Cybermonk 10 am May 29, Memorial Day, 2023

Contents:

• Canterbury Psalter Image f11: God Creates Sacred Plants
• Mushroom tree #1: Panaeolus
• Mushroom tree #2: Liberty Cap
• Mushroom tree #3: Cubensis
• Mushroom tree #4: Amanita
• Canterbury f11 row 2 left – God Creates Day & Night
• Mushroom tree #5
• Mushroom tree #6
• Mushroom tree #7
• Mushroom tree #8
• Genesis 2&3 & Ezekiel & Rev 10 AND Rev 22 (🎉) Is Amanita, per Heinrich 1995 — Yet Artist Has Good Sense to Include Psilocybin Too
• Revelation 22
• Article “Conjuring Eden” 2001 Covers 3 Panels from Golden Munich Psalter
• Golden Psalter: God Creates Plants: Please Botanically Identify These 4 Plants
• Canterbury Psalter: Tree of Knowledge, Snake with Legs
• Treatments of the Image by Entheogen Scholars
• James Arthur 2000 Mushrooms and Mankind
• Jan Irvin 2006 Astrotheology & Shamamism
• Jan Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom
• Brown, Brown, & Brown 2016 The Psychedelic Gospels
• Brown & Brown 2019: “Entheogens in Christian Art” (Psilocybe, Panaeolus, Psilocybin, Amanita)
• John Lash 2008 “Entheogenic Revelation: The Paris Eadwine Psalter”
• Cybermonk 2020: “Compelling Evidence & Proof of Explicit Psilocybin Mushrooms in Christian Art to Communicate Non-Branching Stable Control” (Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita)
• Panaeolus Morphology
• Hoffman, Ruck, & Staples 2001, “Conjuring Eden” (Not Specified)
• Samorini 1997 (Not Covered)
• Bernward Doors/ Column/ Chandelier Images in “Conjuring Eden” 2001
• The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Makes Scholars Reluctant to Say 3 of the 4 Plants Are Psilocybin Mushrooms, and Only a Third as Many Amanita
• The Biggest Fallacious Gap, Prejudiced Bias, Blind Spot, and Irrational Insinuation in Entheogen Scholarship: “No Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe”
• Entheogen Scholarship’s Taboo, Forbidden Topic Shut Out by the Amanita Primacy Fallacy: Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe
• My Identification: Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita
• The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Blinded Entheogen Scholars for 46 Years
• The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Continues 71 Years Later in the “No Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe” Preposterous Presupposition Prejudice
• Proof that Under the Amanita Primacy Fallacy, “All Entheogens” Means EXCLUSIVELY Amanita; and Means Specifically NOT Psilocybin
• I couldn’t make this sh*t up if I tried! 😵😵‍💫
• Irvin’s Self-Contradiction Against Psilocybin in The Holy Mushroom
• The Amanita Primacy Fallacy: Entheogen Scholars from 1952 to 1997 Couldn’t Care Less about Panofsky’s Hundreds of Merely Psilocybin Mushroom Trees
• Letcher Specifies Which Edition of Allegro Omits Our Sacred Fly-Agaric Fresco Holy Relic that’s the Foundation & Paradigm of Our Entheogen Scholarship Faith
• Cyberdisciple Fails to Keep Up with the Convention Everyone Else Has Adopted: The Mushroom 🍄 Emoji Is Universally Understood to Represent Psilocybin Mushrooms
• “Conjuring Eden” Article 2001 Explicitly Raises the Question of the Meaning of the {cut branches} Motif!

Canterbury Psalter Image f11: God Creates Sacred Plants

Great Canterbury Psalter https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/#God-Creates-Plants-Fresh-Colors

Mushroom tree #1: Panaeolus

Mushroom tree #2: Liberty Cap

Mushroom tree #3: Cubensis

Mushroom tree #4: Amanita

The 75 Mushroom Trees of the Canterbury Psalter
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/

Canterbury f11 row 2 left – God Creates Day & Night

In the “Conjuring Eden” article 2001 online supplemental images, Hoffman, Ruck, & Staples show panel 4: God Creates Day & Night with 4 pastel mushroom plants (color), also Golden Munich Ps b/w: https://entheomedia.net/eden3.htm

Mushroom tree #5

Mushroom tree #6

Mushroom tree #7

todo

Mushroom tree #8

todo

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom & Vine Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/
entire images/scenes that include mushroom trees

Genesis 2&3 & Ezekiel & Rev 10 AND Rev 22 (🎉) Is Amanita, per Heinrich 1995 — Yet Artist Has Good Sense to Include Psilocybin Too

main url: the book page with color picture: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n163/mode/2up

Entheos 1 2001 p 41: Ezekiel window, head of the prophet, from Louis Grodecki, Vitraux de France de XIe au XVIe siecle, 1953. Depot des Monuments Historiques, Paris, originally from Lyon, c. 1225.

Ezekiel stained glass w Amanita AND Psil imagery (b/w; todo: find color version) https://entheomedia.net/eden4.htm

Found a couple color versions: https://www.ebay.com/itm/203707292172 — url of image: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xvsAAOSw9wJhmJaZ/s-l1600.jpg —

url https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/more-furniture-collectibles/collectibles-curiosities/books/architecture-interior-design-basic-history-through-17th-c-1st-ed/id-f_22782912/

Revelation 22

Strange Fruit Clark Heinrich 1995 p130 , section “Revelation”, includes coverage of the ultra-important last page of the Bible, Rev 22.

= 2002 printing: Magic Mushrooms p 134.

Heinrich comprehends and recognizes, in brief though, Rev 22’s importance.

Amanita is the dirtiest psychoactive (except for ergot).

Dittrich 1993 (OAV questionnaire v1) classifies Muscimol as a mere deliriant, grouped with scopolamine, just like I proposed!

But Rev 22, which reverses Gen 3, employs Amanita imagery. 😞👎

Some reward: Be wriitten in the Lamb’s book of life as among the elect… so you can eat Amanita 🤢

OH JOY, — I’ll pass, thanks.

The fruit of Immortality = Amanita? No thanks.

Article “Conjuring Eden” 2001 Covers 3 Panels from Golden Munich Psalter

Golden Ps https://entheomedia.net/eden4.htm

Golden Ps https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-21-middle-left —

Golden Psalter: God Creates Plants: Please Botanically Identify These 4 Plants

i proved that all 4 are definitely Amanita, by using the Ruck methodology 😑

Canterbury Psalter: Tree of Knowledge, Snake with Legs

Great Canterbury Psalter: eating from tree of knowledge (snake w legs, pink liberty caps in the cap)

Treatments of the Image by Entheogen Scholars

identification left to right (not like EVERYONE ALWAYS does, right to left per the Amanita Primacy Fallacy), of plants 1-4:

James Arthur 2000 Mushrooms and Mankind

James Arthur 2000: Mushrooms and Mankind‘s treatment says: p 79 – 81.

1: Opium capsule

2: Syrian Rue pod

3: Psilocybe

4: Amanita

5: green wavy vine under them = cannabis.

Arthur’s syrian rue pod drawing p 81 – ULTRA-WEAK!

Even this drawing of rue pod provided by Arthur looks NOTHING even remotely like the Eadwine image on the facing page.

WTF Arthur, you discredit entheogen scholarship claims.

Jan Irvin 2006 Astrotheology & Shamamism

Irvin & Rutajit repeats & cites James Arthur’s “identifications”.

Irvin 2006 Astrotheology & Shamamism: p 164-165: he credits & matches James Arthur, sans cannabis.

jamesarthur.net; at archive.org.

p 109: Eadwine: Irvin covers the popular forbidden fruit image w snake w legs as well.

Astrotheology p 115 also has my photos w credit Egodeath.com of dried Amanita pieces:

p 165 Shows also panel 4 (b/w) God creates Day and Night w 4 mushroom plants.

Jan Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom

Irvin 2008 treatment The Holy Mushroom: x, x, x, x. p 117. = Arthur.

Brown, Brown, & Brown 2016 The Psychedelic Gospels

Brown 2016 The Psychedelic Gospels: p 137-138. odd asymmetry, vague “psilocybin”: color plate 12 . similar wording as 2019. See next section.

Later brief summary: Brown 2016 p 143 , but there the order is ambiguous: a psilocybe variety (careful w that genus name! check Stamets book). a psilocybe variety. panaeolus. Amanita.

Exact quote of Browns’ shorter summary:

“(Amanita muscaria, Panaeolus, and two varieties of Psilocybe).”

Mind the capitalization & italics too, for technical accuracy per Stamets.

Brown & Brown 2019: “Entheogens in Christian Art” (Psilocybe, Panaeolus, Psilocybin, Amanita)

Brown 2019: p 154.

Plant 1: another of genus Psilocybe. [careful w genus names] “vs other scholars, little resemblance to opium”.

Plant 2: “eight tiny mushrooms in cap” [inconsistently, not pointed out HERE by Irvin] suggests Panaeolus, [paraphrase: ] “against other scholars, this plant has no resemblance to rue” 🎉!)

I strongly agree, and applaud Brown for saying “NO RESEMBLANCE”. None!

WTF, Arthur?! This botanical “identification” is PREPOSTEROUS & ridiculous, like John Rush claiming “Here we clearly see mushrooms being handed out” — when what we are shown is, in fact, sticks and feathers:

Plant 3: “psilocybin mushrooms”

Plant 4: Amanita.

John Lash 2008 “Entheogenic Revelation: The Paris Eadwine Psalter”

John Lash Feb 2008 article #2 , about his proposed sour-titled “Paradise Denied” Wasson book, implies Amanita & asserts some Psilocybin types: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327184322/http://metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/EadwinePsalter.php

Cybermonk 2020: “Compelling Evidence & Proof of Explicit Psilocybin Mushrooms in Christian Art to Communicate Non-Branching Stable Control” (Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita)

My identification is far superior to those of Arthur, Lash, and Brown; my classification of the 4 sacred plants is:

more specific,

more sensibly expressed,

more balanced,

better ordered left to right,

more fitting with the Canterbury Psalter assortment of mushroom imagery,

focused exclusively on mushrooms, and is

backed up by photographic specimen evidence:
Article title:
Compelling Evidence & Proof of Explicit Psilocybin Mushrooms in Christian Art to Communicate Non-Branching Stable Control
Section heading:
Four Distinct Families of Mushroom Shapes: Liberty Cap, Amanita, Cubensis, Panaeolus
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Three-Distinct-Families-of-Mushroom-Shapes —

Panaeolus Morphology

• Bands, rings, shades of brown & tan & beige & sand around the cap.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Panaeolus

Irvin 2022 God’s Flesh p. 111 (entire chapter) critiques Wasson et al for initially fabricating storytelling/ selling a phony confabulated narrative of spiritual use of Panaeolus, later switching the fake, pushed propaganda story to spiritual use of Psilocybe (Liberty Cap), in Mesoamerica.

My categories match sensible, standard, commonly uses types/ lexicon, in an even classification that would make sense to gatherers of the natural forms.

My botanical identification correctly gives three times as much credit to Psilocybin as to Amanita.

Amanita is an extremely dirty, unreliable, toxic vehicle for the non-psychedelic deliriant Muscimol.

If Karl Popper were correct about scientific theories being abandoned upon disconfirmation, the myth/ theory that Amanita is the master paradigmatic entheogen would have been abandoned long ago.

Amanita imagery is always nothing more than the billboard signalling psilocybin.

1: Panaeolus. I provided photographic specimens proof.

2: Liberty Cap.
Liberty Caps and Panaeolus Caps in the Canterbury Psalter

3: Cubensis.

4: Amanita.

All 4 sacred plants are mushrooms, with 3 times as many psilocybin mushrooms as Amanita.

Hoffman, Ruck, & Staples 2001, “Conjuring Eden” (Not Specified)

Entheos issue 1: good picture, no text about it tho.

Samorini 1997 (Not Covered)

book & article: do they present this pic? no.

Bernward Doors/ Column/ Chandelier Images in “Conjuring Eden” 2001

reverse of what i want; Zagraeus tax collector holds cut branch with left hand:

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-Issue-1

url https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm

url https://entheomedia.net/eden1.htm

The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Makes Scholars Reluctant to Say 3 of the 4 Plants Are Psilocybin Mushrooms, and Only a Third as Many Amanita

Entheogen scholarship distorts the evidence bc is highly biased against psilocybin in Europe, per the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

eg Stamets 1996: information blackout.

Stamets loudly, explicitly says cubensis grows very copiously on bovine dung in subtropical regions, — and yet he is DEAD SILENT, making no EXPLICIT statement, but strongly makes an IMPLICIT false assertion that CUBENSIS DOES NOT GROW ON BOVINE DUNG IN EUROPE.

Were Stamets & entheogen scholars to EXPLICITLY state their preposterous, biased assertion, — the iceberg effect re unconscious prejudices — it would be clear what an absurd, untenable assertion premise presupposition this is, requiring a full, DIRECT, VERBOSE DISCUSSION.

That’s why we are never given any direct statement, only a strong insinuation/ implication unstated, instead of a proper, UP-FRONT OUTRIGHT ASSERTION, “There were no cubensis ever on bovine dung in Europe, because reasons”.

BULL💩!!

A false, irrational, nonsensical assertion.

This is a prejudiced irrational presupposition that’s necessarily kept implicit-only; you are not permitted to look in that direction, by malformed entheogen scholarship that’s built on the false foundation which is the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

Why the complete lack of any curiosity and discussion of this topic, ever, by any entheogen scholar? Because of paradigmatically constrained MENTAL BLINDNESS, which is a requisite part of the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

The Biggest Fallacious Gap, Prejudiced Bias, Blind Spot, and Irrational Insinuation in Entheogen Scholarship: “No Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe”

Everyone (Stamets 😠): If you are claiming that no cubensis ever grows on bovine dung in Europe, you need to EXPLICITLY own that and assert it and recount your attempt to find that and explain why the expected cubensis is missing — but NO entheogen scholar or mycologist has ever written anything about this NONSENSICAL, IMPLICIT-ONLY BIASED NOTION/ unconscious presupposition!

Oxen on left, foolish entheogen scholars on right:

fresh crop at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/#Oxen-vs.-Fool —

Oxen 🐮🍄 vs. Foolish Entheogen Scholars

Cubensis Harvest Cycle

Blue Krater Collector Looks at Cubensis Dispensary Bins

Image f145: King Orders Imports of Cubensis

Corroborates image f134’s theme of systematically gathering cubensis from crop fields that are plowed by bovine/oxen.

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/canterbury-f145-king-orders-shipments-of-blue-fruit-to-storage-lockboxes-with-blue-stemmed-mushroom-tree/

This is how people had an on-tap supply of psilocybin in the Medieval heyday of peak cubensis comprehension/ technology/ skill/ knowledge.

AND, ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS, DON’T EVEN THINK OF TRYING TO ADD “SECRET” OR “HERETICAL SECT”, TO TRY TO FABRICATE & BUILD YOUR PROHIBITIONIST WALL 😠🚫👎 to try to keep mushrooms separate from “THE mainstream”.

FFS, stop conflating “evidence for mushrooms” with “evidence for mainstream ignorance of and prohibition of mushrooms”.

Just trashcan your stupid, self-defeating “anthropology” and “sociology” heavy-handed agenda/ forced interpretation.

Please STOP INTERPRETING, through your lens of Anthropology and Sociology. Stop building your invented wall between mushrooms and culture.

REJECT THE DISTINCTION/ DIVISION, “MAINSTREAM VS. COUNTERCULTURE”. That fabrication is not helpful; it is Prohibition-compliant propaganda, stop it.

Entheogen Scholarship’s Taboo, Forbidden Topic Shut Out by the Amanita Primacy Fallacy: Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe

Proof: a leading mycologist around 2007 told Graham Hancock there were no psilocybin mushrooms in Europe.

Stamets, ONLY WHEN DIRECTLY CONFRONTED, said that’s nonsense.

Ok then, now, Stamets you need to EXPLICITLY DISCUSS, for the first time ever, the FORBIDDEN TOPIC, of cubensis on bovine dung in Europe.

Browns treatmemt is better, because Brown stays within mushrooms and is not greedily trying to map the 4 plants — or 5, by including the green wavy lines — to the entire pharmacopeia.

The most interesting point from my recent 4-hour scholarship voice recordings:

Here’s why laboring under the Amanita Primacy Fallacy makes entheogen scholars avoid saying like I do that mushrooms 1-3 are ALL psilocybin mushrooms: they don’t want to allow MORE PSILOCYBIN mushrooms than Amanita.

They want to suppress psilocybin to be subservient to Amanita.

Out of the 75 mushroom trees in Great Canterbury Psalter, only a few are Amanita: Eadwine likes Cubensis, and considers Amanita practically irrelevant.

My Identification: Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita

My identification (~Nov 2020 afaik):

1: Panaeolus

2: Liberty Cap – astonishingly Irvin stays MUTE about “little mushrooms in the cap” in both books, even though he DOES point that out for the image he puts right below it, Great Canterbury Psalter eating from tree of knowledge!

3: Cubensis

4: Amanita

Irvin’s (Arthur’s) crazy preposterous assertion that syrian rue pod looks like plant #2 (no photo provided!), which I say is panaeolus, with photos proving that.

Irvin 2005 & 2008 simply copied the coverage which was provided by James Arthur in 2000.

in 2016, Brown vaguely said that “previous scholars” misidentified this mushroom as Syrian Rue.

As far as I can tell, these unnamed “previous scholars” really boils down to one scholar: James Arthur, who was then copied by Jan Irvin (& Rutajit), who credited Arthur.

Surely Irvin failed to fact-check Arthur’s nonsense claim?

Even worse, Arthur’s book shows on left page Eadwine’s image, facing a drawing of a rue pod on the right page, that looks NOTHING even remotely like Eadwine’s image.

Why didn’t Jan Irvin say that James Arthur is full of rubbish? 🤷‍♂️

Rue potentiates psilocybin, but mushroom #2 looks NOTHING like syrian rue pods; Irvin (ie Arthur) falsely asserts such, with no specimen photo because the photos [even Arthur’s drawing, in fact!] prove that Irvin [ie, Arthur] is talking RUBBISH.

Irvin [copying Arthur] claims plant #2 looks identical to rue pods — in fact, not even remotely close!!

url https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=syrian+rue+pod

My 2006 plaincourault gallery for our fly-agaric fresco was the first (afaik) to put italian pine specimen photos next to mushroom trees.

In our entheogen scholarship religion, our holy fly-agaric fresco is our equivalent of the Cross in Christianity.

Stop starting from the right, Arthur/ Itvin/ Brown! 😖 – damn Amanita Primacy Fallacy! 👎

The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Blinded Entheogen Scholars for 46 Years

The Amanita Primacy Fallacy Continues 71 Years Later in the “No Cubensis on Bovine Dung in Europe” Preposterous Presupposition Prejudice

Islam has the Kaaba.

Christianity has the Cross.

Judaism has the 6-point star.

Our Entheogen Scholarship religion has our holy fly agaric fresco 🍄 🖼 🙌 as our paradigm that guides our faith-driven “research”/ entheogen (🍄) scholarship apologetics.

Proof that Under the Amanita Primacy Fallacy, “All Entheogens” Means EXCLUSIVELY Amanita; and Means Specifically NOT Psilocybin

I couldn’t make this sh*t up if I tried! 😵😵‍💫

Irvin’s Self-Contradiction Against Psilocybin in The Holy Mushroom

eg Irvin in The Holy Mushroom 2008 p 31; “Im gonna cover ALL ENTHEOGENS citations that Allegro uses. …[He again repeats that promise, using fancy words such as ‘entheobotanical’. Then 2 paragraphs later on the SAME PAGE:]

“Here, unfortunately, it turns out Allegro is only citing Heim/ Wasson & Hofmann re: just merely Psilocybin, not Amanita, so it’s not relevant; skipping. –>🗑🚽”

You think I make this up? Couldn’t!

My main post about these photos of THM pages: section Episode 247b in https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/egodeath-mystery-show-ep247-⚖%EF%B8%8F☸%EF%B8%8F💥😵-fatal-control-instability-april-22-2023/

expect the page photos to instead be in:

The Holy Mushroom (Irvin 2008) Calls to Abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise, But Remains Stuck in Amanita Primacy Fallacy

PSILOCYBIN IS NOT IMPORTANT TO OUR STUDY OF THE SACRED MUSHROOM 🍄

THE TYPES OF MUSHROOMS IN OUR DISCUSSION IS OUR SACRED AMANITA, AND ALSO ITS LOWLY UNIMPORTANT SIDEKICK, PSILOCYBIN (INSOFAR AS WE CAN ROB PSILOCYBIN OF ITS EFFECTS AND ATTRIBUTE THEM TO OUR HOLY AMANITA INSTEAD)

The Amanita Primacy Fallacy: Entheogen Scholars from 1952 to 1997 Couldn’t Care Less about Panofsky’s Hundreds of Merely Psilocybin Mushroom Trees

Erwin Panofsky’s 1952 report of hundreds of mushroom trees is slightly interesting, because it draws attention to our fly-agaric fresco, which is our paradigm & primary frame of reference for all of our entheogen scholarship.

The bizarreness of entheogen scholarship: it took SLOW entheogen scholars (Samorini) 1998-1952 = 46 YEARS to trouble themselves to follow Panofsky’s lead and give a damn about looking into these “lesser-looking mushroom trees” (Hatsis’ telling characterization).

Who cares about Panofsky’s hundreds of stupid, irrelevant mushroom trees? 🤷‍♂️ They aren’t our fly-agaric fresco. 🍄🖼 😍 🙌

Letcher Specifies Which Edition of Allegro Omits Our Sacred Fly-Agaric Fresco Holy Relic that’s the Foundation & Paradigm of Our Entheogen Scholarship Faith

Abridged Allegro SMC editions eliminated our holy fly-agaric fresco 😡😭, as critically stated in Letcher’s book Shroom, partly corroborating Hatsis’ claim, but adding the specifier, abridged editions.

Cyberdisciple Fails to Keep Up with the Convention Everyone Else Has Adopted: The Mushroom 🍄 Emoji Is Universally Understood to Represent Psilocybin Mushrooms

“Conjuring Eden” Article 2001 Explicitly Raises the Question of the Meaning of the {cut branches} Motif!

Adding link to my Bernward Doors page: https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm

Entheos 1, p 29 discusses Bernward’s doors, column, & chandelier.

“the missing branch … may have special significance” … “the double-branched tree, missing a limb, ”

p30 cut branch points at Christ’s halo in Bernward’s column:

Cybermonk 10 am May 29, Memorial Day, 2023

Contents:

• Intro
• Letcher’s Generic Vague Non-Reply to my Book Review
• Letcher Employs the Arbitrary “Secret” Presupposition & Emphasis as the Main Foundation of His Entire Argument of Why Mushroom-Looking Imagery in Art Cannot Ever Mean Mushrooms
• My Methodology Is Bigger than Yours: Argumentum ab Methodo
  • The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Hutton 1999)
  • Pagan Britain (Hutton 2015)
  • Cubensis Harvest Cycle Scene from Canterbury, England, 1200 A.D.
  • My Non-New Methodology: Make Sound Arguments, Make Conscious Assumptions, and Treat the Bulk of the Evidence
• Letcher Really Badly Wants There to Be “a Secret Mushroom Cult“
  • like Hatsis Really Wishes There Were a Secret Christian Amanita Cult
• The Letcher Superior Methodology
• MUSHROOMS IN OFFICIAL ART INHERENTLY DON’T COUNT AND ARE THEREFORE NOT MUSHROOMS, BECAUSE ONLY THE SECRET MUSHROOM UNDERGROUND SECT USES MUSHROOMS -(THAT’S A GIVEN, NEEDLESS TO SAY)
• Happy to Find His 4-Point Arg in Text 🎉
• The 4-Part Letcher Argument
• Use of Ayahuasca or Psilocybin That’s Not for Religious/ Mystical/ Spiritual Purposes
• Book Link Citation
  • MOAR AMANITA NEEDED – INCREASE SALES
• Coverage of Shroom at Egodeath.com
• Shroom Thread at the Egodeath Yahoo Group
• My 2007 Book Review
• See Also

Intro

See also:

Letcher’s False Citation: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, such as Stamets & Gartz
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/11/letchers-false-citation-various-writers-have-suggested-cult-secretly-oppression-hidden-secret-cult-for-example-stamets-gartz/ — pages containing bunk citations of Leyser, of Gartz & Stamets

Letcher’s Generic Vague Non-Reply to my Book Review

url http://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2016/06/shroom-ten-years-on.html — a generic non-reply to my harsh book review 2007. Shows terrible ignorance 10 years later of the 2007 data and theory.

I would like Andy Letcher 2016 to reply to my 2007 Egodeath theory, paradigm, and evidence, but he was only familiar with my book review, nothing else, and he’s woefully under-informed about mushroom imagery, as is plainly obvious from his brief and shoddy handling of our fly-agaric fresco and a single panel of the Bernward Doors & Column. THAT’S ALL YOU GOT?

I haven’t been this underwhelmed since Brinckmann’s 1906 86-page book that only mentions “pilzbaum” 5 times.

That’s the entire extent to which art historians have allowed themselves to write, and represents how thoroughly familiar they are with explaining away pilzbaum.

Erwin Panofsky, the most influential art historian says, in the special case of mushrooms, only:

artists = sloppy automatons with no agency and no intention. Therefore it’s not mushrooms. [Saved!]

The fresco is a stylized pine, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Amanita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria – “Ectomycorrhizal, Amanita muscaria forms symbiotic relationships with many trees, including pine, oak, spruce, fir, birch, and cedar.”

Andy Letcher’s non-reply to my theory or to my book review, proves that the only thing he knows about my entheogen theory is my book review, and he simply guesses:

Just like Hatsis, Letcher IMAGINES my theory and evidence, and paradigm; genero-strawmanning.

The Hatsis methodology: don’t reply to a person’s position; dictate to them what their position is and why they are wrong.

Power-strawmanning.

Letcher tries to wave me aside by instead vague strawmanning, replying about “them” and “Hoffman et al” and what “they” are asserting. ZERO words about my theory or my evidence.

A totally generic post, it proves he has never read a word of my theory and evidence gallery, for 10 years.

I expect nothing of Letcher, but I’m noting that his claim that “they” use circular argumentation of picking a premise and supporting it selectively, he knows nothing of philosophy of science. A naive charge.

“My methodology is not circular.”

Every theory is circular in some sense, it’s a meaningless accusation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle

LETCHER IS OMITTING TONS OF EVIDENCE and thus he is cherrypicking. He is plainly ignorant of the evidence, so he’s cherrypicking.

Letcher simply CLAIMS “they have no evidence.” Showing ignorance. He only covers 2 artworks.

There’s no substance to Letcher’s argument, just like Hatsis.

Just blustering abstract lectures on half-baked “methodology” — while falling on his face on basics; he’s totally ignorant of the evidence, and of my theory/ paradigm.

Letcher Employs the Arbitrary “Secret” Presupposition & Emphasis as the Main Foundation of His Entire Argument of Why Mushroom-Looking Imagery in Art Cannot Ever Mean Mushrooms

Andy Letcher employs the conflation of “secrecy” premise as a ploy to try to give the impression that he’s disproved mushrooms.

Goal: Give the impression that you disproved mushrooms in art.

Stratagem/ploy: Strategically conflate “disproving secret mushroom cult” with “disproving mushroom use”, as follows.
Argue that any evidence (mushroom imagery) is public, thus not secret.
Therefore, there cannot be secret mushrooms in Christian art.
Therefore, there are no mushrooms in Christian art.
Therefore, there is no evidence of a history of considering psilocybin mushrooms as a producer of religious experiencing.
Therefore, there is no history of considering psilocybin mushrooms as a producer of religious experiencing.
Q.E.D.

Thus Letcher 2006 has proved that, against Letcher in his 20s, there is no history of considering psilocybin mushrooms as a producer of religious experiencing.

Mission accomplished.

Letcher is tilting at strawmen, such as “secret mushroom cult”.

WTF are you even talking about, “secret mushroom cult”?

I couldn’t care less; the “secret cult” component, which you employ as a foundation of your argument, is irrelevant and confused, in a paradigm of confusion.

Letcher boasts emptily, and while stumbling & covering his eyes, claims:

“My methodology is critical and looks for evidence, unlike theirs.”

That’s a bluff and an empty claim revealing sheer ignorance.

Letcher attempts a rhetorical move, asking (claiming) vapidly with no specifics:

“Why is there no corroborating evidence?”

Translation: LETCHER IS IGNORANT OF THE EVIDENCE. (And of my theory / paradigm too.)

Letcher reveals naivety about theory and my theory and of my evidence.

My Methodology Is Bigger than Yours: Argumentum ab Methodo

In his generic, substance-less non-reply to my review, Andy Letcher writes:

“I take my lead from Ronald Hutton, who is the master of the new methodology, and I thoroughly recommend you read his Pagan Britain to see how it’s done.”

search: Ronald Hutton Pagan Britain
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Ronald+Hutton+Pagan+Britain

search: Ronald Hutton methodology
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Ronald+Hutton+methodology

url https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/podcast-john-wolffe-and-ronald-hutton-on-historical-approaches/ — podcast interview:

“Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol gives a more in-depth case-study, talking about his book on the emergence of Wicca, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (OUP, 1999), and how it was received by the academy and by the pagan community.

“Of particular interest here for the interviewer was the fact that, although sections of the book are often given to undergraduate students, they somehow seem to prefer Gerald Gardner’s own fantastical account of initiation into a pre-Christian Moon-goddess cult over Hutton’s more down-to-earth – yet no less fascinating – account.”

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Hutton 1999)

https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Moon-History-Modern-Witchcraft/dp/0198207441/ —

Blurb:

“Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows.

“The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world–modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca.

“Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that has spread from English shores across four continents.

“For centuries, pagan witchcraft has been linked with chilling images of blood rituals, ghostlike druids, and even human sacrifices.

“But while Robert Hutton explores this dark side of witchery, he stresses the positive, reminding us that devotion to art, the natural world, femininity, and the classical deities are also central to the practice of wicca.

“Indeed, the author shows how leading figures in English literature–W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, just to name a few–celebrated these positive aspects of the religion in their work, thereby softening the public perception of witchcraft in Victorian England.

“From cunning village folk to freemasons and from high magic to the black arts, Hutton chronicles the fascinating process by which actual wiccan practices evolved into what is now a viable modern religion.

“He also presents compelling biographies of wicca’s principal figures, such as Gerald Gardner, who was inducted into a witch coven at the age of 53, and recorded many clandestine rituals and beliefs.

“Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always thoroughly researched studies on original subjects.

“This work is no exception.

“It will appeal to anyone interested in witchcraft, paganism and alternative religions.”

Pagan Britain (Hutton 2015)

url https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Britain-Ronald-Hutton/dp/0300205465

https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Britain-Ronald-Hutton/dp/0300205465

Blurb:

“Britain’s pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century.

“In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and enduring cultural significance of paganism, from the Paleolithic era to the coming of Christianity.

“He draws on an array of recently discovered evidence and shows how new findings have radically transformed understandings of belief and ritual in Britain before the arrival of organized religion.

“Setting forth a chronological narrative, along the way Hutton makes side visits to explore specific locations of ancient pagan activity.

“He includes the well-known sacred sites—Stonehenge, Avebury, Seahenge, Maiden Castle, Anglesey—as well as more obscure locations across the mainland and coastal islands.

“In tireless pursuit of the elusive “why” of pagan behavior, Hutton astonishes with the breadth of his understanding of Britain’s deep past and inspires with the originality of his insights.”

Cubensis Harvest Cycle Scene from Canterbury, England, 1200 A.D.

My Non-New Methodology: Make Sound Arguments, Make Conscious Assumptions, and Treat the Bulk of the Evidence

It’s a no-brainer that whatever Hutton’s “new methodology” is, Letcher botches it, and I adhere to it better than Letcher does — this follows, from my coherent, successful marshalling of theory and data (evidence), in comparison to Letcher’s wretched argumentation and failure to engage the data.

Confident prediction: Compare Hutton’s “new methodology” to my mytheme theory & evidence, and to Letcher’s reasoning and evidence, and my theory will fulfill Hutton’s methodology far better than Letcher.

That follows, from the success of my sound, articulate theory across huge data-sets of evidence, in contrast with Letcher’s atrocious, unconvincing, arbitrary reasoning and failure to engage the evidence.

Letcher’s bigger methodology than “they” have proves to be bad theory, by name-calling as “circular” and engaging with none of the theory and none of the evidence, then makes a HUGE claim that he’s better than “them” who don’t follow the evidence — as if he knows ANYTHING about my evidence base, he just reveals his complete ignorance of mushroom imagery in Christian art:

Letcher waves aside mushroom imagery at Panofsky-level of argument quality, while he brags about his New Methodology, which produces awful argumentation evidently with:

• Arbitrary argumentation: “It’s just a tree”.
• Atrocious lame argument vector, “there’s no secret inserted art in this official art, so “they” have been disproved: they are wrong about the mushroom theory.”

Manifestly, Letcher’s “bigger, better methodology” produces garbage results, and is asleep within an imagined debate that’s based on an iceberg of unthinking presuppositions and produces bizarre vectors of argumentation.

Letcher Really Badly Wants There to Be “a Secret Mushroom Cult“

like Hatsis Really Wishes There Were a Secret Christian Amanita Cult

Chris Letheby advocates primacy of mind every time he trips, he reports. Then he writes a book (Philosophy of Psychedelics) to prove that he was wrong.

In his 20s, Letcher advocated a secret magic mushroom cult traditional conception history, he reports. Then he writes a book (Shroom) to prove that he was wrong.

My inclination is to drop “secret”, but “secret” is a HUGE part of Letcher’s paradigm. Still, it’s useful to consider just the idea without “secret”:

Thesis to test:

There was a historical tradition of conceptualizing psilocybin (cubensis/ liberty cap) as for religious use; a history of thinking of psilocybin mushrooms as for religious mystical use.

My own thesis is:

Mushroom imagery in Christian art shows that the Medieval era had a peak tradition of shared knowledge of psilocybin for peak advanced religious knowledge and comprehending myth and motifs.

Ignorance of the evidence is mistaken by Letcher as “there is no evidence” – an ignorance-based, and ignorance-revealing, declaration.

No evidence for what? Letcher’s addled, confused looking for “a secret mushroom cult”.

Letcher exudes confusion.

Letcher should only consider rebutting that there was:

A history of thinking of psilocybin mushrooms as for religious mystical use.

Drop the irrelevant “secret” notion that’s confusing you; such as the trainwreck of an argument regarding the Bernward Doors.

What an awful, failed “methodology” Letcher brags about.

Letcher gets the goal (topic of debate) wrong, and he reveals ignorance of theory and evidence.

The louder the bragging about superior methodology, the worse the basic argumentation.

Letcher didn’t invent this confusion-laden “secrecy” construction; he bought into it, unthinkingly and jumped into the paradigm wholesale, unconsciously — producing the worst argumentation ever seen, to explain away the only two pieces of art he pretends to engage with.

Now he recants that view (that there’s a history of seeing mushrooms as for religious mystical use) and it’s all just fantasy.

The Letcher Superior Methodology

• Make a huge network of unthinking presuppositions. Take your paradigm for granted.
  • Assume everyone operates within your own quest for a secret mushroom cult.
• Be ignorant of mushroom trees; only cover two of them, incredibly badly. Halt and declare “they have no evidence”.
  • “They have no evidence” means, there’s no evidence for the view that Letcher badly wanted to be true: a history of secret magic mushroom underground cult.

Very impressive shadow-boxing.

Just like Hatsis.

About Bernward doors — and by extension, about all art — Letcher reasons in a circle, stuck in a loop, begging the question, unthinkingly, targeting the wrong goal, and one which cannot possibly be met (the circular confusion around “secret cult”):

Any evidence — mushroom-looking imagery — is proof of absence. Mushroom imagery in art would be in official art, and would not therefore be secret; therefore, mushroom-looking imagery cannot be mushrooms. Art is public, and therefore, cannot contain mushroom imagery.

Mushroom imagery in official art is a contradiction in terms — in Letcher’s confusion-based, begging-the-question paradigm.

A whirlwind of logic lifting Letcher into heaven — or falling over into a ditch.

Letcher criticizes the theory of “them” as circular (& cherrypicking, ie “they” are ignorant about evidence).

THE LETCHER DISMISSAL:

MUSHROOMS IN OFFICIAL ART INHERENTLY DON’T COUNT AND ARE THEREFORE NOT MUSHROOMS, BECAUSE ONLY THE SECRET MUSHROOM UNDERGROUND SECT USES MUSHROOMS -(THAT’S A GIVEN, NEEDLESS TO SAY)

Letcher wants to disprove the view that he says he held in his 20s: that there was a history of considering using psilocybin mushrooms for peak religious experiencing; a historical precedent for thinking of psilocybin (liberty caps, cubensis) as for religious/ mystical/ spiritual purposes.

Letcher conflates that clean, useful idea with “and it was in the context of a secret cult”, as part of his inconsistency about who and what he is refuting.

There’s good circularity, and then there’s falling-over circularity.

Happy to Find His 4-Point Arg in Text 🎉

I can’t find it in his book, but online he wrote it out, especially for me!

url http://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2016/06/shroom-ten-years-on.html — Letcher generically pretends he’s writing about my theory and my data, lumped in with “them”[??]

Letcher writes:

“The rule is this.

The 4-Part Letcher Argument

1. “Not everything that looks like a mushroom in art is a mushroom.
2. Not everything that is a mushroom is a magic mushroom.
3. Just because it’s a magic mushroom doesn’t mean that it was used intentionally for its psychedelic effects.
4. Just because it’s used intentionally, doesn’t mean that it’s used for religious purposes.”
5. Just because it’s used for religious purposes, doesn’t mean it’s used for peak ultimate religious transformative experience.

Step 5 is my added extension of that mode of argument, the point being, Eadwine not only does all the things Letcher can’t imagine being done, but goes even further.

Eadwine’s images in Great Canterbury Psalter, and my branching-message mushroom trees article, disproves the entire chain.

I proved that the Eadwine images, explained by the mytheme theory, depict cubensis ingested for peak transformative religious experiencing.

Use of Ayahuasca or Psilocybin That’s Not for Religious/ Mystical/ Spiritual Purposes

The book Shroom presages some later Irvin points. Andy Letcher writes, in 2016, like Jan Irvin 2022:

“(here I recommend Steve Beyer’s excellent book, Singing to the Plants.

“In Mestizo shamanism, people do not take ayahuasca to have religious experiences – though that’s what we in the West do – they do so to get well. Very different).”

Book Link Citation

Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
February 27, 2007
Andy Letcher

Letcher states in the book that the reason to show Amanita on book covers is to increase sales. The original Amanita wasn’t gaudy and loud enough, so like John Rush, he piled more Amanita imagery, as much as possible, even though Letcher argues that Amanita has the worst possible efficacy.

Letcher uses an openly cynical and sarcastic, mocking and ironic, placement of Amanita imagery on the front and back of his book.

I have this hardcover 1st US printing 2007, not UK 2006.

https://www.amazon.com/Shroom-Cultural-History-Magic-Mushroom/dp/0060828285/ —

https://www.amazon.com/Shroom-Cultural-History-Magic-Mushroom/dp/0060828285/

MOAR AMANITA NEEDED – INCREASE SALES

url https://www.amazon.com/Shroom-Cultural-History-Magic-Mushroom/dp/0060828293/

It’s not like a book advocating specifically psilocybin would cynically employ Amanita imagery purely as a marketing ploy

https://www.amazon.com/Food-of-Gods-Terence-McKenna-audiobook/dp/B009IBRSJI/ &
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/B08XL9QGJT/ —

Coverage of Shroom at Egodeath.com

url http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm – find “letcher”

Shroom Thread at the Egodeath Yahoo Group

My book review is posted in the Egodeath Yahoo Group too – there’s a running thread there,
Subject: “Book: Letcher; Shroom: Cultural History of Magic Mushroom”
Book review:
April 2, 2007
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4577

Here’s the start of the thread:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4546

My 2007 Book Review

url: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0060828285/R2S31GIZ2GJYOE

Michael Hoffman
4 out of 5 stars
Reviewed April 2, 2007

Partial critical engagement with entheogen theory of religious origins

Shroom covers topics including refutation of the mushroom theory of the origin of religion, the recent U.K. psilocybin mushroom scene, a critical treatment of Wasson’s research methodology and mushroom theory of Vedic religion, and Tim Leary as backdrop leading up to the later popular use of psilocybin mushrooms.

This is a valuable book that contributes some new perspectives and new coverage of entheogens in Western culture; this book is a must-have for entheogen researchers.

The present review focuses exclusively on his critique of the mushroom theory of religious origins, which he sometimes treats as though it is a critical refutation of the overall entheogen theory of religion.

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Letcher has not disproved the entheogen theory of religion, or even fully engaged with that hypothesis.

At most, he has made a partial effort to call into question the mushroom theory of the pre-historical origin of religion, in the form of a secret cult spreading from a single origin over time and across regions.

Letcher often comes across triumphally as having disproved the entheogen theory of the origin of religion, but a careful reading of his treatment of that particular topic shows that he has actually only shown something far narrower ; he has only refuted a highly specific point.

___

At most, Letcher’s treatment of the entheogen theory of religious origins shows that we have no compelling archaeological evidence for a prehistorical mushroom cult that was secret and unbroken.

When his rhetorical verbiage and his general discussions of history are put aside, the substance of his argumentation that remains does not amount to a compelling argument against the frequent use of mushrooms (or other visionary plants) throughout religious history.

___

Letcher’s writing style is rhetorical, so that he tells the story of recent mushroom scholarship and culture well, presenting much of interest to the audience, including valuable new material.

He uses a biased rhetorical style; for example, “lunatic fringe”, “conspiracy theories”, “unfounded speculations”, “the myth” of the entheogen origin of religion.

This charged rhetorical style obscures that fact that his argument for his refutation of the entheogen theory of the origin of religion rests on only a few, fleetingly discussed points of argument.

___

Letcher does not engage the bulk of the literary and artistic evidence that provide sufficient grounds to support the general entheogen theory of religious origins.

He merely puts forth brief and rather arbitrary arguments dismissing a couple of the many depictions of mushrooms in Christian art.

___

Letcher’s inadequate selection of cases to refute, and his brief, perfunctory treatment of these cases, is not sufficient in breadth or depth to compel adherents of various variants of the entheogen theory of the origins of religion to change their position, no matter how many times or how confidently he rhetorically dubs the theory as a “myth”.

For example, he would need to engage the range of art that is presented in the first three issues of Entheos magazine, and the range of arguments such as those presented in Giorgio Samorini’s articles about Christian mushroom trees.

___

It’s admirable to see an independent critical thinker comment on selected aspects of Allegro and Wasson, but only a few of those comments actually amount to engaging with the evidence for the general entheogen theory of the origin of religion.

Letcher makes the risky move of overextending his specific focus on psychoactive mushrooms, at the expense of being under-informed on the general entheogen theory and the full range of arguments, interpretive frameworks, systems of assumptions, and evidence of various types in support of that broad-ranging theory.

___

As a thought-experiment with the hypothesis that normalized religious cultic use of mushrooms is only a few decades old, this aspect of the book is a valuable contribution to the field; however, Letcher switches inconsistently between that bold but narrow hypothesis and a broader, firm conclusion that the entheogen theory of religion altogether is merely a recent fabrication of popular scholarship and merely wishful thinking.

___

Letcher leaps from what he narrowly demonstrates, to a stance and a claim to have shown convincingly that the entheogen theory of religious origins (and fairly frequent entheogen use throughout religious history) is nothing but recent wishful thinking, a fabrication by a group that is a historical novelty: late 20th Century psychedelics enthusiasts, including mushroom enthusiasts in the U.K. from 1976-2006.

___

All theories involve a framework of assumptions.

The fact that a scholarly theory uses a set of unproved assumptions does not instantly do away with (or “demolish”) the theory.

Letcher handles the evidence by the common strategy of dividing, isolating, and diminishing each piece of evidence in isolation, operating under the arbitrary silent assumption that entheogen use was rare, secretive (“conspiracy”), and deviant.

But such a methodology is problematic and is controverted by the maximal entheogen theory of religion, which holds that Western history and Western culture have always been inspired to some extent by the ongoing practice of using visionary plants.

The unavoidable question remains, “How are we to judge what is plausible and what was normal for that culture?”

___

Should we assume that the use of visionary plants was normal and significantly present throughout mainstream religion and culture, or that it was rare, a secretive conspiracy, and deviant (exceptional)?

Selecting our assumptions about the backdrop, of what was normal in a culture, affects the validity of completely isolating each piece of potential evidence and then attempting to judge the plausibility of reading that piece of evidence as supporting the entheogen theory of religion.

What seems plausible to a critical scholar depends on the backdrop of what we assume was normal in the culture.

___

For example, Letcher affirms that the cathedral door at Hildesheim, Germany depicts the tree of knowledge in the shape that “looks extremely like a giant Liberty Cap”, but he argues that it cannot have meant a Liberty Cap, because the doors were carefully designed and the depiction cannot have been secret in that case, so the image cannot represent anything other than, or in addition to, a “stylized fig tree”.

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It doesn’t occur to Letcher to imagine and address the obvious critical arguments and questions against his hasty discussion, such as:

Why assume that a mushroom allusion had to be secret?

Why is an officially designed depiction of a mushroom automatically ruled out as unthinkable?

Why was the fig tree stylized in the specific form of a Liberty Cap mushroom?

What about the hundreds of other specifically psilocybin mushroom-shaped trees in Christian art?

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Letcher has much homework to do if he wants to try to retain his hypothesis that psychoactive mushrooms were absent from Western religious history until the late 20th Century, and if he intends to convince critical entheogen scholars of that hypothesis — a hypothesis that will be hard to maintain after seriously addressing, with responses to at least the most obvious counter-criticisms, the current full range of artistic evidence (post-Wasson and post-Allegro), which Letcher has barely engaged.

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See Also

Letcher’s False Citation: “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, such as Stamets & Gartz
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/11/letchers-false-citation-various-writers-have-suggested-cult-secretly-oppression-hidden-secret-cult-for-example-stamets-gartz/ — pages containing bunk citations of Leyser

There is additional (earlier) content in companion article:
Bernward Doors and Column, Hildesheim
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/

Michael Hoffman, May 27, 2023, expanded Feb. 9, 2025

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Contents:

• Left Door
  • Left Door Panel 1 (Top): Create Eve
  • Left Door Panel 2: Present Eve (Two Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees)
  • Left Door Panel 3: Eat from Tree
  • Left Door Panel 4: Blame (Liberty Cap Mushroom-Tree)
  • Left Door Panel 5: Expulsion
  • Left Door Panel 6: Work the Land
  • Left Door Panel 7: Offerings
  • Left Door Panel 8 (bottom): Murder
• Right Door
  • Right Door Panel 1 (Top): Ascension
  • Right Door Panel 2: Empty Tomb
  • Right Door Panel 3: Crucifixion
  • Right Door Panel 4: Pilate
  • Right Door Panel 5: Present Jesus at Temple
  • Right Door Panel 6: Magi
  • Right Door Panel 7: Nativity
  • Right Door Panel 8 (Bottom): Annunciation
• Column
  • Column: Feed Multitude
  • Column Panel 19: Walk Water/ Heal: Liberty Cap Tree #4, 1 Cap
  • Column Panel 17: Tax Collector/ Bosom Abraham: Liberty Cap Tree #3, 2 Caps
  • Column Panel 14: Kneeling apostles/Transfiguration: Liberty Cap Tree #2, 3 Caps
  • Column Panel 7: Commission/ Leper: Liberty Cap Tree #1, 2 Caps
  • Column Base
• Chandelier

• Notes, Commentary, & Original Research
• {floating mushroom hem} & {mushroom hem} motifs in Bernward Doors
• Working the Land: Nursing Eve mushroom hem: {lifted garment} mushroom hem in bronze, angel left of Eve nursing
• First Known Instance of Bronze {mushroom hem} Motif [Feb. 3, 2025]
• There Are Seven Liberty Cap mushroom-trees in Bernward Door & Column
• Page 29 Entheos 1 “Conjuring Eden”: “Four times column has tassel trees, each in visionary context”
• Bernward Column Has Four Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees, Left Door Has Three; Seven Total
• Conjuring Eden 2001 Article Is Almost Comprehensive Count of Liberty Cap Trees in Bernward Door & Column
• Panels 1 & 2, Left & Right Door
• Panels 3 & 4, Left & Right Door
• Conjuring Eden Should Specify Two Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Present Eve Panel
• Why Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Bernward Doors & Column is Very Significant for Debate of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
• Bennett’s Criticism of Brown & Others Who Call “the” mushroom-tree “tree of knowledge”
• Malformed Debate Positions Poorly Defined by Affirmers & Deniers
• Misc. Notes
• There Are Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Bernward Doors and Column
• Numbering of Eden panels on Left Bernward Door
• Number of Plants on Each Panel of Left Bernward Door
• The “Isolate Each Instance” Fallacy
• Entheogen Scholarship Books
• The Letcher Argument: Official Christian Art Cannot Contain the Secret Counterculture Mushroom
• Letcher’s Generic Vague Non-Reply to my Book Review
• Entheogen Scholarship Books I Surveyed May 27, 2023
• Chris Bennett: Affirmers of Blame Panel 4 Fail to Say Eat Tree panel 3 lacks Lib Cap tree: BUT, Bennett Fails to Say “Eve Given to Adam” (panel 2 of 8) has TWO Lib Cap trees!
• There are 7 Liberty Cap Trees in Bernward Door/Column: Not 1 as in Letcher, Bennett, and Many Other Treatments
• Wikipedia Photo of Bernward Doors
• Bennett’s Treatment of the One Tree of Bernward Door: Wrong Panel, So Bernward Doesn’t Count
• Eadwine: Hands and Feet in “Do Not Eat” & “Eat” Panels
• See Also

Intro

There are seven Liberty Cap mushroom-trees total, in the left Bernward Door (three in two panels) and Bernward Column (four). As well as {mushroom hem}, {floating mushroom hem}, Liberty Cap roofs, and mushroom roof toppers.

Related, non-mushroom motifs in the Bernward Doors and Column include {cut branch} and {stand on right foot}.

Bernward features:

• Liberty Cap mushroom-trees
• {mushroom hem}
• {floating mushroom hem}
• Liberty Cap roofs
• mushroom roof toppers
• {cut branch}
• {stand on right foot}

Affirmers or deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art who discuss Bernward door act like there’s only 1 Liberty Cap mushroom-tree, but there are actually seven: 3 in door, 4 in column.

The predictable move of the deniers is the minimalist proxy approach: out of the hundreds of mushroom imagery in Christian art, only pick 1: eg 1 in Bern door, firmly disprove your straw man, proxy, isolated instance, context-free, misrepresentation of the debate positions, do the worst argumentation possible, and pronounce yourself victorious.

Letcher Shroom p. 35-36 leads the way there.

Left Door

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardDoors.html

Left Door Panel 1 (Top): Create Eve

Features:

• God: {right foot down}
• Left plant YI.

Left Door Panel 2: Present Eve (Two Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees)

Features:

• Two Liberty Cap mushroom-trees.
• Top cap has ball & cap near figure has ball.
• The other 3 caps droop & lack ball.
• Right tree upper right cap looks like Eve’s fig leaf in Blame panel.
• God: {mushroom hem}.
• God: {right foot down}.
• YI tree on left, IY tree on right.
• {cut right trunk} and single branch.
• The branching of left of left tree is visually cut (negated) at stem.
• The branching of right of right tree is visually cut (negated) at stem.

Door Panel 2: Eve Given to Adam: Liberty Cap tree #1 & #2

present eve to adam, R tree

Left Door Panel 3: Eat from Tree

Features:

• Two tree of knowledge, two serpents, both trees of knowledge have fruit like stem & ball mushrooms.
• Adam & Eve have {right foot down}.
• Left tree branching form: YI. The I has two mushroom fruit.
• Branching serpent (wings & legs) on left, non-branching snake on right.
• Winged serpent with limbs in left tree’s branching Y brings fruit.
• Serpent left, and snake right. Winged serpent with limbs is in branching part of YI tree.
• Snake in right tree brings fruit.
• Middle tree with fruit held in front is YI branching form.

Left Door Panel 4: Blame (Liberty Cap Mushroom-Tree)

Features:

• Against Ruck / Huggins/ everyone, eve’s fig leaf doesn’t match Lib cap caps. Non-branching points at her but not clear that her fig leaf is from that branch; if it is, then where did Adam get his fig leaf or Lib cap cap?
• Winged serpent visually cuts Eve right left. Where did the snake go? In previous panel is it two points in time? First, serpent w/ limbs, then snake on right, both in a tree OR in the tree, shown twice.
• YI tree with {cut right trunk}.
• Visually cut right arm of Adam & Eve.
• Winged serpent with legs has {fire} from mouth.

Blame panel (external link)

Blame panel (WordPress Gallery)

Blame panel (Julie Brown)

Left Door Panel 5: Expulsion

Features:

• Mushroom topper on Liberty Cap roof of gate tower.
• {gate}
• Right plant: YI form.
• {mushroom hem} bottom of angel.
• {floating mushroom hem} behind angel.

Left Door Panel 6: Work the Land

Features:

• Adam {right foot down}.
• Angel: {floating mushroom hem} behind.
• Eve: {mushroom hem} at left knee.

Mushroom Hem Eve Nursing: Mushroom 9; #4 in door

Mushroom Hem Eve Nursing: Mushroom 9; #4 in door

Left Door Panel 7: Offerings

Features:

• Right plant YI form.
• Left plant IY form with I near lamb.
• Abel & Cain have {right foot down}. ie weight on right foot.

Left Door Panel 8 (Bottom): Murder

Features:

• God blessing Cain before Cain murders Abel, {right foot down}.
• When Cain murders, weight on left foot.

Right Door

Right Door Panel 1 (Top): Ascension

Features:

• Four mushroom roof toppers at {gate}.
• Christ: {right foot down}.

Right Door Panel 2: Empty Tomb

Features:

• Temple veil knot.
• Angel: slight mushroom hem.

Right Door Panel 3: Crucifixion

Features:

• Two central figures (spear, sponge): weight on L foot.

Right Door Panel 4: Pilate

Features:

• Demon behind Pilate.
• Liberty Cap cap above spear, not above a tower, on right.
• Jesus: {right foot down}.
• Jesus: two cone {mushroom hem} instances

Right Door Panel 5: Present Jesus at Temple

Features:

• mushroom roof topper, back of temple

Right Door Panel 6: Magi

Features:

• Three Liberty Cap tower roofs.

Right Door Panel 7: Nativity

Features:

• Two mushroom roof toppers.
• Possible {mushroom hem} on right.

Right Door Panel 8 (Bottom): Annunciation

Features:

• 5 mushroom toppers
• 3 Liberty Cap caps tower roofs
• Crossed torches pointed down at gate.

Column

Higher up in this page is top of column, which is the end of the story panel sequence; we start here at the end; the end of the column, at top, is Entry into Jeru; Palm Sunday. The top, final scene in the spiral is buildings of Jeru w/ lib cap roofs.

Palm Sunday palm branches

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardColumn.html

The point is difference between Bernward’s depiction of palm tree branch vs. liberty cap tree.

To contrast Liberty Cap trees vs. Palm tree, Ruck has picture before the above, showing branches of palm.

From “Conjuring Eden”, Ruck continues:

“For the Commissioning episode, the missing third branch is supplied by the haloed head of Christ, as if He himself were its Fruit! (Fig. 21)” [photo of p. 30 above]

Column: Feed Multitude

Features:

• Left: liberty cap tower roof.
• {mushroom hem}: sitting guy right knee.
• {mushroom hem}: left standing guy near right foot.
• {mushroom hem}: Jesus’ left knee.

Column Panel 19: Walk Water/ Heal: Liberty Cap tree #4, 1 cap [mushroom-tree 4 on right]

Column Panel 19: Healing the Sick: Liberty Cap tree #4

In “Conjuring Eden”, Ruck:

Ruck continues (p. 30, right column, top): “Finally, [4th] immediately next and nineteenth in the series [of panels], the Tree is again the umbrella shade, single-tasseled, for the Healing of the Sick at Gennesaret on the Sea of Galilee.¹²³ … manna …”

Ruck didn’t provide any picture of this 4th mushroom-tree in the Entheos article or in the entheomedia online gallery? They must have been as overextended as I have been because TOO MANY MUSHROOMS.

Healing Sick [mushroom-tree 4], Curse Fig Tree

Drawing: Heal [mushroom-tree 4]

Features:

• Liberty Cap mushroom-tree #4: Walk water/ healing sick, 1 cap, cut left branch
• Liberty Cap mushroom-tree + fig tree:
• {mushroom hem} knees
• The fig tree is on the right with two leaves on top.

In “ConjEden”, Ruck:

“But the very next episode, … is the Cursing of the Fig Tree.¹²² [19] 

“The tree is now only a leaf, without fruit, that is to say, its taseled top, for Chris went to the tree and found it fruitless. …” [online gallery pic 19, fig tree is on the right with two leaves on top]

Column Panel 18: Cursing of the Barren Fig Tree (two leaves on top instead of mushroom cap)

Non-drug meditation = barren.
Non-drug mysticism = barren.

Ruck, p. 30, Entheos 1, 2001, Conjuring Eden article:

“But the very next episode, … is the Cursing of the Fig Tree.¹²² [19] – fig tree is on the right, with two leaves at top.

“The tree is now only a leaf [sic; pair of leaves], without fruit, that is to say, its taseled top, for Chris went to the tree and found it fruitless.”

Brown’s dubious claim to authority (because we did field research instead of relying on pictures) collapses: if I do field work, I cannot get so good a view as some online photos eg most of the mushroom-trees in Kornbluth Photo, though one is badly cut off and very disrespected.

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardColumn_51.jpg

Column Panel 17: Tax Collector/ Bosom Abraham: Liberty Cap tree #3, 2 caps [mushroom-tree 3]

A gap appears big or non-existent depending on angle, between cut right branch and head of Abraham.

From “Conjuring Eden”:

“Next [3rd] and seventeenth is the curious episode of Zacchaeus, the tax collector.¹²¹ [18] [online gallery pic 18]

“Wanting to see Jesus but being too short, he climbed a sycamore-fig, a double-tassel tree, and was invited to entertain the Lord in his house.

Bosom Abraham; Lazarus with Abraham [mushroom-tree 3 on left]

Dogs; Liberty Cap Roofs

Features:

• Four Liberty Cap roofs

Mushroom Hem Rich Man Table

Features:

• {mushroom hem} in tablecloth.

Column Panel 14: Kneeling apostles/Transfiguration: Liberty Cap tree #2, 3 caps

Liberty Cap Roof of Tower/ Christ and the Pharisees (Below Dogs)

Features:

• 1 of the set of 4 lib cap roofs, on left.
• {mushroom hem} to right of table.
• {mushroom hem} in Christ right leg.

Kneeling, Transfiguration

Transfiguration Drawing

Column Panel 14: Transfiguration: Liberty Cap tree #2

From “Conjuring Eden”, Ruck writes: “Next [2nd] and fourteenth in the series [of panels] is the Transfiguration, a triple Tree, as the eyes of the Disciples are opened to his Divinity. [17]” [online gallery pic 17]

Column Panel 7: Commission/ Leper: Liberty Cap tree #1, 2 caps
Column

Commissioning Apostles

Heal Leper

Kornbluth Treats Tree as “Peripheral” Worthless Noise, per Huggins.

Healing Leper [mushroom-tree 1]

Column Panel 7: Commissioning Apostles & Healing Leper: Liberty Cap tree #1

External link > drawing > Commissioning/ Leper [mushroom-tree 1]

WordPress gallery > drawing > Commissioning/ Leper [mushroom-tree 1]

WordPress gallery > photo > Commissioning/ Leper [mushroom-tree 1]

WordPress gallery > my photo of Entheos > Commissioning/ Leper [mushroom-tree 1]

Ruck writes: “First [#1 of 4 Liberty Cap trees] is the Commissioning of the Twelve Apostles, which in itself is significant, seventh [panel] in the series, but the double-branched Tree, missing a limb, also serves for the adjacent previous sixth scene, the Healing of the Leper, with Christ in his role as drug-man.[16]

Cut branch points at Jesus’ halo. From Entheos Issue 1, 2001, “Conjuring Eden”, by Mark Hoffman, Carl Ruck, & Blaise Staples.

Column Base

Chandelier

Each cable hook is at a {gate} that’s not shown on the inside of the “city wall” hoop, according to article wording, vs. the big 12 towers.

I read the towers (article’s word) as horse-sized gate, I read the outside-only gates as person-sized gate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+gates+does+jerusalem+have – “Jerusalem’s Old City walls, built in the early 16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, have eight gates.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_the_Old_City_of_Jerusalem

Notes, Commentary, & Original Research

{floating mushroom hem} & {mushroom hem} motifs in Bernward Doors

7:36 pm Feb. 5, 2025 — further motifs found in Bernward doors:

https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/#Wikipedia-Photo-of-Bernward-Doors – shows panel order, not detail.

Working the Land: Nursing Eve mushroom hem: {lifted garment} mushroom hem in bronze, angel left of Eve nursing

World’s 2nd known instance of bronze of this motif. Not sure if John Rush’s {celestial erection} is as good as my old term {lifted garment} or euph new term {phallic garment} – I don’t think it’s phallic.

The mosaic of Dionysus process, contributed in 2005~ by the Egodeath community, Dionysus behind him has mushroom hem lifted but not phallic. Same w/ Dancing Man. Need better term’y.

Angel with lifted garment mushroom hem https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/8122388327/in/album-72157631806284435

Time of discovery of angel lifted hem: [8:28 am Feb. 5, 2025].

wrmspirit found wonderful zoom-in crops of Bern door https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/albums/72157631806284435/with/8122388327 – see two mushroom hems in bronze, near Eve nursing in “work the land” panel of door.

One is an anomaly, two is a pattern.

I have to study more the Liberty Cap roofs of towers on columns.

First Known Instance of Bronze {mushroom hem} Motif [Feb. 3, 2025]

Browser history confirms I first viewed BernwardDoors_122-3.jpg Feb 3.

I discovered Nursing just before Feb 3 2025 10:07 am email, I wrote:

“strangely – not that surprising – i’m the first to see this at eye level, first known instance of mushroom hem in bronze

Given how much smoke and noise around Bern door, why no one mention this obvious mushroom hem at eye level?
https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardDoors_122-3.jpg

Look forward to inspecting Bern door/col on my own, hi res – we are privileged recently — the whole thing, just like i did w Great Canterbury Psalter: not through the filter from other entheogen scholars.”

/ end of Feb 3 email

Time stamp re: nursing: [Feb. 3, 2025]; it’s possible to inspect files to get exact time I wrote about this in idea development 24 page.

Feb 9 2025 note: This crop was 2-for-1 had I immed seen floating {mushroom hem} of angel on left; took a day or two to see that.

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardDoors.html

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardColumn.html

Strangely – not that surprising – i’m the first to see this at eye level, first known instance of mushroom hem in bronze

Given how much smoke and noise around Bern door, why no one mention this obvious mushroom hem at eye level? Ans:

• Do not get fixated on Amanita and fail to see Psilo. entheogen scholars get fixated on Amanita b/c the Amanita Primacy Fallacy, and halt there, not even trying to see Psil.
• Do not get fixated on tree of knowledge and fail to see other scenes. entheogen scholars get fixated on tree of knowledge, FALL OF MAN OMG! THE ORIGINAL SIN OMG! and fail to see other scenes literally in front of face at eye level in this case.

There Are Seven Liberty Cap mushroom-trees in Bernward Door & Column

pp 29-30 of “Conjuring Eden” lists 4 tassel trees (Liberty caps) on the Bernward Column [update 9pm Feb 1 2025]:

I FOUND RUCK VERY VERY CONFUSING ABOUT CURSING FIG TREE, INSERTED BETWEEN HIS INSTANCE 3 & 4 ON P 30 OF ENTHEOS 1.

The fig tree has pair of leaves, why does Ruck say “a leaf”?

Page 29 Entheos 1 “Conjuring Eden”: “Four times column has tassel trees, each in visionary context”

NO MORE OF THIS BALONEY SINGLING OUT ISOLATING ONE OF THE 8 SO YOU CAN WRITE JUNK ARGS IN ORDER TO REACH YOUR PRE-COMMITTED CONCLUSION

“, SO DOESN’T COUNT”

• The Liberty Cap mushroom-tree is in the wrong scene: Blame, not Eat from Tree – so, DOESN’T COUNT.
• The Liberty Cap mushroom-tree on Bern door isn’t hidden, so, DOESN’T COUNT.
• The Liberty Cap mushroom-tree is only a lone isolated instance, so, DOESN’T COUNT.

An infantile game; stupid brain dead ignorance-based argumentation from deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, bullheaded committed skeptics — they leap on the false arg’n from Backwards Brown.

Bernward Column Has Four Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees, Left Door Has Three; Seven Total

Liberty Cap mushroom-tree + fig tree:

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardColumn_51.jpg
Christ healing at Gennesaret; Christ cursing the bare fig tree [on right]

Although ConjEden fails to give the count of the number of mushroom mushroom-trees in the “eve presented to adam” door panel, the text says [13] and the online gallery image 13 does show the two Liberty Cap mushroom-trees in that panel. https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm

Cursing fig tree is the tree with leaves instead of a round cap.

There are 4 Liberty Cap mushroom-trees on Bernward column, as Conjuring Eden in 2001 states.

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardColumn.html

Conjuring Eden 2001 Article Is Almost Comprehensive Count of Liberty Cap Trees in Bernward Door & Column

Bernward Doors and Column, Hildesheim: 7 Liberty Cap Trees
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/ —

Door: Panel 2: Create Eve: 2 Liberty Cap trees
Door: Panel 3: Eat Tree: 0 Liberty Cap trees
Door: Panel 4: Blame: 1 Liberty Cap tree

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bernward+doors&udm=2
Good guide to door panels:
https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardDoors.html –

Panels 1 & 2, Left & Right Door

Panels 3 & 4, Left & Right Door

Conjuring Eden Should Specify Two Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Present Eve Panel

Copied all Bernward content from Idea Development page 24 to the present Bernward page.

Conj Eden doesn’t say specifically that there are TWO Lib Cap trees in the Create Eve panel in Bern Door. Quote, p. 29, Entheos 1:

“Moreover, elsewhere on the doors, similar tassel trees [TWO OF THEM] (with five branches) occur in the episode where the Lord introduces Adam to his new wife; [13] while for the Temptation (Fall from Grace) episode, the trees are ornamental fronds* and the fruit spherical “apples.”[14]
https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm – [13] shows the two 5-cap Liberty Cap mushroom-trees.

* Not Liberty caps – as Bennett objects, yet Bennett fails to mention that the afformentioned panel “Create Eve” has two Liberty cap trees.

The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels
By Chris Bennett, August 5, 2021
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/17/chris-bennett-entheogen-scholarship/#Pareidolia

[13] bold square brackets = online gallery url: https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm

Why Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Bernward Doors & Column is Very Significant for Debate of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

Feb 2, 2025

After 2 days (weeks? months, since i been working on my Bernward webpage.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/

it has been challenging and sometimes frustrating trying to follow and comprehend.

Ruck’s poetic prose in 2001 ConjEden article is very hard to follow: that article has ENORMOUS scope and they go in depth but that’s NOT ENOUGH to make sense: what is the bottom line?

Ruck group failed to communicate 100%; they only hit 90% or 7/8 clarity, thus the awful treatment -extremely awful treatment of Bernward by Letcher 2006 Shroom book, AS IF there were only a single mushroom-tree in Bernward instead of seven of them.

How many Lib Cap trees did Brown consider? 1?
Ruck 2001: 7 (says “Present Eve to Adam” has trees but doesn’t say 2 or 3 (it’s 2).
Stamets 1996: 1
Gartz 1996: 1
Samo 1998 1?
Bennett 2021: 1.

Bennett’s Criticism of Brown & Others Who Call “the” mushroom-tree “tree of knowledge”

The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels
By Chris Bennett, August 5, 2021
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/17/chris-bennett-entheogen-scholarship/#Pareidolia

Last night [feb 1? 2025] i found that Bennett makes a valid point against Brown and accuses Brown and unnamed others of intellectual dishonesty and misrepresentation of Bernward.

It’s true Brown misrepresents Fall from Grace panel as if it shows tree of knowledge, when Bennett makes a sound argument that the tree there is not the tree of knowledge but is fig tree.

Bennett’s arg isn’t as strong as he presents.

Bennett makes a largely fair point, but his analysis is incomplete and inadequate, so he’s not in a good position to make the absolutist accusations against various interpreters.

Bennett fails to acknowledge the TWO lib cap trees in the panel ABOVE the non-mushroom tree of knowledge panel; in the Eve Presented to Adam panel.

Malformed Debate Positions Poorly Defined by Affirmers & Deniers

So much of the dispute comes down to MALFORMED DEBATE POSITIONS.

Affirmers and deniers both do a poor job of defining exactly what the optimal two debate positions are, so I have to always define them myself, in page:
Deniers’ Logical Fallacies in the Pilzbaum (Mushroom Trees) Debate

In any debate about mushroom imagery in Christian art, the first step is to carefully craft and define exactly what’s being asserted and what’s not being debated.

We are NOT debating whether the artist would agree that the images cause the viewer to think mushrooms — that is a GIVEN according to art historians themselves, the moment they coined their term, pilzbaum, mushroom-trees.

Debating whether the artist is a thick dull stupid denier, “I can’t imagine how the viewer would be made to think of mushrooms by my painting” is silly game-playing.

What is ACTUALLY under debate is whether the objectively mushroom-looking features of mushroom-trees are purposeful, not whether the artist is an imbecile.

The latter tactic direction is phony avoidance, and the deniers would lose the debate by shirking and changing the subject of contention to “the artist is too stupid to know that mushroom-trees look like mushrooms.” – irrelevant and unproductive.

Shut out that time-wasting game-playing by defining the two debate positions intelligently.

In each writer’s discussion of Bernward, how many Liberty Caps do they treat/acknowledge to exist between the Door & Col? guessing:

• Samo: 1
• Bennett: 1
• Brown 2016: 1
• Brown 2019: 1
• Ruck Conj Eden: 5-7

Ruck in Conj Eden is vague re: how many are in door panel 2 “Present Eve to Adam”. Ruck says plural but not how many (two). He REALLY should have advertised loudly:

There are seven Liberty Cap mushroom-trees total, in the left Bernward Door (three in two panels) and Bernward Column (four). As well as {mushroom hem}, liberty cap roofs, and mushroom roof toppers.

Misc. Notes

https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm — supplementary images for 2001 article Conjuring Eden article

Cursing of the Fig Tree, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim..[20]

move to Column > [apoc incarn]?? section:

 Apocalypse-Incarnation, Bernward Gospel, Dom treasury, Hildesheim (and details).

Door: Blame scene: Because You Have Eaten the Fruit, the Snake Will Bite Your Heel (Bernward)

Revealed ultimate source of causal agency in a block universe with embedded snake-shaped, pre-existing worldlines frozen in rock (bronze).

todo: restore image here, Plaincourault

May 27 2023 11:46 pm – applying my “cap = non-branching ” analysis of our fly-agaric fresco, Eve covers {obscene, vulnerable leg-branching [branching-claim] exposed}. {cap} is considered non-branching in YI/YO morphology of branching-message mushroom trees.

[Jan. 31, 2025 qualification of the above: a cap containing a grid of Liberty Caps, in Great Canterbury Psalter, is to be read as “branching”.]

My initial observation upon seeing a good impressively big view of that above crop on larger screen, popped out at me, the caps covering their in… my very first thought:

What thing covers their branching legs? [Blame panel]

Is the thing they’re holding simply same as these caps of these psilocybin semi-lance-shaped mushroom trees? In Present Eve scene, rightmost tree, right side, middle: that crown matches Eve’s fig leaf in … this somewhat makes hash of out of Bennett’s objection, his over-rigid separation of trees by scene. He claims in Blame scene the tree is fig tree – but cap held by Eve matches tree in different panel, Present Eve panel.

Conjuring Edge 2001 article is not cited in book Shroom (2006 UK) by Andy Letcher.

Letcher only considers the 1, isolated Bernward image, from page 15 of Paul Stamets’ book Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World 1996.

Commissioning of the apostles [16] online pic. 
https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm 
https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/16commish.jpg. p29

[5:44 am Dec 4 2024] I discovered a couple things:

1) Letcher in book Shroom isolates the Blame panel of Bernward, and doesn’t cite Conj Eden. But ConjEden ALSO shows a second mushroom art in Bern: p. 30, “21. Christ Commisssionting the Apostles. Jesus’ haloed head replaces mushroom cap. Bernward Column” –

2) Jesus’ halo is aimed at by CUT BRANCH. Jesus is made = cut branch. todo: do i have that pic at this site? [added it now, below: photo of Entheos page 30]. An image is mentioned but not shown at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/ – see “Letcher” at that page, and click the Image Search links there.

That’s a May 27, 2023 page (I’m listening to Egodeath Mystery Show new Ep263b = recorded on May 23, 2023, listening on Dec 4 2024).

eg: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M2A0DA/transfiguration-of-jesus-romanesque-bronze-relief-on-the-bernward-M2A0DA.jpg – again in YET ANOTHER liberty cap image from Bernward, cut branch points at Jesus’ halo. [5:56 am Dec. 4, 2024] —

https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/19fig.jpg – cursing fig tree: ~~ panel

See various Bernward pics at https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm – a couple shown below. Read pp. 29-31 of Conjuring Eden – important notes about meaning of branching.

In “Conjuring Eden” pp. 29-31, Hoffman/Ruck/Staples thinks {cut branch} of pilzbaum means “indication that the person ate the mushroom”.

Actually, mainly, {cut branch} means non-branching, means psychedelic eternalism.

There Are Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees in Bernward Doors and Column

From top of page https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm:

“As cited and cued in the article
Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise
Entheos: Vol. 1 Issue 1, Summer 2001.
By Carl A.P. Ruck, Blaise D. Staples, Mark Hoffman

Images 11-20
Jump to images 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50“

The image range links are for other online images for the long article.

All the Bernward images are in page eden2.htm, which contains images 11-20, of which
Bernward door = images 13-14
Bernward column = images 15-18

I added here my own WordPress gallery copies of pics from https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm as alt to linking pngs from Entheos site.

Numbering of Eden panels on Left Bernward Door

1. God creates Eve from Adam’s right side rib.
2. God introduces Eve to Adam. 2 Liberty Cap trees.
3. Eat tree of knowledge.
4. Blame. 1 Liberty Cap tree.
5. Kick out.
6. Work land.
7. Lamb and grain offering.
8. First murder.

Number of Plants on Each Panel of Left Bernward Door

1. God creates Eve from Adam’s right side rib.
2. God introduces Eve to Adam. 2 Liberty Cap trees.
3. Eat tree of knowledge. tree of knowledge not Lib Cap; 2 other plants.
4. Blame. Liberty Cap tree, 3 other plants.
5. Kick out. 3 plants.
6. Work land. ~3 plants.
7. Abel lamb offering. Cain grain offering. 2 sky plants, 2 ground plants.
8. Cain kills Abel. 0 plants.

• Door: Panel 2: Eve Given to Adam: 2 Liberty Cap trees <– Bennett IGNORES
• Door: Panel 3: Eat Tree: 0 Liberty Cap trees <– Bennett HIGHLIGHTS

Which authors write as if door has 1 Lib Cap tree only? Everyone. Not Conj Eden, it’s almost perfect but fails to say how many are in the marry panel its 2, so … art should

Should say total is 8 – it was very hard to follow Ruck committee writing.

Who treats Bernward as if ONLY the Blame panel has a Liberty Cap – taboo special FALL OF MAN ORIGINAL SIN PSILOCYBIN converts you from enlightened eternalism-thinking Right foot (Canter. f11 eden Row 3 Middle “Do Not Eat” – then when Eat, 3 Right, they stand on a single combined foot and have wrong hand?

The “Isolate Each Instance” Fallacy

Explain away each instance by ad hoc dismissal of each instance in isolation. Act like a given art work only contains 1 instance – in all Bernward art, only discuss and acknolwedge 1 instance of mushroom imagery.

But “A single instance is an anomaly; two instances is a Pattern. – Cybermonk” Does Shroom cite ConjEden, which covers 2 or 3 instances in Bernward? The Column contains multiple liberty cap trees – add these to the Door Blame scene’s liberty cap tree, that’s at least THREE liberty cap trees =- all with cut branch – by Bernward, not one, per Letcher 2006.

Brown 2016 shows how many Bernward mushroom trees? Here’s yet ANOTHER on column: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M2A0BA/jesus-cleansing-a-leper-romanesque-bronze-relief-on-the-bernward-column-M2A0BA.jpg

Entheogen Scholarship Books

Book: The Psychedelic Gospels, Brown 2016, p. 157 shows the full doors. See Bernward’s column, too.

url search: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bernward+bronze+doors

url search: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bernward+bronze+column

url https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward_Column

column and chandelier forming a mushroom: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward_Column#/media/File%3AHildesheim-Christussaeule-Rekonstruktionszeichnung.png

further proof of no mushrooms in Christian art, because Too Many Pilzbaum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_man_and_Lazarus#/media/File%3AMeister_des_Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis_001.jpg

The Letcher Argument: Official Christian Art Cannot Contain the Secret Counterculture Mushroom

Letcher causally assumes a wall into existence, taking for granted a wall between official art & mushroom imagery, while boasting of methodology)

Letcher’s Generic Vague Non-Reply to my Book Review

I badly need to re-read my book review of Shroom. I’ll post a new page expanding the below.

http://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2016/06/shroom-ten-years-on.html — A generic non-reply to my harsh book review 2007.

Letcher gives totally vague bragging of his big methodology — vapid claims — he presents a circular argument arguably, and claims that “they”[???] / “et al”[???] theorize with a smaller methodology.

He makes naive facile claim that “they” use a circular argument, apparently doesn’t know all theories are circular.

According to my theory, your methodology claim is vapor, blowing smoke.

He screws up at Step 1: assume your premise.

Letcher assumes premise and accuses “them” of assuming the premise:

Letcher unthinkingly assumes the debate is “whether there was a SECRET history tradition cultural valuing of religious use of magic mushrooms[?]”.

Whoever had the bright idea to WELD some confused, wrong network of presuppositions, “secret cult”. Ans: Graves, Wasson, Allegro, Ruck. Not Stamets, not Gartz.

Who ever said we should be debating over whether or not there was a secret cult?

You’re missing the relevant points.

The goal is explain myth and motifs.

Myth and art depict psilocybin transformation from possibilism to eternalism mental worldmodel transformation in loose cog state, per my 1988 theory — not the “analogical” component (1998+), but the remaining/ original 3 components:

The theory of [analogical] psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.

In 1988, I would have said alternative words:

The “loose cognition, block universe, cybernetics” theory of ego transcendence.

Letcher’s book Shroom falsely argues that the mushroom tree in the Forbidden Fruit panel can’t mean mushrooms, because the doors are a coherent structured design by mainstream institutional Christianity, and therefore cannot be secret mushrooms inserted covertly by the underground heretical fringe sect cult of the mushroom.

Letcher’s key words extracted, compared to key words of Stamets & Gartz:
Idea development page 24:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/29/idea-development-24/#taxonomical-facsimile-of-Liberty-cap

If Letcher admitted there are multiple panels with psilocybin mushrooms, he’d use instead the prejudiced Panofsky argument: this one mushroom tree can’t mean a mushroom, because there are many.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

Letcher’s book is a reaction against Letcher’s own fanboyism of McKenna in Letcher’s 20s.

Like Hatsis is a simplistic flipping against Hatsis’s own Allegro fanboyism.

Like a low-grade atheist is a flipping against one’s own previous low-grade Christian apologetics.

Only a “disciple Allegro” (Hatsis) can so assume that his social-type opponents are “disciples of Allegro”, just like he himself was.

Hatsis remains forever still trapped in his same little Allegro bubble.

Letcher 2006 is stuck within his own little same paradigm bubble of the pop quest for a tradition history of spiritual/ religious psilocybin/ Amanita use.

Letcher’s rebuttal of that Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck/ McKenna “secret forgotten underground” paradigm remains stuck within that paradigm. Confusion results.

A malformed pair of assumptions about interpretation options of the Bernward doors and column results.

Letcher mis-reasons that there are only two options: Either there’s “secret mushroom cult imagery hidden covertly in art”, or else, the “historical tradition of secret mushroom cult” theory is false.

Hatsis copy/pastes this exact same confusion about what ideas are thinkable.

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism covers these theory-elements, but in a more conscious, adept way. There was some secrecy. But that’s not a foundation emphasized in any way with a role in my theory.

The foundational emphasis of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is:

Myth is depiction by analogy of the ultimate effect of psilocybin-induced loose cognition, producing mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Note the utter lack of Sociology or Anthropology theory thought-constraining paradigms in my stripped-down approach that starts NOT from a social theory of “sect cult secret suppressed counterculture underground” or Irvin’s “suggestogens”, but rather, start from cognitive theory and myth as analogy depicting that cognitive transformation – the two experiential mental models, the later one formed by loosening mental construct processing.

In 1998, I needed Mr. Jesus & Mr. Paul to corroborate my core theory about how the mind transforms in the loose cognitive binding state.

But I immediately found that Jesus & Paul didn’t exist, so I instead looked for myth to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, or psychedelic eternalism.

That was consistently successful.

In 2020-2023, I adjusted the “articulation” (Kuhn) of my core theory, at an interface layer (the mytheme theory), to better map mythemes and art motifs (part of the “data” per Kuhn) to the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (psychedelic eternalism) (my 2- or 4-phase model of mental worldmodel transformation).

My 1997 mature Core theory is of how the mind transforms (the real nature of ego transcendence), from loosecog from psychedelics.

My 2023 mature Mytheme theory is of how myth describes that mental transformation from loosecog from psilocybin.

We must differentiate the theory elements: use of psilocybin; secret; use of psilocybin for inebriation; use of psilocybin for religious/ mystical/ spiritual use.

Irvin 2022 God’s Flesh rebuts the spiritual use of psilocybin in mesoamerica. Wasson lied and fabricated that type of usage, Irvin concludes based on the old texts.

Separate the sheer use of psilocybin (signalled by Amanita vivid imagery) vs. the “secrecy” premise, which is shorthand for the assumption of sociology/anthroology theory that the SOCIAL world is always structured as mainstream ignorant prohibitionists pitted against underground psilocybin/Amanita users;

secrecy (mainstream vs. counterculture)

mystical spiritual religious use of psilocybin/Amanita

sheer use eg inebriation/ for altered-state use of Psilocybin/Amanita

Cybermonk 11am Sat May 27 2023 after voice recording – I laid out entheogen scholarship books by date, and discussed the theories of Amanita & psilocybin history which Letcher 2006 variously rebuts.

Entheogen Scholarship Books I Surveyed May 27, 2023

Chris Bennett: Affirmers of Blame Panel 4 Fail to Say Eat Tree panel 3 lacks Lib Cap tree: BUT, Bennett Fails to Say “Eve Given to Adam” (panel 2 of 8) has TWO Lib Cap trees!

Letcher’s key words extracted, compared to key words of Stamets & Gartz:
Idea development page 24:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/29/idea-development-24/#taxonomical-facsimile-of-Liberty-cap

copying from idea development 24:

Jan 31 2025

There are 7 Liberty Cap Trees in Bernward Door/Column: Not 1 as in Letcher, Bennett, and Many Other Treatments

Everyone Fails to Mention Fail to Mention Additional Panel of Bern Door w/ Two Liberty Cap Trees

Stamets p. 15 PMofW doesn’t mention the Eve Given to Adam panel, containing two Liberty Cap trees.

Gartz, Samorini, Ruck[? confirm Conj Eden]

Correction: Bern Bernward door liberty cap mushroom-tree Adam Meet Eve panel & Blame panel

Wikipedia Photo of Bernward Doors

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Bernwardst%C3%BCr.jpg

Bennett’s Treatment of the One Tree of Bernward Door: Wrong Panel, So Bernward Doesn’t Count

Some critic – Bennett? check: find “bernward”: FOUND IT, an important passage,

• quotes Brown re: door.
• quotes Samo re: door.

those q’s are interesting but I’m interested in the logic of Bennett’s rebuttal.

The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels
By Chris Bennett, August 5, 2021
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/

todo: paste entire passage by Bennett: just CB’s rebuttal:

Bennett wrote:

“this panel on ‘The Door of Salvation’ with similar claims, leave out the proceeding panel, which is clearly depicting the ingestion of the temptation of the forbidden fruit, and instead use the panel that follows that one, which shows the covering themselves in fig leaves, which is what the panel being used for the suggestion of mushroom imagery, actually represents.

“In the depiction Eve is using the same material that is on the tips of the branches which are being interpreted as ‘mushrooms’ to cover herself.

“In the proceeding panel [#3, Eat Tree], we can see Eve being tempted by the serpent who holds the classic apple in his mouth, and her offering it to Adam from a tree that has no indication of mushrooms.”

“Clearly the proceeding panel,[#3, Eat Tree] with the classic forbidden apples is depicting the ingestion of the forbidden fruit.

“The panel [#4, Blame] being used by the Brown’s for the mushroom like imagery of the trees, is in no way connected to the forbidden tree of knowledge, but is instead a tree from which fig leaves were broken off and Adam and Eve covered themselves.

“and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves”.

“As the Browns took the trouble to visit St. Michaels in person, I think it remains without question, that they left out this panel [#3, Eat Tree] which shows the forbidden tree as a the classic apple tree, and the actual ingestion of the forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve.”

LIKE BENNETT LEAVES OUT THE TWO-LIBERTY-CAP TREES PANEL [#2 of 8, Eve Given to Adam] ABOVE THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE PANEL.

“There is no indication the mushroom like trees are connected besides serving as a source of ‘fig leaves’ for their covering.”

Sure, Chris – go that direction, ok, let’s look at THREE panels: including the one above Chris’ crop.

Eden panels:

1. God creates Eve from Adam’s right side rib. Trees: __
2. God introduces Eve to Adam. 2 Liberty Cap trees.
3. Eat tree of knowledge. tree of knowledge not Lib Cap; 2 other plants.
4. Blame. Liberty Cap tree, 3 other plants.
5. Kick out. 3 plants.
6. Work land. ~3 plants.
7. Abel lamb offering. Cain grain offering. 2 sky plants, 2 ground plants.
8. Cain kills Abel. 0 plants.

Genesis 4:1–18 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%204%3A1%E2%80%9318&version=NIV

what the F! did Chris NOT NOTICE that above the two panels that he details, there is an ADDITIONAL TWO Lib Cap trees?

Read entire passage in his article re: all points about Bern Doo Bernward door liberty cap mushroom-tree Blame panel, Bernward column four liberty cap mushroom-trees.

Eadwine: Hands and Feet in “Do Not Eat” & “Eat” Panels

[Jan. 31-Feb.1, 2025]

Do Not: God: L hand down
Do Not: Eve: R hand down, L hand up touching halo
Do Not: Adam: R hand down

Do Not: God: R foot down
Do Not: Eve: R foot down
Do Not: Adam: R foot down touching God’s R foot

Eat: Eve: L hand down
Eat: Adam: L hand down

Eat: Eve: Right foot down
Eat: Adam: L foot down

Jan 30 2025 where the heck did i put my pics of the 4 Lib Caps per Conj Eden on Bern Door early 2025??

Jeez HIDDEN SECRET scholarship:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/03/quotes-for-course-correction-of-entheogen-scholarship/#Bernward-Column-Liberty-Cap-Tree-1

A quick copy from there to here: dup content is bad, but obviously the present spot (Bernward article) is the master copy (not the idea development 24 page).

See Also

The Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees of the Bernward Doors and Column
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/02/10/the-seven-liberty-cap-mushroom-trees-of-the-bernward-doors-and-column/

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardDoors.html

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardColumn.html

https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/05/27/bernward-doors-and-column-hildesheim/

Carved Doors of Santa Sabina, Rome
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/carved-doors-of-santa-sabina-rome/

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardDoors.html

https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BernwardColumn.html

Lots of content in my current active idea development page 24 that should be copied into the present article:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/29/idea-development-24/#conj-eden-count-bernward
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/29/idea-development-24/#Shroom-Page-35

Before there were links:

Dead End – No Links – fixed stars boundary of cosmic page 🌌

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🪐🐑🔥🗡🐉🗝🚪🪨🌌💎🚪🏆👼🔥🔥🔥

Contents:

• Intro
• TOO MANY MUSHROOMS
• Glad I Rated the Book Shroom as 4 Stars, not 3 Stars
• todo: headings
• Entheogen Scholars, WRITE EXPLICITLY ABOUT CUBENSIS ON BOVINE CATTLE DUNG IN ENGLAND, GODDAMIT! Stop Your Silent, Prejudiced Lying & Information Blackout!

Huggins’ 2024 article “Dizzy” article has side-by-side of the above two versions of the image.

Why the F doesn’t Huggins cite my superior article http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – BOGUS! My article already addressed Huggins’ games and objections way back in 2006.

From https://www.britannica.com/topic/zodiac –

♈ Aries (Ram)
♉ Taurus (Bull)
♊ Gemini (Twins)
♋ Cancer (Crab)
♌ Leo (Lion)
♍ Virgo (Virgin)
♎ Libra (Balance)
♏ Scorpius (Scorpion)
♐ Sagittarius (Archer)
♑ Capricornus (Goat)
♒ Aquarius (Water Bearer)
♓ Pisces (Fish)

Bottom band of woodcut, Left to Right (= Earth POV):
Cancer (Crab), Leo (Lion), Virgo (Virgin), Libra (Balance), Scorpius (Scorpion), Sagittarius (Archer).

Upper band of woodcut, Right to Left:
Capricornus (Goat), Aquarius (Water Bearer), Pisces (Fish), Aries (Ram), Taurus (Bull), Gemini (Twins).

page 2 of Entheos Issue 3:
First Printing, September 2002. 200 copies. This is copy 140.
All graphics, layout and printing performed by Entheomedia.
Cover: A fresco of the Taurocthony from the Mithraum at Marino located in the Alban Hills, near Rome.
Editor, Graphics & Layout Mark Hoffman
We are very happy to welcome Michael Winkelman, … to our Editorial Advisory Board!

Intro

Jerry Brown missed this aspect — deliberate corruption of art — when criticizing reliance on blurry Internet images. The situation is worse than that.

Letcher calls out Kat McKenna for redrawing the mushroom cave shaman with clear mushrooms unlike the cave photo. However, a cave photo of the figure is shown in Samorini’s book — Letcher’s case is weak. The cave photo looks fairly clearly like mushrooms, and Kat did a reasonable job of producing a cleaned up drawing based on this justifiable reading.

The cover art of Entheos journal 2002 is deliberately shifted red and hides the blue-stemmed psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg, I just now realized and figured out to solve a mystery since 2002. Realized/solved 9:30 PM May 24, 2023.

I was able to figure this out and recognize what’s going on here with this poor quality picture which I had been wondering about for the past two years and I have also been wondering for a very long time like since 2005, and I have stated many times I’ve how incredulous I was over the years:

It’s unbelievable that the Ruck committee wrote a major long article about Mithraism, which became a book about Mithraism, for issue number 3 of this journal, but they leapt at the red and white colors (Amanita!) and yet they never mentioned the Psilocybin Mushroom in Mithras’ leg!

Mystery: why is the art quality so bad on the cover of this Entheos issue?

the tauroctony is reversed, which shows the complete cluelessness (not that I understood yet the {handedness} motif, until 2015-2023).

The solution is that the art was deliberately shifted and forced into the red to try to make it have Amanita colors, red and white.

I was able to recognize that explanation tonight when pulling out this issue for the first time since 2006.

I was now able to recognize what’s going on here is a deliberate corruption of art in order to force the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

I can think of three violations done by entheogen scholars here:

2002: Entheos journal cover tauroctony image forced red, thus obscuring the blue-stemmed psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg.

2008: The Holy Mushroom, Jan Irvin. An instance that I wrote about recently the 2008 book the holy mushroom by Jan Irvin gallery color version of the book does have a color version of the dancing man bestiary image, but the colors are awful.

The colors are awful because they are skewed to the red, which is how I recognized tonight the same corruption applied to Entheos journal issue three.

2009: in the Ruck appendix article Fungus Revivivus in SMC book by Allegro, published by Irvin, Carl Ruck falsely states that the dancing man salamander bestiary image has a mushroom tree with a “red” and white cap.

This is plainly false, as Thomas Hatsis exposes; it is a light blue cap — why didn’t Jan Irvin correct Ruck? Doesn’t Irvin’s 2008 book the holy mushroom have a color version of this dancing man image? Yes, but it is corrupted.

Jan Irvin 2008 & 2009 is participating in a corruption of art (the salamander image) to try to force it to be Amanita.

I recently exposed Jan Irvin’s 2008 book the holy mushroom’s gallery for deliberately trying to force the “dancing man” mushroom tree cap to be red instead of light blue.

Pictures: see my main page about dancing man salamander bestiary. Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian)– main page about this.

and see my main page about Entheos journal. Entheos Issues 1-4, Mark Hoffman

TOO MANY MUSHROOMS

I am debating photographing my issue three with the tauroctony Mithraism on the cover, reversed stupidly to show Mithras standing on left leg instead of right.

but I am somewhat running out of server space for images, because too many mushrooms.

Glad I Rated the Book Shroom as 4 Stars, not 3 Stars

Against Letscher 2006 book Shrooms which says that there is no history… you have to understand this book as a counter narrative.

his book is to tell a counter-narrative against the 2005 popular England narrative of psilocybin enthusiasts who want to claim that there is a so-called “cult tradition”, meaning religious tradition of “the magic mushroom” in Europe history.

Andy Letcher tries to deliver a critique of Wasson and of allegro and of Carl Ruck and of McKenna. These are highly valuable critiques, must-read.

Pay Closest Attention to Word Choice by Entheogen Scholars that I Would Never Employ

Andy Letcher uses cringey word choice: prissy, smug, tries to ingratiate himself with an imagined Establishment mainstream, tut-tutting, prohibitionist, puerile attitudes that he strikes an affectation stance and pose; posture; posturing of mocking pop drug users.

it is a very annoying posturing and word choice — especially critique every word: every word is loaded and laden with a moralizing affectation.

Letcher Seeks to Debunk 5 Things

Andy Letcher is inconsistent in what he is disproving.

That’s because he delivers distinct disproof of these four entheogen scholars, and he also gives a general disproof.

Letcher delivers five disproofs, with his general this disproof that there was “a sacred mushroom secret underground sect cult tradition”.

url https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060828285/ —

Entheogen Scholars’ Bizarre Cult of the Word ‘Cult’

all you people drive me nuts

you and your stupid word ‘cult’

what the hell is with your stupid word ‘cult’ that all of you keep repeating

“cult, cult, cult” 🙉 😖

“A secret cult tradition didnt exist!” brittlely proclaims Letcher, with nary a thought of a non-secret, non-cultic use.

every other word, it’s always ‘cult’.

what the hell are you even talking about?!

you’re all insane, what the F!

Their mal-word ‘cult’ connotes “religious but not institutional mainstream” tradition history in Europe.

4-hour Voice recording yesterday About Book Shroom

In the recording, I go into some depth of analysis of how I am in a different, incommensurable paradigm, different than the field of entheogen scholarship and different than Lecher’s rebuttal to that field.

Recording 5476 has high-quality, interesting miking of voice, no guitar for the most part, and therefore should be very easy and fast to produce and upload as the Egodeath Mystery Show.

The Mytheme theory tested and corroborated once again! 🎉

I also discuss a recent successful problem-solving of the Eustace window, with the right-hand paw of the lion touching the supposedly bad branching cubensis tree — but actually, specifically, touching the right-hand branch of the branching cubensis tree, which branch is considered to be equal to represent non-branching — thus supporting, rather than refuting, my Egodeath theory of myth! 🎉

The Real Question: To what extent psilocybin eternalism in myth?

After yesterday’s recording session, my idea that I did not have a chance to record was that:

My specialty is myth, not “religion”; psilocybin eternalism in myth.

My Phase 2 work is to cooroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (the Core egodeath theory; the Theory of Psychedelic Cybernetic Eternalism ) by proving that myth is primarily depiction of psychedelic eternalism.

My Phase 2 work (1998-2023) is to prove that myth is primarily depiction of psychedelic eternalism.

Twice the (messy, overgrowth analogies) footprint, of my simple Core theory, so took twice as long:

1985-1997 Core theory: 12 years.

1998-2023 Mytheme theory: 25 years.

Alien to Letcher Hatsis, I prove that myth is psychedelic eternalism.

That theory-proof happens to entail proving that there’s a history of psil mushroom (& Amanita imagery/tropes) use for Transcendent Knowledge in Europe.

But that’s not my paradigm-driving concern.

Forget my misrepresentative call of 2006, calling for:

To what extent mushrooms in Christianity?

My ACTUAL search from 1998-2023 has been:

To what extent psilocybin eternalism in myth?

eg the Eucharist as described in systematic theology and by the Church fathers.

I never looked for “a secret mushroom cult tradition”.

Letcher Hatsis’ would-be rebuttal doesn’t touch the Egodeath theory’s paradigm of entheogen scholarship.

Entheogen Scholars, WRITE EXPLICITLY ABOUT CUBENSIS ON BOVINE CATTLE DUNG IN ENGLAND, GODDAMIT! Stop Your Silent, Prejudiced Lying & Information Blackout!

I am most loudly yelling at entheogen scholars: goddammit, TALK ABOUT CUBENSIS IN ENGLAND/EUROPE!

Stop giving that topic the silent treatment information blackout cover-up operation, like done by Paul Stamets where everybody always shines the spotlight on making a strong vigorous proof by emphasizing that the cow is sacred because of dung in the subtropical area —

but as loudly as they make THAT point, they are equally silent in their bunk and bogus implicit false assertion that there never grew cubensis on cattle dung in England/ Europe.

If these unthinking, incoherent, anti-psilocybin, prejudiced entheogen scholars were to make an explicit assertion of this key crucial topic, instead of limiting themselves to making only an implicit assertion of the stupid position, it would become clear how ludicrous and ridiculous it is to claim that somehow, there is cattle dung in England yet no cubensis mushrooms —

which doesn’t make any sense at all, and you have some verbose explaining to do, if you are going to try to explicitly foist your bunk claim on us.

Please EXPLICITLY CLAIM that there’s no cubensis on cattle bovine dung in non-subtropical areas.

Entheogen scholars, I dare you to put forth of this ludicrous, false shared presupposition, that all the stupid people in this field all share, and they all are dead silent on this topic; they never ever make a peep about this bunk implicit assertion that they all hold in the submerged 90% part of their iceberg presupposition network.

Against Andy Letcher, I do not have a theory of religion, but I have a theory of myth, which includes religion.

By focusing on psilocybin across history, I greedily encompass 20th C ergot too.

By focusing on myth across history, I greedily encompass religion too.

My center of focus is more myth than religion. I needed in 1998 Mr. Jesus & Mr. Paul to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

I immediately found they don’t exist, so I switched (per The Jesus Mysteries book) to looking to myth, containing psilocybin eternalism/”determinism”, to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

Religious mythology is replete with psilocybin eternalism, against Letcher who pleases conventional mainstream publishers in 2006 by claiming there is no tradition of secret cult use of The Mushroom, against the trendy — Letcher cashing in — reaction to England legalizing psil mushrooms at that time.

The book Shroom is a mainstream-publisher, hasty, shallow, rush job, conventional book, that is NOT engaging with or rebutting psilocybin eternalism in myth.

Religious mythology is (above all) depiction of psilocybin eternalism, I recognized and proved since 2000.

That’s not in the paradigm that Letcher Hatsis lives within.

I solved disproving Letcher, via an alien trajectory, an incommensurable paradigm, by making an end-run around his incredibly brittle network of presuppositions.

Which Thomas Hatsis (the leader of the Disciplaeie Allegroiaei) then copy/pasted, except to assert scopolamine ointment, against Letcher.

I am saying that there is psilocybin mushroom effects imagery in myth — and thus side-step the whole confusion about the nature of religion.

Letcher’s book Shroom is a rebuttal of the 2005 popular England claim, that there is a tradition of specifically religious spiritual mystical use of psilocybin mushrooms.

Letcher strives to disprove that there was such a “secret cult spiritual tradition”, and he absolutely conflates, in a way that I can’t even grasp.

I talk about this in the recording.

for Letcher it is a oxymoron: non-secret mushroom use would be an oxymoron; it is literally unthinkable to him.

Andy Letcher is incapable of thinking the thought of “non-secret mushroom use”.

In his mind, he is not able to differentiate “secret” distinct from “mushroom use”, because he thinks that:

GIVEN (100% firmly bc 100% unconsciously):

The world is separated into an oppressor suppressor prohibitionist mainstream, divided against an underground counterculture oppressed suppressed psychedelics users.

When the entire field of entheogen scholarship takes this as a unconscious axiom, even retained by Thomas Hatsis and Andy Letcher in the very midst of them debunking popular theories, they continue to think in these rutted assumptions, that the only possible theory of mushrooms is inherently & necessarily a theory of “secret suppressed counterculture” use, against an ALWAYS prohibitionist mainstream.

http://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com: “Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity”

Letcher unthinkingly, unconsciously takes it for granted that, a fact given to him by God directly, a fact of the universe is that everybody knows that:

Mainstream institutional culture is inherently prohibitionist, and any use of religious use of mushroom is always, inherently counterculture, underground, suppressed, and secret.

To Letcher, to propose that the Bernward door contains “mushrooms” is exactly identical, the same thing as asserting that the door contains “secret mushrooms”.

As atrocious and maddening as Letcher’s awful treatment of the Bernward doors, nevertheless we can deduce from that a valuable realization about what went wrong in entheogen scholarship’s bad, bunk paradigm:

the “secret Amanita counterculture” paradigm, against my Samorini-like “psilocybin Eucharist mainstream” paradigm.

Ruck’s very PARADIGM is “secret Amanita”.

That is the only theory that Andy Letcher is capable of imagining himself to be disproving.

The idea of “secret” is impossible to distinguish from the concept of “mushroom”, in Letcher’s confused, unthinking, unconscious mind.

Thomas Hatsis is less radical than Letcher, who denies a history of religious scopalamine use. Hatsis positively asserts scopalamine ointment tradition* and so he is an entheogen scholar. Letcher denies any religious tradition history of mushroom use.

*Watch out! loaded word choice! The Entire predominant conventional lexicon in this field is tainted.

Hatsis is a debunker following (copypaste) Letcher’s form and ruts of thinking.

I would feel lonely, and the only person on earth who is able to analyze and separate the two ideas of secret and mushroom, except that there is one person who followed in my wake, and that is a Jan Irvin 2008.

Irvin’s 2008 book The Holy Mushroom consistently, clearly calls to separate the concept of “secret” from the concept of mushroom use.

— despite the false claims of Thomas Hatsis, who mis-labels Jan Irvin as a “‘Secret’ Christian Amanita ‘Cult’ theorist”.

Jan Irvin, like John Rush, almost always means amanita, even re-painting the bestiary salamander image from blue to red by sheer force — just like I recognized tonight was done to the cover 2002 Entheos journal Mithras image.

Jan Irvin 2008 clearly says that we need to stop assuming that mushroom use was secret.

If it weren’t for 2008 Jan Irvin, I would feel like I’m the only person on earth who is able to differentiate the idea of “secret” versus the word “mushrooms”.

Jerry Brown also calls for a re-rethinking the idea of “secret”, though he doesn’t do quite a good and vigorous of a job as is needed there.

Brown 2016 & 2019 at least raises the question of: what sense of the word “secrecy” (he turns around and subtitles the book with the word ‘secret’). Given proof of mushroom imagery in MAINSTREAM cathedrals, illuminated manuscripts, and churches (like Irvin 2008).

Letcher Hatsis is incapable of comprehending the separation of “secret” from “mushrooms”, following the unreflective mental rut set by Allegro & Ruck.

Cybermonk May 24, 2023

There’s vague cussing, out of the blue, near bottom of previous post. Cleaned up now. Email subscribers might run into it.

That’s from earlier today in the midst of reading Kuhn’s book that’s written to hide and bury his argumentation structure and make it as difficult to read as possible.

Cybermonk May 20, 2023 10:40 pm

Contents:

• tbd

Backlog of Voice Recordings

This text is my mobile notes file about my next voice recording idea development session, aka Egodeath Mystery Show podcast, to read aloud and comment on.

I have a backlog of tons of show-worthy recordings to listen & potentially produce.

Mic Locker

I got the CAD E100 (MDC supercardioid) microphone back up & running,

& retrieved the Senn e609 gtr cab mic (dynamic supercardioid with treble rolloff compared to the e906).

Personal Library

I retrieved a bunch of entheogen scholarship books. And some Phil o Sci books.

And retrieved some other books that are candidates listed in References section of draft of branching-message mushroom trees article.

My 1994 Metaperception Article

I failed to find my 1994 zine issue with my Bubble of Simulation article & photo of hand/ coffeehouse beer glass.

That’s in Fringe Ware Review issue 5 1994, i believe, not Crash Collusion 1996. There are contradictory citations at Egodeath site.

First 1988 Writeup of the Egodeath theory

I retrieved my 1988 first drafts of the theory of ego transcendence.

Apparently my handwritten Aug 1988 Minnesota draft is not the first draft. I also have a earlier (printout) draft from July 1988.

I have to figure out which draft to pay attention to (upload), because I am looking for my earliest, first summary writeup expression of the theory of ego transcendence.

Hand Writing

My 1987 handwriting (Pentel P205) is exciting – not 1983-84; 1986-1987 especially. What it means to me; what its look feels like & connotes. Inspired.

I hate when I see my later mixed-case writing, that lost my 1987 magical allcaps script character.

It took me years to relearn that hand, but now I really feel like I am no longer faking it and have truly recovered my authentic 1987 very distinctive handwriting.

That hand maximally exudes that whole vibe from April 1987 into 1988.

Also in 1987 I did computer printouts of idea devmt, which are actually legible, unlike my totally hard to read handwriting, with which I developed my distinctive, deliberate building of a model of mental constructs and control, deliberately from April 1987 through January 1988 breakthrough, successfully as planned, on schedule, due to crisis of need.

History of Development

My handwriting, with which I developed my distinctive, deliberate building of a model of mental constructs and control, deliberately from April 1987 through January 1988 breakthrough, successfully as planned, on schedule, due to crisis of need.

Oct 1985-Mar 1987, i was writing idea devmt … not exactly. I was not yet striving to formulate an explanatory model of the mind and cross-time control, incorp’ing Transcendent Knowledge.

That conscious model-defining began in April 1987, & I achieved understanding in Jan 1988 — though no analogy, lyrics, mythemes, or art motifs at first.

The latter completed or reached closure now; May 2023. per my branching-message mushroom trees draft article.

In 1986-1987, I had an extreme, severe requirement; it was absolutely mandatory that I HAD TO figure out transcendent knowledge/ ego transcendence by January 1988, and that is what I did, on schedule.

How did I pull it off? Extreme high pressure brute force: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence was born out of necessity — the Egodeath theory; “transcendence theory” per my May 1988 voice recording (Egodeath Mystery Show episode negative 500).

the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, or the theory of ego transcendence.

I retrieved a formal photograph of me holding that manuscript in 1988.

the theory of ego transcendence.

The plan per 1988 is to upload that photo with my first draft of that article.

Articulating the Theory to Fit Data Observations & Anomalous Data

Explain how the egodeath core theory (the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism) has been in some way “reshaped” to explicitly map to mythemes/motifs. per Kuhn. —

Core Egodeath theory ~= “Theory” per Kuhn.

Control restabilization + the mytheme theory ~= “Data” per Kuhn.

Psychedelic Pseudo Science & also entheogen scholarship is in the earliest, “pre-paradigm” phase (Kuhn).

The “Anomalous data” (Kuhn) that confounds the “pre-paradigm” (Kuhn) -stage field of Psychedelic (pseudo) Science: loss of control (and the end of the world).

if you include the crude psychedelic folk knowledge of “surrender”, we can call loss of control “control restabilization” and frame that as the “anomalous data”.

the psychedelic folk knowledge of “surrender”, & loss of control (summing to “control restabilization”) is Kuhn’s “anomalous data”.

Fatal control-loss panic/ cybernetic death is “anomalous data”: it is discarded by the 2016 CEQ-POS psychedelic psychometrics questionnaire, into Wouter Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket — together with all of the fixed stars from the sky, removed by Hanegraaff’s 2022 book Hermetic Spirituality.

Theory Revision

the Egodeath theory overthrows entheogen scholarship & psychedelic science. ie massive “hierarchy network revision of concepts” per Thagard 1992 & the later Kuhn.

Letcher’s 4-Phase Argument Demolished

Letcher is the one who said “we cannot prove mushroom imagery in art represents intentional ingesting mushrooms for religious experiencing” — which the Great Canterbury Psalter disproves.

Letcher arg “cant prove delib use mushroom for relig experience”, which page # in Shroom? he said the idea in a video.

Sterling Mediocrity of Mainstream Journalistic Coverage of Psychedelics

Letcher’s book Shroom is a slick production, like Michael Pollan tho trash/fleeting coverage of Psil in Christian art.

Letcher barely dabbles in engaging that idea: psilocybin mushroom trees , quite shallow, brief, poor, careless hack dismissal; hasty, sloppy, flippant.

I experienced the writing in Shroom as cringe-inducing, because it is very conventional mainstream narrative — tho ironically, in a video lecture he criticizes the narratives, and in the book, he criticizes the myth: how Amanita attracts (just like Dale Pendell writes in his Amanita chapter): that mushroom (🍄) disproportionately attracts myth and mythmaking narratives.

The book Shroom is your typical average quality main stream polished slick production that tells all the boring over repeated narrative but he does specifically reject the “secret Amanita” theory.

Shroom is “good writing”, of a pop journalism type.

Letcher’s writing is polished, but similarly you have the polished author, top journalist Michael Pollan, invading the field only to regurgitate falsehoods, claiming that Wasson is the first westerner ever to ingest psilocybin, which is opposite of the truth. Lipstick on a pig.

Also Michelle Janikian’s journalism-type book, Your Psil Mushroom Companion (re: Surrender passages; she cites many books).

Tide Turning Against Allegro/ Ruck’s “Secret Amanita Cult” Theory & the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

I am comparing the details of how and what way different researchers are criticizing the “secret Amanita counterculture” theory, which Letcher attributes to Allegro and Ruck.

I continue cringing at phrase “the mushroom” and “a mushroom cult” — STOP WRITING THAT!! 😖

Write about psilocybin or Amanita, not “the mushroom” — FAKE scholars’ construct; a false singular. Like Michael Wms says of ‘gnosticism’. (but see April DeConick’s defense, The Gnostic New Age.)

I found that James Arthur’s book Mushrooms & Mankind is Amanita madness.

I only became attuned to the importance of the huge distinction between the two mushroom types in about 2021. My main articles nicely avoid falling in that pit.

I wish I fully picked up on the Amanita Primacy Fallacy in 2000 (book: Apples of Apollo).

I picked up on pieces of that, pieces of the problem, such as maybe 2005 I was incredulous to realize that Ruck didn’t write about the Psilocybin Mushroom in Mithras’ leg, reversed on the cover of Entheos journal.

I have my first printing of 2007 United States hardcover Andy Letcher book Shroom.

I watched some of Andy Letcher’s YouTube videos.

I confirmed that Andy Letcher has the most low-quality treatment of anybody regarding mushroom trees.

I found confirmation in his book Shroom, now that I know what to carefully look for: as I wondered:

Letcher definitely is explicitly battling against Allegro and Ruck, against their “secret Amanita counterculture” theory.

I agree with Letcher Hatsis there, although you can’t exactly say that we “agree”, because we are coming from different paradigms, or different connotation networks.

To what extent does Gordon Wasson push the “secret Amanita counterculture” paradigm?

Does Andy Letcher criticize Wasson?

Hell freezes over two ways:

o Jan Irvin 2008 writes “against Allegro”, we should omit the “secrecy” component of the theory. Irvin puts italics on ‘against’.

o John Lash criticizes his lover/idol Wasson for the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

List of people who are trying to take down and demolish the Amanita Primacy Fallacy or the Secret Christian Amanita Cult theory, in one way or another (from within some distinct framework):

Lash,

Hoffman,

Irvin,

Hatsis,

Samorini,

Brown,

Letcher.

“Concept-Network Revision” Is More Nuanced than “Paradigm Shift”

I reread most of Thomas Kuhn 1963 book the structure of scientific revolutions (3rd not 4th Ed) today May 20, 2023.

Wikipedia cautions that Thomas Kuhn later moved away from the crude monolithic concept of changing from one wholesale paradigm to a different, “incommensurable” wholesale paradigm, and did something much more nuanced and sophisticated, like Paul Thagard in Conceptual Revolutions: the later Thomas Kuhn speaks instead in terms of theory revision of conceptual hierarchies.

Secret Christian Amanita Cult

Andy Letcher completely conflates “secret” — exactly as I’ve been saying and writing since 2007 — he completely conflates “secret” with mushroom trees, and totally makes the worst argument of all time, just like I said, that the Bernward doors show non-secret mushrooms and therefore they cannot possibly be mushrooms.

and that’s it , that’s all his extent of treatment of psilocybin in Christian art is limited exclusively to that — he has very limited coverage, and what little he has is spectacularly awful reasoning.

99% of his book Shroom is Amanita, or Psilo only in Americas.

Great Canterbury Psalter Is impossibly unbelievably incredibly perfect and ideal evidence, a godsend.

Great Canterbury Psalter not only disproves Andy Lecher, it goes even further than him (as I claimed in Egodeath Mystery Show 2021-2023):

Great Canterbury Psalter depicts the ultimate peak religious experiencing from specifically cubensis, multiple instances.

{Scale Balance} Motif Depicting Control Restabilization

I like the efficient, condensed phrase “control re-stabilization”, shown as {scale balance} in Great Canterbury Psalter.

Paul Thagard YT videos; he has a book about Balance. Somewhat relevant for loss of control or control instability.

Mythicism

Richard Miller’s new mythicism book on Resurrection: many figures were translated up to heaven like Christ. MythVision YT channel.

My use of “Mytheme” is equivalent to “Motif” (visual art).

Studying and Exposing the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

I have increasingly confirmed and I more vividly recognize in all of these entheogen scholarship books, I hold a different paradigm then Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis, but the three of us are all out to take down the “secret Amanita counterculture” paradigm.

I now perceive the Amanita Primacy Fallacy everywhere clearly.

Andy Letcher’s book has three major sections, and the first two sections are about Amanita, and the third section is about Psilocybin

why did Letcher choose to gather together the two completely different kinds of mushrooms?

The fake, forced scholarly construction “the mushroom” SCREAMS of pop Propaganda narrative. to artificially jam together two unrelated types of mushrooms, a put-on that maximizes confusion to sell a fabricated, flimsy, garbled, obfuscating narrative.

Andy Letcher: it’s not his fault, it is the fault of Gordon Wasson who started it and John allegro who started it.

they are the ones who made the 99% illegitimate lumping together and conflation, their fake artificial scholarly construction of lumping together the two kinds of mushrooms, which no scientist would ever do.

Webpage: Every Eadwine Image in Great Canterbury Psalter

I am definitely going to make a webpage which focuses only on showing every Eadwine image from Great Canterbury Psalter. not Illuminated Capitals tho.

I no longer care which images in Great Canterbury Psalter have mushroom trees, because everything in this art is depiction of Psilocybin mushroom experiencing, especially cubensis.

Exposing the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

when did I become conscious fully of the need to tear apart the two kinds of mushrooms? only recently, like Dec 2020; see the date of my postings against Amanita.

this can only be a partial alliance between Letcher Hatsis and M Hoffman, because we are operating from different paradigms.

Jan Irvin could be considered a variant paradigm with partial agreement — but not much, because different framing network.

First 1988 Writeups of the Egodeath theory

apparently the story is more complicated than draft one written in Minnesota it appears that I have a computer printout in July 1988 prior to the August handwritten draft

it turns out the handwritten draft is a second attempt to write the article

1994 Metaperception Article

I misplaced the zine, fringe ware review issue 5 apparently – look at the top and bottom of the bubble of simulation article which has contradictory information about published in crash collusion or Fringe Ware Review.

Pre-Paradigm Phase of Science: Nascent Fields of Psychedelic Science & entheogen scholarship

I am vacillating between saying that “there is no paradigm”/ there is no “old theory” in this field, versus saying that “there exists a very bad paradigm” in this field .

that distinction depends on whether we’re talking about psychedelic pseudoscience or psychedelics religious history.

Articulating the Egodeath Core Theory to Explicitly Apply to Art Motifs of {Branching, Handedness, & Stability}

refining the Egodeath theory’s Core Concepts catalog vis a vis the Key Mythemes catalog – add / revise to add /incorp: branching-message mushroom trees; branching, handedness, stability.

Branching-message mushroom trees article scope: Specify New Theory, Only

Do not rate a book against what the book ought to be, but rather, rate the book against its stated promise of coverage.

state the nature of this article and trajectory of this article: what is the scope of the article, and what is the trajectory of the article inside the article.

There is only space to specify the new theory. Space in this article prevents coverage of related topic.

Topics Out of Scope for branching-message mushroom trees article

the history of discovery of this theory.

relating this theory to the previous theory or theories or non-theories.

justify/ prove/ defend the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.

recount the history of its development.

Literature Survey.

relate the 1988/2023 Egodeath theory and compare it against another paradigm and “previous” theory.

prove and debate which one is better and what’s wrong with the old theory or theories.

Separate Article Rebutting the Amanita Primacy Fallacy & “Secret Amanita Cult” theory

it would be a separate article to critique the Secret Amanita counterculture paradigm and how it is a product of prohibition which supports and asserts necessary perpetual prohibition of Psil.

— by enforcing a literalist read of God asserting Psil Prohibn and even enthusiastically, gleefully embracing and asserting Genesis 3, while never mentioning Revelation 22

And never having any interest in alternative reading of Genesis 3 that would permit irony about asserting psilocybin use for enlightenment.

The “secret Amanita counterculture perpetual prohibition” paradigm is actively averse to any kind of a constructive anti-prohibition reading of Genesis 3.

what are the points of agreement and disagreement, the way in which, or the sense in which, Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis and Michael Hoffman are against the “secret amanita counterculture” paradigm?

how does each entheogen scholar eg these three people think of or imagine that paradigm in different ways and what do they think that the alternative replacement is?

Kuhn’s Anti-STEM Presentation Style

The extremely poor lack of explicit headings and explicit outlines the horrible awful worst case: sea of text.

I hate Kuhn’s “essay” form prose paragraphs!

The format in Structure of Scientific Revolutions sucks as much as possible.

Although this book is about STEM, STEM is not written this way.

the 1962 book by Thomas Kuhn, the structure of scientific revolutions.

this book is the opposite of the presentation communication style of STEM.

Perverse Assertion of Prohibition by Entheogen scholarship: Rev 22 Esoteric Reading vs. Gen 3 Exoteric Misreading

stop enjoying getting high on complaining about Genesis 3; stop enjoying telling people that Genesis 3 dictates perpetual prohibition of Psilo.

while identifying with the counterculture and identifying psychedelics with the counterculture only; exclusively

Fake, Forced Construction “the Mushroom”

re-read now my shelf of books about entheogens scholarship: put a strong emphasis on detecting and interrogating them regarding the artificial category that lumps together amanita and psilocybin.

bolster and further develop my understanding of the existing bad paradigm, and what exactly is wrong with it, and who exactly is embracing it, in what way, or partially embracing it, or embracing it within a different meaning-network.

forcefully and vigorously tear apart violently ripped apart Amanita versus Psilocybin. they have been related in a certain way.

Amanita imagery never means ingesting Amanita; it always means ingesting Psilocybin.

in this aggressive inversion, force Amanita to serve psilocybin, instead of Irvin 2008’s opposite abuse and mistreatment of Psil employed only to serve the elevation and idolizing of Amanita,

reject and sever and suppress Amanita, to counter the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

the Amanita Primacy Fallacy goes hand-in-hand with the massive error of conflating and artificially constructing a category that has almost no justification for existing.

imagery of the two kinds of mushrooms does occur together, but that is the extent and limit of the relationship.

As if a convention developed to construct the artificial container category “the holy leaf”, and then you proceed to use coca imagery to represent cannabis ingestion.

The data, the art imagery that we are given, does in fact gather together these two unrelated types of fungi in Christian and Hellenistic art.

there is a complex dance when tearing these two unrelated mushrooms apart from each other, in order to construct clear, coherent, viable specific theory.

Reducing Transcendent Knowledge by Mis-Grounding it in Ordinary State Mundane Daily Life

The main benefit of Transcendent Knowledge is to enable further research in the loose cognitive state, not therapy for mundane daily life.

Pre-Paradigm Science

debating whether there is or is not an existing theory,

an old theory,

is a different discussion, a different analysis in the field of psychedelic pseudoscience versus in the field of entheogen scholarship.

That needs to be destroyed and discarded by the new theory.

as more of us to do more critical rereading of this field of mushrooms, we can see a paradigm shift in process/ in the making.

the Amanita Primacy Fallacy or “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” theory is criticized in some ways by Jan Irvin and Andy Letcher and Thomas Hatsis and Michael Hoffman and Jerry Brown and Giorgio Samorini.

Psilo Blows Away Eleusis LSA Theory

Road to Eleusis p 16 reports this in a veiled way, but I am able to read it bc i know the pieces scattered to decode: and watched recent YT Ruck interviews post TIK (Brian Muraresku): The Immortality Key book.

Hofmann-provided LSA failed for Ruck & Wasson, while Staples that day used Psil which is “more dependable” Ruck admits.

Interrogating Books to Reveal the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

Right now I am looking at Road to Eleusis to check for the Amanita Primacy Fallacy vs. any coverage of Psilo.

I am positioned now to read all of the entheogen scholarship books and Entheos four issues to write an entire article critiquing and surveying (diagnosing) and reporting on:

to what extent is the field of entheogen scholarship taken over by the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

Tie in the various criticisms of aspects of that from Lash, Letcher, Samorini, Irvin 2008, me, … even Evil M. Hoffman 2015 Toxicology article says someone oughtta think of looking for psilo in Mystery Religions.

Someone oughtta think of looking for psilo in Mystery Religions.

M. Hoffman, editor for Ruck Committee, 2015 Toxicology article

Contents:

• Download Link
• Content/Timestamps
• Ep248a 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?
• Ep248b 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?
• Episode Title/Irvin Links
• Tech Notes
• See Also

Download Link

Download for 1 week starting April 30, 2023: https://we.tl/t-XB3QYvikN8
(v. 2; part A’s song name is corrected)

Ep248a — 1:48:13, 152 MB — Voice content ends at 1:21:23 (“I can’t list 12 “principles” from the Egodeath theory 1988-1997 from memory”); listen to 27 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

v1 upload contained incorrect song title

Download for 1 week starting April 30, 2023: https://we.tl/t-JzBTd4d25t (v. 1, Errata: the part A .mp3 file’s song is named “Ep248b”, should say “Ep248a”.)

v1 download link: Song Title Errata: Both mp3 files / songs got named/titled
“Ep248b 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?”
Filename “Ep248a 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom – What’s in a Name?0.mp3” contains song misnamed “Ep248a 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom – What’s in a Name?0.mp3”

Both episode parts start with the same, “hallucinogens research” Intro.

Content/Timestamps

This episode skips tons of recordings with good content April 23-28, 2023. I’m hoping that the April 22 recordings plus these April 29 recordings cover the gap.

The big news yesterday (April 29, 2023) was that:

Jan Irvin exempts Amanita and Allegro from critique, when calling psychedelics “suggestogens” in 2014, and in Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh when demonizing psilocybin. Irvin has been consistently much more favorable to Amanita than Psilocybin.

Irvin 2008:
Strong advocacy of Amanita & Allegro.
Tepid support for psilocybin; it’s treated as a mere supporting cast for the big star, Amanita, the holy mushroom.

Irvin 2014 & 2022:
Silent about Amanita & Allegro.
Demonizes psilocybin.

Irvin has never subjected either one to critique (other than precisely identifying the scholarly source for any technical errors in SMC). Amanita & Allegro are somehow exempted from Irvin’s critique.

In Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh, Irvin criticizes Wasson for trying to harm Christianity by equating psilocybin with the Eucharist and the Word (Logos).

Irvin’s can-do-no-wrong hero Allegro was more clearly and obviously trying to harm and discredit Christianity.

Irvin (2008, 2014, 2022) is, in effect, trying to equate Amanita with Eucharist and Logos, while disrespecting psilocybin (2008) and demonizing psilocybin (2014, 2022).

todo: Guitar-only .mp3, Ep248G

Nice to do: Break out the guitar segments (longer than 20 s) into a separate .mp3, Ep248G. Shorten part A & B by removing the 27 minutes / 14 minutes of guitar at end. In any case, I plan/want to combine the 27 + 14 minutes into Ep248G guitar-only extracts.

27+14 = 41 minutes; LP length.

There’s a little typing, mouse clicks, or room noise in the mics, but reasonable.

haha i say “cybernetics” isolated word at Ep248a 1:27:10 (in middle of guitar/music) from input rec’g / track “02b VOX_TK_5302” — a 1 GB file, would be hard to figure out where the word came from; listen to the track where that passage came from “02b VOX_TK_5302”, which is from 18:34 to 27:11 in Ep248a. Is the word “cybernetics” missing from the voice part of Ep248a??

Ep248a 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?

Tech issues and rough production: Lots of miking experiments and sometimes levels are wrong, or too much treble, too loud guitar (too quiet mic).

Length: 1:48:13 (1:21:00 spoken idea development scholarly content, then 27 minutes guitar)

Ep248a 0:00 —

10:00 —

Need to re-inventory Eadwine images in Great Canterbury Psalter now that I know a LOT more about morphology than in Nov 2020 through March 2023. Dud mushroom trees are highly of interest for morphology.

how many caps average, in Great Canterbury Psalter Eadwine images?

Image f134: 3 caps. 2 are red-leaf Amanita colors, 1 is tan shelf fungus.
Image f145: 5 caps. 1 panaeolus.
Image f177: 7 caps. 1 panaeolus, 1 red leaf Amanita cap. 6 cubensis.

Only 1 liberty-cap cap among those 3 images.
177 & 145 have a panaeolus cap.

• [🙃 Image f134]
• [👑 Image f145]
• [🐴 Image f177]

18:34 — Errata: segment at 18:34 is too loud. Due to switching mics in mid-recording, that made production awkward. Adjust volume.

19:30 — We desire to enter into loosecog, but to enter Loosecogland/ Mythemeland and remain there with stable control requires going through fatal loss of control and the end of the world. Different model of control and of the world, to have stable, viable control.

Price of entry to the psilocybin realm: fatal loss of control and the end of the world.

20:00 —

Great Canterbury Psalter contains 2 Amanita trees, and red-leaf caps with white tips.

f134

You’re supposed to reconcile the two guys’ semi-contradictory foot heights and hand heights.

Solution:

Hanging from right knee causes left knee to dangle closer to the ground, so Red’s left hand should be closer to ground than right hand (following knees rather than feet, which aren’t used to keep from falling).

Physics dictates Red’s feet height relative to knees; the resulting foot height contradict Red’s knee relative height: right knee is further from ground than left knee, yet right foot is closer to ground than left foot, due to geometry/physics of knees relative to feet, unlike when standing — or when sitting balancing in tree.

Q.E.D.

f145

1 Liberty-Cap cap with red+white Amanita colors.
1 red-leaf cap with red/white Amanita colors.

f177

This mushroom tree includes a cut right trunk and a cut branch, by 100% offset of cross-under; I first grappled with this question when drawing the white line, Feb. 26 2023.

This crop includes Sun Light. 1 panaeolus, 1 red-leaf Amanita colors.

30:00 —

37:00 — designed a “table” for branching-message mushroom trees article to group the mytheme-pairs:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Key-Motifs-branching-handedness-stability

The {branching} motif includes {branching} and {non-branching} motifs.

The {handedness} motif includes {left limb} and {right limb} motifs.

The {stability} motif includes {unstable} and {stable} motifs.

The {handedness} motif is in the middle and connects the {branching} motif to the {stability} motif in the psilocybin loosecog state:

{branching} — {left limb} — {unstable}

{non-branching} — {right limb} — {stable}

In terms of the three combinations of states, models, and resulting stability:

1: {no mushroom} — {branching} — {left limb} — {stable}

2: {mushroom} — {branching} — {left limb} — {unstable}

3: {mushroom} — {non-branching} — {right limb} — {stable}

40:00 —

{branching} is a direct analogy.

{handedness} is an indirect analogy, and helps connect {branching} and {stability} imagery.

{stability} is a direct analogy.

The {branching} motif is used to depict transformation of the mental model of the world in which control agency steers.

The {handedness} & {stability} motifs are used to depict transformation of the mental model of control agency that steers in the world.

50:00 — still designing the above “table”.

What drives us to switch the model of control?

Which one is the ultimate change:
the end of the world, and the new world?
ego death and rebirth of the control agent?

Entry into Jerusalem (Golden Psalter)

Passing through the heimarmene gate; ego death gate; sacrifice of child garment gate; no-free-will gate.

Lorenzetti’s heimarmene sphere of the fixed stars; heaven’s gate.

The gate at the upper Saturn layer leading to rebirth into the sphere of the fixed stars.

Pass in/out/up/down through the gate.

Revelation 22, last page of bible: allowed to go “may go through the gates” [NIV; check others] of the city with God’s throne and trees of life:

Reve 22:14 NIV: “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”

See the very good Rev 22 excerpts I added today April 30 2023 at (will wordcount force me to remove that?) —

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#rev22 —

Entheogen scholars who cite Genesis 2 & 3 while omitting Revelation 22 have lost their share in the tree of life; they are prohibited from Psilocybin.

Entheogen scholars who complete Genesis 2 & 3 by citing Revelation 22 are granted a share in the tree of life and the ability to go in and out through the gate of the city that contains the tree of life.

1:00:00 —

1:10:00 —

1:14:00 — what’s the driver re: control instability?

The story is not ONLY “Change from the branching to the non-branching model of the world and control/steering, to regain viable, stable control.”

Don’t put the spotlight on that dynamic at the expense of the other 11 dynamics. similar to:

Remember to put emphasis on GET THE TREASURE, not AVOID THE DRAGON.

My lesson learned from my mistake in advising the Oregon Psilocybin Authority, I provided too much “how to avoid shadow dragon monster”, not enough “how to get through the guarded gate to get the treasure”.

That’s not the whole story, even if it’s the most striking theme.

Don’t tell a single-aspect story, there are several dynamics that occur together.

I in Jan or Aug 1988, and 1997, expressed the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence as some 12 principles, not just a single master principle.

Many aspects come into play during transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

1:20:00 —

Ep248a 1:21:23 — Guitar til the end of this episode. Voice content ends at 1:21:23 (“I can’t list 12 “principles” from the Egodeath theory 1988-1997 from memory”).

Listen to 27 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

1:30:00 —

1:40:00 —

Ep248a 1:48:13 — End.

Ep248b 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip to next track.

todo: note where there’s guitar; more than a few seconds of guitar.

Ep248b 0:00 —

Ep248b 3:00 – deocing decoding action doesn’t happen about the mushroom motifi in particular, tho use all 4 motifs to see everything best

mushroom motif itself doesn’t need as much decoding as the other 3: msurhooms

new, balanced phrase, same level of combination: lower-level, not “branching-message mushroom trees” hi-level compound mytheme/motif.
mbhs

branching-message mushroom trees is good at top level. break it down in lower level:

{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

old, uneven phrase:
{branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs

Ep248b 10:00 —

each motif plays an important role, the motifs aren’t all required to be used

the first model of control is unstable in loose cognitive state, transformation isn’t ONLY b/c restablizing control. treat the system of motifs, and the sytsem of model of mental model transformation . beward of single-factor accounting; child loses control b/c multiple reasons: dinstinct dynamics, don’t misuse locking the spotligh on this one dynamic.

child lose control for many interlocked interconnected reasons:

also b/c helpless puppet

also b/c thoughts pre-exist

also b/c high-er level controller creator injects control-thoughts (what you will to think and do) into the mind

also b/c you don’t control the source of your thoughts

also b/c deja vu is forcing here’s you are made to remember fatal loss of control and end of the world

bracket-off the mushroom motif, that leaves

{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs representing main dynamics of mental worldmodel transformation in the psil loosecog state.

{left limb touching blade}

Ep248b 10:15 — left limb touching blade

a form of non-branching. obeys Panofsky “must remove branching from your mushroom trees”

meaningless prototypes, the art world came to accept the msh shapes, no one has any agency, indivdual intentionality, direction of distortion of the prototypes. random sloppy art accidental distortion get distored in that particular direction, branching and non- too. Did the audience also agree not to think “mushrooms” so “all the art viewing world came to accept the mushroom garbled meaningless accidental shapes”.

blades = non-branching. affirming non-branching is affirming {blade}

cutting limbs: touching blade to the left limb = affirming non-branching, cut right trunk.

how many blades touching left limb in image f134 Great Canterbury Psalter?

row 1: 1

row 2: 2: swordsman standing & upside down. compare him to hanging guy

row 3: 3 guys, 4 blades.

Ep248b 20:00 — stability , fatal loss of control , end of the world

30:00 —

Ep248b 40:00 — Good content.

Irvin Exempts Amanita from Critiques

Why is Amanita Allegro, Christianity-discreditor, lumper-together of psilocybin and amanita into fake word he engineered, “the mushroom”, why is Allegro & Amanita exempt from Irvin’s critique?

Astro Amanita Theology and Shamanism

the Amanita guy, the Allegro guy. When you think mushroom, think 🍄

Carl Ruck was totally psyched and enthused when smc SMC came out in 1970. I wonder if Ruck read the 1967 periodical version of SMC?

“Irvin was always lost.” I don’t understand irvin 2022 God’s Flesh book accuse Wasson of trying to harm Christianity but in fact Allegro is more so. Irvin is running defense against the Christianity-discreditor Allegro. Allegro can do no wrong,

Why didn’t Irvin 2008 book The Holy Mushroom declare:

Eucharist = Logos = Word = Truth = Psilocybin

Irvin 2008: gist, not brought to this completion:
Eucharist = Logos = Word = Truth = Amanita

you can’t talk about Genesis 3, Irvin 2022, REVELATION 22 as I already told u in 2006 article:
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – find Revelation 22: the bottom part of the long section is copied here:

“Wasson’s position that Eden Trees were recognized as Amanita mushrooms only at the very beginning of writing the Bible is rendered problematic by “the Book of the Revelations”, because that late Christian book includes an Eden tree: the tree of life. Wasson has nothing to say about whether the tree of life in Revelation was intended by the author as an allusion to the use of Amanita. He doesn’t mention John eating the little scrolls from the angel with writing on them. Opening up that discussion would have blown Wasson’s story that only the very earliest Jews – when the Garden of Eden story was written – used and knew about entheogens.

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7). … down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (22:2). Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. (22:14). And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. (22:19).

“Wasson essentially asserts that only the Bible’s opening is informed by understanding the Eden trees as Amanita. But the Bible is bracketed on both ends by these trees, virtually the extreme ends of the Bible, making it plausible that Jews and Christians commonly understood the tree of life to mean Amanita mushrooms throughout the entire era during which the Bible was written. The tree of life is first mentioned in Genesis 2:9, on page 2 of most Bibles, and is last mentioned in Revelation 22:19, only 4 sentences away from the end of the Bible.

“Wasson’s assumptions ask us to believe that the author and editor of the ‘tree of life’ passages in Revelation didn’t understand that the fruit of the tree of knowledge meant the Amanita mushroom, but that they chose to end the Bible with the emphasis on the tree of life out of sheer superficial literary mirroring.”

— Michael Hoffman, 2006

the fly-agaric fresco

Ep248b 50:00 —

51:00 — hatsis misreps Irvin 2008’s position, Irvin THM tells people to stop the “secret fringe hereitcal and mystics” supposition, it’s false, Foreward concurs Judith Brown calls to STOP the “secrecy” premise.

Hatsis falsely calls Irvin Secret Christian Amanita Cult theorist, the “secret” part is opposite of what Irvin wrote. Hatsis lifts the idea of ditching “secret” from Irvin, steals Irvin’s idea, then claims Irvin is a “secret Amanita sect” theorist.

“the mushroom” is a propaganda-type word, shell game wildcard vague umbrella bucket term word “the mushroom” as a trick to shotgun-wedding Amanita and Psilocybin. characterizing-buckets,

“i’m goona cover ALL entheobotany… there’s a psilcovbin passage, our scope is Amanita only.” thm p. 31-32, 49, 59, 107.

Allegro wrote on fresco: “… some recollection of the old tradition was known among Christians”

the entheogenic practices in the wide sense –> non-drug psychedelics, can/ could/ might/ may cause identical effect as psilocybin: ie, transformation from possibilism to eternalism, and mytheme literacy depicting that.

No need to chew the flesh of Christ Eucharist.

What are the effects of the msuhroom? we are to picture a blurry mix of Amanita the engine of the mysery reliigions says Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck. expert told me Amanita wouldn’t work. Psilocybin is the correct pick, you picked wrong. Amanita is the reject/symbolic dud mushroom no one wants to ingest. covered for fake social machinations reasons by both Wasson and Allegor in same way yet somehow Allegro is Good Guy, Allegro and Wasson carry in same way, yet only Wasson, never Allegro, is subject to Irvin’s critiques.

Irvin didn’t point out the fake words “the mushroom” indeterminate hazy invention construction “the mushroom” THERE IS NO SUCH THING, no one uses that word, it’s as fake as Wasson’s Americas “Eucharist=Psilo” invented religion through cherrypicking quote phrases, Irvin shows all the bad stuff left out.

Fabricator of fake words, misrep’ive misquoting by Wasson, aka MAKIN SHT UP, invented fake religious practices made up by Wasson, unsupported by the original publications he draws from, put on display by Irvin in 2022 God’s Flesh. https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/

Ep248b 1:00:00 —

Kupfer “youths in trees cutting away at the treetops” Saint Martins’ church

1:10:00 —

Hatsis ought to attack Ruck not Irvin 2008, Irvin was dismantling their combination of premises. He embraces Amanita usage within Christianity and lumps in psil in half sincere to bolster his Amanita premise/ thesis, but Irvin doesn’t fit Hatsis model of mushroom cult theorists (Hatsis 2013 Roasting Sal article sbu subtitle). THM 2008, RtS 2013 <– required heavy research to get the real article with the real title, the real year, and the dropped appendixes.

I’d be a negative …example of bad old paradigm, see Hatsis 2013 at Archive.org. Else worthless interpretation bizarre vectors and presuppositions and focuses and assumptions. Hatsis’ pictures are valuable (though his factual data is so-so, and his interpretations are poor and overall unhelpful):
Hatsis Gallery of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/hatsis-gallery-of-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art/

Don’t perpetuate 1967-era stagnation by citing the Roasting the Salamander article — it’s stagnant, stuck on dead-end conversation about secret mushroom cult — stop talking about that.

My branching-message mushroom trees article has HOOKS ONLY. Not essays.

Why cite Old Paradigm Wrong publications? confusion-soaked references, what’s gain/loss, cost/ben?

Why is his article in my biblio? for the wrong reasons, it was profitable to discuss with Hatsis and read his articles several times.

My branching-message mushroom trees article is not about how I reached this theory, ie Hatsis’ articles. which were valuable to me, good pictures especially. didn’t get any value from Thomas Hatsis’ random arguments and Amanita-based, Amanita-or-nothing paradigm.

The less I know about the alleged “genre” according to Hatsis, the better. The storyline competes against clear visual thinking. Hatsis always reasons:

“The mushroom imagery in this image CANNOT POSSIBLY be a mushroom, b/c background story in the text, backstory, and theology too.” Look away from the image to get the artist’s message. Forget the artist, study the writer of surrounding text.

salamander survives fire

roudnabout Irvin reasoning about caduceus. i loath the theory that religious myth is sybmols in OSC that symobolize through consubstantial associateed with symbol of planet x which is correctlatedd with the number 3, therefore, meaning. Map everything to everything, no Transcendent Knowledge involved. vs my pair of pages:
the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
the Key Mythemes catalog.

“msh cult theorists” in Hatsis subtitle of RtS

should i cite this hatsis article in this branching-message mushroom trees article? my article is estab’ing a new foundation for moving the field fwd, my 1988 theory, my 2007-2023 , especially brand new part of the Egodeath theory, branching-message mushroom trees theory is more artvisual art motifs visual motifs , my theory of religious mythology was not complete in 2007, always felt that. this aritcle completes my theory of myths and motifs, and completes my model of mental worldmodel t mental worldmodel transformation too. to better aritculate and model that.

osc + branching model = stable.

asc + branching model = unstable. restablizing control is important but is only 1 of 12 aspects.

Browns article is a new conversation, useful for moving the conver fwd

Hatsis is old conversation 1970s Man, stuck in 1970 like an 8-track tape continuous loop. holding back the conv, citing it is good when i write “What was wrong w the old paradigm and how do we move fwd?”
this branching-message mushroom trees article isn’t that purpose: purpose: to complete my mytheme theory of 2007. main point: complete the interp of the art images that are in my 2007 article (Eustace, Dionysus) psychedelic eternalism

the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics

the Key Mythemes catalog , the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog

12 principles of the the theory of ego transcendence : bo block universe, conceptual construct, lcp loose cognitive binding , how tranistion from mental worldmodel , …. about 12 topics, per aug 1988 MS, jan 1997 site, added religious myhtology in 2007 but not a complete mytheme theory of art.

religious imagery , visual art motifs, not textual rleigious mhythology was missing from 2007 article. Way more closure in 2020 than 2007, in 2023 i completed my art decoding and myth… helpd articulate and relate my non-analogy based core theory.

Cite Hatsis in my other article, the Outakes article. brings too much baggage, poor old-paradigm reasoning. clutter this particular article, no wordcount available to discuss what’s wrong w/ his article. but i’d need to. citing his article costs 100 workcount in his case, high.

asc + non-branching model = stable.

Ep248b 1:20:00 —

1:30:00 —

Irvin should have written Eucharist = Amanita. Search his THM for “eucharist”.

did any shaman mexican indinan use phrase “the mushroom”? research q.

counterfeit alleged use claims meaning psil, wasson and allegro latched onto that alleged multi-plant use, to confabualate a single abstraction defined abnormally, Anaita / & Psil in one blow but this article branching-message mushroom trees is not about Amanita or its effects.

Psilocybin, none other, is the Eucharist. we don’t get a max of new thinking from Hatsis 2013 or Irvin 2008, a lot of bad, old thinking there, old paradigm. aman the Amanita Primacy Fallacy driven book THM.

Exempts Amanita and Allegro from critique

title THM = confusing old thinking, i refuse to allow Irvin’s phrase “THM” in my article. branching, mushrooms,

fatal loss of control and the end of the world, its relation to transformation of the mental worldmodel , = stop topic of restablizing control the main central most important topic, but not don’t hog all the spotlight.

mental worldmodel transformation is not only for the purpose of restabilizing control, the mind is taught how world shaped…

the model of control is revealed to be unstable, but regaining stable control shouldn’t have spotlight exclusively.

how exactly does control seizure and control restabilization work,
(but that’s not the only important topic)

how does mental model of control and world transform

Ep248b 1:40:00 —

1:45:43 — End of voice content.

1:45:56 — Outro announce, Egodeath Mystery Show.

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

1:45:43 — Guitar to the end (14 minutes).

1:50:00 —

1:55:00 — quiet mic behind guitar, a few words:

“CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF CONTROL AND THE END OF THE WORLD FOR IMMATURE THINKING”

2x

Are You Eternalism Experienced
Get Eternalism Experienced

1:59:27 — End.

Episode Title/Irvin Links

There’s no such thing as “the mushroom”. There are two completely unrelated psychoactives: Amanita (not a classic psychedelic) and Psilocybin.

Entheogen scholars deliberately conflated and confabulated Amanita and Psilocybin to sell a bogus, non-existent category to The Public.

No scientific mycologist ever wrote “the mushroom” to artificially group — a SHOTGUN WEDDING — Amanita with Psilocybin.

Deceptive entheogen scholars fabricated the super-awkward, Primitive Anthropology Theory dept. propaganda term “the mushroom” (a HIGHLY unscientific, ambiguous, confusion-spawning term) in order to falsely attribute the desirable psilocybin effects to the undesirable REJECT MUSHROOM, AMANITA “I’LL PASS” MUSCARIA.

Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality and Social Control
Jan Irvin, 2014
https://logosmedia.com/entheogens_whatsinaname_psychedelicspirituality_socialcontrol_cia

url https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Mushroom-Evidence-Mushrooms-Judeo-Christianity/dp/1439215170/ —

Tech Notes

boosted guitar-only background parts 6dB

Guitar Amp: Marshall Plexi with four cabs; speakers include Orange, Vintage 30, Greenback.

Miking

Switched back & forth between stereo room mics vs. handheld omni closemic:

Miking Setup A: stereo room mics

Vocal/room mic L: AT2020, aimed at rear cab. Compressor M39.
eq ended up next morning at: 12, 4.5, -15, which I believe I assessed as very good.

Vocal/room mic R: CAD M39 cardioid mode, aimed at rear cab. Comp.
eq ended up next morning at: 4, 3, -10, which I believe I assessed as very good.

Limiter & 80Hz bass cut on the deck.

mics 5′ apart, central position: 3′ distance voice to mics

57s on 8″ front cabs, 1.5″ dist, 45 deg.

Miking Setup B: mono handheld

vocal: handheld ev 635a, 1″, eq: flat (2-band). No compressor. Limiter & 80Hz bass cut on the deck.

No room mics.

57s on 8″ front cabs, 1.5″ dist, 45 deg.

Input Recordings

Range for part A (omitted many, not content but tech tests):
VOX_TK_5278.wav
VOX_TK_5309.wav

Range for part B:
VOX_TK_5310.wav
VOX_TK_5315.wav

See Also

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Contents:

• Download Link
• Content/Timestamps
• Gold Clips about Control Re-Stabilization
  • Ep247a ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability
  • Ep247b ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability
• Images
• Tech Notes
• See Also

Download Link

“Ep247a Fatal Control Instability.mp3”
Download for 1 week starting p.m. April 29, 2023: https://we.tl/t-otc5lzHM0o
2:25:18 (2 hours of content), 208 MB stereo

“Ep247b Fatal Control Instability.mp3”
Download for 1 week starting p.m. April 29, 2023: https://we.tl/t-7TvgwqPvhW
2:30:09, 212 MB stereo

Content/Timestamps

Gold Clips about Control Re-Stabilization

• Gold Clip: Ep247a [20:26-29:10]
• Gold Clip: Ep257a [2:01:25-2:07:10]
  Misplaced Amanita Fascination vs. Actually Interesting Control Re-Stabilization
• Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:08:08- 1:17:58]
  Esoteric Theraputic Therapy: transformation of the mental worldmodel Successfully & Smoothly
• Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:24:04-1:25:56]
• Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:32:22-1:36:49]
• Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:49:18-1:52:10]

template:

Ep247a x:x-x:x (x:x) – from x.wav (date)

Ep247b x:x-x:x (x:x) – from x.wav (date)

Ep247b 0:00-3:03 (3:03) – from 5106.wav (April 22) – the process of testing the two models of control. Shifting models. Mature model viable / stable. Lesson: here is a more stable form of control.

Ep247b 2:01:59-2:04:35 (x:x) – from 5111.wav (April 23) – Amanita is never ingested, always means Psil. Simplest Theory (strategy). Highest value = Transcendent Knowledge. Metzinger not about changing the basic mental owo mwm . mental worldmodel .

Ep247a ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability

Fatal catastrophic loss of control, the threat of loss of control realized in a way, the youth lost control, reached the end of the world, control was taken away by higher control.

Episode part A has most guitar moved to end so can skip to next track (18:00 of guitar at end — just quick outtakes; not produced).

Guitar in background + rush job of production, means slow-paced/waits. I got rid of long guitar passages/gaps, only.

This episode is part of my recent push to not avoid the hardest topic:
How Observing Fatal Control Instability During Loose Cognition Sacrifices Childish Control-Model While Learning Mature Control-Model

Which “we” is “we never lost control”?

John Lash glossary entry “salvationism”

Timestamps for Ep257a

Ep257a 0:00 — Guitar

Ep257a 0:20 — Miking: ev 635a handheld (mono voice, stereo guitar). eq: 0 0 -4.5. Compressor. 57s on 8″ cabs.

Ep257a 0:47 — Intro: Egodeath Mystery Show, April 22, 2023.

Postings I just posted at Cyberdisciple site at page: Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity. 1979 coined ‘entheogen’, a word that has NO BAGGAGE AT ALL — That’s a posting after my page The Entheogen War: “Secret Amanita Cult” Prohibitionists vs. “Psilocybin Eucharist” Repealers. Found the posting, it’s:
How the Amanita Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Discredited and Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm — about my two posts at Cyberdisciple site, covered by present episode.

Ep257a 5:00 — Irvin falsely grants Allegro credit for asserting that all mushroom trees mean mushroom. Citation needed! Allegro didn’t give a damn about the multiple mushroom trees, so Irvin cannot give Allegro credit for the category of mushroom trees. SMC is not about entheogen art!

Allegro barely had any interest in Plainc or mushroom trees as a set of multiple instances.

Plainc fresco contradicts Allegro’s “primitive Christianity secret forgotten” main Anthropology-dept. thesis.

Irvin criticizes Ruck (Daturas for the Virgin) in falsely crediting Wasson for asserting all msh trees mean mushrooms.

Yet Irvin is almost as bad as Ruck, trying to grant credit for Allegro asserting “all mushroom trees mean mushrooms”, which Allegro never asserted and never gave a damn about and certainly does not deserve credit for; rather, Allegro deserves BLAME for not giving an F about the class of mushroom trees — like all entheogen scholars until FINALLY Samorini woke up re: Panofsky’s 1952 lead/tip “there are hundreds of mushroom trees”, in 1997.

What the hell is WRONG with entheogen scholarship such that it took entheogen scholars 45 years to give a damn about Panofsky’s hundreds of mushroom trees, instead of ONLY caring about the fly-agaric fresco.

Almost all mushroom trees are Psilocybin, not Amanita, therefore we don’t care about them, because they barely help the Amanita paradigm.

Article About The Mushroom (Evil M. Hoffman 2015), ch. 25 in book History of Toxicology

Mark Hoffman article Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions. Intro section, Amanita section, tiny Psilocybin ‘n Stuff section.

Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
Mark Amanita Hoffman
https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman –

“Someone oughta start thinking about psilocybin ‘n stuff in mystery religions.”

See M. Hoffman’s Psilocybin ‘n Stuff section buried at the end, past the first, giant section about how “counterculture Amanita” is the solution to all questions.

Ep257a 10:00 —

18:40 — Errata: left mic way too bright. Egodeath Mystery Show Intro after guitar.
M. Hoffman article con’t.

Errata: Left Mic Bright: left mic way too bright in this segment. Apply “Small Speakers” curve if available Settings > Music > Eq > Small Speakers, Treble Cut.

Ep257a 20:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247a [20:26-29:10]

20:26 – I never say “spiritual”. Here’s the nature of religion:

20:45 – I explain how the mind works. that’s religion. in terms of mental model of control in world, depending on a higher-level uncontrollable controller. religious exp’g.

God holding the right hand / wrist (f177 Great Canterbury Psalter ) depicts that direct relationship with God thus 2-level control is religion. religion = 2 levels of control.

I like religion. I support it.

I don’t build on “religion” or “ego death”.

22:46 – initial identification as controller dies. youth dies. Ken Wilber. real death is ego death.

The mind’s xfmn is a death like end of life of caterpillar, immature form.

Trying to exert control power leads to loss of control disaster failure. the more the mind tries to exert that control, = death, an end to the initial model re: control agency & identity.

That effort of control mode causes the failure of that mode of control.

I’m identified with that initial mode of control effort, thus Transcendent Knowledge = death of the initial asserter of possibilism-thinking-premised control, which causes fatal terminal control instability.

25:50 –

28:15 – “try harder” failed. The harder I tried, the more I failed. Spring quarter 1986. Paul famous passage.

29:10 – end of gold clip.

end gold clip

29:10 – continue reading M Hoffman tox’y article. Rev 22.

30:00 —

M. Hoffman 2015 fails to mention Rev 22‘s tree of life per my 2006 Plainc article. If talk about Genesis 2 & 3, MUST point to Rev 22 last page of the damn Bible, fools.

What do entheogen scholarship books say about tree of life in Revelation? Does Gordon “Blunder” Wasson mention it?

39:00 — until a few minutes ago, I misinterpreted Allegro as referring to Amanita, but actually, at cut-off end of previous track, I spoke under the misimpression that Allegro’s passage was about Amanita – it’s about Psilocybin. In The Holy Mushroom THM.

Psychometrics Pseudo Science Has a 39% Failure Rate

40:00 — CEQ , psychedelic pseudo science, 11 factors, unavailable nonexistent psychedelics psychometrics q’airs. MEQ created by Tim Leary.

The house of Psychedelic [pseudo] Science rests on a soggy foundation that FALLS OVER 39% OF THE TIME per Griffiths under optimal conditions high dose psilocybin bad trip, as cited in Houot’s dissertation “nearly 40% bad trips”.

50:00 — Errata – Voice too quiet, guitar too loud in this segment. 2:00

50:18 – 5102.wav. miking: 635A handheld. Eq: 0 0 -4.5. Limiter, bass cut. M. Hoffman article defines enth religious experience effects. Does Hatsis & Irvin agree?

51:44 – Overemphasis on nondual unity oneness.

Ep257a con’t Bright mics. Reading M. Hoffman article Intro.

52:08 – end of 5102.wav. end of 635A mic.

52:08 – start of 5103.wav, bright room mics. con’t critique of M Hoffman article.

57:43 – Hoffman reveals “Amanita” is not in “mushrooms” conceptual bucket.

Ep257a 1:00:00 —

John Lash – Not In His Name

~1:03:00 – criticizing John Lash: pretending Mithraism doesn’t exist. Overcrediting Wasson.

Ep257a 1:10:00 —

‘Salvationism’ Bogeyman Defined by Lash: We Must Prevent Psilocybin from Being in the Mainstream [Prohibitionists Applaud]

1:14:33 – ‘Salvationism’ Bogeyman Defined by Lash

1:20:00 —

1:23:35 — There is no redemption for mainstream religion per Lash. We countercultureists must build a big wall to keep The Mushroom separate from the evil Mainstream.

1:30:00 —

Wasson, THM , denying psilocybin in Europe

Ep257a 1:40:00 —

We cannot attribute the hundreds of msh trees to Allegro as Irvin calls for.

1:50:00 —

Allegro affirming Plainc does not consider the hundreds of msh trees. Irvin only has a TINY case for giving credit to Allegro for the “hundreds”.

2:00:00 — reading aloud: Allegro quoted in THM: “the strange shapes … awe and dread in the minds of simple [i highlighted that now] folk.” find “THM p. 49” in the present page, to see that page of THM.

Gold Clip: Ep257a [2:01:25-2:07:10]: Misplaced Amanita Fascination vs. Actually Interesting Control Re-Stabilization

2:01:25 — gold clip begins. 2-part; 2 topics: first, great discussion about the misplaced Amanita fascination, then, how the mind works.

2:03:06 – Amanita is not a psychedelic; it’s merely a visionary plant.

~2:04:00 — my history in not coming from entheogen scholarship ; my lack of being impressed by Heinrich’s book, I didn’t get trapped in Amanita Madness b/c I had the Egodeath theory core theory. I was never terminating and stunted at mere Amanita theory.

Amanita theory grinds to a halt. No Future. Dead End. Curiosity stated, the field…

2:05:45 – Amanita is where the field of entheogen scholarship goes to die. It’s a dead end.

Amanita is where the field of entheogen scholarship goes to die. It’s a dead end.

Cybermonk April 22, 2023, Egodeath Mystery Show Ep247a

2:06:04 – Switch from focusing on the changing physical shapes of Amanita, to the changing mental models of control-in-world. driven by demonstrating control non-viability and discovering another model, that works.

That is the height of challenge of theoretical explanation: explain how crossing the control stability boundary … [end of track 5105.wav]

— per the Egodeath theory; the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.

2:07:10 end of gold clip

Ep257a 2:07:10 — Guitar for rest of episode. (18:08)

2:10:00 — gtr

2:20:00 — gtr

Ep257a 2:25:18 — End of Ep257a.

Ep247b ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability

4:40 of guitar at end.

Ep257b 0:00 — Start.

10:00 —

20:00 —

Ep257b ~29:00 — Apr 30 2023: I just realized another problem for Irvin in his THM p. 49 mis-treatment of Allegro’s Endnote 15:

Allegro writes “Most important, Psilocybe Mexicana [see Heim & Wasson; see Hofmann].”

Yet Irvin writes: what Heim/ Wasson & Hoffmann wrote is not important for our discussion, because Psilocybin, not an Amanita species.”

Irvin is more radically single-plant fallacy: Amanita than Allegro!

THM p. 31 — “all entheogens” (twice), yet “Psilocybin–not important to our study” (twice)

At top of page 32, the next list item is about Hofmann’s passage, with identical wording: “Psilocybin–not important to our study.”

THM p. 49 — “most important, Psilocybe”, yet “not important to our discussion because Psilocybe”

At top of page is Allegro’s writing, in SMC page 39, where he cites his endnote 15. Below that, Irvin shows Allegro’s endnote 15.

Allegro writes “most important, Psilocybe”.

Yet Irvin writes “not important, because Psilocybe”.

Irvin is more restrictive of scope — in this chapter — than Allegro, despite Irvin promising twice, on the chapter’s intro page 31, to provide commentary about “all of Allegro’s entheogens/entheobotany citations”.

THM p. 59 — “endnote #15 relates to Psilocybe mushrooms and is not critical to our discussion”

Irvin writes “[SMC] Pg. 229, endnote #15, relates to Psilocybe mushrooms and is not critical to our discussion.”

THM p. 107

Mid-page, note “ALL ENTHEOGENIC CITATIONS USED BY ALLEGRO” when Irvin in fact EXCLUDED Psilocybin citations “because not important to our study/ discussion”. Now, without explanation, Psilocybin is among “the main types of mushrooms in discussion”.

Irvin directly self-contradicts himself, REPEATEDLY, about whether OR NOT Psilocybin is “in discussion”.

p. 107 re: specimen photos: Amanita (Table 1) [9 photos, placed first], cubensis (Table 2) [only 4 photos, placed after amanita], lib cap (Table 3) [only 2 photos, placed after amanita].

p. 108: “therefore we’ll begin with the fly agaric fresco.” Note that Irvin puts the fresco first in the gallery of art.

Amanita Madness, Irvin continues the bad move of MAKING THE FRESCO KING OF ALL MUSHROOM-TREES EVIDENCE, BECAUSE IT’S AMANITA.

THM p. 152 — “Judeo-Christianity … evidence to prove that the holy mushroom has the capability to cause such religious experiences … Griffiths’ psilocybin study”

A disappointing surprise for Irvin: Paragraph 1 “the fungus”, “the mushroom”, is about Psilocybe, not Amanita!

If Psilocybin is “not important to our discussion/study”, then remove your Psilocybin art from your gallery (like Brown removed your dud non-Amanita tapestry from his gallery in 2016 book & 2019 article, j/k), and remove your citation of Griffiths’ 2006 study finding that psilocybin gives mystical experience.

This THM chapter’s opening page 31 fails to give any justification for making Amanita the scope of “all entheogens” and exclude Psilocybin from “all entheogens” as “not important for our discussion”.

WHY is “our discussion” limited to Amanita, despite “all entheogens” being stated as the scope TWICE on intro p. 31 (“Allegro’s Citations and References”)? p. 31:

“commentary on all of Allegro’s endnotes and citations in SMC with regard to entheogens.”

“entheogenic and entheobotanical studies. They … represent all the specific references to other scholars in the field of entheobotany and entheogens listed in SMC.”

So, Irvin’s book THM page 31 is self-contradictory, contradicts Allegro writing “most important, Psilocybe mexicana; see R. Heim and Wasson … see Hofmann … p. 169″

We aren’t allowed by Irvin to see the passages Allegro is referring to by “most important, Psilocybe mexicana”. Irvin writes about each of those two passages cited by Allegro: “not important to our discussion because it refers to Psilocybe, and not an Amanita species.” — Irvin in THM p. 49, two times.

Then on THM p. 107, Irvin flip and contradicts/ silently switches his scope again, without acknowledging or defending doing so: “The main mushroom types in discussion are Amanita & Psilocybe.” SHELL GAME!

Given that Allegro writes “most important”, you HAVE to give some explicit justification for WHY the passage is “not important to our discussion/study”.

What the hell is the scope of “our discussion/study”, and why? Why is it both “all entheogens” (asserted twice, p. 31) and also restricted to Amanita only?

Why does Irvin keep re-declaring a different scope, with no justification attempted or provided? Even when Allegro writes “most important, Psilocybe mexicana”!

Irvin p. 31 twice writes that the scope is “all entheogens”.

Ep257b 30:00 —

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1:00:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:08:08- 1:17:58]
Esoteric Theraputic Therapy: transformation of the mental worldmodel Successfully & Smoothly

1:08:08 — start of 5109.wav – good content. Esoteric reference for “therapy”, “theraputic” use of enth. entheogens. transformation from possibilism to eternalism? Balance-scale. Eadwine images. Stable losing control balance.

1:10:00 —

The Ultimate Value: transformation of the mental worldmodel to Become Mature

1:13:09 — gold clip continues. The Ultimate Value: transformation of the mental worldmodel to Become Mature.

1:15:43 – Eadwine = instruction manual on how to use cubensis. A negative story. Eager newbie, then struggle. f134 gcp color Great Canterbury Psalter colors of the cubensis display case. I discovered how to read their insturction manual.

end gold clip

1:17:58 – not gold. Plan to make webpage containing all of the instruction manual that Eadwine left in pictures.

1:20:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:24:04-1:25:56]

1:24:04 — resume gold clip. Rich genre of art. Common esoteric knowledge of balance.

Stand on right foot to adopt adult form through disproving and sacr’g the initial model.

The better you understand 2-level control, the better you are at disproving and thwarting and demolitioning egoic control.

1:25:56 – end of gold clip. but continues after a bit of talk about cubensis lockboxes in Eadwine.

end gold clip

1:25:56 – M Hoffman Toxicology article.

1:30:00 —

~1:31:21 — psil is only way to Logos./ Euch/ salvation/ regen’n.

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:32:22-1:36:49]

~1:32:22 – gold clip. Eadwine’s images are an instruction manual for kings about cubensis re-stabilization. My alliance with Eadwine.

1:32:59 – Need instruction manual for loss of control stability.

Must travel through the loss of control to fatally transgress control and fatally lose control through asserting clearly enough, in the clear-seeing state, the possibilism model and effortful king agent pushing.

The mind looks at the control system and experiments with control: the vulnerability is quickly evidence.

The higher mind perceives the control dynamics.

Great Canterbury Psalter is an instruction manual.

1:34:05 – gold clip continues past end of 5109.wav at 1:34:05

Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
Mark Amanita Hoffman
https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman –

Why are you [evil M. Hoffman] using the forbidden word ‘secrecy’? The kykeon sacrament.

1:34:05 – Start of 5110.wav. same topic con’t. Continuing to discuss stability alternating with M. Hoffman Toxicology article: Entheogens in Mystery Religions.

1:35:00 — Eadwine warns about standing on left leg.

1:36:49 – end gold clip. Time announce: 11:53 pm April 22, 2023.

end gold clip

back to M. Hoffman article.

1:36:49 – M. Hoffman article. His self-contradictory, inconsistent use of “mushrooms”, at the end tiny end of article on Psil, says mushroom as if the first drug-section above didn’t have a FULL PAGE ON AMNITA.

M. Hoffman bizarrely contrasts Psilocybin/msh vs. Amanita, as if Amanita isn’t “mushrooms”.

Good critical discussion of that section of Hoffman’s article. “European shamanic peoples” — confusion multiplies b/c poor lexicon usage by Hoffman.

Ep257b 1:40:00 —

Good discussion of Amanita processing process and the general strategy of mapping Amanita Alchemy process to the Egodeath theory. Sacrifice child in alchemy.

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:49:18-1:52:10]

1:49:18 – 2-level control — we’re shown this in the instruction manual that’s the Great Canterbury Psalter – how to lose control and transform control – how to shift from left to right leg.

Psalter reader demonstrating lifting the right fingertip (foot) and using possibilism-thinking (left leg). Causes instability. Inevitably doomed to lose control. that v1 of you as an agent dies and is sacrificed; child . mind transforms.

Gold Clip to end of track at 1:52:10 (5110.wav) – Eadwine’s journal.

Tech Errata: right channel mic starts whistling near 1:35:00. Need to retire that mixer [done], which that mic doesn’t like.

Great Canterbury Psalter is an instruction manual for Cubensis.

Image f145 (below): The cubensis shipping receiver guy is teaching the trader to move from the unstable possibilism-thinking model to the right-leg eternalism-thinking model.

You will fall over, loss control, lose your balance/stability; rely on the higher control and non-branching pre-existing control thoughts.

You don’t have the power to change your future control-thoughts, which will be forced upon you and you don’t have control or creation-power over your future control-thoughts.

You will lose your beloved child in order to transform control. — Recorded at 11:53 pm April 22, 2023.

The Word ‘mushrooms’ Is Used to Maximize Bad Theory and Shell-Game Wildcard Deceiving Rhetoric and Self-Contradiction

It just now struck me (April 22) how much bad theory and confusion around the word “mushrooms”, which maximizes Bad Theory. Today I learned to perceive this huge ambiguity problem.

Wow, amazing, all kinds of problems are associated with the word “mushrooms”.

Writers must compensate by being extra clear.

The Invention of Entheogen Scholars’ Fake, Deceptive Construction “the mushroom”

Added later to this webpage on April 30, 2023:

ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP HAS DELIBERATELY STRIVEN AND SOUGHT TO DELIBERATELY CONFUSE AND CONFLATE AND FABRICATE A NON-EXISTING ENTHEOGEN, “THE MUSHROOM” BY DELIBERATELY TANGLING TWO UNRELATED PLANTS, to market and sell and bunk Anthropology / Sociology ideology including excusing and even enforcing (John Lash, McKenna, etc.) that we must not allow mainstream religion to use “the mushroom”, we MUST PROHIBIT mushrooms from being in mainstream religion.

Prohibition-constructing entheogen scholars assert and lecture mainstream Christianity about how Christianity is required by God (citing Genesis 2 & 3, censoring Rev 22 last page of the Bible) to prohibit “the mushroom”.

(Ignore Revelation 22, “Those who are on the inside are permitted to eat from the tree of life.”)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev+22&version=NIV

Article:
Branching-message mushroom trees
Section heading:
Revelation 22 Reverses any “Prohibition” from Genesis 2 & 3
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#rev22

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.”

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”

Genesis 2:16-17 & Genesis 3 Completed by Revelation 22: A Psychedelic Eternalism Mytheme Decoding
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/genesis-216-17-genesis-3-completed-by-revelation-22-a-psychedelic-eternalism-mytheme-decoding/

WE MUST UN-TANGLE THEIR DIRTY PROJECT OF DELIBERATELY TANGLING AND CONFLATING TWO PLANTS TO LIE AND FABRICATE A PSEUDO-CATEGORY, “THE MUSHROOM”.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “THE MUSHROOM”; there only exists two separate, unrelated, distinct plants: Psilocybin, and the lesser, unimportant, inferior, undesirable Amanita.

As unrelated as Datura and Cannabis, are Amanita and Psilocybin.

1:50:00 —

Ep257b 1:52:10 — end gold clip

end gold clip

Ep257b 1:52:10 – 5111.wav starts. Cyberdisciple article Against Assumption Suppression.

1:58:17 – I dislike that Amanita imagery is used in Rev and Ezek and Genesis 2 & 3 in the Bible. Couldn’t they have used Psilocybin imagery instead?

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2:25:22 — Guitar at end (4:40). “Egodeath Mystery Show” near end.

Ep257b 2:30:09 — End of Ep257b.

Images

Psalter Viewer Seeing that the Possibility Branching Model Causes Loss of Control

Row 1 Left

Row 2 Middle Right: Balance

Tech Notes

Miking: AT2020 & CAD M39, or ev 635a

Stereo room mics have compressors, handheld mono mic ev 635a does in first segment only, i think.

Left room mic AT2020 way too bright, today April 29 I got it under control.

Recordings

Part A: Some deleted:

VOX_TK_5094.wav – 109 MB

VOX_TK_5095.wav – 66 MB

VOX_TK_5096.wav – 26 MB

VOX_TK_5097.wav – 28 MB

VOX_TK_5098.wav – 290 MB

VOX_TK_5099.wav – 35 MB

VOX_TK_5100.wav – 425 MB

VOX_TK_5101.wav – 22 MB

VOX_TK_5102.wav – 36 MB

VOX_TK_5103.wav – 107 MB

VOX_TK_5104.wav – 180 MB

VOX_TK_5105.wav – 691 MB

See Also

Recent Posts

• No More Writing About Mushrooms, Entheogens, Classic Psychedelics, Visionary Plants, Plant Teachers, or Psychoactive Plants and Substances
• Forbidden Word List for Effective Theory Construction in Psychedelics History and Psychedelic Pseudo Science
• How Observing Fatal Control Instability During Loose Cognition Sacrifices Childish Control-Model While Learning Mature Control-Model

The following posts are April “23” (22) or earlier so are likely same content as this episode:

• Announcement: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm, April 18, 2023
  Section about my April 23rd posting at Cyberdisciple site:
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/announcement-the-psilocybin-mainstream-paradigm-overthrew-the-amanita-counterculture-paradigm-april-18-2023/#Tear-Down-the-Prohibition-Wall
  
• How the Amanita Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Discredited and Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm — about my two posts at Cyberdisciple site, covered by present episode.
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246  Mainstream Psilocybin Control Restabilization (April 18, 2023)
• The Amanita Paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Paradigm
• The Theory of Ego Transcendence (Hoffman 1988)
• The Holy Mushroom (Irvin 2008) Calls to Abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise, But Remains Stuck in Amanita Primacy Fallacy
• Egodeath Mystery Show Ep245  Secret Amanita vs. Psilocybin Eucharist (April 8-10, 2023)
• The Entheogen War: “Secret Amanita Cult” Prohibitionists vs. “Psilocybin Eucharist” Repealers

Contents:

• Wildcard, Shell-Game Umbrella Terms Considered Harmful
• Irvin 2014 and Irvin 2022 Demonizes Psilocybin as a “Suggestogen” and Silently Exempts Amanita from Critique
• Rolf Singer Falsely States Wasson Was the First European Who Ate Psilocybin Mushrooms
• The Two Cultures: STEM vs. Humanities re: Sloppy, Deceiving Terminology “the Mushroom”
• Subjective Effects Index Excludes Amanita, Because No One Actually Cares About Amanita or Is Serious About Muscimol Except as Pop Anthropology Titillation and Proxy Ideology
• Amanita and Psilocybin Are 100% Different, Unrelated Psychoactives — Never Discuss them as if Grouped
• Voice Recordings/ Spoken Idea Development
• I Had to Declare a Major, Vigorous Revolution Against the Intense Extreme Prejudice Against Psilocybin in Europe by Entheogen Scholars, and by Paul Stamets 1994 Too
• See Also

Wildcard, Shell-Game Umbrella Terms Considered Harmful

I revised the article to reduce relying on the umbrella wildcard shell-game conceptual constructs “mushrooms” or “entheogens” to make my points:

Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Mushrooms, Branching, Handedness, and Stability
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

In the context of history of psilocybin religious mythology, try to speak specifically about Psilocybin, Cubensis, Amanita, or ergot — specific plants — rather than in vague abstract multi-plant terms, “fungi”.

That’s hard to do in many cases, given:

• Grammar.
• Flexible communication needs.
• Critical discussion of a malformed field that identifies as “entheogen scholarship”.
• The two (entirely different) plants have been extremely inter-tangled in scholarship about Amanita and Psilocybin.

I’ll do another brute-force pass, to force finding alternative wordings. Suppose I’m writing in 1920, before Amanita and Psilocybin were conflated into “psychoactive mushrooms” (awful, unjustified combination of two very different psychoactive mushrooms).

• Psilocybin defines classic psychedelic effects.

Chrome/WordPress marks “entheogens” as a typo; not a word- agreed

No More Writing About Mushrooms, Entheogens, Psychedelics, Classic Psychedelics, Visionary Plants, Psychoactive Plants, or Substances (only About Psilocybin, or Occasionally Amanita) (and Especially not “the Mushroom”)

Regarding 1964-2007 ergot in Rock Lyrics, my policy remains same as in 1997:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html#Mental%20Construct%20Binding%20and%20the%20Mind-Revealing%20Dissociative%20State – “The most powerful trigger for long sessions of cognitive dissociation is lysergic acid, a key technology.”

Regarding pre-1943 history of classic psychedelics, my single-plant fallacy that I’m victorious with in useful theory construction is Golden Teacher Cubensis, as shown in Great Canterbury Psalter images f134, f145, and f177.

The entheogen scholars’ role is to complain about my single-plant fallacy, overly narrow, while my role is to achieve 100% success in constructing a simple, useful, relevant explanatory theory — by repudiating the entheogen scholars’ greedy, failed attempt to discuss multiple plants at once by using wildcard umbrella shell-game terms and dirty rhetorical moves, as Irvin criticizes when done by Wasson, and ignores when done by Allegro, and then commits himself.

Worst book (dissipation, preventing a theory): Christian Ratsch, 1000-page book of ALL PSYCHOACTIVES.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
Christian Ratsch
2005
https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Psychoactive-Plants-Ethnopharmacology-Applications/dp/0892819782/ —

Also Dale Pendell’s books that jumble all kinds of plants, delivering as broad and hazy and unhelpful as it is broad coverage. As hazy as broad of coverage.
https://www.amazon.com/Pharmako-Gnosis-Plant-Teachers-Poison/dp/1556438893/ —

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell, first sentence of Amanita section of Pharmako Gnosis

Irvin 2014 and Irvin 2022 Demonizes Psilocybin as a “Suggestogen” and Silently Exempts Amanita from Critique

Irvin 2008: Glorifies Amanita, Disrespects and Robs Psilocybin to Prop Up Amanita

Irvin 2014: Demonizes Psilocybin as “Suggestogen”, Remains Silent About Amanita

Irvin 2022: Demonizes Psilocybin, Remains Silent About Amanita

omg while spoken idea development 9:30 pm April 28, 2023, recording TK_VOX_5273.wav (confirmed in recording 5274), I came up with an idea to check do a full text search of Irvin’s 2014 article series “The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms”.

Resulting finding; confirmed my hypothesis/recollection: In Irvin’s article series of 5 articles, only 1 article mentions Amanita: it has 4 mentions of Amanita, none of them negative, all merely incidental.

url https://logosmedia.com/2012/05/RGordonWasson_The-Man-the-Legend-the-Myth-secret-history-of-magic-mushrooms-by-jan-irvin-144/

Irvin shields and protects his idolatrous worship of his false god Amanita.

I just now got the answer to my clever question from a couple days ago:

HEY IRVIN: IS AMANITA A SUGGESTOGEN??

Answer found tonight: NO.
AMANITA IS EXEMPTED FROM IRVIN’S DISPARAGEMENT AS A “SUGGESTOGEN”.

This clever line of questioning Irvin 2014 is a pretty big victory for my critique of Gnostic Media Irvin 2008 vs. Logos Media Irvin 2022.

Irvin is a closeted Amanita Logos Huckster trying to sell us a bunk Amanita Logos-Eucharist while deleting and disrespecting and ROBBING PSILOCYBIN OF ITS CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC EFFECT TO FALSELY ATTRIBUTE THAT EFFECT (THM p. 152 re: Griffiths 2006) TO AMANITA THROUGH THE STRATEGEM/ PLOY/ SHELL GAME WILDCARD USAGE OF DIRTY, DECEPTIVE UMBRELLA TERM “THE MUSHROOM” — just like Allegro does on p. 49 of THM (SMC p. 229 endnote 15).

On p. 49, Irvin starts to follow Allegro from “the mushroom” … “the fungus”, but then Irvin quickly backtracks and avoids presenting the Heim & Hofmann passages that Allegro cites TO LIST THE EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBIN

Irvin instead writes that Allegro’s cited passage x2 “is not important … because it refers to Psilocybe, and not an Amanita species” (p. 49 THM).

Allegro is trying to falsely attribute Psilocybin effects to Amanita through propaganda rhetoric shell-games with ambiguous terms, “the fungus” — exactly as Irvin tries to get away with on THM page 152 where Irvin cites Griffiths’ psilocybin research.

Why does THM quote Griffiths re: psilocybin? I thought “psilocybin is not important to our study/discussion”.

Rolf Singer Falsely States Wasson Was the First European Who Ate Psilocybin Mushrooms

Irvin, God’s Flesh p. 24: Rolf Singer Falsely States “psilocybin … Wasson (probably the first white person who ate these mushrooms)”

• [🙃 Image f134]

• [👑 Image f145]

• [🐴 Image f177]

The Two Cultures: STEM vs. Humanities re: Sloppy, Deceiving Terminology “the Mushroom”

This page contains slagging on Anthropology & Humanities dept. by STEM dept. (as a style of explanatory theory expression/construction), but pretty sure no one from those depts follows my posts, so it’s ok 😊👍

url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

url https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Scientific-Revolution/dp/1684222826/ —

url https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Canto-Classics/dp/1107606144/ —

Subjective Effects Index Excludes Amanita, Because No One Actually Cares About Amanita or Is Serious About Muscimol Except as Pop Anthropology Titillation and Proxy Ideology

Josie Kins’ infinitely unhelpful and amateur livestream statement “Amanita isn’t a deliriant… isn’t an X, isn’t a Y…” <– worthless non-communication from the person who is identified with SPECIFYING the effects.

search on Amanita – 1 hit.
search on Psilocybin – 50 hits.
SHOWS THE TOTAL IRRELEVANCE OF AMANITA, THE FOOL’S MUSHROOM.
https://effectindex.com/search

“formalized documentation of the vast number of distinct subjective states that may occur under the influence of hallucinogens.”
https://effectindex.com/effects/ —

TRANSPERSONAL STATES

• Ego death <–
• Existential self-realization
• Perception of eternalism <–
• Perception of interdependent opposites
• Perception of predeterminism <–
• Perception of self-design
• Spirituality enhancement
• Unity and interconnectedness

Amanita and Psilocybin Are 100% Different, Unrelated Psychoactives — Never Discuss them as if Grouped

Voice Recordings/ Spoken Idea Development

Voice recording VOX_TK_5253.wav (and previous), April 28, 2023. starting at ~5:30 –

I no longer write about mushrooms, entheogens, fungi (ergot and/or Amanita and/or Psilocybin).

I write about Psilocybin and sometimes the lesser, inferior mushroom type, Amanita (as separate as Datura).

Amanita is more like Datura than Psilocybin. “entheogens” means Datura and/or Amanita.

Using treacherous severely overloaded terms causing intensive trouble, entirely problematic words used so casually as if they aren’t totally unjustified and problematic.

today, good voice recording about:

Humanities writers are poor thinkers and theorists. “our primitive crude forebears worshipped the mushroom” — writes the crude, irrational, taboo-driven 1920s-era “Institute of Advanced Whiggish Study” such as Wasson and Allegro and Ruck and (not breaking away from Allegro enough) Irvin.

All these horrible poets’ pompous, florid, vague, ambiguous turgid garbled fancy language conveying the stupidest, dumbest theories, hyper-ornate florid overwrought Humanities-speak.

Let’s build an anti-Scientific, humanities-dept. 1880-1920 Anthropology Dept. theory by using hazy misty UMBRELLA WILDCARD SHELL-GAME TERMS that shift every time we use them and can mean either “the mushroom, Amanita” or “the mushroom, Psilocybin”, or means now (all of a sudden) both Amanita AND Psilocybin — and then in the next sentence, flips the goalposts/ football field/ universe, to NOW suddenly mean instead, “the mushroom, Amanita”.

Allegro writes the surprising “gotcha!” usage “the mushroom, Psilocybin” in Endnote 15 of 1967/1970 SMC, covered in confusion by Irvin in THM 2008 who says he’ll give commentary on “ALL ENTHEOGEN“-RELATED PASSAGES in SMC, but then refuses to copy-in the text by Heim & Wasson or by Hofmann, “because it concerns Psilocybe, which is not important to our discussion/study.”

By “all entheobotany/entheogens”, it turns out Irvin strictly exclusively meant Amanita only — not the lesser, inferior, unimportant Psilocybin.

Gordon “Ignorant Blunder” Wasson, John Allegro, Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck, Jan Irvin, & John Rush all write “the mushroom”, by which they mean Amanita and/or its inferior, lesser-looking imitator, Psilocybin.

Except for when they silently suddenly switch to mean Psilocybin, eg Allegro’s SMC endnote 15.

Or when they covertly switch to mean “Psilocybin and/or Amanita”, when it suits their dirty rhetorical moves to deceive and mislead the reader, and substitute for sound, coherent thinking.

I bet 20th C mycologists never wrote “the mushroom”, as the Humanities crowd of bunk Anthropology theory do.

The term “the mushroom” is not a STEM / Science term; usage of that bad, garbled term is anti-scientific, muddled thinking, misused to do failed theory-construction.

SMC = The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross – Allegro (1967 / 1970)

The Holy Mushroom (THM) by Irvin has ATROCIOUS abuse of Humanities-speak, garbled, umbrella, shell-game, wildcard joker term-usage.

My pages of focus in THM: 31-32, 49, 59, 107, 152 – horrible theorizing! based on umbrella, multi-plant, shell-game, wildcard words, used to hide gaps and fallacious argumentation, re: “the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the sacred mushroom”, “entheobotany”, “entheogens”.

These words are employed for the purpose of covertly shifting and switching their meaning constantly, to fill-in for valid reasoning.

p. ix – Judith Brown’s Foreward: “fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, the sacred mushroom.”

I Had to Declare a Major, Vigorous Revolution Against the Intense Extreme Prejudice Against Psilocybin in Europe by Entheogen Scholars, and by Paul Stamets 1994 Too

A leading mycologist asserts in 2007, no psilocybin in Europe. (England, Mediterranean)

Letcher Hatsis says no religious use of “mushrooms” in Europe or England before 1976, and no presence of psilocybin in England before 1976.

The entire field of entheogen scholarship thinks in this shut-out, prejudiced way, though Samorini’s Entheos journal plotted out many areas of Italy having liberty caps.

2002 Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion (2023: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/

See Also

Forbidden Word List for Effective Theory Construction in Psychedelics History and Psychedelic Science

Cybermonk, initially posted 8:30 p.m. April 23, 2023

includes forbidden colors! 😊

The Word Prohibition Schedules, Including Schedule 1 Prohibited Words with No Known Theory-Construction Use

Contents:

• Ineffective Word List (Anti-Lexicon) and Correct Effective Egodeath Conceptual Vocabulary/ Lexicon
• Forbidden Word List for Psychedelics History
• Forbidden Word List for Psychedelic Science
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Ineffective Word List (Anti-Lexicon) and Correct Effective Egodeath Conceptual Vocabulary/ Lexicon

Everything I hate (as a theorist) about Amanita:

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell, first sentence of Amanita section of Pharmacognosis

Posting title:
The Holy Mushroom (Irvin 2008) Calls to Abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise, But Remains Stuck in Amanita Primacy Fallacy
Section heading:
‘Entheogens’ Means Amanita Exclusively: Un-believable: Irvin Announces Commentary on “All Entheogen Citations”, then Suddenly Switches to Exclusively Covering Amanita
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/the-holy-mushroom-irvin-2008-calls-to-abandon-the-secret-heretical-sect-premise/#Entheogens-Means-Amanita-Exclusively

Forbidden Word List for Psychedelics History

Notation:
ineffective construct [effective construct]

alchemy – esoteric analogy

Allegro, John [Giorgio Samorini, Jerry Brown]

Amanita, Fly-Agaric, Amanita muscaria [psilocybin, psilocybin mushrooms]

cult, sect, ritual – ingest

drugs – the wildcard umbrella word ‘drugs’ is now being added to the Forbidden Word List. Don’t write ‘entheogens’, ‘psychedelics’, ‘drugs’, or ‘mushrooms’; write ‘psilocybin’ or ‘amanita’. For good Theory. This is The Way of STEM.

Eleusus, kykeon, ergot [Canterbury, psilocybin sacred meals, psilocybin mixed wine, psilocybin]

entheogens [psychedelics]

exotic eastern (“oriental”) heretical intrusion into real Christianity

experiment – use, ingest

kykeon – sacred meals, rounds of mixed wine, mixed-wine banqueting.

mushroom, mushrooms, the mushroom, the holy mushroom, sacred mushrooms, the sacred mushroom, the divine mushroom, divine mushrooms [psilocybin, psilocybin mushrooms]

occasion – cause

Plaincourault, the fresco – Canterbury

red and white [blue and gold]

rite – ingest

secret, hidden, forgotten, whispered, forbidden – explicit

counterculture – mainstream

sect, cult, rite, heretical, fringe, elite

soma – Psilocybin

Wasson – Samorini, Brown

Forbidden Word List for Psychedelic Science

benefit – transformation

Cognitive Neuroscience

connectedness – block-universe eternalism

default mode network – possibilism-thinking, literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control; possibilism mental worldmodel

determinism [eternalism]

ego dissolution – ego transcendence, loose cognitive association binding

ineffable – mental worldmodel transformation

mysticism as a methodology

mystical – intense mystic altered state, intensely loose cognitive binding

mystical experience (always means Stacean’s misconceived version), a complete mystical experience [mental model transformation of control-in-world in the loose cognitive state]

naturalism (ie radical physicalism) as a methodology and conceptual vocabulary [cognitive phenomenology; experiential mental worldmodel of control-in-world, metaperception]

neuroplasticity [loose cognition]

neuroscience as a methodology

nondual unity oneness

nondual – block universe eternalism

spiritual – altered state

surrender – repudiate, formally transgress

therapy – initiation

unity – block-universe eternalism

Motivation for this Page

Listening to Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246c, I heard adding a word to the defined but not very concretely implemented Forbidden Word List. This page replaces eg subsections within Idea Development page 18 that have informal work-ups of the Forbidden Word List.

Precedent: In voice training, at start of Egodeath Mystery Show around Jan. 20, 2021, I implemented a Block List, and it was fully successful at de-junking my speech:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/voice-and-mic-technique/#The-Block-List

I independently developed my lexicon in April 1987, and I continue to refine it, eg the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

the Egodeath theory (the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism) has its own lexicon, purpose-built, relevant, domain-effective, short in-house, non-compromised, non-trojan-horse terms. The present page maps wrong, external lexicons from failed paradigms, to the successful paradigm, the Egodeath theory.

We must de-junk psychedelics scholarship.

Using the proven-treacherously ambiguous word ‘mushroom’ is the #1 source of junking-up and producing confused psychedelics scholarship.

Coca is a leaf. Cannabis is a leaf. Therefore, let’s treat coca and cannabis as the same, and yet also as different, writing in terms of The Holy Leaf. I’m sure that won’t produce much confusion, and can support a sound theory, the Secret Holy Leaf theory.

Dope means opium and cannabis. Let us build a theory about dope, given that ‘dope’ at any time might intend opium, or cannabis, or opium and cannabis.

We can build a sound theory on this foundation of ambiguity, by hope and mind-reading, as surely as Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom proves that Amanita causes mystical experiencing, as proved by Griffiths’ 2006 psilocybin research. Irvin literally tries to pull this totally fallacious, covert rhetoric dirty move, a conflation-based, conflation-leveraging argument.

Where there’s Amanita, there’s Bad Theorizing.

These words cannot be used to build a theory on. It’s ok to mention them in order to condemn them.

Searching Site for Forbidden Word Lists

Search this site for “Forbidden Word List”:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22Forbidden+Word+List%22

hits: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Dealbreakers-Ruining-Naturalism

Done: Copy informal lists from maybe Idea Development page 18. Here we go:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Forbidden-word-list

See Also

Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

Anti-Amanita Manifesto

Recommendations for Entheogen Scholars

Move from “Amanita, Christianity, Surface Form, Low Esotericism” to “Psilocybe, Greek + Christian, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism”

Was Phase 1 of the Field of Western Entheogen Scholarship in Fact Centered Around Amanita?