Psychonautica Podcast with Max Freakout

Michael Hoffman, December 23, 2024

Contents:

Intro

Motivation for this page: Give attention to this podcast series (2007-2009) comparable to my page about Max Freakout Transcendent Knowledge podcast episodes.

First episode of Max’s Transcendent Knowledge podcast: Apr. 5, 2016
Final Max-hosted episode of Psychonautica podcast: Dec. 25, 2009

Egodeath.com Home Page Mentions of Psychonautica

2007 episode interviewing Michael Hoffman

at Egodeath.com home page are links, copied to below:

Interview with Max Freakout at Psychonautica — Aug. 10, 2007. List of Psychonautica podcasts — listen to episodes such as 11-17, covering the Egodeath theory.

Discussion of questions in preparation for my interview on the Psychonautica podcast. August 1, 2007.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Max’s questions:

  • How did I first begin to formulate the Egodeath theory?
  • How important are the various domains for the Egodeath theory? Is the Theory a form of Eastern, Western, or Shamanistic religion?
  • Is the issue of freewill of central importance to ego death?
  • How did I get the idea that the issue of freewill is of such central importance to ego death?
  • Explain the ordinary understanding of autonomous control which the ego-death experience proves to be illusory.
  • What does the ‘transcendence of no freewill’ mean and involve?
  • Explain the concept of block-universe determinism and time as a spacelike dimension.
  • How does Egodeath theory relate to the shamanic ability to heal?
  • Does saying that drug-free meditation is ‘bunk’ mean that there is no value to the practice of meditating?
  • Explain the idea that ‘drug-policy reform’ is conceptually brainwashed.
  • What should pro-justice activists focus their efforts on doing, to be most effective?
  • What are the vulnerabilities of the Wasson-Allegro-McKenna theories of the origin of religion?
  • What is my take on McKenna’s idea of the ‘stoned ape’?
  • What is the relevance of the ahistoricity of Jesus to the Egodeath theory?
  • How do I envision the future for the development of the Egodeath theory?
  • What is the relationship between the disappearance of the separate-self sense, the experience of nonduality, the intense mystic altered state, meditation, and the problematization of personal control-power in light of the part/whole (self/Ground) relationship in the dissociative cognitive state?

Discussion of various questions — Oct. 6, 2007.
Questions covered:

  • Why bother spreading the truth about the nature of religion and religious origins?
  • How does the Establishment treatment of topics shut-out coverage of entheogens in religious history?
  • What is the way forward so that the mainstream culture integrates the maximal entheogen theory of religion?
  • What evidence and arguments are there that the original Christians used drugs?
  • Discuss the assertion “There’s no need to assume drugs in primitive Christianity.”
  • To what extent were drugs used in the history of Christian practice?
  • Is New Testament Christianity more important than purely mystical Christianity, because of including a political vector on the mystical insights?
  • Are John Pilch, Jonanda Groenewald, Marcus Borg, John Ashton, and Stevan Davies on the right track? Can they be converted from their standard academic “alien social-psychology” theory of “alternate states of consciousness” to the simpler drug-use theory?
  • How was Wasson (or Allegro) great? How did he limit or cripple the field?
  • What will be retained of Wasson (or Allegro)? What will be rejected?
  • Why bother setting the record straight on the errors of Wasson and the merit of some of Allegro’s ideas?

Psychonautica Podcast

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica – find “Max Freakout” in Psychonautica episode descriptions, 2007-2009.

Psychonautica 103 – apparently final episode, Apr. 18, 2014. Hosts: KMO & Olga

Psychonautica 102 – hosts: KMO; Z-Realm co-host Marty; Sarah

Psychonautica 101

Psychonautica 100 (Jan 17, 2014) – Max rejoins after a long time (since Ep. 82, Dec. 25, 2009). hosts: Max, KMO, Olga

This appears to be the most recent episode of Psychonautica with Max Freakout. Which was the ep before that?

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica-100

“Jan 17, 2014

“Max Freakout returns to Psychonautica for the 100th episode.

“Max, KMO and Olga talk about the very temporary demise of Silk Road and how technology and the Dark Web have made psychedelic chemicals more easily available than ever before regardless of the law.

“They weigh the virtues of traveling to the Amazon to drink Ayahuasca versus finding a situation that suits the seeker’s needs closer to home.

“KMO has a conversation with Rak Razam about his Amazonian Ayahuasca adventure as well as the book and film that came out of it.

“Rak was in NYC for a screening of his new film, Aya Awakenings.”

Psychonautica 83 – Apr 20, 2012 – Psychonautica creator KMO; Z-Realm co-host Olga K; restart the Psychonautica engine for first time in over two years

Psychonautica 82 (December 25, 2009) – Grof, end of seminar ‘Psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey’ from the World Psychedelic forum.

This appears to be the final episode of Psychonautica in which Max is host.

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica082

Dec 25, 2009

“In the Christmas day special episode of Psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the final installment of Stanislav Grof’s seminar ‘Psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey’ from the World Psychedelic forum.

Grof talks about

  • Einstein’s astrological transits and how they correspond to different parts of his scientific career,
  • the importance in astrology of knowing your time of birth accurately,
  • how to construct and interpret a natal chart, how to identify archetypal energies that affect your life from an astrological chart,
  • the meaning of planetary and lunar transits,
  • the eliptical orbit of Pluto,
  • the astrological charts of famous people,
  • the role of non-ordinary states and astrology in the future of psychiatry,
  • the importance of correct diagnosis in medicine for appropriate treatment,
  • the controversial nature of psychiatric diagnosis,
  • psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and natural kinds,
  • differing opinions among psychiatrists about the correct choice of treatment to use in a given situation,
  • changes in psychiatric diagnosis between subsequent editions of the DSM,
  • diagnosis of hysteria in Freud’s time compared to now,
  • the recent epidemic of multiple-personality disorder,
  • the implications of multiple personality and dissociation for the mind/body problem,
  • the different perspectives of Jung and Freud, and
  • their relation to their astrological charts,
  • different kinds of therapists attracting different kinds of patient,
  • the lack of clearly defined diagnostic categories and universal opinions within psychiatry,
  • a joke about behaviourists having sex,
  • the extreme importance of the death/rebirth experience for the spiritual life of humanity,
  • the occurence of the theme in shamanism and rites of passage,
  • the theme of death and rebirth in world religion and mythology,
  • the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus about the second birth,
  • the theme of the twice-born in Hinduism,
  • the use of perinatal themes in political propaganda,
  • George  Bush’s religiosity,
  • the reduction of personal freedoms during the cold war and war on terror, and
  • how to get started training in holotropic breathwork techniques.

“Afterwards, Max plays a short comedy sketch from Dave Chappelle talking about living with a crack-addict landlord, taking drugs in old-age, weed as a ‘background substance’ and Chappelle’s trip to the barber on mushrooms.

“A very happy Christmas to everyone, email Max at …, and hang out with the friendly psychonauts at http://www.thegrowreport.com.”

Psychonautica 71 – Jan Irvin (Apr 10, 2009)

I listened to this today, Amanita Christmas Eve, 2024.
Great episode, listened again Mar. 27, 2025.

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica071

“In this episode of psychonautica Max Freakout interviews Jan Irvin, the host of the Gnostic Media podcast [2024: https://logosmedia.com] and author of Astrotheology and Shamanism [2006 1st Ed., 2009 2nd Ed., just before this podcast] and The Holy Mushroom [2008],

Jan talks about the work of Jack Herer,

the dispute between John Allegro and Gordon Wasson over the depiction of mushrooms in Christian artwork,

the psychedelic origins of Judeo-christianity,

Jonathan Ott’s Pharmacotheon,

John Rush’s website clinicalanthrolopology,
[2024: http://www.clinicalanthropology.com has been down]

mythological allusions to entheogens and entheogen-experiences,

the origins of the Jesus story,

the meaning of the word ‘catholic’,

the similarity of Jesus to other mythic figures such as Mithra and Shiva,

relation of christianity to fertility cults,

the mushroom as a representation of phallus and yoni,

the relation of the Caduceus symbol to medicine,

the virgin birth of Jesus as a representation of the lifecycle of the mushroom,

entheogenic use of Amanita mushrooms and its reliability for triggering religious experience,

combining Amanita mushrooms with Psilocybe mushrooms,

the natural variability in potency of natural entheogens,

entheogen diminishment fallacies and the relative efficacy of entheogens compared to drug-free techniques such as meditation for triggering religious experience,

ergonomic accessibility of religious experience and

the phoney logic behind the war on drugs.”

Psychonautica 66 – Dale Pendell: Psychedelics and Buddhism

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica066

“In this fortnight’s edition of psychonautica,

Max Freakout plays a talk from the World Psychedelic forum by Dale Pendell called ‘Psychedelics and Zen Buddhism, the search for a path’,

Dale Pendell talks about the connection between entheogen experiences and religious experience and the opinions of several writers on the subject,

buddhist attitudes to entheogens,

esoteric buddhism,

attaining enlightenment outside of the buddhist tradition,

cracking open the world with entheogens,

zen training as a preparation for taking psychedelics,

defining the goal of spiritual practise,

shamans vs zen teachers,

tantric practise and

a number of stories from Pendell’s book ‘pharmaco-gnosis’.

Next Max Freakout talks about the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, Datura, and DMT extraction.”

Psychonautica 62 – Michael Winkelman: “Psychedelics and human evolution”

x https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica062

“In this week’s episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays

a talk by Michael Winkleman from the World Psychedelic Forum called ‘Psychedelics and human evolution, a view from evolutionary psychology‘.

Michael Winkleman talks about the ‘drug paradox’ and evolutionary adaptations of humans to psychoactive plants,

the integrative mode of consciousness and psychedelics as ‘psychointegrators’,

psychedelic drugs as sources of rare neurotransmitters,

the role of ritual practises to enhance the psychoactive effects of plants,

the evolutionary history of the relationship between humans and psychoactive plants,

serotonin and opioid receptors in the human brain, serotonergic binding,

shamanism as a tool for integrating communities by enhancing opioid bonding,

cognitive capabilities that are unique to human beings,

mystical experiences induced by long-distance running,

dancing to induce altered states of consciousness and the role of dancing for animals,

human relationship to fungi and the worldwide distribution of neurotropic fungi, [expect totally ignore Cubensis in Europe/England]

the mystical effects of psilocybe mushrooms including travelling to other dimensions,

cathartic healing and the ego death/rebirth experience,

the concordance of DMT/psilocybin experiences and shamanism,

promotion of altruistic activity by psychedelics,

the roots of shamanism in chimpanzee behaviour,

similarities of psychedelic experiences to meditative experiences,

alternative means of altering consciousness besides psychedelics such as shamanic drumming and chanting, [WEAK]

synchronized theta waves in the brain during psychedelic experiences,

the ineffability of altered states of consciousness,
[according to which wrong, outdated scholar? Stace 1960]

the reducing valve of consciousness and opening up the lower part of the brain with psychedelics,

the tolerance effect that comes with frequent usage of psychedelics,

enhanced learning with psychedelics and

the psychedelic influence on human evolution.”

Psychonautica 39 – Michael Winkelman, “Psychedelic Medicine” (June 6, 2008)

Winkelman is editor of the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/2054-overview.xml
and guided Entheos journal (4 issues).

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica039

“This week’s episode of psychonautica contains [a] talk by Michael Winkleman from the world psychedelic forum entitled ‘psychedelic medicine’.

Michael talks about the possible

role of psychedelics in human evolution,

psychedelics as psycho-integrators,

serotonin as a neuro-modulator, bringing together levels of the brain and bringing unconsciousness into consciousness,

the legal status of ayahuasca and peyote in the US,

ayahuasca churches and tourism,

native American’s use of peyote,

drug fatalities,

psychedelics for treatment of substance abuse problems,

medical assessments of psychedelics,

treatment of cluster headaches,

the moral imperative of psychedelic research,

treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and the prevalence of PTSD and suicide in the US army,

the psychedelic afterglow,

treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder,

treatment of anxiety in terminal cancer patients,

the efficacy of alcoholics anonymous compared to psychedelics,

ibogaine and its discovery by addicts,
[Houot specializes in Ibogaine: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/toward-a-philosophy-of-psychedelic-technology-an-exploration-of-fear-otherness-and-control-houot-2019/]

ketamine and its similarity to psychedelics,

therapeutic use of peyote,

alcoholism among native Americans,

peyote as a de-semanticizing agent,

the importance of sexual abstinence and fasting prior to entheogen use, and

different approaches to the employment of psychedelics in therapeutic settings.”

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Psychonautica 25

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica025

“In this fortnight’s installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout

talks about issues raised in listener emails and forum posts, including

the war on drugs and its effects on entheogen users in the U.S,

the difficulty in making large profit from psychedelic drugs compared to addictive drugs,

the 1960s hippie movement and varying opinions about its legacy in the modern world,

irresponsible use of entheogens,

the progress of youth culture since world war 2,

a comparison of the persecution of homosexuals to the illegalisation of entheogens,

the effects of cannabis on dreams,

the unhelpful and completely inaccurate drugs education given in modern schools,

the official policy of lying about drugs,

the possibility of a drug taking licensing system,

the need for a shamanic context for drugs-use,

the magic mushroom scene in Amsterdam compared with ayahuasca groups around Europe.

Max then reads out a sample from forthcoming novel ‘Beyond the Basin’, and goes on to talk about Norse mythology, its references to entheogens such as the viking ‘brew of poetry’, and the broader picture of
the relation between mythology, life and entheogens.

then Max reads out a brief Salvia trip report including an experience of ‘seeing the future’, then talks about

the relation of entheogens to Buddhist practice, including the entheogen-diminishing bias in modern Buddhism.

finally, Max reads out an email about a listener’s experience of
science-fiction induced psychosis,
negative visionary experiences, and
the importance of entheogens in the battle against fundamentalism.“

Psychonautica 24

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica024

“In this fortnight’s edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout discusses

the hippie movement of the sixties, debates about its successes and failures, the ambiguity of the word hippie, and also

debates about Tim Leary ad Ken Kesey, and who was really responsible for ending scientific research into psychedelics. Also Max talks about

the implications of the discovery of psychedelic shamanism, and cultural values as paranoid neurosis. Next Max talks about

lucid dreaming and its efficacy as a tool for regenerative healing, the difficulty of learning how to trigger lucid dreams at will, sleep paralysis, the film ‘Waking Life’ and oneirology, the study of dreams. Finally Max talks about

the entheogenic origins of tantra,

amrita the ‘sacred elixir’,

cannabis and datura, then

reads out a Salvia/Cannabis trip report.”

Psychonautica 23

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica023

“In this episode of Psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about

Laura Huxley who died recently, and

Ken Kesey and Tim Leary their attitude to psychedelics, then Max reads out a

poem by Mrs Freakout inspired by a salvia trip.

Then, in response to the last episode Max talks about the ‘flying’ experienced by SM afficionados, ‘an ecstasy beyond orgasm’, Aleister Crowley’s idea of ‘erotocomatose lucidity’, the Lakota Indian’s painful sundance rituals, and the difficulty in establishing a direct historical link between tantric sexual practises and psychedelics.

“Next, Max talks about conservative attitudes to sex and drugs,

freedom of speech on the internet,

egodeath theory and the free will debate,

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle,

the possibility of quantum computers,

Sartre’s idea of radically unlimited existential freedom, and its implications for the controllability of your future self,

the archaic revival,

widespread boundary dissolution and synaethesia.

Finally Max reads out an excellent 2-C-I trip report from Dyminshin. including lots of information about a number of different research chemicals.”

Psychonautica 22 – Dec. 14, 2007

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica022

“In this festive season episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about

the relation between psychedelic drugs and sexuality. After first

bidding a psychonaut farewell to queerninja, Max reads out

a forum post from xochipilli2012 about his love of mushrooms, evil porn and scented olive oil,

the effects of mushrooms on erectile dysfunction,

MDMA and strap-on dildoes,

private numbness from Hawaian Baby Woodrose seeds and

the best choice out of mushrooms or LSD as an aphrodisiac.

“Then Max talks about erotic cave-paintings and archaic sexual practises,

the sexual revolution in the 1960s alongside the psychedelic revolution,

Holland’s liberal stance on sexuality vs conservative attitudes to sex and drugs,

tantric sex, including its potential psychedelic origins, and its use for dissolving ego,

Dave Chappelle’s first time on mushrooms and

using MDMA to treat rape-trauma and in relationship counselling.

Following an account by Terence Mckenna of a DMT-fueled sexual encounter, Max talks about alternative ‘fringe’ sexual practises, in particular BDSM,

the experience of the endorphin rush known as ‘flying’, called the ‘fast track to enlightenment’,

sexual power games involving control-loss and experiencing helplessness,

the similarity between a BDSM session and a psychedelic trip, and

its relation to psychedelic psychotherapy and the womb-regression experience.

“Finally Max gives a brief review of

the forthcoming novel ‘Beyond the Basin’ and concludes with a further comment on

archaic, orgiastic sexual practises.”

Psychonautica 21

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica021

“This fortnight’s episode of psychonautica is beamed live from the Dolphins coffeeshop in Amsterdam, and features a

3-way conversation between Max Freakout, The Seeker and Ravi.

First Max reads out an LSD trip report from Dopey J, then the trio discuss ‘crisis’ experiences,

the new Blairwitch spinoff movie ‘shroom’,

LSD doses,

psychedelic and psycholytic psychotherapy,

safety issues of tripping in public environments,

the role of music as a tool in combination with psychedelics,

Neurolinguistic programming, and other techniques for overcoming addictions,

the relevance of addiction to problems of self-control and egodeath theory,

isolation/floatation tanks and their potential for combination with psychedelics, ketamine, dissociation, sensory deprivation and the womb-regression experience.

Following some herbal refreshments the trio return to talk about

the idea of a paradigm shift,

the authenticity of taking entheogens in contrast with other spiritual practices, and

evolutionary advantages to plants which contain psychoactive chemicals.”

Psychonautica 20

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica020

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica

Nov 16, 2007

“In the 20th installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about

a recent podcast by kmo about meditation and psychedelics, and

the recent dopecast Amsterdam meetup. Then in response to listener emails, Max talks about

salvia divinorum addiction and safety issues,

the importance of ‘set’ in the outcome of a psychedelic experience,

the medicinal use of various psychoactive drugs,

entheogenic plants as a ‘trojan horse’ to Western societies from shamanic cultures,

vaporizing DMT successfully in a herbalair vaporizer and the ‘afterglow’ of the DMT breakthrough.

Topics raised in the psychonautica forum are also discussed, such as

smokable DMT extracts,

cultivating Salvia Divinorum and

exotic strains of psilocybe mushroom,

ayahuasca analogues,

the chemical similarity of psilocybin to DMT,

the distinction between mycophobic and mycophilic cultures and finally

the relation of psychedelics to sexuality.  E

Psychonautica 19

This episode recording is corrupt, jumbled, but I listened to it. Seems like double length; I don’t think any content is missing.

My station ID (choppy) is at 49:45:
“This is Michael Hoffman of Egodeath.com and you’re listening to Psycho Nautica with Max Freakout [Freakout, Freakout – increasing pitch and rough distorted sound]”

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica

Nov 2, 2007

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica19

“In this fortnights edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout gives an update on

the Dutch magic mushroom situation, including a recent protest in Amsterdam and the position of the mushroom in Dutch culture, then gives

a news report about the recent hospitalization of Sasha Shulgin, and gives an update on

the forthcoming novel ‘Beyond the Basin’ by a psychonautica listener. Then, in response to listener emails and forum posts Max talks about

reproducing trip experiences by controlling the setting,

the way that psychedelic voyaging often starts as a recreational pursuit and then becomes unexpectedly serious,

a clarification of the precise [meaning] of ‘ego death’,

William James’ charting of the mystical experience,

references to ego death in ‘The Matrix‘ and Cronenburg’s ‘The Fly’,

mystic insights in rock lyrics,

the role of mushrooms in early Christianity,

the role of the ‘hero’ and its relation to ‘heroic’ doses and ego death.”

Psychonautica 18

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica18

Oct 19, 2007

“in this fortnight’s installment of psychedelic information, Max Freakout reads through a selection of listener emails and forum posts, the topics covered include

the proposed ban on fresh magic mushrooms in Holland, including

the history of the legal position of mushrooms in Europe,

salvia divinorum tolerance and addiction,

the forthcoming psychonautica outing to the World Psychedelic forum,

listening to music while tripping, synaethesia,

psychedelic cough-syrup DXM including, safety issues about purity and after-effects and its intereraction with dramamine, its auditory and visual effects, and a dxm trip report from scaredstraight.

Max mentions this weekend’s dopecast meetup in Amsterdam, then

reads out a mushroom trip report from Matty THC, involving a group trip in an isolated log cabin with some wild visuals.

Next Max talks about trip-synchronicity with some personal examples,

the experience of ‘other’ intelligence during a trip,

insanity as an ‘occupational hazard’ for psychonauts and

high-dose vs low-dose psychedelic experiencing.

Psychonautica 17

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica017 Oct 5, 2007

“In this fortnight’s episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout first announces the forthcoming dopecast meetup in Amsterdam, and then addresses a selection of listener emails.

“The topics which are raised include the difference between a narcotic and a psychedelic in the context of shamanic practice,

Mike Hoffman’s egodeath theory as a new, ‘practically applicable’ religion,

the relation of the psychedelic insight to the validity of inductive reasoning,

the parallels between Terence Mckenna’s theories and the egodeath theory,

safety precautions and contraindications of salvia divinorum (including the salvia sleepwalk and the combination of salvia with cannabis),

the varieties of ecstasy pill and the potential pitfalls of using a volcano vaporizer to vaporize DMT.

“Finally, Max reads out a salvia trip report from Ottonomy involving some classic salvia phenomena.”

Psychonautica 16

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica016 – Sep 21, 2007

“This episode of psychonautica is the second half of the

conversation between Max Freakout and the Seeker from the last episode. They discuss

entheogens and spiritual practise, including the state of consciousness brought on by kundalini yoga. Also

the differences and similarities between DMT and Salvia Divinorum, including an in depth discussion about the salvia experience, it’s effect on time, space and eternity, including comparisons to Buck Rogers and Star trek.”

Psychonautica 15

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica015 – Sep 7, 2007 —

“In this fortnights installment of psychonautica,

Max Freakout speaks with fellow psychonaut The Seeker on a range of psychedelic topics, such as

the pharmaco-dynamics of MDMA,

the role of entheogens in spiritual practise,

the distinction between synthetic and natural drugs,

contaminated pills and the issue of purity with synthetic chemicals. …

Max reads out a mushroom trip-report from Kabukisensei, involving loss of separateness and experience of cosmic oneness.”

Psychonautica 14 (Aug 24, 2007)

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https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica014 – Aug 24, 2007

“In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about the Dutch smartshop scene, the recent ban on yohimbe and forthcoming changes in the Dutch policies on magic mushroom sales, then in response to a recent dopecast, Max discusses the benefits and dangers of MDMA and ecstasy, their potential role as ‘love drugs’ and their psychedelic properties, and the attitudes of mass-media towards illegal drugs versus the legal ones.

Hear an announcement of the forthcoming World psychedelic forum in Switzerland and a discussion about some of the speakers who are going to be there including a brief explanation of Stanislav Grof’s contributions towards psycedlic psychotherapy, then

a review of Andrew Letcher’s recent book about magic mushrooms including a discussion about

the differences between amanita and psilocybe mushrooms and

the importance of that distinction for theories about the origin of religion.

Finally Max reads out a 2cb trip report from shaggz1297 involving paranoid delusions and passionate romance.

World psychedelic forum website:  http://www.psychedelic.info“

The World Psychedelic Forum (March 24, 2008)

http://www.psychedelic.info/index_2_eng.html –

“24th March 2008, the World Psychedelic Forum ended successfully with up to
2000 visitors from 37 countries.

Audio-Visual recordings are available from Auditorium Netzwerk.

Two versions of the Resolution composed at the occasion of the World Psychedelic Forum, and signed on site by speakers and participants of the conference call for the decriminalization and the legalization of psychedelic substances. A version signed by the speakers can be found here:
english / german

…

“In January 2006 the International Symposium “LSD – Problem Child and Wonder Drug” took place at the occasion of the 100th birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD.

Several thousand visitors and more than 200 media people from 37 countries gathered in Basel to hear speeches from scientists and historians, to exchange ideas and disseminate information.

It was the biggest conference of its kind worldwide.

For the first time since the turbulent 1960s, a wide range of psychedelic issues and topics has been brought back to public discussion and re-evaluation.

The “World Psychedelic Forum” will expand upon this renewed interest, presenting a unique opportunity for experts, researchers, and interested persons from all around the globe, to exchange views and hear presentations of the latest research on the value of these remarkable psychedelic substances in medicine, psychology, science, religion, culture and the arts.”

Psychonautica 13 – Interview with Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

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https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica013 – Aug 10, 2007 —

“In this fortnight’s edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout interviews Michael Hoffman, author of the egodeath theory and the entheogen theory of religion, and the man behind egodeath.com.

“They discuss the nature of free-will and the idea of transcending it, the concept of block-universe determinism and its role for facilitating an understanding of the egodeath theory, and the role of the shaman as the tribal healer.

“Also, the controversies concerning Hoffman’s outspoken views on drug-free meditation and drug-war activism are covered.

“Finer details of the theory are also discussed, including the idea of myth-as-metaphor, and Hoffman’s critisim of Mckenna’s stoned ape theory of evolution.

“Finally, Max gives a run-down of the competition winners with their prizes in the post, and a shout to the team at www.realitysandwich.com.”

Email … leave comments, Skype us, and join the ever-growing Psychedelic community hanging out at the forum.

Playlist:
Rush – Free will
The Beatles – Help!

Psychonautica 12 – Listener questions about the Egodeath theory

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica12 – Jul 27, 2007

“In this episode of Psychonautica, entheo-pundit Max Freakout recaps on the last two episodes, dealing with the issues that arose from them, and brings to a close the trip report competition started in episode 10, everyone’s a winner!

“Max clarifies some points from the ego-death/freewill podcast (episode 11), such as his use of the word ‘religion’ and the concept of affirming and then then transcending ‘no free-will’ in the dissociative cognitive state.

Max talks about the controversial debate between psychedelics and meditation/yoga as effective spiritual practises, trying to be as even-handed as possible, then discusses the concept of synergy, and corrects an error he previously made concerning average LSD dosages.

The psychedelic properties of cannabis are discussed, then finally Max recommends some psychedelic web-links including a video documenting the Hungarian psychonaut scene, to finish off there’s a public service announcement about medical marijuana from fellow podcaster Zandor and a song about picking mushrooms in the wild.”

“Email … leave comments, Skype us, and join the ever-growing Psychedelic community hanging out at the forum at http://forum.thegrowreport.com/“

Psychonautica 11 – Free will vs. determinism per the Egodeath theory

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica_011 =- Jul 13, 2007

“In this week’s instalment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout first gives a reminder about the competition started in the last episode, 2 weeks remain to submit your trip reports in order to win some sporeprints for magic mushrooms cultivation, and some other entheogenic treats.

“Then Max proceeds to talk about the philosophical issue of free-will and how it relates to entheogens, with much reference to Michael Hoffman‘s website, egodeath.com.

“This issue broadly involves subjects like the entheogenic origin of world religion, and refutation of the common ‘entheogen diminishment fallacies’ aimed at downplaying the role of entheogenic experiences in an individual’s spiritual development.

“Finally Max talks about the hypocrisy involved at the higher levels of the ‘war on drugs’, mass media doublespeak and the problems of remaining impartial when considering the pros and cons of psychedelic drugs.”

addr: Maxfreakout dopefiend.co.uk leave comments, Skype us, and join the ever-growing Psychedelic community hanging out at the forum.

todo: have I posted a list of Max’s episodes already somewhere? search present site for server path/domain:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=dopecast.libsyn.com
found major coverage at:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/#Psychonautica-Podcast

from that page:

Search for all Psychonautica episodes:
http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=Psychonautica – not effective as of 2024. try instead:
https://dopecast.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Psychonautica – good results.

Podcast: Psychonautica: Max Freakout on Egodeath theory
Psychonautica episode 11
July 13, 2007

“In this week’s installment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout discusses the philosophical issue of free-will and how it relates to entheogens, with
reference to Michael Hoffman’s website, Egodeath.com.

“This issue broadly involves subjects like the entheogenic origin of world religion, and refutation of the common ‘entheogen diminishment fallacies‘ aimed at downplaying the role of entheogenic experiences in an individual’s spiritual development.

“Max talks about the hypocrisy involved at the higher levels of the ‘war on drugs’, mass-media doublespeak, and the problems of remaining impartial when considering the pros and cons of psychedelic drugs.”

Psychonautica 10 – Cubensis Cultivation – Max Solo

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica_010

“In this extra special tenth episode of Psychonautica, Max Freakout finally takes over full podcasting responsibilities, KMO who got the show on the road will be sorely missed.

Max goes through the process of basic home cultivation of magic mushrooms,

and to celebrate his first solo podcast, there is a competition where lucky winners can receive sporeprints to grow their own shrooms, plus some other entheogenic goodies.

Then in the second half of the show, Max deals with

the issue of under-age psychedelic use, and

plays an excerpt from a recent ‘Mind States’ conference featuring the Shulgins and Allyson Grey.

Finally, Max talks about the ideal choice of psychedelic for a first-time experience, and dopefiend’s recent low-dose mushroom voyage.”

Psychonautica 9

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica009

“In this, our 9th psychedelic romp, Max Freakout and KMO delve  into the Psychonautica forums on the Growreport.com website to answer your questions and riff on some of the most excellent thoughts that you folks have been posting there of late, and they stick pretty close to the topic of

psilocybin mushrooms and their potential enhancement with Syrian rue.

It works wonders for some folks, but as you’ll hear from Max, it’s not without its risks.

Later, they pick-over the Dopefiend’s recent low-dose mushroom trip.”

Links:

The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman.html

Working with Difficult Psychedelic Experiences
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3782432270770779673

Psychonautica 8 – KMO & Max

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica008

“In this tag-team installment of Psychonautica,

KMO examines new ways in which researchers are delving into our bodily effluvia and coming up with new ways of gauging the prevalence of drug use in society.

Max Freakout takes a solo turn at the tiller and steers the ship through interesting waters as he

reads some trip reports and

explains why taking acid in a Las Vegas casino might not count as the best choice for set and setting.

Lash yourself to the mast and take in the siren’s song of this week’s Psychonautical adventure.”

Psychonautica 7 (May 18, 2007) – Rogan DMT, Hancock Supernatural

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica007

“In this week’s Psychonautica, KMO and Max Freakout finally manage to manifest in the Cyberpsychedelicatessen at the same time for a wide ranging discussion that includes some analysis of

Joe Rogen’s increasingly famous DMT rant and

Graham Hancock’s new book, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.”

Psychonautica 6 – KMO, not Max

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica006

“In this sixth installment of Psychonautica,

KMO sits down with novelist and dimensional traveler, Matt Pallamary.

The conversation ranges far and wide, but orbits the general topic of shamanism.

Topics include

ayahausca,

ancient Egyptian sacred geometry,

LSD,

formulating intent, and

opening doors that never close.”

Psychonautica 5 – Max Freakout’s first solo episode (Apr. 20, 2007)

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica005

“In this fifth installment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout takes the tiller and navigates the treacherous shoals of psychedelic chemistry. He’s recruited a reliable guide in the form of Psycherelic, and
together they’ll walk us through the Marsofold Tek for extracting smokable DMT from mimosa hostilis using readily available ingredients. Psycherelic assures us that it’s as easy as baking a cake. Given that it’s a cake made with flammable and explosive ingredients, you may do well to leave the baking of this particular cake to the experts, but if there’s no stopping you, here’s how.

If you couldn’t make it to Dopestock, the Cyber-Psychedelicatessen is the next best place to spend 4/20. Join us for some psychedelic kitchen chemistry.

Psychonautica 4 – Salvia Divinorum, Daniel Seibert

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica004

“Welcome psychonauts, to episode 4 of Psychonautica, your trans-atlantic cyberdelic corridor to the imaginal realms. By popular demand,

this week’s installment focuses exclusively Salvia Divinorum,
that aid to divination and otherworldly vision, and

we’ll join Max Freakout as he welcomes the recognized authority on all things related to Salvia Divinorum, Daniel Seibert, to Psychonautica.

We’ll also hear from ethnobotoanist, Nat Bletter, and

we’ll roll with Rosie in a listener-created musical encounter.”

Psychonautica 3

x https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica003

“Welcome, fellow psychonauts, to the third Freakout Friday.

Let the vigilant sentries stationed at the portals of your mind take five as Stealth Maestro KMO and the Dopefiend network’s very own certified psychedelic scholar slip inside your mind and upgrade your memeset with new distinctions, like

the difference between flashbacks and HPPD.

Ponder the source of the mysterious “voice” of the mushroom and ayahuasca spirits and

review past lessons with return visits to KMO’s conversations with Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon and LSD researcher, Dr. Charles Nichols. 

delve into listener email

“the undulating geometric patterns crawling over the living, breathing, inter-dimensional walls.”

Psychonautica 2 (Mar 9, 2007)

https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica002

“In the second of our new series of verbal psychedelic journeys live from the Psychedelicatessen, hallucin-anchor KMO and entheo-pundit Max Freakout venture behind the curtain to bring

legal highs, particularly Salvia Divinorum,

discuss the abandonment of mass-media by an ever-increasing self-educated cyberclass, and

the growth of the term “entheogen” with Psychedelic Podfather Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon, and also

welcome LSD researcher Charles Nichols from Louisiana State University to the show to discuss

the brain science behind the LSD experience, and

whether Tim Leary was good or bad for the mind-expansion movement.”

“The Psychedelic Salon is here: www.psychedelicsalon.com

“More information on LSD research and past work by Charles Nichols can be found here: http://www.maps.org/

Psychonautica 1, with Max Freakout and KMO (Feb 23, 2007)

x https://dopecast.libsyn.com/psychonautica001

Drop your shrooms and fasten your safety belts for a mindblowing ride into the alternative conciousness otherwise known as Psychonautica! In Dopefiend.co.uk’s incredible new series KMO and Max Freakout introduce you to a parallel world of hallucinogenic delights, discussing the origins of the terms “entheogen” and “psychedelic”, the science of memetics and the  internet as a psychedelic tool, and the different benefits of natural substances versus synthetics.

If you have suggestions for future episodes, or feedback on this series premiere, leave a comment below or email KMO@dopefiend.co.uk or MaxFreakout@dopefiend.co.uk.

Chat: Psychonautica podcast post-mortem

And stop by thechatroomfor theday long Psychonautica post-mortem.

See Also

Max Freakout: Writings and Podcasts
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/max-freakout-writings-and-podcasts/

Site Map: Transcendent Knowledge podcast
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Transcendent-Knowledge-Podcast

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery (Houot, 2025)

Michael Hoffman, 7:30 pm Dec. 23, 2024, received paperback Dec. 29, 2024

Contents:

  • About My Review
  • My Book Review of Rise of the Psychonaut (Houot, 2025)
  • todo
  • Why No Mention of Surrenderism?
  • Citation and Link
  • Outline of Headings
  • Parts and Chapters
  • All Headings
  • Template for Fast & Good Reviews of Books
  • Email to Book Club 2024/12/29
  • Available and Not Available, in Dec. 2024
  • Best Format for Book Reviews
  • Benefits of 3 Book Formats
  • Words to Search for in Ebook of Rise of the Psychonaut
  • Keyboard Shortcut for Houot Book with Amazon URL (new type!)
  • Preview Sample
  • Pollyanna “Can-Do” – True, but {gate}
  • Genesis 3:23-24
  • Rev 22:14
  • Houot’s Weblog Posts
  • Ibogaine Podcast by Houot
  • My Posts Discussion with Houot at Academia.edu
  • My Book Review Draft Notes
  • Can We Have Stable Control? As Stable as Pre-Existing Control-Thoughts Frozen in Rock ()
  • Rise of the Hubristic Psychonaut (Ooh-Oh, 2025)
  • “Myth Is Stupidity” – Ooh-Oh p. 37
  • Reject “Naturalism”, by the Same Token as Reject “common-core mysticism” and “Perennialism”
  • What Page # Is “Myth Is Stupidity”?
  • Piling Insult Upon Insult, Talking Down to Popular Audience, He’d Never Insult His Two Previous Articles’ Professional Audience Like This!
  • The Ship Travel Metaphor/ Analogy
  • Scientist Houot Fails to Even THINK about Etymology of the Most Key, Central Term, ‘Cyber’
  • No Mention of Meditation [p. 86] or Thought-Watching, Shows Houot’s Inappropriate Focus on the External, Physical World
  • Condensed Voice Transcription of My Fav Pages that Give Contradictory Takes on Religion
  • Houot’s Contradictory Takes on Religion
  • I Believe for Control Stability
  • Beware of etcloc! (the experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control) [badass abbrev. award ]
  • Asked Simon Yugler in Person About His Approach vs. Houot’s Approach
  • No One at the Bridge (Rush, 1975)
  • Cygnus X-1 (Rush, 1977)
  • See Also
    • Related Houot Articles
      • The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency (2022)
      • Phenomenology for Psychedelic Researchers: A Review of Current Methods & Practices (2021) [end of move down

Edited revision of review

bold = rev; edited at Amazon to read as follows:

Alan Houot’s basic idea in Rise of the Psychonaut is that instead of restricting psychedelics to the therapy approach and the mysticism approach, we should also (or, instead, exclusively?) use the “Science explorer discoverer, using tools and technology” approach to psychedelics. 5 of 5 stars for Houot’s much-needed basic idea.

But, be warned! In adversarial fashion, on p. 10, Houot implies that you are immature, irrational, mentally ill, and unfit to do science exploration discovery, if you are at all in any way interested in esotericism/ myth/ religion/ mysticism/ spirituality, or if you use any other approach to psychedelics for any purpose and motive other than “Science” and “Technology” exactly as the author conceptualizes it — which is, approaching psychedelics as if exploring the physical external world like ships in the 1400s, and alien entities contact in the psychedelic state, like NASA.

A psychedelic church’s astute book club immediately picked up on this false-dichotomy, adversarial quote:

“Please put this book down if you’ve never ingested psychedelics or if you take them for therapeutic, recreational, religious, spiritual growth, personal growth, cognitive enhancement, creativity-inspirational, or self-actualizing purposes. It’s not for you … With that said, my message will not resonate with everyone.” – p. 10

Later in the book, Houot writes that we should not entirely write-off religion, because that would be closed-minded.

Houot covers analogy, and calls for mapping experiential phenomenology of the altered state, without discussing how Science uses analogy, like religious myth, to explain and clarify the dynamics of altered-state experiencing. I’d like to see more discussion of using Engineering product development to usefully package the findings of Science, and analogy, used well, would be part of such a technology and mapping.

Houot’s particular conceptualization of Science and exploration (as well as his rational atheist-brand conception of Religion and mysticism) is narrow and quirky.

It’s unclear what useful, relevant tools and technologies are provided so far, by Houot’s approach. How exactly does reading Houot’s publications help the psychonaut during the peak window of the intense mystic altered state, to have viable, stable control? Mystical surrender is not an option, theorizes Houot, but we could use shamans’ successful technologies such as dance and drumming.

My book review includes, as background, Houot’s interests per his dissertation and article: Toward a Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology: An Exploration of Fear, Otherness, and Control; The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency.

To develop his model, Houot can model the dynamics of “surrender” to produce stable control in the altered state, per a book of useful even if merely folk wisdom that I can recommend, Michelle Janikian’s book Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms.

I wish Rise of the Psychonaut treated Houot’s next-favorite topic after alien entities contact, his critique of ‘surrenderism’, contrasted against shamans, who have full self-control in the psychedelic state due to their superior technology, and never need to do something like ‘surrender’. It would be really interesting to analyze and discuss the concept of ‘surrender’ with Houot: what are the dynamics there, to produce stable control? How does personal control transform, rather than just staying as-is and handing over the wheel of control, untransformed, as-is, to the revealed level of control that’s hidden behind the scenes?

Houot doesn’t engage with altered-state based Rock lyrics reporting problems with steering a ship (Rush: No One at the Bridge; Ozzy: S.A.T.O.), or the myth of Dionysus and the pirates, where the captain doesn’t honor Dionysus and is killed, while the pilot honors Dionysus and is saved.

Houot should question whether shamans have full stable self-control, and should approach myth/ esotericism/ religion as analogy to be used effectively by a Science-based approach, rather than a scorched-earth, wholesale rejection of any interest in a mystical approach to psychedelics. When Science recognizes esotericism as analogy describing psychedelic transformation, then Science can use analogy properly and powerfully, to explain mental model transformation in the altered state (as a 1st-tier concern), and also, as a 2nd-tier concern, explain how religion is analogy trying to describe psychedelic mental model transformation.

Then use Engineering product development to deliver a useful tool that’s ergonomic, relevant, clear & simple, to help and suitably equip cognitive scientists and everyone to endure and explore the altered state.

— Michael Hoffman, theorist of ego death

About My Review

My review at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R293M2XOVFK8HN/
Glad to see Edit is possible.

It’s a hard book to review, b/c the author REALLY IS that adversarial, I can provide quotes that would shock any book editor, and I provided THE quote, page 10.

Am I the bad guy, for doing what Amazon says to do: tell readers what they need to know about this book.

I and my book club could barely get past the introductory barrier the author sets up. People need to know that.

It’s a constructive review, highly substantive and relevant to Houot’s project and mine.

My book review should be available at Amazon Apr. 16, 2025.
https://www.amazon.com/RISE-PSYCHONAUT-Nonscientists-Explorers-Psychedelic/dp/B0DPSJGMFR/

Amazon community guidelines: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLHXEX85MENUE4XF – not found.

My Book Review of Rise of the Psychonaut (Houot, 2025)

5 of 5 stars
April 16, 2025
Title of the review:
Defines a Science explorer discoverer approach to psychedelics

Alan Houot’s basic idea in Rise of the Psychonaut is that instead of restricting psychedelics to the Therapy approach and the Mysticism approach, we should also (or, instead, exclusively?) use the “Science explorer discoverer, using tools and technology” approach to psychedelics. 5 of 5 stars for Houot’s much-needed basic idea, advocating for a Science explorer approach to psychedelics as an alternative to the Therapy and Mystical approaches.

But, be prepared: on p. 10 and others, this book, voiced in a personal tone, says that you are immature, irrational, mentally ill, and unfit to do science exploration discovery, if you are at all in any way interested in esotericism/ myth/ religion/ mysticism/ spirituality, or if you use any other approach to psychedelics for any purpose and motive other than “Science” and “Technology” exactly as the author conceptualizes it — which is, approaching psychedelics as if exploring the physical external world like ships in the 1400s, and alien entities contact in the psychedelic state, like NASA.

A psychedelic church’s astute book club immediately picked up on this false-dichotomy, adversarial quote:

“Please put this book down if you’ve never ingested psychedelics or if you take them for therapeutic, recreational, religious, spiritual growth, personal growth, cognitive enhancement, creativity-inspirational, or self-actualizing purposes. It’s not for you … With that said, my message will not resonate with everyone.” – p. 10

Later in the book, Houot writes that we should not entirely write-off religion, because that would be closed-minded.

Houot covers analogy, and calls for mapping experiential phenomenology of the altered state, without discussing how Science uses analogy, like religious myth, to explain and clarify the dynamics of altered-state experiencing. I’d like to see more discussion of using Engineering product development to usefully package the findings of Science, and analogy, used well, would be part of such a technology and mapping.

Houot’s particular conceptualization of Science and exploration (as well as his rational atheist-brand conception of Religion and mysticism) is narrow and quirky.

It’s unclear what useful, relevant tools and technologies are provided so far, by Houot’s approach. How exactly does reading Houot’s publications help the psychonaut during the peak window of the intense mystic altered state, to have viable, stable control? Mystical surrender is not an option, theorizes Houot, but we could use shamans’ successful technologies such as dance and drumming.

My book review includes, as background, Houot’s interests per his dissertation and article: Toward a Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology: An Exploration of Fear, Otherness, and Control; The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency.

To develop his model, Houot can model the dynamics of “surrender” to produce stable control in the altered state, per a book of useful even if merely folk wisdom that I can recommend, Michelle Janikian’s book Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms—From Tips and Trips to Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy.

I wish Rise of the Psychonaut treated Houot’s next-favorite topic after alien entities contact, his critique of ‘surrenderism’, contrasted against shamans, who have full self-control in the psychedelic state due to their superior technology, and never need to do something like ‘surrender’. It would be really interesting to analyze and discuss the concept of ‘surrender’ with Houot: what are the dynamics there, to produce stable control? How does personal control transform, rather than just staying as-is and handing over the wheel of control, untransformed, as-is, to the revealed level of control that’s hidden behind the scenes?

Houot doesn’t engage with altered-state based Rock lyrics reporting problems with steering a ship (Rush: No One at the Bridge; Ozzy: S.A.T.O.), or the myth of Dionysus and the pirates, where the captain doesn’t honor Dionysus and is killed, while the pilot honors Dionysus and is saved.

Houot should question whether shamans have full stable self-control, and should approach myth/ esotericism/ religion as analogy to be used effectively by a Science-based approach, rather than a scorched-earth, wholesale rejection of any interest in a mystical approach to psychedelics. When Science recognizes esotericism as analogy describing psychedelic transformation, then Science can use analogy properly and powerfully, to explain mental model transformation in the altered state (as a 1st-tier concern), and also, as a 2nd-tier concern, explain how religion is analogy trying to describe psychedelic mental model transformation.

Then use Engineering product development to deliver a useful tool that’s ergonomic, relevant, clear & simple, to help and suitably equip cognitive scientists and everyone to endure and explore the altered state.

— Michael Hoffman, theorist of ego death

/ end of review

I’m describing my own approach per the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism; thank you Houot for encouraging me to write a book.

todo

  • Condense all “talks down” points, summarize as 1 point in book review.
  • Create page to welcome Ruck to conference, Ruck book on “consciousness”.
Crop by Cybermonk. Per Ronald Huggins,
the branches prove that these mushroom trees don’t look like mushrooms.

Why No Mention of Surrenderism?

Heavily focused in dissertation & article on ship. surrender

Janikian good book uses folk concept surrender.

in pdf Sample of book, Find ‘surrender’. __

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery, A. M. Houot (“Ooh-Oh”), Feb. 3, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR (paperback, ebook, & audiobook)

Outline of Headings

transcribed by Michael Hoffman

Parts and Chapters

  • Rise of the Psychonaut 
  • part 1 issue
  • Introduction, a landscape continuously in the making 3
  •  1 metaphors we trip by 13
  • 2 psychedelics are tech technologies 27
  • Part two invitation, 41
  • 3 the academic pale, 43
  • 4 into the wild 63 five psycho
  • 5 psychonaut: what’s in a name? 79 six being, or having, enough 95
  • Part 3: resources 107
  • 7. Your unnatural attitude 109
  • 8. Shift the paradigm 123
  • 9. a dash of anarchy 100 37
  • 10. Become a better reason or 100 51
  • 11. Psychedelic – technology relations 100 71
  • 12. Innovation by, and four, explores 100 89
  • 13. Contact with hyper dimensional 207
  • 14. A recipe for eating sacred cows 225
  • Part 4: destination, 200 37
  • 15. The psychedelic age of discovery 200 39
  • 16. Explorers: all systems are go! 257.
  • Conclusion: the horizon approaches 275
  • Bibliography 301
  • Index 329
  • Acknowledgments, 345

All Headings

  • Disclaimer …ix
  • PART 1: ISSUE …1
  • Introduction: A landscape continuously in the making …3
  • Chapter 1: Metaphors we trip by …13 
  • Psychedelics are psychotomimetic …15
  • Psychedelics are trips …16 
  • Psychedelics are sacred or divine …17
  • Psychedelics are teachers …18
  • Psychedelics or medicines …19
  • Hide and seek …21
  • Conclusion …25
  • Chapter 2 – Psychedelics are technologies …27
  • Metaphor: psychedelics are technologies …28
  • Potential objections …30
    • Pyychedelics can be medical technologies …30
    • Overlap between the psychedelics are trips metaphor and the exploration motive … 31
    • Psychedelics are technologies to communicate with divine beings …31
    • Examples of technology metaphor language use …31–3
  • Motive: Exploration …33
  • PART 2: INVITATION …41
  • Chapter 3: The academic pale …43
  • Inside the academic pale: established and defended …45
    • Legal status …46–3
    • Managed by the elderly …47–3
    • Academic freedom (so they say) …49–3
    • Applied research always drives out pure …52–3
    • Funding return on investment …53–3
    • Institutional review boards …58–3 
  • Conclusion …59 
  • Chapter 4: Into the wild …63
  • Democratization …65
  • Gathering, analyzing, submitting …69
    • Anecdotal evidence …72–3 
    • intimate knowledge …73–3
  • Conclusion …77
  • Chapter 5: Psychonaut: What’s in a name? …79
  • What do we call ourselves? …83
  • Types of psychonaut …85
    • Rational psychonaut …87–3
    • Secular psychonaut …89–3
    • Psychonaut explorer …90–3 
  • Where are all the explorers? …92
  • Conclusion …93
  • Chapter 6: Being, or having, enough …95
  • David versus Goliath …97
  • ____enough …99
  • Calling for a critical mass …103
  • Conclusion …105
  • PART 3 – RESOURCES …107
  • Chapter 7 – Your unnatural attitude …109
  • The four steps …112
  • Step 1 of 4: Natural attitude (putting the taken–for-granted in a box, and then placing that box to the side) …112
  • Step 2 of 4: Reduction (seeing old things with new eyes) …114
  • Step 3 of 4: Imaginative variation (imagining different scenarios to arrive at a phenomenon essence) …117
  • Step 4 of 4: Enter objective confirmation (are you experiencing that too?) …119
  • Describing lived experience …120
  • Conclusion …122
  • Chapter 8 Shift the paradigm …123
  • Discovering anomalies …126
  • Being good enough …132
  • Conclusion …134
  • Chapter 9: A dash of anarchy …137
  • against method, but for science …139
  • Galileo: Copernicus’s publicist …143
    • 1. Change the sensory core of every day experience …144–3
    • 2. Change conceptual components through persuasion …145–3
    • 3. Buy yourself time for history to catch up …147–3
  • Conclusion …148
  • Chapter 10: Become a better reasoner …151
  • Inductive reasoning …153
    • Prepare, don’t predict: Black swans …154–3 
    • Counter induction …157-3
  • Deductive reasoning …158
    • Socrates is mortal …159–3
    • How to test claims …160–3
  • Abductive reasoning …163
  • Analogical reasoning …165
  • Conclusion …168
  • Chapter 11: Psychedelic-technology relations …171
  • 4. Psychedelic enables use of non-physical technology …173
  • 3. Psychedelic inspires physical technology …174
  • 2. Psychedelic is technology …177
    • Osmond’s scope …179–3
  • 1. Physical technology pairs with psychedelic …182
  • Push the envelope but avoid breaking it …184–3
  • Conclusion …187
  • Chapter 12: Innovation by, and for, explorers …189
  • Disruptive technologies (and ideas) …194
  • User innovators …197
  • The power of the crowd …200
  • Conclusion …203
  • Chapter 13: Contact with hyperdimensionals …207
  • The foundation of anthropological research …210
  • The basics of non-ordinary fieldwork …212
  • Native …216
  • Contact …219
  • Conclusion …222
  • Chapter 14: A recipe for eating sacred cows …225
  • Plant teacher, coyotes, sober lessons …228
  • Conclusion …235
  • PART 4: DESTINATION …238
  • Chapter 15: The psychedelic age of discovery …239
  • Renaissances …239
  • Ages of discovery …242
    • First age of discovery …243–3 
    • Second stage of discovery …246–3
    • Third age of discovery …248–3
  • An age’s crowning moment …250
  • The grand gesture of the psychedelic age of discovery …251
  • Conclusion …255
  • Chapter 16: To explorers: All systems are go! …257
  • Naysayers be damned …261
  • Giggle factor …265
  • Useless doesn’t mean worthless …268
  • Conclusion …270
  • Conclusion: The horizon approaches …275
  • Risk and opportunity …275
  • NASA of psychedelics (or we need a hyper space program) …281
  • Training …284–4
  • Data collection …285–4
  • Technology …286–4
  • Maps …287–4
  • Infrastructure …287–4
  • The information trade …289
  • Competition as collaboration …294
  • Witness to a changing world …296
  • Conclusion …299
  • Bibliography …301
  • Index …329
  • Acknowledgments …345
  • Quotes …347

Template for Fast & Good Reviews of Books

sketch: b/c Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022

— kicked my butt, it was so hard to pinpoint his massive error and few days ago i finally PROVED he is wrong, drastically wrong, in thinking Ogdoad = no fate; it = 100% pure fatedness.

He’s the only one who gets it all f’d up backwards.

NOW i am able to review Wouter Hanegraaff book! use template, fill in.

Template:

Title of review: _

Pros:

  • x
  • x

Cons:

  • x
  • x

Key words for each chapter:

  • 1) heading – key words
  • 2) heading – key words

DONE!! sketching template.

Email to Book Club 2024/12/29

Summary of email & discussions among topical expert readers:

2nd edition needs to replace page 10 by a positive, non-insulting, non-churlish equivalent (to stop driving off everyone in the world), hiring a professional editor/P. R. person to scrub all adversarial, talking-down phrases that are scattered throughout the book.

[March 2025 todo: format/ copypaste/ revise other book club emails]

email excerpts:

Dec. 29, 2024

Semi-available now; I received book today, paperback, but link has gone 404.  I predict this book will become consistently available sooner than Feb 6, 2025.

I’ve already read a lot by this author including this book through p. 25.  Looks as good as anything.  Advocates scientific explorer framing instead of other framings such as “therapy”.

Houot claims that shamans have control, and rejects / disparages mystics’ surrenderism.  

Actually we need better comprehension of “surrender”, and I doubt the contrast between shamans vs. mystics will pan out; too apples/oranges.

Ironic that this advocate of a “technology and science” approach idolizes shamans as “having control”, I doubt they have control of the sort that the author advocates.

I hope that the rest of the book after page 25 has more to add than what I’ve read by Houot so far – appears to be good.

Available and Not Available, in Dec. 2024

The book arrived today Dec. 29, 2024, not Feb. 2025.

Dec. 29, 2024 – There’s some funny business going on, my link in Amazon says I received the book, but the link at Amazon has become 404. Only seeing ability to order Kindle version. Seems I lucked out; not clear if you can get printed book at this time.

I guess I’m insane on Hatsis’ mail-order Datura, delirious, but the book is here and I can photograph it:

Best Format for Book Reviews

Pros [written for audience of the Egodeath theory first, general audience 2nd]

Cons

Chapter titles & my key words characterizing each chapter

Benefits of 3 Book Formats

New idea March 23: 2025: I always want a book in print (hardcover preferred) AND audiobook [new decision/analysis of benefits] AND ebook.

very happy w/ audiobook format

I already analyzed benefits of ebook and print book

  • print book:
    Pros: highlighter + pencil markup for close reading.
    Cons: Index but no full text search.
  • ebook:
    Pros:
    Full text search, and ease of access eg my library is in storage.
    Cons: Awful for reading.
  • audiobook:
    Pros: Play and ignore, feels zero effort.
    Cons: Can be hard to digest eg Great Courses university lectures.

I have the print book and the audio book of Rise of the Psychonaut.

Words to Search for in Ebook of Rise of the Psychonaut

I do not have the ebook of Rise of the Psychonaut, but if I did I would be able to full-text search the book eg “analogy” counts vs. “metaphor” count. Find:

  • religion
  • myth
  • egoteric
  • analogy
  • metaphor

Houot covers analogy in chapter 10 at 33:22, 80% through.
Section: Analogical reasoning, p. 165, simile & metaphor too.
todo: analyze book phrases.

p. 165: “The main vehicle I use to deliver this book/s central thesis is analogy … compare two … different things … come to the same conclusion for both.”

Snapshot of prices:

  • Paperback: $19
  • Ebook: $10
  • Audiobook: $25

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
A. M. Houot, Feb. 3, 2025 (planned to start shipping per Amazon)

Keyboard Shortcut for Houot Book with Amazon URL (new type!)

Rise of the Psychonaut
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Rise of the Psychonaut (Houot, 2025)
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Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery, A. M. Houot (“Ooh-Oh”), Feb. 3, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR
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try searching Amazon

My Order page, Arrived, says:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title – which is now 404. try:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR – 404.

url is 404 now, maybe they changed publishing arrangement:

https://www.amazon.com/RISE-PSYCHONAUT-Nonscientists-Explorers-Psychedelic/dp/B0DPSJGMFR – I’m even seeing the front cover & embedded UI below, despite being 404 now!

Preview Sample: 4 hits on ‘surrender’

Amaz > Preview > Find > surrender —

Dec. 8, 2024: A. M. Houot just uploaded 64-page book sample:

I printed and read; stapled as 3 sep. parts:

Packet 1: Cover, Copyright, Dedication

Packet 2: TOC; Intro; Chapter 1: Metaphors we trip by [therapy/benefits bad; psychonaut exploration scientific discovery good] – p. 1-25

Packet 3: Bibliography: p 329-301; 28 pages

RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
A. M. Houot, Dec. 2024, 64 pages.
https://www.academia.edu/t/esvaN-Sf78NHP-N8f0i/resource/work/126159050/RISE_OF_THE_PSYCHONAUT_Maps_for_Amateurs_Nonscientists_and_Explorers_in_the_Psychedelic_Age_of_Discovery

Dec. 8, 2024: A. M. Houot just uploaded 64-page book:

RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
A. M. Houot, Dec. 2024, 64 pages.
https://www.academia.edu/t/esvaN-Sf78NHP-N8f0i/resource/work/126159050/RISE_OF_THE_PSYCHONAUT_Maps_for_Amateurs_Nonscientists_and_Explorers_in_the_Psychedelic_Age_of_Discovery

Key words:

  • Altered States of Consciousness
  • Citizen Science
  • Age of Discovery
  • Psychonautics
  • Philosophy of Psychedelics

Abstract, condensed by Cybermonk:

“Much of the world’s landmass is already known. Deep sea and outer space are beyond most people’s reach.

There are fewer places left to discover.

Psychedelics reveal worlds that remain obscure.

Altered states offer modern, 21st-century audiences boundless opportunities to explore what a human being can experience.

Be a capable discovery-maker, sample-collecting naturalist, and rational thinker of visionary phenomena.”

“In the same way European explorers left their shores 500 years ago in search of spice routes by using technologies to get to the other side of the world, you can use psychedelics to get to the other side of ordinary perception and back.

How to gather data, conduct experiments, and make contact with the locals; equipped to chip away at the mystery.

Conceptual tools to shape your new mindset, taking an active role.

Make more sense of your experiences.

How you can become part of the Psychedelic Age of Discovery.”

Pollyanna “Can-Do” – True, but {gate}

Houot writes “Be a capable discovery-maker, sample-collecting naturalist, and rational thinker of visionary phenomena.” —

never mind the shadow dragon monster, eternalism gate guarded by death-angel wielding {flaming sword}

[10:39 am Dec. 8, 2024] Just realized that {flaming sword} per Genesis 3:23-24 “keeping the way of the tree of life” [kjb] combines {flame/fire} and {sword} which recently I clarified mean (i feel i got clear on this Nov 2024) ability to disprove local control power; ability for higher thinking to threaten-to-death egoic control agency.

Genesis 3:23-24

NIV: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%203&version=NIV – “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [/ placed in front] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.”

KJB: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%203&version=KJV — “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

Rev 22:14

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev%2022%3A14&version=NIV

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev%2022%3A14&version=KJV

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Houot’s Weblog Posts

https://amhouot.com/soc-blog/

Dec. 4, 2024 – #112 What is the Psychedelic Age of Discovery?

Ibogaine Podcast by Houot

https://amhouot.com/iboganautics/

My Posts Discussion with Houot at Academia.edu

Found discussion UI at Academia.edu today Dec 29 2024.

Jan. 2023: Michael Hoffman left a reason for downloading Toward a Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology: An Exploration of Fear, Otherness, and Control —

“I’ve been doing research on the creation of the totally bunk and useless Roland Griffiths psychometrics questionnaire, the Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ) which simply DELETES 18 of 21 “Dread” questions, and replaces them by a new, Grief category.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/how-to-redeem-the-ceq-add-a-control-category-and-the-surveys-questions-about-experiencing-the-threat-of-loss-of-control/“

Jan 2023, A. M. Houot wrote:

“Hi Michael, I agree that the MEQ is flawed, as I described in my master’s thesis. But everyone seems to use it de facto. We need new protocols. I viewed the link you sent. Please keep me posted regarding what comes from your research.”

19 days before Dec. 29, 2024:

Michael Hoffman left a reason for downloading The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency:

“I read your thesis, wrote something(?) about it https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/toward-a-philosophy-of-psychedelic-technology-an-exploration-of-fear-otherness-and-control-houot-2019/“

18 days before Dec. 29, 2024, A. M. Houot wrote:

“Thanks, I look forward to your comments on my book, Rise of the Psychonaut, coming out February 2nd. Enjoy.”

Dec. 29, 2024, Michael Hoffman wrote:

“I received paperback of Rise of the Psychonaut today (expected Feb.), then that Amazon link went 404:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/rise-of-the-psychonaut-houot-2025/“

My Book Review Draft Notes

Can We Have Stable Control? As Stable as Pre-Existing Control-Thoughts Frozen in Rock (😱🐉)

Book club asked me if I/we have/ can have stable control.

I said hardly; more like: fear of God.

If I claim to have secured stable control, that’s only because I repudiate any confident claim of having stable control.

I am FEARFUL and reverent, about whether “I” have stable personal control.

Ooh-Oh’s 2019 hubristic Masters’ thesis dissertation false dichotomy: “Shamans have 100% confident & self-assured control, shamans never have fear or surrender, they are actively in command of the psychedelic state.”
OH REALLY, IS THAT SO? See above:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/24/rise-of-the-psychonaut-houot-2025/#Email-to-Book-Club-2024-12-29

Rise of the Hubristic Psychonaut (Ooh-Oh, 2025)

“If you honor Buddha or Christ or Zeus or Jupiter, then put this book down, it’s not for you”

If you do not shake your fist angrily at the gods, do not read my book, it’s not for you.

If you do not proclaim “The gods do not exist!”, then do not read my book, it’s not for you.

I will expand my page about Rise of the Arrogant Psychonaut for my book club and possibly dabble in writing a book review, which would give me the opportunistic advantage over A. M. Whoah! A. M. Ooh-Oh.

Book Club:

“Cybermonk, Can we have stable control?”

Cybermonk:

“Stable Control?

“As stable as,

“Your future control-thoughts are existing frozen in rock.”

Book Club:

“Whoah!” –> A. M. Ooh-Oh

If myth = stupidity, as Ooh-Oh says, then so is Houot’s metaphor of
{external world-exploration in a ship}.

from {king steering in tree} through {mixed wine at banquet} to {snake frozen in rock}

“Myth Is Stupidity” – Ooh-Oh p. 37

davis definition of irrational vs natualistic, in Ooh-Oh p. ch 2, 22:30 = book page __ – Erik Davis criticizes McK …. myth =

p 37. “resist religious interpretation of psychedelic experiences, adopt a naturalist perspective, avoid untestable, tempting, religious explanation of psychedelic experiences. “

it is ambiguous what you mean by “religious explanations”.

Reject “Naturalism”, by the Same Token as Reject “common-core mysticism” and “Perennialism”

common-core mysticism and perennialism
ccmp

I worship STEM as communication style, tho I reject quantum woo.

What’s with this anti-religion, NATURALISM dogma that’s pushed by Matthew Johnson, A. M. Ooh-Oh, and Chris Letheby?

Count me out! I use the Egodeath theory instead.

I reject all wildcard bait and switch approach labels.

I reject common-core mysticism; reject bait and switch Perennialism; & bait-and-switch “naturalism”, a stinky package deal mystery unstable construction that i do not control.

HARD PASS on the chef’s special, variable & indeterminate package deal you’re selling.

Do you not want to explain religion and explain religious mythology?

What Page # Is “Myth Is Stupidity”?

The sections of great interest to me: p. 84- 92 top. chatper: What’s in a Name? sections:

  • What’s in a Name? (h1, chapter)
    • What do we call ourselves? (h2, major section)
      • Types of psychonaut (h3, minor section)
      • Rational psychonaut
      • Secular psychonaut
      • Psychonaut explorer

https://qualiacomputing.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RationalPsychonaut/

Piling Insult Upon Insult, Talking Down to Popular Audience, He’d Never Insult His Two Previous Articles’ Professional Audience Like This!

p. 84 – What can the reader exclaim to Who-Owe but “F You!!”:

I suggest you start thinking scientifically

Hey Houot: I suggest that you start thinking scientifically. – Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com.

The Ship Travel Metaphor/ Analogy

Does he ever use the word ‘analogy’? Yes, has a section on that.

It is better than ‘metaphor’, for science explanation.

Ooh-Oh privileges his metaphor.

Ooh-Oh INTENDS to privilege the broad general metaphor of {science explorer discoverer}, but in fact he privileges just the narrow, over-specific metaphor {explore Earth or Space external world in ship or space ship}.

LIMITED; false exclusivity.

Narrow minded.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Ooh-Oh says the other metaphor approaches other than science explorer are narrow minded – but his version of the {science explorer} metaphor is narrowly just {physically sail in a physical external ship / space ship to explore the external, physical world and its literal alien entities}.

What a terrible, opposite-direction approach, for exploring the internal mind.

p. 86-87: “cyber-psychonaut: ‘cyber’ simply means online”

Houot’s big-brain etymology analysis all of a sudden vanishes.

Houot fails to talk about — against pop usage – self-control cybernetics, self-control climax.

The most important part of Psilocybin transformation is passed right over, “cyber”, with zero recognition by Houot.

“I find the term cyber-psychonaut pointless since everything is online these days.” failure of deep, critical comprehension here. He analysized pscyo and naut and failed to think of analyzing cyber.

Houot simply accepts the terrible pop connotation, with no critical reflection. Pls engage brain, mr critical rational scientist POSER.

Scientist Houot Fails to Even THINK about Etymology of the Most Key, Central Term, ‘Cyber’

No Mention of Meditation [p. 86] or Thought-Watching, Shows Houot’s Inappropriate Focus on the External, Physical World

The Index fails to have a “meditation” entry; I would expect Ooh-Oh to discuss the pros & cons of meditation, conceived of as “observe your thoughts” – ideally, including observing the illusory source of control, in the psychedelic state (loose cognitive association binding).

Condensed Voice Transcription of My Fav Pages that Give Contradictory Takes on Religion

Houot’s Contradictory Takes on Religion

Rise of the Psychonaut

⚖️
I Believe for Control Stability

image: f177 row 1 panel 2:
{balance on right foot held up by God holding right hand}

Crop by Michael Hoffman

shroud guy = the “stand-on-left-foot” guy;
the “dead mental control model” guy has wrong limb arm visually cut, which contradicts the good trees to left.
{stand on tower} = stability. vs:
dead below tower = fell, unstable. dead, so cannot stand up.

I believe control instability is produced by {standing on left foot}.

I believe control stability is produced by {standing on right foot}.

control stability [an abstract term vs concrete term :stable self control]

stable control is from standing on right foot.

unstable self-control
usc
compare:
loss of control

the {balance scale} motif in Great Canterbury Psalter is more like “stable control ” & unstable self-control, than like “control instability” or “loss of control”

Beware of etcloc! (the experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control) [badass abbrev. award 🏅🏆]

the experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control
kind of a badass abbrv: etcloc

Harry Potter multiplying golden cups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMjdSk9EfY —

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stable control
sc

stable self-control
ssc

self-control stability
s-cs

the self-control system
scs

control stability
cs

Asked Simon Yugler in Person About His Approach vs. Houot’s Approach

I was just in a meeting with author Simon Yugler https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelics-Soul-Psychedelic-Psychology-Cultural/dp/ – four days ago on Thu. Dec. 19, 2024:

I asked Yugler if there’s anything left of the book and approach after removing therapy and healing; I mentioned vs Houot’s advocacy of a Psychonaut {science explorer/ discoverer} approach instead, in Houot’s forthcoming book.

New: not a page about Yugler, but shorter: a section, in new page:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/23/books-and-citations-for-the-egodeath-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Psychedelics-and-the-Soul

No One at the Bridge (Rush, 1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70BgSKTBh9s —

Cygnus X-1 (Rush, 1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MlYgt-QdMI —

Song: Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage
Album: A Farewell to Kings
Artist: Rush
Lyrics: Neil Peart – he is a leading altered-state esotericist.
Year: 1977
https://www.google.com/search?q=rush+lyrics+Cygnus+X-1

Lyrics analysis at Egodeath.com:
http://egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22949

Lyrics – for Scholarly Analysis

“In the constellation of Cygnus
There lurks a mysterious, invisible force [hidden source of control-thoughts]
The black hole of Cygnus X-1
Six stars of the Northern Cross
In mourning for their sister’s loss
In a final flash of glory
Nevermore to grace the night“

Invisible to telescopic eye
Infinity, the star that would not die
All who dare to cross her course [can’t look at the source of control thoughts and live, as monolithic, autonomous control agent]
Are swallowed by a fearsome force
Through the void to be destroyed
Or is there something more?
Atomized at the core [loose cognitive association binding dis-integrates the egoic personal control system]
Or through the astral door [{transformation gate}]
To soar

I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the Milky Way
On my ship, the Rocinante
Wheeling through the galaxies
Headed for the heart of Cygnus
Headlong into mystery

The X-ray is her siren song, my ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal, until the black hole
Gains control [control is experientially removed from egoic personal control system upon perceiving the uncontrollable hidden source of control-thoughts]

Spinning, whirling, still descending
Like a spiral sea, unending!

Sound and fury drowns my heart
Every nerve is torn apart!

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Geddy Lee / Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart

Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage lyrics © Core Music Publishing, Ole Core Music Publishing, Anthem Core Music Publishing

See Also

Site Map > Alan Houot
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Alan-Houot

Toward a Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology: An Exploration of Fear, Otherness, and Control (Houot 2019)

Email from Houot:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/13/idea-development-page-26/#Email-from-Houot

Academia link: https://independent.academia.edu/AMHouot

The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency (2022)

The Psychonaut’s Ship: Pairing Technologies with Psychedelics to Augment User Agency
My page:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/26/the-psychonauts-ship-pairing-technologies-with-psychedelics-to-augment-user-agency-houot-2022/
https://www.academia.edu/78214256/The_Psychonauts_Ship_Pairing_Technologies_with_Psychedelics_to_Augment_User_Agency
Psychedelic Press Quarterly Journal, 2022

I printed and read this.

Modern psychedelic users are commonly advised to surrender to altered states of consciousness. On… more 

Phenomenology for Psychedelic Researchers: A Review of Current Methods & Practices (2021)

I printed and read this.

Phenomenology for Psychedelic Researchers: A Review of Current Methods & Practices

Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 2021

Intellectuals qualified to investigate consciousness – namely, philosophers, especially phenomeno… more 

Max Freakout: Writings and Podcasts

Michael Hoffman, December 23, 2024

Crop by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

Contents:

Intro

Max Freakout has excellent writings as well as podcasts, summarizing the Egodeath theory.

Biography

Max Freakout is a philosopher and psychonautical explorer.

Graduated from King’s college London with a BA in philosophy and MSc in philosophy of mental disorder.

Hosted and produced the ‘Psychonautica’ online podcast.

Has given presentations on psychedelic phenomenology at the university of Kent, and the university of Amsterdam.

Articles; Book Chapters

Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation (Max Freakout, 2013)

Posting announcing and outlining the article/ chapter, 2013/06/12

https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-124/#message6320

“Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation”

Subject: Forthcoming essay citing egodeath theory

Posting:

“The forthcoming book ‘Breaking convention: essays on psychedelic consciousness’ (currently available for preorder on amazon) contains an essay which is based on Michael Hoffman’s theory of mental construct processing (loosening of associations in the psychedelic altered state), and which includes several citations to the egodeath theory website.

“The title of the essay is ‘Cognitive phenomenology of mind manifestation’, it covers the following topics:

  • Relation of psychedelic tripping to the mind’s association and pattern forming capacities
  • Using analogies to describe altered state experiences
  • Plato’s allegory of the philosopher in the cave, and how it maps onto the psychedelic state
  • Frank Jackson’s philosophical thought-experiments about radically novel kinds of experience, and how they map onto the psychedelic state
  • Andrew Marr’s theory of visual perception, and Jerry Fodor’s theory of mental modularity, and how both these theories imply a broadly representationalist metaphysical view (perception mediated by mental symbols, as opposed to direct perception of external reality)
  • Michael Hoffman’s concepts of explicit representationalism and metaperception in the psychedelic state
  • Undulating qualia – the specific way in which ordinary perception of physical objects is altered in the psychedelic state, and how this alteration indicates a representationalist theory of perception
  • Edmund Husserl’s concept of phenomenological epoche (= deliberate ‘bracketing-off’ of natural, habitual assumptions for the purpose of carrying out phenomenological analysis), and how it describes both psychedelic tripping and schizophrenic/psychotic mental fragmentation.
  • Freud’s analogy of the mind as a crystal vase which shatters during episodes of psychosis, making the underlying crystalline structure become visible
  • Humphrey Osmond’s concept of tripping as ‘psychotomimesis’
  • Louis Sass’ concept of schizophrenic cognition as ‘hyperreflexivity’ and how this concept also applies to the psychedelic cognitive modality
  • The phenomenological inaccuracy of the term ‘hallucinogen’
  • Benny Shanon’s analysis of the ayahuasca experience, in particular his description of the way in which ayahuasca can reorientate a person’s ontological understanding
  • How the psychedelic state reveals the mind’s basic function of fusing together mental representations with their external referents
  • How Michael Hoffman’s analysis of the psychedelic trip effect explains the proper way in which tripping is related to hallucinating
  • Michael Hoffman’s concept of the mental worldmodel, and how psychedelic tripping can lead to a radical overhaul/restructuring of the mental worldmodel
  • Using the process of waking up from a dream as an analogy for the psychedelic mental reconfiguration
  • Paul Thagard’s writing on paradigm conversion and how it maps onto the psychedelic mental reconfiguration

Essay: “Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation”, in 2013 book: “Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness”

Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation
https://www.academia.edu/8238696/Cognitive_phenomenology_of_Mind_Manifestation – 404 Jan. 29 2025
Mentioned on Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episode 3, around 50:00.

The article is similar to the Egodeath theory: the Cybernetic theory: Metaperception.

search the present site:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22Cognitive+Phenomenology+of+Mind+Manifestation%22

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-124/#message6320 – Author posted to the Egodeath Yahoo Group on June 12, 2013:

Subject: Forthcoming essay citing egodeath theory

The forthcoming book ‘Breaking convention: essays on psychedelic consciousness’ (currently available for preorder on amazon)

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness
July 5, 2013
Essay:
Cognitive phenomenology of mind manifestation
David Luke (Editor), Dave King (Editor)
http://amzn.com/1907222227 – this url pattern no longer supported.

contains an essay which …

/ end of post

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness (Adams 2013)

Conference:
Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness
April 1-3, 2011

Search web for the article:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cognitive+Phenomenology+of+Mind+Manifestation%22

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness By Cameron Adams (Editor), David Luke (Editor), Anna Waldstein (Editor), Ben Sessa (Editor), David King (Editor) Cover Image

Info about the book, at A Great Good Place for Books bookstore in Oakland, California:
https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781583947715

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Convention-Essays-Psychedelic-Consciousness/dp/158394771X/

By Cameron Adams (Editor), David Luke (Editor), Anna Waldstein (Editor), Ben Sessa (Editor), David King (Editor)

Short Interview in Article “Breaking “Good”: My First Psychedelic Drug Conference” (Christine Jun, Oct. 2013)

Breaking “Good”: My First Psychedelic Drug Conference
section: Max Freakout, Psychedelic Philosopher
Christine Coco Jun, 2013/10/16 – Writer & Urban Nomad
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christine-cocotte/uk-drug-culture_b_4089119.html

CJ: You spoke on “The Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation”?

MF: Yes, its the study of what happens inside the mind of a person when they’ve taken mushrooms or LSD.

CJ: I appreciate how you break it down so clearly.

MF: Well, I try not to be too trippy. I want to be dry, rigorous, and logical. You can actually talk about psychedelic experiences in great detail and convey meaningful information. Its quite a lazy stereotype that these types of experiences are ineffable, beyond language.

CJ: Any advice?

MF: Terrence McKenna, a famous psychedelic bard, used to say: “Take five grams of mushrooms alone in silent darkness, and that will completely blow your mind.”

Posts

https://www.psychonaut.fr/threads/whats-happened-to-michael-hoffman-from-egodeath.13721/ – several posts by Max

found by search
https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+hoffman+the+egodeath+theory

search web
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22max+freakout%22

todo: gather links and writings.

has a link to chat posts:
Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/recent-egodeath-theory-discussion/

Psychonautica Podcast with Max Freakout

Psychonautica Podcast with Max Freakout

Psychonautica Episodes 11, 12, & 13: The Egodeath theory

Psychonautica 13 – Interview with Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/psychonautica-podcast-with-max-freakout/#Psychonautica-13

Psychonautica 12 – Listener Questions About Egodeath Episode 11

Psychonautica 11 – Egodeath Theory

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast

site map:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Transcendent-Knowledge-Podcast

Egodeath Yahoo Group – Max Freakout Archive

The Max Freakout Archive of the Egodeath Yahoo Group

Max Freakout Egodeath Yahoo Group Archive Comes Through Again (Erik Davis Expanding Mind Podcast)

Max mentions the archive preparation, the Egodeath Yahoo Group rips, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqCGpOwDYA
at 40:30, “how do we package the Egodeath theory”. 41:00 “do you have access to the the Egodeath Yahoo Group?” Ripping the group posts. Then MH added more content, missed a few of the last posts, have them in email. How to make searchable

[after that, around 2020, wrmspirit helped MH get the archive to upload it to WordPress]

See Also

Psychonautica Podcast with Max Freakout

search for “Max Freakout” at Cyberdisciple site
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=max+freakout

Max Freakout’s style of posting about the Egodeath Theory; modern clarity, ancient poetry
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/recent-egodeath-theory-discussion/

Idea Development page 21 (2024/12/13)

Michael Hoffman, Dec. 13, 2024 – Dec. 29, 2024, overlaps next page

Crop by Cybermonk

Site Map – Previous page – Next page

Contents:

list above is complete as of Dec. 28, 2024, Noon

Incoming Ideas

Received Houot 2025 book Rise of the Psychonaut already, Dec. 29, 2024

Surprised it arrived two months sooner than expected, bc Amazon said I was pre-ordering a Feb 6 2025 book.

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery (Houot, 2025)

The book doesn’t actually exist, and you can’t order it. That’s the first thing I learned from this book.

Alchemical Rebis Holding a Y

Thanks to Rick for helping finally re-find this, tho he used the search string I suggested yesterday off the cuff on Dec 27 2024.

Crop by Cybermonk
“Y held by rebis.jpg” 171 KB Dec. 28, 2024

Obtained from Marten Kuilman https://www.flickr.com/photos/quadralectics/7454458960

DOC13/1770 – Omnes Concordant in Uno, qui est bifidus

FRICK, Karl R. (1972). Michael Maier’s ‘ Symbola Avreae Mensae Dvodecim Nationvm’ (Facs.) Akademische Druck- u Verlaganstalt, Graz, Austria.

The Dragon Hunters: Placing the Control Transformation Potential at the Center of Psychedelic Discovery

[December 28, 2024, Noon]

Asp (Aberdeen Bestiary)

Does the Egodeath theory say that you are guaranteed to run into loss of control, control vortex seizure? No, can’t say that. The point is that:

The most interesting and compelling and threatening POTENTIAL to discover is the gate, shadow dragon monster, control-threat engagement.

Your goal might be to avoid negative experiences.

Or, your goal might be to get the particular prize: the ability to go through the gates to get the tree of life, goal framed per end of Bible, Rev 22:14.

The Egodeath theory is for Loose Cognitive Science to be equipped to go through the gate and endure in the vulnerable state – not to simply “avoid” the threat, but to specialize in and focus on this potential of this threat-gate.

Not to avoid the shadow dragon monster, but to vanquish or pin or control this monster, to focus on mapping this monster.

Reliability of each motif in {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

{mushrooms}

highly reliable but bc branching is more the main ultimate message than mushrooms, later genre images omit mushrooms and have branching instead,

eg mushrooms at base of Splendor Solis image of Philosophers Beside the Tree, one version.

{branching}

Reliable, showing non branching vs branching. main message, expect often.

{handedness}

The least reliable, the least consistently used/present.

It’s just an intermediate connector idea/motif:

There are two mental models.

There happen to be two directions: left, right.

So, we can map left to one mental model, and right to the other – but the mapping is arbitrary, and

the message is not “left vs right”, the message is “branching vs nonbranching”,

so, often, handedness is not used / not present.

{stability}

motifs – these are open-ended.

Eadwine in Great Canterbury Psalter uses:

  • stable column base [typically right foot touching; sometimes left]
  • stable building;
  • scale balance;
  • being threatened (by
    • angels,
    • demons,
    • army,
    • blade [spear, arrow, sword, knife, plow, scythe],
    • fire/flames,
    • lion).
  • smooth brow vs. furrowed brow

b/c open ended, less reliability of being present and definite, in the pilzbaum genre.

The Psychedelic Pseudo “Science” Community CONSISTENTLY IGNORES AND SUPPRESSES the Negative Mystical Effects of Psilocybin

todo: add to CEQ page

  1. James 1902 FAILED to include negative mystical effects.
  2. Stace 1960 FAILED to include negative mystical effects.
  3. Pankhe 1962 MEQ/SOCQ/PES FAILED to include negative mystical effects.
  4. Richards 1975 MEQ/SOCQ/PES FAILED to include negative mystical effects.
  5. Griffiths CEQ 2016 FAILED to include negative mystical effects.
  • MEQ is garbage.
    • “Mystical experiences are positive. Negative experiences are by definition non-Mystical.” Charles Stang got Griffiths to admit on video that the MEQ is bullsh!t. Griftiths’ excuse: “We catch negative effects in the CEQ.” False. CEQ omits 18 of 21 Dread effects, instead delivering irrelevant worthless feeble giant Grief category. BUNK as F!
  • PES/SOCQ is garbage. SOCQ = MEQ + distractor items.
  • CEQ is garbage.
  • OAV is solid.

HRS has some decent negative effects (review them).

SOCQ doesn’t have any negative effects? Review them.

Idea Development pages title pattern

Old naming pattern:

Idea Development page 21

“New” naming pattern, equivalent to past private text files named like “TK 2010-03.txt”:

Transcendent Knowledge 2024-12-13

that was ok for me privately; i knew the content of such text files is freeform.

or new naming pattern:

Idea Development 2024-12-25

for the audience, “Idea Development” is clearer than “Transcendent Knowledge” to communicate that this is freeform content. like saying:

that’s short for saying the title:

Transcendent Knowledge Idea Development page 2024-12-25

Moving Past Mysticism

todo: add to Moving Past Mysticism page:

todo: add to SOCQ/MEQ page:

article:
Psychedelic Mysticism and Christian Spirituality: From Science
to Love
Ron Cole-Turner, Published: 26 April 2024
Citation:
Cole-Turner, Ron. 2024. Psychedelic Mysticism and Christian Spirituality: From Science to Love. religions 15: 537.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050537

That article cites:

The Psychedelic Experience Scale (PES) (Stocker 2024) – add to SoCQ page

Search web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Psychedelic+Experience+Scale+PES

https://www.psypost.org/an-intriguing-psychedelic-assessment-is-back-from-the-dead-thanks-to-swiss-scientists/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kurt-Stocker/publication/376315029_Supplement_5_PES-scoring-keydocx/data/6572eecd6610947889a9e350/Supplement-5-PES-scoring-key.docx?origin=publication_list
In “Supplement-5-PES-scoring-key.docx”, top, seems typo, “MEQ40” should read: MEQ43.

“The Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire/Scale (PES), also known as the States of Consciousness Questionnaire [SoCQ]“

CLOSED SCIENCE: The POS, I mean PES Questionnaire: Article about History of MEQ, by Stocker 2024, including a “Distressing” subscale

Expect yet another travesty of “science”.

I bet this article never actually SHOWS you the questions constituting their fictional nonexistent “PES”.

100% totally CLOSED “SCIENCE”.

See Also:

todo – important: create clearly titled page that is simply a summary of basics: what the CEQ is. done:

CEQ – Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (Griffiths 2016) – 2024-12-27

List my CEQ pages, then: which page is a summary of basics? Improve its title. [done, above]

The Revival of the Psychedelic Experience Scale: Revealing Its Extended-Mystical, Visual, and Distressing Experiential Spectrum with LSD and
Psilocybin Studies
Stocker, Kurt, Matthias Hartmann, Laura Ley, Anna M Becker, Friederike Holze, and Matthias E. Liechti. 2024.
Journal of Psychopharmacology 38: 80–100. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
Cole’s article says about that work, “a helpful review of the history of the MEQ from its earliest complete form in 1975 until the present version“

Abstract
Background:

Research with the Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire/Scale (PES) focuses on questions relating to mystical experience (Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)).

The psychometric potential of the non-MEQ items of the PES remains largely unexplored.”

Translation: the non-MEQ items of PES aka SoCQ are worthless noise never meant to be anything more than “distractor items” to hide the MEQ.

Compare SOCQ [to PES], about which I asked same question.

I asked: Why did CEQ draw from SOCQ, given that SOCQ is MEQ (all unicorns rainbows) + dummy “distractor items”?]

Confirmed: “The Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire/Scale (PES), also known as the States of Consciousness Questionnaire” – my question remains solid after I saw:

Factor 8: Distressing Experience

  • Item 13. Emotional and/or physical suffering.
  • Item 16: Feelings of despair.
  • Item 28: Sense of being trapped and helpless.
  • Item 45: Experience of isolation and loneliness.
  • Item 52: Experience of fear.

My recent reasoning/analysis: guided by my question: What is the justification, when creating the CEQ, for drawing effects question items from these particular 3 q’airs: SOCQ, OAV aka 5D-ASC; HRS?

Especially unjustified seems SOCQ, which is the absurdly positive MEQ items + some random(?) filler fake junk sawdust questions, the “distractor items”.

These non-MEQ items within the SOCQ were not meant to complete the range of psychedelic effects by supplementing the “mystical” MEQ effects; they merely were “distractor items”.

My hunch there was confirmed today Dec 27 2024, upon seeing the poor “Distressing” category.

I CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND THE ONLY NEGATIVE Q’AIR QUESTIONS WORTH A DAMN ARE DITTRICH’S ‘A’ ANGST/ DREAD dimension of OAV aka 5D-ASC.

Yet those 21 items, only 3 are retained in CEQ!

In their money-driven zeal to fabricate a fake Grief subscale, Griftiths simply DELETED 18 of the 21 challenging fx from the Angst/Dread dimension of OAV.

86% of negative psilocybin effects (per OAV’s A/Angst/Dread dimension) were simply deleted, removed, omitted, by Griftiths team, from the CEQ that brags about being comprehensive and broader than other q’airs re: negative, challenging, unpleasant experiences effects items.

Stocker continues:

“Aims:

We investigated whether the PES also yields subscales besides the MEQ30 subscales.

Methods:

Data from 239 PES measurements (140 healthy participants) from six studies with moderate to high doses of lysergic acid diethylamide and/or psilocybin were included.

New subscales (with items other than MEQ30) were created and validated as follows:

(1) theoretical derivation of candidate items;

(2) removal of items with rare experiences;

(3) exploratory factor analysis; and

(4) confirmatory factor analysis.

Correlations of subscales within the PES and between the PES and the 5-Dimensional Altered States of Consciousness Scale (5D-ASC) were performed.

[That’s Dittrich; highest quality, includes OAV’s A = Angst / Dread dimension]

In addition, a cluster analysis using all items (except rare experiences) was performed.

Results:

The reliability of the four original factors of the MEQ30 was confirmed and four additional factors for the non-MEQ items were revealed:

paradoxicality,

connectedness,

visual experience, and

distressing experience.

The first two additional factors were strongly correlated with the MEQ30 mystical subscale.

Adding the new subscales to the MEQ30 subscales increased the explained variance with the 5D-ASC.

[not following; MEQ is absurdly positive; 5D-ASC ie OAV has A = Angst/Dread, which is a good dimension]

The cluster analysis confirmed our main results and provided additional insights for future psychedelic psychometrics.”

[future psychedelic psychometrics: trashcan the CEQ – and MEQ while you’re at it — and replace CEQ by my ECQ, Eternalism and Control Questionnaire]

Conclusion: ITS “VALIDATED” SO U KNOW ITS TRUE SCIENCE NO MATTER HOW MALFORMED AND MAGICALLY ASSEMBLED OUT OF THIN AIR while under the guidance of a totally fictional and imagined notion of “mystical experience” that contradicts historical reports of mystics according to Charles Stang when interviewing Griftiths.

Stace 1960 “Mystical Experiencing”:

🦄💨🌈

Stocker continues:

“The study yields a new validated 6-factor structure for extended mystical experience (MEQ40: MEQ30 + Paradoxicality + Connectedness) and covers psychedelic experience as a whole more comprehensively than has hitherto been possible within a single questionnaire (PES48).

[that EXACT claim. “more comprehensive”, was made for CEQ, then CEQ threw all negative effects in trashcan totally arbitrarily, and replaced them by fake fabricated “Grief” category]

The entire PES (PES100) can also be used for further future psychedelic-psychometric research.”

Keywords: LSD; Psychedelic experience; mystical experience; psilocybin; psychometrics.

end of Stocker article

todo: see how bad PES sucks, re: “Unpleasant Experiences” [lingo per 11 Factors/ Studerus] – does it match my way-superior ECQ?

Since I’m Already Accused of Bullying; “Mine is the Only Way”, I Might as Well Assert That

jeezus! Unbelievable.

Feel free to make any statement and claim about what I claim. No need to quote or cite me.

Drive-by garbage posts “about” the Egodeath theory.

Max Freakout and I every time are stunned by this nonsense, where do they get this? https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/max-freakout-writings-and-podcasts/#Posts — that links to: https://www.psychonaut.fr/threads/whats-happened-to-michael-hoffman-from-egodeath.13721/ —

“I admire his unique take, but not his insistance that ONLY his theory is the truth/right way”

citation needed! liar!

“his insistence that only his theory is the right one, is what I couldn’t get behind.”

citation needed! liar!

It might be possible to make a case to substantiate the above claims, but you need to do your work, to support your CHEAP LAZY DISMISSALS and CLAIMS.

What passages do you mean?

Any fool and idiot is free to write any vague nonsense “about” the Egodeath theory that is not even actually ABOUT the Egodeath theory.

Given these VAGUE, FALSE ACCUSATIONS, I might as well write:

The Egodeath theory is the only right way to think. If you don’t agree with my Egodeath theory, you are wrong and your thinking is wrong.

Michael Hoffman wrote that somewhere, according to lazy careless person

Also, any idiot could write the same thing about any writer. Fill in the blank.

“I admire Newton’s unique take, but not his insistance that ONLY his theory is the truth/right way”

“I admire Ptolemy’s unique take, but not his insistance that ONLY his theory is the truth/right way”

“I admire Maxwell’s unique take, but not his insistance that ONLY his theory is the truth/right way”

Are You an Idiot? Lazy? Low IQ? No Problem, Just Fill in the Blank – No Substantiation or Specifics Required!

Sound Profound and Upright, for Free! Say Nothing of any Substance, yet Congratulate Yourself on Your Substantive Point!

“Copernicus’ insistence that only his theory is the right one, is what I couldn’t get behind.”

“Samorini’s insistence that only his theory is the right one, is what I couldn’t get behind.”

“McKenna’s insistence that only his theory is the right one, is what I couldn’t get behind.”

Here is HARD WORK: *specify* the contributions and limitations (errors) of a given writer or book. Where’d everyone go?

Hatsis site is down, Death of the Internet?

: (

Praying for John Rush clinical anthropology site to return.
clinicalanthropology.com

Praying for Thomas Hatsis site to return.

https://psychedelichistorian.com/ – 404 on Dec. 26, 2024.
Archive 2024/04/05:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240511023142/https://psychedelichistorian.com/
I get the impression Hatsis removed articles.
My Hatsis Bibliography links to articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis

https://psychedelicwitch.com/ – 404

“Death of the Internet”
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Death+of+the+Internet%22

Outside the Cosmos, Taurus Is Reversed

see picture of bronze gold armillary sphere but doesn’t show pictures of zodiac pictures eg bull perspective handedness Ulansey per –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy#/media/File:Ptolemy_1476_with_armillary_sphere_model.jpg

picture from AstroSham 2006, lower left – upper left would be nice too to get hi res

Aristotle holding an armillary sphere and pointing to the heavens as he teaches a group of clerics

BMR163108 Ms 3458 fol 62vo

Historiated initial \’D\’ depicting

Aristotle holding an armillary sphere and pointing to the heavens as he teaches a group of clerics

from Western Europe (pen and ink and tempera on vellum) by French School, (13th century); Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris, France; (add.info.: from the treatise on cosmology by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322) \’On the Heavens and the World\’ (\’De Caelo et Mundo\’); the transmission of this work via Arabic scholarship is highlighted by the depiction of Aristotle in a turban; Lettre ornee avec un Philosophe enseignant;); © Bibliotheque Mazarine ; © Archives Charmet.

https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/french-school/ms-3458-fol-62vo-historiated-initial-d-depicting-aristotle-holding-an-armillary-sphere-and-pointing/pen-and-ink-and-tempera-on-vellum/asset/163108?offline=1

Great Canterbury Psalter image f109 Analysis [Caught in Hell-Mouth Furnace Net, Summoned to City Gate Entrance Past Ossuary Corpse, Stable Building Protected by Cloth Washed Clean]

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f109

Crop by Cybermonk

The action in entire image is from lower left to upper right.

[10:22 pm Dec. 23, 2024]:

right blue guy: left foot straight = weight on it = bad;

upper demon stands on Right claw (good);

lower demon in “weight left” stance (bad);

middle guys: right leg lifted/bent = weight on Left foot (bad), display left hand (bad; pulled into {fire}).

Guy behind them is rescued by angel b/c stand Right, into gated God-protected cloth-protected city;

[10:34 pm Dec. 23, 2024]: corpse in ossuary lacks left limbs. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f109.item.zoom

Rise of the Psychonaut – Book Cover, Houot

“Rise of the Psychonaut.jpg” 130 KB , png is 9:06 pm Dec. 23, 2024

Splendor Solis – Philosophers Beside the Tree – Importance of Discovery Nov. 7, 2024

my comment reply to wrmspirit on my splendor solis page:

wrmspirit comment:

“Your discovery on Irvin’s book is incredible.

“The branch held by left philosopher between both philosophers in picture of ‘philosophers beside the tree’ looks like a divining rod.

“The words Irvin writes to you in his signing of the book is prophetic to the discovery.”

my comment reply:

Yes, agreed, I experienced this discovery as a much appreciated confirmation, recognizing most of the 4 motifs (handedness, branching, stability) in this version of this image.

I’d like to do a detailed writeup on what this was like to get this particular confirmation, stumbling across it, at this point in time, November 2024, after a hiatus since June 2023.

Irvin & Rutajit (2006) rely on red and white clothing to serve as the mushroom motif.

I found two more versions of this image:

one valuable because it has the {cut right branch} which I expected for the basket to hang from,

one valuable because it has the apparent mushrooms on the ground, not just red and white clothing – and also has bathers sculpted and the “gateway” framing foregrounded.

I plan to include the set of 3 pictures in the “branching-message mushroom trees” article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​, but I’ll need to minimize text analysis in that article.

A picture’s worth a thousand words.

There’s sure no room in that article for covering a history of scholars’ folly regarding mushrooms in Christian art, though Cyberdisciple pointed out that a literature review and history of that scholarship, telling the story of dispute and discovery, would be interesting.

Comment Posting Dec. 23, 2024 at Cyberdisciple site: Breaking Convention Book 20214 Covers the Egodeath Theory

Comment posted at
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/new-books-received-the-holy-mushroom-failed-god/

The essay
“Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation” (2013)
covers the Egodeath theory, in the book
Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness (2014)
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Convention-Essays-Psychedelic-Consciousness/dp/158394771X/

The Holy Mushroom by Jan Irvin 2008 is a must-have for entheogen scholarship. That book is a new purchase for me in March 2023, because I was sick of the foolishness in the non-debate between Wasson and Allegro, after the 2006 article “Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita”.
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

I lack the Failed God. I have both editions of Rush’s book about how Christianity entirely got rid of The Mushroom (🍄), as proved by the tons of mushroom imagery all throughout Christianity, per the Secret Amanita Cult paradigm and the Moderate (aka Minimal) entheogen theory of religion.

Mushroom Branches Prove Mushroom Trees Aren’t Mushrooms

Paul Stamets, crop by Cybermonk Dec. 22, 2024

Plant 2

Crop by Cybermonk
Plants 1 and 2
Crop by Cybermonk

Magic Mushrooms Around the World: A Scientific Journey Across Cultures and Time: The Case for Challenging Research and Value Systems (Gartz, 1997)

Magic Mushrooms Around the World: A Scientific Journey Across Cultures and Time: The Case for Challenging Research and Value Systems
Jochen Gartz, 1997
Paperback – September 1, 1997
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mushrooms-Around-World-Challenging/dp/0965339904/

mushroom trees, cited by Ruck 2001 Apples of Apollo

Error in Apples of Apollo, says “Goertz” but German books in Author page show “Gartz”

Books by Gartz: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jochen-Gartz/author/B00455MKHC

Book referenced by Ruck’s Apples of Apollo re: Mushrooms Trees.

Apples of Apollo has “Goertz 1996”, Error?

in book Apples of Apollo, page 256 Biblio entry & p. 176 referenced re pilzbaum, incorrectly says Goertz along with English title & says 1996.

“Gartz”, according to book cover 1997 English printing.

Blurb:

“The first new book on psychoactive mushrooms in 10 years.
[which mid-1980s book does he mean?]
[0-1 years: Stamets 1996 Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide]

“Introducing a rich variety of psychoactive mushrooms from around the globe -including some rare and little-known species – the author describes dozens of species and covers a broad range of mushroom- related topics, from distribution maps to comparisons of cultural attitudes to laboratory analyses of active ingredients.

“One of the book’s most remarkable features is its multi-disciplinary approach: chemistry, botany, biology, history, anthropology, religion, pharmacology, medicine – all of these are among the fields contributing a diversity of data, questions and information that are assembled into one of the most comprehensive and intriguing portraits of psychoactive mushrooms ever created.

“Lavishly illustrated, well-organized and enriched by numerous accounts of mushroom experiences, this book explores the psychoactive mycoflora on five continents and reconstructs a continuity of psychoactive mushroom use throughout history, from as early as 10,000 years ago to the present day.

“You will also find detailed chapters on mushroom cultivation techniques, psychotherapy applications, the bluing phenomenon, the dangers of accidental poisonings caused by misidentification of species, and more.

“A treasure trove of information, illustrations and magnificent color photography, the book contains much novel information as well, such as the first report on the psychoactivity of baeocystin and up-to-date findings on the use of plant growth hormones to accelerate growth.

“Jochen Gartz has made an outstanding contribution to the field of mycology by embracing the Magic Mushrooms of Germany and from around the world and by pursuing their scientific study and investigation.” – Christian Ratsch, from his Introduction

130 pages, 8″x11″, sturdy softcover

30 color plates

36 black & white illustrations

3 maps of geographic distribution patterns

10 tables

18 reproductions of historic source materials and citations from the early mycological literature Bibliography of 250+ citations and sources FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENT:

Contents:

“Who Was the First Magician?” – Foreword by Christian Ratsch

1. Introduction

2. Fancy of Fools or Flesh of the Gods: Reflections on the History Study of Magic Mushrooms

3. The Current State of Knowledge About European Species

What About Cubensis in Europe? Blind Spot per ToC; Probably No One Has Ever Thought to Look for Cubensis in Europe/England

3.1 Psilocybe semilanceata – The Classic Psychotropic Species of Europe

3.2 Psilocybe cyanescens – Potent Mushrooms Growing on Wood Debris

3.3 Panaeolus subbalteatus – Mycology & Myths about the Panaeolus Species

3.4 Inocybe aeruginascens – Fast-Spreading New Arrivals

3.5 Gymnopilus purpuratus – Magnificent Mushrooms from South America

3.6 Conocybe cyanopus – Tiny Mushrooms of Remarkable Potency

3.7 Pluteus salicinus – A Little-Known Wood-Inhabiting Species

4. Mushroom Identification: The Potential for Deadly Mistakes

5. The Bluing Phenomenon and Metol Testing – Reality vs. Wishful Thinking

6. Mushroom Cultivation – Classic Findings and New Techniques

7. Psychotropic Mushroom Species All Around The World

7.1 Spotlight on North America and Hawaii

7.2 Mycophilia in Central and South America

7.3 Australia’s Mycoflora Attracts Attention

7.4 European Customs and Conventions

7.5 Japanese Experiments

7.6 Intoxications and the Oldest Known Mushroom Cult in Africa

7.7 Usage in Asia and Oceania

8. Remarks About Effects of Mushrooms from the Category Phantastika

9. Psychotherapy

10. Outlook

11. Bibliography (Reference Section with over 250 entries)

Fool’s Sponges: Psychoactive Mushrooms Around the World (Gartz, 2004)

Fool’s Sponges: Psychoactive Mushrooms Around the World(Narrenschwämme: Psychoaktive Pilze rund um die Welt)
https://www.amazon.com/Narrenschw%C3%A4mme-Psychoaktive-Pilze-rund-German-ebook/dp/B01C3YSFM0

Translated blurb by Cybermonk using https://www.google.com/search?q=translate

“Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Roger Heim researched the psychoactive Psilocybe species of Mexico in interdisciplinary collaboration in the 1950s.

In addition to ethnobotanical and mycological research, the psychedelics psilocybin and psilocin were isolated and characterized as effective principles of mushrooms.

Over the next few decades, these alkaloids were increasingly detected in fungal species from other genera around the world.

Jochen Gartz researched all aspects of mushrooms on a scientific basis for more than 15 years.

He discovered several “new” species, which he named together with other researchers, such as the highly psychoactive mushrooms Psilocybe azurescens (USA) and Psilocybe natalensis (South Africa).

Favored by his previous work in drug research and his many years of involvement with all areas touched upon by such psychoactive substances, he is re-presenting this interdisciplinary standard work on psychoactive mushrooms here, completely revised and updated.

Based on historical aspects, this describes competently and yet generally understandably all areas of knowledge in which the species are networked in a mycelial manner.

The mycology and chemistry are described in just as much detail, including many color and b/w photos, as the individual culture processes.

Purely toxicological and medical-psychotherapeutic aspects have been linked to a large number of detailed descriptions of the effects of individual mushroom species at different dosages around the world.

The danger of confusion with deadly poisonous mushrooms is pointed out, as is the possible use of color reactions to differentiate individual species.

The interdisciplinary work is finally rounded off by an extensive bibliography with several hundred citations from a wide variety of areas.”

Psilocybin Mushrooms: New Species, Their Discovery and Applications (Gartz, 2018)

Psilocybin Mushrooms: New Species, Their Discovery and Applications
Gartz, 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Pilze-Neue-Arten-Entdeckung-Anwendung/dp/3037885688/

Psilocybin-Pilze: Neue Arten, ihre Entdeckung und Anwendung
Paperback – December 17, 2018

Translated blurb by Cybermonk using https://www.google.com/search?q=translate

“Psilocybin and psilocin are highly potent natural tryptamine psychedelics and close relatives of DMT, 5-MeO-DMT and other molecules.

The active ingredients can be found worldwide in mushroom species of various genera and have accompanied people in their search for meaning and spirituality for a very long time.

Through the work of the Mexican curandera (healer) Maria Sabina and the founder of ethnomycology, R. Gordon Wasson, psilocybin-producing mushrooms became known as psychedelic catalysts.

Today they are becoming increasingly important in psychonautical and medical applications.

This book portrays the psilocybin mushrooms newly discovered and described by the German mycologist Jochen Gartz and colleagues since 1983 in monographs and describes their history, occurrence, possible applications, chemical nature and more.”

Pilzbaum Deniers: Brinckmann, Panofsky, Wasson, Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins

Similarities and Differences

Book: The Witches’ Ointment – “[Andy] Letcher’s debunking [in Shroom 2005] was poorly theorized and limited (see: 
http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm#_Toc164518582 and 
http://www.egodeath.com/ShroomLetcher.htm), and
I intend to see whether Hatsis shares those limitations and can be grouped with Letcher or should be considered an independent position.”

Equate Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins;
Identify their Differences

Mostly overlap of Letcher, Hatsis, and Huggins are the same guy, same voice.

todo: Identify the slight differences if any between the three poor reasoners on this particular topic, else biggest brains in universe on all other topics.

Letcher, Hatsis, and Huggins just the same: The 3 Masters of Fallacies grotesquely malformed Logical Fallacies, Yaldabaoth: Lion Head Snake Body monster.

threatened control by {lion head} {snake body} monster {demanding sacrifice of the ruler}

be brought through the seizure-transformation gates

{pass through the {seizure-transformation gates} into the holy city of the clean who have the right} {wash your robes} {blessed} {have the right to {go through the gates} into the city} and {eat from the trees of life} become non-dying, non-ephemeral, non-temporary; lasting, mature, final form; perishable, imperishability, imperishable, become like us: imperishable

imperishable life: we who have been transformed from possibilism to eternalism with 2-level dependent control by the god mystery higher controller unknowable mysterious source of control-thoughts dependent upon.

transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

each Tree of Live has 12 different religious fruits crops every month, and leaves heal nations.

Trees of Life are on both sides of the River of Life with the Water of Life.

drink of the water of life

the tree of life is on both sides of the river

🚫😵

Rev 22, last page of the Holy Bible of Truth [🌳…🌳]
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev%2022&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev%2022&version=NIV

Your reward for eating the scroll in the hand of the angel who told you to eat [fact check that todo] – does he demand:

GIMME YOUR AMANITAS NOW 🍄 angel dude
i prophecy you will hand them over
to make my stomache hurt, then delirious deliriant delirium style of writing, like scopolamine

Look into “whether Hatsis shares those limitations and can be grouped with Letcher or should be considered an independent position.

  • poorly theorized;
  • limited explanatory power
  • limited relevance
  • not very helpful or useful
  • review the descripotions by Michael Hoffman at Egodeath.com –
  • i included this book in recent cross-literature study of the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

The book Shroom is a must-read mixed bag:

  • “Bernward door art is not hidden, therefore, can’t be mushrooms (there’s no other possible explanation anyone could possibly come up with to counter my overwhelming storytelling power mixed with every fallacy all at once)”
  • “the Blame panel, not the Eating panel shows the literal liberty cap specimens – so, DOESN’T COUNT”

Goal posts now are here, cloer in, as i RUN from Baily assertion to worthless retreat to worthless Motte assertion thats not even contested, you win the fail medal of dross, Fools Medal for giving US the win by your defaulting on the relevant smartly defined position that we must be focusing on: THE MOST INTELLIGENTLY DEFINED POSITION OF ASSERTION EG the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

not the kiddie, lesser, deliriant theory

the delirious theorizing & delirious argumentation from Hatsis the witch, high equally well on Datura scopolamine or, interchangeably, the deliriant Amanita muscimol ibutenic acid.

the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

  • the Secret Amanita paradigm
  • the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

Psilocybin put in service of the glory of king Secret Amanita the frikkin GOD of entheogens 🙌 🤫🍄

👶 🤫🍄 😯

Cyberdisciple page about Transcendent Knowledge podcast Episode 10, my 2018 Comment Failed to Note Amanita Leopard Fountain

My Comment Dec 20 2024 posted on page:

Episode 10, Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: Plato – my comment dec 20 2024: OMG I can’t believe that Psilocybin fanatic with his single-plant fallacy was blind to the spotted leopard’s balancing Amanita kylix fountain, both in the 2006 article and 2018 comment above.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Identifying-the-Leopard-watering-Bowl-as-Amanita

What is this world coming to! Never trust an entheogen scholar. Ariadne would shake the removed branch held in left hand, at such folly.

But first I need to read the text that this mosaic is illustrating and accompanying, to check what species of branch Ariadne is held to hold, according to the backstory that we are required to know, to drive and constrain our interpretation of this imagery.

Look what success Brown & Brown had with such a research approach, in their strenuous, big-brained textual research on the backstory of Walburga – turns out she’s known to hold a vial – who would’ve known! Therefore, not mushroom.

Huggins 2024: These pilzbaum have branches, which make these not look like mushrooms at all

I copied the below images and metadata to
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#f11-row-1-right

Just look at these branches that disqualify these pilzbaum from looking anything like mushrooms

Crop by Cybermonk; branching morphology analysis: 🔱🔱 YI IY
Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right
discovered by Paul Lindgren 2000
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
Crop by Cybermonk
Look at these branches, which prove that these mushroom-looking plants that the art historians describe as pilzbaum do not look like mushrooms.
Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom
Plant 1 Left Branch
Crop by Cybermonk
Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 1, left branch
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Plant 1 Right Branch
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Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 1, right branch
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Plant 2 Left Branch
Crop by Cybermonk
Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 2, left branch
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Plant 2 Right Branch
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Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 4, right branch
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Plant 3 Left Branch [none]
Plant 3 Right Branch
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Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 3, right branch
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Plant 4 Left Branch
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Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 4, left branch
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Plant 4 Right Branch
Crop by Cybermonk
Great Canterbury Psalter, “Creation of Plants”/”third day”, f11 row 1 right, plant 4, right branch
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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

Huggins’ article “Foraging Wrong”

fact check treasure hunt: of my earlier writing. [8:39 pm dec 19 2024 ] development phase seeing how close the author comes to writing exactly this argument. I hope there is one paragraph containing these contradictory points.

find ‘branch’ in Huggins’ article “Foraging Wrong”. found the quote! twisted!

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/

Does Huggs say “mushroom trees have branches, therefore dont look like mushroom? what do the branches look like?

In a roundabout twisted way, yes.

Funniest point: 

Each of the plants in the third-day scene also has branches. The mushrooms the PMTs wish to identify them with, however, do not.

Ronald Huggins, “Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case”, p. 17

Great Canterbury Psalter > Creation of Plants / Third Day.

On Dec. 13, 2020, I identified the 4 plants, straightening out out Browns’ mess: Pan Lib Cub Ama

Mushroom Branches Prevent Looking Like Mushrooms

The branches that prove pilzbaum are not mushrooms look like mushrooms.

Crop by Cybermonk

Panofsky/Huggins in “Foraging Wrong”: “These Pilzbaum have branches, so, not mushrooms.” What do these pilzbaums’ branches look like? Mushrooms.

hilarious, realized yesterday:

Ronald Huggins in “Foraging Wrong” 2024 says of “Creation of Plants” in Great Canterbury Psalter, aka “third day”,

the 4 pilzbaum have branches, so no way they can mean mushroom

🌴🚫🍄‍🟫😑 🥺🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

me: what do the branches look like?

the branches look like mushrooms

now theres 11 not 4 mushrooms

🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 👕👕 🍄🍄🍄

Posting Strategy

This page uses mobile app message post format.

I must post shorter webpage posts, more often.

Idea Dev pages need to be much shorter than the desktop-made pages 1-20. Long pages hang on mobile.

This brand new idea development page 21 is short, yet mobile app authoring is already unresponsive, bogged down!

Worst case, I’d have to change from title pattern “Idea development page 21” to date-based title pattern “Transcendent Knowledge ideas 2024-12-20”.

I plan to post shorter idea development files, more frequently.

Init Caps is too hard to type on mobile; headings need to change to lowercase.

Cubensis Lockbox Bins

I added this f221 image crop to my f145 page, at:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/canterbury-f145-king-orders-shipments-of-blue-fruit-to-storage-lockboxes-with-blue-stemmed-mushroom-tree/#f221-Row-2-right

Crop by Cybermonk – Great Canterbury Psalter f221 row 2 left, Spain painters, not Eadwine

My 3 fav Great Canterbury Psalter images are the only 3 that have Cubensis lockbox bins.

My high-res poster of f134 145 & 177 is almost ready. The lockbox images.

Huggins’ “Foraging Wrong” Article

Huggins in “Foraging Wrong” has some counts of pilzbaum in Great Canterbury Psalter i want to contest/ inventory/ count.

Huggins’ article’s subtitle scope proposes to bet the farm on “The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Test Case”

— like Browns did with their non field research during their field research, to NOT see firsthand the Walburga tapestry – & hugely lost their bet-the-farm proxy bet (to advocate the mild middle moderate position/ assessment of pilzbaum)

I dont do proxy bets; “test case” ok Hugs, but what is this, Plainc 2.0? I am MOST HAPPY to accept your offer, Hugs.

yes let us art historians publish written articles that scholars can ACTUALLY “CONSULT”; put down your telephone and stopwatch mis-“consulting” art historians, LetHatHug. You say text matters?

I HEARTILY AGREE that scholars in the debate (pilzbaum; mushrooms in Christian art ) need to “consult” “texts”:

IF ART HISTORIANS WANT TO DESERVE BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY, THEY MUST PUBLISH, IN WRITING; IN LIBRARIES; IN BOOKS, IN ARTICLES — NOT POSTURE AND DENOUNCE “WITH IMPRESSIVE CELERITY” like trained seals owned by the lying establishment

eg Wasson the Censor of Brinckmann and Panofsky (awkwardly condoned by Huggins).

👎🖼️🚫🍄 ⏱️

You’re a bit slow to disavow pilzbaum – are you sure you are a “competent” art historian? 🤨

Hatsis decrees: “every claim of mushrooms in Christian art stands or falls with the Plainc fresco” – the Proxy fallacy.

Deniers’ Logical Fallacies in the Pilzbaum (Mushroom Trees) Debate

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Huggins 2024)

wrmspirit wants myth coverage, which is fun & rewarding, but doesn’t see how Big-Game-Hunting the psalters & pilzbaum are.

mushroom trees are the main mushroom imagery in mushrooms in Christian art

my white boxes on images f134 145 177 show how many various mushroom shapes are there.

Victory, successful decoding, requires full vigorous engagement; tepid treatment of pilzbaum won’t cut it 🗡️🔥

wont cut these possibility branches, to get through the eternalism gate, to get the treasure of altered-state compatibility

I continue to find basic points of connections / interp in Great Canterbury Psalter.

Huggins the notable thing is his weird sneaky handling of the censored Panofsky letters & Brinc cit as if NOTHING REMARKABLE HERE, pan told wass about Brinck WAY BACK IN 1952″ – sure huggs

BUT WASSON CENSORED THAT CIT; HOW THE HELL DO YOU ACT AS IF WE HAD THAT CIT SINCE 1952 or 1968??!!

Why do you fail to cite Brown 2019 where we got Pan’s letters?

WHERE WHEN DID U FIND PANS TWO LETTERS YOU ARE CASUALLY USING AND WHERE DID U HEAR OF BRINC CIT?

“Sect”, “Cult”, “Community”

Walled-off Communities: Barrier Construction narrative tale-telling

Arbitrary moral narrative of suppression driving the storytelling, done by entheogen scholars, to Prevent Diffusing Entheogens throughout Christianity.

To prop up their fabricated moralistic tale, entheogen scholars have to keep The Mushroom [picture kiddie amanita 🍄] from mixing within the entire mass body of all Christendom.

the boundary of presence|absence of The Sacred Mushroom [🍄 🚫🤔] secured by entheogen scholarship

as a wall to keep The Mushroom from being within Christianity as an entire whole “community”

with The Mushroom used now and then by whatever Christians in that inclusive mass body of everyone.

Not “sect”, that’s a forbidden word ; not “cult”. Everyone; anyone.

Stop fabricating tale-spinning, storytelling narrative focused on boundary construction, the “groups” to which YOU, Ruck, confine the poor Amanita

Pope Ruck decrees, ex cathedra — HE is the only one who is calling ancient Amanita users “heretical GROUPS or SECTS”;

Ruck never frames ancient Amanita users as freely mixing individuals, now and again, here & there, within the set of EVERYONE.

I report evidence of mushrooms in Christian history as an entirety, not just by “certain Christian groups“, as Samorini in 1997 wrote.

I proclaim a 10-year hiatus on even THINKING about the wrong, blinding, stupefying, Prohibition-constructing question “where is the boundary wall between presence vs absence of The Mushroom [👶🍄]?

Ruck always emphasizes enclosing users within his walled “heretical sects” construction.

“CERTAIN Christian GROUPS” – Samorini 1997, “The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault”

“The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault” 1997 Samo:

p 31: “… initiating a series of new investigations on the relationship certain Christian groups in the middle ages may have had with entheogens.”

why not just say “some people”?

Why “groups” or “sects” or “cults” or “communities” , or whatever boundary-constructing terms you use interchangeably, like you’re making it up

BOUNDARY-CONSTRUCTING, NARRATIVE WALL-BUILDING, TO ISOLATE “THE MUSHROOM”

the Ruck cult of SECRET (amanita)

To what extent mushrooms in Christendom?

‘mushroom’ meaning mainly Cubensis; Amanita as symbol of Cubensis

Cubensis, along with its supporting-role Panaeolus & Liberty Cap types, with Amanita serving its standard function as signage indicating Psil mushroom ingesting, per Pharmako Gnosis by dale pendell :

“Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion.”

AMEN, nailed

Amanita is a deliriant thats used as a symbol for psychedelics.

Amanita is a symbol that means Cubensis.

Datura is a good substitute for Amanita, according to Ruck.

Amanita’s suitable replacement by Datura scopolamine, a comparable deliriant – per Ruck “Daturas for the Virgin” 2001 Entheos 2 p. 56

it is not one sentence, but split across two+, because he writes an an indirect poetic way

he might in my mind sound like he’s making an argument for the usual story of replacing Aman by Psil but no, here he is setting up to change from Aman — the real deal — to the mere adequate substitute Datura – (not to Psil, which is the usual tale of substn , eg in Heinr SF )

unfortunately, our glorious sacred Amanita got replaced by different plants, that we do not care about, that play a mere minor, supporting role here:

they settled for psilocybin, as a makeshift lesser substitute. 🙁

they settled for Datura, as a powerful substitute for Their Msh [🍄]. 👍

Psil was used in a minor supporting role, to prop up our grand/ master narrative, Secret Amanita storytelling.

entheogen scholarship is all about mythmaking storytelling, folk fiction factoids.

First-gen entheogen scholarship was not about Psilocybin advanced use throughout society at large.

In society, Psil was used at an advanced level.

Proved by pilzbaum‘s combin of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

In certain closed-off separate sects, or groups, or cults, or closed communities, Psil was used at an advanced level.

in the society — not “certain Christian groups … may have had … entheogens” Samo p31 1997, “The mushroom-tree of Plainc”

the Ruck (& here Samo) moderate-to-minimal entheogen theory of religion at work

After Samo’s field trip and then the famous 1998 broad pilzbaum article, delivering tons of mushrooms, would Samo still write weakly, “CERTAIN Christian GROUPS”?

presence means absence;

groups had; but therefore the whole mass lacked The Mushroom

only CERTAIN GROUPS had The Msh, no one else; society lacked, Christianity lacked The Mushroom

No individual person ever used or knew The Mushroom — only “sect” members, or call em whatever; doesn’t matter:

“cults, heretical community groups, exclusive collectives”

it’s STORYTELLING TIME, myth-based historiography.

see W Hanegraaff on why not to do this.

entheogen scholarship is Myth-based historiography, warned against by Hanegraaff.

LetHatHug is right on this, they smell storytelling mythmaking misguided by all

Psilocybin Abused in Service of Giving All (Stolen) Glory to Amanita

the bad, abusive, disrespectful attitude that the Secret Amanita paradigm has against Psil, as if Aman is better than Psil rather than the reverse

Aman steals credit from Psil

Hatsis : “nevertheless, we shall employ those lesser ones, “lesser looking”

Tom “Secret Amanita Cult” Hatsis writes, “these lesser-looking mushrooms|trees”, he says of non-amanita pilzbaum.

check quote , search here

Amanita serves as a symbol, the signage of Cubensis, per std lang hdshop art

put to use the poor-to-ingest, pretty, deviant type, 🍄 USED as signage of Psil 🍄‍🟫

no more 🍄‍🟫 in service of 🍄

that’s backwards, as normal in this field of entheogen scholarship. rightly,

🍄 in service of 🍄‍🟫

{spots on mushroom} means trip; psil | blot

{spots on msh} in art gives no thought of Amanita ingesting — pass , i’d rather be straight

I have a mushroom art calendar, maybe rendered, that has almost no spots in the caps, surprisingly, avoids that dominant stylization standard visual language

the calendar artist is an activist against the Amanita Primacy Fallacy

4x Error Penalty for Brown & Brown 2016 & 2019

re: “Creation of Plants” image, poor identifications by Brown:
x2 penalty bc both Browns, & x2 penalty when they duplicate the same mistake in book and article.

Both Brown AND Brown both made a certain mistake twice, double penalty — or quadruple penalty, in the case where both authors in both publications (book and article) made the same mistake.

eg serrated base folly Walburga tapestry is both botched in 2016 book SECRET Hallucinogens in “Certain Christian Communities”, by both Brown & Brown.

Samorini wrote the awful phrase “certain Christian groups” in 1997, a red flag: note the boundary-construction wall-building labor by Samorini: “cult, closed group, walled off community, sect walled off”.

Wound in Right Side

5:42 pm dec 19 2024

the pieces fit this time thru:

eve born from rib in adams side: wound in right side = ctrl seizure/ tc transcendence birth passageway gate = become Female Semele, helpless overpowered thought receiver

Gen 2:21-23

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%202%3A21-23&version=NIV

Poster of Images f134 🙃, f145 👑, & f177 🐴

Similar to webpage https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/great-canterbury-psalter-images-f134-f145-f177/

Poster, made higher res than ever, 3 crops stacked: f134🙃 f145👑 f177🐴

Huggins’ sleazy use of Panofsky’s Brinckmann 1906 cit (missing in Hugs Biblio) & pan’s 2nd letter from Via Brown 2019 NOT CITED IN BIBLIO but footnote strangely. no mention of two attached pics. Hugs is Acting strange around Panofsky cover up wasson deception, why not credit Brown? Why not cite Brown 2019?, who published both panofsky letters (tho not the two pics)

hugg says brinc cite way back in 1952

how did you find it? bc wasson hid 5 things for 1952 to 1968 to 2019 Brown exposed the hidden leads

citation

two pictures

Panofsky’s 2nd letter

2nd strong urging to see Brinckmann citation, consult cit.

wasson, deceit tactic

The two legs of the Egodeath theory: The core theory & the mytheme theory

the core theory, & the mytheme theory

directly represented, & analogy represented transfn to psychedelic eternalism compatible; mature form. demon cleansed

Rev 22:14

blessed are those who wash their clothes that they may gave the right to the tree of life and may pass through the gates into the city

The Core theory: Psychedelic eternalism with non-branching possibilities & dependent, 2-level control

the core theory of mental model control transformation not using analogy

the psychedelic eternalism dependent non-branching theory

The mytheme theory: Myth is analogies describing psychedelic eternalism; the “psychedelic eternalism” theory of myth

myth is analogies describing loose cognitive phenom ,

psychedelic transfmn of control mental model

Being a Theorist

You are on the leading edge of altered state theory.

I am a theorist. No one understands my mode of approach.

The Egodeath theory is a useful theory that’s effective at leveraging myth to prove the Egodeath theory

I construct a useful theory that’s effective at leveraging myth to prove the theory.

the Egodeath theory = Direct theory + analogies

the cybernetic theory + the mytheme theory

analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

the Egodeath theory

mental model transformation

from

literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control

to

analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

psychedelic eternalism

from

branching-steering autonomy with loss of control

to

non-branching steering dependency with stable control

the Egodeath theory has two legs

one leg is analogy

one leg is direct clear theory

the Egodeath theory is a useful technology to amplify mental control power– to the point of control instability, loss of viable stable control

per Houot, donning his wings to fly up to the sun.

☀️

Icarus

Cyberdisciple Articles

New section of site map: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Cyberdisciple

local pages:

At my site map, added “Cyberdisciple Articles” section, listing all my Cyberdisciple pages (lacks the sections about Cyberdisciple that are within my Idea Development pages).

  • Updated my site map page of Cyberdisciple site.
  • todo: In my site map page of Cyberdisciple’s site, indicate my favs/ freq used.
  • todo: post Comment at a Cyberdisciple site page about Letcher and Hatsis wondering if Letcher is same as Hatsis – now, add Huggins.

See Also

pending

All Images in Great Canterbury Psalter (No Text)

All crops by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com. Full-res: click image.
All Images in Great Canterbury Psalter (Gallery)
All Images in Great Canterbury Psalter (Details)

Contents:

f11: Creation, Eden

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f12: Patriarchs: Cain, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

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f13: Life of Moses

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f14: Moses, David, Goliath, John the Baptist

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f15: Jesus’ Ministry 1

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f16: Jesus’ Ministry 2

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f17: Genealogy

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f18: Young Jesus

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f20: Dancing, Mushroom River, Fiery Hellmouth Demon-Angel

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f21: 3 Guys/ Books/ Scrolls/ B’s

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f22: Mushroom Mount

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f23: Q with Serpent

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f25: Absalom Hung from a Tree

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f27: God with Sun, Moon, and Red Rays Lifts King from Ossuary

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f29: Buildings Licking Sky, Demon Flees Ossuary

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f29: ‘a’ with Guy Pointing at Scroll

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f32: Kings Reclining, Fiery Hellmouth, Scrolls

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f34: No Left Arm at Liberty Cap and Axe, Nursing Three

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f34: O with Foxes and Raccoon

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f35: Illuminated O

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f38: Birds Swooping from Mushroom Tree

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f40: Lion Furnace, God Holds {balance scale}

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f47: Demolitioning Building, King Holds {balance scale}

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f49: Wheels of Fate, Forge, Threatened by Angel

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f51: God’s Red Torch Rays, King Out of Ossuary

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f53: Snake Columns Throne

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f55: Cross over Building Altar, Hold Shield and {balance scale}, Sleep on Book

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f57: Thread-Wrapped, Two Lifted from Pit by Christ

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f60: Double {balance scale}, Lion Den, Two Tables

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f64: Torch, Deer, Rooster Tripod

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f73: Tripod Table, Celestial Rulers, Torch

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f76: Chariot Wipeout

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f78: Cross-Topped Furnace

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f82: 3 Mothers, Passion, Sun, Moon, Table

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f88: Temple, Table, Anointing

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f90: Standing Stable Towers with Gate Opened Ruler’s Epiphany

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f90: O with Crouching Guy {stand right foot} and Y/IY Hands

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f92: Scroll & Tree Right Branch Touch Open Book

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f96: Blue Gilled Fountain Washing Arms

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f96: Left Critter

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f96: Right Critters

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f98: Torch, Rays, Lamb at Altar to Spare Child, Battle

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f102: Mushroom Ball Stability Toppers, Demon Fire Pit, Cross-Topped Temple, Liberty Cap Tower Tree

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f102: ‘A’ with Serpent

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f104: City Temple Entrance, Dead Trees, Fire, Carrying Lambs

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f107: Lifted Up from Ossuary by Right Arm

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f109: Hellmouth, Balance Net, Draped City Gate, Ossuary Corpse, Asp-Dog

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f115: Wide Cloth, Fishes, Sun, Moon

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f118: Angel at Table Giving Food

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f122: Crucified Upside Down

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f126: Lions, Net

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f131: Filling Vessels from Serpent Fountains

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f134: 🙃 Hanging Upside Down, {balance scale}

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f141: Demons Afflicting Job

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f145: 👑 King Ordering Cubensis Collection, {balance scale}

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f149: Falconers

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f154: Opened Box in Rock

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f156: Deer, Stream Crossing, Harp

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f159: David Harp, God’s Red Rays, Blue Temple Topper, Holding Feather

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f161: Army Breaches Gate while God Dreams/ Reclines

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f166: Anointed King Standing on Ape at Column Base, Scribe, Rulers Bearing Gifts

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f170: City, Temple, Streams

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f172: City, Music, Rock

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f174: Ships, Women, Kings

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f177: 🐴 4 Horses, {stand right foot}, {balance scale}

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f182: King on Rock Throne, Animals

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f186: Two Oxen on Altar

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f190: Upside Down with Right Foot on Seat in Building Entryway

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f193: Seated in Archway, Open Scroll on Tower Column Base

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f195: Ride Backwards, Tent, Altar, Rock

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f197: Dove, Cave, Tower

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f202: Winepress, 4 Horses

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f206: Cave Ambush, 4 Lions, Pit

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f209: Snake-Bush, 7 Lions, Blood/Wine Fountain, Hellmouth

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f212: Dogs Outside City, Tower Basket, Christ Ossuary, Baptism Bowl

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f216: Burn City, Firepit, Kosmokrators

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f219: Kosmokrator, Music, Key, Wrong Foot Forward

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f221: Good Soul, Bad Soul, {balance scale}, Lockbox

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f223: Angel Pit, Music

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About this Page

Needed a quiet, meditation page.

The orig impl. of this page had problems, so that the page failed to serve its purpose:

  • Dead end of blurry pics (other than awkwardly & slowly going to the full-res lib site of the entire folio page). Especially on mobile device.
  • No f123 folio numbers to nav & learn & get familiar.
  • Missing the Spain images.
  • Structure / scope different than the main Gallery page & Details page.

Differences Between Gallery Page vs. No-Text Page

There are 3 pages to coordinate:

  • The Gallery page.
  • The No-Text page.
  • The Details page, containing sub-crops and commentary (Features lists).

The two pages are 95% converged to match, Feb. 7, 2026.

  • The Gallery page has captions containing metadata for maintenance.
  • The No-Text page plans to not add that metadata.

That will be the only difference between the two pages, when finish coord’g them.

Todo

  • todo: In Gallery page, on each image, link to Details page.
    • todo: In Gallery page, globally change “Commentary & detailed crops” link text to “Details” link text.
  • todo: In No-Text page, on each image, link to Details page.
    • todo: In No-Text page, globally change “crops” link text to “Details” link text.
  • todo: In Details page, link each picture to the section of the Gallery page and/or No-Text page.
  • todo: done? Revise the structure of the Gallery page to match the structure of the present page:
  • An h2 heading, with a #f123 anchor, for each folio that contains an image, in numerical order.
  • Other headings, for those images, are h3.
  • Bottom of page has sections eg:
    • Intro, About this Page, Motivation for Creating This Page
    • Todo
    • See Also

See Also

All crops by Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com.

Site Map > Great Canterbury Psalter
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Great-Canterbury-Psalter

All Images in Great Canterbury Psalter (Catalog Gallery)

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Michael Hoffman, B.S.E.E., explaining possibilism (lower fingers), altered-state eternalism (lower thumb); & integrated possibilism/ eternalism (upper fingers & thumb)

Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art (Huggins, 2022)

Cybermonk, started article on desktop Dec. 11, 2024; added random content on mobile Dec 12, 2024, haven’t added article commentary yet.

Ronald Huggins, competent academic historian in matters of this nature

Contents

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

Intro

Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian) – my main page about this image

todo: I need to redo from bloated hi-res png to jpg and make sure this picture appears still

posts nearby:

Right Is Non-Branching

Miking & Voice Recording Successes for Rapid Idea Development

Citation and Link

Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art
Ronald Huggins, 2022, 25 pages, FRAGMENTS Journal 1.1 (2022): 1-25
History of Christianity, Western Esotericism (History)
https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_

Dizzy Huggins’ 😵‍💫 Salamander Article (Dancing Man)

https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_

Huggins Dizzy Jan 2022 article wasn’t able to cite Brown’s February 2022 rebuttal to Hatsis.

Nov. 23 2024: See today’s logical fallacies brain dump:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/deniers-logical-fallacies-pilzbaum-mushroom-tree-debate/

When looking for logical fallacies, the best field is pilzbaum (mushroom trees).

Please use the German term, pilzbaum, to keep this on the down-low; we don’t want to mislead the ignorant by openly writing “mushroom” trees.

Mr. Natural! What does it all mean? It don’t mean 🐂💩🍄‍🟫🔵

pilzbaum (mushroom trees) mean trees. The distinct mushroid impression is due to clumsy accidental inept artists slipping up without purpose or intention, helpless slaves of the templates that developed for no conscious reason.

This art impression of mushroom is not purposeful; artists broke the prototypes carelessly copying and botching the prototypes that developed toward mushroom for no reason, no purpose, random accident really.

Artists lack control and responsibility here.

Kill the artists into machines, to save our denial.

on this topic, only, remove all will and intentionality from our subjects under study, the under-developed Dark Ages artists.

They don’t mean mushrooms, because they have branches so it doesn’t look like a mushroom.

It can only be one or the other: mushroom or tree.

pilzbaum have branches, therefore not a mushroom but a tree. Interpretation complete.

A mushroom contains branching, effects.

Golden Teacher Cubensis teaches psychedelic eternalism: how to not lose control.

Psil = Eucharist = teaches submitting to higher controller, you a horse ridden from higher lvl ctrllr / serpent.

The Eucharist recognized as mushrooms

plant teacher = 11:48pm nov 23 2024 teacher in f134 = the teaching aspect of the mushroom, the Golden Teacher of Righteousness.

psychedelic eternalism teaches the two models: branching vs non-branching. psychedelic eternalism, from possibilism-thinking, which is retained and relied on though disproved, virtual-only control agency.

You are the horse being ridden by creator God the higher controller, puppet of the frozen snake.

Brown’s Feb 2022 article defeating Hatsis at Hancock site:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Graham-Hancock-Website-article

Hatsis the failed witch, the medieval historian who interprets esoteric art literally and reductionistically, and thinks what’s under debate is “whether there was a secret Amanita cult” – stuck in 1970 forever, trapped back in the Dark Ages of entheogen scholarship.

[8:35 pm Nov 23, 2024] CONFIRMED a speculation from about a week ago: when I was inventorying the tree’s mushroom & frond branches: we are to read the item held by Dancing Man as {removed branch held in Left hand}, holding the stem of the mushroom-branch exactly like shown attached to the Left side of the tree – see Huggins’ Red Shift pair of images p 22 in Dizzy article.

[9:07 pm Nov 23 2024] Why cross two branches, under the cap/ crown? To visually “cut” the right branch, to form the standard {cut right branch} motif — like I discussed in tree morphology eg Great Canterbury Psalter f177 🐴 horses trees & f134 🙃 leg-hanging mushroom tree ~2022. f177:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Extreme-Standing-Right-Leg

So add to my branching-message mushroom trees article: {cut right branch} as well as huge {cut right trunk}!

[9:31 pm Nov 23 2024] viable interp: I now am repeating my ~2022 analysis of his fingers: R fingers are splayed (branching) like {clueless Peter} in Golden Psalter, L fingers held together in contrast (because occupied grasping the stem of the removed mushroom-branch).

Peter in Golden with splayed Right fingers, like Dancing Man:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Entry-Into-Jerusalem-Golden

🔥🦎🦎🍄🌳🍄‍🟫🕺🏼

hi-res Dancing Man image:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Salamander-Bodleian

https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_

By “confirmed” re: {holding removed branch}, I mean I weighed now all I know about the standard common trope motif of {hand + removed branch} and realized that it adds up here.

The artist decided to employ the trope of “removed branch in L hand”, here with the {removed branch} represented as a mushroom branch matching the mushrooms attached on the tree.

We can’t see the mushroom stem in his hand, but the stem/ branch is implied, wrapped in his left hand.

Against Ruck and everyone, he is not holding the mushroom to indicate that he ate it, but more, to instantiate and hearken to the important common standard trope of {Left hand holds removed branch}.

Sometimes the {removed branch} is shown in R hand, as a flexible artistic option, but it’s still the same system of meaning either way: conjoining {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

[9:41 pm nov 23 2024] it occurred to me for the first time to di something I should have always been diing before: check for visually cut right branch in Plaincourault: CONFIRMED: there are two instances of {cut right branch}, visually cut by the serpent:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Tree-of-Knowledge-Plaincourault

Huggins mentions Bennett’s article:

The Fungi-Pareidolia of The Psychedelic Gospels (Bennett 2021)

By Chris Bennett on August 5, 2021

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/05/__trashed/

Highest Art, Highest Art Interpreter

The highest art is Great Canterbury Psalter Eadwine images

The highest artist is Eadwine.

The highest art interpreter is Cybermonk. the Egodeath theory is compatible with the pilzbaum genre of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs , mapped to psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

snake shaped worldline frozen in rock

A Josie Kins video covers eternalism.

But, Kins mis-equates eternalism with domino-chain determinism – which is merely the egoic, possibilism-premised notion of transcendent thinking; an idea of eternalism that’s framed within possibilism.

Future control thoughts already exist waiting timelessly and are forced into the female mind thought receptor driven steered by the uncontrollable higher level mystery marriage controller.

pilzbaum Affirmers Are Partly Wrong

Ruck in “Datura” 2001: “Pilzbaum look like and are mushrooms AND NOTHING ELSE.”

Elasticman Ruck the vague poet is wrong in two ways:

1) pilzbaum have branches, so deniers are right, they don’t look just like mushrooms.

2) pilzbaum look like mushrooms, but also look like branching, which is more their main message than “mushroom“.

Conclusion of Bible Promises 13 Species of Amanita

this list mixes affirmers of Plainc, Dancing Man, etc:

pilzbaum asserters Gen 1: Rignoux ~1890, Marchand & Boudier 1910/1911; Allegro 1970; Bennett/ Osburn 1995

too hard to list deniers, gen1 affirmers, & gen2 affirmers.

Bennett switched to denier; i guess pilzbaum mean cannabis, like the 12 different fruit crops of trees of life (+ healing leaves) in Rev 22:2 mean 12 uses, of Hemp, per his bk Drugs & Bible.

By this logic, Heinrich essentially is writing in SF 1995 that Rev 22’s “trees of life” means 12 ASPECTS of THE HOLY MUSHROOM, Amanita.

And “healing leaves” must mean our Amanita too, given the leaf shape associated with our sacred Amanita worshipped by our SCHOLARLY CULT.

Unpleasant Experiences

This is a high-level dimension in 11-Factors psychedelic psychometric questionnaire, contains the factors.

You have to fact check what I say in this recording,

BUT the only place to fact-check me is this very website of mine, because this dirty “science” of psychedelic psychometrics questionnaires based on Walter Stace 1960 based on William James 1902 labelled as “science” is entirely undocumented!

Based on the pollyanna wrong, false model of “mystical experiencing” mis-defined by James 1902 & Stace 1960.

Michael Pollan in How to Change Your Mind had to write “NA” when filling in the MEQ, Mystical Experience Questionnaire made by Timothy Leary’s student Walter Pankhe in 1962 because it was framed the opposite of his toad venom experience.

Pollan experienced timeless ETERNITY extremely, but it was AWFUL, so, when happy-framed MEQ (= Stace’s bad model) asked him “Did you experience eternity?”, Pollan felt the question was meant too positively, so he felt he had to answer NA! not applicable!

CEQ = Challenging Experience Questionnaire

MEQ and CEQ alike – as Charles Stang effectively said to Griefiths – are “not applicable” to actual mystical experiencing!

FAIL = MEQ.

Bunk science, undoc’d. Make up what science is.

This is made-up science; MEQ has been DISCONFIRMED!

Stang got Griffiths to ADMIT ON FILM THE MEQ IS BUNK! and Griefiths pointed to the CEQ to catch negative experiences — but CEQ is EVEN MORE BUNK than MEQ!!

Roland Griefiths

voice recording 6250, not uploaded? 6:00 of 2:18:00, good; Dec. 6, 2024: psychedelic science

This made-up “science” of Panke/ Leary’s Mystical Experience psychometrics questionnaires, including misbegotten CEQ, is dragon-infested with the shadow dragon monster.

A high-level dimension in 11-Factors psychedelic psychometric questionnaire, contains the factors:

ANX: Anxiety

This factor in 11-Factors q’air contains a number of items; questions about psychedelic effects.

ICC: Impaired Control and Cognition

Why lump together? No one knows 🤷‍♂️

S: Shadow factor 13 🐍

Consists of unpleasant effects that are MORE IMPORRANT than items in factors ANX or ICC.

Adolf Dittrich’s Item 54 “I was afraid to lose my self-control” from the Angst/Dread dimension of his OAV q-air 1994 was TOO BROADLY FITTING IN BOTH ANX AND ICC, SO WAS “dropped” from the ANX factor by Studerus from such narrow “factors”.

Instead, in the final version of 11-Factors, item 54 “I was afraid to lose my self control” was placed DIRECTLY in the high-level dimension “Unpleasant Experiences” – where Griefiths then IGNORED these 8 effects too broad to fit into a factor they fabricated.

Griefiths ONLY considered, for inclusion in CEQ q-air, the ANX and ICC effects (effects which are so narrow, they fit well within a distinct “factor”).

The very effects that were so broad that they couldn’t fit into any one, narrow Factor, were IGNORED when making the CEQ. “gather init pool” (why from those 3 q’airs: hrs socq which is meq plus distractor items NOT challenging items

Why draw from SOCQ? that’s the MEQ (all positive effects; “mystic=positive”, Stace-based Science) plus distractor items. States of Consciousness Questionnaire

HRS – old man Brown’s “hallucinogen” rating scale

i need to see & analyze the distractors again.

The most powerful unpleasant effects, are those 8 like item 54, that are too broad to fit in just the ANX factor or ICC factor.

So my Shadow factor 13 (abbr.: S 🐍) is MORE important than ANX and ICC factors.

CEQ IS A DISASTER OF THE FIRST ORDER. MEQ not much better; same bias, Mystic Unicorns and Rainbows.

🧾☑️👨‍🔬🦄🌈😊 🐉 🍽️

My binary split of camps here doesn’t work well. More important is 3 groups:

1) pilzbaum affirmers first gen, the Secret Amanita paradigm scholars

2) pilzbaum deniers – defeat the Secret Amanita paradigm

3) pilzbaum affirmers second gen – defeat deniers, defeat the Secret Amanita paradigm

First Gen Affirmers (of Purposeful Pilzbaum)

Second Gen Affirmers (of Purposeful Pilzbaum)

deniers (of Purposeful Pilzbaum)

gen1 affirmers

deniers

gen1 affirmers

3 teams:

amanita asserters

amanita deniers, taking aim at 🍄🌳

cubensis asserters

Samorini 1996/1997/1998; evil Hoffman/ Ruck/ Staples 2001; good Hoffman 2002/ 2006/ 2020/ 2023; Brown 2016;

gen 1 entheogen scholarship

gen 1 deniers

gen 2 entheogen scholarship

1) “Secret Amanita paradigm” pilzbaum affirmers

2) pilzbaum deniers

3) “Explicit Cubensis paradigm” pilzbaum affirmers

Does Huggins Fixate on “Secret”, Absolutely Conflating It with Mushrooms in Christian Art?

does Huggins perceive a change / pivot at Samo in 1998, from the Secret Amanita paradigm to the Explicit Cubensis paradigm?

Can Huggins comprehend gen2, the Explicit Cubensis paradigm?

As pilzbaum deniers, i dont mean Marcia Kupfer not a pilzbaum denier but is subject to critique eg by brown.

Kupfer re: Saint Martin frescos. tho can critique Kupfer. Thanks for the branches, man(!!) clamors up tree

Kupfer’s out of her state

Marcia Kupfer calls a youth a man in St Martin church: A youth cuts left hand-held branch w knife in right hand above gate of Jerusalem.

[12:45 am dec 13 2024] cutting/ renouncing branching autonomy = gate key

to be brought through the gates, you are made to lose branching autonomy, redeemed to pseudo autonomy; non-branching dependence.

I list pilzbaum Deniers, who specifically explicitly deny purposeful mushroom imagery in Christian art.

The lowest art interpreters are the art historians Erich Brinckmann, Erwin Panofsky, Letcher’s Henrietta Leyser, and their followers (pilzbaum deniers) Gordon Wasson, Andy Letcher, Thomas Hatsis, and Ronald Huggins.

Panofsky is the greatest, most competent art historian.

Mycologists must reach out and consult Panofsky, on matters of art.

Not consult Panofsky’s writings; Panofsky wrote nothing on pilzbaum, except two suppressed letters to Wasson in 1952.

Give him a call, stopwatch in hand, to “consult” how quickly he disavows pilzbaum. ⏱️

Then you can add, like Letcher in Shroom, a WORTHLESS citation to pad out your book, while lecturing pilzbaum affirmers about your superior, tried and true historiographical methodology for “explaining away” (Hatsis, written proudly & smugly) each isolated pilzbaum, using whatever ad hoc rule you need at the moment, such as:

It’s totally a standard, commonplace parasol of victory. Don’t you know anything?

😑 🏆🏅💰 🚫🍄🌳

Resuming Using Idea Development Pages, shorter? (page 20)

Most of the time, I need to do spot-development of ideas, and need to capture timestamps of realizations, logged. I

If anyone wants to track me daily, we would need to either:

Approach: Post a daily log post. I have not used WordPress blog posts this way; daily. Might be a good idea to try.

The page title could show date + theme.

Ultra long pages have cons.

Mobile app is especially poor there.

Approach I used: very long Idea Development page; you’d have to check it periodically, to follow my idea development. Poor for authoring in mobile app.

Items Equated by Looking-Lines in Image f177

🍄‍🟫🌳🗡️🐴⚖️⛅️🔍🔎🍁🌳

[5:20 pm Dec 12 2024] I wondered again about image f177 of Great Canterbury Psalter: row 1 middle, the Pointless Loiterers. I forgot their purpose, the other day I remembered their purpose again: their looking-lines tie together equating left tree and right tree.

Just now I recognized – for the 1st time? – that the horses looking both ways is LIKE the Pointless Loiterers looking both ways.

i think 1 yr 10 mo ago, Feb 2023, I figured out connection A & connection B, but not meta-connection C.

Evidence: I FAILED to crop just f177 row 1, amazingly – mistake!!

I failed to see the meta, C connection, bc my crops lacked the correct scope context: show entire row 1 only.

pun: C connection.

C is a meta-connection, connecting two connections.

Here now I articulate what the looking-lines crops show, sweepingly, in this subsequent phase of interpretation.

Connection A: The horses’ looking-lines equate non-branching (blue cap) with God holding up the guy standing on right foot; 2-level, dependent control, rather than autonomous control.

“[2:15 p.m. April 8, 2023] I just realized that this means that in f177, the Shroud ego-dead person = the guy balancing on right foot in that image, directly above Shroud”

ie, ego death = being made by the Creator to {stand on right foot}; be given the “eternalism” mental model of control and possibility-branching.

Connection B: Pointless Loiterers’ looking-lines equate row 1 left tree (that horses look at) with the dud pilzbaum on row 1 Right.

meta Connection C: now recognized: the connecting done by the horses is LIKE the connecting done by the Pointless Loiterers.

add image: f177 row 1

add f177 showing looking lines: need new crop w ONLY such 2-way looking lines.

aw, lame as row 2’s crutch:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/4-horses-mushroom-tree-right-foot-balancing-great-canterbury-psalter-f177/#Row-2

says “Row 2 Entire – Not Made” – corroborates that my insight right now is new! Or set of insights, by [6:39 pm Dec. 12, 2024].

6:24 pm Dec. 12, 2024 per John Lash the White Light sun of peak Psilocybin experiencing touches the rightmost (non-branching) part of the pilzbaum.

The below image will suffice fine, but need re-analysis, re: equating of pairs of boxes (ie, what thing each pair (or group!) of lookers is connecting):

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

The horses in row 1 L connect boxed items x &y: nonbranching & dependent control.

Pointless Loiterers row 1 Mid connect boxed items x &y: Left pilzbaum, Right dud pilzbaum.

You say the Left pilzbaum isn’t Cubensis, because lacks blue-stained stems. FALSE!

The Right tree has blue stems and is equated with the Left tree.

So the Left pilzbaum does have blue assigned to its stems, and is therefore Cubensis. Q.E.D.

Conversely, you say the tree on R is a dud pilzbaum. FALSE!

The mushroom caps from the L pilzbaum are equated with the leaf crowns of the R tree, so the R tree is a pilzbaum.

Adding the features of the L & R trees together, gives the desired, f134-like, blue-stemmed (thus Cubensis) branching-message mushroom trees.

The cream-colored stems on the Left mushroom tree, along with the blue-stained stems on Right leaf-tree, are Cubensis stem attributes, conjoined by the looking-lines of the Pointless Loiterers, who are manufacturing Cubensis pilzbaum by connecting the attributes.

The Egodeath Community group in row 1 Right connects boxed items x & y & z & w; most boxed items in the image.

Eadwine takes a theme (a mechanism of motif connection) and develops it – we see Eadwine doing that in image f134 similarly, elaborating a theme.

If a group of two figures looking at two features equates those two features, then — developing that mechanism — a group of six lookers looking at six features of the image equates those six features. [6:08 pm Dec. 12, 2024]

The corpse carriers in row 2 Mid connect boxed items x &y.

The balancing guys in row 2 Mid connect boxed items x &y.

Sequence of Dance Steps: Bennett 1995, Samo 1998, Hatsis 2013, Huggins Jan 2022, Brown Feb 2022

Huggins Dizzy Jan 2022 article wasn’t able to cite Brown’s February 2022 rebuttal to Hatsis.

Dedicated to Dancing Man 🕺

Have a sack of Cubensis, Dancing Man

Crop by Cybermonk

Foolish youth Eadwine’s weight is on the wrong, left foot, causing loss of control.

f134 is a teaching image.

The most true and authentic artist Eadwine develops this idea (motif mechanism) as puzzle levels of increased elaboration, in other figures in this image, culminating in hanging by one leg.

Eadwine specializes in developing permutations of the pilzbaum genre’s integrated combinations of the {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Weight on L foot is mapped to possibilism-thinking, which produces loss of control.

Weight on R foot is mapped to eternalism-thinking, which restores stable control.

Michael A. Williams uses exactly this language about “restoration of stability”.

Williams, Michael. (1997). The Immovable Race: Gnostic Designation and the Theme of Stability in Late Antiquity. https://www.amazon.com/Immovable-Race-Designation-Stability-Antiquity/dp/9004075976/ Google Scholar: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Immovable_Race/RwrwgcHz1_MC

Motivation for this page: Gotta keep up on Dancing Man research, since Bennett 1990s.

Scholarship on Mushrooms

Overlap of Dizzy 2022 & Forage 2024 articles and bibliographies on mushrooms in Christian art.

This is a long-ongoing thread of research development,

pilzbaum Affirmers vs. pilzbaum Deniers, affirmers of Dancing Man since Bennett’s book Green Gold in the 1990s.

affirmers of Plainc since Abott Rignoux around 1890.

Since Samorini 1996, publishing in this direction, breaking away from the Amanita Primacy Fallacy.

Since 2002, I defined this approach, posting in the the Egodeath Yahoo Group:

Gen 2 pilzbaum Affirmers
the Explicit Cubensis paradigm
the Maximal entheogen theory of religion
the Cubensis Primacy truth
Amanita utilized to support the Cubensis-driven paradigm
Amanita utilized to give all glory to Cubensis
the greater mysteries 🌳🐍

🌳🐍

vs.

Gen 1 pilzbaum Affirmers
the Secret Amanita paradigm
the Moderate entheogen theory of religion
the Amanita Primacy fallacy
Cubensis utilized to support the Amanita-driven paradigm
Cubensis utilized to give all glory to Amanita
the lesser mysteries 👶🍄

👶🍄

Should Rest from Typing

todo: copy emails to posts

try to type gently, still, must rest – overuse.

need to rest from typing. Reading printed articles instead.

Highlighter technique is remarkably fast and effective, for faster reading comprehension than pencil or line-pens.

See Also

Cut Right Trunk in Salamander Bestiary Image (Dancing Man, Roasting Salamander in Bodleian) – my main page about this image

“Foraging” article, Huggins 2024 eg posts:

Deniers’ Logical Fallacies in the Pilzbaum (Mushroom Trees) Debate

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest (Huggins 2024)

Ancients Were Wrong in Pushing Secret Amanita Mysteries and Garbled Pop Physics Mysticism

An Aztec Narcotic (Safford 1915)

1915: Everyone knows there’s no Psilocybin in Mexico.
2024: Everyone knows there’s no Cubensis in Europe.
Art from Eadwine, 1200 AD; Canterbury, England.
Crops by Cybermonk (🙃 f134, 👑 f145, 🐴 f177).

Contents

Intro

Citation

W. E. Safford, 1915

Title:
An Aztec Narcotic (lophophora Williamsti)
Subtitle:
So-called “sacred Mushroom,” or Teonanacatl, Still in Use by the Indians of Mexico and the United States, Producing Hallucinations of a Remarkable Nature, Is Identified With the Peyotl Zacatecensis, or Devil‘s Root of Ancient Mexico, and the “mescal Button” of Texas

https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article-abstract/6/7/291/853354

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/6278/

Web search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22journal+of+heredity%22+safford+%22aztec+narcotic%22

My Huge Takeaway Point

In 1915, everyone “knew” there was no Psilocybin mushrooms in Mexico; there is no mushroom cult in Mexico.

Just like today (1957-2024), everyone knows there’s no Cubensis in Europe eg 1200 AD – against Great Canterbury Psalter f134, f145, f177 etc.

I am going to make entheogen scholars retract their negative PREJUDICED, BASELESS, ILLOGICAL, IRRATIONAL PRESUPPOSITION.

Why wouldn’t Cubensis grow on cattle dung in Europe? Explain.

No one has tried to look, because the Secret Amanita paradigm gives everyone a negative attitude and expectation.

Folklore: The Americas Own Psilocybin; European Religion Has No Psilocybin Tradition and Must Ask Permission and Borrow Expertise

False, folk baloney shoved at every opportunity:

Europeans have no Psilocybin tradition and so they must beg shamans in the Americas for permission to use their sacrament.

No one owns Psilocybin mushroom spores; they sail everywhere and have been used everywhere.

Wasson’s Criticism of Experts and Deniers of Mushrooms in Mexico

Wasson, Russia, 1957; find “Safford”, in Vol. 2, p. 236 (“32”):

Wassons wrote:

“Then suddenly one day [after a 265-year hiatus in the literature since 1650] the sacred mushrooms sprang to life again [in the literature].

On May 4, 1915, an ethno-botanist of established and deserved reputation, W. E. Safford, read a paper before the Botanical Society in Washington [state?] in which he flatly and sweepingly denied that there had ever been an inebriating mushroom in the indigenous cultures of Mexico.

His paper was published later in that year in the journal of Heredity, and it was a full-dress presentation, richly illustrated and documented.

Dr. Safford said that the Spanish ‘padres’ (as he somewhat condescendingly called them) had been confused: they had taken for mushrooms what had really been dried buttons of a cactus, the Lophophora Williamsii, the peyotl of Aztec times, the mescal button of Texas.

He declared that three centuries had failed to reveal a fungal intoxicant in Mexico.

He quoted Sahagun as saying that the Chichimecas had been the first Indians to discover the alleged intoxicating property of the ‘mushroom’;

he went on to say that the Chichimecas had occupied northern Mexico, that that was therefore the region where to seek the mushroom, that he had pushed his own researches exhaustively in those areas [northern Mexico] and in the Southwestern states of the United States, and that he had found nothing.”

____ para break ____

“Dr. Safford’s paper drew wide attention and was widely accepted.

Many learned from it for the first time that there had been a belief in an inebriating mushroom, at the same time that they learned the mushroom had never existed.

How ironic it will be if Dr. Safford himself, in the long run, should be remembered chiefly because of this resounding blunder that he made, a classic example of the fallibility of the specialist!

For of course the Spanish ‘padres’ were right and Dr. Safford was wrong.

Dr. Safford’s paper was extraordinary for the vehemence (may we say ‘telltale’ vehemence? [ie the Graves/Wasson taboo theory]) that this Anglo-Saxon showed in rejecting the teo-nandcatl.

It never occurred to him that he had to demolish not only the Spanish ‘padres’ but also all the native informants on whom they relied, and even the Nahuatl vocabulary that they used!”

/ Wasson quote

Now apply that same critique to:

Everyone knows, well established by entheogen scholarship, no Cubensis in Europe.

At my church subgroup on Amanita training, the expert leader there told us, delivered with great authority:

AMANITA IS YOUR HISTORICAL TRADITIONAL ENTHEOGEN.

I almost told him:

GO TO HELL, NO IT’S NOT, YOU ARE WRONG, YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR MY TRADITION;

MY TRADITION IS NOT AMANITA, IT IS CUBENSIS, PER EADWINE.

I am tired of people falsely saying Mexico owns Psilocybin, and Europe is stuck with only Amanita.

That is FALSE and baseless – “completely unfounded” (Irvin p. 104 THM re: “heretical sects” only).

The myth that “Amanita = Europe; Psilocybin = Americas” needs to DIE, be PUT TO REST just exactly the same as the ironic mis-fame that Wasson predicted for Safford:

How ironic it will be if Dr. Safford himself, in the long run, should be remembered chiefly because of this resounding blunder that he made, a classic example of the fallibility of the specialist!

Ethnomycology Specialist Wasson, “Mushrooms, Russia and History“, 1957; Vol. 2, p. 236 (“32”)

Credit

Eadwine

Credit to Eadwine, who developed and refined the pilzbaum art genre’s combination of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

God

Thank God for connecting me with Eadwine – a godsend.

In November 2020, Got not only delivered to me

  • the needed & sought-out corroboration/ confirmation of my interpretation hypothesis from Hatsis’ copy of Dancing Man (Salamander Bestiary re: the man’s two legs, ie: the two legs map to the two mental worldmodels) on Christmas 2015, but also,
  • provided the full, eloquent, unbelievably far better than I or anyone could possibly have imagined, supernally perfect corroboration of the Egodeath theory.

The Egodeath theory = psychedelic eternalism; analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control.

John Lash

The article “Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest” (Huggins 2024), bibliography lists Lash’s webpage article “The Discovery of a Lifetime”:
Lash, J., “Psychedelic Bible: The Discovery of a Lifetime”
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_84.htm

The nature of that site: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net – Spanish & English language site. Library Pleiades; el Sitio de Biblioteca Pleyades.

In 2006 or 2007, just after finishing writing the book Not In His Image, John Lash went to the Paris library, then uploaded 3+5 articles including “Psychedelic Bible: The Discovery of a Lifetime” around May 2008.

My site has a different link to the 5+3 articles (on Wasson & pilzbaum/ Great Canterbury Psalter). Find “Lash” in Site Map.

See my John Lash articles page at this website.

Only one Lash-provided (i believe) picture from Eadwine made it into my Plainc article’s support gallery that Brown 2016 book cites.

Alas the leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter didn’t make it fully into my mushroom imagery galleries until Nov. 2020.

Paul Lindgren

Paul Lindgren’s 2000 picture of Creation of Plants, and 2001 couple other pics in “Conjuring Eden” Ruck et al (Mark Hoffman, Carl Ruck, & Daniel Staples) in Entheos 1).

Transmission successfully received and decoded: branching-message mushroom trees; {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs:

{stand on right leg} motif means non-branching (eternalism) with dependent control, not branching (possibilism-thinking) with autonomous control, to restore stable control while in the mushroom state.

Cyberdisciple

Thank you to Cyberdisciple for the book Russia by Wasson 1957, which has this lead.

  1. In 1957 in the book Russia, Wasson criticizes scholars and competent experts for being so wrong and so negative.
  2. In 1968 in the book SOMA, Wasson criticizes Eliade for rejecting shamans using entheogens legitimately.
  3. In 1968 and beyond, Wasson censors deceitfully Panofsky’s citation of Brinckmann 1906, and goes around publicly insulting and defaming mycologists (ie, pilzbaum Affirmers) berating them for not “consulting” the “experts”.

Wasson aggressively, repeatedly, actively censors and denies pilzbaum purposefully mean mushrooms (censoring some 5 things re: the pair of Panofsky letters).

Ruck’s highly offensive phrase “Wasson’s conclusion” in Entheos issue 2 article “Daturas for the Virgin” 2001 p. 56: Irvin calls that out on p. 104 of The Holy Mushroom 2008;

Irvin and I both independently found that passage and were both outraged at this lying misrepresentation that is the opposite of reality.

Irvin is wrong to go on to try to falsely attribute affirming pilzbaums to Allegro.

The proof that Allegro didn’t write anything about pilzbaum is that THM provides no citation where Irvin falsely says that Allegro, not Wasson, is the one who affirmed pilzbaum.

Credit actually goes to Samorini 1996/1997/1998 for being the first to take Panofsky’s lead (via Wasson 1968) – hundreds of pilzbaum – seriously and affirm pilzbaum.

Certainly the Allegro expert Irvin, with his connections to Allegro’s estate, would have provided a citation, if one existed, where Allegro says he affirms pilzbaum purposefully mean mushrooms.

We have nothing but a worthless, obviously false ASSERTION from Irvin, contradicted by the blaring lack of citation.

That’s the same situation that Wasson in SOMA left me in in 2006 when Wasson quotes Panofsky saying “we art historians have thoroughly treated this matter” – I exclaimed in my 2006 Plaincourault article, please give me citations!

I want to read art historians’ PUBLISHED WRITINGS about pilzbaum.

I concluded then, either there are no citations, or they are so weak and few, it’s practically nothing, and art historians are BLUFFING.

I was right in 2006: per Brown 2019 in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​, letter 1, Panofsky gave Wasson 1 citation only, and Wass censored it 6 lines above berating and insulting mycologists (pilzbaum affirmers):

The fact that Wasson censored the Brinckmann citation (while simultaneously commanding affirmers to “consult” the “competent” authorities) is PROOF that Wasson correctly recognized that Brinkcmann’s 1906 book favors pilzbaum Affirmers, and disproves pilzbaum Deniers such as Panofsky.

Brinckmann’s “little”, old 1906, 86-page book is the ONLY thing art historians have ever written and published about pilzbaum.

So much for Pan’s claim that art historians are thoroughly familiar and have treated pilzbaum.

By 2006, if art historians had written anything about pilzbaum, I would have known about it.

Ronald Huggins 2024 Foraging & 2021 Dizzy argues that … Affirmers (PMTs) show no respeect for the authorities. AN UNDERSTATEMENT!

Pilzbaum Affirmers Recognize Art Experts as Fools and Imbeciles Deserving Total Disrespect and Ignoring Them Regarding Pilzbaum

We pilzbaum Affirmers are disgusted and fully disrespectful to Art Historians, who are bought and owned by the lying anti-entheogen faction of the Establishment.

The “Competent” Art Historians Are Know-Nothing, Ignorant, Prejudiced Fools and Clowns Deserving 10x the Ridicule and Insults that Pilzbaum Deniers have Always Since 1952 Given to Mycologists and pilzbaum Affirmers.

I think Huggins gives the Abbot Rignoux 1890-ish and the 1910 presenter guy in French Myc Society, published in bulletin in 1911.

Huggins is good for more than just fallacious argumentation, he serves a lower support role serving capable researchers, ie pilzbaum Affirmers: from his “Foraging” article’s Bibliography:

Marchand, M. / Boudier, M., La fresque de Plaincourault (Indre), Bulletin trimestriel de la Société mycologique de France 27/1 (Jan. 1, 1911), 31– 32
todo: url?

Huggins’ Foraging Article Fails to Cite Brown 2019 or Michael Hoffman 2006: Ignores the Best Scholarship

Why the hell doesn’t Foraging cite my excellent article about Plaincourault 2006? FAILURE OF FORAGING TO ENGAGE THE LEADING SCHOLARSHIP IE EGODEATH.COM, Michael Hoffman.

Huggins only cites the outdated, first-gen entheogen scholar Mark Hoffman, a Secret Amanita paradigm scholar.

Huggins article has the usual standard garbage-quality of obviously fallacious argumentation that the pilzbaum Deniers always have (Pan, Wass, Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins).

But all of these gibberish scribblers posing as fair scholars do contribute many leads and points, such as bibliographies.

I hugely appreciate Hatsis’ Dancing Man article for finally showing me a legible version of the image so that in Christmas 2015 (see the Egodeath Yahoo Group – Max Freakout archive) I figured out as a hypothesis waiting for confirmation:

There are two legs. Standing on one leg, lifting the other leg: Could that mean, by artists: one leg is possibilism-thinking and one leg is eternalism-thinking? if so, which leg is mapped to possibilism-thinking, in this image? – Cybermonk Dec. 25, 2015. At that time, I checked Hephaestos, the lame smith.

fast fwd to Nov 2020, finishing my article for Prof. Jerry Brown about compelling evidence & criteria of proof and for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art, I do another image search on the web for like Christian mushroom, and I find two sites that have John Lash’s crop showing 2/5 of Row 1 of 3 of f134: class and leg-hanging mushroom tree.

Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter.

Mid-Nov 2020, I start decoding that pilzbaum, and immediately get firm confirmation that I needed since Christmas 2015, almost five years earlier, of both:

  • One leg means eternalism-thinking, and the other leg means possibilism-thinking.
  • In the pilzbaum genre, Right foot (right limb more generally) is conventionally mapped to non-branching eternalism-thinking; and Left foot (left limb more generally) is conventionally mapped to branching possibilism-thinking.

Given that we have two legs; and that we depend on legs; and that there are two contrasted mental worldmodels, it is natural to map as analogy, two feet to two mental worldmodels.

The pilzbaum genre = {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

{lame}: f177: Weight on Left Foot on Tower Foundation Requires Crutch, to Be Stable and Balanced

picture:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/4-horses-mushroom-tree-right-foot-balancing-great-canterbury-psalter-f177/#Row-2-Middle-Right-Balance —

Crop by Cybermonk
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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f177.item.zoom#

Hephaetus, the lame god. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus

Yet Another Basic Error of Fact from Incompetent Scholar Huggins

Huggins The Perfect: The biblio of Foraging article 2024 says Irvin’s AstroSham 2 is “2001” – fact check: FALSE.

AstroSham 1st Ed is 2006; AstroSham 2 (matching the title in Huggins’ bibliography) is 2009 – NOT 2001.

Therefore, all pilzbaum mean mushrooms.

Why, oh why, do the pilzbaum Deniers show no concern with basic facts, and then claim to interpret art correctly on a sound foundation?

I have both editions, signed, etc, discussed with Irvin in 2006-2007. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=astrotheology+and+shamanism

Names of the First Asserters of Plaincourault as Mushroom

  • Abbot Rignoux – around 1890-1910, described the Plaincourault fresco as mushroom with multiple mushroom heads.
  • M. Marchand and M. Boudier – presumably the 1910 presenters in French Myc. Society, published in bulletin in 1911.

Is that bulletin online?

Marchand, M. / Boudier, M., La fresque de Plaincourault (Indre), Bulletin trimestriel de la Société mycologique de France 27/1 (Jan. 1, 1911), 31– 32

I SWEAR A RECENT ARTICLE’s BODY GIVES NAME OF WHO ASSERTED – some other Huggins article?? It’s not in “Dizzy” article.

Frustrating but here’s a clue: no “Rignoux” found in “Foraging” article – I am SURE an article surprised me (not Samo’s 1997/98 articles) yesterday by mentioning in the body, “Rignoux”. A Houot article? Winkelman?

Art Historians Are Imbeciles, Fools, Frauds, and Clowns Deserving Ridicule, Not Respect and Deference

– Signed, Us Pilzbaum Affirmers.

I confidently speak on behalf of both the 1st-Gen (Secret Amanita paradigm) and us 2nd-Gen (Explicit Cubensis paradigm) pilzbaum Affirmers:

ART HISTORIANS ARE IDIOTIC CLOWNS DESERVING TO BE JEERED AT for their cowardly, ignorant, “those on the outside” pilzbaum Denial, a denial while art historians insult mycologists and pilzbaum Affirmers.

In “Daturas”, Ruck misrepresents Wasson as having affirmed pilzbaum as supporting Wasson’s assertion about the textual story in Genesis 2-3 that the Tree of Knowledge was Amanita.

In “Daturas”, Ruck argues that when The Holy Mushroom, that is, Amanita, was not available, the cult group that was the users of Amanita switched to substitutes, by which here Ruck does NOT mean Cubensis, but rather, Datura.

Against Ruck, ironically, I agree, in such a way as to show Ruck looking bad: Ruck speaks truth, in a bad way for Ruck, when Ruck says that Datura (Scopolamine) is a viable substitute for Amanita (Muscimol and Ibotenic Acid).

That is true, that Amanita is a deliriant, not a psychedelic; Amanita is indeed, as Ruck implies, similar to merely Datura / scopolamine – Amanita is NOT similar to Psilocybin, as Wasson regretfully concluded in print.

Citations: books in which Wasson states failure and disappointment when ingesting Amanita. Check Persephone’s Quest, maybe SOMA; Shroom by Letcher.

Amanita isn’t as ergonomic to use as Datura, and is not as available as Datura and other scopolamine plants.

Letcher’s History of Having to Retract His Denial and Move the Goalposts

Get Ready to Move them Again.

Against Letcher’s claim that he made with self-assured certainty against me specifically, I proved all of his unprovable points, and more, even higher than his points:

In England 1200 AD, in context of the pilzbaum genre:

  1. The image means mushroom, – PROVED.
  2. psychoactive mushroom, – PROVED.
  3. deliberately ingested, – PROVED.
  4. for religious experiencing, – PROVED.
  5. (arg. extended by me:) peak religious experiencing. – PROVED.

The peak religious effect of Psilocybin (cognitive loosening agents) is mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Read Letcher’s book Shroom regarding the backpedalling that the Deniers had to do around 2005.

The naysayers claimed no Liberty Cap or other Psil mushroom in England before the 1970s – they HAD TO EAT CROW AND ADMIT THEIR ERROR AND FOOLISHNESS around 2005.

Then they moved their goalposts and said “Ok, Liberty Cap IS natural to England historically, but, no one thought of Liberty Cap as religious recreational until 1970s”.

Letcher argues against my critical book review of his book; he says against Hoffman, I cannot prove any of these 4 things.

Letcher’s 4-step argument, I expanded to 5 steps and then I DUNKED it, proving all 5, not just 4, points that Letcher’s webpage’s comment said I could not prove.

I proved, by art centered around Great Canterbury Psalter f134: Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, all 4 points, and beyond.

Pilz Verzweigung Händigkeit Stabilität Baum, Not Just Pilzbaum

The pilzbaum genre is not just mushroom and tree (branches) motif.

Translate to German not just “mushroom tree”, but:

mushroom tree branching handedness stability = Pilzbaum Verzweigung Händigkeit Stabilität

mushroom branching handedness stability tree =
Pilz Verzweigung Händigkeit Stabilität Baum

The pilzbaum genre is the integrated combination of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Often along with {mushroom hem} and John Rush’s {celestial erection}.

John Rush is a better interpreter of pilzbaum & mushroom imagery, mushrooms in Christian art, than the reductionist, literalist pilzbaum Deniers, aka “Those on the outside”: Panofsky, Wasson, Letcher, Hatsis, and Huggins.

See Also

Huggins 2024 article “Foraging”.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/

Graves Russia book 1957

Letcher’s book Shroom 2005. Worth re-reading.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/05/28/shroom-a-cultural-history-of-the-magic-mushroom-letcher-2006-uk/

John Lash articles page at this website:
“Lash” section in Site Map:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#John-Lash

Huggins in “Foraging” cites good writer Don Lattin, book:
Lattin, D., “God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion,  2023 –
https://www.amazon.com/God-Psychedelics-Tripping-Old-Time-Religion/dp/195806128X/ – full Intro at Amazon.
I skimmed the Intro and/or Conclusion, not avail on the Lucid News site that Lattin posts articles to:
https://www.lucid.news/author/don-lattin/

Marchand, M. / Boudier, M., La fresque de Plaincourault (Indre), Bulletin trimestriel de la Société mycologique de France 27/1 (Jan. 1, 1911), 31– 32

– Cybermonk December 11, 2024

Crop by Cybermonk
4-5 ways of depicting {cut right branch}, in a single pilzbaum

Cubensis-driven overflow

page created 7pm Dec 4 2024 Cybermonk

Overflow for draft article: 
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach

Contents

  • Strategy
  • Intro
  • Don’t Directly Cover Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion Yet; Stay Focused on Entheogen Scholarship, just to supplement Branching art article
  • See Also

Strategy

Strategy: Empty the Cubensis-driven article webpage, then copy the Goal: sentences back to there as the outline of headings.

This approach works well for me b/c entire question is what do i want to accomplish; What do I want the article to accomplish? Lots of things; Find “Goal:” below.

Goal: Equip Cognitive Scientists to endure psychedelic eternalism.

Entry into Jerusalem (Lorenzetti)

Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1320) by Pietro Lorenzetti.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

Revelation 22:14

Intro

This Cubensis-driven article is broad and focused on entheogen scholarship, not focused on [Psychedelic] Cognitive Science [of Religion], because of its origin: this article was conceived to supplement specifically the Branching-message article.

Don’t Directly Cover Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion Yet; Stay Focused on Entheogen Scholarship, just to supplement Branching art article

Conclusion: Minimal focus directly on Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion. Keep the concept scope: Broad delivery of Branching-message narrow art article, into field of entheogen scholarship. But do keep in mind,

Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ covers Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion

My feeling is: that’s later. First blow open field of entheogen scholarship.

After that, later phase is blow away Cog Sci w/ Loose Cognitive Science.

Where the action is at NOW is entheogen scholarship, not yet Loose Cognitive Science, or Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion.

My 1988-1997 Phase 1 Core Theory of psychedelic eternalism = Loose Cognitive Science; Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion.

My 1999-2024 focus is Analogy; entheogen scholarship/history.

Feels like my Core theory (psychedelic eternalism) (= Loose Cognitive Science) is lame without myth analogies to bring it to life (Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism).

That suggests keeping the original concept focus, of entheogen scholarship, more than changing the article’s scope to Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion.

This Cubensis-driven article is specifically to give broad wordcount in support of the Branching-message art decoding article.

I place the Branching-message art decoding article firstly in the field of entheogen scholarship, not firstly in the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion.

First, explosion happens – msg received from Eadwine – within field of entheogen scholarship. Then, the effect branches out to ramifications in Cog Sci.

The Branching-message article is in the field of entheogen scholarship, more than in the field of [Psychedelic] Cognitive Science [of Religion].

The pilzbaum dispute is within the field of entheogen scholarship – does my breakthrough change that, broadening that field (at this time) to overlap with the field of [Psychedelic] Cognitive Science [of Religion]?

Gut feeling: No.

The ramifications from my Branching-message breakthrough are more directly for the field of entheogen scholarship than for the field of [Psychedelic] Cognitive Science [of Religion].

That’s kind of saying, kind of a sign that the field of entheogen scholarship is further along than the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion, or Cog Sci, or Cognitive Science of Religion.

My work focus has been hammering hard at the field of entheogen scholarship, more than at the field of “Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion“.

I use a Cog Sci approach to entheogen scholarship – so the two fields interpenetrate:

  • entheogen scholarship (done via a Cog Sci approach as conceptualized by me, purpose-built)
  • Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion (per my custom, application-specific manner of thinking)

This Cubensis-driven article serves to offload the bloated section “Conclusion and future directions” from the Branching-message article, and to deliver the Branching-message article, connecting context to the broad field.

This way, the Conclusion section of Branching article will only have half and half: half about that narrow article’s topic, and half about the ramifications of the decoding of non-branching for the broad field of entheogen scholarship.

That Conclusion section got very bloated focusing too much on the broad field of entheogen scholarship instead of just only focusing on the narrow art interp article.

I needed entire 2nd aux article, Cube-driven, specifically for purpose of offloading “therefore, future directions” content from the Branching article – thus this Cube-driven article was never born & conceived for purpose of defining Psychedelic Cognitive Science [of Religion].

Non-goal[??] for Cubensis-driven article: define Psychedelic Cognitive Science [of Religion]. A goal IS: Open the gates for Loose Cognitive Scientists.

Goal: Equip Cognitive Scientists to endure psychedelic eternalism.
thus becoming Psychedelic Cognitive Scientists; Loose Cognitive Scientists; Psychedelic Cognitive Scientists of Religion.
Goal: Equip Psychedelic Cognitive Scientists to endure eternalism.
Goal: Equip Psychedelic Cognitive Scientists to endure psychedelic eternalism. non-goal: define Psychedelic Cognitive Science [of Religion], as several Goal sections.
my own native language within my field:
Goal: Equip Loose Cognitive Scientists to endure eternalism.

The Branching article is a gallery to show art pieces and their main motifs of: {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Motivation of this page: Enable emptying the page for the draft article. That page also contains random breakthrough notes mixed in. Moved all that content to this new page.

Then I will copy just the “Goal:” sentences from here to the article’s page, as the outline.

The goal of the Branching article is narrow: show pictures; below each picture, identify the main instances below each picture, of (2 each): {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs. Requires a little theory-explanation, just enough.

Not sure if summary of astral ascent mysticism [ie, heimarmene transformation at the fixed-stars level] belongs in Branching-message article or Cubensis-driven article.

Two systems to define/summarize:

1) astral ascent mysticism per the Egodeath theory;

2) the Egodeath theory (core theory: mental worldmodel transformation transformation from possibilism to eternalism ; mental worldmodel transformation from Analogical Psychedelic Eternalism to Literalist Ordinary-state Possibilism;

An explanatory model of mental worldmodel transformation, in the loose cognitive state, from (literalist) ordinary-state possibilism [BRANCHING] with autonomous control, to (analogical) psychedelic eternalism [NON-BRANCHING] with dependent control aka 2-level control.

The present article is not:
Cubensis-driven Cognitive Science: xyz
Cubensis-driven Cognitive Science of Religion: xyz
Cubensis-driven Cognitive Science: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach
Cubensis-driven Cognitive Science of Religion: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach

The title of the article is:
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach

Proof that the article is conceived as focused on entheogen scholarship, NOT focused on Psychedelic Cognitive Science [of Religion]: the two parts work together:
Explicit Cubensis-driven instead of Secret Amanita-driven…
entheogen scholarship: the best approach

The idea of the article is, instead of Amanita-driven entheogen scholarship, we instead need Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship, which has many advantages for the field of entheogen scholarship, including folding the Egodeath theory [ie, psychedelic eternalism; analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control] into the field of entheogen scholarship (though the Egodeath theory / psychedelic eternalism theory remains distinct from entheogen scholarship).

Also, the article here is not general/ broad as possible; rather, the origin of this article is: the narrow Art/ Branching article’s Conclusion tried to do WAY too much, and needs add’l greedy wordcount from entire separate aux article (the present article).

This is an aux article FOR what are the takeaways and change of direction for the field of entheogen scholarship that are forced and implied specifically by my Branching pilzbaum article.

This is not an article arising from need to define Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion. That’s why I didn’t list like:
Goal: Define Psychedelic Cognitive Science
Goal: Define Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion

gut feeling: stay close to entheogen scholarship, not so much bend toward covering also Psychedelic Cognitive Science [of Religion]

I do list this:
Goal: Open the gate for Loose Cognitive Science. I guess that’s as far as I want to go, in this article, into the topic of exploring Loose Cog within the field of CogSci. Cog Sci is an aborted field anyway, ruined and reduced to reductionistic “Cognitive Neuroscience”

I HATE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE!

“Cognitive Neuroscience” Is Anti-Cognitive, Pseudo-Cognitive; Eliminates Mental Constructs, Replacing Them by Reductionist Neuroscience

“COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE” IS ELIMINATIVE OF COGNITION/ MENTAL CONSTRUCTS.

The “Cognitive Neuroscience” approach destroys the very essence of the thing that the Marketing dept claims it will cover.

“Cognitive Neuroscience” abuses “cognitive” to enslave to glorifying Neuroscience, like Psil is abused to merely service glorification of Amanita

My Loose Cognitive Science is nothing like “Cognitive Neuroscience”.

Loose Cognitive Science is the opposite of “Cognitive Neuroscience”.

mental construct processing
loose mental functioning binding
loose cognitive binding != “Cognitive Neuroscience”.

I despite “neuroplasticity”, mis-centered at the irrelevant level; reductionist, it is ELIMINATIVE. loose mental functioning binding, not “cognitive neuroplasticity”.

I reject their entire lexicon, like “ego dissolution” pseudo-explanation, a substitute to stop thinking.

The Egodeath theory lacks the concept of “ego dissolution”.

I have the concept of mental worldmodel transformation; mental model transformation in the loose cognitive state, of loose mental construct binding.

The self (control agency) loosens, suspends, and transforms, in conjunction with changing the model of world possibilities branching.

At this point, the planned article amounts to a list of Goals that I have for the article; or actually:

goals for the article

goals for how the field of entheogen scholarship needs to change

goals for how the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science needs to change

goals for how the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion needs to change

(goals for how the field of [Loose] Cognitive Science needs to change)

The field of “Cog Sci of religion” SUCKS, needs a new president like Charles Stang

goals for how the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science needs to change – but the journal is Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ (relates to entheogen scholarship), that journal does not relate to Psychedelic Cognitive Science.

Should Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ Cover Psychedelic Cognitive Science?

When listing my Goals for the Cubensis-driven article, not sure if i covered Psychedelic Cognitive Science. Try it:

Goal: [of type: Goal for revolutionary change of direction for field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science]

Goal: Make the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science not suck. My vision of the field has NOTHING in common with “Cognitive Science of Religion” (bleh).

My field is: Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion

Goal: Define Psychedelic Cognitive Science & Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Religion
That’s a new (particular) framing for me. I’m used to Loose Cognitive Science, & the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

I HATE the “Cognitive Science of Religion” series of books, they all suck bad, not worth reading, b/c lack ASC; the series editors, squaresville, HATE psychedelics. I bought and looked at some books like this, like eating sawdust.

They pursue the most boring approach possible, to the most boring conception of religion they could find. Utter dullsville. How to ruin a field and prevent it from forming.

I now have essentially an outline; list of goals or directives for the field of entheogen scholarship & Psychedelic Cognitive Science, for the draft article:
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/cubensis-driven-entheogen-scholarship-the-most-productive-relevant-and-rewarding-approach/

Snapshot of that page:

that page was started: Nov 20, 2024, 2 pm, Michael Hoffman

Draft article, broad in scope, to deliver takeaways for moving the field (entheogen scholarship & Loose Cognitive Science) forward, for Journal of Psychedelic Studies​. Structure: Series of Goal statements/ injunctions.
Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/ – Narrow in scope. Structure: Series of pictures with list of motifs.

Contents

  • Top wishes for this article to accomplish, top points to make
  • A Cubensis-First Paradigm

Top wishes for this article to accomplish, top points to make

Key Questions as Page Numbers in Brinckmann’s Book

Goal: Get German reader to give page numbers of Brinckmann’s book.

What page # discusses development of trees/ pilzbaum from pine to mushroom imagery?

What page # says that that development was universal & widespread?

What page # discusses corruption of prototypes?

What page # says that that gradualness of development from pine to mushroom shape proves that the artist had no purpose in making viewers think of a mushroom?

What page # mentions branches as conflicting with the mushroom imagery?

With Panofsky’s two letters to Wasson in hand, from the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2019 Brown article: Panofsky didn’t provide page numbers to Wasson, despite strong recommendation that mycologists need to consult this book.

Not to “consult” competent art historians via personal correspondence; but rather, per standard academic practice as the first task, follow Panofsky’s citations of the book; that is, “consult” the library publications of what art historians have written about pilzbaum.

Heading

Goal: Restore the role of Great Canterbury Psalter folio webpage image f134 (leg-hanging mushroom tree) as a teaching instrument.

Goal: Correct Brown’s error in this journal re: botching St Walburga tapestry Amanita imagery identification.

Against anyone who says I’m anti-Amanita; here I prove against Brown in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2019, Walburga is shown holding a vial that’s designed to look like Amanita. Serrated base proves that it IS Amanita.

Ardent Advocate in training, Prof. Jerry Brown.

Brown argued that the serrated base depicted in the tapestry proves it is NOT Amanita – an elementary error of identification traits.

This error also happens to trainwreck his whole train of arg’n about his field trip that decided to cancel his field trip, a decision that they based on the very clear pic [photo credit: not Julie Brown] in Irvin’s “unclear art gallery” where the unclarity is the cause of false positives/ misinterpretation.

Browns treated the image as so very clear, they made a decision based on Irvin’s gallery: a decision NOT to do field research and look at the tapestry first-hand – directly contradicting their claim for superiority of their ability to correctly interp by doing field research.

I have the Browns forever thinking they should have made that field trip, so I could write: “Photo credit: Julie M. Brown: The serrated base proves that the healing vial she holds is shaped to look like an Amanita. The Ardent Advocates are essentially right, yet again.”

Maybe Brown is right: if they had dismissed the blurry image from Irvin and had actually done the field research trip that they falsely market themselves as having done, Brown would have taken the time to check whether Amanita has serrated base, as A Golden Guide: Hallucinogenic Plants plainly shows right on the cover.

Richard Evans Shultes – 1st Ed of the Hofmann book, Ratsch = 3rd Ed.

Brown & Brown get lost in Dan Brown’s labyrinth, with bull in the middle.

what’s the point? 1) it’s this Journal. 2) field is so primitive, makes BASIC errors of id’n, eg Creation of Plants – Brown botched, 2nd isn’t Pana, it’s obv Lib Cap of course: Pan, Lib, Cub, Ama. per me, Dec 13 2020. Matching my specimen observation categs; a practical classifn from Eadwine that MAKES PERFECT SENSE USEFULLY. 3) field trip” arg is more posturing, we all go to lib (irvin,f me), we all look at forests.

True, we were all sore disapoint by John Rush 2011 gallery of blur, but, Rush is Right in important ways – I’ll take Rush over Deniers literalists any day.

{Celestial Erection} for the win. & {mushroom hem} – two major, clear motifs directly about mushroom, brought to us theorized & spotted by J Rush. Whereas Hatsis contributed… what?, a better color pic of Dancing Man.

🕺 🍌🛼

Goal: Teach historical psychedelic Christianity.
per the Explicit Cubensis paradigm, according to pilzbaum artists & alchemy inheriting the same themes, & hellenistic roots of those themes/ motifs eg mosaic Dionysus Victory Marriage Parade.

Goal: Put pilzbaum Deniers on notice that their args will be routinely subjected to logical-fallacies critique & analysis to figure out which logical fallacies they are committing this time.
Deniers must anticipate the obvious objections and address them up front, else continue to lose credibility. But really the matter is settled like shift from Geo to Sun centric cosmology; that dispute is in the past.

Now we move forward with productive “Normal Science” (Kuhn) conducted within the new paradigm; Browns’ proposed database of evidence, but more sure-footed and integrating {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Goal: In CEQ, delete the sheister “Grief” fake factor; restore the “Dread regarding Control” factor.
eg OAV > Angst dimension > Item 54: “I was afraid to lose my self-control.”

Control-challenges are the Hallmark CENTERPIECE of challenging psilocybin experiences; CEQ must reflect that, not SUPPRESS THE SHADOW DRAGON MONSTER.

Debunk and expose CEQ’s deletion of all challenging experiences and replacing them by mere Grief fake effects/ items/ factor. Debunk the Grief factor; restore the Dread regarding Control factor.

Goal: Bust Wasson; explain full expose.
Thanks to the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2019 Brown. Panofsky the top art historian urged mycologists (Affirmers) to see Brinckmann book 1906 86 pages in German.

Chickenshit Wasson hid the citation and the two mushroom trees from Panofsky, and the 2nd letter also urging to see Brinckmann’s “little” book; Wasson then lectures mycologists as ignoramuses for not “consulting” the “competent” art historians — AT THE SAME TIME AS CENSORING the Brinckmann 1906 citation, which is all they got, these “competent” experts.

It was a dirty bluff by Wasson, exposed by this journal in 2019, when interpreted and explained by my repeated close read-throughs in Egodeath Mystery Show.

The Deniers of pilzbaum have forfeited any credibility, stooping to lying, bluffing, academic fraud, censorship, deceit, and dissimulation.

See the ellipses and the word “consult”, in SOMA, re: “the” [sic] Panofsky letter.

You, consult — while I censor, to prevent you from the standard academic practice for “consulting”.

Goal: Kill off the fallacious move, “Mycologists need to ‘consult’ ‘competent’ art historians.”
Rule: ACADEMICS ARE REQUIRED TO PUBLISH their views on pilzbaum, else doesn’t count – ie, counts as a ruse, a bluff; dishonest, insincere, unbelievable, a put-on; bad-faith argumentation. A coerced faith-statement/ confession,

“I disavow pilzbaum!” <– no academic weight/credibility

To have any chance of being credible, historians and art historians must follow standard academic practice: publish (with citations not withheld & censored, this time), SO WE CAN CITE AND CHECK THE PILZBAUM DENIERS’ BOGUS CLAIMS AND CONFUSED ARGUMENTS.

No more of this bullshit move, “reach out to consult the competent art historian.”

If you have personally reached out to an art historian, like Brown did with Marcia Kupfer [todo: confirm], you are WRONG; this is a bunk, invalid move – A TRAVESTY OF ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP.

This totally bunk move is a bluff by deceiver Wasson, in SOMA and beyond, repeated multiple times, repeatedly actively lying by omission and suppressing and censoring the Brinckmann book citation, TO HIDE THE SCHOLARSHIP FROM US, and suppressing and censoring Pan’s two attached pilzbaum TO HIDE THE EVIDENCE FROM US at the same time as he chastises and berates & DEEPLY INSULTS MYCOLOGISTS (pilzbaum Affirmers) as dull, ignorant, etc.

Demonic deception by Wasson!

It is left to me, after Brown 2019, to firmly kick Wasson’s ass the f out of here, PHONY, FRAUD, RED-HANDED LIAR AND DECEIVER.

WASSON IS HEREBY STRIPPED OF THE TITLE “FATHER OF ETHNOMYCOLOGY”, DUE TO ACADEMIC FRAUD, AS REVEALED BY BROWN 2019 REVEALING PANOFSKY’S PAIR OF LETTERS, EXPLAINED AND INTERP’D AND REBUTTED HERE BY Cybermonk 2024/2025.

I’ve been discussing this pair of Panofsky letters, and related matters, on the Egodeath Mystery Show for years, since 2019 (2020; I didn’t fully vigorously engage Brown 2019 until like 1.5 years a bit late). eg I read aloud my LONG 2006 Plainc article on the show.

Under the conditions of Prohibition, published writings and personal statements of Faith Commitment like this are not valid scientific academic practice, and must be discounted accordingly.

Wasson/ Brown/ Huggins/ bunk pseudo-academic fallacy move, “Mycologists need to consult competent authority w/ stopwatch to measure how quickly they bark I DISAVOW PILZBAUM.”

An obvious fallacy, eg Argument from Authority.

Letcher 2006 endnotes “pers. corr.” in the finale of his mis-treatment of Bern Door, “Therefore, Bernward Door’s Blame scene’s Liberty Cap is a tree, not a mushroom. Proof: I reached out to consult a competent historian on this matter related to art and history.” End note reads: “pers. corr.”

I have a lot of BS, confused gibberish from Hatsis that’s “pers. corr.”, should I bank on that, likewise?

“The shape of the liberty cap is anachronistic. – Hatsis, pers. corr.

“You and Brown are contradicting your Allegro-based Secret Amanita view, by changing your position to Psil, which is a self-contradiction.” – Hatsis, pers. corr.

Goal: Reply to McCarthy & Priest (pair of articles about Psychedelic Christianity in 2024 Journal of Psychedelic Studies​).

Inapprop arg’n, “Don’t make current-day psychedelic Christianity dependent on fanciful speculation about alleged past use, for which we have no evidence.”

If they knew the current state of the evidence — NOT MURARESKU’S TIK — it’s not speculation, and it’s not minor: we have MAJOR PROOF (max quantity, max quality) of an EXTREMELY DEVELOPED tradition of Psilocybin Christianity.

It’s irrational & inappropriate to frame this state of the field of study as “dependent on speculation”.

Doing so just reveals that the authors — like editor Winkelman wrote and as Prof. Brown wrote — McCarthy & Priest have NO IDEA WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT and are inexcusably ignorant of entheogen scholarship.

McCarthy & Priest failed to address this problem, about which Wink & Brown complained at length – ignored.

Logical fallacy: Lecturing people to not do what you yourself are doing (i.e. presupposition & projection)

Goal: Deliver Eadwine’s 1200 AD transmission of branching-message mushroom trees; give voice to the Medieval pilzbaum artists of 900-1300+ AD.

Hatsis lectured Irvin or Ruck on “colonial ignoring of the voices of historical agents”, while he ignored and suppressed the voices of the pilzbaum artists.

“SHUT UP, PILZBAUM ARTISTS, I’M TRYING TO PREVENT SCHOLARS FROM ATTRIBUTING A MUSHROOM MESSAGE TO YOU.”

– Hatsis, as cited in his overpriced book Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: “For my proof on this matter which is central to this book, demonstrating my correct, tried-and-true, superior historiographical methodology, see my articles somewhere on the web.”

Goal: Establish a Forbidden Word List.
Secret, hidden, suppressed, Amanita, Ergot, kykeon, Eleusis, Plaincourault, Allegro, The Mushroom, The Holy Mushroom, sacred mushrooms (lumping /conflating Psil / Ama in order to rip off Psil to glorify Aman) cult, cults, sects, underground, counterculture, so-called heretics/ heretical sects. In all 3 Entheos, Ruck writes the phrase “so-called heretics/heretical sects”. Criticize Ruck for titling every book as “Secret”; criticize/quote Brown 2016 subtitle “Secret History”, criticize/quote the end of Brown 2019 article speculating about “secret initiation” – kill off that bad idea that CAUSES BLINDNESS through prejudice-based presuppositions taken as fact. Cite/quote Cyberdisciple pages about “secrecy”/suppression-premised bad theorizing.

I credit my discoveries of Psil Christian trad’n and world myth incl Hellenistic myth as Psil, connecting core theory to relig myth, b/c of my decades of theorizing that never employed would-be explanatory constructs such as “suppressed cult, secret & hidden counterculture”.

My motivation: Use myth to prove my core theory of psychedelic eternalism.

The Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck “Secret Amanita” paradigm was counterproductive toward that goal/ mission/ objective/ project, and so I had to do away with the Secret Amanita paradigm, in my 2002/2003 announcement of the maximal entheogen theory of religion.

I was successful as a discoverer of pilzbaum evidence because I in 2002/2003 firmly condemned and rejected (overthrew) the Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck, Moderate (aka Minimal) entheogen theory of religion, and their False King Amanita.

My method and project was instead on the Psilocybin Eucharist Mainstream paradigm, which gave me truckloads more evidence than the negative scholars entheogen scholarship with their “PRESENCE CONFIRMS SUPPRESSION THUS ABSENCE”; in which presence is absence; more evidence = more proof of heretical-only use of The Mushroom [🍄]. Evidence is neutralized by Ruck to keep the Bad Guys (like Lash does) from having The Mushroom, Our Holy Mushroom. and Our Fresco of The Mushroom.

I’m with Panofsky/ Letcher/ Hatsis/ Huggins on this point: burn down Our Fresco, trashcan Our Mushroom. Pop drivel, shallow, dead end, puerile pop theory and equally puerile pop debunking of that.

Quality Ranking of the Pilzbaum Deniers

Regarding specifically the quality of their arguments against pilzbaum / purposeful mushroom imagery in Christian art: unclear. Hard to assess such badness; layers of logical fallacies. Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins, Panofsky?? I consider Dancing Man included.

Goal: End the rehashed parroted narratives of Pop Secret Amanita Suppressed by the Big Bad Church that’s Perma Prohibitionist.

Goal: Correctly assign credit for pilzbaum to Samorini 1996-1998, not to Allegro (Irvin 2008), not to Wasson (Ruck 2001, Lash maybe).

Goal: Make the field (entheogen scholarship; Psychedelic Cognitive Science) understand that we don’t know anything, cannot make premature conclusions.

Everything we “know” is total bullshit (“no psil in Europe”) (“no Cubensis in Europe”) (“Christianity lacks a psychedelic tradition”) (“the Church omitted entheogens”).

The field and its alleged knowledge/ conclusions needs a reset, needs to be scrapped and start over fresh, without Allegro and Secret Amanita at all.

Wasson blocked progress 1952-1998; the field is brand new. The first paradigm, the old science theory, was Secret Amanita.

Now I in 2002/2007/ 2020/ 2022/ 2024 bring the 2nd paradigm in the field, the new science / new theory, the Explicit Cubensis paradigm, including psychedelic eternalism.

Goal: Move Past Mysticism.
Trashcan “MEQ” as bunk psych science per Stang confronting / admitted by Griftiths, MEQ is BS fairytale based on “Science” from James 1902 + Stace 1960, “long in the tooth” quote from Erik Davis.

Important debate now in psychedelic “science”. I give the correct 3rd alternative:

foggy mysticism? hardcore materialism? Neither. Psychedelic Cognitive Science) (Loose Cognitive Science); the Egodeath theory; psychedelic eternalism; mental construct processing.

Mention the Freewill Questionnaire, what’s wrong w it (domino chain det’m; egoic version of transcendent thinking; ought to be eternalism; block-universe eternalism).

Goal: Move the field (entheogen scholarship & Psychedelic Cognitive Science) forward, fully incorporating/digesting Brown 2019’s two Panofsky-to-Wasson letters.

Goal: Establish that Christianity has a fully developed psilocybin tradition.

Goal: Trashcan the CEQ-POS questionnaire; replace by my ECQ.
Also redo the MEQ-Uni-Rai 🦄🌈 “mysticism” 1902/1960, described as “long in the tooth”, per Erik Davis quote.
Go back to the A of OAV: Dread of Ego Dissolution [DED] [= AED], all 21 negative effects items/questions. Replace CEQ by my
ECQ – “Eternalism and Control Questionnaire”
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/eternalism-and-control-transformation-effects-in-the-psychedelics-effects-questionnaires/
Require writing clear articles justifying creation of q’airs. In plain English, why did you delete Item 54: “I was afraid to lose control.” Require Open Science: questionnaires MUST be publicly viewable.

Goal: Identify exactly: What is there to be afraid of?
What’s There to Be Afraid Of? Identifying the Shadow Dragon Monster
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/whats-there-to-be-afraid-of-identifying-the-shadow-dragon-monster/

Goal: Provide stable control for Psilocybin users; open the gate for Loose Cog Science.
Strict Requirements for Teachers, Initiation Guides, and Students, Prior to Initiation
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/strict-requirements-for-teachers-initiation-guides-and-students-prior-to-initiation/

Goal: Move FORWARD productively in psychedelic eternalism , Loose Cog Sci, entheogen scholarship.
Not get hung on badly argued uninformed writings of the Pop Deniers: Panofsky, Wasson the LYING-BY-ACTIVE-OMISSION DECEIVER, Letcher, Hatsis, Huggins. Consider their points, handle them as we’ve done, but move forward. Deniers’ credibility is in the toilet, re: the big point.

2019 Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ marks the start of a new phase of entheogen scholarship – now that Brown 2019 published Panofsky’s censored letters, and we can rebut his “branches” arg.

Panofsky, Letcher, Hatsis, & Huggins – these are the best pilzbaum Deniers, yet all of their argumnets are GARBAGE-tier, obvious logical fallacies. Scraping the bottom of the garbage can.

Unprofitable. Not Productive. Not Relevant. Ruck paradigm Not relevant. Letcher debunking ruck is Not Relevant. Hatsis debunking Irvin 2008 is Not Relevant. Not

Not Productive: Secret Amanita, Debunking Pop Secret Amanita

The Secret Suppression paradigm CAUSES BLINDNESS eg Blue-to-Red shift (& reversing!) cover of 2002 Entheos Issue 3 tauroctony.

  • Blindness to mushrooms in art eg psil mushroom in Mithras’ leg; my blindness to the dispensary bins in f134 Great Canterbury Psalter, due to my inherited negative prejudiced expectations and defeatism.
  • Blindness to non-branching motif.
  • Blindness to intermediate motif of {handedness}.
  • Blindness to {stability} motif, found in conjunction with these other 3 motifs.

Everyone was blind to {Cut Right Trunk} of Dancing Man/ salamander bestiary, until me just the other day AFTER decoding f134 Great Canterbury Psalter.

Not Relevant: Secret Amanita, Debunking Pop Secret Amanita

no one cares about Amanita ingesting, just pop drama storytime titillation. Irrelevant for Reform ie Full Repeal of Prohibition.

Not Rewarding: Secret Amanita, Debunking Pop Secret Amanita

So everyone gets to ingest Amanita, which is already legal anyway. 3rd rate, urine recycling, sweat, delirium, false reality. No one wants Amanita ingesting. So why is everyone fanatical about Amanita-based entheogen scholarship?

Productive: the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

My theory and interp gets rid of the secrecy-induced blindness to evidence, and makes perceptible not merely mushrooms in art, but psychedelic eternalism comprehension & recognition.

Relevant: the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

My paradigm of doing theory & entheogen scholarship sets its objective as Repeal Prohibition of Psilocybin.

Cubensis is 100% relevant to the extreme. Amanita is 0% relevant.

Psil is being legalized; need to leverage Medieval knowledge of stqability, combined with my non-analogy based Core Theory of psychedelic eternalism; analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control.

Rewarding: the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

When you get the Explicit Cubensis paradigm, you get the Egodeath theory along with it for free.

The Egodeath theory is the smallest, simplest, most explanatory power, and most relevant useful theory/model of mental model transformation in Loose Cognitive State, enabling Loose Cognitive Science.

My paradigm delivers: Totally legalized Psilocybin (like in 1900; full repealing of 1971 Prohibition), and tons of art history evidence.

Brown at Hancock already destroyed Hatsis into a smoking ruin. My 2006 Plainc article already warned to stop the fake non-debate and be productive instead.

(I am considering going deep re: Panofsky’s two letters – but NOT refuting in detail other idiotic topics like the Bernward Door bogus argument from Letcher, which mis-cites Stamets as asserting “secret”, then builds his arg on disproving “secret” – you won the wrong debate, and get a worthless trophy: victory over straw man.)

Meanwhile the real, serious, scholarly, evidence-based, evidence-engaging research continues, ignoring the time-wasting bunk logical fallacies put forth by prejudiced, shallow, reductionist, literalist scholars – those on the outside.

AGREE with Deniers, that POP SECRET AMANITA has to go. Hatsis is right, on that point (but let’s keep Santa Amanita, against Grinch Hatsis).

3rd option: Explicit Cubensis paradigm.

Huggins mentions branching 2024, but, I can ignore that ; Huggins 2024 just copypastes Panofsky.

I can cut off this bad branch at the root; demolish Panofsky directly, not merely demolish Huggins’ copypaste of Panofsky.)

Criticize Huggins 2024 for failing to point out that HE has Pan #2 but WE did not until Brwon 2019 – thx to jerk Wasson who berates pilzbaum Affirmers that they ought to “consult” art historians – at the very same time that Wasson censors those very art historians b/c their writings/ publications are near-nonexistent and do not support the Deniers of pilzbaum and do not support the Was/Pan CLAIM that art historians “are familiar” and “competent”.

Wasson, Father of Obstructing European Ethnomycology

Don’t waste time on endless pseudo-debate mixed with willful logical fallacies. Keep the field moving forward productively. Keep warnings of the Deniers (of Pop Secret Amanita storytime? of purposeful pilzbaum in Christian art?) in mind to the right extent.

We still lack the Brown database, though Brown said my site is effectively that. I’m out of space, due to too many mushrooms.

We are WAY too early in research to draw premature conclusions – we do not have a comprehensive Brown databse to FORCE and SHOVE the face of Letcher into it to FORCE them to know and engage with the evidence gathered so far. To prevent their dirty move of 1-off isolating a few isolated “test case” examples.

Evidence = literacy at the visual genre of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs. Data + Interpretation = Theory.

Deniers have NO credibility. There has been no 2-way debate. Deniers have nothing but logical fallacies. Deniers rely on lying through omission; censorship – SOMA ellipses on page 180 line 3 of SOMA by Wasson, = evil lying deception censorship;
Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/wasson-academic-fraud-berates-mycologists-not-consulting-art-historians-same-time-censoring-brinckmann-citation-urged-by-panofsky-twice/

CITATION FKKING NEEDED, JERK! STFU ABOUT “CONSULT” MY AZZ! Frauds published NOTHING except Brinc, which you censored, DEMON WASSON!

Wasson, Father of Obstructing European Ethnomycology

Wasson, Father of Fraudulent Obstruction of European Ethnomycology – “consult” means DO NOT CONSULT BRINCKMANN’S PATHETIC “LITTLE” BOOK THAT PROVES NOTHING – and DO NOT CONSULT Panofsky’s two attached pilzbaum pictures.

Wasson’s deceptive, lying word “consult” here means DO NOT CONSULT Panofsky’s 2nd letter full of bad logical fallacy argumentation & another strong recommendation of Brinckmann’s “little” book in support of Panofsky’s just-so storytime-telling of “development” from pine to mushrooms, which proves (somehow??) that artists have no intentionality, no purpose of mushroom elements, but are just sloppy.

Instead, use Argument from Authority: “consult” doesn’t mean Brinckmann & photostats; “consult” means instead, go WAY out of normal academic practice and personally contact the non-writers on this topic, and interrogate them whether they, “with impressive celerity”, bark out the correct, “competent” answer, “I disavow the pilzbaum!” like trained seals.

Never mind the obvious issues of compromised, tabooed, pressure of coerced position statements, and prejudice, and lack of knowledge of art or mycology or eternalism cybernetics on the part of these “competent” art historians “on a matter relating to art”. Utter bullshit, Wasson!

Looking Directly into the Face of Bullshit
🐮💩🍄😱 – Dissimulation, Deception, and Lying Double-Talk

There is not a single Affirmer theory.

There is Wasson; Allegro; Ruck; asserting each their own manner of Affirming some position or other:
Secret Amanita [Wasson version];
Secret Amanita [Allegro version];
Secret Amanita [Ruck version];
Explicit Cubensis [M Hoffman version].

There are multiple scholars giving each a unique critique of each distinct version of Affirming aka “THE” mushroom in Christian art theory, but it is theorIES plural.

Each writer should state their position and the specific and/or general position(s) that they argue against. Else time wasting slip-and-slide.

Do not waste time on churning, bad argumentation and 1-way non-debates. Keep focused on the research mission:

To what extent mushrooms in Christian art? How to interpret in context of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs?

per end of my 2006 Plainc article’s call to Get Serious and stop the fruitless charade.

I already refuted args, already called out Was/Pan arg from authority and CITATION FKKING NEEDED from your alleged “competent in this matter” authorities who PUBLISHED NOTHING but a flimsy, 86-page, ancient, German-language book that proves nothing about the contended purposefulness of mushroom imagery in pilzbaum.

Development (from pine to mushroom) proves purposelessness? Does Not Follow. More likely, Brinckmann’s (alleged) demonstration of development from pine to mushroom suggests purposefulness, not purposelessness.

Letcher presents good contributions to critiquing various Affirmers of pilzbaum, but has serious drawbacks that waste time, like falsely mis-citing Stamets for saying Bernward door is “secret” — creating a strawman used as Letcher’s soggy foundation for concluding “no secret mushroom” (the Motte, easy to defend, but worthless) in order to then narratively conclude “no mushroom” (the Bailey, hard to defend, what he wishes he could defend).

Huggins Text-First Fallacy

“However, as historian Bernhard Gallistl points out: “The hidden symbolism in a picture can only be proven from the available textual sources.”” – p 15, “Foraging” – Huggins

same page/para, Huggins employs Stang:

“Charles Stang, director of Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions, states the problem well: “if the original Eucharist were psychedelic, or even if there were significant numbers of early Christians using psychedelics like sacrament, I would expect [?? presentism??] the representatives of orthodox, institutional Christianity to rail against it. I would expect we’d have ample evidence.”

WTF does Stang know about “ample evidence”, when Letcher only considers 1 out of 5 pilzbaum in Bernward door/column?

Thanks to Wasson’s obstructionist censorship of Panofsky’s double citation of Brinckmann, and censoring the two pilzbaum photostats, the field is WAY too early to gauge “ample”, other than on the false basis of blindness through presuppositions & prejudice.

Top wishes for this article to accomplish, top points to make

Goal: Everyone recognize and comprehend psychedelic eternalism.
Represented via {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

Goal: entheogen scholarship must be directed toward Repeal of Psil Prohibition – not folk morality tales of identity formation by laboring to construct a barrier between us heretic psychedelic vs them mainstream prohibitionists for eternity (suckers tricked into self-defeating support for perma Prohibition) – the dysfunctional Secret Amanita paradigm ruining entheogen scholarship during awk adoles immature phase 1952-1996, ended by Samo 1996-97-98 into 2001 contrib to Conj Eden article. Brown 2019 frames new era starting 1998 and lists Cybermonk first.

The new era of entheogen scholarship started with Michael Hoffman Egodeath.com – Brown 2019 – todo

“Overenthusiasm by ardent advocates – Since the publication of Wasson’s Soma (1968) and Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970), new evidence has emerged on websites (Michael Hoffman, 1985–2007a) and in articles (Samorini, 1997, 1998) and books documenting the presence of sacred mushrooms in Christian art.” –Brown, p. 157, Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 3(2), 2019. biblio entries for MH.

Brown cites my exhausting article on Plaincourault re: Moving Fwd Retaining the Real Point

Michael Hoffman, 1985–2007a

Brown 2019 wrote: “it is important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. … The baby refers to Allegro’s thesis that visionary plants had been widely used in Western culture and religion throughout the ages including the mystical experiences of early Christianity. According to Hoffman (1985–2007a), this view is supported in one form or another by a variety of entheogen scholars including Chris Bennett, Peter Furst, Clark Heinrich, Jonathan Ott, Carl Ruck, Huston Smith, and R. Gordon Wasson, to name a few.”

Hoffman, M. (1985–2007a). Entheogens and religion. Retrieved
from http://www.egodeath.com/index.html#Entheogens_and_Religion
http://www.egodeath.com/index.html#Entheogens_and_Religion
Hoffman, M. (1985–2007b). Gallery: Christian mushroom-trees.
Retrieved from http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.
htm#_Toc135889185
http://www.egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.
htm#_Toc135889185

Goal: Make entheogen scholarship retract “No Cubensis in Europe.”
MAKE ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP EAT CROW AND RETRACT “NO CUBE IN EUROPE” — JUST AS THEY ALREADY HAD TO EAT CROW AND RETRACT “NO LIB CAP / PSIL IN ENGLAND” per Shroom by Letcher.

Goal: Kill the myth “Europe = Amanita, Americas = Psilocybin”.
Kick out on its ass the lie, folk tale: “Europe = Amanita, Americas = Psilocybin”. Total false bullshit. Totally false. Christianity has an important, extremely important, mainstream traditional (if those words mean anything) history of psychedelic eternalism.

Goal: Debunkers of Pop Secret Amanita, stop conflating that with entheogenic Christianity history
the Explicit Cubensis paradigm or general theory of entheogenic Christianity history.

Goal: End the Amanita Primacy Fallacy in entheogen scholarship.
Stop insulting Psilocybin by forcing it into a minor supporting role for False King Amanita. Instead, force Amanita into a minor supporting role for True King Cubensis just like headshop art: {spotted mushroom} means ingesting Cubensis, not ingesting Amanita.

  • There always were Cubensis, Panaeolus, and Liberty Cap in Europe and England. Entheogen scholarship is full of shiite on this point, parotting folk myths as is established scientific fact, but it’s nothing but myth & prejudice. Paul Stamets says nothing to the contrary, but he has a HUGE blind spot, and was so weak in spreading his message, re: Europe, that Hancock had to set record straight: i watched this livestream that day

url 22:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkuNEBstkFs&t=1366s

Joe of Psychedelics Today podcast/outlet: transcription excerpts by Cybermonk —

In Visionary was this comment about psilocybin-containing mushrooms never existing in Europe, and one famous mycologist you chatted with said there’s no evidence, like before Columbus discovered the Americas, and then you passed this by Stamets, and Stamets said that’s that’s totally absurd.

Graham Hancock:

Yeah of course, and I had another mycologist do the DNA on Psilocybe semilanceata from North America and Psilocybe semilanceata from Europe, and these psilocybes have been evolving separately for tens of thousands of years, probably hundreds of thousands of years, so it’s got absolutely nothing to do with contact between the new world and the old, but there always were psilocybe mushrooms in Europe, just as there always were in the Americas, and you know they’re– the Psilocybe semilanceata of course is just one amongst many, you know, there’s many more; this is a universally available technique.

A Cubensis-First Paradigm

“Cubensis” here means Cubensis first, subsuming everything else. Instead of Amanita first, subsuming everything else. As just one example:

In the book Strange Fruit, Clark Heinrich discards and shuts out all other entheogens, including Cubensis, when he takes Rev 22:2 and reduces it to: the tree of life is Amanita.

Each tree of life produces 12 different kinds of fruit crops every month, plus the leaves that heal nations. Using Heinrich’s & Bennett’s general reasoning, the tree of life means Cubensis, as well as Amanita and Cannabis, and ten other entheogens, such as (per Eadwine: Creation of Plants’s 4 mushroom types) Panaeolus & Liberty Cap.

The book Strange Fruit by Heinrich makes Cubensis serve the needs of advocating Amanita. Do the reverse:

The first and main plant is Cubensis, with Amanita reduced to a visual supporting role as a symbol representing all entheogens (per Dale Pendell).

Quote Pendell, Pharmako Gnosis: “Amanita M is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion.”

The “Explicit Cubensis” paradigm shift: Mushroom Eternalism was NOT only understood by a few artists, but by mainstream Christians, & counts as “traditional psychedelics”

I have proved that Christianity has a psychedelic tradition.

Proof: Not only elite psalters have the 4 key motifs combined; Saint Martin church & the “St Eustace crossing the river” window are publicly, EXPLICITLY displayed for ALL CHRISTIANS.

Not Secret Amanita; Explicit Cubensis.

In Saint Martin church, Jesus’ elect follower shows understanding & agreement by holding out non-branching sticks + branching feather to inches within Jesus’s finger shapes: splayed left-hand fingers & non-splayed right-hand fingers:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-➳🖖🌴🔪🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐/#Image-1-Christs-Entry-into-Jerusalem

The egoic autonomous king, as control agent, is sacrificed, negated, fastened to the tree = {Entry Into Jerusalem}.

The PUBLIC combination of the 4 key motifs signals that all Christians understood psychedelic eternalism – {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

In the “Dark Ages”, the Christian public knew Transcendent Knowledge; psychedelic eternalism, as revealed by the Explicit Cubensis paradigm, against the presuppositions of the Secret Amanita paradigm.

Thus I have proved that Christianity has a psychedelic tradition.

f134 Great Canterbury Psalter corrections/ addl decoding

Figured out Nov ~19, 2024. My voice recordings have a record; figured out while recording.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Initiation-Image-Canterbury

todo: move section to f134 webpage, but keep separate, with date, to show the record of discovery phases Nov 2022 – Nov 2024. a correction & expansion to fill in gaps where i was in error for not figuring out / decoding /recognizing these connections before.

Error: Eadwine tricked me into thinking that the L arm belonged to student 2; that is suggested, but overridden by hem line of teacher’s garment that says “no, if you study the puzzle closely, that arm MUST be assigned to the teacher, ie student 2 is shown as nothing but a face, only!

And yet you are being asked ie by floating sage’s furrowed brow, to answer: which foot must be down for student 2, based on the rules that are expressed in cluster of students.

Teacher displays not only R hand, as i previously wrote, but L hand too! and has furrowed brow — SAME as floating sage on R2R (& both have a Limbless Youth attached).

Student 2 is a Limbless Youth (limbless only means we must use other attributes – brow state – to deduce which mental model they are using & thus whether they are cubensis-compatible or will lose control in the altered state.

mobile app issue: cant add image

the “meaning” of row 2 right , floating guy’s floating feet: connects him to Row 1 left, student 2 & 4, feet not shown. part of Answer: we are being asked to assess which mental model each figure is using.

Answer: floating guy is displaying hand like students

Answer: floating guy has a guy w no limbs, attached to him

Answer: the examiner Row 1 L has extra face attached

Answer: ERROR trick correction: The L arm belongs to the teacher/ examiner, NOT to student 2. That is proved by the teacher’s vertical garment fold line.

Thus actually, the ONLY part of student 2 shown is his face! Yet we (as advanced sages/ students/ initiates) are nevertheless expected to assess feet of student 2 & 4, though – like the floating sage, whose feet we cannot use to assess which model he relies on – their feet are not shown.

Student 3 establishes that which foot is down overrides which hand is displayed; non-furrowed brow….

The brown, dead leaf proves his left hand is wrong answer, or converts his Left hand to expressing the correct assertion. In this genre, {R foot down} is directly the theme/ analogy, affirming non-branching. so, student 3 is stable. Crutch + L foot touching stable tower base in equivalent, in f177. Comparable is woman with CLOSED scroll w L foot touching {stable column base}.

In effect, two negative attributes cancel/ converts, to be Correct, affirming eternalism-thinking, which is stable (not loss of control during the Cubensis peak state).

Against Reading Student 3 as a C Student

Student 3 can be read not as giving wrong answer by displaying L hand, but as showing the correct answer by dead leaf touching L arm.

Student 1 is an A student, he expresses the basic rules of this game, via celestial erection (per John Rush) + correct R foot down + correct R hand displayed.

Student 1 functions to first confirm Row 2’s basic pair of figures (start here, following Student 1):

Tte foolish youth receiving Cubensis w wrong, L foot down (= possibilism-thinking; he will lose control in the Psilocybin state).

They are paired via touching heels:

The smart youth w sack of Cubensis w R foot down; he wont lose control in the Psilocybin state, because he is using eternalism -thinking; non-branching possibilities assumption.

Then after the basic rules are established, we must assess the floatung sage, which mental model he is using — but we are prevented from relying on simply looking at his feet to see whether his L or R foot is down.

Thus Eadwine sets up a series of progressively harder puzzles building out the genre’s standard motif of stand on R foot like Eve in Plaincouault fresco Amanita mushroom-branching tree.

The floating sage wrinkles his brow (like the examiner on row 1 left)) while looking up at the guy hanging from tree.

The floating sage is shown with neither foot down, so how do we read whether he is using possibilism thinking and has loss of control, or eternalism-thinking and stable control? –> same with guy hanging in tree.

Similar but less difficult, is the guy sitting in the tree.

todo/exercise: List such figures in order of difficulty of analyzing whether they use possibilism-thinking or eternalism-thinking.

Answer: thus student 4 must have L foot down else would have smooth brow. bc student 3 & 4 both show L hand, overlapped, yet result in different brow state.

Answer: similarly, student 2 (we only see face) has implicitly L foot down.

Answer: teacher + student 1 face = Row 2 R floating guy + limbless youth.

Answer: student 2 (only his face is shown, attached to back of teacher’s head) is unstable; bc furrowed brow.

in contrast, Row 2 R limbless youth is Stable (has eternalism thinking ) bc unfurrowed brow & his feet are replaced by stable column base.

Answer: row 2 R floating guy furrowed brow does not indicate he is unstable/ using possibilism-thinking – his furrow means: you are to explain the rules overriding rules that signal/ indicate which mental model each figure is using; loss of control if cubensis / loose cognition.

Ans: Row 2 L army: for each figure, assess which mental model / whether stable, — do this by listing all the positive & negative indicators, & which ones override:

floating guy R2R has:

Pros: jewish hat ; beard; R hand lower than left; msh hem / that is touching Stable Column Base.

Cons: furrowed brow, displaying L hand

Ans based on his pros/cons: he is Stable in the cubensis state, ie using eternalism-thinking.

army is left as an exercise for the reader.

i assessed woman previously, holding Scale Balance & Closed Scroll: i yesterday inventoried her +/- attributes: her figure expresses: you are stable when using the left foot egoic possibilism-thinking only IF you are in ordinary state; tight cognitive binding

Outline of Broad Article

todo: on laptop, enter topic list for journal supplemental article.

Pair of articles:

Branching-message mushroom trees – narrow.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship – broad.

I will move Conclusion content from branching-message mushroom trees article to “Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship”.

old 2nd / companion article found today: “Roasting entheogen scholarship” – I forgot about that, but such a type of article is indeed key, to unload from the overburdened Concl secn of branching-message mushroom trees article: (free up word count)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/roasting-entheogen-scholarship-how-the-field-of-entheogen-scholarship-was-wrecked-by-the-amanita-primacy-fallacy/

the above title is poor , vs “Cube-driven entheogen scholarship”.

Huggins 2 articles

https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case

he presents Panof BRANCHES arg. glad u mentioned…

his Dancing Man Salm bestiary article

HATSIS JR.

as bad argn as Panof & Hatsis. Huggins Concl is reductionism + false dilemma fallacy. ultra obviously. 1-way “debate” , like Hatsis destroyed by Brown. they send out semi-articulated argn that is not designed for pushback.

They dont care at all about good argn . result is puzzling mux mux mix of unclear arg statement + obvious logical fallacies

todo: re: Brinkmann book

Brown: German lang reader: which p does Brink 1906 write re Development of pilzbaum from pine to mushroom imagery (fails to see nonbranching integrated w that motif)?

Which p of Brink says GRADUAL & WIDESPREAD devmt?

Which p says devmt proves unintentional? i say it proves intentional.

DOES NOT FOLLOW; ie the non sequitur fallacy

the real debate is: is there PURPOSE of the mushroom imagery?

yes: make viewers interp the image/ entire image as NOT mushroom but psychedelic eternalism , via CONJOINED motifs of tree AND mushroom ;

{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs are found together, proving artists did not try to message either “tree” OR “mushroom”.

the MAIN msg & purpose of this genre is to communicate psychedelic eternalism.

Panofsky 2 sentence 7&8: “religious artists had little reason to think of mushroom – bc not in Bible “afaik” or stories of saints” – but see awesome perfect “St Eustace Crossing River”, that disproves all of Panofsky’s false statements.

Psychedelic Christianity article

McCarty & Priest article: Brown & Winkelman. Comment on their replies re ignorance of history.

retort to “dont make psyched Christianity DEPEND on history of Christian entheogens ” – that arg collapses, isnt viable, is absurd & inapprop, when there is overwhelming and relevant evidence.

“Ignore this massive, relevant evidence”. Wink, Brown, & I all push back hard, here.

McC/P totally ignore editor Wink & Brown in the meta replies section. “IGNORANT!” we all chant.

cite cyberdisciple “Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in Christianity”

cite Max Transcendent Knowledge podcast: “Ruck: entheogens were everywhere, but no one really knew about it ” “so which is it?”

“institutional Christianity elided entheogens ” – vague, unscholarly claim.

Motivation: re: Conclusion section of draft article “branching-message mushroom trees”, I was blocked trying to cram an entire article’s worth of broad re-direction of the field of entheogen scholarship.

minor, wasnt blocked by this: in branching-message mushroom trees article, below each pic, list the 4-6 motifs, give 2 instances each. to condense. add Splendor Solis: Philosophers Beside the Tree: add Tauroctony.

This is a companion article forming a pair of articles for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies.

the Secret Amanita paradigm vs the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

Panofsky letters critique

Huggins article critique especially branching

Secret Amanita theorists pay no attention to texts and ignore art historians. Conversely, Deniers (Panofsky, Hatsis, Huggins) don’t care at all about good argumentation.

In voice recording, I listed 3 difficulties in assessing their argumentation: what assumptions are they not stating?

have to glean & deduce & speculate.

They only state 2 of 5 points of the argument that they put forth; based on assuming that which is to be proved; obvious logical fallacies. Puzzling & difficult to read them, bc so much is hidden: iceberg arg’n — “Plainc cant be mushroom, bc there are HUNDREDS(!) of pilzbaum, QED.” Challenge: complete thecarg the arg steps. Panof dense abbrevd letters require extremely careful and critical reading

Huggins crazily cites Pan 2nd letter wo emphasizing Wasson censored for 67 yrs; Wasson villain; Browns heroes.

As if we had both letters since 1968; Huggins FAILS to give Brown massive credit & condemn Wasson.

What must Panof or Huggins be silently assuming, to put forth 2 points as if a 5-point argument?

todo: start Idea dev page 20

Breakthroughs Log

todo: move this section to my Log webpage

splendor solice nov 7 2024 thu: from cover of Irvin/ Rutajit 1st Ed 2006 A&S book:

“Philosophers beside the tree” famous image, has the 4 motifs: {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=splendor+solis+philosophers+beside+the+tree&form=HDRSC3&pc=APPL&first=1

Mon Nov 18 rev 22:2 — 12 fruits kinds, trees of life

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2022&version=KJV

gated wall eden & city of god ~ nov 18

the tree of life on both sides of the river, promised to the elect by the Bible, provides
“twelve manner of fruits”

great news, huge news re: strategic entheogenic Bible interp:
Rev 10 & Ezekiel = Aman only, BUT:! …
Rev 22:2 – tree of life grows on BOTH sides of river of life, therefore it is MULTIPLE trees, and they produce TWELVE different crops/ plants (13 entheogens including “the leaves of the tree are for healing the nations”) – not one, eg not just cannabis w 12 or 13 “USES” like Bennett’s book Sex Drugs & Bible (the single-plant fallacy) – he left 11 or 12 entheogens on the table!
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Rev 22:2 King James bible

Mithraism

[6:55 am Nov 24, 2024] SOL FIGURED OUT! or deepened connections to a threshold amount.

Sol is the local lower egoic control agent system after full enlightenment transformation,

Sol is no longer threatened, reached a peace agreement with the higher controller.

The sun inside the fated cosmos ruling consciously in conjunction with Mithras the creator uncontrollable higher controller outside your effective control area.

Mithras hands Sol the reigns to steer as a consciously virtual control agent steering in a virtual tree.

I went to sleep looking at Sol upper left watching Mithras knife (loss of control threat, overpowering) the bull, wondering.

The correct successful perspective came now in the morning.

Tauroctony image:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/#Sacrificing-to-End-Battling-the-Thought-Source

[10:35 pm Nov 23, 2024] stars in Mithras’ billowing cloth (cape) = heimarmene/ eternalism experienced in the psilocybin liberty cap state, like the star gate in Lorenzetti’s Entry into Jerusalem.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Entry-into-Jerusalem-Lorenzetti

knife = mental demonstration of potential loss of control = Paul’s thorn in the side = pierced in the side = {blades} in Great Canterbury Psalter f134 leg-hanging image.

Nov 19, 2024: tauroctony folded legs – look at that foot; no weight on that foot; resolves & firmly contrasts / links other: bull foot down vs mithras foot down. not definite weight on down foot, but instead, depict weight not on other foot

pantocrator left ft lifted usu? 748am nov 20 2024

cautes srch Fri nov 8 2024 — leg/ torch dir correlation. 2/3 of time, Cautes’ weight on R foot & holds torch Up.

The data which doesn’t fit the theory is incorrect and inferior, and doesn’t count. The superior art conforms to my theory.

My expectation/ prediction is Confirmed: in my hi-res high-quality, thus higher credibility tauroctony, refined art:

Cautes with weight on Right foot holds torch Up; Cautopates with weight on Left foot holds torch Down.

Mark Hoffman flipped tauroctony Entheos isssue 3 cover violent palette skew forced from Blue mushroom to Red; the Amanita Primacy Fallacy deletes Blue. same w Irvin jamming Dancing Man from blue cap to red, desperately.

per David Ulansey: the Ruck school fell down into heimarmene block; they WERE above, outside the heimarmene prison rock, looking down at Taurus constellation affirming initiated R leg;

NOW Ruck school is looking up at Taurus from below; the non-initiates’ perspective, affirming weight on L foot, wrongly, producing loss of control. evil, not good.

M Hoffman made both a Red shift from Blue AND flipped the handedness-critical Tauroctony. on the cover – AND therefore the pop Amanita IDOLATERS fanatics failed to see the Psil blue mushroom in Tauroctony. a great example of this bad field.

the corrective compensation: we must weild the diamond hammer of interpretation and force the art database back from Red to Blue skew

Blue Rules, Red Drools

brains 🍄‍🟫 vs looks 🍄

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why does nobody give a sht about my ultra excellent cubensis mushroom trees in Great Canterbury Psalter? bc its not “THE Holy Mushroom, Amanita muscaria”

low-grade – per my theory of low vulgar pop esotericism 🍄 vs authentic actually transformative high esotericism 🍄‍🟫

disrespecting “THE” holy mushroom

Red/Blue Balance

multiply psil in art 10x to compensate for Amanita being 10x too visually appealing; the headshop principle. Psil was the brains & engine, Pendell: Amanita mere symbol.

exoteric esotericism 🍄

esoteric esotericism 🍄‍🟫, explicit cubensis left fingers beanching, right two fingers pressed together , like St Eustace image explicit nonbranching in Chartres Cathedral

heading

chat Rick post

in headshop art language, spotted mushroom does NOT mean using Amanita; it means tripping / psychedelic experience

tree of knowledge does not ultimately mean Amanita, it means the branching-related tripping experience

Huggins has a new good/ bad article that uses the arg from Panofsky 2nd, censored-by-Wasson letter, to deny that Christian art mushroom trees are mushrooms

his neg args are EASY to refute; all are obvious trivial logical fallacies

he’s right: mushroom trees do not mean mushrooms; they mean mushrooms’ psychedelic experience re: branching — especially non-branching eg cut branch/ cut right trunk

no one in the mushroom tree debate noticed the main art motif: cut branch, cut right trunk, that is integrated with the mushroom / tree motif

i was the only one to see the huge cut right trunk in the contentious Dancing Man/ Roasting Salamander alchemic bestiary image

earlier Rick chat

prior to discovering tree of life = 12 different fruit crops / entheogens partic Cubensis

early (unusually early starting morning scholarship).

the acacia/rue theory of Old Testament says Holy Shiite w u

bc i am concluding w Dale Pendell, Amanita in Gen2/ Rev2/ Rev22 tree of knowledge of good & evil, tree of life:

Amanita is NOT psychedelic, but is just a SYMBOL of psilo or dmt

guarantee Amanita does NOT produce psychedelic enlightenment

we are not to take Aman fruit of the tree literally as ingesting Amanita

the word “tree” equated w psychedelic Knowledge is key

branching vs the timeless eternity non-branching peak experience is more important than Amanita

the fruit is not Amanita;
the fruit is the transformative psychedelic non-branching experience
memorizing Pendell opening sentence of Aman chapter:

“Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody USES. It is the supreme SYMBOL of ALL entheogenic religion.”

u & Prndell inspire me to not compromise & hide my negative read on Amanita as merely a SYMBOL of cubensis or acacia/rue experience of tree nonbranching knowledge; eternity/ eternalism experiencing is the fruit

Amanita is merely a symbol that represents that fruit

European art is based on Fall of Man / the Original Sin tree of Gen2 – Amanita as a symbol is heavily present in Europe religious art but

glory to Amanita as a SYMBOL of cubensis or acacia/ rue transformative experience of timeless non-branching frozen eternity

our reward in Rev22 is not Amanita, but rather, eat of tree of life our reward is ability to use cubensis / dmt without loss of control

rick chat before the above

my broad Article’s concept has key word ‘repeal’.
(“policy reform” means “fine-tune the persecution”)

Amanita/ Ergot-driven entheogen scholarship is defeatist and inherently advocates perpetual prohibition and prevents a redemption arc; prevents victory.

Its perverse self-defeating goal/ strategy is to prevent the mainstream/ Church from ever having entheogens/ cubensis.

Amanita-driven entheogen scholarship is not strategic or objective-driven; it is directionless; it is not intentionally connected to achieving Repeal or driven by that objective in any coherent, strategic way.

Huggins two articles – Rick chat

i have draft of 1st artic online (Branching Mushrooms in art)

About to create a draft webpage of 2nd article online (Cube-Driven).
have tons of gripes-and-fixes (incl citations/ quotes) ready to write up.

will cross-cite the pair of articles
too bad i missed pub’g in that issue, but i am unblocked

reading Huggins’ new article criticizing mushrooms in Christian art, & another by him re the “dancing man/ roasting salamander” bestiary art. i half agree

previous Rick chat

it is a pair of articles for Journal of Psychedelic Studies, editor Michael Winkelman wished to have my Branching Mushrooms art article for the Sept issue on “Psychedelics and Christianity”, but i was blocked trying to cram a critique of the field of entheogen scholarship into Conclusion section.

now i relieved that pressure on that article, got unblocked, by new plan: break out sep. broad “critique/repair” article (Cube-Driven entheogen scholarship)

new Dec issue just came out.

chat before the above

holy 💩🍄‍🟫!!
thought of the most kick-azz title for my revolution-defining companion article for Branching Mush art article:

Cubensis-Driven Entheogen Scholarship
The most rewarding, relevant, and productive approach

Paul Lindgren published Great Canterbury Psalter mushrooms in 2000

this Rick chat has photos of my books research highlighted pages

i discovered today that i overlooked the super milestone “cover image” note in the front matter of colleagues/ friend’s James Arthur’s 2000 book Mushrooms and Mankind , which was the first discovery of the awesome Great Canterbury Psalter mushroom imagery: the first entheogen scholar to discover that was Paul Lindgren 🏅🏆
credited by Ruck 2001 Conj Eden article , not discovered yet by Samorini 1997/1998

McCarthy & Priest’s vague claim that Ruck says institutional Christianity elided (omitted) entheogens

my ultra close reading of 4 publications:

Ruck 2000 Conjuring Eden article p 14, Entheos issue 1

Ruck 2000 Daturas for the Virgin article p56, Entheos 2, critiqued by:

Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom p 104: Ruck tries to LIMIT entheogens — but see Irvin: Astrotheology and Shamanism 2006

irvin in 2009 2nd Ed A&S deleted his OWN “limiting” claim, was sentence 1 in Conclusion of 1st Ed, “elites kings priests kept entheogens secret from the masses”

irvin wrote to me in 2006 1st Ed A&E. his 2009 2nd Ed cites even more of my work. recent pics of that inscription. & Concl page

I assessed Ruck’s Secret Amanita obsession project of constructing CIRCUMSCRIBING every entheogens image to prevent broad Christianity from having entheogens – why i rebelled against Ruck in 2002, formed the maximal entheogen theory of religion and disparaged his moderate, limit-obsessed project

my Phase 2, 21st C project was different from Ruck: interp all world myth as psychedelic eternalism per the Egodeath theory core theory; create the mytheme theory – TO PROVE MY CORE THEORY by proving myth is garbled reflection expression of psychedelic eternalism (= non-branching).

Sunil chat post

w image photos

2/3 of Brown’s commentary against McCarthy & Priest is History, ie pushing them to pay attention to history of psy’cs in Christian history.
Brown mentions:
the “bona fide traditional ceremony purposes” requirement of the RFRA

much of McC&Priest’s reply to the commentaries is re: the debate about the notion of “traditional”

previous Sunil post

news flash re strategic Bible interp
the tree of life on both sides of the river of life, promised to the elect by the Bible, provides
“twelve manner of fruits”, kinds of fruit, crops of fruit each month

Rev 22:2 King James bible
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev%2022&version=KJV

not just one entheogen, eg Aman per Heinrich, or cann per Bennett

single-plant fallacy btfo’d

Notes file on Rev 22:2

Rev 22:2

trees of life bear twelve kinds of fruit each month

the tree of life / Trees of Life

twelve:

manner of fruits/ kinds of fruit/ crops of fruit

each month

KJV:

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month:

NIV:

Eden Restored

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.

Ampd bible:

The Perfect Life

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Christ), in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month;

Living bible:

And he pointed out to me a river of pure Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb, coursing down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew Trees of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month; the leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.

Tree of Life tr.

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life—bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the city’s street. On either side of the river was a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month;

Devil 🍄 Atman project substitute placebo entheogen deliriant

the devil spread this false idol 🍄 to keep people from knowledge, decoy, dummy, substitute; exoteric esotericism – low, vulgar, junk version of Transcendent Knowledge

Apply the headshop principle: spotted mushroom imagery means Cubensis

push Blue TWICE as hard as Ruck pushes Red

My motive for taking over entheogen scholarship (myth as cubensis descr) from above in 2000-2003

1998: Mr. Jesus & Mr. Paul & their Bible will confirm my 1997 core theory outline.

The Jesus Mysteries book by 1999 F&G: oops, relig founder figures are myth.

“instead, use world relig myth (as a garbled reflection like 1986 poor books about enlightenment) to prove / match/ describe my core theory theory. but Ruck is not aggressively leveraging Samorini’s great findings; Ruck is lost & not my project”

“I need world relig myth to be expression of psychedelic eternalism, thus confirming my theory of mental model transformation” – i said in 2000-2003. Succeeded in 2003, 2020, etc

I assumed Psil is source of all relig myth. the maximal entheogen theory of religion

vs stingy Ruck; Dr. Secret Amanita – a dead end project, Prohibition-compliant enabler.

my Explicit Cubensis paradigm delivers 12x the tree of life fruit kinds especially Cubensis, than stingy, self-defeating Bennett & Heinrich single-plant fallacy

More posts, emails, many hours of rapid voice rec’g progress past 3 weeks …

Rev 22:2 delivers 12 different plants

bob email

news flash re strategic Bible interp

the tree of life on both sides of the river of life (so, multiple trees), promised to the elect by the Bible, provides “twelve manner of fruits”

Rev 22:2 King James bible
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev%2022&version=KJV

not just one entheogen, eg Aman per Heinrich, or cann per Bennett

single-plant fallacy disproved today

Bennett & Heinrich leave 11 entheogenic plants on the table

Stamets Silent re Cubensis in Europe cow cattle dung re: why not

John R email

I inspected Stamets’ 1996 bk again: conclusion: the book only has 4 words re: cubensis presence in Europe/ England: “not known in Spain”. So:

Stamets’ book is silent about whether cubensis in Europe. Stamets cannot be assumed as stating psil’s absence.  His silence reveals a prejudiced blind spot; evidence: 

If Stamets had considered whether cubensis (was naturally) in Europe, he would have written about whether or not it occurs there.  He wrote only 4 words, which is evidence that he never considers that topic/ question in this book.  

No one has ever seriously looked to see whether cubensis is naturally in Europe.

Great Canterbury Psalter literalistically depicts cubensis (along w effects motifs), and stylistically depicts lib cap and panaeolus. 

Its art director Eadwine depicts king David ordering imports (camel) & storage of cubensis. What countries did Eadwine obtain his cubensis from?

See these 3 pictures/ folios:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#f134

— Michael

dup:

I inspected Stamets’ 1996 bk again: conclusion: the book only has 4 words re: cubensis presence in Europe/ England: “not known in Spain”.  So:

Stamets’ book is silent about whether cubensis in Europe. Stamets cannot be assumed as stating psil’s absence.  His silence reveals a prejudiced blind spot; evidence: 

If Stamets had considered whether cubensis (was naturally) in Europe, he would have written about whether or not it occurs there.  He wrote only 4 words, which is evidence that he never considers that topic/ question in this book.  

No one has ever seriously looked to see whether cubensis is naturally in Europe.

Great Canterbury Psalter literalistically depicts cubensis (along w effects motifs), and stylistically depicts lib cap and panaeolus.

Its art director Eadwine depicts king David ordering imports (camel) & storage of cubensis.

What countries did Eadwine obtain his cubensis from?

See these 3 pictures/ folios:

John R email

Eric Pendel book:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/pharmacognosis-book-on-amanita-pendell/

Amanita chapter: sentence 1:

“Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion”

Avoiding the Single-Plant Fallacy:

Carl Ruck, in the article “Daturas for the Virgin”, Entheos journal issue 2, 2001, argues that mushrooms 🍄 were often unavailable, therefore the Eucharist was considered to be ANY visionary plant. Ruck means Datura, but should mean Psil cube/ lib cap/ panaeolus.

Amanita imagery in religious art (& Ezekiel & Revelation text) does NOT mean Amanita specifically, but means ALL visionary plants — preferably Cubensis, because Cubensis delivers the most psychedelic effects with the least other effects, & is reliably identifiable. The Great Canterbury Psalter supports these assertions.

Ruck book on myth txtbk is massively pushing the (Secret) Amanita Primacy Fallacy – every index entry page is on Secret Amanita, never on Psil.

“the” 🍄 mushroom, EXCLUSIVELY Secret Amanita.

openly display my left fingers splayed & right 2 fingers together: = the “Explicit” Cubensis paradigm, as St Martin church picture fingers & sticks/feathers; as exposed in Chartres Cathedral in “St Eustace crossing the river” window “brazenly displayed in the heretics places of worship”- Ruck.

irvin: THM 104: “Ruck attempts to limit entheogens to “Christian mysticism and so-called heretics”– That is completely unfounded. Mainstream Christianity itself is based on entheogens.” “See my bk A&S 2006 [concl: “entheogens were limited to elites”]

Irvin 2nd Ed 2009 deleted that limiting Concl secn sentence.

— Michael

Quotes for Course Correction of Entheogen Scholarship

Crop by Cybermonk
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f193.item.zoom

Contents

  • Chris Bennett quotes
  • Jerry Brown quotes
  • Cyberdisciple quotes
  • Erik Davis quotes
  • Max Freakout quotes
  • Wouter Hanegraaff quotes
  • Thomas Hatsis quotes
  • Clark Heinrich quotes
  • Ronald Huggins quotes
  • Jan Irvin quotes
  • John Lash quotes
  • Andy Letcher quotes
  • End Note 31: Stamets 1996
  • End Note 33, Henrietta Leyser (Competent Historian on this matter)
  • Letcher: Ignorant Mycologists should have reached out to consult the art historians, who are competent on this matter
  • FALSE CLAIM BY LETCHER RE: CLAIMS OF SECRECY BY MUSHROOM THEORISTS; STRAWMAN FALLACY
  • {king hung from tree}
  • I predicted Letcher would have to use the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy
  • Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 1
  • Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 2
  • Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 3
  • Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 4
  • The Isolation fallacy
  • Paul Lindgren crediting
  • Erwin Panofsky quotes
  • Carl Ruck quotes
  • Samorini quotes
  • Charles Stang quotes
  • Gordon Wasson quotes
  • See Also

Motivation of this Page

motivation of this post: these quotes, moved from “Egodeath Mystery Show Ep259 Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship (November 28 🦃, 2024)” could be used by my draft article:
Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship: The most productive, relevant, and rewarding approach
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/cubensis-driven-entheogen-scholarship-the-most-productive-relevant-and-rewarding-approach/

Chris Bennett quotes

Rev 22:2 – twelve different fruits ever month produced by tree of life; this means hemp, 12 uses.

Rev 22:2 KJB: leaves + 12 fruits. = cubensis + 12 other entheogens. 13 enths at the conclusion of the Bible, is brought to you by me/ by the maximal entheogen theory of religion, against the mere Moderate paradigm that’s held by Bennett & Heinrich & everyone except Samorini, Brown & Brown, & me.

Heinrich quote re: Rev 22: tree of life = 1 entheogen = Amanita only.

Jerry Brown quotes

St. Walburga tapestry — 2016 & 2019 – “oh wait, tapestry shows serrated base, cancel our field research trip, b/c Amanita base dosn’t have serrations” – “this is our best, outstanding example & proof of why you should not read mushroom imagery as mushroom.” “We are superior b/c field trip… on our field trip [they didn’t go to the abbey] we relied on a hi-res pic from Irvin’s book. Irvin is wrong and misid’d it as aman b/c he has low-res pics.” Irvin: she holds an Amanita msh. Browns: She is known, via texts and art elsewhere, to hold a vial, therefore can’t be Amanita msh. Cybermonk: the tapestry shows her holding a vial that’s shaped like Amanita.

Great Canterbury Psalter > “Creation of Plants” — 2016/2019: “Amanita, psil, pan, psil” – starts from right, calls parasols “pan”! Arthur has excuse for “opium, rue, psil, Amanita”: he’s trying to read “Creation of Plants” as Soma recipe. Dec 13 2020 i id’d as pan, lib, cub, ama, matching my many photos and specimens viewed growing.

Cyberdisciple quotes

The best writing on the topic – Huggins and Hatsis should be replying to Cyberdisciple’s writings.

x https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/criticism-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art-by-tom-hatsis-and-chris-bennett/

… the field has an obsession with “secrecy”, an obsession the field should discard. … the “secret psychedelic use” model has always had a problem with evidence. If … the use of psychedelics in a religion was kept secret, known only to a few, the researcher can only bring so much evidence of psychedelics to bear. If we have a ton of evidence for psychedelics, the “secret psychedelic use” model starts to look untenable.

Erik Davis quotes

Stace 1960, James 1902? Psychedelic Science’s basis of ‘mysticism’ is “long in the tooth” “Stace = 64 years outdated, this “scientific foundation” of psychedelic mysticism research.

Max Freakout quotes

“Per Ruck, everyone was using entheogens, but no one really knew about it – so which is it?” Transcendent Knowledge podcast.

compare Cyberdisciple paragraph “untenable”.

Wouter Hanegraaff quotes

“I coined the term Entheogenic Esotericism” – actually, I posted against Hanegraaff, a post titled exactly that, 8 years before his awful article/ keynote/ chapter in Christopher Partridge’s book Contemporary Esotericism.

There are only three approaches to studying history of Western Esotericism:

  • Social-science reductionism
  • Religionism/ mystical practice with Eranos’ urgency to save the world from modern meaninglessness. Implies essentialism about Transcendent Knowledge, which is the worst thing ever.
  • Radical empiricism, ie what did the ancient author mean? Don’t judge; instead, understand & explain. Radical empiricism is WH’s approach, which in practice means:
    • Deleting all the stars from the sky/ the ogdoad bc they are tainted with heimarmene and we can’t allow that; we Radical Empiricist scientific academic historians can’t have the Saturn gate dumping you into a fatedness prison.
    • Redefining ‘entheogen’ to mean literally anything at all — just like Favre’s checklist of esotericism traits is so easy to fulfill, every practice in the world fits the definition of Western Esotericism.
  • These are the options, for historical research.
  • But where does the Egodeath theory fit in? a Cog Sci/ Engr/ STEM simple summarized clearly succintly communicated useful practical helpful explanatory model.

Yet he himself does a sloppy job of my approach, “what did the author mean?”

I explain better than Hane, re: fixed stars in Ogdoad cosmos level 8 = the harrowing experience of eternalism in the ASC that WH tries to write about but

“Whether to put the fixed stars in Saturn moving planetary sphere 7 or in Ogdoad level 8 is an open question to me.”

“Passing through Saturn gate means moving from heimarmene to freewill.”

“Ogdoad level 8 is the same thing as Ennead level 9: it means being above the heimarmene-ruled cosmos.”

Thomas Hatsis quotes

book: Plainc fresco shows “fall of man theology, therefore can’t be mushroom”

Lack of Prohibition decree proves lack of The Mushroom (Amanita).

Text [read literally & reduc’ly in OSC] constrains artists’ message. [Huggins 2024 uses same arg from text, Brown does version of that re: researching St. Walburga’s item that she trad’ly holds.] omg its a tree/vial!!! who knew?! so, it can’t mean mushroom.

Clark Heinrich quotes

Heinrich in _Strange Fruit_ wrongly says Allegro says that Jesus was the leader of a mushroom cult.

Strange Fruit: When couldn’t get their mushroom (Amanita), they fell back on a substitute, psilocybin mushrooms.

Ronald Huggins quotes

branching

false decision in his Conclusion section of Forest article: “how to tell if image is a tree or is a mushroom.” Also literalism, reductionism, moving goalpost, motte and bailey, bait & switch.

Got him right in the subtitle: Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest (Huggins 2024).
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case – Ronald Huggins, 2024, aka Hatsis Jr.

I accept your conditions of proxy debate: To prove all pilzbaum are mushrooms, we shall use branching in Great Canterbury Psalter as the proxy battle.

See folio webpages f134, f145, & f177.

Panofsky is able to tell an arbitrary cover-story fairytale (non-purposeful; sloppy, accidental, directionless corruption of prototypes; artists lack intentionality), and then Panofsky acts like that storytelling ability constitutes winning the debate.

But Pan’s arg is a non-sequitur (ie does not follow).

Development from pine to mushroom does not imply purposelessness; development from pine to mushroom proves purposefulness. My assertion is less of a non sequitur; is more compelling.

My storytelling/ interp, artists in this genre purposefully meaning mushrooms and non-branching experience from msh, is detailed and non-arbitrary, and thus compelling: not arb storytelling like Panof’s “development from pine to mushroom”, but effective explanation of these entire images.

Jan Irvin quotes

Irvin uses Hopkins’ synthesis psilocybin caps research findings to prove how great Amanita’s effects are. By silently shell-game redefining the vague, ambiguous term ‘the mushroom’. Just before the image gallery in THM.

Irvin in THM: “Hofmann here writes about psil mushroom, which is irrelevant to THM.”

Irvin: always lists Amanita first, psilocybin as an afterthought in a mere supporting, usually silent, role.

The front & back covers of books ALWAYS splatter Amanita photos + art, NEVER psilocybin photos or art.

“Ruck tries to limit The Mushroom (Amanita) to “Christian mysticism and so-called heretical sects”); that is completely unfounded; see my book AstroSham 2006, which shows there is sufficient evidence that [normal common] Christianity itself is based on entheogens.”

But the Conclusion section of AstroSham 2006 begins: “The secret [Amanita] was guarded and held only by kings, priests, and elites” – so, Irvin deleted that “restricting” sentence from AstroSham 2009.

Irvin 2006 himself tries to limit/ restrict the presence of “entheogens” (by which Irvin means and is thinking of exclusively Amanita only), even though per Irvin 2008, such an assumption of restricting entheogens in Christianity is “completely unfounded”, as Irvin realized after our conversations about Wasson/ Allegro and my conclusion of my Plainc article.

John Lash quotes

“discovery of a lifetime” – trip to Paris 2006/2007?, uploaded May 2008. re: Great Canterbury Psalter.

“I hate Wasson’s stupid theory about spread of Amanita. Cubensis is better.”

“Wasson’s theory, including considerable departures from it” – irrational non-academic framing, to give ALL credit for ALL entheogen ideas as if owned by Wasson and thought of by Wasson – yet Lash rejects Wasson’s Amanita theory.

Thank god no one else uses the locution “Wasson’s theory”.

But see the atrocious quote by Ruck, p 14 ConjEden, “Wasson’s conclusion” [quote] – otoh, see Irvin’s almost as bad attribution of pilzbaum to Allego [quote], as if Allegro wrote anything on the topic, which he didn’t – Irvin’s dirty move to try to falsely give credit to Allegro, to counter Ruck’s dirty move of falsely giving credit to Wasson.

Credit goes to Panofsky / Brinckmann and especially to Samorini; and to Paul Lindgren Great Canterbury Psalter 2000 (cover of Arthur 2000, credited in Conjuring Eden 2001 in Entheos issue 1).

Then credit goes to Lash 2006-2008, then me 2020-2022 decoding leg-hanging mushroom tree f134 (continuing decoding that image into 2024).

Why was entheogen scholarship so slow to inventory Great Canterbury Psalter? b/c entheogen scholars don’t give a sht about psil; they only care about Amanita, and Eadwine has minimal Amanita imagery b/c he strongly prefers Cubensis.

And b/c Great Canterbury Psalter didn’t come online until 2020, color-corrected in 2021, 5 years after I formed hypoth Dancing Man 2 legs mapped to 2 mental worldmodels (possibilism & eternalism) [Xmas 2015 at Egodeath Yahoo Group].

I cannot allow Moses and Jesus to have had Psilocybin mushrooms, bc Christianity and Moses and Jesus are bad.

Allegro and Wasson do not own entheogen scholarship. Stop identifying entheogen scholarship with “Allegro’s theory” or “Wasson’s theory”. It’s not 1970 anymore. Get up to date. Phase 2 began 1997 when Samo announced “next i will cover Panof’s hundreds pilzbaum.”

Andy Letcher quotes

Backtracking: ok we admit we were wrong in negativity; we now admit there IS liberty cap naturally in England. Next he will admit cubensis by same token.

“Bernward door is not secret, therefore not evidence for a secret mushroom cult, therefore not mushroom.”h pp 35-36, Shroom, 2006/2007.

Letcher wrote, in Shroom:

“if the ancient cultures did centralize the use of magic mushrooms they would have depicted this fact in their artwork.

“The trouble is that it is not always easy to tell whether something that looks to us like a mushroom really was intended to be one, and a magic one at that.

“The context in which the art appears is often the only thing that can help us decide, as the following example, taken not from prehistory but from the Middle Ages, demonstrates.

“In Hildesheim in Germany there is a magnificent Gothic cathedral, which is renowned for its pair of cast bronze doors.

“Each contains eight panels depicting biblical images, but one in particular has caught the attention of mushroom theorists, for there, on the right-hand door, is a panel that seems to show human figures dwarfed by what looks extremely like a giant Liberty Cap.”

[sic; not one; several of door/column are discussed in Conjuring Eden – the ISOLATION fallacy]

“Various writers have suggested that this is evidence for a medieval magic mushroom cult persisting secretly in spiite of Christian oppression.

“Some mushroom-loving craftsman must have slipped the mushroom into the image as a hidden but demonstrative gesture of defiance for the benefit of the members of his secret cult.31 [para break, page break to p. 36:]

“Sadly, careful consideration … [todo: transcribe] … …

“The image on the door is simply a stylized representation of that most biblical of plants, the fig-tree.33”

Endnote 33 on p. 305: “Henrietta Leyser, pers. comm.”

End Note 31: Stamets 1996

Letcher’s endnote 31, p. 305: “Gartz 1996; Stamets 1996” [no page #s].

dk about Gartz, but Stamets’ book p. 15 shows the panel, but does not contain any commentary framing like “secret, hidden” – against Letcher’s claim.

Letcher falsely claims that writers assert Bernward door shows “secret hidden Liberty Cap”. False.

Letcher’s endnote 31, p. 305: “Gartz 1996; Stamets 1996” [no page #s]. dk about Gartz, but Stamets’ book p. 15 shows the panel, but does not contain any commentary framing like “secret, hidden” – against Letcher’s claim.

Stamets only writes this, about the panel picture:

“From the bronze door of a cathedral in Hildesheim, Germany, a bas-relief (circa A.D. 1020) depicting God, Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit–a taxonomic facsimilie of Psilocybe semilanceata, the Liberty Cap or Witches’ Hat Mushroom.”

— p. 15, Stamets, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, 1996.

No “secret” or “hidden”. The concept of “secret” re: Bernward door 1020 AD is no closer than p. 14 describes “Eleusinian mysteries. … no revelation of the ceremony’s secrets could be mentioned.”

Stamets’ body text and caption don’t associate “secret” with this door.

End Note 33, Henrietta Leyser (Competent Historian on this matter)

End note 33 on p. 305 in Shroom: “Henrietta Leyser, pers. comm.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Leyser – “English historian, expert on the history of medieval England”

Letcher: Ignorant Mycologists should have reached out to consult the art historians, who are competent on this matter

Oh Ho, we have here an instance of “The blithely ignorant mycologists should have consulted art historians, who are competent on this matter [while censored by Wasson at the same time: Panofsky’s strong, double citation of Brinckmann 1906].”

Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/wasson-academic-fraud-berates-mycologists-not-consulting-art-historians-same-time-censoring-brinckmann-citation-urged-by-panofsky-twice/

Why “consult”? What does “consult” mean? It means, per end note 33 on p. 305 in Shroom, “pers. comm.” – because the “competent on this matter” art historians wrote NOTHING; PUBLISHED 0 SENTENCES, on this topic/ matter on which they are “competent”.

FALSE CLAIM BY LETCHER RE: CLAIMS OF SECRECY BY MUSHROOM THEORISTS; STRAWMAN FALLACY

misrepresentation of Stamets’ book; & cites (Argument from Authority) “pers. comm.” from Leyser, who provides literalistic reductionistic reading as “tree”

{king hung from tree}

[8:30 am Dec. 4, 2024] {king hung from tree} serves as a way to depict {death}, {king}, and {tree} together. king fastened to wood or hung from tree, like Absalom hung while riding donkey/horse. King Pentheus in a tree, not hung / dead in tree.

Thanks Letcher for the checkable citation 31 that DISPROVES your body text assertion.

Do I have to photograph Stamets’ page to prove it? I transcribed the caption above.

Stamets only says a description of the scene; Stamets presents no “Secret, Hidden” framing regarding the mushroom imagery.

My 2007 book review of Shroom criticized how very little evidence/ images Letcher considered.

I noticed him selecting a few images in isolation, to shoot down each isolated one that he picks, using logical ad hoc fallacies.

My review is at Amazon and at Egodeath.com http://egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm#_Toc164518584 , and is at the “Egodeath Yahoo Group” Max Freakout archive: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4577 – April 2, 2007.

After my review, I next posted:

“Letcher’s book poses as having shown that the entheogen or mushroom theory of religious origins is nothing but an unjustifiable recent modern fabrication, a popular urban myth. But the book actually discusses only a few pieces of evidence, and very briefly, as the foundation for such a view. The large amount of valuable new commentary he presents on various aspects of modern mushroom history and scholarship obscures his paucity of basic evidence and arguments against the entheogen theory of religion.” – https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4578

https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/?s=letcher+shroom – relevant, other ppl commenting on Shroom: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4546 (March 29, 2007);

I predicted Letcher would have to use the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy

ahaahahaha CALLED IT – Scientific Prediction Confirmed: before I read the book, I wrote: Message: 4549 March 29, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-90/#message4549 —

“One aspect to look for when refuting this book is the “divide, isolate, and diminish” strategy: see whether the author separates into isolation each instance of possible historical or literary evidence for psychoactive use, then state that for each isolated instance, there’s not compelling evidence to support this instance being evidence of religious psychoactive use.”

That page lists article:

Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of
Psychedelic Consciousness
by Andy Letcher
http://www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/mad-thoughts-mushrooms-discourse-power-study-psychedelic [404 as of Dec. 4, 2024]
Accepted for publication by the journal Anthropology of Consciousness,
Fall 2007
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mad+Thoughts+on+Mushrooms%22+Letcher — found it:
https://www.academia.edu/2546250/Mad_Thoughts_on_Mushrooms_Discourse_and_Power_in_the_Study_of_Psychedelic_Consciousness

https://www.academia.edu/9185967/Dr_Andy_Letcher_Making_sense_of_magic_mushrooms – “consideration of how it [the mushroom experience] has been interpreted throughout history. For, contrary to received wisdom, very few cultures have decoded the mushroom as we do. Along the way he will ask whether magic mushrooms bring genuine transcendence, or if the experiences they occasion forever bound by culture.”

How do “we” decode the magic mushroom experience?

1) Writers who lack the Egodeath theory present the following as “science”: “Dread is of ego dissolution. Resisting ego dissolution is the cause of bad trips. The solution is to surrender.”

2) How do pilzbaum artists — via branching-message mushroom trees, {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs — decode the magic mushroom experience?
“Relying on branching thinking causes loss of control. Rely on non-branching thinking, to pass through the gate into Eternalism compatibility, the promised land.”

Relying on branching thinking causes loss of control. Rely on non-branching thinking, to pass through the gate into Eternalism compatibility, the promised land.

pilzbaum artists

3) The Egodeath theory decodes the magic mushroom experience as psychedelic eternalism = same decoding as pilzbaum artists, expressed in non-analogy, using analogy to explain.

Psilocybin mushrooms bring genuine transcendence, which is psychedelic eternalism; the experiences that mushrooms cause are not forever bound by culture.

That is proved by the match between:

  • My 1988 block universe eternalism model of mental model transformation.
  • Folio webpages f134, f145, & f177 in Great Canterbury Psalter, by Eadwine in 1200 AD.

pp 29-30 of “Conjuring Eden” lists 4 tassel trees (Liberty caps) on the Bernward Column:

Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 1

Commissioning of the apostles [16] online pic. https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/16commish.jpg. p29 Ruck writes: “First is the Commissioning of the Twelve Apostles, which in itself is significant, seventh [panel] in the series, but the double-branched Tree, missing a limb, also serves for the adjacent previous sixth scene, the Healing of the Leper, with Christ in his role as drug-man. [16][online gallery pic 16] For the Commissioning episode, the missing third branch is supplied by the haloed head of Christ, as if He himself were its Fruit! (Fig. 21)” [see my photo of p. 30 below]

[16] Instance 1 of Bernward Column tassel trees: https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/16commish.jpg from https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm suppl images for Conj Eden article.
Photo by Michael Hoffman 5:44 am Dec. 4, 2024 – cut branch points at Jesus’ halo. From Entheos Issue 1, 2001, “Conjuring Eden”, by Mark Hoffman, Carl Ruck, & Blaise Staples. Article not cited in book Shroom (2006 UK) by Andy Letcher. Letcher only considers the 1, isolated Bernward image, from page 15 of Paul Stamets’ book Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World 1996.

thanks for not showing the branching point to check for cut right branch – illiterate modern artists have no idea what they’re looking for.

Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 2

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

Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 3

Ruck continues: “Next and seventeenth is the curious episode of Zacchaeus, the tax collector.121 [18] [online gallery pic 18] Wanting to see Jesus but being too short, he climbed a sycamore-fig, a double-tassel tree, and was invited to entertain the Lord in his house. But the very next episode, … is the Cursing of the Fig Tree.122 [19] The tree is now only a leaf, without fruit, that is to say, its taseled top, for Chris went to the tree and found it fruitless. …” [online gallery pic 19]

[18]
 Zachaeus, the Tax-Collector, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim.
https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/18Zach.jpg
https://kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardColumn_47.jpg

Bernward Column Liberty Cap Tree 4

Ruck continues (p. 30, right column, top): “Finally, immediately next and nineteenth in the series [of panels], the Tree is again the umbrella shade, single-tasseled, for the Healing of the Sick at Gennesaret on the Sea of Galilee.123 … manna …” No pic in issue or online gallery?

[5:44 am Dec 4 2024] discovered cpl things:

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

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

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

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

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M2A0DA/transfiguration-of-jesus-romanesque-bronze-relief-on-the-bernward-M2A0DA.jpg – Ruck’s instance 4 of column?

x https://entheomedia.net/Edenpics2/19fig.jpg

[19]
[19] Cursing of the Fig Tree, transcript, Bernward Column, Dom, Hildesheim. from https://entheomedia.net/eden2.htm which supplements [bold numbers] Conj Eden article.

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

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

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

healing blind https://www.mediastorehouse.com/p/690/healing-blind-column-christ-donated-bishop-st-38098894.jpg.webp

The Isolation fallacy

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

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

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

another: https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BernwardColumn_38.jpg

Paul Lindgren crediting

front matter Arthur book 2000

footnote page 1 of Conj Eden 2001

Erwin Panofsky quotes

branching: a pilzbaum can’t purposefully mean a mushroom, b/c there’s at least traces of branching in Pilzbaum.

Plainc can’t be mushroom, b/c there are many images like it. QED. (a non sequitur)

Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/

Carl Ruck quotes

p14 Eden article: “Wasson’s hypothesis … hundreds of pilzbaum … Wasson’s conclusion” – infuriating to me & Irvin, at “conclusion”. Liar!

“Pilzbaum look like mushrooms and that’s what they are, mushrooms and nothing else.”

“This will shut up the deniers: dancing man has a red cap.”
[actually, Blue]
[file under: Red Shift; Blue/Red balance.]

Samorini quotes

In 1997 article, Samo announced “next i will cover Panof’s hundreds pilzbaum.” I highlighted the passages. Try copypaste from PDF.

Charles Stang quotes

Roland Griffiths admitting MEQ is Unicorns and Rainbows, Directed Stang to Bunk CEQ — oops dropped 18 of 21 Angst effects questions – Dragon 1, Hopkins 0.

Gordon Wasson quotes

“My wife and I were the first to discover The Mushroom [kiddie Amanita] in our own cultural history, ie in India.”

“Panofsky wrote me a letter in 1952, here it is” [while Wasson censors Panofsky’s two strong citations recommending Brinckmann’s “little” 1906 86-page book not in English; 2 photostats showing pilzbaum; half of letter 1; & the existence of letter 2].

“I reached out and consulted the top 18 competent art historians [b/c they wrote 0 sentences about pilzbaum] and was impressed by the celerity with which they all disavowed mushrooms, like trained seals barking.”

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