The Psychedelic 1160s: Maximal Mushroom Art Theory

Michael Hoffman Feb. 25, 2026

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 15, 2026, fullscreen

Contents:

The Medieval Art Genre of Mushroom-Trees Is Psychedelic Medieval Art

My Favorite Mushroom Imagery in Great Canterbury Psalter

The Best Mushroom Crop in Each Folio Image

The Best Mushroom Crop harvested from Each Folio Image

Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman, fullscreen todo

The Best Mushroom-Experiencing Part (Crop) of Each Medieval Art Image

Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com Is BY FAR the Most Extreme Entheogen Scholar Asserting that Everything in the Best Art Means Mushrooms

John Rush is NOTHING compared to me. ALL good art, every motif in it, ALL means mushrooms.

But which specific aspect? Wrong answer: “It means

Wrong Answer: “It Is a Mushroom”

Wrong Answer: “This Motif Means a Mushroom”; Not Wrong But Not Specific: Which Aspect of “Mushroom”?

Need Page to EMPHASIZE that I, Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com, Am WAY More Extreme than Everyone Else: I Demand Recognition as Far More Extreme than Any Other Entheogen Scholar

Thank you Jerry Brown for granting me the crown, by listing Egodeath.com FIRST in your list of extremists:

Exact copypaste quote from 2019 article:

  • broke up by sentence
  • emph added

Exact copypaste quote from 2019 article:

Overenthusiasm by ardent advocates

Since the publication of Wasson’s Soma (1968) and Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970), new evidence has emerged on websites (Michael Hoffman, 1985–2007a) and in articles (Samorini, 1997, 1998) and books documenting the presence of sacred mushrooms in Christian art.

Several of these books are: The Holy Mushroom (Irvin, 2008) and The Mushroom in Christian Art (Rush, 2011) – both of which contain color photo galleries – and The Effluents of Deity (Ruck & Hoffman, 2012), which does not present photos but offers extensive analysis of medieval religious art.

/ end of exact copypaste quote

Converting Brown 2019 to a Condensed Pseudo-Quote Giving Me the Crown as the #1 Extremist Ardent Advocate

Proof that Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com is the #1 asserter that mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms:

Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com, King of the Mushroom-Tree Asserters

Michael Hoffman, The King of the Mushroom-Tree Asserters; the Mushroom King

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 15, 2026, fullscreen

Proof that Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com is the #1 asserter that mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms (mushroom experiencing): Browns 2019 wrote: “Overenthusiasm by ardent advocates: New evidence has emerged on websites (Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com) and in articles (Samorini, 1997, 1998) and books documenting the presence of sacred mushrooms in Christian art, such as The Holy Mushroom (Irvin, 2008), The Mushroom in Christian Art (Rush, 2011) and The Effluents of Deity (Ruck & Hoffman, 2012). Unfortunately, what at first glance appears to be a treasure trove of newly uncovered entheogenic icons, such as at Michael Hoffman’s Egodeath.com website, fades upon critical inspection.”
mk (= mushroom king)

Test of the keyboard shortcut is below.

Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com Is the Mushroom King [MK]

Proof that Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com is the #1 asserter that mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms (mushroom experiencing): Browns 2019 wrote: “Overenthusiasm by ardent advocates: New evidence has emerged on websites (Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com) and in articles (Samorini, 1997, 1998) and books documenting the presence of sacred mushrooms in Christian art, such as The Holy Mushroom (Irvin, 2008), The Mushroom in Christian Art (Rush, 2011) and The Effluents of Deity (Ruck & Hoffman, 2012). Unfortunately, what at first glance appears to be a treasure trove of newly uncovered entheogenic icons, such as at Michael Hoffman’s Egodeath.com website, fades upon critical inspection.”

References

Copypaste of “Overenthusiasm By Ardent Advocates” Passage from Brown

Done: excerpt/condense to make a nice quote granting me crown for #1 Ardent Advocate.

Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com Is the LEADER of the Ardent Advocates, I DEMAND CREDIT AS THE #1 ARDENT ADVOCATE!

“While Irvin’s (2008) work focuses mainly on a critical reevaluation of the Wasson–Allegro schism, it also presents 43 color plates to document the presence of psychoactive mushrooms in frescoes, stained glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, and sculpted capitals. Two thirds of these images fall within the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. Rush’s (2011) book is accompanied by a DVD containing 252 colored images from three time periods:

  • Early Christian Art (200–1000),
  • Middle Christian Art (1000–1550), and [IMPLIES HEYDAY OF MUSHROOM-TREES = 1000-1550; I ESTIM’D 900-1300]
  • Late Christian Art (1550–the Present).

[make this sound as if talking about me:]

“Unfortunately, what at first glance appears to be a treasure trove of newly uncovered entheogenic icons – the nearly 300 images presented by [Michael Hoffman! Egodeath.com] Irvin and Rush – fades upon critical inspection.

The first problem is a technical one created by accessing these European, Middle Eastern, and Russian images at a distance. By necessity, in reviewing art works from different time periods and diverse countries, Irvin and Rush have often [not Walburga image though, it is high-res – Browns are setting up an argument that’s going to backfire on them, badly] relied on low-quality, sometimes corrupted, digital copies of these works found on the Internet. This has resulted in errors in reproduction and, consequently, in interpretation.

[no, Browns cannot blame that in case of Walb – Irvin has same not-by-Julie-Brown photo, and Browns used Irvin’s copy of the non-degraded photo, to make an important, and WRONG, decision to not go to Walburga in person]

To cite one example, in plate 32 of The Holy Mushroom, Irvin (2008) describes St. Walburga as “holding a distinct Amanita muscaria in its young, bulbous state of development, complete with white spots” (p. 136). During our research trip to Germany, we realized that St. Walburga was not holding a mushroom but a vial containing healing ointment, as confirmed in numerous other artworks and accounts of her life (Figure 18).

/ end of excerpt from Brown 2019

Site Map: Brown > Walburga
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#brown-walburga

Browns 2019 Citation & Link

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019 & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/entheogens-in-christian-art-wasson-allegro-psychedelic-gospels-brown/
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What’s Mainly Being Depicted Is Not “A Mushroom”; Rather, “Mushroom Experiencing”; Psychedelic Eternalism-Driven Control-Model Transformation

What’s Depicted Is Not Necessarily “A Mushroom”; What’s Generally Depicted Is Mushroom Transformative Effects from Mushrooms; Psychedelic Eternalism-Driven Control-Model Transformation

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f11

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f49

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f64

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f107

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f109

The Best Mushroom Experiencing part of Folio Image f134

f134: God’s Blessing-Line Is Anchored by Oxen Guy’s Clutching Hand

Crop and annotation by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 22, 2026, fullscreen

The midpoint of the line is precisely on the pivot of the {balance scale}.

This {balance scale}’s mechanism is drawn in unusual detail, for this purpose of identification to indicate that the pivot is focused on.

Eadwine tells us clearly (Eadwine cybernetically communicates to us unambiguously and centrally) that God’s blessing line:

  • Pivots on the {balance scale} pivot.
  • Goes through BOTH Cubensis dispensary bins.
  • Goes through the White Light (per John Lash).

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f145

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Feb. 15, 2026, fullscreen

The Best Mushroom Experiencing Part of Folio Image f177

Titles of This Page

The Psychedelic 1160s: Maximal Mushroom Art Theory: The Medieval Art Genre of Mushroom-Trees Is Psychedelic Medieval Art

The Psychedelic 1160s: Maximal Mushroom Art Theory: Every Motif in All of the Best Art Means Mushroom Experiencing

EVERY Mushroom-Tree Means Psilocybin Altered State; the Panofsky Argument from Prejudiced Presupposition: Too Many Pilzbaume, So, Any One Instance Is Not Mushroom

I Am More Extreme than Everyone Else: John Rush Is Too Weak and Fails to See Mushrooms LITERALLY EVERYWHERE, but Need Detail About Which Specific Aspect of “Mushrooms” a Given Motif Refers To

All Motifs in the Best-Quality Art Mean Mushroom Experiencing, But, Which Specific Aspect of Mushroom Experiencing Is Meant by a Particular Motif?

Pilzbaum = Mushroom-Tree; Pilzbaume = Mushroom-Trees

Query: Would the German word ‘pilzbaum’ (mushroom-tree) in Medieval art be pluralized by adding an ‘s’ at the end, as ‘pilzbaums”?

AI Ans:

No, the German word Pilzbaum would not be pluralized by adding an ‘s’ to become Pilzbaums in Medieval art contexts.

Instead, the plural form follows standard German grammar, where the noun Baum (tree) changes to Bäume (trees) via umlaut, making the correct plural die Pilzbäume.

  • Singular: der Pilzbaum
  • Plural: die Pilzbäume 

Adding an ‘s’ (Pilzbaums) is not the correct pluralization rule in German; it is usually reserved for genitive singular or specific loanwords. 

/ end of AI ans

Huggins, EVERY Mushroom Shape in Bodleian Bestiary Means Mushrooms

His article title is wrong and prejudiced because Huggins ONLY corrects our “error” re: ONE image in ONE bestiary.

ALL images in ALL bestiaries mean mushroom experiencing, as a layer throughout all of the BEST Medieval Psychedelic Art.

In the Best Medieval Art, There Is a Mushroom-Experiencing Layer Universally

In the Best Religious Art, There Is a Mushroom-Experiencing Layer Universally

The Maximal Mushroom Theory of Art Interpretation: All the Best Art Means Mushroom Experiencing

The Psychedelic 1160s: Huggins, EVERY Mushroom Shape in Bodleian Bestiary Means Mushrooms; the Insane Prejudiced Panofsky Argument from “Too Many mushroom-trees”

Huggins wrote article 2022 ONLY rebutting Dancing Man. The other mushroom images in the bestiary feel slighted.

The Panofsky Argument from Prejudiced Presupposition: “Too Many Pilzbaume”, So, Any One Instance Is Not Mushroom

Be Sure to Blend the “Too Many Mushroom-Trees” Fallacious Argument with the Fallacious Argument from Insult of Ignorance

Panofsky encloses two mushroom-trees (censored) in order to (!) convince us that Plaincourault fresco cannot mean mushroom because THERE ARE TOO MANY INTENSE M EMPHATIC MUSHROOM SHAPES IN THE GENRE, THEREFORE THERE IS NO WAY THAT ANY ONE MUSHROOM-TREE COULD POSSIBLY MEAN MUSHROOM.

That’s the INSANELY prejudiced arg mentality thus i say:

PANOFSKY IS AN IDIOT, BUT WASSON (IN CONTRAST) IS A LIAR.

I AM I’m surprised evil Wasson permitted us to see ANY of Panofsky’s two letters including two art instances & citation but Wasson’s job as an EVIL PROPAGANDIST LIAR as the Popebanker, was to TRY to use PORTIONS of Panofsky’s letters, to twist our thinking to conform to Panofsky’s twisted reasoning, “too many mushroom-trees therefore any one (Plaincourault fresco) cannot possibly mean mushroom,

“This shows how totally ignorant you myc’ists are: YOUR (you affirmers; “mycologists” since 1909 French myc society Bulletin)

“YOUR PROPER REACTION SHOULD BE EMBARRASSMENT ABOUT YOUR IGNORANCE, THAT Plaincourault fresco IS NOT A LONE INSTANCE”

That’s how Panofsky argues, based on ASSUMPTION of audience sharing his prejudiced presupposition, WHICH Samorini 1997 DOES NOT SHARE, and neither do I or any right-thinking entheogen scholar since 1968.

todo: quote Panofsky too many arg:

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-4 –

“The Plaincourault fresco is only one example — and, since the style is very provincial, a particularly deceptive one — of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and Early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as “mushroom tree” or, in German writing, Pilzbaum.

“It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and Early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown, of course, to mycologists.”

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, TranscribedTree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)

The (Actual!) Pathetic “Argument” from Panofsky:

Fallacious Argument by Distraction by Insult

But Panofsky’s purpose is not merely to distract by insult; he ACTUALLY BELIEVES that we share his extreme prej…

Panofsky has SUCH an extreme prejudiced presupposition, he actually thinks this is an argument!

We know Plaincourault fresco can’t mean mushroom, because there (inserted, other arg strategy of distraction by insult: “YOU ARE STUPID IDIOT DUMMIES”)

Panofsky’s intent is NOT to insult affirmers (“mycologists”). Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Hard to wrap head around his arg, it is SO extremely based on Panofsky’s stupidity; prejudiced presupposition – he simply, actually ASSUMES, silently, Panofsky takes it as granted, that all his audience shares this same, prejudiced presupposition.

Panofsky actually thinks this is a compelling argument! “You asserted that Plaincourault fresco means a mushroom. You could not have asserted that, except out of ignorance, eg see my two attached emphatic mushroom-trees that prove, NO WAY can this one instance (Plaincourault fresco) mean a mushroom, because, you myc’ists are ignorant that there are MULTIPLE such mushroom-trees!

Therefore, Plaincourault fresco cannot mean a mushroom; because there are no mushrooms in Christian art.

Panofsky Is an Idiot (Unconscious Extremely Prejudiced Presupposition), Whereas Wasson Is a Liar

Wasson’s motive is evil.

Panofsky’s motive is stupidity: zilch self-awareness.

Panofsky makes an UNCONSCIOUS silent argument from prejudiced presupposition:

Given that everyone knows no mushroom imagery in Christian art, no way Plaincourault fresco can mean a mushroom.

And Ronald Huggins laps this sh!t up!

You have to have INTENSE unconscious prejudiced presupposition to put forth an arg.

Panofsky argues:

“You put forth assertion that Plaincourault fresco means a mushroom.

“The fact that you do that, indicates that you are unaware that there are multiple mushroom-trees.

“Had you known there are multi, you would not have been able to even have the notion that Plaincourault fresco means mushroom.”

“We informed art historians, never have the notion that Plaincourault fresco means a mushroom, because we are informed, that there are multiple mushroom-trees – so the possibility cannot enter our well-informed minds, that Plaincourault fresco means a mushroom.

“Asserting that the Plaincourault fresco means a mushroom, necessarily implies that Plaincourault fresco is unique, the only mushroom-tree.”

(No, it doesn’t, but this shows Panofsky’s infinite stupidity ie prejudiced presupposition.)

Intense prejudiced presupposition!

Truly, Panofsky is an idiot. Zilch self-awareness of his prejudiced presupposition; he takes it as if granted, that all people share his own prejudiced presupposition, so, he thinks that this is a real, compelling argument, “too many mushroom-trees, for any one of them to mean a mushroom”.

“A Mushroom” Is a Stupid Phrase by Stupid Deniers

My Sarcasm in Writing “a Mushroom”: It’s a Stupid Phrase by Stupid Deniers

(Actual: Mushroom Experiencing, or Mushroom Imagery)

And truly, Wasson is a liar.

Wasson Thought Panofsky Is the Biggest Idiot Chump in the World

Ronald Huggins 2022

Ronald Huggins’ 2022 article “Dizzy, Dancing or Dying?”

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/

Ronald Huggins 2024

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald 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

Ronald 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/

No, Huggins; You Should Be Trying in Vain to Rebut the “Misappropriation” of EVERY Bestiary Image, NOT Just Dancing Man 🕺

Dancing Man IS “Dying from Poison”, Analogically; Dying Ego Death from Psilocybin

The {rock ossuary} Motif Proves that “Ego Death” Is the Correct Term

todo:

  • Create a page that’s a gallery of {rock ossuary} & {death} motif in Great Canterbury Psalter. death & reset; lifted out of {rock ossuary}. The two f177 guys WERE in their {rock ossuary} but now they stand lifting a 3rd guy. that is progress in my interp of the 2 empty {rock ossuary} in f177.
  • At least add a section in the GCP Gallery Details page.

images:

  • {rock ossuary} in f__
  • {rock ossuary} in f__
  • {rock ossuary} in f__
  • {rock ossuary} in f__
  • {rock ossuary} in f__
  • {rock ossuary} in f__

Yes, Huggins, stupid outsider, Dancing Man IS “Dying from Poison” – Ego Death from Psilocybin (f*cking ignorant, dumb-as-a-rock, outsider, literalist dumbass).

This Article Is Dedicated to Dancing Man 🕺

This article is dedicated to the Dancing Man Mushroom-Tree Artist.

Crop by Michael Hoffman
todo: copy initial instance to correct page, it’s missing

Hand-Shape Pair: [Y’, YI] or [Y’I, YI]; either way, includes the big 3 of 4:

  • Y’
  • Y
  • I

I’ is rare, eg. Great Canterbury Psalter f134 row 2: break bowman. Main message is usually:

The Main Message of the Medieval YI Hand-Shape Language: I, Y’, & Y = {balance scale} & {stable column base}

  • Non-Branching Eternalism Is Metaphysically the Case.
  • Branching Possibilism Is Not Metaphysically the Case.
  • Branching Possibilism Is Phenomenologically (Subjectively & Experientially) the Case.
  • This Mental Model Affects Control Stability.
  • I (non-branching Eternalism) is metaphysically the case.
  • Y’ (branching Possibilism) is not metaphysically the case.
  • Y (branching Possibilism) is phenomenologically (subjectively & experientially) the case.

Motivation for This Page

Reaction against the stupid title:

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/

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