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.

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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

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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).

Components of the Maximal vs. Moderate Entheogen Theories of Religion

good news I talked it through on Egodeath Mystery show while reading this page aloud on April 20, 2022 and have a clear definition spelling out about three components of my October 2002 definition of maximal versus moderate positions

the only thing lacking in that announcement was giving more examples of Mythology Interpretation then ahistoricity

and now I can summarize better than those postings that the way that the Moderate entheogen theory thinks about mythology is low physical object; spot the physical 🍄 object, Mushroom object = Jesus.

I did , back then, elaborate a sophisticated levels of different senses in which ahistoricity of Jesus figure

but now I have a cleaner simpler summary, both of the two different levels of saying “mythological Jesus”, and more broadly the two different levels of saying “mythology describes visionary plants”.

Interesting realization is that the field of entheogen scholarship has always been an add-on a solution to the field of esotericism and mythology and religious Mythology and mysticism.

The Field of entheogen scholarship has never been about isolated question of visionary plants or a dispute about just the quantity of visionary plants in historical periods; it has also different theories of mythology interpretation.

by my demanding a more sophisticated Interpretation of Mythology than the moderate position is able to articulate, I am in effect demanding that you meet these qualifications to be allowed into the Maximal position:

you have to include my 1988 or 1997 core theory of possibilism versus eternalism as the true referent of mythology, that describes not just visionary plants, but experiences from the plants, specifically, loose cognitive association transforming the mental model from A to B, with adequate specifics.

you cannot be a Maximal entheogen theorist without recognizing that the people before us interpreted Mythology as description of this particular mental transformation.

I not only disagree and say that it was the majority of people, but also, together with that, I provide a far more sophisticated explanation of the kind of analogy mythology that this majority held.

then also distinctly, we have the question about

the Moderate position holds that *some kind of* analogy Mythology was held by a minority of people, together with the sheer use of visionary plants by a minority of people. How many people used plants, and which interpretation of mythology did they hold:

Summary

the Minimalists say little plants use, and literalist.

the Moderates say minor plants use, and crude analogy.

the Maximal position says major plants use, and sophisticated analogy.

it is this combination of change of understanding which made it difficult to clearly articulate the exact difference between the Maximal versus Moderate entheogen theory of religion.

it is a matter of quantity and quantity

we have a dispute about both the quantity and quality:

Carl Ruck & the Moderate paradigm estimates too low of a quantity, of both plants and mythology understanding on the part of the people before us in the middle ages;

and Carl rock also brings too low of a quality, of his own understanding of mythology, and his reading of how the people before us, our ancestors who used the visionary plants:

how did they interpret mythology and analogy?

What was their quality of understanding- was it merely that Jesus = 🍄 object?

Or, per the Maximal, sophisticated understanding of mythology, which includes our understanding of how our forebears understood Mythology as describing the experiential shift to loose cognition, causing a particular transformation of the model of self and world regarding control and possibility branching.

entheogen scholarship has always been, from day one, about how people interpreted mythology in the past.

but the Moderate position has always had –

but the Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion has always had a poor conception of Mythology, as describing the physical plants as objects,

whereas my Maximal entheogen theory of religion has always had a sophisticated understanding of how earlier people used mythology to describe the experiences that result from the visionary plants.

I did make this point in 2002, but I also had many too levels of ahistoricity that I discussed too many levels, you could say.

and I lacked any specifics on mythemes other than that, although I did say broadly mythological thinking, but unfortunately the only example I gave was ahistoricity,

and I talked about how the moderate position says Jesus is a personification of the physical Mushroom object

and I also correctly said that the Maximal Entheogen Theory Religion Instead held that Jesus life (as Max Freakout described to Kafei) is a description of the experiencing of the altered state from visionary plants.

The shortcomings of the announcement posting of 2002 and 2003 are that :

I provided too many different versions of the ahistoricity of founder figures in general

and that I did not yet possess my catalog of mytthemes other than the founder figure the life of Jesus

I only covered that indirectly , what would become my catalog of all key mythemes all the key mythemes by only providing an abstract broad Statement

but the 2003 shortcoming was that I was not able to articulate examples other than seven different versions of ahistoricity eg aHistorical Jesus, (In the case of Christianity).

see my announcement page regarding Maximal Entheogens Theory of Religion at this website

but also imagine clarifying it to make it tighter definition of maximal Versus Moderate Position

and also a good coverage of the minimal Position

one suprising realization is that John allegro as well as Terence McKenna are the examples of the Minimal entheogens Theory position or explanatory framework or theory Within the Field of entheogens Scholarship

and allegro makes it confusing: he gives the appearance that he is moderate entheogen theory advocate, by including in a self-contradictory way the Plaincourault fresco

and also a Development today April 20, 2022 is that I proved that Jan Irvin, Against Allegro, holds the moderate entheogen theory

The proof of that is that irvin re-instated

the planegirl Friscobecause

The proof of that is that irvin re-instated the planegirl Frisco

Jan Irvin re- added the Plaincourault fresco and maybe text about it restored back into a John Allegro’s book after Allegra had removed it

Allegro definitely removed the picture according to Thomas Hatsis (the great historian of psychedelics) but I don’t know if allegro also removed his text from his book, text mentioning the planecrawl fresco and whether Jan Irvin added that text back in again.

So a couple things are going on here is

for one thing, I’m at identifying why my 2003 articulation of maximal Versus Moderate theories was not clear enough for future-me to understand, and

it was challenging to specify exactly how it fell short of what it needs to be

it defined too many positions about the particular Mythology Interpretation of Historycity of Jesus when it really should have defined two or maybe three positions at most

and it did not provide any examples of mythology as description of the experiences from plants other than cataloging seven different versions of Jesus ahistoricity

So now I am positioned to write a clearer and more focused and announcement and give more broader examples of just two different ways of interpreting Mythology on the part of entheogen scholars, along with back-attributing how the people before us interpreted Mythology

the moderate school Carl Ruck says, and John allegro the minimal school says, that the people before us interpreted Mythology : that Jesus is the personification of the physical Amanita as an object.

in contrast, my maximal school says that the people before us interpreted myth as describing loose cog experiential transformation as referent of mythemes such as:

the life of Jesus that is, the death of Jesus as describing, and the judgment of him, & the last cup, and fastened to the cross, and buried in the rock, and reborn from the rock tomb, and miracles: handling snakes without dying; interpreting foreign languages; you shall do even greater miracles.

as the Maximal theorist, I reveal how the people before us interpreted Mythology and mythemes, as description of the experiences that are produced from visionary plants not the plants themselves as the ultimate referent.

What Carl rock had in the book the Apples of aPaulo amounts to a certain low kind of analogy understanding, as cyberdisciple has noted in his webpages, by Rucks applying a mixture of crude anthropology theories of mythology. and Carl rock brought knowledge of visionary plants in history.

then what I brought to the game what I brought to the table was a different overlap in 1999 I brought my core theory which is possible as in versus eternalism and autonomous Control Premise Versus dependent Control Premise and I did not bring analogy Mythology and History and I did bring sort of visionary plants experience but not the history of visionary plants what I brought was the understanding of the

Cognitive loosening effects that are produced by a visionary plants which Carl Ruck does not bring so even where we overlap I bring something very different than the moderate school

you cannot simply say that both of us covered visionary plants in the year 2001 when I read their disappointing Moderate entheogen paradigm book, Apples of Apollo.

it would be interesting to analyze how is Dr. Jerry Brown closer to my view of today or of 2001 , how is his book The Psychedelic Gospels more fulfilling to my expectations that I held in 2001 than the Carl Ruck school’s Moderate theory book, apples of Apollo.

like snake rock king wine Branching nonbranching vine fruit of the vine equals gnosis Transcendent and Knowledge this fool Rich catalog of methane mapping to transcend a knowledge this is how we maximal entheogens theorist understand mythology and also this is how we recognize the people before us who invented this mythology this catalog mythemes how they understood them, not in a crude physical childish way where mytheme X equals physical object Y, Like Moderate Carl rock and the Minimalist John Allegro.

sometimes in the past few days (or months, or decades) , I’ve put the emphasis on how much does the moderate position grasp esoteric analogy or a historicity or a complete mental model transformation

at other times, I have said that the distinction between maximal versus moderate is entirely simply a matter of the narrow Question to what extent christian middle ages knew about and used visionary plants.

then that view uses, or feeds into the idea of the Forgot Plot

the idea of the forgot plot is the premise that the maximal, moderate, and even the minimal views all agree about the endpoints being upper left and lower right

but they only disagree about the middle ages.

what did people –

which of Elaine Pagels’ clusters of ideas did people hold during christian middle ages ?

what percentage of people held the gnostic set of views versus the orthodox set of views?

and among those set of views is use of visionary plants, as well as ahistoricity, or apathy about Mr. Historical Jesus, and also, were they fluent in the language of Mythemese?

The Carl Ruck school says that in the middle ages, this set of gnostic views was half forgotten, yet largely present.

notice how here I am focusing on the question about visionary plants, but like my March 2003 posting I am also combining the view or our estimate of the view held by people in the middle ages

I am combining their view regarding visionary plants, together with the idea that they are inclined to understand analogy and metaphor and myth describing the Altered State.

like “the Gnostics” , according to Elaine Pagles’ first three books (jon writings; the Gnostic paul; the gnostic gospels) vs “the Orthodox”,

together with “exoteric versus esoteric” per Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy ‘s book The Jesus Mysteries.

aka “Psychics” vs “Pneumatics”;

aka per me 1986 “egoic vs transcendent”.

so the Forgot Plot that’s drawn by Carl Ruck school, which is the annoying frustrating book, the Apples of aPaulo in December 2000, authored by the anonymous committee consisting of Carl Ruck and Clark Heinrich and M. Hoffman.

The scope of that book is explicitly Greek and Christian.

The visionary plant advocated by that book I think is amanita, I guess.

(Minimal here would be Terence McKenna) noticed this position is not the tea total denial position except maybe it’s a T total denial that middle ages Christianity had visionary plants as defined here the minimal position the minimal entheogen theory religion asserts that religion did begin from visionary plants but was quickly forgotten so in this sense John allegro is a minimal entheogen theory advocate but probably Jan Irving his number one fan boy does not take that narrow view cyber disciple Points out in his analysis of John allegros relevance that allegro had much to particular and I add fleeting views it only the first generation ad used visionary plants and knew about them

but I don’t think Jan Irving takes that same position; I assume that Irving pictures that 🍄 use continuing into the middle ages

that the forgot plot starts in the upper left we’re along time ago everyone used visionary plants and then all three parties agree that today no religion uses visionary plants.

In distinguishing the Maximal Versus Moderate entheogen theories, the emphasis is not- well there are two different emphases, maybe;

we are emphasizing what the moderate people believe, or ,

we are emphasizing what the entheogens scholrs believe that the Christians of the middle ages believed.

and in 2003 I extended this to be general to all world religions: look at the way that the moderate entheogen theory advocate thinks about how other people thought during the middle part of their religious history.

if you think that knowledge of visionary plants was 50% forgotten by Christians in the Middle Ages, and that comprehension of metaphor and analogy was 50% forgotten by the middle ages, then you are a moderate entheogen theorist.

but how does that position relate to Amanita Madness? (extreme overemphasis on presumed use of Amanita, at the expense of perceiving Psilocybin).

Entheogen scholars who fully understand mythemes and visionary plants draw a high Forgot Plot in the middle ages which is to say they tend to assume or perceive that the knowledge was not forgotten during the middle ages but was very alive and well

the knowledge of visionary plants and the understanding of religious Mythology as metaphor describing the effects of the visionary plants to reveal our dependence of control on the creator who created our near-future control thoughts a million years ago.

A different definition of the moderate position is : those entheogen theorist/scholars who study esotericism (but not adequately), and who use psychoactive’s (but not adequately) and they aren’t good enough, effective enough psychoactives to force a mental transformation.

Letcher Hatsis Is Right, Though Overcorrecting

What Letcher Hatsis Got Right

I did not realize the extent to which the entire field of Entheogen Scholarship had become completely corrupted and taken over entirely by the secret Amanita paradigm

I did not realize that when Carl Ruck quoted me saying “mixed wine is mushroom wine” that he interpreted the word ‘Mushroom’ differently than me.

I meant Psilocybin, but Ruck meant 🍄.

which I consider to be fundamentally different!

🤯

there is no way that I can imagine Amanita producing the clean loose cognitive effect which psilocybin is the benchmark standard reference for producing

I consider Amanita as a dirty, questionable, unknown, inconsistent, non-targeted effect.

and if we build our thinking around amanita, then our thinking is dirty, non-specific, non-targeted, confused, and unfocused, and inadequately loosened, in adequately, insufficiently inspired

I had no idea that when people were reading my pull quote in Carl Ruck’s book where I wrote “mixed wine is mushroom wine”, I had no idea that people were reading my Maximal statement as if I had written “mixed wine is amanita wine”.

What I meant was, the Maximal *Psilocybin* theory of mixed wine – but what people mistakenly read was, the Maximal *Amanita* theory of mixed wine!

totally different!

completely different!

What Letcher Hatsis Got Wrong

The overreaction of letcher hatsus is to solve the problem by completely and totally rejecting all versions of mushroom hypothesis in Christian history.

instead of them rightly deleting and replacing the bad old theory by a good new theory of the role of mushrooms and Christian history, what they did instead- they’re trying to replace the bad old theory by no theory, which is to say, by a firm assertion that there were no mushrooms whatsoever

by which in their confused thinking, = 🍄

then when they assert “no psilocybin in Christian history”, they argue that on a *completely different* basis

that is a completely different subject in their pop minds

where

the popular mind is not driven by thinking and explicit assertions, but rather, by loose emotional connotations and word association, in a hypnotic-like state, Pop Trance.

Letcher Hatsis , on a rough first order of approximation, makes some five assertions:

1) assertion number one :

the [Moderate entheogen theory] secret Amanita paradigm has completely corrupted and taken over the field of entheogen scholarship.

at a level 1 approximation, he is correct.

2) assertion number two:

there is no amanita[=”mushrooms”] in Christian history.

his assertion is false, but to a large extent a matter of degree, he is right.

there is much less Amanita in Christian history than the predominant paradigm asserts and assumes and presumes.

3) his third assertion is :

there is no Psilocybin in England or Europe or Mediterranean Antiquity until 1975 , and so there simply is no conversation about Psilocybin in christian and History. ug ug ug word salad emotional notion pop connotation “anachronism”. 😑

just like Wasson says that in the topic of mycology, there is no room for discussing the planecorral fresco; it has no place in discussion Within the field of mycology, because plaincruel fresco does not depict mushrooms.

similarly, Letcher Hatsis says that the topic of psilocybin has no place in a discussion of Christian history, because that is “anachronistic”.

for example, Psilocybin didn’t even exist in England until, due to false popular history, it was brought there in 1975.

We are not to read this as a straightahead assertion of sober factual statement, but rather, he is channeling the emotional gut connotation pop mental association notions, and we see it written in ink here in his book, but it is – do not mistake this as a factual type straightahead assertion; read it as channeling the pop, confused “mind”.

“Magic Mushrooms” & slop pop associations 🍄

We need to explicitly relate and explain: how do we jump from red and white popular Amanita, which we call “magic Mushrooms”, over to the separate, *very different* species and chemical, Psilocybin?

why is it that everyone puts forward the *picture* images of amanita, but zero people ingest Amanita, and 100% of people ingest Psilocybin instead?

Explain that, and then we will use that to explain why amanita in Christian art does *not* mean literally ingesting Amanita, but it means ingesting Psilocybin instead, due to the innate poor efficiency of amanita, combined with its high visual appeal.

Idea development technology technique

technique for making my ideas thinking visible making thought visible at high-speed efficiently:

I now need to turn off the beep function of voice dictation, because I am recording Egodeath Mystery show episode right now and the two mics are picking up the beeping … success; I just had to turn down the volume while it’s in the voice recording dictation voice dictation mode. voice dictation beeping is still on but super super faint.

Why Christian Texts Say ‘Eucharist’ Instead of ‘Mushrooms’

7:46 AM day after Easter April 18, 2022

Hatsis argues that the church authorities are proved to not censor out visionary plants, because they permitted printing the words ‘Mandrake’; scopolamine plants, and other visionary plants.

Hatsis argues that Christians did not use mushrooms*, and we know that, because the word ‘Mushrooms’ does not appear in Christian writings.

*warning: Whenever Hatsis says the word ‘mushrooms’ in the context of Christian history, he always means and assumes exclusively Amanita.

He has explicitly said as much to me (personal correspondence) where he said (in an inarticulate way) psilocybin is “anachronism”, thus is of zero relevance to the argument.

I think his email is in my idea development page 13 or maybe 12 for the exact quote; search this site for ‘anachronistic’.

Hatsis says we know that the church authorities did not censor out mentions of visionary plants, because they permitted writing about some specific visionary plants.

My retort is, I am insulting plants dismissively, other than psilocybin.

I spit on cannabis [theory] and 🍄 & scopalamine plants; hard pass, thank you very much.

I insult and condemn Mandrake as being merely a deliriant hallucinogen mind scrambling; not sufficiently targeting loose cognitive association.

I put down wine alcohol.

I put down Daphne and whatever the hell weird random plants are mentioned in order to dilute our focus on the one real plant that actually matters: the 250 species of Psilocybin mushrooms.

Here’s an interesting idea:

You know my phrase the “anything but drugs” explanation and you know my phrase the “anything but mushrooms” explanation.

Well here’s a new phrase for you, 8:18 AM April 18, 2022 new phrase, which is always cause for celebration.

I am all about inventing phrases.

That is how I made my big breakthrough of January 1988, it was through concept labels, a certain technology for communication cybernetics communication about control, by inventing turns of phrase and labeling them with an acronym for speed fast efficient usage.

New phrase announcement:

Anything But Psilocybin [ABP]

new concept label:

the Anything But Psilocybin theory

the Anything But Psilocybin explanation

so therefore we know the reason why the word ‘mushroom’ doesn’t appear in Christendom’s texts, it’s not because of censorship like a McKenna type of persecution of the mushroom use, where the big bad church totally stomped out all entheogen explicit mentions in texts and all usage of Psilocybin as the Eucharist.

Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 119a near 2:30:00 (= end) + into the start of Episode 119b – the Church’s/ the Salvation Salesmen’s agenda:

keep mushrooms, (especially psilocybin mushrooms) non-explicit in texts, re: the Eucharist.

Hatsis says therefore the real reason we have ‘Eucharist’ but not ‘mushrooms’ in texts of Christendom is that people did not use mushrooms* at all.

*by which he of course stupidly thinks Amanita, being oblivious to the real, relevant type, which is Psilocybin instead.

People in Christendom are allowed to discuss only the ineffective plants; they are allowed to discuss wine, and cannabis, and scopolamine, and even ineffective Amanita.

but people in texts are not permitted by the Establishment (Salvation Salesmen & Meditation Hucksters) to explicitly discuss/mention Psilocybin mushrooms, because that, specifically, is the real Eucharist; Psilocybin mushrooms (250 species) is the one type of visionary plant which is actually effective, so that is why it is the one, specific type of visionary plants that explicit mentions of is mostly missing from the texts of Christendom.

The Salvation Salesmen are not competing against scopolamine (so those texts were allowed); they are competing consciously and strategically against the real Eucharist, which is a Psilocybin Mushrooms (so those text were not allowed this is why we have selective explicit visionary plant words in the Christendom’s Texts and

where we would expect to see mushrooms explicitly mentioned in the text what we have in place of that is the word Eucharist instead and so what we have is in text we have the word Eucharist and in art we have branching message mushroom trees which combined distinctive features of four types of psychoactive Mushrooms defined by Eadwine in the Great Canterbury Psalter:

Token presence of amanita, 🍄 is barely represented in gcp Psalter, because everyone who knows mushrooms knows that I am an idiot has the lowest effectiveness.

Above, voice dictation translated the word ‘Amanita’ to the word “I am an idiot”.

Amanita, liberty cap, Panaeolus , and Cubensis: these are the four plants types which God created.

That’s why Wassen and the field of the bunk field of the cover-up operation field of “ethno-mycology” serves the purpose of steering conversation away from the real, effective Eucharist, which is psilocybin mushrooms.

The big bad church actually tried to steer people away from explicitly discussing mushrooms in texts including Amanita, but it was psilocybin in particular that they had to steer people away from

That’s why we have substitute entheogen fake Scholarship locking us in orbit around amanita forever, to prevent us from getting all the way to the goal, which is psilocybin mushrooms, the true Eucharist, which is effective at transforming the mind, pneumatic spiritual redemption.

Redemption is free, just costing possibility-branching thinking.

2:04:00 Egodeath Mystery Show episode 119a : more commentary about how our Gordon Wasson revised Panofsky’s cover story to change it from Italian Pines which fails for three reasons that I identified fails

so Wasson picked a more vague and region-appropriate “Palestine tree type of a vague mythical form” and says that that is what the England Mushroom tree painters were struggling to depict in a stylized way in all of their mushroom trees

it is quite a major deviation from Panofsky’s cover story version 1, which is obviously post-hoc data plucking of obviously picking Italian Umbrella Pines aka Stone pine, purely for the reason that it was the most mushroom-looking shape that he could find.

But Wasson listened to my podcast episodes and realized what a flimsy, incoherent, and unconvincing cover story that is.

So Wasson replaced it by version 2 cover story that was strategically vague like Wason does, and strategically cocky and pompous posturing, with great officiousness and heavy, heavy Authoritarian writing style, pompous and filled with self-assured attitude, as a con-artist bluff, revising Panofskys Story,

in wasson’s later quotation which is in Samorini one of his two articles, quotes wasson telling his later version 2 cover story, which contradicts and deviates from Panofsky’s Brinkman cover-up story.

Wasson change the story from “southern Italy Italian pines” to vague “Palestinian mythical tree type” to address my three objections that

I laughed at Wason’s face at the ludicrous preposterous cover story of southern Italy Italian pines being the target of all mushroom trees – an obvious post-hoc fabricated cover story flimsy cover story.

So Wasson solved that problem by putting forth a more vague and region-appropriate “Palestinian garden of Eden tree type”

and tells us with extremely pompous total self assurance and very authoritarian way of writing

wasson tells us the revised cover story that as every idiot art student knows,

as every idiot art student knows

garden of Eden Trees follow a well-known well established tradition (we authorities know and so you amateurs need to butt out and stop asking questions, because we already have this all under control and handled).

as every C- art student perfectly well knows, but you mycollegests are idiots you mycologists mycology professionals are idiots and ignorant and uninformed.

I point out in this episode of Egodeath Mystery Show how Wason is always falling over himself to gravely insult and deeply insult the mycologists and tries to stop them from any coverage of “ethno-mycology”

he’s always calling mycollegests ignorant idiots who don’t even know what every freshman art student knows perfectly well, that every mushroom tree of course is meant to represent specifically the garden of Eden trees in Palestine.

and the reason you don’t agree with me is that you as a professional narrow-minded mycologist are so ignorant, that you don’t even know what every single freshman C- student of art history Knows that obviously, every mushroom tree is intended to represent the garden of Eden tree, which is of a well-known Palestinian tree type.

A hazy, mythical, highly variable non-specific, except that I am dubbing it by a specific totally vague name, “Palestinian tree type” and every single halfwit 50-IQ art student knows this perfectly well, so shut up and mind your own narrowed professional mycology business, and stop asking questions, and stop presuming to step into my turf , that I have invented, called “ethno-mycology”.

– the Father of Ethno-Mycology, aka stop asking questions about this plane corralled, it is none of your business, and you mycologists are not allowed to discuss Plaincourault in your Narrow field which I have narrowed, called Nero professional mycology;

be a professional and stop discussing Plaincourault within the field of mycology: this is unprofessional and inappropriate, so you need to stop asking questions about the mushroom tree in plaincrawled.

119a episode 2:06:00+

Poet Robert Graves as the Real “Father of Ethno-Mycology”; Wasson Failed to Credit Graves’ Discoveries

Egodeath Mystery Show episode 119a near 2:15:00

The banker faction the salvation Salesmen faction

the poets faction – Graves 1957

Research and review: what was the specific reason that Robert Graves was mad at Wasson for failing to give him credit?

the artists faction Who drew the Branching Message Mushroom Trees, indicating advanced Psilocybin expertise technique and comprehension full complete up to spiritual transformation from Possibility Branching mental Model to eternal pre-existing control thoughts non-branching model, of changing from {the king steering in the tree}, to {the snake frozen in rock}.

the mycologists faction Rolfe Ramsbottom Brightman

The art historian faction is the enemy of the artists faction, because the art historians are in cahoots with the Salvation Salesmen, Trying to cover up what the artists have revealed, and to try to spin the too-revealing phrase “Mushroom trees”.

spin doctors art historians are cover-up spin doctors afainst the message of the artists

The monks who drew the mushroom trees are allied with the poets and the mycology mycologists and the artists all asserting Psilocybin Eucharist for transformation redemption per the group of ideas which Elaine Pagles identified in her three books and which system was popularized by Timothy freak and Peter Gandy in their book the Jesus Mysteries who explain the two sets of views

in this episode, I said that the story begins in 1906 , the contention about Plaincourault and Mushrooms in Christianity

and now I say psilocybin in Christianity specifically

but really Elaine Pagles traces this old battle from the beginning of Christianity between exoteric versus esoteric

I am advocating generic typical definitive paradigmatic set of views that I am explicitly defining, including specifically Psilocybin mushrooms.

I am insulting and criticizing Amanita as being the official entheogens of the lying, exoteric, un-transformed non-transformed, lower, childish Christians entheogen is merely Amanita, which fails to transform.

and that’s why the establishment version of entheogen scholarship is a cover-up operation trying to prevent coverage of psilocybin and trying to sidetrack the investigation into ineffective Amanita Instead, as a fallback last-ditch effort to prevent conversation from reaching the target goal, of revealing that the Eucharist for esoteric high effective redemption, the effective redemptive Eucharist of Christ is psilocybin.

whereas in contrast, the lower, ineffective, non-transformative, pseudo-, children’s visionary plant entheogen is Amanita, which is (merely) Mr. Historical/Magic Jesus.

Jesus Salvation equals Amanita equals egoic possibility Branching thinking orthodox is Elaine Pagles term

‘exoteric’ is Timothy freak and Peter Gandys term and

the term of the ancient gnostics was ‘the Psychics’ to insult the lower type of Christians and explain them in terms of egoic possibility-branching delusion-premised moral control agency operating in a possibility-Branching world; king steering in a tree , goes to heaven or hell based on lower moral presupposition about the nature of good and evil.

whereas “eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” means gnosis/ esoteric/ the Pneumatics; Psilocybin.

Jesus vs. Christ = Amanita vs. Psilocybin = Exoteric vs. Esoteric = Orthodox vs. Gnostic = Salvation vs. Redemption[confirm per John Lash bk]

two competing Eucharist versions:

Jesus salvation exoteric orthodox Psychics equals Amanita.

Christ redemption esoteric gnostic Pneumatics equals Psilocybin.

Has Entheogen Scholarship Been Totally Corrupted, Conflated with Secret Amanita?

hardcore absolute rejection of Amanita and full commitment to Psilocybin, in the topic of Christian history, would be 80-100% accurate and highly effective; a winning, cant-lose strategy. It’s much more true than false.

Putting all investment in an extremist Psilocybin theory is good effective strategy, to be immune to the parasitical liabilities that are the heavy strings attached to trying to affirm Amanita.

Given the current deadlock context trap.

Don’t theorize in a Platonic vacuum; messy real world girding affects emphasis positioning –

if you don’t push aggressively your own positioning & your own marketing and product placement and media coverage, the enemy will do it for you.

the enemy here is the default Amanita-drunken, “Maximal Amanita theory” entheogen scholarship Field that Letcher and Hatsis are battling against.

The Default Presupposition Matrix tries to distort and re-define my theory and clamp onto it and aggressive

not just a meaning halo narrow ring clamped around each part, but an entire backdrop context that it tries to attach to my theory to turn my theory into something that’s the opposite of what it is.

This question seems redundant, but the degree is changing.

I am asking even more than February 2021

maybe I have been underestimating the extent to which this field has led by Carl Ruck and the evil M. Hoffman together with Clark Heinrich , author of the book strange fruit, this field especially the Christian aspect christian history – Strange entheogen scholarship

I think even as much critique as I have done, I’m starting to wake up and wonder: have Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis been noticing something that I was not appreciating the extent to which –

have Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis woken me up to the extreme extent to which the field has been thoroughly corrupted and entirely totally been taken over by the Secret Amanita hypothesis???

How did I not notice the extreme extent of this problem when I picked up in the bookstore Carl Ruck’s book Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis with a pair of amanita drawing proudly on the lower left by the name Carl A. P. Ruck, where “A. P.” stands for Amanita proselyte –

State of the field in 2006:

State of the field 30 years earlier in 1976:

the Result of 30 years of coral rock miss leading the field is that we switch from putting a little amanita on the left to now we put the little amanita on the right

that is the progress that we have made in this imitation , children’s version of the field and entheogen scholarship, in 30 years of his mis- leadership leading us around and around in circles orbiting trapped forever in orbit around planet Amanita where

we mark the years by adding another book on to the pile, driving home yet again the story, the children’s story of secret Amanita

it’s the same book published every year again rolling out more and more demonstrations to lock us in orbit forever around planet Amanita

as I discussed in the Egodeath Mystery Show 5-hour show Easter 2022 last night, it is slowly dawning on me that I didn’t realize how the word Mushrooms and the word Entheogens regarding Christian history has been in the popular mind including the coral rock school a little bit of a sinister twist to Clark Heinrich is good book strange fruit 1994 followed by the deeply disappointing Book written by committee written by Carl rock mixed with a Clark Heinrich mixed with Mark Hoffman Apples of aPaulo December 2000 which was so disappointing that it caused me to create and define the maximal Entheogens Theory of Religion because

I noticed like just like exactly the same as the field of exoteric esotericism we have a field that claims to be positively contributing but which in fact leaves us at the starting line we don’t actually get the airplane off the ground

it is the impression of esotericism without any actual esotericism

it is faux entheogen scholarship

we have pseudo-field of entheogen scholarship

we have a mock imitation discussion of mushrooms and entheogens

just like I have eventually come to realize that fake esotericism books like secret teachings of all ages by Manley Hall 1924 does not actually deliver esotericism but it only delivers the surface impression of esotericism similarly what passes for intelligence scholarship doesn’t actually deliver regarding Christian history in place of substance in place of mental transformation and the loose cognitive state in place of delivering my phrase which I used six years before Valtr Hannah Graff Walther holograph well Walther Hannah Graff Walter Hannah Graff I think voice dictation got his name correct sometimes Walther Hannah Graff

consider my phrase which I used six years before he did and I used it in a scathing way in my yahoo group ego death posting the posting titled esoteric titled entheogenic esotericism and I scathingly condemned pretend week diluted just like his phrase, the worst phrase invented by any scholar ever, “non-drug entheogens”.

non-entheogenic entheogen scholarship

Is what Carl rock brings us and this is the irony of the position which I dubbed ironically in October 2002 “the moderate entheogen position” And I moved forward with what amounts to a two-tier binary system:

either you are “maximal” like me and you answer simply yes Christianity comes from Mushrooms ( read psilocybin) on an ongoing basis,

or else you take the other position which either denies drugs in religion the “minimal” position

or equivalently – that’s the important word is the word ‘equivalently’ – the “moderate” position, which pretends to give us Entheogens, but instead does a bait and switch, and only gives us amanita instead; nothing but mere amanita, which is a children’s make-believe, substitute entheogen.

just like Ken Wilber concept “the Atman project” “substitute” pseudo entheogen, we have substitute pseudo-field and imitation field of entheogen scholarship, represented by amanita emoji 🍄

The Atman project: pursuing transcendence by means (🍄) which prevent it

we have exact equivalent between exoteric esotericism and Hannahgraf’s “non-drug entheogen’s “

for all practical purposes which Carl Ruck delivers together with the evil M. Hoffman and Clark Heinrich – instead of strange fruit, we have strange entheogen scholarship.

Ruck school never delivers the goods, but only halts and brings us to a halt at children’s level: ineffectual alcohol wine and ineffective Amanita and deliriant scopolamine , the purpose being to withhold the real deal, to withhold the good stuff, and to pretend as if a head shop display of amanita literally means ingesting that,

when people talk about so called magic mushrooms when the reality is that absolutely no one ingests Amanita

and Amanita in the head shops functions 100% purely as an artistic representation of psilocybin and

our great grandfather’s are exactly the same

the reason they depict Amanita is because as the forward of the book by Poulter Stamets says Andrew Weil writes in the foreground of Paul Stamets book and identify identification guide Psilocybin Mushrooms of the world he writes that psilocybin is a “dull” looking mushroom type

so nature gives us two very different mushrooms: Amanita which is good looking, and

everyone who understands Mushrooms knows that amanita has low effectiveness

the other kind of magic mushrooms (as everybody with Mushroom Knowledge Knows) inherent in the Mushrooms themselves the “dull looking” mushrooms are the good kind to ingest and

our great grandfather who drew branching-message mushroom trees knew this perfectly well, because he had real knowledge of mushrooms, and so he knew the amanita is pretty for art, but poor for ingesting.

this is inherent in the mushroom itself; this is not ESP.

we do not need ESP; we need to know that the artist had knowledge of mushrooms

like any hi school students in the head shop knows intuitively and perfectly well that amanita is good for visual representation of magic mushrooms, but poor for ingesting.

The cautionary myth tale, the Amanita eaters: Odysseus and his men forgetting their mission

easter episode of Egodeath Mystery Show part A 42:00 , 52:00 describes the story of Odysseus and the Lotus eaters (the amanita eaters) of how we’ve been trapped in orbit forever around planet Amanita and

Letcher and Hatsis have tried to warn us about and I failed to appreciate the extent to which the field has been completely taken over by 🍄

I did not realize how the field had been completely taken over by amanita even though I’ve been writing harshly Against Amanita

Letcher and Hatsis Clearly perceived The degree of that take over

and I was too grounded and I was too attuned to clear thinking; I was not able to appreciate how warped and corrupted that the popular thinking is , how completely dominated it is by amanita

I did not appreciate, but now I can understand the insanity of Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis , who say this whole entrapment in planet Amanita orbiting forever and

their solution is the burn it all down scorched earth –

We had to destroy the field of mushroom Scholarship Christian History in order to save it from the Amanita madness that has steered it into a dead-end ditch, thanks to the coral rock paradigm of the Moderate Entheogens Theory, which amounts to exoteric esotericism

the Atman project: pursuing entheogen scholarship in a way (🍄) which prevents it.

thus we have the irony of a binary two-part Egodeath Theory

there are two positions regarding entheogens: the maximal position versus the minimal position ( which also includes the moderate position)

but the catch is that the moderate position is merely children’s version of mock lesser Mysteries

we have the children’s class in Visionary plants

see the cover of the book a golden guide hallucinogenic plants by Richard Evans Schultes.

we have been trapped in a children’s book version of the entheogen field 🍄

the Witches team, Letcher Hatsis, they are half awakened to the reality, and they are trying to wake other people up to break out of their imprisonment in the coral rock Amanita trap, where Ruck has conflated the word ‘Entheogens’ with the word ‘Mushrooms’ with Amanita.

I cannot believe it, I am amazed to realize:

why didn’t it register when I rejected Rucks book and I did not buy his book which pull-quotes me –

where I said that “mixed wine is mushroom wine”, I did not realize that my words were being abused/ misinterpreted to assert, per the front cover picture children’s picture kiddie picture Amanita, that Carl Ruck was interpreting my words, as if I had said “mixed wine is Amanita”! 😠👎

I never ever intended to assert that “mixed wine is amanita wine”, and I was at fault by carelessly using the vague word ‘mushrooms’ (Comparable to how I naïvely used the word ‘Determinism’ in 2006 instead of the unambiguous word ‘eternalism’) because

back then in 2006, I did not make an effort to distinguish between mushrooms versus Amanita versus Psilocybin.

i in fact held a too weak distinction between them, I only weakly held my distinction between Amanita vs Psilocybin.

and so my words got misinterpreted and misrepresented as if I had asserted that the ancient banqueting tradition “rounds of mixed wine” used amanita – which is certainly not something I would have ever asserted! 😠

Robert Graves was getting too close to the truth when he discovered Mushrooms in Greek myth in 1957, so Wasson did not credit graves for his discoveries, and tried to steer a new field: “ethno-mycology”, to prevent comprehension of Christian Psilocybin

I work out and talk through this reconstruction of the history of this field in the Easter episode of yesterday Egodeath Mystery Show part A ~1:05:00 April 7 2022 episode 119a.

Balancing on Right Leg, Cut Right Major Branch of Mushroom Tree, Snake with Legs

Canterbury = 1200

Bodlien manuscript = 1300

1. Balancing on Right Leg

2. Cut Right Major Branch Trunk of Mushroom Tree

2 cut trunks
caps: red vine leafs, shelf fungus. pink key tree: vine leafs (vine = non-branching) touch his right foot 1:15 pm Easter April 17, 2022 Cybermonk and cut of mushroom tree.
Cut right major branch

3. Snake with Legs at Mushroom Tree

Lizard or Salamander = Snake with Branching Legs

legged snake touching the tree in two non-branching places. Noted/noticed & analyzed & announced during Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 118, 10pm April 16, 2022. 2:01pm – grid (every-pixel) analysis re touching: Note what parts of the salamander are not touching what parts of the tree: the upper red frond is not touching the serpent tail , and the right foot is avoiding touching the green mushroom because both of those are attached to the branching portion of the tree.

to do: write several 70-page academic studies, one for each leg of the salamander, and the morphology of each frond and mushroom of the mushroom tree, and include the man’s right foot touching the cut trunk right of the tree.

vine leaf on right tree bottom left

4. Pink Key Tree & Key Salamander Snake

salamander and whole tree. salamander’s right paw (& tail) touches non-branching parts of the tree, and the man’s right foot touches the right cut major branch of the tree. 1:33pm Easter 2022 Cybermonk.

1:28 pm Easter: I just noticed that the right paw is touching the mushroom tree and that the right foot is touching the right cut trunk of the mushroom tree. remember, in this genre, touching is significant, meaningful.

the serpent is avoiding touching the branching zone of the mushroom tree – 2:13pm Easter 2022.

Semi-Relevant

entire image
vine leaf

Unrelated

Unlike stag, non-branching horn. Vine leaf on left.
The elongated, enlarged base skews toward a vial look, otherwise this would be an exact amanita depiction

Log of Discoveries & Achievements (Mobile Version)

Easter, April 17, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which features of this roasting salamander mushroom tree match Amanita?

which features match liberty cap?

which features match panaeolus?

which features match Cubensis?

which features match grape vine leaf or ivy vine leaf?