Michael Hoffman, a.m. Feb. 18, 2026
Contents:
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- Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Wasson, 1968)
- Plaincourault Fresco Breakthrough
- 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
- Fallacy: False Dilemma: “A mushroom-tree either means a tree or a mushroom”
- Ruck’s Incorrect Identification of Mushroom-Trees as “mushrooms and nothing else, not stylized trees”
- The Deniers’ Main Hallmark Character Is Their Utter Lack of Shame in Associating Themselves with Utterly Atrocious, Awful Argumentation Fallacies
- The Motherload of Fallacies: the “Special”, Taboo, Exceptional Topic of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
- Big-Brain Chief Editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism, Dr. Robert M. Price Went INSANE on the “Special”, Taboo Topic of Allegro, Reduced to a Fumbling, Inept, 4th-Grade Writing Level
- Popebanker Wasson = Insincerity (re: mushroom imagery in Christian art)
- Intro
- Fraudulent, Corrupt, Deceptive, Lying by Omission, Academic Obstructionism by Popebanker “Conflict of Interest” Wasson re: mushroom imagery in Christian art
- My 2006 Article’s Accurate Accusation that Wasson Must Have Censored and Withheld (Thin, Weak) Citations that Panofsky MUST Have Provided, Confirmed by Brown 2019, which Huggins Repeatedly Omits to Cite
- SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)
- SOMA, p. 180 (Less Cussing, More Annotations, Jan. 8, 2025)
- Motivation for this Page
TodoDone- See Also
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Wasson, 1968)
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
Gordon Wasson, 1968
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Mushroom-Immortality-Gordon-Wasson/dp/B000MFKOJA/
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
Citation-type keyboard shortcut:
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, Gordon Wasson, 1968, https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Mushroom-Immortality-Gordon-Wasson/dp/B000MFKOJA/ & http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
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Back cover of hardcover (I have the paperback):
“One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India.
“Mr. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom – none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen.
“In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the role of mushrooms in religious ritual.
“A section on the post-Vedic history of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty.”
Plaincourault Fresco Breakthrough
The Plaincourault fresco has the {branching-message mushroom trees} motifs I identified in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}, proving that the Plaincourault fresco means mushrooms.
… Panofsky, JUST LIKE ALL OF YOUR HUNDREDS OF pilzbaum “instances of this development of images of the Italian pine, due to sh*tty inept idiot artists [on this special taboo topic, only] f’ing up & deteriorating the interp of the “developed for no reason” prototypes that they copy from as inept craftsmen.”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-7 –
“Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-8 –
“What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable*.”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-2-5 –
“The only possibility I should be prepared to admit is that, once the transformation had taken place and was generally accepted in art, some especially ignorant craftsman may have misu[n]derstood the finished product [Panofsky’s confabulated “prototype”] , viz., the “Pilzbaum,” as a real mushroom.”
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
Fallacy: False Dilemma: “A mushroom-tree either means a tree or a mushroom”
Mushroom-trees do not mean “a mushroom”.
Ruck’s Incorrect Identification of Mushroom-Trees as “mushrooms and nothing else, not stylized trees”
Exact Ruck quote:
“depictions of the Paradise Trees as mushrooms: mushrooms and nothing else. They look like mushrooms and that is quite frankly what they are, not stylized trees”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/deniers-logical-fallacies-pilzbaum-mushroom-tree-debate/#rucks-position-pilzbaum-are-mushrooms-and-nothing-else-not-stylized-trees
Against Ruck on p. 56 of “Daturas for the Virgin”, where Ruck says “depictions of the Paradise Trees as mushrooms: mushrooms and nothing else. They look like mushrooms and that is quite frankly what they are, not stylized trees”
https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Daturas-for-the-Virgin-p-56
To find my transcription, I search the present site for “mushrooms and nothing else”:
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=%22mushrooms+and+nothing+else%22
False dilemma. mushroom-trees mean adding non-branching eternalism thinking to possibilism-thinking.
*Unrecognizable AS PINE, but fully recognizable AS MUSHROOM FEATURES.
Panofsky’s extremely biased argument about the alleged data in the “little” 1906 Brinc book:
The consistent shift by artists from pine to mushroom proves that the mushroom end-result is accidental and meaningless.
The consistent shift by artists from pine to mushroom proves that the mushroom end-result is accidental and meaningless.
Panofsky, 1952
My retort, speaking Truth to ABD-Academia Power:
The consistent shift from pine to mushroom proves that the mushroom end-result is deliberate and meaningful.
ABD: anything-but-drugs
Huggins eagerly weds this sh!tty arg’n.
Huggins accuses entheogen scholars of being careless about the surrounding text that artists are subservient to.
In retaliation, I accuse Deniers of shameless carelessness about their crap argumentation that they should be ashamed of.
Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are SHAMELESS WED’ERS OF THE WORST ARGUMENTATION.
Deniers like Huggins characteristically have NO SHAME in their CRAP ARGS.
What’s the character of Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art?
The Deniers’ Main Hallmark Character Is Their Utter Lack of Shame in Associating Themselves with Utterly Atrocious, Awful Argumentation Fallacies
No Argument Is Too Sh!tty & Obviously Fallacious for Deniers to Put Forth, as Corrupt, Committed Skeptics
Panofsky: “Plaincourault fresco can’t mean mushroom, because there are hundreds of mushroom-trees like it.”
To distract from that shiite arg, he mixes it together with this other fallacy or dirty, invalid strategy:
“Your ignorance of this fact is the only reason you foolishly said Plaincourault fresco is mushroom.
“If you had known that there are hundreds of other mushroom-trees, you would not and could not have put forth your ignorant, blundering, foolish, embarrassing notion that Plaincourault fresco means mushrooms.”
The Motherload of Fallacies: the “Special”, Taboo, Exceptional Topic of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
Therefore Regular, Standard Scholarly Methods (Writing, Publishing, & Citation) & Argumentation Are Not Applicable, for This One, Special-Case Topic
Correct method for this special topic: “consult” the art authorities in submission, to be educated about the Correct view, since on this special topic, the “competent art authorities” are trained like dogs to blurt within 1 second, the correct disavowal of your Allegro Violation (asserting mushrooms in Christian history & ahistoricity of Jesus).
What are the top 3 main fallacies in operation here?
- Fallacy name: Argument from distracting insults.
- Fallacy name: Argument from silent presupposition that’s imagined to be shared by the audience.
Big-Brain Chief Editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism, Dr. Robert M. Price 😯 Went INSANE on the “Special”, Taboo Topic of Allegro, Reduced to a Fumbling, Inept, 4th-Grade Writing Level
As I saw in 2006 in big-brain Chief Editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism, Dr. Robert M. Price 😯 reacting in anti-scholarly clumsy manner against Acharya S’ favorable mention of Allegro.
CHIEF EDITOR Robert M. Price went INSANE (because this is a “special”, taboo topic) and clumsily botched every aspect of what he wrote against Allegro.
I emailed big-brain Chief Editor Robert M. Price correcting his many clumsy, gradeschooler errors, so he invited me to write the article Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
Then Acharya thanked me for reconciling her with Price.
Then the other day, Nov. 2024, Price expanded & re-published her book Christ Conspiracy.
https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story-Sold_Revised/dp/1948803224/
We see the generation of new fallacy types right in front of our eyes in realtime coming from the motherload of fallacies: the special, taboo topic of mushroom imagery in Christian art.
The Deniers’ main hallmark and character is their utter shamelessness in putting forth atrocious, awful argumentation fallacies.
NO argumentation FALLACY IS TOO ATROCIOUS FOR DENIERS TO ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH.
That shameless putting forth of atrocious argumentation fallacies is TYPICAL and CHARACTERISTIC of Deniers.
- Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
- Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed
Italian pine? Wasson instead, after 1952, gave “Ancient Near East tree type species” interp instead, contradicting his good buddy Panofsky!
Everything is BS posturing propaganda, fake as sh!t.
Popebanker Wasson = Insincerity (re: mushroom imagery in Christian art)
Wasson = insincerity.
Plaincourault fresco breakthrough today a.m. Feb. 18, 2026
Intro
todo: boxes connecting 4 branches = his legs, his arms, her arms, her legs.
Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman, a.m. Feb. 18, 2026
Fraudulent, Corrupt, Deceptive, Lying by Omission, Academic Obstructionism by Popebanker “Conflict of Interest” Wasson re: mushroom imagery in Christian art
My 2006 Article’s Accurate Accusation that Wasson Must Have Censored and Withheld (Thin, Weak) Citations that Panofsky MUST Have Provided, Confirmed by Brown 2019, which Huggins Repeatedly Omits to Cite
SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)
Hey Wasson, you phony; SELLOUT!:
Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906)
as Panofsky extremely strongly urged mycologists to read – no thanks to your duplicitous censorship and going OUT OF YOUR WAY to fraudulently attack affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, while you fakely chide them for failing to consult the IGNORAMUS art “authorities”.
The below sound like pompous, insincere, con-artist horse sh!t, because that’s exactly what it is:
SOMA, p. 180 (Less Cussing, More Annotations, Jan. 8, 2025)
Motivation for this Page
I keep needing to find my p. 180 photos of:
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
Gordon Wasson, 1968
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Mushroom-Immortality-Gordon-Wasson/dp/B000MFKOJA/
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
Todo Done
done: todo: boxes connecting 4 branches = his legs, his arms, her arms, her legs.
done: todo: new page about this image.
The Plaincourault Fresco Has {branching-message mushroom tree} Features, Depicting Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/the-plaincourault-fresco-has-branching-message-mushroom-tree-features-depicting-psychedelic-eternalism/
done: todo: site map: add Wasson section.
Site Map: Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Gordon-Wasson
See Also
- Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed
- Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
todo: In Site Map, add section: Gordon Wasson
The Egodeath Theory Corroborates Carl Ruck’s Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/26/the-egodeath-theory-corroborates-carl-rucks-psychedelic-mysteries-paradigm/#soma-p.-180-more-cussing-fewer-annotations-dec.-2-2024
Search this site for “Popebanker Wasson”:
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=%22Popebanker+Wasson%22
The Egodeath theory 