Log of Discoveries & Achievements (Mobile Version)

Easter, April 17, 2022

This is a mobile-edited weblog page, parallel with the computer-edited existing page. A sync bug causes data loss, so “don’t cross the streams”; don’t cross-edit between devices, unless i figure out how to force sync.

This page is to note time & date when I interpret art and revise theory connections a la Conceptual Revolutions book by Paul Thagard.

4:00 am April 13, 2022 I perceived huge aspect of Salamander tree: cut right trunk branch.

during recording the Egodeath Mystery Show maybe yesterday, I announced in voice recording the minute time and date of realizing and looking at the image:

while recording the show, I looked at the salamander image and realized like a day earlier that the path the right paw is touching the cap of the mushroom tree, and especially, now, also noticed that the tail is touching the trunk of the mushroom tree, which I had failed to notice before.

tail: it is a very artificial and subtle touching that the artist is indicating to signal a meaning to us.

A correction, not regarding my discoveries, but of my statements about who published what when:

I just realized yesterday I had been saying Samorini treated the salamander and then Chris Bennett, and that’s backwards.

Samorini’s 1998 article about mushroom trees says Bennett in a 1995 essay published the salamander msh tree image

but I do have a question: did Bennett know that it is green and blue, not red and white? or did Bennett only have a black-and-white picture? and same with Samorini

Samorini asserts, he uses this as an example of an Amanita Mushroom tree – but does he realize that this is green and blue , that he is proposing that a green and blue mushroom be placed in the amanita column ??

if he has now presumably seen the color version of the image does Sam Marini still claim that this mushroom tree is a Amanita, given that it is blue and green?

Samorini: “It’s a match! The above image is positively identified as an instance of an Amanita mushroom tree!”

From the front cover of Dr. Secret’s book about Eleusis

Who can blame Hatsis for saying “This is ridiculous! This Amanita Madness is making the field of entheogen scholarship look like a mockery.”

my interpretation is more mature and sophisticated and subtle and with more detail

the mushroom artists make a distinction between – as we see in Canterbury, officially and formally depicted which formally established on page 1 of Canterbury, the artist says “let us begin by defining 4 distinct shapes or types of psychoactive Mushrooms:

God created 4 plants: liberty caps, Cubensis , panaeolus , and Amanita and then throughout the 75 mushroom plants of the great Canterbury Psalter, Eadwine combines these distinctive features

and he also combines those with a fifth category, which is the vine leaf tree, which is itself a combination of grapevine leaf and ivy Vineleaf.

Using this more sophisticated and nuanced approach that’s less crude, we ask:

Which features of this roasting salamander mushroom tree match Amanita?

which features match liberty cap?

which features match panaeolus?

which features match Cubensis?

which features match grape vine leaf or ivy vine leaf?

Realtime Decoding Breakthrough Interpretation Announcements During Recording Egodeath Mystery Show

Easter, April 17, 2022

I am realizing that instead of writing and then noting Decoding connections during writing lately my date timestamps of particular Decoding realizations occur while monologue voiceover recording the Egodeath Mystery Show episodes. this can be difficult to locate on demand the timestamp and I want to log that timestamp in text but the advantage the good thing is you hear me actually working out and discovering the decoding in real time

but this voice dictation weblog format created on mobile device is it kind of a compromise in between heavyweight typing at the computer vs lightweight realtime voice recording.

for example I believe last night April 15, 2022 during recording the episode is when I talked through the salamander and came to realize I interpreted the right paw touching the (non branching) cap – And also discovered during the show , that the tail is touching the trunk of the mushroom tree.

Also another example I did a very deep discussion of the Mushroom banqueting table in Canterbury, that would really be hard to type well I would have to type fewer words on the computer but I can record a voice recording this very very detailed working out and

talking through the banquet scene with the interpreting deep interpretation of each hand on the table, each hand that’s touching a bowl, who owns each bowl, and re-dosing delayed second dose

working out my argument of why the left bowl was the first dose of Cubensis and

why the artist , using our ESP , we can detect and receive the message from the artist

the artist is indicating , if we read the signs that the artist has left, to indicate that the right hand bowl of Cubensis was just finished probly two hours after the first bowl

through speaking while voice recording, I argued that we can detect that this is not the first trip of the youth, but that the artist does depict & signal indicate that this is the first trip of the maiden.

I believe that talking through with the voice of talking through the art image with the voice is more effective for deep ESP interpretation to read the indicators that the artist has left cues and indications that we are better talking through it as if there’s an image and there’s you and there’s me and I’m talking through the image with my voice teaching you of how to read the image as if I am teaching you a language a foreign language I did a massive amount of that explanation by type

Typing at the computer but it is striking the things that I noticed and I was always complaining of why was I so blind why was I so blind that I did not see this totally obvious aspect because I was too busy being stupid with the overhead the stupefying overhead of the typing burden was making me stupid but I feel like I’m smarter when I’m talking it through with my voice when there is no overhead and I can talk as quickly as I need to with zero burden and it’s all caught on voice recording and then I can slow down a little bit and do voice dictation while still recording which I have done in about two or three times now a very powerful technique

this is a new discovery I have idea development technique that combines writing and fast speaking and audio and slower speaking and reading all at the same time

it is true that I am able to work that out by typing at the computer but it is a different mode of idea development to talk that through during voice recording an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show. and to the extent that that mode of idea development is effective this means that I will inevitably make discoveries while in the midst of recording my monologue and then I see the date and time stamp to log my breakthrough connection Interpretation I mean that in the sense of the book conceptual revolutions by Paul Thagard that at this time a revision to the theory was made f

or example in my criteria proof evidence article for Brown I made a chapter in November 2020 interpreting the Roasting Salamander Image and I made a mistake that I did not notice that the salamander is touching the mushroom tree and I merely analyzed the image as if the salamander were placed in parallel that’s what I wrote was parallel and that’s not quite right / adequate. yes the shape of the snake with legs Branching is contrast against Branching Mushroom tree but also the mind after enlightenment is shown as the snake with legs is physically connected or the picture of it is connected touching the important word here is touching the snake with legs is touching the non-brand Nonbranching parts of the mushroom tree which can indicate comprehension and affirmation

unlike the incomplete Salamander at the fire which is shown definitely not touching and not comprehending and not affirming any aspect of the Mushroom tree

yes I am able to work out these things but through typing but I failed to notice it why did I failed to notice that touching in November 2020 when I was typing at the computer on a broken keyboard from too much typing and I am accusing the overhead of typing is reducing my perspicuity I propose that I have better acuity and perspicuity when I am talking in a voice recording or maybe voice

dictation then when I have the cognitive stupefying cognitive overhead of having to type on a keyboard.

I am really arguing that my intelligence is the highest with this voice dictation format and in fact

what I have done almost by accident is interesting that during the recording a voice recording during an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show,

two or three times now I have had occasion to do voice dictation to create and write a written text weblog page while literally recording the voice recording at the same time

this has the advantage of being able to see /read your thoughts in the form of text, without the overhead of typing, and with the ease of speaking, and then I capture it both as a voice recording and as voice transcription To text.

this is very powerful! it combines speaking and text creation, without any overhead (except for making corrections) without any overhead of typing or hand writing.

I do note such timestamps the time and date during recording with my voice, but it would be nice – I should use my webpage that is Intended for exactly this kind of logging

it’s a weblog page I created on computer

I have a little bit of an issue because there’s a synchronization bug losing data; if I edit a web blog post on the computer and also on mobile device, I am likely to lose data.

so for the time being

I need to create a web blog page specifically to be edited on mobile only, not on computer, so that during voice recording as I’m talking through art interpretation and I make observations and I make I make progress on interpreting the artwork and I make a discovery – for example the tail of the salamander after roasting is touching the trunk nonbranching of the tree –

I could then for example use mobile device and use voice dictation to edit that mobile specific web blog page and add a date timestamp there

and make a note at the top of my wordpress pages of “only edit this page with computer” or “only the edit this page with mobile app, else lose data”

The Mushroom-Tree of Plaincourault (Samorini 1997)

Cybermonk April 16, 2022

Site Map

Contents:

Citation & Link to Samorini’s 1997 Plaincourault Article

https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf

Home page
https://www.samorini.it

Motivation for this Page

This page will help me get clearer on the relationship and content of Samorini’s two articles, along with his Italian book (.pdf).

This page was a bit of a mystery, along with some confusion: there was some info mis-placed here about the 1998 article instead, and this URL is incoherent “Plaincourault trees”.

Anyway I did end up again printing and reading this 1997 Samorini article, around the time I created this webpage.

My 2006 Plaincourault article cites Samorini’s 1997 & 1998 articles:
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm#_Toc135889247

See Also

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini 1998)
December 20, 2020
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Moratorium on “Mushrooms”/Amanita, Eleusis, Plaincourault, Allegro, Secret

even ‘entheogens’ is corrupted

‘entheogens’ = 🍄

‘mushrooms’ = 🍄

‘magic mushrooms’ = 🍄

‘eleusis’ = 🍄

‘kykeon’ = 🍄

‘the mushroom’ = 🍄

‘psychoactive mushrooms’ = 🍄

motivation for creating this page

I was looking for checking my list from February 2021 to check what words that I said need to be moved out of the spotlight and I wasn’t quite finding a page with the words in the title that I was looking for and

I found cross-section of different phrases and words and ideas than I expected

for example “switch from Christianity in the spotlight to Christianity (or Christendom) plus Hellenism should be in the spotlight”

I am recording an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show right now , and it just occurred to me that the lone word ‘Mushroom’ is no longer usable.

the word ‘Mushrooms’ is no longer usable by me, because in the pop urban dictionary, in practice, the word ‘Mushrooms’ has become completely re-defined as a absolute synonym for Amanita.

just like if I say the phrase Italian pine, that is guaranteed miscommunication and the wrong word because you will be forced to picture a Christmas tree instead of an umbrella pine.

similarly, if I use the word Mushrooms, that is guaranteed the wrong word and miscommunication, because it will force you to picture mentally picture amanita.

mushrooms===🍄

that is the absolute extent

it is not Thomas Hatsis’s fault

he’s a confused person trying to straighten out the thinking of confused people and they are all confused

they have all confused each other

and hatshis mistakes himself or being outside of that confusion but he proves that he is embedded in that very same confusion himself because he literally thinks and in fact asserts that in this field the word Mushrooms definitely does not include Psilocybin

he told me that himself

he said psilocybin is anachronistic and therefore the word Mushrooms in this topic field literally is a synonym of the word Amanita

he is completely gone ; he’s lost

he literally explicitly asserts and declares explicitly to me (personal correspondence)

Hatsis literally is arguing explicitly and pointedly he says that the word Mushrooms is in fact an exact synonym of the Amanita and that he is not conflating the words but that they are literally exact synonyms in this field of Christian entheogen history

Hatsis denies that he’s conflating the word Mushrooms and Amanita because he explicitly denies that psilocybin has any role in Christian history and

he thinks that amanita has no role either and that the subject as Letcher says

the subject of mushrooms in Christianity only exists in the popular mind and that in the popular mind mushrooms is an exact synonym of the Amanita

therefore to the extent that hatsus speaks truth that in the popular mind Amanita is 100% synonymous with mushrooms in the Christian context, this means that by definition, per the urban dictionary, it is not possible for me to employ the word Mushrooms in an inclusive sense that includes Psilocybin, because the word mushrooms in fact means amanita according to the popular mind

therefore bizarrely,

I just realized that a major flaw in my article about criteria of proof and evidence and compelling and interpretation is that the current version of the article employs the word Mushrooms as if the word includes Psilocybin in the christian and History context

but that violates the popular definition of the word Mushrooms in this context which by definition excludes Psilocybin and exclusively means 🍄 as an exact synonym

therefore in this field I am incorrect in using the word Mushrooms in an inclusive sense

I have been using language in contradiction of the de facto common English language

I cannot simply use the word Mushrooms as if it includes Psilocybin

I either have to write Psilocybin or write the entire phrase Psilocybin Mushrooms

but I must treat the isolated word Mushrooms as an exact synonym of the word Amanita, within the context of Christian history

Books Buying List

Michael Hoffman, April 15, 2022

Contents:

  • Intro
  • See Also

Intro

I should suck it up and buy books that I’m not certain I have. I made some poor no-buy decisions.

Carl Ruck – Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets 🙄 of Eleusis https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushrooms-Carl-P-Ruck/dp/1579510302

Irvin – the Holy Mushroom – bleh i cant stomach wasson allegro baloney denial non engagement; the non-debate, the Wasson avoidance strategy, cover-up story to prop up his direct conflict of interest. An operative for the Salvation Salesmen; are we to have a good-faith debate with bad-faith actors?

Erik Davis – Led Zep IV album commentary, with 1 page on the Egodeath theory

1923 german book translated, greek myth, B&N Press, may be out of print. I totally should’ve bought this. Snap up while in hand. Nice printing. I will go to same store to look for it.

Richard Carrier’s book on Jesus from outer space. I have high hopes for this book.

Fancy deluxe printing of Graves Greek Myth.

otoh read myth sites; glancing at myth sites online has been like the Egodeath Yahoo Group: instantly overwhelming with more connections than I can handle; like rows 2 & 3 of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image comic panel, I couldn’t look at them, bc too many overwhelming connections.

almost forgot, colleague is forcing me to read Brian Muraresku – The Immortality Key. bc archaeology chemical = Evidence hunt. Proof = Spot the Entheogen Object.

See Also

Books and Citations for the Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/23/books-and-citations-for-the-egodeath-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/

Dream Richard Carrier Agrees with Me Verbatim on Amanita Madness in the Field

I dreamed that entheogen scholar Richard Carrier, I was at a house in other room overhearing him talking to another person or two about Hatsis and Letcher, and all his points exactly agreed with my points!

He mentioned articulately all the same points I’ve been making. eg he said Letcher was excusable as a pop outsider, not a solid entheogen scholar.

He seemed like a new gen cohort of Hatsis.

I felt that the field of entheogen scholarship was in good hands.

He realized exactly the situation and was calling for heavy distinction, moving forward, between Amanita vs. Psilocybin mushrooms.

He was the good aspects of sharp ahistoricity scholar Richard Carrier, cast as an astute entheogen scholar.

Fortunately he was recording all his speaking on a cassette deck, so we got it all on dream tape.

Then I started recording my same statements, but a vacuum cleaner disrupted.

Then I was meeting with church guy like by a lake, he needed an extra tape I had.

then i went with church guy to a big church room and he put on my tape playing it before the service, with me talking about amanita madness psychosis overemphasis in the state of the field, criticizing Hatsis and the state of the field.

I wondered why he put on my tape.

No one commented on the content of my recording playing before the church service.

I was heading out, not staying for the service, because my mainstream church became taken over by bunk politics.

But this group was implicitly a large gathering of my collegiate house church, which was solidly bible-focused.

in reality, my recordings of Egodeath Mystery Show were playing; I may have been hearing my own discussion.

Image-Pair Pages

I’m sort of annoyed by my failure/ delay to put some images side-by-side, when clearly, it should be crystal clear that there’s every benefit in the world of putting two images side-by-side.

therefore I should do a series of webpages that compare and contrast two images

line up the 10 best images and pair them and do exercises: discuss the common motifs that are common between these two images.

Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian)

Cybermonk April 13, 2022 – Art motif discovery announcement page

Crop by Michael Hoffman – {cut right branch} via cross-behind

Contents:

half these links only work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

The Image & Crops

Splayed Index Finger (I, non-branching Eternalism) Separate from Grouped Splayed Middle, Ring, Index (Y, branching Possibilism): It’s an IY Branching Form

[Feb. 23, 2026]

I now am confident about many aspects of his finger segments, since I have honed and refined my reading and studied many hands by various artists in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

Certainly, I read his Index finger as, “indicated as separate from the 3 fingers”.

Perfect answer for “Why is Index drawn so F’d up?”

Ans: To separate the Index finger from the 3 splayed fingers.

The Index finger is not only splayed, but a different shape. Within the genre, for literate readers, this is consistent.

  • The Index serves as I non-branching Eternalism.
  • The 3 grouped fingers (splayed, here) serve as Y branching Possibilism.

I’m confident now, that that’s the vector to read these 4 fingers from.

Right Branch Cross-Behind; Visually {cut right branch}

Crop by Michael Hoffman
“Dancing Man Branches Right Cross Under.jpg” 128 KB, 11:12 pm Jan. 28, 2025
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/
Crop by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 28, 2025

In this panel, all 3 trees’ branches under cap (= gills + veil, to depict block time non-branching) have Right branch cross-behind; visually {cut right branch}. Like Dancing Man.

Irvin’s 2008 Book The Holy Mushroom Tries to Force Blue Cap to Be Red Hue and Irvin 2009 SMC Doesn’t Correct Ruck’s Assertion that It’s Red

From The Holy Mushroom, Irvin 2008
“Salamander-MS-Bodl-602-fol-027v-zoom-capture.png” 7.4 MB (insanely high-res) [7:33 p.m. February 17, 2023] https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/

AHAHAHA Hatsis Did Totally Bust Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck for Taunting Based on WRONG Guess that Salamander Cap Is Red and White 🤡🍄
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/ahahaha-hatsis-did-totally-bust-carl-amanita-promoter-ruck-for-taunting-based-on-wrong-guess-that-salamander-cap-is-red-and-white-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%8d%84/

Consistent pattern:

  • Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom misrepresents the image as extremely red-shifted.
  • Irvin 2009 doesn’t correct Ruck in Fungus Redivivus appendix of Sacred Mushroom & The Cross when Ruck says about this image: “One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians … a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted with white

My Tight Crop (Ludicrous-Res) from Zooming at Bodleian Site

“Salamander-MS-Bodl-602-fol-027v-zoom-capture.png” 7.4 MB (insanely high-res) [7:33 p.m. February 17, 2023] https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/

todo: Delete this from server and upload compressed .jpg instead.

“Salamander-MS-Bodl-602-fol-027v-zoom-capture.png” 7.4 MB (insanely high-res) [7:33 p.m. February 17, 2023] https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/

Dancing Man you better not let me down, wasting my server space.

This is ridiculous, I might as well use Hatsis’ jpg or my png of it, probably 10% the server size, and a perfectly good crop. It’s the principle of the thing?

But I want *MY* crop!

I found Hatsis’ original PDF of his article, much better than his new formatted page, much more complete.

I haven’t found the orig/earliest date though, at Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160328234124/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf

OK, HERE is earliest Archive snapshot of his site, which already includes the article: 2016 Feb 18, = tomorrow 7 years ago (today: February 17, 2023]
2023-2016= 7 years ago)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160218214557/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf

Would-Be Historian Hatsis Disvalues His Own Articles’ Publication Dates and Their Content

I don’t mean to pressure Hatsis about his priorities, but I’m surprised and had to do a lot of unnecessary extra work to find his real article and real date and real title.

Scholars in this field have reason to criticize this strange half-removal and degradation of his article.

todo: copy to here from section:
Idea Development page 18
Section heading:
Would-Be Historian Hatsis Disvalues His Own Articles’ Publication Dates and Their Content
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Hatsis-Disvalues-Own-Articles

Date of Hatsis Article “Roasting the Salamander”

Evidence for Roasting the Salamander (Hatsis 2013) Date of Publication

Hatsis\ article actual publishing date of 2013: No Later than August 18, 2013 🎉 yay it’s good to have a more serious date than his “2017”

We Have a Date for Roasting Irvin Article: No Later than August 18, 2013 – that is my official date for the Roasting Irvin article!

oh interesting, he changed the title later! Orig title:

Original Title of Hatsis Article:
ROASTING THE SALAMANDER:
MUSHROOM CULT THEORISTS VS. CRITICAL HISTORICAL INQUIRY (<= August 18, 2013)

Findings:

  • His article was PDF with actual footnotes, not a pretty/stupid dumbed-down webpage format with awkward, nonstandard, non-portable (non-citable) “footnote” popups.
  • His article had two appendixes, both good and substantive, missing now.
  • His article was not infantilely titled Roasing Jan Irvin; it had a more serious, proper title.
  • His article is not 2017, as the dumbed-down version states (I was posting about his article years before then (in the Egodeath Yahoo Group: Dec. 24, 2015)); it’s no later than August 18, 2013. I need to cite his article, and I know that “2017” is wrong.

Why does Hatsis treat his article so carelessly, without scholarly reverence? He’s busy. 🤷‍♂️

Evidence for Roasting Irvin article actual publishing date: No Later than August 18, 2013 🎉 yay it’s good to have a more serious date than his “2017”

Interp/evidence: the earliest archive of the home page is dated August 18, 2013:

x https://web.archive.org/web/20130818041600/http://arspsychedelia.com/

That page lists the article (whole copy/paste of line):

Roasting the Salamander: Mushroom Cult Theorists Vs. Critical Historical Inquiry

that line links to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130818041600/http://arspsychedelia.com/roasting-the-salamander-mushroom-cult-theorists-vs-critical-historical-inquiry.html

When you click that line/link, goes to a pointless Abstract page of 2014:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140812131151/http://arspsychedelia.com/roasting-the-salamander-mushroom-cult-theorists-vs-critical-historical-inquiry.html

which contains a broken image link you are supposed to click told to click: you end up .. . hovering, it initially says it will go to: 2014-08-12:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140812131151/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf

you actually end up at: 2016/02/18: (Feb 18, 2016)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160218214557/http://arspsychedelia.com/uploads/3/2/1/4/3214063/roasting_the_salamander.pdf

url https://web.archive.org/web/20130818041600/http://arspsychedelia.com/

Hatsis’ PDF is SO much more complete than his truncated web article, I cannot believe it. Important arg’n from Hatsis is hidden ONLY in the PDF, not at his new domains.

I made a couple new captures from Bod lib:

My Capture of the Entire Image at Bodleian Digital Library

“Salamander-Bodleian-Library-MS-Bodl-602-fol-027v.png” 6.5 MB [7:30 p.m. February 16, 2023]

my png version of hatsis’ jpg, that I’ve been using since late 2020:

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-46.png
My main page that covers/stores this file:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/salamander-mushroom-tree-right-side-cut/

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-46.png
My main page that covers/stores this file:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/salamander-mushroom-tree-right-side-cut/

That’s my derivative, 2nd-gen .png (not .jpg) WordPress gallery copy of the image (linked to my page covering it). Got from Hatsis site’s .jpg, suspect WordPress converted to it .png. Gallery date: Nov. 14, 2020.

I uploaded the dancing man image right when I was starting my huge breakthrough applying my Christmas 2015 decoding (tent. hypoth. that awaited testing) of {right leg} in Dancing Man to successfully decode Eadwine’s leg-balancing mushroom tree (thus fully & ideally confirming/proving my 2015 hypothesis about {right leg} = eternalism-thinking).

2nd copy from my gallery, November 17, 2020: https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-64.png

Above: November 17, 2020
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-69.png

Above: November 17, 2020
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-70.png

Above: November 17, 2020 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-72.png

Above: April 13, 2022 (day of discovery of Cut Right Trunk). https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image_13deda52-0d24-4831-a23e-99b6c32904c7.img_8645.jpg

April 17, 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/salamander-balancing-man-dancing.jpg

April 17, 2022 above: https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/salamander-touching-tree.jpg

apri 17 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/salamander-and-whole-tree.jpg?w=388

apri 17 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/salamander-lifted-garment.jpg

April 17, 2022 above
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/salamander-right-foot-touching-right-cut-branch.jpg

April 24, 2022 above. https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_8685.jpg

apr 25 2022: https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_8685-1.jpg

May 6, 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8685-2.jpg

May 6, 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8811.jpg

May 9, 2022 https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8811-1.jpg

That’s it! All my crops in my WordPress Gallery.

The Image (for copy/paste, has annotation/link)

My list of Hatsis’ articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis
Hatsis’ article about the “dancing man” image:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/

Interesting note from Hatsis’ article: “I only have the black and white edition of THM.”

The Holy Mushroom, Irvin 2008

I bet the hyped-color photograph might be taken by Hatsis, in PDF, of the full page. His other images are surely evidently captured from Bod digital lib.

Hatsis’ new page says in popup (stupid!) footnote 12, “See Appendix 1 for picture of text, and full English translation.” BUT HATSIS OMITS that! not a trace other than that mentino – except at his old archived site. Let’s see if this link to the stupid popup “footnote” works:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/#:~:text=See%20Appendix%201%20for%20picture%20of%20text%2C%20and%20full%20English%20translation.
naw, some hack, doesn’t work.

Footnote 27 confirms something I’ve been unsure about, when I constructed an interesting challenge of “even if mushroom, you can’t know psycehoactive, for religious expeirencing” – well ACKSHUALLY, you can! I have! via Eadwine, handedness, non-branching, etc.

Hatsis’ long footnote 27 ends:

“Thus, even if Holy Mushroom theorists did present us with legitimate shroom art, the morsels might denote nourishment, fire kindle, or poison, and not necessarily a psychedelic trip.”

Hatsis’ image file URL:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/bodleian-fol-027v.jpg

External, upstream link to where I got the image file: (best resolution): Where did Hatsis get this color image or image file? [ans: certainly Bod. digital lib.]:

https://psychedelichistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/bodleian-fol-027v.jpg
Used in Hatsis article page:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/

Salamander Tree Has Four Mushroom Arms, Same as Plaincourault
April 29, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/salamander-tree-has-four-mushroom-arms-same-as-plaincourault/

Commentary: Discovery Announcement of {Cut Right Trunk}, April 13, 2022

keep section as-is

Voice Dictation

4:00-4:05 a.m. April 13, 2022

I just now saw something that’s not there for the first time in the Dancing Man’s msh tree:

The right major branch is a cut stump – just like Canterbury mushroom tree 71!!!

So, multiply again the confirmation & certainty factor of all my Mytheme theory’s hypotheses.

My partial decoding of the salamander image in 2016… sic; Dec 25, 2015

FOUND DATE: i decoded the {right leg} mytheme on Christmas 2015:

https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-145/#message7459

was key to my decoding of the Canterbury image in 2020, and

my Canterbury 2020 decoding was key to decoding the salamander image’s tree in 2022.

Recognizing the cut… at 5:22 a.m. I just remembered my thought-chain:

At 4:00 am, I thought “But why is there no cut branching stumps on this tree??” At 5:23, I remembered that, as I elaborated exactly what aspect of this tree I decoded today.

At 4 a.m., I decided to zoom and inspect the salamander tree to look for any broken cut branch stumps b/c there were none (I so wrongly thought), and it was bugging me, that morphology lack/deficit/ shortcoming/ omission.

Dark Library 2020 Colors:

note pink morphology key tree too
Dark Library 2020 Colors
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-130.png?w=1024

Note the pink morphology key tree too.

[8:54 a.m. February 16, 2023]: I wonder if by this time of present post, better colors were at hi-res site (no, the above is dull). Compare last night’s fresh capture’s color brightness:

“Eadwine leg balancing tree dread 2023-02-14.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [10:43 p.m. February 14, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom#

Hatsis’ Astoundingly Basic “Secular Art” False Dichotomy: Here’s God/Christ in Hatsis’ “Secular” Bestiary

Here’s how sound the would-be historian Hatsis is when putting forth the DUMB argument that the Bestiary mushroom “doesn’t count” b/c “secular” document:

Here is an image of God/Christ in Hatsis’ “secular” bestiary:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/de5abb1a-ece1-473b-88b4-53c9a46788d5/

This is an elementary argumentation f*ck-up from “medieval historian” Hatsis. AS IF there’s a hardline distinction between religious vs. esoteric vs. secular, in the Middle Ages.

Hatsis acts like he doesn’t know the FIRST THING about Genre.

Probably chalk it up to sort of political ideology: mushrooms lower scholars’ IQ into the negative.

above: religious art

below: secular art

salamanders right paw touching cap, man’s right hand on head. paw locks-in the orientation: right paw touches left branch of the tree; the right branch of tree is cut

I have never seen fit to note or mention this right side stump before. FAIL!

I didn’t note the stump, because it SEEMED MEANINGLESS, like an accidentally broken branch “stylization”

Today I have now achieved connecting right vs left leg, with L vs. R of the tree.

L vs R motifs in the tree were missing from my analysis of this image, before today.

todo: read my posting, get date from yahoo group post

but this is “secular” art, per the beginner psychedelic witch 👶🧙‍♂️

Todo: Canterbury Article: add Salamander image, pointing out the cut right branch and standing right foot

this latter aspect – without yet perceiving former – was the key to 2020 decoding of Canterbury.

its bizarre and strange how decoding works over the years weaving back-and-forth

only in 2022 I finally went back to the 2016 [sic ; xmas 2015] sal image and completed the decoding of it by asking “why isn’t there cut Branch in this image?” and I had failed to see that all the way until 2022!

so working decoding the images crossed back-and-forth between them to complete both images Decoding eventually

left tree branching, right tree non relatively branching, 4:20 am April 13 2022 noticed

Content Moved from Samorini 1997 Plaincourault Article Page

Local Enhanced Copy of Samorini Article

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini 1998)
Dec. 20, 2020
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Has color pictures I gathered, a linked TOC, and section headings, unlike Samorini article.

My page also links to his book (.pdf) that contains a later, Italian copy of the article.

Content to Organize

Today, Feb. 26, 2023, I was improving my original, 2020 Samorini article page, and I experienced the problem of keeping Samorini’s article images and paragraphs differentiated from my enhancements and color pictures and commentary.

[garbled/ I confused 1997 vs. 1998 article]

I made a confused Samo 1997 Plaincourault page April 16, 2022.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/samorini-plaincourault-mushroom-trees-article/ , during a jackpot/breakthrough period.

March 21, 2022 is the milestone date where I coined “branching-message mushroom trees” in discussion with Brown of Marcia Kupfer’s passage about “youths in trees cutting branches”.

At present [8:17 a.m. February 16, 2023], I know that the breakthrough period was around March 15-May 15, 2022, which would put this posting/page in the middle of that period.

This is my main page about the Dancing Man image.

April 13, 2022:
Salamander Mushroom Tree Right Side Cut
New, findable title:
Salamander Mushroom Tree Right Side Cut (Dancing Man; Roasting Salamander Bestiary Image)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/salamander-mushroom-tree-right-side-cut/
In that page, I added the full image from Hatsis site & prep the image for ideal annotated copy/paste.

Hatsis: my list of his articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis
Hatsis’ article:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/

Hatsis’ image file URL:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/bodleian-fol-027v.jpg

External, upstream link to where I got the image file: (best resolution): Where did Hatsis get this color image or image file?

https://psychedelichistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/bodleian-fol-027v.jpg
Used in Hatsis article page:
https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/

My derivative, 2nd-gen .png (not .jpg) WordPress gallery copy of the image (linked to my page covering it):

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-46.png
My main page that covers/stores this file:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/salamander-mushroom-tree-right-side-cut/

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-46.png
My main page that covers/stores this file:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/salamander-mushroom-tree-right-side-cut/

April 29 2022:
Salamander Tree Has Four Mushroom Arms, Same as Plaincourault
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/salamander-tree-has-four-mushroom-arms-same-as-plaincourault/

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini 1998)

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
Dec. 20, 2020
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

The above article in fact is where we first [Feb 26 2023 correction: no; third, after Gettings (per Hatsis’ research) and after Bennett (per Samorini’s 1998 article)] and then see the roasting Salamander image in black-and-white – and I added color from copied from Hatsis webpage Article.

[8:36 a.m. February 16, 2023: Samorini cites Chris Bennett in 1995 Green Gold, as the first entheogen scholar to present/publish the image. Samorini’s article is 1st place *I* saw the dancing man/ roasting salamander image, perhaps in 2004 – merely in b/w, not color.]

List of Scholars Who Treated the Bodleian Salamander Bestiary Image

Section added Feb. 26, 2023

Hatsis’ 2013 original .pdf article at Archive.org (arspsychedelia.com home page earliest snapshot), genuinely/originally titled “Roasting the Salamander”, lists as the first esoteric scholar covering this image, before Bennett: a 1987 book by Gettings:

  • Gettings 1987
  • Bennett 1995
  • Samorini 1998
  • Irvin 2008
  • Hatsis 2013
  • Cybermonk: milestone posting at the Egodeath Yahoo Group Dec. 24/25, 2015, conjecturing that {standing on right leg/foot} means relying on eternalism-thinking.
  • Cybermonk ~Nov. 2020. Confirmed {standing on right leg} = eternalism, by successfully using that hypothesis to decode Eadwine initiation image fragment uploaded by John Lash in 2008.
  • Cybermonk Spring 2022: Fully decoded the Salamander image. eg. noticed the cut right trunk and which parts of salamander touch which parts of mushroom tree.

And also toward the bottom is the side-by-side Amanita Mushroom Trees versus the psilocybin Mushroom trees.

“Eadwine leg balancing tree dread 2023-02-14.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [10:43 p.m. February 14, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom#

In Figure 20 (the table) of Samorini’s 1998 article, he includes Roasting Salamander in the Amanita column and of course Plaincourault fresco and one other in that column.

I glean that Samorini & as late as 2008, Carl Ruck still didn’t have the color copy, b/c Hatsis caught Ruck falsely (in typical Ruck fashion) stating that Dancing Man mushroom cap is red & white.

It is totally not red & white, as Hatsis points out. This is a huge WTF error on Ruck’s part. How could this even happen?

But anyway, against Samorini, I note the triangular Liberty cap.

I classify Roasting Salamander as how? I reject these two columns; I would not have arranged data this way, or proposed this breakout (regardless of whether I had the privilege of the color image of Dancing Man).

well first of all we need to give proper attention to the cut right trunk is a major feature.

Imagine two mushroom trees side-by-side with the right hand one depicted as missing.

The roasting Salamander Mushroom tree has a triangular Liberty Cap with spots like amanita, so it combines those two features

In the Canterbury Psalter, an individual Mushroom tree will combine features of four distinct types.

In the front page of Canterbury, they begin by announcing the four distinct classifications of mushrooms.

Eadwine’s “God Creates Plants” panel (fresh color-improved hi-res from hi-res site):

“Eadwine Creator of Plants 2023-02-15.png” 3.7 MB [1:11 a.m. February 15, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

“Eadwine Creator of Plants 2023-02-15.png” 3.7 MB [1:11 a.m. February 15, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

I have in ~ Nov. 2020 identified the plants which God creates in the above Eadwine panel: left to right:
Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita.
{vine-leaf tree} is a 5th Pilzbaum type in the Great Canterbury Psalter.

I used Brinckmann’s 1906 book to extract/develop the concept, to identify the motif, of {vine-leaf tree}, around Nov. 2020.

Golden Munich Psalter’s (from my Feb. 2023 [this week’s] research) “God Creates Plants” panel:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21&r=0.111,0.491,0.448,0.235,0

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21&r=0.111,0.491,0.448,0.235,0

As the top-credibility entheogen scholar, I have in Feb. 2023 identified the plants which God creates in the above Golden Psalter panel: left to right:
Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, hybrid Panaeolus/ Liberty Cap/ Cubensis/ Amanita. 😑

God creates the plants, and he creates four of them:

In the Great Canterbury Psalter, Eadwine deliberately re-combines these distinct four types, and 5) also he includes vine leave trees, {vine}, meaning non-branching per eternalism experiencing in the psilocybin loose cognitive state.

The mysterious fantastical leaf shape it is meant to be read as a hybrid of Ivy leaf and grapeleaf, representing the general concept of {vine} = non-branching.

Todo

  • incorp content moved from Samo 1997 Plaincourault article page.
  • [8:47 a.m. February 16, 2023] – added key words to page title. Added headings/ page structure, fresh capture of Eadwine’s leg-balancing mushroom tree.

See Also

AHAHAHA Hatsis Did Totally Bust Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck for Taunting Based on WRONG Guess that Salamander Cap Is Red and White 🤡🍄
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/ahahaha-hatsis-did-totally-bust-carl-amanita-promoter-ruck-for-taunting-based-on-wrong-guess-that-salamander-cap-is-red-and-white-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%8d%84/

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
November 16, 2020
Section heading:
The Fire-Transformed Salamander-Serpent and the Two Legs
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#DTOC-The-Fire-Transformed-Salamander-Serpent-and-the-Two-Legs

Gallery of Mushrooms in Christian Art
December 13, 2020
Section heading:
Salamander
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Salamander

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
December 20, 2020
Section heading:
Figure 17 – Salamander in Bodleian Bestiary
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-17

Salamander Tree Has Four Mushroom Arms, Same as Plaincourault
April 29, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/salamander-tree-has-four-mushroom-arms-same-as-plaincourault/