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  • Incoming Ideas [Jan. 14, 2026, 72 sheets of 100]
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Incoming Ideas

Adding 2025 Breakthroughs to Log Page

https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/04/log-of-discoveries-achievements/

8 Instances of {balance scale} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter

Two referents of {balance scale} analogy:

  • Stable control; control instability; control stability. The problem of control instability. To have Transcendent Knowledge (wisdom) is to be threatened by loss of control; control instability. The better you understand, the more immersed in control instability.
  • Weighing/ dosing psilocybin mushrooms.

Now all 8 images are shown; though not ideal custom crops yet: https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#balance-scale

2025 Accomplishments: Apr. 22, 2025: 2POV

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/21/idea-development-page-28/#Email-to-Wrmspirit-April-22-2025

formal summary later: Aug. 29, 2025

p.m. January 14, 2026: I have not yet SELECTED a key date; this is often difficult and can only happen after studying trajectory of idea devmt.

A trajectory started when elder invited me to present the Egodeath theory or Great Canterbury Psalter to the church.

I envisisioned presenting “possibilism-thinking is false and bad, get rid of it. you gotta believe no-free-will. eternalism-thinking is correct. possibilism-thinking is incorrect.”

Failure. This is wrong. This won’t fly. Will be rejected, rightly;

“SOMETHING IS WRONG W/ HOW I THINK ABOUT RELATION OF POSSIBILISM-THINKING AFTER DISCOVERING ETERNALISM-THINKING.” (mid-2025)

Me in 1995 and repeatedly: OMG I’m still using freewill thinking! I thought I had purified!” But after salvation, I am a sinner; ie, we ALWAYS rely on “childish” possibilism-thinking. When we realize that, from adult eternalism pov, we have then cleansed the ever-used possibilism-thinking. We are then married. You never “get rid of” possibilism-thinking. eaikw kweai

“embrace and include” possibilism-thinking when add eternalism-thinking, to gain or end up with the mature state: 2POV.

“embrace and include” possibilism-thinking when add eternalism-thinking
eaipt

“embrace and include” per Ken Wilber
eaikw

Often it IS possible to get date & time of a sudden realization or coming together.

Check emails with wrmspirit; during writing those emails, it really came together; good candidate for a representative date of breakthrough.

Does Log of Breakthroughs list 2POV? No. Now added.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/04/log-of-discoveries-achievements/
That is a top breakthrough of 2025.

April 2025, I was working on relating better, more constructively,

  • full respect for possibilism-thinking
  • full respect for eternalism-thinking
  • full respect for 2POV: integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

For history of idea development, in idea development pages, find ‘rebis’ and ‘ariadne’/marriage. ~April 2025.

My page about the idea after it fully developed into the “2POV” concept-label: August 29, 2025:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/29/end-up-permanently-having-two-vantage-points-of-view-across-both-states-of-consciousness/

Oriental Verities on the American Frontier: The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and the Thought of Masao Abe (McRae, 1991)

Oriental Verities on the American Frontier: The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and the Thought of Masao Abe
John McRae, 1991
Journal: Buddhist-Christian Studies
Volume v.11, pp. 7 – 36
Publisher University of Hawai’i Press
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/t3-buddhist-christian-studies.aspx – merely an abstract. I have a PDF.

todo: add 2 addl articles from Alexa M, here & Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science page

search web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Oriental+Verities+on+the+American+Frontier%22+McRae

The positive unitive model of mystical experience came from Vivek., 1893.

The positive unitive model was baked into psychedelic science’s psychedelic psychometric questionnaires, starting with the v1 of Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), by Walter Pahnke, for the Good Friday Experiment at Marsh Chapel on April 20, 1962 by Walter Pahnke under the advisor Tim Leary.

the Good Friday Experiment at Marsh Chapel on April 20, 1962, by Walter Pahnke, under advisor Tim Leary
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Drugs and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drug Experience and the Mystical State of Consciousness, Walter Pahnke, June 1963, http://en.psilosophy.info/drugs_and_mysticism.html
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keyboard shortcut:

Oriental Verities on the American Frontier: The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and the Thought of Masao Abe; John McRae, 1991, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/t3-buddhist-christian-studies.aspx
jm91

Details about creation of modern Indian Hinduism Vedanta Neo Advaita by Swami Vivekananda and popular demand by Popular, Western, modern, rationalist, scientific, progress-driven Protestants.

Fabrication of Modernized Westernized Popular Neo Hinduism, a la “Philosophy of Religion” in the “evolution, progress” era of 1893.

1893 World’s Parliament of Religions, in Chicago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions

Article on Debates Internal Field Eb Feb 2025 Psychedelic Conference

Not nece. the debates i am most interested in ie

Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science

psychedelic pseudo science

the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) – how the sausage was made, reject 18 of 21 Angst Dread “of ego dissoltion per the positive unitive model”. Ocean vs. Angst dims of OAV 94. how the f has 11 factors and 5D ASC irrel, unneces, in fact the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) drew from OAV 94’s A dim, rejected 18/21 effects. Grief giant dim resulted, same ol model: Grief Therapy, sounds familiar, denature/ exclude the psychedelics specific effects we can’t handle those in our narrative of positive unitive mysticism.

positive unitive mysticism [incl. {shadow dragon monster}]
pounun

, especially recent critiques since Taves 2020 critique “mystical experience” covert Westernized Hindu Vendic Vedic positive unitive model pop neo adv

Popular Neo-Advaita.

https://psychedelicalpha.com/news/a-crucible-of-academia-psychedelics-and-religion-psychedelic-intersections-2025-at-the-harvard-divinity-school

Joe Tafur

Joe Tafur joined our church book club meeting about his book

Sunday communal church is sort of a sacrament.

It took 177 years to move from geocentric to heliocentric – Copernicus draft 1510; switched Newton 1687.

Officially Copernicus pub’d in his death year 1543 – now to wait til 1687 Newton, for ppl to disrespect Aristotle and also reject Plato and forget entheogen esotericism

I am not overly concerned with proof and historical evidence, i take a more holistic tell-my-narrative approach: i prove through myth art analogy the only way to interp is eternalism-driven control-transformation , per my judgment bases.

Good judgment: Best judgment: Best basis Reference of standard not only psychedelic loose cognition but full devmt : eternalism-driven control-transformation to add eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking.

The best interp, the best type of mysticism, the most legit and Reference and Classic.

Get that non-Classic, Pop Sales, subst 3rd rate “mystical experience” outta here.

Formed by 1893 tension modern religion vs modern science, we need form of spiry that is non-rational, so that we do not clash with rational modern progress science 1893.

Take Prot Neo Protestant, rationalist, anti-super but still literalist, Pop expectations, then add Modern Neo Hinduism Philosophy of Religtion for Modern Protestant Standards in English.

We ended up w/ Westernized Hinduism 1893-1960, taken up into psychedelic pseudo science in 1962 Walter Pankne snaps up that brand new 2 yrs ago Stace theory: non-rational, stop thinking, nothing is real, Positive Unitive [with {shadow dragon monster} control transformation gate]

i judge by the stds of the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} decoded 2023

& ongoing since Ronald Huggins said that we must bet farm on Day 3 – Huggins Huggies already lost b/c i already figured out analogies revealing effects of advanced completed intiation 10 immersions in fire of mushroom-trees hellmouth threat wisdom; boundary line

[anti-reason Neo-Advaita: all boundaries are lifted when thought is stopped]

but fails to add eternalism-thinking so is fail excuse of substitute, eternalism-avoiding, apotropaic, substitute, pseudo-religion of popular sales:

eg the “secret Amanita cult” theory in the Allegro mind/ Ruck mind / Pop mind, &

same is in 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm),
somewhat displaced by 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)

Transformation from Possibilism to ALSO Eternalism

Simplistically zoom out level: transformation from possibilism to eternalism. As if the end of possibilism-thinking. Doesn’t work like that when done right end up using possibilism-thinking alla time qualified and added distinct oppositive way of thinking : eternalism also. possibilism-thinking dies and continues 24×7 all the time, aware of the oppositeve POV – end up 2POVs not switch from possibilism POV to eternalism POV – oversimplification but true at a rough level of speaking by defining “eternalism-thinking” as “including possibilism-thinking; “embrace and include” Ken Wilber

“embrace and include” – Ken Wilber; Accumulate 2POV

Web search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22embrace+and+include%22+Ken+Wilber

AI search result there:

“In Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, “embrace and include” refers to the principle that:

As consciousness and development evolve to higher, more complex stages, they don’t discard or negate lower stages but rather transcend them by integrating, encompassing, and honoring those previous levels, leading to greater wholeness, depth, and a wider embrace of reality (e.g., moving from ego-centric to world-centric to Kosmic consciousness)

[is this covert neo advaita boundary-cessation model of Transcendent Knowledge, omitting the good dynamics eternalism-driven control-transformation , adding Hindu Philosophy of Religion Dept filtering out to craft a neo modern selective redefinition of “real buddhism”.

1893-1960 inventing Buddhism and Hinduism in academia, damn the folk myth non-modern [Prot put down Catholic magical mysticism & myth & magical ritual; Prot rejected entheogens esotericism ]

modern science rejected dark occult magical thinking – i need to copy words from the articles/books. McRae 1990s article on 1893 Parliament invented Modern Hinduism Vedanta Neo Advaita:

you don’t exist

stop thinking

We are non-rational and do not conflict with rational modern progress science

of 1893-1960: mysticism theory positive unitive, no psychedelics added yet

1962: add psychedelics to Stace Vivek +U model mystical experience, & call it psychedelic pseudo science

History of Psychedelic Pseudo Science

Then add psilocybin in 1962 Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) by Tim Leary the expert on pschometric questionnaires (and by Walter Pahnke btw).

That magic folk mythology folk mysticism is just magical thinking only, we modern rational pro-Science progress Christian demand and purchase and applaud to Neo Westernized Modern School of Neo Advaita Vedanta Hindu religion modern Philosophy.

Embrace, Dionysus Added to Ariadne

“It’s central to his concept of “transcend and include” (or “transcend, embrace, and include”), where each new level of understanding (like postmodernism including modernity) expands consciousness to hold previously separate parts, ultimately aiming for a total, nondual integration of all existence. [1, 2, 3, 4]

“Key Aspects of “Embrace and Include”

  • “Developmental Growth: Each stage of personal growth (e.g., from child to adult) integrates and transcends earlier stages, building a more complex self that can hold more perspectives.
  • Spiritual Evolution: Spiritual awakening involves recognizing the fundamental unity (nondual reality) where all distinctions (whole and part) dissolve, allowing for a total embrace of the Kosmos.
  • Integral Psychology: A mature psychology must “embrace and include” all stages of human development, from pre-conventional to post-conventional, rather than dismissing earlier ones as primitive, notes this article from Integral Life.
  • Postmodernism: In culture, postmodernity seeks to “embrace and include” the diverse knowledge systems (art, morals, science) differentiated by modernity, bringing them into a larger, unified view, explains this article from Bookey.
  • Holons: The concept of “holons” (self-creating, self-maintaining systems that are wholes to their parts and parts of larger wholes) inherently involves this principle, where a higher holon must “embrace and include the lower levels” to function, notes this article from Neurosemantics. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

“In essence, “embrace and include” is the dynamic process of evolution, moving towards greater complexity, consciousness, and unity, where nothing is left behind but is instead woven into a richer, more comprehensive whole, a core idea in Ken Wilber’s integral theory. [1, 2, 7]

AI responses may include mistakes.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118591277.ch9

[2] https://michaelherman.com/publications/inviting_organization_1.pdf

[3] https://www.integral-lifestyle.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IDG-and-Integral-Theory_draft_20220424.pdf

[4] https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/integral-psychology.pdf

[5] https://integrallife.com/wholeness-partness/

[6] https://www.neurosemantics.com/the-texturing-of-states-engineering-states-plus/

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory

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1687: Western culture lost (relatively) entheogenic esotericism; it’s a good pivot reference year, 1687: Modern; Newton; reject esotericism and mushroom transformation; mental model transformation from possibilism to also eternalism

There are great new articles critiquing 1893 Vivekananda/ 1960 Stace model of “mystical experience”.
Ann Taves 2020, Jeffrey Breau 2023, Sharday Mos. 2023 & 2025, Ascough, Greer

I asked Michael Pollan at UC Berkeley: “Are people creating complete, realistic Mystical Experience Questionnaires to replace bunk MEQ?

Pollan replied “Yes, ppl have already started.”

Rejection of Effects Other than Positive Unitive the 1893-1960 model of mystical experience

Hanegraaff concept of rejected wastebasket.

Prot threw.
Esotericism entheogens got thrown. esotericism is entheogenic per my post 8 yrs before Hanegraaff
Entheogenic Esotericism

Science threw. Modern, non-supernatural, non-magical, progress.

How Protm and Hindum and Buddm were affected by the modern rational progress requirement

forming:

1893-1960

Modernized, Westernized Hinduism 1893 Vivekananda (his old-school magical mystical supernaturalist elder Ramakr?) – 1960 Stace

In 1962:

I Own Awareness of Date April 20, 1962 Good Friday Experiment at Marsh Chapel, Walter Pahnke, 1963 PhD Thesis Book

In 1962: STart with Stace 1960 +U Postiive Unitive … keyboard shortcut

The Positive Unitive model of “mystical experience” & “mysticism”; Modern Westernized Hinduism Vendana Neo-Advaita, boundary stop, thinking stop, non-rational, ineffable, Neoplatonism Mysticism of the worst stort, sort, apophatic mysticism same deal pretty equivalent to Neo-Advaita

Specifically, i don’t mean every abstruse Neo Advaita verion, but Pop Neo-Advaita is my concern or reference point for critique.

Pop Neo Advaita, the Positive Unitive, non-

omg i thought they were pop’ly writing non-rational = intense mystic altered state

dont’t equate non-rational = alt state / lcoc

Loose Cognitive Science is better; the Egodeath theory + the Mytheme theory incl the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} , {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs; 2POV

2POV: Gain 2 Points of View; Have Two Different Mental Models

TWO DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW, TWO DIFFERENT MENTAL MODELS
TPOV

two different points of view, two different mental models
tpov

Acads Write “The Non-Rational State” When I expect “The Altered State” – Take Them at Their Word: “Our Philosophy of Religion: We Side with Science Modern Rational, Against Supernaturalism Esotericism Magic Folk Mythology, Reject Etn Exoteric esotericism entheogens

entheogenic esotericism
enes

The “loose cognition is non-rational” move that / wording acads use, they mean not rational and not in conflict w/ Science; we do not claim to be rational; we are ineffable apophatic The One non-boundary unity via not thinking; trans rational OH NO ANOTHER GOES, yet another whif cooonations of the whole wor Neo Ad paradigm

The Neo Ad Paradigm: Non-Rational; Trans-Rational; Stop Thinking; Cease Self/Other Boundary = Transcendent Knowledge for the Modern 1893 Rational Progress Era Triumph of Science Reason not entheogenic esotericism magical supernatural folk noise of mess on trellis —

Compelling the most compelling defn of Transcendent Knowledge

tis’t It’s the only game they know

Houot konws in article __ … takes up the only model available, by every writer: Neo Advaita = Mytical b/c Stace book 1960. Vivek 1893.

1962 add psilocybin , add questionnaire tech by Tim Leary to create Stace Based v1 of Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) firmly based on – they openly routinely re-explain – PROUDLY based as Science, frozen forever, now out of print, Stace 1960, snapshot frzoen in time of 1893 Modern Western Neo Advaita Hinduism Vendanta with some Neoplatonism Mysticism thrown in – the worst of W Mysticism entheogenic esotericism.

Only Interested in maximal entheogen theory of religion; myth analogy psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation; transformation from possibilism to eternalism

Any scholarship theorizing that I do will centrally use them:

  • the maximal entheogen theory of religion
  • the Mytheme theory
  • myth as analogy for psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation
  • transformation from possibilism to eternalism
  • end up mature having two different points of view, two different mental models: possibilism-thinking, add eternalism-thinking.
  • gain 2nd mental model, adding eternalism to possibilism.

2025 Accomp: “The mind gains a 2nd mental model, adding eternalism to possibilism

Check archives did I write that in 2023 era? Seems now a new POV.

I more used to say:

mental model transformation
from possibilism to eternalism

tot true at a summary zoom out level mode of expression roughly speaking 1st order name of an idea, not exactly the idea. the name the Egodeath theory vs. its content precisely char’d / desc’d. lexicon chall is concise cogent spot-on conceptual lexicon: object oriented design programming : well divided/related set of objects; divis of respys, separation of concerns, conceptual vocab, 2 main pages here: mysticism mental construct monolithic control-agentt m catalog mytheme catalog

core concepts

key mytheme catalog

the Key Mythemes catalog
kmc

The Egodeath Core Concepts catalog; lexicon, conceptual vocabulary custom optimized for the Egodeath theory incl the Mytheme theory : eternalism-driven control-transformation; block-universe eternalism; 4D Spacetime Mysticism; new religion [Philosophy of Religion, 1893-1960 acad dept of cleansing away rejecting non-rational, supernatural, superstion, ]: Eternalismism

To construct, by popular demand, modern, Prot’m Modern-Prot’m amenable, WEstern Progress amenable, Modern Constructied, Selected, Torwn into Two: Phil of Rel ie the positive unitive model of “mystical experience” –

Reject:

  • myth
  • supernatural
  • noise
  • baby (myth analogy for psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation)
  • bathwater (folk noise; academic noise; low-quality substitute model (Unitive Postivie)
  • superstition, magical thinking, esem entheogenic esotericism, Western Esotericism

the Positive Unitive model; Neo-Advaita, Non-Boundary, Apophatic Neoplatonism Mysticism)

positive unitive model
pum

the positive unitive model

the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
ccc

is my concrete lex todo add entry: 2POV; two different points of view, two different mental models

Guitar Realm:
Only Interested in power tubes & guitar speakers; anything I do will centrally use them

The Sense in Which I Fully Commit to Power Tubes & Guitar Speakers

The Sense in Which I Fully Commit to the maximal entheogen theory of religion

as long as include , not just The Mushroom (kiddie amanita, = Transcendent Knowledge = Amanita Gnosis, theory on the mythic plane – I DONT WANT TO BE THAT MYTHIC-BASED.

Core theory is non-myth based; direct referent, anti-ineffable; anti-apophatic; pro-STEM presentatin and devmt of ideas and engineering utility UX useful relevant helpful psilocybin-based

threated by Transcendent Knowledge = wisdom

todo: crops from Great Canterbury Psalter depicting being threatened, open scroll, arrows, lion, monster, hellmouth threat fire enlighening about the threat open scroll lifted out passive tense; relation of personal is passive in relation to higher level revealed perceivbed control from beyond outside persoanl domain of control power boundary.

Neo Adv abstruse additions of philosophies useless – talking about Pop Neo Advaita is a redency, … Are there sophisticated, less-sucky nondualism school than Pop Neo Advaita; is there Sophisticated, Real, Elite, Proper, Sanitaized

Sanitized Pop Neo Advaita Non-Rational Positive Unitive, Boundary Lift, No Multiplicity, Oneness, The One, Neoplato Mysticism, Apophatic 1893-1960-1925

The positive unitive model born 1893, init’d 1962, died 2025.

Until 2025, ending with the Hopkins Relig Leaders Study blow-up.

/h

2026 Mysticism = 4D Spacetime Mysticism = Transcendent Knowledge = Field Internal Critique, Egodeath theory, the Mytheme theory; eternalism-driven control-transformation

Field’s topics 2026:

2026 Mysticism

4D Spacetime Mysticism

Transcendent Knowledge != positive unitive model

Transcendent Knowledge = eternalism-driven control-transformation

Transcendent Knowledge

Field Internal Critique: interesting aricle

Egodeath theory, the Mytheme theory; eternalism-driven control-transformation

the positive unitive model scientific articles all say PROUDLY they are scienticially based on the foundation specifically of the book Stace 1960

Stace 1960 is covertly from Hinduism India Vendanta Swami Vivekananda, four Indian Hindu Vendanta modern scholars/ Philosophers of Constructing Modern Philosophy of Pop Neo Advaita.

The world wanted Popular Neo-Advaita and upcoming modern new Swami fed them and constructed that for a Western, Neoplaton One The, Apophatic, Modern Protestant placing itself in relation to victorious Science Progress Reason Rationality Anti-Mystical Anti-Magical Anti-Supernaturalism; form Acad Phil of Relig Dept, positive unitive model, for a pop audience, what we all wish Transcendent Knowledge to be: boudnary-cease, transnat’l unity, Westernized Vedanda Advaita non-dual

Nondual, Boundary Cease, Non Multiplicity; Self/Other Unity, positive unitive = Transcendent Knowledge

All else into the rejected wastebasket at worthless failure and dross; you failed to have Transcendent Knowledge ie cease self other boundary; positive unitive model. You remained in Separation = Multiplicity = non-mystical; resisted ego dissolution = negative unitive

Separation = Multiplicity = non-mystical; resisted ego dissolution = negative unitive; self/other boundary != Transcendent Knowledge

Not wrong, not helpful / useful / relevant / ergonomic.

Off base. Wrong center focus, wrong outer boundar of concern. Poo theory. Trace history of wrong way from Neopl to now. the Egodeath theory traces history of a different thread; commit to thread tracing throughout history, as a model/ hypoth good bet.

The new theory is like stock market bet on likely to succeed; Ascough , no , MOsu Mosur, asks to separate hypoth from proved. Her stance amounts to little , a msla small point, actually might be worthless: OF COURSE WE SHOULD SEP HYPOTH FROM PROVED but she misunderstands whats been proved, failed to read required literature evidence , “Conjuring Eden” she’s ignorant and mis-judges what we have evidence of, in the actual published body of evidnece. Same as Letcher: entire book, mushroom imagery in Christian art gets 1 instance, with massive botched citation false. misattribution of assertions of secret to StamGart.

Popular Neo-Advaita
pna

Pop Neo Adviat, non-rational, ineffable, Western, Apophatic, Neoplatonist, anti mystery religion cults; against the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis (Ascough, Richard article).

The Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis, in entheogen scholarship (Ascough 2025)

eternalism-driven control-transformation

mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism

two different points of view, two different mental models

I am #1 maximal radical extreme maximal entheogen theory of religion. Browns cite Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com as first in the list of extreme seeing mushrooms everywhere, extreme end of the spectrum so that Browns make a show of reasonable Middle Fallacy.

  1. some say no psychedelics W religious history
  2. some see mushroom everywhere : Browns list: Irvin, section: The Ardent Advocates [Enthusiasts], Brown 2019 article in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​.
  3. STep 3: We Browns = the perfect balanced middle ground, throw away Walburga b/c has serrated base unlike Amanita [which has often serrated base]

Make a show of PROUD STANDERS IN THE REASONABLEST PERFECT MIDDLE point OF ANY SPECTRUM

THE PERFECT CENTRISTS, AS BROWNS PROVED / DEMO’D BY TOSSING TAPESTRY

Use blurry internet photos printed in book actually brown brown brown used same photo taken by Walburga and sent to both Irvin and J Brown – that’s why there’s no caption “photo credit j brown”.

This is Hatsis methodology: My arg is based on my superior, sound methodology – rather than arg based on actual doing sound methodology. ie Browns relied on 2nd hand media, yet bragged about physical travelling to see w/ own eyes rather than Irvin Rush internet hacks.

The posturing is nonsense kettle logic incoherent self-contradictory inconsistent mess.

They made important decision – wrong decision – to avoid Walburga, that major decision was based not on first-hand seeing, but on Irvin’s / Walburga’s photo.

Thanks to the adequacy of theirACTUAL method – Brown is same as Hatsis: breag about methodology [we are better bec we travel not depend on media] [holds irvin book Gnostic Media up to the light oops meant she held a photo dan brown styule

Browns = Brown, Brown, & Brown, all 3 of them.

Any error Browns make gets a 3x penalty error.

Poor Definition of Transcendent Knowledge: Mystical = Positive Unitive

Good Definition of Transcendent Knowledge: Mystical = Psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation Positive Unitive

poor judgement criteria basis justification of that as the reference point star to sail by, center focus, boundary limit of thinking

Neo Philosophy of Hinduism Neo Advaita Vedanta Swami Vivekananda Popular Parliament Modern Celebration of Modern Science Rational Progress

The best of the possible trellishs or Reference thread woven through traced throughout history: two treads, one false one true

the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”

the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”
pumme

  • Add psilocybin. Good Friday Experiment at Marsh Chapel by Walter Stace Tim Leary Harvard. 1963: I have read his PhD thesis book 1963.
  • Add v1 of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)

Rejection of Effects Other than / Selecting for the 1893-1960 model of mystical experience

​”If an experience is not Positive Unitive, then it fails to be mystical and we should entirely ignore it”

i think i follow (partial listening): academics quibble about theory of phil of “mystical experience”, but remem driving Q is, does that exper. help healing therapy?

​Tafur presented in our “new religious movement” church service Sunday, & book club

​Lots to debate.

“Europeans must ask Indigenous Shams for permission to use Their sacrament” – “oh yeah? heck off” – “cult’l appropriation!”

Thomas Hatsis’ 2025 book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance

Thomas Hatsis’ 2025 book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634312783
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/

Cit. about I. Shams above: I partly read:
Hatsis 2025 book, Psychedelic Injustice,
chapter about Indigenous Sham, critiquing how that notion is (mis) used.

PsychedelicsToday / Joe Moore posted: ​​”Can you expand on that?”

Thomas Hatsis chapter title:
Decolonizing Psychedelia: A Brief History of First Nations’ Medicine Work.
Hatsis debates, disputes, pushes back.

PsychedelicsToday / Joe Moore posted: “​​Thanks.”

A ​companion, earlier book: Jan Irvin 2022, God’s Flesh. disputes the dominant narrative within entheogen scholarship.

Jan Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh: Teonanacátl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom, August 2, 2022 https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/ & https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/27/gods-flesh-teonanacatl-the-true-history-of-the-sacred-mushroom-irvin-2022/

Posts with Pastor

re: Psychedelics Today livestream today, a.m. January 13, 2026:

Pastor wrote:

“gotta love critiques of mystical experiences. Their perennial message? “Your religious experience is wrong!”

Hopkins research narrowly asked the hypothesis:

Perhaps a mystical experience is helpful for therapy — where “mystical experience” is defined exclusively, narrowly, as:

nothing other than Positive Unity as defined specifically by Stace 1960 book, used by Pahnke 1962 questionnaire (was good to read, totally influential) —

the narrow model incorpd wholesale, as-is , for better or worse, baked into psychedelc [pseudo]? science

“if your experience is not Positive Unitive, you failed to have a Complete Mystical experience, so, you are not as healed”

ie, under that restrictive narrow model, they are not able to ask, then, the medical hypothesis:

Do religious experiences other than Positive Unitive, help therapy?
(!)

Since the recent hopkins conflict of interest article in 2025 re: 2015(!) sessions, the Relig Leaders Study:

Now is the era of productive internal correction within the field(s),
eg to broaden the models beyond 1893 Swami Vivekananda at chicago, World’s Parliament of Religions

3 helpful detailed articles, from Alexa M, eg by McRae, detailing what happened in 1893;
the roots of the Leary/ Pahnke 1963 first version of Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ))

i will add those to my fav page, on debates around “Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science”

pastor wrote:

“Many of us won’t be ‘moving past’ mysticism or rejecting our own experiences… although personally thrilled to expand, broaden, contextualize, etc.

“‘Moving past’ in this frame could be epistemicidal, another example of (yet again, turn of the wheel) denigrating and colonizing personal experience.”

“I’d reframe as contextualizing, refining, expanding.”

the baffling thing about those Moving Past articles: what the heck do everyone mean by “mystical experience”?? 🤷‍♂️

ans: they mean the Stace 1960 Positive Unitive model

pastor wrote: re: album At War with the Mystics:

“Love it ‘War of the Mystics (and constructivists, particularists, atheists, et al)””

Posts to Psychedelic Religion Lawyer: Joe Tafur Controversy about(?) Psychedelic Sham’ism

a.m. January 13, 2026

Interactive livestream now:
Joe Tafur talking about Legal re: Church of the Eagle and the Condor.

Disclaimer: I Have Insufficient Grasp of Tafur, Mosur., etc; Just Gathering Info/ Doing Research

Church of the Eagle and the Condor

https://www.google.com/search?q=church+of+the+eagle+and+the+condor

I have been in church services and book club with Joe Tafur presenting, we have conversed somewhat. I could re-listen to that church service.

No one follows this field of entheogen scholarship & psychedelic pseudo science — just a tiny group of writers, because of Prohibition.

Joe Tafur debated about:

  • Indigenous Shams
  • ceremony
  • spirl practice
  • Ayahusca ability to import.
  • RFRA relig freedom restor act
  • Fed govt gave licenses.

Joe Tafur Livestream, at Psychedelics Today, and Book and Article: Medicine Song

Joe Tafur MD – Medicine Song
https://www.youtube.com/live/pemuch0KKWM —

YouTube channel:
Psychedelics Today

Streamed live 2 hours ago
Joe joins us to discuss his new book Medicine Song.

https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Song-Spiritual-Psychedelic-Renaissance/dp/B0FJ22R7FT/ —

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ22R7FT/

Tafur said “We are still in legal process with the government.”

Cultural legitimacy = cultural appropriation = spreading the spiritual practice

In good or bad faith?? dispute. Arbitrary judgment/interpretation.

Article: Psychedelic Medicine at the Edge of Science and Spirit (Tafur, 2026/01/09)

Psychedelic Medicine at the Edge of Science and Spirit
Joe Tafur, two days ago, Saturday:
https://psychedelicstoday.com/2026/01/09/psychedelic-medicine-at-the-edge-of-science-and-spirit/

Post 4 to Psychedelic Religion Lawyer

Lawyer wrote “Let’s talk. Tafur may be getting controversial.”

Me? Controversial discussion?!
✒️💥🖋️

I posted the following photos in the chat with lawyer:

Thomas Hatsis’ 2025 book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634312783 & https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/

  • Front cover
  • TOC page 1
  • TOC page 2
  • Back cover blurb

The livestream discussed controversies.

I posted a list of articles disputing “mystical experience”, displayed in the stream.

In stream chat, I posted two books that dispute Indigenous Shams (ie, the ppl who presume to speak for Shams):

Jan Irvin’s 2022 book
God’s Flesh: Teonanacátl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom
August 2, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/27/gods-flesh-teonanacatl-the-true-history-of-the-sacred-mushroom-irvin-2022/ 

Thomas Hatsis’ 2025 book
Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634312783 https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/
Chapter 6 re: Indigenous Shams

I’m proclaiming this the era of much needed INTERNAL dispute WITHIN the field of:

  • psychedelic science
  • psychedelic studies
  • psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
  • entheogen scholarship (eg. the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough))

Since the faceplant disaster of (ie conflicts of interest in) the Hopkins Religious Leaders Study.

I can add more articles to my favorite page:
Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science (Article Debate Series)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/15/moving-past-mysticism-in-psychedelic-science-article-debate-series/

PhD Thesis: Drugs and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drug Experience and the Mystical State of Consciousness (Pahnke 1963)

The hugely pivotal phd thesis by Pahnke 1962/63.

Added entry:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/15/moving-past-mysticism-in-psychedelic-science-article-debate-series/#Drugs-and-Mysticism-Pahnke-1963

Drugs and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drug Experience and the Mystical State of Consciousness
Walter Pahnke, June 1963
http://en.psilosophy.info/drugs_and_mysticism.html

Posts to Psychedelic Religion Lawyer, con’t:

It’s time for housecleaning within (pop & scholarly) entheogen scholarship.

Retire the SECRET, Amanita overemphasis that is at the expense of psilocybin:

  • “Secret Christian Amanita Cult theory” 
  • “the Secret Amanita paradigm”
  • “the secret/suppressed, psych mushroom theory”

Correct the imbalance from the Allegro/ Ruck/ Pop reception, as the Christian Greer/ Richard Ascough/ Sharday Mosurinjohn (Canada university) group calls for.

Pahnke 1962 = Harvard, under Leary.

Richard Ascough~~ 2025 article seems basically good, cites my 2006 Plaincourault fresco Allegro article: calls for middle ground between:

ABD Apologists: the butthead academic total denial of entheogen history: “Anything But Drgs is reasonable explanation” in historicism study, they say;

vs.

the maximal entheogen theory of religion (me, the leader, proclaimed in 2003): “no valid relig comes from nondrug alleged “traditional methods of the mystics”

scholars need a middle way in the dispute 

/ end of chat message thread

todo: upload 4 Hatsis book photos from mobile to here?

i was glad to share this book. todo: finish reading Psychedelic Injustice.

After an initial hump/ block, I liked Hatsis book so much, I couldn’t wait until finish book, to go ahead and post 5 of 5 stars review:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/#book-review-by-michael-hoffman

Welcome Controversies Within Psychedelic Pseudo Science (“Psychedelic Studies” perhaps)

https://psychedelicalpha.com/news/a-crucible-of-academia-psychedelics-and-religion-psychedelic-intersections-2025-at-the-harvard-divinity-school – i am glad to hear disputatiousness, THIS IS THE TIME OF MUCH NEEDED INTERNAL CORRECTIONS AND HOUSECLEANING WITHIN The field of psychedelics studies

I don’t know if I want to employ the construct “psychedelic studies”. I cannot seriously say “psychedelic science”.

I insulate my own brand of Transcendent Knowledge, coming from STEM, including its own internal custom conceptual lexicon vocab.

I would NOT point to “psychedelic pseudo science” at Hopkins and identify with THAT “science” – I hate Ken Wilber’s (the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology’s) choice of 1893 Indian Hindu Swami Baloney modern scientific anti-mythical neo-Vendana, and anti-mind, neo-Advaita.

The main Con of Ken Wilber is his engine, Neo Adv, Positive Unitive model; “phillsophy” of religion.

the Egodeath theory is a kind of “phil” of relig, different than that Neoplatonism “philosophy”. I have a (hard name author) book here, he’s better, in Phil.

Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory takes aspects of Neoplatonism Mysticism / Neo Advaita that I really hate, that are the problem to end-run-around in 1986, not the solution.

Love “embrace and include” from Ken Wilber. Eye to Eye essay is good.

2025 Accomplishments

headway translating Kafei’s use of “the absolute”, learned from articles about neo hinduism and the bunk, eternalism-avoiding Positive Unitive model of “mystical experience”.

Neoplatonism Mysticism Is the Opposite of Psychedelic Mythic Analogy Which Reports eternalism-driven control-transformation

I am working out that view, pitting hyper academic Neoplatonism “Philosophy” (barren metaphysics, epist, ontol that preserves possibilism-thinking, avoids eternalism-driven control-transformation), vs. intense mystic altered state per myth & sacred meals.

hypoth: Neoplatonism Mysticism is fake and mostly lacks the engine, sacred meals. otoh, per my recent nuance like Ascough, it is NOT as if the myth tradition contains a pure, clear version of eternalism-driven control-transformation. rather we have two poor opposites:

  • Neoplatonism Mysticism that poorly incorps eternalism-driven control-transformation
  • Magic supernatural superstitious religious mythology & analogy that poorly incorps eternalism-driven control-transformation

That’s a sophisticated up to date statement of the angle I’m recently taking, as theorist of maximal entheogen theory of religion. What do I mean by “maximal”? Am I saying historically there was prisca theologia, a dominant tradition of psychedelics producing clearly understood “completion of initiation” ie eternalism-driven control-transformation? Sort of, but was too messy, and warrants heavy criticism.

IF MYTH WERE’S OVERGROWN BY TRASH, WE’D SEE IT IS REALLY, ETERNALISM-DRIVEN CONTROL-TRANSFORMATION, analogy describing that.

Take Neoplatonism Mysticism, drastically rework it (filter, eliminate, transform, add, re-index, sculpt creatively), and it turns out to mean the Egodeath theory; the maximal entheogen theory of religion. (Compare fabrication of world Hinduism & Buddhism by upstrart young revolutionary innovators in 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions; Theosophy)

Compare the messy mix in Theosophy: Blav rightly said, early, the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis (latter phrase: Ascough 2025). But, she dumped in, tons of Pop, titillating, magical supernaturalism, along with some legit esotericism / eternalism-driven control-transformation.

Take eternalism-driven control-transformation, add a ton of junk and noise (Neopla DRY complicated “PHILOSOPHY”; supernatural magical mythic thinking & superstition & anti-rationality) = jumbled version of the Egodeath theory, of Transcendent Knowledge. Transcendent Knowledge + tons of noise = ‘Transcendent Knowledge.

Jumbling Transcendent Knowledge w/ tons of junk, eliminates Transcendent Knowledge. Does the reult have useful, practical, consistent, direct, explicit, comprehensible, AN ENGINEERING UX EFFECTIVE PRODUCT, OR NOT?

Take a good technology – Transcendent Knowledge; eternalism-driven control-transformation per the Egodeath theory — then add tons of junk noise, now you no longer have an effective product that’s a usable technology. That’s the history of Western Esotericism.

Yes it does contain psychedelics in a key role, yes it does eternalism-driven control-transformation, it is not just stuck with possibilism-thinking by default.

But, still, the result is bad technology, not useful, not effective, not helpful in a psychedelic jam.

Thus i am immune to the critique from the Greer/ Ascough / Mosur school: I provide the 3rd option that they are calling for. Not Establishment naysayer (the ABD apologist, Mosur), nor am I the Pop Secret Christian Amanita Cult scholar like Allegro/Ruck school is charged with;

When I say psychedelics are the be-all end-all key tradition, I also say it has a TON of junk & noise mixed in, hopelessly obscuring like wiki says Great Canterbury Psalter is “hard to interpret” (b/c Eadwine’s diagrammatic art is depiction, by analogies, of eternalism-driven control-transformation).

Hopelessly obscuring, except, in 1997 i had my core theory outline, joined field of entheogen scholarship 1998, declared breakaway from Ruck’s moderate-minimal-flipflop school, announced 2002/2003 maximal entheogen theory of religion, which APPEARS to be subject to the crit’m which Ascough levels against Allegro/Ruck Pop entheogen scholarship, but I actually ESCAPE critique by showing the correct divide of STEM model of mental model transformation to eternalism-thinking, vs. literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control. The ABD, Deniers school is destroyed by the Egodeath theory , and the Pop Allegro/ Ruck Secret Christian Amanita Cult school is destroyed by the Egodeath theory.

The thing that

The view rejected by Ascough is Establishment Butthead Denialism, and also an Allegro/Ruck style maximal entheogen theory of religion — which I deny is consistently maximal!

Ascough says too much assertion of psychedelics by Allegro-then-Ruck-then-Pop; but I say Ruck too much neutralizes and waffles about the evidence: Ruck school is moderate, then minimal, then moderate – inconsistent.

I was pretty happy w/ Entheos 1-3 in 2001-2002, Ruck school – but really disappointed with the following Ruck books pushing the “secret Amanita cult” theory instead of broadly pushing the Samorini 1998 new paradigm, 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

After “Conjuring Eden” 2001, injected by Samorini 1997 & 1998, & Great Canterbury Psalter via Paul Lindren & Mushroom Mankind 2000, Ruck then reverted to 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm — and I declared a breakaway into maximal entheogen theory of religion, rather than Ruck school of Waffling; minimal/moderate flip-flop entheogen theory of religion.

Ruck’s “restriction” social drama narrative, the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in ant’y (Cyberdisciple), prevents Ruck from being granted “extreme radical asserter of maximal entheogen theory of religion”, by Ascough/ Mosur/ Greer; that prize goes to the Egodeath theory b/c I am pro-Christianity, no axe to grind, no social drama narrative as tail-wagging-the-dog like Ruck labors under, and Lash, and Rush, etc. Even Brown gets sidetracked inventing “secret” (granted, ancients DID market as “secret” – we are Ever Pop).

Ancient History of Pop Sike

our ancestors knew Amanita was psychedelic or deliriant, low-desire psychedelic, and they always used Amanita attributes/pictures/motifs to represent same as head shop art, Amanita means psychedelics especially Psilocybin.

The origin of religions is psychedelics partic psilocybin as the main desired gold standard reference, and same w/ ongoing wellspring of religions. Thus I am way more radical and maximal than Ruck school, who says only heretical Christianity brought-in the Amanita Gnosis Secret.

However I do NOT say “mainstream, normal, predominant” – lot s of nuance. I am extreme maximal maximal entheogen theory of religion but yet, imple’n was a major MESS always. To recover history thread of eternalism-driven control-transformation you must really know what look for eg my great successful tuning in reception of signal from Eadwine England 1200 AD.

That episode is the center of my Phil o Sci: HOW I RECEIVED EADWINE’S TRANSIMISSION OF TONS OF MUSHROOMS; HOW THE ETERNALISM-DRIVEN CONTROL-TRANSFORMATION MESSAGE WAS DECODED. Tons of detail about that at this site.

  1. 2006/2007: main article, Sep 2007. Next day: post about Eternalism & Superdeterminism (forms a spectrum; “determinism” is really weak position on that spectrum! many forms are more extreme than “determinism”! eg w/ superdet, you’re just getting started. then Emily Adlam’s All At Once universe …. finally, my “future exists” block-universe eternalism; 4D Spacetime Mysticism going against Quantum Mysticism.)
  2. 2010-2013: “isn’t branching vs. nonbranching key, in myth??”
  3. Nov 2013: OMG confirmation that {tree vs snake} is & must be super old, oldest of all: nov 2013 confirmed “branching” motif/ myth/ analogy.
  4. xmas 2015: hi res Hatsis Dancing Man, hypoth: r foot = eternalism-thinking , l foot = possibilism-thinking.
  5. 2016-2018 various work
  6. 2020 Nov: confirm {handedness} hypoth ie by taking the hypoth, i was able to make sense of Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, to receive transmission.
  7. 2020-2023, revisited my art pieces studies, and discovered massive confirmation of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs combination, fully developed by Eadwine in Great Canterbury Psalter.
  8. 2025 jan 13 i was STILL discovering key basic motifs in Great Canterbury Psalter.
  9. 2025 later, research in history of fabricating the eternalism-avoiding, Positive Unity model of “mystical experience”, and finally connected my dislike for Neoplatonism (picture Hanegraaff’s botched cosmos that only fits 5 stars / white dots, strips heimarmene from sphere 8 fixed stars somehow, and all other scholars follow suit talking about “the 7 spheres of the physical, visible cosmos” – making sphere 8 fixed stars vanish replaced by denatured “the OgdoadAndEnnead” nonsensically, writing-out eternalism to reject and omit it from fixed stars sphere. Bunk as hell. Hanegraaff manages to imagine, corrupted by the hyper mythmakers of phase 2 Late Ant’y, mental model transformation from etm to possibilism (which is backwards from scientific actual mental model transformation – blame gnostic mythmakers?)

The Egodeath theory is the most radical extreme proponent of maximal entheogen theory of religion –

but also:

The Egodeath theory most emphasizes how much obscuring junk is dumped on top of eternalism-driven control-transformation, throughout history.

Analogy, out of control.

Everything is consubstantial with everything; everything is analogous to everything; insanity resulted; possibilism-thinking was preseverd w/o succe’ly adding eternalism-thinking.

History of Psychedelic Myth: “everything is analogous to everything”, losing Eternalism-thinking

Take religious myth, drastically rework it, and it turns out to mean the Egodeath theory; the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

  • 2POV, by looking at “two pairs of eyes” eg Dion victory mosiac; (from the Egodeath community 2005 at Egodeath Yahoo Group), in 2025 we re found Y -holding rebis; then found more “pairs of eyes” than expected in f134 Great Canterbury Psalter. Finally grasp that egoic possibilism-thinking is not going away, ever, but add eternalism-thinking to the repertoire of mental models.
  • Combined Day 1, 3, 4, eat-from-tree.
  • Read articles about fabrication of “mystical experience” per modern Neo-Advaita, positive unitive model (as Wrong Focus; as failing to deliver the Most Important thing, eternalism-driven control-transformation, thus leaving you with possibilism-thinking corrupted by anti-rational veneration of “eliminate thinking”, just like everything I loathe & rejected in 1986 about the motivating character of Neoplatonism & Mysticism; the failed “Advaita non-drug meditation” core of Ken Wilber model that can’t deliver on the Big Talk. Ken Wilber, the greatest Meditation Huckster.
  • Worked on fav page, Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science debate article series. Must add Pahnke PhD dissert, more articles, McRae re: details on 1893 World’s Parliament of Religion. Modern fabrication of selective denatured world Buddhism (vs. my correct way of doing equivalent).

Wrong way Neo Adv slice divides: Phil o Rel, vs. folk supernatural magic myth.

The correct way to divide Buddhism: or around Neoplatonism Mysticism a la the Egodeath theory:

  • Reject Lit’m, supernaturalism, & magic.
  • correct: affirm & identify: Relig ASC Myth is analogy metaphors describing the BEST aspects of mystical experience ie psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation; pass through the monster threat gate to gain fear-soaked Transcendent Knowledge wisdom.

“best” is key, above, fitting with Ascough’s call for nuanced middle way between Establishment Butthead Biased Naysayers (who don’t even read entheogen scholarship articles from 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)), [they 1-way transmit fall. args., not to get any pushback, as dogma, insulting] vs. Pop Secret Christian Amanita Cult theory.

simply list my 2025 articles/pages/posts here

Sharday “entheogen scholarship W psychedelics history = colonialist violence” Mosurinjohn (but same in Jewish history is ok, and same in Indig Sham is where we need to restrict our scholarship and center it and bound it, like Positive Unitive.

The Bunk Narrative the Establishment Wishes to Tell

The Establishment naysayers re: psychedelics in W relig history wish to tell the narrative:
“Only Indigenous Shams have high, spiritual religion, which is Positive Unitive mystical experience.”

optimistic thought: with my critical work, along w/ exposers of Vivek 1893, like Mosur/ McRae/ Ascough/ Greer, the field of entheogen scholarship is about to … starting to finally have the needed, internal correction — not that Ronald Huggins or Mosur are legit internal scholars within entheogen scholarship ; they are DRIVE-BY HACKS, but then, Ruck and Irvin and Rush and Lash have similar half-baked mixture

just

pros & cons of Mosur, of Irvin, etc. of Wasson the academic obstructionist fraud, who Ruck audacity credits Wass w/ all mushroom-trees – or tries to write in Ruckian squishy fashion, “elastic” per Huggins’ char’zn, PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY:

i [Ruck] didn’t directly write “Wasson knew all mushroom-trees mean mushrooms”, i just merely wrote: Wass said Amanita pre-Bible, which is proved later by Panofsky’s “hundreds of mushroom-trees”; so, “Wasson’s theory” [OF WHAT?! OF ALL MUSHROOM-TREES? WHICH HE ALWAYS INSULTED AND DENIED RUDELY? or merely, of the 1000 B.C. pre-Bible age having snake, which = Amanita?

Ruck writes in vague, inconsistent, self-contradictory, elastic way; we can’t PROVE that Ruck asserts “Wasson said hundreds of mushroom-trees but mean scholars ignored him.”

Wasson in fact denied & viciously insulted such hypoth, for decades, til death, never recanted. cit: The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439215170

Who Wrote “Hundreds of Mushroom-trees”: Not Wasson; Not Allegro; Panofsky 1952, Samorini 1997, Ruck/ Hoffman/ Staples 2001, Michael Hoffman 2003, Browns 2016

otoh we know Allegro — disproving Irvin — never asserted “hundreds of mushroom-trees”. Proof: Irvin never quotes Allegro asserting “hundreds of mushroom-trees”. Yet Irvin in The Holy Mushroom, bogus, tries to grant credit to Allegro instead of Wasson, for “hundreds of mushroom-trees”. Fact: born out by avail cits: NEITHER WASSON (AGAINST RUCK) NOR ALLEGRO (AGAINST IRVIN) EVER ASSERTED “hundreds of mushroom-trees”. In inverse way, credit for “hundreds of mushroom-trees” goes to naysayer Panofsky 1952, especially Samorini 1997 & 1998, then Ruck ’01:

Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise (Hoffman, Ruck & Staples, Entheos 1, 2001), https://entheomedia.net/Issue%20one.htm, https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-Issue-1

Never mind psilocybin in human sacrifice, savagery, superstition, magical regressive thinking, etc. cit: Jan Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh: Teonanacátl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom, August 2, 2022 https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/ & https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/27/gods-flesh-teonanacatl-the-true-history-of-the-sacred-mushroom-irvin-2022/

web search:
Is Sharday Mosurinjohn Jewish?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+Sharday+Mosurinjohn+Jewish%3F
no ans, but might be interesting links, since she — ever since 5 minutes ago — is writing, with full [of Sh!t] authority, as a typical ABD Apologist; denier of psychedelics in W relig history.

new for Jan 2026: I don’t say psychedelics were dominant, mainstream, foreground; more subtle and complicated: psychedelics inspired the origin and ongoing wellspring of religion, always tangled with lots of noise, such that to find the BEST, signal (eternalism-driven control-transformation), you have to know, selectively, what you’re looking for, and pull THAT forth, rather than pulling an inferior failed hyupoth forth: neoplatonism’s faillure & fool’s gold; Neo Advaita’s anti-thinking; the fake, subst, eternalism-avoiding, Positive Unitive model, ever popular bunk subst in East & West & Indig Shams can have that slop too.

Mystical Substitute Slop: The Eternalism-Averting, Positive Unitive Made-Up, Wishful thinking model of mystical experience contradicts both folk magic supernaturalism (& myth) AND contradicts eternalism control transformation

avoiding negative – apotropaic

by filtering/ selecting/ sculpting to fabricate Transcendent Knowledge as “Positive Unitive”, the academics had to reject folk magic supernatural practice, and also, be ignorant of psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation.

Academics, in construcing a “phil o rel” model, preserve confusion and possibilism-thinking, not able to divide lit’m & supernaturalism, vs. correct analogy depicting eternalism-driven control-transformation.

But, the Egodeath theory also is, similarly, a “philosophy of religion” scheme, just different than the Neo-Advaita competing, inferior brand.

Academia is not bad for creating “phil o rel” version of “mystical experience” (Neoplat / Neo-Adv), focused on “Positive Unitive”; it’s bad for not creating the eternalism-driven control-transformation model like the Egodeath theory & the Mytheme theory.

The ABD Apologists: Any Wack Method of Producing Psychedelic Effects Is Reasonable and Evidenced, Except for Drugs

Deniers of Psychedelics in Western Religious History Don’t Realize They’ve Been Embarrassingly Disproven – Quick Move those Goalposts

As ever, the deniers are characterized by moving the goal, motte bailey, every form of and combo of logical fallacies.

Just like Letcher, keep flipping position:

“There is NO evidence for psychedelics in Western religious history. Why are ppl so stupid, Pop Scholarship such as Alllegro-Ruck, that they keep asserting? How can scholars be so stupid?” Ans: look in mirror.

As Ascough says, and maybe Mosurinjohn sometimes, we need a nuanced middle ground – expect him to botch this like Browns “proving” no Amanita in the tapestry Walburga b/c Amanita has a smooth[sic] base not serrated.

Both Browns wrongly asserted that in two publications, thus scoring a 4x penalty.

Anything But Drugs Makes Sense (ABD Apologists), vs. Pop Allegro/Ruck “Secret Christian Amanita Cult”, the “secret Amanita cult” theory — vs. Michael Hoffman’s Correct, Maximal Eternalism Entheogen Theory of Religion

Does Maximal mean what MOsur dismisses & Ascough?

(eternalism-driven control-transformation) Maximal Eternalism Entheogen Theory of Religion

Call the Egodeath theory “the psychedelics thread is the Best Thread, traceable, withoutwhich there’s only fake, inferior, low-quality religion]

Establishment Shills

Fallacious Arg’n Never in Dialog, Purely Transmitting Cocky Overconfident Naysaying against Psychedelics in Western Religious History

p.m. January 12, 2026

Hugs: I joined this scholarly topic 5 minutes ago, and now I’m gonna lecture you about “no evidence”, by failing to read the articles by 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) , Samorini, “Conjuring Eden”, while loudly proclaiming my bias with total assurance, without valid argn, without reading the scholarship:

if it has mushroom & tree motifs, it must be tree, not mushroom, so cannot mean mushroom”. — “Conclusion” of Foraging Wrong,
along w/ “Day 3 mushroom-trees have branches [exactly matching cubensis], so can’t mean mushrooms.”

Present shallow, establshment-appeasing, total junk reasoning, then proclaim “no evidence”, and look at 1 picture, ignoring all the rest, and like Letcher massively botching that 1 citation. p. 35 endnote 31. [from memory]

Are Mosur’s 100 articles, that are not about psychedelics, of any help for writing decent articles or book about entheogens or “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis”? control vortex scr

Her cv screams “ignorant newcomer talking bullshit to ingratiate with the Establishment”, just like Ronald Huggins ’24. It’s so CHEAP & flimsy, the Establishment scholars’ disrespect for Western psychedelics history.

The naysayers’ assertions don’t get pushback, b/c no communication (as Sharday points out) between field of entheogen scholarship vs other scholarly fields. The asserters of pop Secret Christian Amanita Cult theory, including Allegro & Ruck, write their assertions (“dancing man has red cap”) (it’s plainly blue, except in Irvin’s corrupted attempt to force skew palette), then in return,

it’s like the non-debate between Wasson/Allegro, re: 1 isolated, Amanita mushroom-tree in Plaincourault.

Ruck Entheos issue 2:
“Give all credit for all mushroom-trees to Wasson.” “Daturas for the Virgin”

Irvin, The Holy Mushroom 2008:
“No, give all credit for all mushroom-trees to Allegro.” (equally outragiously false)

Ruck, inconsistently: mushroom Amanita gnosis restricted to only monks. to only elites. to only heretic groups.

Irvin 2006 AstroSham 1, Concl: restrict Amanita+Psilocybin gnosis to only kings & elites.

Irvin 08: “Ruck, stop trying to restrict Amanita Gnosis to heretics/monks, it was ubiq.”

Irvin then hurries to remove Irvin’s own attempt to restrict, forming AstroSham 2, 2009.

Pahnke Thesis Central to Bad, psychedelic pseudo science

p.m. January 12, 2026

It was an extremely good call, on my part, to study 1962/1963 PhD thesis by Pahnke re: Good Friday.

I’m the One Who Figured Out Good Friday 1962 = April 20, 1962 = 4/20 Holiday Confluence

p.m. January 12, 2026

per wiki page history showing my edit to add the damn date.

I take 100% credit for ppl to figure out Good Friday 1962 = April 20 = 4/20. Provably the word spread immediately after I added the actual goddam DATE ffs to the wiki article.

I am the first scholar ever, to state that Good Friday 1962 was April 20, 1962. All I ask, too much to ask, is STATE THE DAY, MONTH, & YEAR – vs. annoying scholarly obscurantism & vagueness, like “late 18th C” or “Good Friday in 1962”.

Exposing Staceanism (or Vivekanandaism) Pretending to Be “Mystical Experience”

p.m. January 12, 2026

Now I have read a set of 3 articles including McRae – to add to Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science page – about the totally fake and fabricated neo-Hinduism, and the invention of global Buddhism. Not that those are necessarily 100% illegit. I myself do cherrypicking, formally.:

Myth and religion that doesn’t focus on eternalism-driven control-transformation per the Egodeath theory, is inferior, substitute, 3rd-rate, exoteric esotericism, mis-focused, missing out on the Classic. My great insult is: those models and brands of Transcendent Knowledge are non-Classic.

Garbage Inferior Religion and Myth and Mysticism Are “Non-Classic”

p.m. January 12, 2026

Fails the Acid Test; Fool’s Gold: They Fail to Focus on eternalism-driven control-transformation, but Substitute Possibilism-Preserving Anything-Else eg “Positive Unity” and Dismiss the Monster-Threat Gate as “Non-mystical, b/c not Positive Unitive”

I continue to bring attention to the mushy muddy foundation of the Staceanism or Vivekanandaism

Mosur: Entheogen Scholarship in Western, European History is Bad; Colonialist Violence; Scholars Must Ignore Western, European History, and Focus Only on Indigenous Shams

see Hatsis: Psychedelic Injustice

Haven’t gotten a reading on how Jewish or anti-white Mosurinjohn is.

Why is her 10-min 2025 talk on Hebrew Law utoob ch?

todo: why are the vids from 2025 conf on the Hebrew Law youtoob ch?
The conf is not described as Jewish, at Harvard.

There are multiple such confs:
https://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+2025+conference+psychedelic

feb 24 2025
https://psychedelicalpha.com/news/a-crucible-of-academia-psychedelics-and-religion-psychedelic-intersections-2025-at-the-harvard-divinity-school – are excited to announce the third annual Psychedelic Intersections conference, featuring keynote speakers Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man Project, and Elías García Méndez, co-founder of Casa Adobe Galería, Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico

This one-day academic conference was held at Harvard University on February 15, 2025, in Swartz Hall, Cambridge, MA.
Recordings of the event are now available: CSWR Youtube conference playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX_9feVneSp0praEn8CJ77B0xGxnb1H7f

About the conference

“The conference brings together interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersection of psychedelics and spirituality. Following last year’s popular Psychedelic Intersections: Cross Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred conference, the 2025 conference features three research tracks:

  • Psychedelic Chaplaincy
  • Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions
  • Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Transcendent

The conference asks: 

How can religious studies and spiritual care inform the Psychedelic “Renaissance”?

What are the best practices for psychedelic chaplaincy? [ans: conflicts of interest, covert funding, bogus article, SCIENCE “CONCLUSIONS” FOR PAY in the course of fabricating a new, Hindu-based, Neoplatonist/NeoAdvaita, modern, rational (“trans-rational; ie, the point is, NOT CONFLICTING WITH SCIENCE AS OF 1893 WESTERNIZED OMDERN MODERNIST PROTESTANTISZED ENGLISH-LANG “HINDUISM”), scientificy flavored/ marketed.

My the Egodeath theory is the RIGHT way to fabricate and filter selectively, world religion, to correctly reject supernaturalism literalism, and correctly identify the common core perenneial preiniple NOT as “positive unitive”, but rather, as psychedelic eternalism-driven control-transformation. ie, the BEST Western Esotericism and mystical experience — ie the Classic peak content — is eternalism-driven control-transformation. The history (this fits with Ascough 2025) of Western Esotericism is a messy, poor S/N, noisy, obscured-signal, overlay of junk entangled with valid, eternalism-thinking. Among all that noise, Vivek / Stace wrongly picked “positive unitive”, but the Egodeath theory correctly picks (1988, 1997, 2007, 2020, 2026) eternalism-driven control-transformation. psychedelic per psilocybin; producing 2POV. Keep always using egoic thinking/ possibilism, even while add transcendent thinking / eternalism.

The Egodeath theory not positive unitive Neo-Advaita anti-rationality, is the correct version of common-core perennialism

Here’s the scummy “perennialism” motte/baily bait/switch def’n:

  • You surely must agree there’s something (unspecified, here) in common in world mysticism.
  • So, you agree to my political trojan horse to make me world dictator, the Savior Messiah brining the fake world religion of Positive Unitive Neo-Adv/ Neopla.

I Hate Neoplatonism Mysticism (The One, Apophatic), Same as Hating Neo-Advaita Anti-Rationality (Unitive; Boundary Cess, Ineffable, Thought-Stopping)

conf blurb con’t:

“How can spiritual care be best integrated into psychedelic use in recreational and religious settings?

How can psychedelic studies build interdisciplinary and collaborative community across traditions, cultures, and modalities?

In what ways do the histories and the presents of Indigenous traditions present new relationships with the more-than-human world?

Is aesthetics uniquely suited to understand and convey the activity of a psychedelic body?

How can art foster and induce transcendent experiences?

How can art be used in psychedelic settings as a means of integration?”

ans: the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} eg Eadwine images in Great Canterbury Psalter:

Call for Papers April 2026 – “Tensions Around Science, Spir’y, Comm’zn”

https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-programming/transcendence-transformation/psychedelics-spirituality/conferences – 2026: Bridging Humanities, Religion, and Law
Call for Papers
The Harvard Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture is excited to announce that the fourth annual Psychedelic Intersections conference will be held at Harvard Divinity School on April 10-11, 2026. Building on the Center for the Study of World Religions’ (CSWR’s) popular conference series, the 2026 conference is a collaborative initiative of the CSWR at Harvard Divinity School, the Mahindra Center at Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.”

todo: paste blurb here

About Psychedelic Intersections 2026

“Psychedelic Intersections: Bridging Humanities, Religion, and Law” brings together interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersection of psychedelics and culture. The conference features three research tracks: Psychedelics and Religion, Psychedelics and Humanities, and Psychedelics and Law.

“Abstract submissions to the call for papers can be focused within a single research track or represent interdisciplinary research spanning multiple tracks. To support our mission of intersectional dialogue, we welcome abstracts from scholars of diverse fields, backgrounds, and career stages.

“Scholars and practitioners working with or representing underrepresented peoples and traditions are encouraged to submit.

Psychedelics and Religion Track: 

“We welcome research exploring the diverse ways that psychedelic substances have influenced, shaped, and informed religious practice throughout time.

“Did psychedelics shape ancient religious traditions, and what does this mean for contemporary religion?

“How have Indigenous traditions [Indigenous Shams] engaged with psychedelics and how is this evolving over time?

[ie have they graduated from savage human sacrifice, petty finding objects, cursing enemy sorcerors, and other model, lofty, spiritual high wisdom religion?]

How can spiritual psychedelic experiences be supported in medical settings? [tackle and bind Matthew Johnson]

How are psychedelic churches navigating and challenging the law?

We particularly welcome papers on:

  • psychedelic chaplaincy;
  • African and African diaspora traditions;
  • [NOT W, European psychedelics history, except Jewish is best eg. self-baked psilocybin bread in Merkavah mysticism]
  • Indigenous and plant medicine traditions;
  • contemporary psychedelic churches;
  • visionary and psychedelic art and transcendence; [Classic Rock lyrics]
  • research on spirits, entities [Alan Houot’s “science explorers discoverers”], and the more-than-human world; and
  • psychedelics and the history of religions.“

Psychedelics and Humanities Track: 

“We encourage proposals that will enrich our understanding of psychedelics in relation to the arts and humanities across their multiple histories and cultural contexts.

[“except for psychedelics in W relig history, because WE KNOW THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, HOW can pop scholars like Ruck be so foolish?! See Huggins ’24 for proof. Ruck school is so terrible, never paying any attention to shamans in the Americas; doing colonialist violence by having the audacity to study psychedelics in W history, for which there is no evidence.”]

[contra that denial, see Hatsis 2025, Psychedelic Injustice, except Hatsis f’s up and vaguely, in anti-scholar totally unscholarly manner, asserts “no mushrooms in W history” – see my book review.]

[Thomas Hatsis 2025 carves out an exception: he rebuts: “W history DOES have psychoactives, EXCEPT NO EVIDENCE FOR THE MUSHROOM, WHICH IS SECRET Amanita”]

“How have psychedelics shaped histories and contemporary practices of art, music, literature, film, and other cultural forms?

Shallow, Gappy Histories of Psychedelics

[BUNK ANSWER FROM PARTRIDGE AND EVERYONE: “1) In late 1960s, the psychedelic movement; 2) also 1990s, rave MDMA. That’s the pop history of psychedelics.”

Never mind Classic Rock lyrics/culture 1965-1995, which is touched on in Hanegraaff’s new book replacing his Perplexed book, Short History of Esotericism chapter.

As Hanegraaff complains about, such PAT, myopic, conventional, overly Pop histories as Partridge, are blind to psychedelic Newage, and psychedelic neo-shamanism.]

“How can the study of psychedelics point to new directions in the humanistic and adjacent disciplines:

  • literature,
  • history,
  • philosophy,
  • art history, [the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}]
  • history of science and medicine, [Michael Hoffman 1988/2026: the Egodeath theory = STEM model of mental model transformation, transformation from possibilism to eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation expressed via STEM thought-style]
  • anthropology,
  • etc.?

“How are the public humanities engaging with psychedelics? [by ignoring]

Against That “Ethics” Framing

How are artists and humanists grappling with the ethical implications of the “psychedelics renaissance”
given concerns about cultural appropriation [don’t care, in your way], reciprocity [don’t care], and commodification [don’t care]?  [first read Hatsis 2025, Psychedelic Injustice]

Spare Us! “Obligatory” de rigeur, Political Correctness, Supposed to Ingratiate, Is Just Annoying, Cliche, Stereotypical, Self-Parody, and Drives People Away from that Angle

trojan horse, bait and switch:

Introduce “ethics”, get buy-in, and then pozz it, corrupt it: “psychedelics dictate wealth redistribution, global takeover with Us in charge, and mass exterm’n to repair the world, with wonderful, psychedelically enlightened Us ruling over the little people.”

like “common core” buy-in, add “perennialism”, add agenda of “save the world from modernism, via Traditionalism” – wait, what are we being asked to buy into?

It’s a package deal, like the Egodeath theory, which includes “world dictator Michael Hoffman” poison pill along with spiritual enlightenment as eternalism-driven control-transformation. Turn theory into Agenda Cult, b/c everything is pretext.

News Media, Pop Sike, and the Egodeath Theory: Everything Is Pretext

a joke when applied to the Egodeath theory

Everything on tv and history books and Jesus history books, is pretext, nothing is what it claims to be, all History is bunk, distorted, and weaponized.

As much as Jesus didn’t exist (except as analogy), so are all history books fantasy – or, hard to trace the thread of truth, among all the noise and distortion and false signal, eg:

  • Positive Unitive model of mystical experience;
  • fantasy about Indig Shams;
  • fantasy about Meditation Hucksters and their “enlightenment” product that never materializes;
  • fantasy about “the rapture” and dispensationalism, Scofield, Darby, Left Behind Hollywood pabulum, Christian Zionism.

Psychedelics and Law Track: 

“We welcome research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of psychedelics research, commerce, and therapeutics, with a special focus on promoting safety, innovation, and equity. [Hatsis ’25: Psychedelic Injustice]

“Though not an exhaustive list, potential topics include the following:

  • “Psychedelics and the FDA,
  • the Controlled Substances Act and DEA regulation of psychedelics,
  • patents on psychedelics,
  • state and local psychedelic decriminalization or regulation,
  • law and the traditional ceremonial use of psychedelics,

[beware the narrative lexicon of “suppressed vs. mainstream”, ends up focusing on social drama narrative fantasy & neutralizing the evidence base to prop up that wrong goal, to make the Main Message:

“Christianity is so terrible, it got rid of psychedelics, and here’s a gallery of 1000 evidence to prove that” –

per cover of Rush book 2nd edition; Ruck, etc. — and fail to do Repeal of Prohib, which would be helped more by positively framing presence of that evidence, instead of keeping the evidence enslaved in service of the self-defeating story,

“Sh!tty Christianity has no trad’n of psychedelics, here’s 1000 images proving the great extent of HERETICAL INFILTRATION of psychedelics [ie, Secret Amanita, = Gnosis/ Transcendent Knowledge] into proper, drug-free Christianity history”

That’s the Ruck school’s crybaby, self-defeating narrative that serves to perpetuate the Prohibitionist Status Quo]

  • “biopiracy of traditional* knowledge [eg savage human sacrifice, magic prayer, incantations, magic ritual, petty object recovery; superstition, literalist mythology; anything but eternalism-driven control-transformation, which is the BEST use of Psilocybin – Jan Irvin ’22 God’s Flesh] and proposals for reciprocity or benefits sharing,
  • equitable access to psychedelic medicine for certain populations such as veterans and people with substance use conditions,
  • informed consent for psychedelic research or therapeutic administration,
  • the challenges of public and private insurance coverage for psychedelics,
  • the ethics and regulation of “supportive touch” as an element of psychedelic medicine,
  • lessons from state marijuana regulation,
  • the potential role of psychedelics in addressing the drug overdose crisis,
  • the emerging law of religious psychedelics use, and
  • the integration of psychedelic spiritual care into clinical medicine and end-of-life care.”

More Articles Related to the “Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science” Debate and History Exposed

p.m. January 12, 2026

I’m looking into recent writings by scholars:

Sharday Mosurinjohn. 2023 article, June 2025 article. Begs for a Parody Article inverting her bad logic especially her super-bad logic in her summary of her 10-min talk at Jewish Harvard Law. Haven’t figured out where the Jewish comes in, why the conference (not advertised as Jewish) has the video talks (including Christian) at the Jewish YouTube channel.

She args:

Good: Focusing on history of Indigenous Shams.

citation: Alan Houot 2019 masters thesis: shamans good, have full control on psilocybin; mystics bad; pursue loss of control & surrenderism. He strangely omitted this topic/argument from the 2025 book Rise of the Psychonaut.

Good: Focusing on history of entheogens in Jewish history (not directly asserted, but implied on some adjacent talks at the conf).

Bad: Focusing on Western, Christian history of entheogens, = colonialist violence, because fails to put the central focus on Indig Shams.

“IT’S AN EVIDENCED FACT THAT SHAMS HAVE LONG HISTORY OF LOFTY WISE SPIRITUAL RELIGIOUS USE OF PSILOCYBIN”

Sharday must be ignorant and uninformed of Safford’s authoritative 1915 article finding that there’s no psilocybin was used in Central America, but only peyote.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/12/aztec-narcotic-safford-1915/

cit: Jan Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh: Teonanacátl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom, August 2, 2022 https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/ & https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/27/gods-flesh-teonanacatl-the-true-history-of-the-sacred-mushroom-irvin-2022/

“IT’S AN ESTABLISHED SCHOLARLY FACT THAT GRECO-Christianity HAS NO EVIDENCE OF A HISTORY OF LOFTY WISE SPIRITUAL RELIGIOUS USE OF ENTHEOGENS”

SHAMS: ALL YOUR ENTHEOGEN ARE BELONG TO US.

CAPtain all your base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Her article is cliche stereotypical anti-Christian.

cit/todo: finish reading Hatsis book Psychedelic Injustice.

Writings by Richard Ascough

John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough, 2025/08)

https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+ascough+the+psychedelic+mysteries+hypothesis
There are reviews of the article.

John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis
Richard Ascough
2025/08/08
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/1029

I downloaded the article.
John_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Mysteries_Hypothe.pdf

Pretty good article.

Ascough names “the Psychedelic Mysteries hypothesis”.

Such writers as Moscur. & Ascough take it for granted, citing the dogpoo fallacy-fest article:

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
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/

As if Huggins’ article has substance and finality and has been peer reviewed properly.

It’s academic magic:

Sharday the Magical Witch merely has to write “Huggins 2024”, and presto, it is now an established, uncontroverted fact that there’s no mushroom imagery in Christian art – after the intense 1-way, unchallenged broadcast – or 2-way, challenged.

Was this article peer-reviewed? It seems NO ADVERSARY REVIEWED Huggins ARTICLE; the article hasn’t been attempted to be challenged. Except 100% by me here at this site.

Sharday bases her magic, “We know there is no evidence” on Huggins article.
“Evidence” for what, though? Motte, or Bailey? Some narrow claim, or some broad claim?

Huggins’ article boils to 1 fallacious argument from arbitrary bias: “Mushroom-trees have mushroom motifs and tree motifs, therefore cannot mean mushroom, and must mean tree.”

Ruck flip-flops between the Minimal & Moderate entheogen theory of religion; move the goalposts; Motte & Bailey arg’n.

Writings by Sharday Mosurinjohn

search web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sharday+mosurinjohn

https://shardaymosurinjohn.com

In Praise of Approximate, Rough Writing at the Summary/ Zoom-Out Level

Sharday summarizes wrongly and OUTRAGEIOUSLY attacks Western civ, in her summary of her talk:

per summary, YOU ARE GUILTY OF COLLONIALIST VIOLENCE IF YOU LOOK FOR PSYCHEDELICS IN WESTERN, EUROPEAN HISTORY; you must instead make Indigenous Shams the center and focus and boundary of your scholarship. [She doesn’t object to adjacent talks about non-drug psychedelic mystical experience in JEWISH history).

Book: Entheogenic Esotericism (forthcoming, Sharday Mosurinjohn)

“Reunites the study of religion, magic, and science in the psychedelic turn.”

Sharday Mosurinjohn joined the field of entheogen scholarship 5 minutes ago – fresh newbie w/ umbilical cord, how thoroughly has she read….

She might be best thinker ever, having just entered the field of entheogen scholarship — as i was in 1998-2003 when I entered that field. The problem is not that she’s brand new; the problem is she writes like a pushy, cocky, bully, overconfident, she insults everyone in entheogen scholarship, and reveals her unread ignorance.

Rude attitude, way overconfident, CARELESSLY CITES Ronald Huggins 2024 AS IF fact, when his article is the typical naysayer combination of valuable trivia combined with fallacious random many arguments (throw spag at wall/stick, but nothing sticks).

The 1-Way Argumentation Style of Naysayers

I rightly state: We have not even STARTED to look for psychedelics in W history, yet all the time from 1968 to 2026, careless naysayers (shoddy pompous establishment-aligned flimsy biased 1-way scholars) fail and neglect to read the body of findings in entheogen scholarship, and reveal their ignorance and failed non-scholarship by declaring “we always knew there was no evidence”, giving a token smattering of citations instead.

Ascough Repeats Hoffman 2006 Wasson/ Plaincourault Article & Cyberdisciple’s Critique of Allegro

Ascough cites my Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm but doesn’t cite Cyberdisciple pages on Allegro not being a scholar in the path of forward-moving entheogen scholarship.

Michael Hoffman 2006, and Cyberdisciple ~2020, and R Ascough 2025, all conclude: Allegro (with Ruck continuing same spirit)

todo: i failed: I pressure ppl to read Jan Irvin, but, for decades drag my feet resisting getting Sacred Mushroom & The Cross 2009 by Irvin / Ruck. Fungus Revividus article by Ruck in that book. So I fall into my pit, I said “if you don’t have Irvin books, you are not in the field of entheogen scholarship”. But I lack Irvin/ Ruck book Sacred Mushroom & The Cross 2009 40th Anniv Edition.

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 & https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/

Question for Mark Hoffman: What all do you know about Paul Lindren discovering Great Canterbury Psalter mushroom imagery around 2000?

The endnotes for “Conjuring Eden” says that Paul Lindgren, James Arthur, and Carl Ruck conversed. Front page credits Lindgren, end notes also.

MS lat. 8846, fol., Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. [21] … Notice in particular the ninth episode of the Temptation in Eden, with the serpent offering the fruit of the mushhroom-tree [sic] to Eve: each segment of the tree is a know-topped tassel-tree like the Bernward column, and eve is plucking the fruit both from the Tree and from the mouth of the serpent. [21a] The “third day” detail appears on the cover of James Arthur’s book, Mushrooms and Mankind, Escondido, CA, Book Tree, 2000; we thank him and his source for the image.

image: day 3

image: folio f11 in online gallery for “Conjuring Eden”
https://entheomedia.net/eden1.htm
https://entheomedia.net/eden3.htm shows Day 4 (fails to show Day 1 above, w/ mushroom 3 & 4 in Day 4 pointing up to Day 1 {balance scale} pans, proving pans contain panaeolus & Amanita), shows entire blurry f11 3×4 panels.

2001 Blurry Entheos Version of Entire f11 Folio, Great Canterbury Psalter

body of article shows Day 3 panel, Day 1 panel, Eat from Tree panel

online gallery shows Day 4 panel, and entire f11 comic page 3 cols 4 rows = 12 panels.

https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics3/21Fourth.jpg

my f11 page
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f11-great-canterbury-psalter-6-days-of-creation-eden/

Great Canterbury Psalter First Online Archived: December 19, 2017

That’s 3 years before I re-saw John Lash’s ~2008 upload of leg-hanging mushroom tree. So I was not that late, to this online resource; I was fairly on top of it, though I am kicking myself if, on hiatus, I did an image search for “Christian mushroom” around 2008 and saw lgmt Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter briefly in passing but failred to archive it (b/c on hiatus, which I KNEW would be costly withdrawal from scholarly progress, preventing me from followthrough after my 2007 main article finished formatting in Sep 2007.

The price of forcing myself to stop the Egodeath theory devmt in 2008, was, in 2020 i found the 2017 Great Canterbury Psalter online, and the Lash crop of 2008 of his trip to Paris, uploading inkjet fraction of image. in his Discovery of a Lifetime article at his site. Which got prop’d to other two sites, which i found mid Nov 2020, and built/confirmed my Hatsis hi-res Dancing Man “stand on right foot” conjecture xmas 2015 along the lines of:

weight on left foot = possibilism-thinking
weight on right foot = eternalism-thinking

Nov 2020, fully confirmed that. Because i had that hypoth in hand, I was able to apply that hypoth to decode the no-context leg-hanging mushroom tree, with massive expansive success, especially after Cyberdisciple gave me the (2017?) hi-res site image url.

  1. confirmation of the Egodeath theory
  2. by the way, evidence of mushroom imagery in Christian art — RESTRICTION: YOU DO NOT GET TO HAVE MY GREAT EVIDENCE OF mushroom imagery in Christian art UNLESS, AS A PACKAGE DEAL, YOU FIRST GO THROUGH MY the Mytheme theory & FULL Egodeath theory.

NO Egodeath theory? THEN NO mushroom imagery in Christian art EVIDENCE.

I will tell people that. Here’s the deal: I’ll give you ton of evidence (sep. from the Egodeath theory), only if you study understand my the Egodeath theory.

I will give you mushroom evidence, if you pay full attention to eternalism-driven control-transformation per the Egodeath theory. The threat-monster-wisdom gate.

The threat-monster-wisdom gate; Transcendent Knowledge = Understanding Inherently Being Threatened with control instability

p.m. January 12, 2026

The nature of the alt state is, a state of being under threat of control instability. The more you und, the more u r threatened. To understand is to be under threat.

todo: gallery of crops from Great Canterbury Psalter, depicting “To understand is to be under threat.” Open scroll = being threatened.

full hi res at lib:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom – TODO: HOW OLD IS URL AT ARCHIVE? __
warm: earliest found f11 specifically is 2025/02/15:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250215105841/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
2017! for semi-root of url, 2017/12/19 = December 19, 2017 was oldest archived Great Canterbury Psalter:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171219090849/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/
about lib:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/a-propos
machine translate English:
https://gallica-bnf-fr.translate.goog/accueil/fr/html/a-propos?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp – Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France (BnF) and its partners. Since 1997, it has offered free and open access to several million digitized documents (books, newspapers, images, etc.) from all periods and in all formats.”

todo: When did Great Canterbury Psalter become avail on Web? Did Paul Lindgren use it ~2000? Does Entheos print or online site link to it?

Did my Amazon book review of Arthur help join Ruck & Arthur? Arthur didn’t tell me (in his phone calls) about Lindgren or conversing w/ Ruck.

In “Conjuring Eden”, I discovered the endnote reference to Paul Lindgren on Jan. 11, 2026, captured in voice recording (3 hours): VOX_TK_6603.wav

Question for Mark Hoffman: Are scholars able to get 2001 article “Conjuring Eden”?

  • body
  • end notes
  • online gallery

I forgive authors for being unread and IGNORANT of THE MOST IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ARTICLE, b/c:

  • not avail
  • long
  • long body, long endnotes, long online gallery, numbered images in article body
  • complicated references to endnotes, unclear references to online images, and differently numbered references to images in the article body.
  • blurry, in 2001, vs. my dark-palette late 2020, and their library improved palette by 2023.

There are 3 articles that the ABD Apologist academic crowd fails to read, like Letcher only treats 1 image, and totally massively f’s up and misattributes the Allegro/ Ruck/ Pop fixation on “secret suppressed” social drama narrative, to Stamets 96 & Gartz 96, who wrote 0 words related to “secret suppressed” social drama narrative.

Roll up sleeves to analyze their narrative, none: only a caption:
“Liberty cap mushroom trees on Bernward door”.

Letcher correctly disparages and char’izes Secret Christian Amanita Cult (actually he neglects to show the Amanita fixation overemphasis). But he massively f’s up in attributing “secret” to Stam/Gart. Letcher takes the pop story, which is in fact fixated on Amanita and thus Plaincourault fresco (the almost-only Amanita-based mushroom-tree), and Letcher fails to state that the Pop theory is specifically limited to Amanita. So, Letcher does not provided the needed Pop critique, and Letcher accidentally uses my Samorini/ Hoffman/ Browns 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) to disprove the Allegro/Ruck 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

s g e s
2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)

Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise (Hoffman, Ruck & Staples, Entheos 1, 2001), https://entheomedia.net/Issue%20one.htm, https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-Issue-1

Writings by Christian Greer

p.m. January 12, 2026

Articles Read Recently 2025

Books Read Recently 2025

looks like i read the good parts of her book already, 1x, in 2016. will i gain anything by re-surveying the book? The Creation of Scientific Concepts. Models & Analogies.

The creation of concepts is not all aat once inspiration

omits conceptual lexicon, which is important for the Egodeath theory – she doesn’t word in terms of; Index lacks:

  • lexicon
  • vocabulary

The Creation of Scientific Concepts (a woman, 2008)

read parts of it 2016, metallic gel pens

read parts of it p.m. January 7, 2026, Pentel P205, metallic cases: purple blue green red

Book:
Creating Scientific Concepts
Nancy Nersessian
2008
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262141051 —

Seems like her best, most interesting book, written only by her.

The book presents model of concept creation in phases using models evolution process.

Uses the creation of Maxwell’s concepts – electrodynamics field electromagnetic field

she edited book w/ the Model-Based Science Handbook guy and Paul Thagard, 1998?

Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science
2017
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319305255/ —

Her previous book did similar w/ Faraday to Einstein.
1984
https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Einstein-Constructing-Scientific-Philosophy/dp/9024729971/ —

  • several phases of model change
  • model-based reasoning
  • model-based science
  • historical practices
  • laws of electromagnetism
  • 1865 electro-dynamic field
  • phil o sci
  • hist o sci
  • the electromagnetic field
  • the displacement current
  • light as an electromagnetic wave

Sections Moved from “The Importance of (Least) Ceremony”

10:54 p.m. January 7, 2026 –

d/k if want them here, but need to move aside, for possible re-integration

moved sections out from:

The Importance of (Least) Ceremony
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/03/the-importance-of-least-ceremony/

to manage them, vs definite content in sections 1 & 2, list + steps.

If Accomplish Nothing Else in this 10 Minute Talk

At least, accomplish:

  • List (summarize) the reasons why “The Importance of Ceremony”.
  • Define Least Ceremony.

Motivation for this Article

Been gathering notes for 10-minute church closer. To finalize here.

Intro

Reason #1, to have least ceremony as opposed to having no ceremony: To satisfy the lawyers.

A psychedelic religion (to be legally protected) is required by Them to have ritual ceremony, holy days, dogma faith beliefs, etc.

This article is for a 10-minute church talk Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. The first two sections were used.

These are notes from discussion with members of psychedelic churches over several months of gathering input.

Principles of Neurotheology (Newberg 2010): “Group Ceremonial Rituals”

After re-reading Alan Houot’s article on psychedelics researchers & Phenomenology, i found a book by that crowd on my shelf, by Newberg 2010, has a 5-page section on “Group Ceremonial Rituals”, in _Principles of Neurotheology_

a la Ken Wilber:

Have group ceremony, to:

integrate & differentiate the personal, communal, & transpersonal

Least Ceremony instead of No Ceremony, Makes the Group/Community a Degree More Sync’d/ Cohesive

Group ceremony recurring ritual makes group a degree more sync’d 

Jeffrey Breau (a member of psychedelic churches), his Harvard conference abstract for May 2025:

“Most important: study how constraints of religion, law, & care shape community.”

Entire Ceremony, vs. Ceremony Aspects/Acts

eg the Redwood ceremony: has a required Prep meeting (online) before the date.

and that ceremony on that date, includes a Prep, and includes an Integration, as a group, gathered together, that day.

Then later date, a group Integration meeting (online).

Micro Phases within the Journey Ceremony

  1. Phase 1: prep, as a group/ community.
  2. Phase 2: journey, as a group/ community.
    A journey includes micro Prep and micro Integration.
  3. Phase 3: integrate, as a group / community.

My Ask: Do a Reading from a Church Document

my ask: help define least ceremony, ie, we need structure, i want to have every time a reading of church docs.  

ceremony = structure

prayer magical apotropaic

ceremony to banish monsters, to enforce +Unity only

ceremony = good order, provide structure, avoid chaos; 

= sustainable group 

what happens when you eliminate ceremony/ structure?  chaos, not community spirituality journeying. 

people would possibly arrive late and then leave and then come back having taken unknown additional redosing of unknown substance by themselves, without letting the group know

yet the group is held responsible for giving such a person support, to the point of that person becoming the center of attention, effectively commandeering the whole group event – group disorder, how did mystery cult integrate? 

don’t burden church officials, who were prepped for leading official, organized ceremonies

Liturgy definition:
Least Ceremony with Welch’s grape juice & bread

see church docs:

  • Definition of each extant ceremony / liturgy.
  • How to define/propose a new ceremony / liturgy, such as:
    Least Ceremony with Welch’s grape juice & bread

a spell ceremony for rain 

group exorcism ceremony

magic benefit of ritual

generic intentionality prayer

In the church’s several plant ceremonies, what are the ceremony aspects?  

being organized = ceremony.  

a Liturgy, Least Liturgy; each week’s church service defines a Liturgy; time slots. 

ritual, habit, ceremony, routine, schedule, liturgy, procedure

Prep Steps Ceremony

  1. gather in circle
  2. discuss dosage/ sacrament eg Welch’s grape juice & cracker
  3. food
  4. timing
  5. give an altar item, eg Pentel P205 pencil (other church member favors P209)
  6. state ending-time
  7. names
  8. contact info
  9. donation

where from? web, wiki?

“Religious ceremonies provide structured practices and rituals performed for spiritual purposes. 

“These include formal acts of worship, offerings, and observances that honor deities, beliefs, and traditions. 

“Ceremonies can range from community gatherings to individual devotions, often involving specific guidelines, prescribed actions, and the use of sacred objects.

“They may be linked to cultural practices, marriage, education, or monastic life, emphasizing purity, devotion, and the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment.”

https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/religious-ceremonies —

“Purpose of Ceremony in Religious Practice

“The purpose of ceremony in religious practice is multifaceted.

“Ceremonies serve as a bridge between the divine and the earthly, marking significant life events, seasonal changes, and spiritual milestones.

“They provide a sense of continuity with past generations, offer structure to spiritual life, and foster community bonds.

“Ceremonies are also a way for individuals to express their personal struggles or joys, such as weddings, which mark significant life transitions with spiritual significance.

“They contribute to psychological stability, identity, and the personal sense of self-worth.

“Ceremonies are constructed from the visual and performing arts, leaving lifelong lasting memories and permanent good effects.”

/ end passage

psyched. gives unconstrained cognitive control; “[ICC] Impaired Control and Cognition” & “[ANX] Anxiety”, per Studerus 11-Factors questionnaire : group presence — represented by group ceremony — supports and fills in for that lack of constraint.  

Constraint can elevate.  

To guide, direct, & structure, to asdr address issue problem: puddle of unprofitable. 

Psychedelics must be DIRECTED else random, unstructured, — must COMBINE the church’s official ceremonies + member disorganized events/ activities.  combine pros of both, against cons

Official Church Events vs. Member-Organized Events

Official Church Events (OCE)

Member-Organized Events (MOE)

Member-Disorganized Non-Events (MDNE)

Individual member non-event

Pros and Cons of Official & Member Events

OCE official events: pros

OCE official events: cons

member-unorganized activities: pros

member-unorganized activities: cons

‘Event’ vague, definition is assumed to be like official events/ ceremonies/ liturgies, though actually lacking structure

“event” implies pre announced & structured

MOE vs SOE 

MOE bring structure, like SOE?

the word “events” is misrep or undefined

OCE are projecting their level of organization onto MOE, which are actually char’d by lack of org’n. — can work on that; room for improvement, tho can be epic — even more than official events! but w chaos & problems

to constrain and steer experience?

symbols important

joint (smoke; repeated/ recurring) plant ritual or ceremony 

least dogma : complex doctrinal theology 

:: 

least ceremony : complex elaborate ceremony

importance of dogma? no

importance of ceremony? no

ceremony = journey collective 

my kajabi app posted photo of __

differentiate and integrate the personal, communal, & transpersonal

read aloud some church passages

Satsang is ceremony in some ways

Joint Smoking Group Ritual

Moderate Cannabis strains 5% THC, 10% CBD

  • Harlequin
  • Aliens on Moonshine
  • Cosmic Charlie

Passing a joint (which direction) is a sacred plant ceremony, & wondering the direction/ rotation

1/2 joint

2/3 of joint

3 hits each * # ppl in the rotation

technique

Academics’ Superstitions and Taboos: Why Assume that Any Plant Use = “Ritual”?

When arch finds plant evidence, asks “How did they use the plant in their rituals/ceremonies?”

I don’t like framing-words such as “experiment” (ingest plant) or “ritual” (ingest plant together)

Why do academics never let any current or past person simply use a plant?

Why must we always leap to framing, “ritual cult group” context?

“their” (a group) and “ritual” appear out of thin air, fabrications projected by academics — as fake as academic Buddhism filtered & constructed by the Religious Philosophy dept., vs. historical, actual, popular, practiced Buddhism.

How do writers so certainly judge that there is a so-called “ritual”?

Why do academics not discuss in terms of individual usage? or neutral “some people used”, as a modern individualist would say.

Say “use” and “person”, not “ritual” or “experiment” or “group”. 

Why do you always begin by framing as “ritual”? 

Explain what one person uses it is a one person ritual

claims about ritual

claims about ceremony

Everything academics since 1893 Swami Vivekananda say about “this religion versus that” is suspect (3 articles on sordid fabrication of “Buddhism as a religion” per Protestant Christian Western demands in 1893 (climate of modern progress & civilizational evolution) – advocates who created the modern Religious Philosophy department crafted static, imagined versions of religion, shaped by academics’ selection/sculpting.

Everything the official scholars (motivated by global political unity) say about mystical experiencing is suspect, mis-focused; too narrow; too “positive unity”  ONLY, omits the MORE IMPORTANT transformative dynamics, of 

selectively tuning in to eternalism-driven control-transformation

selectively tuning in to Positive Unitive mystical experience

4D Spacetime Mysticism; block-universe eternalism, that transforms the mental model of control-in-world.

eternalism-driven control-transformation 

fuller phrase:

analogies of psychedelic eternalism-driven control transformation

mental model transformation

from
literalist ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control 
to
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control 

that “embraces & includes” possibilism-thinking like Abraham sacrifices and preserves Isaac and receives viable god-conformant life (the Promise to Abram, as analogy not lit’m )

the way the academics name or characterize the altered state is suspect – the phrase “the positive unitive state” entirely omits & delegitimizes powerful dynamics of transformation as “not positive unity, therefore irrelevant & anti-mystical”

instead, call/ characterize the state accurately: 

the control-transformation state of consciousness 

academics say:
the positive unitive state of consciousness
central focus & boundary of concern

presumed, assumed.

more profound a characterization:
the control-transformation state of consciousness
the Classic central focus & boundary of concern – superior model and guide-sisng, sign, pointing the way to the control vortex {chariot fire whirlwind up to higher level} that adds eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking to have 2 POVs, 2 ways of thinking.

Importance of Ceremony in Mystery Culture eg Mithraism, Isis, Demeter, Christianity

Church fathers describe the Eucharist bringing community across spacetime together, per psilocybin Liberty Cap mixed wine 500 B C – 500 A D in Antiquity, Mixed Wine Psilocybin Wine

Mature as a group of completed intiates.

vs the eternalism-driven control-transformation SOC. 

the Control Transformation altered state

intense “mystic” altered state? 

intense control-transformation altered state 

common old theory wording & conceptual vocabulary paradigm

map

Egodeath theory lexicon & conceptual vocabulary paradigm ie eternalism-driven control-transformation 

control-transformation altered state 

the control-transformation state of consciousness 
ctsoc

the unitive state of consciousness 
usoc

the positive unitive state of consciousness 
pusoc 

purging in community

group support for challenging experience (requires mental presence by others; by the group– must know their state of consciousness)  

A community liturgy / ceremony / ritual is able to constrain dosage – eg ordained minister serve sacrament.

religious altered state community

build relationships integrating person, community, divine.

music, harmony 

sync possible? don’t count on it

psycho spirituality

the entire ‘ceremony’ 

the prep phase’s ‘ceremony’

prep

track each others’ asc level, who is in OSC

characterizes as “the Positive Unity SoC”

vs:

the surrender SOC 

the control-transformation state of consciousness 

the eternalism state of consciousness 

Alan Houot in his masters dissertation mistakes surrender as failure & not recognize it as a developed technology

Houot 2019 glorifies Indigenous Shams in a static caricature, (they “have control” on psilo)

& dismisses mystics as “pursuing loss of control & surrender (a failure of control)”, in a static caricature.

Indigenous Shams are superior b/c they have full control on psilocybin, b/c they have advanced technology eg journeying in the dark, whereas mystics lack such spiritual technology, evidenced by failure (ie surrender).

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery (Alan Houot, 2025) https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/24/rise-of-the-psychonaut-houot-2025/ & https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR
Has different theme: scientific explorer/ discoverer, not healing or religious.

Msh endures 425.

/ end of sections moved from
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/03/the-importance-of-least-ceremony/

Charles Stang, like Andy Letcher 2006 Shroom, Is Ignorant of Evidence

Ruck & Rush Work Against Christian psychedelics history too

John Rush 2nd edition back cover highlighted here, keeps shifting Christianity does and doesn’t have mushroom history – Christianity sucks, b/c it prohibited secret Amanita, and we know secret the “secret Amanita cult” existed b/c

Voice Recording 1234 notes

Letcher and Stang and MICA Deniers have not read “Conjuring Eden” including end notes and online image gallery.

Discussion with Ruck Committee, Paul Lindgren, & James Arthur cited in end notes.

2025 Accomplishments

2007 main article fell short re: core theory & re: myth analogy, both fixed in 2025:

Fixed core theory by adding concept of 2POV: you don’t get rid of using possibilism-thinking; use it all the time. you gain add’l POV/ way of thinking. Rebis w/ male head & female head. Victory Dionysus parade chariot, explained now the image for 2007 article.

Threat comprehension is greater part of wisdom – to be enlightened is to understand vulnerability and being under threat, in the control-transformation state of consciousness

1988

1997 outline = 1510 Copernicus’ draft circulated; vs 1543 Copernicus’ published version circulated; vs. 1687

It Took 177 Years for the Revolutionary Change from Ptolemy’s/ Aristotle’s Geocentric Old Model to Copernicus’ Heliocentric New Model

During 1510-1687, it took 177 years to switch from the Old Theory to the New Theory, which marked start of modern science.

Charles Stang denies and insults and cheaply dismisses and motbailey shifts “there’s no evidence of ergot eucharist” thus “there’s no evidence of history psychedelics Christian.
Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art (MICA)

January 5, 2026 – 3-hour voice recording

0:00-15:00 tech, voice, skip

topics:

  • I’m furious about the continuous stream of Establishment academics, and even Ruck Committee all eager to deny psychedelics in Christian history.
  • Ruck: “Thanks for yet more evidence that psychedelics were absent from Christianity, though they were secretly used by heretical groups, and by 1-2 individual officials, and by the monks and nuns” (ie, Christianity eliminated psychedelics, though “returning crusaders repeatedly re-introduced the Amanita secret gnosis”.
  • The Holy Mushroom p. __ – “heretical”, “monks”. Ruck tries to restrict.
  • Elsewhere, Ruck restricts to a couple, exceptional officials.
  • Irvin’s AstroSham 1 Conclusion tries to restrict Amanita Gnosis to “kings and elites”.

0 a.m. January 6, 2026

What’s There to Be Afraid Of? Psychotic Universal Puppethood

November 29, 2025 – expanded from 1 year ago:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/30/whats-there-to-be-afraid-of-identifying-the-shadow-dragon-monster/

Article I Wrote in 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elQGTyqx2x8&t=1157s (19:17)
Video title:
Why America (REALLY) Supports Israel

Why Literalism Kills, through Politics – Video: “How the Church Used Israel to Control Christians – The Hidden Agenda EXPOSED!”

{Israel} = the set of people who undergo transformation from possibilism to eternalism. That’s the esoteric meaning or “decoding”.

Start by analyzing the myth of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in isolation without any later accretions (additions, modifications) such as the idea of literal circumcision.

Read the Bible from Genesis to that point, Genesis 22 (the sacrifice of Isaac), as if the story ends there – that’s the best foundation for myth decoding. Keep that separate from later Old Testament accretions and New Testament accretions.

Video title:
How the Church Used Israel to Control Christians – The Hidden Agenda EXPOSED!
Channel: VerseFire
Uploaded Oct. 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwkQlempnk

Cites My Work: “It Is Christian Zionists Who Will Be Left Behind – 10/19/25 By Pastor Chuck Baldwin” [Joke]

Oct. 20, 2025

Christian Z’ism is a kind of literalism and substitution (magical thinking) to prevent actual psychedelic control transformation, transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Video title:
It Is Christian Zionists Who Will Be Left Behind – 10/19/25 By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtv6Nqhg7fE&t=3420s (57:00)

Transcript of end of video:

“Christian Zionists have always been the glue that holds Zionist in power in Washington DC.

“It’s the Zionists, it’s the Christian Zionist that are keeping this charade afloat.

“Oh, sure, the [A.] lobby has its part toplay, no doubt.

“But as Scott said, without the Christian Zionist evangelicals, they would not be able to hold it together.

“So that means it’s Christian evangelicals.

“It it is the first century Judaizers reincarnated in the United States ofAmerica preaching the same perverted gospel that the Judaizers preached in the days of the Apostle Paul.

“And look at the result that is taking place on a national and international level because of the apostasy of these evangelical pastors.

“But the anti-Zionist train is leaving the station.

“People all over the world are already on the train, and now even a majority of the United States citizenry is on the is on board.

“Hallelujah.

“The only ones who are still playing games in the train station trying to convince themselves that Scofield told them the truth and that the rapture is really going to pull them out of the fire that they themselves set with their phony first century Judaizer bewitchment doctrines of the Christian Zionists.

“Amen.

“The entire world is seeing the light about the pseudo-“Israel” state.

  • “Libertarians are on the train.
  • Democrats are on the train.
  • Independents are on the train.
  • Middle-aged people are on the train.
  • Young people are on the train.
  • Progressives are on the train.
  • A large segment of conservatives are now on the train.
  • Candace Owen’s followers are on the train.
  • Tucker Carlson’s followers are on the train.
  • Jimmy Dore’s followers are on the train.
  • Joe Rogan’s followers are on the train.
  • Dave Chappelle’s followers are on the train.

“Ditto for Colonel Douglas McGregor, Professor John Mirsheimer, Ron Paul, Lou Rockwell, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Phil Turney, Max Blumenthal, Tim Brown, and on and on.

[57:15]

“Christian pastors and podcasters such as pastor Tommy McMurtry, Steven Bon, David Knight, Michael Hoffman, Scipio Iodites, Jerry Barrett and hundreds more are on the train.

“Billions of people worldwide are leaving the train on the train leaving the Zionist cult.

“I leave you with this.

“Back in 1995, Christian Zionists Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins wrote a book about the rapture called Left Behind.
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Behind-Collection-Descration-Indwelling/dp/B06XCQPNTD/

“Well, now it’s 2025, and the trains are pulling out of the Scofields phony-Israel doctrine.

“So, as it turns out, it will be the Christian Zionists who are left behind.

“Let’s stand.”

Transformational Festival Culture: What kind of music is Desert Dwellers?

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/09/06/desert-dwellers-paul-stamets/

West Coast Downtempo Dub Electronic Psytrance: Desert Dwellers https://desertdwellers.org/bio/ in 3 days Friday Sep 5, 2025.
Search web: “Desert Dwellers”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Desert+Dwellers%22
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Desert+Dwellers%22

What kind of music is Desert Dwellers?
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+kind+of+music+is+Desert+Dwellers%3F
“Desert Dwellers’ music is best described as psychedelic bass, downtempo, and tribal electronic music, blending deep bass with world music, ethno-electronic sounds, and trance influences to create “sonic incense for the mind and body”. The duo of Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe creates both meditative chill-out tracks and powerful dancefloor experiences, making them a cornerstone of global electronic and transformational festival culture.”

  • psychedelic bass
  • downtempo dub
  • tribal electronic
  • deep bass
  • world music
  • ethno-electronic
  • psytrance
  • meditative chill-out
  • powerful dancefloor
  • global electronic
  • transformational festival culture

The “Author Disclosure Statement” section of long-awaited Hopkins “Religious Leaders Study”

Top-Down Elite Psychedelic Science (the Psychedelic RenaissanceTM) Gets Egg on Face, Embarrasses the Field

[inspired by Max Freakout, with Cyberdisciple, in Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 21: Max made a point like:

“The false narrative that popular festival partying with psychedelics are the cause of Prohibition, so let us top-down elites do serious, credible, sound scholarship.”]

omg found it: 9:51 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN07w2bjEMg&t=591s
vid title: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Episode 21

The field is Overdue for Internal Correction.

End of the “Author Disclosure Statement” section of the long-awaited Hopkins “Religious Leaders Study”:

“The Johns Hopkins Medicine Institutional Review Board (JHM IRB) conducted an audit of the JHU site (IRB00036973—“Effects of Psilocybin-facilitated
Experience on the Psychology and Effectiveness of Professional Leaders in Religion”) and concluded that

the following must be reported to all journals and disclosed in all publications where data related to this study may be published:

(1) There were two unapproved study team members, one who was also a study funding sponsor, directly engaged in the research.
[FIELD-EMBARRASING FAIL!]

(2) There was an additional approved study team member whose role as a funding sponsor of the study was not disclosed to the IRB and who directly led the qualitative analysis.
[FIELD-EMBARRASING FAIL!]

(3) Conflicts of interest related to the two individuals who were engaged in the research and also served as funding sponsors were not appropriately disclosed nor managed.
[FIELD-EMBARRASING FAIL!]

(4) The funding sponsorship for this study was not disclosed
to the JHM IRB.”
[FIELD-EMBARRASING FAIL!]

Facebook Msgs to Mark Hoffman by Sep 3 2025

Fbk Friended Ruck/ Mark Hoffman

Extremely delighted to see “Ruck accepted”. I check facebook regularly, every 10 years. But w/ you here, and Max F., gives me a reason to check facebook more often, like once every 5 years.

Article Sent to Church Reader

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/recognizing-mushroom-imagery-in-medieval-art/

This article draft ready to submit to E- (SG Community church. Our new regional “church Plant” group! vs. Oakland/Berkeley (Pastor B).

2 POVs

Although article is a success, i might add “two POVs” to this 2-page article’s list of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, b/c there’s lots of “looking” and “two faces”/ “two heads” motifs in Great Canterbury Psalter. Rebis with two heads/genders = Hermes/Aphrodite = male/female = child/adult POVs. Not a zero sum game; end up w/ two POVs, in both states. https://egodeaththeory.org/…/recognizing-mushroom…/ In the ecstatic state, the first POV remains, but awareness moves outside that, and sees that mental model from outside of it, and eventually the mind secures the add’l POV, even in both states.

Father Lineage: Transpersonal Psychology

My father gave me a huge head start in Transpersonal Psychology in high school til mid-university.

Legal Phil of Psychedelic Churches

You and I should really converse. Interesting big-brain debates discussing gray areas for a mutli-plant church: official church celebrations seeming to conflict with non-official group gatherings.

Topics to Discuss with Carl Ruck

To Restore Its Credibility, Entheogen Scholarship Must Come Clean and Own Up to Wasson’s Deceitful Academic Obstructionism

Wasson was a Misleading (lying), Lifetime Actor, Maximum Conflict of Interest as Banker for Pope, Lied about Mushroom-Trees, thus:

“Yes, Wasson Certainly Screwed Over the Catholic Entheogenic Reformation” [Wink.]

I will envision what you and I could talk about. Fun times:

The elite chide, “don’t screw it up like “recreational” peasants did in 60s and caused – your fault – Prohibition.

omg found it: 9:51 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN07w2bjEMg&t=591s
vid title: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Episode 21

Leave it to us elites.

But then, the Hopkins Grifty team, creme of the creme, TOTALLY messed up the Hopkins “Religious Leaders Study”, see its “Conflict of Interest” section: “Do not cite this article, it is a massive failure of Science.”

The “wise and cautious elites” did exactly what they lectured the peasants not to do: throw caution to the wind, and embarrass psych research and mess up the Psych Renaissance[TM]. FIASCO

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<– dancing man Talking w/ TK soon – we half agree, but might have opposite views, re: certainly entheogen origin of religion (“Evidence?”

I generate evidence as-needed; there is no shortage of evidence, its a myth.) We’re having much fun poking fun at psych snake oil & psych pseudo science.

Extreme Affirmer of mushroom imagery in Christian art

Clarification in case you don’t know I’m an extreme advocate of the maximal entheogen theory of religion:

It’s a myth that there’s a shortage of evidence for mushroom imagery in Christian art.

With the right interpretive theory, there is far more than sufficient, amazingly ideal evidence for mushroom imagery in Christian art.

That has been proved, and there are only logical fallacies, used by deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

The Egodeath Theory Core Theory Is a Product of California [Mostly Central; also Entire State]; the Mytheme Theory Is a Product of Seattle

bay area

  1. Sacramento 1974
  2. Stockton 1975-1990
  3. Palo Alto 1991-1996
  4. Santa Cruz 1997
  5. Seattle 1998-2025

I met Sunil Aggarwal in Hempfest lecture tent (Seattle, ~2004), and Jack Herer, who I introduced to Sally.

Sunil invited me to church.

Sacred Garden Community church had big Church Plant of SGC in Seattle on May 18, 2025, authenticated by God molecule and Terrence-grown vine.

Sunil and two women were ordained that day.

Pastor Bob’s multi-plant, Least Dogma church is leading-edge, based in Oakland/Berkeley, now with a Seattle church plant by God.

Topics I’d Discuss with Ruck at Spring Mysteries Festival in April 2026 – Dr. Secret and the Evil M. Hoffman

I should forward u emails

My email yesterday to John R listing topics I’d discuss with Ruck at Seattle’s 2026 fest:
Subject: Spring Mysteries Festival | Rituals | ATC https://www.springmysteries.com

Spring Mysteries Festival, April 2-5, 2026

I wish I went to David Samas’ expert Amanita ceremony with my church. Limited time & $.

Search web: “David Samas”
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22David+Samas%22

“Amanita Is Your Heritage” (ie Psilocybin Is Not Your Heritage)

I was not happy with David Samas twice, during church service & book club, telling people “Amanita is your heritage” — as if Europe lacks a fully developed history of psilocybin use.

The medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} says otherwise – a MORE developed use of psilocybin than Indigenous Shams underutilizing psilocybin.

I picture the Liberty Cap cap-on-sword above the bull-dining scene on back of the reversible tauroctony.

Liberty Cap is widely distributed, so is a strong candidate for main engine of the Mysteries, even north of the 30th Parallel/ Italy.

Your article starts w/ huge Amanita section, ends with a miniscule psilocybin section (“someone oughtta look into this” [me handing him mirror]).

Consider the reverse emphasis; Amanita imagery has always been the billboard for psilocybin use, even to today in headshop art, same as ever.

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/22/reversible-tauroctony-mithraism-bull-sacrifice-scene/

Pseudonym “Mark Hofmann”

Against Winkelman’s misunderstanding in email, the only time I used pseudonym like “Mark Hoffman” was 1 post, in 1997 Feb, at Principia Cybernetica site, my core theory spec’n alias “Mark Hofmann” – which is how a certain YouTube thumbnail conflates your name w/ Albert Hofmann; as “Mark Hofmann”.

I Started Entheogen Scholarship in 1998

I entered the field of entheogen scholarship in 1998, with a pretty fully formed core theory of psychedelic mental model transformation.

My 1997 Core Theory:

  • lacked concept “end up w/ marriage of 2 POVs across 2 states”; expected crude entire wholesale switch – a mistaken expectation and crude model; I was surprised to see in peak meditation, that I still – shocker [eye roll] – continued to employ egoic freewill thinking.
  • lacked the terms, concepts, or concept-labels:
    • possibilism vs. eternalism.
    • branching vs. non-branching.
  • I had only a hazy idea that myth and art depicts by analogies, the core theory. My 1997 Core Theory spec deliberately avoided analogies/ metaphors, rather than leveraging and reading mythic analogies adeptly like in my 2006/2007 main article. eg by 1997 Feb, I was reading Gnosis magazine.

/ end of msgs to “Carl Ruck”/ Mark Hoffman

I Plan to Soon Add Transcription of Crazy Third Episode of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast with Guest Kafei

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/27/commentary-on-tk-podcast-episode-16/ – Kafei’s 3rd appearance on Transcendent Knowledge Podcast.

My page for Kafei’s 4th appearance on Transcendent Knowledge Podcast
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/06/tk-podcasts-commentary/
already has the full transcript.
todo: review/ re-read that page, since I now emailed the Egodeath community some updated points re: the 3rd appearance of Kafei.

todo: copy to here, the past week of emails to Cyb/ Max [/Loop] – including thread to Erik Davis / James Kent, “Freakout in the Psychedelic Science Lab”.

  1. My red pill phase 1 2015 by Jan Irvin, as advised by Daniel Boon, PhDTK.
  2. My red pill phase 2 2018 by Murdock and YouTube, I deleted a span of posts to Egodeath Yahoo Group during this awakening, including thread (according to email to James Kent), “Freakout in the Psychedelic Science Lab”.

todo: forward some to Mark Hoffman.

Email to wrmspirit Sep 3, 2025

Follow Advancements in the Egodeath Theory on a 6-Month Basis

The best approach is probably to check the Egodeath theory site every 6 months.  

I always traditionally re-took stock of my progress of theory development every 6 months, since like 1988.

If you follow too closely, it can look like repetition.  

But each spiral pass, makes an increment of essential improvement, like recent development of a quite different framing of the relation between possibilism-thinking vs eternalism-thinking as the mind develops

Marry the Two POVs

Recent development of a quite different framing of the relation between possibilism-thinking vs eternalism-thinking as the mind develops – so to speak, crudely, “from possibilism to eternalism”.

That’s a misleading, broad phrasing, given that daily life, and even the peak state, always is shaped as possibilism-experiencing.

In the altered state, gain (per ecstasy; standing outside of egoic thinking), a POV outside of possibilism-thinking, while possibilism-thinking always remains present.

There was a big step in theory development recently, in how to conceptualize and describe “mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism”.  

Caution: The initiated mind never “gets rid of” possibilism-thinking, despite the shorthand “from possibilism to eternalism” seems to imply a wholesale switch.

control transformation / psilocybin transformation of the mind is a marriage of POVs, not a wholesale switch of POVs that does away with the first POV.

My discussion with you of “marry two opposite points of view” paid off, or was made good and confirmed.

The Egodeath theory is on much firmer ground, after I recently got rid of any trace of disparaging the initial mental model (possibilism-thinking), as if we get rid of possibilism-thinking and entirely switch to the 2nd mental model (eternalism-thinking).  

Ever since 1996 visit with God’s power over me again, I puzzled: “Why am I still using WRONG THINKING, I thought I GOT RID OF that freewill-based thinking.”

With discussions with you, to positively present the Egodeath theory to Sacred Garden Community church, I finally GOT IT: 

You *keep* and always use the initial thinking, but, slightly and profoundly modified – after adding the other, 2nd, alternative mental model.  

We do not annihilate and “get rid of the immature error of” possibilism-thinking; rather, we marry it to its opposite, eternalism-thinking, like {rider on horse/donkey).  2 POVs.

The outcome for the Egodeath theory: added the key concept, “2 POVs, across 2 states”, that was counterintuitive to my crude / brittle thinking since like 1996, where my experience contradicted my (false, a zero-sum game expectation).  

You do not “do away with” the initial POV/ mental model; you always continue to heavily use possibilism-thinking — but now add a 2nd, different POV on that mental model/ mental functioning.

Egodeath Community = Ardent Advocates 

The Egodeath Community is a joke concept, so maybe you are a true member.  

Like Jerry Brown is now a member of the group he disparaged as the Ardent Advocates (extreme Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art).

Else the other option is for the Browns to say – absurdly – that the Walburga tapestry is not Amanita.  

Browns’ terrible, credibility-cancelling reasoning for that was “serrated base in tapestry rules out Amanita” — an embarrassingly novice/ elementary, mistaken botanical assessment.  

Actually, the tapestry’s serrated base confirms that the image matches Amanita, as a glance at the cover of Schultes’ 1976 book makes instantly clear.

Phenomenology vs. Metaphysics

the answer to those questions seemingly resolved by understanding and respecting the difference between Phenomenology and the Metaphysical.  There becomes a more realistic balance in life when remembering and  re-realizing the difference between both. 

That sounds like:

altered-state based Philosophy vs. 

ordinary-state based aka “armchair Philosophy”.

“Stop critiquing other scholars”

I am advised to “stop critiquing other scholars/theories” and “just focus on delivering my scholarship/ theory”.  Half truth, unrealistic.  

It is beneficial to analyze the Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, as well as state what actually is the case, for my two topics:

* How the mind transforms in the altered state.

* How that was depicted via analogies throughout history, in myth & art.

/ end of email to wrmspirit

Email to Michael W, Aug 28, 2025

Gordon Wasson’s publicly stated conclusion/position about mushroom-trees, vs. his privately held conclusion/ view/ position about mushroom-trees:

Important point about the semi-false claim at end of a Wasson article submission I reviewed for the [publication]​, the claim that lacked any citation:

The author was largely correct in saying Wasson surely must have concluded that all mushroom-trees mean mushrooms, BUT, we must differentiate between Wasson’s publicly stated position/conclusion, vs. Wasson’s privately held position/ conclusion.

And, must discuss Wasson’s active attacking of people who asserted that mushroom-trees mean mushrooms. 

Irvin owns that point, in 2008 book The Holy Mushroom. 

Against Ruck 2001’s creative retelling of Wasson’s history, inventively inverting how Wasson publicly acted on this topic.

Ruck 2001 (“Daturas for the Virgin”) slips and says “Wasson’s conclusion” = mushroom-trees mean mushrooms – which Wasson never PUBLICLY asserted.  

Wasson had maximum conflict of interest, as a banker for the Pope.  (Browns 2019, Journal of Psychedelic Studies​.)

Jan Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom catches Carl Ruck for saying “Wasson’s conclusion” immediately after Ruck asserts all mushroom-trees mean mushrooms – which Wasson never publicly asserted, and rather the opposite: Wasson insulted, berated, and pressured mycologists who asserted that mushroom-trees mean mushrooms.

I agree with the author of the draft article that surely Wasson must have [PRIVATELY] concluded mushroom-trees mean mushrooms – but Wasson [PUBLICLY] ACTED as if he believed the opposite.  eg p. 180, SOMA, 1968, the censored Panofsky passage paragraph.  

The article’s author should have made that sharp distinction, not just write “concluded” without specifying Wasson’s private vs public stance (affectation).

By Writing “Wasson’s conclusion”, Ruck Leaked that Wasson Knew that Mushroom Trees Mean Mushrooms
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/16/wasson-told-ruck-he-knows-that-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art-means-mushrooms/

Gmail Threading UI Maze

You wrote “always lost in this threading UI at Gmail” – thank you for saying that!

I was just experimenting with the Gmail UI when forwarding your 2023 email to my colleagues, about a possible mushroom-trees or “mushroom imagery in Christian art” article.

My variant expansion of MICA: mushroom imagery in Christian art, not Browns’ expansion of MICA as “mushrooms in Christian art” — to shut out Ronald Huggins’ nonsense move, where Huggins argues: “The overall item doesn’t match A MUSHROOM” – which is beside the point; it is mushroom elements, freely combined.

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter [particularly the Day 3 panel – YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE.] 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)

I learned a little from the Gmail Forwarding experiment.

— Michael Hoffman, Aug. 28, 2025  Egodeath.com

Cancelled Email 9 p.m. August 28, 2025

To review for Houot conversation:

Will post in our email thread w/ Houot:

Critique Houot’s master’s thesis b/c about fear, “surrender” and control (see also standard acro: 

Surrender = Trust, Let go, Be open (TLO).

E-Z Nav: https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Alan-Houot –> Thesis

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Got Much More Confirmation than Expected, in f134, of at least Pairing of Figures, as well as “2 POVs” motif eg guy has two opposite faces

Is that the ancient “two faces” forward & backward motif? Likely.

Two Faces, One Looking Forward, One Looking Backward – Drunk Looking into Reflection Vessel SEEING HIMSELF from an Outside Vantage Point – Villa of the Mysteries

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Villa+of+the+Mysteries%22

2 POVs, Church Reader Article

I was able to slip-in “2 POVs” motif yesterday in article sent to editor of Church Reader – and today, I sufficiently confirmed… I well-confirmed that motif is present, I suppose MORE THAN EXPECTED, in f134 (Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter).

A pretty big success today, finding lots of “2 POVs” eg 2-headed people, and, {beard guy + no-beard guy} is CERTAINLY a theme in f134 folio image, including:

Row 3 middle: one guy has no L leg; other guy has no R leg; THEY ARE PAIRED MORE STRONGLY than I realized.

Decoded {two pairs of eyes} = the two experiential states, mental models, and vantage points of awareness, eventually present across both states of consciousness

grokked in email last night to Max / Cyb / Loop, Aug. 26/27, 2025

in ecstatic loose cognition state peak window, awareness is outside of the personal control system rather than embedded in the personal control system and not able to observe the personal control system from outside of it. “beside” the egoic mind = behind

New Academic Derby Team: The Indigenous Shams, Joining in Combat the Salvation Salesmen, the Meditation Hucksters, the Witches, and Dr. Secret, against the Monks

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/04/03/teams-in-the-interpretation-derby/

  • the Ardent Advocates
  • the Logical False Deniers

Sent Article to the Editor of the Church Reader: Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art, Last-Minute Addition: 2 POVs

7:12 p.m. August 27, 2025

changed author/date note to:

Michael Hoffman, August 27, 2025, for Sacred Garden Community Church Reader, Issue 1

Last minute changes or additions:

Mushroom motifs list:

  • two sets of eyes, for the two experiential states, mental models, and vantage points of awareness
  • open or closed scroll or book

Changes in the intro to the Examples section:

Appended:
showing that European religious history includes the advanced use of psilocybin mushrooms and the peak psychedelic state.

from:
bright sun disk of fire & light
to:
bright sun disk of fire and light

Why is claiming the peak psychedelic state strategic?

  • To add the word “psychedelic”, as in, medieval art is psychedelic art.
  • To not leave anything on the table.
  • To fully claim maximum psychedelic experiencing for Europe history.
  • To not permit other cultures to make a stronger claim, and to raise the bar higher than they can reach.
  • Also put the attention on the fully developed maximum experience, not only on dosage.
  • Like me having to make the most extreme statements, to prevent evil future-me from outdoing present-me.
  • To set the bar as high as possible and reach the highest possible bar of achievement.
  • To set the objective/goal as high as possible.
  • To make the greatest possible claim.
  • Not merely “advanced”, but specifically, the most fully advanced use of psychedelics. previously wrote: coined: Europe history has fully developed use of psilocybin.
  • To emphasize contrast with low-dose or medium-dose.
  • To maximize the contrast between tight cognition and loose cognition, per “two POVs”.

Changed date to today’s date, August 27, 2025, since I added significant item, 2 POVs, developed or realized in emails to Max/ Cyb/ Loop last night.

Stability list changes

Added:

  • balancing on right leg, or on toes

In the Stability motifs list, this combination is not present:

  • stable entryway

God’s Flesh: Teonanácatl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom (Irvin, 2022)

God’s Flesh: Teonanácatl: The True History of the Sacred Mushroom (Irvin 2022)

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

Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634312783 —

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/

My book review:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2SAVVNCJPM16A/
Michael Hoffman

⭐️
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 5 of 5 stars
A Timely, Needed Corrective in the Field of Entheogen Scholarship
August 20, 2025

We’re Through Being Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HH_jher3c —

Combat Teams in Psychedelic Culture: Shams vs. Mysts

Pushy militant dogma:

European Mystics Need to Grovel & Beg Permission from Indigenous Shamans, who Own Psilocybin as the Crown Jewel of High Civilization including Surrenderism, which is the Highest Technology

Retort:

Indigenous Shamans Need to Grovel & Beg Permission from European Mystics, who Own Psilocybin as the Crown Jewel of High Civilization including Surrenderism, which is the Highest Technology

Crop & annotations by Cybermonk, March 27, 2023

Culture Combat Teams in Psychedelic Science: Shams vs. Mysts

what about Scientists vs. Mystics (ie, Johnson vs. Griffiths).

they mean by “mystics“, Unitive model of mystical experience. not the Relational model of mysticism.

psychedelic pseudo science conflates mysticism w/ Unitive. If we reject mysticism, we reject Unitive? No.

We should embrace mysticism and Relational ie 2-level, dependent control per eternalism. per myth, art, Christianity, Jewish rel, etc.

Not mysticism[Unitive], rather, mysticism[Relational].

Units vs. Rats [unitive, relational]

per Houot 2019 master’s thesis.

Psilocybin is the crown jewel of European religious history. Not merely present. Not merely as good as Indigenous. Towering. Real mystical experience is hard to deal w/, so by 1687, forgot-plot reached 0.

Unitive != Universalist/ Peren/ Essen; There’s Relational Universalist/ Peren/ Essen (the Egodeath theory , myth, art, Science)

Unitive = psychedelic pseudo science

Relational = real Science = the Egodeath theory model of mental model transformation in loose cognition. includes surrenderism, against Houot.

inferior Psilocybin usage by Indig to find missing keys or bury-alive their own children. per Irvin & Hatsis new books. Against Houot , who says Sham’s have full control, mystics suck because surrender.

per Houot 2019 master’s diss:

  • Sham = have full control via dance, sing, drum.
  • Mystics = surrenderism = failure, no control.

the reverse is the case.

Mystics, w/ their summ psychedelic surrenderism, are superior to Shams.

Indig. Shams need to beg grovel ask permission from euro mystics.

Mystics Suck and Have no Control and are Low Tech; Shamans Rock and Have Full Control and are High Tech (Houot 2019 master’s thesis)

Shamans Suck and Have no Control and are Low Tech; Mystics Rock and Have Full Control and are High Tech

can’t say that, b/c …

in a sense it is valid, to say “mystics have full control”.

you would not say that, in light of 2-level, dependent control.

Against Houot, I don’t think any real Sham or Myst claims full control per his thesis. Naive thesis, for both Shams and Mysts.

per Houot master’s thesis 2019.

If you put down Euro mystics, and glorify Indig shamans,

Put Down Euro Mystics & Glorify Indig Shamans

Put Down Indig Shamans & Glorify Euro Mystics

If you put down Indig shamans, and glorify euro mystics,

Master’s Thesis 2019: Mystics Suck and Have no Control and are Low Tech; Shamans Rock and Have Full Control and are High Tech

That is the P C propaganda – militant Indigenous narrative as in Houot 2019 master’s diss, and switched the words “shamans” and “mystics”.

Houot 2019 says:
Mystics Suck and are losers, have no control; do Surrenderism.
Shamans have high tech, full control. High tech = drum, sing, dance.

thesis committee throws a party, he gets degree.

Flip valuations:

Shamans Suck and are losers, and
Mystics have high tech, full control.

Thesis committeed freaks out.

Mystics are superior to Shams b/c mystics surrender ie have Relational fully dev’d.

“doesn’t relational mean literalist”? no

do not conflate Unitive model of mysticism with [universalism & perennialism & essentialism]

Just because I say the Egodeath theory / Transcendent Knowledge is [universalism & perennialism & essentialism] does NOT imply (against everyone’s confused assumption) its core engine is the Unitive model of mystical experience.

actually,

the Egodeath theory = the Relational (not my term, but equiv.) model of [universalism & perennialism & essentialism]

Rejecting Unitive in favor of Relational – as the model of mysticism – does not imply getting rid of [universalism & perennialism & essentialism].
as everyone wrongly assumes

Greek myth = Relational mysticism, and is [universalism & perennialism & essentialism].

3 position combinations:

  1. psychedelic pseudo science holds: Unitive mysticism + [universalism & perennialism & essentialism]
  2. Strass advoc Relational mysticism + particularism
  3. psychedelic eternalism: Relational mysticism + [universalism & perennialism & essentialism]

position 3 (theory 3) = the Egodeath theory = psychedelic eternalism. rejects particularism – but do not assume that means asserts Unitive. Strass conflates Relational = particularism
Unitive = universalist

Notation:

~=
“is associated with”

monolithic, autonomous control ~= Unitive model of mysticism
2-level, dependent control = Relational model of mysticism

You can be universalist (peren., essen.), while rejecting Unitive and asserting Relational.

As do the Egodeath theory (= Science); religious myth; good esotericism; & religious/ esoteric art.

exoteric esotericism agrees with Strassman.

Strass assumes: [draft:]

exoteric = Relational

esoteric = Unitive

New Page: All Writers Assume the False, “Unitive” Model of Mysticism (Covert Neo-Advaita) vs. Control-Transformation

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/21/the-false-unitive-model-of-mysticism-held-by-everyone/

Strassman re: William Richards’ book Sacred Knowledge (Email from Kafei, July 12, 2025)

section added 7:48 a.m. August 21, 2025

todo:

inspect list of podcasts, 4 Transcendent Knowledge ep’s?

Find my first post about Wilber = Advaita. date? vs., on what date did i a few weeks ago, figure out that psychedelic pseudo science uses Unity model that’s bunk and then I made the connections, when did i first ask: HEY, IS MY OBJECTION TO UNITY, DIRECTLY APPLICABLE TO EVERY WRITER I DISRESPECTED? WILBER [CONFIRMED!]; … a few weeks ago, I ran a scientific prediction test: on what day did I recently ask: “Try detecting the Unity model in every article & book in the entire field of Transcendent Knowledge”: date: ____ — 91 hits on “unit” in 2015

create webpage post against the Unity model of mysticism, link to Taves article and Breau article.

Is there any difference of scope or focus of Taves article vs. Breau article? Are they both focused on debunking and spotlighting the dubious Unity model of mystical experience?

tell Kaf the Moving Past Mysticism article is added to sidebar nav.

ask Kaf to read that page, what does he think, as the expert on the writings of the Great Mystics?

done:

send Kafei my draft email composed for Kitchens last night, discussing misunderstanding by Kafei.

email this section to Kafei

send the email draft to Kitchens

ask Kitchens if we’re talking today – in thread about that (which see). next week.

read Strassman’s review pdf of Wm Richards’ book Sacred Knowledge.

ask Kafei opinion on bunk Unity model of mysticism vs. control transformation model. state that I disliked Richards – i figured out the other day when i discoverted that my criticism of the Unity model of mystical experience (“enlightenment = temp experience of cessation of mental construction of the self/other boundary”) turned out to apply to all writers.

Jimmy

https://www.rickstrassman.com/blog/

https://www.angelfire.com/id2/alexg/din/all-calls.html —

Lists many podcasts, I think, that Kafei was on. Only seems to list 2 of 4 Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episodes:

  • Max Freakout TKP Episode 16
  • Max Freakout TKP Episode 26
  • what about ep. 12? missing
  • what about ep. 13? missing

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/ —

  • Episode 26, December 26, 2020 – Kafei (appearance 4), Cyberdisciple
  • Episode 16 (2019-11-17) Kafei (appearance 3)
  • Episode 13, May 19, 2019 – Kafei (appearance 2)
  • Episode 12, May 12, 2019 – Kafei (appearance 1)

Kafei wrote:

“Dr. Rick Strassman also wrote a book review that is quite reflective of his views on Dr. William (Bill) A. Richards’ book:

“Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experience”
https://www.rickstrassman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/JPS_Strassman.pdf

which you might find of interest, if you haven’t come across it yourself.”

Bubble of Simulation (Hoffman, 1994)

Photo credit: Michael Hoffman, 1994, Fringe Ware Review
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/the-bubble-of-simulation-subjective-experience-as-a-virtual-environment-hoffman-1994/

God Is to Blame for Every Control-Thought Past and Future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-Calvinism

Lifted Up Resurrected from Rock Ossuary by Christ Directed by Mystery God Rescued from Threatening Demon

1:50 a.m. August 21, 2025 – rescued from threatening demon

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Aug. 21, 2025
Crop by Michael Hoffman
Crop by Michael Hoffman, Aug. 20, 2025

Psychedelic Injustice (Hatsis, June 2025): Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art = Secret Christian Amanita Cult Theory

= the Sacred Mushroom Conspiracy Theory

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/

Hatsis’ Leading-Edge 1970 Entheogen Scholarship

When reading this impressive book, I’m at the very leading edge of 1970 entheogen scholarship.

p. 259, Psychedelic Injustice, Thomas Hatsis, June 2025, notes by Michael Hoffman, for scholarly study
p. 260, Psychedelic Injustice, Thomas Hatsis, June 2025, notes by Michael Hoffman, for scholarly study

When Did Abram Become Abraham? Is God’s Promise to Only One, Chosen Nation?

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/20/gods-promise-to-abraham-is-to-many-nations-not-just-to-one-nation-gen-17/

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