Ultimate Peak Knowledge: Specifically How Observing Fatal Control Instability in the Psilocybin Loose Cognitive State Sacrifices Childish Model While Learning 2-Level Dependent Control and Pre-Existing Control-Thoughts
Cybermonk, April 23, 2023
Contents:
The Most Profound Writing/ Painting/ Lyrics in the World
Else Completely Worthless Junk
Cognitive Blind Spot by Design
Intro
Eadwine’s Images in Great Canterbury Psalter Are a Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics Decoded by Cybermonk 2020-2023
Profundities
Formal Deliberate Control Seizure
The Egodeath Mystery Show is an Expert-Level Idea-Development Session, Rarely a Newbie Introduction/ Instructional Tutorial Show
Images
Related Writings Where I Tackled this Most-Challenging Topic of Explanation
The Most Profound Writing/ Painting/ Lyrics in the World
The mental model is moved off of reliance on possibilism-premised model of control, onto (at the same time, in the same action/movement) the 2-level model of dependent control.
Testing and observing the mind’s model of control-in-world in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive binding state at an advanced developmental level on the cusp of shifting from relying on left leg to right leg.
Salvation arrives — viable stable control reliance — in the same action and moment as control fatally fails and is demonstrated to fail and be vulnerable.
fatal loss of control = non-viable control = control instability = a real death and sacrifice of the cybernetic control agent; your life as a childish-mode control agent really does meet its end; it is a real death.
Self-control cybernetics ego death (fatal control instability) is death and sacrificial death of the childish youthful self-identity.
Religious mythology {death} mytheme and art motif
Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics
Asserting the initial mental model of control steering in a branching world is doomed to fatal control instability and control-reconfiguration.
The non-transformed mental model starts off standing on left leg, left hand closer to ground.
This language [in text, lyrics, art] depicts and explains the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.
Formal Deliberate Control Seizure
Else Completely Worthless Junk
A lot of my points are very good peripheral points despite being peripheral, eg the cognitive blind spot that’s necessary to support the egoic delusion mental worldmodel suitable for children and animals.
Cognitive Blind Spot by Design
The mind is designed to make it difficult to think about this and directly address and explain this topic.
This dynamic is a blind spot that’s designed to last during tightcog, and then give way when in loosecog.
Religious mythology comes from none other than psilocybin’s loose cognitive state.
Intro
Focus attention (again, afresh) on more clearly, helpfully, relevantly explaining how to navigate the stepping through the gate from left leg to right leg.
How exactly do we move off of reliance on possibilism-premised model of control, onto (at the same time, in the same action/movement) the 2-level model of dependent control?
Attack this explanation directly, as I did during spoken idea development last night recording April 22, 2023.
This is a “challenge myself” aspiration page defining a goal: explain to Everyman *specifically* and simply and clearly, such as to any 8th grader:
What exactly happens when testing and observing the mind’s model of control-in-world in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive binding state at an advanced developmental level on the cusp of shifting from relying on left leg to right leg.
How does salvation arrive — viable stable control reliance — in the same action and moment as control fatally fails and is demonstrated to fail and be vulnerable?
I have directly written on this topic over the years.
It’s tempting to write about everything except this ultimate peak topic.
It’s time to challenge myself again to directly address this most-central, peak topic.
So I have been recording some segments talking-through this idea the past few days, by leveraging the concrete detailed images.
Against the voted-down proposition that the Wikipedia “ego death” article should be retitled “ego dissolution” (I think that was the proposition we rejected).
Eadwine depicts …
Religious mythology gives us all the justification needed to continue moving forward the traditional {death} mytheme and art motif.
Eadwine’s Images in Great Canterbury Psalter Are a Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics Decoded by Cybermonk 2020-2023
Eadwine’s images in Great Canterbury Psalter are his psilocybin cybernetics journal.
The images are a self-portrait of Eadwine, eg image f134 row 2 middle-left, the foolhardy newbie psychonaut getting his mushroom bag filled with Golden Teacher from the mushroom dispensary.
Doomed to fatal control instability and control-reconfiguration, starts off standing on left leg, left hand closer to ground.
Mushroom Bins and Bucket, Eadwine’s Self-Portrait as a Foolish Newbie, image f134 row 2 right, Canterbury Psalter
Crop by Cybermonk
Eadwine provides us with an instruction manual about Psilocybin, coded as art motifs language, and I have fully decoded this language which depicts and explains the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.
As you go back in time, my roots of this decoding trail off becoming thinner.
Important milestones:
Nov. 2013 (Lucas Cranach: Eve Tempted by the Serpent; tree vs. snake = possibilism vs. eternalism).
Dec. 2015 (Salamander/Dancing Man right-leg hypothesis).
Especially Nov. 2020-April 2023 (Eadwine images, Golden Psalter, branching-message mushroom trees article).
Profundities
Formal Deliberate Control Seizure
The Egodeath Mystery Show is an Expert-Level Idea-Development Session, Rarely a Newbie Introduction/ Instructional Tutorial Show
Images
Teaching Control Re-Stabilizing (image f134 row 1 left, Canterbury Psalter)
Crop by Cybermonk
Teaching Cubensis Traders About Control Re-Stabilizing (Image f145 row 1 left, Canterbury Psalter)
Crop by Cybermonk
Psalter Viewer Seeing that the Possibility Branching Model Causes Loss of Control (image f134 row 2 center, Canterbury Psalter)
Crop and annotations by CybermonkCrop and annotations by Cybermonk
Image f177 Row 2 Middle with Looking-Lines, Great Canterbury Psalter
Found that by going to Advanced Google Search https://www.google.com/advanced_search and entering search: safely demonstrate control seizure site:egodeath.com
My Oct. 2002 & Mar. 2003 declaration of revolution against the Ruck committee’s Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion: Victory declared at 8:11 p.m. April 18, 2023; Completion; Closure and Effectuation, with the article:
The present page is an Announcement-type page serving to supplement the updated page above.
Analysis: The “Moderate Entheogen Theory” Actually Is the “Secret Amanita Heretical Sect” Paradigm, a Prohibition-Excusing Ideology
The “Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion” turned out to be, specifically, the Secret Amanita Sect paradigm, which inherently is fully invested in perpetual prohibition of psilocybin.
Such entheogen scholars have NEVER done ANYTHING toward full repeal of Psilocybin prohibition. Why not? Because they are fully invested in perpetual defeat and perpetual justification of Drug Prohibition.
Amanita-obsessed entheogen scholars are the guilty parties, committed to self-defeating, collaborationist (with Prohibition), who positively revel in their crybaby impotent moral stance of superiority, wedded to commitment to perpetual defeat.
Entheogen scholars use a parasitical move: causing and justifying Prohibition as sociologically inherent, in order to elevate oneself morally and tell & sell a superficial, popular, titillating story narrative of cartoon-level “good underdogs vs. bad dominant mainstream”, immature, childish story.
I Disavow “Entheogen” Scholarship, and Repudiate Their Word ‘Entheogen’ and ‘Mushroom’
In my theory construction, I cannot open the door for a trojan-horse, intensely problematic, wildcard word “entheogen” and its raft of sorry, defeatist, Prohibition-product presuppositions.
Same with their ruined word ‘mushroom’ when used ambiguously, without qualification.
The word ‘entheogen‘ is nothing but a trojan horse for Prohibition justification.
Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Prohibition of Psilocybin 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓
Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Drug Prohibition 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓ – note: 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’.
The Extreme Wildcard, Confusing Property of the Word ‘Mushroom’
Correction/clarification re: my post on Cyberdisciple page “Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity” —
I wrote: “The only possible way to write the word ‘mushrooms’ in the way that you mean it and prevent it from being misread as the word ‘Amanita’ is that you absolutely must specify “psilocybin mushrooms” and possibly also specify amanita.”
Clarification:
If you write ‘mushroom’, you’ll be read as having written ‘Amanita’, or ‘Psilocybin’, or “Amanita and Psilocybin”, in an uncontrollable, random, wildcard fashion.
Yesterday, April 22, 2023 I read the writings of entheogen scholars, and was surprised at how much the authors contradict and confuse themselves and each other, around this extremely shifting, extremely wildcard, treacherous term ‘mushroom’.
The maximum confusion in psychedelics scholarship is around the wildcard property of the word ‘mushroom’, covering two entirely different drug types:
Psilocybin is a classic psychedelic, Amanita is a kind of deliriant more comparable to Scopolamine than Psilocybin.
It is entirely foolish and problematic to use one word, ‘mushroom’, to cover two wholly different types of psychoactive plants.
The word ‘mushroom’ has been misused as much as possible to maximize obfuscation.
Jan Irvin in the 2008 book The Holy Mushroom p. 152 paints a false picture and he really does argue fallaciously, misleadingly, and deceptively to give the gullible reader the misimpression that Griffiths’ psilocybin 2006 research proves that Amanita provides mystical experience.
Irvin obscures his fallacious argumentation by the stratagem of hiding in the ambiguity of the wording ‘mushroom’, ‘mushrooms’, “the mushroom”, and “the holy mushroom”.
This is dirty Wasson-type rhetoric just like Irvin calls out in Wasson’s writing: convoluted, prevaricating, obfuscating, deliberately confusing rhetoric use.
I will use the lone word ‘mushrooms’ such as in a title, but I use the word ‘mushroom’ unambiguously, with lots of specifying Psilocybin or Amanita, knowing that ‘mushroom’ is an extremely confusing wildcard word.
Principle to Follow: Treat Amanita and Psilocybin as Two Entirely Different Types of Psychoactive Plants, Avoid any Attempt to Group Them Together
Culprits Striving to Build a Prohibition Wall Between Psilocybin and Christianity
Robert Graves
See Cyberdisciple discussing Graves re: “secret, elite, priests, forgotten”.
John Allegro is the main asserter & fabricator of the Secrecy premise.
See Cyberdisciple re: Allegro as Anthropology theorist, not a historian of psychedelics, or mushrooms in Christian art, or the class of mushroom trees which Irvin attempts to credit to him because of the lone case, our Fly-Agaric fresco we are possessed and obsessed by (as Panofsky points out).
Panofsky rightly bets that no one gives a damn to assert that the hundreds (thousands) of mushroom trees mean mushrooms. He was right, until Samorini finally woke up in 1997/1998 and actually gave a sh*t to follow Panofsky’s 1952 lead/announcement that there are HUNDREDS OF MUSHROOM TREES which ought to have caused an outbreak of celebration by all mycologists, because of multiplying our Fly-Agaric fresco by a thousandfold.
But, as Panofsky expected, no one gave a sh*t about the hundreds of mushroom trees — until FINALLY, Samorini in 1997 showed some sign of intelligence and life and reacted to Panofsky’s 1952 lead/announcement, 45 years late.
Why the hell did it take entheogen scholars 45 years to follow Panofsky’s lead about hundreds of mushroom trees? Because they are posers, Anthropologists in drag pretending to study psychedelic chemicals and their effects.
Panofsky’s mushroom trees fail to be our Fly-Agaric fresco, so we DGAF about them.
Gordon Wasson
“The book of Revelation is written like by one bemushroomed” (see quote in my Plaincourault article at Egodeath.com): http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
The exact quote of Wasson:
“I would not be understood as contending that only these substances [indole family] (wherever found in nature) bring about visions and ecstasies.
“Clearly some poets and prophets and many mystics and ascetics seem to have enjoyed ecstatic visions that answer the requirements of the ancient mysteries and that duplicate the mushroom agapé [but see Irvin’s 2022 expose book, God’s Flesh] of Mexico.
“I do not suggest that St. John of Patmos ate the mushrooms in order to write the Book of the Revelations.
“Yet the succession of images in his vision, so clearly seen and yet such a phantasmagoria, means for me that he was in the same state as one bemushroomed.
[Wasson fails to discuss access granted to Tree of Life in Rev22 “Eden Restored” at end of Bible.]
“Nor do I suggest for a moment that William Blake knew the mushroom when he wrote his telling account of the clarity of “vision”.”
Ruck Committee of Nameless, Unidentified Faceless Authors Hiding Behind the Committee
Carl Ruck/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
Clark Heinrich/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
Blaise Staples/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
Evil M. Hoffman — same. He told me he contributed to the “Jason the Drug Man” chapter.
Entheos journal — problematic writing and counterproductive theory-construction, written by no one in particular.
Letcher Hatsis Argues the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise is Made-Up Bullshiite, Therefore No Christian Ever Ingested the Mushroom
Andy Letcher called to get rid of “the mushroom” from Christian psychedelics history because of the Secret part of the paradigm.
Thomas Hatsis called to get rid of “the mushroom” from Christian psychedelics history because of the Secret part of the paradigm.
Paul Stamets Helping Prop Up Psilocybin Blindness
Paul Stamets managed to write a 1994 book falsely marketed as Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World even though it totally lacks any thought like “Chapter 1: Psilocybin in Europe & England”, leading to in 2007 a famous mycologist asserting there was no Psilocybin in Europe (recounted by Graham Hancock in recent YouTube interview).
Terence McKenna: “Do not look for psilocybin in Christianity, because we cannot allow normal, real, mainstream Christianity to have psilocybin; we must prohibit Christianity from having psilocybin.”
John Lash wrote the same reasoning. “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are Bad (“salvationist”), and so CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE PSILOCYBIN, which is Good.”
John Lash
John Lash wrote the same reasoning as McKenna: “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are Bad (“salvationist”), and so CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE PSILOCYBIN, which is Good.”
Carl Ruck
Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck — The word ‘psychedelics’ has too much baggage, so here’s our word ‘entheogens’ which has no baggage (except the little detail that the word ‘entheogens’:
Has Perpetual Prohibition built into it.
Treats psychedelics in a physical, non-psychedelic, non-experiential way, and
Heavily uses proxy argumentation (producing Bad Theorizing).
Promotes Primitivism: “The changing shape of Amanita caused awe and dread in simple-minded folk.”
Comes from the circa 1900 Anthropology Theory dept. of Whig History (underestimating previous people to prop up Wonderful, Evolved Us), and is essentially bad Sociology theory.
“Thus, we have discovered a precise typological differentiation among mushroom-trees in Christian art which corresponds with the variation in naturally occurring psychoactive mushrooms (cf. Fig. 20).”
Jan Irvin
Jan Irvin 2008 called for deleting the Secret part from the paradigm. Irvin should have written, to be consistent then, “the Eucharist is none other than the holy mushroom, Amanita muscaria”, but that’s Irvin’s narrative impressionistic implied position.
Irvin 2008 permits Judith Brown to open his book, Foreward, sentence 1: “Christians should accept hallucinogenic drugs”. She flip-flops spastically between primitivism and Transcendent Knowledge.
Judith Brown opens the book by totally establishing as firmly as possible “the Holy mushroom, Amanita”, completely disrespecting and shutting out Psilocybin. Irvin permits her to do this, just like Irvin permits Ruck to write in 2009 apx of SMC, Dancing man cap is red (it’s actually blue).
Irvin 2008 explicitly states at least 3 times, “I’m not going to bother showing the Psilocybin passages that Allegro cited written by Heim & Wasson and by Hofmann, they are Psilocybin species and therefore NOT IMPORTANT TO OUR STUDY/ OUR DISCUSSION.”
Then Irvin turns around on p. 107 and contradicts himself, writing now, “The main mushroom types IN DISCUSSION are Amanita first, and then by the way insofar as we can mangle Dancing Man [forcing its blue cap to be red], these lesser-looking [Hatsis’ telling phrase], Psilocybin mushrooms in my gallery of art images (after we first place our Amanita specimen photos and our Fly-Agaric fresco).”
Jan Irvin 2022 — denies that in the Americas, Psilocybin is used religiously and is called God’s Flesh and is used as the Eucharist.
Jan Irvin half broke out of Amanita Madness, after conversing with me in 2006, in his 2008 book The Holy Mushroom (massively problematic title!) that tries, in vain, to add corrective epicycles to save Allegro’s Perpetual Amanita Suppression paradigm: Irvin attempts to delete the “suppression fringe heretical” presupposition while retaining full-on Amanita Primacy fallacy, treating disrespectfully Psilocybin merely to prop up Amanita.
The actual relationship is reverse: Amanita is nothing but a minor psychoactive mushroom that has always been used as a symbol of Psilocybin.
Amanita should be used as nothing but a subservient prop to give all credit to Psilocybin.
Religious mythology is depiction by analogy of the Psilocybin effect, which is: transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism regarding the model of control-in-world, driven by re-stabilizing control in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive state.
— Cybermonk, April 23, 2023
Posting: Tear Down the Prohibition Wall Built by the Entheogen Scholars
John Lash and Terence McKenna and John Allegro attacked Christianity, declaring war on mainstream religion, and strove to construct a barrier wall between mushrooms and real Christianity.
Their attacks on the mainstream, claiming that the mainstream is required to prohibit “the mushroom”, demands an effective, strong, vigorous repudiation of their shared paradigm.
John Lash literally writes that we cannot allow the mainstream religions to have psilocybin.
This is all part of scholarly work, explaining what happened and how to get out of the self-defeating dead end.
It is time to tear down the wall that the entheogen scholars worked hard to construct to separate “the mushroom” from the mainstream.
An overly charitable accounting is guaranteed to be ineffective.
This necessary, vigorous scholarship correction works hand-in-hand with repeal of psilocybin prohibition that’s occurring in psychedelic therapy.
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Why We Must NOT “Protect” Amanita, but Must Now Destroy and Attack Amanita with Extreme Prejudice and Full Firepower: Amanita Is the Enemy and the Weakness Point of Attack and Victory
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, Start of Amanita chapter in Pharmacognosis
Amanita can jump off a cliff, and the Entheogen Prohibition-Apologetics Scholars along with it.
It’s not bad that we’re attacking Amanita.
Rather, the good news is, we have found the line of attack: AMANITA IS THE WEAK POINT, THEREFORE AIM ALL ATTACK AT AMANITA, TO REACH SUCCESS AND VICTORY.
Protecting Amanita is extremely a non-goal, to put it mildly.
Amanita ALREADY HAS everyone and their brother protecting it, while attacking and disrespecting the real deal, which is psilocybin.
Why is anyone worried and concerned about being mean to the big bully, Amanita?
🍄☺️ 🚨⛓
Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Prohibition of Psilocybin 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓
Amanita is the problem (re: the way Amanita has been utilized as a deadly harmful ideology since 1967 to excuse perpetual Prohibition of psilocybin, through weird, confused & confusing, improper proxy argumentation).
I must re-upload my chastising lecture from a year ago, my speech, Abandon the Wh*re Amanita and Commit Fully and Exclusively to Wife Psilocybin.
We’ve had 2023-1967 = 56 years of having Amanita shoved down our throats by fanatical, fantasy-based tale-spinners of “heretical fringe sects” (according to Ruck’s storytelling), packaged together with a sorry tale of “perpetual Prohibition is just the way it’s got to be.”
“Isn’t it terrible that Prohibition is inherent and permanent? 😢” <– the evil song of the “entheogen” scholars (bunk, Prohibition-compliant garbage Anthropology in drag, dressed up as psychedelics research)
And now we’re supposed to treat Amanita with kid gloves and protect it?
Amanita doesn’t need any help from anyone, it’s been promoted to death like crazy by everyone!
AMANITA IS NOT EVEN PROHIBITED, FFS!
Why is anybody handwringing about poor oppressed heretical deviant amanita fertility cult sects?
Amanita isn’t prohibited! Psilocybin IS prohibited.
And NO, just because there are noises toward Decrim of Psilocybin by Big Pharma Psychedelic Industrial complex (DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH), doesn’t change the fact:
Amanita is not Prohibited.Psilocybin IS Prohibited.
Psilocybin Prohibition is not going to repeal itself.
We must ACTIVELYattack Amanita with full firepower to turn the mere Decrim noises into actuality of FULL REPEAL OF PSILOCYBIN PROHIBITION.
Lame and hated-by-everyone “psychedelic therapy” is light years away from full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition.
Status Quo since 1967 to present (2023; 56 years), the exact period of pushing Amanita Madness along with apologetics for Prohibition, as a package deal from Hell.
Not a Coincidence: The Amanita Paradigm of Entheogen Scholarship Started at EXACTLY the Same Time as Psilocybin Prohibition
Amanita Counterculture Paradigm = Apologetics for Psilocybin Prohibition
See Also
Recent posts relevant:
Page title: 2002 Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion (2023: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm) Section heading: 2023 Declaration of Victory in the Overthrow of the Amanita Counterculture Paradigm by the Psilocybin Mainstream Paradigm https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/#Declaration-of-Victory — Victory declared at 8:11 p.m. April 18, 2023; Completion; Closure and Effectuation, with the Branching-Message Mushroom Trees Article. Realized and announced at 1:15:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246c.
Faults, Limitations, Harms, Irrelevancies, and Failures of the Amanita Paradigm
See Also
Intro
Why did anyone ever see any good in Wasson’s Amanita theory or in Allegro’s Amanita theory? Why did Ruck lap that sh*t up? Why does John Rush push Amanita mania? “The mushroom” (eye roll)
Why does Irvin’s Allegro’s SMC book sell like hotcakes even though Irvin somehow flipped away from that confusion into his new confusion? He converted from like: Eucharist = Amanita (2008 book The Holy Mushroom) to: Eucharist = not Psilocybin (2022 book God’s Flesh)
Comment on Cyberdisciple’s Post “Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity”
This post by Cyberdisciple, Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-modernity, is extremely effective theorizing, fully broad, and covers all the variant scenarios by using the umbrella, flexible key words ‘mainstream’ and ‘counterculture’.
I have recently concluded and analyzed that if you as a theorist affirm the idea of “counterculture” associated with full exclusive ownership of psychedelics, then you inherently, automatically are going to the Supreme Court & Church, and commanding them:
You *must* prohibit psychedelics, and furthermore, from a Jewish or Christian theology basis, from a literalist and ordinary-state and eagerly committed, exoteric-based misreading, you (mainstream religion and culture) are theologically commanded by God, according to me (typical “entheogen [Prohibition] scholar”) that God *requires* and *commands* that you prohibit psychedelics and declare them to be heretical.
We see this with Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck and Gonzalez declaring and asserting that the mainstream religion inherently and perpetually (per Bad Anthropology, and Bad Sociology, and Bad Theology, and Bad Drug Policy Strategy) *must* declare psychedelic users to belong to a “sect”, and that that is a “heretical sect”.
Carl Ruck _pretends_ that he is not proclaiming dogmatic decrees from his papal chair, by hiding behind the words “so-called” — but the only person that I hear “calling” psychedelics usage to be “heretical”, is Carl Ruck himself!
Carl Ruck’s dogmatic restrictionism paradigm here is called out by Jan Irvin, p. 104 in the book The Holy Mushroom.
Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom is an Amanita Madness-propelled book that only values psilocybin as a lowly, disrespected stage crew to be used to prop up the Fly Agaric star.
Carl Ruck is making a theology (& Anthropology and Sociology) decree, while pretending not to, by adding the words “so-called heretical” & “sects” — but *he* is the one calling them “sects”, and *he* is the one calling them “heretical”.
Enforcing the Prohibition of psychedelics is inherent in bad entheogen scholarship that pushes the idea of exclusively counterculture ownership of psychedelics.
You literally could not form a more prohibition-friendly, prohibition-supporting, prohibition-compliant, prohibition-amenable, prohibition-cooperating, prohibition-collaborationist, prohibition-enabling, prohibition-complicit, thoroughly prohibition-saturated form of entheogen scholarship, than the Amanita Suppression theory of entheogen scholarship.
This is a form of entheogen scholarship that’s specifically designed to make the prohibitionists applaud and cheer; this is music to their ears.
This “inherently prohibitionist mainstream” view is thoroughly baked into the very DNA of Entheogen Prohibition-Driven Scholarship.
This is “entheogen scholarship” as presented to you, as brought to you by Prohibition.
This is literally entheogen scholarship which is a product shaped by Prohibition and brought to you through Prohibition.
The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is the counter-theory; the Psilocybin Mainstream/ Eucharist theory, which has thoroughly entirely discredited and replaced the bad old version 1, entirely toxic and deathly poisonous, prohibition-driven theory, the Amanita counterculture/ suppression theory.
Note Nov. 29, 2024: Avoid the problematic word ‘mainstream’, which indirectly reifies the concept of ‘counterculture’.
That pair of words (“mainstream vs. counterculture”) is used by Ruck for the purpose of actively constructing a Prohibition barrier boundary wall that imagines and constructs those fairytale narrative categories.
The word ‘mainstream’ seems ok, except that it inadvertently still implies & reifies the concept of ‘counterculture’, given that “counterculture” is entirely entrenched in the thinking in this field.
We must do away with the entire barrier construction, “mainstream vs. counterculture”.
There is no mainstream. There is no counterculture. There is only the whole set of all self-identified Christians, regardless of affiliation with some closed, bounded, controlled-access group.
Other labels:
the Explicit Cubensis paradigm
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship
Avoid doing History (= defeatist, crybaby, Prohibition-reifying fairytale construction/ telling). Just study evidence and interpret it.
/Note Nov. 29, 2024
The Amanita Prohibition theory of entheogen scholarship/ psychedelics history.
The exoteric reading of Genesis 2 & 3 makes God a liar when saying to Adam “When you eat the fruit, you will certainly die on that day”, which proves this reading to be incorrect and unbiblical, and proves that we must use an esoteric altered state reading instead. Nov 29 2024 note: check Ruck p 15 of “Conj Eden”, or probably p 57 of “Daturas Virgin”, about “clues” for the “initiated”.
The Genesis text presents us with the question that what God said must be true: that Adam in fact did die on that day, because God said so.
So then our work as interpreters is to explain, in what sense was God correct, in what sense did Adam die on that day?
This is the only possible coherent, successful reading.
Also we must factor in Revelation 22 at the end of the Bible, which is called “Eden Restored”.
Revelation 22 says that those on the outside are prohibited from psychedelics, but those who are on the inside are granted access to psychedelics.
Note Nov 29 2024: {those outside the gates of the City of God} = control instability in peak loosecog state. Rev 20-21. {lake of fire, purgatory, flames, blades} = corrective control angst that drives mental model transformation from possibilism- to eternalism-thinking.
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Cyberdisciple and Brown are naïve and Pollyanna and living in an unreal “reasonable, fair, rational, neutral, level playing field” world that doesn’t exist, when you think that you can employ the word ‘mushrooms’ without specifying *psilocybin*, because like it or not, yes you are free to use the word ‘mushrooms’, but like it or not, the fact is, people like Thomas Hatsis have confirmed to me personally, that they consider the word ‘mushrooms’ in this context to be an exact synonym exclusively for the word ‘Amanita’.
So whether you are aware of it or not, when you use the word ‘mushrooms’, you are in practice, effectively you are writing the word ‘Amanita’.
You might as well be so naïve in writing the word ‘mushrooms’, you might as well just go ahead and write the word “the holy mushroom” or write the word “the mushroom”, because either way, the stupid audience is going to read you as specifically asserting “Amanita” when you write the word ‘mushrooms’.
So if you want to guarantee miscommunication and you want to guarantee that people will definitely misread your words, go ahead and employ the word ‘mushrooms’ without qualification (saying *psilocybin* mushrooms).
You have no idea how thoroughly hypnotized with full-on Amanita Madness to the nth degree this field of Entheogen Prohibition Scholarship is.
Amanita “primacy” fallacy is a huge understatement; this is full-on *exclusive* reign of the false tyrant exclusively occupying the throne with no legitimacy at all.
Amanita = Prohibition-supporting.
Amanita Theory is the official house brand of entheogen scholarship that’s fully approved by the prohibitionists and is a product of prohibition to support Prohibition of Psilocybin in perpetuity.
To disavow and repudiate and distance oneself from Amanita theory is to disavow and repudiate and distance oneself from Prohibition of Psilocybin.
The only possible way to write the word ‘mushrooms’ in the way that you mean it and prevent it from being misread as the word ‘Amanita’ is that you absolutely must specify “psilocybin mushrooms” and possibly also specify amanita.
— Cybermonk, April 21, 2023
Cyberdisciple posted a couple replies. Then I posted comment 2.
Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment
A reply from Cyberdisciple:
“You were right on when you formulated the maximal “entheogen” theory in reaction to Ruck and committee’s Apples of Apollo secret amanita.
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“I put scare quotes on “entheogen” because we should now be skeptical of using a strange neologism that brings a whole raft of covert assumptions (you have pointed this out).
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“I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream and adapted my thinking.
“The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Greek and Latin writing and Hellenic/ Mediterranean/ Christian/ Medieval/ Renaissance/ Western art and culture.
“(My brain breaks down at trying to use the right word. S.O.S. 🤖⚡️🙏 )”
– Cyberdisciple
Reply to Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment
Cyberdisciple wrote: “You were right on when you formulated the maximal entheogen theory, in reaction to Ruck and committee’s Apples of Apollo secret amanita. I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream, and adapted my thinking. The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Western art and culture.”
Thanks for confirming via your recollection. Not sure how clearly I realized in 2002 that:
Moderate entheogen theory = Amanita.
Maximal entheogen theory = Psilocybin.
The Amanita Primacy paradigm does two bad things that must be stopped one way or another:
Suppresses & eliminates Psilocybin mushrooms, and reduces them into a mere minor supporting role for False King Amanita.
Condones and perpetuates Prohibition of Psilocybin.
I put Amanita in a mere supporting role toward glorification of True King Psilocybin.
During this corrective phase, a vigorous and effective Red-to-Blue shift is needed, to counter and dislodge the entrenched Blue-to-Red shift, to eventually produce a Blue/Red balance, which is to say a BLUE/red or blue<–red balance, where the deliriant Amanita is read per the commonly understood headshop art language as a symbol of Cubensis.
Amanita is acknowledged by Bible authors in Eze 2 & Rev 10: per Dale Pendell, Amanita is a suitable symbol for use in myth and wonderland fairytales, the lower level of esotericism; exoteric esotericism.
Eating the little scroll promises in Rev 22:2 (“Eden Restored”) no fewer than thirteen entheogens; we can start with Cubensis, which Eadwine indicates as special and ideal via its YI form in “Creation of Plants”, whereas Amanita is glorified in merely IY form, the reverse of the standard “good” or “ideal” form.
Nov 29 2024 composing a possible reply for Cyberdisciple page: [actual reply: see above]
Cyberdisciple wrote:
“You were right on when you formulated the maximal entheogen theory, in reaction to Ruck and committee’s _Apples of Apollo_ secret amanita.
“I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream, and adapted my thinking.
“The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Western art and culture.”
Thanks for confirming that I specified Psilocybin against Amanita when I rejected the Moderate and defined the Maximal entheogen theory of religion.
I haven’t researched the archives to confirm this, but:
By the time I had a mental idea of the field of entheogen scholarship around 2000, Psilocybin was established as my point of reference, with Amanita a newcomer that didn’t produce mythic experiencing, even though Amanita imagery is vivid in myth and fairytales.
Per Pendell, Amanita is the supreme symbol for entheogens such as Psilocybin, as is the language symbolic in headshop culture: everyone simply just knows that {spotted mushroom} means Cubensis (or blotter); no one thinks for a moment that Amanita imagery in headshop art means ingesting Amanita, which is a deliriant, not a psychedelic, “sour in stomach” (Eze 2 /Rev 10).
I need to double-check that in the Max Freakout Archive of the Egodeath Yahoo Group:
When I started entheogen scholarship in 1999, I already held Psilocybin as the model and main plant to look for, as physical form & effects.
Given Cyberdisciple’s summary & recollection, and given my exasperation against the totally biased mid-1990s question “Can Psilocybin simulate the real, authoritative thing, non-drug meditation?”:
I entered the field of entheogen scholarship already holding – like John Lash – a strong preference for Psilocybin over Amanita.
Secret Amanita entheogen scholars subsume Psilocybin so as to serve the needs of King Amanita.
Since 1999 when I first heard of Amanita, via Heinrich’s book Strange Fruit, I only integrated Amanita so as to serve the glory of King Psilocybin.
A recent question is, in 2002/2003 when I defined the maximal entheogen theory of religion:
Did I recognize the correlation between Secret Amanita & the Moderate (aka Minimal) entheogen theory of religion?
Did I recognize the correlation between Explicit Psilocybin & the maximal entheogen theory of religion?
Did I realize that (Secret) Amanita vs. (Explicit) Psilocybin is practically definitive of the Moderate (aka Minimal) vs. Maximal entheogen theory of religion?
What I mean by “from the start”, around 2002:
My autobiography of reading at that time:
1986: “What blotter-like scroll is Rev 10?” I didn’t know Ezekiel has the same scroll-eating.
In mid-1990s, I despised the brain-dead presupposition-drenched wording of meditation debate per Tricycle magazine special issue & its offshoot Zig Zag Zen book, “can Psilocybin imitate Meditation (which is authoritative)?” Same with the _Gnosis_ special issue on Psychedelics. As I recall, I was not aware of Amanita mushrooms; I only knew Psilocybin mushrooms.
1997 – Posted outline of my core theory (psychedelic eternalism with dependent control).
1998: Tried to use Bible, Mr. Jesus, and Mr. Paul to confirm my core theory.
1999: Completed my collection of Gnosis journal issues (the journal ran 1985-1999).
Heinrich: Strange Fruit – 1995, read ~1999.
The Jesus Mysteries – Freke & Gandy – read, & met w/ authors ~1999. The Genre-question paradigm shift; religious founder figures are ahistorical. So, a change of strategy: Corroborate my Core theory by showing that religious myth describes the same mental model transformation as my Core theory.
My reason, objective, & motivation for dropping into the field of entheogen scholarship: Show that myth is successfully interpreted & recognized as analogies describing psychedelic eternalism with dependent control. See Psilocybin everywhere.
Contrast Ruck’s reason for driving the field of entheogen scholarship: comply with Prohibition, identify with suppressed heretics, fairytale ritual retelling: See restricted Secret Amanita hidden so that almost no one knew about it:
“The Big Bad Church Triumphant is eternally Prohibitionist, but we heretical alien sects/ cults/ groups/ communities/ secret societies infiltrated even the very heart of Christianity, an alien infiltration, brazenly displaying our Secret Amanita in our places of worship, repeatedly reintroducing The Sacred Mushroom [picture kiddie Amanita].” – Carl Ruck, “Conjuring Eden”, Entheos 1, 2001, p. 14; “Daturas for the Virgin”, Entheos 2, 2001, p. 56.
James Arthur – Mushrooms and Mankind – 2000. Read & conversed with author.
Around 1999, I first heard of Allegro, eg Heinrich in _Strange Fruit_ wrongly says Allegro says that Jesus led a mushroom cult.
Entheos issue 1 w/ Conjuring Eden – Ruck/Staples & Heinrich – 2001.
Entheos issue 2 w/ “Daturas for the Virgin” – Ruck/Staples & __ & Heinrich – 2001.
Apples of Apollo book: Ruck/ Staples/ Heinrich/ Hoffman 2001.
Entheos issue 3 w/ reversed & Blue-to-Red shifted tauroctony, no mention of the psilocybin mushroom in leg/hem – 2002.
In Ruck’s Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis book, 2006, I’m quoted as writing that ‘wine’ in antiquity means an infusion of “visionary dissociative psychoactive plants”.
I misremembered the pull quote, which doesn’t quote me writing that “mushroom” wine = mixed wine, as if I meant Psilocybin mushrooms but Ruck misread that as Amanita.
I did not ambiguously and problematically write that ‘wine’ means, vaguely, “mushrooms”.
Ruck would have read that as Amanita, but I would have meant that as Psilocybin mushrooms.
Ruck’s pull quote of what I wrote is broader than ‘mushroom’. On p.93 I’m quoted as writing “visionary dissociative psychoactive plants”:
“It is hard to grasp the immensity of the ramifications of considering ‘wine‘ in antiquity as an ‘infusion of visionary dissociative psychoactive plants,’ the wholesale changes required to the conventional scholarly view of the nature of Hellenistic-Roman religion and culture. Even the best books, especially the “best”, most authoritative books, serve to spread and deepen the misreading of Hellenistic-Roman religion and culture as ‘lacking mystic religious experiencing.” – Michael Hoffman, p. 93
Amanita imagery is ok, but two things are unacceptable and must end:
Unacceptable thing 1: The Amanita Primacy paradigm suppresses & eliminates Psilocybin mushrooms and reduces them into a mere minor supporting role for False King Amanita.
Unacceptable thing 2: The Amanita Primacy paradigm condones and perpetuates Prohibition of Psilocybin.
At best, Amanita entheogen scholarship does nothing to work toward Repeal of Prohibition.
At worst, Amanita collaborates with Prohibition; reifies and excuses permanent Prohibition; and eternally separates Psilocybin from everyone by laboring to construct and bolster a fake barrier boundary wall, “mainstream vs. counterculture”.
Psilocybin mushrooms were neither “mainstream” nor “counterculture”.
Some Christians used Psilocybin mushrooms, and the best artists depicted peak transformative religious experiencing via the ingenious development of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.
I am firmly against any project of fairtale scenario construction, trying to explain where there’s a barrier boundary wall within Christianity separating it into Mainstream (= anti psychedelics) vs. Counterculture (= pro psychedelics).
Do not do that project. We DO NOT need a conjectured scenario to try to explain how presence of mushrooms = absence of mushrooms.
Stop doing that project, as if that labor produces a required explanatory helpful hypothesis – it just confuses the scholar, the reader, and the Courts.
“Mainstream/traditional” and “Counterculture/heretical” Christianity don’t exist – these are just loaded, value-laden, rhetoric storytelling words, as critically discussed in McCarthy & Priest’s “Reply to Replies”, Sep. 2024, Journal of Psychedelic Studies.
Christianity has no “mainstream” or “counterculture” Psilocybin tradition.
Such “mainstream vs. counterculture” spin is ritual fake fairytale storytelling, nothing but a scholars’ fabricated narrative to define the scholar’s own self-identity, per Hanegraaff’s book _Esotericism and the Academy_.
Does mainstream Christianity have a Psilocybin tradition?
Christianity has a Psilocybin tradition.
I reject the Allegro/ Ruck Secret Amanita premise that Christianity is divided into “mainstream Christianity” vs. “counterculture Christianity” or “heretical Christianity”.
I reject the construct “mainstream Christianity”: it raises more questions than it presumably solves. Introducing that confusion into entheogen scholarship only hinders entheogen scholarship.
/end of Nov 29 2024 draft of possible Comment at Cyberdisciple site
Comment 2: Never Trust an “Entheogen” Scholar
Never Trust an “Entheogen” Scholar
Editor for the Ruck committee and secret contributor to Apples of Apollo, Evil M. Hoffman, incorrectly writes “1976” for the year Wasson & Ruck coined ‘entheogen’, 1979.
Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
For a laugh, compare the length of the opening, grand Amanita section 📚 vs. the closing “Psilocybin and this ‘n that” section 🔬🔍🧐 that suggests someone oughta think of looking into Psilocybin ‘n stuff in mystery religions (like maybe some “entheogen” scholarship editor).
Oddly, proving that garbled thinking and conflation is caused by ‘mushrooms’, note that M. Hoffman uses the term “psychoactive mushrooms” in that diminutive passage, even though he has an entire gigantic section opening the article, about Amanita:
25.4.3 Psilocybin and Psilocin (Mushrooms) and DMT, 5Meo DMT: Spirit Molecules —
“These closely related entheogenic compounds should be mentioned in a discussion of the Mystery Religions.
“While evidence for their use in this context has not been fully**[pffft!] explored, it is extremely unlikely that the chemical properties of psychoactive mushrooms* and the natural sources of DMT would have been overlooked by ancient herbalists and alchemists.”
*uh yeah Hoffman, eg see your giant Amanita section 5 pages above, explaining that the holy mushroom, the Fly-Agaric, is the sacred-meal engine of mystery religions.
I consulted an Americas field researcher specialist PhD candidate the other day and told her of the situation in this field of failure.
I told her that the reigning theory is that Amanita was used for routine mass-scale initiations, and she couldn’t believe that’s the theory; she said that would be a terrible choice, and wouldn’t work, because of logistics; an incomparably superior choice would be psilocybin.
Eadwine’s Great Canterbury Psalter images f134 & f145 show gathering, securely storing, training for, and distributing specifically cubensis – with only ~3 out of the psalter’s 75 mushroom trees using Amanita imagery.
Eadwine demonstrates awareness of Amanita, in God Creates Plants (image f11 row 1 right),
and then proceeds to demonstrate total lack of interest in Amanita, showcasing cubensis instead, and showing liberty-cap caps and sages sitting up alert on couches as if wood lovers’ paralysis (image f32):
Eadwine is instructing kings, and he is not going to give kings the Carl Ruck committee’s terrible, awful advice, recommending Amanita, when cubensis is incomparably more desirable, relevant, efficacious, producing the targeted effect, and available than the fools’ mushroom, Amanita muscaria.
The one and only thing that researchers know about Amanita’s effects is that Amanita is NOT a classic psychedelic — so why are we paying 🍄 ANY attention to Amanita, other than inverting the entheogen scholars’ respect/disrespect relation and turning the tables and instead making Amanita subservient to psilocybin, as a mere symbol for psilocybin, per Dale Pendell in Pharmacognosis:
“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.”
This is the proxy effect: no one has any interest in Amanita as chemical or altered-state experience, but everyone has Amanita Madness frenzy treating Amanita as a proxy paradigm worldview raft of desire and confused projection.
You analyzed this.
Letcher Hatsis the psychedelic historian correctly noticed this malformation of the field of “entheogen scholarship”.
Dale Pendell opens his Amanita section pointing out that Amanita the myth and proxy is all-dominant, with zero involvement of Amanita the chemical effect.
M. Hoffman manages to contradict himself in his usage of the term ‘mushrooms’ within his own article.
**Using ‘mushrooms’ causes garbled writing: “Not been fully explored”: ie, my Ruck committee has totally failed to give the topic *any* attention at all, in our obsessed, singleminded zeal chasing after the colors red and white, while, blinded by the false, dead-end light of “the holy mushroom, Amanita muscaria”, failing to see or mention the psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg in the (reversed) tauroctony on the cover of Entheos journal.
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Wasson, Ruck, Ott, Bigwood, Staples, 1979, J. of Psychedelic Drugs:
“The word ‘psychedelics’ has too much baggage.
So we are providing a new word, ‘entheogens’, which has no baggage attached.”
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Thanks, I scrubbed ‘entheogens’ , a known-harmful, alien, counter-theory, trojan-horse lexicon term participating in and carrying-in a thoroughly bad assumption-network, from my article
Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching, Mushrooms, Handedness, and Stability.
In medieval art, the {branching} motif is definitely distinct from the {mushroom} motif, and is often employed without mushroom cap imagery.
I do not use an approach of neuroscience, history, anthropology, sociology, physicalism, mysticism, or cultural theory; my approach is:
Core theory:
1)experiential cognitive phenomenology, mental model transformation about control-in-world, mental construct processing; loose cognitive association binding; mental model transformation, driven by control instability and re-stabilization;
and
Mytheme theory: (I sometimes previously used the descriptors “entheogens” & “history”, but decoding/ mapping mythemes is really my mode of theorizing here) —
2) interpreting high rock lyrics (1991), and then religious mythology (2002), and then medieval art motifs (2020), as depiction (through analogy) of mental model transformation, driven by control instability and re-stabilization, indicated by {flames}, {scale balance}, {stable column base}, {stable, balanced tower}, {arches}, and {doorways of buildings} (which include the {gate-passage} theme).
Some {building doorways} have an {open scroll} reaching up to the top border.
Golden Psalter wonderfully wrecks the construct of “mushroom” trees, by mixing mushroom caps and leaf-crowns in each tree/plant.
Eadwine accomplishes the same differentiation of the {branching} and {mushroom} motifs by pairing mushroom trees with leaf-crown trees.
Break the theorists’ addiction to ‘entheogens’ — _as if_ the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & branching-message mushroom trees is *inexpressible* prior to 1979.
Arguably, the word ‘psychedelics’ actually has _less_ baggage than the word ‘entheogens’.
I need to review Christopher Partridge’s critique of the word ‘entheogens’.
Like Brown, Great Canterbury Psalter has general “mushroom imagery”, not only mushroom trees.
Unfortunately “the” mushroom tree ultimate paradigm master instance, all-sufficient & all-purpose, is the Fly-Agaric fresco.
The Fly-Agaric fresco is the God of all mushroom trees, used by Samorini 1998 to build out an entire (Figure 20) classification scheme that’s able to handle an entire 4-1/2 instances — _if_ you, like Irvin & Ruck, *repaint* the blue cap red of Bodleian’s Salamander image to *force* it to look like the master reference paradigmatic instance, our Fly-Agaric fresco ❤️🍄🌳😍
Thank you for the hi-res f134 url Nov. 2020. The library later brightened their color balance, possibly as a result of my galleries.
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Argument against both words:
Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality and Social Control
Irvin conflates social misuse of a chemical with the inherent cognitive action of the chemical (“suggestogens”).
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Christopher Partridge coined ‘occulture’, and is the editor of the book Contemporary Esotericism, including Hanegraaff’s 2012 “Entheogenic Esotericism” keynote essay 8 years after my 2004 posting against him, titled that.
Partridge argues against the word ‘entheogens’ and uses the word ‘psychedelics’.
He conflates esotericism with counterculture, and reduces esotericism to the merely countercultural: “What makes something esotericism is that it’s countercultural.
What makes psychedelics esotericism is that they are countercultural.”
Partridge says that what makes something esoteric is the fact that it is counterculture.
So be on your guard and defense up: watch out for Partridge’s use of the word ‘counterculture’; there’s an entire paradigm attached to his use of that word, an arbitrary, reductionistic agenda/ raft of embedded views; a “counterculture” presupposition matrix.
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I casually say just the key words “Hellenistic and Christendom broadly” to cover all the eras and regions that you listed.
— Cybermonk, April 22, 2023
Out of Scope, but Same Deal: Eleusis = Plaincourault; Ergot = Amanita; Ruck = Allegro; Kykeon = Fly Agaric Fresco, the Great Secret is the Mushroom Object Itself
Ergot is exactly parallel: the grotesque proxy extreme overuse of Eleusis to hide and delete all mystery religions and mixed-wine banqueting symposium sacred meals, “throw all that in the trashcan and OBSESS exclusively on Eleusis instead.”
Page title not used, with “ergot”:
Summarizing How the Amanita/Ergot Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm
Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck – specifically, Secret Amanita 🤫🍄 😲
🤫🍄 😲
“Gee, Whiz! Look at the Changing Shapes! Awesome!”
As high of consciousness as you can get from looking at shapes of kiddie Amanita:
Treats the Fly Agaric Fresco as Its Central Fetish Talisman Proxy Object, as if a Paradigm
omg and I write “the Panofsky letter”! — I hadn’t read Brown 2019 well enough yet Dec. 20, 2020.
It’s two letters, if not more, against Wasson’s psychopathic-level scholarly obstructionism, lying to our faces repeatedly for decades and withholding Panofsky’s two attached mushroom tree art works and Panofsky’s twice, strong recommendation of Brinckmann’s book – a truly HUGE academic violation, drastically discrediting Wasson.
I’m not surprised though, because I quickly gleaned in 2006 when writing the Plaincourault article:
My 2006 accusation part 1: No way does Panofsky have citations that amount to anything. There’s no way in hell the art historians wrote articles and books focusing on mushroom trees.
My 2006 accusation part 2: Wasson is withholding the embarrassingly thin, near-nonexistent citations that Panofsky certainly must have provided to back up his very strong claim of being thoroughly familiar with [having to explain-away] mushroom trees.
Brown 2019 proved my pair of 2006 accusations correct.
Samorini does a copy/paste of the Amanita paradigm in all its raging badness, and multiplies it to incorporate Psilocybin, shaped in exactly the same error-based mis-paradigm.
Psilocybin as mis-seen through the all-distorting & reductionistic lens of Amanita Madness.
Discussed in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b near 25:00 (the entire Ep246 pretty much focuses around this):
The Amanita paradigm =
perpetual prohibition.
primitivism that’s artificially constructed by academic fabricators of history.
a physicalist-limited theorizing (shape of Amanita).
ambiguous, obfuscating language (“the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the holy mushroom”).
unstated argumentation.
poor theorizing.
a gallery of fallacious argumentation, this taboo field is kept in status quo generating new novel fallacious arguments made up on-the-spot in droves.
I was impressed by the celerity with which Hatsis easily explained away each new piece of evidence, an endless supply of Parasol of Victory fabrications, b/c he’s a wannabe Pro Historian, and that’s their job of Pro Historians: to professionally manufacture history, confabulations. Hatsis counters the Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck confabulation of fake Amanita-based history, by confabulating fallacious and not-even-specious arguments against each piece of mushroom art evidence.
proxy associations and narratives;
lowering consciousness,
immature childish exoteric misreading of religious myth and art motifs.
Hero-worship driven:
John Lash falsely attributes enlightened views to Gordon Wasson that Wasson didn’t assert.
Jan Irvin falsely tries to credit John Allegro with giving a sh*t about the hundreds of mushroom trees. Allegro only cared about our magic fetish talisman, THE mushroom tree; the Fly-Agaric fresco, our foundation of idol theory paradigm religion cultic worldview of us Amanita theorists. “I only have eyes for you, fresco. 🖼🍄❤️”
The Amanita paradigm is the epitome of bad theorizing. — ~28:45 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b.
The Amanita paradigm is the epitome of bad theorizing.
Cybermonk near 28:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b, April 18, 2023
The Psilocybin paradigm =
Explains the changing mental model of control-in-world caused by loosecog from Psilocybin (not merely the changing physical mushroom (🍄) shape)
Driven by Strategy to accomplish Full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition (burn the damned fraud-driven “schedules” with fire), and beyond to fully mainstreaming psychedelics.
advanced comprehension of history; eg tracing early antiquity’s Psilocybin Eternalism, so strongly as to cause an anti-heimarmene reaction in Late Antiquity, inventing freewill and largely losing adult enlightenment (and corrupting the catalog/base of religious myth, filling it with inversion and confusion, to force a backwards narrative of “mental model transformation from eternalism to possibilism”) – Hanegraaff had to delete all the stars from the sky to prevent rebirth being into heimarmene/ eternalism.
Impressive expertise of middle ages artists, not treat our ancestors as raging irrational idiots, as Allegro/ Anthropology does, per Whig History.)
a cognitive experiencing domain approach;
controlled conceptual vocabulary unambiguous;
sound theorizing,
explicit argumentation,
direct speech and direct thinking/ argumentation (not proxy),
elevating consciousness;
mature adult esoteric coherent reading of religious myth and art motifs.
Announcement: My Oct. 2002/ March 2003 Revolution Announcement Is Officially Fulfilled April 18, 2023:
… as announced in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b near ~1:07:00, at [time of day] April 18, 2023. (i mention this milestone there, but didn’t state the time there, must be elsewhere in the episode)
My Egodeath Yahoo Group posting URLs are easy to find from Site Map -> topic of an after-the-fact “announcement” page, one of a set of such pages when I realized I never properly announced each component. found! —
“The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion” Became “the Psilocybin Mainstream/ Eternalism Theory” and Totally Discredited “the Amanita Counterculture/ Possibilism Paradigm” (“the Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion”) and Wholly Replaced It
The Amanita paradigm is restrictive (as Irvin 2008 criticizes): always sect, hidden, secret, suppressed, heretical, outsider, counter-culture, alien import into Christianity, fringe, fringe mystics, elite, exotic, foreign. These are the central explanatory constructs (that failed and cannot work).
Insists that Social reality is perpetual opposition: mainstream prohibitionists vs. counterculture entheogens (a fabricated narrative that’s designed to be pleasing to the Prohibitionists).
Identical to its other form: Eleusis, kykeon/ ergot hogging up 100% of spotlight focus in ancient greek study/ fantasy/ narrative, “ultra secret, the penalty of revealing secret is death” Ruck gleefully and excitedly reminds us every 5 pages. “The secret that was revealed in the mysteries is the mushroom [picture kiddie Amanita]”
todo: add to episode notes: Ep246b 1:07:00 turned down compressor
Definition of the Psilocybin Paradigm
Its strategy is driven by #1 objective of full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition.
Explains the change of mental worldmodel of control-in-world. vs. trying to explain myth as depiction of the changes of physical shape of mushroom.
Fails to be Cognitive-Focused: Change of Shape of Kiddie Mushroom, vs. Change of Mental Models
paste: copy: I have TONS of summaries in Conclusion section of the two pages, branching-message mushroom trees article draft & snapshot.
Prohibition-Compliant and Maximally Enabling Prohibition, Music to the Ears of Prohibitionists
No One Cares About Ingesting Amanita, No One Uses It, It’s Irrelevant, 100% Proxy Narrative
I discussed Dale Pendell’s book Pharmacognosis confirming my conclusion that Fly Agaric is nothing more than purely a symbol/ proxy near 8:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b (recorded April 18, 2023). Cyberdisciple wrote excellently about “entheogen scholarship” as Covert Anthropology, and about the Storytelling purpose of entheogen scholarship, telling a story of opposition of mainstream suppression of psychedelics against counterculture psychedelics users/”fringe sects”. Irvin wrote insightfully about pushing Primitivism, and rejecting Ruck’s false assertion of “fringe sects” eg Ruck and Gonzalez’ horrible bluff, writing “so-called” to hide the fact that THEY are the ones who are calling Fly Agaric “sects” so that they themselves can deem them as inherently “heretical”.
Which logically amounts to: Ruck-type bad entheogen scholarship insists that the mainstream culture is INHERENTLY ALWAYS REQUIRED TO PROHIBIT entheogens. “Genesis 3 commands Christianity to prohibit psilocybin.” (This crude, infantile, exoteric mis-reading put forth by the Prohibition-cooperating entheogen scholars makes God a liar when saying “you will certainly die that day”, and ignores Revelation 22, which is titled “Eden Restored” in NIV.)
In the spirituality shop, I again pick up Dale Pendell’s book – the TOC lists Amanita. My reaction: let’s see if page 1 of the entry mentions that Amanita isn’t used.
I then turn to page 1 of his Amanita chapter: Sentence 1 reads:
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
Amanita imagery never means Amanita, but always means Psilocybin.
Overthrow the Amanita Primacy axiom that mis-leads the field of entheogen scholarship, and overthrow the Moderate/Minimal entheogen theory of religion along with it.
Replace that by the Psilocybin Primacy axiom, along with the Radical Maximal entheogen theory of religion.
/ end of copied from Pendell page
Primitivism, Looking Down in the Mud Instead of Up to the Skies: Irrational Primitive Anthropology False Assumption
Insults the F out of our ancestors, Allegro writes “Simple-minded folk were filled with awe and dread by the changing shape of the amanita object shape physical.”
THE ONLY simple-minded, CRUDE, PRIMITIVE, fear-driven, superstitious, irrational THINKER HERE IS THE UNIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT.
Abandon the Amanita Paradigm; Wholly Reject and Replace It Entirely in All Aspects by the Psilocybin Paradigm
Amanita Theory Now Serves as Nothing But a Lesson in Folly Like Earth-Centered Cosmology: A Purely Negative, Restrictive, Extremely Constrained Role within the New, Psilocybin Paradigm
Amanita Theory is the New Phlogiston; Phrenology; & Earth-Centered Cosmology of Folly: “The Holy Mushroom” Was Revealed to Be the Fools’ Mushroom
Discussed near 1:14:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b.
Photo Credit: Cybermonk 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 — the Physical Mushroom Object: you can whack someone with it, like Enlightened Zen Master Brad hitting you with a stick to transmit his enlightened knowledge to you.
Not just a LBM (Little Brown Mushrooms); the “lesser-looking mushrooms” (Hatsis).
Do not Adjust the Amanita Paradigm to Move Forward Building on the Fly Agaric Fresco as if a Foundation for a Paradigm
Discussed near ~40:00 in Ep246b Egodeath Mystery Show
Non-Viable Word for Theory Construction: “mushrooms”; Viable Word: “psilocybin mushrooms”
‘mushrooms’ is a corrupted, ruined word, used to prop up the Amanita Madness insanity/ ideology / anti-Theory, which maximally supports Prohibition.
Irvin and Hatsis vie for each other in who can more misuse and abuse the word ‘mushrooms’ to confuse the field, confuse themselves, and reify Amanita Madness.
If you want to maximize confusion, write “mushrooms”.
In Fact, It’s the University Academics Who Are the “Simple-Minded Folk Easily Filled with Awe and Dread by the Changing Shapes of the Fly-Agaric, and Made Up Religious Mythology to Describe This”
The Amanita paradigm/ ideology/ worldview/ dogma/ presupposition is the paradigm for self-defeating, loser morons — referring to allegro’s argument / storytelling that “SIMPLE-MINDED FOLK WERE SO IMPRESSED AND FILLED WITH AWE AND DREAD BY THE CHANGING SHAPE OF THE FLY AGARIC” (Allegro’s words, todo: exact quote from THM). The only crude, stupid thinker here is Allegro himself; this Anthropology Whig theory is IDIOTIC. On the part of university academics.
Amanita = self-defeating loser morons.
0:00 – Intro, date. April 18, 2023
~6:00 & ~1:38:00 – Add ‘entheogens’ to the Forbidden Word List. Irvin 2015 rejects all the words (“Entheogens: What’s in a Name?” article)
Corrupt, Compromised “Entheogen Scholarship” Dictates and Decrees that Psychedelics Must Be Prohibited
“Entheogen scholarship” is a trojan horse that decrees inherent, perpetual prohibition of psychedelics by mainstream culture.
The Paradoxical Conflict of Interest Embedded in Anthropology-Department, Storytelling-Driven “Entheogen Scholarship”
19:00 – “entheogen scholarship” is suspect because it’s a package deal; baked into it is the dictum that mainstream culture is REQUIRED to prohibit psychedelics.
~1:42:00 – Guitar short outro.
Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom does many dirty sloppy obfuscating moves, first to ignore psilocybin, then to declare psilocybin irrelevant, and then to try to abuse and force psilocybin to prop up the Amanita paradigm
The focus progressively shifts, covertly, through the course of the book, from “mushrooms = Amanita”, to “mushrooms = Amanita and also Psilocybin insofar as we can force Psilocybin to prop up our Amanita Madness”.
Passages Allegro cited (body of book): Hits the unwanted citations of psilocybin passages, Irvin states “not important to our study/ our discussion” repeatedly.
p 107 intro to gallery: “The main types of mushrooms in discussion are Amanita, Cubensis, & Lib Cap”
Gallery specimen photos starts with Amanita photos (9).
9 Amanita photos, then only 6 Psilocybin specimen photos.
Places the fly agaric fresco first.
Abuses Dancing Man to ruin it by making it extremely red to try to FORCE the blue cap to be red, specifically in order to make it match (like Samo figure 20) the idol that we worship, the fly agaric fresco. Proof that Irvin deliberately red-shifted Dancing Man image: explains why Irvin didn’t catch Ruck’s HUGE error in Allegro’s book by Gnostic Media Jan Irvin, SMC 2009: Ruck’s “Fungus Redivivus” appendix falsely saying Dancing Man cap is red (it’s blue). Irvin and Ruck both DESPERATELY NEED DANCING MAN TO LOOK LIKE THEIR FLY-AGARIC FRESCO IDOL.
Extremely abuses through dirty rhetoric WRITING EXACTLY IN WASSON’S SCUMMY DECEPTIVE OBSCURANTIST MISLEADING WAY, that “the holy mushroom” was tested by Griffiths, proving a complete mystic experience is given by the holy mushroom (psilocybin, now; switched silently). Therefore psilocybin research proves that Amanita gives a complete mystical experience. <– as always in this disaster of a field, a solid wall of fallacious argumentation. Irvin abuses psilocybin argumentation in order to prop up his Amanita Madness single-plant fallacy.
p. 107 “the main mushroom types IN DISCUSSION are amanita, cubensis, lib cap” – DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS 3+ STATEMENTS earlier in Allegro Citations section, “Psilocybin is not important to our study / to our discussion.”
30:00 – Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom does many dirty sloppy obfuscating moves, to try to force psilocybin to prop up the Amanita paradigm. He corrupts the colors of Dancing Man salam bestiary image to force the blue cap toward red (in vain) and also proving this, is that Irvin in SMC 2009 neglects/refrains from correcting Ruck’s HUGE error in Fungus Redivivus apx in asserting that the cap is red (it’s blue).
Religionism Corrupted entheogen scholarship: the Amanita False Religion of Worshipping the Fly Agaric Fresco as God and Paradigm (rightly criticized by Panofsky)
The Amanita [Counter-culture] Paradigm Insists that Mainstream Culture Must Prohibit Psychedelics
Amanita Is a Trojan Horse for the False Sociological Assertion that the Mainstream Is Required to Prohibit Psychedelics
Ep246a ~6:00
~10:00
Fundamental Sociology principle asserted by the Amanita paradigm: mainstream culture always must prohibit The Mushroom [proxy for Psilocybin & actual psychedelics, even though Amanita isn’t an actual classic psychedelic or entheogenic]
~53:00 – ev 635a mic, buzzy, before compressor, might be a 7-minute segment with buzz. ERRATA. Mono mic. Stereo guitar background.
Episode Ep246b
timestamps tbd
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~40:00 – Do not carry forward the harmful Amanita paradigm. Bundle-up the Amanita paradigm with my articles and Irvin’s horribly mis-titled 2008 book, and then carry the Amanita paradigm wrapped with warnings, THE FAILED 1.0 APPROACH: DO NOT USE. 🚫🍄
46:00 —
Irvin 2008: “Eucharist = Amanita”
Irvin 2022: “Eucharist = Not Psilocybin”
1:07:00 – miking notes about amount of comp – now aiming for lower half of meter instead of higher half
Episode Ep246c
tracks starts:
Ep246c 0:00 – 5055.wav – Intro. Egodeath Mystery Show. April 18, 2023. Short guitar.
0:40-1:46:09 – 5055.wav – Content.
~1:00 – wrote really nice brief list in Conclusion draft of 5 failed approaches.
Psilocybin Paradigm = the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism = the Egodeath theory
analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control
the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics = the Egodeath theory
the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism as the Psilocybin Paradigm.
Ep246c ~8:00 – The only field / approach that is relevant and useful is the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, not “Neuroscience” or any other approach.
10:00 –
17:00 – not doing tapestry field research.
18:00 — not “spot the changing shape of the Amanita” (children’s game) to “spot the changing mental model” (adult version of game). college Junior, upper-level undergraduate level, not the kindergarten game of “spot the Amanita”.
19:30 – From “Spot the Amanita Physical Object” to “Spot the Psilocybin Control Re-Stabilization”.
20:00 –
~25:00 – Amanita paradigm.
Ep246c 30:00 –
40:00 –
Ep246c 42:00 — 🍄🌳🍄 too 🍄🌳 many 🌳🍄 mushrooms 🍄🍄🌳, server overloaded
44:00 — i had to do battle with “no psilocybin in Europe” 🤷♂️ 🚫🍄 fkking idiotic preposterous lie, and if you totally rewrote 1994 book Paul Stamets book to force it to cover Psilocybin in Europe and not only in “of the World [not including Europe]”
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World Except for Europe: An Identification Guide Paul Stamets, 1994
Ep246c 50:00 — condemning CSR, Cognitive Science of Religion = ordinary-state Cog Sci of ordinary-state Religion. the Boring Cognitive Science of Boring Religion — a field that’s not worth existing. Need: the Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Psychedelic Religion. CSR is boring and worthless, exoteric
57:00 — the “Amanita Counter-culture” paradigm vs. the “Psilocybin Mainstream” paradigm.
1:00:00 –
1:10:00 — no other theory can explain this domain.
“mainstream religion is inherently Prohibitionist”
the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
other theorist cannot grasp and address this realm/ domain, applying possibilism-premised control, until you change your thinking to rely on 2-level, eternalism model of control-in-world,
no other theory than the theory of psilocybin eternalism is able to handle psilocybin eucharist mainstream religion and culture
1:42:25 – Guitar to end (3.5 min.)
Ep246c 1:46:09 – End.
strong episode – reading conclusions sections aloud. Which articles? maybe:
spot the changning mental model of control, not spot the changing children’s mushroom shapes like Heinrich 1994 Strange Fruit is limited to doing and Apples of Apollo 2001 more of same pointless directionless dead end failure to be relevant, and continued parasite enabler compromised PROHIBITION-FRIENDLY RUCKIANISM PARADIGM.
Prohibition-compliant made-up “Anthropology” FANTASY AND CONFABULATION of exotic alien sects from the East, to shield real Christianity from coming into contact — mainstream = psychedelics.
not counter culture opposition scenario you’re selling and constructing and supporting vigorously, PROHIBITION-ENABLING ANTHROPOLOGY DEFEATIST COMPLIANT STORYTELLING, = entheogen scholarship under the Fly-Agaric prohibition paradigm, to the psilocybin eucharist restabilization paradigm
“mainstream religion has to be Prohibitionist because Genesis 3 forces you (silence about Eden Restored Revelation 22) a 1-sided treatment, a 1-sided narrative, they never think to look for evidence in Mainstream, they are only interested in Secret, not Amanita.
Ruck doesn’t write about Amanita, but about a world divided into two battling false options:
“Mainstream-inherent entheogen prohibition vs. counterculture heretical sect Amanita” — that’s the story Ruck cares about this story he wants to tell about mainstream prohibition against counter-culture fertility cult sects.
rough notes/transcription: ALLEGRO CARES ABOUT asserting PERMANENT PERPETUAL OPPOSITION.
The mainstream must perpetually assert prohibition.
The counter-culture has full ownership exclusively.
The Amanita Paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Paradigm
AMANITA MADNESS
vs. why psychedelic pseudo science is messed up differently than entheogen scholarship where AMANITA MADNESS reigns
the Amanita paradigm vs the Psilocybin paradigm — powerful concept.
the new paradigm is the Psilocybin paradigm, and the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is inherent in that
“the lesser-looking mushrooms” says Hatsis because it’s not “the” mushroom, Amanita! he shows their hand, gives away their game, the Amanita Primacy Fallacy big-time.
Nothing good can come from the Amanita paradigm, Hatsis is trapped in it. “these lesser-looking mushrooms”, they all think the same:
Ruck, Rush, Irvin, Hatsis all agree that cubensis mushroom trees are “lesser looking” — than the fly agaric fresco
the fly agaric fresco is more valuable than hundreds of lesser-looking mushroom trees, we demand that Dancing Man cap be red, not blue — Irvin repaints Dancing Man image forced to red hue, in his color book. I have pic of it and link to hi-res library.
Secret Prohibited Fly Agaric “Mainstream society is required always inherently to prohibit The Mushroom, the Holy Mushroom, some proxy for psychedelics”
no one has any interest in ingesting amanita, it’s a story, not an altered state. Fly Agaric is a narrative worldview ideology — not something to ingest to have an altered state.
They couldn’t care less about Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition – their narrative is invested in Prohibition and would collapse without it.
It’s a religion, THE FLY AGARIC RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY NARRATIVE STORYTELLING PROXY ARGUMENTATION, it is not a scientific explanatory theory, made to uphold prohibition. It’s mental.
The Religion of Fly Agaric Anthropology Theory of Inherently Prohibitionist Mainstream Opposition to The Mushroom
the Amanita Counter-Culture paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Mainstream paradigm
the Amanita counterculture vs. the theory of Psilocybin eternalism
the theory of Psilocybin eternalism
a theory name or descriptor
The Psilocybin Paradigm
abandon the Amanita Counter-Culture” paradigm and convert to / adopt the psilocybin mainstream paradigm instead
They are mental. self-defeating immature crybabies push and promote and committed and invested in Prohibition of “The Mushroom”, delirious mind of the Amanita theorist.
They are confused, devoted to suppression and Prohibition.
THE ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS USE PROHIBITION AS THEIR FOUNDATION OF THEIR PARADIGM to hold their ideology in position.
Entheogen scholarship cooperates with Prohibition.
Prohibitionists LOVE & applaud the storytelling service that’s provided by entheogen scholarship to uphold Prohibition forever.
all badness revolves around Amanita
Toxic Anthropology theory = entheogen scholarship.
only the Egodeath theory can work; the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, including this latest breakthrough that cannot be provided by any of the other approaches, no more need be said about the irrelevance and …. must point out that this is a successful theory and that no other theory can be successful, relevant, effective.
how to critical the failure of 7 fields in just two senetnces in my Conclusion? Do not read my Plainc article except read “waste of time, bury the damn Amanita paradigm, reset the question, off of Asson and Allegro and abandon the discussion of the fly agaric fresco as a paradigm.
why i don’t list my Plainc article as “recomm’d”. It’s low priority; hi pri is this article, 2007, 1997, 1996 articles, which describe MY theory; my Plainc article isn’t about the Egodeath theory! It proves that another paradigm is a failed, unproductive, irrelevant approach and we must return the field to center on “to what extent psilocybin eternalism in Christian history?”
Stop talking in proxy terms, in terms of “amanita”, make up what you actually care about: Amanita, or a garbled mental confusion that when you say Amanita, do you just mean a narrative-based ideology that’s important to you, a counterculture narrative of “suppression”? then talk in terms of Amanita. Are you interested in Alt State or a counterculture narrative in permenta opposition, a never ending sob story about isn’t….
reveling in permanent defeatism, that’s what entheogen scholars care about.
Amanita cult entheogen scholars are in an Amanita Narrative Cult cut off from Psilocybin reality. Amanita scholars are Anthropology Dept. Academic Fancy storytellers, not scientific historians.
They DGAF about making Psilocybin mainstream. Their audience is trained to value a countercultural ideology of perpetual defeat, an Amanita-centered moral story perpetual .. instead of talking in terms of psilocybin. Such “Entheogen scholarship” has nothing to do with psychedelics, but pseudo symbolic per Dale Pendell, the Amanita Sect paradigm, the Psilocybin Eucharist paradigm and make psilocybin mainstream forever.
Bad Amanita Anthropology Theory Demands an Opposition Scenario distraction about their false & irrelevant options around “Metaphysical Beliefs” -Mysticism”) and Causes Prohibition
Their Ripoff Options Are a False Dichotomy Like Letheby & Johnson’s Hamfisted “Physicalism vs. Primacy-of-Mind” “Metaphysics / Epistemology”, an irrelevant (& poorly handled
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retartded scale they imagine as “fatalistic determinism” lifted from an ordinary-state-based lame q’air, the bandaided v2 of the poor q’air has tacked-on recently this notion — run of the mill domino-chain causality, saturated with IMPURE 🙌 ⚖️🔥😈ψ💥🌪 EGOIC-BASED POSSIBILISM-THINKING that needs to be burned off with FIRE — not the alt state, but specifically CONTROL INSTABILITY MONSTER corrective training teaching the mind’s learning process in loosecog
Ram Furnace to Burn Away Ram Thinking Trained to Re-Balance on Right Leg Not Left
1:00:00 – Abandon amanita-based, amanita-centric entheogen scholarship , abandon and avoid it like the plague
dread of control instability
1:26:00 — Amanita theory “scholarship” is a Sociology-Embedded Paradigm, it’s not about psychedelics, it’s about anthropology theory, Amanita replaces psychedelics. Amnita is a symbol for psychedelics and a moral tale of sociology/ anthropology that eliminates and has no need for psychedelics.
The Amanita Paradigm Is Not About Psychedelics, but Anthropology/ Sociology Storytelling; Essentially a Narrative-Weaving Activity to Explain to Enable Co-Exist Forever with Prohibition — the most Prohibition-friendly The Mushroom
the most Prohibition-friendly entheogen scholarship: Secret Amanita Heretical Sect Counterculture Cult Group in perpetual dramatic battle aginast inherently Probhitiionist mainstream
Prohibition by the mainstream culture is REQUIRED, by we entheogen scholars who read a single verse of Genesis 3 out of context eg “You will certainly die the day when you ingest the mushroom”, and Rev 22: Eden Restored.
“The Bible Says We Must Be Prohibitionist” — Bad Entheogen Scholars
Bad entheogen scholars addicted to the Amanita heretical sect paradigm WANT to read the Bible exoterically as Prohibitionist, they are fully invested in reading scripture in the most rank, those on the outside, exoteric reading possible, the most childish reading and inappropriate and makes God speak falsely. God speaks falsely or YOUR READING IS WRONG.
~1:40:00 — Strong ending: Amanita Theory Causes Prohibition.
I don’t care about the extent of Amanita in Christian history. The question has been entirely harmful and prevented research and derailed it. NOT WORTH THE HEAVY BAGGAGE.
Tech Notes
I got the good compressors dialed-in fairly well. Buzzing might indicate the mono handheld ev 635a. Wish I stated more often the miking/settings within the recordings as I tried the previous day: unmatched compressors, then matched comps run hot, then by this day, probably, I mellowed the comps to lower half of meter.
Errata
i think 7 minutes of buzzing in one segment. from ev 635a before compressors.
quick copy from draft of branching-message mushroom trees article — been recording many hours of spoken idea development to get this far.
Brown’s call to recenter the field on the question of “To what extent “mushrooms” in Christianity?” has a fatal flaw: the word “mushrooms” is a trojan horse for perpetual Prohibition and primitivism and physicalist approach, because THE WORD “MUSHROOMS” BY DEFAULT MEANS EXCLUSIVELY AMANITA, WHICH IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR EVERYTHING BAD AND WRONG.
Hatsis has explicitly and directly confirmed this to me in pers. corr., Hatsis personally confirmed to me that when he says “mushrooms” in this context, he EXCLUSIVELY means Amanita.
And I’m finding HUGE problems and flaws and massive self-contradictions and inconsistencies in Irvin’s 2008 book “The Holy Mushroom” along this same line.
WE MUST STOP EMPLOYING THE TERM “MUSHROOMS”, “THE MUSHROOM”, ETC.
Repeal and sound theory depends on us adding ‘mushrooms’ to the Forbidden Word List, the list of conceptual explanatory constructs and terms that cannot be a viable foundation for theory and for repeal and mainstreaming.
This article and the Egodeath theory replaces the Amanita paradigm by the Psilocybin paradigm.
The Amanita paradigm = perpetual prohibition, primitivism; a physicalist-limited theorizing (shape of Amanita); ambiguous, obfuscating language (“the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the holy mushroom”); unstated argumentation, poor theorizing; proxy associations and narratives; lowering consciousness, immature childish exoteric misreading of religious myth and art motifs.
The Psilocybin paradigm = repeal and beyond to mainstreaming psychedelics; advanced comprehension of history; a cognitive experiencing domain approach; controlled conceptual vocabulary unambiguous; sound theorizing, explicit argumentation, direct speech and direct thinking/ argumentation (not proxy), elevating consciousness; mature adult esoteric coherent reading of religious myth and art motifs.
Ruck & Rush need to convert from the “Amanita counter-culture” paradigm to the “Psilocybin mainstream” paradigm.
Nov 29 2024 note: Avoid the term ‘mainstream’ as well as ‘counterculture’. Both terms imply & reify a Prohibition-type barrier and identity boundary, a presence/absence boundary.
MUST ABANDON AMANITA BASED CENTRIC ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP LIKE THE PLAGUE
The Egodeath theory is successful as a relevant, domain-appropriate, useful and effective explanatory model because it models and provides an explanatory model using a custom, appropriate, purpose-optimized, conceptual vocabulary and lexicon suitable for effectively capturing the explanandum.
Ineffective approaches fail to deliver an effective explanatory model to explain dread of the {shadow dragon monster}, instead just deleting and eliminating the explanandum (dread of fatal control instability) and replacing the explanandum by some substitute:
An ordinary-state based Grief subscale that simply deletes 18 of Dittrich’s 21 5D-ASC Dread effects [Barrett et al 2016: Scoring Guide appendix].
A Physicalism/Materialism focus that’s conceptually limited to domino-chain determinism [Johnson, 2022].
Eliminative “Cognitive” Neuroscience that attempts to discuss loose cognitive binding by instead talking indirectly in terms of “neuroplasticity”.
Unscientifically vague mysticism as a methodology [rejected by Sanders & Zijlmans 2021].
The Egodeath theory is an anti-neuroscience, bona fide actual cognitive phenomenology-based approach, explaining experiencing of control model transformation in terms of control models, not in terms of neural networks which deletes and removes the explanandum through using a conceptual lexicon which fails to describe the explanandum.
We must discuss the experience of mental model transformation, in direct terms about experiential mental model transformation, not indirectly and ineffectively in terms of brain scans.
Nov 29 2024 note: Ruck’s telltale typical words ‘sects, cults, communities, groups, [secret] societies’, or later, ‘elites’, all function as a barrier / boundary construction word/concept, in Ruck’s writings. Ruck NEVER says “Christians” or “heretics”, but ALWAYS speaks of a closed group, because he cannot allow Amanita-using individuals to be spread throughout the general population of Christians – that breaks his narrative and especially, eliminates Ruck’s personal identity.
Anti-“secret amanita sect” paradigm, which is ordinary-state based, limited to the physical forms of the Amanita, ignores repeal of Psilocybin prohibition, and is fully invested in a false theological claim that what makes a form of Christianity mainstream vs. heretical is that mainstream Christianity is required by entheogen scholars (sitting in Pope’s chair issuing theological decrees) to prohibit Psilocybin.
Bad, anti-Psilocybin, Prohibition-asserting theology, is how the “Amanita sect” theory operates.
According to the Amanita heresy theology that’s a false theological dictum or decree of the “heretical Amanita sect” paradigm, there are only two options: mainstream anti-psychedelic religion and culture in opposition to heretical psychedelic sects.
In sharp contrast, the “explicit mainstream Psilocybin Eucharist” paradigm formed by the Egodeath theory, provides the correct, true, theologically correct theological decree, that real Christianity, normal mainstream religion and culture, is Psilocybin-based.
The fatal flaw of the “Secret Amanita” paradigm is that the flip side of assigning psychedelics to a postulated counter-culture is the false assertion that mainstream culture must prohibit psychedelics – a fatally self-defeating, false theology.
The self-contradiction that is “Cognitive Neuroscience”
The “Secret Amanita heretical sect” paradigm is infantile, concretistic, limited to the physical form of the fly agaric, and cannot engage with the cognitive content, mental model transformation about control-in-world.
The result is reductionism, which is the elimination of the explanandum through ineffective and inappropriate explanatory model using terms that allow the escape of the explanandum.
Only the Egodeath theory captures the explanandum and explains, not deletes [Barrett et al 2016: scoring guide appendix] OAV’s Dread DED dimension {shadow dragon monster}, replacing the altered-state explanandum by a ordinary-state based Grief subscale.
Note 29 Nov 2024: “factors” in 11-factors – Psychedelic Pseudo-Science
Inconsistent names of these pseudo-Science questionnaires.
The two q’s where the revised, 2nd one added a “Determinism” factor.
Unclear null “factors” (item 54) not in ICC or AD subfactor/ “sub-scale”, accidentally forming “shadow factor 13” and “virtual factor 12”, formed implicitly, unconsciously, thoughtlessly, not defended or acknowledged by the authors, in 11 Factors.
Poor writing in this field of “science”; Roland Griffiths “accidentally misunderstood” the poorly written 11 Factors writeup paper, and dropped 8 of the 21 Angst factors right out the gate (shadow factor 13). Poor explanation of why item 54 of DED/AED Angst Dread scale was dropped in 11-Factors, poor justification of several “dropped items”.
Do I actually desire, or not, the psychedelic therapy clinic to be swallowed whole by the shadow dragon monster?
/Nov 29 2024 notes
The “Amanita sect”theory asserts that mainstream religion is anti-entheogenic, which maximally supports Prohibition. The “Psilocybin Eucharist” theory asserts that mainstream religion is entheogenic, which maximally supports repeal of Prohibition.
Do not associate “counter-culture” with entheogens, which maximally benefits Prohibition. Associate mainstream religion with entheogens, which maximally leads to Repeal of Prohibition.
Other methodologies fail to effectively model the actual explanandum, experiencing mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism, transforming the mental worldmodel of control-in-world, driven by corrective instability and failure of control.
No other theory than the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism captures and recognizes and effectively models and explains this dynamic: not neuroscience, physicalism, or mysticism.
My approach instead is: Loose Cognitive Science, loose cognition; psychedelic eternalism; mental construct association matrix; mental construct processing.
Only Psychedelic Cognitive Science, liberated from Neuroscience’s replacement and reductionism of the explanandum, can accurately, usefully, and relevantly model and explain mental worldmodel transformation in the psilocybin loose cognitive binding state.
This explanatory model of conditional control stability enables the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science; enables Cognitive Scientists to enter the loose cognitive realm to get the treasure of Transcendent Knowledge, without being cast out through the gate by terror of seeing the {shadow dragon monster}.
CARL RUCK’S “AMANITA HERETICAL SECT” THEORY IS OPTIMIZED AND MAXIMIZED TO SUPPORT PROHIBITION OF ENTHEOGENS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Do not assert that mainstream religion was anti-entheogenic; that false assertion maximally supports Prohibition.
The “Amanita sect” theory falsely asserts that mainstream religion is inherently anti-entheogenic; that false assertion maximally supports Prohibition.
Assert that mainstream religion was entheogenic; that correct assertion maximally repeals Prohibition.
The “Psilocybin Eucharist” theory (part of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism) truthfully asserts that mainstream religion is inherently entheogenic; that correct assertion maximally supports repeal of Prohibition.
Conflating Forms of the Barrier Wall: Eden entrance; City of God wall; Those on the Inside; Prohibition (War on Drugs); Pope Ruck’s decree against “Heretical Sects” (his words)
Do not read Genesis 2 & 3 as exoterically read God is prohibitionist, and ignore Revelation 22 at the end of the Bible, titled by NIV as “Eden Restored”.
Nov 29 2024: Rev 22:2 gives us THIRTEEN DIFFERENT ENTHEOGENS — not just one (Amanita) per Heinrich or Cannabis only, “Hemp”, per Bennett.
Esoteric affirmation … the only possible reading is esoteric, God speaks truth: Adam died that day; God is not a rank Prohibitionist.
the Moderate [aka Minimal] Secret Amanita theory/paradigm/ assumption-set
the Maximal Psilocybin Eucharist theory/paradigm/ assumption-set
the Secret Amanita paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Eucharist paradigm
the Secret Amanita paradigm vs. the Explicit Cubensis paradigm
Transcription of the 1988 Manuscript, without Strikethrough Wording
Photographs of the August 1988 Handwritten Minnesota Manuscript
Photograph of Holding the 1988 Manuscript
2012 Photograph of 1988 Manuscript and Semester Notebook Binders
Motivation for Creating this Page
See Also
Transcription of the 1988 Manuscript, without Strikethrough Wording
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Photographs of the August 1988 Handwritten Minnesota Manuscript
Unpublished first writeup of the Egodeath theory.
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Photograph of Holding the 1988 Manuscript
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2012 Photograph of 1988 Manuscript and Semester Notebook Binders
Motivation for Creating this Page
Unpublished MS. But I might publish it as Academia.edu, for a couple reasons: I want to see my 1988 wording of the Core theory. I need a standard way to represent that the Egodeath theory was formulated in 1988, without belaboring the point in a way that’s hard to follow and gets lost in minutia of historical development.
People need dates for the development of the Egodeath theory, and article dates are especially useful, even if an unpublished MS. This MS’s year, August 1988, is same as important date Jan. 1988 when the Egodeath theory was formed. Started 1985. Need a citation that represents and indicates that the Egodeath theory was formed in 1988.
History of Development of the Egodeath theory in Terms of Main-Article Years
1988: The Theory of Ego Transcendence (unpublished ms)
1997: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (Self-Control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death (core theory spec)
2007: The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (2007 main article, adds myth but not branching-message mushroom trees/ handedness)
2020a: Compelling Evidence & Proof of Explicit Psilocybin Mushrooms in Christian Art to Communicate Non-Branching Stable Control
2020b: Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe
2023: Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching Mushrooms, Handedness, and Stability (supplement to 2007 main article)
Notes
bubble is first pub’d article but is more an adjunct to the 1988 draft/ 1997 spec.
My 2006 Fresco article is a SIDESHOW footnote, albeit formal and exhaustive and a major milestone. Its message is: Fresco/Wasson/Allegro = irrelevant dead end. The Egodeath theory is on-track, relevant.
My 2020 article on Eadwine is too incomplete, lacks theory of branching-message mushroom trees, which is finalized April 2023 (now). Good news: I realized I have a Nov 19 2020 untouched 1st Edition frozen snapshot of the article as well as my updated, potential 2nd edition (wide page format).
I definitely recommend the color version, not the b/w. It’s a solid book by any measure and it essential for the field. Pairs with God’s Flesh (Europe vs. Americas).
Blurb, by John Rush:
“Christianity and the Piltdown Hoax (one of the largest academic scandals in history) share many similarities:
“In both stories, the information was constructed and then salted into the information stream, and, through the word of noted scholars, presented as fact, the truth.
“Scholars have egos and once committed to their ideas through scholarly publications, faculty meetings, and conferences, have difficulty seeing, hearing, or even appreciating an adverse view.
“To waver from a strongly held opinion could spell academic ruin and withdrawal of acclaim.
“This leads to lively debate, counter stories, and even character assassination if one side or the other is being out trumped in the symbolic mêlée.
“Jan Irvin has captured what we might call an “anthropology of clarification” regarding whether or not mushrooms, and mind-altering substances in general, played any role in the development of not only Judaism and Christianity but the total culture in play at that time.
“It is now recognized in many academic communities (anthropologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists) that sufficient evidence exists of the importance of these substances, both textual and visual, to say “yes” in very large letters.
“It is no longer theory.
“The questions Irvin asks are these:
“If mind-altering substances did play this major role, then how would this affect our interpretations of the Bible and the Qur’an?
“Would this shed light on the origins of mystical experiences and the stories, for example Abraham hearing voices and Ezekiel’s convenient visions?
“What would this suggest about the shamanic behavior of Jesus?
“What impact would this have on organized religion?”
“These are bold questions.
“This is a very useful volume for those interested in the Holy Mushroom and the politics of truth.
“Detailed and wonderfully illustrated; great bibliography.”
“~ Professor John A. Rush, Sierra College”
Rush’s 2022 book 2nd Edition ignores Irvin’s 2008 call to abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” stingy restrictive premise.
The Secret Amanita Heretical Sect/Cult theory, which Irvin repeatedly calls to reject, has a huge conflict of interest: that narrative commitment strives to perpetuate Prohibition of psilocybin to save the Narrative of Defeat, that’s the #1 mission and objective of entheogen scholars.
‘Entheogens’ Means Amanita Exclusively: Un-believable: Irvin Announces Commentary on “All Entheogen Citations”, then Suddenly Switches to Exclusively Covering Amanita
April 24, 2023
This confusion (inadvertent and improper, covert/deceptive rhetoric that’s not on the up-and-up) is why the infinitely vague umbrella terms “entheogen” and “mushroom” are on the Forbidden Word List.
I have 4 page photos, marked up, for scholarly purposes, because it is hard to accurately describe the situation, really the only possible way to convey for scholarly discussion is to share and discuss the page photos. You have to see the surrounding context of the rhetorical moves.
If you jerk the scope all over the place like this, you need to justify doing so. Irvin flips the football field around to “shift” the goalposts, and does not acknowledge that he’s just radically redefined whether the scope is:
“Amanita“
“entheogens” (by which Irvin sometimes means “any plant”, and sometimes means “Amanita only”)
“mushrooms” (meaning Amanita and Psilocybin).
The more that Irvin employs vague umbrella wildcard terms “entheogens” and “mushrooms”, the more Wasson-type dirty tricks Irvin does, cheap stage magician trying to get away with treating psilocybin as irrelevant and of no interest (“not important for our study” (p. 31-32 twice), “not important for our discussion” (p. 49 twice), “not critical to our discussion” (p. 59)).
— and then when it serves his god Amanita, then he abuses psilocybin to pretend that Griffiths’ psilocybin research proves that Amanita causes mystic experience, and falsely claims on p. 107 that psilocybin is “in discussion”, when he explicitly wrote FIVE TIMES that psilocybin is “not important/critical for our discussion/study”.
Either psilocybin is IN discussion, or is NOT in discussion.
Make up your damn mind; this is failed theorizing.
If you change the scope, you have to state that you are, and why you are, and if you again change, ditto.
Irvin 2008 keeps flipping the scope willy-nilly, uncontrolled, confused and confusing – bunk, garbled theory results.
This is not The Way of STEM.
Irvin’s 2008 Book The Holy Mushroom Tries to Force Blue Cap to Be Red Hue and Irvin 2009 SMC Doesn’t Correct Ruck’s Assertion that It’s Red
Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom misrepresents the image as extremely red-shifted.
Irvin 2009 doesn’t correct Ruck in Fungus Redivivus appendix of Sacred Mushroom & The Cross when Ruck says about this image: “One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians … a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted with white“
Article: Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman 2006)
The Holy Mushroom is a good book, an essential must-have for everyone in the field of entheogen scholarship. The book is the authority on Wasson vs. Allegro, and it builds on my excellent 2006 Fresco article that includes Irvin’s research. The book is the opposite of how Hatsis misreads and misrepresents.
Every entheogen historian needs to read this book, to see how the field has been distorted and prematurely limited by too much uncritical respect for Wasson.
The strange case of Wasson and Allegro is inherently interesting, and I expect the casual reader of entheogen history to find this investigation and correction every bit as interesting as I did ever since I began investigating and unravelling what exactly Wasson wrote.
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Why should anyone care about some esoteric nitpicks about what Allegro and Wasson wrote?
This is the most interesting subject, because the history of this scholarship shows how entheogen scholarship has gone dreadfully wrong in the past, and how we need to fact-check every statement and assumption by even the most renowned scholars such as Wasson, and Allegro, and I now add T. McKenna.
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The most important subject in the world is the question of to what extent were visionary plants used throughout Christian history.
This book provides the right kind of evidence and argumentation to reverse the refusal to countenance that question, a refusal for which the exagerratedly venerated hero Wasson is largely to blame.
There is a great abundance of evidence in support of the maximal entheogen theory of Christian history, which can be readily seen if one ignores Wasson’s efforts to stymie the investigation.
Examining the entire issue of use of all visionary plants in all religions in all eras, including all forms of evidence, it is now a certainty that Christianity has centrally incorporated visionary plants all throughout Christian history — the question is no longer “did Christians use entheogens?”; the question has become “to what extent did Christians use entheogens?”
—
Irvin and I worked up many of these ideas together.
What a time of revolutionary revision that has been, because what a cesspool of shoddy, flimsy argumentation, a travesty of scholarship, the whole Plaincourault issue has been.
Plaincourault served as a proxy issue:
Per Wasson’s strategy of suppression, if Plaincourault isn’t a mushroom, then we must not permit the question of the extent of visionary plant use in Christian history; per Allegro’s side (which Allegro didn’t take nearly far enough), if Plaincourault is a mushroom, then we must hasten to open that question wide up: just exactly how many Christians have ever used visionary plants as the Eucharist?
Quite a few, it is clear from a coherent interpretation of the texts and iconography (there are countless pictures of mushrooms in Christian art, and many yet to be photographed and documented).
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My systematic theory, published online and already announced to a wide variety of scholars in email, is that Christianity began not in themes from Egypt as Irvin and Acharya S would have it, but rather, first and foremost, as a counter-propaganda rebuttal to Roman Imperial theology.
Roman imperial theology utilized the era’s ubiquitous use of visionary plants such as in mystery initiation and symposium “drinking” parties, to prop up and justify Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar’s violent, crucifying system of empire.
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In rebuttal, Christianity was created and became popular by utilizing anti-Roman, Jewish-styled themes, fabricating a counter-Caesar figure of Jesus.
The origin of Christianity has two main parts: the use of visionary plants (which was utterly normal and ubiquitous in late antiquity), utilized for the purpose of not only individual spiritual enlightenment as Irvin would have it, but even more for the purpose of erecting an alternate, egalitarian, social-political support network, using a Jewish-like synagogue network that was separate from the official culture’s honor-and-shame hierarchy.
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The first centuries of Christians were all about using the plant-induced altered state to support an alternate social-political system, against the Roman Empire’s use of visionary plants to prop up Caesar’s honor-and-shame hierarchy system.
This political motive for visionary plant use, which is my original research published online, is missing from Irvin’s work — he only has the visionary plants themselves, and connections to Egypt instead of the more relevant connections to the overall culture of the Roman Empire such as ruler cult.
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I look forward to more books by Jan Irvin, Prof. Rush, and Carl Ruck blowing open the world’s most important field of investigation, and the world’s most suppressed and oft-evaded question: to what exact extent were visionary plants utilized throughout Christian history?
First we need to quit the blinding dogmatic emotional attitude of T. McKenna and other entheogen historians that Christianity was evil and therefore cannot be countenanced to have centrally incorporated entheogens.
It doesn’t matter how evil Christianity was, the evidence must be permitted to speak for itself, that Christianity has always incorporated visionary plants to a substantial and central extent.
/ end of my 2008 review of The Holy Mushroom
Wasson Sort of Asserted No Mushroom After Genesis 3
Update p.m. April 12, 2023: As I predicted probably during one of these recordings, I found better than hoped:
Irvin claims on p. 4 that Wasson reject it in Ezekiel, Revelation, and later Christian practice.”
The extent that Wasson covers Amanita in Judeo-Christianity is to afffirm its use in Genesis but reject it in Ezekiel, Revelation, and later Christian practice.
Irvin p4 The Holy Mushroom
I disproved the latter half of the sentence, the assertion by Irvin; it is too definite/active.
I said in the recording “I bet the book contains no quote from Wasson saying no Fly Agaric after Genesis 3.”
And I reasoned “If Wasson wrote that, Irvin would include it. I predict no such quote in Irvin’s book; therefore (given that Irvin is thorough), Wasson definitely DID NOT WRITE the assertion that Irvin attributes to him as if Wasson definitely published such a negative assertion.
In fact, Wasson never wrote “There was no Fly-Agaric in Judeo-Christianity after Genesis 3.”
Irvin prevaricates, is squishy: sometimes he paints a picture of Wasson definitely rejecting all mushroom trees as mushrooms. Sometimes he implies Wasson didn’t state anything beyond Gen3.
“Wasson never admitted anywhere … that mushroom trees were understood and recognized through the time that Revelation was written.”
Mushroom trees were understood in 1000 (or 500) BC (Genesis) and 100 AD (Revelation) and 1000 AD (Medieval art).
Conflation about “the mushroom” page 152: “Griffiths 2006 gives evidence that the holy mushroom produces mystical experiencing.” (paraphrase)
Irvin states that “the holy mushroom” = Amanita, then claims Griffiths proves “the holy mushroom” gives X effects – but, Psilocybin effects != Amanita effects.
Irvin Calls for Rejecting and Abandoning the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise/Paradigm
Hatsis Totally Misrepresents Irvin, and Tries to Steal Irvin’s Call
Interesting, page 150 IRVIN GOES AGAINST ALLEGRO (hell freezes over): “Therefore, I submit, against what Allegro and others[sic] scholars have argued, that this was not a “mushroom cult” of the “fringe heretical sects” at all.
Therefore, I submit, against what Allegro and others[sic] scholars have argued, that this was not a “mushroom cult” of the “fringe heretical sects” at all.
I propose that the holy mushroom had a widespread and integrated role not only in Greek Orthodox Christianity, but, as the spread of iconography across Europe shows, as a fundamental part of the origins and history of Christianity as a whole.”
Irvin, p. 150, The Holy Mushroom
vague: “the holy mushroom” = Amanita? Psilocybin?
Emphasis on ‘against‘ is in the original(!)
Irvin goes against Allegro for being TOO RESTRICTIVE; Irvin moves away from the “Secret Cult” paradigm, proving that HATSIS STRAWMANS AND MISREPS IRVIN AND ATTRIBUTES RUCK’S VIEW TO IRVIN.
Hatsis lifts (steals) Irvin’s call to move away from the “secret heretical cult” paradigm, and then (as badly as Wasson is flipped 180 degrees by Ruck),
Hatsis accuses Irvin of being a Secret Christian Amanita Cult theorist, when in fact, Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom makes the case AGAINST the “secret heretical cult” presupposition/premise/ habit of thought.
Citations: p. 5, 103, 104, 150, proves Hatsis is full of shiite!
Irvin repeatedly calls for normalcy, not abnormalcy / secrecy — in articulate fashion, then Hatsis, who evidently CAN’T READ, falsely attributes the very opposite view to Irvin, specifically re: the book The Holy Mushroom.
Hatsis the thiefSTEALS Irvin’s critique and falsely misrepresents Irvin as asserting the opposite of what Irvin asserts and calls for.
— just like Ruck says “poor Wasson 😢 asserted his realization of mushroom trees means mushroom, but the mean, biased obstructionists rejected Wasson’s assertions.” — the 180-degrees EXACT OPPOSITE of the truth! Thanks a fkking lot, Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck.
Today I got something better than hoped for: Irvin saved me trouble of reading THM.
Irvin himself explicitly, pointedly states p. 100 (contradicting p. 4):
Beyond the Genesis story, no statement exists giving any clear indication as to what extent Wasson further believed mushrooms existed in the Bible.
Irvin, p. 100, THM
So:
Irvin:
“Wasson rejected Amanita in Ezekiel, Revelation, and later Christian practice.” [citation needed!] and: “all of Wasson’s arguments against … the use of mushrooms beyond 1000 BC in Judeo-Christianity.” [citation needed!]
Also Irvin:
“Beyond the Genesis story, no statement exists giving any clear indication as to what extent Wasson further believed mushrooms existed in the Bible.”
Irvin’s Conflation of Neutral/Silent vs. Negative, Conflates Negative re: Fresco with Negative re: Later than Genesis 3
Irvin conflates “Wasson makes no position statement re: Fly-Agaric after Gen3” with “Wasson states the absence of Fly-Agaric after Gen3.”
Errata for My 2006 Analysis: 1952, not 1969 (nor 1986)
The p. 100 paragraph starts with my name. In The Holy Mushroom on p. 102, I wrote that Wasson wrote the Pers. Quest passage in 1969.
I corrected my 2006 analysis yesterday: clearly Wasson must have written the PQ passage (published in 1986) no later than he wrote about Genesis and fresco: in 1952 – not 1969.
con’t:
Similarly, just as I couldn’t prove with 1 quote that Brown asserts “tapestry isn’t entheogen”, to my surprise, I couldn’t prove either of these assertions, which would surprise Irvin who probably THOUGHT he declared an extreme explicit position:
Irvin 2008 writes “Eucharist/Logos = mushroom”. No one sentence states that, surprisingly. THM lacks the word “entheogen”. The book doesn’t omit Psilocybin; there are index entries.
Irvin 2022 writes “Eucharist/Logos = ‘mushroom”. No one sentence states that, surprisingly.
But I believe the surprising thing is not merely the lack of such a direct “smoking gun” re: Brown or Irvin — but rather, THIS IS HOW EVERYONE WRITES: ROUNDABOUT MEALY MOUTHED especially in this taboo-driven fields.
You get all the impression that Irvin 2008 says Eucharist = mushroom, and also Irvin 2022 says Eucharist = not mushroom. But you can’t PROVE either assertion is made by Irvin – I think this lack of clear, direct position statements would surprise Irvin.
I think that Irvin understood himself to be asserting “Eucharist = mushroom” in 2008, and to be asserting “Eucharist = not mushroom” in 2022, but interestingly, you can’t simply prove either statement;
You can’t simply prove Irvin 2008 wrote “Eucharist = mushroom”.
You can’t simply prove Irvin 2022 wrote “Eucharist = not mushroom”.
So, conclusion: you must write plainly and directly! p. 104, Irvin criticizes “Ruck and Gonzalez refuse to state emphatically that Christianity has a direct basis in entheogens.” Irvin himself never states directly in THM the firm positive assertion, and likewise, Irvin 2022 never states directly the firm negative position. I really want to write:
Irvin directly contradicts himself 2008 vs 2022:
Irvin 2008 states “Eucharist is mushrooms”, but Irvin 2022 states “Eucharist is not mushrooms”. Alas, Irvin like everyone, writes in a roundabout, indirect way. Granted, he does write, “Christianity has a direct basis in entheogens.” That falls short of being the extreme opposite of what Irvin 2022 writes in God’s Flesh, where he APPEARS to write “Eucharist is not mushrooms.”
I suspect Irvin THINKS he clearly wrote in 2008 “Eucharist is mushrooms”.
I suspect Irvin THINKS he clearly wrote in 2022 “Eucharist is not mushrooms”.
If he did, it would be easy for me to quote Irvin 2022 as DIRECTLY asserting the EXACT OPPOSITE of Irvin 2008.
Anyway it’s my job, not Irvin’s, to reconcile the noises of Irvin 2008 with the noises of Irvin 2022:
As used in Europe, Eucharist = Psilocybin eg Golden Teacher Cubensis. As used in Americas, Eucharist != Psilocybin; there is no Eucharist.
“The Holy Mushroom” Is Thoroughly Entrenched in the Amanita Primacy Fallacy — as if we could Remove “Secret” and “Heretical Sects/Cult”, but Keep the Monofocus on Amanita
The Whole Way Entheogen Scholarship Has Been Approached Is Completely Wrong and Self-Defeating/ Counterproductive!
THE HOLY MUSHROOM = SECRET FLY-AGARIC 🍄 HERETICAL SECTS
“The Holy Mushroom” (as Book Title and Concept) Remains Thoroughly, Hopelessly Entrenched in the Amanita Primacy Fallacy
The Amanita Primary Fallacy is Actually “Secret Amanita Counterculture Heretical Deviant Sect Group Cult Fertility Ritual” Paradigm/Narrative, an ENTIRE worldview/paradigm/ approach / mindset / presupposition-set/ package deal
Hatsis wrote “these lesser-looking mushrooms”, regarding psilocybin-based mushroom trees. Proves that the assumed (presupposed) reference point is THE GREAT KING, ALL DOMINANT, ALL IMPORTANT, *THE* MUSHROOM = THE SACRED MUSHROOM = THE FLY-AGARIC = KIDDIE AMANITA 🙌 🍄
Hatsis video titled “Proof of no mushrooms in Christianity”, content of the video is only about Amanita. Hard conflation of Amanita vs. “the mushroom”.
book THM: Gallery begins with 9 photos of Amanita and only, after that, 6 photos of Psilcybin.
book THM: Gallery begins with the fly agaric fresco. (are you unsure which fresco I mean? Alas no, you know all too well which one I mean)
book THM: Foreward by Judith Brown positively HAMMERS the reader with rank conflation of “the mushroom; Amanita”. And “fertility cultic ritual = divine knowledge”
book THM gallery: Dancing man salamander image is grotesquely color-skewed in a desperate attempt to make the blue cap red.
book THM gallery: Strong preference for Amanita, even with Psilocybin mushroom trees.
Samorini Figure 20 attempts to use the fly agaric fresco as a paradigm that enwraps even psilocybin mushroom trees as well ie “the Saint Sauvin tree type” in relation to “the Plaincourault tree type”. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-20 – “we have discovered a precise typological differentiation among mushroom-trees in Christian art which corresponds with the variation in naturally occurring psychoactive mushrooms” – BALONEY! You can’t even find 3 examples! None of the Golden or Canterbury psalter’s mushroom morphology fits this failed, ham-fisted classification attempt that’s based on the worst possible foundation, the Fly-Agaric Fresco.
Anti-Neuroscience = Anti-Amanita: Neuroscience Falsely Deletes and Bunkly Substitutes for Relevant Cognitive Phenomenology of Control World-model Transformation, like Amanita “Entheogen” Scholarship Is Ignorant of Psychedelic Experiencing
Wasson’s Insane Bunk Stunt of Trying to Say the 1911 French Mycologists Are Idiots and Irrelevant and He 50 Years Later was the FIRST PERSON EVAR to Think of Genesis Eden Tree as Amanita
next read aloud: Similar passages in The Holy Mushroom and Cyberdisciple’s posting against suppression premise.
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The Eucharist in Normal Christianity Is Psilocybin, Such as Golden Teacher Cubensis
The #1 Objective and Mission of Entheogen Scholarship Is Transcendent Knowledge and Full Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition
Like in 1912: Lack of Laws, and Consign the “Schedules” to the Flames
Timestamps/Content for Each .mp3
I’m doing quick production, there may be long guitar passages, abrupt changes, volume swings.
Major driving theme/situation
Working on branching-message mushroom trees article: Abstract/Intro & Conclusions section content to condense.
Reviewed a document about “Allegro said/ Wasson said”, Fly Agaric Pseudo-“Entheogen” history of scholarship.
The Irvin topic of rightly assigning credit & blame in the field.
Crop by Cybermonk. f134Crop by Cybermonk. f145Crop by Cybermonk. f177
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0:00 – (VOX_TK_4890) Guitar then voice. {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
After exporting/uploading I trimmed some around 13:00.
2 directions L & R maps well to the two mental models of control. possibilism-thinking model is initially stable as long as you stay in tightcog. add loosecog, loses balance and falls over
4-phase clear simple profoundly simple model , Phase 2 artificial/ cultural. Must add Psilocybin. Must add CULTURE. MUST ADD OPTIMAL CULTURE: education of how to mentally model control-transformation. Tightcog eternalism education = Phase 2 well formed. Enculturated egodeath. The Basics of Ego Death transofrmation of control: about being educated in OSC and by the Teacher of Righteousness.
No Intro. No Outro. No nothin. I must do station ID LIVE IN STUDIO frequently so I transcend “beginning” and “end” format and can cut that out and SHIP THE RAW RECORDINGS; record them such that they can be grouped any way.
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Anti-Neuroscience = Anti-Amanita: Neuroscience Falsely Deletes and Bunkly Substitutes for Relevant Cognitive Phenomenology of Control World-model Transformation, like Amanita “Entheogen” Scholarship Is Ignorant of Psychedelic Experiencing
There are only 2 kinds of theories: the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, vs. all other theories, which are all reductionistic and irrelevant.
Errata: wish to trim guitar at start.
In one of these recordings, I was gladdened to realize that my concise list of “Read Next my main articles“, excellently fulfills “history of developing this theory“.
Irrelevant, misleading, barking up wrong tree: eliminative materialism and Neuroscience which deletes Cognitive while pretending to cover it.
the Egodeath theory: It came from the Electrical Engineering dept.
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Good content, like the entire episode. Good voicing, full speaking volume, silent background, stereo miking. I might not transcribe it here, but it’s solid content, leading edge.
Much of this recording is discussing mushroom tree morphology.
Extracted the Intro with date April 10 from end of main 1.5-hour recording, copied before/after.
0:19 – Content. “VOX_TK_4904” Conclusion draft sections of branching-message mushroom trees article. Trying to retain great points but reduce and condense them to minimal hooks to make this article modular single-purpose yet building blocks constructed into a set of theory component articles.
Great Canterbury Psalter image f145 does too have YI morphology in its cubensis tree, making it a {branching-message mushroom tree}, {handedness}, and {non-branching}.
Brown-Certified Blurry Internet Images, click to zoom around in High-Res Eadwine Space.
“why I’m opposed to the idea of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity.
“Some of the below can be found in my reply to her comment, but I’ve also expanded some below.”
“Most entheogen scholars treat the topic of suppression in pre-modernity as if the suppressors themselves were sober and wanted to suppress the altered state entirely.
“I think that this attitude transposes the rhetoric of modern Prohibition and War on Drugs into a pre-modern context.
“The attitude shapes research, by shaping the sorts of questions the researcher allows themselves to ask.
“Many researchers automatically assume that some authority (usually the Roman Empire or the Catholic Church) was opposed to the altered state entirely and sought to suppress psychedelics.
“The researchers who think this way treat their research as telling a story about suppression.
“Their story becomes one-sided.
“They do not think to look for evidence in the mainstream Roman Empire society or the mainstream Middle Ages or the mainstream Renaissance.
“Any evidence they find in those contexts automatically becomes a sign of an oppressed group or a fringe survival or a secretive elite.
As a matter of research assumptions I do not assume that there was suppression of drugs.
“I am interested in looking for evidence more broadly than most researchers.
I find that many entheogen scholars are committed to demonizing the mainstream of past societies.
“I think that they have internalized the rhetoric of modern Prohibition, War on Drugs, and the counter-culture, and project that idea onto the past, consciously or unconsciously.
“Because the entheogen scholars understand drugs to be counter-cultural today, they think that they were counter-cultural in the past.
I’m interested in the question: “what does it mean for drugs to be a part of mainstream culture?”
“I’m not interested in trying to find a drug counter-culture that just so happens to mirror 20th century counter-culture.
Many entheogen scholars seems to be interested in finding a drug counter-culture in pre-modernity.”
/ end of Cyberdisciple posting main body – more content there
Secret Christian Amanita Cult Theorists Are Inherently Supporters of Psilocybin Prohibition
The “Secret Amanita” paradigm vs. the “Psilocybin Eucharist” paradigm: Way Bigger Difference than Merely the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.
The Secret Amanita Paradigm is the Cause of Prohibition and Has a Total Conflict of Interest Against Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition
Theirs is a package deal: they assert Secret AND Amanita AND Heretical Sect. They are committed to asserting and upholding the status quo false notion and historical falsehood and lie, that non-heretical Christianity lacks a mushroom tradition.
Secret Amanita Cult asserters’ functional #1 objective and strategy is to uphold Psilocybin Prohibition.
THEIR STRATEGY AND MISSION-OBJECTIVE FOR PSILOCYBIN DRUG POLICY REFORM IS TO KEEP PROHIBITION IN PLACE – this is the top commitment and investment of entheogen scholars who assert Secret Christian Amanita Cult.
What has any Secret Christian Amanita Cult theorist ever done toward Psilocybin repeal? Nothing, ever!
It’s Because They’re Compromised, Prohibition-Compliant, THEY ARE PARASITES that take advantage of Psilocybin Prohibition to Morally Elevate Themselves by Framing Non-Heretical Christianity as “Lacking a Tradition of religious use of Psychoactive Mushrooms”
They don’t care about Psilocybin, and they need Prohibition to remain in place, this is crucial for their moral narrative!
Every entheogen scholar insists and demands that Christianity (legit, non-heretical Christianity that aligns with the Establishment) must not be allowed to contain The Mushroom (picture kiddie Amanita 🤫🍄 😲 )
NEVER TRUST AN ENTHEOGEN SCHOLAR — especially Secret Christian Amanita Cult theorists!
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Voice dictation quick placeholder announcement
this is pretty big improvement of my grasp of the many differences, the many fundamental differences, why the 2000 Ruck/ Heinrich/ Staples/ Evil M. Hoffman book Apples of Apollo, it clearly says right on the cover all everything that’s wrong with the Ruck Allegro paradigm.
“When the apostle Paul proclaimed the new Christian Mystery to the factious congregation at Corinth, it was clear that this Eucharist was meant to replace the pagan Mystery that had been celebrated for over a millennium just a short distance away at the sanctuary of Eleusis.”
“Christianity evolved within the context of Judaic and Hellenistic healing cults, magic, shamanism, and Mystery initiations.
“All four of these inevitably imply a sacred ethnopharmacology, with traditions going back to earlier ages of the ancient world.
“The essays in The Apples of Apollo edited by Ruck, Staples and Heinrich attempt to uncover the original food of the sacramental communion.”
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“After a preliminary review of the rites and etiquette of the sacramental wine of the god Dionysos, whom Christ would replace as sacrificial offering, the myth of Ixion (who is named for the semi-parasitic plant called mistletoe) is linked to Apollo’s role in demanding human victims and the persistence of such rites in the Druidic solstice sacrifice of the “wicker man.””
“Behind the symbolism of the mistletoe and other psychoactive plants lurks the Soma of the Vedic tradition and its botanical original, the fly-agaric mushroom. “
“Rather than being marginal to Classical culture, the fly-agaric, and the array of metaphors its amazing transmutations suggest, is central to the myths of the Greek heroes, and in particular to the first of them all, the hero Perseus, who reformed the religion practiced at the ancient city of Mycenae.”
/ end of book blurb of Apples of Apollo
It is not just that Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck (& Rush) picked the wrong mushroom; it is that they are based in the ordinary state.
Wasson and Allegro and Ruck are doing fake pseudo-psychedelic, pseudo-entheogens scholarship, that is all infantile, childish, stunted, limited to the physical shape of the Amanita.
It says so right on the cover of the book blurb of this book that was so disappointing to me that it caused me to create the so-called maximal entheogen theory of religion.
But it turns out that it is not a matter of degree, that Carl Ruck is stingy and is a minimalist who is pretending to be a moderate theory.
but rather, we are in entirely different paradigms
Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck/ Rush is in the kiddie Amanita childish infantile ordinary-state based paradigm, and I am in the actual psilocybin, actually psychedelic paradigm
What passes for fly-agaric so-called “entheogens” is actually all an outsiders’ misreading.
This is a third grader trying to describe adult mental world model transformations that occur in the altered state.
🍄 😲
Look, mummie, there’s a mushroom!
The physical mushroom object, concretistic, not higher thought.
People like Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck have no idea whatsoever what they’re talking about, and you can see that revealed in the book Entheogens, Myth & Human Consciousness which when they attempt to talk about consciousness all that comes out as garbled poetry instead – highly rated.
they literally don’t know anything about the psychedelic dynamics of worldmodel transformation and
what we end up with instead is childish
the book blurb on the cover of the book Apples of Apollo says so right on the cover; it says that the ultimate reference of religious mythology is the changing shapes of the red and white child children’s mushroom — the fly agaric.
This realization and clear-seeing is the outcome of several hours of spoken idea development which I have recorded, where I realized this big shift in my thinking to realize the gigantic chasm that has separated me since 2000 since I began reading about this so called “entheogen” scholarship.
Just all false advertising; it is nothing of the sort.
They don’t know anything at all about psychedelics experiencing of the highly developed sort.
It is just like the field of exoteric esotericism.
Why this is why the book astrotheology and shamanism by Jan Irvin is such a sawdust disappointment is because it explicitly says that its goal is to broaden the fly agaric Amanita paradigm put forth by John Allegro
and you can see it is doomed right from the beginning to remain a childish
It is completely hopeless to try to go to a book like Astro theology and shaman ism and try to learn anything about the Psychedelics state , because the way the these scholars use the mushrooms topic is completely limited
it is essentially earthbound, locked into the ordinary state of consciousness , so when they attempt to imagine, when the child attempts to imagine what the adult mental cognitive transformation dynamics are about, what these dynamics are about, they get everything wrong
and it is unsatisfying because it is exoteric esotericism
in other words
it is ordinary state based imagining of a child of what the altered state is about
so they end up saying on the cover of the book apples of Apollo that the ultimate referent of religious myth is that it describes, it depicts, religious mythology is a depiction of the shape of the Amanita fly agaric in its lifecycle stages
This is what a third grader would say
the book the apples of Apollo is written as a third grader level of consciousness / experience
it is all based in the ordinary state
this is the fly agaric paradigm
this is the allegro and Wasson paradigm
even though Wasson used Psilocybin it was merely in the Americas context
so we end up with a reductionistic view, just like the CEQ-POS questionnaire is a reductionistic replacement Deletes entirely,
Is a low inadequate approach that fails to get out the adult transformational high potential
Dittrich’s questionnaire angst dread effects category is entirely replaced by the ordinary state grief category
it is total reductionism from the psychedelic state to the ordinary state by deleting all of the psychedelic specific experiential content
Why Asserting “Secret Amanita” Forces You to Assert “Christianity Lacks a Psychedelics Tradition”
In the sense and scenario in which asserters of Secret Christian Amanita Cult have in mind, asserting “Secret Amanita” is inherently the identical same thing as asserting “The mushroom is absent from Reference-Christianity”.
Asserting “secret Amanita” is meaningless unless it’s taken in reference to, and in contrast against, normal reference Christianity not having or knowing that secret.
To declare “Amanita use is secret and hidden and heretical” inherently means that “the Fly Agaric” is NOT present in normal, reference Christianity, or else the word “secret” wouldn’t mean anything.
According to the idea-network behind the Secret Christian Amanita Cult theory.
what I have made good progress on but I haven’t completely answered [update April 11, 2023: talking it through in Egodeath Mystery Show voice recording today, I reached closure! I had to reduce my IQ and think simplistically: ASSERTING “SECRET” IS THE IDENTICAL SAME THING AS ASSERTING “ABSENT FROM REFERENCE Christianity”] is:
Why exactly does the fly agaric paradigm of reductionistic ordinary state so-called pseudo “entheogen” scholarship demand and inherently require that you ignore the repeal of psilocybin prohibition well one big reason is because the fly agaric paradigm is completely ignorant of Psilocybin effects and so therefore it has no interest or awareness in Psilocybin Prohibition and another factor is that the artificial invented storytelling drama make-believe tells the tale of the fly agaric secret heretical sect cult members had to have hidden alchemy hidden images of their secret fly agaric and they were battle against real Christians versus this alien exotic external import so they never talk about the truth which is the important key powerful concept of the Psilocybin Eucharist
I figured that Wasson in some degree knew about the Europe Psilocybin eucharist, but he must’ve had only a child level understanding of it, his only experience with Psilocybin was the Americas approach which was a low approach as opposed to the high Europe approach to the Psilocybin Eucharist as we see in the best images in the catalog of branching message mushroom tree imagery
By the way also I proved that as I suspected that the middle ages did have a way of cultivating Psilocybin specifically all the best eat wine images show specifically cubensis mushrooms trees and image F134 Literally depicts what I claimed and confirms and proves what I claimed
that they had a approach to provide a steady supply on demand on top of psilocybin ideal best type of available study availability cubensis
in fact this is a picture that we have essentially a photograph of the middle ages cultivating ideal cubensis mushrooms for a steady supply, These images F134 and F145 and F177 all show cubensis trees And the show lock boxes boxes lockboxes for storage
they show cultivation
they show harvesting
they show the psilocybin mushroom dispensaries
they show the Psilocybin Mushroom storage
and they show the Psilocybin Mushroom Effect to transform the mental world model
and F134 row to middle shows The three possible combinations that they knew about was that:
1) the ordinary state plus possible ism mental model produces stable control. Closed scroll in left hand held down. holding scale balance, and left heel on the stable column base.
2) The Psilocybin loose Cognitive state plus the possibleism mental model (right fingertip higher than left) produces unstable control . holding the open scroll means Psilocybin altered state, seeing how things work in the mind regarding control.
3) Psilocybin loose cognition plus the eternity non-branching model produces stable control. right hand finger tip lower than left hand fingertips. Open scroll in lowered right hand.
which fits the religious mythology strong indicators of psilocybin induced experiential transformation of the mental world model.
So this is why I felt that in 2000 , and even after the first issues of Entheos journal came out in 2002 I declared a revolution against
I didn’t realize it at the time but I was not just announcing revolution against the moderate or minimal theory in favor of Maximal, but actually there’s a lot more different than that I was rejecting
it turns out the fly agaric paradigm and all of its errors including its invention fabrication of a division building a wall to try to Break the mushroom the two separate the Mushroom the fly agaric from real Christianity
you didn’t realize when you signed on board to the fly agaric paradigm that you were signing on to build and construct an artificial wall between fly agaric and real Christianity
and this is part of what pops up the Prohibition of Psilocybin –
Partially due to the failure of the fly agaric pseudo entheogen paradigm to give any thought to Psilocybin and for some reason also to invent and fabricate a storytelling childish narrative of the good fly agaric rebels who secretly were members of a heretical sect cult sect who were in opposition to the real Christians and their Eucharist but all of this invention was a substitute for adult level actual drama of mental model transformation
Has no need to invent artificial stories with artificial drama between the hard-pressed secret heretical exotic eastern import alien fly agaric versus the real Christians with their normal Eucharist because when I use now the new powerful phrase of the Psilocybin Eucharist and this is in the Europe context
so the Europe psilocybin Eucharist smashes the entire fly agaric false paradigm that artificially tries to pit the pseudo psychedelic Amanita it tries to pit them against each other
an artificially manufactured childish storytime drama of “the fly agaric heretical imported alien sect fighting against the sect fighting against the normal Christians with their real genuine non-fly agaric Eucharist”
So I don’t have all of the loose ends tied together yet and but I am definitely on to a really big thing here and that
I failed to appreciate just how totally different the fly agaric paradigm is an entirely different paradigm that promotes and condones perpetual prohibition of Psilocybin due to substitute storytelling to replace the adult true dynamics of cognitive Content transformation and due to inattention to Psilocybin
Carl Ruck has his attention fully captivated and captured by the infantile childish ordinary-state limited fly agaric fresco and pseudo-“entheogen” scholarship
I feel like I am able to see now
I am able to see the book the Apples of Apollo now and it says right on the cover everything wrong everything that’s in the wrong paradigm
it turns out that the problem was not the moderate theory; the problem was the Amanita Theory and all that goes along with it , including promoting and perpetuating the prohibition of psilocybin, and the inability to pay any attention to cognitive content.
I now understand what it was that I was declaring revolution against in October 2002 when I invented what I called the Maximal Entheogen Theory, but actually what makes it tick is not just maximal , but the fact that it is psilocybin which actually produces with sufficient availability and with sufficient efficacy
They could see the bona fide
Is actual psychedelic transformation which Amanita cannot deliver
and so this bolsters my characterization that Amanita is a parasite on Psilocybin and we must firmly reject the Amanita paradigm all together and it’s entirety and completely wholesale, replace it by a completely different paradigm, which is my so called Maximal Entheogens Theory but
is actually more specifically the Psilocybin eucharist Psilocybin eucharist actually psychedelic (not pseudo-psychedelic) theory of mental model transformation regarding control in world.
In 2002 I did not realize that the key difference was a Amanita versus Psilocybin and the failure of Amanita to provide the needed effects and efficiency compared to Psilocybin when in the Europe context the way that it was ideally optimally used produces the actual cognitive content, unlike Amanita which the cognitive content Unlike amnesia fly agaric , which is limited to only a superficial concretistic material concrete distich regressive physical form of the shifting lifecycle , which was so good in the book strange fruit, but unfortunately it stunted people thinking
kind of like voice dictation is stunted
peoples thinking was stunted the growth with stunted
the growth was stunted
And the inability to properly read Genesis two verse read Genesis chapter 2 verse 16 and 17 and then explain Genesis chapter 3 given that God cannot assert a falsehood and that God said that Adam in fact died on the day
so what is the correct reading must be
the psilocybin analogy esoteric reading must be the correct reading, or else we are to saying we are saying that God tells a falsehood when he says to us Adam died on the day that he ate the fruit.
how is this true?
In what sense is this true, that we say yes God was correct that Adam did in fact die on that day when Adam ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad.
Telling a tall tale about the alleged battle between the secret heretical sect fly-agaric cult versus the real Christians with their Eucharist.
And so we end up with a Perpetual Prohibition of Psilocybin thanks to the fly agaric paradigm is based in and limited to the ordinary state of consciousness it is falsely advertised as if it is an Entheogenic theory, but it is no such thing.
These people have wouldn’t know Entheogenic experiencing if it hit them on the head with a stick like enlightened Zen Master Brad.
Eadwine Drunk on Mushrooms, Totally Botches the Cross-Under so Bad, It looks like a {cut right trunk}
Eadwine Drunk on Mushrooms, Totally Botches Cross-Under so Bad, It looks like a {cut right trunk} and a {cut branch} that the two horses are eye-pointing to
Horses eye-point, triangulating to prove they look at non-branching blue cap
The other two horses look at hand of God, 2-level control,
you receive balance from dependence on God, higher-level dominant controller that completely … your puppetmaster, you as higher controller hand of God, over you as female thought-receiver overpowered, resisting at first, and then giving in and acceding to the overpowering controller level
Discovered during Egodeath Mystery Show recording today [April 10 or 11, 2023]: perfectly botched by exactly 100%.
Need to keep the article’s page clean and modular. But need to supplement the page with detailed composition dates and errata and linking to the supplemental branching-message mushroom trees article that completes the main article.
I’m repeating the same successful pattern as used in Nov. 2020 for Great Canterbury Psalter image f134 article.
The present, 2007 article is incomplete; it has a gap: it’s missing {non/branching} and {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
Those decodings were developed in:
The Nov. 2011/ Nov. 2012/ Nov. 2013 breakthrough.
Christmas 2015 (hypothesis that Dancing Man Salamander standing on right leg = relying on eternalism-thinking.
Nov. 2020: decoded image f134, Great Canterbury Psalter (confirming the 2015 hypothesis).
March-May 2022 figured out {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
February 16-April 9+, 2023: branching-message mushroom trees article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies.
Dates of Composing and Finalizing the Article
The article: The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Body and intro composed 2006; intro moved into article June 15, 2007, sentences broken up in final revision September 12, 2007.
For several months, the final draft was October 2, 2006. Then in 2007, I broke up a few sentences, but made no content changes, while recording reading-aloud the article: http://egodeath.com/EgodeathTheory_mp3.zip
The intro is key and essential to the design of this article.
From the POV of 2007-2023, every time I picture this article, I always think, above all, of the all-important intro.
July 10, 2007 I fixed a Bubble biblio entry, added “Austin”. https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-93/#message4713 Several earlier posts in that thread (digest 91 & 92) talk about breaking up the too-long sentences in mobile version, but fails to state that I did same in main article – but I apparently attached the main article drafts as zip. So, mid-2007 I was tweaking the article, driven by voice recording speech and by Mobile streamlining.
Found it! Very late date, I applied a large set of changes from Mobile version to main version, and, the Egodeath community (Kanbrunebran) translated the article into Dutch. Very late!
“I updated the main, single-webpage version of my main article, to match the wording of the mobile, multi-webpage version. Almost every paragraph has some wording improvements. These wording improvements were mainly driven by the need to make each sentence vocalizable for reading aloud.
“The single-page version has citations and bibliography.
“Corrected the bibliography as follows: Hoffman, M. S. “The Bubble of Simulation: Subjective Experience as a Virtual Environment”. Fringe Ware Review 5:22-24, 1994. ( http://www.egodeath.com/BubbleOfSimulation.htm )”
And it’s coming back to me — what an awesome property of the great Egodeath Yahoo Group archives from Max Freakout, their ability to bring back all the details from 17 years ago.
[1:50 p.m. February 3, 2023 notes:]
For several months, the final draft was October 2, 2006.
Then in 2007 [todo: date] while recording reading-aloud the article, I broke up a few sentences, but made no content changes.
The article should not say “Copyright 2006-2007”; it should say “Copyright 2006”, even though I added a couple sentence breaks in 2007.
I finally took 2 minutes to look up the exact date in 2006 that I announced the final draft other than an early 2007 tweak to make this article readable aloud.
My memory/guess in 2023 of the month in 2006 was correct! October 2006.
September 2006, the article had final content except the whole Intro section was only in the home page of the Egodeath.com site. June 2007 incorp’d that intro section into the article.
Sep. 12, 2007 broke up long sentences like done in the Mobile version of the article, to enable reading-aloud; like: short words + short sentences + short paragraphs.
These dates are findable in the Max Freakout archives of the Egodeath Yahoo Group in the 2006-2007 thread that’s dedicated to the article, but Find “September 12, 2007” at present site, where I’ve written up the date findings.
A bad writing habit that I just (2023-02-03) had to fix in the above sentence, too, is inserting a “clarifying” sentence within an already over-complicated sentence, to “add clarity”. 😵
[1:50 p.m. February 3, 2023 notes:]
To determine what tweaks I made in 2007 to make the article readable aloud, load into Word and use Compare Documents :
I dislike the lack of first names; I regret that I copied this senseless academic convention.
Lacks {handedness} and {non-branching} art motifs
[1:50 p.m. February 3, 2023 notes:]
I failed during 2006-Feb. 2022 to intelligently “read” the first image in the article, which is an incredibly awesome image diagramming the {handedness} and {non-branching} art motifs.
I haven’t searched this site to establish and memorize official dates, but around March 6 – April 13, 2022, I finally recognized and decoded the {handedness} and {non-branching} art motifs in the Eustace window image and in the final image in the 2006 article.
In the last image, Dionysus’ victory procession, Ariadne is holding a branching branch in left hand, vs. Dionysus’ non-branching spear held in his right hand.
Correction: Moses’ Brass Serpent on a Pole
The “time-pole” explanation is the worst shortcoming, off-base, of mytheme-decoding in the article, as I knew when I published this in 2006-2007.
To solve the mytheme {healing brass snake on a pole to look at to heal from fatal snake-bite} (that is, to identify how that mytheme is analogous to specific “things that are observed and experienced in the altered state”) required a huge successful build-out of deciphering/translating/ decoding the entire language of mythemes.
I had a huge math-like discovery Thanksgiving week climaxing on November 29, 2013, that was required to solve that Nehushtan snake-on-pole:
{tree vs. snake} = Possibilism vs. Eternalism.
{Moses’ serpent on a pole for the Israelites to heal rebellious Israelites from fatal snake-bite}, not solved in this Main Article of 2006, is an example of “an unsolved problem within the New Theory”. Solved Nov 2011 & esp. Nov 2013/Dec 2013, as posted at Egodeath Yahoo Group in major announcements in Dec 2013.
This picture doesn’t show debranched tree, or Y at top: hard to decode from this; I had to do a web image search in Dec 2013 to corroborate that some artists show the pole as a debranched tree.
funnel hat blown off guy left of Moses has lifted garment floating both feet off ground
On November 14, 2020, and then further on December 14, 2020 when I found and uploaded my photograph, I proved that the leopard is drinking from an Amanita in Holy Grail format, partly by my own specimen observations and photograph.
omg the above section’s notes from 2020 don’t note my March 2022 breakthrough about Ariadne holding {branch} in {left hand}.
Ariadne is holding a branching branch in left hand, vs. Dionysus’ non-branching spear held in his right hand.
In 2020 here I merely noted the updated mushroom count of 6.
Engaging my brain finally in March 2022 to actually think about “why holding branch” instead of my decades of just throwing up my arms, “I can’t understand, I lack the special backstory.”
I felt super idiotic March-April 2022 when I finally stopped acting mentally helpless and actually engaged my critical analytical faculty – for me, the main feeling of record-breaking intellectual achievement is feeling dumb for not having realized the obvious, decades ago.
The Egodeath theory 