Michael Hoffman, 6:20 p.m. Jan. 24, 2026
Contents:
links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:
- “Perception of Eternalism” page at Effect Index
- Kins’ Commentary
- Michael Hoffman’s Commentary
- Quantum Mysticism vs. Block-Universe Mysticism
- Motivation for this Page
- Trying as Hard as You Can, to Save from Dread Fate, to NOT Perceive Eternalism
- Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State
- Mytheme Decoding (Motif Recognized): {hand mushroom-tree} = Mushroom-Tree with 4+1 Caps
- The Central Experience and Story in the Best Mystical Experience is not Unitive, but Rather, Eternalism-Driven Control-Transformation
- Josie Kins Effect Index Site Is Back Up – Now Down Again, Like a Yo-Yo
- Email to Psychedelic Church Pastor S, Jan. 24, 2026
- Fallacy: You Must Repudiate and Do away with Freewill Thinking, to Affirm Block-Universe Eternalism
- Psalter Reader Image
- Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
- “Donnie Darko” “The Philosophy of Time Travel” (book written for in the movie)
- See Also
“Perception of Eternalism” page at Effect Index
https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism
https://pub-879bfd45a9774f1c80a8b77aca1f0aee.r2.dev/Time_is_connected.png —
Caption:
The image above represents how a person under the influence of this component would view themselves as an organism.
This is often described as being a singular structure which stretches through the physical dimension of time alongside of all other identically behaving structures which the universe as a whole is entirely comprised of.
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Perception of eternalism can be described as the experience of a major alteration of one’s perspective of the fundamental mechanics behind the linear continuity of time moving from the past to the present to the future.
During this state of mind, it feels as if all points across the timeline of existence are equally “real” and are occurring simultaneously alongside each other.
Every point in time is felt to exist regardless of the person’s current position within the overall timeline, much as all points in physical space persist regardless of the observer’s location.
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While all moments are felt to be equally real, the directional flow of time is felt to be maintained, with the present always being the moment which is currently experienced.
All moments in time are still felt to be linked together by causality, the past necessitating the present, which necessitates the future, and so forth.
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A common conclusion that is reached during the experience of this state is that although one’s life inevitably will end, it will apparently persist forever within its own timeframe and is therefore perpetual despite not being infinite in its length.
Birth and death are therefore seen as merely the start and end points of the range of time that a person exists in eternally, if not experiences eternally.
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This sudden change in perspective starkly contrasts with the standard perception of time in which only the present is felt to exist, while the past no longer is and the future is yet to be.
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Perception of eternalism is often accompanied by other coinciding transpersonal effects such as unity and interconnectedness and feelings of interdependent opposites.
It is most commonly induced under the influence of heavy dosages of psychedelic compounds, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline.
Kins’ Commentary
Perception of eternalism is one of a handful of subjective effect components that has had a substantial impact on how I view myself and the universe around me.
I first experienced this effect during a state of level 4 unity and interconnectedness while under the influence of a heavy dose of Ayahuasca.
It was one of the most profound experiences of my entire life.
I truly felt that not only was I the entirety of existence experiencing itself through this body, but that this moment and all other moments would continue to exist eternally within their specific time frames.
Although I am acutely aware of how it is impossible for me to genuinely know if this is true or not, I have found it to be a perspective that is very difficult to shake off after having this experience a number of times.
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Before experiencing this effect, I had never considered or even heard of the various similar metaphysical schools of thought that exist as relatively mainstream concepts within the field of philosophy.
However, after having had experienced this state of mind numerous times, I happened upon a large number of relevant concepts that include ideas such as eternalism, four dimensionalism, growing block universe, perdurantism, and the b-theory of time.
Each of these concepts have their Wikipedia articles linked to within the See Also section of this page.
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As an intellectual concept, the B-theory of time is especially interesting to me as it is relatively well supported by the physics community.
In summary, B-theory posits that the flow of time is an illusion, that the past, present, and future are equally real and that time is tenseless.
Its support is seemingly due to its apparent compatibility with theoretical physics and the fact that many theories such as special relativity, the ADD model, and brane cosmology are considered to point to a theory of time similar to B-theory.
However, I feel that it is important to note that I do not have a remotely in-depth understanding of theoretical physics and that although these theories are in support of notions similar to this experience, I am not entirely sure that their ontological implications can be asserted within science and outside the realm of philosophy or metaphysics.
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Regardless of whether or not the nature of time is genuinely illusory, it is truly fascinating to me that without any prior knowledge, myself and many other psychedelic users can experience incredibly specific states of mind that seem to line up with entire philosophical theories.
This holds true for a number of transpersonal effects and is something that I’m deeply passionate about doing my absolute best to both document and discuss without descending into any degree of pseudoscience or hippy babble.
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Michael Hoffman’s Commentary
- 2 POVs Married: End Up Permanently Having Two Vantage Points of View, Across Both States of Consciousness
- The Spectrum of Determinism Positions: from Free Will to Determinism to Eternalism with Control Aspects
- The False, “Unitive” Model of Mysticism Held by Everyone
The above includes discussion of DOMINO-CHAIN DETERMINISM – as least as an experience, if not as a metaphystical/ ontological assertion definition by Kins.
Carefully assessing/disputing what Kins is asserting here, is relevant for my present article.
During & after enlightenment, the mind’s experience is shaped in the form of egoic domino-chain causality– well, actually, it’s shaped as branching into open future ie possibilism branching.
RELYING on that model & its personal control model of virtually monolithic, autonomous control, is unstable.
Does relying on domino-chain determinism produce loss of control?
Quantum Mysticism vs. Block-Universe Mysticism
Keyboard Shortcuts/ Acronyms; Potent Concept-Handles
bad, not viable for Pop use: “4D spacetime “.
better for pop use is: block-universe eternalism; block universe
“Pop” means stay close to normal daily common language; avoid specialized technical jargon like “4D spacetime”.
block universe
bu
4D spacetime block-universe mysticism
fsbum
Block-Universe Mysticism
blum
unity mysticism
um
boundaryless unity mysticism
bunm
4D Spacetime Mysticism
fsm
Quantum Mysticism
qm
Motivation for this Page
It took me an entire hour to locate my backup of Josie Kins’ “Perception of eternalism” page, since the Effect Index site is down yet again.
I wanted to show a journal editor the Effect Index “Perception of eternalism” page, showing that I’m not the only one who claims eternalism is a psilocybin effect.
Also struggled to find my Petkov page for the Minkowski book. Now expanded that page:
Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/
The Egodeath theory/ Egodeath.com is the headquarters for experiencing eternalism and perceiving eternalism.
Image of trying
Trying as Hard as You Can, to Save from Dread Fate, to NOT Perceive Eternalism
Idea Development page 32 > Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/24/idea-development-page-32/#dogged-avoidance-of-perceiving-non-branching-in-the-eternalism-experiential-state
No harm in copypasting portions of that section to here:
Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State
Michael Hoffman 9:10 p.m. Jan. 24, 2026
Mosurinjohn’s feeble, motte position:
“There’s inconclusive evidence for psychedelics in mystery religions.“
Uses that stance when marketing her scholarship to entheogen scholars.
Mosurinjohn’s aggressive, bailey position:
“It’s a myth that psychedelics were in mystery religions.“
Uses that stance when marketing her scholarship to “anything but drugs” academics.
When she ventures out from her feeble, motte position (“there’s inconclusive evidence for psychedelics in mystery religions”) into her aggressive, bailey position (“it’s a myth that psychedelics were in mystery religions”), she can’t stand hearing the {mushrooms}, {non-branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.
Dog Trying to Avoid Perceiving Eternalism
fullscreen / f109 crops
In the same folio image f109 is a {hand mushroom-tree} and YI hand shape representing perception of eternalism, contrasted vs. the usual experiential mode, of possibilism.
making it official at 10:02 p.m. Jan. 24, 2026:
Mytheme Decoding (Motif Recognized): {hand mushroom-tree} = Mushroom-Tree with 4+1 Caps
When I figured out branching-message mushroom trees, was that a “mytheme decoding”? Seems like different term’y is needed for visual art.
Or equivalent variant.
{hand mushroom-tree}
hmt
the eternalism state of consciousness
esoc
the possibilism state of consciousness
psoc
the eternalism experiential mode
eem
the possibilism experiential mode
pem
fullscreen / f109 crops
Asp (Serpent) Trying to Avoid Perceiving Eternalism
The serpent is trying not to hear.
L foot = branching = possibilism-thinking = ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control – unstable on psilocybin loose cognition; gives way to:
R foot = non-branching = eternalism-thinking = psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control
The Central Experience and Story in the Best Mystical Experience is not Unitive, but Rather, Eternalism-Driven Control-Transformation
INSTEAD of (Positive) Unitive, the REAL central effect is eternalism-driven control-transformation. vs. the Pop model, Popular Neo-Advaita, nondual boundary-suspension.
As if Transcendent Knowledge = not having self-other boundary.
Actually, Transcendent Knowledge = mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism, to add eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking.
(Positive) Unitive is not a concern of myth or mythic art, disproving the fake, made-up, invented-in-1893 Unitive model of mystical experience.
Josie Kins Effect Index Site Is Back Up – Now Down Again, Like a Yo-Yo
The Effect Index site is like a Yo-Yo, like my Egodeath.com site host. which is why present site exists, copying Cyberdisciple.
Effects Database entry on “eternalism”, showing that I’m not the only one focused on this effect of psychedelics.
https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism
That site is down yet again.
Here are copies of the “Perception of eternalism” article at Josie Kins’ Effect Index ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Josie+Kins+Effect+Index ):
Today, on Jan. 24, 2026, the Effect Index site is down AGAIN.
The Effect Index site was 404 around December 2024.
https://www.effectindex.com/effects/perception-of-eternalism
https://www.effectindex.com/people/josie
The day I finalized my main article in Sep. 2007, I found the terms ‘eternalism’ and ‘superdeterminism’, immediately after; that was my next post, that same day.
Email to Psychedelic Church Pastor S, Jan. 24, 2026
Quantum Mysticism vs. Block-Universe Mysticism
Block-Universe Mysticism 🤜💥🤛 Quantum Mysticism
4D Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism 🤜💥🤛 Manyworlds Branching, Quantum Mysticism
In Physics, Quantum Physics is set against Relativity.
Thus there’s not only a Quantum version of Mysticism, which is popular; Quantum Mysticism.
There’s also (but no one knows about) 4D spacetime block-universe mysticism (4D spacetime mysticism; Block-Universe Mysticism.
Quantum Mysticism is a virtual dogma of this psychedelic church, which you demolished the hegemony of, by presenting a slide deck on Alan Moore: block-universe eternalism, ~Aug 21, 2025. 🏆
– thus encouraging me to break through and complete my article for the church Reader.
I had to correct my impasse of “get rid of freewill”, which is not how our experience works.
We never “get rid of” our freewill-shaped experience, but add to it the eternalism POV, point of view, experiential perspective.
Fallacy: You Must Repudiate and Do away with Freewill Thinking, to Affirm Block-Universe Eternalism
We don’t need to say:
“You must repudiate and do away with freewill thinking, to affirm Block-Universe Mysticism/ eternalism”.
We can speak in terms of ADDING block-universe eternalism experiencing, to the usual freewill branching thinking (possibilism-thinking), in terms of how experiencing (phenomenology) works.
Forget ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, Philosophy Dept. theory – not relevant.
In 1988, I discovered the eternalism version of mysticism, based on Minkowski, who wasn’t credited in the church slide deck.
Minkowski was Einstein’s math professor, who provided the math framework that Einstein required, to move from mere special relativity (no acceleration) to general relativity.
Minkowski died right when Einstein affirmed instead of rejecting his math framework, and Minkowski didn’t promote his views enough, so he’s under-credited.
Petkov’s book says Minkowski had a more profound understanding of “absolute four-dimensional spacetime” than Einstein.
Petkov would dispute your word-choice, “relative”.
The main website about experiencing eternalism is mine; analogical psychedelic eternalism.
Minkowski’s Block Universe
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/
To reconcile the opposed models, we end up with two ways of thinking: we start with
Manyworlds Branching, Quantum Mysticism
and then qualify/limit that, and add also the opposite:
4D Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism
That “adding” was really hard for me to grasp, and was blocking me from presenting to our church or writing an article for our church.
Throughout 2025, that was high pressure on me, ever since the Reader editor invited me to give a talk to our psychedelic church, and then invited me to contribute to the Reader.
I solved that big problem in April-August 2025, with your slide deck (presented in church) encouragement, an amazing surprise.
Solution: 2POV; we end up with two points of view, perspectives: possibilism and then also eternalism.
I never would have expected in church to hear about block-universe eternalism.
4D spacetime block-universe mysticism is the unknown competitor to popular branching-possibilities (freewill premised/ freewill-reifying) manyworlds, Quantum Mysticism.
Psalter Reader Image
Relative Finger Height = Loss of Control vs. Restore Stable Control
2023/03/14
per Eadwine’s rules in this particular folio image f134:
Left finger closer to ground = {stand on left foot} = possibilism-thinking = unstable control
Right finger closer to ground = {stand on right foot} = eternalism-thinking = stable control
There’s our church Reader.
Prepping my article & talk for the Reader, put the effective pressure under me to fix some of my framing. To avoid your harsh framing of “no-free-will” that’s objectionable.
Solution:
We do not “get rid of” freewill thinking or possibilism-thinking.
The opposite of eternalism is NOT presentism, as everyone wrongly says.
The opposite of eternalism is possibilism – thus ultra ancient myth theme, {tree vs. snake}:
{tree} = possibilism = literalist ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control
{snake} = eternalism = block-universe eternalism = analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control
Had a good email thread today with:
- editor of psychedelic journal
- Jerry Brown (The Psychedelic Gospels)
- Classicist Psychedelicist Cyberdisciple
Cyberdisciple published with Jerry Brown at Graham Hancock site, against the naysayer Thomas Hatsis.
Hatsis vigorously asserts psychoactives in Western religious history,
and yet, vigorously denies mushroom imagery in Christian art,
because he lives in a tiny bubble conflating the entire, general topic of mushrooms in Western religious history, with the narrow, particular topic of Pop, “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” theory.
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, and Ecstatic States
2018, Thomas Hatsis
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis, 2018)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/
Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
2025, Thomas Hatsis
My review: A Timely, Needed Corrective in the Field of Entheogen Scholarship
Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance (Hatsis, 2025)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/
Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/
“Donnie Darko” “The Philosophy of Time Travel” (book written for in the movie)
An invented book for the movie
quick copypaste from idea development page 32:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Donnie+Darko%22+%22The+Philosophy+of+Time+Travel%22
What’s the book about time, in the movie Donnie Darko?
AI’s answer:
“In Donnie Darko, the book about time is titled The Philosophy of Time Travel, written by the character Roberta Sparrow (also known as “Grandma Death”).
“It is a fictional text that serves as a guide for the movie’s events, explaining the mechanics of the Tangent Universe, the dangers of unstable time, and the roles of the “Living Receiver” (Donnie) and the “Manipulated”.
“Key details about the book’s content include:
- The Tangent Universe: The book explains that when the Fourth Dimension is corrupted, a “Tangent Universe” is created. It is unstable and will destroy the Primary Universe if it collapses.
- The Artifact: When a Tangent Universe occurs, an object from the real world—the “Artifact”—appears in the new, unstable one (in the movie, this is the jet engine).
- The Living Receiver: Donnie is described as the “Living Receiver,” who is chosen to guide the Artifact back into the Primary Universe to stop the collapse.
- Water and Metal: The book explains that water and metal are key elements for constructing time portals.
- Purpose: The book provides the rules for the world the characters inhabit, helping to explain the strange, apocalyptic events, such as the falling jet engine.
“The book was written for the film by director Richard Kelly to explain the plot and was included on the official DVD.”
/end of AI answer
See Also
Site Map > Block-Universe Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#The-Block-Universe
Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/
- How Branching and Non-Branching Represent Two Mental Models of Control-in-World
- The “All At Once” Universe Shatters Our View of Time (Emily Adlam)
- Psychedelic 4D Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism
- The Dilemma of Determinism (James, 1897) Is Against Eternalism, Not Causal-Chain Determinism
- Astral Ascent Mysticism: Standard Basic Model for Transcending Eternalism
- 2 POVs Married: End Up Permanently Having Two Vantage Points of View, Across Both States of Consciousness
- The False, “Unitive” Model of Mysticism Held by Everyone
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