{blessing} Hand-Shapes

Michael Hoffman 10:30 p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

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Intro

RL emailed this text to me.
d/k how it was produced by a query.

search this site for blessing
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=blessing

Email from RL to MH, Feb. 5, 2026

RL wrote:

“Hey dude, I found this in a rudimentary search (not verified yet) and just wanted to bounce it off to see how it jibes with your notes.”

Hand Gestures in Medieval Art

A search-result summary.

“Hand gestures in medieval art served as a “graphic shorthand” to convey complex theological, emotional, and social meanings, functioning as a silent language for viewers.

“Common symbolic gestures included raised hands for blessing, hand-on-chest for devotion, and specific finger positions to represent the Trinity.

“These postures bridged religious narratives with the viewer and, in secular art, signified authority, legal, or romantic commitments. 

Key Religious and Spiritual Gestures

  • Benediction/Blessing: Christ often raises his right hand with the thumb, index, and middle fingers extended (representing the Trinity) while the ring and little finger touch (representing the dual nature of Christ).
    [no branching analysis? fail, QUALITY OF INTERP = POOR; THOSE ON THE OUTSIDE the city gates wailing]
  • Hand of God: A divine hand reaching from a cloud [tons of God-clouds in Great Canterbury Psalter] signifies God’s intervention, authorization, or approval, often appearing in scenes like the baptism of Christ or coronation of rulers.
  • Prayer/Adoration: Hands raised with palms open (orans) or pressed together (later medieval period) demonstrate supplication or devotion.
  • Modesty/Submission: A hand placed on the chest or covering the womb was used to denote purity and modesty, commonly seen in depictions of the Virgin Mary. 

Secular and Social Gestures

  • Handfasting/Binding: Clasped hands signified legal contracts, such as marriage or feudal loyalty.
  • Silence/Contemplation: A finger placed to the lips or a hand resting under the chin (thoughtful pose) indicated silence, often in monastic contexts.
  • Despair/Grief: Outstretched arms and hands raised high, often with fingers splayed, were used to depict extreme sorrow or emotional anguish, such as in crucifixion scenes. 

Directional and Expressive Functions

  • Pointing: Figures often point to direct the viewer’s attention to crucial narratives or figures within a scene.
  • Hand-to-Body Contact: Gestures were used to humanize sacred figures, making their divinity accessible to the viewer.
  • Right vs. Left Hand: Traditionally, the
    right hand signified active, divine, or male power,
    while the
    left hand was associated with the passive or, in some contexts, the deceptivTHE END

/ end of email

Predictions About the Summary

This was written before i read the email summary of hand shapes that doesn’t mention YI, branching vs. non-branching, YI hand shapes:

IM SURE THEY’LL DISCUSS SHAPES BASIC BRANCHING VS. NON-BRANCHING SHAPES VIA FINGER CONTRASTS (OR NO FKKING CHANCE)

Bet: zero relevance below:

no shape YI analysis so trashcan/reject the below poor-quality analysis pie-sky invention

blind to YI contrast shapes message

ordinary-state possibilism vs. psychedelic eternalism
ospvase

most basic message:

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism
if omit ‘s’ (-state) in the acro:
opae < — new

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism
opvae

Awesome List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism [LCPE] [LCPEL]

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

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism = possibilism vs. eternalism (technical) = branching vs. non-branching (everyday); {tree} vs. {snake} (analogy); {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger} (analogy); Y vs. I (notation); many worlds vs. single block-universe (technical)

nicer formatted at
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/31/hand-shape-theory/#list-of-contrasts-of-possibilism-vs.-eternalism-concise

“many worlds vs. single block universe”

i figured some my first decoding hand shape was Mar. 21, 2022 email to Brow F aggggh no

the other date in the Disco Log:

🕺🏐

Feb. 9, 2023: Emailed Brown:
Entry into Jerusalem
Martin Church fresco
Jesus’ finger shapes using TWO hands NOT interp like as if 1 hand.
L hand extremely splayed 5 fingers
R hand Index+Middle extended held firmly together,
hand-shapes contrasted

AND guy in tree holding out sticks and feathers

IT WOULD BE NICE IF JULIE BROWN GIVE ME ULTRA RES OF FINGERS & STICKS FEATHERS

“ONE INSTANCE IS A FLUKE; TWO’S A PATTERN”

That use of finger shapes (dup’d in the miniature, God in bush finger shapes) is artistically creative.

And Christ’s finger-shapes in Entry into Jerusalem in Martin Church exactly matched in a miniature i was glad to find, big confirmation.

The Mainstream Artists Initiation Guild with Psilocybin Mushroom Lockbox; motif-education, and {balance scale}

Ruck forces me to specify “psilocybin”, to keep out 3rd-rate Amanita that the Allegro/ Ruck/ Irvin crowd, 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm), are pushing.

As a mainstream artists initiation guild member, you paint shapes guided by branching vs. non-branching basic concepts.

Use a shared, taught, developed, hand-shape theory language that
the psilocybin initiation lockbox guild of artists developed between 1000 BC and 1687 AD.

mainstream artists initiation motif-education guild with psilocybin mushroom lockbox and {balance scale}
aig

Hand Shape Emojis

They overlap the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} motifs’ use of YI hand shapes.

I didn’t even classify my hand-shape theory breakthrough into which cat. yet?

{mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

which cat is yi hand shapes?

  • mushroom {mushroom }
  • {mushroom}
  • ,
  • {branching},
  • {handedness} – yes (10% chance as always, FLEXY! FLEXY! no rigid Panofsky photocopy crafstman robot (when it comes to TABOO SPECIAL TOPIC of mushroom-trees, only).
  • {stability} – no

Features:

hand seq:

  1. lower hand: Y’ = qualified possibilism-thinking
  2. upper hand: IY = integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

{splayed fingers touching head} = asleep in ordinary-state possibilism

im gonna make sure announced, now:

Decoded {splayed fingers touching head} = asleep in ordinary-state possibilism

12:52 a.m. Feb. 13, 2026

Mobile device has screenshots to maybe upload.

A common theme.

Sleeping baby, mother’s branched fingers against sleep baby head.

Jonah Asleep vs. Awake at the Gourd Plant: How Fingers Touch Head (Golden Psalter)

DIDNT U HEAR ALLEGROS BEEN DEBUNKED

DIDNT U HEAR ALLEGROS BEEN DEBUNKED

SO, NO MUSHROOMS IN WESTERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY.

The weopanized by anything-but-drugs academics , Allegro & Rogan & Muraresku and any pop-facing, even Ruck: make em look silly, beat entheogen scholars over the head w em –

you are a follower of Joe Rogan if you believe Secret Christian Amanita Cult. which is same as Eleusis Kykeon washed-out vessels.

NO EVIDENCE!

… joke part 1 here, todo.

  1. There is no evidence to support “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis”.
    Magically, “possibility” becomes “fact” (just like Mosurinjohn & Ascough make a big, overblown (misrep.) stink against Ruck for doing):
  2. We debunked Ruck and proved there definitely were no psychedelics in mystery religions or Christian origins.

We’ve read entire 2 publications in this newbie field of Psychedelic Science Professional Critic & Self Promoter by attacking founders of field blanket sweeping DISRESPECT.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s disrespect for entheogen scholars is as bad as my intense disrespect of Popebanker Wasson the cover-up operator lifetime actor active deceiver lying to everyone.

Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson tried to bluff “the mycologists”; that is, Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

But the top mycologist, John Ramsbottom, exposed Wasson who wrote to Ramsbottom:

Rightly or wrongly, committed skeptics WE ARE GOING TO ASSERT AND PROPAGANDIZE THAT Plaincourault fresco IS NOT Amanita MUSHROOMS and give up bcTOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES IN Christian ART FOR Plaincourault fresco TO BE MUSHROOM.

NO EVIDENCE!

TOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES!

Oon only the specific type of evidence in this magic specfic eleusis site vessels that us Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art carefullly washed the dirt out of –> 🗑

No evidence! of this specific type we only care about, because.

Only text counts, not art.

Only chemical evidence in our cleaned-out by us vessels counts, so, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough, typical anything-but-drugs academics, Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, show zero interest in constructing the case; no steelmanning.

They broadcast, in authoritarian fashion, 1-way bad argumentation, broadcast with ears covered.

“Give up and shut up. You are stupid blundering ignorant mycologists.”

The epithet ‘blundering’ is Wasson-speak.

TRUST ME BRO I’M THE POPES BANKER: THERES NO MUSHROOMS IN THE HUNDREDS OF MUSHROOM-TREES WE ART AUTHORITIES DUBBED MUSHROOM-TREES bc they look so goddamn mushroid.

The art authorities who were Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art kinda lost the battle right from the start,

Bluff harder!

“STOP LOOKING, RUSTIC BUFFOONS, WE PROFESSIONAL ACADEMICS ARE SHUTTING YOU DOWN , FANTASIZING YOUR HALLUCINATED PATHETIC justification of your New Religious Movement (NRM).”

“We understand your sad and pathetic attempt to justify your New Religious Movement (NRM)”

My Motivation for Finding Tons of Mushroom Imagery in Greco/ Roman/ Jewish/ Christian Art

In 1997, I summarized my 1988 core theory, the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

In 1998, I wanted Mr. Historical Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul to corroborate the Egodeath theory of Psychedelic Eternalism; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

I met with Freke & Gandy in an underground coffeehouse – authors of a top 10 bestseller book – and immediately realized that I would probably be successful in getting Mythic Analogy to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, including the ahistoricity of religious founder figures.

Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries, 1999, https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mysteries-Was-Original-Pagan/dp/0609807986/

To Corroborate the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough make a crude, sweeping, overconfident, broad-brush dismissal of all entheogen scholarship, that the motivation driving entheogen scholarship is to fabricate Pathetic Justification for Our New Religious Movement (NRM).

But Ruck does no Drug Policy Reform activism, and his angle on Amanita Gnosis is designed to condone and conform to permanent Prohibition, reified by his group’s publications.

Ruck reifies and perpetuates perma Prohibition, his whole narrative depends on eternal Prohibition.

Ruck’s efforts to keep Amanita Prohibition & Suppression permanently in place (which doesn’t make any sense; no one GAF about Amanita, and it is not Prohibited), disprove Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s claim that the motive for entheogen scholarship is to repeal psilocybin Prohibition.

I did not find tons of mushroom imagery in Christian art in order to fabricate Pathetic Justification for Our New Religious Movement (NRM), as Sharday Mosurinjohn Accuses Mosurinjohn & Ascough Accuse.

The Egodeath theory = New Religious Movement (NRM) based on 1200 heyday the mushroom-tree religion & Mithraism cosmos , Classical Antiquity 2-level myth, Late Antiquity 3-level myth cosmos model

So, No Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

There’s no evidence for psychedelics in mystery religions. That is, there’s no chemical evidence in Eleusis vessels that we anything-but-drugs academics carefully washed out.

Only text evidence counts, unless someone finds text evidence supporting psychedelics in mystery religions such as every instance of the word ‘Eucharist’ – in that case, textual evidence does NOT count.

The only evidence type of evidence that counts (bc we arb’ly say so), is the kind that we carefully washed away.

Selection Bias: The Only Kind of Evidence That Counts, Is Whatever Kind Has the Least Evidence for Mushrooms (Because We Anything-But-Drugs Academics Say So)

If text evidence for mushrooms is strong, and art evidence for mushrooms is weak, then the only kind of evidence that counts is art evidence, not text evidence, because we say so.

If text evidence for mushrooms is weak, and art evidence for mushrooms is strong, then the only kind of evidence that counts is text evidence, not art evidence, because we say so.

SO, NO mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Ranked Emojis for medieval YI hand shapes:

todo: nuke dups

how close match / how useful

Close Match / Hi
👈👉☝️✋🤚🤝✌️👈🖐
Semi-Match / Med
🤘🤞🤲👐🤝👆👋
Close Enough / Low
🤟🖖👏✊👇🖖🤙
Useless / None
👍🙌👎🤛🤜

Grouped by Hand Types

Hand
✋🤚🖐👋🖖🤙
🤟🤘🤞✌️✊
🤜 🤛
Point
👈👉👆👇☝️👍👎
Two Hands
🤲👐🤝🙌👏

900 AD – 1300 AD was the Heyday of the mushroom-tree religion

OFFICIAL Egodeath theory STATEMENT:

I DON’T KNOW if 900 AD – 1300 AD was the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion.

How can the time range be assessed? The motifs are all throughout history.

🎸🦇 I Don’t Know 🦇🎙

Sorted emojis into good/ medium/ bad to match the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

1000 BC to 1687 AD {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} Motifs

txt msg 1 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

von Trimberg, 4 Pairs of Hands

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Oh joy, another article by the newbie Denier of mushroom imagery in Christian art, Ronald Huggins, who is expecting to score easy points without any opposition.

Your terms are acceptable.

Because I already won, several years ago.

Be prepared to be spiritually DEBRANCHED, Huggins.

I get to sentence-by-sentence make fun of Huggins’ fallacious arguments.

Huggins’ gang of newbie anything-but-drugs academics invading Psychedelc Studies, expecting Easy-Mode “victories” against Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

  • Ronald Huggins
  • Christian Greer
  • Sharday Mosurinjohn
  • Richard Ascough

The newbie anything-but-drugs academics are citing my 64-page, 2006 article with Jan Irvin’s research input.

Medieval Artists’ Game: Paint Initial- and Final-State YI Hand Shapes

🖼️👉✋🧙‍♂️👷‍♂️📡

Emojis are mostly not the same shapes as in medieval art , but what a workout it would be, a joke analysis of Hand emojis; great exercise.

I teach you the artists’ game.

  1. Start with the lower hand. Make a Y branching shape  with fingers, creatively.
  2. End with the upper hand. Make I and Y (or cut Y; Y’) branching shapes with fingers. Can use thumb, or Index finger splayed, to form the I.

For the 2nd hand, do not let Y dominate over I; eg usually avoid YI’ (or I’Y). If I is cut, Y should be cut too: I’Y’

No copycatting.

Artists played this initiation profound, mainstreamest game, during the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion within mainstreamest Christianity.

Heyday of this game: ~900 AD – 1300 AD (estim.)

Emojis: ‘Y’ Fingers, vs. ‘I’ Thumb or Splayed Index Finger

👐🤞✌️🤟🤘

🤏👆👇

☝️✋🤚🖐️

🖖

good: 👋🤙🫲

🦶🦵

txt msg 2 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

medieval YI hand shapes
myhs

The Available Emojis partly overlap with the language of medieval YI hand shapes

The available emojis partly overlap with the language of hand shapes.

Paint branching vs. non-branching shapes via fingers and thumbs.

Don’t be uncreative, or you lose your artistic license.

The Artists Initiation Guild Lockboxes Blue Fruit Ordered Trade by King, Weighing the Blue Dried Fruit with a {balance scale}

The artists initiation lockboxes blue fruit ordered trade by the king, weighing the blue dried fruit with a {balance scale}.

That’s all shown plainly in the medieval art genre of {mush-trees} that forest that Huggins walked into <emoji: leafless tree> 🪾🐍

Huggins’ fallacious arguments are being debranched.

Instances of the {psilocybin mushroom lockbox} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter

There are other mushroom containers shown, such as:

  • sphere-jars
  • blue vase f134 row 3 middle.

9 Instances of the {balance scale} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter

todo: delete section after make sure no data lost in new page

this section is superseded by new page
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/15/balance-scale-mushroom-lockbox-bin-and-mushroom-sack-motifs-in-canterbury-psalter/

At last count, updated from 8 to 9 today a.m. Feb. 13, 2026, there are 9 instances of {balance scale} in Great Canterbury Psalter, shown below.

The below 8 images are copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#balance-scale —

Meaning of the {balance scale} motif:

  1. Use a {balance scale} to weigh a consistent amount to target medium loosecog; the optimal degree level of loose loose mental functioning binding.
  2. balance = viable control that’s usable, stable, effective, doesn’t fall over.

f11: {balance scale} 1

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Crop and Annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025, fullscreen

f40: {balance scale} 2

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f47: {balance scale} 3

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f55: {balance scale} 4

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f60: {balance scale} 5

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f134: {balance scale} 6

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f145: {balance scale} 7

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f177: {balance scale} 8

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f221: {balance scale} 9

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The Hand-Shape Theory Game

Rules of the Medieval Artists’ Game

Rules of the artists’ game, the hand-shape theory game:

  • The first hand (the starting state): Paint a Y or Y’ shape for one hand.
  • The second hand (the ending state): Paint the other hand’s shape, as an I shape and also a (qualified/transformed) Y shape (Y or Y’).

The resulting Y model is not the same as the original Y-shaped thinking.

The mind ends up with a Y’ & I pair of married mental models of time, self, and control:

  • Altered-state eternalism (I)
  • Ordinary-state possibilism (Y or Y’)

As an artist in the mainstream artists mushroom initiation guild with psilocybin mushroom lockboxes, you are trained to paint pairs of hands that have creative variants of:

  • The first hand shows Y or Y’ shapes.
  • The second hand shows I & Y shapes (or possibly variants such as: from best to worst:
    • IY – simplified, as if after ego death & rebirth, your original Y-shaped mental model is unchanged.
    • IY’ – accurate; the mind ends up with qualified Y (Y’), not simply the original Y-shaped mental model.
    • I’Y’ – eg holding a shovel with fingertips facing viewer.
    • I’Y – worst variant, b/c don’t want to demote I to below Y.
Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 11, 2026 https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/10/manesse-codex-yi-hand-fest/#the-two-hands-in-holding-hands

Two Hands, Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album

Two Hands
Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XxludpcH8 —

Medieval YI hand-shape theory

  • The first hand: Y or Y’ shape
  • The second hand: I shape and optional Y or Y’ shape

A Y’ shape, eg. fingers folded, hidden.

Often the starting hand (usually a Y hand shape variant) has no thumb shown.

That shape is compared to a {cut right branch} on a tree, in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

It represents the mental model progression before & after mushroom initiation, moving from the first hand-shape to the second hand-shape.

Mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism: the mind keeps possibilism, loves it (“embrace and include” per Ken Wilber), but the mind’s “possibilism” mental model is transformed now.

First, a Y shape, then, a Y-qualified + I shape.

The ‘I’ shape means the non-branching, snake shape; that is, the block-universe worldline of one’s whole life frozen in rock forever.

In the artists initiation education guild with psilocybin mushroom lockbox as shown in Great Canterbury Psalter multiple times.

The mushroom-tree religion is common in cathedrals, illuminated manuscripts; prominent, commonplace.

txt msg 3 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

The Mainstreamest Religion Is the Mushroom-Tree Religion that’s Within the Heart & Spotlight of Christian History 

The mainstreamest religion is the mushroom-tree religion that’s within the heart & spotlight of Christian history.

900 AD – 1300 AD: The Heyday of the Mushroom-Tree Religion

Maybe those years.

1000 BC – 1687 AD: The Art Lifetime of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

If the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion was 900 AD – 1300 AD, when was the BROAD period of these 4 art motifs individually?

{mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs 

Provably, various elements/ motifs of the mush-tree religion lasted from 800 BC – 1687 AD.

In 1687, Newton + sun-centric modernity trashcanned my astral ascent mysticism cosmos model 🌌–>🗑️😭

At least it took them 177 years(!) to switch from earth- to sun-centric: 1510-1687. 

I will just take it ALL, the entire timeline, TYVM.

Some variant motif forms go way back:

the {tree} vs. {snake} motif is a zillion years old

The earliest intense mystic altered state art.

txt msg 4 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

Conceptual Revolutions (Thagard, 1992): from earth-centric to sun-centric cosmos model: took 177 years

Conceptual Revolutions 
Paul Thagard
March 10, 1992
http://amzn.com/0691087458 – Hardcover
http://amzn.com/B07DN3H37Z – Kindle ebook with “Look inside”

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/15/conceptual-revolutions/#Book-Link

the main example of paradigm shift is earth-centric to sun-centric cosmos model

BUT

that overnight revolution took 177 years! 🤯

1510-1687 

💎

Hanging Upside Down by Right Knee/Leg 🙃

Crop by Cybermonk, March 26, 2023

txt msg 1 to RL 10:37 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026

finally complete gallery of all NINE {balance scale} along with 

6(?) {mushrm lockbox bin} 

{sack} = mushrm blue/brown fruit traded and stored in 

THE ARTISTS INITIATION GUILD HOUSE 

 training in the visual language of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs 

the mushroom-tree religion main theme: 

branching vs. non-branching

(everyday lang)

their theology, 2-level, dependent control 

in the intense mystic altered state 

possibilism vs. eternalism

(tech term)

{tree} vs. {snake}

(analogy)

many worlds vs. single block-universe

(technical analogy)

we know a lot about 

the ultra MAINSTREAM 

psilo peak religious experience depiction

religion among artists

the mushroom-tree religion

mushroom-tree art within the heart of Christianity, 

the best cathedrals, 

the best ill. manu’s, 

mushroom-tree art serves the art initiates’ mushroid concerns 

more than it bows in submission to the mere text 

against academics who say only text counts, who cares about art even Thomas Hatsis writes :

none of his gallery of mush-tree art means mushrm

then he took down his articles crazy 

articles were protesteth too much, “too many mushrm!”

none of tbese 100 mushroom-trees that academics designated as looking like mushroo

on central display

2nd-generation entheogen scholarship

 (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)

txt msg 2 to RL 10:57 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026

Ridiculous Reasoning from the Anything-But-Drugs Academics Panofsky 1952 & Wasson 1968

Anything-but-drugs academics, 
Deniers of mushrm imagery in Christian art, reason:

Panofsky 1952:

“none of this gallery of 100 trees 
that we academics designated as “mushrm-trees” 
because they look like mushrooms,
means mushrms”

Wasson 1968 p. 180: 

You ignorant, blundering mycologists,
Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, 

You must obey the anything-but-drugs academics.

Trust me bro, I’m the banker for the Pope.

Panofsky 1952:

“There’s way too many mushroom-trees for them to mean mushroom, so the notion that Plaincourault fresco is Amanita is just mycologists’ ignorance of the hundreds of other mushroom-trees that are too numerous to mean mushroom

Wasson 1968 p. 180:

I’ll just censor what Panofsky strongly urged to consult, the one book by academics that ever mentioned the hundreds of mushroom-trees:

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906)
German only, only says pilzbaum 5x.

Certainly don’t mention the two art pieces Panofsky mailed Wasson, showing “emphatic mushroom features”.

txt msg 3 to RL, 4:52 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026

I FINALLY made a page listing the {balance scale} motif, 9x, in Great Canterbury Psalter.

It was a nice last-minute decision to pair {balance scale} with {lockbox} & {sack} motifs in the new page.

todo: I need to add some crops to highlight the {balance scale} in the big images.

txt msg 4 to RL, 5:05 pm Feb. 14, 2026

Huggins’ rehashed, “Still Foraging Wrong” article was published just 3.5 months ago.

So im not very snoozing in my field.

Huggins cites my 2006 article w Jan Irvin.

I gotta read/ demolish/ rebut Huggins’ rehashed article now.

If I were snoozing, my fingers would be splayed touching side of head, like Jonah Gourd plant in Golden psalter,
which also contrasts awake’s finger shapes.

round vine trees (90% non-branching)

Jonah and the Gourd Plant (Golden Psalter)

Jonah and the gourd plant, Golden Psalter

Features:

  • awake Jonah: lower hand Y’, upper hand Y’I.

3-phase analysis of Jonah’s THREE! hands:

  1. right jonah: fingers splayed. Y, no I.
  2. left jonah > lower hand: 4 fingers together: Y, no I
    [this is not working as planned]
  3. left jonah > upper hand: bottom up: Pinkie & Ring together, folded, Middle (w/ Index) extended, displayed fully.

1. starting state: 

spiritually asleep, 

only know Y-shaped, branching possibilism-thinking 

2. final state: 

awake;

know both:

the Y-shaped, branching mode (pinkie & ring fingers, folded to partly negate them)

&

the added, I-shaped

Middle/Index finger splayed, extended, displayed = 

the non-branching, eternalism experiential model/ mode

these great art finds keep paying out more & more

txt msg 5 to RL, 5:09 pm Feb. 14, 2026

Bodleian Library Bestiary: Mother with {sleeping} Baby, {branching fingers touch face} = Asleep

Crop by Michael Hoffman, “Bodleian image 15 sleep.jpg”, 469 KB, 5:45 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/72b4cc9e-128b-4969-a39b-9d29875bc33b/#

Sleep, branching-thinking,​ immature baby;
don’t awaken to non-branching, I-shaped experiencing yet.

Crop by Michael Hoffman, “Bodleian image 15.jpg”, 577 KB, 5:44 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/72b4cc9e-128b-4969-a39b-9d29875bc33b/#

Bodleian Library Bestiary

todo: Create Bodleian Library Page, Lots of Images to Analyze (Dancing Man)

Bodleian Bestiary: Hand-Shapes

Hand shapes:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ec9dede2-11e5-4ca0-af43-138a88359979/

Bodleian Bestiary: holds snake in L hand, debranched branch in R hand

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/1ac18e4c-1b51-43b0-abcf-b715ec186519/
holds snake in L hand, debranched branch in R hand

Bodleian Bestiary: nice mushroom-tree art

nice mushroom-tree art
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/bb47412a-eb78-4fde-b42a-30daef173af4/

Bodleian Bestiary: Christ

Thomas Hatsis: “Dancing man doesn’t count, for mushroom imagery in Christian art, because a bestiary is not religious book.”
Christ in Dancing Man bestiary: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/de5abb1a-ece1-473b-88b4-53c9a46788d5/

Bodleian Bestiary: Cybermonk at Work

Cybermonk at work:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/22b8dc16-dc05-47ab-a71d-7348873f3e05/

Features:

  • right foot down, no left foot.
  • pay no attn to his YI finger shapes
  • Liberty Cap roof-toppers

Bodleian Bestiary: branching antlers vs. no antlers

branching antlers vs. no antlers: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/d5b8861f-e31d-40b6-a11f-fd1a26dd4f60/

Bodleian Bestiary: Fighting centaurs, guy in mushroom-tree

Fighting centaurs, guy in mushroom-tree:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/1a35ab25-cdec-4b3f-a6c7-d082c6fff06d/

Bodleian Bestiary: {cut right trunk} of mushroom-tree with 4 branch arms under cap

{cut right trunk} of mushroom-tree: 4 branch arms under cap:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/63a6b99f-b7f6-49ae-8e62-3c975c2b5204/

Bodleian Bestiary: {phallic garment mushroom-hem}

{phallic garment mushroom hem} https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/0bc8a9fe-4a9b-4eac-a6c0-bd0193afc58e/

Motivation for this Page

RL asked my view re: the emailed summary he emailed me.

I need to engage with that content, to answer; thus this page.

See Also

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Michael Hoffman, B.S.E.E., explaining possibilism (lower fingers), altered-state eternalism (lower thumb); & integrated possibilism/ eternalism (upper fingers & thumb)
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