Egodeath Mystery Show Ep248 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name? (April 29, 2023)

Contents:

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

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

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

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Download for 1 week starting April 30, 2023: https://we.tl/t-JzBTd4d25t (v. 1, Errata: the part A .mp3 file’s song is named “Ep248b”, should say “Ep248a”.)

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“Ep248b 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?”
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Both episode parts start with the same, “hallucinogens research” Intro.

Content/Timestamps

This episode skips tons of recordings with good content April 23-28, 2023. I’m hoping that the April 22 recordings plus these April 29 recordings cover the gap.

The big news yesterday (April 29, 2023) was that:

Jan Irvin exempts Amanita and Allegro from critique, when calling psychedelics “suggestogens” in 2014, and in Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh when demonizing psilocybin. Irvin has been consistently much more favorable to Amanita than Psilocybin.

Irvin 2008:
Strong advocacy of Amanita & Allegro.
Tepid support for psilocybin; it’s treated as a mere supporting cast for the big star, Amanita, the holy mushroom.

Irvin 2014 & 2022:
Silent about Amanita & Allegro.
Demonizes psilocybin.

Irvin has never subjected either one to critique (other than precisely identifying the scholarly source for any technical errors in SMC). Amanita & Allegro are somehow exempted from Irvin’s critique.

In Irvin’s 2022 book God’s Flesh, Irvin criticizes Wasson for trying to harm Christianity by equating psilocybin with the Eucharist and the Word (Logos).

Irvin’s can-do-no-wrong hero Allegro was more clearly and obviously trying to harm and discredit Christianity.

Irvin (2008, 2014, 2022) is, in effect, trying to equate Amanita with Eucharist and Logos, while disrespecting psilocybin (2008) and demonizing psilocybin (2014, 2022).

todo: Guitar-only .mp3, Ep248G

Nice to do: Break out the guitar segments (longer than 20 s) into a separate .mp3, Ep248G. Shorten part A & B by removing the 27 minutes / 14 minutes of guitar at end. In any case, I plan/want to combine the 27 + 14 minutes into Ep248G guitar-only extracts.

27+14 = 41 minutes; LP length.

There’s a little typing, mouse clicks, or room noise in the mics, but reasonable.

haha i say “cybernetics” isolated word at Ep248a 1:27:10 (in middle of guitar/music) from input rec’g / track “02b VOX_TK_5302” — a 1 GB file, would be hard to figure out where the word came from; listen to the track where that passage came from “02b VOX_TK_5302”, which is from 18:34 to 27:11 in Ep248a. Is the word “cybernetics” missing from the voice part of Ep248a??

Ep248a 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?

Tech issues and rough production: Lots of miking experiments and sometimes levels are wrong, or too much treble, too loud guitar (too quiet mic).

Length: 1:48:13 (1:21:00 spoken idea development scholarly content, then 27 minutes guitar)

Ep248a 0:00 —

10:00 —

Need to re-inventory Eadwine images in Great Canterbury Psalter now that I know a LOT more about morphology than in Nov 2020 through March 2023. Dud mushroom trees are highly of interest for morphology.

how many caps average, in Great Canterbury Psalter Eadwine images?

Image f134: 3 caps. 2 are red-leaf Amanita colors, 1 is tan shelf fungus.
Image f145: 5 caps. 1 panaeolus.
Image f177: 7 caps. 1 panaeolus, 1 red leaf Amanita cap. 6 cubensis.

Only 1 liberty-cap cap among those 3 images.
177 & 145 have a panaeolus cap.

18:34 — Errata: segment at 18:34 is too loud. Due to switching mics in mid-recording, that made production awkward. Adjust volume.

19:30 — We desire to enter into loosecog, but to enter Loosecogland/ Mythemeland and remain there with stable control requires going through fatal loss of control and the end of the world. Different model of control and of the world, to have stable, viable control.

Price of entry to the psilocybin realm: fatal loss of control and the end of the world.

20:00 —

Great Canterbury Psalter contains 2 Amanita trees, and red-leaf caps with white tips.

f134
Crop by Cybermonk

You’re supposed to reconcile the two guys’ semi-contradictory foot heights and hand heights.

Solution:

Hanging from right knee causes left knee to dangle closer to the ground, so Red’s left hand should be closer to ground than right hand (following knees rather than feet, which aren’t used to keep from falling).

Physics dictates Red’s feet height relative to knees; the resulting foot height contradict Red’s knee relative height: right knee is further from ground than left knee, yet right foot is closer to ground than left foot, due to geometry/physics of knees relative to feet, unlike when standing — or when sitting balancing in tree.

Q.E.D.

f145
Crop by Cybermonk

1 Liberty-Cap cap with red+white Amanita colors.
1 red-leaf cap with red/white Amanita colors.

f177
Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

This mushroom tree includes a cut right trunk and a cut branch, by 100% offset of cross-under; I first grappled with this question when drawing the white line, Feb. 26 2023.

This crop includes Sun Light. 1 panaeolus, 1 red-leaf Amanita colors.

30:00 —

37:00 — designed a “table” for branching-message mushroom trees article to group the mytheme-pairs:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Key-Motifs-branching-handedness-stability

The {branching} motif includes {branching} and {non-branching} motifs.

The {handedness} motif includes {left limb} and {right limb} motifs.

The {stability} motif includes {unstable} and {stable} motifs.

The {handedness} motif is in the middle and connects the {branching} motif to the {stability} motif in the psilocybin loosecog state:

{branching} — {left limb} — {unstable}

{non-branching} — {right limb} — {stable}

In terms of the three combinations of states, models, and resulting stability:

1: {no mushroom} — {branching} — {left limb} — {stable}

2: {mushroom} — {branching} — {left limb} — {unstable}

3: {mushroom} — {non-branching} — {right limb} — {stable}

40:00 —

{branching} is a direct analogy.

{handedness} is an indirect analogy, and helps connect {branching} and {stability} imagery.

{stability} is a direct analogy.

The {branching} motif is used to depict transformation of the mental model of the world in which control agency steers.

The {handedness} & {stability} motifs are used to depict transformation of the mental model of control agency that steers in the world.

50:00 — still designing the above “table”.

What drives us to switch the model of control?

Which one is the ultimate change:
the end of the world, and the new world?
ego death and rebirth of the control agent?

Entry into Jerusalem (Golden Psalter)

Crop by Cybermonk

Passing through the heimarmene gate; ego death gate; sacrifice of child garment gate; no-free-will gate.

Lorenzetti’s heimarmene sphere of the fixed stars; heaven’s gate.

The gate at the upper Saturn layer leading to rebirth into the sphere of the fixed stars.

Pass in/out/up/down through the gate.

Revelation 22, last page of bible: allowed to go “may go through the gates” [NIV; check others] of the city with God’s throne and trees of life:

Reve 22:14 NIV: “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”

See the very good Rev 22 excerpts I added today April 30 2023 at (will wordcount force me to remove that?) —

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#rev22

Entheogen scholars who cite Genesis 2 & 3 while omitting Revelation 22 have lost their share in the tree of life; they are prohibited from Psilocybin.

Entheogen scholars who complete Genesis 2 & 3 by citing Revelation 22 are granted a share in the tree of life and the ability to go in and out through the gate of the city that contains the tree of life.

1:00:00 —

1:10:00 —

1:14:00 — what’s the driver re: control instability?

The story is not ONLY “Change from the branching to the non-branching model of the world and control/steering, to regain viable, stable control.”

Don’t put the spotlight on that dynamic at the expense of the other 11 dynamics. similar to:

Remember to put emphasis on GET THE TREASURE, not AVOID THE DRAGON.

My lesson learned from my mistake in advising the Oregon Psilocybin Authority, I provided too much “how to avoid shadow dragon monster”, not enough “how to get through the guarded gate to get the treasure”.

That’s not the whole story, even if it’s the most striking theme.

Don’t tell a single-aspect story, there are several dynamics that occur together.

I in Jan or Aug 1988, and 1997, expressed the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence as some 12 principles, not just a single master principle.

Many aspects come into play during transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

1:20:00 —

Ep248a 1:21:23 — Guitar til the end of this episode. Voice content ends at 1:21:23 (“I can’t list 12 “principles” from the Egodeath theory 1988-1997 from memory”).

Listen to 27 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

1:30:00 —

1:40:00 —

Ep248a 1:48:13 — End.

Ep248b 🍄🤥 The Phony Mushroom: What’s in a Name?

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip to next track.

todo: note where there’s guitar; more than a few seconds of guitar.

Ep248b 0:00 —

Ep248b 3:00 – deocing decoding action doesn’t happen about the mushroom motifi in particular, tho use all 4 motifs to see everything best

mushroom motif itself doesn’t need as much decoding as the other 3: msurhooms

new, balanced phrase, same level of combination: lower-level, not “branching-message mushroom trees” hi-level compound mytheme/motif.
mbhs

branching-message mushroom trees is good at top level. break it down in lower level:

{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

old, uneven phrase:
{branching-message mushroom trees}, {handedness}, and {non-branching} motifs

Ep248b 10:00 —

each motif plays an important role, the motifs aren’t all required to be used

the first model of control is unstable in loose cognitive state, transformation isn’t ONLY b/c restablizing control. treat the system of motifs, and the sytsem of model of mental model transformation . beward of single-factor accounting; child loses control b/c multiple reasons: dinstinct dynamics, don’t misuse locking the spotligh on this one dynamic.

child lose control for many interlocked interconnected reasons:

also b/c helpless puppet

also b/c thoughts pre-exist

also b/c high-er level controller creator injects control-thoughts (what you will to think and do) into the mind

also b/c you don’t control the source of your thoughts

also b/c deja vu is forcing here’s you are made to remember fatal loss of control and end of the world

bracket-off the mushroom motif, that leaves

{mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs representing main dynamics of mental worldmodel transformation in the psil loosecog state.

{left limb touching blade}

Ep248b 10:15 — left limb touching blade

a form of non-branching. obeys Panofsky “must remove branching from your mushroom trees”

meaningless prototypes, the art world came to accept the msh shapes, no one has any agency, indivdual intentionality, direction of distortion of the prototypes. random sloppy art accidental distortion get distored in that particular direction, branching and non- too. Did the audience also agree not to think “mushrooms” so “all the art viewing world came to accept the mushroom garbled meaningless accidental shapes”.

blades = non-branching. affirming non-branching is affirming {blade}

cutting limbs: touching blade to the left limb = affirming non-branching, cut right trunk.

how many blades touching left limb in image f134 Great Canterbury Psalter?

row 1: 1

row 2: 2: swordsman standing & upside down. compare him to hanging guy

row 3: 3 guys, 4 blades.

Crop by Cybermonk. image f134, Great Canterbury Psalter

Ep248b 20:00 — stability , fatal loss of control , end of the world

30:00 —

Ep248b 40:00 — Good content.

Irvin Exempts Amanita from Critiques

Why is Amanita Allegro, Christianity-discreditor, lumper-together of psilocybin and amanita into fake word he engineered, “the mushroom”, why is Allegro & Amanita exempt from Irvin’s critique?

Astro Amanita Theology and Shamanism

the Amanita guy, the Allegro guy. When you think mushroom, think 🍄

Carl Ruck was totally psyched and enthused when smc SMC came out in 1970. I wonder if Ruck read the 1967 periodical version of SMC?

“Irvin was always lost.” I don’t understand irvin 2022 God’s Flesh book accuse Wasson of trying to harm Christianity but in fact Allegro is more so. Irvin is running defense against the Christianity-discreditor Allegro. Allegro can do no wrong,

Why didn’t Irvin 2008 book The Holy Mushroom declare:

Eucharist = Logos = Word = Truth = Psilocybin

Irvin 2008: gist, not brought to this completion:
Eucharist = Logos = Word = Truth = Amanita

you can’t talk about Genesis 3, Irvin 2022, REVELATION 22 as I already told u in 2006 article:
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – find Revelation 22: the bottom part of the long section is copied here:

“Wasson’s position that Eden Trees were recognized as Amanita mushrooms only at the very beginning of writing the Bible is rendered problematic by “the Book of the Revelations”, because that late Christian book includes an Eden tree: the tree of life. Wasson has nothing to say about whether the tree of life in Revelation was intended by the author as an allusion to the use of Amanita. He doesn’t mention John eating the little scrolls from the angel with writing on them. Opening up that discussion would have blown Wasson’s story that only the very earliest Jews – when the Garden of Eden story was written – used and knew about entheogens.

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7). … down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (22:2). Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. (22:14). And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. (22:19).

“Wasson essentially asserts that only the Bible’s opening is informed by understanding the Eden trees as Amanita. But the Bible is bracketed on both ends by these trees, virtually the extreme ends of the Bible, making it plausible that Jews and Christians commonly understood the tree of life to mean Amanita mushrooms throughout the entire era during which the Bible was written. The tree of life is first mentioned in Genesis 2:9, on page 2 of most Bibles, and is last mentioned in Revelation 22:19, only 4 sentences away from the end of the Bible.

“Wasson’s assumptions ask us to believe that the author and editor of the ‘tree of life’ passages in Revelation didn’t understand that the fruit of the tree of knowledge meant the Amanita mushroom, but that they chose to end the Bible with the emphasis on the tree of life out of sheer superficial literary mirroring.”

— Michael Hoffman, 2006

the fly-agaric fresco

Ep248b 50:00 —

51:00 — hatsis misreps Irvin 2008’s position, Irvin THM tells people to stop the “secret fringe hereitcal and mystics” supposition, it’s false, Foreward concurs Judith Brown calls to STOP the “secrecy” premise.

Hatsis falsely calls Irvin Secret Christian Amanita Cult theorist, the “secret” part is opposite of what Irvin wrote. Hatsis lifts the idea of ditching “secret” from Irvin, steals Irvin’s idea, then claims Irvin is a “secret Amanita sect” theorist.

“the mushroom” is a propaganda-type word, shell game wildcard vague umbrella bucket term word “the mushroom” as a trick to shotgun-wedding Amanita and Psilocybin. characterizing-buckets,

“i’m goona cover ALL entheobotany… there’s a psilcovbin passage, our scope is Amanita only.” thm p. 31-32, 49, 59, 107.

Allegro wrote on fresco: “… some recollection of the old tradition was known among Christians”

the entheogenic practices in the wide sense –> non-drug psychedelics, can/ could/ might/ may cause identical effect as psilocybin: ie, transformation from possibilism to eternalism, and mytheme literacy depicting that.

No need to chew the flesh of Christ Eucharist.

What are the effects of the msuhroom? we are to picture a blurry mix of Amanita the engine of the mysery reliigions says Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck. expert told me Amanita wouldn’t work. Psilocybin is the correct pick, you picked wrong. Amanita is the reject/symbolic dud mushroom no one wants to ingest. covered for fake social machinations reasons by both Wasson and Allegor in same way yet somehow Allegro is Good Guy, Allegro and Wasson carry in same way, yet only Wasson, never Allegro, is subject to Irvin’s critiques.

Irvin didn’t point out the fake words “the mushroom” indeterminate hazy invention construction “the mushroom” THERE IS NO SUCH THING, no one uses that word, it’s as fake as Wasson’s Americas “Eucharist=Psilo” invented religion through cherrypicking quote phrases, Irvin shows all the bad stuff left out.

Fabricator of fake words, misrep’ive misquoting by Wasson, aka MAKIN SHT UP, invented fake religious practices made up by Wasson, unsupported by the original publications he draws from, put on display by Irvin in 2022 God’s Flesh. https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Flesh-Teonanac%C3%A1tl-History-Mushroom/dp/0982556225/

Ep248b 1:00:00 —

Kupfer “youths in trees cutting away at the treetops” Saint Martins’ church

1:10:00 —

Hatsis ought to attack Ruck not Irvin 2008, Irvin was dismantling their combination of premises. He embraces Amanita usage within Christianity and lumps in psil in half sincere to bolster his Amanita premise/ thesis, but Irvin doesn’t fit Hatsis model of mushroom cult theorists (Hatsis 2013 Roasting Sal article sbu subtitle). THM 2008, RtS 2013 <– required heavy research to get the real article with the real title, the real year, and the dropped appendixes.

I’d be a negative …example of bad old paradigm, see Hatsis 2013 at Archive.org. Else worthless interpretation bizarre vectors and presuppositions and focuses and assumptions. Hatsis’ pictures are valuable (though his factual data is so-so, and his interpretations are poor and overall unhelpful):
Hatsis Gallery of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/hatsis-gallery-of-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art/

Don’t perpetuate 1967-era stagnation by citing the Roasting the Salamander article — it’s stagnant, stuck on dead-end conversation about secret mushroom cult — stop talking about that.

My branching-message mushroom trees article has HOOKS ONLY. Not essays.

Why cite Old Paradigm Wrong publications? confusion-soaked references, what’s gain/loss, cost/ben?

Why is his article in my biblio? for the wrong reasons, it was profitable to discuss with Hatsis and read his articles several times.

My branching-message mushroom trees article is not about how I reached this theory, ie Hatsis’ articles. which were valuable to me, good pictures especially. didn’t get any value from Thomas Hatsis’ random arguments and Amanita-based, Amanita-or-nothing paradigm.

The less I know about the alleged “genre” according to Hatsis, the better. The storyline competes against clear visual thinking. Hatsis always reasons:

“The mushroom imagery in this image CANNOT POSSIBLY be a mushroom, b/c background story in the text, backstory, and theology too.” Look away from the image to get the artist’s message. Forget the artist, study the writer of surrounding text.

salamander survives fire

roudnabout Irvin reasoning about caduceus. i loath the theory that religious myth is sybmols in OSC that symobolize through consubstantial associateed with symbol of planet x which is correctlatedd with the number 3, therefore, meaning. Map everything to everything, no Transcendent Knowledge involved. vs my pair of pages:
the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
the Key Mythemes catalog.

“msh cult theorists” in Hatsis subtitle of RtS

should i cite this hatsis article in this branching-message mushroom trees article? my article is estab’ing a new foundation for moving the field fwd, my 1988 theory, my 2007-2023 , especially brand new part of the Egodeath theory, branching-message mushroom trees theory is more artvisual art motifs visual motifs , my theory of religious mythology was not complete in 2007, always felt that. this aritcle completes my theory of myths and motifs, and completes my model of mental worldmodel t mental worldmodel transformation too. to better aritculate and model that.

osc + branching model = stable.

asc + branching model = unstable. restablizing control is important but is only 1 of 12 aspects.

Browns article is a new conversation, useful for moving the conver fwd

Hatsis is old conversation 1970s Man, stuck in 1970 like an 8-track tape continuous loop. holding back the conv, citing it is good when i write “What was wrong w the old paradigm and how do we move fwd?”
this branching-message mushroom trees article isn’t that purpose: purpose: to complete my mytheme theory of 2007. main point: complete the interp of the art images that are in my 2007 article (Eustace, Dionysus) psychedelic eternalism

the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics

the Key Mythemes catalog , the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog

12 principles of the the theory of ego transcendence : bo block universe, conceptual construct, lcp loose cognitive binding , how tranistion from mental worldmodel , …. about 12 topics, per aug 1988 MS, jan 1997 site, added religious myhtology in 2007 but not a complete mytheme theory of art.

religious imagery , visual art motifs, not textual rleigious mhythology was missing from 2007 article. Way more closure in 2020 than 2007, in 2023 i completed my art decoding and myth… helpd articulate and relate my non-analogy based core theory.

Cite Hatsis in my other article, the Outakes article. brings too much baggage, poor old-paradigm reasoning. clutter this particular article, no wordcount available to discuss what’s wrong w/ his article. but i’d need to. citing his article costs 100 workcount in his case, high.

asc + non-branching model = stable.

Ep248b 1:20:00 —

1:30:00 —

Irvin should have written Eucharist = Amanita. Search his THM for “eucharist”.

did any shaman mexican indinan use phrase “the mushroom”? research q.

counterfeit alleged use claims meaning psil, wasson and allegro latched onto that alleged multi-plant use, to confabualate a single abstraction defined abnormally, Anaita / & Psil in one blow but this article branching-message mushroom trees is not about Amanita or its effects.

Psilocybin, none other, is the Eucharist. we don’t get a max of new thinking from Hatsis 2013 or Irvin 2008, a lot of bad, old thinking there, old paradigm. aman the Amanita Primacy Fallacy driven book THM.

Exempts Amanita and Allegro from critique

title THM = confusing old thinking, i refuse to allow Irvin’s phrase “THM” in my article. branching, mushrooms,

fatal loss of control and the end of the world, its relation to transformation of the mental worldmodel , = stop topic of restablizing control the main central most important topic, but not don’t hog all the spotlight.

mental worldmodel transformation is not only for the purpose of restabilizing control, the mind is taught how world shaped…

the model of control is revealed to be unstable, but regaining stable control shouldn’t have spotlight exclusively.

how exactly does control seizure and control restabilization work,
(but that’s not the only important topic)

how does mental model of control and world transform

Ep248b 1:40:00 —

1:45:43 — End of voice content.

1:45:56 — Outro announce, Egodeath Mystery Show.

Ep248b — 1:59:27, 165 MB — Voice content ends at 1:45:43; listen to 14 minutes of guitar at end or skip end.

1:45:43 — Guitar to the end (14 minutes).

1:50:00 —

1:55:00 — quiet mic behind guitar, a few words:

“CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF CONTROL AND THE END OF THE WORLD FOR IMMATURE THINKING”

2x

Are You Eternalism Experienced
Get Eternalism Experienced

1:59:27 — End.

There’s no such thing as “the mushroom”. There are two completely unrelated psychoactives: Amanita (not a classic psychedelic) and Psilocybin.

Entheogen scholars deliberately conflated and confabulated Amanita and Psilocybin to sell a bogus, non-existent category to The Public.

No scientific mycologist ever wrote “the mushroom” to artificially group — a SHOTGUN WEDDING — Amanita with Psilocybin.

Deceptive entheogen scholars fabricated the super-awkward, Primitive Anthropology Theory dept. propaganda term “the mushroom” (a HIGHLY unscientific, ambiguous, confusion-spawning term) in order to falsely attribute the desirable psilocybin effects to the undesirable REJECT MUSHROOM, AMANITA “I’LL PASS” MUSCARIA.

Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality and Social Control
Jan Irvin, 2014
https://logosmedia.com/entheogens_whatsinaname_psychedelicspirituality_socialcontrol_cia

url https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Mushroom-Evidence-Mushrooms-Judeo-Christianity/dp/1439215170/

Tech Notes

boosted guitar-only background parts 6dB

Guitar Amp: Marshall Plexi with four cabs; speakers include Orange, Vintage 30, Greenback.

Miking

Switched back & forth between stereo room mics vs. handheld omni closemic:

Miking Setup A: stereo room mics

Vocal/room mic L: AT2020, aimed at rear cab. Compressor M39.
eq ended up next morning at: 12, 4.5, -15, which I believe I assessed as very good.

Vocal/room mic R: CAD M39 cardioid mode, aimed at rear cab. Comp.
eq ended up next morning at: 4, 3, -10, which I believe I assessed as very good.

Limiter & 80Hz bass cut on the deck.

mics 5′ apart, central position: 3′ distance voice to mics

57s on 8″ front cabs, 1.5″ dist, 45 deg.

Miking Setup B: mono handheld

vocal: handheld ev 635a, 1″, eq: flat (2-band). No compressor. Limiter & 80Hz bass cut on the deck.

No room mics.

57s on 8″ front cabs, 1.5″ dist, 45 deg.

Input Recordings

Range for part A (omitted many, not content but tech tests):
VOX_TK_5278.wav
VOX_TK_5309.wav

Range for part B:
VOX_TK_5310.wav
VOX_TK_5315.wav

See Also

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Egodeath Mystery Show Ep247 ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability (April 22, 2023)

Contents:

“Ep247a Fatal Control Instability.mp3”
Download for 1 week starting p.m. April 29, 2023: https://we.tl/t-otc5lzHM0o
2:25:18 (2 hours of content), 208 MB stereo

“Ep247b Fatal Control Instability.mp3”
Download for 1 week starting p.m. April 29, 2023: https://we.tl/t-7TvgwqPvhW
2:30:09, 212 MB stereo

Content/Timestamps

Gold Clips about Control Re-Stabilization

  • Gold Clip: Ep247a [20:26-29:10]
  • Gold Clip: Ep257a [2:01:25-2:07:10]
    Misplaced Amanita Fascination vs. Actually Interesting Control Re-Stabilization
  • Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:08:08- 1:17:58]
    Esoteric Theraputic Therapy: transformation of the mental worldmodel Successfully & Smoothly
  • Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:24:04-1:25:56]
  • Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:32:22-1:36:49]
  • Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:49:18-1:52:10]

template:

Ep247a x:x-x:x (x:x) – from x.wav (date)

Ep247b x:x-x:x (x:x) – from x.wav (date)

Ep247b 0:00-3:03 (3:03) – from 5106.wav (April 22) – the process of testing the two models of control. Shifting models. Mature model viable / stable. Lesson: here is a more stable form of control.

Ep247b 2:01:59-2:04:35 (x:x) – from 5111.wav (April 23) – Amanita is never ingested, always means Psil. Simplest Theory (strategy). Highest value = Transcendent Knowledge. Metzinger not about changing the basic mental owo mwm . mental worldmodel .

Ep247a ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability

Fatal catastrophic loss of control, the threat of loss of control realized in a way, the youth lost control, reached the end of the world, control was taken away by higher control.

Episode part A has most guitar moved to end so can skip to next track (18:00 of guitar at end — just quick outtakes; not produced).

Guitar in background + rush job of production, means slow-paced/waits. I got rid of long guitar passages/gaps, only.

This episode is part of my recent push to not avoid the hardest topic:
How Observing Fatal Control Instability During Loose Cognition Sacrifices Childish Control-Model While Learning Mature Control-Model

Which “we” is “we never lost control”?

John Lash glossary entry “salvationism”

Timestamps for Ep257a

Ep257a 0:00 — Guitar

Ep257a 0:20 — Miking: ev 635a handheld (mono voice, stereo guitar). eq: 0 0 -4.5. Compressor. 57s on 8″ cabs.

Ep257a 0:47 — Intro: Egodeath Mystery Show, April 22, 2023.

Postings I just posted at Cyberdisciple site at page: Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity. 1979 coined ‘entheogen’, a word that has NO BAGGAGE AT ALL — That’s a posting after my page The Entheogen War: “Secret Amanita Cult” Prohibitionists vs. “Psilocybin Eucharist” Repealers. Found the posting, it’s:
How the Amanita Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Discredited and Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm — about my two posts at Cyberdisciple site, covered by present episode.

Ep257a 5:00 — Irvin falsely grants Allegro credit for asserting that all mushroom trees mean mushroom. Citation needed! Allegro didn’t give a damn about the multiple mushroom trees, so Irvin cannot give Allegro credit for the category of mushroom trees. SMC is not about entheogen art!

Allegro barely had any interest in Plainc or mushroom trees as a set of multiple instances.

Plainc fresco contradicts Allegro’s “primitive Christianity secret forgotten” main Anthropology-dept. thesis.

Irvin criticizes Ruck (Daturas for the Virgin) in falsely crediting Wasson for asserting all msh trees mean mushrooms.

Yet Irvin is almost as bad as Ruck, trying to grant credit for Allegro asserting “all mushroom trees mean mushrooms”, which Allegro never asserted and never gave a damn about and certainly does not deserve credit for; rather, Allegro deserves BLAME for not giving an F about the class of mushroom trees — like all entheogen scholars until FINALLY Samorini woke up re: Panofsky’s 1952 lead/tip “there are hundreds of mushroom trees”, in 1997.

What the hell is WRONG with entheogen scholarship such that it took entheogen scholars 45 years to give a damn about Panofsky’s hundreds of mushroom trees, instead of ONLY caring about the fly-agaric fresco.

Almost all mushroom trees are Psilocybin, not Amanita, therefore we don’t care about them, because they barely help the Amanita paradigm.

Article About The Mushroom (Evil M. Hoffman 2015), ch. 25 in book History of Toxicology

Mark Hoffman article Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions. Intro section, Amanita section, tiny Psilocybin ‘n Stuff section.

Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
Mark Amanita Hoffman
https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman

“Someone oughta start thinking about psilocybin ‘n stuff in mystery religions.”

See M. Hoffman’s Psilocybin ‘n Stuff section buried at the end, past the first, giant section about how “counterculture Amanita” is the solution to all questions.

Ep257a 10:00 —

18:40 — Errata: left mic way too bright. Egodeath Mystery Show Intro after guitar.
M. Hoffman article con’t.

Errata: Left Mic Bright: left mic way too bright in this segment. Apply “Small Speakers” curve if available Settings > Music > Eq > Small Speakers, Treble Cut.

Ep257a 20:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247a [20:26-29:10]

20:26 – I never say “spiritual”. Here’s the nature of religion:

20:45 – I explain how the mind works. that’s religion. in terms of mental model of control in world, depending on a higher-level uncontrollable controller. religious exp’g.

God holding the right hand / wrist (f177 Great Canterbury Psalter ) depicts that direct relationship with God thus 2-level control is religion. religion = 2 levels of control.

I like religion. I support it.

I don’t build on “religion” or “ego death”.

22:46 – initial identification as controller dies. youth dies. Ken Wilber. real death is ego death.

The mind’s xfmn is a death like end of life of caterpillar, immature form.

Trying to exert control power leads to loss of control disaster failure. the more the mind tries to exert that control, = death, an end to the initial model re: control agency & identity.

That effort of control mode causes the failure of that mode of control.

I’m identified with that initial mode of control effort, thus Transcendent Knowledge = death of the initial asserter of possibilism-thinking-premised control, which causes fatal terminal control instability.

25:50 –

28:15 – “try harder” failed. The harder I tried, the more I failed. Spring quarter 1986. Paul famous passage.

29:10 – end of gold clip.

end gold clip

29:10 – continue reading M Hoffman tox’y article. Rev 22.

30:00 —

M. Hoffman 2015 fails to mention Rev 22‘s tree of life per my 2006 Plainc article. If talk about Genesis 2 & 3, MUST point to Rev 22 last page of the damn Bible, fools.

What do entheogen scholarship books say about tree of life in Revelation? Does Gordon “Blunder” Wasson mention it?

39:00 — until a few minutes ago, I misinterpreted Allegro as referring to Amanita, but actually, at cut-off end of previous track, I spoke under the misimpression that Allegro’s passage was about Amanita – it’s about Psilocybin. In The Holy Mushroom THM.

Psychometrics Pseudo Science Has a 39% Failure Rate

40:00 — CEQ , psychedelic pseudo science, 11 factors, unavailable nonexistent psychedelics psychometrics q’airs. MEQ created by Tim Leary.

The house of Psychedelic [pseudo] Science rests on a soggy foundation that FALLS OVER 39% OF THE TIME per Griffiths under optimal conditions high dose psilocybin bad trip, as cited in Houot’s dissertation “nearly 40% bad trips”.

50:00 — Errata – Voice too quiet, guitar too loud in this segment. 2:00

50:18 – 5102.wav. miking: 635A handheld. Eq: 0 0 -4.5. Limiter, bass cut. M. Hoffman article defines enth religious experience effects. Does Hatsis & Irvin agree?

51:44 – Overemphasis on nondual unity oneness.

Ep257a con’t Bright mics. Reading M. Hoffman article Intro.

52:08 – end of 5102.wav. end of 635A mic.

52:08 – start of 5103.wav, bright room mics. con’t critique of M Hoffman article.

57:43 – Hoffman reveals “Amanita” is not in “mushrooms” conceptual bucket.

Ep257a 1:00:00 —

John Lash – Not In His Name

~1:03:00 – criticizing John Lash: pretending Mithraism doesn’t exist. Overcrediting Wasson.

Ep257a 1:10:00 —

‘Salvationism’ Bogeyman Defined by Lash: We Must Prevent Psilocybin from Being in the Mainstream [Prohibitionists Applaud]

1:14:33 – ‘Salvationism’ Bogeyman Defined by Lash

1:20:00 —

1:23:35 — There is no redemption for mainstream religion per Lash. We countercultureists must build a big wall to keep The Mushroom separate from the evil Mainstream.

1:30:00 —

Wasson, THM , denying psilocybin in Europe

Ep257a 1:40:00 —

We cannot attribute the hundreds of msh trees to Allegro as Irvin calls for.

1:50:00 —

Allegro affirming Plainc does not consider the hundreds of msh trees. Irvin only has a TINY case for giving credit to Allegro for the “hundreds”.

2:00:00 — reading aloud: Allegro quoted in THM: “the strange shapes … awe and dread in the minds of simple [i highlighted that now] folk.” find “THM p. 49” in the present page, to see that page of THM.

Gold Clip: Ep257a [2:01:25-2:07:10]: Misplaced Amanita Fascination vs. Actually Interesting Control Re-Stabilization

2:01:25 — gold clip begins. 2-part; 2 topics: first, great discussion about the misplaced Amanita fascination, then, how the mind works.

2:03:06 – Amanita is not a psychedelic; it’s merely a visionary plant.

~2:04:00 — my history in not coming from entheogen scholarship ; my lack of being impressed by Heinrich’s book, I didn’t get trapped in Amanita Madness b/c I had the Egodeath theory core theory. I was never terminating and stunted at mere Amanita theory.

Amanita theory grinds to a halt. No Future. Dead End. Curiosity stated, the field…

2:05:45 – Amanita is where the field of entheogen scholarship goes to die. It’s a dead end.

Amanita is where the field of entheogen scholarship goes to die. It’s a dead end.

Cybermonk April 22, 2023, Egodeath Mystery Show Ep247a

2:06:04 – Switch from focusing on the changing physical shapes of Amanita, to the changing mental models of control-in-world. driven by demonstrating control non-viability and discovering another model, that works.

That is the height of challenge of theoretical explanation: explain how crossing the control stability boundary … [end of track 5105.wav]

— per the Egodeath theory; the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism.

2:07:10 end of gold clip

Ep257a 2:07:10 — Guitar for rest of episode. (18:08)

2:10:00 — gtr

2:20:00 — gtr

Ep257a 2:25:18 — End of Ep257a.

Ep247b ⚖️☸️💥😵 Fatal Control Instability

4:40 of guitar at end.

Ep257b 0:00 — Start.

10:00 —

20:00 —

Ep257b ~29:00 — Apr 30 2023: I just realized another problem for Irvin in his THM p. 49 mis-treatment of Allegro’s Endnote 15:

Allegro writes “Most important, Psilocybe Mexicana [see Heim & Wasson; see Hofmann].”

Yet Irvin writes: what Heim/ Wasson & Hoffmann wrote is not important for our discussion, because Psilocybin, not an Amanita species.”

Irvin is more radically single-plant fallacy: Amanita than Allegro!

THM p. 31 — “all entheogens” (twice), yet “Psilocybin–not important to our study” (twice)
Annotations by Cybermonk. Fair use, for scholarly discussion.

At top of page 32, the next list item is about Hofmann’s passage, with identical wording: “Psilocybin–not important to our study.”

THM p. 49 — “most important, Psilocybe”, yet “not important to our discussion because Psilocybe”
Annotations by Cybermonk. Fair use, for scholarly discussion.

At top of page is Allegro’s writing, in SMC page 39, where he cites his endnote 15. Below that, Irvin shows Allegro’s endnote 15.

Allegro writes “most important, Psilocybe”.

Yet Irvin writes “not important, because Psilocybe”.

Irvin is more restrictive of scope — in this chapter — than Allegro, despite Irvin promising twice, on the chapter’s intro page 31, to provide commentary about “all of Allegro’s entheogens/entheobotany citations”.

THM p. 59 — “endnote #15 relates to Psilocybe mushrooms and is not critical to our discussion”

Irvin writes “[SMC] Pg. 229, endnote #15, relates to Psilocybe mushrooms and is not critical to our discussion.”

THM p. 107
Annotations by Cybermonk. Fair use, for scholarly discussion.
Orange writing: “vs. p. 31-32, 49”

Mid-page, note “ALL ENTHEOGENIC CITATIONS USED BY ALLEGRO” when Irvin in fact EXCLUDED Psilocybin citations “because not important to our study/ discussion”. Now, without explanation, Psilocybin is among “the main types of mushrooms in discussion”.

Irvin directly self-contradicts himself, REPEATEDLY, about whether OR NOT Psilocybin is “in discussion”.

p. 107 re: specimen photos: Amanita (Table 1) [9 photos, placed first], cubensis (Table 2) [only 4 photos, placed after amanita], lib cap (Table 3) [only 2 photos, placed after amanita].

p. 108: “therefore we’ll begin with the fly agaric fresco.” Note that Irvin puts the fresco first in the gallery of art.

Amanita Madness, Irvin continues the bad move of MAKING THE FRESCO KING OF ALL MUSHROOM-TREES EVIDENCE, BECAUSE IT’S AMANITA.

THM p. 152 — “Judeo-Christianity … evidence to prove that the holy mushroom has the capability to cause such religious experiences … Griffiths’ psilocybin study”
Annotations by Cybermonk. Fair use, for scholarly discussion.

A disappointing surprise for Irvin: Paragraph 1 “the fungus”, “the mushroom”, is about Psilocybe, not Amanita!

If Psilocybin is “not important to our discussion/study”, then remove your Psilocybin art from your gallery (like Brown removed your dud non-Amanita tapestry from his gallery in 2016 book & 2019 article, j/k), and remove your citation of Griffiths’ 2006 study finding that psilocybin gives mystical experience.

This THM chapter’s opening page 31 fails to give any justification for making Amanita the scope of “all entheogens” and exclude Psilocybin from “all entheogens” as “not important for our discussion”.

WHY is “our discussion” limited to Amanita, despite “all entheogens” being stated as the scope TWICE on intro p. 31 (“Allegro’s Citations and References”)? p. 31:

“commentary on all of Allegro’s endnotes and citations in SMC with regard to entheogens.”

“entheogenic and entheobotanical studies. They … represent all the specific references to other scholars in the field of entheobotany and entheogens listed in SMC.”

So, Irvin’s book THM page 31 is self-contradictory, contradicts Allegro writing “most important, Psilocybe mexicana; see R. Heim and Wasson … see Hofmann … p. 169″

We aren’t allowed by Irvin to see the passages Allegro is referring to by “most important, Psilocybe mexicana”. Irvin writes about each of those two passages cited by Allegro: “not important to our discussion because it refers to Psilocybe, and not an Amanita species.” — Irvin in THM p. 49, two times.

Then on THM p. 107, Irvin flip and contradicts/ silently switches his scope again, without acknowledging or defending doing so: “The main mushroom types in discussion are Amanita & Psilocybe.” SHELL GAME!

Given that Allegro writes “most important”, you HAVE to give some explicit justification for WHY the passage is “not important to our discussion/study”.

What the hell is the scope of “our discussion/study”, and why? Why is it both “all entheogens” (asserted twice, p. 31) and also restricted to Amanita only?

Why does Irvin keep re-declaring a different scope, with no justification attempted or provided? Even when Allegro writes “most important, Psilocybe mexicana”!

Irvin p. 31 twice writes that the scope is “all entheogens”.

Ep257b 30:00 —

40:00 —

50:00 —

1:00:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:08:08- 1:17:58]
Esoteric Theraputic Therapy: transformation of the mental worldmodel Successfully & Smoothly

1:08:08 — start of 5109.wav – good content. Esoteric reference for “therapy”, “theraputic” use of enth. entheogens. transformation from possibilism to eternalism? Balance-scale. Eadwine images. Stable losing control balance.

1:10:00 —

The Ultimate Value: transformation of the mental worldmodel to Become Mature

1:13:09 — gold clip continues. The Ultimate Value: transformation of the mental worldmodel to Become Mature.

1:15:43 – Eadwine = instruction manual on how to use cubensis. A negative story. Eager newbie, then struggle. f134 gcp color Great Canterbury Psalter colors of the cubensis display case. I discovered how to read their insturction manual.

end gold clip

1:17:58 – not gold. Plan to make webpage containing all of the instruction manual that Eadwine left in pictures.

1:20:00 —

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:24:04-1:25:56]

1:24:04 — resume gold clip. Rich genre of art. Common esoteric knowledge of balance.

Stand on right foot to adopt adult form through disproving and sacr’g the initial model.

The better you understand 2-level control, the better you are at disproving and thwarting and demolitioning egoic control.

1:25:56 – end of gold clip. but continues after a bit of talk about cubensis lockboxes in Eadwine.

end gold clip

1:25:56 – M Hoffman Toxicology article.

1:30:00 —

~1:31:21 — psil is only way to Logos./ Euch/ salvation/ regen’n.

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:32:22-1:36:49]

~1:32:22 – gold clip. Eadwine’s images are an instruction manual for kings about cubensis re-stabilization. My alliance with Eadwine.

1:32:59 – Need instruction manual for loss of control stability.

Must travel through the loss of control to fatally transgress control and fatally lose control through asserting clearly enough, in the clear-seeing state, the possibilism model and effortful king agent pushing.

The mind looks at the control system and experiments with control: the vulnerability is quickly evidence.

The higher mind perceives the control dynamics.

Great Canterbury Psalter is an instruction manual.

1:34:05 – gold clip continues past end of 5109.wav at 1:34:05

Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
Mark Amanita Hoffman
https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman

Why are you [evil M. Hoffman] using the forbidden word ‘secrecy’? The kykeon sacrament.

1:34:05 – Start of 5110.wav. same topic con’t. Continuing to discuss stability alternating with M. Hoffman Toxicology article: Entheogens in Mystery Religions.

1:35:00 — Eadwine warns about standing on left leg.

1:36:49 – end gold clip. Time announce: 11:53 pm April 22, 2023.

end gold clip

back to M. Hoffman article.

1:36:49 – M. Hoffman article. His self-contradictory, inconsistent use of “mushrooms”, at the end tiny end of article on Psil, says mushroom as if the first drug-section above didn’t have a FULL PAGE ON AMNITA.

M. Hoffman bizarrely contrasts Psilocybin/msh vs. Amanita, as if Amanita isn’t “mushrooms”.

Good critical discussion of that section of Hoffman’s article. “European shamanic peoples” — confusion multiplies b/c poor lexicon usage by Hoffman.

Ep257b 1:40:00 —

Good discussion of Amanita processing process and the general strategy of mapping Amanita Alchemy process to the Egodeath theory. Sacrifice child in alchemy.

Gold Clip: Ep247b [1:49:18-1:52:10]

1:49:18 – 2-level control — we’re shown this in the instruction manual that’s the Great Canterbury Psalter – how to lose control and transform control – how to shift from left to right leg.

Psalter reader demonstrating lifting the right fingertip (foot) and using possibilism-thinking (left leg). Causes instability. Inevitably doomed to lose control. that v1 of you as an agent dies and is sacrificed; child . mind transforms.

Gold Clip to end of track at 1:52:10 (5110.wav) – Eadwine’s journal.

Tech Errata: right channel mic starts whistling near 1:35:00. Need to retire that mixer [done], which that mic doesn’t like.

Great Canterbury Psalter is an instruction manual for Cubensis.

Image f145 (below): The cubensis shipping receiver guy is teaching the trader to move from the unstable possibilism-thinking model to the right-leg eternalism-thinking model.

You will fall over, loss control, lose your balance/stability; rely on the higher control and non-branching pre-existing control thoughts.

You don’t have the power to change your future control-thoughts, which will be forced upon you and you don’t have control or creation-power over your future control-thoughts.

You will lose your beloved child in order to transform control. — Recorded at 11:53 pm April 22, 2023.

The Word ‘mushrooms’ Is Used to Maximize Bad Theory and Shell-Game Wildcard Deceiving Rhetoric and Self-Contradiction

It just now struck me (April 22) how much bad theory and confusion around the word “mushrooms”, which maximizes Bad Theory. Today I learned to perceive this huge ambiguity problem.

Wow, amazing, all kinds of problems are associated with the word “mushrooms”.

Writers must compensate by being extra clear.

The Invention of Entheogen Scholars’ Fake, Deceptive Construction “the mushroom”

Added later to this webpage on April 30, 2023:

ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP HAS DELIBERATELY STRIVEN AND SOUGHT TO DELIBERATELY CONFUSE AND CONFLATE AND FABRICATE A NON-EXISTING ENTHEOGEN, “THE MUSHROOM” BY DELIBERATELY TANGLING TWO UNRELATED PLANTS, to market and sell and bunk Anthropology / Sociology ideology including excusing and even enforcing (John Lash, McKenna, etc.) that we must not allow mainstream religion to use “the mushroom”, we MUST PROHIBIT mushrooms from being in mainstream religion.

Prohibition-constructing entheogen scholars assert and lecture mainstream Christianity about how Christianity is required by God (citing Genesis 2 & 3, censoring Rev 22 last page of the Bible) to prohibit “the mushroom”.

(Ignore Revelation 22, “Those who are on the inside are permitted to eat from the tree of life.”)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev+22&version=NIV

Article:
Branching-message mushroom trees
Section heading:
Revelation 22 Reverses any “Prohibition” from Genesis 2 & 3
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#rev22

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.”

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”

Genesis 2:16-17 & Genesis 3 Completed by Revelation 22: A Psychedelic Eternalism Mytheme Decoding
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/genesis-216-17-genesis-3-completed-by-revelation-22-a-psychedelic-eternalism-mytheme-decoding/

WE MUST UN-TANGLE THEIR DIRTY PROJECT OF DELIBERATELY TANGLING AND CONFLATING TWO PLANTS TO LIE AND FABRICATE A PSEUDO-CATEGORY, “THE MUSHROOM”.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “THE MUSHROOM”; there only exists two separate, unrelated, distinct plants: Psilocybin, and the lesser, unimportant, inferior, undesirable Amanita.

As unrelated as Datura and Cannabis, are Amanita and Psilocybin.

1:50:00 —

Ep257b 1:52:10 — end gold clip

end gold clip

Ep257b 1:52:10 – 5111.wav starts. Cyberdisciple article Against Assumption Suppression.

1:58:17 – I dislike that Amanita imagery is used in Rev and Ezek and Genesis 2 & 3 in the Bible. Couldn’t they have used Psilocybin imagery instead?

2:00:00 —

2:10:00 —

2:20:00 —

2:25:22 — Guitar at end (4:40). “Egodeath Mystery Show” near end.

Ep257b 2:30:09 — End of Ep257b.

Images

Psalter Viewer Seeing that the Possibility Branching Model Causes Loss of Control

Crop by Cybermonk
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Row 1 Left

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Row 2 Middle Right: Balance

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Tech Notes

Miking: AT2020 & CAD M39, or ev 635a

Stereo room mics have compressors, handheld mono mic ev 635a does in first segment only, i think.

Left room mic AT2020 way too bright, today April 29 I got it under control.

Recordings

Part A: Some deleted:

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See Also

Recent Posts

The following posts are April “23” (22) or earlier so are likely same content as this episode:

No More Writing About Mushrooms, Entheogens, Classic Psychedelics, Visionary Plants, Plant Teachers, or Psychoactive Plants and Substances

Contents:

Wildcard, Shell-Game Umbrella Terms Considered Harmful

I revised the article to reduce relying on the umbrella wildcard shell-game conceptual constructs “mushrooms” or “entheogens” to make my points:

Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Mushrooms, Branching, Handedness, and Stability
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

In the context of history of psilocybin religious mythology, try to speak specifically about Psilocybin, Cubensis, Amanita, or ergot — specific plants — rather than in vague abstract multi-plant terms, “fungi”.

That’s hard to do in many cases, given:

  • Grammar.
  • Flexible communication needs.
  • Critical discussion of a malformed field that identifies as “entheogen scholarship”.
  • The two (entirely different) plants have been extremely inter-tangled in scholarship about Amanita and Psilocybin.

I’ll do another brute-force pass, to force finding alternative wordings. Suppose I’m writing in 1920, before Amanita and Psilocybin were conflated into “psychoactive mushrooms” (awful, unjustified combination of two very different psychoactive mushrooms).

  • Psilocybin defines classic psychedelic effects.

Chrome/WordPress marks “entheogens” as a typo; not a word- agreed

No More Writing About Mushrooms, Entheogens, Psychedelics, Classic Psychedelics, Visionary Plants, Psychoactive Plants, or Substances (only About Psilocybin, or Occasionally Amanita) (and Especially not “the Mushroom”)

Regarding 1964-2007 ergot in Rock Lyrics, my policy remains same as in 1997:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html#Mental%20Construct%20Binding%20and%20the%20Mind-Revealing%20Dissociative%20State – “The most powerful trigger for long sessions of cognitive dissociation is lysergic acid, a key technology.”

Regarding pre-1943 history of classic psychedelics, my single-plant fallacy that I’m victorious with in useful theory construction is Golden Teacher Cubensis, as shown in Great Canterbury Psalter images f134, f145, and f177.

The entheogen scholars’ role is to complain about my single-plant fallacy, overly narrow, while my role is to achieve 100% success in constructing a simple, useful, relevant explanatory theory — by repudiating the entheogen scholars’ greedy, failed attempt to discuss multiple plants at once by using wildcard umbrella shell-game terms and dirty rhetorical moves, as Irvin criticizes when done by Wasson, and ignores when done by Allegro, and then commits himself.

Worst book (dissipation, preventing a theory): Christian Ratsch, 1000-page book of ALL PSYCHOACTIVES.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
Christian Ratsch
2005
https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Psychoactive-Plants-Ethnopharmacology-Applications/dp/0892819782/

Also Dale Pendell’s books that jumble all kinds of plants, delivering as broad and hazy and unhelpful as it is broad coverage. As hazy as broad of coverage.
https://www.amazon.com/Pharmako-Gnosis-Plant-Teachers-Poison/dp/1556438893/

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell, first sentence of Amanita section of Pharmako Gnosis

Irvin 2014 and Irvin 2022 Demonizes Psilocybin as a “Suggestogen” and Silently Exempts Amanita from Critique

Irvin 2008: Glorifies Amanita, Disrespects and Robs Psilocybin to Prop Up Amanita
Irvin 2014: Demonizes Psilocybin as “Suggestogen”, Remains Silent About Amanita
Irvin 2022: Demonizes Psilocybin, Remains Silent About Amanita

omg while spoken idea development 9:30 pm April 28, 2023, recording TK_VOX_5273.wav (confirmed in recording 5274), I came up with an idea to check do a full text search of Irvin’s 2014 article series “The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms”.

Resulting finding; confirmed my hypothesis/recollection: In Irvin’s article series of 5 articles, only 1 article mentions Amanita: it has 4 mentions of Amanita, none of them negative, all merely incidental.

url https://logosmedia.com/2012/05/RGordonWasson_The-Man-the-Legend-the-Myth-secret-history-of-magic-mushrooms-by-jan-irvin-144/

Irvin shields and protects his idolatrous worship of his false god Amanita.

I just now got the answer to my clever question from a couple days ago:

HEY IRVIN: IS AMANITA A SUGGESTOGEN??

Answer found tonight: NO.
AMANITA IS EXEMPTED FROM IRVIN’S DISPARAGEMENT AS A “SUGGESTOGEN”.

This clever line of questioning Irvin 2014 is a pretty big victory for my critique of Gnostic Media Irvin 2008 vs. Logos Media Irvin 2022.

Irvin is a closeted Amanita Logos Huckster trying to sell us a bunk Amanita Logos-Eucharist while deleting and disrespecting and ROBBING PSILOCYBIN OF ITS CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC EFFECT TO FALSELY ATTRIBUTE THAT EFFECT (THM p. 152 re: Griffiths 2006) TO AMANITA THROUGH THE STRATEGEM/ PLOY/ SHELL GAME WILDCARD USAGE OF DIRTY, DECEPTIVE UMBRELLA TERM “THE MUSHROOM” — just like Allegro does on p. 49 of THM (SMC p. 229 endnote 15).

On p. 49, Irvin starts to follow Allegro from “the mushroom” … “the fungus”, but then Irvin quickly backtracks and avoids presenting the Heim & Hofmann passages that Allegro cites TO LIST THE EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBIN

Irvin instead writes that Allegro’s cited passage x2 “is not important … because it refers to Psilocybe, and not an Amanita species” (p. 49 THM).

Allegro is trying to falsely attribute Psilocybin effects to Amanita through propaganda rhetoric shell-games with ambiguous terms, “the fungus” — exactly as Irvin tries to get away with on THM page 152 where Irvin cites Griffiths’ psilocybin research.

Why does THM quote Griffiths re: psilocybin? I thought “psilocybin is not important to our study/discussion”.

Rolf Singer Falsely States Wasson Was the First European Who Ate Psilocybin Mushrooms

Irvin, God’s Flesh p. 24: Rolf Singer Falsely States “psilocybin … Wasson (probably the first white person who ate these mushrooms)”

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The Two Cultures: STEM vs. Humanities re: Sloppy, Deceiving Terminology “the Mushroom”

This page contains slagging on Anthropology & Humanities dept. by STEM dept. (as a style of explanatory theory expression/construction), but pretty sure no one from those depts follows my posts, so it’s ok 😊👍

url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

url https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Scientific-Revolution/dp/1684222826/

url https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Canto-Classics/dp/1107606144/

Subjective Effects Index Excludes Amanita, Because No One Actually Cares About Amanita or Is Serious About Muscimol Except as Pop Anthropology Titillation and Proxy Ideology

Josie Kins’ infinitely unhelpful and amateur livestream statement “Amanita isn’t a deliriant… isn’t an X, isn’t a Y…” <– worthless non-communication from the person who is identified with SPECIFYING the effects.

search on Amanita – 1 hit.
search on Psilocybin – 50 hits.
SHOWS THE TOTAL IRRELEVANCE OF AMANITA, THE FOOL’S MUSHROOM.
https://effectindex.com/search

“formalized documentation of the vast number of distinct subjective states that may occur under the influence of hallucinogens.”
https://effectindex.com/effects/

TRANSPERSONAL STATES

Amanita and Psilocybin Are 100% Different, Unrelated Psychoactives — Never Discuss them as if Grouped

Voice Recordings/ Spoken Idea Development

Voice recording VOX_TK_5253.wav (and previous), April 28, 2023. starting at ~5:30 –

I no longer write about mushrooms, entheogens, fungi (ergot and/or Amanita and/or Psilocybin).

I write about Psilocybin and sometimes the lesser, inferior mushroom type, Amanita (as separate as Datura).

Amanita is more like Datura than Psilocybin. “entheogens” means Datura and/or Amanita.

Using treacherous severely overloaded terms causing intensive trouble, entirely problematic words used so casually as if they aren’t totally unjustified and problematic.

today, good voice recording about:

Humanities writers are poor thinkers and theorists. “our primitive crude forebears worshipped the mushroom” — writes the crude, irrational, taboo-driven 1920s-era “Institute of Advanced Whiggish Study” such as Wasson and Allegro and Ruck and (not breaking away from Allegro enough) Irvin.

All these horrible poets’ pompous, florid, vague, ambiguous turgid garbled fancy language conveying the stupidest, dumbest theories, hyper-ornate florid overwrought Humanities-speak.

Let’s build an anti-Scientific, humanities-dept. 1880-1920 Anthropology Dept. theory by using hazy misty UMBRELLA WILDCARD SHELL-GAME TERMS that shift every time we use them and can mean either “the mushroom, Amanita” or “the mushroom, Psilocybin”, or means now (all of a sudden) both Amanita AND Psilocybin — and then in the next sentence, flips the goalposts/ football field/ universe, to NOW suddenly mean instead, “the mushroom, Amanita”.

Allegro writes the surprising “gotcha!” usage “the mushroom, Psilocybin” in Endnote 15 of 1967/1970 SMC, covered in confusion by Irvin in THM 2008 who says he’ll give commentary on “ALL ENTHEOGEN-RELATED PASSAGES in SMC, but then refuses to copy-in the text by Heim & Wasson or by Hofmann, “because it concerns Psilocybe, which is not important to our discussion/study.”

By “all entheobotany/entheogens”, it turns out Irvin strictly exclusively meant Amanita only — not the lesser, inferior, unimportant Psilocybin.

Gordon “Ignorant Blunder” Wasson, John Allegro, Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck, Jan Irvin, & John Rush all write “the mushroom”, by which they mean Amanita and/or its inferior, lesser-looking imitator, Psilocybin.

Except for when they silently suddenly switch to mean Psilocybin, eg Allegro’s SMC endnote 15.

Or when they covertly switch to mean “Psilocybin and/or Amanita”, when it suits their dirty rhetorical moves to deceive and mislead the reader, and substitute for sound, coherent thinking.

I bet 20th C mycologists never wrote “the mushroom”, as the Humanities crowd of bunk Anthropology theory do.

The term “the mushroom” is not a STEM / Science term; usage of that bad, garbled term is anti-scientific, muddled thinking, misused to do failed theory-construction.

SMC = The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross – Allegro (1967 / 1970)

The Holy Mushroom (THM) by Irvin has ATROCIOUS abuse of Humanities-speak, garbled, umbrella, shell-game, wildcard joker term-usage.

My pages of focus in THM: 31-32, 49, 59, 107, 152 – horrible theorizing! based on umbrella, multi-plant, shell-game, wildcard words, used to hide gaps and fallacious argumentation, re: “the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the sacred mushroom”, “entheobotany”, “entheogens”.

These words are employed for the purpose of covertly shifting and switching their meaning constantly, to fill-in for valid reasoning.

p. ix – Judith Brown’s Foreward: “fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, the sacred mushroom.”

I Had to Declare a Major, Vigorous Revolution Against the Intense Extreme Prejudice Against Psilocybin in Europe by Entheogen Scholars, and by Paul Stamets 1994 Too

A leading mycologist asserts in 2007, no psilocybin in Europe. (England, Mediterranean)

Letcher Hatsis says no religious use of “mushrooms” in Europe or England before 1976, and no presence of psilocybin in England before 1976.

The entire field of entheogen scholarship thinks in this shut-out, prejudiced way, though Samorini’s Entheos journal plotted out many areas of Italy having liberty caps.

2002 Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion (2023: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/

See Also

Forbidden Word List for Effective Theory Construction in Psychedelics History and Psychedelic Science

Forbidden Word List for Effective Theory Construction in Psychedelics History and Psychedelic Pseudo Science

Cybermonk, initially posted 8:30 p.m. April 23, 2023

includes forbidden colors! 😊

The Word Prohibition Schedules, Including Schedule 1 Prohibited Words with No Known Theory-Construction Use

Contents:

Ineffective Word List (Anti-Lexicon) and Correct Effective Egodeath Conceptual Vocabulary/ Lexicon

Everything I hate (as a theorist) about Amanita:

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell, first sentence of Amanita section of Pharmacognosis

Posting title:
The Holy Mushroom (Irvin 2008) Calls to Abandon the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise, But Remains Stuck in Amanita Primacy Fallacy
Section heading:
‘Entheogens’ Means Amanita Exclusively: Un-believable: Irvin Announces Commentary on “All Entheogen Citations”, then Suddenly Switches to Exclusively Covering Amanita
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/the-holy-mushroom-irvin-2008-calls-to-abandon-the-secret-heretical-sect-premise/#Entheogens-Means-Amanita-Exclusively

Forbidden Word List for Psychedelics History

Notation:
ineffective construct [effective construct]

alchemy – esoteric analogy

Allegro, John [Giorgio Samorini, Jerry Brown]

Amanita, Fly-Agaric, Amanita muscaria [psilocybin, psilocybin mushrooms]

cult, sect, ritual – ingest

drugs – the wildcard umbrella word ‘drugs’ is now being added to the Forbidden Word List. Don’t write ‘entheogens’, ‘psychedelics’, ‘drugs’, or ‘mushrooms’; write ‘psilocybin’ or ‘amanita’. For good Theory. This is The Way of STEM.

Eleusus, kykeon, ergot [Canterbury, psilocybin sacred meals, psilocybin mixed wine, psilocybin]

entheogens [psychedelics]

exotic eastern (“oriental”) heretical intrusion into real Christianity

experiment – use, ingest

kykeon – sacred meals, rounds of mixed wine, mixed-wine banqueting.

mushroom, mushrooms, the mushroom, the holy mushroom, sacred mushrooms, the sacred mushroom, the divine mushroom, divine mushrooms [psilocybin, psilocybin mushrooms]

occasion – cause

Plaincourault, the fresco – Canterbury

red and white [blue and gold]

rite – ingest

secret, hidden, forgotten, whispered, forbidden – explicit

counterculture – mainstream

sect, cult, rite, heretical, fringe, elite

soma – Psilocybin

Wasson – Samorini, Brown

Forbidden Word List for Psychedelic Science

benefit – transformation

Cognitive Neuroscience

connectedness – block-universe eternalism

default mode network – possibilism-thinking, literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control; possibilism mental worldmodel

determinism [eternalism]

ego dissolution – ego transcendence, loose cognitive association binding

ineffable – mental worldmodel transformation

mysticism as a methodology

mystical – intense mystic altered state, intensely loose cognitive binding

mystical experience (always means Stacean’s misconceived version), a complete mystical experience [mental model transformation of control-in-world in the loose cognitive state]

naturalism (ie radical physicalism) as a methodology and conceptual vocabulary [cognitive phenomenology; experiential mental worldmodel of control-in-world, metaperception]

neuroplasticity [loose cognition]

neuroscience as a methodology

nondual unity oneness

nondual – block universe eternalism

spiritual – altered state

surrender – repudiate, formally transgress

therapy – initiation

unity – block-universe eternalism

Motivation for this Page

Listening to Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246c, I heard adding a word to the defined but not very concretely implemented Forbidden Word List. This page replaces eg subsections within Idea Development page 18 that have informal work-ups of the Forbidden Word List.

Precedent: In voice training, at start of Egodeath Mystery Show around Jan. 20, 2021, I implemented a Block List, and it was fully successful at de-junking my speech:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/voice-and-mic-technique/#The-Block-List

I independently developed my lexicon in April 1987, and I continue to refine it, eg the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

the Egodeath theory (the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism) has its own lexicon, purpose-built, relevant, domain-effective, short in-house, non-compromised, non-trojan-horse terms. The present page maps wrong, external lexicons from failed paradigms, to the successful paradigm, the Egodeath theory.

We must de-junk psychedelics scholarship.

Using the proven-treacherously ambiguous word ‘mushroom’ is the #1 source of junking-up and producing confused psychedelics scholarship.

Coca is a leaf. Cannabis is a leaf. Therefore, let’s treat coca and cannabis as the same, and yet also as different, writing in terms of The Holy Leaf. I’m sure that won’t produce much confusion, and can support a sound theory, the Secret Holy Leaf theory.

Dope means opium and cannabis. Let us build a theory about dope, given that ‘dope’ at any time might intend opium, or cannabis, or opium and cannabis.

We can build a sound theory on this foundation of ambiguity, by hope and mind-reading, as surely as Irvin 2008 The Holy Mushroom proves that Amanita causes mystical experiencing, as proved by Griffiths’ 2006 psilocybin research. Irvin literally tries to pull this totally fallacious, covert rhetoric dirty move, a conflation-based, conflation-leveraging argument.

Where there’s Amanita, there’s Bad Theorizing.

These words cannot be used to build a theory on. It’s ok to mention them in order to condemn them.

Searching Site for Forbidden Word Lists

Search this site for “Forbidden Word List”:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22Forbidden+Word+List%22

hits: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Dealbreakers-Ruining-Naturalism

Done: Copy informal lists from maybe Idea Development page 18. Here we go:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Forbidden-word-list

See Also

Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

Anti-Amanita Manifesto

Recommendations for Entheogen Scholars

Move from “Amanita, Christianity, Surface Form, Low Esotericism” to “Psilocybe, Greek + Christian, Cognitive Effects, High Esotericism”

Was Phase 1 of the Field of Western Entheogen Scholarship in Fact Centered Around Amanita?

How Observing Fatal Control Instability During Loose Cognition Sacrifices Childish Control-Model While Learning Mature Control-Model

Ultimate Peak Knowledge: Specifically How Observing Fatal Control Instability in the Psilocybin Loose Cognitive State Sacrifices Childish Model While Learning 2-Level Dependent Control and Pre-Existing Control-Thoughts

Cybermonk, April 23, 2023

Contents:

  • The Most Profound Writing/ Painting/ Lyrics in the World
  • Else Completely Worthless Junk
  • Cognitive Blind Spot by Design
  • Intro
  • Eadwine’s Images in Great Canterbury Psalter Are a Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics Decoded by Cybermonk 2020-2023
  • Profundities
  • Formal Deliberate Control Seizure
  • The Egodeath Mystery Show is an Expert-Level Idea-Development Session, Rarely a Newbie Introduction/ Instructional Tutorial Show
  • Images
  • Related Writings Where I Tackled this Most-Challenging Topic of Explanation
  • Gold Clips About Control Re-Stabilization
  • See Also

The Most Profound Writing/ Painting/ Lyrics in the World

The mental model is moved off of reliance on possibilism-premised model of control, onto (at the same time, in the same action/movement) the 2-level model of dependent control.

Testing and observing the mind’s model of control-in-world in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive binding state at an advanced developmental level on the cusp of shifting from relying on left leg to right leg.

Salvation arrives — viable stable control reliance — in the same action and moment as control fatally fails and is demonstrated to fail and be vulnerable.

fatal loss of control = non-viable control = control instability = a real death and sacrifice of the cybernetic control agent; your life as a childish-mode control agent really does meet its end; it is a real death.

Self-control cybernetics ego death (fatal control instability) is death and sacrificial death of the childish youthful self-identity.

Religious mythology {death} mytheme and art motif

Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics

Asserting the initial mental model of control steering in a branching world is doomed to fatal control instability and control-reconfiguration.

The non-transformed mental model starts off standing on left leg, left hand closer to ground.

This language [in text, lyrics, art] depicts and explains the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.

Formal Deliberate Control Seizure

Else Completely Worthless Junk

A lot of my points are very good peripheral points despite being peripheral, eg the cognitive blind spot that’s necessary to support the egoic delusion mental worldmodel suitable for children and animals.

Cognitive Blind Spot by Design

The mind is designed to make it difficult to think about this and directly address and explain this topic.

This dynamic is a blind spot that’s designed to last during tightcog, and then give way when in loosecog.

Religious mythology comes from none other than psilocybin’s loose cognitive state.

Intro

Focus attention (again, afresh) on more clearly, helpfully, relevantly explaining how to navigate the stepping through the gate from left leg to right leg.

How exactly do we move off of reliance on possibilism-premised model of control, onto (at the same time, in the same action/movement) the 2-level model of dependent control?

Attack this explanation directly, as I did during spoken idea development last night recording April 22, 2023.

This is a “challenge myself” aspiration page defining a goal: explain to Everyman *specifically* and simply and clearly, such as to any 8th grader:

What exactly happens when testing and observing the mind’s model of control-in-world in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive binding state at an advanced developmental level on the cusp of shifting from relying on left leg to right leg.

How does salvation arrive — viable stable control reliance — in the same action and moment as control fatally fails and is demonstrated to fail and be vulnerable?

I have directly written on this topic over the years.

It’s tempting to write about everything except this ultimate peak topic.

It’s time to challenge myself again to directly address this most-central, peak topic.

So I have been recording some segments talking-through this idea the past few days, by leveraging the concrete detailed images.

Against the voted-down proposition that the Wikipedia “ego death” article should be retitled “ego dissolution” (I think that was the proposition we rejected).

Eadwine depicts …

Religious mythology gives us all the justification needed to continue moving forward the traditional {death} mytheme and art motif.

Eadwine’s Images in Great Canterbury Psalter Are a Psilocybin Instruction Manual, Communication about Cybernetics Decoded by Cybermonk 2020-2023

Eadwine’s images in Great Canterbury Psalter are his psilocybin cybernetics journal.

The images are a self-portrait of Eadwine, eg image f134 row 2 middle-left, the foolhardy newbie psychonaut getting his mushroom bag filled with Golden Teacher from the mushroom dispensary.

Doomed to fatal control instability and control-reconfiguration, starts off standing on left leg, left hand closer to ground.

Mushroom Bins and Bucket, Eadwine’s Self-Portrait as a Foolish Newbie, image f134 row 2 right, Canterbury Psalter

Crop by Cybermonk

Eadwine provides us with an instruction manual about Psilocybin, coded as art motifs language, and I have fully decoded this language which depicts and explains the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics.

As you go back in time, my roots of this decoding trail off becoming thinner.

Important milestones:

  • Nov. 2013 (Lucas Cranach: Eve Tempted by the Serpent; tree vs. snake = possibilism vs. eternalism).
  • Dec. 2015 (Salamander/Dancing Man right-leg hypothesis).
  • Especially Nov. 2020-April 2023 (Eadwine images, Golden Psalter, branching-message mushroom trees article).

Profundities

Formal Deliberate Control Seizure

The Egodeath Mystery Show is an Expert-Level Idea-Development Session, Rarely a Newbie Introduction/ Instructional Tutorial Show

Images

Teaching Control Re-Stabilizing (image f134 row 1 left, Canterbury Psalter)

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Teaching Cubensis Traders About Control Re-Stabilizing (Image f145 row 1 left, Canterbury Psalter)

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Psalter Viewer Seeing that the Possibility Branching Model Causes Loss of Control (image f134 row 2 center, Canterbury Psalter)

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk
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Image f177 Row 2 Middle with Looking-Lines, Great Canterbury Psalter

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

Row 2 Middle Right: Balance

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Looking at Right-Foot Balancing, image f177 row 2 center-right, Canterbury Psalter

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

Balancing on Right Foot, Crutch + Left Foot, image f177 row 1 middle, Canterbury Psalter

Crop by Cybermonk

Balancing on Right Foot and Crutch + Left Foot, with Looking-Line, image f177 middle, Canterbury Psalter

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

Lifted up from Fatal Control-Death Ossuary by Right Arm by Christ, image f107 middle, Canterbury Psalter)

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Image f107, Canterbury Psalter

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Image 47: Raining Fire Demolitioning Building

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Image f177 left, Canterbury Psalter

Winnowing and Burning-off possibilism-Thinking Through Control Instability Experimentation/ Demonstration/ Observation: {flames} Applied to Left Leg

Crop and annotations by Cybermonk

Sacrifice of Isaac (image f12 detail, Canterbury Psalter)

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Sacrifice of Isaac (image 29, Golden Psalter)

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Sacrifice of Isaac (Van der Borch)

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Related Writings Where I Tackled this Most-Challenging Topic of Explanation

egodeath.com page Strange Loop referenced: How to safely demonstrate control seizure vulnerability:
http://www.egodeath.com/TechniqueofEgoDeath.htm

Found that by going to Advanced Google Search
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
and entering search:
safely demonstrate control seizure site:egodeath.com

The search-url: https://www.google.com/search?as_q=safely+demonstrate+control+seizure&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=egodeath.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=&bshm=foot/1

1997 core theory spec section

2007 main article section

Last night’s Sat Apr 22 2023 spoken idea development session = material for Egodeath Mystery Show Ep247.

I plan to produce the most recent recordings, skipping some highly rough experimental gear recordings 2-3 days ago.

Core Concepts Catalog Sections

Gold Clips About Control Re-Stabilization

I have marked Gold Clips in pages for: Ep247, Ep250, Ep255.

Search “gold clip” in episode pages April 2023 eg in
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/egodeath-mystery-show-ep247-%e2%9a%96%ef%b8%8f%e2%98%b8%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%92%a5%f0%9f%98%b5-fatal-control-instability-april-22-2023/

Ep247 2:01:59-x:x
April 22 recordings were all produced, as Ep247.

Ep250 1:53:36-2:05:00 (11.30) – from 5122.wav April 24, says previous April 22 covers Control Re-stabilization too (confirmed: see Ep247).

Ep255a 28:59-34:25 (5:26) – from 5123.wav

Ep255a 45:46-47:07 (1:21) – from 5123.wav

Ep255a 48:36-1:01:38 (13:02) – from 5146.wav

E255b 11:23-1:14:11 (end) (62:48) – from 5152.wav

See Also

There are a few leads to the best topic (how formal deliberate control seizure works) in
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-theory-of-non-control-as-ultimate-mystic-state-experience/

Cybermonk

Announcement: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm, April 18, 2023

Cybermonk, April 23, 2023

Intro: Announcement of Victory

My Oct. 2002 & Mar. 2003 declaration of revolution against the Ruck committee’s Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion: Victory declared at 8:11 p.m. April 18, 2023; Completion; Closure and Effectuation, with the article:

Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Mushrooms, Branching, Handedness, and Stability
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

Realized and announced at 1:15:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246c:

Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246  Mainstream Psilocybin Control Restabilization (April 18, 2023) – part Ep246c announces success of the 2002 Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion, at 1:15:00, proclamation recorded at 8:11 p.m. April 18, 2023.

Page title:
2002 Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion (2023: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm)
Section heading:
2023 Declaration of Victory in the Overthrow of the Amanita Counterculture Paradigm by the Psilocybin Mainstream Paradigm
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/#Declaration-of-Victory

The present page is an Announcement-type page serving to supplement the updated page above.

Analysis: The “Moderate Entheogen Theory” Actually Is the “Secret Amanita Heretical Sect” Paradigm, a Prohibition-Excusing Ideology

The “Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion” turned out to be, specifically, the Secret Amanita Sect paradigm, which inherently is fully invested in perpetual prohibition of psilocybin.

Such entheogen scholars have NEVER done ANYTHING toward full repeal of Psilocybin prohibition. Why not? Because they are fully invested in perpetual defeat and perpetual justification of Drug Prohibition.

Amanita-obsessed entheogen scholars are the guilty parties, committed to self-defeating, collaborationist (with Prohibition), who positively revel in their crybaby impotent moral stance of superiority, wedded to commitment to perpetual defeat.

Entheogen scholars use a parasitical move: causing and justifying Prohibition as sociologically inherent, in order to elevate oneself morally and tell & sell a superficial, popular, titillating story narrative of cartoon-level “good underdogs vs. bad dominant mainstream”, immature, childish story.

I Disavow “Entheogen” Scholarship, and Repudiate Their Word ‘Entheogen’ and ‘Mushroom’

In my theory construction, I cannot open the door for a trojan-horse, intensely problematic, wildcard word “entheogen” and its raft of sorry, defeatist, Prohibition-product presuppositions.

Same with their ruined word ‘mushroom’ when used ambiguously, without qualification.

The word ‘entheogen‘ is nothing but a trojan horse for Prohibition justification.

Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Prohibition of Psilocybin 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓

Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Drug Prohibition 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓ – note: the wildcard umbrella word ‘drugs’ is now being added to the Forbidden Word List.

Don’t write ‘entheogens’, ‘psychedelics’, ‘drugs’, or ‘mushrooms’; write ‘psilocybin’ or ‘amanita’.

The Extreme Wildcard, Confusing Property of the Word ‘Mushroom’

Correction/clarification re: my post on Cyberdisciple page “Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity” —

I wrote: “The only possible way to write the word ‘mushrooms’ in the way that you mean it and prevent it from being misread as the word ‘Amanita’ is that you absolutely must specify “psilocybin mushrooms” and possibly also specify amanita.”

Clarification:

If you write ‘mushroom’, you’ll be read as having written ‘Amanita’, or ‘Psilocybin’, or “Amanita and Psilocybin”, in an uncontrollable, random, wildcard fashion.

near comment https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/against-the-assumption-of-suppression-of-psychedelics-in-pre-modernity-outlining-research-questions/?unapproved=2618&moderation-hash=f853c4c28bb1922387f3b27d351a304c#comment-2618 

Yesterday, April 22, 2023 I read the writings of entheogen scholars, and was surprised at how much the authors contradict and confuse themselves and each other, around this extremely shifting, extremely wildcard, treacherous term ‘mushroom’.

The maximum confusion in psychedelics scholarship is around the wildcard property of the word ‘mushroom’, covering two entirely different drug types:

Psilocybin is a classic psychedelic, Amanita is a kind of deliriant more comparable to Scopolamine than Psilocybin.

It is entirely foolish and problematic to use one word, ‘mushroom’, to cover two wholly different types of psychoactive plants.

The word ‘mushroom’ has been misused as much as possible to maximize obfuscation.

Jan Irvin in the 2008 book The Holy Mushroom p. 152 paints a false picture and he really does argue fallaciously, misleadingly, and deceptively to give the gullible reader the misimpression that Griffiths’ psilocybin 2006 research proves that Amanita provides mystical experience.

Irvin obscures his fallacious argumentation by the stratagem of hiding in the ambiguity of the wording ‘mushroom’, ‘mushrooms’, “the mushroom”, and “the holy mushroom”.

This is dirty Wasson-type rhetoric just like Irvin calls out in Wasson’s writing: convoluted, prevaricating, obfuscating, deliberately confusing rhetoric use.

I will use the lone word ‘mushrooms’ such as in a title, but I use the word ‘mushroom’ unambiguously, with lots of specifying Psilocybin or Amanita, knowing that ‘mushroom’ is an extremely confusing wildcard word.

Principle to Follow: Treat Amanita and Psilocybin as Two Entirely Different Types of Psychoactive Plants, Avoid any Attempt to Group Them Together

Culprits Striving to Build a Prohibition Wall Between Psilocybin and Christianity

Robert Graves

See Cyberdisciple discussing Graves re: “secret, elite, priests, forgotten”.

Search Cyberdisciple site for “Graves”:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=graves

John Allegro

John Allegro is the main asserter & fabricator of the Secrecy premise.

See Cyberdisciple re: Allegro as Anthropology theorist, not a historian of psychedelics, or mushrooms in Christian art, or the class of mushroom trees which Irvin attempts to credit to him because of the lone case, our Fly-Agaric fresco we are possessed and obsessed by (as Panofsky points out).

Search Cyberdisciple site for “Allegro”:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=allegro

Panofsky rightly bets that no one gives a damn to assert that the hundreds (thousands) of mushroom trees mean mushrooms. He was right, until Samorini finally woke up in 1997/1998 and actually gave a sh*t to follow Panofsky’s 1952 lead/announcement that there are HUNDREDS OF MUSHROOM TREES which ought to have caused an outbreak of celebration by all mycologists, because of multiplying our Fly-Agaric fresco by a thousandfold.

But, as Panofsky expected, no one gave a sh*t about the hundreds of mushroom trees — until FINALLY, Samorini in 1997 showed some sign of intelligence and life and reacted to Panofsky’s 1952 lead/announcement, 45 years late.

Why the hell did it take entheogen scholars 45 years to follow Panofsky’s lead about hundreds of mushroom trees? Because they are posers, Anthropologists in drag pretending to study psychedelic chemicals and their effects.

Panofsky’s mushroom trees fail to be our Fly-Agaric fresco, so we DGAF about them.

Gordon Wasson

“The book of Revelation is written like by one bemushroomed” (see quote in my Plaincourault article at Egodeath.com): http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

The exact quote of Wasson:

“I would not be understood as contending that only these substances [indole family] (wherever found in nature) bring about visions and ecstasies.

“Clearly some poets and prophets and many mystics and ascetics seem to have enjoyed ecstatic visions that answer the requirements of the ancient mysteries and that duplicate the mushroom agapé [but see Irvin’s 2022 expose book, God’s Flesh] of Mexico.

“I do not suggest that St. John of Patmos ate the mushrooms in order to write the Book of the Revelations.

“Yet the succession of images in his vision, so clearly seen and yet such a phantasmagoria, means for me that he was in the same state as one bemushroomed.

[Wasson fails to discuss access granted to Tree of Life in Rev22 “Eden Restored” at end of Bible.]

“Nor do I suggest for a moment that William Blake knew the mushroom when he wrote his telling account of the clarity of “vision”.”

Ruck Committee of Nameless, Unidentified Faceless Authors Hiding Behind the Committee

  • Carl Ruck/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
  • Clark Heinrich/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
  • Blaise Staples/ Ruck committee – I can’t tell who wrote what, hiding in the Ruck committee.
  • Evil M. Hoffman — same. He told me he contributed to the “Jason the Drug Man” chapter.
  • Entheos journal — problematic writing and counterproductive theory-construction, written by no one in particular.

Letcher Hatsis Argues the “Secret Heretical Sect” Premise is Made-Up Bullshiite, Therefore No Christian Ever Ingested the Mushroom

  • Andy Letcher called to get rid of “the mushroom” from Christian psychedelics history because of the Secret part of the paradigm.
  • Thomas Hatsis called to get rid of “the mushroom” from Christian psychedelics history because of the Secret part of the paradigm.

Paul Stamets Helping Prop Up Psilocybin Blindness

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna: “Do not look for psilocybin in Christianity, because we cannot allow normal, real, mainstream Christianity to have psilocybin; we must prohibit Christianity from having psilocybin.”

John Lash wrote the same reasoning. “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are Bad (“salvationist”), and so CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE PSILOCYBIN, which is Good.”

John Lash

John Lash wrote the same reasoning as McKenna: “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are Bad (“salvationist”), and so CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE PSILOCYBIN, which is Good.”

Carl Ruck

Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck — The word ‘psychedelics’ has too much baggage, so here’s our word ‘entheogens’ which has no baggage (except the little detail that the word ‘entheogens’:

  • Has Perpetual Prohibition built into it.
  • Treats psychedelics in a physical, non-psychedelic, non-experiential way, and
  • Heavily uses proxy argumentation (producing Bad Theorizing).
  • Promotes Primitivism: “The changing shape of Amanita caused awe and dread in simple-minded folk.”
  • Comes from the circa 1900 Anthropology Theory dept. of Whig History (underestimating previous people to prop up Wonderful, Evolved Us), and is essentially bad Sociology theory.

John Rush

John Rush John Rush’s No-Mushrooms Narrative vs. His Evidence Base

Jan Irvin & Carl Ruck Forcing Psilocybin to Support Our Amanita Paradigm

2008 Book The Holy Mushroom Tries to Force Blue Cap to Be Red Hue, and Irvin 2009 SMC Doesn’t Correct Ruck’s Assertion that It’s Red

From The Holy Mushroom, Irvin 2008
“Salamander-MS-Bodl-602-fol-027v-zoom-capture.png” 7.4 MB (insanely high-res) [7:33 p.m. February 17, 2023] https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ca3ce84c-c589-4340-afa6-0733ecce5acf/

AHAHAHA Hatsis Did Totally Bust Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck for Taunting Based on WRONG Guess that Salamander Cap Is Red and White 🤡🍄
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/ahahaha-hatsis-did-totally-bust-carl-amanita-promoter-ruck-for-taunting-based-on-wrong-guess-that-salamander-cap-is-red-and-white-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%8d%84/

Samorini wrote: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-20

“Thus, we have discovered a precise typological differentiation among mushroom-trees in Christian art which corresponds with the variation in naturally occurring psychoactive mushrooms (cf. Fig. 20).”

Jan Irvin

Jan Irvin 2008 called for deleting the Secret part from the paradigm. Irvin should have written, to be consistent then, “the Eucharist is none other than the holy mushroom, Amanita muscaria”, but that’s Irvin’s narrative impressionistic implied position.

Irvin 2008 permits Judith Brown to open his book, Foreward, sentence 1: “Christians should accept hallucinogenic drugs”. She flip-flops spastically between primitivism and Transcendent Knowledge.

Judith Brown opens the book by totally establishing as firmly as possible “the Holy mushroom, Amanita”, completely disrespecting and shutting out Psilocybin. Irvin permits her to do this, just like Irvin permits Ruck to write in 2009 apx of SMC, Dancing man cap is red (it’s actually blue).

Irvin 2008 explicitly states at least 3 times, “I’m not going to bother showing the Psilocybin passages that Allegro cited written by Heim & Wasson and by Hofmann, they are Psilocybin species and therefore NOT IMPORTANT TO OUR STUDY/ OUR DISCUSSION.”

Then Irvin turns around on p. 107 and contradicts himself, writing now, “The main mushroom types IN DISCUSSION are Amanita first, and then by the way insofar as we can mangle Dancing Man [forcing its blue cap to be red], these lesser-looking [Hatsis’ telling phrase], Psilocybin mushrooms in my gallery of art images (after we first place our Amanita specimen photos and our Fly-Agaric fresco).”

Jan Irvin 2022 — denies that in the Americas, Psilocybin is used religiously and is called God’s Flesh and is used as the Eucharist.

Jan Irvin half broke out of Amanita Madness, after conversing with me in 2006, in his 2008 book The Holy Mushroom (massively problematic title!) that tries, in vain, to add corrective epicycles to save Allegro’s Perpetual Amanita Suppression paradigm: Irvin attempts to delete the “suppression fringe heretical” presupposition while retaining full-on Amanita Primacy fallacy, treating disrespectfully Psilocybin merely to prop up Amanita.

The actual relationship is reverse: Amanita is nothing but a minor psychoactive mushroom that has always been used as a symbol of Psilocybin.

Amanita should be used as nothing but a subservient prop to give all credit to Psilocybin.

Religious mythology is depiction by analogy of the Psilocybin effect, which is: transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism regarding the model of control-in-world, driven by re-stabilizing control in the Psilocybin-induced loose cognitive state.

— Cybermonk, April 23, 2023

Posting: Tear Down the Prohibition Wall Built by the Entheogen Scholars

I posted at https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/against-the-assumption-of-suppression-of-psychedelics-in-pre-modernity-outlining-research-questions/?unapproved=2618&moderation-hash=f853c4c28bb1922387f3b27d351a304c#comment-2618 on April 23, 2023:

John Lash and Terence McKenna and John Allegro attacked Christianity, declaring war on mainstream religion, and strove to construct a barrier wall between mushrooms and real Christianity.

Their attacks on the mainstream, claiming that the mainstream is required to prohibit “the mushroom”, demands an effective, strong, vigorous repudiation of their shared paradigm.

John Lash literally writes that we cannot allow the mainstream religions to have psilocybin.

This is all part of scholarly work, explaining what happened and how to get out of the self-defeating dead end.

It is time to tear down the wall that the entheogen scholars worked hard to construct to separate “the mushroom” from the mainstream.

An overly charitable accounting is guaranteed to be ineffective.

This necessary, vigorous scholarship correction works hand-in-hand with repeal of psilocybin prohibition that’s occurring in psychedelic therapy.

/ end of posting

Why We Must NOT “Protect” Amanita, but Must Now Destroy and Attack Amanita with Extreme Prejudice and Full Firepower: Amanita Is the Enemy and the Weakness Point of Attack and Victory

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell, Start of Amanita chapter in Pharmacognosis

Amanita can jump off a cliff, and the Entheogen Prohibition-Apologetics Scholars along with it.

It’s not bad that we’re attacking Amanita.

Rather, the good news is, we have found the line of attack: AMANITA IS THE WEAK POINT, THEREFORE AIM ALL ATTACK AT AMANITA, TO REACH SUCCESS AND VICTORY.

Protecting Amanita is extremely a non-goal, to put it mildly.

Amanita ALREADY HAS everyone and their brother protecting it, while attacking and disrespecting the real deal, which is psilocybin.

Why is anyone worried and concerned about being mean to the big bully, Amanita?

🍄☺️ 🚨⛓

Amanita Is the Smiling Face of Perpetual Prohibition of Psilocybin 🍄☺️ 🚨⛓

Amanita is the problem (re: the way Amanita has been utilized as a deadly harmful ideology since 1967 to excuse perpetual Prohibition of psilocybin, through weird, confused & confusing, improper proxy argumentation).

I must re-upload my chastising lecture from a year ago, my speech, Abandon the Wh*re Amanita and Commit Fully and Exclusively to Wife Psilocybin.

We’ve had 2023-1967 = 56 years of having Amanita shoved down our throats by fanatical, fantasy-based tale-spinners of “heretical fringe sects” (according to Ruck’s storytelling), packaged together with a sorry tale of “perpetual Prohibition is just the way it’s got to be.”

“Isn’t it terrible that Prohibition is inherent and permanent? 😢” <– the evil song of the “entheogen” scholars (bunk, Prohibition-compliant garbage Anthropology in drag, dressed up as psychedelics research)

And now we’re supposed to treat Amanita with kid gloves and protect it?

Amanita doesn’t need any help from anyone, it’s been promoted to death like crazy by everyone!

AMANITA IS NOT EVEN PROHIBITED, FFS!

Why is anybody handwringing about poor oppressed heretical deviant amanita fertility cult sects?

Amanita isn’t prohibited! Psilocybin IS prohibited.

And NO, just because there are noises toward Decrim of Psilocybin by Big Pharma Psychedelic Industrial complex (DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH), doesn’t change the fact:

Amanita is not Prohibited. Psilocybin IS Prohibited.

Psilocybin Prohibition is not going to repeal itself.

We must ACTIVELY attack Amanita with full firepower to turn the mere Decrim noises into actuality of FULL REPEAL OF PSILOCYBIN PROHIBITION.

Lame and hated-by-everyone “psychedelic therapy” is light years away from full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition.

Status Quo since 1967 to present (2023; 56 years), the exact period of pushing Amanita Madness along with apologetics for Prohibition, as a package deal from Hell.

Not a Coincidence: The Amanita Paradigm of Entheogen Scholarship Started at EXACTLY the Same Time as Psilocybin Prohibition

Amanita Counterculture Paradigm = Apologetics for Psilocybin Prohibition

See Also

Recent posts relevant:

Page title:
2002 Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion (2023: the “Psilocybin Mainstream” Paradigm Overthrew the “Amanita Counterculture” Paradigm)
Section heading:
2023 Declaration of Victory in the Overthrow of the Amanita Counterculture Paradigm by the Psilocybin Mainstream Paradigm
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/#Declaration-of-Victory — Victory declared at 8:11 p.m. April 18, 2023; Completion; Closure and Effectuation, with the Branching-Message Mushroom Trees Article. Realized and announced at 1:15:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246c.

How the Amanita Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Discredited and Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm

Contents:

  • Intro
  • Comment on Cyberdisciple’s Post “Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity”
  • Comment 2: Never Trust an “Entheogen” Scholar
  • Reply to Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment
  • Faults, Limitations, Harms, Irrelevancies, and Failures of the Amanita Paradigm
  • See Also

Intro

Why did anyone ever see any good in Wasson’s Amanita theory or in Allegro’s Amanita theory? Why did Ruck lap that sh*t up? Why does John Rush push Amanita mania? “The mushroom” (eye roll)

Why does Irvin’s Allegro’s SMC book sell like hotcakes even though Irvin somehow flipped away from that confusion into his new confusion? He converted from like:
Eucharist = Amanita (2008 book The Holy Mushroom)
to:
Eucharist = not Psilocybin (2022 book God’s Flesh)

Comment on Cyberdisciple’s Post “Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-Modernity”

Posted by Cybermonk April 21, 2023 at:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/against-the-assumption-of-suppression-of-psychedelics-in-pre-modernity-outlining-research-questions/

This post by Cyberdisciple, Against the Assumption of Suppression of Psychedelics in Pre-modernity, is extremely effective theorizing, fully broad, and covers all the variant scenarios by using the umbrella, flexible key words ‘mainstream’ and ‘counterculture’.

I have recently concluded and analyzed that if you as a theorist affirm the idea of “counterculture” associated with full exclusive ownership of psychedelics, then you inherently, automatically are going to the Supreme Court & Church, and commanding them:

You *must* prohibit psychedelics, and furthermore, from a Jewish or Christian theology basis, from a literalist and ordinary-state and eagerly committed, exoteric-based misreading, you (mainstream religion and culture) are theologically commanded by God, according to me (typical “entheogen [Prohibition] scholar”) that God *requires* and *commands* that you prohibit psychedelics and declare them to be heretical.  

We see this with Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck and Gonzalez declaring and asserting that the mainstream religion inherently and perpetually (per Bad Anthropology, and Bad Sociology, and Bad Theology, and Bad Drug Policy Strategy) *must* declare psychedelic users to belong to a “sect”, and that that is a “heretical sect”.

Carl Ruck _pretends_ that he is not proclaiming dogmatic decrees from his papal chair, by hiding behind the words “so-called” — but the only person that I hear “calling” psychedelics usage to be “heretical”, is Carl Ruck himself!

Carl Ruck’s dogmatic restrictionism paradigm here is called out by Jan Irvin, p. 104 in the book The Holy Mushroom.

Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom is an Amanita Madness-propelled book that only values psilocybin as a lowly, disrespected stage crew to be used to prop up the Fly Agaric star.

Carl Ruck is making a theology (& Anthropology and Sociology) decree, while pretending not to, by adding the words “so-called heretical” & “sects” — but *he* is the one calling them “sects”, and *he* is the one calling them “heretical”.

Enforcing the Prohibition of psychedelics is inherent in bad entheogen scholarship that pushes the idea of exclusively counterculture ownership of psychedelics.  

You literally could not form a more prohibition-friendly, prohibition-supporting, prohibition-compliant, prohibition-amenable, prohibition-cooperating, prohibition-collaborationist, prohibition-enabling, prohibition-complicit, thoroughly prohibition-saturated form of entheogen scholarship, than the Amanita Suppression theory of entheogen scholarship.

This is a form of entheogen scholarship that’s specifically designed to make the prohibitionists applaud and cheer; this is music to their ears.  

This “inherently prohibitionist mainstream” view is thoroughly baked into the very DNA of Entheogen Prohibition-Driven Scholarship. 

This is “entheogen scholarship” as presented to you, as brought to you by Prohibition.  

This is literally entheogen scholarship which is a product shaped by Prohibition and brought to you through Prohibition.  

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is the counter-theory; the Psilocybin Mainstream/ Eucharist theory, which has thoroughly entirely discredited and replaced the bad old version 1, entirely toxic and deathly poisonous, prohibition-driven theory, the Amanita counterculture/ suppression theory.  

Note Nov. 29, 2024: Avoid the problematic word ‘mainstream’, which indirectly reifies the concept of ‘counterculture’.

That pair of words (“mainstream vs. counterculture”) is used by Ruck for the purpose of actively constructing a Prohibition barrier boundary wall that imagines and constructs those fairytale narrative categories.

The word ‘mainstream’ seems ok, except that it inadvertently still implies & reifies the concept of ‘counterculture’, given that “counterculture” is entirely entrenched in the thinking in this field.

We must do away with the entire barrier construction, “mainstream vs. counterculture”.

There is no mainstream. There is no counterculture. There is only the whole set of all self-identified Christians, regardless of affiliation with some closed, bounded, controlled-access group.

Other labels:

  • the Explicit Cubensis paradigm
  • Cubensis-driven entheogen scholarship

Avoid doing History (= defeatist, crybaby, Prohibition-reifying fairytale construction/ telling). Just study evidence and interpret it.

/Note Nov. 29, 2024

The Amanita Prohibition theory of entheogen scholarship/ psychedelics history.

Prohibitionist Entheogen Scholarship; entheogen Prohibition scholarship. 

The exoteric reading of Genesis 2 & 3 makes God a liar when saying to Adam “When you eat the fruit, you will certainly die on that day”, which proves this reading to be incorrect and unbiblical, and proves that we must use an esoteric altered state reading instead.  Nov 29 2024 note: check Ruck p 15 of “Conj Eden”, or probably p 57 of “Daturas Virgin”, about “clues” for the “initiated”.

The Genesis text presents us with the question that what God said must be true: that Adam in fact did die on that day, because God said so.  

So then our work as interpreters is to explain, in what sense was God correct, in what sense did Adam die on that day?  

This is the only possible coherent, successful reading. 

Also we must factor in Revelation 22 at the end of the Bible, which is called “Eden Restored”.

Revelation 22 says that those on the outside are prohibited from psychedelics, but those who are on the inside are granted access to psychedelics.

Note Nov 29 2024: {those outside the gates of the City of God} = control instability in peak loosecog state. Rev 20-21. {lake of fire, purgatory, flames, blades} = corrective control angst that drives mental model transformation from possibilism- to eternalism-thinking.

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Cyberdisciple and Brown are naïve and Pollyanna and living in an unreal “reasonable, fair, rational, neutral, level playing field” world that doesn’t exist, when you think that you can employ the word ‘mushrooms’ without specifying *psilocybin*, because like it or not, yes you are free to use the word ‘mushrooms’, but like it or not, the fact is, people like Thomas Hatsis have confirmed to me personally, that they consider the word ‘mushrooms’ in this context to be an exact synonym exclusively for the word ‘Amanita’.

So whether you are aware of it or not, when you use the word ‘mushrooms’, you are in practice, effectively you are writing the word ‘Amanita’.

You might as well be so naïve in writing the word ‘mushrooms’, you might as well just go ahead and write the word “the holy mushroom” or write the word “the mushroom”, because either way, the stupid audience is going to read you as specifically asserting “Amanita” when you write the word ‘mushrooms’.

 So if you want to guarantee miscommunication and you want to guarantee that people will definitely misread your words, go ahead and employ the word ‘mushrooms’ without qualification (saying *psilocybin* mushrooms).

You have no idea how thoroughly hypnotized with full-on Amanita Madness to the nth degree this field of Entheogen Prohibition Scholarship is.  

Amanita “primacy” fallacy is a huge understatement; this is full-on *exclusive* reign of the false tyrant exclusively occupying the throne with no legitimacy at all.  

Amanita = Prohibition-supporting. 

Amanita Theory is the official house brand of entheogen scholarship that’s fully approved by the prohibitionists and is a product of prohibition to support Prohibition of Psilocybin in perpetuity.  

To disavow and repudiate and distance oneself from Amanita theory is to disavow and repudiate and distance oneself from Prohibition of Psilocybin.

 The only possible way to write the word ‘mushrooms’ in the way that you mean it and prevent it from being misread as the word ‘Amanita’ is that you absolutely must specify “psilocybin mushrooms” and possibly also specify amanita.  

— Cybermonk, April 21, 2023

Cyberdisciple posted a couple replies. Then I posted comment 2.

Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment

A reply from Cyberdisciple:

“You were right on when you formulated the maximal “entheogen” theory in reaction to Ruck and committee’s Apples of Apollo secret amanita.

___

“I put scare quotes on “entheogen” because we should now be skeptical of using a strange neologism that brings a whole raft of covert assumptions (you have pointed this out).

___

“I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream and adapted my thinking.

“The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Greek and Latin writing and Hellenic/ Mediterranean/ Christian/ Medieval/ Renaissance/ Western art and culture.

“(My brain breaks down at trying to use the right word. S.O.S. 🤖⚡️🙏 )”

– Cyberdisciple

Reply to Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment

Cyberdisciple wrote: “You were right on when you formulated the maximal entheogen theory, in reaction to Ruck and committee’s Apples of Apollo secret amanita. I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream, and adapted my thinking. The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Western art and culture.”

Thanks for confirming via your recollection. Not sure how clearly I realized in 2002 that:

Moderate entheogen theory = Amanita.

Maximal entheogen theory = Psilocybin.

The Amanita Primacy paradigm does two bad things that must be stopped one way or another:

Suppresses & eliminates Psilocybin mushrooms, and reduces them into a mere minor supporting role for False King Amanita.

Condones and perpetuates Prohibition of Psilocybin.

I put Amanita in a mere supporting role toward glorification of True King Psilocybin.

During this corrective phase, a vigorous and effective Red-to-Blue shift is needed, to counter and dislodge the entrenched Blue-to-Red shift, to eventually produce a Blue/Red balance, which is to say a BLUE/red or blue<–red balance, where the deliriant Amanita is read per the commonly understood headshop art language as a symbol of Cubensis.

Amanita is acknowledged by Bible authors in Eze 2 & Rev 10: per Dale Pendell, Amanita is a suitable symbol for use in myth and wonderland fairytales, the lower level of esotericism; exoteric esotericism.

Eating the little scroll promises in Rev 22:2 (“Eden Restored”) no fewer than thirteen entheogens; we can start with Cubensis, which Eadwine indicates as special and ideal via its YI form in “Creation of Plants”, whereas Amanita is glorified in merely IY form, the reverse of the standard “good” or “ideal” form.

More commentary at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/how-the-amanita-paradigm-was-a-failure-and-was-discredited-and-replaced-by-the-psilocybin-paradigm/#right-on-reply

Draft Reply to Cyberdisciple “right on” Comment

Nov 29 2024 composing a possible reply for Cyberdisciple page: [actual reply: see above]

Cyberdisciple wrote:

“You were right on when you formulated the maximal entheogen theory, in reaction to Ruck and committee’s _Apples of Apollo_ secret amanita.

“I recognized early on the distinctiveness of your claim that psilocybin was mainstream, and adapted my thinking.

“The claim that psilocybin was mainstream is one of the pillars of my work on Western art and culture.”

Thanks for confirming that I specified Psilocybin against Amanita when I rejected the Moderate and defined the Maximal entheogen theory of religion.

I haven’t researched the archives to confirm this, but:

By the time I had a mental idea of the field of entheogen scholarship around 2000, Psilocybin was established as my point of reference, with Amanita a newcomer that didn’t produce mythic experiencing, even though Amanita imagery is vivid in myth and fairytales.

Per Pendell, Amanita is the supreme symbol for entheogens such as Psilocybin, as is the language symbolic in headshop culture: everyone simply just knows that {spotted mushroom} means Cubensis (or blotter); no one thinks for a moment that Amanita imagery in headshop art means ingesting Amanita, which is a deliriant, not a psychedelic, “sour in stomach” (Eze 2 /Rev 10).

I need to double-check that in the Max Freakout Archive of the Egodeath Yahoo Group:

When I started entheogen scholarship in 1999, I already held Psilocybin as the model and main plant to look for, as physical form & effects.

Given Cyberdisciple’s summary & recollection, and given my exasperation against the totally biased mid-1990s question “Can Psilocybin simulate the real, authoritative thing, non-drug meditation?”:

I entered the field of entheogen scholarship already holding – like John Lash – a strong preference for Psilocybin over Amanita.

Secret Amanita entheogen scholars subsume Psilocybin so as to serve the needs of King Amanita.

Since 1999 when I first heard of Amanita, via Heinrich’s book Strange Fruit, I only integrated Amanita so as to serve the glory of King Psilocybin.

A recent question is, in 2002/2003 when I defined the maximal entheogen theory of religion:

Did I recognize the correlation between Secret Amanita & the Moderate (aka Minimal) entheogen theory of religion?

Did I recognize the correlation between Explicit Psilocybin & the maximal entheogen theory of religion?

Did I realize that (Secret) Amanita vs. (Explicit) Psilocybin is practically definitive of the Moderate (aka Minimal) vs. Maximal entheogen theory of religion?

What I mean by “from the start”, around 2002:

My autobiography of reading at that time:

1986: “What blotter-like scroll is Rev 10?” I didn’t know Ezekiel has the same scroll-eating.

In mid-1990s, I despised the brain-dead presupposition-drenched wording of meditation debate per Tricycle magazine special issue & its offshoot Zig Zag Zen book, “can Psilocybin imitate Meditation (which is authoritative)?” Same with the _Gnosis_ special issue on Psychedelics. As I recall, I was not aware of Amanita mushrooms; I only knew Psilocybin mushrooms.

1997 – Posted outline of my core theory (psychedelic eternalism with dependent control).

1998: Tried to use Bible, Mr. Jesus, and Mr. Paul to confirm my core theory.

1999: Completed my collection of Gnosis journal issues (the journal ran 1985-1999).

Heinrich: Strange Fruit – 1995, read ~1999.

The Jesus Mysteries – Freke & Gandy – read, & met w/ authors ~1999. The Genre-question paradigm shift; religious founder figures are ahistorical. So, a change of strategy: Corroborate my Core theory by showing that religious myth describes the same mental model transformation as my Core theory.

My reason, objective, & motivation for dropping into the field of entheogen scholarship: Show that myth is successfully interpreted & recognized as analogies describing psychedelic eternalism with dependent control. See Psilocybin everywhere.

Contrast Ruck’s reason for driving the field of entheogen scholarship: comply with Prohibition, identify with suppressed heretics, fairytale ritual retelling: See restricted Secret Amanita hidden so that almost no one knew about it:

“The Big Bad Church Triumphant is eternally Prohibitionist, but we heretical alien sects/ cults/ groups/ communities/ secret societies infiltrated even the very heart of Christianity, an alien infiltration, brazenly displaying our Secret Amanita in our places of worship, repeatedly reintroducing The Sacred Mushroom [picture kiddie Amanita].” – Carl Ruck, “Conjuring Eden”, Entheos 1, 2001, p. 14; “Daturas for the Virgin”, Entheos 2, 2001, p. 56.

James Arthur – Mushrooms and Mankind – 2000.  Read & conversed with author.

Around 1999, I first heard of Allegro, eg Heinrich in _Strange Fruit_ wrongly says Allegro says that Jesus led a mushroom cult.

Entheos issue 1 w/ Conjuring Eden – Ruck/Staples & Heinrich – 2001.

Entheos issue 2 w/ “Daturas for the Virgin” – Ruck/Staples & __ & Heinrich – 2001.

Apples of Apollo book: Ruck/ Staples/ Heinrich/ Hoffman 2001.

Entheos issue 3 w/ reversed & Blue-to-Red shifted tauroctony, no mention of the psilocybin mushroom in leg/hem – 2002.

In Ruck’s Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis book, 2006, I’m quoted as writing that ‘wine’ in antiquity means an infusion of “visionary dissociative psychoactive plants”.

I misremembered the pull quote, which doesn’t quote me writing that “mushroom” wine = mixed wine, as if I meant Psilocybin mushrooms but Ruck misread that as Amanita.

I did not ambiguously and problematically write that ‘wine’ means, vaguely, “mushrooms”.

Ruck would have read that as Amanita, but I would have meant that as Psilocybin mushrooms.

Ruck’s pull quote of what I wrote is broader than ‘mushroom’. On p.93 I’m quoted as writing “visionary dissociative psychoactive plants”:

“It is hard to grasp the immensity of the ramifications of considering ‘wine‘ in antiquity as an ‘infusion of visionary dissociative psychoactive plants,’ the wholesale changes required to the conventional scholarly view of the nature of Hellenistic-Roman religion and culture. Even the best books, especially the “best”, most authoritative books, serve to spread and deepen the misreading of Hellenistic-Roman religion and culture as ‘lacking mystic religious experiencing.” – Michael Hoffman, p. 93

Amanita imagery is ok, but two things are unacceptable and must end:

Unacceptable thing 1: The Amanita Primacy paradigm suppresses & eliminates Psilocybin mushrooms and reduces them into a mere minor supporting role for False King Amanita.

Unacceptable thing 2: The Amanita Primacy paradigm condones and perpetuates Prohibition of Psilocybin.

At best, Amanita entheogen scholarship does nothing to work toward Repeal of Prohibition.

At worst, Amanita collaborates with Prohibition; reifies and excuses permanent Prohibition; and eternally separates Psilocybin from everyone by laboring to construct and bolster a fake barrier boundary wall, “mainstream vs. counterculture”.

Psilocybin mushrooms were neither “mainstream” nor “counterculture”.

Some Christians used Psilocybin mushrooms, and the best artists depicted peak transformative religious experiencing via the ingenious development of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

I am firmly against any project of fairtale scenario construction, trying to explain where there’s a barrier boundary wall within Christianity separating it into Mainstream (= anti psychedelics) vs. Counterculture (= pro psychedelics).

Do not do that project. We DO NOT need a conjectured scenario to try to explain how presence of mushrooms = absence of mushrooms.

Stop doing that project, as if that labor produces a required explanatory helpful hypothesis – it just confuses the scholar, the reader, and the Courts.

“Mainstream/traditional” and “Counterculture/heretical” Christianity don’t exist – these are just loaded, value-laden, rhetoric storytelling words, as critically discussed in McCarthy & Priest’s “Reply to Replies”, Sep. 2024, Journal of Psychedelic Studies​.

Christianity has no “mainstream” or “counterculture” Psilocybin tradition.

Such “mainstream vs. counterculture” spin is ritual fake fairytale storytelling, nothing but a scholars’ fabricated narrative to define the scholar’s own self-identity, per Hanegraaff’s book _Esotericism and the Academy_.

Does mainstream Christianity have a Psilocybin tradition?

Christianity has a Psilocybin tradition.

I reject the Allegro/ Ruck Secret Amanita premise that Christianity is divided into “mainstream Christianity” vs. “counterculture Christianity” or “heretical Christianity”.

I reject the construct “mainstream Christianity”: it raises more questions than it presumably solves. Introducing that confusion into entheogen scholarship only hinders entheogen scholarship.

/end of Nov 29 2024 draft of possible Comment at Cyberdisciple site

Comment 2: Never Trust an “Entheogen” Scholar

Never Trust an “Entheogen” Scholar

Editor for the Ruck committee and secret contributor to Apples of Apollo, Evil M. Hoffman, incorrectly writes “1976” for the year Wasson & Ruck coined ‘entheogen’, 1979.

Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions

https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman

For a laugh, compare the length of the opening, grand Amanita section 📚 vs. the closing “Psilocybin and this ‘n that” section 🔬🔍🧐 that suggests someone oughta think of looking into Psilocybin ‘n stuff in mystery religions (like maybe some “entheogen” scholarship editor).

Oddly, proving that garbled thinking and conflation is caused by ‘mushrooms’, note that M. Hoffman uses the term “psychoactive mushrooms” in that diminutive passage, even though he has an entire gigantic section opening the article, about Amanita:

25.4.3 Psilocybin and Psilocin (Mushrooms) and DMT, 5Meo DMT: Spirit Molecules — 

“These closely related entheogenic compounds should be mentioned in a discussion of the Mystery Religions. 

“While evidence for their use in this context has not been fully**[pffft!] explored, it is extremely unlikely that the chemical properties of psychoactive mushrooms* and the natural sources of DMT would have been overlooked by ancient herbalists and alchemists.”

*uh yeah Hoffman, eg see your giant Amanita section 5 pages above, explaining that the holy mushroom, the Fly-Agaric, is the sacred-meal engine of mystery religions.  

I consulted an Americas field researcher specialist PhD candidate the other day and told her of the situation in this field of failure.

I told her that the reigning theory is that Amanita was used for routine mass-scale initiations, and she couldn’t believe that’s the theory; she said that would be a terrible choice, and wouldn’t work, because of logistics; an incomparably superior choice would be psilocybin.

Eadwine’s Great Canterbury Psalter images f134 & f145 show gathering, securely storing, training for, and distributing specifically cubensis – with only ~3 out of the psalter’s 75 mushroom trees using Amanita imagery.  

Eadwine demonstrates awareness of Amanita, in God Creates Plants (image f11 row 1 right), 

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

and then proceeds to demonstrate total lack of interest in Amanita, showcasing cubensis instead, and showing liberty-cap caps and sages sitting up alert on couches as if wood lovers’ paralysis (image f32):

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f32.item.zoom

Eadwine is instructing kings, and he is not going to give kings the Carl Ruck committee’s terrible, awful advice, recommending Amanita, when cubensis is incomparably more desirable, relevant, efficacious, producing the targeted effect, and available than the fools’ mushroom, Amanita muscaria.

The one and only thing that researchers know about Amanita’s effects is that Amanita is NOT a classic psychedelic — so why are we paying 🍄 ANY attention to Amanita, other than inverting the entheogen scholars’ respect/disrespect relation and turning the tables and instead making Amanita subservient to psilocybin, as a mere symbol for psilocybin, per Dale Pendell in Pharmacognosis: 

“Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. 

“It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

This is the proxy effect: no one has any interest in Amanita as chemical or altered-state experience, but everyone has Amanita Madness frenzy treating Amanita as a proxy paradigm worldview raft of desire and confused projection.  

You analyzed this.

Letcher Hatsis the psychedelic historian correctly noticed this malformation of the field of “entheogen scholarship”.  

Dale Pendell opens his Amanita section pointing out that Amanita the myth and proxy is all-dominant, with zero involvement of Amanita the chemical effect.  

M. Hoffman manages to contradict himself in his usage of the term ‘mushrooms’ within his own article.

**Using ‘mushrooms’ causes garbled writing: “Not been fully explored”: ie, my Ruck committee has totally failed to give the topic *any* attention at all, in our obsessed, singleminded zeal chasing after the colors red and white, while, blinded by the false, dead-end light of “the holy mushroom, Amanita muscaria”, failing to see or mention the psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg in the (reversed) tauroctony on the cover of Entheos journal.

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Wasson, Ruck, Ott, Bigwood, Staples, 1979, J. of Psychedelic Drugs: 

“The word ‘psychedelics’ has too much baggage.  

So we are providing a new word, ‘entheogens’, which has no baggage attached.”

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Thanks, I scrubbed ‘entheogens’ , a known-harmful, alien, counter-theory, trojan-horse lexicon term participating in and carrying-in a thoroughly bad assumption-network, from my article

Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching, Mushrooms, Handedness, and Stability.

In medieval art, the {branching} motif is definitely distinct from the {mushroom} motif, and is often employed without mushroom cap imagery.  

I do not use an approach of neuroscience, history, anthropology, sociology, physicalism, mysticism, or cultural theory; my approach is:

Core theory:

1)experiential cognitive phenomenology, mental model transformation about control-in-world, mental construct processing; loose cognitive association binding; mental model transformation, driven by control instability and re-stabilization;

 and 

Mytheme theory: (I sometimes previously used the descriptors “entheogens” & “history”, but decoding/ mapping mythemes is really my mode of theorizing here) —

2) interpreting high rock lyrics (1991), and then religious mythology (2002), and then medieval art motifs (2020), as depiction (through analogy) of mental model transformation, driven by control instability and re-stabilization, indicated by {flames}, {scale balance}, {stable column base}, {stable, balanced tower}, {arches}, and {doorways of buildings} (which include the {gate-passage} theme).  

Some {building doorways} have an {open scroll} reaching up to the top border.

Golden Psalter wonderfully wrecks the construct of “mushroom” trees, by mixing mushroom caps and leaf-crowns in each tree/plant.

Eadwine accomplishes the same differentiation of the {branching} and {mushroom} motifs by pairing mushroom trees with leaf-crown trees. 

Break the theorists’ addiction to ‘entheogens’ — _as if_ the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & branching-message mushroom trees is *inexpressible* prior to 1979.

Arguably, the word ‘psychedelics’ actually has _less_ baggage than the word ‘entheogens’.

I need to review Christopher Partridge’s critique of the word ‘entheogens’.

Like Brown, Great Canterbury Psalter has general “mushroom imagery”, not only mushroom trees.  

Unfortunately “the” mushroom tree ultimate paradigm master instance, all-sufficient & all-purpose, is the Fly-Agaric fresco.  

The Fly-Agaric fresco is the God of all mushroom trees, used by Samorini 1998 to build out an entire (Figure 20) classification scheme that’s able to handle an entire 4-1/2 instances — _if_ you, like Irvin & Ruck, *repaint* the blue cap red of Bodleian’s Salamander image to *force* it to look like the master reference paradigmatic instance, our Fly-Agaric fresco ❤️🍄🌳😍

How is a theorist, scholar, or historian supposed to shake off this much badness, that’s woven all throughout the terminology that we rely on?  

The shared meaning-network is all corrupted. 

Eadwine’s Great Canterbury Psalter images, eg f134, f145, & f177, have mushroom imagery that’s not trees.

f134: mushroom dispensary display case, bucket pouring golden teacher.  

f145: plate of blue circles, pouring blue (or f177: brown) circles into lockboxes.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item.zoom#

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f145.item.zoom#

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f177.item.zoom#

Thank you for the hi-res f134 url Nov. 2020.  The library later brightened their color balance, possibly as a result of my galleries.  

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Argument against both words:

Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality and Social Control

Irvin conflates social misuse of a chemical with the inherent cognitive action of the chemical (“suggestogens”).  

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Christopher Partridge coined ‘occulture’, and is the editor of the book Contemporary Esotericism, including Hanegraaff’s 2012 “Entheogenic Esotericism” keynote essay 8 years after my 2004 posting against him, titled that.

Partridge argues against the word ‘entheogens’ and uses the word ‘psychedelics’.  

He conflates esotericism with counterculture, and reduces esotericism to the merely countercultural: “What makes something esotericism is that it’s countercultural.  

What makes psychedelics esotericism is that they are countercultural.”

Partridge says that what makes something esoteric is the fact that it is counterculture.  

So be on your guard and defense up: watch out for Partridge’s use of the word ‘counterculture’; there’s an entire paradigm attached to his use of that word, an arbitrary, reductionistic agenda/ raft of embedded views; a “counterculture” presupposition matrix.

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I casually say just the key words “Hellenistic and Christendom broadly” to cover all the eras and regions that you listed.

— Cybermonk, April 22, 2023

Out of Scope, but Same Deal: Eleusis = Plaincourault; Ergot = Amanita; Ruck = Allegro; Kykeon = Fly Agaric Fresco, the Great Secret is the Mushroom Object Itself

Ergot is exactly parallel: the grotesque proxy extreme overuse of Eleusis to hide and delete all mystery religions and mixed-wine banqueting symposium sacred meals, “throw all that in the trashcan and OBSESS exclusively on Eleusis instead.”

Page title not used, with “ergot”:

Summarizing How the Amanita/Ergot Paradigm Was a Failure and Was Replaced by the Psilocybin Paradigm

Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck – specifically, Secret Amanita 🤫🍄 😲

🤫🍄 😲

“Gee, Whiz! Look at the Changing Shapes! Awesome!”

As high of consciousness as you can get from looking at shapes of kiddie Amanita:

Treats the Fly Agaric Fresco as Its Central Fetish Talisman Proxy Object, as if a Paradigm

Site map: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Plaincourault-Fresco

7:23 PM April 28, 2022 a little question 4 u – what leg is Eve standing on

Samorini’s Figure 20 builds on the fly agaric fresco, to expand and amplify and multiply the horribly malformed Amanita paradigm. DO NOT DO THIS!!

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-20 — ironically, I praise here in 2020 Samorini’s moving the field forward by trying to make a classification scheme.

omg and I write “the Panofsky letter”! — I hadn’t read Brown 2019 well enough yet Dec. 20, 2020.

It’s two letters, if not more, against Wasson’s psychopathic-level scholarly obstructionism, lying to our faces repeatedly for decades and withholding Panofsky’s two attached mushroom tree art works and Panofsky’s twice, strong recommendation of Brinckmann’s book – a truly HUGE academic violation, drastically discrediting Wasson.

I’m not surprised though, because I quickly gleaned in 2006 when writing the Plaincourault article:

  • My 2006 accusation part 1: No way does Panofsky have citations that amount to anything. There’s no way in hell the art historians wrote articles and books focusing on mushroom trees.
  • My 2006 accusation part 2: Wasson is withholding the embarrassingly thin, near-nonexistent citations that Panofsky certainly must have provided to back up his very strong claim of being thoroughly familiar with [having to explain-away] mushroom trees.
  • Brown 2019 proved my pair of 2006 accusations correct.

Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

Samorini does a copy/paste of the Amanita paradigm in all its raging badness, and multiplies it to incorporate Psilocybin, shaped in exactly the same error-based mis-paradigm.

Psilocybin as mis-seen through the all-distorting & reductionistic lens of Amanita Madness.

Definition of the Amanita Paradigm

Copy 3 of these nice paragraphs (as lists here): copied from https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/the-amanita-paradigm-vs-the-psilocybin-paradigm/
which was copied from volatile section: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Conclusions

Discussed in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b near 25:00 (the entire Ep246 pretty much focuses around this):

The Amanita paradigm =

  • perpetual prohibition.
  • primitivism that’s artificially constructed by academic fabricators of history.
  • a physicalist-limited theorizing (shape of Amanita).
  • ambiguous, obfuscating language (“the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the holy mushroom”).
  • unstated argumentation.
  • poor theorizing.
  • a gallery of fallacious argumentation, this taboo field is kept in status quo generating new novel fallacious arguments made up on-the-spot in droves.
  • I was impressed by the celerity with which Hatsis easily explained away each new piece of evidence, an endless supply of Parasol of Victory fabrications, b/c he’s a wannabe Pro Historian, and that’s their job of Pro Historians: to professionally manufacture history, confabulations. Hatsis counters the Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck confabulation of fake Amanita-based history, by confabulating fallacious and not-even-specious arguments against each piece of mushroom art evidence.
  • proxy associations and narratives;
  • lowering consciousness,
  • immature childish exoteric misreading of religious myth and art motifs.
  • Hero-worship driven:
  • John Lash falsely attributes enlightened views to Gordon Wasson that Wasson didn’t assert.
  • Jan Irvin falsely tries to credit John Allegro with giving a sh*t about the hundreds of mushroom trees. Allegro only cared about our magic fetish talisman, THE mushroom tree; the Fly-Agaric fresco, our foundation of idol theory paradigm religion cultic worldview of us Amanita theorists. “I only have eyes for you, fresco. 🖼🍄❤️”

The Amanita paradigm is the epitome of bad theorizing.
— ~28:45 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b.

The Amanita paradigm is the epitome of bad theorizing.

Cybermonk near 28:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b, April 18, 2023

The Psilocybin paradigm =

  • Explains the changing mental model of control-in-world caused by loosecog from Psilocybin (not merely the changing physical mushroom (🍄) shape)
  • Driven by Strategy to accomplish Full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition (burn the damned fraud-driven “schedules” with fire), and beyond to fully mainstreaming psychedelics.
  • advanced comprehension of history; eg tracing early antiquity’s Psilocybin Eternalism, so strongly as to cause an anti-heimarmene reaction in Late Antiquity, inventing freewill and largely losing adult enlightenment (and corrupting the catalog/base of religious myth, filling it with inversion and confusion, to force a backwards narrative of “mental model transformation from eternalism to possibilism”) – Hanegraaff had to delete all the stars from the sky to prevent rebirth being into heimarmene/ eternalism.
  • Impressive expertise of middle ages artists, not treat our ancestors as raging irrational idiots, as Allegro/ Anthropology does, per Whig History.)
  • a cognitive experiencing domain approach;
  • controlled conceptual vocabulary unambiguous;
  • sound theorizing,
  • explicit argumentation,
  • direct speech and direct thinking/ argumentation (not proxy),
  • elevating consciousness;
  • mature adult esoteric coherent reading of religious myth and art motifs.

Announcement: My Oct. 2002/ March 2003 Revolution Announcement Is Officially Fulfilled April 18, 2023:

… as announced in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b near ~1:07:00, at [time of day] April 18, 2023. (i mention this milestone there, but didn’t state the time there, must be elsewhere in the episode)

My Egodeath Yahoo Group posting URLs are easy to find from Site Map -> topic of an after-the-fact “announcement” page, one of a set of such pages when I realized I never properly announced each component. found! —

Article title:
Announcement: The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion [aka the Psilocybin Mainstream theory]
Section heading:
Postings at EgodeathYahooGroup Site Covering this Entheogen Theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/announcement-the-maximal-entheogen-theory-of-religion/#Postings-at-EgodeathYahooGroup-Site-Covering-this-Entheogen-Theory

“The Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion” Became “the Psilocybin Mainstream/ Eternalism Theory” and Totally Discredited “the Amanita Counterculture/ Possibilism Paradigm” (“the Moderate Entheogen Theory of Religion”) and Wholly Replaced It

The Amanita paradigm is restrictive (as Irvin 2008 criticizes): always sect, hidden, secret, suppressed, heretical, outsider, counter-culture, alien import into Christianity, fringe, fringe mystics, elite, exotic, foreign. These are the central explanatory constructs (that failed and cannot work).

Insists that Social reality is perpetual opposition: mainstream prohibitionists vs. counterculture entheogens (a fabricated narrative that’s designed to be pleasing to the Prohibitionists).

Identical to its other form: Eleusis, kykeon/ ergot hogging up 100% of spotlight focus in ancient greek study/ fantasy/ narrative, “ultra secret, the penalty of revealing secret is death” Ruck gleefully and excitedly reminds us every 5 pages. “The secret that was revealed in the mysteries is the mushroom [picture kiddie Amanita]”

todo: add to episode notes: Ep246b 1:07:00 turned down compressor

Definition of the Psilocybin Paradigm

Its strategy is driven by #1 objective of full repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition.

Explains the change of mental worldmodel of control-in-world. vs. trying to explain myth as depiction of the changes of physical shape of mushroom.

Fails to be Cognitive-Focused: Change of Shape of Kiddie Mushroom, vs. Change of Mental Models

paste: copy: I have TONS of summaries in Conclusion section of the two pages, branching-message mushroom trees article draft & snapshot.

I already copied some to: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/the-amanita-paradigm-vs-the-psilocybin-paradigm/

Asserted Mainstream Must Prohibit Psychedelics

Prohibition-Compliant and Maximally Enabling Prohibition, Music to the Ears of Prohibitionists

No One Cares About Ingesting Amanita, No One Uses It, It’s Irrelevant, 100% Proxy Narrative

I discussed Dale Pendell’s book Pharmacognosis confirming my conclusion that Fly Agaric is nothing more than purely a symbol/ proxy near 8:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b (recorded April 18, 2023). Cyberdisciple wrote excellently about “entheogen scholarship” as Covert Anthropology, and about the Storytelling purpose of entheogen scholarship, telling a story of opposition of mainstream suppression of psychedelics against counterculture psychedelics users/”fringe sects”. Irvin wrote insightfully about pushing Primitivism, and rejecting Ruck’s false assertion of “fringe sects” eg Ruck and Gonzalez’ horrible bluff, writing “so-called” to hide the fact that THEY are the ones who are calling Fly Agaric “sects” so that they themselves can deem them as inherently “heretical”.

Which logically amounts to: Ruck-type bad entheogen scholarship insists that the mainstream culture is INHERENTLY ALWAYS REQUIRED TO PROHIBIT entheogens. “Genesis 3 commands Christianity to prohibit psilocybin.” (This crude, infantile, exoteric mis-reading put forth by the Prohibition-cooperating entheogen scholars makes God a liar when saying “you will certainly die that day”, and ignores Revelation 22, which is titled “Eden Restored” in NIV.)

Search this site for Pendell: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=pendell — found it:

Pharmacognosis book on Amanita (Pendell)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/pharmacognosis-book-on-amanita-pendell/

copied from that page:

Direct hit! Emphatically vindicated!

In the spirituality shop, I again pick up Dale Pendell’s book – the TOC lists Amanita. My reaction: let’s see if page 1 of the entry mentions that Amanita isn’t used.

I then turn to page 1 of his Amanita chapter: Sentence 1 reads:

Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses. It is the supreme symbol of all entheogenic religion: of secret cults and societies of initiates and whispered lost knowledge.”

Dale Pendell

Amanita imagery never means Amanita, but always means Psilocybin.

Overthrow the Amanita Primacy axiom that mis-leads the field of entheogen scholarship, and overthrow the Moderate/Minimal entheogen theory of religion along with it.

Replace that by the Psilocybin Primacy axiom, along with the Radical Maximal entheogen theory of religion.

/ end of copied from Pendell page

Primitivism, Looking Down in the Mud Instead of Up to the Skies: Irrational Primitive Anthropology False Assumption

Insults the F out of our ancestors, Allegro writes “Simple-minded folk were filled with awe and dread by the changing shape of the amanita object shape physical.”

THE ONLY simple-minded, CRUDE, PRIMITIVE, fear-driven, superstitious, irrational THINKER HERE IS THE UNIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT.

Abandon the Amanita Paradigm; Wholly Reject and Replace It Entirely in All Aspects by the Psilocybin Paradigm

Amanita Theory Now Serves as Nothing But a Lesson in Folly Like Earth-Centered Cosmology: A Purely Negative, Restrictive, Extremely Constrained Role within the New, Psilocybin Paradigm

Amanita Theory is the New Phlogiston; Phrenology; & Earth-Centered Cosmology of Folly: “The Holy Mushroom” Was Revealed to Be the Fools’ Mushroom

Discussed near 1:14:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b.

Photo Credit: Cybermonk 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 — the Physical Mushroom Object

Photo Credit: Cybermonk 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010 — the Physical Mushroom Object: you can whack someone with it, like Enlightened Zen Master Brad hitting you with a stick to transmit his enlightened knowledge to you.

Not just a LBM (Little Brown Mushrooms); the “lesser-looking mushrooms” (Hatsis).

Do not Adjust the Amanita Paradigm to Move Forward Building on the Fly Agaric Fresco as if a Foundation for a Paradigm

Discussed near ~40:00 in Ep246b Egodeath Mystery Show

See Also

~40:00 in Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246b https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/egodeath-mystery-show-ep246-%e2%98%b8%ef%b8%8f%e2%9a%96%ef%b8%8f-mainstream-psilocybin-control-restabilization-april-18-2023/

Recent Posts on the Discrediting of the Amanita Paradigm

Egodeath Mystery Show Ep246 ☸️⚖️ Mainstream Psilocybin Control Re-Stabilization (April 18, 2023)

This episode is actually about entheogen scholarship & the Conclusion points in my draft “branching-message mushroom trees”.

Contents:

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  • Content/Timestamps

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Discussed: it seems to break out as:

  • Ep246a — Critique of the Amanita Counter-culture paradigm.
  • Ep246b — Critique of the Amanita Counter-culture paradigm.
  • Ep246c — Conclusion section of branching-message mushroom trees article & of the Snapshot page of it, talking through the points.

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Conclusions

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/snapshot-of-verbose-draft-of-branching-message-mushroom-trees-article/#Conclusions

Content/Timestamps

Episode Ep246a

Non-Viable Word for Theory Construction: “mushrooms”; Viable Word: “psilocybin mushrooms”

‘mushrooms’ is a corrupted, ruined word, used to prop up the Amanita Madness insanity/ ideology / anti-Theory, which maximally supports Prohibition.

Irvin and Hatsis vie for each other in who can more misuse and abuse the word ‘mushrooms’ to confuse the field, confuse themselves, and reify Amanita Madness.

If you want to maximize confusion, write “mushrooms”.

In Fact, It’s the University Academics Who Are the “Simple-Minded Folk Easily Filled with Awe and Dread by the Changing Shapes of the Fly-Agaric, and Made Up Religious Mythology to Describe This”

The Amanita paradigm/ ideology/ worldview/ dogma/ presupposition is the paradigm for self-defeating, loser morons — referring to allegro’s argument / storytelling that “SIMPLE-MINDED FOLK WERE SO IMPRESSED AND FILLED WITH AWE AND DREAD BY THE CHANGING SHAPE OF THE FLY AGARIC” (Allegro’s words, todo: exact quote from THM). The only crude, stupid thinker here is Allegro himself; this Anthropology Whig theory is IDIOTIC. On the part of university academics.

Amanita = self-defeating loser morons.

0:00 – Intro, date. April 18, 2023

~6:00 & ~1:38:00 – Add ‘entheogens’ to the Forbidden Word List. Irvin 2015 rejects all the words (“Entheogens: What’s in a Name?” article)

Corrupt, Compromised “Entheogen Scholarship” Dictates and Decrees that Psychedelics Must Be Prohibited

“Entheogen scholarship” is a trojan horse that decrees inherent, perpetual prohibition of psychedelics by mainstream culture.

The Paradoxical Conflict of Interest Embedded in Anthropology-Department, Storytelling-Driven “Entheogen Scholarship”

19:00 – “entheogen scholarship” is suspect because it’s a package deal; baked into it is the dictum that mainstream culture is REQUIRED to prohibit psychedelics.

~1:42:00 – Guitar short outro.

Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom does many dirty sloppy obfuscating moves, first to ignore psilocybin, then to declare psilocybin irrelevant, and then to try to abuse and force psilocybin to prop up the Amanita paradigm

The focus progressively shifts, covertly, through the course of the book, from “mushrooms = Amanita”, to “mushrooms = Amanita and also Psilocybin insofar as we can force Psilocybin to prop up our Amanita Madness”.

  1. Cover of book: Amanita Madness; “mushrooms” is an exact synonym for Amanita, and there is 1 mushroom: the holy mushroom, Amanita muscaria 🙌 (same blurb rhetoric Bad Theorizing, SLOPPY writing as in the 2nd Edition of Rush’s book: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/john-rushs-no-mushooms-narrative-vs-his-evidence-base/ ).
  2. Judith Brown Foreward: Amanita Madness.
  3. Passages Allegro cited (body of book): Hits the unwanted citations of psilocybin passages, Irvin states “not important to our study/ our discussion” repeatedly.
  4. p 107 intro to gallery: “The main types of mushrooms in discussion are Amanita, Cubensis, & Lib Cap”
  5. Gallery specimen photos starts with Amanita photos (9).
  6. 9 Amanita photos, then only 6 Psilocybin specimen photos.
  7. Places the fly agaric fresco first.
  8. Abuses Dancing Man to ruin it by making it extremely red to try to FORCE the blue cap to be red, specifically in order to make it match (like Samo figure 20) the idol that we worship, the fly agaric fresco. Proof that Irvin deliberately red-shifted Dancing Man image: explains why Irvin didn’t catch Ruck’s HUGE error in Allegro’s book by Gnostic Media Jan Irvin, SMC 2009: Ruck’s “Fungus Redivivus” appendix falsely saying Dancing Man cap is red (it’s blue). Irvin and Ruck both DESPERATELY NEED DANCING MAN TO LOOK LIKE THEIR FLY-AGARIC FRESCO IDOL.
  9. Extremely abuses through dirty rhetoric WRITING EXACTLY IN WASSON’S SCUMMY DECEPTIVE OBSCURANTIST MISLEADING WAY, that “the holy mushroom” was tested by Griffiths, proving a complete mystic experience is given by the holy mushroom (psilocybin, now; switched silently). Therefore psilocybin research proves that Amanita gives a complete mystical experience. <– as always in this disaster of a field, a solid wall of fallacious argumentation. Irvin abuses psilocybin argumentation in order to prop up his Amanita Madness single-plant fallacy.

p. 107 “the main mushroom types IN DISCUSSION are amanita, cubensis, lib cap” – DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS 3+ STATEMENTS earlier in Allegro Citations section, “Psilocybin is not important to our study / to our discussion.”

30:00 – Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom does many dirty sloppy obfuscating moves, to try to force psilocybin to prop up the Amanita paradigm. He corrupts the colors of Dancing Man salam bestiary image to force the blue cap toward red (in vain) and also proving this, is that Irvin in SMC 2009 neglects/refrains from correcting Ruck’s HUGE error in Fungus Redivivus apx in asserting that the cap is red (it’s blue).

Ruck’s error was caught by Hatsis https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/ahahaha-hatsis-did-totally-bust-carl-amanita-promoter-ruck-for-taunting-based-on-wrong-guess-that-salamander-cap-is-red-and-white-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%8d%84/ , but I caught the color deception in Irvin’s gallery in THM 2008, which explains what I was wondering, “How did Irvin allow Ruck’s error?” Answer: they’re in cahoots trying to force Dancing Man to support their idolatry, the Amanita False Religion of Worshipping the Fly Agaric Fresco as God.

Religionism Corrupted entheogen scholarship: the Amanita False Religion of Worshipping the Fly Agaric Fresco as God and Paradigm (rightly criticized by Panofsky)

The Amanita [Counter-culture] Paradigm Insists that Mainstream Culture Must Prohibit Psychedelics

Amanita Is a Trojan Horse for the False Sociological Assertion that the Mainstream Is Required to Prohibit Psychedelics

Ep246a ~6:00

~10:00

Fundamental Sociology principle asserted by the Amanita paradigm: mainstream culture always must prohibit The Mushroom [proxy for Psilocybin & actual psychedelics, even though Amanita isn’t an actual classic psychedelic or entheogenic]

~53:00 – ev 635a mic, buzzy, before compressor, might be a 7-minute segment with buzz. ERRATA. Mono mic. Stereo guitar background.

Episode Ep246b

timestamps tbd

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~40:00 – Do not carry forward the harmful Amanita paradigm. Bundle-up the Amanita paradigm with my articles and Irvin’s horribly mis-titled 2008 book, and then carry the Amanita paradigm wrapped with warnings, THE FAILED 1.0 APPROACH: DO NOT USE. 🚫🍄

46:00 —

Irvin 2008: “Eucharist = Amanita”

Irvin 2022: “Eucharist = Not Psilocybin”

1:07:00 – miking notes about amount of comp – now aiming for lower half of meter instead of higher half

Episode Ep246c

tracks starts:

Ep246c 0:00 – 5055.wav – Intro. Egodeath Mystery Show. April 18, 2023. Short guitar.

0:40-1:46:09 – 5055.wav – Content.

~1:00 – wrote really nice brief list in Conclusion draft of 5 failed approaches.

Psilocybin Paradigm = the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism = the Egodeath theory

analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

the theory of analogical psychedelic eternalism cybernetics = the Egodeath theory

the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism as the Psilocybin Paradigm.

Ep246c ~8:00 – The only field / approach that is relevant and useful is the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, not “Neuroscience” or any other approach.

10:00 –

17:00 – not doing tapestry field research.

18:00 — not “spot the changing shape of the Amanita” (children’s game) to “spot the changing mental model” (adult version of game). college Junior, upper-level undergraduate level, not the kindergarten game of “spot the Amanita”.

19:30 – From “Spot the Amanita Physical Object” to “Spot the Psilocybin Control Re-Stabilization”.

20:00 –

~25:00 – Amanita paradigm.

Ep246c 30:00 –

40:00 –

Ep246c 42:00 — 🍄🌳🍄 too 🍄🌳 many 🌳🍄 mushrooms 🍄🍄🌳, server overloaded

44:00 — i had to do battle with “no psilocybin in Europe” 🤷‍♂️ 🚫🍄 fkking idiotic preposterous lie, and if you totally rewrote 1994 book Paul Stamets book to force it to cover Psilocybin in Europe and not only in “of the World [not including Europe]”

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World Except for Europe: An Identification Guide
Paul Stamets, 1994

Ep246c 50:00 — condemning CSR, Cognitive Science of Religion = ordinary-state Cog Sci of ordinary-state Religion. the Boring Cognitive Science of Boring Religion — a field that’s not worth existing. Need: the Psychedelic Cognitive Science of Psychedelic Religion. CSR is boring and worthless, exoteric

57:00 — the “Amanita Counter-culture” paradigm vs. the “Psilocybin Mainstream” paradigm.

1:00:00 –

1:10:00 — no other theory can explain this domain.

“mainstream religion is inherently Prohibitionist”

the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

other theorist cannot grasp and address this realm/ domain, applying possibilism-premised control, until you change your thinking to rely on 2-level, eternalism model of control-in-world,

no other theory than the theory of psilocybin eternalism is able to handle psilocybin eucharist mainstream religion and culture

1:42:25 – Guitar to end (3.5 min.)

Ep246c 1:46:09 – End.

strong episode – reading conclusions sections aloud. Which articles? maybe:

spot the psychedelic eternalism

spot the changning mental model of control, not spot the changing children’s mushroom shapes like Heinrich 1994 Strange Fruit is limited to doing and Apples of Apollo 2001 more of same pointless directionless dead end failure to be relevant, and continued parasite enabler compromised PROHIBITION-FRIENDLY RUCKIANISM PARADIGM.

Prohibition-compliant made-up “Anthropology” FANTASY AND CONFABULATION of exotic alien sects from the East, to shield real Christianity from coming into contact — mainstream = psychedelics.

not counter culture opposition scenario you’re selling and constructing and supporting vigorously, PROHIBITION-ENABLING ANTHROPOLOGY DEFEATIST COMPLIANT STORYTELLING, = entheogen scholarship under the Fly-Agaric prohibition paradigm, to the psilocybin eucharist restabilization paradigm

“mainstream religion has to be Prohibitionist because Genesis 3 forces you (silence about Eden Restored Revelation 22) a 1-sided treatment, a 1-sided narrative, they never think to look for evidence in Mainstream, they are only interested in Secret, not Amanita.

Ruck doesn’t write about Amanita, but about a world divided into two battling false options:

“Mainstream-inherent entheogen prohibition vs. counterculture heretical sect Amanita” — that’s the story Ruck cares about this story he wants to tell about mainstream prohibition against counter-culture fertility cult sects.

rough notes/transcription: ALLEGRO CARES ABOUT asserting PERMANENT PERPETUAL OPPOSITION.

The mainstream must perpetually assert prohibition.

The counter-culture has full ownership exclusively.

The Amanita Paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Paradigm

AMANITA MADNESS

vs. why psychedelic pseudo science is messed up differently than entheogen scholarship where AMANITA MADNESS reigns

the Amanita paradigm vs the Psilocybin paradigm — powerful concept.

the new paradigm is the Psilocybin paradigm, and the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is inherent in that

“the lesser-looking mushrooms” says Hatsis because it’s not “the” mushroom, Amanita! he shows their hand, gives away their game, the Amanita Primacy Fallacy big-time.

Nothing good can come from the Amanita paradigm, Hatsis is trapped in it. “these lesser-looking mushrooms”, they all think the same:

Ruck, Rush, Irvin, Hatsis all agree that cubensis mushroom trees are “lesser looking” — than the fly agaric fresco

the fly agaric fresco is more valuable than hundreds of lesser-looking mushroom trees, we demand that Dancing Man cap be red, not blue — Irvin repaints Dancing Man image forced to red hue, in his color book. I have pic of it and link to hi-res library.

Secret Prohibited Fly Agaric “Mainstream society is required always inherently to prohibit The Mushroom, the Holy Mushroom, some proxy for psychedelics”

no one has any interest in ingesting amanita, it’s a story, not an altered state. Fly Agaric is a narrative worldview ideology — not something to ingest to have an altered state.

They couldn’t care less about Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition – their narrative is invested in Prohibition and would collapse without it.

It’s a religion, THE FLY AGARIC RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY NARRATIVE STORYTELLING PROXY ARGUMENTATION, it is not a scientific explanatory theory, made to uphold prohibition. It’s mental.

The Religion of Fly Agaric Anthropology Theory of Inherently Prohibitionist Mainstream Opposition to The Mushroom

the Amanita Counter-Culture paradigm
vs.
the Psilocybin Mainstream paradigm

the Amanita counterculture vs. the theory of Psilocybin eternalism

the theory of Psilocybin eternalism

a theory name or descriptor

The Psilocybin Paradigm

abandon the Amanita Counter-Culture” paradigm and convert to / adopt the psilocybin mainstream paradigm instead

They are mental. self-defeating immature crybabies push and promote and committed and invested in Prohibition of “The Mushroom”, delirious mind of the Amanita theorist.

They are confused, devoted to suppression and Prohibition.

THE ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARS USE PROHIBITION AS THEIR FOUNDATION OF THEIR PARADIGM to hold their ideology in position.

Entheogen scholarship cooperates with Prohibition.

Prohibitionists LOVE & applaud the storytelling service that’s provided by entheogen scholarship to uphold Prohibition forever.

all badness revolves around Amanita

Toxic Anthropology theory = entheogen scholarship.

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Conclusions

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/snapshot-of-verbose-draft-of-branching-message-mushroom-trees-article/#Conclusions

only the Egodeath theory can work; the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, including this latest breakthrough that cannot be provided by any of the other approaches, no more need be said about the irrelevance and …. must point out that this is a successful theory and that no other theory can be successful, relevant, effective.

how to critical the failure of 7 fields in just two senetnces in my Conclusion? Do not read my Plainc article except read “waste of time, bury the damn Amanita paradigm, reset the question, off of Asson and Allegro and abandon the discussion of the fly agaric fresco as a paradigm.

why i don’t list my Plainc article as “recomm’d”. It’s low priority; hi pri is this article, 2007, 1997, 1996 articles, which describe MY theory; my Plainc article isn’t about the Egodeath theory! It proves that another paradigm is a failed, unproductive, irrelevant approach and we must return the field to center on “to what extent psilocybin eternalism in Christian history?”

Stop talking in proxy terms, in terms of “amanita”, make up what you actually care about: Amanita, or a garbled mental confusion that when you say Amanita, do you just mean a narrative-based ideology that’s important to you, a counterculture narrative of “suppression”? then talk in terms of Amanita. Are you interested in Alt State or a counterculture narrative in permenta opposition, a never ending sob story about isn’t….

reveling in permanent defeatism, that’s what entheogen scholars care about.

Amanita cult entheogen scholars are in an Amanita Narrative Cult cut off from Psilocybin reality. Amanita scholars are Anthropology Dept. Academic Fancy storytellers, not scientific historians.

They DGAF about making Psilocybin mainstream. Their audience is trained to value a countercultural ideology of perpetual defeat, an Amanita-centered moral story perpetual .. instead of talking in terms of psilocybin. Such “Entheogen scholarship” has nothing to do with psychedelics, but pseudo symbolic per Dale Pendell, the Amanita Sect paradigm, the Psilocybin Eucharist paradigm and make psilocybin mainstream forever.

Bad Amanita Anthropology Theory Demands an Opposition Scenario distraction about their false & irrelevant options around “Metaphysical Beliefs” -Mysticism”) and Causes Prohibition

Their Ripoff Options Are a False Dichotomy Like Letheby & Johnson’s Hamfisted “Physicalism vs. Primacy-of-Mind” “Metaphysics / Epistemology”, an irrelevant (& poorly handled

🙌 ⚖️🔥😈ψ🌳💥🐏🌪

retartded scale they imagine as “fatalistic determinism” lifted from an ordinary-state-based lame q’air, the bandaided v2 of the poor q’air has tacked-on recently this notion — run of the mill domino-chain causality, saturated with IMPURE 🙌 ⚖️🔥😈ψ💥🌪 EGOIC-BASED POSSIBILISM-THINKING that needs to be burned off with FIRE — not the alt state, but specifically CONTROL INSTABILITY MONSTER corrective training teaching the mind’s learning process in loosecog

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1:00:00 – Abandon amanita-based, amanita-centric entheogen scholarship , abandon and avoid it like the plague

dread of control instability

1:26:00 — Amanita theory “scholarship” is a Sociology-Embedded Paradigm, it’s not about psychedelics, it’s about anthropology theory, Amanita replaces psychedelics. Amnita is a symbol for psychedelics and a moral tale of sociology/ anthropology that eliminates and has no need for psychedelics.

The Amanita Paradigm Is Not About Psychedelics, but Anthropology/ Sociology Storytelling; Essentially a Narrative-Weaving Activity to Explain to Enable Co-Exist Forever with Prohibition — the most Prohibition-friendly The Mushroom

the most Prohibition-friendly entheogen scholarship: Secret Amanita Heretical Sect Counterculture Cult Group in perpetual dramatic battle aginast inherently Probhitiionist mainstream

Prohibition by the mainstream culture is REQUIRED, by we entheogen scholars who read a single verse of Genesis 3 out of context eg “You will certainly die the day when you ingest the mushroom”, and Rev 22: Eden Restored.

“The Bible Says We Must Be Prohibitionist” — Bad Entheogen Scholars

Bad entheogen scholars addicted to the Amanita heretical sect paradigm WANT to read the Bible exoterically as Prohibitionist, they are fully invested in reading scripture in the most rank, those on the outside, exoteric reading possible, the most childish reading and inappropriate and makes God speak falsely. God speaks falsely or YOUR READING IS WRONG.

~1:40:00 — Strong ending: Amanita Theory Causes Prohibition.

1:42:00 – Outro. Guitar/ voice.

1:43:00 — Guitar (3 minutes), to End.

Images

Golden Gallery

I don’t care about the extent of Amanita in Christian history. The question has been entirely harmful and prevented research and derailed it. NOT WORTH THE HEAVY BAGGAGE.

Tech Notes

I got the good compressors dialed-in fairly well. Buzzing might indicate the mono handheld ev 635a. Wish I stated more often the miking/settings within the recordings as I tried the previous day: unmatched compressors, then matched comps run hot, then by this day, probably, I mellowed the comps to lower half of meter.

Errata

i think 7 minutes of buzzing in one segment. from ev 635a before compressors.

The Amanita Paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Paradigm

quick copy from draft of branching-message mushroom trees article — been recording many hours of spoken idea development to get this far.

Brown’s call to recenter the field on the question of “To what extent “mushrooms” in Christianity?” has a fatal flaw: the word “mushrooms” is a trojan horse for perpetual Prohibition and primitivism and physicalist approach, because THE WORD “MUSHROOMS” BY DEFAULT MEANS EXCLUSIVELY AMANITA, WHICH IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR EVERYTHING BAD AND WRONG.

Hatsis has explicitly and directly confirmed this to me in pers. corr., Hatsis personally confirmed to me that when he says “mushrooms” in this context, he EXCLUSIVELY means Amanita.

And I’m finding HUGE problems and flaws and massive self-contradictions and inconsistencies in Irvin’s 2008 book “The Holy Mushroom” along this same line.

WE MUST STOP EMPLOYING THE TERM “MUSHROOMS”, “THE MUSHROOM”, ETC.

Repeal and sound theory depends on us adding ‘mushrooms’ to the Forbidden Word List, the list of conceptual explanatory constructs and terms that cannot be a viable foundation for theory and for repeal and mainstreaming.

This article and the Egodeath theory replaces the Amanita paradigm by the Psilocybin paradigm.

The Amanita paradigm = perpetual prohibition, primitivism; a physicalist-limited theorizing (shape of Amanita); ambiguous, obfuscating language (“the mushroom”, “mushrooms”, “the holy mushroom”); unstated argumentation, poor theorizing; proxy associations and narratives; lowering consciousness, immature childish exoteric misreading of religious myth and art motifs.

The Psilocybin paradigm = repeal and beyond to mainstreaming psychedelics; advanced comprehension of history; a cognitive experiencing domain approach; controlled conceptual vocabulary unambiguous; sound theorizing, explicit argumentation, direct speech and direct thinking/ argumentation (not proxy), elevating consciousness; mature adult esoteric coherent reading of religious myth and art motifs.

Ruck & Rush need to convert from the “Amanita counter-culture” paradigm to the “Psilocybin mainstream” paradigm.

Nov 29 2024 note: Avoid the term ‘mainstream’ as well as ‘counterculture’. Both terms imply & reify a Prohibition-type barrier and identity boundary, a presence/absence boundary.

MUST ABANDON AMANITA BASED CENTRIC ENTHEOGEN SCHOLARSHIP LIKE THE PLAGUE

The Egodeath theory is successful as a relevant, domain-appropriate, useful and effective explanatory model because it models and provides an explanatory model using a custom, appropriate, purpose-optimized, conceptual vocabulary and lexicon suitable for effectively capturing the explanandum.

Ineffective approaches fail to deliver an effective explanatory model to explain dread of the {shadow dragon monster}, instead just deleting and eliminating the explanandum (dread of fatal control instability) and replacing the explanandum by some substitute:

  • An ordinary-state based Grief subscale that simply deletes 18 of Dittrich’s 21 5D-ASC Dread effects [Barrett et al 2016: Scoring Guide appendix].
  • A Physicalism/Materialism focus that’s conceptually limited to domino-chain determinism [Johnson, 2022].
  • Eliminative “Cognitive” Neuroscience that attempts to discuss loose cognitive binding by instead talking indirectly in terms of “neuroplasticity”.
  • Unscientifically vague mysticism as a methodology [rejected by Sanders & Zijlmans 2021].

The Egodeath theory is an anti-neuroscience, bona fide actual cognitive phenomenology-based approach, explaining experiencing of control model transformation in terms of control models, not in terms of neural networks which deletes and removes the explanandum through using a conceptual lexicon which fails to describe the explanandum.

We must discuss the experience of mental model transformation, in direct terms about experiential mental model transformation, not indirectly and ineffectively in terms of brain scans.

Nov 29 2024 note: Ruck’s telltale typical words ‘sects, cults, communities, groups, [secret] societies’, or later, ‘elites’, all function as a barrier / boundary construction word/concept, in Ruck’s writings. Ruck NEVER says “Christians” or “heretics”, but ALWAYS speaks of a closed group, because he cannot allow Amanita-using individuals to be spread throughout the general population of Christians – that breaks his narrative and especially, eliminates Ruck’s personal identity.

Anti-“secret amanita sect” paradigm, which is ordinary-state based, limited to the physical forms of the Amanita, ignores repeal of Psilocybin prohibition, and is fully invested in a false theological claim that what makes a form of Christianity mainstream vs. heretical is that mainstream Christianity is required by entheogen scholars (sitting in Pope’s chair issuing theological decrees) to prohibit Psilocybin.

Bad, anti-Psilocybin, Prohibition-asserting theology, is how the “Amanita sect” theory operates.

According to the Amanita heresy theology that’s a false theological dictum or decree of the “heretical Amanita sect” paradigm, there are only two options: mainstream anti-psychedelic religion and culture in opposition to heretical psychedelic sects.

In sharp contrast, the “explicit mainstream Psilocybin Eucharist” paradigm formed by the Egodeath theory, provides the correct, true, theologically correct theological decree, that real Christianity, normal mainstream religion and culture, is Psilocybin-based.

The fatal flaw of the “Secret Amanita” paradigm is that the flip side of assigning psychedelics to a postulated counter-culture is the false assertion that mainstream culture must prohibit psychedelics – a fatally self-defeating, false theology.

The self-contradiction that is “Cognitive Neuroscience”

The “Secret Amanita heretical sect” paradigm is infantile, concretistic, limited to the physical form of the fly agaric, and cannot engage with the cognitive content, mental model transformation about control-in-world.

The result is reductionism, which is the elimination of the explanandum through ineffective and inappropriate explanatory model using terms that allow the escape of the explanandum.

Only the Egodeath theory captures the explanandum and explains, not deletes [Barrett et al 2016: scoring guide appendix] OAV’s Dread DED dimension {shadow dragon monster}, replacing the altered-state explanandum by a ordinary-state based Grief subscale.

Note 29 Nov 2024: “factors” in 11-factors – Psychedelic Pseudo-Science

  • Inconsistent names of these pseudo-Science questionnaires.
    • Dittrich = APV = OAV + x/y = 5D-ASC = [Studerus’] 11-Factors.
    • Panke = MEQ = MEQ42 = MEQ30.
    • The two q’s where the revised, 2nd one added a “Determinism” factor.
  • Unclear null “factors” (item 54) not in ICC or AD subfactor/ “sub-scale”, accidentally forming “shadow factor 13” and “virtual factor 12”, formed implicitly, unconsciously, thoughtlessly, not defended or acknowledged by the authors, in 11 Factors.
  • Poor writing in this field of “science”; Roland Griffiths “accidentally misunderstood” the poorly written 11 Factors writeup paper, and dropped 8 of the 21 Angst factors right out the gate (shadow factor 13). Poor explanation of why item 54 of DED/AED Angst Dread scale was dropped in 11-Factors, poor justification of several “dropped items”.

Do I actually desire, or not, the psychedelic therapy clinic to be swallowed whole by the shadow dragon monster?

/Nov 29 2024 notes

The “Amanita sect”theory asserts that mainstream religion is anti-entheogenic, which maximally supports Prohibition. The “Psilocybin Eucharist” theory asserts that mainstream religion is entheogenic, which maximally supports repeal of Prohibition.

Do not associate “counter-culture” with entheogens, which maximally benefits Prohibition. Associate mainstream religion with entheogens, which maximally leads to Repeal of Prohibition.

Other methodologies fail to effectively model the actual explanandum, experiencing mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism, transforming the mental worldmodel of control-in-world, driven by corrective instability and failure of control.

No other theory than the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism captures and recognizes and effectively models and explains this dynamic: not neuroscience, physicalism, or mysticism.

My approach instead is: Loose Cognitive Science, loose cognition; psychedelic eternalism; mental construct association matrix; mental construct processing.

Only Psychedelic Cognitive Science, liberated from Neuroscience’s replacement and reductionism of the explanandum, can accurately, usefully, and relevantly model and explain mental worldmodel transformation in the psilocybin loose cognitive binding state.

This explanatory model of conditional control stability enables the field of Psychedelic Cognitive Science; enables Cognitive Scientists to enter the loose cognitive realm to get the treasure of Transcendent Knowledge, without being cast out through the gate by terror of seeing the {shadow dragon monster}.

CARL RUCK’S “AMANITA HERETICAL SECT” THEORY IS OPTIMIZED AND MAXIMIZED TO SUPPORT PROHIBITION OF ENTHEOGENS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Do not assert that mainstream religion was anti-entheogenic; that false assertion maximally supports Prohibition.

The “Amanita sect” theory falsely asserts that mainstream religion is inherently anti-entheogenic; that false assertion maximally supports Prohibition.

Assert that mainstream religion was entheogenic; that correct assertion maximally repeals Prohibition.

The “Psilocybin Eucharist” theory (part of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism) truthfully asserts that mainstream religion is inherently entheogenic; that correct assertion maximally supports repeal of Prohibition.

Conflating Forms of the Barrier Wall: Eden entrance; City of God wall; Those on the Inside; Prohibition (War on Drugs); Pope Ruck’s decree against “Heretical Sects” (his words)

Do not read Genesis 2 & 3 as exoterically read God is prohibitionist, and ignore Revelation 22 at the end of the Bible, titled by NIV as “Eden Restored”.

Nov 29 2024: Rev 22:2 gives us THIRTEEN DIFFERENT ENTHEOGENS — not just one (Amanita) per Heinrich or Cannabis only, “Hemp”, per Bennett.

Esoteric affirmation … the only possible reading is esoteric, God speaks truth: Adam died that day; God is not a rank Prohibitionist.

the Moderate [aka Minimal] Secret Amanita theory/paradigm/ assumption-set

the Maximal Psilocybin Eucharist theory/paradigm/ assumption-set

the Secret Amanita paradigm vs. the Psilocybin Eucharist paradigm

the Secret Amanita paradigm vs. the Explicit Cubensis paradigm

Cybermonk

The Theory of Ego Transcendence (Hoffman 1988)

Contents:

  • Transcription of the 1988 Manuscript, without Strikethrough Wording
  • Photographs of the August 1988 Handwritten Minnesota Manuscript
  • Photograph of Holding the 1988 Manuscript
  • 2012 Photograph of 1988 Manuscript and Semester Notebook Binders
  • Motivation for Creating this Page
  • See Also

Transcription of the 1988 Manuscript, without Strikethrough Wording

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Photographs of the August 1988 Handwritten Minnesota Manuscript

Unpublished first writeup of the Egodeath theory.

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Photograph of Holding the 1988 Manuscript

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2012 Photograph of 1988 Manuscript and Semester Notebook Binders

Motivation for Creating this Page

Unpublished MS. But I might publish it as Academia.edu, for a couple reasons: I want to see my 1988 wording of the Core theory. I need a standard way to represent that the Egodeath theory was formulated in 1988, without belaboring the point in a way that’s hard to follow and gets lost in minutia of historical development.

People need dates for the development of the Egodeath theory, and article dates are especially useful, even if an unpublished MS. This MS’s year, August 1988, is same as important date Jan. 1988 when the Egodeath theory was formed. Started 1985. Need a citation that represents and indicates that the Egodeath theory was formed in 1988.

History of Development of the Egodeath theory in Terms of Main-Article Years

1988: The Theory of Ego Transcendence (unpublished ms)

1997: The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (Self-Control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death (core theory spec)

2007: The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (2007 main article, adds myth but not branching-message mushroom trees/ handedness)

2020a: Compelling Evidence & Proof of Explicit Psilocybin Mushrooms in Christian Art to Communicate Non-Branching Stable Control

2020b: Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe

2023: Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching Mushrooms, Handedness, and Stability (supplement to 2007 main article)

Notes

bubble is first pub’d article but is more an adjunct to the 1988 draft/ 1997 spec.

My 2006 Fresco article is a SIDESHOW footnote, albeit formal and exhaustive and a major milestone. Its message is: Fresco/Wasson/Allegro = irrelevant dead end. The Egodeath theory is on-track, relevant.

My 2020 article on Eadwine is too incomplete, lacks theory of branching-message mushroom trees, which is finalized April 2023 (now). Good news: I realized I have a Nov 19 2020 untouched 1st Edition frozen snapshot of the article as well as my updated, potential 2nd edition (wide page format).

See Also

The Bubble of Simulation: Subjective Experience as a Virtual Environment (Hoffman 1996)

Self-control Cybernetics, Dissociative Cognition, & Mystic Ego Death (1997 core theory spec)

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (2007 main article) 

Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe (2020 1st Edition)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/proof-that-the-canterbury-psalters-leg-hanging-mushroom-tree-is-psilocybe/

Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching Mushrooms, Handedness, and Stability
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/ (2023)