Exhibit 1 – Repeal-Prohibition Poster Eliminates Mushrooms from Medit/Europe History
Intro
Would-be Prohibition repealers are self-defeating, by their defeatist, completely un-critical assumption of no mushrooms in “our”, European history.
Glaringly missing from their educational materials (a major strategic misstep) is the use of classic psychedelics throughout Western religious history.
According to misinformed Pop Sike entheogenic history, true psychedelics are in the Americas, while the 2nd-rate psychoactives are in Mediterranean Antiquity & European History.
Central America is assigned the following plants, by underinformed Pop Sike entheogen scholarship:
Psilocybe mushrooms
Psilocybe cubensis
Liberty Caps – Psilocybe semilanceata – “genus ‘Psilocybe’ means smooth head — this refers to the smooth and scale-less cap. ‘Semi-‘ refers to half (half what? thanks for failing to explain). ‘-lanceata’ means spear-shaped.
Mescaline Cactus
San Pedro
Peyote
Ayahuasca/DMT
Mediterranean Antiquity is assigned the following plants, by underinformed Pop Sike entheogen scholarship:
Ergot
Eleusis
(Never mind Robert Graves’ decoding the Kykeon recipe in 1957 as MUKE; mushroom — as explained in his Preface in his 10M copies of his popular book Greek Mythology for 63 years falling on deaf ears of the entheogen scholars.)
Scopolamine (Mandrake, Thorn apple, Datura)
Opium
Exhibit 1 – Repeal-Prohibition Poster Eliminates Mushrooms from Medit/Europe History
“Display or post this “Free the Entheogens” poster proudly, to show you care about unfettered religious freedom and the sacred plants of Earth. Be sure to include the disclaimer at the bottom in all postings.
“Psychoactive plants have been used by religions around the world for millennia to bring the mind of man toward understanding. Yet possession of these substances in the U.S.A. even for religious purposes may be a prison offense!
“Caution: All these substances should be given the highest respect. Misuse of powerful agents may have dire results. For adult use only, in safe doses and protected circumstances. Freedom requires responsibility.”
Exhibit 2 – Repeal-Prohibition Webpage Eliminates Mushrooms from Medit/Europe History
The Absolute High Dose, to – by Sheer Brute Force of Extreme Overdose – Bust into the Elite Club of Famous Mystics, Who Wrote that “Blah Blah…
Seemingly self-parody of a podcast guest who talks always & exclusively in terms of “the Absolute” and “high dose”, and can’t give you the time of day without reverently citing the profundities of some famous Great Mystic at length, while completely botching and ignoring the Egodeath theory.
My entire project of creating the Egodeath theory was because of quickly assessing in 1985 that these mystics are not wrong, but have nothing useful to contribute. No wonder they have a disease in their field, of burning all their writings as worthless. They are correct.
How valuable are my 5 blank books that I wrote and got rid of? My initial 5 notebooks that I wrote Oct 1985-March 1987 would be of historical interest only, of, my initial approach, which didn’t work: egoic thinking chastising itself to try harder. Spiritual self-help.
Citing “M. Hoffman” to Differentiate from “M. Hoffman”
To differentiate between Mark Hoffman, Michael Hoffman, and Michael Hoffman, I clarify by abbreviating as follows:
“M. Hoffman” –> refers to Mark Hoffman
“M. Hoffman” –> refers to Michael Hoffman
“M. Hoffman” –> refers to the other Michael Hoffman
Hope this helps.
Universal Decoding of Every Mytheme
General Decoding Guide:
The rock alter of sacrifice refers to you.
The sacrificial knife refers to you.
The bull in the tauroctony refers to you.
Sol steering the chariot in the tauroctony refers to you.
Luna refers to you.
The grain sprouting from the bull’s tail refers to you.
The two torchbearers shining light on the mind’s goings-on are you.
The snake carved in rock below the bull is you.
Mithras refers to you.
Mithras in a tree refers to you.
Mithras turning to the right to look up and back behind him to look at Sol and simultaneously insert the blade into the bull’s shoulder wounding it, refers to you.
The caduceus held by Hermes or by the torchbearer Cautopates refers to you.
The lion-headed snake-wrapped rock figure refers to you.
General Decoding Guide:
{snake} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
{skeleton} as in Eve in the Plaincourault image, refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state. Brown’s explanation or decoding of {skeleton} gives this level or type of explanation.
{king} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
{mixed wine banqueting} refers to transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism, using description by analogy, in the mystic altered state.
Hope this helps.
It is called a general decoding guide. And I here deliver on that promise.
In this image from the Canterbury Psalter, the theme is:
right foot grounded = right foot/hand/limb/branch = good = enlightened = eternalism-thinking = stable personal self-control system (monopossibliity).
left foot grounded = left foot/hand/limb/branch = bad = deluded = possibilism-thinking = unstable personal self-control system (illusion of egoic control steering in a branching-possibilities tree).
I’m Calling Your Bluff — “Andy Letcher” & “Tom Hatsis” Are Clearly the Same Guy
You can’t fool me — either “Andy Letcher” is nothing but a pseudonym used by the actual person Tom Hatsis, or else “Tom Hatsis” is nothing but a psyeudonym used by the actual person Andy Letcher.
They commit the exact same fallacies in their books, when they fumblingly attempt to address the good, broad question “To what extent mushrooms in Christianity”, which they conflate like a motherf*cker with the specific, narrow, bad, invented-and-perpetuated-by-them, strawman position, “the secret Amanita cult theory”.
The only person I know of in the field of mushroom scholarship who is trying hard to spread the idea of a “secret Amanita cult theory” is one Mr. Letcher Hatsis himself, to create an easy-to-shoot-down, easy target, an obviously bad theory, to make himself look good.
Actually, much of the blame goes to Allegro, Wasson, Irvin, and Ruck. Letcher Hatsis is responding to a garbled situation in the field, a situation which has its roots in:
Allegro’s malicious intent on embarrassing and discrediting Christianity.
Wasson’s defensive reaction against Allegro, by censoring mushrooms in Christian art and doing a cover-up operation on behalf of the Pope.
Irvin’s uncritical cheerleading of Allegro, around 2010. Irvin overemphasized Amanita at the expense of Cubensis and Liberty Caps, setting up a bad situation for opportunist Letcher Hatsis to push against to make himself look good.
Ruck’s ridiculous overuse of the concept ‘secret’, which he doesn’t understand. Maybe for sensationalist marketing reasons. Letcher Hatsis is rightly pushing against this, as am I; but he is sloppy, failing to differentiate between some 5-7 distinct issues/questions, and equating ‘secret cult spread’ with the entire field, the entire set of broad, neutral, well-specified, and narrow/specific questions such as:
To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?
To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?
To what extent was the Eucharist recognized as mushrooms?
I sarcastically refer to Cubensis, Liberty Caps, and Amanita mushrooms in Greek & Christian art as “Parasols of Victory”, mocking the “Anything But Drugs” interpretation bias — a bias which has literally become a joke, making the progenitors of this obvious fallacy a laughingstock.
Inconsistently changing the claim/objective/scope. slip-n-slide
Conflating one case (Amanita) with all possible cases (Cubensis forms, Liberty Cap forms, & Amanita forms) and silently flipping back and forth between the two different scopes as if they are the same scope.
Conflating some 7 distinct questions, as if it’s a given — needing no careful definition — the position of “secret Amanita cult” theory vs. the broad entire set of distinct questions, such as 5-7 distinct questions to be broken out from the broad question, “To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?”
Letcher & Hatsis, and Allegro’s book re: Plaincourault, have a really sloppy lack of constraining WHAT SPECIFIC THEORY ARE WE PRESENTLY DEBATING; AND, IS THAT THEORY WORTH CENTERING DISCUSSION AROUND?
This problem plagues that entire school — if not the entire field! — Brinckmann/ Panofsky/ Wasson/ Letcher/ Hatsis: they can’t make up their mind what position they are arguing against; they treat all 5-7 distinct questions as being no different. Probably applies to Allegro/Irvin, too. Consider also, poor specification of issues, by Ruck and by John Rush.
A hazy untenable mess of a confusion of a “conversation” or “debate” is the result.
The Secret Theory of Secret Mushrooms in Secret Art & Secret Cults, by Secret Carl “Mr. Secret” Ruck
God f*cking dammnit Carl STOP F*CKING SAYING “SECRET” EVERY OTHER WORD!; you are just confusing yourself and the field and the opponents of the field!
I DECLARE A MORATORIUM ON THE WORD ‘SECRET’ IN ALL BOOK TITLES, CHAPTER TITLES, AND SECTION HEADINGS.
Oh look how helpful, a planned book from Hatsis, to dig himself and the field even deeper into their rut of confusion, by using the similar word ‘conspiracy’:
Video title: Psanctum Oddcast Ep 3 Chris Bennett and Brian Muraresku YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian [= Tom Hatsis] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7yiTwLr6o – The video’s SHOW MORE notes say: “… forthcoming books … “The Sacred Mushroom Conspiracy” (spring, 2022).”
STOP SAYING ‘Secret’ or ‘Conspiracy’; YOU ARE JUST CONFUSING YOURSELVES!
Stop fusing together and conflating the plain, neutral, broad question of “To what extent mushrooms in Greek & Christian religion & culture?“, with your monomaniacal fixation on the narrow, charged, freighted, particular notion of “secret”, which you don’t even understand.
The ORIGIN of the concept ‘secret’ — the ultimate referent of the idea ‘secret’ — is the revelation in the altered state, of how the mind’s personal control system works.
Uncovering the cista mystica snake-basket engine under the hood; popping the hood of the personal control system.
The root concept of ‘secret’ does NOT refer to some secret doctrine that is told; and NOT some stupid “secret cult”.
It’s the INNER SECRET of how the mind’s personal self-control system works, including:
The control-thought inserter/injector (like a {phallus} or {penetrating blade} placed/ spread/ distributed along its {snake}-shaped worldline.
The control-thought receiver/receptacle (like a {cup} or {female} or {wound} placed/ spread/ distributed along its {snake}-shaped worldline.
Awareness in the ordinary state of consciousness; the mind of Luna, the Virgin Maiden, who has never perceived the mind’s control-thought inserter in the altered state.
Awareness in the altered state, in the loose cognitive association state, the {winged eye}; the mind of Mithras, looking back and up to Sol, the control-thought inserter.
Italian Pines a.k.a. “Mushroom Pines”
link to section of Criteria article. I sarcastically refer to Cubensis, Liberty Caps, and Amanita mushrooms in Greek & Christian art as “Italian Pines” aka “Mushroom Pines”, mocking the “Anything But Drugs” interpretation bias — a bias which has literally become a joke, making the progenitors of this obvious fallacy a laughingstock.
Article title: Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art Subsection title: Stylized Cubensis Clusters, Literal Liberty Caps Relevance: Mockery of the ludicrous, way-overbroad attempt to explain-away the many mushroom depictions as “the leading expert art historian” Panofsky uses Brinckmann’s thin 1906 book to do, as “the hundreds of mushrooms in Christian art are just stylized Italian pines.” https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#spcllc
This joke was inspired by Hatsis’ debunking of the “Amanita is a Christmas tradition” myth. However, I advocate spreading this myth, which is spiritually true even if literally false. It’s a good myth, a true myth.
The official position of the Egodeath theory is that all Hellenistic Mystery Religions were based on Amanita.
Dionysus = Persephone = Osiris =🎄🍄🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🎁
Bringing initiates the Ho-Ho-Holy Spirit!
Here is scholarly proof that all Hellenistic Mystery Religions were based on Amanita:
Video: Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani YT ch: New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove At 2:20, Jason Jorjani asserts: “They also drank wine at these Mithraeum communion banquets, and the wine was laced with Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which were intended to produce a kind of out-of-body experience.” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQ0i_1eoJ8&t=135s Some say Amanita is a poor pick and that Psilocybe is more ergonomic. Those people are heretics contradicting the Prophet, John M. Allegro (don’t forget the ‘M’ — or else you are accursed).
John Rush asserted in his book: lifted garment in Christian art = the mushroom altered state.
The Student Who Passes the Exam
The leftmost student correctly lifts left foot and displays right hand. Garment is emphatically lifted, communicated with certainty by white line of upper garment lift near his right pinkie finger. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom
Gate-Guarding Angel with Flaming Sword Ejects Newbie Initiates from Eden Garden Containing the Tree of Golden Apples that Grant Immortality – Non-Initiate Psilocybin Clinic Therapist Posers Ejected
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom Red sword (fire/flaming), not blue. When the mind initially enters the loose-cognition state but with impure, possibilism-premised thinking, the mind gets kicked out through the egodeath-guarded gateway, going unstable. Only minds that have converted from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking are permitted through the gate, else driven to flee in terror by sight of non-branching worldline dragon monster or high-thinking, angel-thinking mode.~~
Branching = left = instability of personal control system in altered state = foolishness.
Non-branching = right = stability of personal control system in altered state = wisdom.
Bestiary Salamander “Dancing Man”[sic]
g of mythemes.
Folio 027v (Bodleian Library, Medieval Bestiary)
Self-Stabbing Red Man in Hanging-from-Mushroom Image
Dionysus’ Triumph
Dionysus’ garment is lifted by a mushroom. The Maenad’s cloth under the tambourine is lifted by a mushroom.
Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting
[9:17 a.m. December 13, 2020] — Check John Rush book re: garment erection. I propose that this theme of Christian art with garment lifted, and looking back and up to the right, is equivalent to Greek art with billowing cloth.
Rush’s comment: “The Angel Gives John the Book to Eat, Douce Apocalypse, 1265-1270 CE Notice the angel represents the stalk of the mushroom-cloud from which he or she emerges, and the celestial erection in John’s cape once he eats the “book.””
Experiment to run; hypothesis: in Greek & Christian art, the billowing cloth indicating the the Holy Spirit altered state is usually to the left; to the figure’s right side.
On July 25, 2004, I posted on the world-Wide Web, in my the Egodeath Yahoo Group, that {billowing cloth/cape in Greek art} represents the ecstatic state, the “eternalism” state of consciousness; the mushroom altered state.
The post where I first wrote the word ‘billow’, confirmed by local search of all 183 .html Egodeath Yahoo Group Digest files:
Group: egodeath
Message: 3484
From: Michael Hoffman
Date: 25/07/2004
Subject: Metaphor: billowing cape behind head = relig. ecstasy
The cover of the Dover printing of Franz Cumont’s book Astrology and Religion shows yet another billowing cape behind the head. Other instances I recall are: o Mithras on the cover of Entheos Issue #3 o Villa of the Mysteries: young woman disconcerted. I think I saw another instance.
The billowing arch of the cape indicates and physically portrays the cognitive mystic altered state of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration.
I concluded this upon reflection today on this question that has been a background problem for at least a few months. Today I saw this book cover, showing yet another instance, and asked a person with an art and design background, who when asked about the meaning of the arched cap [sic, cape] symbol, proposed it indicated wind. Spirit = divine wind = breath = psyche. Ecstacy is standing beside oneself while inspired by the divine spirit. Wind blows sails forming an arched sheet. The person is being divinely sailed and blown about by the divine wind or breath, inspired.
“give the soul a god to lead it on its perilous journey through the whirlwinds of air, water, and fire to the starry heavens. “Among the dead,” says a funeral inscription, 1 “there are two companies: one moves upon the earth, the other in the ether among the choirs of stars; I belong to the latter, for I have obtained a god as my guide.” This divine escort of souls frequently retains the name of Hermes in conformity with ancient Greek mythology. An epigram belonging to the first century of our era apostrophises the deceased in these words: “Hermes of the wingèd feet, taking thee by the hand, has conducted thee to Olympus and made thee to shine among the stars.” 2 But more often the rôle of escort now devolves upon the Sun himself: We have seen 3 that at the end of paganism the royal star is figured as carrying mortals in his flying chariot. Those who had not by their piety merited the protection of the god whose duty it was to escort and introduce them, and who nevertheless ventured up to heaven [LIKE SOME HUBRISTIC BRAGGART PSILOCYBIN THERAPIST WHO DARE TITLE HIS BOOK “THE IMMORTALITY KEY” AND BRAG ], were cast headlong into the perpetually raging gulf of the warring elements which fought unceasingly around the earth.”
My first Amanita were dried, around 2001. I uploaded these to the Web around 2001-2005.
Photo by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com http://www.egodeath.com/images/amanitashinycappieces.jpgPhoto by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com http://www.egodeath.com/images/amanitacollection.jpgPhoto by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.comPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 This patch is the first Amanitas I ever saw myself (other than dried). IMG_1758.JPGphoto — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death, 10/10/2010Photo: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010photo — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_3638.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_3647.JPGIMG_2697.JPG — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death Photo: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_2558.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10/10/2010 IMG_2452.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_2149.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_1977.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_1856.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010Photo: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_1800.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_1803.JPGPhoto: Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 IMG_1789.JPG
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