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After I finish reading this passage, I will continue to vocalize in this same way (casual standard voice) for the rest of the show.
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Summary of the Main Article
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death – Summary
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death explains what is revealed in religious revelation and in enlightenment, including the nature of personal control agency.
The essence and origin of religion is the use of visionary plants to routinely trigger the intense mystic altered state, producing loose binding of cognitive associations. This loose cognitive binding then produces an experience of being controlled by frozen block-universe determinism with a single, pre-existing, ever-existing future.
Experiencing this model of control and time initially destabilizes self-control power, and amounts to the death of the self that was conceived of as an autonomous control-agent. Self-control stability is restored upon transforming one’s mental model to take into account the dependence of personal control on a hidden, separate thought-source, such as Necessity or a divine level that transcends Necessity.
Myth describes this mystic-state experiential insight and transformation. Religious initiation teaches and causes this transformation of the self considered as a control-agent, through a series of visionary-plant sessions, interspersed with study of perennial philosophy. Most modern-era religion has been a distortion of this standard initiation system, reducing these concepts to a weak interpretation that is based in the ordinary state of consciousness.
Miscellaneous Sentences
How the Egodeath Mystery Show was started:
My followers are taking something that is the epitome of simple and clear, and then they’re applying their big-brain analysis to it; and quickly, by the time they touch it, they leave it a smoking complicated ruin and wreck, that’s all complicated and broken, and the opposite of what it is.
It is impressive and admirable, the consistent dedication to falsehood which the Exoteric paradigm has.
Book: The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in Its Numerous Guises, Both Real and Legendary Rolfe (1925)
R. T. Rolfe & F. W. Rolfe. The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in Its Numerous Guises, Both Real and Legendary. ISBN: 0486231054. 1925 (1974). Foreword by John Ramsbottom, 1924 <- same year as Manly Hall’s book Secret Teachings of All Ages.
“We may close this chapter with a fitting historical reference to the fungi, relating to a curious myth, connecting them with our reputed ancestors, Adam and Eve.
This is seen in a fresco in a ruined chapel at Plaincourault, in France, dating back to 1291, and purporting to depict the fall of man.
A reproduction of this is shown,1 and the Tree of Life* is represented as a branching Amanita muscaria, with the Serpent twining himself in its “branches,” while Eve, having eaten of the forbidden fruit, appears from her attitude to be in some doubt as to its after effects, which it is gratifying to know caused her no serious harm.
It is impossible to say whether this picture is merely a quaint conception on the part of the artist, or whether it has any better traditional foundation.”
– Rolfe, Romance of the Fungus World, 1925, p. 291, chapter “Some Historical Aspects of Fungi”
1. (1911) Bull. Soc. Mycologique de France, xxvii., p. 31.
“It is impossible to say whether this picture is merely a quaint conception on the part of the artist, or whether it has any better traditional foundation.”
Given mushrooms in Christian art eg pilzbaum, interpreted as psychedelic eternalism including integrated motifs of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, against Rolfe:
It is possible to say that this picture is not merely a quaint conception on the part of the artist, but has a traditional foundation.
My 2006 Wasson article is quite good, not just for this passage. The one gap is that I made it only 99% of the way toward realizing that Wasson’s ellipses(!) in Panofsky’s letter (of two!) MUST be a deleted citation that I was wanting. I did accuse Wasson of seeming to withhold citations, but should have specified: at the ellipses.
*I pointed out in 2006: “The tree would actually be the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not the tree of life.” I recently (late 2024) saw that someone eg. Ruck wrote that all the trees are interchangeable.
I am glad Dec. 31, 2024 that my 2006 article says:
“The final sentence seems to be asserting that it is unknown whether this portrayal of the Amanita mushrooms in a chapel indicates that Amanita mushrooms were used by those Christians, and that it is unknown whether there is a tradition of portraying Amanita in Christian art.
The Virtual Ego and the Illusory Aspect of its Control Power
The ego exists, but in a way that is more limited and complex than is usually felt. The Enlightenment conceived of the ego as an autonomous self-steering entity, rather than as a slave or puppet of gods or Fate. The cognitive structures of the semi-illusory ego must be preserved even while discovering that its thoughts and actions originate from the underlying plane, rather than originating from the ego. The ego exists virtually, or in certain limited aspects, the naive concept of ego is distorted, accepting the projected ego image as being as real as the egoic cognitive structures.
The ego-entity exists as a real set of patterns and dynamics, but the ego is not as solid, continuous, or powerful as it seems. The ego is both a set of real patterns, but also a projected, constructed image. In a way, the perceived ego exists, and in a way, it does not. The mind usually projects and constructs a fairly solid and simple image of oneself. Seeing the illusory aspects of this mental representation and feeling the absence of the accustomed sense of personal solidity can be experienced as death, as literal cessation of personal existence, because the naive mind strongly identifies with the projected image and the sense. Mental processing is structured with the conscious ego-representation as the center of control and experiencing. This representation of the ego is a dynamic set of mental constructs. This deceivingly tangible representation of the self or ego is only a part of the ego.
In a dissociative cognitive state, the usual cognitive structures constituting the ego cease, and the projection of the ego image also ceases. Oneself still exists in many ways, such as a body, a brain, a mind, possessions, and a personal past. One genuine aspect of oneself has temporarily ceased to firmly exist: the egoic cognitive processing, which is largely but not entirely suspended. The projection of the self-image is also partly suspended. Insofar as the mind confuses the projected self-image with that part of the self which is genuine, that projected self never existed, other than a perceptual illusion, and so could not cease to exist. If the ego is defined strictly as the natural assumption that the mentally projected self-representation is literally oneself, then it can be said that “the ego is only an illusion”. But such a narrowed definition of “ego” raises the question of what to call the real cognitive structures that reliably project that illusion. The ego is more than just an illusion. It’s a large, complex, and dynamic set of mental processes, of which the deceivingly tangible mental representation is only one part.
The will exerts control power, but this power is virtual rather than literal. There is some control-power, but the normal perception of this power is distorted. The sense of having control power is taken too literally and too simply. Ego structures are refined after enlightenment, not eliminated. Physics cannot provide a legitimate dwelling place for the ego entity, because the ego is largely illusory. Delusion or enlightenment are collective: first there is a uniform interegoic control field, deluded about control agency, then the rational, cybernetics explanation of enlightenment is discovered and communicated. There is a shocking feeling of helplessness upon realizing the insubstantiality of the cross-time ego.
Panofsky’s Letter Censored by Wasson
“The plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms, and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous. The Plaincourault fresco is only one example – and, since the style is provincial, a particularly deceptive one – of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as a ‘mushroom tree’ or in German, Pilzbaum. It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown of course to mycologists. … What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.”
– Erwin Panofsky in a 1952 letter to Wasson excerpted in Soma, pp. 179-180
Note the ellipses, where Wasson omitted Panofsky’s recommendation of Brinckmann’s book; Wasson’s book SOMA shows only ellipses here, and Brinckmann’s name doesn’t appear in SOMA.
For clarity, I here break out the restored text as a separate paragraph:
“The plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms, and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous. The Plaincourault fresco is only one example – and, since the style is provincial, a particularly deceptive one – of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as a ‘mushroom tree’ or in German, Pilzbaum. It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown of course to mycologists.
If you are interested, I recommend a little book by A. E. Brinckmann, Die Baumdarstellung im Mittelalter (or something like it), where the process is described in detail. Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.
What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.”
– Transcribed from the photograph of Panofsky’s letter in Figure 2 (in Brown’s article): Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Page 145.
Salverte – Occult Sciences, 1846
The aspirants to initiation, and those who came to request prophetic dreams of the Gods, were prepared by a fast, after which they partook of meals expressly prepared; and also of mysterious drinks, such as the Ciceion in the mysteries of the Eleusinia. Different drugs were easily mixed up with the drinks, according to the state of mind into which it was necessary to throw the recipient, and the nature of the visions he was desirous of procuring.
– Salverte, Occult Sciences, 1846, quoted in Hall, Secret Teachings, 1928, pp. 353-354.
Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky, 1877
Plants also have like mystical properties in a most wonderful degree, and the secret of the herbs of dreams and enchantments are only lost to European science, and useless to say, too, are unknown to it, except in a few marked instances, such as opium and hashish. Yet, the psychical effects of even these few upon the human system are regarded as evidences of a temporary mental disorder. The women of Thessaly and Epirus, the female hierophants of the rites of Sabazius, did not carry their secrets away with the downfall of their sanctuaries. They are still preserved, and those who are aware of the nature of Soma know the properties of other plants as well.
– Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 1877, quoted in Hall, Secret Teachings, 1928, p. 353
Motivation of This Page
Remove from flow of live broadcast instructions/steps for the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Comparable concepts such as gnostics, hierophants and prophets
Verbal communication compared to written communication
The relevance of Ramesh Balsekar’s thinking compared to other self-help gurus
Fusing the two states of consciousness; joining vs blending
Hesychasm as a natural means of accessing the altered state
The incompatibility between Jimmy’s book knowledge and his experiential knowledge
Commentary
The word ‘gnostic’ is recently controverted. April D. DeConick defends its use, in her book The Gnostic New Age. Reclaiming and redefining it better.
Like Max said here, I too have a tepid idea about the usefulness of the term ‘mystics’, it’s kind of a joke, not a respected concept to me.
~”none of them impress me that much. … What’s impressive [re: brands of mysticism] when you’ve got the Egodeath theory ? … Ramesh weak compared to.” 24:44 quotable 24*60 + 44 = 1484s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmpbFAAJXI&t=1484s
“jimmy is a mega advanced mystic” ~29:00 “but i don’t like the concept of ‘mystic’”
That gives me an idea for a new marketing/branding plan: the Egodeath theory = a panic-stricken psychotic trip to Hell
Machine Transcription
hello and welcome to transcendent knowledge podcast episode number 27. now this episode is subtitled the mystic episode this episode is going to be a solo podcast with just myself max freakout experimenting with a new podcasting format going to see how this goes so the last episode of the podcast was a three-way conversation between myself cyber disciple and jimmy and it generated a large amount of discussion and analysis and also controversy and even about the fundamental issue of whether or not it is even appropriate for me to have jimmy as a guest on the podcast given his whole disorganized conversational style and also his disorganized and incomplete understanding of the ego death theory so with this episode i wanted to carefully respond to what came up in the time since episode 26 came out and i also wanted to clarify my own point of view point of view on the various issues which i think is much needed at this point so in particular i need to fully explain why i said several times that we are not mystics and that the ego death theory is not relevant to mystics or it doesn’t address mystics because during the conversation with jimmy and cyber i never really said what i personally think because i was purely split between either paraphrasing the ego death theory or else paraphrasing jimmy kind of saying stuff back to him what i understood him to be saying or implying but maybe the recording didn’t go exactly according to plan i didn’t keep it focused enough i failed in that endeavor because before we did the recording i had planned to try to make the conversation focus very specifically on the topic of determinism so that we could clear up some specific misconceptions about the ego death theory in jimmy’s understanding but so i didn’t exactly succeed in that name because jimmy does have an exceptional ability to throw curveballs into the conversation so we ended up talking about some topics that i hadn’t planned at all and indeed i hadn’t even really ever thought much about a lot of the issues that that we talked about during that episode
so it mostly centers around the meaning of the word mystic and the connotations of that word it was maybe the the point when the podcast was thrown off track in terms of what i had planned for it was the moment when the word mystics reared large in in the conversation so i want to state absolutely precisely what i think about the word mystic and about the definition of the word mystic as well well so first of all the basic point of grammar is that the word mystic has two forms it can either be an adjective or a noun and the ego death theory already contains a very clear robust definition of the word mystic in the adjective form as in the the phrase mystic altered state which appears all over the ego death theory
so when you’re just considering the adjective form of the word mystic it very straightforwardly just means the same as loose cognitive but i think something about in the specific etymology of the words is to do with the two-stage dynamic of first secret and then revealed
however the ego death theory does not have a corresponding definition of the word mystic in the noun form unless i’ve missed it i think this now this kind of recent discussion this is the first time that this has come up as a big issue in addition to jimmy saying explicitly like i think that the ego death theory should cover mystics to to a greater extent so the real problematic issue here is about the meaning of the noun form of the word mystic plural mystics which is shorthand for a mystic person so it’s like you’ve got these two definitions these two grammatical forms where the adjective form refers to a state of consciousness and at least partially it describes that state of consciousness so it picks out a certain crucial feature of the the altered state of consciousness this hidden and then revealed aspect but the noun form of the word mystic refers to a person either to a type of person or else to a specific person and it doesn’t really describe that person it merely designates them it’s a sign as opposed to a symbol
so my basic position about the noun form of the word mystic is that i am skeptical that it’s useful or helpful or meaningful as a concept and furthermore i suspect that it might simply amount to a kind of modern era mistake or a misreading of religious mysticism and what that’s all about so in other words i’m saying the word mystic makes perfect sense it’s easy to define when it’s an adjective describing the altered state of consciousness but it makes far less sense it becomes ambiguous and perhaps even misleads and distorts understanding when it’s used as a noun as in designating a person a mystic person
and i think um if i remember correctly some some writer it might have been elaine pagels made a very similar point about uh about the word gnostic in one of her books might have been um the gnostic gospels she said something like it’s not an accurate concept uh gnostic that is it it’s not a natural kind or it’s not an accurate sociological kind it’s more like a modern misunderstanding projected onto a past era so the people themselves the people who modern people refer to as gnostics wouldn’t have wouldn’t have seen themselves that way so it’s an anachronistic understanding of what agnostic is and also exactly in line with the ego death theory you can make this this kind of point about jesus does jesus refer to a person or does jesus refer to the altered state or does jesus refer to something else like um astrological symbolism or some some other theory so the attitude of the ego death theory is something like jesus as a historical person is essentially a modern era mistake uh the mistaken assumption of historicism and the ego death theory then clarifies that jesus is properly or esoterically interpreted as an altered state or at least a meta metaphorical arrow pointing to the altered state so the claim i’m making here uh is i basically i suspect that something similar to this is the case when when we consider the noun form of the word mystic it’s like perhaps it’s a distorted exoteric inaccuracy to interpret the word mystic as referring to a person
and also just with the definition itself the category of mystic the way i see it could be as arbitrarily broad or narrow as you choose to define it so it could mean any person who has ever taken acid and tripped becomes a mystic or you could narrow the definition uh it could only be people who have been through the the classic initiation progression culminating in ego death maybe those are the the mystics or it could mean only people who know about the ego death theory so it’s a question of how high do you set the bar for attaining mystic hood and it’s arbitrary and the dictionary definitions are completely inadequate for clarifying this matter they don’t tell you that they don’t even uh incorporate and integrate the information from the ego death theory to be able to think of mystic hood in this way
and it and also like jimmy was playing this exact same definitional game that’s a large part of what he was saying was attempting to set a bar for being a mystic for attaining mystic hood and i think one one issue that came up in if you combine transcendent knowledge podcast episode 26 with all of the discussion that came after it was one clear indicator of how fuzzily defined the word the noun form of the word mystic it’s because there were so many different qualifiers that got added on to that word without really even commenting on on the qualifiers all that much so for example during that conversation we hear about great mystics and professional mystics shamanistic mystics dictionary defined mystics aspiring mystics and so on so all these different qualifiers which are going to subtly change the the meaning of what we’re talking about and also looking at the various dictionary definitions they’re they’re mostly quite vague and imprecise uh in the sense that you can clearly make all of them basically can be made more precise by integrating the information from the ego death theory which none of them have done so so for example there was one one definition that i saw in the merriam-webster dictionary which defined mystic as a follower of a mystical way of life or an advocate of a theory of mysticism and it strikes me both of those are quite vague and both of them stand to be corrected by the ego death theory to say a follower of a mystical way of life needs to be clarified precisely in terms of what changes in a in a person’s daily conduct before and after psychedelic initiation um and to say the second definition they’re an advocate of a theory of mysticism well that’s you can straightforwardly just just just say an advocate of the ego death theory perhaps i mean are there other forms are there other theories of mysticism that you know would also compete for that title of turning a person into a mystic but anyway having said that i would also say that any definition of what a mystic person is would surely have to include people like me uh and jimmy and michael hoffman and cyber disciple you know us like altered state explorers and thinkers to have any any real meaning if i mean it’s like if if we are not mystics in this world then nobody is i mean like that’s crazy to think of what you would have to do if if if we didn’t fit the bill so jimmy said twice that he thinks he’s an aspiring mystic and i take that to mean like like not really a mystic especially in the way that he couched it of like oh you know i i should trip more often to be to be like the mystics were you know he wasn’t including himself in the in the group known as mystics by calling himself an aspiring mystic but you know i would i would be more inclined to say no he’s not aspiring he’s a highly advanced mystic because well two reasons first of all because of his personal experience he’s had really hardcore bad trip on mushrooms which is such a central part of of understanding mysticism understanding religious metaphor but also because because of the fact that he’s engaging in this dialogue he’s coming on the transcendent knowledge podcast and even though he might not be fully able and and you know as as competent with understanding the theory of some other people that have been on the podcast at least he’s engaging in a dialogue at least he’s not just ignoring it and or turning the other way like not wanting to engage with it at all so he’s actually you know he’s he’s an advanced mystic uh he just doesn’t think of himself that way but so to be absolutely clear that’s my opinion that’s what i think personally which i explicitly avoided saying during episode 26 of the podcast because it’s too it’s too complicated and nuanced and it was completely not relevant to what i was trying to achieve with with jimmy which is to have a a a conversation about the intricacies of the concept of determinism and we we’d gone off course by that point uh so yeah that’s that’s how i understand mystical like a fairly you know unhelpful concept i think i have a tepid opinion about about the word mystic in the noun form of the word so i need to explain very carefully why i said and why i repeated several times the claim that we are not mystics
so it’s crucial to understand the context of that claim in light of the conversational dynamics that i was immersed in at the time rather than just isolating that claim we are not mystics you know to do that is to take it out of context it was a highly unusual highly specific context that i was saying that in uh because i i as i said i i planned that conversation to be very specifically just about the com the the concept of determinism just to clear up what i a crucial place where jimmy seemed to be getting the ego death theory wrong but at the same time i knew from experience i know from a lot of uh dialogues that i’ve had with jimmy that it is difficult typically to pin him down um to keep a conversation focused on a specific topic and to get him to come to a specific concrete conclusion about any particular topic it’s it’s a challenge and it’s something that i’ve tried to do a lot in the past and been met with a lot of frustration when i’ve been doing it so i was very much in the mental mode of i must just keep this conversation on track keep bringing it back to the core focus this time i’m i’m going to succeed with jimmy like i have to achieve what i failed to do last time so i was really psyched up to lock horns with jimmy and try to keep his mind focused and just have a productive conversation that actually goes somewhere you know goes towards further clarification and no longer repeating errors misunderstandings um but then so the conversation was progressing and then at some point it occurred to me that jimmy was talking about a concept that he had constructed in his own head and he was he was uniquely defining this thing which he was calling mystics sometimes he said shamans i think once or twice he used the word shamans to mean more or less the same thing but mostly he was saying mystics and he was explicitly defining this this concept is a group of people there’s various things that he said about mystics various characteristics that he picked out in his his idea his idealization of of what mystics are he said things like they were from a bygone era he said they don’t really exist in the modern world and he said that he didn’t say maybe but he implied that they’re holier than we are they’re more special than we are because they have better ethical conduct for example um like we were talking about jainism at one point where they’re known for being you know highly you know morally um conscious on the on a day-to-day level um and also he said not just not just better ethical conduct but that they trip more often he he said that they were frequenting the altered state and that he doesn’t see anybody in the modern world including himself frequenting the the altered state like these ancient mystics uh were um and he said that these mystics they lived in like secluded temples in the forest in some places and also he said mystics can sometimes uh access the psychedelic state by natural means like hazy chasm he didn’t go into much detail about hazy chasm i looked it up afterwards it’s like uh the christian concept of contemplation like um basically probably something like sitting around meditating probably but he didn’t really define that he just said yeah they go into the psychedelic state by natural means they don’t need to take drugs those are all things that jimmy said more or less explicitly during that conversation in episode 26 um about what mystics are like that was his concept of a mystic so he was setting his own bar for the level of specialness that mystics have he was suggesting his own definition of what mystics are and generally at least like i strongly got the impression that he was defining mystics in such a way that uh it’s like he wanted to push them out of reach of us make them more special or better like he was striving to just define mystics as a special class of people somehow above everybody else different from everybody else and yet crucially he was including himself in the set of non-mystics he wasn’t claiming to be a mystic uh like aspiring mystic to me means failing to attain mystical and he said that he himself didn’t he didn’t trip often enough uh he was even if it was like he was lamenting himself and not tripping often enough to be a proper mystic he felt guilty about it because he said he does it once a year
so so i explained like how i personally i think that the concept of the noun form of mystic in general is poorly defined i think that’s that’s a broad overall opinion that i have it’s not a concept that i would normally use myself i wouldn’t bring a concept like that into a conversation it was it was very much prompted strongly prompted by jimmy to even start talking about mystics in this way and so then like it’s like so i i start out by thinking uh without really thinking about it very much i just have this general feeling that the word mystic is poorly defined and not very useful and then jimmy is saying all these things about um mystics in the forest and mystics who uh have really good ethical conduct don’t kill insects uh that kind of thing and at that point i got the feeling that he was basically pushing the concept of mystic even further into the the realms of feeble definition than they already are
i mean i think that probably inevitably a big part of this is simply the fact that the nature of verbal communication compared to written communication it’s a completely different thing like in in a written conversation like on a web forum or email exchange it would be so much easier to explicitly spell out the respective definitions of the word mystic you know the the truly philosophical approach to a you know breaking down a discussion like this but given like you have to understand this was a spontaneous unscripted verbal conversation and furthermore like it was a conversation with jimmy like of all people like this very particular type of person with a very particular style of communicating you know michael hoffman was talking about um adhd attention deficit um asperger’s um to characterize you know this this way of communicating
so it’s like whenever i’m talking with jimmy like what’s going on in my head is you know if i’m the one that’s doing the talking at the time like okay i’ve maybe got a few more seconds to make a point to say something and then jimmy is going to start talking again and he’s gonna come up with some other tangent you know plucked out of some place he’ll say something like i don’t know if you’ve heard of this person i don’t know if you’ve heard of this idea and then i have to listen to him say talk about this and figure out how to integrate it into the theme of the conversation and it’s almost inevitably going to be some trites predictable pop spiritualism you know making the same kind of predictable familiar mistakes when compared alongside the ego death theory and what they’re trying to explain spiritual issues uh nothing really impressive um he doesn’t he’s like he impresses me with the breadth of his his book knowledge like it’s impressive that he’s he’s got a good bibliography attached to to him to his message but none of the individual writers impressed me that much like like what’s impressive when you’ve got the ego death theory you know ramesh bolsakar is feeble compared to the ego death theory in terms of you know the depth of the explanation and so so the conversation with jimmy is just not a particularly organized situation on the contrary it’s chaotic and disorganized you know to have that like hour and a half period of engaging in in verbal dialogue with this guy it’s like i want him to be a part of the conversation because like the alternative approach would be to just say to him okay jimmy sit down shut your mouth and i’m going to lecture you about the ego death theory talk to me at the end ask questions at the end but it’s it’s that’s not the way i’m doing it that’s not what not the way i do things you know i’m hoping that his comprehension will gradually just kind of come about um over time via like this back and forth communication so i give i give him all the space that he needs to spell out what he wants to talk about but i’m always trying to link it back to to the the core concept of the ego death theory i mean that’s one thing about jimmy that did impress me is like sure he’s kind of all over the place with his citations of different writers but i like the way that he um really gives so much attention to ramesh balsa car like he’s got an instinct about that at least that ramesh balsa carl probably one of the most um like explicitly relevant writers uh in in the the domain of pop spiritualism for the ego death theory like in like given that basically ramesh bolsikar’s whole presentation was a self-help guru um and if you take all the self-help gurus and then measure them up you know for the criteria of um relevance uh applicability to the ego death theory like so he’s you know he jimmy jimmy has focused on ramesh bolsikar um because he recognizes i i hope he does the had the closeness of the the model uh so yeah i mean written communication is just so much more organized than verbal communication because it allows for the possibility of re-reading um when you write a comment you can like go over it and i always do this when i’m when i’m engaging in written discussions on like by emails or um web forums like i don’t i will edit and re-edit and keep reading and refining um the way that i write something but it’s completely different in verbal communication because you just you know as soon as as soon as a comment a sentence has left your mouth that’s it you can’t go back and and change it so invariably the you know the quality of the communication is going to be sub-optimal compared to written anyway um so jimmy mentioned being an aspiring mystic he said that three times in total over the course of the the episode so one time he said i am an aspiring mystic so it’s like he was in some way he was characterizing his relationship with with mystics um but then a second time he said like hey remember that i am an aspiring mystic he was like putting that issue back into the the conversation like but then on a third okay a separate occasion i don’t know if it was before or after he said he actually contradicted himself on that point and he said if i was an aspiring mystic i would trip more often than once a year so that implies that he’s not even an aspiring mystic let alone an actual mystic so in other words uh jimmy stated three times the logical equivalent of i am not a mystic um but you know that that contrasts with like what i said a minute ago that the way i see jimmy personally in my opinion um is like if someone put a gun to my head and insisted on pain of death that i have to answer the question is jimmy a mystic i would say well yeah that’s a no-brainer of course he’s a he’s a mega advanced mystic even though he doesn’t think he is from my point of view he’s a mega advanced mystic he’s quite close to the cutting edge like the the growing tip of of mysticism which is the ego death theory but but of course in any normal situation i would never do that because i don’t like the concept of mystic in the noun form it’s a sub-optimal concept i never use that concept naturally you know of my own volition because i just i don’t really agree with the whole edifice the whole network of associations of using the word mystic to refer to a person instead of a state of consciousness so i think that that definition of mystic it’s it’s like a suspicion like i suspect that it’s grounded in modern era distortion concerning what mysticism is really all about i mean it’s like i think there’s a question that comes up here is who exactly gets to do the etymology in cases like this like who’s on whose authority do we take the etymology do we leave the etymology up to the kind of people that write the dictionaries who don’t incorporate the ego death theory and who knows if if they themselves are psychedelic initiates or not um but they they don’t explicitly incorporate uh the concepts of psychedelic initiation into their dictionary definitions of the word mystic um or or can we trust ourselves as as psychedelic initiates as advanced initiates who know about the ego death theory can we decide ourselves so michael hoffman has talked about this issue in regard to the the etymology of the word baccalaureate and whether it relates to bacchus and laurel um and he asked the same question like who who do we leave it up to who is the correct authority in etymology for these you know very central relevant concepts um like like like like the meaning of mystic the meaning of what a laurel represents that kind of thing
so so like i get to this point in the conversation with jimmy in episode 26 where i suddenly realized that he’s doing he’s doing this he’s talking about mystics in this way like it’s like i felt that he had succeeded in throwing the conversation off track away from determinism and into irrelevance like like concepts about mystics that i don’t even agree with that i’ve never even thought about when i still hadn’t achieved my goal of pinning him down on a clear understanding of the way that determinism is relevant to or the way that it applies to the ego death theory and so i said emphatically like several times i said we are not mystics and like when i said that i was basically paraphrasing jimmy i wasn’t expressing my own opinion i was repeating back to jimmy what i understood him to be saying that we are not mystic so he was saying that he isn’t mystic and then i guess uh i guess to establish kinship with him like put myself at the same in the same bracket maybe i i don’t know um what was going through my head exactly at that point but according to his definition of what a mystic is as i understood him to be said these ancient uh forest dwelling people who trip very regularly by natural means etc this idealized concept of a mystic who’s basically better than us above us more holy than than we are uh but that’s not that’s not what i think at all um my opinion on the question of is jimmy a mystic or am i a mystic is far more nuanced than a simple binary yes or no answer we are mystics we are not mystics and i i’ve never thought about it in this much depth and like spelled it out in this much depth because it had never mattered to me that much like
so i think that my strategy in the conversation at that point saying uh i am not no we are not mystics i think what i was really saying is like something along the lines of jimmy i don’t want to talk about your artificial conception of what mystics are please stop talking about mystics they are irrelevant to this conversation let’s go back to talking about determinism like i have planned to
uh another thing that i said which i need to carefully address here um saying that the ego death theory is not relevant to mystics and i think when i said that specific comment i was uh somehow tacitly using the same kind of definition of mystic which belongs only to jimmy you know this um this idealized way of like special forest dwelling people who who trip very often that set of associations that jimmy was using um it’s like the the the kind of definition of mystic that pushes them away artificially from the scope of the ego death theory um you know for example just to explain this like as i see it irrelevance between lack of relevance between the ego death theory and jimmy’s conception of a mystic it’s like the ego death theory contains no account of the psychological effect of tripping very frequently which is distinct from its account of the psychological effect of the standard initiation sequence which culminates in mystical ego death death and rebirth experience um the ego death theory doesn’t explicitly um distinguish that from what jimmy mentioned about like mystics tripping frequently as like almost a daily thing because because you know the standard initiation sequence it’s like michael hoffman has clearly spelled that out it’s it just requires a small handful of psychedelic sessions it’s not about some some unknown number done very very frequently as like a a major life practice it’s a circumscribed thing psychedelic initiation it takes a finite amount of time to it has a beginning a middle and a and a completion to it which didn’t sound like like what jimmy was describing at all so no i could clarify then i suppose what i exactly meant i think that mystics are as irrelevant to the ego death theory as jimmy’s sense of frequenting the psychedelic state of consciousness is irrelevant to the ego death theory given that the ego death theory is about this um this progression this psychological progression that happens during a finite number of sessions and similarly the ego death theory contains a completely different model of the meaning of the transformation in morality the transformation in moral consciousness which accompanies psychedelic initiation which actually denies the kind of egoic free will based idea of moral transformation that jimmy was talking about so he he said he gave the specific example of he found it harder to kill insects since his psychedelic tripping experience so that’s that’s an egoic style of um modeling morality and and modeling the transformation immorality whereas the ego death theory has this much deeper issue of this much deeper way of describing it as like there’s whether you kill insects or not according to the ego death theory any actor killing an insect or or refraining from killing an insect or whatever is eternally contained within the four-dimensional crystalline block universe the the pre-existing future and so god the sculptor of the block is ultimately responsible for all acts whether they are good or evil in the conventional egoic sense of of morality but again in in my own personal opinion which i did not express on the last podcast i think that the ego death theory is relevant to mystics but to mystics who are defined differently you know it does it so it may be irrelevant to jimmy’s definition of mystics but it’s relevant to a different definition of mystics and and then to to further flesh that out i would say that the optimal definition of what a mystic is which would then bring mystics within the explanatory scope of the ego death theory is probably going to be some combination of the various dictionary definitions of the word from the various dictionaries but then additionally upgraded or clarified by the information which the ego death theory reveals so you need to look at the dictionary definitions with the ego death theory in mind and then come up with a new
combination like a a new absolutely airtight version of uh how to define mystic which takes the ego ditherian into consideration
um but but then when you think about that that’s like a blatant tautology it’s circular logic because what you’re saying is the ego death theory is relevant to the ego death theory’s own inferred definition of what a mystic is as opposed to jimmy’s irrelevant definition of what a mystic is but there’s so many other um words and phrases that we can use to try to define what exactly we are like our small group who are actually engaged in in this uh this conversation so it’s like are we mystics are we gnostics are we shamans are we hierophants are we wise men are we shepherds are we god’s chosen elect etc and and many others um you know shorthand words for psychedelic initiate
so i mean personally my preferred my my favorite word which i prefer to think in terms of in trying to conceptualize my role michael hoffman’s role you know where we fit in in the work in the world is the word profit i think that’s a much more powerful term much more directly relevant to the ego death theory than mystic because it contains this um this implicit part of the etymology is like seeing the future as the reference to the pre-existence of the future is built into the word prophet and also it contains a connotation of rarity and alienation from non-profits so i mean in that regard i’d be fascinated to hear jimmy comment on whether or not he’s an aspiring prophet or who does he can consider to be prophets does he think that ramesh bolsika for instance is a prophet
so another issue that came up um with the whole concept of fusing the the two states of consciousness uh that was michael’s word that like michael was the one who brought that into the the the discussion um the way i said it in the last podcast it was something like collapsing the distinction between the two states of consciousness so the way i see it the way i understand the ego death theory it’s like in some sense the two states are as a matter of fact fused or they become fused in some sense at the point of ego death but in a different sense of being fused a different sense of what it means to be fused the two states of consciousness are not fused so again it’s not a binary straightforward issue of fused or not fused like there’s a semantic challenge here to define the sense in which the two states of consciousness are fused and the sense in which the two states of consciousness are not fused so it’s an ambiguity in the meaning of the word fuse because fuse can mean blend or it can also mean like like blend as in mix but it can also mean join or or fix like join together fix together so i think that the best way of saying it the two states of consciousness are joined but they’re not blended so they’re fused in the sense of joined but they’re not fused in the sense of blended they don’t become one but they do become attached to each other it’s like this is in line with the ego their theory like the two states are joined because they are contiguous with each other you go from the ordinary state into the altered state and then back again but the memory of each state is present in the other state so you can remember the ordinary state when you are tripping and you can remember what it’s like to trip when you’re back in the ordinary state it’s like a yin yang symbol with like that’s that’s the the shape of the join between the two states of consciousness
so i think the way that jimmy was defining the way that the mystics access the altered state of consciousness suggested to me a blending to some extent of the two states as opposed to mere joining jimmy was was veering in the direction of blending so for example he talked about mystics tripping frequently he didn’t i don’t think he spelled out exactly how frequently he had in mind but that that suggested to me like a blending of the altered state of consciousness into ordinary life to make it part of daily routine instead of a special thing set apart in circumscribed trip sessions and similarly he was talking about like he thinks that mystics use natural means like hazy chasm to access the altered state without taking drugs and that also suggests to me a kind of blending i mean so okay so maybe he’s not precisely defining it that way but it’s like i get the impression that’s what he’s that’s what he’s pushing towards that’s something like what he has in mind i mean so maybe i’m i’m stretching jimmy to make jimmy fit into the concept of blending of the two states of consciousness but i think it’s more general than that it’s a like a general i’m trying to understand jimmy’s whole mindset and i don’t i suppose the way i see it it’s like he’s got two competing forces in his head i think that’s a good way of understanding what’s going on with him um his book knowledge and his experiential knowledge compete and so he does understand the distinction between the two states of consciousness but at the same time he strives to blur that distinction
i think i get the impression that maybe jimmy is disappointed by enlightenment he’s expecting something more than deterministic non-control he wants something more blissful perhaps than a panic-stricken psychotic trip to hell and he’s seeing that blissful thing in the pop spirituality books that he’s reading because those those books like uh ken wilbur and ramesh balsa car people like that they’re so typically they’re based at most in the premature beginner stage um of the the non-dual style of thinking and then mistaking that for advanced enlightenment and ego death you know against his own personal experience of the altered state so he he did actually express explicit disagreement with michael’s characterization of non-dual experience as beginner’s level um he wants that non-dual blissful thing he wants to elevate that to the advanced level enlightenment so that’s why he comes up with this idealistic concept of a mystic for whom the distinction between the two states is different to how the ego death theory describes it
and and then because the ego death theory is for ordinary people it doesn’t apply to mystics in in that regard
so i think i’m going to leave it there for this episode but i think the next thing that should happen maybe is another trialog with jimmy um so we will see how that goes so until next time
Making a show-format that is simple, repeatable, and flexible.
There is a spectrum of #keystrokes to begin recording a show, based on where are agenda items maintained (for Show Format, Voice/Mic, the egodeath theory).
Specify duration of segments. 6 / 2 hours 120 min / 6 segments = 20.
Do a basic show to practice walking through the show format with timed segments.
Fewer Segments, More Focus on Egodeath Theory topical segments, more room for music while doing work-items (typing).
Gear
Hook up the Big Mixer?
Template for Episodes & Announcement of Download
Motivation of Creating the Page: Reduce the number of keystrokes total, from “I’m going to do a show”, to “Announced at idea development page”.
Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).
New Format Concepts
State the “header” every half hour: content, voicing, date/time, miking.
repeat idea, not repeat phrase. repeat with: low pitch, fun tone, casual wording.
Names of the Show
The Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk
The Egodeath Show, with Cybermonk
The Egodeath Mystery Show
The Egodeath Show
What 1987 me thinks about these show names:
It’s a mystery to me.
It’s a strange loop.
It does nothing but raise questions.
Content Sources to Read From
the Egodeath.com site
My WordPress site
the Egodeath Yahoo Group (site)
Cyberdisciple’s site
Email
my personal library
my recordings
Amazon
Academia.edu
Archive.org
YouTube
Show Format: Independent Voice Recordings or Voice Takes
clips roll-up episode
“full” version of an episode
“core” version of an episode
standalone clip (no header??)
proto-show format, with “header” stating 2 content points, 2 vocalzn points, 2 technical points
standalone voice recording (similar to standalone clip).
First versions of the Egodeath Mystery Show were one-off DR-05 voice recordings, literally was no concept of “the Egodeath Mystery Show”, but they are branded afterwards that way.
Describe these voice recording files as date-named episodes/ instances/ manifestations/ components of the Egodeath Mystery Show, though no show intro/outro/framing within the mp3. I already dubbed the first, voice recg files later as the Egodeath Mystery Show. “the Egodeath Mystery Show is not a format, but a Mystery.
IT’S NOT ARBITRARY CHAOS – IT’S A *MYSTERY*. IT JUST *LOOKS* LIKE ARBITRARY CHAOS.
Complex Intro Segment Settings Procedure
Initial settings, for canned Intro segment: 1. Music player: track at 0:00. vol 40%. main vol 80%. 2. Mixer deck: arm Rec. 3. Mic deck: Not Rec mod. Select track 2222, Single mode, at 0:00. 4. uMixer: Turn down mic (Ch 1 Gain). 5. Turn down eq level to -10.5 dB for canned announcement from Deck 1. 6. Turn Delay’s FX Level to 1:30 for canned announcement. ___________ 1. Press Record on Mixer Deck. 2. Press Play on keyboard to start music. 3. Press Play on Mic Deck to trigger announcement. 4. Ride mixer’s Line level from Noon to 10:30 during announcement. Return to normal settings, for Mic intro segment: 5. … Turn up eq level to 0 dB for mic signal from Deck 1. 6. … Turn Delay’s FX Level to None. 7. … uMixer: Turn up mic (Ch 1 Gain) to Noon.
Sets of Recordings
Create direct mic recordings.
Process & mix the direct mic recordings.
57’s proximity bass boost complements the bright speakers of mobile devices.
Create lots of voice recordings like orig Classic-era Egodeath Mystery Show before the Mystery was revealed. (but hold the angry midget pls) NO RULES except must be Professional Reference VO; 100% conscious mindfulness of vocalization 100% of the time. No forgetting. THE OPEN BINDER PAGES OF APRIL 1987.
Show Format Version 2: freeform but keep log. delete all structure; ROLLING STRUCTURE. CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER, AND RESUME THE NORMAL FLOW, PERPETUAL ROLLING MEETING, TAKING NOTES, CHOPPING REUSL T INTO ARB HARD-CUT 2-HOUR PIECES (AT NEAREST SEGMENT BREAK) – WHICH EVER SEGEMENT TOPIC CHANGE IS BEOFE FORE THE 2:00. HARD-CUT EPISODES AT THE CLOSEST TOPIC BREAK LESS THAAN 2:00:00.
*MUCH* more freeform, get rid of concept of “start” of “show” and “end” of “show”. It’s an on-going thing, no start or stop. GOT TO ELIM OVERHEAD. TOO HEAVY STRUCTURE. lightweight! just only work on logging. ZERO OVERHEAD *NOW*! BUT, DO LOGGING only – nothing else!! put all focus on loggin instead of any other overhead.
The “2 hour limit” must *never* impede producing hours of copious solid content – when on a roll, keep on a roll. new major rule for the show. never let it break the momentum.
Use 2-part episode.
mp3 #1 has intro, voc’zn, topical segment 1
mp3 #2 (part 2 of ep) has topical segmenet 2, 3, 4, & Outro.
Prep Agenda and Audio Project File
Note: always delete bad takes immediately when possible; *must* save space and reduce noise on drives.
Mic Closet
TASCAM – DR-05 stereo field recorder, R or L – omni, small dia cond. Handheld, or desk stand clip mount. No pop filter needed.
Shure – SM57 – cardioid dynamic. 4″ gives not too much bass boost proximity effect, and enables more on-axis without pop filter required, such as 30 degrees.
CAD – M39 – servo large dia cond – standard LDC tone. quiet except when whine decides to manifest; unreliable re: whine. Remarkably same curve as SM57. Variable polar pattern.
Phone bottom mic – hi-fi, omni, probably comparable response to DR-05.
earbud mic, usually dangling. Were I to do lifted (thus using an arm), I’d instead Pause, unplug earbuds, resume recording, then use bottom mic instead of earbud mic. up-ramp response. Used for some Morning Vocal Warmup recordings.
Computer built-in mic – 12″ distance, usually, to see the screen
CAD – M100 – servo large dia cond. Supercardioid (so, dark). Equivalent EQ to e609.
Sennheiser – e609 – less treble than e906; midrangy.
Recording Log
Types of Recording-Files to Track
.wav tracking files
.mp3 delivered files
.m4a tracking files
.aup audio project files
Info needed about a recording-file:
what miking (mic, position, eq)
description of content / topic
stereo/mono
date (auto-included in some cases, both in filename & timestamp)
Miking Approaches
hand-held, all-in-one recorder <- first voice recordings of 2021
mic-stand-mounted, all-in-one recorder <- this episode
separate mic, preamp, mixer, multiple sound sources, recorder(s)
separate mic, preamp, mic-recorder, mixer, multiple sound sources, mixer-recorder
Types of Voice Recordings
1-5 minute voice notes made in isolation. Nice to state which mic.
core version of Egodeath Mystery Show episode – omit non-core segments/passages; keep intro/outro
master tape of an episode – playing freeform exploring
handy to have existing outline of timestamp.
voice recording with structured header
An intermediate type of voice recording that’s becoming an episode, is when I started adding a structured header to voice recordings. eg Jan 26b opens by defining what the structure of a recording header will be:
a special type of new episode – intro, clips from multiple previous older episodes, outro.
full episode
full version of Egodeath Mystery Show episode
full episode – intro, prelim/warmup segments, topical segments, outro. A normal, sprawling episode like (in spirit at least) a 4-hour episode.
core episode
Contains an intro, the main egodeath core theory topical clips from that episode, and an outro. 1-hour or at most, a 2-hour condensation of a 4-hour sprawling, “full” episode.
voice recording without header
“2021-02-06b Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.mp3” at 1:23:00 says “2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3” is the first episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show ”, but actually, that’s a “voice recording without a header”. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/idea-development-page-10/#Voice-Recording-1-2021-01-20 “2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3” lacks intro or header, lacks outro, and lacks a miking statement. Therefore it’s a (standalone-created) voice recording, not an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show.
A “voice recording” (without header) can be included within any episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show.
article-reading voice recording with header
Has a header. It’s not framed as an episode.
clip
Can contain only talking.
A new, standalone “voice recording” – with or without a structured recording header – is equivalent to a clip.
An extracted clip taken from longer context in which the clip was created. eg a portion of quietly reading Hanegraaff’s 2021 article Entheogenic Esotericism over the song I Robot, with effects.
A new standalone voice recording without a header is the same thing — derived/ generated in a different context — as an extracted voice-only clip.
A clip could be stereo and have music or previous voice-generation mixed.
A clip has no “show” wrapper/intro/outro.
A clip can be included within any episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show. eg the 5-minute “Eleusis” piece
standalone mic voice recording
eg “Veil metaphor CAD M39.mp3”
mono
reamped standalone mic voice recording
eg “Veil metaphor CAD M39 fx.mp3”
stereo
Re-construction of the “Review of Vocalization” Section Feb. 15, 2021
Frozen Backup; Legacy; Do Not Change: Feb 15 2021 snapshot of Review of Vocalization
Legacy Vocalization Section, February 15, 2021; Preserve As-Is.
Vintage Golden-Era Traditional High-Point Copy / Reconstruction of This Section Just Before I Moved It To the Ambitious New Page “Voice & Mic Techniques” (but note it was *constantly* changing)
The following was from the final read-alouds of this section/segment in episodes of the Egodeath Mystery Show, just on the cusp of creating the page “Voice & Mic Technique”, where I moved these items out to become, mostly, the section “Standard Voice Practice” in that new page.
Review of Vocalization
This is the start of the Vocalization Review segment.
Special Focus for Vocalizing in This [2021-02-15a/b/c] Episode
Open the back-of-mouth chambers and top of throat.
Exercises. Pull up and back. Experiment from tight to pressed open and upward.
Push pitch down consistently, continuously.
Pitch Grounding technique while off-the-cuff speaking, as an exercise.
Staying mindful of vocalization techniques while doing off-the-cuff commentary in the main segments. No particular focus but just trying to stay cognizant overall.
Off-the-cuff mindfulness: controlled vocalizing while doing off-the-cuff speaking.
Standard voice; transcendent voice.
Read-Aloud Techniques
Read each heading twice.
Read each sentence twice, defined as 3 lines.
Read each paragraph twice, defined as 7 lines.
Read a complete paragraph before commenting.
Separate the reading of a paragraph from the commenting on a paragraph.
Contiguous unbroken long stretches of reading.
State my commentary at end of paragraph.
Turn any text into standard vocalization.
Double-reading.
Read-aloud each sentence twice.
Don’t read footnote numbers in mid-sentence.
Don’t read author citations that are in mid-sentence.
Standard Reference Speaking and Tone
Exaggerate the bass, treble, and pitch swing.
Practice standard reference vocalizing.
Speak low pitch with a neutral-positive tone.
Speak low pitch with a smile, or neutral at least.
How to speak low-pitch without sounding forceful, but rather, neutral; nor soft.
No particular character or inflection of feeling.
No odd resonance.
No character or attitude skew.
Generic reference speech.
Standard voice.
Straight-up standard pronunciation.
Neutral-medium pace as mid-point.
Not lax, not edgy.
Neutral non-emphasis.
Neither soft tone nor aggressive.
Neutral in tone.
Functional & plain.
Regular matter-of-fact speech.
No attitude or tone skew.
Vocal Apparatus
Back top of throat.
Lower chest.
Tip of tongue.
Pitch
Force pitch downward hard.
Vary the pitch from low to very low.
Pronunciation & Enunciation
Enunciation: Consistently hype the letters: ‘c d s t w x z’.
Never slur; always pronounce the ‘s’.
Separate each word.
Pronounce every letter of every word.
Speed
Nuetral fast low-pitch.
Vary the speed from slow to fast (fast & smooth).
Separate each word.
Pronounce every letter of every word.
Repeat botched statement correctly.
Conversation Technique
Start a sentence, then finish it.
Don’t interrupt myself.
Talk about “we, us , community, conversation”.
Skip straight to the point.
Think of key words, then construct statement around them.
What are the 5 key words you need to say?
Speak simply, with only 1st-order detail.
Stay on a topic more, without jumping among topics.
Use segments to stay on-topic and separate the topics.
Mic Technique
Ride the mic gain.
Move aside/back from the mic slightly, to inhale.
Ride the music gain.
Fade-up guitar leads.
/ end of Preserve/Legacy section
Re-Constructing the Development of the “Standard Voice Practice” Section in Early February 2021
I have now painstakingly reconstructed the 2021-02-15c snapshot of the Vocalization Review segment just prior to moving that section to the present section. At the moment, that’s in the Egodeath Mystery Show
Feb10a has a very short, probably too early version. Find an ideal classic version of this section, after Feb10. o2-11 “Vocal Warmup Reminders”.
Feb 11 is still short.
02-12a: does it have “Vocal Warmup Reminders” segment? timestamp? how long is it? skipped “vocalization warmup”.
Feb 13 is pretty good representation (and, represents the ever-changing wording). 02-13a: smoking complicated ruin does it have “Vocal Warmup Reminders” segment? timestamp? how long is it? “I’m going to playing a clip of commentary on Hane 1995, “criticized negatively” (Merkur). And take 1 of Hanegraaff 1995 reaction. Then ‘my followers’ clip. Then alternative approaches to making clips/shows. sm57 no eq.” 2:45 MTCDT passage, Tim Held. 3:15 Review of Vocalization. Special focuses for voczn in this ep. Exercises: “as usual, never slur, (4:18) learn how to turn any text… Pron & Enun: consis hype czstwxz. Alphabet recital (w/ voc apparatus note). pitch forced downward hard. vary the pitch from medium to very low. vary the speed from slow to fast. speak with a neutral positive tone. speak w/ a smile . Repeat Botched statement coorrect.ly . bass treb pitch swing. etc etc. conversation technique: don’t interrupt myself . start a sentence then finish it. skip straight to the point. speak simply. (pause, to type out: with only first-order detail. what are the five keywords you need to say?) Segments. stay on a topic more. read a complete para before commenting. separate the reading of a paragraph from the commenting on the paragraph. Contiguous unbroken long stretches of reading. talk about we, us, community, conv. mic tech: ride the mic gain (added “when adjust mic stand). move aside from the mic slightly, to inahl. rid the music gain. fade up gtr leads. Fin, 9:00.
02-13b: does it have “Vocal Warmup Reminders” segment? timestamp? how long is it? practice reading Hane 2012 chapter. Music to Come Down To. skipped his first section, coverd in 13a. No voc review.
This could be ideal. 02-14a Ironic Distancing Through Sound. Added Limiter (1:51). 2:17 fin’d Intro. 2:45 – Next, a review of Vocalization. start of the Vocalization Review Segment. 3:00. 3:25 “I’ll read some points twice. Short items/lines.” 4:20+, blah blah blah blah, voice professor’s instructions. Added nw section “Standard Reference speaking”, and “vocal apparatus”. 4:50: “pronunciation and enunciation.”
2-15a vocn review – 2:15. open the back of mouth chambers and top of throat. exercises. to pull up and back, as opposed to letting clamp. push the pitch down consistently, continuously. exercise. the origin of the article (example of off the cuff with downward pitch/ open throat). 5:00: read-aloud techniques: read a complete paragraph beffore commentimng. 5:30 doulbe: Special focus for vocalizing in this jpisode. Open the back of mouh chambers and top of throad. Exercises. x2. / read-aloud techniques. read each heading twice. read a complete paragraph before commenting. 6:20. adding: read each sentence twice, defined as 3 lines. then read each paragraph twice, defeined as 7 lines. separate the reading of a paragraph from the commening on a paragraph. contiguous long unbroken. std ref’c speaking and tone: exagerate the bass, treb & pitch string. practice std ref voc’g. speak low pitch with a neutral positive tone. …. no particular character or inflection of feeling. no odd resonance. no character or attitude skew. generic reference speech. striaght up std pronunciation. neutral medium pace as midpoint. not lax, not edgy; neutral non-emphasis. neither soft tone, nor agreessive. neutral in tone. functional and plain. regular mattter-of-=fact speech. no attitude or tone skew. vocal apparatus: back top of throat. lower chest. tip of tongue. reading techqnieque: 10:08. (moving that gruop up read-aloud technique). Pitch: force pitchdownward hard and vary the pitch from low to very low. Pronunciation & Enunciation: consistently hype the letters cdstwxz. never slur; always pronounce the s. sep each word, pronounce every letter of every word. Speed: 13:09. (I need more items). vary the speed from slow to fast; fast and smooth. sep each word; pronounce eveyr letter of every word. low pitch, neutral tone slowly. repeat bot hed statement correcly. concersation technique: start a sen t then fin it. dont interrupt myslef. talk about us, we community, conversation. think of key words, then construct senetnece around them. …. Mic technique: Ride the mic gain. 16:30. Move aside back from the mic. (getting rid of aside; changing to “move back” from mic). move back from the mic slightly to inhale. ride .. gain. fade up leads… [good example: double saying each item].
What date was final inline form, before moved to sep page an d moved all around?
02-15b pipe organ. Double Critique. The secret conspiracy exo/eso standoff. Cyberdisciple’s latest post, Hesiod. sm57 no eq, with limiter. 15b 1:30 fin’d Intro. (probably still had red text to say exactly what to say aloud). “Next a review of vocn. Voczn Reveiw segment. 15b 2:30 – staying mindful of voczn techniques while doing off cuff cmtry in main segs. Read-Aloud Techniques: 15b 4:20 blah blah blah. off the cuff mindfulness = special focus in this episode. Read-Aloud Techniques: Turn any text into std voczn. Double reading. reading aloud any sent twice. read each sent twice… skip rest. Std Ref .. NEW SECTION . practice std ref’c voczn. Exaggerate the bass, treble, & pitch swing. low pitch w/ n-pos tone. low pitch smile. w/ o . no particular character or inflection of feeling. No odd resonance. No character or attitude skew. Generic ref’c speech. Straight-up std pronunciation. neutral medium pace as midpoint. not lax, not edgy. neutral non-emphasis. Neither soft tone nor aggressive. neutral-positive tone. … … … No attitude or tone skew. Regular matter of fact speech. functional and plain. soft/aggressive. Vocal Apparatus: tip of tongue. Pitch: force pitch downward hard.
02-15c https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/idea-development-page-11/#2021-02-15c-Egodeath-Mystery-Show is part 2 of an episode w/ 15b. 1:15 “it’s time for me to review the vocalization standards’, voczn review segment. special for this episode: …. open the back of mouth chambers and top of thrat. exercises. push pitch down, consistently. off-the-cuff mindfulness. controlled vocalizaing. Standard Voice (new addition now). transcendent voice (new addition now). My default voice is egoic and I’m trying to transcend it.
push pitch down consistently, continuously.
read-aloud techniques. std ref’c speaking and tone: exagerrate… speak low pitch w…. smile. no odd res…. no char/att skew. generic ref’c speech. “I need to add in this section, standard voice.” straight-up std pron. neut. not lax. nor aggressive. func’l & plain. no atttone skew.
voc apparatus: force ppitch dward hard.
P&E: consisten cdstwxz. never slur. always pron s.
Speed: vary the .. separate.
Conv techniue… to point.
Mic Technique: 5:00 -blah blah. 57 working well. …. 5:47. 3 simple tricks to using this low-profile slip mic. podium. nice mellow tone. i like to not even eq it. not flat spks. bright spks. why eq? this mic is muddy if you’re listening to perfect flat spks. 7:30 blah blah. 8:00 boost treble demo OW harsh. 10:20 I’m actually reading text off the screen right now. Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness. 12:30 Ruck’s book, crossed with Metzner’s book, purely to try to off-cuff controlled casual standard voice. JESUS DO I EVER FINISH TEH VOCZN SEGMENT WTF.
the above is the final reading of the section when it was inline
02-16a morning edition
02-16b Repeat Phrase for Standard Voice – sm57 no eq, with limiter. Kicks by Paul Rev, Shape of Things, Prunes x2. 1:25. REview of Std Voice seg. 144. Repeat Phras. During off the cuff spekaing, during idea dev, repeat phrase in std voice. finished. 2:14. [skipped]
02-19a – i had moved vocal review to separate page. Volume 4. 1997 Core Theory reading. new WordPress page, Casual Standard Voice. sm57, 4″, no eq, with limiter. Review of Std voice segment. from new page casual standard voice. bad is Uncontrolled Sloppinness, good is… bad is… gentrl lush soft drawl. bad is serious, sloppy comical. Defining the Chaacter of Casusal Std Voice. This page is an early draft. Speak low pitch with a smile, no 3:27. Not lax, not edgy. Neutral in tone. functional and plain. No attitude or tone skew. General purpose, not any partic. [I lost something charming, from Voczn segment, when I moved to expansive casual standard voice page. in some way, restore access to the inline longest inline version b4 it got moved to amibitious new page. Take a backup frozen snapshot of the section right before it got moved from the Egodeath Mystery Show / template page. ]
2021-02-08, including 08[=a], 08b, 08b Clips, 08b Clips Fx, and 08c:
“2021-02-08c Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3″(Episode 19, spillover portion; 08c continues seamlessly from 08b; the two are a single 2-part episode we can conceptually call “episode 02-08bc” where b = part 1, c = part 2)
I doubt I’ll upload this long utility episode. I might listen to it. You can see the topics below in the show notes/agenda. No core Egodeath theory content, I think. Meta ideas about show format, vocal use.
March 6, 2021 – I doubt I created project or mp3. only have wavs?
We’ve finished the “Intro” segment. The timestamp is x. write timestamp below 139 timestamp fade music move “current segment” sign to next segment
2. “Review of Standard Voice” Segment
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Repeat Phrase
During off-the-cuff speaking during idea development, repeat phrase, in Standard Voice.
Breathing
Practice it.
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3. “Warmup Reading” Segment
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
ear training / guard function is working well; leverage it even more fully. take a constant critical stance asseessing/listening to my voice character, as a voice actor. “I am a voice actor”. amateur voiceover artist.
church groups singing (small or choir or online virtual choir).
1:10:10, 11725__ timestamp. topic: the above two topics
12639__ timestamp. topic: __ gentleman amateur scholars polymaths. becoming/identifying/ embracing / enjoying prospect of interest in “voiceover artist”: tech, analysis, communication, fixes ghastly voice characters that I’ve been projecting. VO “VO guy”. broadcaster voice casual mic standard voice.
2 58 20 timestamp. topic: update my segment breakouts/ agenda list. experience today creating compressed “clips” version of ep 17b.
3 07 30 timestamp. topic: started playing Black Sabbath album: Volume 4.
This approach vs “voice rec’g” vs “clips” isolated mp3s.
turns out, avoid saying “best”, use neutral filename/title of “clips”.
3 17 30 timestamp. topic: discussed “best” vs “clips”. long, “deep cuts” version of an episode, vs. the shortened, “radio cut” version of the episode.
3 22 00 + 4 16 [NOTE – TAPE DECK STARTS NEW .WAV FILE AUTO’LY AT 3 HRS 22 MIN; CLOCK RESETS TO 0:00 THEN] timestamp. topic: 4 hour mystery episode then make 2 hour shortened version.
1. Record a 4-hour “variety show” version of the episode.
2. Create a shortened 2-hour “core Egodeath theory topics only” version of the (same) episode. (an “empirical” show-creation approach)
the show (just like anything) has a long name and a short name; similarly, an episode has a long version and a short version.
timestamp. topic: show agenda [move this way up near start of show]
3 22 00 + 24 05 timestamp. topic: whether to deliver clips as standalone voice rec’g vs. several clips within a “shortened episode” format w/ timestamps to locate a desired clip.
3 22 00 + 34 02 timestamp. topic: scoping out YT ch “United by Rock” = Classic Metal + Classic Rock albums. Looked up double album “We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll”
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OUTCOME: RESOLUTION:
The Board of Mystics has decided to not use much the utilitarian standalone clips of isolated voice recordings (use it selectively); USE ALL THE OPTIONS.
long episode (“full episode”)
shortened same episode (“core episode”), with list of retained topics, but no timestamps needed – decide whether to use this format, on a per-case basis.
isolated voice clips – decide whether to use this format, on a per-case basis. eg Hane 2012 double-reading the other day.
We surmise from experience with the 2007 & 2018 standalone voice recordings, that shortened “core” versions of the “full” episodes of the Egodeath Mystery Show will get more usage/plays, than isolated voice recordings. this will require timestamps/guide.
In some cases, can freely choose to deliver isolated voice rec’g clips instead or in addition to the shortened, “core” episode. Selectively provide certain clips as isolated voice rec’gs, as done with the Hane 2012 EE article double-sentence read-aloud.
Producing/managing/presenting a set of isolated voice recordings just isn’t, or doesn’t seem, very inspiring/exciting – except, do this in some cases.
3 22 00 + 54 07 timestamp. topic: making decisions on format after having discussed.
3 22 00 + 1 04 17 timestamp. topic: listed OPTIONS, both “core version” shortened same ep, AND option of isolated voice clips; choose option on per-case basis (ie per-episode basis)
0:00 timestamp. topic: [note: timestamp was reset to 0:00 again b/c chip filled; this is the 3rd .wav file for this episode. error: should have noted file length & name before ejecting storage]
0 14 48 timestamp. topic: low pitch is not the goal;
varying pitch med-to-low is the goal. for my ideal “dream voice” that I’d *love* to have. just a *great* neutral, natural sounding voice. an ear-training driven, aesthetics-definition-driven, approach to transcending the voice; transcendent control of the voice. define dream target; train ear, train the GUARD FUNCTION to alert to re-voice a phrase/utterance.
make the “pitch > medium” range off-limits; alert when that happens, to revoice.
26 21 timestamp. topic:
Defined the aesthetics of “casual standard voice”.
Deciding whether to pitch the “topical segment” heavy structuring.
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8. Topical Segment: Read-Aloud New Page: Casual Standard Voice
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
34 58 timestamp. topic: created this new Segment Section.
46 00 timestamp. topic: retrieved “left behind” agenda item: play older voice recordings to critique voice.
56 06 timestamp. topic: updated description of the “Core version of episode” idea in idea development page 11.
1 06 32 timestamp: Regained orientation in segment sections, started reading new page: Casual standard voice.
1 16 05 timestamp. topic: cleaned up new page, some basic cleanup
1 26 04 timestamp. topic: reading and tweaking new page
1 36 14 timestamp. topic: reading the main part of the page
1 46 15 timestamp. topic: “
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9. Topical Segment: Critique Past Voice Recordings
CURRENT SEGMENT
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
Assessment of previous voice & of development of Standard Voice over past weeks/shows. Remarkable variance/ inconsistency of my voice. Gruff, flowery… Standard Voice when I remember it.
The previous episode; ie, 02-18a
Standard voice establishes a determinate consistent tone.
2018/2019 voice recordings
2021 voice recordings including the Egodeath Mystery Show
trivia: When was the first episode that opened with saying “the Egodeath Mystery Show”?
todo: decide whether to retire/demote the “Topical Segment” approach and just use rolling outline list. low overhead/ streamlined/ lightweight/flexible/fast/agile. Try the non-segment approach on next episode, in the Agenda page, w/o changing yet the template in the “Egodeath Mystery Show” page.
1 56 39 timestamp. topic: trying to find first mention of “this is the Egodeath Mystery Show” – Feb 5?
2 07 14 timestamp. topic: critiquing the first show mentioning the Egodeath Mystery Show – “Egodeath Show 2021-02-05.mp3” – severe slurring of ‘s’ as ‘sh’
2 16 35 timestamp. topic: assessed that mp3. shutting down; outro ran
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Outro Segment
This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.
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“2021-02-18a Egodeath Mystery Show – Esotericism Forgot Plots.mp3”
.m4a – mic|mixer – desc – mobile Voice Memos app, earbud mic
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Production Notes
false? 210? earbud mic, not 57, no Limiter, no TASCAM.
Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
bitrate: 260 kbps from mono <- from stereo?
mic: Shure SM57 mic, no eq. Limiter. mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
Contents
“2021-02-18a Egodeath Mystery Show – Esotericism Forgot Plots.mp3” Morning Vocal Warmup Edition Throwaway with Guaranteed No Egodeath Content Except for Breakthrough Replacement of ‘Entheogens’ by ‘Esotericism’ an Order of Magnitude Broadening of the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion as the Maximal Esotericism Theory of Religion re: why no evidence for ahistoricity? why no evidence for visionary plants? why no evidence for no-free-will? why no evidence that Valentinian Gnostics existed? – “Revoicing/ Repeat Phrase” Technique Demonstration/Practice
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minor note: all future voice recordings will be sung instead of spoken
self-within-world = Cybernetics within Eternalism
transformation of the mental worldmodel from self-in-world model A to self-in-world model B; self-within-world = Cybernetics within Eternalism
23:00 transformation of the mental worldmodel from autonomous-control WITHIN POSSIBILISM-BRANCHING WORLD to dependent-control WITHIN NONBRANCHING WORLD thus Cybernetics *within* Eternalism
“2021-02-17d Egodeath Mystery Show – Always Repeat Phrase.mp3”
2:18:31 remarkable when I engage standard voice, it *really* stands out, next to my all-over-the-map random, out of control voicing.
2:29:07 mic demo: distance, 8″, 4″, 2.5″, 60 vs 45 degrees, amount of resulting hiss & room reverb, and amount of bass due to proximity effect.2:31:30 todo: playback (17d), does it sound clogged nose?
filesize: 265 MB
length: 2:35:25
Errata
🤨 😵 💥 🎙 🙉
John MacArthur, dammit, not “James Arthur”, not “James MacArthur”, not “John Arthur” 😵
Mouth noises during quiet-speaking portion. 🤨 😵 💥 🎙 🙉
TOP PRIORITY FOR QUIET SPEAKING: BE EXTRA QUIET W/ MOUTH NOISES.
No lozenge allowed at mic, especially when speaking quietly.
Ride the gain a lot during quiet time.
Typing is an issue during quiet time.
Post-Processing Steps
17d:
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
n/a; none – import Mic Deck wav
import Mixer Deck wav
n/a normalize vol of Mic wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
n/a export mp3 of Mic wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC, link
Log of Takes
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Production Notes
Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
bitrate: 260 kbps from mono <- from stereo?
mic: Shure SM57 mic, no eq. Limiter. mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
That ends the Warmup Reading segment. The timestamp is x. write timestamp below [timestamp ended: 927, 12758] fade music
4. First Topical Segment: Discover that Take 1 Failed to Repeat Phrase But Just Did Good Idea Development
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
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topic: play 1st take’s 22:00 re: Kore 210217_2049.wav [timestamp: 13:44]
topic: play 1st take’s 24:39 re: I have not said “there’s never any secrecy” [timestamp: 23:17] – note: in Take 1, I 99% failed to remember to REPEAT PHRASE
topic: THE merit of “it’s like”, 29:11 in Take 1 [timestamp: 45:00]
topic: 32:54 in Take1 , resume Secret. __ [timestamp: ___]
topic: __ [timestamp: ___]
todo: extract the great discussions on Secret, & Kore, from the “failed take” 210217_2049.wav
topic: listening to good Secret discussion in Take 1 37:32 [timestamp: 56:36]
topic: todo: release the failed Take 1 as episode 17b b/c great content. [timestamp: 10640]
topic: next episode: start w/ repeat-phrase version of Intro, repeat *everything* in entire episode [timestamp: 11759]
todo: alternate short “warmup readings” with idea development w/ Repeat Phrase.
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5. Second Topical Segment: Take 2: Actually Demonstrate “Always Repeat Phrase” During Off-the-Cuff Idea Development
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
todo: 1:51:30 compare my revoicing now vs. Take 1 (they alternate).
topic: incoming producer track [timestamp: 13854]
topic: reviewing the warmup reading voice in Take 1 [timestamp: 14820]
topic: critiquing 23:13 and re-voicing Take 1 [timestamp: 15858]
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6. Third Topical Segment: __
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7. Fourth Topical Segment: Unplanned Segment
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reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
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8. Outro Segment
This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.
“2021-02-17b clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Secret Esotericism and Kore.mp3” – Best Of Episode, Trimmed/Condensed
This should be very interesting, to hear an “episode” as an episode, but w/ the “noise” / “filler” removed. Reduced to half the duration/length!
todo: from this episode, clip (extract) the Egodeath theory idea development content, which is solid.
timestamp start, timestamp stop, topic
plan: create a smaller version of ep 17b w/ “the Egodeath Mystery Show” Intro & Outro, containing only the good clips.
todo: think about this pattern: record a verbose sprawling episode, then create a “highlights-only” version of the ep while still framed as “the same episode”. GIVES me elbow room to be casual & verbose, plus, deliver a later trimmed optimized shorter “best-of episode” version, but more of an “whole episode” experience than just a “clips-only” recording.
A COMPRESSED VERSION OF AN EPISODE W/ THE BEST EGODEATH THEORY CONTENT ONLY. & cleaned up of cussing, lozenge gross-out, dead air, off-topic, plosives, phone ringing, typing-session, “timestamp-log eggtimer alarm”, etc.
1. note: old time stamps here before removed gaps: 20:28-21:21, 22:00-28:17 Kore, & grid game, Canterbury “don’t dare gaze at it”, secret, I have not said “there’s never any secrecy”
2. 32:57-40:06 resume Kore, Demeter, Persephone are only mentioned. Secrecy.
5. 48:01-1:30:23 pagels — delete the GROSS lozenge and mic adjustment near start; the *slightest* lozenge mouth sounds is *absolutely* gross & offensive & grating, 100% as bad as eating Snickers bar at mic.
~1:04:55-1:30:23 long discussion of my 2013 bad non-summary of Pagels. then falling asleep.
6. 1:39:58-1:43:47 need sep page to summarize pagels
Phase 2 of condensing ep 17b:
2. nuke 0:22-0:48
keep 0:49-1:03
1. nuke 1:03-20:08
20:08+: keep.
good discussion of the “repeat phrase to revoice” technique. (zero execution though.)
wrestling with voice in bad state, what exercises to re-access my full lower voice.
defining “esoteric/ exoteric” per Pagels per my book reviews. incredibly awful total fail at writing these as a simple SUMMARY of the points of difference. I’m trying to confirm and expand this list of what constitutes exoteric vs. esoteric:
no-free-will &
ahistoricity &
entheogens
literalism vs metaphoricity
…. true?? anything else?
secret esotericism as opposed to a careless vague exaggerated concept of a “secret conspiracy to suppress/ eliminate” plants & ahistoricity & no-free-will = esotericism )
This take (17b) Failed its intention of demo’ing Repeat Phrase; colossal Fail at Repeat Phrase 🗑 😭 🤨 😵, but has good Egodeath theory content, so, I’ll release this take (“take 1”), for its great Egodeath theory content.
Hypothesis: my chest was in awful state, and that distracted me from remembering to do Repeat Phrase. Proof: Even my read-aloud sounds pretty bad chest-vocals (“lost access to the bottom half of my chest”).
In a later replay (17c recording), I was easily able to out-do & revoice even my warmup read-aloud, which is usually quite good.
After this 17b take, I was mad at this take for forgetting to Repeat Phrase – but, I had to admit that the content of idea development here was quite solid (and the voicing is fairly good).
I almost trashcanned this 17b recording, for failing to Repeat Phrase!
This recording just needs a couple timestamps, there are worthy gems here (the discussion of voicing is good, too; just not on-topic for Egodeath).
4. First Topical Segment: Working-up Toward a Demonstration of the “Repeat Phrase” Technique While Speaking Off-the-Cuff
In this segment, and throughout this entire episode, I demonstrate the “repeat phrase” technique whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud.
reminder: repeat phrase whenever speaking off-the-cuff, and whenever reading-aloud
policy: log a timestamp every 10 minutes
This episode is a demonstration of talking off-the-cuff in standard voice by using the “repeat phrase” technique.
1. Say a phrase.
2. Listen to how that sounded.
3. Say that phrase again, now focusing on targeting standard voice.
Think of that the same as if I play back a recording; demonstrate the equivalence of:
Method 1: Using Record/Playback/Critique
Record my off-the-cuff speaking.
Play back that recording.
Pause and loop and critique and re-say those phrases, with full focus on standard voice.
Method 2: Using the “repeat phrase” technique on-the-fly
Think of the 1st saying of the phrase as “record and playback”;
Think of the 2nd saying of the same phrase, as “commenting over a record/playback/pause”.
topic: end reading-aloud Pagels 2 books contrast eso/exo [timestamp: 1:30:00]
best clips from “2021-02-16a Egodeath Mystery Show – Repeat Foo Morning Vocal Warmup.mp3”
“I guarantee there will be no content in this throwaway warmup show”
In standard voice, I read-aloud the lyrics of the song Kicks.
3 grids in the Grid Game (amount of presence of visionary plants throughout history)single-religion grid (diachronic)
single-region grid (diachronic)
single-era grid (synchronic) (not useful for extracting a Forgot Plot)
each with 2 variables from list: [religion, region, era]
clip about Hanegraaff, “the worst idea ever written by an academic”; Hanegraaff non-drug entheogens
Adding Hanegraaff’s non-drug entheogens to the Hall of Shame. “broaden”, “literal”, “entheogens (in the wider sense)” – several sentences from article Entheogenic Esotericism. “This is the #1 WORST IDEA I’VE EVER SEEN“
18:02 Warmup reading: Romance of the Fungus World – nice deep smooth non-hyper-enunciation reading; good example to listen to, example of Standard Voice for read-aloud.
Prep the audio project file, named same as mp3 (no keywords necessary yet, after show name).
Esoteric Agenda
Misc. Items
when playing clips into the show, mark start stop timestamps.
go through episode 15b 15c 5:22:00, go through it and mark timestamps.
1. Intro Segment
[timestamp started: 0:00] fade music
This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk. egodeaththeory.wordpress.com
This episode covers:
Play clip copy: “2021-02-16a Egodeath Mystery Show – Repeat Foo Morning Vocal Warmup.aup”[1:09:42] – I read-aloud in Standard Voice (neutral) the lyrics to the song Kicks by Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Play clip copy: “2021-02-16a Egodeath Mystery Show – Repeat Foo Morning Vocal Warmup.aup”[10:10, 34:00] Same recording: play 2 clips of Grid Game
3 grids in the Grid Game (amount of presence of visionary plants throughout history)single-religion grid (diachronic)
single-region grid (diachronic)
single-era grid (synchronic) (not useful for extracting a Forgot Plot)
each with 2 variables from list: [religion, region, era]
Same recording: play clip about Hanegraaff, “the worst idea ever written by an academic”
47:00-52:00 Hanegraaff non-drug entheogensAdding Hanegraaff’s non-drug entheogens to the Hall of Shame. “broaden”, “literal”, “entheogens (in the wider sense)” – several sentences from article Entheogenic Esotericism.
Critique and re-voice as Standard Voice: Find the worst voicing (farthest from Standard Voice) in that recording.
I can’t find clip, so instead, read-aloud now this section of idea development page: 1:00:00 read a summary as I typed into idea development page 11. Next to emojis; find “new extreme double-reading approach” “off the cuff as well” “more granular and universal” – mic recording of reading-aloud this section while typing it:The “Repeat Phrase” Technique Breakthrough for Transcendent Control of Voicing
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2. “Review of Standard Voice” Segment
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Repeat Phrase
During off-the-cuff speaking during idea development, repeat phrase, in Standard Voice.
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3. “Warmup Reading” Segment
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18:02 Warmup reading: Romance of the Fungus World – nice deep smooth non-hyper-enunciation reading; good example to listen to, example of Standard Voice for read-aloud.
3833 – Discuss technique of repeat phrase while off the cuff.
4826 transcending voice
5300, 1:00:54, 1 wild vs cultivated (while using Std Vpoiec)
1:02:50 “my transcendent voice” vs “my former, egoic voice”. mimicked high pitch then lost my transcendent voice.
1:07:20 forgetting / remembering the two voices: egoic/t’t.
1:11:00 sacrificing eogic voice, transcendent voice attained. here i do actual high-idea development while using standard voice.
1:11:21 Kore
1:14:08 probably end of Kore discussion
1:14:57 “sentence” problematic
11749 auto gap removal feature
12035 revisit cultivated voice. (brief mention)
12145 flowery voice
12501 my experienced character (intended tone of voice) during speaking vs. character upon playback (actual resulting tone of voice) – very shockingly difference.
12535 Arnold’s photograph driven appraoch to bodybuilding.
12657 report on my double-read-aloud of 2012 hane artic. many critqieuses, how to remember them.
13120 deciding to keep going and not terminate my show-recording at 2 hours, keep momentum.
13329 “secret”, need better framework. ‘conspiracy’.
13700 exoteric hegemony. are academics anti-plant?
14343 – preparing to do a critique of 2012 article in the ofrm in the form of pausing pback and saying critque. “Contributions & Limitation”.
14509 ahistoricity – why not written about more? Richard Carrier: Jesus from Outer Space
“secret” has baggage 14906
15405 critiquing my voicing of a read-aloud of hane.
20745 re-stating words from a recording of my speaking, to close the gap toward standard voice.
todo: 1″37″00 in 17a recording, compare my current revoicing to the recording
result: my new voicing in 17a is *way* better than in 15b at this point. No fair: my 17a voice was in peak, strong, awake, state; super deep and full. in 17b, my voice apparatus was in its weak state. THEREFORE: TODO: *REPEAT PHRASE*. Do a recording (17b) where I talk off-the-cuff, using *repeat phrase* as the whole point ; 17b = demo of repeat phrase for off-the-cuff speaking.
20905 how to critique how far I am from standard voice
20922 Vial
2:11:22 behavior change course at uni
2:14:00 mis-voiced during 2012 readaloud “two” as if “to”
2:16:00 – major value topic: Hane’s logic about New Age suspect visionary plants — his logic implies he should recognize all of Western Esotericism as plants.
22345 if it sounds like mushrooms it is. transition to topic: Vial article’s min mod max argment.
23009 criticizing field of entheogen scholarship for failing to recog myth describing fx of msh; only limited to descrip5tion of mushroom physical form.
23146 the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image proves what Letcher-0Hatsis said an’t be done: deliberate mushrooms for religious experience.
23321 returrn to general subject: limits in field of entheogen scholarship . dale pendell,
i think here i discsus combining Ruck book “Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness” vs. Metzner book “The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience” <–
24651 degrees of literalness of depictions of mushrooms: Y-stem of msh trees.
25157 myth is analogy describes *fx* of msh’s.
25411 memorizing title of Ruck book
25633 look for in Ruck & Metzner: does it see myth as description of msh fx? to what extent transfoormation of consciciousness resulting from msh?
Timestamps for Part 2 (c) – “2021-02-15c Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
“2021-02-15c Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
0:31 – how was my voicing. review of voicing poitns.
7:08 don’t eq dark (prox’y) sm57; good for bright spks. demo of eq applying.
847 benefit of dark mic miakes use tip tongue bright trebnel enuciation more.
10:31 Ruck levels of evidence omits fx. Metzner.
12;30 metzner: Varieties of Transformative Experiencee.
0:23:25 2 hour length limit is bad for the Egodeath Mystery Show
02655 add voczn reminder right withint the Agenda segment sections.
03203 Metzner
03302 the Psychedelics Integration Handbook
03525 must do your own Lyrics Transceioptoin optimized for the egodeath theory
03642 “shadow” chapter in the Psychedelics Integration Handbook
03846 why academic is so Exoteric?? re: plants & ahistoricity. hegemony anti-Pagan, really? “crypto-Protestants vs heretics & pagans” — FOR REAL???
04654 – HOW TO comment over my playback of readaloud of Hane article
04853 – 2-hour limit for the Egodeath Mystery Show doesn’t work.
54:44 – entheogens taboo in academia
58:42 – evaluate taboos and “censorship” in terms of the exoteric/eso ongoing tension.
1:02:40 meta discussion of “segments” concept
10323: How it went when I did a readaloud of Hane 2012 article. The post-processing went great, everything went great. criticquigin playback of readaloud of Hane article
10950 suggest todo: read 1997 article “double sentence” approach (now id say using the “double phrase approach”)
11119 tool saved massive time by auto removing gaps. there’s no overhead. Should I do more such readings? All the overhead vanished. So, yes.
11254 no overhead for post-production or prerparion pre-read-aloud, so, do more of these double-phrase readings. (i wasn’t aware of it, but here, I was developing toward idea of “repeat phrase” as universal solution to both read-alloud technique and off-cuff speaking).
11647 ahistoricity in academia taboo?? plants taboo??
12557 attitudes have improved in academia re: plants, Ruck reports. “what’s the big deal?”
13237 acadamia pushes Exotericism.
13315 Hane read-aloud went great (not re: prep; re: the recording tracking/vocalizing using “repeat sentence”, and post-production.)
13437 good strong critique over playback of readaloud of Hane 2012 article. Laughing and mocking Hane’s reasoning.
14710 looping/mocking “that may trigger” (from Hane article).
14808 critique Hane’s pressupposition that Western Esotericism != plants.
14916 Luck says Theurgy = plants.
15819 Hane’s arg for plants in New Age implies by same token, by same arg, plants in all of Western Esotericism
20123 mystics either use plants or fraud/fake. (re Hane article Abulafia)
20141 “plants are contentious” – I retort “no, what’s contentious is your violent redefinition of the word ‘entheogens’. book length treatment on Western Esotericism ‘s use of plants — not merely New Age’s use of plants as Hane argues “needs a book-length trreatment”.
20323 be aware of my “entheogen diminisihment fallacies”
20416 Hane participates in the UNSTATED PRESUMPTIONS that our own religion / Western Esotericism is NOT plants.
20952 plethora of my critiques of 2012 article means I must *NOT* comment on every sentence, but be selective.
21116 Hane’s presuppostion that Western Esotericism lacks plants.
21429 Christopher Partridge says there was no plants 1977-1984. fail.
21548 go to Amazon to read TOC in both volumes of Partridge’s books-set.
22036 Christopher Partridge avoids the word “entheogens” in favor of psychedelic.
The Re-enchantment of the West, vol. 2, 82–134; see also parts of the chapter on “Cyberspirituality” (135–64).
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7. Fourth Topical Segment: Unplanned Segment
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8. Outro Segment
This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Log of Takes
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bitrate: 210 kbps from mono <- from stereo?
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“2021-02-17a Egodeath Mystery Show – Outlining 15b-15c Episode.mp3”
Topic ideas for Egodeath Mystery Show:
Play: At 1:10:50 in “2021-02-16a Egodeath Mystery Show – Repeat Foo Morning Vocal Warmup.mp3”, I read-aloud in Standard Voice (neutral) the lyrics to the song Kicks by Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Same recording: play 2 clips of Grid Game
Same recording: play clip about Hanegraaff, “the worst idea ever written by an academic”
Critique and re-voice as Standard Voice: Find the worst voicing (farthest from Standard Voice) in that recording.
1:00:00 read a summary as I typed into idea development page 11. Next to emojis; find “new extreme double-reading approach” “off the cuff as well” “more granular and universal” – mic recording of reading-aloud this section while typing it:
That ends the Warmup Reading segment. The timestamp is x. write timestamp below [timestamp ended: 6:41] fade music
4. First Topical Segment: The “repeat phrase” approach to transcending one’s voice
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reminder: repeat phrase
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5. Second Topical Segment: Assessment of the previous, 5-hour show
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reminder: repeat phrase
todo: more than the major planned topical segments, record what topics and timestamp i’m actually discussing, throughout the show. WRITE DOWN MANY MANY MORE TIMESTAMPS WITH WHATEVER TOPIC. GOAL IS *NOT* TO PRE-PLAN TOPICS. GOAL IS TO RECORD WHAT TOPICS I DID ACTUALLY COVER, AND WHEN.
flaw: try quiet speaking at 4″ instead of 2.5″, to give reverb & reduce claustrophobia effect.
flaw: failed to note unplanned diversion topics & timestamps
flaw: preplanned segments didn’t really work, two were too similar
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6. Third Topical Segment: A “repeat-phrase” reading of Cyberdisciple’s latest posting: Hesiod, Theogony
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“that has branching and then non-branching, a sign of progress from the deluded open-future branching to the pre-existence mono-branching, non-branching close-future“ could write: pre-existence, monopossibility, non-branching closed-future
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7. Fourth Topical Segment: Unplanned Segment
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reminder: repeat phrase
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8. Outro Segment
This was the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Log of Takes
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Production Notes
Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
bitrate: 260 kbps from mono
mic: Shure SM57 mic, no eq. Limiter. mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
The “Repeat Phrase” Technique Breakthrough for Transcendent Control of Voicing
the key is “repeat phrase”!
Big milestone announcement: modified prophecy that I made:
The universal solution to all voice problems or goals is: repeat phrase.
This “repeat phrase” technique is even better than “double reading each sentence”, and applies to all forms of writing and speaking, eg lists of items, mega long compound sentences from Hanegraaff/ academia.edu, all forms of vocal utterances.
Thus “repeat phrase” is a UNIVERSAL technique for all types of voicing (reading, off-the-cuff), and for all stylistic goals, such as: affectation, sarcasm, AND voice actor work.
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To reach that double holy grail at last, of Standard (neutral, non-affectation) Voice, *even* while doing off-the-cuff speaking/idea development: repeat phrase.
No matter what your goal tone/voicing is, the “repeat phrase” technique always works, and directly works to head straight to the target.
Announcement: new extreme double-reading approach, more granular and universal, and applies to speaking off-the-cuff as well! Repeat each *phrase*/clause/utterance (not “sentence”) twice.
So, this episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show is focused on demonstrating “repeat phrase”, both while reading aloud and while off-the-cuff speaking.
Including — but not depending on — brand new technique idea this morning, of playing back an immediately previous recording of off-the-cuff speaking, while critiquing it (ear training).
maybe a series of two recorders, mic then mixer
whether during read-aloud or during off-the-cuff speaking.
Vary pitch/vol/speed/enunciation.
Add — after mastering Standard Voice – then add “vary affection” as opposed to having *NO* affectation but only varying pitch/ speed/ vol/ enunciation.
Kicks – Song Lyrics
At 1:10:50 in “2021-02-16a Egodeath Mystery Show – Repeat Foo Morning Vocal Warmup.mp3”, I read-aloud in Standard Voice (neutral) the lyrics to the song Kicks by Paul Revere & the Raiders:
Girl, you thought you found the answer On that magic carpet ride last night But when you wake up in the mornin’ The world still gets you uptight
Well, there’s nothin’ that you ain’t tried To fill the emptiness inside But when you come back down, girl Still ain’t feelin’ right
And don’t it seem like Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find And all your kicks ain’t bringin’ you peace of mind Before you find out it’s too late, girl You better get straight
No, but not with kicks You just need help, girl
Well you think you’re gonna find yourself A little piece of paradise But it ain’t happened yet So girl, you better think twice
Don’t you see, no matter what you do You’ll never run away from you And if you keep on runnin’ You’ll have to pay the price
And don’t it seem like Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find And all your kicks ain’t bringin’ you peace of mind Before you find out it’s too late, girl You better get straight
No, you don’t need kicks To help you face the world each day That road goes nowhere I’m gonna help you find yourself another way
Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find And all your kicks ain’t bringin’ you peace of mind Before you find out it’s too late, girl You better get straight
And don’t it seem like Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find And all your kicks ain’t bringin’ you peace of mind Before you find out it’s too late, girl You better get straight
my theory of Standard Voice has been corroborated, by a guy in my dream – I got external corroboration that my approach is right, by that guy in my dream
20% Egodeath theory content:
10:10, 34:00 3 grids in the Grid Game (amount of presence of visionary plants throughout history)
single-religion grid (diachronic)
single-region grid (diachronic)
single-era grid (synchronic) (not useful for extracting a Forgot Plot)
each with 2 variables from list: [religion, region, era]
the 2nd half of 5:21:32 episode. 15b is the first part.
filesize: 224 MB
length: 2:24:45
Timestamps for Part 2 (c) – “2021-02-15c Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
Timestamps for Part 2 (c) –
“2021-02-15c Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
0:31 – how was my voicing. review of voicing points.
7:08 don’t eq dark (prox’y) sm57; good for bright spks. demo of eq applying.
847 benefit of dark mic makes use tip tongue bright trebnel enuciation more.
10:31 Ruck levels of evidence omits fx. Metzner.
12;30 metzner: Varieties of Transformative Experience.
0:23:25 2 hour length limit is bad for the Egodeath Mystery Show
02655 add voczn reminder right within the Agenda segment sections.
03203 Metzner
03302 the Psychedelics Integration Handbook
03525 must do your own Lyrics Transcription optimized for the egodeath theory
03642 “shadow” chapter in the Psychedelics Integration Handbook
03846 why academia is so Exoteric?? re: plants & ahistoricity. hegemony anti-Pagan, really? “crypto-Protestants vs heretics & pagans” — FOR REAL???
04654 – HOW TO comment over my playback of readaloud of Hane article
04853 – 2-hour limit for the Egodeath Mystery Show doesn’t work.
54:44 – entheogens taboo in academia
58:42 – evaluate taboos and “censorship” in terms of the exoteric/eso ongoing tension.
1:02:40 meta discussion of “segments” concept
10323: How it went when I did a read-aloud of Hanegraaff 2012 article. The post-processing went great, everything went great. criticquigin playback of readaloud of Hane article
10950 suggest todo: read 1997 article “double sentence” approach (now id say using the “double phrase approach“)
11119 tool saved massive time by auto removing gaps. there’s no overhead. Should I do more such readings? All the overhead vanished. So, yes.
11254 no overhead for post-production or prerparion pre-read-aloud, so, do more of these double-phrase readings. (i wasn’t aware of it, but here, I was developing toward idea of “repeat phrase” as universal solution to both read-alloud technique and off-cuff speaking).
11647 ahistoricity in academia taboo?? plants taboo??
12557 attitudes have improved in academia re: plants, Ruck reports. “what’s the big deal?”
13237 academia pushes Exotericism.
13315 Hane read-aloud went great (not re: prep; re: the recording tracking/vocalizing using “repeat sentence”, and post-production.)
13437 good strong critique over playback of readaloud of Hane 2012 article. Laughing and mocking Hane’s reasoning.
14710 looping/mocking “that may trigger” (from Hane article).
14808 critique Hane’s presupposition that Western Esotericism != plants.
14916 Luck says Theurgy = plants.
15819 Hane’s arg for plants in New Age implies by same token, by same arg, plants in all of Western Esotericism
20123 mystics either use plants or fraud/fake. (re Hane article Abulafia)
20141 “plants are contentious” – I retort “no, what’s contentious is your violent redefinition of the word ‘entheogens’. book length treatment on Western Esotericism ‘s use of plants — not merely New Age’s use of plants as Hane argues “needs a book-length treatment”.
20323 be aware of my “entheogen diminishment fallacies”
20416 Hane participates in the UNSTATED PRESUMPTIONS that our own religion / Western Esotericism is NOT plants.
20952 plethora of my critiques of 2012 article means I must *NOT* comment on every sentence, but be selective.
21116 Hane’s presupposition that Western Esotericism lacks plants.
21429 Christopher Partridge says there was no plants 1977-1984. fail.
The Re-enchantment of the West, vol. 2, 82–134; see also parts of the chapter on “Cyberspirituality” (135–64).
21548 go to Amazon to read TOC in both volumes of Partridge’s books-set.
22036 Christopher Partridge avoids the word “entheogens” in favor of psychedelic.
“2021-02-15b Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
New policy: never let a 2-hour “limit” make me switch from being on a roll, to hitting a brick wall. If I’m zooming along, KEEP ZOOMING ALONG. don’t break the momentum.
First half of a 5:21:32 mega-episode. 15c is 2nd half.
filesize: 297 MB
length: 2:57:12
Timestamps for Part 1 (b) – “2021-02-15b Egodeath Mystery Show – Double Critique.mp3”
25:13 Virtual Ego reading
3240 – talking = idea development , for me
3833 – Discuss technique of repeat phrase while off the cuff.
4826 transcending voice
5300, 1:00:54, 1 wild vs cultivated (while using Std Vpoiec)
1:02:50 “my transcendent voice” vs “my former, egoic voice”. mimicked high pitch then lost my transcendent voice.
1:07:20 forgetting / remembering the two voices: egoic/t’t.
1:11:00 sacrificing eogic voice, transcendent voice attained. here i do actual high-idea development while using standard voice.
1:11:21 Kore
1:14:08 probably end of Kore discussion
1:14:57 “sentence” problematic
1:17:49 auto gap removal feature
1:20:35 revisit cultivated voice. (brief mention)
1:21:45 flowery voice
12501 my experienced character (intended tone of voice) during speaking vs. character upon playback (actual resulting tone of voice) – very shockingly difference.
12535 Arnold’s photograph driven appraoch to bodybuilding.
12657 report on my double-read-aloud of 2012 hane artic. many critqieuses, how to remember them.
13120 deciding to keep going and not terminate my show-recording at 2 hours, keep momentum.
13329 “secret”, need better framework. ‘conspiracy’.
13700 exoteric hegemony. are academics anti-plant?
14343 – preparing to do a critique of 2012 article in the ofrm in the form of pausing pback and saying critque. “Contributions & Limitation”.
14509 ahistoricity – why not written about more? Richard Carrier: Jesus from Outer Space
“secret” has baggage 14906
15405 critiquing my voicing of a read-aloud of hane.
20745 re-stating words from a recording of my speaking, to close the gap toward standard voice.
todo: 1″37″00 in 17a recording, compare my current revoicing to the recording
20905 how to critique how far I am from standard voice
20922 Vial
2:11:22 behavior change course at uni
2:14:00 mis-voiced during 2012 readaloud “two” as if “to”
2:16:00 – major value topic: Hane’s logic about New Age suspect visionary plants — his logic implies he should recognize all of Western Esotericism as plants.
22345 if it sounds like mushrooms it is. transition to topic: Vial article’s min mod max argment.
23009 criticizing field of entheogen scholarship for failing to recog myth describing fx of msh; only limited to descrip5tion of mushroom physical form.
23146 the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image proves what Letcher-Hatsis said an’t be done: deliberate mushrooms for religious experience.
23321 return to general subject: limits in field of entheogen scholarship . Dale Pendell book set including the Psych’s one.
combining Ruck book “Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness” vs. Metzner book “The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience” <–
24651 degrees of literalness of depictions of mushrooms: Y-stem of msh trees.
25157 myth is analogy describes *fx* of msh’s.
25411 memorizing title of Ruck book
25633 look for in Ruck & Metzner: does it see myth as description of msh fx? to what extent transfoormation of consciciousness resulting from msh?
mic: Shure SM57 mic, no eq. Limiter. mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode.
project file: same as mp3 filename, .aup
Post-Processing Steps
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
import Mic Deck wav – skip
import Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mic wav -skip
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mic wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav 1
export mp3 of Mixer wav 2
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Esoteric Agenda
Possible Topics in this Episode
done: play “last night’s” recording/show to hear “flowery” personality/voice.
partly done: secret c0nsp!r@cy exoteric/ esoteric (= /”gnostics”/”gnosticism” – as the demonized “other” of exotericists) standoff. ie
esotericists are the demonized “other” of the exotericists. including eg no-free-will, plants, ahistoricity.
covered: what does Jesus from Outer Space Richard Carrier say about why ahistoricity was not widely explicitly discussed?
Hane is asking academics to cover entheogens, but the subject is (for some of them) taboo. Is that taboo to be considered as “censorship”? “secrecy”? “suppression”? “conspir”? we need a more neutral analytical framwework eg re: some existing academics balking at no-free-will , ahistoricity, plants.
Ralph Metzner’s book The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience http://amzn.com/098183180X
Write essay on why not combine the two books/ theories/ treatments/ perspectives/ analyses?
Does Ruck fail to attempt to recognize how myth describes by analogy transformation of mental worldmodel induced by plants?
What is the limitation and contribution of Rucks book and of Metzner’s book?
Does Ruck’s book treat entheogens & mythology & consciousness (transformations of experiential mental worldmodel)?
Does Metzner’s book treat entheogens & mythology & consciousness (transformations of experiential mental worldmodel)?
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write the timestamp
review vocalization standards, for any off-the-cuff talking! stay conscious/mindful!
Standard Voice
Standard Reference Speaking and Tone
exaggerate the bass, treble, and pitch swing
Practice standard reference vocalizing
speak low pitch with a neutral-positive tone
speak low pitch with a smile
No particular character or inflection of feeling
No odd resonance
No character or attitude skew
Generic Reference speech, standard voice
Straight-up standard pronunciation
Neutral medium pace as midpoint
Not lax, not edgy (neutral non-emphasis)
Neither soft tone, nor aggressive
Neutral in tone
Functional and plain
Regular matter-of-fact speech
No attitude or tone skew
todo: improve lexicon about controlled vocalizing.
target voicing
vocal standards
voice standard
“my transcendent voice”
“my former, egoic voice”
nonstandard egoic former voice = high pitch + slurring + tight top-back of thr
standard voice
cultivated voice vs wild uncultivated voice
“previous voice” “former voice” = analogy: standing outside ego. talking about my “former”; challenge of avoiding reincarnation into possibilism-thinking.
Talk in terms of “my former voice”. puts a transcending distance between my new vs old consciousness/personality/voice.
[6:50 p.m. February 15, 2021] – Ruck’s focus-idea of {wild vs. cultivated} = egoic vs transcendent ; egoic thinking vs transcendent thinking.
egoic ~= my default uncultivated voice ~= Ruck’s “wild”.
transcendent ~= my “standard voice” I worked to develop & engage ~= Ruck’s “the cultivated”.
todo: check Ruck’s writings about wild vs. cultivated, isn’t it equiv/isolmorphic w/ child/animal vs. adult/human?
wild vs cultivated
egoic vs. transcendent
my default voice vs my “standard voice” that I designed and installed
child vs. adult
target voice CONTROLLED VOCALIZING (target vocalizing voice) WHILE SPEAKING OFF THE CUFF (= doing idea development off-the-cuff) (BOTH DURING IDEA DEVELOPMENT AND NOT(??) doi ever speak w/o doing idea development?? NO.)
31:32-2:39:00 – the actual reading of the article.
I read-aloud Hanegraaff’s article Entheogenic Esotericism, reading each sentence twice.
This particular .mp3 file is a “Show” format: flute & piano between paragraphs.
I plan to later clean up the direct microphone-only recording: remove gaps (and ideally, remove false takes), and make that recording available as a non-show .mp3 file; a simple voice recording file.
Discussed the evolving/developing format of the Egodeath Mystery Show.
History of Brown’s article including Vial, my demolishing of his Moderate-entheogen-theory advocacy position/example (Vial), led to “Criteria of Proof” article, which spun-off my Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image article:
1:20:00 analogies: where does ahistoricity fit into quadrants analogical psychedelic eternalism dependence-control
1:29:00 Vial, Canterbury proof. 2002 posting announcing the maximal entheogen theory of religion asserts the exponential forgot-plot of the decline of plants. Stays high, late decline
hard to track history recent history of the 3 articles. Brown’s article has the 3 positions min mod max, and he advocates Moderate, based on vial. Piecing together the history of the 3 articles.
1:40:00 theory
Play clips of reading-aloud Hanegraaff’s article Entheogenic Esotericism with I Robot music and effects, in which I start developing techniques of reading-aloud, a week ago:
Ironic distancing from the article by music + effects + speaking quietly + repeating for emphasis
Repeating a phrase or statement for ironic emphasis. Led to developing a reading-aloud technique of reading each sentence twice.
filesize: 249.9 MB
length: 2:28:39
Music for the Show
Song: Hang Back Freaky, by Illumination Valve
Production Notes
Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
bitrate: 260 kbps
mic: Shure SM57 mic > Pyle mixer > M76 limiter > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq (bypassed) > B mixer > TASCAM DR05 in Stereo mode.
project file: same as mp3 filename, .aup
Post-Processing Steps
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mic Deck wav
import Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mic wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mic wav (__ kbps from mono)
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
todo:
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Esoteric Agenda
Possible Topics in this Episode
4. Progress on this Show Format and an approach to combining recordings with a live broadcasting format.
5. Playing some of the February 7 night reading of that article, to hear me developing the technique of “reading-aloud for meaning”, and double-reading for emphasis.
6. Practicing double-reading of Hanegraaff’s 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism.
Misc. Items
todo: Silence an f-word; todo: edit Mixer deck 210214_2017.wav @40:50, a good take of practice run of the Egodeath Mystery Show. is there anything actually worth keeping??
diversion on breaking up sentences and paragraphs during read-aloud
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3. “Warmup Reading” Segment
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Diversion about __ and __.
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4. Run Through the Follow-the-Numbers Show Format with Double-Reading
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Show format, discuss double-reading the show flow
Limiter
Improved show-flow pages
Data Management: not sure whether to save direct mic rec’g or only the mixed show. Need to reduce the minutes of .wav files generated.
Discuss verbose ideas in Idea Development Page 11 top of page – show format.
Diversions: reviewed Vial history and forgot-plots, Brown’s conversion from Moderate to Maximal entheogen theory of religion.
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5. Precursor to Ironic Distancing + Double-Reading Technique, in the Episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show, “At War with the Mystics” (Feb. 7) – Play Clips
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Play 1:45:00 in “/Users/michaelhoffman/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-07b Egodeath Mystery Show – At War with the Mystics” That’s the start of Hane EE article “traditional methods of the mystics may…”
1:49:36 “Dare to take… (not at all comparable to the eucharist)” (sarcasm editorializing) – but play before/after that point. as well as clipping this.
Play Feb7 final 45 minutes, listen for double-reading/ reading-aloud for meaning-emphasis. Sarcastic demo; demonstrate during this show, the type of reading I was doing feb7 pm.
2:02:20 in that aup. clipped for present show.
Turned his article into an ironically distanced art-piece. The echo and background music and the requirement to speak quietly, added up to a “bracketed-off context” as opposed to a “take the author seriously” tone — plus Hane’s own tone is ironic/disbelieving/ scare-quotes. This “scare-quote” reading was the *mindset* of repeating twice; thus was invented double-reading.
210214_2279.wav – mic-only; SM57 mic>preamp>limiter M76>volpot>deck (no eq). 2.5″ 60 degrees aimed middle of upper lip. (monitored via earbuds yay no mega swamping with bass)
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2102##_####.wav – mic|mixer – desc
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Leveraging the Separation of Concerns: Record Purely a Reading of an Article, then Play that Recording on my Show, Pausing to Add Commentary as if a Separate “Track” – Need to “DJ” my own *clips* that are *separately* recorded.
the playback of the reading to add my peanut gallery commentary/ explnations/ critrqieu/ objections
My attempts to do a single perfect live take of 2 hours of variety show, ends up squandering massive amounts of storage space and thus drowning my good clips (signal) among mountains of noise.
It is *easy* to do a “killer take” of an Intro segment, when I’m not also, simultaneously, trying to talk to create a 2-hour show.
Generate & gather 2 hours of clips, none of which reference the show. No timestamp statements in these recordings.
Hit Record, do a DJ continuous take, 2 hours, with timestamps, where I play back the clips that I have gathered into the audio project file for the episode.
Mic Demo & Vocalization Victory Lap (I Hope)
https://we.tl/t-BfQubKBBq9 320kbps mp3. Preview (Magnifying Glass icon) for in-browser listening is only available for .mp3 files, not for .wav files (below). (no real Egodeath content (Brinckmann random demo read-aloud’s))
mic: Shure SM57 mic > Pyle mixer > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode.
project file: same as mp3 filename, .aup
Post-Processing Steps
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
todo:
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Practice Run of Hanegraaff 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism w/ double reading & warning commentaries that he’s FULL OF IT
Content
Practice Double-Reading Hanegraaff 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism
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Reading policies:
Disclaimer before start
Define ‘paragraph’ as like 1/4 page. Define “paragraph” loosely, as eg ~10 lines.
Read title twice
Read section headings twice
Read each sentence twice. Define “sentence” loosely, as eg ~4 lines.
Don’t read most quote-marks.
Break up long sentences as if multiple sentences.
Don’t mention footnotes
End of paragraph:
Paraphrase/ loose/informal quick reading of the paragraph (nominally 1-time) – it can be as-is.
Commentary on the paragraph
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Play feb 7 night reading of EE article where i devd “reading with amplified meaning” technique
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a previous reading, unintelligible, in which i dev’d the reading technique (ie, the double-sarcasm/scepticism reading-voice) – /Volumes/KINGSTON 1/TK/TK Voice Recordings Mostly Mixer Deck Feb 10 2021/210207_1922.wav = the last part of “The Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-07b At War with the Mystics.mp3” context: The Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-07) At War with the Mystics https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/idea-development-page-11/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-2021-02-07
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Log of Takes
filename – mic|mixer – content to use
210213_1988.wav – mixer <- export as mp3
210213_2270.wav – mic
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“2021-02-13a Egodeath Mystery Show – Smoking Complicated Ruin and Wreck.mp3”
mic: Shure SM57 mic > Pyle mixer > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode.
project file: same as mp3 filename, .aup
Post-Processing Steps
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Esoteric Agenda [for Ruin episode] – tbd, clean up after recording next episode starting now…
todo: how is hard drive full if storing on cloud???
todo: how were the jan 2021 voice recordings so substantive, and no gaps, needing no editing, with no planning, no show format?
Play a Clip of Commentary from Reading Hanegraaff’s 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism, “May Induce”
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Play a Clip of Commentary from Reading Hanegraaff’s 1995 article where Dan Merkur writes “Criticized Negatively”
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Play a Clip of Commentary from Take 1 of Reading Hanegraaff’s 1995 article on Empirical Historiography
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Play a Clip of the First Episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show, “My Followers”
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A double-reading of Wouter Hanegraaff’s 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism
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A double-reading of Wouter Hanegraaff’s 2012 article Entheogenic Esotericism.
Decide the reading approach eg read each sentence twice, then at end of paragraph, paraphrase the paragraph by doing a loose read-aloud of paragraph ie skip fluff words and replace some words by simpler words.
decide if will do commentary/ explanation & critique, of entire article & on a per paragraph.
scale/scope of summary/critique:
book or article
entire
chapter or section
paragraph
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Generating Fewer Hours of Recording, with More Content Ratio, Piecing Together a Show from That, without Micro Editing
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Use of Stop often, Pause often, mute , to generate less recording time, more content. Increase ratio of content to recording time.
todo: Decide the extent to which to use the audio editor.
make show structure ; get format set up to guide you to it
check past to do items
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Log of Takes
several intro takes
added to show project:
Comments while doing reading Take 1 of Hane 1995 article dr05. thats:
project file: “2021-02-11b Egodeath Mystery Show – Empirical Method Esotericism.aup”,
added to show project: 24:10-31:31 Dan Merkur writes “should be criticized negatively”. critique, commentary
added to show project: 45:38-48:32 “even more exciting section” named “Wisdom of Clowns”, rescuing enlightenment from the mystics, who are not worthy
mic deck 210212_2257.wav (sm57 into DR-05) (no mixer deck)
filename – mic|mixer – content to use
210212_2264.wav – mic – hane “May Induce” 7:54-13:00 laughing at Hane’s list of nondrug entheogens – in a reading of his intro, just add plants. re: Reading of Hane EE article.
Segment 1: New breakthrough Communication technique-invention today: Reading each sentence twice, to read-aloud an article.
46:22 I play the exact spot in the read-aloud recording, where I discovered/invented the double-reading technique.
1:38:06 Feb 11 Take 1 of 1995 reading, with bright mic (TASCAM DR-05 omnidir) & voice in bad state.
1:40:34 Feb 12 Take 2 of 1995 reading, with dark mic (Shure SM57 cardioid) & voice in good state.
Errata 1:41:03 I said “that’s today’s bright mic that I’m using now” – I meant, dark mic.
Segment 2 & end: The point of Hanegraaff’s 1995 article advocating Empirical method against the Religionist method.
2:17:40 At final segment near end of mp3, I say Hanegraaff must combine:
empiricism
religionism
the egodeath theory; “analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control”.
correct, productive historical research must specifically trace the history and differences of “analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control” (synchronic & diachronic).
The right/correct brand of religionism for empiricism (as a method of academic historiography of esotericism) to track & integrate is analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.
In religionism, the Signal is analogical psychedelic eternalism; the Noise is everything else. Good, relevant, substantive empirical historiography is that which tracks Signal (analogical psychedelic eternalism), not Noise (everything else).
Segment 3: Spectrum of various formats combining, of the Egodeath Mystery Show as a broad umbrella, from individual voice recordings, to multimedia extravaganza.
A sliding scale of structure is available.
The only rule is, Standard Reference vocalizing.
1:17:39 drums w/ delay
Segment 4: Vocalizing-work paid off, and combines with this great double-reading technique.
Pronounced a curse on the web page that strawmans broadcasters. In fact, broadcasters work hard to speak correctly and clearly and naturally.
Production Notes
bitrate: try 260 kbps
mic: Shure SM57 mic > Pyle mixer > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode. During the show, I played some of
today’s great SM57 (cardioid/prox’y/dark) (good voice state) reading of Hane1995, side-by-side with
yesterdays’ (omni/bright) (bad voice state) reading, of the Abstract.
To hear the eq difference & voice quality difference.
mic deck: 210212_2263.wav
mixer deck: 210212_1959.wav
project file: “2021-02-12a Egodeath Mystery Show – Double-Reading Communication Breakthrough.aup”
done:
determine which wavs
connect recorder drives
create music project containing both wavs
2021-02-12a Egodeath Mystery Show – Double-Reading Communication Breakthrough
import Mic Deck wav
import Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mic wav (skip)
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mic wav (skip)
export mp3 of Mixer wav
todo:
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
done: copy heading to TOC
Content
Double-Reading
My new, Double-Reading technique
special Board of Celebration edition- hit it out of the park w/ vocalizing & diamond-run 10/10 difficulty article.
remember my prophecy i made: “the universal solution to all vocalization problems is “repeat statement””.
double – my listening repeatedly to cds of Teaching Co
double reading: Cybernetics = communication
Hanegraaff 1995 Article
explain the point of the article, 3 positions.
Explaining Hanegraaff’s article about empiricism vs. (the false-dichotomy debate between religionism vs reductionism)
conversation w hanegraaff, the email i sent him
explain Hanegraaff’s 1995 article
mysticism/theosophy, gnosticism, esotericism
religionism, reductionism, empiricism
read aloud Hane 2012 article , double-reading –
todo: decide reading approach eg read each sentence twice, then at end of paragraph, paraphrase the paragraph by doing a loose read-aloud of paragraph ie skip fluff words and replace some words by simpler words.
decide if will do comentary/ explanation & criqique, of entire article & on a per paragraph. scale/scope of summary/critiqieu:
book or article entire
chapter or section
paragraph
read aloud M Hoffman article, double-reading
first take, last night – uploaded: some good commentary.
New Formats of the Egodeath Mystery Show
Format of the show – like Carl “Professor Secret” Ruck, the format of this show will be present but absent
need to extract clips – worry about that later.
show format: pros/cons of clipping/breaking-up an episode/take/recording session.
whether to use audio editor & how much.
new format for the show: each episode will use a completely different, unitque format
why? it’s a mystery
looking for the late night point in time where I received the word ‘mystery’
the Egodeath Mystery Show is an umbrella for all kinds of my recordings, download files.
insanity tunnel: i play shows within shows, the resampling workflow:
during the show, i play a section of a previous show,
in which i play a section of a previous show,
in which i play a section of a previous show,
in which i play a section of a previous show,
in which i play a section of a previous show,
in which i play a section of a previous show, 😱🤯😵
Vocalizing, Voiceover, & Microphones
hammer pitch down down down — result: it sounds full and normal, not bassy. only sounds resonant, not “bass pitch”.
Read Hanegraaff’s 1995 article “Empirical method in the study of esotericism”, reading every sentence twice.
He defines 3 approaches:
religionist
reductionist
empiricist <- he advocates, against the other two approaches.
Communication breakthrough: at 46:12, I discover/create the technique of deliberately, strategically reading each sentence twice.
Standard practice for voiceover.
Increases my comprehension & vocalization.
Produces far higher comprehension for the listener.
Take 2 read-aloud of Wouter Hanegraaff’s 1995 article: “Empirical method in the study of esotericism”. In this take, I discovered/invented the breakthrough “double-reading” technique of vocalizing & comprehension & comprehensibility. https://www.academia.edu/1761692/Empirical_Method_in_the_Study_of_Esotericism_1995_ (religionist/ reductionist/ empiricist) Journal: “Method & Theory in the Study of Religion”
Production Notes
bitrate: 260 kbps from mono
mic: Shure SM57 mic > Pyle mixer > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode.
mic deck 210212_2257.wav (sm57)mixer deck n/a
project file: “Empirical method in the study of esotericism (Hanegraaff).aup”
I discovered this technique about 1/3 through the article, started using it at that point of time. A communication breakthrough, right here on the show live on-air.
Vocalization apparatus usage:
Open bottom of chest;
Open top/back of throat;
Open back of mouth;
Focus activity tongue-tip.
Push pitch down, hard.
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mic Deck wav
import Mixer Deck wav (n/a)
normalize vol of Mic wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav (n/a)
export mp3 of Mic wav (260 kbps from mono)
export mp3 of Mixer wav (n/a)
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
TODO:
copy heading to TOC
based on my “failed” late-night reading of Hanegraaff’s ch19 Entheogenic Esotericism (music/fx too loud), then, I re-read for effect & clarity, selected phrases. Now, while reading-aloud (a 2nd time) the much harder 1995 Hanegraaff article “Empirical method in the study of esotericism”, I full-on discovered, a few minutes ago, around 9:30 am feb 12 2021, a new way of communication — read every sentence twice.
I just discovered a breakthrough new way of communication: reading-aloud every sentence twice. This really provides a great value-add opportunity for me; for the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Today’s vocalization & comprehensibility is *great*; solidly professional (don’t let down my mindfulness-guard though! always keep pushing for correct std ref’c speaking!)
“2021-02-11b Egodeath Mystery Show – Empirical Method Esotericism.mp3” – Hanegraaff article voiceover reading, with suitable commentary – Take 1
See also the Feb 12 “double-reading” version instead:
“2021-02-11b Egodeath Mystery Show – Empirical Method Esotericism.aup”
done (a):
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mic Deck wav & Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of dr05 wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Black Diamond Run Confirmed
⛷♦︎
Their knowledge level, on a scale of 0-10: -1 Their pomposity level: 11
Finished reading-aloud the article and recording, 26 pages. My resulting I.Q. decrease: 20 points
😵
Vocalization
Voiceover takes approach: deliver a recording to piece together a good reading & shorten gaps.
Emphasis here is on trying to open bottom chest and lift and open upper throat; more resonant cav (actively open /lift the top back of throat), less “tight throat” odd, bad tonality.
Take control of the full vocal aparatus, engage, exercise it, contrast bad operation/muscle patterns.
Judge, assess, identify problem spots, analyze, remedy.
Do not ever again think “I can quit trying, I can tune out and forget about trying to improve and judge my speech firmly.
Shocking how poor, sloppy, inattention, out of touch w/ own totally hit or miss voice.
was worse than embarrassed, upon listening critically, about a week ago wtf i thought and announced that my gear was broken.
omg i was delusional and out of touch w/ my own vocal sound.
resting on laurels.
i carefully measured my ego and determined that it was much too large in size.
i thought i was quite good, and in fact I was quite bad.
“My recorder is surely broken.”
Esoteric Agenda
todo:
listen to the recordding and decide whether to clean it up (removing bad takes, separating segments / clips.
Evaluate my vocalization.
Study the article by listening to this reading-aloud of it.
Decide whether to clean up the reading, or re-vocalize better this time and then do a fresh cleaner recording.
The relevance of this article and its value are in doubt; understanding this article amounts to following propellerhead debates per this 1995 article about 3 positions:
reductionists
religionists <– this article says religionists are evil. Analyze.
empiricists (Hanegraaff advocates this position)
todo: listen and identify the point of each section.
Policies for reading this particular article:
don’t read footnotes,
don’t comment (not even after paragraph),
don’t read list of citations;
don’t read References section.
add to vocal warmup at the Egodeath Mystery Show page: Anatomy section:
add notes about inhaling
open lower chest
open & lift top of throat and back of mouth
open front of mouth, tip of tongue
5 levels of esotericism
the egodeath theory
irvin
hanegraaff
Western Esotericism scholar unaware of entheogens & the egodeath theory (analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control)
Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion.
This includes such traditional points of departure as history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and sociology, but also the natural sciences, and such other approaches as feminist theory, discourse analysis, and ideology critique.
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion also concentrates on the critical analysis of the history of the study of religion itself.
Publisher: Brill Print Only ISSN: 0943-3058OnlineISSN: 1570-0682
“2021-02-11 Egodeath Mystery Show – Critique of Reading.mp3”
read the conclusion section of Hane article, with open throat/back of mouth.
played & critiqued samples of my readings from yesterday’s episodes of the Egodeath Mystery Show.
mic deck 210211_2255.wav
mixer deck 210211_1955.wav
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mic Deck wav & Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Esoteric Agenda
done: Intro
mic deck 210211_2255.wav
mixer deck 210211_1955.wav
done: Vocal Warmup reminders
More bassy! PUSH PITCH DOWNWARD!
FINISH EACH SENTENCE; DON’T INTERRUPT.
done: Vocal Warmup reading
done: put this agenda in a page that doesn’t scroll around.
done: play sample of 3 readings from yestday.
done: Critique of yesterday’s readings, there are very good clips buried in there – but, they need editing and cleanup.
OPEN UP THE TOP OF THROAT/ BACK OF MOUTH.
a: 27
b: hanegraaff
c: played most of “best clips from show feb 08b”, critiqued “surfing w/ loss of control” as egoic pov.
d: reading from book The Hidden Passion: A Novel of the Gnostic Christ
Not bassy enough. Not consistent effort. STEP IT UP 100FOLD!
Too stop & start; requires extensive editing to piece together a listenable result.
27 reading was good as a warmup prep ONLY. NEED TO REDO- OR TAKEAWAY LESSON LEARNED: PUSH BASS, CONTIGUOUS.
policy: 2 takes max (on a phrase), then move on.
Way too many interruptions, breaks, gaps, etc. – except fiction reading was smooth/continuous.
GOAL: MORE CONTINUOUS READING; obviate post-tracking edit cleanup pass.
not control loss or transformn or restabl
1. egoic
2. trannsfmn
3. perma new the personal control system that’s stable, has long been reconfigured; monolithic pseudo-autonomous control replaced by transpersonal 2-level-aware the personal control system (todo later: polish that concept-label).
todo: stop the throat clearing tic.
todo: analyse funny tone of saying
church
show
hypoth: open up top of throad/ back of mouth. try flipping between bad vs good.
always monitor for failure tone here.
todo: Read Hanegraaff’s 1990s unreadable article against religionists, comment on it. skill level: 10 (black diamond run)
1:40:00 finished re-levelling mic & drums reversed fade-in. to stop clipping when full-throated vocal at mic.
FINDING: OPEN UP THE TOP OF THROAT AND BACK OF MOUTH.
How to Develop Your Voice for TV or Radio <– i hated this page the first time, and I hate it now. fake amateur career site, “let’s write an article about everything EXCEPT proper normal standard reference vocalizing, and say nothing but disparagement & demonizing about correct standard vocalizing.” COMPLETELY USELESS PAGE, NOTHING BUT PERIPHERAL “LOOK HOW SAVVY I AM” — OOPS, FORGOT THE BASIC SUBSTANCE!!
Extracting Clips from the Four Feb 10 Episodes
this section was written Feb 26 or 27, within idea development page 12, when I created clips:
It’s been a huge project, trying to extract all my Egodeath clips from the four Feb 10 episodes.
It took time to add timestamps — and develop a better approach to do that. I scoped-out the potential clips from episodes 2021-02-10a through 2021-02-10d.
It’s taken a long time to clean up the projects and start noting timestamps in a clean, standard way. I’m only half done (finished A & B, need to do C & D). A 2-day project! done: I’m not even done w/ B — I need to make sure my commentary is timestamped separately from reading Hane’s words.
done: From B, I’m going to omit my readings of Hane’s EE article, and only keep my commentary – I’m sick of some passages of the article.
“2021-02-10d Egodeath Mystery Show – Hidden Passion.mp3”
Overall description: Read-aloud from Preview pages of Laurence Caruana’s book The Hidden Passion: A Novel of the Gnostic Christ.
0:00-1:15 overhead for the show is as low as a micro size dot
2:15-x:xx short episodes
3:45-x:xx rolling agenda
8:00-x:xx switched from Hang Back Freaky (music) to Test Coast.
10:22-13:54 Advanced mystic state is about stability, the other side of the coin as egoic fear of loss of control. step through dragon gate w/ right foot, to shift basis of control from possibilism-thinking to transcendent thinking / eternalism-thinking. through the guard gate.
19:42-x:xx song Vanishing Girl by Dukes of Stratosphear
21:00-x:xx vocalization rules
x:xx-x:xx __ My Love Explodes, What in the World. album Chips from the Choc fireball, Dukes of S.
23:30-x:xx Conversation rules
25:24 -2624 dragon gate jumping topics = jumping through gateway.
Overall description: Demo of EQ & Fx on “2021-02-10c Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3”. The SM57 mic, close-miked at ~3″ 45° (as in 02-08 & 02-10c), is dark – which is good for some trebly speakers. It’s hard to master for mobile speakers/bluetooth earbuds. I instead mastered for Apple earbuds & my good pair of Sony 7506 headphones, bouncing between them.
EQ: Gentle U eq variants, freshly dialed (U; not much smilefrown). Mastered for speakers: Apple earbuds & SONY 7506 closed-back headphones. One or the other, at a time, different mild U variants.
Timestamps:
0:00 –
Recording header:
Content:
__
Vocalization:
Evening. See 02-10c.
Time and Date:
eq/fx 11:00 p.m., February 27, 2021.
Miking: Based on 02-08b, which was prior to the 02-10 episodes.
Mic: SM57
Distance: 3″.
Position: 45°, aimed at upper lip.
No pop filter.
Polar pattern: Cardioid.
Limiter: none
EQ: explored U via MXR 10-band.
FX: yes
Mic tracking file: Fed by 2021-02-10c Clips v2.
Mixer tracking file: 210227_2105.wav
BE DONE AT 0:30!
The timestamp is x.
Post-Processing Steps
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
import Mixer Deck wav
skip: normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC, link
Production Notes
Track title & project file: same as mp3 filename.
bitrate: 260 kbps
normal miking was likely: Shure SM57 mic. 3-4″ distance. Previous episode, 2021-02-08b, uses: Shure SM57 3″, 45 degrees. Aimed at upper lip or 1/4″ in front of upper lip. ~45 degrees. No pop filter or windscreen. Probably no Limiter. No eq. Check the previous episode’s miking.
normal chain: mic > Pyle mixer > MXR M76 > JHS volume pot > TASCAM DR-05 in Mono mode > eq > mixer > TASCAM DR-05 in Stereo mode
I cleaned-up this Clips episode, then subsequently made an Effects version of this cleaned-up episode (see above section).
I made a Clips (or Core) shortened version, of Feb 10 3rd episode (02-10c). Forthe Clips version of the ep, I used the dry direct mic recording (no music). Has the intro & outro. I omitted the 8b clips segment, since that’s available separately and I want to give full attention to the new content. At the start, I retained the list of types of readings & recordings that I can incorp into any episode, but I omitted the recorded, 8c cleaned-up clip.
v2 (Feb 27):
increased the gaps to allow read-aloud & inhaling.
various fixes.
removed fluff words.
cleaned up (nice & clean now for re-use such as remixing).
added one statement at the end.
reorged the end sentences a little.
Download Info
Download/preview link for 1 week (starting Feb 27, 2021): https://we.tl/t-WbCQned14u <- v2, super-clean, better timing/gaps
Length:31:56 32:23 (deleted some words, added space/gaps, added 1 sentence)
Filesize:33 MB 78 MB (320 kbps this time, not 210 or 260)
Overall description:See v2 notes above. The below remains true, for v2. A Clips (or Core) shortened version, of the Feb. 10, 3rd episode (10c). I used the dry direct mic recording (no music). Has the intro & outro. I omitted the 8b clips segment, since that’s available separately and I want to give full attention to the new content. At the start, I retained the list of types of readings & recordings that I can incorp into any episode, but I omitted the recorded, 8c cleaned-up clip.
Timestamps (per the original episode):
0:22 – Voice intro announcement/spot.
1:40 – “The candidates for types of readings or voice recordings, on this show, are… ” I mention the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image content from clip “2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show [– Drums on the Wing].mp3″ – touching the column base is enough. board of mystics.
54:45 – Dancing stability – Eadwine, not “Erdwine”. Shipment of msh images has been delivered (during late Nov 2020), in art, past the censor squad. No one has written about the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image. Cybercide guys. Secret field of entheogen scholarship. Dragon gate. dancing image.
1:03:20 – Title of “lifted garment” page.
1:05:22 – Her lifted garment. Dragon gate. Transpersonal 2-level control system.
1:12:18 – Dragon gate.
1:18:55 – I just now found that her garment is lifted [Errata: I had actually noted her lifted garment in the bottom of the image some weeks ago, but whatever.]
1:19:31 – Jesus is barefoot.
1:19:56 – Hand wrapped around cartoon cell border.
1:21:03 – Factors keeping the “spot the mushroom” scholars from covering the Psalter on the order of magnitude warranted. Once they spot 1 mushroom, they are done; they have no provision for order of magnitude. Inability to deal with a huge gold mine that the Psalter is. Overfocus on just a few of the msh trees in the Psalter. Bad PR for Pop Sike Cult. Cybercide.
1:26:44 – I had been wanting to look at the Dancing image. No coverage of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image? Levels in the field of entheogen scholarship. What should the field of entheogen scholarship be?
1:32:59 – Non-headphone state of consciousness.
1:34:08 – Entheogen scholarship has little coverage of Psalter. Foundation column pillar. Egoic thinking says “loss of control threat”. Dragon gate.
1:41:47 – Foundation. Female lifted garment.
1:43:20 – Leaky metaphors.
1:46:20 – Dragon gate.
2:00:09 – End of show.
Post-Processing Steps
done:
export mp3 of Mic wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
todo:
copy heading to TOC, link
test that link
announce in idea development page 12
link from idea development page 12 to section here
test that link
done: below, mark the old v1 download link as superseded
Download/preview link for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-knrOGmhfGl – version 1, about to be superceded by an improved v2, above
Length: 31:56
Filesize: 33 MB
Overall description: A Clips (or Core) shortened version, of the Feb. 10, 3rd episode (10c). I used the dry direct mic recording (no music). Has the intro & outro. I omitted the 8b clips segment, since that’s available separately and I want to give full attention to the new content. At the start, I retained the list of types of readings & recordings that I can incorp into any episode, but I omitted the recorded, 8c cleaned-up clip.
Timestamps (per the original episode):
0:22 – Voice intro announcement/spot.
1:40 – “The candidates for types of readings or voice recordings, on this show, are… ” I mention the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image content from clip “2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show [– Drums on the Wing].mp3″ – touching the column base is enough. board of mystics.
54:45 – Dancing stability – Eadwine, not “Erdwine”. Shipment of msh images has been delivered (during late Nov 2020), in art, past the censor squad. No one has written about the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image. Cybercide guys. Secret field of entheogen scholarship. Dragon gate. dancing image.
1:03:20 – Title of “lifted garment” page.
1:05:22 – Her lifted garment. Dragon gate. Transpersonal 2-level control system.
1:12:18 – Dragon gate.
1:18:55 – I just now found that her garment is lifted [Errata: I had actually noted her lifted garment in the bottom of the image some weeks ago, but whatever.]
1:19:31 – Jesus is barefoot.
1:19:56 – Hand wrapped around cartoon cell border.
1:21:03 – Factors keeping the “spot the mushroom” scholars from covering the Psalter on the order of magnitude warranted. Once they spot 1 mushroom, they are done; they have no provision for order of magnitude. Inability to deal with a huge gold mine that the Psalter is. Overfocus on just a few of the msh trees in the Psalter. Bad PR for Pop Sike Cult. Cybercide.
1:26:44 – I had been wanting to look at the Dancing image. No coverage of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image? Levels in the field of entheogen scholarship. What should the field of entheogen scholarship be?
1:32:59 – Non-headphone state of consciousness.
1:34:08 – Entheogen scholarship has little coverage of Psalter. Foundation column pillar. Egoic thinking says “loss of control threat”. Dragon gate.
1:41:47 – Foundation. Female lifted garment.
1:43:20 – Leaky metaphors.
1:46:20 – Dragon gate.
2:00:09 – End of show.
Post-Processing Steps
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
import Mic Deck wav
normalize vol of Mic wav
export mp3 of Mic wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC, link
test that link
announce in idea development page 12
link from idea development page 12 to section here
test that link
“2021-02-10c Egodeath Mystery Show – Dancing Stability.mp3” – reissue of the entire episode
Feb 26 resissue of entire episode, with _ filelanme.
This is a pretty solid episode, but it was still good to make a “Core” version of this episode. It’s a Core version of an episode that contains clips from another episode.
The Core version is labelled as a “Clips” episode, but it is packaged as a real episode – a shortened version of an episode – not just as standalone clips out-of-context. The episode does include an actual Clip, that is, from another episode – confusing the distinction. It’s a “Core, with Clips from elsewhere” episode.
Most of the episode is on-topic Egodeath theory-development content.
Download Info
Download/preview link for 1 week, starting from Feb. 26, 2021:
Best clips from another show – Includes most of the top-clips track “2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
Forgot Plots; Grid Game; segment about receiving vision of segment format, vulnerability spotted
(omitted most of the feet discussion of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image).
New content for this episode, after the clip – Dancing with the 2 Sides of the control stability coin.
Saying that the altered state is dancing/surfing the edge of loss of control, that’s the egoic point of view. The transcendent point of view = using the higher form of control stability.
Control-transformation -> transcendent control system.
Female garment lifting.
The dragon gate.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Guitar intro (song: Hang Back Freaky, by Illumination Valve)
0:22 – Voice intro announcement/spot.
0:30 – “This episode covers”
0:37 – Brief guitar
0:40 – “Then some kind of a reading”
1:25 – Guitar
1:30 – “Now I have to decide what I will read next” (Instead, I played long clip of voice, from episode Feb 8b.)
1:35 – Guitar
1:40 – “The candidates for reading, on this show, are”
2:18 – Guitar, ‘but’ delay
2:44 – The egodeath.com site, I can read from …
3:19 – “Such as “2021-02-08b Clips – Egodeath Mystery Show [– Drums on the Wing].mp3″ – the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image – touching the column base is enough. board of mystics.
7:57 – Hard to find the outline, too much scrolling. guitar passages in this segment.
13:51 – Guitar stops, mention plan to review vocalization rules. __________________________
22:31 – Play 02-08b dry mic cleaned-up clip. But I kinda ruin it by critiquing instead of a straight play-through. todo: replace the clip-section by 8b clip wav.
52:07 – End of clip. Transition from playing the clip; start the guitar again.
52:22 – Guitar resumes. meeting room sizing reverb. board of mystics meeting room. next on the agenda is deciding what’s next on agenda.
54:22 – The timestamp is, according to the deck… we have finished playing 8b & commenting on it. __________________________
54:45 – Dancing stability (remainder of episode) – Eadwine, not “Erdwine”. shipment delivered, in art, censors. no one has written about the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image. Cybercide guys. secret field. dragon gate. dancing image.
1:01:04 – Pasting Dancing image.
1:03:20 – Title of “lifted garment” page.
1:03:43 – Pasting Dancing image.
1:05:22 – Her lifted garment. dragon gate. transpersonal 2-level control system.
1:09: 34 – “but” echo section.
1:09:37 – Tech echo – omit.
1:09:55 – Guitar + but echo
1:12:18 – End of echo “but” section. Dragon gate.
1:18:02 – Guitar
1:18: 36 – Turn down mic while typing.
1:18:55 – I found that her garment is lifted [Errata: I had actually noted her lifted garment in the bottom of the image some weeks ago, but whatever.]
1:19:31 – Jesus is barefoot.
1:19:56 – Hand wrapped around cartoon cell border.
1:21:03 – Factors keeping the “spot the mushroom” scholars from covering the Psalter on the order of magnitude warranted. Once they spot 1 mushroom, they are done; they have no provision for order of magnitude. Inability to deal with a huge gold mine that the Psalter is. Overfocus on just a few of the msh trees in the Psalter. Bad PR for Pop Sike Cult. Cybercide.
1:25:58 – Echo & levels.
1:26:44 – I had been wanting to look at the Dancing image. No coverage of the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image? Levels in the field of entheogen scholarship. What should the field of entheogen scholarship be?
1:32:23 – Dark mic helps make me enunciate.
1:32:59 – Non-headphone state of consciousness. echo.
1:33:51 – Pitch range.
1:34:08 – Entheogen scholarship has little coverage of Psalter. Foundation column pillar. Egoic thinking says “loss of control threat”. Dragon gate.
1:41:47 – Foundation. Female lifted garment.
1:43:20 – Leaky metaphors.
1:43:35 – Don’t know how to low pitch while doing idea development.
1:46:20 – Dragon gate. Rest of show includes typing-up the same points.
2:00:09 – End of show.
Production Notes
Mic Deck .wav: 210210_2242.wav
Mixer Deck .wav: 210210_1948.wav
Mic vs. Mixer recording length/timestamps: they start to differ around 13:00 b/c stereo has long clip from other episode, while Mic rec was Paused.
entheogen scholars are driven away or mis-led/distracted away from the 70 mush trees the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image by swords like “ego death” drives ppl away (dragon-threat). i’m the only “spot the msh” scholar to dare look at the sword image (bad pr for Pop Sike), leaving me, alone, to decode these msh images.
why did it wait until 2020 for a spot-the-mushroom scholar to inventory Psalter 70 trees & decode (or *mention*) the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image.
[4:31 p.m. February 10, 2021] – identified the woman in the … as having lifted garment, held by Jesus/God. Noted also the sun and moon faces above them.
Decide which reading to do.
Do the selected reading.
todo: think-aloud to work-out a new thought, in a low pitch.
todo: make a list of themes of not “loss of control” but of “new balance”; discuss.
1:50:00
leopard fountain
kylix
pink initiate in the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image
etc.
TWO SIDES OF SAME COIN: EGOIC POV = “LOSS OF CONTROL THREAT”; TRANSCENDENT POV = *STABILITY* BUT, TRANSPERSONAL MODE OF STABILITY.
1. EGOIC LOSS OF CONTROL
2. CONTROL TRANSFORMATION PROCESS/ RE-STABILIZATION OF CONTROL
3. END-STATE = TRANSCENDENT *HAVING* OF CONTROL, AGAIN, BUT IN TRANSPERSONAL 2-LEVEL CONSCIOUS CONFIGURATION. = “balance” mytheme & column base stability foundation = the new configuration of HAVING STABLE CONTROL. DONTSAY “THE MYSTIC STA IMAS IMAS THE MYSTIC ALTERED STATE = sufring the loos of control”. instead, say the mystic altered state = having the transpersonal stable control, depicted by the art mytheeme of “balance” and “stability” eg amanita w/ round stembottom & pink in the the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image, and the coloumn base in the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image. “higher-mode control is stable” – *not* “loss of control”, that’s egoic thinking/talking. 2 sides of coin = egoic says “loss of control”; transcendent transcendent thinking says “presence of transpersonal control”
“2021-02-10b Clips from Egodeath Mystery Show – Hanegraaff.mp3” – new Feb. 26, 2021
Only the on-topic, my-own-words parts (shown in bloack bold in the timestmps section of …. Not my reading Hanegraaff’s words. Not my non-Egodeath content.
Overall description: Clips from episode where I read much of Hanegraaff’s article Entheogenic Esotericism.
Timestamps: [not very useful here; they’re per the original episode]
0:00 – Intro initial part.
10:43 – Board of Mystics. Purpose of theory channelling muses.
49:11 – Reading (pre-reading). The book Contemporary Esotericism is the context.
56:31 – Commentary: “magic vs. religion”, “manipulation”. author failed to define spiritual result, scholars framework theory, a certain theory as of myth.
58:30 – Choosing to ingest Eucharist is “magic”/”manipulation”, by their same argument. trying to delegitimate.
1:02:20 – Take note of footnotes & ellipses. using footnotes strategically deployed. Hanegraaff’s bunk footnote.
1:09:34 – What does he mean by “they”?
1:12:30 – commentary on ‘manipulative’
1:13:02 – “sorry for interrupting the reading”
1:20:03 – Commentary (a break from the reading): I explain the pretext story, that Hanegraaff said he got misled by, he should have been more sensitive to the realities. The New Agers’ “Non-Plants” Lie. New Age is based on visionary plants, but they have to lie `about that and pretend they switched to “meditation”.
1:25:27 – The remarkable extent to which Hanegraaff says New Age = closeted psychedelic spirituality.
1:32:21 – Real esotericists use skills concealing of Foo, then revealing of Foo, = analogical psychedelic eternalism, ahistoricity, unity of religions at the top
1:35:12 – Partridge’s periods.
1:38:33 – Partridge’s periods. (more)
2:19:53 – My summary of the point of the Hanegraaff article.
2:22:00 – Christopher Partridge has a gap in plants usage 1977-1983. <– I’m very interested in this ignored period which has been written out of history; Hanegraaff is trying to fill in the grid. Grid Game.
8:57 – Formats of Egodeath Mystery Show available w/ degrees of formality. too many overhead steps. Overhead of explaining what’s in the recording, full outline w/ timestamps. log overhead (a log can be empowering).
10:28 – Agenda. Added formats range; formats of show & recordings available.
10:43 – Board of Mystics. Purpose of theory channelling muses.
20:29 – Goals for practice vocalizing in this episode.
21:14 – Practicing standard reference vocalizing to turn any text into speech. standard reference vocalizing. turn any text into speech. Cybernetics = Communication.
22:00 – Receiving ideas about formats for the show. Low overhead. No rules except use casual standard voice & repeat phrase. Vocalizing, standards/techniques.
30:03 – It’s nice to have elaborate show format available.
31:40 – Advantage of recording the mic.
33:30 – Dark SM57 complements bright mobile speakers; no eq needed.
36:15 – Merits of separately recording the direct mic vs. produced show (mixer).
36:48 – Spectrum from casual recordings to formal “show” format. Pros and Cons of heavyweight Egodeath Mystery Show format.
42:05 – Agenda. Hard to remember voicing consciously.
44:36 – Like falling back into egoic thinking. End of Show-Formats discussion.
45:48 – Deciding what articles to read from. Vocalizing review.
49:11 – Reading (pre-reading). The book Contemporary Esotericism is the context.
51:30 – My reading of part of the Hanegraaff article Entheogenic Esotericism – section: Entheogens and Religion – Conceptual Pitfalls and Prejudices – it’s entirely his words.
56:00 – Reading continues: “Ultimately based upon the theological battle against paganism…”
56:31 – Commentary: “magic vs. religion”, “manipulation”. author failed to define spiritual result, scholars framework theory, a certain theory as of myth.
58:30 – Choosing to ingest Eucharist is “magic”/”manipulation”, by their same argument. trying to delegitimate.
1:00:23 – This is not a Commentary pass; this is purely a vocalizing-practice pass. Purpose is not to explain his article.
1:00:50 – Resume reading: “A second cause of controversy is…”
1:02:20 – Take note of footnotes & ellipses. using footnotes strategically deployed. Hanegraaff’s bunk footnote.
1:03:34 – transitional junk
1:03:53 – Continue the Reading of Hanegraaff article.
1:05:47 – End of paragraph. comment on inhaling.
1:06:46 – Planned pro-level reading of this article. Will speed-read next paragraph.
1:08:55 – Resume reading the article at next paragraph.
1:09:34 – What does he mean by “they”?
1:11:17 – Resume reading, “Almost inevitably, “
1:12:30 – commentary on ‘manipulative’
1:12:45 – reading continues, “The ‘drugs’ category further”
1:13:02 – “sorry for interrupting the reading”
1:14:11 – reading continues, “The bottom line”
1:15:35 – How much to repeat myself to get articulation right?
1:16:13 – Reading continues. “In this chapter, “
1:17:04 – Drums
1:17:35 – Miking positioning, sweet spot.
1:19:27 – Resume reading at next section & paragraph: Entheogens and the New Age – but then I skip it.
1:20:03 – Commentary (a break from the reading): I explain the pretext story, that Hanegraaff said he got misled by, he should have been more sensitive to the realities. The New Agers’ “Non-Plants” Lie.New Age is based on visionary plants, but they have to lie `about that and pretend they switched to “meditation”.
1:24:41 – Drums (= silence in mic track)
1:25:27 – The remarkable extent to which Hanegraaff says New Age = closeted psychedelic spirituality.
1:32:21 – Real esotericists use skills concealing of Foo, then revealing of Foo, = analogical psychedelic eternalism, ahistoricity, unity of religions at the top
1:38:06 – Reading continues. “Publishing his book in 2005, Partridge…”
1:38:33 – Partridge’s periods. (more)
1:38:45 – “I should just read”
1:38:57 – Reading continues. “While such a periodization…”
1:39:26 – “i swear i’m gonna do a straight reading”
1:40:09 – Reading continues. “Neoshamanism has drawn…”
1:45:37 – End of paragraph. I am hungry. Speed demo’s.
1:46:52 – Resume reading. “The main outlines of the pre-Prohibition phase…”
2:04:40 – Break from reading. song: Hang Back Freaky, by Illumination Valve.
2:06:12 – Resume Hanegraaff article reading, now over guitar background from Cybermonk. “Pinchbeck, for his part, “
2:13:10 – End of reading the article. “That’s the last word on the final page.” Deciding what to do next. Level change; gain staging.
2:19:53 – My summary of the point of the Hanegraaff article.
2:22:00 – Christopher Partridge has a gap in plants usage 1977-1983. <– I’m very interested in this ignored period which has been written out of history; Hanegraaff is trying to fill in the grid. Grid Game.
2:29:30 – I can play background music w/o me hearing it. Headphones nixed.
2:33:59 – I slowly work up toward finally saying that I have taken a meeting note that I’m defining my word-usage of something (UNSPECIFIED), which I fail here to specify – FINISH YOUR STATEMENTS; MAKE COMPLETE STATMENTS. STOP MAKING PARTIAL FRAGMENT STATEMENTS. Secretary Meeting of the Board of Mystics: Cybernetics = Communication.
2:36:03 – I’m defining my word-usage of ‘mediation’ and ‘plants’. ‘mediation’ and ‘plants’. By ‘meditation’, I by default mean non-drg.
2:36:40 – Vocal pitch range target.
2:39:44 – “end of segment” Timestamps on the two decks. Mixer deck timestamp is off bc ran out of space.
2:41:52 – Outro.
Production info
Mic Deck .wav: 210210_2241.wav
Mixer Deck .wav: 210210_1946.wav
2nd part: 210210_1947.wav
Mic vs. Mixer recording length/timestamps: complicated, but same after patching the 13-minute gap in Mixer stereo rec’g by copying-in the Mic mono rec’g.
Done: patch-in 13 min from mic deck to mixer deck track(s). got up to 1:53:07, in Mic & Mixer decks. 2:04:46 in the Mic Deck is the end of the dropped portion.
append part 2, but omit junk at start; use 6:21 to end.
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
the bad news: I failed to check Space Remaining on the Mixer Deck, lost apparently 13 minutes of pretty good read-aloud of Hane artic Entheogenic Esotericism. I’m waiting for files to transfer, to clear space, so I can resume recording/reading.
the good news: I’m doing a good job of vocalizing – excerpt for the re-takes, the clarifying value-add commentary interrupting the paragraph-reading.
“2021-02-10a clips from Egodeath Mystery Show – TK Podcast 27 Mystic.mp3” – new, Feb 26, 2021
Overall description: clips of my own commentary from episode “2021-02-10a Egodeath Mystery Show – TK Podcast 27 Mystic.mp3”.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro (Egodeath Mystery Show)
1:44:00* – Nondual experiencing is beginner’s nonduality. Kafei asked for clarification of my position, he didn’t say “I disagree with MH position”. Nondual experiencing is beginners’ level.
1:46:30* – Two types of nondual experiencing: Beginner vs Advanced Nondual Experience.
1:51:38* – Dancing with higher stable control. Jesus & Sophia dancing, image from Eadwine. Cybernetic Nonduality is depicted. personal and transpersonal self layers, dancing. Lifted garments.
1:53:12* – Eadwine shipment of images , prohibitionist art authorities. Exoteric suppression/blocking the msh images.
1:55:21* – Eadwine’s image of dancing: use it as to represent the control transformation advanced nonduality experience. Nonduality depicted as dance of Jesus/Sophia. egoic point of view: “dancing w/ loss of control”, but transcendent point of view: conscious dance between (in mystic state) the two levels: transpersonal consciousness, personal thinking. Become aware of the dance that’s always going on.
1:56:44* – Theme of elegant balance, not just “desperate balance”. Touching Demeter’s snake w/ the right hand.
1:59:07* – “That’s gold, that’s a clip”.
2:05:52* – Actual Outro.
* subtract about 1:44:00
Post-Processing Steps
done:
normalize vol of Mic wav
export mp3 of Mic wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC, link
test the toc link
announce at this heading
announce at top of this page
announce at idea development page 12.
test the cross-link to this page from page 12.
“2021-02-10a Egodeath Mystery Show – TK Podcast 27 Mystic.mp3”
Overall description: A full good reading of the entire machine transcription of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, episode 27 – the Mystic episode.
0:00 – Intro (Egodeath Mystery Show)
0:45 – Voczn review
2:15 – Now have volume pot after mic
6:11 – Warmup reading #1: misc sentences
11:45 – Drumming to replace typing
25:00 – Warmup reading #2: Rolfe.
28:46 – Lead-in to reading of Transcendent Knowledge podcast 25.
30:48 – The actual reading; read-aloud the machine transcription of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 27.
1:44:00 – Nondual experiencing is beginner’s nonduality. Kafei asked for clarification of my position, he didn’t say “I disagree with MH position”. Nondual experiencing is beginners’ level.
1:46:30 – Two types of nondual experiencing: Beginner vs Advanced Nondual Experience.
1:51:38 – Dancing with higher stable control. Jesus & Sophia dancing, image from Eadwine. Cybernetic Nonduality is depicted. personal and transpersonal self layers, dancing. Lifted garments.
1:53:12 – Eadwine shipment of images , prohibitionist art authorities. Exoteric suppression/blocking the msh images.
1:55:21 – Eadwine’s image of dancing: use it as to represent the control transformation advanced nonduality experience. Nonduality depicted as dance of Jesus/Sophia. egoic point of view: “dancing w/ loss of control”, but transcendent point of view: conscious dance between (in mystic state) the two levels: transpersonal consciousness, personal thinking. Become aware of the dance that’s always going on.
1:56:44 – Theme of elegant balance, not just “desperate balance”. Touching Demeter’s snake w/ the right hand.
20334-20527 volca synth music keyboard to reference my voice pitch against.
2:05:52 – Actual Outro.
Mic Deck .wav: 210210_2240.wav
Mixer Deck .wav: 210210_1945.wav
Mic vs. Mixer recording length/timestamps: same
Project location:
was at: DataTraveller USB thumbdrive “100 G3 64GB” titled “KINGSTON 1” – “/Volumes/KINGSTON 1/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-10a Egodeath Mystery Show – TK Podcast 27 Mystic/2021-02-10a Egodeath Mystery Show – TK Podcast 27 Mystic.aup”
moved entire project to main drive for processing.
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
create music project
import Mic Deck wav & Mixer Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link here
test the dl link/preview
copy heading to TOC
Content
A full good reading of transcription of entire Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, episode 27 – the Mystic episode.
Vocalization exercises. That paid off – I did a good reading, afterwards (maybe there is hope – but don’t be overconfident!)
I did use my “Show” format, but here, I plan to eliminate all possible overhead. I will provide the download link here, the file name could be as shown.
The Full Experience – Battery-powered recorder + mic stand clip, 2 approaches to holding
handheld
mic stand <- no cable needed; offers a standalone wireless desk mic stand.
When I started the 2021 voice recordings, all of the recordings were made with battery-powered field recorder, sometimes mounted on med-small desk mic boom stand w/ clip, no pop filter. Have to say, it was pretty cool and clever to simply clip-mount the recorder and use batteries, is the most fun – it’s fully mobile; can:
walk around holding recorder as close-mic and backing it away between speaking at the mic (move arm)
press Pause
put recorder in desk mic stand clip
press Rec
now sitting at a battery-powered recorder – move away from mic between speaking at the mic (move torso)
if you are willing to lose a little high-end by mic placement of 45 degrees off axis, no pop filter is necessary. No cable is necessary. Can place stand anywhere, no cable. or hold and walk around.
Highly Selective Logging of Timestamps when Recording My Speaking
Often, when recording my talking, I deliver a 10/10 10-minute segment, then I go… uh, what do I do now?
In that case, I can write down the timestamp (and optionally, the filename), so I can spot-target *that* clip. *NOT* a massive project of inventorying everything, nor of constantly writing down every minute of timestamp.
That highly selective approach is similar to when I decode a mytheme, I use [acro]/keyboard shortcuts to mark the time or date: [February 9, 2021] [ p.m. February 9, 2021]
Pure Voice Recordings vs. Egodeath Mystery Show
Differentiating (and recording/capturing) Pure Voice Recordings/Clips vs. Remix DJ multimedia “the Egodeath Mystery Show” which Remixes the Pure Voice Recordings (while also capturing the dry mic during the show, to later extract the best 5% from, as pure voice clips, to share and to reuse) <– skyrocketing the quality/density of value
my totally live shows (w/o playing-back my voice recordings) are a disservice to my followers: the content & quality is too thin, too hit-or-miss.
I can hugely increase the density of substance, by playing back the best *clips* of my occasional, best voice commentary.
I did some great new speaking (with substance) while DJ’ing last night in the Egodeath Mystery Show, but, that was only like 5% of the time.
SO: i can *clip* my best 5% from my dry mic recording (yay!) and then play back those clips in a “live show” subsequently.
This is why it is such a *great* idea to record the mic directly, as well as recording the fully mixed show.
I ran two recorders at same time – good call; I have a perfect mic-capture w/ no eq/fx/mixing, to extract my 5% best clips from, that I spoke last night — it’s always the unplanned, spontaneous discussions I do, that are the good ones!
My current thinking: *forget* logging the timestamps when making the content. Purely focus on good vocal delivery/ideas, during the show.
EXTRACTING TIMESTAMPS IS USUALLY HAS TO BE DONE AS A SECOND, LISTENING PASS.
The best way to think about it – 2 phased approach:
Phase 1: make the best pure voice recordings i can (for example, extract my best voice-clips)
Phase 2: the Egodeath Mystery Show: do a *little* live DJ mic work, but *mainly* play-back *recordings* of my best voice work. Then, the branding/concept of “the Egodeath Mystery Show” would refer *not* to my pure voice recordings, but rather, would refer to my *playback* of those voice recordings. Thus:
purely Voice Recordings (no eq/fx/mixing)
the Egodeath Mystery Show – I apply eq/fx/mixing-music, while playing-back my collection of pure voice recordings (best clips).
I keep forgetting:
DR-05 SOUNDS CLEAR B/C OMNI POLAR PATTERN SO NO PROXIMITY EFFECT.
SM57 MIC HAS CARDIOID POLAR PATTERN, SO, HAS PROXIMITY EFFECT – IE, MUDDY BASS.
stop forgetting that!
Back to Basics: Voice Recordings, No Overhead Concepts – Bracket-off All Signal Processing & Packaging & Timestamp Logging & Delivery Considerations
210209_2233.wav = dr-05 no eq
210209_2231.wav = sm57 no eq
“show” (the Egodeath Mystery Show ) connotes taking a collection of direct mic recordings (no eq/fx/musicmix baked-in), then combining many separate clean pure mic voice recordings, w/ eq/fx/music/mixing — DON’T DO ALLTHAT AT ONCE, LIVE. can’t do good job.
“live broadcast” would only work if I play recordings of pure miked-voice ideal recordings. then dj casually over that, but don’t expect to generate good speaking/content in the “do everything at once” mode. extreme overhead/distraction, of the “live broadcast mulltimedia” aaproach.
use time-separation/ phases. can do a far, far better results/approach, by dividing:
phase 1: capture direct mic pure voice recording, vocazn. focus purely on ideas (content) + best-possible vocalization.
phae 2, later: mix various voice recordings (thru eq/fx) mixed with music or other(?) audio – *possilby* adding live dj mic at that time, maybe.
external mic 57 caused me to think of show format with massive overhead. go back to deskmount dr05 field recorder even w/ batteries. nice standalone. no nonsense. no overhead. no log file. NO NOTHIN but voice, mic, recorder. zero overhead.
Use the Minimal Approach: (= nothing to remove):
Voice
Mic
Preamp [don’t use eq/mixer function, if present]
Recorder
all other considerations are agnostic, separate, later.
Create non-show, pure voice recordings.
but, using lessons learned, about the need to log timestamp ideally every minute. don’t even think about it. just give me raw mic recgs! w/ good voczn. Focus on voczn & capturing the mic; *none* of the other questions.
debate: record raw mic and share that? options: [doesn’t matter; that’s all a SEPARATE ISSUE; don’t even think about it. just give me raw mic recgs!]
options:
mic>recorder>export as mp3 <– some mics will sound like mud / random, but works well for the slightly bright & bass-shy field recorder 🤷♂️
mic>eq>recorder>export as mp3 <– bad approach; follow pro-audio rule: “never print eq; separate the mic rec’g from the applying of eq”
mic>recorder>daw-eq>export as mp3 <– recommended
New Streamlined/Focused Format for the Egodeath Mystery Show – Vision: Received, for the Show’s Nature
Rolling Log Approach, cut at 2 hours, no special start or end, no 2-hour structure
most will be straight voice
in future, will log timestamp like every minute. more is better. the more frequently, the better; every 1 minute would be good.
Generations of 2021 Voice Recordings
Jan 20 – __ – no structure, no concept of “show”
__ – Feb 8 – heavy-weight structure attempt, after thought of “show” – became so heavyweight, it fell over, leaving a streamlined new lightweight approach.
Feb 9+ – no structure, but packaged as loose “show” concept (rolling log <2hr files, ZERO OVERHEAD. livestream w/ logging segments, <2hr. Periodic “station identification” – not “start of a show”, not structured as a show.
its purpose was revealed to me [12:36 a.m. February 9, 2021] is a rolling, logged hangout freeform, in 2-hour .mp3 format.
end the audio idea development file – just like creating fresh idea development page. Audio version of creating a new idea dev page.
logging overhead for this wav/mp3, and exporting/sharing it, = toc maint overhead.
Zero Overhead. Log the
.wav filename SEPARATE THE CREATION OF WAV, FROM SHARING OF MP3. CREATE ONGOING FREEFORM 2-HOUR REC’S, W/ REQUIREMENT OF MAINTAINING A LOG ROLLING FORMAT. GET RID OF CONCEPT OF “STRUCTURE FOR START VS END OF SHOW”.
date
time. and which mp3 # of the day.
Minimal Overhead to Produce a Rolling Log of Segments, No Start or Stop, cut <2hr at nearest segment end; still structureed… no strong segment concept, but *log meeting notes* ongonig. don’t even need to invent fancy names. ELIM SPECIAL FILENAMES. WHAT WE NEED IS JUST <2HR MP3 FILES, WITH GOOD LOGGING MAINTAINED LIKE MEETING NOTES DURING ANY … A LOG APPROACH. JUST INCIDATE: TIMESTAMP, IN FILE. FILENAME + TIMESTAMP; BREAK THIS PAGE PER FILE.
New template:
– Rolling Log, No Start or Stop. Sucky Dud Segments Alternating with Top-Tier Segments, all logged, sliced at segment closest to 2hr.
“2021-02-08c Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3” (continues seamlessly from 08b; this is part 2 of episode 08b)
used the >2hrs cut from 08b‘s .wav file.
filename of mp3: “2021-02-08c Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
maybe i should have suffix: Pigs on the Wing
display name/title of mp3: “2021-02-08c Egodeath Mystery Show”
Project filename: “2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show.aup” (includes 08c too; so no key words) Track within audio project: “Mixer Deck First 2 Hours – the master for “2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show – Drums on the Wing.mp3″”
Post-Processing Steps
done:
export mp3 of Mixer wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy download link to this Download section
test the download link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC
link TOC heading to present section
todo:
test the TOC link
Announce reissue in present idea development page (11)
Announce reissue in idea development page 12
Test links for announcements
/ end of Reissue section Feb 28 2021 orig section Feb 8 2021:
filename of mp3: “2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show.mp3”
display name/title of mp3: “2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show”
Reissued – For a later download link (with ” – Drums on the Wing” added to mp3 filename & track title), see above.
Length: 1:56:28
no “end of show” concept/ announcement – do “station identification” at random times instead, and at start of show but can be very low-key, no heavy structure or “DJ pot dance” like I had to do to create this opening while live (too hard & distracting – but, can reuse clip!)
download/preview: TODO (<2hr portion. voice, raw mic; no eq; no music) – this raw isolated track was not designed to be heard alone. STATUS: EXPERIMENTAL 🧪 ⚗️
mic source file: 210208_2227.wav (voice, raw mic; no eq; no music)
containing 1932.wav broken into 1:56 + xtra, 2 trks, export sep’ly as b & c.
i was running mic through fx in the show – added clean clips of the straight-up mic (leak from spks into mic is Pigs on the Wing) sm57 3″, 45 degrees, upper lip, no damn pop filter, no windscreen (that would make it even more mellow – make sure to produce treble consistently – i’m still hearing lisp/slur sometimes. Hammer against the proximity effect; give that cardioid proximity effect a run for its money: blast that prox effect & windscreen with full-on treble edge assault: cut through the load of prox mud; by adding a windscreen, that would make me really want to hammer the mic with treble on as many letters as possible: [ c d f g h j k p q s t v w x z ]).
Extracting Best Clip from Dry Mic Recording
todo: extract the best clip from approx 35:00 to 1:04:00 –
play that range, take notes
copy/paste to new track.
export new track as mp3.
upload.
transfer to mobile device.
paste link above.
Best Clips from 210208_2227.wav (2021-02-08b Egodeath Mystery Show)
got 15:57-17:04 fast speaking is needed when capturing ideas
got 20:03-20:29
got 21:02-21:18 need to become conscious of communication apparatus voice, for cybernetics.
got 21:33-21:51
got 26:50-27:00 speakers, mystic friends lp record changer
got 34:24-46:04 Canterbury Psalter as receiving a communication transmission. Difficulty in interpreting red initiate pulled by angle’s feet on column base.
got 46:04-47:48 Eleusis piece was spontaneous
got 49:40-50:07 muses rush of info, fast capturing
got 51:32-54:56 mystics meeting communication receptor notes secretary, Grid Game
got 55:26-5728 Art historian mshroom art confiscation squad. Grid Game.
got 5802-10145 con’t
got 10249- 10402 con’t
got 10435-10724 logging good clips. good diversions. attractive vulnerability = timestamps of segments
got 10825-10922 logging good diversion segments/clips
got 11215-11250 diversions, segment logging, falling into pit
got 11415-11441 – cybernetics = communication
got 11509-11540 designing receiving vision
got 11558-11616
Lessons Learned from this Productive Experiment
be extremely against any overhead. eg STATING THE INTRO OF THE SHOW AT START, IS *OVERHEAD*!!! IT IS PROHIBITIVE! RETURN TO NEUTRAL GENERIC “VOICE RECORDING”.
pure mic/voice recordings w/ timestamp logs are good.
“show” is dangerous concept, it can backfire into counterproductive overhead!!!
heavy structure overhead doesn’t work. abandon “show” format in that sense.
eliminate all structure – but, *log* every minute (w/ .wav filename, then after, .mp3 filename).
do “station identification”, not “start of show” or “end of show” announcement.
it’s more like an ongoing radio station/ livestream, than a bounded-duration “show”.
later can chop “clip-out” 5-minute segments… somehow, track the timestamps/filenames(both .wav/.mp3) to manage this. then can re-use those “best clips” (use .wav master of dry mic rec’g when possible).
must be able to instantly terminate (at a given topic-transition < 2 hours). Any time there’s a topic-switch, can razor-blade cut the tape there, now & later.
on “ongoing, open” show format.
The Egodeath Mystery Show is a Perpetual Meeting of the Mystic Board of Directors (the Board of Mystics directors), directing the inrushing torrent of inspiration at the current problems posted on the board by Martin Luther’s massive railroad spike that shattered the church door and demolished the entire entryway of the exoteric church.
supporting any length 5minutes to 2 hours is a requirement.
make it more like a perpetual rolling meeting with no start or stop
need *way* more timestamps, once per minute would be ideal.
must be *extreme lightweight* format overall. must be *able* to mix-in music, but it’s basically AN ONGOING NONSTOP PERPETUAL MEETING, DELIVERED AS ANYWHERE FROM 5MINUTE TO 2HOUR MP3S, THE KEY IS FILENAME+TIMESTAMP(PER-MINUTE).
REPLACE “RADIO SHOW SEGMENT” IDEA BY MEETING NOTES W/ TIMESTAMPS. PERPETUAL ROLLING MEETING W/ TIMESTAMPS LOG.
MORE SOLO VOICE, LESS MUSIC.
🧪 ⚗️
This is a transitional experimental … thing. Many lessons learned.
The Egodeath substantive content is spread out – use the timestamps.
Special handling for this final episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show that starts with complex structure at start:
done:
load the wav
save project
move > 2hr to be sep track
solo the 2hr 1st part
export the first 2 hrs as mp3 08b
copy to player
upload
paste link above.
normalize the >2 remainder-track
export >2hr as mp3 08c
copy to player
upload
paste link above.
Final show that has “show” structure at the start eg list of what will cover.
A briefly used format for the show (overly structured).
Music for the Show
a drummer played & recorded this acoustic drum kit for this episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show, a few minutes before recording this show.
my field recording of band Pigs on the Wing
Planned Content [abbreviated outline plan]
This episode covers: fade music
Defining a vocalization style that’s deep and resonant, and *fast*, for doing intensive work sessions. fade music
Increasing my focus on stating show *segments*, & logging segment timestamps and topics. fade music
The nature of this Egodeath Mystery Show as a multimedia working session. fade music
Directly recording the microphone, to enable using all types of recordings. fade music
Extending the concept of “idea development pages”, to integrate spoken idea development and audio content for both mystics and prophets. fade music
Multimedia ideas for voice, including reading-aloud text, speaking off-the-cuff, and recorded speech, mixed with music. fade music
The {balance} mytheme; transcending the loss of control and mastering the transpersonal mode of control. fade music
I’m using the SM57 mic recorded directly, for reuse and playback.
We’re listening to a Producer, who played drums a few minutes ago for this episode. Later I might play some live cover band, Pink Floyd, that I recorded – it was the first time I tried this field recorder for a Rock band – had I known how good this recorder is, I would have recorded the entire show. fade music
This episode covers:
Defining a vocalization style that’s deep and resonant, and *fast*, for doing intensive work sessions.
Increasing my focus on stating show *segments*, & logging segment timestamps and topics.
The nature of this Egodeath Mystery Show as a multimedia working session.
Directly recording the microphone, to enable using all types of recordings.
Extending the concept of “idea development pages”, to integrate spoken idea development and audio content for both mystics and prophets.
Multimedia ideas for voice, including reading-aloud text, speaking off-the-cuff, and recorded speech, mixed with music.
The {balance} mytheme; transcending the loss of control and mastering the transpersonal mode of control.
I’m using the SM57 mic recorded directly, for reuse and playback.
We’re listening to a Producer, who played drums a few minutes ago for this episode. Later I might play some live cover band, Pink Floyd, that I recorded – it was the first time I tried this field recorder for a Rock band – had I known how good this recorder is, I would have recorded the entire show.
We’ve finished the intro segment of this show. The timestamp is x.3:00
Next is my review of my vocalization conventions.
Switch to other tab and read the “Review of Vocalization” section).
Return to this tab, and note the timestamp for completion of the Vocal Warmup segment.
Review the Agenda/Log below, “Working Session Agenda and Log of Topics Covered and Timestamps”.
Vary pitch
Vary speed
Vary volume
Vary enunciation
This is a THINK TANK WORKING SHOW, which produces gems in the outline below, and many other outputs:
working session on website
check emails
incidentally: produce an mp3 for mystic couch potatoes
Todo: Listen to the entire 3-hour show from start to finish, logging the timestamp & topic every minute; like running meeting notes (write-up from scratch in a fresh new Minutes Log format)
in future shows/meetings: log the time & topic as often as every minute, during the meeting/show, in future; “mystery meeting minutes log”
12:00 start, 34:00: Define a vocalization style that’s deep, full, resonant, and *fast* for doing intensive work sessions. Use that for off-the-cuff, too – mono-speed fallacy:
35:00 start: [Diversion segment 1: Start time: __, End time: __ Canterbury Psycalter as receiving a communication transmission. difficulty in interpreting red initiate pulled by angle’s feet on column base.] [Diversion segment 2: Start time: __, End time: 1:04:00 finished diverseion segment: Forgot Plots.] 35:00 start: end: 1:13:00 – Increasing my focus on stating segments & logging segment topics and timestamps – step it up all the way.
(pre-segment) what I’m going to talk about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
(mid-segment) what I’m currently talking about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
(post-segment) what I’m going to talk about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
Review of progress in the Egodeath topics in the previous show:skip.
1:15:00 [confirmed then, that the next 4 topics can be treated together] [start reading the extant notes for these 4 topics: 1:37:00]
#1 Designing a way to receive a vision for the nature of this show as a multimedia working session.
#2 Directly recording the microphone; what that enables, for using all types of recordings – the Reamp approach/concept to miking the voice then later re-processing that dry recording, This Reamp approach is the motivation of this episode: the show-format VISION-RECEPTION PROJECT: both gear-usage (recording-usage [eg making & using dry mic recording during the show]) opportunities AND, distinctly, the function/purpose of this show, as a vehicle to receive visions [eg the top-tier realization during and surrounding the past couple shows re: {balance} metheme & the equivalent themes] and Transcendent Knowledge development.
This episode is a project to receive/articulate/ develop a vision for the format & purpose/function of this show.
#3 Extending the application / concept of “idea development pages” to integrate recorded & audio idea development
eg the Egodeath Mystery Show – eg my talking + recording + writing at same time = DEVELOP & RECEIVE VISIONS/ MAKE CONNECTIONS. THE “SECRETARY” ROLE AS PART OF THE COMMUNICATIONS/CYBERNETICS USED FOR HIGH IDEA DEVMT. or something like that
idea development – this show is where Transcendent Knowledge development occurs. todo: demonstrate last night’s mystic reading technical of Haneg artic.
#4. Multimedia ideas for voice ie reading-aloud or speaking off-the-cuff, mixed with music – a hookup and gear usage framework putting to use all “mystic speaking” ALWAYS CAPTURE THE DRY MIC (COMBINED W/ WORK HARD TO PRODUCE A CLEAN VOCAL PERFORMANCE). always capture the dry mic. then re-play/ re-process/ re-mix the playback of that recording later.
In support of the awesome ideal Reamp approach of capturing the cleanest [mystic-]vocalization possible [various read-aloud styles/conventions supported]:
Mimic my horrific speaking tonality, learn it consciously, in order to avoid / not do that.hoarse; not resonant diaphragm usage
Practice my bad vocalizing. I could gather samples of horrendous slurring, lisping, odd bad sounding traits. I’m noticing/spotting *many* — it’s all too easy. “loshes all my balanch levelsh”
lisping/slurring
back of mouth nasally
leverage voice actor concept – my awful voice – learn how to consciously deliberately mimic this – in order to not do this.
ideal broadcaster/voiceover straight.
hyper-enunciation comparable to mid-Atlantic accent; video: “Why do early 20th C actors talk that funny affected distinctive non-normal way? The “actor accent” from early mid 20th C.
2:08:00 completed the 4 topics + diversions into {balance}/ control restabilization. <– consider this word;= control -transformation.
2:08:00 (guessing from note at below item #4 below), and
The {balance} mytheme; mastering/transcending the loss of control;
Touching the Sword of God
touching the sword (in the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image)
Touching the Snake of Demeter
TOUCHING DEMETER’S SNAKE W/ RIGHT HAND AFTER PURIFICATION
Jesus (w/ lifted garment) dancing w/ woman
“surfing control-loss”
the bridal chamber, knowing that one can enter that intercourse door room and experience the transpersonal control-awareness/ control seizure loss borderline situation.
pass through the dragon-guarded gate
dance/ surf/ touch the sword on the other side, the sword-touching gate
{balance}
CONTROLLED LOSS of control
TRANSCENDING THE LOSS OF CONTROL.
touching w/ right hand Demeter’s snake [8:14 a.m. Febuary 8, 2021] 8:17 am. the bigger … snowballing effect of more and more connections jackpot. re: NATURE OF BREAKTHROUGHS.
i had that idea as part of the jackpot cluster immed in the hour after the nov 2013 breakthrough –
the bridal chamber, knowing that one can enter that intercourse door room and experience the transpersonal-control awarenessborderline situation.
the bridal chamber, knowing that one can enter that intercourse door room and experience the control seizure lossborderline situation.
= pass through the dragon-guarded gate, to dance/ surf/ touch the sword on the other side, the sword-touching gate
see the below section “Touching Sword of God = Touching Snake of Demeter = Jesus (w/ lifted garment) dancing w/ woman = “surfing control-loss” = {balance}”
2:08:00 completed the 4 topics + diversions into {balance}/ control restabilization. <– consider this word;= control -transformation.
WISDOM = CONTROL-TRANSFORMATION = CONTROL RESTABILIZATION.
Vision for the Show, Balance (2021-02-08b)
Download-File Info
Filename: see above
Track name:
Length: #:##:##
Download/preview for 1 week: __
Filesize: # MB
We’ve finished the intro segment of this show. The timestamp is x.3:00 Fade up music. Next is my review of my vocalization conventions.
Switch to other tab and read the “Review of Vocalization” section).
Return to this tab, and note the timestamp for completion of the Vocal Warmup segment.
Review the Agenda/Log below, “Working Session Agenda and Log of Topics Covered and Timestamps”.
This is a THINK TANK WORKING SHOW, which produces gems in the outline below, and many other outputs:
working session on website
check emails
incidentally: produce an mp3 for mystic couch potatoes
During the show, fill-in the episode-info template below.
Working Session Agenda and Log of Topics Covered and Timestamps
[timestamp] Finished the Intro segment.
[timestamp] Finished the Vocal Warmup segment.
[timestamp] Began segment about __.
[timestamp] Began segment about __.
Now to review the Working Session Agenda and Log of Topics Covered and Timestamps:
Errata
Production Notes
Tracking file
Filename: 210207_####.wav, stereo, __ GB
16 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo
Mic:
SM57
3.5″
45 degrees off axis
no popfilt/windscreen
Eq: -4.5dB, +2dB <– STATIC EQ FALLACY – double-mellow night dj quiet, vs. daytime loud:
3pm loud = midrangy voice; -4.5dB, +2dB
3am quiet = bassy voice (no midrange); attenuate bass like -9dB
MP3 export
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Stereo/Mono: stereo
“Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-08 Mic-Deck Fx Mixer-Deck.mp3” (functionally episode 02-08a)
Download-File Info
Filename: “Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-08 Mic-Deck Fx Mixer-Deck.mp3”
Track name: “Egodeath 2021-02-08 Mic Deck > Fx > Mixer Deck”
A much superior Mic recording deck & eq/fx hooked up. 🎉 thx to levels-monitoring failure in last night’s end of show.
Unplanned coverage emphasis: Grid Game & Forgot-Plots; developed theory. Developed the grid concept (as stated 1:28:00):
“I deviated from the plan for this episode, but I have been highly productive, and am (fortunately) highly aware of segment-tracking.”
Then the recording halted/choked at 1:30:00. Had to re-start a new recording file. That didn’t help me get on-track for this 2-hour, planned episode …. I failed, ran out of time, and had to punt *all* the planned topics to the next episode! 😭 To avoid any more 5-hour episodes.
[1:30] Finished the Intro segment.
~14:00 Grad Student work crew working on the Grid Game / Forgot Plot analysis tools. Entheogen scholarship. Grid Game construction team.
[22:00] Finished the Intro segment.
[22:00] Began Vocal Warmup segment.
This room reverb reminds me of… never mind, private autobiography.
Failure of mixing voice and music at correct ratio.
[34:00-37:00] reading: Rolfe 1925 Amanita. Aiming for semi-hyper-enunciation.
[36:00] mentioned grid game forgot plot
38:30 mocking the “needed” word ‘entheogen’. I want to discuss more, I found a great writeup, highly insightful sarcastic deconstruction of the word ‘entheogen’ – oh, it’s mine.
40:00 My forgetting and my alienation from my own past writings.
I recognized my set of concepts I created, even though the columnist plagiarized my work and used somewhat different words.
[43:00] almost finished warmup but, during Warmup, did a diversion segment about difficulty of continuing that practiced enunciation into the show.
I am devoted to this take even though it’s gone ADHD. “I swear we’ll get to substance in this episode!”
44:00 two “guard gates”: at source of thoughts before vocalizing, and one after vocalizing (which caught the word ‘um’).
45:00 Yeti mic has a mute knob.
Added note “the whole point of vocal warmup is continue that way”.
46:00 restarted vocal warmup segment.
47:00 finished vocal warmup segment.
48:00 Why, in each episode, I talk about the show format first, then talk about substance at end of show.
49:00 Vision for the Egodeath Mystery Show – this show is to engineer and construct receiving a vision — today, to receive a vision for the nature of this show.
51:00 The {balance} mytheme is of top importance, but so is receiving a vision for this show as a venue for discovering & developing ideas such as {balance} mytheme.
(lead-in to Grid Game) Saying a metaphorical truth. an approximate and 1st-order way of speaking ie “All entheogen scholars agree that visionary plants are in archaic not modern era.” <– true as a broad-brush, 1st-order statement – not as a 2nd-order statement/assertion.
55:00 Review summary/overview of the Grid Game. Construction crew is building analysis tools.
57:00 defining “1st-order model vs. 2nd-order model” – transistor amplification curve.
1:00:00 1st-order model of transistor: Output = Input * 10. Linear. Simplified.
A good glossary definition should first have a 1st-order sentence (clear, not precise), then a precise, 2nd-order sentence/definition (not so clear, but it is precise).
1:02:00 random inspiration spontaneous segments above. private vs publicly declared statements, to fill-in the grid. Allegro implies, but doesn’t state, that Greeks (surrounding the Christians) lacked plants; he implicitly asserts the absence of plants in Greek religion around 1st C. Further discussions along analysis along these lines are needed, for example, [listed in recording].
we’re in the middle of a spontaneous segment about grid game & forgot-plot.
took notes (below) about grid game discussion. “THIS SHOW IS A SERIES OF WORK SESSIONS”. “I COULD USE MUSIC HERE WHILE I TYPE”.
[1:06:00] Finished segment about Grid Game. Good progress in adding details:
A pair of grids:
left grid: time is left to right. each row is a religion. the grid represents a single region eg Mediterranean.
right grid: time is left to right. each row is a region. the grid represents a single religion eg Christianity.
spontaneous topic
The idea of “forgot plots”:
Must differentiate between private vs. published statements by a given author.
If author lies (misrepresents his beliefs), that means: he explicitly makes published statements that contradict his private belief about that grid cell.
A writer’s explicit statements vs. implicit implications of how grid is filled in.
etc. WHAT DOES A GIVEN FILLING-IN (+ OR -) OF THE GRID REPRESENT – INDIV WRITER, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, COLLECTIVE ALL WRITERS AVERAGED??
~1:13:00 Ended segment about 1st-order models vs. 2nd-order models
spontaneous topic; not planned for this episode.
; or, max’ly simplified model vs. / and (integrated with but differentiated from) a 2nd- order model.
spontaneous topic as i had finished the warmup segment and was explaining I would first discuss tech topics and only then cover the planned TOPIC-OF-SUBSTANCE, the “breakthrough” of the past day, THE {BALANCE} MYTHEME
interwoven w/ topic “grid game”
1:14:00 purpose of this episode: engineer the receiving of a vision for this show.
bad level mixing of last night’s part 2 of that show, poor monitoring, good ultra-quiet vocalizing, good mode of “mystic reading” developed but the recording is unintelligible b/c levels bad.
1:18:00 Hanegraaff’s article Entheogenic Esotericism says “Writers don’t believe what they write; hiding their post-1967 entheogen use, lying that that they use non-plant-based meditation.” I vocalized that article (first part) last night, but FAILED TO RECORD THE MIC directly, which I’ll do from now on.
They made Hanegraaff in 1996 look like a gullible fool.
Similarly, we’ll hit the same issue when filling-in the grid in the grid game.
What New Age writers write, vs. what they do & believe. Two different things.
1:21:00 What entheogen scholars write, vs. what they believe. Two different things.
1:22:00 Religions come from plants, so, obviously we should fill-in the whole grid and then just argue about the exact level; how much were plants present in each cell of this grid.
Metaphor “down through history”, vs. “left to right through history”. Grid uses left to right; converts to “forgot-plot” from upper left to lower right corner
1:27:00 Pick 2 out of 3 for a given grid drawn:
Left Grid: time (eras), multiple religions, single region.
Right Grid: time (eras), single religion, multiple regions.
The show equipment went down at 1:30:00 b/c the Mixer Deck ran out of space.
Discussed where to put the show template for each episode, vs. the download-data/ info section for each episode. (“the Egodeath Mystery Show” page vs. “Idea development page”)
1:36:00 The rest of the episode (I think) is these MECHANICS OF THE SHOW info; talking+typing-fest.
1:48:00 doing vocal warmup then when done, forget about it; “ok, done, lets have a shlur-fest”.
2:31:00 finished segment discussing how to finish current episode & start next episode by using the Show Episode Template. TIME RAN OUT, 2:36:00; moved the below items (the ones I planned, the whole damn reason for this episode!😭) to the next, planned show’s outline:
the Reamp approach/concept to miking the voice then later re-processing that dry recording,
This Reamp approach is the motivation of this episode: the show-format VISION-RECEPTION PROJECT: both gear-usage (recording-usage [eg making & using dry mic rec’gs during the show]) opportunities AND, distinctly, the function/purpose of this show, as a vehicle to receive visions [eg the top-tier realization during and surrounding the past couple shows re: {balance} metheme & the equivalt themes] and Transcendent Knowledge development. This ep is a project to receive/artitculate/ develop a vision for the format & purpose/function of this show.
Extending the application / concept of “idea development pages” to integrate recorded/audio idea development eg the Egodeath Mystery Show – eg my talking + recording + writing at same time = DEVLEOP & RECEIVE VISISIONS/ MAKE CONNECTIONS. THE “SECRETARY” ROLE AS PART OF THE COMMUNICATIONS/CYBERNETICS USED FOR HIGH IDEA DEVMT. or somethin like that
idea development – this show is where Transcendent Knowledge development occurs.
Multimedia ideas – a hookup and gear usage framework putting to use all “mystic speaking” ALWAYS CAPTURE THE DRY MIC (COMBINED W/ WORK HARD TO PRODUCE A CLEAN VOCAL PERFORMANCE). always capture the dry mic. then re-play/ re-process/ re-mix the playback of that recording later.
In support of the awesome ideal Reamp approach of capturing the cleanest [mystic-]vocalization possible [various read-aloud styles/conventions supported], Mimic my horrific speaking tonality, learn it consciously, in order to avoid / not do that.
hoarse; not resonant diaphragm usage
lisping/slurring
back of mouth nasally
leverage voice actor concept
my awful voice – learn how to consciously deliberately mimic this – in order to not do this.
ideal broadcaster/voiceover straight.
hyper-enunciation comparable to mid-Atlantic accent; video: “Why do early 20th C actors talk that funny affected distinctive non-normal way? The “actor accent” from early mid 20th C.
Increasing my focus on stating segments & logging segment topics and timestamps – step it up all the way.
(pre-segment) what I’m going to talk about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
(mid-segment) what I’m currently talking about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
(post-segment) what I’m going to talk about in this next segment.
timestamp & filename in mic tape deck
timestamp & filename in final tape deck
Review of progress in the Egodeath topics in the previous show:
skip.
The balance mytheme; mastering/transcending the loss of control; Touching the Sword of God; Touching the Snake of Demeter = Jesus (w/ lifted garment) dancing w/ woman = “surfing control-loss” = {balance}= TOUCHING SWORD OF GOD = TOUCHING DEMETER’S SNAKE W/ RIGHT HAND AFTER PURIFICATION = CONTROLLED LOSSS…. TRANSCENDING THE LOSS OF CONTROL.
touching the sword (in the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image ) = touching w/ right hand Demeter’s snake [8:14 a.m. Febuary 8, 2021] 8:17 am. the bigger … snowballing effect of more and more connections jackpot. re: NATURE OF BREAKTHROUGHS. and, i had that idea as part of the jackpot cluster immed in the hour after the nov 2013 breakthrough – the bridal chamber, knowing that one can enter that intercourse door room and experience the transpersonal control-awareness/ control seizure loss borderline situation. = pass through the dragon-guarded gate, to dance/ surf/ touch the sword on the other side, the sword-touching gate
Errata
lots of typing toward end, what cn u do? 🤷♂️ its a working session, and great ideas
Production Notes
Tracking file
Mic deck: Filename: 210208_2223.wav, stereo, 827 MB 210208_2222.wav = A nice Intro announcement take; added to chip’s PLAYLIST Mixer deck: Filename: 210208_1923.wav, stereo, 952.3 MB [rec’g ended b/c ran out of space] note: 210208_1924.wav was a throwaway to make sure changed the folder that recordings are getting stored into. Filename: 210208_1925.wav, stereo, 777.7 MB
16 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo
Mic:
SM57
3.5″
45 degrees off axis
no popfilt/windscreen
Eq: slight smilefrown on 10-band (downstream deck; none for Mic Deck)
Eq: -4.5dB, +2dB <– STATIC EQ FALLACY – double-mellow night dj quiet, vs. daytime loud:
3pm loud = midrangy voice; -4.5dB, +2dB
3am quiet = bassy voice (no midrange); attenuate bass like -9dB
MP3 export
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Stereo/Mono: stereo
ONE RECORDER JUST RAN OUT OF SPACE AND HALTED THE SHOW….
DONE:
empty the chip except for guitar files and 1923.wav, then start recording a new file on that chip.
finish recording the show, ran 44 minutes over 2 hours, yet still failed to get to the two tech-vision topics + 1 Egodeath theory breakthrough topic.
Decided to leave the previous, “At War w/ the Mystics” show as-is.
Fill-in the below data about this episode.
Export as mp3.
Upload this episode.
paste dl link below.
Recording the Mic Directly, Plus Results, Will Enable Everything Awesome & Inspiring
new approach to miking: 2 tape decks recording:
record the mic directly
record the mix of mic + music
play back the direct mic recording, thru eq/fx / mix w/ music
this is the reamp approach
HUGE IDEA 1: when speaking/mic/recording the mic, just put all focus on clear speaking, clean miking – not eq, at all. don’t eq at all, in the raw rec’g. THE REAMP APPROACH.
HUGE IDEA 2: log, log log – both dry voice recgs & processed.
add a log entry before talking about x or doing a reading of x
add a log entry in middle, if forgot
add a log entry afterwards, like when siad “I like how i said, that gold, thats a clip”
log the .wav and the .mp3 timestamp and filename
Touching Sword of God = Touching Snake of Demeter = Jesus (w/ lifted garment) dancing w/ woman = “surfing control-loss” = {balance}
touching the sword (in the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image ) = touching w/ right hand Demeter’s snake [8:14 a.m. Febuary 8, 2021] 8:17 am. the bigger … snowballing effect of more and more connections jackpot. re: NATURE OF BREAKTHROUGHS. and, i had that idea as part of the jackpot cluster immediately in the hour after the Nov 2013 breakthrough – the bridal chamber, knowing that one can enter that intercourse door room and experience the transpersonal control-awareness/ control seizure loss borderline situation. = pass through the dragon-guarded gate, to dance/ surf/ touch the sword on the other side, the sword-touching gate
demonstrate the Reamp approach: play on the show, the dry mic recording of talking-through the above, w/ no eq/fx/music, then with eq/fx/music mixed in. no goddam lisping/slurring! do a *clean* offf-the-cuff vocaliizing, cpature that – but don’t capture any eq/fx. double-entry recording: live, mix my realtime micing w/ fx/music, BUT, capture dry direct mic. then on dshow, play the dry rec’g again, now w/ diff eq/fx/ music. read-aloud ep 26, rec’d dry mic. play that dry mic rec’g back, twice, mixed w/ diff music/fx.
new policy for the Egodeath Mystery Show – pause/halt/interrupt the background music is allowed. continuous 40-minute studio album in the background is *not* the experience target.
answer to the question “whats the point of reading-aloud an article? why not just have ppl read the article?” capture my reading of it, stylized voicing of it, then process/mix that dry stylized reading-aloud/ “mystic-vocalizing the article”, then don’t put that on the show, so much as, put on the show, the eq/fx/music-mixed playback of that dry mystic-vocalization of the text.
The Record Changer Expeience – side a alb 1, side a alb 2, side b alb 2, …
Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-07) At War with the Mystics: “The Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-07b At War with the Mystics.mp3” 2:27:54
Download Info
Filename: “The Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-07b At War with the Mystics.mp3”
Track name: “Egodeath 2021-02-07b At War with the Mystics”
Length: 2:27:54
Download/preview for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-A4wzmyfA24 <– nuke this b/c final 45min is failure? that final part is (MOSTLY, probably) so bad (unintelligible) – partly failed experiment – that I created a whole new approach to the show, tbd. I want to re-upload w/o the final (Alan Parsons I Robot) part – but doing so is not top priority. DECISION: FOR NOW: THAT PART HAS POTENTIAL, I’M NOT WILLING TO JUST NUKE IT… I’ll leave it as-is for now. 🤷♂️
idea: i should separate the 2nd part; the first part is too good to be burdened by the 2nd.
Filesize: # MB
Content Summary
Only has peripheral Egodeath theory content.
Motivations:
Practice hyper-enunciating.
Practice background music, especially levels (music still too quiet – and, mic too loud, partly due to fx)
Hook up eq + fx to mic.
Read Cyberdisciple’s recent ~5 weblog postings, slowly, with hyper-pronunciation and FX, with Lips behind it. Allegro, Graves.
Read first pages of Hanegraaff’s chapter 19, but not the first paragraph, slowly, with hyper-pronunciation and FX, with I, Robot behind it.
Music still much too quiet, in first file. Was aiming for -20dB. Aim mic & music at -10dB.
Failed to update the outline as I went along.
Final 45:00 is mostly unintelligible. FAILED: SHOULD HAVE TURNED DOWN ECHO, SHOULD HAVE TURNED DOWN MUSIC. OVERALL, THIS SHOW PROVED THAT MY SLOPPY MONITORING WHEN COMBINED WITH SIGNAL PROCESSING , DOESN’T WORK.
Too bright?
Production Notes
Update: [February 14, 2021] I created an audio project file: Audio project file path: “mbp drive/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-07b Egodeath Mystery Show – At War with the Mystics”
Tracking file
Filename: 210207_1921.wav, stereo, 1.08 GB <- GOOD, EXPORT THIS as first portion of show
Filename: 210207_1922.wav, stereo, 487 GB <- Mostly unintelligible, unfortunately didn’t record the mic directly – lesson learned (but, recording the mic directly, risks filling hard drives with massive mountains of noise/junk/waste). Failed experiment/EXECUTION DUE TO LACK OF MONITORING TO HEAR THAT IT’S AN UNINTELLIGIBLE MUSH [yeah but it is a *good* unintelligible mush]
16 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo
Mic:
SM57
3.5″
45 degrees off axis
no popfilt/windscreen
Eq: -4.5dB, +2dB <– STATIC EQ FALLACY – double-mellow night dj quiet, vs. daytime loud:
3pm loud = midrangy voice; -4.5dB, +2dB
3am quiet = bassy voice (no midrange); attenuate bass like -9dB
MP3 export
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Stereo/Mono: stereo
Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-07) Plastic Cloud: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3” Re-released as: “2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud.mp3” (Episode 16)
Re-Released “Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3” as “2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud.mp3”, on Feb. 22
Limit to 2 hours. To do more, do a separate episode.
Scale/scope this outline at 2 hours.
Scope the music selection at 2 hours.
Logging the outline of topics and timestamps during the show.
During the show, continuously update the outline & note timestamps. Note what I’m starting to cover, time, what i finished covering, time. State aloud, explicitly, the topic as “THE CURRENT … STARTING SEGMENT ON X, AT TIME X. WE’RE IN MIDDL OF SEG X , TIME IS X. WE FINISHED SEG X, AT TIME X.”Log each topic that I bring in. LOG TIMESTAMP!
Add topics to cover.
Maintaining this running outline during the show.
Talk explicitly about what segment we’re starting/ in / finished, & timestamp.
Continuously state “I’ve now started the segment on topic x. The timestamp is x. We’re in middle of segment on topic x, time is x. We finished the segment on x, timestamp is x.” (Assumes policy: don’t re-edit post-show).
To do more, do multiple distinct episodes per day.
Setting the mic eq; that is, Mastering, to make the mic sound good in at least two speakers.
multiple headphones & speakers, eq curve applying to mic by chaining preamps. Listen to the eq’d result in multiple speakers, so that no speaker sucks too bad; finding best compromise.
At least 2 of: avoid the single-speakers fallacy.
Good laptop speakers
JVC bluetooth earbuds
lightning earbuds
Sony 7506 headphones – don’t *optimize* *only* for these headphones; rather, balance the eq to sound least bad among *all* my current set of speakers/headphones, while also playing reference albums through those.
Filesize of this show.
mp3 bitrate 320 kbps; filesize.
Tour of my available audio files. ______________________
Review of progress made in Egodeath topics in the previous show:
2-level vs 3-level models.
Birth of the Egodeath community 2001.
42:00 (or 42:30) -46:00 The {balance} mytheme = control stability; pink initiate = red initiate. blade, control, loss of balance.
52:00 The 3 falloff curves of visionary plants – 3 entheogen scholars, Min Mod Max, 3 eras of history: Archaic era, Mid-History era, Modern era.
55:00-1:05:00 My history with the book the Way of Zen by Alan Watts. rejected it then extracted the info from it.
1:05:00-1:07:56 water break, restructured show template, music interlude
Production Notes for the 2nd Release of this Episode
I did that (on Feb. 22, 2021) by deleting from “unique strain” where Face Behind the Sun in the background ended, to the 2nd “unique strain”. Boosted the level of that Eleusis passage. Normalized (boosted) entire program.
Re-release “Feb 7 Plastic Cloud” episode of Egodeath Mystery Show. Here’s the approach I actually used: just delete dup. dlete 12545- “unique strain in fact”
Source file (not used here; I just deleted dup passage between “unique strain”, then re-normalized): “__” = Eleusis satire master tape. green on white SD card Kingston 64 GB “TK Audio”: “/Volumes/TK Audio/Music/TK/2LevelModel/__.wav” Length: 5:30 song len: 25:54-30:42 30:42 -25:54 = 29:102 -25:54 = 4:48 speech len 5:30 – song len 4:48 = 4:90 -4:48 = 42s /2 = 21 s of song, then speech then 21s song recording that mix onto 210222_2320.wav… done but not used. ended up w/ Face ending early, started next song I don’t like, then I clumsily restarted album in background (w/ Epistle to Paradise).
On Feb 22, I created a new audio project: main: “Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud/2021-02-07a Egodeath Mystery Show – Plastic Cloud.aup” Re-export mp3, re-upload, announce.
I could have re-created [that approach was not used] the Eleusis satire reading at the end, with good music behind the entire piece. “Auto-Duck” is supported.
[orig; superseded w/ dup-eleusis removed] Download-File Info
Filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3”
Track name: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud”
“2021-02-06bc Core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.mp3” – not created from the audio project file yet
done:
create project “2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.aup”
todo:
mark timestamps for 06b
mark timestamps for 06c
copy track within project
delete portions
export
upload
announce
Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-06) Caress of Steel (“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06b Caress of Steel.mp3″ & “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel.mp3″) (Episode 15 (2 parts))
Filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06b Caress of Steel.mp3″ (the non-b, non-Caress mp3 file, elsewhere, is today’s earlier, morning show)
Name in music player: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06 Caress of Steel.mp3”
‘b‘ suffix is missing. earlier show lacks “Caress of Steel”, to differentiate.
Length: 3:22:48
Future episodes will be capped at 2 hours; shorter shows, more episodes, 1 mp3 per dowload link/ episode.
Filesize: 486.7 MB
mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps
orig .wav file itself sounds warbly.🤷♂️ work on steadiness of voice??
Filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel.mp3″
Name in music player: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel”
Length: 1:21:22
Filesize: 195.3 MB
mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps – still seems swishy to me; todo: compare to .wav
Content
Summary List of Substantive Topics
2-level vs 3-level models.
file c, 5:00 Birth of the Egodeath community 2001.
The {balance} mytheme.
The 1925 Rolfe Amanita passage. (not substantive)
The first words spoken in the Egodeath Mystery Show. (not substantive)
file b, 1:40:00, 1:49:00. file c, 0:00, 17:00 – The 3 falloff curves of visionary plants – 3 entheogen scholars, Min Mod Max, 3 eras of history: Archaic era, Mid-History era, Modern era.
My history with the book the Way of Zen by Alan Watts. rejected it then extracted the info from it.
also notable: got background music set up, got studio speakers set up to monitor just the music.
It would be good to mark the timestamp of each of the above. Solution: during recording the show, update the outline & timestamp. Talk explicitly about what segment we’re starting/ in / finished, & timestamp.
Background Music
Blue Oyster Cult song The Alchemist, multiple times
Rush, La Villa song, live, multiple times
Rush, Fly by Night album
Rush, Caress of Steel album, multiple times
Show Notes – Mystery Revealed Outcome/ Output of this Idea Development Production Mystery Show
Hyper-enunciation vs. lisping.
The birth of the Egodeath Mystery Show with the Angry Midget aka 2-level model of Egodeath .mp3, Jan 20 2021.
The Egodeath community (in the Egodeath Yahoo Group) contributed the Dionysus mosaic.
I recently discovered the {balance} mytheme in the Dionysus mosaic.
During and after the show, I recognized the equivalence [7:30-7:55 a.m. February 7, 2021] – & the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image. keeping control stability = balance. Feb 7 added that point to the new {balance} entry.
Quiet hyper-enunciation of reading the 1925 Rolfe Amanita passage.
Quiet hyper-enunciation of & voice-actor irritation reading of the first words spoken in the Egodeath Mystery Show: How the Egodeath Mystery Show was started: “My followers are taking something that is the epitome of simple and clear, and then they’re applying their big-brain analysis to it; and quickly, by the time they touch it, they leave it a smoking complicated ruin and wreck, that’s all complicated and broken, and the opposite of what it is.”
file 1, 1:40:00, 1:49:00 Discussion of the 3 falloff curves of visionary plants in the 3 eras of history, aka the “Forgot curves”
How old is the Egodeath community? Almost 20 years old.
Michael Anderson posted the first posting, #21, 2001-06-18 = June 18, 2001. <– very worthy start of the Egodeath community; excellent post, it appears. https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-1/#message21 2021-02-06 -2001-06-18 = 2020-13-36 -2001-06-18 = 19 years 7 months 18 days; almost 20 years old. BIRTHDATE OF THE EGODEATH COMMUNITY: JUNE 18, 2001 AGE OF THE EGODEATH COMMUNITY AS OF FEB 6, 2021: 19 years 7 months 18 days; almost 20 years old
This is probably excessive. I did lower compression from 320 to 260 kbps. The problem is, sheer show length. I made huge progress during this episode, on show format; that will help keep shows to like 2.5 hour daily show.
DONE: I’ll split this into two and re-export with higher fidelity as two separate .mp3 files, and re-upload. Seems unsteady sound.(it *could* be my voice but it sure sounds like lossy compression).
todo: I’ll listen to the raw wav files compared to the 260 kbps .mp3, and decide whether to re-export/re-upload [DONE] as two 320 kbps mp3 files. I suspect an inferior codex is being used, ever since I updated some software recently. it sounds like shiite at 260. update: it sounds bad at 320 too; swishy/unsteady.
Production Notes
Tracking file
Filename: 210206_1914.wav, stereo, 2.15 GB
Filename: 210206_1915.wav, stereo, 861.2 MB
16 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo
Mic:
SM57
3.5″
45 degrees off axis
no popfilt/windscreen
Eq: -2dB, 0dB. Need to do full eq, w/ 2 different headphones/spks.
MP3 export
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Stereo/Mono: stereo
Mind-Blowing Lesson Learned from Last Night’s Playback Freakout “My Recorder Is Broken!”
Check recordings using multiple headphones/speakers.
Warmup/practice readings: separate each word. exaggerated state-actor hyper-enunciation of every letter of every word. d, t, v, w, x, etc. Send pitch soaring way high then plummetting to the depths, on each separated word.
I HAD BEEN GIVING MYSELF AN ‘A’ GRADE FOR PRONUNCIATION. NOW I GIVE A ‘C-‘ INSTEAD. I NOW BUMP THE STANDARDS FOR READ-ALOUD PRONUNCIATION WAY, WAY HIGHER. EVERY LETTER, LET ME CLEARLY HEAR EACH WORD, EACH SYLLABLE, LETTER.
REPEAT EACH WORD TO SHOWCASE EVERY SYLLABLE, EVERY LETTER.
SPEAK WITH AS MUCH BASS-SPECTRUM AND TREBLE V-SHAPE CONTENT AS POSSIBLE.
hype the letters: c d s t w x z
SM57 curve: bass -2dB, treb 0dB seems good per my good pair of 7506 headphones. That flat treble (w/ SM57) will be a touch mellow for NON-FATIGUING 3-hour show playback.
The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in Its Numerous Guises, Both Real and Legendary Rolfe
exaggerate the bass, treble, and pitch swing separate each word, pronounce every letter of every word
Takeaway: I can’t fix runny chest (post-meal) or hoarse or constricted end of day, but anyway, AIM FOR VOCALIZATIN A “V” CURVE: BASSSY AND FULL BASS SPECTRUM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AND, LOUDLY PRONOUNCE EVERY ‘S’ AND ‘T’. SPEAK IN A “HYPED EQ CURVE” WAY. REGARDLESS OF HEADPHONES OR NOT, OR PARTICULAR MIC. IGNORE MIC, IGNORE HEADPHONES, IGNORE E-EQ; GIVE THE MIC ALL THE BASS AND TREBLE I CAN VOCALLY PRODUCE.
maybe todo: rename filename of every mp3 and every “song name” of all the Egodeath Mystery Show since #1 in 2021-01-20, re-upload every one, good for 1 week.
Length of filename and song name: try like: HAVE TO EXPERIMENT, DONT GUESS
problem: date fails to give hint of distinctive. they all look exactly identical show name, only date differs – meaningless.
“Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-06.mp3” “Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-06 Mixing-in past recordings, Prohibitionist Art Historians.mp3” “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06 Mixing-in past recordings, Prohibitionist Art Historians.mp3” “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06 Mix prev recgs, Prohib Art Hists.mp3” “Egodeath 2021-02-06 Mix prev recgs, Prohib Art Hists.mp3”
Loss of Control of Speaking
omg it’s looking like the mic was accurate last night , not broken. I WAS SLURRING B/C VERY VERY TIRED – scary. plus, the other big factor, is a different set of headphones, which i consider my best hedaphones, which i hadn’t beeing using for a long time, for vocals or guitar. combination of tired slurring + good headphones = revealed slurring. scary.
what if my gear wasn’t broken last night, but i had a speaking impediment, wtf.
😳 🤦♂️ 🤯 🤨 😵
Vocalizing errors:
hoarse
end of day
quiet talking
very very tired
slurring half the s’s
tried to avoid bass freq’s
RESULT –> awful, awful, voice sound. blew my frikkin mind, “omg my gear is broken!”
but i learned and figured out a lot of miking stuff to run my show
Boy, I better guarantee i’m enunciating correctly! else i can’t troubleshoot my gear.
my gear’s broken: it’s playing too fast, and dropping bits.
nope, you’re speaking too fast.
my gear’s broken: it’s warbling.
nope, you need to get chest under control.
my gear’s broken: it’s playing high-pitched.
nope, you’re speaking too high-pitched.
my gear’s broken: it’s garbling the treble making me sound like awful lisp.
nope; you need to work on louder s & t.
my gear’s broken: swishy lossy compression.
nope, you need to work on voice steadiness.
Warmup Readings, for the Egodeath Mystery Show
My followers are taking something that is the epitome of simple and clear, and then they’re applying their big-brain analysis to it; and quickly, by the time they touch it, they leave it a smoking complicated ruin and wreck, that’s all complicated and broken, and the opposite of what it is.
Cybermonk, the very beginning of episode 1 of the Egodeath Mystery Show (“2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3″)
todo: clip the above, pitch it down, play it in the show.
PERFECT! TURN IT INTO THE SHOW MOTTO “HOW THE EGODEATH MYSTERY SHOW WAS STARTED”
😄 🎉
Shpeech Impedimensh Due to Bright Mic/Eq/Headphonesh
hypoth: bright mic/eq/headphone caushes me to shlur my mouth-treble, sho the reshult ish shpeaking with a shlur.
solution: turn down eq, speak more brightly -> no slurring; mellow yet clearly enunciated result.
“2021-02-06 core Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.mp3”
This is the “core” version of this Feb. 6 episode.
length: 47:39 (instead of 2:24:25 per the “full” version of this episode)
Post-Processing Steps
done:
connect recorder drives
determine which wavs
import Mixer Deck wav
optional: import Mic Deck wav
normalize vol of Mixer wav
optional: normalize vol of Mic wav
export mp3 of Mixer wav
optional: export mp3 of Mic wav
transfer mp3 to music player
upload mp3
copy dl link to this Download section
test the dl link/preview, make sure correct file
copy heading to TOC, link
210 kbps
“2021-02-06 core Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.aup”
Levels of Western Esotericism – Clipping or Condensing the 2021-02-06 Episodes
I’m set up to condense the later, “Caress of Steel” ep that day (parts b & c) – that “full” episode is 4:44:04 long.
Created “2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.aup”
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-07 Plastic Cloud.mp3” recommends clipping my discussion of the amount to which the different levels of Western Esotericism get the airplane off the ground. That’s in episode 06 or o6b/c. “the main show of 06” (seems to imply 06, not 06b/c).
Feb 20: I now have two audio project files, cleaned/normalized/prepped:
“2021-02-06 core Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.aup”
x
“2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.aup”
x
Next, scope those out to find core content timestamps. But these (06, 06b, 06c) have already been scoped-out at
The Topics That I Wanted to “Clip” from an 2021-02-06 “main” Episode
the amount to which the different levels of Western Esotericism get the airplane off the ground
the field of entheogen scholarship = field of “spot the mushroom” but only on the lower level (depictions of physical form, sheer presence, of mushrooms – failing to perceive depictions of msh *effects*, especially mental worldmodel transformation re: time/control; eternalism & cybernetics; model of self in world; model of cybernetics within eternalism.
Should I have called the 17b “clips” mp3 file “core” instead of “clips”? Yes, because:
This is a shortened version of the episode.
This is not an individual clip that’s modular/ context-free.
mp3 filename I used: “2021-02-17b clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Secret Esotericism and Kore.mp3” mp3 filename i perhaps should have used: “2021-02-17b core Egodeath Mystery Show – Secret Esotericism and Kore.mp3”
clear drive space
locate file 210206_1901.wav – found on green 64GB SD card named “TK Audio” at path “/Volumes/TK Audio/Music/TK/DR-05 TK Voice starting 2021-02-05”
import that 210206_1901.wav into the audio project: “2021-02-06 clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians”
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06.mp3” – Make a “core” version of this episode. Create audio project from 210206_1901.wav (that’s not quite at location “/Volumes/KINGSTON 1/TK/TK Voice Recordings Mostly Mixer Deck Feb 10 2021”, which starts w/ 210206_1902.wav). latest filename pattern, for a “core” version of an episode mp3: tbd
create audio project using latest filename pattern Audio project planned name: “2021-02-06 clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.aup” “2021-02-06 clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.mp3”
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06b Caress of Steel.mp3″
Filename: 210206_1914.wav – found on Kingston black thum dribe “KINGSTON 1” at path “/Volumes/KINGSTON 1/TK/TK Voice Recordings Mostly Mixer Deck Feb 10 2021” – loading wav into aup now… 2.15 GB!
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel.mp3″
Filename: 210206_1915.wav – 861 MB
Audio project planned name (containing – if not too long – b & c content/clips:) Created: main drive: “/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel/ 2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.aup” to export as mp3 after copy track, assess timestamps, & omit sections: “2021-02-06bc core Egodeath Mystery Show – Caress of Steel.mp3” (not done, as of Mar 6 2021)
for latest filename pattern see “eg yesterday’s 17b “full episode” vs 17b “core episode” (made today).” the latest pattern is: “2021-02-17b clips Egodeath Mystery Show – Secret Esotericism and Kore.mp3”
Note: I fixed several bad TOC links in “idea development page 11” near 2021-02-06.
There are 3 mp3 files for 2021-02-06:
1. First show of day:
mp3 filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06.mp3”
Title in music player: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06”
Heading in idea development page 11: __
2. Second show of day, first part:
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06b Caress of Steel.mp3”
Title in music player: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06 Caress of Steel”
Heading in idea development page 11: __
3. Second show of day, second part:
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel.mp3”
Title in music player: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06c Caress of Steel”
Heading in idea development page 11: __
Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-06) Mixing-in past recordings, Prohibitionist Art Historians 🔥 “Egodeath Show 2021-02-06.mp3” (Episode 14) 2:24:25
i didn’t want to over-compress yet; doing other experiments first. smaller files maybe in future.
Production Notes
Source filename: 210206_1901.wav, st, 1.53gb
Mic: sm57, eq: -6, +1
Bitrate: trying 320 (stereo)
Content
Started as a gear hookup episode — then it caught fire with Egodeath theory topical substance toward the end.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT LIES AHEAD ON THE ROAD, IN THE EGODEATH MYSTERY SHOW
SOMEONE OUGHTTA MAKE CLIPS FROM THESE SHOWS, OF THE SUBSTANTIVE PASSAGES
[February 20, 2021] – I created today a project file “2021-02-06 core Egodeath Mystery Show – Prohibitionist Art Historians.aup”, imported wav there, cleaned/norm’d. Below, add timestamps, then produce a “core”, shortened mp3 output. Pos
Practicing following this structured show format.
consider “loosely following” – this could work really well. zero overhead show, but with structure *available* if/when desired. no *requirements* AT ALL.
Mixing-in music into this show.
How to use studio headphones.
My special fx voice recording from 2018 mixed in w/ Esoteric Rock and mic.
1:16:00-1:20:00 (if clock is true) — mixing my voice fx with Esoteric Rock – you have to turn up the volume bc i messed up the levels
During the show, I found & fixed a ground-loop noise problem.
Editing-in (post-show) or mixing-in (live) my past voice recordings.
List of all my 2021 voice recordings from idea development page 10 & 11.
Reading from the mystic episode of the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast.
1:33:04-1:46:08 – rolfe is how many yrs b4 allegro? CLIP THIS
nuked interv for “core” version of ep.
1:56:10-end scoping out wassonwest.com, 4-level model of Western Esotericism/ entheogen scholarship – clip this
Critique of levels in Western Esotericism and in entheogen scholarship aka the field of Spot the Mushroom.
Entheogen scholars are “mushroom spotters”. They are spot-the-mushroom scholars. That’s the only perspective they contribute. No cognitive phenomenology.
Entheogen scholars are spot-the-mushroom scholars.
I’m not an entheogen scholar; I’m not just a spot-the-mushroom scholar.
When entheogen scholars are based *within* the field, unlike me, who am based *above* the field.
When entheogen scholars say the word ‘consciousness’, or ‘spirituality’, they mean: Spot the Mushroom.
“What we do is fill-in the Grid Game. That’s what we do. That’s the purpose of the field of entheogen history scholarship: to play spot-the-mushroom; to fill-in the Grid Game.
Hanegraaff demonizing those evil Religionists / Eranos school. Now he’s telling people in Western Esotericism to start playing spot-the-mushroom.
Low esotericism; med-lev esotericism; authentic high esotericism.
Spot-the-mushroom “esotericism”.
LOW Western Esotericism = AN AIRPLANE STUCK ON THE GROUND.
IRVIN/RUCK GETS THE AIRPLANE 1′ OFF THE GROUND.
THE EGODEATH THEORY ACTUALLY FLIES THE AIRPLANE (ACTUAL ESOTERICISM) = ANALOGICAL PSYCHEDELIC ETERNALISM CONTROL-TRANSCENDENCE.
Theoretically identified 4 levels of the Grid Game aka Spot the Mushroom.
3 plots, for min/mod/max the maximal entheogen theory of religion — all start upper left, all end in lower right;
Logarithmic Forgot Curve,
Linear Forgot Curve,
Exponential Forgot Curve.
Prohibitionist-Owned Art Historians, conflict of interest, artists make mushrooms, people consume the art mushrs, then the Exoteric Squad confiscates the art mshrms. Roasting the “Scholars for Hire” – pay us, tell us your prohibitionist exoteric tale, and we’ll scholar-it-up for you”🔥 – we don’t even need to write any books & arguments & research; we’ll just agree to tell the paid lie, all together. Brinckmann’s book didn’t work out, so we won’t go with that approach, of actually writing any scholarly works – we’ll just show our diplomas and tell our lies (with impressive celerity!)
Shorter Voice Files – Paste into a Show? Content Idea for a Show Episode: Paste-in Shorter Recordings eg Eleusis 5-min comedy piece
Did Some Practice Takes Instead of a Worthy Evening Show
I heavily revised my script or structured page for the Egodeath Mystery Show [ems] by using the technique I recommend: reading-aloud some draft text, then revising the draft text. I did about 10 takes – portions meet the bar, but no entire take meets the bar. I did various practice and fixes, tried a mic boom arm but not compatible (too heavy-duty). My energy is gone, but I got good practice in, improved my guidelines and reminders, I practiced reading the machine transcription of the mystic show.
I kinda wanted to hear my eq results, but I already know it’s dialed-in now (-6, +1), for SM57 mic. My main motivation for this evening practice was “following the script” – but that ended up being, modifying the script/structure of my show format page.
This session was good setup for a later, real take when I can be loud and have energy.
It’s good that — even if my entire shows aren’t solid from start to finish – there are many good segments/clips present within the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Part of the purpose of the 2021 voice recordings is prepping to guest on Transcendent Knowledge podcast. d/k if i’ll have the Mystic content Kafei wants.
How about a Transcendent Knowledge podcast episode with two people discussing mysticism which both of them don’t …. two people critiquing mysticism.
Using headphones when miking: More monitoring of self = more control of self. Headphone monitoring is like lifting the eye of awareness out from egoic mental construct/ structures.
Egodeath Mystery Show (2021-02-05) Polished the Format; Mythology = Communication Part of Cybernetics; Entheogen Scholarship “Egodeath Show 2021-02-05.mp3” 2:12:13
At the start: “This is the Egodeath Mystery Show, with Cybermonk. My website is egodeaththeory.wordpress.com. This episode…”
Content – Solid Entheogen Scholarship Segments alternating w/ show format discussion. Communication in Cybernetics, Analogies. Amanita as gateway, Allegro/Plaincourault as Barrier. Wasson’s Censoring of Brinckmann’s Book.
New page about this show.
About the Egodeath Mystery Show.
Last night’s revelation of the nature of this show.
Gear and everything came together.
(Low volume, excess bass.)
History of Adding Communication / Myth / Analogy layer of the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence
Myth in communication layer of cybernetics theory, & history of phases of planned figuring out enlightenment & self-control, planned writeup of enlightenment
During 1988, I developed the Direct part of the Communication layer of the Transcendent Cybernetics theory.
By 1997 I dev’d the Analogy part of the Communication layer of the Cybernetics theory, coming together including the Full communication layer of the Transcendent Cybernetics theory in 2006.
myth description closure reached in 2013. app’n to the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image in 2020.
More discussion of last nights show.
Adding the machine transcription to a new page, “Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 27”.
Appreciating Amanita scholarship. Solid segments.
Irvin’s contributions are sound.
Against Plaincourault/Allegro misuse.
Really solid summary at end of show, about why Wasson censored Brinkmann’s book. The Panofsky cover-up story (mentioned).
Errata
I said many entheogen scholars have tension with J.I. I spoke a little too certainly; I want to soften my statements there. I’ve heard from one or two scholars who have made claims. I don’t know the facts of the matter.
Stereo is for ext. audio, and for guitar, which was initially hooked up wrong, so guitar tape deck is only at the end.
At 1:16:00 & especially at 1:24:55, I say the word ‘mystery’ for the first time, regarding “the Egodeath show”.
Origin of the Name & Concept of “the Egodeath Mystery Show” (Transcription & Timestamps)
Timestamps:
At 1:16:00 & especially at 1:24:55, I say the word ‘mystery’ for the first time, regarding “the Egodeath Show”:
the below timestamps are for the .aup project file/ master tape, until you hit the (orig, v1 Full Show) .mp3 timestamps. The project file has about 2 minutes of junk (dud guitar mixer attempt) that was removed from the orig mp3.
+0:00 aup start, 3 sound sources.
done-0:34 aup that’s one sound source,
done~~-1:56 guitar fails to play but I don’t realize that.
~~+5:38 “I’ll use the playlist at yt” music
done~~-744 what do i call this
~~+8:16 Deadline
done~~-8:24 junk
~~+8:37 lets find leads
done-10:43 want mellow flowing
+13:48 turning point throw away takes
done~~-14:05 which i did mention
~~+14:33 motivation discuss show format came from… except vocal warmup
done~~-14:45 it’s getting quiet time, water
~~+15:13 and then i’ll do warmup , then discuss format 30 years
done-15:24 fading in after unpause
+22:55 the title of the book the romance of the fungus world
done-23:05 headphones
+24:06 The Romance of the
done-24:20 i’m a little surprised
+24:45 archive .org nice photo
-25:44 practice riding pot
done+26:52 The Romance [delete lots of junk/slow/repet.]
+29:41 Start reading
done~~-30:16 footnote
~~+30:36 reading
done~~-31:21 bass resonance
done~~-37:25 aup my new capture, Dover changed subtitle from “Legendary” to “Imaginary”. 37:25 aup (“36:00”?) 37:25 -36:00 =1:25
~~+40:46 aup (“38:50”) 40:38 -38:50 =39:98 -38:50 = 1:48 let me read what I wrote so far, about the unlikely “show”, the origin of the Egodeath show, 18 hours ago I thought of this show and it came crashing together. Where did this show come from? That’s the big… the surprising thing. In some ways, it’s highly predictable that this format would work for me. My approach to making a “show”, in many ways, it’s very distinctive, unique. The pieces are still falling together as we speak. I’ve stumbled into this gold mine of potential, I’m still scoping out the potential. A breakthrough feeling, like 1988 the pieces fell together. That was planned, the breakthrough I was counting on, completely deliberately planned. Jan 1988 was not a “surprise breakthrough”. It was a planned breakthrough. That’s the curious thing.
+42:55 (“42:17″mp3) You can look in my notebooks in 1987 and I’m tracking my progress toward satori. Nov 2011, 2012, & 2013 breakthrough 3 years in a row, how does that work? You tell me. See book Thagard.
done~~-43:32 aup stop clearing throat
~~+43:46 aup reflected on planned
done~~-45:41 aup levels
~~+51:11 aup (49:32mp3) – How can I talk about this show when it’s just now coming into view? In the midst of start of breakthrough rush just opening and revealing itself to me right now; i’m in the midst of it, the opportunity for this highly flexible vehicle, wheat it what is this show format, I don’t even know, it hasn’t finished happening yet.
+50:50 Its only started to happened, the show as it has revealed itself to me so far. Potentialities are only starting to reveal itself to me now. I’m live-capturing the unfolding history as the event unfolds, half-day by half-day.
+52:00 Guidelines written for myself, mixed feelings about reading them. Main purp of this episode , the motivation for … to capture the history, but it’s in midst of unfolding, so this is a live recording of the hist as it unfolds. I’ve done a lot of hard work on the pieces, I felt was wrestling against the equipment than good results, but suddenly everything just seems to work. No pop filter for 57! No need to speak directly into it. Learned how to aim SM57 at upper lip, for close miking. [this night quiet rec’g is much too dark/dry due to too close-mic -Cybermonk March 3 2021]
done~~-54:39 aup mic is working suddenly.
-55:15 no pop filter needed, I hate them, I don’t want them, don’t block my view.
-1:01:01 aup (59:00mp3) new kinds of problems are coming visible: organizing my speaking. There was no show format before, so these errors of non-continuity in my speaking wasn’t apparent. I worked on these distinct errors. I’ve solved most of my vocalization problems.
-1:00:20 mics now, “just work”, in my experience
-1:00:51 vocalizing. my hard work in 2007 etc.
-1:03:47 aup /1:01:40 2007 inspired to do a voice rec’g of main article. hissy headset mic.
-1:04:25 aup 2007 posts about mic tech
~~+1:05:46 aup / 1:04:00 had to rewrite long sentences. write by reading-aloud.
+1:08:47 aup how does this connect back to
1:06:55 this show is in the midst of the history happening. I had no notion of doing a podcast or “show”. this show is very distinctive to me. As I play back my recent recordings, it seems really unique. I discover that now that this show format has revealed itself to me, I pour myself, it brings out this outpouring.
1:09:00 i feel this rush of and … will it continue? fleeting? cut back on keystrokes. always was impatient w/ typing; micro cassettes. writing -> typing -> voice recording, to speed up my thinking. so-called “show” format. Looking for a voice approach that would work for me. Low-fi. No audience.
+1:12:36 aup why didn’t micro cassettes work. 1:10:45mp3: “If I were to play back a ucassette on this show, we’d see the content….
1:11:37mp3 How I can do a show 2021 vs 1995.
1:12:30mp3 too much typing, slowing me down
+1:13:00 better tech & vocalization in 2021 than 1995. Mic technique & internet, everything came together. content, miking-tech, voczn.
(Core episode: ~25:00) +1:14:21 Transcendent Knowledge podcast & the Egodeath community now exists (and has existed, the great prophets of egodeath). I helped Martin Ball get started with his podcast. I never envisioned myself doing a show per se, I never pulled the pieces together to see a show as such. when
+1:15:52 “the egodeath show” started only a few days ago,
(Core episode: 26:00) +1:16:00 it’s still a mystery that’s unfolding right now, like Demeter opening the chest… been trying to do voice idea development since 95, the conditions have changed.
+1:17:43 every sign suggests this format will come together for me
done~~12006aup-12151aup -1:18:00 MP3? will talking quietly in this mic SM57 work, too much hiss?
+1:19:15 MP3? the YT’er whose tm is to “whisper”. my late night show.
+1:19:45 ppl know i have a variety of [micing volumes]. my show is a kind of ego death variety show.
(Core episode: ~30:00) +1:20:30 my early morning messing around/ substantial idea development, is my morning show. My midday show. My late evening show where I’m exploring, like right now, very exploratory.
+1:21:20 we shall see what works, when I play it [this rec’g] back after I know it has gone live. Will Rock albums too much dilute? Bracket-aside IP consideration.
+1:22:10 “Private distribution” like d live.
+1:22:40 If I can play albums, then it would be my unique approach to doing that, the egodeath approach to playing rock music in the context of an Egodeath show, what does that mean?
(Core episode: ~30:15) +1:23:08 no one knows, we have to try it and see. that is a new point about this show: there’s not a fixed format, but rather, it is an exploratory format/process, to explore idea development and the show format itself is an exploration of what works, what doesn’t. The whole very concept of “an Egodeath Show”, what does it mean, I want to keep that as an open-ended question mark.
(Core episode: ~31:15)+1:24:10 I want to present the question to the egodeath community: what does the concept of “an egodeath show” mean? Let’s keep that as an unknown, let’s keep that as a variable wildcard exploration, let’s call it sort of a exploratory “show” w/ scare quotes around the word “show”; what would it mean to have an Egodeath show?
(Core episode: ~31:45) +1:24:55(master tape / orig mp3 of full episode) – Let’s keep that a mystery. Let’s keep it as “the Egodeath Mystery Show.” [<– 1st mention of “Egodeath Mystery Show” 🎉 🎂 ] I kinda like that, I kinda like that. “The Egodeath Show” is pretty good; it’s a pretty good name, “the Egodeath show”, for short filenames.
(Core episode: ~32:30) +1:25:50 – What if we were to say that the name of the show is “the Egodeath Mystery Show” with the connotation [that the…] being… [left unspecified! i checked my mic gain levels instead!]
done~~-1:28:13 aup – how’s my level — I suddenly worry about the mic gain level in the DR-05 and abandon the topic of “the Egodeath Mystery Show”
-1:26:21 you really have to go spelunking with that dr05 ultra quiet mic, no noise/hiss. But this mic (57) is hissy. re: gain level worries. 57 is hissy. the tape deck is silent, so level is not critical.
-1:29:30 Several tricks to get the SM57 mic to work w/ quiet talking without hiss. Eager to try other mics too. Basic mistakes to avoid.
-1:32:00 Vocalizing technique, I’m still working it out. I’m over the hump. I’m surfing above the waves.
(Core episode: ~33:00) ~~+1:36:07 aup 1:34:00mp3 “The Content front: I could have had enough to feed my show in 1995, but now is more/better. I can read emails, I have more scholarly knowledge, the vial debate, the Dionysus mosaic is a whole saga in itself… the Egodeath community provided mosaic. All the books I have, zines I could read aloud. The resources I have are amazing. My vocal skills have come over the hump, it will soon become 2nd nature. … done
~~-1:38:23 aup -13630 “Repeat Statement” is the universal solution. idea for warmup. I need a static page for my vocal warmup.
–14246aup 1:41:00mp3 “typing sessions are forbidden, maybe.
(Core episode: ~35:00) -+1:43:20 aup Live now Im going to create a new page called Vocal Warmup Page for the Egodeath Mystery Show.” or “Egodeath Mystery Show Warmup Page?”
~~+1:44:02 aup / 1:42:04 “Maybe I should create a page just called the Egodeath Mystery Show”
+1:58:43-2:02:30. Show name, informally: Quiet Mystery Test (received the word: ‘mystery’ late at night; (“the Egodeath Mystery Show”): “Let’s assume the word ‘show’. Now let’s consider the question of ‘mystery show’.” Then I say “mystery religions”, “the ancient mysteries”. “initiation”. “‘Egodeath show’ is nice and tight, unlike “Egodeath Mystery Show’, but you always need multiple names.”
+2:36:24 aup about the totally unplanned show format
done-2:37:20 typing
+2:37:49 show, what’s that
done-2:39:08 typing
+2:39:24 what can it become
done-2:42:04 web search for “mystery show”
+2:46:12 mult names
done-3:01:15 aup no interrupt, vocal review
+3:02:32 aup now music
Assessment after listening: Quiet talking seems fine, except turn down bass *if* using closed-back headphones – as prophecied 2 shows ago, that I’d end up cutting bass.
It’s a mystery. Experimental. 2nd half has some Egodeath development history.
Content
Late night speaking quietly as possible.
1st part: Audio hookup test – trying cross-fading between 3 sources:
Mic
external audio (song Divine Wind by BOC)
2nd external audio – I failed to engage the mixer’s “2-TRACK ^ MAIN MIX” switch until the end – so I don’t expect my guitar until the Outro.
2nd part: I started to discuss the history/story of this show, but then realized that the show has only begun to reveal itself – history is happening at high rate right now, so I’m assessing the history so far, as the show rapidly starts to reveal itself.
The full name of the show revealed itself. Discussed connotations. Why I don’t say “weblog” or “podcast” re: this site & show aka “voice recordings”.
Created a webpage for the show; surprisingly, I haven’t created any dedicated pages for my 2021 voice recordings until this.
Errata
omfg the world’s most THE WORLD’S MOST ANNOYING LEAD-UP TO READING ROLFE’S PASSAGE. 45 MINUTES OF ADHD DIVERSIONS TO *FINALLY*, *FINALLY* GET TO READING THE FRICKIN PASSAGE! K!LL ME AGGHHHHH JESSU %^&#$*@@&!!! AGGGGHHH 😵 😵 😵
Is there an .aup yet? Apparently not, so create one; not found on “TK Audio 2”, main drive, or “KINGSTON 1” thumbdrive. Found some near-dated aup’s but probably I didn’t save, used only transient project. A near-dated aup, eg: “/Volumes/TK Audio/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/Egodeath Show 2021-02-03/Egodeath Show 2021-02-03.aup”
New .aup, created March 3, 2021, on main drive: “/Music/TK/Egodeath Mystery Show/2021-02-04b Egodeath Mystery Show – Quiet Mystery Test/2021-02-04b Egodeath Mystery Show – Quiet Mystery Test.aup”
Old heading, above, showing orig mp3 filename & length: Egodeath Show (2021-02-04b) Quiet Mystery Test: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-04b.mp3” 3:05:51
Microphone: SM57
no eq
super quiet talking: hiss an issue? No; faint traditional audible.
Need to turn down mic bass to -4.5dB due to proximity effect from close-mic dynamic mic (that’s good news, to help w/ headphones).
3″ (closer-miking than usual).
Hookup
2nd DR-05 tape deck patched in, for guitar feed.
I should’ve monitored via tape deck, not mixer – would’ve caught error.
2nd external audio – I failed to engage the mixer’s “2-TRACK ^ MAIN MIX” switch until the end – so I don’t expect my guitar until the Outro.
See “XENYX” for more desc of hookup, in page 10 or 11 here.
About the Totally Unplanned Egodeath “Show” Format/Concept/ Vehicle – It’s a Mystery to Me
About the Totally Unplanned Egodeath Show Concept – 100% accidental, and yet, the pieces were all intensively developed (with no plan) since 2007… with many roots in audio tech since … uh… 1980 … or before that…
I struggled over the years to work on each element, of pieces that I had no intention of steering into a show.
I never thought of myself as an entertainer – quite the opposite, more like. Maybe an eduator though, eg April 1987 “I’m gonna figure out self control and teach the world it (via writing).”
I wrestled hard against microphones, always a big struggle… and now, “it just works”. My skills seem to fade into the background; “nothing to it” – except years of hard work. I make it look easy to myself, now — it was anything but! Why is the gear “just working” now?
🤯 🤷♂️ 🤔
In *no* way did I *ever* envision doing a “podcast” or “show”, or think that this format had any interesting potential for me – for my aptitudes & interests.
kinda like the Vial -> Criteria aritcle -> Proof (the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image ) decoding — IT JUST FELL IN MY LAP, FELL TOGETHER.
‘Show’? What’s that supposed to mean?
It’s a mystery to me.
Accidentally Stumbed Across a Combination of Aspects that Work Really Really Well for Me (2 or even 3 Reallys, on the Really scale by Max)
will this format hold my interest? Highly likely. Mic tech highly appealing. Zero production is highly appealing. A vehicle for me to go on and on about wonderful me (ie, Transcendent Knowledge, my writings / thoughts about Transcendent Knowledge).
Why does this format , that i stumbled across 18 hours ago, seem to work so very well for me? Why does it bring out a set of aptitudes – and interests – i didn’t think I had? What’s the nature of this show? What will it become? WHAT’S *THAT* SUPPOSED TO MEAN?
🤨
It’s a mystery to me.
The mystery is: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHOW??!!
I have every reason to believe that this format will continue to fit like a glove, and that I will have endless content to fill this format. Is this just a moment of enthusiasm that will fade?
been interested in mic & voice since at least 2007 when I got the idea to record…
look at my many microcassette voice Transcendent Knowledge development cassettes of 1995.
I been trying *hard* to make vocal recording Transcendent Knowledge development work, since… some time after 1985 when I couldn’t handwrite fast enough — or type fast enough, to do Transcendent Knowledge development.
A complete surprise “out of nowhere” …. with a TON of precedent. As they say of bands: “an overnight success that came out of nowhere” — after decades of working hard on the elements.
5 Big Themes came together in Jan 1988 — the breakthrough was REQUIRED completely planned and tracked by % progress during 1987. INTENSE URGENCY, EVERYTHING WAS RIDING ON THIS BREAKTHROUGH. Not sure I’ve told the story.
Thoughts about this show format, or, my voice-recording format, which i never planned
A solid show. Good job, me.
topic to discuss: how did … the history of how this show great format accidentally fell together “by accident” after years of hard work on audio. Where did this show idea/format come from? Uhhh…. I have no idea. By accident, luck, and a ton of hard work & precursors. Sort of a “breakthough instance”. Accidental deliberate breakthrough, the result of many years of hard work, fell together by accident.
topic: Will I continue this format? Likely, bc:
I get to play w/ mics <– the #1 main benefit of the Egodeath Show
I get to read my past writings
I get to work on my sh*t personality (negative tone of voice + criticizing everything [look in the mirror, buddy])
dumbly, i discover an aptitude for on-the-fly cobbling together fun + profound content.
bring together my own music production knowledge
gear-fest
tons and tons of content from my Transcendent Knowledge development history.
great content online that i can read
The “show” format – surprisingly – works/fits really well for me. I never would have thought. There may be *hints* of this in my 2007 recordings at Egodeath.com. The “show” format seems capable of “packaging” any of my previous recording types… I’ve done so many (2007, 2018) different types of recordings, long list of types:
2007 voice pratice rec’s where I speed-talk throughthe Auust 2007 Psychonautica episode 13 hosted by Max Freakout.
Guesting on Psychonautica.
Guesting on Erik Davis’ show.
2018 voice readings of my writings.
2018 special-effects processing of my speaking (tons of these are on my music player; my Egodeath playlist has all kinds of 2018 (and now 2021) recordings of mine.
Some rare video-website livestreams, just barely enough to kick my butt and get humiliated by the tech (eg the wrong mic is being used by computer/ livestream – fail! super frustrating)
My 2007 recordings with my guitar in the background. <– a sign/ indicator, you could predict from this, I’d likely end up doing a “show” format.
WHO THE HELL WOULDA THOUGHT THAT A “SHOW” FORMAT COULD WORK WELL FOR Transcendent Knowledge development?!
But I reject any whiff of “high production ” — DISCUSS THE TREND AWAY FROM EDITED YOUTUBE VIDS, TOWARD LIVESTREAMS — it’s way, way easier to do a “live broadcast” format than “carefully edited painstaking format pre-crafted”.
We’re moving back to a 1930s Radio Live Show In-Studio format, w/o recording technology per later recording/playback format.
Can mix-in prerecorded / pre-produced content. Like a radio DJ; live talking + playing re-recorded / pre-produced music content.
The idea “what about an Egodeath Show format?” is an idea I thought of 18 hours ago, and it “caught fire” and rocketed into the heavens. I *did* work really hard on the elements, but I never thought of a show format. I was slightly influenced by Max, but …
I can’t believe the pieces are finally coming together [but in no way am i implying that the “show” format ever crossed my mind], after years of such mixed results. I never thought of doing this, and it’s falling together, I never dreamed of doing a “show”, . I’ve even had big failures, but the clouds are parting and I can’t believe the good quality that accidentally fell together… including new good ideas for content. I never planned this, but I did work really hard, as everyone extremely knows since 2007 focus on audio. I never planned “I want to develop my speaking, voice, mic/recording technique to do a show”, and it’s been hard work, with many failures, many successes, but much difficulty over the years 2007, 2018, 2021.
The song Divine Wind sounded great, despite low-fi via mic. TRY MORE CROSS-FADE VOICE & EXTERNAL AUDIO. MESS W/ GUITAR REC’G MIX-IN or my other field music rec’gs.
MORE CONTINUITY, LESS FRAGMENTED HERKY-JERKY SPEAKING/SENTENCES/SELF-INTERRUPTION.
read-aloud WITH NO DAMN SELF-INTERRUPTION DAMMIT! my plaincourault article. STFU AND READ!!cn u b any more annoying??!! spazzo
errata – instead of saying “assert / waffle / deny”, clearer is:
“presence [of plants] / waffle / absence [assertion, about plants} “PRESENCE / WAFFLE / ABSENCE” PRESENCE / “PRESENCE THEN ABSENCE” / ABSENCE PRESENCE / “PRESENCE BUT ABSENCE” / ABSENCE
IE, “assert” is too ambiguous., same w/ “deny”. “presence” is unambig, so, is better. “assert” stands for “assert plants”, deny means “deny plants” — but better, singlee-word that’s clear, is:
presence/absence <– 1 word, yet unambiguous.
“the forgot curve” = how quickly, according to a given scholar, the plants were reduced, in 2nd gen vs the 1st gen. In a 2-gen model.
see if I can substantiate anything about Samorini claims. rather; repeat that I’m reporting the truth of my feeling from going through his article. It’s a “vibe” thing, not only a fact of his actual assertions. Comparing my vibe vs his vibe.
todo: make list or talk through a list, of “debate” publications re: Plaincourault.
Contributions of Jan Irvin – the Most Favorable Possible View; Appreciation of Jan Irvin. Everything Irvin says is right. His limitations != being wrong; errors of fact. I really don’t care if he were to be factually incorrect – small beans.
I disagree that “Irvin is completely irrelevant”, as an amateur witch told me other day. Irvin is solid; reliable. Just limited. I trust Irvin’s research.
Early Mycologists Books
below section copied from a Hatsis page of mine:
What Hatsis mis-calls “the Allegro theory, of mushrooms in Christian art”, is actually, in fact, “the 1924 Rolfe-Ramsbottom-Brightman interpretation of the Plaincourault tree“.
It is unambigous and safe to say that there were positions taken, about the Plaincourault tree. There was no real debate about that image.
Among Rolfe, Ramsbottom, Brightman; Brinckmann, Panofsky, Wasson; & Allegro, there was neither discussion, defined positions, nor debate, about the relevantly scoped questions:
To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?
To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?
To what extent was the Eucharist recognized as mushrooms?
Instead, all of them halted as if taboo, getting themselves completely stuck on A SINGLE ART INSTANCE. Why?
Because none of them are entheogen scholars.
Of Rolfe, Ramsbottom, Brightman; Brinckmann, Panofsky, Wasson; & Allegro, only Wasson took the mantle of an entheogen scholar, but with the Pope, as his banker, Wasson instead censored Brinckmann’s book, and like Terrence McFakea, and like Hatsis, Wasson says
DO NOT LOOK FOR MUSHROOMS IN CHRISTIAN ART.
THESE AREN’T THE SHROOMS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR.
There are no mushrooms in Christianity, because I, Pope’s banker, say so – in my completely evasive, mealy-mouth, roundabout way that could mean anything, by my universally confusing and vague statement “I said there was no … I was wrong”.
Robert Graves 1957-1973 may be the first to pose these properly framed questions.
R. T. Rolfe & F. W. Rolfe. The Romance of the Fungus World: An Account of Fungus Life in Its Numerous Guises, Both Real and Legendary. ISBN: 0486231054. 1925 (1974). Foreword by John Ramsbottom, 1924 <- same year as Manly Hall’s book Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Dover changed to “Imaginary”, orig = “Legendary”
Ramsbottom’s Books (1949, 1953)
John Ramsbottom. A Handbook of the Larger British Fungi. ISBN: B0007JA6VC. 1949.
John Ramsbottom. Mushrooms & Toadstools: A Study of the Activities of Fungi. ISBN: B0007JALQC. 1953.
Thanks for confirming that the Yeti️ is good.I automatically know that your recordings are clear, b/c the Yeti is reliably clear (unless aimed at one’s lap or placed far away).
I want a Blue – Yeti, to add to my mic closet, to rotate among mics (that’s a big goal, in itself; for peak fun).
A big plan and motivation I’m enthusiastic about: I really want to have an assortment of mics and rotate among them.
I love the videos that use Yeti – bright and clear.
I got to hold a blue-colored Yeti, and it feels heavy/solid, pleasant packaging, great look & feel, I was surprised.
The Yeti really delivers the great results at YouTube, and I’m always glad to see people using it, because I know that the video, at YouTube, won’t sound muddy.
Common Yeti usage mistake:
Speak into the side of the Yeti, not the top/end; the Yeti is a side-address mic, not an end-address mic (or whatever the latter term is).
That is, the Yeti should tilt away, not toward the mouth.
Advise Yeti in Mono mode
I advise Mono mode, not Stereo mode, for the Yeti, when doing solo vocal work.
To focus and stabilize the sound.In my podcast today, I again dared to speculate that Max Freakout (for the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast) uses a Blue – Yeti in Stereo mode, because I hear him drifting left and right.
I’m very happy, elated – surprisingly – with the Shure – SM57 dynamic mic.I had been struggling with it before, for voice; but yesterday, all the pieces came together.
Solved hiss problem of SM57 by learning how to close-mic:
The Yeti large-diaphragm condenser mic has much less hiss than my SM57 dynamic mic – but with 3.5″ close-miking (off to the side of my mouth), hiss isn’t an issue.
YouTube main competitor to Yeti is Shure – SM7b (but I’d engage its bass cut & treble boost switches) – also, RE20
At YouTube, I dislike the muddy tone of Shure – SM7b dynamic broadcasters’ mic.
People call the Shure – SM57 a “poor man’s Shure – SM7b”.
The popular electro-voice – RE20 dynamic (broadcasters’) mic seems clearer (brighter) than the SM7b.
The SM57 is used for the U.S. presidential podium, so that encouraged me to keep trying.
My great, epic show yesterday, used the SM57 and I credited switching to that mic for my good luck for everything coming together.
Egodeath Show (2021-02-04) Constructing Analysis Tools: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-04.mp3” (Episode 11) 3:04:11
Assessment after listening: A solid show.
Filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-04.mp3”
There’s a false start (2 start-of-show passages) when I realized I had gain at 0 instead of 55. Too bad I didn’t also realize so quick that it was in mono and I should have then switched it to stereo. I like the first start, so I kept it.
Length: 3:04:11 (at end of show I thought it was 2.5 hours, I forgot there was the 1st part too).
Initial part: TASCAM DR-05 stereo field recorder, handheld, in monophonic (I initially said, incorrectly, that it was in stereo mode).
Main part: in stereo mode, handheld, then on mic stand.
Started as morning throwaway show, but, became the main show – good discussion of many analysis tools for the maximal entheogen theory of religion and assessing where to put each scholar on the spectrum from min/mod/max.
Egodeath Show (2021-02-03b) Reaction Podcast Hookup: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-03b 260kbps.mp3” 1:14:35
“Egodeath Show 2021-02-03b 260kbps.mp3″
Length: 1:14:35
Download or listen in-browser (magnifying glass icon):
No login or account is needed, at that WeTransfer website.
Filesize: 76 MB
Bitrate: 260 kbps
Content
hook-up / patch-in the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast or other external audio signal, mixing that with my external mic (SM57). That’s working well. I did some “reaction podcast” format here, alternating playing (the end of) the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, “Mystics” episode 27, alternating with my commentary. “Only a trial run” — yet, I provide substance/analysis.
That means, necessitates, monitoring w/ headphones – which has pros/cons; it’s a different way of working. Usually I don’t monitor, this 2021 series of voice rec’gs.
Try flat eq with SM57 mic. done; I have to listen to playback now.
My vocalization was careless; my focus was largely on gear hookup, distracted (but I did talk about substantial topics).
I did a full show, 1:14:35, with 2-3 substantial topics:
I “proved” that the sequence really is 1) eternalism nonduality experience, then after that, 2) control-nonduality experience — not the other way round.
I added to the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Ideas page: per Max, clarify why I’m the only theorist who claims that the ego is above all, a control agent.
Hard drive is full, gotta deal w/ that. I have just enough space /clever way, to produce this new episode.
‘gnostics’ as a garbage-can to throw any enemy into
~55:00 why the main article is in the sequence it is, w/ eternalism THEN cybernetics.
Order of main sections of 2006 main article – eternalism then cybernetics.
Order of puzzle pieces in 2006 main article — they are in random order – artist didn’t ask me about order.
~55:00 How to make the case that eternalism nonduality comes before cybernetic nonduality. Try the reverse order, does it match reports? NO.
Morning show – vocal warmup/ vocalization analysis. Messing around w/ bassy voice.
Midday show – Main show; loud full-volume talking, solid content.
Evening show – voice worn out, can’t talk loud, out of practice since the morning warmup. Chill.
I recommend the above download link instead.
Filename: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-03b.mp3”
Slightly lower fidelity: https://we.tl/t-BySY7OPGiN (57.7 MB, 210 kbps) = “Egodeath Show 2021-02-03b.mp3” I believe this sounds a bit swishy/unsteady treble.
Source file: 210203_2214.wav
I exported back to the chip the .mp3 files since hard drive is full.
Draft to Brown (Not Sent)
My process for emailing scholars:
in email app, write 12 pages.
Move that to a weblog page.
Try again, briefly this time.
Outcome: 12 new pages of email.
Move that to a weblog page.
Repeat.
Holy smokes my radio show came together today.
🤩 🎙 📻 😳
Maybe my change to the SM57 mic was good luck.
There’s room for improvement of course, but still.
So many dud aspects of previous recordings, then this.
I talked in one segment about the front cover of the Golden Guide .pdf 1976 book I sent, showing in lower left, a serrated bulb quite similar to the vial held by the saint.
Happy Critiquing 😄 👎
My tone of voice is almost there — but I’m attuned critically to my tone of voice now, and I still sound bitter when I critique.
I fear I’ve developed a very negative tone I had to try hard to undo, very recently.
It’s hard to critique scholars, while keeping a warm, pleasant tone.
I need to force a “smile” tone all the time, to get a “neutral” resulting tone.
I withdrew from guesting on Hatsis’ show partly b/c his adversarial tone — but I’m the worst.
I merely try to communicate my disagreement/ disapproval, and my tone immediately “reads” as angry/ condemnatory, sharply bitter.
It’s remarkable, that so much of personality is simply the tone of speaking.
Waffle Gang Member
Everyone needs to change their position to improve their position – and needs to be forthright about it.
When I make a mistake – which I don’t, but were I to – I would say so; “I was wrong about X, so I changed my position to Y.”
I’m far from understanding Hatsis’ tangled, confused mess of a non-position “position”.
Figuring out Hatsis’ position (of the week) is on my priority list, somewhere a ways below “Polish my bottle-cap collection”.
His position is slip-n-slide. Which is not properly a position.
Let us know, when you have a stable, determinate, actual position.
My motto expressing my Philosophy of Science
THE “OLD THEORY” AINT REALLY MUCH OF A THEORY, but a shifting, incoherent, UNSTABLE heap of presumptions – really, biases, which is to say, *a set of attitudes*, not a “theory”.
An un-considered heap of assorted assumptions.
RUSH WOULDN’T USE PSYCHEDELICS, BECAUSE THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHY BAND. <– THE “OLD THEORY” – (IF YOU CAN EVEN CALL IT A “THEORY”)
Email to M. Hoffman
I’ll check out and talk about wassonwest. I’ve criticized Wasson. Constructive, is the goal.
I’m now better positioned to re-try a critique of the article – no promises, I have no thoughts except I’m amazed I was able to paraphrase it w/o getting swept up (carried away) by critique-mode, this time.
The attention required to publish books, vs. the headspace and shelter to think, & do more research.
1. My paraphrasing of each paragraph has too much gaps, it has to be smoother but I don’t want to accomplish that by editing it. I have to speak my own words slower, smoother. For better comprehensibility. I felt like oh no it wasn’t good enough to send.
2. Amazingly, miraculously, I refrained from any critique! Usually I give way too much critique, I get lost in critique, and fail to read-aloud the text that I’m trying to critique. My first attempts (discarded takes) to read-aloud the article while jumbling my critique (mixing my critique into my reading of the article at the same time), were a disaster; I got nowhere in reading the article (made zero progress), and made awful confusion mistakes.
I need to read-aloud slower.
My “radio show” today omg, came out great and I talk about doing a better job of reading/paraphrasing / critiquing articles.
I’ll read paragraphs at Amazon & Academia.edu:
1. Read paragraph
2. Paraphrase author’s assertions.
3. Critique. (Step 3, not step 1!!)
I’m listening to my radio show today’s, now. I think in the 2nd half I talk about a smoother reading-aloud format.
I critique my yesterday’s reading of your article. 1:47:45
I’m very happy about the format I figured out yesterday, but it has to be smoother delivery.
Egodeath Show (2021-02-03) Big Game Hunting, along with Winning “Spot the Mushroom”: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-03.mp3” 2:57:54
No login or account is needed, at that WeTransfer website.
Filesize: Even bigger than my ego (I carefully measured the size of both, to confirm).
Excessive! half a GB! its just mono. try the “force to mono” option. future: lower bitrate mp3. My hard drive is full! 😵
Mic: SM57
Bass -2dB, Treble +2dB.
Reduce Bass more, like -6dB, as already proved in 2019, and re-proved early Feb 2021.
If want treble actually mellow (to avoid hearing fatigue), do 0dB Treble.
My other episodes, which falsely claim to be a 10, are btfo’d.
Content
Talking about reading-aloud Hoffman’s Entheogens Mystery Religions article
Errata – WHAT THE HELL AM I TALKING ABOUT REWRITING MAIN ARTICLE – FALSE. Not gonna happen, stupid idea, don’t want, don’t need. Aint broke dont fix.
Big Game Hunting – Playing (& winning) the “Spot the Mushroom” game * 100 isn’t enough. Need to be victorious at proving not just the maximal entheogen theory of religion but rather: the maximal entheogenic-esotericism theory of religion & Transcendent Knowledge.
The Big Game Hunting Claim: I have scientifically proved the maximal entheogenic-esotericism theory of religion.
My October 2002 claim amounts to: I’M AGAINST THE PREMISE WHICH MODERATE ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP ASSERTS, WHICH IS THAT ENTHEOGEN USE DECREASED OVER TIME; THAT (PER JAMES KENT) AS CULTURE EVOLVES, VISIONARY PLANT USE DECREASES. THAT PLANTS WERE IN PRE-HISTORY, THEN DECREASED.
2002, I announced the more productive alternative to the “ENTHEOGENS SOON DECREASED” premise, which is self-defeating. Entheogen use didn’t decrease, but is constant throughout history. *Now*, with that premise, what do we perceive? Answer: My premise, the Maximal premise — but *not* the waffle-gang’s Moderate premise – reveals the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image; = 70 mshroom trees in heart of Christian art; = scientific proof that Transcendent Knowledge = religion = entheogenic esotericism = plants, and that’s ubiquitous in all religions, eras, & regions.
I cheated; had advantage – I had full the egodeath theory core theory , the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence, in hand, before I entered their game of “spot the mushroom”.
To win the little game, of spot the mshroom, you need the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence, and ideally the mytheme theory too; ie, my full the egodeath theory.
but we shouldn’t just play to win the little game, of “spot the mushroom”; we should play to win the big game, of spot the entheogenic esotericism, which = proper esotericism AUTHENTIC ESOTERICISM actual esotericism vs. exoteric esotericism fake esotericism pseudo-esotericism fake esotericism poser esotericism PHONY “ESOTERICISM” Western Ersatzocism
“proper esotericism” = analogical psychedelic eternalism dependent-control; control-transformation, passing through the gateway, guarded by angel, sword, flame, dragon/serpent/monster.
For angel+sword, see the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image, connected to God: angel on the right of God, sword on left of God in the image. No flame, no serpent, no dragon in that image.
In that image, the gateway from the eternalism beginner-level nonduality-experiencing to the cybernetics advanced-level nonduality-experiencing, is represented by the themes:
Not discussed: the great Exo/Eso “w@r” (that’s explicitly discussed in a previous episode).
Motto of the Moderate Entheogen Theory Scholars – “PLAY TO LOSE, OR TIE”.
todo: make this episode available for longer than 1 week.
todo: add timestamp for each segment of this great episode.
The “grandiose claim/ don’t leave any cash on the table” segment is long / highly repetitive. 🤨 🕰
i’m gonna skip from now on, when listening to this otherwise pleasant episode. It *is* the most ultimate point in the world, true; but still.
Crafting the ultimate big claim: I HAVE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED THE MAXIMAL ENTHEOGENIC-ESOTERICISM THEORY OF RELIGION. There, saved you like … many minutes.
1:09:30 Does the word ‘secret’ = an entheogen diminishment fallacy?
1:12:00-1:22:35 (10.5 minutes) The Amanita vial as an example of why the Moderate entheogen theory of religion is a disaster, that blinds entheogen scholars, compared to the Maximal theory.
1:38:00-1:42:45 Golden Guide to Serrated Amanita Bulbs
1:38:26 <– MOMENT OF DISCOVERY! that the cover of the book has an amanita with serrations very similar to the vial. Disproving an argument for the Moderate entheogen theory (sry for wrecking your pub’d article)
1:47:45 Read-aloud of M. Hoffman’s article on Entheogens & Mystery Religions: 1st paragraph only, and afterwards, smooth paraphrasing of it.
Read-aloud the first, long paragraph of Hanegraaff’s article Entheogenic Esotericism. And my attempted smooth paraphrasing – I develop technique of “To do the paraphrase pass, do a 2nd-pass reading, but loosely“. That will trigger my objections, which I can — in the 2nd or 3rd phase — critique. “I agree with the author to the extent that he means A; I disagree, to the extent he means B.”
Segment: Designing a format (challenging to do w/o editing) for READ-ALOUD FROM AMAZON & ACADEMIA.EDU:
Smooth pleasant (thus, high-comprehensibility) recording:
Read a paragraph.
Paraphrase the author’s message.
Critique.
I’m still working-out a lot of wrinkles for show production & show format, while on-air, admittedly. But good potentials for future show format are clear, and the content here is as solid as any of my shows; not to be topped.
Rock bands 1970s did smooth playing, easy recording.
2000s bands can’t play smoothly; crutch of DAW editing.
But my show – the deal is – is a “live broadcast” format, = no editing pass exists; it goes straight to “live/airwaves”.
My producer friends cannot grasp this; they say “Just fix it in Edit.” I’m all like THERE IS NO “EDIT” PHASE, IT’S LIVE BROADCAST, DODO HEAD!! YOU DAW-ADDICT POSERS JUST DON’T GET IT. 🤦♂️
Fact Check of me: TRUE!Proof that I’m always right. And 8 years quicker than Hanegraaff. I wrote the phrase, extremely boldly with maximum force (“sh00t to k1ll”), “entheogenic esotericism” on the World-Wide Web on June 12, 2004: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-66/#message3335 See, *that’s* how u should write, waffle gang; the very opposite of “soften the blow to ingratiate yourself with the dominant establishment hegemonic paradigm Exotericism received view, so reasonable, so anti-plant.”
Group: egodeath
Message: 3335
From: Michael Hoffman
Date: 12/06/2004
Subject: Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism
Authentic esotericism is entheogenic esotericism. Entheogens are the key to esotericism. This is the simplest possible theory of esotericism, and the most natural, the least contrived and strained. Theories of esotericism that are not based on entheogens suffer from the problem of grandiose verbiage, unmet promises and claims, chronic vagueness, excuses for lack of potent and prompt efficacy, and no ability to deliver the experiences which are talked about. Drug-free esotericism doesn’t work; it is not effectively ergonomic.
— Michael Hoffman
Burn #3
Hanegraaff’s 2012 article Entheogenic Exotericism, in the book Contemporary Exotericism.
Errata, and Why I *Must* Stop Interrupting Reading-Aloud a Paragraph to Prematurely Switch to Critique/Praise Mode
I claimed that Hanegraaff was good for using the word ‘natural’ for some psychoactives. In fact, this topic has nothing to do with the fallacy of “traditional mystics’ natural, non-drug methods”. At least I did realize that – chastened — at the very end of my commentary; I ended up having to retract my interruption point. My dislike of ‘artificial’ for synthetics is valid, but I conflated two different domains. SHUT UP AND READ-ALOUD, fool.
solution: step 2, “paraphase”, is simply re- read-aloud of the paragraph, w/o filler words and 5-syllable words. That’s the time to set-up for a critique. thinkin’: 1. Step 1: read-aloud, strictly. no interrupting. 2. Step 2: Loose read-aloud. Critique/interruption allowed, this time/ during this pass.
Production Info
Mic: Shure SM57, ~3.5″, 45 degrees off-axis, no pop filter or windscreen.
ATTENTION ALL COFFEEHOUSES OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION – WE HAVE BREWED ESPRESSO
How Brown Asked Whether Egodeath Community Wrote About Criteria of Proof
I Remembered How Brown Asked Whether the Egodeath Community Wrote About Criteria of Proof; Leading to Criteria Article; Leading to Psalter Proof Article, Proving 70 Psychoactive Mushrooms in the Heart of Christian Art
It’s about my having disproved a certain Moderate Entheogen Theory argument about a vial…
“Looking closely at the photo, Julie disagreed with this description. “Jer,” she said, calling me over to the hotel room window to examine the photo in the light. “Look closely, there at the bottom. That’s a straight edge, not the round bulb of an Amanita. And furthermore, this white “bulb” is serrated all over with regular grooves. That’s not a mushroom she’s carrying, but a white vial with a red top probably holding her healing oil.”
Serrations on Amanita base. From the book Hallucinogenic Plants (A Golden Book), by Richard Evans Schultes, 1976 (0th Edition of Plants of the Gods)
Hallucinogenic Plants – A Golden Guide (Richard Evans Schultes, 1976)
Hallucinogenic Plants (A Golden Guide) Richard Evans Schultes (1977-02-23) (1976?) Kindle Edition http://amzn.com/B08R7TD35Y
I managed to retrieve from email inbox this nice, clean PDF of the book. Hallucinogenic-Plants-A-Golden-Guide.pdf
Psalter: It’s That Time Again – Facepalm Time
agghh this accursed image! making a fool out of me, month after month! what next?!
The entheogenic banqueter (the red initiate) who has taken off is supported and pulled by the angel of God by his {right arm}, emphatically not by his {left arm raised up floating} in the air, nor by his {feet} in the ordinary state on the right-hand side of the column, where we are blocked from seeing God’s power.
[10:32 p.m. February 2, 2021] – Correction. I finally recognized now that his feet are not to be read as “floating”, but clearly can be read and are to be read as “right foot on column; left foot floating”. This image embarrasses me month after month; this image continues to reveal “obvious” things that I was blind to and dense about. I added the following observation and struck my incorrect statement above, “supported … nor by his {feet}”. Below, I now added a zoomed, cropped image of his feet to look again. I did look intently before, specifically at his feet, and failed to figure out the reading of his feet; now it is obvious — why couldn’t I figure out the obvious reading, before? I think I evaluated his feet very early on, in my November interpretation pass. The red initiate’s right foot rests on the stable column, and his left foot floats in thin-air, giving no purchase or support. Here’s what’s different this time:
When I started decoding this image, I looked at his feet, and they didn’t seem to be firmly, sufficiently resting on the base, nor floating.
I decoded all feet in the entire image, but didn’t re-look at these feet enough.
Much later, after evaluating and thinking about all the feet in the image, I took another look, casually, at his feet, and finally now saw – based on the “rules” of how “foot resting on base” is depicted throughout the image – that his feet clearly fit the pattern; his feet are sufficiently on or off of the column base. I had to develop a solid, reliable basis and grounding for judgment on this matter, after comparing all other feet in the image, to see what constitutes “resting on the column base”. -mh, Feb. 2, 2021.
Egodeath Show (2021-02-02b) Reading of Article “Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions”: “Egodeath Show 2021-02-02b.mp3” 1:01:27 (Episode 8)
Egodeath Show 2021-02-02b – Reading of Mark Hoffman’s 2019 Article “Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions”, with Per-Paragraph Paraphrasing
Hanegraaff’s chapter “Entheognic Esotericism”, my 2002 critique of the Old Paradigm, the Secret Entheogen Paradigm being incorpog Entheogen Diminishment fallacies, self-defeating. Critiques of Pop Sike from Letcher/ Hatsis/ Irvin/ Kent/ Ball.
are there written critiques of field of entheogen scholarship? meta level.
Field of Western Esotericism , field of the egodeath theory, field of entheogen scholarship.
Martin Luther’s 99 Thesis that demolished the church door to smithereens w/ gigantic nail (Hollywood Epic version).
Brown’s book subtitle has the evil word “Secret”, a sign of the Old Paradigm (Secret Entheogen), bring him to the New Paradigm. tie-in my page: “Amanita, Christianity, Surface Form, Low Esotericism” to “Psilocybe, Greek + Christian, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism”
fav idea of this recording:
egoic vs. transcendent mental worldmodel :: Old vs. New paradigm of entheogen scholarship
egoic-thinking : transcendent thinking :: the Old, “Secret Entheogen” Paradigm : the New, “Explicit Psychedelic” Paradigm.
Determinism, what Plato called “the moving image of eternity,” is the illusion of time and space.
As Max Freakout described it: as a holographic illusion that’s created within the block universe.
Determinism refers to the illusion of movement in matter.
Kafei
Determinism within eternalism:
I see determinism within the model of eternalism.
Kafei
Experiencing the block universe:
The mystic state is a direct experience of the block universe.
The mind fuses with the block universe; the mind becomes “the All”, becomes the block universe.
There is no time to unfold, because everything is occurring at once, simultaneously.
That’s the vision inside the experience.
When you return to the baseline of consciousness, you return to space and time, the egoic illusion.
You still have in your memory banks, the vision of where that ego death happened, where there was no longer an ego but there was still awareness there.
It’s that awareness that you could recall from your memory banks.
Kafei
Max Freakout
Moderate entheogen theory as peak self-contradiction:
But the more that Ruck pushes in that direction of broadening the scope of where you can identify entheogens, the more that his overall picture starts to look like a blatant self-contradiction, because what he’s saying is:
Absolutely everybody everywhere knew about entheogens and was tripping, but it was all kept secret – it was all a secret, and nobody really knew about it.
But you know, which one of those is true?
Max Freakout, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, episode 3, 57:00
Totally not mystics: 👽
The three of us are not mystics.
People who are not mystics, are the people to whom the Egodeath theory is relevant.
We are not mystics here.
We are not mystics; we are not in that special class of people.
We are not mystics; why would we be so interested in a theory about people who we are never going to be like, who we can never know what it’s like to be those people?
I’m not going to comment on whether I’m a mystic, or an aspiring mystic, or a non-mystic.
Max Freakout, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, episode 26
Cyberdisciple
Control vortex:
Martin Ball’s going to inevitably run into the Egodeath theory. And in a way, he probably already has; Ball talks about ‘the shadow’, or something like that, this kind of New-Agey term: but, that is the problem; the threat of ego death looming, in the altered state.
We can help show – in addition to the critique of Pop Sike, make it constructive and show them how they can move closer to the Egodeath theory, why the Egodeath theory is a more attractive option than their current paradigms, intellectually speaking: just for coherence; and, for providing the fullest model of what goes on in the altered state.
Because that’s really what draws us, what has drawn us to it; there’s nothing that really compares to the depth of explanation; that actually, pushing through towards the ego death, and not trying to skate around the outside and use the sacrament for some other purpose.
My followers are taking something that is the epitome of simple and clear, and then they’re applying their big-brain analysis to it; and quickly, by the time they touch it, they leave it a smoking complicated ruin and wreck, that’s all complicated and broken, and the opposite of what it is.
Cybermonk, the very beginning of episode 1 of the Egodeath Mystery Show (“2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3″)
You have to fact-check everything I say:
Everything I say in my recordings is tentative and needs a fact-check.
The book “The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time” is claiming that William James made a death-bed retraction, and that he approved the block universe on his death bed – something along those lines.
Like all of my bogus voice recordings, you’ll have to fact-check everything I say. The feeling I have is correct, even if my statements are completely false.
Cybermonk, “Two Models of Control.mp3”, 56:30, 59:50
Facts:
I don’t know this for a fact.
But who cares? We don’t expect me to say facts.
I have transcended mere facts.
Cybermonk, Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-02-04b, 2:14:33
Remedial Pre-School Prep Version of the Egodeath Theory – Simplified 1st-Grade Reading Level
For slow learners or insane people who layer tons of their confusion on top of my couldn’t-be-simpler words stating dirt-simple points.
This page is particularly needed and is required, for over-educated, post-doc students.
Screening Exam
Question 1: Which domain does the Egodeath theory apply to?
A. Refrigerators
B. Mysticism
Question 2: Which state is the Egodeath theory based in?
A. the ordinary state (tight cognitive association binding)
B. the altered state (loose cognitive association binding)
Question 3: Which model of causality does the Egodeath theory assert?
A. free will quantum ineffability
B. domino-chain determinism (unfolding-in-time determinism; temporal causal-chain determinism)
C. block-universe determinism (eternalism)
Question 3 ½: Which model of time, possibility, and control agency does the Egodeath theory assert?
A. branching-universe possibilism; possibility-branching; open future with yet-to-be-created future control-thoughts
B. block-universe eternalism; monopossibility; pre-existence of control-thoughts
Question 4: Do the writings of mystics explicitly advocate high dose?
A. Yes; mystics write about their intensity level, such as: “The previous time, I was really in the Holy Spirit, but this time, I was really, really, really in the Holy Spirit” (that is, intensity level = 3 Really’s, on the Really scale).
B. No; mystics write that either they were in the Holy Spirit, or not in the Holy Spirit.
Question 5: Which people does the word “everyone” mean?
A. The conjectured set of people who merge ASC & OSC, who are beyond explanation, who are ultra-special and have alien minds 👽, who ordinary people cannot ever be like, for whom the Egodeath theory is irrelevant.
B. People who experience ASC multiple times, and who understand things like the Egodeath theory.
Question 7: Match the Pictures
(Advanced level; most leading art authorities and amateur history bloggers fail this one.)
Which of the following pictures matches the items in the above pictures: Picture A, Picture B, or Picture C?
Picture A:
Picture B:
Picture C:
Question 8 (essay question): What’s the difference between block-universe determinism vs. block-universe eternalism?
Write your explanation here: __________.
Question 9: Which model of time does David Bohm’s “non-local hidden variables” interpretation of Quantum Mechanics fit?
A. branching-universe possibilism
B. block-universe eternalism
Question 10: How many levels or positions are typically contrasted in the Egodeath theory? (Such as models of Myth; State of consciousness; Time; & Control)
A. Two.
B. Three.
Question 11: Which level of religion are most books about entheogen scholarship focused on?
A. High esotericism. (Analogy-based religion based in the altered state, explaining myth elements in terms of cognitive phenomenology observed and experienced in the altered state.)
B. Low esotericism. (Physical, literalist religion, focused on things that are observed and experienced in the ordinary state.)
C. Exotericism. (Literalist religion based in the ordinary state.)
this mp3 file hosting approach requires me to re-upload after a week
There are 2 download links near there, to get 3 voice-recording files:
A link to get 2 .mp3’s for Jan 20:
“2-Level Egodeath Model.mp3”
“3-Level Egodeath Model.mp3”
A link to get 1 .mp3 for Jan 21, 2021:
“The Great Mystics of Egodeath.mp3”
This Page Advocates a Simplified, 2-Level Model; Beware of Subtly Mixing-in Some Type of 3-Level Model
This page implicitly advocates a simplified 2-level model.
Be careful covertly mixing-in possibly malformed 3-level models, into the primary, 2-level model of the Egodeath theory.
The problem of where to fit domino-chain determinism in a simplified 2-level binary model
Domino-chain determinism implies a type of 3-level model:
free will
domino-chain determinism
block-universe determinism
Domino-chain determinism doesn’t obviously, clearly fit into one of the two, contrasted, reference positions that are defined in the primary, elementary, first-order, simplified, 2-level model of the Egodeath theory:
possibility-branching free will
block-universe eternalism no-free-will
domino-chain determinism usually is close to egoic possibilism-thinking, although it implies non-branching. domino-chain determinism implies non-branching by a very different mechanism than block-universe eternalism.
domino-chain determinism doesn’t match “branching universe”; it matches “block universe” — yet, domino-chain determinism tends to be closer to possibilism-thinking than to eternalism-thinking:
branching universe vs. block universe [domino-chain determinism fits here]
possibilism-thinking [domino-chain determinism largely remains here] vs. eternalism-thinking
In the field of mushrooms in Western religion, moving the Center of Focus from “Amanita, Christianity, Surface-Form, Low Esotericism”, to “Psilocybe, Greek+Christianity, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism
Amanita, Christianity, Surface form, Low Esotericism to
Psilocybe, Greek+Christianity, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism
Copying Many Sections from idea development page 9:
Moving the Central Focus of the Field “Mushrooms in Western Religion” away from “Amanita in Christian History” to instead, “Psilocybin Mushrooms in Greek and Christian History”
Finally, at 37:40, in Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 22, Max stops his reportage that involves talking about “Amanita, Amanita, Amanita“, and FINALLY says “psilocybin mushrooms”. Max officially lists an outline item at YouTube, as: Over-emphasis on amanita, under-emphasis on psilocybe in psychedelic scholarship
At time goes on in the episode, toward 45:00, Max and Cyb are increasingly against Amanita and for psilocybin mushrooms, not just a wimpy & ineffectual call for “all entheogens“, as time goes on, Max and Cyb and I (in my commentary) are more and more OUTRIGHT ANTI-AMANITA AND SPECIFICALLY PRO-PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS.
I also wish to read Max and Cyb as moving away from Christianity, toward a focus specifically on “Greek+Christian” religion, but can’t say that about them yet.
Cyb has heavily criticized the similar mis-centering of focus, on Eleusis, removing entheogens from all other Greek religion.
INSTEAD, PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS INSTEAD, GREEK+CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY true, broad “hellenistic”; true, broad “christendom” — but, locking the specific center, is far more important than greedy but hazy boundary. INSTEAD, ALL MYSTERY RELIGION AND MIXED-WINE BANQUETING INSTEAD, ESOTERIC
Down with Amanita in Christian History; Up with Psilocybin Mushrooms in Greek and Christian History
STOP centering focus on Amanita! Don’t merely broaden focus; MOVE the focus. STOP centering focus on Christian history! Don’t merely broaden focus; MOVE the focus.
Center the focus INSTEAD on Psilocybin mushrooms. Move the focus from Amanita to Psilocybe instead. Center the focus INSTEAD on Greek & Christian history. Move the focus from Christian history, to Greek & Christian history instead.
I can’t believe how accepting and mild Max seems, initially, and how slow my comments were to object, around episode 22 of Transcendent Knowledge podcast. Around 25:00.
We Should Be Quicker to Spot and Call-Out the “Go Immediately to Amanita” Habit in the Field; the “Mushroom = Amanita” Conflation
Max’s reportage and commentary says “Amanita” many times, before he finally complains – and my commentary finally complains – that that is a conflation of ‘mushrooms’ and ‘Amanita’, shutting out Psilocybe.
The field can’t see how narrow its thinking has been, how very Amanita-centric/obsessed. Letcher-Hatsis got that aspect right.
The problem is much worse than like 28:00 just “broadening” entheogens; I strongly assert degree of focus of plant, with best plant (set of species) is psilocybin mushrooms.
Don’t merely broaden from Amanita to entheogens/ psychedelics; REPLACE Amita. Amanita has been a blinding obsession that – despite Brown’s reassurance of me – really has totally dominated and wrecked the field, of mushrooms in Western religion.
I agree with Letcher-Hatsis on that point, that the field of mushrooms in Christian history has been wrecked by… “the Allegro-Amanita theory” (probably a horrible label that’s part of the problem).
We need to “throw away” current scholarship so far, that’s obsessed with Amanita & Christianity (as we can sort of credit Letcher-Hatsis for pointing out), and REPLACE that mono-focus NOT merely by a BROADER focus, but rather, MOVE focus AWAY FROM Amanita – stop writing about Amanita — and INSTEAD, write about psilocybin mushrooms.
STOP writing about “Christian history”; and instead, write about Greek+Christian history at the same time.
My original critique was insanely mild-mannered, merely saying it’s wrong to LIMIT entheogen scholarship to Amanita.
Now, I’m like, to HELL with Amanita.
Allegro and Amanita (much better, say “Allegro-Amanita”) have done nothing but harm and impede historical understanding.
Amanita-Allegro-Wasson needs to “GET THE HELL OUT OF THE DAMN WAY, you’re a false center” — not merely my original wimpy “pls don’t forget psilocybe“.
I do not merely want to broaden the approach, I want to SHIFT THE CENTRAL AXIS OF THE UNIVERSE OF ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP.
FORGET CHRISTIAN HISTORY. GREEK+CHRISTIAN HISTORY IS WHERE ITS AT; THE TRUE CENTER. ie hellenistic+christendom.
FORGET AMANITA (AND TRASHCAN WASSON & ALLEGRO –>🗑 WHILE YOU’RE AT IT; SAME THING) — PSIL🍄CYBIN MUSHR🍄🍄MS, *NOT* Amanita, is where its at; the TRUE CENTER.
I’ve Swung from Ineffectually Mild Critique of the Amanita Over-focus, to Outright Rejection of Amanita, as False Center, and Rejection of Christianity, as False Center of Field of Western entheogen scholarship, “Mushrooms in Western Religion”.
Replace “Amanita in Christian History” as the center of the field, by “Psilocybe in Greek & Christian Relgion” as the True Center of the Well-Formed Field
Podcast 22 – I Can’t Believe How Gentle I Was on Amanita, Merely Pleading “Don’t Forget Psil Too”; Now I’ve Swung Hardcore Anti-Amanita; Kick Out Amanita and Replace It by Psil Entheogen Scholarship
In my WordPress page on Transcendent Knowledge Podcast ep22, I added comments noting how softball / gentle / mild my critique was.
I merely originally complained “Amanita is too narrow”.
Now, I’m very different: Amanita is a False Center of Entheogen scholarship, and also, along with that, Christianity is a False Center of Entheogen scholarship, Christianity *must be replaced* by the True Center, of Greek+Christian.
The problem isn’t that people say Christianity = Amanita and that’s false.
The problem is, Amanita is a false center of the field of mushrooms in Wester religion. Psil is the true center of the field of mushrooms in Greek & Christian history. Isoating Christianity is also a kind of false centering. The center is Greek+Christian, not just Christian or just Greek.
Announcing a Moratorium on Amanita Scholarship; Replace by Psilocybe-centric Entheogen Scholarship
Amanita, the low esotericism mushroom associated with low esotericism
New Concept Lable: “Low Esotericism”, = exoteric esotericism
No longer treat Amanita and Psilocybe as “same thing, mushrooms”.
Treat Amanita and Psilocybe as competing single-plant fallacies, or competing cneters of focusing the field of mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion.
Push Psilocybe as the solution to every mystery.
See Psilocybe everywhere.
Amanita means Psilocybe, not Amanita.
Put away your nursery-school kiddie pictures of red & white mushrooms, and do some grown-up, high entheogen scholarship: cognitive phenomenology of control-system vulnerability, and mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms
Announcing a Moratorium on Specifically Christian (or Greek) Entheogen Scholarship; Entheogen Scholarship Must Cover Hellenistic and Bible Religion Simultaneously
The useful analytical idea of 3 positions (Amanita camp, Anti-Amanita camp, Psilocybe camp), within the field of mushrooms in Western religious history.
Amanita = Low Entheogen Scholarship, (includes the pop anti-Amanita camp).
Psilocybe = High Entheogen Scholarship.
That idea describes the sterling mediocrity of pop mushroom scholarship books.
I sure like these ideas, of dividing the field of mushroom Western entheogen scholarship, into 3 positions, roughly and generally called:
the Amanita-history camp (low; exoteric esotericism)
the anti-Amanita-history camp (low; exoteric esotericism)
the Psilocybe-history camp (high; esoteric esotericism)
Allegro’s book is popular – anti-Amanita (in Christian hist); he asserts Aman in orig Christianity (not during Christian hist). Motivation: discredit Christianity. Letcher’s book is popular – anti-Aman (in Christian hist) Hatsis’ PMT book is popular – anti-Amanita (claiming to be anti-msh, in Christian hist)
the pop, anti-amanita camp is to the pop amanita camp as atheists are to literalist Christians Switching from pop Amanita to against that, is merely a flip or inversion of attitude, within the same old framework or level of consciousness. There’s no actual gain in insight.
The Amanita Camp (in Christian History); Low Entheogen Scholarship
the Amanita guys = low entheogen theory, the low mushroom-religion theory
These sterling writers are great at what they do: shallow, physical, superficial, Amanita, planets, the mushroom is what’s revealed, the mushroom is the secret.
It’s all-Allegro, all the time, and Allegro = Amanita.
ALLEGRO != PSILOCYBE.
Sterling Mediocrity
Ruck; exoteric esotericism. Great job! (so far as it goes…)
Brilliant treatment! – except for the little detail, of lacking non-control transformation cognitive phenomenology, which is the center of esotericism, and the main thing that is revealed by the visionary plants. Oops, left that bit out.
Learned, learned!
Not wrong,
The Anti-Amanita Camp (in Christian History); Still Low Entheogen Scholarship
Hatsis’ title-word “Conspiracy” is regarding Amanita.
When the anti-mushroom camp pictures mushrooms, they picture mushr🍄🍄ms.
In their denials, Psilocybe is, if remembered at all, tacked on as an afterthought to also deny, like we see in Hatsis’ video “no msh in Christianity”.
the anti-Amanita guys = Panofsky, Wasson, Letcher, Hatsis. Hatsis is more truly anti-Amanita, than anti-Mushroom.
Evidence: Hatsis’ vid that claims to prove no “mushrooms” in Christian history, but which in fact revolves strangely pointedly, around Amanita, instead.
Every time I expect him to say “mushrooms”, he instead reaches for the bizarrely specific word ‘Amanita’.
Hatsis’ position negatively orbits around Allegro-Amanita-Irvin.
Hatsis may think he defines himself as anti-mushroom (in Christian history), but Hatsis actually defines himself as anti-Amanita (in Christian history).
The anti-Amanita crowd focuses on Christianity, and ignores the question of mushrooms in Mystery-Religion initiation & mixed-wine banqueting; Hellenistic.
Especially, they ignore psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms, in Greek & Christian together.
The anti-Amanita crowd hermetically isolates Hellenistic & Christendom religion.
This group of writers may *claim* to be “anti-mushrooms” (in Christian history), but in practice, they are more anti-Amanita; eg the Grand Proxy for All Mushrooms in Christian Art, is Plaincourault, which is Amanita.
The Psilocybe Camp (in Greek & Christian History); High Entheogen Scholarship
Check Ruck’s position on:
Psilocybe in Greek & hellenistic religion.
Psilocybe in Christendom.
M. Hoffman = non-pop/ high entheogen scholarship/ Psilocybe/ esoteric.
Brown = non-pop/ high entheogen scholarship/ Psilocybe/ esoteric*.
*Or at least, the upper end of “exoteric esotericism”, based on his aptitude/ mentality for mytheme decoding without falling into the usual non-cognitive pit of mapping physical plant to physical star, as if entheogens are all about things that are observed and experienced in the ordinary state.
The Psilocybin guys re: psilocybin mushrooms in Greek and Christian History, slice the field better, they (should) group (as I do, producing great success) Hellenistic with broadly Christian religion.
Brown, the Egodeath theory.
I justify placing Brown in this my category “the Psil msh camp”:
He shows aptitude for mytheme decoding in terms of exp’l cog pheny.
He replied to my email, explaining how the actual 20th C history of mushroom entheogen scholarship was *NOT* Amanita-centered, but was balanced.
Brown does note, corroborating my frust’d obsv’n, that scholars place Psil in the Americas, and place Aman in Europe (along w/ other 3rd-rate, objectively non-ideal, quasi-entheogens).
He doesn’t obsess on Plaincourault (the universal Amanita proxy), but casts a properly wide net to include Psil.
Relatively to the Amanita-obsessed pop crowd (re: msh in Christian history) and the pop detractors of it (Panofsky, Wasson, Letcher, Hatsis), Brown and I have a balanced view covering Psil & Aman, against the overly Amanita-focused pop crowd. So, RELATIVELY, we are focused on Psil instead of Aman.
Amanita = Low Entheogen Theory; Psilocybe = High Entheogen Theory
Low Entheogen Theory covers Visionary Plants from an OSC-based Perspective; the referent of religious myth is things that are observed and experienced in the ordinary state. The physical plant is connected to the physical star. A Reductionist Elevationism. Everything he touches turns to Ordinary State. Typically associated with Amanita, due to its childlike colorful physical form.
High Entheogen Theory covers the Altered State from an ASC-based Perspective; the referent of religious myth is things that are observed and experienced in the altered state. Typically associated with Psilocybe, due to its visually relatively boring form.
A shallow entheogen theory is a theory which claims that the primary referent of mythemes is things that are observed and experienced in the ordinary state.
James Arthur (Mushrooms & Mankind) told me on the phone that he agrees with all my whole entire systemic set of assertions. Even if his book is Low Entheogen Theory, his views upon hearing the Egodeath theory were High Entheogen Theory.
The systemic set of positions, the Egodeath theory as of ~2001, is corroborated by Valentinus per Pagels by 1974 reviewed and analyzed for this systematicity, ED the Egodeath theory 2001 LINED RIGHT UP WITH VALENTINUS PER PAGELS FIRST 3 , 1970S BOOKS, around 2001, as a coherent set of positions.
Page number citations are available on all these points that line up, and many such citations are provided in my reviews around 2001.
Actually one with page numbers maybe was the very recent (2013) book review I wrote of Pagels’ other …. but … I should finish todo Write a Book Review of Pagel’s 3rd book, The Gnostic Gospels (her terms “Gnostics vs. Orthodox” = normal “Eso Exo”.
Write a Critical Book Review of Pagels’ Book The Gnostic Gospels A Review That’s Tuned for the Great Mystics of Egodeath
In Praise of Amanita – But Psilocybe Is the Reference, for Good Reason
the field of mushrooms in Greek and Christian History
I don’t care that Amanita is exaggerated; all the myths can be true, I don’t care much. Rah rah Amanita, but, you ain’t the Reference.
In an absolute sense, more study of Amanita in Western entheogen scholarship would be good. Not at the expense of Psilocybin though.
Psil is ideal and is a perfect fit: raw dried alone wine bread, ideal, the gold standard in targeted effectiveness.
with psilocybin as the reference, EVERYTHING ELSE IS LESS PSYCHEDELIC BY DEGREES.
Maybe Amanita is frikkin awesome, but Amanita is not the Reference standard, Psilo is the ideal Reference standard.
Amanita is a bit of a sideshow, not the Standard Ideal Reference, which is universal.
I resent the way everyone is trying so hard to spot psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms in the Americas, while associating lesser plants in Europe.
All the attention to Amanita is too much ignoring psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms. The world is in denial of psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms in western esoteric religion.
Psil is the 1st Choice Standard Universal Reference.
Psil is *the* entheogen. Psil is the universal standard ideal reference, ever-relevant.
Amanita whatever, Amanita is a sideshow, a curiosity, not the Reference.
People entheogen scholarship ought to see Amanita everywhere but keep it in perspective and pay more attention to psil🍄cybin mushr🍄🍄ms
3 Competing Positions in the Field: Amanita; No Mushrooms; Psilocybe
The more I reflect on the Letcher-Hatsis pop book writing formula, it seems that in effect, there are 3 competing positions.
Practically, Letcher-Hatsis implies there are two positions:
The Allegro-Amanita theory (an ill-advised theory-name, that’s part of the problem)
No mushrooms in Western religious history
Actually, there are, in effect, 3 positions:
Amanita
No mushrooms
Psilocybe
Amanita — Letcher-Hatsis centers the focus here
No mushrooms – Letcher-Hatsis asserts this position, along with McKenna
Psilocybe — I center the focus here
The maximal entheogen theory of religion, in Western/ Greek/ Hellenistic/ Christian/ Christendom religion, places psilocybin mushrooms as the Reference plant (many species).
The maximal entheogen theory of religion explicitly rejects Amanita as the central reference plant.
This emphasis on Psilocybe rather than Amanita as the Reference Entheogen, is consistent with my writings about the maximal entheogen theory of religion, which have always placed Psilocybe, not Amanita, as the central reference point.
Amanita is less of an entheogen than Psilocybin. Psilocybe is effective raw, dried, alone, in wine, or in bread.
Most Writers About Mushrooms in Greek & Christian History Chronically Commit the Fallacy of Placing Amanita, not Psilocybe, as the Center of the Field
Most Writers About Mushrooms in Greek & Christian History Chronically Commit the Fallacy of Placing Amanita, not Psilocybe, as the Center of the Field: Brinkmann, Ramsbottom, Rolfe, Panofsky, Brightman, Wasson, Allegro, Ruck, Irvin, Letcher, Hatsis
Need Psilocybe Emoji Dammit! The Mis-centering of the Field on Amanita Is Everywhere! 😱 🍄
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In Defense of the Single-Plant Fallacy, Strategically, in the Case of Psilocybin Mushrooms; KISS Theorizing by Assuming the Known-Ideal Entheogen
The #1 problem in the field right now, the field of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian History, is that the field is mis-centered on Amanita instead of Psilocybe.
At this time, strategically, hyperbole (that is, the strategic employment of the single-plant fallacy) is required, to vigorously break the thinking and force the corrective re-centering of the field; currently, the word ‘mushroom’ is severely conflated with ‘Amanita’.
We see the current pop field’s conflation of ‘mushroom’ with ‘Amanita’ (shutting out Psilocybe), to an extreme degree in the video by an amateur history blogger, which is titled like “proof there’s no mushrooms in Christian history”, but which bizarrely leaps to reaching for the over-specific word ‘Amanita’.
Actually many, multiple species of mushrooms contain psilocybin, so “single-plant” technically doesn’t apply; “single-plant” does apply well for amanita, pretty well for cannabis, well for opium, … not very well for scopalamine plants;
Is Hatsis “selling” (as his pet explanatory theory) the 4-5 scopalamine plants, or specifically Mandrake?
Go ahead, make me cry: accuse me of committing the “single-plant fallacy” – that plant being psilocybin mushrooms.
I’ll just take-away all the psilocybin mushrooms over into my explanatory-theory-ghetto, all by my lonesome, leaving YOU guys holding the Amanita, scopolamine, cannabis, & opium.
YOUR CHOICE! MAY YOU GET YOUR WISH.
A “Shut-Out-the-Bullsh*t” Theorizing-Strategy, Well-Suited for this Letcher-Hatsis era of Peak Bullsh*t – Settle for Only Having the Best, Completely Ideal, Candidate
You Guys Can Have the 3rd-rate, Undesirable, Unproven Candidate Plants.
Mandrake & Cannabis – good luck w that speculation of fx.
Amanita? PASS!
CANNABIS? HIGH SCHOOL.
OPIUM? YEAH, I AGREE, TOBACCO AND ASPIRIN *CAN BE* USED AS AN ENTHEOGEN … GO AHEAD SIGN ONBOARD W/ HANEGRAAFF’S GREAT IDEA (HIS MONSTROSITY SAME-OL SAME-OL THEFT-ATTEMPT, SAME-OL SUBSTITUTE-GRATIFICATION ATTEMPT; OF SUBSTITUTION FOR TRANSCENDENCE).
“entheogen” = the greed approach; driven by hazy outer boundary “psilocybin mushrooms” = the centerpoint approach; driven by the focused ideal case
Strategy: do not be driven by the outer boundary (entheogens); instead, target the bullseye center.
Check that I defined ‘mushrooms’ as primarily meaning psilocybin mushrooms, at the bottom of the Core Concepts page:
My Usage of the Word ‘Mushroom’ — “‘mushroom’ means psychoactive, probably non-Amanita, mushroom species, ingested deliberately for the purpose of inducing mystical religious altered state.”
Change “probably” to “primarily and mainly and centrally”; state Amanita = secondary, minor, not central.
No; fully rewrite the section, to put a VERY POWERFUL EMPHASIS ON psilocybin mushrooms, with CONDEMNATION OF Amanita. Done, below:
My Usage of the Word ‘Mushroom’
My use of the word ‘mushroom’ means psilocybin mushrooms, not Amanita.
This is a time of peak bullsh*t, centering around Amanita, with people using the weakest Amanita theories they can dredge-up and fixate on, to participate in the scholarly cover-up of mushrooms in Greek & Christian history.
The #1 problem right now in the field of mushrooms in Greek & Christian history, is the mis-centering of the field around Amanita instead of Psilocybe.
My use of the word ‘mushroom’ mean primarily, mainly, normally, and centrally psilocybin mushrooms, not Amanita.
Amanita in art and texts mainly represents the use of Psilocybe, not Amanita.
‘Mushrooms’ means psychoactive mushrooms ingested deliberately to induce the mystical religious altered state. Read “psychoactive mushrooms” there as Psilocybin mushrooms, as opposed to Amanita.
Given that the current #1 problem in the field is mis-centering the field on Amanita, I cannot use the unqualified word ‘mushroom’ in many places I normally would.
I am forced to counter-conflate the word ‘mushroom’ to be a synonym of ‘psilocybin mushrooms’ and shut-out Amanita.
I will rarely write just ‘mushroom’, and I am forced to use every opportunity to narrowly specify “psilocybin mushrooms”.
That is required, to force the re-centering of the field of mushrooms in Greek & Christian history from Amanita to psilocybin mushrooms, where the focus belongs.
/ end of rewritten definition of how I use the word ‘mushroom’
An End-Run Around Stupid Unproductive Debate in Terms of Amanita
If I’m willing to push that definition connotations, can use simple ‘mushrooms’ not a word hard to pronounce what’s the harm if public thinks Amanita pictures in head? Clarify later?
The flexibility of the bucket “entheogens” allows you to cram into it even Amanita. Amanita’s a lower-grade psychedelic.
Psilocybe is locking focus onto the ideal case. Vaguer word “mushroom” allows-in too much bullsh*t.
Jettison all that by exclusively theorizing assuming Psilocybin mushrooms. Agree — THERE IS MAXIMUM BULLSH*T RIGHT NOW SURROUDNGIN FKKING AMANITA.
CUT OFF ALL THAT BS BY CLAIM STAKING THE CLAIM: IDGAF ABOUT WHO GETS TO HAVE AMANITA.
I FOREGO AMANITA, IN ORDER TO LOCK CLAIM , OWN THE MOST IMPORTANT THING: PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS.
QUIBBLE ALL YOU WANT, ALL YOU GUYS, OVER “WAS TOO AMANITA” “WAS NOT AMANITA” “WAS TOO!” “WAS NOT! THERE WERE NO MUSHROMS IN Christian HISTORY”.
F ALL THAT. F THE LOT OF YOU.
I DK WHAT THE F YOU’RE ON ABOUT FISTICUFFS OVER AMANITA, IDGAF.
ALLS I KNOW IS: I GOT THE PSIL MUSHROOMS, AS EXPLANATORY TOOL. EDIBLE RAW OR DRIED, ALONE OR IN WINE OR IN BREAD.
THE MOST WELL-KNOWN FACT IN THE WORLD, IS THAT PSIL MSH PRODUCE THE CLASSIC EXPEIRENCES.
AMANITA IS SURROUNDED BY QUESTION MARKS.
THERE ARE NO QUESTION MARKS AROUND PSILSOCYBIN MUSSHROOMS. MANDR SCOPOLAMINE = ????
CANNABIS = ?????? OPIUM = ??????????????? LONG SHOT!!
WHAT ARE THE UNCERTAINTIES AROUND THE WHETHER PSIL MSH INDUCE THE CLASSIC ENTHEOGENS EXP’C? *NONE*.
I LOCK CLAIM TO THAT PLANT SPECIES-SET WHICH HAS *NO* QUESITONS, *NO* UNCERTAINTIES, *ZERO SPECULATION* REQUIRED, WITH PSIL MSH.
THIS IS NOT EXACTLY A “SINGLE PLANT” FALLACY; MANY SPECIES OF MSH HAVE PSILCYBIN.
“ACKSHUALLY, PSILOCIN” <– NOPE, THAT ARG IS CRAP; I AM WILLING TO ABANDON AMATIA, OPIUM, CANN, PSILOCIN, & SCOPALOAMINE, AND ERGOT – and along with abandoning Amanita, psilocin, scopolamine, and ergot, abandon all the weakness and debate and uncertainty and unreliablility of all those explanations. My chosen strategy of arg’n is *narrow*, almost brushing with the single-plant fallacy, in order to gain 100% focus and gain 100% certainty that MY single-plant fallacy, that I wed, is “the perfect single-plant fallacy”.
Hoffman = the psilocybin mushrooms single-plant fallacy – call me a loser, i cry all the way to the [explanatory-theory-success] bank. Can you believe that idiot Hoffman, he commits the single-plant fallacy, w/ his mono-focus on psilocybin mushrooms. 😭 What a terrible idea, becuase it’s not even certain their effects… oh wait. well WE HAVE TO GRANT HIM THAT; at least the Hoffman single-plant fallacy is the 100% *perfect* definer of the proven classic effects and 100% ergonomic (fresh or dried; alone or wine or bread).
LIST OF PLANTS THAT CAUSE THE CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC LOOSECOG: Ranking scheme: 10 = known to reliably induce classic loose cognition effects; 1 = unclear whether can ever produce classic loose cognition effects.
If we assume that all Mystery-Religion initiation & mixed-wine banqueting = Amanita, that proposal has inherently weak uncertainty built-in.
An explanation that is EXCLUSIVELY couched as “psilocybin mushrooms” has 100% explanatory power.
10 psilocybin mushrooms <– I own this explanation.
9 psilocin mushrooms
7 amanita
7 scopalamine
6 cannabis
2 opium
Do psilocybin mushrooms reliably produce mythic effects? Yes, paradigmatically; certainly.
Do psilocin mushrooms reliably produce mythic effects? Debatable, less than certain of a characterization.
Does amanita reliably produce mythic effects? Debatable, less than certain of a characterization.
Does scopolamine reliably produce mythic effects? Debatable, less than certain of a characterization.
Does cannabis reliably produce mythic effects? Debatable, less than certain of a characterization.
Does opium reliably produce mythic effects? Highly debatable, less than certain of a characterization.
The word ‘psilocybin mushrooms’ is crystal clear and specific and covers the primary, core case, and doesn’t permit avoidance of the core, normal, best case.
Mystery-Religion initiation including mixed-wine banqueting is the engine running throughout, venue of myth-telling
Psilocybe in mixed-wine banqueting & mystery-religion initiation <– feels bkwds, like a sound in reverse, odd, unnatural.
Remember What the Amateur History Blogger Said: “There Are No Mushrooms in Christian History”
Parasol of Victory or Italian Pine? Experts feud over which.
HELP THEM DECIDE: IS THE RIGHT-HAND ONE A PARASOL OF VICTORY, OR AN ITALIAN PINE? WHICH IS IT?
BE SURE TO PICK THE CORRECT IDENTIFICATION: EITHER PARASOL OF VICTORY, OR ITALIAN PINE. Which is it? Which one of these is the correct identification?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER:
A. ITALIAN PINE (TEAM PANOFSKY)
B. PARASOL OF VICTORY (TEAM HATSIS)
Be sure to pick the correct universal identification for all mushroom shapes that haunt us professional art studiers who are promoting literalist ordinary-state possibilism; against analogical psychedelic eternalism.
C. WE JUST CAN’T KNOW – PROBABLY ALIEN CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, THEY TRIPPED BECAUSE SOCIAL DINING BLEW THEIR MINDS WITH ITS RITUAL (i couldn’t make this sht up, i don’t write fiction, a book made this argument. i heard cyb mention author) who tries to write about xn the altered state (loose cognitive binding) in Christianity without touching …. while adhering to the ABD theory. anything but drgs, is to be considered “acceptable” as a solution, even tho its sht. Full of holes. Obvious hot air and rubbish, a smoke screen, like saying
a placebo can simulate the effects of psilocybin
up can be down
an entheogen could be a non-drug entheogen
What’s in the Banquet Bowls? We Have No Way to Know, and There Are No Candidate Suggestions Offered in the Image
Also, on an unrelated note, any candidates for what’s in their bowl before angel pulls them to God? I got nothin’.
Maybe, mandrake? cannabis? bread? I’m drawing a blank.
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I got nothin’ to go by. We just can’t know what could be in their bowl.
Best guess: either parasols of victory, or italian pines, fills their bowl. Which is to say, possibly mandrake or cannabis, but those are purely a guess (and those plants aren’t ideal for inducing the experience of self-threatening or mental instailbity leading to sword-of-god type disaster.
Mandrake & cannabis are not evidenced whatsoever (they aren’t depicted, and they don’t reliably cause self-threatening and self-cancellation and losing balance and falling onto God’s sword).
There’s no mandrake or cannabis in the entire image.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN THEIR BOWLS?
THATS A HARD ONE, CAN’T THINK OF ANY GOOD CANDIDATE EDIBLE THINGS TO FILL THEIR BOWLS, IN THIS RELIGIOUS IMAGE.
THE AMATEUR, HATSIS, SAYS THEIR BOWLS ARE FILLED WITH PARASOLS OF VICTORY. THE EXPERT, PANOFSKY, SAYS THEIR BOWLS ARE FILLED WITH ITALIAN PINES. WHICH EXPERT IS CORRECT: HATSIS, OR PANOFSKY???
The terrible idea that there’s such a thing as “the Allegro theory”; the terrible field-definition of entheogen scholarship conceptualized as centered exactly on Allegro-Amanita.
How to badly mis-define a field: the mushroom aspect of entheogen scholarship, let’s define that with Allegro-Amamita, or “Amanita per Allegro”, at the exact center.
All topics within entheogen scholarship (specifically, mushroom scholarship), shall be defined in relation to “Amanita per Allegro”.
That is the exact WORST way to define and scope and center the field.
PRINCIPLE: “SCOPING” A FIELD IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN RIGHTLY *CENTERING* A FIELD.
Rightly picking the center of a field (making the single-plant “fallacy” as a strategic move), is more important than circumscribing the scope-boundary edge of a field.
We could do a great job of “entheogen scholarship”, if we greedily throw the net as wide as possible “how to use aspirin as an entheogen”, AS LONG AS we get the center spot-on correct. The center being, psilocybin mushrooms.
I wouldn’t be terribly bothered by such poppycock as “aspirin as entheogen” or Hannegraaffesque lying-through-bafflegab such as “non-drug entheogens”, as long as we commit to defining the dead center of the vaguely named “entheogen scholarship” field as specifically the no-bullsh*t-permitted, “psilocybin mushrooms”. Not centering the field on “Amanita per Allegro“!
The False Dichotomy of Two Options (Amanita-Cult Christianity, vs. No Mushrooms), and the Correct, Third Option (Psilocybe Greek & Christian)
Option 1) The Orthodox theory (reductionist scientism + literalist religionism)
Option 2) “Amanita per Allegro“
Option 3) the 3rd alternative: the Egodeath theory: subtopic/field/position: psilocybin mushrooms in greek & christian religious history. The field of Western “entheogen” scholarship, as specifically centered on psilocybin mushrooms.
the “loose-cognitive pre-existence” theory of no-free-will
the “atemporal block-universe determinism” theory of no-free-will
the “psychedelic eternalism” theory of no-free-will
the “analogical psychedelic eternalism” theory of no-free-will
The No-Free-Will Theory of Puppethood Revealed by Psychedelics
Background and Justification of Emphasis
In figuring out and making sense of the book The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, in late 1987, I found that the important key missing concept was no-free-will, or “determinism” of the block-universe eternalism type; block-time.
Transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism centers largely on no-free-will – together with (per my January 11, 1988 confluence), the block universe (“the crystalline ground of being”), and loose cognition (loose cognitive association binding).
transformation of the mental worldmodel from eternalism-thinking to transcendent thinking (from possibilism to eternalism).
no-free-will; atemporal determinism.
block-universe eternalism; block-time; the block universe; the crystalline ground of being.
loose cognition; loose cognitive association binding.
Sections in the 1997 Announcement Covering this No-Free-Will Theory
The Egodeath theory 