Works by Thomas Hatsis

Michael Hoffman, Jan. 26, 2026

Contents:

Initial Scope of Page

Works by Thomas Hatsis and other writers, orig. scoped for the book Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis 2018)

I doubt the above url embed is stable enough to use as a top-of-page image.

Thank you Hatsis for Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance and entheogen scholarship.

Search the web for Thomas Hatsis
https://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+hatsis

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis 2018)

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/

Albert Brinckmann

Dictionary of Art Historians: Brinckmann, Albert
https://arthistorians.info/brinckmanna

German Wikipedia entry about Brinckmann: Albert Erich Brinckmann
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Erich_Brinckmann
English translation: 
https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TVert&from=&to=en&a=https%3A%2F%2Fde.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlbert_Erich_Brinckmann

Jerry Brown

Book:
The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2016
http://amzn.com/1620555026

Article:
Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels
Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p142.xml
Journal of Psychedelic Studies

Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels – Jerry Brown, 2022, at Graham Hancock site

Cyberdisciple

Weblog posting:
Book: Brown and Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels
Cyberdisciple
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/book-brown-and-brown-the-psychedelic-gospels/

Weblog posting:
Article: Hatsis, T. “Born of a Version”
Cyberdisciple
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/article-hatsis-t-born-of-a-version/

Weblog posting:
tom hatsis; primacy of cog sci, eternalism, metaphor
Cyberdisciple
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/thoughts-on-jan-irvin-tom-hatsis-primacy-of-cog-sci-eternalism-metaphor/

Web search link:
Search for all Cyberdisciple’s ‘Hatsis’ weblog pages:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=Hatsis

My site map’s section on Cyberdisciple:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Cyberdisciple

My site map of Cyberdisciple site:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/site-map-of-cyberdisciple-wordpress-com/

Thomas Hatsis

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

Book:
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, and Ecstatic States
Tom Hatsis, September 2018
PsychedelicWitch.com, http://amzn.com/1620558009
Park Street Press

Article 1:
A Brief Introduction to Holy Mushroom Theory
Tom Hatsis, December 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/a-brief-introduction-to-holy-mushroom-theory/
Not analyzed in the present article.

Article 2 (original PDF title, with appendixes):
Roasting the Salamander: Mushroom Cult Theorists Vs. Critical Historical Inquiry
August 18, 2013 (home page archived then has this article)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160218214557/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf
I’ve explained the esoteric mystic-state analogies in the right-foot “dancing man”/salamander image:
Salamander Mushroom Tree Right Side Cut (Dancing Man; Roasting Salamander Bestiary Image)

Article 2 (later HTML page title, missing appendixes):
Roasting Jan Irvin: Critical Historical Inquiry vs. Pseudointellectualism
Displayed date: November 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin
Good images of mushrooms in art demonstrating that there aren’t mushrooms in art.

Article 2.5:
“Born of a Version: Parthenogenesis and The Holy Mushroom.”
Thomas Hatsis, 2016.
Psychedelic Press 17:21-39
Cyberdisciple article 2016/09/06: https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/article-hatsis-t-born-of-a-version/
https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/search?q=hatsis
Hatsis’ name is listed in Archive.org late 2016.
Archive.org of https://psychedelicpress.co.uk in late 2016:
Hatsis’ name is listed in Archive.org late 2016.
Article not found, gave up, Dec. 26, 2024.

Article 3:
The Dogmatist’s Debacle: Questioning Holy Mushroom History as Found in the Writings of Jan Irvin
Tom Hatsis, September 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-dogmatists-debacle
With images of mushrooms in Christian art that demonstrate the lack of images of mushrooms in Christian art.
Not analyzed in the present article.

Article 4:
The Secret Christian Radish Cult
Tom Hatsis, September 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-christian-radish-cult/

Article 5:
Mushrooms in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Tom Hatsis, August 2017
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/

Video:
THE GREAT HOLY MUSHROOM DEBATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUmR7o6RGg
Tom Hatsis & Jerry Brown
Opening slide: “There Are no Mushrooms in Christian Art“
Does Christianity have a psychedelic history?
Hosted by Breaking Convention & The University of Greenwich Psychedelic Society, August 14, 2019.

The Psychedelic Gospels, The Plaincourault fresco, and the Death of Psychedelic History – Hatsis, 2022, at Graham Hancock site

Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels – Jerry Brown, 2022, at Graham Hancock site
todo: not sure why this link is in Hatsis’ biblio section

Roller Derby: The Sensation That Caused a Book! Confessions of a Roller Derby Mascot
September 8, 2012
by Bane-ana
https://www.amazon.com/Roller-Derby-Sensation-Caused-Confessions/dp/0615692451/

Hatsis’ Author Page at Amazon

Thomas Hatsis
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Thomas-Hatsis/author/B011J4YCP4

Bane-ana
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bane-ana/author/B011J4JD12

“Thomas Hatsis is an historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia.

“He has worked in historical research at Queens College and taught history at Pioneer Pacific College.

“A derbygypsy, juggler, musician, and potion-mixer, Hatsis also skates throughout the global derby underworld, dodging police, visiting rare archives, slinging elixirs, and coaching roller derby.”

“He lives … somewhere … with a kitty cat.”

Michael Hoffman

Article:
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
Michael Hoffman, 2006
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
Journal of Higher Criticism

Webpage of a discussion group thread:
Minimal Entheogen Theory per Psychedelics Advocates
Michael Hoffman
Section in webpage “Competing Views about Entheogens in Religious History“
http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm#_Toc164518582
Cyberdisciple writes “Letcher’s debunking was poorly theorized and limited; see this page and compare Hatsis by the same measure.”

Webpage:
Shroom Book by Letcher – Private Page
Michael Hoffman
Webpage for private notes about Letcher’s book
http://www.egodeath.com/ShroomLetcher.htm
Cyberdisciple writes “Andy Letcher’s debunking was poorly theorized and limited; see this page critiquing Letcher, and then compare Hatsis by the same measure.”

Motivation for this Page

Moved this page’s content from
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/ Jan. 26, 2026

Made this content a separate page on Jan. 26, 2026, because Brown asked to adjust the entries, and I have long wondered why this info is at the specific book page: it is largely a distinct concern, even if scoped by Hatsis’ specific book.

A high-value distinct body of content. I have often needed to use these references without any concern for the particular book: links to Hatsis’ defunct articles and sites.

I need Hatsis to restore his articles, for the benefit of entheogen scholarship.

The entheogen scholarship field needs my pictures to be restored at the valuable page:
Hatsis Gallery of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

todo: find his articles, surely somewhere, but archive was broken.

See Also

Site Map > Thomas Hatsis
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Hatsis

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