The Egodeath Theory Corroborates Carl Ruck’s Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm

Michael Hoffman 6 p.m. Jan. 25, 2026, in appreciation of the work done by Carl Ruck, a pioneer of the Psychedelic Mysteries paradigm.

Photo by Michael Hoffman

Contents:

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Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s Articles and Videos

Mosurinjohn’s Appeal to Gullible Pop Followers

Mosurinjohn’s gullible, Pop audience, eagerly misled by her yellow-journalism, crude, unscholarly, inflammatory rhetoric, gleefully laps up the cheap swill she serves.

Debunking the Psychedelic Theory of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Winslow, Aug. 2025)

Debunking the psychedelic theory of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Henry Winslow, Aug. 2025
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henrywins_what-do-joe-rogan-a-freshly-minted-neoshaman-activity-7361038406467948546-63ak —

“What do Joe Rogan, a freshly minted neoshaman, and half the speakers at psychedelic conferences have in common? They all love telling people that the ancient Greeks’ rites of passage were psychedelic ceremonies. According to this popular theory, the secret sauce behind the legendary Eleusinian Mysteries was ergot-laced barley that sent initiates on revelatory, near-death-like psychedelic journeys. But is it even true?

“Researchers from Queen’s University think not. So they just dropped a thorough takedown of the whole theory in the journal Psychedelic Medicine. Drs. Sharday Mosurinjohn (whom I interviewed in April) and Richard Ascough systematically dismantle what they call “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis,” pointing out there’s zero archaeological evidence for psychedelics at Eleusis. They say proponents are presenting speculation as fact, and the entire narrative is built on shaky foundations and circular reasoning.

“So why does the myth persist? The authors argue it’s about legitimacy. People want to believe there’s a ‘respectable’ Western pedigree for psychedelics with our European ancestors. Never mind that there are plenty of Indigenous lineages around the world that have preserved psychedelic wisdom for millennia. If we need history’s stamp of approval to justify research and policy reform today (we don’t), surely that’s enough.”

/ end of Winslow’s Pop Slop post

Editors’ Introduction to Psychedelic Medicine (March 2023)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1089/psymed.2022.0007

  1. We scrubbed clean all of the vessels, as competent, anything-but-drugs academics.
  2. There’s zero archaeological evidence.

Article: Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience (Mosurinjohn & Ascough, Jul. 2025)

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience
Sharday Mosurinjohn & Richard Ascough
July 2025
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/28314425251361835
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/psychedelics-eleusis-and-the-invention-of-religious-experience-mosurinjohn-ascough-2025/

Abstract

Introduction

“This article corrects an idea in psychedelic science and culture that the ancient Eleusynian Mysteries used psychedelics, as claimed by Carl Ruck and co-authors in The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), revitalized by Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name (2020), and popularized by social media heavyweights such as Joe Rogan.

Methods

“It begins by exposing critical methodological flaws in the arguments, namely, a pattern of presenting claims, followed by mild circumstantial evidence, rhetorically solidifying the interpretation of this evidence into a “fact,” on which is built each subsequent round of conjecture.

Analysis

“We then explore how the dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages contributes to the project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs and revitalize experiential religion.

Discussion

“Although the desire for legitimacy and meaning is understandable, the strategies used by the writers of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism.

“Their writing attempts to show that a relatively new practice is the old, true religion, in this case, the “religion with no name” that underlies every religious tradition.

“In doing so, they miss seriously relating to the many well-documented historical and living Indigenous histories of psychedelics, or seeing contemporary psychedelic practice in continuity with other, and maybe even older, nonpharmacological methods of changing consciousness.

“Overall, the “psychedelic Eleusis” discourse focuses on the purported Eleusynian drug and its phenomenology rather than focusing on practices for taking up the spiritual injunctions of those psychedelic experiences.

Conclusions

“We conclude that, given how the psychedelic hypothesis is fundamentally flawed in its study of antiquity, it is a shaky foundation on which to build an argument for modern psychedelic use for therapeutic and spiritual practice.

“Since scholarly research is key to moving forward decriminalization, legalization, medical regulation, and other roles for psychedelics in society, it is crucial that scholars and popular audiences communicate effectively around psychedelic history and culture.

“Instead of committing to a specific (and erroneous) view of history, psychedelic scholarship must commit to academic discussion and debate.”

My analysis and commentary is in a copy of this Abstract, or of the similar, Conference Schedule’s summary of the talk, below.

Conference Schedule’s Description of the Talk (Mar. 5, 2025)

https://www.psychedelicsandreligion.info/schedule –

“This talk responds to the idea that the ancient Eleusynian Mysteries were psychedelic, as claimed by Carl Ruck and co-authors in The Road to Eleusis (1978), revitalized by Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key (2020), and popularized by the Overton window-widening Joe Rogan.

“It begins by exposing critical methodological flaws in the arguments, namely, a pattern of presenting claims, followed by mild circumstantial evidence, and then rhetorically solidifying the interpretation of this evidence into a “fact,” on which is built each subsequent round of conjecture.

“In The Road To Eleusis, a speculation like “It seems obvious that an hallucinogen must have induced it” (2008: 47) immediately furnishes the next premise “To identify the Eleusynian drug…” (2008: 47) that begins the following paragraph.

“I argue that these writers’ dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages has to do with wanting a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs.

“This myopia is rooted in colonial violence that precludes seriously relating to the many well-documented Indigenous histories of psychedelics, as well as a sort of functional fixedness that prevents seeing contemporary psychedelic practice in continuity with other, and maybe even older, non-pharmacological methods of changing consciousness. 

“I conclude that, given how the psychedelic hypothesis is fundamentally flawed in its study of antiquity, it is a shaky foundation on which to build an argument for modern psychedelic use for therapeutic and spiritual practice.

“I also report on the multi-year history of the rejection of the manuscript on which this talk is based as it is emblematic of the way popular audiences and scholars fail to communicate around psychedelic history and culture, even as psychedelic bioscience scholarship is at the centre of today’s social mainstreaming.”

Entheogenics: Psychedelic Experiences as Revelatory Events in the History of Western Esotericism (Mosurinjohn, Forthcoming)

Her book title doesn’t sound very “DESTROYED RUCK’S MYTH”.

She’s like Hatsis the narrow selective denier; so many parallels:

Psychedelics in mystery religions? You are stupid and insane and not allowed to study Western psychedelics.

… but me, I am allowed to assert psychedelics in Western Esotericism, no problem.

YOU are pathetically motivated, illegitimate, a chump chasing fantasy evidence that is not there (looking for psychedelics in mystery religions).

*I* have proper, noble motivations (to look for psychedelics in Western Esotericism).

It’s perfectly fine to have psychedelics in Western Esotericism.
It’s beyond the pale and impossible, to have psychedelics in mystery religions. Totally different!

psychedelics in Western Esotericism

Title translation: Psychedelics in Western Esotericism.

She reveals that she is allowed to do colonialist violence, and is exempt from her own dictate, that you’re not allowed to try to look for psychedelics in Western religious history, but are exclusively commanded to study Indigenous Shams instead.

(Oh, that was me in the past sentence. Doesn’t count; forget about it. In this subsequent sentence, I’m taking an entirely different arg’n tact/ ploy/ angle/ strategy, to see what sticks and what blows up in my face.)

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

Pompous title. Me: Psychedelics in Western Esotericism.

Her two incompatible positions she waffles between: Talking out of both sides of her mouth, balanced and subtle Dr. Jekyll, and frothing potion Mr. Hyde:

  • DEFINITELY no psychedelics in mystery religions; Ruck BEEN DESTROYED, its a ITS A MYTH!!! I AM SUPERIOR SKEPTIC, PUBLISH MY ARTICLE PLEEEEEEEEESE!
    Grovel pander ingratiate to “anything but drugs” academics.
  • We just don’t know anything at all, boo hoo, no evidence exists, who knows?, can’t draw any conclusion about anything ever 😭 – MAN UP, SHARDAY! Use the Power of Paradigm commitment and development, instead of commitment to anything-but-drugs academic dogma.

anything-but-drugs academic dogma

Lindgren

Paul Lindgren, Authentic Pioneer (Not a Professional Critic, Propagandist, Toxic Parasite on the Field)

Paul Lindgren in 1999 discovered massive quantities of mushroom imagery in Great Canterbury Psalter and thus began with my collegeu shortly after, James Arthur cover of book Mushrooms and Mankind 2000. Lindgren is credited TWICE in the MUST-HAVE, “your entheogen scholarship is NOTHIGN if you don’t have” article:

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

Mushrooms and Mankind Crediting Paul Lindgren (2000)

“Conjuring Eden” First Page, Crediting Paul Lindgren (2001)

“We are also indebted … to Paul Lingren[sic; Lindgren] for the Genesis illustrations of the Paris Psalter[sic; Great Canterbury Psalter]

“Conjuring Eden” Endnote 134 Crediting Paul Lindgren (2001)

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Mosurinjohn Badly Needs Guidance into the New Paradigm (Unless Corrupt), Particularly into 2nd-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin Paradigm)

Sharday Mosurinjohn needs guidance into the new paradigm (especially 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)) — NOT a “mere hypothesis, with no evidence” — that Mosurinjohn is PRESUMING to join and positively add to and build up.

Declaration Against the “Anything but Drugs” Academics

My text messages, sent Sunday afternoon from house church sacred magical garden after church, Jan. 25, 2026:

AM texted me re: Mosurinjohn & Ascough:

“I struggle to take such blatant bandwagoning with no helpful contribution to the field seriously”

I texted:

🏆🏆

Who will contribute the most, of SUBSTANCE, to the field of entheogen scholarship? 🤔

The Easy-Mode, post-Muraresku crowd, incoming:

  • Sharday Mosurinjohn
  • Richard Ascough 
  • Christian Greer

Mosurinjohn & Ascough Do What They Accuse Ruck of: Shifting from Possibility (“Maybe Mystery Religions Weren’t Psychedelic”) to Fact (“It’s a Myth that Mystery Religions Used Psychedelics”)

Gee I am so surprised to discover: 

Richard Ascough is a hypocrite, doing precisely what he accuses Ruck of doing:

Ascough magically shifts from possibility to fact. 

A motte-and-bailey fallacy, mixed w/ self promotion.

He shifts in his posturing self-promotion, from:

“Remember, we don’t know if plants were used in mystery religion.” 

Then he magically shifts to saying:

“Sharday & I have proved that plants were not used in mystery religions, and these pop writers are fools, not wise like us (so buy my product).”

One moment Ascough trumpets:

WE REAL ACADEMICS DESTROYED RUCK’S HYPOTHESIS!!

The next moment he genteelly states:

“We must be modest, cautious, balanced, and nuanced; I’m on board(-ish) with delicately researching this question that has potential.”

Deniers of psychedelics in mystery religions are typically this way, shamelessly shifting their position back & forth as needed, to self-promote, instead of contributing anything of substance to build up and add to the new paradigm and field.

Only Studying Indigenous Shams Is Legitimate and Acceptable, or Else You Are Committing Colonialist Violence

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

I wonder how many entheogen scholars are 😤 [pissed off] at field-invaders Mosurinjohn & Ascough.

It motivated me, FURY at Sharday Mosurinjohn for signalling loudly, by word-choice, and tone (multiple times, in multiple mediums):

You are not allowed, YOU ARE NOT LEGITIMATE, looking for plants in Western religious history.

From what she has said in various interviews, I get the impression that she really infuriated everyone in the field, by saying things like:

You are obliged to study only ayahuasca history (Indigenous Shams);

 you’re not allowed to study western history 

probably made everyone feel permanently enemies against her   

she intensely walks that back, pleading “its great to study Western religious history !!!” , defensively 

ie she was caught loudly bullying and attacking the field of entheogen scholarship, who replied,

— who said, “Go to absolute hell, you phony.

Internal critique within the paradigm and field, and constructive critique, is one thing.

But trying to blunt-club, sweepingly dismiss and blanket demonize the elders who f*cking CREATED the field that you, a newly coined (not-yet) “professional” entered five minutes ago, disrespecting everyone in the field that she presumes to enter as a johnny-come-lately, is absolutely unacceptable, you… opportunist! 😡👆

“Go to Absolute Hell, You Phony, Bully, Parasite, Mosurinjohn” – Every Entheogen Scholar and Actual Pioneer, a Million Times Her Better

“Go to Absolute Hell, You Phony, Bully, Parasite, Mosurinjohn“

Every type of journal, for years; and every entheogen scholar and actual pioneer, a million times her better

Mosurinjohn is writing a book, what should be a very interesting book on plants within western esotericism.

She is very clumsy, hamfisted, self-sabotaging, disrespectful, and immature – trying to send two contradictory signals to ingratiate herself with both “anything but drugs” academics AND entheogen scholars who carved out the new paradigm she presumes to both delegitimize AND enter, angling for an angle in the most clumsy and offensive way.

Ascough Reiterates My Plaincourault Article’s Takeaway about “Sideline Allegro”

Timid Ascough copies the takeaway, concluding message of my 2006 article Plaincourault: that way he can avoid making any assertions, except the safe, negative, establishment-pandering “sideline Allegro”, pandering to the “anything but drugs” academics like himself.

Despite Jan Irvin’s many, substantive contributions to my Plaincourault article, it was not Irvin’s idea in 2006 to dismiss and retire Allegro. Irvin 2005-2009 wrote books explicitly for the purpose of building on Allegro as if a foundation.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

the article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”, by Sharday Mosurinjohn & Richard Ascough (July 2025); journal: psychedelic medicine;
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/28314425251361835?journalCode=psymed;
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/psychedelics-eleusis-and-the-invention-of-religious-experience-mosurinjohn-ascough-2025/

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”
(mapei, ma25s)

Richard Ascough misrepresents my argument and concerns, to force me to support his, different, angle of criticism of Allegro.

Robert Price went insane re: Allegro and lost the ability to basically write, before I told Price of his wall of basic elementary errors.

That’s how Robert Price invited me to write the epic article (and epic-er with Jan Irvin’s input) about Plaincourault fresco.

Ascough assigned to me Ascough’s criticism of Allegro based on argument from linguistics. I don’t recall my arguments (leading up to “retire and sideline Allegro”) being based on linguistics.

Ascough can’t even be trusted to get basic, elementary aspects of scholarship right, regarding this field that Ascough has invaded parasitically in order to disrespect, DE-LEGITIMIZE, and dabble in, dragged along as Sharday’s dead-weight ball-and chain holding her back.

Crop by Michael Hoffman

Ronald Huggins’ article “Foraging Wrong” is cited as credible and factual in Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”.

“Foraging Wrong” argues:

“In the Day 3 of Creation panel in Great Canterbury Psalter, the mushroom-trees have branches, so therefore they must mean trees, not mushrooms.”

🧠 😵

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/

Ascough didn’t commit to the field of psychedelic studies; he’s a full-on outsider, throwing rocks from outside the field; Mosurinjohn very much did commit to the field, which she’s tearing down in order to try to appear to lift her reputation up.

Ascough copypastes my Plaincourault article’s takeaway message to the field: retire and sideline Allegro.

More articles on Allegro’s irrelevance to the field, as I wrote in 2006, and Ascough trails behind, echoing in 2025, 20 years afterwards:

My Plaincourault article, by its nature, contributes nothing substantive to the field.

My Plaincourault article, with lots of input from Irvin, is the world’s most informative article on the topic; excellent (within the limits of the topic) – I even accused Wasson of withholding (albeit surely feeble) citations that Panofsky absolutely MUST have provided to him – proved and confirmed by Browns’ 2019 article.

Hey Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson: Here’s a 🖕 to your totally compromised, duplicitous, fraudulent, obstructionist censorship: Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906) & Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed.

Now the only thing missing is the mysterious two art images that Panofsky provided to Wasson, showing “a mushroom-like shape” and an “even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown”.
Which Two pilzbaum Art Images Did Panofsky Attach in the First Letter to Wasson?

(The fact that images gradually came to look like more and more like mushrooms, proves that they don’t mean mushrooms. It’s right there, proved in Brinckmann’s “little book”.)

I was reluctantly forced to write the Plaincourault article, with extreme, exaggerated, exhaustive (and exhausting), hyper-scholarly apparatus, just to clear the OBSTACLE of Allegro out of the damn way so that we can do, after that, substantive positive contribution to field of entheogen scholarship.

“We have DESTROYED Rogan (& Ruck’s) myth that psychedelics had a key role in Western religious history.”

yet:

“There might possibly have been psychedelics in Western Esotericism, but we just can’t know, for certain, anything at all; that is, everything is just a mere hypothesis with no evidence.”

PICK A F*CKING SIDE, SHARDAY FLIP-FLOP – like Christian Greer does. IT’S NOT THAT HARD, Mosurinjohn.

Every Type of Journal for Years (for Good Reason) Rejected Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s Article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience; Sharday Mosurinjohn & Richard Ascough (July 2025); journal: psychedelic medicine; https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/28314425251361835?journalCode=psymed; https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/psychedelics-eleusis-and-the-invention-of-religious-experience-mosurinjohn-ascough-2025/

Mosurinjohn & Ascough shopped their article for YEARS; every type of journal rejected this 2-faced opportunistic garbage.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough finally resorted to this new magazine, titled in lowercase, psychedelic medicine –> 🗑

BUT! – Mosurinjohn committed to the field of entheogen studies; unlike dead-weight posturer and barely dabbler Ascough, Mosurinjohn, she is committed to working in the field of psychedelic studies.

Sharday Mosurinjohn badly needs guidance; knock that sh!t off. We see what you’re doing, self-aggrandizing parasite contributing nothing but worthless finger-wagging and nagging, contributing nothing of any substance to bolster, actually add to, and grow the new paradigm.

No one needs a chapter from Mosurinjohn on “Be sure to remember that this mere conjectured hypothesis is not a fact, and there’s no evidence.”

Translation: I failed to do my required reading as a scholar, to learn the basics, to be a basically competent beginner in this new paradigm.

Elementary Reading Assignment for Mosurinjohn Prior to Entering the Field with Fists Swinging: Step 1: Begin, by Reading 2nd-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin Paradigm)

Here is what ACTUAL leadership and pioneering looks like, rather than self-promotional grandstanding and posturing that’s parasitical on what others, elders and actual authorities in the paradigm/field, LONG before Mosurinjohn, have built from scratch with their bare hands.

Mosurinjohn (sloppily, carelessly, in thoroughly unprofessional manner, crude, unsophisticated, blunt-club, sweepingly) blanket-dismisses the psychedelic mysteries paradigm as “a mere hypothesis, with no evidence” that’s held by “Rogan, and Muraresku (also Ruck, too)”.

Indigenous Shams Do Not Have “Psychedelic Wisdom”

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my txt msgs after church today, Jan. 25, 2026

🤔🤔 i wonder… 

a coming rejection (of a sort) of Indig Shams 

because shoved down our throats by a bully parasite

because of the clumsy AF way Sharday Mosurinjohn weaponized Indig Shams against senior reseachers who (in addition to DISCOVERING the indig use of plants, ffs) do research in Western religious history 

good job sharday: 

now thx to u, 

i hate Indig Shams 

txt msgs p.m. Jan. 25, 2026 – AM replied:

“The idea of non-overlapping categories of “western religion” and “indigenous shamanism” is a faulty invention of scholarship.”

“I don’t think there is any shaman on planet Earth today who has not been influenced by Western religion (or one of the so-called mainstream religions). Perhaps the people of Sentinel Island are an exception, or any still as yet uncontacted tribes in the remote jungles of the world.”

“Amazonian “shamans” in particular exhibit a combination of indigenous practices and practices introduced by the Spanish and Portuguese (and even “New Age” ideas imported from N. America and Europe)”

/ end of txt msg replies from AM

Mosurinjohn Is Irresponsible and a Bad Model of Scholarship, for Trying to Appear to Hold Two Different Positions, Covertly Flip-Flopping and Pandering to Both Entheogen Scholars and “Anything but Drugs” Academics

Christian Greer doesn’t do that. He holds ONE, consistent, position; nuanced, developed, coherent.

Greer doesn’t play the game of posturing to two opposed audiences, motte-and-bailey covert flipping between two contradictory positions.

REMINDER, WINSLOW: NO ONE HAS “DEBUNKED RUCK”.

Debunking the psychedelic theory of the Eleusinian Mysteries
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henrywins_what-do-joe-rogan-a-freshly-minted-neoshaman-activity-7361038406467948546-63ak

Regardless of what Sharday Mosurinjohn told you in April 2025.

No “demolishing of the whole psychedelic mysteries hypothesis” has taken place.

Mosur has merely cautioned scholars, which is no substantive contribution to the field.

We can well do without her worthless finger-wagging at her betters.

The Covert TWO Different Positions Alternatingly Asserted by Mosurinjohn

You can’t have it both ways. Pick ONE position and stick to it.

You can’t say “We’re looking into it, there may be psychedelics in mystery religions, little evidence yet” and ALSO say “It’s a myth[?define] that psychedelics were in Mystery Religions.”

Maybe she’ll claim, in weasel fashion,

“I mean, it’s a myth that we have enough evidence to say one way or another w/ certainty. Don’t misread me.”

  • I agree with entheogen scholars. Psychedelics may have been used in mystery religions.
    AND:
  • I agree with “anything but drugs” academics. Psychedelics were not used in mystery religions.

– Mosurinjohn’s COVERT INCONSISTENT PAIR OF POSITIONS. Pander to both crowds, hedge your bets.

Christian Greer doesn’t do this con-artist shell game; Greer has ONE, nuanced position: Psychedelics were present in mystery-religion culture, to some extent; the only thing left to debate is the extent.

Text Messages Sunday p.m. Jan. 25, 2026

8:25 p.m. Jan. 25, 2026 – txt messages just sent:

first, AM texted us:


Scythians, Medes, and Babylonians destroying Nineveh
they seem pretty motivated for habitual Cannabis users

I replied:

i been dangerously manic, overmotivated, time for smoke break

AM txted:

be careful you don’t launch an invasion of western Asia

I’m about to launch an invasion of Wasson West, where the Evil M. Hoffman hangs out; a nuanced, measured, scorched-earth debunking of the entire Wasson theory, in my next post…  BEEN DEBUNKED!!

because flippant blanket sweeping dismissal of Rogan/Ruck (same guy, right?) is a sure sign of professional up-and-coming scholarship, as wise newcomer to the field, Mosurinjohn & Ascough taught me – pls show me how to proceed, o wise ones

Convert Everyone’s Rage Against Mosurinjohn into Productive, Positive, Substantive Scholarship that BUILDS UP and ADDS TO the Paradigm, not Parasitically Tears It Down for Cheap Self-Aggrandizement as a “Mere Hypothesis” with “No Evidence”

I am a machine converting rage into positive, productive, substantive scholarship.

I have done proper, pros-and-cons critique of Ruck (and others, eg Dr. Jerry Brown).

I have never messaged or signalled a crude, blunt-club, wholesale-dismissive, “Western entheogen scholarship is false; psychedelics in mystery religions is a myth!”

– by someone who PRESUMES to lead, and caution, and finger-wag, and NAG, and even goes so far as to accuse the entire field of entheogen scholarship in Western religious history of “COLONIALIST VIOLENCE“(!) unless they submit to worshipping Indigenous Shams (who these same, genuine pioneers discovered, btw!) – WTFF!!

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

Read Hatsis’ book Psychedelic Injustice re: “colonialist violence” bullying bullsh!t posturing that’s in place of actual argumentation.

The “anything but drugs” academics lap that shiite up, showing what empty garbage of an argument is that 7th-grade girl name-calling, unbefitting of an actual scholar, but trendy to earn worthless points from parasitical academics, who only are able to contribute destruction, to do empty virtue signalling.

When I say GORDON . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 WASSON IS AN ACADEMIC FRAUD OBSTRUCTIONIST SLEAZEBAG TOTALLY COMPROMISED POPE’S-BANKER VILLAIN AND ENEMY OF ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP . . . .

. . . . I am being delicate and nuanced, and am only am referring to Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson on the specific, taboo topic of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Ruck needs to acknowledge Wasson’s cover-up of Panofsky’s two letters and the Brinckmann citation, Wasson’s conflicts of interest, and Wasson’s insincere duplicity and obstructionism to cover-up mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Wasson was paid to lie and harass and bully mycologists into avoiding mushroom imagery in Christian art.

In my 2006 Plaincourault article with Jan Irvin’s input, I accused Wasson of censoring Panofsky’s citations, and I wrote that the citations that Wasson withheld are slim and poor.

Browns 2019 confirmed my 2006 accusations.

Now I double down:

I proved Wasson is a fraud regarding mushroom imagery in Christian art, paid to be a cover-up operator.

Now, we can use Wasson as a lesson-learned example.

We now see how the corruption works.

We see right through you, corrupt and compromised, anything-but-drugs academics.

/ joke con’t from above:

Other than that, Wasson is “the father of entheogen studies” and OWNS all entheogen scholarship, like #1 Wasson fanboi John Lash says:

Any Idea That You Have in Entheogen Scholarship, Ever, Is “Wasson’s Theory“

In contrast, Mosurinjohn & Ascough don’t make modest, qualified statements like me, but go scorched-earth, making massively sweeping blanket statements:

“Joe Rogan (& Ruck) BEEN DEBUNKED! a MYTH!”

Thus there’s a fundamental difference between my disrespecting of Ruck, and Mosurinjohn’s disrespecting of Rogan – I mean, Muraresku – I mean, Ruck.

Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice

SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)

Hey Wasson, you phony; SELLOUT!👆:
Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906)
as Panofsky extremely strongly urged mycologists to read – no thanks to your duplicitous censorship and going OUT OF YOUR WAY to fraudulently attack affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, while you fakely chide them for failing to consult the IGNORAMUS art “authorities”.

The below sound like pompous, insincere, con-artist horse sh!t, because that’s exactly what it is:

SOMA, p. 180 (Less Cussing, More Annotations, Jan. 8, 2025)

Key Phrases from Mosurinjohn & Ascough that Sweepingly Discredit and Delegitimize Psychedelics in Western Religious History, or Psychedelics in Mystery Religions

Key Phrases from Mosurinjohn & Ascough Proving that One of their Two Contradictory Marketing Ploys / Business Plans Is to Wholesale Discredit Psychedelics in Western religious history, or psychedelics in mystery religions, for Parasitical Self-Aggrandizement

https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/20/the-sweetest-taboo-psychedelics-and-the-invention-of-religious-experiences-mosurinjohn-2025/#Abstract-of-Invention-Article —

Paraphrased:

“Ruck is definitely wrong. There were definitely no psychedelics in mystery religions.”

The field desperately needs our finger-wagging, holier-than-thou, and holocost of Ruck, scorched-earth wholesale discrediting of the entire psychedelic mysteries hypothesis.

No need for nuance in this case; simply DISMISS RUCK ENTIRELY, EXACTLY AS IF HE’S JOE ROGAN OR (SUSPECT) Muraresku.

You are DEFINITELY WRONG to try to look for psychedelics in Western religious history; we’re going to HURL SWEEPING, BLANKET DISCREDITING INSULTS at you, Joe-Rogan-like Ruck, and call you RUCK = ROGAN = Muraresku = COLONIALIST VIOLENCE, you ought to learn a little about Indig Shams, Ruck ignoramus!

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

Why did 100 journals for YEARS reject our smear-job hit-piece, parasitical, field-poisoning, amateur-toned, yellow journalism? 🤷‍♂️

Yellow Journalism: Sensational, Exagerrated: A Myth; No Evidence; Destroyed Ruck, Colonialist Violence

AI’s answer:

“Yellow journalism is a style of late-19th-century newspaper reporting that prioritized sensationalism, exaggeration, and scandal over verified facts to boost circulation.

“Characterized by bold, screaming headlines and emotional, often unethical, stories, it was famously utilized by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to sway public opinion and drive political agendas.”

/ end AI

Prioritize sensationalism, exaggeration, and scandal over facts, to boost circulation; Bold, screaming headlines; Emotional, unethical stories, to Sway Public Opinion and drive political agendas

perfect citation, perfect!: Henry Winslow LAPS UP THE SWILL she serves:

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/20/the-sweetest-taboo-psychedelics-and-the-invention-of-religious-experiences-mosurinjohn-2025/#henry-winslows-motte-bailey-sleazy-strategy-theres-no-evidence-been-debunked

So they just dropped a thorough takedown of the whole theory in the journal Psychedelic Medicine. “

Drs. Sharday Mosurinjohn (whom I interviewed in April) and Richard Ascough systematically dismantle what they call “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis,” pointing out there’s zero archaeological evidence for psychedelics at Eleusis.”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henrywins_what-do-joe-rogan-a-freshly-minted-neoshaman-activity-7361038406467948546-63ak

AI-generated title of Winslow’s post, that he approved and accepted:
Debunking the psychedelic theory of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Joe Rogan or Muraresku is trying to appeal to pop audience?

Mosurinjohn is trumpeting “myth! destroyed Rogan-Ruck!” to appeal to cheap, pop audience, and pander to / ingratiate with, “anything but drugs” academics.

Tone of Voice, Word Choice, Is Everything

The problem isn’t just “What is Sharday explicitly officially asserting?”; the problem is THE IMPRESSION THAT SHE TRIES TO GIVE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO DISCREDIT RUCK & ROGAN (same guy, right?)

One moment, she tries to SIGNAL the INSINUATION, “We DEFINITELY know for a fact, there CERTAINLY were no psychedelics in mystery religions”.

Of course, part of the ploy / business model, is to then flip flop and say, you can’t PROVE that’s what I asserted.” b/c language is abused in an elastic, evasive way, like Winslow says “crushed Ruck” – you can’t prove exactly what Winslow is asserting by that hazy, non-scholarly mode of writing.

Sharday Mosurinjohn uses an immature, improper, non-scholarly mode of writing (tone, word-choice, impression, signal-sending), while also trying to give the impresssion of superiorscholarship —

actually, similar to how Hatsis notoriously & infamously — his BRAND — spills bottles of ink bragging about his superior, scientific historiographical methodology — while failing to give even elementary-school level of proper citation and writing.

In 2005, I caught big-brain Robert Price, doing this re: Allegro:

Price is editor of “Journal of Higher Criticism”, yet on the “hot” topic of Allegro, Price became a totally bumbling 4th grader, botching all aspects of discussing Allegro, failing every aspect of elementary scholarship.

I corrected Price, he invited me to write my epic 64-page article [later involved Irvin’s huge input of info],

Also: I reconciled Acharya S who thanked me, to the extreme that Price the other day massively re-published expanded improved edition of her book Christ Myth.

Great example, this (Price). of inconstancy of professionalism in scholarly writing, alternating with junk yellow journalism.

Hatsis & Mosurinjohn provide talk about superior scientific historiographical methodology INSTEAD of providing actual scientific historiographical methodology. This is not how mature, professional scholars write.

When I did microscopic analysis of Browns 2016 & 2019 side by side, it was hard to PROVE what their arg/ position was, re: Walburga.

Can I ABSOLUTELY PROVE WITH 100%, UNAVOIDABLE CERTAINTY, that Browns said & argued “serrated base, therefore not Amanita”?

Notice that as I viciously attack and DESTROY Browns, I am NOT doing like Mosurinjohn & Ascough: I am not trying to give the signal or impression that, blanket sweeping wholesale dismissal of Ruck’s theory. I am not trying to (give the impression of ) insult and discredit Ruck in a blunt-club, scorched-earth way.

A real scholar assesses the pros and cons of each writer/scholar.

Every other sentence from Mosurinjohn & Ascough alternates:

  • Mr. Hyde: crude scorched earth insult and discrediting of entire field of entheogen scholarship – Rogan-Ruck is Pop junk, ITS A MYTH!!
  • Dr. Jekyll: subtle, reasonable, balanced, nuance, professional, credible, a model scholar.
  • then back to frothing at mouth, unprofessional, yellow journalism writing, in the next sentence/breath.

That INCONSISTENCY is a giveaway: bad faith actors; opprotunists, parasitical on the field.

Not contributing positive substance to strengthen the field and ADDING to the field.

…

There is ALWAYS plausible deniability

I like Huggins’ term: “Ruck uses ELASTIC LANGUAGE.”

Browns use “elastic language”. I resorted to side-by-side 2016 & 2019 analysis to PIECE TOGETHER my proof that you have to read their arg as, “Walburga image has serrations; real Amanita lacks serrations; therefore, [here is the naysayers’ trademark, wet dream, preset conclusion they love getting to:]

[blah blah junk arg’n whatever, fill in the blank with wall of spaghetti], [here comes the exciting climax, the whole purpose of the junk argumentation verbiage:]

“… SO, NOT A MUSHROOM. 😑”

a pre-fixed conclusion

a conclusion in search of a premise

None of our arguments are worth anything, but we’ll impress the people who already agree with our pre-set conclusion, by the sheer quantity of junk arguments.

A million “anything but drugs” academics, giving ten million junk arguments, is enough to please the willing audience. Lap up that swill!

Huggins’ entire article boils down to, literally, this one, trash argument:

3rd Day: Creation of Plants: Huggins’ Entire Credibility Stands or Falls on This One Image; He Bets the Farm on this Panel, and Loses Everything – and Mosurinjohn Cites Him with Confident Self-Assurance

This can’t mean mushrooms, b/c has branches:

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 24, 2026
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CAN A BRAIN GET ANY DEADER THAN THIS?

WE DESTROYED ROGAN/RUCK AND HIS MYTH OF PSYCHEDELICS IN MYSTERY RELIGIONS!!

Follow Our Nuanced Lead, Entheogen Scholars!

Got No Ideas, No Talent? A New Opportunity: Make a Name for Yourself by Attaching Yourself to the Hot New Trendy Topic, as an “Entheogen Scholarship Critic” – Just Read The Immortality Key, and You’re Good to Go!

We Can’t Know Anything with Any Certainty – No Evidence!

Mosurinjohn & Ascough use too Muraresku-heavy of a framing/ reference point.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough try to dismiss Ruck THROUGH Muraresku.

They never cared or paid any attention to Ruck; it’s ONLY after & through The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020, that Mosurinjohn & Ascough discovered the field of parasitical, self-aggrandizing opportunity, the field of entheogen scholarship.

Not only are they newbies – ESPECIALLY Ascough; a bad kind of newbie: they came in through Muraresku, and then reached through Muraresku to try to discredit Ruck.

Whereas I joined Ruck’s field in 1998-ish, got his Myth textbook, eons before Muraresku came flying dabbling in the field from astroturf suspect (Robert Forte: “the enterprise 🖖”) from out of nowhere, “surprise bestseller” (as fake as early Beatles writing their own songs while filming and touring, SURE)

6 pm Jan. 25, 2026 suspect , or know, that Pollan and Muraresku “bestselllers” were fake / astroturfed MEGA FUNDED CORPRATE PROJECTS, NOTHING AT ALL ACCIDENTAL or organic.

Pollan and his huge corporate team, is such a good writer.

Muraresku and his huge corporate team, is such a good writer.

How much $ did giant megacorp publisher invest in making his bestseller so popular? Astroturf. The Enterprise 🖖

The Enterprise 🖖

Robert Forte is the editor of the book The Road to Eleusis, by Ruck, Hofmann, & Wasson, 1978.

Forte’s term “the enterprise”.

What We Do Is Secret: Part Two: There Must Be a Way Out
Travis Kitchens, Jan. 2, 2025
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153869153
About Muraresku interaction with Forte

🖖 <– mushroom-tree artists approve; branching & non-branching via finger shapes

🖖 Abraham, Live Long After Ego Death and Prosper with 2POV

🖖 Live Long After Ego Death and Prosper with 2POV

Psychedelics in Western religious history, or psychedelics in mystery religions, for Parasitical Self-Aggrandizement

So far, I gathered red-highlighted phrases like “Ruck = a myth”, from:

  • The description of Sharday Mosurinjohn’s talk in the 2052 conference schedule.
  • The description at the YouTube video of that talk.
  • The Abstract of Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience; Sharday Mosurinjohn & Richard Ascough (July 2025); journal: psychedelic medicine; https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/28314425251361835?journalCode=psymed; https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/08/psychedelics-eleusis-and-the-invention-of-religious-experience-mosurinjohn-ascough-2025/

Analyze Mosurinjohn, Ascough, Greer, & Stang, then Support Mosurinjohn in Writing the Book on Psychedelics in Western Esotericism

My Plan Is to First Analyze Mosurinjohn & Ascough (as an Example of Parasitical Strategy); and then Support Clumsy, Aggressive, Delegitimizer Newbie Mosurinjohn in Writing a Book on Psychedelics in Western Esotericism

Obligatory Citation of Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906) Whenever Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson Is Mentioned

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906) https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

{2-handed mushroom-tree}

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 19/24, 2026
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Been wondering about this {4 cut trunks} motif since like 2021. I had to get bold and aggressive re: finger-shapes, taking them 100% seriously in the entire medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}. Must have faith in the hypothesis first, before you get the payout of paradigm/hypothesis commitment.

{hand mushroom-tree} Above {hellmouth}

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 21, 2026
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The Psychedelic Mysteries PARADIGM, not a Limp-Wristed “Hypothesis” as You Try to Stunt and Hobble the Field

Are You Committing to Building Up the Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm, or Not??

We can’t adopt the new paradigm until after we have 100% certainty, because “no evidence“.

How we gather the evidence should be to avoid trying to find evidence in Western religious history, because that would be colonial violence.

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

Ascough calls it, in a weak and weakening framing, “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis“.

Ascough refers to the interpretive framework of “psychedelics were the engine of mystery religions” as “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis”, attaching his enfeebling, weak, weakening framing to the developed paradigm.

Paradigm = interpretation, model, and data, that enables perceiving data.

The present site strongly demonstrates how a good theory enables perceiving and proving data.

I’ve spotted a hundred mushroom-trees, and proved that peak religious experience is there depicted (via the combination of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs), against Letcher’s online claim that we can’t know anything about mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Timid Dabbling, and Phony Posturing of “Wise Ignorance”, Accomplishes Jack, Sharday; That’s Terrible Advice

p.s.: Ditch that Dead Weight, Stodgy Ascough, King of the “Anything but Drugs” Academics (Talk About “Need Liberation“!)

Timid = FAIL

Timid = fail,
against the BAD, COUNTER-HELPFUL ADVICE & poor, wannabe-leadership of Mosurinjohn & Ascough.

Take a back seat, way behind Ruck, phony “leaders”.

Emoji-Based Representation of the Decoding Process of the {4 cut trunks} Motif

👨‍🎨🎨🖼🤚🤙🌴🌴🌴🌴 🔍🤔😓🤷‍♂️
😴🛌🕰
👍👐✋🤝🖖✌️🤲🔬🔍💪🤔
🤚🤙🌳🌳🌳🌳🌴🌴🌴🌴 🤯
💎🏆

Angels Harrassing Mystics (Folio f122)

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 25, 2026
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Mosurinjohn’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Psychedelic Evidence, of Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State

“We then explore how the dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages contributes to the project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs and revitalize experiential religion. Although the desire for legitimacy and meaning is understandable, the strategies used by the writers of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism.”

f109, lower right
f109, upper left
Crops by Michael Hoffman
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3:12 a.m. Jan. 26, 2026 – the held branch has four cut branches (held with a like hand: no thumb visible, the four fingertips wrapped out of sight, visually cut). In past year I wrote about the typical 4 limbs of many mushroom-trees, mapped to arms & legs – or, now, to four fingers.

Asp: A Serpent that Refuses to Hear Wisdom or Divine Truth

Search – “The Asp, or “aspido,” is a mythical creature in medieval bestiaries described as a snake that stops up its ears to avoid being enchanted by the music of snake charmers. It presses one ear against the ground and covers the other with its tail to ignore the charming, symbolizing a refusal to hear wisdom or divine truth.”

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s Covert Flipping between Two Contradictory Positions: Their Aggressive, Bailey Position, and Their Feeble, Motte Position

Michael Hoffman 9:10 p.m. Jan. 24, 2026

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’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.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s feeble, motte position:
“There’s inconclusive evidence for psychedelics in mystery religions.“
Uses that stance when marketing her scholarship to entheogen scholars.

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.

The chain-controlled dog, or the serpent, is trying not to hear the luring music, of non-branching possibilities.

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

Defining ‘Psychedelic Wisdom’ and Ordinary-State ‘Folly’

The Classic religious history of mythic analogy in the best religious mythology and mythological art (mythic art)
defines ‘psychedelic wisdom’ as opposed to initial, not-yet-qualified, ordinary-state ‘folly’:

folly = not knowing wisdom; not yet having transformed and qualified the initial, non-mature mental model of

the maximal mushroom theory of Christianity

the

The Authoritative Definition of the ‘Maximal’ entheogen theory of religion which Mosurinjohn & Ascough mention, is the Egodeath theory

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s aggressive, insulting weaponization of Indigenous Shams against looking for psychedelics in Western religious history.

Why do Mosurinjohn & Ascough (after their 100-times rejected by every type of journal) article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”, spend so much time delivering reasonable, measured encouragement to study psychedelics in Western religious history? Because they got MASSIVE pushback against their rude, unprofessaional, INSULTING, agrressive, parasitical-on-the-field, call to:

“YOU MUST HALT YOUR ILLEGITIMATE ATTEMPT to falsely attempt, definitely in vain, daring to commit

need keyboard shortcut for their TOXIX M&AA Mosurinjohn & Ascough

The Most Toxic and Illegitimate Article Ever Published and Foisted on Entheogen Scholarship: Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”

Peak-Toxicity Mosurinjohn & Ascough Try to Totally and Radically De-Legitimize Entheogen scholarship in Western religious history

“But recently I heard her support Western religious history research, and Ascough (Dr. Jekyll) has been exceptionally modest, balanced, subtle, nuanced, and reasonable lately. Why do you paint them as if Mr. Hyde, Frothing

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll (a Sober, Measured, Model Scholar) and Mr. Hyde (a Yellow-Journalist, Potion-Induced Frothing, Propagandist Attack Dog)

Greer Admits that “anything but drugs” academia Has Lost, in Retreat, Now Shifted to Trying to Contain and Downplay the psychedelic mysteries paradigm

“Only 1% of People Used Psychedelics, So Ignore”: Fallacy; the Pop Junk Traditional vs. the Elite Authentic Tradtion (the 1% that matters)

the majority [bad] tradition vs the minority [good] tradition

authentic

inauthentic

only 1% used psychedelics , and they are the relevant, authentic tradition

99% didn’t use psychedelics, and they are the irrelevant, inauthentic tradition.

anything but drugs “anything but drugs” academics j

“anything but drugs” academia

abda

Greer says, corrupt denier anything-but-drugs apologists have already lost. Now we can only say ok we admit (like Letcher step by step walking back his denial:

anything but drugs
abd

ABD Apologists: Anything But Drugs is to be considered a “reasonable” and “evidenced” cause of the intense mystic altered state.
abdl

OK, we ABDP admit Liberty Cap were ubiq, but, YOU CAN’T PROVE IT WAS USED BY 51%, TO HAVE SPECIFICALLY RELIG EPXIERNECE, ON A TUESDAY, [QUALIFIER} HIS 4-STEP ARG WHICH I PROVED 5 STEPS OF.

the Manifest Professional Vicious Propagandist Smear Merchant)

Search web for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+jekyll+and+mr.+hyde

AI:

“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson about a London lawyer, Gabriel John Utterson.

“Utterson investigates the strange connection between his friend, the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde, who is Jekyll’s sinister alter ego unleashed through a potion, exploring the duality of human nature and the conflict between good and evil. The story is a classic of Gothic horror, famous for its psychological depth and for popularizing the phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” to describe people with dual personalities.”

Potion? See the Amanita-Shaped Healing Vial Held by St. Walburga

Photo Credit: Not Julie M. Brown; the Walburga church

Photo Credit: Not Julie M. Brown, who rejected the Browns’ main, trumpeted, superior strategy of travelling to view alleged mushroom art with their own eyes directly.

Photo from web, thank you, good job – Michael Hoffman

The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2016) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620555026

The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439215170

For their book The Psychedelic Gospels, esoteric traveloggers Brown, Brown, & Brown only viewed The Holy Mushroom‘s gallery copy of the church-provided photo in the book (“I held the photograph up to the light” – with a 188-page book attached to it).

Based off that type indirect viewing (contradicting the Browns’ entire claim to superior methodology), because the Walburga Tapestry shows a serrated base, “unlike Amanita, which has a smooth base”[sic].

Thus began my truly epic November 2020 work for Dr. Jerry Brown, with input from Cyberdisciple (Classics expert, PhD in Transcendent Knowledge).

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/site-map/

A Golden Guide: Hallucinogenic Plants, by Richard Schultes (the first edition of Food of the Gods)

Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
2001
Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Rätsch
https://www.amazon.com/Plants-Gods-Sacred-Healing-Hallucinogenic/dp/0892819790/ –

Photo from web, nice design, thank you – Michael Hoffman

Photo from web, nice design, thank you – Michael Hoffman. Supplement for critique and correction of Browns 2016/2019, one of the first images for the present site in Nov. 2020.

The World’s Greatest Breakthrough: My Decoding of Great Canterbury Psalter in Nov. 2020

Page created on All Hallow’s Eve, 2020 (prior to my literally world’s greatest breakthrough in Nov. 2020).

My page critiquing Hatsis’ book was the beginning of the present, most-epic website, https://EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com.

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis, 2018)

todo: clean up section

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, and Ecstatic States, Thomas Hatsis, 2018, https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Mystery-Traditions-Practices-Ecstatic/dp/B07YX8C4JV/, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/

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

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis) [book] – Hatsis

by Thomas Hatsis (Author), Stephen Gray (Foreword)

Blurb for Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis 2018):

“A comprehensive look at the long tradition of psychedelic magic and religion in Western Civilization

• Explores the use of psychedelics and entheogens from Neolithic times through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance to the Victorian era and beyond

• Reveals how psychedelics were integrated into pagan and Christian magical practices and demonstrates how one might employ a psychedelic agent for divination, sex magic, alchemy, communication with gods, and more

• Examines the role of entheogens in the Mysteries of Eleusis in Greece, the worship of Isis in Egypt, the Dionysian mysteries, and the magical practices of the Thessalian witches as well as Jewish, Roman, and Gnostic traditions

Unbeknownst–or unacknowledged–by many, there is a long tradition of psychedelic magic and religion in Western civilization. As Thomas Hatsis reveals, the discovery of the power of psychedelics and entheogens can be traced to the very first prehistoric expressions of human creativity, with a continuing lineage of psychedelic mystery traditions from antiquity through the Renaissance to the Victorian era and beyond.

Describing how, when, and why different peoples in the Western world utilized sacred psychedelic plants, Hatsis examines the full range of magical and spiritual practices that include the ingestion of substances to achieve altered states. He discusses how psychedelics facilitated divinatory dream states for our ancient Neolithic ancestors and helped them find shamanic portals to the spirit world. Exploring the mystery religions that adopted psychedelics into their occult rites, he examines the role of entheogens in the Mysteries of Eleusis in Greece, the worship of Isis in Egypt, and the psychedelic wines and spirits that accompanied the Dionysian mysteries. The author investigates the magical mystery traditions of the Thessalian witches as well as Jewish, Roman, and Gnostic traditions. He reveals how psychedelics were integrated into pagan and Christian magical practices and demonstrates how one might employ a psychedelic agent for divination, magic, alchemy, or god and goddess invocation. He explores the use of psychedelics by Middle Eastern and medieval magicians and looks at the magical use of cannabis and opium from the Crusaders to Aleister Crowley.

From ancient priestesses and Christian gnostics, to alchemists, wise-women, and Victorian magicians, Hatsis shows how psychedelic practices have been an integral part of the human experience since Neolithic times.”

/ end blurb

Thomas Hatsis, https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Mystery-Traditions-Practices-Ecstatic/dp/1620558009/ –

My Correction of Browns

todo: clean up/move

My correction of Browns, just after I covered the problematic Hatsis book pmt pmt , which kicked off everything, eg. my breakthrough Classic discoveries of the integrated combination {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs in Great Canterbury Psalter; ie I decoded the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

Talk about prematurely entering the scholarly feild while failing to bring even elementary knowledge, even a cursory glance at the well-known, popular children’s book shows plainly, a serrated base:

  1. Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art – which spawned the EPIC discovery of Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f134 provided by John Lash’s vigorous active research travcelling to Paris in 2007: break-off article; Lash’s research just after publishing his bestseller Not In His Image in 2006:
  2. Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe

The Best of Western Esotericism Is Vastly Superior to Primitive Indigenous Shams with their “Ancient Psychedelic Wisdom” of Psychedelic-Assisted Human Sacrifice and Savagery

Sharday Mosurinjohn Is Committing Colonialist Violence and Is Studying the Wrong and Foolish Topic that Doesn’t Even Exist (

Sorry, I’m Trying but Failing to Be as Insulting, Nasty, Rude, and Gauche as Mosurinjohn & Ascough

  • Toxic Parasites Trying to Antagonize and Invalidate their Betters
  • Lying About “No Evidence”, by Ad-Hoc Rules to Ignore and Invalidate the Evidence
  • Finger-Wagging and Nagging about Proper Methodology, While Contributing Nothing of Substance

Trying to Harm and Destroy and Eliminate the field of entheogen scholarship in Western religious history – and also,
Write a Book Finding psychedelics in Western Esotericism, Hypocrites Shifting their Ploy and Strategy with Every Sentence

Why Is Mosurinjohn Committing Colonialist Violence by Writing a Book on Psychedelics in Western Esotericism? – Hypocrite!

If You Look for Psychedelics in Western religious history, you are wrong, stupid, and bad, and deluded by mirages, and you must make Ind. Shams the central focus, and boundary limit, of your research.

But when Sharday looks for psychedelics in Western Esotericism, she’s ethical, Good, and Buy My Book.

A hallmark of phonies: Fake academic posers and propagandists change their story every two seconds, with every sentence: INCOHERENCE AND SELF-CONTRADICTION.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough talk out of all 3 sides of their mouth at once, slippery as a slime-covered fungus.

There Is Plentiful Evidence, Perceived Through the Correct Paradigm, Confirming that the Engine of Mystery Religion Is Psychedelics Such as LSA and Psilocybin

Counter-Weaponizing Indigenous Shams Against Parasitical Field Destroyers/ Invaders

todo: restructure near here

The Threat to the Field of Entheogen scholarship Posed by Parasitical Self-Serving Invaders

We saw this when fake journalists were BANNED from a psychedelics conference (todo: i have image in gallery of the banning sheet “No Entry”?)

I can vouch for these “journalists” fraudulence: I saw a livestream on their channel where the “journalist” poser DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THAT LSD WAS LEGAL IN 50S AND USED IN MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLOGY.

I am not a modern psychedelics “history” guy, but this Hatsis book is a reference, which topic the fake invader-“journalists” should have read, before even thinking about destructively, self-servingly invading the field of psychedelic studies with complete insincerity:

LSD ― The Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s (Hatsis, 2021)

LSD ― The Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s
Thomas Hatsis, Martin Lee (Foreword)
July 20, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/LSD-Wonder-Child-Psychedelic-Research/dp/1644112566/ –

I cracked it open in the bookstore, but I’m drowning in my books library and have to specialize.

blurb:

“A detailed history of the blossoming of psychedelic research in the 1950s”
  • “Explores the different groups–from research labs to the military–who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline
  • Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood
  • Looks at the CIA’s notorious top-secret mind-control program MKUltra
  • Reveals how intellectuals, philosophers, artists, and mystics of the 1950s used LSD to bring ancient rites into the modern age

“Exploring the initial stages of psychedelic study in Europe and America, Thomas Hatsis offers a full history of the psychedelic-fueled revolution in healing and consciousness expansion that blossomed in the 1950s–the first “golden age” of psychedelic research.

“Revealing LSD as a “wonder child” rather than Albert Hofmann’s infamous “problem child,” the author focuses on the extensive studies with LSD that took place in the ’50s.

“He explores the different groups–from research labs to the military to bohemian art circles–who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline.

“Sharing the details of many primary source medical reports, the author examines how doctors saw LSD as a tool to gain access to the minds of schizophrenics and thus better understand the causes of mental illness.

“The author also looks at how the CIA believed LSD could be turned into a powerful mind-control weapon, including a full account of the notorious top-secret program MKUltra.”

The Real Mr. Hyde Himself: The First American to Take LSD: Opening the Doors to Mystical and Psychic Abilities, Not Only a Madness Mimicker

Hatsis blurb con’t:

“Reintroducing forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde, the first American to take LSD, and parapsychologist Rosalind Heywood, who believed LSD and mescaline opened doors to mystical and psychic abilities, the author also discusses how the influences of Central American mushroom ceremonies and peyote rites crossbred with experimental Western mysticism during the 1950s, turning LSD from a possible madness mimicker or mind weapon into a sacramental medicine.

“Finally, he explores how philosophers, parapsychologists, and mystics sought to use LSD to usher in a new age of human awareness.”

Many People Are Being Tempted to Follow m&a’s Lead (and Ronald Huggins’ Lead, and Letcher 2006), to Try to Take Advantage of the Field of Entheogen scholarship for Parasitical Self-Advancement at the Expense, Purely Destructive, of Ruck’s Hard-Won Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm

I counter-weaponize Indigenous Shams against Mosurinjohn & Ascough.

Indigenous Shams

I speak with highest CLASSIC authority for the most high-quality, which is NOT found in Indigenous Shams,

For the savage, brutal, not transcendent use of psychedelics, unspeakable atrocities aided with psychedelics, see Indigenous Shams in the Index of the book:

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 title: “Indigenous Shams”

When Mosurinjohn & Ascough speak of ‘maximal’: quote: from Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s article “Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience”: quote

todo: paste quote where they say “maximal” critically

quote

Classic Definition of Wisdom and Folly

wisdom = add the eternalism POV to the possibilism POV = add eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking

add eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking

add the eternalism POV to the possibilism POV

eternalism-thinking =
analogical psychedelic eternalism
analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control

possibilism-thinking =
literalist ordinary-state possibilism
literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control
literalist ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control

Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art

The Politicized Corruptness of Entheogen Scholarship: “Anything But Drugs” Academia Wants to Avoid Evidence, not Find Evidence

you gotta want it, to find evidence

most ppl even entheogen scholars do not want to find evidence, they are excited to not find evidence, to prove what they7 are abusing this filed for : to whine against big bad church.

The Field of Entheogen Scholarship Is Beset with Corruption and Cover-up of Psychedelics in Mystery Religions

Mosurinjohn’s Job Is to Not Weigh the Evidence for Psychedelics in Mystery Religions, but to Downplay, Decellerate, Propagandize, Invalidate, Discredit, and Cover-Up; Apply the Brakes; Ruck Applies the Gas:

Job Description: To Obstruct, Invalidate, Suppress, Ignore Evidence, and Interfere

Mosurinjohn’s Assigned Job Is to Not Weigh the Evidence for Psychedelics in Mystery Religions, but to Deceitfully Propagandize, Invalidate, Discredit, and Cover-Up

Same as Wasson Just Like Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson re: mushroom imagery in Christian art [just like Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson re: Psychedelics in Christianity]

term’y: read “Xy” as “Jewish and Christian”

todo: image: dog; {hand mushroom-tree} – always present the asp image w/ the f109 dog image. Dog image depends on asp image.

but to Propagandize and Cover Up Psychedelics in Mystery Religions: a Pre-Fixed Conclusion, Propped Up by Insincere, Fallacious Argumentation Like Wasson re: Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

Academia Is a Phony, Crooked, Pathetic Laughingstock, to Be Mocked, Ridiculed, and Ignored by Genuine Entheogen Scholarship

Citation: the Images gallery below.

It’s Not Sharday’s Fault; She’s Forced to Appear to Try to Invalidate Psychedelics in Mystery Religions

What Matters Is Not Truth about Psychedelics in Mystery Religions; What Matters Is the (Corrupt) Institutional Objectives, Which Are Corruption and Cover-Up and “anything but drugs” academia

Commitment to the ABD Apologists:

Paid to be an anything-but-drugs apologist.

Paid to do anything-but-drugs apologetics.

anything-but-drugs apologetics
abdaps

anything-but-drugs apologist
abdap

Anything But Drugs is to be considered a “reasonable” and “evidenced” cause of the intense mystic altered state.

Joining a Christian College Requires Being an Apologist, Demands Fealty to the Institutional Apologetics Line (Dogma, Doctrine)

The ABD Confession of Faith-Commitment: Hyperventilation Is Legit, Psychedelics Are Not.

It’s a Sports Team, Your Job Is to Appear to Win; we hire you to win within the rules we set.

Rule #1: anything-but-drugs apologetics. we are NOT here to assess psychedelics in mystery religions; we are here to push the party line.

ABD, The God Worshipped by Corrupt Academia (ie, Satan)

Professional liar Mosurinjohn, that’s the job description: propagandist for ABD Doctrine.

propagandist for anything-but-drugs dogma
pabdd

The ABD Confession of Faith-Commitment: Hyperventilation Is Legit, Psychedelics Are Not

Principle: “Every Accusation Is a Confession”: Convert Mosurinjohn’s Accusations to Confessions, to See Truth

A Cover-Up Operation.

Mosurinjohn Is Hired to Be a Cover-Up Operator; Her Handler Is Stick-up-the-Mud Ascough.

It’s the Only Permitted Position: Her Job Is to Be an Attack Dog, NOT to View or Affirm the Best, Explicit Mushroom Findings in the Field So Far

Mosurinjohn’s Job Is to Studiously Ignore the Main Catalog of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art, Especially This Site, but Pretend to Do Scholarship in the Field

Mosurinjohn Is Literally Hired to Be a Professional Phony (Like the Monkees); She Would HAVE to Break Away from Corrupt “anything but drugs” academia (Like the Monkees) to Become an Actual, Honest Scholar

“anything but drugs” academia
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“anything but drugs” academics
abca

Mosurinjohn is a Professional Phony, and Academia Has Trashcanned Its Credibility, SOLD OUT its soul.

The Proper Response by Actual Researchers in Entheogen scholarship Is to Mock and Ridicule and Heap 10x the Abuse on Mosurinjohn (ie, “anything but drugs” academics) than those Academics Heap on Entheogen scholarship like Lying Liar Wasson Did to Mycologists (Affirmers) on p. 180 of SOMA

1:05 a.m. Jan. 27, 2026

Your assigned job is to cover-up mushroom imagery in Christian art: to lie, smear, invalidate, insult — to learn how to be a liar, study p. 180 in SOMA, note the art of misdirection; inappropriate non-scholarly “consult experts on the phone” and do not mention “consult the published writings of experts”.

Measure shcolars’ vies by their emotional reaction:

  • How quickly did the expert disavow?
  • How fervently did the expert disavow?
  • How much did the expert insult the psychedelic mysteries “hypothesis” (ie, paradigm).

the psychedelic mysteries paradigm

Academia Is Corrupt and Forcing Mosurinjohn to Attack Ruck, Lest What Happened to Ruck Happens to Her

She is required by corrupt employers to lie, smear, defame, attack, misrepresent what counts as evidence.

Mosurinjohn is paid to NOT read the research articles by Giorgio Samorini 97/98 & Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise“.

She is not paid to read up on mushroom imagery in Christian art; she is PAID TO NOT READ THE ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP.

Mosurinjohn Is Paid to NOT Read the Literature in the Field, but to Ignore It and Deny that It Even Exists

Why hasn’t Mosurinjohn read the best publications in “her” field that she’s trying to kill and destroy and invalidate? Because that’s her job as A PR

Mosurinjohn Is a Professional Propagandist Like Pope’s Banker, Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson

Wasson Was Bribed to Censor the Strongly Urged Brinckmann Citation and Suppress the Two “Emphatically Mushroom-Like” Art Pieces from Panofsky

God’s Hand-Shapes (Branching Morphology) in Day 3 Panel – Gotta Hand It To Me, Hand Shape Analysis Paid Off

2:05 p.m. Jan. 27, 2026 – Day 4: god {thumb against open book}.

2:22 p.m. Jan. 27, 2026 day 4 right hand fingers all 4 are visually cut

9:45 pm Jan. 26, 2026 – important decoding! Day 3 panel, God’s hand shapes mapped to the mushroom morphy progression.

salter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right
discovered by Paul Lindgren 2000
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

Crop by Michael Hoffman. Day 3. fullscreen

When I figured out Jan 13 2025 4 mushroom-trees go: III, IYI, YI, IY/YI, I failed to apply to God’s finger shapes as well.

How to interp right hand 4 fingers visually cut:

  • pinkie – not cut, but right-angle base. & borrow the cut from ring.
  • ring – cut

Blue mushroom-tree = God’s R hand shape: YI with the Y half-cut; pinkie/ring visually cut middle / index and form slight Y also.

Red mushroom-tree = God’s L hand shape IY

branching morphology
brm

Brian Muraresku
bm

Isolated morphy analysis of God’s R hand (left side of pic)

Isolated morphy analysis of God’s L hand (right side of pic): YI but pinkie/ring visually cut middle/index, showing “branching = false, vanishes on psychedelics”

Then finally, L vs R hand, the difference then is:

L hand (R side of pic) says: Thumb = non-branching, fingers = branching.

R hand (L side of pic) says: Thumb = non-branching; fingers = non-branching (counterarg: but the pinkie and ring aren’t visually cut, and they have a slight Y shape). Rebuttal/correction of the objection: Relative / compared to his L hand (right side of pic), his R hand fingers are 2 out of 4 are cut

Remember the principle:

“More branching on L than R.“

God’s fingers have {more branching on L than R}

Here, Left must mean God’s L hand (R side of pic).

God’s POV or subjective … the figure’s subjective POV.

The scientific name of the hand on R side of pic is “left hand”.

God’s fingers (across all hands) show more branching (4x) on God’s L hand than God’s R hand (2x).

Step 1: Anything-But-Drugs Academia: “You Entheogen Scholars Are Not Allowed to Look for Psychedelics in Western Religious History, Because [Reasons]”

Step 2: Entheogen Scholars: “We Double Down on Looking for Psychedelics in Western Religious History, and We Double Down on Ignoring Indigenous Shams”

Step 3: Anything-But-Drugs Academia: We Call You Names, Smear and Defame You, Invalidate You, and Ignore Your Evidence

Step 4: Entheogen Scholars: “We Double Down Again, on Looking for Psychedelics in Western Religious History, and We Double Down Again, on Ignoring Indigenous Shams”

Step 5: Entheogen Scholars: “We Ignore You Anything-But-Drugs Apologists, Lying Propagadndists Obstractionists; We ridicule you, Anything-But-Drugs Academia Is a Pathetic laughingstock, You Sold Out Your Credibility entirely, You anything-but-drugs academics anything-but-drugs Apologists”

step 6: maximal entheogen theory of religion ; the more the anything-but-drugs apologist cry and name-call and ignore evidence and smear and defame AND INSULT THE F out of entheogen scholarship, the more we entheogen scholars are dedicated to making even more progress, which makes the anything-but-drugs apologist exposed as thoroughly corrupt and paid shills to cover-up truth and reality.

It’s purely political. The anything-but-drugs apologists are dedicated to lying, like Wasson; entheogen scholars are dedicated to making even more progress.

WE CAN LEARN A LOT LEVERAGING Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson p. 180 AS A MODEL OF THE PHONY COVERUP OPERATION

anything-but-drugs academia
abdaa

Mosurinjohn, Step 1: “You’re NOT ALLOWED to Look Over There”.

Us: “Okay, now we will NEVER look at IndigShams and are now DOUBLING DOWN ON LOOKING EXACTLY THERE WHERE YOU FORBID US.

Mosurinjohn, step 2: ok i am unable to stop them. backup strategy: Discredit them, namecall, accuse.

Every Entheogen Scholar and Students of the Field, Step 1: We’re Doubling Down on Finding Evidence of Psychedelics in Mystery Religions, and We Are Committed to Disrespecting Indig Shams

Mosurinjohn, Step 2: Since You Refuse to Obey My Commandment to Stop Doing Entheogen Scholarship, I Am Discrediting and Invalidating Your Work

Every Entheogen Scholar, Step 2: We Ridicule You 10x Harder, Phony Fraud Fake Academic, Professional Liar for Hire

Translation: Every entheogen scholar told Mosurinjohn

GO TO HELL, YOU LYING POS – F OFF AND DIE, YOU PHONY.

You can’t interfere with our proofs and progress.

We’re doubling down – if you got a problem with that, too goddamn bad.

Go get a dishwasher job, you fake poser academic, yellow propagandist.

Mosurinjohn, I Hear Your Commandments and Coercion Attempts, to Try to Halt Entheogen Scholarship; to Forbid Trying to Look for psychedelics psychedelics in Western religious history

We jam her in a corner, cornered this way. We exposed her. “You’re NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK OVER THERE –>”

Her next move, then,

Mosurinjohn Pressures Scholars to Avoid Looking for Psychedelics in Mystery Religions; Commands and Dictates that they are not allowed to try to look, and if they say Go To Hell and they still try to look, then She Ridicules and Demeans and Invalidates them as Morons, Delusional, Dogged Puresuit of Hallucinated Pseudo-Evidence

Can I Talk Generically in Terms of Anything-but-drugs apologists, instead of “Mosurinjohn & Ascough” or “Mosurinjohn”?

Mosurinjohn Provides Extreme, Concrete Examples that are Being Deployed Right Now, So Cannot Cut Her Slack

What’s happening right now in 2025-2026 is that Mosurinjohn has OPENLY, EXPLICITLY DECLARED WAR ON THE FIELD OF ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP TO DESTROY AND INVALIDATE IT.

SEE RED BOLD QUOTES INCLUDING TONE OF VOICE AND INSINUATION AND SIGNALLING (NOT only the technical necesary meanin gof her words. Hear the mood, the tone, the overtones of her word-choice.

The #1 attacker of the field of entheogen scholarship trying to block it, OBSTRRUCT IT, discourage and pressure researchers: here are 10 reasons why you cannot and must not try to look for evidence.

How much evidence of psychedelics in mystery religions will Mosurinjohn discover, given that her self-marketing BRAND is to – she’s (maybe the evil comes from Ascough?) Mosurinjohn is actively trying to obstruct and SHUT IT DOWN the field. You all MUST STOP trying to look for

High-Pressure Smear Tactics, Bullying, Defamation, Girlish Name-calling, and Aggressive Ridiculing, Just Like Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson

Do not even TRY to look for psychedelics in mystery religions, else you are doing colonialist violence, and are a religious fundamentalist.

If you tell me to go to hell, and you continue to try to look, you are doing colonialist violence.

Every accusation is a confession:

Mosurinjohn’s assigned job is to be a COMMITTED DENIER, COMMITTED SKEPTIC religious fundamentalist about mandatory denial and cover-up of psychedelics in mystery religions.

The “Committed Skeptic” Fallacy

https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+there+a+fallacy+called+%22committed+skeptic%22

AI answer:

“There is no universally recognized, standard logical fallacy formally named “committed skeptic” in mainstream logic textbooks.

The term “committed skeptic” is used in philosophical, theological, and debate contexts to describe a specific type of epistemic failure or dialectic stall. 

It generally refers to a person who claims to be a “skeptic”, but is actually committed to a specific, unshakeable negative conclusion (e.g., “God does not exist” or “external reality doesn’t exist”) [there were no psychedelics in mystery religions] , rather than maintaining an open, questioning, or agnostic position.

Contexts of “Committed Skeptic”

  • Philosophical/Kant’s Refutation of Idealism: In this context, a “committed Cartesian skeptic” is someone who rejects the existence of the external world based on the premise that only inner perceptions are certain. Kant argues this position is flawed because it ignores that inner experience itself presupposes outer experience.
  • Debate/Apologetics: It is often used to describe someone who adopts the rhetoric of skepticism to avoid the burden of proof, while simultaneously maintaining a firm, dogma-like disbelief.
  • Begging the Question: A “committed skeptic” is often accused of falling into the fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii), where they assume the falsehood of a claim as a premise to argue against it. 

Related Fallacies and Concepts

  • Begging the Question: Assuming what you are trying to prove, often used when a skeptic refuses to consider evidence because they have already concluded it must be false.
  • Special Pleading: A “committed skeptic” might dismiss all evidence for a specific case while accepting similar evidence for others.
  • Dogmatic Skepticism: A contradiction in terms where a person is absolutely sure that nothing can be known for sure.
  • Ignoring the Evidence: A form of confirmation bias where the skeptic ignores information that contradicts their entrenched disbelief. 

Summary

While not a formal fallacy like Ad Hominem, the committed skeptic refers to an informal fallacy or a failure of intellectual honesty—where skepticism is used not as a tool for inquiry, but as a shield for a pre-ordained conclusion.”

/ end of AI answer

Why Should I Helpfully, Constructively Assist Mosurinjohn & Ascough, Who Have Declared War, to Destroy Entheogen Scholarship?

Doctor Sharday Mosurinjohn, Anything-But-Drugs Propagandist for Hire: You Pay, We Produce History for You

Does it make any sense for me to have a constructive, Positive Mental Attitude, when Mosurinjohn & Ascough Have Declared War to Destroy the Field, as Committed Skeptics, Who Command Researchers to Stop Looking for Psychedelics in Western religious history

(Flimsy excuse: “Look at every other sentence, where I flip to saying “I’m not against your FOOLISH FUTILE error and colonicalist violence, in vain wishing for psychedelics in mystery religions.”)

Mosurinjohn & Ascough (that type) are anything-but-drugs propagandists for hire, scholarly prostitutes selling to the highest bidder to fabricate a narrative, whatever is most self-serving.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough are always out of both sides of their mouths, skating promiscuously, prostitutes, selling their allegiance now to this camp, now to that camp — inter-camp spies.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough Dictate that entheogen scholars must Restrict Themselves Exclusively to Indigenous Shams

Wasson-Level Propaganda Pressure: 100% Conflict of Interest, Totally Compromised Scholarship bowing to the anything-but-drugs Agenda.

the anything-but-drugs academic cabal

the anything-but-drugs academic agenda

the anything-but-drugs agenda

There’s a good reason why fake journalists were banned from psychedelic conferences: toxic parasites electing themselves as police and prosecutors of everyone in a field they don’t even know elementary basics about.

On a livestream:

Really? LSD was legal in the 1950s, and was used in psychiatry? No, that can’t be. I’m going to have to fact-check that.

one of this group of fake, invader, parasite “journalists”, the ones on the “do not allow entry” printout photo list at the psychedelic studies conference

“Really? LSD was legal in the 1950s, and was used in psychiatry? No, that can’t be. I’m going to have to fact-check that.” — I heard one of this group of fake invader parasite “journalists” say — the ones on the “do not allow entry” printout photo list at the psychedelic studies conference.

toxic parasitical hostile invaders

The field needs a STRONG DEFENSE against toxic parasitical hostile invaders! The field of entheogen scholarship is under an insincere, committed-skeptic attack.

If Mosurinjohn Genuinely Wanted “Evidence”, There Is Much More than Sufficient, Compelling Evidence, when Correctly Assembled

(like Hatsis re: mushrooms in Western religious history)

Mosurinjohn’s Brand and Academic Career-Advancement Commitment Is, “Anything-But-Drugs Propagandist for Hire“

It’s in Mosurinjohn’s Interest to Invalidate, Ignore, and Suppress Evidence and Avoid Constructing the Paradigm that Makes them Obviously Perceivable – so as long as she can help it,

Hatsis CLAIMS or storytells, that he wishes “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” were real, but he acts like he is committed to invalidating any evidence.

Hatsis has the narrowest of minds in conceptualizing entheogen scholarship; he follows the worst, pop leads.

IF Mosurinjohn WANTED TO FIND EVIDENCE FOR PSYCHEDELICS IN MYSTERY RELIGIONS , SHE WOULD FIND PLENTY.

But that’s not her marketing ploy/strtegy / business model.

She is INVESTED in shutting out evidence by artifice: “The only evideence that counts” (why? on what basis? who says?) “is that which I choose because I strategically reckon that it has the least likelyhood of success.”

Adopting a Perverse (and Shifting as-needed) Definition of “Evidence”, Purely Designed to Prop Up Anything-But-Drugs Academia: Designed to Lose, as Much as Possible

The name “Hatsis” just flashed through my mind.

Shift those shells around ad-hoc, invent new rules on-the-fly as needed: to appear to support the pre-set conclusion.

Exhibit A: Evidence. “That doesn’t count, because ___________ [fill in whatever, doesn’t matter, junk arg THAT YOU INVENT ON-THE–SPOT RULE MADE UP (special pleading) just for this ONE INSTANCE of evidence] [now that sweet, sweet payoff part, what it’s all about:] “… SO, NOT MUSHROOMS.” “THERE’S NO EVIDENCE.”

Exhibit B: Evidence. “That doesn’t count, because [whatever, no one cares, make up some junk arg just for that one item]; so, not mushrooms.”

“There is no evidence.”

Flexibility in fallacious rejection of all types of evidence, as-needed, to achieve the goal, which we already know is: “… so, not mushrooms. “

Huggins’ Overblown Use of Everyone’s Initial Struggle with the Title of Great Canterbury Psalter, to Invalidate the Finding of mushroom imagery

Huggins makes a big stink: entheogen scholarship is false because botched the name of the psalter, its actually Great Canterbury Psalter not the Paris Psalter.

He is full of baloney since regardless of title, these are the —

Lind & Lash are the ones who found mushroom imagery in Christian art in gcp

HUGGSINS MUST GIVE LASH 2008 CREDIT FOR WORKING ON UNRAVBELLING THE TITLE OF Great Canterbury Psalter EVEN if wiki settled on Great Canterbury Psalter.

Even Lash can’t unravel the EXTREMELY TANGLED CONFUSING copies Great Canterbury Psalter.

Huggins’ Inappropriate, “Presentism” Criteria for Judging the Pioneers Before Him

Huggins is spoiled: HE has benefit of hindsight. The history of science shows this: you have to respect their contribs IN CONTEXT AT THE TIME.

Hug must cut entheogen scholars – PIONEERS! – reasonable slack,

Huggins misses the point.

Hug tries to use trivial mistakes to INVALIDATE ignore/ discount/ delegitimate massive breakthrough findings that happened in the past in the past context. It’s Apples vs. oranges, to use TODAY’S CONTEXT to just yesterday’s pioneers. re names of psalters.

The main thing that matters: they found mica in various psalters, especially in psalter X, not sure of the title: either Paris Eadwine, or Great Canterbury Psalter, or Lash’s other title discussed in Discovery of a Lifetime.

Synonyms for ‘Delegitimize’

  • delegitimize
  • disqualify
  • delegitimate
  • invalidate
  • discredit
  • discount
  • ignore
  • undermine the legitimacy, authority, or credibility
  • diminish

‘Delegitimize’ = ‘Delegitimate’

Which is the more proper word, ‘delegitimize’, or ‘delegitimate’? Are both words ok to use?

AI answer:

“”Delegitimize” is the more common and generally preferred word, although both “delegitimize” and “delegitimate” are acceptable to use

“both words mean to diminish or remove the legitimacy or authority of something.

“Delegitimize” is more common in standard, professional usage

“”Delegitimate” is also a dictionary-recognized synonym.”

Images Gallery

todo: h3 heading above each image

The Psychedelic Gospels (Browns 2016)

Mushrooms and Mankind (Arthur 2000)

Entheos Issue 1 – The Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality – Entheogens and the Judeo-Christian Mysteries 

Sharday Mosurinjohn

Reversible Tauroctony Liberty Cap

Back side of the reversible tauroctony

Morris Red Liberty Caps

Holding Liberty Caps

Photo from the web, thank you -Michael Hoffman

Liberty Cap in Mithras’ Leg Hem

Entheos Tauroctony Cover

Victory Wedding Mosaic

Double Holy Grail

Photo Credit: Michael Hoffman, 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010

Amanita Grail Pool Ripples

Photo: Michael Hoffman, 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010

Panther Amanita Watering Bowl

Double Holy Grail, Side

Photo by Michael Hoffman, 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010

Victory Mosaic 4 {mushroom hem}

Dionysus’ {mushroom hem}, Mosaic

Perplexed Hanegraaff

todo: finish properly linking TOC. The bottom half starting w/ “opport.” is linked, but not the added sections below “covert flipping”.

What?! I Have No Site Map Section for Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson? 🤯

A Huge Oversight and Total Failure of the Egodeath Theory, Proving that the Egodeath theory is a MYTH! BEEN DEBUNKED!

I’m just another “blundering mycologist” that failed to “consult”(?? citation needed) the art authorities to correct my ignorance of the hundreds of mushroom-trees, had I been aware of that, I would not have foolishly said Day 3 panel’s mushroom trees mean mushrooms, embarrassing myself.

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 24, 2026
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Strangely, I dont seem to have site map for Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson, no idea why. 🤷‍♂️

I’ll get right on that, since per John Lash, every idea in the field of entheogen scholarship is “Wasson’s theory” – a total error on my part, forgot to give Wasson all credit for entire field of entheogen scholarship, as Lash correctly does.

Appreciation

The present article, and the entheogen scholarship aspects of this website, are in appreciation of the work done by paradigm pioneers, including:

  • Carl Ruck
  • Mark Hoffman
  • Paul Lindgren (1999) re: Canterbury
  • John Lash (2007) re: Canterbury
  • Giorgio Samorini (1997, 1998): The first in 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)
  • Brown & Brown (2016, 2019): The Psychedelic Gospels

— Michael Hoffman, 1:30 a.m. Jan. 26, 2026

Photo of Carl Ruck

Carl Ruck, pioneer of the the psychedelic mysteries paradigm

See Also

Site Map > Carl Ruck
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Carl-Ruck

Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels
Jerry Brown, 2022
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/

http://wassonwest.com – The Wasson-Ruck Entheogenic Research Institute and Archives, where the Evil M. Hoffman hangs out

— M. Hoffman, Egodeath.com

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2 thoughts on “The Egodeath Theory Corroborates Carl Ruck’s Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm”

    1. See new page:

      I previously wrote:

      You probably mean list item 2 below.

      My strange design of a biblio within a Hatsis page about his book: It is the Hatsis page for a book, and contains a biblio major section, which contains subsections: one for Brown, one subsection for Hatsis.

      To check the result:

      1. Go to the section you have in mind.
      2. Refresh.
      3. See if the link is there (and works).
      4. If not there, provide which url you mean.

      See:

      I should move Hatsis’ Biblio entries to a place that’s not tied to one particular book of his.

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