Michael Hoffman, 1:49 a.m. Tue., Mar. 3, 2026

Contents:

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• Entire Image of Dancing Man Salamander Image in Bestiary
• Full-Res Dancing Man Image at Library Site
• Why There Are Four Basic Hand-Shapes (or Finger-Shapes): Y, I, Y’, I’
• The Dark Power of the Oddball, Lesser-Used I’ Shape: DEATH by POISON; or, God Relents the Eternalism Threat
• Clearest Example of Using the “Cut Non-Branching”, I’ Shape: Break-Bow Archer
• Task 1: Make Sense of the Strange Index Finger, by Recognizing It as Combining Two Standard Modifiers: Splayed AND Bent
• Task 2: Analyze the YI Hand-Shape Pair to See Which of the 4 YI Shapes Are Present: Not the Standard YIY’, but Rather, YI’Y’, Highlighting the Less Common, Oddball Shape: I’ (Cut Non-Branching)
• Task 3: Explain How the 4 Shapes Are Used in This Case, to Illustrate This Storyline (Dying from Salamander Poison): “Awake” Shape (I), Inverted by Bend (I’), Becomes “Super Asleep”, ie. DEAD
• There Is Plenty of Proof of How to Interpret YI Hand-Shapes, to Extract the Rules, After Surveying Enough Art Instances
• Intro
• Separate the Formation of the 4 Branching Shapes vs. How the Shapes Are Used
  • Separate the Identification of Which of the 4 Branching Shapes (I and then I’) from How That Shape Conveys “Dying from Salamander Poison”
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• SPLAYED: The Standard Meaning of “Splayed Finger, Separate from Grouped Multiple Fingers”
• BENT: The Standard Meaning of “Bent Finger or Fingers”
• All 4 YI Hand-shapes Are in Dancing Man’s hand-shape pair: Y, I, Y’, I’
• Names of the 4 Shapes: Y (branching), I (non-branching), Y’ (cut branching), I’ (cut non-branching)
• The Four Branching Shapes: Y I Y’ I’; Y (assert branching), I (assert non-branching), Y’ (rebut branching), I’ (rebut non-branching)
• Wording 1
  • Y = assert possibilism
  • I = assert eternalism
  • Y’ = rebut possibilism
  • I’ = rebut eternalism
• Wording 2
  • Y = assert branching
  • I = assert non-branching
  • Y’ = rebut branching
  • I’ = rebut non-branching
• Wording 3
  • shape 1: Y – branching; assert branching; assert Possibilism
  • shape 2: I – non-branching; assert non-branching; assert Eternalism
  • shape 3: Y’ – cut branching; rebut branching; rebut Possibilism
  • shape 4: I’ – cut non-branching; rebut non-branching; rebut Eternalism
• Wording 4
  • Y = assert branching Possibilism
  • I = assert non-branching Eternalism
  • Y’ = rebut branching Possibilism
  • I’ = rebut non-branching Eternalism
• Sequence of Hand-Shapes
• Shape 1: Y = Branching
• Shape 2: I = Non-Branching
• Shape 3: Y’ = Cut Branching
• Shape 4: I’ = Cut Non-Branching
• I Shape = Non-Branching Eternalism
• To Be Educated Is to Know YI Hand Shapes and YI Tree Shapes
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• Solution of Dancing Man’s Hand-Shape Pair
  • How the Y Shape Is Formed
  • How the I Shape Is Formed
  • How the Y’ Shape Is Formed
  • How the I’ Shape Is Formed
• How the {asleep vs. awake} Motif Is Expressed via YI Hand Shapes
• Sleeping Baby from Same Bestiary as Dancing Man: Branching Y Asserted at Forehead
  • The Standard, YIY’ Hand-Shape Pair
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• The Medieval Warm Period: 950- 1250
  • Cubensis Grew on Oxen Dung in England During the Medieval Warm Period (950 – 1250), the Heyday of the Mushroom-Tree Genre
  • Oxen & Fool Sowing Cubensis
  • Cubensis Harvest Cycle
  • Oxen and Cubensis Dispensary
  • God’s Blessing-Line Hits Sowing Cubensis at {stable column base}
  • The “Medieval Warm Period” Art Genre of {mushroom-trees}
  • the “Medieval Warm Period” art genre of {mushroom-trees} [MWPAGMT]
• Prince & 3 Women
• Prince & 3 Women: Hands
• Aristotle Teaching the Ptolemaic Cosmos Model; Astronomy
• Teaching Stars & Rainbow
• Teaching Stars & Rainbow – Hands
• Live Long & Prosper in 1200 🖖
• Dolce Apocalypse: Angel and the Ego-Dead in {rock ossuary}
• Break-Bow Archer: Hands
• Handing a Parchment Sheet
• Acronyms (keyboard shortcuts; concept-labels; concepts; lexicon terms)
  • acronym (concept-label; concept; lexicon term; keyboard shortcut) [KSL]
• World-Model Acronyms
  • world-model [WM]
  • mental model [MM]
  • mental world-model [MWM]
• Mixed Wine Acronyms
  • mixed wine mushroom wine [MWMW]
  • mixed wine [MW]
  • psilocybin mushroom mixed wine [PMMW]
  • mixed wine psilocybin mushroom wine [MWPMW]
• Few-Minute Bio of Michael Hoffman to Read Aloud at Gatherings
• Increasing Articulation and Literacy at Applying the YI Hand-Shape Language: asleep vs. awake; uneducated vs. educated; unenlightened vs. enlightened
• This Post Was Composed During a Blood Red Moon, Full Eclipse of the Moon
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Entire Image of Dancing Man Salamander Image in Bestiary

Insane-Res WordPress Gallery Copy of Dancing Man Image Wasting Maximum Space – 7.4 MB in WordPress Gallery

Full-Res Dancing Man Image at Library Site

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/

Why There Are Four Basic Hand-Shapes (or Finger-Shapes): Y, I, Y’, I’

• There are two different views, or world-models: branching Possibilism & non-branching Eternalism.
• You can Assert or Rebut either view.

Thus there are four permutations of mental world models:

• Y – Assert branching Possibilism.
• I – Assert non-branching Eternalism.
• Y’ – Rebut branching Possibilism.
• I’ – Rebut non-branching Eternalism.

The Dark Power of the Oddball, Lesser-Used I’ Shape: DEATH by POISON; or, God Relents the Eternalism Threat

Clearest Example of Using the “Cut Non-Branching”, I’ Shape: Break-Bow Archer

As a Reference, the I’ shape is used in f134 row 2: Break-Bow Archer: upper hand shows cut thumb, to express the psilocybin transformation dynamic:

Relenting and withdrawing the threat that’s posed by revelation of {shadow dragon monster} = block-universe worldline.

That’s how the I’ shape is used to say something about this dynamic and this figure, in the case of f134, vs. in Dancing Man.

Task 1: Make Sense of the Strange Index Finger, by Recognizing It as Combining Two Standard Modifiers: Splayed AND Bent

Task 2: Analyze the YI Hand-Shape Pair to See Which of the 4 YI Shapes Are Present: Not the Standard YIY’, but Rather, YI’Y’, Highlighting the Less Common, Oddball Shape: I’ (Cut Non-Branching)

I’ can mean the ego death aspect of eternalism.

Task 3: Explain How the 4 Shapes Are Used in This Case, to Illustrate This Storyline (Dying from Salamander Poison): “Awake” Shape (I), Inverted by Bend (I’), Becomes “Super Asleep”, ie. DEAD

There Is Plenty of Proof of How to Interpret YI Hand-Shapes, to Extract the Rules, After Surveying Enough Art Instances

Intro

Solved Dancing Man Hand-Shape Pair: Index Finger Splayed & Bent, I & I’; Non-Branching & Cut Non-Branching

Separate the Formation of the 4 Branching Shapes vs. How the Shapes Are Used

Separate the Identification of Which of the 4 Branching Shapes (I and then I’) from How That Shape Conveys “Dying from Salamander Poison”

The finger form DEFINITELY expresses I and then I’.

Exactly how the I’ form is suitable to represent or illustrate “Dying from Salamander Poison” is a matter of taste and is debatable.

• Y = branching
• I = non-branching
• Y’ = cut branching
• I’ = cut non-branching

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some artists got a little carried away with the YI hand-shapes

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dancing man index is over-modified, or at least, is DOUBLE MODIFIED.

 both splayed AND ALSO bent!

SPLAYED: The Standard Meaning of “Splayed Finger, Separate from Grouped Multiple Fingers”

The Index finger, if splayed apart from a group of 3 other fingers that form a “branching” Y shape, means the I shape.

BENT: The Standard Meaning of “Bent Finger or Fingers”

As we see and define most basically in the motif of “4 fingers, bent sharply, showing only the base segment of each finger, like cut branches”, the “bent fingers” motifs mean negated, qualified, or “not”.

It’s not exactly a matter of counting finger-segments.

Rather, the main, basic, foundational idea is:

Here’a hand-tree that has 4 branches – now we SHOW those 4 branches, but ONLY the base segment of each finger; thus we show 4 CUT branches, expressing the Y’ shape, ie, “cut branching”.

The Y’ shape, “cut branching”, means the negation of branching Possibilism.

The Y’ shape does not directly mean the assertion of I-shape non-branching.

Assert or rebut.

Y’ rebuts branching. It’s called “cut branching”.

I asserts non-branching.

A finger if bent at right angle means qualified or countered (Prime) 

that plays the game of depicting all 4 hand-shapes in a clever way 

All 4 YI Hand-shapes Are in Dancing Man’s hand-shape pair: Y, I, Y’, I’

given that the finger carries BOTH qualifiers (splayed AND bent), all 4 hand-shapes are expressed in Dancing Man’s hand-shape pair:

Names of the 4 Shapes: Y (branching), I (non-branching), Y’ (cut branching), I’ (cut non-branching)

The Four Branching Shapes: Y I Y’ I’; Y (assert branching), I (assert non-branching), Y’ (rebut branching), I’ (rebut non-branching)

Wording 1

Y = assert possibilism

I = assert eternalism

Y’ = rebut possibilism

I’ = rebut eternalism

Wording 2

Y = assert branching

I = assert non-branching

Y’ = rebut branching

I’ = rebut non-branching

Wording 3

shape 1: Y – branching; assert branching; assert Possibilism

shape 2: I – non-branching; assert non-branching; assert Eternalism

shape 3: Y’ – cut branching; rebut branching; rebut Possibilism

shape 4: I’ – cut non-branching; rebut non-branching; rebut Eternalism

Wording 4

Y = assert branching Possibilism

I = assert non-branching Eternalism

Y’ = rebut branching Possibilism

I’ = rebut non-branching Eternalism

Sequence of Hand-Shapes

order of hand-shapes

Shape 1: Y = Branching 

First, the mind has Y;

possibilism-thinking 

branching possibilities

ordinary-state, branching Possibilism 

Shape 2: I = Non-Branching 

altered-state brings I

the next model we see is I ; eternalism 

block-universe eternalism

{snake frozen in rock} 

non-branching Eternalism 

altered-state, non-branching Eternalism 

Shape 3: Y’ = Cut Branching 

after we see non-branching I , then we {cut branching} : Y’

Shape 4: I’ = Cut Non-Branching 

return from eternalism back to ordinary-state possibilism 

I Shape = Non-Branching Eternalism

I = non-branching eternalism, in the standard hand-shape genre psilocyb tradition art initiation.

To Be Educated Is to Know YI Hand Shapes and YI Tree Shapes

To be uneducated is to not know about YI hand-shape & tree-shape theory 

In the medieval era, all of the educated class knew: 

• YI hand shapes 
• YI tree shapes 
• handedness

More narrow is my older combination of 4 motifs

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

Of those 4 motifs, YI hand shapes goes into {branching}.

Mushroom-trees were present during the Medieval Warm Period explicitly, as part of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs — YI hand/tree shapes

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Anyone who knew the YI tree branching psilocybin tradition also knew the YI hand shapes psilocybin tradition.

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism 

ordinary-state, branching possibilism 
vs. 
altered-state, non-branching eternalism 

Y then I 

You {cut branching}, to be brought through the gate into eternalism city 

“Blessed are those who wash their robes [cut branching], that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” – Revelation 22:14; end of Bible

Y vs. I

{tree} vs. {snake} 

{tree} vs. {snake frozen in rock} 

from {king steering in tree} through {mixed wine at banquet} to {snake frozen in rock} 

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Solution of Dancing Man’s Hand-Shape Pair

How the Y Shape Is Formed

The Y shape is formed by the upper hand: 

3 fingers splayed.

How the I Shape Is Formed

The I shape is formed by the upper hand: 

Index finger splayed.

How the Y’ Shape Is Formed

The Y’ shape is formed by the lower hand: 

4 fingers bent.

How the I’ Shape Is Formed

The I’ shape is formed by the upper hand:

Index finger bent

How the {asleep vs. awake} Motif Is Expressed via YI Hand Shapes

Sleeping Baby from Same Bestiary as Dancing Man: Branching Y Asserted at Forehead

The Standard, YIY’ Hand-Shape Pair

Mother hand-shape pair:

• lower hand: Y’II = Y’I
• upper hand: YY’
• [Y’I, YY’] = YY’I = YIY’ (the most popular, 3-of-4 set of hand-shapes)

branching fingers touching face means asleep in possibilism-thinking. 

If Index finger (splayed apart from / contrasted vs. 3 grouped fingers) touching forehead means “awake“,
then
BENT Index finger (splayed apart) would mean asleep.

Now bring in elements from the story that’s being illustrated in the Salamander entry of the bestiary:

Dancing Man is double sleeping, killed by poisonous salamander ego death

Ego death is indicated by:

• {stand on right foot} 
• right foot touching {cut right trunk} 

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The message of the mushroom-tree artist re: Dancing Man’s Index finger:

“If touching the forehead with a splayed Index finger is good,
then touching the forehead with a bent Index finger would mean bad, 
like, 
dead, from salamander poison.”

Per the rules of the YI branching hand/tree genre.

The Medieval Warm Period: 950- 1250

My estimate of the heyday of mushroom-trees: 900-1300.

My estimated date range for mushroom-trees matches the Medieval Warm Period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period –

“The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that lasted from about 950 CE to about 1250 CE.”

Cubensis Grew on Oxen Dung in England During the Medieval Warm Period (950 – 1250), the Heyday of the Mushroom-Tree Genre

Oxen & Fool Sowing Cubensis

Cubensis Harvest Cycle

Oxen and Cubensis Dispensary

God’s Blessing-Line Hits Sowing Cubensis at {stable column base}

The “Medieval Warm Period” Art Genre of {mushroom-trees}

the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}

You could even say:

the “Medieval Warm Period” art genre of {mushroom-trees}

the “Medieval Warm Period” art genre of {mushroom-trees} [MWPAGMT]

Prince & 3 Women

Prince & 3 Women: Hands

Aristotle Teaching the Ptolemaic Cosmos Model; Astronomy

Embedded in image (reworked by Michael Hoffman):

“Aristotle holding an armillary sphere and pointing to the heavens as he teaches a group of clerics from Western Europe.

“From the treatise on cosmology by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, On the Heavens and the World (De Caelo et Mundo).

“The transmission of this work via Arabic scholarship is highlighted by the depiction of Aristotle in a turban.

“BMR163108 Ms 3458 fol 62vo

“Historiated initial \’D\’ depicting Aristotle holding an armillary sphere and pointing to the heavens as he teaches a group of clerics from Western Europe

“(pen and ink and tempera on vellum) by French School, (13th century); Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris, France;

(add.info.:

from the treatise on cosmology by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322) \’On the Heavens and the World\’ (\’De Caelo et Mundo\’);

Lettre ornee avec un Philosophe enseignant;); © Bibliotheque Mazarine ; © Archives Charmet.”

Teaching Stars & Rainbow

Teaching Stars & Rainbow – Hands

Live Long & Prosper in 1200 🖖

Dolce Apocalypse: Angel and the Ego-Dead in {rock ossuary}

Break-Bow Archer: Hands

Handing a Parchment Sheet

Acronyms (keyboard shortcuts; concept-labels; concepts; lexicon terms)

acronym (concept-label; concept; lexicon term; keyboard shortcut) [KSL]

acronym (concept-label; concept; lexicon term; keyboard shortcut)
ksl (keyboard shortcut long)

World-Model Acronyms

world-model [WM]

mental model [MM]

mental world-model [MWM]

Mixed Wine Acronyms

mixed wine mushroom wine [MWMW]

mixed wine [MW]

psilocybin mushroom mixed wine [PMMW]

mixed wine psilocybin mushroom wine [MWPMW]

Few-Minute Bio of Michael Hoffman to Read Aloud at Gatherings

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copy from mobile > Notes > Psalon > Michael Hoffman entry

short entry:

Michael Hoffman – 1985 engr two models of time in uni Physics course, 

religious mythology as … psychedelic eternalism 

proving Psilocybin fully dev – leverage for Reform.  

Egodeath.com started August 1991, when the WWWeb was first created.

August 1988, on computer, wrote up the Egodeath theory – the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence in computer files, became the starter content for website.

1985 BSEE student, STEM mentality, need posi-control. Fix cross-time self-control.

1997 – spec’d the Psychedelic Eternalism theory: a useful explanatory model of mental model transformation when moving between the ordinary state and the altered state.

1998 – Studied myth and mythic art to confirm the theory of psychedelic eternalism.

2006 –

2020 – re-found Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter. Proceeded to find tons of mushroom imagery in Christian art integrated with {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

I was given many advantages over other people:

• In high school, father taught me the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Ken Wilber, the Way of Zen by Alan Watts, the human potential movement, self-help seminars, holistic health.

Colleagues

• Brown
• Ruck
• Hatsis
• Irvin
• Max Freakout
• Cyberdisciple

{branching-message mushroom trees} Mar 21, 2022.

finger shapes Entry into Jerusalem Saint-Martin Church Feb. 9, 2023.

writing article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​: {branching-message mushroom trees}

Increasing Articulation and Literacy at Applying the YI Hand-Shape Language: asleep vs. awake; uneducated vs. educated; unenlightened vs. enlightened

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3 distinct phases of decoding Dancing Man:

1. Identify the Index finger shape as conveying two standard modifiers: 1) splayed Index or Pinkie finger, 2) bent finger(s).
2. Classify/read the hand-shape pair.
3. This picture’s particular application of the YI hand-shape language and hand-shape pair.

3 tasks:

1. Task 1: Make Sense of the Strange Index Finger, by Recognizing It as Combining Two Standard Modifiers: Splayed AND Bent
2. Task 2: Analyze the YI Hand-Shape Pair to See Which of the 4 YI Shapes Are Present: Not the Standard YIY’, but Rather, YI’Y’, Highlighting the Less Common, Oddball Shape: I’ (Cut Non-Branching)
3. Task 3: Explain How the 4 Shapes Are Used in This Case, to Illustrate This Storyline (Dying from Salamander Poison): “Awake” Shape (I), Inverted by Bend (I’), Becomes “Super Asleep”, ie. DEAD

• asleep vs. awake
• uneducated vs. educated
• unenlightened vs. enlightened

This Post Was Composed During a Blood Red Moon, Full Eclipse of the Moon

Motivation for this Page

Solved Dancing Man!

Specifically, the super weird finger, is clearly simply carrying the two standard modifications:

• SPLAYED: Finger splayed separately from 3 other fingers, which are grouped to depict {branching}; Y shape. Splayed finger here = non-branching; I shape (assert non-branching Eternalism).
• BENT: Bending fingers means “rebut branching”, in the case of 4 fingers, Y’ shape (rebut branching Possibilism).
• SPLAYED AND BENT: Combining the two above indicators, produces I’ (rebut non-branching Eternalism).

See Also

• Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian) – main page about this image

• Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art (Huggins, 2022)
• Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Huggins, 2024)