Michael Hoffman 8:33 p.m. Feb. 1, 2026

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Contents:
- Incoming Ideas [Mar. 10, 2026, 43 sheets of 50 = 86%]
- . . . .🔍🧐🤨
links work on desktop Edge/Chrome: - My Book Review of Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
- Vidal Mayor Manuscript
- Douce Apocalypse: Extreme YI Hand-Shapes
- Vulcan Live Long and Prosper YI Hand-Shape
- Email to Cyberdisciple 12:15 p.m. Feb. 17, 2026
- Email to Cyberdisciple 1:06 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026
- Email to Cyberdisciple 12:28 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026
- Email to Cyberdisciple & Brown 2:27 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Email to Cyberdisciple & Max 3:04 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Hatsis Insists Psychoactives in Europe History – EXCEPT for “Secret Christian Amanita Cult”, which Is the Identical Same Topic as Psychedelic Mushrooms in Western Religious History
- Indigenous Shams Do NOT Have “Psychedelic Wisdom”, against Winslow, Houot, Mosurinjohn & Ascough, etc.
- The dust-up over psychedelic “lineage”
- Huggins’ Articles on entheogen scholarship
- Email 3 to Brown, Max, Cyberdisciple 3:26 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Email 4 to Cyberdisciple & Max, 3:36 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Email 5 to Cyberdisciple & Brown, 4:10 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Bad Resolution Can Throw Off Interp
- John Rush’s Crazy Identification of the Four plants in Day 3
- The Art Image Has Bands on Cap; So, no mushroom imagery in Christian art
- email to Cyberdisciple 8:41 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- To Win the Game of Mushroom-Tree Art
- The Reference Hand-Shape Pair: [Y’, YI]
- Exercise for the Mushroom-Tree Game
- Rebis’ hand-shape pair: [ YY’Y, YI ]
- email to Cyberdisciple 9:08 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- The Minkowski/ Einstein/ Everett Spectrum of Models, from Non-Branching to Branching
- Emailed Cyberdisciple
- Egodeath Yahoo Group Post About Eternalism 2 Posts Before (Same Day) Final Form of the Main Article, Sep. 12, 2007
- email to Cyberdisciple 10:06 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026: Found Outline guidance from Cyberdisciple & Brown re: publishing my work
- email to Cyberdisciple 10:39 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- email to Cyberdisciple 11:39 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- Professional Propagandist Wasson Substitutes a Degraded, Copied Painting that Deletes the YI Branching Form and the {stand on right foot} Motif, Withholding the Actual Fresco Image
- Special Issue of Religions Journal, by Sharday Mosurinjohn & Christian Greer, Oct. 2025
- On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins)
- John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough)
- Odd Conspiracies: John Allegro, Sacred Mushrooms, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Goff)
- Greer’s Strategy: There Were Psychedelics in Western Religious History, but, Not Mainstream; Doesn’t Count
- email to Cyberdisciple 11:54 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
- heading
- Draft Page: Message to Deniers of mushrooms in western or Christian religious History, from Entheogen Scholarship: Declaration of Continued Independence
- todo: create page: Huggins Has Only 1 Legit Objection: Explain Branches
- Created page: Huggins on Day 3
- todo: create page: Huggins on Day 4
- {branching vs. non-branching} Is Every Type of Language – A Huge Advantage of Centralizing this Motif
- notation: [Y’, YI] well connotes pair of hand sgapes
- keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term [KS]
- YI hand shapes [YHS]
- new notation! in a heading: term [ACRO]
- “Whether the fixed stars should be included [with Saturn, sphere 7] or should rather be associated with the Ogdoad [sphere 8] remains an open question for me.” – p. 294, footnote 114, Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022
- 4/87 style []
- YI hand-shape pairs [YHSP]
- the mushroom-tree religion is #1. the mushroom-tree religion ROCKS, Huggins anda anything-but-drugs academics SUCKS! garbage quality religion, argn, sense, rubbish like gan Hanegraaff s cosmos model
- Advantage: branching vs. non-branching fits every categ: analogy; everyday; tech; notation – significance!!?
- Cant Answer if should braces around {branching vs. non-branching}
- branching vs. non-branching is everyday technical analogy
- wHAT’s the ADVANTage OF branching vs. non-branching FITTING EVERY CATEGory OF LANGuage/ descriptor types?
- Decoded {earth swirls} = Perceptual Distortion
- Crossed Threshold of Simplicity, Mutual Reinforcement
- The Egodeath Theory Enters Extreme Aggression Attack Mode, Under the Aegis of the God of Potent Binaries
- The Medieval Mushroom-Tree Religion Discovered by the Egodeath Theory
- keyboard shortcuts (e*, binaries)
- The Mushroom Tree Religion for the Simplest Possible Theory of Transcendent Knowledge
- von Trimberg Figure 3’s Hands-Pair: Lower Hand and Upper Hand Are Inverse: YI’ vs. Y’I
- Snapshot of Discovery Halfway Point Problem Encountering & Solving: Thumb displayed on L hand of Guy 1, yet on R hand of Guy 2
- The Use of a Hand to Depict Possibilism & Eternalism Encourages Integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism Thinking; YI = the Whole Hand, not Only the Thumb [I] or Only the Fingers [Y]
- All Hand Shapes Indicated on Image f134
- Jewish Poet Süßkind von Trimberg Wearing a Jewish Hat
- Use YI Notation, Hand-Shapes, or Treesto Represent: {branching} = Ordinary-State Possibilism-Thinking vs. {non-branching} = Psychedelic Eternalism-Thinking
- Use Vine-Leaf Trees to Represent: {branching} = Possibilism vs. {non-branching} = Eternalism
- Articles Reading Stack
- Sharday Mosurinjohn’s Critique of the Positive Unitive Model of “Mystical Experience”
- Toward a Psychedelic Theodicy: Psychedelic Biomedicine and the Concept of “Risk” (Mosurinjohn 2024/2025) – todo: read
- Sharday Mosurinjohn + 2 Others: 2023 Article cited and Rebutted by Breau: Mos’s Critique of the positive unitive model of “mystical experience” (Good) and Critique of Christian Bias (Bad)
- Recent Posts
Incoming Ideas
the shardogged gang
exists post draft – Team Popebanker:
todo: list the history of articles by naysayers, Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art – HAVE TO start with Letcher-Hatsis himself, cannot start late at Sharday Mosurinjohn nor start with Huggins
Huggins is like Hatsis but more of an academic player
Excellent writeup by me in my book review of 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/
arguing Hatgsis Hatsis is self contradictory counterproductive by claiming Euro history psychoactives – EXCEPT FOR XY. and he narrowmindedly uninformedly conflates 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) w/ the entire topic of mushroom imagery in Christian art (or a broader scoped topic: psilocybin or Amanita in Christiandom history )
Way back in nov 2020 article for brown c e c o p compelling evidence & criteria of proof for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art i wrote about scope question-scope variants:
the _ theory of __ in __ cultural history
Constructing the question(s): fill in narrow or broad, variants many variants.
Alternative to Long or Short Idea Development Pages
What I have done instead, is type new ideas in whatever page I happen to have open for editing. I need to put a date in every section.
Tue., Mar. 10, 2026
My Book Review of Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)

No Amazon url yet for my review. ETA 2 days; Thu Mar 12, 2026.
Composed & submitted to Amazon Tue., Mar. 10, 2026
5 of 5 stars
by Michael Hoffman
Title of review:
4D spacetime block-universe eternalism, inspired the Egodeath theory
Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics, edited by Vesselin Petkov, 2021, Preface & Introduction chapter by Petkov
Vidal Mayor Manuscript
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RVV
An imbed:
Illumination in Vidal Mayor Manuscript — detail, c.1290, Getty Museum, Los Angeles
figure in lower right: standard hand-shape pair:
- The lower hand says “First I had branching thinking, but branching got cut in the altered-state.”
- The upper hand says “I ended up with integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking”
bosp
ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism
o s p v
Douce Apocalypse: Extreme YI Hand-Shapes
- Douce Apocalypse – My new page; crops annotated on mobile device mostly Mar 7/Mar 8; composed page Mar 9; posted page Mar 10, 2026.
Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douce_Apocalypse
https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk – 404
Recent posts; updated the present section on Tue., Mar. 10, 2026:
- Finger-Shape Notation, for YI Hand-Shape Theory
- Solved Dancing Man Hand-Shape Pair: Index Finger Splayed (= I Shape) AND Bent (= I’ Shape) = Cut Non-Branching = Rebut Eternalism = Death
- Mechanism and Message in Canterbury f134 Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree
- YI Hand-Shapes in Portraits of Scribes
- {splayed finger} Motif: Splayed Index or Pinkie, vs. 3 Fingers Held Together
- Simplified Rules for the Medieval YI Hand-Shape Game
- Otto Psalter: The “Spot the YI Hand-Shapes” Game
- The Psychedelic 1160s: Maximal Mushroom Art Theory
Vulcan Live Long and Prosper YI Hand-Shape 🖖

Douce Apoc https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/800ee953-8af1-4b97-9a12-9d179331d3a8/surfaces/5e72f091-ec0a-4aea-8023-d28e44303dc6/#
fullscreeen
Email to Cyberdisciple 12:15 p.m. Feb. 17, 2026
Cyberdisciple wrote:
“Wow, it’s been about 6 months since I promised you ideas to get article un-stuck.
“Total failure to follow through.
“I’ve been particularly busy.
“I will be entering a less busy period in a few months.
“But don’t believe me! Evil Future Me is a slacker.”
Michael Hoffman replied:
Your idea to shift focus from {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs to the theory of psychedelic eternalism
You are an inspiring cheerleader for the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.
The new article draft page with new title is the outcome of your idea to shift attention in the title
from:
laundry list: {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
to:
the theory of psychedelic eternalism:
- Branching-message mushroom trees: The theory of psychedelic eternalism represented in medieval art
- Supplementary Page for: Branching-message mushroom trees: The theory of psychedelic eternalism represented in medieval art (Hoffman, 2026)
- Cyberdisciple on Designing the Branching-Message Mushroom Trees Article
you even failed to be a slacker
Yesterday’s emails from me to you are formatted at
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/02/idea-development-page-33/#email-to-cyberdisciple-106-a.m.-feb.-17-2026
Email to Cyberdisciple 1:06 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026
Branching-message mushroom trees: The theory of psychedelic eternalism represented in medieval art
buys expectation: going to hit u w Theory; STEM theory, fasten seatbelt
Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability
Email to Cyberdisciple 12:28 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026
i don’t see why should pay any attention to fulfilling ppl’s expectations
this is a BIG article
BIG! big in size like ego when fuzed with God. Transcendent Knowledge = go from skin-encap. you, to UNIVERSE YOU!
Why do I care what ppl expect? Science facts are Loose Cognitive Science Facts. it’s irrelevant what the Univ. Engineering student expects to be taught.
It’s not up to the student to define the degree program.
I’m not taking a vote and poll, “Who expects SPOT THE MUSHROOM game?”
I’m here to TEACH and EXPLAIN, not to APPEASE and MEET PREFAB EXPECTATIONS
Let the Theory, as-is, market itself, by sheer interestingness inherent.
eg YI hand-shape theory, really remarkable to me, and to every GOOD person, who counts.
all the BEST readers (1%) appreciate the force of pure undiluted STEM revelation, of psychedelic eternalism.
analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control
Its a theory. Not a spot-the-mushroom kiddie game. The game is much funner, by being about {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, integrated.
Email to Cyberdisciple & Brown 2:27 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
I need more time than 4 years to read your emails.
List of unread emails: …
Thank you for handling reviewing The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku, 2020, and creating the Brown anti-Hatsis article, so I focused on other fronts.
Email to Cyberdisciple & Max 3:04 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
The poor scholar whose last name is
Panofsky-Wasson-Letcher-Hatsis-Bennett-Huggins-Mosurinjohn-Ascough-Greer
Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.I read this Cyberdisciple email today Feb. 16, 2026
Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art:
* Erwin Panofsky 1952
* Gordon . . . .


Wasson 1968
* Andy Letcher 2006
* Thomas Hatsis 2013
* Chris Bennett 2020
* Ronald Huggins 2022
* Sharday Mosurinjohn 2025
* Richard Ascough 2025
* Christian Greer 2025 maybe
Hatsis Insists Psychoactives in Europe History – EXCEPT for “Secret Christian Amanita Cult”, which Is the Identical Same Topic as Psychedelic Mushrooms in Western Religious History
Thomas Hatsis denies mushroom imagery in Christian art, despite his pushing for psychedelics in Western religious history.
Bennett:
“Finding mushroom imagery is TOO HARD
You should be weak like me and only look for Easy-Mode, Cannabis evidence.”
Mosurinjohn & Ascough: You entheogen scholars are pathetic and illeigitmate, deseving of fullest disrespect.
“Finding mushroom imagery is impossible, because in fact there is none. You should ignore Western history and only look for Easy-Mode, Indigenous Shams; they have had mushroom wisdom[sic] for millennia.”
Who wrote the stupid wrong vague anti-Western phrase “mushroom wisdom”? Henry Winslow’s awful post:
Pop writer Winslow wrote:
“Researchers from Queen’s University think not.
[not “no evidence”; they think DEFINITELY NOT psychedelics in mystery religions – why? they slip from “possibly not” to “= definitely not”, exactly as they make a stink about Ruck doing, in the positive direction. -mh]
“So they just dropped a thorough takedown of the whole theory
[ultra vague, non-scholarly, untestable, undefined assertion -mh]
in the journal Psychedelic Medicine.
“Drs. Sharday Mosurinjohn (whom I interviewed in April) and Richard Ascough systematically dismantle
[ultra vague, non-scholarly, untestable, undefined assertion -mh]
what they call “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis[sic, PARADIGM],”
pointing out there’s zero archaeological [RESTRICTIVE QUALIFIER] evidence for psychedelics at Eleusis [RESTRICTIVE QUALIFIER].
[dirty rhet arg’n strategy: only accept 1 type of evidence: whatever type of evidence your side (Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art) has destroyed (washed out
these particular cups), and is minimal.]
“They say proponents are presenting speculation as fact, and the entire narrative is built on shaky foundations and circular reasoning.
Hypocrites Mosurinjohn & Ascough
present their speculation (maybe no psychedelics in mystery religions, since the only type of evidence that that counts is the dirt that we Deniers washed away
, and by that arb. definition, “THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.
“)
as if fact (We showed that there’s definitely no psychedelics in mystery religions; DEBUNKED ROGAN. & Muraresku. & ruck)
“So why does the myth persist?”
[the above presenting of negative speculation as negative fact by Mosurinjohn & Ascough has now MAGICALLY become factual, so that we can say confidently with a con-artist’s tone of finality, “the myth of psychedelics in mystery religions”.]
“The authors [Mosurinjohn & Ascough] argue it’s about legitimacy.
[ie, YOU ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS ARE ILLEGIT & PATHETIC & discredited and invalidated – like Wasson p. 180 SOMA smearing blundering “mycologists” ie Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art eg John Ramsbottom.
Ramsb. more than effectively retaliated, by re-printing his new book just to add:
“We are committed skeptics, not interested in truth re: mushroom imagery in Christian art.”
– signed, Popebanker Wasson, privately to the top myc’ist, J Rams.
As Jan Irvin figured in conversation w/ me in 2006, it took Wasson decades to figure out that he’d been, for years, DESTROYED & EXPOSED as a committed liar, by the top myc’ist, Ramsbottom.]
Winslow con’t:
“People want to believe there’s a ‘respectable’ Western pedigree for psychedelics with our European ancestors.
[ie YOU ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS LACK A RESPECTABLE PEDIGREE]
[now wheel-out the weaponized Indigenous Shams:]
Indigenous Shams Do NOT Have “Psychedelic Wisdom”, against Winslow, Houot, Mosurinjohn & Ascough, etc.
“Never mind that there are plenty of Indigenous lineages around the world that have preserved psychedelic wisdom[sic] for millennia.
“If we need history’s stamp of approval to justify research and policy reform today (we don’t), surely that’s enough.”
The term ‘wisdom’ means specifically, integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.
Indigenous Shams do NOT have integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.
Europeans have vastly more developed technology than Indigenous Shams — against the anti-Western propaganda like
- Alan Houot’s masters dissertation.
- Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s attacks on entheogen scholarship:
uncouth, churlish, ignorant, tasteless, rude, smug, condescending, erroneous, discrediting (of themselves instead of others), and foolish.
Rude & Wrong: A classic combo; a Marriage Made in Hell.
The dust-up over psychedelic “lineage”
There’s a huge stink & controversy(s) now about “LINEAGE”.
The concern, making “lineage” your (weak) foundation, is funny to me, because I myself am an (ahistorical?) religious founder figure.
Not actual-me is the founding figure, but rather, the Mythic Michael Hoffman, never existed, he was nothing but a s3x-cult, disgusting Fly Agaric fungus.
“Therefore Christianity sucks” – that’s the John Allegro/ Carl Ruck/ Terence McKenna/ John Rush, driving-mission, achieved, by abusing entheogen scholarship to accomplish.
Tail wag dog: abuse of the field of entheogen scholarship, for the purpose of smearing the big bad church and permanently reify Prohibition.
The evil Church is so bad, don’t even THINK of trying to repeal Psilo Prohibition.
Huggins’ Articles on entheogen scholarship
Huggins 2022:
Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art
Ronald Huggins, 2022 https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_ , https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/12/dizzy-dancing-dying-huggins-2022/
Huggins 2024:
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024), https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/ & https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case
Huggins 2025:
On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom, Ronald Huggins, Oct. 29, 2025, Religions journal, Issue: 11, Volume: 16, 30 pages, https://www.academia.edu/144814668/On_John_M_Allegros_Suggestion_That_the_Tree_of_the_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil_in_the_12th_Century_Plaincourault_Chapel_Depicts_an_Amanita_muscaria_Mushroom & https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/11/on-john-m-allegros-suggestion-that-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-in-the-12th-century-plaincourault-chapel-depicts-an-amanita-muscaria-mushroom-huggins-2025/
Email 3 to Brown, Max, Cyberdisciple 3:26 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
Cyberdisciple sent: capture of Gosso book mixing M. Hoffman vs M Hoffman.
I replied a few decades later:
Forgot about this. i have one of the Gosso/Camilla books… I have that book; p. 90, thx.
– M. Hoffman
No one cites the Egodeath theory, except 10 publications I know of, or 20…
I am looking for Nov 2020 email from you giving the wrong type of url for Great Canterbury Psalter i guess, lacking .zoom suffix??
Omit .zoom suffix, get ugly, dark, dingy color palette. per my first batch of crops Nov. 2020.
* What year Great Canterbury Psalter online?
I found some history recently toward an answer.
Helping my discovery, my timing is good, except I had to take hiatus, for engineering univ. courses, Jan 2008 – Sep 2011.
John Lash uploaded Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter around 2008;
after his 2006 book 1st Edition, he did vigorous research travelling like Browns to the Great Canterbury Psalter, uploaded in 2008 the article THE DISCOVERY OF A LIFETIME
Paul Lindgren is the ACTUAL discoverer of mushroom imagery in Christian art in Great Canterbury Psalter around 1999;
check w/ Ruck & M. Hoffman who talked w/ him.
Lindgren is credited twice in 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.
to my surprise, Ronald Huggins oct 2025 article about Plaincourault fresco DOES cite “Conjuring Eden”. The Deniers’ ignorance is now slightly less than zero.
Also cites my Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm.
Huggins again fails to cite Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019
He throws about the Panofsky & Brinc citations like they are his private weapon that only Huggins gets to use.
Jan Irvin is not allowed to access the (damn) DRAWER (cited by Huggies) at Harvard instead of arming ALL scholars by citing Browns 2019.
Huggins fails to cite The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf – though the direct predecessor of Huggins 2025 article.
* What year Great Canterbury Psalter got bright not dingy color palette?
– M. Hoffman
Email 4 to Cyberdisciple & Max, 3:36 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
Found it!
On Nov. 17, 2020, Cyberdisciple emailed Michael Hoffman & Max Freakout a URL for Great Canterbury Psalter – but, omitted the .zoom prefix, so, ugly dingy color palette.
Therefore, I don’t know when or why the library fixed the bad palette. Maybe they always had a dull & a colorful set of images at the lib site.
I accidently a couple years after, when I resumed Great Canterbury Psalter, I used — on mobile — urls that have the .zoom suffix, = bright color palette.
The link Cyberdisciple sent:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item – dark, dingy
Add .zoom suffix:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom – bright
Email 5 to Cyberdisciple & Brown, 4:10 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
Definitely Julie’s photos are clearer for me.
eg: the guy behind Christ making IY hand-shape, his thumb now looks normal length, not double-length.
Bad Resolution Can Throw Off Interp
In Nov 2020 I learned a huge lesson that Browns assert: importance of clear images.
John Rush f134 row 1 left 2/5 (Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter), fist appears to point.
Fist does NOT point.
Compression artifacts make him appear to point.
I had to redo my interp w/ higher res (though too-dark palette initially, because the Great Canterbury Psalter URL lacked .zoom suffix).
John Rush’s Crazy Identification of the Four plants in Day 3
Ronald Huggins 2025 Oct hammers this too, re: the easy whipping boy who we all criticized:
John Rush, record-holder for blurriest images and most dubious claims about them — if you can even follow what Rush is asserting. Self parody. I recently found on my drive, precious PDF backup from late Rush’s Website: Rush says about Day 3’s 4 plants, some nonsense – Rue, Poppy, WAY off.
ie, my sensible Dec 2020 ID’n for 4 mushroom types in Day 3, follows at least 3 previous, pretty far off or vague attempts to ID the 4 mushroom-plants.
Rush “listed” the 4 plant idea-development session in garbled order as always, like all entheogen scholars write.
We’re not in STEM Dept. anymore.
After proper sort, the 4 plants are ID’d by Rush as:
- Opium poppy.
- Amanita.
- A psilocybin species.
- Amanita.
They are ID’d consistently by me Dec. 2020 as:
- Panaeolus
- Liberty Cap
- Cubensis
- Amanita
That matches my experience mushroom-spotting; these are practical, useful categories for the person in the field of mushrooms.
The Art Image Has Bands on Cap; So, no mushroom imagery in Christian art
Huggins’ new, Oct. 2025 article argues:
The art images have bands; so, no mushrooms in Christian art.
In fact, the bands confirm – not disconfirm – Panaeolus ID’n.
Huggins reasons as if:
“Bands on cap, or dots, are how artists randomly arb’ly for no reason, depicted trees. Meaningless. Whimsical. So, not mushroom.“
Conclusion: Huggins HAS NEVER SEEN MUSHROOMS.
His arg is like saying “image has serrated base, so is not Amanita”, when popular drawings show serrated base. Golden Guide: Richard Schultes.
Serrated base confirms (supports) that the image is Amanita – not disconfirms.
todo: does Plants of the Gods preserve those Amanita illustrations that were in Golden Guide to Hall’c Plants?
– M. Hoffman
email to Cyberdisciple 8:41 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
ooking for recomm article outline u sent
seeing random emails from u, all interesting
ramdom email mobile ui
u asked who i credited for emailing the Journal of Psychedelic Studies link
scary to try to figure that out on mobile 
Why i write in random unrelated files?
Bc i was so displeased when high-hot once i thought “before i write out the idea, i better create proper page or go right page
— TOO LATE, idea gone.
f that. dump idea wherever; living room floor;
later move writeup to right spot
the point hidden in present spot:
todo make page:
“Cyberdisciples outline of my 25-poicant-converge-
{branching-message mushroom trees} article
vs my outline – dk i f i have one now
I envision a purpose-built outline to serve my own theory’s needs per its shape
Not shaped by Deniers paradigm outline.
Ideally:
* Cyberdisciple writes article using Cyberdisciple outline
* Cybermonk writes a unique article, w whatever outline is best to exemply Loose Cognitive Science STEM Communications-Cybernetics Explanatory Framework
funny: i told Wink the Egodeath theory is mature
then had a profound brkthr re researching decoding hand shapes since Mar. 21, 2022 jesus finger sgapes shapes, confirmed by GOD HIMSELF in a mini of god same finger shapes in treebush.
“Cyberdisciple, the Egodeath theory is fully mature.”
next day:
“Cyberdisciple, had huge brkthru last night;
therefore, yesterday, the Egodeath theory was immature, barely half-baked, worthless low-value junk, missing 90% of the message of the mushroom-tree artists.”
How STEMonaut Michael Hoffman conjoined 5 ideas in 1988,
though a crude binary mut-exclusive dalse model.
check that in Self-control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death (1997 core theory spec) (Hoffman, 1997) https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/self-control-cybernetics-dissociative-cognition-mystic-ego-death/
“FROM possibilism TO eternalism” – T, or F?
yes that direction vector is true
BUT big mistake:
as if “get rid of” possibilism-thinking.
In no way does the mind “get rid of” possibilism-thinking
the mind swaps
one version of possibilism-thinking
for another that is aware of altered-state eternalism
what is tge tge true, natural outline of the Egodeath theory
that is driven by the Egodeath theory
not driven by academic structured Cyberdisciple outline?
2 Complementary Articles outlines:
* the perfect person to fill Cyberdisciple outline is Cyberdisciple
* i channeled Eadwine or the mushroom-tree artists in 2020, now in 2026 really bc i can READ AND WRITE YI hand shapes langyage about the relation of the two mental models of 2 experiential states/ modes:
To Win the Game of Mushroom-Tree Art
Use YI hand shapes to communicate how
the Possibilism mental model
is related to
the Eternalism mental model
NOT replace possibilism by eternalism —
unless u define Eternalism as including Possibilism
the mushroom-tree artists SAY THIS by their patterns of hand-shape pairs
the Reference
The Reference Hand-Shape Pair: [Y’, YI]
Why so great of a hand-shape pair?
A dangerous misleading repr’n would be the oversimplified representation via hand-shape pairs:
[Y, I]
wrongly implies:
first, the mind has branching thinking;
the mind ends up w instead, non-branching thinking
It’s actually cumulative, not zero sum mutually exclusive.
The first mental model gets MODIFIED, NOT DESTROYED OR ELIMINATED.
Some aspects of the Possibilism mental model, per Paul Thagard, get deleted;
other aspects get transformed, via 7 kinds of modifs listed by Thagard.
Y’ means radical ego death & rebirth, but
also means lowkey modifs.
Y’ does not mean get rid of Y.
Exercise for the Mushroom-Tree Game
Make sophisticated statements about
the relationship between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking
then convert to math notation
the purpose of the yhsl
the relationship between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking [RBPE]
the YI hand-shape language [YHSL]
a notation tga that i designed to use hand-shape pairs to depict and critique ways of
depicting
the relationship between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking
the purpose of the the mushroom-tree artists’ hand-shape language
is to depict the pros & cons of various ways of characterizing the
the relationship between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking
there is a profound debate represented by hand-shape language
in art
hand-shape language [HSL]
hand shape pairs
like my article follows its own true outline
WAY BETTER THAN Cyberdisciple outline
Specifically, [fog]
My article unlike Cyberdisciple article,
only explains what the Explanatory Model is, of NOT mushroom imagery in Christian art
but instead,
Explain the integrated set of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
Explain the mushroom-tree religion
my Journal of Psychedelic Studies {branching-message mushroom trees} article
and its NATURAL, INNATE AUTHENTIC outline
In sharpest contrast against





Cyberdisciple’s UNNATURAL, EXTERNAL-DRIVEN, INAUTHENTIC outline
driven by the worst ppl: ACADEMICS 
my strategy is now perfect,
so that my outline writes itself
ez as enlightenment in a pill
the answer is:
[Outline omitted to save space,
as an exercise for the reader]
my brktgru in hand-shape theory puts my articles outline up in the air
this is an opportunity to REIMAGINE the Egodeath theory
article’s outline:
new title:
entheogen scholarship is stupid;
YI hand-shape pairs is what its rly all abt
bc visual hand forms debate how best describe
mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism
— a bad, seriously misleading phrase
that is guilty of misrepresentation of how the mind actually
eternalism-driven control-transformation
the mushroom-tree artists make that EXACT point
via the hand-shape language
in images x, y, &z.
my article outline naturally & organically
(so, Cyberdisciple’s outline = unnatural, inorganic, synthetic, GMO
)
explains how
YI hand shapes are a purpose-built custom visual language
designed (or optimized) for the purpose of
debating how best to depict
the relationship between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking
Math Notation for hand-shape theory
Y’ != delete Y
tighter:
Y’ != -Y
Y’ =
Y’ means qualified possibilism-thinking / branching thinking
qualified branching-thinking
qbt
Y’ means modify Y (get rid of aspects, only)
keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term
hand-pair shapes
hps
hand-shape pairs
hsp
YI hand-shape pairs [YHSP]
refers to my notation; omit YI to only describe the art
done:
hand-shape pairs [HSP]
That is all the ideas I have.
the Egodeath theory is Completed.
next day:
How could I have been so blind to the radically obvious?
the Egodeath theory yesterday was hugely incomplete,
what an embarrassment, it was in no way ready to publish.
danman facepalm
with splayed Index finger
yesterday i was asleep in branching thinking,
fingers splayed touching head
now i am awake
3 fingers together touching head
Index finger slightly splayed apart from them,
touching higher on head
a different idiom than YI hand-shape pairs
is
finger-shape pairs
fsp
rewuire require diff notation for anslysis
Entry into Jerusalem in Martin Christs finger shapes
God makes the same finger-shape pair.
Not covered by YI hand-shape theory.
bc of structures of represen at big level of
the set of fingers of both hands
like:
rebis woman L hand is M-shape
confirmed {right finger cut}
crossed
Rebis’ hand-shape pair: [ YY’Y, YI ]
advanced hand-shape theory
this is the “Superior To Indigenous Shams” technology that Alan Houot advocates
lame follower of Sharday Mosurinjohn , Hen Wins Low
says Indigenous Shams
had psychedelic wisdom for
for many millenia putting W to shame
bc pathetic West looking in vain,
as has been PROVED by Mosurinjohn & Ascough
Dact
Fact-Shift Position Progression:
1) THERE’S NO EVIDENCE [in cups Deniers washed dirt from in Eleusis]
= 2) no evidence of psychedelics in mystery religions
= 3) we have evidence that psychedelics in mystery religions is a MYTH
fabricated by inferior, illegit, phony, western, wanna wishful FANTASY
… unlike Indigenous Shams, who are
AUTHENTIC & LEGIT & HONORABLE
Shams have a real “LINEAGE” of
“PSYCHEDELIC WISDOM” (Henry Winslow)
sounds like the name of an ABD propagandist 
If entheogen scholarship focused on Indigenous Shams
instead of W Mysts
then, entheogen scholars would be respectable, not pathetic fakes
her L palm face viewer
Ring fing tip vis cut by Mid fing
compare his
Y (branching) fingers &
I (worldline) thumb:
BY BEING OPPOSED, he is ABLE TO CONTROL THE HELD Y.
cardinal’s hand-shape pair
[Y’|Y’I’, Y’II]
his [ L hand, R hand ]
next, read the rebis hand-shape pair
her L hand
M
branching , non-branching , branching
YY’Y
wrintin writing non-branching vagi ambig
I is non-branching
Y’ is non-branching
his R hand
YI
pair seq:
[ YY’Y, YI ]
— Michael
email to Cyberdisciple 9:08 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
jeez all that writing still missed my main reaction to ur next-day exclamation:
same day, not next day
todo:
post a page about my 2007 main article final post Sep 2007 at Egodeath Yahoo Group and SAME DAY minutes later
u hafta factcheck me
Sep 2007, my next two posts, minutes later, were:
* The eternalism term
* The superdeterminism term (weak, compared to Minkowski’s full grok of absolute four-dimensional spacetime)
low-iq Einstein didnt Get Eternalism, per Petkov’s Intro
That explains why:
1) I loved Minkowski in uni Physics.
2) I meh Einstein.
3) I loathed Quantum (the way most ppl approached & constructed & presented it)
re: qm advocates’ gleeful eagerness to lobotomize w insane interps, which are:
“Your Thoughts Create Reality”
puerile cheap wishful BS sold as Science.
Is Relativity the answer, to fight bad Quantum Mysticism?
NO,
Petkov is channelling Minkowski
like I channel Eadwine
The Spectrum from Minkowski (Eternalism) to Einstein (fog compatm) to Everett (Possibilism)
The Minkowski/ Einstein/ Everett Spectrum of Models, from Non-Branching to Branching
Site Map > Block Universe Eternalism
- Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
- Announcement: The “Timeless Block Universe” Theory, with Frozen, Pre-Existing Worldlines of Control-Thoughts
- Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control
- Announcement: The No-Free-Will Theory of Puppethood Revealed by Psychedelics
- The “All At Once” Universe Shatters Our View of Time (Emily Adlam) – 2025/04/12
- Psychedelic 4D-Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism – 2025/04/11
- The Dilemma of Determinism (James, 1897) Is Against Eternalism, Not Causal-Chain Determinism – 2025/04/10
Per Vesselin Petkov,
- Einstein had a WEAK grasp of Eternalism.
- Minkowski had a STRONG grasp of Eternalism.
Like determinism is WEAK compared to super determinism.
Artless: I failed to perceive my 1997-2001 Physics-domain branching vs. non-branching duplicated /represented in my article’s art,
look mummy its a psilocybin mushroom
I failed in 2007-2022/23 to see
the Y mushroom on L & the I mushroom on right,
in the “Eustace Crosses THE River” window.
- freewill thinking
- domino-chain determinism – future not exist!
- the all-at-once universe, (emily adlam)
- eternalism wo ctrl concept
- block-universe eternalism worldline w 2-level, dependent control , future exists
finally the real deal:
on the spectrum of free will vs. determinism :
extreme radical eternalism, including 2-level, dependent control
— Michael
Emailed Cyberdisciple
Found His Outline for the Branching-Message Mushroom Tree Article
On Sep. 12, 2007, I Found the Word ‘Eternalism’ and Finalized the Main Article
Confirmed it was the same day, not “next day”.
I posted ‘eternalism’ 2 posts prior to posting “main article final form”.
Thx, Cyberdisciple, for opining that “2007” is right.
That helps differentiate the two articles:
* 2006 = Plaincourault fresco
* 2007 = main article
I first found and wrote the word ‘eternalism’, in post 4897, Sep. 12, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897
Confirmed; Search gives this as the 1st hit at Egodeath Yahoo Group.
I posted “main article reached final form”, just 2 posts later, same day: post 4899, Sep. 12, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4899
0 hits on superdeterminism at Egodeath Yahoo Group
super-determinism found 4x by Asmodius.
Great content at Egodeath Yahoo Group as always.
Egodeath Yahoo Group Post About Eternalism 2 Posts Before (Same Day) Final Form of the Main Article, Sep. 12, 2007
I first found ‘eternalism’:
post 4897, Sep. 12, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897
Confirmed; Search gives this as the 1st hit at Egodeath Yahoo Group.
I posted “main article reached final form”, just 2 posts later, same day:
post 4899, Sep. 12, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4899
Hey Michael Hoffman 2007: why is there a Y-shaped Cubensis tree to the left of the I-shaped Cubensis tree? Why does Nike (Ariadne) hold branch in L hand, while Dio hold spear in R hand?
Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/dionysus-ariadne-chariot.jpg
How many mushroom are there in total mosaic?
- 4 mushroom basket
- 1 {mushroom hem} Dionysus
- 4 {mushroom hem} Maenad
- 1 Amanita fountain bottom.
10 mushrooms.
email to Cyberdisciple 10:06 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026: Found Outline guidance from Cyberdisciple & Brown re: publishing my work
Found Outline guidance from Cyberdisciple & Brown re: publishing my work
Error at Cyberdisciple:
“I promise you some more detailed ideas soon on getting the Branching-message mushroom tree article un-stuck”
[separate idea next; the joke above is finished]
Step 1 to get article un-stuck:
* Don’t be illiterate at medieval YI hand-shape theory.1. Email from Cyberdisciple to Cybermonk re: Recommended Outline for {branching-message mushroom trees} article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies:
* Dec 4, 2024, title: Fw: Cubensis-driven overflow. “You are in a tough position to fit everything needed into one article”
Msg 1: 2:02 pm
also exists msg 2 4:24 pm: “An argument against my suggested ordering … your distinctive style of putting your summaries at the forefront.”
2. Mystery message (printout from text editor) ~2025, “private note to you that I promise you some more detailed ideas soon on getting the Branching-message mushroom tree article un-stuck.”
3. Brown to M. Hoffman & Cyberdisciple – email: title: Publishing your work, Feb 2, 2023
BUT, on Feb. 9, 2023, I solved Jesus’ finger shapes & items held out by guy in tree, Entry into Jerusalem, Martin Church.
Publish my INCOMPLETE, hand-shape language illiterate, work; my half-baked reading of the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.
email to Cyberdisciple 10:39 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
joke & ping to highlight your email that starts “Michael, private note to you that I promise you some more detailed ideas soon on getting the Branching-message mushroom tree article un-stuck.”
due to internet error, your outline ideas to me got lost
and I was too busy making-up “breakthroughs” by force (addict) to receive ur ideas
PLS RE-SEND THE IDEAS NOW
(j/k)
Actual information:
I want to create a WordPress page post, containing your outline recomm, and the other emails i listed from u & Brown.
The page will list the email headers that I need to reference, containing publishing advice from Brown & Cyberdisciple.
One of my pages supporting my {branching-message mushroom trees} draft article page for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies
might have your outline.
Or that’s in my private Markdown file,
That file or that WordPress page might have my effort to work with your outline; i mean a critical analysis or formatting of your outline.
I need a dedicated page, that’s findable for me, giving your outline, reasons why IT’LL NEVER WORK, etc.
ITS BENEATH THE GRAND THEORY OF EGODEATH TO HAVE A NORMAL-LOOKING OUTLINE
The breakthrough article on {branching-message mushroom trees} has to look weird & messed up.
That’s the STEM textbook way?
email to Cyberdisciple 11:39 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
Cyberdisciple,
Thank you for volunteering all of your time, writing a 2nd (& 3rd), conventionally outlined article along w/ mine, by simply filling-in your outline w/ content, at:
“You are in a tough position to fit everything needed into one article (even two articles).”
re: my mini-article for Sacred Garden Community Church Reader Issue 1, I was blocked, but then pastor’s 3 slides on block-universe eternalism set me free:
I said “You only get 1 powerpoint slide of text”; success: condensed to just 2 pages of text, + gallery pages.
Similarly, I THINK I’M IN HEADSPACE TO AVOID MOST TOPICS AND STAY FAR MORE FOCUSED, using my church article as a guide.
I can imagine flipping from 25 “nice to cover” topics, to only 3 MUST COVER topics that will SHAKE THE WORLD, REVOLUTION etc as usual.
Copernicus’ REVOLUTIONARY NEW PARADIGM first circulated to colleagues in 1510,
was finally accepted in 1687 (Newton Princ.), just 177 YEARS LATER, to have the overnight revolution.
Cyberdisciple con’t:
“You are showing more mushroom trees than most readers have considered AND
arguing that the deliberate portrayal of mushrooms with branches is the way to solve the pilzbaum dilemma (e.g. why do the trees look like mushrooms with branches and debranched stubs) AND
pointing out motifs of branching, handedness, and stability in images that aren’t mushroom-trees AND
arguing for cubensis over amanita AND
that Christian mushrooms were not “secret” and “suppressed” AND
that the true highest most important meaning of cubensis experiencing is about branching AND
how bad the deniers are AND…
25 other topics.”
My feeling of the moment re: Huggins
Huggins’ new Oct 2025 article written for Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s(?) special issue of Religions journal [fact-check?] extends Huggins’
1) Dancing Man &
2) Great Canterbury Psalter articles, to encompass also,
3) Plaincourault fresco.
btw Huggins inspired me to see last night: Plaincourault fresco has YI branches under the cap –
except in Michelle Bory’s fumbling “copy”, which shows trident branches!
MOTIF PERCEPTION FAIL
Michelle Bory also loses Eve’s {stand on right foot}. MOTIF PERCEPTION FAIL
Professional Propagandist Wasson Substitutes a Degraded, Copied Painting that Deletes the YI Branching Form and the {stand on right foot} Motif, Withholding the Actual Fresco Image

1:03 p.m. Feb. 18, 2026
Photo and annotations by Michael Hoffman.
Corrupt degraded painting copy that OMITS THE YI BRANCHING AND {STAND ON RIGHT FOOT} that proves this is a mushroom-tree meaning psychedelic eternalism.
1:03 p.m. Feb. 18, 2026
re Huggins’ Plaincourault fresco article, conclusion: IGNORE;
FOCUS ON JUST Huggins Great Canterbury Psalter ARTICLE IS BEST LEVERAGE POINT.
Huggins tends to diffuse the focus:
* here’s a random error by Allegro 1970. So, no mushrooms.
* here’s a random error by Samorini 1993. So, no mushrooms.
* here’s a random error by Ruck 2002. So, no mushrooms.
* here’s a random error by Brown 2016. So, no mushrooms.
Scatterbrain, on-the-spot, ad hoc,
make up a unique arg for each, isolated instance of mushroom imagery in Christian art.
The more bizarre a vector of arg’n, the better to keep opponents dancing in futility. It sounds (to agreeers w/ Deniers) as if “WOW GEE LOOKIT ALL THESE MANY, MANY ARGUMENTS! THEY JUST KEEP COMING! Huggins IS SO WINNING!
DENIERS ARE SO WINNING, LOOK HOW MANY WORDCOUNT & ARG COUNT!
1000 INSTANCES OF mushroom imagery in Christian art = 1000 DIFFERENT REBUTTAL NOISES FROM THE DENIERS
I AGREE! GO, DENIERS!
The Hatsis/Huggins way.
The Way of the Denier
Factcheck: BEEN DEBUNKED. The special issue is by Sharday Mosurinjohn & Christian Greer. Contains 3 articles: by Huggins; by Richard Ascough, and …….. Greer?
Special Issue of Religions Journal, by Sharday Mosurinjohn & Christian Greer, Oct. 2025
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/5IX8MH3S36
has 3 articles:
On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins)
Open AccessArticle
by Ronald V. Huggins
Religions2025, 16(11), 1374; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111374 – 29 Oct 2025
Viewed by 1448
In his book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970), John Marco Allegro claimed that an obscure, 12th century CE fresco of the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Plaincourault Chapel in Mérigny, France, provided evidence of the persistence in Christian Europe […] Read more.
(This article belongs to the Special Issue On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross)
John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough)
Open AccessArticle
John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis
by Richard S. Ascough
Religions2025, 16(8), 1029; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16081029 – 9 Aug 2025
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1651
John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross posits that early Christianity derived from fertility cults involving psychedelic mushroom use. Though widely discredited by scholars when it was first published, the theory persists in popular culture and entheogenic discourse. This article evaluates the […] Read more.
(This article belongs to the Special Issue On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross)
Odd Conspiracies: John Allegro, Sacred Mushrooms, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Goff)
Open AccessArticle
Odd Conspiracies: John Allegro, Sacred Mushrooms, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Matthew James Goff
Religions2025, 16(8), 946; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16080946 – 22 Jul 2025
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 3705
This article examines the scholarship of John Allegro on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the role his status as a scholar has played in the reception of his The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. While the Dead Sea Scrolls play no prominent […] Read more.
(This article belongs to the Special Issue On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross)
/ end of article entry
Greer’s Strategy: There Were Psychedelics in Western Religious History, but, Not Mainstream; Doesn’t Count
; Doesn’t Count; So, no mushrooms, in the only kind of culture that counts: MAINSTREAM Christianity
I leverage INTENSE VALUES; I have weaponized my values:
Define ‘mainstream’ as “that which counts”.
Problem: only 1% used psilo.
Solution: the 1% that COUNTS as MAINSTREAM; the 99% are sawdust and don’t count.
the BEST chapels. the BEST mystics. the BEST myth. the BEST manuscripts. the BEST religion.
eg: Indigenous Shams used psychedel’s for many years, but, that DOESN’T COUNT, because they lack wisdom of mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
Some texts / churches/ manuscripts lack any mushroom imagery in Christian art.
Solution: Those are failures, low-grade, not properly mainstream in the right way. DOESN’T COUNT.
We Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, can play the “SO, DOESN’T COUNT
“, evidence-filtering game too, that the Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art play.
Greer says “CERTAINLY SOME X’NS USED PSYCHEDELICS; LIKE STANG, THE QUESTION IS, WAS IT MAINSTREAM.”
Answer: As mainstream as mushroom-trees in the BEST cathedrals, by the BEST artists, in the BEST type of Xy. [ie, asserting judgment is all-important]
Panofsky — forget Huggins, ALL I NEED IS Panofsky’S LETTERS:
“Plaincourault fresco cannot mean mushroom, bc TOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES ie mushroom-trees are TOO MAINSTREAM to mean mushrooms”.
fact: all mushroom-trees mean mushrooms. Thus, it follows, mushroom-trees, meaning mushrooms, ARE AS MAINSTREAM AS Panofsky EMPHASIZES.
FLIP PAN ARG AGAINST ITSELF
I reject your guys WEAK, POOR arg’n, your weak poor “mainstream” religion brands, your weak, poor academic approach (Huggins is extremely outclassed by the Egodeath theory).
I am going to waste 0 words DIRECTLY countering dimwit outsider Huggins.
But I will sideswipe Huggins, in an insultingly roundabout way, by focusing for 1 moment on Panofsky “branching” arg,
BUT SAY NOTHING ABOUT HUGGINS because I accuse Huggins of covering up Gordon . . . .


Wasson’s coverup.
Huggins adds NOTHING to Panofsky’s censored, 1-sentence ultimate arg:
“mushroom-trees can’t mean mushroom, because have branching.”
Huggins presents himself as simply broadcasting the Panofsky “branch” arg that all scholars have had since 1952 (Huggins acts as if). Simply look in the drawer 123 at Harvard.
Unless you are Jan Irvin, in which case, NOT ALLOWED.
The Drawer-Letters of Panofsky are reserved FOR WEAPONIZED USE BY HUGGINS & THE DENIERS, EXCLUSIVELY.
Because Huggins is SUCH a cheerleader / mouthpiece / amplifier of Panofsky’s two letters that he got “from the drawer”, his vulnerability comes w/ that strategy:
* Ignore Huggins’ args, which are nothing but Panofsky’s args w/ more wordcount.
* Commit fully to only Panofsky’s args. Huggins says Panofsky is the foundation, basis, provider of rules to eliminate each mushroom-tree instance in isolation 1-by-1.
Ok, Huggins, Panofsky is SO important, we can ignore Huggins and go STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE: THE TWO Panofsky LETTERS, ONLY.
Focus on that TINY footprint of args, especially the Branch arg.
It gives Huggins too much credit, to call the Branch objection “the Panofsky-Huggins Branch objection”.
Huggins adds nothing important. He pokes little holes, doesn’t kill the beast, at all.
After all of Huggins’ trivia corrections
(much smoke, fog, & noise; no fire; no light),
the psychedelic mysteries Paradigm (not “hypothesis”) stands tall.
Cyberdisciple con’t:
“It seems to me that what is specifically tricky for you is that your method of
solving the pilzbaum dilemma
also requires accepting your theory about branching, handedness, stability – in short,
the theory of psychedelic eternalism –
and its representation in art.
“You could easily write a long article about
* what the problems are with enth scholarship and the deniers
without even advancing
analogy for psychedelic eternalism
as a better approach.
“But we need to get psychedelic eternalism into the discussion.
“It’s not the habit in entheogen scholarship to talk about psychedelic eternalism in conjunction with entheogens.
“Because it’s not the habit, you have a rhetorical problem with just starting to use branching, handness, stability motifs without first justifying why you are using those motifs.
“People are going to say,
“What’s with this branching stuff?
I thought I was reading an article about mushrooms in Christian art.
What’s branching got to do with it?”
They have to be walked through the arguments to get there.”
I handle that well in the setup / title / framing of the church condensed article: good title:
- Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art
- key arg: to find spot-the-mushroom, do not do in isolation.
- Play “spot the mush” within bigger “spot the {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs” game.
- LOOK MUMMY, ITS A integrate {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
- That’s what the the mushroom-tree artists care about, SO THAT IS THE STAR WE SAIL BY
- don’t like? don’t read. I have the force of conviction. I DO NOT MANIPULATE READERS; I AM STEM TEXTBOOK: I STATE WHAT IS THE CASE, GIVE THE PROOF ARGS.
The goal and strategy is not to meet audience expectations of outsiders.
The goal and strategy is to clearly explain the theory, via interwoven:* everyday lang* analogy* tech lang term’y* notation
Huge advantage of “branching vs. non-branching” over “possibilism vs. eternalism”:
* branching vs. non-branching is everyday lang. AND
* branching vs. non-branching is analogy.
* branching vs. non-branching is tech lang term’y.
* branching vs. non-branching is notation.
That’s why the mushroom-tree artists so loved centering the theme and idea of branching vs. non-branching.
I’m sad (happy) my single-drg fallacy I’m married to is mere psilo.
I’m sad (happy) my central theme is branching vs. non-branching – which is analogy and everyday lang and tech term’y/lexicon, and notation.
Notation: [Y’, YI] is the main, Reference hand-shape pair in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.
I am able to explain the details of the mushroom-tree religion which was most-mainstream, within Christianity.
What’s a good example of “mainstream”?
Ans: mushroom-trees, per Panofsky — far too mainstream for them to mean mushrooms, according to Panofsky.
– M. Hoffman
email to Cyberdisciple 11:54 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026
Since you are a connoisseur of bad arguments and propagandistic framing:
per Huggins 2025:
if you assert that Plaincourault fresco means mushrooms, then you are forced into the category, “follower of Allegro”.
False Dilemma Fallacy:
A simple binary: either you:
* reject Allegro ie say Plaincourault fresco is NOT Amanita;
OR,
* you are “a follower of Allegro”.
John Lash writes like:
Every idea that you have in entheogen scholarship, is by definition, emphatically, WASSON’S THEORY. You are a follower of Wasson’s theory:
“Variations of the Wasson theory, including considerable departures from it” – loaded lang. If you take opposite view as Wasson, you have departed by starting FROM Wasson; so, u can never escape black hold orbit of planet Wasson.
Hatsis tried the same argument on me & Brown:
“You are not allowed to be unfaithful to your guy, Allegro, who you came from, by switching your position from your orig position — Secret Christian Amanita Cult — to Explicit Cubensis paradigm.”
(the actual quote, instead, is at my site)
I was not influenced by Allegro re: entheogen scholarship;
I was influenced more, in 1998, by discovering the ahistoricity of religious founder figures, which Allegro barely figures in.
NOTICE how little the newbie ABD Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art (Greer, Mosurinjohn & Ascough, Huggins) pay any attention to the ahistoricity of religious founder figures per Allegro.
– M. Hoffman
heading
There are some good ideas in my “hot-written” draft at 1pm today p.m. Feb. 15, 2026 draft page on mobile device copied to below for sorting out.
todo: go through the below looking for valuable points
Draft Page: Message to Deniers of mushrooms in western or Christian religious History, from Entheogen Scholarship: Declaration of Continued Independence
aborting the draft page idea because hug
On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom, Ronald Huggins, Oct. 29, 2025, Religions journal, Issue: 11, Volume: 16, 30 pages, https://www.academia.edu/144814668/On_John_M_Allegros_Suggestion_That_the_Tree_of_the_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil_in_the_12th_Century_Plaincourault_Chapel_Depicts_an_Amanita_muscaria_Mushroom & https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/11/on-john-m-allegros-suggestion-that-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-in-the-12th-century-plaincourault-chapel-depicts-an-amanita-muscaria-mushroom-huggins-2025/
turned out to be nothingburger, irreleve, not relevant to Great Canterbury Psalter, he
todo: create page: Huggins Has Only 1 Legit Objection: Explain Branches
Created page: Huggins on Day 3
todo: create page: Huggins on Day 4
{branching vs. non-branching} Is Every Type of Language – A Huge Advantage of Centralizing this Motif
Branching vs. non-branching is Analogy
Branching vs. non-branching Is Technical Language
Branching vs. non-branching is Everyday Language
Branching vs. non-branching Is Notation, Like [Y’, YI]
notation: [Y’, YI] well connotes pair of hand sgapes
hsp hsp
YI hand shapes
y h s
keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term [KS]
keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term T
ERM add
entheogen scholarship
keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term
yhsp
YI hand-shape pairs
YI hand shapes [YHS]
new notation! in a heading: term [ACRO]
what about long keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term:
“Whether the fixed stars should be included [with Saturn, sphere 7] or should rather be associated with the Ogdoad [sphere 8] remains an open question for me.” – p. 294, footnote 114, Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022
perfect, need
4/87 style []
YI hand-shape pairs [YHSP]
the mushroom-tree religion is #1. the mushroom-tree religion ROCKS, Huggins anda anything-but-drugs academics SUCKS! garbage quality religion, argn, sense, rubbish like gan Hanegraaff s cosmos model
Wouter “Star Destroyer” Hanegraaff
when rise above saturn, u r now BEYOND THE STARS
no one will notice footnote:
“Whether the fixed stars should be included [with Saturn, sphere 7] or should rather be associated with the Ogdoad [sphere 8] remains an open question for me.” – p. 294, footnote 114, Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022
SO I OMIT ALL STARS BUT 5+2
POS the extreme failed cosmos model ever , unbelievable!
f n 114
dk whrre put heimarmene fixed stars so i omitted them from ogdoad
7 stars in Hanegraaff sky Amsterdam lights so bad light pollution
poor Hanegraaff doesnt know that theres more than 7 stars in the sky
whose gonna tell Hanegraaff theres 4000 vis stars, not 5+2?
the most mainstream religion within Christianity is the mushroom-tree religion
I am the modern apostle for the mushroom-tree religion.
is the above a metaphor or an analogy? “apostle”
mid soectrum gray overlap:
Advantage: branching vs. non-branching fits every categ: analogy; everyday; tech; notation – significance!!?
mobile 3:29 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026
too slow edit on mobile
examples of branching vs. non-branching
list of contrasts between possibilism vs. eternalism [LCPE]:
Possibilism vs. Eternalism
{branching} vs. {non-branching}
; {tree} vs. {snake}
; {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger};
Y vs. I;
many worlds vs. single block-universe
Cant Answer if should braces around {branching vs. non-branching}
branching vs. non-branching fits every category of lang typees
- tech
- analogy
- everyday
- notation
lol its is categ:
branching vs. non-branching is everyday technical analogy
huge advantage, correct?
wHAT’s the ADVANTage OF branching vs. non-branching FITTING EVERY CATEGory OF LANGuage/ descriptor types?
{branching vs. non-branching} is an analogy … and AND A REFERENT technical
b v n b
{branching vs. non-branching}
b v n
branching vs. non-branching
technical and daily and analogy
is branching vs. non-branching
branching is that a
metaphor
everyday lang or
tech lang
analogy
The best Christian art is the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} which is in best chapels best cathedrals b
the best illuminated manuscripts
the best mysticism is the mushroom-tree religion
the greatest art is Great Canterbury Psalter
systematized {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
in genre the mushroom-tree religion
The superior type of 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) is proceeding,
entheogen scholarship is
against your anything-but-drugs propaganda by the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ academia.
Committed skeptics
bad faith argn
keep publishing articles instead of your previous strategy of dead silence coverup
the harder u argue, u got no args except one:
branching — and u fail to see non-branching message
PROOF Huggins IS A PROPAGANDA OPERATIVE PRETENDING TO DO SCHOLARY INVESTIG
“day 3 has branches so cant b mushroom”
PURE BULL!
the “branches” exactly match a mush; U R FULL OF SH*T – Fallacious argn yet again
“Day 4’s trees oh look over therel smaller plants” – LIAR THEY ARE SKMPLE mushroom NOT TREES THEY HAVE NO BRANCHES
(smart ppl know of
Liberty Cap grid-cap = branching
not depicted via branches)
Mosurinjohn & Ascough usual smug condesccding know it all posture of total self confidence while spouting folly
Ruck been debunked by Mosurinjohn & Ascough no psychedelics in Western religious history u r pathetic we shall sit on academic tgrone and disrespect and jeer at pathetic New Religious Movements (NRMs) trying in cain vain
There are no psychedelics in Western religious history.
There might be no psychedelics in Western religious history.
NO EVIDENCE.
of the kind we disposed of
bad attitude
anti scholarly
what Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art must concede and retract
most academics, ALLEGRO-PHOBIA cowereing they dont dare assert psychedelics psychedelics in Western religious history that is ALEGROISM not allowed
fi
entheogen scholarship needs critique CONSTRUCTIVE not toxic parasite mocking W entheogen scholarship
how dare Mosurinjohn & Ascough employ that reasoning: she retracted and countered herself DONT MISHEAR ME iow i contradict but do not admit bunk trash non argn subst for scholarship
travesty
mean & WRONG ther IS evidence like Greer grants. he does insult entheogen scholarship blanket sweeping insult dismissal and DISCREDITING the EFFORT to academic study entheogen scholarship Western
Go to abs hell Mosurinjohn & Ascough should RETRACT their trash non argn insults to insult entheogen scholarship to fakely self promote. BAD TASTE non scholarly junk argn SHAEMELESS DENIERS love fallacious argn
propagandists anything-but-drugs propagandists Huggins Mosurinjohn & Ascough
Hatsis ignotrant of psilocybin mushroom-trees can only rebut Secret Christian Amanita Cult, not mushrooms in western religious history
Secret Christian Amanita Cult is most relevant alas i in Pop reception of entheogen scholarship
end 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm)
i agrees w Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art : letcher L Al Letcher
Andy Letcher’s book Shroom, 2006 UK is right: end ridiculous Secret Christian Amanita Cult; 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm)
Greer Christian
dynamics of allegro ruck pop entheogen scholarship field
1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm)
2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)
the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia
mycologists = Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art
vs
art historians under boot heel of MUST NOT MYTH + mushroom IN Christianity + the Allegro Violation, dont go there not allowed to assert THE ALLEGRO POSITION
/ end of draft page
Decoded {earth swirls} = Perceptual Distortion
[11:09 p.m. Feb. 9, 2026] Eadwine’s {earth swirls} are walls melting, visual distortion. i am amp’ing what i wrote before, 6 mo ago.
I wrote before, unstable ground.
More tangible: perceptual distortion.
In the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} artists have different emphasis of signature motifs.
Like Winkowski skateboard deck designs have his signature sketchbook motifs:
- 8 ball
- Amanita
- spotted-cap mushrooms
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=Winkowski+skateboard+deck
Crossed Threshold of Simplicity, Mutual Reinforcement
Deliver a powerful paradigm that packs a punch through these simple binaries.
Did some religions have signif psychedelics to some extent? F THAT. weak-ass framing, way to set up for failure and flopped impact that gets absorbed. STAND TALL AND FORCEFUL BINARY ATTACK AGGRESSION MODE
The Egodeath Theory Enters Extreme Aggression Attack Mode, Under the Aegis of the God of Potent Binaries
The Medieval Mushroom-Tree Religion Discovered by the Egodeath Theory
Look to simple binaries.
Throughout Western religious history, the dominant 1% mainstream tradition common type of religion is psychedelic eternalism, eg the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion.
keyboard shortcut
mushroom-tree
m-t
the Mytheme theory
mt
the mushroom-tree religion
mtr
the purported “traditional non-drug methods of the mystics” confabulated by anything-but-drugs academia
tmml
anything-but-drugs academia
abdaa
The purported “traditional non-drug methods of the mystics” = Fail to produce control transformation; I+Y models; integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.
With yesterday’s cinching of hand-shape theory, closed the circle of paradigmatic hard sphere. Now [8:54 Feb. 4, 2026].
Basic Binary Contrasts that Give N-Way Confirmation
- ordinary-state religion vs. psychedelic religion
- fingers vs. thumb
- 3 fingers vs. index finger
- possibilism vs. eternalism
- branching vs. non-branching
- ordinary state vs. psychedelic state
- the ordinary-state possibilism experiential mode vs. the psychedelic-eternalism experiential mode
- the possibilism experiential mode vs. the eternalism experiential mode
- tight cognition vs. loose cognition
- tight cognitive binding vs. loose cognitive binding
- Y vs. I
- Y vs. IY
- 1POV vs. 2POV
- one point of view vs. two points of view
keyboard shortcuts (e*, binaries)
the possibilism experiential mode vs. the eternalism experiential mode
pmem
the ordinary-state possibilism experiential mode vs. the psychedelic-eternalism experiential mode
oppeem
todo: change all lexicon from “altered state” to “psychedelic state”, more direct, more locked-down the intended meaning. But from 2 to 4 syllables.
ordinary-state religion vs. psychedelic religion
orpr
osrpr
the ordinary-state possibilism experiential mode
ospem
opem
the altered state experiential mode
asem
tight cognitive binding
tcb
ordinary-state possibilism
osp
psychedelic eternalism
pe
ordinary-state possibilism vs. psychedelic eternalism
osppe
oppe
experiential mode
e-m
explanatory model
exm
Early Antiquity
e-a
entheogenic esotericism
e-e
ego transcendence
e-t
egoic
e’c
elevated awareness
ea
“embrace and include” per Ken Wilber
eaikw
“embrace and include” possibilism-thinking when add eternalism-thinking
eaipt
The Mushroom Tree Religion for the Simplest Possible Theory of Transcendent Knowledge
- religion comes from none other than psychedelics
- given: it’s a given: discussing rleigion means discussing psychedelic eternalism.
- heyday of the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} – {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, where found together, indicates Peak Mushroom-Tree Religion. 1st C less interesting. not dev’pd; was initially affirming possibilism into eternalism but not yet until 150ad added t’ding eternalism.
30-150 AD: 2-level Xy: from possibilism to eternalism.
150AD+: 3-level Xy: from possibilism to eternalism to integrated possibilism/ eternalism.
Simplest theory, max explanatory power.
hand-shape theory corrobs 2-state religion: from ord-state possibilism to psychedelic eternalism, end up with integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking, YI hand shape, what is the standard mushroom-tree? 1 tree indicates branching and non-branching.
standard way for a mushroom-tree to depict branching and non-branching:
{cut right trunk} , {cut right branch} , visual cut
non grid cap vs grid cap
von Trimberg Figure 3’s Hands-Pair: Lower Hand and Upper Hand Are Inverse: YI’ vs. Y’I
the von Trimberg sections were copied to the Hand-Shape Theory page; that’s the master to expand, not the below sections
Hands-Pair of von Trimberg Figure 1

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Hands-Pair of von Trimberg Figure 2

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Hands-Pair of von Trimberg Figure 3

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Hands-Pair of von Trimberg Figure 4

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Snapshot of Discovery Halfway Point Problem Encountering & Solving: Thumb displayed on L hand of Guy 1, yet on R hand of Guy 2
Is Left good, or bad??
Formed the Hypothesis (a week later):
The important thing here is not handedness (L = bad, branching; R = good, non-branching), but rather, which arm is lower and thus is the starting point, phase 1 mental model.
In the past week (leading up to locking down and formalizing the idea today): had to:
- Consider the PAIR of hands of a figure, as a progression of mental models, starting from the lower hand (whether L or R), progressing to the upper hand.
- Using the fractal zoom concept, move from the bottom of a hand to the top of a hand, eg from branching fingers lower, to non-branching thumb higher.
- Assume consistency of important main idea/ artists’ initiation-guild conventions, but expect an artistic variety of implementations of the main idea.
- Expect SUBTLE impl’s of standard motif: eg, {left foot lifted} BARELY; 3+1 fingers of upper hand touch head, and the 1 finger BARELY separates / branches off from the other 2 or 3 fingers.
At the extreme, the very subtlety signals a strong proof.
The informed viewer has to be actively looking for the feature.
IS he touching head with 4 fingers, meaning Y branching?
OR, is 1 finger lone, meaning I, meaning, whole hand shape is YI (completed initiate), not Y (uninitiated).
pre/trans illusion: at a glance, appears to signal Y; closer inspection indicates a YI shape NOT a Y shape.
The Use of a Hand to Depict Possibilism & Eternalism Encourages Integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism Thinking; YI = the Whole Hand, not Only the Thumb [I] or Only the Fingers [Y]
Using hand to depict possibilism & eternalism is nice because a whole hand is useful – integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking – want fingers and want thumb.
Don’t get rid of fingers to affirm thumb.
The fingers operating along with the thumb, is power.
- Start with branching thinking; possibilism-thinking; Y; fingers of lower hand.
- Add naive basic eternalism-thinking; I; “get rid of branching thinking/ possibilism-thinking, it’s wrong and bad!” Not wisdom. thumb of lower hand.
- Re-affirm possibilism-thinking, keeping eternalism-thinking. YI. fingers + thumb, of upper hand. Integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.

Jewish Poet Süßkind von Trimberg Wearing a Jewish Hat
Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 1, 2026, fullscreen
Jewish Poet Süßkind von Trimberg Wearing a Jewish Hat
All Hand Shapes Indicated on Image f134

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Jewish Poet Süßkind von Trimberg Wearing a Jewish Hat

Codex_Manesse_von_Trimberg
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Codex_Manesse_von_Trimberg
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Features:
- they both point at headdress
Use YI Notation, Hand-Shapes, or Trees
to Represent:
{branching} = Ordinary-State Possibilism-Thinking
vs.
{non-branching} = Psychedelic Eternalism-Thinking
Use Vine-Leaf Trees to Represent:
{branching} = Possibilism
vs.
{non-branching} = Eternalism
/ end of sections copied to Hand-Shape Theory page
Articles Reading Stack
todo: list my stack of articles here
Sharday Mosurinjohn’s Critique of the Positive Unitive Model of “Mystical Experience”
Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique (Sharday Mosurinjohn, Leor Roseman, Manesh Girn, April 2023), https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1077311/full
sm23
I learned about this Sharday Mosurinjohn early 2023 article from Breau’s article published late 2023; Breau says she misfires, she claims Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) has Christian bias – actually, the questionnaire has Popular Neo-Advaita bias.
Aside from her vague claims of Christian bias, her negativity is needed here: she correctly undermines the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”.
Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique (Mosurinjohn, Roseman, Girn, April 2023)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/15/moving-past-mysticism-in-psychedelic-science-article-debate-series/#Psychedelic-induced-mystical-experiences
Toward a Psychedelic Theodicy: Psychedelic Biomedicine and the Concept of “Risk” (Mosurinjohn 2024/2025) – todo: read
Mosurinjohn, Sharday
Toward a Psychedelic Theodicy: Psychedelic Biomedicine and the Concept of ‘Risk.’
Sharday Mosurinjohn
In Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology, edited by Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith
Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.70423/0001.14
article: Toward a Psychedelic Theodicy: Psychedelic Biomedicine and the Concept of “Risk”
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/psychedelic-intersections/psychedelic-theodicy-mosurinjohn
“Construed broadly, as I do here, a theodicy is an attempt to square the experience of malevolence and suffering with metaphysical conditions that are assumed to be fundamentally, well, loving. In Islam or Christianity, for example, theodicy is usually rendered in terms of reconciling the existence of a benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God with the existence of evil. While I do not have space here to make the case for the fundamental lovingness of existence, I take this as a premise for my argument.1 Doing psychedelic theodicy is a practice of theorizing how and why a fundamentally loving, intelligent cosmos gives rise to experiences that are not that in the context of a psychedelic trip. Psychedelic theodicy allows one to explore a wide variety of questions and experiences that surface during a trip: death, desecration, meaninglessness [McKenna], disconnection, encounters with apparently sinister, etc.”
Sharday Mosurinjohn + 2 Others: 2023 Article cited and Rebutted by Breau: Mos’s Critique of the positive unitive model of “mystical experience” (Good) and Critique of Christian Bias (Bad)
I found Sharday Mosurinjohn via Breau 2023, who says, against Sharday Mosurinjohn, the Bias that’s in Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) is not Christian, but rather, Popular Neo-Advaita.
keyboard shortcut for 2023 article by Sharday Mosurinjohn:
Sharday Mosurinjohn has a 2nd paper on psychedelics, with Mosurinjohn & Ascough. 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/
Recent Posts
since started previous idea development page:
- Hand-Shape Theory
- Day 3: Creation of Plants (Great Canterbury Psalter)
- Works by Thomas Hatsis
- The Egodeath Theory Corroborates Carl Ruck’s Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm
- “Perception of Eternalism” Page at Effect Index (Josie Kins)
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