuss and analyze the dynamics of “surrender” mapped to the direct model of control transformation.

My focus is on shaping or packaging or framing a discovered body of knowledge, to bring it back to the community of everyone; contribution to useful Science.

Shaping the content of the Egodeath theory to provide two specific, focused benefits, added to the body of Science: helpful model of mental model transformation; explains myth:

Cybernetic Mind Transformation Myth Analogy

Provide Model of Psilocybin Transformation

1) Provide a useful, relevant, helpful model of control transformation, simple and clear.

Far more ergonomic.  Other models are beginner unity and low-relevance.  

This model is advanced mystical experience, high relevance, with maximum explanatory power, compactly modeled.  

A strength: This model makes minimal changes to the original thinking, experiencing, & mental model.

Explain Myth as Analogy for Psilocybin Transformation

2) Explain the best myth and art, as analogies reflecting that transformation.

Science uses analogies (comparisons) to clarify and explain the referent topic; the explanandum.

Repeal Psilocybin Prohibition, restoring the non-laws of 1965 or 1900.

Europe has a fully developed religious use of Psilocybin (to effectuate this mental model transformation), in Greco-Roman-Christendom.  There’s plentiful quality & quantity of evidence – including the entire language of analogies, not only mushroom imagery.

How notions of “common-core mysticism and perennialism” are minimally correct, but limited to beginner unity.  “Not wrong, but not helpful.”  

The Egodeath theory is not centrally focused on critiquing other models or “the old theory”, but only on specifying “the new theory”, eg this theory does succinctly answer the Panofsky-Huggins objection: “We cannot interpret mushroom-trees as mushrooms unless you explain the branching features.”

Explain the Mystery Religions in a way that completed initiates can agree is on-target and directly concerns their central concerns.

Compact Model Science Body of Knowledge: the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence & Analogies

“ego transcendence” as a flagship phrase?

Flagship phrases:

  • Psilocybin control maturation
  • Psilocybin matured control
  • eternalism-perceived personal control system
  • Psilocybin maturation
  • control transformation
  • Psilocybin transformation <– neutral, vague, broad

Two models of time and control:

1) possibilism; possibility-branching + monolithic, autonomous control; open non-extant future.

2) eternalism; non-branching + 2-level, dependent control; closed extant future.

I didn’t create “a religion”.

I created a compact model of the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism to be added to Science as a body of useful relevant knowledge with extreme explanatory power.

The likely central theme for me to discuss, at this stage:

What’s the character and framing of this the Egodeath theory, vs. other brands of Transcendent Knowledge?  

What’s the promise and purpose of this body of knowledge? 

What kind of transformation is produced?  

What kind of explanatory model is called for, practically?

The audience use case is: Cognitive Scientists at a Classic Metal Head festival with a comic tract summarizing the useful relevant theory – including the point, that you end up with unobtrusive, low-key modification of your original thinking.  

The great appeal of this tiny theory is how small, how LITTLE or how focused the “benefits” are, given by this Science of Personal Control Model transformation/ modification.  

The Egodeath theory (as a body of concerns) has inner core; outer core; inner periphery; outer periphery.

Object Oriented Design principle: “separation of concerns”.

The Egodeath theory should ONLY provide explanatory power for slight transformation of control-model – NOT also save the world, as every other advocate of psychedelics takes to be their driving argument.

Learning this body of knowledge will have a precision-targeted effect, ONLY.  This model fits into Science in a modular way.

Consider the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism & mytheme analogies as an abstract body of Science knowledge that has a certain character.  eg different than exotic & intrusive “nondual spirituality” brands.  

Per Houot, provide a map, a tool, a useful outfitting that’s suited for enduring this altered state, to do general exploration/ discovery.

I’m considering the character and framing of this body of knowledge, at a more abstract or “content” level, than the surface concern of tangible specific formats of publishing the Egodeath theory.

This explanatory framework is about psychedelic eternalism, control transformation, & ending up with a modified version of our usual thinking.

That is not concerned with Epistemology, but is concerned with two models of control and branching-steering across two experiential states (tight cognitive binding & loose cognitive binding as defined by Psilocybin).

Psilocybin is used as the standard of what kind of “truth” & maturation & the standard of reference; the test of relevance; the test of merit.

Pop Neo Advaita might say no-free-will, but it falls short of these qualities and criteria, and doesn’t integrate eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking in our experiential world.  And it’s inarticulate, and beginner unity experience.  Not relevant, not ergonomic.  Intrrusive, unhelpful.

The Egodeath theory body of knowledge is an immensely practical model, as discussed in lyrics of album Diary of a Madman: 1981-era, high dose, no-nonsense, practical, relevant, no-B.S. – the practical Metal Head’s needs & standards of judgment, or, their requirements.  Highly grounded in practical relevance.

The requirements for this body of knowledge to meet: must address relevant control transformation and stability, for Metal Heads exploring and testing their soundness of personal control-model with medium-high dose.

For people to explore this state and discover and map it out in order to contribute to Science, requires passing through the gate (perceiving the angel of death threatening Balaam and blocking the path), the preliminary first major challenge is the control stability fascinating problem, a most attractive song that is most fearful and awesome to look at.

The above benefit: a direct model of mental model transformation upon colliding with Psilocybin.

Because of its threatening fear aspect, Psilocybin is the forbidden fire of transformation.

{fire} = threatening, destabilizing, terror-driven re-shaping

The other benefit of the Egodeath theory is the Mytheme theory portion of this body of knowledge: A compact powerful explanation:

The best myth is analogy describing or reflecting mental model transformation about control and possibility.

ego transcendence? self-in-world; control/branching

transcending the branching steersman controller in a tree

branching control model (unstable in loose cognition)

non-branching control model

component: whether branching possibilities or {snake frozen in rock}

component: control model type: monolithic, autonomous control vs. 2-level, dependent control

/ end email

Email to wrmspirit May 5, 2025

Hi wrmspirit, 

Topics:

1) Exact records of decoding Great Canterbury Psalter Day 1 & 4 & Day 3.

2) Decoded {fire} & {purgatory} mythemes.

3) In what way is Psilo “forbidden” to the mind?

Exact records of decoding Great Canterbury Psalter Day 1 & 4 & Day 3

1:15 am Jan. 13, 2025:  (made an image crop) Identified branching form of 4 plants in Day 3, and, proved what’s in {balance scale} in Day 1 by Day 4 plants pointing at it.  

Day 1 & 4 & Day 3 were solved around 11:50 pm Jan 12 through 12:10 am midnight, Jan 13.

Official crop of Day 3 (4 plants) that includes date in it:

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/#Branching-Form-Develops-toward-Increasing-Comprehension

Read near here for full records of the interpretation breakthrough.

A few pages scrolled down below that, proof of {balance scale} content: 

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/#Proof-that-Day-1-Creation-of-Light-Scale-Balance-Pans-Contain-Mushrooms

Below/ before that: (posted text reporting the breakthrough-pair/cluster):

“[12:04 am Jan. 13, 2025]: in Day 3, there is a progression from in YI morphy YI application moving left to right, Day 3.”I have date-time stamp of recognizing a couple points, including email dates where I emailed you.  I had a dual project early this year, of looking for branching forms in Day 3 of Creation, and examining Day 1 & Day 4.  I have full records, of the date & time where both puzzles were solved together: Day 3 & (Day 1 & 4).

2025: {balance scale} pans.  Find “pans”.  also find: “III, IYI, YI, IY/YI”

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/

At 1:50 a.m. June 7, 2023, I declared with no direct proof: “God holds a {balance scale} containing Golden Teacher:”  

I was in error for not looking around for proof, plainly shown on the row below it, finally perceived Jan 13, 2025.

What looms in my mind here is SAME pattern re: image f134  

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/

1. First, I jokingly wrote that I know what’s in the big blue vase behind the oxen.  But I failed to look for direct proof; I assumed pessimistically that the artist didn’t provide it and we must indirectly guess.

2. A while after, I finally opened my eyes to look at the grain dispensary bins: filled with liberty cap shapes.  Facepalm.  Why did I fail to even TRY to look, for years?!

You’d think I would have learned my lesson, from image f134 (leg hanging), when looking at f11 (6 Days of Creation).  

Lesson: This artist (Eadwine) tries to provide direct signalling/ indication.  Assume direct signalling (evidence) is present, not absent.  

Thus my name of 2nd gen paradigm, “explicit”:  2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) 

Mytheme Decoding: {purgatory}, {fire}

Not sure if I already have a good summary writeup.  

Decoded {fire} maybe a couple years ago, or 2007 main article.  

But I recently improved and focused my reading of the “fire” mytheme.

I more closely identified its specific referent, in the process of control transformation.

{purgatory} or {fire} = altered-state experiencing that forces maturation and transformation from:

1. branching possibilities with monolithic, autonomous control   (possibilism-thinking)

to:

2. non- branching possibilities with 2-level, dependent control.  (eternalism-thinking)

Important: the final mental model is broad and contains two models: qualified possibilism-thinking & qualified eternalism-thinking.  

This is a balance across two states.

Fire converts salamander to Phoenix (Ronald Huggins & Wouter Hanegraaff can’t figure that out, in Ronald Huggins’ 2022 article “Dizzy, Dancing or Dying?”

Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art (Huggins 2022)

{fire} converts naive possibilism-thinking (assume branching possibilities & assume monolithic, autonomous control) to qualified possibilism-thinking — possibilism-thinking stays same EXCEPT re: two things:

* source of control thoughts is now understood to be outside the personal control system.  I as practical local control agent cannot control my own source of thoughts; I am dependent on mystery source of preset pre-existing control thoughts that are given to me from the moment of Creation.

* branching possibilities is virtual – but do not disrespect this.  Do not say “mere illusion”.  Don’t say “doesn’t really exist.”  Don’t say “self is unreal and delusion/ illusion.”  More like, praise the virtual world that is our life & our world, our reality.

The experiential reality of branching possibilities and egoic personal control system steering in it to create the future.  

But, modified, by seeing that from perspective of eternalism experiencing.  

We end up with a pair of perspectives: the valid but unstable possibilism-thinking, and the valid but usually irrelevant eternalism-thinking.

When the personal control system attempts to use power of monolithic, autonomous control while in the intense mystic altered state, and assume branching possibilities, control instability results; experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control.  

This problem is the {purifying fire} that forces and drives the transformation to the adult, mature model: non-branching & 2-level, dependent control.

Purgatory fire like the fire mytheme generally, means altered state experiencing that 

{fire} doesn’t mean vaguely being in altered state; more specifically, it is fire centered on control transformation: The state of experiencing and observation, that causes mental model transformation about personal control AND steering in a branching possibilities tree.  From initial two-part model, to final two-part model (but the first model is retained – though modified at the very root, the source of control thoughts):

1. Steering in branching possibilities tree.  See trees in Mithraism The tauroctony bull-sacrifice scene.  A package deal: monolithic, autonomous control.

2. Branches burned away.  Only one path into the future is real and true.  Non-branching.  A package deal: comes with: 2-level, dependent control.

It’s not super clear to me, how which “model of branching” directly links to which “model of personal control”:

1. branching possibilities = monolithic, autonomous control (future seems open, not existing; depends on what direction you steer).

2. non-branching possibilities = 2-level, dependent control (future is closed; already exists)

After the kind of death, sacrifice of child thinking, child thinking completely remains and you use it all the time, BUT, transformed in a specific way by {fire}, purifying thinking about control so that personal control system is now stable within the altered state per 

“Blessed are those who wash their robes [with purgatory {fire}], that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” – Revelation 22:14

In what way is Psilocybin “forbidden” to the mind?

You picked up on a recent/ongoing big progress, in interpreting tree of knowledge / original sin/ being kicked out of the Garden.  

Like many scholars, I’ve been working a long time to make sense of Gen 2-3, kicked out from the garden that contains the tree of knowledge/life.  

* A key: Add Rev 22:14, bookend at end of Bible, where the transformed mind is now allowed to eat from tree of life, food allowed to immortals, who ARE allowed through the gate.

* A key: Art shows guarded gate angel fire flame sword blade, of Garden – yet Gen 2-3 doesn’t mention {gate}.  But artists decoded {guarded gate} mytheme so they drew a gate for Eden.

This is the best idea I’ve had about “forbidden fruit”, had this idea in the past month.  

Run away in fear from the Psilocybin revelation (about non-branching & “non-control”) = God prohibits ingesting Psilocybin.

Ingesting Psilocybin is “prohibited to the egoic, temporary, mortal, immature mind” UNTIL the mind’s robe is washed through Psilocybin re-shaping the personal control system (end of the Bible; after purgatory washes the mind’s egoic possibilism-thinking to “qualify” it at the root).

ALTERED-STATE ANALOGY PUZZLE:

How is the mind’s troubled relationship with Psiloc. like “being kicked out of the garden, forbidden from the tree of knowledge/ tree of life?”

Youths on the cusp of adulthood desire to ingest Psilo, YET, they run away in terror – kicked out, ejected through the guarded gate.

addendum:

If you are constitutionally terrified of eternalism, that’s like being “forbidden” because “you will surely die on that day”.

As a critic of theories and common-core mysticism and perennialism, does a critic hate the “death” motif, much maligned?

Blame Genesis 2. Snake says “You will not die.”

In what way is God right & snake right?

That’s the puzzle that’s set up for us at the start of the Bible, no less than “fall of man” / “original sin”; the puzzle is set up & worded in terms of a puzzle about whether you will “die” or not, or in what way.

Compare Gospel of John, “Let us go to Lazarus so we may die with him.”

Therefore “die” / “death” is warranted as a mytheme/ descriptor/ analogy.

To what extent does the Egodeath theory cover {death} of some type?

— Michael

/ end of email to wrmspirit

Qualities of a Superior, STEM-Type Explanatory Model of Ego Transcendence

The Egodeath theory is FAR more ergonomic than other brands of delivering Transcendent Knowledge.

Podcast: the purpose, flavor, framing, what kind of thing is the Egodeath theory?

Audience Use-Case: Cognitive Scientist at a Acid Metal Head Festival; Cliff Burton Hard Tripping in Need of Extemely No-Nonsense Warrier Levelheaded Fire-Tested Model/ Tool/ Map

Lundborg says Zen has no connection with Psychedelics – but my theory of Psycehdelics came through Zen Self-Control Cybernetics per Alan Watts.

Historically, the very best theory of Psych mental model transformation came straight through Zen, of that type/framing.

This awful book’s awful parratting of awful fallacies and biases, PREJUDICES: “religion vs. psychedelics” – entire book is premised falsely that Psychedelics is not religious. Says we should have embraced Western mysticism – contradicts himself. Book only focuses on Eleusis, no othre Western religion. Deceptive breadth in this book: omits main things. fDE DENIES THE PSYCHEDELIC ORIGIN OF RELIGION.

  • Says Zen is irrelevant to Psychedelics.
  • Denies Psychedelic origin of religion.
  • Ignores Acid Classic Metal. Does he write about Rush, Metallica, Diary of a Madman, Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time, in any of his acid rock commentary books?
  • Uninspired. Mediocre book. p 373: “hinduism and buddhism are poor match for psychedelics” – never mind that they CAME FROM PSYCHEDELICS! Parrot. Proof that psychedelics make authors have NO IMAGINATION.
  • Lundborg book is a compendium of conventional takes, biases, and prejudices, and blind spots.
  • He thinks antiquity culture is understood and familiar to Westerners now, as if we understand at all how ancients think in Classical & Late Antiquity. He thinks he understands mysticism.
  • Contrasts LSD vs. Psilocybin, attributing different qualities. I disagree. Arb’y.
  • p 431 contrasts “religion” vs “mystery cults” – He explains on some page, a difference here, discussing Art Kleps started not really a religion but a mystery initiation cult.

The Egodeath theory has zero interest in exotic alien Eastern jargon concepts and expl’y constructs.

Contrast the Egodeath theory vs the ultra conventional takes in Lundborg book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDY96NKM – “full complexity and range” – HARDLY! Skips over everything except Eleusis, skips over Acid Classic Metal, barely mentions 1970s-1980s, ultra conventional talking points of mainstream media: late 1960s, then skip to 1990s Rave – Hanegraaff criticized Partridge for doing this, skipping over LSD Newage, and skipping over Psych Neo Shamanism.
“Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way Of Life
December 11, 2012
Patrick Lundborg

Blurb:

“A groundbreaking book from the author of the highly-acclaimed Acid Archives:

Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life is a product of 20 years research and Patrick Lundborg’s greatest achievement.

“A larger number of people are exploring psychedelic states of mind in the world today than at any other point in history.

“Their shared experiences form the outline of a vast underground culture, whose steady influence upon society can be traced across thousands of years, back to Amerindian plant drug cults and the psychedelic celebrations in ancient Greece that gave birth to our Western society. But the full scope of this psychedelic culture, and its many expressions in the past, has remained poorly understood or even unknown. Psychedelia has usually been taken as a metaphor, or a symptom of something else, even though its true nature is singular and unparalleled. Psychedelia by Patrick Lundborg is the first-ever book to present psychedelic culture in its full complexity and range. Out of a colorful history that spans 3,500 years, emerges a philosophy and way of life that is as dazzling and rich as the psychedelic experience itself. As this book shows, psychedelia is a living underground culture, engaged in constant dialogue with its mainstream counterpart. Psychedelia’s creative, visionary presence in art, rock music and pop culture is thoroughly examined, highlighting many unique and at times unknown works and traditions, from William Blake to Philip K. Dick, from Eden Ahbez to Shpongle, from Haight-Ashbury to the beaches of Goa. The 20th century’s misguided attempts to reduce psychedelia into a branch of psychology or religion are given a critical, sometimes controversial look. A case is made for psychedelic philosophy, a fresh, unprejudiced model to replace the failed interpretations of the past. In the third millennium, psychedelic culture may be standing on the brink of a mystery greater than anything encountered in the past. This mystery comes forth in chapters on ayahuasca and DMT, and has reverberations far outside the realms of psychedelia, cutting into vital questions of consciousness and evolution. Most of all, psychedelia is a celebration of life, in the here and now and in the deep realms of inner-space. The final chapters of Psychedelia discuss the challenges and rewards of the psychedelic experience, as mastered by shamans and teachers from various entheogenic cultures.”

/ end blurb of Lundborg

Metal Heads see psychedelics as a test of level headedness no-nonsense practical control.

A test, a challenge: are you tough, resourceful, level-headed, grounded, no-nonsense?

Control-model transformation: that’s how the sacrament is approached by Classic Acid Metal Heads, the drug of testing, testing the merit of your control model. Mithraism initiates, acid soldiers.

The Egodeath theory is packaged to be useful to, to speak to, 1975-1988 Classic Metal heads,

Non-disruptive, it fits into your life as-is. No specialized jargon and non-standard ways of using words. “Real”. Plainspoken. No-nonsense. Practical.

This practical body of knowledge to fit into your life without changing all of your life.

This implant instructional chip you insert, to quickly get training in a balance skill: how to push and cruise on skateboard in either stance, alternating balance on L foot forward vs balance on R foot forward.

For entering the altered state with your regular workaday naive possibilism-thinking / single-state-informed initial possibilism-thinking, the Egodeath theory in hand, tells you what specific aspect will die and be transformed and what benefit (wheat tail against the Eternalism-stars of cosmos sphere 8) will result from the sacrifice of the bull.

You come away using possibilism-thinking, slightly modified, and consciously perceiving that you are using possibilism-thinking.

In 1988-1995, I wrote & theorized about switching from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking, but I did not realize that my daily constant activity is always possibilism-thinking. define “to eternalism-thinking”:

To “have eternalism-thinking” actually in practice means, using possibilism-thinking and perceiving that you are doing so, from the eternalism POV.

In 1995, I thought that my continued use of possibilism-thinking was a flaw, but specifically THE FLAW WAS USING POSSIBILISM-THINKING W/O PERCEIVING THAT I DID SO.

I was under the delusion that becaause I wrote about eternalism-thinking, i used eternalism-thinking – must define narrow & broad/inclusive sense of terms:

  • basic possibilism-thinking
  • naive possibilism-thinking
  • qualified possibilism-thinking
  • basic eternalism-thinking
  • naive eternalism-thinking
  • qualified eternalism-thinking
  • possibilism-thinking modified by eternalism-thinking, and the ability to perceive that you are using possibilism-thinking. <– end state of mental dev’mt.
  • articulate
  • intelligible
  • great/useful explanatory power
  • relatable wording
  • the defined terms ‘possibilism’ & ‘eternalism’ (after adding emph on control transformation) arguably fits these criteria. from Phil of Time. (‘presentism’ only applies to the metaperception model within the core Egodeath theory.)
  • helpful
  • relevant
  • useful
  • simple
  • clear
  • direct

ego transcendence
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beginner pleasant unity mysticism vs. advanced unpleasant control-transformation mysticism

pseudo science = beginner pleasant unity mysticism
james, stace, Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) [because omits 18 of 21 negative effects]

valid science = advanced unpleasant control-transformation mysticism
the Egodeath theory , Chs Stang, James Kent in a way

whitewash operation, a cover-up operation by using bad model of mysticism from James (from a guru) that has cover-up baked into that model of mysticism – omit the demons, only market the angels, of mystical experience.

the 8 suppressed items of Shadow Factor 13: https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/12/30/11-factors-questionnaire-with-all-13-groups-of-all-66-effects-questions-shown/#Unpleasant-General

Branching Amanita Tree Modern Art McKenna Academy

https://mckenna.academy

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Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance (Hatsis, June 16, 2025)

https://www.thomashatsis.com

Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
Thomas Hatsis, June 16, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Injustice-Identity-Politics-Renaissance/dp/1634312783 —

Blurb:

“Psychedelic Injustice brings two once-separate culture wars— critical social justice and mainstreaming psychedelia— into focus and explores how the rhetoric of the former hinders the promise of the latter.

“Much as we see in the larger mainstream culture, the impact of critical social justice within psychedelia has resulted in falling academic standards, name-calling, bullying, and ostracizing anyone who does not submit to “ approved” critical [destructive] social justice rhetoric.

“Dealing with three broad social topics (decolonization, race, and gender), Psychedelic Injustice questions the very institutions (within and without psychedelia) that push divisive narratives while also imploring a message of hope and unity in the psychedelic Renaissance.

“Psychedelic Injustice is not a “ call out” — rather, it is a call to unity.

“Through personal experiences, rigorous scholarship, and an eye for nuance, Psychedelic Injustice serves as a much-needed and long-overdue counterpoint to the highly questionable, disunifying narratives found throughout modern psychedelia.”

/ end of book blurb

Against Hatsis & Letcher, there’s plentiful evidence that European religious history includes fully developed Psilocybin use.

Reply 2 or 3 to wrmspirit May 1 2025

Being opinionated & recoiling is correct in this case.

Houot said my book review is fair and accurate.

Rise of the Psychonaut delierately has an off-putting theme woven throughout. The book is strangely addressed to a vanishingly narrow audience less than 0% of the population fit the description of.

-50% of the Population of Readers Are the Intended Audience

Run the numbers on his EXCLUSIONARY PAGE 10. EASY to find comment at Cybernetic site site map from me. https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/announcement-site-map-of-cyberdisciple-wordpress-com-published/#comment-2737 – my full Comment:

“Look forward to using this map of the mania-possessed mind of altered state realm of Cyberdisciple site, a useful technology for anti-Spirituality, pro-Science, Rational Psychonaut explorers.

11:01 pm may 1 the angel has a message of threat to kill you do not BE AFRAID i will make your control seize causing you loss of control

ANGEL MESSAGE OF HERMES MESSAGE OF GODS

WERE IT NOT FOR ME STOPPING YOU, I COULD HAVE KILLED YOUR CONTROL

I MADE YOU TO RECOGNIZE TOTAL ABSOLUTE VULNERABILITY OF THE PUPPET IN RELATION TO SNAKE GOD PUPPETMASTER PRE-EXISTING MY FUTURE I AM A VIRTUAL STRUCTURING FLOATING SEPARATE FROM THE HIGHER PERSPECTIVE THAT RECOGNIZES FROM OUTSIDE THE CHILD THINKING EGOIC PERSONAL CONTROL SYSTEM PERCEIVED

by the standards of Psilocybin mind immersion (supply: locked bins motif there are lock bins of Psilocybin all throughout Great Canterbury Psalter. And {balance scale} pans filled, and sacks filled with Psilocybin – and traaders brining in Psilocybin imports traders and teaching each other DEPICTS TEACHING Psilocybin TRADERS AND TEACHING STUDENTS what is more developed of a mental model re heimarmene eternalism than the realization of heimarmene eternalism? ans: transcend eternalism; incorp qualified eternalism-thinkingp into qualified possibilism-thinking, co-adjusted to make fit togeher the sacred mental model eternalism-thinking wedded with the mundane mental model possibilism-thinking

todo: crop w/ boxes 3 colors on level of each figure, especially integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.
“Eadwine leg balancing 3 phase boxes.png”
I do want to do that.

Trending: INTEGRATION post trip.

child thinking; naive possibilism-thinking: basic child animal’s immature-phase mental model MONOLITHIC, AUTONOMOUS CONTROL A DONKEY FOLLOWING THE PATH

I REVEALED YOUR PUPPETHOOD, I CAST OFF THE MORTAL CHILD VIRTUAL MONOLITHIC CONTROL-AGENT

Angel’s message is
EXPERIENCE OF THE THREAT OF CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF CONTROL.

control transformation from possibilism to eternalism

Science:

👍 👽🤖🧝‍♂️ ✅🏆

Not Science:

🚫 👻 ⍻👎

 🚫👻

https://www.movieposters.com/cdn/shop/files/Ghostbusters.103027.jpg?v=1720540479

I will teach you how to be a rational thinker (a quote from Houot’s book Rise of the Psychonaut).

Please put this website down if you’ve never ingested psychedelics or if you take them for therapeutic, recreational, religious, spiritual growth, personal growth, cognitive enhancement, creativity-inspirational, or self-actualizing purposes. It’s not for you — not now, maybe not ever. With that said, this website’s message will not resonate with everyone.”

/ end of Comment

restore from “website” to “book” ie Rise of the Psychonaut – DO NOT READ THIS BOOK

  • if you are above or below 6′
  • or have any experience or don’t,
  • or if you want to do Science but you have an interest in Esotericism.

You are too immature, insane, and irrational to look for space aliens on DMT like me, Mr Anti Mystery religion Science.

You’re not fit to do Science Rational Psychonaut Explorer Discoverer driven by external search for space aliens on DMT, research expectations driven by the model of pursueing advanced outer space aliens in the psychedelic state.

My superpower is I am able to hold my nose and transform problem-riddled books to get value out of them.

I wish to find the Justin Sledge video interview segment disparaging the Four Horsemen Atheists as embarrassingly ignorant and poor quality, unqualified to write about religion.

I got really hung up on this “set up barriers” aspect of Rise of the Psychonaut.  I myself — who agrees with his core idea — could hardly focus on reading this outrageous lopsided book.

A friend thinks I’m wrong to allow Houot 5 of 5 stars even though I was highly clear in pros & cons of the book.

Houot did not invent the stupidest notion of Science battling against the stupidest notion of Religion – he merely participates in that unproductive false dichotomy and pushes to makes the problem worse.

Houot participates in trying to set up a debate that drives down into the gutter, rather than aiming for an upward version of Science & upward version of Religion, bringing those together.

Houot needs to STEELMAN rather than STRAWMAN religion; that is, debate against the best, not worst, form of religion he can imagine.  

Houot told us (Max / Cyb) he equates “religion” with “supernatural belief” – ie, 

I realized after the meeting — Houot is a (ignorant) literalist!  

Like deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are reductionist literalists who advocate reductionism and literalism and “art only has 1, shallow meaning” (in the special case of mushr. imagery, only).

During the meeting, Houot misused the disparaging word ‘exoteric’ (shallow outsiders’ literalism) in a positive way, to mean a directly expressed Science model.  

— showing that he is unqualified to critique religion, like deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are un-qualified and simply ignore the evidence.

Andy Letcher’s book Shroom (2006), everyone is citing as proof of no mushrooms in Christian history.

His book only considers 1 instance of mushroom imagery in Christian art – glad I wrote a solid, popular rebuttal to his book in 2007, that people challenged him about.  

Still, Letcher’s book Shroom (2007) — disproved by my oft-read book review — is nevertheless taken as proof of no mushrooms in Christian history.  

Even though Letcher’s book backpedals and admits that the previous negative verdict was wrong; he is forced to admit there WERE lib. caps in England.

Letcher’s book tries to contain & manage the losing negative position of the Deniers.

This is a strategy: Deniers have no case, but they put forth many bunk pseudo-arguments, and the biased audience acts like these bunk, fallacious arguments are real disproofs.

Letcher’s single instance of art he considered (Bernward Door) was an explicit Psilocybin example, which = 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship, to actually disprove 1st-gen entheogen scholarship, but pretend that he disproved mushroom imagery in Christian art altogether.

Letcher only disproved the Secret component, which is the main emphasis of 1st-gen entheogen scholarship.

Letcher’s response to my 2007 book review is to claim 4 things at his site, and I disproved his 4 claims AND 1 more:

Letcher argues against my book review:

“It’s not possible to prove that the art means deliberately ingesting psychoactive mushrooms to have religious experiences.”

The mushroom-tree artists disprove Letcher’s claim against me, and their art proves even PEAK religious experience, not just any religious experience.

Carl Ruck endorses John Allegro’s book Sacred Mushroom & The Cross

Today I found another new video interview, Rick Strassman or Danny Jones says, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmD3uDMH7LI
further confirming that Carl Ruck endorses John Allegro’s book Sacred Mushroom & The Cross.

Ruck builds on Allegro’s anti-Christianity narrative to construct 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).  

Tail wags dog; agenda-driven entheogen scholarship; 

Allegro & Ruck abuse entheogen scholarship for the purpose of disparaging Christianity.

Wasson abuses entheogen scholarship to suppress scholarship in entheogen origin of Christianity.  

Wasson: Banker for the Pope = infinite, off-the-charts conflict of interest.  Propped up by censorship and publicly harassing  & pressuring mycologists.

________________________

Houot:

The silver linings of Rise of the Psychonaut’s badness and wrong attitude (a gutter-driving pro “Science”, anti “Religion” posturing):

* Houot showcases the above problem, so that we can see it clearly and do the opposite attitude and strategy.

* Houot is in productive constructive conversation with me, Max, Cyb, and Sacred Garden Church.  He’s going to church (so to speak). 

Sacred Garden Church’s book club members recoiled and felt like they would not participate regarding this book.  

The leader quoted Houot’s shocking page 10 that drives off 150% of the audience, not even coherent, a torrent of trimming his audience to less than none (incoherently).

Hatsis Interview on Boghossian: I Am a Theist Therefore Have Never Any Fear; I Am Terrified of Entheogen

My comment:

When Hatsis said not fearful, I set about debating and analyzing the merit of that attitude. Against his advice there, I advocate reverent apprehension. Then I hear Hatsis say a few minutes later, he’s terrified of a psychedelic, contradicting himself.

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. But God does not want us to avoid Him; God makes us draw near. So it’s a certain necessary attitude, of justified respectful bravery, not foolhardy hubris.

/ end of my comment

Rudely Personal-Focused Reply to My Comment

“If you listen closely (because it seems you did not), Hatsis differentiated between LSD, mushrooms, and Ayahuasca (which do not cause him any fear at all) and 5 MeO DMT, which does cause some fear. It’s not a contradiction. You just didn’t pick up on the nuance.”

Hatsis Contradiction About Immune from Fear

This is an important topic, worth examining Hatsis’ inconsistent statements. Roland Griffiths’ reports emphasize that fear increases with higher dosage of Psilocy—.

LS—, mushr—, and Aya— have not caused Hatsis fear; 5-MeO causes Hatsis fear. Here are Hatsis’ statements about fear, regarding various substances.

Hatsis says the differences in effect of these various substances is a matter of degree of psychedlic efficacy. Hatsis says “Iboga … terrifying”. Hatsis says of 5-MeO “every time … I was scared … Before you did it … really scary.” The above statements are inconsistent, given that 5-MeO is only different in its degree of psychedlic efficacy.

10:43 =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k&t=643s —

Hatsis says:

“Psychedlics are non-specific amplifiers. So if you have any fear or you’re unsure about the experience, fear and uncertainty are going to be amplified in the experience, and that leads to what we call a bad trip. … I’m a little woo woo … I’m a theist, I’m not an atheist.

“So for me when I take a psychedlic …  I can’t know, and I don’t want to say that I have faith, because it moves beyond faith.

“But I have a certain level of certainty that these medicines are connecting me to something divine.  So I’ve never had a bad trip; I don’t know what a bad trip is.

“Because when I eat mushrooms, when I drink Ayahuasca, I mean I am in the bosom of Gaia, and it’s just like here’s the universe unfolding before me; here’s life, here’s love,  here’s ecstasy,  here’s death, here’s all of it.  And it’s just a remarkable experience. 

“Now somebody who is unprepared for that, I mean they’re going to see the death aspect of it, and oh my god am I dying?  They’re going to get anxious about it, and that anxiety is going to be amplified.

PB asks Hatsis about LS–, 5-MeO, mesca—, mush—.

“On mush— I always have a divine experience.   … I experience the divine, like I am sitting in the lap of just the celestial mind.”

21:19 —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k&t=1279s
21 * 60 + 19 = 1279s —

Hatsis says:

“Psychedlics are non-specific amplifiers. … that’s why it is always important to approach the medicine with love and trust, because then love and trust get amplified. And when love and trust are amplified, it becomes impossible to have a bad trip.  … I mean love and trust of the medicine itself, love and trust for people I know and love, and trust in people I don’t know.”

27:44 — “But when you use a lamp it is a guaranteed breakthrough. “Oh my god, I am sitting in the lap of God” experience. So I caution somebody that’s an atheist, Look, this is going to turn your world upside down.”

37:28 — “Iboga is a root uh from Africa which is another very powerful … like 36 or 35 36 hours … It is both awe inspiring and terrifying all at the same time.

1:03:09 = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k&t=3789s
63 * 60 + 9 = 3789s —

PB: “What would someone be giving that excuse for [for avoiding 5-MeO], like I’m trying to think like they’re scared It’s fear.”

Thomas Hatsis:

“Look every time I’ve ever done 5 MEO — I was — my pants, I was scared shtless.”

Before you did it?

“Yeah It’s always scary.”

What were you scared of?

“Oh my goodness, you are literally about to be propelled into the nucleus of the mind of the universe. That is really [ __ ] scary, That’s scary.”

1:12:08 = 72 * 60 + 8 = 4328s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k&t=4328s —

PB: What’s the difference between L– and mush— and DM-, and whatever else you’d want to throw in that category, keta— or what have you?

TH: I would say that there are just differences in strength in their psychedlic efficacy.

PB: The presuppositions in the word “psychedlic efficacy”, in that term, are enormous.

TH: Yeah.

PB: They have a telos to them.

TH: Yeah Yeah they do Yeah, Major telos.

Video Link: Hatsis & Bog

Vid title:
Why Critical Social Justice Ruins Psychedelic Experiences
ch: Peter Boghossian
Apr. 29, 2025 (2 days ago)
Show: Conversations with Peter Boghossian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k —

Desc:

“Psychedelic historian Tom Hatsis was an atheist until he tried psychedelics.

“Then he went from atheist to theist.

“Psychedelic encounters reshaped his understanding of the divine.

“In our conversation, Hatsis and I dove into the enigmatic world of psychedelics, exploring their history, safety, and transformative potential.

“Hatsis, a meticulous researcher, unpacked the distinctions between DMT, Ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, and 5-MeO-DMT, each offering unique pathways to altered states of consciousness.”

Bog interview vid below:

Tom’s new book: https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-In…

Chapters of Bog vid:

  • 0:00 Trailer
  • 1:05 About Tom
  • 2:42 The legal and cultural paths of psychedelics in the U.S.
  • 3:49 Critical Social Justice perspectives and psychedelic therapies
  • 5:51 Factors that shape the safety of psychedelic experiences
  • 8:24 Psychedelic education & maturity
  • 24:45 Tom’s spiritual experience with psychedelics
  • 32:39 Differing experiences on psychedelics
  • 49:36 Critical Social Justice ideology is the biggest threat to psychedelic research and culture
  • 51:55 Connectedness
  • 55:55 Psychedelics are considered medicinal
  • 1:12:49 Hatsis’s new book “Psychedelic Injustice”

Video Transcript: Psychedelic Injustice

Transcript quick copypaste of video
“Why Critical Social Justice Ruins Psychedelic Experiences”
Apr. 29, 2025 (2 days ago)
Show: Conversations with Peter Boghossian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wWEqzQE1k —

1:12:40 So in in closing tell us about your new book

My new book is

1:12:48called Psychedelic Injustice: Notes from the Intersection of Two Culture Wars

Hatsis’s new book “Psychedelic Injustice”

1:12:54

And the basics of it is to keep identity politics out of psychedelia by showing that the narratives coming from the psychedelic social critical social justice crowd are incorrect.

[The Egodeath theory takes an anti-narrative approach, particularly aganist Ruck Committee’s 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

Andy Letcher’s book Shroom in 2006, in effect used 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship to make quick business of disproving 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

The Egodeath theory is a roaringly successful, theory-first approach.

Good Theory creates good data.

The Egodeath theory even rejects Hanegraaff’s call for scientific historiography, ignoring Hanegraaff’s calls for avoiding perennial universal theory of intense mystic altered state — Hanegraaff is proven wrong, by his theory-ignorant book.

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022)

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Hanegraaff, 2022)

Hanegraaff’s book delivers a theory of the intense mystic altered state so totally wrong and garbled, his “cosmos” model cannot allow any fate-soaked stars into sphere 8; his cosmos sky only has 5 stars, and he writes nonsense contradicting all ancient writings, “the Ogdoad above the heimarmene” — Citation needed!

Wouter Hanegraaff thus has little credibility when criticizing religionism & common-core mysticism and perennialism models of the intense mystic altered state.]

Hatsis con’t:

1:13:11

The idea that Europeans didn’t have psychedelic traditions is incorrect.

[Against Hatsis & Letcher, there’s plentiful evidence that European religious history includes fully developed Psilocybin use.]

Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter

Crop by Michael Hoffman

Wedding Victory Triumph of Dionysus (Roman Mosaic)

Hatsis con’t:

1:13:18

“The idea that Europeans stole psychedelic traditions from First Nations peoples is incorrect.

1:13:24

The idea that telling somebody that they are forever oppressed while on LSD, while that person’s on LSD, is a really bad idea.

But in Portland and actually Oregon where psilocybin assisted therapy is legal that is what all the schools are teaching.

[Sacred Garden Church works hard to be neutral & actually universally welcoming, including for legal reasons. It is emphatically NOT a political activism org.]

Hatsis con’t:

1:13:46

“One of these schools is called the Chonga Institute

They’re supposed to be teaching people how to facilitate psilocybin mushrooms in a safe and effective manner to people

1:13:58

And the only thing they’re teaching is racist DEI [ __ ]

I had a friend of mine who attended Chonga Institute to just get his certificate right [never say “, right?”!]

he doesn’t go for any of this woke crap

He’s a smart guy

And he said to me he’s like:

“The only thing I learned from Changa Institute is that I should feel guilty 24/7 for being a white person.”

He’s like “That is the only thing they taught me.”

And his purpose of being there was to get some kind of certificate, just a certificate so that he could facilitate the medicine

So he did what most people do: He sat there He kept his mouth shut You know he answered questions the way the racist instructors wanted him to answer it so that he could get his certificate and move on with his life

Me I mean so this is

I’m a guinea [?] from New York I would have been calling that [ _cussing_ ] instructor out left and right on all her [ _cussing_ ]

This has infused your “community” — and that’s an overused word –“

[the Egodeath community objects to that claim!]

1:15:05

“And I noticed in your book [evidently Bog has early copy of book] I read the I paid particular attention to the references

There are hundreds of references to various books in the history of psychedelia.

Well I I could have done that or I could have gone the Claudine Gay route

and I decided to do the me route where I actually site my sources.

[It’s impossible for me to cite Hatsis, b/c he took down and corrupted his 5 articles providing a gallery of mushroom imagery in Christian art that prove there’s no mushroom imagery in Christian art.]

Right Well

1:15:23

that’s good, I’m sure your sources appreciate that

Yeah another fraud at Harvard Go figure

Is there anything I should have asked you that I didn’t ask you?

1:15:35

nothing comes to mind

Great

Where can people find you?

At https://psanctum.org

Or if you check out the psychedelic historian YouTube channel I have some videos Or psychedelic

1:15:54historian on Instagram or um Sanctum again

1:16:00psu m on Instagram and you can find

. . . .🔍🧐🤔

1:16:22

it’s ego grasping

Yeah

You know uh um

A very dear friend of mine and now my my current girlfriend coined the term ego grasping

And that is

The biggest impediment to the future of psychedelia is all these people grasping for the narratives that they’ve been fed their whole lives.“

[The Christianity-hating – when not Christianity-protecting-from entheogens — 1st-gen entheogen scholars, McK & Ruck, abuses entheogen scholarship for the purpose of pushing their narrative of:

“The big bad Church suppressed us heretics’ The Mushroom [mythical Amanita muthosaria, the super-psychedelic for narrative-telling]”

1:16:47

Hatsis con’t:

“LSD, mushrooms they’re narrative disruptors”

[psychedelics users have NO imagination or originality. evidently, PSYCHEDELICS MAKE PEOPLE HAVE NO IMAGINATION OR ORIGINALITY]

“and that’s what we should be using them for instead of to solidify these narratives, which is what literally every major psychedelic institution is doing.”

“Perception of Eternalism” Article Removed from Home Page of EffectIndex.com

https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism

Horrible “Predeterminism” Article: Everything Wrong with “Determinism”

https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-predeterminism

Kins should contrast eternalism sharply vs determinism. They SEEM to be similar, but they are actually very different, w/ little overlap.

The future is “closed” in two completely different frameworks, incompatible systems.

Determinism is entirely different than Eternalism, incompatible.

“free will vs. determinism” obviously maps to / is comparable to
possibilism vs. eternalism
but by no means is freewill same as possibilism, w/ same center of emphasis & proposed mechanisms involved.

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Driven by Phenomenology of Control Stability, not by Epistemology; not by “Is Possibilism True?”

image: f134 row 1 L: teaching about

  • mere sitting balanced:
    Basic eternalism-thinking gives control stability.
    vs about
  • advanced balance
    Integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking gives cross-mode stable control, in final, mature phase after integrating eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking mental model across states.

image: f134 row 2 M & R: threatened when L finger closer to ground than R finger.

image: f177 L: R foot balancing connected to L foot rams in fire

It doesn’t centrally matter whether Possibilism is true vs. Eternalism is true.

The important kind of “true” is: which mental model gives viable stable control in each state?

by no means is determinism same as eternalism, , w/ same center of emphasis & proposed mechanisms involved.

Stop debating “only mind exists” vs “only matter exists” – not relevant.

stop deating b debating freewill free will vs. determinism , or its compat’m. Not relevant.

Instead, focus all resources on modelling how the experience of possibilism is impacted by the experience of eternalism.

The Egodeath theory is a PHENOMENOLOGY-DRIVEN THEORY. the mushroom-tree artists report that control stability results from repudiating relying on possibilism-thinking & monolithic, autonomous control- latter causes loss of control / control instability.

The Two Senses of “Stable Control”: During altered state vs. across states

The women holding {balance scale} say “even though possibilism-thinking is unstable during altered state, you still must rely on possibilism-thinking always in some way.”

Instances of {no-limbs} in f134:

  • sage & father at table
  • two women row 2 M: maiden 1 limb: a foot.
  • row 2 R: floating sage & youth w/ no limbs.
  • row 1 L: instructor & student 2 has no limbs, just a youth no beard face w/ eye-pointing & furrowed brow.

Instance of 1-foot in f134:

  • standing on plow
  • student in row 1 L
  • maiden row 2 M
  • soldier row 2 L

Control stability (during the peak window of the intense mystic altered state) results from relying on 2-level, dependent control per eternalism-thinking.

Control stability (across the ordinary state & altered state) results from relying on the coordinated combination of qualified possibilism-thinking & qualified eternalism thinking. May 2, 2025

The mature mind ends up standing on/ relying on two distinct feet: daily possibilism-thinking & peak-state eternalism-thinking.

The mature personal control system incorp’s the egoic personal control system & adds the transcendent personal control system.

The Driving Narrative Commitments of the Egodeath Theory

Cybernetics message from angel: threat vulnerability control transformation – “non-control” from egoic POV.

We have stable control, which takes into account total vulnerabliity and dependence. If God makes us go out of control ie control instability, there is nothihng but a healthy trusting relationshipo of 2-level, dependent control.

[The above above point from Hatsis is another reason the Egodeath theory is anti-narrative.

DELIVER THE MOLECULE, WITH NO ATTACHED NARRATIVE pls, except forcefully attach & weld & conflate the following narratives to the Psilocybin molecule:

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Restoring Psilocybin to Christianity, not Introducing Psilocybin into Christianity

Re-introducing Psilocybin into Christianity, not “introducing”. This is not a novel addition; this is a restoration of Psilocybin into Christianity.

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Exclusively Focus on Psilocybin, Not Other Molecules

Focus & invest all resources in specifically the narrative of “Psilocybin“, NOT “sacred mushrooms”, “entire pharmacopia”, “Datura/Psil blends”, etc.

Victory by focusing all firepower pointedly at Psilocybin specifically.

I’m more than happy that I own this single-plant fallacy, I am crying b/c my world only contains… the potentially best 1 molecule, best in several ways.

Every word spent supporting DMT or Amanita muthoscaria is a word NOT spent supporting Psilocybin – strategize finite resources & attention. Amanita’s not even illegal, anyway!

Why does Ruck waste any attention pushing Amanita, except to be amenable to Psilocybin Prohibition since its recent invention in 1970?

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Europe Had Psilocybin Use, and It Was Fully Developed

1) Europe religious history fully developed the use of Psilocybin,
2) there’s plentiful evidence for that.

More developed than in the Americas.

Fully developed in Europe.
Partly developed in the Americas.

Why ht mi Houot mistake in his dissertation: “mysticism resorts to failure technique of surrender. shamans have success control technology.”

Beginner mysticism doesn’t require surrender.

Advanced mysticism requires “surrender”, which refers to control model transformation from monolithic, autonomous control to 2-level, dependent control.

Mytheme Decoding: {surrender} = control model transformation from monolithic, autonomous control to 2-level, dependent control

May 2, 2025

control model transformation
cmt

the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image
cpm

not as she said in Sunday service that I can 100% relate to from recent experience:

She said “I have trouble handing over control to an unknown controller”. But I re-thought that idea after I recently had that feeling before she said that.

Child thinking misunderstands the feeling as “you must voluntarily give your control steering wheel as-is untransformed, to the higher agent.”

Adult thinking recognizes that … different pov on the child having the steering wheel in a branching tree.

The child remains holding the wheel in tree but that arrangement is now perceived as virtual – that’s as close as you get to handing over control as-is untransformed.

Now see how control actually is. Not hand unreal control over to higher agent.

The Psilocybin Divorce and Declaration of Independence of European Psilocybin Technology and Technique of Transcendent Knowledge

The mushroom-tree artists 900-1400 were more developmentally advanced (by Psilocybin standards) than shamans in the Americas.

With Witch Hatsis hot on my tail, I have to lay down my card and out-do him.

This is more a reaction against radicals who say Europeans must ask permission from Americans to use their Psilocybin.

Europeans had their own Psilocybin history, and at its peak, was more developed (by Psilocybin standards) than Americans.

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Mechanism of Enlightenment

  • Psychedelics causes loose cognitive association binding which gives the perceptual experience of eternalism instead of possibilism, and the result is having both mental models of personal control-in-world, distinctly.

The narrative/ model is NOT “get rid of possibilism-thinking and use eternalism-thinking instead.” I’ve been confused about this since 1995 experience of:

“OMG my mind is still impure, b/c I see/perceive that I still use freewill thinking. I have failed to understand block-universe determinism since 1988, 7 years of contradicting myself.”

Purifiyign mental model of control does NOT mean “don’t use possibilism-thinking; use eternalism-thinking instead”

depending on how narrowly we define “possibilism-thinking” & “eternalism-thinking”.

Egodeath Theory Narrative: You Don’t “Get Rid of” Possibilism-Thinking; You Identify and Use It

Naive Eternalism-Thinking: Newbie discovers eternalism-thinking, wrongly over-broadly thinks “Don’t use possibilism-thinking”

  • basic possibilism-thinking
  • basic eternalism-thinking
  • naive possibilism-thinking
  • naive eternalism-thinking
  • qualified possibilism-thinking
  • qualified eternalism-thinking

naive eternalism-thinking – newbie discovers eternalism-thinking, wrongly thinks “I get rid of possibilism-thinking”
n-et

Egodeath Theory Narrative: Best Art, Best Mysticism, Best Myth

  • The best religious myth & art depicts Psilocybin transformation from naive possibilism-thinking to integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.
  • The best, most well-formed & fully developed religion is centered on transforming the mental model of personal control & world from possibilism to eternalism by exposing the mind to Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive association binding.

Egodeath Theory Narrative: STEM Advanced Modelling

STEM as thought-style and communication and education style pedagogy style.

Like Tim Freke now says, our technology of expressing Transcendent Knowledge has moved forward, better than the crude expressions of the past such as insane Neo-Advaita and Eastern religion cliches and Neoplat too: “words can’t communicate”.

Gross overstatement. Words CAN communicate.

The goal is useful helpful directly expressed and analogy-supplemented explanatory framework model, a tool, a map (Houot) that is useful, direct, helpful, simple, clear, ergonomic.

Inarticulate zen mysticism is REJECT because fails to deliver relevant, useful, helpful, simple, and clear explanatory framework model.

freke doesn’t clearly enough distinguish between “common-core mysticism and perennialism” as an experience vs. expression & comprehension of that.

Freke semi differentiates, not well enough: Mysticism as an experience of another POV, vs. how well that POV is understood & described; modeled; expressed.

The better we can describe eternalism POV experience, the stronger we can HAVE that experience.

The Egodeath theory, as a clearly expressed STEM-expressed explanatory model, amplifies the eternalism POV experience.

The Old Theory: Enlightenment = Unity; The New Theory: Enlightenment = Control Transformation [beginner vs. advanced mysticism]

I agree with common-core mysticism and perennialism in 1 aspect only:

  • There is a common experiential mode.
  • They all say it’s Unity, following Ken Wilber. I, alone, say it’s control transformation, following the Way of Zen by Alan Watts.
  • Freke threw the Way of Zen by Alan Watts in fire b/c it says “words are incapable”.
  • I went to give the Way of Zen by Alan Watts back to father; I got enlightenment via the Way of Zen despite its poor use of language, and in Dec. 1987 I asked Watts:
    Why didn’t you simply write the word ‘determinism’ (‘eternalism’)?!

I disagree with common-core mysticism and perennialism in all other aspects:

  • The main, central, important common experiential mode is NOT unity, but rather, control model transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
  • All theories other than the Egodeath theory are wrong in same way.
  • THE OLD, WRONG PARADIGM OF MYSTICISM that EVERYONE ELSE USES IS UNITY.
  • JAN 1988 MY breakthrough ASSERTION. 100% ego cancellation is instantly achieved [LIGHTNING PATH] by grasping eternalism. [KEY PROBLEM: 1995, I STILL PERCEIVED THAT I STILL USED FREEWILL THINKING; MONOLITHIC, AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; EGOIC THINKING; POSSIBILISM-THINKING – I WAS IN ERROR IN THINKING THAT’S A PROBLEM. THE GOOD THING THEN IS THAT I PERCEIVED AND RECOGNIZED MY EGOIC FREEWILL THINKING, MY POSSIBILISM-THINKING OR BASIC POSSIBILISM-THINKING — NOW IN 2024/2025 I GRASP THAT THE GOAL IS NOT TO GET RID OF POSSIBILISM-THINKING, BUT RATHER TO IDENTIFY AND PERCEIVE IT, WHILE DISTINCTLY HOLDING ETERNALISM-THINKING TOO.
  • POSSIBILISM-THINKING DOESN’T “GO AWAY”; IT BECOMES DIS-IDENTIFIED WITH, TRANSCENDED AND USED. YOU ride possibilism-thinking like riding a donkey on a path.
  • EGO TRANSCENDENCE IS NOT A MATTER OF UNITY REDUCING EGO;
  • Ego transcendence is actually a matter of experiential MENTAL MODEL TRANSFORMATION FROM POSSIBILISM TO ETERNALISM; control transformation; Psilocybin transformation.

Over long decades I was surprised to again see my thinking as impure – wrong framing. I should have seen that my thinking splits and differentiated into two distinct models, BOTH MODELS REMAIN USED AND PRESENT. You don’t “get rid of” egoic mental model, egoic personal control system — monolithic, autonomous control steering in branching possibilities —

Rather, the mature, advanced, transcendent mind identifies and recognizes Egoic, possibilism branching, autonomous-control thinking as virtual, child thinking, that is always used and always present, but, now perceived and recognized as virtual.

CAUTION WRITING “VIRTUAL ONLY ILLUSION FALSE DELUSION”, avoid whiff of disparagement.

Egoic, possibilism branching, autonomous-control thinking is now JUSTIFIED, washed clean, the useful VR helmet, game world level, above the substrate hardware of eternalism.

The egoic possibilism-thinking, emergent, virtual level is real and valid and positively appreciated in its own way.

Hatsis con’t

Hatsis con’t:

“That’s what they’re from top to bottom.

It’s all corrupt because they they take their cues from the universities, which are just cesspools of absolute nonsense.

You’re speaking to the right man about that.

I understand that

Yeah just absolute [ _cuss_ ]

But that is where the psychedelic renaissance is taking its cues

and Eden and I are literally the only two people speaking out against us

1:17:26

Everybody else is scared to speak out bowing

What’s that bowing to the orthodoxy

Everybody Yeah

The theology the the leftist orthodoxy of just sh!theadedness

the whole thing all of psychedelia on their knees bowing to it

It is as disgusting as it is disheartening to watch some of the brightest minds in the field licking the boots of DEI [ _cuss_ ]

What a [ _cuss_ ] tragedy that is.

Tom Hatus great way to end.

Thanks for coming to Conversations with Peter Goian.”

/ end of transcript portion

Balaam’s Angel Is Threat – Angel = Threaten

Video title:
#1 DMT Scientist: BANNED Research, Biblical Prophecy & the CIA | Dr. Rick Strassman
ch: Danny Jones
Apr 28, 2025 (3 days ago)
show: Danny Jones Podcast
“Rick Strassman is best known for pioneering DMT research in humans and proposing that DMT could be a biological gateway to mystical or alternate realities. Currently, Dr. Strassman serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. His new book, “My Altered States: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Trauma, Psychedelics, and Spiritual Growth,” is available now.”

Strassman is working on a translation of Genesis.

Rick Strassman says Balaam re: meaning of ‘satan’, satan = threaten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmD3uDMH7LI&t=4800s
– 1:20:00 —

egoic personal control system bedeviled and stability threatened

Danny asked:

1:18:34

“few months back I read a book on the antichrist which was you know called the antichrist and the antichrist is

1:18:41

characterized by the big lie you by the lie the antichrist is a liar

1:19:06

is Satan the first antichrist

1:19:11

Rick replied:

It was a term

1:19:16

that only appears twice in the Hebrew Bible and in both times it means accuser

1:19:22

like a prosecutor or opponent right or opponent yeah yeah yeah there’s the story of the pagan uh prophet um who

1:19:41

he was a false prophet uh as a pagan prophet but was quite potent

1:19:46

in his predictions and his poetry

1:19:58

He’s like you beating his animal [donkey he is riding]

Crop by Michael Hoffman

1:20:03

because uh well you know to get off the road because there’s an angel [a threat to avoid] and placed on the road that is

1:20:09

threatening him and um you know the threatening part is the the Hebrew root

1:20:17

is the formation or you know the basis of Satan

Ruck Endorses Allegro’s Book The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross

1:20:23

of the idea of um Christ being a drug term you know John Allegro um Oh yes John

1:20:31

yeah I heard of it yeah Ruck actually endorsed his book Sacred Mushroom in the Cross uh Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

1:20:37

yeah yeah that’s a classic i’ve never read it yeah no his is different i I think there’s a lot of uh gaping holes

1:20:44

in his idea because he he traces he traces the Hebrew I guess he was a

1:20:49

scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls right he studied the Dead Sea Scrolls for a long time for a long time yeah he was one of the initial investigators he translated

1:20:56

the Hebrew and one of his he was making a lot of connections in that book to

1:21:02

Sumerian roots and I don’t think Hebrew has any shared commonality

1:21:09

or or roots with Sumerian as far as I know no yeah it you there’s

1:21:15

a Kadian influences and Hittite Assyrian right and and Arabic as well right so

1:21:22

his idea like the I mean the main connection I think he made was that like a mushroom isn’t fertilized it just

1:21:28

comes from like the the rain is the semen of God and then it hits the earth and the mushroom is divine well I think

1:21:35

you need to be careful in uh analogizing or allegorizing the text yes yeah you

1:21:41

can really take it too far from you know the basis of the text which is what the

1:21:46

which is what it’s intended to communicate mhm but no what when the um

1:21:52

idea I was talking about was there’s um the word Christ in antiquity in Greek

1:21:59

means to apply drugs to somebody to to give somebody drugs and there’s there’s

1:22:06

multiple different definitions of the word Christ but um and that’s the hard

1:22:11

Draft for Email Reply to Houot (Max/ Cyb) About Books and Sequence of Egodeath Articles

Perennialism Common Core Mysticism, Beginner Phase: 🦄💨🌈
“Pleasant, Therefore Mystical” – Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Pseudoscientists

Perennialism Common Core Mysticism, Advanced Phase: 😱🐉🚪
“Unpleasant, Therefore Unmystical” – Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Pseudoscientists

The Hanegraaff (lesser, exoteric) Mysteries

Cog Phen article covers beginner development: Phase 1: 🦄💨🌈
the experience of (positive) spatial unity (non-duality) consciousness, 

Pollan experienced block-universe eternalism as a HORROR TRIP all branches fell off, he reports in hcm How to Change Your Mind

The Max Mysteries

The Cog Phen article omits adult/ advanced mystic-state development: the experience of (negative) control-loss psychotic panic attack (psychedelic freakout, bad trip), which is a central concern of the ego death theory. 

Ego Death Meets Pop Sike Cult

Houot Cyberdisciple Max:

Connect:

  • TechGnosis book
  • Houot Rise of the Psychonaut book
  • My decoding of f134 Great Canterbury Psalter – Cybernetics = control & communication about control in the machine rock block and in Man.

THE WRATH OF the word ‘CYBERNETICS’ against Pop Cult reduction to merely “online”. You aint seen cyber nothing yet without REAL CYBER

THE CYBERNETIC REVELATION OF BLOCK-UNIVERSE ETERNALISM

followed by integrating that revealed veiled adult-phase vision at which child-thinking smoked

Smoked like a backwards cap DON’T / DO LET OUT THE MAGIC SMOKE, fry that child thinking zap!

Zap-capacitor:

To operate, connect backwards to let the magic smoke out TO KNOW THE GOD LEVEL THINKING above child thinking: immortal Transcendent Knowledge = having apple.

Goal: Hand everyone Transcendent Knowledge on a silver platter.
Easy start: I publish a book that is a collection of my articles. Houot said Forte edited a compilation.

Easy start: book of my articles. So can be cited by stingey credit withholders like

Max Freakout’s dissertation FAILED to credit me, don’t care if it would’ve been instant death: I can certainly conclude that Max Freakout MUST have cited my work filling a page of his Biblio, but the evil Institutional Academia deleted the 58 citations of my work that I am certain Max Freakout MUST have cited,

as surely as Panofsky MUST have provided to Wasson a citation to back up his claim of Hot tip! Great news!

  • Hot tip! Great news! Not only Plaincourault, there are hundreds more mushroom-trees like Plaincourault!
  • Art consistently strived toward mushroom [branching, handedness, stability] as the target end state of this development from pine to mushroom.
    [i inverted Panofsky’s bias]

Meaning and misuse of ‘cybernetics’:

online has been everyday life since 1989. 

If you care about messages from the advanced psychedelic state, see decoding of f134 in Great Canterbury Psalter 

Podbook video format by Tim Freke part 1 May 1 2025 today:

Thesis:
Divine Psychosis, a phenomenological comparison of religious experience and schizophrenia
PhD thesis for the hidden academy of psychedelic scholars – indirectly about psychedelics/entheogens.

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast with CyberDisciple and others

The Transcendent Knowledge Podcast on youtube, covers a wide range of issues from within the ego death theory framework

The main overall topic is a thorough and systematic critique of the ‘pop-psychedelia’ narrative (aka the ‘psychedelic renaissance, popular psychedelic thinking), why it is inferior to the Egodeath theory as an explanation of the significance of psychedelic drugs and tripping.

CyberDisciple’s list of links and descriptions of each episode of the podcast: 
cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/site-map/#List-of-Episodes

My book has the 3 key requirements: voicing, content, tech-usage. 

  • Ergonomic content, voicing, technical delivery worthy of TechGnosis.

My book will be the least useless book of them all.  Better than “Not wrong, but not helpful or relevant or useful or simple or clear or … ergonomic.

My book would be a good vehicle to publish my essay articles.  I have a real need to provide a citeable book of my articles.  Ready to go.  As easy as amking voice content by totally cheating and reading aloud, while commenting – piece of cake content.

Max has said everything on podcasts, so, has no more to say.

I like to read-aloud a variety of types of writings.

Max Summary of the Egodeath Theory

Max Freakout wrote in email apr 27 2025 to Alan Houot:

Houot listened to one episode of Transcendent Knowledge podcast about James Kent’s book Psychedelic Information Theory.

Houot essay ‘Article Phenomenology for Psychedelic Researchers’ 

Psychedelic phenomenological research has been done by Michael Hoffman – the Egodeath theory.

Philosophers have created phenomenological maps of the psychedelic altered state.

The ego death theory has already done all of the psychedelic phenomenological work.

Intellectuals qualified to investigate consciousness – namely, philosophers, especially phenomenologists – cover chemically altered states.

Michael Hoffman’s ego death theory provides a comprehensive cognitive-phenomenological model of the psychedelic altered state of consciousness.

Phenomenologists in the Egodeath community have reported on the “what is it like” experience elicited by psychedelics, thereby revealing the structures of these states of consciousness.

“According to the ego death theory (by MH the psychedelic phenomenologist), ‘what it is like’ to trip balls on psychedelic drugs is to experience temporarily loosened cognitive association binding, culminating in an experience of timeless non-control or ‘ego death’.

“This cognitive and experiential mode is contrasted with the ordinary default mode of tight cognition binding, which produces an experience of egoic control-agency (= ordinary life, not tripping).

“The experience of timeless non-control can be modelled by the physics-based model of the four-dimensional static block universe (per Minkowski and Einstein), and by the distinction between (branching-time) possibilism and (non-branching) eternalism in the philosophy of time.”

Petkov book intro: “absolute four-dimensional spacetime“

Branching in Physics: Everett/Bohr manyworlds interp of Quantum Mechanics. per Pop Quantum Mysticism. popular b/c reifies ego power steering in branching.

“Furthermore, the ego death theory claims that the stories from religious mythology serve as descriptive allegory/metaphor/analogy for the cognitive-phenomenological dynamics of psychedelic tripping.

“For example, the God Jesus fixed to the crucifix, and turning to stone when you see the Medusa, both refer to the psychedelic experience of timeless non-control, static embeddedness in the eternal 4D block universe, classic ‘bad trip’.”

Leary’s new book Zach says avoid saying ‘bad trip” – but Travis Kitchens or Joe Welker (articles below) says stop covering up bad trips.

What is THE WORST THING TO FEAR? ANS:

Explain the classic experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control.

{threat} = {blade} is depicted as bow & arrow threat in the tauroctony bull-sacrifice scene​ & f134 row 2 in Great Canterbury Psalter: psalter reader threatened when L finger closer to ground than R.

Pop Sike Cult advises “surrender to X”. inarticulate, not helpful.

Moving Past Beginner Mysticism in Psychedelic Science

The Egodeath theory is most excellent.

I have made an intelligible, simple, coherent, strongest explanatory model of how the mind transforms re: pcs — that is the most of-interest dynamic and is the highest treasure, by the standard of Psilocybin.

Not by the standard of purity / ergonomics of how they used Psil in conjunction with other plants but FOCUS ALL ATTENTION INVESTED in psil – 

Yes you can leverage Datura IN SO FAR as Datura can increase Psil; 

Datura in service of the ideal, which is Psil.  

Smallest theory = agnostic on history of Datura supporting Psil.  

Focus limited attention on simple Psil effect model.  Assume myth = purely psilocybin.   

Myth is depiction of Psil x’n.  

How Psilocybin causes mental model transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism:
basic Eternalism 

qualified eternalism-thinking 

mature Eternalism-thinking mental model by definition is shorthand for integrated qualified possibilism-thinking & qualified eternalism-thinking.

Books are a gnosis info tech.

Houot wrote: 

Psychedelic phenomenology in the same/similar vein Houot speaks about phenomenology:

The Bubble of Simulation: Subjective Experience as a Virtual Environment (Hoffman 1996)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/06/the-bubble-of-simulation-subjective-experience-as-a-virtual-environment-hoffman-1996/

Take my hand, I’ll lead you to the promised land
Take my hand, I’ll give you immortality
Eternal youth, I’ll take you to the other side
To see the truth: The path for you is decided

— Iron Maiden, Heaven Can Wait

https://www.google.com/search?q=heaven+can+wait+lyrics+iron+maiden

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Book: TECHGNOSIS

Erik Davis

Lens/ interpretive filter: see all mysticism in world history as a technology.

Everything is a technology.  Writing, language, internet, ebooks, the table of contents device, the Index device, paragraph breaks are a technology.  IDv at WP is a technology.

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Neo-Advaita Fraud Cult and Psychosis Cult, abuse of TK – dys  DYSFUNC TK , 

Transcendent Knowledge Psychosis would be if I wrote: 

“The Egodeath theory says kill the ego; get rid of the egoic personal control system structures.

Improve by destroying in all ways.  

Do not transform; must wholly destroy egoic thinking.”

Get rid of egoic thinking only in some nuanced specific sense, fully understood in mature way and system-integrated : egoic personal control system.

That is true if “egoic thinking” is defined in a narrow sense: when the god’s power over the person is revealed by lifting the lid of mind’s engine to reveal how local control agency works under the hood, see the snake carved in rock, rigid serpent monster.

Is ‘serpent’ an accepttab syn of snake? NO!  

A  video the other day said SERPENT IS SNAKE AS MONSTER.  By Daniel Ogden.  

vid title:

Journey Through Self-Negating Non-duality with Jeff Brown
ch: The Glorious Both-And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XldXXZkszOk&t=3029s

Tomorrow is released Erik Davis’ Led Zep 4 book in audiobook format – the tembr or tonality of Houot’s voice often sounds Erik Davis.

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Rise of the Psychonaut didn’t cite the book TechGnosis.

If I spend time on reading a book, I need it in all formats:
ebook
audiobook
print

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Exercise in “flip the script”:

I am not anti-profit, anti-money, anti-capitalism.  

I support Hatsis selling books that claim to address MICA and then vaguely direct the reader to his dead website to see the terrific HIstory methodology that he markets himself as doing.
Hatsis’ book PMT is a ripoff; he has nothing but arm-waving re: my #1 topic of interest.

I am not anti book, except that my ten bookcases of 100 boxes of books chases me around trying to crush me at night, so I had to banish my library to storage.

I went insane: in the record store, when I read Erik Davis’ book Zep 4 page about my work, I didn’t get the book, b/c I had too many books — that was a crazy decision and stance.

The work of forming a properly complete and well formed EDT, it better be complete now, because I could die at any moment, like my father in April 1987 when my theory development proper began as such; when I first thought of myself as developing a theory – initially a theory of how to have ndctt; then quickly morphed into a theory to replace Wilber’s theory: 

Jan 1988 upon breakthrough, my framing was “Wilber iswrong about the nature of ego transcendence: 

Ego transcendence is actually about experiencing bue in psychedelic state, to transform from one mm to the 2nd mental model.

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My superpower is the ability to draw out the potential of a writer’s work, able to sort the good and bad, but the “good” requires intensive transformation.  

A writer makes points that range from bad to good points, or framings, or networks.  

Then I have to transform all of that to incorp and strengthen my own theory, to assimilate and transform their bricks of potential value, potential contributions.  

eg Hatsis wrote 5 articles to prove no Secret Christian Amanita Cult, which he thinks is the same as proving no mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Then I extracted all of his msh pictures into a gallery — REFRAMING the data from his bad model into my good model.

What’s the good & bad in Cyberdisciple’s writings?  How do they need to be transformed to support a good theory?  Ans: not much transformation needed.
What’s the good & bad in Max’s productions?  How to transform it to make it reach its full potential?
What’s the good & bad in the writings or ideas of MH in:

1988 (1st draft of The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence): goal was show that ego t’c was 100% and quick, by experience of block univ in a-s.  

Did my v1 Minnosota mechanical pencil draft accomplish its goal?  What should its goal have been?  

How far was it from that?  

It lacked any fluency at history of analogies that describe same thing.  

Fails to connect the two opposed Physics models to the two complementary mythemes, where referent pair of mental models is possibilism & eternalism.

1997 (core theory spec outline),
2007 (main article adds art/myth / analogy / t’d etm),
2020 (CECOP article & spawned f134 article)
2024 (draft of BMMT article for JPS)
2025 (April 26, 2025 meeting’s statements) –
How to transform it to make it reach its full potential?
The best point of reference for writing is comic book of EDT for use in a festival.  Does the EDT comic book explain that your original thinking is preserved, but modified at a deep level?

“Egodeath” is partly a brand; and shorthand.  More words, more clarity: ego t’c.  Preserve and transcend and use the egoic mental structures, informed now by TK.  

The best examples of publication-ready are
Wasson article
2007 main article
Almost publish-ready: compelling evidence & criteria of proof for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art
Bubble of Simulation

EYG has informal but carefully composed postings.  I find it overwhelming, a solid wall of substance.  Early posts to Valen 2004 are copied at eddc but alas lack date/time stamps (bad decision when formatting, but produced cleaner timeless pages)

I have not yet analyzed the WP format I have developed: a mix of clean and rough, with support for images.  very different mix than EYG.  I often felt EYG was too stiff a format, needed expansive open sheets of binder paper.
It’s not that I have a definite format or … 

I have an open-ended set of formats, writing modes.  

Sometimes I dump new idea development in mid-article of unrelated page b/c that’s where I happen to be and I don’t want to Lose the Muse.  

Playful, informal, casual, like in 1991 when I was experimenting with black ink and brushes, and idly drew inspired: 

block universe cube with a snake body embedded but snake’s head outside saying Liberty.  

Why the hell didn’t I wake up to tree, snake, rock, two opposed models of Physics mapping to two contrasted mythemes and mental models then?  

Why didn’t I grasp “transcend eternalism” then?   

Why did I fail to write “worldline” in 1997 core theory spec?? 

I only wrote “tunnel” (see Metz. book The Ego Tunnel that seemingly copied me) and stream?  

Not “snake-shaped worldline” though 1991 picture clearly shows that concept that I ignored!  
My best “play”, whimsy, ultra inspired in 1991 drawing – and I gave it no thought until like 2012.  

distorting factors of censorship / taboo/ forbidden Science
Due to Prohibition, Mf has little competition, and has little ability to publicize his hidden papers.  t

These are harsh waters for anyone to swim in, like Penguins going to remote, harsh, hostile environments to evade predators.  

Or mountain goats standing on impossible vertical cliff faces, out of the reach of mountain lions.

It is difficult for scholars to cite my work, as it stands.

My work is messy and taboo and not published in currently published journals (several distinct reasons).

Cyb explained to Hanegraaff the pseudonym.  

Hanegraaff understands, bc he was suckered by the ploy, in 1996, whre NewAge authors pretended to not be based in LSD though NewAge is in fact based in LSD.

Wrestling with my demons, writing, I have set my bar too high b/c pretty good previous articles.  
No one else meets my standards; neither do I.  
God is an ok writer, but He could be more clear & consistent & stop occluding his damned point.

Preparing to present my Theory to my church has been extremely hard, and productively has forced significant/ substantive changes in framing; in relating possibilism-thinking vs eternalism-thinking.

Since Brown said “I’m sure you can write an article quickly and easily (branching-message mushroom trees) for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​, I have had many major breakthoughs in art interpretation.  

I do not believe that my interpretation skill was sufficient back a year ago when reading or about to read Ronald Huggins’ 2024 article “Foraging Wrong”.

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case

Ronald Huggins, 2024

https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Huggins 2024)

As a model of mental model transformation, my model failed, until recently, when I said “you chnage from Possibilism to Eternalism – if you define Eternalism narrowly as basic eternalism-thinking.

The mental model that remains is 99% possibilism-thinking, modified in the most important 1% by eternalism-thinking.

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Concept-labels by Chris Letheby are bunk

Cognitive phen’y is irrelevant if not centered on control transformation phen’y.

field recognize centrality of control transformation

bunk false dilemma mis focus irrel:
not centrally relev
crucial:  WHAT IS THE CENTRAL CONCERN?  

Hanegraaff book is finely produced garbage re the core of enlightenment.  

His book is No better than the Newage he writes about in 1996.  

ie neither ome   one does the only centrally important thing, taking everyone through the transformation gate.  which is a control-model transformation gate.  not damn Epistemology, barking up wrong tree:

Does God exist, yes or no?
Which plant did Jesus ingest?
Letcheby unexamined presupposition:

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The Wrong-Dilemma fallacy

“I do psychedelics Philosophy.  In the great Mysticism Wars, everything hinges on the battle between Science (only matter exists)

Freke says reactionary anti-Religion “Science”.  

“The central thing that matters the most, and is the key concern in Psychedelics Therapy Science, is materialism vs. mysticism.”

“The central thing that matters the most, and is the key concern in Psychedelics Therapy Science, is Presentism vs. Eternalism.”

A wrong turn in putting forth a “wrong dilemma”

The ultimate q is
do mushroom-trees mean trees, or mushrooms?
The mode of that q is an irrel mode.
entirely clueless outsider

Fav event in this thread:
Houot says listen for alien ancient future civilization intelligent signal entities in mental outer space exploration.  
That exactly describes

Topic for Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: 

The evolving shifting purpose motivating what kind of thing the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is: what potential does Transcendent Knowledge have?  

bring the conscious …

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about a friend’s custom emoji:

Conclusion: The figure is enlightened and has stable control in the intense mystic altered state;
the conscious mental model of control is “non-branching”, aligned with the underlying reality of the personal control system.  

The figure is ready to be hung upside down by Right knee in mushroom-tree 👍

{beard} indicates the figure not merely knows basic eternalism-thinking, but has fully integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking, harmoniously wedding the two contrasting ways of thinking:

the virtual-level, branching possibilities, open-future model; and
the underlying, non-branching, closed-future model.

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Scientists are not allowed to ingest psychedelics.

A YouTube video or a podcast that exclaims how Heffter’s fame depended on his ingesting psychedelics to self-test.

Hefter did self-experimentation and is lauded.  Same with the Shulgins.  These pioneers used methods that are now forbidden. 

Maybe it was on Psychedelics Today ytoob ch or else their podcast.  

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Bad debate: free will vs. determinism vs compat’m: 

none of these matches the correct characterization of ord-state OSC; “fw” doesn’t match Psm w/ cyb emph;

“determinism” doesn’t match Eternalism w/ a cybernetics emph;
“compat’m” doesn’t match the way in which the mature mind integrates two contrasting models: Possibilism & Eternalism.

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The “Dual Steel-Man” approach to debate between supposedly opposed positions

Bad debate: “Science vs Religion” – guilty parties: Houot [representatives; not in isolation; just a participant in a type of thinking] pushing a quirky notion of “Science” by strawmanning (ought to steelman instead) Religion as specifically Protestant-type “belief in the supernatural”:

The poor-quality, unproductive strategy: Pick the poorest notion of Religion you can imagine / invent/ fabricate, and make a show of battling against that, to APPEAR to elevate your side, branded as “Science” but not actually deserving of the name.  

We either drive the debate down into gutter (poorest version of Science vs poorest version of Religion) or elevate the debate, dual steelman:

Bad debate: Is a mtr a msh or a tree?

Bad debate: Which is the case: “only mind exists” (that is what Mysticism believes) or “only matter exists” (that is what Science believes).  Guilty parties: Matthew Johnson, Chris Letheby.

Says Phil dept Letheby: “Mysticism is the Epistemology claim that only mind exists.  Science is the claim that only matter exists.  Which approach to Psychedelic Science should we use: the Mystical approach (ie, only mind exists) or the Science approach (ie, only matter exists)?”

Everything about that framing is IRRELEVANT; not helpful; not useful; not relevant; not clear; not simple.

Also Letheby sucks and is the enemy because he shills for the Psychedelic RenaissanceTM ie the Big Psychedelics Big Pharma Industry with their bullshit MEQ that doesn’t know what mysticism is, but embraces specifiålly Stace 1960 + James 1902 BECAUSE IT PROPS UP THEIR WHITEWASH NARRATIVE trying to make Psilo something it is not.  

Positive-balanced Mysticism is fraudulent pseudo-  faux mym.  

Meditation Hucksters diminish and twist Psilo, what they do not but ought to do:

Meditation advocates ought to apply meditation to observe pcs and transform from pt to et and then integrate et into pt.  

This would include grappling with control stability, demonstrating that possibilism-thinking causes loss of control, and eternalism-thinking causes stable control.

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integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking is not compatibilism; integrating keeps the two models in contrast.  

Which one is the case?

Which is wrongly taken to mean that what is of central main importance in Psychedelic Science is a battle between “only matter exists”, vs only mind exists.<– That mis-focused battle is not: useful relevant helpful etc.  ; “not wrong but not helpful; the FOCUS is wrong.  

Letcher’s 2006 Book Ruining the Field Despite My High-Profile Critical Book Review

transcript from Billionaires are Secretly Funding a Psychedelic Holy War | Travis Kitchens (Danny Jones vid, 2025/02/10):

Travis says:

“I went to I asked Roland griffi who was in the room

“Roland Griffith started the Psychedelic Renaissance; no Roland Griffiths, no Psychedelic Renaissance.“

That confirms my construction: the Hopkins Psychedelic RenaissanceTM. Whose “Renaissance”? Grifty’s.

“He’s a psychologist was at John’s Hopkins.”

“he died in 20 2023 but of course”

“you’re at John’s Hopkins you got Roland griffiths who’s you know wooo”

“and so I immediately said what what’s behind this”

“you know what do these drugs do

“I thought for sure he knew

“and he [Griff] said we don’t know.”

“and I’m a uh OCD type researcher/ reader, and I thought there must be an answer for this somewhere somewhere must know this sort of what it does from a scientific standpoint.”

Egodeath.com, EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com — Psilocybin loosens cognitive association binding, causing the virtual possibilism world model to be modified by perceiving the underlying eternalism workings.

“and I did tell him [Grifty] and Matt Johnson hey I think this is what’s behind religion.”

“I thought this was some great Insight, and I’m sure everybody says that.”

“Roland you know he didn’t have much to say about it.”

“Matt [Johnson] said I don’t think so, you should read Andy Letcher’s book Shroom.” 16:27

Why is Letcher’s book treated as credible? He only considers a single instance of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Someone at church Sunday said “there’s evidence for Datura but none for mushrooms” and I replied “plentiful” – his source is Letcher’s book.

Letcher disproved 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) but doesn’t address 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

“I was convinced because I’m not from a Rel– I’m from Kentucky, so I was around people who are religious, but I’ve never been religious.”

“In this experience, I was convinced that wow, this is totally Supernatural, it’s totally real, we don’t understand it, what is this?”

“That was my immediate reaction was to start looking into the origins of religion in into the literature of the psychology of religion because I wanted to know what we could find out about the drug, and what we could find out about these experiences.”

Read 1000 ordinary-state based studies of ordinary-state based Psychology of ordinary-state based Religion – that will give you NO insight about history of Psilocybin transformation.

psychedelic pseudo science is based on wm james who is based on Vivekananda.

I want to read Strassman (again) re: Vivekananda, so, the “science foundation” of psychedelic pseudo science is Vivekananda 1893.

Kitchens wrote: “There’s the philosophy of James, Strassman says, and then there’s his theology, which was inspired by his connection with Swami Vivekananda.”

The Council on Spiritual Practices

you said he was the the guy who spearheaded the whole psychedelic Revolution can you explain for people like how that happened and and how hebecame to be yeah what happened was in the 1990s a guy named Bob Jesse who’s a computer 

Billionaires are Secretly Funding a Psychedelic Holy War | Travis Kitchens (Danny Jones vid, 2025/02/10)

Video title:
Billionaires are Secretly Funding a Psychedelic Holy War | Travis Kitchens
YT ch: Danny Jones
Feb 10, 2025
Show name: Danny Jones Podcast
Desc: “Travis Kitchens was a psychedelic research subject for Johns Hopkins University who eventually uncovered a secret plan to revive religion with drugs. Travis writes on the history and philosophy of psychedelic research.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jksrbKGGSM&t=940s —

Outlin

  • OUTLINE
  • 00:00 – Johns Hopkins’ psychedelic study
  • 08:22 – ‘Robo-tripping’
  • 17:00 – The Council on Spiritual Practices
  • 25:30 – Can humans summon aliens?
  • 43:33 – How the psychedelic renaissance started
  • 56:11 – Did ancient mystery cults start Christianity?
  • 01:01:25 – Graham Hancock vs Academia
  • 01:11:30 – The fall of Christianity
  • 01:20:47 – What happens to the brain on psychedelics
  • 01:25:34 – MAPS
  • 01:33:22 – The Catholic church is pushing drugs
  • 01:38:10 – The Immortality Key: A New Reformation
  • 01:42:59 – DARPA: Psychedelics on the battlefield
  • 01:48:38 – Travis’ weird email from Roland Griffiths
  • 01:52:49 – MKUltra 2.0
  • 01:57:36 – Reviving religion with Psychedelic drugs [deliv. the expl’y model relig should have]
  • 02:15:16 – Secret unreleased psychedelic paper
  • 02:24:33 – Who is funding psychedelic medicine research?

Forced Bestsellers, Engineered by The Enterprise

I choke every time I hear “Pollan bestseller” or “The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020 = bestseller”.

Translation: The archons invested in making these books bestsellers. Not grassroots at all. FORCED BESTSELLER. Purely top-down.

“Nothing just happens. Things are MADE to happen.”

Phony, Toxic, Parasitical, Field-Invading “Journalism”: We’re Here to Help Destroy, Co-opt, and Sidetrack

Beware of destruction-driven motives of toxic expose “journalism” by invading COMPLETELY IGNORANT outsiders who don’t even know that LSD was legally used in 1950s therapy.

Destructive parasites, Phonies Alert: WHY are they entering the field of Psychedelics?

What agenda drives their destructive “contributions”?

To tear down and co-opt the field of psychedelics?

The Enterprise of one suspect type or another, with TANGENTIAL AGENDAS.

A Channel for Magic: Ralph Hood’s Mysticism Scale and the Occult Roots of the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Program (Kitchens, 2022)

“A Channel for Magic: Ralph Hood’s Mysticism Scale and the Occult Roots of the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Program
Psychologist Ralph Hood’s study of serpent handling and mysticism helped legitimize the study of psychedelics. So why doesn’t he want them approved for medical use?
Travis Kitchens, September 9, 2022
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/a-channel-for-magic-ralph-hoods-mysticism-scale-and-the-occult-roots-of-the-johns-hopkins-psychedelic-research-program/

common-core mysticism and perennialism is imagined as beginner unity pleasant

though Pollan found eternalism horrific.

Kitchens:

“Seeking to place psychedelic experiences within some kind of credible framework, Leary and Walter Pahnke, a PhD student of his, discovered [1961-62] Walter Stace’s book Mysticism and Philosophy.

“Building on the [beginner mysticism] work of James, Stace outlined a phenomenology of [beginner] mysticism in which experiences were separated from their interpretations and systematized.

“A British philosopher and Princeton University Professor, Stace argued for what he called ‘causal indifference’—a crucial concept for the current studies at Johns Hopkins—the idea that what causes or triggers the [beginner mystical] experience is irrelevant.

“Whether it’s psychedelics or the sunset, though there are certain things you can do to facilitate or help occasion the [beginner] experience, what’s important is the [beginner] experience itself.

“Furthermore, these experiences formed a universal ‘common core’ of [beginner] religious experience, Stace said, an invisible psychological link underlying different faith [a Prot. word] traditions.

“The forms and varieties of religion seen throughout history and across the globe were simply the infinite cultural expressions of [beginner] altered states of consciousness.

“Stripped of impurities like laws and institutions, [beginner] mystical experience could now be isolated and scientifically analyzed.”

“Mystical experience as a measurable phenomena didn’t emerge (or evolve) without its critics.

“Ann Taves, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,8 says that the conclusions derived from the research at Johns Hopkins rely heavily on the idea of a universal [beginner] “mystical experience,” a theological concept that functions as a catchall category for a variety of possibly unrelated mental states.”
The next Idea development page, I follow up on Taves’ great (albeit still limited to “self” changes) article, which, just like me, attacks Stace’s “mysticism = Unity oneness boundary dissolution” unjustified model, eg Taves explains how Zaehner’s rebuttal to Huxley caused Stace to both omit drugs from his Mysticism book and OMIT NEGATIVE/ PATHOLOGICAL experiences):
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/07/idea-development-page-29/#mystical-and-other-alterations-in-sense-of-self-an-expanded-framework-for-studying-nonordinary-experiences-taves-2020

In my Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) page, I added a section that links to that Taves section/citation in my idea development page and links directly to the Taves article.

“Hood’s questionnaire—based on this spiritual belief that Taves says was elaborated over the past one hundred years—doesn’t just influence the volunteer into seeing the experience as a positive one, it also suggests and reinforces their assumption that the [beginner] mystical experience is a distinct or sui generis one.”

True mystical experience = seeing eternalism underneath virtual possibilism mental model.

“If scientists fail to make a clear distinction between scientific claims based on empirical evidence and theological claims based on revelation or tradition, they risk setting [beginner] mystical experiences apart from other similar experiences on theological rather than scientific grounds.

“They have no scientific basis for making theological claims regarding the common core of all religions or the presence of an ultimate reality that unites them,” Taves wrote.

“These broad and unstable categories, she says, limit our ability to uncover the mechanics of consciousness and how these experiences actually work.

“Did the scientists of religion, attempting to model the natural sciences and systematize religions, accidentally synthesize them, creating a new, scientific subgenre of Christianity [based on beginner notion of mysticism] that they themselves could believe in?

“What’s really happening at Johns Hopkins might be the flowering of a new psychedelic spirituality, grounded in Jamesian [beginner] mysticism, with psilocybin “therapy” replacing the ancient initiation ceremony.

“Dr. Rick Strassman calls it “the psychedelic religion of mystical consciousness.””

Translation: Strassman is crying about the Christian character of this mysticism; he wants instead, Jewish flavored mysticism, per his book on Old Testament & psychedelics.
https://www.amazon.com/DMT-Soul-Prophecy-Spiritual-Revelation/dp/1594773424/ —

“Psychedelics, Strassman says, don’t have any inherent mystical or spiritual effects—those are caused by set and setting: specific musical playlists, sensory isolation, and filtering the results through questionnaires like the M-Scale.”

The Essence of Mystical Experience: Virtual Possibilism Thinking Perceives Underlying Eternalism

Psychedelics cause mystical experience ie virtual-level possibilism-thinking is made to perceive substrate-level eternalism workings.

Finally Someone Mocks the Stupid Word Affectation, “Psychedelics Occassion Mystical Experience”

Kitchens article “A Channel for Magic” con’t:

“The current psychedelic movement or “renaissance,” he says, is essentially the emergence of a new mystico-scientific religion—“camouflaged by scientific studies and [bunk fake invented “factors”] statistical firepower”—with its own Moses (William James) and cult vocabulary (psychedelics “occasion” effects; adverse effects are now “challenging”; flashbacks are “reactivations”; “and if you read the articles, they all start to borrow the same language.”)”

[discourse narrative jargon] – default mode network, dread of ego dissolution, etc. ‘surrender’, ‘occassion’ – Reject that lexicon – not invented here. Use the Egodeath theory’s custom-made lexicon.

“There’s the philosophy of James, Strassman says, and then there’s his theology, which was inspired by his connection with Swami Vivekananda.

“Vivekananda was preaching a universal religion—not just anybody’s universal religion, his universal religion—which would promote utopia.

“There would be no more sectarian strife.

“The way you could do it was by positing a universal [beginner] religious experience which all major religions shared and that was biological or “hardwired” so, how could you deny it?

“If you accepted it, all the sectarian differences would kind of melt away.

“This was consistent with and supported James’ idea of a universal [beginner] religious experience that was a formless, content-free, no-self state.”

Alarm bells go off per Ken Wilber, Tim Freke, Jessica Nathanson.

The Egodeath theory is only “no self” in a narrow limited way.

“Strassman worries specifically about Judaism, which is “particularistic” and therefore incompatible with a universal [beginner] religion.”

Constructive Relational Mysticism vs. Neo-Advaita Destructive Non-Dualism

Strassman con’t: article “A Channel for Magic“:

“The Hebrew Bible doesn’t contain any contentless, selfless, ego-loss experiences free of time and space, he says, and as a result, is viewed by researchers as inferior.]

Christian mysticism is RELATIONAL: 2-level, dependent control. So is Late Antiquity brands and Mystery Religions.

Anti-rational Eastern religion is nihilistic “destroy self structures, eliminate thinking, nothing is real, you don’t exist, your life is illusion, time doesn’t exist” – crude recipe for mental collapse Ken Wilber warned against; TOXIC NEO-ADVAITA.

“The existence of a universal [beginner] religious experience is a theological solution,” he said.

“Other researchers are moving away from mysticism for their own reasons.

“Matthew Johnson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, has warned his colleagues against adopting frameworks “drawn piecemeal from [beginner] mystical traditions” that might alienate potential customers.

“Ultimately, we want them [insurance companies] to cover this stuff,” Johnson told Vice.

“And there is going to be an issue with covering religious therapy.

“The point is, someone could make an argument against it.”

“It is also inappropriate, he says, to introduce “meta-religious” belief systems such as [beginner] perennialism (or “the [beginner mystical] common core”) into therapeutic practice.”

/ end of excerpts from Kitchens “A Channel for Magic”

Stacean “Mystical Experience” Is the First Half Only: Beginner, Pleasant, Unity Experience; Omitting Advanced, Unpleasant, Challenging, Control Transformation Experience

Against that heading, Pollan (newbie) experienced eternalism as extremely unpleasant.

Page: index: Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ).

Pollan compares his experience of timeless eternalism to a tree stripped (compare burning bush) of leaves or branches. After the peak, the leaves or branches re-attached.

The Stacean false model of mystical experience is specifically false in that it:

  • omits the advanced, challenging, superior half of mystical experience, and wrongly calls that non-mystical, and
  • designates as “mystical” only the beginner, pleasant, inferior, barely transformative half of mystical experience.

Why did James & Stace do that, which was latched onto by the hyped marketing of Roland Griffiths team at Johns Hopkins Dept. of Psychedelic Pseudo Science?

The nature of mystical experience is hyped and MISREPRESENTED in a cover up operation by James, Stace, Leary-Pahnke, Williams, Griffiths, & Priest. Because it is beginner phase.

That explains why James made a huge error, perpetuated into the towering debacle that is psychedelic pseudo science. James failed to cover advanced mystical experience; what James calls mysticism is merely beginner… per the pyramid:

MOST people are dabblers, beginners, so MOST focus on “mystical experience” is beginner effects.

Only a minority of ppl are advanced, so the James 1902 model of mystical experience has no representation of advanced, challenging, unpleasant mystical experience.

That reason & model perpetuate into the Religious Professionals Study. All , even the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) , have the same problem for the same reason.

The mere beginner-phase Science model of mystical experience.

Beginner (Pleasant) Mystical Experience vs. Advanced (Unpleasant) Mystical Experience, Mis-Framed as “Mystical vs. Challenging Experiences”

OAV questionnaire:

  • Ocean = pleasant
  • Angst = unpleasant
  • Vision = pleasant

Wm Richards’ & Grifty’s MEQ/CEQ questionnaires:

  • Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) – pleasant
  • Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) – unpleasant

11-Factors questionnaire:

  • Pleasant Experiences (a high-level dimension, sum of OAV’s O & V dimensions)
  • Unpleasant Experiences (a high-level dimension, OAV’s A/DED dimension)

The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins (Welker, 2023)

6 part series

  1. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins
  2. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: Spiritual Direction
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-4cd
  3. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: The Power of Suggestion
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-bfc
  4. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: Clergy Ambassadors
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-079
  5. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: The Silence and the Smile
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-9dd
  6. The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: In the Name of the Holy Spirit
    https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-7b6

7-part article series, and read aloud voice recordings by the author.
The Christian author, Joe Welker, calls for an investigation.

The investigation involves Hunt Priest’s allegedly false claim that during Psilocybin, Wm Richards touched him in a spiritual way and framed Priest’s experience as “the holy spirit”.

Commentary & Excerpts: The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins

I named McCarthy and Priest – b/c poor article in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2024 — as “McPriest”.

https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins —
The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins [part 1 of 6]
Spiritual missions, hidden issues, and unexamined consequences of a psychedelic clergy study. Part one.
JOE WELKER
AUG 12, 2023 –

Credibility hit: in part 1, Welker falsely writes:

“But the study’s influence goes back much further, at least 60 years, to the 1962 Marsh Chapel Experiment run by Harvard Divinity School PhD student Walter Pahnke. That study gave seminary students psychedelic mushrooms [sic!] while listening to a Good Friday service presided by Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, leading to what was found in a follow-up to be among the most important experiences of their lives.”

Welker wrote:

“A clinical trial conducted jointly by Johns Hopkins University and New York University, “The Effects of Psilocybin-Facilitated Experience on the Psychology and Effectiveness of Religious Professionals,” funded by the RiverStyx Foundation and sponsored by the Council on Spiritual Practices, is set to soon* be published.”

*Written 1 year 8 months ago.

In May 2024, the medical research trial officially ended.
11 months ago vs today April 30, 2025.
Article part 1 = Aug 2023.

2025/04
-2023/08
=
2024/16
-2023/08
= 1 year 8 months

“The trial gave leaders from various religions two doses of the compound psilocybin, found in psychedelic mushrooms. “

“The goal was to assess the [Stacean/ beginner/ pleasant] “mystical” content of their experiences, the impact on their mental, physical, and spiritual health in their personal and professional lives, and “whether participants who report having had the strongest [Stacean/ beginner/ pleasant] mystical-type effects during psilocybin sessions will show the largest positive changes.”

“In the past few years, some participants have publicly extolled the virtues of the study and its profound positive impact on their ministry.”

“this behavior did not happen in a vacuum.

“This behavior came in a study that, in my opinion, was attempting to manufacture religious institutional consent through a long-range spiritual project to influence public opinion under the pretense of science.

“I have come to believe that, in my opinion, the reputation of Johns Hopkins was leveraged alongside the highly suggestible influence of psychedelic substances, with some funders and researchers demonstrating unhealthy boundaries with some participants to advance their goals.

“In my opinion, the result was science in name only.”

The problem goes to the foundation: the foundation of this Science re: mysticism, mystical experience, is the model that Hopkins & Studerus say is their foundation reference for what mystical experience is: the 11-Factors questionnaire article says that Science says mystical experience is per Stace 1960 & James 1902, that those are …. quote Studerus.

the Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study
rps

The “Religious Science” article (1 of 6) continues:

“the study was highly anticipated among psychedelicists.

“Best-selling author Michael Pollan and MAPS’ founder Rick Doblin—the man single most responsible for the cultural resurgence of psychedelics—have reportedly described it as the most important study in the career of Dr. Griffiths, who has been arguably the most important psychedelic scientist of the last 25 years.”

“It was also the culmination of three decades of strategic planning from Bob Jesse, a funder and advisor to Hopkins’ psychedelic research since the early 2000s.

“But the study’s influence goes back much further, at least 60 years, to the [April 20,] 1962 Marsh Chapel Experiment run by Harvard Divinity School PhD student Walter Pahnke.” [advisor/director: Tim Leary]

What exactly, specifically was Leary’s involvement via “supervising” Pahnke?

“That study gave seminary students psychedelic mushrooms [sic! synthetic Psilocybin?] while listening to a Good Friday service presided by Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, leading to what was found in a follow-up to be among the most important experiences of their lives.

“It has inspired generations of psychonauts with the conviction that psychedelics could provide core, so-named [Stacean/ beginner/ pleasant] “mystical” insights that were the true heart of religion.

Stacean/ beginner/ pleasant “mysticism” is NOT the true heart of religion.

The Stacean/ beginner/ pleasant model of mysticism specifically OMITS the true heart of religion: THE challenging experience transformation gate.

“It [Marsh Ch.] has long provided hope that the two estranged cultural enemies—New Agers [what? in 1962?] and the devoutly religious—could be reconciled against all odds.”

odd narrative

“As I listened to the presentation, I knew there was so much more [86%] being left out. “

The Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) omits 18 of 21 challenging experiences; leaves out 86%.

“Yes, Dr. Griffiths spent a significant chunk of his time talking in vague but serious terms about psychedelic risks (which have been scarcely studied).

“But there was so much more [86%] that the presenters weren’t being transparent about, weren’t hinting at, if not outright concealing.”

  1. start w/ 21 chall effects in OAV’s A Angst DED Dread dimension,
  2. omit 8 of them by ignoring the the 11-Factors questionnaire’s hi-level Unpleasant Experiences dimension, and only attending to the low-level two factors (ICC, ANX) that contain narrow effects that do NOT overlap between “anxiety” and “control” <– the precise specific item 54, “anxiety about control”. Only pick up those 13 of 21 effects, for the initial item pool.
  3. final item pool: omit 10 more of the 21 effects, keeping only 3 (14%). See “Scoring Guide” appendix in the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) article. Is Grifty’s name on it? yes – https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/01/17/references-for-psychedelic-psychometrics-questionnaires/#CEQ

“The overall emotional, inspiring message was clear: a kind of marriage had been consummated, or as Michael Pollan reportedly said that evening to the whole conference, “the virus of psychedelics” has been put “into the bloodstream of religions.”

False; misrep. Psychedelics — the source of religions — has been re-added, restored, into religions.

“As [Don] Lattin says,

“Much of today’s research into psychedelic-assisted therapy remains a social movement in the guise of a scientific experiment…

“the crusade to introduce [sic; re-introduce] psychedelics into the religious mainstream has been underway for sixty years.””

The Social-Drama Narrative Driving the Egodeath Theory: Re-Introducing Psilocybin into Christianity

2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm): uses pure, bare, neutral reportage; strip away any narrative conjectures morality tales cultural anthropology CONSTRUCTIONS/ confabulations,; Hanegraaff title words “the historical imagination”.

The equivalent narrative in the Egodeath theory would be: given that:

The mental model of personal control & world transforms from possibilism to eternalism when exposed to Psilocybin loose cognitive association binding.

Therefore when we see 900-1400 AD the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}, which includes combined {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, what narrative construction discourse social drama narrative – that drives my entire motivation for caring about psychedelics — do I confabulate?

The mushroom-trees genre is proof that [social drama narrative per the Egodeath theory] – proof that ideally, the best religion and the most well-formed religious myth and Rock lyrics, are those which depict (eg by analogies):

The mental model of personal control & world transforms from possibilism to eternalism when exposed to Psilocybin loose cognitive association binding.

Hand Ruck a piece of MICA evidence, he hastens to jail it as “yet more proof of mushrooms in suppressed secret heretical sects Christianity.”

Hand Cybermonk a piece of MICA evidence, he hastens to frame it as “yet more proof that:

The best, most well-formed & fully developed religion is centered on transforming the mental model of personal control & world from possibilism to eternalism by exposing the mind to Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive association binding.”

Forbidden word list: narrative discourse terms, against pure, bare, neutral, “presence of psychedelics” terms:

  • mainstream, normal, ordinary, orthodox
  • underground
  • cults/ sects/ communities/ groups
  • suppressed
  • cult
  • secretly
  • oppression
  • hidden
  • secret cult
  • surreptitious

Joe Welker’s Religious Science Article 1 of 6 Continues

Joe Welker’s Religious Science article 1 of 6 continues:

“a culture of deception and an aura of manipulation has long seeped through the psychedelic milieu in which the study is situated.”

the Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study

“the power dynamics they cultivated with some participants during and after the trial to further some researchers’ beliefs about psychedelics.

“I am concerned that, as part of a long-term goal to incorporate [sic; re-incorp.] psychedelics into mainstream religion, some members of the Hopkins team may have inappropriately transmitted their own beliefs about psychedelically-induced [Stacean-incomplete/newbie/ beginner/ pleasant] “mystical experiences” to some participants, reinforced through social ties, financial ties, and a growing media climate of hype.”

I have a Psychedelic RenaissanceTM I’d like to sell you, by redefining “mystical experience” in a “positive-balanced” re-framing/ fabrication/ lie/ misrepresentation; whitewash operation, working hard to avoid the transformation gate & avoid ego-cancelling-out [in a certain limited sense] Transcendent Knowledge.

“These ties continued despite some Hopkins researchers having knowledge of irresponsible, illegal, and unhealthy behavior.”

“And in at least one instance, according to a participant’s testimony, a guide allegedly committed a boundary violation according to one Hopkins psychedelic professor’s standards.

“Beyond these and other public health concerns, this is a case study that leaves significant lingering considerations for stronger and longer-term ethical guidelines for future psychedelic research.”

Moral: Do not bring any comprehension of ego death or Transcendent Knowledge into this research, b/c that would make it non-Science. Instead, make up false models by default.

“The study also raises important critical questions for religious studies, theology, and psychedelic religious communities in a time of increased [COMPARED TO WHAT/WHEN?] psychedelic religious and spiritual use.

“I believe more people will be harmed in psychedelic research and in their engagement in psychedelic subcultures if I do not speak out.

“I believe the trial was predicated on an unethical premise [what premise: that Psilocybin causes religious mental model transformation?] and that the scientific value of its findings is questionable, yet it may have an outsized and unhealthy influence on culture, leading to public health miseducation [the only public health miseducation that matters is, Psilocybin needs to be understood as mental model transformation; control transformation] and profound abuse.

[From the ultimate point of reference, which is Psilocybin-caused maturation, the main “abuse” of psychedelic pseudo science is not delivering Transcendent Knowledge per the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.]

“Because of its potential to influence religious institutions and public opinion with an incomplete and misleading picture, I cannot stay silent”

“when I was riding the wave of the hype, it was amazing. I was high on being at the edge of science, the edge of religion, and the feeling of “I’ve got this secret that I wish everyone could know, if only they were ready for it.” It really felt like I found a new but old gospel that had been obscured by suffocating, dying religion. They obviously didn’t have the spiritual vitality that we knew.

“went to ayahuasca ceremonies to heal our religious wounds, to escape Christianity’s dogmatic weaponry and crushing cultural weight.

“it was at first amazing to find Christians who also shared the secret, and who had a mission to “educate” [sic; reintroduce Psilocybin into Christianity] our tradition, like loving parents bestowing our wisdom unto our ignorant children.

“I have grown greatly concerned about many issues around psychedelic usage and its risks (including spiritual risks), [main risk: not going through transformation gate per Rev22:14] I still believe in religious freedom, and I believe in religious freedom for psychedelic users.

“I believe many of the problems here arose from perverse incentives of trying to obtain those legal protections.

“I used to work for legal protections for non-Christian psychedelic groups, and I still want them to have those rights, but I also want people to have information they can trust.”

Psychedelic Pseudo Science Is an Incomplete, Whitewashed Model of the Risks and Advanced Challenging Unpleasant Mystical Experience

START BY TELLING THE TRUTH, THAT STACE/JAMES MODEL OF “MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE” OMITS THE BETTER, CHALLENGING HALF OF ACTUAL MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE – IE,

  • REPLACE Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ); AND
  • TRASHCAN the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) AND RE-CREATE IT WITHOUT THE “POSITIVE-BALANCED” BIAS, IE, LIES & whitewash misrepresentation.

“I also believe in drug policy reform, but I do not know what combination of policies makes sense.”

Easy: FULL REPEAL OF Psilocybin PROHIBITION (1968/1970), LIKE THE NON-EXISTENT LAWS OF 1900 or 1960.

Regulate Psilocybin via culture, like done during infinite years of human history, not presenting to regulate Psilocybin via self-serving, would-be, pretended “authorities” per 1968/1970’s recent innovation.

“lives have been harmed, traumatized, and ended as a result of professional psychedelic evangelism and abuse,

“the general public needs to understand the flip side to the hopeful narratives that more and more politicians regurgitate, having successfully been persuaded by an amorphous science they don’t really know anything about.

“This is not to dash anyone’s hope, but to say any hope in human endeavors always needs complicating.”

end of part 1, i think

The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: Spiritual Direction (Part 2 of 6)

Part 2: https://www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/the-religious-science-of-johns-hopkins-4cd –
The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: Spiritual Direction
The varieties of psychedelic mysticism driving a psychedelic clergy study. Part two.
JOE WELKER
AUG 13, 2023 –
“the spiritual beliefs and cultural agendas of researchers that are in the public record.”

“The core Hopkins psilocybin team behind the religious professionals study, along with NYU’s joint investigator, have discussed their own spiritual and religious beliefs in psychedelics”

“the history of psychedelic religious positions various psychedelic researchers held, I once held them myself quite passionately. They gave me tremendous hope and meaning in the midst of an otherwise materialist view of the world.

“As I adopted their beliefs through reading their books, attending their conferences, and listening to their interviews, I found them to have a perfect internally-consistent logic:
scientific, yet more-than, universal and deeply compassionate, just making a satisfying amount of sense.

“Like many, I shared the core psychonaut belief in “no dogma,” seeing it as the source of so much of the world’s pain and suffering, the source of so many religious wars.

I came to find that in the case of psychedelic religious science, there is hidden doctrine within the “doctrine of no doctrine” — but that isn’t, itself, intrinsically a bad thing.”

[virtual dogma, eg, the core most important thing about common-core mysticism and perennialism is nondual unity oneness (false; actually, control transformation)]

“Leaders of the Hopkins arm of the religious leaders study include the original Hopkins psilocybin research team:

  • Dr. Roland Griffiths,
  • Dr. William Richards, and
  • advisor Bob Jesse, as well as
  • Dr. Anthony Bossis leading the NYU branch of the trial.

The Hopkins team has been famous within the small field since their landmark [Stacean-incomplete; beginner/ pleasant] “mystical-type experiences” study in 2006, celebrated by many psychedelic actors as opening doors and funding for psychedelic research.

“Each also has longstanding ties to MAPS, which has pursued what some have described as a “Trojan Horse” strategy.

“As Michael Pollan has described Rick Doblin, Doblin sees the medical use of psychedelics as “a means to a more ambitious and still more controversial end: the incorporation of psychedelics into American society and culture, not just medicine.””

. . . .🔍🧐🤔

“Hopkins’ safety documents, was that the study team knew psychedelics lead to enhanced openness to suggestibility as early as 2008.

“this suggestibility has been demonstrated to have impacted other Hopkins psychedelic research.

“the concern about psychedelics leading to unethical belief changes and guru complexes was raised by another Hopkins psychedelic researcher in 2021.”

Pop McMysticism: Cheapened Pseudo-Mysticism of James, Stace, Richards, Griffiths, & Priest

Focusing Exclusively on Beginner Pleasant Mystical Experiencing and Covering-up Advanced Unpleasant Mystical Experiencing

The False Dichotomy “Mystical Experience vs. Challenging Experience”

That series is linked to by NYT articles expose:
The Psychedelic Evangelist (Borrell, March 2024, NYT)

The Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study officially finished less than a year ago.

This is a current ongoing development.

Maybe the study will be published after an investigation.

the Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study
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the Hopkins Religious Professionals Study
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The Hopkins Religious Professionals Study Report Is Doomed to Be Met with Intense Scrutiny, Suspicion, and Expose: a Fiasco

The Egodeath theory is doing its part – I need to step it up! – to contribute to the critique and fiasco.

They write “risks”; I write “the cited basis of this ‘science’ of ‘mysticism’ is only half a model of mystical experience: the pleasant, beginner half, omitting the advanced, unpleasant half by designating it a priori as “unpleasant therefore unmystical”.

the Religious Professionals Study
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the Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study
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the Hopkins Religious Professionals Study
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The Religious Professionals Study is doomed to be met with intensive criticism and skepticism about the “mystical” and religious motivations cloaked as “Science”.

People will be skeptical that the the Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals psilocybin study constitutes Science.

The study downplays bad trips – that’s one of the objections, relevant to the Egodeath theory.

The “Positive-Balanced” (Incomplete) Pseudo Science of Mysticism: Designating Beginners’ Experience “a Complete Mystical Experience”, by Designating the Advanced, Challenging Half of Mystical Experience as “Non-Mystical”

I concluded clearly recently, that James 1902, Stace 1960, Marsh Chapel 1962, Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) ~1970, and the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) 2016, are all a whitewash operation omitting the negative effects of mystical experience; defining A PRIORI “mystical effects vs. challenging effects” – a baked-in bias and FALSE model of mysticism that omits the negative effects.

Some aspects of the complaints are relevant to Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism (producing, finally, integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking).

Religious Professionals Study Trial: Completed 2024/05/31

Started: 2014/09/16
Actual Study Completion Date: 2024/05/31

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02243813?term=griffiths%20roland&intr=psilocybin&rank=4&tab=table

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02243813

Audiobook: Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)

Released today Apr. 29, 2025

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3)
Erik Davis, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586 – print
https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/B0DY2YDF88/ – audiobook

Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them (Leary, April 29, 2025)

Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them
April 29, 2025, Zach Leary
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Extraordinary-Mind-Psychedelics-Century/dp/1683649931/ —

End of Ch 3 is good: Leary discusses Matt “Lose the Buddha Statue” Johnson’s Public Relations stunt filed claims ethics violations claims against Roland Griffiths’ newage Psilocybin styled research.

40% into ch 3: “The Medicalization Model: A Cautionary Partnership”

Not So Fast on Psychedelic Mushrooms (Pollan, 2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opinion/denver-mushrooms-psilocybin.html – “OPINION
Michael Pollan: Not So Fast on Psychedelic Mushrooms
Psilocybin has a lot of potential as medicine, but we don’t know enough about it yet to legalize it.
May 10, 2019″

MICHAEL POLLAN confirms he is AN ENEMY INVADER OF THE FIELD.

Leary & I find that highly offensive and tyrannical.

Pollan wrote:

“No one should ever be arrested or go to jail for the possession or cultivation of any kind of mushroom — it would be disingenuous for me to say otherwise, since I have possessed, used and grown psilocybin myself. [then STFU, hypocrite!] Like many others, I was inspired to do so by the recent renaissance of research into psychedelics, including psilocybin.”

A self-contradictory nonsense dance.
“Make Psilocybin illegal, but no arrests or jail.”

FULL REPEAL OF PSILOCYBIN PROHIBITION

Leary himself says he has incoherent policy views.

My policy is clear and simple: man lived for infinite years without Prohibition of Psilocybin, and 5 minutes ago in 1968/1970, Psilocybin was made “illegal”.

Totally Forget that!

The Psilocybin laws in 1900 were perfect, ie nonexistent. Any laws are bound to be an evil trojan horse. No one “needs helpful prohibition” in any way.

Prohibition of Psilocybin is demonic and against God.

Truth in packaging applies.

Culture, not new authorities, should regulate.

WoD is phony and a failure in every aspect.

The Psychedelic Evangelist (Borrell, March 2024, NYT)

The Psychedelic Evangelist
A Johns Hopkins scientist was known for rigorous studies of psychedelics. Was he a true believer?
by Brendan Borrell, March 21, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/health/psychedelics-roland-griffiths-johns-hopkins.html —

“…ates on the insular research field. And some researchers have quietly questioned whether Dr. Griffiths, in his focus on the mystical realm, made some of the same mistakes that doomed the previous era of psychedelic science.

“Now, one of his longtime collaborators is airing a more forceful critique. “Dr. Griffiths has run his psychedelic studies more like a ‘new-age’ retreat center, for lack of a better term, than a clinical research laboratory,” reads an ethics complaint filed to Johns Hopkins last fall by Matthew Johnson, who worked with Dr. Griffiths for nearly 20 years but resigned after a charged dispute with colleagues.“

I heard that was a self-promotion strategy by Matt Johnson, pushing an extremist Naturalism Materialism “only matter exists” caricature of anti-religion “Science”.

Such a focus in defining two, bad, opposed, irrelevant positions is not helpful toward Transcendent Knowledge.

Clueless fog-headed mystics vs. clueless “mind doesn’t exist: scientists – neither of those outlooks or conceptions is relevant to the heart of the matter, the cybernetic theory, control transformation, mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism (ie, to integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking).

Psychedelic Evangelist article con’t:

“Dr. Griffiths acted like a “spiritual leader,” the complaint said, infusing the research with religious symbolism and steering volunteers toward the outcome he wanted. And he allowed some of his longstanding donors — supporters of drug legalization — to assist in studies, raising ethical questions.”

““These are serious allegations that need to be investigated,” said Joanna Kempner, a medical sociologist at Rutgers University who reviewed the complaint for The New York Times. The clashes at Hopkins, she added, mirror a broader debate in the field over “blurring the lines between empirical research and spiritual practice.””

These articles have many hyperlinks.

Bad Religion vs. Bad Science

Johnson and Chris Letheby and Houot and others are trying to split the field and set up a bunk debate driving down into the gutter the worst notion of Science fighting against the worst notion of Mysticism/ Religion they can imagine or invent, construct, fabricate, or identify/find.

Advocates of what they call “Science” need to steel man, not straw man, mysticism: Try to find the best – not the worst – type of mysticism or religion.

Z Leary has a balanced critique of the medicalization model.

Psychedelic eternalism and possibilism analogies in mythic art motifs of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability}

Psychedelic Eternalism {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

Psychedelic 4D Spacetime Block Universe Eternalism

Branching Possibilism and Non-Branching Eternalism in Art Analogies of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability}

Fresh Article Centering:

What Is the Message of the Branching-message mushroom trees

Is that All?

To Fully Learn Eternalism Is to Integrate Possibilism and Eternalism

What’s the message at maximum integration of eternalism and possibilism?

Long article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies.

Short article for annual church reader.

The message from the mushroom-tree artists:

A value-neutral model of maximally developed Psilocybin loose cognitive transformation.

The best religious mythic art

The diamond hammer of interpretation of
religious art firmly as analogies depicting Psilocybin transformation.

Real, legit, proper, definitive religious art. Not bad, mediocre religious art.

Religious art is analogies depicting Psilocybin transformation of the mental model of control in world.

I am not asking art. I am telling the art what it ought to mean, when art at its best.

The best art depicts Psilocybin-driven control transformation, so, art must be viewed and judged and interpreted AS Psilocybin transformation.

If the art fails to be that, it is bad, inferior art; it is not the best, definitive art.

If mystics fail to focus on mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism, they are poor mystics.

Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism is the standard by which to judge and rank mystics.

  • fair: Amanita effects
  • better: Psilocybin effects
  • best: Mythic Amanita effects – the famous super-psychedelic

Amanita muthoscaria Is Much Better of a Psychedelic than the Purest Sandoz

Mythic-realm Amanita is way better than the purest Sandoz. Even the challenging effects are pleasant and ideal.

Mythic Amanita does not produce — Amanita muthoscaria

Authentic religious art depicts integrating eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking.

theme: neutral valuing

value egoic personal control system in terms of its presense and it is used, donkey, all the time.

even during peak window.

So it is not …

Abraham loves Isaac.

MATURE theorists of egodeath love their only child, which was sacrficed in honor of the higher power creator controller level.

Fully mature egodeath cybernetic theorists value and appreciate egoic personal control system.

Positively model the final state involving intensive use of donkey Isaac egoic personal control system , now washed clean, reveal basis of possibilism-thinking is eternalism.

The experiential world that we always live in is in the form of controllers in possibilism-thinking.

On substrate of eternalism.

To reveal

To perceive eternalism,

To experience and perceive eternalism is to die sacrifice the agent illusion on the upper layer of the virtual world.

When you take an agent in virtual world, and show eternalism, Psilocybin transformation.

Agent config 1 is zapped to smoke, smoked like a capacitor backwards

The Magic Smoke disappears and the control agent youth is cancelled out by Heimarmene.

Donkey continues

Donkey phase 1 gets zapped and transformed the mental model of the egoic control system , personal egoic control system .

Before Psilocybin, egoic personal control system. after, transcendent egoic personal control system.

Transcendent Egoic Thinking; qualified possibilism-thinking

integrated transcendent possibilism-thinking & transcendent eternalism-thinking
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My Book Review of Hanegraaff Hermetic Spirituality and Altered States, Now At Amazon

Update Friday, April 25, 2025: my review is finally live:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1MP0AF4OLZT3/

Copy of the review at present site:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/#amazon-book-review

Tim Freke Presents a Radically New View of God, Soul, & Post-Scientific Spirituality (Video, April 25, 2025)

Tim Freke Presents a Radically New View of God, Soul, & Post-Scientific Spirituality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYC40iEvoxg&t=1928s – 32:15, Tim Freke worked with Terence McKenna.
Tim Freke

“conversation with Jordan Bates.

“‘Why Your Life Really Matters: The Podbook’ is coming on 1 May.”

https://timfreke.com/online-community/

Disliking Eternalism in the right way, and the Egodeath theory as combining eternalism, in the right way

transcript of Freke part 1 at 58:00 – he conflates possibilism, determinism, eternalism, etc, 4d, then tops it off by over-focus on “only mind exists” or awareness or Epistemology – irrelevant.

“Integration” of Psychedelics Experience or Advaita Enlightenment – Trending

Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream (Freke, 2016)

Freke is moving away from this or broadening and re-centering, re-focusing, reframing now.

Freke still attunes too much to “only mind exists, vs only matter exists”. Irrelevant! Way better is my 1987 commitment to assuming practically, both — mind models the world, per Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation especially when applied to practical control and potential control model transformation.

He has recorded some episodes of forthcoming May 2025 Podbook.

Tim Freke
Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream (Freke, 2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Lucid-Living-Experience-Your-Dream/dp/1525231200/ —

Blurb:

“After a life-time studying the world’s spiritual traditions, pioneering philosopher Tim Freke presents the mystical heart of spirituality in 8 transformative principles.

“From his personal experience he describes spiritual awakening as similar to the experience of lucid dreaming – except now while in the waking state.

“Awakening is lucid living.

“This astonishingly direct book points to an awakened state.

“Step by step it guides you through a radically new way of looking at the present moment, so you can experience a spiritual awakening as you are reading.

“It will take you less than an hour to read, but it could change your life for good.

“Since it was first published ten years ago Lucid Living has come to be seen by many as a modern spiritual classic. In this new edition Tim Freke reworks adds an 8th principle to account for the profound developments in his own understanding of awakening.”

The Evolution of my Ideas about Spirituality (Apr. 18, 2025) (Part 1)

My comment posted on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApyTorwIjM&t=840s = 14:00 —

14:00 lol – “I only took 1 book: the Way of Zen by Alan Watts” – me too,

During 8 months of away working, I just read that book intensively, then had my huge breakthrough as soon as I returned.

I exclaimed near the end:

Watts, why didn’t you just say block-universe eternalism/determinism/no-free-will?!

Instead of all that inarticulate poetry?

Poor writing in the mystical genre.

I’ve done things like throwing that book in the fire; when my father gave it to me, I tried to give it back to him.

I was more consistently disdainful toward poorly packaged Transcendent Knowledge; I took a “plunder and transform into something of use” approach.

I liked 4D spacetime block universe mysticism because it so quickly and vigorously delivers a kind of ego nullification.

I doubt Freke dislikes Eternalism in the correct way, because at 58:00 he conflates Determinism with Eternalism.

/ end of comment 4 24 2025

The Evolution of my Ideas about Spirituality (Apr. 18, 2025) (Part 2)

Main location of the below content:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/30/timothy-freke/#Evolution-of-my-Ideas-about-Spirituality-pt2 — a copy of that part 2 content from me is below

Video title:
Part 2: The Evolution of my Ideas about Spirituality
Tim Freke, Apr. 18, 2025

“In a follow up to our previous conversation, Richard Cox and I discuss the development of my ideas about spirituality:

  1. from accepting the fundamental tenets of the perennial philosophy,
  2. to embracing the philosophy of unividualism.

[i disagree with more aspects of what’s foisted as common-core mysticism and perennialism than Freke – it’s a beginners’ overemphasis on nondual unity oneness, fails to engage control model transformation & pass through the relevant gate. – Michael Hoffman]

“Follow Richard’s work at https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/

‘Why Your Life Really Matters: The Podbook‘ is coming on 1 May. 2025

“Subscribe to be notified of new chapters weekly.

“Access all chapters I have recorded before they are released and connect with me in person at weekly online meet-ups by joining my online community: https://timfreke.com/online-community/

“Find out about my experiential online and in-person events: https://timfreke.com

“Sign up to my newsletter to hear about everything I am up to: https://timfreke.com

“I am the author of 35 books, translated into 15 languages, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph ‘Book of the Year’.

[Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries, 1999, https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mysteries-Was-Original-Pagan/dp/0609807986/%5D

“For some inexplicable reason I was included in ‘The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’ lists in Watkins Magazine for 2021 and 2022.”

My Comment on the Video Part 2 or 1

In 1988, I discovered a 2nd way of thinking (4D spacetime block universe eternalism), instead of the common, first way of thinking.

For decades, I emphasized switching to that 2nd way of thinking.

But in 2000 (Jesus Mysteries book era), Coraxo in the Gnosticism Yahoo Group pointed out that my glorified 2nd way of thinking is what Gnosticism framed as a prison to escape!

So then in 2001, I read David Ulansey’s book explaining Mithraism as a way of rising above my glorified, exclusive 2nd way of thinking.

The Late Antiquity 3-part model (body, soul, spirit) disparaged my 2nd way of thinking as merely soul, merely half-transcendent.

And in 2024, I realized that my model, pushing exclusively 4D Spacetime Mysticism, simply would not fly if presented to my psych spirituality group, and is not entirely relevant to the mystical peak state nor daily life.

I recently struggled to stop disrespecting the first way of thinking and reframe both ways of thinking in an integrated way.

Now I’m following behind Tim Freke and Jessica Nathanson in a “both-and”, embracing approach, which conforms to Ken Wilber: “dis-identify, embrace, and include” the earlier developmental structures.

Isaac was sacrificed in a way (“because you have done this thing”), and preserved in a way, and because of that, Abraham and Isaac walked away blessed by the Transcendent and thriving into the future.

Looking forward to the Podbook.

/ end of Comment on video

Tim Freke re: Ken Wilber (My Comment on “Why Your Life Really Matters, Pt 2”)

I posted the comment on the video.
May 1, 2025; day of release of part 1 & part 2 videos.

Around 1980, Ken Wilber warned about psychological disintegration, vs. the healthy approach to build upward: dis-identify with, embrace, and include the earlier developmental structures (ie the bulk of egoic thinking).

Tim Freke replied, May 1, 2025:

“Ken is a groundbreaking thinker. I disagree now with a number of his ideas, but I am forever grateful to him. “

Cyberdisciple’s email April 23, 2025

https://www.thomashatsis.com

What is this, his 4th or 5th rebranding?

It’s noteworthy that there is no mention of the book he said that he was writing on “The” Holy Mushroom, and the articles about “The” Holy Mushroom are (still and/or again) missing.

From checking out the blurb of his new book and browsing the titles of some of his recent YouTube videos, it looks like he has pivoted to contemporary “culture war” takes. 

Email to Max and Cyberdisciple April 23, 2025

Thanks, was looking for that latest rebranding.

Yes we are thinking / wondering along same lines: “pivoted to contemporary culture war takes”; I’ll check out the site.

I continue to think of the silently cancelled book by Hatsis.  

He can’t be THAT stupid, slow, thick, clueless, and dense.  

I told him to read my site, even though he responded in delusion and confusion to me.  

After your article w/ Brown urged “AND PSILO”.  

If Hatsis is paying ANY attention to your writings and mine, there’s no way he is still restricted to his Pop Cult Allegro bubble.  

The field with Brown & you & me has so clearly moved way past Allegro.  

If Hatsis cares at all, as he claims to, finding “The Mushroom” (mythic-realm super-psyched’c Mighty Amanita, king of all psychedelcs), he MUST have gotten it through his thick, slow head, there’s more to the proposal than just “the Allegro theory”.

He can’t be THAT dense & slow!

It ain’t 1970 any more!

https://psychedelicwitch.com – 404 😢

https://psychedelichistorian.com – 404 😢

Site map: my pages about Hatsis:

https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Hatsis

I missed an easy opportunity to bolster my good strategic joke page, 
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/06/29/hatsis-gallery-of-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art/

— that was a good gallery, but I only externally linked to the png/jpg files, urls shown still.  No pictures in that good gallery now, alas. Are his pictures at the new site?

Archive.org did not give me the pictures.

1. ars psychelica website

2. psychedelic witch domain site

3. ” historian “

4. Thomas Hatsis .com – is the good publisher telling him to stop being immature?  I wish hatsis would quit messing up his own articles.  They have valuable transformation potential.  

He messed up my gallery of,

The Thomas Hatsis Gallery of the Many Mushroom Images in Christian Art.

Is the Hatsis Gallery of Msh Imagery in Xn Art restored at Thomas Hatsis .com?

Is his real, orig version of 2013 Dancing Man article there?  I need to cite it, better than at Archive.org where I link to the real version of the article.

Can’t wait for his promised book (mentioned braggingly in videos etc.) demolishing the outdated, 1997, 1st Gen, Secret Amanita Paradigm, that Pop Cult worships (Allegro, then Ruck building on Allegro).  

With the leading Disciple of Allegro being HYPOCRITE Hatsis; I was again cussing today, while listening to Hatsis read his book: 

“You hypocrite, projecting your own childhood onto the entire field” – understandably so.

Max Interestingly Conflated My Two Episodes, in Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

* In 1988, Tim Leary came to my university.  My friends met with him. 

I declined, better things to do: writing up my breakthrough of Jan 1988.  I was NOT IMPRESSED by his books that my friends/roommates had; warmed-over self-help.  Not relevant, useful, helpful, simple, or clear for my purposes. 

* In 1991, the Bridge Conference was across the street at Stanford – I declined, better things to do: “.

My father (taught me all Transpersonal Psychology in high school) told me to not respect big names, but to be better than them.

Now, Leary Junior’s new book cautions against the Therapy model: I ordered cheap audiobok.  Zach Leary.  April 29, 2025 book release.  

“Keep in perspective: 99.99% of experiences are outside of the “professional therapy industry” framework.”

Zach Leary’s mic technique with Joe in Psych’s Today podcast is unlistenable: 

mumble mumble mumble YELL! mumble mumble mumble 

Requires patching-in a volume leveler.  Hope his book is read aloud professionally.  

My tone mood of speech is over-caffeinated criticizing/ chastising, but at least you can hear what I’m saying.

2nd Gen entheogen scholarship

1998 Samo article represents — for those few who pay attention to the leading edge of the field — start of 2nd Gen, Explicit Psilo paradigm of Msh Imagery in Xn art.

Important: “drop-in debate partner” idea: Hatsis debated fisticuffs against Irvin; they deserve each other: Hatsis follows Allegro, and Irvin 2008 follows Allegro even more, and Hatsis abandoned sort of, Allegro, and fought 2008 Irvin, Allegro defender.  

Then Irvin discovered social engineering motives of all the big names in the field, and so Irvin withdrew from defending Allegro, and then Hatsis  needed a DROP-IN EXACT REPLACEMENT for Irvin, in the figure of Jerry Brown – 

but Brown already was on board with my 2007 / 2013 explicit Psil paradigm.  

As late as 2021, Hatsis still ASSUMED that Brown and I were exact drop-in replacements for Jan Irvin 2008, defender of Allegro.  

Hatsis emailed me intriguing quotes, showing he had NO FEEL, no sense of the 2nd Gen, Explicit Psilo paradigm.

Brown might have slightly followed Allegro, when Brown was debate partners with Hatsis (Hatsis trying to use Brown as Irvin-replacement).  I found Allegro very late, like 2000, and for me, the ahistoricity idea of Allegro was more notable than Allegro’s amanita focus.  

Hatsis misreads the leading edge of the field, because he pays too much attention to only the Pop Cult version of the field.

Surely by now, Hatsis is finally waking up that it’s not 1970 anymore?  Allegro/Ruck era.  

It’s now the Samo/ Michael Hoffman/ Brown era, starting 1998 (roots in 1996 San Francisco slide show by Samo).

When will it finally dawn on scholars – and later, on Pop Cult — that the 1st gen paradigm is dead?  In one conference, overnight, scholars flipped their view of Mithraism – the field flipped to a next-gen view, overnight, point-in-time.

I UNDERSTAND the confusions in the field.  Most people are ignorant of 2nd Gen, Explicit Psilo paradigm, used without comprehension by Letcher to debunk the explicit Psilo Bern. door if placed within the Secret Amanita paradigm.

I was so distracted by the Nov. 2020 GCP breakthrough, I never had any idea that I purchased Hatsis’ read-aloud of his book Psy. Mystery Trad’s (as well as his ebook, which was a frustrating format).

I’ve purchased Hatsis’ book in all 3 formats!  

In Oct 2020, I focused on Hatsis’ book (ebook).  

Oct/Nov 2020, I corrected Brown and realized the error in St. Walburga tapestry, Brown then invited / inquired if we wrote about compelling evidence & criteria of proof for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art.  

At tail end of that article, which I abused to merely showcase my breakthroughs, instead of theorizing about criteria, that led to the Great Canterbury Psalter breakthrough.  Around Nov 17, 2020.

Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter; f134 row 1 Left.

It cracks me up today to hear Hatsis talking about what Jesus did, and what Jesus thought – the witch is oblivious to ahistoricity.  Which plants did Jesus use?  Debate!

It is also weird hearing Hatsis talk-through “the sacred secret mushroom theory” – his wording (in 2019) reflects his delusion and limited view about what’s being debated.  

Allegro, then Ruck, then Pop Cult: all latched HARD onto Secret Amanita narrative.  

Can’t blame Hatsis & Letcher for halting there and ONLY seeing that, and not grasping the ramifications of Samorini 1998, which was so powerful that Samorini’s expansive view even slipped into Ruck’s thinking, for a moment — Ruck & M. Hoffman article “Conjuring Eden”, in 2001, for a moment, before Ruck Committee inevitably reverted to their Secret Amanita paradigm after a moment of Samorini clarity (stil, intensely narrative-restricted).

McPriest, Muraresku, Ruck’s “Mushrooms in Heretical Christianity” driving-narrative (tail wag dog)

I now have a 1st printing hardcover of The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020. I like his bold speculation and pro-Christianity approach, which proves to be best (attitude & agenda/ motivation) for producing evidence + interpretation.

Who produces more evidence & better interpretation: 

Scholars whose motivating purpose is to disparage Christianity & glorify heretical contrarians?  Allegro then Ruck.

Scholars whose motivating purpose is to find entheogens in Christianity of whatever type?  Samorini, me, then Brown.

Verdict: I don’t know if The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020 claims that Ruck claims that “Christianity elided [omitted] psychedelics”, as McPriest claims in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies 2024.  Ruck is so incoherent, and he really says – aside from “2 elites used The Mushroom” – Ruck does NOT say “Christianity eliminated psychedelics”; what he says is “heretical Christianity & mystics had The Mushroom”.  Ruck says Christianity eliminated psychedelics EXCEPT for heretics and deviants.  

Verdict: Can’t blame McPriest 2024 – or Muraresku – for misrepresenting Ruck’s poor, confused assertion.

2nd Gen Entheogen Scholarship Con’t

I then in 2002 parted officially ways at that time, 2002/2003, maximal entheogen theory of religion, vs (not clear at the time) I in effect, announced the Explicit Psilo paradigm in 2002/2003 against the 1st gen Secret Amanita paradigm.  

I saw Ruck citing Samo’s work, a fork in the road: I picked Samo’s direction, instead of Ruck’s direction (Secret Amanita).  

Yet Samorini 1997 (Plaincourault article) still falls into the narrative error “certain Christian communities used The Mushroom”.  

ie, fabricated, baseless narrative framing, of “wall-encircled, closed, secret, members-only” use of The Mushroom – 

God forbid we allow The Mush to be used by individuals mixing among the mass of everyone.  

Gotta follow & prop up the Prohibition narrative, above all — that’s the purpose of entheogen scholarship, to condemn the Big Bad Church, a ritual retelling, a ritual rite of mythic storytelling.

My influence by Allegro is zero.  I only entered the field of entheogen scholarship — with the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence in hand — in 1998 or 1999, the year of Freke & Gandy book Jesus Mysteries with one-third of a page about entheogens retained by their publisher.

Hatsis 2019 is correct that the Secret Amanita theory is all-dominant in Pop Cult — but, that’s merely 1st-Gen enth scholarship, not the 2nd-Gen that Letcher 2006 used to demolish 1st-Gen in 1 blow, efficiently requiring only considering a single Liberty Cap msh tree – impressive, even if confused re: attributing the 1st Gen theory to the 2nd Gen pure mycologists Stamets and Gartz.  

Roll up your sleeves to analyze Stamets/Gartz narrative: there’s nothing there!  They HAVE NO narrative at all, just 3 words: Lib Cap on Door.  That’s it.

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Hatsis’ contributions (after my transformation of them [my superpower]): How Hatsis’ brilliant color picture led to decoding branching-message mushroom trees, even – ultimately – expressing that, Epistemology Be Damned, what really matters per the mushroom-tree artists is:

We Combine & Balance Two Different Ways of Thinking, for altered state Exploration:

Hatsis was the first entheogen scholar to make available a color hi-res picture of “dancing man”.  

Samorini sent me a PDF of his milestone 1998 article, but, that article format is unreadable in various ways; leading to Ruck’s massive mistake, “the cap is red”.  

My Samo 1998 article reprint is extremely low res.  

Samo’s Italian book has some pics, in better res – b & w still, so, “OMG it must be a red cap!  Take that, art historians!!” (Ruck major screw-up; solved by Hatsis’ article 2013 in UK periodical.) 

Huggins 2022(?) article about Dancing Man credits Hatsis and they dined together, meeting.

Hatsis’ detailed original article w/ mature title, the full PDF that was printed in magazine in UK, about Dancing Man, was helpful for my Christmas 2015 hypothesis: 

“Could right foot map to the Eternalism non-branching mental model, and left foot map to the Possibilism branching mental model?”

John Lash 2008 Web article “Discovery of a Lifetime” (cited in Brown book etc): rediscovered image by me in Nov. 2020: Yes!!  

Leg-hanging mushroom tree; GCP f134 row 1 Left 2/5 of the row.

Great Canterbury Psalter

John Lash uploaded in 2008 2/5 of 1 of 3 rows:

2/5 * 0.33 = just 13% of the entire f134 image, enabled in late 2020 my main decoding of the entire image – though in 2025 I continue significant decoding of the image, 4 years 5 months later.

2025/04

-2020/11

= 

2024/16

-2020/11

= 4 years 5 months  

Then after Nov 2020, Cyberdisciple’s row 2 of the picture which is boring daily life grain junk like:

* The Cubensis dispensary display cases like across the street from Univ. of Amsterdam.

* The conjoined basic Left- and Right-foot youths (basic possibilism-thinking + basic eternalism-thinking).

* The Psalter reader being threatened or not, based on L/R finger height [blew my mind to the max].

* The puzzling-for-4-years, floating sage, who relies neither on L nor R foot, but poses the puzzle: 

Ultimate Instructional Puzzle Challenge: What Would be “Ultimate, Un-Surpassable Maturation”?

IF the guy SITTING balancing in the msh tree is merely BASIC comprehension and control stability, HOW IS the right-leg-HANGING GUY PROFOUNDLY (not superficially) MORE ADVANCED?

Not merely a superficially more complicated depiction of “rely on Right = non-branching control steering”, any more than the floating sage is “just a visually more complicated equivalent of” the conjoined pair of L+R foot youths in f134 Row 2 R.  Rather, floating sage asks: [joke construction for 4 years:  the 420 floating sage?] 

* If R foot is better than mere L foot, what would be that much better than mere R foot?

Answer: Like the floating sage, the knee-hanging guy is beyond basic eternalism-thinking, is 

the mature integrated combination affirming both possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking in a coordinated, balanced way.

Thus red plant #4, day 3, has both IY and YI form; thus, the 4 plants in Day 4 of creation (f11) have both branching and non-branching features, open book, {balance scale}.  

Are mushroom-trees just for the purpose of showing non-branching and rejecting / smashing / getting rid of branching?  No; they affirm in a way, both branching & non-branching.  As well as saying that … control stability requires not SOLELY eternalism-thinking (non-branching), but ALSO requires harmonious balance including using also, the usual branching thinking (possibilism-thinking), completed by adding also non-branching.

The 1.5 women in f134 row 2 middle – holding {balance scale} and {closed scroll}, looking at the threatening or relenting soldiers, Left (!) foot on stable col base and also touching ground, and her R foot also(!) touching ground.  

She is relying in the ordinary state on BOTH feet touching the ground: rely on possibilism-thinking and rely on eternalism-thinking.

The 1-limb maiden attached to her has only a single foot, touching the ground.

That’s what the fully passing student 1 knows; [THE MOST SOPHISTICATED POSSIBLE INTERP OF THE WHOLE PICTURE = 

two-headed Rebis; 

wedding of the king-Theseus-abandoned Ariadne + Dionysus] 

The ideal answer to the instructor/examiner, the ideal passing A student 1 with full comprehension knows everything that 

the floating sage knows, 

that the simple Right-foot (partly mature) red youth on row 2 R DOESN’T yet know.  

That the C student 3 in row 1 L doesn’t know, only grasping the Right-limb balanced, sitting guy in the tree, but not comprehending the that-much-more mature, hanging guy in the tree.

The mere clever basic right-foot red youth (row 2 R), still joined to the basic left-foot youth, is merely an eternalism enthusiast preaching only eternalism, putting down / repudiating/ semi-foolishly disparaging Possibilism – he’s half mature, not truly completed to the maximum. 

The foolishness of the Eternalism theorist.

who is out-theorized by the more sophisticated, more balanced, post-eternalism theorist.

Song Free Will by Rush: Around 2007, I wrote “transcend determinism”.  It’s a Pneuma-delic song, not merely a Psyche-delic song. (body -> soul -> spirit)

http://egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22968

Psychedelics are known to give perception of eternalism, per Josie Kins effectindex: 
https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism

After perception of Eternalism, integrate perception of Possibilism, per song Free Will.

body = possibilism-thinking (hylic-delic?)

soul = eternalism-thinking = psyche-delic = cosmos sphere 8, fixed stars, the Ogdoad

spirit = integrated qualified possibilism-thinking + qualified eternalism-thinking = pneuma-delic = sphere 9, the Ennead

Not “Ogdoad bad, Ennead good“.  Use either conception:

* reaching Ennead = also affirming Ogdoad.

* affirm/embrace both & integrate Ennead & Ogdoad.    (cosmic sphere 8 & 9; heimarmene fixed stars + transcending them)

Sol = 8; Mithras = 9; Sol’s pact with Mithras.  

Embrace the cosmic rock + step outside the cosmic rock.  

Not ONLY step outside cosmic rock.  Not “destroy the cosmic rock, to leave it.”  As Gnosticism would be (debatably) accused of.

Not “delete the fixed stars, to be purely transcendent possibilism only”.  

The error of demonizing eternalism & affirming only transcending eternalism – Wouter Hanegraaff.

The error of demonizing possibilism-thinking and only affirming basic pure eternalism.  

“You gotta agree with me there’s no-free-will, to be enlightened” – 

Tim Freke rejects Ramesh Balsekar’s extremist eternalism-enlightenment, “you don’t exist, only the One exists; enlightenment = no-free-will; self is only illusion and unreal.”

David Litwa’s title: “The Eighth Reveals the Ninth”, in his new book, Hermetica I.  

Not “delete fixed stars sphere 8th, to leave sphere 8 and go to sphere 9 instead.”  

Ken Wilber warns: “dis-identify, embrace, and include.  Not destroy/ demonize and rise above; that gives mere destructive regression.”  

As Tim Freke and Jessica Nathanson are realizing, against “kill the self, destroy the ego, you are an illusion, you don’t exist, only nondual unity oneness exists.”  

Freke’s word unividual; uni-vidual.  Integrate possibilism & eternalism = be a uni-vidual.  His audio podbook coming in 2025.

Stupid, thick, still-foolish Past Me, BTFOd again by superior, Future Me (now).

The crucial question Eadwine (floating sage + teacher in class in Row 1 Left) asks us, he asks the ideal super-passing student: 

IS THERE AN EVEN MORE MATURE, EVEN MORE SOPHISTICATED INTERPRETATION CARRIED by the two different guys in the mushroom-tree? 

How is the hanging guy much more mature and sophisticated and balanced in skill, than the mere sitting guy?  

Are you a better student merely because you can do more tricks with art motif of handedness?  

Mere shallow technical complexification? Not impressed.

Or can you conceive of maturation beyond mere basic eternalism-thinking that wins at the expense of demolishing and smashing and discarding possibilism-thinking into Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket (with all the repressed fixed stars), like king Theseus abandoning Ariadne on the island?

What must it ultimately mean, to be mature in thinking about & knowing possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking?

Ans: 

* Don’t simply reject one of them, like James Kent & Alan Houot & Chris Letheby & Matthew Johson lazily and simple-mindedly rejecting religion.

* Don’t just simpy sum them.  Mere basic possibilism + basic eternalism.

* INTEGRATE them; “differentiate & integrate” the earlier & later developmental structures into the ultimate mature form.

The ideal passing student 1 – leaving no more room for Evil Future Me to out-interpret Present Me — looks at the hanging guy, the C student 3 merely looks at guy sitting in tree — the hanging guy is NOT merely “fancy handedness tricks of art”; the hanging guy is profoundly more mature, a master of L + R thinking,

“Balanced” in the “fully mature” sense: master of the two ways of thinking, employed skillfully together, two distinct, developed minds in one completed mind of the truly completed initiate, beyond which there is no more type of maturation.

— Cybermonk

/ end of email to max cyb apr 23 2025

Email to Max and Cyberdisciple April 24, 2025

LOL – POV perspective: this explains why Hatsis’ articles have been abandoned by Hatsis: 

I showed how his articles ironically constitute a great, convincing gallery of evidence in favor of mushroom imagery in Christian art!

I am surprised Wasson let us see Panofsky write “Hey everyone, hot tip: There’s hundreds more mushroom-trees like Plaincourault!” which lead, Samorini followed up finally in 1998.  

Go  ahead, MICA Deniers — show us 1000 more examples of why there’s no mushroom imagery in Christian art.  That’ll bolster your case.  

Wasson said Shut It Down!  No more showcasing the evidence for debate, because ppl will reach the wrong, ie correct, conclusion.  

Brinckmann?  Never heard of it.  Consult the competent in related matters authorities to measure their crispness & celerity of denial!  

Albert Brinckmann’s 1906 86-page book in German, Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings.

Email to Wrmspirit April 22, 2025

Reconciled & Harmonized Possibilism Wedded with Eternalism

Biggest news is that after talking with you, and meditating on Dionsus + Ariadne victory wedding, and long voice recording:

I got rid of all negativity against possibilism and against eternalism and figured out a way to frame as positively and neutrally as possible, a scientific model of mental model transformation / maturation 

— including listing the objectionable aspects, just as every science model has some objectionable aspects.

I now am able to present this positive, and balanced, and open honest presentation of my model of mental model transformation to my church.  

This was really hard, to bring the Egodeath theory to this state of maturity, beyond just insistence that “you gotta agree with me that eternalism [like no-free-will] is the case, and that possibilism is delusion to repudiate”.

I had to reject any negative attitude of “possibilism is mere illusion, eternalism is reality and truth”.  

It was hard to find a more fair and constructive framing than that.  

Must not privilege one mental model at the expense of disrespecting the other mental model. 

The rebis (male + female person with two heads) was helpful toward this adult, mature, science model, sober, constructive.  

— even if there are objectionable aspects, like we can object to the idea of needing to mature. 

eg I can criticize the sun-centered cosmos model: it is poor for mapping mental model transformation, unlike the earth centric model used from before 130 B C to 1675 AD.

/ diversion from the email, added:

I converge on 1675 as the end of esotericism, forgetting esoteric wisdom (insofar as we had it, in a garbled way) –

Science didn’t adopt and switch to the earth-centric model until maybe 1675, not sure – long after Copernicus thought of it in 1543]

Robo summary:

“The scientific acceptance of the heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the solar system, took place over a period starting in the 16th century and gradually solidified in the 17th century.

“It wasn’t a single, abrupt shift but a gradual process of evidence and argument that moved science away from the geocentric (Earth-centered) view.”

  • “The heliocentric model gained traction as more evidence and observations began to support it, though there was also resistance from those who held to the geocentric view. 
  • Galileo Galilei (1610):Galileo’s telescopic observations, including the discovery of moons orbiting Jupiter and the phases of Venus, provided strong evidence for a heliocentric solar system. 
  • Johannes Kepler (1619):Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion, while not explicitly supporting heliocentrism, provided a mathematical framework that made the heliocentric model more compelling. 
  • Isaac Newton (1687):Newton’s law of universal gravitation and laws of motion provided the underlying physics that explained why planets orbit the Sun, further solidifying the heliocentric model. 

“The shift to the heliocentric model was a gradual process, driven by scientific advancements and the accumulation of evidence, culminating in the 17th century with the work of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, who helped establish heliocentrism as the dominant model of the solar system.”

Conclusion: the above robo summary confirms yesterday’s voice recording April 21, 2025 speculating that the sun model was adopted at same time as Newton Principia, ie 1687, which is huge argument in favor of saying that psychedelic esotericism was forgotten in 1687, because the astral ascent mysticism model earth centered was abandoned in 1687.

That is to answer the Transcendent Knowledge podcast, Max Freakout/ Cyberdisciple/ Cybermonk question, what’s the forgot plot?

When Was Mushroom Esotericism Forgotten? 1687, Newton’s Principia, When Science Abandoned the Earth-Centric Cosmos Model

For date comparison: my Great Year of the Way of Zen by Alan Watts theory development was 1987, 300 years after Newton’s Principia, leading to my psychedelic eternalism breakthrough of Jan. 1988; the Theory of Ego Transcendence.

The year 1687, marked by Newton’s Principia, was accompanied by switchover of Science from the earth- to sun-centered cosmos model.

Per Wouter Hanegraaff book Esotericism and the Academy, what year was published the great compendium of stupid esotericism by a scholar maybe around that time, which was the act of throwing rejected knowledge into Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket.
https://www.amazon.com/Esotericism-Academy-Rejected-Knowledge-Western/dp/0521196213/ —

That’s where Darth Wouter “Star Destroyer” Hanegraaff threw all of the stars in the sky, in order to protect Tat from being reborn into Heimarmene upon reaching sphere 8, my precious, magically designated “TheOgdoadAndTheEnnead above the Heimarmene“[sic!].]

Links within my main Hanegraaff 2022 page:

email to wrmspirit con’t:

Cover of Paul Thagard book contrasting two models of cosmos: 

We can complain and criticize every thing, every Scientific model, including Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

Late Antiquity complained about enslavement imprisonment in heimarmene (4D spacetime block universe eternalism), but they were mature enough to still assert that it is the case.  In stoic mature fashion, they integrated, with positive attitude, basic possibilism-thinking, forming like a rebis: per 3-part model of body/ soul/ spirit: 

* cosmos sphere 8 = soul = qualified eternalism-thinking.

* (hyper-) cosmos sphere 9 (or “level 9”) = spirit = qualified possibilism-thinking. 

Important: keep distinct eternalism-thinking & possibilism-thinking.  My great phrase: “differentiate and integrate”.  

Per Ken Wilber, dis-identify, embrace, and include the earlier developmental strucutres in psycho-spiritual development.

dis-identify and qualify = God tells Abraham “you HAVE done this sacrifice of your child[-thinking] Isaac that I commanded, to honor me”.

embrace & include = God tells Abraham “therefore you are blessed, harm not the child, and walk away with Isaac, blessed and thriving.”

Slippery confusing terms under-defined:

The term “cosmos” can mean any of:

* only the 7 planet spheres if we follow Hanegraaff’s un-justified lead, or 

* properly certainly include sphere 8 fixed stars; or even can include 

* level 9, 10, and the area outside any diagram eg level 11+.

The healed person, the completed initiate (per Late Antiquity more than Classical Antiquity) = integrated combination of qualified possibilism-thinking + qualified eternalism-thinking, forming a single, whole, conflict-free model of spiritual maturation.

If you only have possibilism-thinking, or basic possibilism-thinking, that’s “immature”, technically, as a science model sense.  

That sort of dismissive valuation is part of my science model, I sugar coat that but also am up-front about that value-laden framing.

My emphasis presenting my model is, the beneficial aspects of having this explanatory framework greatly outweighs lacking a model, or having a different model – the objectionable aspects.

That’s the most positive and constructive, and unobjectionable, I can be.

[that idea work-up was from voice recording yesterday April 21 2025]

Meeting with Houot, Cyberdisciple, & Max Saturday, April 26, 2025

I am probably going to accept doing a Zoom meeting with Houot, I will probably inform Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple of the possibility of including them.  

Stealing credit is easy for popular above-ground authors to do b/c of the underground nature of this field, w/ people not even revealing their names – like Chris Bennett accuses Brian Muraresku of stealing Bennett’s hard-won scholarship and not crediting him in popular book The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020 as promised.  

Online are my copious writings about Houot and Science of altered state exploration.

Scholarly credit must be managed, whether in meetings or online or book scholarship.

I didn’t get Jan Irvin’s important book The Holy Mushroom in 2008, but only recently, b/c after the massive 67-page book-length 2006 Wasson article, I was tired of controversies and disputes that are more about un-blocking the field (past-directed, or past-driven) than actually moving the field forward (future-directed; future-driven).

1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) is past-driven, past-fixated, restricted by the past; Thomas Hatsis is committed to living in 1970 forever and restricting the field, also voice recording 4/21, I discussed {cut right trunk}i

i critiqued article in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ by McPriest [McCarthy & Priest] as example of FAILED SCHOLARSHIP regardless of citations: they are not guilty of failing to cite entheogen scholarship; they are guilty of failing to KNOW entheogen scholarship.

What they write contradicts the latest entheogen scholarship. The solution isn’t to cite the latest scholarship; the solution is to not write statements that contradict the lastest scholarship and reveal their ignorance.

They write as if we are introducing psychedelics into Christianity for the first time – opposite of reality. I’m working on my theory and articles.

The community responding to the McPriest article is half failure, half good: Winkelman and Brown yelled at McPriest LEARN THE DAMN ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP, IGNORAMUSES, but McPriest plugged his ears and printed that call, but stayed silent and everyone idiotically said “Allegro’s been debunked”, AS IF!

Insertion: Email to Houot 4/20/2025

my email to Houot, re: Allegro and Hatsis delusion about state of entheogen scholarship field.

Cyberdisciple & Dr. Jerry Brown rebutted Thomas Hatsis, a denier of mushroom imagery in Christian art (who has had to cancel his plan to write a book debunking his confused strawman notion of what the proposal even is).  

Hatsis is under the delusion that Allegro is definitive of the proposal of mushroom imagery in Christian art — but Cyberdisciple showed that Allegro isn’t even really an entheogen scholar and actually has no real relevance to the proposal.

It’s true that 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) is lame and wrong — 

but we now are in 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm), quite different.

Mushroom Imagery in Christian art

Dr. Jerry Brown article about mushroom imagery in Christian art at Hancock site, cites Cyberdisciple, a Classics expert who knows the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

Max Freakout:
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Transcendent-Knowledge-Podcast –
my page on his Transcendent Knowledge podcast.
my page on his earlier Psychonautica podcast.

I wonder if mysticism book expert psychonaut Kafei knows anything about the concept of “surrender” – see Transcendent Knowledge podcast episodes with Kafei.

Defining “High Dose”

I was in error in thinking Kafei used too high a Psilocybin dose.

Seems like McKenna says 5g is a lot but instead I gather than 12g is a lot, more than double McKenna’s claim.

Now, all I can say about reasonable Psilocybin dosage is, “unknown; requires research”.

A psychonaut exclaimed recently, it seems like there’s no upper limit of intensity, probably after 8-12 g.

My model is, “high dose” is defined as: double that dose and there’s no clear increase in intensity.

Consider dosage of X grams: if you double that dosage and get significantly more intensity, X is not “high dose”.

“High dose” = start to have diminishing returns, where the intensity (or duration) starts to top out. Seems more like 12 g than 5 g, typical Cubensis.

Synthetic Psilocybin: 10 mg = low, 20 mg = med, 30 mg = high, per Hopkins. They also express dosage by bodyweight.

Purposeful Specialty Book Reviews

I was more stressed about reviewing Rise of the Psychonaut than other things, but am pretty pleased with the result b/c:

I keep the focus on what I think are the most substantive topics, that I can uniquely speak to, instead of a generic review like stating the key topics of each chapter, that anyone could write.  

Have to conserve finite word count.

Able to Write Book Review of Hanegraaff

Next, after years of analysis (hardcover, & got ebook yesterday [4/19/2025] – good move), finally I’m able to review [4/21/2025] Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022) 

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/

A big advance in hermetic studies, but a big failure in comprehending “transcend heimarmene” as rebirth.  

The hermetic authors would wince – close; better than previous scholarship — but dreadfully confused – a “cosmos” model with no stars?  What? No!  Have you never looked at the sky to see stars?!  Total nonsense.

But, it sets up for correction.  Fix a couple massive mistakes, THEN that book contributes to the heart of the matter.

Surrenderism

Analyzing the dynamics of “surrender”(?) would be key to the main obstacle to scientific investigation of this realm.  

I don’t use the word ‘surrender’ in my conceptual vocabulary, so I’d have to analyze what it’s supposed to mean.

Surrendering is alleged to be “the” solution to panic, yet people can’t even say what you are supposed to surrender to; it’s a dangling, undefined folk concept.

Kafei has read all the mysticism writings, unlike me, and knows Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.  I don’t have his contact.  He’s on Transcendent Knowledge podcast w/ Max Freakout.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/

Love Voice Recording

You have miking/ vocalizing experience in your read-aloud of dissertation in your podcast. 

I want to read-aloud various things, but I don’t like the production overhead as much – time-consuming.

I practiced miking specifically to prepare to be on Max Freakout’s Transcendent Knowledge podcast, not happened yet.

Site Map: My Houot Pages

https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Alan-Houot

/ end of inserted excerpts from email to Houot

Houot on Good Terms with Psychedelic Church

email to wrmspirit con’t:

Houot plans to do an “opener” segment in a Sunday service of this psychedelic church.  

We managed to keep a constructive relationship, between the book club and Alan Houot.  

Seems the mood of the book club is, skeptical, but reconciled. Not sure can generalize.

Some people in this church are cringing at the focus on alien contact, other people are positive about that!  A division, almost.

Hard to get along with each other, how ok is it, to be rude or adversarial to each other?

We have outspoken reactionism against certain ideas about Science.  

People can be churlish.  Houot seems mature and constructive toward scholars, unlike Hatsis, who was extremely immature, personally adversarial per Roller Derby.

When asked “Why do you try to make your book exclude most people?”, Houot defended his deliberate choice to exclude most audience from his book.

Houot’s says my book review is fair – my review is harsh in pointing out what Houot really asserts (don’t blame me, the messenger warning about this off-putting strategy that Houot says he strategically uses).

I’m always criticizing and mocking everyone, but hopefully I am nice to them in person.  

I’m not sure what my own policies are, about being rude or mocking to other people.  I would not personally insult and attack people, that’s rude & churlish.

I try not to take it personally when people critique the Egodeath theory like I critique (pros and cons of) other theories/ writers/ scholars.

Hanegraaff book review finally: Constructive, feels satisfactory

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/#amazon-book-review

Is my book review available at Amazon?  No.

Guidelines:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_omni_lm_btn?nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA

Why I am required to engage with other scholarship

I’m not too thrilled hearing pushback eg treating me as “wrong” for paying attention to the flaws of Wouter Hanegraaff’s book.

I pushed scholarship in the field forward a lot by posting my book review yesterday that took almost 3 years to compose.  

Since there are many 5 star reviews and a poor 3 star review, this timing was beneficial to permit a 4 star outstanding review that stands out.

There are benefits for developing my theory, when I engage with scholarship in the field.

I have tested my astral ascent mysticism model in the fire, by identifying how it clashes with the incoherent model that Hanegraaff tries to construct within Hermetic writings of Late Antiquity.

I should be concerned when my astral ascent mysticism (since like 2003) model is contradicted by the leading scholar of Hermetism, 

Wouter Hanegraaff in 2022 and everyone is giving his book 5 stars 

but his astral ascent mysticism is so totally extremely broken, that he admits he is unable to allow the fixed stars into his model of the so-called “cosmos”

– his “cosmos ascent rebirth” model in which you look up to the sky to see only 5 stars, expecting 5 million stars.  

Hanegraaff can’t allow rebirth phase 1 to be into (demonized & repressed) Heimarmene (= 4D spacetime block universe eternalism) at cosmos sphere 8

— so has to get rid of all the stars from the cosmos! – an extreme move, and extreme failure of a cosmos model.

My almost 3 years of work on this scholarship problem, fixes a massive problem that is confusing the field of Hermetic studies, and Western Esotericism of which Wouter Hanegraaff is the leading scholar 

— he’s as much a mis-leading scholar, requiring yesterday’s correction by my almost 3 years (on his book) and my 2001-2025 decades of scholarly labor.  

Since 2001, because I got David Ulansey’s book about astral ascent mysticism in Mithraism in 2001.

My theory requires clearing the blockage that the leading scholar, Wouter Hanegraaff, amounts to within the field of Western Esotericism.

Now that Hanegraaff has acknowledged my work (in email), I can explain how my scientific model of mental model transformation matches:

* Classical Antiquity myth

* Late Antiquity myth

* modern scholarship

* Rock lyrics

* Michael Pollan’s popular book How to Change Your Mind.

People are confirming the exotic experience of Eternalism — but failing to contrast the relevant, popular (in a way) Possibilism model

Michael Pollan reports that he experienced block-universe eternalism so intensely, 

that when the overly positive Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) asked him if he had this positive mystical experience, 

he had to answer “N/A”, because yes he had it, — but the experience was horrific and upsetting, not “mystical” 

(according to the wrong preconceptions about “mystical experience = pleasant; unpleasant = un-mystical” fallacy, which Prof. Chs. Stang of Harvard criticised Roland Griffiths for, who said yes our model is “positive-balanced”).

Griffiths told Stang: that’s ok, we also can wave-around our Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) that we made in Hopkins (from which 18 of 21 negative effects were deleted so that it, too, is “positive balanced” – a whitewash operation corrupting and impeding would-be “Science”).

Josie Kins: Psych’c Effect Index: “Perception of Eernalism”

https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism

The worst problem in fields now is failure to realize that 

the relevant opposite of Eternalism (“non-branching”) 

is not Presentism (only the present moment exists), 

but rather, Possibilism (“branching”) – as the mushroom-tree artists know.

There is almost NO info about Possibilism except in Philosophy encyclopedia articles about the 3 models of time, and even those fail to actually draw a tree and a worm (or snake) despite saying “tree” and “branch” and “worldline worm”.

If you try to view videos about Eternalism: they wrongly contrast Eternalism vs. Presentism (b/c they fixate on Phil. topic of Epistemology, not personal control),

when they ought to instead contrast Eternalism against Possibilism.

If you try to view videos about Possibilism (as the opposed model of time, and also control), instead you get Geography videos.

So, ironically, people are on board with understanding the controversial and highly exotic Eternalism concept, but not conversant with the routinely popular Possibilism concept & model of time!  

People get sidetracked into the Philosophy Epistemology position of Presentism, instead of Possibilism.  

People are not attuned to the two contrasting models of time and personal control; they are attuned to the two models of time and Epistemology.

Title of article: Cognitive Phenomenology…, he doesn’t say “about personal control”: he leads up to that topic, discussing perception of things, but doesn’t get so far as perception of one’s personal control system where the hot action is at, to pass through the fearsome guarded transformation gate.

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” 

— Revelation 22:14 (the last page of the Bible)

People live within the Possibilism model so much they can’t see it: see instead the Physics topic of branching manyworlds Quantum Physics.

As I posted that exact contrast, re: Physics not Myth or Art, in 2001!  

Post 23 in Egodeath Yahoo Group – practically the wrmspirit/ Max Freakout archive, which was close to not existing in 2019!

https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-1/#message23

That post is probably in archive page #1 (confirmed), it should be very easy to find (confirmed). 

The nice thing about archive page #1: it is so easy to find our first postings there.

Two models in Physics: non-branching “Relativity”, then branching “Quantum”:

* Minkowski “Relativity” 4D spacetime block-universe eternalism = non-branching.  1907-1908.  Not popular.  Pop mysticism ignored this, left it to me to discover 4D Spacetime Mysticism in 1988 (see Rudy Rucker book the 4th Dimension, 1985 https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Dimension-Guided-Higher-Universes/dp/0395393884/ – see the mystical pages).

* Quantum Physics typically = many worlds splitting, = branching.  Started 1900, flourished 1920s https://www.google.com/search?q=when+did+quantum+physics+start .  Popular.  Pop mysticism took this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism

Although posting 23 in 2001 clearly articulates that branching vs. non-branching contrast in a Physics context, 

in the 2007 main article I failed to perceive the BLATANT, OBVIOUS art contrasting of branching vs. non-branching

in the “look mummy theres a mushroom” pictures, included for immature/ shallow reasons, yet carrying massive profundity

exactly matching my 2001 posting re: Physics models classified as non-branching, unpopular Minkowski 4D spacetime blcok, vs. branching Popular Quantum Physics.

St. Eustace crossing river: Y trees contrasted with non-branching trees or tree features (near trunk or higher up):

Dioysus wedded to Ariadne: 

Yes, there are 5 mushrooms, as I mostly inventoried in the 2007 article 

— but way more profoundly, she holds a branch in left arm, & he holds a non-branching spear in right arm(!)

Not sure I identified Amanita fountain in 2007; fully proved at end of 2020 via my 2010 specimen photos exactly matching (fortunate!)

The Dionysus picture, as you may have seen in 2006, was provided to me in Egodeath Yahoo Group (open forum version), by a member of the Egodeath community.

I didn’t comprehend the branching vs. non-branching contrast in those pictures displayed in my 2007 article until 2022 or 2023, w/ my usual facepalm of embarrassment at my not-perceiving.  

Good fortune, that I included those pictures even just for shallow reason (“has mushroom”).

Members of the Egodeath community helped condense the 2007 main article, as you may have witnessed in the unmoderated Egodeath Yahoo Group.

— Michael

/ end of apr 22 2025 email to wrmspirit

Finally Posted My Book Review of Hermetic Spirituality and Altered States in Late Antiquity (Hanegraaff, 2022)

update Fri Apr 25, 2025: my review is finally live:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1MP0AF4OLZT3/

I developed the book review below (incorp’d my very latest ideas about wedding possibilism & eternalism), then copied it to my main page about the book:

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/#amazon-book-review

Completed Model of Psilocybin Mental Model Maturation: Phase 3: Transcend Eternalism; Harmonized, Conflict-Free, Integrated, Cooperative; Complementary Coordinated Pairing of Possibilism + Eternalism

Value-neutral, non-judgmental, scientific model, with the least objectionable aspects.

There is no model in Science that has no objectionable aspects. There is no problem-free model. Which is the model with most benefits and fewest objectionable aspects? VOX_TK_6422_wav 2:23:00

From voice recording VOX_TK_6422_wav near 2:10:00 —

Do not sell short possibilism or eternalism in any way.

Completely constructive, neutral, objective framing.

Conflict-free mental system, no more conflict between possibilism vs. eternalism;

A mind that has develolped and matured: A mature dev’d specifmen of adult ind that has resolved the conflict between possibilism vs eternalism per 4/20- 4/17-4/21/2025, I resolved the conflict reaching true resolution on 4/21.

Like Thanksgiving week of 2013 branching art breakthrough:

Easter week of 2025 breakthrough: 4/17-4/21/2025.
Good Friday Experiment 4/20/1962.
63 years later.

It is not a single day/ date.

Reached resolution of the battle between possibilism vs eternalism.

Not a fighting married couple; the ideal married couple who has learned to operate as a married couple.

the ideal model of mental model development
mmmd

mental model development
mmd

Mithraism started in 98 AD; flourished in 150 AD = Late Antiquity flourished the idea of integrate qualified possibilism-thinking + qualified eternalism-thinking.

Psilocybin + mental model development + observation = the way the mind observes its functioning of mental model transformation re: control and time and possibility-branching.

The Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism is a science-expressed, technology-packaged explanatory model of the final state of mental model transformation, fully mature and fully developed.

Good Voice Recordings: Wedding Possibilism+Eternalism

Built-in mics in TASCAM DR-05 stereo field recorder.

VOX_TK_6422_wav and earlier and next track.

Realtime idea development of next-level image interpretation of Great Canterbury Psalter f134 Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter: mapping figures to phase 3: transcend eternalism; ie: conflict-free, integrated, harmonious, cooperative, final state of mental model transformation, fully mature and fully developed.

Must Identify objectionable aspect of anything and any theory. Every theory and every thing has objectionable aspects.

A superior theory is not at all “free from objectionable aspects”.

Which theory has the greatest potential explanatory power and usefulness, and is least objectionable, all things considered?

As of 4/20/2025, and esp 4/21/2025 today, the Egodeath theory gives NOT

  • basic eternalism and rebut Possibilism; not merely
  • sum basic eternalism + basic possibilism;
  • rather, a fully harmonized integrated system including productively fitting together qualified possibilism-thinking + qualified eternalism-thinking.
    The Alchemical Rebis, two heads complementary.

Hanegraaff Cosmos-Rebirth Model Error and Correction

This is not the official copy. The official copy is:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/#amazon-book-review

April 21, 2025 submitted to Amazon – FINALLY!
4 out of 5 stars
Book review title/point:
Rebirth into cosmos sphere 8 (Heimarmene) and 9 (above Heimarmene)

4 out of 5 stars
Title of book review:
Rebirth into cosmos sphere 8 (Heimarmene) and 9 (above Heimarmene)

Wouter Hanegraaff’s book Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity advances the field of Hermetic studies, especially after the error is corrected in his cosmos-ascent model, per astral ascent mysticism, so that the Fate-soaked fixed stars are no longer excluded entirely from his sky, but are allowed into his cosmos model, where they belong: sphere 8, the Ogdoad.

Hanegraaff’s model of the so-called “cosmos” doesn’t have any fixed stars. Look up into his sky: there are no stars, only 5 planets + sun & moon. This is not a model of the cosmos, nor of cosmos rebirth, because his visible sky cannot have any stars, per his admission in footnote 114, page 294: “Whether the fixed stars should be included [with Saturn, sphere 7] or should rather be associated with the Ogdoad [sphere 8] remains an open question for me.” This is the most closed question in the cosmos; it is a basic, simple given that the Fate-soaked fixed stars are what defines sphere 8, called “the Ogdoad”.

The initiate Tat asks Hermes to be brought into the Ogdoad (Heimarmene; Fatedness; fixed stars; sphere 8; the soul) and also into the Ennead (above Heimarmene, above the cosmos; sphere 9; the spirit). Since Hanegraaff omits fixed stars from their sphere 8 (which they define), there’s no functional difference in his model between rebirth phase 1 into the Ogdoad, and rebirth phase 2 into the Ennead.

The end result of entheogenic mental model transformation is not the repression of fixed stars (Fatedness) as Hanegraaff attempts; the end result is a coordinated, harmonious combination of first affirming Heimarmene, and then affirming transcending Heimarmene, honoring both ways of thinking, together.

Hanegraaff cannot place the fate-soaked fixed stars in sphere 8, because he wrongly says “the Ogdoad above the heimarmene”. The Ogdoad is not above heimarmene. The cosmos does not consist of 7 spheres, as Hanegraaff writes. Per looking up at the sky, the cosmos consists of 8 spheres. All ancient writings agree; no Hermetic text says the cosmos consists of 7 spheres, or that sphere 8 is outside the cosmos. The cosmos consists of 7 planetary spheres and also the sphere of the fixed stars. Sphere 8 is not “hypercosmic”, as he writes. Sphere 9 is actually hypercosmic.

I have read his book multiple times in hardcover and ebook format, and David Litwa’s book Hermetica I, to confirm that no Hermetic writing says the cosmos has 7 spheres, and that sphere 8 (defined by the fixed stars) is somehow “outside the cosmos”. The main visible thing you see in the sky that is the cosmos, is the fixed stars, defining sphere 8 of the cosmos.

Per Hanegraaff’s own writings in this book and elsewhere, sphere 8 = the Demiurge = the zodiac = Heimarmene headquarters.

Hanegraaff spreads the following equations separated apart to hide the self-contradiction: Ogdoad = sphere 8 = fixed stars = heimarmene = Fate = cosmos. By spreading the equations into separate pages, he writes inconsistently: Heimarmene = Fate = fixed stars = sphere 8 = Ogdoad = above Heimarmene.

Other hermetic scholars follow suit, waffling in self-contradictory fashion: in one paragraph, Ogdoad is above heimarmene; in alternating paragraphs, sphere 8 is the Fate-soaked fixed stars.

Switching between saying “sphere 8” and “Ogdoad” tries to hide the self-contradiction, in order to misguidedly purify the Ogdoad of Heimarmene by making the stars go missing in every other paragraph, inconsistently.

The solution is to always give the sphere number (7, 8, or 9) and equate Heimarmene consistently with the fixed stars and sphere 8 and the name “Ogdoad”, and understand that rebirth is initially into conformity with pure Heimarmene – not yet above Heimarmene.

My other correction of this book is its claim that anything you can think of is entheogenic, as if to propose “non-drug entheogens”, a contradiction in terms. Entheogenic practices in the broad sense actually means combining visionary plants with mental model formation and observation and various techniques – not omitting visionary plants. In 2004, I posted in Egodeath Yahoo Group about that point, a post titled “Entheogenic Esotericism”, 8 years before Hanegraaff’s keynote article speech titled “Entheogenic Esotericism”.

To summarize, as the million stars to steer by in the cosmos rebirth model that Hermetic scholars struggle to coherently present:

The mind starts with naive possibilism-thinking (level 0), becomes increasingly attuned to Heimarmene (Fate; eternalism) in entheogenic sessions 1-7, becomes fully reshaped and aligned harmoniously with Heimarmene (Fatedness; 4D spacetime block universe eternalism) in sphere 8 (the fixed stars); and then reconciles and marries the two ways of thinking together in sphere 9: embrace and include Heimarmene coordinated with the transcending of Heimarmene; marry qualified possibilism-thinking and qualified eternalism-thinking, to reach completion of initiation, per all brands of religion in Late Antiquity, flourishing starting around 150 CE.

— Michael Hoffman, theorist of ego death and transcendence

Hanegraaff:
sphere 9 = possibilism
sphere 8 = possibilism [requires omit fixed stars] [outside of cosmos]
sphere 7 = eternalism

Hoffman:
sphere 9 = integrated qualified possibilism + qualified eternalism [outside of cosmos]
sphere 8 = basic eternalism [fixed stars = heimarmene]
sphere 7 = basic possibilism

Rebirth is from possibilism into eternalism and then into transcend eternalism.

Hanegraaff says sphere 8 is outside the fate-ruled cosmos
Hoffman says sphere 8 is in the fate-ruled cosmos

Good news: automated creation of TOC at top of a WordPress page, and the links work on some browsers.

Bad news/ limitations: some browsers/platforms require that I manually add an anchor string on each heading in body of webpage.

todo: add anchor string on each additional heading. Else the TOC links at top will work on Chrome/Edge on desktop, but not on other platforms.

That is low pri, because when I author or nav this site on my desktop browser, the links work for me.

“Creation of Plants” Branching Form Develops from III, IYI, YI, IY/YI

Crop and analysis by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025

Apr. 21, 2025:

  • tree 1: III – basic possibilism-thinking
  • tree 2: IYI – basic eternalism-thinking
  • tree 3: YI – sum of basic possibilism-thinking + basic eternalism-thinking
  • tree 4: IY/YI – integrated qualified possibilism-thinking + qualified eternalism-thinking
Crop by Michael Hoffman
Crop by Michael Hoffman

Floating sage has a mental model that’s is more developed than stand on right foot red youth.

Floating sage = instructor asks the ideal passing student 1, what development phase is beyond basic eternalism-thinking?

Answer:
harmonized integrated qualified possibilism-thinking with qualified eternalism-thinking, wedded into a single 2-model system.

4/21/2025 hanging guy mental model is more developed that sitting by right limbs in tree.

Student 3 merely understands basic eternalism (guy sitting balancing in tree).

The Ideal Passing Student 1 understands the fully mature hanging guy; ie harmonized integrated qualified possibilism-thinking with qualified eternalism-thinking, wedded into a single 2-model system.

Ariadne helped Theseus (king ruler of Athens) escape and he married her, then king Theseus {abandoned} Ariadne [basic repudiation of possibilism] because the god Dionysus married Ariadne.

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Apr. 2022

todo: bigger crop of couple + chariot + mushroom hem

Y rebis

The Ideal Passing Student 1 =
floating sage =
wedding of Dionysus + Ariadne =
rebis hermaphrodite =
harmonized integrated qualified possibilism-thinking with qualified eternalism-thinking, wedded into a single 2-model system.

The Actual Problem with Zen: Not Helpful, Useful, Relevant, Clear, or Simple

I think I came across zen master brad and i inititally thought ok but in 5 min hated it.

Someone wrote zen typical presentation sucks because says obfuscating nonsense. Tim Freke is sounding similar criticisms.

the Egodeath theory in 1986 – I started studying rational ego transcendence by reworking poor meditation and mysticism writings (about ego transcendence) from a STEM clear perspective for myself personally in 1986, then took a new start April 1987 approaching it as actual explicitly as theory development project not just personal delf self help/ self repair.

My successful mindset strategy was take a couple weeks to rationally figure out enlightenment/ ego transcendence, which ended up taking to June 1986-Jan. 1988.

1.5 years; 2 years if start on Oct 26 1985 back to the future day.

This was NOT the end goal, but the means to an end, strategy of first I need to quickly figure out ego transcendence, then use that knowledge to repair dysfunctional cross-time self-control.

To get reasonably, (not too much to ask or too idealistic), just merely modest well-functioning, non self conflicting cross-time control.

eg concretely (not fantasy based) like I often have, but, consistently, eg , simply, merely matching the way we were taught in university prep training in time management. My classmates seemed to have this type and degree of control, and I normally usually have it when I’m not being dysfunctionally self-impeding.

Alan Houot Rise of the Psychonaut Book Review

The edited improved version is at, and linked at, top of: https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/24/rise-of-the-psychonaut-houot-2025

I was glad that the voice recording idea development the other day produced this really great diagram.

I’m glad I was able to incorporate that take away into the book review of Rise of the Psychonaut

Email from Alan Houot 420 2025

Hi Michael,

I wanted to say thank you for the Amazon review. I thought it was good, and honest.

I was wondering if you, Cyberdisciple, & Max Freakout would like to continue the conversation via Zoom.

I’m curious what you’re all up to and I’d like to continue hearing your thoughts about subjects related to Rise of the Psychonaut.

Best,

Alan

Holy Days Weekend

https://www.sacredgarden.life

Oakland Psychedelics Conference

Seattle Spring Eleusis Festival conf

Bicycle Day 4/19/1943

Easter Sunday

4/20 day 🔥🌳💨

Marsh Chapel Good Friday Experiment 4/20/1962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
I am the one who added the date April 20, which led the psychedelics community to recently realize that 4/20 is the same day as Marsh Chapel, the day after 4/19 Bicycle Day.

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005) – Audiobook Forthcoming April 29, 2025

I pre-ordered April 29, 2025 audiobook of:
Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586 –

Wouter Hanegraaff ebook format

Starting idea development page 28 on mobile app, 2:30 pm, Sunday, Easter, holy plant days, 2025; Marsh Chapel; 420 Day.

Idea Development page 27 overfilled yesterday due to getting the ebook of Wouter Hanegraaff.

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/
https://www.amazon.com/Hermetic-Spirituality-Historical-Imagination-Knowledge/dp/1009123068/ —

Photo: Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com; Egodeath Mystery Show

I hate only having an ebook, can’t grasp the book for even coverage.

I read every page & line of Hanegraaff print book, fully annotated it, for years, and then getting the ebook was an ideal huge leap ahead to supplement print book.

I wish every book is multi format: Audible brand is good impl + ebook Amazon worked well for me laptop – I should try this mobile app too – and print especially hardcover.

Recent Posts Since Start of Idea Development Page 27

Photo: Michael Hoffman, April 2025.
Lyrics: Bob Daisley.

Photo: Michael Hoffman, April 2025.
Lyrics: Bob Daisley.

NOW I FIND PEACE OF MIND
FINALLY FOUND A WAY OF THINKING
TRIED THE REST FOUND THE BEST
STORMY DAY WON’T SEE ME SINKING
THE SHIP IS READY WAITING ON THE SHELF
FACE THE TEST
SHIP OF JOY WILL STOP YOU FAILING
SEEK THE GOLD THAT’S BRIGHTER THAN THE SUNLIGHT
DAWNING ON A NEW HORIZON
GOLD’S INSIGHT SHINING BRIGHT
BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN THATS RISING
A RAGING SEA BELOW
IS THIS VOYAGE COMING TO AN END

Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun (David Ulansey)
http://www.mysterium.com/hypercosmic.html

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