Michael Hoffman 9:40 p.m. August 21, 2025
Contents:
links work on desktop Chrome/Edge:
- Motivation for this Page
- July 4, 2022: Morphology: branching-message mushroom trees
- 1997 Core Theory Spec at Principia Cybernetica
- March 9, 2014 Coffeehouse Guest Book Summary
- August 1988 First Draft, Handwritten, Minn. – The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
- Chalkboard Lecture, Video Link, Dec. 3, 2013
- Post-It Note Summary of Mono-Possibility Tree of Asclepius
- Electrical Engineering Class Notes
- Main Binder: Fall 1987; thru Dec 1987
- Binders from Above
- 1988 Art Blank Book
- Page 485, Binder Sheet, Oct. 19, 1987
- Michael the Archangel, 1991 Art Blank Book, Ink Brush
- Post-It Note, Appearance vs. Reality
- Worldline Snake Transcends the Block Universe, Art Blank Book, 1991, Liberte, Le Univ Bloc
- 1988 Hand Draft 1, Binders, Art Blank Book, Draft 2 Printout
- Hand Binder Sheet, Giant Shifting Words
- Hand Notes: Branching
- Art Blank Book 1994: Cross, Blotter, Ouroboros, The Illuminated Intellect
- Hand Binder Sheet Cube Slices
- Hand Binder Sheet Diagram
- Spiral Notebook Sheets Engineering Class Notes
- p 525 Break on Through, Typical Acronym Shorthand Powerful
- Hand Binder Sheet: Mind, Drawings
- 2012 1986-Style Blank Book, Pentel P205
- 1986-style blank book 2 pages
- 1986-style blank book front cover
- Blank Book, P205
- Oct. 13, 1987 Hand Writing Binder Sheet
- Hand Binder Sheet
- Hand Written with Pentel P205 Mechanical Pencil on Binder Sheets, Daily Idea development, Late 1987
- Binders Factored ~2011 New Binders, Now Per-Semester: Spring 1986-Summer 1989; 1990 Blank Book; Aug 1988 Draft 1 Handwritten Minn. Draft; Printout of Word Processor 2nd Draft
- Fixed-Space Word Processor Files No Paragraphs, Heavy Acronyms, 1987
- Sep 2006 Done but Not Done Main Article (Sep. 2007): Intro on Sep Webpage; Nested Sentences Too Long
- History of Finalizing Article from Sep 2006 to Sep 2007
- Email 1 to Strangeloop “Server Down”
- I Didn’t Email Strangeloop Before, Had Semi-Hidden Contact to Discover
- Printed Version of Egodeath.com
- Contacts
- Why Have Two Websites: Backup
- Email 2 to Strangeloop “Can You Upload Pre-1988 Writings from the Way of Zen by Alan Watts to Block-Universe Eternalism, Discovering Watts’ Failure to Mention Determinism (Unlike Balsekar)?”
- How I Got from Way of Zen to Block-Universe No-Free-Will in Jan. 1988
- My Early, Short Psyched. Perception article, 1994
- Making a book from My Dense Text Files 1987; Binder Sheets 1987; Way of Zen Copy
- The 4-5 Topics Brought together for Jan 1988 Breakthrough
- Minkowski Book, “the Absolute Four-Dimensional Spacetime World”
- Amnesia, Project of Reconstructing Timeline Intellectual Autobiography
- See Also
Motivation for this Page
Titles of this Page
1987 Idea Development Notebooks from Interrogating Way of Zen to Adding Missing Determinism Key, to Discover Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence Breakthrough
Photo Credit: All Photos: Michael Hoffman 1986-2025
Today I read the 2001 email from Strangeloop asking about my pre-1988 writings that bridged from intensive interrogation of the Way of Zen by Alan Watts, to my Jan 11, 1988 breakthrough.
Server gallery month of upload the set of photos: Dec 2020
These photos are surely in posts here in Dec 2020 – with some writeup. Faster to redo now.
Not Able to Find Which Articles Dec. 2020 Show These Photos
Search this site: binder sheets Pentel P205 1987
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=binder+sheets+Pentel+P205+1987
found earliest:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/07/idea-development-page-9/#Formatting-Considered-Harmful
Tried idea development pages Dec 2020, only found 1 pic.
ERROR: Site Map lacks 2020-2022 pages list in temporal order – really need all pages in chron order list. todo: Check private dashboard.
March 21, 2022 = email to Brown writing for first time “branching-message mushroom trees” ie THE BRANCHING IS THE PAYLOAD MESSAGE, NOT WHIMSICAL!” vs Marcia Kupfer marked-up passage Brown emailed me, cutting branches in St. Martin rotund youth.
July 4, 2022: Morphology: branching-message mushroom trees
Huggins asks about Plaincourault fresco w/ trident under crown.
1997 Core Theory Spec at Principia Cybernetica
March 9, 2014 Coffeehouse Guest Book Summary
Both Pages
Religious Myth Deciphered
Appearance vs. Reality
August 1988 First Draft, Handwritten, Minn. – The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
Chalkboard Lecture, Video Link, Dec. 3, 2013
Search this site: chalkboard video
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=chalkboard+video
Search Egodeath Yahoo Group site: chalkboard video
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=chalkboard+video – found the announcement post:
Subject: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Dec. 3, 2013
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-124/#message6349 –
Video: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/photos/albums/1651450143 – “The religious myth portion of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence. This photo is proof of my priority of discovery of the following:
“tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism (2 models of time and personal control power).
“This is the key to religious myth, which I discovered and figured out. I also have a great 2GB video lecture 17 minutes long explaining this chalkboard, that I will upload. I am emailing key professors and theorists. University of Washington, Loew hall, room 220 (Electrical Engineering).”
Post-It Note Summary of Mono-Possibility Tree of Asclepius
Pike Place Market SAC Gym Coffeehouse, End 2013-Early 2014
Electrical Engineering Class Notes
Main Binder: Fall 1987; thru Dec 1987
Binders from Above
5th binder = Summer
based on examin pic & memory:
- Spring 86 purple – used blank books
- sum 86 black – used blank books
- fall 86 blue – used blank books
- spring 87 red bright – changed to binder sheets
- sum 87 flat red thick – looks like thick Fall 87
- fal 87
- spr 88
- sum 88
- fal 88
- spr 89
- sum 89
- fall 89
1988 Art Blank Book
Page 485, Binder Sheet, Oct. 19, 1987
Michael the Archangel, 1991 Art Blank Book, Ink Brush
Post-It Note, Appearance vs. Reality
Worldline Snake Transcends the Block Universe, Art Blank Book, 1991, Liberte, Le Univ Bloc
search site:
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=Le+Univ+Bloc
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=Liberte
1988 Hand Draft 1, Binders, Art Blank Book, Draft 2 Printout
Hand Binder Sheet, Giant Shifting Words
Hand Notes: Branching
Art Blank Book 1994: Cross, Blotter, Ouroboros, The Illuminated Intellect
right-hand handwriting, which was bad: lost Left hand, had to extremely work to recover it in 2008
Hand Binder Sheet Cube Slices
Hand Binder Sheet Diagram
Spiral Notebook Sheets Engineering Class Notes
p 525 Break on Through, Typical Acronym Shorthand Powerful
Hand Binder Sheet: Mind, Drawings
2012 1986-Style Blank Book, Pentel P205
1986-style blank book 2 pages
1986-style blank book front cover
felt, P205
Blank Book, P205
Oct. 13, 1987 Hand Writing Binder Sheet
Hand Binder Sheet
Hand Written with Pentel P205 Mechanical Pencil on Binder Sheets, Daily Idea development, Late 1987
- left hand
- all caps
Binders Factored ~2011 New Binders, Now Per-Semester: Spring 1986-Summer 1989; 1990 Blank Book; Aug 1988 Draft 1 Handwritten Minn. Draft; Printout of Word Processor 2nd Draft
Fixed-Space Word Processor Files No Paragraphs, Heavy Acronyms, 1987
Sep 2006 Done but Not Done Main Article (Sep. 2007): Intro on Sep Webpage; Nested Sentences Too Long
- Lacks intro condensed: excusable: the MORE detailed content is present in article webpage.
- Nested sentences in sentences: excusable: I converted (for readble-aloud) to shorter sentences, but content is same/ is all present.
History of Finalizing Article from Sep 2006 to Sep 2007
Wrote 60-page excellent 2006 Allegro article for Journal Higher Crit w/ input Jan Irvin.
Re: Entheogen Theory Egodeath article:
What is totally f’d up: 2006 fail:
- sep 2006: I developed an Intro ABOUT this article – a summ. of it — on the home page of Egodeath.com
- 2007: had the good sense to start article w/ that condensed “progressive disclosure” summary.
- Sep 2007 I read-aloud and found too-long, nested sentences. Fixed those, to finalized in Sep 2007. Thus, “2006 / 2007 main article”.
- Next day, alas, found the word ‘eternalism’, shoulda replaced ‘determinism’. Kafei ran into that problem after 2007 main article — ETERNALISM IS AS FAR BEYOND DETERMINISM AS DETERMINISM IS PAST FREEWILL. Not possible to redefine determinism; its meaning is tightly fixed: domino-chain determinism w/ open non-existent future; eternalism has fully closed future. Big diff’c.
Email 1 to Strangeloop “Server Down”
Sent Aug. 21, 2025
2020
Egodeath.com = 2007
I Didn’t Email Strangeloop Before, Had Semi-Hidden Contact to Discover
Answer to my Search question:
No, I don’t find records of emailing Strangeloop before.
Printed Version of Egodeath.com
I envy Strangeloop reading printed Egodeath.com.
Content posted at Egodeath Yahoo Group from start in June 2001-Feb 14 2004 is both at:
* the Max Freakout Archive of Egodeath Yahoo Group and
* Egodeath.com.
It’s all absolutely gold content, I’m always blown away too much to read it much.
I’m composing a sep. email for Strangeloop, but found this curious finding:
Contacts
I should be more assertive in asking for contacts from Max (/Cyb).
It turns out that I had Strangeloop’s email/name, but extremely hidden in present thread which caused me to copy Cyberdisciple and make 2nd website:
https://EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com =
Egodeath Yahoo Group archive
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com
10/10 content quality, amazing to search
Why Have Two Websites: Backup
Verio.com host recently renamed to …. something else. Unreliable host.
todo: search crawl my two WordPress sites.
— Cybermonk
Email 2 to Strangeloop “Can You Upload Pre-1988 Writings from the Way of Zen by Alan Watts to Block-Universe Eternalism, Discovering Watts’ Failure to Mention Determinism (Unlike Balsekar)?”
How I Got from Way of Zen to Block-Universe No-Free-Will in Jan. 1988
Sent Aug. 21, 2025
Hi Strangeloop,Today I read your unread email sent via Contact page, Jan. 10, 2021.
My Early, Short Psyched. Perception article, 1994
6 Years After 1988 Breakthrough
3 years before 1997 Theory Summary Spec
My 1994 zine article, metaperception.
Making a book from My Dense Text Files 1987; Binder Sheets 1987; Way of Zen Copy
Printing Out then Analyzing my Idea development Notes: Oct 1987- Feb 1988, how exactly did I get from the Way of Zen by Alan Watts, to
Strangeloop wrote:
“Any chance you could
download [upload] your typed pre-1988 breakthrough material to this site, where you were figuring out the “no-freewill” solution to the book The Way of Zen?
(Nov/Dec 1988)
EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com = https://egodeaththeory.org
Records available:
* (April 1987-Jan 1988 – Handwritten binders sheets)
* (Aug 1988: 1st draft of The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence: P205 Pentel pencil on binder sheets, Minn.)
* Late 1988: Mac floppies of v1 of Egodeath site = first drafts late 1987 of article for the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, “the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence”.
* June 1987 – 1989 Word/PC text files
* Copy of The Way of Zen by Alan Watts. See article in This Is It but alas I didn’t find that article summary, until after Jan 1988, but, same thought process. I could tell you how to get from there, to the no-free-will breakthrough, by adding 4 other topics listed below.
I can remember the thought process.
I can read my notes in the book Way of Zen by Alan Watts – I can read that book copy, and tell you which passages were key but best tip is:
forget the Way of Zen by Alan Watts, instead read the article in book This Is It: “Zen and the Problem of Control”.
The question is completely familiar, I think I may have posted this response on a webpage to you. I don’t think we used email for such a question before.
Answer:
Impracticable, but possible. It would be good to know – but hard to do meaningfully. That’s why I kept paper archives 1986-1990, for that purpose you asked.
I couldn’t read the Mac floppies from 1988. No idea why not. The content migrated into Egodeath.com, re: my word processor articles.
The 4-5 Topics Brought together for Jan 1988 Breakthrough
(“Why didn’t Watts just write ‘determinism’ [eternalism]?!”
It is extremely slow going, reading my handwritten idea development prior to Jan. 11, 1988 breakthrough combining:
* Minkowski block-universe eternalism ; 4D Spacetime Mysticism
* loose cognition ASC
* Control Systems coursework
* self-help/ metaprogramming
Pulling those together, was the key, then I exclaimed “Why didn’t Watts ever write anything saying ‘determinism’?!” by which I meant, eternalism.
Determinism is on the bad end of a spectrum of variants; my eternalism (w/ control transformation aspects that Wm James rejected in 1890s, “The Dilemma of Determinism”), is at the good extreme of the spectrum.
Determinism is weak and clueless, opposite of Eternalism. Roughly:
1. freewill
2. Determinism
3. Eternalism
ie, go from freewill to determinism, then go equally far to finally get to eternalism.
The Dilemma of Determinism (James, 1897) Is Against Eternalism, Not Causal-Chain Determinism
Minkowski Book, “the Absolute Four-Dimensional Spacetime World”
The 2nd Edition of the Minkowski 4 articles book by Petkov intro is great intro.
Conclusion: the term to use per book is: “the Absolute Four-Dimensional Spacetime World”
Psychedelic 4D-Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/11/psychedelic-4d-spacetime-block-universe-mysticism/
Petkov book.
One form of writing during 1987 is the best: text computer files June 1987 through 1988.
Those text files have no CRLF whitespace/ paragraphs; giant paragraph shorthand – again, pretty tough and slow jungle.
It’s possible to turn such materials into a bound printout PDF produced on demand book cheaply.
Would require work, and a strange book but I kept records for that reason. I have hard drives that have the files.
Amnesia, Project of Reconstructing Timeline Intellectual Autobiography
I had serious amnesia, I discovered, when started hiatus Jan 1, 2008, because since 1985 I had been blasting forward, forward, always looking forward, leading edge, never reviewing:
How did I get here? I could not remember! Scary. I had to re-construct my intellectual autobio; timelines. Which I then had in hand when returned from hiatus Sep 2011 3.75 years later, major threat at Egodeath Yahoo Group called “Intellectual Autobiography“.
During hiatus 2008-2009, I had awesome art pictures diagrammatic in the main article 2007, but, failed to comprehend the YI branching vs. nonbranching. To grasp that finally in 2023,
* During 2008-2010, I speculated walking forest preserve forking paths photo’ing mushrooms every October, I thought:
Didn’t Greeks have Cog Sci and knew 4-D block universe? Along w/ loose cognition?
Then Nov 2011, Nov 2012, Nov 2013, I decoded branching in myth.
2015 xmas: Isn’t “Dancing Man” stand on right foot = eternalism mental model?? Hard to confirm. … Test this scientific hypothesis.
…
2020 Nov: Confirmed, jackpot! Great Canterbury Psalter, Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter. At web May 2008 by John Lash, 2/5 of 1 of 3 rows of 1 image.
Then Cyberdisciple provided 2020 too-dark full res, Great Canterbury Psalter.
I was slow to finally in March 2023 comprehend ALL of the art pieces I had since like 2004, re: YI branching vs nonbranching = possibilism vs. eternalism.
That became the theory of the set of 4: {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, summarized in my psych’d Church Reader article yesterday:
- Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art — added few more key mythemes in the compact list – well less than 2 pages of text!
Trick (attn: Cyberdisciple): I removed tons of words by not listing features for a specific image.
2 pages of text + 1 tall picture page + 2 pages w/ two images each.
Pleased w/ the dense article. The keys to everything, there. Church, a newly ordained woman praised it, I am glad.
My 1988 draft article – equiv = 2007 main article.
1st draft was hand written in Minn. I have it. Then about 6 printouts of that via the orig computer center w/ glass wall and ivy covered univ buildings.
/ end of email
See Also
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The Egodeath theory 