Canterbury Loose Ends

12:16 PM April 24, 2022

row two, second from left :

the guy only has one leg, which is not unique in this image, but he has one leg in the middle of his body, with gray legging sock

and it is implied that it’s a correct right foot , because it is resting on the other guys right foot

but no left foot is showing for him,

and we can deduce that the flesh colored ankles on the left guys right foot is behind the column base , thus is considered touching

and then the bare Ankle, which must belong to the left hand guy, because the ankles match, is floating.

and so the joke of the second guy is that he has he only has a right leg ; it’s a bit of a puzzle/joke.

3:36 AM April 24, 2022

it’s clear or there’s certainly more to be found significant more

there are additional significant discoveries in this F134 canterbury picture

but I graciously may leave some

I’ve had my fill with this rather overwhelming picture decoding

big enough of a jackpot for me

it’s already the world’s biggest jackpot

and it’s a big todo list is now you’ve got to

what has to happen now is that we have to develop the grid analysis:

you overlay a grid on top of these several images that we’re discussing:

  • the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ balancing/ hanging/ touching sword” image
  • the bull slaying scene tauroctony
  • salamander roasting “dancing man”

The purpose of the grid is to force yourself to give diligent vigorous aggressive analysis of each every square inch of the image

don’t let anything slip by without analysis

analyze every hand

every foot

every leg

every hem

which direction everyone is looking

Who has a beard or not

every mushroom hem

Every raised garment lifted garment

every column base

every branching or non-Branching feature, or snake-like feature, or ivy leaf feature

every sword

every blade

the relative height of each hand

the relative height of each foot

the angle of every leg

list everything that’s touching anything else

Make a complete list of every item that’s not touching every other item in the whole image;

a combinatorial explosion, that I was struggling to hold back in order to decode this Canterbury Psalter mushroom tree image in November 2020, I had to block out the image, it was too much at once.

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11:34 pm April 23,2022

highly improbable # of left hands higher than right hands in comic panel

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom

1) Hatsis-type figure, left hand 2:56am April 24, 2022 is lower than right hand

2) left hand up, right hand down, like God

3) ” & compare bearded’s lifted garment to that of the passing student in upper left [2:40 am April 24 2022] also msh hem touching stable colume base, & both feet lifted, indicating transcending eternalism-reliance.

4) no limbs.

who lacks limbs? top right – trip guide & father. mid row far right side.

who has left hand higher than right? Nearly everyone; it’s easier to list who doesn’t.

Left Hind Leg of Bull Means both Naive and Qualified Possibilism Thinking

I have to come up with a better way of tracking what time stamped and day each paragraph in this page, to track breakthroughs hour by hour.

9:36 PM April 23, 2022 addendum

given that both of the twins are presented in a positive light the left leg does double duty allow Ken Wilber pre-trans fallacy the left leg represents both naïve possibilism and also qualified possibilism which maps to transcending eternalism and transcending the rock cosmos entrapment that comes along with enlightenment about no free will and pre-existent control thoughts

how can we see the left leg as positive, to come away with a balanced view that respects both the left leg and the right leg?

solution: the ultra transcendent aspect of ordinary state consciousness after enlightenment is completed

it is imperative that we have an ultimate extremely positive judgment of the experience of freedom free will when the ordinary state permanently returns after complete enlightenment about no free will

and this is how we could elevate the left leg standing guy twin, Cautopates.

Advanced question:

how is the right leg relying twin ( cautes) superior to the left leg twin (cautopates)?

& vice versa? very adv q. ans: 10:26 PM April 23, 2022: to see the left leg standing twin as more glorious and superior and more transcendent than the block universe twin who stands on the right leg for stability we have transcended control system stability we have transcended our embeddedness in the block universe lifted up by Mithras who is born from outside of the rock and who makes the entire cosmos rock move like the creator

this ties into gnostic demiurge ideas of we awaken to our entrapment in the cosmos and then we can negatively value the block universe enlightenment and seek to transcend the block universe eternity prison that is revealed in the altered state and then we are lifted up by the God the rescue or the redeemer to pull us up from outside of the rock imprisoned in the cosmic rock

and then the Orthodox had objections to disparaging eternalism as a Wm James [Iron Block Universe] prison of rock.

we have to beware of duality Dualism and demonizing the demiurgic creator of the block universe, the dreaded puppetmaster, unseen and hard to trust, and who has created this broken world of rock prison that we are frozen in.

Be sure don’t think heretical thoughts here, you gnostic heretics.

dont demonize Cautes eternalism prison nor Cautes return to possibilism thinking (qualified now, no longer naive).

Per Ken Wilber do not demonize the lower level

you will never transcend it that way

you have to differentiate from the lower level

and when you return to using the lower level, you do not fall down embedded into possibilism thinking, but you stay positioned above the lower level child thinking, even while you utilize that child thinking for the rest of your life, in the normal tight cognitive binding state, but now, qualified. Transcended.

This is not the childish Cautopates but rather the final completed Transcendent usage of the left leg possibility model to depend on it during day and day out forever for the rest of your life retaining completed Initiation enlightenment and transfiguration, returned to the flesh yet not of it, with wounds, having been bodily reborn glorified, blessed like Cautopates’ hypercosmic emancipation, after Cautes’ block-universe enlightenment.

we do not demonize the right leg twin, nor the left leg twin, but glorify them both together, in their right-balance roles. 10:34 PM April 23, 2022

wisdom lifts left leg and then right leg, relying on neither, prisoner of neither; redeemed out from the created world by the god.

L to R: Tom Hatsis; enlightened guy; guy who is so transcended we should worry; guy w no limbs

Some of that caption is new connections, 10:53 PM April 23, 2022, but I’m not gonna tell you which

Glory to Persephone, Queen of Hades’ realm of revealed shadows, who lives, though died.

April 23 2022 am

(date = April 23 2022: )

consolation Breakthrough Recording [published within Egodeath Mystery Show ep124 ]: Since my backstabbing technology trashcanned my realtime breakthrough recording 7am 4/22:

working out ideas about the legs of the Cupid pair enabling me to solve interpreting the leg pairs of the Mithras scene TAUROCTONY

Warning: today’s recording and webpage includes cussing, because this voice transcription cannot handle the most trivial, elementary, commonplace words but to produce the word ‘bull’, I have to say the ‘bs’ word 🤷🏼‍♂️

The words ‘fad’ & ‘bull’? forget it: impossible for today’s technology. 👎👎

Since my backstabbing tape deck decided to trashcan my realtime, hour-long decoding discovery based on the two- cupids bull sacrifice scene, which led me to consider the leg pairs, the five leg pairs in the Mithras scene tauroctony.

left leg bulls hind leg pair – hind left leg means both naïve and qualified possibilism thinking

I did an even deeper analysis of my November 7, 2015 comment, as consolation (omg that was just this morning, Saturday morning 4/22/2022, that I’m referring to here today, it’s the same day right now; Sat Apr 23, 2022, and I can hardly keep track! anyway, one of the raw recordings that fed into Egodeath Mystery Show ep124 )

voice recording and assuming that it doesn’t throw in the garbage can this morning half hour deep analysis of my multi Interpretation posting of November 7, 2015 today [4/23 am] I realized that I posted and considered two different approaches, differentiated in my comment, showing how I was trying multiple sophisticated readings of pairs of legs, but enough but in November I failed to even mention or consider at all the question of which leg,

the interesting thing is that although I resolved that on Christmas 2015 regarding the two-level analysis and so I resolved the two-level paragraph of November 7 2015 Comment at Cyberdisciple’s 2-cupid page, but today [4/23 am, provable by .wav recording timestamp, time flew today] I realized that as great as the Christmas 2015 resolution of “the question of which leg” was, I failed to address the question of a three-level interpretation, where we run out of legs —

IF we are human!

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left leg equals Possibility Branching delusion

but if we are a bull, then we can have enough leg pairs, two leg pairs, two of them, so that one leg pair, the front leg pair, can represent the two-level system:

right leg equals enlightenment equals trapped frozen in rock – as if that’s a good thing!

and then the rear pair of legs

we didn’t have

the question which I failed to resolve Christmas 2015

regarding coming back to the November 2 part of my analysis potential readings that I offered

On Christmas 2015, I should have come back to the three-level analysis (in the 2nd part of my November 7, 2015 Comment at Cyberdisciple’s 2011 2-cupid page) and answer the question: which leg for the three-level system?

and the answer is regardless of how the ancients in the post-determinism era of 250 aD, this happens to map very well to my saying that :

The mind moves from [naïve possibilism thinking], to the combination of [eternalism thinking] plus [qualified possibilism thinking] –

10:06 pm 4/23/2022

in summary[10:06 pm 4/23/2022:], treat [Qualified Possibility Thinking] as ultra-valuable and transcendent the same as your ordinary state experience of free will after complete enlightenment. equate that with the twin who stands on the left leg and bends the right leg

and this is how we can think of each twin as representing a higher level of enlightenment as contrasted with the Naive starting State and avoid Ken Wilber is pre-trans fallacy.

and I go into this in today’s Egodeath Mystery Show episode 124 from this morning [4/23/2022 am], which is kind of a consolation prize for losing the two-cupids breakthrough recording of yesterday am, April 22. although I talk it through in the episode which I just now released which I recorded this morning but even right now I still jackpot make more connections to revise the theory to improve its explanatory power I am learning how they read the left leg twin as sacred and very lofty very high up and not just stupid ignorant naïve possibility thinking but rather possibility thinking in its elevated trans

I Wilber with labeled as trans rational Ken Wilber would label it as trans rational if we call eternity Thinking equals rational then what do you call it when the Mushrooms Psilocybin wears off and the loose cognitive binding goes away and we retain complete enlightenment yet we return to the given the fact of the experience of free will but it is not naïve free well Persephone lives on in her glorified role as queen of the underworld we read return to the usual very familiar tight cognitive binding work a day experiential mode yet like Alan Watts explains in the waves in the book the way of Zen Chopwood carry water before enlightenment I expected to end up in a different state but instead I ended up in the same old state but in a different stage therefore no pre-trans fallacy. The freedom that I now have Christ has set me free but this is not naïve possibility thinking although it is the mode of possibility thinking but I don’t believe in it yet here it is it has the mode of experiencing in workaday tight cognitive binding we experience free will and we are set free from the shackles of enlightenment about frozen in rock eternity our control thoughts frozen and given to us helplessly reduced to a statue king frozen and rock yet we call this a kind of hypercosmic freedom that Mithras has been born outside of the rock and the twin who stands on left leg just as we began when we were a child and when we thought like a child we return to Persephone Thinking but it is different we have transcended the experiencing of free will in the tight cognitive state of ordinary state consciousness for permanently the rest of our life.

– [10:15 PM April 23, 2022 Cybermonk]

April 23, 2022 AM

then a good answer is that now the left leg is considered in it’s positive aspect of possibility thinking mapped to the third level, where we transcend in the hyper cosmic realm outside of the fire at the edge of the cosmos (see David Ulansey Article) hypercosmic.

Here we could see that the hind pair of legs of the bull

The rear leg the rear hind legs of the BULL can represent and carry both positive connotations and negative connotations carry both the positive and negative connotations

the good thing about the rear right leg is it is enlightenment and stability of control

but the bad thing is that you were no frozen in the iron block universe trapped in rock

and then we can look at the positive aspect of the rear left leg A form of possibility thinking that now takes into account enlightenment and the limitations of stability of the left possibility way of thinking

and now we can treat as a good thing emancipation is the qualified possibility thinking which can be mapped to transcending the rock, transcending our entrapment frozen in the iron block universe, answering William James objection, and mapping to Ken Wilber his trans rationality level.

The question of which leg is mapped to the 250 A.D. fad of transcending determinism.

Professor Brown Visits the Head Shop

Wow, look at all these hallucinogenic mushrooms 🍄 in art. People sure like these pictures of hallucinogens.

It is remarkable how much Amanita these trippers are ingesting, as plainly evidenced by all of this hallucinogenic mushroom 🍄 art.

Conclusion: The popularity of magic mushroom art indicates that everybody is ingesting large quantities of Amanita 🍄.

This is impressive evidence of the great copious supply of hallucinogenic magic mushrooms 🍄 (Amanita) on the market.

The youngsters these days must be learning about The Mushroom 🍄 through Rock and Roll music, with its primitive and shamanic beat.

https://www.rush.com/albums/feedback/ album

Amanita has dirty cognitive effects (failing to target loose cognitive association), combined with great visual appeal, and that is why Amanita will forever be the face of ingesting Psilocybin.

🍄

Even Terence McKenna, the great advocate of Psilocybin mushrooms, has a gigantic Amanita image on his audio reading of his book on mushroom History:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08XL9QGJT/

Photo: Michael Hoffman, Jan. 8, 2025. Headshop art on rolling tray, showing gills that look like branches. Product line: Green Line. 2023 Star Link Global Group. In this art genre, {spotted mushrooms} means ingesting Psilocybin or ergot, or even cannabis — not ingesting Amanita.
Photo: Michael Hoffman, Jan. 8, 2025. Headshop art with spotted mushrooms. In this art genre, {spotted mushrooms} means ingesting Psilocybin or ergot, or even cannabis — not ingesting Amanita. Bottom left: Amanitas (15) with eyes for veil spots. Bottom mid-right: Datura. Bottom right: Psilocybin mushrooms.
Photo: Michael Hoffman, Jan. 8, 2025. Headshop art.

Legs, Legs, Legs, It’s All About the Legs

todo: study all myth through the {legs} mytheme lens.

why did I not figure out to do this aggressively on November 7, 2015 when I commented on cyberdisciple’s image of the two cupids in a bull sacrifice type of scene??

why didn’t I go running out to all the myth images and say look at there legs, at all those legs

let’s look at all their legs

which leg is it, left leg right leg ?

inventory the legs

write a 70-page academic article that nobody reads:

A full study of all legs in every single, inventory of every leg in every myth in every religious image

stop seeing mushrooms everywhere, you fools, you’re supposed to be seeing legs everywhere

one legged standing on one leg coral rock the mushroom people who stand on one leg

see one leg everywhere

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Secret Amanita standing on its right leg – since it’s the only real basis/leg, it must be the right leg (post-hoc revelation explanation)

Why I Can’t Read Mythology Websites or the Best Webpages

this morning is perfect proof of why it is impossible for me to read websites of mythology or cyber disciples site map (or the Egodeath Yahoo Group ,) listing interesting webpages some of which I forgotten seeing before and already commented partially:

the two Cupids standing on the different legs led to a major top magnitude Breakthrough in Mystery Religion explanation for late modern figuring out and comprehending the meaning of Mystery Religion imagery.

this has happened to me, I demonstrated this before, back in November 2020, that I literally can’t go to mythology website, because I am overwhelmed by too many connections, too many breakthroughs

and that was a big theme while Decoding Canterbury top row, was that I was overwhelmed by the top row, by too much jackpot success, and I did not permit myself to look at rows two and three of the comic panel, for fear of too many connections and too many breakthroughs pulling me in every direction

the problem of plethora of decodings

it’s too many, too successful, so that I literally cannot scan a mythology website, because I will immediately be prevented, because I will encounter Decoding breakthroughs that I am embarrassed that I didn’t obviously perceive before already

And so then I have to hasten to write the Decoding that is embarrassing that I didn’t already figure out before, by this late date

Earlier Decoding of the {two legs} Mytheme, & Tauroctony Legs Breakthrough Announcement

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/cupids-performing-tauroctony/

The breakthrough started here after last night April 21, 2022, I made a site map of Cyberdisciple’s site, and I noticed this cupids Tauroctony-like page, which I read aloud while recording the lost voice recording this morning April 22 , and

I had really literally completely forgotten about this image, but it turns out that there was a important November 7, 2015 interpretation comment posting by me that was a pretty important step in decoding, like, everything (Hephaestos; roasting salamander dancing man; Canterbury; & Tauroctony).

this morning, I at first casually looked at the picture and did not inventory left and right legs then in my mind’s eye, I started wondering : let’s go back to that picture and look at it again, which leg do they stand on?

The “favored” / “affirmed” positioning depends on the components of the individual image; symmetrical twins are not always on the same, left or right side of an image.

The Cupid image is strange, atypical, because the bull is mirrored to have a head on the left as well as on the right, in an exact mirroring.

but what we really see very sharply in that image is twins, where one is standing on one leg, and the other is standing on the other leg.

and that was enough to get me to think about the twins in Mithras scene.

also relevant and keeps coming to mind, is my exchange with Max Freakout regarding the mytheme {turning to look to the right}, which was probably the most to credit with my specifically identifying the *right* leg as the stable mental model, between November 7, 2015 and Christmas 2015 – why right is better than left & maps to the superior mental model.

bonus announcement: 8:28 a.m., April 22, 2022: I just grasped mentally and realized; I’m announcing:

Mithras is shown standing essentially on his right leg, not left leg, meaning that he’s confirming eternalism thinking, not possibility branching thinking.

The Key: Legs Inventory

The key (7:33 pm 4/22/2022): leg pairs, from right to left in the image:

Cautopates (right): Left leg straight, right leg bent (bad)

Bull front legs: Left leg straight, right leg bent (bad)

Mithras: left leg bent, right leg straight (good)

Bull hind legs: Left leg bent, right leg straight (good)

Cautes (left): Left leg bent, right leg straight (good)

7:37 pm Observation:

All the “bad” leg-pairs are on the right side of the picture; all the “good” leg-pairs are on the left side of the picture.

The “bad”, straighter left legs (than right) are placed near each other.
The “good”, straighter right legs (than left) are placed near each other.

the “good” twin stands near the straightened, “good” right hind leg of the bull and Mithras’ “good” legs; but the “bad” twin stands near the “bad” front legs of the bull – Cybermonk

8:28 am con’t:

I don’t think that in the past I pointed out Mithras “standing” on right leg, because he’s not exactly standing, but his right leg does match the right leg of the small man, who is definitely, pointedly standing on his right leg.

as far as I recall, and I could be wrong, I don’t believe I’ve ever connected and

I don’t believe I’ve ever discussed or mentioned or pointed out that:

Cautes and Cautopates are standing on one leg, and those are opposite legs: one standing on left leg, one standing on right leg, and then compare Mithras leg (note 10 min later: & bull’s leg!! ) note which leg!

I do not believe I have comprehended and discussed and focused on and drawn attention to this subject, pointed out the question of interpreting their legs before.

just like I did a leg inventory of Canterbury Psalter, you have to do a “leg folded versus non-folded/straight” inventory of the Tauronctony.

and now when I come to the Tauroctony again, –

I do think I did a lot of interpretation after November 2020 Canterbury miracle Breakthrough, and yet I don’t recall directing my attention to the *legs* in the famous bull sacrifice scene.

Super obvious, how did I not think of this – assuming I didn’t think of it- in November 2020??

obviously the bull sacrificing confirms and corroborates my left and right leg interpretation of November 7, 2015 and Christmas 2015, which was the key to the gaining traction to decode the entire Canterbury comic panel F134 mushroom tree with two men and a sword.

This is actually a pretty big breakthrough in Tauroctony interpretation.

(translation: I am stupid, an idiot for not pointing this out and perceiving/grasping this before.)

this is “super obvious” 😞

this is as major of a discovery realization as the magnitude of my blindness and stupidity and mental denseness, as mentally slow as a psychedelic witch with a scopolamine-addled mind.

note that Cautes & Cautopates, the two small Mithras-accompanying men, one stands on left leg, the other stands on right leg, the latter matching Mithras.

12:18 pm I now propose that a major function of the two small men is to depict explicitly the mytheme of standing on left leg versus standing on right leg contrasted this is the reason for the so-called twins one twin stands on left leg one twin afterwards stands on right leg. April 22, 2022 –

Now this is a useful date, because this is a example of a point in time breakthrough because they are not always so much of a point in time breakthrough a famous date damn near a holyday for the ego death community/religious cult.

when did I make the top magnitude Mystery Religion Tauroctony biggest breakthrough of all time , of all the people who have tried to decode such as David uLancey? ans: April 22, 2022.

because everyone knows there are no Texts for the Mithras religion of Roman

Canterbury Psalter images seem to be the same, except I assume – maybe cyberdisciple can help me find where in the hell are scholars writing about the images, interpreting the images – what is their interpretation of the two men balancing and hanging in the tree with the sword Mushroom tree F134 in Canterbury Psalter?

where are all the artist historians interpreting this mushroom tree

but from my point of view the Wikipedia says the thing is these images are very difficult to interpret, and I am good at interpreting such images, because I in fact did

I completely decoded the Canterbury image comic panel all by myself with no help whatsoever from any other scholar and then

the situation is a little bit different with Roman Mithras, because I have read books, and there are easy to find books that try to interpret this imagery, which I have read, and which are easily available, unlike the Canterbury Psalter comic panel F134 mushroom tree with two men and sword.

in any case, I am good at interpreting such images, because of my success that’s been proved in both images, both scenes, which both include – the key decoding aspect is right leg versus left leg, what does that mean?

I explain: the possibility model versus the eternalism, nonbranching Model of control, time, and possibility.

Everyone knows that the challenge in explaining the Roman Religion of Mithras is that we have to rely and (so Thomas Hatsis’ Latin expertise will be of no use here) we have to rely purely on visual image Interpretation, which I today April 22, 2022 Have made the greatest Breakthrough in Interpretation of the Tauroctony.

12:38 PM April 22, 2022: I just confirmed that Mithras’ is straight right leg is forcing the right leg , hind leg, of the bull to be straight.

compare the front left leg of the bull, which is not folded: first, the front of the bull was trying to stand on left front leg, but then later, the right rear leg of the ball is forced to be straight by Mithras’ right leg. – Cybermonk

translation: Decoding; ultimate referent:

initially, the mind tries to rely on the possibility-Branching model of control and time

but then in the loose cognitive state from the Banquet with Mithras, drinking mixed wine Mushroom wine,

then the mind transforms the mental world model, when the possibility Branching model fails and turns out to have no power, and branching possibility is experienced as an illusion, together with the kind of apparent experience of steering control power is experienced as an illusion now, and the mind switches

The mind perceives that underneath the illusion, the solid remaining reality is non-branching

and so the mind is forced by instability threat of control loss:

the more that the mind attempts to rely on the possibility Branching model, the more the mind control becomes unstable unstable, until control becomes completely not viable and chaotic, and total overcoming of viable self-control is the result.

the harder you try, the more you go unstable and override your own control ability.

and then the mind forms the alternative model of control, of dependent control instead of autonomous control, and a new form of control stability is reached this way, all forced upon the mind by the God, in the loose cognitive Association state.

/ End of 12:18 PM insert; the below is from this morning:

jackpot continues : the bull being sacrificed is depicted standing on left leg, corresponds to one of the small men, and Metras standing on right leg corresponds to the other standing man small man

the standing on left leg is what is sacrificed in the Tauroctony – this is a pretty big breakthrough.

Final note for now , connection:

interpret in terms of folding put emphasis on folded leg , because it is easy to depict the bull’s folded leg

don’t just discuss standing leg; discuss folded leg, as a strong sign

inventory all of the folded legs

& inventory all of the non-folded legs, equals “standing” legs.

the non-folded legs are to be considered as standing on, relying on, that mental model.

On November 7, 2015, I posted a preliminary step of my leg mytheme decoding which led to the Canterbury Miracle decoding of November 2020.

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/cupids-performing-tauroctony/

New corroboration while recording Egodeath Mystery show today note that:

the Cupid who is standing on the left leg is not in the position of sacrifice stabbing the shoulder of the bull

and the Cupid who is standing on the right leg is in the position of sacrifice stabbing the bull’s shoulder with knife, vulnerability wound in the right side, through which new birth.

thus the image confirms my hypothesis Theory prediction, that art that shows both standing on the left and the right leg would give preference to the right leg.

thus my theory is further confirmed by this art find, combined with coming back, circling back around after 2015.

now in 2022 I return to interpret again this art find, and it gives confirmation of the intervening Discoveries and Interpretations and Theory,

further bolstering my interpretation Theory of the meaning of two legs in art tradition.

on Christmas 2015, I posted my successful Decoding, Against Hatsis failed decoding.

Chris Bennett’s 1995 essay in the book green gold Bennett presented the what he called dancing man image.

then in 1998 Samorinis article showed that image in black-and-white.

and then maybe Jan Irvins 2008 book the holy Mushroom showed that image.

and then around 2013 or 2015 or later redated as 2017, Hatsis website number one or two or three Hatsis interpreted the salamander Roasting image in the Article Roasting Jan irvin.

then on Christmas 2015, I posted the announcement, with a great self certainty, of the meaning of standing on the right leg.

how did I have such such certainty and clarity at that point in time, is because on November 7 2015, I interpreted cyberdisciples art find of two Cupid’s performing the Tauroctony-type bull sacrifice.

see my comment on that page and probably also find a copy of that comment in the ego death Yahoo Group

I don’t know if I have done real research to determine on what date or my trajectory of gradual Decoding but here’s a good solid date.

I think what’s missing at this November 7 2015 Interpretation by me is specifically saying:

*left* equals left leg equals possibility model Possibility Branching Model of time and control and possibility

and that the *right* leg specifically represents the eternal of them pre-existing eternally control thoughts mental model of time self control and possibility

My November 7 2015 comment on cyberdisciples art find interpretation just points out that because there are two legs, we can map those to the two mental models

but on the left the Cupid stands on left leg and on the right in the favored knife right shoulder position the other Cupid stands on right leg.

they are babies, it would be suitable to show a baby standing on left foot and then a bearded adult

The November comment on cyber disciples art find interpretation just points out that because there are two legs we can map those to the two mental models

on the left the Cupid stands on left leg and

on the right the other Cupid stands on right leg

and there’s a clear preference shown

they are babies it would be suitable to show a baby standing on left foot and then

a bearded adult could Be shown on standing on right foot

that would be consistent

I don’t know if I have done the research to find the original dates trajectory of decoding standing on right leg mytheme

but anyway here’s a convenient evidence that I stumbled upon of how I announced in such a clear definitive fashion Christmas 2015 my leg Decoding which was instrumental and crucial in decoding Great Canterbury Psalter F134 image of The mushroom tree with two men and sword

and then decoding the entire surrounding image including for example lower left cyber side red man standing right foot on column base while sword penetrating wound in right side from inside of the body outward smiling and turning to look to the right

Song: Drop Dead Legs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cautes_and_Cautopates

more systemic corrobn of the Egodeath theory prediction patterns that are predicted as coherent set:

sunrise = good = new mental model = right leg = torch up = Cautes = eternalism = adult

Cautopates = torch down = bad= child= sunset = snake basket = left leg = possibilism = old initial mental model

7:10 pm summary: 4/22/2022:

accidental major/huge breakthrough on interpreting Mithraic Tauroctony today.

It’s all about the legs!

The key is to inventory which legs are more bent vs straighter.

Mithras, 2 twins, bull front, bull hind; 5 pairs of legs to correlate/contrast.

Which leg is relied on, R leg is good, L leg is childish (gives control instability & powerlessness after 🍄 banquet).

A more-bent leg means “not relying on that mental model”; a straighter leg means “relying on that mental model”
(L = egoic; R = transcendent).

This is the biggest scholarly decoding of solving the Tauroctony (bull sacrifice scene) mystery. our evidence mainly consists of: every single religious cultic initiation site has this scene.

No texts available, only art images are available, so we had to be really good at art interpretation; like wiki says re: Canterbury Psalter, “Images that are difficult to interpret” – done.

– Cybermonk

history of working on the Jesus Kosmokrator (cosmos ruler) images with 1 foot lifted, compared to the other – my history of analyzing the mytheme {one foot higher than the other} began there, maybe 2003.

and so you can see both in cyberdisciples presentation of my first generation Interpretation and then November 7, 2015 my comment which describes my working towards a different interpretation, not yet identifying the right leg is preferred

I remember that when I saw cyberdisciple quoting my v1 decoding attempt in his web log posting webpage – I remember that on November 7, 2015, I thought my latest interpretation is better than that.

cyberdisciple described my original interpretation this way:

“The Cupids pictured here also stand with one leg on the ground and the other in the air. This represents the enlightened mind with one foot rooted to the ground, the determined world, and one foot floating free in the transcendent world. This image also suggests the one ‘footed’ mushroom.”

yeah but which foot?! it changes! The above type of explanation doesnt take into account the question of which foot is raised & which foot is on the ground.

I saw that interpretation of mine, and I didn’t feel very good about it , didnt feel it was very solidly-based; I did not feel solidly Based on November 7, 2015, and that’s why I felt obligated to post a fresh interpretation comment at his page, this time, interpreted in terms of:

which leg you depend on is the leg that’s down on the ground, and lifting the other leg means not depending on that leg (mental worldmodel).

however, on nov 7 2015, I had not yet specifically mapped the right leg to the superior, more stable mental model, until I asserted the latter on Christmas 2015.

all of this constitutes some very important history behind the Canterbury miracle Decoding, which on 4am April 13, 2022 came back to clarify the Mushroom tree in the Salamander Dancing image (finally recognizing the mound on the right as a cut major right branch trunk, then a few hours later, noticed his right foot touches that cut branch), and now on April 22, 2022 I came back, through revisiting cyberdisciple’s image and my two interpretations at that webpage, which finally led me back to great breakthrough of interpreting all five pairs of legs in the famous Tauroctony scenes. – Cybermonk

🍄 drinking horn makes perceptible the rock-frozen snake hidden in basket (top row: Luna, Sol, & Mithras, at banquet)

Academia Forces Scholars to Waffle, Counter-Signal, and Constrain Themselves to the Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion

Academia forces scholars to cripple their assertions, downplay their assertions and evidence, and toe the “Moderate entheogen theory” party line, even though they want to assert and mentally grasp the Maximal entheogen theory of religion.

extending a little bit listening to my raw voice recording today April 21, 2022, there are so many instances that come to mind of why Carl Ruck is coerced to Think Small & Think Suppressed.

Cyberdisciple says that Carl Ruck in the 1978 book The Road to Eleusis says that Mirceau Eliade in his book on Shamanism which Wisen’s book soma criticizes the unbelievable waffling of Eliad and then goes on to do that

Extreme waffling himself five seconds after he describes how Eliade does that waffling, Wasson does the identical exact same waffling himself.

The waffling & self-countering equals the Moderate position .

We have talked about this and joked about this before, about waffling back in February 2021

Dr. Secret Amanita Carl Ruck’s waffling equals the academia forced position

you are forced to waffle

you’re not allowed to assert plain and straightforward that religion comes from entheogens

this is exactly specifically why I had to formulate the Maximal entheogen theory of religion in 2002, because academia forbids asserting in any historical period /Era

in academia , you are not allowed to say that visionary plants were normal, main stream

and this breaks and destroys my forgot plot assertion

in academia you are not allowed to say that middle ages Christianity forgot their original use of visionary plants which was originally normal in public and standard and ordinary and widely understood

you are not allowed to assert that

that they ever had above board Knowledge

and so the whole concept of forgot plot is kind of shattered

given that in academia you are not allowed to assert that there ever was a time when visionary plants were normal in religion

and therefore you can’t talk in terms of that they forgot *this original full-fledged knowledge*, because you’re not permitted to admit that they *ever* had this normalized visionary plants and normalized metaphoricity non-literalist thinking

you are forced to assert like Carl rock, obedient lapdog Carl rock never can allow himself to assert that all mixed wine was psychoactive mushroom wine.

he is not allowed to make such a positive statement.

and that is why

whenever you hand Carl Ruck your evidence, he will destroy it , because he is forced to destroy it by putting it in his cage and putting shackles around your evidence and clamping on an intensive negative framing around your evidence to neutralize your positive evidence

and he will invert and destroy and eliminate your positive findings of visionary plants in our religious history

because academia and the establishment paradigm is forcing coral rock to neutralize every piece of evidence and in fact invert it

so when you hand him –

the more evidence you hand Carl rock, …

you see we don’t really have Carl rock, we have a corrupted version of Carl rock

academia forces us to have a substitute Corrupted version of Carl rock

and per the Hoffman uncertainty principle, we don’t actually know what Carl rocks actual position is regarding how normal was visionary plant use

we cannot know what Carl rock believes; we can only know what he *wrote*

publicly, when we observe his position, The results from our throwing a Taboo particle question at him: “was visionary plant use normal?”

and we observe his publicly stated faith position statement, hand on the Bible “I, coral rock, solemnly swear & assert that it was never normal to use visionary plants [even while I pile on book after book year after year asserting visionary plants I must always frame it as negative], no, there was no normal visionary plant use ever, in our religion, ever.

– signed, Carl Ruck”

everyone in academia who has written about Entheogen Scholarship has always been forced to assert the moderate position, which is “yes, but no; the visionary plants were present, but therefore they were absent.”

this self-contradictory, Moderate Position is not invented by Carl rock , but it is a move that he is forced to make because he is an academic

and this was my 2002 revolution, my declaration of revolution against this waffling this enforced, pretended stance

Cyberdisciple has recounted that coral rock in the book the road to Eleusis complained about this and revealed the prejudice and bias that academics are forced to pretend and

curl Ruck’s in the book of the road to Eleusis explains how m. Eliade had to lie about his own views on shamanism, the use of visionary plants by shamans

and similarly we can see how Carl rock is forced to contradict himself by assuring the establishment that “yes, although there was visionary plants in ancient Greece 500 BC at Eleusis , which is equated with the entire subject and in fact replaces the entire subject every single mystery Religion

it’s replaced by the single instance of Eleusis as proxy, exactly the same as Plaincourault fresco replaces completely looking at any other mushroom Trees or Mushroom imagery and Christian Art

similarly as cyber disciple has elaborated, Eleusis is abused to replace rather than to explain the entire hundreds of mystery religions and banqueting tradition instances

they are made to go away by Brian Muraresku book the immortality key, we eliminate the nuisance data

academics are forced to replace the problematic reality

eliminate

we are forced academics are forced to replace the problematic reality

that all mixed wine was psychoactive Mushroom wine, and the problematic reality that all mystery Religion Initiation was psychoactives Mushrooms

and we must contradict ourselves like Wassen when Wassen eventually conformed to Acadamia’s dictates, and he switched his cover story his cover-up story from Mushrooms equals kykeon at Eleusis , to extinct ergot cover-up story, to come into compliance with academia Strategy:

1) first replace all mystery religions by Eleusis and distract from all banqueting mixed wine rounds of mixed wine, by putting all spotlights exclusively on Eleusis.

and then, step 2) Wasson you have to change from your problematic assertion that kykeon is mushrooms, that Eleusis kykeon drink is mushrooms, and change your story

to become in compliance, you must contradict yourself and say that they one single instance of psychoactive plants in Greek religion, which is Eleusis , was an extinct strain of ergot, which no longer exists, and there:

we have thereby eliminated the problematic reality that all mixed wine banqueting was mushrooms, and that all mystery religion was based on mushrooms

and so we see this exactly precisely is the moderate entheogen theory of religion which I declared revolution against in 2002.

I very much noticed in 2001 , reading the book apples of Apollo, I noticed how every single academic was forced to counter-signal themselves

and I said fck this shiite I refuse to f’ing counter signal myself

I’m not gonna counter-signal my assertion per the Establishment’s enforced, Moderate entheogen theory.

go f yourself, I’m going to assert a Maximal Entheogen Theory of all religion.

I’m not going to toe the line and contradict myself per the Moderate Theory

this is exactly the heart I have identified now here and now I have identified and put my finger on it

exactly precisely what the hell is going on with this moderate theory that every single stupid dumbass academic pushes?

why in the hell are every single academic adhering to the moderate entheogen Theory of Religion which asserts that never, ever were religions normally based on visionary plants – not in the middle ages, not in antiquity, and not in the archaic era ;

we must always counter-signal ourselves and contradict ourselves and do the coral rock Waffle Dance move of converting every single piece of positive evidence for visionary plants, deflect through inversion; deflection of evidence through inverting it,

to transform every proof of presence of visionary plants into the proof of absence, through inverting inversion framing; aggressive inversion framing.

just like moreso Eliade did regarding shamanism

and just like Wasson did by converting from the mushroom exclamation to the extinct ergot strain explanation!

the Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion is all about deflecting and inverting Evidence, together with a crappy Carl Ruck ineffective, irrelevant, Wrong Theory of Mythology Interpretation by applying stupid and obsolete anthropology ordinary state-based theories, as cyberdisciple points out.

Site Map of Cyberdisciple.wordpress.com

Michael Hoffman, completed Dec. 23, 2024

Crop by Michael Hoffman, April 25, 2025

Contents:

Intro

This webpage by Cybermonk is a guide to https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com, to see what the hell is there, for the first time visible as of December 23, 2024.

Site Map for present site: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/

Status: Decently organized posts by topic, as a quick first pass.

todo:

  • Dissolve the “SORT” section; move those final 10 articles into categories.
  • Merge 1-item categories into bigger categories.

Cyberdisciple’s WordPress Site

https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com

Site Map at Cyberdisciple site:
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Announcement of that Site Map:
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Categories

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Posts, by Topic

Robert Graves (Entheogen Articles 1957-1973)

Scans of Robert Graves’ principal writings about psychedelics in Greek myth and religion

Assessing Robert Graves’ 1950s psychedelic scholarship on Greek myth/religion/art

Bad anthropology; Robert Graves; moderate entheogen theory

Book: Brown and Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels

Ancient Literature (Theory); Psychedelics in Antiquity

historical scholarship in the light of metaphysical enlightenment per the Eternalism theory

Ancient literary techniques: mythology – 2009/07/30

Topics in antiquity studies

Key paradigm shift for Classics

Classical Lit: metamorphosis; Orpheus; Roman myth/history

classical literature and egodeath, preliminary notes

For Researchers of Antiquity – 2012/12/19

Conference Panel: Greek Shamanism Reconsidered

Psychedelic Academia

Some strategies for academics for writing about psychedelics/loose cognition and self-control seizure and transformation

Academia produces conformists to status quo – 2017/05/07

Experience applying theory in academia work – 2009/06/20

Attitudes towards Entheogens in Classics Academia

The Humanities did not and could not have produced EDT

Re: Assignment from Prof. Loose-Cog

Book (Italian): Tra la vigna et la croce (‘between the vine and the cross’

Academic specializing and evidence-first research prevents paradigm revolution

Defining my academic background

Chemical Muse (Hillman)

Hillman, 2008. The Chemical Muse

Narco Polo blog; DCA Hillman, Chemical Muse

Ustinova

Book: Ustinova. 2018. Divine Mania: Alterations of Consciousness in Ancient Greece

Ustinova – Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

Review and study guide for Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

Ancient Literature, Specific Works

Livy, 1.4.1-7

Ovid, Fasti, 3.11-16; 19-24

Greek Philosophers: Thales

Seneca, Epistle 110.5-8

The charges against Socrates as depicted in Plato’s Euthyphro – 2017/07/23

Notes on Plato’s Euthyphr

Greek Philosophers: Pherecydes of Syros

Intoxication in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi

Socrates, Oracle at Delphi, dialogue

Seneca, Epistle 71.27

Sophocles, fragment 945

Hesiod, Theogony. Commentary (work-in-progress)

Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος (Apollonios Rhodios) (first half 3rd cent. BC): Argonautica

Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 – c. 35 BC): The Jugurthine War

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC): Bucolics/Eclogues

Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499): Letters

Theologies of Arrival

Book: Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE

Historical Literary Studies

Historical literary studies in light of Egodeath Theory

Debranched tree in Odyssey, Book 23

body/soul distinction = ego/transcendent control systems – 2015/04/23

Historiography

Religion-myth and actual history: Examples from Classical Antiquity

Altered States in Antiquity

Contemporary scholarly research on antiquity lacks understanding of ubiquity of altered state in ancient culture

Pharmakon (Rinella)

Reading: Michael Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

Michael Rinella, “Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens”; Interview with Rinella; Plato and altered state experiencing

Ancient Psychedelics and Analogy Symbols

Woodcut of Perseus and Andromeda

Examples of Snakes in Greco-Roman art, depict fixed world line of control thoughts in pre-set block universe; tree; entheogen – 2011/11/05

Classical ‘worship’ of wine

Polyphemus Vase

Images of debranched tree in Roman victory monuments

Baby Dionysus steers Pan/Satyr by his horns

Stag vs. Snake on Byzantine mosaic

Happy Halloween: Baby or Mushroom?

Teaching gesture, up and down; Raphael School of Athens

Poppy flowers on ancient architecture

debranched tree and Roman military

Tree, Snake, Mushroom/psychedelic: abundance of evidence

Hygieia and snake statues from travels

Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey

Roman Emperor = Commander

Carved Doors of Santa Sabina, Rome

Cupids Performing Tauroctony on Temple of Venus Genetrix at Forum of Caesar in Rome

Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol

Amanita Jewelry found in recently discovered Anglo-Saxon gold hoard

Apollo and Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; branching / non-branching laurel

Statius, Emperor Worship, Imperial Banquets

Amanita description in Ennius

Sophocles, Irony, and Metaphor

Entheogens in ancient Assyrian and Persian art – 2010/01/18

Mushrooms in Christian Art; pilzbaum

Recent articles on: Criteria & Proof of Mushrooms in Christian Art. Branching Mushrooms. Confirmation and Reproducibility. Canterbury Psalter

Cybermonk’s Guide to Logical Fallacies made by the deniers in the debate about Mushroom Trees in Christian art – 2024/11/25

Mushrooms in Christian art discussed by Tom Hatsis and Jerry Brown at Graham Hancock’s site – 2022/02/25

Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett – 2021/09/26

Theories of Mythology

this is a “page” (not a “post”; lacks date in url), linked at top of site: https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/evaluating-theories-of-mythology/

Evaluating theories of mythology – 2015/07/06 – this is a post. Lags behind the page above.

Entheogen Scholarship; Ancient Psychedelics

Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity; outlining research questions

Ancient Sparta suppressed entheogens?

The Eleusis Meme: Over-focus on ergot at Eleusis limits discussion of psychedelics in Western premodernity – 2021/02/02 – entheogen scholarship

Entheogen scholars, move on from mystery cults – 2016/02/18

New Books received – The Holy Mushroom; Failed God – 2008/11/14

First Impressions of Irvin, “Holy Mushroom” and Rush, “Failed God”

Book: Rush, J, ed. 2013. Entheogens and the Development of Culture

Book: P. Devereux, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia

Book Review: Alan G. Sumler, 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Book: S. Teitsworth, Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds

The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross (Allegro 1970)

Influence of early anthropological theorizing on ‘entheogen’ scholarship: John Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom

Addendum to Allegro article; How to accurately assess Allegro; quotations from Allegro’s introduction about philology and against history

Psychedelic Science, Therapy

Proponents of psychedelic therapy typically occlude realities of economics and access – 2020/10/23

The Immortality Key (Muraresku, 2020)

Moving on from Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/17

Muraresku, The Immortality Key, subordinates psychedelics in religious history to modern therapy/science/medical paradigm

Graham Hancock foreward to Muraresku, The Immortality Key

cyberdisciple Reviews Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key: Summary, Elaborations, and Collection of Posts

Correcting Key Points in Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/24

Strict evidence and loose history: methodology problems in Muraresku ‘The Immortality Key’

Advice to readers of The Immortality Key (Muraresku); Selective history; altered state not rare or deviant in ancient Mediterranean

Therapists/Muraresku/Hancock overconfident in controlling psychedelic-induced loose cognition (The Immortality Key)

Hopkins/NYU therapy model of psychedelics guides Muraresku, The Immortality Key

Media Hype about Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/10/11

Carl Ruck

Entheogen podcast, Carl Ruck interview – 2015/10/14

Carl Ruck article on Wasson and backstory of Road to Eleusis

Reading Carl Ruck 1: Structuralism and Myth-Ritual Theory in 1976 Iamos/Ion article.

Bibliography of Carl A.P. Ruck

Thomas Hatsis

tom hatsis; primacy of cog sci, eternalism, metaphor

Article: Hatsis, T. “Born of a Version” – 2016/09/06 – Hatsis

Book: The Witches’ Ointment

Promethea (Alan Moore)

Promethea #29. Reading and Commentary videos – Promethea, Moore

Promethea 28 reading and commentary videos – Promethea, Moore

Author Alan Moore, eternalism and psychedelics – Promethea, Moore

Horace

Horace, Odes 1.3

Horace, Odes 1.4

Horace, Odes 1.5

Horace, Odes 3.2

Horace, Epode 16

Homer

Homeric Apocrypha: Battle of Frogs and Mice

Minor Homeric Hymns

Homeric Hymn II: To Demeter

Homeric Hymn III: To Apollo

Homeric Hymn IV: To Hermes

Homeric Hymn V: To Aphrodite

Homeric Hymn VII: To Dionysus

Homeric heroes; burial vs. mutilation; immortality via narrative song and rock grave-marker – 2024/07/05

Ancient Lives of Homer

Development page for commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/17

Banqueting central to Homer Odyssey – 2020/05/24

References for posts commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/16

Book. Lamberton. 1986. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonic Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition

Ahistoricity of the Trojan War and Homer – 2021/11/17

Egodeath summaries of Iliad and Odyssey – 2020/08/24

The Odyssey (Homer)

Homer, beginning of Odyssey and ‘choice of Achilles;’ kleos, psyche, nostos

Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 – 2019/12/31

Homer, Odyssey, Book 2

Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 – Jan 28, 2020

Homer, Odyssey Book 4

Homer, Odyssey Book 5

Homer, Odyssey, Book 6

Homer, Odyssey, Book 7

Homer, Odyssey, Book 8

Homer, Odyssey, Book 9

Homer, Odyssey, Book 10

Homer, Odyssey, Book 11

Homer, Odyssey, Book 12

Homer, Odyssey, Book 13

Homer, Odyssey, Book 14

Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 – 2020/07/15

Homer, Odyssey, Book 16

Homer, Odyssey, Book 17

Homer, Odyssey, Book 18

Homer, Odyssey, Book 19

Homer, Odyssey, Book 20

Homer, Odyssey, Book 21

Homer, Odyssey, Book 22

Homer, Odyssey, Book 23

Homer, Odyssey, Book 24

The Iliad (Homer)

Fate, the gods, fixed future, determinism in the Iliad – 2021/11/17

Analogies for altered state, fixed future, control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Altered state, loose cognition, psychedelics in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Homer, Iliad – 2019/11/03

Iliad 1, opening invocation

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 1 – 2019/06/18

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 2

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 3

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 4

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 5

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 6

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 7

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 8 – 2019/10/31

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 9

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 10

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 11

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 12

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 13

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 14

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 15 – 2019/11/03

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 16

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 17

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 18

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 19

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 20

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 21

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 22

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 23

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 24

Herodotus

Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (c. 484-425), Histories

Herodotus update: updated decoding of Gyges story; 1.13

Herodotus update: 1.14-15

Herodotus 1.16-1.22, Alyattes and Miletus

Herodotus, 1.22-23: Arion and the dolphin

Herodotus 7.103-4; Xerxes (Persian) and Demaratos (Spartan); hierarchical vs. egalitarian

Rock Lyrics

Altered State allusions in Rock lyrics

The Arcade Fire – My Body is a Cage

The Arcade Fire – Other notable Arcade Fire lyrics

The Beatles, Getting Better

The Beatles, Got to Get You Into My Life

The Beatles, Run for Your Life

The Beatles, coded warfare, allusions, cannabis and lsd timeline

Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Bob Dylan, altered state allusions

Gentle Giant, Aspirations

Guster, Long Way Down

Hawkwind – Assault and Battery / The Golden Void

The Incredible String Band, A Very Cellular Song

King Crimson, Epitaph chorus

King Crimson, One More Red Nightmare

Led Zeppelin, Going to California

Rush – Witch Hunt – 2022/06/18

Rush – From the Rush album, Presto, 1989

Rush – Neil Peart, Rush: on coded lyrics

Talking Heads, No Compassion

Talking Heads, Pulled Up

Yes – Into the Lens

Transcendent Knowledge podcast

Max Freakout, YouTube

Cybermonk site: list of Transcendent Knowledge episodes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/
Episode 2, Apr 23, 2016 – Max’s history
Episode 1, Apr 5, 2016 – Cyb’s history

Episode 3, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge podcast

Episode 4, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge podcast

Episode 5, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – 2016/06/30

Episode 6: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Episode 7, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Episode 8, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – Transcendent Knowledge

Episode 9, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Episode 10, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato

Episode 11, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato, pt. 2

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episodes 12-14

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 15

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 16

tk 17 = kent 1
tk 18 = kent 2
tk 19 = kent 3
tk 20 = kent 4
tk 21 = kent 5, 7
tk 22 = kent 6, 8
n/a = kent 9, 10

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Epp. 23-24

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 25 – 2020/07/05

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 26

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 27

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 28

James Kent, Dose Nation, Transcendent Knowledge podcast

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10: General and Speculation – 2020/03/31

Kent part 1

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 17: James Kent, ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 1

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 1

Kent part 2

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 18: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 2

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 2

Kent part 3

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 19: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 3

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 3

Kent part 4

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 20: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 4

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 4

Kent part 5

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, ep. 21: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 5 – apparently also covers Kent part 7 (according to https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/notes-on-dose-nation-final-10-ep-7-summary-of-dose-nation-approach-additional-notes-on-prohibition-and-on-huxley-doors-of-perception/)

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 5

Kent part 6

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 22: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 6 & part 8.

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 6

Kent part 7

“This episode should be first in the series, not seventh. It’s probably the only one you really need to listen to in order to understand James Kent and his approach.”- https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/notes-on-dose-nation-final-10-ep-7-summary-of-dose-nation-approach-additional-notes-on-prohibition-and-on-huxley-doors-of-perception/

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 7; summary of Dose Nation approach; additional notes on prohibition and on Huxley, Doors of Perception

Kent parts 8/9/10

Kent 8 is covered in Transcendent Knowledge podcast 22.

Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 8, 9, 10 – 2020/04/11

Cybermonk site: list of Transcendent Knowledge episodes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/
tk 17 = kent 1
tk 18 = kent 2
tk 19 = kent 3
tk 20 = kent 4
tk 21 = kent 5, 7
tk 22 = kent 6, 8
n/a = kent 9, 10

Latin, Greek

Classics Department Announcement: Learning Latin and Greek Languages

Repeal of Prohibition

Growing outrage over phony War on Drugs

Dr. Carl Hart on drug policy – 2013/08/17

Questioning agenda of advocates and repealing prohibition linked

Yahoo shutting down groups; follow Egodeath Theory blog instead

Pro-Prohibition ‘activism’ funded by Pharma, Police, Prisons, Alcohol

New Yorker magazine article on Ayahuasca culture in US

People on Psychedelics wiki

The Mytheme theory; Analogies, Metaphor, Myth

On decoding – 2019/12/01

Planned Postings and Research

Research questions on mystery religions and metaphor – 2010/09/20

Notes and research questions on ancient history and altered state experiencing – 2010/09/20

Checking back in; more writing soon

Posting projects

Resuming Posting

Greek Religion: Cognitive Baloney

Book: Larson, J. 2016. Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach – 2016/07/08

Concept of ‘Cyberdisciple’

cyberdisciple

Cyber/Psyber Disciple; ancient Greek and Latin words related to pseudonym

The Egodeath theory, Cybermonk

Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry

Controllership, not oneness – pop sike theory

Ego Death theory as superior religious system

To Introduce the Ego Death Theory

Spontaneous summary of Egodeath Theory for a friend

Egodeath Core Theory (Phase 1) and Metaphor (Phase 2)

Unexpected side effect of studying Ego Death Theory: adept cultural critic – 2016/05/29

Michael Hoffman Interview on Expanding Mind podcast with Erik Davis

Theory Terminology; Concept Labels

Eternalism superior term to Heimarmene/Cybernetics

Conference Panel: Cognitive Classics

Free will vs. Determinism

New book on Agency in Greek Tragedy – free will vs. determinism

Review of new German book on Fate in Homer – free will vs. determinism

Immediate follow-up on altered state nullity of will in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi – 2008/08/15 – free will vs. determinism

Altered state entrapment and nullity of the will in a passage of Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind) – free will vs. determinism

Stoicism = nofreewill, not compatibilism – 2015/01/04

Free will in Stoicism – 2013/02/07

SORT

Against Brad Warner and pro-meditation, anti-entheogen arguments – 2014/12/08

on the practice of physics in Stoicism

Quotations from ancient philosophers on the flight of the soul – 2014/02/28

Book: Drugged, Richard J. Miller

Psychedelics’ relationship with environmentalism; some entrenched ideas among modern Psychedelics writers

Pierre Hadot on Greco-Roman philosophy

Plato’s Socrates: the true ruler rules unwillingly

Alcaeus 42: interpreted according to the theory of altered state analogy

The mythic mindset; ancient historiography – 2010/09/16

Response to Jan Irvin: 1. On The Holy Mushroom; 2. On the Authorship of the Article, “Wasson and Allegro on The Tree of Knowledge as Amanita”; 3. On Details of the Egodeath Theory; 4. On Parenthetical Comments

Integration

Alan Watts This Is IT and further reading – 2008/07/13

Beginnings

404

404 – cyberdisciple at other sites – 2020/03/31

/ end of Posts by Topic

Posts, by Date

At WordPress, “Posts” have date in URL. (“Pages” lack date in URL, and are listed at top of Cyberdisciple’s site.)

Newest first. Updated December 20, 2024.

Cybermonk’s Guide to Logical Fallacies made by the deniers in the debate about Mushroom Trees in Christian art – 2024/11/25

Homeric heroes; burial vs. mutilation; immortality via narrative song and rock grave-marker – 2024/07/05

Witch Hunt – 2022/06/18

Mushrooms in Christian art discussed by Tom Hatsis and Jerry Brown at Graham Hancock’s site – 2022/02/25

Analogies for altered state, fixed future, control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Control-loss in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Altered state, loose cognition, psychedelics in Iliad – 2022/01/07

Development page for commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/17

Fate, the gods, fixed future, determinism in the Iliad – 2021/11/17

Ahistoricity of the Trojan War and Homer – 2021/11/17

References for posts commenting on Homeric scholarship – 2021/11/16

Happy Halloween: Baby or Mushroom? – 2021/10/31

Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett – 2021/09/26

Reading Carl Ruck 1: Structuralism and Myth-Ritual Theory in 1976 Iamos/Ion article.

Bibliography of Carl A.P. Ruck

Hawkwind – Assault and Battery / The Golden Void

Book Review: Alan G. Sumler, 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

cyberdisciple Reviews Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key: Summary, Elaborations, and Collection of Posts

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 28

Hesiod, Theogony. Commentary (work-in-progress)

The Eleusis Meme: Over-focus on ergot at Eleusis limits discussion of psychedelics in Western premodernity – 2021/02/02

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 27

Scans of Robert Graves’ principal writings about psychedelics in Greek myth and religion

Addendum to Allegro article; How to accurately assess Allegro; quotations from Allegro’s introduction about philology and against history

Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity; outlining research questions

Influence of early anthropological theorizing on ‘entheogen’ scholarship: John Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 26

Advice to readers of The Immortality Key (Muraresku); Selective history; altered state not rare or deviant in ancient Mediterranean

Correcting Key Points in Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/11/24

Recent articles on: Criteria & Proof of Mushrooms in Christian Art. Branching Mushrooms. Confirmation and Reproducibility. Canterbury Psalter

Moving on from Muraresku, The Immortality Key

Ancient Lives of Homer

Classics Department Announcement: Learning Latin and Greek Languages

Strict evidence and loose history: methodology problems in Muraresku ‘The Immortality Key’

Proponents of psychedelic therapy typically occlude realities of economics and access – 2020/10/23

Therapists/Muraresku/Hancock overconfident in controlling psychedelic-induced loose cognition (The Immortality Key)

Hopkins/NYU therapy model of psychedelics guides Muraresku, The Immortality Key

Muraresku, The Immortality Key, subordinates psychedelics in religious history to modern therapy/science/medical paradigm

Questioning agenda of advocates and repealing prohibition linked

Yahoo shutting down groups; follow Egodeath Theory blog instead

Graham Hancock foreward to Muraresku, The Immortality Key

Media Hype about Muraresku, The Immortality Key – 2020/10/11

Homeric Apocrypha: Battle of Frogs and Mice

Minor Homeric Hymns

Homeric Hymn VII: To Dionysus

Homeric Hymn V: To Aphrodite

Homeric Hymn IV: To Hermes

Promethea #29. Reading and Commentary videos

Homeric Hymn III: To Apollo

Homeric Hymn II: To Demeter

Book. Lamberton. 1986. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonic Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition

Book: Ustinova. 2018. Divine Mania: Alterations of Consciousness in Ancient Greece

Egodeath summaries of Iliad and Odyssey – 2020/08/24

Homer, Odyssey, Book 24

Homer, Odyssey, Book 23

Homer, Odyssey, Book 22

Homer, Odyssey, Book 21

Homer, Odyssey, Book 20

Homer, Odyssey, Book 19

Homer, Odyssey, Book 18

Homer, Odyssey, Book 17

Homer, Odyssey, Book 16

Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 – 2020/07/15

Homer, Odyssey, Book 14

Homer, Odyssey, Book 13

Homer, Odyssey, Book 12

Homer, Odyssey, Book 11

Homer, Odyssey, Book 10

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ep. 25 – 2020/07/05

Promethea 28 reading and commentary videos

Homer, Odyssey, Book 9

Homer, Odyssey, Book 8

Homer, Odyssey, Book 7

Homer, Odyssey, Book 6

Homer, Odyssey Book 5

Homer, Odyssey Book 4

Banqueting central to Homer Odyssey – 2020/05/24

Author Alan Moore, eternalism and psychedelics

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Epp. 23-24

Checking back in; more writing soon

Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 8, 9, 10 – 2020/04/11

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 7; summary of Dose Nation approach; additional notes on prohibition and on Huxley, Doors of Perception

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10, Ep. 6

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 5

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 4

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’ Ep. 3

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 2

Notes on Dose Nation ‘Final 10’, Ep. 1

404 – cyberdisciple at other sites – 2020/03/31

Notes on Dose Nation Final 10: General and Speculation – 2020/03/31

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 22: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 6

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, ep. 21: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 5

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 20: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 4

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 19: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 3

Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 – Jan 28, 2020

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 18: James Kent’s ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 2

Homer, Odyssey, Book 2

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 17: James Kent, ‘Final 10’ at Dose Nation, pt. 1

Tree, Snake, Mushroom/psychedelic: abundance of evidence

Hygieia and snake statues from travels

Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 – 2019/12/31

On decoding – 2019/12/01

Homer, beginning of Odyssey and ‘choice of Achilles;’ kleos, psyche, nostos

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 16

Greek Philosophers: Thales

Homer, Iliad – 2019/11/03

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 24

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 23

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 22

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 21

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 20

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 19

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 18

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 17

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 16

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 15 – 2019/11/03

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 14

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 13

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 12

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 11

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 10

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 9

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 8 – 2019/10/31

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 7

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 6

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 5

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 4

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 3

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 2

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Ep. 15

Iliad 1, opening invocation

Posting projects

Greek Philosophers: Pherecydes of Syros

Notes on Homer, Iliad, Book 1 – 2019/06/18

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episodes 12-14

Resuming Posting

Seneca, Epistle 110.5-8

The charges against Socrates as depicted in Plato’s Euthyphro – 2017/07/23

Notes on Plato’s Euthyphr

Episode 11, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato, pt. 2

Academia produces conformists to status quo – 2017/05/07

Episode 10, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato

Assessing Robert Graves’ 1950s psychedelic scholarship on Greek myth/religion/art

Bad anthropology; Robert Graves; moderate entheogen theory

Episode 9, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Book: Brown and Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels

Episode 8, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Pro-Prohibition ‘activism’ funded by Pharma, Police, Prisons, Alcohol

New Yorker magazine article on Ayahuasca culture in US

Article: Hatsis, T. “Born of a Version” – 2016/09/06

Episode 7, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

People on Psychedelics wiki

Neil Peart, Rush: on coded lyrics

Carl Ruck article on Wasson and backstory of Road to Eleusis

Defining my academic background

Cyber/Psyber Disciple; ancient Greek and Latin words related to pseudonym

Episode 6: Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Book: Larson, J. 2016. Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach – 2016/07/08

Herodotus, 1.22-23: Arion and the dolphin

Bob Dylan, altered state allusions

Beatles, coded warfare, allusions, cannabis and lsd timeline

Livy, 1.4.1-7

Episode 5, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast – 2016/06/30

Ovid, Fasti, 3.11-16; 19-24

Book: Rush, J, ed. 2013. Entheogens and the Development of Culture

Unexpected side effect of studying Ego Death Theory: adept cultural critic – 2016/05/29

Episode 4, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Episode 3, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

Sophocles, fragment 945

historical scholarship in the light of metaphysical enlightenment per the Eternalism theory

Entheogen scholars, move on from mystery cults – 2016/02/18

Michael Hoffman Interview on Expanding Mind podcast with Erik Davis

Herodotus 1.16-1.22, Alyattes and Miletus

Herodotus update: 1.14-15

Herodotus update: updated decoding of Gyges story; 1.13

Teaching gesture, up and down; Raphael School of Athens

tom hatsis; primacy of cog sci, eternalism, metaphor

Controllership, not oneness

The Humanities did not and could not have produced EDT

Re: Assignment from Prof. Loose-Cog

Book (Italian): Tra la vigna et la croce (‘between the vine and the cross’

Entheogen podcast, Carl Ruck interview – 2015/10/14

Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος (Apollonios Rhodios) (first half 3rd cent. BC): Argonautica

Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 – c. 35 BC): The Jugurthine War

Book: The Witches’ Ointment

Book: Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC): Bucolics/Eclogues

Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (c. 484-425), Histories

Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499): Letters

Historical literary studies in light of Egodeath Theory

Evaluating theories of mythology – 2015/07/06

Polyphemus Vase

Led Zeppelin, Going to California

Debranched tree in Odyssey, Book 23

body/soul distinction = ego/transcendent control systems – 2015/04/23

Horace, Odes 3.2

Images of debranched tree in Roman victory monuments

Baby Dionysus steers Pan/Satyr by his horns

Stag vs. Snake on Byzantine mosaic

Eternalism superior term to Heimarmene/Cybernetics

Conference Panel: Cognitive Classics

Conference Panel: Greek Shamanism Reconsidered

Stoicism = nofreewill, not compatibilism – 2015/01/04

cyberdisciple

Poppy flowers on ancient architecture

debranched tree and Roman military

Against Brad Warner and pro-meditation, anti-entheogen arguments – 2014/12/08

Beatles, Run for Your Life

The Incredible String Band, A Very Cellular Song

Horace, Odes 1.5

Topics in antiquity studies

Academic specializing and evidence-first research prevents paradigm revolution

Woodcut of Perseus and Andromeda

on the practice of physics in Stoicism

Quotations from ancient philosophers on the flight of the soul – 2014/02/28

Guster, Long Way Down

Book: Drugged, Richard J. Miller

Herodotus 7.103-4; Xerxes (Persian) and Demaratos (Spartan); hierarchical vs. egalitarian

Dr. Carl Hart on drug policy – 2013/08/17

Horace, Odes 1.3

Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Talking Heads, No Compassion

King Crimson, One More Red Nightmare

Gentle Giant, Aspirations

Talking Heads, Pulled Up

Horace, Epode 16

From the Rush album, Presto, 1989

Free will in Stoicism – 2013/02/07

Book: P. Devereux, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia

Book: S. Teitsworth, Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds

For Researchers of Antiquity – 2012/12/19

Socrates, Oracle at Delphi, dialogue

Pierre Hadot on Greco-Roman philosophy

Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey

Horace, Odes 1.4

Roman Emperor = Commander

Examples of Snakes in Greco-Roman art, depict fixed world line of control thoughts in pre-set block universe; tree; entheogen – 2011/11/05

Seneca, Epistle 71.27

Carved Doors of Santa Sabina, Rome

Cupids Performing Tauroctony on Temple of Venus Genetrix at Forum of Caesar in Rome

Review and study guide for Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

The Beatles, Getting Better

Some strategies for academics for writing about psychedelics/loose cognition and self-control seizure and transformation

Plato’s Socrates: the true ruler rules unwillingly

Research questions on mystery religions and metaphor – 2010/09/20

Notes and research questions on ancient history and altered state experiencing – 2010/09/20

Alcaeus 42: interpreted according to the theory of altered state analogy

The mythic mindset; ancient historiography – 2010/09/16

Reading: Michael Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol

King Crimson, Epitaph chorus

Michael Rinella, “Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens”; Interview with Rinella; Plato and altered state experiencing

Spontaneous summary of Egodeath Theory for a friend

Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry

Entheogens in ancient Assyrian and Persian art – 2010/01/18

Narco Polo blog; DCA Hillman, Chemical Muse

Classical ‘worship’ of wine

Ustinova – Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

The Beatles, Got to Get You Into My Life

Amanita Jewelry found in recently discovered Anglo-Saxon gold hoard

Religion-myth and actual history: Examples from Classical Antiquity

Apollo and Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; branching / non-branching laurel

Contemporary scholarly research on antiquity lacks understanding of ubiquity of altered state in ancient culture

Ancient literary techniques: mythology – 2009/07/30

Psychedelics’ relationship with environmentalism; some entrenched ideas among modern Psychedelics writers

Statius, Emperor Worship, Imperial Banquets

Amanita description in Ennius

Experience applying theory in academia work – 2009/06/20

Ancient Sparta suppressed entheogens?

Sophocles, Irony, and Metaphor

Response to Jan Irvin: 1. On The Holy Mushroom; 2. On the Authorship of the Article, “Wasson and Allegro on The Tree of Knowledge as Amanita”; 3. On Details of the Egodeath Theory; 4. On Parenthetical Comments

Attitudes towards Entheogens in Classics Academia

Egodeath Core Theory (Phase 1) and Metaphor (Phase 2)

First Impressions of Irvin, “Holy Mushroom” and Rush, “Failed God”

New Books received – The Holy Mushroom; Failed God – 2008/11/14

Yes – Into the Lens

Integration

New book on Agency in Greek Tragedy

Review of new German book on Fate in Homer

Key paradigm shift for Classics

Classical Lit: metamorphosis; Orpheus; Roman myth/history

Intoxication in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi

Immediate follow-up on altered state nullity of will in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi – 2008/08/15

Altered state entrapment and nullity of the will in a passage of Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind)

Hillman, 2008. The Chemical Muse

classical literature and egodeath, preliminary notes

Other notable Arcade Fire lyrics

The Arcade Fire – My Body is a Cage

Altered State allusions in Rock lyrics

Alan Watts This Is IT and further reading – 2008/07/13

Growing outrage over phony War on Drugs

Ego Death theory as superior religious system

To Introduce the Ego Death Theory

Beginnings – oldest post, 2008/06/22.
I started hiatus Jan. 2008 (- Sep. 2011)

Page Formats at WordPress

WordPress has two page formats:

  • “Pages” – URL has no date. Wider text area.
  • “Posts” – URL has date. Narrow text area. I don’t like “weblog” or “blog”. I’ve been missing “posts” a la the Egodeath Yahoo Group. So I’m using the WordPress term, “post” but I might also use “webpage” to refer to the WordPress “post” format.

About This Site Map

The driving idea prior to the idea of this present webpage is

I’ll bet I could jump in to cyberdisciple website and read while voice recording

I could do all kinds of interesting content by jumping in unprepared

but he has not created a site map and so we have to rely on the dubious ineffective organizations nav schemes which WordPress weblog has provided:

1) their search which gave me a terrible formatting with no summaries of the hits of the pages, at Least on mobile

2) Another arrangement they provided is “by date” – that’s of no use to me , I mean, that’s good supplemental information, but terrible for navigation.

3) And then there’s keywords, which relies on cyber disciple who I think he does apply keywords to each web blog post, but again I think

when I click a keyword on mobile, it gives me no , it’s stupid, it gives me no lines summary;

I want a list of 25 hits/pages, with two lines per page, and mobile does not give me that view.

it stupidly gives me the full entire damn articles in sequence, massive quantities, – this does not work at all.

Ever since I first examined the web log format, I thought this is really bad, making the primary navigation of the information content by date; that’s a stupid random –

date organization should be available, but should not be the primary organization scheme.

I found a great solution to this, by creating a site map : a structured static hierarchical site map, manually crafted format, at word press

and then the other scheme that is provided by weblogs is keywords

but I would have to examine the wordpress UI both on desktop and on mobile , because they are significantly different

I want to do a keyword search “show me all of his articles were all of my pages about keyword foo”

And then give me a one line short one line summary of all 25 hits

or generate some kind of a hierarchy view listing all keywords; all of the pages at the site, every single web blog page, organized somehow by keyword

this is something I have not implemented; I have only begun to experiment with applying keywords to my weblog posts at WordPress

recently due to mobile editing and needing a very streamlined low overhead unstructured with little only little structure of content creation has driven me to use wordpress weblog posts UI design, as designed, rather than only using very manually crafting intensive desktop driven manual layout to do / craft heavy custom site navigation.

including my long actually somewhat complex idea development pages which were designed to be low overhead – given a desktop keyboard and big display.

that format is low overhead, sort of in some ways, except for having to craft the table of contents entries individually.

the long idea development pages, become slow and unresponsive, and so I have to halt and create a new idea development page when it becomes too long.

also I have experienced some data loss when editing a given page with desktop and then with mobile and then with desktop- I lost data

the longer the page, the greater the risk of data loss and malfunction.

even Microsoft word has the same problem

these tools can’t handle my big long and girthy ideas

See Also

My Pages about Cyberdisciple’s Work

My own site’s Site Map has a Cyberdisciple section that lists my pages about Cyberdisciple’s work:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Cyberdisciple

Why Doesn’t Letcher Hatsis Condemn & Debunk the Secret Amanita Theory of Greek Religion?

In Egodeath Mystery Show episode 121b 1:14:00, and episode 121a 8:45 (@ Idea Devmt page 13),

I criticize Letcher Hatsis for not being critical enough and debunking – he fails to debunk and attack the popular and wrong “secret Amanita theory” of ancient Greek religion.

But it would be really easy for him to tackle that: all he has to do is use the proxy principle and debunk Amanita in Eleusis, only, thereby proving that there are no mushrooms in Hellenistic religious history. 😑

The “secret Amanita theory” of Greek religion is just a pop myth that’s making the field of entheogen scholarship look like an embarrassment, and it’s really holding back the field.

This baseless, invented, pop theory, the Secret Amanita Theory of Greek religion, is probably coming from Jan Irvin (certainly not coming from Hatsis’ good buddy Carl Ruck, since Hatsis urged “But I *agree* with Carl Ruck!”).

Under Carl Ruck’s guidance, the field of entheogen scholarship has come such a long way since 1976!

Forget Mushroom Trees; Vine Leaf Trees Are What It’s Really All About

Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 121b 43:00

I lost my train of thought when I jumped from one parallel to a different parallel while recording the show.

I was saying that cut branches and branch removal and vine maintenance was my specialty

I was talking about the dud failure disappointment Vineleaf trees that are placed in the exact Parallel with Mushroom Trees in Canterbury Psalter

and then I compared that parallelism to the Monte Cassino Manuscript

Two versions of the same scene where you have the mushroom tree on the left an exact parallel with the Branching Message Mandrake tree on the right

and as soon as I traversed that isomorphism, I forgot where I had come from, which was the topic of parallel Vineleaf Trees and Mushroom Trees in Canterbury Psalter.

but although I knew I had forgotten my train of thought, I commented that I was recording my speaking, so I would eventually be able to just listen to the playback and remember

and so that’s the answer of where I can how did I get here was from the how did I get here back at the Mandrake trees of wantacasino Manuscript?

the answer is by meta-parallel

now that I return to the original thread, it suggests Parallels such as Branching Message Trees

Vineleaf trees are a form of branching message tree, related to Branching Message entheogen tree.

so you can do things like

imagine a Mandrake tree with cut branches in parallel with a Vineleaf tree

per the 1906 book by Albert Brinckmann Trees Stylizations in Medieval Paintings, cited by Alfred Panofsky, citation censored out by Gordon Wasson, who didn’t want us to see the entire four mushroom trees which are in this comprehensive “small” book, an up-to-date book from just 120 years ago, with an entire five mentions of the word pilzbaum (mushroom trees).