Category: Flagship Articles

Gallery of Mushrooms in Christian Art

Michael Hoffman, December 13, 2020
For Great Canterbury Psalter, see later crops, after library brightened: https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/

Crop by Michael Hoffman

Site Map

Contents:

    Limitations of this page as of Dec. 7, 2024

    Another Large Shipment of High Medieval Mushrooms Incoming: Golden Munich Psalter

    Crop by Michael Hoffman

    Scope of the Images on This Page

    • Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
    • Liberty Cap mushrooms
    • Amanita muscaria mushrooms
    • mushrooms in Christian art
    • Christianity mushrooms
    • Christ Amanita muscaria
    • Christ Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
    • Christ Liberty Cap mushrooms
    • Christ mushrooms
    • Jesus mushrooms
    • angel mushrooms

    I wish this page to have “all known” images, but that’s impossible by orders of magnitude.

    That would be a massive ongoing project, including photographing countless books and articles; cropping; uploading; & tagging.

    I’m going to run out of space on this server soon. I uploaded all 25 images from Samorini’s article today, and I sure don’t have time to compress the image files, as well as correctly tag them.

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Jesus+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=psilocybin

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christ+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=psilocybe

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christian+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+cap

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christianity+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+religious+art

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushrooms+in+religious+art

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom%20esotericism

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eden+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eve+mushroom

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christianity

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christian

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christ

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=psychedelic+christian

    John Rush

    Y Y Y – The Mystic ‘Y’

    From the John Rush archive.

    See
    The Mystic Y
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/the-mystic-y/

    Image processing by Cybermonk. [7:34 p.m. February 9, 2023]
    Official source site (washed out pale colors): https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/182/manifest
    This nice coloring is from John Rush site which stretches the image vertically too.

    Dec. 7, 2024 status: John Rush’s gallery and https://clinicalanthropology.com website is down (an update of the DVD of blurry images that came with the 2011 first edition of Rush’s book).

    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/10.jpg
    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-one/
    “Plate 1:5 –Vienna, Austria – Moses Before the Burning Bush, Domenico Fetti, Oil on Canvas, 1613 CE We see God as  the burning bush and he holds one of the symbols for the “bush” in his left hand. In the bottom frame, the hand of God comes through the cloud (cap), while the red material around his wrist is the annulus, and the white hand and wrist are the stalk of the mushroom. Notice the plants to the right of Moses, the mushroom shapes in his alb and stole, including the celestial erection.” – John Rush

    Mystic Y’s, identified by Michael Hoffman.

    hybrid Italian Pine/ Parasol of Victory on the right. The one “cap” on the right clearly represents a Parasol of Victory, while the other cap clearly represents an Italian Pine. It doesn’t matter anyway, since per Wasson, Samorini, and Panofsky, artists are idiots who don’t know what they’re drawing; they just stupidly follow templates that got messed up in the course of their inept recopying, so that they ended up by accident looking like mushrooms, in all cases. This is why 100% of mushrooms in Christian art are to be dismissed. I have so many quotes explaining that artists who draw mushroom trees are uncomprehending dolts, I’m going to start a WordPress page.

    Copy of the above caption text:

    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/10.jpg
    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-one/
    “Plate 1:5 –Vienna, Austria – Moses Before the Burning Bush, Domenico Fetti, Oil on Canvas, 1613 CE We see God as  the burning bush and he holds one of the symbols for the “bush” in his left hand. In the bottom frame, the hand of God comes through the cloud (cap), while the red material around his wrist is the annulus, and the white hand and wrist are the stalk of the mushroom. Notice the plants to the right of Moses, the mushroom shapes in his alb and stole, including the celestial erection.” – John Rush

    Mystic Y’s, identified by Michael Hoffman.

    hybrid Italian Pine/ Parasol of Victory on the right. The one “cap” on the right clearly represents a Parasol of Victory, while the other cap clearly represents an Italian Pine.

    It doesn’t matter anyway, since per Wasson, Samorini, and Panofsky, artists are idiots who don’t know what they’re drawing; they just stupidly follow templates that got messed up in the course of their inept recopying, so that they ended up by accident looking like mushrooms, in all cases.

    This is why 100% of mushrooms in Christian art are to be dismissed.

    I have so many quotes explaining that artists who draw mushroom trees are uncomprehending dolts, I’m going to start a WordPress page:
    https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/

    Article: “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)

    Better page/ collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    Article title:
    “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art
    Gli “alberi-fungo” nell’arte cristiana
    Author: Giorgio Samorini
    Journal issue: Eleusis, n.s., 1:87-108, 1998
    https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam-alberifungo-1998.pdf

    My commentary/reading version of the article:
    “Mushroom Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    Samorini Figure 1

    Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    copied from elsewhere on the present page

    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555

    Samorini Figure 2

    Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    Samorini Figure 3

    Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    Esoteric Y branching.
    1. Caduceus = branching vs. non-branching experiential mental worldmodels
    2. Caduceus = male ruler snake & female ruler snake, frozen in rock

    Y = caduceus = non-branching lower, basic “branching” Y shape, “branching possibility or non-branching monopossibility” concept, 2 heimarmene snakes, the local female ruler snake and the male veiled thought-source revealed as frozen in rock all future kingly control-thoughts preexisting, {king frozen into a rock statue, king tied by serpents to a rock bench for eternity, king frozen into the rock world}.
    Y = the branching vs. non-branching models/ experiential states.
    Y = caduceus w/ male ruler snake & female ruler snake. rock-frozen pair of ruler snakes.
    the local female control-thought receiver/receptacle
    the normally hidden male control-thought inserter/injector, along a snake rail frozen in rock, projected from every point in time.

    Samorini Figure 4

    Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

    Page:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Subsection:
    Italian Umbrella Pines
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497557

    Samorini Figure 5

    todo: find color version

    Samorini Figure 6

    Samorini Figure 7

    https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bardo-Museum-Roman-Mosaics-Artefacts-Tunis/G0000w8HVZlhLSB8/C0000r2uLJJo9_s0
    Cropped & added by Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death

    Samorini Figure 8

    Samorini Figure 9

    Samorini Figure 10

    Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux

    Section copied from lower in the present page, for clearer image than in Samorini article.

    The Holy Grail Finds the Fruit Defendu and the Flesh of the Gods

    https://media.paperblog.fr/i/583/5834996/saint-graal-retrouve-fruit-defendu-chair-dieu-L-90ITbm.jpeg
    https://www.paperblog.fr/5834996/le-saint-graal-retrouve-le-fruit-defendu-et-la-chair-des-dieux/

    Samorini Figure 11

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=panaeolus
    Michael Wood
    proof that mushroom caps have branches under them, as accurately literally depicted in Canterbury Psalter.  Panaeolus semiovatus
    Webpage:
    California Fungi—Panaeolus semiovatus
    http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Panaeolus_semiovatus.html
    Fred Stevens http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Panaeolus_semiovatus.html
    proof that mushroom caps have branches underneath the canopy cap
    todo: add this and above, to Proof article or Criteria article

    Flip through the hi-res photos at page http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Panaeolus_semiovatus.html for branches under caps like Canterbury Psalter.

    Samorini Figure 12

    Plate 8 from Brinckmann’s book that was censored from Panofsky’s letter multiple times by Pope Wasson
    Brinckmann’s book, Plate 8
    ivy-vine leaves in proximity with mushroom caps
    My WordPress page:
    Brinckmann, Mushroom Trees, & Asymmetrical Branching
    Book at archive.org:
    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8AgwAAAAYAAJ/page/n77/mode/2up

    Samorini Figure 13

    Samorini Figure 14

    copied from elsewhere in this page; find “donkey”
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/psychedelic-gospels-book/

    Samorini Figure 15

    Samorini Figure 16

    Samorini Figure 17

    Folio 027v (Bodleian Library, Medieval Bestiary)
    Analysis: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#tftssa
    copied from elsewhere in this “Gallery of Mushrooms in Christian Art” WordPress page

    Samorini Figure 18

    Samorini Figure 19

    This image is probably reversed.

    The following two images are dup’d from elsewhere in the present page:

    Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church
    Panel 4, Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation. St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1015 (photo of Julie M. Brown)
    Citation: Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3, 2; 10.1556/2054.2019.019
    https://aponr.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/bernward-doors/
    https://i2.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8459/8058928524_d813efa36e.jpg
    they got pic from flickr

    Samorini Figure 20

    This layout is EXCELLENT work by Samorini, bravo; literally side-by-side coverage of two distinct families — the opposite of the single-plant fallacy.
    The only thing better, would be 3-column: Cubensis; Liberty Cap; Amanita.
    We have to put AMANITA LAST, to correct the severe imbalance of coverage in the first phase of entheogen scholarship from say 1952-2009 (from Panofsky’s letter against the mycologists in 1952; to Irvin’s 3 books in 2009).
    The 3rd on left (Salamander) fits shape of Liberty Cap lower right — b/c hybrid combination of Amanita/ Cubensis/ Liberty Cap.
    2009-1952= 57 years of Amanita Madness imbalance among entheogen scholars.
    — Michael Hoffman

    Samorini Figure 21

    Samorini Figure 22

    Samorini Figure 23

    Samorini Figure 24

    Samorini Figure 25

    Canterbury Psalter

    See Site Map: https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Great-Canterbury-Psalter

    For Great Canterbury Psalter, see later-than-2020 crops, after library brightened: https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/

    Canterbury Psalter Mushroom Inventory
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/

    Photo of mushroom specimen, with branches on underside of cap, formed by the universal veil.
    Photo: Michael Wood. California Fungi—Panaeolus semiovatus
    http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Panaeolus_semiovatus.html
    Folio 134 Detail
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom
    Folio 11 – 12 Images

    Selected images are broken out below.

    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Left
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom#

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+christ

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+psalter

    Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Right
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

    I read the above as: Panaeolina, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death, [8:40 p.m. December 13, 2020]

    http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/photos/large/Panaeolina_foenisecii(fs-07).jpg
    Folio 11 Detail: Row 2 Left
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Middle
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Right
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    Folio 11, Row 4 Middle
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
    Folio 12 Top – Two Mushroom Trees
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f12.item.zoom
    Folio 12 Row 3 of 4 – Mushroom Ram Caught in Mushroom Thicket
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f12.item.zoom
    Folio 13 – Burning Bush
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f13.item.zoom
    Folio 15 – Devil, Combined Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom

    Pyschedelic Christianity : A Scholarly Debate on the Holy Mushroom Theory
    [sic 1st word]
    YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian, 1:07:15 —
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4037s
    Hatsis incorrectly claims it’s from Paris Psalter.

    In the video, Hatsis incorrectly claims that this image is from a different psalter, the “Edwin-Paris Psalter”.

    The Paris Psalter links below don’t show the image, but the Canterbury Psalter site shows the image:
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Psalter

    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10515446x/f1.item.zoom
    hi-res Zoom of Folio 1 of Paris Psalter

    I proved that the above mushroom shapes represent Psilocybe deliberately used for religious experiencing:

    1. The “Hanging-over-God’s-sword” mushroom-tree image by the same team is either meaningless, or represents trained, expert, peak-state use of Psilocybe as I proved.
    2. The same team painted all these mushroom images in this work, the Canterbury Psalter.
    3. Therefore all 65-70 mushroom plants illustrated by this team in this Canterbury Psalter, including the three mushroom trees in the above image, represent the use of Psilocybe to induce religious experiencing.

    The vine-leaf trees which are coupled with these mushroom trees, by this team of illustrators, also indicate the routine, trained, efficient use of Psilocybe, to reveal non-branching of possibilities, destroying egoic possibilism-thinking.

    The Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader, depicts not puzzlement over “the shadow” like today’s braggart hubristic Psilocybin therapists (Muraresku), but the opposite: the image provably depicts a Psilocybe expert-level direct engagement with the {serpentine dragon monster}, and reconciling with eternalism; learning how to deal with the pre-existence of control-thoughts, which kills, disproves, and effectively disempowers egoic control agency.

    Folio 15 – Leper
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom
    Folio 16 – Italian Pine (with Bird Nests)
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f16.item.zoom
    Folio 20 – Hanging from Italian Pine by Arm, Water Source
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f20.item.zoom
    Folio 20 Italian Pine – Hi-Res Zoom of Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy of One of the Italian Pines a.k.a. “Umbrella Pines” (Just to Clarify) a.k.a. “Parasols of Victory” for Those Really Astute Scholars
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f20.item.zoom
    Folio 22 – Several Italian Pines, & Some Parasols of Victory as Well
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f22.item.zoom

    Folio 22: Detail of Italian Pine #2 of 10. Or Parasol of Victory #2 of 10. Let the experts battle this dispute out. But DEFINITELY NOT mushrooms, Cubensis, Liberty Caps.
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f22.item.zoom
    Folio 22 Middle – 5 Italian Pines, 0 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f22.item.zoom
    Folio 22 Right – 0 Italian Pines, 5 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f22.item.zoom
    Crop by Cybermonk, https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-97.png?w=812 – Dec. 2020, not March 2021, therefore DARK; not the library’s corrected palette. Click image to see improved colors.
    Exercise for the Reader: Identify this Object:
    Some experts say it’s an Italian Pine.
    Other experts have definitively identified it as a Parasol of Victory.
    Which of these top experts is correct?
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f22.item.zoom
    Folio 25 – Absalom
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f25.item.zoom
    Folio 29
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f29.item.zoom
    Folio 32
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f32.item.zoom
    Folio 34
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f34.item.zoom
    Folio 38
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f38.item.zoom
    Folio 40
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f40.item.zoom
    Folio 49
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom

    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Section: Canterbury Psaltery Showing Cluster of Mushroom Fruiting-Bodies
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497563

    From the Canterbury Psaltery, early 12th C.  It appears in the book:
    Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space
    Marc Lachieze-Rey & Jean-Pierre Luminet (2001), p. 178.
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521800404

    twofold, basic Y branching, from upper left

    Folio 49 Left – Parasols of Victory
    Psilocybe cubensis pair, Christian art
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom
    Folio 49 Right – Detail of Italian Pine (a Scroll Is Above It)

    tree shrub cluster, from upper right

    Psilocybe cubensis cluster, Liberty Cap mushrooms in cap, Christian art
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom
    Folio 49 Middle – Gavel
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom
    Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting

    Lifted Garment & Mushroom Folds in Christian & Greek Art, Indicating the Ecstatic Holy Spirit Altered State
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/lifted-garment-mushroom-folds-in-christian-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-holy-spirit-altered-state/

    Dec 13 2020 9:17 a.m. — check John Rush book re: garment lifting.

    I propose that this theme of Christian art with garment lifted to the right, and looking back and up to the right, is equivalent to Greek art with billowing cloth.

    Experiment to run; hypothesis: in Greek & Christian art, the billowing cloth indicating the the Holy Spirit altered state is usually to the left; to the figure’s right side.

    Two angels with garment lifted to their right, with vaguely mushroom-shaped fold. A recurring theme in this artist’s work in the Canterbury Psalter — a given explanandum.
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom
    Folio 51 – Left Branching, Right Non-Branching Italian Pines – or Is It Parasols of Victory?? Only the Experts Know for Sure, But Definitely Not Mushrooms
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f51.item.zoom
    Folio 51 Hi-Res Detail Zoom
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f51.item.zoom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

    https://innervisions.nl/wp-content/themes/BLANK-Theme/images/big/zauberpilze-sporen-psilocybe-cubensis-amazonian.jpg
    Folio 53 detail – Branching Left, Debranched Right
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f53.item.zoom
    Folio 55 Detail
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f55.item.zoom
    Folio 78 Detail – Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f78.item.zoom
    Folio 98 – Italian Pine – Detail
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f98.item.zoom
    Folio 145 Detail
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f145.item.zoom

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22liberty+cap%22

    https://innervisions.nl/wp-content/themes/BLANK-Theme/images/big/zauberpilze-sporen-psilocybe-cubensis-amazonian.jpg
    Folio 177 – Right-hand Debranched
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f177.item.zoom
    Folio 193 Detail
    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f193.item.zoom

    Plaincourault Amanita Tree Fresco

    (in Fact an Italian Pine – if You Are the Top, Expert Art Historian and Are Daft, or Are a Banker for the Pope)

    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Bory’s Plaincourault Lookalike Painting

    Bory’s mid-20th Century painting that’s a copy (imitation, re-creation) of the original fresco.

    Images I Uploaded to the Web in 2002

    Images I Discovered, Re-Photographed, and Uploaded to the Web in 2002

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Eusebius

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Book:
    Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts
    http://amzn.com/0691037515
    Thomas Mathews, Roger Wieck, June 1994
    “For over a thousand years the pre-eminent expression of Armenian culture was the illuminated manuscript―above all, the illustrated Gospel Book. Brilliantly painted and often bound in silver and decorated with jewels, these volumes constitute the principal source of information on the history, religion, language, and art of Armenia. … Contributors to this volume include….”

    http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0691037515

    Page 44 shows a mushroom tree in the lower left.

    Information from the book: “Fig. 23 – Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Eusebius, by the First Painter, 1300-07. Los Angeles, University of California, University Research Library, Special Collections, Armenian MS 1, p. 4 (cat. 36).”

    Scan of a photocopy of the black and white rendering in the book:

    Below, page 45 shows a mushroom tree in the lower right:

    Information from the book: “Fig. 24 – Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Carpianos, by the First Painter, 1300-07. Los Angeles, University of California, University Research Library, Special Collections, Armenian MS 1, p. 5 (cat. 36).”

    Scan of a photocopy of the black and white rendering in the book:

    Matenadaran Erevan – Baptism

    Christian Art: Erevan, Matenadaran: ‘Baptism’, mid-11th century.  – Several Mushroom Trees

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Book:
    Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts
    Thomas Mathews, Roger Wieck
    June 1994

    Page 47 has two illustrations — one has 3 mushroom trees:

    Information from the book: “Fig. 27 Baptism, mid-11th century. Erevan, Matenadaran 7736, fol. 14v.”

    On Page 47, an image shows 2 mushroom trees:

    Information from the book: “Fig. 28 Baptism, mid-11th century. Erevan, Matenadaran 7736, fol. 17.”

    Page 93 has the illustration just in black and white, of the illustration used for the cover of Bible Review, October 2001, the giant Amanita-cap Last Supper table shown at my page:
    http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —
    “Last Supper around an Amanita-cap table”. The mushroom is hardly perceivable in this merely black-and-white rendering — color is essential in cases such as these.

    I also have a color photocopy of an Eden cycle showing the tree as generally the same type as a mushroom tree: once the ‘mushroom tree’ idea was standardized, it was sometimes expressed very subtly: not recognizable by a cap shape, but rather, by the grouping of all the leaves in some shape at the top, and with two cut-off arms — branch-stubs, leaving a bare or near-bare trunk that, as a result, indicates a mushroom stem. One color picture in this book shows birds nesting in such a loosely portrayed single-top mushroom-tree that doesn’t have cap-shaped top, but more of just a circle-top.

    Water-from-Rock Ossuary (Cubensis) – Peter’s Water Miracle, from a Sarcophagus

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Ossuary showing the vertical “stream of water” (stem) flowing from the “rock” (cap), with guys grabbing and chewing at the stem. A strange way to portray a rock with water flowing from it.

    This scan is from the book, p. 87 —

    The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art
    http://amzn.com/B01JXOZ7DS
    Thomas F. Mathews (same as other book)

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691009392

    Montecassino Illustration Showing Psilocybe and Mandrake

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Mushroom-shaped and mandrake-shaped Eden trees, with mushroom-shaped grape clusters on the ground in between.  Found at http://pharmacratic-inquisition.com/nontesters/pharmacratic/ – “Adam and Eve with serpent-entwined Psilocybe mushroom (caduceus). Italy [Abbey of Montecassino]; circa 1072 – British Library”.  Mandrake is chemically similar to Henbane and Belladonna.  Mandrake drawings traditionally show a human body instead of the tree trunk shown here.

    Saint Eustace Window at Chartres with Many Cubensis Mushroom Trees

    Full Saint Eustace Window

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eustace+window

    275  “Legend of St. Eustace (first part, window at Chartres), p. 276 second part, 277 third part

    Conversion of Placidas, Saint Eustace Window, Chartres Cathedral
    Conversion of Placidas, Saint Eustace Window. Chartres Cathedral, France, early 12th century (photo by Julie M. Brown)
    Citation: Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3, 2; 10.1556/2054.2019.019
    “the Conversion of Placidas to Saint Eustace. Flanked by sacred mushrooms, he kneels and prays before the crucifix, which appears between the antlers of a stag standing regally before him.”
    http://www.soniahalliday.com/category-view3.php?pri=FR837-8-26.jpg
    http://www.soniahalliday.com/images/FR837-8-26.jpg
    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AFCW043AGA010/viewer
    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AFCW043AGA010/viewer
    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AFCW043AGA010/viewer

    The below b/w images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Emile Mâle (Dora Nussey, tr.), The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century (Icon Editions Series).  1913 title of the initial English translation of the 3rd French edition: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century: A Study in Medieval Iconography and Its Sources of Inspiration, http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0064300323 (Amazon shows the full text but not the images).

    Page 3 shows a Chartres stained-glass window with several mushroom trees — including a plain and starkly clear literal representation of a psilocybin-shaped mushroom, shown below.  This is a small portion of a very large window with many clear mushroom depictions.  The book shows a sharp, black and white close-up of this portion of the window, which is representative of the other parts of the window.

    The book presents black-and-white renderings of stained-glass windows.

    Information from the book: “Fig. 1.– The Sky, Water, and Trees. From the Legend of St. Eustace. Window at Chartres.”

    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AFCW043AGA010/viewer

    iirc, i scanned these b/w images and uploaded them (to egodeath.com), around 2005.

    Gideon and the Fleece – Window at Laon Showing Multiple Mushrooms

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Christian Mushroom Trees
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

    Page 16 of the same book shows a stained-glass window with a couple fairly good mushroom trees, below.

    Information from the book: “Fig. 8.– Gideon and the Fleece (window at Laon) (From Florival and Midoux, by permission of M. de Florival).

    This is a scan of the black-and-white rendering in the book:

    My Entheogen Picture Finds, Around 2002

    Print images that I discovered/recognized; scanned or photographed; and uploaded to the Web around 2002.

    Virgin Mary Wearing an Amanita-cap Cap

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Entheogen Picture Finds
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

    Announced December 25, 2003

    From Economist magazine, Dec 20 2003-Jan 2 2004, p. 29. This icon painting shows the mother of God (Queen of Heaven) holding the Christ child. Her headdress is an Amanita cap cap.

    This is the cover of the issue:

    On page 29 this icon appears:

    From digital camera:

    From scanner:

    A close-up of Mary’s cap reveals it to be a literal Amanita cap:

    From digital camera:

    From scanner:

    For comparison, below is a portion of a photo of a dried orange-gold (rather than red) species of Amanita, similar shape though from a different angle. In the icon, a fresh Amanita is represented, so the dots (veil remnants) are raised more.

    Last Supper Around an Amanita-cap Table

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Entheogen Picture Finds
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

    Announced November 10, 2001

    From digital camera:

    From scanner:

    For comparison, here is a similar icon with a mushroom-cap shaped table, but one without any clear entheogenic allusions, though it does look like the common orange-brown color of Amanita cap with off-white spots:

    Bible Review current issue, October 2001. Focus: Last Supper.

    http://www.biblereview.org/bro01/brcover.html

    When looking at the magazine cover at the newsstand, though Clark Heinrich has taught me to actively look for Amanita in iconography (http://www.promind.com/bk_stf.htm, http://www.entheomedia.org), I thought that this Eucharist scene on the cover was noteworthy because each disciple had a loaf/ plain tan cap at his place setting. Fortunately I bought the issue, and was embarrassed to plainly and immediately see that the tan loaves are off-white veil-remnant spots on the wrapped-around red edge of the table.

    The table surface is golden honeycomb, a simile for honey-smelling, golden Amanita — to the taste and smell, this honeycomb is a literal representation; to the eyes, you must mentally replace the honeycomb lines by straight lines to form the usual Amanita-underside sun-halo.

    I was able to recognize this pattern because I’ve been looking for not only Amanita-underside rays in Christian halos, but also for a rim, often red, with dots, representing the underturned top of the cap.

    Other mushroom shape elements: the blue awning forms a thick stipe. Since the iconographically stylized table top has “poor” perspective, it is a semicircle which, combined with the blue awning, forms a perfect mushroom shape. The “poorly” drawn red container in the middle of the table forms the Holy Grail shape of the mature upturned Amanita (Heinrich, _Strange Fruit_ page 85 plate 35; Heinrich plate 5 page 54, Issue 1, Entheos journal).

    In the Passover Seder meal, the significance of the food served during the Seder must be explained during the meal.

    [see correction of this paragraph below] After Dan Merkur’s book _Mystery of Manna_, this would mean explaining the story of Moses poisoning the leavening in Egypt with a toxic strain of ergot (the “yeast of malice”), and forbidding the Jews to use the leavening, to walk away with booty and redemption from slavery while the Egyptians were incapacitated with ergot poisoning.

    Correction: The ergot Exodus hypothesis was described in detail and published by Clark Heinrich. Dan Merkur’s book _The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible_, 2000, is packed with excellent ideas about entheogens (specifically, ergot) and the Bible, but I don’t see the ergot Exodus hypothesis there.

    _Strange Fruit_, Clark Heinrich, 1994/1995, pp. 78-79 — “Could Moses have poisoned the Egyptians’ bread supply with ergot?” This book has some coverage of ergot as well as Amanita, and considers how to integrate the two possibilities.

    After Clark Heinrich’s book _Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods: The Hidden Truth_, this would mean explaining that Christ is consubstantial with Amanita, which causes a dramatic ego-death and rebirth experience when ingested after fasting. This rebirth experience amounts to transcendence of, and emancipation from, enslavement in the spacetime cosmos.

    Jonathan Klawans, the author of the article “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder” (Bible Review, October 2001, page 24), puzzles that the requirement to explain the meaning of the Seder was not introduced until 70 CE — “But the requirement may not have even been in place in the time of Jesus. … Gamaliel … lived … after the temple was destroyed in 70 C.E. … then Jesus’ symbolic explanation of the bread and wine cannot be connected with [the Seder meal explanation requirements].”

    This objection is easily solved by assuming that the details of the life story of the Jesus figure were not invented until 70 C.E., or later, and back-projected to around 35 C.E., per Earl Doherty’s book _The Jesus Puzzle_ and Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy’s book _The Jesus Mysteries_. The details of the Jesus story were worked out over hundreds of years and mythically, we have every reason to read the Last Supper’s Eucharist explanation as a Seder type of explanation, simply because the story of the exodus and the story of the passion are largely isomorphic mythic and mystic allegories for psychoactives leading to ego-death and the emancipation of the spirit.

    Mark Lion Halo with White Dots on Red Edge

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Entheogen Picture Finds
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

    Announced April 22, 2002

    Book:
    Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World
    http://amzn.com/0521595576
    Peter Brown, 1995

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521595576

    Zoom showing just the cover art:

    Check out the very distinct white dots against red background on this Amanita halo edge in this iconographic painting on the cover of this book. I think the Lion is Mark’s symbol. This is the first time I’ve seen a lion with an Amanita halo.

    Blessed Sacrament Monstrance

    The below images are from my webpage:
    Entheogen Picture Finds
    Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
    http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

    Announced December 17, 2002

    Image from the cover of:

    Book: Visits to the Blessed Sacrament

    Alphonsus Liguori

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895556677

    2001

    To isolate the Amanita cap, it would be good to use a circular crop tool on this picture. I don’t know the origin of the red color in this image.

    In Alan Watts’ book Myth and Ritual in Christianity, page 198, he portrays such figures — “Monstrance for benediction and exposition of the sacrament” — as representing the spine and world-tree, with the heart of the sun, or the sun door, at the top. I’m continuing to build the case, or interpretive framework, that entheogens were much more prominent and widely used in Christendom.

    Painted Roof in St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim (Amanita Cap)

    also called Michaeliskirche, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany 

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3922807331

    Embroidered Jesus Christ Crucifix (Amanita Cap)

    Embroidered Jesus Christ Crucifix (Amanita Cap)
    http://www.renegadebroadcasting.com/truth-hertz-mushroom-cult-madness-11-7-16/
    someone on the Web added the white dots

    Stained Glass Window: Jesus as Red Tree Canopy

    Halo – Golden Mushroom Gills

    https://feralhouse.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mushroom-xmas4-460×210.jpg

    Transfiguration of Jesus, Christ Column, Saint Michael’s Church

    https://psychedelictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jesus-psychedelic-mushroom-1024×682.jpg
    Transfiguration of Jesus, Christ Column, 1020, Saint Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany. Photo by Julie M. Brown
    https://psychedelictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jesus-psychedelic-mushroom-1024×682.jpg
    The Secret Psychedelic Mushroom Initiations of Early Christianity: Interview with Jerry Brown
    https://psychedelictimes.com/the-secret-psychedelic-mushroom-initiations-of-early-christianity-interview-with-jerry-brown/

    Bronze Statue of St. George Slaying the Dragon, Amanita at Base

    St. George psychedelic mushroom
    Bronze statue of St. George slaying the dragon, with mushrooms resembling Amanita muscaria at the base. Prague Castle, 1373. Photo by Julie M. Brown.
    https://psychedelictimes.com/the-secret-psychedelic-mushroom-initiations-of-early-christianity-interview-with-jerry-brown/

    Jesus with Amanitas in Garment Folds

    https://hannitycommunity.s3.amazonaws.com/original/2X/a/a01d4ac0e25558ddfd6c56ef0974418456825671.jpg
    https://community.hannity.com/t/jesus-and-psychadelics/674
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/29/2e/28292ed3739ae65e521286950a7fd108.jpg
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/489133209510411782/

    Christ with Liberty Caps on Rocks

    image
    https://community.hannity.com/t/jesus-and-psychadelics/674
    Jesus and Psychadelics
    also at:
    https://www.quora.com/Was-Jesus-a-psychedelic-mushroom
    https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-40962faf32233a0d71c22f63885d56c6-c

    Christ Holding Lazarus with Amanita-Egg Cross-Hatching and Red Halo

    https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/90fd9-jesus_mushroom.jpg
    http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/09/jesus-christ-magic-mushroom-part-1.html
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsgJtTNjEE
    vid: Mushrooms In Christianity – seems to have L/R reversed – remembering eternalism, changes instead to forgetting eternalism, and falling back into possibilism-thinking

    Stained Glass Window – Red-Cap Amanita-Cubensis Mushroom Tree Debranched on Right

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3RsgJtTNjEE/maxresdefault.jpg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsgJtTNjEE
    vid: Mushrooms In Christianity

    Door – Tax Collector in Mushroom Tree Listening to Jesus, Debranched Right Hand

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsgJtTNjEE
    vid: Mushrooms In Christianity

    Wood Door – Elija’s Ascent

    xti_9518c-elijah.jpg

    Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church

    Panel 4, Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation. St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1015 (photo of Julie M. Brown)
    Citation: Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3, 2; 10.1556/2054.2019.019
    https://aponr.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/bernward-doors/
    https://i2.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8459/8058928524_d813efa36e.jpg
    they got pic from flickr

    Jesus Cubensis Stained-Glass Window

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsgJtTNjEE
    vid: Mushrooms In Christianity

    Crucifixion Between Two Mushroom Trees Debranched

    Donkey Apotheosis – Brown’s Psychedelic Gospels Book

    Detail from Jesus’s Entry into Jerusalem, Church of St. Martin de Vicq, France, early 12th century (Photo by Julie M. Brown)
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/psychedelic-gospels-book/
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/09.3-St.-Martin.jpg
    Samorini’s article caption
    zoom + Detail from Jesus’s Entry into Jerusalem, Church of St. Martin de Vicq, France, early 12th century (Photo by Julie M. Brown)
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/psychedelic-gospels-book/
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/09.3-St.-Martin.jpg
    zoom + zoom + Detail from Jesus’s Entry into Jerusalem, Church of St. Martin de Vicq, France, early 12th century (Photo by Julie M. Brown)
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/psychedelic-gospels-book/
    https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/09.3-St.-Martin.jpg

    Notre Dame de Laon France XIII, Stained Glass, Red-cap Mushroom Plants

    https://www.fnord23.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Notre-Dame-de-Laon-France-XIII-c.jpg
    Article: The Psychedelic Origin of Christianity
    https://www.fnord23.com/the-psychedelic-origin-of-christianity/

    Eve Eden Tree with Six Red-and-White Caps

    http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2015/05/psych.png
    https://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/30/a-no-nonsense-guide-to-preventing-a-bad-trip-psychedelic-harm-reduction-101/

    All Saints’ Church – Stained-Glass Windows

    https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/all-saints-church/
    https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/all-saints-church/
    https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/all-saints-church/

    Mushroom at Beast Entrance of Bascillica St. Vincent in Spain

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uuKobUJlKz4/VS6No7dA0hI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/_UGP-Mjeygk/s1600/mushroom%2Bencoded%2Bat%2Bthe%2Beast%2Bentrance%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bbascillica%2Bst%2Bvincent%2Bin%2Bspain.jpg

    Mushrooms in Robe Hems at Last Supper – Brown

    Amanita Muscaria and Psilocybin in Early Christian Art: Interview with Jerry Brown
    https://psychedelictimes.com/amanita-muscaria-and-psilocybin-in-early-christian-art-interview-with-jerry-brown/
    https://psychedelictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mushroom-robes.jpg

    The River of Life, Douce Apocalypse, John Led to Christ through Field of Mushrooms

    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mca3_33_a.jpg
    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-three/
    http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mca3_33_a.jpg
    “Plate 3:33a – The River of Life, Douce Apocalypse, 1265-1270 CE Note the mushroom-trees and the River of Life flowing from  Christ, a possible borrowing from the Egyptian tradition. Christ holds his determinative, the Sacrificial Lamb, in the hokeypokey stance, while John is being led to Christ (probably by Michael) through the field of mushrooms.”

    Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux

    The Holy Grail Finds the Fruit Defendu and the Flesh of the Gods

    https://media.paperblog.fr/i/583/5834996/saint-graal-retrouve-fruit-defendu-chair-dieu-L-90ITbm.jpeg
    https://www.paperblog.fr/5834996/le-saint-graal-retrouve-le-fruit-defendu-et-la-chair-des-dieux/

    Saint Graal Retrouve

    https://www.paperblog.fr/5834996/le-saint-graal-retrouve-le-fruit-defendu-et-la-chair-des-dieux/

    Lot’s Wife Turned to Pillar of Salt (Cubensis Plant)

    IMG_6520_CanterburyCath1180.PNG. Lot’s wife turned to pillar of salt.
    iirc, I found this in a book, photographed it, and uploaded this image, around 2003. While in a university art library looking for such images.

    Window of Charlemagne with Amanita

    Mushrooms Encoded in Christian Art
    Carl de Borhegyi
    http://mushroomsinchristianart.blogspot.com/
    https://www.mushroomstone.com/Window%20of%20Charlesmange%20with%20Amanita%20muscaria%20mushroom.JPG

    Mosaic of Red Mushrooms, Basilica of Aquileia

    Mosaic of red mushrooms, found in the Christian Basilica of Aquileia in northern Italy, dating to before 330 AD.
    404 – http://www.entheomedia.org/eden4.htm
    Mosaic of red mushrooms, found in the Christian Basilica of Aquileia in northern Italy. The section of the mosaic floor which displays these mushrooms is found in the oratory of the northern hall, which is the oldest part of the basilica, dating to before 330 AD.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Aquileia_mushrooms.jpg

    Gold and Red Vestments Chalice

    Jesus, Santa, Mithra and the Magic Mushroom
    https://betweentwopines.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/jesus-santa-mithra-and-the-magic-mushroom/
    https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/images/atlant348.jpg

    Chartres – Fortuna

    https://psychedelicwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/chartres-cathedral-this-is-not-a-mushroom-300×281.jpg
    https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/
    The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
    Thomas Hatsis

    Alchemy King Amanita Cap – Effluents of Deity

    Ruck & Hoffman
    The Effluents of Deity: Alchemy and Psychoactive Sacraments in Medieval and Renaissance Art
    http://amzn.com/161163041X

    Moral Bestiaries

    Moral Bestiaries are for teaching Christian morality, and are produced by illuminated manuscript shops.

    Salamander

    Folio 027v (Bodleian Library, Medieval Bestiary)
    Analysis: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#tftssa

    Squirrel

    Pyschedelic[sic] Christianity : A Scholarly Debate on the Holy Mushroom Theory
    YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian
    January 5, 2018. Hatsis vs. Brown
    1:08:14
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4094s
    He says the mushroom trees aren’t mushrooms, it’s just a style.

    He doesn’t say why the artists prefer using that particular style, of mushroom-styled trees.

    Why does their style incline in the direction of mushroom trees, instead of some other stylized direction?

    Why does the mushroom shape dominate in the art of Christendom?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4094s

    Unicorn

    probably ivy leaf coming from cut-off branch. Ivy is non-branching.

    Manticore

    https://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/regional-impact-medieval-text-image-exploring-representations-anti-semitism-english-northern-french-medieval-bestiaries/
    https://i0.wp.com/www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Manticore-from-the-Salisbury-Bestiary.jpg?fit=640%2C634
    Branching analysis: all the branching comes from one point in the tree.

    Manticore 2

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3163796248/
    https://live.staticflickr.com/3115/3163796248_4b8b3be74e_b.jpg

    Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art (Camilla & Gosso)

    Book:
    Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art
    Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo. Evidenze nell’arte sacra
    Gilberto Camilla & Fulvio Gosso, 2007
    128 pages, illustrated
    EAN: 9788886345569
    http://amzn.com/8886345569

    https://www.ibs.it/allucinogeni-cristianesimo-evidenze-nell-arte-libro-gilberto-camilla-fulvio-gosso/e/9788886345569#a__author-ranking

    Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art, Vol. 2 (Camilla & Gosso)

    Book:
    Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art, Vol. 2
    Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo. Evidenze nell’arte sacra, Vol. 2
    Gilberto Camilla & Fulvio Gosso, 2016
    112 pages, illustrated
    EAN: 9788897206286
    http://amzn.com/889720628X

    https://www.ibs.it/allucinogeni-cristianesimo-evidenze-nell-arte-libro-fulvio-gosso-gilberto-camilla/e/9788897206286

    Cyberdisciple wrote: From the description of book 2, it seems that book 1 focuses on Amanita, while book 2 focuses on liberty caps:

    “Se nel primo volume l’Amanita muscaria ha avuto una attenzione particolare, in questo gli autori individuano anche la presenza, in alcune rappresentazioni proposte, della Psilocybe semilanceata.”

    If in the first volume, Amanita muscaria had special attention, in this volume the authors identify also the presence, in some proposed representations, of Psilocybe semilanceata.

    psilo-cybe semi-lanceata
    smooth-head semi-spear
    Liberty Caps

    “In this second volume of “Hallucinogens and Christianity” Gilberto Camilla and Fulvio Gosso, they continue their research on the fungal presence in Christian sacred art and propose some of their further “discoveries”.

    “If in the first volume the Amanita muscaria has received particular attention, in this the authors also identify the presence, in some proposed representations, of the semi-spear Psilocybe.

    “In both works the evidence of the presence of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Christian iconography becomes numerous and it seems obvious that they are only a small part of those existing or existed.

    “It can therefore be assumed that such a phenomenon, geographically and historically vast and widespread, cannot only be limited to religious representations.

    “Apart from the American “school”, some German authors and a few Italian friends who have expressed interest in the topics covered in these volumes, in the academic field silence reigns supreme.”

    Samuel Anointing David as a King

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    1150s.Psalter BL Cott.Nero C.IV. folio 7 Codex made in the Abbey of St.Swithin in Winchester
    1150s.Psalter.Manuscript (Cott. Nero C. IV) British Library, London.This codex, made in the Abbey of St.Swithin in Winchester, contains psalms in Latin and French. The miniature on folio 7 depicts a scene with the shepherd David (above), and Samuel anointing David as a king (below). MINIATURIST, English (active 1150s in Winchester)
    Saved by Vika Bershadskaya
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/79/97/1f79979a9a8726c6e6eb99ae0ca484e9.png

    Entheos Issue 1 Gallery

    Entheos Issues 1-4, Mark Hoffman
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-The-Journal-of-Psychedelic-Spirituality —

    Article in Issue 1 (Summer 2001):
    Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise
    Hoffman, Ruck & Staples 
    Online gallery of ancillary illustrations
    38 pages, 33 illustrations, 47 ancillary online illustrations cued to text.

    • todo: Add to the present page, more images from the above online gallery’s other 4 pages:
    • 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-47 – some are linked below. Too many to link.

    https://entheomedia.net/eden1.htm

    [13] Eve Given to Adam, Bernward Doors, Dom, Hildesheim.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/13tree.jpg
    [13] (Detail)
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/13det.jpg
    [16] Commissioning of the Twelve and the Healing of the Leper, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/16commish.jpg
    [16] (Detail)
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/14det.jpg
    [18] Zachaeus, the Tax-Collector, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/18Zach.jpg
    [19] Cursing of the Fig Tree, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim..
    https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm
    https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/19fig.jpg
    [24]  Jacob’s vision, Munich psalter, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden3.htm
    [25]  Infant Moses afloat in a basket, Munich Psalter.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden3.htm
    [26] Jacob wrestling with the angel, Munich Psalter.
    https://entheomedia.net/eden3.htm
    [6]
     Exultet roll, Monte Cassino monastery, dated 1075.
    [10:32 p.m. December 28, 2020] – I identify the right as a mandrake-tree — Michael Hoffman – compare other Montecass image I’ve covered eg grape baskets.
    copied from elsewhere on the present page

    Italy [Abbey of Montecassino]; circa 1072 – British Library

    [7]
     St. Matthew enthroned, Canterbury Codex Aureus, c. 750 (Stockholm).
    [8]
     Compare St. John enthroned, Canterbury Codex Aureus.
    [9]
     Codex Aureus and mushroom details, below
    [10]
     Gospel Book of Otto III: The Sermon on the Mount, Reichenau, 1010. Folio 34, Verso, CLM. 4453, Staatsbibliothek, Munich.

    Todo

    / end of todo

    Acknowledgments

    Cyberdisciple provided the link to the Samorini article.

    Cyberdisciple provided leads for the Camilla & Gosso books.

    See Also

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    Self-Control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death (1997 core theory spec)

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    The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence

    Michael Hoffman, January 2, 1997

    Contents:

    The Virtual Ego and the Illusory Aspect of its Control Power

    The ego exists, but in a way that is more limited and complex than is usually felt. The Enlightenment conceived of the ego as an autonomous self-steering entity, rather than as a slave or puppet of gods or Fate. The cognitive structures of the semi-illusory ego must be preserved even while discovering that its thoughts and actions originate from the underlying plane, rather than originating from the ego. The ego exists virtually, or in certain limited aspects, the naive concept of ego is distorted, accepting the projected ego image as being as real as the egoic cognitive structures.

    The ego-entity exists as a real set of patterns and dynamics, but the ego is not as solid, continuous, or powerful as it seems. The ego is both a set of real patterns, but also a projected, constructed image. In a way, the perceived ego exists, and in a way, it does not. The mind usually projects and constructs a fairly solid and simple image of oneself. Seeing the illusory aspects of this mental representation and feeling the absence of the accustomed sense of personal solidity can be experienced as death, as literal cessation of personal existence, because the naive mind strongly identifies with the projected image and the sense. Mental processing is structured with the conscious ego-representation as the center of control and experiencing. This representation of the ego is a dynamic set of mental constructs. This deceivingly tangible representation of the self or ego is only a part of the ego.

    In a dissociative cognitive state, the usual cognitive structures constituting the ego cease, and the projection of the ego image also ceases. Oneself still exists in many ways, such as a body, a brain, a mind, possessions, and a personal past. One genuine aspect of oneself has temporarily ceased to firmly exist: the egoic cognitive processing, which is largely but not entirely suspended. The projection of the self-image is also partly suspended. Insofar as the mind confuses the projected self-image with that part of the self which is genuine, that projected self never existed, other than a perceptual illusion, and so could not cease to exist. If the ego is defined strictly as the natural assumption that the mentally projected self-representation is literally oneself, then it can be said that “the ego is only an illusion”. But such a narrowed definition of “ego” raises the question of what to call the real cognitive structures that reliably project that illusion. The ego is more than just an illusion. It’s a large, complex, and dynamic set of mental processes, of which the deceivingly tangible mental representation is only one part.

    The will exerts control power, but this power is virtual rather than literal. There is some control-power, but the normal perception of this power is distorted. The sense of having control power is taken too literally and too simply. Ego structures are refined after enlightenment, not eliminated. Physics cannot provide a legitimate dwelling place for the ego entity, because the ego is largely illusory. Delusion or enlightenment are collective: first there is a uniform interegoic control field, deluded about control agency, then the rational, cybernetics explanation of enlightenment is discovered and communicated. There is a shocking feeling of helplessness upon realizing the insubstantiality of the cross-time ego.

    Block-Universe Determinism and Autonomous Control

    The time axis combines with the 3 dimensions of space to form a 4-dimensional block universe, or crystalline ground of being. Even if the time axis is warped, relative, or branching, and there are more than 3 dimensions of space, one can coherently and usefully frame the experienced world as an ultimately unchanging, 4-dimensional spacetime block. Conceiving of the world as a fixed spacetime block leads to the astonishing potential of experiencing ego death, because the logic of ego’s control power is coherently disrupted. If one consistently adopts the mental model of the block universe, the usual sense of exerting the power of choice disappears, and the logic of personal self-determination cancels itself out.

    Conventional determinism overemphasizes predictability in principle and perfect seamlessness of the chain of cause and effect, and cannot tolerate the slightest bit of true randomness or disjoint in the chain of cause and effect. More relevant to discovering ego-transcendence is that each point on any timeline is predetermined, and the future permanently exists, elsewhere in the spacetime block. The hypothesis about the eternally unbroken causal chain, in which the past eventually controls the future, is excessive, delicate, and irrelevant to higher experience. Even if there is some true randomness in the world, the future remains predetermined, because of the illusory nature of the flow of time, and the inability to the ego-entity to be an ultimate origin of its own thoughts and choices.

    Proper Fatalism emphasizes the fixity of the personal future actions, without committing to an unbroken chain of causality. Fatalism overemphasizes final outcomes. All the intermediate personal actions are fated, not just the outcome.

    The mind is virtually free: it is free on the practical, visible level, while predetermined on the underlying, hidden level. The underlying block universe is at a higher level in the hierarchy of control than the practically free actions that take place within the stream of personal actions within the block universe. The universe forcefully controls the stream of personal control-actions, then the stream of control actions exerts its secondary power. One can postulate a god — a creator and controller — at an even higher level in the control hierarchy, one would then hope that it’s a compassionate god pulling the puppet-strings of the world and its creatures.

    The choice of thoughts and actions is practically free, but thoughts are forced into the mind from the underlying plane, the mind is a slave to the free acts of will injected by the underlying block universe. Time, change, flexibility, variability, and movement are all fixed at all points along the time axis or branching axes. The stream of personal control-actions such as decision-making is frozen and predetermined at each point in time. The stream of consciousness and control can be seen as a set of distinct time-slices, with the events at each particular time-slice permanently fixed.

    The world casts forth the entire set of time-slices of an object or stream of actions all at once, actions at two adjacent time-slices are isolated, and slightly different. The later action is not predetermined simply because it is caused by the first, but because both actions have always been permanently pre-set, the entire set of actions came into existence all at once. . The similarity of each time-slice of a stream of actions produces the sense of continuity of the ego-entity across time and the sense of smooth motion through time. Self-control is unable to forcefully reach across time to control one’s thoughts, will, and actions in the future.

    The Instability of Self-Control Cybernetics, the Control Vortex, and Self-Cancelling Control

    Personal self-control forms a cybernetic control loop. The ego-entity is an essentially illusory homunculus, a self-steering helmsman dwelling inside the mind’s self-control loop. Self-control controls itself indirectly. Alcoholism and compulsions demonstrate the inability of self-control to reach across time. Metaprogramming one’s mental biocomputer promises power, but leads to the problem of controlling the source of one’s thoughts and will.

    Control agents are embodied as self-control tunnels or streams, floating in locked, stationary spacetime. Schizophrenia and mystic rapture both present the sense of being remotely monitored and controlled by a dominant observer-and-controller entity who is in a position of power, one becomes a cybernetic puppet and the perceived locus of control shifts up to a separate control agent who resides on a higher level in the control hierarchy.

    The Pre-set Stream of Injected Thoughts, Puppethood, and the Inability to Control Future Actions

    When the mind models the ego-entity and its control coherently and vividly, the ego dies as a helmsman, the sense of being a self-governing entity profoundly changes. The mind has a latent potential to discover the self-control vortex, the strange-attractor vortex of self-control violation. There is a sudden homeostatic state shift out of the egoic mental mode. This vortex is the control singularity, at which point self-control perfectly cancels itself out. One discovers the possibility of the self in the near future deliberately violating one’s long-term intentions and wreaking the worst havoc against oneself.

    Such a demonstration would be intellectually and morally satisfying in several ways, though disastrous by definition. A demonstration of absolute self-violation could disprove the ability for self-control or self-restraint to forcefully reach across time, prove the impotence of moral self-restraint, and demonstrate the independence and isolation of each time-slice in the stream of self-control Responsible moral agency is manifestly invalid upon perceiving the predetermined character of the thinking that is injected into the mind by the spacetime block at each time-slice. A demonstration of self-control violation would also be of interest because it would concord with understanding that the ego entity who exerts control power is largely an illusory projection of the mind.

    When the mind grasps its potential for control instability, the thinker trembles from the cybernetic instability and is shakingly disrupted and thrown off balance. The ego’s accustomed virtual power is cancelled by overly vivid awareness of how one’s thoughts and actions could very well be pre-set by the underlying block universe. Virtual moral agency collapses when the illusory aspect of the ego’s power is vividly understood. In pursuit of truth and self-understanding, it is tempting to make a serious sacrifice of one’s deepest values in order to reflect one’s consciousness of one’s true nature. Given the inherent insecurity of self-control over time, due to the inability to reach across time and due to the fact that one’s future actions are already defined at all future points in time, one might begin to urgently wish to secure self-determination to forcefully extend self-control over one’s near-future actions.

    It feels like a trap, when fully confronting that there is logically no way, no possible move, that would forcefully extend self-control to restrain one’s near-future actions. Stable self-control inherently requires distorted thinking, which obscures one’s nature as a product of the completely predetermined block universe. Self-control can be stabilized by looking away from the radical potentials of one’s near-future actions in the stream of control, by stopping the apprehension of them. One inherently cannot trust one’s own near-future actions, which are beyond one’s present control. Dissociative cognition combined with advanced rationality leads to the conscious experience of one’s permanent situation of being a puppet of fate, a complete slave of the block universe.

    Self-Distrust, Self-Violation of Personal Control, and Needing a Higher-Level Controller

    Upon discovering the perfectly coherent model of self-control extending along a frozen stream in the block universe, one finds oneself in a submissive position, and it’s effective action to pray, to turn one’s attention away from the emptiness of the power at one’s core, and regain the deluded but stable sense of controlling one’s thoughts and actions.

    In the midst of the self-control singularity, self-control cancels itself out and one is tempted to perform a sacrificial self-violation to prove this astonishing potential and disprove the moral agency upon which life depends. It would be ecstatic horror to make a high self-sacrifice of one’s integrity as a moral agent, and perfectly violate one’s personal wishes, to disprove moral culpability and reflect one’s grasp of the astonishing truth about the nature of moral agency, self-control, and self-determination.

    At the peak of grasping transcendent knowledge and fully confronting one’s inability to restrain one’s actions in the near future, one can completely lose trust in oneself, but it’s a cybernetically effective move to project a trustworthy entity to a higher level in the control hierarchy and place faith in that entity instead of in oneself, that is, let the entity take one’s cybernetic helm of self-control. The stability-producing prayer (a committed assumption and transmitted communication) for this purpose is that the creator of the block universe created it such that one’s future stream of thoughts and actions are not disastrous to one’s integrity of selfhood as a cross-time controller with values and investments. This assumes a personal god, because the universe itself is not easily conceived of as a controlling agent able to hear and respond.

    Moral Agency, Theology, Levels of Control, and Delusion

    There is a level of control beyond the ego that gives rise to the ego’s control actions, which are not self-originating. Personal self-control is secondary-level control. The ego effectively and apparently is the only origin of its actions, but this isolated autonomy of the ego’s power is illusory. The ego’s power is an epiphenomenon, a mere appearance that arises as a result of the more ultimate driving factor beyond or outside the ego. The primary level of control is the underlying ground of being, or block universe, which gives rise to the ego’s entire stream of thoughts and control actions.

    One hypothetical example of a control hierarchy is God, fate, the lower gods, the block universe, creatures, and finally puppets, fictional characters, virtual agents, and cybernetic devices. The same logic that implies that creatures are predetermined seems to implies that the hypothetical God would be predetermined as well, unless God were unfathomably different. Christianity is largely about maintaining the delusion of our freedom, to make us individual moral agents that we cannot logically be. Even the deterministic variants of Christianity insist on moral agency and moral freedom.

    If a god is at the higher level of control, outside of time, he is in a position to prophecy. Prophecy is the revealing of what fate or a creator has already created at a relatively “future” point in time.

    The Creator, like a programmer, can disclaim direct responsibility for the control-actions of his creatures, but he remains indirectly and ultimately responsible. When a computer artist creates a fractal image, the artist does not directly define every bit of the fractal, but defines general equations and thus indirectly creates every detail. So has the hypothetical Creator caused our every action, while denying direct responsibility. Insofar as the Creator avoids direct manipulation of the details of our lives, he can give Satan freedom, the freedom which is sin and delusion. The Creator’s omnipotence permits only a practical, virtual type of moral freedom.

    The coil of a snake represents the cybernetic self-control loop inside the mind. Sin is our sense of self-origination of our thoughts and actions, and our experience of ourselves as autonomous agents who are potential moral subjects. The egoic mind is arranged with the ego-entity at the center of personal experiencing and action, and assumes that the ego is the primary origin of its actions. This ego-entity at the center includes the deceiving, projected representation of the ego-entity. The transcendent mind is not so firmly self-centered, but acknowledges the priority of the underlying block universe, which controls or gives rise to the ego’s stream of control actions. Moral freedom is legitimate as an experience but not as a logical proposition. Enlightenment was artificially delayed and withheld, buying some time for humanity to live as seemingly autonomous agents.

    Mental Construct Binding and the Mind-Revealing Dissociative State

    Mental constructs are highly dynamic association matrixes, held together by some degree of binding intensity. Deep re-indexing of mental construct groups (such as concepts of “time” and “change” together) enables a wholesale mental model shift or inversion to another mode. Normally, for convenience, the mind uses linguistic and conceptual associations in a rigid, rutted, and repetitive way, debates are permanent standoffs, because the same cliched assumptions are carelessly adhered to every time words are used. Mastery of semantics enables one to release one’s assumptions about every single word in an argument, not just a key term in isolation.

    The dissociative cognitive state enables deep-level symbolic re-indexing of mental constructs. There are multiple triggers for the dissociative cognitive state, including psychedelics, meditation, schizophrenia, sensory deprivation, hyperventilation, temporal-lobe epilepsy, UFO abduction, and near-death experiences. The most powerful trigger for long sessions of cognitive dissociation is lysergic acid, a key technology. Psychoactive substances should be of great interest to theorists in many fields. The absence of such psychoactive keys preserves delusion, to preserve the sense of freedom and autonomous agency. The New Testament morally permits ingesting anything (Mark 7:6, Matthew 15:7). Acid-rock mysticism vividly alludes to and resonates with ego death and the dissociative cognition that leads up to it.

    Meta-perception and Solipsistic Perception

    Pattern-perception becomes highly flexible and innovative in the dissociative cognitive state. Blatant perceptual distortion in the dissociative state directly presents questions of epistemology and the philosophy of perception. All that is presented to awareness is mental constructs, which point to alleged referent objects which might or might not exist, or might exist in a way other than the mental constructs representing them, which might be distorted.

    Meta-perception is the perception of the layer of mental constructs presented to awareness. In the dissociative state, the world blatantly appears as mental representations which are themselves frozen into the block universe, extension of objects and the controlling ego-entity across time appears to be distributed along a fixed and pre-set stream of time-slices. The vantage point of awareness can be raised, or stepped back a level, to observe mental construct processing and perception itself. Time is no longer perceived as a flow, but as a frozen expanse.

    The Egoic and Transcendent Mental Models and Advanced Rationality

    There is a standard egoic mental model of the ego-entity and the world, and a standard transcendent mental model. Changing from the egoic to the transcendent mental model requires a synchronized shift of the meaning of entire groups of concepts. The egoic conceptual system thrives in the world for a limited time, awaiting the right technologies to convert it to the transcendent model. The Enlightenment leads to enlightenment, the full development of reason and ego necessarily leads to ego-transcendent knowledge. The rational systematization of enlightenment propagates much faster than the non-rational, experiential approach. The combination of advanced reason and cognitive dissociation necessarily leads to the discovery of the rational and specific theory of ego-transcendent knowledge. Higher knowledge requires serious development of reason, not just dissociative cognition.

    Many people have reported encountering these phenomena. The peak experience of ego death can be rationally explained, whether or not its logic, perceptions, and hypotheses are valid. When these ideas are grasped vividly, they fit together to dramatically transform one’s mental model of personal control-agency, disrupting the feeling and logic of being an autonomous, controlling entity who wields power while moving through time.

    About the Article

    I posted this theory-specification article, The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, at the Principia Cybernetica website on Jan 2, 1997, as pseudonym Mark Hofmann, as an Annotation on the following article:
    Philosophy, Introduction
    http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PHILOSI.html
    Title of the annotation:
    Self-control cybernetics, dissociative cognition, & mystic ego death
    http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html
    Final section (The Egoic and Transcendent Mental Models and Advanced Rationality):
    http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.0.html – automatically shows the date “Jan 2, 1997”. My summary specification is slightly too long for an Annotation at that website.

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    Copy of the Article at Egodeath.com

    Introduction to the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
    http://egodeath.com/intro.htm

    — Michael Hoffman, 2023

    About the Egodeath Theory, Including the Cybernetic Theory & the Mytheme Theory

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    Michael Hoffman, November 29, 2020

    Contents:

    Shortest Summary of the Egodeath Theory of Religious Mythology

    Religious myth describes transformation of the mental worldmodel from Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism to Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism.

    Diagram from Stanford

    The “tree model” on the left, needs to show a tree of possibilities branching.

    The dashed line segment on the right needs to be solid, because the mind’s future path of control-thoughts already exists — a shocking affront that directly counters egoic control power! 

    Seeing and experiencing this perspective on future control-thoughts, shaped like a snake, removes the presumed power of steering the helm, out from the hands of the presumed egoic control agent. 

    No One at the Bridge – Acid-Rock Lyrics Decoded

    Before I cracked the code, decoding religious mythology elements successfully (which gained traction around 2002), my warm-up exercise (which gained traction around 1991-1992) was to explain acid-rock lyrics that describe altered-state experiencing.

    These are extremely relevant, highly descriptive poetic lyrics, which describe the peak experiencing of the altered state, by use of analogies.  This is the song “No One at the Bridge”, lyrics by Neil Peart.

    Lyrics are shown here for academic analysis and commentary.

    “The sky is pitching violently [perceptual distortion in the altered state: visual undulation]
    Drawn by shrieking winds [the egoic control system doesn’t propel its thoughts, in the altered state; thoughts are driven forward by mystic {wind} without egoic control]
    Seaspray blurs my vision [perceptual distortion in the altered state: blurring of vision]
    The waves roll by so fast [perceptual distortion in the altered state: visual undulation]
    Save my ship of freedom [the experience of freewill-premised control power vanishes, but is desperately needed, as control increasingly seizes and is cancelled in the loss of the experience of having personal control; a “deus ex machina”, artificial transcendent rescue from outside the entire egoic control system and alien to it, is required]
    I’m lashed helpless to the mast [the altered-state experience of non-control; suspension of the familiar experience of wielding control-power; an allusion to the myth of Ulysses]

    Remembering when first I held [when first discovered the altered state]
    The wheel in my own hands [the illusion of egoic control power, supported in the ordinary state but not in the altered state]
    I took the helm so eagerly [naively expected to be able to control the experience]
    And sailed for distant lands
    But now the sea’s too heavy
    And I just… I just don’t understand
    Why must my crew desert me? [vanishing of the accustomed experience & perspective of being a control agent wielding personal control power]
    When I need… I need a guiding hand… [the power of the egoic control hand vanishes]

    Call out for direction
    And there’s no one there to steer [the egoic control agent illusion vanishes in the altered state]
    Shout out for salvation [a good time-tested idea; to rescue viable control and return control-stability, the mind has to learn to consciously place trust its own uncontrollable source of control thoughts, which was secretly always the case anyway]
    But there’s no one there to hear [not that God doesn’t respond to prayer; the meaning here is “there’s no egoic control agent here”]
    Cry out supplication [pleading, begging for control-stability earnestly & humbly]
    For the maelstrom is near [cybernetic control seizure and nullity, cancellation]
    Scream out desperation [continuing to rely on the premise or presumption of egoic control power, is futile and leads to increasing panic and seizure and instability until changing the mental worldmodel from Possibilism to Eternalism per Mystery Religion initiation]But no one cares to hear [not that there’s no God or rescuer; that would contradict all mystic tradition and experience; the emphasis here has to be on “no one”; no egoic control agent.  The survival-protecting sense of caring and values and self-preservation is suspended and transcended, in the altered state] 

    — song No One at the Bridge, album Caress of Steel, Rush / Neil Peart, 1975

    My Version 1 analysis, at the Egodeath site:
    http://www.egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22921

    Odysseus & Polyphemus – {one-eye}, {rock sinks king’s ship}

    Your {ship} of self-control will be {capsized} (personal control power / self-control power rendered non-viable) by the block-universe {rock} thrown by the man who has {one eye, Cyclops}, the eye of altered-state awareness that is able to observe the workings of the self-control system.

    https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Polyphemus/polyphemus.html

    {sealed the entrance, so that none would escape} – {rock cave} = mind in ASC seeing block universe in the {cave} of the altered-state mind; the egoic {kubernetes steersman helmsman} (egoic personal control agency) cannot survive seeing the block universe; Naive-Possibilism thinking {dies} in the {rock cave}, cannot come out; Persephone is abducted into Hades’ rock underworld where illusory egos die and do not return.

    The illusory ego, I, = pseudo-autonomous egoic control power that was supposedly steering among/ within a supposedly open tree of branching future possibilities.

    Your {ship} of self-control will be {capsized} (personal control power / self-control power rendered non-viable) by the block-universe {rock} thrown by the man who has {one eye, Cyclops}, the eye of altered-state awareness that is able to observe the workings of the self-control system.

    Eternalism, Block Universe & Worldlines

    From my main article (2006):
    The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
    http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

    BlockUnivWorldlineSnake_HiRes

    The above diagram shows Eternalism (the block universe) containing frozen, pre-existing worldlines of control-thoughts. 

    In religious mythology, the mytheme {rock} describes, by analogy, experiencing, sensing, and perceiving the block universe.

    In religious mythology, the mythemes {serpent (snake), dragon as a threatening serpent, ivy, and vine} describe, by analogy, experiencing, sensing, and perceiving the stream of pre-existing, unchangeable personal control-thoughts lying ahead in the near-future.

    The above diagram shows three people on the left, and two people on the right.

    The three worldlines with a dot in the middle represent {the elect}, those who are predestined to be initiated; mystically “saved” and “regenerated”, who become aware that their future stream of control-thoughts is already cast in stone and pre-existing with no ability to change (that is, control) their future thoughts.

    Being {initiated} exposing the mind to the {fire} of the altered state repeatedly, changing the mental worldmodel of time and control to change from Possibilism to Eternalism.

    The accompanying text for the above diagram, from my main article:

    “Time can be envisioned as a space-like dimension, forming a block universe that includes personal worldline threads that are frozen and unchanging (Rucker 1984), and are shaped like snakes. Each snake or thread represents a person’s entire subjective stream of thoughts during their entire life. Analytic philosophy and space-time physics have been brought together to construct a tenseless, static model of time (Oaklander & Smith 1994). This perspective is characteristic of altered-state perception.”

    Slightly Longer Summary of the Egodeath Theory of Religious Mythology

    Copied from my Summary page at WordPress:

    Religious mythology describes visionary plants loosening the mind, giving the experience of one’s stream of thoughts across time as a {snake}-shaped worldline embedded in a frozen, {rock}-like block universe.

    Repeated exposure to the {fire and flames} of the altered state transforms the mind away from the initial Possibilism model in the ordinary state of consciousness.

    The altered state experience produces the experiencing of the Physics spacetime model called Eternalism.   

    In the altered state, which produces the Eternalism experience, near-future thoughts are seen as pre-existing, giving an experience of non-control and dependence on a hidden thought-source.

    The mental model of time and control transforms from a branching-possibilities model, like a {king steering in a tree}, to a non-branching model, like a {snake embedded in a rock}. 

    The transformation of the mental worldmodel of control, possibility, and time happens when the {evil king drinks wine at a banquet}; when the initiate who initially thinks in terms of Naive-Possibilism-thinking ingests entheogens.

    The {evil king sends the hero on a quest to obtain the treasure guarded by the dragon}; personal control thinking based on the illusory initial Possibilism-thinking entices the mind to enter the altered state in order to gain Transcendent Knowledge, gnosis, but the mind must conform to and battle against personal control chaos and self-cancellation, self-battling, self-threatening to explore the vulnerability {wound & birth passage} that’s built-into the self-control system. 

    Conforming to the {guarding dragon} (one’s frozen worldline in its threatening aspect, seeing which removes the feeling of having control) requires dying to illusion, {abandoning} and {burning-away} egoic control thinking. 

    The {hero} (the altered-state explorer) {brings back} the {treasure} of gnosis from the {far-off land} of the altered state (loose cognitive association binding).

    The {treasure} is {guarded by the dragon or angel of death}; the price of conforming to the {guarding dragon}, to pass through the gate and become able to {steal, snatch} the {forbidden treasure}, is ego death, {sacrificing child}-suited thinking.

    The Two Major Sides of the Egodeath Theory, with the Big Breakthroughs for Each Side

    The Core theory – The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, 1988

    A single Core theory breakthrough, 1988:
    o  Lead-up: 1985-March 1987 pretty conventional thinking-style
    o  April 1987 big, innovative idea-devmt shift
    o  Then the ramp-up from April 1987 to Jan 1988
    o  Culminating in The Big One theory-discovery (no myth yet!) when the Core theory came to me from on high.

    The Myth & History theory; the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism Theory of Religious Mythology & Esoteric Initiation

    I’m still working on a good label for this side of the Egodeath theory.  Keep it simple: at least for the short version:

    the Mytheme theory

    long version maybe:

    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of religious mythology

    or

    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of mythemes

    thus you’d say in long form:

    The Egodeath theory includes the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes.

    vs.

    the Cybernetic theory

    Coming up with a good name for this side of the Egodeath theory will be easier after I work-out the present, ongoing Nov 2020 big breakthrough.

    A series of several Mytheme & Esoteric theory breakthroughs, like:

    2002 (eg maximal entheogen theory of religion; recognized all myth = entheogen analogies;

    2006 main article a breakthrough of summarization/communication;

    2011 prelude/prep for branching/tree/non-branching/snake set-up;

    esp. Nov 2013 super-huge tree vs snake Complete Decoding;

    Nov 2020 – still assessing/playing-out! per below break-out.

    —–

    I have been developing the Egodeath theory since 1985.  The two halves or “legs” of the Egodeath theory, which co-strengthen & co-develop & co-corroborate each other re: theory-confirmation: 1-word labels, in my mind:

    Nice Labels at Last, for the Two Halves of the Egodeath Theory: the Egodeath theory = the Cybernetic Theory + the Mytheme Theory

    the Core theory = specifically, the Cybernetic theory

    the Periphery theory = specifically, the Mytheme theory

    Such short labels ALWAYS require a context.  Just bc requires a context, doesn’t means its not good, as short label.

    That’s pretty good labeling! 

    Just saying “the Core theory” makes sense when the context is well-established, and you are discussing the relation between the Phase 1 theory & 2.

    Core is true; but vague.  Trying to officially name the Phase 1 theory “the Core theory” would be like calling the 2nd, Mytheme portion of the Egodeath theory “the Periphery theory”. 

    Such labelling (the Core|Periphery theory) tells something about the relation between the two Theory-halves, but not identifying either half. 

    It’s an asymmetrical, inconsistent way of labelling.

    the Egodeath theory = the Core theory + the Mytheme theory. <– asymmetrical labelling; inconsistent: the first word is a comparison-word, but the 2nd is a direct-descriptor.

    Decoding a mytheme means mapping that mytheme to the Core theory.  That’s the simplified was of putting it.

    Saying the above with more detail:

    Decoding a mytheme completely, requires mapping that mytheme to other mythemes (as synonyms, antonyms, & duo-/complement-pairs), and then mapping all those re-networked mythemes, to the referent domain.

    The referent domain that mythemes map to, is: all things that are perceived/experientially perceived in altered state, which includes both:
    1) things that are perceived in the OSC, now re-perceived; plus,
    2) things that were hidden in the OSC, that are now revealed, in the ASC.

    o  The first half of the Egodeath theory is the Core theory (no mythemes, no alt-history): the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, discovered in big breakthrough January 1988, published 1997

    o  The first half of the Egodeath theory is the Mytheme theory — the “Mythemes & Alt-History” component, got momentum around 2001, main article mapping the Mytheme-theory to the Core-theory 2006, big breakthrough in Mytheme decoding November 2013. Best, temp label at present: “the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of religious mythology.” 

    The “mytheme & history” half of the Egodeath theory includes the semi-peripheral, semi-inconsequential topic of the ahistoricity of religious founder figures (b/c James Arthur told me he agreed with my set of views, and esotericists agree or are neutral/ agnostic/ apathetic about the existence of Mr. Historical Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul and esoterics agree with my set of views, according to Pagels’ first two books,

    1) on the gnostics’ reading of Gospel of John, and

    2) on the Pauline writings. 

    3) Her 3rd, popular book The Gnostic Gospels, somehow summarizes those books, and, The Jesus Mysteries book by F&G then in turn, summarizes her book The Gnostic Gospels.

    I say, I characterize my work from 2001 to 2006, and 2013, and 2020, as “Decoding Mythemes“.  By mapping them to the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (the Core theory, non-mytheme-involved, first, origianl half of the Egodeath theory). 

    “Core theory” is a lousy label, unspecific.   It’s not a label, it’s a relationship.  Lousy AS a label; good as a relationship-descriptor.

    1st half of the Egodeath theory = Block Universe, Cybernetic non-ctrl, Loose cog, ego t’c.  the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.  so:
    “the Cybernetic theory”?

    2nd half of the Egodeath theory = mytheme decoding, ahistoricity, esotericism mapping to the Core theory (to “the Cybernetic theory”).  Modern Cyb’cs lame, but, ancient Cybernetics… is valid/relevant , to ASC. 

    Ancient “Cybernetics” means ASC control-seizure & transcendence; Transcendent Knowledge per Mystery Religion initiation, mixed-wine mushroom wine banqueting, “drinking clubs”, “burial clubs” w/ a god’s feast that he brings you to, that he makes you attend.  called by the god.

    WHAT IS THE TOP WORD FOR 1ST HALF OF the Egodeath theory?
    CYBERNETIC
    WHAT IS THE TOP WORD FOR 2ND HALF OF the Egodeath theory?
    MYTHEME

    the Egodeath theory = the Cybernetic theory + the Mytheme theory.

    The Cybernetic & Mytheme Halves of the Egodeath Theory 

    This search on kubernetes still hasn’t panned out, except the nice picture of {one-eye throwing rocks to sink king’s ship}.

    Kubernetes Research

    kubernetes steersman helmsman

    Webpage Search: kubernetes

    webpage search: kubernetes “greek mythology”
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=kubernetes+%22greek+mythology%22

    webpage search: kubernetes greek
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=kubernetes%20greek

    webpage search: kubernetes greek mythology
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=kubernetes+greek+mythology

    Image Search: kubernetes

    image search: kubernetes “greek mythology”
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kubernetes+%22greek+mythology%22

    image search: kubernetes greek
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kubernetes%20greek

    image search: kubernetes greek mythology
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kubernetes+greek+mythology

    Characterizing My Ongoing Big Breakthrough of November 2020

    Big breakthrough in November 2020 — I’m still working on characterizing what that “big breakthrough” amounts to — it is centered around the huge ramifications of decoding the complete “Mushroom Tree/ Sword/ Self-Threatening” image from Canterbury Psalter —

    Components of the Big Breakthrough of November 2020, centered around my complete decoding of the entire “Mushroom Tree/ Sword/ Self-Threatening” image from Canterbury Psalter:

    The decoding revealed that the image totally confirmed the Egodeath theory overall, regarding self-control seizure and relenting upon satisfaction and purging the remaining childhood-suited, Naive-Possibilism-thinking, when the mind has fully developed Eternalism-thinking (an alternative mental worldmodel of time & control that’s able to endure what is revealed about the source of control-thoughts in the altered state), and has modified Possibilism-thinking to produce Qualified-Possibilism-thinking.

    The decoding blew the lid off the huge cover-up of mushrooms together w/ Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism, within Christianity.

    The decoding revealed that the image … though Muraresku’s book, somewhat less-than-sterling mediocrity, The Immortality Key brags with greatest Hubris inviting the Furies to strike him down, about Safety, Reliability, and Scalability, the Canterbury “Mushroom Tree/ Sword/ Self-Threatening” image reveals a definite initiation-training program isomorphic with the now-grasped & recognized, Lesser Mysteries of Eleusis (& Mithraism etc).

    One big thing is, general, a sweeping, across-the-board increase in Certainty Level & Decoding Completion, of the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of religious mythology, and now perceiving a great consistent uniformity of mythemes across Greek & Christian mystic intiation.

    — Cybermonk / Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
    http://egodeath.com (2007)

    Decoding Mythemes Is Like Decoding, Deciphering, Learning, & Translating an Unknown, Alien Language that’s About the Altered-State Domain

    I’m doing like language-translation, figuring out how to translate from one semi-unfamiliar language (the mytheme domain) to a target, known language (the referent domain).

    That “complete translation and mastery of the new language” involves: 1) mappings within the mytheme domain; 2) mappings from items in the mytheme-domain to the referent-domain, and 3) for “completeness”, that excercise is also a forcing function that tightens up your grasp (ie revising/adding to your connections within) of your supposedly, relatively, “famililar” target language.

    1) Mappings within the mytheme domain.

    2) Mappings from items in mytheme-domain to the referent-domain.

    3) Tighten up your grasp of the familiar target language; revise/add to your connections within your familiar target language.

    I sense strongly myself getting more and more highly fluent in immediately quickly decoding mythemes.

    Mark 4:13, Know all Parables; Know All Things

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=know%20all%20parables

    BIBLE: “know all things”

    John 16:30
    Verse Concepts
    Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from God.”

    John 21:17
    Verse Concepts
    He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.

    Isaiah 11:2
    Verse Concepts
    The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
    The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    The spirit of counsel and strength,
    The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

    Isaiah 53:11
    Verse Concepts
    As a result of the anguish of His soul, {cybernetic personal self-control failure, seizure, canvcellation, death, shipwreck, madness, destruction, wrath}
    He will see it and be satisfied; [that your mind has completely purged remaining pollution of Naive-Possibilism-thinking; incoherent self-contradiction that fails when tested & perceived in ASC {flames, fire}]
    By His knowledge the Righteous One,
    My Servant, will justify the many,
    As He will bear their iniquities.

    Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Christ-Knowing-All-Things

    Short Labels of the Two Halves of the Egodeath Theory

    the Cybernetic theory

    the Mytheme theory

    The Egodeath theory consists of the Cybernetic theory and the Mytheme theory.

    _____

    Maximally short labels for my entire theory, my Phase 1 theory, & my Phase 2 theory:

    the Egodeath theory
    o the Cybernetic theory
    o the Mytheme theory

    thus:

    the Egodeath theory = the Cybernetic theory + the Mytheme theory

    Notes

    Too bad I never got to communicate with Neil Peart, re: both halves of the Egodeath theory. He probably read my site.

    Neil Peart is the one person about whom, my father said don’t look up to anyone, it lowers yourself – he is so much a pioneer for my Phase 2 work (the Mytheme Decoding theory; the Mytheme theory.

    My Phase 1 work: the Cybernetic theory.

    One important fact about label-creation, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO DEFINE BOTH SHORT & LONG VERSIONS.

    MEGA-VERBOSE LABLES:

    MY HANDS ARE FALLING OFF [9:13 p.m. November 28, 2020]

    Long Labels of the Two Halves of the Egodeath theory

    the loose-cognitive eternalism theory of ego transcendence

    the analogical loose-cognitive eternalism theory of mythemes

    The Egodeath theory consists of the Loose-Cognitive Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Analogical Loose-Cognitive Eternalism Theory of Mythemes.

    _____

    A technical problem with the term ‘Eternalism’: it doesn’t usually cover non-control; Cybernetics.

    the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence =
    the Loose-Cognitive Eternalism Theory of Ego Transcendence

    Pair 1

    the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence

    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    thus:

    The Egodeath theory includes the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes.

    Pair 2

    the Loose-Cognitive Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence

    the Analogical Loose-Cognitive Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    ____

    “the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence”, for the first half of the Egodeath theory, is tight but vague, it omits Eternalism, block universe, noncontrol, looosecog.

    what about

    the Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence <– true. good proposal. of course the word ‘Eternalism’ sucks.

    “the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes ” is very specfic, but not as snappy/short. it is, VERY specific though!

    You’d have:

    the Egodeath theory consists of:
    the Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence (no ‘Analogical’)
    and
    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    That is an interesting proposal.

    Proposed Names for the two halves of the Egodeath theory

    Principle: All theory-names have problems. It’s almost easier w/ the ultra-short, maximally short titles, bc no one expects it to be clear. We’re seeing that odd principle: the more words you add, the lower the clarity.

    short form: (requires high context, to resolve/understand):

    the Egodeath theory =

    the Cybernetic theory +

    the Mytheme theory

    Those are good.

    Technically, the following pair of long-form theory-names are most accurate, if I could force everyone to know what I mean, or just for preceisely talking among professional Loosecog Scientists:

    the Loosecog Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Loosecog Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    slightly expanding my neologism:

    the Loose-Cognitive Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Loose-Cognitive Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    Those are pretty good.

    __________________________

    Using language that’s alien to me:

    the Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    the Entheogenic Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Entheogenic Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    the Loosecog Eternalism theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Loosecog Eternalism theory of Mythemes

    no one knows what any of these words mean!

    shitty word: Cybernetics

    shitty word: Entheogens

    shitty word: Eternalism

    shitty word: Loosecog

    fkcking speak English!

    the Egodeath theory =
    the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
    the Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism Theory of Mythemes

    ____

    I spent years wondering worrying about Cybernetic(s) theory – s or not?

    I ended up going with the technically wrong, “Cybernetic theory”.

    Is the theory itself cybernetic? Well arguably yes!

    If I communicate this theory to someone in ASC, they crash and reset.

    See Also

    Summary of the Egodeath theory
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/first-blog-post/

    Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/possibilism-vs-eternalism-2-models-of-time-and-control/