The trees require re-assessment at each scope of detail, per recursive YI and YO morphology.
The leg-hanging figure must be explained: why are the hand heights wrong? (Matching knees.)
Relative hand-heights is a driving theme, climaxing in the problematic hands of psalter viewer (right-hand fingertip height), bucket receiver, balance-holder, and hanging upside-down figure.
The bins, bucket, and dumb happy guy scene depicts psilocybin.
Additionally, today p.m. March 31, 2023 while talking through image f134, I found several obvious things that you would have to be stupid not to see them and realize them, and I don’t think that I wrote about them or perceived them in the past:
Row 2 right: Funnel Hat sage standing on no leg = hanging from right leg = 3 degrees of analogy-indirection comprehension. Forearm points to hands of hanging guy, fingers point up to feet and knee. Row 3 middle points to sage’s pointing arm, connecting the source of mushrooms with the relative limb-heights of the hanging guy.
Row 3 right: right heel touches stable plow foot, right leg touches rear right leg of ox.
Row 2 middle: She holds closed scroll with scale balance: knowledge/message that relying on left foot possibilism-thinking causes loss of control. She’s the stable self-control of the ordinary state. Her right ear points at top of stable column base with right foot of cybercide guy, while her eyes point at bowman and swordsman, connecting these pointing-targets.
also tonight 4 hours of talking much on this, incl: at 40:00 of 2.5 hrs: balance woman = when not in psilocybin state, left foot possibilism-thinking is stable. scroll closed in left hand. she is left foot on stable balance bc scroll closed, ord state.
She represents/ depicts the stability that you have in the ord state; tightcog.
The biggest one is my failure to perceive the pattern of blade touching left foot and blade touching left hand
we see this a lot in row three: the Malformed guy has his right foot forward and his left foot is on the ground , which is a mystery of why is both feet on the ground, that I was wondering recently, and today I solved it , because:
although his left foot is on the ground, his left foot touches a blade: the scythe.
Then we have the pair of guys harvesting the msh crop plow with two blades
they each have one leg
well
the guy who only has a left leg is standing on a blade, and his left leg is touching a blade of the plow
then the plow man on the right
yesterday or past couple days I use straight edge and microscope To draw looking lines and determined that
he is pointing at the hand of the floating Sage
and tonight I recognized, I solved the problem that the arm of the floating sage is in an inconsistent direction: the forearm points one way and the fingers point another way
but tonight I solved that
his left forearm and fingers are simultaneously pointing at two different things
his forearm is pointing at the hands of the leg hanging guy , and his fingers are pointing up at the feet and right knee of the leg hanging guy
so that double pointing arm of the floating Sage is pointed to by the guy on row three, who only has a right leg
then tonight I also noticed that his right leg is not touching a blade, but it’s touching the wooden foot of the plow, which equals stable
and his right leg is touching the butt of the ox , which is where mushrooms come from
Double pointing (series/ chain) means that the guy on row 3, where the source of the mushrooms, is pointing through the sage on row two pointing to both the hands and feet and knee of the leg hanging guy
and he is not exactly “debating possibility branching versus non-Branching” as I said before, but the two guys who each have one leg are setting up a clear pattern
we have
just like row two right We have the left guy representing incorrect unstable possibility branching thinking
and then next in step two, we are shown the stable guy who stands on right leg
and those , that pair of people sets up the problem statement , which is represented by the floating sage on row two right, who says that the feet relative height of the leg hanging guy contradict the hand relative height
and is he — how is he retaining his balance, given that he is in a state of self-contradiction??
well it turns out that it is easy to explain the leg hanging guy’s relative hand heights: simply match the physically necessary heights of his knees when hanging from a tree
and also physically dictated and not arbitrary Is the fact that his right foot is lower than his right knee
that is necessary in order to hang from a branch
So then the only artistic choice that’s left is : — — how high to paint the left foot of the upside down guy — and it is natural to have, due to the dangling left knee, have the left foot — the knee of the leg to have the left foot end up higher than the right foot —
OK then that leaves only one artistic question that is unclear /
why does the artist allow the bad left heel to touch the good right knee??
The first candidate answer is in terms of including that in image F177 a major theme is that the illusion of branching obscures the reality of non-branching:
Image f177 🐴 Left: Cross-Unders
so the left limb crosses on top of the right limb except through the person who has reached 100% ego death in the shroud
in that state of consciousness, the right hand wrist becomes fully revealed, no longer hidden by the left hand wrist
this message is bought at a great expense by the artist
that message is purchased by the artist who goes to the extreme of destroying the crossing under in the Mushroom Tree
it is at least 50% skewed and ruined, in the same image where he proves to be such a perfect master of the art that he is able to have the horses point with their eyes to a particular cap of that mushroom tree
yet he completely botches the crossing under of the branch so severely that I was unable to draw a straight white line joining the two visible parts of the good, rightmost, nonbranching branch
that’s a good reason why maybe the artist chose to have the bad left heel of the upside down guy covering the right knee which is the good knee
and another reason is that if you hang this way, you might find that you have to tuck your left heel to secure your right knee in this way — hard to say without doing the experiment
Also tonight I determined the unnatural angle of the head of the woman holding the balance, as if she is listening with her right ear
she’s pointing with her head angle which contradicts her eyes, so that could make it even more significant of what her strange angle of her head means
a cpl days ago i developed this as my fav crop of his fingertip control — but it excludes the target of her ear-pointing: the top of the stable column base:
she points at two things at once, connecting them. Surfing the edge of loss of control based on which mental worldmodel is used, which leg your weight is on.
she stands on stable column base with the left foot that gives loss of control when in loosecog, but she is in tightcog , as indicated by holding closed scroll.
to make a statement that
“left leg thinking is unstable when is the altered state”
is equivalent to the complementary statement that
“left leg thinking is stable when in the ordinary state”.
she connects two stable column bases: the one she stands on and the one that she points at with her ear.
cont:
because she’s not looking down in that direction, and yet she’s angling her head as if she’s gesturing with her head
well it turns out that her right ear is exactly pointed at the right heel or foot of the row 2 cybernetic suicide guy who is upside down
Image f177 🐴 Entire, Mushroom Items
Image f177 🐴 Cross-Unders
do extra analysis and pay extreme attention to the fact that the right wrist of Shroud is visible.
this is presented as being highly significant in this image because of placement under stable tower under balancing guy, and because of the signaling of the crossing under of the mushroom tree right hand branch
when you reach complete ego death then the nonbranching right hand model reality becomes visible.
given that that is a major motif in image F177, this opens the real possibility likelihood that the left hand (= illusory appearance) of the balancing tree guy in f134 is deliberately hiding / occluding the right-hand, “true” branch, which represents non-branching reality.
otherwise, usually, that is occluded by the surface appearance of branching.
f134 🍄🌳🙃
😵🤦♂️ aw man i just gave up and didnt even draw box on row 3 left deformed guy: bc a few days ago, i FAILED to explain why both feet down: ANSWER: (obviously!): blade touches L foot — DOH!
So I looked at all the blades look at every blade in this picture and they’re always touching in some way a left limb
and so people look at this picture and they go “our Psychedelic Renaissance marketing department can’t use this picture, because there’s too many blades”
but how many are going to notice that all of the blades touch a left limb
So identifying the meaning of her head angle this way by using straight edge and microscope magnifying and the high resolution original image at the library, I have identified angles
this is a theme tonight, is straight edge and angles , not just for looking lines, but also for gesturing and pointing
we have a lot of pointing going on in this picture
We have row 2 right floating sage pointing one way with the forearm , and pointing a different angle with the fingers
we have row three middle pointing at the Row 2 pointing arm
and we have the woman with the balance row to middle pointing with the angle of her head
and we have a lot of people pointing with their eyes in this image
another bonus advantage of identifying a sensible target to explain the strange angle of her head is that this now brings into the scene the cybernetic happy suicide into the room scene. cybercide
I also found that the passing student in upper left hand aligns with the two hands of the hanging guy
and a couple of other alignments that I determined with a straight edge in the high resolution image along these lines
so as I have noted in the draft of article “branching message mushroom trees” in the list of features for this image
f177:
odd crops, why no entire bag? — I guess to force the focus to be on the mushrooms (or potatoes in the case of Hatsis’ naturalistic reading for losers, those on the outside)
The Great Art Historian Thomas Hatsis Positively Identified them as Adirondack Semilanceata 🔵🔵🔵🥔🥔🥔 🏆
because against John Rush, a “naturalistic” [ie ordinary-state] reading is always neutral, unbiased, and avoids culturecide
f145:
f177: be sure to securely lock up your potatoes, to keep them away from minors, Hatsis:
carefully weighing out 5 g of dried french fries for Hatsis as his reward for his great job being a “naturalistic” psychedelic witch– I mean historian:
which I have a ridiculous number of crops of image f134 in the draft article, branching-message mushroom trees: eight or nine crops of the same single image!
and there is no way, there is no room for these
there’s only 20 pages available!
I’m going to have to delete a bunch of crops, like I really need to make do with about maybe three crops total for this image
I can’t have eight, I can’t have nine — there’s no room!!
I’ve been talking for years about the podcast number one important topic is :
defend the traditional claim that psilocybin enlightenment is religious revelation is relationship with God is adult highest ultimate value supreme truth and goodness and righteousness
And the idea that flashed now was conservatives and and conservatives some of them are in favor of psilocybin and many of them are against it but the idea is for me to argue to them to explain to the fence the undecided conservatives because you might think that psilocybin advocacy is only a liberal Thing and maybe conservatives should be defending against it but I have noticed that there are a couple topics in the conservative sphere where there is not the slightest indication of reaching consensus and there seems to be a permanent division between opposed perspectives
so there are two ideas I’m trying to latch onto one of them is that I have to make the case for Psilocybin religion as the ultimate value to conservative people that my argument Hass to stand up to their critique to their critique
and then the other idea that flashed is it only I can make it that only I am positioned to make this argument and that I have to just stand by myself and independently explain and independently independently carry the debate case that if I am unable to explain and if I am able
if I am unable to think of the case then there are there is no case
If it is extremely difficult to defend this position that the highest value is religion and that religion equal psilocybin in the highest value is Psilocybin religion and that’s all the smart conservative counties should be using Psilocybin for religious transformation and that is the highest good and some of the conservatives will say that is degenerate or that is a harmful thing and it comes it’s on my shoulders to make a simple case what is my simple
rebottle well one rebuttal
rebuttal
to rebut.
is the argument from tradition and unanimous ubiquitous universal consensus everybody agrees that the highest value and I think even atheist even atheist agree that the highest value is Transcendent Knowledge and then I can make the case that transcendent knowledge equals psilocybin
and if it is difficult to make this case then there is no case
it needs to be simple
it needs to be straightforward
or at least the claim needs to be clear-cut and simple and straightforward
To do : pretty quick project — but reading aloud and producing a recording will take some time with a straight read through and an interpretive commentary — so altogether, that will add up — but the first phase is to simply copy paste from Bible gateway three translations of these three passages : the NIV Bible and the king James Bible and the amplified Bible.
Interleave verses from genesis and revelation to show the parallelism, the inversion, and the completion , where we come back through the gate to the tree of fruit of immortality life
I am trying to also do a kind of an inter leaving I will interleave mirrored versus similar with a different project which would be to do that with bellum Pelham’s ass and Pelham be a LAAM bellum BALAAM ass correct.
How did you guess I’m using voice dictation?
One of my worst ideas ever was to downplay my theory in my art article I started mentally heading in that direction and realize that all the power had left me I had lost my mojo because it is actually the amplification of the best art amplified by my best theory equals the greatest punch and interest and relevance and usefulness because
this article has to provide the model of the style of the thought style the thought style that is effective and set the the pace set the style set the mentality and if I strike an affectation and affectation this does no help for anybody and it prevents any power in the presentation so that was one of my worst ideas ever
Need a frozen archive draft since I’m going to be deleting 90% of the text.
I need to preserve the elaborate structure and I need to simply DELETE 90% of the text (not move to my disorganized Outtakes page).
Michael Hoffman, B.S.E.E., February 16-March 25, 2023 – outtakes
todo 2:
Make topical Theory headings/ mini-sections interspersed w/ art. Add to TOC.
Calculate the wordcount per image.
Rank the Features, condense as prose paras.
Clean References.
Remove Peripheral topics.
This article is merely nothing more than a patch/ update/ extension of my 2007 main article to fill a gap in it.
end todo 2
todo 1:
Looking-Lines (f145) – create.
Mushroom Depictions (f177) – create.
Make a copy of verbose draft article snapshot.
Sort features lists, condense as prose paras.
Reframe intro: in the course of presenting the images of instructing, summarize: exerting possibilism-premised control causes loss of control. Basic reference model of mind’s trajectory phases, including education in OSC.
Clean References. Add Journal of Psychedelic Studies literature search.
mental models, Cognitive Science, bad trips, mystical experience, control agency, Philosophy, Christian art, Christianity, entheogens, psychedelics, eternalism, religious mythology, cybernetics, control systems
Abstract
This set of medieval art images uses {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs to describe by analogy how the mind changes in the loose cognitive state from psilocybin.
The Egodeath theory, the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, or the Theory of Psychedelic Cybernetic Eternalism includes the Mytheme theory, which explains {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
{branching} and {handedness} Motifs
In Medieval art, branching-message mushroom trees use added branches and cut branches to diagrammatically represent the difference between the two mental world models: the initial, temporary, perishable, transient branching model and egoic steersman ({king steering in tree}) vs. the subsequent non-branching, mature, durable, altered-state compatible model: {snake frozen in rock}.
Mushroom trees don’t simply depict mushrooms. Mushroom trees depict the non-branching experiential mental worldmodel that results from mushrooms. That’s why artists added branches to mushrooms (along with cut branches). Identifying this meaning of mushroom trees answers Erwin Panofsky’s 2nd letter, regarding “at least traces of ramification”, in [Brown 2019].
YI and YO Tree Morphology
YI tree morphology: A tree or a tree pair that has YI morphology means branching on left, non-branching on right. A given element of a tree can be both branching and non-branching, because whether a point on a tree is branching or not is relative to a specific scope of analysis within the image.
Recursive/fractal YI morphology analysis: Repeated-scale pattern of assigning relatively branching (bad) and non-branching (good). Internal micro-branching within a branch (Eustace window). A morphology analysis must sweep up and down, left and right, with independent analysis in each scope.
YO tree morphology: The cap or crown is a non-branching zone, and almost never contains branching. The cap sits on top of one or more stems, so it enables moving upward from a non-branching trunk or stem, to multiple branches, to returning to a single non-branching cap.
YO tree morphology: The cap or crown is considered non-branching, and almost never contains branching. The cap sits on top of one (non-branching) stem or multiple (branching) stems. The cap, as a single terminator of a branch, enables moving upward from a non-branching trunk or stem at the bottom of the branch, to optionally splitting into multiple branches and yet returning to a single, non-branching cap zone.
The crown can be a leaf, egg, mushroom cap, or triangle, and can be held up by a single stem or multiple stems. The crown can contain a grid of leaves or caps (“omphalos pattern” per [Lash 2008]), and those inner caps can include dangling fruit or raised, branching arms.
Equivalence of implementations: A branch that terminates in a single crown, of any shape, is equivalent to a cut branch. A YI tree pair is equivalent to a YI tree.
St. Eustace Crossing the River (Chartres Cathedral)
Figure 1. Mâle, p. 3, The sky, water and trees. From the Legend of St. Eustace. Window at Chartres. Image sharpening by Michael Hoffman 2006.
Features:
Gestures affirming non-branching, I branch of the YI tree.
At micro scale, trees 2, 3, and 4 have a cut right trunk.
Branching cubensis tree on left, non-branching on right (a YI tree pair).
Branching tree on Eustace’ left, non-branching on right.
Eustace’ child carried away while crossing a river.
Lion’s left heels up, right heels down.
[7:47 a.m. March 19, 2023]: tree 4 is a YI tree, so this diagram demonstrates on the left (tree 1 + 2), that you can express a YI pair implemented with 2 trees, and tree 4 shows YI implemented, equivalently, by a single tree. So, [8:11 a.m. March 19, 2023] his left (bad) hand is positively gesturing at the I (good) of tree 4, to be read in local scope as good from our POV; THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE PROPERLY COMPREHENDED THE YI THEORY IN THIS IMAGE.
YI analysis stacks vertically or horizontally and applies at local scope; this means that the rightmost tree [12:42 am p.m. March 19, 2023]’s upper level reads as branching (bad) on left, and non-branching (good) on right. At tree-pair level, the rightmost tree is “bad” (attached to his left hand; it’s his left tree = branching). But within local scope of isolated rightmost tree, the lower cap veering to our right is “good” and the other two, higher crowns form a Y, which is “bad” b/c branching. But again, in the scope of the upper part of that tree, the left crown with 2 black lines is left and therefore “bad” and branching, and the right crown is “good” and “non-branching”. [wow I’m surprised, I applied now my recent jump in sophistion of YI morphology theory, i thought there was nothing to say about the right tree except “it has a bunch of branching, in contrast to tree 3.” Internal YI morphology…. ie, variable scope of analysis, FRACTAL QUALITY repeated-scale pattern of assigning relatively branching (bad) and non-branching (good). DRAW DIAGRAM? Fractal YI Morphology Analysis.
Most of Eustace’ weight is on right leg.
Y/I clover formations on the mountain.
On the micro scale, the trees have traces of branching (black line under cap or crown) and cut right trunk.
Clover YI pairs are only on the mountain, not on the plain. 3 YI pairs and 1 IY pair.
Exerting Possibilism-Premised Control Causes Loss of Control, which Produces the Eternalism Model
Psilocybin switches the mental world model of control and possibilities from possibilism to eternalism; from possibility branching to eternity non-branching. Asserting the possibilism mental worldmodel when in the loose cognitive state causes control instability and loss of control, and produces the eternalism mental worldmodel.
Norbert Wiener [1948] drew attention to Maxwell’s paper “On Governors” [1868]. Maxwell’s is the first paper on control theory. Maxwell is the father of control theory. Maxwell’s paper “On Governors” is the origin of stability analysis. [Kang 2016]
The unscientific, folk knowledge of “surrender to the experience” and “accept your lack of control” (Janikian 2019, Houot 2019) is a crude, unformed way of partly reconciling with the eternalism experiential mode, but it doesn’t succeed at getting the treasure of mental model transformation, and comprehending what’s going on. We’re left with “ineffability” and vague sense of a degree of regeneration, but it’s incomplete, unfinished, and unfulfilling, while also dangerous, high turbulence, and traumatizing — not very healing.
There are efforts to truly understand the real cause and resolution of bad trips (Johnstad 2021, “resisting ego dissolution”; Houot 2019: “mystical surrenderism instead of shamans’ technology of control”). The highest, most profound cause of bad trips is that the mind is designed to, when exposed to loose cognition, transform from possibilism to eternalism, in which the model of control and world transforms out from under you.
The more you exert (and and observe and test) possibilism-premised control, the more you go unstable and lose effective, viable control. “Control harder” (in the usual way) causes loss of control [Watts 1960].
Teaching and Testing Students About Control Re-Stabilizing (Image f134)
Figure 1. Teaching and examining students about control re-stabilization prior to psilocybin banqueting, including advanced analogies of handedness and non-branching. Row 1 Left, image f134, Canterbury Psalter [Lash 2008].
Recursive scope: When considered as the right-hand branch or leaf of a Y (as when cut branch 3 or leaf 3), branch 2 or leaf 2 maps to eternalism-thinking = stable control.
todo: reframe section is for purpose of talking about these crops, explain whats going on, whats he teaching?
entry jeru = Rev 22, we come through the gate to city of God to eat from fruit year round of tree of life, bracketing w/ closure completion the “prohib” motif Gen 2-3.
Flip Gen 2-3 into Rev 22 come back through the Psilocybin gate.
The elect only, are made able to go in and out through the angel fire guarded gate.
A gate is for passing through, by giving key password, of removed cleansed new garment.
The gate is not open for everyone: if you are a literalist, for you, Prohibition.
YOU are not allowed gate passage or Psilocybin.
Psilocybin gate passage to the tree of life is prohibited to YOU if you are an inferior anti-Christianity narrative pusher loser like McKenna.
The gate is open only to those who are sophisticated superior people with coherent thinking to obviously read an obvious esoteric document in esoteric correct mode.
If you are superior/ elect, you know is Christianity/ Bible is to give regeneration/ eucharist/ salvation to you, to the elect, only, to permit the elect through the gate to eat the Psilocybin fruit.
So are you those on the outside, who hold “Bible = Prohibition, a gate that is pointlessly permanently closed”?
Or are you among those on the inside , who hold “Bible = Psilocybin, gate = passable”?
The angel-guarded, loss of control {fire guarded} gate, {blade sword} keeps out the unworthy, non-elect, who are confused, who misread Genesis 2-3 as rank, vulgar Prohibition and who advocate that incomplete misreading that calls God a liar for saying “You will die when you eat the Psilocybin.”
Phases of Mental Model Transformation
The foundation for identifying the referent of myth is the basic model of the trajectory of mental model transformation across the two states of consciousness. This basic model is the point of reference to map mythemes and motifs to.
The mind works in four phases of development to the mature form that’s suitable to go in and out of the psilocybin loose cognitive state.
Phase 1. Ordinary state (tight cognition & possibilism experiencing); the possibilism mental worldmodel.
Possibilism-thinking. Ordinary state of consciousness: tight cognition gives the possibilism experiential mode, which produces possibilism-thinking.; the “possibilism” mental worldmodel.
Phase 2. Ordinary state (tight cognition & possibilism experiencing), the eternalism mental worldmodel.
Teaching eternalism-thinking. The tight cognitive state ordinary state of consciousness: education during the tight cognitive state to learn the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, including the mental model transformation process; learn eternalism-thinking ; the eternalism mental worldmodel. This instruction is the lesser mysteries; candidate training.
Instruction to prepare for the turbulence of making the structural transformation to shift weight from left to right foot; to transfer reliance for personal control from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking in the heat of the actual loose cognitive state.
Phase 3. Altered state (loose cognition & eternalism experiencing), the eternalism mental worldmodel.
The loose cognitive state brings the eternalism experiential mode, which produces eternalism-thinking, and builds on the preparatory education. The greater mysteries.
Phase 4. Ordinary state (tight cognition & possibilism experiencing), the qualified possibilism mental worldmodel, along with the eternalism mental worldmodel.
The completed initiate has qualified possibilism-thinking along with eternalism-thinking. The qualified possibilism mental worldmodel. Tight cognition (tightcog) gives the possibilism experiential mode. The mind has been {perfected}, {regenerated}, {cleansed}, and {reborn}: the mental model is reconfigured to be equipped to enter the altered state; the psilocybin loose cognitive association binding state (loosecog).
Teaching Cubensis Traders About Control Re-Stabilizing (Image f145)
Figure 1. Teaching psilocybin control re-stabilization to cubensis traders. Row 1 Left, image f145, Canterbury Psalter.
God Creates Plants (Golden Psalter) – Genesis 1:11-12
Figure 1. God Creates Plants (Golden Psalter).
Features:
The message on the right is between an I and Y [9:31 p.m. March 25, 2023]. God is the creator of branching illusion, non-branching reality, and mushrooms that reveal the difference.
The message in the middle goes across a YI tree.
Left tree has right cut trunk; YI.
God’s right-hand two fingers are pressed together, non-branching.
Amanita Is the Billboard for Psilocybin
The simplest explanatory theory: Amanita imagery in religious art (or texts) means ingesting Psilocybin, the same as in contemporary culture.
The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, or the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism in particular, replaces the Amanita paradigm and the Amanita Primacy Fallacy by an explanatory framework that is useful, successful, relevant, and effective.
Switch from “Amanita, Christianity, Surface Form, Low Esotericism” to “Psilocybe, Greek + Christian, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism”.
God asserts that when you ingest the fruit, you die. The snake asserts that when you ingest the fruit, you don’t die, but gain wisdom. Avoid the literalist reading, which must be wrong, because it claims that God asserts a falsehood.
To repeal Prohibition, switch from literalist reading to an esoteric analogy reading of all terms, such as: “naked” (vulnerable to loss of control), “fruit”, “tree”, “knowledge of good and bad” [Ziony Zevit 2013] and “eyes opened” (meta-perception to watch mental functioning of control-agency).
“Because you have eaten the fruit, the snake will bite your heel.”
On psilocybin, the block universe worldline, pre-existing, is perceptible, forcing thoughts into the mind, destroys the presumed foundation for personal control: a fatal snakebite, for egoic possibilism-thinking.
Literalist entheogen scholarship who leap to wallow in a self-defeating literalist out of context reading-into the Genesis 2-3 a 20th a C drug prohibition (for the strategic logic of righteous self-defeatism), must ignore God’s fallacious statement and ignore the OTHER garden gate bracketing the very end of the Bible where we are permitted through the gate to the tree of life.
God who entheogen scholars emphatically and falsely assert is a drug prohibitionist, permits coming through the gate to the tree of life into the city exactly isomorphic with the garden of Eden.
You cannot discuss the angel flaming sword gate in the walled garden of Eden preventing the permitted tree of life (as entheogen scholars always make sure to do), without also discussing its mirror, the walled city gate and angel conditionally allowed through the gate into God’s presence to eat of the tree of life, if garments (mental world model) are washed clean (of possibility branching, left-foot-standing).
To prevent Adam from coming back into the garden to eat from the tree which God permitted eating from in Gen 2:16 (tree of life/immortality), God placed a gate-guard, angel with flaming sword, to perpetually eternally prevent man from ever, ever eat from tree of life
BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT FKKING BIBLE YOU GUYS ARE READING, BECAUSE *MY* BIBLE SAYS WE ARE BROUGHT BACK THROUGH THE GATE TO EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE — BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN READING, YOU DRUG-PROHIBITIONIST ADDICTS, ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS.
Thomas Hatsis is the anti- mushroom psychedelic witch.
Similarly, entheogen scholars are the anti-esoteric sealers of the gate to the fruit of the tree of life.
They use their exoteric reading which they eagerly enjoy applying, to weld shut the gate, against Rev 22’s opening of the gate.
Drug prohibitionist entheogen scholars’ favorite strategy for self-defeat, is to assert exoteric reading into Genesis 2-3.
God didn’t close down the gate and seal it; God put a gate guard: angel with flaming sword. Flame means self-control threat.
To get through the gate to eat like Revelation at end of bible, must endure loss of control, Revelation 22: 2:
Entheogen scholars are determined to assert perpetual Prohibition, ignoring Rev 22, “No longer will there by any curse.”
“On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
“No longer will there be any curse.
“The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.
“They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. … The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.
“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.
“Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.”
Water from Rock (Golden) – Exodus 17
Solved detail of this tree morph’y [8 a.m. March 30, 2023], Cybermonk:
Green stem 1: I, purely non-branching near lifted garment & tablets.
Gray stem 1: YI = (YO, I). YI is good (non-branching on right).
Green stem 2: IY = (I, YO). Generally, IY is bad; but here, the I is closer to Moses, which is good.
Gray stem 2: (IY, YI) = (prominent I closer to Moses, YO, I).
Green stem 3: (IY, YI) = (I, YO, I).
Gray stem 3: (IY, YI) = (I, YO, prominent I pointing to Moses’ wand).
Figure 1. Water from Rock, image 45 top, Golden Psalter.
Features:
Lifted garment.
Mushroom hem.
Tree morphology crawling the caps left to right: IY, YI, IY, IY, YI, IY, YI, IY, YI.
Imparts a mushroom context on the other panel.
Looking at Bronze Serpent on Pole Heals Fatal Snake Bite (Golden) – Numbers 21
Figure 1. Looking at Bronze Serpent on Pole Heals Fatal Snake Bite, image 45 bottom, Golden Psalter.
Features:
Mushroom hems.
Same book as many mushrooms including Sacrifice of Isaac that shows deliberateness of msh hems vs. plain folds.
Snakes bite left leg.
Pointing equate snakes; fatal snake bite of heel, and brass rigid serpent on a pole that heals fatal snake bite of left leg.
Moses’ & Aaron’s weight on right foot.
All elements mean mushroom effects due to all msh images on page.
Apply to read Genesis 3 connecting eating fruit, guarded gate, and snake biting heel.
Entheogen Scholars Always Conceal, Never Reveal, and they Seal the Gate Permanently
It’s as lopsided as talking about “conceal” without also talking about “reveal”. Entheogen scholars only care about concealing, never revealing — a half story.
You cannot talk about your drug prohibition you project onto Gen 2-3 at the very start start of the Bible where we are sent wrong way through the gate guarded by the angel with fire-sword, and snake bites heel when your ingest Psilcobyin, and because because you eat thefruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad, …
without at the same time talking about Revelation 22 at the very end of the Bible, where we are told to come back through the gate back to God and back to the tree of life.
Stop telling a half-story of drug prohibition, the story of the entheogen scholars, the Prohibitionist Narrative always asserted by entheogen scholars.
Repeal of psilocybin prohibition, or continued prohibition, is in the hands of entheogen scholars: get your priorities straight:
Either continue the defeatism and literalist incoherent, incomplete reading of the Bible, perpetuating Prohibition and moral self-elevation by asserting God is a rank drug prohibitionist (this is only strategic toward perpetuating Prohibition),
or, take a winning attitude, win on every front, including theology leveraging what the Bible says, in the right, cleansed, coherent, esoteric reading.
Either God is a liar (Genesis 2:17: you will certainly die when you eat the fruit), or, you failed to rightly, coherently read Genesis 2-3 together with Revelation 22 which completes it, and we are brought back through the gate with the angel to eat from the tree of life if our garments are washed clean.
Let go of gleeful leaping to a Sunday School level of reading into the Bible 20th Century drug prohibitionism, and instead, take the correct, coherent mode of reading religious esoteric texts esoterically.
Or, stay addicted to rank, low, moralistic, exoteric reading, where you would have God literally prohibit Psilocybin, setting up a gate that is a wall and lets no one through, and you would have God pointedly assert that you literally die when you ingest Psilocybin — which is manifestly false.
At the point, the ones stand blocking the gate, they never go into and won’t let anyone else pass through, is the entheogen scholars, who like McKenna 1994 simply DECLARE there is no, and there must be no, Psilocybin in our own religion.
“Do not look for Psilocybin in Christianity; it is not there and we must not permit it to be there.
And so if you were to find any psilocybin in Christianity, you must hasten to prop up our narrative commitment, neutralize the findings of psilocybin in Christianity by framing-away the psilocybin; neutralize and discount psilocybin by labelling mushrooms, as Ruck enjoys and gets high by doing, as “heretical, alien, outside, deviant, not real Christianity, because everyone knows Christianity lacks psilocybin.”
Typical entheogen scholarship move. Perfectly optimized to perpetuate Prohibition. What the F is your objective, entheogen scholars? What kind of “strategy” is this?
We don’t need outside prohibitionists, because Prohibitionism thinking is baked right into the DNA of exoteric entheogen scholarship.
No one is more addicted to perpetual defeat and drug prohibition than entheogen scholars.
Never trust an entheogen scholar.
Prohibition of Psilocybin Is the Fault of Entheogen Scholars’ Self-Defeatism, and So Repeal of Entheogen Scholars’ Prohibitionism Is Also in Their Power, if They Get Their Priorities and Objectives Straight
The continuation or repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition, depends on you: whether you take a mature, esoteric, coherent and complete reading of religious texts, or, an immature, exoteric, incoherent and incomplete reading of religious texts.
Entheogen scholars have the power to repeal prohibition: make the #1 strategic objective the repeal of Psilocybin prohibition, by revealing that the traditional esoteric eucharist through which we are regenerated and taught Logos is psilocybin.
Abandon and jettison your mentally ill assertion of drug prohibition projected onto Genesis 2-3, abandon your cheap addiction to self-aggrandizing yourself over the God of Genesis 2-3 who you frame as the rank drug prohibitionist, who builds a guarded gate in order to make the gate serve as a mere wall.
Stop blocking the gate, by your self-elevating moralistic grandstanding, when depends on making God a mere liar (Genesis 2:17) by your addiction to asserting Sunday School-level of exoteric, incoherent misreading.
Cease the literalist reading of Genesis 3 as drug prohibition, and instead explain the way to coherently read Genesis 2:17 and 3:4 so as to stop asserting that God tells a falsehood against the wisest animal when God asserts “The day that you eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:17.
The snake speaks truly and not deceitfully when asserting “You will not die when you eat from the tree of knowledge, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and bad.” [Zevit 2013]
Eve was correct in seeing that the psilocybin fruit gives wisdom. Adam and Eve entered that state of loose cognitive meta-perception, and they perceived that they were naked — vulnerable to control instability.
Adam saw God in the garden and was afraid of God because Adam knew that he was naked; vulnerable to control instability, and so tried to hide from this vulnerability.
Eve Tempted by the Serpent (Cranach)
Figure 1. Eve Tempted by the Serpent (Lucas Cranach). From The Power of Myth, Illustrated edition, Joseph Campbell.
Features:
3-layer branching: plant branch in front of Eve’s branching legs, stag antlers behind her legs.
Holds onto branch with left hand.
Holds the fruit of wisdom in right hand.
Stands on stable rock.
Non-branching serpent contrasted with branching tree.
Snake with legs (branching). White spots; compare 4-legged salamander.
Liberty caps in cap, each with fruiting arms.
pink liberty caps, tan Panaeolus,
Cubensis-type veil branches.
Panaeolus-type lower right cap.
Serpent brings fruit in mouth.
Non-branching neck goes through the veil branches.
When You Eat from the Tree of Knowledge, You Will Certainly Die that Day (Golden Psalter)
Features:
God points to a YI pair. Blue cap is non-branching.
Lifted garment with black-arrow mushroom hem.
The message comes from God’s lifted mushroom garment. Knowledge of control vulnerability and non-branching.
God’s right foot touches stable column base.
Upper level tree morphology: YIYY.
Owl turns right and looks back at lifted garment.
Adam’s right hand touches non-branching trunk.
Black-arrow mushroom hem.
Bird touches Adam’s right leg and bird’s right heel touches trunk.
Birds’ right wings touch non-branching trunk.
Adam’s right hand touches the branching point of the tree and the message from God.
God’s left foot touches animals; animal-like thinking.
At least one cap is psilocybin, therefore count 7 psilocybin caps, and every element in this image depicts analogy to peak psilocybin effect.
Tree of Knowledge (Golden Psalter)
Figure 1. Tree of Knowledge (Golden Psalter).
Features:
Eve’s {right heel} on {stable column base}.
Tree morphology: Trunk vs. branches = IY; top row: YI, YI, Y, IY.
Non-branching serpent contrasted with branching tree brings fruit of wisdom.
Mytheme Notation
Mytheme notation: Read “=” or “->” notation as “refers to (by analogy)”. For example: {snake} = frozen worldline in non-branching block universe; or: {snake} -> worldline. Influenced by [Ruck & Staples 2001].
Tree of Knowledge (Plaincourault)
Figure 1. Tree of Knowledge (Plaincourault).
Features:
Eve stands on right foot.
Left leg bent, right leg straight.
Eve holds non-branching cap over branching legs.
Non-branching snake in branching tree.
Tree has left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg, and non-branching trunk base.
Angle of 3 branches under cap matches angle of Eve’s arms.
Eve’s underlying, imperishable ribs are revealed.
Naked = the underlying mental functioning of control system becomes perceptible, including vulnerability since it becomes clear that you don’t control the source of your control-thoughts but are profoundly dependent on the higher, hidden, uncontrollable source of control-thoughts, as has always been the case, but initially veiled for a time, occluded, concealed conditionally until exposed to psilocybin-induced loose cognition, at which time the autonomy illusion of monolithic control operating in a branching possibilities world collapses and the adult mature mental world-model is created, unfurled, sloughing off the garment (or flesh layer) that hid the underlying reality.
Because You Have Eaten the Fruit, the Snake Will Bite Your Heel (Bernward)
Figure 1. Revealed ultimate source of causal agency in a block universe with embedded snake-shaped, pre-existing worldlines frozen in rock (bronze). Panel 4, Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation. St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1015. Photo credit: Julie M. Brown. Detail. todo: ask.
Features:
God stands on right foot, left foot lifted.
YI tree.
God holds a message of transcendent knowledge in right hand.
Branching snake with 2 legs; lindworm (2 legs, no wings).
Figure 1. Snake with legs. Image f11 Row 3 Right, Great Canterbury Psalter. Mushroom tree #11 (of 75).
Enoch Carried Up to Heaven (Golden Psalter) – Genesis 5:24
Figure 1. Enoch carried up to Heaven (image 24 top, Golden Psalter).
Features
Lifted garment above non-branching tree 2x.
7:36 a.m. March 26, 2023] Trees 1 & 4 have a matching YI in middle, mirrored at their base yet both end up YI. Tree 1’s branch uses a switchback to become a YI. Tree 1 = I YI IY. Tree 4, on the right, = I YI YI, which is better.
Diagrammatic redundancy creates a communication parity check, to confirm deliberate arrangement of elements and messaging.
Mushroom hem is on Enoch’s right.
Bent left leg; standing with greater percent of weight on right leg.
Arrow-based mushroom hems match arrows in lifted garment mushroom hems.
Figure 1. Enoch carried up to Heaven (image 24 bottom, Golden Psalter).
Features:
Bottom panel: Right hand higher than left (bad). Two fingers held together non-branching.
Right leg bent; weight on left leg (bad).
Cain (right): right foot down, left floating (good). Left hand higher than right (good).
Mushroom hems and lifted garment.
Branching tree growing from Cain’s left arm.
Cain’s left foot floating (good).
Jacob’s Ladder (Golden Psalter) – Genesis 28:12
Figure 1. Jacob’s ladder (image 31 Top, Golden Psalter).
Features:
Right heel on ground, and non-branching trunk base of tree.
Top half of tree 2 is YI.
Top quarter of tree 2 is a YI.
Tree 3 is a YI. The I touches the adjacent non-branching cap of a Y branch.
Right arm on ground.
Jacob Wrestles an Angel (Golden Psalter) – Genesis 32:22–32
Figure 1. Jacob wrestles an angel (image 31 bottom, Golden Psalter).
Features
Branching mushroom tree on left, non-branching on right.
Observation/discovery #2: 7:15 p.m.: Jacob’s right heel touches stable base of tree trunk non-branching.
Non-branching fingers held together giving blessing of comprehending non-branching; trunk = right subtree red nonbranching.
Angel stands on right foot, left leg more bent than right.
Angel’s left foot lifted, touching Jacob’s left lifted foot.
Left wing splayed feathers touching branching left tree.
Three hem mushrooms, just like Moses’ 3 in Mystic Y only when he’s next to Pilzbaum, only Moses — on no other figures.
Angel makes “non-branching” shape with right hand fingers; teaching non-branching / eternalism — decoded (recognized/ noticed/ comprehended) by Cybermonk [10:30 p.m. February 13, 2023].
Angel’s left hand messing up Jacob’s left hip. [10:36 p.m. February 13, 2023]
Lifted mushroom hem touches Isaac’s straight left leg (false foundation of control).
Isaac’s left leg is straight, right leg bent.
Abraham’s left foot floating; weight on right foot.
Mushroom hem.
Mushroom thicket with ram helplessly caught to no avail to extricate himself by his power.
For {lifted mushroom hem}, John Rush’s terminology is “celestial erection”. Cite Rush.
Abraham & Isaac: Isaac straight left leg (in Canterbury not Golden Ps) touches Abraham’s lifted garment; Abraham knows that asserting possibilism-thinking causes loss of control — ram caught in msh thicket by its own power and ends up with no control and reality is revealed, eternalism-thinking results, given birth, engendered from above, God-mode thinking, higher level of 2-level (not autonomous monolithic) mental model of control. Rams in f177 Row 2 Left.
Sacrifice of Isaac (Golden Psalter)
Figure 1. Sacrifice of Isaac (Golden Psalter).
Mushroom Hems Mean Mushrooms: Multiple Mushroom Hems vs. Naturalistic Hems
Important for all Golden black-arrow mushroom hems: black-arrow mushroom hems contrasted against free-form red cloth folds. This proves that throughout Golden Psalter, the black-arrow mushroom hem shape means mushrooms and the artist rejected the naturalistic option. Multiple black-arrow mushroom hems are contrasted against multiple rounded naturalistic hems.
Any Erwin Panofsky-like claim that mushroom hems are meaningless, accidental, and rigidly dictated to the artists by meaningless distortion and random degradation of prototypes, is firmly shut out by the above figures’ signalling by the artists that they are in command of the shapes. [Brown 2019]
For another example, see Moses, Burning Bush, and Tablets (Ingeborg Psalter). Mushroom hems are covered by [Rush 2022, 20xx].
Features:
Abraham has four mushroom hems, one of which is a lifted mushroom hem.
The lifted mushroom hem is on a non-branching part of the tree.
Youth’s right leg is straight, left bent, implies relying of eternalism-thinking.
Abraham’s left leg is bent.
Black-arrow mushroom hems contrasted against free-form red cloth folds.
Tree 1’s right side is a YI branch.
Gill striations on lifted mushroom hem.
Angel’s left wing touches leftmost branch of a YI branch of the tree.
The Principle of Artist Responsibility and Agency
Artists have artistic freedom, intentionality, agency, and choice to employ imagery that they know perfectly well will deliver a mushroom impression. If the artist didn’t want to be held as intending mushrooms, they wouldn’t have chosen to deliver mushroom imagery to the viewer. This principle counters Erwin Panofsky in [Brown 2019].
The Principle of Art’s Independence from Text
If accompanying text states that the image means something other than mushrooms, and the image delivers mushroom imagery, then the image and artist means mushrooms, regardless of the text. This principle counters [Hatsis 2013].
Sacrifice of Isaac (Van der Borch)
Figure 1. Sacrifice of Isaac (Van der Borch).
Features:
Angel’s left fingers splayed branching, right single finger non-branching.
Moses standing on right leg, left foot floating.
Isaac fingers held together nonbranching at the cut branch.
Tree left crowns, suggesting branching, right cut branches.
Lack of branching in tree crowns.
Background vine trees mostly non-branching.
Rock altar has cut branches.
Burning Bush- Exodus 3
Moses, Burning Bush, and Tablets (Ingeborg Psalter)
Figure 1. Moses, Burning Bush, and Tablets (Ingeborg Psalter, c. 1210). Aspect ratio restoration by Michael Hoffman.
Features:
Cubensis or Panaeolus mushroom tree, left branching, right non-branching yet close to lifted garment.
Creator’s fingers are held together in contrast to the branching Y tree.
Aaron non-branching fingers held together touching cut branch.
Diagrammatic Y-branching trees with two cut branches added.
God as creator of Y-branching.
Shepherd’s hook for directing sheep is touching cut branch.
Neat row of 3 mushroom hems only on Moses next to the mushroom tree.
Stretched well-colored image presented by John Rush; aspect ratio corrected by Michael Hoffman.
God: fingers together right hand, left fingers splayed
Moses fingers together left hand, right fingers splayed
Y/I tree pair.
Moses left leg straight, right leg bent.
Background vine trees (90% non-branching)
Jonah and the Gourd Plant (Golden Psalter)
Figure 1. Jonah and the gourd plant. Jonah and the Gourd Plant. Image 230, Golden Psalter.
Features:
Left-hand fingers splayed, 2x.
Right-hand fingers held together.
Gourd is a branching-averse vine.
Floating caps with no branches, touching him.
Non-branching worm (worldline) eats possibility branches (compare burning bush), Jonah unhappy about losing shade = freewill fog blocking the sun light.
Entry into Jerusalem – Gospels
Entry into Jerusalem (Church of Saint Martin)
Figure 1. Purification of Isaiah’s Lips and Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem. Fresco on south choir wall, Church of Saint Martin de Vicq, France. Early 12th century (photo by Julie M. Brown, used with permission).
Features:
Jesus’ left-hand fingers branching.
Jesus’ right-hand fingers held together non-branching.
Youth in tree holds branch with left hand.
Apostles behind Jesus display fingers together, non-branching.
Youth in tree holds non-branching sticks and branching feathers in right hand.
Jesus holds his contrasting finger-shapes out, and youth in tree holds his contrasting sticks and feathers out, in matching fashion.
Donkey lifts left front leg and left rear leg.
Donkey’s right leg is on the top of an arch of a door.
Jesus’ right foot touches donkey’s right foot, which is down.
Youth in diamond-leaf tree holds branch in a branching cluster with left hand.
Youth in diamond-leaf tree holds branch not in branching cluster with right hand.
Right hand holds a semi-lance-shaped, non-branching spear in right hand aimed at Jesus.
Youth in diamond tree has left hand higher, toward more branching; right hand lower, toward less branching.
A youth out of view holds onto branching with left hand, cuts branch with pruning knife held in right hand.
Youths remove outer garments and put them under the donkey’s feet.
Youths spreading outer garments put weight mainly on their right legs.
Towers of Jerusalem (Church of Saint Martin)
Figure 1. Detail from Towers of Jerusalem. Church of Saint Martin de Vicq, France. Early 12th century (photo by Julie M. Brown, used with permission).
Features:
Youth in tree cutting branches.
Left hand holds branch.
Right hand cuts branch.
Youth draping walls: right foot is on the hinge of the Jerusalem gate.
Left hand higher, toward more branching, right hand lower, toward less branching.
Entry into Jerusalem (Otto Gospel)
Figure 1. Entry into Jerusalem. Page 94, Otto Gospel.
Features:
Bottom tree has YI morphology. YI! id’d by Cybermonk [6:17 p.m. March 23, 2023]
Mushroom trees. Each cap has 1 stem.
Scroll = Transcendent Knowledge of transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
Birds eating dangling fruit from mushroom cap.
Lower left: 2 guys hold right-hand two fingers together, 1 guy holds four fingers together.
Youth in tree holds branching portion of tree with left hand.
Youth in tree: left fingers splayed branching.
Youth in tree holds left hand high, toward more branching; right hand low, toward less branching.
Youths’ outer garments removed and placed under the donkey.
Youth in tree holding a {removed branch} in right hand.
Jesus’ right hand fingers held together, non-branching.
Jesus and youth in tree look at each other while gesturing.
Youth in tree: outer garment pulled away.
Donkey’s weight on right leg; left leg lifted.
Jesus’ right foot touching donkey’s right leg.
This image is used for plate VII in Brinckmann 1906, which was strongly recommended by Panofsky to Wasson twice (though not mentioned by Wasson).
Christ Reigns (Otto Gospel)
Features:
YI tree morphology. YI! id’d by Cybermonk [5:39 p.m. March 23, 2023]
Right foot lower than left. [6:26 p.m. March 23, 2023]
Left thumb & fingers branching, right fingers non-branching.
Fingers/ thumbs branching & non-branching.
Entry into Jerusalem (Lorenzetti)
Figure 1. Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1320) by Pietro Lorenzetti.
Features:
Youth climbs tree with straight right leg on cut trunk, bent left leg on main branching point.
Provided by Cyberdisciple when requested images of {rider approaching tree}.
Entry Into Jerusalem (Golden Psalter)
Figure 1. Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (image 54 top, Golden Psalter).
Features:
Mirroring: Peter’s right-hand fingers are splayed branching, contrasting mirrored held-together fingers of guy passing through gate.
City contained in 5 towers behind the gate.
Removed branch touches the gate.
The {left foot back} of {outer-garment} spreader touches/is the {bent left leg} foot, showing that:
{left foot back} = {left leg bent}, which = {standing on right foot}
Peter’s fingers as an indicator through contrast, useful to communicate powerful clear messaging, like Eadwine’s pink key tree. This hand-pair functions same as the “left fingers splayed vs right fingers together” hands-gesture. 12:13 a.m. February 23, 2023]: splayed fingers on the left, non-branching held-together fingers on the right. branching = left, non-branching = right.
Left hand helpfully serves any positive or negative or contrastive function just like positive mushroom serves to represent branching. Showing branching is showing non-branching. Visually the two … non-branching requires branching, to represent the contrast and positive of the non-.
What is it that is non-? Answer: Branching.
donkey branching ears = lower, egoic thinking is based on eternalism but is possibilism-thinking.
Y/II diagram. Left hand holds key to gate. Left hand gestures “non-branching”.
{gate key} = {removed branch} = contrast of {splayed fingers} vs. {held-together fingers}
The genre is a diagrammatic challenge of how to communicate eternalism.
This genre, cybernetic art, uses non-naturalistic art for communication about control agency in world, two ways of experiencing/ two ways of thinking, climactic switch by the mushroom tree.
Imagery for communicating that there are two mental world-models
mushroom gives the eternalism experiential mode; eternalism experiencing, then eternalism-thinking, the “eternalism” mental worldmodel. ordinary state vs altered state: they give two opposed world-models: transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
There are two mental world-models, for the two states of consciousness, the altered state gives the eternalism experiencing & eternalism-thinking
The loose cog state gives the “eternalism” mental worldmodel, including metaperception.
Transcendent Knowledge vs. egoic delusion: there are two contrasted mental worldmodels, like Alan Watts’ essay Zen and the Problem of Control, in This Is It (1973).
Man passing through gate has fingers held together, not branching/splayed.
Gate guys have cicular halo-like arch, mirroring Peter’s halo.
Man passing through gate has bent left leg; weight on right leg. Mirroring implies
Peter is has opposite handedness as donkeys and everyone else.
Donkey has bent left leg; relying on right leg.
Jesus’ right foot touches donkey’s straight right leg. Left foot higher, touches bend of donkey’s left leg.
Mirroring of Peter vs. gate guy. Peter holds key close to branching fingers, gate guy holds removed branch far from held-together fingers.
Baby donkey’s right leg is down.
Lower youth in tree holds left hand high, toward greater branching.
Youth’s right leg standing in tree on cut branch, left leg bent in main branching point.
Man in gate holds a removed branch in right hand, near the cut branch.
Peter has two mushroom hems.
Peter implicitly standing on left leg, opposite of the other legs.
Crouching youth has a mushroom hem.
Youth in tree left fingers splayed.
Jesus holds right-hand fingers together, non-branching, contrasted near the branching mushroom pair.
2 Youths in Branching Mushroom Tree
Christ on Donkey Lifting Left Leg
Standing on Cloak
Youth removes outer garment.
Peter’s weight is on his left (wrong) heel, contrasting with the donkey’s rear heels.
Holding Removed Branches
Blood on held-out branch aimed at king Jesus.
Peter holds the key to kingdom, to pass through the gate of Jerusalem.
Youth in tree holds out a {removed branch}.
{standing on right foot} on a {cut branch}.
Youth climbs tree with straight right leg on cut trunk, bent left leg on main branching point.
Higher youth in tree holds lower thicker branch in right hand, higher thinner branch in left hand.
Last Supper (Golden Psalter)
Figure 1. Last Supper (image 54 bottom, Golden Psalter).
Features:
Judas has lifted garment [Rush 2022], with a lifted black-arrow mushroom hem.
Black-arrow mushroom hem of tablecloth touches his lifted mushroom hem.
Judas doesn’t display two fingers.
Judas has outer-garment-spreading posture/ stance; cloak-spreading stance.
Right-hand fingers are held together 4x, and left-hand fingers are splayed 1x.
Right-hand fingers are splayed 1x, and left-hand fingers are held together 1x.
Triumph of Dionysus (Roman Mosaic)
Figure 1. Triumph of Dionysus on a Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum).
Image provided by the Egodeath community for 2006 article.
Jason, Ladon, Golden Fleece, & Athena (Douris Kylix)
Figure 1. Kylix by Douris showing Ladon, Jason, Athena, golden fleece of Zeus’ ram hiding the non-existent branching of the vine tree. Photo from Wikipedia user Daderot, xyz public use license.
Figure 1. Jason, Ladon, Golden Fleece, & Athena (kylix by Douris)
Features:
Snake body, human torso.
Ladon, Jason, Athena, golden fleece of Zeus’ ram hiding the non-existent branching of the vine tree.
Right hand touches non-branching spear.
Non-branching spear separates mortal and immortal boundary.
Owl of wisdom.
Death-head gorgon medusa breastplate.
A riddling Sphinx on the helmet, a gate guard.
Serpents in Athena’s breastplate.
Non-branching vine tree.
Golden fleece of sacrificed ram blocks view of branching portion of tree.
Ladon serpent/dragon.
Jason dead and impotent in conjunction with non-branching serpent.
Within whole-tree scope/scale, the cut right trunk is “good”, and the entire left tree is “bad”. Within scope/scale of only the left tree portion, the branching zone is “bad”, the non-branching cap & stem are “good” so touch the non-branching snake-tail of the the salamander or right paw touches cap. Branching part of tree (bad) doesn’t touch salamander (good).
Fire is altered state loose cognition causing loss of control that drives transformation from possibilism to eternalism. [6:08 p.m. March 17, 2023]
Cut right trunk.
Tree has left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg branching limbs, and a mushroom on each limb.
right hand touching head, like right paw touching cap
Serpentine “snake with legs” salamander is similar in morphology to snake in tree eg. Canterbury Psalter’s Tree of Knowledge with legged serpent.
Non-branching trunk touches non-branching tail.
Right paw touches non-branching cap.
Salamander avoids touching branching part of tree.
Lifted hem above cut right trunk.
Lifted left leg; relying on right leg.
Right heel touching cut major branch.
Triangular liberty cap cap shape.
The salamander image is treated by Hatsis 2013.
Asp (Aberdeen Bestiary)
Figure 1. Asp (Aberdeen Bestiary).
Features:
Standing on right leg, left leg lifted.
Serpent’s right leg is on non-branching part of mushroom tree.
Serpent’s left leg is on branching part of mushroom tree.
Serpent has left paw higher in the tree, toward more branching; right paw lower, toward less branching.
Hanging Upside Down (Image f134, Canterbury Psalter)
Row 1 left: Teaching and examining students about psilocybin control re-stabilization prior to banqueting.
Row 3 middle: Blue krater cubensis collector looks at mushroom dispensary bins.
Row 2 middle: Swordsman looks at the fingertip height of psalter reader and sheaths or unsheaths.
Row 2 right: Standing on left leg = 0 degrees of analogy comprehension;
Row 2 right: Standing on right leg = 1 degree of analogy-indirection comprehension: {foot heights} is like (& refers to) which mental world model is relied on for control-in-world.
Row 2 right: Funnel Hat sage standing on no leg = hanging from right leg = 3 degrees of analogy-indirection comprehension.
Row 2 right, limbless looker eye-points at wrong hands under bucket = 2 degrees of analogy-indirection comprehension: {hand heights} refers to {foot heights} refers to which mental world model is relied on for control-in-world.
Psilocybin caps & stem, therefore every element in this image depicts analogy to peak psilocybin effect.
Row 1 right: Funnel Hat eye-points to maiden’s non-furrowed forehead, indicating that this initiate understands eternalism and so is qualified for psilocybin.
Row 1 right: Father eye-points to God’s hand positions. Limblessness amplifies the pointing function.
Row 2 middle: Psalter reader holds open scroll of knowledge about control instability in right hand, right foot on ground.
Row 2 middle: She holds closed scroll with scale balance: knowledge/message that relying on left foot possibilism-thinking causes loss of control. She’s the stable self-control of the ordinary state.
Distinct YI morphology in lower vs. upper part of pink key tree and mushroom tree; must re-assess “good” and “bad” within local scale and local context. Rightmost leaf, like a finger, is “good”, leftmost is “bad”.
Left branch is dead, touching left arm of non-passing student giving incorrect answer (showing left hand).
Rightmost leaf (“good”) touches pink’s right heel (“good”; stable self-control).
The two red caps form a Y, the rightmost red cap is “good” and touching God’s cloud. Local scope of assessing “good” and “bad”: left is bad, Y is bad, yet the right part of Y is “good” when considered within local scale/scope.
Row 2 Right: Naive newbie (stand on left foot), basic understander (stand on right foot), advanced interpreter (hang upside-down from right knee):
Standing on left leg = no understanding of {handedness} motif.
Standing on right leg = basic understanding of {handedness} motif= pink guy in tree w/ right foot on cut branch.
Floating feet = hanging from right leg = advanced understanding of {handedness} motif ({branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs).
Row 2 middle: Self-threatening psalter reader has right-hand finger lifted to exactly the same height as left-hand fingers, surfing the edge of catastrophic loss of control.
Right-hand cap of Y touches God’s cloud. [5:54 March 17, 2023, continuing to spin out March 16 a.m.’s “relative local scope” breakthrough]
Row 2 Right: Mushroom distributor looking at worried/excited brow of foolish youth.
Sun light below God = intense perception of control dynamics in peak loose cog state.
Row 2 Right: Floating Feet Guy Is Looking at Floating Feet of Right-Knee-Hanging Guy. His feet are same height = advanced surfing the edge of loss of control, furrowed brow. [11:17 p.m. March 14, 2023]
Row 3 Left: Reaper feet both down, surfing the edge of loss of control as he shifts % of weight to L vs. R foot.
Row 2 Right: Limbless youth bulging eyes eye-points to wrong hands of foolish youth receiving psilocybin, and connects that to target of floating sage = Red guy in tree’s limbs relative heights in relation to sword of control-loss.
Systematic mastery of {handedness} requires presenting problematic, non-simple scenarios: hanging upside down by right knee, 3D table perspective of Maiden hands; pair of 1-legged guys (Row 3 Middle).
Candidates for initiation who pass the exam (Row 1 Left) banquet on one or two bowls of cubensis, such as a secondary delayed dose (Row 1 Right).
Row 1 Left: Pink key tree is isomorphic with the cubensis tree, indicating left = branching (unstable control), right = non-branching (stable control).
Row 2 Middle: Threatening arrowhead inches from the anxious psalter viewer
Row 2 Middle: Breaking bow to refrain from transgressing control limits, per good judgment and mercy.
Skillful balancing in tree by right foot on cut branch, left foot floating, left hand floating (not relied on), right hand holding onto cut branch.
Left hand touching sword blade of control limits. Reliance on possibilism-thinking has been cut/pierced, like cut branching.
Row 1 Middle: Right hand touching cut major right-hand trunk.
Row 3 Left: Right foot on stable column base.
Row 3 Right: Oxen wisely lifts left foot, stands on right foot.
Row 1 Left: Candidates for initiation, 3 of 4 don’t qualify, not able to demonstrate reliying on right-hand, non-branching thinking.
Row 3 Middle: Blue krater to gather cubensis.
Foolish youth on left leg, wise youth on right leg, wise man on no leg, with mushroom hem on stable column base, carrying a limbless, non-branching youthful thinking.
Two cybercide guys, transgressing lower, egoic control limits of possibilism-thinking, right foot on stable column base.
Mushroom Depictions (f134)
Figure 1. Canterbury Psalter image f134. Annotations by Michael Hoffman.
Mushroom Bins & Bucket (f134)
Figure 1. : Newbie psychonaut enthusiast relying on naive possibilism-thinking. Image f134 Row 2 Right, Canterbury Psalter. Crop by Michael Hoffman.
Hands & Feet (f134)
Figure 1. Relative hand-heights and foot-heights, image f134, Canterbury Psalter. Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman.
Looking-Lines (f134)
Figure 1. Looking-lines in image f134, Canterbury Psalter. Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman.
Hand Heights when Hanging by Right Leg (f134)
Figure 1. Mushroom tree, with limb heights highlighted. Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman. Image f134 Row 1 Middle, Canterbury Psalter.
Translate {stand on right foot} to {hang from right knee}
Challenge: Confirm analogous relative hand heights when hanging upside down from right leg (knee) vs. sitting upright using right leg (foot) in mushroom tree.
Summary of solution:
Why right hand should be farther from the ground than left hand when hanging from right leg rather than standing on right leg: because when hanging from right knee, left knee droops closer to ground than right knee. By analogy (like when standing), hands should be same: left hand closer to ground than right hand. Q.E.D.
Detailed analysis:
The advanced-level floating sage in Row 2 Right worries: how come the hands of the guy who is hanging upside down are in the “bad” configuration (right hand elevated)? Does this violate consistency of the standard analogy system, so that he’s unstable and falling to his cybernetic death on God’s sword?
The hanging guy’s feet fulfill the standard “good” configuration, so why aren’t his hands the same relative elevation as his feet? That seems inconsistent. How to analyze this abnormal scenario consistently with the standard analogy system?
{stand on right foot} translates to {hang by right knee}.
{right hand further from ground than left hand} -> {weight on left leg} -> control based on possibility branching world model, which causes loss of control (fatal control instability). So, {right hand elevated} = bad.
Key point: When hanging from right leg, foot height doesn’t count; what counts instead is knee height.
When standing, “good”, stable control is meant by {right foot is on ground and left foot higher}. By an additional degree of analogy distance, {left hand higher than right hand}.
When hanging by right knee, left knee droops closer to ground than right knee. By the same, consistent analogy as when standing upright, the left hand should be closer to the ground than the right hand, to be “good”; that is, to have stable, viable control.
Loss of Control Depending on Fingertip Height (f134)
Figure 1. Canterbury Psalter image f134, finger height maps to loss of control. Crop, image processing, and annotations by Michael Hoffman.
Loss of Control as a Function of Fingertip Height (Mapped to Which Mental Model of Control-in-World)
OPEN scroll is knowledge about this & balance = loss of control. “When I didn’t know about this[ie that possibilism-thinking in peak state of loose cognition causes loss of control] (ie when scroll was closed), I had balance/ stable self-control, back when I stood on left heel in OSC.” – 9:31 a.m. March 18, 2023
i’m doomed, condemned to forever type in more realizations: Eadwine won’t let me ever stop [8:42 a.m. March 18, 2023] she’s holding a scroll with balance scale, which is Transcendent Knowledge that possibilism-thinking causes loss of control — and the cross-image jackpot won’t stop; this (specific) decoding means also that in f145 Row 1 Quarter 2 the scroll and god r row 1 R THE SCROLL MESSAGE about doomed POSSIBILISM-THINKING, asserting/RELYING ON LEFT FOOT CAUSES LOSS OF CONTROL; {SCROLL} DECODED.
f145 Row 1 R god too holds in left hand closed scroll, but is open in Row 2. got it (got something): he holds in right hand open scroll. Need todo crop: mirror him & her & scrolls, feet, hands, balance. [8:59 a.m. March 18, 2023]
She’s the balance that u have in OSC and that you wish for in altered state. He’s out of control, he looks at her in OSC she has stable control, contrasted against him, she is stable bc she lacks Transcendent Knowledge (closed scroll, wrong hand & foot down), she is the ctrl-stab’y of the osc [9:05 a.m. March 18, 2023].
what’s in his book is what’s on his & her scrolls.
now i puzzle: closed vs open scroll, is she ignorant of Transcendent Knowledge, standing her left heel on stable column base? “hard to interp” – wiki.
{rams} assert and double down on asserting possibilism-thinking and so they lose balance, building falls down, they go out of control
King Filling Bins (Image f145, Canterbury Psalter)
[8:57 a.m. March 26, 2023] Row 1 Left: cubensis trader’s right foot pointedly does not touch the stable column base, but hovers improbably over it.
Scroll in God’s raised left hand = scroll in Row 2 Left touching left hand / lifted garment (compare f134 Row 1 Left & f177 Row 1 Middle). [1:10 a.m. March 18, 2023]
Stable towers & mushroom tree touch God’s cloud.
Sitting in doorway = maximum stability of control.
Buildings control stability not loss of control, doorway especially stable.
Row 1 Middle: In transition lowering right hand/foot to same level as left guided pushed by loss-of-control demons. [6:15 March 17, 2023] trident = punished by loss of control due to asserting possibility branching.
[2:04 a.m. March 18, 2023] trident vs. rope: the good demon (correcting you by showing truth) employs a 1-d non-branching rope that conrols both control-worldmodels (feet), the bad demon corrects you by asserting possibilism-thinking (branching trident).
scroll held in God’s left raised hand and a scroll touches the lifted by left hand garment; inspired to lift left hand/ foot. scroll = God-mode thinking.
Riding a pair of horses or camels: two mental models of control-in-world.
Holding a balance, vs. loss of control; control stability.
YI tree morphology: branching on left, cut trunk on right.
Filling lockbox bins with trade commerce blue mushrooms matching stem of tree.
Mushroom eaves on stable building gates/doors.
Instructing barbarian traders to rely on right rather than left foot during peak to keep balance and avoid loss of control stability.
Mushroom Depictions (f145)
row 1 L: he is pointing at r foot, but also at open scroll touching lifted garment. Looking-lines would help.
Blue cloth or bag over bin with msh hem indicates cubensis bin. Matches bag in Row 1 L.
King David. Prophet Nathan to left.
blue box i added = bad = left foot/hand down = possibilism-thinking
3 yellow boxes left to right:
L hand raised, so implicitly R foot down; implicitly good/wise.
R hand raised, so implicitly L foot down; implicitly bad/foolish.
L hand level; ambiguous.
ambig (L hand level), probably good; ambig, probably bad; fully ambig (L hand level)
white = good = right foot/hand down = eternalism-thinking
red = peak seizure = right foot/hand same height as left = in transformation from possibilism to eternalism thinking
when right hand down, open scroll (god excepted) Row 2. also f134 Row2 middle: closed vs open scrolls, two of them.
Looking-Lines (f145)
todo: create
Horses at Tree (Canterbury Psalter f177)
Figure 1. Canterbury Psalter f177.
todo: cover topic of Sun attached to msh tree.
The simple tree and the leaf tree teach non/branching therefore each tree is considered as msh tree.
winnow basket for mental model filtering and for msh.
Winnowing basket for mental model filtering and for msh. [9:18 a.m. March 30, 2023]: Right hand at bottom where wheat falls, left hand at top with thumb splayed where chaff blows away.
The psilocybin mushroom tree converts everything in the image to psilocybin mushrooms / effects.
dirt pile = dung = msh. all aspects of image are msh and peak mature fx intense.
2 bags of msh
3 msh trees (1 converts the others to count as msh)
weighing msh on balance
lockbox filled with msh.
Features:
Psilocybin caps & stem, therefore every element in this image depicts analogy to peak psilocybin effect, edge of loss of control depending on which mental model is relied on.
Row 2 Middle: Scale balance. To weigh mushrooms. To switch to mental model of control & world that can keep its balance.
Addresses/ recognizes the q: if “stand right not left foot, what if upside down, what happens to that “simple” rule? The middle ram is relatively good because left foot not touching ground (ceiling), like the simple key tree’s middle cap not touching the ceiling.
Mushroom tree has deliberately botched cross-under. Row 2 shroud: Right arm/wrist is not hidden of Shroud; in ego death, non-branching reality is visible/ unveiled. Guy on right of row 2 Middle holding shroud, left hand hides right foot, key tree Y hides I cross-under (branching hides non-branching reality), 2 rams have hidden right foot, he looks at the 2 ram hidden “true” right feet and the key tree’s I branch (“true” branch’s) cross-under veiled by Y branch. Artist clearly choose to evidently choose to hide some right feet of … showed one ram’s right foot to prove the the other two (most of them) are intentionally/ meaningfully hidden/veiled.
Sun light attached to cubensis tree over horses = intense perception of control dynamics in peak loose cog state.
[condense/move out: good compared to the other can’t be fully bad, because left foot not touching ground. b/c foot not touching (a 2nd layer/ degree of artist problematizing their set-up simplistic rule of “stand on right”)…. what would it mean if one ram left foot not touching ground? Answer: m
The middle ram is relatively good, like the simple key tree’s middle cap not touching the ceiling.
[move from Features to body discussion The artist is telling us to discuss these perverse gray area deviant cases that problematize simplistic rule “left down bad”.]
Row 1 middle, 3 guys stand right foot, 1 by crossing legs, middle’s foot hidden.
Row 2 left: 3 rams stand left foot, middle’s foot hidden.
Right-foot balancing guy standing on stable tower.
Big tall brain of guy with difficult motif-combination {left heel of lame leg stable column base holding balance} + {crutch} indicating inability to use left heel, big brain = understanding of inability of left heel; understanding gives stability. Right foot balancing = eternalism-thinking; crutch + left leg = qualified possibilism-thinking.
Big brain guy looking at Row 1 foot.
Crowd has no legs because they represent the viewer, more than referent of analysis. Left person looks at viewer establishing this connection.
Row 1 middle: Looks left, points left; looks right, points left and right; looks right, points right, lifted garment.
Two horses look at blue non-branching cap, two look and right hand of God.
Crutch is knowledge that left heel is unstable; lame left leg indicates eternalism-thinking, which is stable. Left heel (with crutch negating) is on stable column base.
Simple key tree above ego death rock ossuaries graveyard in row 2 is YI morphology; establishes YI is good. Left = branching = unstable; right = non-branching = stable.
Left tree trunk = YI = Good. Cross-under matches simple key tree.
Right tree trunk = YI = Good. Virtual cross-under would match the two other trees[3:59 a.m. March 11, 2023].
Buildings = stability = towers.
Winnowing basket to sort possibilism-thinking (down chute) vs. eternalism-thinking.
Psilocybin lockbox. Stands in gateway, must understand eternalism to access lockbox and pass through gate. Stability / Instability acts as a lock/gateway to prevent unworthy/ uneducated (about cybernetic eternalism) from accessing the psilocybin intense mystic altered state. The Bad Trip Barrier, the 39% under optimal conditions have extreme panic terror seizure panic escalation frenzy whirlwind elevator to heaven.
An image viewer (row 1 right) has furrowed brow, dread because relying on unstable possibilism-thinking, indicated by displaying left hand– instead of hiding limbs branching [4:04 a.m. March 11, 2023] to negate.
Left tree’s upper level: IY, I, IY = Bad, Good (because non-branching at trunk level), Bad.
Left tree’s upper level: YI, IY, YI = Good, Bad, Good (because cut branch = non-branching).
Right-hand session guide holds right foot while looking at pink key tree.
Left-hand session guide holds right arm while looking at crutch and left heel.
Standing on right leg held up by right hand by God, left foot in left hand neither used to remain balanced and standing.
Egoic animal thinking down chute sacrificial 3 rams in dragon furnace consumed. Illusion and repudiated animal thinking that causes control instability is repudiated and cast down chute to consuming furnace sacrificial three rams.
Various top-row figures look at left tree, right tree, or right foot.
Toes-balancing guy uses balance to weigh 5g dried from the psilocybin lockbox.
Balance bag same angle as lockbox bag.
Mushroom Depictions (f177)
Looking-Lines (f177)
Figure 1. Canterbury Psalter f177, with looking-lines and target features added by Michael Hoffman.
Rams Standing on Left Leg (f177)
Figure 1. Rams standing on left leg, causing fire (loss of control). Image f177 Row 2 Left, upside-down, Canterbury Psalter. Crop and image processing by Michael Hoffman.
Features:
todo
Occluded Cross-Unders (f177)
Figure 1. Occluded cross-unders and related looking-lines. Detail, image f177, Canterbury Psalter. Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman.
[11:20 p.m. March 23, 2023] Middle special dark ram is equated with the special, I branch of simple key tree: the shroud carrier looks simultaneously at the cross-under of the good branch and beyond that the occluded right leg exactly inline . or/and, looks at crown of good branch and beyond that, exactly at angled at right leg of “good” (in another sense/perspec.) ram 3 (rightmost as if I of YI trio).
Ram 1 + 2 ~= Y, ram 3 = I. Same w/ each trio of tail & legs. tail + L leg ~= Y, R leg ~= I. The proof that these details count for points is the botched cross-under of the msh tree. You also get 1 point for explaining that the really awkward R leg of ram 3 under border yells “analyze cross-unders”; proves / signals that R-hand cross-unders are significant.
Shroud’s right-hand wrist being not cross-undered then means: fully ego-dead state = full, non-occluded perception of right-hand non-branching branch, clearly, directly, fully perceiving non-branching, without that reality being at all occluded by the branching illusion. [11:44 p.m. March 23, 2023]
Shroud’s right FOOT (max. “good”) is not hidden by his “bad” left hand. we can also excuse Carrier for hiding Shroud’s R ankle b/c Carrier is looking at 3 cross-unders (tree + 2 ram R feet). He’s able to see the occluded branch & right feet so we are “able to see”, in effect, Shroud’s occluded R ankle.
Shroud’s R foot touches Carrier’s R leg, not L leg.
the fact that Carrier is looking at cross-unders proves that Shroud’s cross-overs/ cross-unders are to be analyzed. Plus Shroud’s cross-over wrists X is exactly under Stable Tower that’s under Stably/Rightly Standing guy in Row 1, proving that a focal point for analysis is Shroud’s wrists choice of overlap, the fact that R wrist is NOT occluded; “the non-occlusion of Shroud’s R wrist” is a major focal point for analysis/meaning-concentration. The most important significant feature of Shroud is certainly the visibility (non-occludedness) of the R wrist. L Carrier’s right hand occluding R shoulder doesn’t count as occluding, b/c R hand.
Carriers are effectively putting Shroud’s wrists crossover config’n on display to be analyzed.
Conclusions
Re-centers the Field on Psilocybin Rather than on Amanita
This Theory moves the field solidly out from centering “is it a mushroom (picture Amanita) or not?”, per Brown’s request about whether DH or I have written about “compelling evidence & criteria of proof” for identifying mushroom imagery in Christian art [pers. corr. Nov. 10 2020], by a superior central concern: evidence for Psychedelic Eternalism in art, particularly from Psilocybin.
“I will also propose a framework for revitalizing the study of mushrooms in Christian art (MICA), and focus the field on the central question: to what extent are psychoactive mushrooms present in Christian history?” [Brown 2022].
Read Esoterically to Reveal that Genesis Is Not Simple Literal Prohibition
The Genesis text indicates that a literalist reading cannot be correct, because such a mode of reading would have God assert a falsehood in asserting per Genesis 2:17: “in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” An esoteric mode of reading, which recognizes “die” as ego death, solves this problem that is signalled by the text to be the correct, appropriate, successful mode of reading, for those on the inside. For those on the outside, who have incoherent thinking, this passage is simple literal prohibition, and God asserts a manifest falsehood.
Become coherent and abandon the literalist narrative of claiming that Genesis 2-3 expresses a simple, rank, vulgar anti-drug attitude. Perceive and reveal the peak climactic central presence of advanced psilocybin technology in the heart of Western religion, and commit to the overriding strategic objective of repealing psilocybin prohibition.
Increased Ability to Perceive and Recognize Psilocybin Evidence
The entheogen scholarship game of “spot the mushroom” is played most effectively when integrated with literacy about the psilocybin experiential referents of religious mythology, mythemes, and art motifs: not just “spot the mushroom”, but level-up the game by recognizing the language of {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
… increased manyfold by adding Theory of {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs. Happens to provide greatly increased ability to see and gather evidence, cumulative breakthrough effect, to identify mushroom imagery in esoteric art — but much more profound, exciting, and worthwhile, is {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs
Flip the Psilocybin-Absence Narrative Expectations and Presuppositions
There are countless thousands of images of psilocybin mushrooms in Western religion. The top priority for entheogen scholars is to strategically repeal psilocybin prohibition. Especially beware of entrenched self-defeating, anti-strategic narratives and commitments to presupposition frameworks and habitual, defeatist, negative lenses.
Online images along with the present enabling lens present a golden age of recognizing the vibrant copious tradition of psilocybin in Europe. Embrace and expect and vigorously spotlight and focus on recognizing psilocybin in Western religion, including Europe, England, and the Mediterranean.
Add to the forbidden word list to enable a successful explanatory framework: suppressed, secret, concealed, forbidden, heretical, cult. Stop committing to the paradigm of absence, which succeeds at one thing: reifying Prohibition.
Understand Control Instability from Psilocybin
With the coming full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition, people will use high-dose psilocybin, and will inevitably discover that asserting possibilism-thinking during loose cognition causes loss of control, as surely as a ram caught in a thicket by its own efforts and exertions of its power.
By applying the Theory of Psychedelic Cybernetic Eternalism to the {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs, we now have a STEM-type, effective explanatory model of the classic ram seizure dynamics escalation of control instability vortex attractor that religious mythology and this art genre reports, because myth and medieval art come from psilocybin experiential dynamics.
Repeal Psilocybin Prohibition and Leverage Evidence in Christianity
Medieval Christian artists were evidently experts at psilocybin’s peak effect of transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to the eternalism mental worldmodel of time, possibility, and control. Repeal psilocybin prohibition, because Western religion has a well-evidenced, strong tradition of using psilocybin as the source and inspiration of religious experiencing.
The Path Is Cleared for Psychedelic Cognitive Science
Psychedelic Cognitive Science is now equipped to enter the realm of psilocybin without trespassing and being thrown out through the guarded gate by the threat of loss of control.
The Mental Transformation Process Is Now Efficient
To easily and smoothly transform the mental model to retain stable control in the psilocybin state, study the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.
Further Reading
See Hoffman 1996 for the mental worldmodel of control in the loose cognitive state. Hoffman 1997 presents the Core theory specification of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.
See Hoffman 2007 for mapping religious mythology to the core of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism. Hoffman 2020a provides guidance for psilocybin sessions and for development of the theory of branching-message mushroom trees.
Bodleian Ms. 602. Abbreviated as Bodleian Bestiary.
Golden Munich Psalter. Abbreviated here as Golden Psalter.
Great Canterbury Psalter, BnF Latin MS 8846. 1176-1200 CE. Abbreviated here as Canterbury Psalter. todo: how does Brown cite Great Canterbury Psalter? 10/10
Ingeborg Psalter.
References
todo: cite more the Journal of Psychedelic Studies
Article: Being and Becoming in Modern Physics Section 2.1: Presentism, Possibilism, Eternalism Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/#PresPossEter 8/10 Two contrasted models of time are possibilism & eternalism (how do the Journal of Psychedelic Studies articles cite this?)
Bricklin, Jonathan. The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James’s Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment. January 2, 2016. SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology. 8/10
Brown, Jerry; Brown, Julie (2019). Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Volume 3: Issue 2, pp. 142–163. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019 Includes: Panofsky, Erwin (1952a, 1952b). Letters of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952 & May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published in Brown & Brown 2019. 10/10
Janikian, Michelle. 2019. Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms—From Tips and Trips to Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy. 7/10
Johnstad, Petter (2021). Day trip to hell: A mixed methods study of challenging psychedelic experiences, Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 5(2), 114-127. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2021.00155 6/10
Mâle, Emile (1913). Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century: A Study in Mediaeval Iconography and its Sources of Inspiration. 7/10 – Eustace crossing river.
Metzner, Ralph. 1998. The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience 1998. Also published as Opening to Inner Light, 1986.
James Clerk Maxwell’s Glasgow manuscripts: extracts relating to control and stability A. Fuller Physics 1986 Four of Maxwell’s letters which were written to William Thomson, and are currently held by Glasgow University Library, are reproduced and discussed. Some of the material relates to control, and leads…
Maxwell, James. On Governors. 1868. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
Kang, Chul-Goo. 2016. Origin of Stability Analysis: “On Governors” by J.C. Maxwell [Historical Perspectives]. Mathematics. IEEE Control Systems.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7569049
Evangeliarium of Emperor Otto. Abbreviated as Otto Gospel. Das sogenannte Evangeliarium Kaiser Ottos III (The so-called Evangeliarium of Emperor Otto), Latin Codex 4453, Munich, around 1000 CE.
John Rush (2022). Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (2nd edition of The Mushroom in Christian Art: The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity (2011)). 7.5/10
God asserts that when you ingest the fruit, you die. The snake asserts that when you ingest the fruit, you don’t die, but gain wisdom. Avoid the literalist reading, which must be wrong, because it claims that God asserts a falsehood.
To repeal Prohibition, switch from literalist reading to an esoteric analogy reading of all terms, such as: “naked” (vulnerable to loss of control), “fruit”, “tree”, “knowledge of good and bad” [Ziony Zevit 2013] and “eyes opened” (meta-perception to watch mental functioning of control-agency).
“Because you have eaten the fruit, the snake will bite your heel.”
On psilocybin, the block universe worldline, pre-existing, is perceptible, forcing thoughts into the mind, destroys the presumed foundation for personal control: a fatal snakebite, for egoic possibilism-thinking.
Literalist entheogen scholarship who leap to wallow in a self-defeating literalist out of context reading-into the Genesis 2-3 a 20th C drug prohibition (for the strategic logic of righteous self-defeatism), must ignore God’s fallacious statement and ignore the OTHER garden gate bracketing the very end of the Bible where we are permitted through the gate to the tree of life.
God who entheogen scholars emphatically and falsely assert is a drug prohibitionist, permits coming through the gate to the tree of life into the city exactly isomorphic with the garden of Eden.
You cannot discuss the angel flaming sword gate in the walled garden of Eden preventing the permitted tree of life (as entheogen scholars always make sure to do), without also discussing its mirror, the walled city gate and angel conditionally allowed through the gate into God’s presence to eat of the tree of life, if garments (mental world model) are washed clean (of possibility branching, left-foot-standing).
To prevent Adam from coming back into the garden to eat from the tree which God permitted eating from in Gen 2:16 (tree of life/immortality), God placed a gate-guard, angel with flaming sword, to perpetually eternally prevent man from ever, ever eat from tree of life
BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT FKKING BIBLE YOU GUYS ARE READING, BECAUSE *MY* BIBLE SAYS WE ARE BROUGHT BACK THROUGH THE GATE TO EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE — BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN READING, YOU DRUG-PROHIBITIONIST ADDICTS, ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS.
Thomas Hatsis is the anti- mushroom psychedelic witch.
Similarly, entheogen scholars are the anti-esoteric sealers of the gate to the fruit of the tree of life.
They use their exoteric reading which they eagerly enjoy applying, to weld shut the gate, against Rev 22’s opening of the gate.
Drug prohibitionist entheogen scholars’ favorite strategy for self-defeat, is to assert exoteric reading into Genesis 2-3.
God didn’t close down the gate and seal it; God put a gate guard: angel with flaming sword. Flame means self-control threat.
To get through the gate to eat like Revelation at end of bible, must endure loss of control, Revelation 22: 2:
Entheogen scholars are determined to assert perpetual Prohibition, ignoring Rev 22, “No longer will there by any curse.”
“On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
“No longer will there be any curse.
“The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.
“They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. … The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.
“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.
“Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.”
Water from Rock (Golden) – Exodus 17
Figure 1. Water from Rock, image 45 top, Golden Psalter.
Features:
Lifted garment.
Mushroom hem.
Tree morphology crawling the caps left to right: IY, YI, IY, IY, YI, IY, YI, IY, YI.
Imparts a mushroom context on the other panel.
Looking at Bronze Serpent on Pole Heals Fatal Snake Bite (Golden) – Numbers 21
Figure 1. Looking at Bronze Serpent on Pole Heals Fatal Snake Bite, image 45 bottom, Golden Psalter.
Features:
Mushroom hems.
Same book as many mushrooms including Sacrifice of Isaac that shows deliberateness of msh hems vs. plain folds.
Snakes bite left leg.
Pointing equate snakes; fatal snake bite of heel, and brass rigid serpent on a pole that heals fatal snake bite of left leg.
Moses’ & Aaron’s weight on right foot.
All elements mean mushroom effects due to all msh images on page.
Apply to read Genesis 3 connecting eating fruit, guarded gate, and snake biting heel.
Entheogen Scholars Always Conceal, Never Reveal, and they Seal the Gate Permanently
It’s as lopsided as talking about “conceal” without also talking about “reveal”. Entheogen scholars only care about concealing, never revealing — a half story.
You cannot talk about your drug prohibition you project onto Genesis 2-3 at the very start start of the Bible where we are sent wrong way through the gate guarded by the angel with fire-sword, and snake bites heel when your ingest Psilocybin, and because because you eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad, …
without at the same time talking about Revelation 22 at the very end of the Bible, where we are told to come back through the gate back to God and back to the tree of life.
Stop telling a half-story of drug prohibition, the story of the entheogen scholars, the Prohibitionist Narrative always asserted by entheogen scholars.
Repeal of psilocybin prohibition, or continued prohibition, is in the hands of entheogen scholars: get your priorities straight:
Either continue the defeatism and literalist incoherent, incomplete reading of the Bible, perpetuating Prohibition and moral self-elevation by asserting God is a rank drug prohibitionist (this is only strategic toward perpetuating Prohibition),
or, take a winning attitude, win on every front, including theology leveraging what the Bible says, in the right, cleansed, coherent, esoteric reading.
Either God is a liar (Genesis 2:17: you will certainly die when you eat the fruit), or, you failed to rightly, coherently read Genesis 2-3 together with Revelation 22 which completes it, and we are brought back through the gate with the angel to eat from the tree of life if our garments are washed clean.
Let go of gleeful leaping to a Sunday School level of reading into the Bible 20th Century drug prohibitionism, and instead, take the correct, coherent mode of reading religious esoteric texts esoterically.
Or, stay addicted to rank, low, moralistic, exoteric reading, where you would have God literally prohibit Psilocybin, setting up a gate that is a wall and lets no one through, and you would have God pointedly assert that you literally die when you ingest Psilocybin — which is manifestly false.
At the point, the ones stand blocking the gate, they never go into and won’t let anyone else pass through, is the entheogen scholars, who like McKenna 1994 simply DECLARE there is no, and there must be no, Psilocybin in our own religion.
“Do not look for Psilocybin in Christianity; it is not there and we must not permit it to be there.
And so if you were to find any psilocybin in Christianity, you must hasten to prop up our narrative commitment, neutralize the findings of psilocybin in Christianity by framing-away the psilocybin; neutralize and discount psilocybin by labelling mushrooms, as Carl Ruck enjoys and gets high by doing, as “heretical, alien, outside, deviant, not real Christianity, because everyone knows Christianity lacks psilocybin.”
Typical entheogen scholarship move. Perfectly optimized to perpetuate Prohibition. What the F is your objective, entheogen scholars? What kind of “strategy” is this?
We don’t need outside prohibitionists, because Prohibitionism thinking is baked right into the DNA of exoteric entheogen scholarship.
No one is more addicted to perpetual defeat and drug prohibition than entheogen scholars.
Never trust an entheogen scholar.
Prohibition of Psilocybin Is the Fault of Entheogen Scholars’ Self-Defeatism, and So Repeal of Entheogen Scholars’ Prohibitionism Is Also in Their Power, if They Get Their Priorities and Objectives Straight
The continuation or repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition, depends on you: whether you take a mature, esoteric, coherent and complete reading of religious texts, or, an immature, exoteric, incoherent and incomplete reading of religious texts.
Entheogen scholars have the power to repeal prohibition: make the #1 strategic objective the repeal of Psilocybin prohibition, by revealing that the traditional esoteric eucharist through which we are regenerated and taught Logos is psilocybin.
Abandon and jettison your mentally ill assertion of drug prohibition projected onto Genesis 2-3, abandon your cheap addiction to self-aggrandizing yourself over the God of Genesis 2-3 who you frame as the rank drug prohibitionist, who builds a guarded gate in order to make the gate serve as a mere wall.
Stop blocking the gate, by your self-elevating moralistic grandstanding, when depends on making God a mere liar (Genesis 2:17) by your addiction to asserting Sunday School-level of exoteric, incoherent misreading.
Cease the literalist reading of Genesis 3 as drug prohibition, and instead explain the way to coherently read Genesis 2:17 and 3:4 so as to stop asserting that God tells a falsehood against the wisest animal when God asserts “The day that you eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:17.
The snake speaks truly and not deceitfully when asserting “You will not die when you eat from the tree of knowledge, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and bad.” [Zevit 2013]
Eve was correct in seeing that the psilocybin fruit gives wisdom. Adam and Eve entered that state of loose cognitive meta-perception, and they perceived that they were naked — vulnerable to control instability.
Adam saw God in the garden and was afraid of God because Adam knew that he was naked; vulnerable to control instability, and so tried to hide from this vulnerability.
Because You Have Eaten the Fruit, the Snake Will Bite Your Heel
Figure 1. Revealed ultimate source of causal agency in a block universe with embedded snake-shaped, pre-existing worldlines frozen in rock (bronze). Panel 4, Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation. St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1015. Photo credit: Julie M. Brown. Crop by Cybermonk.
Features:
God stands on right foot, left foot lifted.
YI tree.
God holds a message of transcendent knowledge in right hand.
Branching snake with 2 legs; lindworm (2 legs, no wings).
Figure 1. Snake with legs. Image f11 Row 3 Right, Great Canterbury Psalter. Mushroom tree #11 (of 75).
“So the Lord God said to the serpent: because you have done this, you will crawl on your belly, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and her offspring, and between your offspring and hers; and he will crush your head, andyou will strike his heel.”
I found and confirmed and snagged a full-page screenshot of this HUGE elementary error by Ruck. Good tip from Hatsis and am really glad to confirm Ruck has gone off the deep end on his red and white obsession that I have to battle against to do constructive theory work.
One mystery remains: Why didn’t Irvin catch this huge error when publishing the Allegro 2019? From Irvin’s 2008 color book The Holy Mushroom, Irvin knew the cap isn’t red & white. 🤷♂️
I used Hatsis’ article quoted passage of Ruck’s appendix that’s in Allegro’s SMC book that Irvin republished.
I hate Ruck’s mis-steering the field obsessively based on the colors red and white.
Amanita is a 4th-rate, stomach-hurting deleriant than has nothing to do with psychedelic effects except to serve as a billboard for psilocybin, real, serious, adult mushrooms.
Yet Ruck banked the entire field on OBSESSION over Amanita (like many other sensationalists in the field).
Ruck actually proposes that the engine of the mystery religions is Amanita!
There’s NO WAY that would work!
Psilocybin would work PERFECTLY for that.
And Ruck pull quotes me before, alas, I learned to make a sharp, hard-line gatekeeping differentiation between mushrooms meaning kiddie Amanita, vs. mushrooms meaning actual, real, psychedelic mushrooms: Psilocybin.
So Ruck presents me as if I asserted:
Mixed wine all throughout in Hellenism is mushroom 🍄 wine [picture kiddie Amanita 🍄]
Cybermonk
So I am happy to see Ruck faceplant himself in his aggressive taunting misfire, https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/ — Hatsis totally caught Ruck making this huge false statement: Hatsis quotes Ruck asserting:
“One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians: a painting from a 14th century alchemical manuscript, now in the Bodleian library [sic] in Oxford. It is a treatise discussing the “salamander.” A drawing in the manuscript depicts a man apparently intoxicated, dancing or perhaps staggering, with one hand to his forehead, suggesting that he is dizzy or that he has just had an intense revelation. In the other hand, he holds a mushroom, which he evidently picked from a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted [with] white, and similar mushrooms branch from its stipe-like trunk…7″
[7] Carl A. P. Ruck, Fungus Redivivus: New Light on the Mushroom Controversy in John Marco Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 40th Anniversary Edition (Gnostic Media, 2009), pg. 376. … as Rush’s above quote indicates, this image is supposed to “silence the art critics”.”
/ end of Hatsis citation of Ruck
One example alone should suffice to silence the art historians: a typical mushroom-tree beside him. The mushroom has a red cap spotted with white, and similar mushrooms branch from its stipe-like trunk:
“Figure 1 (above) is the image in question. As should be demonstrably clear, the supposed “red cap spotted white” mushroom that Ruck describes isn’t that at all. The cap is unmistakably blue; the trunk inarguably green (amanita stems are white). “
Hatsis FTW! 🎉 🏆 🍄–>🗑🔥
DOWN WITH THE AMANITA PRIMACY FALLACY, MAKE WAY FOR REAL PSYCHEDELICS: PSILOCYBIN, and adult-level theorizing.
— Cybermonk 11:11 p.m. March 26, 2023
Dancing Man Has Helped Me Put Down the Amanita Primacy Fallacy and Clear that Obstacle Out of the Way 👍
Article 2 (later HTML page title, missing appendixes): Roasting Jan Irvin: Critical Historical Inquiry vs. Pseudointellectualism Displayed date: November 2017 https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin Good images of mushrooms in art demonstrating that there aren’t mushrooms in art.
Just note carefully the subtitle is NOT “The True History of Psilocybin and Mankind”; it is ONLY “The True History of the Sacred Mushroom“, by which this 2022 Irvin book means only “in the Americas”.
In his new, anti-mushroom context, Irvin overcorrects and doesn’t attempt to reconcile his 2008 truths with 2022 truths. He’s neither interested nor able, despite his lectures about Logos = avoiding self-contradiction.
Irvin is self-contradictory in tone. Unlike Irvin, I am able to explain how both Irvin 2008 and Irvin 2022 are correct. In Europe context, Logos/Eucharist = Psilocybin. In Americas context, Logos/Eucharist != Psilocybin.
Limitation (somewhat poisoned; chalice; somewhat worse than “limitation”/neutral; this book is potentially harmful unless you understand that THIS BOOK IS ONLY VALID IN THE AMERICAS, NOT IN EUROPE CONTEXT.
Irvin 2008 is 100% valid in Europe context: Eucharist/Logos = Psilocybin.
Irvin 2022 remains 100% valid in Europe context.
Eucharist/Logos != Psilocybin and they didn’t use it for spirituality/ mystical experiencing/ religious experiencing (if Irvin is reliable here).
I have not read all the evidence Irvin presents but I have read & followed Irvin enough to trust Irvin.
In the Americas, Psilocybin was used for merely fair or bad uses.
Ambiguity when Wasson denies – *THE* biased, obstructionist scholar.
Per Irvin, it is MADDENING if Ruck and Ott claim that Wasson asserted “mushroom trees mean mushrooms but mean bullies were biased and obstructionist against his insistence that mushroom trees mean mushrooms”.
In fact, it is Wasson who is the biased, obstructionist, rude, mean, nasty, manipulative, prevaricating, double-talking, garbled-writing jerk (and worse! this is tip of iceberg) who denied, decade after decade with never a change of position, Wasson ALWAYS insisted — being THE biased obstructionist — that mushroom trees do NOT mean mushrooms — against Ruck & Ott’s OUTRAGEOUS attempt to rewrite history 180 degrees opposite of truth. Wasson wrote in such a confusion-maximizing, garbled, head-fck way, you can hardly blame Ruck and Ott: I don’t know WHAT the F Wasson is asserting but Irvin & Hoffman is correct, that Wasson consistently restricted Amanita only, to Bible, and only to no later than 1000 BC.
Irvin is unjustified in misrepresenting Allegro as if Allegro is an entheogen scholar. As if Allegro has a chance in hell of serving as a framework on which to build out the science of entheogen scholarship — Allegro put forth no such thing! Allegro can’t possibly serve as anything more than a sideshow. He just doesn’t have that much to contribute, much less serving as the foundation; even Irvin abandoned the project of the book Astrotheology & Shamanism which begins — like subtitle of THM — by stating up front:
The purpose of this book is build out upon the foundation of the field of entheogen scholarship which is Allegro’s SMC.
But SMC is not intended — as Cyberdisciple elaborates — to be the foundation of the field of entheogen scholarship. That’s not Allegro’s vision or purpose.
Yesterday I determined that the nature of Modern Science is to kick Aristotle / Allegro/ Wasson off a cliff, we are not perm’ly beholden to forever build upon their foundation theory. Science is all about doing the opposite: replace the folk shards of misty non-explanations by an initial semi-Theory, and then replace that semi-Theory (eg today’s “Pscyehdelic Science”) by a bona fide theory (the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism ; the Egodeath theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence) , and then always be ready to re-center and re-found the field, eg if the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism were to be found wanting.
We’d — in STEM fashion — replace or revise per Paul Thagard, the 0.1 gamma or the Beta v1.0 of a explanatory model, or our Ptolemaic v1 model by Copernicus v2 model, etc.
Science is about REVISION and REPLACEMENT to select WHATEVER is the most max explanatory power and utility, usefulness, clarity, purpose-built for the domain per latest undertanding. This mean recognize the poorness & irrelevance of Lash’s “The Wasson theory” [sans, Lash says, deleted Wasson’s awaful wrong turn, ditch Wasson’s mis-selection of Amanita, replace that by Lash’s reboot of Wasson’s “general theory” to delete Wasson’s “specific theory” (that’s Lash term’y)]
Hatsis and Irvin need to learn what Modern Science is: the REPLACEMENT of the fcurrent less-than theory, by a indepenednet superior proper framework — which Allegro cannot serve as, but the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is totally successful and provides the actual sound solid RELEVANT USEFUL actually Cognitive theory foundation paradigm (Kuhn) to build out per Thagard. Allegro is no such thing and didn’t try to be such a thing.
Even if you pile on the warmed-over exoteric eso’m that’s Irvin & Rutajit book Astroth & Shamm, you cannot do what Irvin attempts to do: build out Allegro’s entheogen scholarship theory to be the optimal useful explannatory framework to serve as the backbone of a future science of entheogen scholarship & Psychedelic Science. It won’t work; it’s a category error.
Hatsis is right that we cannot build out a science field of entheogen scholarship on the trellis of his closet lover Allegro. Reading Allegro Again (Hatsis 2015) Hatsis is right that we need to clear Alllegro off the stage but Hatsis is wrong that we need to close down the stage, of research in mushrooms role in W Culture. We need to begin the real show, (I talked on Egodeath Mystery Show past two days on this analogy). Not close the theater; but BEGIN RESEARCH for real this time NOT like Wasson , NOT like Allegro. Get rid of Wasson & get rid of Allegro in order to BEGIN actual theory consturction and shcolarshiop.
Wasson is the opposite of scholarship eg he censored Brinckmann’s book & censored Panofsky for recomending that book.
Allegro is the opposite of scholarship on entheogen scholarship — people misconstrue what the book SMC is and constitutes: it cannot serve as a trellis to build and hold up a field of entheogen scholarship & psychedelic science, it never was designed to serve that role, and a malformed, stunted field would result.
My Theory is a proper real theory designed and optimized to serve that role. the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, the Egodeath theory; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence; ecq the Eternalism and Control Questionnaire, etc.
My series of main articles 1996/ 1997/ 2007/ 2020a / 2020b / 2023.
My “total reset of field” Plaincourault article. (a negative article to unblock the field, to put car in reverse, change course, then put in gear the right real direction).
ALLEGRO IS A DEAD END FOOTNOTE CUL DE SAC; Allegro = a rough folk precursor that’s less than Ptolemy (earth-centered formal cosmos model).
Allegro isn’t even a reject superseded “theory”, he’s less than that.
Read Irvin 2008 & Irvin 2022 and make them fit together by assigning scope: first book true for Europe & the other book true for Americas.
Psilocybin is used for harm & low purpose in Americas context, as Wasson sought to inflict and PR-lie and misrepresent and mislead people, per Irvin 2022.
AND Psilocybin is used for highest, ultimate application, in Europe context. per Irvin 2008. It’s a tool 🤷♂️
Is electric music good, or bad?
Is cinema good, or bad?
Is culture good, or bad?
Is religion good, or bad?
Is gnosis good, or bad?
Is logos good, or bad? Logos is mishandled and misrepresented in Irvin’s confused, non-integrated hands. Gotta add Psilocybin, the right way, for authentic actual Logos; eucharist; completion of initiation; Transcendent Knowledge.
Irvin provides invaluable contributions, revealing with copious evidence and vigorous original scholarly research, the mythmaking and fabrication of the Wassonian claim and popular narrative that in the Americas, Psilocybin was used for mystical, spiritual, religious experiencing.
Anyone in the field of entheogen scholarship and Psychedelic Science must read Irvin’s books and online articles and take them into account, and must integrate them on Irvin 2008’s behalf and on Irvin 2022’s behalf.
Everything in the 2008 book The Holy Mushroom, and this 2022 God’s Flesh book, is essentially correct and basically sound. Sure, with nits corrected per Jerry Brown & Thomas Hatsis: e.g. St. Walburga holds not simply a literal mushroom, but a vial made to look like Amanita. That’s hair-splitting that doesn’t change Irvin’s essential soundness.
I’ve read aloud Hatsis’ articles and their argumentation on the Egodeath Mystery Show podcast — his arguments are not as relevant or sound as Hatsis thinks, despite Hatsis’ assertions that “You guys got a big problem; how’re you gonna explain mushrooms in negative or non-Jesus scenes?!”
Hatsis’ strange vectors of critique (often premised on anti-mushroom biased assumptions) are just not a problem that perturbs Irvin’s basic rightness.
I’m just hoping that Irvin can break out of the false start of the Allegro/ Hatsis limited, bounded thought-world. To take off, modern Science had to break out of allegiance to the backwards-looking Aristotle framework that was more stunting than empowering the development of knowledge. (Not that I consider Allegro to be as adequate a framework as Aristotle.)
We need to always take the best of Jan Irvin, John Allegro, Gordon Wasson, Thomas Hatsis, and Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck, and completely rework them, with great imaginativeness, being highly selective about frameworks and components, interpretations and presuppositions and attitudes.
Especially, beware of dominant popular narratives like Letcher Hatsis’ factoid of “no psilocybin in England before 1976”, which would be an inexplicable gap which Paul Stamets has said is preposterous and impossible, in a 2007 discussion with Graham Hancock in the book Supernatural.
Hatsis is very correct that the field fell into a pit of the Amanita Primacy Fallacy, and needs to reject that mushroom, which John Rush’s book overly promotes, like everyone else in the field over-promotes, except for Georgio Samorini, myself, Jerry Brown, Gilberto Camilla, and Fulvio Gosso.
Much of what Irvin contributes in this 2022 book is a cautionary story about how not to build a scientific field. I’m glad Irvin is doing this invaluable, centrally important work for getting out of the 1970 rut that this field’s been stuck in, no thanks to the anti-mushroom psychedelic witch, Thomas Hatsis.
I emphasize with Irvin 2008 (the book The Holy Mushroom) against Irvin 2022 (God’s Flesh): Logos is from none other than Psilocybin, and the Eucharist of salvation, righteousness, and regeneration is none other than Psilocybin — even if, per this book, that potential didn’t manifest in the Americas.
The positive findings in Irvin’s book have led to many more findings and also — very important — a stronger foundation of explanatory framework and expanded thinking, far from stuck trapped in 1970’s reduced and narrow options such as Allegro, who is as relevant for this field of entheogen scholarship and Psychedelic Science as Aristotle is.
It’s time to mothball and retire Allegro together with Wasson the idols, treated as if authorities, the mythic legends, so we can form a better, well-formed scientific basis that’s useful and relevant. Look to Jan Irvin’s crucial research to set the record straight and avoid again making such mistakes in this field.
And this does not mean shutting down the field, per Hatsis; it means the opposite: opening up the field, properly this time: be careful not to get prematurely stuck committing to weak, inadequate frameworks to build this Science upon.
— Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death; the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
x – Content. Jan Irvin’s 2008 (Christianity) and 2022 book (Indigenous).
Theory of Science when it is NOT a paradigm shift, but creation of a new field of science/knowledge. “Experiments” is not the essence of science, rather, continuous theory replacement and revision.
Modern Science = DITCH RESTRICTION TO the framework built around ARISTOTLE/ ALLEGRO/ WASSON; Being ready to abandon less effective explanatory frameworks to replace or revise them in favor of more effective explanatory fwk construction for useful knowledge. [so i guess “the old theory” would be “the Wasson theory” (Lash) or “the Allegro theory”, but these are beyond lame; they do not, in fact, cover the subject matter!!
Wasson = bully scholarly obstructionist, harresser, name-calling, liar, con artist, psych op operator fkking agent. He’s not a serious theorist in this domain, and he has prevented formation of any theory in this domain: psil in W rel and how it works for cognitive transformation.
Wasson wrote NOTHING about this, same with Allegro, why do ppl pretend Wasson and Allegro contributed anything substantive?
More like ABORTIVE; their role was prevention of any “old theory” from being formed. I’m not playing along with total failure, like the “mysticism” approach designed to PREVENT investigation and AVOID comprehension. These approaches are nothing but poison, counter-productive. Fck it, in 1986, clearly I have to do it myself, obviously. Incompetents, eagerly wallowing & reveling in incomprehension and refusal to look, DENIAL THAT THIS SCIENCE FIELD EXISTS. A garbled mess all headed in the wrong direction, ineffective directions, worse than nothing.
But Wait! Stop – What’s Aristotle’s wisdom framework about entheogen scholarship, we must build on that foundation/trellis! Or Allegro; SAME THING.
The technology error of crippling requirement of backwards compatibility.
Drive fast on the freeway by looking in the rear-view mirror? “Cite the Science papers peer reviewed in the field” 🤡 🤡 🤡
50:00 – HISTORY OF [PSILOCYBIN NO-FREE-WILL] ALTERNATING WITH {FREEWILL/ FORGETTING PSILOCYBIN}:
Early antiquity = psilocybin = no-free-will (eternalism).
Late antiquity = no psilocybin = invention of freewill (glorifying naive possibilism-thinking). Enlightenment/ Transcendent Knowledge was lost. The backlash against eternalism.
Late Middle Ages = Catholic = freewill dogma = selling salvation for freewill agents. Required forgetting Psilocybin.
Reformation: no-free-will, some psilocybin resurgence. Hypercalvinism Reformed theology built on top of freewill Catholic thinking. Freewill moralism basis with a layer of no-free-will on top.
Modernity = freewill; lost enlightenment/ Transcendent Knowledge. “freedom” the watchword (egoic delusion the foundation for civilization; requires forgetting Psilocybin).
Archaic Revival = psilocybin = late 20th C acid rock block-universe eternalism = no-free-will.
x – Guitar (30 s)
x – Outro words stereo.
3:21:47 – End.
Peer Review in the Existing Science
Filename
“Ep238 🍄🔍😲🤯🎉 Spot the Mushroom.mp3”
Emojis are inadvisable in filenames, b/c not universally supported. I can pretty easily remove if needed.
Song Title
“Ep238 🍄🔍😲🤯🎉 Spot the Mushroom”
Tech Notes
miking same as last many ep’s. AT2020, CAD M39. Stereo.
Titles (Subject Descriptions) of Episode 237 & 238 Are Swapped
First I recorded these recordings that became “Ep238 🍄🔍😲🤯🎉 Spot the Mushroom” – should’ve been titled “Essence of Science: Effective Explanatory Model Revision”.
Then, continuing the spoken idea-development session, I recorded the recordings that became “Ep237 Essence of Science: Effective Explanatory Model Revision” — should have been titled “🍄🔍😲🤯🎉 Spot the Mushroom”.
This is an official announcement that I have resolved my uncertainty and now I am certain and now
when I say my 2006 article, I mean the fresco article and
when I say my 2007 article, I mean my main article, in which I combined my 1997 Core theory specification with myth — and images incl branching motifs I didnt recognize,
myth & images; mythemes & art motifs.
I was not branching-literate yet — despite writing at some length about branching versus non-branching — within the domain of Physics!
and had not yet connected that with religious myth.
voice transcription:
A month ago , I finally had the opportunity — or invested the time, to do the research in the amazing Max Freakout archives of the Egodeath Yahoo Group to determine and remember that the core of the 2007 main article was finished and announced in September 2006, but it lacked the introduction, which was separated into the top of the homepage of egodeath.com
whenever I picture the 2007 main article, I always prominently mentally picture the wonderful introduction, which I copied from the homepage into the actual article around maybe June 2007
see my postings on this here perhaps one month ago perhaps February 2023
it was very interesting to find that September 12, 2007 was the first time I posted the word eternalism
and immediately after that I posted my announcement of the final revision of my 2007 main article, in which I copied the broken-up sentences from the mobile version
which I remember that I had used to read aloud the article
I think the zip file is working maybe or the individual MP3 files are working at the homepage of egodeath.com reading aloud the main article –
I have definitely concluded that that mic does not have the most “clarity” — which might explain why it was discontinued
and it had other issues as well , that I had to fix and repair
Read Aloud from Mobile Version of 2007 Main Article
I did not read aloud the article from the main messy academic copy of the article but rather from the mobile streamlined copy of the article
That’s where I first tried to read aloud the article and determined:
I did my bad habit of putting sentences within sentences to make everything really clear
so in that mobile the webpages which are a set of five webpages including the introduction as a separate dedicated webpage
and so this is interesting from a communication point of view:
that I first wrote the body of the article in a messy awkward academic long webpage, then I copied that into streamlined mobile webpages a set of 5 shorter webpages
then I copied the resulting streamlined version of the article from the five mobile webpages back into the long awkward academic single-webpage article
messy academic long webpage
that’s how I leveraged the more polished and streamlined mobile presentation back into the long article
as I announced just after my first posting all about Wikipedia articles about block universe eternalism, I posted that I had broken up the sentences in my long article just like in the mobile pages
then after that announcement I posted the —
the Egodeath community gave me a tip about a superdeterminism article in physics, bracketing my announcement of the final version of the main article which turns out to genuinely be 2007
not , as I have been writing, because of uncertainty, I have been writing “2006/2007 main article”
but now I have done the research to determine exactly what was the difference
And what exactly the dates are, and what changes were made at what dates.
I posted those archive links here about a month ago for all that research, maybe perhaps in idea development page 18 – i probably made a dedicated post.
and now I have determined that the reasonable truth of the matter is that it is not 2006, but rather 2007.
the proper version that I certify, the director’s cut that I authenticate, the real version, the genuine main article is September 12, 2007
and it has not changed one single character since then
A good litmus test is:
how would I feel if salvia divinorum magazine had published in print my September 2006 version of the article?
I would not be very satisfied by that
that is not the real version of the article
but I would completely agree if they published in print my September 2007 final draft , which really in every sense of the word truly was the final draft , because I have never changed a single letter
in fact the worst complaint I have about it it’s not with any of my writing; it’s that I went along with the stupid brain-dead academic counterproductive convention of giving the person’s first name initial only
it would have been a much more useful and Unpretentious
this is the worst thing about it
it’s both a pretentious format
the worst thing about my references section is it is simultaneously pretentious and counterproductive and unuseful , because I fail to give the first name of the author
and that really is the only thing I wish to change other than the and the way that the
the content of the article
dammit I believe that a couple paragraphs were lost here thanks to the flaky app
you are on the leading edge, I am sorry to say , of altered state theory
article on both of these were I feel well beyond my decoding level of
My complaint about the contents of the article I have listed it at the copy which is at this website egodeath theory.wordpress.com ego death theory I have listed my Arata their errata there.
The great news is that the images I provided are really excellent I’m thinking of the Eustace window crossing the river And the Dionysus A
rticle on both of these were I feel well beyond my decoding level of
Motifs and mythemes I am not too sore about that they really were pretty far above are pretty far above my level of literacy motif literacy and maybe perhaps miss theme literacy because the word branch does not appear in the article although interestingly at the beginning of the 2001 discussion group which was five or six years before the main article I did post a lot about Branching and nonbranching but not in the context of mythology, but rather, Physics!
metaphysics of time
I determined this also about a month or two ago and posted about it here
So now I’ve done the research on the exact dates of the main article, and what was changed in the final few revisions
and I have learned that it does contain awesome images , but they were above my decoding level they were above my translation level and I had not yet–
Although I had written in some detail about Branching versus nonbranching within the domain of physics and block universe and Freewill branching, I had not connected those ideas at all systematically to religious myth , but merely had the roots of myth in the Egodeath Yahoo Group posts (copied to egodeath.com if before valen 2004) that would later, like 2010, start to become/ develop into my theory of mythology Branching versus nonbranching , which I finally connected to models of time in physics , for example postings of November 2011 and November 2012 , and then the big November 2013 , and then in Christmas 2015 postings about Thomas Hatsis especially salamander and fire
and today I learned something about my half correct interpretation of Christmas 2015 posting at Egodeath Yahoo Group archives
I was half wrong I was not really getting it when I said in 2015
{Fire} means the altered state.
I don’t know why voice dictation is incapable and stupid when it comes to the phrase
I don’t know why voice dictation is incapable and stupid when it accurately transcribes the word ‘altered’, and then changes it to a bizarre garbled non-word instead.
it’s annoying AF.
altered state of consciousness
altered state of consciousness correct.
You enter an altered state of consciousness when ingesting mushrooms.
that was a successful voice transcription
although the app is screwing up now and deleting entire groups of paragraphs oh joy
POS tech
I was misinterpreting or it was a short coming I was falling short when I said in Christmas 2015 and have maybe said this for some years after that that fire means that roasting the salamander and fire means being in the altered state that’s not wrong like so many theories in the world it is not wrong but it is not sufficient or useful either you’re not getting it
you get only partial credit
You don’t really understand although you’re on your way towards understanding but you do not yet understand if you think that fire vaguely means the altered state of consciousness you’re missing the real point —-
the real point is that fire means loss of control the threat of loss of control and a kind of a real actual loss of control
I am restricted and having to do some wonky editing in this half-working mobile app
like I warned you, you are on the leading edge of altered state theory 💥😵
Buildings collapse when you only recognize, half comprehend that fire means something about processing the salamander to make it imperishable
but it is not just unspecified vague immersion in the loose cognitive state, but very specifically, as we see in the villa of the mysteries, the maiden being
scorched and instructed scorching scorched A scorch on society scorch scorch with a whip the prisoner was scorch with a whip
for example, after my September 12, 2007 announcement of my final draft, which was interleaved with postings about eternalism / superdeterminism
The really good news with this as an outcome of that fact factual finding , the good side effect is that now I can say :
Cybermonk 2006 means my allegro Wasson plane crawled fresco of the town of Plaincourault France and
when I say Cybermonk 2007 article, this means my main article
that it is now much easier to differentiate which article I mean
This is an official announcement that I have resolve my uncertainty and now I am certain and now
when I say my 2006 article, I mean the fresco article and
when I say my 2007 article, I mean my main article, in which I combined my 1997 Core theory specification with myth and images.
theory specification and I combined it and interleaved it with two things really:
myth, & images; mythemes & art motifs
(because 1997 did not have images)
and some commentary about those images in 2006/2007 , but not yet with literacy about {branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs.
The Egodeath theory 
