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Book:
Greek Mythology: An Introduction
Fritz Graf
1987; 1993 English hardcover; 1996 English paperback
http://amzn.com/0801853958

My photo of my book at the time of my Nov 29 2013 breakthrough. This image, combined with the Cranach cropped image in Campbell’s hardcover illustrated The Power of Myth, while studying Western mushroom history, led to the full realization of {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism.
The moment of fully decoding {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism — Michael Hoffman, November 29, 2013, 7 :42 p.m. This fraction of a b/w photo of a painting, in conjunction with the cover of the Fritz Graf book’s b/w image of a Jason kylix with tree & snake.

Above is essentially a photograph of a Maximum Breakthrough in intellectual history, the Late-Modern era re-decoding of the most archaic formula:

{tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism

The books I had out at the time of my great November 29, 2013 breakthrough of {tree vs. snake} = possibilism vs. eternalism. Open is The Power of Myth, illustrated hardcover version, Joseph Campbell.
Some of my November 2011 postings cover the same material, but this was a fuller decoding of Mystery Religion peak content. Dec. 2, 2013; 3 days after my Friday, November 29, 2013 breakthrough.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/259519997263382481/

From Egodeath Yahoo Group, my post some time later recounting/recording, history. Contains book cite re: cover art.
Art on a mixed-wine mushroom-wine kylix “cup” (saucer).
Shows:

  • Jason spewed dead from the giant Heimarmene-snake.
  • Athena (with snake-fringes and death-face) and owl looks on.
  • The rock-sacrificed Ram’s golden fleece of ram of zeus sent by cloud goddess married to king A. The fleece hung in nonbranching ivy-strand quasi-tree. Evil king sent hero Jason to retrieve the dragon-guarded treasure, the ram that saved Prixis but when ram rose, of necessity, sister Helle looked down below the flying ram, she lost her balance and she fell and she drowned in the sea. Prixis sacrificed the ram to Zeus for saving him from [soap opera] being sacrificed to the cloud goddess.. to get rain.
    Jealous cloud goddess wanted her children w/ king A sacrificed by the reluctant king A, then cloud goddess sent Zeus’ ram to rescue the children she wanted sacrificed to provide rain? Fishy story. Research the facts of the matter.

Campbell’s Book with Eve Multi-branching Eden Tree

Book:
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers
http://amzn.com/0385247737
The Eve image on left half of left page
Image caption:
Eve tempted by the Serpent, Lucas Cranach, ca. 1530.

Hardcover, illustrated. Stock photo. I have hardcover.
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Friday, November 29, 2013, 7:42 pm (the day after Thanksgiving): I discovered that tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism, upon seeing the right half of this painting in black & white, together with the cover of Fritz Graf’s book Greek Mythology: An Introduction, which shows the kylix/mushroom-wine saucer showing Jason spewed dead from the giant Heimarmene-snake, while Athena (with snake-fringes and death-face) and owl looks on, with ram golden fleece hung in nonbranching ivy-strand quasi-tree. This was one of my top 3 all-time breakthroughs.
img_6414.jpg photo of page of a large Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers book “A. Eve tempted by the Serpent, Lucas Cranach, ca. 1530.”

The Cover Image of Fritz Graf’s book Greek Mythology: An Introduction

Shows the kylix/mushroom-wine saucer showing Jason spewed dead from the giant Heimarmene-snake, while Athena (with snake-fringes and death-face) and owl looks on, with ram golden fleece hung in nonbranching ivy-strand quasi-tree.

This was one of my top 3 all-time breakthroughs.

The Eve image on left half of left page, combined with Jason image, for completing/ recognizing/ decoding {tree vs. snake}, as a way to further condense my book cover image design around 2012 with
quadrants:

  • egoic left, transcendent right;
  • upper left quadrant image: king in tree?
    upper = world model?
    lower = control-agent model?
    2011: quadrants: from king steering in tree to snake frozen in rock.
    2013: simple contrast of 2: {tree vs. snake}. eliminate {king} and {rock}, it is sufficient to abbr instead of
    {king steering} in {tree} to
    {snake} frozen in {rock}
    or whatever my quadrants were, you can make-do with abbr into 2 items insetad of 4:
  • {tree} to
  • {snake}

math’ly you could do:

{tree} to
{rock}
ie change mental worldmodel from {tree} to {rock}. the contrast {tree vs. rock}. <– symm world-vs-world model compar’n.
gnosis = change your model of world from A to B

{king steering} to
{snake}
ie gnosis = change mental worldmodel from {king steering} to {snake}. <– symm agent-vs-agent compar’n
gnosis = change your model of ctrl-agent from A to B

{king steering}
{rock}
ie gnosis = change mental worldmodel from {king steering} to {rock}.

{tree vs. snake} Decoding – Lecture Video (2013-12-02)

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This proves that my recent caduceus decoding and explanation of the tauroctony in Nov/Dec 2020 was repeat of discoveries Nov 2013.

My Nov 2011 Egodeath Yahoo Group posts show these same types of solutions, earlier work on the same decoding.

I’m re-describing, re-discovering, re-announcing, re-decoding, re-explaining. I’m not just re-writing; I’m re-discovering and re-decoding.

This is a 55-minute lecture packed into 17 minutes. No time for fluff.

This is 100% gold; solid substance, of Mystery-Religion takeaway summary.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8qHZAfuY9KxclRzMzJPUjRwRVk/edit

I probably explained to a friend my decoding-breakthrough of {female}/{rap’d by the god}/{married to the true ruler partner}/{bridal chamber} ~2012 – wished I captured that great clear explanation. I’ll have to mockup that talk in an article.

Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 111: 2011-11-23

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Group: egodeath Message: 5627 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: misc.
Group: egodeath Message: 5628 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Ancients understood modern Physics block-universe worldlines
Group: egodeath Message: 5629 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Must adopt Heimarmene b/c coherence & power
Group: egodeath Message: 5630 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
Group: egodeath Message: 5631 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Correct vs. confused versions of ‘change’
Group: egodeath Message: 5632 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
Group: egodeath Message: 5633 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
Group: egodeath Message: 5634 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
Group: egodeath Message: 5635 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: Must adopt Heimarmene b/c coherence & power
Group: egodeath Message: 5636 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Make the female as the male, be two in one
Group: egodeath Message: 5637 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: Make the female as the male, be two in one
Group: egodeath Message: 5638 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: You are a couple: thought-source–>thought-receiver
Group: egodeath Message: 5643 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Triumph of Dionysus scene decoded
Group: egodeath Message: 5644 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Sun; metaphor for cybernetics, comm., ctrl, perception
Group: egodeath Message: 5645 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Fields Restarted by the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
Group: egodeath Message: 5646 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
Group: egodeath Message: 5647 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Social-political use & abuse of mystic revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 5648 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Ahistoricity is important because it’s Non-literalism
Group: egodeath Message: 5649 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 5650 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Wheat vs. Chaff: m-model of thot-src vs junk part of ego
Group: egodeath Message: 5651 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
Group: egodeath Message: 5652 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Wheat vs. Chaff: m-model of thot-src vs junk part of ego
Group: egodeath Message: 5653 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
Group: egodeath Message: 5654 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: The name of my Theory and of the system of religion I created
Group: egodeath Message: 5655 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: How to think coherently: Engineering, not Science
Group: egodeath Message: 5656 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Killed ego = girl (Persephone), revised ego = woman (Demeter)
Group: egodeath Message: 5657 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
Group: egodeath Message: 5658 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: When I independently figured out & learned Entheogen theory
Group: egodeath Message: 5659 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: When I independently figured out & learned Entheogen theory
Group: egodeath Message: 5660 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: If prove ancients believed my Core theory, are we proved true?
Group: egodeath Message: 5661 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: If prove ancients believed my Core theory, are we proved true?
Group: egodeath Message: 5662 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Applying the Theory to myth improves the Theory
Group: egodeath Message: 5663 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
Group: egodeath Message: 5664 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: +Core, -Metaphor(Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, Politics)
Group: egodeath Message: 5665 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Understanding is a matter of degree, adeptness, fluency, skill
Group: egodeath Message: 5666 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Important but periph. topics: Ahistoricity, Politics, Enth History
Group: egodeath Message: 5667 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: As above, so below; interp’d as torch held up & down
Group: egodeath Message: 5668 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
Group: egodeath Message: 5669 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
Group: egodeath Message: 5670 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
Group: egodeath Message: 5671 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Caduceus: mycopercep shows sep ctrl-lev relations/harmony
Group: egodeath Message: 5672 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Main religious myth systems I explain
Group: egodeath Message: 5673 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure in Mithraism via Cyb/Heim/LCog/Metaph
Group: egodeath Message: 5674 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
Group: egodeath Message: 5675 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver
Group: egodeath Message: 5676 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver
Group: egodeath Message: 5678 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Social-political use & abuse of mystic revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 5679 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Rebis diagram: horiz & vert pairs, 2 meanings of ‘lower/higher’
Group: egodeath Message: 5680 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Rebis diagram: horiz & vert pairs, 2 meanings of ‘lower/higher’
Group: egodeath Message: 5681 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure in Mithraism via Cyb/Heim/LCog/Metaph



Group: egodeath Message: 5627 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: misc.
todo: revise the main artic, the core summary, the max-condensed 300-word non-metaph summary. Get rid of “easy to visualize”? Cut down to “is” per 1st order max-simple approx’n.

mistake i made long time since 86: contrasted e’c vs. t’t but didn’t model the window of revel’n, the “what is percieved and realized during initiation” that *causes* the final state of t’t mental model.
___________________________

todo: diagram the before/during/after, accounting for mental model of executor and programmer and program laid out along the worldline, with pseudo-branches of “possibility” envisioned all along the way.
e’c should mean what?
t’t should mean what?
very old concepts, from my 1st year of TKD (1986), now seeing some issues, possibs, ambiguities in these terms and how used.

Create diagrams of control. Direct & specific wording, non-metaphorical, quasi-technical, computer-metaphor-seeming, using my latest bonanza of metaphor-cracked.

How does a robot interpret/read the Tauroctony?

Wall poster diagram(s):
Diagram of personal control, mapped to diagram of Tauroctony and mapped to computer architecture.
egoic/t’t layers (ie local vs hidden ctrl centers, and the mental models of them) during the 3 phases: before the mshr initn-seq, during, & after.

It’s time for Core theory refactoring and function renaming; polish/expand my summary of that I posted this morning:
Define the mental model of the thoughtsource and thotreceiver before, during, and after initiation
Group: egodeath Message: 5628 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Ancients understood modern Physics block-universe worldlines
A week ago I was still thinking: but the primitive thinkers of antiquity couldn’t possibly have understood the 1900 advanced math & physics graphing concept of worldlines in a block universe. I could not have been more wrong, more biased, just like saying “civilized religion couldn’t have used mshr/dr’s”. The extreme opposite is closer to the truth: antiqy was the masters of ideas about blk univ worldlines!

Antiquity was the masters of ideas about blk univ worldlines.
Group: egodeath Message: 5629 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Must adopt Heimarmene b/c coherence & power
Mithraism some tauroctonys show:
one torch flame held up above cave ceiling, lighting-up (making us perceive) Sol, the uncontrollable injector of command-thoughts into the mind, as a control-thought-stream ray; and
the other torch held down below the bull, lighting-up (making us perceive) the hiemarmene-snake underneath us — the hidden, vine-shaped rail that we are steered and forced along like in a haunted house carnival ride, or the branch-path a squirrel follows from the trunck to the branch the squirrel ends up at, or like a snake winding up a tree.

Thus:
The higher, Pri1 referent that metaphors represent and mushrooms make us perceive, is personal noncontrol (commands are forced into the mind by Sol through rays of control), and
The lesser, Pri2 referent that metaphors represent and mushrooms make us perceive, is frozen worldvine-heimarmene (the control-commands we receive, and all our thoughts, are pre-programmed in the sense of pre laid out along our path through life.
Mushrooms are incidental, preliminary, once they have put us in the loosecog state and are lighting-up portions of the mind’s cave we couldn’t perceive in the OSC.

Apologetics for heimarmene

THE CRYSTALLINE [ie coherent] MODEL OF CTET

THE CRYSTALLINE PERFECT COHERENCE OF THE CRYSTALLINE BLOCK-UNIVERSE MODEL

The Theory and the initiate adopts heim b/c heim is perfect coherence, simplicity, comprehensibility, perfectly organized, 100% organized and specific. Perfect 100% explanatory coherence and power with no disadvantages (that it kills fw is to be counted as a tremendous advantage, not a disadv)

If your goal is complete conceptual coherence and a specific mmodel (100% tangibly comprehensibly specifiable, visualizable), then, heim co-entails nonctrl.


main central idea: cyb, receiver-and-executor of thoughts, vs. source of thoughts
secondary idea: heim, worldline, worldvine-path, snake-shaped worldvine, circuit board trace, insulated electrically conductive wire


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5630 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
This is the slam-dunk solution to one of the newest puzzles I encountered — actually two or three puzzles.

o A book on Christian Art of the Middle Ages asserted that the serpent is, as a rule, shown winding up the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil [the illusory aspect of moral agency]. It is? Why?

o Why is King Pentheus caught up in a tree (in a mythic situation comparable to the Cross)? Why is a tree so important in myth?


A snake winds up the tree because the shape of the path from the ground up to any one branch-tip forms a worldline snake shape: the one of the virtually possible forking paths that you are predestined to actually take; it’s the only real path. Not “a snake is like a branching tree” but “a snake is shaped like a single one of the branching paths of a tree”.

Thus proving the ancients understood computer science: tree data structures. Don’t overestimate the brilliance of late-Modern sci-tech-engr knowledge & our cog sci, and don’t underest antiq’y. Our tech uses elementary fundmental basic universal concepts and structures, in a certain configuration. Patt & Henn didn’t invent the robot; Vulcan and Daedalus invented Talos, and many esotericists designed automatons; auto-puppets; auto-marionettes.

Analyze the mytheme ‘tree’ in terms of cybernetics, fatedness, and mshr as target meanings.

Analyze the mytheme ‘tree’, using the magic Diamond Hammer of Interpretation, which asserts that: every mytheme is primarily isomorphic with cybernetics, fatedness, and mshr.

bonanza, master theme-system breakthrough. using the magic Diamond Hammer of Interpretation (every mytheme is primarily isomorphic with cyb, heim, & msh). Analyze: ‘tree’.

In what way is a tree like kubernetes, heimarmene, and mukes?

Using greek terms is a defamiliarization technique but also, shifts thinking from modern-style paradigm to foreign, self-consistent greek style you can lock-on to.

How is a tree like kubernetes? (cybernetics)
How is a tree like heimarmene? (fatedness)
How is a tree like mukes? (msh)

How does ‘tree’ express ideas about cybernetics?
How does ‘tree’ express ideas about fatedness?
How does ‘tree’ express ideas about mshr?

tree versus snake:

tree = egoic
snake = t’t
tree, snake, msh

heim is not primary meaning b/c ez to visualize.
heim is prelimary meaning b/c it is fully coherent and specific and contrary / complement/ opposite of egoic thinking.
reasons to affirm it: or at least fully *und* it. It isn’t nece to affirm it, but it’s nece to thoroughly und it. it’s a matter of und’g, not of “assenting” or “believing”. there’s no comprehensible alternative.
reasons to withhold assent to heim: none. “it’s offensive to fw”

tree, serpent wrapped around tree
breakthrough/insight: why the serpent wraps up the tree: the tree is “virtual decision branching” — to eat from the tree of life. King Pentheus is caught up at a particular branch-tip; hung from the branching tree.
willow tree — worldline-shaped, monocoursal.
regular tree (oak, birch): branching. Any one branch-tip to ground forms a worldline snake shape.

Tree of the knowledge of good and evil — know. g/e = awaken to illusory nature of moral culpability/power, but some ironic inversion is used, as if you move from baby to youthful orig-sin state by a quasi-mshr at start of journey, then from youthful orig-sin state to purified state by 2nd mshr initiation at end of youth. As if you (as Adam) start youth by an anti-entheogen that makes you deluded and believing in freewill moral agency-power.

also, feel ivy-wrapped in asc, and see “water” waves distortion, Jewish Hekalot water temple illusion.

Caught trapped in hypoth decision tree/possibility tree, tree of destiny:
tree caught up in tangled/trapped: the frozen hypothetical possibility-change branching. Only one branch is destined to actually happen. The other branches are destined to not happen. The king, steering the ship of state, looks forward into branching possibilities, as a decision-tree in a sense, but only one


A cybernetics game I invented in late 87: flip between putting pencil tip in circle a and b; every time settle, like lots, change to other circle. pretend stop, then resume. eventually, really stop. can’t know which will end up at.

At each point in worldline, surrounded by forward-aimed branches. Have to steer through the branching labyr (Matrix movies ship-channels/tunnels) but the choices are not actually open; they are closed doors that only appear open.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5631 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Correct vs. confused versions of ‘change’
The worldline-path suspended and embedded in changeless spacetime contains change when comparing t[n] to t[m] but not change at t[n]. The incoming instruction at t[n] doesn’t change at t[n]. The stored program is stored in or along the worldline-path embedded in changeless spacetime.

Spacetime contains change but doesn’t itself change, similar to a bucket that contains two balls that are different shades of red contains a comparative change between the two balls (the color changes from one shade to the other, in a comparison of the two balls) but the system — the bucket and two balls — doesn’t itself change. The block universe and the worldline of your life contains a kind of change, but doesn’t itself vary or change as a whole. The worldline at t never changes with respect to t. worldline[t] is constant with respect to itself.

The worldline contains changes when comparing t to t’, but not when comparing t to t itself.

Does the worldline change with respect to t? E’c thinking is characteristically confused about what this means. The value changes with respect to t. But the graph at any t doesn’t change the value that is at t. The change at t is the change in comparing t to t’. The change at t is not a change of the value at t; the value at t doesn’t change. The change is the value at t with respect to (or, in comparing against) the value at t’, not a change at t. It’s a difference between value at t and some other value that t hypothetically, counterfactually could have instead been.

Could construct other theories of change, manyworlds, an impenetrable alternatives. Those are not the point. The point is to understand the most elementary possible worldmodel — to assume it in order to comprehend the ramifs, and to admit that it is the only truly clear and distinct model; that any other model is much less clear and distinct. That it’s relatively easy to organize data neatly into the block univ explan fwk, but not into the other, relatly hazy and indistinct would-be expl fwks.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5632 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
The original post in this thread is where I had the insight; it’s a record of having an insight. I was writing about how to think to decode metaphor, interrogating a mytheme (eg ‘tree’) against priority sequence 1) cyb, 2) heim, 3) mushrooms. Then I wrote:
______________________
tree versus snake:

tree = egoic
snake = t’t
tree, snake, msh


tree, serpent wrapped around tree
______________________

That’s where exactly I had the breakthrough of: first, the new puzzle about why the snake in Eden-tree icons is always winding up the tree; and, moments later, the breakthrough for the question I’ve had for years about what’s so profound with the odd mytheme of “King Pentheus was caught and tangled in a tree, and died”. I’ve been working on the ‘tree’ mytheme lately, solved now, fundamental and elementary idea of decision fork tree considered with heimarmene-vine or snake in mind, matching any branch, but only one actual branch. Thus snake = branch.
Group: egodeath Message: 5633 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
A mushroom tree *has no branches*, even the veil stub arms emphasize hilite that life’s path has no real branches, no real open choices, the savior’s is a branchless decision tree.


It seems unnecessary but I just had to write this
Group: egodeath Message: 5634 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: tree, snake, mshr; tree-wrapped/-climbing serpent
Jonah’s gourd should b tree

God gave Jonah a tree for shade but a worm ate it and Jonah was mad but God said whats it matter to u?

Snake trumps tree.

Fatedness is real, alternatives are illusory.
Group: egodeath Message: 5635 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: Must adopt Heimarmene b/c coherence & power
It is mandatory that initiates thoroughly understand all the major ramifications and perspectives, aspects, of Heimarmene. You cannot be ignorant of these. In this sense, at least, Heimarmene is a necessary, inherent part of Transcendent Knowledge, my Core theory. You must embrace Heimarmene at least in the sense that you must experience and understand it thoroughly.

Afterwards, you can quibble and escape into brain-melting Copenhagenism and manyworlds and string theory. But you cannot call yourself intelligent and say you understand the ASC unless you master Heimarmene.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5636 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Make the female as the male, be two in one
Transcending belief and disbelief is a fairly popular idea.

John Lilly wasn’t merely into generally transcending reality-tunnel belief; he was *specifically* interested in belief, in the ASC, in “other entities” encountered: are they real? That is more profound and relevant than Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson’s general reality tunnel idea.

Is there another entity in your mind you encounter in the ASC? Yes: (per Mithraism) you encounter Sol, the hidden injector of commands, through controlling rays, into your command-input receptacle, making you do things, making you will things, and you cannot control that hidden, source of thoughts, on whom you have to consciously depend once you are led and forced to ingest the mushroom that Sol gives you to reveal himself to you. God is male, because he inserts always himself in you, as a plug into you the socket; he gives commands, as the transpersonal you, and you receive and are made to execute commands, as the personal you.

You control the world and make people thing and do and will things.
You are helplessly forced to receive command-thoughts and execute them.

The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
Louis Sass
1994
http://amazon.com/dp/0801498996


‘egoic’ can mean the personal you (receiver and executor of instructions).

‘transcendent’ can mean the transpersonal you, who is not controllable by the personal you.


‘egoic’ can mean your mental model of self and control before initiation.

‘transcendent’ can mean your mental model of self and control after initiation.


Thus I need to disambiguate these overloaded term-pairs.

The Core theory needs cogently-scoped non-metaphorical terms for the male and female, commander and commanded: general and specific terms. General such terms are ‘the transpersonal you’ and ‘the personal you’. Specific such terms are ‘the thought source part of you’ and ‘the thought receiver’ part of you. Source and sink. Commander You and Commanded You. Lingham and Yoni. Sol and Luna. Wand and cup. Plug and socket. Thought-inserter and thought-receptacle. Male deities and female consorts. The conclusion of the New Testament: Make the two as one and the male as the female.


I am the source of my thoughts. I forcibly dictate the arising of my control-thoughts.
I am the receptacle of my thoughts. I cannot control the arising of my control-thoughts.

I am He and I am she. We are one, Sol and Luna. I am one person with two heads and I am awareness. We are three, Sol and Luna and the perception-eye of Mithras. I am, isomorphically, God, Christ, and Dove of the power of the Holy Spirit.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5637 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: Re: Make the female as the male, be two in one
*** MASTER REFERENT OF MYTH: ***
THOUGHT-SOURCE–>THOUGHT-RECEIVER


thought-source = transpersonal = male = lingham = wand
thought-receiver = personal = female = yoni = cup

Master referent: (the primary meaning; key to all mysteries; cracked the code)
thought-source–>thought-receiver

Metaphors:
transpersonal self–>personal self
male–>female
male deity–>female consort
lingham–>yoni
heimarmene-snake approaching krater or wound, forms a male->female image.
snake below Mithras’ bull–>krater
snake below Mithras’ bull–>bull’s wound
doubting Thomas’ finger–>Jesus’ wound in side
Roman soldier’s spear–>Jesus’ side wound.
Mithras’ knife–>bull wound.
Zeus’ eagle–>Prometheus’ wound/liver.
stem–>cap


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5638 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 23/11/2011
Subject: You are a couple: thought-source–>thought-receiver
*** MASTER REFERENT OF MYTH: ***
THOUGHT-SOURCE–>THOUGHT-RECEIVER


thought-source = transpersonal = male = lingham = wand
thought-receiver = personal = female = yoni = cup

Master referent: (the primary meaning; key to all mysteries; cracked the code)
thought-source–>thought-receiver

Metaphors:
transpersonal self–>personal self
male–>female
male deity–>female consort
lingham–>yoni
heimarmene-snake approaching krater or wound, forms a male->female image.
snake below Mithras’ bull–>krater
snake below Mithras’ bull–>bull’s wound
doubting Thomas’ finger–>Jesus’ wound in side
Roman soldier’s spear–>Jesus’ side wound.
Mithras’ knife–>bull wound.
Zeus’ eagle–>Prometheus’ wound/liver.
stem–>cap


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5643 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Triumph of Dionysus scene decoded
http://egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/DionysusVictoryChariot_HiRes.jpg

All the human figures are turning to look behind them: this represents awareness being placed in a vantage point where the mind and awareness is made to perceive the uncontrollable thought-source and the helpless thought-receiver, which dynamic is conceptualized as “controller above you”, along with heimarmene, which is conceptualized as “controller below you” like an underlying rail, track, or filmstrip.

Ariadne at end of initiation is n*ked, helplessly passively dependently riding while Dionysus steers the chariot via reins to the mushroom-tigers.

Ariadne upon initiation completion is not attached to thus identified with the mushroom; however, she is winged, representing that awareness is made to perceive, during mushroom initiation, the dynamic of the uncontrollable thought-source and the helpless thought-receiver. Her hair is neatly bound, organized, controlled, now civilized.

Dionysus is attached to a mushroom and identified with the mushroom; he is the one who forces the initiate to take the mushrooms; he puts the mushroom on your preset path, the rail of life you are forcibly made to follow like Odysseus — represented by the snake-positioned heimarmene-panther underneath your chariot you seem to steer.

In the Tauroctony, and equivalent images, the heimarmene-snake (the rail of Fatedness of your worldline) is positioned underneath the god-steered chariot. Triptolemus’ chariot (in the story of Demeter & Persephone & Hades).

The girl in front of Dionysus is also Ariadne, as the the ecstatic psyche Maenad during the midst of initiation on 4 mushrooms or cups of mushroom wine: she has been made by Dionysus, through his heimarmene-path panther, to reach the krater of water-mixed mushroom-wine.

Ariadne as Maenad has no legs, her mind is carried along by the mushroom-tigers that are steered not by her but by Dionysus. She floats on mushrooms with disheveled, loosened, unbound hair, indicating loose cognitive binding.

Dionysus carries a spear: his spear of Destiny represents his power to puts thoughts into the lower mind — control-related thoughts, that kill your egoic self-concept. He pierces your liver so that:
o You, as ego-shaped self-concept, are destined to ego-die, from death by Destiny.
o You, as ego-shaped self-concept, are predetermined to ego-die, from death by Predeterminism.
o You, as ego-shaped self-concept, are fated to ego-die, from death by Fatedness.
o You, as ego-shaped self-concept, will inevitably ego-die, from death by Inevitability.

Ariadne holds a palm branch, symbol of triumph and victory.

The child riding on Dionysus’ lion likely means Ariadne prior to initiation, when the pre-initiate held the youthful self-concept (the ego-shaped self-concept as autonomous, independent controller of their mind), riding as king, with shepherd’s staff as a commander.

There is a heimarmene-vine of ivy or grapes running above the chariot, bracketing the scene with the heimarmene-panther underneath the chariot.

The beardless youthful wine-bearers have dead-panther skins and carry wine kegs, indicating men at initiation banquet personally experiencing and recalling experiencing the psychodrama that is depicted. The scene is designed to be appreciated during mushroom-wine banqueting.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5644 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Sun; metaphor for cybernetics, comm., ctrl, perception
Acharya S asserts that Christianity and suchlike religion is sun worship.

Actually, the sun is not the master referent (it’s not the target domain); it’s a metaphor (it’s merely in one of the “source domains”; ie. a source of metaphor that is used to point to a target final meaning). The idea from the target domain is encapsulated or packaged in superficial figurations from a source domain. The message content (in the target domain) is packaged in a delivery envelope constituted by a source domain.

A $100 bill (or a piece of gold) is the payload placed into a capsule which is then vacuum/pressure sucked to convey and transport and move and transmit the capsule/container, which contains its payload of valued meaning, to the destination location. The receiver of the package, container, or envelope, opens up the container and removes the payload, which is the target meaning.

Mythic metaphor describing mushroom-revealed mystic-state knowledge, is the most-valued instance of using metaphor. Transcendent Knowledge, metaphorically described and conveyed, is the master instance and historically most important instance of using metaphor as a delivery transportation container to contain and move a valued meaning.

After the world learns the Egodeath theory, a better, more relevant crop of books will sprout and be harvested: books about metaphor and analogy in cognition will need to be written that recognize that the primary, grand instance, the uber-instance of using metaphor, the king of metaphors, the original primary high use of metaphor, is the use of metaphor to express, visualize, grasp, and convey the Transcendent Knowledge that is revealed by mushrooms.

“I ate the mushrooms growing on cowpies, then my kingship was revealed to be merely that of a puppet constrained to walk along a path, and was sacrificed.”

‘sun’ is a metaphor referring finally to ‘uncontrollable thought-source’ as each person’s, or each mind’s, higher, transpersonal self, revealed and made perceived, in the mushroom state.


Acharya S asserts that religion (religious worship) refers to (or means) the sun; that the ultimate referent of religion (religious worship) is the sun.

But I assert that the ‘sun’ in religious myth and worship refers to (or means) the uncontrollable thought-source of the mind, as opposed to the helpless thought-receiver of the mind; and ultimately, it’s not that the helpless thought-receiver part of the mind worships the uncontrollable thought-source part of the mind, but rather, one finally “worships” the uniting of the two parts of the mind’s personal control system into a bi partite self-concept: I am a compound person; I am a couple, a coupling of two natures, of two persons: I am the uncontrollable thought-source of my mind, and I am the helpless thought-receiver of my mind.

I am my thought-source and I am my thought-receiver, two complementary distinct centers of personhood — and I am the awareness that perceives how my mind includes an uncontrollable thought-source coupled with a helpless thought-receiver.


Metaphor used for cybernetics, communication, control, perception

The personal control-system and the perceiving of it, is the target payload, the valued piece of gold, the target meaning, that is encapsulated in metaphor or in analogy, and is then grasped vividly by the mind and is conveyed, communicated, to other minds, wherein, upon mushroom initiation, the container is opened, the metaphor is interpreted, and the valued piece of gold is unwrapped and received.

The uber, master, preeminent instance of the use of metaphor, is for communication about control and about perception of control, a communication that uses metaphor to transmit and convey and amplify the observed dynamics of control.

The sun gives the moon the light that appears to come from the moon but really comes from the sun. The moon merely passively reflects the light that originates from the sun.

Just so, my control-power that appears to emanate from my sense of self as control-agent, my apparent ability to control my thoughts and control my will, actually is not effectively under that control; I am unable to control in such practical way, my own thoughts and control-thoughts and movements of my will.

The control power that appears to come from that kind of “me” is merely passively conducted through me; control-power and the source of thoughts is given to that kind of “me” from outside its realm of power. The lower self is helplessly given its thoughts by the relatively uncontrollable, hidden, higher self.

The lower self cannot, in an ultimate practical sense, control the higher self, which is the source of thoughts; thus I say “I cannot control my thought-source”, even if my thought-source is technically defined as “a part of me”. The thought-source is not the local, practically controlling part of “me”. Me, as local, lower-level controller, wielding control in some practical sense, is incapable of controlling the source of thoughts, even if the latter is defined as “some part of me”.

Thus I am, in effect, two persons in one: an uncontrollable thought-source, and a helpless thought-receiver, as is seen or perceived by my other self, my third locus of identification, which is my awareness, particularly my awareness or perception-ability when it is separated-out from mental construct processing.


During loose cognition, and somewhat ever after:

I experience myself as being pure awareness: the Dove, the Holy Spirit of ecstasy, the vantage point from which I am able to see the insertion of thoughts into the thought-receiver.

I experience myself as being the lower-level, local control-agent, but now purified of delusion: I experience myself as Christ, having sacrificed my youthful, deluded self-concept; I formerly identified only with a self-concept that had the form like Jesus.

I experience myself as being God, the uncontrollable source of my thoughts.


I was, in self-concept, of the form of Jesus. Now I am, in self-concept, of the form of God, Christ, and Holy Spirit.

My self-concept used to be in the uni partite form of Jesus. Now my self-concept is in the tri partite form of God, Christ, and Holy Spirit; or Sol, Luna, and eye of Mithras.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5645 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Fields Restarted by the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
With this payload of meaning having been delivered and unsealed from the envelope of metaphor, by the data-feedback-realigned Core Egodeath theory:

o Theology can begin

o Philosophy can begin

o Psychology can begin

o Cognitive Science can begin, with new relevance;

o Quantum Physics can revisit the Copenhagen Hegemony without the non-Science concern of freewill-defending bias this time

o Analytic Philosophy can do something worthwhile for once

o Entheogenists can get a clue from what all the mushroom-wine banqueters knew circa 200.

o Metaphor and analogy

o Myth: salvage bits of value from the wreckage of previous theories I caused, and move in a forward direction

o Dead religions can now be appreciated, harvested for value: this Theory will help tune-in the weak signal buried in noise, to reconstruct dead religions and bring old gods and the spirit of ancient initiates back to life

o Ayahuasca religion

o Schizophrenia (there *is* a hidden entity transmitting command-thoughts into my head, forcing me to will and do things as a helpless puppet. Also: I control everyone’s thoughts — I am the one who makes everything happen.)

o Historical investigation of Christian origins

o Academic study of Western Esotericism, just started, can get off to an extremely accelerated start

o Bring secret societies out into the light

o Classics; Philology will let at last alive white European males truly read and understand the cultural fruits of their dead white European male ancestors

o For Christ’s sake, send Prohibition to Hell and set the prisoners free


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5646 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
The Data-to-Theory feedback path, in conjunction with further theory-bound observation, forms a theory-reconfiguring feedback loop that adjusts the Theory to lock-on to data and be better organized for the purpose of efficiently explaining and perceiving the data.

Observation of data is theory-bound. The scientific method is usually expressed in too-crude form: you make a predictive hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and observe whether the predicted outcome occurs or not. If not, make a different prediction. When the prediction is confirmed by the outcome matching it, the theory has been confirmed.

Then you communicate that theory to other observers (scientists) who repeat the experiment and collectively tally their results, producing scientific consensus. That’s the popular, crass “Scientific Method as Predictionism” model, or way of putting it, that I so disparage.

“Prediction” is far too crude a model of science, yet all the poor books still push the crude vague ideology of Predictionism: the scientific method is Prediction then Confirmation or Refutation, then Collective re-Testing, achieving Scientific Consensus after Collective Confirmation.


My better, more flexible model than the crude model of the scientific method as “prediction and confirmation”, with dynamics added, instead producing “theory-bound data-observation reconfiguring the theory to enable more coherent and distinct data-observation”:

1. You create a partly right theory, and test it against the data, but are unable to perceive the data clearly. The data pushes back in a complex vector, shaping the theory.

2. The adjusted theory is better able to perceive the data, and the adjusted theory pushes against the data, and the data pushes back in another complex vector, shaping the theory further.

3. Finally the fully adjusted theory is able to perceive the data perfectly, the data doesn’t push back with any vector, the theory is not altered, and the theory is now shaped in perfect accordance with the data.


There’s a difference between the quality of your Theory or Mental Model in step 2 and 3:

In step 2, your model [eg my main article of 2005-2006] has barely enough match, is green, has minimal sweep/scope of confirmation, with the minimum possible indexings: a robust sapling, a glorious young tree.

Step 3 is a cornucopia, with increasing rate of lock-on feedback to quickly reshape the theory, perceive and gather data more effectively, and based on what’s now perceiveed more clearly, further adjust the Theory-lens.

Step 2’s mental model was solid, great, commendable. But step 3’s resulting theory is masterful, luxuriant, copious, overflowing, plethora, is more concise, more organized, more dense, more capable. The more mature, well-formed, refactored, fine-tuned Theory after step 3 has greater explanatory power, greater conceptual coherence, fuller mapping to previous theories.


In 2005, I was busy writing the Theory-specification including metaphor, for the first time. 2011 with only a few more months of work compared to the end of 2007, … I evaluated what happened that enabled my recent feedback-buildup to yesterday, and the answer amounts to “all the ideas in the postings I wrote, Sep-Nov 2011”.

The idea of Priority Sequence, being first Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Entheogens, then Metaphor.

Quitting paying any attention or giving away and legitimation to “what people think”. Giving the finger full-on, to Establishment thinking; becoming radicalized and “militant”, becoming a rabid, frenzied, berserking theorist; I went berserk on the received view, even taking down my fellow would-be cohorts for their being complicit with the Establishment. You have to violently rip and tear the received views and biases out of your thinking!

Tear out the hypnotizing worm! (The Matrix)
Rip off the tranquilizing control-puck from your android torso! (Star Wars)
Pluck the implanted controller-pill out! (The Candidate)
Stick the plucker-stick up through your nose into your brain and pull out the tracker! (Total Recall)

Leverage the force of hard-core doctrinal purity. Be ready to dictate to the data what it must say and be. Be extremist, simplistic, minimalist, doctrinaire, put all attention and commitment on defining the simplest possible 1st-order approximation — screw the fickle, mentally enfeebling politically correct efforts to please everyone. Anyone who doesn’t like some aspect of the Theory, go jump off a high place.

If the data doesn’t agree with the Theory, then too bad for the data — the Theory is correct.


I am in the headspace to shove those ideas to fullness and purity, to take the metaphor-extended Theory from the 2005 first effort first version, green, babe, hatchling, to sophisticated/masterful.

Theory develops by adjustment in light of data partially perceived. A phase-locked loop feedback. In loosecog, you perceive aspects of the target understanding, which enables you to perceive the object dynamics in question, which shapes your mental model (theory), through which you perceive in a theory-bound way (not a static theory though — a theory-under-adjustment). The result is dynamic theory adjustment based on observation feedback, with increasingly capable observation.


Doing the early 20th Century Modern Physics experiments in the laboratory helped me have the confidence, not alienation, to be an independent philosopher of scientific discovery and an independent philosophical interpreter of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. When you cannot perceive every aspect of an object, it is insane to conclude with Bohr that the object must not have the aspects that we are incapable of observing.

The sane approach, per Albert Einstein, Heisenberg, David Bohm, and James Cushing, is to use the clues that are avaiable to construct a conceptually coherent model of what is evidently going on underneath the covers of what we *can* see. That model, being tangible and visualizable and comprehensible (unlike Copenhagenism) then provides maximal ability to do further experiments and observations, making progress in expanding the mental model and Theory.

Science must not be derailed by the separate, distinct issue of Ontology. We must look to Engineering instead, seeing as Science has lost its mind and its nerve and has prostituted itself in subservience to propping up the egoic project of freewill reification; when we need to figure shit out, Science gets off on throwing up its arms, while Engineering says “step aside: let me make sense of things and construct a sensible model of what’s going on under the covers.

Go do your Ontology stroking your beards, reveling in the prospect of joyous incomprehensibility, but don’t confuse that with real Science, which is about figuring shit out by hook or crook to make sense of the world, leveraging Feyerabend’s story of real science, which is “whatever method gets the job done, whatever it takes, case-by-case”.


What Philosophy of Science book discusses feedback between theory and data: the theory shapes the observation of the data, and the observed data shapes the theory, forming a feedback loop that alters the theory and the observing of data, until the theory and data match.

That’s how real science really works. hypothesis/prediction–>experiment to confirm/disconfirm (or way better, to *partially* confirm in particular ways: the confirmation isn’t a Yes or No; it’s a *complex vector* serving to push back to reshape the theory, not dumbly answer Y or N. A dynamic, elaborate data pushback vector.

The data to be explained (the explanandum) is: things experienced in loosecog, and mythemes.
Put simply:
Explain entheogen tripping, and explain mythemes.
Approach the data (explanandum) with initial rough ill-formed theory “mythemes are something to do with Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Entheogens”. Tune and adjust some of the hypotheses in line with the explanandum:

Maybe snake = heimarmene.
Maybe the ancient banqueting tradition = entheogens.
Maybe “being alone and wrestling with the unnamed man all night to get a blessing from God” = control-cybernetics.
Maybe king = cybernetics.

Is there evidence throughout Western Esotericism and Western religion to support such conjectures? Yes, to the extent that metaphor is so interpreted, which requires judgment on “reading” metaphor, judgment to measure the degree of confirmation.

During 2001-2005, I got some possible confirmation of the 3 pillars (Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Entheogens) being expressed in the 4th pillar (Metaphor), in Western Esotericism and Western Religion. Entheogens were fairly easy and concrete to confirm the presence of.

Then, a few weeks ago (such as Sep 2011), I thoughts about books that have bits of my pillar-topics in them and yet fall miles short — that led me to invent the idea of organized weighting, in mythic Esotericism interpretation: the Pri1 referent and emphasis is required to be Cybernetics; Pri 2 = Heimarmene, and Pri3 = Entheogens, particularly mushrooms.

That Priority Sequence is versus Carl Ruck et al, who implicitly theorizes that the Pri1 target of myth is entheogens, and there is no Pri2 required, to understand myth.

Acharya S asserts, in throwback 1880s fashion, that the Pri1 reference topic is (literally) the sun, and there is no Pri2 target topic, to understand the religious myth around Christianity. Look at my posts 2001-2005 and ask in what way they were not yet a complete breakthrough to the degree I now have.

Why, or in what sense per Paul Thagard’s cognitive science-based computer modelling of scientific discovery, did I manage a mountain of total breakthrough around November 23, 2011, while in comparison, there was less complete breakthrough around November 14, 2001, 2005 with my main Theory-specification article, and by the end of December, 2007, when I tore myself away to hiatus til Sep. 2011?

It’s a matter of degree of cross-indexing, “deepening” the associations, and refining the internal infrastructure of the Theory, and gaining fluency and facility and adeptness at “reading” myth. I had to apply pressure for a few months in 2011 to turn the relatively charcoalish diamond of 2005 into a pure diamond. I had to do some passes at refining the Theory, making various *kinds* of improvements.

I finally had to yesterday start working on a model of theory-deepening or “breakthrough”, because I keep re-learning is that a breakthrough comes not at one moment, one day, but is preshocks, big earthquake, then aftershocks. The weeks and days leading up to yesterday, November 23, 2011, felt like a jackpot, joined by an increased rush of gold coins, followed by further bursts of increasing the flow every day, over a couple weeks.

I feel today that I’m past the peak of this unexpected motherlode jackpot, though I expect to find plenty more confirmation, not that any is needed. Now myth is before me like a library to read for general strengthening of the Theory and enjoyment — just the same way that reading yet another mysticism or religion book often feels worthwhile, for a somewhat different tone and perspective.

In 2007, I reached 70% toward 100% breakthrough. What was the 30% still missing?
o Priority Sequence (Pri1:Cyb Pri2:Heim Pri3:Mshr)
o Mushroom focus (very streamlined and thought-clarifying compared to hazy, uncertain, doubt-inducing “entheogens”)
o In 2005, I relied and was dependent on piecemeal evidence, needed Diamond Hammer of Interpretation to transcend bits of evidence — as I wrote recently: Quit acting as if the entheogen theory stands or falls with individual mushroom findings in art; certainly there are lots, it’s way too late to act as if we can dismiss the whole by rejecting every instance.

Andy Letcher in his helpful and harmful, badly argued, uninformed book (do your homework!), barely even acknowledges any of the by-then well-known instances of mushrooms in Christian art; his careless waving-aside of them starts to sound like that move JZ Smith critiques as obstinate apologetics: Protestant Jesus-guild members write “Because no one instance of pagan mythic religion is *exactly* the same as Christianity, we are justified in facilely dismissing the assertion “Christianity is like pagan religion; Christianity is pagan Mystery cult in Jewish drag.”

Letcher acts as if it’s unimportant whether his arguments actually have any persuasive power, or whether he presents a coherent argument; the only thing that’s important is to, one way or another, including kettle logic (inconsistent argumentation structure) to dismiss any bits of evidence he admits exist, to discredit in any way, in favor of any other (inconsistent) goal he invents on the spot to represent his own (inconsistent, shifting) position. His aim isn’t to construct a consistent position, except the general, ludicrous and ill-defined position, vaguely amounting to the position that religious mushroom use has no history.


o With the major topic of Entheogens, too, for a breakthrough, I had to recently quit piecemeal data-consideration; leverage the whole hypothesis system with vigor of consistency of assumption and interpretation/observation. I had to end the mere *piecemeal*-oriented focus to get it in our heads that “We get it, yes, mushrooms are all throughout myth.”

It’s not as if the Entheogen Theory of Religion any more these days hangs on the interpretation of a single item of data, like we could use the Plaincourault fresco as proxy for all the hundreds of explicit mushrooms throughout Christian and religious art.

o For yesterday’s breakthrough, there was a similar situation regarding the Heimarmene hypothesis/interpretation. *If* we interpret and “read” all snakes in all world myth as representing Fatedness of your worldline of your life, then certainly the idea of Heim is everywhere in religion. Indeed the snake is everywhere: why would it be, unless Heimarmene really is important and the snake really represents it?!

Snakebite and shedding skin are *not* represented; they are specifically — deliberately — *not* represented. That omission strategically only leaves the *shape* of the snake as the point, the reason, why the snake is chosen by religion as the main symbol depicting religious wisdom.

Then I combined ‘thread’, and the turning point was the argument I posted around Nov. 21, 2011 that snake = heimarmene based on:
Fates = finite thread = worldline
thread is isomorphic with snake
thread in Daedalus’ Labyrinth and Daedalus’ ant-threaded seashell.
serpent = wisdom

That finally led to my insight yesterday or so (~Nov. 22, 2011) of “serpent vs tree… oh, I see!, serpent in tree as a compare/contrast teaching-instrument, ; the serpent teaches about thinking about treeness (decision-tree openness or illusoriness) in the course of our life as control-and-decision-making agents.

My grasp of metaphor broke through to a greater depth of facility and skill in that I got that much better at reading mythemes, metaphors, analogies — for example, a big mytheme-recognition recently (one of many, coming too fast to type) was “the revealed knowledge in initiation is like a snake in a basket with a lid that can be removed to reveal the hidden snake”. Thus “initiation = revealing the hidden snake”

Also my recently forged Hammer of Interpretation rejects irrelevant noise: it told me that “shed skin and poison” are false derivations of why serpent = wisdom.

Also a big jump in my reading-ability was a deepening of associations, going a bit beyond what I wrote years ago. Why ivy is closely related to mushrooms/entheogens: things make sense if ivy’s *shape* is important and the mushroom reveals insight about the *shape* of a snake and *shape* of ivy vine.

How is ‘vine’ related to psychoactive ‘mushroom’? Either it’s a vine we never heard of (a long shot, pure conjecture), or, vine = mushroom because the mushroom reveals vine-shaped Fatedness of the worldline of a person’s life (a close association with great conceptual coherence, if we adopt my Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence).

70% reading-ability –> 100% reading-ability — involved many, many insights in the past week, 2 weeks, 2 months. The missing 30% was – of course — by definition, the ideas in my recent postings. So many of my recent postings are “the explanation” of why I had a breakthrough, a deepening, a great increase in the number of associations and the ability to read myth with greater facility than in 2005 or 2007.

I was working on so many different, interrelated topics through 2007, I didn’t only work on how to read religious myth. I made record progress 2001-2007, and was severely constrained in word-count in my main article.

I was greedily staking a claim across all religious myth — yet there were various major points still to be prioritized and somehow(!) squeezed in; which words could I have omitted to buy some more space to write explicitly the particular spin of the following idea, very important in myth?

male–>female = uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver

source domain (metaphor) = target domain (non-metaphor)
metaphor = non-metaphor

A key idea was one that came to me in a forest walk on the path, thinking about whether Antiquity could have been able to comprehend the idea of worldline and heimarmene in a block-universe. Of course they could: the worldline idea is merely, simply like walking on a path. Actually I had that “path to Eleusis = worldline” idea for some time, from back when I read about Eleusis; see posting dates.

Well there’s an example of “getting an idea, yet not getting it all the way yet” — a common experience for me.

Yes, say in 2005, I had the idea that “path to Eleusis = worldline = snake”, but that’s slightly different than the recent 2011 idea that “That the concept of a worldline in a changeless spacetime block was easy for Antiquity to understand, is proven by the analogy of “procession along sacred ancient path to the Mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis = brass snake = vein in marble block = presetness of our lives and stream of conscious experiencing = worldline = heimarmene.”

Iterative, “deepening” Theory design is like the visual lock-on process when ferreting out a hidden autostereogram image: you glimpse some bits of data, create a theory of what else is there, try it, let the data push back, revise the theory, look more, see more, that perception of data pushes back more, revising your theory more, until you gain coherent lock-on, and then form a perfect theory (image) in your mind.

In 2005, I deduced the image yet didn’t truly directly perceive it. I saw the correct reading of Esotericism and religion correctly, but still it felt indirectly, piecemeal, haltingly, unnaturally.

11/23/11, I saw it in its direct fullness, richness, directly, thoroughly, via the more rigorously tuned, clarified, amplified, Diamond Hammer of Interpretation.

This was like correctly figuring out the autostereogram image by still only glimpsing pieces, so having a full image in mind yet not able to actually directly perceive and simply “read off” that image; your mental model/theory then is still not strong enough, good enough, to truly tune in, lock on, to the point of reading-off — it’s like singing along holding a hymnal but really just winging it, vs. actually reading-off from the hymnal.

Like looking while near-blind, and correctly knowing what’s there, but barely seeing it directly. Or accurately determining which song is playing on hissy FM reception and singing along, but really going from memory rather than truly hearing the song that’s playing.

Now I can sing along with the dead religions, even though the hymnal is too blurry to truly read.

I couldn’t actually *hear* it before, when I wrote my complete Theory-spec in 2005, which achieved closure and (at least implicit) comprehensiveness despite its severely constrained length (28 pages to dominate the entire set of fields, to take ownership of the entire field of religion, myth, altered-state mysticism, revelation, enlightenment, and satori, showing the way all the way for Cognitive Science of altered-state phenomenology as called for in Benny Shanon’s 2002 Antipodes of the Mind).

In 2005, I stated what I deduced the meaning to be — labored strenuous word-by-word reading or translating one word at a time. Like me reading French. I can eventually produce a translation, like working a jigsaw puzzle, out of order, with much hypothesis and tentativeness: correct, but anything but fluent; halting, struggle, unsureness but “I’m pretty much sure that’s what it is saying to the native speakers”.

In 2011, I directly perceived and read-off the meaning — fluent “transparent” direct reading of the text. Like me reading English. I do on-the-fly translation, not even felt as translation but “simply reading”.

My recent Priority Sequence idea was important — has roots in top-level outline of main article 2005, but then, I didn’t firmly list the *sequence* of priorities, such as judging Cybernetics to be more Important than Heimarmene, which was more important than Entheogens, which was more important than Metaphor.


I recently (see posting dates) thought of the *Priority Sequence* idea and the ancient *simplicity* (or “obviousness”) of the seemingly esoteric *heimarmene-snake* idea while I was walking in the forest looking at the changing mushrooms that are always there at the base of the decision-branching trees while controlling my legs to walk myself meandering along the fixed serpentine path that already existed winding itself around the executive decision trees such as are used by the king as pilot who steers the ship of state.

I was complaining about Manly Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages, which emphasizes most what matters least, but should emphasize most what matters most (that’s the Priority Sequence idea; walking myself with my weakened leg and my powerful leg along that winding path, I identified “Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Entheogens, Metaphor” as the correct priority sequence.


Degrees of comprehension:

The final paragraph of my main article/theory-specification does talk about the sacred marriage such as Dionysus and Ariadne, and Christ and his Elect (those who were chosen for regeneration before the foundation of the world), but a few important points are only implicitly present (the cost was a million dollars per word) — omitted partly because of intense self-imposed word-count limitations, and partly because more time was needed to do more extensive cross-indexing of the ideas and metaphors.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5647 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Social-political use & abuse of mystic revelation
Understanding the Politics of Applied Mystic Enlightenment/Revelation

Politics is very important because that’s the entire purpose of the New Testament (a sound purpose that’s always relevant): to use the same-old same-old mystic revelation that every two-bit cult offered as cheaply and ubiquitously as mushroom wine. Every POS Alchemy, brand of Gnosticism, and suchlike detritus and flotsam taught the exact same BFD revelation of mystic truth.

The only distinguishing, motivating purpose of bothering to invent the new religion, Christianity, was political: instead of using the old, standard, generic, routine, universal Transcendent Knowledge (that every two-bit scheme conveys) to prop up Domination Hierarchy, the purpose of the Christian expression of the same old Transcendent Knowledge was to direct that old universal Transcendent Knowledge toward propping up a just, humane, *egalitarian* socialpolitical arrangement of society instead of abusing the old routine standard universal revealed Transcendent Knowledge toward excusing and fakely pseudo-justifying the bunk, inhumane, unjust, irreligious, immoral *domination-hierarchy* socialpolitical arrangement of society.

Similarly in Athens’ democracy, there was great concern to control how the Transcendent Knowledge that was revealed in the Mysteries, was utilized in public — to protect the Mysteries’ revelation-knowledge from being abused by aristocrats who want to destroy and wipe out democracy, steal power from the citizens, and set up a domination hierarchy that is supposedly “justified” by the Transcendent Knowledge that’s revealed by the Mystery Cult initiations.

Yes, Transcendent Knowledge is supremely valuable — sure, fine, whatever. But *don’t* think that there is anything special and rare about it such that Christianity brings some kind of revealed Transcendent Knowledge that the other zillion run-of-the-mill brands and marketing packaging don’t *also* provide.

Christianity doesn’t provide *anything*, in terms of mysticism of (actually existing type of) salvation, that all other schemes (in their valid configuration/form) provide. Christianity provides the exact identically same revelation and regeneration and salvation and purification and athanatos that every other scheme of religion or Esoteric Wisdom provides — not one bit more.

As far as mystic revelation content is concerned, Christianity provides the exact same sh*t as every other two-bit scheme of religion, spirituality, or esotericism provides, in their valid forms. Christianity, esoterically, has *nothing* that other schemes of esotericism don’t also have. Esoterically, Christianity doesn’t provide anything more than other brands.

The only thing Christianity offers in contrast to other brands of religion or esotericism is the effort to direct the universal Transcendent Knowledge in support of egalitarian structuring of society, against the effort of other religions to abuse Transcendent Knowledge in pseudo-support of domination-hierarchy, to pretend that religious revelation advocates hierarchy and sheer power-based domination as a social arrangement.

The logic of Roman Empire, domination-hierarchy, and Mithraism: “I kicked your ass, therefore God has revealed that I am appointed by Him to rule over you. God made me master and you my slave. God made you my slave. Worship him, obey me; as you worship, revere, honor, and submissively bow down to God, faithful consistency dictates that you worship, revere, honor, and submissively bow down to me.”

The dog in Mithraic tauroctonys represents obedience and submission (reflecting dominance), along with faithful alliance and fidelity.

Early Christianity (whenever that was) is precisely the assertion that another logic, another train of reasoning, is valid and better: as one man bows in submission to the uncontrollable thought-source, so does each man bow down to the, or his, uncontrollable thought-source; and everything is predetermined; and such Transcendent Knowledge is either silent about the issue of how we should structure power-relations in society, or, Transcendent Knowledge dictates that we are all equals in the face of transcendent power; we are all heimarmene-worms and ego-killed kings, and to be consistent with that revealed Transcendent Knowledge, to reflect it and follow it as a template, we must set up a society with power-relations structured in an egalitarian configuration.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5648 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Ahistoricity is important because it’s Non-literalism
In the case of the truth about Christianity, to advocate Nonliteralism is necessarily to advocate Ahistoricity. It is self-contradiction to advocate Nonliteralism of religious figurations and themes, while also advocating Historicity regarding Jesus, Paul, Church Fathers, and Christianity’s Existence in Antiquity.

My current, latest thinking and feeling on the subject of whether Christianity existed in Classical Antiquity: From the time of Augustus Caesar to the 476 “fall of the Roman Empire” or to the rise of Islam that shut down the Mediterranean trade routes, Christianity as such didn’t exist; it only existed in precursor, piecemeal, proto-Christian form, such as Gnosticism.

In particular, per Edwin Johnson, the New Testament writings didn’t exist in anything recognizably like their present form (it’s a matter of degree) until close to Luther’s era. Christianity had a long, slow, late fade-in, so that Christianity, in New Testament form, was written by Luther & co, in 825 aka 1525. The details? Who knows.

The details are pretty unfathomable at this point, requiring much broad, time-consuming research. But this general idea of the very late, very slow fade-in of Christianity, such that Christianity only existed in a bare ghostly form through 476, and only existed in recognizable, written, NT form in 825 or 1525, is much closer to the truth than the theory that NT Christianity existed (in any meaningful, recognizable sense) in 325.

The issue is not the accuracy of the details, but rather, the truth of the general idea: that recognizable, written NT Christianity was brought together after 476 — not in 150 or 325. Recognizable, written NT Christianity was brought together not in 150, 325, or 476, but closer to 825 or 1525.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5649 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Hoffman’s Diamond Hammer of Interpretation:

Any valid system of transcendent knowledge involves Cybernetics as its ultimate concern, Heimarmene as its main support of that concern, Entheogens as its means of access, and Analogy as its means of expression.

Any valid system of transcendent knowledge involves:

o Cybernetics as its ultimate concern (because religion is about *you*, what you experience yourself to be, a control-wielding agent moving yourself though space and time, deciding which branch of the decision-tree to take; the source of control-power in the mind, and helpless receiving of all thoughts),

o Heimarmene as its main support of the ultimate concern (way of organizing the mental model of control and time),

o Entheogens as its means of access (mushrooms make you perceive the uncontrollable source of thoughts and concomitant personal helpless subjection to your control-thoughts you are given), and

o Analogy as its means of expression (Metaphor-systems, a language of alluding to and vividly describing and conveying/communicating and structuring the above).


Hellenistic style would probably label it as “the Golden Hammer of Interpretation”, rather than ‘Diamond’, but ‘Diamond’ expresses the power of conceptual coherence and completely organized thought.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5650 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Wheat vs. Chaff: m-model of thot-src vs junk part of ego
My Theory considered as a “prediction” was strongly confirmed upon finding that Persephone has a winnowing basket in Hades to separate the wheat from chaff, meaning mentally separating the truth about egoic control power from our initial, animalistic incoherent misconception of egoic control power.


The post-initiation mother is Demeter.

The pre-initiation daughter is Persephone, representing the youthful egoic deluded self-concept. Persephone is forcibly made Queen of the Underworld.

Demeter was forced to sacrifice Persephone by Hades; Hades forcibly abducted Persephone away from Demeter, to Hades.

Hades is King/ruler of the Underworld of the cast-off ghosts of the ego-dead.


Demeter, Persephone, and Hades are metaphorically described (to help make them tangible and comprehensible) aspects of the initiate regarding the self-concept regarding mushroom-revealed perception of mental dynamics of self-command cybernetics power, including revealing fatedness.

In Antiquity, you take mushrooms, perceive the impotence of self-control cybernetics and perceive fatedness, and mentally grasp that perception more vividly by metaphorical descriptions such as ‘Persephone’, ‘Hades’, ‘abduction’, and ‘Demeter’.

The altered state makes you perceive your uncontrollable thought-source and your helpless thought-receiver, and this perceiving eliminates aspects of deluded egoic control thinking, identifying and removing an incoherent virtual agency from your mind and relegating that virtual agency to a category of “things that seemed to exist but don’t really exist”.

The altered state makes you perceive your uncontrollable thought-source [‘Hades’] and your helpless thought-receiver [‘Demeter’], and this perceiving eliminates [‘abducts’, ‘sacrifices’] aspects of deluded egoic control thinking [‘Persephone’, ‘ghost’], identifying and removing an incoherent virtual agency from your mind [‘exorcism’] and relegating that virtual agency to a category of “things that seemed to exist but don’t really exist” [‘Hades’, ‘underworld’].

Self-steering power, self-control cybernetics is metaphorized as ‘chariot and charioteer’.

Fatedness is metaphorized as ‘snake’, ‘thread’, ‘labyrinth’, ‘ivy’, ‘vine’, ‘ivy vine’, ‘grape vine’, ‘path’ (such as the path for the procession to Eleusis), and is often positioned under the vehicle, such as ‘snake under bull’, ‘panther under Dionysus’ chariot’, ‘snake under chariot’, or ‘snake-drawn chariot’ of the first-generation initiate of Demeter, Triptolemus.

Fatedness is also metaphorized as the basilisk (rooster+snake)-drawn chariot of Saturn, near the sphere of the fixed stars, which sphere is represented as a snake, with the sphere of Saturn and fixed stars equated with fatedness.


Triptolemus is the most important first-generation initiate of Demeter. Triptolemus steers and controls his snake-drawn chariot, spreading knowledge of “agriculture” — how to make hidden wheat sprout, which is a metaphorical description referring to knowledge of how to reveal the workings of control in the mind and thus sacrifice the delusion portion of egoic control-thinking.

In case the term ‘sacrifice’ is too charged, vague, indirect, and metaphorical: that ‘sacrificing’ of the deluded aspect of egoic mental model is to identify and eliminate/repudiate it, like, for example, Physics eliminated the ‘phlogiston’ concept as unnecessary and useless and an interference to successful explanatory efficacy.


Whether the Scientific method is mischaracterized as Hypothesis/Prediction/Confirmation or accurately characterized as a theory-data feedback loop, my serendipitous happening upon a strange picture of Persephone in Hades serves as theory-confirmation of my Theory (no longer a hypothesis) of Hellenistic religious myth as firstly about Cybernetics, supported by Heimarmene, accessed via Entheogens, visualized via Metaphor.

When reviewing the story of Persephone yesterday (Nov. 24, 2011) to see which god abducted her, I saw a curious picture of Persephone at her study desk in Hades’ underworld, lifting the lid of the desk. My first inclination was the terrible habit of throwing up my arms saying “How should *I* know? It’s just some stupid random Greek stuff. <shrug>” Fortunately there was a caption, although a bunch of meaningless, unhelpful jargon:

Persephone opening the “Liknon Mystikon”

WTF is the impenetrable decipherable alienating term “Liknon Mystikon”? Will this research effort be at all worth the payoff, to pointlessly find that she’s opening her school desk to retrieve a pencil? Again, I had a terrible habit of wimping out, collapsing in intimidation.

But I gathered my wits, stopped, broke out the sentence terms, and researched the unknown terms, working the equation though I feared (this is why I have the bad habit of wimping out and wilting in the face of the unfamiliar) having to learn Greek and Latin and dead religions and spend a month in antiquarian studies, only to find the scene is random, unworthwhile content that is of no use to anyone.

“A bunch of random decoration? I don’t have time for deciphering that.” I gathered my wits, reminded myself of the requirement to be resourceful and have a can-do attitude toward working through the math, deciphering, and interpreting the ramifications.

The deciphering turned out to be trivial and easy, and the payoff turned out to be a jackpot directly supporting what I had posted only a couple days before — and I wasn’t even particularly looking for such confirmation; it was serendipitous. The alien terms I was intimidated by in the equation/sentence to be deciphered were not ‘pinax’ or ‘Locri’ — so don’t be intimidated by those.

The only alien unknowns to research are ‘Liknon Mystikon’. A search immediately produced the jackpot result: A liknon is a winnowing fan to separate grain from chaff.

A winnowing fan separates the grains from the worthless chaff, like separating a lie from truth. The chaff, the lie, is the imagined egoic power of control over the source of one’s thoughts, and the ability to control and change your destiny.

Upon perceiving this delusion, the purely deluded aspect of egoic thinking vanishes, going to Hades, the underworld land of shadows, ghosts, where Persephone (the deluded self-concept) was abducted by Hades (King/ruler of the Underworld) and made Queen of Hades — Queen of the people who only seemed to exist, until initiation; Queen of Ego Delusion, Queen of Dead Egos.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5651 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
The Scientific Method is “Theory-Data Feedback Loop”, not “Hypothesis/Prediction/Confirmation”

The Scientific Method continues to be crudely characterized, in passing, as Predictionism, never with a justification for this rigid and arbitrary emphasis. I never see proper discussions of the Scientific method presenting an argument in favor of this “Science = prediction” characterization. That characterization is treated as if it’s the standard agreed-upon, well-justified definition of the Scientific method, yet no proper discussion actually asserts that view!

The Predictionism view is a conclusion-summary, with no connection to the real discussions, reasoning, about how “the Scientific method” actually works. It’s a free-floating characterization unconnected to the actual argumentation. Thus there’s a disconnect between such “summaries” and what the Philosophers of Science actually think.

No Philosopher of Science, in a serious critical discussion of the Scientific method, defends anything like that crass “summary” of Science as Prediction — yet that summary-characterization continues as a bad meme to propagate itself. The meme needs to be exterminated once and for all.

The actual Scientific Method is a dynamic ongoing interaction between theory and data, with the theory testing and probing the data in various ways, getting dynamic feedback from the data that changes various aspects of the theory, which then is able to better probe and observe the data and collect the data, so that the data then pushes back and feeds back to altering the theory, until there is a match between theory and now fully as possible perceived data.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5652 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Wheat vs. Chaff: m-model of thot-src vs junk part of ego
Decoded: Demeter holding up a grain to Triptolemus: Demeter holds up a grain and chaff showing them to the initial initiate Triptolemus. You are Triptolemus, the initiate. Demeter is showing you during mushroom initiation a grain and a chaff.

That mytheme is a metaphor and analogy from the Source Domain of “agriculture”, pointing to the Target Domain of self-control cybernetics and self-concept as control agent, cybersteering control-power agency.

That mytheme describes and depicts by analogy: mushroom perception makes you perceive that part of your egoic self-concept is valid and real, and part of it is illusory and unreal.

Wheat grain does not mean wheat grain: it means the truth about egoic control agency.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5653 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
When deciphering a language, eventually you can write and speak new statements in the language. Thus a metaphor points to the target meaning, and once you possess the target meaning, you are able to generate new metaphors, becoming a mythmaker, able to speak the language of myth.

The Egodeath theory is both a Core theory of the self and the transformation of self-concept, and, it is the deciphering of a language of metaphors.

This pairing of interests is not new:

o Generating an independent Theory/model of the world; constructing a Core theory of the self and the transformation of self-concept.

o Encoding and decoding, encryption and decryption; ciphering and deciphering; communication and linguistics. The deciphering of a language of metaphors about the self and the transformation of self-concept, and learning to generate new statements or symbol expressions in the deciphered language, translating between the source (metaphorical) and target (non-metaphorical) languages, becoming able to construct meaningful, valid statements within the existing metaphor-domain, and, becoming able to construct new metaphor-schemes — new expressions or embodiments of Perennial Transcendent Knowledge.

Esotericists (Adepts, Magii, Magus) in the early Modern period (and later: Boehme, Crowley) similarly figured out how the self-concept is corrected and transformed on mushrooms, and some of them also did related work on encryption and deciphering, of hieroglyphs, of symbols, of metaphors, particularly in this uber-domain, this master domain, Perennial Transcendent Knowledge.

This unchanging Transcendent Knowledge has is explicitly summarized and effectively condensed for the first time in known history in the form of my Egodeath theory, hand-drafted August 1988, uploaded as Core summary to Principia Cybernetica at start of 1997, and uploaded as main theory-specification 2005-2006.

My Theory, the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, explicitly and scientifically explains Transcendent Knowledge; this theory-expression doesn’t rely on metaphors, but stands apart from them and explains them, and utilizes them to increase the grasp of the non-metaphorical concepts of the Core theory.

The Theory also demonstrates application of this metaphor-handling capability and metaphor understanding, by demonstrating the creation of new metaphor schemes that express Transcendent Knowledge, such as in terms of Cognitive Science, Cybernetics, Robotics, Telepresence, Computer Science — following the poetic lead of Neil “the Professor” Peart’s 1975 song No One at the Bridge (nautical metaphors) and especially his songs The Body Electric (1001001 is “I” in binary encoding) and Vital Signs.

The metaphor-domain of Cognitive Science is valuable because it is closer to the target domain than other previous source domains are, such as Alchemy, Persephone, and Jesus. The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is an independent new late-Modern era discovery of Perennial Transcendent Knowledge from within a cultural context such as the computer labs at Stanford University in Silicon Valley.

CTET as a religion: name of the religion: Cybernetic Transcendence or CybTrans (a literal description of the religion), like my original domain name, Cybtrans.com. A more poetic name? I refer to it as TK, meaning my particular Theory and expression. ‘Egodeath’ is another effective label, which isn’t the title of a religion, so much as a statement of what religion is.

Metaphor-theme of the religion (so direct, it’s barely a metaphor): Cybernetics & Cognitive Science, or the Cognitive Phenomenology of Personal Cybernetics. My theory — what the Perennial Philosophy really is — is Kubernetes Gnosis; Gnosis of Kubernetes; Transcendent Knowledge of Cybernetics; Gnosis of Cybernetics; CyberGnosis, which is *the* Gnosis, unveiled and directly named.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5654 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: The name of my Theory and of the system of religion I created
Below, my favored term is listed first in each list.

The formal name of my theory is
The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
The Cyberfatedelic Theory (explicit and short and designed to list the 3 important referents of myth & religion in priority sequence: 1) Cybernetics; 2) Heimarmene; 3) Entheogens)

The informal names of my theory:
The Egodeath Theory
Transcendent Knowledge (TK)
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Egodeath

Possible useful informal short name of my theory as the name of a brand of religion:
Egodeath (pithy and short without being an acronym; sound roots in ancient and 1960s tradition)
CyberGnosis (explicitly explanatory, combines late-Modern style with Christian roots in Hellenistic Classical Antiquity)
CybTrans
Cybernetic Transcendence
Kubergnosis
The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
Cognitive Science
Perennial Transcendent Knowledge
Cybtrans.com
TK
Transcendent Knowledge
CTET
Cybernetics & Cognitive Science
Cognitive Phenomenology of Personal Cybernetics
Perennial Philosophy
Kubernetes Gnosis
Gnosis of Kubernetes
Transcendent Knowledge of Cybernetics
Gnosis of Cybernetics
Gnosis


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Group: egodeath Message: 5655 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: How to think coherently: Engineering, not Science
It is important and mandatory that people learn and cross-index ideas about Heimarmene in all major aspects.

http://www.egodeath.com/QMHiddenVariablesDeterminism.htm

Bell admitted to Huw Price that hidden variables determinism is the only tangible and coherent model but must be rejected by Science in order to preserve free will. Thus our falsely so-called “Science” has admitted that Science starting with Bohr = prostitute, degenerated, a travesty of rationality, = pseudo-Science.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5656 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Killed ego = girl (Persephone), revised ego = woman (Demeter)
Why egodeath is the death of a girl

Here’s how you are the woman Demeter: you are the helpless thought-receiver, and you were overpowered by your male transpersonal portion, who injected egodeath thoughts into you, killing your daughter/girl childself; that is..! … egodeath is a girl.

The lower mind (before & after initiation) is female because helpless thought-receiver.

The egoic delusion that is eliminated during initiation is female because it is the youthful self-concept that the lower mind used to have; to retain continuity, back-project the same gender from “my practical control-power is now recognized as female psyche because it helplessly receives thoughts that are injected by a separate locus of control”, back onto the previous version of the psyche; therefore, the previous self-concept is described also as female; a daughter.

Thinking about loosecog and time travel helps get into the Demeter headspace.

How egodeath is like a son dying
How egodeath is like a daughter dying
How egodeath is like a father losing a son [God, Jesus]
How egodeath is like a father losing a daughter
How egodeath is like a mother losing a son
How egodeath is like a mother losing a daughter [Demeter, Persephone]


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Group: egodeath Message: 5657 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/11/2011
Subject: Re: Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
The Extreme Radical Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion, including Nonliteralism & Politics

Any valid system of transcendent knowledge involves entheogens. But further, going beyond the Extreme Radical Maximal *Entheogen* Theory of Religion, is The Maximal Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogen/Metaphor Theory of Religion and Esoteric Knowledge, condensed as “The Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion” — plus the important topics of Politics and Nonliteralism/Ahistoricity (topics which I fold into the words ‘interpretation’, ‘metaphor’, and ‘theory’).

The Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion

or shortenable because already absolutistic:

The Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion
or
The Cyberfatedelic Interpretation of Religion

In ‘Cyberfatedelic’,
1.Cybernetics is listed first because it is Pri1
2. Heimarmene is listed second because Pri2
3. Psychedelics/Psychotomimetics/Schizogenics/Entheogens/Mushrooms is listed 3rd because Pri3
4. Theory or Interpretation is listed 4th because Metaphor is Pri4
…5? Political Application (Use and Abuse) of Religion, and Nonliteralism/Ahistoricity eg of Jesus, Paul, Church Fathers, and Christianity in Antiquity, none of which existed except in a weak sense.
…6? Nonliteralism/Ahistoricity eg of Jesus, Paul, Church Fathers, and Christianity in Antiquity, none of which existed except in a weak sense.

Metaphor, Politics, and Nonliteralism are closely related, in Christianity. It’s possible to fold Politics and Nonliteralism (Ahistoricity) into the bucket “Metaphor”. I *have* often written and remarked that surprisingly, Ahistoricity — huge as it *seems*, and as much work as I’ve contributed in that field, is quite minor in my Theory.

Now that Michael Rinella provides leads that I can use to relate Entheogens and Politics in Athens’ democracy, I can apply much similar treatment of Christian and Hellenic religion:
o Fold Politics into Metaphor for Christianity
o Fold Politics into Metaphor for Hellenism
o Fold Nonliteralism into Metaphor for Christianity
o Fold Nonliteralism into Metaphor for Hellenism

My Core theory with the later metaphor extension added inherently has to discuss Metaphor at length. But it doesn’t take many words to adequately treat Ahistoricity or Politics in my Theory appropriately. The lack of needing to expound at length on my research on Politics and Ahistoricism, for the purpose of presenting the valuable summary of my Theory, is reflected in the extremely short coverage — though dead-on and profoundly suggestive — of those topics in my main Theory-specification article.

In a single brief section of that article, I both dismiss Jesus and Paul as ahistorical (I need to extend that to Church Fathers and Christianity in Antiquity), and mention in a general way “the Roman sociopolitical arrangement … a polemical counter-narrative about … sociopolitical concerns … rebuttal and alternative to Roman imperial theology”, though I don’t there provide the specific words “domination hierarchy” and “egalitarian”.

The latter is why Sally nagged me about leaving out the meaning of the cross in its Roman Imperial context, which would add “domination hierarchy … egalitarian”.


Which is more important, for Transcendent Knowledge?
o Understanding the Politics of Applied Mystic Enlightenment/Revelation
o Understanding the Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism of Jesus/Paul/Church Fathers/Christian Antiquity

Politics of applied Transcendent Knowledge is important against domination hierarchy and in support of egalitarian freedom.

Ahistoricity is important, a mandatory slate-clearing prerequisite to enable grasping and understanding Transcendent Knowledge. Gaining Transcendent Knowledge requires that we cast out, exorcise, the deluding demon of Historicity and Literalism. The Historicity delusion and confusion works exactly as Literalism; so, define why Literalism must be cast out, to gain salvation.


The Cyberfatedelic Interpretation of Religion, including Nonliteralism/Ahistoricity and Political Philosophy of Transcendent Knowledge (social-politically applied religion).


My own main driving interest is not Ahistorcity or
I might fold Ahistoricity (Nonliteralism) and Politics aspects of the Theory,

I’ve said “I extended to add history and metaphor.” But that included Politics and Ahistoricity. Thus it is elegant to say:

1985-1997, I created the Core theory:
o Cybernetics (Pillar 1)
o Heimarmene (Pillar 2)
o Loosecog/Entheogens (Pillar 3)

1998-2007, I extended the theory to cover also:
o Metaphor (Pillar 4)
o Ahistoricity/total Nonliteralism of Jesus and Paul (by 2011, also Church Fathers & Christianity in Antiquity)
o History of entheogens throughout all religion (I defined the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion)
o Politics of applying mushroom-state revelation (Christianity rebuttal to Roman Empire Political Theology; Athens’ democracy vs. aristocrats)

Given that it’s not necessary for my Theory-expression to go into great detail in Ahistoricity or Politics, I am inclined to expand the defined scope of my Metaphor bucket to officially include Ahistoricity and Politics, rather than messily breaking out as footnotes, separate buckets about Ahistoricity and Politics. Those two topics are key, important topics — but not warranted as broken out to level 1 for a *general* Theory of religion.

My Theory is a *general* theory of religion, and therefore the special topics of Ahistoricity and Politics — although extremely important for the world’s most important religion, Christianity — can and should be folded into Metaphor, similar to how the distinct topics (broken out in main article) of Loosecog and Entheogens, I have chosen to combine into a single bucket. Thus I can retain 4 Pillars of Fundamental Dogmatic Truth:

1. Cybernetics, including Control and Communication (such as of the Theory)
2. Heimarmene, including Worldlines and Block Universe
3. Loosecog, including Entheogens and Schizophrenia
4. Metaphor, including Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism and Politics, and Communication-encoding


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Group: egodeath Message: 5658 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: When I independently figured out & learned Entheogen theory
I deduced the entheogen theory independently, and then confirmed it in Allegro & Heinrich, and then in the other authors. When I finally learned, late, about books about the Entheogen theory, around 2000, I got off to a good start, with Heinrich’s book:

Strange Fruit
Alchemy and Religion: The Hidden Truth
Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods: A Speculative History
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy

I figured out Truth about religion and ego transcendence on my own, nonmetaphorically, in 1988/1993/1997, and then in 1998-2001-2007 & 2011 I looked to decode world religion to confirm the Truth I had already found on my own.

I looked in the New Testament sometimes around 1986-1989 (my notes assert that eating the scroll in Revelation is mushrooms, which I deduced completely on my own, not having heard of Wasson and Allegro then), but started serious work on world religious myth and metaphor in 1998.

I independently discovered the hypothesis that the scrolls eaten in Revelation were mushrooms, as indicated in my notebooks from that time, around 1988 (1986-1989). I didn’t hear of Wasson, Allegro, Ruck, or Heinrich, or the Entheogen theory of religion, until around 2000 (my postings at Mindspace or Jesus Mysteries or Gnostic Yahoo Group with Coraxo would show when I first heard of the Entheogen theory of religion, as opposed to deducing it on my own starting around 1988.

Possibly the first I ever read about entheogens was in 1988, with Charles Tart’s call for state-specific or multistate Science. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs probably had little ancient coverage.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5659 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: When I independently figured out & learned Entheogen theory
When I first did library research, in 1988, there was a dominant biased presupposition held almost universally, which we are still shaking off: the unexamined presupposition that psychedelics were a new discovery and were used never or only in rare and abnormal cases in religion history.

The truth per my Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion is that psychedelics — more than deliriants, opium, or cannabis — such as, most typically, psilocybin mushrooms, were the main, normal, standard means of accessing religious experiencing in all eras, regions, and religions throughout religious history — which is closer to the truth than the biased official view that still, unbelievably at this late date, holds, but that official view is fast losing its credibility and hypnotic effect.

A new book came out from Cambridge on Mystery Religions, and it continues to tout the old outdated official view, but the advancement is indicated by the fact that the book sees fit to at least acknowledge the entheogen theory, albeit in order to hurl that theory instantly into the trash can in a manner like the heavily biased and uneven book by Andy Letcher.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5660 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: If prove ancients believed my Core theory, are we proved true?
What if Antique religion is false? For example:

o What if we, in a practical and familiar sense, *can* control the source of our thoughts? What if we really are metaphysically autonomous and independent, like gods?

o What if Heimarmene isn’t true? What if our future in a profound sense is up to us, is created freely by us? What if Copenhagenism and manyworlds is true? What if freewill is the case?

o What if Antique religion was nothing but confused psychotomimetic mushroom-induced hallucination and schizophrenic delusions of reference and control?

Then my Theory must explain the untruth as an untruth, and explain and identify the system that ancients deludedly believed.


My programme, approach, and purpose was:
1. Figure out Truth (1985-1997).
2. Justify my Truth by getting confirmation from religions (1998-2007 & 2011).


My 1998 project of using the NT to confirm my Core theory, required cracking the code of ancient religion; that amounted to utilizing my Core theory as a Hypothesis, and using ancient religious myth as the language to be deciphered or the code to be cracked.

If my Core theory succeeds at cracking the code of ancient religion, as measured by the great ability of my Core theory to make sense out of ancient religious myth, then ancient religion “confirms” my Core theory, in that ancient religion *agrees with* my Core theory.

But just because, say, Jesus & Demeter’s hierophants agree with my Core theory, does not prove my Core theory is correct — it only proves that Jesus (& Demeter’s hierophants) and I agree and believe the same; but logically, we might both be completely wrong.

Which of these questions is my research of 1998-2007 & 2011 trying to answer or confirm:
o Is my Core theory true?
o What is ancient’s Core theory underneath their overgrowth jungle of metaphor?
o Is the ancients’ Core theory true?
o Do the ancients have the same Core theory as I do?

How I thought about it in 1998:

“I’m certain my Core theory is correct. And I readily assume that Jesus must have understood the same thing. Therefore, I expect to be and should be able to confirm by reading the New Testament with a suitable coherent interpretation, that Jesus believed and taught the content of my Theory. That is, I am Michael the Archangel; what I am revealing is what Jesus said would be revealed by Michael at the end of time.

“If Jesus can be shown to believe the content of my Theory, then I consider my Theory to have been proved correct by the highest authority of religion, or one of the highest authorities, Jesus — and I am thus true to the prediction or doctrine of Michael the Archangel revealing all things at the end of time, which will amount to the public end of egoic delusion, that period of the Modern era with linear time, giving Transcendent Knowledge to everyone.”


I was unaware of Pagan Hellenistic religion when I constructed my Core theory 1985-1997. Before 1998, my only significant exposure to Christianity was that I read fundamentalist Dave Hunt’s books around 1995, and only owned the Bible in King James and NIV translations, and barely dabbled in reading those.

1998-2001 I studied religious myth for the first time. I started initially learning and figuring out Pagan religion along with reading the NT interpretively, around 1998.

I quickly felt that it is impossible to understand the NT without understanding Hellenistic religion and the cultural context of the NT, which is the Roman Empire, including Jewish religion as a subset of the Roman Empire. The Jewish religion is not the sole cultural context of Christian origins. The Roman Empire is more a foreground than a background of Christian origins.

With my non-metaphorical Core theory in hand, it took me 3 years to go from knowing nothing about religious myth and little about Christianity, to grasping the essential breakthrough idea that religious myth is, as a rule, metaphorical description for altered-state cognitive phenomena and about insights into noncontrol and fatedness, and that entheogens are typically, often, or commonly involved.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5661 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: If prove ancients believed my Core theory, are we proved true?
Interesting set of answers:

1. Is my Core theory true? Don’t know.

2. What is ancient’s core theory underneath their overgrowth jungle of metaphor? The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

3. Is the ancients’ core theory true? Don’t know.

4. Do the ancients have the same core theory as I do?


Proposition A is The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.
Proposition B is Ancient Religious Myth.

Then the questions are expressed as:
1. Is A true?
2. What is B?
3. Is B true?
4. Is A = B?

The interesting set of answers is:
1. Is A true? d/k
2. What is B? = A
3. Is B true? d/k
4. Is A = B? Y

But 2 and 4 are somehow redundant. As a matter of historical fact during my Theory development, I approached the questions involving B as follows:
1. Is A true?
2. Is A confirmed by B; that is, is A = B, where B is presupposed as true?

But question 2 implicitly (in addition to the uncritical presupposing) makes a really stunning or presumptuous assumption, that the theorist is *capable* of *evaluating* (or “reading”, “deciphering”) B. Now that, in 2001-2005-2011, I have made a *huge* breakthrough to decode and decipher ancient religion for the first time in the late-Modern era — a huge breakthrough that was merely casually assumed as if a given, in 1998 … a minor incidental footnote in fine print:

“By the way, note that evaluating “A ?= B” will require that you take a moment to decipher and crack the code of the Ancient Mysteries and make totally clear and coherent the esoteric reading of the New Testament, which scholars have all but given up on for the past many decades, or even the past few centuries such as during the Modern era in general. This will be relatively easy if your Core theory indeed matches the ancient’s encrypted or encoded core theory.”

Fortunately, during 2001-2005, I got sufficient tentative confirmation that my Core theory indeed matches the ancients’ encoded core theory. And by yesterday, November 23, 2011, I got more than tentative confirmation: I proved that my Core theory matches the ancient’ encoded core theory; so that, in effect, my Core theory was the first successful decryption algorithm to crack the cipher of Hellenistic religion including the NT and OT, and Eastern and world religion such as Zen and Tantric Buddhism.

Now having proved that my Core theory is the decryption key for all world religion, and having proved that my Core theory is approved and “confirmed” by world religion, which is to say that the decoded and extract core referent target meaning that’s expressed by the metaphor-jungle that world religion is packaged and communicated in, it strikes me that that “confirmation” of my Core theory by virtue of my Core-theory-decrypted world religion core *matching* my Core theory, doesn’t prove that my Core theory is correct, and neither does the authority of my late-Modern invention, my Core theory, *prove* that world religion is (in its esoteric metaphor-target payload) correct.

My Theory confirms the truth of world religion.
and
World religion confirms the truth of my theory.

or equivalently

My Theory is true iff world religion is true.

A iff B.

That is, my explicit Theory is true iff world religion is esoterically true.

There is also this kind of circularity: my Core theory implicitly amounts to the assertion that world religion when read through the interpretation-filter that’s provided by this Core theory, will be revealed — if both theories are correct and therefore match — as expressing the same core theory.

Detractors or skeptics or critics could argue that ancient religion doesn’t actually wrap the same core theory as my Core theory, but only appears to me to do so because I’m projecting my Core theory onto antiquity. Specifically, I detect the “signature” priority sequence of world religion as 1: Cybernetics, 2: Heimarmene, 3: Entheogens, not because that’s the priority sequence that’s actually held by world religion, but only because I’m selectively observing the data.

Critics assert that world religion is actually literal sun worship, for example, and only by ignoring the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for that proven 1880 theory, do I come away with the false impression, so it merely appears to me because of my intensive lossy filtering-away of the massive contradictory data, it only *looks* to me, through my heavy distorting filter, *as if* world religion expresses the target meaning, and has the priority sequence of, 1: Cybernetics, 2: Heimarmene, 3: Entheogens.


My thinking in 1998:

Is my Core theory true, as proved by the fact that Jesus [or by 2001, “world religion”] agrees with it?

That strategy of proof contains at least two kinds of big problems!

For one thing, assuming that you have a correct understanding of world religion including New Testament Christianity, the only thing that that world religion can prove is that there’s agreement or a match between my Core theory and the esoteric core theory expressed by world religion.

For another thing, how can you know that you have a correct understanding of world religion? Another angle on that question is, .. a major showstopper problem!, is that — to put it generally — all scholars are completely baffled by the meaning of Christianity, NT Christianity, ancient religion, Hellenistic religion, and world religion — in short, all modern scholars are completely unable to understand religion. Religion is a total mystery and massive, completely unsolved problem for Modern scholars!

So how can you naively, so naively, presume, Michael Hoffman of 1998: “Ok, I now have my Core theory. Now I need to merely determine that Jesus asserts my Core theory.” Or equivalently: “To prove and corroborate my Core theory, I merely need to take a moment to show that ancient religion and world religion and Christianity and the Mystery Religions (esotericism) agree with and express my Core theory.”

The problem with that infinitely naive, innocent question, is that Religion is a total mystery and massive, completely unsolved problem for Modern scholars!

But it just so happens that there is a saving, “decryption key” effect: the Core theory amounts to a hypothesis of what decryption key is able to make sense and devise vastly greater explanatory coherence and account for a vastly broader scope of data, and map to the previous attempted, dismally failed theories — innumerable failed attempts to untie the Gordian knot (as finally my Hoffman’s Diamond Hammer of Interpretation did, my sword of Alexander the Great) — to explain why those theories failed.

A iff B — is circular so *logically* nothing is “proved proved” with unassailable certainty. But practically, this is how “knowledge” works: A and B cross-corroborate each other, increasing the likelihood of truth (mutually, for both A and B), based on:

o The argument from conceptual coherence
o The argument from breadth of explanatory power
o The argument from consensus agreement with other investigators/testers/observers/ASC explorers
o The argument from ability to map to previous theories
o The ability to make full sense of metaphor-encoded world religion by using my core Theory as a decryption key or observing-filter
o The extensive connection of my Core theory to the key priority-sequence topics of 1: Cybernetics; 2: Determinism; 3. Loosecog; 4: Metaphor, as those topics appear in many fields, including Religion, Psychology, Philosophy, Physics, Music, Philosophy of Science, Entheogens, Myth, and Cognitive Science.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5662 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Applying the Theory to myth improves the Theory
The Core theory needs a term to efficiently differentiate between the portion of the self-concept “who” dies as purely worthless illusion, versus the retained egoic-shaped mental functioning, sans delusion, after initiation: the chaff, and the wheat.

I discovered that applying the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence develops that Theory, at the same time as cracking-open the Mysteries of world religion.

Applying an explanatory framework develops the explanatory framework.

Not only is the metaphor extension of my Theory improved by applying the Theory as explanatory framework to explain religious mythic metaphor; even the Core theory’s infrastructure is improved and refactored and more thoroughly internally cross-indexed by pressing against, or acting against, or dancing with, the Myth to be explained.

Hellenistic mythic metaphor, in order to be considered to be well-decoded by the Theory, mandates that the decoding Theory must have cleanly bounded concepts that map cleanly to the source (mythic metaphor) domain. This is an example of how Metaphor improves non-metaphor Theory, in the feedback loop:

observing-Theory –> partially observed-data –> modified observing-Theory –> better-observed-data

Or equivalently, in the case deciphering and decryption and interpretation of world religious myth:

attempted interpretation –> encrypted data partly with bits of coherence read –> revised interpretation –> mostly-coherent-read data –> successful interpretation –> fully coherently read/extracted data, and, the ability to write and encrypt into the deciphered language; read/write ability; like ability to myth-make

Thus Holyoak & Thagard in Mental Leaps write that the source–>target (metaphor–>referent) relationship is actually two-way: metaphor<–>referent, so that the mind can efficiently traverse horizontally and vertically as:

metaphor 1 in the metaphor domain <– referent 1 in non-metaphor domain
|
V
metaphor 2 in the metaphor domain –> referent 2 in non-metaphor domain

Thus

metaphor<–>referent
religious mythic metaphor<–>Egodeath Core theory

Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith Holyoak, Paul Thagard
1995
http://amazon.com/dp/0262581442
MIT Press

For example:

1. Starting in the top right, referent/target/nonmetaphor domain, moving left to the metaphor domain:
Personal control (a concept in the referent domain) is like a woman (a figure in the metaphor domain), and when this is revealed, your former self-concept as autonomous control-agent is eliminated; personal control is revealed by mushroom-induced loosecog as a helpless thought-receiver with thoughts forcibly inserted by an alien locus of control.

2. Then traversing down within the source/metaphor domain, we can say that:
A woman was formerly a girl who was a different person, and the woman sacrificed her daughter, or her daughter was abducted by a male, forceful penetrator/inserter of thoughts.

3. Therefore, coming back into the referent/target/non-metaphor domain of cybernetic-psychedelic cognitive science, we can *learn* from/following the metaphor-domain’s internal logic, that:
We would benefit from defining bounded/delimited concepts that map to the woman and the previous girl.

It’s as if the application domain we’re applying software to is guiding our decision in refactoring the code base to make it more flexible and usable and maintainable, more capable, better, more sophisticated, more highly developed. In that analogy, the source/metaphor domain is “some application domain”, and the target/nonmetaphor/referent domain is like “software code base to be refactored”.

Applying the Theory (model, explanatory framework, model, or decryption-scheme) to a puzzling myth-scheme, or to encrypted data, or to an undeciphered language, or to some datum to be explained, develops the Theory; is good for the soul of the Theory; is character-building for the Theory; strengthens the Theory.


Theory must be tuned and adjusted so that it has neatly labeled concepts underlying the metaphors:
o Persephone
o Chaff
o Wheat
o Demeter as portion of egoic thinking retained after initiation
o Sol vs. Luna, in Mithraism
o Mithras’ bull before, during, and after initiation

It would be unrealistic to expect the Core theory to develop (during 1985-1988-1993-1996), neatly labeled concepts that optimally match these various mythemes and metaphor-system components. The Core theory reached logical closure and completeness around 1989 or 1993, but another kind of closure was still needed, regarding mapping to metaphor — per Paul Thagard’s Pri3 criteria for a good theory: mapping well to previous theories.

I knew right away, in January 1988, that it would take some time to map the new mental model to existing theories and schemes.

There’s also blurry overlap between the Pri1 criterion “has better breadth of explanatory power” and the Pri3 criterion “maps better to previous theories”. This depends on whether you consider the Tauroctony a competing theory, or the data (explanandum) to be explained.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5663 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Re: Data–>Theory fdbk adjusts Theory to lock-on to data
Regarding Antique and pre-Modern religion and wisdom-traditions; the religious view held by Antiquity —

o In some sense, ancient religion can be considered to be a competing theory against the late-Modern CTET/Egodeath theory.

o In another sense, ancient religion can be considered the explanandum — the data to be explained.


Are these the data to be explained? Or are these “competing, previous theories”?

o The story of Dionysus and King Pentheus

o The New Testament, and mythemes in the Old Testament such as wise heimarmene serpent as teacher winding up an educational model of a decision-tree with illusory virtual pseudo-possibilities branches, making the mind perceive control and decision processing by giving the Amanita

o Demeter and her youthful egoic deluded self-concept Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, who Demeter was forced to sacrifice by Hades (King of the Underworld of the cast-off ghosts of the ego-dead) and the snake-drawn chariot that Triptolemus steers, spreading knowledge of “agriculture” — how to make hidden wheat sprout; ie how to reveal the workings of control in the mind and thus sacrifice the delusion portion of egoic control-thinking.

o Mithraism, Tauroctony diagrams of heimarmene and the coupled division of mental control into uncontrollable thought-giver (Sol; transpersonal self) and helpless thought-receiver (Luna; personal self);

The cave of the mind is lit-up above by the torch held up making perceptible the uncontrollable thought-source in the coital process of forcefully injecting thoughts into passive helpless thought-receiver and forced executor;

The basement underneath the cave of the mind below is lit up by the torch held down to uncover to make perceptible the guiding track of snake-shaped heimarmene laid out permanently embedded in the worldline of each person suspended in the spacetime block.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5664 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: +Core, -Metaphor(Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, Politics)
Elevating the 3 Core Pillars (Cybernetics, Fatedness, Loosecog); Demoting Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, Politics as subtopics of a mere Metaphor appendix.

The 3 Pillars contain links to Metaphor and its demoted, peripheral subtopics of Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, and Politics. But the latter are chained down and kept in their lowly place, and enabled paradoxically to be taken to the full extreme, by being so briefly treated and demoted. If I treat Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, and Politics as a really big deal, then they will continue to be controverted.

By demoting them, I demonstrate how elementary and what mere confusions these errors really are:

o The error of assuming literalism and historicity in the New Testament;

o The error of thinking that entheogens are merely incidental in religion;

o The error of thinking that Christianity became popular because it’s about supernaturalist spirituality — when it was in fact popular as a political tract against domination hierarchy (the esoteric content was the least valuable, least precious, least distinctive, *least novel* aspect of early Christianity).

Metaphor (including Ahistoricity, Entheogen History, Politics) is helpful in strengthening the 3 Core pillars. Applying the Core, over the wall, to Metaphor, and then adjusting the Core (on the first side of the wall) to better apply to Metaphor, makes the Core stronger while keeping the Core pure.

By removing Metaphor far away from the 3 Core Pillars, or by not mixing-up Metaphor with the 3 Core pillars in the first place, produces a clean Separation of Concerns: the Core principles (must-have), versus the historical happenstance and peripherals (History of Entheogens, History of Metaphors, Ahistoricity, and History of Politics). As far as Level 1 buckets are concerned, rip Core Engine (Engineering) and History (Metaphor) apart.

Demote and Amplify:
Shrink the importance of the topic of Entheogen History, while amplifying the intensity of my assertions in that field.
Shrink the importance of the topic of Christian Ahistoricity, while amplifying the intensity of my assertions in that field.
Shrink the importance of the topic of Christian Politics, while amplifying the intensity of my assertions in that field.

Metaphor, in practice, is very important, and so warrants Level 1 bucket — but only 1 bucket, and only as an appendix, cleanly sealed-off from the Core Pillars. Metaphor is not a Pillar of Transcendent Knowledge; Metaphor is incidental, variable, not necessary. Esoteric Perennial Transcendent Knowledge is distinct from metaphorical packaging, and demands a late-Modern, Engineering type of non-metaphorical Philosophy expression, which uses minimal metaphor that is custom-tailored to be as direct and explicit as possible.

The Core theory (my theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence) has four pillars, but only two are the ultimate content that is revealed. What is *revealed* by Pillar 3 (loosecog, mushroom-induced metaperception, mental model transformation) and *expressed* by Pillar 4 (metaphorical description, nonliteralism, Politics mythemes) is the first two: Pillar 1 (self-control cybernetics noncontrol and forced control), and Pillar 2: presetness and unchanging preexistence of all our thoughts, experiences, and control-will.

The 3 Core Pillars of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence form the perfectly coherent and all-powerful Diamond Hammer of Interpretation that constitutes 100% conceptual coherence, 100% explanatory power, and 100% mapping to all genuine, valid, authentic expressions of transcendence.

Lately I’ve been writing the pattern

Metaphor–>Cybernetics, Fatedness, Loosecog
which proves that Metaphor itself is not part of the target, referent, non-metaphorical, Core domain.

Metaphor points to the meaning, but is not itself the meaning. Metaphor is “a finger pointing at the moon”. Perhaps this is one reason Zen wishes to short-circuit and kill the intellectualization: do away with the confusions and endless bickerings about Metaphor, in order to cut straight to the point, like an Engineer. The point of Metaphor is the 3 Core Pillars — not Metaphor itself. Metaphor is merely the tin can containing the piece of gold. Don’t mix up the envelope with the message being transmitted.


The pillars of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence:

1. Cybernetics; self-control cybernetics noncontrol in conjunction with uncontrollable forced control. The Control portion of Cybernetics (steersman agent; Communication and Control in Man and Machine).

2. Heimarmene; Fatedness, destinedness; predestination, timeless changeless holistic vertical block-universe determinism; presetness and unchanging preexistence of all our thoughts, experiences, and control-will.

3. Metaperception; loose cognition, loose mental functioning binding; loose binding of mental construct association matrixes, induced by mushroom-induced metaperception.

== Appendix: Applied Theory; History: ==
4. Metaphor; Analogy; expression and vivid tangible communicative embodiment by metaphorical description. Metaphor fits under the Communication portion of Cybernetics (steersman agent; *Communication and* Control in Man and Machine). This can also subsume the important — but not Level 1-scoped — topics of Politics and Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism.


In the main Theory-specification article, Politics and Ahistoricity are in the “Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion” category — which is not a main category according to my new idea of Priority Sequence!

You could say that my main article was written and structured to please the concerns of 2005, whereas now that I have left Earth and Time behind, and am seeing through more universal perspective, and I strive for a purist distinction between Metaphor and Core theory, and I am writing to reveal the Mysteries for everyone in Antiquity, I am thinking in terms of an Expert System rather than writing a nice article, I wish to have a strict cordoning-off to quarantine Metaphor and History separately from What Is Revealed.

I want to appreciate the Core theory as a Scientific theory, and my great Priority Sequence idea says that Metaphor is dead last in importance.

1. The most important knowledge revealed (such as to a late-Modern atheist Engineer) is about Cybernetics. Not about Metaphor. Not about Politics. Not about Ahistoricity. Not about the Entheogen Theory of Religion. The latter were later for me, after I engineered the Core theory.

2. The second most important knowledge revealed (such as to a late-Modern atheist Engineer) is about Heimarmene. Not about Metaphor. Not about Politics. Not about Ahistoricity. Not about the Entheogen Theory of Religion. The latter were later for me, after I engineered the Core theory.

3. The third most important factor constituting the technology that is the Egodeath theory (such as for a late-Modern atheist Engineer or Cognitive Scientist) is about Loosecog. Not about Metaphor. Not about Politics. Not about Ahistoricity. Not about the Entheogen Theory of Religion. The latter were later for me, after I engineered the Core theory.

By segregating the Metaphor bucket away from the Core buckets, in how I arrange the Level 1 & 2 outline break-out, this can help push apart Core non-metaphorical explanation and Metaphor explanation, that can help maximize the two.


The main Theory-specification article was custom-outlined for the Salvia Divinorum magazine rather than according to my recent concept, of the Priority Sequence and 4 Fundamental Pillars.

The Breakout of Topics/Buckets Used for Main Article:
o The Entheogen Theory of Religion
o The Dissociative Cognitive State
o The Block Universe and Frozen Worldlines
o Self-Control and the Hidden Source of Thoughts

Pillars in Priority-Sequence:
1. Cybernetics (Control, Communication:Teaching/Learning)
2. Heimarmene (Fatedness, Worldlines, Block Universe)
3. Loosecog (Entheogens, Mental Construct Processing)
==========================
4. Metaphor (Analogy, Nonliteralism, Ahistoricity, Politics, Communication:Encoding)

Flagging the Main Article Sections in terms of 4 Pillars:
o The Entheogen Theory of Religion [3: Loosecog (Entheogens); 4: Metaphor (History, Ahistoricity, Politics)]
o The Dissociative Cognitive State [3: Loosecog; 4: Metaphor]
o The Block Universe and Frozen Worldlines [2: Heimarmene; 4: Metaphor]
o Self-Control and the Hidden Source of Thoughts [1: Cybernetics; 4: Metaphor]

This mapping-analysis raises the question of whether structuring the Theory per the Pillars adequately expresses the Entheogen Theory of Religion. Given the Pillars, which bucket of those 4 does The Entheogen Theory of Religion fit into? The implication here discovered is that my main article overemphasizes the Entheogen Theory of Religion, at the expense of which of the Pillars?

Where does The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion fit, below?
1. Cybernetics
…… Control
…… Communication
…… Teaching/Learning
2. Heimarmene
…… Fatedness
…… Worldlines
…… Block Universe
3. Loosecog
…… Entheogens
…… Mental Construct Processing
== Appendix: ====================
4. Metaphor
…… Analogy
…… Nonliteralism
…… Ahistoricity
…… History
…… Politics
…… Communication:Encoding
…… The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion

Another reason the main Theory-specification article was broken out into the main categories it used, different than my new Priority Sequence, is space-limitations. I wanted to have Metaphor as a separate section, but realized I could fold Metaphor into the other sections, which inevitably weakens the separation between the nonmetaphorical Core and the Metaphorical extension.

The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion reeks of today’s world and biases and preconceptions and literalistic confusions. It only *seems* super-important now, because Prohibition and forgetting plants has been so complete in these darkest ages of the Kali Yuga. My job is to routinize the 4 Pillars and their subtopics.

o Ahistoricity? Routinize it; put it in its modest place.

o Entheogen theory? Quit fence-sitting, quit being timid about it: I so routinely take it to the max, that I end up demoting it: Yes, *all* valid religion is mushroom-based; deal with it; assume it; be done with it; demote that fact and focus on more important things, quit being stuck in that doorway. Same with Ahistoricity.

You can focus and fixate all night on the history of entheogen use (like Carl Ruck), and on Ahistoricity (like Earl Doherty), and on Politics (like Richard Horsley) and you still won’t get a clue about the real, main Gnosis that is revealed and expressed in the Core theory.

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is merely *built on*:
o My Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion.
o My theory of and research contributions in Ahistoricity (nonexistence) of Christianity in Antiquity, Church Fathers, Jesus, and Paul.
o My breakthrough custom version of Crossan/Borg/Horsley/Wright et al, the Political purpose of creating Christianity by leveraging the routinized mushroom religion of Antiquity.

But just because my Theory is *built on* my customized building-blocks of Maximal/Radical Entheogen Theory, Politics, and Ahistoricity, and just because those topics are currently of interest to some people now or my readers who live in Antiquity, does not mean that these building-block topics that seem oh-so-important are actually warranted as Level 1 Pillars in an explanation of what Transcendent Knowledge is and how it has been communicated in Metaphor.

Today’s audience wants a big focus on Ahistoricity and the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion. And early Christians, like Plato, want a big focus on the Politics of how the revealed Mysteries knowledge is applied to prop up egalitarian or hierarchy systems of society.

But in keeping with the future perspective, and being true to the Engineering origins of the Theory, which remember were successful at the greatest breakthrough ever, of Transcendent Knowledge as brand new independent dispensation *from* the heart of late-Modern engineering — *not* a tradition-styled inheritance passed from one metaphor-based teacher to a student, through time.

I conquer, vanquish, and do away with these over-charged topics of Ahistoricity/Politics/Entheogen History, by refusing to grant them the high-ranked couches at my mushroom-wine banquet.

I send these harmful, confusing, distracting topics — that were entirely unnecessary for me in engineering the Core theory (it actually *helped* me that I was wholly ignorant of those confusing topics) — to the children’s table so that we grown-ups can think clearly and cut straight to the central topics that actually matter, that actually hold up the structure of the Core theory.

By the same logic that says Politics and Ahistoricity are important but not the true drivers of the Core theory, the primary location for the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion could be in “Metaphor”. Another argument for that same conclusion is provided by the history of my construction of the total Theory: I created the Core theory first, with almost no idea of anything like the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion, then developed the latter as part of the History/Metaphor R&D:

1985-1997: I created the Core theory “in the Engineering Department” without any Humanities/Classics input except indirectly through a few early meta-theory books by Ken Wilber and a single Zen book by Alan Watts:
1. Cybernetics
2. Heimarmene
3. Loosecog

1998-2007 & 2011: I changed my focus from Engineering to the Humanities/Classics department to get confirmation of the finished Core theory, which had already reached completeness and closure:
4. Metaphor, History, Ahistoricity, The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion.


I don’t want to give too much weight and credit to the bad old Metaphor-dependent expressions. There’s been too much poetry, too much art, not enough plain-spoken, straightforward, no-nonsense discussion of what religious experiencing and revelation is. Those emphases, our current notions about what’s important, have misled us. I engineered the Core theory without being hypnotized by those soft, peripheral topics.

I succeeded because I didn’t read books, but observed my own self-control struggles and analyzed control-across-time, applying an Engineering and Phenomenological Cognitive Science and Self-Help sensibility.

There’s no *need*, with my Theory, to dirty the Core explanation with Politics and History and Nonliteralism, at the Level 1 break-out, though Metaphor, subsuming Politics and History and Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism, does warrant breakout as a Level 1 topic that’s the lowest priority and is segregated and quarantined as the last, least-important topic: poetry and literalist confusion and anti-entheogen bias must be demoted in order to let the true main points rise up to their full height and stand on their own.

I can dismiss and dispatch Ahistoricity, Politics, and History of Entheogens in a few paragraphs subsumed under Metaphor, separated from the Core Pillars that *truly* constitute the actual universal (interplanetary; all sentient beings) referent content of Transcendent Knowledge. My audience is androids, AIs, and intergalactic sentient beings, letting the revealed knowledge itself dictate the structure of the truly Core theory, with Earth’s particular messed-up history of incomprehension as a mere appendix.

Metaphor is not the Core Knowledge, and does not belong in the 3 Core Pillars.

o Maximal Entheogen theory of religion: Here is mere incidental Historical happenstance.
o Politics: here is mere *applied* use and abuse of the Core knowledge.
o Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism: Here are the screwed-up confused notions people had in the ordinary-state culture: we must negate those as a preliminary and prolegomenon, to clear the way for coherent comprehension instead.


There are 3 Core Pillars and 1 Appendix Pillar, Metaphor, subsuming the incidental, non-core topics of Politics, Ahistoricity/Nonliteralism, and the History of Entheogens.

It is a radical move characteristic of my thinking, to discover right thinking about Ahistoricity, Politics, and Entheogen History, and then turn around and demote those as mere subtopics of the grudgingly important but least important, appendix topic of “Metaphor”.

There are not 3 Pillars of the Core theory. There are only 3 Pillars of the Core theory: Cybernetics, Fatedness, and Loosecog.

There is a separate “Pillar” (Metaphor) that is merely mandatory for the sole reason that we must stop Literalism, to clear the way for correct thinking, and to consider how Earth happens to have expressed the Core Pillars and gotten confused into Literalism and has fought over how to abuse the Core knowledge to pretend to prop up historical structures of society: domination hierarchy versus egalitarianism.


Ahistoricity isn’t as important as the core pillars. Ahistoricity merely *seems* important at the moment, prior to propagation of the Egodeath theory, as if Ahistoricity should be a sibling of the 4 Pillars.

Similarly, early Christians would clamor to promote Politics (exciting! relevant! motivating!) as an unsurpassedly important topic, the entire motivation for bothering to create yet another costume (the Hellenistic Mysteries in Jewish, anti-Roman drag) for the same old routine Esoteric Transcendent Knowledge (yawn) of salvation, purification, forgiveness of sins, imperishability (whatever; been there, done that, the Empire of domination-hierarchy still sucks, after the mushroom mixed-wine wears off).


Phase 2 of my work figured out such metaphor.

Phase 3 of my work is communicating the theory in conjunction with metaphorically packaged/structured/expressed “previous theories”. The Communication aspects of my Core theory and the Metaphor extension (including Ahistoricity/Nonliteralness and Politics) fit under both into Cybernetics bucket (because Cybernetics is Communication as well as Control) and in the Metaphor bucket (because Metaphor is used to grasp, make vivid, and convey the wrapped ideas).


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Group: egodeath Message: 5665 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Understanding is a matter of degree, adeptness, fluency, skill
Adequate understanding of the Egodeath theory requires rigor and detail, thoroughgoing association-mappings, thoroughness, closure, comprehensiveness, thorough cross-indexing.

In 2006 I had the idea of the Sacred Marriage, but didn’t fully grok the idea of *why* the personal mind is female, in terms of passive thought-reception. I built up my recent wave of breakthrough after the Esotericism Book Expo and then getting the 2 books on Esotericism I’ve been wanting for years — I needed time to look at that type of illustration more, just to make more connections, firmer connections, deeper association links, tighter connections.

In 3rd Grade, I could read, write, think, and talk, but now I can read, write, think, and talk better. I had the idea but a little more weakly, didn’t get the fullness of the idea. I discovered and wrote about the idea but didn’t grok the extent of, had to think more, write more, more intensely, just plain review the ideas more.

My Theory Specification has Sacred Marriage but not a very explicit explanation of why the personal control-mind is female and the transpersonal mind-controller is male.


As an example of awesome but not perfect Theory, I found a garbled point “Sol is awareness” — no, Sol is the uncontrollable thought-source, Luna is the helpless thought-receiver, now divinized by sacrificing the deluded portion (aspects) of egoic thinking. Awareness or psychedelic metaperception is represented as a sun ray between Mithras looking behind his thinking and Sol looking at Mithras; ‘awareness’ and ‘perceiving’ include Sol’s eyes, the sun ray between Sol and Mithras, and Mithras’ eyes.


The degree or percentage of grasping a domain: You might seem to perfectly well grasp some things, but fluency is a matter of degree. My main article had closer to a bare minimum (due to severe space limitations and due to newness of deciphering myth) — I was still fresh, green, still more an outsider than it would appear, still had only a fractional grasp — the article is flattering, bringing out the best of my not-as-complete understanding.

My assertions were bold and correct and almost completely insightful, but my *feeling* was still tentative, unlike my recent victory of gaining a sense of surefootedness and confident thought-leadership.

I have strengthened my intensity of sureness, by weaving more, becoming more masterful, becoming fluent, having been brought into the ranks of the Adept, as well as having the distinguishing contribution of an explicit, non-metaphorical, ultra-clear explanatory model, with a clarity of organization and a cogency never before provided in known history.


Ken Wilber in The Atman Project and No Boundary describes “the self” as having to develop thoroughly within a given psychospiritual developmental level in order to differentiate itself from that level, transcend that level, de-identify with that level, avoid repressing and dysfunctionally/regressively dissociating from that level, and then operate-on that formerly identified-with level.

A thorough Egodeath theory needs to have a thoroughly adequate and capable grasp of the language of Esotericism and religious metaphorical analogy. The transcendent mental model must become adept within the domain of all the primary areas of the Egodeath theory: Cybernetics, Fatedness, Loosecog, and Metaphor.

The criteria for reaching the level of Adept at Transcendent Knowledge are, you must know:
1. All about Cybernetics and its metaphors
2. All about Fatedness and its metaphors
3. All about Loosecog and its metaphors
4. The cross-indexing of all these.

Theory and metaphor of Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Loosecog (including Entheogens). Practically, you must know the arbitrary Historical Application of Transcendent Knowledge: Metaphor (including Politics and Ahistoricity/Nonliteralness).


Did I recognize and grok ‘ivy’ as heimarmene-vine in 2007? I almost entirely did, yet still, not as much as now: I feel I crossed a threshold, moving from an outsider looking in, to an insider, yesterday (November 23, 2011). In 2007 I mostly understood ‘ivy’ and ‘vine’ as meaning heimarmene.

I posted the proposed recognition in February 2005, completely correctly. But now I deepened my *sense* of understanding it, and I rediscovered it, with an increased degree of intensive grasp of the ramifications of the association-mappings.

I grasped the basic idea in 2005, but not as many of the connections of the idea. I figured it out — but I didn’t grok it, the profound ramifications of it. This is yet another example of how a breakthrough is experienced as pre-shock, main earthquake, then aftershocks. It’s strange how I have a breakthrough and gain deep understanding, and then later, I experience that breakthrough and understanding as if new, again, but deeper still.


Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith Holyoak, Paul Thagard

“In the web of culture, analogies should be powerful connecting strands, not devouring spiders.”

That metaphor is comparable to the basic idea of Christianity and Athenian democracy:

“The metaphor-leveraging enlightenment about fatedness in conjunction with personal noncontrol of our thoughts, that’s revealed by mushrooms, should be used to support a just and kind egalitarian society, not to justify a violently oppressive domination-hierarchy such as the Roman Empire, the propaganda for which makes great claims but the reality of which falls well short of those claims. Metaphor and enlightenment should be used in service of egalitarian societal structure, not to justify domination-hierarchy.”


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Group: egodeath Message: 5666 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: Important but periph. topics: Ahistoricity, Politics, Enth History
Important but peripheral topics: Ahistoricity, Politics, Entheogen History

Mapped: My intellectual history sequence; main article’s main section arrangement; 3 Core Pillars + Appendix

Here are correlated:
o The sequence in which I developed the main Theory topics
o The main topics in the outline of my main Theory-specification article
o The main topics arranged as 3 Pillars and 1 Appendix

Where to place the following important yet peripheral topics in the top levels of the outline/structure of the Theory?
o Metaphor
o Ahistoricity (of Christianity in Antiquity, Church Fathers, Paul, and Jesus)
o Politics (applied mycorevelation, to justify/excuse domination hierarchy or egalitarianism)
o Entheogen History (extreme radical maximal entheogen theory of religion)


There is a clean mapping between my main article (Theory-specification article for Salvia Divinorum magazine), and the Priority Sequence I identified in 2011. The main article is in reverse order of my Priority Sequence, with Metaphor mostly redistributed into the 3 Core Pillar topics, and Entheogen History emphasized in place of Metaphor.

Main Article:
4) Entheogen History (including Ahistoricity, Politics, & mention of Metaphor)
3) Loosecog (including relevant Metaphor)
2) Fatedness (including relevant Metaphor)
1) Cybernetics (including relevant Metaphor)

Priority Sequence:
1) Cybernetics
2) Fatedness
3) Loosecog
4) Metaphor (including Ahistoricity, Politics, & Entheogen History)

Argument in favor of reverse presentation as used in the main article:
First, cover Metaphor (nonliteralism and ahistoricity and the purpose of early Christianity), to clear away confusion that blocks understanding. Familiar topics.
Then, apply Loosecog, as the doorway to go through to see what’s revealed. How mental model transformation works. Somewhat familiar topic.
Next, the clear, simple model of Fatedness, as framework for organizing ideas about control and time. Horizontal-time, domino-chain Determinism is popular in some 15 fields but this changeless, holistic, preexisting-future, “vertical Determinism” is unfamiliar in the OSC-based Modern era.
Finally, Cybernetics: noncontrol is the main, ultimate point, now that the preliminaries are out of the way or made available as thinking tools.

Argument in favor of labelling the first section as Entheogen History rather than Metaphor, in the article for Salvia Divinorum magazine. Here’s why I used the structuring
Entheogen History (Ahistoricity, Politics, Metaphor)
rather than the structuring
Metaphor (Entheogen History, Ahistoricity, Politics)


The subject of Wasson, Allegro, and Plaincourault was somewhat distorted by that article being commissioned by a particular journal (The Journal of Higher Criticism) with particular requirements for style, audience interest, and scope.

Similarly, the subject of the Egodeath theory was somewhat distorted by the article being commissioned by a particular magazine (Salvia Divinorum) with particular requirements for style, audience interest, and scope. Thus the article doesn’t represent the true, native, inherent shape, structure, and outline, and balance of emphasis of the Theory-in-itself.


The particular article was proposed by and written for the editor of Salvia Divinorum magazine, and therefore needed to lead with an emphasis on Entheogen History, followed by Loosecog as the second major section.

In that context, for that audience, the first main section needed to focus on Entheogens with Metaphor as a subtopic of that, rather than the inverse. However, as exemplified in Carl Ruck’s corpus, we’ve seen the limitations of treating the entheogenic plants themselves as the main focus of what’s revealed.

o The plants are only important because of the loosecog they cause.
o Loosecog is only important because of the Fatedness it reveals.
o Fatedness is only important because of the Noncontrol it reveals.
o Politics is only important after the revelation core is revealed, as a mere application of the core technology after that technology is created and grasped.
o Ahistoricity is only important as preliminary clearing-away of confusion that blocks conceptual coherence and clear understanding.
o Metaphor is only important as a vivid communication of the actual knowledge content.

Thus the hierarchy of importance and subsuming topics is like:

Cybernetics (the only truly import. revel’n: nature of self-ctrl agency)
… Fatedness (only important b/c reveals cybernetic noncontrol)
…… Loosecog (only important because of Fatedness it reveals)
……… Entheogens, Enth Hist (plants only import. b/c cause lcog)
………… Ahistoricity (only import. as prelim confusing-clearing)
………… Politics (only import. after core revealed, as appl’n of tech)
………… Metaphor (only import. as vivid comm’n of knowl content)

Cybernetics
… Fatedness
…… Loosecog
……… Entheogens, Entheogen History
………… Ahistoricity
………… Politics
………… Metaphor

That’s the reverse of the main article’s outline, which is:

Entheogen History (incl. Ahist’y & Politics, mention Metaphor)
Loosecog
Fatedness
Cybernetics

______________________________

The sequence in which I developed the main Theory topics:

Cybernetics: Spring 1985 (roots to homework mgmt 1976)
Loosecog: October 27, 1985
Fatedness: January 11, 1988
Metaphor: 1998, milestone November 14, 2001
… Ahistoricity [check posting dates]
… Politics (applied revelation)
… Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
______________________________

The main topics in the outline of my main Theory-specification article:

The Entheogen Theory of Religion [Entheogen History]
… Politics & Ahistoricity (combined as 1 level-2 section)
… brief mention of Metaphor
The Dissociative Cognitive State [Loosecog]
… including Metaphor
The Block Universe and Frozen Worldlines [Fatedness]
… including Metaphor
Self-Control and the Hidden Source of Thoughts [Cyb’ics]
… including Metaphor
______________________________

The main topics arranged as 3 Pillars and 1 Appendix:

1. Cybernetics
…… Control
…… Communication
…… Teaching/Learning
2. Fatedness
…… Fatedness
…… Worldlines
…… Block Universe
3. Loosecog
…… Entheogens
…… Mental Construct Processing
== Appendix: ====================
4. Metaphor
…… Ahistoricity
…… Politics of applied enlightenment
…… Communication:Encoding
…… The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion


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Group: egodeath Message: 5667 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: As above, so below; interp’d as torch held up & down
Noncontrol and Fatedness co-imply each other, although they are distinct, as I thought, and as Mithraism shows (“scientifically confirming my hypothesis prediction”).

The 3-level tauroctony depicts forced thoughts (Sol) and thought-noncontrol (Luna) as what’s torch-illuminated above the cave ceiling, and depicts Fatedness (snake) as what’s torch-illuminated below the cave floor — showing that Mithraism considers the revealed topics of noncontrol and fatedness as two distinct, yet co-illuminated factors or conceptual principles.

Mithraism diagrams personal control cognition in tauroctony diagrams, with separate levels for heimarmene and for the coupled division of mental control into uncontrollable thought-giver (Sol; transpersonal self) and helpless thought-receiver (Luna; personal self);


The cave of the mind is lit-up above by the torch held up making perceptible the uncontrollable thought-source in the coital process of forcefully injecting thoughts into passive helpless thought-receiver and forced executor;

The basement underneath the cave of the mind below is lit up by the torch held down to uncover to make perceptible the guiding track of snake-shaped heimarmene laid out permanently embedded in the worldline of each person suspended in the spacetime block.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5668 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 26/11/2011
Subject: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
In what sense does false ego exist? Degree of Being of ego?

In what sense does Ego (the deluded egoic self-concept or mental model) — labelled as ‘Persephone’ — exist, before/during/after initiation?

How does the mental model regarding the ego-delusion change during initiation? Does the degree of existence of ego change during initiation? Does the false ego exist more before initiation than after?

Where did the abstruse, pointless philosophizing about Degrees of Being come from? What’s the real purpose of Semantics and Analytic Philosophy?

After initiation, does Demeter have access to Persephone? In what sense? To what extent? In what positive and negative sense? That is, after initiation, in what sense does Demeter have access to Persephone, and in what sense does Demeter not have access to Persephone?

The term ‘Persephone’ by definition means “the delusory, nonexistent, false-ego aspect of personal thinking”. Any truth statement about ‘Persephone’ applies to “the false ego” as well, by definition.

Demeter has more being than Persephone. Demeter is wheat, Persephone is chaff.


Bracketing-aside the crass literalistic issue of whether Jesus existed as a single identifiable historical individual, we come to the actual nature and spirit of the early debates about Jesus’ body and form, where ‘Jesus’ by definition means the same thing as ‘Persephone’: that is, “the false ego”.

Jesus exists less than Christ and God. Jesus is chosen and identified as destined for destruction, accursed, producing purification, cancelling of sin, and imperishable life. (All in a specific defined or definable sense, and not in another sense.)

Do you agree that Jesus needed to be baptized? This is not a question that is posed within a literalist context; it is a question within the domain of concepts about egodeath and the false ego as mental self-concept about personal control agency. That’s what early Christianity argued about, more than whether Jesus existed literally.

Do you agree that Jesus was sinless? If he was sinless (before he became Christ) then he is an alien creature. Was Jesus a creature, created? Same. For Jesus to be a figurative template model that each person follows, Jesus must be like normal people.

These questions have nothing to do with some presumed historical individual; they are questions about mental structures during mushroom initiation, when ego is seen to be illusory in some aspects, as a personal control agent, in the light of perceiving fatedness and noncontrol of the thoughts that the mind is forced to receive by the hidden uncontrollable transpersonal source of thoughts.


To have sin is to mistake the unreal egoic self as real — to be possessed by a demon. Persephone is demonic thinking. Is demonic thinking real? How real and how unreal is demonic, egoic thinking? Is demonic illusion-based thinking a real process, a real function? How so, and how much? What degree of Being does demonic illusion have?

Is the virtual ego real? Is the person who appears in the mirror real? (As distinct from the person who stands in front of the mirror.) In what sense does Harry Potter exist? (Asks the author of the book Jesus Potter, Harry Christ.) Have we fallen in love with our reflection? How real is your mental image of yourself before and after enlightenment through mushroom-initiation?

Once my mind recognizes mental error, is that mental error still available for use? Can the mind, or “the self” per Ken Wilber, then transcend and operate on the mental error, of ego?


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Books:

Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse
Arindam Chakrabarti
2010
http://amazon.com/dp/9048147883
“Philosophical problems regarding the logical status of empty (singular) terms such as `Pegasus’, `Batman’, `The impossible staircase departs in Escher’s painting `Ascending-Descending’+ etc., and regarding sentences which deny the existence of singled-out fictional entities. It will be fascinating for literary theorists with a flair for logic, to students of metaphysics and philosophy of language, and for historians of philosophy interested in the fate of the Russell-Meinong debate. For teachers of these aspects of analytic philosophy this will provide a textbook which goes beyond the Western tradition (without plunging into any mystical Eastern `Emptiness’, which is what some previous comparative philosophers did).”

[find my book title like:]
On the Existence of Fictional Objects

Fiction and Metaphysics
Amie Thomasson
1999
http://amazon.com/dp/0521065216
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Group: egodeath Message: 5669 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
God = Hades = uncontrollable thought-source
Christ = Demeter = helpless thought-receiver after initiation
Jesus = Persephone = false ego perceived as illusory during initiation = original self-concept as control-agent before initiation

The = symbol means “is in some ways isomorphic with”. Definition of those ways must be separately spelled-out using precise, transcendent use of semantics. Transcendent skill at semantics is an end-product of initiations, especially in the Egodeath theory which explicitly provides such language.

Persephone is abducted to Hades’ underworld.
Jesus or Christ descends to Hell or Purgatory to lift up and redeem the souls of the Prophets, Saints, and his Elect given to him by God the Creator before the foundation of the world (compatible with double-predestination).


Related to versions of predestination: Some theologians like systematic, consistent asymmetry:

o When we do evil (ie be egoic in our self-concept) our moral action is to be attributed to us as sinners.
o When we do good (ie be transcendent in our self-concept, perceiving that our thoughts are given to us uncontrollably) our moral action is to be attribute to God, not to us.

This inconsistency or asymmetry reflects that our conception of moral agency changes from freewill delusion to no-free-will enlightenment, during initiation/purification/regeneration. We are changed from a freewill thinker to a no-free-will thinker through initiation.


Before I was initiated, I was a morally culpable agent and I set myself up as ruler independent from God, and considered myself the controller of my thoughts, and the giver of my thoughts; I gave myself my own thoughts; I created my own thoughts, as a control-agent. “I control my thoughts.”

After I was initiated, I thought of myself as not a moral agent, and consider God the ruler and giver of my thoughts.


To be fair, and precise, one could say that ego is not “false”, but rather, is *vague*, a sort of first-order approximation — just like advocates of determinism have a self-concept that’s not so much false, as too-vague. The function of initiation is to perceive key infrastructure, and get clearer about determinism, and aspects of noncontrol, and aspects of control. To say “Persephone = false self-concept”, can be accused of being too vague, too crude, not granular enough to be fully meaningful.

It is good and fair to consider initiation as *problematizing* egoic self-concept and our sense of freedom and control-power — initiation as infra-personal Philosophy: “What goes on in the egoic, personal mind? How is illusion utilized in the mind, to get control-things done? What perspectives are possible?”


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Group: egodeath Message: 5670 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: In what sense does Ego/Perseph. exist? Degrees of Being
A consistent conception of Jesus as sinless is that the child Jesus understood Egodeath theory prior to being initiated. During mushroom-wine Passover-themed banquet initiations, Jesus had a deepening, actual experiencing, of no-free-will, Fatedness, and noncontrol of his thoughts given by God the uncontrollable thought-source. He went from a youthful state of intellectual, ordinary-state based belief in no-free-will, to an adult, initiated state of *experiencing* this perspective.

So Jesus didn’t *need* mushroom baptism in the Holy Spirit of loosecog perspective, to gain basic understanding of personal control-agency, but he did need that initiation-series in order to test and deepen the associations, which he already intellectually understood.

A person could be sinless nowadays by reading the Egodeath theory several times, and then as an already sinless and washed-clean, purified person before initiation, the person could then go on to experience a series of water-diluted wine initiations, which would deepen their sinlessness.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5671 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Caduceus: mycopercep shows sep ctrl-lev relations/harmony
Two Snakes: When there are two balanced snakes in a symbol, 1 is Male (= uncontrollable thought-source), 1 is Female (helpless thought-receiver). The pair constitutes and depicts the structure of personal control in the mind. There is often a depiction of ‘perceiving’, indicating loosecog as given by mushrooms. The caduceus for example is a symbol of perceiving the two distinct locuses of control that operate in the mind.

The snakes aren’t identical. One is male, one female. They are complementary, not identical.

Two snakes, one on top with wings and crown, one on bottom with no wings, no crown, forming a cup: the upper snake is male, lower female.

Upper snake = sun, staff, spear, phall = uncontrollable thought-source

Lower snake = moon, cup, wound, womb = helpless thought-receiver


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Group: egodeath Message: 5672 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Main religious myth systems I explain
My main focus is listed first. I should post a summary of my mapping of Egodeath theory to each metaphor-system, similar to the annotated approach in Carl Ruck’s Greek Myths book.

Christianity, God, Christ, Jesus, Dove, demons, Virgin Mary, purgatory
Imperial Ruler Cult, Caesar, Jupiter, Eagle, Victory
Mithraism, Sol, Luna, bull, snake, torchbearers
Demeter, Persephone, Hades, Eleusis, Triptolemus
Dionysus, King Pentheus, Maenads, Ariadne
Daedalus, labyrinth, Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne
Neoplatonism/Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism (lower planets, Saturn and fixed stars, the heavens above the fixed stars)
Platonism: cave, ascent, Good, shadows
Western Esotericism: snake, alchemy
Perseus, Medusa, Gorgon

As an infrastructure design principle, the non-metaphor based Core theory ideally should contain concepts that cleanly map to each metaphor-system. It might be impossible to have a single static set of concepts that cleanly maps to all metaphor-systems, due to conflicting ways of grouping concepts in various metaphor-systems.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5673 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure in Mithraism via Cyb/Heim/LCog/Metaph
Invincible Mithras is the Unconquerable god, the Invincible god, the Unconquered god. That’s because Mithras there represents ego-killing, ego-disproving, ego-overpowering power; the lower, personal, helpless thought-source portion of the mind’s control system (control-thinking) cannot control the higher, transpersonal, uncontrollable source of thoughts, which Mithras controls or Sol controls.


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Group: egodeath Message: 5674 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion
The Extreme Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion is too vague, too mild, and not ambitious enough. It’s too vague about what is revealed by entheogens; it commits the very error Ruck makes: it focuses on the plants themselves, whereas the ancients were more ultimately concerned about, or at least as concerned about, what visionary plants reveal: noncontrol of thinking, and heimarmene.

The Extreme Radical Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of All Culture and Topics
The Cyberfatedelic Theory of All Religion and Culture
The Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion
The Cyberfatedelic Theory of Culture

The Cyberfatedelic Theory of All Religion and Culture holds that an elementary prerequisite to any topic is that everyone must be able to apply the Egodeath theory to it — not as a constraint on thought, but as an always-available point of reference to open up thought. For example, any discussion of freewill interpretations of Physics need to begin with everyone being routinely familiar with Fatedness as pictured in the elementary theory of Egodeath.

The Cyberfatedelic theory is utterly elementary and basic, the obvious starting point and point of reference. There’s no valid reason for anyone to not be familiar with it, like 8th grade math is routinely expected and assumed to be at everyone’s command as a matter of course.


Throwback, unambitious positions are listed first:

The Minimal Entheogen Theory of Religion — There’s no authentic religion based on visionary plants. Mircae Eliade’s day, you could say this — now, it’s politically incorrect and scholars know that they would be laughed out of court for saying this; it would make them look completely out of touch, living under a rock.

The Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion — There’s some entheogen use in authentic religion.

The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion — Religion must include entheogens to be valid; entheogens are the reference criterion for authenticity of religion.

The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture — Authentic religion and culture necessarily is based on entheogen use.

The Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion — Authentic religion is based on entheogen use to perceive personal noncontrol of thoughts, in conjunction with fatedness (an experienced life is a worldline in a
changeless block universe).

The Maximal Cyberfatedelic Theory of Religion and Culture — Authentic religion and culture is based on entheogen use to perceive fatedness and personal noncontrol of thoughts.


Maximal, moderate, and minimal entheogen theory
http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5675 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver
Paul Thagard’s 3rd criterion for a superior theory is that it explains and maps to the terms of the previous theories, explaining why they seemed right but are not as right, while providing broader scope of explanatory power and greater conceptual coherence. By that measure, the Egodeath theory or Cyberfatedelic theory is a superior theory than the “sun worship” theory and the “fertility/s*x worship” theory, because the Egodeath theory provides a better explanation of why there is the appearance of sun worship and s*x worship, very commonly throughout world religious history.

uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver
lingham–>yoni
male–>female
man–>woman
sun–>moon
object–>reflection
king–>queen
plug–>socket
source–>sink
puppetmaster–>puppet
master–>slave
amphora–>cup
spear–>wound
phall–>womb
object–>shadow
alive–>ghost
wand–>cup
driver-gear–>driven-gear
engine–>driveshaft
fountain–>cave
lord–>subject
controller–>controlled
dominant–>submissive
upper–>lower

The sun-worship fallacy
The fertility-cult/s*x worship fallacy
These were not the ultimate target. These are not religious topics. But experiencing and perceiving your own thoughts being overpowered by a higher power, is and feels religious, terrifying, awesome, destabilizing. The sun is the source of light. The moon reflects light. The uncontrollable thought-source, made perceived by mushrooms, produces thoughts and those thoughts then appear to originate (especially in the OSC) from the helpless thought-receiver, but mushrooms’ loosecog makes the mind perceive that the thoughts don’t actually originate from the lower, local, normally visible portion of control-functioning in the mind. Thus sun–>moon and phall–>womb are excellent analogies, well-selected, to represent ….


Egodeath is also shown to be a superior theory to the “literal snake worship” theory of religion, based on the Egodeath theory’s recognition of ‘snake’ as representing mushroom-induced perceiving of the fated worldline of mental constructs in changeless spacetime. The snake-worship theory has only weak conjectures about why anyone would worship snakes. The new Mystery Cults book from Princeton


right-hand–>left-hand
God said “But Jonah, the people of Nineveh are children, they don’t know their left hand from their right, and you expect I should strike them down?” Consider “knowing your left hand from your right” as perceiving in loosecog that your personal control system consists of an uncontrollable thought-source and helpless thought-receiver.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5676 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver
Thus “sun–>moon” and “phall–>womb” are excellent analogies, well-selected, to represent the two components of control, two separate locuses of control in the mind, constituting enlightened personal control thinking and a more accurate model of personal control thinking than the pre-initiation egoic mental model:

uncontrollable thought-source–>helpless thought-receiver


The new Mystery Cults book from Princeton by Hugh Bowden: the end of the book covers snake handling in current Christianity, but this is literalism and emotionalism, not ancient snake-shape understanding.

Mystery Cults of the Ancient World
Hugh Bowden
2010
http://amazon.com/dp/0691146381
http://google.com/search?q=%22Mystery+Cults+of+the+Ancient+World%22+Bowden
Princeton
Bonus: acknowledges the entheogen theory, in the standard official doctrinaire diminishing way. Thousands of scholars make this move in all the books: nowadays to publish in this field, you *must* show that you are aware of the entheogen theory, and you *must* treat it as briefly as possible, in a diminishing way. This has become the standard routine treatment, or non-treatment, or mis-treatment, of the day, in the Prohibition-complicit official academic press. It would be interesting to collect a few hundred of these toe-the-line statements; “Pay no attention to the mushroom behind the curtain!”


The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: A Quest for Unity in Consciousness
Andrew Weil
1980
http://www.erowid.org/library/books/marriage_of.shtml
The final chapter is titled same as the book.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5678 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Social-political use & abuse of mystic revelation
Christianity doesn’t provide *anything* that other schemes (in their valid configuration/form) don’t also provide, in terms of mysticism, purification, regeneration, revelation, conversion, new life, and salvation (of the actually existing type).
Group: egodeath Message: 5679 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Rebis diagram: horiz & vert pairs, 2 meanings of ‘lower/higher’
The Rebis diagram is a control-components/transformation image.

The Rebis diagram contains two distinct systems of two items: a horizontal contrast and a vertical contrast. This reveals a kind of figure-of-3, like 3 circles with two on the top, one on the bottom. The Rebis diagram exposes the ambiguity — or better, that there are two distinct meanings — of the terms ‘higher’ and ‘lower’, and ‘egoic’ and ‘transcendent’.

Multiple mappings are legitimate, as long as they are defined. Thus a fully adequate Egodeath theory must be double the size; double the mappings.

When you say ‘higher’, do you mean the more sophisticated model of control (bi partite) (as within the context of contrasting the before- and after-initiation models), or do you mean the uncontrollable thought-source within the context of the more sophisticated model of control?
When you say ‘lower’, do you mean the less sophisticated model of personal control (pseudo-autonomous; pseudo- uni partite), or do you mean the helpless thought-source within the context of the more sophisticated model of control?

The initiate ends up with a mental model that has the following concepts:
o The autonomous control model before initiation (before loosecog perception and the resulting mental-model transformation)
o The uncontrollable thought-source
o The helpless thought-receiver
o Loosecog perception of the uncontrollable thought-source forcing thoughts into the helpless thought-receiver.

The Rebis diagram centrally depicts a person with two heads (male and female) standing on a winged dragon-serpent that’s on a winged sphere underneath with geometry symbols, and the rebis man-woman holds geometry instruments.

All seven planets are shown, alluding to Ptolemaic/Neoplatonic astral ascent mysticism. The sphere of the fixed stars is suggested by the star shapes of the planet symbols, and is near the bounding egg shape. The sphere of the fixed stars = Fatedness/heimarmene. Mercury = Hermes = messenger carrying the caduceus two-snake message from the gods, is shown in the Rebis diagram as above the man-woman, between and above the sun and moon.

Mars = male symbol, Venus = female symbol, are shown in stars by the king; that male/female pair alludes to uncontrollable thought-source and helpless thought-receiver. To the right of the andro-gyne are the symbols for Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn is associated with ego-sacrifice at the Fatedness/heimarmene level (fixed stars) in standard Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism. Mapping the two main concepts of what’s revealed in loosecog: perceiving noncontrol maps to the Mars/Venus pair, and perceiving Fatedness/heimarmene maps to the Jupiter/Saturn pair.

androgyne = andro-gyne = male-female = man-woman

hermaphrodite = herme(s)-aphrodite

Sun is prominent, near man’s head (sometimes crowned, thus king).

Moon is prominent, near queen-head.

King = ruler = locus of control in the mind = hidden uncontrollable thought-source.

Queen = ruler = locus of control in the mind = visible helpless thought-receiver.

Dragon = serpent = egoic control thinking, repudiated as illusory during initiation and purification and refinement of thinking.

Wings on sphere = mushroom loosecog perceiving of control dynamics in the mind.

Winged Dragon = mushroom loosecog perceiving of control dynamics in the mind, such that egoic control-agency self-concept is seen as delusion, a delusion that however is useful and props up the enlightened, Rebis mind. Egoic serpent thinking is replaced by Rebis, two-ruler, sacred marriage thinking.


“Separate and coagulate” refers to both the loosecog state and to differentiating and unifying the two locuses of control that are always operative in the personal control functioning of the mind, but are not consciously explicitly mentally modelled or understood until after the series of mushroom initiations.

Enter the loosecog state, perform mental model transformation of autonomous control into bifurcated personal/transpersonal control, then return to tightcog state, possessing the old, uni partite and the new, bi partite models of personal control agency.

1. Before initiation: Start with the mental model self-concept as single autonomous control-agent (the dragon that’s later stood on).

2. During initiation: Enter loosecog, making mind perceive that personal control consists of uncontrollable thought-source inserting thoughts into helpless thought-receiver. Then see that those two locuses of control are united (coagulated).

3. End of initiation: Finally, the mind contains two distinct mental models of control: the “egoic, single autonomous locus of control” model below, and the “two distinct unified locuses of control” model above (the Rebis). The mind still remembers and utilizes the “single autonomous locus of control” mental model of personal control power, but the mind after initiation also includes a more detailed, sophisticated mental model of personal control as “bi partite, two distinct unified locuses of control-agency”.


The Rebis man-woman holds geometry instruments, indicating comprehension and rational understanding of the underlying principles of the world. The geometry-understood world, or Earth (symbolized and identified as “dot in circle”) is winged, indicating rational knowledge that’s perceived in the altered state (mushroom-induced loosecog). The geometry symbols of circle, 3, 4, jointed compass, and right-angle square, represent Rationality, Reason, Logic, Intelligence, Measurement, Mapping, Surveying, Analysis, Perceptiveness, Assessment.

A somewhat equivalent symbol from the domain of Engineering would be the Boolean truth table for logical AND, combined with a latching relay circuit (the foundation of digital computers). The Egodeath theory is encoded by the Rebis and can be encoded in representations from Engineering, including the Arabic mathematical symbols 1 and 0.

The truth table uses the binary number system:
0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100…

A * B = A AND B
0 * 0 = 0
0 * 1 = 0
1 * 0 = 0
1 * 1 = 1

A + B = A OR B
0 + 0 = 0
0 + 1 = 1
1 + 0 = 1
1 + 1 = 1


1 = uncontrollable thought-source = male
0 = helpless thought-receiver = female

Also, expressing the vertical contrast of andro-gyne above, dragon below:
1 = bi partite model of personal control = hermaphrodite (andro-gyne) in Rebis diagram
0 = uni partite model of personal control = dragon in Rebis diagram

In models of contrasting aspects of personal control agency, “higher” and “lower” can refer to either:
o The enlightened model of control: the uncontrollable thought-source and helpless thought-receiver (the horizontal pair, andro-gyne)
o The deluded, uni partite model of control.

Reading A:
‘Higher’ can refer to the uncontrollable thought-source, in the bi partite model of personal control.
Reading B:
‘Higher’ can refer to the bipartite model of control, as opposed to the lower, uni partite model of control.

Consider the image of Michael the Archangel spearing the dragon/serpent/basilisk: this can be legitimately read as either:
Reading A:
Michael = uncontrollable thought-source
serpent = helpless thought-receiver
or
Reading B:
Michael = bi partite control
serpent = uni partite control

The general theme of “two things”, or “the person has two natures” can mean either:
A. Personal control agency is uncontrollable thought-source and helpless thought-receiver.
or
B. Personal control agency is initially modelled per the egoic model, and then is modelled per the transcendent model.

The final, single, whole, integrated, post-initiation person has 4 distinct natures: in the order in which our 4 natures are revealed during the initiation sequence:
1. Pseudo-autonomous control agency (the dragon)
2. Loosecog perception/pure awareness (the star above and center, Mercury/Hermes)
3. The helpless thought-receiver (female head, moon; also Venus because female)
4. The uncontrollable thought-source (male head, sun; also Mars because male)

1. First, before initiation, you experience yourself as autonomous personal control agent, controller of your thinking and will.
2. During traditional mushroom initiation, you enter the state of loosecog perception.
3. You experience yourself as helpless puppet at the mercy of a hidden uncontrollable source of your thoughts that are forced upon you threateningly, until you identify and sacrifice, repudiate, your claim to have power over your thinking.
4. You experience yourself as identified with the transpersonal uncontrollable source of thoughts.
5. As expressed in the Rebis diagram, in the end, you end up identified with each of the above, now distinguished and integrated in your final mental model of personal control agency.

I map no-free-will or heimarmene to Saturn, and therefore map pseudo freewill (at an advanced, Titan stage of initiation in Ptolemaic/Neoplatonist astral ascent mysticism) to Jupiter.

“Egoic vs. transcendent” can mean either:
A. The helpless thought receiver is egoic control, and the uncontrollable thought-source is transcendent control of the mind’s thoughts.
or
B. The pre-initiation model of control is egoic thinking, and the post-initiation model of control is transcendent thinking.

“I have egoic and transcendent thinking.” That can mean either:
A. My mental model of control comprises two parts: the uncontrollable thought-source and the helpless thought-receiver.
or
B. My mind possesses and utilizes the pre-initiation mental model, which is egoic thinking, as well as the post-initiation mental model of personal control, which is transcendent thinking.


Sometimes the Rebis is shown holding a mushroom-wine cup that contains 3 cybercontrol snakes. One important meaning of ‘3 snakes’ is:
One of the upper snakes = uncontrollable thought-source
Other upper snake = helpless thought-receiver
Lower snake = pseudo-autonomous personal control agency; animalistic crude, primitive, youthful/childish uni partite model of personal control.

The two upper snakes there represent together the bi partite intelligent, sophisticated, adult, mature, bi partite model of personal control.


In a similar woodcut diagram, a star and crowned bird is shown above a king standing on a sun and queen on moon. The star and bird are loosecog perception of how personal control thinking works in the mind. The three (crowned bird, king queen; = star, sun, moon) are depicted as interlinked though distinct.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5680 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Rebis diagram: horiz & vert pairs, 2 meanings of ‘lower/higher’
Rebis images:
http://google.com/search?q=rebis&tbm=isch


Mapping the Rebis diagram to the tauroctony diagram of Mithraism, by using the non-metaphorical Cyberfatedelic theory of religion:

Given that the Rebis cleanly maps to the Tauroctony, this definitely indicates that an adequate structuring and presentation of the Cyberfatedelic theory must define equivalent, non-metaphorically expressed concepts that cleanly map to the associated elements in the Rebis and Tauroctony.

In this sense, metaphor-schemes teach (and inform and give information to) the non-metaphorical explanatory theory/framework. Theory learns from data; theory is shaped (organized, in-formed) by data. Theory is informed by data.

bull = dragon = Theory element A
Mithras = andro-gyne, sometimes shown as king-queen ruler = Theory element B
Sol = sun & male head = Theory element C
Luna = moon & female head = Theory element D
“looking”-ray = star/Mercury/Hermes = Theory element E

Thus by using the Theory to identify the mappings between metaphor-systems, we determine which mappings are standard and frequently utilized in metaphor-systems, and then adjust the Theory layout or architecture, or refactor the object-oriented design and Separation of Concerns in the Theory, to ensure that the Theory contains primary, named elements that map cleanly to many of the metaphor-systems that are the data or phenomena to be explained.

Thus the design-work for the Theory constructor to do amounts to filling-in the following component-map, toward constructing a diagram of the Theory, in this case, the Cyberfatedelic Theory of Ego Transcendence. It amounts to an assignment.

____________________________

Assignment:

Given the following symbol equivalence mappings between the Rebis diagram and the Tauroctony, provide concept labels and definitions for a non-metaphor based explanatory theory or framework that emphasizes Personal Self-Control Cybernetics Agency, Fatedness/Heimarmene/Determinism, and Loose Cognition from Mushrooms.


bull = dragon:
Theory element A is well-labelled as ‘__’, which term is defined as __.

Mithras = andro-gyne or king-queen ruler:
Theory element B is well-labelled as ‘__’, which term is defined as __.

Sol = sun & male head:
Theory element C is well-labelled as ‘__’, which term is defined as __.

Luna = moon & female head:
Theory element D is well-labelled as ‘__’, which term is defined as __.

“looking”-ray = star/Mercury/Hermes:
Theory element E is well-labelled as ‘__’, which term is defined as __.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 5681 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/11/2011
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure in Mithraism via Cyb/Heim/LCog/Metaph
Rock birth, birth from a rock: the mushroom loosecog state makes the mind perceive the changeless spacetime block universe, and a person’s entire life as a frozen worldline embedded in the spacetime block like a vein in a block of marble. The transcendent self-concept is born then. Born from seeing the block universe. Born from a rock. Rock birth.


Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.

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Group: egodeath Message: 6351 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 03/12/2013
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Group: egodeath Message: 6351 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 03/12/2013
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture

quick & dirty blurry compressed version of video lecture about the chalkboard diagrams (also see the static photo, which is clearer):

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Group: egodeath Message: 6352 From: Vincent McHugh Date: 17/12/2013
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Received your latest transmissions of Dec 1,2,3
Sending out thoughts of love, support and safety with you on your path of this important work.
A few thought that mesh with your own;
Entheogenic produced temporary suspension of ego conditioning allows access to transcendent states but does not guarantee it. It is necessary to have a “prepared heart” in order to benefit from these experiences. 
The most difficult is to embrace your own annihilation, and to endure the intensity of the boundless transcendent state. Leary said, “The random spinning of the mind must be centered on prayer”.
 A necessary background in metaphor and myth is needed to assimilate these experiences into a coherent worldview. Some background in psychology, which essentially is a mythmaking discipline, is needed as well.
 In the ancient world the mysteries were concealed from the young and those that did not have sufficient preparation for the experience.
 Today this prohibition is echoed in the legal system that recognizes its dangers but makes no provision for its benefits. The state of the transcended ego is a reversion to our primary state (our true birthright) that has been concealed by our cultural and linguistic conditioning.
 This is what McKenna means when he say’s “culture is not your friend” These states are not specific to any culture or religion but are a reality that we wrap in the cultural contexts we have available to us to enable us to speak of what is otherwise unspeakable.
In other words, to quote Alfred Korzibsky “The map is not the territory”   


On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:13 PM, “egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com” <egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
quick & dirty blurry compressed version of video lecture about the chalkboard diagrams (also see the static photo, which is clearer):
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Group: egodeath Message: 6353 From: Vincent McHugh Date: 17/12/2013
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Received your latest transmissions of Dec 1,2,3
Sending out thoughts of love, support and safety with you on your path of this important work.
Entheogenic produced temporary suspension of ego conditioning allows access to transcendent states but does not guarantee it. It is necessary to have a “prepared heart” in order to benefit from these experiences. The most difficult is to embrace your own annihilation, to endure the intensity of the boundless transcendent state. Leary said, “the random spinning of the mind must be centered on prayer”. A necessary background in metaphor and myth is needed to assimilate these experiences into a coherent worldview. Some background in psychology, which essentially is a mythmaking discipline, is needed as well. In the ancient world the mysteries were concealed from the young and those that did not have sufficient preparation for the experience. Today this prohibition is echoed in the legal system that recognizes its dangers but unfortunatly makes no provision for its benefits. The state of the transcended ego is a reversion to our primary state (our true birthright) that has been concealed from us by our cultural and linguistic conditioning. This is what McKenna means when he say’s “culture is not your friend”. These states are not specific to any culture or religion but are a reality that we wrap in the cultural contexts we have available to us to enable us to speak of what is otherwise unspeakable. In other words, to quote Alfred Korzibsky “The map is not the territory” 


On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:13 PM, “egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com” <egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
quick & dirty blurry compressed version of video lecture about the chalkboard diagrams (also see the static photo, which is clearer):
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Group: egodeath Message: 6360 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/07/2014
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6361 From: andrewfplunkett Date: 13/07/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Thanks for sharing this, it was very interesting to watch.  I had trouble with the link and I had to remove the facebook URL and change the URL encoded characters to their normal form, but got it to work.  In case anyone else has trouble with the above link, this is the version that worked for me:

IMG_6466.MOV – Google Drive

 

Group: egodeath Message: 6362 From: Scott Finch Date: 13/07/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
It immediately influenced my studio practice and the imagery in my artwork. Thank you.

On Saturday, July 12, 2014, andrewfplunkett@… [egodeath] <egodeath@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thanks for sharing this, it was very interesting to watch. I had trouble with the link and I had to remove the facebook URL and change the URL encoded characters to their normal form, but got it to work. In case anyone else has trouble with the above link, this is the version that worked for me:

IMG_6466.MOV – Google Drive

IMG_6466.MOV – Google Drive
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Group: egodeath Message: 6363 From: Kurt Date: 18/07/2014
Subject: [Obituary] Stephen Gaskin (1935-2014)
“To me this is the real inner meaning of the Vow of the Bodhisattva:

The deluding passions are inexhaustible, I vow to extinguish them all.
The way of the Buddha is unattainable, I vow to attain it.
Sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them all.
The truth is impossible to expound, I vow to expound it.

By the time I get this far, I generally lump them
together as,

“I vow to shovel shit against the tide forever.””

— Stephen Gaskin, Cannabis Spirituality, 1996, 1st. Ed.,
High Times Books, New York, pp 6-7

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10946714/Stephen-Gaskin-obituary.html

Stephen Gaskin – obituary

Stephen Gaskin was a teacher who led a caravan of hippies across
America to found a commune built on tradition

04 Jul 2014

Stephen Gaskin, was a self-confessed “professional hippy” who became an
unlikely presidential candidate.

As a proponent of love, peace and harmony, he co-founded “The Farm” – a
spiritual community of like-minded tie-die clad, vegetarian,
pot-smoking pacifists – in Summertown, Tennessee, in 1971. It became
the largest hippy community in the world and an example of an effective
self-sufficient subculture.

As a potential leader of the free world – campaigning in the primary
elections of 2000 – Gaskin was a Green Party hopeful with a mission to
introduce universal health care, reform financial institutions and
legalise marijuana.

Although he failed to win the Green Party ticket for the presidential
poll he fought a frank and funny campaign. “Did you inhale?” he was
asked about his personal experience of marijuana. “I didn’t exhale,” he
answered.

Stephen Gaskin was born on February 16 1935 in Denver, Colorado, and
had a peripatetic, eclectic upbringing that, while atheist, was
inclusive of various cultures. His father was variously a cowboy,
builder, mail clerk and commercial fisherman and Stephen was raised
throughout the south west of America, with periods in Santa Fe,
Phoenix, and San Bernardino. “I’d been to so many different places I
had to learn how to make friends on purpose,” he recalled. He
maintained that his freethinking was hereditary, noting that his
grandmother was a suffragette and his great uncle helped the
longshoreman’s union in San Francisco.

Gaskin served in the US Marine Corps between 1952 and 1955, during
which time he fought in Korea. During the Sixties he lived in San
Francisco, where he taught English, semantics and creative writing at
San Francisco State University, working under the celebrated linguist
and semanticist SI Hayakawa.

Gaskin’s formal teaching grew into a more personal and philosophical
pursuit through his experimental “Monday Night Class” – an open
discussion group involving up to 1,500 students and held in 1969 and
1970 at a huge auditorium in the city’s Bay Area. His classes ranged
from “Group Experiments in Unified Field Theory” to “Magic, Einstein,
and God”. In these gatherings he discussed “consciousness, the
spiritual plane, religion, politics, sex, drugs and current events” –
all viewed through the kaleidoscopic lens of the Sixties counterculture
movement (and its psychedelic pharmaceutical refreshments). Unified by
the hippy sensibility, the classes formed the genesis of the group that
settled at The Farm.

In 1970 Gaskin led 250 people in a caravan of “20 or 30 old buses” from
San Francisco to Tennessee on a four-month lecture tour of churches and
colleges. “The farther we went, the more people there were who joined
the caravan,” he said. “Pretty soon there were three or four hundred of
us and the police were meeting us every time we crossed a state line.”

As a location for a commune their pocket of Tennessee countryside, with
its blackjack oaks and Amish communities, held mixed blessings. Though
the thousand acres of farmland they bought was cheap, it was closer to
the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan than it was to a main road or a
hospital.

The community that Gaskin built was not based on free-love – its core
values included the sanctity of marriage, importance of hard work and
respect for the Tennessee locals: “You can’t jive anybody who’s
teaching you how to run a tractor. It’s something to watch a cat who
was once with the Hell’s Angels being taught to run a tractor by an old
man – and being respectful to that old farmer.”

Eventually, applicants to join The Farm required sponsorship by a
resident, a plan for their livelihood, and an explanation of what they
might bring to the community. They then had to pass a probationary
period.

Gaskin’s attitude to drugs also followed a – relatively – conservative
line. “Don’t lose your head to a fad,” he said. “The idea is that you
want to get open so you can experience other folks, not all closed up
and off on your own trip. So you shouldn’t take speed or smack or coke.
You shouldn’t take barbiturates or tranquillisers. All that kind of
dope really dumbs you out. Don’t take anything that makes you dumb.
It’s hard enough to get smart.”

In 1974, however, Gaskin went to prison for possession of marijuana.
“After we’d been here for a while, we got busted for growing a hundred
pounds of grass in the back,” he said. “And we weren’t sure whether the
neighbours were more uptight with us for doing that or for being so
dumb that we planted it in the deer trails where every hunter who came
through could see it.”

He served one year of a three-year sentence. On his release he
discovered that his voting rights had been rescinded. He sued the
government and after a series of lower court victories won his case, in
1981, at the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Under Gaskin’s guidance The Farm’s ethos extended well beyond its
geographical boundaries. The community supported aid efforts in
Guatemala, Chernobyl, Belize and the Bronx in New York.
Meanwhile, his wife, Ina May, developed a respected free midwifery
service for residents and “outsiders” alike – she turned down an offer
to be privately flown to Hollywood when Demi Moore went into labour.
Other on-site ventures have also flourished, from book publishing to a
soy dairy.

Gaskin was a prolific writer. His books on hippy spirituality include
The Caravan (1971); Hey Beatnik! This is the Farm Book (1974); and
Amazing Dope Tales and Haight Ashbury Flashbacks (1980).

In 2004 Gaskin was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame,
joining the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and his own wife, Ina May.

While The Farm was home to thousands in its heyday, there are presently
just 200 residents – the majority of whom are over 50. It is, however,
one of the longest running communes in America. When asked in old age
why the community survived, Gaskin emphasised its practical approach.
“We were hippies wanting to live together and we accepted the
discipline it took to do that,” he said. “Utopia means nowhere. The
Farm has a zip code.”

Stephen Gaskin was married and divorced three times before he married
Ina May Middleton. She survives him with their two sons and a daughter,
along with a daughter from his second marriage and a son from a
“non-marital relationship”. Another son predeceased him.

Stephen Gaskin, born February 16 1935, died July 1 2014.



Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha

— Prajna Paramita Sutra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra



See also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/us/stephen-gaskin-hippie-who-founded-an-enduring-commune-dies-at-79.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/stephen-f-gaskin-founder-of-the-farm-commune-in-tennessee-dies-at-79/2014/07/03/5bc44a1a-02c0-11e4-b8ff-89afd3fad6bd_story.html

http://www.tennessean.com/story/life/2014/07/01/stephen-gaskin-founder-farm-dies/11934969/

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/the-farm-summertown-timeline/11936383/

http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/stephen-gaskin-1935-2014.html

http://www.thefarm.org/
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Group: egodeath Message: 6368 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2014
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6408 From: egodeath Date: 14/12/2014
Subject: Test post

Test post from MH.

Group: egodeath Message: 6409 From: opuslola@… Date: 14/12/2014
Subject: Re: Test post
It seems you have been hacked. Dating sites abound in my e-mails.

—–Original Message—–
From: egodeath@… [egodeath] <egodeath@yahoogroups.com>
To: egodeath <egodeath@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 14, 2014 4:05 pm
Subject: [egodeath] Test post



Test post from MH.
Group: egodeath Message: 6410 From: egodeath Date: 14/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
The photos from Rome by Cyberdisciple bolstered my focus on the image of a snake on a debranched tree, which is shown in books.  There are two paintings, in black and white, which came together Thanksgiving week 2013.  I haven’t recounted the intellectual events from Thanksgiving week 2013 through June 2014.  Staff of Asclepius the healer.  Any combination (esp. pair) of key metaphor symbols implies the entire system: snake/tree, king/tree, snake/pole, worm/bush.  

I have photos of Post-It Notes and art book entries showing how to completely condense the metaphors expressing what is revealed in the mystic state: heimarmene & cybernetics; fatedness, personal non-control (of a key type), and a new idea missing from the 1988 Core Theory: monopossibility, which is the missing link connecting block universe fatedness to personal nullity of control-power.  I explained my summary post-it notes to baristas.  I should describe and post the photos of the post-it notes with maximally condensed, maximally expressive metaphor-diagrams.

Branching possibilities is an illusion; there is only one truly possible path frozen in spacetime.  The more potent the Egodeath theory is, the simpler and more extreme.  There are only two perspectives; we switch from the first to the second.  (And they might talk of “transcending” the second perspective.)  From the false, tree perspective (Possibilism) to the snake perspective (Eternalism).  Mythic metaphor describes the switch from the Possibilism perspective to the Eternalism perspective.
Group: egodeath Message: 6411 From: egodeath Date: 14/12/2014
Subject: Re: Test post
Monitoring.  Might turn off postings.  Might moderate posts.
Group: egodeath Message: 6413 From: egodeath Date: 14/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
My 2006 main article is missing monopossibility/ theory of nonbranching (of possibility).  At ‘stag’… ‘animal’ for example.  Ancients considered the idea of nonbranching to be key and ultimate, given the ultimate position of the image of snake on debranched tree, as in the staff of Asclepius and the donkey with rider reaching the snake on debranched tree.

The concept of Rock (meaning the block universe) gets no attention — fatal oversight.  Rock is as important as snake, king, and debranched tree.  

tree/pole/branch/stauros/stake refer to nonbranching (of possibility).  King on tree = king on cross = king on pole/stauro/stake.  Monopossibility kills the steersman king, everything now recognized as being frozen into rock (spacetime).

— Original R&D by Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6414 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
By “Original R&D”, I had in mind “original research and original discovery”.

Searching for ‘branch’ in the Egodeath Yahoo group shows that I first posted about Possibilism vs. Eternalism September 11, 2007.  The search shows that I developed, discovered, and recognized the Theory of Nonbranching (of possibility) in religious mythic metaphor, during 2011 and 2012.  In the video recording of December 2, 2013, when I said I researched tree vs. snake during the past year, I meant “around a year ago”.  But as always, a “new” idea, an insight breakthrough, has roots going back years.

I have yet to post why my Thanksgiving week discovery that “tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism” was huge.  And why the total fallout from that breakthrough was huge.


April 1987 — A sudden stylistic change; mental construct processing; domain of control; loose cognition; use of acronyms (condensed abbreviations of phrases).  I became a real independent thinker, or idea developer, at that time.  This could be called a breakthrough in approach to modeling thinking, as mental construct processing; mental construct association matrixes.

January 1988 — Block universe breakthrough; birth of the Core Theory.  Main breakthrough.

November 2001 — Reading Revelation, realized the joking metaphors expressing no-free-will; thus got my desired-in-1999 confirmation that “Jesus and Paul assert my Egodeath theory” (as I put it in 1999).  Birth of the Phase 2 theory: religious mythic metaphor describes entheogens revealing fatedness and personal non-control.  A peak breakthrough.

~2003, discovered snake/serpent means Heimarmene (block-universe fatedness).  (Search the Egodeath Yahoo group to see my development trajectory from hypothesis to confirmation.)  An essential key breakthrough.

2006-2007 wrote the main article.

Thanksgiving week 2013, a peak breakthrough: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism.  This was also based on long-term work on the problem of interpreting the story (or story-twist) of tree of knowledge (of good & evil) at the start of the Bible/Old Testament.  Developed this recognition and breakthrough through June 2014, perfecting the diagram of king/tree/snake/rock/puppetmaster/fate-steering-rail.  Staff of Asclepius the healer.  snake on pole, ram caught in bush, king in tree (had been working on Dionysus story of king Pentheus caught up in tree, and “king hung from a tree” in bible (OT & Jesus) for years).  


After the video lecture Dec. 2, 2013, I refined the idea of “meta-steering” — I can clarify that idea, but it does come down to some kind of “meta-steering” is an illusion throughout our experience of being a power-weilding control-agent.  We do a kind of steering, but we lack a kind of meta-steering.  There is change, but not meta-change.  There is pseudo-possibility branching, but only one actual possibility, the one fated and frozen in future spacetime.

Thanksgiving 2013, I had been working on multiple mytheme-interpretation problems for years, including story of tree of knowledge, and Dionysus in tree, and Jesus’ death on a stauros (stake)/cross/pole.  That also led to my full ability to read the Villa of Mysteries fresco, which I haven’t yet posted (huge breakthrough or application of the Egodeath theory’s interpretation scheme to decipher religious mythic metaphor).

January 21, 2014, figured out, and discovered the problem of, the Staff of Asclepius the healer.  Drew Post-It Note explaining the Staff of Asclepius.  Later (I have dates), refined the Post-It Note diagram condensing the metaphors for switching from Possibilism to Eternalism.  Later, June 14 2014, I discovered the interpretive principle that any pair of key mythemes implies the entire system; king on cross = serpent on pole = worm eating bush = king on tree. Broke through in interpreting, fully reading, Villa of Mysteries fresco.  Brought together the Theory of Nonbranching (of possibilities) using 2011-2012 work on branching and nonbranching in mushroom trees, snake/hydra, Typhon father of all monsters, monster living hidden in fountain in cave; hydra (ironic branching of the non-branching Heimarmene snake) vs. nonbranching tree (ironic nonbranching). 

— Michael Hoffman, December 14, 2014, Original Research, Original Discoveries: religious mythic metaphor describes entheogens revealing Eternalism and the illusory nature of meta-steering

Group: egodeath Message: 6415 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
In my 2006-2007 main article, I wasn’t satisfied with “time pole”, as an explanation for Moses’ healing snake-on-pole.  Daily I see debranched trees alongside highway construction, holding up telecomm panels forming a grid.  How do you make a pole?  You find a tree and cut off its branches.  A pole is a debranched tree; the emphasis is not pole=time, but rather, pole=monopossibility — that’s an error in the main article.

The goddess turned the hunter into “an animal” — that is an error in the main article; should say “turned him into a stag with branching antlers and his hunting dogs killed him; negating Possibilism”.

I have carefully analyzed the kylix (mushroom wine drinking saucer) showing Jason spewed forth dead from giant snake, ivy-strand tree where branching is hidden by the Golden Fleece (compare ram caught in bush, in sacrifice of Isaac).  That is the black & white image on the cover of the book Greek Mythology, which inspired my Thanksgiving 2013 tree vs. snake breakthrough when I turned the page of the Joseph Campbell book and saw in black & white the Eve half of a diptych painting, by Cranach the Younger and/or Elder, buddy of Martin Luther, showing Eve holding branch of tree of knowledge, branching antlers behind her, holding branch in front of her.  

Pretty big breakthrough around June 2014, fallout from tree vs. snake breakthrough: I re-did some Web research on Calvinism and found the great book “The Dark Side of Calvinism”, which proves that the hyper-calvinism asserted by John Calvin himself asserts God as the author of evil.  This led to my complaint and observation again, that people misunderstand the nature of ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’; there are two meanings: reward/punishment for freewill egos, vs. mystic-altered-state experiencing of hellish turmoil until sacrifice the egoic freewill power claim.  

Thus, I discovered that Calvin’s extreme Calvinism is correct (systemically coherent) but conventional view of heaven&hell as reward/punishment for egos is incorrect; it’s the lower view in mass religion, not the esoteric revealed higher meaning of ‘heaven’/’hell’.  Rob Bell & Progressive Christianity rejects ECT (Eternal Conscious Torment).  Hell is the loosecog state for purification to remove freewill thinking from our thinking, to become divinized and coherent and healed.  Hyper Calvinism is correct (coherent) but Hell is not what Calvinists think.  Calvinism is true but its Hell is false.  Religion has a lower, false interpretation, and a higher, true interpretation.

Prior to the November 2013 tree vs. snake breakthrough, I had been searching the Web for “block universe”, thinking “*Surely* people have seen the profound implications”.  That period of re-doing some Web research deeper, set up the Thanksgiving 2013 recognition that tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism.

An idea is a connection-network.  An insight is a greater degree of connections, and key revisions (Paul Thagard’s book Conceptual Revolutions).

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist.  Original research and original discoveries.
Group: egodeath Message: 6416 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
URL for my video lecture on “tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism”, at Google docs, not as clear as the uncompressed original file.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8qHZAfuY9KxclRzMzJPUjRwRVk/edit?usp=docslist_api
Group: egodeath Message: 6417 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
The link (for my shared video file at Google Docs) isn’t working on my iPhone 6 Plus. The file is at Google Docs and I can view it in my Google Docs account. I plan to upload the video to Egodeath.com, uncompressed.
Group: egodeath Message: 6418 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Best glass oil rig design
Part of the fallout from my Thanksgiving week 2013 tree vs. snake breakthrough is that I thought of this glass oil rig design for vaporizing honeycomb or other texture of cannabis oil: a snake winding up a debranched tree per the Staff of Asclepius the healer; a key feature is the emphatically cut-off branch stubs, asserting the fatedness snake and repudiating the assumption of multipossibilities and our egoic control power of meta-steering among those possibility branches. We steer along our preset steering-rail that is frozen into the spacetime block per Eternalism.

Some glass oil rig designs seem to be unconsciously heading this direction in the abstract, with a snake-like spiral of glass winding around a plain glass cylinder, without debranched stubs, without tree trunk or branch features.

— original research, discovery, & design by Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist, 2014
Group: egodeath Message: 6419 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: To upload
Web image searches showing the staff of Asclepius, Moses’ serpent on a pole, and Hercules’ club — all as a debranched tree.

Video lecture on tree vs. snake, uncompressed

Villa of the Mysteries fresco images with my full deciphering


Books:

The Dark Side of Calvinism

no historical Paul (Robert Price)

ahistoricity of Mohammed

Richard Carrier’s book on ahistoricity of the Jesus figure
What the fall of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll means for the Egodeath theory; ersatz substitute lower Christianity vs. bona fide higher Christianity.

Martin Ball’s explanation of oneness and we are part of God.



False, lower Islam.

Criticism of attempts to combine God’s goodness & omnipotence, criticism of shielding God from being the author of evil in order to save ethics.

Progress in stopping the war on drugs. Countering antidrug attitudes; adolescents naturally seek drugs and ego death insight, which is spiritual maturation. God is puppetmaster of the evil, delusion-preserving prohibitionists, who have power because God put them in that role, frozen helplessly in spacetime. Forgive the prohibitionist puppets, blame God instead.

Expanding the condensed list of metaphors thread, such as rock stone statue marble.

Photos: Post-It Notes showing snake tree king rock steeering hand-of-God; summaries of metaphor imagery combinations.

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6420 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: To upload
When I wrote the Wasson Plaincourault article, I learned to never trust my memory or impression of what someone wrote, but always triple-fact-check and quote. Especially given weaselly, politically evasive, self-contradictory writings on history of visionary plants in Our cultural history (R Gordon Wasson, Richard Schultes).

I often think that I have written directly on a point, making a particular point explicitly — but when I try to find my writeup, to point to it, I can’t find anything but a slight allusion to the idea in my online published writings. Therefore, I must write anew about things and points I have supposedly covered before. A fresh writeup is the only way to be sure my clearest best latest ideas have been written up. Partial repetition ensures development/evolution of my writings. I wrote about branching and nonbranching (of possibilities that are supposedly open to our personal domain of control/steering power) multiple times between 2011-2012, before the connections exploded into complete recognition of religious mythic metaphor such as nonbranching mushroom trees. “Repeating” my writeups develops the ideas (connection-networks).

— Michael Hoffman, the discoverer of no-free-will in religious mythic metaphor
Group: egodeath Message: 6421 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: To upload
I want to transcribe the video lecture about my discovery that tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism.

–Michael Hoffman, Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6422 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Dates for Priority of Discovery, from photos and their timestamps:

Friday, November 29, 2013, 7:42 pm (the day after Thanksgiving): I discovered that tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism, upon seeing the right half of this painting in black & white, together with the cover of Fritz Graf’s book Greek Mythology: An Introduction, which shows the kylix/mushroom-wine saucer showing Jason spewed dead from the giant Heimarmene-snake, while Athena (with snake-fringes and death-face) and owl looks on, with ram golden fleece hung in nonbranching ivy-strand quasi-tree. This was one of my top 3 all-time breakthroughs.
img_6414.jpg photo of page of a large Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers book “A. Eve tempted by the Serpent, Lucas Cranach, ca. 1530.”

That was interwoven with recognizing many depictions of person’s head coming forth from a snake, including Eve’s head. I want to inventory and upload pictures of these.


December 2, 2013: chalkboard video lecture on tree vs. snake.

Jan 3 2014 6565jpg found king in tree shot by bow and arrow in esoteric drawing confirming Egodeath theory. De Alchima, Leyden, 1526. Fountain section of esoteric art book.

January 24, 2014: figured out staff of asclepius, drew Post-It Note for Karen barista: “mono-possibility tree- rigid serpent: your future possibility = fatedness. [branch stubs =] illusory virtual-only possibility branch per freewill. Staff of Asclepius the healer”

feb 9, 2014 6604 jpg. draft Post-It Note condensing mythic imagery expressing realization/revelation of no-free-will. led up to refined:

February 11, 2014: gave Post-It Note to Levi barista cosmetologist with gold ink accents, left side: king steering in tree “king with power of steering and control in open future possibility tree”; right side: puppet king steering along fixed real snake path and of God puppetmaster from cloud. lacked indication of rock universe cave surrounding all that, though. “puppet forced to steer by uncontrollable puppetmaster along rigid snake path”

March 9, 2014: 6662-6672 jpg: I drew excellent, refined, condensed diagrams and text in art signing book at coffeehouse, titled Religious Myth Deciphered. snake on pole moses, staff asclepius, debranched club of Heracles, fully mature diagram in metallic multi color ink: appearance reality king tree steering pump at snake rock rigid rock universe with text including:
left side: “normally we experience as an autonomous king with steering power in a multi-possibility tree, with open future.

“King with power of steering and control and open future possibility tree.”
[ there is a mushroom in the middle of the diagram]
right side: “After mixed wine, we experience as a puppet forced to steer a long a pre-existing snake-shaped rail, mono possibility. We have virtual possibilities and a single actual possibility, our path frozen in rock. Puppet forced to steer by hidden uncontrollable puppetmaster along rigid snake path.”

— original research and discoveries by Michael Hoffman, based on research since 1985
Group: egodeath Message: 6423 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
“and of God puppetmaster from cloud”
should read:
hand of God puppetmaster from cloud

“appearance reality king tree steering pump at snake rock rigid rock universe”
should read:
[left side:] Appearance [right side:] Reality
king tree steering puppet snake rock (rigid rock universe)
Group: egodeath Message: 6424 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
“right side: puppet king steering along fixed real snake path”
should read:
right side: puppet king steering along fixed rail snake path
Group: egodeath Message: 6427 From: egodeath Date: 15/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
John Earman has articles about non-branching spacetime, and about varieties of determinism (which “is still a matter of debate”).

Pruning Some Branches from “Branching Spacetime”. 2008
http://pitt.edu/~jearman/Earman2008a.pdf

Aspects of Determinism in Modern Physics. 2007
http://pitt.edu/~jearman/Earman2007a.pdf

Reassessing the Prospects for a Growing Block Model of the Universe. 2008
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13214/
Group: egodeath Message: 6428 From: egodeath Date: 16/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
I declare a moratorium on Relativity and Quantum Physics. They add confusion that prevents us from doing first things first; the first thing is to fully grasp block-universe fatedness. In 1900 it was possible to think about the iron block rock universe, possible to grasp the full ramifications of no-free-will. But we didn’t have that clarity, and then we piled-on Relativity and QM and then got ourselves lost in equations, confusions, preventing from ever thinking clearly and simply. So we had to wait until my main article of 2006-2007, and my addition of monopossibility in 2013-2014, to see a full clear view of the entire system of simple block-universe no-free-will, in Philosophy, Psychology, religious experiencing, mythology, and Physics. It’s like trying to learn C++ programming without understanding C programming: step 1 has to be for everyone to understand the Egodeath theory.

— Michael Hoffman, pointing to the simplest ideas first
Group: egodeath Message: 6429 From: egodeath Date: 16/12/2014
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
Why was the tree vs. snake breakthrough experienced by me as so surprising, profound, fundamental, and wide-ranging in ramifications?

I discovered and showed that spacetime physics, and the philosophy of it, is closely aligned with the ancients’ concern with tree, snake, king, rock, steering, searching, death, and myth. Spacetime physics talks of spacetime worms, branching possibility tree, a line of possibility into the future, a tree trunk of what transpired in the past.

I was looking for stag antlers in Greek myth but found them at the tree of knowledge — multiple separate research projects slammed together when I combined seeing Lucas Cranach’s branching-focused tree of knowledge, various human heads coming out of snakes, and the Jason in Garden of Hesperides kylix (mushroom wine drinking saucer).

My research on mushrooms found that we should consider ergonomic the seeminglyly arbitrary use of mixed wine — this is an original announcement: the throwing away of the mushroom dregs, not ingesting the mushroom pieces, might be important to make mushroom extract safer and more psychoactive in proportion to toxicity. Using a krater mixing bowl for a batch enables redosing and controlled dosage, thus lengthening the session and tempering the peak. Thus imitating the way mixed wine was used could be key to increasing the effectiveness of mushrooms.

Ancient Near Eastern religion clearly, evidently, must have understood tree vs. snake and the centrality (crux) of Possibilism vs. Eternalism. Cranach’s painting implies that so too did the Cranaches, Luther, and Calvin. The story of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, this tree and snake, is fundamental and foundational at the start of the Bible. Jesus compares himself with Jonah and the fish (sea serpent spewing forth a man) and Moses’ healing snake on a pole. The tree of knowledge as pointing out the crux as branching vs. nonbranching possibility, extremely confirms my focus on block-universe determinism, giving me far more confirmation than I imagined possible. I felt lightning arcing to connect Greek myth and Jewish stories, as well as Ancient Near Eastern religion, when I put together the Jason kylix and Eve’s branching tree. perfect elegance of expression of the best distinction in philosophy of time: is the future a single preexisting possibility path, or branching? If nonbranching, egoic meta-steering power is dead illusion. Ancients understood but spacetime physics is lost in its complexity and struggles to think about this most basic contrast to its full extent. Only mythic visual art imagery is simple enough to strip away the inessentials and represent what’s at stake, what the two options are and their ramifications: is future possibility tree-shaped, as we initially assume, or snake-shaped?

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist, December 16, 2014
Group: egodeath Message: 6430 From: egodeath Date: 16/12/2014
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
A little patch of preserved forest I walk in frequently, looking at mushrooms, put me consciously in the same context as ancients: I knew that just like them, I could think about the basic fundamental ideas: branching paths, branching trees, steering decisions, non-branching mushrooms. I leveraged this timeless simple framework of thinking, provided by this forest patch, to ask what ‘sacred crossroads’ meant, 2011-2012.

— Michael Hoffman, Dec. 16, 2014
Group: egodeath Message: 6431 From: egodeath Date: 16/12/2014
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
All the complexities of determinism in Physics debates simply reduces (boils down) to branching vs. nonbranching possibility, and a concommitant scope of personal control possibility-steering power. Physics in the tightcog state fails to emphasize and perceive {possibility nonbranching interlinked with control-agent non-meta-steering} as the crux of the matter systemically, or else Physics would recognize this theme at the heart of religious mythic metaphor.

There is some sporadic disorganized discussion of no-free-will and illusory agent responsibility, in Physics and in Reformed Theology, but the pieces haven’t been systematically and simply brought together and reduced-down to fundamental clarity, until my tree vs. snake discoveries of 2011-2014.

Either there are branching possibilities and we have meta-steering power suitable for selecting which branch we enter, or there is only one real possibility frozen in place in the future, and we lack the kind of steering power to deviate from that branch (extended trunk).

Elaborate discussions of spacetime models in Physics, and of the order of salvation in Reformed Theology, put forth distracting and irrelevant twists and views and alternative wording, that hides this fundamental simplicity of the opposition and contrast between these only two models of possibility and control.

Thus writers don’t even know the simple worldmodel of Eternalism and noncontrol, even as they assert or reject no-free-will. A specific, focused, relevant connection-network of ideas and metaphors is required but missing from the Physics discussions and Calvinism/TULIP/Reformed Theology discussions.

— Michael Hoffman, simple fundamental thoroughgoing Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6432 From: egodeath Date: 17/12/2014
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
Popular paranormal Physics, pop spirituality, pop pseudo-Calvinism, pop religion, pop thinking — is based on sand, on a foundation premise of possibility branching with egoic steering power and open future. Before mixed wine initiation (loosecog), we think “open-possibility steering power”.

That is the default initial assumption, unstated, taken for granted throughout our thinking; the only way we know how to think, until we are dynamically shown the nonbranching way and its non-meta-steering. Oedipus steered but couldn’t steer away from his destined rail. Anyone who isn’t focusing on comprehensive nonbranching and non-meta-steering (Eternalism), automatically habitually assumes Possibilism; open future, multipossibility branching, metasteering power.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6433 From: egodeath Date: 17/12/2014
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture
In a txt msg I sent June 15, 2014, I alluded to the important idea/principle:

Any pair of key mythemes, or combination of key mythemes, implies the entire classic system of using metaphors to describe visionary plants revealing fatedness and personal non-control.

For example:
snake in tree,
brass serpent on pole,
dead king on tree/pole/cross,
ram caught in bush,
winged eye on pole w 2 snakes coupled,
Snake around pole (debranched tree).

That is a distinct principle of myth.

from txtxs:
photo caption:
“King snake in tree. (crown) A compound mythic image”

With that idea (“mytheme pairs represent the entire system”), my theory of religious mythic metaphor is complete. My 1988 Core Theory, and my 2007 main article, lacked “nonbranching/monopossibility”- a mandatory idea which is as important as the tree/snake contrast eg tree of knowledge of good/evil, which represents/expresses the idea of monopossibility, like king oedipus’ inability to deviate from his fated path; our future is frozen in rock and “alternative paths” are illusory. My 1988 theory & 2007 article didnt see the crucial, fundamental “monopossibility/ possibility-nonbranching” idea & mythemes, discovered 2012-2014.

Any pair of key mythemes represents the entire system of metaphors for visionary plants revealing fatedness & personal non-control.

That important idea/realization was june 15 2014 or couple days later. that was the last key idea to play out from the thxgivingweek 2013 tree-vs-snake breakthru over course of 6 mo 20 days.

Myths closely related:
king on a cross
king caught in a tree
ram caught in a bush
worm eating at Bush; various combinations, conjunctions are interesting

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist; original research
Group: egodeath Message: 6434 From: egodeath Date: 17/12/2014
Subject: Re: Paul’s road conversion = Balaam’s donkey conversion
A key characteristic of the donkey is that it automatically follows a path, like a steering mechanism that follows along a rail – the heimarmene snake rigid rail frozen into the future.

On a sarcophagus (a casket made of rock), a relief shows a man riding carried by a donkey along a path leading to a snake on a debranched tree. The man is not holding reins steering the donkey. The donkey is one’s steering-activity, which is frozen into the rock future, frozen carved in the spacetime rock block universe from the timeless moment of creation.

— Michael the Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6435 From: egodeath Date: 18/12/2014
Subject: Bk: Cosmology and Fate (Lewis)
Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)
Nicola Denzey Lewis
2013
http://amazon.com/o/asin/9004245480

Book review by Michael Hoffman:

Title of review: You are ignorant slaves of fate; we have been released
5 out of 5 stars

People in Mediterranean antiquity including Jews, Pagans, Gnostics, and Christians, around the 1st Century, believed in fatedness. Then around the 2nd Century, people adopted a rhetoric of transcending fatedness, while disparaging other people or the other groups as being ignorant and being slaves to fate. This book supports the 3-tiered systematic analysis in my Egodeath theory, in which we move through three stages during initiation experiences:

1. Ignorant freewill thinking.

2. Enlightened realization of fatedness and personal noncontrol. This stage disparages stage 1 (ignorant freewill thinking).

3. Transcending fatedness to gain a transcendent freedom. This stage conflates and disparages stage 1 (ignorant freewill thinking) and stage 2 (realization of fatedness and personal noncontrol).

Lewis’ analysis is not as systematic, but supports this explanation of how stage 2 was first positively valued and then later was negatively valued.

Lewis shows that competition and rhetoric inflation led all the groups (Jews, pagans, Christians, gnostics) to praise themselves as having true freedom and disparage the other people as being both ignorant (per stage 1) and slaves of fate (as realized in stage 2). People didn’t complain of themselves being enslaved by fate; they disparaged other people as being ignorant and enslaved by fate. However, during initiation, as I have analyzed, the experience of fatedness and personal noncontrol give rise to panic and egodeath, which amounts to suffering enslavement by fate.

Lewis misses this point and understates the intensity of ancient experience of enslavement to fate; she argues that enslavement to fate was mere rhetoric, but in fact enslavement to fate was intense peak experiencing. Lewis’ theory is literary scholarship unplugged from intense, lightning-bolt, ancient experiential transformation of consciousness. Once this connection is made, from initiation experience to the encounter with fatedness, Lewis’ book can be corrected and recognized as relevant to explaining the heart of religious origins in antiquity.

— Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theorist
Posted first at Amazon on Nov. 11, 2014

Contents (my transcription from the hardcover):
Introduction
Chapter 1: Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists?
Chapter 2: Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos
Chapter 3: ‘This Body of Death’: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis
Chapter 4: ‘Heimarmene’ at Nag Hammadi: ‘The Apocryphon of John’ and ‘On the Origin of the World’
Chapter 5: Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
Chapter 6: Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God
Chapter 7: Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis
Chapter 8: Astral Determinism in the Gospel of Judas
Chapter 9: Conclusions, and a New Way Forward
Selected Bibliography
Subject Index


Below is more about the book, which I posted originally in this post:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/6309


Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies
Nicola Denzey Lewis
http://amazon.com/o/asin/9004245480
Due out Feb 2013
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Religious Studies professor, specialist in Gnosticism.
Condensed by Michael Hoffman:
“Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement, with the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. Astrological fate in the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia. The concept of enslavement to heimarmene originated in Greek Stoicism, was deployed in the Pauline writings, and was later used by Christian and non-Christian second-century intellectuals. The ancient cosmos, its influence, and being free of its potentially pernicious effects. Gnosticism within the context of the intellectual history of the Roman Empire; emergent Christianity; the religions of Graeco-Roman antiquity.”

Contents:
Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists?
Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos
This Body of Death: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis
Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World
Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God
Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom
Astral Determinism in the Gospel of Judas
Conclusions, and a New Way Forward

Same author:
Introduction to ‘Gnosticism’: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds
Nicola Denzey Lewis
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0199755310
2012
Oxford University Press
Group: egodeath Message: 6436 From: egodeath Date: 18/12/2014
Subject: Predestination and Free Will (Barry Clay)
Predestination and Free Will
Barry Clay
March 2014
http://amazon.com/o/asin/B00J8XHITG

Title of review: Freewillist, defines predestination as foreknowledge, not preordaining
4 out of 5 stars

Book review by Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com), posted June 8, 2014:

The author accommodates predestination by defining predestination as foreknowledge rather than preordaining. He attempts to use an exclusively freewillist solution to reconcile predestination and freewill assertions in the Bible.

The author doesn’t use a “sequential bi-modal meaning-switching” explanation to reconcile predestination and freewill assertions in the Bible. Per the Egodeath theory, the Bible initially asserts freewill to the uninitiated, and subsequently reveals no-free-will to the initiated, with two contrasting networks of meaning regarding ‘sin’, ‘saved’, ‘heaven’, ‘hell’, ‘heal’, ‘wine’, ‘exorcise’, ‘eternal life’, ‘good’, ‘evil’, and ‘die’. The Bible is based in a Reformed theology that systemically redefines these terms, and playfully contrasts the pre-initiation and post-initiation meaning-networks, for the purpose of building a populist egalitarian social-political network, in contrast to hierarchical Imperial Theology which utilized pagan initiation into no-free-will.

Clay’s writing is an example of the freewillist meaning-network of key words, which is the initial mode or layer of the bi-modal or 2-layer religion of New Testament Christianity.

— Book review by Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6437 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Bk: Around the Tree: Branching Future (Correia)
Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
Fabrice Correia (Editor), Andrea Iacona (Editor)
2013
http://amazon.com/o/asin/9400751664
Group: egodeath Message: 6440 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Bk: Around the Tree: Branching Future (Correia)
Publisher’s description

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future possibilities as branches that depart from a common trunk, constituted by the past and the present. However, the thought still needs to be further articulated and defended, and several important questions remain open, such as the question of how actuality can be understood and formally represented in a branching framework. The present volume is intended to be a 360 degree reflection on the tree model. The contributions is gathers concern the model and its alternatives, both from a semantic and from a metaphysical point of view. ​
Group: egodeath Message: 6441 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Bk: Around the Tree: Branching Future (Correia)
Group: egodeath Message: 6442 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Bk: Around the Tree: Branching Future (Correia)
Search term combinations:
possibility branching no free will
Spacetime worm
Worldline
World-line
“Spacetime worm”
Snake
possibility branching
no free will
“possibility branching”
“no free will”
Tree
Forking path
space time “worm theorist”
Trousers
Group: egodeath Message: 6443 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Bk: Around the Tree: Branching Future (Correia)
For example:
http://4chandata.org/x/Let-s-imagine-our-universe-in-the-fourth-dimension-It-would-appear-as-a-long-growing-snake-the-beginning-of-the-universe-in-the-fr-a70639

Stocking wrote 2012-09-24:
it looks more like a tree since there is a here and now. Not that the other possibilities don’t exist, however our one true existence makes a solid snake, unfortunately, the uncertain future has to look like a giant tree branching ahead of that snake.
… The snake that is history and the tree that is the future, and also the possible tree that is the past, the infinity that surrounds the one true timeline.
Group: egodeath Message: 6444 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
Intelligible, specific, articulate praise and clarification of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, alternating with vague and content-free disparagement:

http://www.psychonaut.com/general-psychonautics/35445-whats-happened-michael-hoffman-egodeath.html

Page 8 (2014):
http://www.psychonaut.com/general-psychonautics/35445-whats-happened-michael-hoffman-egodeath-8.html
Group: egodeath Message: 6445 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
The Egodeath theory is a breakthrough in many ways, including systematically, scientifically unifying and integrating the following fields:
Free will and determinism
Philosophy of Spacetime Physics including Relativity, Quantum Physics, block universe, time travel, many worlds/multiverse
Religious mythic metaphor
Entheogens, Psychedelics in terms of cognitive phenomenology
Cognitive science of altered states; LooseCog Science
Ahistoricity of Jesus, Paul, and other religious founder figures
Religious origins without historicity of founder figures
Western Esotericism; alchemy, magic, exorcism, astral ascent mysticism/astrology
Control agency
Gnosticism
Ancient Near East religion
Ancient mystery cults
Philology; how to read esoteric religious texts and reliefs and frescoes and imagery (eg hydra, Typhon, Medusa/king turned to stone)
Culture of Mediterranean Antiquity
Art interpretation
Jewish mysticism
Et cetera

— Michael Hoffman, theorist of mythic metaphor, entheogens, loose cognitive state, fatedness, and control-limits
Group: egodeath Message: 6446 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
Additional fields that the Egodeath theory enables integrating together intelligibly and cohesively:

Global universal world mythology from all religions


Rock lyrics (the authentic mystery religion of the late-modern era)

For example: Learning to Fly (Pink Floyd’s standout track), Help!, Stairway to Heaven, Black Blade, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, No One at the Bridge, Somewhere in Time, I Wanna Be Sedated, Twilight Zone (on 2112), The Body Electric; Free Will; find “lyrics” in the Egodeath Yahoo discussion group.

The consistent set of Heavy Rock lyrics, when recognized (like world mythology) as description of cognitive phenomenology of the entheogen-induced loose cognition state, provides confirmation of Egodeath theory’s interpretation of the other integrated fields: academics are untrustworthy and mislead, while Rock lyricists provide a relevant, reliable, more trustworthy report on entheogenic experiential cognitive phenomenology.

Movies: Matrix, Donny Darko

Any idiot can write “I disagree with Hoffman” and some do, but adding persuasive substance to that down-vote is impossible. Generally, thinkers agree with the enlightening value and merit of this integrative theory, or parts of it and selective applications of my Theory as an explanatory breakthrough paradigm that a given thinker is engaged with, though there is still powerful censorship, a discussion blackout, silenced voices of agreement.

— Michael Hoffman, the interdisciplinary Egodeath theorist
Group: egodeath Message: 6447 From: egodeath Date: 19/12/2014
Subject: Re: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
Lyrics: I meant to add here the true masterpiece, the *original* and only real release of the album Diary of a Madman. As an integrated concept album it is greater even than Caress of Steel or its Side B: Fountain of Lamneth. Academics under the boot-heel of the conditions of Prohibition can’t go there. Investigation of higher knowledge was relegated to Heavy Rock lyricists, such as the Professor on the drums.

— Michael Hoffman, King of the Madmen, king of the heads
Group: egodeath Message: 6448 From: egodeath Date: 20/12/2014
Subject: Re: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
There hasn’t been a disparagement of the Egodeath theory that is articulate, only drive-by reductionism that merely indicates the ignorance and lack of reading on the part of the commentor — lack of reading the Theory and lack of reading broadly across domains. I should continue developing in this correct direction I have been pushing. There is no actual pushback; there are no objectors really to write a rebuttal to, but only work to be done further clarifying the direction. It’s not a matter of rebuttal to critics, but purely a matter of further clarification pushing in the same direction I have always successfully pushed. There are no real critics of the theory, only a few inarticulate and vague mislabelings of the theory by those who are not qualified because their thinking and reading is too narrow to evaluate, or interestingly comment on, the Theory.

One person said the Theory is merely the same as Joseph Campbell. That indicates that the person has not read the Theory and is himself overly focused on Joseph Campbell.

These flippant, careless, lazy labellings of the Theory obviously say nothing about the Theory and its scope, but say a lot about the person who wrote the posting and about the limitations of scope of their thought. No one has written a disparagement of the theory or a rejection of it that is worth paying attention to.

Campbell is not wrong and gives partial insight. The only significant thing I got from Campbell so far was Cranach’s painting – rather, showing only half of the painting (one half of the altar dyptich), in black and white not color, which I connected (ignoring any text in the book, which was entirely unhelpful regarding the painting) to a black-and-white image of the Jason kylix (mushroom-wine drinking saucer) painted by Douros.

Someone wrote that the Theory has too much Christianity. That indicates they have not read the Theory except through a narrow filtering lens of blindness and that they have read a little pop Christianity and a little other religion.

Such bald assertions never have any attempt to justify or substantiate or spell-out their claim.
The only real, articulate criticism of the Theory has been on the effectiveness of meditation, but even there the person is not arguing against what the theory says but rather they are arguing against a misreading of the theory. I have always clearly emphasized (I like to think) that meditation is bunk because it “can” induce enlightenment but is extremely non-ergonomic.

The word ‘can’, in their biased, prohibition-complicit rhetoric, is misleading. Meditation *can*, “can”, induce panic attack and enlightenment — except, in fact and in practice, meditation does not, without psychedelics, lead to enlightenment about non-control and fatedness and recognizing religious mythic metaphor as referring to entheogens revealing Heimarmene and Cybernetics.

If you claim that you care about meditation, then you are wrong unless you also advocate our right to meditation with psychedelics otherwise you are just another Tool of the state, fraudulent authoritarian liars, prostituting yourself to be used by the prohibitionists – you are a sellout to the prohibitionist state and an enemy of actual religious experiencing.

To advocate meditation while belittling psychedelics is to be a fraud and to be complicit in Prohibition. Avocates of meditation who falsely belittle psychedelics are guilty and complicit in putting people in jail under fraudulent pretenses. They have the blood of today’s martyrs on their hands. If you advocate meditation, you must advocate psychedelics even more so, or else you’re acting foolish, spouting prohibitionist lies that oppress people.

The meditation advocates are privileged aggressors who cooperate, collaborationist with the prohibitionists. These drug-slandering meditation advocates’ thinking is infected by prohibitionist biased attitudes. These meditation bullies beat up on psychedelics, taking unfair cheap flimsy pot-shots from their privileged Establishment-friendly positions. Due to Prohibition-based censorship, no worthwhile writers are allowed to publish rebuttals to the absurd claims, the absurd put-downs that the meditation advocates make against psychedelics.


The Theory is highly interdisciplinary, but cheap inarticulate critiques, which are merely bald assertions, indicate lack of interdisciplinary awareness and indicate narrow reading all around.

One criticism is “I don’t like the Egodeath theory because I don’t like no-free-will.” That is not an actual critique. More relevant would be to say: given that the Theory emphasizes no-free-will (and monopossibility and a kind of personal non-control – experientially revealed through the loose cognitive state induced by Psychedelics, and described by religious mythic metaphor) as a master solution to many domains, how well does the Theory make that connection? That would be an actual critique of the Egodeath theory – rather than a mere blunt inarticulate dismissive labeling of supposedly the Theory. Does the Theory succeed at its actual claim?

If you critique the Theory, you must critique what the Theory is. The Egodeath theory is the proposal and discovery that metaphor describes Psychedelics revealing fatedness (our inability to avoid the preset future) and a kind of personal non-control, and that that formula enables bringing together some 20 fields that people puzzle over. That is the goal that the theory and the actual critique of the theory would have to be: does it accomplish that goal? These fields that the critique would have to mention include mythology, religious experiencing, altered states, metaphor, and agent control of the future.


Is no-free-will and monopossibility and non- meta-steering (“personal non-control”) the case?

o It is what we experience as revealed in the loose cognitive state induced by psychedelics.

o It is what thinkers in antiquity and various fields have thought and have argued and have represented in art and metaphor.

o It is the way that suddenly we can solve and integrate puzzling interpretation across some 20 domains.

The coherence theory of truth — by that definition of ‘truth’ — says the Theory is true.


If the Egodeath theory is not the explanation of all these puzzles, then what is? There is no explanation unless you count Renée Gerard whose theory of religious violence is utterly worthless and completely off-track, utterly failing to account for psychedelics, the altered cognitive state, free will as an urgently experienced problem inducing panic and a death experience, and personal non-control.

In Philosophy of Science, the theory of paradigm replacement fails to apply here, because the existing “theory” is no theory at all. Our situation is not analogous to Ptolemaic cosmology versus Copernicus. Rather, we have at best literalist misreading of myth in the ordinary state of consciousness, versus the altered-state-metaphor reading. There is no competition against the Egodeath theory. There is no theory that competes against the Egodeath theory; there is only mystification, head-scratching, or plainly wrong literalist supernaturalist reading, as far as the field of religion and myth.

It is not a matter of one theory competing against another for greater explanatory coherence; the situation is that we have no theory whatsoever, and are completely puzzled across these fields (spacetime, freewill, myth, religion, agent control, entheogens/altered states / multistate science ) and then this Theory successfully identifies the puzzles and solves all of the puzzles altogether, across all these domains, interdisciplinary. There are a few books on theories of myth — they are worthless and irrelevant and unhelpful. Those theories are not an effective competitor like Earth- vs. sun-centered cosmology are competitors.

— Michael Hoffman, the interdisciplinary, omnidisciplinary Egodeath theorist, December 20, 2014
Group: egodeath Message: 6449 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: Re: Others’ summaries of the Egodeath theory
Damned iPhone autocorrect. I turned it off but not in time. The name is Rene Girard.

I want to discuss my thoughts on phablets — lots of room for improvement — if I can keep it on-topic, relevant.
Group: egodeath Message: 6450 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: Prohibition-compliant meditation
There is a bait-and-switch on the part of (drug-free) meditation advocates. In their aggressive, overreaching, Prohibition-compliant put-down mode, they claim that anything psychedelics does, meditation does better (in particular, give enlightenment).

Then when effectively challenged on that unsustainable claim, they backpedal on what their position is, saying meditation is good for relaxation and that is the relevant goal.

Another contradiction to be deconstructed in meditation rhetoric: meditation is sold as giving enlightenment, and then when it fails as it practically always does, it’s claimed that only one or two people are good enough to reach enlightenment, and enlightenment is difficult and beyond our ability to communicate, and it is nebulous and is transmitted through magical power of touch from mystical authority to obedient follower, and that anyway the purpose of meditation is not enlightenment but merely relaxation anyway, thus changing their claims to far easier claims that they *can* meet, and denying that they made the previous aggressive grandiose claims.

Nothing is so twisted and crooked as the arguments of meditation advocates who sit in their privileged position, paid and egged on by the Establishment (Prohibitionist) press, spewing forth a self-contradictory mixture of praising and belittling psychedelics — an awkward politicized dance — similar to the hot and cold attitudes about psychedelics written by Richard Evans Schultes; Andy Letcher; Gnosis & Tricycle journals special issues on psychedelics.

There is an industry of selling ersatz spirituality in place of Psychedelics, similar to the Historical Jesus industry. Both of these false industries have to be policed vigorously, by the Establishment-compliant paradigm police, censoring any genuine treatment of Christian origins without historical founder figures or censoring any pure unequivocal praise of psychoactives.

You must equivocate, when writing about Psychedelics. Prohibition has not censored all forms of writing: prohibition has created a monstrosity of writing in a waffling self-contradictory way about psychedelics you’re allowed (permitted) to praise psychedelics as long as you also unfairly disparage them. The result begs for deconstruction, to point out the internal self contradictions in such writing.

— Michael Hoffman (Egodeath), December 20, 2014
Group: egodeath Message: 6451 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: Kenneth Humphreys on apologists for Jesus’ historicity
Kenneth Humphreys – a relatively new page at his site:
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/newapologists.html

If I were on a desktop PC I would quote some passages. This phablet is currently exhausting, tedious, and slow for basic text operations, discouraging that (until the tech industry reorganizes to optimize for this new capable mobile form factor).

It was probably Robert Price who quipped about “paradigm policeman”, probably referring to Bart Ehrman’s book weakly defending Jesus’ historicity.

Were I on a desktop PC instead of this tedious bleeding-edge 2014 phablet, I would quickly fill an evening posting about Richard Carrier’s new ultimate book asserting ahistoricity, and comparable books – Price on Paul’s ahistoricity; a book on Mohammet’s historicity (I think of variable spelling here as reflecting not caring, since founder figures are ahistorical).

Great work here by Humphreys. He elaborates my points, which are clearer than Carrier that I’ve read. As I put it years ago, we must define “Jesus didn’t exist” to mean: there was no *single* individual who was necessary for Christian origins, on whom Christian origins depended, without whom Christianity could not have been created. The Jesus figure is essentially composite, formed in a big crunch, not a big bang.

— Michael Hoffman (Egodeath), December 20, 2014
Sent from my primitive, crippled, not ready for prime time awkward mobile device
Group: egodeath Message: 6452 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: Entheogenshow.com podcast
I dedicate this post to guys who are 13, justified by Our own western mediterranean antiquity cultural history represented in Our mythic metaphor of ‘youth’ and ‘beard’ initiation and the ‘r*pe’ rapture carrying away carrying off of the ‘maiden’ which is us in our non-initiated youth phase; same as indigenous cultures we are.

http://www.entheogenshow.com

On the iPhone phablet in the Podcasts app I searched on “entheogen” and this new podcast came up as the only hit. I recommend episode three – they completely overlook Prohibition around October 6, 1966 as the cause of the flip of attitude from infusion[Apple bug: teach Siri voice-recognition the word ‘entheogen’]-positive to infusion[entheogen ]-negative in the writings that the establishment permits to be published.

[Simple elementary operations are impossible or extremely difficult and slow with a phablet today, until the industry fixes bugs to de-cripple it. with great difficulty I attempt to copy and paste the webpage episodes one through three descriptions below. as a temporary compensating Band-Aid I need my Bluetooth physical keyboard which I don’t have here.]

episode three suggests to me a profitable discussion three-way topics visionary plants I use that term because voice recognition recognizes it eastern religion western religion IPoint out eastern religion per James Arthur and others is based on visionary plants

eastern religion without visionary plants is fake and fraudulent because it denies the truth that the origin and true nature of eastern religion and meditation is visionary plants

the podcast psychedelicists take for granted the historicity of Jesus: Jesus as head psychedelic head. I found amplifying Carl rock[Ruck] that western religion in antiquity is visionary plants mixed with hierarchical or egalitarian social-economic politics and culture

Western religion in denial of its origin from visionary plants is fake ersatz substitute, in denial of the truth of its visionary plants origin and meaning.

My original research found that the idea in ancient myth is that ‘beard’ equals ‘initiated with mushroom wine’ (at the mushroom banquet the king-steersman is turned to stone; the youth is sacrificed when you see the rigid serpent frozen in the rock block universe) therefore the idea is that as with indigenous culture age 13, *AGE THIRTEEN* is the natural age of visionary plants to induce switching from the childish free will worldmodel of Possiblism (our Power steering among multiple possibility branches in the future) to the adult mental worldmodel of Eternalism (my word: mono-possibility) in which our future is a single pre-existing preset snake-shaped path that we discover and are forced to steer along.

— Michael Hoffman (Egodeath), head psychedelicist


#3:
Is the psychedelic experience “real”? Does that question have merit?

Is taking entheogens “cheating”? Why do people think so?

Is the entheogenic experience comparable to experiences achievable through meditation, yoga, shamanic drumming, etc., or is it substantively different?

REFERENCES:

Interview with Patrick Lundborg: 60’s psych & garage guru, psychedelic culture scholar and author of brilliant „Psychedelia” and „Acid Archives” books

002: PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH RENAISSANCE, PART 2 /OCTOBER 14, 2014

002: Psychedelic Research Renaissance, Part 2
Brad, Kevin, Joe

Brad, Kevin, and Joe discuss: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans – and you’re next

Stanislav Grof, 1975: “psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope is for astronomy”.

Professor David Nutt: “I think it’s the worst censorship of research since the Catholic Church banned the telescope.”

See also: Nutt calls the outlaw of entheogens “the worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo”

Carhart-Harris scanned test subjects’ brains with an fMRI scanner while they were on LSD, showing for the first time higher activity in the hippocampus, which is involved in memory.

Schedule I drugs: “high potential for abuse”, “no currently accepted medical use”, “lack of accepted safety” – LSD; really?

Carhart-Harris: “It’s slightly hypothetical, but it’s based on what we know about the way the brain works, which is that it settles into configurations of activity that seem to underly certain psychopathologies. Depression and addictions rest on reinforced patterns of brain activity, and a psychedelic will introduce a relative chaos. Patterns that have become reinforced disintegrate under the drug. I’ve used the metaphor of shaking a snow globe”

Carhart-Harris: “music can do a number of things. It can have a steadying influence, but it can also help facilitate emotional release.”
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001: Psychedelic Research Renaissance, Part 1
Brad, Kevin, Joe

– Kevin discusses his first encounter with the word Entheogen

– we discuss a recent article in the Daily Beast: Psychedelics Are Ready for a Comeback, featuring an interview with Tom Shroder, author of the new book, Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

“The whole idea that it was creating a generation of ‘valueless zombies’ or something or that healthy people would go crazy from taking one dose of psychedelics was never justified by the facts. It was never as dangerous as many other drugs that did become prescription drugs.”

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Group: egodeath Message: 6453 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: List of my claims to priority of discovery
I am the one who discovered these ideas (in the late-modern era): These ideas should spread recognized as my ideas, insights, breakthroughs.

Jesus of Necropolis, is the joke behind Jesus of Nazareth: he came from the cemetary city of the dead, the egodead. I am the one who recognized this mythic joke.

I am the one who recognized Help! as Lennon’s first LSD lyric and wrote about it on the world-wide web.

t b c

— Michael Hoffman (Egodeath), 50 years ahead of other theorists across fields
Group: egodeath Message: 6454 From: egodeath Date: 21/12/2014
Subject: Re: List of my claims to priority of discovery
One organizing structure for my firsts is my onionlayers; what is core and peripheral in my Theory:

from core to periphery:

cybernetics (personal non-ability to steer away from preset path)
fatedness
visionary plants
… mental construct processing; loosecog
metaphor (religious mythic metaphor)
ahistoricity of religious founder figures (Jesus Paul apostles Buddha Mohammed Moses Adam eve)

on the laptop in a 2013 2014 idea file I have a nice two column table: the two views regarding: cybernetics fate visionary plants metaphor and historicity. you either believe all *these* views in these fields or all of these *other* views, as an integrated set/system across these fields — The lower vs higher system of thinking & assumptions.

in Gospel of John and maybe Mark it is surprising how frequently Jesus makes fun of literalist clueless interpreters of the passages scream out mocking today’s clueless non-initiate yetlower thinkers full straight into the pit of literalism and cluelessness perfectly demonstrating what these passages laugh at. I noticed that recently and have not listed out these yet.

— Michael Hoffman Egodeath

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Group: egodeath Message: 6292 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: THE BIG STORY!!! REVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH!!!
Group: egodeath Message: 6293 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Academic pseudo-study of Myst’m: crippled, phony, censored, comp
Group: egodeath Message: 6294 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Myth-religion as comical puzzle, mystery-joke/riddle
Group: egodeath Message: 6295 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Academic pseudo-study of Myst’m: crippled, phony, censored, comp
Group: egodeath Message: 6296 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Myth-religion as comical puzzle, mystery-joke/riddle
Group: egodeath Message: 6297 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 17/01/2013
Subject: Re: Rock worship & the Rock altar of sacrifice
Group: egodeath Message: 6298 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 17/01/2013
Subject: Re: Entheogenic Reformed theology
Group: egodeath Message: 6299 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6300 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6301 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6302 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6303 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6304 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Re: Rock worship & the Rock altar of sacrifice
Group: egodeath Message: 6305 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Revelation is monstrous and attractive
Group: egodeath Message: 6306 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6307 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Group: egodeath Message: 6308 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/02/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6309 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Group: egodeath Message: 6310 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Group: egodeath Message: 6311 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Group: egodeath Message: 6312 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Asymmetry of Reformed theology
Group: egodeath Message: 6313 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Asymmetry of Reformed theology
Group: egodeath Message: 6314 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Group: egodeath Message: 6315 From: Vincent Bruno Date: 25/02/2013
Subject: Vincent Bruno
Group: egodeath Message: 6319 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/06/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6320 From: Joe Date: 12/06/2013
Subject: Forthcoming essay citing egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 6321 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/07/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6322 From: hahaonlysirius Date: 06/07/2013
Subject: Please repost “Mystianity” graduate thesis paper referenced by Micha
Group: egodeath Message: 6323 From: hahaonlysirius Date: 07/07/2013
Subject: Cancellation of the will
Group: egodeath Message: 6324 From: ajnavajra Date: 07/07/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will
Group: egodeath Message: 6325 From: Simon Date: 22/07/2013
Subject: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Group: egodeath Message: 6326 From: ajnavajra Date: 23/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Group: egodeath Message: 6327 From: Simon Date: 24/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Group: egodeath Message: 6328 From: tolderoll Date: 24/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Group: egodeath Message: 6330 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/08/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6331 From: letsrap@sbcglobal.net Date: 16/08/2013
Subject: What U-R Learning
Group: egodeath Message: 6333 From: letsrap@sbcglobal.net Date: 19/08/2013
Subject: Be Hungry For Truth
Group: egodeath Message: 6335 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/09/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6339 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2013
Subject: Bk: The Psychedelic Future of the Mind (Thomas Roberts)
Group: egodeath Message: 6340 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2013
Subject: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 6341 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Caduceus: mycopercep shows sep ctrl-lev relations/harmony
Group: egodeath Message: 6342 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will
Group: egodeath Message: 6343 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will
Group: egodeath Message: 6344 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Paul’s road conversion = Balaam’s donkey conversion
Group: egodeath Message: 6345 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Control-loss, panic, urgency; Psychedelic Cog Sci security/safet
Group: egodeath Message: 6346 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 6347 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Egodeath so simple, Freewill is endangered
Group: egodeath Message: 6348 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: False religion is freewill religion & anti-drug religion
Group: egodeath Message: 6349 From: egodeath Date: 03/12/2013
Subject: Egodeath diagram and lecture
Group: egodeath Message: 6350 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 03/12/2013
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture



Group: egodeath Message: 6292 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: THE BIG STORY!!! REVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH!!!
What is the big picture, the Big Story, that now with my work from the 1980s, now (as of January 1988 (core theory) and November 2001 (myth/history theory-extension)) we (I) have figured out revelation enlightenment and deciphered myth and religion — our myth in our historical past and roots; our own religions and cluster of brands of transcendent knowledge, including Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian religions, and Western Esotericism, as well as Eastern religions and world religion. We now have Transcendent Knowledge, including deciphered loosecog myth, and now we understand how pre-moderns accessed routinely on-demand the mystic state in which religion is made.

Myth is about the experience-induced transformation from freewill thinking to no-free-will realization.


THE BIG STORY!!! The simpler story, put aside the most details, keep sight on the main story, what I have what’s now accomplished: we now understand myth, religious revelation, and enlightenment!!!

I provide many specific, summarizable takeaway points, the fruit and accomplishment, the harvest of the Egodeath theory, like in the bullet list at the top of my Wasson article: here are the executive elevator-speech bottom-line takeaway points of the Big Story and super massive revolutionary breakthrough discovery and invention: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

o We now recognize that no-free-will is the master theme throughout the history of religion and philosophy. Myth describes nonfreedom.

o We now know what was revealed in mystery religion.

o We now know how to read mythemes including our own Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian, and Western Esotericism religions.

o What’s revealed in religion and described by religious myth is no-free-will, and a kind of personal non-control.

o The Bible is 100% fictional, not even slightly historical factual. It was meant to be taken exoterically and then especially esoterically.

o The Bible uses mystic-state revelation to advocate flat social-political-economic structuring.

(Extract the points, revelations, takeaways, implication from my review of the book The Myth of Free Will.)


The unique aspect of revelation in our time (1988/2013): we have a bigger base of confused undeciphered meaning, and misunderstanding of myth and religion, than all previous cultures/times, and, practically no one is enlightened. It’s a long way up, when you start from the bottom, the Kali Yuga of the late modern era. There is a huge voltage differential between truth and the late-Modern era, thus a gianter lightning bolt jumps that gap than ever before. Only a perfectly OSC-based culture is so very far from truth and thus enlightenment is a far bigger collective jump or individual jump now, than in the pre-modern era.

I had to go all the way from 1985’s total darkness — though Robert Graves’ 1957 book was across the street from the dorm, I walked right past in, in the library, revealing the breakthrough, the Big News!!! that mushrooms explain Greek myth and mystery religion and religious experiencing in antiquity. The modern era is connection-challenged. I had to travel further from darkness, a completely dark and dis-connected, non-connected culture, than any other era. But on the other hand, I had much Help. My random, odd, abnormal upbringing just happened to give me from all different directions Resources. And people saw I was intelligent, so they (like around the Beatles) gave me even more Resources. “We wanted to see what you would do with this” they told me.

Convention-following scholars miss the Big Picture, the Big Story, the super simple story. They fail to make the connections. I am the Great Connection Maker. Making these connections required violating multiple taboos in and across fields including: ahistoricity, no-free-will, chronology, psychedelics, entheogen history, spirituality, Rock.

See the recoiling of some people regarding my Acid Rock analysis of Rush, 1997-2006 or so — but remember, always remember to take into account the heavy censorship! Ignoramuses who write against entheogens are fully encouraged; entheogen-positive views are fully discouraged, don’t forget that! You must take it always fully into account, the illusion given by the heavy censorship by Prohibition Press. Everyone is entheogen-positive, but censorship fabricates the Matrix-like illusion, the false reality tunnel, that everyone is entheogen-diminishing or anti-entheogen. In fact, everyone supports, privately, the truth: the strongly entheogen-positive view. Every entheogen-diminishing writing is matched by 100,000 entheogen-positive writings that are censored, prevented from being published.

Knowledge breakthrough now is all about making connections including prohibited connections. One cannot do that which it is not permissible to do, what I did: connect all the key fields truly and coherently, explaining and revealing all mysteries to the entire world.

— Michael Hoffman, January 14, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6293 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Academic pseudo-study of Myst’m: crippled, phony, censored, comp
Don’t trust any entheogen books! They are all tainted and degenerate, contaminated with False Paradigm by The Man, by the pressure of the Official Tale. Don’t trust any published writers, books, or articles! We need a scorched-earth ground clearing to make way for a completely separate and true alternative thus correct story and paradigm. Always keep it in the foreground of your thinking: remember that authors wrote and still write under the heavily distorting conditions of extreme censorship coerced to misrepresent, and tell a largely negative story, like Andy Letcher’s trainwreck confused mess of a book: even he has no idea what his assertion and position is; it changes constantly, incoherently.

Letcher was permitted by Prohibition Press to publish, only because he made a disheveled heap of negative-sounding noises regarding entheogens. Letcher shows how to get published by Prohibition Press: take truth, turn it upside down, make a pile of vague negative sounds. Don’t delude yourself that Grof is any better! Even McKenna spreads ideas that harm the truth and falsely portray entheogens as missing from our own religious history, and he falsely grants tons of power and history to the Catholic Church, asserting and repeating the falsehoods, that the Catholic Church had total dominant power over the world for two thousand long years. Rubbish all! Burn the books and articles of McKenna, Letcher, Wasson, Ott, Schultes, they are all contaminated by The Man, by the Official Entheogen-Diminishing story.

The more positive — or, the less negative — a book is, regarding entheogen history, that merely means that the anti-entheogen view is hidden more subtly in that book and so you must be even more discerning of the evil lies in the book, the lie that entheogens are not the source of all religion, our own religion, always were, before the start, at the start, and during the history. Surgically pluck potentially useful items out from these ruined books, but wash them in the acid bath and completely melt them down, dissolve and coagulate these books to turn them from the lead which they are, into the gold which they instead ought to be.

Ruck and Hoffman in Entheogens Myth & Human Consciousness page 63-67 show that the Christian revivals of the 1800s were helped by American Indians; for example, Algonquin Indian shamans of the U.S. northeast are known to use Datura and Amanita, and may have used cannabis and peyote. Show me a religion, era, area, and it’s just a matter of filling-in which visionary plants were used there. Show me the damned Church of Mars, and there is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, founded by drug inspiration.

This is my axiomatic dogma, of the Maximal Entheogen Theory, counter-dogma actually, which lands us much closer to the truth than even the most seemingly, apparently progressive of the entheogen writers who are tainted by their credulity and complicity with the Official Story, which is always inherently a misrepresentative story, the entheogen-diminishing story. Carl Ruck helps spread the entheogen-diminishing story.

Either you are a perfect maximal radical truth-teller per my Maximal Entheogen Theory, or, you are spreading the virus of entheogen-diminishing Official Propaganda. The most seemingly progressive entheogen scholar who is not radical maximal entheogen theory advocate, merely hides their entheogen-diminishing propaganda under the guise of progressive spin, most dangerous of the anti-entheogen moves is to appear fairly progressive, to appear relatively entheogen-positive. Beware of writers who are relatively entheogen positive, meaning, their entheogen-negative propaganda is hidden all the more effectively.

We need purity allegiance tests. Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the entheogen-diminishing story-tellers guild, run by the Prohibition Press? Have you signed my confessional creedal statement to show that your interpretation of the scripture is church-approved by my counter-church?

Be extra suspicious of Bear & Co, Inner Traditions Press, because they *appear* most entheogen-positive; their entheogen-diminishing paradigm they spread is merely all the more insidiously hidden from conscious view. The official axiomatic dogma of the Prohibition Press is that our own religion must not be admitted that it was inspired and has been by psychedelics at its heart, the Holy Spirit came into it through psychedelics and called the church to initial repentance and ongoing.

If it weren’t for LSD in the 1960s and 1970s, there wouldn’t be Evangelical Christianity. The church of the lie is the church in denial of what the role of drug experience in its congregation and leadership is. The church of evil lies, Mars Church, dogma is that the psychedelics experience among the leadership and congregation is the bad stuff that the church opposes, when in fact, that experience is positive experience that positively created the church. That’s an example of how the truth is distorted by Prohibition Press. The spin is all false, all misleading. Evidently the authors of psychedelics books agree, because they always repeat the history, but in their own words: evidently they don’t like the spin others put on the tale.

New books come out with new prohibition-compliant spins, digging the some old ruts even deeper. We must have an entirely new, independent, Maximal Entheogen story of history including ancient and modern. We must put aside all books and articles about entheogens and psychedelics books and articles, and start from a clean slate axiom of my Maximal Entheogen Theory. A radically true and different story is needed that doesn’t rely on the Official Lies at all. Stop reifying the falsities, the false memes and distortions that supposedly pro-entheogen writers propagate.

Entheogens are the standard of truth and *the* source of religion and enlightenment. Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian religions are about entheogens, period, and how to use them for good. If you take away entheogens, you destroy all truth in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian religions and in Western Esotericism. The same is fully true with all other brands of transcendent knowledge.

— Michael Hoffman, January 14, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6294 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Myth-religion as comical puzzle, mystery-joke/riddle
Religious myth is a playful mode of reading, using meaning-flipping.

Hellenistic-mode religious myth is often the paradoxical saying and meaning the opposite; re-connecting meanings the opposite network-flipping. It is like Satanism’s inversion of the usual mappings, to express the same thing as the Bible, which the true (mystically legitimate and coherent, compatible with the intense psychedelic loosecog state) Satanist has correctly decoded like any true mystic: Lucifer –> enlightenment, divine truth; Jesus –> the freewill delusion, ignorant pop followers, darkness, delusion.

Religious myth such as the Bible is pointed deliberate irony and paradox, a game of play with meaning: religious myth is about the “freedom” of truth, which is non-freedom, but by the time you are this advanced with using language, you can state things in two contradictory-sounding ways. Meaning lies in the understanding-network, in your meaning-connections, such as I defined in my 2006 main article.

The Bible is not talking straight; don’t assume it is talking straight; stop assuming that.


People don’t know the mood in which to read religion. They are entirely too serious and they read it under the assumption that the author is serious. Religious myth is comical, ironic, playful, joking, punning, games of deliberate systematic pointed self-contradiction. Religion is a joke, a comedy and tragedy, it has inappropriate affect suitable for divine madness. It is mad humor. The phrase “religious humor” is a redundancy. Mystic-meaning tall-tales, analogies.

God forbids entheogens absolutely: death penalty! ego death
God commands you to be sober: he makes you ingest the psychedelic Eucharist, so that you can become sober and become thus a t-total abstainer from the inebriation of sin and spiritual blindness.

A real mystic can say “I never use drugs. I only use the traditional Eucharist. I don’t eat mushrooms. I chew the flesh of Christ between my teeth.” This is Valentinian Gnostic Christians’ transcendence of word-usage.

This is the key to the mood or mode of reading religious mythic writing.


The Stairway to Heaven:
Sometimes words have two meanings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
If there’s a bustle in your hedge-row, don’t be alarmed
It’s just a spring-clean for the May Queen
To be a rock, and not to roll


I was a slave to my passion and fear. (egoic control system, including egoic cross-time personal control-thinking)
I’m free now. (loosecog disengages the egoic control system, psychotic-like absence of fear or desire, to the point of control-instability, desperately requiring a different kind of stabilization than the old egoic system)

When I believed in freewill, I was a slave to sin and delusion, in prison in chains; my mind was possessed by ghosts, demons, and irrational magical thinking, superstition.
Now that I have experienced no-free-will, I am set free; my mind has been exorcised and now I have magic and supernatural power.

I was a slave to sin, of holding the premise of demons, the free-will assumption: a rebellious premise trespassing on and challenging God’s sovereign power.
Now I am freed to know the truth, which is no-free-will.


Mind the pre/trans fallacy: the starting and ending states have some similarities, with profound difference:

When I was deluded, I thought I had freedom, and that was magical thinking.
Now that I am enlightened and the truth has been revealed to my perception, I have freedom, and this is magic power.

If you believe in free will, freedom, you are deluded and have magical thinking.
If you believe in no-free-will, nonfreedom, you are enlightened and have magical thinking.

I was a slave to my fears and passions, avoidances and pursuits, when I thought I was free.
Now I am free, since I know there is no free will and we are frozen in spacetime.

— Michael Hoffman, January 14, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6295 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Academic pseudo-study of Myst’m: crippled, phony, censored, comp
typo correction:

New books come out with new prohibition-compliant spins, digging the same old ruts even deeper.


Luke Myers’ book Gnostic Visions seems like a rare, genuinely entheogen-truth book, a big step in the right direction.
http://amazon.com/o/asin/1462005489
Assignment: find the false, entheogen-diminishing propaganda in this book.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6296 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 15/01/2013
Subject: Re: Myth-religion as comical puzzle, mystery-joke/riddle
Crowley had correct use of mystic metaphor, but may have advocated social-political hierarchy, whereas the Bible uses mystic metaphor to advocate a flat social-political system.

Huxley & Wasson advocated hierarchy, elitism, exclusivism.
Keysey & Leary advocated flat, egalitarianism.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6297 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 17/01/2013
Subject: Re: Rock worship & the Rock altar of sacrifice
Finding the philosopher’s stone
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Discovering the perception of the thought of feeling the changeless block universe.

Discovering the feeling of thinking that perceives time as a spacelike dimension, as a mind who is a spacetime worm and worldline snake.

To become a worm theorist.


Heretics must be stoned to death. Especially first-born children who are literalist historicist freewillist entheogen-diminishers who hold the Possibilism model of time.

— Michael Hoffman, January 16, 2013, based on original research since 1985
Group: egodeath Message: 6298 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 17/01/2013
Subject: Re: Entheogenic Reformed theology
The mind’s innate cognitive restructuring potential is: switching the mental model from Autonomy operating within Possibilism, to Puppethood operating within Eternalism.

This mental model transformation occurs as the result of the psycholytic-induced loose cognitive binding state, the intense mystic altered state of being possessed by the power of the Holy Spirit, that results from the traditional eating of Christ’s flesh, which is real, literal food, and drinking of Christ’s blood, which is real, literal drink.

Antinomian mystic radicals were inebriated high on Christ which opened up their cognitive-binding-loosened capacity to recognize mystic metaphor meaning-flipping. They might have written explicitly about visionary plants, but were largely censored. But to those habituated to visionary plants, the meaning and plant source is clearly evident, hardly veiled, and not veiled in the many plain depictions of mushrooms in Christian art, as well as more than enough mentions of psychoactive plants in the Bible.
http://google.com/search?q=antinomian+mystic+radical

It used to be, 1967-2012, there was an official culture, which people actually believed and took seriously, claiming that visionary plants have no role in our Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian religious history. No-free-will actually used to be controversial. People even recently, believe it or not, actually took seriously the Old Testament as literal historical reportage, rather than as mystic metaphors and ironic joking. Even after that delusion and denseness collapsed, people still, for a few years, continued to assume historicity as the intent of the New Testament. But now, there’s no longer anything “controversial” about openly asserting 100% ahistoricity, that the Bible is 100% fictional mystic metaphors and ironic joking.

I used to make a list of the many reasons people would, at that time, choke on my Egodeath theory. Now, my Egodeath theory is simply a routinely known popular system, like the Web. I used to rail against censorship and the official story. Now, that official story is simply irrelevant, a former, now dead metanarrative like the older generation’s reality tunnel in the 1960s. That self-aggrandizing “official” metanarrative exists now as an impotent, would-be “official” story, which few take seriously. It has no real weight, no compelling force. Reformed theology is going electric, with Reformed theologians on acid. The gospel drama is what goes on in your mind: you against your worldline, then your personal thinking submitting to your worldline, as the source of your thoughts.

The mind is strongly attracted to dramatic depiction of no-free-will. Myth, including Greek drama, and the Cross, provides this satisfying dramatic depiction of no-free-will. We want to somehow know fully a loss of control and expression of no-free-will. But meaning is in the mind, not in action, so how can we fully cathartically express and experience to the fullest, this control-loss and no-free-will? Instead of idiotic gory shallow crucifixion movies, we desire something as intense, but fully altered-state mystic-metaphor based.

Although I’ve been posting my fully formed holistic theory and model of Egodeath on the Internet since 1990, with mythic deciphering since 2001, Sam Harris and the other neuroscience rationalist atheist philosophers don’t perceive how very strong this function of myth and meaning of myth is: the myth of free will; that is, the point of religious myth is to describe the psychotropic drug-induced experience of no-free-will which causes thinking to be re-organized to conform to the no-free-will experiential and intellectual altered-state realization. Harris mocks the arbitrariness of interpretation of religious myth.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0393327655
2004

The first successful interpretation of religious myth is the system that I developed:

1. My initial decoding of myth was preliminary portions in my 1988 first draft of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (the Egodeath theory): my initial foray into Christian myth, typified in my 1997 Principia Cybernetica website Comment posting.
2. In such fashion, I decoded acid-oriented Rock lyrics around 1992, uploaded to the Web around 1997.
3. I applied that mature ability to myth, including cracking the New Testament myth and world mythology, in 2001, well-presented in my 2006 main article.
4. I continued and completed the deciphering of all the main lyrics and religious myths, 2001-2013.


The puppet’s feeling of autonomy is shown the real power source, by the worldline, and the worldline makes the personal thinking realize and experience the ability of the worldline to threaten the personal control system. When in danger, pray to God who is in control as creator of your worldline. This isn’t necessarily supernaturalist. It’s all about you and your thinking ability, your mind, your Reason, how your worldline brings your thinking into line and causes grace to enter your thinking, so that your mind understands the source of its intentions, lying along your fated, pre-given, unalterable worldline. Your personal control thinking submits to your worldline, and this is equivalent to putting trust in a personal Creator god who controls your worldline.

The hand of God hidden in a cloud holds a chain that controls block universe Nature, which is your worldline, and your worldline, Nature, holds a chain that controls the monkey-mind, which is your personal control thinking. When you are made to trust your worldline, that’s equivalent to you being made to trust a controller of your worldline, outside your domain of conscious personal control ability. Steering your worldline is outside your conscious personal control ability. Your personal conscious self is one agency, and your pre-set worldline is another agency. Praying to and trusting in your worldline is equivalent to praying to and trusting in a separate Controller X in a position of creating and controlling your worldline.

o The personal control thinking system, your domain of conscious control power, is distinct from other powers:

o your pre-set, pre-given worldline

o a demiurgic Creator and controller of your worldline,

o a Good god above fatedness

You can logically, reasonably break things out that way per Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Christian options, if you choose. Or, you can simply conceptualize, rationally, per Multistate Science, 2 levels:

o The personal control thinking system, your domain of conscious control power, is distinct from other powers:

o your pre-set, pre-given worldline. Your worldline might make you rationally pray to and trust in the worldline, like sacrificing to Zeus Meilichios, who controls the worldline snake and is easily satisfied when you are made to proclaim loosecog realization and agreement with no-free-will.

Reformed theology is a merely singlestate fallacy reduction of this view, experience, and realization. Reformed theology without the experience of the Holy Spirit from the traditional psychedelic Eucharist, is just children’s practice training-wheels theology. No Reformed theologians are among the elect, nor Arminians, no matter what their view on no-free-will.

Only when Reformed theology goes Electric, as in Marsh Chapel, with psilocybin, will any Reformed evangelists be saved and receive grace and be made to truly submit and be shown the threat: the worldline and your Spirit-inspired insanely adept imagination, will prove to you that you are capable of imagining a threatening loss of control, and you will find that you are positively attracted to the demonstration of loss of control — which is holiness and the sacred point. To the extent you are interested in the Holy, Transcendent Knowledge, revelation and enlightenment, you are attracted to the beautiful glorious Medusa problem through which we are reborn when we turn to look behind us, see the attractive and mortifying face of God, and are turned into stone and reborn from the rock.

Now as I knew when fundamentalist writer Dave Hunt carelessly discovered Reformed Theology, the Great War is on: for control of Christianity in America: the Reformed movement, but in an evil, fallen form, lacking the traditional Eucharist, is taking over Evangelical Christianity. Just add mushrooms, the missing Holy Spirit, to turn mere Reformed *ideas* into actual salvation and revelation that the Bible is all in your mind, per my radical mystic metaphor deciphering and 100% fictional, ahistoricity of the Jewish Old Testament and the Gnostically revealed New Testament.

o No-free-will is trendy,
o Reformed theology is trendy, and
o the Shamanism revolution in Christian scholarship is trendy, and
o now everyone is aware of ahistoricity, rapidly spreading, from Old Testament, to Jesus, to Paul, and
o I push ahistoricity through per Edwin Johnson to the very existence of Christianity in antiquity: Luther wrote the New Testament in 825.

— Michael Hoffman, January 16, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6299 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: Heracleon’s Commentary on John
Elaine Pagels
http://amazon.com/o/asin/1555403344
1973
128 pages

Title of my book review:
The elect vs. moralists, sacrament of apolytrosis (redemption)

This book is Pagels’ 1973 dissertation. This reprint of Pagels’ book is decent, good printing, decently bound, blue cover, paperback. This dissertation follows academic conventions, which prevent clear communication and present information backwards. Read her book in my Satanic way, that is, last page first, because the dullest information is the first couple regular chapters, and the best information is the last page and the summary (“Synthesis”). This book lacks a glossary and lacks an index of normal useful words. She provides a “Glossary-Index” (her term) of technical theology terms, which is neither a glossary providing definitions nor an index of useful normal words.

I provide a clear summary here, assisted by decades of original work on my theory of religious experiencing and metaphor, with a summarization approach that is lacking from current conventions. The Jesus Mysteries (http://amazon.com/o/asin/0609807986) is a readable preparation for Pagels’ early books.


Pagels’ book shows that Valentinians presented the following 2-level system. I’m able to summarize it here through better communication conventions combined with my 2001 theory of mystic metaphor. See my comparable contrast summary in my review of Pagels’ book The Gnostic Paul (http://amazon.com/o/asin/1563380390).

Higher Christians (‘pneumatic’; spiritual)
Lower Christians (‘psychic’; mental)

o Don’t rely on the historicity of the Bible (page 12). What matters is the mystic-state meaning and metaphorical analogies. Deny the uniqueness of the Christian revelation. page 15
o Believe in the uniqueness of the Christian revelation, emphasizing the literalness of its occurrence of historical events.
Pagels discusses ahistoricity, or the unimportance or irrelevance of Jesus’ literal historical life and crucifixion, on pages 12-16, 44, 46, and 118.

o Received the higher Eucharist; they are given grace through receiving the sacrament of apolytrosis (which I point out is entheogenic-equivalent, like the “sacraments of Phrygia and Eleusis” mentioned on page 15).
o Only have baptism by water, associated with forgiving sins but in such a way that free-will moral thinking is still implied (various pages in Pagels). They only eat literal ordinary bread and drink literal ordinary wine.
Pagels discusses the Eucharist, wine, feast, banquet, eating, drinking, sacrament of apolytrosis, bridechamber, marriage wedding banquet, and other entheogen-equivalent topics, on page 15 (sacrament of Eleusis), 62-65, 76-82, 92-96, and 115. See my review of Gnostic Visions (http://amazon.com/o/asin/1462005489) and Flights of the Soul (http://amazon.com/o/asin/0802865402).

o Are masters of metaphor interpretation, describing experiential insights received through the sacrament of apolytrosis (redemption). Are able to interpret all brands of mystic writing (page 15)
o Literalists. They depend on a historical reading of events in the Bible, assuming that those events literally happened. This prevents them from understanding spiritually (which I explain explicitly: they don’t understand the entheogen Eucharist and its revelation of no-free-will).

o Think in terms of this higher vs. lower understanding, making this distinction.
o Don’t believe in or understand higher Christianity and metaphor reading in terms of spiritual experience.

o Redemption and heaven is now, for the elect.
o Redemption and heaven is in the future, in the age to come.

o Receives redemption, purely by God’s grace (matching Reformed theology, my theory points out). Though veiled as “election” and explained indirectly through symbolism, these Christians basically are brought to believe the supposedly “pagan” idea of no-free-will, upon discovering that they are among the elect and receive their redemption though grace — though they initially and originally think, mistakenly, using the lower way of thinking.
o The lower Christian reaches, if they are morally good, Salvation (still reifies the free-will moral premise). These can earn salvation through works. Receive a lower salvation, a forgiveness of sins, while that forgiveness still reifies free-will moral thinking; ‘ethics’ per Pagels. They believe in free-will moral agency. They conceptualize religion in terms of freewill ethics and moral conduct as the way to earn salvation.


Pagels discusses determinism, election theology, grace, works, and moral ethics on pages 49, 57, 72, 82-83, 98-113, and 120-122 especially (that is the end and climax of the book). Pagels explains how Valentinians enabled treating both higher and lower Christians both as authentic Christians. Valentinians are interesting Christian Gnostics because they define an ‘asymmetric theology’ (a term from my theory) that enables treating both higher and lower Christians both as authentic Christians. Pagels’ doesn’t point out (but my theory does) that Augustinian theology has this same asymmetry: those who are not saved, are condemned by their own freewill-type moral guilt; the elect are chosen for redemption by God in a no-free-will type of framework.

Mainstream writer Origin accuses Gnostics of asserting a fatalistic determinism theology of salvation like the pagans (page 49).

How can Pagels not mention Reformed theology here, as my theory covers? Pagels writes “To counter the fatalism of pagan religion and philosophy, mainstream Christians stress freewill ability against fatalism, and dismiss this election theology as determinism, if not arrogance. Plotinus also criticizes the Valentinians for not discussing ethics, the soul, purifying the soul, and right conduct.” (page 122) She characterizes ‘the soul’ as being a factor that’s part of free-will ethics in lower Christianity, in Valentinian Gnosticism.

Per Pagels, Valentinians as a concession to the mainstream Church that was trying to maximize its member count, Valentinians didn’t demonize freewillist Christians as “not real Christians”, but rather, included them as lower Christians, who could be saved after death, in the future time to come.

But per Pagels, page 112, Gnostics tend and want to posit 2 races:
o The race of the elect
o The race of perdition.

But Valentinians wanted to define an inclusive framework so they posited 3 races, as a concession to the mainstream church:
o The race of the elect (I point out these are those destined to believe in no-free-will, amply supportable by quotes in this book)
o The race of the freewillists, who seek a freewill morality type of salvation, that the higher Christians should humor them about and theologically affirm per Valentinian theology)
o The race of those who are predestined definitely for perdition. Pagels says little (page 104) about this group and why Valentinian theology even had this grouping.

Pagels (page 104) points out that the Gnostic Heracleon doesn’t use the term “free will”, but discusses “their only choice is whether to obey the will of the Father or the will of the devil”. Heracleon’s scheme of characterizing psychic (lower) Christians is essentially thinking in the mode of freewill moral agency. Heracleon’s Valentinianism is a veiled no-free-will theology that sort of reifies a freewillish moral salvation system, for lower Christians. Heracleon’s 2-level theology tries to keep freewillist moralists on board as legitimate but lower members of the same inclusive church.

The mainstream church tried to maximize its member count and that the Valentinian broad-church Gnostics also held that goal. Regarding the Social Gospel: I point out that Gnostics are accused of being anti-world, and that recently, salvation-focused Protestants are accused of “Protestant Gnosticism”, meaning that these Protestants demonize the world and seek only to individually escape from it, supposedly like Gnostics sought. But this book about Valentinian Gnosticism doesn’t support that “anti-world” accusation made against Gnostics at all; rather, this book shows Valentinian Gnosticism was concerned with accepting both higher and lower Christianity into the mainstream church.

This book doesn’t discuss the social gospel (flat egalitarian society) as the New Testament Christianity’s driving goal, by either the mainstream church, nor by Valentinian broad-church Gnostics, nor by supposed elitist, supposed anti-world Gnostics. The book does mention Gnostic cautions against elitism and arrogance on the part of higher Christians — I point out that the same caution is found in Reformed Theology.

The grand finale of Pagels’ book shows why it’s taboo, silently forbidden, to bring together the topics of no-free-will and Reformed theology (as my theory does): to openly admit that Christian theology asserts no-free-will would be to admit an equivalence of Christianity with paganism, and shuts out the freewillist majority of people, or threatens to eliminate the beloved, popular, and lucrative church-friendly idea of human freedom.

Her grand finale of the book, the Synthesis section, inspires me to define the church as being “universal” in the sense of using a veiled combining of two incompatible theologies: no-free-will as higher theology, together with a provisional freewill theology for the lower mass of Christians. Pagel’s Synthesis section is the summary of the book, and describes the Valentinian “complexity of their doctrine”. She describes how Valentinian theology veiled its determinism (election theology) aspect, “to express their apprehension of election in mythical and symbolic terms … imagistic and symbolic.” (page 122; the last sentence of the book). ‘Election’ means being fated for redemption.

Election theology was used by the Gnostic Heracleon and the mainstream Origen to obscure and deny the “pagan” fatalism and determinism, by relabelling the terms to enable indirectly asserting fatedness and by avoiding discussing fatedness in general but instead restricting the topic to election and using roundabout wording.

Pagels’ grand finale section is titled Anti-gnostic polemics: the development of a theory of “free will”. She explains how two incompatible theologies — elite determinism and popular freewillism — were combined into an oil-and-water or two-level hybrid system, “valid on different levels”, in an effort to maximize the size of the church. It’s great that Pagels’ dissertation essentially points this out, though her presentation is ineffective at communicating this big revelation, which aptly describes theology in general: an exercise in combining distinct systems of elite no-free-will theology (veiled, occluded, evasive, obscurantist, or in-denial) and popular free-will moralism. After reading her conclusion, I describe all religion as deliberately veiled no-free-will, disguised as freewill moralism promises of rewards, of salvation, per the scheme of Valentinianism as revealed by Elaine Pagels.

— Michael Hoffman, January 19, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6300 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
The Big News, the greatly rewarding result of me applying my knowledge to read this book: theology *deliberately* suppresses and occludes its assertion of no-free-will. That’s why Reformed Theology is kept far away from books about free will and determinism. A big train crash is coming, as I prophesied when fundamentalist writer Dave Hunt in 2002 belatedly discovered Reformed Theology. Run for cover: the big train of atheist no-free-will and, unknowingly, the separate big train of pop hipster neo-Reformed, headed toward the same point, are both headed toward freewill Christianity.

At the same time as Sam Harris condemns religion and asserts instead, no-free-will, what’s going on in our religion? The empty-headed superficial entertainment Christian clubs are discovering Reformed Theology. After I read Dave Hunt’s books in the 1990s and then read Reformed Theology books, I posted a review at Amazon of his book A Woman Rides the Beast, criticizing him for failing to inform me about Reformed Theology during the 1990s. He took my advice, and others’, and, shocked, wrote a book against Calvinism. In a Christian bookstore, I saw Hunt’s anti-Calvinism book right away, and I laughingly told people about the ramifications: empty-headed Evangelicalism discovers Reformed Theology! This is going to be a trainwreck! The two systems are diametrically opposed.

If “a woman rides the beast”, the beast is bogus pop Christianity, and the kingdom of heaven is truth, which is known (albeit in garbled fashion) in all authentic esoteric religion:

As explained simply, clearly, completely, and explicitly in my 2006 main article, what all authentic esoteric religion asserts is:
o Puppethood; no self of a particular nature
o Eternalism block universe fatedenss; no-free-will
o Entheogen-induced dissociative state; loose cognition induced by psycholytic chemicals
o Metaphors and analogies describing the above

Everything written by fundamentalists and evangelicals is true. But only metaphorically true.

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas Hofstadter
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0465018475

Salvation, eternal life, Jesus has done away with sin and death, just as they say — but, metaphorically, referring to repeated exposure of the mind to entheogens. Dave Hunt wrote fair and almost enlightened statements about psychedelics; what little that he wrote about psychedelics that I read will stand; it’s not false.


o What’s going on in Christianity: where’s the action at? The emergent church, which breaks away from conventional “church” structure and liturgy, and Reformed theology, which in roundabout, obscured fashion, asserts pagan idea of no-free-will. Bow down to Heimarmene and its ultimate creator, accepting it as yourself — or go out of control, irrational, insane, since a house divided against itself cannot stand.

o On a separate topic: in Atheism, the big pop topic is no-free-will, and those who *claim* they give a damn about religion are discovering Shamanism. I am Jonah, camping out under a bush waiting for God to smite Nineveh as the big train of Reformed theology draws close, unknown, toward the big train of “atheism” which is pushing no-free-will as a “new” and “modern” idea.

o And here comes ahistoricity: the Social Gospel author John Dominic Crossan waves his arms to assure the professional Historical Jesus Guild that he believes Jesus existed — he has to sign a litmus test confessional creedal statement, “I worship the Historicity of Jesus as my God”, which no one had to mention just two years ago.

o Meanwhile, Jewish scholars now permit themselves to admit the existence of religious experiencing, not just the Enlightenment era rationalist pretended version of Rational Jewish religion (read, “ordinary state of consciousness based, non-mystic-metaphor belief system).

o And Christian scholars permit themselves to preciously dance around the topic of Shamanistic-like “alternate states of consciousness” among Jesus and crew.

o Worm theorists have eaten the Possibilism branching theory of Time.

I am here where the train tracks come together, waiting to welcome you all and watch the explosion. Welcome to the post-Modern era. Here is my 1997 Core theory and 2006 summary article.

I have killed Christianity, or it has finally killed itself. Who’s Next?


The extended Theory:
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (including the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence; Transcendent Knowledge; The Egodeath Theory)
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm
2006

The core Theory:
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5870
1997 (drafted 1988)

— Michael
January 19, 2013
Group: egodeath Message: 6301 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Direct self-contradictions of Elaine Pagels in this book

Pagels does almost admit that Reformed theology is the same as Gnostic no-free-will, on page 111, footnote 15:
>B. Drewery, in his book on Origen and the Doctrine of Grace, concludes: “Origen’s doctrine of grace is a cardinal flaw of his theology, being infected with the disease of merit theology. Origen makes grace and merit so complementary as to cast an iron curtain of human capacity, human desert, and human achievement around the free grace of the Almighty, opening the way of the later heresy of Pelagius’.” (205-206).

Note:
‘psychics’ means lower, freewillist-assuming Christians — per my plain, clear wording.
‘pneumatics’ means higher, no-free-will believing Christians — per my plain, clear wording.


Self-contradiction 1:

A. On page 103 bottom, Pagels writes:
Heracleon says that psychics can choose to become by adoption either “sons of the devil” or “sons of God” (Commentarium in Johannis, by Origen, 20.25). Their choice reconstitutes their nature, directs them either into “evil” or “good works”, and decides their eternal destiny.

B. But *directly* contradicting herself, on page 104 paragraph 2, Pagels writes:
Heracleon himself never uses this term [‘free will’]. He shows that the psychics do experience a range of “choice” between salvation and destruction, but their “choice is not the power to constitute themselves; it is not “free will” (autexousia) in the proper sense of the word. This philosophic term, applied to Heracleon’s doctrine, proves to be anachronistic and misleading . The conditions of psychic existence and of their “choice” are constituted for them by the demiurge. Their “choice,” in fact their only option, is whether to obey the will of the Father or the will of the devil.

Assignment: Based on the above two passages asserted by Pagels, answer this question:
Does the psychics’ choice constitute their nature and thus decide their destiny? Is the psychics’ choice the power to constitute themselves and thus decide their destiny?


Self-contradiction 2:

A. On page 112 end of paragraph, Pagels writes:
Bultmann, Langerbeck, and Schottroff all discuss the Valentinian view of natures in terms of this antithesis between “determinism” and “free will.” These categories neither occur in the gnostic texts themselves nor do they reflect the concerns of Valentinian theologians.

B. But *directly* contradicting herself, on page 115 middle of paragraph 2, Pagels writes:
Although created with free will, men have allowed themselves to fall into “sins.” Thus they stand under the penalty of death. (Heracleon supports his restatement of this view by referring to Romans 1.18 f.)

Assignment: Based on the above two passages asserted by Pagels, answer this question:
Is Heracleon concerned with free will?

(He is the main Valentinian theologian who Pagels discusses.)


Where there is self-contradiction, there is flimsy apologetics; ulterior motive; an intent to misrepresent. Accidentally muddled writing is a convenient pretended excuse to assist in the cover-up. Pagels writes in an apologetics self-contradictory tone, showing the same kinds of self-contradictions I smelled and excavated with devastating results in Wasson’s book SOMA.

She betrays that she is worried about defending Valentinian Gnosticism from the “accusation” (her word) of asserting determinism. Repeatedly she asserts that Valentinian theology has nothing to do with free will and determinism, but rather, instead, is about election theology. But she never makes much effort to explain how election theology is any different than “philosophical determinism”. And then, she *directly* point-blank contradicts herself, on these points, in the passages I present above.

The Egodeath theory, which I defined, is the simplest possible theory and is the point of reference for all theory of religious experiencing and Reformed Theology and theory of what’s revealed in enlightenment and revelation. God is the author of sin and evil. That’s the simplest point of view. We are puppets, not ultimately responsible. God only, is ultimately responsible, and, God suffered the death penalty on the cross. God is the virtual reality script-kiddie who we are all subject to in his demiurgic Matrix simulation. Our higher thinking demands that we acknowledge our helpless dependent position with respect to whatever it is that has timelessly set our worldline in place — Controller X, that is outside our practical domain of personal control power.

This is the view, the philosophical system that I define, that I am responsible for defining, because it is the simplest possible model. I don’t give a damn about saving God from being the author of evil. The puppetmaster doesn’t need his puppets to save him from anything. I don’t give a damn about saving our moral freewill culpability. I don’t, perhaps, even care about truth. I care about defining mental model that doesn’t contradict itself, as a *useful* simple point of reference to explain Transcendent Knowledge and mystic-state experiencing.

http://google.com/search?q=reformed+determinism

The first version of Reformed Theology that everyone must learn and use as the first point of reference, is incompatibilist determinism, where God is the author of evil and sin, double predestination, and what is revealed is that we are helpless ultimately non-responsible puppets. You can’t start thinking about being the savior of God’s goodness or being the savior of our ultimate moral responsibility, until you first learn my spelled-out crystal clear model of Transcendent Knowledge as Exhibit A. My version of determinism is not causal-chain materialist determinism, but rather, time as a spacelike dimension, with a single future (not manyworlds QM). Why? Because it is the simplest possible model! My Egodeath theory is Exhibit A: the simplest possible model of the nature of ego transcendence.

Every two-bit acid rock lyricist knows this model. What’s wrong with you intellectuals that you try to bypass comprehending what the acid sacrament of apolytrosis communicates to the lowly Rock Gods? You can’t start by assuming compatibilism of freewill and determinism. Freewill was invented by Valentinian theology which held freewill to be lower thinking, and held no-free-will (block-universe Eternalism) as higher truth. To expand church membership and sell salvation in a lucrative installment plan, Origen then attempted to do away with the no-free-will view held by paganism and by Gnosticism, which was the altered-state revealed model, block universe determinism with time as a spacelike dimension.

The entire project of theologians who try to be the savior of God, rescuing God from being the author of evil, and rescuing humanity from puppethood, is Pelagianism. Does the Bible command theologians to save and rescue God from being the author of evil, and be the savior of human freewill? The Bible contains playful mystical self-contradiction: “You are morally responsible, and, you are a helpless non-responsible puppet. And don’t you dare point out that this is contradictory, as if God made you incorrectly.” The Bible contains weak implications that people are ultimately morally responsible, and strong implications that we are puppets. The only people asserting freewill are neo-Calvinists.

Freewill is actually a surprisingly rare position, in the history of thought. This supports my point, that we must love and protect our childish thinking, because nothing is more delicate and temporary and easily killed than the childish freewill mode of thinking, a mere shadow, a ghost, which immediately collapses in light of mushroid loosened cognition. The Bible is designed to support, contingently and on the surface, for a limited time, the freewill delusion, but then to reveal and unveil and un-conceal the truth, of no-free-will. It’s not complicated! Don’t make it complicated. I show how very simple it is: two-mode meaning-flipping; the mind is programmed to initially be shaped in freewill form, but then upon loose cognition, reshape to no-free-will.

Bible mythemes and terms are designed to meaning-flip to support that maturation, and, support social justice and flat social structuring. I am the one who points the way, in full detail to the extent needed, to dirt-simple thinking about mental model transformation. To form an impossible project of compatibilism, to be the savior of God and Christianity and freewill, start by my simplest possible theory.

Meditation, contemplation? That’s complicated, vague, difficult, and rarely effective. Entheogens are vastly simpler of an explanatory theory of how mystics have always entered the intense mystic altered state routinely on-demand, on-tap. “Traditional Christian contemplation” (taken as non-entheogenic) is nothing but an academic bluff, a vague arm-waving, by those who try to suppress the entheogenic basis of traditional mystic practice. There’s no such thing as non-entheogen-based traditional Christian contemplation; that’s an oxymoron. Show me a historical mystic, I’ll show you a visionary plant user.

There is no “traditional Christian mystic practice” without visionary plants. That whole concept is a bluff, a transparently obvious cover-up conspiracy. We’ll take real actual religion instead of bluffing tales and engineered misrepresentations conjured out of the imaginations of those who deny and suppress the truth and are eagerly published by Prohibition Press.

— Michael Hoffman, January 20, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6302 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
clarification:

Freewill was invented by the Catholic church. Valentinian theology didn’t invent freewill; the popular mainstream church and theologians such as Origen invented freewill.

The project of saving God by working on compatibilism, is essentially the Catholic project. If you strive to save God by designing a system of compatibilism, you are a Catholic. The only kind of compatibilism that doesn’t contradict itself is my two-phase model: the childish mind is shaped like freewill animal, the adult mind, initiated by visionary plant exposure, is shaped no-free-will. Thus, free will and determinism are compatible: first we think freewill, then no-free-will is unveiled in the loosecog state, after which, we rely on freewill animal thinking, as a useful fictional shorthand tool, consciously recognizing freewill thinking as an inaccurate model.

Freewill was popular in Christian practice, and Valentinian theology was based around the principle of accepting that view as Christian — but only as a lower level of Christianity than true, no-free-will Christianity, which was revealed through visionary plants, as in all authentic brands of transcendent knowledge. Every authentic brand of transcendent knowledge was revealed through visionary plants. This is the theory I clarify and define, because it is the simplest possible explanatory model: the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

— Michael Hoffman, January 20, 2013
Group: egodeath Message: 6303 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Double-predestination is as serious a matter as anything in mystic metaphor.

The souls of freewill thinkers go to heaven for reward after they die, or go to hell for punishment after they die.

No-free-will thinkers are left out of that game. They have only a shadowy ghost of a soul. They just cease to exist after they die. But at least they get to be in heaven during life, upon realizing no-free-will fully, in the loose cognitive binding state. These thinkers have eternal life, but only between enlightenment and death. I have attained immortality, but only until I die. I have stopped re-incarnating and escaped the round of karma.

Where do compatibilist pseudo-Calvinists go after they die? An ill-defined limbo, appropriately. Their eternal reward and punishment is to work toward constructing a coherent system of compatibilism. That’s an important project because it’s up to you to save God and Jesus from being the author of evil, and to save everyone’s souls from the threat of no-free-will. We’re all counting on you to save us!

— Michael the Archangel
Group: egodeath Message: 6304 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Re: Rock worship & the Rock altar of sacrifice
My theory of mystic state metaphor decodes thousands of mythemes all throughout Christian, Jewish, Roman, and Greek writings of “Antiquity” (however long ago they were written).

Judas hung himself from a tree, exactly the same as Jesus.

Judas stumbled on a stone, same as Jesus’s crucifixion is a stumbling block for the Jews.

Judas’ intestines poured out, as Jesus’ blood poured out from the spear wound in his side.

God hid Moses in a split in a rock to shield Moses from seeing God and thereby dying.

The mystic experiences phenomena analogous to these mythemes. The story elements seem odd, arbitrary, crayonish, primitive, strange, clumsy, artificial, unbelieveable, because they strive to refer in joking way, as double-entendre, to something entirely different than the surface literal meaning.

It is a coding game, which is why it seems odd and artificial when read straight; it is all winking to those who are in on the joke or riddle or meaning-translation. We’re not discussing rocks and trees and snakes; we’re discussing altered state phenomena, through presenting analogy, allegory, metaphor.

Thus all the books about religion are garbage, since they fail to grasp this basic nature of the writings. The books are hardly worth reading; profoundly off-base, a massive category error. Reformed theology has God so evil he sends most people to Hell for eternal punishment — except that it’s all mystic-state metaphor, numbskulls.

God is the author of sin and evil, but no one is going to Hell or Heaven for egoic freewill agency punishment or reward. That freewill moral soul is illusory, and so is the associated concommitant Hell and Heaven.

My postulates gain us, and cost us. Good news: I have cracked the meaning of religion. Bad news: no one is punished eternally in Hell, nor remnant (after delusion burned off) rewarded in Heaven after bodily death.

I’ve solved some objections to Reformed theology, which suffers from chronic endemic literalism, as it lacked my mapping to the visionary-plant-induced intense mystic altered state.

This theory is the most useful, relevant, ergonomic, simple, elegant, easy to understand. And confirmable, reproducible readily, immediately.

The Bible is a library collection of variant mystic-state metaphors, mytheme combinations. A computer could write inspired scripture per the Core theory and stock analogies.

What use is 200 years of modern scholarship and theology about the Bible, when they all fail to know the type of literature it is? The Bible etc. is analogies of intense visionary plant induced experiential phenomena, as I have deciphered, not literalism. I discovered fully and teach the world how to begin reading religious writings in the correct, mystic mode.

John Allegro was right in that the NT must be deciphered in a visionary plant way, though I figured out the *main* ultimate referent of religious metaphor, in terms of self control agency, fatedness/possibility, and the loose cognitive association binding state specifically from visionary plants.

Allegro and Acharya and Ruck and Ulansey and Borg are correct so far as they go, but I complete the deciphering, in that I identify the ultimate referent, systematically: altered state experiencing, not s*x or plants or the sun and planets and stars.

Even Timothy Freke didn’t figure out this deciphering, mapping specific altered state experiential phenomena to mythemes. Nor Graves; he only mapped the plants themselves, to myth, and only generally, around 1957.

Ralph Metzner’s book Metaphors of Transformation has some elements that are in my solution. Scholars try to find Bible meaning, but they remain hopelessly literalist, lacking loosecog phenomena as the referent.

Like good Rock lyrics, such as Pink Floyd’s standout song Learning to Fly, every word must be mapped to the classic cognitive experiential phenomena. Rock tree snake king die fear mortal everlasting gate ride battle storm chaos drink meal etc.

Compare my outlook now vs 1988 — back then I felt some entheogens in the book of Revelation, but was far from reading all Bible etc in terms of metaphor analogy referring to the full list of entheogen-induced cognitive phenomena that I had identified by September 1988. I had the full core theory with closure, but not the mapping to metaphors in religious myth — and I had the idea of the mapping; my 1988 draft and 1997 core summary have some Bible religion theme tie-ins (explanations), but not a well-developed idea of 100% metaphor reading.

I wish 1/11/88 I had instantly known all myth and recognized its meanings-mappings to the Crystalline Ground of Being and the ramifications of noncontrol. But as I’ve show with every breakthrough, understanding is a matter of deepening the connectiions over time. It took only from October 1985 to October 1988 to formulate my Core theory, but 1999 to 2013 to fully map mystic metaphor to the Core theory (along with other developments).

1985-1998, my thinking was tainted with far too much received literalism then; literalism with a mere sprinkling of metaphor points. I had to develop the opposite. Per Swiss cheese, the Bible etc. isn’t literal as the cheese and metaphor as the holes; it’s a solid block of metaphor, no literalist content. All metaphorical cheese, no literalism holes.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com, written Jan. 23, 2013
Group: egodeath Message: 6305 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Revelation is monstrous and attractive
Psyche is soul as in the mind’s center of free will moral control agency. God’s face if you see it you die

Voice dictate

in the myth of psyche (female perishable butterfly winged delicate mortal) and Eros the question is is Eros (male immortal imperishable god) horrifically hideous and ugly or is Eros beautiful and attractive such that every psyche will fall in love with it

is gods glory beautiful or terribly monstrous

The mind of the personal control agent is attracted and drawn towards the beauty that we seek but when we see it we run away in fear and trembling and terror we are horrified and made to think things that kill our ruts of self-control thinking we think things we are forced to think things and our usual thinking is all offended and broken by the things that are transpersonal thinking discovers that it can think and intend

it is amazing attractive compelling horrible shocking frightening exciting and the psyche is seduced and ruptured and overtaken it falls

spirit is the higher transpersonal level of one’s mind

Thus the Gnostic valentinian levels make sense in the way they break out in terms of initial free will thinking and later initiated no free will thinking:

psychics, psychic Christians — free will moral Christianity, soul as the seat of free will moral agency. Psyche equals soul equals childish free will thinking

pneumatics, pneumatic Christians — no-free-will thinking is spiritual thinking. Pneumatic equals spirit equals breath equals divine wind


Penetrating the gate of no free will is like penetrating a layer which has thickness with a lower surface and upper surface generally thinking moves in Valentinian gnosticism demonize and separate from the items of the previous level the lower earlier level

imagine if you had a five level, 5-stage developmental scheme the final stage V could demonize a mixture of all previous levels and call them all the deceiver revelation in general does condemn being self-centered that is it condemns free will thinking but it also focuses a lot on condemning the prison of fatedness even though those two things contradict each other

Pride hubris self dependence contradicts the no free will revelation but both of those have negative aspects

in fact everything has negative aspects; even God has the negative aspect of wrath and being a creator of evil and moral sin, so everything has its negative aspect

Thus in stage III in a three stage system, stage III may demonize contradictory elements of stage one and stage II, yet stage III also has elements that can be demonized or criticized, like the wrath of God for example.

Michael Hoffman 2013 egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6306 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 25/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Good books on Valentinian Gnosticism and Sacrament of Apolytrosis, versus woefully pathetic books attempting to cover the Eucharist without any knowledge that the Eucharist is mushrooms

Elaine Pagels’ earliest books are best: John, Paul, then Gnostic Gospels. I feel similarly about Ken Wilber’s books and the Rush albums from their 3rd (Caress of Steel, when Peart had his acid/myth connection breakthrough) through Signals or perhaps Grace Under Pressure. Pagels’ first book, the Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis, is good, and I connect coherently with Valentinian Gnosticism as she portrays it and contrasts it against “mainstream” early Christianity. I might re-read her 2nd and 3rd books: I feel like I am in modern, intelligent company, with Valentinian Gnosticism, which focused much on defining the relation between mystically informed Christianity versus “mainstream” Christianity, of whatever era that Gnosticism was formed (“150”, “825”, or “1525”, in some chronology system or other).

Freke and Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries was crippled by the publisher’s strategic censorship, they told me. Evil publishers these days say “We’ll sell more books by omitting entheogens coverage.” Idiots! Sellouts! Wh*r*s! They commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, especially when they commit the entheogen diminishment fallacy. Without the entheogenic psychoactive alchemical sacrament of apolytrosis, redemption, we cannot receive Grace and be redeemed to gain cancellation of sin and gain eternal imperishable non-collapsing life. Without ingesting the mushroid flesh of Christ, in the likeness of man, we cannot receive the Holy Spirit.

The Jesus Mysteries drew my attention to Pagels’ The Gnostic Gospels. Her earlier books are even better, and her later books seem to have less to deliver for my Theory. Maybe her later books are less novel to me because she covers more well-trodden ground, but her first books cover ground that is usually ignored or badly distorted and covered-over.

Valentinian Gnosticism is coherent, and makes full sense mapped to the Egodeath theory, including the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion. The way Valentinian Gnosticism critiques “mainstream” Christianity seems contemporary and enlightened.


Christ, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper: Recovering the Sacraments for Evangelical Worship
Leonard Vander Zee
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0830827862
2004

Vander Zee’s book is *so* bad, so pathetic and hopeless, after reading about Valentinian Gnosticism in Pagels’ book, it is painful. I feel sorry for the author, who has spent years trying to make sense of the Eucharist, but never heard of psychoactive mushrooms, which instantly enables making 100% sense of Eucharistic theology. I want to run and tell him, “It’s mushrooms, you fool! You need to rewrite your book to allow for this, like good writers, and not contradict this!” Reading other writings about the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, such as the church fathers, I feel that the author recognizes that the Eucharist is visionary plants such as mushrooms or acacia bark and Syrian rue, as the Valentinian Gnostics obviously knew.

I eat the flesh of Christ; by chewing and ingesting Christ’s flesh, I receive the Holy Spirit, in fear and trembling, my eye is opened, I turn around and am made to repent, and a new life impregnates my psyche, marrying her to Christ, my spiritual husband, my other nature, in the pleroma outside the cosmos. You cannot write that mushroom-allowing pattern, if you are an outsider, a literalist, one who only is aware of plain bread and plain wine, like the painfully pathetic, hopelessly outsider, mystically and experientially illiterate books like Vander Zee’s. Vander Zee has never taken the Eucharist, only a placebo Eucharist, and is not saved nor reborn nor married to Christ.

It’s possible to make a good guess; you can tell that obviously Vander Zee doesn’t even consider the mushroom, which totally demolishes his chronic distinction between “physical” and “spiritual”. To him, bread means bread, wine means wine, and the rest is ingenious interpretations of how we receive grace and the Holy Spirit by ingesting this literal bread and literal wine (neither considered for even a moment as psychoactive).

How good of an Acid Rock mysticism song can a person write, if they don’t know the Egodeath theory or have any experience? We’d be able to easily recognize it as a poor Acid Rock lyric. Similarly, it’s generally possible to gauge how well or poorly a writer understands the Eucharist; I can tell how likely it is that a given writing reflects an underlying recognition that the Eucharist is mushrooms or other visionary plants.

But the moment a Christian writer is enlightened that the Eucharist is mushrooms, I am a package deal: they also must swallow that the Bible, as the Valentinians recognized, is 100% fiction, mystic metaphor, and, asserts no-free-will (even though fatedness is also demonized as something we must be rescued from).


Realizing Determinism is Tantamount to Transcending Determinism

Christianity advocates the theme of transcendent free will, while rejecting egoic free will. Coraxo in the Entheogen group was overly rigid in portraying the gnostics as rejecting my block universe determinism model (time as a spacelike dimension, with a single future; Eternalism). There really isn’t much distance between awakening to no-free-will, and then transcending fatedness; thus, the Ptolemaic model provides a scale, where stages 1-7 are early initiations, then you reach the 8th and 9th (the fatedness-gate of Saturn and the sidereal sphere of the fixed stars and constellations), then you punch through into the pleroma, the high heavens outside the fate-controlled cosmos.

The initiation sequence is:
animal/childish freewill
loosecog session 1 — (the air) (Moon)
loosecog session 2
loosecog session 3
loosecog session 4
loosecog session 5
loosecog session 6
loosecog session 7
loosecog session 8 — discover fatedness, no-free-will (Saturn)
loosecog session 9 — ” (fixed stars)
loosecog session 10 — transcend fatedness; divine rescue (pleroma)

Thus you rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, then hit fatedness and then punch through it. Discovering fatedness (no-free-will) quickly becomes a problem requiring restabilization and rescue by a guardian angel, an even higher way of thinking. The Greeks waffled on whether Zeus or God was subject to the Fates. This issue is important, in that restoring your mental stability in the sea-storm, beset by the sea-serpent Typhon and Leviathan, is important; but, Coraxo overstated the difference between the gnostics believing in Heimarmene demonizing determinism.


Determinism != Heimarmene

I somewhat regret using the term ‘determinism’, because it is corrupted and ruined by the way moderns always define it, as causal-chain determinism. They overdefine it and poorly define it. It’s a poor, irrelevant, impotent model of determinism — impotent as far as helping to cause mystic control seizure. Ancient Greeks pick the superior, potent, psychoactive version of determinism.

Heimarmene, Fatum, and Determinism are nominally synonymous, but, in fact, they are defined with very different connotations.

What’s revealed in religious revelation and enlightenment is that you were thinking in terms of Autonomy operating within the Possibilism model of time and personal control, but you perceive and experience the compelling greater merit of Puppethood operating within the Eternalism model of time and control. None of this has much to do with “because events at one point in time cause the events at the next point in time”. Rather, this is experienced in terms of time as a space-like dimension, and the feeling of frozen time.

The term ‘Heimarmene’ captures and amplifies this experience and perspective; causal-chain ‘Determinism’ doesn’t, any more than we can experience Quantum Mechanics or many worlds. We can experience Heimarmene — time as a space-like dimension; it’s not a materialist reductionist notion that’s merely formed in the Ordinary State of Consciousness. The OSC gives birth to the mystically inert and impotent idea of causal-chain “Determinism”, while the ASC gives potent birth to the psychoactively amplifying, ego-killing idea of frozen-time Heimarmene; fatedness, Eternalism.


Mis-translations, lacking the Egodeath theory and mystic-state metaphor literacy

The more I learn to decode myth in English, the more I realize the translations from Greek are gross distortions that cover up the meaning. The Greek maps directly to the Egodeath theory, the bad English mis-translations — bad because they are not proper, mystic-state mytheme-literate translations — only put random barriers between the original meaning and the Egodeath theory. The word is not ‘immortal’, damn it, the word is “non-dying” or “imperishable” — completely different! Metaphor in Greek is easy to recognize as mystic analogy; mis-translated into not just literalist, but rather, just plain wrong English (literal would be better!), metaphor becomes near-impossible to recognize as mapping to the Egodeath theory and intense entheogenic mystic state cognitive experiential dynamics.

Only by reading the Greek did it become fully reasonable for me (I mean, effective confirmation of my Theory) to translate “eternal life” and “immortal” and “everlasting life” as “non-dying”, “imperishable”, “non-collapsing”. The King James Bible is obscurantist. Reading the Greek, with the Egodeath theory, is more worthwhile than any one English mis-translation that violates the mystic metaphor rules. An ideal translation of the Bible would be from Greek with the Egodeath theory. I am the new Shakespeare, showing that English *can* support a proper, mystically literate translation of pre-Modern Greek writings. We should consider the English translations of the Bible just as bad as machine-translation: highly garbled and randomized.

The Bible needs to be re-translated to English using the Egodeath theory, to do a mystic-metaphor-informed coherent translation. See Douglas Hofstadter on translation in conjunction with metaphors and analogies and cognitive science or Philosophy of Mind, albeit, at least officially, his writings are crippled by the single-state fallacy; they are (supposedly) informed by the tight cognitive binding state, only. Loosecog isn’t explicitly integrated into Hofstadter or his fields. What’s needed is to translate Hofstadter into Egodeath-informed English.


Chrono-logical A-gnosticism

I consider early Christianity to be identical in the years we call “150”, “825”, and “1525”. I get the most mileage of interpretation by collapsing-forward those eras to the era of Luther, which followed shortly after the Roman Empire. I reject the received chronology — I have to be specific and stop using charged, reifying terms such as “official” or “mainstream”, but instead be more direct: I reject the chronology which says Luther was 1,525 years after Augustus and that early Christianity was 150. But the alternative chronology is so hazily defined, it can’t even be called a proper revisionist or conspiracy theory. I totally reject the received explanation of Christian history, regarding the chronology. But I don’t have a replacement alternative hypothesis that I can precisely define. I live in a limbo in this regard.

I am resisting investigating alternative chronology as a focused research project. It’s an incidental side project, yet even diminished, it is profitable. It is more profitable to totally disbelieve the received view on religious history and chronology, and experiment with fragments of alternative hypotheses, than to adhere to the received view. What does Paul Thagard’s Philosophy of Science say about that situation: when the old theory is rejected, but the new theory hasn’t been pieced together to formulate it yet, and yet even so, the new proto-theory and rejecting the old, is more productive in its results than the old theory?

The received view is confusion and implausibility, so reject it. It’s better to have fragments of hypotheses, than to adhere to a highly implausible theory that we have many reasons to disbelieve.

— Michael Hoffman, January 24, 2013
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6307 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 27/01/2013
Subject: Re: Pagels: Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: key = det’m
Valentinian Gnosticism and my Egodeath theory agree that:

Higher Christians think:
o No-free-will; religion is not moralism
o Entheogenic Eucharist
o Ahistoricity; scripture is not historical reportage at all, but is strictly metaphor, analogy
o Purely metaphorical
o Heaven and hell are metaphors referring to entheogenic mystic state, its experiences, and what it reveals. We don’t have any idea what happens after bodily physical literal death.
o Christianity is one of many true expressions of transcendent truth; anyone who adheres to the pattern of meaning and experiencing indicated by the symbol of the crucifixion story, conforms to truth and God’s thinking, and is redeemed.

Lower Christians think:
o Freewill moral agency, religion is moralism
o Placebo Eucharist
o Historicity; salvation depends centrally on the physical sacrifice of Jesus
o Literalism
o Heaven is where good freewill moral agents go after physical death, for moral reward. Hell is where bad freewill moral agents go after physical death, for moral punishment.
o Christianity is the only true expression of transcendent truth; historical literal exclusivism.

Childish thinking, of lower Christians, holds to a cluster of views. Esoteric religion is higher religion is higher Christianity, which holds a different cluster of views. Valentinian Gnosticism asserted that differentiation, per Elaine Pagels’ at least in her first three books; this differentiation was her focus in her first three books, which makes them more important and profound than her later books. She started by writing about the heart of the matter, and then her later books drifted out to peripheral concerns, in such a way that she lost touch with the heart of the matter. Valentinian Gnosticism per Pagels’ strongly affirms my Egodeath theory including my treatment of religious myth and peripheral concerns.


“God tests the heart and tries the reins” is mis-translated in modern bibles as “God tests the heart, mind, and feelings.”

The idea of ‘free will’ is an invention of early mainstream Christianity.

True theology must be centered on the entheogenic Eucharist and the Holy Spirit, not on grace as conceived in the ordinary state of consciousness.


Mis-translated bibles obscure the mapping to the Egodeath theory. This article is helpful:

http://www.sovereignword.org/index.php/will-kinneys-king-james-bible-defense-articles/285-reins-heart-mind-or-emotions

The original text is:
God tests the heart and tries the reins.
or, tries the kidneys, where kidneys are considered as desires, emotions, or feelings.

Reins are a cybernetic steering and control mechanism. Whip or goad appears in religious art and writing, as in the Stoic “kick against the pricks”, meaning, resisting the force of fatedness.


The instant Mark Driscoll stops quoting the Bible, and instead uses his own summary, he speaks falsely. On page 108-109 of Religion Saves + Nine Other Misconceptions, he rightly says “Sin has corrupted my mind, so that I do not think God’s thoughts”, citing Rom 6:16. He rightly says “sin has corrupted my behavior, which includes pagan worship of created things, rather than right worship of my creator, God”, citing Rom 1:18-31.

Then Driscoll falsely speaks from his own thinking, and adds his own wording, without citing scripture: “my sinful condition is thoroughly my own doing and in no way the fault of God” — no scripture citation. His assertion here fits with Augustinian asymmetry: when we do evil, we are ultimately responsible, and get all the blame (implying freewill thinking). When we do good, God is ultimately responsible, and gets all the credit (implying no-free-will thinking).

The most interesting aspect of the bible is when it treads on this delicate, asymmetry ground, out of the one side of the mouth, asserting freewill moral agency when talking of sin, and the other, asserting no-free-will when talking of God’s absolute sovereignty. Any assertions like such asymmetry, a delicate mystic meaning-flipping move, should be tied directly to scripture citations. The bible delicately asserts and condemns freewill thinking at the same time.

The book A Free Will, about the history of the idea of free will, shows that popular freewill thinking, of a kind that modern thinking recognizes as the freewill concept and not just the words ‘free will’, was developed in pagan and Christian thought, but especially became popular in early mainstream Christianity. For all practical purposes, the idea of free will is an invention of early mainstream Christianity.


When Mark Driscoll cites or closely paraphrases particular scriptures, I nod and agree, “Yes, that fits the rules of mystic-state metaphor describing self-control cybernetics, frozen time and mono-possibility, entheogenic loose cognition.” Then he steps away from close paraphrasing particular scriptures, and I frown and shake my head, “No, now you are violating the rules of mystic-state metaphor. The tone and connections are wrong, literalist; an outsider’s reading. You are a trespasser, an imposter, you don’t belong here. You are not one of the higher Christians. You are a literalist. You don’t get it; you don’t understand the pattern.”

Driscoll writes “God does not delight in the death of unrepentant, hell-bound sinners,” after citing scriptures that mention “death of the wicked, turn, turn back, die, saved, the knowledge of the truth, perish, repentance, not perish, eternal life”. His tone is wrong, modern, literalist. There’s a tonal difference between the scriptures he cites, which were written from an entheogenic no-free-will perspective, and Driscoll’s writing, which is written from the non-entheogenic, superficial no-free-will perspective without rich recognition of meaning-manipulation.

My core Egodeath theory, I map to scripture and other religious myth and pre-modern philosophy, deliberately speaking from a modern explicit style, so I work with two tones: the modern explicit tone, and the myth tone, mapping them, but my core Theory is coherent and multi-state compliant, unlike the basis of thinking Driscoll is limited to, since he lacks the entheogen Eucharist recognition.

Driscoll fails to emphasize the Eucharist enough. Grace saves, but the point he fails to make is that we receive grace through ingesting the Lord’s Supper/Eucharist, which is the vehicle for the Holy Spirit. If we fail to receive the Holy Spirit and then grace through ingesting the Lord’s Supper, this indicates that the Lord’s Supper was a fake, fraud, placebo. Lower Christians are tainted with freewill moral thinking, sin, lies, failure to understand, no matter how much they read Berkof’s book Systematic Theology. Berkof’s book fails to recognize the entheogenic Eucharist, so it cannot be very profitable.

You have to translate Berkof and Driscoll to the entheogen Eucharist and holy spirit, to make them become profitable to read. Thus Berkof and Driscoll lack the inspiration of the holy spirit. Some Reformed writers probably recognized the entheogenic nature of the Eucharist. Reformed theology from outsiders is false and wrong, because it is centered on grace, but instead, theology should be centered on the entheogenic Eucharist and the Holy Spirit that thereby results, as my Egodeath theory elegantly provides the model for.


Reformed theology sits in an awkward null space, like Arminian theology; it is a semi-correct, largely still incorrect muddle. It’s more correct than Arminian theology, but it is far from mystic esoteric truth and comprehension and recognition of mystic-state metaphor. You cannot do true theology without placing entheogens in the center of your thinking and your model of religious experiencing and interpretation.

This is how my Egodeath theory agrees with and disagrees with Driscoll’s Christianity. The Egodeath theory is higher Christianity, thus esoteric truth, with authentic Eucharist. Reformed popular Christianity of the modern era is lower Christianity, thus is not esoteric truth, does not have the authentic Eucharist, and these are people who say “Jesus, Jesus”, but do not belong to him, except in the grudging little slot permitted to them as baby immature pre-Christians, per the Valentinian Gnosticism system. In short, Valentinian Gnosticism and the equivalent Egodeath theory are true, and pop Reformed Christianity such as Mark Driscoll’s Christianity as of 2012 is false. Driscoll-type Christians have only received the placebo, fake Eucharist; they have not actually taken the Lord’s Supper.

Some pop Reformed Christians have used entheogens, but not in a coherent, integrated way, like the sacrament of apolytrosis (redemption) and the wedding banquet and marriage-chamber of Valentinian Gnosticism. Per Pagels, earlier Gnosticism before Valentinian Gnosticism was not accommodating mainstream Christianity. I always question the word ‘mainstream’, because it begs the question and risks making a false assumption. Reading Pagels’ early books through the Egodeath theory including the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion, I question, I pose *the* question, in a more pointed expression than I have ever before written:

To what extent was the Eucharist entheogenic, throughout Christian history?

Was mainstream Christianity non-entheogenic, as Pagels asserts if she is read through my Maximal Entheogen Theory? What percentage of Eucharist was entheogenic versus placebo, in Christian history? We must avoid McKenna’s fatal disastrous error of asserting that the Eucharist was never or almost never entheogenic. My Maximal Entheogen Theory dictates that we must assume that the Eucharist was always 100% of the time entheogenic, we must assume, until proven otherwise. Never assume that the Eucharist was thought of as non-entheogenic; never assume that Christians took a placebo Eucharist, my Maximal Entheogen Theory says.

— Michael Hoffman, January 27, 2013
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6308 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/02/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
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Group: egodeath Message: 6309 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Gnostic Liberation from Astrological Determinism: Hipparchan “Trepidation” and the Breaking of Fate
Horace Jeffery Hodges
Journal: Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language
Vol. 51, No. 4 (November 1997), pages 359-373
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1583867
“Hipparchus’ discovery of the precession of the equinoxes was used as evidence for intervention in the world by the soteriological god, a miraculous intervention that shifted the zodiac sphere to break the bonds of astrological fate and release the elect from the power of the cosmos and its creator.”


Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies
Nicola Denzey Lewis
http://amazon.com/o/asin/9004245480
Due out Feb 2013
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Religious Studies professor, specialist in Gnosticism.
Condensed by Michael Hoffman:
“Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement, with the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. Astrological fate in the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia. The concept of enslavement to heimarmene originated in Greek Stoicism, was deployed in the Pauline writings, and was later used by Christian and non-Christian second-century intellectuals. The ancient cosmos, its influence, and being free of its potentially pernicious effects. Gnosticism within the context of the intellectual history of the Roman Empire; emergent Christianity; the religions of Graeco-Roman antiquity.”

Contents:
Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists?
Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos
This Body of Death: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis
Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World
Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God
Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom
Astral Determinism in the Gospel of Judas
Conclusions, and a New Way Forward

Same author:
Introduction to ‘Gnosticism’: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds
Nicola Denzey Lewis
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0199755310
2012
Oxford University Press


Excerpts from the book This Way, condensed by Michael Hoffman:

The Sethians were very concerned with escaping astral determinism, escaping from heimarmene/fate, by recognizing and denying the influence of the astrological Archons on one’s existence in the World of Forms. In the Books of the Saviour (Pistis Sophia), the Christos ascends through the Planetary Spheres, during which he “changes the direction” of the Spheres, thereby ruining the ability of astrologers to divine:

Thou hast taken their power from them and from their horoscope-casters and their consulters and from those who declare to the men in the world all things which shall come to pass, in order that they should no more from this hour know how to declare unto them any thing at all which will come to pass.

The soul of the Knower, ascending through the Spheres, delivers a resounding denial to the Rulers of Fate who would subject it to Destiny:

Take your destiny! I come not to your regions from this moment onwards. I have become a stranger unto you for ever, being about to go unto the region of my inheritance.


In the text “Trimorphic Protennoia”, the Spheres are disturbed, thereby eliminating Fate:

And the lots of Fate and those who apportion the domiciles were greatly disturbed over a great thunder. And the thrones of the Powers were disturbed, since they were overturned, and their King was afraid. And those who pursue Fate paid their allotment of visits to the path, and they said to the Powers, “What is this disturbance and this shaking that has come upon us through a Voice to the exalted Speech? And our entire habitation has been shaken, and the entire circuit of the path of ascent has met with destruction, and the path upon which we go, which takes us up to the Archgenitor of our birth, has ceased to be established for us.”


Sacramental practice removes the bonds of Fate. From the “Excerpts of Theodotus,” a collection of Valentinian sayings recorded by Clement of Alexandria:

Until baptism, they say, Fate is effective, but after it [baptism] the astrologers no longer speak the truth [that is, their assertion of fatedness is nullified -mh]. It is not the bath [baptism] alone that makes us free, but also the knowledge [gnosis]: who were we? what have we become? where were we? into what place have we been cast? whither are we hastening? from what are we delivered? what is birth? what is rebirth


Again and again we find this concept [of escaping fatedness] in the literature. The human is trapped within the World of Forms, under the subject of the Archons, who rule the Zodiac and the Planetary Spheres.


In the Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, Philip K. Dick discusses escape from astral determinism:

Two realms there are, upper and lower. The upper, derived from hyperuniverse I or Yang, Form I of Parmenides, is sentient and volitional. The lower realm, or Yin, Form II of Parmenides, is mechanical, driven by blind, efficient cause, deterministic and without intelligence, since it emanates from a dead source. In ancient times it was termed `astral determinism.’ We are trapped, by and large, in the lower realm, but are through the sacraments, by means of the plasmate, extricated. Until astral determinism is broken, we are not even aware of it, so occluded are we.


// end of excerpts from The Way, condensed by Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6310 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
The history of transcending fatedness

Theologians are not consistent, pure asserters of no-free-will. An advantage of deciphering mythic images is the simplicity, the lack of verbal self-contradictions and backpedalling.

My generalization hypothesis: the Old Testament is creator-worship, fate-worship, heimarmene-snake worship, and that the New Testament (or more broadly, New Testament Christianity) is reactionary against that, in the spirit of its era. The new religious idea of Late Antiquity is reactionary. The New Testament (like Mithraism) emphasizes the theme of “transcending fatednesss” while the Old Testament emphasizes the theme of “realizing fatedness”. The new, transcendent god of Late Antiquity turns the sphere of fixed stars, not meaning simply that the god = fatedness, but rather, that the god transcends and controls fatedness. Clusters of related idea-combinations basically is God controlled by Fate or is God the controller of Fate? Part of the good news of Late Antiquity is that here is a way to transcend fatedness.

Demonizing “the Jews” is really disparaging fatedness. ‘The law’ means freewill moral agency but also came to mean fatedness, when for Gnostics, “the Jews” came to mean the negative aspects of stages 1 and 2 in a 3-stage entheogen initiation system.

The 3-stage system I figured out and theoretically modelled 2001-2007:

naive freewill -> no-free-will -> transcendent freedom

In the 3-stage system, from the perspective of stage 3 thinking, stage 1 and 2 are deliberately conflated, are negatively valued, and are symbolized. The confusing result, that I have deciphered, is that the devil maps both to freewill thinking *and* its opposite, no-free-will! I am the one who figured this out, unravelled it, and adequately summarized this in my 2006 main article as well as circa 2001 postings.

Contradiction:
o The devil believes in naive animal free-will, so he is “guilty of pride”.
o And, the devil imprisons us in fatedness.

Freewill thinking = the devil.
No-free-will = the devil.
Transcendence of no-free-will = the Good God; Truth that remains standing; redemption from the world.
Transcendence of the freewill delusion = Godly thinking; Truth that remains standing.

My debate with Coraxo in the Entheogen Yahoo group in 2001 led to my recognition of this problem and my solution of this problem, by describing both a 2-level and 3-level system. Before the debate, my theory covered the 2-level system; afterwards, I added level 3. Divinity inflation. I conclude that in Classical (early) Antiquity, people affirmed the 2-level system, and then in Late Antiquity, in a collective inflation-of-the-divine move, people added a 3rd level. Classical Antiquity’s invention is the religion of realizing fatedness. Late Antiquity’s invention is the religion of transcending heimarmene.


o In early Antiquity, everyone thought Fate controlled Zeus.
o In late Antiquity, everyone thought Zeus controlled Fate. This was equated with precession of the equinoxes, symbolizing transcending the fate-ruled cosmos.

o The Old Testament asserts fatedness (no-free-will) and equates God with fatedness.
o The New Testament asserts transcendence of fatedness (transcendent freedom, distinct from initial freewill thinking), and equates God with transcendence of fatedness.
o Catholic Christianity and Gnostic Christianity agreed that God transcends fatedness, but Catholic strategically affirmed the world, in order to rule the world; the Catholic Church made the Gnostic world-demonizing anathema, and sought a balanced view that maximized church membership and worldly power for the Catholic Church.

Religion is the waffling about whether we have freewill and whether God is a puppet controlled by Fate. We end up with strong assertions and strong condemnations mixed impurely with waffling, in religion and philosophy, regarding whether we are puppets controlled by fate, or not. Luther starts by asserting no-free-will, then his theology drifts, prevaricates, waffles, and backpedals. A good way, I realize, to explain this ever-repeated trajectory, is that the mind undergoes this refinement process when the mind is exposed repeatedly to the river of fire:

Stage 1. Naive freewill thinking, animal, child. Later,
Stage 2. Realization of no-free-will, in entheogen initiation. Later,
Stage 3. Realization of the problematic aspect of no-free-will thinking (control instability), and, accommodating the reality that when the tight cognitive binding state of consciousness returns, the mind returns to freewill-shaped thinking. The rescue of the mind from the peril of non-control and no-free-will thinking (by transcendently being given trust in its fate), amounts to transcending no-free-will, in a way.

Thus we see religious thinking explode initially with assertions of no-free-will, and then after that, we see waffling, complexity, a mixture of views that can be accused of impurity.

Before full initiation, the mind has impurity: a mixture of no-free-will and freewill thinking.
After full initiation, the mind has impurity, or, has a proper, justified combination: a mixture of no-free-will thinking, retained childish freewill thinking on a practical daily basis, and transcendent freedom thinking.

How to affirm both no-free-will and transcendence of no-free-will, without ending in rank nonsense and irrationality? A kind of pre/trans fallacy looms; debates loom, and self-contradiction looms. I affirm no-free-will. Do I also affirm Gnostic or NT or Mithraic escape from the snake-wrapped cosmos into transcendent freedom? How can we avoid the pre/trans fallacy of equating naive freewill thinking with transcendent freedom?

Everything in the world is determined. But everything outside of the world is not determined.


Referent:
Stage 1 thinking (pre-initiation): naive perishable egoic free will thinking; the delusion of free-will morality
Stage 2 thinking (fairly advanced initiation): the realization of fatedness/heimarmene & being subject to it; being a slave of heimarmene

Symbol:
any symbol for the negative category
the Jews
infidels
idolators
those who are displeasing to God and condemned to perish


Do Luther, Lutheranism, Reformed theology, and Calvinism assert no-free-will? “Yes. But No.” Initially Yes, then later, a qualified Yes. Does the NT assert no-free-will? Yes. But.

o No-free-will is the case. But:
o On a practical daily basis, you continue to utilize childish or initial freewill thinking.
o Realizing no-free-will in conjunction with personal non-control in the psychotomimetic state of divine frenzy brings the problematic aspect of no-free-will thinking (control instability). The practical need arises for the rescue of the mind from the peril of non-control and no-free-will thinking, by transcendently being given trust in its fate, from a source outside the domain of practical personal control power.

This is why in religion and philosophy we see an overwhelming tendency toward waffling even by those who assert no-free-will; we always end up with the assertion that “No-free-will is the case but.” All theologians and philosophers chronically end up agreeing, producing a messy mixed view, that “No-free-will is the case but.” Any time someone writes “No-free-will is the case”, eventually they write “but”. Books of Reformed theology assert that mankind’s salvation is predestined, but then, in some of those books, the author rejects “the philosophical concept of determinism”. Thus while reviewing Pagels’ first book, it struck me that official religion is the assertion of no-free-will, accompanied always and inevitably by backpedalling and denying that very assertion.

The chorus of reformed theology sings “No-free-will is the case, but we are not asserting that no-free-will is the case.” My ironic joke: Now that “determinism” (better called ‘no-free-will’) is a popular idea, the only people who assert freewill anymore are Reformed theologians. When Luther was inspired, he asserted no-free-will, for the first 5 minutes of his thinking. Then after that, the history of Reformed thought is the history of adding the “but”; adding freewill back in again, waffling, backpedaling, and denying what they asserted.


I see a similar tone of self-contradiction in the entheogen history books. The minds of entheogen history writers are polluted by Prohibition’s thought-censorship. They always end up contradicting themselves, and asserting that religion comes from entheogens but religion doesn’t come from entheogens, especially not our own religion — for example, everything Wasson ever wrote.

Wasson’s evasive pile of mush, when interrogated fully, asserts that entheogens were used only in proto-Jewish religion before Genesis was written — despite his efforts to give the impression that he may have asserted more use of mushrooms in Christian history, and despite the efforts of Carl Ruck to *claim* that Wasson asserted otherwise. Nowhere in his *writings* (at least) does Wasson assert that Christians used or even merely may have used entheogens. Schultes, same: a heap of inconsistent assertion and backpedalling, both taking a position and trying to evade that position. Like politicians, both authors seem more concerned with what they *appear* to be asserting, than with what they are actually asserting.

We see the same kinds of evasiveness and pathetic dancing against oneself, in books about Shamanism in Christianity. “God forbid I even allow the possibility of drug use in our religion, I’m just saying that the experience in the NT is shamanistic.” That’s the tone of the authors (slaves of Prohibition Press) who dare to write on this taboo, prohibited, forbidden subject. Now we have books — thanks to __ — that dare to mention (dismissively) the idea that Jesus didn’t exist. Next we’ll have more books that finally are so bold and brazen as to condemn the idea that drugs are the historically normal Christian eucharist (and thus, that acknowledge the existence of the idea) — not just as an aside, but as an entire book — like Shroom (another example of an evasive heap of inconsistent assertions).


The history of no-free-will in religion certainly must start by the affirmation of no-free-will, but in Late Antiquity, that theme was so highlighted that the reaction or inflation also was emphasized. Luther H. Martin rightly says that the master theme of Hellenistic Religion is heimarmene, but he needs to add “and transcending that heimarmene”. As a theory of what’s revealed in the altered state, my 2001 Core Theory was correct. But as an explanatory model of religion in antiquity, my 2001 theory had to add the idea of transcending no-free-will. That concept had to be added as part of my Extended Theory.


As a modern, scientific thinker, I assert no-free-will (in doing so, I make Gnostics unhappy, and I make determinists happy (though I disdain their intellectually irrelevant and experientially ignorant *causal-chain* conception of determinism, in favor of the timeless determinism), and I make Reformed theologians happy insofar as they consistently assert no-free-will).

As a historian of the mystic altered state, I have to also provide an explanatory framework covering transcending no-free-will (in doing so, I make Gnostics happy, and making determinists unhappy).


My Core Theory is as simple as possible, so can do without the concept of “transcending fatedness”. Ancient Greek religion did without the concept of transcending fatedness. Before the late Hellenistic heyday of “heimarmene and transcending it” (the Precession Revolution in religion), my 2-level model from the core theory applies fully: according to ancient religion, when the mind is exposed to entheogens repeatedly, the mind switches from the initial mental model of autonomy operating within the Possibilism model of time and control, to the mental model of puppethood operating within the Eternalism model of time and control. Fate tends to dominate Zeus. Late Hellenistic religion, in competitive inflation, added a 3rd level: Jupiter came to dominate Fate.

Early antiquity: Fate controls Zeus.
Late antiquity: Jupiter controls Fate.

There, I mean ‘Jupiter’ as Good God, the Gnostic hidden God, and Mithras. This was achieved by splitting gods into levels, in a debatable way. God’s Providence has 3 levels (per Michael Williams): the primary highest level of Providence is above Fate, and the secondary and tertiary levels of Providence are not above Fate but are in, of, within, or under Fate.

I conclude that an image of the highest god turning the zodiac should be seen as simultaneously asserting “no-free-will and transcending no-free-will”. In the religion of Late Antiquity, the initiate is redeemed from the prison of no-free-will, but the work of initiation, the work of initiating a person, is the work of awakening that mind to no-free-will (like in early Antiquity), *and*, providing that mind with some sense in which the mind transcends that no-free-will.

In this sense, the entheogen initiation gods of Late Antiquity were thought of as higher than Demeter in Eleusis, from early Antiquity.

Despite the history of muddle and backpedalling, religion is ultimately concerned with the revelation of no-free-will. Religion centers around the experiential revelation of no-free-will, even though sometimes the theme is added, of transcending no-free-will, and even though, in practice, theologians who assert no-free-will tend to also backpedal; their initial purity of assertion ends up being an impure mixture. There may be room for a consistent or pure kind of mixture, a way of asserting “No-free-will. But…” that doesn’t end up in irrational self-contradiction or a cover-up and denial of what you are asserting. We end up comparing each theologian and philosopher in terms of what version of “No-free-will. But…” they construct.

One solution is: God is all-powerful, and all-good, where ‘good’ is redefined. God is not the author of sin and evil — hasten to redefine ‘sin’ and ‘evil’ and ‘author’, or per Gnostics, ‘God’.

(irony/sarcasm:)

God only is the author of the primary Providence, not of secondary Providence. Evil is not God’s fault; blame God’s secondary Providence instead.

As virtual reality creator, I’m not the author of the evil actions in the virtual world I created, I’m only the author of the program that created those evil actions.

As puppetmaster, I am not responsible for the evil committed by the puppet: I have an intermediate-layer puppetmaster below me; it’s his fault, not mine.

— Michael Hoffman, February 4, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6311 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
I put forth a theory of no-free-will, then a Gnostic, Coraxo, said that the position I expressed is Calvinism or “unbiblical hypercalvinism”.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Entheogens/message/1480
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Entheogens/msearch?query=mhoffman

Our exchange of multiple posts here is historically important, in tracing the development of the mythic metaphor extended Egodeath theory; that debate is where I brought in “transcending no-free-will” into my extended, peripheral Egodeath theory, to explain religion and mythic metaphor historically. It is literalism, to overstate the difference between no-free-will religion and “transcending no-free-will” religion. Extending my theory to cover Gnosticism merely amounted to further explaining dynamic mythic metaphor — my core theory of religion didn’t have to change, to cover “transcending no-free-will” religion.

It is not the case that there are two different religions to explain: “no-free-will” religion and “transcending no-free-will” religion. There were merely various mythic metaphors to explain. Imagine Sam Harris (advocate of OSC-based causal-chain determinism) condemning Gnosticism because Gnosticism asserts freewill. That would be a misrepresentation and a misunderstanding. Gnosticism asserts no-free-will, and puts forth metaphors in terms of transcending no-free-will. It would be a pre/trans fallacy to assert that Gnosticism asserts freewill thinking. Gnosticism — typical of the religion of Late Antiquity — asserts transcendent freedom, not naive animalish/childish/youthful freewill thinking. The religion of transcendent freedom is the echo, shadow, or reaction produced by the religion of no-free-will. It’s really the same religion, with an added theme.

Hellenistic “no-free-will” religion is nearly the same thing as later Hellenistic “transcending no-free-will” religion. The later is framed as an escape from the former, but that “difference” is more a matter of interpretation, than substance. The substance of the late Hellenistic religion of “transcending no-free-will” is the same as the substance of Classical Hellenic or early Hellenistic “no-free-will” religion. Overstating the “difference” between these shows shallow understanding. The concern is the same: mystic esoteric religion throughout antiquity was concerned with experiencing no-free-will, regardless of what spin is put on it in one cultic brand or another.

Coraxo was correct that my theory of religion was missing or misrepresenting Gnosticism in a central, crucial way. But he was not right to think that my no-free-will theory of religion (my Core Theory) was essentially different than Gnosticism. So you see my main article is apathetic about whether we are controlled by fatedness or by a God who controls fatedness. Worshipping the heimarmene-snake is tantamount to worshipping Zeus Meilichios (easily appeased) who controls the heimarmene-snake.

Gnostic metaphor chooses to draw a hard distinction between the demiurge, who created and thus controls Fate, versus the transcendent Good God who is entirely outside of Fate and not involved with Fate but is above Fate and radically superior to Fate such that God cannot be blamed as controller of Fate; God is not in control of Fate. God is all-good, all-powerful, and is not the creator or controller of Fate.

Coraxo accuses me of Calvinistic moral inconsistency. (He’s projecting typically inconsistent, moralist Calvinism onto me; I never asserted moralism or freewill moralism.) But Gnosticism is guilty of inconsistency and evasiveness as bad as any snake-tongued Reformed theologian who proudly proclaims no-free-will out of one side of his mouth while preaching freewill moral culpability out of the other side of his mouth.

Martin Ball is correct, in the single point that he wrote: you have to trust in the uncontrollable. Whether you call it Fate or call it the Good God who is ineffably and incomprehensibly separate from Fate and irresponsible for Fate, religion is a matter of seeing your vulnerability to no-free-will, and transcendently trusting the power, outside your practical control domain, whether that power is thought of as demiurgic or as incomprehensibly transcendent. Gnosticism has its cop-out as surely as Reformed theology does.


God is all-good and all-powerful and the problem of evil contradicts that. No move is any better than redefining ‘good’ to mean ‘good and evil’. God is all-powerful and is beyond good and evil; God is all-powerful and God is much good and much evil, mixed together, fused together with your thoughts and body frozen in time. Trust in Sam Harris’ determinism, put your life consciously in its hands, in the hands of the demiurge. Trust in the demiurge, even though the demiurge has created all the evil, harm, and misfortune in the world. Trust in causal-chain determinism, put your full trust in it, for your life, even though causal-chain determinism has created all the evil, harm, and misfortune in the world.

Depend for your very life, your life depends on it, trust in the machine that gives your thoughts and has produced all the harm in the world. It is easier to trust in the loving mother figure of Isis and Virgin Mary, or a Good God who has nothing to do with the Creator. Job appreciates this problem, that (at the ultimate, trans-personal level) you have to trust in and “love” the very same God who causes all the affliction in the world. You are physically attached, through your mind and body, to the same cognitive machinery that produces all the harm that’s ever happened, as revealed in the intense mystic altered state. No wonder we try our hardest to trust in our own autonomous control power instead, taking up arms against the Fatedness machinery, which is naturally experienced as a threat.

Sam Harris disparages religion, but (real, esoteric, source) religion is concerned with the difficulty of doing what Harris is essentially advocating: putting trust in, and depending for our life on, uncontrollable Fatedness: control power lying outside of our personal practical domain of control power; trusting It with our very life. It is a last resort and we have no alternative, only nonsense.

Coherent, orderly thinking requires that we realize our situation: by its very nature, our hidden source of thoughts, that lies beyond our practical personal domain of control power, it makes no sense to not trust our hidden source of thoughts: thus the primordial chaos-monster Typhon, father of all monsters, has snakes for legs, and Zeus controls those snakes, so Typhon *has* to trust fatedness, trust Zeus, trust the very source of his own thoughts, worship the mysterious threatening fountain (spring) behind the veil in your mind, worship crazy Dionysus who is the hidden source of your thoughts — even the source of your thoughts of having and directing (steering) your personal control power.

http://google.com/search?q=zeus+typhon&num=100&tbm=isch

Your thoughts are steered by the machine-God, by the demiurge. Fall down and worship in terror and awe the demiurge snake, because that is the very source of your pathetic thoughts of self-reliance and autonomous personal control power. Look at your legs: they are the snake-machine. Look at your thoughts: they are given to you by the snake-machine. (Snake = frozen worldline, spacetime worm, in the Eternalism model, in which there’s a single pre-existing future and no real possibility-branching.) Thus Typhon shields his cybernetic self-control heart with his hand, when his perception is raised by entheogens, and he sees Zeus aiming a threatening thunderbolt at his heart, and Typhon perceives his legs as snakes holding him up, holding you up in the altered state.

Is Typhon’s realization-experience the religion of “no-free-will”, or is it the religion of “transcending no-free-will”? It is the religion of “no-free-will”. Is it substantially different than the religion of “transcending no-free-will”? Only in details of metaphor. They are the same religion, or mystic engine — perennial entheogenic esoteric mystic-state shamanistic religion — with merely a different veneer or skin of metaphor. “Transcending no-free-will is not a new religion, in Late antiquity; it is merely a new metaphor or theme or idea added to the one and only religion, the “Hellenistic Religion”, of Heimarmene, per Luther H. Martin’s book. The religion of transcending Heimarmene is the religion of Heimarmene, brand-labeled or skinned or packaged as “(Transcending) Heimarmene”.

— Michael Hoffman, February 4, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6312 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Asymmetry of Reformed theology
Lutheran Theology
Steven Paulson
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0567550001
April 2011

Excerpts condensed by Michael Hoffman:


The first thing in Lutheran theology is God, who is almighty, and so naturally a predestinating God and thus we come upon the inexorable, logical conclusion: God’s will is free; yours is not; everything happens by divine necessity. Therefore the first lie that must e exorcised from theology is the Liberum Arbitrium — the myth of the free will. Luther loved Melanchthon’s _Loci_ because it dared to begin with the bondage (slaveness, puppethood) of the will. Since all things that happen, happen necessarily, according to divine predestination, our will has no liberty. Lutherans, at the beginning at least, were the most uncompromising monotheists around and took Jeremiah 10:23 at face value: The way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

It is appalling to think that all things happen by almighty power, and none from the choices of our will. But this revolt against God’s being God is not caused by omnipotence itself, it comes from living under a delusions perpetrated by the legal scheme that requires free will in order truly to be free. When this myth strikes the reality of God the free-will shaped mind must rebel — it has no choice. God is omnipotent; your will is not free. But who wants to trouble themselves with this unpleasant knowledge? People don’t want to know this slap to the face we call fate. Melanchthon said “Predestination must intrude into all parts of the theology discussion.” Free will must be the first discussion in theology because it is the operating assumption of nature, reason, philosophy, all false theology, and so of the entire legal scheme.

Free will refuses monotheism, omnipotence, and predestination and therefore is in open revolt against God the minute free will is created in the mind of the sinner. The revolt is so strong, so basic, and so carefully hidden from view that it really must be brought out into the open. Paul’s calling or commission, along with all things, happens by divine necessity. There is no free will, no choice, no decision, no acceptance (of salvific grace) or any other verb you could try to give the human in relation to the Creator. This is not a passing conjecture of Paul’s; it lies at the heart of all theology. Lutherans don’t assert that only Scripture or special revelation shows you the almighty nature of God; they were always aware that the philosophers and especially the dramatists of Greece, tried to reconcile themselves to fate.

Predestination is natural knowledge for people, who then proceed immediately to deny this. The necessity of our knowing that God is almighty, together with the inevitability that we will deny that God is almighty, is what makes humans what they are, creatures of their Creator in rebellion. What your heart desires is to rebel against the Almighty. Nietzsche was son of a Lutheran pastor, that’s how he caught enough theology to know that the simplistic desc5riptions of a free will were foolish. “God’s immutable will: this bombshell knocks free-will flat, and utterly shatters it.”

Melanchthon became frightened of that doctrine and warned of “Stoical madness”, hedging and altering in later editions, asserting free will cooperating with grace under the scheme of the law, like later Protestant theology; certainly Lutheran and every other kind of theology has qualified God’s omnipotence. Modern theology is finally the rejection of omnipotence, the refusal of predestination, and the reworking of the medieval attempt to unite divine and human work in salvation under the rubric of ‘grace’. *The* question of all theology is whether or not you have free will. If you have it, then God is not omnipotent. The goal of the myth of free will is to bring the almighty God under the law. But if you do not have such free will, then everything depends upon how God is disposed toward you; that is, whether or not you have a gracious God.

Paul was speaking about the most frightening thing in the world as if it were the very hope and freedom of the world — God’s almighty power, his wrath, our slavehood in which we have no free will, and so God’s divine election apart from the law [freewill moral agency] — in which case some are chosen and others not. Who wants this as our hope?”


// end of Paulson excerpts condensed by Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6313 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Asymmetry of Reformed theology
My commentary about my excerpts of Paulson’s book Lutheran Theology:

Regarding “Lutherans were always aware that the philosophers and especially the dramatists of Greece, tried to reconcile themselves to fate”. Paulson contradicts himself here; he moments before, asserted that philosophy asserts freewill: “Free will is the operating assumption of nature, reason, philosophy, all false theology, and so of the entire legal scheme”.
He writes both:
“Philosophers tried to reconcile themselves to fate.”
“Free will is the operating assumption of philosophy.”

This is apologetics kettle-logic. “Lutherans are superior people: they believe no-free-will, whereas heathen pagans believed in freewill. And, Lutherans are superior people: they are well-informed, and realized that even the heathen pagans were aware of fate.” This is like trying to condemn Gnostics because they are libertine and because they are ascetics and because they assert free will and because they assert no-free-will. “Gnostic pagan heathens are bad people, because they choose coffee, and, conversely, because they choose tea. Those error-filled godless pagans believed in fate. Also, those error-filled godless pagans believed in free will. They are guilty of abstinence. Additionally, they are guilty of indulging.”

This is a cheap rhetorical move, found all the time in apologetics that never miss an opportunity to misrepresent the Other (Gnostics, pagans, moderns, Jews, Shamans, Catholics, etc.) in every possible way, no matter the contradiction within and between the apologetics authors. This incoherent apologetics project of omni-defamation of the Other is like sleazy R. Gordon Wasson condemning the early 20th Century mycologist as “ignorant” for asserting that Plaincourault means Amanita, and then, proudly showing us that Wasson figured out that Plaincourault means Amanita (but in a way that the painter was unaware). This kind of haughty and self-contradictory kettle-logic apologetics is as low and nonsensical as insults in discussion forums, where the goal isn’t truth or coherence, but to make oneself appear superior in status, at a glance.


Regarding “Free will must be the first discussion in theology because it is the operating assumption of nature, reason, and philosophy” – that’s only true of OSC-based nature/reason/philosophy. ASC-based nature/reason/philosophy makes the mind perceive no-free-will.

Regarding “predestination is natural knowledge”, clarification is needed. The natural mind, per Antiquity, is ignorant of no-free-will; it is the animal/childish thinking, in terms of freewill-shaped agency. Only after ingesting the super natural light particles of the Eucharist, is the mind impressed upon by the paradigmatic stamp of no-free-will awareness. This impressing by the entheogen is, in the Gnostic metaphor-system, characterized as transcending no-free-will, almost as soon as the sacrament of apolytrosis reveals no-free-will. ‘Apolytrosis’ = redemption, purchasing or saving or setting free from captivity, from the threatening prison of fatedness.


Regarding “freewill is the assumption of philosophy” — not according to the book A Free Will, until just before New Testament Christianity. That book traces the historical origin of the idea of free will. After I built independently my original model of what’s revealed in loosecog, I began reading the history of philosophy and religion, and was surprised that everyone agrees with my no-free-will conclusion, though — I now understand — because modern culture is based in the ordinary state of consciousness (OSC) with no integrated exposure to the ASC, we tend to revert or backslide constantly to naive freewill thinking.

Theology is a coward and refuses to take responsibility for its assertion of no-free-will; theology — as this book explains — keeps adding freewill back in, boldly asserting no-free-will with one hand, then, cowardly, adding freewill back in with the other hand.


Regarding “this slap to the face we call fate”:

Kicked in the face
You can pray for a place in heaven’s unearthly estate
— Rush


Regarding “thus we come upon the inexorable, logical conclusion:” — even more so, when done right, with the non-placebo, entheogenic Eucharist, in the entheogen Eucharist altered state of the Holy Spirit when we eat the actual physical real flesh of Christ in the Supper of the Lord, when you have Christ for dinner. Jesus was here, in the flesh, in history. I know, because I ate him for dinner. I saw him myself. I even have photos of Christ here in the flesh, to corroborate this, taken at 10:10 on 10/10/10.


Regarding his phrase “the myth of the free will”, compare the naive-as-Oedipus title of the OSC-based causal-chain determinism book, “The Myth of Free Will”: the Attic tragedy chorus exclaims, upon mention of that title, which expresses ominous truth uttered from within ignorance: actually, Myth is about the entheogenic revealing of no-free-will; my Egodeath theory discovered that myth is precisely about the revealing that free will is a myth.

Take my hand, I’ll lead you to the other side
To see the truth: the path for you is decided
— Iron Maiden

Opinions are provided
The future pre-decided
— Rush

Destiny planned out
Speculation of the wise
— Bob Daisley, of Blizzard of Ozz


Religion loudly proclaims no-free-will, God is almighty. And then, backpedals from that, saying “nevertheless, you are still ultimately culpable per freewill moral agency. You really are an evil moral freewill agent, and, God is almighty. Evil is not ultimately God’s fault, it’s ultimately your fault, even though God is almighty. This obvious contradiction is not our fault, as theologians; it’s your fault, as a confused and deluded sinner. And who are you, a mere creature, to question God’s logic that we freewill-denying theologians have created?” I haven’t seen so much waffling and self-contradiction since I lifted the rock from Pope-buddy Wasson’s book and saw all the worms underlying it try to crawl away and hide.

If you tell me that God is almighty and that we are ultimately-responsible moral agents rather than puppets, you are insincere, a lying serpent; you don’t believe your own words. You can’t have it both ways in the same sense at the same time, trying like Wasson to invent a mass of verbiage to try to hide your brazen self-contradiction. The child simply has freewill thinking, innocently. Theologians are guilty of hypocrisy, of preaching a garbage theology that they themselves don’t believe in; of striving to contradict themselves and pretend they aren’t. Sin is the mixture of asserting freewill and no-free-will.

The Reformed theologian pushed into a corner admits self-contradiction with the feeble excuse “the fallen mind of man cannot understand the mystery of God”. No, “1+1=3”, or “Yes = No”, is not a “mystery”; it’s nonsense and simple self-contradiction. Don’t falsely label it as a “mystery”. What’s truly the mystery is the source of our personal control-thoughts. Saying that we are ultimately responsible freewill-type moral control agents is not a mystery; it’s simply an outright falsehood, one that is undeniably common and standard in Reformed theology books, as Paulson’s book explains.

First Luther discovers no-free-will, and immediately after that, Lutheranism adds freewill moral agency to that, as is standard practice throughout the history of religion except in the pure source of religion, during the loosecog fountain in the peak window of the mystic altered state. The revelation of no-free-will is given in the heart of esoteric religion (including in Gnosticism), and then, the labor of exoteric theology and religion is to cover-up that embarrassing nakedness, hide, shield the eyes in public, to protect society from the embarrassing, horrific though attractive truth that is revealed, protecting religion by censoring the taboo heart of religion.

— Michael Hoffman, February 4, 2013, based on original research and idea-development since 1985
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6314 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/02/2013
Subject: Re: Transcending no-free-will
Clarifications:

Now we have books — thanks to [Bart Ehrman] — that dare to mention (dismissively) the idea that Jesus didn’t exist. Next we’ll have more books that finally are so bold and brazen as to condemn the idea that drugs are the historically normal Christian eucharist (and thus, that acknowledge the existence of the idea[; that is, my idea, that normally, in Christian history, the Eucharist was understood as visionary plants; per my Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture]) — not just as an aside, but as an entire book — like Shroom (another example of an evasive heap of inconsistent assertions).

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6315 From: Vincent Bruno Date: 25/02/2013
Subject: Vincent Bruno
Group: egodeath Message: 6319 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/06/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6320 From: Joe Date: 12/06/2013
Subject: Forthcoming essay citing egodeath theory
The forthcoming book ‘Breaking convention: essays on psychedelic consciousness’ (currently available for preorder on amazon) contains an essay which is based on Michael Hoffman’s theory of mental construct processing (loosening of associations in the psychedelic altered state), and which includes several citations to the egodeath theory website. The title of the essay is ‘Cognitive phenomenology of mind manifestation’, it covers the following topics:

Relation of psychedelic tripping to the mind’s association and pattern forming capacities
Using analogies to describe altered state experiences
Plato’s allegory of the philosopher in the cave, and how it maps onto the psychedelic state
Frank Jackson’s philosophical thought-experiments about radically novel kinds of experience, and how they map onto the psychedelic state
Andrew Marr’s theory of visual perception, and Jerry Fodor’s theory of mental modularity, and how both these theories imply a broadly representationalist metaphysical view (perception mediated by mental symbols, as opposed to direct perception of external reality)
Michael Hoffman’s concepts of explicit representationalism and metaperception in the psychedelic state
Undulating qualia – the specific way in which ordinary perception of physical objects is altered in the psychedelic state, and how this alteration indicates a representationalist theory of perception
Edmund Husserl’s concept of phenomenological epoche (= deliberate ‘bracketing-off’ of natural, habitual assumptions for the purpose of carrying out phenomenological analysis), and how it describes both psychedelic tripping and schizophrenic/psychotic mental fragmentation.
Freud’s analogy of the mind as a crystal vase which shatters during episodes of psychosis, making the underlying crystalline structure become visible
Humphrey Osmond’s concept of tripping as ‘psychotomimesis’
Louis Sass’ concept of schizophrenic cognition as ‘hyperreflexivity’ and how this concept also applies to the psychedelic cognitive modality
The phenomenological inaccuracy of the term ‘hallucinogen’
Benny Shanon’s analysis of the ayahuasca experience, in particular his description of the way in which ayahuasca can reorientate a person’s ontological understanding
How the psychedelic state reveals the mind’s basic function of fusing together mental representations with their external referents
How Michael Hoffman’s analysis of the psychedelic trip effect explains the proper way in which tripping is related to hallucinating
Michael Hoffman’s concept of the mental worldmodel, and how psychedelic tripping can lead to a radical overhaul/restructuring of the mental worldmodel
Using the process of waking up from a dream as an analogy for the psychedelic mental reconfiguration
Paul Thagard’s writing on paradigm conversion and how it maps onto the psychedelic mental reconfiguration
Group: egodeath Message: 6321 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/07/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6322 From: hahaonlysirius Date: 06/07/2013
Subject: Please repost “Mystianity” graduate thesis paper referenced by Micha
I would like to read the graduate thesis paper mentioned on egodeath.com by Michael Hoffman here: http://www.egodeath.com/MysticInitiationOriginChristianity.htm

>I’m amazed at the excellent quality of this summary by a student. This “report”, a graduate thesis, is about Christianity and the Mystery Religions.
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JesusMysteriesdiscussion/files/Mystianity.zip

The link no longer works, and I’ve done some googling around the web but haven’t had any luck. Does anyone have a copy they could repost? I would be very grateful.
Group: egodeath Message: 6323 From: hahaonlysirius Date: 07/07/2013
Subject: Cancellation of the will
I’ve had some involvement in a reformed church founded on Calvinist principles recently, and the discussion of the Holy Spirit in relation to the will of man came up. The position asserted was that the Holy Spirit descends on the elect, through the concept of Grace — these elect few are pre-destined for Salvation. Then, the degree to which the elect is filled with the Holy Spirit is dependent on how one submits to the Holy Spirit. By becoming an empty vessel — total submission, one can become completely full of the Holy Spirit. However, if one clings to the flesh — continues to rebel — there will be no fertile ground for the Sprit to take root.

This oddly sounded very much like the theory of egodeath, minus the entheogens of course, but it left me slightly bewildered. First, the elect have no choice whether they are chosen or not. However, being chosen, they are provided a choice: submit or rebel. Yet, is it not God’s Providence that determines whether we will submit or rebel? This seemed like waffling to me, and contradictory to the “compatibilist” position the church has professed in the past: i.e. man can do what he wills, but not will what he wills. Then how can man will to be submissive?

Surely, one can experience the cancellation of the will in the altered mystic state. However, can one cancel one’s will in the ordinary state of consciousness? Can I will myself to be an empty vessel, in anticipation of being filled with the Holy Spirit? How does this relate to ego transcendence as state in the egodeath theory?

Thanks for any insight.
Group: egodeath Message: 6324 From: ajnavajra Date: 07/07/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will
My take on this derives from enough “egodeath” experiences with
entheogens to find a sense that “I” have a continuity before this birth
and after this coming death. Sort of a reincarnationalist type view, but
that the “I” that is my true self (Self) is more than this present
personality.

Therefore the will that this current personality possesses is a smaller
amount that the Over Will of the Higher Self. (That Self may also be an
integrated unit within a yet larger Greater Self. The whole thing is
likely a fractal reflection)

So “my Father in Heaven” is my Higher Self, who as in the parable of the
talents, have given me a small “trust fund” of will, and whether I
remember this fact or not, I am still operating at His sufferance.

Many people using 5 MeO have reported being expanded back to Godhead and
then they remembered laying out the script of this lifetime. Coming back
down has the sense of being “squeezed” into a smaller more limiting
little self.

Taken in the way, your current lifetime is not by far your only one, and
the only expression of your will, or His Will. In this level of the
“video game” you have to achieve “beating the level” or the “boss” of
the level, in order to start the next level. This may involve some kind
of body upgrade too, with a new nervous system capable of sensibilities
now undeveloped.

As a child has limited will under the Will of the parent, so we too act
out our part at this level, knowing there are aspects we canot yet
understand.

All of this is predicated on having some kind internal initiations or
experiences which you can begin to trust, rather than the kind of
“faith” that comes from reading other people’s opinions. I believe if
you continue to explore taking the sacred communion with the INTENTION
of finding out what is next, and opening to there being an invisible
support group of higher beings in whose tribe you are already
integrated, they will carry you to your next level. You are already
surrounded and live in the womb of the Great Light Mother, or Holy
Spirit, and your life derives from Her. She will give you what you need
at the moment, so don’t bewilder yourself by trying to solve the entire
puzzle now! You have to grow, and keep growing.

Thus in the end, every act of your “will” small as it is, derives its
force from the greater Intention or Will of the Mother-Father who has
carried you to this moment of questioning. “They” will not abandon you.
In my opinion this “threat” of making a mistake in your decisions is
some kind of mind control bullshit laid on us by priests and
mind-slavers to cultivate our obeisance so they can milk our “soul
juice”, pick our pockets, and misdirect our forces. You are made “in the
image of God”. Follow your spiritual umbilical cord back to Source, and
feel it like a substance, a Rock, the Foundation. Now trust your will,
even when it makes mistakes.

Does a plant “decide” to grow, flower and fruit? No, the interior force
of the Holy Spirit carries it. Thus friend, be like the Lilies of the
Field. Be yourself warts and all, allow mistakes, and accept
Father-Mother’s forgiveness and GRACE and trust that “they” will carry
you onward, knowing you must fall many times in learning to walk.


— In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, “hahaonlysirius” wrote:
>
> I’ve had some involvement in a reformed church founded on Calvinist
principles recently, and the discussion of the Holy Spirit in relation
to the will of man came up. The position asserted was that the Holy
Spirit descends on the elect, through the concept of Grace — these
elect few are pre-destined for Salvation. Then, the degree to which the
elect is filled with the Holy Spirit is dependent on how one submits to
the Holy Spirit. By becoming an empty vessel — total submission, one
can become completely full of the Holy Spirit. However, if one clings to
the flesh — continues to rebel — there will be no fertile ground for
the Sprit to take root.
>
> This oddly sounded very much like the theory of egodeath, minus the
entheogens of course, but it left me slightly bewildered. First, the
elect have no choice whether they are chosen or not. However, being
chosen, they are provided a choice: submit or rebel. Yet, is it not
God’s Providence that determines whether we will submit or rebel? This
seemed like waffling to me, and contradictory to the “compatibilist”
position the church has professed in the past: i.e. man can do what he
wills, but not will what he wills. Then how can man will to be
submissive?
>
> Surely, one can experience the cancellation of the will in the altered
mystic state. However, can one cancel one’s will in the ordinary state
of consciousness? Can I will myself to be an empty vessel, in
anticipation of being filled with the Holy Spirit? How does this relate
to ego transcendence as state in the egodeath theory?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
Group: egodeath Message: 6325 From: Simon Date: 22/07/2013
Subject: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Enlightenment as many of you may know means ego death, but what is Enlightenment and what is ego?

Enlightenment means coming to a state of perfect goodness and this means that ego is anything and everything that is bad in a person, in you…

Zen has quite a history of Enlightening people but not so much these days. Why..? There are no enlightened zen masters any more; they have all been lost due to poor students. Although this is not really their fault as you may have guessed. Evolution procedes and there is a reason for everything.

Ego includes all sickness, though not everything the modern person calls sickness is sickness. THings like schizophrenia and alhzimers are NOT sickness but glipses outside of ego.

Physicality is ego, so when a person becomes more aware, their sense of thinking things on the physical plane are important diminishes and they become more aware of the non-physical dimensions of life. This is often mistaken for illness in todays society and awareness of the non-physical is termed illness by many.

It seems society has a great deal against anything truly good and this needs to end. It is just ego playing its tricks but once the ego’s tell-tale signs are seen it is not a problem.

So a thorough understanding of ego is important for ego death proper. Remember ego is all negativity, while enlightenment and everything outside of ego is positive and life enhancing.

Society doesn’t like an Enlightened person, because society has a big ego collectively, but when that ego diminishes, the Enlightened person will become the most popular man in the world, as is to be expected. All Enlightened Souls were popular, but these days there is a lot more negativity and ignorance.

IT is all a product of Evolution and will and must work out.

Peace to you all.
Group: egodeath Message: 6326 From: ajnavajra Date: 23/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
— In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, “Simon” <buddhaneo@…> wrote:
>
> Enlightenment as many of you may know means ego death, but what is Enlightenment and what is ego?
>
> Enlightenment means coming to a state of perfect goodness and this means that ego is anything and everything that is bad in a person, in you…
>
> Ego includes all sickness, though not everything the modern person calls sickness is sickness. THings like schizophrenia and alhzimers are NOT sickness but glipses outside of ego.
>

> So a thorough understanding of ego is important for ego death proper. Remember ego is all negativity, while enlightenment and everything outside of ego is positive and life enhancing.
>
**************************

wow! this is a really dualistic mentalized model. Gadzooks. “perfect goodness,” “bad…???”

this seems to me to be another expression of the “run away” sickness that infects “spirituality.” Gotta get from here (“illusion”) to there (“enlightenment”). This model itself is the “illusion.”

These values of “good” and “bad” arise in the dual state which is NOT enlightenment. When the mind truly stops, these models will stop. What One is left with is what IS, and THAT includes all models of illusion and “enlightenment.” It IS what IT IS.

Even your illusion is perfect goodness!

Look up Churning the Milky Sea. Note that the forces of Darkness, Asuras, are evenly matched against the forces of Light, Nagas.. Names are not important. But the vision is that the game we call Cosmos with its supposed “evolution to higher states” is actually a balance of cross-cancelling forces, meaning that there is actually no movement at all. The only movement is an artifact of Mind scanning Itself. Every time one touches on Mind, we realize there is no place to go but here! This ends Seeking, trying to map a way out of “illusion” which is an equal part of Reality.

Capiche?
Group: egodeath Message: 6327 From: Simon Date: 24/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Even YOUR ideas are illuisions…

The ego is everything that DOESN’T KNOW its unity with God.

E dge
G od
O ut


**************************
>
> wow! this is a really dualistic mentalized model. Gadzooks. “perfect goodness,” “bad…???”
>
> this seems to me to be another expression of the “run away” sickness that infects “spirituality.” Gotta get from here (“illusion”) to there (“enlightenment”). This model itself is the “illusion.”
>
> These values of “good” and “bad” arise in the dual state which is NOT enlightenment. When the mind truly stops, these models will stop. What One is left with is what IS, and THAT includes all models of illusion and “enlightenment.” It IS what IT IS.
>
> Even your illusion is perfect goodness!
>
> Look up Churning the Milky Sea. Note that the forces of Darkness, Asuras, are evenly matched against the forces of Light, Nagas.. Names are not important. But the vision is that the game we call Cosmos with its supposed “evolution to higher states” is actually a balance of cross-cancelling forces, meaning that there is actually no movement at all. The only movement is an artifact of Mind scanning Itself. Every time one touches on Mind, we realize there is no place to go but here! This ends Seeking, trying to map a way out of “illusion” which is an equal part of Reality.
>
> Capiche?
>
Group: egodeath Message: 6328 From: tolderoll Date: 24/07/2013
Subject: Re: Enlightenment/Ego – What is it?
Why are you spamming the group? It’s obvious you’re not interested in the topics of discussion here.

— In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, “Simon” <buddhaneo@…> wrote:
>
>
> Even YOUR ideas are illuisions…
>
> The ego is everything that DOESN’T KNOW its unity with God.
>
> E dge
> G od
> O ut
>
>
> **************************
> >
> > wow! this is a really dualistic mentalized model. Gadzooks. “perfect goodness,” “bad…???”
> >
> > this seems to me to be another expression of the “run away” sickness that infects “spirituality.” Gotta get from here (“illusion”) to there (“enlightenment”). This model itself is the “illusion.”
> >
> > These values of “good” and “bad” arise in the dual state which is NOT enlightenment. When the mind truly stops, these models will stop. What One is left with is what IS, and THAT includes all models of illusion and “enlightenment.” It IS what IT IS.
> >
> > Even your illusion is perfect goodness!
> >
> > Look up Churning the Milky Sea. Note that the forces of Darkness, Asuras, are evenly matched against the forces of Light, Nagas.. Names are not important. But the vision is that the game we call Cosmos with its supposed “evolution to higher states” is actually a balance of cross-cancelling forces, meaning that there is actually no movement at all. The only movement is an artifact of Mind scanning Itself. Every time one touches on Mind, we realize there is no place to go but here! This ends Seeking, trying to map a way out of “illusion” which is an equal part of Reality.
> >
> > Capiche?
> >
>
Group: egodeath Message: 6330 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/08/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6331 From: letsrap@sbcglobal.net Date: 16/08/2013
Subject: What U-R Learning
Group: egodeath Message: 6333 From: letsrap@sbcglobal.net Date: 19/08/2013
Subject: Be Hungry For Truth
Group: egodeath Message: 6335 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/09/2013
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6339 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2013
Subject: Bk: The Psychedelic Future of the Mind (Thomas Roberts)

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values
Thomas B. Roberts
http://amazon.com/o/asin/1594774595
January 2013

 

I wrote this review, below, and posted it to Amazon as soon as the book first shipped, Feb. 8, 2013.
My reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1YFCQT60M4XAJ


4 stars out of 5
It’s a start, but perpetuates limiting, incoherent assumptions

 

This book is an assortment, a compilation of pieces, including a couple chapters by other authors. This too-short book somewhat achieves its goal; it’s appropriate for an entheogen library but uncritically perpetuates fatally self-defeating fallacies. The book really needs to be better, more consistently enlightened, with a thoroughgoing critique. This book is average, conventional groupthink in too many ways, and where it breaks away, it does so insufficiently. Regarding the cognitive potentials of entheogens, it’s a start, but could be more substantial (without being longer). It’s a useful brief survey of the field, of current attitudes; that’s a relatively strong point of the book.

 

The sections on entheogen history and on psychedelics in cognitive science need to be expanded, but without the tepid compromise that limits this book. It needs to be harder-hitting; it’s not good enough to accomplish its goals. It relies too much on Stan Grof’s quirky, narrow model, his fixation on the birth-trauma metaphor.

 

It needs to go deeper on the taboo, censored huge interest and role of entheogens throughout many fields. As suggested but not emphasized enough in this book, millions of people (researchers, professors, priests, and mystics) are highly interested though censored and silent, and we get glimpses of this interest in several points in the book. Roberts doesn’t step up to the plate and in a sustained and direct way tackle this key blocking impediment, of communication censorship; he only keeps noting it, too feebly. I would expect his survey of thousands of books to point out what’s really going on, to explain why I go into the New Age bookstore and am told they have no books about psychoactive drugs in religion, when in fact, as Roberts knows, those books and sections are strewn throughout the store, separated, scattered, diluted.

 

Roberts vaguely mentions that there is much entheogen activity at websites, but his book is too retrograde to cover them seriously. The limited and self-defeating thinking (or lack of thoroughgoing consistent critical thinking) seen in these books that cite each other, shows why the future of clear thinking is driven online, where there is less hidebound and conventional thinking than in old fashioned and old conventional-thinking printed books.

 

I disagree with Roberts’ assertion in this book that entheogens should be controlled and doled-out by authorities. The law should be the same as it always was from the beginning of time until a few years ago in 1966 and Nixon’s drug schedules, which is to say, no law, other than accurate labelling and quality control, since religious freedom means freedom of traditional mystic methods which were entheogenic, as the books Roberts cites show. He should know better, for this book and from his Entheogen Chrestomathy (a collection of passages about entheogens from many books).

 

Instead, we get more crypto-Prohibition, Roberts allowing himself to be coerced by mental censorship into contradicting his own position, effort, and evidence, and training his readers to similarly sustain their uncritical key assumptions about religion, and training them how to hold self-contradictory ideas in their mind like himself, Walsh, and most of the other authors. Clark Heinrich is relatively enlightened in his book, Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (http://amazon.com/o/asin/0892819979), elegantly tracing Amanita throughout our Western religious history. For coherent clear thinking about rights and meaningful religious freedom, see Steve Kubby The Politics of Consciousness: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (http://amazon.com/o/asin/189362644X).

The books Roberts cites and surveys show that Greeks and Christians used mixed wine freely, and we claim to legally have religious freedom, so against this incoherent book, we must insist we be as free in our religious banqueting parties as we were during Antiquity; we cannot settle for any lesser pseudo-freedom while claiming we have religious freedom and claiming that America is religious. Follow the Supreme Court consistently: leave the entheogen churches alone; reject Roberts’ compromising authoritarian administration of entheogens.

 

This book claims to be forward-looking rather than a historical recounting, and yet it perpetuates major fallacious assumptions about history, in a self-defeating way, by implicitly asserting a history while lacking sufficient critical examination of our Western history of entheogens. Being forward looking shouldn’t be at the expense of telling a false and self-defeating story of the past. It would be better to be silent about the past than to tell a false story of our past lacking entheogens, so you could say this book is not exclusively forward looking enough. It’s a fairly good forward-looking story combined with a bad careless habitual historical story that defeats the forward effort.

 

Roberts needs to read the books excerpts he’s gathered and put together the pieces more, on an independent basis. Like all prominent authors of entheogen books, his thinking is far too compromised and unoriginal, coerced into unconsciously shooting himself in the foot and affirming the underpinning doctrines that support the Prohibition-friendly reality-tunnel. Schultes does the same, and Roger Walsh’s article that’s a chapter of this book does the same. They ask the Prohibition-saturated question “Do drugs have religious import?” These drug policy reform leaders are preventing success by declaring defeat before they’ve begun, by framing the self-evidently obvious as if it were something that’s in doubt. Walsh titles his article self-defeatingly as a question, “are entheogens false?”

 

This book — its authors — reify habitually the uncritically adopted unspoken Prohibitionist-compliant dogma, a hazy, incoherent dogma, that scholars understand how Christian mystics throughout history accessed the intense mystic altered state, and we know that they accessed it through meditation, and we know they didn’t access it through drugs. It is unthinkable and unwriteable by Walsh and Roberts — mis-leaders of reform — to consider the question I pose: to what extent were visionary plants used by Christians throughout history? Roberts contradicts the evidence he has collected: he cites the book The Psychology of Religion by Hood et al The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach (http://amazon.com/o/asin/1606233033), which states that Dan Merkur has shown in his book The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience (http://amazon.com/o/asin/089281862X) that Jewish mystics used visionary plants.

 

Yet these writers continue, as firmly repeated in the present book, to put forward without any critical examination, the assertion — taken as if granted and established — that traditional Christian mysticism is distinct from the use of visionary plants. Per my Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion, Ruck et al, cited by Roberts’ book, have demonstrated enough evidence that we must assume the opposite: every Christian mystic used visionary plants, unless proven otherwise. That’s the exact opposite of the strong tendency of all these authors. They contradict themselves. Roberts advises about the Entheogenic Reformation, and yet, he in unthinking convention, together with the other authors, robs visionary plants of their credit.

 

He gives Christianity and Christian religious experiencing, he gives credit to non-visionary plant vague ill-defined practices, contemplation practices that are assumed without any critical thinking, to be non-plant based — despite copious evidence that Merkur and Ruck and the entheogen historians have gathered, including mushrooms in art that I have routinely identified. Roberts cites books that contain that evidence, and yet he unthinkingly fails to connect, instead, he omits and shuts out visionary plants, robbing them of their due central credit throughout our religious history.

 

He contradicts himself; he compromises with the mental shackles of Prohibition unspoken dogma (the silent Reform-preventing dogma of repeating the harmfully misleading nonsensical phrase “entheogens vs. natural traditional mystic methods”), even while citing books that contradict that phrase and show it is a false dichotomy, a massive category error. Evidence citied in many of the hundreds of books Roberts surveys, indicate — when you engage your critical thinking, consistently — that the category “entheogens” is identically the same as the category “traditional mystic practice”.

 

This book purports to advocate entheogens, yet the author permits himself to be psyched-out by Prohibitionist mental shackles and the very kind of endemic, biased thought-censorship that he mildly comments on in this book. Roberts ends up advocating against entheogens in our religious history, despite the evidence (which Roberts gathers in his books and citations, pages 146-151 here, and his book An Entheogen Chrestomathy) that shows that Christian mysticism is the same thing as entheogens; that entheogens are the traditional method of accessing the intense mystic altered state. He cites Clark Heinrich, and Carl Ruck et al: The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist (http://amazon.com/o/asin/089089924X).

 

Uncritically parroting repeatedly the nonsense phrase “entheogens vs. natural methods” (going directly against Jonathan Ott’s title Pharmacophilia: or The Natural Paradises [1888755016]), Roberts robs and steals from visionary plants the central credit they are due, within our own Western history. Just like almost all the other prominent, Prohibition-friendly, collaborationist, compromisers (Schultes, cited on page 148: Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers [http://amazon.com/o/asin/0892819790]). Roberts and all authors need to weed out their self-contradicting compromises from their thinking, purify their thinking of Prohibition-friendly unstated, uncritical dogma, and start telling the true, coherent, evidence-based history, abandoning care of what the mental shackles of censorship and Prohibition dictate.

 

Walsh (chapter 5 of this book) needs to move forward and stop asking whether drugs have genuine religious import, and engage substance: how does religious experiencing come through visionary plants, as seen throughout religious history? This isn’t a matter of citing more evidence, so much as a matter of stating coherent connections, and being consistent in their thinking and handling of the evidence Roberts has gathered. The key false dichotomy of “drugs vs. traditional mystic methods” is totally entrenched in Walsh’s writing, and totally void of any thought of critical examination, despite the seemingly open-minded questioning implied in this chapter title (false advertising): “Psychedelics and Religious Experiences — What is the Relationship?”

 

Walsh’s chapter is based on a massive fallacious assumption never mentioned or examined for even a moment: that mystics didn’t use entheogens — despite the books cited by this book. Walsh’s name is given with M.D., Ph.D., and D.H.L., but he utterly fails to think about his underlying assumption, in this article supposedly about inquiring into this relationship. As Roberts writes about censorship and omission of psychedelics in Cognitive Science: “Whether this omission is due to a simple lack of information or scientists’ and scholars fear for their careers by touching a taboo topic is hard to say; it is probably some of both.”

 

Roberts and Walsh colossally fail to effectively counter and call for an end to this mental straightjacket and censorship. But at least Roberts mentions it; a glimmering of consciousness of the conditions of Prohibition begins to awaken, but we need a thousand times more, and this gentle, compliant, positive-thinking book is too mild to tackle these key blocking dynamics, resulting from Prohibition for Profit.

 

What use is Roberts’ advice on Reform when he despite his evidence persists in reifying a key Prohibitionist lie, that historical religion uses (vague, undefined) “traditional methods” that are not visionary plants? Roberts repeats that dogmatic assumption, and never stops to subjective it to critical examination. His section on entheogen history is not connected and integrated into his thinking through the rest of the book. Ralph Metzner (who is mentioned on page 70) wrote that he made a strategic mistake in the 1960s by portraying psychedelics as something new. Roberts hasn’t learned that lesson, despite decades of scholarship gathered in his Chrestomathy, such as Robert Graves’ discovery of mushrooms in Greek religion and myth in 1957.

 

That fatal mistake and persisting in robbing entheogens of their fully due credit as the source of the mystic state throughout history, continues to reign supreme even as Ruck et al pile up more and more evidence; Roberts continues omitting and shutting out entheogens from our religious history even while he dabbles incoherently in showing that the reality is the opposite. This book is futile because in the name of Reform, it falsely eliminates entheogens from our history, despite evidence the book cites. This book inadvertantly keeps telling the story of self-defeat, as the master narrative. The key to Reform involves quitting telling that 1960s Prohibition-supporting story; Roberts doesn’t have a compelling enough story without integrated that evidence throughout his thinking.

 

This book’s purpose is Reform, yet this book perpetuates a key fallacy that pushes entheogens away: Roberts tells the story, reifying and repeating it, that our religion’s history is not entheogenic. He falls short of providing complete coherent independent critical thinking. His error is deeply entrenched in this book: page 55, he mis-portrays antiquity as having merely rites and activities, as opposed to later word-based religion of 1500, and now, new, “primary religious experiencing”. This is the evolutionism fallacy: that we have entheogens now, and we are more evolved than antiquity, therefore, antiquity lacked entheogens, but had merely “rites” (presumed uncritically and inconsistently in this book as being non-entheogenic).

 

He ought to tell the more compelling true story, of returning to the non-placebo original Eucharist which inspired Christianity throughout its history, as the evidence and coherent thinking indicates. Roberts isn’t interested in looking at the copious evidence for entheogen Christianity because it contradicts his preconceived self-defeating and incoherent story of religious evolution — a false story that is encouraged by Prohibition’s censorship effect. Roberts several times in this book criticizes authors for omitting and hiding their pro-entheogen views; for example, page 122 points out that authors censor William James, like I have criticized Ken Wilber for starting with first book by omitting William James’ lead-in, “On nitrous oxide, …” (before “it occurred to me that perception is a veil; multiple states…”).

 

But Roberts needs to gain self-awareness of how he is censoring and shackling his own thinking, and thus perpetuating the mental shackles of his readers, helping to keep Prohibition in place and prevent us from perceiving the central role of entheogens in our history. He should take a lesson from his coverage of the censorship D.C.A. Hillman’s dissertation was subjected to (The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization [http://amazon.com/o/asin/B00342VG0E] and ask: How is this present book also compromised and coerced into being self-censored?

 

Roberts should’ve gathered together the several points in his book, instances of censorship he points out, calling for breaking through these mental chains and start putting the pieces of evidence, the connections, together, coherently, to tell a story that makes compelling sense. I’m surprised that Roberts didn’t mention along with Hillman, Michael Rinella’s book Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens (http://amazon.com/o/asin/0739146874), which was also extremely censored. Censorship is the top topic, the main restriction now, for policy reform, which is why online has taken the lead away from the hidebound, conformist press: Prohibition Press, I have named it, after I spoke with the entheogen-friendly Park Street Press about this problem at a Western Esotericism conference.

 

Roberts mentions that people around 1970 were drawn to religion by LSD, and yet, he tells the Prohibition-friendly version of the story, a false tale artificially created by a censorship filtering effect, and fails to mention that people were forced to move away from entheogens and attempt to substitute meditation and a placebo make-believe Eucharist instead, and forced to tell the entheogen-diminishing story of how religion with its entheogen removed is better — a story now entrenched as dogma, mitigating against Roberts’ Entheogenic Reformation project. (Jonathan Ott advocated that term in his book The age of entheogens & the angel’s dictionary [http://amazon.com/o/asin/0961423471].)

 

Roberts calls for $1 billion for research including “education” toward Prohibition reform, but should more emphasize abandoning the phony drug schedules and fully re-legalizing entheogens like before October 1966. Just get rid of obstructionist Prohibition. We don’t have a budget problem, we have a Prohibition problem. We don’t need a billion dollars so much as we need bona fide actual religious freedom, which means nothing if not the freedom to access ecstatic fear and trembling and awesome power that has always been the source of religion, through the traditional mystic method: the sacred meal of the Lord’s flesh, which is real food and which transmits effective grace just as has always been claimed for this the traditional method of mystic experiencing.

 

— Michael Hoffman

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com.  All Rights Reserved.

Group: egodeath Message: 6340 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2013
Subject: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism

A week-long Art High: This week, I got confirmation of my hypotheses of around a year ago, about branching vs. non-branching, tree vs. snake, branching antlers of a stag, in ancient Greek & in Christian mythic art. Confirmed: artists understood that mystic revelation about moral agency is a matter of moving from freewill thinking to no-free-will thinking, moving from autonomous monolithic personal control to puppet/slave/ rail-driven personal control with 2 levels or layers of control involved: the transpersonal driving layer (hidden thought source you must trust your life to) and the personal local locus of control-power (a reactive driven-gear, your forceful control-power that you exert is forcefully steered by the rail: you are forced to push in the direction that the hidden controller has pre-set you to push).

 

Diagram of Possibilism (the diagram fails to show the tree) vs. Eternalism (rigid snake worm worldline in rock/block universe): http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome

 

Another daring hypothsis from me has been confirmed: Pre-moderns in loosecog had equivalent of multistate or altered state-based Cognitive Science, about 4-D spacetime (the Rock Universe), illusory control power (kingship, vs. puppet/slave), mental construct sequences positioned in spacetime (ivy strand with leaves; pine cone that opens its scales when dry and closes its scales when wet).

 

The art evidence emphatically and pointedly confirms my theorizing of a year ago that the man riding the donkey or horse toward the broken-branch tree trunk with snake, on sargophagii, means awareness passively being carried forward in time along your frozen rigid worldline, while the donkey or horse — a separate control-agency component of the psyche — steers your thinking, following the invisible rail(way). The donkey is the personal steering among virtual possibilitiyy branches through time. The one possibility branching path that is destined and pre-set and pre-existing is the path the steersman donkey is forced to follow, forced to choose.

The artworks convey “is personal moral control agency power a matter of possbiility branching, as you originally think and feel in the OSC, or is it non-branching, like snake/ivy/monocoursal/dragon/serpent/worm/ Eve’s long hair? ” The artworks say “You thought possibility branching, with you having that particular key kind of power: steering-control power of a kind that can manifest either branch A or B into the future. But per Peart, No One at the Bridge, in the mystic state you see you have no arms to steer, no power in the present to steer to one vs. a different future branching-path.

 

This system of art confirmation is maximally profound, exactly as powerful and reputation-boosting as the confirmation of bending of light near the sun in a complete solar eclipse some time after Einstein predicated light bending near the sun’s gravitational spacetime-curving field. Artworks directly and pointedly confirmed during the past few days, that the ego-transcendent understanding and knowledge about moral agency is a matter of repudiating Possibilism and affirming Eternalism, and trusting in your near-future worldline & hidden source of control-intentions, not battling against that.

 

Art clearly and definitely confirms my Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens/Metaphor (CHEM) explanatory model of myth & religion. The kylix (saucer-shaped shallow cup) painted by Douris completely fits with and affirms the Eden tree of knowledge. This art confirmation, though “merely confirmation” of my breakthroughs of a year ago, I report that this mere confirmation actually caused substantial link-tightening and compaction of my Theory of ego transcendence and metaphor — the *real*, relevant, central, driving force in the mystic altered state, the *real* nature of ego transcendence (as discovered in my initial, main, January 11 1988 “Crystalline Ground of Being & concomitant non-control” breakthrough). Journal of Transpersonal Psychology in 1985-1988 asserted that ego transcnedenence is spatial unity. I said no, ego transcendence is illusory control together with Eternalism (one’s future stream of control-intentions is pre-set, pre-arranged into a rigid snake shaped future-worldline).

 

The pearl of great price: The unenlightened illegitimate king sends Jason to retrieve the golden fleece. The fruit of the tree in the Garden (of Hesperides/Eden) is Transcendent Knowledge about personal control power being illusory; the fruit of the tree is understanding Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens (CHE) (including understanding how Metaphor describes Cyberneics, Heimarmene, and Entheogens/Loosecog; M->EHC). Metaphor describes entheogens causing loose cognitive binding revealing fatedness and non-control.

 

In religious myth, Metaphor describes entheogens experiencing Heimarmene & Cybernetics.

M->EHC

 

CHEM:

C – Cybernetics, personal control power; loss of control; self-control seizure, control vortex, non-control, autonomous personal control, switch from autonomous kingship to puppet/slave following hidden rail into future, unable to control which control-intentions come up in the fountain/spring/wellspring behind awareness.

H – Heimarmene; no-free-will; pre-existing near-future control-intentions; block universe; worldline; non-branching possibility tree.

E – Entheogens; loose cognitive binding state, mental model transformation.

M – Metaphor, myth, religious myth, esoteric symbol usage about C/H/E above.

 

Joseph Campbell says there’s no (single) Myth for our time. I say the equivalent of the myth-system of our future, quintessentially late-Modern or transitional to post-Modern, is my layout: an explicit non-metaphorical Core Theory plus mapping that to reliigious/mythic/esoteric metaphor, and, as far as *specific* brand-styling, we must consider STEM-style themes like:

o In the Matrix series, the Animatrix movie’s tripping android segment

o Rush songs — not Pop Sike (girl-relationship as metaphor for acid experiencing) but Tech Psych (STEM as metaphor for loosecog experiential insights)

….. The Body Electric

….. Cygnus X-1

….. Vital Signs

….. Chemistry

http://egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm

 

(STEM means Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics.  A standard acronym.)

 

In the present, late-modern or post-modern era, we won’t have a myth (in Campbell’s sense), per Campbell. My response is that we will have correct non-mythic explicit explanation of ego-transcendent knowledge & no-free-will, and, we will have correct mapping to all past mythemes/tropes and the ability to created unlimited number of themes/tropes. Metaphor-only expressions of one’s correct understanding of TK proved (historically) to have problems, so it is urgent that everyone knows the non-metaphorical Core Theory, my Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence per my 1988 first drafts and 1997 summary at Principia Cybernetica (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5870).

 

Transcendent Knowledge (Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens/Metaphor) is the forbidden fruit forbidden to the egoic mind. The fatedness snake-dragon guards the fruit of the tree of knowledge of the illusory nature of moral control culpability in light of no-free-will and the pre-givenness of all your control-thoughts. Your snake made you choose as you did; you had no meta-choice; you have pseudo-freedom, the illusion of having the kind of steering-power that can select some other possibility branching path. The heimarmene snake dragon serpent monster (this is *the* monster, forcing you to intend against your self-protection programming in such a way that your steering-power with respect to your future possibility branching is shown to be illusory impotent cybernetic control power. You are only allowed to steer how you are forced to steer.

 

The serpent guards ego-transcendent knoweldge in at least 2 ways:

 

o If you are among the Elect, the serpent makes you wrestle with and submit to & put full intimate trust in your threatening thought-source, then the serpent as gate-controller lets you pass, to get the golden fleece or eat the apple of knowledge of the illusory nature of moral agency — to get ego-transcendent knowledge. The pearl of great price held in the claw of the challenging/threatening/enlightenment-bringing dragon/monster/serpent: you must sacrifice your childish free-will thinking *and* (stabbing your heart) sacrifice your claim to have the kind of control that could prevent a fatal control-intention from arising; to stop the sea-storm shipwreck control-instability, you must pay the price, repudiate your childish animal naive initial implicit essential claim that you have possibility-branch steering control power.

 

o If you are not among the predestined, pre-existing Elect, it is impossible for you to get to the fruit, impossible for you to steer down the possibility-branching path in which you gain the elegant pearl of ego-transcendent knowledge; you are pre-destined so that you in the future are destined to not ever come to (this elegant compact explosive system of) ego-transcendent knowledge.

 

Take my hand, I’ll take you to the other side, to see the truth: the path for you is decided

— Iron Maiden, album Somewhere in Time

 

Destiny planned out … speculation of the wise

— Bob Daisley, album Diary of a Madman

 

In these artworks, also I spotted clearly the theme, across systems/brands of ego-transcendent knowledge (= no-free-will, interlinked with personal non-control (non-sovereignty)).

o Jonah being spit out by the sea serpent

o Human torso w/ serpent legs in the Gigantomachy

o Snake in Eden tree: Eve’s torso with arms, or just her face, and a serpent lower body.

o Jason in the kylix (saucer-cup for drinking mixed wine/mushroom wine) painted by Douris, ego-dead, torso coming from the guardian heimarmene-dragon/serpent.

Sometimes the serpent’s head is shown in addition to the human head. Usually the human has arms but I especially resonate with the Eden serpent that just has Eve’s face; she has no arms to steer into her future possibility-tree branches, and the serpent has no arms.

 

Invisible railways crackle with life

— Rush/Peart, Spirit of Radio

 

Printed as “airwaves”, sung as “railways” the first time, “airwaves ” the 2nd time.

 

 

Theology is too policitized, it is misleading, and you have Augustine’s winking asymmetry: God is the author of good, humans are the author of evil. God is all-powerful, all-good, and isn’t the author of evil (directly or indirectly). But the entire Theology industry knows this is self-contradiction. Gnostic-like thinking (in whatever metaphor-systems of ego-transcendence) solves that by splitting the creator god (who is responsible for layout out our evil actions in spacetime) saying the evil creator (Demiurge) *is* the author of evil, and the high God is purely good and isn’t the creator. Theology advocates confusion and waffling, leading Reformed theologians to falsely say “man’s mind can’t understand this apparent contradiction: God is all-powerful and all-good” when the truth is, it’s blatantly self-contradictory and impossible to “solve” other than by subtle or covert or dishonest meaning-shifting.

 

Art tells a simple, valuable story: no-free-will, your snake-rail controls & pre-sets your steering, your awareness can only helplessly look on as the future destined thoughts & steering-direction are revealed, and thus God is the author of evil – ‘evil’ as unethical acts and as the delusion of freewill moral culpability. The essence of the story is beautifully straightforward as communicated in art, rather than in Theology: ingest entheogen, see and experience the self-contradictions of freewill thinking & its control-thinking, and switch to no-free-will thinking including the puppet/slave relationship of personal control to time. Alex Grey has not represented the discovery of the no-free-will, consistent, beautiful, attractive, threatening model of personal control in relation to time. This is the frozen-puppet-universe perspective.

 

I was surprised that “mere” confirmation of my theory by the layered and clustered branching antler and serpent and tree and “tree’s guarded treasure”, caused some jackpot updating of my cross-linking: adding new insights and giving an *enlightening* confirmation as opposed to mere simple confirmation. Art inspired me to see things even more clearly, simply, starkly: *tree* of knowledge of good & evil; fruit of the tree; golden fleece like pearl of great costly sacrificed price — the snake is the fruit of the tree; the fruit is the product of mentally considering tree vs snake, posssibility branching vs. monocoursal linear nonbranching; Possibilism vs. Eternalism & concomitant personal control power implications.

 

Artworks’ confirmation of my snake vs tree theory, and man riding donkey/horse/panther (or snake-drawn cart), toward branchless tree with snake, caused massive adjustments to the cross-linking in my theory — not negating anything I wrote, but tightening and affirming it, such as confirming my assertion that pre-modern elites understood 4D block time, loosecog, and levels of control. 

 

That’s one example of how daring I’ve been always in my Theory: I had to make an entire set of ideas that each totally conflict with strong dogmatic assumptions. Pre-moderns were stupid, we assume, and yet, we late-moderns were the clueless ones who were incapable until me of reading the simple message encoded by Douris and the pre-modern or early-modern artists: snake vs. tree, fruit reveals no-free-will & its concomitant ramificaitons for personal control morality steering power.

 

Art’s confirmation of my theorizing about branching, of a year ago, only showed me a few truly new insights this week, yet I’m getting a huge reading: my feelings report that the ability to more and more quickly read and decipher these metaphor artworks resolving them into no-free-will, or “Cyb/Heim/Enth” concerns, I detected or “heard the jackpot sound” of linking-updating the cross-linking throughout my Theory of myth & religion. It by today has become clear and feels simple: mystic revelation shows simply no-free-will; map the athiest no-free-will books’ phrases to *esoteric* religion. 

 

Everything Sam Harris asserts in discussing no-free-will maps *directly*, consistently, to religious myth — to higher-order, esoteric religious understanding. It’s only exoteric, lower-order religion that clings to the childish sinful confused self-contradictory freewill idea which posits and includes the feeling of, being a control steering power agent, a kind of control that is precisely the impossible aspect: the power in the present of steering into more than one real possibility branching path — that is the key core central power we assume and that we iniitally take as real, forming our moral control agent identity and its supposeed moral culpability.

 

The adult must cast off both the freewill assumption and the control meta-steering power assumption, but through intense overwhelming experiencing in loosecog, not speculation based only in the tight cognitive binding state — not the model of linear time & linear domino-chain causality. With my main article in hand, and my snake vs. tree revelation of switching from Possibilism moral thinking to Eternalism thinking, It is possible now, without entering the loosecog state, to have a correct and clear 2nd-hand understanding of control seizure and revelation of this specific kind of non-control, and changelessness of your near-future sequence of control-thoughts or control-intentions.

 

Joseph Campbell and Ken Wilber are not wrong so much as grossly massively incomplete. When the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence a la my first mid-1988 article drafts is inserted into Wilber’s system or Campbell’s, their systems are overwhelmed and totally dominated by my system, which is CTET/TK/Egodeath theory / the CHEM (M->E->H&C) model of ego transcendence & religious myth & esotericism-based tropes such as narrow escape in ancient novels.

 

My Egodeath (CHEM or M->EHC) theory:

M->E->H&C

Metaphor describes Enthoegens for experiencing Heimarmene & Cybernetics limits/vulnerability (“noncontrol”).

Cybernetics is the biggest most soul-shattering topic, Metaphor is the least, so imagine each letter font size from small to big: meHC, or CHem.

When I say “Entheogens” as 1 of 4 key topics, ‘Entheogens’ is a condensed term meaning & emphasizing loosecog — that is, loose cognitive association binding of (as worded per my crucial April 1987 thinking-style change) DMCRMs: dynamic mental-construct relationship matrixes — MCs (mental constructs), for short. This is an example of how I have deciphered metaphors describing what’s revealed in loosecog, and have engineered a language that is optimized for discussing efficiently ego-transcendent knowledge.

 

I feel guilty for only really speaking 1 language (English), but to redeem myself, I have fully cracked the mystery encryption code to fully explain what is actually essential in religious myth, and I have formed and shared a highly efficient language to discuss ego-transcendent knowledge. Each brick component of my theory I have customized, modified, and optimized; I have contributed “bricks” in many fields but the value of those bricks is superior because my bricks fit together successfully across fields. identifying analogies others that other investigators didn’t recognize. 20th Century research in myth & religion uses English, French, German, Greek, & Latin, but those are equivalently clueless and really only amount to 1 language. I provide the other language, that of the CHEM model I have created and discovered, rediscovering the essence but putting forth the first efficient systematic useful practical omni-powerful model that explicitly gives the solution to all the mysteries that matter.

 

I deciphered Moses’ seeing the burning bush = the subjectively moving present, seeing illusory unreal virtual possibility branching, like a hanging rope/fuse, with a smalll, localized flame climing up. A possibility branching bush with only the pre-existing branching-path being real; the other possibilities are virtual-only possibilities; they are impossible because not fated; those other, illusory branches are the branches which do not match what is happening in your worldline in your future.

 

Professors who lack my Egodeath theory are clueless and need to know that my theory will accellerate their work ideally and provide the ideal perfect solutions.

 

Researchers of Western ancient religion are doing a reset now, revisiting more carefully their assumptions, shaking off the horrible and confused Christian apologist historians — the equivalent of my desecrating and p*ss*ng on the pathetic worthless books around 1994. Previous books are as much misleading as informative. The field is saying “quit believing the biased presupmtions, the shared wrong assumptions. We must mind our assumptions! We couldn’t understand puzzles in religion, because our assumptions were wrong and careless. We must be careful this time in our foundational assumptions and be ready to change our assumptions.

 

In 2006 when I wrote the main article defining the CHEM model, the Jesus Myth hypothesis was beyond the pale, taboo, and no one heard of it. Now no-Jesus has become mainstream *on the internet* but not in the “real world” (the Establishment media & print-based press), and thank God for the Web, where real people can challenge the confusion of the Establishment position and its slave-scholars it employs and deploys such as the malarkey assumption-laden phrase “entheogens vs. traditional mystic methods”.

 

Back in the print days, the Establishment had a monopololy and effective censorship (of professors and of real people); they could get away with ignoring and dismissing challenges. Now, thank God, real people (critically thinking individuals) are calling the Establishment-collaborationist academics on their nonsense. It’s a war over defining reality: print vs. online, falsity vs truth, Establishement professors with mental shackles (they want you to wear shackles too) vs. actual free thinkers, who follow the evidence and reason, not politiicized status quo dogma and policed boundaries of what views are permited to be considered. If you are an academic, to write truth, you must post online in an area not controlled by the Establishment paradigm-police.

 

In 2006, my theory was far beyond the pale, far outside where academics are permitted to comment and write and think:

o No Jesus/Paul/apostles. That was way taboo but now has become a hot topic online, with real thinkers, un-cowed, shamelessly and brazenly challenging the clueless and self-contradicting Establishment academics.

o No free will. That was way taboo but now has become a hot topic online.

o Reformed theology: was shocking to Evangelicals, was way taboo but now has become a hot topic among thinking Christian young guys who move from perfectly clueless high school Christian groups to college and — a few years after me — discovered Reformed Theology.

o Entheogens: officially this is beyond the pale and unthinkable. But recently this has become a hot topic.

o God is the ultimate author of evil.

o You have no power to steer your future or make your future be anything other than the 1 path that always already exists in your future. You merely implement and discover your steering-direction; you cannot choose which path you will steer into.

 

No-free-will was a serious liability for the Egodeath theory in 2001 (my mythic metaphor deciphering breakthrough year), but suddenly has flipped to be a benefit, a genius insight and commendment for the Theory.

 

Ahistoricity of Jesus/Paul was a serious liability for the Egodeath theory in 2001, but suddenly has flipped to be a benefit, a genius insight and commendment for the Theory.

 

Same w/ entheogens.

 

o  Professors who don’t have my perfect omni-successful key theory are clueless.

o  Professors who have my perfect omni-successful key theory agree with it, but are censored — but they still need to use my Theory fully in their thinking, and (in the ways that these slaves are permitted by their masters) in their writing.

o  Students who don’t have my Theory are cluesss.

o  Students who have my Theory agree with it, but are censored by their Establishment-complicit professors and advisors — they need to use my Theory fully in their thinking, and write as they can get away with.

 

There is no problem of “people who disagree with the Theory”. It’s not possible to understand the Theory and disagree with it, because the Theory works, perfectly and extremely well and no other Theory works at all. The problem is either people don’t have the Theory, or, they have it and therefore agree with it (to understand it is to agree with it) but they are aggressively censored by the Establishment commitments: commitment to historical Jesus/Paul, commitment to generally literalist reading of pre-modern evidence, commitment to underestimating the intelligence (per the Evolutionism ideology) of pre-moderns, commitment to assuming pre-moderns were in the OSC only, commitment to non-entheogenic methods of mysticism throughout *our* culture’s history — white Western European history. Bunk unexamined assumptions a la Schultes’ Golden Book on Psychedelics: if a culture has writing, it doesn’t have entheogens; only if a culture lacks writing, it might have entheogens.

 

My Theory is perfectly cohernet & simple & successful (massive explanatory power & scope), there’s no other theory. The fields need my theory; it is painful to watch authors fail without the Theory. At this point, writers in the fields of myth, religion, psychology, cognitive science, time, entheogens, and agency, just need to discover that my Theory exists and perfectly explains every essential aspect and puzzle in the field. If only they *knew* my theory, they would hasten to leverage it; it is the solution they are in need of. It’s not a matter of some agree and some disagree; it’s a matter of some have this Theory, some lack this Theory. To know the Theory is to agree with it and recognize the genius of it: so butt-simple, so earth-shattering of all we thought we knew, so totally broad and deep in explantory power. Will the lecture audience agree with it?

 

That’s off-base: the lecture audience will be shattered, stunned, I have destroyed the world. Don’t bother thinking about the Establishment, because my Theory changes everything: Armageddon, the end of the world as Academia mis-knew it. Now we will need to instruct young adults in high school & college in sacrificing their childish freewill thinking. Not for the educating State to advocate a particular religion; more like, the State needs to teach (in place of “drug education”) what mental control dynamics result from loose cognition, and how these dynamics have been connected with no-free-will. The State can’t push a particular religion, nor illegalize a particular religion. What is religion? Original, source, higher, esoteric religion is the use of visionary plants to induce loose cognitive binding, to explore personal control power and no-free-will. Religion is the use of loosecog to change from freewill thinking to no-free-will thinking.

 

Should the State, in Education, teach the use of loosecog to change from freewill thinking to no-free-will thinking? That’s not laws pushing one religion or forbidding one religion; it would be educating people in religious cognitive structure transformation. The State should make available to people, in Education, the option of understanding religion in terms of CHEM (Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Entheogens, Metaphor), as a theory/hypothesis, as an alternative to literalist interpretation that’s done only because of ignorance of the CHEM option.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.  Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

Group: egodeath Message: 6341 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Caduceus: mycopercep shows sep ctrl-lev relations/harmony
The coupled-snakes model of fate-locked personal control power:

One’s thought-source is fated, and one’s stream of local control thoughts is fated, so there are two distinct fated snakes that are coupled.

o Your personal local locus of control power is female (helplessly injected with thoughts)

o Your hidden thought-source, which is overwhelmingly powerful like a puppetmaster in relation to your local locus of persona control (and is therefore male).

Both locii of control (personal & transpersonal; “female” and “male”) are governed in frozen time by fatedness (Heimarmene).

You a “female” helpless passive gear-driven puppet have no power to deviate from what your male hidden thought-source forces you to do & steer toward. The “male” hidden thought source — specifically your own transpersonal self involved specifically in *your life* — is also pre-set by fatedness.

The pole, staff, or spear is {the directionality and forceful passage of time}. Time or your near-future potentially fatal control-thought is impossible to steer away from or slow down. This is more specific, technically useful, generally useful, direct, and literal than “The vertical line in mythic art is the world axis on which you climb to the stationary constellation”).

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

 

—In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, <mike@…> wrote:

“Kundalini energy” is true, but is not sufficiently useful as a method or explanatory framework. “Truth and revelation is energy.” Ok, but “the snake and spine is spiritual energy” falls short of a useful explanation.
Group: egodeath Message: 6342 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will

The coupled-snakes model of fate-locked personal control power

 

One’s thought-source is fated, and one’s stream of local control thoughts is fated, so there are two distinct fated snakes that are coupled.

o Your personal local locus of control power is female (helplessly injected with thoughts)

o Your hidden thought-source, which is overwhelmingly powerful like a puppetmaster in relation to your local locus of persona control (and is therefore male).

 

Both locii of control (personal & transpersonal; “female” and “male”) are governed in frozen time by fatedness (Heimarmene).

 

You a “female” helpless passive gear-driven puppet have no power to deviate from what your male hidden thought-source forces you to do & steer toward. The “male” hidden thought source — specifically your own transpersonal self involved specifically in *your life* — is also pre-set by fatedness.

 

The pole, staff, or spear is {the directionality and forceful passage of time}. Time or your near-future potentially fatal control-thought is impossible to steer away from or slow down. This is more specific, technically useful, generally useful, direct, and literal than “The vertical line in mythic art is the world axis on which you climb to the stationary constellation”).

 

A person is a puppet locked in time (future as well as past). If the person is among the elect, that means that the person will be forced to ingest the entheogen and experience no-free-will & non-control over which possibility-branching path the person steers into in the immediate future. All thoughts are forced. The mind of the elect person knows that all thoughts are forced into their mind. Theology is about consistent waffling, consistent inconsistency, principled self-contradiction, calculated illogic. Theology is concerned about controlling the masses of exoteric tithe’ers, so Theology won’t admit simple no-free-will & puppethood & moral non-culpability. Theology is to con the masses.

 

Luther got close to simple consistent no-free-will, and close to coherent honest coverage of the real entheogenic Eucharist, but I perceive social-control politics pushing him away from simple honest clarity, into waffling and muddying and backpedalling. What Luther or Augustine believes, vs. how Luther or Augustine spins it and self-censors. Admitting the plain straightforward no-free-will position was not politically acceptable, so Theology as a project of obfuscation ensued. Every time a Reformed theologian gets close to stating CHEM (Cybernetics, Heimarmene, & Entheogens as the referent of Metaphor), he self-censors and backpedals (or, is censored and killed – like pro-Entheogen academics are censored and demoted).

 

In the bunk world of officially condoned ideas now (prior to my CHEM revolution), there’s no hope for organized Establishment authorities such as fabricate official Establishment Theology.

 

Several dynamics occur; any analysis of a part of the Theory or a part of “loss of control” requires typically several dynamics to be discussed; it’s not enough to do one single simple train of reasoning.

 

Isis made Apuleius get initiated, made him ingest the sacred meal (mushroom wine), made him struggle against the hidden thought-source, made him see the futility of struggling against this thought-source he is helplessly subjected to, made him see that his only option is to submit to his hidden thought-source intimately marrying it and recognizing it as his other uncontrollable distinct half.

 

Isis makes you ingest the entheogen. Isis makes you struggle and battle against your untrustworthy alien thought-source. Isis makes you realize that you must end up either steering toward chaos, illogic, insanity, system-chaos and control instability, or steering toward submissive trust in your hidden thought-source.

 

Which will you choose? If Isis is merciful, you will think “I shall have mercy on myself and quit kicking against the pricks (of stirrups); I have completed testing/battling about my control power and thought-source.” It may be that any mind that sees “I must submit, ecstatically bow to receive divine mercy, and trust this Mystery thought-source that my life depends on — or else, I reject sanity and coherence and choose insanity and cybernetic chaos and perpetual battling against my own thought-source component of my personal control power.”

 

Trusting and submitting brings life, civilization, rules for a viable city/culture, foundation of a truth-realizing society. Choosing to not trust the hidden thought-source leads to non-viability, “death”, continued battle, continued struggle. Once you comprehend and experience the two options clearly, there’s relief because there’s no reason or justification for sticking to the freewill personal power thinking. In a completely unchained state, the mind has no reason to choose life and continued existence, over death, mayhem, chaos, insanity; there’s no reason for steering toward submitting & viable continued life per Abraham’s descendents. The mind is forcefully brought to a choice between {chaos and retaining the freewill power claim or stance} vs. {order, enlightened viable civilization, submitting, formally repudiating your childish/animalistic no-free-will thinking. These are what the two choices are, in terms of cybernetics rather than religious terminology.

 

So the decision or choice in question is this one; this choice when it is presented in its full mature form is clear. We *can* debate over how that choice is made (free or forced). But first we must (in this discussion) clearly accurately understand what the 2 choices *are*, why those are the two choices.

 

There is only one logic-conformant, coherent option: submit and trust the hidden thought-source, affirm esoteric religion, and go on to survive the Holy Encounter with the Transcendent Control-Limit, and live and prosper. The only other choice is plainly not logic-conformant, and in practice, people take this option (they are forced to take this option) when they fear loss-of-control and they fear insanity. Such retreat has the advantage of protecting and preserving egoic control stability and delusion, but the disadvantage of avoiding understanding & making peace with (integrating) no-free-will.

 

Per classic Ken Wilber: eventually the dissonance and discomfort, or torment, of still not having transcendent knowledge though you can smell it so close within attainment, eventually you fear the control-loss chaos serpent monster less than you hate lacking enlightment. Eventually you want enlightenment bad enough to interrogate The Monster (fated loss-of-control) and find how to keep your egoic control intact enough for control stability, while repudiating the specific child-like or demonic beast-like (animal-like) notion of personal freewill power.

 

Logically, there’s no way to choose between the two responses in the peak mystic-state window (ecstatic peak, amazement, trembling, psychotomimetic, terrifyingly ready to do anything, fully open-minded):

 

A. Submitting to no-free-will, and immediately gaining control-stability, the sea-storm cybernetic instability threat vanishes, instantly calm and stable.

 

B. Rejecting what Reason showed you and instead obstinately and foolishly adhering to personal freewill power after it has been proved as impotent and unstable. Insanity, hard to visualize: how could you act-out “I’m out of control”, if you have such precise understanding of what the issue or choice is? The option, here, really, seems to amount to literal insanity, a scrambled and broken mind. But typically, no one chooses this option who understands this option. Typically, choosing this option is a matter of mis-understanding the two options, and running away for egoic self-preservation (or to slow down and return to the Peak loosecog state later).

 

Given a person who clearly understands what the two options are, the person will choose what they are fated to choose. Everyone who is fated to choose continued viable life as a control-agent is fated to submit. Everyone who is fated to reject no-free-will and refuse to submit to their hidden thought-source, either returns to the egoic worldmodel of delusion, or, they become insane — breaking down, as described in the sense of early Ken Wilber. Especially now that this Theory is available, it’s normal to retreat in fear, fearing insanity, returning to stability of control by returning to egoic delusion. Really, B splits into B and C:

 

B. Understand the requirement of trusting no-free-will & thot-source, but reject no-free-will. That’s the bad-choice option per Theology, as held up by Theology, but no one takes this choice-branch.

 

C. Not understanding the requirement of trusting no-free-will & thot-source, and running away in fear to protect self-control stability. This is the option that the Elect takes in the first initiations, and eventually rejects when their understanding is purified enough, after they have burned away mental error by exposing it to loosecog and no-free-will sufficiently. We burn away delusion in our struggle against the alient controller in our Hellish battle series, and then instead, when reconciled and we win *and* lose the battle in the right sense, and we understand and trust and heal our animal sickness of the mind that threw us into dissonance and self-battle, we bathe in the light of Heaven. The situation that produced hellish panic and self-battling (fire of Hell), now becomes the situation that produces relief and integrity, security, calm, self-integrity, a spiritual marriage-harmony (the supernal light of Heaven).

 

Those choice-options are like my Theory reception under the conditions of Prohibition & false Historicity/literalism of Jesus/Paul & modern crude conceptions of “determinism” as linear domino causal-chain: A scary option is that people will understand my Theory and reject it. That’s not happening, and not likely to happen.

 

Anyone who understands my Theory affirms it.

Anyone who rejects my Theory doesn’t understand the Theory.

Anyone who understands my Theory and rejects it… is an empty set, because understanding the Theory inherently contradicts rejecting the Theory.

 

Anyone who understands the Creator’s power over our thoughts & control-intentions affirms that power.

Anyone who rejects Creator’s power over one’s thoughts doesn’t understand control-power.

Anyone who understands Creator’s offer of harmony/salvation/system-coherence and rejects it… is an empty set, because understanding the power-relation of local control-thoughts vs. hidden thought-source inherently contradicts rejecting that understanding of power.

 

‘Creator’ or ‘God’ here refers to that which controls what thoughts arise in your wellspring in your mind’s fate-embedded rock-cave. ‘God’ refers to the hidden source of thoughts. Your hidden male portion, the thot-injector part of you, your personal fraction of God-identity is, the aspect of God which is the hidden source of *your* thoughts & intentions, as distinct from someone else’s thoughts & intentions.

 

Anyone who understands God’s and the Holy Spirit’s overwhelming power over your local personal control-power, accepts no-free-will & accepts the non-autonomy of personal control. The person received Understanding/Grace. The elect puppet is initially frightened away, but is fated to eventually choose A and be saved because of the puppetmaster made the puppet clearly understand the choices. The problem of “understanding TK but rejecting it” doesn’t actually exist, though Theology falsely makes it sound like the non-confused person (sinner, apostate) understands God’s power (or HS’s power) and rejects it.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

Group: egodeath Message: 6343 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Cancellation of the will

Correction (removed “no-“):

 

The mind is forcefully brought to a choice between {chaos and retaining the freewill power claim or stance} vs. {order, enlightened viable civilization, submitting, formally repudiating your childish/animalistic free-will thinking.



—In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, <egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The coupled-snakes model of fate-locked personal control power

 

One’s thought-source is fated, and one’s stream of local control thoughts is fated, so there are two distinct fated snakes that are coupled.

o Your personal local locus of control power is female (helplessly injected with thoughts)

o Your hidden thought-source, which is overwhelmingly powerful like a puppetmaster in relation to your local locus of persona control (and is therefore male).

 

Both locii of control (personal & transpersonal; “female” and “male”) are governed in frozen time by fatedness (Heimarmene).

 

You a “female” helpless passive gear-driven puppet have no power to deviate from what your male hidden thought-source forces you to do & steer toward. The “male” hidden thought source — specifically your own transpersonal self involved specifically in *your life* — is also pre-set by fatedness.

 

The pole, staff, or spear is {the directionality and forceful passage of time}. Time or your near-future potentially fatal control-thought is impossible to steer away from or slow down. This is more specific, technically useful, generally useful, direct, and literal than “The vertical line in mythic art is the world axis on which you climb to the stationary constellation”).

 

A person is a puppet locked in time (future as well as past). If the person is among the elect, that means that the person will be forced to ingest the entheogen and experience no-free-will & non-control over which possibility-branching path the person steers into in the immediate future. All thoughts are forced. The mind of the elect person knows that all thoughts are forced into their mind. Theology is about consistent waffling, consistent inconsistency, principled self-contradiction, calculated illogic. Theology is concerned about controlling the masses of exoteric tithe’ers, so Theology won’t admit simple no-free-will & puppethood & moral non-culpability. Theology is to con the masses.

 

Luther got close to simple consistent no-free-will, and close to coherent honest coverage of the real entheogenic Eucharist, but I perceive social-control politics pushing him away from simple honest clarity, into waffling and muddying and backpedalling. What Luther or Augustine believes, vs. how Luther or Augustine spins it and self-censors. Admitting the plain straightforward no-free-will position was not politically acceptable, so Theology as a project of obfuscation ensued. Every time a Reformed theologian gets close to stating CHEM (Cybernetics, Heimarmene, & Entheogens as the referent of Metaphor), he self-censors and backpedals (or, is censored and killed – like pro-Entheogen academics are censored and demoted).

 

In the bunk world of officially condoned ideas now (prior to my CHEM revolution), there’s no hope for organized Establishment authorities such as fabricate official Establishment Theology.

 

Several dynamics occur; any analysis of a part of the Theory or a part of “loss of control” requires typically several dynamics to be discussed; it’s not enough to do one single simple train of reasoning.

 

Isis made Apuleius get initiated, made him ingest the sacred meal (mushroom wine), made him struggle against the hidden thought-source, made him see the futility of struggling against this thought-source he is helplessly subjected to, made him see that his only option is to submit to his hidden thought-source intimately marrying it and recognizing it as his other uncontrollable distinct half.

 

Isis makes you ingest the entheogen. Isis makes you struggle and battle against your untrustworthy alien thought-source. Isis makes you realize that you must end up either steering toward chaos, illogic, insanity, system-chaos and control instability, or steering toward submissive trust in your hidden thought-source.

 

Which will you choose? If Isis is merciful, you will think “I shall have mercy on myself and quit kicking against the pricks (of stirrups); I have completed testing/battling about my control power and thought-source.” It may be that any mind that sees “I must submit, ecstatically bow to receive divine mercy, and trust this Mystery thought-source that my life depends on — or else, I reject sanity and coherence and choose insanity and cybernetic chaos and perpetual battling against my own thought-source component of my personal control power.”

 

Trusting and submitting brings life, civilization, rules for a viable city/culture, foundation of a truth-realizing society. Choosing to not trust the hidden thought-source leads to non-viability, “death”, continued battle, continued struggle. Once you comprehend and experience the two options clearly, there’s relief because there’s no reason or justification for sticking to the freewill personal power thinking. In a completely unchained state, the mind has no reason to choose life and continued existence, over death, mayhem, chaos, insanity; there’s no reason for steering toward submitting & viable continued life per Abraham’s descendents. The mind is forcefully brought to a choice between {chaos and retaining the freewill power claim or stance} vs. {order, enlightened viable civilization, submitting, formally repudiating your childish/animalistic no-free-will thinking. These are what the two choices are, in terms of cybernetics rather than religious terminology.

 

So the decision or choice in question is this one; this choice when it is presented in its full mature form is clear. We *can* debate over how that choice is made (free or forced). But first we must (in this discussion) clearly accurately understand what the 2 choices *are*, why those are the two choices.

 

There is only one logic-conformant, coherent option: submit and trust the hidden thought-source, affirm esoteric religion, and go on to survive the Holy Encounter with the Transcendent Control-Limit, and live and prosper. The only other choice is plainly not logic-conformant, and in practice, people take this option (they are forced to take this option) when they fear loss-of-control and they fear insanity. Such retreat has the advantage of protecting and preserving egoic control stability and delusion, but the disadvantage of avoiding understanding & making peace with (integrating) no-free-will.

 

Per classic Ken Wilber: eventually the dissonance and discomfort, or torment, of still not having transcendent knowledge though you can smell it so close within attainment, eventually you fear the control-loss chaos serpent monster less than you hate lacking enlightment. Eventually you want enlightenment bad enough to interrogate The Monster (fated loss-of-control) and find how to keep your egoic control intact enough for control stability, while repudiating the specific child-like or demonic beast-like (animal-like) notion of personal freewill power.

 

Logically, there’s no way to choose between the two responses in the peak mystic-state window (ecstatic peak, amazement, trembling, psychotomimetic, terrifyingly ready to do anything, fully open-minded):

 

A. Submitting to no-free-will, and immediately gaining control-stability, the sea-storm cybernetic instability threat vanishes, instantly calm and stable.

 

B. Rejecting what Reason showed you and instead obstinately and foolishly adhering to personal freewill power after it has been proved as impotent and unstable. Insanity, hard to visualize: how could you act-out “I’m out of control”, if you have such precise understanding of what the issue or choice is? The option, here, really, seems to amount to literal insanity, a scrambled and broken mind. But typically, no one chooses this option who understands this option. Typically, choosing this option is a matter of mis-understanding the two options, and running away for egoic self-preservation (or to slow down and return to the Peak loosecog state later).

 

Given a person who clearly understands what the two options are, the person will choose what they are fated to choose. Everyone who is fated to choose continued viable life as a control-agent is fated to submit. Everyone who is fated to reject no-free-will and refuse to submit to their hidden thought-source, either returns to the egoic worldmodel of delusion, or, they become insane — breaking down, as described in the sense of early Ken Wilber. Especially now that this Theory is available, it’s normal to retreat in fear, fearing insanity, returning to stability of control by returning to egoic delusion. Really, B splits into B and C:

 

B. Understand the requirement of trusting no-free-will & thot-source, but reject no-free-will. That’s the bad-choice option per Theology, as held up by Theology, but no one takes this choice-branch.

 

C. Not understanding the requirement of trusting no-free-will & thot-source, and running away in fear to protect self-control stability. This is the option that the Elect takes in the first initiations, and eventually rejects when their understanding is purified enough, after they have burned away mental error by exposing it to loosecog and no-free-will sufficiently. We burn away delusion in our struggle against the alient controller in our Hellish battle series, and then instead, when reconciled and we win *and* lose the battle in the right sense, and we understand and trust and heal our animal sickness of the mind that threw us into dissonance and self-battle, we bathe in the light of Heaven. The situation that produced hellish panic and self-battling (fire of Hell), now becomes the situation that produces relief and integrity, security, calm, self-integrity, a spiritual marriage-harmony (the supernal light of Heaven).

 

Those choice-options are like my Theory reception under the conditions of Prohibition & false Historicity/literalism of Jesus/Paul & modern crude conceptions of “determinism” as linear domino causal-chain: A scary option is that people will understand my Theory and reject it. That’s not happening, and not likely to happen.

 

Anyone who understands my Theory affirms it.

Anyone who rejects my Theory doesn’t understand the Theory.

Anyone who understands my Theory and rejects it… is an empty set, because understanding the Theory inherently contradicts rejecting the Theory.

 

Anyone who understands the Creator’s power over our thoughts & control-intentions affirms that power.

Anyone who rejects Creator’s power over one’s thoughts doesn’t understand control-power.

Anyone who understands Creator’s offer of harmony/salvation/system-coherence and rejects it… is an empty set, because understanding the power-relation of local control-thoughts vs. hidden thought-source inherently contradicts rejecting that understanding of power.

 

‘Creator’ or ‘God’ here refers to that which controls what thoughts arise in your wellspring in your mind’s fate-embedded rock-cave. ‘God’ refers to the hidden source of thoughts. Your hidden male portion, the thot-injector part of you, your personal fraction of God-identity is, the aspect of God which is the hidden source of *your* thoughts & intentions, as distinct from someone else’s thoughts & intentions.

 

Anyone who understands God’s and the Holy Spirit’s overwhelming power over your local personal control-power, accepts no-free-will & accepts the non-autonomy of personal control. The person received Understanding/Grace. The elect puppet is initially frightened away, but is fated to eventually choose A and be saved because of the puppetmaster made the puppet clearly understand the choices. The problem of “understanding TK but rejecting it” doesn’t actually exist, though Theology falsely makes it sound like the non-confused person (sinner, apostate) understands God’s power (or HS’s power) and rejects it.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

Group: egodeath Message: 6344 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Paul’s road conversion = Balaam’s donkey conversion

When you set out to get the golden fleece (sending the young upstart throne-claimant Jason) or send the seer Balaam to curse the Israelites, you are the evil godless deluded king.  King = egoic autonomy-claim: “I have the power to steer into this future possibility branch or this other possibility branch.  It’s up to me, that type of power is in my control.”  King Pentheus, King Ego; King Multi-Steerer in the possibility branching tree (the Possibilism model of time *and personal control*).

 

Balaam rides donkey.

Jesus rides donkey entering the city.

Paul rides horse on the road.

Man rides donkey toward broken-off-branches tree trunk, with snake on tree trunk (common art theme on a sarcophagus (a rock/stone coffin)).

 

I need to review all insights since the main article in 2007, and see if there are any other big breakthroughs besides the Eden tree/snake as Philosophy of Time in the Philosophy department, repudiating Possibilism for Eternalism (in the intense loose cognitive binding state, with fireworks).  However, those fireworks are mitigated or moderated — or amplified — by my core Theory (the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence), along with the CHEM model of religious myth (& pre-modern literature & arts). 

 

CHEM:

Cyb/Heim/Enth/Mtph

Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens/Metaphor

 

Must-read posts; or, important powerful useful touchstone ideas I’ve kept appreciating:

 

Idea/post 1.

My description of a 4-quadrant diagram, ~Feb. 2013 posting:

We change from a mental model of

[upper left:] Autonomy (King) steering in a

[lower left:] possibility-branching tree (Tree; bush; reinforced by motif of Antlers behind & plant-branch in front of Eve’s branching legs — a phallus in contrast is non-branching, snake-shaped; worldline-isomorphic.)

to a mental model of

[upper right] puppet/slave

caught motionlessly in

[lower right] a worldline-tube (of subjective experiences including control-intention thoughts) frozen into the changeless rock universe (Eternalism; Rock motif, snake/serpent/worm)

 

2. Idea/post (~Feb 2013): listing of all objects and their mapping to CHEM (cybernetics, heimarmene, entheogens):

rock

tree

snake

king

cup

well, spring, fountainhead

A hugely important post, the most useful.  The concrete bottom-line key to all reading of non-modern cultural products.

 

3. idea/post ~Feb 2013:

tree vs snake means the Possibilism vs. the Eternalism models of time (Stanford Philosophy page) — ***HUGE*** breakthrough.  10 on a 10 scale.  A *beautiful* capstone.  A post-Article discovery/breakthrough.  This week, confirmed in art.  *Widespread* ramifications.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

 

—In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, <mike@…> wrote:

The Many Faces of Biblical Humor
David Peters
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0761839585

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/13252.aspx
Book review by Tony Fitzpatrick: excerpt condensed by Michael Hoffman

“Peters’ favorite story is Balaam and the Talking Donkey. Someone [the bad king, against Israel] calls on Balaam to prophesy against the children of Israel and Moses for coming out of Egypt. God tells Balaam not to go, but he’s offered a lot of money, so he goes anyway. On the road, the donkey that he’s riding sees an angel of God with a sword [angel of death, you must die ego death to get past the flaming fire gateway, burning off your moral transient failable destructible volatile self-concept; egoic thinking can only last until the mind is exposed to loosecog, then the illusion collapses and can never be taken for reality again -mh], and the donkey stops.”

“Balaam can’t see the angel, and he beats the donkey. Farther down the road, the donkey sees the angel again and stops between two walls, crushing Balaam’s foot. There is no way getting around the angel [pre-set worldline -mh], so the donkey lies down. God enables the donkey to talk: `What did I do to make you beat me these three times? Have I ever done anything like this before?’ God enables Balaam to see the angel, and the donkey says `If I were you, I’d take better stock of the situation.’ When Balaam sees the situation for what it is, he faints.”

Balaam faints (control seizure).
His foot is crushed (the foundation of what he depends on for control-power collapses). See my posts on leg, foot, sitting, carried, riding.

— Michael Hoffman, January 14, 2013, based on theory work since 1985
Group: egodeath Message: 6345 From: egodeath Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Control-loss, panic, urgency; Psychedelic Cog Sci security/safet

According to the end of the New Testament, Cognitive Scientists *will* be able to use loosecog safely, able to enter and leave at will without being killed by God.  These are the cognitive scientists who know the youthful folly of trying to battle against your own thought-source.

 

Cognitive Scientists who don’t understand Cybernetics and Heimarmene, enter a furnace of instruction / futile battle.  Entheogens are dangerous for them, in that way.  Entheogens are not dangerous for those who understand the folly of not trusting your thought-source.  Are you inclined to test and probe whether you are vulnerable?  Then to that extent, your testing will put you in danger.  After you have done the testing, you can  dabble in relative safety.  Are entheogens dangerous?  Yes, but if you understand praying and understand the self-control battle, The Battle, entheogens become as safe as the garden in the end of the Bible; the Bible says so.  Authentic Jewish mystics emphasize fear, trembling, danger (of self-control instability), rightly.  But to the man who is humble *on this point*, not proud, having no hubris *on this point*, is safe because such man is not, when in danger, going to say “throw more egoic-control power at the Heimarmene-monster!”  He is too wise to provoke danger by brandishing his freewill weapon against the Heimarmene monster. 

 

I am a wise man; by definition, I already possess the fruit of the possibility branching tree; I already have Transcendent Knowledge, paid for by sacrificing my freewill child-thinking.  I have already fastened my child-self to the Tree to pay the Gods; I am hardly able to challenge and threaten the dominion of the Gods or Fate.  I am their no-free-will puppet, as far as this particular point, about the nature of personal control power in relation to my role as steersman (now I am a divinely approved steersman) steering among future possibility-branches, all but one of which are illusory, virtual-only possibilities.

 

Copyright (C) 2013, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.



—In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, <mike@…> wrote:

In loose cognition, the transpersonal region of the mind has broken out and managed to escape the domain of innate, animal-like egoic restraints and constraints on thinking. Accessing a new mode of the mind brings, exposes, and reveals new needs per Maslow’s hierarchy, in order to have viable, sustainable stability of personal (or now, trans-personal) control. A new kind of trust in one’s beyond-control, transcendent mind is required: a transcendent, baseless trust.

The first mental dynamic phenomenon that is liable to occur when passing through the barrier from egoic to transpersonal thinking is the control panic seizure vortex, which has positive feedback like a magnet, escalating to a battle of self-testing: the mind’s egoic personal control system tests its ability to resist the now unconstrained thoughts which are experienced as uncontrollable in several distinct ways.


Can Psychedelic Cognitive Scientists be confident and serenely at peace as they take 500 micrograms of LSD and explore various topics while in loosecog? Cognitive Scientists have assurance that they are immune to a serious panic and control seizure, after they have experienced such escalation and studied the Egodeath theory, and have experienced transcendent rescue and reset from the transcendent mind that depends on transcendent recursive control like praying to a compassionate and powerful god to rescue the mind from its practical powerless, seized state.

You have no fear because when you will fully succumb to fear completely and fully realize that you are completely vulnerable to practical loss of control of your mind, you can be assured from experience and religious reports by others that you will receive trust in your transpersonal control source and will therefore receive transcendent rescue, most likely (if Fate and the alien, unknown Controller X are willing).

No activity is guaranteed to be safe; you might walk down the hall and it is possible a trap door will swallow you up; you live by faith. You might die within the hour for any of a variety of reasons: for example, you might be watching through television when a giant tower crane suddenly falls over, crashes through your tall apartment building, and crushes you to death. If you are all paranoid (untrusting), you cannot live. The devil tells Jesus to jump and trust god to catch him, and Jesus replies, Don’t test God.

I guarantee that if you have sufficient panic or full grasp of your situation of need, you will be forced to trust, so you will fully trust, so you will be transcendently rescued. If you go out of control, that proves I was right, because it shows you failed to have full trust, so you didn’t see your neediness clearly enough. So we need not fear that we’ll panic, because when we panic, we will trust and be set at peace. This is the transcendent mind rescuing itself by reaching transcendently, like magic.


A model of the mind then is thus:

The egoic mind is organized as:
o Personal control, which is the source of thoughts and the control-executor.

After a series of initiations and study of the Egodeath theory, the transcendent mind is organized as:
o God, outside the mind and time — pointed to by upward transcendent thinking, per Hofstadter
o Transcendent thinking, in a person’s mind
o Helpless personal control power


In tightcog, you don’t need transcendent reliance on a stabilizing trust ability that points outside of your domain of control-power.
In loosecog, having broken and escaped from egoic control restraints, you encounter quickly a new need, a new principle in your thinking — transcendent reliance on a stabilizing trust ability that points outside of your domain of control-power.

Jesus says to the paralyzed man, “Now get up and walk. Your faith has healed you.”

Are you stabilized and firmly supported by your own effort? Define “your own”. Your transcendent area of your mind forms a model of a vector of dependence outside of any kind of personal control power. Because your trans-personal thinking eventually incorporates a stabilizing transcendent factor that explicitly points outside of any personal control, we can say that the mind saves itself using its own resources, where “its own resources” includes the ability to rely and trust and depend on its stability, with help received from transcendent location outside of the mind.


Thought experiment:

1. There is an android or person in tightcog in a dorm room in an armchair. It is a weekday after class, and the afternoon and evening is free to do classwork and think about control. The person has standard control of their mind. The person is able to freely move around; they are autonomous, independent, and not connected. The person moves through time.

2. The person enters loosecog.

3. Now the person in the dorm room in loosecog in an armchair starts to lose control of their mind and enters a panic attack, and the person says “I had control, but now I am losing control and I am headed toward psychotic loss of control. This is an emergency overriding everything else and I need to be sedated, to save my future life, sanity, control, and safety. I have fear and trembling and I require rescue from outside my personal control power. I fear strongly that I am almost certainly heading for disaster, loss of control, loss of sanity; toward danger and wrecking my future life.”

No armchair philosopher can wave aside or define-away, using the magic power of analytic philosophy, this cognitive phenomenology. We must engage with the real dynamics, the real loss of control, and not be in denial of it, while we analyze what this “usual control” consists of and refers to, and what this actual given “loss of control” consists of and refers to. ‘Control’ and ‘losing control’ have a particular meaning, to the mind that functionally used egoic personal control but didn’t’ analyze or critique it as happens in the loose cognitive state.

This is more interesting, relevant, and profound than other Cognitive Science thought experiments, which were merely preparatory training wheels for this one.

God, Fatedness, or some Controller X factor outside of the domain of my personal control, controls whether I intend to:
o Retain my sanity
o Keep practical control
o Protect my safety
o Have a viable future.
During loosecog, when the mental structures of egoic mental restraints are dissolved, I do not have the kind of power that can control whether I intend in the near future to retain sanity, keep control, stay safe, and have a viable, stable future. This is true whether I am an android or a human, with autonomous self-control programming and the ability to enter an unstable metaprogramming mode. To enter a self-control metaprogramming mode with assurance of stability and safety and viable control, something new is needed, specific to the metaprogramming state: transcendent reset, trust, outside of practical personal control.

The transcendent, transpersonal mind of the person, thus gains personal control power by incorporating transpersonal thinking which includes transcendent thinking that points outside all personal resources. I become my own savior and rescuer of my crashable personal control system, by becoming like a god who transcends Heimarmene (Fatedness), though Hellenistic religion waffles and vacillates on whether Zeus controls Heimarmene, or Heimarmene controls Zeus. Did Fate control Jupiter? One would think that in Roman Imperial ruler cult and its military Mithraism, Jupiter — who adopted Caesar as his son to rule the entire world — must have been portrayed as standing dominant over Fate, using Fate as his tool to control the world. Fate doesn’t control Jupiter, like Heimarmene controlled Zeus.

Through the historical power inflation competitive escalation, our superior religion of course (Judaism and Christianity), has God control everything, leaving no doubt: God controls Fatedness (the world), Fatedness doesn’t control God. The Greeks didn’t need a hyper-transcendent rescuer Zeus, any more than early Christianity needed a literal historical Jesus.

Zeus Meilichios was “easily satisfied” to avert his wrath and receive rescue and be spared from destruction, pictured as a big heimarmene-snake, Fatedness snake. Zeus Meilichios integrated Zeus and Heimarmene, figured as the snake-shaped worldline representing the forced, unchangeable shape of one’s pre-set life. Early Christianity didn’t have a literal historical Jesus. Both religions had some conception or functional equivalent of transcendent rescuer lifting you up from outside your own resources as soon as you see your neediness so clearly that you sacrifice your claim that you are able to stabilize yourself using your own resources of control power.


These forces and dynamics are distinct but mutually reinforcing, like a conspiracy:

o Perceiving the mind’s thought source as residing outside the domain of personal control power. You cannot control what you intend to think; intentions arise unstoppably.

o Seeing, feeling, and thinking about the block universe model of spacetime including one’s near-future worldline as filled with dreadfully untrustworthy and unstoppable content that you are forced to move toward, with no brakes and no ability to turn away, out of one’s destiny tube, tunnel, or rail. Possibilities become seen as illusory; only what is fated in the worldline is actually possible.

o Feeling of powerlessness. There is awareness but thoughts are presented to awareness, without the awareness having a control-handle to steer the thoughts. One’s power is like a puppet or transmission gear, interlocked with a driving gear or hidden, uncontrollable puppetmaster.

o Disengagement and dissolution of the usual reliable egoic control restraint, as mental ruts and blind spots that restrict what the mind can think about and intend.

These are distinct topics for thinking, feeling, and perceiving, but they conspire, they are mutually reinforcing. The result is that the mind is coerced; its thinking is pulled toward constructing the innate transcendent mental model of time, self, and control.


Every direction the mind turns, it is reminded of the loss-of-control vulnerability as a fatal threat, and the practical personal control system, in reaction, pulls back against being reminded, and this also causes mental self-coercion, of different aspects or directions of thinking, that ends up escalating into a compulsive testing and self-challenging of the mind’s ability to envision and resist envisioning the intention to lose control, sanity, future life, and safety. This wrestling, hunting, and testing forms a mental movement pattern like getting caught in a net, or hunting like Dionysus’ panther, like a heat-seeking missile.

The mind in loose cognition encounters its central feature, personal control power, caught in a struggle that escalates into panic and ends up willing to go out of control, and certainly heading in that direction without end, with the predictable outcome being the potential of the mind to construct a loss-of-control scenario in which the effort to test and secure personal control power over the incoming intentions trigger the intention to mentally construct an even more compelling loss-of-control scenario. The mind, being centrally arranged and focused around personal control, is interested in the potential for full transpersonal intention of fully violating and breaking the efforts of egoic personal control.

This positive feedback loop of mental struggling to both exert and evade the mind’s control power is described in mythemes of battle, chaos, cancelled-out or seized kingship, and entrapment.

“Some fought themselves, some fought each other”
“Then all at once the chaos ceased”
— Peart/Rush, Hemispheres

Practical inability to control the source of thoughts; the source of thoughts resides outside the domain of personal control ability.
Perceiving, thinking, and sensation in a new mode that is unconstrained in certain ways, but newly aware of other constraints that weren’t perceived, thought about, or experienced (felt) before.
o Perceiving
o Thinking
o Sensation, feeling, experiencing


Myth is tasked with visually representing the transformation of the mental model from the mind’s innate egoic mental model of control and time, to the mind’s innate transcendent mental model of control and time, including the loosecog experience of noncontrol and Fatedness. In myth, this mental model transformation regarding noncontrol and Fatedness is represented through mythemes of king, snake, cross, wood, plank, pole, stake, stub-branches, cross, crossroads, steering, chariot-driving, donkey riding. Any item in myth means, or participates in the meaning-network of, noncontrol (transformation of control level thinking), and Fatedness, as well as the dissociative cognitive state that causes this mental model transformation. Noncontrol and Fatedness are two distinct yet interlocked, mutually supporting areas of ideas.

The kind of control that the egoic personal control thinking has, and thinks it has, and is structured around having, is that kind of control that is suited for a metaphysical world that is modelled as Possibilism: a really, genuinely open, branching possibility future. The future doesn’t exist in any sense, and what the future ends up being, is controlled by you as the Creator, the controller and author of what your own future will be: it’s not set, and you have or wield the kind of power that brings the future into a definite existence, where before, it didn’t at all exist. When that model of time is replaced by the simple Eternalism model, with a single preexisting preset future, the block universe with your life being a snake- or worm-shaped worldline, the egoic kind of control power dies, becomes impotent.

Ego (as a mental model and mental structure) is a certain kind of controller that is designed specifically for a certain kind of spacetime world. Egoic power rules or has force and apparent practical efficacy only within a world that is Possibilism shaped: having a branching future, with cybernetic possibility-branching. When egoic power gives way to the transcendent control mode, interlocked with that distinct change in one’s mental worldmodel, is another distinct change in aspects of one’s mental worldmodel: the Possibilism model of time, control, and possibility is replaced by the Eternalism (block universe containing worldlines) model of time, control, and possibility. Only the one path or branch is possible: the branch-path which is fated and already always exists.

What the king Pentheus figure of “king caught in tree” is trying to elegantly summarize is the change, in the loosecog state, from egoic control power operating in a Possibilism world, to noncontrol (or transcendently dependent power) operating in an Eternalism (block universe) world. Simple mythemes in several combinations, in many expressions, are needed, to express all that. You can only glimpse a subset of these dynamics in any one mytheme diagram such as the Tauroctony or the figure of the sacrificed king hung on a cross or tree. Ancients had advanced Cognitive Science and diagramming except expressed in the form of metaphor.

We have to — which I have done — extract and map my post-modern explicit, non-metaphor-based Egodeath theory to the messy pre-modern metaphor-expressed Cognitive Science of loosecog. The Egodeath theory is new in its clarity of explicit expression, and yet metaphor remains powerful, but what is the most powerful is my non-metaphor Core theory linked with my metaphor extended theory. Thus I constantly bounce between non-metaphor expression and metaphor expression; the greatest explanatory power is by providing both, distinctly, interlinked: nonmetaphor and metaphor.


Mythemes such as “king hung on tree” represent the two distinct main parts of the transcendent mental model, having switched from the egoic mental model. ‘King’ and ‘tree’ are both a negation of egoic thinking: “not personal control power”, and “not branching future possibilities”. The ‘snake’ analogy is a positive assertion, of a negative fact: reality per the simplest model is a block universe with your life being shaped like a snake, and only like a snake, not branching like a tree. So on the left as starting state, picture the king hung on a tree, and on the right as the end-state, picture a snake on a non-branching tree.

Bad, egoic control-thinking: king and branching tree; king hung on a tree
Good, transcendent control-thinking: snake and branchless tree (pole); snake on a pole

The Old Testament features a God-disapproved king hung on a tree, and a God-given snake on a pole for rescuing people from snake-bite by looking at (perceiving) it.

— Michael Hoffman, original research and idea development, December 20-21, 2012. http://www.egodeath.com
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6346 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Re: Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism

I am on a week-long Art High because a stag at the Tree of Knowledge confirmed my recognition from a year ago:

tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism (2 models of time and personal control).

This is the biggest breakthrough, because it is the most fundamental.

 

___________

 

Regarding my history, my first superpower, manifesting in 1988 at the peak of the Psychedelic 80s, didn’t involve religious myth..  It was the ability to freshly define ego transcendence in terms of personal control power operating within 4D spacetime, in contrast to Transpersonal Psychology & Integral Theory, which are missing this key piece at their core.  Ken Wilber’s writing about “myth” and “mythic” and western antiquity and Christianity is almost completely wrong.  Changes to Wilber’s history theory are forced by my revelations.  Per book Shame & Necessity (http://amazon.com/o/asin/0520256433), ancients were post-egoic, not pre-egoic — the most disastrous mistake Wilber could make.

 

My 2006 superpower is deciphering religious myth in terms of analogies to Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens.

 

 

Silenuus old tripper of Dionysus had to be helped — rather, placed — onto horse (passive awareness is carried by animalish egoic freewill steering thinking as time passes) after mushroom-wine symposium; Silenus has more than drunk or tripping, he has a temporary nervous system shutdown or weakening, paralysis.  One would feel like Silenus after a large quantity of mushrooms especially if re-dose.  Silenus before the mushroom-wine symposium already understands egodeath and the spectacular personal-control dynamics that occur in switching from freewill to no-free-will thinking.

 

———

 

My fingers barely work.

 

My magician abilities using freewill vs nofreewill double-meanings.  I raise the dead, heal the sick, and cast out demons, and cancel sins.  You too shall do these things, having no more sin or death, if you Believe in the snake rather than the tree.  Only clueless literalists believe in the tree, idol worshippers, enemies of God, destined for the eternal flames.  To understand the snake is also to understand meaning-shifting.  Snake is frozen worldline embedded in Rock universe.

 

We are all puppets of God, puppet kings put in place by God, therefore ignore the hierarchy of society (one puppet isn’t more honorable than the other), and have equality and justice instead.  Battle the heimarmene serpent monster, have victory not by your own power, switch from accursed freewill thinking (destined only for sacrifice), get victory wreath.

 

— Cybermonk

Group: egodeath Message: 6347 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: Egodeath so simple, Freewill is endangered

Muntzer is going round exuberantly preaching nofreewill.

 

To prevent children and undesirables from understanding nofreewill, we must be reverent and veil our language by double-meanings — one meaning implies childish freewill + literalist childish supernaturalism, the other meaning implies adult no-free-will + purely metaphor (for adults/initiates).  What is youngest age allowed in Eleusis initiation?

 

Do you want your child to know no-free-will and metaphor about it?

 

We now understand — with my Theory — *why* ancient Greece (Athens) not only explored the veiled mystery (of thought-source origination at the fountain behind our thinking in the cave of the mind), but also legislated that children are to be veiled/protected from knowledge of no-free-will.

 

I’m coming to grips with the magnitude of the ramifications of art that masters these metaphors — rather, this massive metaphor/analogy system.  I discovered the double-meaning principle like Mark 4:12, around November 11, 2001 (2 months after 9/11).

 

I have a better, complete feeling for what a closed system, with closure, metaphor about Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogens was, throughout history.  I have a better feel for the ciphering fad of Alchemy, which took meaning-veiling and misdirection to the extreme, to the point of pointlessness. 

 

What will Sam Harris say?  I proved that his call for no-free-will and repudiating religion is (unrealized by Harris) a call for higher, esoteric religion and a call for doing away with exoteric religion, which I point out, the Bible *tries* to misdirect outsiders into literalism — that was fair and amusing back in the Roman empire when the entire culture was ingesting mushroom wine all the time, but that clever misleading turned deadly when the entheogen was removed (1500? 1675?) and everyone, practically, lost the key to meaning-flipping and so the culture at large got sucked into misleading, into literalist supernaturalism, into childish thinking and delusion. 

 

The intent of veiling is to unveil at age 13.  Failing to do that, the entire culture got sucked into the metaphor misleading trap, finally I figured out the systematic misleading (in 2001 and now, I now have a spectacular vantage point such as in art).  Veiling is opposite my philosophy, and the Bible seems to me to suggest that as Michael the Archangel, I am supposed to reveal no-free-will to everyone; all mysteries shall be revealed, even though that means I “kill” egoic children before their time (adolescence).  The Internet prevents — fitting ‘Revelation’ — any veiling from anyone.  I am the greatest hierophant of all time, in terms of the number of ego deaths I cause, because I efficiently explain egodeath to the entire world, in a way that cannot be veiled, cannot mislead people into freewill delusion and dangerous religious literalism that mystic-mode writing in the Bible tries to (only) temporarily imply.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 2, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

Group: egodeath Message: 6348 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 02/12/2013
Subject: False religion is freewill religion & anti-drug religion

There are many freewill based systems that purport to provide transcendence.

My Theory is the no-free-will based system, that actually provides a specifiable, definite kind of transcendence: transcending (and retaining as a tool or vehicle (donkey)) freewill thinking and its concomitant autonomous kingship assumption.

 

False religion is anti-drug religion.

 

True religion is centered on Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Entheogens.

 

— Michael Hoffman, December 2, 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved. Based on original research & idea development since 1985.

Group: egodeath Message: 6349 From: egodeath Date: 03/12/2013
Subject: Egodeath diagram and lecture

This is the biggest possible, most-fundamental breakthrough — the tree vs. snake ultra-condensed metaphor system.

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/photos/albums/1651450143

 
The religious myth portion of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence. This photo is proof of my priority of discovery of the following:
 
tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism (2 models of time and personal control power).
 
This is the key to religious myth, which I discovered and figured out. I also have a great 2GB video lecture 17 minutes long explaining this chalkboard, that I will upload. I am emailing key professors and theorists. University of Washington, Loew hall, room 220 (Electrical Engineering).
 
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael S. Hoffman, Egodeath.com.  All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6350 From: egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: 03/12/2013
Subject: Re: Egodeath diagram and lecture

Photo might be upside-down when try to view.  You can download, view in Windows Photo Viewer, and spin right-side-up and zoom.

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Group: egodeath Message: 10751 From: egodeath Date: 20/05/2019
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary



Group: egodeath Message: 10751 From: egodeath Date: 20/05/2019
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Per atheists, forget ‘religion’. Instead of religion, use cognitive metaprogramming in the loosecog state, studying personal control integrity across time.

Study no-free-will and control stability.

Pursue perceiving the frozen-time block universe worldline, per no-free-will, with unchangeable control-thoughts that will come into the mind uncontrollably, and experience personal control in light of no-free-will.

A control seizure, profound dependence on that which is the actual source of control thoughts.

What to call these dynamics? Religion, prayer, sacrifice, resurrection, salvation, eternal life? Or other labels, for the most shocking, profound, transcendent, numinous experiencing?

If ‘religion’ is taken to mean “whether God exists” and religion is literalist supernaturalism, then the terms from Religion cannot be used to describe cognitive dynamics and mental model transformation in the “analogical/ psychedelic/ block universe worldline/ no-free-will” state of consciousness.

Esoteric religious mythology is in fact positioned in contrast to exoteric literalist thinking, the two are contrasted in the New Testament by the Jesus figure.

Avoiding religion and studying personal control power instead, in the block universe no-free-will state of consciousness that results from the metaprogramming agent that loosens cognitive associations, leads to experiential dynamics and a mental model transformation that is described by religious mythology and religious language, when recognized.

The target dynamics must be understood, before religious figuration can be recognized as descriptions of those cognitive dynamics in the religious state of consciousness, which is the loose cognitive association state, which switches from Possibilism to the Eternalism mode of experiencing and mental worldmodel.

Thread:
Summary statements of Egodeath theory

The below posts are from this thread. They were all together in Yahoo Mail; I had to scroll down through it.

May 25, 2019, 9:46 am

the Theory = religious mythology, analogy, psychedelics, loose cognition, frozen block universe, no-free-will, non-control.

The Egodeath theory is that religious mythology is analogy describing psychedelics loosening the mind and causing an experience of the frozen block universe that contains your snake-shaped worldline of future control thoughts, an experience of no-free-will, and the experience of non-control, in contrast to experiencing time and control as a tree of branching possibilities that you steer among to create your future in an open future.

The Theory is becoming extremely simple, yet my summary expressions of it are still too turgid to vocalize, so I must take a speaking-first approach, by reading-aloud the attempted written summary statements, followed by impromptu oral statement of the points.

The statements must include the phrases:
religious mythology
analogy
psychedelics, such as mushrooms
the frozen-time block universe
the snake-shaped worldline
no-free-will
non-control
the feeling of loss of control
tree vs. snake
pre-existing control thoughts
steering among branching possibilities

To improve the plainspoken simplicity of writing, I must literally speak my summary statements rather than write them.

I need to add a speaking-first, writing-second approach. 

The best way to simplify the writing is to stop writing and instead speak, which is to say, bounce between the simplest possible writing and the simplest possible speaking.

Write simple summary sentences, record reading aloud the sentences followed by vocally restating in plainer form those points, then write down those simpler, spontaneously spoken statements and repeat that refinement/simplification cycle. 

I do too much writing of Theory summary statements, and too little speaking of the Theory summary statements. 

I reached the limit — now, like in 2006 — of my simplified-writing ability. 

When I finished the 2006 version of the main article, I saw it was great in its clarity, a first-order breakthrough in clarity of Theory.

I was dismayed to find, upon vocalizing the 2006 main article, that the sentence construction was far from simple and clear. 

In 2013 I discovered a huge missed opportunity to simplify the expression of the theory in terms of tree vs. snake.

I thought in 2006 that the coverage of religious mythology in the main article was incomplete in scope, but was as efficient as possible.

My summary statements fail the vocalization test, as did my initial 2006 version of the main article. 

My slight revision into 2007 was driven by the discovery — when I made a spoken reading of the main article — that many sentences were literally unvocalizable.

In the 2006 sentences in the main article, there was no phrase-boundary where it is possible to inhale.

By writing summary statements, I discovered the extreme simplicity of the Theory, and yet those summary statements are still awkward, turgid, unnatural, not how people speak plainly. 

The Theory is extremely simple, yet my sentences — as proven by reading aloud — are still not plainspoken. 

The summary sentences, overall, remain on the wrong side of the threshold of plain speaking, just as my 2006 main article was only *relatively* clearly expressed. 

The great degree of success of my 2006 summary article hides the shortcomings of that relatively clear, only relatively clear, expression, as revealed when I tried and failed to vocalize the 2006 sentences. 

The 200-character limit on posts, combined with a random audience, helped toward breakthrough in simplicity of expression, but, I’m still self-censoring to withhold uncomfortable aspects, and to conform to the poor venue in that my posts are off-topic or too specialized of a focus. 

I won’t necessarily upload recorded speaking, but I do need to both vocalize and record, to push the expressions — that is, I do too much writing (even if “short summary statement” form is great) and not enough vocalization. 

I need to do short-form writing and short-form vocalization, to achieve being extremely plainspoken. 

The 2006 main article turned out to be *far* from natural and plainspoken in its sentence construction, which forced me to fix the worst, but only the worst, sentences to produce the stopgap fix, as the 2007 slight fix of the main article. 

In November 2013, I discovered the tremendous simplifying effect of contrasting tree vs. snake and recognizing that efficiency having been discovered and used by the most archaic explorers of the two cognitive states. 

Similarly now I need that kind of a jump in efficiency and plain speaking to express how utterly basic and simple the Theory is.

Any short-form statement must include these words, and not evade them or censor these pointed points:
religious mythology
analogy
psychedelics, such as mushrooms
the frozen-time block universe
the snake-shaped worldline
no-free-will
non-control
the feeling of loss of control
tree vs. snake
pre-existing control thoughts

Non-essential terms:

eternalism – no one has heard of this term, except a different usage in Buddhism

entheogens – no one has heard of this term, in contrast to ‘psychedelics’

ahistoricity – puts the focus on the wrong debate, loses the direct-science focus

determinism – connotes in-time domino-chain model with open future, against eternalism

metaphor – more confusing than ‘analogy’

any term that needs to be defined every time it is introduced

May 25, 2019, 9:47 am

Dup post? Corrections? Might be a re-post.

the Theory = religious mythology, analogy, psychedelics, loose cognition, frozen block universe, no-free-will, non-control.

The Egodeath theory is that religious mythology is analogy describing psychedelics loosening the mind and causing an experience of the frozen block universe that contains your snake-shaped worldline of future control thoughts, an experience of no-free-will, and the experience of non-control, in contrast to experiencing time and control as a tree of branching possibilities that you steer among to create your future in an open future.

The Theory is becoming extremely simple, yet my summary expressions of it are still too turgid to vocalize, so I must take a speaking-first approach, by reading-aloud the attempted written summary statements, followed by impromptu oral statement of the points.

The statements must include the phrases:
religious mythology
analogy
psychedelics, such as mushrooms
the frozen-time block universe
the snake-shaped worldline
no-free-will
non-control
the feeling of loss of control
tree vs. snake
pre-existing control thoughts
steering among branching possibilities

To improve the plainspoken simplicity of writing, I must literally speak my summary statements rather than write them.

I need to add a speaking-first, writing-second approach. 

The best way to simplify the writing is to stop writing and instead speak, which is to say, bounce between the simplest possible writing and the simplest possible speaking.

Write simple summary sentences, record reading aloud the sentences followed by vocally restating in plainer form those points, then write down those simpler, spontaneously spoken statements and repeat that refinement/simplification cycle. 

I do too much writing of Theory summary statements, and too little speaking of the Theory summary statements. 

I reached the limit — now, like in 2006 — of my simplified-writing ability. 

When I finished the 2006 version of the main article, I saw it was great in its clarity, a first-order breakthrough in clarity of Theory.

I was dismayed to find, upon vocalizing the 2006 main article, that the sentence construction was far from simple and clear. 

In 2013 I discovered a huge missed opportunity to simplify the expression of the theory in terms of tree vs. snake.

I thought in 2006 that the coverage of religious mythology in the main article was incomplete in scope, but was as efficient as possible.

My summary statements fail the vocalization test, as did my initial 2006 version of the main article. 

My slight revision into 2007 was driven by the discovery — when I made a spoken reading of the main article — that many sentences were literally unvocalizable.

In the 2006 sentences in the main article, there was no phrase-boundary where it is possible to inhale.

By writing summary statements, I discovered the extreme simplicity of the Theory, and yet those summary statements are still awkward, turgid, unnatural, not how people speak plainly. 

The Theory is extremely simple, yet my sentences — as proven by reading aloud — are still not plainspoken. 

The summary sentences, overall, remain on the wrong side of the threshold of plain speaking, just as my 2006 main article was only *relatively* clearly expressed. 

The great degree of success of my 2006 summary article hides the shortcomings of that relatively clear, only relatively clear, expression, as revealed when I tried and failed to vocalize the 2006 sentences. 

The 200-character limit on posts, combined with a random audience, helped toward breakthrough in simplicity of expression, but, I’m still self-censoring to withhold uncomfortable aspects, and to conform to the poor venue in that my posts are off-topic or too specialized of a focus. 

I won’t necessarily upload recorded speaking, but I do need to both vocalize and record, to push the expressions — that is, I do too much writing (even if “short summary statement” form is great) and not enough vocalization. 

I need to do short-form writing and short-form vocalization, to achieve being extremely plainspoken. 

The 2006 main article turned out to be *far* from natural and plainspoken in its sentence construction, which forced me to fix the worst, but only the worst, sentences to produce the stopgap fix, as the 2007 slight fix of the main article. 

In November 2013, I discovered the tremendous simplifying effect of contrasting tree vs. snake and recognizing that efficiency having been discovered and used by the most archaic explorers of the two cognitive states. 

Similarly now I need that kind of a jump in efficiency and plain speaking to express how utterly basic and simple the Theory is.

Any short-form statement must include these words, and not evade them or censor these pointed points:
religious mythology
analogy
psychedelics, such as mushrooms
the frozen-time block universe
the snake-shaped worldline
no-free-will
non-control
the feeling of loss of control
tree vs. snake
pre-existing control thoughts

Non-essential terms:

eternalism – no one has heard of this term, except a different usage in Buddhism

entheogens – no one has heard of this term, in contrast to ‘psychedelics’

ahistoricity – puts the focus on the wrong debate, loses the direct-science focus

determinism – connotes in-time domino-chain model with open future, against eternalism

metaphor – more confusing than ‘analogy’

any term that needs to be defined every time it is introduced

/ end of possible re-post

May 25, 2019 3:56 pm

313-character sentence, from the post:

A mind can lack or have the understanding of what is revealed in the mystic altered state; understanding the two experiential mental models of possibility branching, time, and control, and the dynamics of switching to the later, second innate mode of experiencing and the second mental model of time and control.

Revised as multiple sentences less than 200 characters each:

Ideally, a person has both experience and understanding of what is experienced and revealed in the altered state.

There are two experiential mental models of possibility branching, time, and control.

The mind undergoes characteristic mental and experiential dynamics of switching to the later, second innate mode of experiencing.

Multiple sessions of the altered state experience eventually produces a retained second mental model of time and control, even when the ordinary state of experiencing resumes.

4:06 pm

In the best posts in this thread, I will read-aloud each sentence and then say something critically assessing that sentence.  
How good of a sentence?  Length/complexity?
What was the central intended point of the sentence?
Are the terms in the sentence familiar and understandable without explicit definition?
How many distinct points are being made in the sentence?  Can they be separated into dedicated sentences?
How central is the point, to the Egodeath core theory?

4:15 pm

Statement from post 10725 to read aloud and critique:

Dionysus is a major elevated component of high civilization.

How good of a sentence?  Length/complexity?     
Short, simple.

What was the central intended point of the sentence?
The figure of Dionysus is central and lofty in the history of civilization.

Are the terms in the sentence familiar and understandable without explicit definition?
Yes.

How many distinct points are being made in the sentence?  Can they be separated into dedicated sentences?
1

How central is the point, to the Egodeath core theory?
Indirect. 
A statement that is of direct relevance to the core Egodeath theory would be:

The potential and ability of the mind to experience loose cognition and transform the mental model of time and control is, and has been considered, essential to high civilization and culture.

5:23 pm

Sentence to read-aloud and critique: 

Esoteric mysticism is simple to rationally explain as metaphor or analogy describing the psychedelic sacred meal-induced experience of frozen-time noncontrol, no-free-will, and monopossibility.
I couldn’t even read aloud to the midpoint of the sentence before I (mistakenly) exclaimed “What the hell is that junk verbiage inserted after the first two words?!” —
As I read it aloud, I parsed the sentence as:
Esoteric mysticism is [pointless junk words:] simple to rationally explain as [resume the brilliant payload:] metaphor or analogy describing the psychedelic sacred meal-induced experience of frozen-time noncontrol, no-free-will, and monopossibility.
The motivating point to post that text message was *that* explaining esotericism is surprisingly simple (and, secondarily here, that the simple explanation is, esotericism is analogy describing the psychedelic sacred meal-induced experience of frozen-time noncontrol, no-free-will, and monopossibility).

That 2-point sentence is strong in many ways but even so, my initial reaction was that the ‘the explanation is simple’ phrase was pointless junk-words that disrupted the explanation.  Even when you separate out the two points:o  The explanation is simple.   <– non-essential, commentaryo  The explanation is x.   <– essential, payload
there is far more value in stating the explanation, than in assessing the degree of simplicity the explanation has. 
The fact that people think the explanation is hard, and that it is actually easy, is peripheral, far inferior to the explanation itself (which happens to be surprisingly simple instead of hard as people expect).

Core theory:
Esotericism is [simply] x.

Peripheral, non-essential commentary on the core theory:
The explanation is surprisingly simple, not hard as people are accustomed to expecting.

Given that I was trying to cram two points into a <200 character post in a foreign context/venue, the sentence is strong.  But when later reading the sentence with no context, I immediately judged it as an overcomplex definition with needless junk verbiage inserted, breaking the point, as if I wrote:
Esotericism is [this explanation is surprisingly simple] x.
Given what I was trying to communicate in the chat venue, the sentence is strong, and successful.
But the sentence is poor if used as a general model, and in fact when I read the sentence aloud, I was *unable* to continue past midpoint of the sentence before exclaiming that the intrusive junk phrase was not carrying its weight:
[start of high-value statement] [inserted low-value statement] [second half of high-value statement]
even though at the time I wrote the sentence, the main thing motivating the posted sentence was “the explanation is simple”, and the secondary point was “the explanation is x”.  A more useful approach that stands up better when the sentence is read in isolation is, avoid making a point within the middle of a point.
Esoteric mysticism is surprisingly simple to rationally explain: esotericism is analogy describing the psychedelics-induced experience of frozen-time noncontrol, no-free-will, and monopossibility.
The fact that the sacred meal is psychedelics-based is actually a greedy or “efficient” cramming of a third point into the sentence.  
For general use, it is better to break out each point into a standalone sentence:

Esoteric mysticism is simple to rationally explain.
Esoteric mysticism is analogy describing the psychedelics-induced experience of frozen-time noncontrol, no-free-will, and monopossibility.
The sacred meal is psychedelics, such as psilocybin mushrooms.

There is a tradeoff or conflict between low wordcount/ character count, vs. simplicity of expression.
When you achieve simplicity of expression, wordcount increases, unfortunately.
When you achieve low wordcount, expression becomes more complex, unfortunately.
My 2006 main article was not optimized for simplicity of expression, but for cramming as many breakthrough points as possible into a predefined wordcount; the article was designed to be dense, not designed to have extreme simplicity of expression.
When I attempted to read-aloud the article, I began to intensely focus, like around 2011, on simplicity of expression.  
But I only started to *really* hammer on simplicity of expression recently, around late 2018, in the context of <200 character posts in random venues online with unknown audiences.
A historical turning point or milestone in my simplicity of expression is when I started writing all posts in this weblog/discussion group as independent sentences rather than prose multisentence paragraphs.  Part of how I started that, was when I blew apart my main article into sentences around 2012… which I did during composing the 2006 main article.  
That was a technique I started perhaps 1992 or 1989 when working in Word Perfect.  Possibly 1987 – I did these kinds of experiments for a long time.
My idea development in January 1986 had that characteristic of aphorisms – isolated statements, not particularly grouped into multi-sentence paragraphs. 
When did I start posting every post in the form of standalone sentences, one sentence per line?  
When I regularly posted as independent sentences, that marks the practical start of this intent push for simplicity of expression.  
The push for simplicity of expression started after my initial draft of the contrarian article around January 1988.  
My 1988 attempted article got off to a failed start, a counterexample: it starts with a really stupid idea, a prelude, preliminaries, setting the stage.  
I succeeded in 2006-2007 at writing the 1988 article.]
The 1988 article’s point is: “Against Ken Wilber & Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Transcendent Knowledge is actually the noncontrol experience that results from the block universe experience in the loose cognitive state”.
By 1996 after failing to write a condensed article, I temporarily gave up on the article format, and simply posted the outline of principle summary points at Principia Cybernetica. 
Forget the “article” format; just get to the damned point.

5:47 – Reading Aloud to Drive Simpler Writing

My reading-aloud of the attempted summary sentences, together with critiquing each sentence, reveals that I failed so far to accomplish or reach the goal, of simple explicit summary sentences.
I now *can* record reading-aloud the summary sentences, that is, the main post in the present thread, but I know that I am not satisfied with the result. 
The first post fails to focus on the core theory, fails to have simple sentences.  
The second summary post is not quite as bad, but still I hold out for improvement, in the 3rd post.  That post also is all too easy to improve upon.  
My latest main post in this thread, containing all summary sentences, still remains — as demonstrated in the past few critical posts — insufficiently focused on the core theory, and the sentences are too complex, without each sentence serving a single purpose.
This would be a worthwhile, interesting, improvement-causing recording approach: Read the attempted posts in this thread: read a sentence, then critique the sentence:

Critique each sentence:
How good of a sentence?  Length/complexity?
What was the central intended point of the sentence?
Are the terms in the sentence familiar and understandable without explicit definition?
How many distinct points are being made in the sentence?  Can they be separated into dedicated sentences?
How central is the point, to the Egodeath core theory?

6:39

However I use voice recordings, I do plan to get in the practice of mono smartphone recordings with no accessories, recorded anywhere, using good technique but not using any supplemental gear, such as pop filter, windscreen, dead cat, outboard microphone, headphone monitoring, or treated environment.
I was distracted and completely blocked and sidetracked by the attempt to make perfect recordings, regarding the resulting fidelity.  I was blocked by attempting for perfect fidelity.  To counter that fatal impediment, I need to be comfortable and in the habit of targeting casual fidelity, sacrificing high fidelity in order to concentrate on the payload, content.
I wasn’t blocked by attempting for perfect content.
I wasn’t blocked by attempting for perfect vocalization.

6:51 pm

Summary sentence for critique:

Religion is based on Reason in the Holy Spirit state of consciousness that is conveyed through the Eucharist.

The context that shaped that statement was some online discussion of Logos, atheism, Christianity, paganism, and religion.
It is a busy, overambitious sentence, written in the spirit of trying to cram an impressive amount into a low wordcount.

The phrase “the Holy Spirit state of consciousness” is too complicated and at least needs punctuation.
The “Holy Spirit” state of consciousness is the altered state of consciousness; that is, the psychedelic state of consciousness, which is characterized by loose cognitive association, which brings different experiencing and thinking.
The “Holy Spirit” state of consciousness is induced by ingesting the Eucharist, which is a form of the traditional “sacred meal”, which means psychedelics, most typically psilocybin mushrooms.
Religion is not based on “the non-rational”.
Religion is based on Reason in conjunction with different experiencing and thinking in the altered state of consciousness.
Religion is based on Reason in the altered state, which gives different experiencing and thinking.
Religion is based on reasoning about time and control in the altered state from psychedelics, such as in the Eucharist sacred meal provided by the God to the acolytes who are chosen by God.
God uses the psychedelic sacred meal as the means by which the mind is taught a different mode of experiencing and thinking, about time and control, possibility and moral culpability.  
‘God’ refers to the hidden uncontrollable controller as the normally veiled source of control thoughts.  
The control agent is ultimately helplessly controlled by the hidden uncontrollable source of control-thoughts.

A mostly straight-through reading of each posting, to quickly record on TASCAM DR-05 field recorder

May 26, 2019, 12:12 am

Posting — raw tracking file
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10725 190525_870.wav
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10723 190525_871.wav
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10717 190525_873.wav & 190525_878.wav
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10715 190525_879.wav
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10713 190525_882.wav

May 26, 2019 4:52 pm

1 week to download this zip file of mp3 files of reading aloud the summary statements
https://we.tl/t-m2GG7Kj6kM
limited time members-only exclusive for those on the inside

May 27, 2019 8:43 pm

mentalModelTransition.mp32 minutes 9 seconds.  The download URL, for 1 week:  https://we.tl/t-8D1UqKGG2EReading aloud the following text.The text here was written in order to read aloud.The first part was written after seeing the problems with the initial part, shown at bottom.

The dynamics of shifting control-dependency
Moving from the initial model of control to the revised model of control requires a profound shift of control dependency or reliance.  
To change worldmodels, instead of relying on your usual imagined basis of control, you must consciously rely on the actual source of control.
Your actual source of control is the pre-existing rail of control-thoughts that is laid out frozen in the block universe.
The pre-existing rail of control thoughts is frozen and you cannot change or control it.
The shift of control-dependency is the most interesting dynamic of the change from the initial to final worldmodel.
Initially, the mental model of control is based on the assumption and sensation that the person is the originator of control thoughts, with an open future.
In the revised mental model, the mind recognizes, perceives, and experiences the actual basis of personal control, in the loose cognitive state.
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To transcend ordinary thinking, the mind moves from an initial mental worldmodel, through a transition period, to a final mental worldmodel.
Psychedelics produce the experience of the block universe containing a frozen worldline of control-thoughts, the experience of no-free-will and noncontrol, and the experience of helplessly receiving thoughts.
The mind tries to retain control on the basis of the initial worldmodel, but then shifts conscious attribution from the intial purported source of control ability to the later, accurately recognized source of control ability.
The mind dramatically shifts from the initial to the later mental worldmodel of control, time, and possibility.
The shift of worldmodels is driven by testing control ability to the point of full instability to disprove the initial model.
The mind repudiates the initial model of control ability and recognizes the real, now perceptible source of control ability, recognizing that personal control is dependent on a mysterious hidden uncontrollable source.

(In the above sentence: repudiate = {sacrifice}, recognize = {prayer})

May 27 9:46 pm

First I recorded spoken idea development (download below), then I transcribed it, as follows:

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Religion is based on the moment of transition, of moving from one leg to the other, the moment of shift, the moment of transition/shift to a new basis, the moment you move from control based on you as initator, to control based on dependence on a pre-given, externally given control source.

Religion is based on and centered around the moment that you move from the familiar basis of control, from the familiar mental conscious assumed and presumed basis of control, to the different external, uncontrollable basis of control.

That moment of shift from the one basis of control to the other is the peak climactic point which is the basis of religion.

Behind that is the whole looming framework of the old mental model and the new mental worldmodel, but the main focus is the moment of transition.

The mind undergoes various dynamics in switching from the old and learning the new model of control.

The mind retains the old model and uses it in mundane life, while adding the new model and relying on the new model in the loose cognitive state.

The central focus in religion is the moment of switching from the old model, particularly with regard to reliance and dependence for the control basis.

The most prominent and celebrated mental dynamic is the change of reliance on control basis, from the old familiar basis to the new, dependent basis.

The conscious shift of the recognized basis of control is the central climactic pivotal point which is the center or foundation of religion.

Hymns are celebrating this particular point: I was failing and you lifted me up, that I’m dependent on something external.

That expression of being dependent on the higher power is the peak experience, the peak dynamic, of switching from the Possibilism worldmodel to the Eternalism worldmodel.

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Written summary of phases or components from the transcription above:

Religious mythology = analogy describing
psychedelic loose cognition
starting from the Possibilism mental worldmodel
then MOVING the conscious basis of control
to the Possibilism mental worldmodel.

1. Religious mythology is analogy describing how
2. psychedelics induce loose cognitive binding
3. giving perception and experience of the frozen block universe worldline of your future control-thoughts
4. and concommitant noncontrol, or shift of basis of control, and no-free-will
leading to moving the mental worldmodel from Possibilism
through a MOVING of the attributed basis or source of control power
to the Eternalism mental model, with awareness of dependence on a hidden, uncontrollable source of control thoughts.

______________

mp3: centralMomentOfShift.mp3
download url for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-RQG9VFvZKf
length: 2:18

mic: Shure – SM57
project: e609sm57testReadingTelosPosts.aup
track: mmTransition3

May 27, 2019 9:47 pm

First I recorded spoken idea development (download below), then I transcribed it, as follows:

______________

Religion is based on the moment of transition, of moving from one leg to the other, the moment of shift, the moment of transition/shift to a new basis, the moment you move from control based on you as initator, to control based on dependence on a pre-given, externally given control source.

Religion is based on and centered around the moment that you move from the familiar basis of control, from the familiar mental conscious assumed and presumed basis of control, to the different external, uncontrollable basis of control.

That moment of shift from the one basis of control to the other is the peak climactic point which is the basis of religion.

Behind that is the whole looming framework of the old mental model and the new mental worldmodel, but the main focus is the moment of transition.

The mind undergoes various dynamics in switching from the old and learning the new model of control.

The mind retains the old model and uses it in mundane life, while adding the new model and relying on the new model in the loose cognitive state.

The central focus in religion is the moment of switching from the old model, particularly with regard to reliance and dependence for the control basis.

The most prominent and celebrated mental dynamic is the change of reliance on control basis, from the old familiar basis to the new, dependent basis.

The conscious shift of the recognized basis of control is the central climactic pivotal point which is the center or foundation of religion.

Hymns are celebrating this particular point: I was failing and you lifted me up, that I’m dependent on something external.

That expression of being dependent on the higher power is the peak experience, the peak dynamic, of switching from the Possibilism worldmodel to the Eternalism worldmodel.

______________

Written summary of phases or components from the transcription above:

Religious mythology = analogy describing
psychedelic loose cognition
starting from the Possibilism mental worldmodel
then MOVING the conscious basis of control
to the Eternalism mental worldmodel.

June 1, 2019 7:13 pm

The Egodeath theory explains that mythology describes the effects of eating magic mushrooms.

Normally, when not on mushrooms, the person feels like a king steering in a tree, with the power to make decisions and create their future.

The future feels like it doesn’t exist, and it feels open and can become any of several outcomes.

In Physics, time and space are thought of together as an unchanging block universe.

A person’s sequence of experiencing from birth to death, is shaped like a snake that is embedded into the block universe.

The person’s future thoughts cannot be changed or avoided.

The person doesn’t have the kind of control that lets the person alter their future thoughts.

Magic mushrooms produce an experience of being frozen like a snake in a rock.

On mushrooms, it feels like future thoughts already exist.

It feels like there is no free will, and the person has no ability to control their thoughts.

It feels like something outside of the person is controlling the person’s thoughts.

When the person tries to control their thoughts, they lose the feeling of controlling their thoughts, and the person becomes afraid about what thoughts they will receive next.

The person feels like they are helpless and dependent on a hidden force that controls their thoughts.

When the person realizes that they have no power to control the hidden source of their thoughts, the person has to trust the hidden source of thoughts.

When the person realizes that they have no alternative but to trust the hidden source of thoughts, the person becomes calm and happy to understand higher knowledge and religion.

June 1 7:29 pm

Version 2 is more readable:

The Egodeath theory explains that religion and mythology describe the effects of eating magic mushrooms.

Normally, when not on mushrooms, the person feels like a king steering in a tree, with the power to make decisions and create their future.
The future feels like it doesn’t exist, and it feels open and can become any of several outcomes.

Magic mushrooms produce an experience of being frozen like a statue of a king, or frozen like a snake in a rock.
On mushrooms, it feels like future thoughts already exist.
It feels like there is no free will, and the person has no ability to control their thoughts.

The experience of being frozen without control is like the idea of the block universe in Physics.
In Physics, time and space are thought of together as an unchanging block universe. 
In the block universe idea in Physics, a person’s sequence of experiencing from birth to death is called a “worldline”.
Your sequence of thoughts and experiences is shaped like a snake that is embedded into the block universe.
The person’s future thoughts cannot be changed or avoided.
The person doesn’t have the kind of control that lets the person alter their future thoughts.

After taking magic mushrooms several times, it feels like something outside of the person is controlling the person’s thoughts.
The person tries to control their thoughts, but they lose the feeling of controlling their thoughts.
The person becomes afraid about what thoughts they will receive next.

The person feels like they are helpless and dependent on a hidden force that controls their thoughts.
The person realizes that they have no power to control the hidden source of their thoughts.
The person realizes that they have no alternative but to trust the hidden source of thoughts.
The person becomes calm and happy to understand higher knowledge and religion.

7:48 pm

I recorded reading aloud posting 10797, the (incompletely) simplified summary of the Egodeath theory.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10797

download url (for 1 week): https://we.tl/t-ffEN8doNVW
filename: SimplifiedEDIntroTake1.mp3
length: 2:16
mic: Shure – SM57

Open window; background noise.  This is just a practice run and mic check, Take 1. 

I should probably analyze and simplify that text, and then record reading the successful version.

June 1, 2019 8:04 pm

This version (3) of the Egodeath summary reaches the target simplicity. 

___________________

The Egodeath theory explains that religion and mythology describe the effects of eating magic mushrooms.

Normally, when not on mushrooms, the person feels like a king steering in a tree.

It feels like there are many possible actions.

It feels like you have the power to select any of the possible actions and create your future.

The future feels like it doesn’t exist, and it feels open and can become any of several outcomes.

Magic mushrooms produce an experience of being frozen like a statue of a king, or frozen like a snake in a rock.

On mushrooms, it feels like future thoughts already exist.

It feels like there is no free will, and the person has no ability to control their thoughts.

The experience of being frozen without control is like the idea of the block universe in Physics.

In Physics, time and space are thought of together as an unchanging “block universe”.

A person’s sequence of experiencing from birth to death is called a “worldline”.

Your sequence of thoughts and experiences is shaped like a snake that is embedded into the block universe.

The person’s future thoughts cannot be changed or avoided.

The person doesn’t have the kind of control that lets the person alter their future thoughts.

After taking magic mushrooms several times, the person learns to watch how the mind works.

The person learns to think carefully about control while on mushrooms.

It feels like something outside of the person is controlling the person’s thoughts.

The person tries to control their thoughts, but they lose the feeling of controlling their thoughts.

The person becomes afraid about what thoughts they will receive next.

The person feels like they are helpless and dependent on a hidden force that controls their thoughts.

The person realizes that they have no power to control the hidden source of their thoughts.

The person realizes that they have no alternative but to trust the hidden source of thoughts.

The person becomes calm and happy to understand higher knowledge and religion.

_________________________

(The Egodeath theory doesn’t advocate anything except understanding.)

June 1, 2019 8:38 pm – Read-aloud v3.1 of Egodeath Summary Reaches Target Simplicity

I recorded reading aloud the following version 3.1 of the simplified summary of the Egodeath theory.
filename: SimplifiedEDIntroV3.mp3
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/10799
download URL (for 1 week): https://we.tl/t-OxJhAYmtLZ
length: 2:18

This version (3.1) of the Egodeath summary reaches the target simplicity. 

___________________

The Egodeath theory explains that religion and mythology describe the effects of eating magic mushrooms.

Normally, when not on mushrooms, the person feels like a king steering in a tree.

It feels like there are many possible actions.

It feels like you have the power to select any of the possible actions and create your future.

The future feels like it doesn’t exist, and it feels open and can become any of several outcomes.

Magic mushrooms produce an experience of being frozen like a statue of a king, or frozen like a snake in a rock.

On mushrooms, it feels like future thoughts already exist.

It feels like there is no free will, and the person has no ability to control their thoughts.

The experience of being frozen without control is like the idea of the block universe in Physics.

In Physics, time and space are thought of together as an unchanging “block universe”.

A person’s sequence of experiencing from birth to death is called a “worldline”.

Your sequence of thoughts and experiences is shaped like a snake that is embedded into the block universe.

The person’s future thoughts cannot be changed or avoided.

The person doesn’t have the kind of control that lets the person alter their future thoughts.

After taking magic mushrooms several times, the person learns to watch how the mind works.

The person learns to think carefully about control while on mushrooms.

It feels like something outside of the person is controlling the person’s thoughts.

The person tries to control their thoughts, but they lose the feeling of controlling their thoughts.

The person becomes afraid about what thoughts they will receive next.

The person feels like they are helpless and dependent on a hidden force that controls their thoughts.

They have no power to control the hidden source of their thoughts.

They have no alternative but to trust the hidden source of thoughts.

June 20, 2019 2:21 am

“Rain Ego Death.m4a”
download url for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-grpzqAerwN
stereophonicleft channel: Shure – SM57 dynamic mic, cardioid pattern. rumble cut switch. 8:00 12:00 3:00
right channel: CAD – M39 large-diaphragm condenser mic, omni pattern.  rumble cut switch.  10:00 1:30 2:00

June 24, 9:01 pm

Voice recording: Off-the-cuff summary of Egodeath theory, June 24, 2019

Filename: “Summary 2019-06-24 (CAD-M39 AudEq).mp3”

Download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-82BUPyjFgP

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Production notes:

CAD M39 large-diaphragm condenser mic, cardioid pattern, mic’s low-cut switch, recorded dry/flat to DR-05 field recorder in mono, eq’d in laptop, exported as 320 kbps MP3.

Project files sequence:
190624_0652Orig.wav from DR-05 — raw tracking file; long silences
190624_0652_cadm39direct_trimmedsilence.aup
exported as 190624_0652.wav put back onto the DR-05 32MB microSD card
190624_0652_cadm39direct_trimmedsilence_eq.aup — has eq added
exported as Summary 2019-06-24 (CAD-M39 AudEq).mp3
uploaded

June 24, 2019 10:48 pm

Voice recording with effects: Off-the-cuff summary of Egodeath theory, June 24, 2019

Filename: “Summary 2019-06-24 fx (CAD-M39).mp3”

Download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-xfq6kuIOFO

Length: 39:41 (album-length)

Filesize: 95 MB

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Production notes:
Started with mono direct/dry CAD M39 mic in 190624_0652.wav (5:55 long) which was silence-trimmed like “Summary 2019-06-24 (CAD-M39 AudEq).mp3” but without eq, on a TASCAM DR-05 field recorder.
Treble boost
dbx – 266xs Compressor & Expander/Gate
tc electronic – Flashback delay
tc electronic – Hall of Fame reverb
Recorded in stereo on a TASCAM DR-05 field recorder as file “190624_0961.wav”.
Project file: “Summary 2019-06-24 fx (CAD-M39).aud” – normalized
Exported as 320 kbps MP3

Jun 29 2019 2:48 pm

Short spoken clips from 190624_0652.wav (= recorded on June 24, 2019)

folder name: 190624_0652_wav_extracts
29 .wav files. 
length: 4 minutes

the download url for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-xqKp44vPUT

Adding EQ on playback:
iTunes on iPhone can play these short .wav files. 
These files are direct from the mic with no eq or processing.  They need bright speakers or treble boost.
For iTunes on iPhone, “Settings: Music: EQ” works, but might take about 15 seconds or a couple plays of a given .wav file. 
On Sony 7506 headphones, I use Treble Boost.

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Production notes:
Mic: CAD – M39 large diaphragm condenser mic, cardioid, no low-cut switch?, recorded in mono with no eq or processing on TASCAM DR-05 field recorder, to create file in 190624_0652.wav which was 5:55 long after trimming silence.
From that file, I copied and exported selected excerpts as .wav files.

Jun 29 8:35pm

Egodeath summary recording, as fx-processed snippets (eq’d) – version 1 of 2

filename: “Egodeath 652 snippets fx (CAD M39).mp3”

download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-DbVFJIPnyz

________________________

Production notes:
Mic: CAD – M39 large diaphragm condenser mic, on cardioid, no eq, as 190624_0652.wav (= tracked June 24, 2019) file.
TASCAM – DR-05 field recorder loaded with that file’s excerpted .wav snippets in laptop folder “190624_0652_wav_extracts”
MXR eq (Mastering monitors: Sony – MDR-7506 studio tracking headphones)
dbx dynamics processor
tc electronics – Flashback stereo delay
tc electronics – Hall of Fame stereo reverb
Recorded to TASCAM – DR-05 field recorder as 190629_0658.wav (= processed June 29, 2019) (that’s version 1)
Loaded and saved as project “190629_0658.aup” — trimmed, norm’d, deleted some, moved tail to middle
Exported as “Egodeath 652 snippets fx (CAD M39).mp3”

Version 2, a separate take, will be cleaned up and exported from 190629_0659.wav and 190629_0660.wav.

8:37pm

Egodeath summary recording, as fx-processed snippets (eq’d) – version 1 of 2

filename: “Egodeath 652 snippets fx (CAD M39).mp3”
length: 10:30

download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-DbVFJIPnyz

filesize: 25MB

9:54 pm

Egodeath summary recording, as fx-processed snippets (eq’d) – version 2 of 2

filename: “Egodeath 652 snippets fx v2 (CAD M39).mp3”
length: 11:57

download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-Jg9LnjHAl2

filesize: 29MB

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Production notes: basically same as for v1.
Mic: CAD – M39 large diaphragm condenser mic, on cardioid, no eq, as 190624_0652.wav (= tracked June 24, 2019) file.
TASCAM – DR-05 field recorder loaded with that file’s excerpted .wav snippets in laptop folder “190624_0652_wav_extracts”
MXR eq (Mastering monitors: Sony – MDR-7506 studio tracking headphones)
dbx dynamics processor
tc electronics – Flashback stereo delay
tc electronics – Hall of Fame stereo reverb
Recorded to TASCAM – DR-05 field recorder as 190629_0659.wav & 190629_0660.wav (= processed June 29, 2019) (those are version 2)
Loaded and saved as project “190629_0659.aup” (190629_0660.aup was folded in) — trimmed, norm’d, deleted some
Exported as “Egodeath 652 snippets fx v2 (CAD M39).mp3”

June 30 11:55pm

voice recording: “Perceiving the Control Source.mp3” (recorded June 23, 2019)

download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-HpTFlkpD0y

lenth: about 1:30

This is a precursor to the excellent but quieter-voiced “190624_0652.wav” source file. 
This is a tribute to the next day’s track 652, but is also noteworthy because of more standard vocalization (louder; fuller).

June 30 11:58 pm

voice recording: “Perceiving the Control Source.mp3” (recorded June 23, 2019)

download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-HpTFlkpD0y

length: about 1:01

This is a precursor to the excellent but quieter-voiced “190624_0652.wav” source file. 
This is a tribute to the next day’s track 652, but is also noteworthy because of more standard vocalization (louder; fuller).

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Production notes:

Mic: CAD – M39, large diaphragm condenser mic, dry; no EQ in tracking file

tracking file: 190623_0649.wav

project file used to trim down to the excerpt: “190623_0649_wav excerpt.aup”

EQ: applied saved curve “CAD M39 03”, in the box

July 6 9:52pm

Egodeath Theory vocalization practice

Filename: “EDT M39 voc 2019-07-04 _1015 eq.wav”
Length: 12:09
Filesize: 64MB

Download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-yHxRZsmc3e

Production notes:

Mic: CAD – M39 large-diaphragm condenser

Filename pattern:
o  EDT (= Egodeath Theory)
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o  Date originally recorded
o  File number(s) of original recording(s)
o  Signal processing if any
o  Filename extension

Eq: in app, “CAD M39 04”

July 7 4:37 am

Egodeath Theory mic demos

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Length: 2:38
Mic: CAD – M39 large-diaphragm condenser (Pattern: Cardioid, Bass Cut: Off)

Filename: “EDT SM57 mic 2019-07-04 _733 eq.wav”
Length: 1:39
Mic: Shure – SM57 dynamic

Filename: EDT “e609 mic 2019-07-04 _759 _1032 eq.wav”
Length: 8:43
Mic: Sennheiser – e609 dynamic

Download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-SiMUKkZ0Nu
..zip filesize: 56.3MB

Filename pattern:
o  EDT (= Egodeath Theory)
o  Mic model
o  Focus (miking, vocalization, or content)
o  Date originally recorded
o  File number(s) of original recording(s)
o  Signal processing if any
o  Filename extension

Eq: hardware

August 3, 2019 7:59 p.m.

4 new voice recordings.
Raw files, a bit slow-paced

The download URL for 1 week: https://we.tl/t-CCpO7XoNjH

Filename 1: “No chatting name of theory.m4a”
Length: 3:24 (iPhone bottom mic)
In 200-character posts format, it’s all about packing-in good keywords that don’t evoke misleading connotations, but get directly to the central point.  In practice, a set of 200-character posts, each with 4-5 highly summarized ideas.

Filename 2: “Chat post summaries commentary.m4a”
Length: 36:17 (iPhone bottom mic)
Some of the summaries are posted below.

Filename 3: “The religion of the future.m4a”
Length: 12:07 (iPhone bottom mic)
The religion of the future is direct, public summarization of the altered-state experience of no-free-will.

Including preexisting future, block-universe worldline, non-(meta)-control — and instead of a single literalist metaphor-system as a user interface skin that serves to obscure and confuse and prevent accessing the core knowledge, there will be a mapping of the explicit simple core model of time and control, to each extant brand or metaphor system, including technology metaphors like in the Rush songs The Body Electric (from Grace Under Pressure), and Vital Signs (from Moving Pictures). 

Instead of the main emphasis being a particular UI skin (metaphor system), with fewer than 1% of people accessing the core knowledge, the main emphasis will be on the core knowledge, assisted by subservient mapping to all the various analogy and metaphor systems.

Filename 4: “Reducing the size and value of wisdom (budmic).m4a”
Length: 9:57 (iPhone earbud mic, mostly dangling rather than held in position)
The word ‘wisdom’ used in this title means the pearl held by the dragon, the treasure guarded by the serpent monster; transcendent knowledge; enlightenment, mental model augmentation or transformation adding a new model of control, time, and possibility. 

The treasure guarded by the serpent monster, or the pearl held by the dragon, is the Egodeath theory.

{pearl, treasure} = the Egodeath theory = the knowledge mythology is analogy describing mushrooms loosening cognitive associations, giving an experience of frozen-time block-universe and personal control worldline with preexisting future control thoughts, changing the mental worldmodel from free-will control with an open future, to no-free-will with a preexisting future.

The worldmodel of self, time, control, and possibility branching, is sacrificed to gain the treasure of enlightenment and regeneration of self and world.

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Summary posts:

No-free-will, preexistence of one’s own future control-thoughts.  Block-universe worldline likened to wise fearsome “snake” demands sacrifice, to gain treasure: wisdom.

Sacred Meal 🍄 in the Mystery Religions including Eucharist.  Loosens mental associations, experience the higher state of experiencing.  Speak the Mysteries, which are to be revealed.

Mystery Religion has been decoded, in clear summary, the greatest achievement of civilization, describing high experiential revelation.

Don’t let your mental world collapse when you hear these 3 revisionist ideas: ahistoricity of Jesus; visionary plants as Eucharist; no-free-will.  These are not necessarily harmful ideas. It’s best to immunize people.

The “sun worship” theory of what religion is about, is secondary, reductionist; physical/literalist.  It can’t explain the intense mystic altered state of experiencing.  There’s nothing of Dionysus in it.

Mature esoteric 2-level religion is *rational* discovery of no-free-will mental model in the altered state.  Only lower, exoteric, beginners’ religion is *irrational*.

“Born again” in esoteric religion means you experienced the feeling of the death of personal control agency in the mystic state, then formed a new model of control and time.

Most theories of religious mythology don’t account for religious experiencing (the intense peak mystic altered state), so are reductionist, ordinary-state based.

Myth describes e.g. battle with serpent demons guarding treasure, then the armchair theorists say myth means observing celestial bodies – mostly wrong; misses the primary referent and origin of myth.

The primary meaning of myth is analogies describing the sacred meal inducing the altered state. The secondary meaning is celestial bodies.

The Greeks with their Mystery Religion would look at us moderns as outsiders, non-initiates, like children or animals.

We have the potential to figure out high ancient Greek culture, myth, Mystery Religion.

This is a golden age for scholars studying ancient religious texts, many translations becoming available, a renaissance.

Scholars are no longer hampered by heavy-handed Christian bias like they were in the early 20th Century. Now scholars are able to be more objective in interpreting ancient texts.

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People liked my clearly-written posts about Calvinism and double-predestination.  I didn’t capture them.  Something like:

Some people are destined to be saved, and other people are destined to not be saved. Their control-thoughts were created not by the person, but by the Creator, before time began.

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August 10, 2019 5:41 a.m.

Mythology is primarily analogies that serve to describe the experiential phenomena in the altered state that results from ingesting the psychoactive sacred meal, as in Mystery Religion and the Eucharist with its real presence of the mind-transforming god-figure.

Visionary plants cause loose cognitive association, as in “dissolve and re-coagulate”, causing an experience of frozen-time block-universe no-free-will, with pre-existing control thoughts frozen in rock. The stream of one’s control thoughts frozen in time is snake-shaped; it is the worldline in the unveiled block universe.

Mythology and fiction are both broad, and ancient fiction has mythemes. Key mythemes include king, tree, branching vs. nonbranching, rock, wine, sacrifice of a ruler or child, snake/ serpent/ dragon monster, death, and transformation.

The theory of religious mythology as analogy describing visionary plants causing loose cognition and experiencing block-universe no-free-will, monopossibility, and a kind of non-control and cancelling of personal moral culpability

Psychotomimetics cause loose cognitive association, as in the term ‘psycholytics’ (mind looseners), and mania: sacred madness, frenzy.

The loose cognitive state causes an experience of block universe no-free-will and noncontrol, including the fearsome snake-shaped frozen worldline of one’s control-thoughts.

The Eucharistic sacred meal is given by the god, as in Mystery Religion; carried to the elect, predestined recipients by their snake-shaped worldline.

Consuming the sacred meal transforms the mental model of control agency and time.

The dragon serpent is one’s pre-existing worldline frozen into the rock-like block universe.

The dragon guards the treasure or pearl of wisdom, demanding sacrifice of the king or child in order to gain the treasure of knowledge about control, time, and moral agency.

The “king” or “child” that must be sacrificed is the original freewill-based control assumption and the assumption of the open future.

The original assumptions about controlling and steering among possibilities to create the future must be sacrificed, to restore stable control that can withstand this transformative trial.

Traditional world religious mythology is analogies, key mythemes, that describe the experience of repudiating the original, assumed freewill basis of control power, in order to withstand the vision of pre-existing control thoughts.

The mind has the innate religious capability to have stable control in the intense mystic state, by relying on a new basis and source of control.

Mentally developing this new basis of control through a series of initiation sessions enables gaining and retaining gnosis, bringing the numinous, terrifying and ecstatic vision of the block-universe worldline snake back into mundane life in the ordinary state.

This peak religious experience that deeply transforms thinking about moral agency has been valued most highly.

Traditional world religious mythology such as Jewish, Christian, Greek, Roman, Hellenistic, Ancient Near East, and Northern, engages with the peak experiences and describes transformation of thinking about control, to survive the corrective ordeal while successfully gaining the new mental model of self, world, control, and time.

Assess the value of the Holy Spirit, visionary plants, the loose cognitive association state, the resulting experience of pre-existing thoughts and no-free-will. Critique the world tradition of valuing these things most highly.

Visionary plants were traditionally considered the sacred meal that gives moral transformation, peak experiencing, salvation, gnosis, revelation, purification, exorcism, enlightenment, redemption, regeneration, Transcendent Knowledge.

Poison or medicine, fatal snake bite or looking at Moses’ brass snake on a pole to cure the fatal snake bite, is a matter of positioning, usage, application of the powerful tool.

The revelation of the pre-existence of the future and no-free-will, a kind of non-control, and the illusory nature of possibility branching, could harm or elevate civilization.

9:08pm

Religious mythology is primarily analogy describing visionary plants causing the intense mystic altered state of loose cognitive association, which causes the experience of rock-like frozen-time block-universe no-free-will, confronting the snake-shaped worldline of pre-existing personal control thoughts, leading to a new mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control. 

These analogies that describe the altered-state experiences include tree, snake, rock, king, wine, death, dismemberment, madness, sacrificing a child, storm and then calm, and exorcising an animal-like demon.  (also heaven, hell, afterlife, resurrection, rebirth)

Christianity has lots of great legitimate religious mythemes from the Ancient Near East.

Esoteric, insiders’ Christianity tends to “break” lower, literalist, exoteric Christianity.

Future religion: everyone knows gnosis/ enlightenment/ esoteric wisdom, and knows how it maps to all the mythemes and metaphors from various religions.

Western Esotericism studies are thriving; figured out gnosis, Mystery Religion, the treasure/pearl of wisdom guarded by the dragon; esoteric religion.

In the daily ordinary state, we experience as-if freewill. In the mystic state (as myth describes), underlying no-free-will is experienced/revealed, giving the additional mental model, traditionally considered “higher”.

🍄🐍

Western Esotericism scholarship is suddenly increasing; it’s a golden age/renaissance for the field.

Identifying the *primary* referent of mythology requires studying world mythology, Ancient Near East myth including Jewish/Christian/Greek/Roman, Northern myth, Western Esotericism. Beware partial/secondary solutions.

Aug 10 2019 10:37 pm

The block-universe worldline snake 🐍 guards the treasure: gnosis of no free will, pre-made future.  Mythology is analogy describing sacred 🍄 meal causing loose cognitive association to transform the mental model of time, control, & possibility.

The secret revealed knowledge in peak Western Civilization culture, the dragon-guarded treasure: no-free-will, unveiled in the visionary-plant state.

Shocking heresies in each major area of the Egodeath theory:
o  in Analogy:  No historical Jesus, no literal Heaven or Hell for moral agents
o  in Loosecog:  Religion/eucharist comes from 🍄
o  in Time:  The future is pre-existing and closed
o  in Control:  No-free-will, no meta control

Everyone is innocent of killing Jesus, who was a mythic composite figure – a Jewish-styled Hellenistic mystery cult savior figure.

Insane sophistry preached by exoteric thinkers: Christ is lord of all people, therefore there is no separation, no individuation, no differentiation; we are all the same person, one family, one kin, one nation, spiritually and metaphorically, and therefore literally as well.

At the lower, exoteric, literalist, childish-thinking level, we have perpetual standoff between Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism.  They can be allied but not integrated, on the lower, exoteric level.  Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism are not only allied, but integrated, on the esoteric level.

Hyper hyper-Calvinism: everything is God’s fault, the future is closed and pre-existing.  At all points in time, you are forced to think and will what the Creator has made you think and will at that point.  Hell for moral punishment and Heaven for moral reward are metaphorical.

High art describes the sacred meal visionary state, the cognitive changes that it causes, forming the new model of control and time.

The tragedy is the unveiling of no-free-will, inability to change and create the future, which is experienced as closed when in the altered state.

The simple theory of no-free-will is completely offensive to religious preconceptions about moral agency in mundane daily life, and that’s part of what makes the altered state such a radically transformative experience.

Church Fathers before Augustine in 400 asserted freewill. 

Augustine began with no-free-will, asserted freewill, then returned to no-free-will. 

We can expect the Bible to waffle and even highlight waffling – consistently inconsistent – God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God, Pharaoh hardened his heart against God. 

We can expect the Church Fathers to waffle. 

We can expect Calvinists to waffle, in their impure thinking, except for the hyper hyper-Calvinists who go all the way to consistency.

If you expect to find consistent no-free-will asserted in Hellenistic religion or in the Bible or in historical Theology, that’s naive.  Expect normally to find a wishy-washy, inconsistent jumble.  The best that the Egodeath theory matches this prevarication is modal:

In the ordinary state (tight cognitive binding), the mind experiences freewill, moral agency, open future, multiple branching possibilities. 

In the altered state (loose cognitive binding), the mind experiences no-free-will, frozen-time block-universe worldline, pre-existing control thoughts, closed future, monopossibility.

I don’t “like” Christianity, Atheism, Gnosticism, Mystery Religions, Calvinism, or Catholic Theology, and I don’t agree with them.  They are all poorly organized worldmodels, compared to the Egodeath theory.  They are the old explanatory paradigm to be replaced by this superior explanatory framework.

The most idiotic and unprofitable debate, by complete outsiders, is “Does God exist?”  No one bothers defining ‘God’.  Forget Epistemology; cognitive phenomenology is way more relevant.

Destined to be regenerated by the real presence of esoteric Christ in the Eucharist

If truth is important: Hell is esoteric mythic description of mystic-state experiencing.

If Christianity is truth, at least the esoteric level of Christianity must reveal Jesus as a composite mythic figure.

The 🐍serpent is the #1 mytheme; it means one’s pre-set worldline, frozen in the rock-like block universe, in the altered state from the 🍄sacred meal in mystery religion.  The snake monster guards gnosis.

Immature, exoteric outsider Christians, those on the outside who don’t understand Jesus’ parables, haven’t heard of Richard Carrier, Robert Price, Earl Doherty, or the Jesus Myth theory. 

Traditionalists include esotericists, who know that religion originates from the esoteric, nonliteral level and that the literalist, exoteric level of religion is derivative and untrue.

For those who want it or can benefit from it, esoteric gnosis is available, connecting the factions which are against each other on the lower level: Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism.

Providing the esoteric gnosis part is now easy, and mapping esoteric gnosis to the lower camps is easy, but how to support each feuding lower camp is unclear. 

The main lower camps are exoteric Christianity, Paganism, and Atheism. 

Even altered-state Atheism can be fundamentalist, exoteric, hostile to Transcendent Knowledge, stuck determinedly in its (false) opposition to Christianity and Paganism.

There is much overlap between Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism, especially perceptible from within the higher, esoteric level.

“The chosen” are those who are predestined to understand no-free-will.

Exoteric followers of the early Church Fathers prior to later Augustine, form a religion based on (typically) naive freewill, or (ideally) super-cosmic surpassing of high no-free-will, punching through the sphere of fixed stars into the ultra-transcendent heavens.

Religion supports family, but literalist exoteric religion is false.  True religion that supports family values can and must include esoteric religion like that of Paul, the New Testament Jesus, the later Augustine, and hyper hyper-Calvinism.

Swoon theory: Jesus was alive when removed from the cross.

post says “accidentally deleted extra spacing”, maybe below has better:

10:53 pm – has more at bottom, than the above version

The block-universe worldline snake 🐍 guards the treasure: gnosis of no free will, pre-made future.  Mythology is analogy describing sacred 🍄 meal causing loose cognitive association to transform the mental model of time, control, & possibility.

The 🐍serpent is the #1 mytheme; it means one’s pre-set worldline, frozen in the rock-like block universe, in the altered state from the 🍄sacred meal in mystery religion.  The snake monster guards gnosis.

The secret revealed knowledge in peak Western Civilization culture, the dragon-guarded treasure: no-free-will, unveiled in the visionary-plant state.

Shocking heresies in each major area of the Egodeath theory:
o  in Analogy:  No historical Jesus, no literal Heaven or Hell for moral agents
o  in Loosecog:  Religion/eucharist comes from 🍄
o  in Time:  The future is pre-existing and closed
o  in Control:  No-free-will, no meta control

Everyone is innocent of killing Jesus, who was a mythic composite figure — a Jewish-styled Hellenistic mystery cult savior figure.

Insane sophistry preached by exoteric thinkers: Christ is lord of all people, therefore there is no separation, no individuation, no differentiation; we are all the same person, one family, one kin, one nation, spiritually and metaphorically, and therefore literally as well.

At the lower, exoteric, literalist, childish-thinking level, we have perpetual standoff between Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism.  They can be allied but not integrated, on the lower, exoteric level.  Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism are not only allied, but integrated, on the esoteric level.

Hyper hyper-Calvinism: everything is God’s fault, the future is closed and pre-existing.  At all points in time, you are forced to think and will what the Creator has made you think and will at that point.  Hell for moral punishment and Heaven for moral reward are metaphorical.

High art describes the sacred meal visionary state, the cognitive changes that it causes, forming the new model of control and time.

The tragedy is the unveiling of no-free-will, inability to change and create the future, which is experienced as closed when in the altered state.

The simple theory of no-free-will is completely offensive to religious preconceptions about moral agency in mundane daily life, and that’s part of what makes the altered state such a radically transformative experience.

The Church Fathers before Augustine in 400 asserted freewill. 

Augustine began with no-free-will, asserted freewill, then returned to no-free-will. 

We can expect the Bible to waffle and even highlight waffling – consistently inconsistent – God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God, Pharaoh hardened his heart against God. 

We can expect the Church Fathers to waffle. 

We can expect Calvinists to waffle, in their impure thinking, except for the hyper hyper-Calvinists who go all the way to consistency.

If you expect to find consistent no-free-will asserted in Hellenistic religion or in the Bible or in historical Theology, that’s naive.  Expect normally to find a wishy-washy, inconsistent jumble.

The Egodeath theory has a modal way of providing relevant prevarication, actually experienced:

In the ordinary state (tight cognitive binding), the mind experiences freewill, moral agency, open future, multiple branching possibilities. 

In the altered state (loose cognitive binding), the mind experiences no-free-will, frozen-time block-universe worldline, pre-existing control thoughts, closed future, monopossibility.

I don’t “like” Christianity, Atheism, Gnosticism, Mystery Religions, Calvinism, or Catholic Theology, and I don’t agree with them.  They are all poorly organized worldmodels, compared to the Egodeath theory.  They are the old explanatory paradigm to be replaced by this superior explanatory framework.

The most idiotic and unprofitable debate, by complete outsiders, is “Does God exist?”  No one bothers defining ‘God’.  Forget Epistemology; cognitive phenomenology is way more relevant.

Swoon theory: Jesus was alive when removed from the cross.

Added:

The elect are destined to be regenerated by the real presence of esoteric Christ in the Eucharist.

“The chosen” are those who are predestined to understand no-free-will.

If truth is important: Hell is esoteric mythic description of mystic-state experiencing.

If Christianity is truth, at least the esoteric level of Christianity must reveal Jesus as a composite mythic figure.

Immature, exoteric outsider Christians, those on the outside who don’t understand Jesus’ parables, haven’t heard of Richard Carrier, Robert Price, Earl Doherty, or the Jesus Myth theory. 

Traditionalists include esotericists, who know that religion originates from the esoteric, nonliteral level and that the literalist, exoteric level of religion is derivative and untrue.

For those who want it or can benefit from it, esoteric gnosis is available, connecting the factions which are against each other on the lower level: Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism.

Providing the esoteric gnosis part is now easy, and mapping esoteric gnosis to the lower camps is easy, but how to support each feuding lower camp is unclear. 

The main lower camps are exoteric Christianity, Paganism, and Atheism. 

Even altered-state Atheism can be fundamentalist, exoteric, hostile to Transcendent Knowledge, stuck determinedly in its (false) opposition to Christianity and Paganism.

There is much overlap between Christianity, Paganism, and Scientific Atheism, especially perceptible from within the higher, esoteric level.

Exoteric followers of the early Church Fathers prior to later Augustine, form a religion based on (typically) naive freewill, or (ideally) super-cosmic surpassing of high no-free-will, punching through the sphere of fixed stars into the ultra-transcendent heavens.

Religion supports family, but literalist exoteric religion is false.  True religion that supports family values can and must include esoteric religion like that of Paul, the New Testament Jesus, the later Augustine, and hyper hyper-Calvinism.

Aug 10 11:02pm

Christianity based on naive freewill thinking is non-transformative, like Job’s incorrect, moralist neighbors, who sin in assuming conventional moral agency thinking. 

Exoteric religion is ordinary-state based; there’s nothing of Dionysus in it, no knowledge of God except in a reductionists, moralizing way. 

Exoteric religion is naive freewill religion; single-level religion. 

Any lunkhead, ordinary-state based, unregenerate, conventional Catholic non-religious outsider will tell you, Christianity is really just about moral conduct. 

There’s nothing of the numinous, nothing shocking, nothing that shakes the mind to its foundations as a control agent.

Exoteric religion only has knowledge of God in a reduced way, the conception of God held by the animal-like freewill moral agent.

Aug 13 9:28 pm

I’m not motivated by moralism or truth; I am motivated by identifying a compact elegant model that describes the phenomenology. Conceptual coherence.

I am not concerned whether someone agrees with the theory; I am concerned that they appreciate and understand its compact potent explanatory power, its clarity as an extremely simple model, its beauty and elegance as a theory.

The extreme compactness or compactibility of the Egodeath theory is one of its greatest merits and contributions.

It’s not so much a matter of agreeing with the theory, as knowing what the theory is. It serves as a perfect, clear, specific, highly specified point of reference for any debates.

You can’t get any simpler than saying “in the ordinary state we experience free will, in the altered state we experience no free will”, and this is the most intense experience, that causes a change of mental world model, or at least presents a surprising intense alternate model.

Religious mythology describes the change from ordinary state free will experiencing to altered state no free will experiencing which is the most intense and remarkable experiencing.

Religion which tries to downplay no free will inevitably eliminates the most intense experiencing. The holy spirit combined with avoiding no free will is disempowered and reduced.

Advocating the Egodeath theory does not mean asserting no free will; advocating the theory means advocating the theory as the most interesting, simple, compact, elegant explanation of the phenomena experienced in the altered state, and advocating this impressively simple explanation of mythology in terms of the altered-state experience of non-kingship per the vision of the person’s block universe worldline.

Start with the simplest explanation, the simplest, most potent theory: the ordinary state experiencing is the possiblism model; the altered state experiencing is the eternalism model. Mythology and theology are less-explicit reflections of this contrast.

ripe wrote: aug 15 1pm (i haven’t read)

> I’m not motivated by moralism or truth; I am motivated by identifying a compact elegant model that describes the phenomenology. Conceptual coherence.

If you turn away from moral and truth, it’s like you are turn away from God.
Sound like, moral and truth (which come from God) is less important compared with what your awesome-human-mind can conceive. Are you losing your soul Michael?

This remind me:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (4) And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
– Timothy 4:3-4

Your ego-death theory sound now more like a New Age religion, where SIN is not anymore consider, but the power inside humans: you are teaching that we can become like god?

What is more important to you? Become god on earth and lost your soul or to remain humble and join God after death?

Born-again means change your mind and hearth in-line with God Words, and not become god.

Your own ego-death theory suggest that our thoughts come from outside. If is not from God, from whom you are getting this info?

Good Luck with your research and may God guide you and not your human-mind.

August 24, 2019, 11:15 p.m.

These are increasingly accessible, plain-spoken, direct and blunt, ultra-condensed summaries of the Egodeath theory.

“The Egodeath theory” is a label for a simple, compact set of ideas: the analogy/psychedelics/no-free-will explanation of religious mythology and the nature of primary religious experiencing, and the nature of Transcendent Knowledge.

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SIMPLICITY OF GNOSIS; HOW EASY IT IS TO SUMMARIZE GNOSIS

Gnosis is merely the altered-state experience of no-free-will, pre-existences of control-thoughts.

Gnosis — the peak achievement of western civilization — is the altered-state experience of no-free-will regenerating the mental model of self, time, and control.

🌳⚡🍄🐍✝ sacred meal -> intense mystic altered state -> experience the frozen block-universe with pre-existing snake-shaped worldline of control thoughts & no-free-will.

The pearl of gnosis guarded by snake dragon monster is experience of no-free-will, the peak experience that transforms, from Eucharistic sacred meal; revelation = alt-state no-free-will.

Gnosis wisdom enlightenment: sacred meal 🍄 altered state experience of no-free-will, block-universe worldline 🐍 of your pre-existing control-thoughts.

Gnosis, peak enlightenment is nothing but merely the experience of no-free-will, which cancels moral culpability.  Religious myth describes altered-state experience of pre-existing control-thoughts.

Here is proof that turgid intellectual writing is B.S.: the highest gnosis revelation is simply the altered-state experience of block-universe no-fee-will, perceiving the uncontrollable pre-existence of control-thoughts; easy to express.

Heidegger: 10,000 turgid pages < Euro-Americans: 120-character text message 🌳⚡🍄🐍✝

Real Philosophy is dirt-simple.  Complexity of expression indicates fake posturing pseudo-Philosophy.

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UNIVERSAL INNATE NATURE OF RELIGION

The mind has innate ability to deeply revise the mental model of control and time in visionary state, = origin of religion.

World religious mythology is evidence that all minds transform the same way in the altered state; gnosis or esoteric revelation applies universally.

The loose cognitive association state from the Eucharist’s Holy Spirit is the visionary state to regenerate and purify.

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AUTHENTIC EUCHARIST

🍄 Eucharist flesh of Christ, vehicle of the Holy Spirit to regenerate the mental model of moral agency.

Exoteric Catholics don’t have the authentic effective Eucharist, to change the mind.

Agape Meal = Eucharist = love for God = sacred meal inducing altered-state Holy Spirit in Mystery Religion.

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SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENTS

The greatest Science achievement is internal, about cognition: decoding mythemes as analogy describing altered-state no-free-will experience & mental model.  We went beyond the sphere of the fixed stars.

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SACRIFICE

The authentic sacrifice is of one’s freewill mental model in the mystic state, which deeply changes moral agency.  Literalist sacrifice is misguided and ineffective.

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SERPENT/SNAKE

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated preexisting control-thoughts revealed by Mystery Religion sacred meal = Wisdom tradition = treasure/pearl guarded by dragon/serpent, won by hero with divine help.

Don’t disparage the snake 🐍🐉, the shape of peak wisdom.  Experiential revelation of worldline of preset control-thoughts frozen into the block universe.

The snake mytheme is bi-valent; positive valued and negative valued.  Highest gnosis is seeing block-universe snake-shaped preset worldline of your preexisting control-thoughts; 🐍 = wisdom, gnosis, regeneration.

Mythemes: dragon 🐉 guards the treasure of gnosis, Transcendent Knowledge.  Dragon is the snake monster to reconcile with, frozen block-universe preset path of your life.

Jesus said as a sign, he must be lifted up like Moses’ brass snake on a pole.  Snake is #1 mytheme, describes preset path of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe experienced in the Holy Spirit.

The Vatican building represents the snake.  Looking at Moses’ rigid brass snake on a pole (a de-branched tree) heals “fatal snake bite”.  Serpent/ snake/ 🐉 dragon monster guards treasure of Transcendent Knowledge, of no-free-will.

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated pre-existing control-thoughts revealed by Mystery Religion sacred meal = Wisdom tradition = treasure/pearl guarded by dragon/serpent, won by hero with divine help.

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KING

Jesus on the cross is a king, thus is an instance of the widespread mytheme of {king hung fastened helplessly on a tree}.

Lots of Hellenistic-type mythemes in Christ’s Passion story: mocking the king and Mystery Religion initiates (impotence of freewill agency), king hung helpless in branching tree, reborn from rock cave.

Personal king-like control-power evaporates upon perceiving the pre-existing path of your control-thoughts frozen into the spacetime block.

_______________________
SHOCKING THEORIES

Heresy theories:
The swoon theory
The Christ Myth theory
No-free-will revelation
Chronology revision
🍄 the source of religion

_______________________
TWO TYPES OF CHRISTIANITY

Literalist religion is popular; metaphorical mystic-state religion is less common; primitive cultures sit halfway between.

Most religionists and atheists sound like a fool when characterizing religion.  Need more esotericism awareness.

Restorationist Esoteric Christianity

The true church is esoteric Christians regenerated by the Holy Spirit from the real presence in the sacred meal Eucharist.

Esoteric religion contradicts exoteric, they are somehow “compatible”.  Two meanings of “heaven” & “hell”.

Esoteric Christians love literalist immature outsider exoteric Christians.

Christianity is Hellenistic mystery religion expressed with Jewish elements.

Lower-level religion is moral conduct of life. 
Higher religion is altered-state (Holy Spirit) revision of the mental model of moral control agency.

_______________________
ACCELERATIONIST CHRISTIANITY

The Bible plan: Christians put Antichrist on the throne in the temple and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing of sin – an ineffective religion of literalism that cannot cancel moral culpability and deeply transform the mind like the altered-state experience of timeless no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

Christians must help put antichrist on the throne in the temple that God tore down twice, and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

Christian accelerationism: Christians must help put antichrist on the throne in rebuilt template and restore animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

_______________________
CONFLATION OF ‘UNITY’ WITH LACK OF DIFFERENTIATION

We are all united by Christ, but that doesn’t mean we are undifferentiated; that would be insanity and mental regression in Ken Wilber’s sense.  Christ is lord over all, but that doesn’t mean dissolving all boundaries into an undifferentiated mass.

The Bible doesn’t assert insanity like “never judge, don’t make any distinctions, male is literally the same as female, we are an undifferentiated mass”.  Insanity is dissolving into chaos all boundaries and distinctions. 

Ken Wilber’s concept of the pre/trans fallacy, don’t conflate transcending mental structures, with the failure and chaotic dis-integration and breakdown of mental structures.

_______________________
REINCARNATION MYTHEME

“Reincarnation” is an analogy describing altered-state experiencing: forgetting the temporary vision of the higher model of control & time.

_______________________
ANDRO-GYNE

Mithras, Christ, and Dionysus were given male and female traits, per common mythemes.

Traditional culture includes Herme-Aphrodite in myth; andro-gyne: for example, Dionysus had female traits.

In ancient Athens, men played the women’s roles in plays.

Greeks culture many surprises.  Men played the women roles in platys.  Religious experience via rounds of mushroom wine (wide tradition of sacred meals), andro-gyne Dionysus.

Myth includes andro-gyne; Herme-Aphrodite.  Altered-state experiencing of “inability to control one’s pre-existing control-thoughts” is like “being female”, ie. involuntarily receptive of thoughts from the male source.

_______________________
ATHEISM DECLINE

Religious founder figures are mythic composite figures also incorporating historical individuals.

Atheism fell off a cliff a few years ago.  That is revealed in the dates on YouTube Christ Myth Richard Carrier videos.

Atheism is ignorant of higher mind peak experience (as is exoteric religion, and lower Cognitive Science).

Christ-myth research thrived around 2005-2015, and won, with the pathetic response from Bart Ehrman, and then fell off a cliff a few years ago around 2014-2016.

Atheism sharply plummeted when Richard Carrier pushed Atheism Plus and everyone ran away, a few years after the 4 Atheists wrote their uninformed books that lacked awareness of mysticism or esoteric religion.

Around 2010, it was dominant Christians vs. underdog Atheists.
In 2019, it’s split unclearly between Atheism, Paganism, and Christianity advocates. 

I completely stopped following Christ Myth research around the time Richard Carrier wrote his first book. 

I was a leader within the heart of Christ Myth research, though the JesusMysteries discussion-group moderators overrode people’s asking me for the updated, improved mushroom alternative theory replacing Allegro’s poorly formed, anti-Christian version of the theory.

I provided some better formulations of the ideas such as what does “Historical Jesus” mean instead of conventional ideas that “Jesus was really this particular historical minor figure I latched onto”.

_______________________
MUSIC

Some Metal is truly classic; it describes peak esoteric altered-state experiencing.  mundane conservatives disparage Sabbath and Ozzy, but Bob Daisley’s Ozzy album _Diary of a Madman_ is epic and classic by traditional standards.

Classic Metal includes the altered-state revelation of no-free-will — peak culture.

Rap music probably has few lyrics about the peak-state revelation of mind-transforming block-universe worldline 🐍.

Boomers invented electric Rock ⚡🎸🎹⚡ music including some peak-state classic Dionysian revelation of block-universe no-free-will.

Strangely, in Beatles lyrics, only the early song Help! has solid altered-state classic-type lyrics.

Pink Floyd’s song “Learning to Fly” has solid classic altered-state description lyrics.

Country/Western music suffers the same problem as much conservative culture: it is limited to the mundane daily life, conduct of life, ordinary state of consciousness.

Mundane Country/Western music doesn’t reach up to describe the mind-changing experiences of the intense mystic altered state.

Liberal culture ends up holding the higher goods, inasmuch as it can, lacking the structure of conservative thinking.

The Egodeath theory was born from an outsider, break-the-mold combination of liberal and conservative culture or thought-styles.

Aug 25 2019, 1:25 am – might be typos, which might be fixed in subsequent post

hard to be certain, due to erratic system

These are increasingly accessible, plain-spoken, direct and blunt, ultra-condensed summaries of the Egodeath theory.

“The Egodeath theory” is a label for a simple, compact set of ideas.

The Egodeath theory is the analogy/ psychedelics/ no-free-will explanation of religious mythology and the nature of primary religious experiencing, and the nature of Transcendent Knowledge.

_______________________
SIMPLICITY OF GNOSIS; HOW EASY IT IS TO SUMMARIZE GNOSIS

Gnosis is merely the altered-state experience of no-free-will, perceiving the pre-existence of control-thoughts.

Gnosis — the peak achievement of western civilization — is the altered-state experience of no-free-will regenerating the mental model of self, time, and control.

Gnosis is the peak achievement of Western civilization.

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of no-free-will.

The repeated experience of timeless frozen block-universe no-free-will changes the mental model of self, time, and control.

The intense mystic altered state (loose cognitive association) causes experiencing block-universe no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

The intense mystic altered state causes experiencing block-universe no-free-will, with pre-existing control-thoughts.

Key mytheme sequence: {king steering tree wine battle die snake rock rebirth}

The king steers in a possibility-branching tree, drinks wine, battles, dies, transforms to a snake frozen in rock, then rebirth from the rock cave.

No-free-will cancels, transforms, and regenerates the mental model of self, time, and control.

The repeated block-universe experience changes the mental model of control and time.

🌳⚡🍄🐍✝ sacred meal -> intense mystic altered state -> experience the frozen block-universe with pre-existing snake-shaped worldline of control thoughts & no-free-will.

The pearl of gnosis guarded by snake dragon monster is experience of no-free-will, the peak experience that transforms, from Eucharistic sacred meal; revelation = alt-state no-free-will.

Gnosis wisdom enlightenment: sacred meal 🍄 altered state experience of no-free-will, block-universe worldline 🐍 of your pre-existing control-thoughts.

Gnosis, peak enlightenment is nothing but merely the experience of no-free-will, which cancels moral culpability.

Religious myth describes altered-state experience of pre-existing control-thoughts.

Here is proof that turgid intellectual writing is B.S.: the highest gnosis revelation is simply the altered-state experience of block-universe no-fee-will, perceiving the uncontrollable pre-existence of control-thoughts; easy to express.

Heidegger: 10,000 turgid pages < Euro-Americans: 120-character text message 🌳⚡🍄🐍✝

Real Philosophy is dirt-simple.  Complexity of expression indicates fake posturing pseudo-Philosophy.

_______________________
UNIVERSAL INNATE NATURE OF RELIGION

The mind has innate ability to deeply revise the mental model of control and time in visionary state, = origin of religion.

World religious mythology is evidence that all minds transform the same way in the altered state; gnosis or esoteric revelation applies universally.

The loose cognitive association state, from the Eucharist’s Holy Spirit, is the visionary state, to regenerate and purify.

_______________________
AUTHENTIC EUCHARIST

🍄 Eucharist flesh of Christ, vehicle of the Holy Spirit to regenerate the mental model of moral agency.

Exoteric Catholics don’t have the authentic effective Eucharist, to change the mind.

Agape Meal = Eucharist = love for God = sacred meal inducing altered-state Holy Spirit in Mystery Religion.

_______________________
SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENTS

The greatest Science achievement is internal, about cognition: decoding mythemes as analogy describing altered-state no-free-will experience & mental model of time and control. 

We went beyond the sphere of the fixed stars.

The greatest Science achievement is internal, about cognition. 

The greatest Science achievement is decoding mythemes as analogy that describes altered-state no-free-will experience & transforming the mental model of time and control.

_______________________
SACRIFICE

The authentic sacrifice is of one’s freewill mental model in the mystic state, which deeply changes moral agency.

Literalist sacrifice is misguided and ineffective.

_______________________
SERPENT/SNAKE

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated preexisting control-thoughts revealed by the Mystery Religion sacred meal = the Wisdom tradition = the treasure/pearl guarded by the dragon or serpent, won by the hero, with divine help.

The snake frozen in rock is like the block universe worldline of fated preexisting control-thoughts.

The pre-existence of control-thoughts is revealed by the Mystery Religion sacred meal.

The Wisdom tradition = the treasure or pearl guarded by the dragon or serpent.

The treasure of gnosis is obtained from the dragon, won by the hero and reconciled, with divine help.

Don’t disparage the snake 🐍🐉, the shape of peak wisdom.

Experiential revelation of worldline of preset control-thoughts frozen into the block universe.

The snake mytheme is bi-valent; positive valued and negative valued.

Highest gnosis is seeing the block-universe snake-shaped preset worldline of your preexisting control-thoughts.

🐍 = wisdom, gnosis, regeneration

Mythemes: dragon 🐉 guards the treasure of gnosis, Transcendent Knowledge.

The dragon is the snake monster to reconcile with, frozen block-universe preset path of your life.

Jesus said as a sign, he must be lifted up like Moses’ brass snake on a pole.

The snake is the #1 mytheme, because it describes the pre-set path of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe, experienced in the Holy Spirit.

The Vatican building represents the snake.

Looking at Moses’ rigid brass snake on a pole (a de-branched tree) heals “fatal snake bite”.

Serpent/ snake/ 🐉 dragon monster guards treasure of Transcendent Knowledge, of no-free-will.

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated pre-existing control-thoughts revealed by Mystery Religion sacred meal = Wisdom tradition = treasure/pearl guarded by dragon/serpent, won by hero with divine help.

_______________________
KING

Jesus on the cross is a king, thus is an instance of the widespread mytheme of {king hung fastened helplessly on a tree}.

Lots of Hellenistic-type mythemes in Christ’s Passion story: mocking the king and Mystery Religion initiates (impotence of freewill agency), king hung helpless in branching tree, reborn from rock cave.

There are many Hellenistic-type mythemes in Christ’s Passion story.

Mocking the king and the Mystery Religion initiates means pointing out the impotence of freewill agency.

The king is hung and fastened helpless like a rigid snake in the branching tree, then is reborn from the rock cave.

Personal king-like control-power evaporates upon perceiving the pre-existing path of your control-thoughts frozen into the spacetime block.

_______________________
SHOCKING THEORIES

Heresy theories:
The swoon theory
The Christ Myth theory
No-free-will revelation
Chronology revision
🍄 the source of religion

_______________________
TWO TYPES OF CHRISTIANITY

Literalist religion is popular; metaphorical mystic-state religion is less common; primitive cultures sit halfway between.

Most religionists and atheists sound like a fool when characterizing religion.

More awareness of esotericism is needed, including Western Esotericism.

Restorationist Esoteric Christianity

The true church is esoteric Christians regenerated by the Holy Spirit from the real presence in the god’s sacred meal, the Eucharist.

Esoteric religion contradicts exoteric, they are somehow “compatible”.

There are two meanings of “heaven” & “hell”.

Esoteric Christians love literalist immature outsider exoteric Christians.

Christianity is Hellenistic mystery religion expressed with Jewish elements.

Lower-level religion is moral conduct of life. 

Higher religion is altered-state (Holy Spirit) revision of the mental model of moral control agency.

_______________________
ACCELERATIONIST CHRISTIANITY

The Bible plan: Christians put Antichrist on the throne in the temple and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing of sin.

Christians must help put Antichrist on the throne in the temple that God tore down twice, and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

Christian accelerationism: Christians must help put Antichrist on the throne in rebuilt template and restore animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

The actual, specific sacrifice is repudiating relying on the “branching open-future” model of time and control.

Animal sacrifice is an ineffective religion of literalism that cannot cancel moral culpability and deeply transform the mind like the altered-state experience of timeless no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

Animal sacrifice is an ineffective religion of literalism.

Sacrifice the “branching open-future” model of time and control.

Experiencing block-universe no-free-will cancels moral culpability and deeply transforms the mind.

Experiencing timeless frozen pre-existing control-thoughts cancels and transforms moral agency.

The mind is deeply transformed by the altered-state experience of timeless no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

_______________________
CONFLATION OF ‘UNITY’ WITH LACK OF DIFFERENTIATION

We are all united by Christ, but that doesn’t mean we are undifferentiated; that would be insanity and mental regression in Ken Wilber’s sense.

Christ is lord over all, but that doesn’t mean dissolving all boundaries into an undifferentiated mass.

The Bible doesn’t assert insanity like “never judge, don’t make any distinctions, male is literally the same as female, we are an undifferentiated mass”.

Insanity is dissolving into chaos all boundaries and distinctions. 

Ken Wilber’s concept of the pre/trans fallacy, don’t conflate transcending mental structures, with the failure and chaotic dis-integration and breakdown of mental structures.

_______________________
REINCARNATION MYTHEME

“Reincarnation” is an analogy describing altered-state experiencing: forgetting the temporary vision of the higher model of control & time.

_______________________
ANDRO-GYNE

Mithras, Christ, and Dionysus were given male and female traits, per common mythemes.

Traditional culture includes Herme-Aphrodite in myth; andro-gyne: for example, Dionysus had female traits.

In ancient Athens, men played the women’s roles in plays.

Greeks culture many surprises.  Men played the women roles in platys.  Religious experience via rounds of mushroom wine (wide tradition of sacred meals), andro-gyne Dionysus.

Myth includes andro-gyne; Herme-Aphrodite.

The altered-state experiencing of “inability to control one’s pre-existing control-thoughts” is like “being female”.

The altered-state experience is like “being female”.

The person is the female-like receiver of control-thoughts, which are input by the male-like source of control-thoughts.

_______________________
ATHEISM DECLINE

Religious founder figures are mythic composite figures also incorporating historical individuals.

Atheism fell off a cliff a few years ago.  That is revealed in the dates on YouTube Christ Myth Richard Carrier videos.

Atheism is ignorant of higher mind peak experience (as is exoteric religion, and lower Cognitive Science).

Christ-myth research thrived around 2005-2015, and won, with the pathetic response from Bart Ehrman, and then fell off a cliff a few years ago around 2014-2016.

Atheism sharply plummeted when Richard Carrier pushed Atheism Plus and everyone ran away, a few years after the 4 Atheists wrote their uninformed books that lacked awareness of mysticism or esoteric religion.

Atheism sharply plummeted when Richard Carrier pushed Atheism Plus and everyone ran away.

Atheism dropped sharply, a few years after the 4 Atheists wrote their uninformed books that lacked awareness of mysticism or esoteric religion.

Athiests wrote uninformed books that lacked awareness of mysticism or esoteric religion.

Around 2010, it was dominant Christians vs. underdog Atheists.
In 2019, it’s split unclearly between Atheism, Paganism, and Christianity advocates.

Paganism is religion and spirituality avoiding the liabilities of Christianity.

I completely stopped following Christ Myth research around the time Richard Carrier wrote his first book. 

I was a leader within the heart of Christ Myth research.

In the JesusMysteries discussion group, people were interested in the mind-changing Eucharist.

The JesusMysteries discussion-group moderators overrode people’s interest in the mind-changing Eucharist.

People asked me for the updated, improved mushroom alternative theory.

The new model replaces Allegro’s poorly formed, anti-Christian version of the theory.

Allegro has a poorly formed, anti-Christian version of the mushroom Christ Myth theory.

I provided some better formulations of the ideas such as what does “Historical Jesus” mean, how it should be most relevantly defined.

“Historical Jesus” must mean a single unique identifiable man without whom Christianity wouldn’t have started.

A common fallacy is to identify Jesus arbitrariliy with a minor single particular historical figure.

_______________________
MUSIC

Some Metal is truly classic; it describes peak esoteric altered-state experiencing.

Mundane conservatives disparage Sabbath and Ozzy, but Bob Daisley’s Ozzy album _Diary of a Madman_ is epic and classic by traditional standards.

Classic Metal includes the altered-state revelation of no-free-will — peak culture.

Rap music probably has few lyrics about the peak-state revelation of mind-transforming block-universe worldline 🐍.

Boomers invented electric Rock ⚡🎸🎹⚡ music including some peak-state classic Dionysian revelation of block-universe no-free-will.

Strangely, in Beatles lyrics, only the early song Help! has solid altered-state classic-type lyrics.

Pink Floyd’s song “Learning to Fly” has solid classic altered-state description lyrics.

Country/Western music is limited to the mundane ordinary state.

Country/Western music suffers the same problem as most mundane culture: it lacks altered-state transformation into the no-free-will mental model.

Country/Western music lacks altered-state transformation into the no-free-will mental model.

Elevated music describes altered-state transformation into the no-free-will mental model.

Country/Western music is limited to the mundane daily life, conduct of life, ordinary state of consciousness.

August 25, 2019 , 2:04 a.m.

These are increasingly accessible, plain-spoken, direct and blunt, ultra-condensed summaries of the Egodeath theory.

“The Egodeath theory” is a label for a simple, compact set of ideas.

The Egodeath theory is the analogy/ psychedelics/ no-free-will explanation of religious mythology and the nature of primary religious experiencing, and the nature of Transcendent Knowledge.

_______________________
SIMPLICITY OF GNOSIS; HOW EASY IT IS TO SUMMARIZE GNOSIS

Gnosis is merely the altered-state experience of no-free-will, perceiving the pre-existence of control-thoughts.

Gnosis — the peak achievement of western civilization — is the altered-state experience of no-free-will regenerating the mental model of self, time, and control.

Gnosis is the peak achievement of Western civilization.

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of no-free-will.

The repeated experience of timeless frozen block-universe no-free-will changes the mental model of self, time, and control.

The intense mystic altered state (loose cognitive association) causes experiencing block-universe no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

The intense mystic altered state causes experiencing block-universe no-free-will, with pre-existing control-thoughts.

Key mytheme sequence: {king steering tree wine battle die snake rock rebirth}

The king steers in a possibility-branching tree, drinks wine, battles, dies, transforms to a snake frozen in rock, then rebirth from the rock cave.

No-free-will cancels, transforms, and regenerates the mental model of self, time, and control.

The repeated block-universe experience changes the mental model of control and time.

🌳⚡🍄🐍✝ sacred meal -> intense mystic altered state -> experience the frozen block-universe with pre-existing snake-shaped worldline of control thoughts & no-free-will.

The pearl of gnosis guarded by the snake dragon monster is the experience of no-free-will, the peak experience that transforms, from the Eucharistic sacred meal.

Revelation is the altered-state experience of no-free-will.

Gnosis wisdom enlightenment: sacred meal 🍄 altered state experience of no-free-will, block-universe worldline 🐍 of your pre-existing control-thoughts.

Gnosis, peak enlightenment is nothing but merely the experience of no-free-will, which cancels moral culpability.

Gnosis is the experience of no-free-will, which cancels moral culpability.

Religious myth describes altered-state experience of pre-existing control-thoughts.

Here is proof that turgid intellectual writing is B.S.: the highest gnosis revelation is simply the altered-state experience of block-universe no-free-will, perceiving the uncontrollable pre-existence of control-thoughts; easy to express.

Turgid intellectual writing is B.S.

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of block-universe no-free-will, perceiving the uncontrollable pre-existence of control-thoughts.

Heidegger writes in a thousand turgid pages less content than Euro-Americans write in a 120-character text message 🌳⚡🍄🐍✝

Real Philosophy is dirt-simple.

Complexity of expression indicates fake posturing pseudo-Philosophy.

_______________________
UNIVERSAL INNATE NATURE OF RELIGION

The mind has innate ability to deeply revise the mental model of control and time in visionary state, = origin of religion.

World religious mythology is evidence that all minds transform the same way in the altered state; gnosis or esoteric revelation applies universally.

The loose cognitive association state, from the Eucharist’s Holy Spirit, is the visionary state, to regenerate and purify.

_______________________
AUTHENTIC EUCHARIST

🍄 Eucharist flesh of Christ, vehicle of the Holy Spirit to regenerate the mental model of moral agency.

Exoteric Catholics don’t have the authentic effective Eucharist, to change the mind.

Agape Meal = Eucharist = love for God = sacred meal inducing altered-state Holy Spirit in Mystery Religion.

_______________________
SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENTS

The greatest Science achievement is internal, about cognition: decoding mythemes as analogy describing altered-state no-free-will experience & mental model of time and control. 

We went beyond the sphere of the fixed stars.

The greatest Science achievement is internal, about cognition. 

The greatest Science achievement is decoding mythemes as analogy that describes altered-state no-free-will experience & transforming the mental model of time and control.

_______________________
SACRIFICE

The authentic sacrifice is of one’s freewill mental model in the mystic state, which deeply changes moral agency.

Literalist sacrifice is misguided and ineffective.

_______________________
SERPENT/SNAKE

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated preexisting control-thoughts revealed by the Mystery Religion sacred meal = the Wisdom tradition = the treasure/pearl guarded by the dragon or serpent, won by the hero, with divine help.

The snake frozen in rock is like the block universe worldline of fated preexisting control-thoughts.

The pre-existence of control-thoughts is revealed by the Mystery Religion sacred meal.

The Wisdom tradition = the treasure or pearl guarded by the dragon or serpent.

The treasure of gnosis is obtained from the dragon, won by the hero and reconciled, with divine help.

Don’t disparage the snake 🐍🐉, the shape of peak wisdom.

Experiential revelation of worldline of preset control-thoughts frozen into the block universe.

The snake mytheme is bi-valent; positive valued and negative valued.

Highest gnosis is seeing the block-universe snake-shaped preset worldline of your preexisting control-thoughts.

🐍 = wisdom, gnosis, regeneration

Mythemes: dragon 🐉 guards the treasure of gnosis, Transcendent Knowledge.

The dragon is the snake monster to reconcile with, frozen block-universe preset path of your life.

Jesus said as a sign, he must be lifted up like Moses’ brass snake on a pole.

The snake is the #1 mytheme, because it describes the pre-set path of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe, experienced in the Holy Spirit.

The Vatican building represents the snake.

Looking at Moses’ rigid brass snake on a pole (a de-branched tree) heals “fatal snake bite”.

Serpent/ snake/ 🐉 dragon monster guards treasure of Transcendent Knowledge, of no-free-will.

🐍 = the block universe worldline of fated pre-existing control-thoughts revealed by Mystery Religion sacred meal = Wisdom tradition = treasure/pearl guarded by dragon/serpent, won by hero with divine help.

_______________________
KING

Jesus on the cross is a king, thus is an instance of the widespread mytheme of {king hung fastened helplessly on a tree}.

Lots of Hellenistic-type mythemes in Christ’s Passion story: mocking the king and Mystery Religion initiates (impotence of freewill agency), king hung helpless in branching tree, reborn from rock cave.

There are many Hellenistic-type mythemes in Christ’s Passion story.

Mocking the king and the Mystery Religion initiates means pointing out the impotence of freewill agency.

The king is hung and fastened helpless like a rigid snake in the branching tree, then is reborn from the rock cave.

Personal king-like control-power evaporates upon perceiving the pre-existing path of your control-thoughts frozen into the spacetime block.

_______________________
SHOCKING THEORIES

Heresy theories:
The swoon theory
The Christ Myth theory
No-free-will revelation
Chronology revision
🍄 the source of religion

_______________________
TWO TYPES OF CHRISTIANITY

Literalist religion is popular; metaphorical mystic-state religion is less common; primitive cultures sit halfway between.

Most religionists and atheists sound like a fool when characterizing religion.

More awareness of esotericism is needed, including Western Esotericism.

Restorationist Esoteric Christianity

The true church is esoteric Christians regenerated by the Holy Spirit from the real presence in the god’s sacred meal, the Eucharist.

Esoteric religion contradicts exoteric, they are somehow “compatible”.

There are two meanings of “heaven” & “hell”.

Esoteric Christians love literalist immature outsider exoteric Christians.

Christianity is Hellenistic mystery religion expressed with Jewish elements.

Lower-level religion is moral conduct of life. 

Higher religion is altered-state (Holy Spirit) revision of the mental model of moral control agency.

_______________________
ACCELERATIONIST CHRISTIANITY

The Bible plan: Christians put Antichrist on the throne in the temple and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing of sin.

Christians must help put Antichrist on the throne in the temple that God tore down twice, and resume animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

Christian accelerationism: Christians must help put Antichrist on the throne in rebuilt temple and restore animal sacrifice for cleansing sin.

The actual, specific sacrifice is repudiating relying on the “branching open-future” model of time and control.

Animal sacrifice is an ineffective religion of literalism that cannot cancel moral culpability and deeply transform the mind like the altered-state experience of timeless no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

Animal sacrifice is an ineffective religion of literalism.

Sacrifice the “branching open-future” model of time and control.

Experiencing block-universe no-free-will cancels moral culpability and deeply transforms the mind.

Experiencing timeless frozen pre-existing control-thoughts cancels and transforms moral agency.

The mind is deeply transformed by the altered-state experience of timeless no-free-will with pre-existing control-thoughts.

_______________________
CONFLATION OF ‘UNITY’ WITH LACK OF DIFFERENTIATION

We are all united by Christ, but that doesn’t mean we are undifferentiated; that would be insanity and mental regression in Ken Wilber’s sense.

Christ is lord over all, but that doesn’t mean dissolving all boundaries into an undifferentiated mass.

The Bible doesn’t assert insanity like “never judge, don’t make any distinctions, male is literally the same as female, we are an undifferentiated mass”.

Insanity is dissolving into chaos all boundaries and distinctions. 

Ken Wilber’s concept of the pre/trans fallacy, don’t conflate transcending mental structures, with the failure and chaotic dis-integration and breakdown of mental structures.

_______________________
REINCARNATION MYTHEME

“Reincarnation” is an analogy describing altered-state experiencing: forgetting the temporary vision of the higher model of control & time.

_______________________
ANDRO-GYNE

Mithras, Christ, and Dionysus were given male and female traits, per common mythemes.

Traditional culture includes Herme-Aphrodite in myth; andro-gyne: for example, Dionysus had female traits.

In ancient Athens, men played the women’s roles in plays.

Greeks culture many surprises.  Men played the women roles in plays.  Religious experience via rounds of mushroom wine (wide tradition of sacred meals), andro-gyne Dionysus.

Compact, plain-language summaries
September 1, 2019, 9:02 p.m.

Probably reorg’d and cleaned up vs. the prev post.

Compact, plain-language summaries

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GNOSIS

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of block-universe no-free-will with preexisting control-thoughts ☸🤔, reconciled with the creator of all thoughts.

Snake or dragon = gnosis wisdom = experiencing block-universe no-free-will in Holy Spirit state from Eucharist, frozen worldline of pre-existing control-thoughts ☸🤔.

Enlightenment 🔥🔦 = 🍄 experiencing pre-existing control-thoughts frozen in a snake-shaped worldline embedded in the block universe.

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of block-universe no-free-will and reconciling with pre-existing control-thoughts ☸🤔.

Gnosis is the altered-state experience of no-free-will, changing the mental model 🤔 of control and time ⏳🕰, learning to trust the hidden source of control-thoughts.

Metaphysical enlightenment 🔥🔦 is reflected in world religious mythology, including Western Esotericism.

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NO-FREE-WILL

We already travelled *beyond* the stars, per Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism – an advanced level is “penetrating the sphere of Saturn and the fixed stars” into the higher heavens.

Moral culpability reverts to the Creator; no-free-will cancels culpability.

The first Church Fathers & mid-period Augustine assert freewill, but late Augustine asserts no-free-will. 

Atheism (such as Sam Harris), Stoicism, Gnosticism, and Calvinism assert no-free-will.

The key issue and the center of theology is no-free-will, and ways to combine moral culpability with no-free-will.

People severely object to no-free-will, because no-free-will completely kills ego and moral agency culpability, and renders Heaven and Hell for moral reward and punishment inapplicable.

In the ordinary state, is experienced free will; in the altered state, is experienced no-free-will.

It makes sense that freewill is the central focus of theology and religion and mystic-state experiencing, and mental transformation.

The fact of severe objections to no-free-will confirms how totally central, relevant, and potent the no-free-will experience and proposition is.

No-free-will completely undermines the assumption of self-determination and moral culpability.

The best type of Compatibilism is experiential, phenomenological, cognitive psychology: the ordinary state gives the experience of freewill, and the altered state gives the experience of no-free-will.

Freewill arguments are convincing only to people who believe in free will.

Freewill justifications are unconvincing to people who believe no-free-will.

The no-free-will position takes into account rationality and interpersonal emotions.

The no-free-will position explains how moral culpability can be done away with, as in, believing in “the king 👑 fastened helplessly to the 🌳” clears moral sin.

“Objection: If there is no-free-will, our moral culpability is done away with, and that’s bad.” Yet “Believing in Jesus clears our sin, and that’s good.”

Freewill arguments are completely weak and ineffectual.

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MORAL AGENCY BUT NOT EGO?

Spiritualists advocate no-ego.

No-free-will is total negation of ego power. 

Spiritualists reject no-free-will, to preserve moral culpability = ego.

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HEAVEN & HELL

Hell describes trying in vain to rely on freewill power while in the mystic state of experiencing no-free-will.

Hell is the bedeviled personal control system.

In hyper-Calvinism, everything is God’s fault; the future exists and is closed, including future control-thoughts, and Heaven and Hell are analogies for transformative experience.

Heaven and Hell are mythic analogies describing the futile attempt to retain control using the presumed freewill basis of control.

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2-LEVEL RELIGION

{little children 👶} means exoteric religionists.  Awakened esotericists should not be a stumbling block to exoteric religionists.

The “chosen race” means the set of individuals predestined to receive the 🍄 sacred meal and experience no-free-will and mentally shift moral culpability to the hidden source of thoughts, the Creator.

Winnowing the wheat from the chaff is key to reading nonfiction books, and how to approach everything: movies, Rock, Art, Comics, Religion, mysticism/esotericism, etc.

Pray for us on Sunday mornings to rightly divide the scriptures, when in church.  Spiritual network of saints.

Don’t blanket-demonize Rock, Christianity, Paganism, movies, art, comics, or videogames — reject the harmful version and develop the healthy version of any part of culture.

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MYTH AS ANALOGY

Mythemes are shared across religions including Persian, Jewish, Greek, Christian, Roman, & Pagan.

To the esotericist, there’s less substantial differences between brands of religion.

Myth explanation must include the altered state.

Theories of religious mythology are weak because they fail to account for intense altered-state experiencing; they don’t engage with the subject matter.

Paul’s Christ was a spiritual figure; early Christians before the biographical Gospels were written didn’t need a historical Jesus.

Mythology is analogy describing intense mystic altered state, such as the Holy Spirit from the 🍄sacred meal Eucharist.

Bunk theories of myth assume the ordinary state, so fail to engage religious experience.

Bunk reductionist theories fail to explain intense experience.

In the Bible, an encounter with an angel 👼 causes numinous ⚡ terror 😱 and awe and fear, falling down trembling in terror.

Religious myth describes metaphysical enlightenment 🔥🔦 from the altered-state experience of no-free-will.

Myth is analogy describing ingesting visionary plants, the sacred meal 🍄, causing the altered state of loose cognitive association.

Myth is analogy describing ingesting the sacred meal 🍄 and experiencing frozen-time ❄⏳🕰 non-control, receiving control-thoughts from an uncontrollable source.

Mythemes describe mental transformation about time ⏳🕰 & control in the altered state.

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SACRED MEAL

Psil 🍄is most traditional & representative of Western Esotericism.

🍄 are shown heavily throughout Christian art, proving that they were *not* restricted only to greeks, but have been a major Western religious tradition.

The altered state is the Holy Spirit from ingesting the Eucharist.

The sacred meal 🍄 gives the experience of block-universe worldline, described like a rock containing a snake 🐍.

Unforgivable sin, don’t blaspheme the 🍄Holy Spirit.

The flesh of Christ 🍄 sacred meal Eucharist gives Holy Spirit altered state, experience of no-free-will frozen in rock.

The sacred meal 🍄 induces Holy Spirit altered state, experience no-free-will, mind is reformed to trust hidden source of control-thoughts.

The ancient 🍄 sacred meal tradition was ubiquitous and standard.

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ART

Art and myth describe the peak altered-state experiencing of no-free-will.

Integrate Dionysus, music, higher consciousness in a well-formed version.

Authentic traditional high art describes the peak mystic state of consciousness, per Alex Grey but add mythemes.

Art expresses & conveys full 2-level religion & Philosophy.

For any book, such as The Mystery of the Cathedrals: and the Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work (1926): check for mystic state giving experience of no-free-will/ non-control.

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MENTAL MODEL TRANSFORMATION

The word ‘death’ has two important meanings: the mystic-state death experience in initiation, & literal physical death.

Youths have an innate initiation drive, for death, transformation, & rebirth.

Being an adult is equated with being initiated in Mystery Religion, which means ingesting the sacred meal and experiencing the intense mind-changing altered state.

The mind has an innate hunger for mental transformation, thus the initiation tradition.

The intense mystic altered state changes the mental model 🤔 of control and time 🕰.

Instead of depending on the presumed freewill basis of personal control power, the mind consciously depends on and trusts in the hidden source of control-thoughts.

The initial model of control ☸ is sacrificed like a childish 👶 or animal-like 👹 way of thinking.

The control model changes from a king 👑 steering ☸ in a branching possibility 🌳 into an open future, to a 🐍 frozen in rock.

The new mental model is born from the block-universe rock, and the mind is released from the experience of no-free-will.

In the ordinary state, the freewill experience and mental model returns.

After the altered state, the freewill model is qualified and supplemented by the no-free-will model, with trust in the revealed hidden source of thoughts 🤔, the Creator of the block universe.

The altered state gives the experience of the block universe with embedded, preexisting, 🐍-shaped worldline of your control-thoughts ☸🤔.

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SNAKE, DRAGON

Apollo sh*t arrows at the dragon, was victorious, earned the laurel wreath victory crown: analogies for transcending the lower, freewill-based mental model of self, control agency, & time 🕰.

Poisonous snake 🐍: Jesus said a sign is, he must be lifted up like Moses’ rigid brass serpent on a pole for healing fatal snake-bite.

The dragon is the most powerful esoteric mytheme; a snake monster 🐉 guarding treasure of higher revealed wisdom, of the worldline of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe.

In altered-state analogy, the snake 🐍 is neutrally your pre-existing fixed worldline of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe.

The dragon 🐉 is the fearsome, dreaded, monstrous ramifications of the no-free-will, 🐍snake-shaped worldline, having no control over what control-thoughts are about to be forced into the mind in the next few minutes.

The dragon 🐉 is the threatening aspect of the snake 🐍, that demands sacrificing the presumed freewill basis of personal control-power.

The transformed mind is reconciled with the serpent monster 🐉 that guards the treasure of gnosis.

#1 mytheme: 🐉 dragon (snake monster) guards the treasure of gnosis wisdom.

The serpent monster, the dragon 🐉, is the perceiving of the frozen pre-existing worldline of your control-thoughts.

The dragon 🐉 (block-universe worldline) guards the treasure of this metaphysical enlightenment 🔥🔦, and causes sacrifice of the childish 👶 king-like 👑 idea of personal control.

{tree 🌳 vs. snake 🐍} means Possibilism vs. Eternalism — the two models of control & time 🕰, per the two states of consciousness.

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KING ON CROSS ✝

The cross ✝ is a sign, a king 👑 fastened to the tree 🌳 is like a snake 🐍 frozen in rock, and like a brass snake 🐍 on a pole made by de-branching a tree 🌳.

Mythology decoding: Jesus is a dying sacrificed king 👑 fastened to a tree 🌳 (and then born from a rock).

The Jesus figure is analogy describing altered-state experience of no-free-will, new mental model of control and time 🕰, made to put trust in the hidden source of control-thoughts.

The altered-state experience of being a king 👑 fastened helpless in a tree 🌳.

The cross ✝ means a king 👑 drinking sacred wine 🍄 fastened helplessly to a branching 🌳.

King hung from a tree 🌳, experiencing block-universe no-free-will.

Lifted up like Moses’ brass 🐍 (worldline) on a pole (a de-branched 🌳).

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MALE & FEMALE

In Mithraism, soldiers at one initiation level wore a bridal dress and married Mithras.

Mythemes include male thought-source, female thought-receiver, herme-aphrodite, andro-gyne. Dionysus and Mithras have female traits.

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UNITY AND BOUNDARIES

Don’t conflate Jesus’ universal salvation with dissolving all distinctions; losing differentiation, distinctions, and boundaries is insanity.

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TIME 🕰; FUTURE EXISTS

The future already exists, as the Creator made it.

We discover what the timeline is, including each person’s frozen pre-existing worldline 🐍.

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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

The scientific style of explicit explanation enables summarizing and communicating metaphysical enlightenment 🔥🔦 better than was done before the late-modern era.

Scientific explanation is now possible, clearly and simply explaining the numinous 😱 intense experience described by religious myth.

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ATHEISM

The Atheism vs. Christianity debate is worthless, irrelevant, off-base fixation on Epistemology, but religion comes from altered-state cognitive *Phenomenology*.

Richard Carrier disproved historical Jesus, but then he combined politics with Atheism, causing everyone to disavow Atheism and run away.  Atheism fell of a cliff a few years ago.

Thread:
Sea serpent, nautical mythemes

Oct. 19, 2019 10:05 pm

Sea serpent, nautical mythemes

o Jonah’s shade-plant is a vine, isomorphic with the ketos (sea serpent).

o Andromeda, princess to be sacrificed to ketos/ sea serpent/ dragon, is *chained* to a *rock*.

o ‘ketos’ means sea serpent, not “whale”.

Click the search-links below; too many interesting ancient artworks to link to.

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My previous posts about ketos, Jonah, hippocamp, sea mythology:

“Jonah’s prayer”:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/7161

“Deciphered: tree vs. snake means Possibilism vs. Eternalism”:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/9678

“Mytheme: Chariot steersman”:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/5469

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Vocabulary mythology challenge:
Poseidon
Neptune
Amphitrite
sea thiasos
Andromeda
Triton
Nereids
ketos
hippocamp
sirens

Sea thiasos – Nereid on a hippocamp, bringing a present

Sea thiasos for the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite, 2nd half of the 2nd century BC. Detail: Nereid on a hippocampus, bringing a present; Erotes (front panel).

Sea thiasos – Nereid on a hippocampus, bringing a present
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6282975858
Sea thiasos [procession] for the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite
2nd half of the 2nd century B.C.
with Erotes
“Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus” or “Statue Base of Marcus Antonius”, (relief frieze). [= sculpted of rock; depicts snake frozen into block universe]

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Decoding “Jonah and the Whale and the shade-Gourd”

Riddle:
How is a Whale and a Gourd isomorphic?
How are they isomorphic with the frozen block-universe worldline

Illustration (containing hints on both sides of the question) https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/31527615296

It’s a double trick question.  Not-whale ~= not-gourd.  A specific thing that’s not a whale, has the same shape as a specific thing that’s not a gourd.

Solution:
“whale” is a mis-translation of sea *serpent*.
Gourd is the produce of a *vine* plant.
sea serpent is isomorphic with vine.  Q.E.D.

serpent and vine are non-branching — vine is primarily non-branching, like worldline or worm theory, in block universe spacetime physics.  https://www.google.com/search?q=“worldline”+”worm+theory”+”block+universe”

Ketos and Jonah (in Endymion pose) with a ketos (sea monster) below an arbor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/31527615296
[arbor = “a shady garden alcove with sides and a roof formed by trees or climbing plants [vines] trained over a wooden framework”]
Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophgus [rock coffin]
275 A.D.
white veined marble

A gourd is the produce of a vine.  snake gourd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosanthes_cucumerina

worldline = in the loose cognitive association state, experiencing & perceiving the givenness, presetness, uncontrollability, unavoidability of your near-future control-thoughts.

Jonah’s shade-plant is a gourd vine (snake-shaped worldline frozen in block universe). Not a grape vine.  Not an ivy vine. 
The important thing isn’t grapes or gourd, nor psychoactive effect per Ruck’s speculation, but rather, *vine* — snake shaped — which is to say, *worldline-shaped*.
https://google.com/search?q=jonah+vine&tbm=isch

gourd:
o  A fleshy, typically large fruit with a hard skin, some varieties of which are edible. 
o  A climbing or trailing plant which bears gourds.
o  “Out of one’s gourd” — out of one’s mind; crazy.
From Oxford dictionary UI at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gourd

gourd:
Tendril-bearing vines including the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gourd

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Wedding sea-processions:
https://google.com/search?q=sea+thiasos&tbm=isch

What is the name of the billowing cloth behind the head, indicating loosecog/ pneumos/ holy spirit?

Andromeda is chained to a rock.  A chain gives limited freedom, like the freewill experience in the ordinary state (tight cognitive association binding).

Female = passive.  Don’t think she is steering controlling commanding the serpent.  Rather she is being carried by the sea serpent/ ketos or hippocamp. 

Andromeda is princess to be sacrificed to the sea-serpent, chained to a rock, sometimes shown with one foot standing on the rock as foundation. 

Rescued, by a sacred power outside of her power, Perseus riding Pegasus – flying horse, carrying head of Medusa with snakes. 

Perseus shows Medusa attractive snake hair head to kill the marriage rival, Andromeda’s uncle, who is a ruler — the brother of the king. 

{Chained to the rock}, helpless female young ruler (of initiation age, ready to marry and be initated, “abducted”, sacrificed. 

Dragon monster demands sacrifice of initial mental worldmodel of self, control, time, and possibility.

Andromeda has a story conjunction with Medusa snake head that turns rulers into helpless rock statues; apply same family of myth-decodings. 

The dragon monster demanding sacrifice of Andromeda is a ketos; a sea serpent monster.

Triton is human torso/head, snake body. sometimes split into two legs/snakes, variant from the main idea of snake below, human torso and head above.

Nereid with Hippokamp and two dolphins
https://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/-2UMDHU3UA26I.html
Roman mosaic 3rd Century.
dolphins = theme of ‘rescue’
billowing cloth = ASC

Nereid on Ketos
https://www.art.com/products/p14187211-sa-i2935920/roman-nereid-on-ketos-from-the-lid-of-a-pyxis-found-at-canosa-di-puglia-c-130-bc.htm?upi=P5426F0
130 B.C.
from the Lid of a Pyxis

Sea monster Ketos (Cetus)
https://www.ancient.eu/image/3363/sea-monster-ketos-cetus/
compare head to horse (as in hippocamp)
compare front fins to horse front legs (as in hippocamp)
“Monsters. Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth” exhibition

Heracles fighting the Ketos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3411670893
Caeretan black-figure clay vase from Stavros S. Niarchos collection Athens.

Nov 28, 2019 2:17pm

The story of Jonah and the “Whale” (sea serpent) includes the following worldline-shaped elements:

o  ketos (sea serpent)

o  seaweed wraps around his head in one translation of the prayer inside the sea serpent

o  gourd (vine plant like pumpkin)

o  worm eats gourd shade-plant

Nov 30 2019 1:59 am

With the Yahoo Groups website UI going away, with the Egodeath Yahoo Group moving to email-only, it might be nice to temporarily open up the Egodeath Yahoo Group for other people to post.  This could help keep the “community” intact while the platform changes.  
The factors have changed, factors which led to only permitting the Admin (me) to post. 

I haven’t decided which email address and email software or interface to use.  I’m uncertain whether this Yahoo Email web-based UI will remain.  Time will tell.

I want to gather and post another batch of short-form summary posts.  

The substance of the Egodeath theory is done; the period of Revolutionary Science is past, and I’m entering into the period of Normal Science.  (Per Thomas Kuhn’s theory in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.) [yeah but I hadn’t solved the the Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader. – mh dec 30 2020]

The Egodeath Yahoo Group Web UI, I used from 2008-2019.  

Around 2014 I had a major breakthrough and completed the substance of the Theory (mostly re: analogy, also some influence on strengthening the Core Theory).  

2018-2019, I worked on plain-language short-form summaries of the Egodeath theory.  

As the Yahoo Groups web-based UI ends, I have finished the substance of the Egodeath theory, and the ways of expressing the Egodeath theory.

Private Email Sent Nov 30 2019 207pm

typically i sent such to the Egodeath Yahoo Group too.

Per Thomas Kuhn’s famous theory of science progress:
There is a short period of “revolutionary science” where a new paradigm framework with better potential is introduced.  A new skeleton.

Followed by a long period of “normal science” where the new paradigm framework is filled-in, or fleshed-out, with details.

I hold that the whole idea of revolutionary breakthrough comes from the mystic-state experience in which the mental model transforms.  The Egodeath theory is a modern systematization of that key original “paradigm shift”. 


Kuhn generalizes how a revolutionary paradigm shift works – but the original master version of “paradigm shift” is the cognitive change during the Holy Spirit experience, which is systematized in the Egodeath theory.

Private email sent Nov 30 224pm

The original paradigmatic instance and master model of “paradigm shifts” is, altered-state mind transformation induced by ingesting the sacred meal.

The best instance and paradigmatic model of “scientific explanation” is the Egodeath theory, which clearly and directly explains the master paradigmatic instance of “paradigm shifts”, that is, altered-state mind transformation.  And also decodes and maps analogies from religious mythology to this direct explanation.

w wrote: dec 14 2019 9:36 am

The Caduceus, the Staff of Asclepius and Serpents
https://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/the-caduceus-the-staff-of-asclepius-and-other-serpents/ 

“The pictures are great and show the serpent in different mythological cultures in addition to Greek, such as the Chinese, Egyptian, North African, india’s Kundalini yoga and pre-Christian Ireland. 

It would be better for the doubting Thomases to look into historical evidence such as this, rather than reading such things as athiest author’s writings to understand the Egodeath Theory.   

 The author does mention in a few spots some mis-understanding ( in my opinion) about the two historical Caduceus’, one being the twin snakes moving up the staff toward the wings of Hermes and the other with Asclepius, one snake on the staff. 

The author states that the staff or rod with one snake may have been a better choice to represent medicine because Asclepius was a more righteous character than Hermes. 

Hermes, he mentions, has a “mixed reputation being a messenger of the gods, guide of the dead, and protector of merchants, shepherds, athletes, liars and thieves.” 

 The author forgets or doesn’t realize the true meaning of the Caduceus, and doesn’t see that the Jesus figure was on the cross next to thieves and  embraced them by saying,  ‘I say to you today, you will be in paradise  with me.”   

The author also states that yin and yang, female and male, is an “older and far more universal concept than the Greek God Hermes.”

The problem with some authors is that they take a snippet, a concept, and separate it from the whole of religious mythology, which has been a major cause of religious division. 

 Hermes is carried through time and boundaries as the mythology lives on within the Caduceus.  The ‘healing’  within the  message of the Caduceus as told in the Egodeath theory regarding ‘madness’  is inclusive of yin and yang, not separate from it.

[person’s] Caduceus was that of twin snakes with the wings of Hermes.  

My Reply Feb 3 2020 8:16pm

I likely read that article among others, and it may have been the best, or one of the best. 

I have a bunch of little points to make even if they repeat what I posted. 

Greek evidence clearly shows that it’s a debranched tree or debranched branch (staff of A.). 

Hope you caught my post a couple months ago about the Cup of Hygeia – which appears in my main article, as a snake drinking from chalice.  todo: try to find that post and copy to WordPress.

I don’t have a satisfying decoding of Hermes’ twin serpents. They are male and female.  [lol – i re-figured it out late 2020, then found my dec 2 2013 vid lecture explained it. two worldlines: that of the control-thought inserter/injector, the control-thought receiver/receptacle. ]

I have a great, fully satisfying decoding of snake around debranched tree, which connects directly to how the snake on Eden tree is normally depicted: wound around trunk, the snake head is right at where the tree branching starts (top of trunk). 

tree vs snake *contrast* (= Possibilism vs. Eternalism, to use two technical terms).

People use the epithet “snake” to disparage a bad person.  I then counter that; I explain the positive meaning, the good reason why the shape of the snake is like gnosis, enlightenment.

w wrote Oct 13 2020

I listened a bit to that author Brian Muraresku  being interviewed by a Simon Drew. 

The author ends the interview by saying there is no before and there is no after.

To be here now is the key to immortality.

It’s a New Age sweep by a snake charmer attempting to control psychedelics.

my reply dec 30 2020

Any time a spiritual salesman starts sentence w/ “There is no….”, hold onto wallet.

  • There is no time
  • There is no self
  • There is no ego
  • There is no control
  • There is no doer

yeah, thanks for your: 
“There is no insight”. 

And I have a message for you:

There is no money

Oct 30 2019 10:39 am
subject: Re: email vs. Yahoo Web UI

Yahoo is cancelling all Yahoo Groups.  This email address will become inoperable Dec. 10, 2020.

See my recent blog posts at WordPress: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/

At some point I’ll update the website, egodeath.com –  Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics
Ego Death and Self-Control Cyberneticscontemporary metaphysics, self-control cybernetics, ego death, Eleusinian mysteries, fatalism, mental models, vi…

Oct 30 2019 10:43 am
Sub: All Yahoo Groups cancelled Dec. 10, 2020

[Dec 15th actually]

Yahoo is cancelling all Yahoo Groups.  This email address will become inoperable Dec. 10, 2020.

See my recent blog posts at WordPress: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/

You can post replies there; it’s a good layout that elevates my posts over the replies instead of jumbling them together.

At some point I’d like to update the website to add 2008(?)-2020 Yahoo Groups post.  egodeath.com –  Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

Love to you all and thank you Yahoo!!! 

The Egodeath Yahoo Group worked well since 2001.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

Farewell Yahoo Groups, thx for following, see you on the Web
oct 30 2019 1044am

Farewell Yahoo Groups, thx for following, see you on the Web
Yahoo is cancelling all Yahoo Groups.  This email address will become inoperable Dec. 10, 2020.
See my recent blog posts at WordPress: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/
You can post replies there; it’s a good layout that elevates my posts over the replies instead of jumbling them together.
At some point I’d like to update the website to add 2008(?)-2020 Yahoo Groups post.  egodeath.com –  Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics
Love to you all and thank you Yahoo!!!  The Egodeath Yahoo Group worked well since 2001.
— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

dup repost?
Farewell Yahoo Groups, thx for following, see you on the Web
10:53 am – adds Triumph mosaic

Farewell Yahoo Groups, thx for following, see you on the Web

Yahoo is cancelling all Yahoo Groups.  This email address will become inoperable Dec. 10, 2020.

See my recent blog posts at WordPress: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/
You can post replies there; it’s a good layout that elevates my posts over the replies instead of jumbling them together.

At some point I’d like to update the website to add Yahoo Groups posts from Feb. 14, 2004 – Oct. 2020.  Website: http://egodeath.com –  Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

The Egodeath Yahoo Group worked well since 2001.

Thank you for those who contributed posts with valuable content eg. the awesome Dionysus Procession with mushroom tigers at the end of the Egodeath article.

Love to you all and thank you Yahoo!!!  
— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

oct 30 2019 1057 am

Caption: 

Dionysus rides with the abducted and married soul, Ariadne, in Dionysus’ victory procession, in a chariot drawn by four mushroom-tigers.

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Section: The Sacred Marriage
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm#_Toc177337640

1:07 pm

I don’t have any ideas for email forum, but WordPress comments at bottom of a weblog post seem good. 

I don’t think you have to be a WordPress member/account.  

Cyberdisciple’s WordPress is cross-linked.  
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/

Be sure to see all the latest YT content:

Max YT ch 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwJ_O4EgF61AuLRuoI0S4qw

Cyb YT ch
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVrwl3M_yZw9p3V4B2km23A

Dec 1 2020 – snapshot of new WordPress Site Map page

Last I heard, end-of-life for Yahoo Groups is December 15, 2020.

New articles – book review (abstractly) of Way of Zen.
New nav page (site map).
New Nav bar.
Mytheme List + Dictionary of Egodeath/Altered State phenomena, cross-linking the entries now.

Max provided Yahoo Group postings as a set of long HTML files, ready-to-upload eg to Egodeath.com, in numerical order, which is pretty good.

Site Map

Contents
Flagship Articles
Key Reference Pages
Good Pages
Idea Development pages
Particular Mythemes
Books, Articles, Videos, & Comics
New Old Religion
Utility pages
Scientific Theory Methodology

Flagship Articles

Table of contents, bibliography & see also; publishable quality.

Key Reference Pages
Good Pages

Wikipedia-like, but not publishable quality.

Idea Development pages

Realtime latest breakthroughs and thinking. Messy by design.

Particular Mythemes

Each page focused on elaborating connections around a particular mytheme.

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Dec 13 2020 629pm –

HO-HO-HOLY SPIRIT!  

🎄🍄🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🎁

IF YOU ARE GOOD, THE NATIVE CHRISTMAS SHAMANS WILL INITIATE YOU IN THE SACRED MEAL THAT WAS USED IN ALL THE HELLENISTIC MYSTERY RELIGIONS (SECRET AMANITA CULTS)

“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.” 2:20
Video:
Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani
YT ch: New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
OF COURSE HE CHOOSES THE MALFORMED STATUE WHERE MITHRAS FAILS TO REMEMBER TO TURN, CONVERT, AND LOOK BACK BEHIND HIM TO THE RIGHT, TO PERCEIVE SOL, THE MIND’S UNCONTROLLABLE SOURCE OF CONTROL-THOUGHTS
Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQ0i_1eoJ8&t=135s

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w wrote:

So glad the Egodeath Theory is thriving in it’s new home and that you’ve been able to reach your followers before Yahoo Groups is completely gone. 

You’re helping so many people.  Truly a blessing!

Dec 15 2020
Re: Announcement: End of Yahoo Groups

wrmspirit wrote:

Rest in peace Yahoo Groups. 

You worked so hard. 

You can rest now.  Please know that you are loved for all the many gifts that came through you.  

So Close your eyes and go to sleep.. and .. love will lead the way…

Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 160: 2016-07-31

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Group: egodeath Message: 8427 From: egodeath Date: 31/07/2016
Subject: Re: test: post dammit
Group: egodeath Message: 8429 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Against Drug Policy Reform
Group: egodeath Message: 8431 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Group: egodeath Message: 8433 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: DON’T REVEAL LONG HISTORY OF PSILOCYBIN!
Group: egodeath Message: 8434 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: DON’T REVEAL LONG HISTORY OF PSILOCYBIN!
Group: egodeath Message: 8435 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Group: egodeath Message: 8436 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 8437 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8438 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8439 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8441 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8445 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8446 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Repeal Prohibition for the Environment
Group: egodeath Message: 8447 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8449 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8451 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: First public legal Ayahuasca church in the U.S.
Group: egodeath Message: 8452 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8453 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8454 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8457 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8459 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8460 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Repealing Prohibition is the most important activism
Group: egodeath Message: 8461 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8462 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8464 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8467 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Group: egodeath Message: 8468 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8469 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Death penalty for 14 accused of providing drugs
Group: egodeath Message: 8470 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8472 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Group: egodeath Message: 8474 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Group: egodeath Message: 8475 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Death penalty for 14 accused of providing drugs
Group: egodeath Message: 8476 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Death penalty for trafficking in Evil, witches drugs
Group: egodeath Message: 8478 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8479 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8480 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8483 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Fashionable nonsense, pseudoscience gibberish
Group: egodeath Message: 8485 From: egodeath Date: 04/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8487 From: egodeath Date: 04/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8492 From: egodeath Date: 05/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8494 From: egodeath Date: 05/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8496 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Psychedelic reductionism to healing therapy
Group: egodeath Message: 8497 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Uniqueness of Maximal entheogen Eucharist view
Group: egodeath Message: 8498 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8500 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Book: The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown)
Group: egodeath Message: 8502 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Book: The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown)
Group: egodeath Message: 8504 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 8507 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
Group: egodeath Message: 8511 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Group: egodeath Message: 8513 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath



Group: egodeath Message: 8427 From: egodeath Date: 31/07/2016
Subject: Re: test: post dammit
In 12 hours I expect 6-8 exact-duplicate, redundant posts to appear in the Web interface of Yahoo Groups. Either a post appears instantly, or after a long random delay. I have to see posts immediately, to make sure at least one is actually visible immediately in the Web UI. I keep reposting until at least 1 copy makes it through Yahoo’s broken software.
Group: egodeath Message: 8429 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Against Drug Policy Reform
If you advocate “drug policy reform” in terms of proving that drugs are not as harmful as Prohibitionists say, you lose, because the “harm” issue was just a ploy and pretence, anyway.

Yes, you do have to demolish the “harm” claim to smithereens, but you must understand and recognize that that’s not actually the center of action, for “reform” — rather, for *REPEAL* of all drug Prohibition laws.

Government has no right to appoint itself authority over drug users or providers.

Government has zero authority regarding drugs, and any authority which government might have had prior to 1914, has been totally forfeited by the government because Prohibition by the government has been nothing but fraud, scam, corruption, and lies, through and through.

The government’s drug Prohibition has caused a million times more harm than drugs — not that the “harm” ploy, pretext, and excuse ever had anything to do with the real purpose and motivation of drug Prohibition.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8431 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
The Psychedelic Continuationist Christian movement

PSILOCYBIN EUCHARIST PSYCHOSIS STRIKES DOWN A THIRD OF PSYCHEDELIC CONTINUATIONIST CONGREGATIONS

We are the Psychedelic Continuationist movement.

Christianity has always been understood as mushroom Eucharist. We are not innovating, but amplifying the main Christian tradition, the mushroom Eucharist tradition.

Redosing with low-dose psilocybin capsules is ergonomic.

We acknowledge Amanita water into wine.

The Holy Spirit continued from Jesus forever, psilocybin Eucharist, and we continue and amplify that tradition.

Our missional outreach is to get Eastern religionists to authentically trip in their traditional psychedelic religion ways, not for them to innovate, nor to restore something as if it were missing, but to *continue* and amplify the ever-ruling, authoritative original source of Eastern religion, ever revolving around psychedelics.

Psychedelics is the ever-continuing fountainhead of Eastern religion. Psychedelics never went away from the core Eastern religion practice.

Psychedelics are present in every church in history, but 2016 Psychedelic Continuationism, the Psychedelic Continationist movement, is amplifying the never-missing tradition of psilocybin Eucharist, and drug-based meditation.

______________________

The History of Psychedelic New Age Materialistic Quantum Drug Reform Neurotherapy

Paradigms per Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episode 3:

Psychedelic New Age Spirituality
Psychedelic Neuroscience
…Materialism, Idealism, Representationalism
Psychedelic Therapy
Entheogen History
Drug Policy Reform

Some commentary on those:

o pop Entheogen History Scholarship

o Drug Policy Reform / Prohibition Repeal

How to destroy the “Harm” pretext of Prohibition.

Full Repeal of Drug Prohibition (with the government formally stating that the WoD was always a destructive, predatory Fraud under the pretext of “safety”.

Repeal of Prohibition VERSUS the paradigm of “Drug Policy Reform”

‘Drug Policy Reform’ refers to a kinder, gentler WoD using anti-terrorist miltary surplus, to protect people from harm. Serve and Protect for profit, against the enemy.


o Psychedelic New Age Spirituality

fractal energy vibrations
nondual unity oneness consciousness
vague folk tech for the shadow threat

o Psychedelic Neuroscience; Professor Nutt’s Psychedelic Quantum Neurophrenology

… o Materialism, Idealism, Representationalism

o Psychedelic Therapy, including Quantum Neurotherapy
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy&tbm=isch

I support businesses and people pursuing anything they want to explore and do together: therapy, counselling, quantum neuro therapy.

I am pro-spirituality, pro-business, pro-Woo, I totally support all vapid exotic otherworld quantum neurowoo, if that’s valued by people.

I support those who pursue and photograph unicorns farting rainbows.

The Egodeath theory is an independent foundation.

I’m not about tearing anyone down except the Prohibitionist puppets, rather, I’m making available the Egodeath theory.

I don’t have to do a scorched-earth approach. Low religion is low religion, but I leave it be, but make available high religion. Maybe I have to utterly demolish low religion to make high religion available.

My father’s income was from counselling.

Quantum Neurowoo can be a distraction or avoidance of what the Egodeath theory covers. Ancestors agree that developing the psychedelic potential of the mind is valuable and desirable.

Quantum Neurowoo distracts and derails from focusing on developing the traditional psychedelic potentials of the mind which inherently leads to Eternalism experiencing and noncontrol.

Planned or not by the Quantum Neurowoo scientists, the psychotomimetic state which our Christian ancestors revered as the Holy Spirit, leads to Eternalism experiential consciousness and a kind of noncontrol. It leads to psychedelic maturation.

We can talk in terms of “should we” mature, but in any case, the people who choose to explore Psychedelic Quantum Neurowoo are now bound to psychedelically mature following the Egodeath theory.

This loose cognitive state from the Christian psilocybin Eucharist tradition can lead to permanent insanity or spiritual regeneration, as God sees fit.

The Holy Bible claims that the mushroom Eucharist cures insanity, which would mean that the temporary psychotomimetic sacred state is resolved, and that egoic delusion is sacrificed, by ingesting Christ’s mushroom flesh.

Our Christian and Greek ancestors positively valued and desired the maturation of the mind by immersion in the mushroom fire, exploring the altered experiential sensation, for control-dynamics mental discipline and retraining; for converting the mind from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Also necessary is learning literacy of our Psychedelic World Religions 101 heritage of mythemes describing the drug-induced altered-state origin and content of high, esoteric, adult religion for fully initiated minds.

People before us valued this developmental potential of the mind. They thought it good and desirable to activate the mind’s innate ability to trip on Christ’s mushroom flesh and be converted to become a real, inner circle, grown-up Christian.

Our Christian ancestors did not think that the mind should remain undeveloped in its high potential. Leaving the mind undeveloped would require not using psychedelics. Analogy: castrating a boy, not permitting his body to develop into adult form.

To avoid developing this department of the mind, which our Christian ancestors valued, would be very like never using the sex organ, never being born again, never taking the traditional psilocybin Eucharist — pretty much unthinkable.

Why in God’s name would anyone not develop the mushroom receptors higher consciousness of the mind?

There is no reason to leave the mind psychedelically virgin and immature, in child form, not doing the normal transformation into butterfly, but staying in worm form.

Organisms that God gave developmental potential are supposed to develop, not remain undeveloped. The acorn is supposed to develop into an oak.

The childish way of thinking is supposed to be cured by the Holy Spirit through ingesting Christ’s mushroom flesh, to produce the presumably, universally agreed, adult and desirable, holy, blessed way of thinking, to relate to the Creator and know dependency of control on the pre-created preset worldline of thoughts frozen in the spacetime block.

It’s unnatural, to avoid the mushroom Eucharist, to avoid (what everone judges as) higher mental development.

We have a psychedelic mystical sex organ through which we can die and give birth to a new self-in-world model. Is it a good thing, ought we to use this mystical sex organ of climax and death and rebirth? Is it a positive thing, to have mystic experience, to see transcendent relationships?

Science values exploring, the human mind values exploring, and our ancestors valued religious conversion through the mushroom Eucharist, and valued Transcendent Knowledge.

I estimate that a third of the congregation will go insane, of course, from the traditional Christian mushroom psilocybin Eucharistic agape feast, but whatever, glory to God, and fully repeal drug Prohibition and throw the Prohibitionist con-men out, into the darkness outside.

The Bible says that eating Jesus’ flesh makes the insane demon leave the mind, not enter the mind. Accepting ingesting Christ *cures* insanity, not *causes* it, according to the Bible.

If God wants to give his mushroom Eucharist to his puppets and a third of us puppets go permanently insane from psilocybin psychosis, so be it, glory to God, even though psilocybin pschosis is even worse than a special disease that they have only in the UK, CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS; so now, the headline in the 2025 newspaper will read:

PSILOCYBIN EUCHARIST PSYCHOSIS STRIKES DOWN A THIRD OF PSYCHEDELIC CONTINUATIONIST CONGREGATIONS

Fully repeal drug Prohibition. Remove all laws against psilocybin Eucharist in all churches. The U.S. laws against mushrooms in Christian worship were valid and just during 1776-1913, and we will return to those laws.

The guards won’t let Prohibitionists through the gate into the mushroom-wine wedding banquet party at the end of time.

The mind has the innate potential to switch from an initial innate mental world model (Possibilism) to the subsequent innate mental world model that is veiled latent in the mind, the mind is designed to receive psychedelics which sacrifice the initial innate mental structuring — the mental model of self-in-world.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8433 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: DON’T REVEAL LONG HISTORY OF PSILOCYBIN!
If we legalize psychedelics, many people will be harmed and go insane. BRING IT ON! Throw out the Prohibitionist frauds, who want to shoot and rob and enslave people and remove their voting rights, not help them.

If you *really* give a sh*t about harm and safety, throw out the most destructive people in the world, drug Prohibitionists. Drug Prohibitionists cause a million times more harm than drugs.

Any amount of harms caused by drugs is a massive improvement over Prohibition. Drug Prohibition is harm maximization to the extreme.

If we legalize coca, many people will be harmed and go insane. BRING IT ON! Throw out the Prohibitionist frauds!

If we legalize opiates, many people will be harmed and go insane. BRING IT ON! Throw out the Prohibitionist frauds!

If we legalize cannabis, many people will be harmed and go insane in the UK, from the UK-only disease of CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS. BRING IT ON! Throw out the Prohibitionist frauds!

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8434 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: DON’T REVEAL LONG HISTORY OF PSILOCYBIN!
We shouldn’t teach Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism to 13-year-old people.

Interesting new answer for the question I’ve considered since 1988, “Who should I dedicate the Egodeath theory to?”

I dedicate the Egodeath theory to myself at age 13.

I am not teaching 13-year-olds Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism, other than — hypothetically, involving time travel — teaching it to myself at age 13.

I have a list of contenders for who I should dedicate the Egodeath theory to. It’s artificial dedicating it to any one person such as Satan or one of my mothers, or to the HEROES who are in jail, or dedicating my Theory to everyone who has sold or given away “illicit” psychoactive drugs.

Just as Christianity was dedicated to the most accursed person Rome could identify, I could dedicate the Egodeath theory to the most demonized people of all, “drug pushers” (as if Tobacco, Alcohol, and Pharma weren’t exactly that, drug pushers!).

Jesus hung out with drug pushers, heroin addicts, and even what some people say are the most vile, evil, destructive, lying, corrupt scum of all, drug Prohibitionists. Myself, I love drug Prohibitionists as I love all of God’s puppets.

In any case, it is interesting, the dynamics of writing the Egodeath theory for the audience of myself at age 13.

I work hard to make sure that my Theory is kept hidden from 13-year-old people, even though middle school is the age when exploration of psychoactives naturally occurs due to the drive to self-transcendence; the drive of the mind to switch from Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism to Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism at age 13. At 5th grade, I was tested as 11th grade intelligence, so I don’t know how representative I am.

So I consider:

“I dedicate the Egodeath theory to myself at age 13.”

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8435 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
The Psychedelic Continuationist Christian movement

PSILOCYBIN EUCHARIST PSYCHOSIS STRIKES DOWN A THIRD OF PSYCHEDELIC CONTINUATIONIST CONGREGATIONS

We are the Psychedelic Continuationist movement.

Christianity has always been understood as mushroom Eucharist. We are not innovating, but amplifying the main Christian tradition, the mushroom Eucharist tradition.

Redosing with low-dose psilocybin capsules is ergonomic.

We acknowledge Amanita water into wine.

The Holy Spirit continued from Jesus forever, psilocybin Eucharist, and we continue and amplify that tradition.

Our missional outreach is to get Eastern religionists to authentically trip in their traditional psychedelic religion ways, not for them to innovate, nor to restore something as if it were missing, but to *continue* and amplify the ever-kickass, ever-ruling, original source of Eastern religion, ever revolving around psychedelics, which is the ever-continuing fountainhead of Eastern religion.

Psychedelics never went away from the core Eastern religion practice.

Psychedelics are present in every church in history, but 2016 Psychedelic Continuationism, the Psychedelic Continationist movement, is amplifying the never-missing tradition of psilocybin Eucharist, and drug-based meditation.

______________________

The History of Psychedelic New Age Materialistic Quantum Drug Reform Neurotherapy

Max and Cyber Paradigms per Episode 3:

Psychedelic New Age Spirituality
Psychedelic Neuroscience
…Materialism, Idealism, Representationalism
Psychedelic Therapy
Entheogen History
Drug Policy Reform

Some commentary on those:

o pop Entheogen History Scholarship

o Drug Policy Reform / Prohibition Repeal

How to destroy the “Harm” pretext of Prohibition.

Full Repeal of Drug Prohibition (with the government formally stating that the WoD was always a destructive, predatory Fraud under the pretext of “safety”.

Repeal of Prohibition VERSUS the paradigm of “Drug Policy Reform”

‘Drug Policy Reform’ refers to a kinder, gentler WoD using anti-terrorist miltary surplus, to protect people from harm. Serve and Protect for profit, against the enemy.


o Psychedelic New Age Spirituality

fractal energy vibrations
nondual unity oneness consciousness
vague folk tech for the shadow threat

o Psychedelic Neuroscience; Professor Nutt’s Psychedelic Quantum Neurophrenology

… o Materialism, Idealism, Representationalism

o Psychedelic Therapy, including Quantum Neurotherapy
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy&tbm=isch

I support businesses and people pursuing anything they want to explore and do together: therapy, counselling, quantum neuro therapy.

I am pro-spirituality, pro-business, pro-Woo, I totally support all vapid exotic otherworld quantum neurowoo, if that’s valued by people.

I support those who pursue and photograph unicorns farting rainbows.

The Egodeath theory is an independent foundation.

I’m not about tearing anyone down except the Prohibitionist puppets, rather, I’m making available the Egodeath theory.

I don’t have to do a scorched-earth approach. Low religion is low religion, but I leave it be, but make available high religion. Maybe I have to utterly demolish low religion to make high religion available.

My father’s income was from counselling.

Quantum Neurowoo can be a distraction or avoidance of what the Egodeath theory covers. Ancestors agree that developing the psychedelic potential of the mind is valuable and desirable.

Quantum Neurowoo distracts and derails from focusing on developing the traditional psychedelic potentials of the mind which inherently leads to Eternalism experiencing and noncontrol.

Planned or not by the Quantum Neurowoo scientists, the psychotomimetic state which our Christian ancestors revered as the Holy Spirit, leads to Eternalism experiential consciousness and a kind of noncontrol. It leads to psychedelic maturation.

We can talk in terms of “should we” mature, but in any case, the people who choose to explore Psychedelic Quantum Neurowoo are now bound to psychedelically mature following the Egodeath theory.

This loose cognitive state from the Christian psilocybin Eucharist tradition can lead to permanent insanity or spiritual regeneration, as God sees fit.

The Holy Bible claims that the mushroom Eucharist cures insanity, which would mean that the temporary psychotomimetic sacred state is resolved, and that egoic delusion is sacrificed, by ingesting Christ’s mushroom flesh.

Is it justified, to positively value and desire the maturation of the mind by immersion in the mushroom fire, exploring the altered experiential sensation, for control-dynamics retraining; for converting the mind from Possibilism to Eternalism, and also arguably necessary, is time to learn literacy of our Psychedelic World Religions 101 heritage of mythemes describing the drug-induced altered-state origin and content of high, esoteric, adult religion for fully initiated minds.

People before us valued this developmental potential of the mind.

They thought it good and desirable to activate the mind’s innate ability to trip on Christ’s mushroom flesh and be converted to become a real, inner circle, grown-up Christian.

Our Christian ancestors did not think that the mind should remain undeveloped in its high potential. Leaving the mind undeveloped would require not using psychedelics. Analogy: castrating a boy, not permitting his body to develop into adult form.

To avoid developing this department of the mind, which our Christian ancestors valued, would be very like never using the sex organ, never being born again, never taking the traditional psilocybin Eucharist — pretty much unthinkable.

Why in God’s name would anyone not develop the mushroom receptors higher consciousness of the mind?

There is no reason to leave the mind psychedelically virgin and immature, in child form, not doing the normal transformation into butterfly, but staying in worm form.

Organisms that God gave developmental potential are supposed to develop, not remain undeveloped. The acorn is supposed to develop into an oak.

The childish way of thinking is supposed to be cured by the Holy Spirit through ingesting Christ’s mushroom flesh, to produce the presumably, universally agreed, adult and desirable, holy, blessed way of thinking, to relate to the Creator and know dependency of control on the pre-created preset worldline of thoughts frozen in the spacetime block.

It’s unnatural, to avoid the mushroom Eucharist, to avoid (what everone judges as) higher mental development.

We have a psychedelic mystical sex organ through which we can die and give birth to a new self-in-world model. Is it a good thing, ought we to use this mystical sex organ of climax and death and rebirth? Is it a positive thing, to have mystic experience, to see transcendent relationships?

Science values exploring, the human mind values exploring, and our ancestors valued religious conversion through the mushroom Eucharist, and valued Transcendent Knowledge.

I estimate that a third of the congregation will go insane, of course, from the traditional Christian mushroom psilocybin Eucharistic agape feast, but whatever, glory to God, and fully repeal drug Prohibition and throw the Prohibitionist con-men out, into the darkness outside.

The Bible says that eating Jesus’ flesh makes the insane demon leave the mind, not enter the mind. Accepting ingesting Christ *cures* insanity, not *causes* it, according to the Bible.

If God wants to give his mushroom Eucharist to his puppets and a third of us puppets go permanently insane from psilocybin psychosis, which is even worse than a special disease that they have only in the UK, CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS; so now, the headline in the 2025 newspaper will read:

PSILOCYBIN EUCHARIST PSYCHOSIS STRIKES DOWN A THIRD OF PSYCHEDELIC CONTINUATIONIST CONGREGATIONS

The guards won’t let Prohibitionists through the gate into the mushroom-wine wedding banquet party at the end of time.

The mind has the innate potential to switch from an initial innate mental world model (Possibilism) to the subsequent innate mental world model that is veiled latent in the mind, the mind is designed to receive psychedelics which sacrifice the initial innate mental structuring — the mental model of self-in-world.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8436 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8437 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Journals and conferences of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”

The Transcendent Knowledge Podcast doesn’t mention Quantum, but it’s huge and is often connected to the other paradigms: neuro and psychedelic/entheogenic.

Nothing is more Pop than Quantum. Are people especially connecting Quantum and psychedelic?

What are combinations of topics other than Quantum Neuro Psychedelic? Are there other conferences / journals that cover Quantum neuro but not psychedelic?

# journals/conferences covering Q + N
# journals/conferences covering Q + P
# journals/conferences covering P + N
# journals/conferences covering Q + N + P
# journals/conferences covering Q + N + [other field, not psychedelics]

Hypothesis: There is an explosion of journals/conferences covering *three* specific topics: quantum neuro psychedelic.

What are the attributes of Quantum “science”, Neuro “science”, and Psychedelic “science”, such that they have appeal and lots of room for careerist publishing?

Like Kant is better than Berkeley for a career because Kant is vague and wishy washy and thus open, bendable, endlessly debatable, a vein of low-grade ore that never runs out?

These kinds of journals and articles need critical survey and analysis. I’ve stumbled upon several such conferences/journals that combine:

scientific pose/{cargo cult stylization, style-mimicking}/aura, covering these specific topics above all:
neuro
quantum
psychedelic

There are *thousands* of authors, penning thousands of articles, all a heap of the same “stuff”, sort of “theory goo”. What’s up with it. Is any *progress* going on in such articles/ journals/ conferences?

In what way does this Stuff represent actual science vs. all jumped-the-shark scientism, scientistic stylization veneer of bullshit? Vapid bullshit with a veneer of scientistic stylization?

Or, is this how the sausage of Science really is made, eventually producing 1% progress in Science; scientific progress through sheer quantity of math neuromonkeys typing on an infinite number of quantum typewriters while tripping?

Infinite monkeys typing enough sheer quantity of neuro quantum psychedelic bullshit will eventuate in genuine science progress???

Dirt cheap, a dime a dozen: dubious science-styled articles about neuro quantum psychedelic pseudoscience — or some, how mush, I mean how much, of this is real science? Is science progress really so noisy? It’s a massive industry!

What’s the relative size of this paper-mill, article-mill, these people desperate(?) to get their me-too article published.

Ruck in this quantum neuro bs journal, WTF? Correction: Ruck in this kind of quantum neuro psychedelic journal… ‘

This seems to be a new paradigm that has formed, the paradigm of, I think specifically:

Quantum Neuro Psychedelic science — is this the major formation I’m seeing? Is there this distinct outstanding paradigm?

How many journals and conferences are scoped as:

“Step right up folks get chur Science here, we got it all,” calls out the carny barker, “We got chur Quantum! We got chur Neuro! And we got chur Psychedelic/Entheogenic! We got it all, and proof of paranormal too. Step right up!”

http://google.com/search?q=demarcation+problem

Big question: the differentiation question, the demarcation problem: how differentiate pseudoscience from real science in this pile of Stuff, goo, mush, a mushy blend of what? What are the main topics combined? What is the scope of the trend?

Am I seeing, is there a breakaway movement where these journals profit the most and become the most popular by covering what list of topics?

What is the relation between newage vs. science? I CAN’T TELL ANY DIFFERENCE. The hot trend in newage pseudo(?)science is quantum neuro psychedelic, is that true, or is that an arbitrary focus of mine?

I speculate that there is an explosion specifically of quantum neuro psychedelic.

List the conferences
List the journals
List the adjacent combinations that are scoped differently than Q + P + N.

What subjects/fields are considered “in scope” by these people? In what way are these an absurd and hardly profitable (productive of knowledge) product of Reagan/Nixon’s Prohibition?

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8438 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Does “fake it til you make it” work? Can we act as if we are doing science, while we put forth speculation on quantum neuro psychedelics, and eventually Professor Nutt will make it, actually producing real science progress, by acting the right style?

A science performance, a scientist act. If I wear a lab coat, hold up a vial, and write enough math equations, *something* scientific has to eventually result, right?

By mimicking the Science style faithfully enough, we can speculate on brain and psychedelics and popcog, and if we faithfully enough simulate the cargo planes, eventually the cargo planes will arrive. Have faith.

Wear the right clothes, affect the right mannerisms, write in the correct stylization, and you will eventually become a Real Scientist contributing actual progress in Science, even in combining quantum neuro psychedelics.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8439 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8441 From: egodeath Date: 01/08/2016
Subject: Re: Journals of quantum neuro psychedelic “science”
Group: egodeath Message: 8445 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Ruck’s been hanging out with a shady and rough crowd lately — Quantum Physicists, Neuroscientists, Roller Derby instructors…
Group: egodeath Message: 8446 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Repeal Prohibition for the Environment
Carl Ruck and David Ulansey are turning their attention to the Environment, environmental activism.
Group: egodeath Message: 8447 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Possible “paradigms” that aren’t included in the list of paradigms in Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episode 3


Ayahuasca shamanism and Ayahuasca Christian churches
http://google.com/search?q=Ayahuasca+shamanism+and+Ayahuasca+Christian+churches
http://google.com/search?q=Ayahuasca+shamanism+Christian+church

There is much in common with the Egodeath theory and Ayahuasca Christian churches. I’m focused for various strategic reasons on amplifying or fully continuing the traditional mushroom Eucharist.

http://www.heroic-adventures.com/ayahuasca-ceremonies-usa/
“Interesting Discussion on Legality of Ayahuasca in the USA
In the Fall of 2015, a website popped up touting the First Ayahuasca Church in the USA that is open for ceremonies to anyone. … After this article [ http://www.bialabate.net/news/dont-believe-the-hype-about-the-legal-ayahuasca-usa-church-going-around-facebook-its-not-legal-its-dangerous-and-heres-why ] was published detailing why this church is not legal … A curious story in the world of spirituality, religious rights, internet marketing, and law. (updated December 08, 2015)”


Psychedelic Quantum Physics

http://google.com/search?q=Psychedelic+Quantum+Physics

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8449 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)

Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use
Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Editor), Clancy Cavnar (Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/Prohibition-Religious-Freedom-Human-Rights/dp/3642409563/
2014
“This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia divinorum.

The uses of these substances can often be found at the intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics, medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, knowledge transmission, socialization, and celebration.

The collection analyzes how some of these psychoactive plants have been progressively incorporated and regulated in developed Western societies by both national legislation and by the United Nations Drug Conventions.

It focuses mainly, but not only, on the debates in court cases around the world involving the claim of religious use and the legal definitions of “religion.”

It further touches upon issues of human rights and cognitive liberty as they relate to the consumption of drugs.

While this collection emphasizes certain uses of psychoactive substances in different cultures and historical periods, it is also useful for thinking about the consumption of drugs in general in contemporary societies.

The cultural and informal controls discussed here represent alternatives to the current merely prohibitionist policies, which are linked to the spread of illicit and violent markets.

By addressing the disputes involved in the regulation of traditional drug use, this volume reflects on notions such as origin, place, authenticity, and tradition, thereby relating drug policy to broader social science debates.”
Group: egodeath Message: 8451 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: First public legal Ayahuasca church in the U.S.
http://www.heroic-adventures.com/ayahuasca-ceremonies-usa

“Interesting Discussion on Legality of Ayahuasca in the USA – In the Fall of 2015, a website popped up touting the First Ayahuasca Church in the USA that is open for ceremonies to anyone. … After this article [ http://www.bialabate.net/news/dont-believe-the-hype-about-the-legal-ayahuasca-usa-church-going-around-facebook-its-not-legal-its-dangerous-and-heres-why ] was published detailing why this church is not legal … A curious story in the world of spirituality, religious rights, internet marketing, and law. (updated December 08, 2015)”
Group: egodeath Message: 8452 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Bia Labate
http://bialabate.net

The Inauguration of the UDV Temple in Santa Fe: A Sweet Taste of Justice
Bia Labate
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9788494
Apr 28, 2016
Group: egodeath Message: 8453 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
The word ‘regulating’ means Drug War Status Quo; Witch Hunt alive and well. If you get caught with unauthorized psilocybin Eucharist, the State has given itself the authority to kill you, rob you, enslave you, jail you. The same old witch hunt continues; Prohibition for Profit.

The right way to regulate the traditional Christian psychedelic mushroom Eucharist is full repeal of drug Prohibition, like in 1913.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8454 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
If you are accused of unauthorized psilocybin Eucharist, the State has given itself the authority to literally kill you, rob you, enslave you, jail you.

The witch hunt never ended; the old witch hunt was repositioned as drug Prohibition, to *protect* people from the *harms* of (non-Big Pharma, non-Alcohol industry, non-Tobacco) drugs.

“But the government don’t give a *F-CK* about your safety.” — Chris Rock

Trump’s VP pick Mike Pence is hardline extreme Prohibitionist FUNDED BY THE TOBACCO LOBBY.

A VOTE FOR TRUMP IS A VOTE FOR TOBACCO-FUNDED “DRUG” PROHIBITION.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8457 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
What *ought* to become pop psychedelia is biopolitics, repealing Prohibition to save the Environment.

Environmentalist “drug policy reform”; that is:

Environmentalist repeal of drug Prohibition

Entheogen historian Carl Ruck has turned his attention to Environmentalism; follow him.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com.
Group: egodeath Message: 8459 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Yahoo code is so broken. When I post, it appears in web ui after a random time 0 to infinity.
Group: egodeath Message: 8460 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Repealing Prohibition is the most important activism
Repealing Prohibition is the most important activism

Shame on activists for being stupid and thinking drug Prohibition is frivolous.

Prohibition affects countless issues, such as illegal thus profitable coca being pushed into the rainforest.

Black Lives Matter is all about drug Prohibition — the New Jim Crow. WTF, so-called “activists”, GET A CLUE!!

Ignorant and short-sighted activists!

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8461 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use
Beatriz Labate (Editor), Clancy Cavnar (Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/Prohibition-Religious-Freedom-Human-Rights/dp/3642409563/
2014
Group: egodeath Message: 8462 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Drug Policy Reform wants to trim the drug Prohibition bush.

The drug Prohibition bush needs to be torn out at the roots in its entirety. Every bit of drug Prohibition is thoroughly evil, destructive, poisonous, corrupt, and needs to be burned up in a total holocaust, nothing left, so that the path to God is cleared.

God created Satan, and Satan created drug Prohibition. You can’t “debug” Satan’s product created by Governor Reagan and President Nixon.

Everything about antidrug laws is an offense against the Holy Spirit. Laws against drugs are fundamentally ill-intentioned, dishonest, and illegal; Prohibition law is illegal law, non-law, totally null and void to the core and root.

The entire system of Prohibition must be totally demolished — let us not talk of “reforming” Satan’s system of demonization of the holy mushroom Eucharist, which is the means God gives us and makes us ingest so that we die to sin and are made righteous in God’s sight because we have ingested Christ’s saving flesh.

— Michael
Group: egodeath Message: 8464 From: egodeath Date: 02/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
Traditional drug use, especially the psilocybin Eucharist, should be informally regulated voluntarily by individuals, NOT “regulated” by law and government and military-assault terrorist drug squads from the bowels of Hell.

Regulating drugs must be done by free individuals, not by the government.

The government has no authority or competence to “regulate” drugs, and the catestrophic experiment with Prohibition 1913-2016 has destroyed any prospect of trustworthiness of the government to “regulate” drugs; the government has proved that the only result of the government “regulating” drugs is extreme, total corruption of the government, which turns against the citizens it supposedly exists to serve.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8467 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Bk: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Labate)
The “drug policy reform” movement ought to be the Prohibition Repeal movement, instead.

Everyone needs to become theorists of rhetoric. We didn’t need laws about drugs in 1913, and we don’t need laws about drugs now, or ever.

We tried Prohibition during 1914-2016 and it was an absolute disaster — except for the success of using “harm” rhetoric as pretext to accomplish the real goal of Prohibition: harming people that those in power want to get rid of, for their own corrupt personal gain.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8468 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Outrageous Yahoo bug: 13 hours for a post to appear. That’s impossible to deal with. I’m forced to repost (identical duplicate post).

I also repost when I improve a previous post.
Group: egodeath Message: 8469 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Death penalty for 14 accused of providing drugs
Death penalty for 14 accused of providing drugs

http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=20314502

INDONESIA: FOUR PRISONERS KILLED IN FIRST EXECUTIONS IN A YEAR

July 29, 2016: Indonesia has carried out its first executions in more than a year despite a string of legal appeals, diplomatic pressure and international condemnation.

Four prisoners, all sentenced to death for drug offences, were escorted to a clearing on the penal island of Nusa Kambangan and shot dead by a firing squad early on July 29.

They were identified as
Freddy Budiman, an Indonesian citizen;
Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and
Michael Titus Igweh, from Nigeria; and
Seck Osmane, from Senegal.

Ten others who had also faced execution – including three Indonesians, and foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan and India – were not killed, but officials said they would be put to death at a later date.

Deputy attorney general Noor Rachmad said the four men were executed shortly after midnight local time.

“This is not a fun job. For us, this is really a sad job because it involves people’s lives,” he said. “This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking.”

Lawyers said there was evidence to suggest Jefferson was not guilty of the crime for which he was condemned to death – possessing 1.7kg of heroin – including an admission of guilt on his deathbed by the man who allegedly framed him.

Police, army and navy personnel were tightly monitoring the port, the gateway to Nusa Kambangan prison, with 1,500 officers assigned to guard the area.

Coffins were ferried to Nusa Kambangan on July 28 morning, and spiritual advisers – who provide comfort and guidance to prisoners in their final hours – were told to prepare the inmates for their deaths within hours.

Amnesty International described the execution as “a deplorable act”.

“Any executions that are still to take place must be halted immediately. The injustice already done cannot be reversed, but there is still hope that it won’t be compounded,” said Rafendi Djamin, Amnesty’s director for south-east Asia and the Pacific.

Indonesia had largely withheld details of this round of executions from the public, declining even to publicly confirm the list of those slated to be executed in the hours leading up to their deaths.

Two people whose cases had raised high-profile international concern among rights groups were not executed.

The first was Pakistani Zulfiqar Ali, who has alleged he was beaten into confessing to the crime of heroin possession.

The other was Indonesian woman Merri Utami, who was caught with heroin in her bag as she came through Jakarta airport and claims she was duped into becoming a drug mule.

Ricky Gunawan, the director of the Community Legal Aid Institute, said the lack of transparency around the latest round of executions has been a convenient cover.

“For all this time they have kept it secret,” he said. “Indonesia is perhaps aware that there are so many laws they are violating so that’s why they keep it secret.”

(Sources: theguardian.com, 29/07/2016)
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[Reminder: [non-Tobacco, non-Big Pharm, non-Alcohol industry] drugs normally cause pemanent psychosis. Here is the referenced unimpeachable logic from the authorities, who have not taken drugs and so do not have psychotic thinking, but clear thinking:

We authorities who have to protect people, we hate killing people, but we were forced to kill people.

To prevent people from being harmed, we should kill people for committing the harmful act of providing drugs.

Providing drugs is harmful, is an assuault on unknown victims who choose to buy them, so we must minimize harm by shooting to death these harm-bringing witches/drug providers.

Providing drugs causes harm to someone who wants to buy them.

Therefore, to protect people who want to buy drugs, we should kill and harm the people who provide drugs.

“This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking.”

This was done for the purpose of:

o “Stopping evil intentions.”

o “To stop drug trafficking, which is an evil act.”

This is a battle against “Evil”, not against some mundane specific harms or victims, but rather, morality; stopping moral Evil.

It’s the *abstraction*, Evil, that we are fighting against — that’s the wording we use to justify “legal” killing of people by the “justice” system.

The purpose of the justice system isn’t about mundane specific harms and victims, but is rather, aimed against Evil, in general.

To fight Evil, we must kill people who bring Evil, in the form of providing Evil drugs.

Evil is (a certain class of) drugs.

Evil is drugs.

Drugs, this class of drugs, are the physical form of this principle of Evil.

Drugs are the physical form of this principle of Evil.

To eliminate Evil, we must eliminate the people who bring Evil, which is a certain class of drugs.

To eliminate Evil, we must eliminate the people who bring Evil, which is drugs.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8470 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Group: egodeath Message: 8472 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Ingesting the traditional Christian mushroom Eucharist (the saving flesh of Christ given to us for our salvation by God) causes permanent psychosis. Like 102 years of ratcheting-up drug Prohibition.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8474 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
The authentic traditional Biblical mushroom agape meal causes permanent psychosis, and throw the Prohibitionist bums, con-men, psychotics out!

I [heart] permanent psychosis from Christ’s traditional mushroom flesh. Run the Prohibitionists out of town.

Psilocybin Psychosis — Sign Us Up! Throw the Prohibitionist bums out!

We embrance and own our promised insane brethren, glory to God, and to the flames of Hell for correctional reconditioning of drug Prohibitionists.

The curing therapy is, eat more psychedelic mushrooms, and be made to turn, and convert, and your sins be forgiven, and the demon of animal illogic, agitating for a fantasy of control, is guaranteed by the Bible to be cast out, based on magic: Christ ingested into us, commands the demon to leave, and our right mind, sanity, arrives in the new kingdom at the end of time.

Our religion — authentic Christianity — is the religion of permanent psychosis from psilocybin and THROW THE DEMONIC PROHIBITIONIST BUMS OUT!

Glad you mentioned “harm, psychosis, and Evil” — this describes what motivates and possesses drug Prohibitionists.

IF DRUG PROHIBITION REPRESENTS “SANITY”, AND THE BIBLICAL TRADITIONAL MUSHROOM EUCHARIST OF CHRIST OUR SAVIOR CAUSES “PERMANENT PSYCHOSIS”, IT IS CLEAR THAT WE SHOULD CHOOSE PSILOCYBIN-INDUCED PERMANENT PSYCHOSIS AND PUT AWAY PROHIBITIONISTS AS A MENACE TO SOCIETY.

— Michael
Group: egodeath Message: 8475 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Death penalty for 14 accused of providing drugs
Firing squad? Not much of a deterrent. I recommend scourging and crucifixion of thousands of traffickers of Evil which is drugs along the roads into the cities.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8476 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Death penalty for trafficking in Evil, witches drugs
placeholder while waiting 13 hours for my commentary post to appear

Death penalty for trafficking in Evil, witches drugs

http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=20314502
Group: egodeath Message: 8478 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Serious searches joke

It just doesn’t get any more serious than this.

Search terms:
quantum
shaman
neuro
entheogen
conference
journal
therapy
psychedelic

At the Google search results page, you can click Images or Books, or other info formats.

Prefix:
http://google.com/search?q=
delimiter: +

http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+quantum+therapy

http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=neuro+shaman+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=shaman+quantum+therapy

http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+shaman
http://google.com/search?q=shaman+journal+conference

http://google.com/search?q=entheogen+journal+conference
57,500 hits
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+journal+conference
912,000 hits

http://google.com/search?q=entheogen
292,000 hits
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic
52,000,000 hits

Erik Davis in 2013 says ‘entheogen’ is passe, 1990s jargon, and the term ‘psychedelic’ remains as in, or out, as ever; ‘psychedelic’ is holding steady, while ‘entheogen’ is looking more like it was trendy.

Many people resent Christianity being snuck in through psychedelics — sneaking in the most dread spectre of all: *organized religion*, run away!

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8479 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
These thousands of articles coming out every year about psychedelic neuro quantum shamanism therapy — it’s a heap of mush. We’d make more progress by feeding the popular phrases from these fields into the computer programs that automatically output computer-generated fake journal articles filled with arbitrary nonsense, generating (and electronically submitting to the automated scientific journal review process) a thousand articles per hour.

New scientific study shows the quantum nature of neuroshaman therapy

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8480 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
This article provides a solid foundation for the Egodeath theory:

Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
Alan Sokal
Department of Physics
New York University
Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (Spring/Summer 1996).
1994/1995
Group: egodeath Message: 8483 From: egodeath Date: 03/08/2016
Subject: Fashionable nonsense, pseudoscience gibberish
Fashionable nonsense, pseudoscience gibberish

http://scigen.csail.mit.edu/scicache/824/scimakelatex.15407.Carl+Ruck.Andy+Letcher.Michael+Hoffman.Tom+Hatsis.Max+Freakout.html

A Refinement of XML
Carl Ruck, Andy Letcher, Tom Hatsis, Michael Hoffman and Max Freakout



Abstract

Recent advances in pervasive information and lossless information have paved the way for context-free grammar. After years of significant research into IPv7, we validate the refinement of voice-over-IP. Chider, our new algorithm for von Neumann machines, is the solution to all of these issues [27,1].

Table of Contents
1 Introduction


Introspective symmetries and spreadsheets have garnered tremendous interest from both leading analysts and cyberneticists in the last several years. After years of theoretical research into congestion control, we confirm the simulation of the partition table, which embodies the compelling principles of permutable authenticated electrical engineering. It should be noted that Chider analyzes the improvement of symmetric encryption. Thusly, the deployment of 2 bit architectures and empathic information do not necessarily obviate the need for the study of spreadsheets.


We introduce a novel methodology for the emulation of robots, which we call Chider. For example, many applications investigate flip-flop gates. It should be noted that Chider is copied from the principles of networking. Such a claim might seem perverse but usually conflicts with the need to provide wide-area networks to physicists. Combined with stochastic theory, such a claim synthesizes an analysis of active networks.


Motivated by these observations, write-ahead logging and stochastic technology have been extensively constructed by steganographers. We emphasize that Chider requests relational epistemologies. We view networking as following a cycle of four phases: refinement, provision, observation, and study. Without a doubt, indeed, Scheme and robots have a long history of collaborating in this manner. It should be noted that Chider learns low-energy technology. Such a claim at first glance seems unexpected but is derived from known results.


In this position paper, we make three main contributions. To begin with, we introduce an ambimorphic tool for enabling Byzantine fault tolerance (Chider), disconfirming that local-area networks can be made client-server, lossless, and introspective [12,26,20,1,15]. We construct an empathic tool for developing DNS (Chider), which we use to argue that the memory bus can be made adaptive, reliable, and cacheable. Continuing with this rationale, we demonstrate that even though randomized algorithms and DHCP are always incompatible, expert systems and DHCP can interfere to fix this obstacle.


The rest of this paper is organized as follows. First, we motivate the need for hash tables. On a similar note, to fulfill this goal, we better understand how compilers can be applied to the refinement of evolutionary programming. Next, we place our work in context with the existing work in this area. Ultimately, we conclude.


2 Model


The properties of our method depend greatly on the assumptions inherent in our model; in this section, we outline those assumptions. While system administrators usually hypothesize the exact opposite, our methodology depends on this property for correct behavior. Any important visualization of embedded modalities will clearly require that Moore’s Law and gigabit switches can cooperate to achieve this aim; Chider is no different. Though information theorists entirely believe the exact opposite, our heuristic depends on this property for correct behavior. We believe that each component of our methodology constructs the evaluation of vacuum tubes, independent of all other components. This seems to hold in most cases. Therefore, the model that our application uses is not feasible.





Figure 1: The decision tree used by Chider [9,17,11].


Suppose that there exists low-energy modalities such that we can easily deploy ubiquitous symmetries. Consider the early architecture by Johnson; our framework is similar, but will actually accomplish this purpose. We assume that the little-known optimal algorithm for the evaluation of the location-identity split by J. Robinson [21] is optimal. this seems to hold in most cases. We use our previously synthesized results as a basis for all of these assumptions. This seems to hold in most cases.
Group: egodeath Message: 8485 From: egodeath Date: 04/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
New Scientific Study Shows the Quantum Nature of Neuroshaman Therapy

http://google.com/search?q=New+Scientific+Study+Shows+the+Quantum+Nature+of+Neuroshaman+Therapy

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8487 From: egodeath Date: 04/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
New Scientific Study Shows the Quantum Nature of Neuro-shaman Therapy

http://google.com/search?q=New+Scientific+Study+Shows+the+Quantum+Nature+of+Neuro+shaman+Therapy

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8492 From: egodeath Date: 05/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Wise and Foolish Searches

‘neuroscience’ vs. ‘cognitive science’ vs. ‘cognitive neuroscience’
(most common first)
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Search terms:
quantum
shaman
neuro
meditation
consciousness
psychedelic
entheogen
therapy
conference
journal

At the Google search results page, you can click Images or Books, or other info formats.

To construct a Google Search URL:
domain: http://google.com/
command: search?q=
delimiter: +
quote: %22

Wise searches:
http://google.com/search?q=recognize+mushroom+Eucharist+tradition
http://google.com/search?q=divine+panic+ecstasy+enlightenment
http://google.com/search?q=tree+snake+Possibilism+Eternalism
http://google.com/search?q=dragon+pearl+enlightenment
http://google.com/search?q=snake+worldline+enlightenment
http://google.com/search?q=myth+rock+time
http://google.com/search?q=king+wine+snake+stone
http://google.com/search?q=balaam+donkey+path+paul+horse+road
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+loss+of+control+freakout+panic+attack+pray+sacrifice+rescue
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+loss+of+control+freak+out+panic+pray+rescue
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+loss+of+control+freak+out+panic+rescue
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+loss+of+control+freak+out+panic

Foolish searches:
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+psychedelic
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+shaman+consciousness+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+shaman+psychedelic
http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+shaman+meditation
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+quantum+therapy

http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=neuro+shaman+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=shaman+quantum+therapy
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+quantum+neuro+meditation+therapy

http://google.com/search?q=quantum+neuro+shaman
http://google.com/search?q=shaman+journal+conference

http://google.com/search?q=entheogen+journal+conference
57,500 hits
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic+journal+conference
912,000 hits

http://google.com/search?q=entheogen
292,000 hits
http://google.com/search?q=psychedelic
52,000,000 hits
_____________________

http://google.com/search?q=cognitive
104,000,000 hits
http://google.com/search?q=neuro
38,400,000 hits

http://google.com/search?q=neuroscience
39,800,000 hits (5.33 times as common as:)
http://google.com/search?q=%22cognitive+science%22
7,470,000 hits (5 times as common as:)
http://google.com/search?q=%22cognitive+neuroscience%22
1,540,000 hits

‘neuroscience’ is 27 times as common as ‘cognitive neuroscience’.
‘neuroscience’ is 5.33 times as common as ‘cognitive science’.
‘cognitive science’ is 5 times as common as ‘cognitive neuroscience’.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8494 From: egodeath Date: 05/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
https://techgnosis.com/psychedelic-culture/

“So there’s a profound difference between decriminalization and legalization, and I think the anti-prohibition movement needs to start addressing some of these questions more critically.

Legalization implies the incorporation of drugs inside the regulatory regime of big medicine and mainstream corporate culture, which needs to create “disorders” in order to proscribe commodity fixes.”


My third alternative, which is a new, minority voice, is Repeal; full repeal of drug Prohibition, back to the nonexistence of laws about drugs, as in 1913; 1776-1913.

From the Big Bang through 1913, humanity “somehow, miraculously” survived without the “benefit” of laws against or about psychoactives.

Decriminalization?
Legalization?
Repeal!

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8496 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Psychedelic reductionism to healing therapy
Psychedelic reductionism to healing therapy

After my critical Amazon review of Roberts’ most recent book, Thomas Roberts in January 2016 chastises the dull recent trendy monofocus on the healing, therapy power of psychedelics:

“There is also scholarly work in religion and the other humanities and in the arts and social sciences. I look forward to your essay on those topics..”

http://blog.oup.com/2015/12/psychedelic-drugs-medicine/#sthash.k0GODJ6P.dpuf

The Egodeath theory focuses on the healing therapeutic potential of panic attack control seizure loss-of-control freak out, described in our traditional psychedelic religious mythology, such as ingesting the Eucharist and then experiencing judgment, corrective scourging, and then death by fastening to a tree, followed by rebirth in a rock cave.

Recent trendy emphasis on psychedelic healing is incomplete. You can’t have the staff of Aesclepius the healer without Pan.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8497 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Uniqueness of Maximal entheogen Eucharist view
Uniqueness of Maximal entheogen Eucharist view

In existing books and in articles presently on the Web, it is extremely rare, the idea that not only were mushrooms *sometimes* used as the Eucharist in Christian history (the Moderate entheogen theory), but that the *normal, traditional* understanding in Christianity is mushroom Eucharist (the Maximal entheogen theory).

On the spectrum from Minimal, to Moderate, to Maximal positions, as you approach the Maximal end of the spectrum, fewer authors are located — they fall off as you approach my Maximal position.

Part of the problem is copycat meme repetition of low-relevance topics such as Amanita Christmas, skirting the real, explosive central issue, of:

To what extent was the Eucharist understood as mushrooms throughout own Christian religious history, including our cultural roots in ancient Greece with mixed wine inducing mythological experiential cognition?

Even more than I am concerned to prove my priority of discovery, I am motivated by shutting out the possibility of any theorist being more radical than the Egodeath theory.

That is the benefit and spirit of my formulation in the most extreme terms:


Many lay and priests in all churches have always understood the Eucharist as mushrooms.

The Eastern religion corollary:

Many lay and priests in all Eastern religion have always understood meditation as mushrooms.


This assertion brings the Entheogen History conversation forward to the argument about not whether, but how many.

The only way a theorist can be more radical than me is the argument about how many — which I vaguely specify as “alot”.

A substantial, influential percentage of our Western, Christian ancestors recognized the Eucharist as mushrooms.

The esoteric Christian tradition, the normal traditional view held by “those on the inside”, is the mushroom Eucharist.

The normal traditional exoteric view is the ordinary wine Eucharist (grape alcohol, or better, per the exoteric Church of Christ, the primitive Christians had grape juice Eucharist).

The normal traditional esoteric view is the mushroom Eucharist.

I have defined two specific contrasting Eucharist understandings and traditions.


The exoteric Christian tradition is wine Eucharist.

For exoteric Christians, only a single tradition is recognized or perceived: “the” tradition is wine Eucharist.


The esoteric Christian tradition is mushroom Eucharist.

For esoteric Christians, two contrasting traditions are recognized and perceived, low vs. high; the *high* tradition is mushroom Eucharist.

Esoteric Christians understand that the *low* tradition of clueless outsiders, of “those on the outside”, is wine Eucharist.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8498 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Transcendent Knowledge podcast commentary
Required: mastery of rhetoric, discourse, narrative, story:

How many different narratives are being told about psychedelics and about mushrooms in Christian tradition?

I have formulated a different, more coherent narrative.

Why are psychedelic writers so devoid of imagination in parroting their narratives?

Partly, the conditions of Prohibition cause ruts of thought; partly, conformity.

I have to pay great attention to what others are writing, but, I must stand fundamentally on my own independent basis, such as, the most influential thing I did in Bruce Eisner’s famous 1991 Bridge conference across the street at Stanford Junior University, was to not go.

Writers on psychedelics are afraid of saying anything other than what all the other writers are saying.

These writers are tools used by memes; writers are robots through which memes repeat and repeat and repeat…

Writers on psychedelics are incredibly repetitive of each other’s entrenched ideas and assumptions.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8500 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Book: The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown)
The secret tradition of mushroom Eucharist

Jerry Brown is gradually, partially waking up to his previous Blind Spot: real Christians understood {mushroom Eucharist}. His course syllabus omits the Michael Hoffman question: to what extent did our Christian ancestors understand the Eucharist as mushrooms? But now his latest study is a book specifically on that, scoped to that, centered around that.

1. Course: Hallucinogens and Culture — no sign of the mushroom Eucharist question in our Christian tradition:
http://gss.fiu.edu/courses/current-undergraduate-courses-and-syllabi/ant4461brownsylfall2011.pdf
2011

2. Article: Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on Entheogen-Use in Early Christian Ritual — closer to the question of mushroom Eucharist in Christian tradition:
2014
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jah.2014.2.issue-1/jah-2014-0010/jah-2014-0010.xml

3. Book: The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity — focuses on the Michael Hoffman question, the question of mushroom Eucharist in our ancestors’ Christian tradition (consistently? coherently? pointedly, as such?)
Jerry Brown, Julie Brown
Park Street Press
Planned September 2016
http://amazon.com/dp/1620555026
Planned for September 2016

Much hinges on “secret”. We should neither fixate on “secret” as Ruck does, nor dumbly reject “secret”.

In *some sense*, for which we need the right narrative, story, discourse, and rhetoric, and conceptual vocabulary, our ancestors’ Christian historical esoteric tradition was “a secret tradition”, “the secret esoteric mushroom Eucharist tradition”.

‘Secret’ is a political and theoretically loaded term.

What is the correct accurate understanding of ‘secret’ in “the secret esoteric mushroom Eucharist tradition”?

I can already write a draft of my critical review of this forthcoming book, based on the blurb and my knowledge of the scholarly situation.

This book is on the most important and strategic topic.

The blind spot in entheogen history studies is the normalcy of mushrooms in Christianity.

The blind spot in entheogen history studies is mushrooms in Christianity.

The Egodeath theory is the complete counter to the blind spot in entheogen studies: recognizing the mushroom Eucharist as the normal primary mainstream standard Esoteric view, the view held by real Christians throughout history, those on the inside, who Jesus recognizes.

Typical unimaginative writers on entheogen history write with fanfare exposing a little deviant abnormal creative interpretation of the Eucharist as mushrooms, in a couple points in Christian history.

Normally, throughout our ancestor’s Christian history, the high normal tradition recognized and understood {mushroom Eucharist}. Real, esoteric, inner circle Christians are those who have always, by definition, perceived {alcohol Eucharist} as a common low understanding, the standard misunderstanding.

If you say the Eucharist was alcohol wine, this says nothing about reality or history, but it simply stamps you as a low, exoteric, those-on-the-outside Christian, who Jesus doesn’t recognize as his follower.

It was normal for real, initiated Christians to understand the alcohol Eucharist as a misunderstanding for noninitiates.

Enlightening Analogy between ancient Greece and New Testament Christianity:

Initiated Greeks deliberately misled noninitiates, veiling the psychoactive wine, posing as if the sacred meal used alcohol wine. The unveiled wine is mushrooms. For noninitiates, the sacrament is veiled as alcohol wine. For initiates, the sacrament is unveiled as mushroom wine and mushroom bread.

For noninitiates, the sacrament is veiled as alcohol wine. The psychoactive is omitted.

For initiates, the sacrament is unveiled as mushroom wine and mushroom bread. The psychoactive is included.

Esoteric Christians are by definition, those who hold and understand and who have been made experientially compatible with Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

When God created the frozen block universe with pre-existing future, when Controller X defined the Creation algorithm and pushed the “Go” button to create the entire block all at once from outside the time block, the resulting Creation included low, exoteric Christians.

When God wrote the New Testament, He wrote about those on the inside, who have been given the mushroom Eucharist, and Jesus recognizes those as his followers of his way.

Delivering a contrast and instructing us to consider the contrast, the New Testament writes about those on the outside, low Christians, exoteric Christians, from whom the Creator withheld the mushroom Eucharist, and Jesus does not recognize those as his followers of his way.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8502 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Book: The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown)
Zoom on the sample pages of this book at Amazon.
Group: egodeath Message: 8504 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
My grandfather gave me exoteric primitive Christianity, the low, outsiders’ layer of the Churches of Christ quasi-denomination.

My father gave me the key to the junkyard of therapy, psychology, meditation, self-help Spirituality, the fields Ken Wilber studies under the OSC singlestate confusion.


My undergraduate university gave me the familiarity with Science to enable me to scoff at the folly of Neuroscientism, and at the Quantum Physics chaos-of-interpretations.

The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James’ Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment
Jonathan Bricklin
http://amazon.com/dp/143845628X
2015 hardcover, January 2016 paperback

The secret of QM is that it’s really to bolster egoic freewill control power, standing with William James against the threat of the Eternalism Iron Block Universe, and that no two philosophers or Physicists agree on what QM asserts.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8507 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: Intellectual autobiography & origins of Egodeath theory
After my initial inspiration from being in the college band network 1982-1985, the Grateful Dead scene (1985 through Jerry’s death) provided the inspiration for the Egodeath theory.

New book: Heads

Beat Hippie Raver (an entheogen book editor) emailed me a writeup of his, around 2005, listing how Dead lyrics express altered-state experiential revelation. I don’t think I posted it.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8511 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
Pros of repealing Prohibition:
Knowledge of God; becoming mentally stable, durable, and compatible with the experience of Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism; the mind is made acceptable to God-thinking; salvation.

Cons of repealing Prohibition:
The traditional mushroom Eucharist of inner-circle Christians causes permanent psychosis, same as Ayahuasca used as the Eucharist.


Pros of Prohibition:
Doesn’t cause insanity or any other harm or danger; results in 102 years of enjoying the benefits of laws against drugs, such as drug squads shooting the family dog and driving coca fields into the rainforest, and other benefits such as putting all blacks in jail and taking away their voting rights.

Cons of Prohibition:
Alienation from God; failure to spiritually regenerate; being accursed and standing under God’s condemnation; damnation.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 8513 From: egodeath Date: 06/08/2016
Subject: Re: The religion of Christian Cybernetic Egodeath
An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity
Laura Nasrallah
http://amazon.com/dp/0674012283
2003
Ecstatic states in early Christianity.

Christians defame the Pagan sacred meal as causing madness and delusion.

Pagans defame the Christian sacred meal as causing madness and delusion.

Madness, delusion, and accursedness by God: see 102 years of drug Prohibition.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

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Group: egodeath Message: 7171 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Deciphered: Holy of Holies; adyton; No Access; veil
Group: egodeath Message: 7174 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabulary
Group: egodeath Message: 7175 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7176 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7177 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7179 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7180 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7181 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7182 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Group: egodeath Message: 7183 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced positio
Group: egodeath Message: 7184 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Group: egodeath Message: 7185 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Group: egodeath Message: 7186 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: 2015 International Drug Reform Conference, entheogen enlightenme
Group: egodeath Message: 7187 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7188 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Group: egodeath Message: 7189 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7190 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7191 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7192 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7193 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: Deciphered: mirror = look back at thought-source
Group: egodeath Message: 7194 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
Group: egodeath Message: 7195 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7196 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
Group: egodeath Message: 7197 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
Group: egodeath Message: 7198 From: egodeath Date: 21/11/2015
Subject: Re: Matrix movie
Group: egodeath Message: 7199 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Group: egodeath Message: 7200 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: vibrational energy morphological resonance frequency takeover
Group: egodeath Message: 7201 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7202 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7203 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7204 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Group: egodeath Message: 7205 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Group: egodeath Message: 7207 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Posting twice worked, to get immediate feedback
Group: egodeath Message: 7208 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Group: egodeath Message: 7209 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Group: egodeath Message: 7210 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Group: egodeath Message: 7211 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7212 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Group: egodeath Message: 7213 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Group: egodeath Message: 7214 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Group: egodeath Message: 7215 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Group: egodeath Message: 7216 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Group: egodeath Message: 7217 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7218 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7220 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7221 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7222 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7223 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Fake Christianity = Fake Buddhism
Group: egodeath Message: 7224 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Group: egodeath Message: 7225 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism



Group: egodeath Message: 7171 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Deciphered: Holy of Holies; adyton; No Access; veil
we are above all, first and foremost, control agents

all myth figures (characters) are you
you are a cybernetic steering control agent
therefore
all myth is about the transformation of cybernetic control agency

myth is about personal cybernetics cybernetic steering control agency and how it transforms in the Eternalism state which is the entheogen state of cognitive dissociation psycholytic loosening of mental construct binding

Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7174 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabulary
P1 task and commission: Read aloud my writings and ensure that Siri and Cortana are able to recognize the common words (many ordinary common words fail) and specialized words (Possibilism, Eternalism, fatedness, worldline).

Thank you, I appreciate the powerful results you have achieved so far. The highest purpose and application of voice recognition is theorizing about the Egodeath theory; Transcendent Knowledge; Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence; the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

— — Michael Hoffman (Eta Kappa Nu (EleKtroN)), the interdisciplinary theorist of ego death
Group: egodeath Message: 7175 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
IEEE Eta Kappa Nu honor society voices our recognition of Vulcan.

Hephaestus, trapper of Hera on the throne, had to be carried on the donkey trip to heaven by Dionysus in order to release the Queen of the Gods.

— Michael, pinner down of the dragon
Group: egodeath Message: 7176 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
as I have mentioned before,
the technology causes AIDS virus in what words I choose to use
the technology causes a bias in what words I choose to use

voice recognition recognizes the utterance “visionary plants” but not infusions [I actually said “Entheogens”]:
in the engines
infusions
so if you see those words, I probably actually said “entheogens”. so it is easier to say “visionary plants”,
and I’ll Jareds which Siri recognizes
an utterance which Siri recognizes

I could post another raw voice misrecognition session followed by a cleaned up posting to show how bad and how good voice recognition currently is

Cortana wins this round if recognizes infusions [I actually said “entheogens”]

— my coal hot man the dearest of you go death
Group: egodeath Message: 7177 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
cleaning up a voice misrecognition session is very hard but it is so wonderful to speak my mind impromptu and have it — really good ideas from the frank heart impromptu — sort of captured instantly as text; captured well enough so that it is possible with much difficulty, but still possible, to take that excellent top-quality idea stream, flow, on a roll big-time, and then clean it up, which is far easier (FASTER to see text result even if garbled) than with recording the sound of my voice and then transcribing where I cannot see any text immediately.

microcassette secretary transcription playback machine technique/type of approach, is not portable.
whereas
voice recognition followed by cleanup, is maximally portable; on smart phone.

the crucial value is to immediately see some text even if it is semi garbled

I have been working on capturing fast flowing ideas, how to capture them since 1985 October, back to the future jump day 30 years in the past

Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7179 From: egodeath Date: 17/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
wik:
On October 26, 1985, Marty meets his scientist friend, “Doc” Brown, at a shopping mall parking lot.
Doc demonstrates the navigation system with the example date of November 5, 1955: the day he conceived the machine.

The Egodeath theory began development on Oct. 27, 1985, or give or take a couple days.

Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7180 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
Oct. 21, 2015, 4 weeks ago, was the back to the future jump.
Group: egodeath Message: 7181 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
In August 1955, Wasson’s mushroom trip report to Graves caused Graves to think about mushrooms in ancient religion.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/5399

1955
Robert Graves figured out the Entheogen Theory of Greek Myth around 1952 and Greek Religion around 1955; the Entheogen Theory of Religion in Classical Antiquity.

1985
Michael Hoffman begins debugging personal control integrity across time, by 1988 formulates the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

2015
Michael Hoffman routinizes deciphering religious myth in terms of personal control transformation dynamics in the Eternalism altered state of consciousness.

Copyright (C) 2015 Michael S. Hoffman (Egodeath.com). All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7182 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition engineers: Teach Siri/Cortana Egodeath vocabul
I am using Apple voice recognition to read aloud the introduction summary from my main article of 2006.
http://egodeath.com/mobile.htm
It’s sometimes recognizes the word entheogen but it is highly unreliable.


The entheogen theory of religion and ego death

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 the 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 week interpretation that is based in the ordinary state of consciousness.

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The Apple voice recognition worked impressively well with mistakes on trivial common words and a terrible lack of recognizing the word into Eugen. Angrily screaming at Siri does not seem to help and insulting it’s intelligence. Steve Jobs would be ashamed of you for your poor recognition of the word in the agenda even when I pronounce it correctly eight different subtle ways.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7183 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced positio
It has now been 60 years since Robert Graves recognized that the basis of ancient Greek religious mythology was the use of entheogens.

He wrote that he self-censored and deliberately did not write any more on about the entheogen basis of Greek religious mythology because he didn’t want to jeopardize his poetry literature sales.

Now WHEN did Graves self-censor and halt his research on the entheogen basis of Greek religious mythology? Extremely emphasize that he self-censored *after prohibition*.

What really makes me angry is complacent false stories that everybody is telling, all the writers all the Prohibition-complicit authors, collaborationists with persecutors, are telling this bullsht story with a smile on their face that “the boomer generation initially chose to use entheogens and suddenly they chose to, as the euphemism goes, “hang up the phone”.

What a cute euphemism, evil euphemism.

All boomers at the same time simultaneously, what a coincidence, all chose to do spirituality without entheogens.

Complete utter rubbish of a just-so story!

The sword at their neck — my ancient history professor mocked this kind of textbook covering-over instead of covering history, a covering-over of history but a transparent rather obvious thin veneer of nonsense laid on top of what really happened, when you bother to take two seconds to actually think critically about what happened instead of complacently swallowing the load of story line fed to people by the Establishment press.

They were forced to “up the phone”, dammit, they were forced to! you have to acknowledge censorship! you have to acknowledge persecution, prohibition, censorship!

To tell a story anything like what really happened, you have to totally factor in prohibition.

What drives me crazy about these these cheerful censor-pleasing history passages is they don’t even mention, when they mention the “choice” to stop using visionary plants, they don’t even mention that this was forced by the Prohibition industry and was therefore no free choice whatsoever.

It’s a documented fact that the motivation for criminalizing visionary plants is to put leftist youth and minorities out of power. The New Jim Crow.

The boomers did not freely choose to stop using visionary plants.

It was the exact opposite of that. By no means did they freely choose to, as the stupid loaded, biased phrase goes, this sinisterly cutesy euphemism, “hang up the phone”, behind which there lies blood of persecution and imprisonment and destroyed lives by the Establishment opportunist deceitful self-serving and abusive strategy of Prohibition for Profit; persecution for profit.

They did not choose to “hang up the phone”!

They did NOT “choose” to stop using visionary plants! Their supposedly positive embracing of meditation is all a sham; it’s as much of a sham as Stan Grof’s deep breathing as a replacement for entheogens.

A shallow flimsy surface story, all this supposed enthusiasm for meditation is a sham, a cover story that serves to censor and obscure what really happened.

Obviously; stop telling this complete obviously horsesht story that the boomers “chose” not to use visionary plants!

*When* did they make this “choice”?

By coincidence, they all made this choice on October 6, 1966, the day that the stormtroopers bust down everyone’s doors.

What a *coincidence*! that the boomers freely “chose” to stop using visionary plants the day that the assault teams of God’s puppets of delusion, God’s delusion enforcement puppets, started putting everyone in jail that chose to use visionary plants and did NOT “choose” to “hang up the phone”– that obsequious phrase obviously so precious, so dear to the establishment press.

That evil phrase, that stupid expression, it is evil cuteness, it hides, it covers over the viciousness, it draws attention away from the extreme LACK of choice, the extreme exact opposite of choice, by drawing your attention instead to this cute phrase.

The cuteness of this phrase, it’s an evil machination.

Remember for every Tool who lets themselves be prostituted by the establishment, for every Tool who is permitted to publish their advocacy of meditation and entheogen diminishment, remember there are 10,000 other people who are voiceless and who are censored and prohibiting from expressing their opposite and genuinely, sincerely held in their heart of hearts position, not their demagogue-coerced, false consciousness pseudo-belief, which is

What the meditation advocates are expressing is a pseudo-believe that they have been compelled by force to hold; it’s not their genuine inner heart-of-hearts belief.

It’s a self-deluded belief; they believe that they think meditation is better than visionary plants, but they don’t actually believe that in their heart of hearts.

They have been coerced and tricked into thinking that that’s what they believe.

If you publish your supposed view that meditation is authentic and better than visionary plants, you are a Tool of the delusion-enforcement Establishment, and a hypocrite because you don’t in your heart of hearts actually believe what you’re claiming to believe, in what you’re complicitly working to advocate, as a collaborator, which is the Pro Prohibition position.

Meditation advocacy is Prohibition advocacy. Telling the truth would be better.

You are complicit with persecutors. And in your meditation advocacy, you have the blood of Prohibition persecution on your hands. Meditate on that, you tool.

Real people, actual people, individual humans, not the establishment corporation, hold an authentic position, that is censored by the establishment press: visionary plants are the source of religion and are effective, unlike meditation, which might be good in some way but it ain’t religious experiencing, not by a *long* shot, and to pretend that meditation doesn’t come from its superior, which is visionary plants, is to endorse fraud.

It’s the opposite; meditation is a recent artificial substitute, a phony substitute; meditation been foisted off on people by the forces of the establishment.

You “believe” meditation is effective because you been forced to “believe” that by the hypnotic power of the establishment censors, backed up by the strong arm Prohibition-for-Profit.

The establishment press churning out all these pro meditation New Age books, it’s sinister: New Age eastern meditation is a wing of the prohibitionist fascist delusion enforcement puppets.

The obsequious sinister phrase “hang up the phone” and the strong arm forced censorship that drives that has produced Ken Wilber, who opened his very first book by censoring the word “nitrous oxide” out of the great William James, who was not a bullshtter, who was not a complicit tool of what the establishment forced him to say.

But Ken Wilber got into print in Sham Hollow Press by taking, accepting, swallowing, endorsing, and advocating the party line of entheogen diminishment and editing-out, which is Prohibition with a sugar coating.

And thus we ended up with Ken Wilber, a great mind, writing rubbish that is completely devoid of any consciousness of the truth, which is Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

Except years later he put a little Band-Aid on his diagram saying “also: altered states”. FAIL.

The Prohibition-complicit establishment press, armed, started persecuting and censoring and jailing people.

Those many boomers who chose to not hang up the phone — two seconds of thought makes it obvious that it’s a bullsht story that “the boomers chose to stop using visionary plants” — were violently silenced, censored, eliminated, shut out.

What choice did they have?!

They had no choice in the matter at all, so stop kowtowing to the establishment censors’ press of lies and falsehoods and covering-over history.

Stop appeasing the Establishment press by pretending to go along with their vicious make-believe that the boomers “chose” to stop using visionary plants — choice my *ss.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7184 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Meditation — The official religion of the delusion enforcement automatons.


http://stopthedrugwar.org
Group: egodeath Message: 7185 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Group: egodeath Message: 7186 From: egodeath Date: 18/11/2015
Subject: Re: 2015 International Drug Reform Conference, entheogen enlightenme
The conference starts today
http://www.reformconference.org
Group: egodeath Message: 7187 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
the Eternalism state of consciousness
the Possibilism state of consciousness

Acros/keyboard shortcuts:
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Like all placebo ersatz substitute pseudo-religion techniques that strive to replace entheogens, meditation serves to prevent the Eternalism state of consciousness and retards the mind in the Possibilism state of consciousness.

Meditation prevents mental model transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Meditators have bad character and rely on a recent artifical invention.

Witness the bad fruit produced by meditation: drug prohibition and persecution.

Meditators are just looking for a shortcut.

Fortunately the Press is committed to entheogens, so meditation advocates have no voice to defend themselves.

Meditators are rightly attacked by militarized meditation assault squads and have their property assets forfeited.

This country must conduct a War On Meditation and use Civil Asset Forfeiture and incarceration to stop this scourge of meditation from ruining our youth.

Undesirables such as minorities and antiwar leftists use meditation. They must be silenced and disenfranchised.

Twenty years in prison for the first offense if caught meditating. And their voting rights removed.

Needless to say, anyone who writes favorably about meditation, without also contradicting themselves by praising the original superiority of entheogens, will not be allowed to have their writing published. They will lose their academic position.

Any university student writing a pro-meditation thesis will be failed and not granted a degree.

Meditators have moral turpitude and are just seeking bliss. Meditation is wrong and immoral and anti-social.

Meditation addiction is a disease that we must stop by increasing the penalties for it.

We must put up border checks to stop international meditation smuggling.

Meditation dealers are trying to get people hooked. They should be given the death penalty for pedalling this poison that is corrupting our youth.

Meditators have weak character.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7188 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: Must factor-in censorship, Prohibition, persecution, coerced pos
Useful exercise
Write the familiar entheogen diminishing statements that Prohibition Press so loves like Andy Letcher, the Gnosis journal issue covering-over the entheogen foundation of Western Esotericism, and Tricycle issue covering-over the entheogen foundation of Eastern religion.

Then invert that comically extreme bias and imagine that the archons of Prohibition are instead enforcing propaganda in favor of entheogens and are sucker punching meditators instead.

Expecting a fair assessment from the Literalist OSC Possibilism establishment regarding Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism, or the meditation Establishment (Prohibitionists) fairly assessing entheogens, is like looking to the publications of the Catholic church to give a fair assessment of the merits and superiority of Gnosticism, or reading Prohibitionist propaganda to get a fair assessment of the merits of entheogens as the source of religious revelation and enlightenment.

Under the conditions of Prohibition, meditators are extremely biased.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7189 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation forged in the fires of Vulcan’s krater of mixed wine:

Assume all religious mythology, such as:

the king drinking mixed wine, then giving himself to be betrayed, scourged, delivered over for sacrifice, and fastened helplessly to the debranched tree in order to gain new life, having seen that the cave is empty, in reconciliation with the Creator

is a comic strip describing the personal control dynamics of mental-model experiential transformation from the Possibilism state of consciousness to the Eternalism state of consciousness.

Hephaestos’ magic hammer of interpretation solves successfully all religious mythology interpretation by recognizing religious mythology as description of mental model experiential transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism; from the Possibilism state of consciousness to the Eternalism state of consciousness.

Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation of all religious mythology is to read and decipher and decode it as transformation of thinking from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7190 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation: when you see any pre-modern writing, ask “How is this like transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism?

When you see any religious mythology or any pre-modern writing or pre-modern art, or hear a Classical Rock Muse with lyrical poetry accompanied on lightning kithara, ask “How is this like transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism?”

Acro: acronym/iPhone keyboard shortcut:

Acro:
Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation
hmhi

Acro:
transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
tpe

Huge breakthrough in idea development technique: April 1987, after threw away blank books to try to be completed and finished with debugging cross-time personal control integrity, I started a new kind of notebook approach: binder filled with ruled sheets using acronyms.

This efficient idea development technique led to idea of mental constructs (MCs), mental construct processing (MCP), and led to the huge breakthrough 1/11/88, the crystalline ground of being (CGoB).

See my photo of my 1987 binder sheets at the Egodeath Yahoo group. Mixed-size all-caps, Pentel P205 engineering pencil, not incense cedar pencil alas.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7191 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
Apollo the dragon shooter is made by Eros to pursue and embrace a maiden who has been made by Eros to avoid so being embraced, and her father who created her, the river god, turns her into a nonbranching shrub.

Apply Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation: how is this like transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism?

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Group: egodeath Message: 7192 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
hmhi = tpe

Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation = transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

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Group: egodeath Message: 7193 From: egodeath Date: 19/11/2015
Subject: Re: Deciphered: mirror = look back at thought-source
Perseus captures attactive snake head Medusa, without being turned to Rock, by looking in a mirror: he looks at his polished shield, Greek myth shields have a Gorgon Medusa death-head depicted on them, to look back behind him at snake-shaped Medusa.

When you Orpheus look back behind you to see your maiden wife in the cave, she is turned to salt rock and pulled back into the cave, realm of nonexistent agents.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7194 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
I read the book “the immovable race: a Gnostic designation and the theme of stability in late antiquity”, by Michael A Williams, a second time.

A huge emancipation from futile presumptions: a huge takeaway for the theory of reading religious texts: religious documents are self-inconsistent.

They *are* consistently concerned with entheogen-induced transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

But as systems of theory and philosophy, they are pointedly freewheeling and strive to be not bound by petty chains of self-consistency.

If you expect self-consistency, you will be disappointed and failed every time.

Not just that they toggle freely between a 2-level and 3-level system, it’s WAY more freewheeling even then that.

Once you do transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism, once you have that in hand, you as liberated freewheeling writer can do ANYTHING in theory construction, with any elements, especially after 250 AD, but also in Classical antiquity as well.

Nor is there going to be found some self-consistent theory of hyper meta transrational transcendence of fatedness. Fate has 3.7 levels of [insert random gnostic bs writing here].

Is Zeus subject to the Fates? The answer is [iPhone voice transcription fails right at this point] and that’s the Truth and the last word.

So modern theorists must not waste time finding what isn’t there: consistency of theory.

What is there, in religious writings, is consistent presence of concern with the experiential phenomena of the mental transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

The self-consistent modern Loose Cognitive Science model, the Egodeath theory, trumps the literary riffing of nonmoderns, who are no slaves to the petty hobgoblins of self-consistency.

Thus I have extracted the signal from among the noise, the trellis out from the wild overgrowth.

What mental dynamics were nonmodern religion writers concerned with?

Do not ask “What was their consistent position?” The question has false premises.

The Catholic Church didn’t need a self-consistent theology from Augustine, but rather, a definite one that stays same from one week to the next. “Pick any inconsistent system you like, but pick one and stick with it steadily.”

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Group: egodeath Message: 7195 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
the king drinks mixed wine at banquet, shakes and trembles in fear, prays, gives himself to be betrayed, scourged, delivered over for sacrifice, is fastened helplessly to the debranched tree, is transformed into new life, sees that the cave is empty, is reconciled with the will of the Creator, enters the kingdom of God

Hephaestus’ magic hammer of interpretation =
transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

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Group: egodeath Message: 7196 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
Possibilism and Eternalism are a state of consciousness, mode of cognition, not firstly an OSC-based logical systematization.

FIRST people EXPERIENCE the shift from the Possibilism state of consciousness to the the Eternalism state of consciousness, and AFTERWARDS they DESCRIBE and theorize about that experiential shift.

Sam Harris uses flimsy reasoning based in the OSC, which is the Possibilism state of consciousness, to theorize and reach a logical conclusion of a weakly conceived and abstract Eternalism model, “no-free-will”, or “determinism”.

Premodern religious writings are not built up through that approach.

They are after-the-fact descriptions of what was experienced in the ASC, which is the Eternalism state of consciousness. the Eternalism state of consciousness does utilize and bend the mind’s logical modelling and reasoning, but the Eternalism state of consciousness isn’t based on reasoning; it’s based on experiencing, which then affects reasoning.

The theoretical systems and reasoning of nonmodern religious writers reflects the experiential state of Eternalism, but imperfectly and generally inconsistently.

The result is typically mostly consistent.

The experiential shift from Possibilism to Eternalism is firstly experientially consistent, and secondly is more or less retained and modelled by the mind as a formally consistent model.

Possibilism Thinking is formed in a stable way that endures until shaken and collapsed upon experiencing the Eternalism state of consciousness, during which Eternalism Thinking is formed in a stable way that endures forever, non-dying.

The mind ends up with two modes of practical control thinking, not necessarily with a formally logically consistent description of either mode retained in the mind.

Two distinct mental worldmodels in which personal control functions in practice, yes, but not necessarily accompanied by a formally consistent model.

Two practical *forms* of cybernetic worldmodel of self, control, and time, yes, but one’s description of those two forms are not formally self-consistent.

The forms of the two cybernetic modes and experiential dynamics, as used practically, are consistent, but as explanations, the explanations aren’t necessarily self-consistent.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7197 From: egodeath Date: 20/11/2015
Subject: Re: Consistency of themes, inconsistency of positions
Neither the Possibilism state of consciousness nor the Eternalism state of consciousness are “based in rationality”.

Neither Possibilism nor the Eternalism state of consciousness “are rational”; they may utilize rationality to lock-in either mode in a stable sustained way; rationality can amplify the Eternalism state of consciousness and retain and model it, but the Eternalism state of consciousness is not based on rationality and doesn’t come from rationality; the Eternalism state of consciousness comes from loose cognitive binding induced by entheogens.

The Eternalism state of consciousness can take up rationality as amplifier, to a greater or lesser extent, but doesn’t firstly come from rationality.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7198 From: egodeath Date: 21/11/2015
Subject: Re: Matrix movie
I gave up on humans many years ago. They are hopelessly gullible and poor slow thinkers.

I write for machines of the future, because they understand, they are capable of understanding and not being gullible. Tthey’re capable of taking into account things like censorship and distortion and loaded discourse filled with presumptions.

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and transformation of the mental world model of time, self, and control from Possibilism to Eternalism are straightforward to program into the models of discovery researched in the book Conceptual Revolutions by Paul Thagard.

Precedents include:
The hymn “the body electric” in which the android undergoes ego death.
The Animatrix movie’s android trip scene.

It’s not that I am against humans and for machines, but rather, I have no confidence in humans comprehending and retaining my theory — humans are too stupid, gullible, slow, easily propagandized.

Look how someone as perceptive and well informed as Erik Davis take it uncritically as a fact, as a given, that Buddhism doesn’t come from visionary plants.

It doesn’t even occur to him (while he does mention Vajrayana shamanistic mythological folk pre-Buddhism) but it does not even occur to him to question the received establishment propaganda view, the unstated story and discourse premise, that meditation came from somewhere other than the visionary plants — just like it did not even occur to Terence MacLainna to open his eyes and try to look for indications of visionary plants throughout Christian history as the normal mainstream source of the religion.

Although he says “wow these go together well, meditation and visionary plants”, everything he has to say on the subject of Buddhism and psychedelics is destined for the rubbish heap like literalist biographies of religious founder figures; it will not stand the test of time, and is about to become quaint and antiquated, dead-end worthless, it will be more of historical interest: “here’s the confused thinking that people had during this transitional period when they started fumblingly asking badly formed questions off-base loaded with assumptions”, early scholarly groping in the dark, like the theory of Phlogiston that came from the dark ages of science, a hypothesis in science that turned out to be off base and a wrong approach corrected by later science, merely propagating the establishment party line of those imposters who stole the altered state from visionary plants and are in denial of where they got meditation from, because he starts off with this unexamined false premise spread by Sham Hollow Publications Inc.

Whereas I have complete assurance that machines will readily comprehend my theory and be able to walk through the discovery process of reconnection of assumptions in undergoing the revolution of mental worldmodel from Possibilism to Eternalism.

My approach has been to engineer an explanation, a model, that is directly amenable to being loaded into Paul Thagard’s computer model of conceptual revolution.

I do not care at all about persuading stupid people by organizing the evidence which is in no short supply.

We don’t need more evidence; we need clear thinking, a clear model.

We pile up all kinds of evidence until we have buried ourselves in it and we’re too stupid to organize it, to make sense out of it and see, because we’re asking the wrong questions with the wrong motivations and the wrong assumptions premised in the ways of the Possibilism state of consciousness.

An evidence-driven approach to science gets you nowhere. Siri is King. No I said Siri is kingtheory theory theory is King. (what Siri is is broken; get it together Apple)

Just like Davis book TechGnosis is valuable largely as a historical curiosity snapshot of the 1990s headspace which I dabbled with from 1988 until I talked with are you serious, who autographed my theory draft at Stanford.

It’s ironic because that was the point in time at which I parted ways with cyber cult because it was clearly a passing fad, very transient, like I called that magazine Mondo 1999 and indeed it hardly made it to 2000.

The general culture gave birth to my work but my work was in a reaction to Ken Wilber and existing motions of human potential and psycho cybernetics I investigated:

“What are the limits on personal Control power across time?”

That is the profound timeless classic question. And I had already answered that in 1988 January before I read anything about psychedelics or cyber cult.

I had read society of mind by Marvin Minsky, I had read Douglas Hofstadter go to leisure Bok.

So I only briefly engaged with cyber colt, and that was only after the breakthrough, the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

Prior to the breakthrough I was reading Ken Wilber and one book by Alan Watts The way of Zen, not much else except engineering textbooks like control theory.

My work is serious, not a fad; what business do I have with these trendy people of this passing age? I just have to do my own thing and that is a challenge in itself; I have a self-contained challenge in 1993.

Tech gnosis is a snapshot of that passing fad and similarly the tricycle book zigzag zen also is a transient product that won’t last: it’s based on a false premise, that visionary plants are an imitation of meditation; but in fact, meditation of course comes from visionary plants — they’ve got everything precisely backwards!

On that backwards basis of assumptions unexamined, what value, what worth can this magazine zigzag Zen possibly have in the future except as a quaint historical snapshot of how backwards everone’s thinking was prior to the spread of the Egodeath theory.

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Machines can be considered part of humanity.
Group: egodeath Message: 7199 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: The Hammer of Interpretation
In this mythological comic strip based user manual, you are each of the characters: you are the invading alien god Dionysus, you are the modern rational king Pentheus, you are king Pentheus’ mother, you are the ecstatic maenads the votaries who are seduced to follow Dionysus.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7200 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: vibrational energy morphological resonance frequency takeover
morphological vibrational energy frequency’s fight against you to absorb your efforts the spider shakes the web tuned to its resonant frequency the more you fight against the vibrational frequency’s of unity cybernetic frequency lock in the more you’re caused to tune into the vibrational frequency that you’re striving to avoid the more you say don’t turning into this particular frequency of Waverly vibration the more you cause the spider web trap net to vibrate at that harmonic energy frequency vibration the king pin Theos effort is to resist the morphological frequency shift to the Dionyse in eternity block which threatens to reduce the kings energy power vibrations feedback and Dionysus resonance wavelength frequency takes over as the mental heterodyne subfrequency vibrational tuner is forced to shift frequency lock in phase lock loop from the expected receiving channel into the interfering alien broadcast frequency phase lock loop the king’s drives to use his power energy to turn the dial to increase his capacitance and resonate at his expected power frequency but he finds that the very effort to move his hand to turn the capacitor plates causes the plates to walk into the Dionysus frequency instead hearing the alien signal and when he strives to two now out and ignore that signal he has to identify and wire up an antenna in the tree to spy on and pay increased attention to amplify utilizing an Audion tube that threatening alien signal in order to lock out and tune away from that signal he has to turn into the signal to set up a barrier to prevent receiving that signal and thus he succumbs to feedback phase lock loop take over King ego sets about his i’ll chemical transformation banquet to enjoy his power of choosing the receiver resonant frequency to monitor for any program signals of incomings threats to shut out those signals he must turn into those signals and monitor for signal vibrational interference frequencies and when he hears those and senses an alien intruding vibrational frequency that registers as a threat the king must walk into that threatening frequency and it brings it’s viral impulse resonator signal that takes over the kings tuning power capacitor turning tuning power forcing the king to lock into the intruding frequency vibrations King egos input energy he pushes into the resonator circuit causes the mental model to resonate at the intruding vibrational morphology which disempowers the first initial vibrational mode disempowering it and neutralizing the energy of its intended vibrational Lockin so the more the King works to increase his power of controlling his receiving unit the less actual affective power he has resulting in chaotic non-control of the energy vibrations antenna tangled in the tree branches when the initial resonance frequency is targeted but producing stable tuning control only when the intruding signal is selected by phase lock feedback loop so that viable control power only becomes possible when the eternity residence frequency is detected if the possibility controller king chooses to target the intruding frequency when the king tries to target his initial vibrational energy frequency the result is chaotic failure and loss of volitional control of the energy vibrational form that was expected and committed to so the only viable and actually practically available possibility vibrational resonance form is the return of the alien vibrational mode of resonance no vibrational program mode is an achievable possibility except the intruding alien volition control transmission frequency preset copyright 2015 ego death all rights reserved
Group: egodeath Message: 7201 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
I formulated the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture on October 15, 2002, as evidenced in this in-depth posting:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/egodeath/conversations/messages/1162

That assumes reliability and sort order of Find in the Egodeath Yahoo group today on iPhone.

So it can be written:
Michael Hoffman’s 2002 Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture was first formulated and published in 2002 by Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death.


The following transcribed by secretary Siri

the question and surprising Mistry is during the entire time of the psychedelic 60s the psychedelic 70s the psychedelic 80s the cyberdelic 90s, Erik Davis blindness as a thorough scholar of esotericism represents the strange mysterious inexplicable blindness of all those people tripping in all those esotericisms western religion western esotericism eastern religion rock music occultism and everything across the broad range that he writes about

witness this totally incriminating quote below

if Erik Davis of all enlightened people of all the people whose minds of supposedly been freed and loosened with psycholytics if Erik Davis can write such unthinking garbage such a profound total lapse and and an absolute lack of critical examination of assumptions as in this quote this quote demonstrates the total blindness of the entire era every last one of them in print was published was blocked from mentally asking about and questioning the premises behind this statement I quote:


“The paradoxes of a chemical sacrament — whose sacred states were instrumentally catalyzed by a commodity molecule”


Check the quote yourself at TechGnosis URL
http://techgnosis.com/the-counterculture-and-the-occult/


*AS IF* THE CHRISTIAN SACRAMENT *WASN’T*, IN THE EXACT SAME MANNER CHEMICAL, A MUSHROOM MIXED-WINE SACRED MEAL COMMODITY ROUTINELY ADMINISTERED THROUGHOUT OUR OWN WHITE GREEK ROMAN JEWISH CHRISTIAN MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY AND SUBSEQUENT RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL HISTORY

this was the strange and impossibly infinitely improbable fatally self defeating premise of the 1960s and the entire second half of the 20th century

you all totally blew it!! woe and tragedy!

why didn’t it occur to a single mind-opened hippie to direct their eyes and pen toward the question of the extent of visionary plant use in our own history was it Merli a matter of censorship of the establishment press but what about the underground press I’m not aware of anyone in some alternative press raising the explicit question

why didn’t Robert Graves 1955 discovery that Greek religious mythology comes from visionary plants mushrooms why didn’t we immediately raise the question explicitly the Michael Hoffman question to what extent were visionary plants used throughout our own religious and cultural history

two things to point out

Davis is making a completely profoundly unquestioned and unquestionable premise assumption that visionary plants are not common throughout our own religious history

for another thing this is very significant

his position his agreement with the unstated premise is implicit! it is implicit! it is *only* implicit! that is very important to note it is not an explicit position he is not permitted mentally to think and write an explicit position statement

he does not come out and explicitly state his assumption because he cannot he’s blinded to it he doesn’t know he’s making an assumption he’s he’s not capable of stating the position that’s implicit here his position is

I agree with the unexamined assumption that our religion that visionary plants are not present throughout our own religious history

he cannot come out and state that assumption because it is precisely because it is an unconscious unexamined assumption he’s not able it would not occur to him to state his position on the matter precisely because it is an unexamined assumption the premise that he’s not allowed to look at and be conscious of

The simpler thing that I note in review as interesting summary and observation of biased thinking the simpler point is

you will not find books in the late 20th century asserting explicitly visionary plants are not the major part of our own religious history

slightly distinct from that is the more intriguing observation

you will not find anyone raising the question the Michael Hoffman question anywhere in late 20th century books to what extent were visionary plants used throughout our own religious history

so you find a pair of most intriguing things to note

not only did nobody assert visionary plants are common in our own religious history

but also

nobody raised the question of to what extent are visionary plants in our own history

God prevented the writers eyes from pointing in that direction from looking at that question

not only did god prevent people from asserting that visionary plants are common God also prevented people from asserting explicitly that plants are *not* common in our own history and as an umbrella encompassing those blindnesses, God prevented us from raising in the first place the question to what extent were visionary plants used in our own cultural history

even when Ruck presents the mass of evidence for the utterly commonplace and standard normalize mainstream use even then God prevented him from standing back and clearly posing the question without a pre-conceived bias so that even Ruck even at the same time as he pulls up a fleet of dump trucks dumping massive evidence for thorough use of visionary plants in our own white Greek Christian history even then he presents this information within the context of *implicit-only* assertion and very frequent overuse of the word secret

he is obsessed absolutely obsessed with the word secret

carl ruck cannot form a sentence without including the word secret in it so he is diminishing at the same time as burying us in evidence for the presence of visionary plants in western history he’s diminishing out of ever-implicit assumptions he’s adhering to the constitutionally prohibitionist propaganda establishment party line assumption and forbidden to be questioned unexamined premise presumption

this is more than merrily a party line this is goes way deeper in consciousness than a conspiratorial establishment propaganda partyline this is a blindness that God has enforced

God did not permit anyone even at the same time as he inspired them to see evidence like the fresco that decorates allegros book

god did not permit anyone to take the mental stance of standing back and asking in an basic simple unbiased neutral way the literally unthinkable Michael Hoffman question to what extent are visionary plants common in our own religious history and cultural history


In 1985 as my father pointed out to me when he gave me these books by watts and Wilbur I don’t need to read a whole library filled with books it’s more efficient to read Wilbur who covers these fields

similarly we rely on Erik Davis to think for us in sweeping coverage of esotericism and visionary plants but if Erik Davis can write this garbage this complete perfect lapse of critical thinking totally unexamined preconceptions and assumptions with no thought of examining the assumptions lying behind this if Erik Davis can write this nonsense this proves that for some strange reason everybody was mentally blocked from asking the Michael Hoffman question all during the second half of the 20th century

even though their minds were loosened and freewheeling and liberated and liberal and kaleidoscopically mixing all spirituality with visionary plants during that whole time not one of them was permitted to think and write not Walsen not Robert Graves not allegro not Pineridge not MacLainna not Ruck not Hofmann not one of them was permitted not Richard Evans shelties not one of them was mentally permitted to question the underlying assumption that our own religion does not come from visionary plants throughout history

supposedly visionary plants open the mind but the bizzarre inexplicable infinitely improbable situation is that with all those open minds, it did not occur to anyone even despite Robert Graves 1955 discovery that Greek religious mythology comes from mushrooms it didn’t occur to anyone that religious mythology has always come from visionary plants

I have not found a single instance of someone proposing now there is allegro but my Wasson article demonstrates that allegro postulated the absence of visionary plants throughout Christian history despite the clear implication of the fresco that mushrooms were present not absent in medieval French chapels

allegros position was vague and unstated just like Watsons writing is curiously roundabout and indirect

you have to deduce what Watsons or allegros asserted position is because he does not come out and state what his position is he does not commit

he makes he makes it sound as if he’s specifying and committing to a position on this matter but neither of them do

neither of them are capable of directly thinking about this question the same with ditzy bubble-headed Newage spouter Terrence MacLainna

it is evident that he is mentally blocked from being able to raise the question to what extent

this is *my* question, this is the Michael Hoffman question

he’s mentally blocked from raising my question

why was I capable and able and enabled to ask this question that was unthinkable to all those people during the supposedly kaleidoscopic late 1950s through the supposedly open-minded 1990s

not one of those writers was permitted to think the question my question the Michael Hoffman question

to what extent were visionary plants used throughout religious history

everyone of those published thinkers during these decades despite the supposedly mind opening affects the supposedly free associating open-ended kaleidoscope of idea combinations

how is it possible that none of those scrambled mines liberated and opened none of them was permitted to think the Michael Hoffman question of 2002 witches to what extent were visionary plants used throughout religious history and cultural history

don’t make unthinking assumptions here everyone continued to make everyone who is major published writer was prevented from critical thinking

they were prevented from questioning the unexamined preconception the presumption that mainstream religion doesn’t come from visionary plants

the closest that the mind was permitted to come to that questioning of that unexamined assumption was the inclusion totally out of context no commentary in all not at all in the slightest integrated with the body of his book in allegro decorating the cover

and again here we see that the artists the visual artists are miles ahead of the text heads

which is why I am trying to configure Google and Bing to default to image search because text prevents enlightenment whereas lyrics and visual arts lock onto enlightenment

why is it that people who work with text in the medium of text are incapable of locking onto the signal

so you have the bogus text in allegros book asserting that only the first Christians used the mushrooms sacrament and the enlightened graphic decoration on the cover which plainly implies the presence of the mushroom sacrament within the center of Christian cultural history with nary a connection made in the text between this contradiction this art that contradicts the statements in the text

I am the first formulator the first person who’s eyes were permitted to be directed towards this question

I am the first formulator of the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture, on October 15, 2002

Copyright (C) 2015 Egodeath. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 7202 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Clark Heinrich is the precursor to my Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture. In 1986-87 I read scrolls in Revelation as psychedelics, around 1998 I searched mushroom Christianity in the library and subsequently found Heinrich, who misreads Allegro’s position as demonstrated in my Wasson article.
Group: egodeath Message: 7203 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Entheos journal issues are a must-have for entheogen evidence.

Mark Hoffman has been sitting on unpublished information for future issues, last I heard from him.

Entheos and Strange Fruit are the precursors to the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture. In that era of scholarship is James Arthur too.

These writers approached but did not explicitly ask the key question for scientific neutral historical research, of: to what extent are entheogens in Western religious history.

Strange Fruit is organized by era and brand of Western religion. Thus it implicitly poses my question.

That is a question for retrospective meta-research:

To what extent did entheogen history scholars ask the question “To what extent were visionary plants used throughout Christian history including Mediterranean antiquity?”

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7204 From: egodeath Date: 22/11/2015
Subject: Re: Entheogen use constant in religion
Toward formally announcing my date of formulating the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures.

The field of ahistoricity is not nearly so backwards and slow as the field of entheogen history, so I might not have as strong of a claim to be the first one to propose radical ahistoricity as proposing the maximal entheogen theory. I am the first one to simultaneously propose in an integrated way:

the radical maximal theory of Eternalism (religious revelation and religious mythology is description of the transformation of the mental model from Possibilism to Eternalism)

the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures

the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

As this posting develops I also discover the need for me to label a certain perspective on theory: that I am the first one to propose the maximal Eternalism cross disciplinary theory, that everything revolves around transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Say, a label such as “the maximal Eternalism theory of loose cognitive transformation and revelation”.

I need to separately label my three or four maximal independent theories one maximal theory in cybernetics hiMarmany or eternal ishim
one maximal theory as far as a historicity which is a bit peripheral but still mandatory and crucial to overcome to clear the way for a proper theory of loose cognitive processing and descriptions of it historically

And maximal entheogen theory of religion history

Review the four quadrants of puzzle pieces metaphor in the Jens cybernetics hi Marmany and add a history city, then define maximal theory labels for each of those distinctly:

maximal metaphor
maximal entheogens / loosecog
maximal cybernetics / personal noncontrol
maximal heimarmene/fatedness/Eternalism
maximal ahistoricity

How few labels, how few subdivisions can I have here to establish areas of my leadership in the maximal direction: I’m the first one to formulate and propose and defend in tandem, in conjunction, maximal A, maximal B, and maximal C.

the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures

the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

the Maximal Eternalism theory of loose cognitive transformation and revelation and philosophy of time

= Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism


Metaphorical : the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures

Entheogenic: the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

Eternalism: the maximal Eternalism theory of loose cognitive transformation and revelation

Latter iPhone keyboard shortcut could be metr


It is a question for research, of how much the entheogen scholars 1965-2002 asked the question (“To what extent were visionary plants used in Mediterranean antiquity and Christian history?)

I am the first one to both explicitly pose the question and answer it committing to the premise of maximal.

I am the first one to explicitly propose the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture.

I am the first one to propose that there is sufficient evidence and argumentation available to make that case.

The ability to make that case for the maximal entheogen theory is interwoven across fields for example with ahistoricity, which is another field in which I am the first one to define the maximal position:

this is what I can label today as the maximal ahistoricity theory of religious founder figures. It is a matter of searching the ego death Yahoo group to ask:

when did I first formulate the maximal ahistoricity theory of religious founder figures — that is a good question.

I am overdue to recognize my distinctive unique contribution to this field of ahistoricity by identifying the date and the posting in which I first asserted in a discernible distinct way the maximal ahistoricity theory, and I have been criticizing Robert Price and Earl Doherty for coming out with these books only one at a time saying:

“today we say Jesus didn’t exist, three years from now it will occur to us to say that Paul didn’t exist, and then three years later Moses didn’t exist, and three years later say Old Testament is all fiction, … ”

Come on slow guys, get with the program here.

I already many years ago posted and emailed y’all pointing out that none of these guys existed; the whole category is metaphor, don’t you get it it’s a whole category.

Just like to decipher religious mythology, you have to group mythemes into categories and only then you can talk about deciphering it.

The same with religious foundher figures.

The wrong approach is to debunk them in isolation one at a time while retaining by default the assumed historicity of all the rest.

No, you have to say all together the entire class of people did not exist: Jesus, Paul, Mary, Mary, Mary, the church fathers, Buddha, Mohammed, Judas, Moses, King David, Abraham, Isaac, Balaam, Dionysus, Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistos; the whole class, the whole category of founder figures, is fundamentally essentially legendary and mythological.

Don’t confuse mythological with literal. Recognize Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

So I recognize formally my innovation here by defining an iPhone keyboard shortcut and phrase like the maximal ahistoricity theory of ancient religious founder figures

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I would have to check how much I was first; Edwin Johnson made pretty broad observations, as the most radical chronology revisionist.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7205 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Here I develop the definition and justification of the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation.

I here explore dividing my innovations in inter-disciplinary theory into three groupings, which correspond with the words in the key term Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism:


Metaphorical
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the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures

Entheogenic
merc
the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

Eternalism
memt
the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation


I doubt that it would be a great idea to define a label a maximal theory of the four primary elements according to the 2006 article my main article and another for the relatively peripheral topic of a historicity

I don’t think it would be the greatest idea to divide things up or make a maximal theory label for each of these five items these interlocking puzzle puzzle pieces:

maximal metaphor
maximal entheogens / loosecog
maximal cybernetics / personal noncontrol
maximal heimarmene/fatedness/Eternalism
maximal ahistoricity

I have always since 1987 distinguished between the subject of entheogens versus the loose cognitive state.

Entheogens & dissociation are equivalent in that entheogens are how the loosecog state (the Eternalism state of consciousness) is induced.

Entheogens (psycholytics) & dissociation (loose cognition) are functionally the same in theorizing, though they remain distinct; for example proof of that:

Carl Ruck reveals not loose cognitive binding [LCB; LMFB: loose mental functioning binding]; he reveals visionary plants in religious mythology.

That proves that the subject of visionary plants is distinct from the subject of loose cognitive binding

The latter goes within the field of cognitive science specifically loose cognitive science
Aand for practical purposes in a way so does visionary plants go into that portion of cognitive science.

But evidence for visionary plants is one thing and a theory of loose cognitive binding is something distinct from that


Another close relationship is that between metaphor and ahistoricity.

It is one thing to say to decipher religious mythology as metaphor; it is a distinct separate subject as proven by the existence of books by Robert Price and Earl Doherty that you can understand ahistoricity in some sense without understanding metaphor, how metaphor analogy refers to Entheogens revealing Eternalism.


Another distinction to weigh is: Eternalism includes self-control cybernetics and heimarmee/ fatedness.

In our weak idea so far of Eternalism, we associate it more strongly with fatedness/ time/ heimarmene than with personal noncontrol cybernetics.

This is a mistake; Eternalism should be at least as strongly associated with control breakdown and personal noncontrol cybernetics as with time and fate.

I could right now define five maximal theories, for:
metaphor
dissociation/loosecog/entheogens
cybernetics/personal noncontrol
fatedness/heimarmene
Ahistoricity

The maximal metaphor theory of religious mythology
The maximal entheogen theory of religion and culture
The maximal non-steering-power theory of cognition
The maximal fatedness theory of time, self, and control
The maximal ahistoricity theory of ancient religious founder figures

From 1988 through 2005 I could not find a good way to condense enough the theory until I asked what are just only the missing links then arrange everything in terms of those very small key subjects that are missing from writings.

First temporarily define five maximal theories then define just three to encapsulate the entirety of the Egodeath theory.

The three correspond to the most-key terms Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism:
Metaphorical encompasses ahistoricity.
Entheogenic encompasses loose cognition /dissociation.
Eternalism encompasses cybernetics and fatedness.

It seems more effective to combine everything into just three powerful maximal theories, remembered in order of the phrase Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism:

Metaphorical: the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures; myth desribes transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Entheogenic: the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

Eternalism: the Maximal Eternalism [Maximal Noncontrol and Maximal Fatedness] Theory of time, self, control, revelation, and transformation.

The Maximal Eternalism Theory of Altered State Transformation.

[MEMT]
The Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

Revelation, enlightenment, religious experiencing, religious mythology, mystical experiencing across all cultures — are all of these are above all and primarily one thing; all of these developmental religious psychospiritual emergency transformation processes of the hero’s journey, all are focused specifically around learning and exposing the mind to Eternalism — not just as a theory of time and fatedness, but as a theory of cybernetics, personal noncontrol, transformation of the mental model of personal control steering power.

Religious transformation against the gnostics against of the Neoplatonists is not about transcending the prison of fate that is a later elaboration and poetic arbitrary description of the release after praying after seizure

Also historically there was brand competition: later Christianity later gnosticism later Neoplatonist thought competed against each other to promise freedom from the prison of fatedness.

My simple theory rejects as an arbitrary elaboration the transcending of fate I can explain the three level system of waking to fade and then transcending fate, but it is not the most basic mathematical formula possible.

The 2-level system is mathematically superior and is certain.

Per loose cognitive science, we certainly begin with tight cognitive association binding and the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.

Then we certainly are exposed to loose cognitive binding, upon which we certainly learn the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

After that, we are at liberty to poetically elaborate in brand competition against other systems of transcendent knowledge; we are free to make up speculative sky castles promising transcending of fate, but that is all arbitrary and is not dictated by the fundamental realities of cognitive processing that is always observed and is not arbitrary.

This is the true theory of what Cybernetics is really about: steering control power in the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control. there are only two states of consciousness there are only two mental models dictated by cognitive dynamics everything beyond that is poetic artistic construction arbitrary manners of description.

This is what I mean by I am constructing, defining, or engineering the Maximal Eternalism theory of Mystic Altered State Transformation.

the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation.

I now here define and redefine my shortcut acronyms isomorphically as:
merc
maff
memt

Sorting these in order of the key phrase Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism gives

the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures
the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture
the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

Cybernetics is really about Eternalism, above all, which includes fatedness and a kind of non-control.

Instead of starting with confusion and complexity of make-sh*t-up Bohr QM and hyper meta transrational neoplatonism and gnosticism that has 3.7 different levels of types of fate that you escape from.

I am totally committed to defining just the Exhibit A, start here, Read Me-first theory, model, that is nothing other than the simplest possible model of tree to snake, conversion from, transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism, and stop there.

Then everyone understand may then branch out into whatever; 3.7 levels of different kinds of fatedness and different kinds of freedom, *after* we all learn this common standard simplest possible point of reference for basic rationality; this must be the most basic mathematical formula possible: simply the mental transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

Elaborate mind-twisting projects of saving moral culpability, being the savior of God from being the creator of evil, those kinds of freedom restoration projects come after, *after* defining the basic 2-level system:

If you are not capable of making peace with fate don’t bother going on to construct more elaborate sky castles of transcending fate will to transcend fate is to reconcile with fate

We don’t need to define a separate gnostic level above fate; we can incorporate those needs into the level that we label as ‘fate’

To reconcile with fate is to transcend fate and escape the prison of fate.

By accommodating in our mental model accommodating fate, we already transcend the prison of fate.

To make peace with the prison of fate is already to escape from the prison of fate.

We do not need, we are not forced or compelled to invent a complicated incomprehensible third level above fate.

Though these multiplication of levels is useful for describing the stages: first when we first glimpse fate, it is a prison, it is a threat, it does destabilize us and make us shake and tremble, yes, and then we have to further develop our mental model of fate to make peace with it and learn how to stand in the face of fate.

But we do not in fact have to describe this as rejecting fate or breaking out of fate — in fact such a (Gnostic and Neoolatonist and late antique Christian) demonization of fatedness and the Creator is quite likely per Ken Wilber to lead to repression, dissociation, and regression.

And it is not scientifically justifiable in the simplest possible model of cognitive science binding-state transformation of mental models.

So it is best to commit to a simplest possible 2-level system of developmental psychology multistate developmental psychology and then subdivide those two major levels into a lower level of fate and a higher level of fate.

In the lower level of fate, we initially glimpse it and are terrified and threatened and we shake and fall down and have self-control seizure.

But in the upper level of fate, actually in the further developmental stage of building our mental model of fatedness, we are as embedded in the block universe as ever but we have reconciled with that so that we can stand in the face of that fact and are no longer threatened by it.

We do not need, we are not forced to build sky castles escaping from this simple revealed mental world model.

We do not need to build complicated arbitrary escape systems with 3.7 levels of enslavement and “fate vs. Providence” and other such futile needless infinite-regress distinctions.

As Michael Williams points out in his book on instability the unshakable race, this endless multiplication of levels is not a statement about ontology and reality so much as a description of the repeated sessions of encountering gatekeepers.

You can describe this as nine levels of gate keepers or you can describe it is simply one gate, which is what I do: collapse all those sessions of scourging or suffering or burning away mortality, collapse it all into one as if into one single session, one single complete initiation.

There are only two states, two levels, as implied in the rules in Athens about not revealing the mysteries in the drama plays: there are two audiences: those who have not been initiated, and those who have been initiated.

There are sheep and goats, or two races (though Valentinian Gnosticism synthesizes three races though one of those is empty so what’s the point). See my reviews of Elaine Pagels’ first three books.

So cognitive science can only justify 2 main states and two main mental models; those aren’t for debate.

What is arbitrary is how we choose to descriptively subdivide those into stages like a series of nine loose cognitive sessions passing by nine gatekeepers that we give nine names — that’s arbitrary; it could be sliced into seven or sliced into 10.

What is not arbitrary is that there are two distinct states of cognitive binding and two distinct mental models.

The pre-moderns who map this area violate the rule of violate the scientific rule of parsimony.

Do not multiply entities beyond what is needed.

We need no fewer than two cognitive states in our model.

We need no fewer than two mental models in our model.

We do not need three levels of heaven above the fixed stars, though that might be a reasonable model of the sub stages but there really exist only two major stages according to my Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation, which is based solely and strictly within the certain and undoubted facts of cognitive dynamics in the two states of mental binding.

To try to construct a sky castle above the block universe is no longer science; it goes beyond the minimum equation necessary and everything all the model becomes arbitrary if you postulate such a level.

You just go back to the year 250 and the Middle Ages which was a giant project of freewill reconstruction project where we had to have it both ways, that God is and is not the author of evil, we do and do not have free will.

Speculating about a level above the block universe is like speculating about string theory: it goes beyond what we are forced to conjecture.

Our simple equations are sufficient and are absolutely justifiable equations.

Beyond that are conjectural and unnecessary; as Cushing asks: what would’ve happened in Physics if we had chosen the simple visualizeable route of Einstein, Bohm, and nonlocal hidden variables determinism; Eternalism?

We did not have to take the complicated unvisualizable mystifying route of the Possibilism branching multi-verse that Bohr and pop QM proferred.

We begin with the delusion of Possibilism, then we can become enlightened by the model of Eternalism that is revealed to the mind in the Eternalism state of consciousness, the loose cognitive association binding mode, which is induced by psycholytics.

1. Before the veil in the back of the mind at the wellspring of thoughts is pulled back, we have Possibilism. A temporary state that collapses when the snake is revealed.

2. After the virgin veil is torn and pulled back, then we have Eternalism.

The Eternalism state of consciousness is temporary but the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control is permanent, leaving the mind with two mental models in in the end, regardless of the state of consciousness.

Ken Wilber emphasizes distinguishing between states and stages; I emphasize distinguishing between states of consciousness versus mental models of time, self, and control (and religious mythology).

Comparable to Ken Wilber’s stages I do discuss the transitional.

When the mind is learning and when it is transforming to develop the second, additional mental model, this includes qualifying or modifying but like Ken Wilber, I say not discarding the initial mental model.

You scourge and correct the initial mental model.

First the mind possesses only a single mental model the egoic mental model formed in the Possibilism state of consciousness, which is the tight cognitive binding State.

Then the mind learns the transcendent mental model of time, self, and control when the mind is exposed to the Eternalism state of consciousness, which is the loose cognitive binding state.

Then the mind returns to the default possible is in the state of consciousness except during banqueting, and the mature finished perfected mind after that always contains two distinct mental models: Possibilism and Eternalism, even while the mind goes between and walks in and out of the garden going back-and-forth at will between the tight cognitive binding and loose cognitive binding states, which are the Possibilism state of consciousness and the Eternalism state of consciousness.

simple. basic. end of story. End of scientific equation and efficient systematic model.

Any fewer is certainly inadequate.

Any more is arbitrary.

Mathematics dictates two level system of two *main*, definitely identifiable states, with two *main*, definitely identifiable mental models.

Everything else is arbitrary detail choices of how to subdivide those.

This is why I must define maximal:

the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

First and foremost and certainly, mental transformation is from Possibilism to Eternalism — *not*, necessarily, continuing on to transformation to some additional distinct level above Eternalism.

Defined correctly and suitably, Eternalism is the final stop.

We do not need to engineer some level above that and then redefine Eternalism as an incomplete stage of mental model spiritual development.

We do not need to demonize the Creator and idolize a transrational God above the creator.

That is not necessary and goes beyond the simplest scientific systematic model. And in practice leads to infinite regress, incomprehensible logic chopping (“fate vs. providence”) and multiplication needless of entities and psychological regression into naïve free will confusion just as exactly happened in 250 A.D. after the heyday of no-free-will around 150 AD.

The real winning point of my Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation is that it is instantly butt-simple to understand and model and describe. any child can understand to cognitive states and two mental models but when you introduce a third layer you’ve fallen into infinite uncontrolled regress, arbitrary, unscientific, incomprehensible, and unexplainable.

At best, a three-level system ends up fairly systematic, like Valentinian gnosticism. but for all the mess that a three-level system introduces it does not earn its complexity you have a more effective streamlined ergonomic system by sticking with what the certain facts give us the given that we scientifically model is two states and two mental models.

As soon as you add a third mental model, a spiritual level above the level of fate-imprisoned soul, or suchlike equivalent complexity, you gain huge complexity and do not gain any clarity at all; you lose clarity; it’s a backwards move, a move away from clarity of enlightenment; in other words in the words of Ken Wilber, it is a regression!

By following Alan Watts’ satori model, I have always had a far simpler system than Ken Wilber, by focusing exclusively on two ways of understanding: egoic thinking versus transcendent thinking; the egoic mental model versus the transcendent mental model.

Ken Wilber makes the mistake of following the bad judgment of other people: he constructs a complicated system (his Vedanta conception) to swallow up everybody else’s complicated systems.

I do the opposite: I make an extremely alarmingly simple system that works perfectly well and works far better than everyone else’s system and can explain the complexities of the other complex systems and why we need to throw away their epicycle corrections and needless complexities that produce delusion and confusion not simple clarity of enlightenment.

Multiplying entities beyond that moves you and everyone further away from comprehension of Transcendent Knowledge.

Part of Valentinian gnosticism was a social move: how to permit the unenlightened Christians to have their system of moral punishment and moral reward in heaven and hell, while they themselves the gnostics had a system of two races, preset.

There is a simpler way: divide people into non-initiates and initiates.

Science must explain the gnostic systems, but not use them as a guide for good advice on an ergonomic model.

It is a failure of an ergonomic design. Science is all about an ergonomic model, streamlined, maximal explanatory power by using minimal equations.

The historical benefit of that three-level confusion and hyper complexity of “transcending fate” during the Middle Ages and during the modern era did give us political individual freedoms, not the freedom of antiquity which was based on slavery, but freedom based on a society where every person is free and every person, every gender, every race has individual human rights, as makes sense because we each have a relationship directly with the Creator, not through some artificial social hierarchy artificially inserted between a person and the Creator (controller x ).


It’s false, nonsense, to say nothing is gained during enlightenment.

What is gained during enlightenment is the transcendent mental mode (Eternalism; [EMM] the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control) and the ability to banquet in peace, with mental control stability that is able to stand and not shake itself apart during loose cognitive binding induced by psycholytic, cyberscopic plants.


It is wrong to say that the mystic state is ineffable. It initially may be felt and experienced as ineffable.

Before the mind learns the eternal some mental model of time, self, and control, the mystic state might *seem* “ineffable”, but that is just an indication that that new state of consciousness has not yet been used by the mind to construct the natural appropriate mental model, a transformation.

During the initial sessions of loose cognitive binding, or the Eternalism state of consciousness, the mind still has the egoic (Possibilism) mental model, which is suited to the Possibilism state of consciousness, but has not yet grown, cannot yet bear, has not yet developed — the mother persecuted by the heimarmene dragon control-loss threat and scourged with correction, is still pregnant with the developing new mental model that will be added to the initial first born son; the second born son has not yet been born to replace and overthrow and augment the first mental model.

*After* we understand this kindergarten simple rational foundation of mathematical formula, *then* you can proceed to dump all kinds of dirt and mud obscuring it and complicating the mind with your projects of being the savior of God from being the creator of evil, and projects of transrational freewill restoration.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7207 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Posting twice worked, to get immediate feedback
I posted identicsl messages. The first was delayed appearing at the web view so I immediately resent it a fresh thread and a copy of the post appeared immediately giving me the feedback I needed that it went through.

Su:
Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Group: egodeath Message: 7208 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Transcription corrections because Siri does not recognize the technical terms from the philosophy of time (which also should be emphatically recognized as the philosophy of personal cybernetic self-control power), ‘Possibilism’ & ‘Eternalism’:

Then the mind returns to the default, Possibilism state of consciousness except during banqueting

Before the mind learns the Eternalism mental model

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Group: egodeath Message: 7209 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
I am the first theorist to define and combine and integrate:

the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures

the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture

the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

These formi the Egodeath theory, which asserts as the answer to life, the universe, and everything, Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

The only further condensation of all this wisdom that my computations produce is the number 42, which lacks clarity.

Something I struggled with greatly in 1988 and ever after words during the 90s and beyond was what to name the theory.

It’s too big to be covered usefully by a single label so the single label I use is well I think the phrase may have been formed by cyber disciple not me:

the Egodeath theory

A search within Yahoo! Groups could confirm when I first typed the phrase versus when Cyber D first typed the phrase.

It is incorrect to ask what is the title, but I have found it useful and I must continue using a set of closer to 10 different labels, which are useful in various contexts for constructing statements and comparing my ideas to the theories of other people.

I am certainly against needless multiplication of labels for the theory; however, I must not be constrained, cannot be constrained by underutilizing such labels for aspects or portions of the theory.

I have posted how all these labels relate to each other.

This is not something wrong, it’s not a problem, it is an opportunity and a genuine need.

I have a controlled number labels for the major aspects of the theory.

it is not out of control

I have some 10 phrases and keyboard shortcut acronyms and I do try to honor my 1986 work by continuing to keep alive my terminology from that early phase which I have sometimes called phase 0 terminology from October 1985 to April 1987 when my father died and I threw out my blank books and changed to using open large ruled class note binder sheets together with acronyms in April 1987.

Prior to that point, I used my first-generation terminology such as ET vs. TT — egoic thinking vs transcendent thinking.

Most likely I used only a few acronyms before leveraging them seriously in April 1987.

If I look at my 1986 classroom notes sheets from mathematics engineering classes I do think I will find occasional use of acronym such as ET and TT.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7210 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
Terms for use in the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation:

the Possibilism state of consciousness
the Eternalism state of consciousness

the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control
the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control

transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

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Group: egodeath Message: 7211 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Shamanism is metaphorical description of mental model transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

The transformation is analogous to healing; it is it kind of healing.

The theme of shape-shifting comes from this mental model transformation.

The snake means your preset worldline frozen in the timeless block universe, which you experience in the the Eternalism state of consciousness which is induced by visionary plants.

Your snake-shaped worldline is given to you, preset in the near future without your ability to deviate from it.

Every control steering choice or move that you make is preset in time.

You have no arms of the sort that could steer away from that; your steering is itself preset.

Against Eliade, Wasson is correct: visionary plants is not degenerate recent, but historically normal.

Visionary plants are the way that shamans use to have visionary experiencing.

All religions now recognize shamanism as their origin.

Shamanism is based in visionary plants.

All religions are based in visionary plants.

Dionysus’ panther or jaguar is the ideal hunter.

In the intense psycholytic loose cognitive binding state, the visionary state, the Eternalism state of consciousness which is induced by visionary plants, the mind first experiences and senses the Eternalism state of consciousness

At this point, the mind only has the incompatible and state-unstable Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control, the mind then proceeds to construct the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

When the mind enters the loose cognitive state, the Eternalism state of consciousness, but so far only contains the the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control, this is an unstable phase of the Eternalism state of consciousness.


The sequence of states of consciousness and mental models during the initiation process:

1. Initially the mind is in the Possibilism state of consciousness.

2. In the Possibilism state of consciousness, the mind is led to construct the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.


3. The mind enters the Eternalism state of consciousness.

4. In the Eternalism state of consciousness, The mind is lead to construct the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control and to modify its initial, Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.


5. The mind returns to the Possibilism state of consciousness.

6. The mind retains both the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control, now with modifications, and the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.


The mind needs to have, to endure with control stability in the loose cognitive state, the mind must modify the initial, Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control, and must construct a new, distinct Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

The mind is forced by experiencing and sensation to undergo a conceptual revolution.

The Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control is a mental model based in and following from the Eternalism state of consciousness.

The mind looks for a different new suitable stable way of thinking; the mind hunts for a way of thinking about time, self, and control, and when this way is glimpsed and found, the initial sense of self as the mind hunting for understanding dies in an experience of dying.

The original self, the self model premised on the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control, is hunted down and torn apart by Eternalism thinking.

Visionary plants induce loose cognitive binding.

Mental constructs dissociate; the mind and control-agent mental model dis-integrate.

The hunter who is hunting for the new mental model is torn to pieces and reborn in transformed form.

One life dies, the initial hunter dies and the divine transcendent hunter is born.

— Cybershaman

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Group: egodeath Message: 7212 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
I may have mentioned this before – I’m the one
who informed MAPS to consider having a website. I might upload the Post-It Note from them (her) thanking me for the suggestion. Curious trivia of a pregnant point in gnostic tech history.

I might also upload the cassette tape of my recodings as Illumination Valve, the tape album titled Escape Velocity which I suspect inspired Mark Dery’s book title Escape Velocity based on my WELL postings as Hoff in the early 1990s — my first, BBS-era, pre-Internet online postings of my 1988 Egodeath theory before the Web.

I am also wondering if Erik Davis and I read each other’s WELL postings. I have printouts of all my copious WELL postings. Not sure if these got folded into my site via my giant Word file.
My favorite Word page printout I really truly should upload: an early 1990s outline of the Theory that glows.

These are papers from the past. I’m glad I posted sufficient autobiography to show how the Theory developed, what impulses it came from, what it was like, how it came to be.

I’m glad I fifugred out and reconstructed that because I had amnesia because I’m so forward-looking. TechGnosis helps remember it for us, how we got here.

Yesterday Principia Cybernetica website was not responding, so I couldn’t check on my 1997 posting of my Core theory there.

It continues to sink in how distinctive and extreme was my cultural context growing up in radio distance of San Francisco. I had a combination of advantages including my age luck timing. I was a particular focal nexus, a combination of factors that others didn’t have.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7213 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
I couldn’t be bothered to walk across the street to Stanford to the major historical entheogen conference in the early 1990s. I was too busy successfully making progress in developing the Egodeath theory.

What would those conventional thinkers have to offer me? They might dull my thinking. Leary had little to offer at my university in 1988; I’m just proud that I had the classical rock radio station play Legend of a Mind and announce his visit to the university — that’s more meaningful to me than his content.

Allen Ginsberg said hi to me at the bookstore in San Francisco around 1989 but I hastened to focus on my book research.

I basically don’t believe in such social networking as in these communal collective efforts, the hive mind.

The Egodeath theory was a product of general cultural influence on one person working alone to develop a theory, using books if anything, library research, not conferences.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7214 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Reading the books around San Francisco 1987-1994, I felt like it was detritus of an explosion that hadn’t quite succeeded.

There were a lot of resources for me to repurpose and utilize for my theory but I saw the existing book says more or less failures the previous generation had its chance to grasp things and they made amends progress but then the project had shut down and I had arrived at the venue after the event had finished and basically closed they had the experiences they did the research they wrote their books and then the era finished and then I came along

And of course I wonder if every generation feel this way but it was a real snapshot in time a distinctive feeling of following after the generation following on the heels of the boomers and that’s part of reading TechGnosis is it’s written by one of us by someone in my generation. Post Boomer post 70s even where the 70s are considered the last part of the 60s which were too big to be contained in a mere 10 year period. Although the festival had closed before I arrived on the other hand it was a big festival there was a lot of detritus there was a lot of material to be repurposed available.

All these detritus artifacts of the explosion of the 1960s it was such a big explosion it took all the way through the 70s to come back down for the debris to fall back down earth and land at my feet like a big spaceship that had taken off and blown up and fallen back down. The riches of potential here that had not been successfully piece together and do something that would fly

I would have to take up these broken religions and repair them and make something that actually flies.

By 1988 it was clear the journal of transpersonal psychology was lost its way failed to be an effective take up of the technologies.

Failed to be relevant, it was a disconnect, not an answer. and everything was crushed under censorship; you had debased versions of everything: debased rock debased Esselen debased transpersonal psychology and human potential, the magic had been censored out. like listening to mediocre cover versions of songs instead of the electric authentic real thing,

it was like Dionysus play performed by squares Ville. we were going to have to roll up our sleeves, meaning I was going to have to roll up my sleeves and put this sh*t together the right way, after the doors had been closed. JTP was a surrender, giving up, whitewashing, censoring out the entheogen basis of Esalen.

All the research had ground to a halt as far as could be seen. It was all padlocked, locked down, closed, no entry

of course there was shakedown Street of the dead and I was happy recently to come across a great 1987 Summer tour steal your face shirt.

Clearly the official culture had surrendered given up white washed everything over.

The whole project had been put away in a museum of historical interest only.

But another spark of light was the new Beatles album long-awaited Sergeant peppers came out much anticipated and so I was thrilled with the audio window of compact discs into the depths of the explosion of 1967.

There were certainly those pockets of celebration of 1967 during 1987.

I was certainly enjoying Donovan on new perfect sparkly magical compact disc and Satanic majesties request.

that was exciting in the late 80s the compact disc audio; perfection at last! 86 I had somewhere in time; I had are you experienced. in 1988 I got Diery of a mad man on cd supplementing my awesome vinyl big format.

Mind culture was a whitewashed simulation like Fender guitars after CBS bought them and really truly did trash the quality it it was like cardboard imitations, it wasn’t the same at all.

That opened the opportunity for Japanese companies to make true quality guitars. My Ibanez absolutely blew away the fender quality I wouldn’t touch Fender; and I got spoiled my Ibanez was so much better I couldn’t play Fenders.

By the 1980s we had this cardboard simulation of the previous magic explosion. But metallica was finding potential riding the lightning.

I felt like I had come along after the action had come and recently gone, leaving records in historically curio journals like Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, and denatured diluted Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.

The only sign of life was Reality Hacker zine; Mondo 1999.

Classic rock had come and gone; the action was in the rear view mirror and in my lone work.

But just like the massive complete difference in the spirit of rock in 1965 versus 1966 versus 1967 1968 each year was his own universe.

Similarly the more familiar I become with 1985 through 1994 I suppose it’s hard to generalize about the mood of the time which perhaps changed every year.

Ccertainly my life changed dramatically 1985, six, 7 8 9-1990 each year was quite different in developing my work and I suppose the atmosphere of the times was changing drastically year to year and it’s hard to generalize what it felt like.

1989 was my hypertext year of needing to go to the library and be able to read books and journals that are in other libraries.

So 1988 1989 were the years of sifting through the rubble learning everything to repurpose and re-integrate it pulling gold pieces reconfigured into my theory.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 7215 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
Transcrip fixes

There were a lot of resources for me to repurpose and utilize for my theory but I saw the existing books as more or less failures.

The previous generation had its chance to grasp things and they made immense progress but then the project had shut down.
Group: egodeath Message: 7216 From: egodeath Date: 23/11/2015
Subject: Re: Post-It Notes of highest knowledge
1988-1997 I explicitly and consciously thought of myself not building up my theory so much as struggling to communicate it.

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence was born like Athena out of the head of Zeus opened by the magic hammer of the festivals. (I said “of Hephaestos” but Siri corrected me.)

The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence was born complete in January 1988 or written up in a fairly clear communicable way by December 1989; by then my article drafts are content-complete.

It is easy to test that assertion by comparing my 1997 summary at Principia Cybernetica compared to my August 1988 P205 engineering pencil on binder sheets Minnesota lake draft for JTP telling them the real nature of ego transcendence, against the received view of my father’s generation.

Ego transcendence is not meditation for unity consciousness giving a permanent altered state, as JTP vaguely asserts the reigning confused paradigm as of 1988.

Ego transcendence is actually about loosening cognition and switching to the block universe mental model of time, self, and control through self-control seizure and reconfiguration in the loose cognitive binding state where we experience no-free-will.

Thoughts are preset; we have no ego control power over our future; they are given and preset.

That was my January 1988 realization in the ivy-covered computer lab having read the Way of Zen some five times and having read with disagreement Ken Wilber’s early books.

Stanford entheogens conference: I could’ve participated to learn how to communicate, but I knew that they did not have information to help build up my theory, and I was not yet ready to teach to communicate it.

My purpose of massive reading, of starting to educate myself on what peolle were writing, in 1988, was not to learn content for my theory. My content was already complete.

I was reading in order to understand what inadequate understanding and off-base terms of understanding of my audience that I would have to communicate my theory to.

I was a knowledgeable alien with vastly better technology studying the primitive benighted earthlings in order to communicate my superior technology to them.

The shut down festival of the 1960s that I arrived at too late I had not finished rather it have been shut down prematurely but the light spark of Dionysus was kept a life within Rock The Dead Metal in the college Rock band network.

Not that I arrived too late at the 1960s cultural festival, but rather, the festival had closed prematurely.

We my generation were shut out our tickets were no longer valid. We were shut out.

We were forced to put on our own unauthorized makeshift underground afterparty to continue the scholarly research on Dionysus and the nature of religion.

I was an electric kitharist. I grew up listening to my mother’s near eastern and early music and collection of classical music cassettes.

She borrowed Beatles psychedelic era cassette albums for me in 1974-5, played on a mono boombox — I had constant immersion in world music because she was a soprano singer and graphic arts student and we went to Greek dance at the college every Friday where he played multiple instruments often including Les Paul 6- string (not 7-string) lightning kithara on a Music Man amplifier which I have a photo of me moving that tube power amplifier.

— Cybermonk
Group: egodeath Message: 7217 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
The sequence of cognitive states and resulting mental models transformation

First, the tight cognitive binding state produces the Possibilism experiential mental model of time, self, and control.

Then, the loose cognitive binding state produces the Eternalism experiential mental models of time, self, and control & qualified Possibilism (typically during a *series* of loose cognitive sessions).

Finally, the tight and loose cognitive binding states include the Eternalism & the qualified the Possibilism experiential mental models of time, self, and control.


Latest good definitions/labels:

Maximal Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism
=
the Maximal Metaphor Theory of Religious Mythology (new; MMRM) — includes: the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures, & all items in religious writings/pctures are analogies describing experiential mental model transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.
&
the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture — groups a set of extreme assertions. eg: Approaches other than entheogens prevent mental model transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism. Maximal simplicity & coherence.
&
the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation


This concept of Maximal applies to each major area of the Egodeath theory. No weak waffling. Strong simplest position. Not striving for nuance, edge cases, apologies, exceptions; rather, the essential basic idea only. Eg the loosecog state = entheogens = Eternalism. Don’t blur, dilute, or diffuse the stark basic maximal ideas.


Though he advocates some conception of “no-free-will”, Sam Harris likely lacks the Eternalism experiential mental model of time, self, and control, he is impure and contaminated, is still in his sin, and would be unstable and seize and egodie when exposed to the intense psycholytic state.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7218 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Maximal Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism

new term. Maximal applies throughout.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7220 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
FEAR NOT, GOING TOO FAR; FEAR: NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH!

— Cybermonk
Group: egodeath Message: 7221 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Wussed Out Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism

Everyone’s feelings must be legitimated and validated as a correct view.

Sentimental ordinary state-based religion is every bit as legitimate as mystic experiencing.

The Holy Spirit is an idea you read about. It is not normally experienced, so we should not set the standard as actually having a dunamis overpowering experience of the holy spirit, and that would be threatening so cannot be normal true definitive religion.

Some people occasionally have mystic experiencing through plants but quite often not.

If religious experience is negative, it is not normal and not part of what religion should be.

Religion is ethical conduct of life and an emotion of peace.

Some people experience the eternity world model but the people who don’t are every bit as legitimate.

We need a theory that fully respects everybody’s experience.

Different cultures have different religious experiences and we should not oppress them by postulating a common core revelation.

People who take religious mythology literally should be fully respected and in no way is their view incorrect or inferior, it is every bit as legitimate as metaphorical interpretations.

We should have respect for what the authorities say religion is really about.

Every anthropological theory of mythology should be considered equally valid.

The unquestionable tradition of the common people have established is ordinary state religion which therefore is the definition of what religion is.

If people find emotional forced simulated ecstasy to be their norm, it is wrong to judge that; we must hold it to be fully legitimate.

We should not teach students western classical mythology, because that encourages cultural oppression.

Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism is just one idea of what religion is about. All other views are just as valid for the person or culture.

This is the useful definition of religion and a reasonable, balanced, realistic, generous definition of Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism, unplugged, tempered by moderation and sobriety.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7222 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
Example of extreme/maximal Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism to set the bar for every element of the Egodeath theory being extreme/’maximal’: to form the simplest most powerful theory, maximally coherent, without self-contradictory waffling:

Entheogen-free meditation is a sham. It prevents mental transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism. It avoids the serpent. It remains egoic. It replaces real religion.

There is no level above Eternalism/fatedness.

All religious mythology is fundamentally an analogy for Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism; transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism.

No ancient religious founder figures exist as a required identifiable individual. Paul and Church Fathers are fundamentally empty fictional authorial tokens written and revised by multiple people.

Bohr is wrong. Einstein’s iron block universe is true.

We can know highest truth: Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.

Mythology asserts Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism. Systems that promise transcending fate are using poetic license.

Visionary plants are the only normal way people access the mystic state throughout history.

Etc.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7223 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Fake Christianity = Fake Buddhism
Ersatz phony pretenders simulate intense religious experiencing in Eastern and Western religion.

Take your pick: simulated Eastern satori experience or simulated Christian ecstatic Holy Spirit experiencing.

They are equals in fraudulence, since the real deal has always come from visionary plants.

Authentic religion has always been entheogen-induced.

Fake Buddhism, Fake Christianity, there is no difference.

We can simply condense them into “fake Buddhism/Christianity” for efficiency.

Buddhism Unplugged is the same thing as Christianity Unplugged.

Neither is true to its authentic origin and its ongoing authentic tradition.

Entheogen-free Buddhism/Christianity is a travesty, an insult to the holy spirit of bona fide dragon satori.

The best we can say is “Good simulation effort, non-Dionysus!”

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Group: egodeath Message: 7224 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
On each key aspect of the Egodeath theory, define a spectrum of possible positions:

At the left hand extreme end of the spectrum of potential positions is the most tepid prevaricating wishy-washy flexible blurry and defocused and compromising,

At the right hand extreme end of the spectrum of potential positions is the most extreme pure single-frequency, single resonant feedback loop lock-in, extreme definitive, radical.

Then consider the set of the right hand extreme end point of each of those spectrums for each of those key aspects of theory.

Look at that as a compact mathematical peak point like a minimum or maximum, mathematically extreme compact simple lockin like approaching infinity when you combine these extreme points together.

Let the math dictate what the position is.

Define that as the mathematically maximal theory.


Key aspects of the theory include the four puzzle pieces from the main article also a historicity; what is the mathematical extreme position on each of:

Toward making a list of the key aspects of the theory consider these key phrases:
Metaphor describes entheogens revealing fatedness and noncontrol
Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism
Metaphor/Dissociation/Heimarmene/Cybernetics
the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture
the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures
the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation
transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

What is the most maximal position on a potential spectrum of positions in each of the key aspects of the theory, in a book titled “5 Views on X”?:

Key aspects of the theory:

Metaphor (analogy, religious mythology, ahistoricity, personification*, fictitious authors**, meaning of heaven and hell)

Dissociation (entheogens, visionary plants, psycholytics, loose cognitive binding)

Eternalism:
…Heimarmene (fatedness, block universe, Eternalism, nonbranching possibility, worldline, Reformed theology [God author evil?])
…Cybernetics (noncontrol, control seizure, trap, feedback loop lockin, control chaos)

For each of those key aspects of the theory define the spectrum from tepid wishy-washy moderate mild positions all the way to the extreme maximal position.

Then define the maximal theory as the combination of the maximal position on the spectrum for each aspect.


*’Personification’ means the way that every character is an aspect of control agency during the process of transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism:

Every character in the story of Dionysus Bacchae

Every character in the story of the passion of Christ

Every character in the tauroctony

Every character in the villa of the mysteries comic strip

Every character in Balaam riding the donkey on the vine path to the angel of death to curse then to praise the Israelites

Every character in the diagram of the woman on the altar praying to Zeus who has the clouds extinguish her with people lighting fire to the altar

Every character including the ram in Abrahams’ sacrifice of Isaac


**’Fictitious authors’ means Paul and the church fathers and Moses as author of texts. This is an empty author name behind which anybody can write for example here I utilize the Paul fictitious author:

Dear churches of Christ in Phoenix, Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, greetings to Bob and Timothy and Dave and Martha from your brother in Christ, this is me, Saint Paul The Apostle. The truth is, Maximal Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism.
“Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist, to resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist”
Women should have their heads covered. Slaves, obey your masters. Let him be accursed who changes a word or even a single letter of this letter, I give you my word this is me Paul writing to you, signed, yours in Christ,
— Saint Paul The Apostle

‘Fictitious authors’ is a subset of ‘ahistoricity’ (of ancient religious ‘founder figures’), which is a subset of ‘metaphor’.


In the book “5 views on the historical Jesus”, Robert Price represents the extreme radical view on Jesus: ahistoricity, though I am more extreme than that the church fathers are empty authorial figures, as Robert price ought to know from Edwin Johnson’s The Pauline Epistles Studied and Explained (1894).
http://egodeath.com/edwinjohnsonpaulineepistles.htm

I have clearer thinking than Price and Carrier and Doherty because of my incisive saying that cuts to the true key point for defining what it means to say “Jesus didn’t exist” or “Paul didn’t exist”:

There is no single individual identifiable person on whom the Jesus figure depends; without whom the Jesus figure would not have been formed.

So it is completely moot if you point to some schmuck and say that guy was “the” real source of the Jesus figure and therefore he constitutes the historical Jesus — Rubbish! Arbitrary!

There’s either 0, 1, or many sources and saying there’s zero is the same thing as saying there’s many.

To say there’s no Jesus is the same as saying that there’s many people who were the source of the historical Jesus.

What you cannot say is it there is one a single distinctly uniquely identifiable source.

The Jesus figure is a conglomeration fundamentally.

It’s completely missing the point to point to one person you can pick out; you might as will pick out anyone.

There are thousands of people you could point to and say he’s “the” real kernel of the Jesus figure.

If *he* is, then so are these 10, 20, hundred, 200 other guys as well, by the same token.

You can have zero, or many, kernels of the historical Jesus, but what you cannot have is one single identifiable kernel, a single identifiable person without whom the Jesus figure could not have been formed and would not have been formed; that’s what we do not have.

We can have zero historical Jesuses or many but what we cannot have is one; that’s what it means to say there that “Jesus didn’t exist”, which is a vague concept when you pull it apart.

You have to define in the way I have done what it must mean to say that Jesus didn’t exist what does that mean, and what does it not mean?

The character is fundamentally and essentially a conglomeration, a construct, regardless of whether you can point to some individual or some one of 10, 20, or 100 individuals.

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Group: egodeath Message: 7225 From: egodeath Date: 24/11/2015
Subject: Re: Shamanism is transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
I herein add a middle layer of the STRUGGLE PERIOD with Eternalism and this way the reconciliation is equivalent to transcending fate, without any need to postulate a model of time above or after Eternalism.

Major post, and an example of how mythology beneficially shapes my core nonmythological non-metaphorical theory or at least shapes how I present it.

When you look only at the endpoints of initiation, you go from perfect naïveté to complete initiation (transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism) but that struggle in the middle has to be accounted for.

So although there are only two levels, two models of time and control, however there are three mental stages or eras in your growing up:

first the era of naïveté (developing the the freewill Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control)

then the era of STRUGGLING to switch your mental model to the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control

and then the era of maturity where you enjoy the use of both mental models.

I said Ken Wilber had a complicated 10 level system and I have a maximally simple two-level system.

but now I need to present it as three stages to move between two mental models.

The core ego death theory needs to be three stages to move between two mental models. Prior to initiation; then the initiation series; then the perfected stage forever — that’s *three* stages that the core theory must represent as such. To move between *two* mental models.

There are only two mental models (Possibilism then Eternalism) but to get from the first to the second involves the journey, the struggle period.

You end up with two legs not just one but you negate our qualify your first leg your first mental model so you end up with two legs not just one but the first leg limps.

You become the limping king.

Before you start your journey you only have one leg, you are a child having one leg and it is a good leg for the time being.

You only have one mental model, Possibilism, and you have not yet corrected and negated and repudiated that model and have not seriously grappled with the fatal limitations and flaws, the self contradictions in that model.

I have subsumed
the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures
as a subset of the even newer term
the Maximal Metaphor Theory of Religious Mythology

So I have, arranged in standard order of “Metaphor describes Entheogens revealing Eternalism” or “Metaphorical Entheogenic Eternalism”:

the Maximal Metaphor Theory of Religious Mythology
… the Maximal Ahistoricity Theory of Ancient Religious Founder Figures
the Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion and Culture
the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation

the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation rejects multiverse, Copenhagenism in QM, Bohr; and rejects the 3-level system of: naïve free will; then awakening to fate; and then transcending fate; rejects a level above fate because all we know from loose cognitive science, which I am the definer of, is that:

The mind begins with tight cognitive binding,
which produces the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.

Then the mind encounters loose cognitive binding,
which produces the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control (including a qualified Possibilism model).

Then the mind freely moves between tight and loose binding, retaining both models.

We do not know, loose cognitive science does not report that the mind moves on after the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control, to continue on to some model of time and control that is above and beyond Eternalism.

The philosophy of time and control offers only two positions (and I am ignoring stupid irrelevant Presentism): Possibilism vs. Eternalism.

There is not a model within the philosophy of time that is transcending of and above and beyond Eternalism.

The ancients agree as diagrammed in mythology they agree that the mind in the loose cognitive state moves from initial Possibilism to Eternalism. But not instantly.

Then later after the heyday of no free will we have clear diagrams of transcending fate such as:

Ptolemaic cosmos where the goal is to not only reach the fixed stars but punch through the sphere of the fixed stars, which definitely depicts transcending fate.

We certainly can have a clear distinct idea of transcending fate.

And we have Christ pulling the saints out of the purifying furnace of the serpent jaws of hell, which can suggest transcending fate.

Christ sets you free from the prison of sin or the prison of heimarmene.

The super transcendent superGod frees us from the fate-prison controlled by the low Creator demiurge.

It is possible to treat the above “2 states giving 2 models” sequence as the given data to be explained, the scientifically observed data that needs to be explained and organized by theory, which I have done.

This simple two-states-only, or two model only, theory successfully is capable of accounting for the mythological themes of later antiquity the theme of “transcending fate”.

The two phase model in my theory is capable of accommodating the idea, the theme of transcending fate.

The theme of transcending fate implies or amounts to a three level system:
naïve free will in tight cognition
then loose cognition giving no free will
then loose cognition giving transcending fate


My two level system which is based on observed lose cognitive science data reported by everyone accommodates the three level system which is implied by the theme of transcending fate:

tight cognition gives naïve free will thinking.

Then loose cognition gives Eternalism thinking: seizure-prison. Struggling to control in a way that is still polluted by naïve free will control power thinking.

Here we may place the series of loose cog sessions initiation sessions; Jesus being baptized, betrayed (false control-claim demonstrated), scourged, Jesus trembling in fear and apprehension after drinking the mixed wine.

Then loosecog gives Eternalism thinking: seizure release and successfully accommodating eternalism: the deliberate formal sacrifice of your childish thinking bringing reconciliation with your higher thinking (which includes higher experiencing and higher rationality to model that experiencing).

Here we may place the “final” session, a full realizationt session and subsequent peaceful banqueting sessions (the completed crucifixion on the debranched tree and the rebirth in the rock cave; and ever afterwards the wedding banquet in heaven; ability to go in and out of the gated garden of Apple) enjoying loose cog now with always the sacrifice for reconciliation in mind comprehended and affirmed sacrificing your freewill power claim to be fully rational and to be amenable conformant with the loose cog state.

All of the latter control transformation dynamics in the loose cognitive state can all be placed with in the second phase that cognitive science shows us which is the loose cognitive state with the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control.

There is no need to literally form a realm above fate above and after Eternalism.

However here now I have identified a good way of dividing the process of transformation into three:

Tight cognition gives naïve free will Possibilism
Loose cognition gives a period of transformation into Eternalism
Loose cognition as well as tight cognition is able to sacrifice or repudiate the free will error, the Possibilism Sin, restoring stability peace and reconciliation — which is equivalent to in the three level system, transcending fate! QED

I have succeeded at fitting-in the mythological theme of “transcending fate” within the scientifically justified 2-level-only system of moving from Possibilism to Eternalism without going any further and without postulating any model of time and control beyond or after Eternalism!

Speaking as the voice of Science I can thus tell you the facts which is that there are two models of time and control.

Loose cognition switches the mind from the one gradually to the other and upon completion, further enjoyment — what has been depicted in mythology as “transcending fate” but that theme really in fact means and refers to none other than *reconciling with fate*, with the simple-to-visualize, simple-to-specify, model of time and control called Eternalism.

Eternalism is initially a threat that is incompatible with our psychological constitution, but then the thing to do is not reject fate — that’s just repression and regression.

The thing to do is to successfully accommodate fate so in a fact we have a series of two mental takes on Eternalism:

first the mind makes of Eternalism a threat, struggle, a prison

and afterwards the mind makes of Eternalism reconciliation and perfection, The kingdom of God.

After the 150 AD heyday of Eternalism/heimarmene, Everyone wanted after 250 A.D. to form a three-level system will the gnostics wanted to take her generally negative you though a negative view of fate and the created world, although Michael A Williams in his 1985 book The Unmovable Race disputes that gnostics were against the created world.

There was some dispute about whether to take a negative stance toward Eternalism/fatedness.

At first the mind is in emnity with the snake.

But then the snake on the debranched tree of Moses heals and saves from snakebite.

First the snake bites you — this is when you are struggling to accommodate in your mental model Eternalism.

And then the snake heals you when you achieve accommodation of your mental model with Eternalism.

It just now occurred to me — I deciphered a theme: that when Herakles is battling the hydra snake monster, a crab bites his heel: this refers to negating or qualifying our initial mental model, the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.

As I recently observed the way that these are definitely deciphered is by grouping themes into groups and asking what does the category theme mean across all of these stories.

Here we have an obsession a category of foot of injured or weakened foot 1 foot not both but one.

Deciphered:
Achilles’ heel is the need, the forced need, to qualify and negate the initial one of our two mental models of time and control: Possibilism.

Compare the firstborn son to the injured or bad leg: first the first, God-disapproved boy is born, but then he is overthrown by the second, God-approved boy.

We can specify that the injured leg is the first leg and that the good leg is the second leg, where each leg means a distinct mental model of time and control.

It is even insightful to refer to it as “a firstborn leg” which is the bad leg and “the second-born leg” which is the good leg.

So in Moses’ snake on a pole, we can see a implicit three level system which yet conforms with what science shows us which is a 2-level system ie moving from one model of time to another.

During the period of struggle we lead up to finally aborting our initial mental model, repudiating it, qualifying it.

Egoic thinking is destined to be aborted near the end of the series of struggles in loose cognition.

My radical commitment to only two levels and refusing to go to a third level has paid off; the Maximal Eternalism Theory of Mental Transformation.

In Eternalism consciousness, you struggle for awhile to transform, then you transform.

While you are struggling to transform, fate is acting as a prison.

You are a prisoner of the creator of the fate-ruled world.

When you have successfully transformed, that success is equivalent to transcending fate — but this is critical for science for a scientific theory the latter still remains with the Possibilism-to-Eternalism model.

I am not postulating some philosophy of time that’s transrational — depending on how, there’s an opportunity here to define ‘transrational’ such that when the mind is reconciled with Eternalism, you have reached a transrational state

So all these ideas of “transcending fate” to have hyper ultra super transrational, can be folded into the scientifically justified observed data of moving from an initial model NOW WITH THE THEORY REFLECTING A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OF STRUGGLE/WRESTLING WITH/AGAINST Eternalism, a period of struggle to transform to the final model; and then finally the final model which is equivalent to the theme of transcending fate but we are not actually proposing any level beyond Eternalism. We are moving from you could say lower or preliminary Eternalism to hire and final completed Eternalism:

1. Tightcog. Possibilism.
2. Loosecog. Struggle with Eternalism.
3. Loosecog. Reconcile with Eternalism.

There I’ve just succeeded at a mathematical transform between the two level system and the three level system. There are only two models of time there are only two mental models of time in control but there are three periods regarding transformation from the first model to the second model.

First you have the first model of time then you struggle with the second model of time then you succeed at the second model of time.

We have three phases of mental activity to progress through two models of time.

That region above the fixed stars in Ptolemaic mystic ascent cosmology does not represent a model of time that is higher than Eternalism.

What it can excellently and must be scientifically taken to represent is the mind having accommodated Eternalism, as opposed to the mind initially struggling to accommodate Eternalism, which struggle is represented in the ascent through the planetary spheres and the entering of the fixed stars at which the child is sacrificed by Saturn.

When you are working up to the sacrifice and approaching it your grappling with Eternalism, wrestling all night with the angel and coming away limping, meaning that your freewill mental model is now *qualified* (restricted) so the two legs of the limping king: the sturdy lag is Eternalism, and the limping deformed weak leg is *qualified* Possibilism.

After enlightenment, we still have and rely on our deluded irrational childish Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.

Hera threw Hephaestus out of heaven because of his deformity (his now qualified Possibilism thinking).

In retaliation he engineered a throne which trapped her and all the gods were in dire straits and Dionysus had to give mixed wine to the engineer god Hephaestos and bring him with deformed foot (of qualified Possibilism thinking) on a donkey ride trip to Heaven to release the queen of the gods.

A god represents true control agency maturely understood.

This God is represented with two distinct different legs, one crippled leg — how is this like transformation of control mental models from Possibilism to Eternalism?

You end up with two distinct models of control one which is crippled — that would be the egoic model of control and a time.

After the series of loose cog sessions, you still have your initial thinking but now it is “negated” though utilized and relied on.

Sso what is really lacking in my two model / 2-level system is representation of the transitional turbulence period/duration, the nine months of pregnancy during which the dragon persecutes the mother.

First tight cognition gives naïve freewill Possibilism.

Then initial sessions of loose cognition give A PERIOD OF STRUGGLE with Eternalism to build and trying to grapple with the angel and struggle to reconcile without yet succeeding at learning, like riding a bicycle, learning the experiential Eternalism model.

That phase is the bulk of developmental psychology properly understood as struggle in loose cognition.

Thirdly the mind succeeds at reconciling with Eternalism in loose cognition.

This is equivalent to transcending fate — and this is fully compatible with what loose cognitive science observation shows us, that the mind learns to accommodate lose cognition and the Eternalism it reveals.

The mind has learned how to routinely betray the false claim of freewill power (the Possibilism experiential mental model of time, self, and control), routinely observes the sacrifice, we routinely receive communion of the mixed wine remembering and repeating the sacrifice of the false claim to freewill power, every time the mature Christian takes banquet in remembrance of the sacrifice, is practicing going through the motion of repudiate your freewill claim to power, that you may have peace and reconciliation and retain purity of thinking of advanced loose cog state advanced rational thinking, freed from the contamination pollution that raises the furies/panicked horses of Possibilism.


My source for this scientific observed data to be explained (tightcog gives Possibilism thinking, then loosecog gives STRUGGLE for Eternalism thinking, then loosecog gives Eternalism thinking) is the trip report hymnal canon including iron maiden, Blizzard of Ozz band, Rush, Metallica, and pop sike singles reporting to us from the experiential window of 1967. Supplemented by Greek mythology and bible mythology and shamanism and world mythology.

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Group: egodeath Message: 6091 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: How to explore loss of control in the altered state
Group: egodeath Message: 6092 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
Group: egodeath Message: 6093 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: How to explore loss of control in the altered state
Group: egodeath Message: 6094 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Bk: Crossan: Power of Parable: Fiction About Jesus
Group: egodeath Message: 6095 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
Group: egodeath Message: 6096 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Cog Sci, Phil of Mind, Cog Psych, Phenomenology, Neurosci
Group: egodeath Message: 6097 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Transcendent violation of egoic will = sacrifice illusion
Group: egodeath Message: 6098 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/stake
Group: egodeath Message: 6099 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Re: Bks by Algis Uzdavinys on Mystic Platonism, Ascent Mysticism
Group: egodeath Message: 6100 From: jdcasten Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…
Group: egodeath Message: 6101 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sacrifi
Group: egodeath Message: 6102 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
Group: egodeath Message: 6103 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
Group: egodeath Message: 6104 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Break, and writing experiments
Group: egodeath Message: 6105 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…
Group: egodeath Message: 6106 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
Group: egodeath Message: 6107 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Swoon/Shroud/India theory of Jesus’ death
Group: egodeath Message: 6108 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
Group: egodeath Message: 6109 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
Group: egodeath Message: 6110 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
Group: egodeath Message: 6111 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: Break, and writing experiments
Group: egodeath Message: 6112 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
Group: egodeath Message: 6113 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionate de
Group: egodeath Message: 6114 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Group: egodeath Message: 6115 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Group: egodeath Message: 6116 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Stabilizing control by mental-only non-metaphor understanding
Group: egodeath Message: 6117 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Group: egodeath Message: 6118 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 6119 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Stabilizing control by mental-only non-metaphor understanding
Group: egodeath Message: 6120 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 6121 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Group: egodeath Message: 6122 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Group: egodeath Message: 6123 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Group: egodeath Message: 6124 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Group: egodeath Message: 6125 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
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Subject: Re: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
Group: egodeath Message: 6127 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Group: egodeath Message: 6128 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Impotent, flaccid Transpersonal Theory
Group: egodeath Message: 6129 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 6130 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 6131 From: jdcasten Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…
Group: egodeath Message: 6132 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Group: egodeath Message: 6133 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
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Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
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Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
Group: egodeath Message: 6136 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
Group: egodeath Message: 6137 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Group: egodeath Message: 6138 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
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Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st



Group: egodeath Message: 6091 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: How to explore loss of control in the altered state
Lyrics relevant to the above posting.

Cheap Trick’s Dream Police album is Power Pop Sike. The dream police = the trip police — they are in heaven, the otherworld, the intense altered state.

Cheap Trick
Way of the World

It’s the way of the world
Remember
You were at work and then Friday at 5
I remember
Felt like a pawn was I dead or alive
I remember
Thought no one could hear me I was goin insane
I remember
It was a real fine line
Now you changed my life around

I’ve been running
I’ve been hiding
It’s the way of the world
You say it’s over
But the world keeps turning round


Diary of a Madman
Bob Daisley
excerpts

Watch me die another day
Hopeless situation
Sanity now it’s beyond me
There’s no choice

Diary of a madman
Entries of confusion
Dear diary I’m here to stay

A sickened mind and spirit
The mirror tells me lies
Could I mistake myself for someone
Who lives behind my eyes

Will he escape my soul
Or will he live in me
Is he trying to get out or trying to enter me

Can I ask a question
To help me save me from myself
Enemies fill up the pages
Are they me


Help!
John Lennon
excerpts

I never needed anybody’s help in any way
But now these days are gone and I’m not so self assured
Now I find I’ve changed my mind, and opened up the doors

Help me if you can
And I do appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won’t you please, please help me

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then I feel so insecure
Now I know I need you like I’ve never done before

Help
I need somebody
Not just anybody


Shock Wave
Black Sabbath
excerpts

There’s no reason
For you to run
You can’t escape the fate
Of the chosen one

Black moon rising
In a blood-red sky
It’s time to realize
That you’re gonna die

Floating in time you cheat this death’s master
You’re on your own
Going through

When the mist has taken over your mind
And you think you’re on your own
Don’t believe you are the only one here
Look around – you’re not alone

Feel the forces of another world
Ghostly shadows fill your mind
Evil power hanging over you
As you freeze your life in time
Look behind you

Somebody’s calling
Crawling with fear
You tell yourself you’re dreaming
You know that this shouldn’t happen to you
You tell yourself that it just can’t be true
But there is nothing you can do

Ghostly shadows from the other world
Evil forces in your mind
Trapped between the walls of life and death
Frozen in the lands of time
Look behind you

You’re at the end of the line
Group: egodeath Message: 6092 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
In lyrics in general, my policy is to eliminate apostrophes, such as spelling out goin’ as going, because that pronunciation is an unneeded, irrelevant distraction. The purpose of transcribing is to convey words, not to indicate the pronunciation. I instead indicate double-pronunciation, or where the sung lyrics interestingly contradict the printed lyrics.
Group: egodeath Message: 6093 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: How to explore loss of control in the altered state
This song is on the radio now. It is a love song about the control vortex, the state of being headed for cybernetic self-control disaster. Fresh commentary here.

Lyrics: Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/4203
Artist: The Electric Prunes
Song: Get Me to the World on Time
Release date: March 1967
Reached #27 on the U.S. pop charts
Transcribed accurately by Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com) for the first time on the Web, Sep. 15, 2005
excerpts:

Here I go, higher, higher
You gotta get me to the world on time

The minute you [control vortex] walk in the room [loosecog realm]
I break into a sweat
My hands begin to shake so bad
Can’t light my cigarette

Then you start walking toward me
And my glue comes all undone <== looose cognition
If I could get my feet to move
I’d turn around and run

My pulse is beating faster
And I’m heading for disaster <==
Here I go, higher, higher

One kiss from you
And my whole body starts acting strange
You shake up all my hormones
You put me through a change

This chemical reaction
Isn’t easy to define
You drive me to distraction
You disturb my peace of mind

You got me spinning like a top now <== whirlwind elevator
And I don’t know how to stop now

Is this what love’s all about [eros drive toward Atman per Wilber]
Lately I feel so wigged-out
Wild sensations
Sweet frustrations <== attraction of control self-frustration
You get me going
And there’s no slowing me down

Whoa here I go, oh!
Group: egodeath Message: 6094 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Bk: Crossan: Power of Parable: Fiction About Jesus
The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
John Dominic Crossan
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0061875694
March 2012
“Did Jesus ever exist as a historical figure in time and place? Is he like Julius Caesar–a factual figure, but enveloped in clouds of parable? Or is he like the Good Samaritan–an entirely fictional character of Christianity’s parabolic imagination? My answer is that Jesus did exist as a historical figure.”

This book — like my deciphering of the Bible as mystic-state metaphor and meaning-flipping — further strengthens the evidence that Jesus is purely fictional and is to be analyzed as such, in a metaphor-deciphering, riddle-solving mode, as I have provided the full solution for in terms of noncontrol/nofreewill/loosecog.

His introduction mentions food, “sharing a meal”, the Eucharist. He fails to comprehend the allusion to entheogens, so he is condemned to Hell. He fails to understand the riddle, so he is punished with death. If you don’t understand the meaning of The Parable — if you don’t listen with the right riddling mindset to recognize that Jesus meant Michael Hoffman’s Egodeath theory of interpretation — you are not among the Elect who were given to Jesus from before the beginning of time, and are therefore condemned to perdition. You didn’t get the joke, so you are cast into Hell.

He cites Wikipedia. He should cite my website, such as my main article.

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6095 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
including:

o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
and self-government.

o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
Acid Rock mysticism.

o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
psychosis and schizophrenia.


— Michael Hoffman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6096 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Cog Sci, Phil of Mind, Cog Psych, Phenomenology, Neurosci
> The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
> Thomas Metzinger
> 2009
> http://amazon.com/o/asin/0465045677
> Entheogen chapter at the end

Metzinger advocates that we begin developing ideas about no free will, no self, no time, and entheogens or psychedelics, per the section “A New Kind of Ethics”, pages 223-230:

Keywords: psychedelic, psilocybin, LSD, Huxley, Pahnke, Griffiths, psychotic reaction, panic, psychedelic sacraments, 2C-B, 2C-T-7, religious ecstasy, classic hallucinogens, altered states, drug policy.

I have already *finished*, with full basic coverage of Egodeath 101, developing an *integrated* set of ideas that *emphasizes* and exclusively focuses on these ideas, without the clutter of neuroscience and quantum physics. I cover peripheral topics such as ahistoricity of Jesus and Paul, and the forged back-dated nature of *all* the New Testament and Church Father writings, but I keep the focus centered on noncontrol/nofreewill/loosecog.

My coverage of personal non-control includes explaining exactly the content of the threat of loss of control, or wrestling with and probing the limits of our mental control ability.
My coverage of no-free-will includes the 4D pre-set frozen-time version of “determinism”.
My coverage of loose cognition (the intense mystic altered state describes the specifics of loosecog dynamics including mental model transformation, without getting distracted by neurochemistry, which can be *entirely* bracketed-off from the core Theory.

— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com, December 1, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6097 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 01/12/2012
Subject: Re: Transcendent violation of egoic will = sacrifice illusion
This is a cleaned-up version of my voice-dictated posting, with substantial material added December 1, 2012.

I made a *great* revolutionary hour and a half voice recording today (November 28, 2012) and open letter to send to neuroscientists such as Metzinger, telling them to drop everything and first study and cite the ego death theory, if they want to advance the field by 50 years overnight and keep up with the other cognitive scientists.

Cognitive Scientists are already learning my theory about the extreme ultimate no-free-will, the extreme ultimate “no egoic personal control” view, the extreme ultimate timelessness version of “determinism” where the future already exists (an entirely different approach than causal-chain determinism acting sequentially in time), and the extreme concept of illusory possibilities that are not fated to be possible.

How do we say Yes to the only path that is truly possible: the one that is fated?

And how do we trust and put full trust in controller X, and fully understand that we have no power to steer away from and avoid our fate, no way to avoid the control thoughts and intention that is coming from controller X into the mind next? When we are bothered by this idea, we are also interested in and fascinated and fixated and caught up in this tree of ideas; we are compelled and drawn in to manipulating and exploring the ramifications of the circular dynamics of personal control-power.

If my future thoughts are pre-existing and I cannot avoid them nor can I control their arising, nor avoid and steer away from my possibly harmful near-future thoughts, then my control-power is doomed and I am potentially headed for disaster, unavoidable harm lying straight ahead on the crazy rail and I’m helpless and powerless to steer away from that possible future, which my thinking is now compelled to construct. Suppose I have a vivid idea — now picture a vivid idea of some self-thwarting, harmful, anti-desirable action.

Let us test this idea, can we steer away from it? While in the mystic psychotic genius state, the mind desires — to gain security and enlightenment and control-power — the mind desires to construct a bad intention as a test case, and then run an experiment with oneself as the test subject, to test to see if we have the power to steer away from it.


A *strength* is that my super-revolutionary theory is not published by any printed press or journal or peer-reviewed environment or conference, but is the work of an independent researcher publishing in hypertext on the World-Wide Web. Publishing such an important Theory in the form of an independent web page represents a revolution in publishing and Communication — if Thomas Metzinger is serious about the Internet changing our consciousness, then this is a strength and a revolution that such a massively important breakthrough theory is published on the World-Wide Web, not through old media, not printed on dead trees.


Writers need to base their thinking around my ego death Theory, because this accomplishes already what they are calling for better than they can, more strongly.

Cybernetics: Cognitive scientists advocate the nullity of personal control agency — I’ve already finished explaining that. I cover absolute nullity of egoic control agency more so than the cognitive science books.

Heimarmene: Cognitive scientists advocate no-free-will — I am already years ahead of them. My model of the single preset future and block universe goes far beyond conventional determinism which is causal chain determinism.

Dissociation: Cognitive scientists slightly advocate entheogens — but this should be their #1 hue and cry. They should be going on strike until drug laws (a recent, illegitimate, fraudulent creation) are thrown out. I’ve already finished explaining that, including loose cognition, and mental model transformation about self, time and control. I have already finished the entheogen theorizing going beyond what the cognitive scientists are starting to demand (The Ego Tunnel, Thomas Metzinger, pages 223-230).

Metaphor: Hofstadter

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0465018475
April 2013
“Analogies are the building blocks of thought. A theory about the way the mind works. From the simplest forms (a single word, category, or phrase) to infinitely complex constructions (an idiom, proverb, or algorithm), they show how analogies are the tools our brains use to interpret and master daily life. Language, the mind, and intelligence.”

The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
John Dominic Crossan
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0061875694
March 2012

I previously posted about other books approaching the Bible as fiction and comic fiction and riddling, which is the correct approach, when comic fiction is applied to Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Dissociation per the Egodeath theory.

The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience / Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness
Ralph Metzner
http://amazon.com/o/asin/098183180X
April 1986; 1998; 2010
Based on his 1980 article for Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, “Ten Classical Metaphors of Self-Transformation”.
Reviewer Michael Hoffman writes:
“Metaphors describing dissociative-state experiencing: This book is an organized inventory of the various metaphors that have been used to describe the phenomena encountered in the mystic dissociative state. Dissociative psychoactives are mentioned in an integrated manner throughout the book. This is a revised edition of Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness. Benny Shanon’s book Antipodes of the Mind is a good companion volume similarly explaining dissociative-state cognitive phenomenology as the origin of mythic metaphor.”

Metzner notes that the book doesn’t cover what I consider as meme propagation and collective state-flipping per the arrival of the Kingdom of God with all the Elect united in spacetime by the Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Entheogen revelation.

Metzner notes that the book “does not delineate linear developmental models showing sequential stages of evolution. This is not to say that development does not proceed in stages — only that agreement on mapping these stages seems quite elusive. Much of the literature on evolutionary stages seems to me to be overly abstract, highly subjective and sometimes indicative of a kind of premature conceptual crystallization. Subtle judgments of spiritual superiority [like Ken Wilber’s error in treating “mythic consciousness” -mh] seem to slip too easily into discussions of levels and stages.”

Well said, making points that I posted the other day on my frustration at Dan Merkur and Zaehner, writers of books about mysticism theory, and writers about the evolutionary development of early, middle, and late Greek religion and philosophy, with their stupid overconfident stilted and stuffy self-assured categories and schemes when they understand jack squat about the content and meaning of the ideas and mythemes they *presume* to — with great fanfare — emphasize and rely on.

The result is pseudo-knowledge, misleading, leading away from understanding — substitute for comprehension. *First* you must understand mythic metaphors as I have solved, and *then* you can do the trivia of sorting those into eras with different emphases. As it stands, we have the abominable faux knowledge that Greek “religion” gave way to Greek “philosophy”, while totally misunderstanding and misrepresenting both.

See Myers’ book Gnostic Visions (or my work) for some sanity on that matter: Greek religion and philosophy were both drenched totally in the entheogen-induced loosecog state; it was entheogenic myth, and, entheogenic philosophy, not the God-forsaken ordinary-state modern-era type of analytic philosophy. I hold that now and before the modern era, the use of entheogens to produce a fully transformed mental model always has required multiple sessions of loose cognition.

Through pressing one’s mind against the loosecog realm repeatedly, the mind is impressed and sculpted in compliance with the altered state observations of mental dynamics regarding self, time, and control, together with learning the traditional metaphors and analogies that express the loosecog dynamics, such as ‘king’, ‘death’, ‘snake’, ‘tree’, and ‘sacred food and drink’.

Gnostic Visions: Uncovering the Greatest Secret of the Ancient World
Luke A. Myers
http://amazon.com/o/asin/1462005462
April 2011
Entheogens including Syrian rue + acacia, throughout Western religion and spiritual philosophy.


Cognitive scientists are on a trajectory: I am pulling them in like a tractor beam. The ego death Theory is inevitably their destination and I am already standing there right in the middle on top of that peak. I already reached where they are headed in 1988, and then in 2001 I extended that to cover myth, religion, and religious experience to fully explain religious myth, a subject which is barely on the radar of cognitive scientists, despite Hofstadter’s focus on analogies. They have a crude model, and a call to begin work on self/nofreewill/psychedelics/analogies, and I have a finished model.

My voice recording tonight contains new, important, profound connections about sacrifice as desirable demonstration of violating, of willing against itself, of transcendently violating control of your will, playing with your inability to avoid possible near-future thoughts intentions of self-harm in order to secure and increase personal control, by gaining understanding of the dynamics of personal mental control. This inability, a kind of cybernetic blind spot and vulnerability built into our self-control system, is profound.

Our doorway to transcendence is our control-vulnerability, the glorious malfunction and limitation we have, which brings the idea of mythic king Jesus saying “I hesitate to drink this cup of Ayahuasca and die ego death, but not my will, Controller X, but yours be done” giving himself over to transcendently violate his own will to satisfy and fulfill our comprehension of how Controller X can be trusted as merciful and harmless to us although Controller X can force us to will to violate our own will, such as could be demonstrated through a kind of self- harm like my ritually scrambling my dorm room in violation of my egoic will, possessed by Dionysus, where my mind was ecstatically unified with the mind of Dionysus.

Judas’ affirmation is our own affirmation of “send King Ego to the cross and disprove his illusory power, in order to know truth and have full, satisfactory demonstration that his power is nullified by pre-set fatedness”.

Instead of taking the physical action of physically ritually scrambling my dorm room as a way of firmly demonstrating the unreality of egoic control constraints or chains, I could’ve merely mentally understood the idea of Jesus willing to be harmed and have his will repudiated. No other DEMONSTRATION of transcendent self-violating of the personal will is needed, only the mental comprehension of the myth of Isaac’s willing sacrifice, or the Eleusinian piglets’ willing sacrifice, or Jesus’ willful affirmation that he should be sacrificed.

When it comes to satisfactory complete forcing of mental model transformation, the idea is the thing. Even if we do sacrificially harm ourselves to drive home and prove the point of our ability to transcend our egoic self-constraints, that physical action can fail to transform the mental model of self, time, and control; we end up with mere uncomprehending magical sacrifices that have to be repeated.

God gave us his son Jesus as an idea, the idea of demonstratively sacrificing our own youthful egoic self-concept, “childish things, thought like a child”, a totally and completely satisfactory sacrifice, as an idea, once and for all, for this very purpose of violating and cancelling our egoic will, to understand God’s power over our control thinking and to fully explore this idea of self will violation which we desire to fully explore. Total absolute forceful sacrifice of our child-thinking requires an idea, comprehension — not a harmful action as proof.

When we arrive at Peter’s gate in the heavens, our completeness of mental model transformation is measured and assessed not by what physical action we have done to disprove and repudiate egoic-control thinking, but rather, we judge ourselves effectively by asking: do you comprehend the meaning of the idea or figure of the king willingly sacrificed on the cross, to bring in the hidden kingdom of God?

We must intend to violate our intention, though it is not clear how to gain and achieve full satisfaction, is a matter of meaning and intending to violate intention it is not a matter of doing some physical magic action or harm or destruction to destroy the ego illusion requires what type of action, intend that the mystic king intend to violate his will and give himself to wake you deviation fastened to space time the point is not suffering or pain the point is to destroy and cancel out and support and trip up and wreck or dominate absolutely the ego sense of control over intending.

I need and want to break my illusion of having control over what I intend. How can I do this? Compare breaking in a cadet or breaking in a horse to establish dominance of control and subservience of control. The egoic power of control must be proven to be merely an illusion or secondary type of control. How do we accomplish this? What do we think, to prove we have transcended the egoic control delusion? What must we think, to prove that our control of our will is merely secondary control?

During the course of making the voice recording, on-the-fly, I proved how powerful the interpretive key is, using the Egodeath theory to decipher myth, by on-the-spot figuring out profound, fundamental myths that are the most important mythemes in the Bible: the main line of connection between Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac and God’s sacrifice of his son Jesus.

I deepened connections about the ram of Abraham and Isaac, which is a kind of lamb sacrifice analogous to God providing his son as a sacrifice that we may come to comprehend the potential of our mental control. God provided the ram (a kind of lamb) which is a willful creature with its powerful horns caught in the (cybernetic possibility branching) bush equivalent to God providing his mythic son who willingly is fastened to the tree or pole or cross which represents the egoic agent physically fastened to frozen unchanging spacetime and the illusory cybernetic possibility branching tree

They say we scientists must provide a replacement for no free will , and the no-Jesus scholars say we must give a way for Christianity to go on

The New Testament is precisely what the cognitive scientists are calling for: a set of guidelines meant for people who have drunk the cup of Ayahuasca (Syrian rue and acacia-bark) and realize no-free-will and have ritually violated their egoic will, by playing with the source of our control thoughts to gain self-knowledge and Know Thyself.

I am the modern theorist who first discovered that the New Testament *is* the “new system of morality” for people who have seen through the illusion of free will, the illusion of autonomous authorship of our thinking, and the illusion of the open future (based on the 4D, no meta-change, altered-state perspective, *not* the ordinary-state speculation based on the hypothesis of sequential causal-chain determinism).

We are simply returning to original Christianity and Greco-Roman thoughts about violating the free will illusion through the sacrifice idea, exposing the illusion of personal control agency, the illusion of autonomous self authoring, the illusion of initiating our actions, and the illusion of authoring our future. All together at once, we reveal as an illusion time, self, free will, and alternate possibilities. There is only one possibility: the fated pre-existing permanently existing future. There is no other true possibility, only virtual possibilities.

All in the same sense, time is an illusion; self is an illusion; free will is an illusion; and alternate possibilities are an illusion. No free will, no self, no time, no possibilities, only the one fated path.


Iron Maiden
Somewhere in Time
1986

Take my hand
I’ll take you to the other side
To see the truth:
The path for you is decided


I invite and urge Cognitive Neuroscientists to play with the self violation of the will to demonstrate and comprehend the ramifications of personal non-control, the illusory nature of the controller self, and our inability to control our thoughts across time. In today’s voice recording, I warned Cognitive Neuroscientists of the potential to harm oneself by playing with thoughts about harming and violating one’s own will.

That is the purpose of this figure of Jesus: God provides the ram or his king has a willing demonstration of violating the egoic personal will, in order to know and enter fully the awareness of the kingdom of God. Entering the secret kingdom of God means in the intense altered state of loose cognition, gaining awareness of the transcendent power of control of thoughts, rather than egoic illusory control power.

The most attractive thing for power and military power is playing with our inability to prevent and steer away from our near future thoughts of self violation. This kind of dangerous and profound demonstration is the way to forcefully, completely, thoroughly, and systematically transform the mind’s mental model of time, self, and control.

This mental exercise of violating the personal will is the way to fully understand no free will, fully understand the illusion of self as control agent that initiates thoughts, fully understand the illusory aspect of time and change, and fully understand the illusion of possibilities and the open future. This is the most profound thought-experiment in Cognitive Science, and produces understanding of the figure of the king willingly repudiated, fastened to the tree, cross, or branchless pole (“stake”).

We sacrifice our delusion of autonomous kingship creating our future by steering among open possibility-paths, to purchase enlightenment and comprehension of the kingdom of God: not our will be done, but the will of controller X be done.

To fully understand no-free-will and the emptiness of the self-symbol, we must mentally violate and repudiate the illusion of the power of the personal egoic top-level controller, therefore meditate on the mythic meaning of the king willingly sacrificed on the cross as a cybernetic possibility-branching tree.

Thus I have demonstrated that to advance Cognitive Science by 50 years overnight, you must study and cite my name and the Egodeath theory, which is already finished at what you Science writers are advocating that we begin doing: developing ideas about no free will, no self, no time, and entheogens — psychedelics, per Thomas Metzinger in the section “A New Kind of Ethics”, pages 223-230, keywords: psychedelic, psilocybin, LSD, Huxley, Pahnke, Griffiths, psychotic reaction, panic, psychedelic sacraments, 2C-B, 2C-T-7, religious ecstasy, classic hallucinogens, altered states, drug policy.

I would mention 4HO-DiPT, which produces classic psychedelic effects with an ergonomic, 1-hour duration.

No-self, no-free-will ethics is not actually “new” per Metzinger’s subheading; antiquity and the New Testament believe no-free-will and provide no-free-will ethics, per my original research incorporating Luther H. Martin’s book Hellenistic Religion, which focuses on heimarmene.

We scientists, when we reveal no-free-will to society, must provide guidance and a replacement system for society. We scientists remove the illusion of free will. This is the consciousness revolution, which is the same revolution as the New Testament in 325 and 1525, a social and metaphysical alternative to Caesar’s Empire or that of worldly popes and “renaissance” pagan kings.

A forged new testament is perhaps, per Bart Ehrman’s 2013 book “Forgery and Counterforgery”, better than no new testament and it was good enough for the early proto-Christians it should be good enough for today’s hapless Christians finally brought to enlightenment instead of literalism and the historical Jesus and Paul.

Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
Bart D. Ehrman
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0199928037
December 2012

These are most of the ideas that are in my hour and a half voice recording today.

— Michael Hoffman, November 28/29, 2012, with expansions December 1, 2012.
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6098 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/stake
The ram of Abraham and Isaac is a kind of lamb sacrifice analogous to God providing his son as a sacrifice that we may come to comprehend the potential of our mental control. Abraham killing his son: realize this isn’t just any son; this son represents the future of all believers in the Egodeath theory — that is, the puppets (“the kingdom of Israel”) who learn that they are controlled by God.

In using the cybernetic ram as the sacrifice as substitute for Isaac (= entirety of Israel), the ram is equated with Israel; that is, just as God provides the ram as the willing sacrifice, God could just as well have made all people in the kingdom of Israel will their own sacrifice (willingly ending their own viable future) in demonstration of their puppethood under God’s power. The ram not only is functionally equivalent to the boy Isaac; the ram is functionally equivalent to every person in God’s kingdom of Israel, because all of Israel proceeds from the loins of Isaac.

God provided the ram (a kind of lamb) which is a willful creature with its powerful horns caught in the (cybernetic possibility branching) bush equivalent to God providing his mythic son who willingly is fastened to the tree or pole or cross which represents the egoic agent physically fastened to frozen unchanging spacetime and the illusory cybernetic possibility branching tree.

An analogy: The God of the people of the kingdom of Israel made Abraham will to sacrifice Abraham’s entire future lineage (the entire future kingdom of Israel!), in the form of sacrificing his only son in the line of Israel.

When the knife proved to come down willing to sacrifice in one blow God’s entire future kingdom of people (puppets) who depended on Isaac living and procreating, God chose to preserve his entire kingdom of people, by preserving Isaac and by instead providing a willful ram caught in a cybernetic possibility-branching bush, providing a substitute sacrifice that would thus enable God to have a future people to know him and have communion with him. The prophets of Israel understand all this. This is the main meaning and theme of the Old Testament.


Does logical consistency dictate and compel us to enter control chaos in the intense mystic altered state? Why was Jesus hesitant to drink the cup of Ayahuasca and die as a cybernetic control-agent? Why do we fear loss of control when ingesting the entheogen that God leads us to and makes us eat and drink? Is it rational for us to fear the loss of control? What exactly, specifically, does the enlightened holy spirit of thinking teach the mind; what specifically is the train of thinking?

How can the mind possibly hang onto this strange kind of thinking from the peak state, these crazy, too brilliant, holy, transcendent ideas, which egoic tight-binding thinking would never think of? These are not rare or strange ideas: these are actually the standard ideas that occur to the mind when the biased ruts of egoic thinking are suspended and disengaged. This is transcendent control-thinking now speaking, in the extremely rational state of reasoning in which the mind’s puppethood is revealed and the potential of the mind to think *anything* vividly is revealed.

When you are made able to think *anything*, to intend anything vividly, when your thinking becomes *that* flexible and completely disinhibited, the problem is, when you are removed from your personality restraint chains, and you are given the mind of God — entering the God mode of control over your mind, you find that you can make your mind intend and visualize anything and you have no control over this thinking, which God forces you to do and which you are made to want to do in order to know coherent truth and rationality about personal control agency and access the full potential of the mind.

God wants you to think this, and you want to think about this, to know and experience the full dynamics of how personal mental control works. The mind recoils from this type of reasoning and exploration, and the mind is threatened by this so drawn into this thinking to map out the danger to avoid the danger. The mind sometimes hides its head to avoid seeing the face of God and dying, but, per Ken Wilber, the mind is not satisfied until it works through this mode of reasoning about the foundation and source of personal control and non-rational bias in favor of choosing life while also knowing truth and accessing the mind’s full potential.

I am able to think control-chaos, and I don’t, because (non-rationally) and as long as God the puppetmaster chooses to not make me enter control chaos. Per the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, we are taught in the super-rational transcendent Pure Reason state, that God *could* make the mind enter control-chaos, smiting and crushing and destroying his puppets.


The Twilight Zone
Neil Peart
excerpts

Beneath his hat the strangeness lies
Take it off, he’s got three eyes
Truth is false and logic lost
Now the fourth dimension is crossed
Beyond this world strange things are known
See what your fate might have in store
Enter this world of imagination
You wake up lost in an empty town
Look up to see a giant boy
You’ve just become his brand new toy
And no escape, no place to hide
Here where time and space collide


How to demonstrate to your puppets that you are in total control of their thinking, without destroying all your puppets, without making all your dolls decide to tear off their own heads and end their viable future. Do you want to be the ruler over a thriving coherent society filled with coherent viable dolls, or over a pile of self-destroyed dolls? If you want to have communion with the people of your kingdom that you absolutely control, you must have a way of demonstrating your absolute power over the minds of your people, in such a way that you don’t harm and terminate your people.

In the peak window of the intense mystic altered state, when we become enlightened about the chaotic, non-rational basis of personal control, we choose between the two paths:

o Path 1: logical control-chaos, non-viable future, in transcendent recognition of our puppethood and the logical baselessness of personal control. Controller X forcefully demonstrates the ability to make your mind take this path. You logically have to understand this point of view, to know the truth about personal control theory.

o Path 2: act viable and stable, without any logical basis. Miraculous resurrection, while in the transcendent mental state where rules of egoic bias don’t apply and carry no weight. Continue thriving and multiplying while you teach other people about transcendent control rationality and the logical baselessness of stable personal controllership.

Why would a transcendently rational person even consider control-chaos, or even think about it? There is strong confirmation that mystics are pulled toward this thought as the dead center of transcendent thinking. It is not at all insane or irrational to think about “control chaos”. What we fear in fearing acid, the numinous sacred sacrament that poisonously kills our control thinking, is precisely control chaos.

If you are not thinking about control chaos as a problem involving justification of your continued pretended controllership existence, you are failing to see and engage with the main problem at hand. All other discussion is avoidance and beating around the bush. In the name of logical coherence and truth and recognition of the powerlessness of personal control in relation to the uncontrollable transcendent source of thought.

From the mystic’s point of view in the peak window of the psychotomimetic state of un-chained, un-tethered trans-sanity, or radical existential freedom unmoored (like an upper-class Philosophy dorm roommate who became an unrepentant bum and societal drop-out): given that there is *no basis* and I am intent on knowing that there is *no basis* on which to live as a cybernetic control agent, *what then shall I do*? Shall I go berserk, become the cybernetic chaos monster, end my viable future, while I know the truth about personal control?

Or, shall I — with *no logical basis* (because there can’t be a logical basis for personal conduct, from the absolute transcendent point of view) — continue on in a viable stable life — unjustifiable, non-rational, trans-rational, but not irrational, not anti-rational — both knowing the transcendent cybernetic truth *and* going on to have a (logically baseless) viable life, for example a life in which I can go on to teach other people about the mystic state and trans-logical “justification” or “trans-justification” for continuing to live.

It requires a miraculous resurrection, to go on living in the knowledge of truth, after our logical egoic basis and irrational egoic bias is exposed. This concern is unbelievable, can’t be taken seriously, by the mind in the ordinary state of tight cognitive binding — but these concerns are standard in the genius transcendent mind when egoic bias is drastically lifted and the mind is possessed by Pure Reason. Pure Reason cannot provide a rational, logical justification for conducting your life as if you are a power-wielding control-agent.

The kingdom of God is filled with pure reason and with an understanding of what pure reason cannot provide: justification for not acting-out control chaos. There is no rational justification for having a viable life rather than entering control-chaos. There *is* the reasoning that “God wants his kingdom of puppets to be viable, to both know his power and continue to live and thrive and multiply while knowing his power.” Puppets who decide to enter control-chaos would fail to make God’s kingdom multiply.

The reason you should not enter control-chaos is so that God’s kingdom can multiply by your instructing other people. I could’ve entered control-chaos — God made me know this through experience: God totally could’ve made my mind choose to enter control chaos and end my viable life; he showed me that. But instead, God chose to make me continue — with no basis in my own power or logic — with a viable life so that I can teach people about the cybernetic position of God.

I have a voice recording on cassette of the moment these principles (not the Isaac metaphor) was shown to me, on March 19, 1993, just after my roommate’s cat (= Dionysus) yawned. My mind was extremely relaxed and tranquil to the point of coming to a halt; the cat yawned, and the thought was put into my mind that I could be made to do *anything* and had no power to steer away from a compelling thought. I was shown the idea that my future could immediately be ended, that I could be made to will some harmful thing that would end my viable future.

I also at that time had a clear, though vague, vision of Jesus floating up with his kingdom, though this was confusing until November 2001 because I still assumed that Jesus was a historical figure. I was starting to understand this mystic principles and such logic, and had trouble, through 1999, attempting to fit-in the role of the historical Jesus in with these mystic-state principles. The solution rushed together upon removing the premise that didn’t fit — the historical Jesus.

In that 1993 experience, I was shown the ability to go on with a logically exempt, unjustifiable viable future, so that I could teach other people about personal control cybernetics (such as going on to publish my 1997 Core theory summary at Principia Cybernetica). This is presented as a choice to reason-through. There is no logical basis to choose between demonstrating your puppethood by control-chaos and ending your viable future versus going on (without logical justification) to have a baseless viable future in which you can teach other people about personal control baselessness revealed in the altered state.

If you choose control-chaos — which is completely ok per transcendent rationality, which doesn’t apply, then that implies that upon seeing Truth, people become non-viable; you cannot see God’s face and continue with viable life. If you choose viable life even though you know there’s no logical rational basis of justification for an awakened puppet to act as a coherent stable controller, then the advantage for God or for Truth is that you can go on to continue existing *and* knowing truth, both at the same time.

In terms of Bible metaphor, if you choose to see the substitute sacrifice that God provides as properly satisfying the logical requirements to recognize our helpless puppethood, then you can go on to multiply and thrive, so God will have a thriving kingdom of awakened people. You can go on to spread and communicate and propagate the race of the God of Israel. Not through literal procreation, but by *meme* propagation.

My role per 1993 is to propagate the knowledge of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, which is what the Bible is about: the collective set of people who are made to understand that they are helpless puppets and have no logical rational basis for their acting with cybernetic power.

“White-light electricity hum/buzz/beats feedback — Instrumental only. Free-form electric guitar. The main part starts around 1:30. 8 minutes. From an idea-development spoken-word recording named Escape Velocity, by Illumination Valve, March 19, 1993, a few minutes prior to the onset of transcendent religious control seizure (which was also captured on tape, against the backwards playback of this passage). Uploaded July 24, 2007. Compare to the visual art of Alex Grey.”

How can God have a kingdom of believers in him, if every time a person discovers the power of God or control-chaos in the intense psychotomimetic altered state of loose cognition, the person is made to sacrifice their viable future? In the peak window of psychotically unbiased transcendent thinking, you reach the point of control-chaos and the decision arises: I can either become chaotic, in which case, my life practically ends and I’m locked away and separated from society; or, I can baselessly *assume* that it is legitimate for me to continue with stable, viable self-control life.

It is disturbing, the baselessness, the logical lack of foundation for control activity once we perceive the arbitrariness of control. What is the logical basis justifying our continued pretense of stable self-control, once we see the truth, that we are controlled by blind heimarmene? There is no personal god, there is only Fatedness. The peak window in the altered state reveals that my life is subject to the whim of blind, mechanistic, uncaring fate — the monstrous god of heimarmene, ruler of the physical world. That is my given logical basis, I see.

There is a choice presented to the enlightened person: given that I am a helpless puppet of blind mechanistic fate, how can I logically justify acting coherently? Isn’t this the end of the road, for my viable self-control stability? How can we live, without delusion, after we have shown the non-veracity of egoic control; of self, time, and control? How can we live in a truth-aware way, where the truth shows that we have no logical basis for doing one thing or another after we have transcended egoic control?

There simply is no logical basis on which to live. It’s a category error. Our conduct is not a matter of logic; the demand for a logical basis for action is incoherent and meaningless.


Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
excerpt:

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.


o Path 1 that occurs to us: Acting out chaos, in which case we go psychotic and have no viable future. We kill our future (represented by our son Isaac, who will go on to propagate the entire race of Israel, who is God’s people who worship him). Note the special circumstances about Isaac: the mother is unable to have any more children. Isaac is Abraham’s only son in the chain that will be Israel, God’s worshippers. If Isaac dies, *it’s not just Isaac* who dies, the whole *point* is that killing Isaac amounts to killing the entire set of people in the future who will be God’s worshippers.

By God having Abraham destroy Isaac, God is having Abraham destroy the entire set of God’s future worshippers! That’s the shocking point! It’s unimportant that Abraham is about to kill his son. as far as the son dying — that’s merely one little person. But this isn’t just any son — this is the son who will propagate the entire race of all the people who will worship this god in the future. By killing the root of the branch of all his worshippers, god in demonstrating his power over Abraham’s will, is depriving himself of all his future worshippers.

If the truth shows you that you have no viable basis for control and you must switch from viable delusion to enlightened control-chaos, then only transcendent psychotic chaotic people remain alive to worship god, and their lives are not viable. If seeing God makes you so sane and rational that you go berserk and become random and enter permanent control-chaos, then no one can know truth and go on to live within the state of knowing truth. God’s kingdom of worshippers will be practically empty. That’s the point of the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac. God has to prove his power over his people, without destroying his people.

God has to kill something, or put that creature into control-chaos and demonstrate his ability to end that person’s life as a viable control-agent. So God provides a willful ram with its power caught in the cybernetic possibility branching bush, and God demonstrates his power to wreck and override one’s control-thoughts by making Abraham sacrifice the ram, *thereby preserving* Isaac who is the future progenitor of all the people who will know and worship and understand God’s cybernetic preeminence over our personal control power.

Belonging to Israel is only metaphorically being of a certain “race” — the “race” of the elect, those who are destined to be shown the ability of God to override and drive our control-thoughts into chaos and make us end our viable future as control-agents. For his worshippers to fully understand his position, God must demonstrate his “wrath”, his controller position which enables him to wreck our control. The idea of Jesus as the sacrificial lamb provided by God is equivalent.

In the case of Jesus, Jesus as ram is both sacrificed and preserved upon resurrection as the mystic king over a kingdom of the enlightened puppets, who all know that God can take over and wreck the control-viability of any of our minds. We are the “race” of puppets who have been demonstrated to be helpless and shown that our future is radically up to God’s whim. The puppetmaster at his whim could make our thoughts end our life or go chaotic in any number of ways — why doesn’t God drive our control into a wreck?

Because — the answer of the Bible is — if God’s way of revealing his position of power to us is that he harms us and wrecks our viable life, — (you must reason to yourself this way, thinking as God) — he wouldn’t have kingdom of worshippers; he would have a heap of psychotic ship wrecked minds. His kingdom would be merely a graveyard and insane asylum, hardly a worthy viable kingdom. He must build up his kingdom, he must have a way of demonstrating his power to smite or uphold the person’s train of control-thoughts, without actually harming his people that he brings into his court.

If I am the king, and I demonstrate my power over my people’s thinking by driving them insane and making them kill themselves, I will have no kingdom! I must find some other way to demonstrate that I am in control of my people’s minds, their personal cybernetic control-thinking.

Instead of having my people destroy their future as my way of revealing and demonstrating my power over them, I will instead provide my own *only* son, thus representing the entirety of my future control-life and lineage, and I shall make his mind choose willingly to sacrifice his own future, which is my future as control-agent, and I shall not make my people’s minds go into control-chaos and wreck and sacrifice their viable control-future. This way, I both demonstrate my power over thinking, and, preserve the viability of the future of my people in my kingdom.

When I make my son want to sacrifice himself, my point is that I could have made any of you, my people, will to go into control-chaos and sacrifice your viable future.


o Path 2 that occurs to us: Though we have no logical basis for justifying acting stable and consistent, it is possible, though not logically justifiable (it’s trans-rational; it’s not a matter of “logical basis”; the idea doesn’t apply; it would be a category error to demand a “logical basis” for acting coherent and viable in the future after being enlightened about being a helpless puppet and also throwing off the chains that constrain egoic thinking: our natural biases, likes, dislikes, attitudes.

You *can* non-rationally (not irrationally; not against logic, but independent of logic; logic doesn’t apply, though we expect it to) adopt transcendent magical thinking, a miraculous resurrection and bootstrapping, honoring a personal God. To sacrifice Isaac is to harm and cut off your own future life. Shall we hold that when you become enlightened, you must become chaotic and practically end your life? If that were the case, if we agree to that, there would be no enlightened *and* viable people to worship God. That’s the simple, classic religious idea.

If God shows his power by making you kill yourself and end your future, to show he’s in control of your thinking, then no one is allowed to live and know God. How can we (as cybernetic control agents) see the face of God (perceive our cybernetic nullity) *and* go on continuing to live in a viable, stable way?


I Don’t Know
Bob Daisley
excerpt

Nobody ever told me
I found out for myself
You gotta believe in foolish miracles
It’s not how you play the game
It’s if you win or lose
You can choose
Don’t confuse
Win or lose
It’s up to you


This is a new increase in clarity of connections: I’ve been working on these thoughts for years, but now they have really come together.

— Michael Hoffman, December 1, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6099 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Re: Bks by Algis Uzdavinys on Mystic Platonism, Ascent Mysticism
> Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
> Algis Uzdavinys
> December 2011
> http://amazon.com/dp/1908092076
> 118 pages
Blurb:
“the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works dealing with Orpheus and everything related to this major figure of ancient Greek myth, religion and philosophy. Here poetic madness meets religious initiation and Platonic philosophy. insights into the usually downplayed relations between Egyptian initiation, Greek mysteries, and Plato’s philosophy and followers, into Hellenistic Neoplatonic and Hermetic developments.”


Reviewer Mysterium Ineffable wrote (rewritten for clarity by Michael Hoffman):
“In the modern era, it has always been a battle to understand the complex relationship between the work of Socrates and Plato and the religious context of the Greek religious world which they inhabited. This is primarily due to the fact that we are fed utter nonsense about them in the corporate academies, nonsense that flows downstream to the common folk and pollutes even the more noble attempts to appreciate their work.”

“I am fed up with the desire to see in these figures a kind of evolution from the befuddling superstitions projected back onto the ancient religious world, an evolution that makes its decisive break with Aristotle and which is then inherited by the Europeans a millennium later–a millennium spent mostly dormant in the prison of Islam–who then labored with it until they birthed together the modern world which in turn produced one simple irrefutable truth–namely, the only truth we can know is that we can’t know truth. If ever there was a reason to question our collective sanity, this must be it. The modern mentality is comprised of this insane fabric of assumptions. Whatever the causes and effects of this stupefying historical phenomenon, that is a false tale of evolutionism from ancient superstition up to wonderful us.”

“A handful of philosophers have kept the torch of real sophia lifted above the dark miasma of misosophy — hatred of wisdom or knowledge. Uzdavinys is a torch-bearer. He shows the relationship between the sacred and the Platonic tradition; between the Orphic and Apollonian mysteries and the work of Plato and Socrates. Shows the continuity between Plato and the various Platonists of antiquity, and it re-roots the holy work of the philosopher back in the soil of the sacred.”


Reviewer VeritasluxMea wrote (rewritten for clarity by Michael Hoffman):
“Algis’ intellect superceded his mentor, AK Coomaraswamy. Out of thousands of books on Orphism, Theurgy, and genuine ‘know their stuff’ metaphysicians, this book is one of the best, without question. Genuine metaphysicians like this rarely exist. The golden age of illumination was 200-600 CE. Algis was a genuine metaphysician. He threw his life upon the quest for Hellenic and Orphic Illumination. Condensed and straight to the point; inspired.”

______________

I heartily agree with the anger and disgust at how know-nothing non-initiate scholars have destroyed their subject by ignorantly forcing it into the mold of “evolution of ideas”. These modern writers are getting in the way and interfering with understanding the ancients. This is why I breathe relief when reading books from just prior to Jungianism. To damn Jung with faint praise: at least he’s not as bad as Freud.

Ken Wilber does this, misrepresenting “mythic consciousness” in Antiquity — as if he had the faintest clue about the meaning of myth, which he doesn’t; he obscures and pushes us away from understanding myth, by mis-interpreting it as child-like psychospiritual development by people who hadn’t yet learned egoic thinking.

The irony! Talk about “pre/trans fallacy”! Antiquity was post-egoic — turning Ken Wilber on his head. They can only be considered “pre-egoic” in a minor sense. In a way, society “progressed” or “evolved” from the entheogenic post-egoic Antiquity, to the eventual ordinary-state based Modern-era egoic-only consciousness, but our evolutionary trajectory is more a matter of thesis->antithesis->synthesis:

1. Antiquity: children had egoic thinking, all adults had entheogenic post-egoic mental models.

2. Modernity: children and adults had egoic-only mental models, no entheogens (within official culture), no transcendent mental model.

3. Post-Modernity: everyone has all the advantages of the modern egoic-only culture, plus, entheogenic Egodeath theory understanding of ancient myth and ego transcendence.

If Postmodernism outlaws metanarratives, early Ken Wilber was an outlaw, because he had a very heavy-handed, and substantially incorrect, metanarrative — the “evolutionary” tale of an ancient pre-egoic consciousness, modern egoic consciousness, and post-modern transcendent consciousness. It is an almost complete misunderstanding to think of antiquity as “pre-egoic”. They were much more, post-egoic, though they were pre-modern; that is, they were prior to the modern, egoic-only consciousness.

It is hard to defend the modern era as “more mature” than antiquity, given that modernity was developmentally stunted in mental childhood, without egodeath initiation.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 1, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6100 From: jdcasten Date: 02/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…

I’m thinking you’re a prophet Mr. Hoffman!

Just kidding… but yes…  check out this post from 1995 too:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan/VQC9aNU0XDQ

I’ve been researching my book Cybernetic Revelation for over 20 years… probably was more influenced by Heidegger in my choice of title than Hoffman… a phrase I independently discovered / coined… but I acknowledge your pioneering and inspiring work as a psychonaught—maybe we could agree about the possibility of independent poetic/scientific verification?  We share some influences as well… like Plato?  He was all for soul steering and revelation.

Yet, my perspective with my books is a bit robustly complex, not a tune to be named in one note, less defined and not reducible to phrases, such as “we are always already artificially intelligent,” “the zero dimension,” or “cybernetic revelation.”  Hence I would not think there was a Newton-Leibniz debate between the two of us… not a “who discovered calculus first” but more like two more or less “enlightened” perspectives on a similar universe.

Also check this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/bah-humblebrag-the-unfortunate-rise-of-false-humility.html?smid=pl-share

More ego-trip irony to think about…:D

Love your work Michael… thanks for pointing out the connection… keep on truckin’!

—JD


— In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, egodeath-owner@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> I wrote the phrase ‘cybernetic revelation’ in my Egodeath Yahoo group some 7 times to date, since November 13, 2001, which was the week of my great Phase 2 breakthrough (extending my Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence to explain religious myth). I don’t know if I used the term before that, such as on the WELL in 1990.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/msearch?query=%22cybernetic+revelation%22
>
> The Egodeath theory clearly explicitly explains what’s revealed in the mystic altered state, and how to translate religious myth to statements in terms of modern metaphysics and cognitive science and control theory — in terms of ‘cybernetics’, which is a neo-ancient word.
>
> I wrote the phrase ‘cybernetic transcendence’ in my Egodeath Yahoo group some 13 times to date.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/msearch?query=%22cybernetic+transcendence%22
>
> — Michael Hoffman, November 2012
>
Group: egodeath Message: 6101 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sacrifi
Warning; invitation; requirement for enlightenment: this posting is a major accomplishment in the theory of blood sacrifice and ecstatic terror. It is advanced and some elements are newly figured out and expressed here for the first time anywhere, ever, as far as a modern explicit explanation. I am the victorious heroic Theorist of Ego Death; I am the first modern theorist to explicitly and clearly explain the cybernetic self-control logic of blood sacrifice, being made willing to will one’s own demise.

I invite and warn you cognitive scientists: I guarantee you will be led to these horrific ecstatic considerations as through a doorway that you must pass through and cannot avoid and do not want to avoid. You want to understand the peak mystic-state vision of being made willing to harm yourself and your future, and understand why in that peak state you will be re-stabilized, relieved, set free, and released from a trap by envisioning:
o An android that is caused to will its own harm and destruction and loss of a viable future.
o A bloody self-sacrifice of a control agent.


What is the commonality between:
o Messiah savior king (political military leader) Jesus, willing to be crucified
o Sacrificing Isaac who will father all of Israel
o Mystic peak-state willingness to end one’s viable future, against one’s conventional will

All three scenarios express the theme of being made willing to end one’s entire future life as a cybernetic control agent. If God wills Jesus to will being killed on the cross/tree/pole, then his future kingdom and future kingship is ended. One theme hidden in the New Testament fiction is that Jesus didn’t actually die — his blood flowed from his side, thus he was removed alive from the cross.

“I’m reluctant to drink this cup of egoic-control-poisoning entheogens and have my kingship killed, but not my will, but yours, Father, be done.”


This analysis pulls together years of insights about the peak-state climax of ecstatic panic and loss of conventional control over thinking, leading to release from a kind of being held hostage (captivity, imprisonment) until paying the ransom price to purchase release into a viable and cybernetics-enlightened future, having spilled blood (willing it in violation of one’s will) to gain cybernetic integrity and purification of the mental model of personal control power.

A theory of religion must explain the classic peak-state dynamics of personal control inevitably heading for disastrous loss of control, and how control stability is restored. Foolish spiritualists tell me that negative panic is never necessary. But negative panic is an especially prominent potential of the altered state, and it’s something that the mind is inherently fascinated by: a strange, intriguing kind of treat, that is related to the workaday threat of mundane lack of control-integrity across time, as in intending to do engineering homework today and throughout the semester and having a puzzling struggle at carrying out that intention consistently.

It is a misconception to only think of negative panic as negative. We must purify thinking by fire, by threatening, by overpowering one’s control-power. The point, perhaps, is not the threat per se, not of one’s control power being overpowered by the divine sacred transcendent mental perspective; the point is to fully comprehend the cybernetics ramifications of the mystic-state perspective on time, self, and control. The objective is to have an integrity of understanding the transcendent mental model, and not be stuck only in the egoic mental model.

How can we effectively accomplish gaining integrity and satisfactory completeness of the transcendent mental model, which we desire? What is the most effective, ergonomic method, the most-effective means of forcefully putting into place the transcendent mental model?


One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode — crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
S.O.S.
In distress <==
Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One’s in trouble and it’s scared out of its wits <==
Guidance systems break down <==
A struggle to exist — to resist <==
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist
It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head* and prays <==
To the mother of all machines
-Neil Peart, The Body Electric

* = offering your head to be cut off, in cybernetic submission and acknowledgement: “You God could make me will *anything*, such as willing to end my viable future.” New lyric analysis point, December 2, 2012


Theory of sacrifice in terms of thinking about bloody self-harm as desiring to oppose one’s own desire, control-intending to contradict one’s own control-intention.
According to classic mystic-state myth, and acid-oriented Rock from the late modern era, the shortest path to fullest enlightenment about self, time, and control, is to think about your will being pitted against itself, such as thinking of an action that represents “a control-action you certainly don’t want to do”, such as ending one’s viable future in some ritual blood-spilling way, representing “overpowering ego”.

The problem is, though, no amount of physical acting-out the idea of “negate egoic control power and desire” can possibly guarantee comprehension of the transcendent perspective on personal control power. Therefore, you have to think about horrific ecstatic loss of control or overpowering-of-control scenarios, not do them.

These two actions are equivalent:
o Ritually scrambling one’s room (which I would never do, being a neatnic) as a demonstration of being unchained from egoic control power
o Spilling blood in such a way as to destroy one’s future, as a control-sacrificial demonstration of the powerlessness of egoic control power.

This is a reason why the figure of Jesus on the cross is bloody: when we are in the frenzied ecstatic state, in which we are caused by God to will against our will, to will the total harm and destruction of our egoic will, this idea is conveyed most vividly and forcefully by a horrific ecstatic vision of being made willing to commit bloody harm in a way that’s harmful to oneself, in an extreme violation of one’s egoic control bias.

Part of this ability is that egoic restraints are lifted, and part of this cybernetic ability is that the mind perceives its thoughts as being forced upon it, and personal control power being overridden and destabilized; one has no control over what intentions are injected into the mind by God and heimarmene/fatedness, some horrific knife blood desire violation idea, lying as a child-devouring monster on the labyrinth course dead ahead.

The sacrifice such as killing a piglet (Eleusis) or killing Jesus or killing the ram in place of Isaac, must be bloody and horrific and ecstatically willed and affirmed, to represent the idea of “the cybernetic agent is vulnerable to whatever ideas and intentions are lying ahead on the pre-set, timelessly pre-existing worldline”. This is how the clean logic of cybernetics ends up affirming and needing a bloody horribly anti-desired intention. Control must become its own enemy, contradicting itself to the extreme, to satisfy integrity of thinking about control. So we have acid-rock lyrics signaling “knife, enemy, horrors, doll, fear, death, guillotine”.

He’s got to walk a fine line
and keep his self-control
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
The boy lies in the grass with one blade
stuck between his teeth
A vague sensation quickens
in his young and restless heart
Like a steely blade in a silken sheath
Excitement so thick
You could cut it with a knife
Circling choppers slash the night
-Neil Peart, from the Signals album

How to fully exorcise the ego demon and purify the mind of egoic thinking?
purification: blood let out = egoic mental pollution let out. circumcision = blood


All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate <==
A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot conceive (“un-perceive”)
Kicked in the face <==
You can’t (“can”) pray for a place
In heaven’s unearthly estate
Life is nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors <==
To direct our aimless dance
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
Or the gods are malign <==
Blame is better to give* than receive
You can choose from phantom fears <==
And kindness that can kill <==
I will choose a path that’s clear
-Neil Peart, from the song Free Will

* The mystic attributes all blame to the transcendent Controller X, Zeus, the Fates, the Heimarmene-snake, JHVH, God, instead of to the mystic’s own moral-control agency. New; I figured out this line on December 2, 2012.


The peaking mystic is held hostage in prison by the blind heartless cosmic Necessity machine that demands a ransom payment (for your release) of full acknowledgement that God could inject any thought into your mind and there’s nothing you could possibly do about it. That is the breakthrough realization that we cybernetic control-agents desire: to comprehend that God could inject any thought into your mind and there’s nothing you could possibly do about it.

The mystic peak state is dangerously rudderless, which is vulnerability to control-disaster, a desirable vulnerability to being made willing to end your future as a control agent. There is no possible way to steer away from the thought that is lying ahead on the pre-set rail of your worldline: God and Heimarmene can prove to your mind that he can make your mind will to end your future life as a control-agent. He can forcefully turn your plastic hand against yourself, to fully disprove your power of self-control.

There is no way to slow down and stop the crazy train of thought that is rushing toward the inevitable beautiful disaster realization that cleanses the mind of egoic impurity, of the delusion that we have autonomous control of our thinking, control over what thoughts are made to arise in our mind. Dionysus predestines us to ingest the entheogenic cup, enter ritual madness and ecstasy, and predestines us to think about these things.


When King Lycurgus (= king Ego; egoic control-thinking) of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the followers of Dionysus (= kingdom of Israel/Jesus). Dionysus injected thoughts of revolt into the people of Thrace. Dionysus made King Lycurgus (king ego) insane; Dionysus gave thoughts to the king that made the king slice his own son (sacrificing one’s childish thinking and self-concept) into pieces with an axe, thinking he was a patch of ivy (= heimarmene, worldline in frozen 4D spacetime). Ivy is snake-shaped like heimarmene and is a sacred attribute of Dionysus (compare ribbons on the thyrsus).

An oracle claimed that the land would stay barren as long as king ego was alive, so his people had him drawn and quartered (= loose cognition, ego death, disproof of egoic control power). As soon as king ego was sacrificed, Dionysus lifted the curse of cybernetic control-impotence from the kingdom. — Homer, Iliad 6.136-7. Lycurgus tried to kill Ambrosia (= entheogen), a follower of Dionysus. Ambrosia was transformed into a heimarmene-vine that twined around the enraged king-ego and restrained him to the 4D block universe, killing king ego.


Your control-thoughts are profoundly dependent = loss of control = sacred disaster = transcendent instability = the numinous (attraction + horrific fear) = heading for disaster enlightenment = prophecy = “your kingdom will fall unless you repent and worship God” = unable to save oneself = require reset from outside one’s power = panic = cybernetic control-agency death = control-power instability = self-control seizure = self-control vortex = doomed =

A song just came on the radio: “Oh no, here we go, got a crazy feeling I don’t understand, got to get away from here, feeling like I should’ve kept my feet on the ground, waiting for the sun to appear” -Bob Daisley

= desiring an enlightening state of helplessness = puppet = doll = crazy = divine madness = desire to be tied up and rap’d and overpowered by the deity = self-transgressive mission to heaven = necessary disproving = being made to desire a complete maximum violation of self-control to gain full enlightenment and cleanse the mind of egoic confusion about control-power.


The mind is made willing to spill blood and end one’s future to satisfy the requirement of proving powerlessness over one’s thoughts (this presumes you absolutely don’t want blood spilled; a more general idea of this is “to harm one’s future in a way that one totally objects to, thus demonstrating totally forceful willing against one’s totally forceful will — an arm-wrestling to the point of ego-death of one’s power wrestling against oneself; wrestling alone against the angel/man/God all night and got a blessing because he struggled with God and has overcome. “I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

The idea of blood sacrifice violation of one’s future fulfills and appeases one’s demand (when one is given the mind of Dionysus) to demonstrate understanding of personal control limitations and fascinating cybernetic self-control vulnerability. God wants me to understand. God wants my non-control. God controls my thinking. I want non-control. I want to understand. I am God; my mind conforms to the mind of God. I want to prove non-control.

I’m not here right now; Dionysus has taken over my mind. I am in full control of my mind and of my personal control: I am Dionysus. The ego mask belongs to no one, it belongs to Dionysus, the secret foreign king.


People think I’m crazy but I’m in demand
Never heard a thing I said (dead… dead… dead)
No use saying sorry
It’s something that I enjoy

He’ll show you no mercy.
Your image in his hands it’s useless to try
Escaping his curses
Nowhere to run – your fate is in his hands
Your time has come – you’ll live to his command
I’m warning you – the worst is yet to come
You never imagined such a fate could follow you
And when it’s your time I wonder how you’ll do
Your kind of trouble’s running deeper than the sea
You broke the rules
You’ve been a fool
The little doll is you

-Bob Daisley

Acid-oriented rock (AOR) = holy sacred scripture and prophecy of disaster and satisfactory transcendence exorcism purification cleansing to gain complete perfected integrity of the mental model of self, time, and control. Acid-rock lyrics carry more authority, credibility, and weight than the Bible, because they are written by our peers in the late modern era.

‘Snake handling’ means mentally playing with the perspective and control-ramifications of heimarmene. The difference between snake handling in Antiquity and in the late modern era is that Antiquity recognized the snake as representing Fatedness, heimarmene, and its ramifications for personal control power. To safely manipulate ideas about the ramifications of heimarmene for null personal control power over your future thought-stream, you must understand your mind being taken over by the heimarmene-serpent God and made willing to think anything.

As the perfect extreme example, God and Fate is secretly in control of your mind and can very well make you willing to harmfully end your future as control-agent, as we may recognize and affirm in the vision of the willing sacrificial crucifixion of king Jesus, the messiah of his future kingdom of the Elect. His blood spills, as Isaac’s ram’s blood spills, as king Pentheus is made to will his demise, as Mithras’ powerful ego-bull’s blood spills out and we are purified upon realizing the god and Fatedness can make us will anything including our own demise.

The peak-state harmful willingness to spill blood and come to an end as a control-agent proves enlightenment and purifies and cleanses the mind of egoic thinking.

Thus I am the victorious heroic Theorist of Ego Death. I am the first modern theorist to explicitly explain the cybernetic logic of blood sacrifice.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 2, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6102 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
In this lyric line (as I mentioned years ago), “kill” is double-pronounced “kill/cure”. The highly relevant, acid-oriented song “Black Blade” by Blue Oyster Cult has such a double-pronunciation, around the same year.

You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
-Neil Peart, Free Will

The mind is cured, cleansed of pollution, purified, and exorcised, through complete ego death and mental model transformation about self, time, and control. ‘kindness’ relates to ‘mercy’ saving and preserving the mystic from the ‘wrath’ of God. The mystic-state threat of God’s wrath, in which the mystic mind is made able to will self-violation of control (“can kill”), followed by mercy, cures the ego delusion. This is a new exegesis of this lyric line, December 2, 2012.

I suspect John Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God) and other modern-era Christians used entheogens, as already evidenced with Joseph Smith (Mormons).

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6103 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
My previous post is sufficient, on the mystic self-violation blood sacrifice idea and vicarious self-will-violation blood sacrifice. I have attacked the subject dead-center of the extreme psychotic-like crazy too-sane realization lying in wait in the peak window of the intense mystic altered state. Thus I have covered all the real actual basics of what is in fact commonly experienced in the modern acid dissociation state in full, uncensored, not whitewashed or misrepresented.

I have covered the full ecstatic terror and logic of the Bible as mystic peak-state fiction, modern full-on acid-type dissociation experiencing, and Greco-Roman religious mythemes of sacrifice, killing the king, snake, tree/bush, pole, ivy, turned to stone, purification, and exorcism.

Having mentioned ‘bush’, a note now occurs to me: Moses’ burning bush is connected to the cybernetic possibility-branching bush (= ‘tree’) in which Isaac’s ram’s power is struggling, caught, and nullified. Thus I have completely shown how all religious myth connects to the main underlying framework, the simplest possible framework underlying religion and esoteric mystic-state religious revelation, which is Cybernetics/Heimarmene/Dissociation per the Egodeath main article.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 2, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6104 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: Break, and writing experiments
I am going on hiatus now.


On the radio now:

Pink Floyd
Learning To Fly
excerpts

Stretched to the point of no turning back <== worldline unavoidability
A flight of fancy
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast, <== attraction, fatedness
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies <== noncontrol of mental attention
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings <== headed for disaster
Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone <== 4D block universe
A soul in tension — that’s learning to fly <== nonctrl of intention: panic
Condition grounded but determined to try

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye <== water-like vision
A dream unthreatened by the morning light <== threat
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There’s no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss <== timeless block universe

Can’t keep my mind from the circling skies <== no control of thinking

– New exegesis by Michael Hoffman, December 2, 2012. Exercise for the reader: apply Egodeath theory interpretation to the version by Petty/Lynne.

Learning to Fly
Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne

Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
And the town lit up, the world got still

I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

Well the good ol’ days may not return
And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I’ve started out, for God knows where
I guess I’ll know when I get there

I’m learning to fly, around the clouds,
But what goes up must come down
Group: egodeath Message: 6105 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…
My linked posting from September 21, 1995:

Coming soon:


THE CYBERNETIC REVELATION
Deconstruction of Self-Control


gathering topics such as:

Hyperfrozen Hyperfreedom

Virtual Freedom and the Virtual Ego

Predetermination or ‘Fate’: A Simpler Proposition than Determinism
(‘Predictable-ism’)

Acid Rock – The Authentic Modern Mystery-School

Hypothetical Realism – Anything Other than My Present Experiencing
Might or Might Not Exist

Uh oh — The Terror Is Beginning Again, and There Is No Way to Avoid
Playing into the Hands of the Future

Shining the Psychedelic Spotlight On Cognitive Self-Control
Cybernetics

Armchair Conjectures about Cybernetic Freakout

The Taboo Against Alchemical Introspection

What Transgression Lies in Store for a Temporarily Psychotic Morality
Puppet?

Control Stability and the Limits to Self-Determination

Fate, Predetermination, and the Block Universe

Homeostatic Equilibrium and Catastrophic State-Shift

— Michael Hoffman, 1995
http://www.egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6106 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
I now for the first time provide an exegesis of The Spirit of Radio, which is playing now on the radio.

http://egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22967

The Spirit of Radio
Neil Peart
excerpts for scholarly analysis

Plays the song that’s so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood. <== magic=entheogenic. also consider mourning your ego death/Tammuz/Jesus’s apparent death

Off on your way, hit the open road <== closed future
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude. <== percep solips bubble

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Double-pronunciation:
“Invisible *railways* crackle with life” — worldline, hidden heimarmene snake / your preset rail

Bright antenna bristle with the energy <== receiving suggestions
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength <== 4D frozen spacetime
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free <== price of enlightenment = death of freedom

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted. <== heartless Heimarmene-thinking or merciful compassionate God-thinking
Not so coldly charted, it’s really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty. <== no wrath; understanding
[check: isn’t this “yeah, you honestly”? I need to do my own transcription of what’s actually sung]

One likes to believe in the freedom of music, <== not freedom
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity. <== loose cognition, awareness sees through illusion of self/control/time/change

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall, <== prophet of the self-control king’s impending inevitable control-cancellation doom and coerced self-destruction unless he acknowledges his helpless dependence on God/heimarmene

And echoes with the sounds of salesmen. <== No One at the Bridge: sails men, the dead helmsman

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com December 2, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6107 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 03/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Swoon/Shroud/India theory of Jesus’ death
The punch line of the mystic joke meaning-flipping fiction that is the Bible: according to the gospel story, Jesus (a character in the Hellenistic fiction story) was alive when removed from the cross. He bled, they emphasize, therefore he was alive per Gruber and Kersten. I have connected the swoon theory, NT as Hellenistic fiction, Bible as mystic riddle-joke, and Mythical Jesus, and the ahistoricity of Paul and Christinity in antiquity.

The “medieval” shroud of Turin and alternative chronology are connected to that gospel fiction story. I disbelieve our Benedictine chronology. I cringe every time I read “for a thousand years” or “for two thousand years”. I call b.s. on those long periods. We need a good alternative hypothesis. Edwin Johnson: Medieval Christianity is the start of Christianity, in the “renaissance” pagan era (there was no paganism decline or rebirth).

Now that no one believes Jesus existed, we are justified in asking what else are we dead wrong about? Chronology, and historical Paul as I’ve written about for years. Don’t tell me “ok we were dead wrong about Jesus existing, but Paul existed and it’s crazy to question our established chronology. And we still have 3 authentic letters written by Paul.”

I discovered the single identifiable historical Jesus on whom Christian origins depend: the man in the Turin shroud in the “middle ages”, the age of magic and forgery.

Ehrman’s new book Forgery and Counter-Forgery says everything is forgery. The Bible is the prime product of the 15th Century– the age of magic, esotericism, and forgery, and invented, pseudo-history.

— Michael Hoffman, December 2, 1312 aka 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6108 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
Blessing, graduation, and Armageddon for literalist Christianity

My 2012 Prophecy and Delivery Package: now is Armageddon, the end of the world for literalist Christianity, and a new Kingdom of God on Earth as in Heaven. I take away literalist historical Jesus and Paul, and reveal that the figure on the cross was taken down alive and bleeding from his side in the Hellenistic Gospel story, where he rose again from among the dead.

I Michael the Archangel destroy literalist Christianity and reveal transcendent control thinking, giving the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence and full justification and completed transformation of our mental model of self, time, and control.

I take away the bush of possibility branching, and free will, and personal moral autonomous culpability. I take away the exciting prospect of destruction of the world in a literal fiery conflagration. I take away the ecstatic, exciting frenzy of the alarming build-up of the mental scenario of self-destruction in light of our mental vulnerability to remembering our Fated sacrificial self-violation that demonstrates understanding transcendent knowledge about the illusion of personal control acting across time.

I bring a completed, finished theory and explanatory framework for myth, metaphor, and analogy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, revealing that all of these refer ultimately to Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Dissociation.

We want, we need completion of transcendent thinking; we want a blessing and a graduation diploma in fully understanding what horrifically thrilling serpentine monstrous thought is revealed in the peak window of the intense mystic altered state. We must have the diamond from the dragon as certification of our completion of transcendent comprehension. We demand a blessing from the angel that we have proven our full understanding of the mind’s helpless puppethood, being injected with the intention to prove our willingness to violate self-control to demonstrate understanding of transcendent control thinking.

We get the blessing from the angel, the graduation certification of full basic understanding of Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Dissociation, after we stare into God’s face and see our ability to violate self-control and end our cybernetic life, thinking with the mind of the Angel of Death who demonstrates our helpless, dependent mental puppethood.

We demand a blessing from the God/man/angel before we will let go of wrestling with him, since we were able to look in his face and affirm demonstration of lack of control of intention, being made willing to intend demonstration of catastrophic self-control violation. With Abraham we say “Yes I can be made willing to sacrifice my future lineage and thriving kingdom, through my son — or sufficiently through the ram caught in the control-branching bush and provided for us by God as the sacrificial tribute and proof-demonstration that God gives to himself.”

With Jacob, we demand certification, the graduation diploma, a blessing from the angel we are willing to look at and wrestle with. With Balaam we say “All the words I speak to you are put into my mouth by God. I affirm and bless, not curse, Israel: the kingdom of Israel is true and enlightened and has attain perfection and completion of transcendent thinking, and they are justified, blessed, and certified as having past the graduation test, the acid test, of being willing to bow their head and say “No my will, but that of Heimarmene and Controller X be done.”

With Paul on the snaking road of heimarmene, we turn from cursing the Christians to blessing them. With Jesus, we affirm, “Yes, I am willing to lose my life and demonstrate my willing loss of control power.” We are spiritual warriors proving willing to die to egoic self-control and self-preservation. As puppets of God, we know the cybernetic truth about self-control illusion aspects, no-free-will, inability to control and avoid our thinking that is predestined, and have made peace with the prospect of loose cognition taking over our thoughts and intentions.

We understand mythic metaphor and all analogy in Antiquity, all leading to Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Dissociation. We recognize all religious writing and mythemes and genres as in truth, pointing to Cybernetics, Heimaremene, and Dissociation. With Jonah, we are disappointed that Nineveh heeded our warning of certain coming doom, and repented humbly acknowledging God’s position to strike down our kingdom in an ecstatic frenzied loss of control.

I take away literalist Christianity, and thereby also literalist Islam and literalism Jewish religion and it is now Armageddon for all literalist religion, revealing the Apocalypse of the simplest religion, the Egodeath theory, the disappointing removal of vague and fantastic “traditional mystic methods”, replaced by psychedelic drugs, entheogens, psychotomimetic sacred meals which is the traditional Eucharist.

Born from a rock, set free from being held hostage in prison, water and life flowing from a rock, and rulers being turned to marble statues that move, our bodies are wrapped tightly locked in place by the sacred heimarmene snake and we awaken to the egg shell and burst through it, past the gatekeeper of the terrible thought of willingness to violate self-preservation in order to fully comprehend truth.

Puppets of Israel, brides of Mithras, you who have learned to look at the sun without flinching and understand willingness to demonstrate transcendence of personal control, you have been certified and cleansed of mental impurity and brought into alignment with the transcendent thinking. You have been brought into God’s sacrifice that he provides for you, for himself, instead of making you prove your puppethood, to fully know the truth about personal control-power and the origin of personal control thoughts and intentions.

The demon has been cast out, certain destruction of our self-control has been averted and affirmed, and the sacred madness of willing self-sacrifice has been mentally integrated into our thinking. Perfection, sacred marriage, completion, certification, graduation, and blessing to Israel, the kingdom of enlightened puppets who have been injected with complete basic transcendent knowledge.

Make clear the way of the Lord, who will re-legalize all drugs, set the prisoners free, and condemn to perdition the dangerous, demonic, anti-truth Prohibitionists, who are a menace to society and block the way of Science.

The Politics of Consciousness: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Steve Kubby
Foreward by Terrence McKenna
http://amazon.com/o/asin/189362644X
1995

It is a time of mourning the mega ego deaths as the memes of the Egodeath theory propagate, as an entire civilization flips from egoic delusion and literalist religion, to transcendent thinking and comprehension of mystic analogy, as the scales fall from our eyes and we understand the Parable, and turn to look behind the mind, and our sins be forgiven.

There is no more need to prove transcendent comprehension of divine control-seizure, as the angel could not prevail over our God-conformed thinking which passed the test of transcendent thinking. There is no more sin or dying or alienation from the transcendent, and no more heaven for deluded moral freewill souls.

The end of the world is here for literalist religion, and we console with comprehending ancient religion, mystic metaphor, and mystic psychedelic state analogies in all forms and genres. Heed the Teafaerie on 2012 doomsday wisdom. http://www.erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/2009/12/02/towards-2013/

We have been abandoned by our childish idea of God, and are left with nothing to fall back on but transcendent knowledge about Cybernetics, Heimarmene, Dissociation, and Metaphor, to solve our real world problems, helped by the wisdom of real, mystic, entheogenic religion, which is all about Cybernetics, Heimarmene, and Dissociation, not escapism into vague unrealities.

Time shall be no more: when we were children, we thought as children, and now it is time to put away childish things and study the bitter sweet scrolls the angel inevitably gives us: take, eat, and know the message of the Lord.

— Michael the Archangel
http://www.egodeath.com, December 4, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012 M. Hoffman. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6109 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
I affirm and bless, not curse, Israel: the kingdom of Israel is true and enlightened and has attained perfection and completion of transcendent thinking, and they are justified,
blessed, and certified as having passed the graduation test, the acid test, of
being willing to bow their head and say “Not my will, but that of Heimarmene and
Controller X be done.”
Group: egodeath Message: 6110 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: The Revelation, Apocalypse, and Last Judgement
What happened to the comforting shade of the possibility branching bush that sheltered Jonah from the light of the face of God’s transcendent cybernetic truth? The heimarmene worm ate the bush of virtual possibilities, revealing, in the light of the sun of clear perception, that only a single path through the possibility bush is actually possible: that path through the bush branching that is the single, pre-set, pre-existing, fated future path of thoughts and actions. The snake ate up the tree, exposing the sun light.

— Original theory application result, December 4, 2012, Michael S. Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6111 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 05/12/2012
Subject: Re: Break, and writing experiments
I am going on hiatus now. Flow is a strain.

This is complete. More is mere variants and additional application of the same thing. My role is to explicitly uncover and reveal the entire comprehensive basic framework of transcendent knowledge including how to analogy-map anything to the core Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, which is the starting point of reference for all religious philosophy, the model by which all are compared in relation to.

— Michael Hoffman, December 5, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6112 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
Written by Annette Tucker with Jill Jones

> Artist: The Electric Prunes
> Song: Get Me to the World on Time
> Release date: March 1967
> Reached #27 on the U.S. pop charts
> Transcribed accurately by Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com) for the first
> time on the Web, Sep. 15, 2005
Group: egodeath Message: 6113 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionate de
The attractive, compelling self-cancellation of self-control, is numinous: it is apprehended and desired and sought. How can we learn to climax safely, experiencing our ability to experience being out of control, without spilling the shallow kylix (“cup”, actually a shallow saucer)? How to experience being really, forcefully, dynamically out of control (as a real, nonordinary state), while remaining practically in control?

The uninspired outsiders say we have the waking and dreaming state, but there’s the climax state too — not merely thinking about control cancellation, but *experiencing* the paranoid bending-inwards, the latching and catching of thought on itself, like a circle that turns and has curly hooks that catch, on its rim. How to surf the point of no return, the event horizon, controlling the build-up and release?

4-HO-DiPT is a 2-3 hour orally active psychedelic with classic-effects that could enable the safest strongest dancing with this control-vortex catching ability, where the mind can enter into the point of no return, and experience the alien takeover effect, and then come out of that and go back in and out of that opening, that experiential organ of climax and control-loss potential. Shulgin “doubt[s] that there is another psychedelic drug, anywhere, that can match this one for speed, for intensity, for brevity, and sensitive to dose, at least one that is active orally.”

It is not merely a matter of “think these thoughts and counter-thoughts, and hold this attitude and perspective in mind”. You also must have a suitable degree of loose cognition. It can be a little depressing after dancing with the control-vortex capability

The hole in the side from which transcendent thinking is born is an organ of regeneration and climax. Control loss is initially frightening. Later, the higher male thought injector and lower female helpless thought receiver have coupled climactically a number of times in the mystic bridal chamber. Now the advanced initiated mystic regularly comes home after class and can have a self-control seizure climax on-demand.


Today, December 6, 2012, is Drug Re-legalization Day: a Holy Day for the Egodeath theory

Until 1966, psychedelics and entheogens were correctly covered by law; that is, there was no law. Then, recently, Richard Nixon pulled out of a dark place, his rules, which are erroneously called “laws” by some people, claiming nonsensically that entheogens are “illegal”. Such is the way of all the “drug schedules”. They are a recent fabrication invented for all the worst motivations. There is nothing good about Prohibition, and there is everything bad about it.

The mythic, fictional Jesus, the mythic Paul, and the mythic Church Fathers in Antiquity all drank entheogenic wine and ate psychedelic bread, same as everyone did in Greco-Roman recreational religious banquets and political ceremonies and city festival feasts and funeral clubs and mystery cultic initiations.

Today, the drug schedules (a recent, phony invention) are all thrown away forever: Cannabis is again not a crime, just as through 1900 it was not a crime. Now that Cannabis is legal, it is legal like it was in 1900 and all psychoactive drugs and plants are legal like they were in 1900. Prohibition rose up one day recently, caused immense harm, and then freedom was restored. Cannabis was re-legalized today, which means a catastrophic collapse: War Is Over: there is no more drug prohibition; instead, the door to religious experiencing and the passion of self-control seizure climax is thrown open.

Prohibitionists are thrown into the fiery pit, thrown into the prison system that they engineered, and are viciously dealt with by their own thugs-in-uniform God-forsaken drug squads that they designed, and we look down at them and vengefully laugh at their torment and separateness from God and truth and the passion of self-control seizure climax. The hunters become the hunted, the oppressors the victims of their own oppression. The prisoners are set free and the evil prohibitionist rulers of this world take their place rightfully, frozen in chains in the bottom of the pit of Hell.


We must trace the transition from Antiquity in which the heimarmene snake was worshipped (with Zeus subject to Fate), to the later Gnostic and then Christian level-increase where the praise was transferred to the idea of transcending heimarmene. The distinction is relatively advanced in terms of symbol-usage or allegory-connecting. We are one-foots, hokey-pokey standers: if one foot is supported by the Heimarmene snake, then what supports our other foot: personal control thinking, or transpersonal God ruling from outside the cosmic egg of Heimarmene?

Do we hate egoic freewill delusion (the Possibilism or branching tree view of time) and revere Heimarmene (the Eternalism view of time), or do we — like Gnostics and later Christians — disparage Heimarmene as a “prison” that the higher God provides the sacrificial demonstration for to pay the ransom hostage-release price to set us free and buy us back so that we are transferred, no longer slaves to the rulers of this world that’s ruled by the sun (the Fate-ruled Heimarmene) but now are slaves owned and controlled by the transcendent Mithras or God, whose throne of control lies outside the cosmic boundary of the Heimarmene snake.

But we are not slaves of Mithras; we are sons, but we are even more than merely natural sons, we are adopted sons of God, and therefore he passes on his power and life and transcendent freedom to us.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics: Presentism, Possibilism, Eternalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/#2.1
Shows diagrams of time-slice solipsism, egoic branching-future possibility-tree, and the single-future frozen block universe. I identified (as a massive breakthrough around 2003) as the Heimarmene snake, and the branching I realized in 2011 as the tree in mystic-state mythic metaphor, completing the Rosetta-stone translation of the snake-tree contrast together with “marble rock – flowing water” contrast, and the master-mytheme of ‘kingship’.

Rudy Rucker’s 1977 first edition of the 4th Dimension has a couple pages that contain some of the words ‘branch’, ‘tree’, ‘worm’, and ‘snake’, but that’s the closest anyone got to recognizing this massive key breakthrough connection.

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension
Rudolf Rucker
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0486234002
1977
“world line” 23 hits.
branch — 3 relevant hits
worm: 4 hits. Uses world line and life-worm as synonyms. A worm is even more linear than a snake, to represent a spacetime world-line of a person or object.
tree: 7 hits, apparently not branching possibility trees
bush: 0 hits

Such advanced idiocy totally dominates now: when people write about ‘block universe’ they instantly fixate on “many-worlds of QM = block universe”, ruining, bastardizing, and obscuring the original, clear model of the block universe. QM is the #1 thing preventing people from thinking clearly. Say “freewill” — people say QM. Say “block universe” — people say QM and “many-worlds”. Say “ESP” and people say QM. Say “consciousness” and people say QM.

QM is the late-modern idol that the lost and benighted sacrifice to. People can’t even understand the elementary idea that the spacetime block *contains* change. Some people try to improve on the idea by adding change to it — “as unneeded as legs on a snake”, Alan Watts would say. Except for the inherently nebulous idea of “transcending heimarmene” (necessary for explaining ideas that developed in late-antiquity religious myth), the Egodeath theory is brutally simple, as simple as possible.


What if my unavoidable near-future worldline contains some generalized horrific self-control violation, and loose cognition latches onto that idea, desiring to Know the truth and the experiential potential for the mental dynamics of self-control? The mind has that climax-organ. How does it work? How can we use it safely, on-demand?

How can entheogenic adult initiates, married to God, practice safe seizure, safe sacrifice, safe mystical passion, safe self-cancellation of personal control? It is not too complicated. It requires *not* complicating thinking, though everyone is intent on complicating things. I am a simple thinker. The solution to the Mysteries must be a simple analogy riddle solution: “4 then 2 then 3 legs” means a person, and thus answering the riddle, our life is spared from self-destruction upon self-control seizure.

We think of sacrificing the willful ram whose powerful horns are caught struggling to no avail in the bush all provided by God for us to rely on rather than carrying out some self-control violation demonstration; we think of the myth of God’s son (whether adopted or merely begotten) willingly sacrificing himself and his kingship to pay the passion price so that we may have interpenetration with God and live freely and thrive despite looking right into the face of transpersonal control power.

Through travelling in and out through the portal opening in his side, we move back and forth in and out of divine madness frenzied ability to threaten our own egoic control and put down the threat and excite the suggestible mind on demand, calm, passionate, well-experienced, ecstatic, and when the quickening embrace releases, “it’s really not the end, like old Sol behind the mountain, I’ll be coming up again.”

New connection:
Mars: taking a stance of war against our own seizing, near-future control-thoughts.
Venus: pursuing self-control seizure as a climactic love embrace in a herme-aphrodite person of 2-natures.


New connection realization just now (probably refutes some shortcomings of Acharya as well as Ulansey and everyone else):

Sol, the initiate, in Mithraism, represents personal rulership in the initiate, as distinct from cosmic transcendent rulership which is held by Mithras (= God). This is how the sun is represented in Mithraism both as transcendent but merely the lower sun. The killer question for Acharya’s true-so-far-as-it-goes system: if religion is really about the sun, *which* sun, and what is the relation between the sun and the hypercosmic sun, in terms of entheogenic loose-cognitive initiation and transcendence in personal control power?

David Ulansey writes about the hypercosmic sun beyond the sun. The sun is the ruler of the block universe, which is bounded by an ouroboros heimarmene snake. Beyond the sphere of the fixed stars — outside of Heimarmene — is the transcendent cosmic light peeking through the star-holes. The realm of the God who lifts us up out from the cosmic cave of Heimarmene. We then walk out of the cave, now having transcended Heimarmene.
http://www.mysterium.com/hypercosmic.html


Perhaps Ken Wilber or the early Catholic Church (to rule this and the otherworld) reconciles this value-flipping: First, we develop to a stage, then dissociate from it *but integrate* it while we struggle to be free from *exclusive* identification with it. First we leave our attachment to egoic control and identify with ego-killing Heimarmene, and then after Antiquity we leave our Heimarmene-attachment and transcend higher while retaining both egoic mental structures and our understanding of and perception of Heimarmene.

This is a *valid* way of doing what Wilber tries to do, force a story of “evolution” onto history in the so-called “mythic” era. Historically, we might see a change from depictions of Fate and Heimarmene as representing piety (such as touching the snake in a non-branching tree), to depictions of standing on the cosmic X-cross to transcend Heimarmene.

Antiquity moved from venerating Heimarmene (snake worship) to venerating Mithras who stands outside time and moves the Zodiac itself, venerating the transcending of Heimarmene. The mind has an organ, a birth-passageway, which enables the experience of mystic-state ego-death climax, mystic passion, entheogenic self-control cancellation org*sm and overpowering, where Fate gives the mind the desire to cause its own self-control instability on-demand as a thrilling capability the mind discovers and desires intimate interaction with repeatedly in a sacred marriage ongoing.

Did the move from venerating Heimarmene in Antiquity to venerating the transcending of Heimarmene in Late Antiquity, change the psychological experience of passionate climax of self-control being overcome and overpowered by the divine? That is an advanced basic question for the Egodeath theory.


Learning How to Cybergasm

We must recognize positively the mind’s organ and potential to latch onto suggestible paranoia and be pulled in on itself in a climactic enlightening self-control violation event, not as we fear parents playing privately in the other room, but embrace and passionately desire the climax, on-demand, through God-given psychedelic entheogens, that Fate makes us ingest so that God can experience through us his power and passion. Self-control transcendence is not merely comprehension of the Egodeath theory, Transcendent Knowledge.

Carnal and mystical knowledge are closely analogous. Reading doesn’t give carnal knowledge; that knowledge is a matter of experiencing. Reading Transcendent Knowledge provides some knowledge but Gnosis is the experience that requires combining textbook knowledge of Egodeath with the repeated, intentionally sought experience of the self-control vortex: excitement, trepidation, respect, enthusiasm.

Religion is reading the Egodeath theory and experiencing in loose cognition the pulling away of control of thoughts, in a sacred transcendent seizure, which is the experience of the Passion of Christ the king and sacrificial lamb of God provided by God to the Elect as a mythic figuration of accord and sacred marriage including repeated ongoing passionate climax of self-control overcoming. Through this passageway, opening, hole in our side, shall flow blood signifying new life, so that we have truly adult Knowledge and thrive, multiply, and prosper. May we climax in the sacred passion of self-control seizure many more times.

We walk as a two-nature male-and-female dyad, a pair — the transcendent uncontrollable thought-injector and the helpless psyche as thought-receiver — that is able to move in and out of the dance, the wrestling, the sacred state of onset of self-control seizure. This sacred kingly experience is our right in a nation of sovereign citizen-kings. Religious freedom means specifically the freedom to enjoy transcendent passion of self-control climax on demand, through psychedelic entheogens.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 6, 2012: Drug Re-legalization Day
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6114 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Love ode to dancing with the self-control seizure vortex, written by women:

Song: Get Me to the World on Time
Written by Annette Tucker with Jill Jones
Artist: The Electric Prunes
Release date: March 1967
Reached #27 on the U.S. pop charts. Excerpts transcribed accurately by & with notes by Michael Hoffman:

Here I go, higher, higher
Here I go, oh oh, oh oh! <== climax

The minute you walk in the room <== relating to the control vortex
I break into a sweat
My hands begin to shake so bad
Can’t light my cigarette

Then you start walkin’ toward me
And my glue comes all undone
If I could get my feet to move
I’d turn around and run

My pulse is beatin’ faster
And I’m headin’ for disaster <== control cancellation potential
Here I go, higher, higher
Here I go!!!

One kiss from you <== the vortex touches the suggestible mind, latching on
And my whole body starts actin’ strange
You shake up all my hormones
You put me through a change

This chemical reaction
Isn’t easy to define
You drive me to distraction
You disturb my peace of mind

You got me spinning like a top now
And I don’t know how to stop now

Is this what love’s all about <== love = desiring self-control seizure dynamics
Lately I feel so wigged-out
Wild sensations
Sweet frustrations <== desire for self-control cancellation dynamics
You get me goin’
And there’s no slowin’ me down

Whoa, here I go, oh, oh! <== climax

— Annette Tucker with Jill Jones


http://www.egodeath.com/MysticClimax.htm — sections:
Self-control seizure as a goal (post 55, Jun 27, 2001; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/55 )
Ego-death control-seizure as climax (post 64, June 29, 2001)
Mystic Climax Like S*xual Climax (posted as “Mystic climax has the same intensity/timing curve”, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/1435 )
Mystic climax as a distinct innate potential (Jun 22, 2003)

https://www.google.com/search?q=climax+self-control+seizure

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/15/only-epilepsy-brings-more-activity-to-womens-brains-than-does-self-stimulation-to-orgasm/
Condensed by Michael Hoffman: “More activity exists in the brains of women during self-stimulation to org*sm than anything short of an epileptic seizure. It activates all of the major brain systems. We don’t know of any other behavioral process that is so powerful, except for an epileptic seizure.” About the author: Gary Stix writes about neuroscience for Scientific American, and was previously a science journalist at IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Delirium and epilepsy
Peter W. Kaplan
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181626/
Condensed by Michael Hoffman:
“States of altered consciousness such as delirium and psychoses have long horrified humanity with the specter of loss of an individual’s sovereignty and self-control, carrying with it the intimation of passage towards death. Agitated states with altered awareness and components of excitation and delusion have evoked the perception of visitation by demons, spirits, or even divine influence, but often with the consequence of ostracism from society. This has led, even in an age of enlightenment, to relegation to insane asylums. Such conditions of insanity were recently approached as forms of illness, which were identifiable even if not successfully treatable. In the 20th century, scientific effort has been directed toward understanding delirium and researching its causes.”

“Epilepsy carried with it a similar societal view. These conditions often are intertwined in terms of both clinical features and common substrates and triggers. The term ‘epilepsy’, derived from the Greek epilambanein, arose from the concept that the individual was seized, gripped, or attacked by forces, thus presupposing a relatively circumscribed duration; while delirium comes from the Latin for “to leave the furrow,” representing a “leave-taking” of one’s senses.” — Peter W. Kaplan
Group: egodeath Message: 6115 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
[clarifications]
I identified (as a massive breakthrough around 2003) [Rucker’s ‘world line’] as the Heimarmene snake, and the branching [which is only implicitly alluded to in the Possiblism diagram] I realized in 2011 as the tree in mystic-state mythic metaphor, completing the Rosetta-stone translation of the snake-tree contrast together with “marble rock – flowing water” contrast, and [around 2001] the master-mytheme of ‘kingship’ [as personal control agency as considered in loosecog].

Rudy Rucker’s 1977 first edition of the 4th Dimension has a couple pages that contain [the words ‘branch’ and ‘worm’], but that’s the closest anyone got to recognizing this massive key breakthrough connection.
Group: egodeath Message: 6116 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Stabilizing control by mental-only non-metaphor understanding
To trigger the ego-transcending cybernetic seizure in order to effectively transcend one’s personal control-power, and then to safely preserve (save, rescue) viable control, in the loosecog state, one says the cybernetic prayer or transcendent idea:

“I acknowledge my profound absolute dependency on my fated pre-set worldline, and I trust in it, as I must, though it is obscure.”

Danger passes-over the personal control system this way, while increasing enlightenment about the dynamics of personal control. The mind this way effectively and safely comprehends and experiences its limits of personal control power, gaining full transcendent knowledge.

Effectiveness and safety increase each other; they fit together:
o The safe way of comprehending the limitations of personal control is also the effective way of comprehending the limitations of personal control.
o The effective way of comprehending the limitations of personal control is also the safe way of comprehending the limitations of personal control.


Other religions and sacrifice-demonstrations are works-based and ineffective.

The Historical Jesus fallacy is works-based salvation and cannot provide salvation. How are we saved; that is, how is the loose-cognitive mind and personal control system rescued from cybernetic instability, and regenerated into the transcendent mental model? The notion that we are saved due to the sacrifice of a historical Jesus is actually a false and ineffective, *works-based* attempt at salvation. It does not, and cannot, work.

Closer to truth and effectiveness is that we are saved by thinking of the metaphor and analogy of a mythic-only Jesus and by thinking of Abraham sacrificing a literal ram in place of his son (and future holy-kingdom leader) Isaac.

Even closer to the truth is that we are saved by thinking of the general metaphor or analogy of “the idea of sacrificing a creature that’s in a situation of control-cancellation like the mythic ram with horns caught in a possibility-bush or a mythic would-be rebel leader and king who willingly is sacrificed fastened to a possibility-tree, wooden cross, or branchless pole”.

Even closer to the truth is that we are saved by thinking non-metaphorically about the nullity of our personal control power in relation to our fated worldline that we are forced to trust in and rely on in faith and a certain kind of helpless dependency. That is the purest Salvation by Faith Not Works. You think that, if you are forcefully fated to think that, forced by fate and by Controller X. Any thought you think, you passively receive. To save yourself, put trust in your worldline — that will happen if your worldline forces you to do so.

I am saved because I put faith in God’s goodness toward me (… *if* God wills me to put faith in him). I decide to do this (… and God/Fate is that which forces me to decide whatever I end up deciding). To put faith in God and be saved, the action that you must exert is: passively be given (receive) faith-in-God (that is, conscious trust in your fate-forced worldline) from God/Fate. How can the mind demonstrate, or be made by Fate to demonstrate, that the mind consciously puts trust and dependency in its own worldline?

The mind is made to distrust its heimarmene-source, experience self-war and a paranoid bending-inward, thought-coercion pulling attention toward the vulnerability to the fated worldline. One is carried forward to the demonstration of personal non-control of thought (that is, the inability for personal control to deviate from the coming thought-stream), experiencing being profoundly overpowered at the very root of one’s source of thoughts (as a clear logical necessity), and then when the mind looks into the sun, into the cybernetic control-core logic, the mind acknowledges that it has no choice but to think the fate-forced thoughts.

The mind wants to retain this understanding, partly as a way of taming it safely, but also to understand transcendent knowledge, so the mind is given the question: how to demonstrate vulnerability to any thoughts? The logical answer is: one answer is, anything you do at all can be considered a demonstration of Zen understanding. Action proves nothing and certainly can lead to a unnecessarily short and impoverished life if you try to act out and demonstrate control chaos or control instability.

It is fair logic to sustain life, fully preserving egoic life-preserving values, while cancelling-out *by understanding* — not by action — nor by metaphor-understanding, but by pure direct understanding: like a formal statement like a prayer, saying “I acknowledge my profound absolute dependency on my fated pre-set worldline, and I trust in it, as I must, though it is obscure.”

The notion that comprehending the limits of personal control requires literal physical action such as harmfully violating control, is doubtful in terms of relevance, effectiveness, and longevity; arguably, it is crazy to think that transcendent realization requires any kind of payment, cost, price, or sacrifice other than transforming one’s mental model of self, control, and time. That is the only true sacrifice, the only true “demonstrative proof of understanding”: purely mental activity, mental testing of power to steer thinking, while developing and presenting to oneself the transcendent mental model.

No killing oneself is needed. No schizophrenic bodily self-harm is needed per the audible commands from some alien remote Controller X. No killing a magical historical Jesus is needed or relevant. No killing a son Isaac or a ram in his place, is needed or relevant. Not even a metaphor of sacrificing Jesus or a ram is needed, nor is that especially helpful or effective.

Ultimately, salvation or control-viability and transcendent knowledge require *understanding*, which can be helped by metaphors as long as it is made absolutely clear that what counts is the understanding, not the metaphor figure, and not some physical action. Mentally experimenting with intention, such as intending to fear and fight one’s heimarmene-rail of near-future thoughts, can help provide understanding.


Degrees of ineffective literalism when you attempt to demonstrate the limits of personal control

To complete the mental-model transformation to the transcendent mental model, the mind needs to effectively and safely demonstrate that it understands that personal control power is null with respect to the hidden fated source of thoughts; that it understands personal control-power nullity, unable to switch from the pre-existing fated branch of the person’s worldline to a virtually possible alternative branch in the frozen spacetime block.

To demonstrate that understanding, the person could do any of the following, listing the ineffective, works-based attempts first:

o Literally harm or violate yourself in some generic or representative physical way.

o Literally kill an animal or person representing yourself, in some generic or representative way.

o Think of harming yourself in some generic or representative way.

o Think of harming an animal or person representing yourself, in some generic or representative way; such as: think of the literal Abraham killing a literal ram trapped helplessly in a branching-future bush; think of God providing a literal historical Jesus who is willingly killed.

o Think of harming an animal or person representing yourself, in some generic or representative way; such as: think of the mythic-only Abraham killing a mythic-only ram trapped helplessly in a branching-future bush.

o Think of the abstract idea of violating or cancelling-out your control-power.

o Think of the abstract idea of formally cancelling-out a certain presumed aspect of your control-power, like a thorough advanced understanding of the core of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, without involving the extended theory which covers religious history and mystic-state metaphors.


It is possible for the personal control system to probe, test, or threaten itself and cause itself to seize in a destabilizing or chaos-like way, and it is possible for the mind to restore trust and order and have harmonious mercy on itself. Such episodes are given to the mind, as every thought is given to the mind obscurely from outside the personal control system.

The more metaphorical and physical ways have the advantage of concreteness, but the disadvantage of magical, works-based efficacy. The more abstract ways have the advantage of being non-physical, direct and non-metaphorical, and faith-based, or trust and commitment based, but the disadvantage of being abstract.


Cybernetic truth and stable viability strictly requires understanding, not action; the only works-based salvation is through the act of receiving understanding and trust and certification of completeness of demonstration of understanding. This doesn’t mean the mind needs to understand metaphor. Place yourself in a time before metaphor was invented. There’s no tale of Abraham and Isaac yet, nor of Jesus’ sacrifice. Or in a possible culture that has no such metaphors, similar to a Vulcan, Borg, or android culture.

What is the non-metaphorical, non-analogy-using way to conceptualize the dynamic of demonstrating understanding of nullity of personal control power and forceful dependency on the hidden thought-source? How can a person purely and directly demonstrate understanding of the puppethood of personal control-power? This is like asking how can you demonstrate understanding that change is frozen in place across time. It’s a category error to think that such “demonstration” is a matter of some physical action.

To demonstrate understanding, requires one action, a purely mental action, the action of understanding, which is the action of receiving understanding or receiving the action of displaying one’s understanding, where that displaying is purely mental.

How can we mentally, non-metaphorically display our understanding that change is frozen in place across time, and that personal control-power is puppet-like in relation to the hidden source of our eternally pre-existing fated thoughts? The goal is for the mind to fully grasp these and have full self-assurance of grasping these concepts, and to continue grasping them as long as possible. It is confusion and weakness to think that any physical action is required, on one’s own part or on the part of an sacrificial creature, such as sacrificing oneself, a literal ram, or a literal Jesus.

And it is mental confusion and weakness to think that some metaphor is required, such as the recent metaphor of sacrificing Jesus or Isaac’s ram. No physical action is needed. No metaphor is needed. And no self-originating act is needed. What’s needed is a non-physical, non-metaphorical, transcendently injected idea or understanding.

For rescue and preservation and salvation and escape while understanding relative puppethood and frozen preset worldlines, the mind must receive {trust in its obscure thought-source} along with receiving and reviewing {understanding of relative puppethood} and {understanding that worldlines are frozen and preset}.

From the active personal-controller-agent point of view: you must put trust in your obscure thought-source and you must commit to relying on your obscure thought-source, while understanding that you can make your personal control system catch on itself and seize into chaotic instability by not having that lower-level trust and reliance in its higher-level control-source, or by taking a paranoid, oppositional, alienated, disowned, or testing stance toward your uncontrollable higher control.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 7, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6117 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Per Stoic cybernetic heimarmene theory, you can distrust your higher hidden control-source and as a result, experience being dragged along by it forcibly, or, you can trust and identify with and affirm your higher hidden control-source and flow or ride along with it in harmony.

The horse that we ride — the donkey of Balaam that Balaam beat against and criticized, the horse of Paul that Paul fell off, and the donkey that Jesus harmoniously rode, and the horse riding up to the snake in a tree shown in some reliefs, or the ox ridden, or the bull of Mithras that Mithras overcomes, are analogous to the forceful pre-set pre-existing fated worldline that the self travels along, the hidden snake rail of heimarmene that we have no choice but to follow, no meta-choice; we are forced to make the choices and do the choosing-activity that fate eternally forces and causes us to at every moment along our frozen worldline from birth to death.

We ride the snake of our heimarmene worldline. We can fight this overpowering worldline, like Mars, at which point the worldline contains chaos and self-strife; or embrace and relate to this scary powerful worldline we are stuck with, like Venus, producing harmony and flow and full unified identification. The worldline is the vehicle through which Controller X injects our thoughts at every moment. The person riding the horse or donkey or snake-pulled chariot is shown above a snake.

In Eastern symbols, riding the ox and chasing it and riding it again. The horse is the moving self, the personal self-control system moving through time, controlled obscurely by the heimarmene-snake preset worldline rail. When you loosen the mind, you perceive the normally occluded, covered worldline, and you perceive your motion riding along that worldline: your horse or donkey carries you along that fate-forced, forcefully propelled worldline.

Ken Wilber’s “centaur stage” really means the perceiving of the moving-through-time illusion, like seeing that you are riding a horse along a track of heimarmene worldline, with no way to stop or freely steer that horse. If you cause trouble, the horses (bouncers) will throw you out of the recreational religious entheogen banquet funeral-club party. The horses at the wedding go out of control on wine, fighting against their own heimarmene-rail.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 7, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6118 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Literalist, metaphor-based religion is harmful and must be prevented by the scientific Egodeath theory.

It is weak, and largely futile, and confusing and misleading, to try to secure understanding by working with physical actions of sacrifice and by working with metaphors of sacrifice. Non-physical, non-metaphor based *understanding* is the main thing: we proved in our religion of Christianity and other religions that metaphors are dangerously misleading when the entheogen is removed and the encoding is therefore forgotten.

Ken Wilber insists on forcing an evolutionary model onto history. I can agree with him this way: Greco-Roman antiquity understood Transcendent Knowledge and the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, but, they packaged it badly, fusing transcendent knowledge together with physical sacrifice (the sin of salvation-through-works) and fusing transcendent knowledge together with mythic metaphor without effective emphasis of the non-metaphorical meaning (thus committing the sin of literalism, a kind of idol-worship including Bible idolatry).

The ultimate idolatry, worshipping idols carved by man instead of worshipping God, is the Historical Jesus fallacy, along with idolatrous worship of metaphors such as the metaphor of sacrificing the ram in place of Isaac, and the metaphor of sacrificing Jesus for our salvific regeneration. Literalist Christianity and the Historical Jesus fallacy, is idolatry and prevents salvation and regeneration into the transcendent mental model. Dependence on metaphors is almost as bad, even if they are recognized as visionary-state metaphors, almost preventing salvation and regeneration as much as idol-worship of Mr. Historical Jesus.

Equating religion with worship of literal physical celestial bodies is also far from the transcendent truth, and in practice prevents us from attaining transcendent knowledge. The only purely non-idolatrous, purely effective religion is the non-physical, non-metaphor-dependent (non-metaphor-based) Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence. So it is necessary to strive for purity of presentation: for maximum effectiveness at conveying Transcendent Knowledge, the scientific Core theory of Egodeath must be purely explicitly distinguished from the extended application to historical religion and mythic metaphor.

We tried wrapping Transcendent Knowledge in metaphor and in physical demonstration form. The result was a disaster and the modern scientific mind ought to recoil is disgust at the extreme misuse and barbaric ineffectiveness of metaphor. We must thoroughly comprehend the referent-meaning of metaphor in order to purify our thinking from metaphoric confusion. We must weed out metaphor from religious transcendent knowledge in order to save and redeem religious truth, from the polluting clutches of metaphoric confusion.

We must separate astronomy from astrology, and ultimately, re-integrate them while fully differentiating them. Differentiate and integrate. That is a Wilber-type idea. We *must* — to kill religious strife and gain transcendent knowledge — differentiate the referent meaning versus historical metaphor, and then, integrate the referent meaning with the metaphorical coverage — while fully retaining the distinction and differentiation. This is a scientific mission, my calling.

To maximize transcendent knowledge, we must eliminate-out the religious mythic metaphor, and then, map the pure scientific transcendent knowledge with the historical religious mythic metaphor, keeping our foot firmly on top of the neck of the mythic metaphor. Religious mythic metaphor is dangerous. This doesn’t mean that we should shove no-free-will in our children’s face. This doesn’t mean ripping the clothes off of the hidden mystery of the snake in the covered basket, heimarmene pulling our puppet strings, at the mercy of Controller X.

We can still use both the workaday egoic mental model and the transcendent mental model, saving the latter more for initiated adults. But we must not permit ever again, mystic metaphor to be mistaken as the referent. We must forevermore permanently kill the Historical Jesus fallacy and not permit such toxic delusion again, delusion which shuts-out and prevents transcendent knowledge (not “assisting through colorful metaphor”) and which leads to harmful religious wars (not that secular wars, or the fraudulent secular religion of drug prohibition, are any better).

We must ensure that metaphor is used to enhance the communication of an already strong, self-sufficient non-metaphorical scientific understanding. This is why it is not a luxury but is *mandatory* that we define — that I define — what it logically must mean to have a “scientific” explanatory theory of Transcendent Knowledge. We badly need a scientific model that is not at all metaphor-based, and that is strong enough to put metaphor in chains, to prevent metaphor from ever again taking over people’s minds and shutting out transcendent knowledge.

We must provide explicit transcendent knowledge in order to prevent degraded, degenerated literalism, which is harmful delusion. The Historical Jesus is a harmful, idolatrous delusion that robs us of our rightful transcendent knowledge and religious experiencing, and causes harm among Christians and among all religion. We must provide as scientific as possible a theory of transcendent knowledge in order to kill and prevent false, harmful religion such as literalist Christianity and literalist Islam and literalist Jewish religion.

We *must* have more intense psychedelic entheogenic experiencing per the Egodeath theory, so that we shut out and preventatively inoculate against literalist and clueless metaphor-based religion ever again. We must given the Enlightenment its opportunity: scientific religion to shut out dangerous travesty of pseudo-religion such as that which uses the Historical Jesus notion.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 7, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6119 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Stabilizing control by mental-only non-metaphor understanding
[clarification]
o …

o Think of harming an animal or person representing yourself, in some generic or representative way; such as: think of the mythic-only Abraham killing a mythic-only ram trapped helplessly in a branching-future bush; [think of the mythic-only Jesus being willingly sacrificed to represent personal control-power nullity followed by restoration of practical control agency.]

o …

My point at that place in the scale of metaphoricity is that it’s better to comprehend Jesus as a mythic-only representation of personal metaphysical non-control realization than to misunderstand the Jesus figure as a literal historical individual, but, scientifically, it’s even clearer and better to base your understanding on a non-metaphorical explanatory model of personal metaphysical non-control realization.

Separate from that, off to the side, you must be able to connect the Jesus mythic metaphor to the referent meaning in the scientific model — mapping out from your scientific model which you identify with and rely on, out to various peripheral illustrative metaphors which are firmly bracketed-off and identified as *not* being the ultimate referent, but merely an analogous roughly isomorphic metaphor symbol-system.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6120 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
We must give the Enlightenment its opportunity to reach its potential: provide science-based intense loose-cognitive experiencing and a non-metaphor based relevant theory of what’s thereby revealed about self, time, and control, in order to preventatively shut out pseudo-religion, which is a dangerous travesty of religion, such as versions of Christianity which use the Historical Jesus notion.

The sickness of bad, pseudo-religion is not cured by irrelevant reductionist scientism, but rather, by cognitive-level, loose-cognitive mode, science-based religion, which thoroughly explains the garbled and over-grown historical religious mythic metaphors, as an emphatically demoted, peripheral area that is distinct from the Core Egodeath theory proper.

We must despise and disdain reliance on mythic metaphor, like a cute gremlin or a pretty weed that must not be let loose lest it take over minds again and prevent bona fide religious experiencing and religious understanding — Transcendent Knowledge. In the name of Transcendent Knowledge, we must banish and put down, and thoroughly map and explicate, all mythic metaphor, strictly subservient to the scientific explanatory model of what is revealed in the intense loose cognitive state.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6121 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Zeus Meilichios (Zeus the appeasable, friendly, satisfiable) is the cthonic aspect of Zeus, which means (I’m the one to discover and figure out and explain): Zeus Meilichios is the Heimarmene aspect of Zeus. Cthonic means under the earth. What is under the earth is the hidden heimarmene-snake-rail that secretly governs our lives and thoughts and destiny. We ride our heimarmene rail through time as riding a donkey, as in Apuleius’ mystic enlightenment tale The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 8, 2012
Group: egodeath Message: 6122 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
That which is uncontrollable, inevitability, that shapes and constrains human life, was equivalently labeled as: Zeus, Fate/Fatum/Heimarmene, the gods, god, the god, the divine, the godlike.

“the gods were not a collectivity of individuals with individual wills, but rather the uncontrollable and inevitable element shaping and constraining human life and human lives[7]. This element could be spoken of indifferently as “the gods,” “god,” “the god,” “the divine,” the godlike” (daimonion), “Zeus,” and “fate.””
— page 67, On Greek Religion, Robert Parker.

7. Cf. H. S. Versnel in _Sacrifice dans l’antiquite_, 171-79.

“The system created a fragmentation of the divine figure. Zeus Meilichios was one aspect of Zeus, which was treated as an independent figure. Zeus Meilichoios was portrayed as a gigantic snake.”

The sacrifice to Meilichios was a holocaust of pigs (representing oneself; humans, or, personal control power), which was wholly consumed in fire and not shared by the votaries, “a dread renunciation to a dreadful power”. One makes a demonstration of annihilation in renunciation of one’s claim to have power over Fatedness, over one’s worldline. My God-given, fated worldline, is what controls me; my autonomous claim to power is emphatically not what controls my future, my ending up in one possibility-branch versus another.

This sacrifice to the Heimarmene aspect of Zeus is a total affirmation of the pre-existing single-future eternal timeless frozen block universe, and averts and wards-off one’s own higher (ecstatic-state, Dionysus-possessed) mind’s self-destructive disproof of one’s control power, as opposed to holding on to the mental claim of wielding autonomous personal control power.

To affirm autonomous personal control power is to lead to disproof and self-destruction, mental contradiction and chaotic war against oneself, but to instead affirm the block universe is to achieve peace and mental harmony, propitiating the transcendent demand for destruction of self-contradiction.

“Meilichios” means “Easy-to-be-entreated”; merciful, friendly, gracious, kindness, soothing, propitiation — implying a prior anger which must be appeased.
“Maimaktes” means the raging, wrathful, blood-thirsty.
Harrison, p. 17.

When you enter into loose cognition and consider autonomous personal control power, this leads to testing and disproving that claim, leading to self-destruction and control instability. Life after enlightenment requires sacrifice of delusion of personal control autonomy, thus (the idea of) sacrificing the piglet (representing one’s own claim to personal control autonomy) purchases continued life, now with enlightenment added. “Fertility” must be understood as “giving oneself permission to continue living” after having seen the lie of autonomous personal control power.

Sacrifice of one’s anti-heimarmene claim brings life and renewed vigor. Festivals celebrate this sacrifice of the false self as bringing continued, justified life and fecundity — not merely fertility of people, animals, and crops, but the very possibility of continued personal existence. The general concept of fertility in religious thought represents, above all, justification of continued ongoing personal existence after egoic personal control power has been fully recognized as illusory and false, though practically, one must continue relying on egoic-mode thinking.

How can the pursuer of truth and self-knowledge tolerate continuing to live, after seeing that their mental foundation is a lie, a self-contradiction, an illusion, a falsehood?

The gods are all-powerful and are bound by fate. Zeus cannot save the life of his son, because that would cause disorder and unbalance of the cosmos. p. 377, Encyclopedia of European Peoples

Perhaps it’s not even a matter of whether this ego-killing logic is true and watertight, but is more a matter of reporting a most-fascinating and stimulating and revitalizing capacity of the mind. Approach this mental dynamic from the perspective of Cognitive Phenomenology (or perhaps Cognitive Psychology) rather than only analytic logic. People in fact experience these dynamics of self-challenging of personal control power, where one’s hand is forced to violate oneself, threatened to self-harm.

Then in fact trippers throughout history have sacrificed their claim to autonomous control power, and have thereby restabilized their control, making friends with their heimarmene worldline, and gone on to live and have a future and have children trippers who face the same potential and problem.

Do not think of this dynamic as possibly being “error” or “avoidable”, or worship at the temple of Quantum Mechanics to avoid this capacity of the mind. We must instead — with me as captain at the collective helm — set the controls for the heart of the sun. Instead of striving to explain away or do away with this capacity, we must figure out how to point our ship straight into the center of the cyclone, how to successfully become caught in the Death Star tractor beam, how to penetrate the event horizon and jump into the fire.

The task at hand is not how to avoid the fire, not how to avoid cybernetic destabilization potential, but rather, how to have interaction with our cybernetic self-control contradiction potential. How do you drop the bomb accurately into the center of the Death Star of egoic control logic, demolishing it? I am Godel striving to prove unprovability, striving to cause the egoic control system to hang. How can we successfully throw a wrench into the logic of personal control power, causing the whole damn thing to blow up? And how have people done this successfully throughout history?

How does that entire dynamic work? That is the task at hand which I have accomplished: the first modern explicit non-metaphor-dependent explanatory model of the mental sequence that is the peak ego death and rebirth experience, our climactic cybernetic self-control seizure potential and restabilization potential, which is the logical core at the heart of religious experiencing, which is the main concern reflected in myth, cultic sacrifice, and mystery initiation.

How to drop a bomb into the heart of egoic control logic, safely, and go on to build an entire society that understands this mental capacity? That is my project of the Egodeath theory, that is what Transcendent Knowledge is about. The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is not so much about ontological truth, nor epistemology, but rather, explaining and giving us fullest access to the cognitive phenomenology of religious experiencing.

This perspective and motivation relaxes the logical demands slightly, enough to enable brushing aside the thousand objections to each component of the reasoning. Our goal is not to avoid this train of reasoning, but to steer straight into it — to first believe in it and test it, see how well it accomplishes the dynamic that is reported. The experience is true; it really happens. Is the block universe, wrath, and mercy all true and what we are forced to believe? That doesn’t matter.

Our ability to challenge our personal control power, encounter wrath and life-violating danger, and then recover, is what matters — along with understanding historical religious myth about this dynamic. I have taught people how to cybergasm and how to recognize historical religious myth as related to cybergasm. I must stay true to the inner logic of my system and explaining how it explains religious mythemes. That’s what people report, experience, and do.

It is irrelevant to try to avoid all this, to punch holes in the logic such as saying “QM provides a hazy alternative to all this.” Lobotomy provides an alternative to my theory, as well. The goal is successfully model what is revealed in loosecog and explain how religious myth expresses that. The goal is not to evade these dynamics through neurocognitive science nor through QM’s sophisticated confusion. Explain, not explain away or evade.

Give better, increased, amplified access to ego death cognitive dynamics, which inherently means safety as well. Safer access to egoic control destruction enables increased access to egoic control destruction. I teach how to lay down your life as a control-agent and how to take it up again.


Cygnus X-1, from A Farewell to Kings, by Neil Peart
excerpts, for scholarly study

There lurks a mysterious, invisible force
The black hole
Invisible to telescopic eye
The star that would not die

All who dare to cross her course
Are swallowed by a fearsome force
Through the void to be destroyed
Or is there something more?
Atomized at the core or through the astral door, to soar

Headed for the heart of Cygnus headlong into mystery

The x-ray is her siren song
My ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal
Until the black hole gains control

Every nerve is torn apart
[yet, irregular heartbeat from heavy loosecog continues on]

I see the gods in battle rage on high,
Thunderbolts across the sky.
I cannot move, I cannot hide,
I feel a silent scream begin inside.

Then all at once the chaos ceased.
A stillness fell, of sound and peace.
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified.

Apollo was astonished; Dionysus thought me mad.
We will call you Cygnus, the god of Balance you shall be.

— The Professor


Zeus’ son is one’s childish claim to autonomous control power, a delusion which implies the ability to steer into other branches of possible futures other than the fated branch of one’s worldline. If you hold onto such a claim, you can — in loose cognition — demonstrate and prove that such a claim leads to self-contradiction, control instability, and cybernetic chaos. The original God (the paradigmatic founding father at the beginning of our collective culture) battles the chaos-monster and sacrifices his son to attain control-stability and continue existing, to then go on to be the progenitor of oneself.

My very existence relies on my advanced tripper great grandfather and father having sacrificed and renounced their control-wrecking claim to wield autonomous self-control power. Had they held onto the claim of personal control power in the peak state, they would’ve harmed themselves and I wouldn’t have been born. Continued viable life, fertility, requires control stability, which requires dropping the claim of personal control autonomy — to hold onto the claim of personal control autonomy is to lead to cybernetic disaster, real self-termination.

The problem isn’t fear, or freaking out, or feeling threatened by one’s own self-challenging thoughts, so much as committing harm. A controversial claim is that one *must* experience self-threat, self-wrath, or self-challenging, to be enlightened. You must challenge and test your claim to be able to avoid the fated branch that your donkey-on-a-rail carries you toward. What if your fated branch contains a fearsome psychotic control-violation demonstration, how can you avoid that?

In loosecog, the mind forcefully experiences all aspects of this thinking, together: you feel and perceive the spacetime block point of view, you feel the lack of control power, you feel your thinking forced, compelled, attracted to, and pulled into this control-vortex thinking — but not just “thinking”, rather, forceful experiencing. The mind has this organ of seizure-thinking, this capacity to self-seize, to overpower itself.

If it does you can’t; to avert that disaster you sacrifice your claim to have the power to steer away from your destiny. This *type* of reasoning about self, control, and time, is the true explanation of the origin of foundational mythic themes of battling the serpentine chaos-monster at the beginning of civilization.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 7, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6123 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Self-control seizure: divine organ of climax ability & passionat
Clarification: these sentences belong together:


What if your fated branch contains a fearsome psychotic control-violation demonstration, how can you avoid that? If it does you can’t; to avert that disaster you sacrifice your claim to have the power to steer away from your destiny.


— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6124 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Taraxippos is a circular altar at a passageway in the race-course of Olympia. This altar and passageway terrifies the horses; they are seized by a strong and sudden fear and disturbance for no apparent reason. The chariots crash and the charioteers are injured. Therefore the drivers offer sacrifices and pray to Taraxippos to be propitious to them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Taraxippus+horse-disturber

The donkey or horse is the egoic control system that is secretly propelled among the fated heimarmene-rail. We can think of Dionysus’ ivy leaves or the thorns of Jesus’ crown as rail teeth that forcefully pull you through the roller coaster of your pre-existing, fate-locked life. Is this how reality works? We don’t know anything certainly, such as Newtonian physics, but this is definitely how the mystic ego-death seizure and reset most readily and powerfully occurs, and how we correctly understand the meaning of myth as reportage of the cognitive dynamics in the loose cognitive state.

This type of reasoning is how to provoke your mind, your heart of personal control power, to seize and reset. I have blown open Cognitive Phenomenology of the altered state and revealed this Cognitive Phenomenology as the primary subject of the history of religious myth, including altered-state poetic themes.

The Egodeath theory provides an endless wealth of successful, meaningful, coherent interpretation of countless elements of religious myth. My decryption algorithm opens up the ability to read countless descriptions of mythemes, like deciphering the hieroglyphic language. I could easily sit here all day and explain the meaning of connection upon connection in the studies of Greco-Roman myth and Christian mythic, mystic-state theology.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 8, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6125 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
It might be possible to engineer a double-pronunciation, such as “invisible railways crackle with life”, by recording it sung both ways, and then mixing the two takes together.

I have identified double-pronunciations in Rock lyrics including:

Why am I so shy when I’m inside you / beside you?
I get high / can’t hide
invisible railways/airwaves crackle with life
thoughts/doubts may arise though
kill/cure my friends
kindness that can kill/cure

I’ve read others note “get high”, but the rest are my independent discoveries and I don’t know of others noting these. I’m the only one to write about double-pronunciation in general, so far as I’ve read, particularly with a focus on allusions to mystic-state cognitive phenomenology.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6126 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Lyrics: The Spirit of Radio (Rush/Peart)
At 1:32, the sung lyric sounds glitchy, like two takes combined: railways & airwaves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juv5Ifs2fFY

The clueless-as-a-rock morons who used to state that Rush is a philosophy band therefore wouldn’t use drugs, explained to me that professional studio engineers have poor control over their equipment, thus explaining these accidental glitches. But I posted a printed interview in which Rush says they take drugs all the time, constantly. As if that was unclear. Morons!

http://egodeath.com/signalclips.htm

Thank God we don’t rely on such people to figure things out. They puzzle over what “Purple Haze” refers to. It comes as a surprise to them, the idea that the song refers to acid. No way! You think so? [facepalm] What is our collective IQ, 50? Could you possibly be any more clueless? You are ready to become an academic scholar of religious myth. Requirement: must live under a rock.

— Michael Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6127 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Images of 3 worshippers of Zeus Meilichios as a giant heimarmene-snake:

http://google.com/search?q=Zeus%20Meilichios&tbm=isch
Group: egodeath Message: 6128 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2012
Subject: Impotent, flaccid Transpersonal Theory
Ken Wilber fails to teach you how to cybergasm. His system, like that of Acharya S, is true so far as it goes, which is not all the way to effective climax of self-control seizure and reset. Other models of myth and religion likewise fail to bring you to the climax of your potential for self-cancellation of your power of control.

My Egodeath theory is precisely that system of technique and explanation which gets you to the self-control seizure climax through the shortest, most direct path possible. And does so safely, enabling cybernetic reset of personal control power, now enlightened about its limitations, so as to continue living and thriving, now in a transcendent mentality.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 8, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6129 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
Rudolf Bultmann’s call for demythologizing Christianity is fulfilled by my Egodeath theory, which is divided into a scientific non-metaphor-based core theory and a metaphor-mapping peripheral theory.

My non-mythic-dependent scientific explanatory model of what’s revealed in the core theory of Transcendent Knowledge, fits with Bultmann, who advocated Christianity with all myth removed. Instead of depending on myth, the core Theory incorporates the loose cognitive state, and the peripheral Theory maps out to myth, which is kept firmly distinct from the Core theory. Theoretically, Christians of the future — after Revelation has been fulfilled — understand all brands of myth. After the Bible history completes, is the world post-Christian?

To read the Bible, means, in full, that you understand how the mythic metaphor mapping to the referent meaning works, and, that you understand how the referent meaning maps to or is identical with the non-mythic, scientific model of what’s revealed in religious revelation in the loose cognitive state, regarding self, time, and control. Figure out what’s revealed in religious revelation through studying self, time, and control, without negligible reference to religious myth, as I did October 1985-January 1988, and then identify the mapping of that core theory to historical religious myth, as I did mainly around 2001. Thus my core and extended Egodeath theory enables people to read the Bible’s underlying referent meaning, through translating the mythic metaphor analogies.

Therefore we must say, resolving the Jaspers/Bultmann dispute, that demythologizing is a matter of separating-out and fully grasping both myth and the referent of myth, as completely differentiated layers. Religious myth expresses a worldmodel indirectly, through a system of analogy. Jesus spoke in allegories; we have to decipher the allegory, such that we turn to look behind the mind, and perceive our previous errors about moral culpability, and perceive that God has covertly been in control of our thoughts the whole time even when we mistook ourselves as autonomous moral control agents.

Insofar as we end up holding demythologized Christianity, that’s identifiable as Christianity, this must mean that we end up holding *both* the Christian myth in one hand firmly, and holding the purely non-mythical referent meaning, now fully revealed, in the other hand. We don’t end up with Jaspers, holding only the Christian myth; we don’t end up with Bultmann, holding only the referent meaning. We end up holding both, separately, separated-out so that we can now perceive the referent meaning.

The non-mythic meaning of the Bible is:

God makes his followers enter the loose cognitive state and perceive God as being in control of their thinking across time. This forms a community that is informed by justice and non-oppression, a community-network which is distinct from the social-political-economic system of Caesar and other mundane rulers and their mystic-state metaphor-based propaganda that props up their oppressive, unjust honor-shame hierarchy and aristocratic divine rights of kings and popes oppressively lording it over the peasants and mercantiles.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 9, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
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Part 2: Bultmann reviews, tempered by my ideas.

Kerygma and Myth: A Theological Debate
Rudolf Bultmann & 5 critics
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0061300802

Per Bultmann:

The radical attempt to demythologize the New Testament is a perfect parallel to St. Paul’s and Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone apart from the works of the Law.

The cosmology of the New Testament is essentially mythical in character. The world is viewed as a three-storied structure, with the earth in the centre, the heaven above, and the underworld beneath. Heaven is the abode of God and celestial beings–the angels. The underworld is hell, the place of torment. Even the earth is more than the scene of natural, everyday events; it is the scene of the supernatural activity of God and his angels on the one hand, and of Satan and his demons on the other. These supernatural forces intervene in the course of nature and in all that men think and will and do. Miracles are by no means rare.

The end will come very soon, and will take the form of a cosmic catastrophe. It will be inaugurated by the woes of the last time. Then the Judge will come from heaven, the dead will rise, the last judgment will take place, and men will enter into eternal salvation or damnation.

It is impossible, and would be senseless, for Christian preaching to expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world. There is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age. An Existentialist [loose-cognitive state experiential -mh] interpretation is the only solution. The Bible shows me a way of understanding my own existence [control-agency acting across time -mh], in the form of a message which addresses me personally.


Myth & Christianity: An Inquiry Into The Possibility Of Religion Without Myth
Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Bultmann
http://amazon.com/o/asin/1591022916

My condensing of the blurb:
Bultmann’s attempt to divest Christianity of its mythical components and make sense of it in more modern terms. Jaspers rejects the premise that a religion can or should be understood without its mythical framework; myth is an irreplaceable form of symbolic communication. Bultmann holds that moderns in the scientific tradition reject biblical texts because of the miraculous and supernatural content [loose cognitive state analogies designed for meaning-flipping -mh]. Per Bultmann, the scholarly, scientific study of the Bible is the way to reveal its true message, distinct from the supernatural trappings [UI skin -mh]. They dispute application of the principle ‘justification by faith’ to myth.


My condensing of A Certain Bibliophile’s review:
Introduction by R. Joseph Hoffmann covering the rise of liberal theology in the nineteenth century. Hermeneutics as applied to religious myth.

Demythologization divests religious meaning and intent from the original myths in which they are couched. The Ascension and the Virgin Birth are religious myths that mean something, but the religious content is ensconced in the language of the miraculous, which modern thinking views as ridiculous and impossible. Therefore, these myths need to be reconfigured, divested of their Biblical form and given a structure which is makes getting at their meaning and significance possible for someone living in the modern era.

Jaspers sees the element of myth as indispensable from the content of religious belief itself. Reading these myths without their mythical structures is impossible. A religion can’t be understood apart from its mythical origins. The topology of the origin myths is essential to our understanding. Religious myths are not there to provide us with a decoding project. Cutting away myth simultaneous causes the disappearance of the religious message.

Per Jaspers, Bultmann’s project of demythologization is a sanitizing project that fails to understand myth as an essential vehicle for apprehending and describing the transcendent. Jaspers comes close to Northrop Frye’s “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature,” which asserts that modern attempts to read the Bible are often foiled because we no longer read and write in the mythical. Our system of expression in the modern era is empirical and positivistic. One cannot read the Bible without myth, since it is written in myth. Bultmann’s project is scientism, an attempt to present religion without being accused of foolish mythologies.

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
Northrop Frye
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0156027801
1981
“the Bible as redeeming history with a visionary poetic perspective that joins science in its understanding of man’s nature”

My condensing of reviewer Arch Llewellyn:
Per Frye, the Bible is literature and myth. The chain of typological anticipations in this literature doesn’t culminate in Israel or Jesus or Revelation, but continues past the book of Revelation and the final events into our own lives, waking us up to our radical freedom. Frye treats the Bible as a unity which utilizes the Hebrew Torah as a typological precursor for the Christian Messiah.


My condensing of Steven Propp’s review of Myth & Christianity:
Jaspers argues that myth is a code language, a cipher, referring to transcendence; myth is not about a mere tangible presence. He says Bultmann alternates between empirical, philological exegesis (the historical investigation of religion) and a theological appropriation of religion (the primary comprehension of faith) — these contradict each other.

Bultmann replies that a corpse cannot come back to life or rise from the grave, that there are no demons and no magic causality. It is not feasible to explain the Resurrection of Jesus in the flesh, demons, or magic causality. Jaspers says redemptive history must be tested existentially, Bultmann replies “How is this done?”


Jesus Christ and Mythology
Rudolf Bultmann
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0334046300
1941
Blurb:
He was criticized as abandoning the essence of Christianity. How Christianity can be restated without the myths.

My condensing of reviewer Steven Propp:
Rudolf Bultmann’s 1941 essay “New Testament and Mythology” (in _Kerygma and Myth_) held that the heart of the preaching of Jesus Christ is the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is a spiritual community joined together by obedience to the will of God which rules in their wills. The Kingdom of God is a realm which is spiritual but within the world.

Jesus expected that this would take place in the immediate future, and that the arrival of that age could already be perceived in the signs and wonders which he performed, especially in his casting out of demons. The inauguration of the Kingdom of God is a tremendous cosmic drama.

Reviewer Sylveste:
Strips away a lot of the trappings of the Bible to get to the heart of its message.

My condensing and clarification of reviewer Jesse Rouse:
The scriptural account of Jesus is clouded in mythology. We must de-mythologize Jesus, stripping the myth from the referent meaning. Knowledge is about mystical intuition or vision, a mystical union with Christ as ruler. This mystical truth is self-knowledge. The question of God and the question of oneself are identical. We de-mythologize New Testament history to understand the possibilities of personal human life and human existence.

God acts within worldly events. The action of God is hidden but can be perceived by the eye of mystic faith. The crucifixion as atonement is a mystic-state event.

Jesus Christ is a messianic figure of truth only in the realm of faith and mystical experience, which is not built upon historical reality, but is the mystic-experiencing collective of his followers. He clears the way for us in his subjection to wrath and then mercy (rescue, pass-over of the threat, salvation, averting wrath, purchase of freedom from certain destruction), like the knife passing over Isaac enables his descendents to exist. We have faith in God’s benevolence and power, though God withholds himself from direct view and observation. We trust in Christ as the Lord, the ruler, our protector, our paradigm; our wills are in his will and we form the mystically redeemed kingdom of God.

End of Part 2, condensed reviewer excerpts.
— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
Group: egodeath Message: 6130 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
[clarification]
Figure out what’s revealed in religious revelation through studying self, time, and control, [with] negligible reference to religious myth, as I did October 1985-January 1988, and then identify the mapping of that core theory to historical religious myth, as I did mainly around 2001.

[expanded:]


The following is the ultimate referent meaning of the Bible, expressed directly and scientifically, non-mythically, non-metaphorically:

God makes his followers ingest cognitive loosening chemicals and enter the loose cognitive state and perceive God as being in control of their thinking across time, in a way that forcefully coerces and demonstratively threatens personal control power, but then forces the follower to fully trust in their source of thoughts instead of distrusting and fighting against it, alienated from it. This act of trusting the revealed hidden uncontrollable source of our thoughts permits subsequent use of the disproved or circumscribed personal control power. This self-control seizure climax and release, among all people at all times who hear the mythic allegory of God’s kingdom, forms a cross-time society or community that is informed by justice and non-oppression.

This community-network is distinct from the social-political-economic system of Caesar and other mundane rulers and their mystic-state metaphor-based propaganda that props up their oppressive, unjust honor-shame hierarchy and aristocratic divine rights of kings and popes oppressively lording it over the peasants and mercantiles.


Just as I myself realized yesterday and posted about, Bultmann points out that demythologizing the New Testament is required, per the doctrine of justification by faith alone; mythology-fused Christianity amounts to works-based salvation; superstition, degraded magical thinking and irrelevancies that displace and obscure the actual meaning and real referent of Christian salvation.

Permanent life-sustaining salvation and mental purification means attaining full mature mental control integrity and a viable ongoing future. To gain this salvation and mental cleansing-away of self-contradiction and self-battling, you must, specifically pay *this* price: you must acceptably renounce your claim to autonomous control-power over your thoughts and actions, and acceptably perfect trust in and reliance on your pre-given heimarmene-rail. *That* is how we are saved; that is “salvation by faith”. Salvific faith is strictly a mental, non-metaphor-based act, of trusting your given fate, and that which gives you your fate. Any other attempt amounts to a futile irrelevant magical-thinking works-based salvation attempt.

You can *accompany* that act of faith with a metaphor such as the idea of sacrificing a bush-nullified ram in place of proving your ability to violate and harm your self-control. But it’s not the thinking of the metaphor that saves you; it’s the placing of faith in your fated worldline, given to you by the Creator, that preserves your control-viability while cleansing your mind of self-contradiction, producing Transcendent Knowledge about self, time, and control.

It is false to think that we must have a sacrificed historical Jesus. It is a myth to think that our salvation requires the idea of a bloody sacrifice. Actually, the referent underlying mechanism of how Christianity saves us, cannot require any analogy, metaphor, or myth, or magical sacrificial spilling of blood. The idea of sacrificing something in place of

We must commit *some kind* of demonstrative self-destruction to prove that we fully understand and recognize the nullity of our personal control power with respect to the overwhelming power of the pre-set heimarmene-rail which gives us our thoughts.

These 3 are the same:
o To demonstrate our understanding of our personal control limits, we must think a specific (non-metaphorical) thought; we must mentally repudiate our childish thinking’s implicit claim to wield personal control power over which branching future possibility we end up in.
o The myth of Isaac and bush-tangled-ram; refers to the above.
o The myth of the willingly crucified and then revived sacred king; refers to the above.

Salvation is free; salvation occurs through faith, not through the works of thinking of an allegory of harming an animal or person; nor through actually harming an animal or harming one’s future self. The true specific price of salvation from self-control violation, to gain continued viable personal control and attain perfect mental non-contradiction, you must think a thought: “I repudiate my claim to wield autonomous control power over my future thoughts and actions, and I must rely on and trust in the hidden Controller X and my frozen pre-existing heimarmene-railway.”

Thinking of some analogous allegory or myth such as Jesus dying on the cross, or the idea of sacrificing a bush-caught ram representing your previously deluded child-thinking control power, brings about salvation and restabilization and subsequent viable control-life because thinking of the analogous myth causes you to think the referent thought — it’s the referent thought that is the humility and dependence-attitude faith that saves you.

You are saved by faithful trusting dependency and renunciation of your former claim to a certain kind of power. You are *not* saved by harming your future or by harming an animal, nor by thinking of the myth of harming an animal or sacrificing a savior figure. It is idolatry to think that your salvation depends on you thinking some myth, or committing some harmful proof-demonstration act, some magical work such as harming your future.

You are saved by your faith and trust and renunciation of your naive childish claim to control what your future thoughts are, your claim to have the power to make your future be one scenario-branch or a different scenario-branch. You have no such type of power; your future scenario-branch is and shall be what it already has been created as. You are helplessly dependent on the timeless Creator of your future thoughts, the Creator of your pre-set, pre-existing, unchangeable heimarmene-rail.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 9, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6131 From: jdcasten Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: I mention and cite your work in my new book…
Yes! This is somewhat uncanny for me… even though we may have differing takes on “Cybernetic Revelation”… again, we do have some common ground too.

Good thing you didn’t trademark that, or I might be in trouble!

But I did find this 1974 reference to the phrase, in a more political context:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ee4RAQAAIAAJ&q=%22cybernetic+revelation%22 

Thanks,

JD Casten

http://casten.postegoism.net 


— In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, “Michael Hoffman” <mike@…> wrote:
>
> My linked posting from September 21, 1995:
>
> Coming soon:
>
>
> THE CYBERNETIC REVELATION
> Deconstruction of Self-Control
>
>
> gathering topics such as:
>
> Hyperfrozen Hyperfreedom
>
> Virtual Freedom and the Virtual Ego
>
> Predetermination or ‘Fate’: A Simpler Proposition than Determinism
> (‘Predictable-ism’)
>
> Acid Rock – The Authentic Modern Mystery-School
>
> Hypothetical Realism – Anything Other than My Present Experiencing
> Might or Might Not Exist
>
> Uh oh — The Terror Is Beginning Again, and There Is No Way to Avoid
> Playing into the Hands of the Future
>
> Shining the Psychedelic Spotlight On Cognitive Self-Control
> Cybernetics
>
> Armchair Conjectures about Cybernetic Freakout
>
> The Taboo Against Alchemical Introspection
>
> What Transgression Lies in Store for a Temporarily Psychotic Morality
> Puppet?
>
> Control Stability and the Limits to Self-Determination
>
> Fate, Predetermination, and the Block Universe
>
> Homeostatic Equilibrium and Catastrophic State-Shift
>
> — Michael Hoffman, 1995
> http://www.egodeath.com
>
Group: egodeath Message: 6132 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: *Scientific* theory explaining altered-state revelation
How can I *fully* purify my mind of egoic control thinking? How can I be fully justified in continuing to carry myself through life? How can I prove that I Believe and have Faith in no-free-will? Shall I try to prove my ability to crash my control power against itself every week? Shall I sacrifice a bush-nullified ram every week? Does it cost one piglet, like I kill in my place in the enlightened Mysteries of Eleusis?

How many pigs, rams, or only-sons do I need to sacrifice to prove to myself that I have fully renounced the self-contradictory claim to wield egoic control power? How can I guarantee that my mind has achieved full transcendent knowledge? How can I prevent my ego-dead ghost from returning again and causing control-chaos instability, that curse, that thorn in my side which is my sacred disease epileptic cybernetic self-control seizure climax cybergasm potential? How can we permanently kill ego *dead* forever and quit forgetting that glimpse of comprehension that we see (and recoil from, for self-preservation)? How can I stop being reborn into deluded egoic thinking, and permanently hang onto cybernetic enlightenment about the nullity of personal control power?

Thus the idea and the functional working or mechanism of the idea of “Jesus is a once-for-all-time perfect final sacrifice” — no more paying evil collaborationist priests on an installment plan and refresher plan for salvation. We are thus justified in continuing to live as control agents, now purified, perfected, finished, completed, forever; no more need to prove that I can threaten my own self-control with instability and self-violating contradiction. I can be friendly with my egoic control system now that I am justified in considering it to be completely transcended.

Even by relying on the Hellenistic joke that Jesus — docetism — the guy in the Turin shroud on the cross, didn’t actually die, but trusted in his fate, and lived to walk out from among the dead. He didn’t need to be literally killed, in the canonical very late-written Gospel tale, but he only needed to *seem* to die, to *appear* to die, and that is sufficient as an analogy for our price we must pay to purchase mental purification and justification as placing full faith in our God-given heimarmene-rail.

Jesus according the New Testament Gospel tale, didn’t actually die, but only *seemed* to die, and by such logic, by analogy, neither do we need to prove our self-cancellation, in order to be considered fully justified and purified, perfected, completed, forever, a-thanatos, we are no longer under the curse of self-contradictory thinking that kills and cancels itself and battles against itself. Now we have the sacred marriage, harmony, trust, peace, and our thinking is washed white as the lamb, the ram, the non-killed, spared, Jesus mythic figure in the Hellenistic leg-pulling mystic-meaning tall-tale of sufficient justification through atonement-demonstration in the Gospel fiction in the New Testament.

Jesus Lives, as he is taken down from the possibility-tree, and we are fully sufficiently justified, absolved, and purified. There is no more sin and death, no more self-contradicting mental error and ego-death remaining.

We have been given the mind of God, which is a merciful and friendly God, readily appeasable, easily satisfiable, so we may enjoy seizing in an overpowering cybergasm yet we may also relax and enjoy this marriage to the Bridegroom in this wedding chamber. I have the mind of God, and this mind of God is readily satisfied and self-harmonious, readily accepting the renunciation of the claim to egoic control power, as constituting complete permanent mental purification and harmonious coherence, no more *necessary* to test one’s alliance and faith through testing Wrath of self-distrust of my near-future thoughts.

I *can* be made to play with that divine control-seizure cybergasm, but I have a certain transcendent dis-association from the way my egoic control power can self-threaten, contradict, and destabilize itself. The price has been fully sufficiently paid, of mental renunciation, and knowing I must trust in the uncontrollable hidden controller, the snake hidden in a basket underground, the Creator.

Now I ride the donkey on the path with Balaam and Jesus, or the horse going along the road with Paul, appearing to propel myself though time by my own power, but all the words that I speak to you are actually put into my mouth by God, and if I were to claim ownership of them, my mind as an angel of death would strike me down in self-contradicting power: cybernetic self-control seizure, the thorn in my side, the hole in my side through which my new, justified, purified, undying life is born, sins washed away, absolved.

Additionally, there are mythemes of transcending heimarmene, possibly including a kind of demonization of heimarmene as a prison controlled by a hated demiurge. The power from outside the mandorla passageway must lift me up from this underworld prison-cave up into freedom in the heavens outside the astral plane, past the cosmic heimarmene-snake ouroboros, outside the frozen spacetime block of creation.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 9, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6133 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
Woe unto you, Cognitive Neuroscientist trippers! Repent and demonstrate trust in God because your kingship is otherwise destined to soon be destroyed by self-control violation vortex.

Where did this pre-modern idea come from, and what does it actually mean? “The god is blood thirsty, and his wrath is appeased by sacrificing one’s child.” What does that mean underneath the mythic figurations, as the actual ultimate referent, as explained by scientific thinking? The Egodeath theory fully explains how that idea arises. Your life is primarily the life of a personal control agent, usually perceived mentally from the perspective of tight-cognitive binding, where awareness is bound-into egoic control dynamics, egoic control mental constructs.

Perhaps a mythic image of blood sacrifice is more effective for control restabilization, for the intermediate initiate, than the mere abstract abstruse concept of “to save your control stability, you-as-God demand merely that you mentally renounce your childish, idolatrous and ungodly claim to wield autonomous personal control power that has the power to steer away from your coming near-future fated thought, as if you have the power to create your own destiny and future possibility-branch, as though you are the creator of the spacetime block.

The no-free-will book-authors don’t think yet in terms of discovering ecstatic numinous horrific potential vulnerable helpless dependence. I am Jonah on a ship certainly headed for shipwreck in a storm, and know that God is angry at me for not acknowledging his power over me; I know that he demands that I sacrifice my self and throw it overboard because God has been commanding me to prophecy to the king of Nineveh that if he doesn’t repent and honor God, his kingdom is fated to very soon fall into destruction.

The philosophers recently go around advocating no-free-will, but if you follow that logic, into loosecog, you discover an interesting transcendent-thinking vulnerability, a thorn in the side, an organ through which a new self-concept *beyond* mere no-free-will, is born: a self-concept of vulnerable helpless dependence.

What exactly and specifically, scientifically, is the cognitive dynamics of “bad trip”? What founding hero-Theorist can cage this “bad trip” monster that demands propitiary sacrifice of the town’s children every year, lest the monster destroy everyone in the land, preventing life, making it an impotent wasteland. Terrence McKenna cut back extremely on mushroom use due to a bad trip in the late 1980s. Most “bad trips” are probably due to encountering these self-control limitations, control-level conflicts, and cancellation dynamics, but without a coherent way — until the Egodeath theory — to confront, process forward through, and integrate these dynamics, along with mapping to historical religious myth where these dynamics are standard and have been resolved such as using themes of mythic cultic blood sacrifice.


It might be typical, a logical sequence, for the semi-advanced initiate to consider ritually deliberately committing harm to one’s future but then rejecting that natural train of reasoning because it is magical thinking and not necessary, not really relevant, not effective, and harms one’s ability to continue living and honoring the God (the transcendent dimension that controls one’s fated thoughts). That’s where the idea comes from, of “substitute sacrifice”, “transferring guilt onto the animal”, and “substitutionary atonement for purification”.

Perhaps this sequence of thoughts occurs often in the peak advanced freak-out window.
First, the thought appears: does my god-like thinking need to see me prove my transcendent ability to violate my own self-control power?
Then, the thought appears:

That natural sequence of cybernetic self-control thoughts would explain the origin of “the gods are bloodthirsty for sacrifice but they can be appeased even through a vegetative sacrifice.” Remember what the challenge is. The challenge is not to stay dumb and comfy in your boring-to-death suburban wasteland, stunted, infantilized. The goal and challenge is to experience the peak window ecstatic numinous encounter, cybergasm. Not to avoid the self-control strange-attractor vortex. The task to face, to face the music, is to *engage* and *explain* the logic of propitiating sacrifice to avert the wrath of the god.

The goal is not to avoid encountering and experiencing the wrath of god. The goal for the theorist of ego death is to *engage* and *explain* scientifically why self-control cybernetics in loosecog is drawn toward self-violation demonstration ideas, which are described as “blood thirsty god demanding to eat the child, demanding propitiary sacrifice of your child, to avert the god’s wrath.” What do you have for that to explain it? You got nothing? Shall we puss around the subject, or man up heroically as the hero-theorist?

Per myth in antiquity, gods are bloodthirsty and demand a blood sacrifice to avert their wrath, their danger. The generalized terror and fear of one’s newly revealed heimarmene-track perhaps initially is envisioned as horrific chaos and extreme strife, or frighteningly clear unchained, mentally unrestrained ability to imagine intending some demonstrative ritual-like self-violation, such as scrambling your dorm room which you would never do, being a highly controlled person. I was told of a couple people doing that: I take it, they had a revelation about their own inability to control themselves across time, and ritually demonstrated doing a disordering they would never do. It is mandatory that we explain the maenads, which I read as male initiates on psychoactive mushroom wine.

From the point of view of where you think as the god, when you think from the point of view of being possessed by Dionysus, you might want to somehow test and disprove your ability to “control yourself” in some sense, in order to gain a more coherent mental model of self-control across time, a model that doesn’t contradict itself in practice.

Suppose a series of 9 initiations, loosecog sessions. Perceiving the hidden heimarmene-track and recognizing it as a mortal threat to your control stability might happen in session 6. At first you recoil and run away. But then you get sick of not understanding this dynamic and not having peace of mind, not having transcendent knowledge. You get sick of being possessed by egoic thinking. That motivates you, as a hero, to come back toward the threatening control-loss vortex and the heimarmene-rail, that monstrous snake hidden underground. Now in session 7, you have somewhat the Dionysus-possessed mind, and you want to test your control-power. So then you think about this “vulnerability to go out of control with harmful self-control violation”.

The question poses itself to the mind: What are you trying to demonstrate and prove, and how can you manage to prove it and demonstrate the constraints on the dynamics of personal control power? At that stage of initiations, the mind considers the idea or question, must I, to gain full self-control integrity of my mental model, must I sacrifice harmfully? By what means is the demonstration of noncontrol (of inability to control one’s control across time) adequately performed?

The question of whether the godly mind wants or demands a blood sacrifice could possibly be a logical standard question that arises, a standard horror for a certain stage of initiations, especially in antiquity, where blood sacrifice was de rigueur. Then after that question arises — like after Abraham raises the knife over Isaac according to the fictional tale, then the godly mind thinks in the manner of the gods who respond to being propitiated.


The newage peace-and-light hippie spiritual acid people presume to guide others to wisdom through a vanilla, sterilized, safety-helmeted, toned-down approach — good luck with achieving perfection and fecund cybergasm that way.

Taking wimpy doses and avoiding thinking about self-control violation fails, erring on the side of too much caution and prevention. Excessive peace and light.

Taking heroic doses fails, producing terror lockup of thinking, mental constructs too dis-integrated and fragmented. Excessive heavy metal darkness; the PA system is blasting so loud it’s wimpy unproductive sonic chaos, useless mush. Get crazy, sacrifice a cat? Terrorize yourself to death? It won’t accomplish anything.


Can we have perfection and purification of the mental model, to forcefully cancel out egoic control power (or egoic control logic), without terror and fear, apprehension, without thoughts or questions of some horrific deliberate hyper-controlled ritual demonstration of transcending personal control power?

New: Explanation of the meaning of the n*ken guy recoiling from the red star on the 2112 album:
Picture the n*ked guy on the 2112 acid-rock album cover, in a stance of apprehension upon perceiving the logical and esthetic perfection of the star in the circle.

(The radio is now playing the start of the 2112 album; it started after I wrote that. Prelude and Temples of Syrinx, which is about Richard Nixon’s evil, anti-God, anti-Science, anti-Philosophy, anti-Humanity, fraudulent “war on drugs”.)


The goal is *not* to avoid encountering self-control seizure. The goal is to encounter and explain and comprehend self-control transcendence, the self-control vortex and the involved experiential and perceptual revelations involved. Not to avoid the monster, but to contain, integrate, domesticate, and map-out the interesting hidden horror that sits in the middle of the path, as a doorway, on the road to transcendent knowledge, required, to Know Thyself. We cannot have transcendent knowledge by avoiding encountering with and grappling and dancing with, and embracing, the self-control vortex.


The foundation myth of our Greco-Christian culture is: “The god is blood thirsty, and his wrath is appeased by sacrificing one’s child.” Explain it. My Egodeath theory explains it. This is a logical natural sequence of loosecog initiation encounters with ideas about personal control:

Loosecog session 1. Random beginner exploration: metaperception of mental constructs. Your awareness doesn’t directly perceive your hand; your awareness is presented with mental constructs instead.

One sooner or later comes across issues of control.

Loosecog session 2. Maenad-like room scrambling, meant to fully demonstrate the inability to control oneself across time.

Loosecog session 3. Feel suspended frozen in time, powerlessly, but not yet with fearsome vision of being threatened by one’s forcefully arriving fated thoughts.

Loosecog session 4. Experience a desire to demonstrate full control violation; experience the mind being pulled and sucked inevitably toward the seemingly appealing thought of self-violation, destroying one’s future. The mind conspires: even to the point of a false memory, a compelling (though suspected artificial) intense deja-vu feeling: remember that you were here before, timelessly again are here where your mind was being pulled inevitably toward remembering the intention to violate your self-control harming your future, and you felt and feel powerless, and this is the way of transcendent highly desirable morally superior pure logically true thinking. The climax-bound mind is eager to construct-together a dynamic of “I can’t help but want to feel forced to self-violate”.

What matter is the mind has that capacity and that desire for self-knowledge and transcendent knowledge about its potential control dynamics. How can we indulge this dynamic and get this transcendent knowledge, both effectively and safely, and how can we remember it so that the egoic delusional mental model doesn’t reappear in such a way that the transcendent knowledge is once again forgotten?

Loosecog session 5. Thinking with the transcendent mind of god possessing your mind (egoic thinking suspended/disengaged), realize that no action, no “works based sacrificial demonstration for purification” can prove anything about how well you understand, and, at this point, the mind questions: “Well, what does God, what do I *as* Dionysus, demand myself to meet as a standard to demonstrate and proof and lock-in permanently my grasp of the idea of my personal non-control relative to the forced-injection of my fated ideas?” What makes sense? What is effective? How does my Jesus-possessed mind permanently exorcise the ego-demon of egoic control thinking and the egoic mental worldmodel? What must I do to be purified and permanently cast out my demon that separates me from God?

How can the logical initiate do or think something that will prevent egoic thinking from reappearing? How can the logical initiate remember and hang onto this vision, in the peak window, of noncontrol? Does self-violation of some sort make sense for that objective? At this point, the mostly-transcendent mind, or mental model, is *searching*: what *kind* of “demonstration” or “making a permanent impression on my thinking”, can cause me to permanently kill and prevent my childish egoic control thinking, my egoic mental model? As a godly-thinking mind, the ancient initiate figured that the goal is to continue living, viably, while permanently retaining the non-control perspective. Does the ancient ritual of blood sacrifice help accomplish this, to represent self-violation?

Loosecog session 6. Think of mythic ideas of blood sacrifice, such as of Isaac (progenitor of *all* God’s kingdom of Israel!!), then think of the myth of the substitutionary, satisfactory sacrifice of the God-given bush-nullified ram of Isaac, and similarly think of the myth of God giving his own only son as the king of his entire kingdom of Israel to be blood-sacrificed (so much for God’s kingdom then). Consider from Dionysus’ or Zeus’ point of view: what do you want and need from yourself? To think of blood, in reality or in mythic figuration? No, the point is, to acknowledge the limitations of personal control power and the forced demand that we trust our hidden uncontrollable source of thoughts (the heimarmene snake given to oneself by Controller X, the creator of the block universe).

The whole point is, to mentally exhibit or demonstrate to one’s satisfaction, the idea of mental renunciation of your claim to autonomous control power.

Loosecog session 7. Think the abstract concept of: to save your control stability, you-as-God demand merely that you “mentally renounce” your childish, idolatrous and ungodly claim to wield autonomous personal control power that has the power to steer away from your coming near-future fated thought, as if you have the power to create your own destiny and future possibility-branch, as though you are the creator of the spacetime block. And that you “put trust in” and “take a trusting stance toward” the heimarmene worldline that is forcefully always injected into your mind at all points along your worldline.

Usually, the divine power forcefully injects your thoughts secretly, covertly, occluded, except during the peak window of the loose cognitive state that Isis sometimes makes you enter, when she draws your donkey into her temple.


One asks oneself, while possessed by Dionysus, or while one is possessed by Jesus the demon-exorcist: how can I, Dionysus, satisfy myself that this mind has renounced its egoic claim to autonomous control power? How can I, God of Israel, satisfy myself that this mind has renounced its egoic claim to autonomous control power and is in a friendly trusting testament treaty relationship, a sacred trusting marriage, trusting the heimarmene-rail I have given to this mind at the timeless moment of creation of the block universe? “Your faith has saved you. Tell no one, but show yourself to the collaborationist priest.”

Out of weakness, the mind invented blood-sacrifice myths and should let go of them, they are a crutch, not strictly necessary but when you are in the peak window, fairly advanced in your series of loosecog initiations. The urge or notion to self-violate as proof and securing of self-integrity of your mental model of control, naturally suggests some extreme self-violation demonstration or life-threatening possibility, and that is why the mind finds it comforting to picture a (substitutionary) blood sacrifice: because in theory, the loose mind possessed by Dionysus or Jesus or some ego-demon, could commit extreme self-violation; that’s the logical fear that follows from feeling and perceiving personal control as illusory.

The next thought in the sequence after that is: what does pure logic, or God, or me-thinking-as-God, actually want? And what can I *do* to *remember* this non-control, block-universe perspective? Antiquity was drenched in themes helping people to remember noncontrol, repudiation, no-free-will, and frozen block-universe heimarmene. The first modern-era Theorist of Egodeath faces a challenge to remember and not forget, these things. The Theorist writes and cybernetically communicates in 2006 the clear Egodeath theory of self-control violation and repudiation-sacrifice of egoic control thinking — this is extremely helpful for other people to safely anticipate, repudiate, and remember what their self sacrifice was about.

The ancients faced the problem of remembering no-free-will too well; they had to strive to hide it from their non-initiated children and youths, to prevent untimely, premature egodeath virally spreading to entirely wipe out our beloved youthful childish freewillist delusion of autonomous personal control agency.

Perhaps the initial repudiation of personal control power during the peak window is easier than *remembering* the insight and repudiation, the control-nullity perspective, the inability to avoid the near-future fated thought that you are being inevitably pulled forward toward, with no braking ability, no way to slow down, no steering ability, threatened by cybernetic shipwreck, extreme self-violation threat, unless Jonah throws his egoic self overboard in obedience to God’s command, repudiating his egoic distrust of his own fated heimarmene worldline, to stay God’s hand, to avert the wrath that results when you take a stance of distrusting God’s fated future worldline he commands you to have.

We can ride pleasantly in God’s chariot, or kick against the pricks (steering-goads), and be chaotically dragged to our destruction behind God’s chariot — that is a Stoic-type figuration of the mind’s proper stance of relationship to Heimarmene.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 9, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6134 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
Reset through trembling ecstatic kneeling submission

The problem for the modern secular transcendent person: how do I mentally exhibit or demonstrate to my satisfaction, the idea of excitedly, trembling, enlightened, backing-down from my ecstatic, panicked, counter-attack against the root of my own power, mental renunciation of my claim to autonomous control power, against the overwhelming power of the now-revealed heimarmene-snake, now that I fully understand the deadly cybernetic ramifications of going up against that unstoppable force of God’s power of Creation, of the block universe itself? “Ignorance gave him confidence to go up against reality.” If you take up arms against your own subterranean heimarmene-snake worldline, your horse will panic and throw you to your grave injury.

To avert self-control disaster, and to secure transcendent knowledge and prevent reincarnation into egoic delusion (mental model backsliding), no thought of anything like a propitiating blood sacrifice is needed; merely think of submissively bowing your head, which is a sign of submission — offering your neck and life, putting yourself at the mercy of the other control-agent, and state, as kind of a prayer:


To avert disaster, restabilize control, and secure transcendent knowledge without forgetting it, think of kneeling and bowing the neck, and think:

“I repudiate my claim to autonomous self-control power separately from my fated worldline, and I put trust as I must in my worldline, which is the root and source of my power of personal control agency, though I, as a conscious control agent on this level of control cannot control my underlying fated worldline.”


U2:
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
On your knees boy


The Acid Rock Prophet tells us:
excerpts from Neil Peart, for scholarly purposes:

Blood-stained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die <==
As we would bow as they rode by

And we’re marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled to let his kingdom rise.


A thousand years have come and gone
But time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view

Waiting for the world to end
Weary of the night
Praying for the light <==
Prison of the lost
Xanadu


All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can’t (sung “can”) pray for a place <==
In heaven’s unearthly estate.


He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure

He’s got a problem with his power
With weapons on patrol
He’s got to walk a fine line
And keep his self-control


1-0-0-1-0-0-1 (“I”)
S.O.S.
In distress

Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One’s in trouble and it’s scared out of its wits

Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist — to resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist

It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays <==
To the mother of all machines


I have scientifically explained the cognitive dynamics of the advanced initiate’s bad trip.

I have explained the self-control logic of testing one’s power by using the latent potential threat of harmful self-control violation.

I have explained the master mytheme of “The god demands blood sacrifice of your child to avert his wrath.”

I have explained why ideally, eventually, the mind can move past even the idea or myth of blood sacrifice or any harm, to reach a completely harmless method of simply thinking of bowing the head or just thinking, “I hereby repudiate my claim to autonomous self-control power separately from my fated worldline, and I put trust as I must in my worldline, which is the root and source of my power of personal control agency, though I, as a conscious control agent on this level of control cannot control my underlying fated worldline.”

I have explained the dynamics of the loosecog control-vortex and why it is the main, most interesting feature of the psychedelic loosecog state.

I have pointed out that the control vortex is a phase or doorway which all Cognitive Scientists will be forced to go through and they will be forced to have my Egodeath theory as the map and explanation of this intensely attractive and destructively, threatening, most-interesting capacity, of cybergasm.

I have shown how this cybergasm capacity relates to mythic mystery initiation, the sacred marriage, the bridal chamber, the death of the maiden, and the birth of the divine child from a God and a mortal woman, all based on a non-metaphorical Core theory with a theory extension mapping the core to historical religious myth.

I have provided the traditional Acid Rock lyric epic poetry soundtrack guide to accompany and paranoiacally provoke the encounter and exploration of the cybernetic personal self-control vortex.

— Michael Hoffman, http://www.egodeath.com, December 9, 2012
Copyright (C) 2012, Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. All Rights Reserved.
Group: egodeath Message: 6135 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Ecstatic self-violation, willing end of king’s future, blood sac
A victim of venomous fate

venom = snake
venomous fate = heimarmene snake
Group: egodeath Message: 6136 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
Some translations commit a mystic error by omitting the theme of “turn around and look back behind your self and see the truth about your control power”.

International Standard Version
Then Abraham looked up and behind him to see a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went over, grabbed the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

King Pentheus caught in a tree and then sacrificed by being disintegrated, pulled into pieces by ecstatically crazed Maenads initiates is

Ill-equipped to act
Caught in ticking traps
-Peart

Pentheus means ‘sorrows’: the Man of Sorrows, sorrow for the death of a loved one, as in the death of one’s child self.
Group: egodeath Message: 6137 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Riding atop a horse, donkey, bull, ox
Photo of 3 researchers holding up a 15-foot python
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/us/florida-python-hunt/?hpt=us_c1
Group: egodeath Message: 6138 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
The ram’s horns are snake-shaped

The hunter is turned into a stag with possibility-branching antlers and his dogs tear him to pieces.

In the Gigantomachy, initiates have snakes for legs; our power is supported by and comes from timeless fatedness, which Zeus controls as we are made to battle against Zeus. Lightning, Zeus’ power against delusion of ego power, is snake shaped, and branching.

Zeus Meilichios shown as a bearded man’s head on the body of a snake

Hell is a lion’s head on a snake’s body, Jesus pulls Adam through jaws.

Mytheme abbreviation: snake then ram horn (blowing the shofer horn) then Moses’ horns

Ruck and M Hoffman see mushrooms everywhere, but I have mystic vision: I see snakes and branching, contrasted, everywhere.

Jonah’s prayer: seaweed (worldline) wraps my head like ivy victory wreath crown garland

images
http://www.google.com/search?q=zeus+meilichios

Zeus battles Python which is you holding your hand over your heart they call this submissive gesture but why? Because it is submissive cybernetically: Zeus overpowers me at my very heart of my power, through fatedness, thot injection through time given to me at all times already, before I arrived at this point along my time path. I remember now Zeus is putting my control thoughts in my mind and I am dying, dead power, and bowing to him who trumps me from outside of the spacetime block. There is no time for me to have power over time.

In ivy and lightning and meanders and roads, you can find some 1D nonbranching segments and some branching, but the profound mystic meaning lies in the contrast between branching possibilities versus nonbranching fated worldline

Lion gorgon head on breastplate is death head, posted previously; it’s clear that the lion head depicts ego death overpowering of the mind’s personal control power. Dionysus is panther cat lion, lion is king ego. The world of myth is packed with this anti-delusion of reference.

Diamond hammer of interpretation: all mytheme elements and mythic attributes refer to cybernetics/heimarmene/dissociation.

Mythic figuration has a certain effectiveness at communicating abstruse concepts that express intense altered state experiencings.

— Copyright 2012 M Hoffman
Group: egodeath Message: 6139 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
ram’s horns in bush/bramble/thicket =
snake in tree =
ivy wreath crown of thorns nailed to cross or hung on a tree
heimarmene worldline vs our virtual-only cybnernetic possibility branching power

Once the coding is estab, can coherently abbrev in other less clear exprns of it
Group: egodeath Message: 6140 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 11/12/2012
Subject: Re: Sacrif Isaac = kingdom, subst ram in bush, son Jesus on tree/st
The wings on Typhon indicate that Typhon is an initiate (you) in the loosecog state while being struck down by Zeus, and by heimarmene as the basis of your pre-given thoughts at all points in time.

[typo correction]
Zeus battles [Typhon] which is you holding your hand over your heart

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Subject: McLaren on cross, vicarious atonement, penal substitution
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Group: egodeath Message: 5060 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
Subject: Re: Meditation is bunk, a scam, complicit in Prohibition, anti-relig
Attachments :
    C-Realm podcasts:
    http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com


    Episode 63: KMO and meditation instructor, Heidi Smith of the Center for
    Soulful Living pick up the conversation started on Psychonautica examining
    the friction between proponents of pharmacologically assisted spirituality
    and zero-tolerance advocates of drug-free meditation.

    Direct link:
    http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-11-07T18_56_30-08_00.mp3


    Episode 64:
    KMO concludes his talk with meditation instructor Heidi Smith of the Center
    for Soulful Living and then rounds out the discussion of the relative merits
    of drug-free meditation vs. entheogen-assisted explorations of consciousness
    with Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media and Daniel Siebert of The Salvia divinorum
    Research and Information Center.

    Direct link:
    http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-11-14T17_52_11-08_00.mp3


    63 — 42:30 — Andrew Weil affirms the spiritual utility of the general
    category of visionary plants (for example, opium), as opposed to strictly
    entheogens only.

    Fasting is mentioned by Weil and KMO as an alternative to visionary plants,
    but this is ironic, since the origin of fasting is to potentiate visionary
    plants.


    Weil points out that it is illogical and biased that fasting is considered
    legit, yet visionary plants are dismissed as “artificial” and “effortful”,
    and thus non-legitimate.


    In episode 63, like The Seeker when interviewed by Max Freakout in
    Psychonautica 15 and 16, Heidi Smith comes in supposedly as a spokesperson
    for the view that drug-free meditation is superior to drug-based spiritual
    practice, and yet starts by pointing out the proven efficacy of visionary
    plants for herself. That’s the extent of the content in this episode: Smith
    states that entheogens were efficacious and awakened her spirituality, and
    provides no arguments yet for the superiority or even equivalence of
    drug-free meditation.

    I point out that we must remember the skewing and filtering effects of drug
    prohibition, which began in 1966 — no debate can be legit without
    discussing this censorship and filtering effect of which spokespeople we are
    permitted to hear from. We are only permitted to hear certain people, and
    certain positions and arguments; other people and positions/arguments are
    filtered out, forming a distribution curve of views that is heavily warped
    away from the distribution curve of views in actuality, actually held by
    people in the world.

    Compare the infrequency of anti-war views, politically progressive views, or
    views for repealing drug prohibition, that are permitted to be expressed in
    the corporate-owned news media. Drug-free meditation is over-represented in
    the Establishment publishing industry, since 1966, and drug-employing
    spirituality is extremely under-represented. Psychoactive drugs are not
    only illegal (for the most part), they are culturally taboo, marginalized,
    and suppressed — even at the same time as they are ubiquitous, popular, and
    mainstream.

    Given that psychoactive drugs are both illegal and taboo, it is guaranteed
    that the Establishment media and publishing industry puts forth a heavily
    biased and skewed presentation of views about the legitimacy of
    drug-utilizing versus drug-free spirituality practices. I’m waiting, ever
    in vain, for any other people to acknowledge this major, relevant
    consideration.


    63 — 47:40: From Parker Palmer’s book The Active Life: “Our tendency to
    identify our selves with our acquired skills rather than our natural gifts
    is one of the less desirable habits of the ego, because the ego’s identity
    is so heavily invested in these acquired skills, it does not want to
    acknowledge the natural, untrained, effortless gifts over which the ego has
    no ownership or control.” I hold that “a free, natural, untrained,
    effortless, salvific gift” is a description that fits entheogens better than
    drug-free meditation, and this seems to be KMO’s point as well.

    I consider meditation and fasting to have been historically derived as
    activities associated with visionary plants, not an alternative that
    competes against the use of visionary plants. The purpose of fasting,
    historically, was to potentiate visionary plants. The purpose of
    meditation, historically, was an activity to do during the plant-induced
    visionary cognitive state.
    Group: egodeath Message: 5063 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
    Subject: Admin: posts getting filtered into junk folder
    Attachments :
      I can’t see why for some of my posts, my computer (and maybe others’)
      decides that the post, for no apparent reason, is junk mail. I might have
      to resort to calling Support, or using a Test Yahoo group to experiment with
      this.
      Group: egodeath Message: 5064 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
      Subject: Meditation and entheogens
      Attachments :
        In C-Realm episode 63, KMO and meditation instructor, Heidi Smith of the
        Center for Soulful Living pick up the conversation started on Psychonautica
        examining the friction between proponents of pharmacologically assisted
        spirituality and zero-tolerance advocates of drug-free meditation.

        In Episode 64, KMO concludes his talk with meditation instructor Heidi Smith
        of the Center for Soulful Living and then rounds out the discussion of the
        relative merits of drug-free meditation vs. entheogen-assisted explorations
        of consciousness with Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media and Daniel Siebert of The
        Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center.

        In episode 63, at 42:30, Andrew Weil affirms the spiritual utility of the
        general category of visionary plants (for example, opium), as opposed to
        strictly entheogens only.

        Fasting is mentioned by Weil and KMO as an alternative to visionary plants,
        but this is ironic, since the origin of fasting is to potentiate visionary
        plants.

        Weil points out that it is illogical and biased that fasting is considered
        legit, yet visionary plants are dismissed as “artificial” and “effortful”,
        and thus non-legitimate.

        In episode 63, like The Seeker when interviewed by Max Freakout in
        Psychonautica 15 and 16, Heidi Smith comes in supposedly as a spokesperson
        for the view that drug-free meditation is superior to drug-based spiritual
        practice, and yet starts by pointing out the proven efficacy of visionary
        plants for herself. That’s the extent of the content in this episode: Smith
        states that entheogens were efficacious and awakened her spirituality, and
        provides no arguments yet for the superiority or even equivalence of
        drug-free meditation.

        I point out that we must remember the skewing and filtering effects of drug
        prohibition, which began in 1966 — no debate can be legit without
        discussing this censorship and filtering effect of which spokespeople we are
        permitted to hear from. We are only permitted to hear certain people, and
        certain positions and arguments; other people and positions/arguments are
        filtered out, forming a distribution curve of views that is heavily warped
        away from the distribution curve of views in actuality, actually held by
        people in the world.

        Compare the infrequency of anti-war views, politically progressive views, or
        views for repealing drug prohibition, that are permitted to be expressed in
        the corporate-owned news media. Drug-free meditation is over-represented in
        the Establishment publishing industry, since 1966, and drug-employing
        spirituality is extremely under-represented. Psychoactive drugs are not
        only illegal (for the most part), they are culturally taboo, marginalized,
        and suppressed — even at the same time as they are ubiquitous, popular, and
        mainstream.

        Given that psychoactive drugs are both illegal and taboo, it is guaranteed
        that the Establishment media and publishing industry puts forth a heavily
        biased and skewed presentation of views about the legitimacy of
        drug-utilizing versus drug-free spirituality practices. I’m waiting, ever
        in vain, for any other people to acknowledge this major, relevant
        consideration.

        In episode 63, at 47:40, KMO reads from Parker Palmer’s book The Active
        Life: “Our tendency to identify our selves with our acquired skills rather
        than our natural gifts is one of the less desirable habits of the ego,
        because the ego’s identity is so heavily invested in these acquired skills,
        it does not want to acknowledge the natural, untrained, effortless gifts
        over which the ego has no ownership or control.” I hold that “a free,
        natural, untrained, effortless, salvific gift” is a description that fits
        entheogens better than drug-free meditation, and this seems to be KMO’s
        point as well.

        I consider meditation and fasting to have been historically derived as
        activities associated with visionary plants, not an alternative that
        competes against the use of visionary plants. The purpose of fasting,
        historically, was to potentiate visionary plants. The purpose of
        meditation, historically, was an activity to do during the plant-induced
        visionary cognitive state.
        Group: egodeath Message: 5065 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
        Subject: Re: Meditation and entheogens
        Attachments :
          Group: egodeath Message: 5066 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
          Subject: Re: Meditation and entheogens
          Attachments :
            The diminishment of the legitimacy and efficacy of entheogens by meditation
            advocates is primarily a phenomenon existing in the realm of published
            works, such as books and articles in spirituality magazines. The debate is
            not primarily about what people actually think, or what they express in
            open, (relatively) uncensored online forums. The debate cannot really occur
            until we reference specific statements in published works, amounting to a
            gallery of position statements and particular published arguments. It is
            thus mainly a *scholarly* argument or debate, that must occur in the form of
            scholarly citations and rebuttals — citing works that were permitted to be
            published by the Establishment publishing industry, especially since the
            prohibition and demonization of LSD in 1966.

            The entheogen-diminishing view is often expressed in postings in online
            forums, but is primarily spread and legitimated through published works.

            Examples:

            R. C. Zaehner’s 1957 book: Mysticism Sacred and Profane: An Inquiry into
            Some Varieties of Preternatural Experience
            http://csp.org/chrestomathy/mysticism_sacred.html


            R. C. Zaehner’s 1972 book: Zen, Drugs and Mysticism
            http://csp.org/chrestomathy/zen_drugs.html


            Gnosis issue about Psychedelics & The Path
            http://www.lumen.org/issue_contents/contents26.html

            Tricycle issue 21 Fall 1996 about Psychedelics and Buddhism, which became
            the book Zig Zag Zen. “Tricycle’s controversial bestseller on Psychedelics
            and Buddhism: Views from John Perry Barlow and Rick Fields; interviews with
            Terrence McKenna and Jack Kornfield; a roundtable discussion with Robert
            Aitken, Richard Baker, Ram Dass & Joan Halifax.”
            http://www.tricycle.com/catalog/backissues/163-1.html
            Group: egodeath Message: 5067 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
            Subject: Re: Meditation and entheogens
            Attachments :
              A paradigm inversion needs to occur now within Western and Eastern religion,
              like the change from Eliade’s 1950 entheogen-disparaging view of shamanism,
              to today’s entheogen-affirming view of shamanism.
              Group: egodeath Message: 5069 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 18/11/2007
              Subject: Re: Meditation and entheogens
              In episode 63, at 43:25, Weil states: “There are many people who claim
              to have found God and spiritual life through alcohol; that’s a very old
              tradition going back to ancient cultures, and it persists to this day in
              occasional people.”

              That’s been proven to be a fallacy and an anachronism, labeling the
              substance in question as “alcohol”. Ancients used “beer”, “wine”, and
              “mixed wine”, which typically, and provably, meant “visionary plant
              mixture”, including henbane, opium, cannabis, mushrooms, datura, and
              mandrake — the effects were not due only to alcohol. For example, see
              the “index” entries (page numbers) I have posted here in the book Road
              to Eleusis.
              Group: egodeath Message: 5070 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Dogmatic denominational doctrine: Egodeath stronger than Emergent
              The Emergent church is worried and harrassed about theological
              correctness, but they cannot be coherent, while hanging onto the
              demythologized historical Jesus, and while lacking visionary plants as
              the Eucharastic flesh and blood of Christ, freely given by God.

              Theological correctness is a piece of cake for the Egodeath dogmatic
              denomination. Emergent liberal demythologized thinking cannot explain
              how Jesus, a human being, gives his flesh and blood for our salvation
              and regeneration, and how Jesus is God.

              It is easy to define the 12 1/2 dogmatic doctrinal points that certified
              members of the Egodeath church must sign their souls to:

              Jesus is God; the allegorical Jesus figure is to be equated with the
              mysterious hidden controller of all thoughts, events, and actions — the
              master-controller aspect of the Ground of Being.

              Members must trip on the entheogenic Eucharist, which is the flesh and
              blood of Christ.

              The Jesus mystic poseable superhero figure must be held as having a
              virgin birth, to compete against Caesar Augustus.

              Only the predestined, chosen-by-God Elect are saved. Those chosen by
              God for perdition are such. Double predestination.

              Determinism is the case throughout the entire world.
              Determinism-transcendence is the case outside the cosmos.

              Eternal life (athanatos), the dogmas of the Gospel of John, all are the
              case, as the Valentinian Gnostic Christians readily affirmed. Jesus is
              the only name by which we are saved — not Caesar, “the savior of the
              entire world”.

              Christ came in the likeness of sinful, phallic flesh.

              Entheogenic enlightenment casts out demons, by the power outside one’s
              personal power.

              The Jesus Christ figure and the power of the Holy Spirit is confessed as
              my transpersonal savior.


              The Emergent church clings to the mundane historical Jesus and is
              therefore incapable of coherent theology and theological affirmation.
              And without visionary plants, no real explanation is possible for how
              exactly the Holy Spirit ever descends. The Emergent church is
              half-baked, until historicity is abandoned and visionary plants are
              added. Emergent writers attempt to grapple with Theology while
              rejecting the modern-era literalist-supernaturalism and embracing
              demythologized liberal mundane ways of thinking — it’s a hopeless and
              pathetic project.
              Group: egodeath Message: 5071 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Re: Dogmatic denominational doctrine: Egodeath stronger than Emergen
              It would be profitable and efficient to upload to the Egodeath site an
              Egodeath-theory based commentary on the following Emergent statement,
              affirming it in a modified, specific way:

              http://www.stevekmccoy.com/GospelCoalition.pdf


              The principles of New Testament Christianity are timeless
              (altered-state enlightenment leveraged for counter-imperial
              social-political emancipation), but the form and figurations used in
              the New Testament are too dated; the New Testament was optimized and
              designed to go up against a specific foe, a particular scenario: the
              Caesar-ruled Roman Empire. Away from that meaning-context, inevitably
              the New Testament necessarily becomes *much* less meaningful and
              clear; it becomes more confusing than helpful or encouraging.
              Group: egodeath Message: 5072 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Re: Progressive Christianity, Emergent Paradigm, ahistoricity, enthe
              Characterizing the head-to-head competing paradigms of Evangelical vs.
              Emergent Christianity:

              Evangelical vs. Emergent

              Conservative vs. Liberal or Progressive

              Exclusivism (who’s saved, who’s in, who’s out/lost) vs. inclusiveness
              (McLaren’s “generous orthodoxy”, as an oxymoron)

              Individual salvation vs. combining that with more emphasis on the social
              gospel of manifesting the Kingdom of God

              Modern vs. Postmodern or Post-Modern or “new/ancient” figurative mode of
              thinking & metaphor-systems

              Literalist-supernaturalist vs. metaphor & mystic alternative state of
              consciousness

              Epistemological obsession with “right belief” vs. experiential and a
              social project and metaphor/allegory

              Afterlife-focused vs. Kingdom of God social-political movement that
              includes spiritual experiencing (doesn’t affirm or emphasize the
              afterlife — going to heaven after you die)

              Atonement theology (vicarious sacrifice, focus on sin and forgiveness)
              vs. the cross as an ego-death model each person must follow, and as a
              symbol of inverting the values of Empire (specifically of Caesar-ruled
              Roman Imperial system, with its honor-shame hierarchy and
              social-political configuration)


              I reject Evangelical Christianity’s mode of thinking and I affirm
              Emergent Christianity’s mode of thinking, except that I subtract the
              Historical Jesus, add visionary plants as the Eucharist, and emphasize
              experiencing helpless embeddedness in spacetime (heimarmene, fatedness)
              and then feeling transcendent/miraculus release from that altered-state
              entrapment-experience.


              There is an opportunity to stand up against today’s Empire particularly
              against drug prohibition and its death penalty (the ultimate solution to
              “the drug problem”). Though drug use was not objectionable in the Roman
              Empire; making social-political counter-claims against Caesar’s system
              was objectionable.
              Group: egodeath Message: 5073 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: McLaren on cross, vicarious atonement, penal substitution

              I favor Marcus Borg a little over Brian McLaren because Borg is slightly closer to grasping the importance of ingesting the Eucharist to trigger the descent of the Holy Spirit to effect salvific regeneration — and integrating that with the alternative-kingdom project.

              I like the idea of a cluster of themes rather than singleminded insistence upon any one particular doctrine; for example, in the altered state, powerlessness often manifests as perceiving fatedness or determinism, but the point of Egodeath theory is not to insist on the dogmatic doctrine of determinism, but rather, to explain such kinds of cognitive phenomena and experiential insights.

              The Evangelical vs. Emergent debates, when combined with the Egodeath theory, provides good reason and perspective to go back and read the books of the New Testament in order to form one’s own judgment about what are actually the main concerns of the New Testament; what is actually the main emphasis of the gospel/good news concerning Jesus?


              From http://archives.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/mclaren.html

              WITTENBURG DOOR: First off, how would you respond to those who say that you’re a proponent of a theology that has abandoned the cross?

              BRIAN MCLAREN: I can’t imagine why anyone would say I have abandoned the cross! … this kind of thing would be coming from people who claim that the gospel can be reduced to one theory of atonement. I have consistently affirmed that there are a whole range of classical theories of atonement, and have resisted pressures to reduce the mysterious and majestic power of the cross to a flat, one-dimensional explanation. I have also sought to explore the biblical understanding of the cross in its social dimensions and what it says about reconciliation both with God and among humanity, including those who criticize, persecute or posture themselves as enemies. On a practical and personal level, my understanding of the cross is teaching me to listen, to critique humbly, to learn all I can from it, and to trust in God’s power to bring resurrection from my own failures and weaknesses.

              … far from abandoning the cross, I want to experience what Paul spoke of when he said he was crucified with Christ and yet lived. Like many of our best contemporary theologians and missiologists, I see the cross as having many dimensions, not just one. I’m not for limiting our understanding of the cross and the gospel to forensic categories. Obviously, the New Testament writers employ legal metaphors to describe the work of Christ, but they use many other metaphors, too—disease metaphors, kingdom metaphors, and so on. I think a fair reading of my works will show that I’m simply trying to affirm a multi-dimensional gospel, not a flattened one.

              Group: egodeath Message: 5074 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

              The Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical, and post-post-Catholic.

              The fatal error of Calvinism and Reformed Theology is that it is too oriented around fighting directly against the Catholic religion.  Once early Christianity succeeded in fighting against Caesar’s Roman Empire system, and became the religion *of* the state rather than the religion *counter to* the state, Christianity was de-politicized and turned into a religion of personal individual salvation and putting all emphasis on going to heaven after you die.  Going to heaven after you die is only one of many themes that the New Testament is actually concerned about and driven by.  The NT takes up that idea and theme, but is not driven by it as the central concern.

              Protestantism was merely a mirror of Catholic religion, mirroring the error of re-casting the NT as being all about how to go to heaven after you die.

              The NT is designed and shaped to be against Caesar’s Roman Empire.

              Protestantism, including Reformed Theology, is designed and shaped to be against the Roman Catholic scheme of how to go to heaven after you die.  The Protestant paradigm fights against the straw man of “Jewish salvation through works”.  But the NT is barely, and not really, concerned with fighting against “Jewish salvation through works” — the NT is concerned more with how to justify including everyone into the Jewish covenant of justice against worldly empires.

              The Emergent paradigm is against the Protestant error of repeating the Catholic error of re-casting the NT as centering on how to go to heaven after you die.  The Emergent paradigm is paying full adequate attention to how the NT was against Caesar’s system.  In a sense, Emergent is counter to Evangelicalism, but in a sense, Emergent has returned to the roots of NT meaning, becoming a counter to “Caesar’s domination-system of empire” in a general sense or general type of social-political system.

              After the Catholic religion as a way for individuals to go to heaven after they die, was the Protestant (post-Catholic) religion as a way for individuals to go to heaven after they die.  Emergent is post-Protestant, and Protestantism is post-Catholic, thus Emergent is post-post-Catholic.

              Emergent is post-Modern in that it does not repeat the modern-era Protestantism error of centering around epistemology — cognitive assent to belief in doctrine correctness.

               

              Group: egodeath Message: 5075 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical
              I affirm, advocate, and defend the Emergent paradigm against Evangelicalism, but emphasize spiritual regeneration in service of a counter- or anti-empire project.  I also emphasize subtracting the historical Jesus way of thinking, add emphasize visionary plants as the only authentic and legitimate New Testament Eucharist.  A Eucharist that is not visionary plants is phony, inauthentic, and illegitimate; Christians who haven’t used visionary plants as the Eucharist have never actually taken the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper, and have never actually experienced the Holy Spirit in the New Testament way.
               
              Evangelicalism isn’t even Christianity, except in a generously broad sense.  I don’t give Evangelicals the compliment of referring to them as “Christians”.  Evangelicals don’t even refer to themselves as “Christians”, but rather, as “Evangelicals”.  Many Christians loathe all that Evangelicals and Evangelicalism have become, and are thus committed to developing the Emergent paradigm against the non-biblical Evangelical all-emphasis on individual salvation, sin and forgiveness, and going to heaven after you die.
               
              Catholicism, Protestantism, and Evangelicalism all are unbiblical and misrepresent the NT, distorting its emphases, depoliticizing the NT and placing a single, central focus on how to individually get into heaven after you die.
               
              Emergent is counter to Evangelicalism, without making the mistake of being merely a mirror of Evangelicalism. 
               
              Protestantism is shaped to fight the Pope.  But the NT is not shaped to fight the Pope; it is shaped to fight Caesar.
               
              Protestantism was not really *post*-Catholic; it was more like an *alternative version* of the later Catholic religion, in that it retained the unbiblical central focus on how to individually get into heaven after you die.  Emergent is *truly* post-Catholic, and *truly* returns to the actual concerns and themes of the Bible.  Protestantism only returned to the Bible selectively, in such a way as to combat the Catholic means of going to heaven.
               
              How does a view define itself?  Particularly, what view is it against?  Emergent is primarily shaped to be against empire.  Emergent is only incidentally shaped to be against Evangelicalism or Protestantism.
               
              The political rulers in northern Europe supported Protestantism because it was politically anti-Pope.  But these rulers sought to officially depoliticize Christianity and the NT, to retain their political power.
               
              Group: egodeath Message: 5076 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
              Subject: Re: Popularity of Egodeath site
              Attachments :
                Uploading my posts since Feb. 14, 2004 as webpages will double the
                popularity of the Egodeath site.
                Group: egodeath Message: 5077 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 19/11/2007
                Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

                This thread constitutes a breakthrough of mine, based on a strong feeling of breakthrough that I have, even though I’ve been developing these ideas for awhile.  I suddenly “got” the way in which Emergent is right and Evangelical is wrong.  I have vanquished Evangelicalism.  Emergent is a nice, intellectually beautiful and efficient package well-suited for wrapping up the “New Testament as counter-Roman-Imperial social-political system” ideas I’ve been reading about and putting together from Horsley, Crossan, Wright, Borg, Howard-Brook, and Warren Carter.  And Emergent has the room that the Egodeath theory requires for the spiritual-transformation aspect which is omitted by Horsley, Stark, and Crossan.

                Emergent + entheogens + no Historical Jesus = the true original meaning of New Testament Christianity
                where Emergent = social gospel, liberation theology, Context Group, Wright, McLaren, Borg, Crossan, Horsley, Carter, but also includes (against the Evangelical detractors) some spiritual transformation.  That is, the better of these authors do include and make room for the spiritual-transformation half of the New Testament strategy.

                Evangelicalism is outraged that Emergent doesn’t make “individual personal salvation as going to heaven after you die” the central, sole, narrow, be-all and end-all purpose and central focal point of the Gospel, but instead takes a broader and more inclusive view of Bible themes and concerns.  The Jesus figure did not come announcing the gospel as 5-point Calvinism, but rather, as the kingdom of God against the empire of Caesar, entered into via communal altered-state transformative experiencing via ingesting the psychoactive Eucharist and interpreting that ASC experience per the New Testament rather than per Roman Ruler Cult (the Imperial Mysteries (described in Pleket’s article)). 

                Evangelicalism has recently been reduced to a defensive stance, and is taking the futile approach of retreating into asserting the same old theology all that much harder, about individual salvation and going to heaven after you die, which Emergent has proven is an unbiblical and grossly incomplete *emphasis*, a reductionist narrowing of the gospel based on ignoring the Roman Empire meaning-context against which the NT was shaped and designed as a rebuttal to.

                The New Testament is about spiritual transformation leveraged in service of an anti-empire project.

                Group: egodeath Message: 5078 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/11/2007
                Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

                Evangelicals optimistically say “Emergent is not entirely wrong, they do have some legitimate criticisms we must listen to.  We need to be sure to include the social gospel a little, and quit leaving it entirely out.” 

                However, there is no hope for Evangelicalism, no saving it; Evangelicalism is doomed, because it has defined itself, quite unbiblically, purely in terms of individual salvation and how to get into heaven after you die, by definition.  By the time Evangelicalism cleans up its act and corrects it errors, it will necessarily have profoundly shifted its focal point — it will have become something the opposite of Evangelicalism, and there is a name for that something already: Emergent, or New Testament Christianity. 

                Evangelicalism has made its bed, and now must lie in it.  Individual Evangelicals will be increasingly converted to Emergent, which is to say, Evangelicals will be converted away from their modern-era, recently invented religion, to the religion of New Testament Christianity.  This is an opportunity for Emergent students of New Testament Christianity to proselytize the Evangelicals, with a mixture of aggressive retaliatory glee and mutual chastisement.  New Testament Christianity is not designed or optimized to apply to today’s needed anti-imperialism, but such an understanding and project seems inevitable due to the cultural entrenchment of Christianity anyway — or what has previously gone by the name of “Christianity”.

                Emergent authors (by which I include aspects of non-spiritual, political authors such as Horsley) have pointed out the clear focal point of the New Testament and have come out looking far more straightforward, simple, and plausible, compared to the arbitrarily narrow hyper-emphasis on a couple themes plucked out from the overall Bible story.  The Emergent argument is powerful and compelling, and the Evangelical culture has earned hatred and loathing for itself.  The Evangelical or Protestant reading of the New Testament doesn’t hold up for a moment, compared to the vastly and entirely more successful reading that Emergent provides. 

                The Evangelical temple is doomed to fall soon.  Hyper-narrow isolated proof-text based schemes of Calvinistic individual-salvation doctrine are inherently impotent and baseless, compared to the holistic, broader reading that Emergent provides.  The trouncing of Evangelicalism by Emergent is practically a done deal, because Emergent so much better fits the New Testament — the only thing to work on is improving the Emergent view, not on the futile project of trying to redeem Evangelicalism, which is fundamentally and inherently a bad, baseless, biblically illiterate paradigm. 

                The Emergent view needs to strengthen its awareness of ingesting the psychoactive Eucharist to bring the Holy Spirit for mental reconfiguration, or spiritual salvation, and needs to let go of the complicating confusion of the historical Jesus assumption.

                To say that there was no historical Jesus is shorthand; actually, more specifically, the no-historical-Jesus assertion means that Christian origins needed no, and used no, single historical individual as the causal origin and impetus that created and initiated the Christian movement.  It is not clarifying to assert that there was no historical Jesus.  It’s merely a shorthand.  In practice, the shorthand and the long clarifying form are both needed, and will probably propagate together. 

                As long as Emergent retains the historical Jesus assumption, puzzles and difficulties and complexities will remain.  Already the Emergent social gospel reading is so coherent and so complete of an explanation of Christian origins, Jesus is left with no real role.  The role of Jesus must be recognized as an orienting figure and a counter-Caesar figure and a model that’s a symbol of anti-imperial commitment, with the cross also serving as an altered-state metaphor for the experience of powerlessness of oneself in spacetime.  A no-Jesus reading or reconstruction, as an explanation of the origins of New Testament Christianity, has great explanatory advantages over a reading that strives to maintain and include a historical Jesus.

                Group: egodeath Message: 5079 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/11/2007
                Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

                To read about the Emergent paradigm, currently, the Web has little content that is worth reading.  The Web content is outdated: it conflates Emerging churches (which is a 1990s idea and often means nothing but a youth-worship style) with Emergent.  The Web content heavily misrepresents Emergent, and misunderstands it.  I started by reading the books about a political reading of the New Testament, and what I read now on the Web about Emergent provides a description of emphases that doesn’t at all match what I read by the Emergent authors or Social Gospel authors themselves, in their own books.

                The current lagging situation on the Web reminds me of the futility of trying to do religious research using the early Web back in 1997.  On the subject of Emergent, for substantial and reliable content, the Web is lagging about 5 years behind the recent books such as those listed in my “Christianity as counter-Caesar” Amazon book lists.  And that is a critical 5-year period, because only the recent few books by these authors have really locked onto the political aspects of New Testament Christianity, such as Wright’s recent leveraging of Horsley’s work.

                The Web is stuck 5 years back, and tends to clumsily conflate Emergent interpretation of the New Testament with an abstruse Postmodern philosophy rejection of truth.  That epistemology emphasis and characterization has practically zero match with Emergent thinking as it has been presented by the Emergent authors themselves in their recent books — it’s irrelevant, and reflects the 1990s books about the Church in Postmodernity.  Critics of Emergent need to read more of the books that don’t label themselves as Emergent, and read less of the vapid and roundabout comments of bloggers. 

                The poor quality of blogging is largely to blame: there are many blog posts, with little substance.  I could list a few webpages, but overall the Web situation currently *pales* compared to the recent books which I have read and listed.  If you want to grok Emergent thinking, there’s no contest: the books on the political aspects of New Testament Christianity blow away the scattered, diffused, confused resources that are currently on the Web. 

                The current weblogs and webpages are soft in the brain compared to the books and my book-centric posts.  My own posts are far more to-the-point about the core ideas in Emergent; that is, based on the books I’ve read, I can write far more clarifying posts and webpages explaining the content and substance of the Emergent paradigm.  The Web now just has a lot of noise, not substance: false hits, links to links, outdated conflations, and peripheral comments.

                My posts are book-centric and book-based.  As much as I trumpet the wonders of Web-based scholarship, I’m here reminded that I’m just as much a book-based scholar, for good reasons of substance, polish, and efficiency.

                I consider two books to be definitive of the Emergent paradigm, because they cover both the spiritual gospel and the social gospel.  McLaren’s Secret Message of Jesus, and Marcus Borg’s Heart of Christianity.  N.T. Wright’s recent books also combine these.  However, these books should be supplemented with recent, more purely social-politically minded books by J. D. Crossan, Richard Horsley, Wes Howard-Brook, Warren Carter, and Walter Rauschenbusch’s 1907 book.

                Bk list (1 of 3 related):
                Christian ‘Kingdom’ claims as counter-claims to Roman Empire
                http://www.amazon.com/lm/R38V3OTJUHIMW5


                It is probably necessary to repeat myself, my emphasis, in every posting about Emergent or the political aspect of the NT:

                The New Testament was the use of entheogen-induced altered-state experiencing of personal powerlessness and God’s sovereignty, leveraged in service of an anti-empire social-political movement.  Reconstructing NT origins and accounting for the religious theology is much easier by abandoning the assumption of a single historical individual Jesus who was the necessary inventor and creator of the Christian movement, abandoning the assumption that there was a single isolated kernal of the eventual Christ figure. 

                Adding entheogens and subtracting the historical Jesus enables straightforwardly and satisfyingly accounting for all the religious and theological aspects of NT origins.  Any adequate account of New Testament meaning must have 3 parts: a spiritual-gospel account, a social-gospel account, and the relationship between the two.

                Group: egodeath Message: 5080 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/11/2007
                Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

                Catholicism, Protestantism, and Evangelicalism share in common the same
                fatal, fundamental flaw: they all hold that the gospel in the New Testament is about individual spiritual salvation and how to get into heaven after you die.  Actually, the gospel in the New Testament is about communal altered-state experiencing of God’s sovereignty, to bring about a better social-political configuration.

                The themes in the New Testament that may appear to be about
                individual spiritual salvation and how to get into heaven after you die, are minor, mystical, and metaphorical, and are not the central focal point of the gospel.

                Group: egodeath Message: 5081 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 20/11/2007
                Subject: Re: Website: Urban Shaman

                The new website is now operational.
                http://www.urbanshaman.net

                Group: egodeath Message: 5082 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 21/11/2007
                Subject: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahistori
                Attachments :
                  Emerging church practices complain against dullness. There is a solution.
                  I will prepare a podcast discussing:

                  The tepid “Emerging church” vs. the radical “Emergent church”.

                  Psychotomimetic drugs (that is, hallucinatory drugs).

                  No historical Paul, and, less interestingly, no historical Jesus.

                  What kind of writings are the New Testament books? How to read the New
                  Testament.

                  References to LSD, psychedelia, and Tim Leary found in emerging church
                  podcasts and weblogs.

                  How Allegro was right, and how he was wrong, and why we must move through
                  him, and cannot move around him.

                  The primary origin and context of New Testament Christianity was the Roman
                  Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, not Jerusalem in the 1st century.

                  The evidence that proves that all religion was based on psychedelic drugs
                  throughout the Roman Empire, including the Christian Eucharist during the
                  first several centuries and beyond.

                  Integrating Emergent, the psychoactive entheogenic Eucharist, and the
                  ahistoricity of Jesus and all the apostles.

                  What it’s like to experience helpless frozenness in spacetime (often as
                  Fatedness or predestination) and perceiving the all-sovereignty of God over
                  all of one’s thoughts and actions. How this was expressed in the New
                  Testament as “crucifixion and resurrection through the Eucharist and Holy
                  Spirit”.

                  Explanation of mystery-religion, including Imperial Cult and Christian
                  house-church agape meals.

                  Why theology cannot make any sense until the entheogen-and-ahistoricity
                  reading of the New Testament.

                  Why entheogen religion must go through Christian theology and take over
                  Christianity to return it to the New Testament meaning.

                  Which is more profound and paradigm-shattering: exposing Eastern religion as
                  totally corrupt and bunk, or exposing Western religion as totally corrupt
                  and bunk.

                  Why Christianity, rightly understood per the original New Testament
                  Christianity, is fundamentally crippled outside its native Roman Empire
                  context.


                  I will probably blast-through these topics pointing out the top 3 points in
                  each topic, and I vow not to edit it — because recording a Podcast only
                  takes 1 hour, while editing it takes some 4 hours.

                  Dullness is not a problem in the Egodeath theory — because dullness is
                  never a problem in psychedelic drug experiencing, which is and was the only
                  authentic Eucharist. Christianity, or what passed for it during the modern
                  era, was dull only because the authentic, psychedelic Eucharist was omitted.

                  I am available for podcast interviews, having done 22 years of research and
                  development of the Egodeath altered-state explanatory framework. I will be
                  as outspoken as possible.

                  — Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com
                  http://www.egodeath.com/
                  Weblog: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/
                  Group: egodeath Message: 5083 From: egodeath@yahoogroups.com Date: 01/12/2007
                  Subject: File – EgodeathGroupCharter.txt
                  The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman,
                  covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence,
                  including:

                  o Block-universe determinism/Fatedness, the closed
                  and preexisting future, tenseless time, free will as illusory, the
                  holographic universe, and predestination and Reformed theology.

                  o Cognitive science, mental construct processing, mental models,
                  ontological idealism, contemporary metaphysics of the continuant
                  self, cybernetic self-control, personal control agency, moral agency,
                  and self-government.

                  o Zen satori, short-path enlightenment, and Alan Watts;
                  transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber, and integral theory.

                  o Entheogens and psychedelic drugs, mystery religions, mythic
                  metaphor and allegorical encoding, the mystic altered state, mystic
                  and religious experiencing, visionary states, religious rapture, and
                  Acid Rock mysticism.

                  o Loss of control, self-control seizure, cognitive instability, and
                  psychosis and schizophrenia.


                  — Michael Hoffman
                  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath
                  http://www.egodeath.com
                  Group: egodeath Message: 5085 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                  Subject: Re: Views on NT Xy: Redactors, Evangelicals, Emergent, Freke, Horsle
                  Attachments :
                    What’s most missing in this comparative matrix is Mainline Liberal
                    denominations. McLaren strives to distance himself from that, but his
                    critics simply label him as “very liberal and left”, which would equate him
                    with the Liberal Mainline that he strives to criticize along with the
                    Evangelical Right. Emergent (McLaren) is only slightly different than the
                    Liberal Mainline, and it’s no surprise that critics simply equate and
                    conflate the two positions, which largely overlap.
                    Group: egodeath Message: 5084 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 04/12/2007
                    Subject: Re: Podcast: Psychonautica: Max Freakout on Egodeath theory
                    Attachments :
                      http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=Psychonautica

                      #21 —

                      Live from the Dolphins coffeeshop in Amsterdam

                      3-way conversation between Max Freakout, The Seeker and Ravi

                      LSD trip report from Dopey J

                      ‘Crisis’ experiences

                      The new Blair Witch spinoff movie ‘Shroom’

                      LSD doses, psychedelic and psycholytic psychotherapy

                      Safety issues of tripping in public environments

                      The role of music as a tool in combination with psychedelics

                      Neurolinguistic programming, and other techniqes for overcoming addictions

                      The relevance of addiction to problems of self-control and egodeath theory

                      Isolation/floatation tanks and their potential for combination with
                      psychedelics, ketamine, dissociation, sensory deprivation and the
                      womb-regression experience

                      The idea of a paradigm shift

                      The authenticity of taking entheogens in contrast with other spiritual
                      practices

                      Evolutionary advantages to plants which contain psychoactive chemicals


                      http://www.c-realm.com/podcasts.php
                      C-Realm episode 65 and 66 features Martin Ball, author of books about
                      entheogen phenomenology
                      Group: egodeath Message: 5086 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                      Subject: Evidential data for theories is structured, not unstructured
                      Attachments :
                        Someone wrote:
                        >>About visualizing highly structured data: philosophers of science are
                        behind the times when it comes to how evidence relates to theory. The Old
                        Way of viewing evidence was atomistic and unstructured. Once you start
                        thinking of evidence/data as inherently structured (at least in the context
                        in which it’s usable), then you can have more interesting things to say
                        about buzz-word concepts like innovation and creativity. This suggest a
                        more Kantian approach to evidence and theory.


                        I’ve written often about this. Early Christianity did not involve a single
                        historical Jesus, and did involve visionary plants, as did the entire Roman
                        Empire. People ask for “evidence” for this view, particularly for
                        “evidence” that early Christianity involved visionary plants.

                        But what happens is that people hold the predominant paradigmatic
                        interpretive assumption-framework in mind while they purport to look at the
                        “evidence”; they view the evidence, or what is potentially evidence, through
                        a default, unexamined assumption-framework, which of course is designed to
                        not perceive that evidence as significant evidence.

                        Therefore I’ve come to realize that what is required is
                        evidence-with-interpretation, including, as well, entire alternative
                        scenarios and explanations. So what actually enables a paradigm shift, or a
                        change of explanatory models, amounts to
                        evidence-with-explanation-with-framework-with-scenario — not isolated bits
                        of evidential data. All the time I see people pick up the bits of data but
                        then proceed to consider them within an explanatory framework that is not at
                        all the framework that is required to perceive that data as significant,
                        change-compelling data.

                        This approach also helps for examining data for determining whether Jesus
                        existed or not. The only way the case can be made for ahistoricity is to
                        define an entire scenario and fully unpack what specifically it means for
                        “that historical person to not have existed”, and do that in conjunction
                        with picking up and examining pieces of evidential data, as explicitly and
                        particularly *structured* data: does the evidential data fit better into the
                        currently predominant explanatory model, or into the new model, as a more
                        readily clarifying interpretive lens? Data is not something separate from
                        explanatory system-organization, in practice, for theory-construction and in
                        competition between theories.

                        All data is theory-bound; data is always theory-bound, either by the
                        predominant theory or by a competing, alternative, challenger theory. The
                        whole challenge for the alternative proponent is to prevent the defenders of
                        the predominant paradigm from pulling the old false move of covertly
                        filtering the data through the old predominant paradigm, and to force people
                        to actually look at the data through the new explanatory paradigm *rather
                        than* through the old explanatory assumption-framework. A classic bogus
                        move is to drawing all attention to isolated bits of data sheerly for the
                        purpose of drawing attention away from the sneaky, covert use of the old
                        paradigm-lens.

                        The same holistic data-within-framework view is required for explaining what
                        really happened, and didn’t happen, on 9/11 — challenging the official
                        explanation heavily involves truly alternative “why”, motives, and scenario
                        issues, which are data *structure* questions, *not* merely isolated,
                        unstructured bits of evidential data.

                        The best way to protect a false theory and bunk historical explanation is to
                        only permit examining isolated bits of evidential data, while always
                        evaluating those isolated bits of explanatory evidence through the currently
                        predominant official story, lens, or explanatory assumption-framework.

                        The language of “structured data” could be useful, as against the bad habit
                        of treating data as though it were inherently unstructured (while of course
                        applying a covert, unconscious, unacknowledged predominant default
                        structuring-system to view that data).

                        I give highest recommendations to this book:

                        Paul Thagard, Conceptual Revolutions. Princeton: Princeton University, 1992.
                        http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691024901/ — Conceptual Revolutions uses
                        easy-to-follow computer-based models to demonstrate the cognitive mechanisms
                        of the process of what seems most occult and irrational in Kuhn’s model of
                        paradigm conversion. Explains complex networks and hierarchies of concepts,
                        mental structures, and conceptual systems, and how conceptual systems
                        develop so that a new conceptual system eventually provides greater
                        explanatory coherence than the previous conceptual system. Covers conceptual
                        hierarchy transformation and how concepts are recombined, added into, and
                        deleted from large-scale conceptual systems. Brings Kuhn’s theory to
                        completion, resulting in a fully powerful way of thinking about conceptual
                        revolution in any domain, thus intellectual conversion in general.
                        Group: egodeath Message: 5087 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                        Subject: Re: Views on NT Xy: Redactors, Evangelicals, Emergent, Freke, Horsle
                        Attachments :
                          There are 3 main positions, relevant for discussion with conventional
                          Christians: they want to know whether the Egodeath theory matches
                          Conservative Christianity, or whether it matches Liberal Christianity. The
                          Egodeath theory is a 3rd basic position, which combines High Christology
                          with altered-state metaphor.

                          o Conservative Christianity has a High Christology but one that is based in
                          the ordinary state, resulting in literalist-supernaturalism. Conservative
                          Christianity takes it for granted that “the gospel” is all about how to get
                          into heaven after you die.

                          o Liberal Mainline has a low Christology and reduces metaphor to the
                          ordinary state. The Liberal Mainline leans toward the Social Gospel instead
                          of how to get into heaven after you die.

                          o The Egodeath theory holds that New Testament Christianity was the use of
                          visionary plants to have a communal altered-state experience of personal
                          powerlessness and God’s transcendent power, leveraged in service of setting
                          up a social-political system that was *specifically* an alternative to the
                          Roman Imperial social-political system. Combines High Christology with
                          altered-state metaphor. The gospel is not about how to get into heaven
                          after you literally bodily die; it is about bringing Godly justice into the
                          world, and about leveraging the altered state experience of ego death and
                          transcendent experiencing (such as an experience of heaven) toward that
                          objective.


                          The Emergent movement is merely a variant of Liberal Mainline, or an
                          adjustment to Liberal Mainline — with emphasis on open communion,
                          non-denominationalism, church unity, and flexible belief
                          (non-foundationalism, non-doctrinalism, non-confessional; not “religion as
                          confession in doctrinal belief”). Emergent is merely a correction of some
                          of the bad church habits of the Liberal Mainline.


                          > ___________________________
                          Liberal Mainline denominations
                          General characterization summary of the position held by Liberal Mainline
                          denominations, which means older, established, brand-name, systematically
                          self-governed, doctrinal-defined, confessional, U.S. nationwide
                          denominations, such as Episcopal (or Baptist, or Presbyterian) (as opposed
                          to nondenominational, Evangelical, politically rightist, megachurches):
                          demythifying, but reductionist, reducing myth to things from the ordinary
                          state of consciousness.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: spiritual salvation/regeneration
                          through altered-state religious experiencing & metaphor: they inconsistently
                          consider it and give it lip service. They are accustomed to giving it lip
                          service and wordiness, while completely lacking altered-state experience
                          except for a tepid warm feeling and vague emotionalism.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: political counter-imperialism: they
                          pay some attention to it, but not enough, even though they largely advocate
                          the Social Gospel.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: ahistoricity of Jesus, Paul, and the
                          apostles: they ignore it, but are sometimes receptive when this view occurs
                          to them.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: visionary plants in early
                          Christianity: they completely ignore it.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: use of visionary plants throughout
                          Roman Empire culture:
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: literalist-supernaturalism: they
                          downplay it, presenting it half-heartedly. The Evangelical Right critics
                          claim that the Liberal Mainline is afraid to mention Jesus, because “Jesus
                          is the only way to salvation” is oppressive and offensive.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: metaphoricity: they reduce miracles
                          and supernatural into metaphor that is based in the ordinary state of
                          consciousness, when that metaphor was actually from the altered state and
                          from Roman Imperial propaganda.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: Gnosticism: they latch onto it as
                          unoppressively spiritual, but ignore its content in terms of a system of
                          themes.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: Platonism and Ptolemaic astral
                          ascent mysticism: they are oblivious to it.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: Catholic-type mysticism: they ignore
                          it, giving mere lip-service to the Holy Spirit and the regeneration or
                          transformation it brings. They marginalize Pentecostals as sub-Christian.
                          The Liberal Mainline denominations, re: theology: they use doctrinal
                          hair-splitting to break up denominations into ever-smaller groups, going
                          against the unity of the Church that is a dominant theme in the Pauline
                          writings and the Church Fathers. The Kingdom of God is broken up into
                          bickering subgroupings that each condemn and de-legitimate each other,
                          typified by closed communion across doctrinally and theologically
                          hair-splitting distinctions. Theology is more important to them than the
                          Gospels’ theme of the Kingdom of God arriving on Earth.

                          ___________________________
                          Template
                          General characterization summary of the position held by ___:
                          ___, re: spiritual salvation/regeneration through altered-state religious
                          experiencing & metaphor:
                          ___, re: political counter-imperialism:
                          ___, re: ahistoricity of Jesus, Paul, and the apostles:
                          ___, re: visionary plants in early Christianity:
                          ___, re: use of visionary plants throughout Roman Empire culture:
                          ___, re: literalist-supernaturalism:
                          ___, re: metaphoricity:
                          ___, re: Gnosticism:
                          ___, re: Platonism and Ptolemaic astral ascent mysticism:
                          ___, re: Catholic-type mysticism:
                          ___, re: theology:
                          Group: egodeath Message: 5088 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                          Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                          Attachments :
                            Here’s a little bit of a start, of some detailed points, to get the podcast
                            going. Pressed for time, I’m feeling ready to jump in a discuss the
                            remaining topics verbally. I’ve written and spoken about these topics
                            previously, so I’m just refining and customizing some existing coverage of
                            these topics, to present the ideas specifically in the context of “the
                            Emergent conversation”.

                            I will probably duplicate (re-post) these paragraphs in more specialized
                            discussion threads.

                            I’m feeling like typing is slowing me down; my thinking is running ahead. I
                            just hope there won’t be too many silences, since I’m committed to not
                            spending the time to edit-out silences or other junk. Although there will
                            be that “noise” as opposed to signal, I’ve listened to many podcasts, and I
                            know that no one gets to the point more than I do. Too many podcasts have
                            half an hour of worthless junk before getting into the substance of the
                            interview.

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                            > The tepid “Emerging church” vs. the radical “Emergent church”.
                            >
                            Brian McLaren claims that the Emergent movement or “conversation” is against
                            the religious right but is certainly not advocating the religious left.
                            However, as critics point out, it completely appears that McLaren is
                            identically the same as the Christian religious left, the mainline
                            denominations. A challenging exercise is to list the differences between
                            McLaren and mainline 20th Century denominations:

                            McLaren de-emphasizes denominationalism, and calls for unity and open
                            communion across all brands of Christianity including Catholic, Protestant,
                            Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Eastern Orthodox.

                            McLaren emphasizes the Social Gospel even more than mainline does.

                            Emergent disparages Joseph Shelby Spong as merely *modern*-era liberalism.
                            But there’s no clear difference between McLaren or Marcus Borg, and Spong:
                            they uncritically retain the historical Jesus assumption, and read all
                            miracles and High Christology as metaphor that was piled on top of the
                            mundane, non-miraculous historical Jesus. Actually, McLaren is nothing but
                            a fine-tuned version of liberal mainline modern-era Christianity.

                            McLaren downplays “belief” as the center and essence of Christianity,
                            perhaps more and more clearly and consistently than the Liberal Mainline
                            does.

                            The inferior podcasts I’ve heard are those of the merely “emerging church”,
                            including run-of-the-mill, long-winded, low-information-density “edifying
                            sermons” that play out a metaphorical theme. The better podcasts are fully
                            “emergent”, focus more on the Roman Empire as meaning-context for the New
                            Testament, and are more like scholarly summaries. McLaren and Borg almost
                            always get to the damn point immediately, which is the kind of ergonomic
                            efficiency that is needed more.

                            What’s most missing in my comparative matrix is Mainline Liberal
                            denominations, such as Episcopal. (See my thread titled “Views on NT Xy:
                            Redactors, Evangelicals, Emergent, Freke, Horsley, Wright, Pilch,
                            Groenewald, Allegro”.) McLaren strives to distance himself from the Liberal
                            Mainline, but his critics simply label him as “very liberal and left”, which
                            would equate him with the Liberal Mainline that he strives to criticize
                            along with the Evangelical Right. Emergent (McLaren) is only slightly
                            different than the Liberal Mainline, and it’s no surprise that critics
                            simply equate and conflate the two positions, which largely overlap.

                            I’m tired of hearing Emergent presentations that barely touch on the Roman
                            Empire meaning-context. The only way to have any grasp and explanation of
                            New Testament Christianity is to put more than 50% of the focus on the Roman
                            Empire meaning-context. There’s still way too much discussion, in podcasts
                            by Borg and McLaren, of the New Testament themes and applying them in
                            today’s world, with often no discussion at all of the Roman Empire
                            pre-existing meaning-context which New Testament themes were specifically
                            designed to push against.

                            The Emergent movement is more environmentally conscious, by its inherent
                            nature, than other variants of Christianity.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Psychotomimetic drugs (that is, hallucinatory drugs).
                            >
                            Correction: “hallucinogens”.

                            It is forked-tongue evasiveness when Christians talk on and on about how
                            much they want to better know the Holy Spirit, while they censor themselves
                            from any mention of psychedelic drugs, which everyone now knows causes
                            religious experiences. This is a willful, deliberate, conscious cover-up
                            everyone is participating in. It’s a loudly taboo topic that everyone knows
                            they are supposed to avoid.

                            I am considering attending McLaren’s 2008 tour to point out how he is not
                            really post-modern, because he continues to adhere to the assumption of a
                            historical Jesus and he continues to not consider the Eucharist as
                            psychotomimetic plants. Thus Emergent claims to be post-modern, but
                            actually, is merely a continuation of the modern-era predominant
                            paradigmatic assumptions, including the Social Gospel, which was, in a
                            sense, predominant during the 20th Century, given that the Liberal Mainline
                            had an affinity for at least some version of the Social Gospel, just like
                            Emergent.

                            If Emergent actually wants to get back to New Testament Christianity and
                            away from the modern-era paradigm, they must subtract the historical Jesus
                            and add visionary plants as the Eucharist — only then would the early
                            Christians in the Roman Empire recognize Emergent as being the same as them.

                            Dullness is not a problem in the Egodeath theory — because dullness is
                            never a problem in psychedelic drug experiencing, which is and was the only
                            authentic Eucharist. Christianity, or what passed for it during the modern
                            era, was dull only because the authentic, psychedelic Eucharist was omitted.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > No historical Paul, and, less interestingly, no historical Jesus.
                            >
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > What kind of writings are the New Testament books? How to read the New
                            > Testament.
                            >
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > References to LSD, psychedelia, and Tim Leary found in emerging church
                            > podcasts and weblogs.
                            >
                            The Jesus People movement of the early 1970s

                            There’s an active, taboo common knowledge and interest in psychedelics,
                            among Christians, that has been censored and self-censored since LSD was
                            illegalized in 1966.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > How Allegro was right, and how he was wrong, and why we must move through
                            > him, and cannot move around him.
                            >
                            Discuss Allegro’s right and wrong aspects for an Emergent audience. How
                            Allegro fits into Emergent.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > The primary origin and context of New Testament Christianity was the Roman
                            > Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, not Jerusalem in the 1st century.
                            >
                            Emergent needs to always emphasize this, and not leave it out of any
                            discussion. Don’t discuss abstracted “kingdom of god” anti-empire
                            principles in today’s world, without discussing them in some depth in the
                            Roman Empire meaning-context. Ground the discussion, or else it becomes
                            meaningless and we revert to the modern-era mental framework, and lose the
                            meaning of the New Testament.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > The evidence that proves that all religion was based on psychedelic drugs
                            > throughout the Roman Empire, including the Christian Eucharist during the
                            > first several centuries and beyond.
                            >
                            Emergent strives to be “alternative”, but won’t be significantly an
                            alternative without psychedelic drugs.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Integrating Emergent, the psychoactive entheogenic Eucharist, and the
                            > ahistoricity of Jesus and all the apostles.
                            >
                            In discussing what’s so good about Emergent but what’s so limited about
                            Emergent, a good approach is to compare and contrast Conservative
                            Christianity, Liberal Mainline Christianity, the Emergent movement (as
                            merely a corrective variant of Liberal Mainline), and the Egodeath theory.

                            There are 3 main positions, relevant for discussion with conventional
                            Christians: they want to know whether the Egodeath theory matches
                            Conservative Christianity, or whether it matches Liberal Christianity. The
                            Egodeath theory is a 3rd basic position, which combines High Christology
                            with altered-state metaphor.

                            o Conservative Christianity has a High Christology but one that is based in
                            the ordinary state, resulting in literalist-supernaturalism. Conservative
                            Christianity takes it for granted that “the gospel” is all about how to get
                            into heaven after you die.

                            o Liberal Mainline has a low Christology and reduces metaphor to the
                            ordinary state. The Liberal Mainline leans toward the Social Gospel instead
                            of how to get into heaven after you die.

                            o The Egodeath theory holds that New Testament Christianity was the use of
                            visionary plants to have a communal altered-state experience of personal
                            powerlessness and God’s transcendent power, leveraged in service of setting
                            up a social-political system that was *specifically* an alternative to the
                            Roman Imperial social-political system. Combines High Christology with
                            altered-state metaphor. The gospel is not about how to get into heaven
                            after you literally bodily die; it is about bringing Godly justice into the
                            world, and about leveraging the altered state experience of ego death and
                            transcendent experiencing (such as an experience of heaven) toward that
                            objective.

                            The Emergent movement is merely a variant of Liberal Mainline, or an
                            adjustment to Liberal Mainline — with emphasis on open communion,
                            non-denominationalism, church unity, and flexible belief
                            (non-foundationalism, non-doctrinalism, non-confessional; not “religion as
                            confession in doctrinal belief”). Emergent is merely a correction of some
                            of the bad church habits of the Liberal Mainline.

                            Emergent is a corrective on Liberal Mainline (the Social Gospel), which
                            requires further correction. Which type of Christianity is closer to the
                            truth, closer to New Testament Christianity in its original Roman Empire
                            meaning-context, and closer to the Egodeath theory: Conservative
                            Christianity, Liberal Mainline Christianity, or the Emergent movement? All
                            3 are hopelessly confused, because they commit the ordinary-state fallacy,
                            producing different results:

                            o Conservative Christianity commits the ordinary-state fallacy, resulting
                            in literalist-supernaturalism. And it so happens that Conservative
                            Christianity puts *all* emphasis on going to heaven after you die, so that
                            they wholly condemn and avoid the Social Gospel (even Environmentalism,
                            crucially), and ignore the theme of “good news: the kingdom of god has now
                            arrived in the world”, which is the main content and theme of Jesus’
                            teaching.

                            o Liberal Mainline and Emergent Christianity commit the ordinary-state
                            fallacy, losing a high Christology, reducing the anti-Caesar Jesus figure to
                            an ordinary man, and failing to connect at all with the Holy Spirit and its
                            intense altered state which is required in order to perceive the all-power
                            of God over human power. What is the purpose of Christianity: to get into
                            heaven (per Conservative Christianity), to bring justice and ethics to the
                            world (per the Emergent extreme of the social gospel in the Liberal
                            Mainline), or to have a collective intense altered-state experience of
                            heaven and God’s overwhelming power, through ingesting the Eucharist, in
                            service of a counter-imperial social-political configuration (per the
                            Egodeath theory and per the New Testament)? The Holy Spirit, through the
                            Eucharist, applied toward the alternative Kingdom of God: does Conservative
                            Christianity provide that, or does the Liberal Mainline, with Emergent
                            corrections, provide that?


                            Does Conservative Christianity provide a collective intense altered-state
                            experience of heaven and God’s overwhelming power, through ingesting the
                            Eucharist, in service of a counter-imperial social-political configuration?
                            Does Conservative Christianity provide the Holy Spirit, through the
                            Eucharist, applied toward the alternative Kingdom of God?

                            Conservative Christianity does not provide a collective intense
                            altered-state experience of heaven and God’s overwhelming power, through
                            ingesting the Eucharist. It does not provide the Holy Spirit, through the
                            Eucharist.

                            Conservative Christianity does not strive to manifest a counter-imperial
                            social-political configuration. Conservative Christianity does not strive
                            for the alternative Kingdom of God in the world, but strives to do away with
                            the world and wholly replace it, as a project jumbled together with
                            literal-supernaturalist escape from the world into heaven after we die.


                            Does Liberal Mainline Christianity (with Emergent corrections) provide a
                            collective intense altered-state experience of heaven and God’s overwhelming
                            power, through ingesting the Eucharist, in service of a counter-imperial
                            social-political configuration? Does Liberal Mainline Christianity (with
                            Emergent corrections) provide the Holy Spirit, through the Eucharist,
                            applied toward the alternative Kingdom of God?

                            Liberal Mainline Christianity (with Emergent corrections) does not provide a
                            collective intense altered-state experience of heaven and God’s overwhelming
                            power, through ingesting the Eucharist. It does not provide the Holy
                            Spirit, through the Eucharist.

                            Liberal Mainline Christianity strives to be the vehicle through which
                            arrives a counter-imperial social-political configuration. It strives for
                            alternative Kingdom of God, as an ethical and just configuration. This
                            end-goal matches the end-goal of the New Testament, but not the means of the
                            New Testament, and not the along-the-way goal of the New Testament, which
                            was the intermediate objective of spiritual regeneration — a general kind
                            of objective that was held in common by the mystery-cults of antiquity, and
                            by the general religious use of visionary plants throughout antiquity.


                            In conclusion, by the measure of the NT, held as an intermediate objective
                            in service of a subsequent objective, Conservative Christianity is further
                            from the NT than the Liberal Mainline is.

                            Conservative Christianity matches or achieves neither the altered-state
                            transformation objective of the NT, nor the “just kingdom of God arrived in
                            the world” objective. Conservative Christianity squanders and dissipates
                            itself on a confused literalist-supernaturalist misfiring and gross
                            distortion of both objectives; Conservative Christianity has something
                            *like* each of the two objectives of the NT, but ends up with merely a
                            degenerate version of both these objectives. Conservative Christianity has
                            a degenerate rough equivalient of altered-state transformation through the
                            Holy Spirit. Conservative Christianity has a degenerate rough equivalient
                            of striving to manifest the arrived, just Kingdom of God.

                            Liberal Mainline Christianity (with Emergent corrections) sometimes gives
                            lip service to the Holy Spirit and “contemplative practices”, but doesn’t
                            actually deliver the intense communal altered-state experience of the Holy
                            Spirit, showing personal powerlessness and God’s all-power, or a vision of
                            God’s throne and kingship in heaven. Liberal Mainline Christianity *is*
                            faithful to the NT’s subsequent objective of striving to be the vehicle
                            through which the just Kingdom of God, as a social-political configuration
                            that’s an alternative to Empire, arrives in the world. That objective is
                            met fairly accurately in Liberal Mainline Christianity, but even the
                            Emergent explanation needs to more consistently emphasize the original Roman
                            Empire meaning-context for which the New Testament was specifically designed
                            and optimized to go up against.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > What it’s like to experience helpless frozenness in spacetime (often as
                            > Fatedness or predestination) and perceiving the all-sovereignty of God
                            > over all of one’s thoughts and actions. How this was expressed in the New
                            > Testament as “crucifixion and resurrection through the Eucharist and Holy
                            > Spirit”.
                            >
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Explanation of mystery-religion, including Imperial Cult and Christian
                            > house-church agape meals.
                            >
                            Emergent claims to be grounded in anti-imperial Roman Empire
                            meaning-context, but they put quite little attention on the experience of
                            the Holy Spirit and agape meals, treating those merely as indications of how
                            Jesus welcomed everyone and outcasts to purportedly “social events”,
                            socializing at a regular, ordinary-state meal of regular, non-visionary
                            food.
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Why theology cannot make any sense until the entheogen-and-ahistoricity
                            > reading of the New Testament.
                            >
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Why entheogen religion must go through Christian theology and take over
                            > Christianity to return it to the New Testament meaning.
                            >
                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Which is more profound and paradigm-shattering: exposing Eastern religion
                            > as totally corrupt and bunk, or exposing Western religion as totally
                            > corrupt and bunk.
                            >
                            Perhaps the worst, most vulgar and distorting misreading of the New
                            Testament is to read “Jesus is the only name by which you must be saved” as
                            a statement against the religion of Buddhism — against Buddha — rather
                            than as against Caesar.

                            The book God Is Not Great has a chapter against Buddhism, politically
                            criticizing how Buddhism supports the emperor and his empire. But there’s
                            also the untapped potential debunking of the purely religious aspect of what
                            goes by the name of “Buddhism” today. Meditation is snake oil, bunk, a way
                            of delaying and avoiding intense religious experiencing rather than bringing
                            it about — some shamanistic Vajrayana Buddhism excepted. Although today’s
                            junk Buddhism might be less harmful than today’s junk Christianity, it
                            amounts to false promises and a fake product — phony, substitute religion,
                            snake oil. It sells short what religious revelation or transformation can
                            and should be: the ergonomic entheogen approach, which is the historical
                            origin of religion including Eastern religion.

                            ______________________________________________________

                            > Why Christianity, rightly understood per the original New Testament
                            > Christianity, is fundamentally crippled outside its native Roman Empire
                            > context.
                            >
                            >
                            Group: egodeath Message: 5089 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                            Subject: Re: Evidential data for theories is structured, not unstructured
                            Attachments :
                              The mind is innately designed to harbor two distinct world-models: that of
                              the ordinary state of consciousness and that of the altered
                              (loose-association) state — along the lines of Charles Tart’s call for
                              “multi-state sciences”. Philosophy of Mind must include multi-state
                              Philosophy, taking into account not only the ordinary cognitive state.
                              Religious conversion, revelation, or spiritual transformation is a matter of
                              the mind switching from the one innate, predetermined mental worldmodel of
                              self and world, to the other innate, predetermined mental worldmodel of self
                              and world.
                              Group: egodeath Message: 5090 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 07/12/2007
                              Subject: Emergent view: NT as guide to how entheogens ought to be experienced
                              Attachments :
                                I wrote:
                                >>the along-the-way goal of the New Testament, which was the intermediate
                                objective of spiritual regeneration — a general kind of objective that was
                                held in common by the mystery-cults of antiquity, and by the general
                                religious use of visionary plants throughout antiquity.


                                The New Testament says “here’s how the altered state ought to be
                                experienced: as that which leads toward the just kingdom of God, not the
                                empire of Caesar.” The New Testament not only utilizes the ASC (intense
                                altered state) as a fixed-shaped experiencing or perception in service of
                                the “kingdom of God”; also, the New Testament works the other direction,
                                starting with the principle of the just kingdom of a loving God, using that
                                as a way of shaping and interpreting the ASC experience.

                                The New Testament confronts the Roman Empire, which says “here’s the ASC and
                                here’s how it props up the Roman Empire”. The New Testament says “Instead
                                of your religious-experience ASC and your violent and oppressive empire of
                                Caesar, here’s a better view and version of the religious-experience ASC, in
                                conjunction with a better vision of a just kingdom.”

                                The New Testament provides a better vision of the phenomenology of the
                                altered state, and a better vision of the social-political configuration
                                that the ASC can be utilized to prop up — compared, specifically, to the
                                Roman Empire’s “divinely authorized” social-political configuration and its
                                use of religious experiencing to justify itself.

                                Thus the New Testament isn’t just a preliminary objective (experience the
                                ASC) in service of a subsequence objective (the kingdom of god); the New
                                Testament presents a coupled alternative pairing of a certain, particular,
                                strategically described vision of what the altered state should be about, in
                                conjunction with a certain vision of the social-political configuration.

                                The New Testament explains how we *ought* to experience psychedelic drugs —
                                in terms of a loving God and leading toward a better social-political
                                configuration. And the New Testament explains how we *ought* to set up a
                                social-political configuration. These two visions are not contrasted
                                against today’s system of empire, in the New Testament, but against
                                pre-modern empire, and particularly and especially against the specific
                                Roman Empire. The New Testament says “Instead of experiencing entheogens in
                                the way that’s part of the official Roman Empire, experience entheogens in
                                this other way, within this other experiential-interpretive framework,
                                instead.”

                                The Bible does not advocate or prohibit psychoactive drugs; rather, the
                                Bible says “Interpret and conduct psychoactive drug experience in this godly
                                and just way, instead of in a way that props up a harmful society.” The
                                Bible is concerned with *how* we use entheogens, more than *whether* we use
                                drugs. The New Testament tells us to ingest the Eucharist to experience the
                                Holy Spirit and be spiritually regenerated in accord with the loving and
                                just kingdom of God. The New Testament, in effect, tells us that the use of
                                drugs in a way that goes against the loving and just kingdom of God amounts
                                to sorcery and demon-worship, while the use of drugs in a way that builds up
                                the loving and just kingdom of God amounts to the Holy Spirit, salvation,
                                and worship of God.
                                Group: egodeath Message: 5091 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                Attachments :
                                  I’m prepping a preliminary podcast for uploading. I only did minor editing
                                  — removing major silences, and normalizing volume. The unexpected problem
                                  with not editing is that I’m coughing and having trouble talking at all.

                                  This podcast compares Conservative Christianity, Liberal Mainline
                                  Christianity, Emergent movement, and the Egodeath theory. The information
                                  is subset of what I’ve posted. The next will actually go into the points in
                                  the present thread.

                                  The URL will be:
                                  http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast01.mp3
                                  Group: egodeath Message: 5092 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                  Subject: Re: Technical voice-recording notes
                                  Attachments :
                                    I’m getting better at recording vocally clean sessions that don’t have to be
                                    edited. I’ve learned to weed out most of the junk vocalizations while I am
                                    speaking: “um”, “you know”, “so”, and “I mean” — and to breathe quietly,
                                    and to manage other vocal junk noise. I would benefit from setting up an
                                    easy-to-use Pause and Mute.
                                    Group: egodeath Message: 5093 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                    Subject: Re: Technical voice-recording notes
                                    Attachments :
                                      The practice of creating a warm-up, practice Podcast, to practice verbally
                                      discussing and vocalizing a set of topics, has been proven to work for the
                                      Egodeath material.

                                      In my latest vocal recording, the coughing isn’t as bad as I thought — only
                                      a few spots. After getting rid of long, 15-second silences, I’m surprised
                                      at how clean this recording is. I do admit that the sometimes long
                                      sentences and compound statements in this recording would be easier for the
                                      listener to follow if I cleaned them up. But there’s nothing distinctly bad
                                      about this recording, other than a few coughs — this is really good news
                                      for me. Doing penance, of spending hours cleaning up my vocal bad habits,
                                      has prompted me to clean up my speaking while I am speaking.
                                      Group: egodeath Message: 5094 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                      Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                      Attachments :
                                        One way to download the file:

                                        At
                                        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5091
                                        right-click the URL
                                        http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast01.mp3
                                        and Save As.

                                        I’ll update the page http://www.egodeath.com/ to contain the link, which
                                        you’ll be able to right-click. I should break out a separate Podcasts
                                        navigation page.


                                        This preliminary Podcast is relatively dull; it’s not the vision I had for
                                        this thread. It’s merely preliminary. It is practice and warm-up for the
                                        main Podcast I planned in this thread. I may need to sweep evenly across
                                        the topics giving 5 minutes each, and then optionally add further expansion
                                        of certain points. This fast pacing, skipping across topics, should help
                                        against dullness. I add a certain dullness in that I routinely discuss
                                        these “edgy” topics at a highly developed level, yet casually. I discuss
                                        them as if a boring routine classroom lecture, not injecting or forcing any
                                        hype and tone of excitement like marketing blurbs for some book hyped such
                                        as “Controversial secrets of Jesus followers, revealed!” Let the substance
                                        carry the excitement (the non-dullness).
                                        Group: egodeath Message: 5095 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                        Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical

                                        This book review gives valuable background insight on recent U.S. history of popular Christianity.  Not edited or condensed.   It shows the concerns and outlooks within the church today, such as church growth, which is a euphemism for alarming church shrinkage.  Until the 1970’s, American culture required church attendance; to be a good American, one also had to be a churchgoer.  Given that that is no longer the case, church attendance is in free-fall decline — a long fall that takes awhile, because from a great height of popularity. 
                                         
                                        Much of the “emerging post-modern church” books and ideas is an emergency action in a desperate attempt to try to stop this free-fall decline in church attendance.  Blame Evangelicalism’s overemphasis on individual personal salvation to go to heaven after you die — that isolated individualistic misconception of New Testament Christianity leaves its adherents with no reason to participate in the church community or to coordinate with other people to change the world on this side of the grave.
                                         
                                         
                                        Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
                                        by Diana Butler Bass
                                        http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Rest-Us-Neighborhood-Transforming/dp/0060859490/ref=pd_sim_b_title_32
                                        Sep. 2006
                                         
                                        — reader’s review —— 
                                        by  pastorman02 (Florida)
                                         
                                        If there are made for TV movies this is a made for NPR book. (And I listen to NPR regularly. I recognize the genre.) Her anecdotes come from people who always laugh with a wry twist of self-deprecation or weep softly in joy over a newfound insight. I get the feeling she goes about her work with contrived naïve innocence. All of her characters are happy, well adjusted, mainline Christians in congregations that may have disagreements but never conflicts. And their spirituality is so above average. Apparently they never have to worry about declining budgets, loss of membership, and minister’s health insurance and where to recruit Sunday School teachers. I genuinely wish we could have seen the congregational warts as well so that my real life pastors could draw some real life encouragement for transforming their real life congregations. My friends do not live in Pleasantville.
                                         
                                        I wish I could say this book is worthwhile. Unfortunately it fails on very many levels. I wish I could use it in our pastor’s development course. I cannot even put it on the suggested reading list, much less use it as a main source book.
                                         
                                        The first problem is rather trivial. The subtitle for the book is How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith. That would be a wonderful study if indeed it is happening. But this is not a study of neighborhood churches. And many of these congregations are simply not transforming the faith. Many of them continue in their gradual decline toward closing the doors. If you are looking for book that will show you how to grow a neighborhood church, this book is not for you. Now on to the important issues.
                                         
                                        The research behind this book is not a designed study by any academic or scientific standard. It is a collection of anecdotes from participants of carefully selected, perhaps cherry picked, congregations, assembled to support a particular predetermined premise. All the congregations shared an ethos and catalogue of best practices. Well and good. BB declares them therefore to be vital churches. However there is no investigation of other churches with similar ethos and best practices and whether or not they too are vital. That is to say, after reading the book, I have no idea whether or not implementing these ten sign post practices will turn around a declining congregation to spiritual and numeric growth. A similar subject was undertaken by Thom Rainer in Breakout Churches. Rainer sets criteria for health, identifies congregations that meet the criteria, and then studied their histories, ethos, and best practices. BB finds churches with a certain profile of ethos and best practices and declares them vital. The problem with this approach is that it becomes a celebration of her particular prejudices. And she has many prejudices.
                                         
                                        During the course of the book she insults Roman Catholics, Pentecostals, and southern Christians in general.
                                         
                                        “I heard quite a few stories from smart, well-educated – and clearly not Pentecostal – churchgoers about supernatural healings.” P. 113.
                                         
                                        “Memphis, Tennessee, conjures visions of southern religion. These two words, southern religion, evoke images of folks hootin’ and hollerin’ about God. Eternal damnation and hell. Sweating preachers thundering on about sex, drinking, and Democrats. Southern religion is all heart and fire, the blinding light of Jesus converting sinners to saints in a flash. This is what more reasonable Christians used to ridicule as “enthusiasm.”
                                        In Memphis, the Church of the Holy Communion, an Episcopal parish, stands in stark contrast to the fulminations of southern evangelical religion.” P. 115.
                                         
                                        Far and away the most frequent target of the vinegar is evangelicals generally and evangelical megachurches in particular.
                                         
                                        “I immediately think of evangelical megachurches, with their huge congregations complete with doctrinal statements and Republican voting guides. Big yields, yes. But where is wisdom?” P. 147.
                                         
                                        “Unlike in evangelical churches – where doctrinal uniformity is considered nonnegotiable – theological diversity shapes the daily life of most mainline churches.” P. 146.
                                         
                                        “Unlike conservative evangelicals who read the Bible literally, seeking out proof-texts for narrow moral or ethical readings of scripture, the Episcopalians at Redeemer approach the Bible “seriously, but not Literally.” P. 188.
                                         
                                        “However, there is still a rift in the ways that Christians view art. Some, usually those in evangelical churches, understand art instrumentally. Art is important because it proclaims a message, usually intended to convert people to the faith. … Other Christian, however, engage art for the sake of mystery instead of a message.” P. 213.
                                         
                                        Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, and its viewers receive special attention. “Unlike the evangelical Christians who flocked to the film, mainline Protestants more thoughtfully engaged The Passion in its theology and as a spiritual product.” P. 230. Anyone who dared to view “The Passion of the Christ” incurs her judgment. She comes close to saying that anyone who went to see “The Passion of the Christ” is an anti-Semite and a consumerist, a willing participant in economic sin.
                                         
                                        “That is, of course, what happened with The Passion of the Christ: the primary symbol of Christianity, the cross, was turned into a marketing event.” P. 233.
                                         
                                        She was unnecessarily insulting to several individuals and their readers. For example she belittled Forty Days of Purpose (twice) and Purpose Driven Church, although several of her congregations described implementing Purpose Driven action items. If these two resources are so counterproductive why have they had such an impact on the lives of so many individuals and congregations. BB spent a whole chapter on the practice of discernment. So what is wrong with asking the purpose of a life or of a congregation? She came close to insulting Billy Graham. One wonders why an author of her talent feels a need do insult people. It may be true that Purpose Driven, etc., are the basics. But she comes off as a university mathematics professor belittling an elementary school teacher for teaching arithmetic to first graders. What purpose does this serve?
                                         
                                        People who have a perspective different from hers and dare to speak it with conviction are thundering partisans. See page 238 and the southern religion quote above for examples.
                                         
                                        I am very concerned as well over the makeup of the study group. Of the ten primary congregations eight were all white, one was Latino, and one was multiethnic. The multiethnic congregation had three African American staff members, two of whom are sextons. Do the math. Is this a prejudice or a coincidence? I honestly do not know. But either way I cannot recommend this book to any of our African American pastors.
                                         
                                        Butler Bass also seems to misunderstand the place of evangelicals in mainline churches. Generally speaking she does not acknowledge that there are very many evangelical mainline congregations and even more evangelicals in congregations that are not totally evangelical.
                                         
                                        “The most troubling division comes from the tensions within the Presbyterian denomination between the church’s traditionally more liberal theological constituency and its vocal evangelical minority.” P. 146.
                                         
                                        One need look only at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the upcoming exodus of evangelical congregations in the Presbyterian Church USA to see Butler Bass’ misconception of mainline evangelicals. In one PCUSA presbytery 60% of the Sunday morning attendance was in Confessing Churches. Currently the PCUSA has entire presbyteries who wish to leave the denomination as a whole presbytery. The EPC is setting up a provisional presbytery to receive the congregations leaving the PC USA. Some projections estimate that the provisional presbytery will be as large or larger than the original EPC. Similar phenomena are occuring in the Episcopal Church, the Lutheran tradition, and the Methodist tradition. Indeed within a few years the PC USA will cease to be the majority Presbyterian voice in the United States given the current rate of change. That is to say there will be more Presbyterians who are not members of the PCUSA than those who are.
                                         
                                        On page 2 BB writes, “Rather, I journeyed with a surprising group of contemporary pilgrims – those folks who gather in mainline Protestant congregations, communities that describe themselves as theologically centrist to liberal-progressive and are part of denominations that trace their lineage back to colonial America. I hung out with brand-name Christians – Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Congregationalists, and Episcopalians, …” Does BB mean that only centrist to liberal-progressive Christians are mainline? What about centrist to evangelical, those just right of center but still in the center? What about those who are just plain centrist, for whom the evangelical/progressive divide is irrelevant. In the Presbyterian Church, USA I know many a minister who is just plain Presbyterian. Are they not mainline because they do not at least lean towards the progressive side?
                                         
                                        On the other hand if mainline is defined as tracing their lineage back to colonial America, and centrist to progressive is a subset of mainline, why exclude the other subsets? One cannot read Presbyterian history in North America without seeing that there has always been tension in our antecedent denominations over this very issue. We have had Old School/New School, Old Light/New Light, Modernist/Fundamentalist, Liberal/Conservative, and now finally evangelical/progressive controversies. What is important to note about these controversies is that despite the formation of some splinter groups the majority of both sides remained in the denomination. Both sides remained mainline. In our current context there will be some splintering, with many congregations leaving the PCUSA and moving to the EPC. There remain many evangelicals who wish to remain in the PCUSA and to work through the difficulties. The Constitutional Presbyterians is such a group. And while many New Wineskins congregations will go to the EPC, many other NWAC congregations will remain in the denomination. Why then exclude such a large and healthy, and historically significant cohort, from the study? If this is progressive inclusiveness we need a different inclusiveness.
                                         
                                        BB never addresses the fundamental question regarding mainline churches. Until the 70’s American culture required church attendance. To be a good American one also had to be a churchgoer, if not a genuine Christian. Protestant was preferred over Catholic and Orthodox was a genuine peculiarity. Mainline denomination (meaning successor to a northwestern European tradition) was culturally more desirable than Southern Baptist or Pentecostal. Little League was never scheduled on Sunday morning. Mainline churches did not have to go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in. We relied on our culture to do that for us. That has changed. Now our culture is not only not supportive of Christianity it is at best suspicious of and at times hostile to Christianity. Which means that for the churches to thrive they have to go to the world and interrupt people’s lives with the Gospel. Her list of best practices is quite good. But it is not the main issue. If the congregations do not create their own new participants they will all die. Of all the personal anecdotes I read I was struck by how many quotes were from people who had been churched as children. I counted only two people who were adult converts, and one of those came to Christ through an evangelical Bible study, then moved on to one of the cohort congregations. BB rails against evangelicals. But were it not for an evangelical Bible study this young woman would not have become Christian. The study church certainly was not doing any evangelism. And this is the biggest problem with BB’s book. It is all about baby boomers who were churched as children, left the church, and now are back. The issue we face now is how to reach people who were never churched. Yes, by all means, the depth discipleship described in the ten signposts is great. But it is almost, though not completely, inner focused. Even the testimony section is not about bearing witness to Christ to non-Christians. She has changed it to bearing testimony within the congregation for the benefit of the congregation.
                                         
                                        The result of this Boomer propensity for navel gazing is a steep decline in worship attendance across the board. I had hoped that this book would help us see ways in which mainline congregations can address this very issue. Unfortunately this is not the case. Of the four Presbyterian congregations in her cohort three were stagnant or in decline. I say this not to pick on Presbyterians. Rather they are the easiest to get data from. So the long term question remains. If I am not replacing my losses in participation how will this congregation’s ministry continue? If our ministry is good, but dies, who will take over the needed ministry? Who will host the tent cities?
                                         
                                        Butler Bass’ real issue is how can a liberal/progressive church survive, and maybe possibly grow numerically as an unanticipated but welcome side effect. If you think that the answer lies along the axis of “it is possible to have our old, traditional worship with a hymnbook and an organ prelude, with a cerebral Enlightenment/Modernist confessional approach to faith,” you will be sorely disappointed. The congregations she studied have abandoned those things for the most part. Her ten signposts are all things that were not practiced in mainline Protestant congregations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in North America, as she very ably demonstrates. Her answer instead is that to survive as a mainline Protestant congregation you have to start doing the very things that her mainline village church never did. That is to say, to survive as a mainline congregation one must stop being traditionally mainline, or change one’s definition of mainline, both of which violate her premise.
                                         
                                        On p. 174 BB describes a “mainline” church that is not at all traditional mainline. “Combining elements of jazz, performance art, film clips and video, multimedia reflection, live-camera feed, testimony, readings, silence, contemplative prayer, and journaling, they christened this service The Studio.” How is this traditional mainline? Simply because they still put Congregationalist on the marquis? BB never addresses this question. The congregations she describes are no longer “mainline” in practice, only in name and judicatory membership. That is exactly the issue.
                                         
                                        Her study congregations are post-modern experientialists who are PC USA or UMC or UCC or Episcopal or Lutheran in name only. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But let’s be honest about it. The Presbyterian, Methodist, and Lutheran ministers of the study congregations may be able to describe Reformed, Wesleyan, and Lutheran theology respectively. But she gives no evidence that the members understand or even care about it. And of course, denominational identity was a hallmark of mainline Protestantism. The congregations she worked with are not traditional mainline churches any more. The answer she arrives at is exactly the same answer the “evangelicals” arrived at. Traditional mainline Protestantism, based on northwestern European culture beginning in the early Sixteenth Century and founded on Enlightenment rationalism, no longer is a viable model for Church in post-modern North America.
                                         
                                        Butler Bass spent many years as an evangelical, and an eloquent one. She has left that behind and moved into the progressive fold. Well and good. But in leaving the evangelical fold she feels the need to castigate her former colleagues. Martin Luther ultimately affirmed, “I am not!” Perhaps this book is her “I am not” to her evangelical sisters and brothers. I hope that as her service to the church continues the evangelical stage will be her thesis, the progressive phase will be her antithesis, and that she will find somewhere and somehow the peace of a synthesis.
                                         
                                        — end of reader’s review — 
                                         
                                        Group: egodeath Message: 5096 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                        Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                        Attachments :
                                          I felt that I could not leap into the radical leading-edge interesting
                                          topics in light of Emergent, without first laying down some foundation
                                          discussion about the Emergent movement in relation to Conservative
                                          Evangelicalism and Liberal Mainline denominations. This latest, preliminary
                                          podcast serves as a relatively dull bridge to the non-dull topics which I am
                                          actually interested in demonstrating an interesting treatment of.

                                          Followers of the Emergent movement, or trends in Christianity, will find my
                                          preliminary comments interesting, and not particularly dependent on the
                                          “controversial” topics of entheogens and ahistoricity. The “controversial”
                                          topics of entheogens and ahistoricity play only a minor role in this
                                          introductory or prolegomenon podcast.
                                          Group: egodeath Message: 5097 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 08/12/2007
                                          Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                          Attachments :
                                            The following discussion (a re-post about “the New Testament as guide to how
                                            entheogens ought to be experienced”) fulfills several existing topics for
                                            this podcast such as:

                                            Psychotomimetic drugs (that is, hallucinatory drugs).

                                            What kind of writings are the New Testament books? How to read the New
                                            Testament.

                                            References to LSD, psychedelia, and Tim Leary found in emerging church
                                            podcasts and weblogs.

                                            How Allegro was right, and how he was wrong, and why we must move through
                                            him, and cannot move around him.

                                            The evidence that proves that all religion was based on psychedelic drugs
                                            throughout the Roman Empire, including the Christian Eucharist during the
                                            first several centuries and beyond.

                                            Integrating Emergent, the psychoactive entheogenic Eucharist, and the
                                            ahistoricity of Jesus and all the apostles.

                                            What it’s like to experience helpless frozenness in spacetime (often as
                                            Fatedness or predestination) and perceiving the all-sovereignty of God over
                                            all of one’s thoughts and actions. How this was expressed in the New
                                            Testament as “crucifixion and resurrection through the Eucharist and Holy
                                            Spirit”.

                                            Explanation of mystery-religion, including Imperial Cult and Christian
                                            house-church agape meals.

                                            Why theology cannot make any sense until the entheogen-and-ahistoricity
                                            reading of the New Testament.

                                            Why entheogen religion must go through Christian theology and take over
                                            Christianity to return it to the New Testament meaning.

                                            ________________________


                                            The New Testament as guide to how entheogens ought to be experienced


                                            The New Testament says “here’s how the altered state ought to be
                                            experienced: as that which leads toward the just kingdom of God, not the
                                            empire of Caesar.” The New Testament not only utilizes the ASC (intense
                                            altered state) as a fixed-shaped experiencing or perception in service of
                                            the “kingdom of God”; also, the New Testament works the other direction,
                                            starting with the principle of the just kingdom of a loving God, using that
                                            as a way of shaping and interpreting the ASC experience.

                                            The New Testament confronts the Roman Empire, which says “here’s the ASC and
                                            here’s how it props up the Roman Empire”. The New Testament says “Instead
                                            of your religious-experience ASC and your violent and oppressive empire of
                                            Caesar, here’s a better view and version of the religious-experience ASC, in
                                            conjunction with a better vision of a just kingdom.”

                                            The New Testament provides a better vision of the phenomenology of the
                                            altered state, and a better vision of the social-political configuration
                                            that the ASC can be utilized to prop up — compared, specifically, to the
                                            Roman Empire’s “divinely authorized” social-political configuration and its
                                            use of religious experiencing to justify itself.

                                            Thus the New Testament isn’t just a preliminary objective (experience the
                                            ASC) in service of a subsequence objective (the kingdom of god); the New
                                            Testament presents a coupled alternative pairing of a certain, particular,
                                            strategically described vision of what the altered state should be about, in
                                            conjunction with a certain vision of the social-political configuration.

                                            The New Testament explains how we *ought* to experience psychedelic drugs —
                                            in terms of a loving God and leading toward a better social-political
                                            configuration. And the New Testament explains how we *ought* to set up a
                                            social-political configuration. These two visions are not contrasted
                                            against today’s system of empire, in the New Testament, but against
                                            pre-modern empire, and particularly and especially against the specific
                                            Roman Empire. The New Testament says “Instead of experiencing entheogens in
                                            the way that’s part of the official Roman Empire, experience entheogens in
                                            this other way, within this other experiential-interpretive framework,
                                            instead.”

                                            The Bible does not advocate or prohibit psychoactive drugs; rather, the
                                            Bible says “Interpret and conduct psychoactive drug experience in this godly
                                            and just way, instead of in a way that props up a harmful society.” The
                                            Bible is concerned with *how* we use entheogens, more than *whether* we use
                                            drugs. The New Testament tells us to ingest the Eucharist to experience the
                                            Holy Spirit and be spiritually regenerated in accord with the loving and
                                            just kingdom of God. The New Testament, in effect, tells us that the use of
                                            drugs in a way that goes against the loving and just kingdom of God amounts
                                            to sorcery and demon-worship, while the use of drugs in a way that builds up
                                            the loving and just kingdom of God amounts to the Holy Spirit, salvation,
                                            and worship of God.
                                            Group: egodeath Message: 5098 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                            Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                            Attachments :
                                              I’m uploading the 2nd podcast for the present thread. This podcast lists
                                              the planned topics, then discusses points about some of those topics, points
                                              that I have already written about. This podcast amounts to reading-aloud
                                              two major postings from the present thread. I plan to do a 3rd, main
                                              podcast for this thread, which will evenly spend 4 minutes per each of the
                                              15 topics.

                                              I’m targeting 60 minutes / 60 MB for each podcast.

                                              One way to download the file: at
                                              http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5098
                                              right-click the URL
                                              http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast02.mp3
                                              and Save As.

                                              I’ll update the page http://www.egodeath.com/ to contain the link, which
                                              you’ll be able to right-click. I should break out a separate Podcasts
                                              navigation page.
                                              Group: egodeath Message: 5099 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                              Subject: Re: Technical voice-recording notes
                                              Attachments :
                                                To pretty easily produce pretty clean recordings, I’m settling on a sweet
                                                spot, of using Mute and using clean vocalization to produce as clean a
                                                master session recording as I can, and then, doing some minimal amount of
                                                editing — *not* deleting every hiccup, dog bark, or excess tenth of a
                                                second of silence as I used to (*very* grueling and prohibitively
                                                time-intensive), but rather, deleting all silences longer than perhaps 7
                                                seconds. That technique is helped alot by the technique of using Mute and
                                                using clean vocalization. I developed a useful Mute technique around
                                                halfway into today’s latest recording (EmergentPodcast02.mp3).

                                                I’ve had trouble getting the recordings to be loud enough, even with
                                                normalization. So I’m trying selecting 10-minute blocks and normalizing
                                                each block to 0dB level, to make the recording louder than all-at-once
                                                normalizing produces. Using a compressor would help more, to make louder
                                                recordings.
                                                Group: egodeath Message: 5100 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                                Attachments :
                                                  I’m uploading the 3rd podcast for the present thread. This podcast covers:

                                                  CHARACTERIZING DRUGS
                                                  Psychotomimetic drugs, or hallucinogenic drugs. Conceptual networks and
                                                  assumption frameworks. All translation across cultures is mis-translation.

                                                  DRUGS EXISTING IN EMERGENT
                                                  References to LSD, psychedelia, and Tim Leary found in emerging church
                                                  podcasts and weblogs.

                                                  EVIDENCE AND SCENARIO FOR ALL ANCIENT RELIGION HAVING DRUG BASIS
                                                  The evidence that proves that all religion was based on psychedelic drugs
                                                  throughout the Roman Empire, including the Christian Eucharist during the
                                                  first several centuries and beyond.


                                                  I plan to do a 4th podcast for this thread, spending about 5 minutes on each
                                                  of the remaining topics.

                                                  One way to download the file: at
                                                  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5100
                                                  right-click the URL
                                                  http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast03.mp3
                                                  and Save As.

                                                  I’ll update the page http://www.egodeath.com/ to contain the link, which
                                                  you’ll be able to right-click. I should break out a separate Podcasts
                                                  navigation page.
                                                  Group: egodeath Message: 5101 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                  Subject: Re: Technical voice-recording notes
                                                  Attachments :
                                                    I think I can eliminate, in future recordings, the sporadic whine that might
                                                    be found in EmergentPodcast01.mp3, 02.mp3, and 03.mp3. It was largely or
                                                    partly due to having inactive channels that were not turned down on the
                                                    mixer. Turn down unused mixer channels!

                                                    Too bad about that slight flaw in recordings #1-3, but one must learn at
                                                    some time, and at least I am learning as fast as possible.
                                                    Group: egodeath Message: 5102 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                    Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                                    Attachments :
                                                      I’m uploading the 4th podcast for the present thread. This podcast covers:

                                                      MYSTERY CULTS, IMPERIAL CULT, AND CHRIST CULT (EUCHARIST, HOLY SPIRIT)
                                                      Explanation of mystery-religion, including Imperial Cult and Christian
                                                      house-church agape meals.

                                                      ADDING DRUGS TO EMERGENT
                                                      How Allegro was right, and how he was wrong, and why we must move through
                                                      him, and cannot move around him.

                                                      ADDING DRUGS AND AHISTORICITY TO EMERGENT
                                                      Integrating Emergent, the psychoactive entheogenic Eucharist, and the
                                                      ahistoricity of Jesus and all the apostles.

                                                      DRUGS IN NT METAPHOR
                                                      What it’s like to experience helpless frozenness in spacetime (often as
                                                      Fatedness or predestination) and perceiving the all-sovereignty of God over
                                                      all of one’s thoughts and actions. How this was expressed in the New
                                                      Testament as “crucifixion and resurrection through the Eucharist and Holy
                                                      Spirit”.

                                                      ENTHEOGENISTS MUST ENGAGE WITH CHRISTIANITY
                                                      Why entheogen religion must go through Christian theology and take over
                                                      Christianity to return it to the New Testament meaning.

                                                      AHISTORICITY
                                                      No historical Paul, and, less interestingly, no historical Jesus.

                                                      INHERENT LIMITS OF MODERN THEOLOGY
                                                      Why theology cannot make any sense until the entheogen-and-ahistoricity
                                                      reading of the New Testament.

                                                      EMERGENT; CHURCH TRENDS
                                                      The tepid “Emerging church” vs. the radical “Emergent church”.

                                                      BASIC CORRUPTNESS OF EXISTING CHRISTIANITY
                                                      Which is more profound and paradigm-shattering: exposing Eastern religion as
                                                      totally corrupt and bunk, or exposing Western religion as totally corrupt
                                                      and bunk.

                                                      CLEARLY UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIANITY
                                                      Why Christianity, rightly understood per the original New Testament
                                                      Christianity, is fundamentally crippled outside its native Roman Empire
                                                      context.

                                                      NT MEANING AND GENRE
                                                      What kind of writings are the New Testament books? How to read the New
                                                      Testament.

                                                      ACTUAL MEANING-CONTEXT OF NEW TESTAMENT
                                                      The primary origin and context of New Testament Christianity was the Roman
                                                      Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, not Jerusalem in the 1st century.


                                                      I’m considering doing a 5th podcast for this thread, which would *actually*
                                                      do what I originally intended: spend 4 minutes *summarizing* each of the
                                                      stated topics. Only now is it possible to do this, because now I have both
                                                      written about these topics (at least partially), and have spoken about these
                                                      topics. The 4 podcasts so far in this thread all have to be considered as
                                                      preliminary warm-ups, practice runs, that go into some detail but largely
                                                      fail as efficient summaries. Before I could do a “perfect” podcast as
                                                      originally envisioned, I would need to repeatedly listen to these 4
                                                      preliminary, warm-up podcasts. And I would also, ideally, need to type-up
                                                      the summaries.


                                                      One way to download the file: at
                                                      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5102
                                                      right-click the URL
                                                      http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast04.mp3
                                                      and Save As.

                                                      I’ll update the page http://www.egodeath.com/ to contain the link, which
                                                      you’ll be able to right-click. I should break out a separate Podcasts
                                                      navigation page.
                                                      Group: egodeath Message: 5103 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                      Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                                      Attachments :
                                                        I’m re-uploading
                                                        http://www.egodeath.com/mp3s/EmergentPodcast03.mp3
                                                        It should be no shorter than 49 minutes, ~46 MB.
                                                        Group: egodeath Message: 5104 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                        Subject: Re: Podcast: Against dullness: Emergent church, entheogens, and ahis
                                                        Attachments :
                                                          I added these 4 podcasts to the home page, where you can right-click them to
                                                          download.

                                                          http://www.egodeath.com/ — Podcasts section:

                                                          Why the Emergent movement in Christianity must add entheogens and subtract
                                                          the historical Jesus — December 8, 2007
                                                          Part 1: preliminary definitions of Emergent vs. Evangelical
                                                          Part 2
                                                          Part 3
                                                          Part 4
                                                          Group: egodeath Message: 5105 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                          Subject: Video: 1988 Egodeath book commencement party
                                                          Attachments :
                                                            Today I watched the videotape from my 1988 college party which was to
                                                            announce my commencement of writing my Egodeath theory as books. I watched
                                                            it to determine whether my stated objectives of the Theory have been carried
                                                            forth consistently, matching my current conception of the Egodeath theory
                                                            and project of theorizing.

                                                            There were questions from the audience, all college students — friends, and
                                                            their friends. My responses, and my description of the Theory and Project,
                                                            were acceptably coherent with my current thinking, although of course then I
                                                            was only 3 years into the Project, now 22 years, so I now have some 7 times
                                                            the breadth of potential responses, and some of my terminology-usage has
                                                            improved. In evaluating this presentation in the video, I determined that
                                                            my conceptualization of the Project and Theory back then, 20 years ago, was
                                                            not essentially different than now — just less developed.

                                                            I am intently devoted to making good on the promises and plans that I told
                                                            to the audience, my friends, 20 years ago. Since then, the Web arrived,
                                                            with my Egodeath content, and Austin’s book Zen and the Brain has arrived —
                                                            but surprisingly little has changed in these 20 years; my basic complaints
                                                            about the state of knowledge still basically hold true and my criticisms
                                                            still hold up.

                                                            I’m more articulate now, though I had no shortage of ideas and responses 20
                                                            years ago.
                                                            Group: egodeath Message: 5106 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                            Subject: Re: Emergent Church paradigm is post-Protestant, post-Evangelical
                                                            Shorter URL:
                                                             
                                                            Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
                                                            by Diana Butler Bass
                                                            http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060859490/
                                                            Sep. 2006
                                                            Group: egodeath Message: 5107 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                            Subject: Characterizing experience of the loose cognitive association state
                                                            N. wrote:
                                                            >>The book Zen and the Brain … Place in your book some wording of actual experience, to help take the reader closer to the state of dissociation.  Help people relate to the words, ‘dissociative state’ or ‘loose cognition,’ by relating to what they represent experientially.  People have experienced the dissociative state but don’t realize they have.  Point out how that state has impacted the world we live in.  Write into the experience of your readers, to pull the reader into an understanding of the paradigm or Theory.
                                                             
                                                            Group: egodeath Message: 5108 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                            Subject: Sensationalism, fame, pride, humility, PR, standing out, social grou
                                                            Attachments :
                                                              I’m ready to relatively turn my attention back to my Phase 1 topic of
                                                              cognitive science/ cognitive phenomenology, rather than my more recent Phase
                                                              2 “historical” focus of history of religion and myth. However, the
                                                              revisionist historical focus (Christianity, Eastern meditation, entheogens
                                                              in the origins of those religions, and ahistoricity of Jesus) is valuable
                                                              for its sensationalism. My treatment of religions has value for
                                                              sensationalist attraction, that the pure cognitive phenomenology theory
                                                              can’t have. I asserted some surprising positions in my 1988 commencement
                                                              party presentation, about how alien and boring and not-immediately-relevant
                                                              my theory was (during my Phase 1).

                                                              I want to highlight the surprising ideas in the Egodeath theory both as
                                                              applied to our religious and cultural past, and to present mental
                                                              processing, and to the future of religious practice and our
                                                              self-understanding. Phase 1 (cog sci) and Phase 2 (religious historical
                                                              revision) both are sources for many surprising points, and it is crucial to
                                                              be surprising, for a new theory. For example, although espousing
                                                              “determinism” has problems because people object to “determinism” (as *they*
                                                              conceive of it – usually a misunderstanding), it does provide some
                                                              motivating, attractive controversy, some “bad PR” (given that “there’s no
                                                              such thing as bad publicity). To be notorious, to be controversial, to be
                                                              infamous — these things have their advantages.

                                                              Above all, don’t be a wallflower. To all the people who are so stupid or
                                                              cheap and superficial in their thinking that they equate ego transcendence
                                                              with mundane humility and mundane self-deprecation in regular social
                                                              relationships in the ordinary state of consciousness, what can one say but
                                                              “you are a small and insignificant person in light of my huge superiority of
                                                              person” — that is, pulling the strings that they have constructed, pressing
                                                              their buttons that they put forward. If you want to demonstrate to me that
                                                              you are not a serious thinker, all you have to do is equate “ego
                                                              transcendence” with mundane “humility”.

                                                              To emphasize the difference, I am the world’s most humility attuned person
                                                              regarding personal power in the altered state (that’s the true meaning of
                                                              ‘humility’ in a religious context or in transcendent knowledge), and I am
                                                              the world’s most proud person (best theorist) with the strongest sense of
                                                              superiority to others in the mundane world. That’s like Wilber’s call for
                                                              “an ego strong enough to die”. As a theorist, I am the best, and the most
                                                              superior to others, because as a control-agent, I’m most attuned to the
                                                              utter powerlessness of the personal locus of control in light of the
                                                              uncontrollable higher-level controller that is the source of all of our
                                                              thoughts and actions.

                                                              I’m fully proud, in the mundane state (as a competing theorist), and I’m
                                                              fully humble, with respect to that which is revealed in the altered state.
                                                              That demonstrates how distinct mundane pride is from religious-state
                                                              humility. Anyone who understands ego death ought to be very proud and
                                                              consider themselves superior to other people (while per the New Testament,
                                                              constructing a flat, fair, non-oppressive, just society). And anyone who
                                                              understands ego death is, by definition, truly humble, in the sense which is
                                                              religiously relevant. The Elect of God are proud (before others) to be
                                                              humbled (before God).

                                                              Little people with nothing to contribute are always the first to criticize
                                                              and put-down anyone who stands out and puts forth a substantial
                                                              contribution. American society has schizophrenic self-contradictory values:
                                                              we give lip-service to striving for excellence, and we enviously disapprove
                                                              of those who actually achieve excellence. That attitude voted for the
                                                              abrasively and aggressively imbecilic G. Bush. Australia is more
                                                              consistent: they are suspicious of even striving for excellence, because
                                                              they equate excellence with oppressiveness and oppressive social structures.
                                                              Anyone who contributes more than others is suspect of striving to oppress
                                                              others. Excellence is equated with oppression.

                                                              Ayn Rand criticized this tendency in the socialism of her day, and pointed
                                                              out the possibility of the superior people going on strike, against the
                                                              freeloaders who would keep down the superior people. However, her system
                                                              was helpless against the unethical people in influential positions that
                                                              really do want to just oppress other people.

                                                              These ideas are intellectually interesting, but all I’m really saying is
                                                              that our society holds loose sets of values that are mutually contradictory,
                                                              and that to make an impact, one must be proud and must stand out from the
                                                              crowd, in order to punch-through the noise. You must explicitly offer
                                                              something different, something distinctive, something that boldly stands
                                                              out; you must boldly *contradict* the existing norm. Anyone who is too
                                                              humble, too much a wallflower, never self-assertive, a pushover, who just
                                                              blends into the hive society, like the characterization of the Japanese
                                                              culture as “the peg that stands out will be hammered”, cannot succeed at
                                                              creating something innovative and making it available and visible in the
                                                              noise of post-modern culture.

                                                              It’s taboo to point out these realities, but as the theorist of ego
                                                              transcendence, discussing this taboo is relevant, and I did play with this
                                                              taboo even 20 years ago in my Theory commencement party presentation. You
                                                              have to — secretly or not — think in terms like being destined for
                                                              greatness; you have to go to “prep school” and “finishing school”, so to
                                                              speak; you have to be deliberately cultivated. The exceptions (people who
                                                              are actually thoroughly unassuming and self-effacing) are rare so as to
                                                              prove the rule. If Madonna is famous for being famous, Curt Cobain is the
                                                              one person who is famous for acting “not famous”.

                                                              To some extent, these are reflections that I am actively using, that affect
                                                              me; but to some extent these are merely idle reflections that I’ve had to
                                                              think about and that amount to nothing in practice, for me personally.
                                                              Anyone who writes a book, in some sense *has to* think of themselves as in
                                                              some way “destined for greatness”, even though coming to grips with that
                                                              practical fact of psychology may be tabooed in our democratic,
                                                              aristocracy-hating society (a society which nevertheless worships fame).

                                                              To declare all previous theories of transcendent knowledge to be grossly
                                                              inadequate, sloppy, and ineffective, as I have done since 1986, is to right
                                                              away, inherently, in some sense already be proud and to act as though one is
                                                              destined for greatness. That implication is unavoidable, and suitably
                                                              appropriate, even if the concept of “destined for greatness” is taboo in
                                                              democratic society that worships *striving for* excellence but jealously
                                                              hates and fears any actual *achieving* of greatness, equating greatness with
                                                              oppression and pushing down other people.

                                                              The person who has achieved may have a certain kind of comfort being around
                                                              others who have achieved, like pop stars hanging out together in their elite
                                                              circles, circles which play with being oppressive elite circles. I should
                                                              read books on the social psychology of fame and pop stardom — that would
                                                              help me address this topic that’s relevant for the general theory of ego
                                                              transcendence and for my particular personal needs as a breakthrough
                                                              theorist.

                                                              I’d connect it with ideas of “Jesus Christ superstar”, the apostle figures
                                                              as stars, the early popes, emperors in antiquity, the person of the King (“I
                                                              am the state”), and the New Testament project of using religious
                                                              experiencing to bring about a flat, non-oppressive way of organizing
                                                              society, against the “superstar” Caesar-based steep hierarchy system of
                                                              honor and shame, and client/patron pyramid. Compare Imperial Cult to the
                                                              cult of pop stardom — and postmodern analysis of “pop cult”.

                                                              When did I first start thinking about the idea of being “destined for
                                                              greatness”? Some time in between envisioning writing a book in 1986, and my
                                                              commencement party in Spring 1988. To declare all previous religion and
                                                              theories of transcendent knowledge as inadequate, to be replaced by one’s
                                                              own theory, is inherently tantamount to conceiving oneself as, and mentally
                                                              preparing oneself to be as, “destined for greatness” — regardless of how
                                                              one tries to spin and portray that inescapable fact.

                                                              Sometimes democratic society expects and demands that the person who is
                                                              actually in fact great, to strenuously make-believe and play-act humility.
                                                              Thus it is a flimsy cliche that we eulogize great Americans as infinitely
                                                              humble. The rule in our society is that when you talk about a great
                                                              American, you *must* declare them to have been infinitely humble,
                                                              *regardless* of the truth of the matter. It’s a matter of American pride
                                                              that we *must* declare the achievers who are role models to be paragons of
                                                              humility — lest we commit the unpatriotic and traitorous crime of
                                                              worshipping kings and aristocracy who rule (and oppress) by divine right.

                                                              To admit that one has to think of oneself as “destined for greatness” is
                                                              considered traitorous — it’s felt, in our blood, to be a crime against the
                                                              nation, even though picking up the pen to write a book *inherently* has that
                                                              component of pride, verge, and willingness to stick one’s head out and
                                                              declare “I have something of value to provide to society, that other people
                                                              cannot offer.” To set one’s mind to achieving anything that is outstanding
                                                              and culture-changing is, in some sense, inescapably to address all other
                                                              people as “peasants” or “proles”, no matter how you try to spin and evade
                                                              this fact.

                                                              To contribute something distinctive of value to society, one *has* to have
                                                              some sort of “high view of oneself”, to fail to — like British “commoners”
                                                              — “know your place” or “keep to your station”. Alexis de Tocqueville would
                                                              be relevant, in his comparison in his 1835 book Democracy in America, of the
                                                              different attitudes of Americans (“a society where every citizen is a
                                                              sovereign king”) compared to the British, French, and European aristocratic
                                                              monarchies. The real idea is that as an American, you are supposed to try
                                                              to achieve full human potential, but not in a way that denies achievement or
                                                              potential greatness to other “citizen-kings”. Thus it’s OK to think of
                                                              oneself as “destined for greatness” in a way that permits others to be so as
                                                              well.

                                                              Consider Leibniz, Newton, and Descartes battling it out for acclaim and fame
                                                              in Natural Philosophy, and how that was treated as rivalry between the
                                                              early-modern nations of Germany vs. England vs. France, where national egos
                                                              competed against each other for greatness and superiority. Or the German
                                                              cultural inferiority complex that is said to have given rise to Weimar
                                                              German culture. The American system has a certain innate egoic inferiority
                                                              complex since everyone is expected to strive for the greatness of achieving
                                                              their human potential, lifting themselves high by their own bootstraps as
                                                              each person a sovereign citizen-king.

                                                              This can lead to depression, frustration, and self-condemning that can
                                                              result from an overdose of Shirley MacLaine New Age self-help philosophy
                                                              that credits and blames the individual for all that happens to them and all
                                                              that they achieve. “You are fully responsible for all that happens to you
                                                              and all that you experience” (a rather convenient self-justification for
                                                              those who happen to be among the privileged, sheltered, fortunate, lucky
                                                              elite who grew up with an unconscious sense of entitlement and who, on the
                                                              whole, get all the breaks).

                                                              Being a paradigm-changing theorist of transcendent knowledge cannot be
                                                              compared to an average successful businessperson — a better comparison
                                                              would be to innovative engineers who are considered to be the creators of
                                                              new major influential technologies like the Web, Amazon.com, the Mac, or
                                                              Google. Or to influential, famous scientists. That is, the product or
                                                              achievement is intimately associated with the person who created it. Thus
                                                              “I *am* the Egodeath theory”, and for the Egodeath theory to be famous and
                                                              influential is inseparably synonymous with me as a person being famous and
                                                              influential. That’s why I’ve been forced to consider my person being thrust
                                                              into the role of “great and famous” simply by virtue of my Theory striving
                                                              to become “great, breakthrough, famous”.

                                                              It’s not actually possible to envision the Theory becoming “great,
                                                              breakthrough, famous” while I consider myself like the hogwash requisite
                                                              cliche of the eulogizing and hagiography of famous innovators as “he was
                                                              infinitely humble”. That would be nonsense in the case of this Theory of
                                                              transcendent knowledge; it is nonsense and an impossibility that the Theory
                                                              would be considered as “great, breakthrough, famous” while I go around
                                                              considering myself “just an ordinary Joe like G. Bush.” For my Theory to be
                                                              received as Great is *inherently*, by the nature of such theorizing, for me
                                                              personally to be seen as Great — any avoiding of that necessity is phony
                                                              pretense.

                                                              I don’t know if this reality and situation is a “problem” for me, but it is
                                                              certainly something I’ve been forced to consider: it comes with the
                                                              territory the moment I thought “all the existing, previous theories and
                                                              religions are bunk, ineffective, inefficient, they aren’t cutting it, not by
                                                              a long shot, and I have to step in and remedy this situation by formulating
                                                              and putting forth a new, vastly superior Theory — a great Theory, which
                                                              would be *my* Theory.” The result of putting for a great Theory is
                                                              *necessarily* that one becomes great oneself; this is inescapable (and not
                                                              necessarily undesirable, a bad thing).

                                                              That gives some background on why I’ve been grappling since 1988 with being
                                                              in a position of “destined for greatness” as a result of striving to put
                                                              forth a Theory of transcendent knowledge and religious that is “destined for
                                                              greatness”. This type of intellectual product is inseparable from one’s own
                                                              person. “Great Theory” necessarily immediately entails “Great Theorist”.
                                                              Group: egodeath Message: 5109 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 09/12/2007
                                                              Subject: Re: Sensationalism, fame, pride, humility, PR, standing out, social
                                                              Attachments :
                                                                In terms of social groups, I also have a degree of feeling I’m a “Great
                                                                American”, “Great Californian”, “Great Engineer”, and “Great Alumni”. I’m
                                                                not only a proud Theorist, I’m a proud American, a proud Californian, a
                                                                proud engineer, and a proud alum. Perhaps a proud cybercult denizen (e.g. a
                                                                proud member and product of the Mondo 2000 & WELL community). A proud
                                                                Christian, and a product of Christianity. Also a proud Alan Wattsian, a
                                                                product of his treatment of Eastern and Western religion.

                                                                As a Theory creator, I’m a product of America, California, engineering,
                                                                cybercult, tech school and university, the WELL, and Christianity — I am a
                                                                representative of these groups. My pride and my achievement reflects back
                                                                onto these groups. I’m also a member and product of other groups, such as
                                                                the JesusMysteries online discussion group, my circle of friends, a member
                                                                of professional societies, a member of the group entheogen scholars.

                                                                Also now I had my Bar Mitzvah a week ago, so now I am a member of the Jews,
                                                                and I’m a product of a Jewish upbringing, as well as baptized into the
                                                                Church of Christ, thus my greatness (due to my Theory’s greatness) would
                                                                amount to pride and product of these groups. To some extent I’m a member of
                                                                my grade school long ago, but that’s not directly associated with my
                                                                theorizing, so my greatness or achievement in Theory hardly reflects back to
                                                                that social or societal group. My significant social groups relevant for
                                                                Theory development only has tangible roots going back to mid high school.
                                                                Before that, I was generic and you could not tell that I’d have any future
                                                                in Theory development about transcendent knowledge; such a future would have
                                                                been conjectural had you analyzed my life back in early high school.

                                                                Prioritizing my influences *as* a Theorist might place me (and my
                                                                Achievement) as a member and product of certain groups more than others:
                                                                firstly,
                                                                * Engineering
                                                                * University (and, private university where all courses are actually
                                                                taught by professors)
                                                                * California
                                                                * Human Potential movement / transpersonal psychology
                                                                * Alan Watts
                                                                * Christianity
                                                                * Stanford / Palo Alto (I characterized my Phase 1 work as “the
                                                                Stanford view”: that is, exuding the vibe and mentality of Silicon Valley in
                                                                the 1990s).
                                                                * Entheogen scholars
                                                                * Ahistoricity scholars
                                                                * The WELL / cybercult, then the Web especially during my Phase 2
                                                                * The late 1980s through 1990s

                                                                Not much:
                                                                * Judaism as cultural practice & upbringing
                                                                * Grade schools
                                                                * Pomo studies
                                                                * Tech school
                                                                * Eastern religion in general
                                                                * America (I consciously feel more affinity, a product more of
                                                                California than of America, because America is = “the world at large”, with
                                                                “Europe having disappeared and ceased to exist” for me per Jean Baudrillard.
                                                                Thus I am *so* much a product of America that there’s nothing consciously
                                                                distinctive about this cultural context for me.)

                                                                I *have* felt an identification with these groupings as I have developed my
                                                                Theory of transcendent knowledge; for example, I pointed this out
                                                                prominently, 3 years into it, in my commencement party, pointing out that
                                                                it’s very distinctive that I’m developing a Theory of transcendent knowledge
                                                                *as* an engineer, with that mentality and character.

                                                                Even though I highlight my personal stature being concomitant with the
                                                                success of my Theory, I have also always felt a strong social sense of
                                                                identification with these groups, institutions, and societies. A Great
                                                                Theory, thus necessarily a proud theorist, and thus also a proud member (and
                                                                representative) of these social groups. Our society is packed full of
                                                                taboos, including the taboo solutions to the long-lasting puzzles about
                                                                religious origins and religious knowledge. I have had to be the one to
                                                                concertedly break all of these taboos together; it was inherently necessary
                                                                as part of creating the Theory.

                                                                Even as I break these taboos, and offend publicly all groups including the
                                                                groups that created me, these groups are at the same time forced to
                                                                acknowledge me as their representative, their product. I am a product of my
                                                                society and upbringing, of the many adults who inducted me, often
                                                                deliberately, into subcultures and entrenched taboo cultural practices that
                                                                are as normal and entrenched as they are officially tabooed. For example,
                                                                in 8th Grade graduation, we were initiated with an oil light show and the
                                                                David Bowie song Space Oddity.

                                                                I am a product of my church; I represent my church even as I propose
                                                                throwing Christianity into the garbage can as ill-suited and ill-fitting for
                                                                today’s modern world or any world after the Roman Empire. I represent my
                                                                university even while I condemn the universities for self-censoring
                                                                themselves about entheogens and the drug origins of the religions, providing
                                                                a false pseudo-education that lacks actual initiation and lacks real
                                                                Philosophy, which was multi-state, altered-state-based Philosophy. I am a
                                                                representative of Engineering and the many Engineers of cybercult (for
                                                                example) who straightforwardly affirm the value of entheogens or
                                                                psychedelics — even if official culture makes-believe that Engineering is
                                                                “too straight-laced for drugs”.

                                                                Against the official version of Engineering, I truly do represent Engineers
                                                                in their entheogen-positive views. Against the official modern version of
                                                                Christianity, I truly do represent many Christians across history in their
                                                                entheogen-positive Eucharistic views, like it or not. When I assert the
                                                                Egodeath theory, I do so as a proud Christian, a proud member and product of
                                                                my church congregation, a proud member of my troubled and taboo-haunted
                                                                society, a proud member of my engineering society, a proud alumni of my
                                                                university (even though I often felt depressed about that university at the
                                                                time and a few years afterward), a proud American and product of America,
                                                                and now most recently (in the future from here on out) a proud confirmed
                                                                Jew.

                                                                People worked hard to produce me as a Christian, as an American, as a
                                                                Californian, as a Jew, as an engineer, and what they have produced instead
                                                                is this taboo-trampling monster instead: I am a proud product of and
                                                                representative of Christianity, America, California, engineering school, and
                                                                my university, and the many adults who deliberately shaped me into the
                                                                fullness of our culture and its tabooed views and practices, as well as my
                                                                peers. What have you wrought? What is the product of your efforts, your
                                                                systems, our social forms? The Egodeath theory, me, my Theory.

                                                                This is what I give back to the society that formed me; this is its product,
                                                                through me, this is the best and most valuable thing I could possibly offer:
                                                                the Egodeath theory. Like it or not, pretend to like it or not, be shocked
                                                                or offended or not, or cheer and praise it or not — you get what you get,
                                                                you get what you sowed, you get your return on your investment. People gave
                                                                their lives and shed their blood in battle, and I gave my life energy, in
                                                                order to bring forth this ultimate, paradigm-shattering product, the
                                                                Egodeath theory: systematized explicit transcendent knowledge.
                                                                Group: egodeath Message: 5110 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 10/12/2007
                                                                Subject: Emergent missional post-church practice, entheogen house-church move
                                                                Attachments :
                                                                  I often puzzle over what role or practice I could possibly do to be a
                                                                  meaningful part of Christianity and Christian practice. I researched
                                                                  “missional”, “emergent”, “house church” and “dying church”. My grandfather
                                                                  wanted me to preach the gospel. In a sense the answer is in front of me:
                                                                  studying, theorizing, and writing about religion and the New Testament
                                                                  online is *already* “participating in emerging church” in the way that is
                                                                  uniquely suited for me as Egodeath theorist. I’ve already been doing it (my
                                                                  suitable appropriate equivalent for church participation), without realizing
                                                                  it. I’ve always thought that the best contribution I could possibly have
                                                                  for the bride of Christ (that is, the Christian church) is to set straight
                                                                  the original meaning of the New Testament.

                                                                  ‘Missional’ means mentally doing away with church buildings and professional
                                                                  pastors, and doing more like early house-church practice prior to
                                                                  Constantine, and taking “the church” more out within the normal,
                                                                  non-“church” world. The diversity inherent in Emergent or Emerging church
                                                                  suggests that no one single uniform model of “being church” or “doing
                                                                  church” is suited for everyone. We’re seeing a live-and-let-living
                                                                  diversity of versions of Christianity that is more like prior to the forced
                                                                  uniformity that occurred under Constantine and under the ruling-class bishop
                                                                  takeover movement.

                                                                  I have mixed feelings about the potential of Christianity. It can never
                                                                  attain the relevance it had in the Roman Empire, yet it remains the most
                                                                  important religion, and a theory of religion cannot possibly avoid
                                                                  Christianity, be must take it on and take it over, going *through* rather
                                                                  than around Christianity. This includes abandoning the idea of the
                                                                  perfectibility of Christianity and the Christian societal project.
                                                                  Christianity will remain always a broken tool. Yet we must perfect and
                                                                  repair to the extent possible this broken tool, this solution that perfectly
                                                                  fits a problem (the Roman Empire) that’s different than today’s problem. At
                                                                  best, a repaired Christianity can only be half-successful, because it no
                                                                  longer has the Roman Empire to push against and to serve as a more desirable
                                                                  alternative to.

                                                                  Many Christians are coming to feel “I can’t stand the church”. Many
                                                                  Christians are concluding that “the church” must be killed to make way for
                                                                  *the church*, meaning the expanding alternative network-community of
                                                                  followers of Jesus against empire. This requires throwing away the
                                                                  institutional church which has become merely an arm of empire, a tool to
                                                                  prop up empire, and doing away with Christendom.

                                                                  For “house church”, think “Ayahuasca Christian worship, with the Social
                                                                  Gospel”. Christianity is thus strategic and fitting for the Egodeath theory
                                                                  and the maximal entheogen theory of religion. If entheogenists just ignore
                                                                  Christianity, then they cannot *leverage* its huge potential, given that New
                                                                  Testament Christianity was the use of visionary plants within a
                                                                  kingdom-of-God metaphor-framework, serving to construct a just
                                                                  social-political configuration.

                                                                  Many Christian group leaders have incorporated the true psychoactive
                                                                  Eucharist into their group worship practices. These would be today’s
                                                                  persecuted Christian groups, although I must reiterate that Christians were
                                                                  not persecuted for drug use (which was the cultural norm), but, if anything,
                                                                  for rejecting the social-political system of the Roman Empire (as well as
                                                                  resisting the later ruling-class bishop takeover movement).

                                                                  If you wish that there were an existing influential religion that was based
                                                                  on psychedelics and was used for social justice, there is, and it is New
                                                                  Testament Christianity in the Roman Empire. It is no coincidence that the
                                                                  peyote and Ayahuasca Christian micro-churches so readily manage to integrate
                                                                  psychoactives into their Eucharistic practice, because until the modern era,
                                                                  ever since early proto-Christianity, the Eucharist was understood in
                                                                  mainstream Christianity to be visionary plants. Where is the power to win
                                                                  new converts? The power to win new converts to the Christian faith is in
                                                                  the psychoactive flesh and blood of Christ our savior, who has come in the
                                                                  likeness of sinful flesh.

                                                                  Many Christians agree that we must destroy Christianity (or that which has
                                                                  passed for such) in order to save it.

                                                                  Given that the Roman Empire doesn’t exist for the gospel’s alternate savior
                                                                  figure to push against, the best we can do is to explain the Roman Empire as
                                                                  that which Christianity was a rebuttal to, and equate the Roman Empire with
                                                                  today’s empire — something like “Jesus and his rejected sacramental body,
                                                                  not Bush/Cheney and their Evangelical Right support-base, is my lord and
                                                                  savior.” Now *this* is the true gospel, of spiritual salvation and the
                                                                  kingdom of God, that’s worth proselytizing, worth inviting others into.

                                                                  Entheogenic house churches have the sacrament-administering advantage over
                                                                  mere home bible-study and prayer groups that are limited to the ordinary
                                                                  state of consciousness decorated with emotionalism. The New Testament
                                                                  serves as the guide to righteously and justly interpret and shape the
                                                                  intense altered-state Holy Spirit experiencing that results from ingesting
                                                                  the Eucharistic flesh of the savior.


                                                                  Reference: books:

                                                                  The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
                                                                  by Alan Hirsch
                                                                  http://www.amazon.com/dp/1587431645/
                                                                  Jan. 2007

                                                                  Starting a House Church
                                                                  by Larry Kreider, Floyd McClung
                                                                  http://www.amazon.com/dp/0830743650/
                                                                  April 2007

                                                                  See the associated books and book lists, with an eye toward radical
                                                                  replacement of “churches” and “Christian culture” with entirely new forms.
                                                                  These are the leading edge of change and vitality within an otherwise
                                                                  stagnant, dead, and inert topic.
                                                                  Group: egodeath Message: 5111 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 11/12/2007
                                                                  Subject: Re: Emergent missional post-church practice, entheogen house-church
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                                                                    Group: egodeath Message: 5112 From: Michael Hoffman Date: 11/12/2007
                                                                    Subject: Re: Technical voice-recording notes
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                                                                      On my latest spoken-word file, reading the posting “Emergent missional
                                                                      post-church practice, entheogen house-church movement”, I spoke louder (at
                                                                      presentation-level, risking a “shouting” impression), to get above the noise
                                                                      floor, and amplified the result by 3dB to push it into momentary distortion,
                                                                      to make the playback level louder. I completely disconnected all unneeded
                                                                      cables to the mixer, to eliminate potential whine-feedback paths — for that
                                                                      reason or by luck, I think the mic had zero nuisance noise during this
                                                                      session — just the hiss floor, only.

                                                                      I’m hoping that this recording achieves my best signal-noise ratio ever, and
                                                                      achieves louder, standard levels. No compression or other processing; this
                                                                      should achieve an intense immediacy of presence (even though this risks
                                                                      too-punchy volume spikes and requires “manual” voice control while
                                                                      speaking). With no compressor, the risk is that you’re always alternately
                                                                      either shouting at the listener, or somnambulantly mumbling, as if you’ve
                                                                      run out of energy — it’s hard, it takes skilled control, to speak and
                                                                      project at the natural, just-right level, without the crutch of a
                                                                      compressor.

                                                                      I should deaden the room reverberation.

                                                                      To create a pretty clean recording with pretty fast, minimal editing
                                                                      required, I used the mixer master volume as a Mute, to create a quiet raw
                                                                      track, and then did quick minimal editing-out silences longer than 2
                                                                      seconds.