Contents:

• Intro
  • 2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels
  • 2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art
  • Browns’ Works
• About the Church and Frescos

• Image 1: Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
• Golden Munich Psalter’s Entry into Jerusalem
• Brown, 2016, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
• Brown, 2019, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
• Book: Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (John Rush)
• John Rush, 2022, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out
  • John Rush’s Commentary & Blurry Internet Image
    • The Blurry Internet Image from Rush Gallery: Entry into Jerusalem
    • “Entry into Jerusalem clearly represents mushrooms being handed out” (John Rush)
    • Awkward Gallery UI
• Browns’ Commentary on Entry into Jerusalem
  • The Fresco Shows Caps That Are Not Visible
  • Brown & Brown Visit the Art in Person with Their Paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”
• Psychedelic Eternalism commentary on Entry into Jerusalem
  • Features
• Exhibit A: What a Feather Looks Like
  • Random Example #2 of What a Feather Looks Like
  • Random Example #3 of What Feathers Look Like
• Exhibit B: What Sticks Look Like
• Photos of the Sticks & Feathers and Finger-Shapes
  • 1964 Photos of Saint-Martin de Vic church at France-Voyage
  • agefotostock Entry into Jerusalem Photos
• I See Caps that Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible
• Image Search and Panorama
• Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown See Too Many Mushrooms Everywhere
  • The Fresco Here Shows Sticks and Feathers, not Mushrooms or “Plants”
  • Decoded Items & Hands Held Out as Non-Branching Parallel Sticks + Branching Feathers, Matching the Contrasted Right- and Left-Hand Finger Shapes
  • Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
    • I Report that I See Caps That Are Not Visible
    • Where Are the Gates?
    • Key date: March 21, 2022
    • Balaam as Rider on Donkey Passing Through Guarded Gate
      • Announced Decoding Balaam April 26, 2002
      • Caveat About Technique for Finding Oldest Posting Date
• Fallacy Demonstrated: Must Travel and See Art First-Hand to Accurately Interpret It
  • Projecting Too Many Mushrooms, in person!: the “Travel” fallacy

• Image 2: Purification of Isaiah’s Lips

• Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem
  • The Draping-Walls Guy’s Right Foot Is on the Gate Hinge

• Image 4: Last Supper

• Image 5: Last Supper detail: Mushroom Hem

• Image 6: Scroll: The Prophet Isaiah Goes Forth

• Motivation for Creating this Page 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐
• % of Psilocybin vs. Amanita Finds/ Sites in the Book
• Technical Notes on Image Resolution
  • For Full-Resolution Brown Photos: Download PDF, Fullscreen in Acrobat, Zoom
  • What Part of “Full Screen” Do You Not Understand? 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐
• Todo
• See Also

/ end of Table of Contents

Intro

This page covers the frescos in Church of Saint Martin de Vicq, France, that are presented and analyzed in Browns’ 2016 book & 2019 article.

I provide a psychedelic eternalism analysis.

The page scope & structure is per the order in Browns’ 2016 book and Browns’ 2019 article.

2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels

The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/

2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art

Page title:
Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works
Section heading:
Entheogens in Christian art (Brown & Brown 2019)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Entheogens-in-Christian-art

To see best resolution, download the PDF, view fullscreen in Acrobat.

Browns’ Works

Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works (The Psychedelic Gospels)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/

About the Church and Frescos

In the 2019 article:
The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/
Brown wrote:

“The small parish Church of Saint Martin de Vicq (Saint Martin) is located in the village of Nohant-Vic in the Indre department of Central France 50 miles east of Plaincourault.

“In the 11th century, the church belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Déols in the old province of Berry.

“At that time, it consisted of a simple nave and choir.

“At the beginning of the 12th century [1100], a semicircular apse was built and an exceptional set of murals was painted, first rediscovered in 1849.

“Restoration began in 1987 and was completed in 1991.

“A plaque describes the murals as “the work of an artist of genius,” which “portray the theme of Redemption, from the Error of Adam to the Last Judgment.”

“Typical of the fresco cycles found in the region, these paintings are the creation of a single workshop, usually consisting of a lone painter, perhaps
with an assistant to help with the plastering and preparation of the pigments.

“We traveled to Saint Martin because a book (Irvin, 2008) and an article (Samorini, 1998) included photographs of psilocybin mushrooms in one of the wall paintings.”

“During our visit, we found that the panoply of frescoes in Saint Martin represented an illustrated Bible including a veritable Christology.

“Among them, we found several mushroom-tree images – significantly more than the single mushroom group mentioned in the literature [appar. Irvin + Samorini] – illustrating key scenes in the life of Jesus.”

/ end of excerpt from Browns 2019 article

Image 1: Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem

Features:

• every figure’s hands in the entire wall depict YI contrast. thumb vs. fingers = IY. JEsus fijngers using two hands.
• clean robes under right foot donkey jesus, jesus above donkey
• {right foot forward} posture – genuflect? see all instances, incl. Golden Psalter.

Golden Psalter
gp

todo: draw white box around {branching} & {handedness} motifs.

To see best resolution, download the PDF, view fullscreen in Acrobat.

The above Entry Scene is the Highest Resolution .png I Can Provide Extracted from Brown 2019 Article.

Golden Munich Psalter’s Entry into Jerusalem

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-54-top

Features: [11:00 pm Feb. 26, 2025]

• {bent left leg}: tree guy, gate guy, donkey front and back reverse, colt front leg
• legend: Jesus rides a colt that never been ridden before.
• bible: put cloaks on the donkeys as saddles.
• in tree {right foot down} balanced on cut right branch that is held by the guy passing through the gate – he is holding the cut branch that he’s standing on in his R hand, like same as gate guy.
• Gateway has five ball-stem {mushroom roof toppers}, on five roofs:
• top – two red roof caps with white spots.
• gate guy showing L hand in typical pose for this genre, no thumb, purely branching – but not splay like Peter R hand fingers.
• mushroom {mushroom hem} in rff right foot forward guy genuflect saddle for jesus
• center – roof blue liberty cap
• left – dancing man cap on left: white on blue donuts

Brown, 2016, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“Jesus is sitting on an ass with his arms reaching out toward the youths who are greeting him. One of the youths is leaning forward, holding on to the stem of an oblong mushroom in his left hand, while offering Jesus three stems with his right hand, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

Brown & Brown, 2016, page 112.

Transcribed by Michael Hoffman from paperback, Jan. 30, 2025

Brown, 2019, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youth who with his other hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Copypaste from Brown 2019 PDF: bold added.

Book: Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity (John Rush)

Jesus, Mushrooms, and the Origin of Christianity
February 22, 2022 (2011 1st Ed.)
John Rush
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mushrooms-Origin-Christianity-John/dp/B09VWP4CV1/ –

John Rush, 2022, Saint Martin, Entry Into Jerusalem, What Jesus and the Youth Hold Out

“This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.”

– John Rush, 2nd Ed 2022 of 2011 book, p. 207

John Rush’s Commentary & Blurry Internet Image

Features:

• Hands:
• L hand hold branching 3- or 4-diamond frond branching
• R hand hold single non-branching diamond frond pointing at Jesus donkey finger shapes.
• L hand of out-of-frame mushroom palm holding branches , similar branching form as this youth.
• One youth holds branching, the other youth holds blade in right hand to cut the branching. While stand on right foot.
• Feet:
• Both of the diamond-frond youths {stand on right foot}; {right foot down}, left foot lifted/ left leg bent. {right leg straight, left leg bent}

ward less branching.

Tauroctony (Mithraism) {right leg straight, left leg bent}

The Blurry Internet Image from Rush Gallery: Entry into Jerusalem

Here’s my obscenely high-res, pixel-wasting screenshot capture of Rush’s super-blurry image.

“Entry into Jerusalem John Rush Gallery screenshot.png” 5.6 MB, stamp: [12:04 p.m. Noon, February 13, 2023]

image direct link: it’s cryptic/unreliable; not uploading it. Manually nav to it.

Per Rush, you can plainly see that God in “Creator of Plants” image holds a mushroom (show the Eadwine pic of God’s clearly empty hand).

Likewise, here you can CLEARLY see mushrooms being handed out to or by Jesus on donkey, after the hallucinogenic mushrooms take effect:

“Entry into Jerusalem clearly represents mushrooms being handed out” (John Rush)

p. 207: (2nd Edition) –

“This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.”

The above is an exact quote, sans extra words.

Awkward Gallery UI

Gallery, for Chapter 3, the single image (Entry into Jeru.)
(Rush’s gallery UX works better for me on mobile than desktop):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WAX43XRkr5H6ee_WNC3KoMDntwMw5leZ
His page says “Download” from here – poor UX for viewing online (if desktop), and each pdf is HUGE (gigabytes).
Here’s the main page you get, to access his gallery:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DWV7GTNHrB-ksj4ZqdZfyNGhPZvN5Ogi

Book page 207, 2nd Edition

Browns’ Commentary on Entry into Jerusalem

The Fresco Shows Caps That Are Not Visible

Entry into Jerusalem: Julie Reports Seeing That Caps Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible

Kupfer: “toward the gate; they crowd the gate; gate, gate” – WHAT GATE; THERE IS NO GATE!

— false. Update [8:06 p.m. February 15, 2023] – you can’t tell in this image but lower left is apparently the gates; the foot on the left is on the gate hinge:

I made a {gate} crop from the web original image downloaded jpg sample. Gate is lower left, as far as I can tell:

“france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-FMC1JC gate-crop.jpg” – I appended “gate-crop” in alamy’s filename. 32 KB [8:21 p.m. February 15, 2023]
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

Check out this page with their related stock photos:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

[written before finding the above alamy wide-shot photo:]

It is quite a beautiful gate, you must admit — like the “plant-like objects with stems and caps held out as a gift to Jesus who is reaching out to accept it.”

(Except, no, no, no, no, and no.) Horse feathers!
Which they also didn’t mention; {feathers}.

Art as Rorschach blotter for Brown & Brown to project and read-in, and not see.

The dialog while Brown, Brown, & Brown wrote their 2016 book:

“Brown, do you see painted-over caps?”

“Yes, Brown, I see very clearly painted-over caps above the mushroom stems of the plant-like gift.”

Brown & Brown Visit the Art in Person with Their Paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”

Brown & Brown (& Brown) visit the art, in person, looking at it with their paintbrushes: “There, Fixed It for You!”

👨‍🎨🎨🖌🍄🖼🍄🖌🎨👩‍🎨
“There, Fixed It for You!”

Psychedelic Eternalism commentary on Entry into Jerusalem

I announced decoding of finger shapes = sticks + feathers, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023.

I originally announced it in short email pointing to a long draft email at:
Page title:
Idea Development page 17
Section heading:
Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/#Brown-Feb-9-2023

I moved that announcement to below.

Features

• Donkey’s 100% weight = Jesus’ = right foot, on top of curved {doorway} (*= gate).
• Great Mystery of Browns’ Missing Gate; everyone (Kupfer) talks about “gate gate gate, “approaches crowded gate” — BUT THERE IS NO GATE!
• There’s a physical {doorway} which Jesus/Donkey stands on 100% {standing with weight on right hoof/ heel/ foot/ leg/ hip/ toe/ leg}. 🚪

I need the full room views.

Exhibit A: What a Feather Looks Like

Random Example #2 of What a Feather looks like

Julie Brown’s comment on this held item: “I am reporting only what I see. I see that the mushroom cap has been painted over or somehow obscured, and I see that the mushroom stem has been re-painted beyond all recognition.” Conclusion: OMG ITS A MUSHROOM!!

John Rush’s comment on this held item: “This painting clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out.” [condensed]

[noon February 13, 2023] decoded by Cybermonk: beardless youth holds feathers in a [branching} configuration, IN CONTRAST TO bearded man holds 1 removed feather in a non-branching shape.

(been wondering about this ever since Cyberdisciple provided this image – why did not this particular point strike me: youth holds branching shape, adult non-)

Random Example #3 of What Feathers Look Like

Re-crop to contrast the two held feathers in the Cyberdisciple image.

challenge in this genre, is that we must —

as the artist, you must present branching IN CONTRAST AGAINST non-branching.

ditto for the interpreter: you are not looking for “branching”, you are not looking for “non-branching”; what you are looking for is moving from “branching” to / contrasted against “non-branching”.

On the micro scale, the (removed & thus negated) single feather has branching – true; granted — but it’s relative. His feather — man’s feather is relatively non-branching compared to the youth’s feather-pair held in a very Y configuration/ shape/ morphology.

But, on the macro scale, the youth holds a pair of feathers in a Y shape, just like mushrooms (which cause the altered-state revelatory experience of non-branching) are depicted by adding branches to convey a message that there is no branching (ie eternalism is the case).

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Exhibit B: What Sticks Look Like

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

Photos of the Sticks & Feathers and Finger-Shapes

1964 Photos of Saint-Martin de Vic church at France-Voyage

Here’s a good {sticks and feathers}: “photos … 1964” 2016-1964 = Browns’ photos are 52 years later than these photos appar’ly:

Saint-Martin de Vic church
https://www.france-voyage.com/travel-photos/saint-martin-vic-church-1964.htm
This site’s Entry photos look dark like I grabbed before.
“photos 1964” sounds right/familiar.

agefotostock Entry into Jerusalem Photos

About agefotostock
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/AboutUs.aspx

Perhaps the crispest photos of Entry I found are these agefotostock photos, which I color-corrected.

At least one of the photos is hosted in page:
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/the-religious-frescoes-in-the-saint-martin-de-vic-church-listed-in-1850-thanks-to-george-sand-s-intervention-the-romanticism-of-george-sand-s-black-valley-in/GPT-36PF0084

jpg https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/15c59666d052eb655fc5aa8a0046be63/gpt-36pf0084.jpg
looks different.

I found the URL source for the below in my Idea Development page 17.

The containing page:
https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/entry-of-jesus-into-jerusalem-detail-from-a-fresco-in-the-church-of-saint-martin-vic-sur-saint-chartier-france-12th-century/DAE-10400530 (very red)

[11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023] made 3rd crop from new source:
“agefotostock-com entry jeru recolored hands sticks.jpg” 17 KB – added to caption below.

todo: check and fix the dates and filesizes for these crops.

.fresh attempt to outdo earlier crop:
“sticks and feathers agefotostock-com dae-10400530-jpg corrected.png” 1.6 MB [2:29 .m. February 13, 2023]
https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/8b6ecbc54bf13b7a9a8d09f0be5039d4/dae-10400530.jpg
Crop, image processing, and interpretation by Cybermonk [11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023]

I See Caps that Have Been Painted Over so Are Not Visible

Julie on mushrooms in 2016: “I see caps that are not visible, maybe they’ve been painted over.”

Browns on hallucinogenic mushrooms in 2019 article: (copy/paste exact quote): “a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible),”

In other words:

I see sticks, therefore, I see stems of a plant that has caps that are not visible.

That’s a biased, forced reading – exactly what Browns claim that John Rush & Irvin (the Ardent Advocates) do.

Here is Julie revealing her own Ardent Advocate impulse, but it’s wrong here.

The held, depicted objects are sticks and feathers, contrasted like eternalism vs. possibilism.

The held sticks are held non-branching, straight, held relatively together, not apart.

Image Search and Panorama

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=church+saint+martin+fresco&tbm=isch
https://www.google.com/search?q=saint+martin+de+vic+church+fresco&tbm=isch

HERE’S the kind of panorama I need!
Moved one of the available pics to Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem section below.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-france-indre-church-of-vic-nohant-vic-saint-martin-de-vic-church-murals-98609684.html

Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown See Too Many Mushrooms Everywhere

Ardent Advocates Brown & Brown see too many mushrooms everywhere: they claim mushrooms are depicted, but the fresco here shows sticks and feathers, not mushrooms

John Rush boldly states in 2nd edition of Jesus/Mushrooms book that handing out mushrooms is clearly visible — based on his Brown-certified Blurry Internet Images. Plate 3-4b: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WAX43XRkr5H6ee_WNC3KoMDntwMw5leZ – it was difficult to get to, so here’s a screenshot of what Rush calls clearly visible handing out of msuhrooms. In this case, Brown follows suit and is unduly overly influenced by Rush’s hallucinations, and so a couple days ago I … and today Feb. 13 2023, I realized the irony, that Browns in this case allowed themselves to be overly influenced by Rush’s hallucination, and they themselves FANTASIZE and PROJECT: in the book by esoteric travologue fictional author Brown, Jerry says:

Julie, only tell me what you actually see in this fresco.

Julie replies: “What I see is caps that have been obscured or painted over so that they are not visible.”

Jerry: Ok, thanks for reporting what you see. Bulletin: MUSHROOMS ARE CLEARLY SEEN BEING DISTRIBUTED.

The Fresco Here Shows Sticks and Feathers, not Mushrooms or “Plants”

What the fresco shows: sticks and feathers. Today (Feb. 13 2023) I realized the irony, of Browns saying Ardent Advocates go too far – in this case, Browns followed the Ardent Advocates and themselves go too far.

Rush & Browns do not go too far, in that these frescos do explicitly depict Psilocybin mushrooms.

But being the usual “spot the mushroom” type of entheogen scholars, they are too literally, in too many instances in this fresco, looking for literal depictions of mushrooms, but instead, the morphology held out by Jesus and guy in tree is not literal mushrooms, but rather, the primary EFFECT of mushrooms, which is transformation from possibilism to eternalism, figured/ depicted as branching vs. non-branching – along with {handedness}, such that:

{left} = {branching} imagery = possibilism-thinking

{right} = {non-branching} imagery = eternalism-thinking

I have decoded this motif art genre motif into a trio of motifs found woven together: in brief:

• mushroom imagery
• handedness imagery
• non-branching imagery

thus a grand formula announcement is:

Grand-Formula Announcement

mushroom = handedness = non-branching

the {mushroom/ handedness / non-branching} compound/ motif-cluster

I am the modern-day discoverer of the Medieval art {mushroom/ handedness/ non-branching} motif-cluster

Heading

You should be moderate and discerning like Cybermonk, sit in the exact middle of the road like me.

Don’t see mushrooms everywhere.

I wrote up a couple days ago revealing the magic trick hallucinations that Dr. Brown’s Magic Tour tries to foist on the hapless readers by their setup:

“Do you agree to report only what you see?”

“Yes. I see that caps and stems are meant to be shown but something else was painted over that, instead.”

–> Announcement: Our Description of What We See Is Caps and Stems; clearly mushrooms are shown being handed out, just as John Rush primed us to expect to see – and so you too shall be set up with our expectation.”

Decoded Items & Hands Held Out as Non-Branching Parallel Sticks + Branching Feathers, Matching the Contrasted Right- and Left-Hand Finger Shapes

Decoded the Items Held Out & Gestures in Entry into Jerusalem Scene, as non-branching parallel sticks + branching feathers, matching left- vs. right-hand finger shapes (Feb. 9, 2023 Announcement)

The following Feb 9 into 10 (2023) decoding was moved to here from Idea Dev page 17: decoding of finger shapes = sticks + feathers, isomorphic contrast — meaning, transformation from possibilism (branching) to eternalism (non-branching).

Page title:
Idea Development page 17
Section heading:
Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/#Brown-Feb-9-2023

Start of “sticks and feathers identified” content copied from Idea Dev p 17 into thie St Martin page:

Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem

Draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

I decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.

Jesus’ branching, left hand, held-apart fingers contrasted against non-branching, held-together right-hand fingers

matches the contrast:

branching feathers contrasted against non-branching sticks

ultimately describes:

mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism

I finally adequately decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.  
It took less than a year (2022-03-21 to 2023-02-09).
Or it took 2023-2016 = 7 years.

The key theme to look for is items & imagery that contrasts {branching} vs. {non-branching}. 
= appearance vs. reality.
= the ordinary-state appearance of possibilism vs. altered-state revealed eternalism.

200 KB “Brown 2 hands sticks feathers processed from pdf take2.png”
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/brown-2-hands-sticks-feathers-processed-from-pdf-take2.png

17 KB “agefotostock-com entry jeru recolored hands sticks.jpg”  
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/agefotostock-com-entry-jeru-recolored-hands-sticks.jpg

1.8 MB “nonbrown fingers splayed nonbranching branches lightened.png”
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/nonbrown-fingers-splayed-nonbranching-branches-lightened.png

“Entry into Jerusalem – Blessing Mushroom” 304 KB
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/entry-into-jerusalem-blessing-mushroom-1.png

Jesus is similarly here contrasting non-branching fingers vs.branching Pilzbaum.  

A mostly branching Pilzbaum; the youth is standing with {right foot} on a {cut branch}.  

The above crop/scene is from Golden Munich Psalter’s Victory Entry into Jerusalem {gate}: art & analysis:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

I Report that I See Caps That Are Not Visible

Book p 112: “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”

That fails to happen: why are we asserting “whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured”.  

We’re talking about “tops” — that you DON’T SEE.  

This violates the explicit agreement and commitment.  Julie agrees to “just stick with the facts, what you actually see” — yet straightaway is talking about imaginary “tops”, what “tops”?  

“I see invisible tops”??  

“offering Jesus three stems[true?] with his right hand, whose tops[what tops?] have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

Julie violates the request and her commitment to fulfil it, speculating imaginatively about “stems” and “tops”.  

We don’t know that the sticks are “stems” (fair interp.), and especially, where did these hallucinogen “tops that aren’t visible” come from?  

What “tops”?  

The 2-way-confirmed agreement was “only talk about what you SEE in the fresco.”  

There are no tops seen, so what rhetoric-justification is there for claiming we’re only talking about what’s shown, what you SEE, and then proceed to talk about “tops” that are somehow NOT visible – yet still asserted to be there, directly violating the explicit set-up agreement!  😄

The result is a mis-framing rhetoric move: we agree to only report facts, for the purpose of reporting imagined things that aren’t there and then claiming that we are reporting things that ARE there.

What happened is precisely NOT “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”  “Sure.  … three stems, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

That’s a hallucinogen-based, forced reading of the sticks-and-feathers that ARE visible.

What’s held out is sticks and feathers (that is what’s visible, what is seen), but Brown — under the explicit 2-way agreement to only stick to what IS seen — said “stems and tops”.  

“Stems and tops is an imported interpretation, added TO what’s actually seen, and is NOT sticking to the facts.

We don’t know they’re stems; and, there are no tops seen, despite trying to cover-over that reality by the set-up of “we’re strictly reporting what we actually see.”  

What’s being obscured here is the fact that tops are NOT seen, that there are no tops.

Actually, Jesus displays two hands with finger shapes held toward the youth’s items, and the youth holds out sticks and feathers toward Jesus’ finger shapes.

So, what we are given, that demands interpretation, is sticks and feathers, held toward Jesus’ displayed finger-shapes.

Both figures present branching vs. (ie. contrasted against) non-branching forms to each other’s forms/shapes, matching the contrast presented by the other figure.

Where Are the Gates?

Later, I found the panorama and I think I see gates below tower to left, as expected. [note February 15, 2023]

Kupfer: “The second phase of the episode on the west wall isolates the walled city of Jerusalem.  Youths, their mouths open in song, crowd the gates; others within the city drape the walls or cut away at the treetops””

What gates?!  Where?

I need photos of St. Martin: gate?  Isn’t there a gate somewhere?  I found the full curved knife the Browns didn’t show the holder of, upper right of Entry scene.

Browns’ 2019 article’s wording:

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youths who with his other [must say “left”] hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Browns’ 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels p. 112:

“his [Jesus’] arms reaching out toward the youths … One of the youths is leaning forward , holding on to the stem … in his left hand, while offering Jesus three stems with this right hand, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

No “feathers” mentioned??

White painted feathers + deterioration + blurry internet photos.

“stems” = sticks; sticks have no branching (after {removing branching twigs}) and not forming a Y shape, but a II or |i| shape.

Y/II

Y contrasted against II

Y vs. I  morphology.  The {king/steersman} {holding the donkey reins} is killed at the {vulnerability} by the {spear} {blade} which {removes branching}.

Book p. 112:

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no, beardless youth] on top of the tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem of a mushroom.”

Article: “Jesus with arms outstretched toward the large psilocybin mushrooms in the Entry“

Not false, but, a motif-driven description must highlight that Jesus is displaying finger shapes, toward something near (b/c distance is important): the sticks and feathers held out toward Jesus’ finger-shapes.

A victory procession train.

What gate? Where?  I don’t see it.  It must be there; {gate} is central.  Why is no gate shown?  Need full 360 photo coverage.  

The donkey’s {right foot} is above a {doorway} = gate.

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=st.+martin+entry+into+jerusalem+fresco&tbm=isch

* Not plant-like gift.  Sticks & feathers.  Sticks are non-branching or removed branching.  Feathers are branching.

* Not arms receiving; not offering a gift.  Jesus & the youth are holding out matching contrasting pairs of shapes: branching & non-branching.  

Jesus’ left fingers are branching like the feathers, right held together non-branching like the sticks.

* “stem” but it’s a more-branching-tree stem, than the right hand placement & plant.

Branching = possibilism-thinking.  

Non-branching = eternalism.  

The mind in the altered state, the main “effect” of Pilzbaum, is transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism.  

My 1988 article draft contrasted the two mental worldmodels (egoic & transcendent) – here they are depicted, as {branching} contrasted with {non-branching}.

“On the far right of the fresco stands another youth holding the stem of a diamond-shaped frond (possibly a palm frond) in his left hand and a long slightly curved sword in his right hand.”

*  “diamond frond” – I have identified this plant as Psilocybe semi-lance-ata; I have identified this plant and its motif-network usage.

*  Not a curved sword; holding the non-branching middle of a spear aimed at king Jesus’ side.  

A curved lance — or semi-lance, from the relatively non-branching plant held by {right hand}.

“We can only speculate why a mushroom tree is growing on top (or out of) the roof of a stone tower.”

Above the gate.  

Browns wondered about why the plant grows from a “stone tower” – I wrote elsewhere about {rock} before; but now, I note that the tower {guards} the {gate}.

{through the gate} is all-important, and requires a {key/ password/ sacrificial payment} and to {remove outer garment/cloak} of appearances.

Key date: March 21, 2022

I am posting this decoding-announcement in this key thread that contains Professor Brown’s milestone providing of the March 21, 2022 Marcia Kupfer heavily highlighted passage about youths in trees cutting branches.

My March 21, 2022 reply that is the first place I ever wrote the important lexicon-phrase {branching-message mushroom trees}.

1. Browns had to write Kupfer’s passage in their 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels with faint emphasis, and I highlighted it there when the book first shipped.
2. But Browns had to try again and put that Kupfer passage in their 2019 article Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels, with strong emphasis this time.
3. But that didn’t get through to me either, so finally Professor Brown had to personally email me the heavily highlighted version of their passage, to make me finally see the passage in its fullness.

Now, Feb. 9, 2023, I have finally tonight adequately decoded/interpreted the Browns’ tree-guy’s items held out to match Jesus’ finger shapes, together with Jesus’ finger shapes which I don’t think the Browns noted in the book or article.  

For St. Martin frescos, you get 1 point every time you write “left” or “right” re: hand or foot or plant side.  

This genre employs motifs/ depictions/ images of {handedness} + {non-branching}; ie:

{left} contrasted against {right} = 

{branching} contrasted against {non-branching} =

possibilism contrasted against eternalism.

Book p. 112: (the 2nd copy in this message):

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no; a beardless youth] on top of the [gate-guard] tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem …”

p. 112: “Walking directly behind Jesus are two men, possibly disciples, holding their arms up in the gesture of standing in awe.”

Don’t the Entry two guys behind Jesus have halos?  Yes, the near guy has Amanita undercap; gold circle in red band.   So, definitely disciples. (Or, less likely, Old Testament figures.)

Aggh! Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photos.

Not gesture of awe — take greatest note of Jesus’richer gestures/ finger shapes.  Remedied above.

They are — flexibly, one way or another — gestures of non-branching (or, gestures of “contrasting non-branching against branching”), with left hand, displaying finger shapes, like Eadwine’s initiation image classroom testing scene, but with slightly different meaning choices to express the same message of contrast.

Both scenes (Entry & Exam) depict “branching vs. non-branching” shapes in flexible ways. 

Avoid magical thinking, even “left vs. right” isn’t rigidly, statically sancrosanct; isn’t the message of inherent import.

What’s important for you as a mystic artist is to depict that you comprehend that the message is “non-branching contrasted against branching”, referring to possibilism vs. eternalism world models.

Magical rigid thinking won’t do; there is no magical hand gesture that’s the correct answer, statically.  

Instead, you as an artist have to invent your own expression to prove you comprehend the message – not the envelope, not the outer form, but the principle.

Here is Eadwine’s class exam scene with Browns’ “gesture of awe”, but in this meaning-scheme, these failing students indicate (by displaying left hand) “rely on egoic, autonomous control in a branching world” like the left side of the pink key-tree.
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-93.png –

/ end of draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

/ end of sections copied from Idea Dev p 17

Balaam as Rider on Donkey Passing Through Guarded Gate

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 46 top: Balaam
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-46-top

“Image 46 Balaam.png” 4.6 MB, stamp: [12:22 a.m. February 12, 2023]
url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=46&r=-0.094,0.093,1.332,0.697,0

Features:

• Angel stands on {right foot}.
• Left foot touches donkey’s feet.
• How about if I only announce when a Golden image doesn’t have mushroom hems?

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=46&r=-0.094,0.093,1.332,0.697,0

Announced Decoding Balaam April 26, 2002

When did I first post Balaam: apparently April 26, 2002.

Balaam, 1999 = Paul = angel gate, non-branching path, rider on donkey, it is very hard to find theologians sensibly covering Balaam and its equivalence to Paul and Jesus on donkey.

• I first posted about Balaam here: https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-15-2002-04-23/#message753 26/04/2002 April 26, 2002.

Caveat About Technique for Finding Oldest Posting Date

[re: Entry into J scene]

Note: I have not proved that the bottom-listed archived the Egodeath Yahoo Group page at WordPress Search = the oldest posts.

• April 26, 2002 is earlier than Valentines day 2004, therefore those my earliest Balaam postings are copied to Egodeath.com, threaded but foolishly lacking dates (have one of my grad students add dates to Egodeath.com from the Egodeath Yahoo Group archive).

Fallacy Demonstrated: Must Travel and See Art First-Hand to Accurately Interpret It

Projecting Too Many Mushrooms, in person!: the “Travel” fallacy

A critique of the “must travel” fallacy.

Critique Browns’ claim that travel makes you see clearly instead of projecting/ reading into “I strictly report what I see: I see caps that have been painted over so are obscured, not visible” –

How is in-person hallucinating/projecting any better than projecting onto blurry internet photos?

Following in the ardent footsteps of advocate John Rush who wrote “This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out”,

Julie Brown saw first-hand “that the caps have been made not visible“ –

What kind of Wassonian mealy-mouthed double-talk is this?

Welcome to the wack world of entheogen scholarship.

I had to fight against earlier entheogen scholars’ mis-reading and projection and interpolation into the evidence, to think & see clearly.

Only by examining Browns’ blurry internet photos (eg Acrobat PDF fullscreen, & from Browns’ Word .doc file) along with multiple other ppls’ Blurry Internet Photos (eg 1964 french tourism site) was I able to get a still-hazy look at the STICKS & FEATHERS, which is what’s in fact shown.

Though, I wish to see & photograph Martin myself.

Image 2: Purification of Isaiah’s Lips

“Brown Purification of Isaiahs Lips pdf fullscreen.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [2:19 p.m. February 12, 2023]

url https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 3: Towers of Jerusalem

On March 21, 2022, Prof. Brown sent the Marcia Kupfer passage — the version from the 2019 article with extra highlighting more than book — and I replied the same day with like “youths in trees cutting branches? (sarcastically) I agree, she’s insightful, and I just happen right now to be developing ideas about cutting branches.” My wording is in Idea Development Page 13:

Page title:
Idea Development page 13
Section heading:
Amanita Imagery Indicates Psilocybe Use
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Amanita-Imagery-Indicates-Psilocybe-Use

Here are the paragraphs at the start of my March 21, 2022 reply to Brown (evidence that I was already at full momentum that prepared me for the recognition of motifs & the ensuing breakthroughs):

“I’m recognizing and formulating the art construct of “branching-message mushroom trees“, “non-branching-revealing mushroom trees”, or “branching mushroom trees”, contrasted against Brinckmann’s “vine-leaf trees“.

Branching-message mushroom trees and vine-leaf trees are depicted and contrasted by Eadwine’s illuminated manuscript artist group.

Branching-message mushroom trees add branches and cut-off branches.”

[sarcasm paragraph — “best positioned” refers to a really bad hack “journalist’s” article – instead of me pushing against Kupfer, I feigned alignment:]

“I’m enthusiastic about art experts (who obviously are best positioned to tell us that mushroom imagery doesn’t represent mushrooms) who explain that the youths are removing branching from a tree.

Scholars’ attempted off-base explaining-away of mushroom evidence provides yet more material to assemble into a coherent, compelling explanation: the new, entheogenic explanatory theory of religious history and how the mind works in the Eucharist-induced Holy Spirit state.”

/ end of excerpt from my March 21, 2022 reply to Brown

The Draping-Walls Guy’s Right Foot Is on the Gate Hinge

Here’s a suitably awkward venture to interpret the awkward perspective: [February 15, 2023]: I propose that the hammering-draping-walls guy’s RIGHT foot is on the gate hinge.

What it would mean to stand on gate hinge is not clear except a general association with “right leg = go through gate”.

The perspective is dizzying regardless of whether that’s intended as left or right leg – neither one “works”, fits the perspective.

Either it’s an awkward left leg depiction, or it’s an awkward right leg depiction – so we cannot settle this interp based on which is more natural.

L or R are equally awkward.

Given that left leg = possibilism-thinking, it makes no sense to connect {left foot} to {gate}.

I propose/suppose we are to imagine his left leg on wall on back side of tower.

My proposal is very visually awkward and unnatural – matched only by how visually same if we see his left leg.

We see his stomach so it’s got to be his right leg.

“Brown Towers of Jerusalem pdf fullscreen.png” 4.1 MB, stamp: [2:25 p.m. February 12, 2023]

url https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Phantom Knife at Left Elbow

[2:36 p.m. February 12, 2023] Cybermonk – I just noticed a PHANTOM KNIFE at left elbow.

From 1980s restoration?

From Julie Brown on hallucinogenic mushrooms with paintbrush in hand fixing the art’s error:

“I see caps that have been painted over so they’re not visible.”

Copied from 2019 article pdf:

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youth who with his other hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Julie Brown Does Exactly What Browns Accuse Ardent Advocates of Doing: Seeing Mushrooms Everywhere, by Forced Reading/ Projection

So if I show Julie Brown a stick, she says she sees a mushroom stem with no visible cap.

WAITAMINUTE, WHO IS IT WHO “SEES MUSHROOMS EVERYWHERE” EVEN WHERE NOT PRESENT?

I have caught Julie Brown doing EXACTLY what Browns accuse John Rush of doing, seeing mushrooms everywhere by forced reading/projection.

Found Brown’s 2nd “knives” in Tower Scene, at Alamy’s Panorama Photos

In one spot in book or article, Brown I think (I wrote about this here before) says “knives” with ‘s’, in the tower scene.

To the right is an additional knife to the right of the vertical missing paint, 70% to the right in this image, thus removing 1 error that I claimed from Browns’ analysis/writeup.

Gate found?? who knows. Employ the Julie Brown “only report what you see” approach:

I see a gate that is missing or has been painted over so it is not visible.

Image 4: Last Supper

I think Brown’s Word file has the right-hand mushroom, it’s not in pdf. I think I made an image from Brown Word file that shows that, in my gallery here.

“Brown Last Supper pdf fullscreen.png” 4.2 MB, stamp: [2:52 p.m. February 12, 2023], extracted from pdf by Cybermonk

https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 5: Last Supper detail: Mushroom Hem

Photo Credit: Julie M. Brown
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
“Brown Last Supper detail pdf fullscreen.png” 3.8 MB, stamp: [2:59 p.m. February 12, 2023]

Article States 3 Mushroom Hems, Book Lists 7

Book lists 7 on p 114:

“left of Jesus. … four … caps … also a mushroom in … to the right of Jesus, as well as two more at the top of Judas’s robe”

4+1+2 = 7 mushrooms hems.

From 2019 pdf, copied: Brown wrote:

“Finally, if we look closely at the robes of the disciples seated to the left of Jesus, we see discretely drawn into the folds of the hems are three distinct umbrella-shaped, mushrooms caps whose stems are all linked together (Figure 12).”

Here’s my crop not from Browns’ detail plate, from my own crop from their big photo:

“Brown Last Supper detail from full photo pdf fullscreen.png” 389 KB, stamp: [3:11 p.m. February 12, 2023], crop by Cybermonk

Photo Credit: Julie M. Brown
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

Image 6: Scroll: The Prophet Isaiah Goes Forth

Bearded guy with disc/ring halo holds unrolled scroll in hands.

Book only; not in the .pdf. p. 116.

Motivation for Creating this Page 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Scope is valid: the set of fresco scenes, which go beyond what Browns covered.

In March-April 2022 when I did ten days straight of breakthroughs as fast as I could type, by back-applying the Eadwine initiation image to my familiar (since 2006-2022) images, I repeatedly exclaimed “Why don’t I have a page for this piece of art, for my worthy decoding breakthrough?”

I am not sure I want or can maintain a page for each art work decoding.

I am not committed to that design.

But the St. Walburga non-entheogenic Walburga tapestry non-Amanita Amanita image, which brown places at the head of their brilliant gallery of entheogenic art, as an example of non-entheogenic art, is the start of this website content within the … which fed into the Hatsis articles/pages at Octt 2020 for-real start of this site.

This site started in 2016 to supplement the availability-challenged Egodeath.com site.

Then the Egodeath Yahoo Groups were swept out from under us around 2019 (2020?), so at that time, I for real made this site built out this site. Dates are at the Egodeath Yahoo Group archive final page and home page:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com

In 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels, Browns cover this.

% of Psilocybin vs. Amanita Finds/ Sites in the Book

Brown counts 7 Amanita locations and 5 Psil, but, if we ignore GCP, that’s 6 Aman vs 5 Psil, which is 5/… depends on counting dups; basically 50/50 almost.

Great Mushroom Psalter barely gives lip service to Amanita; it’s all Psilocybin.

Technical Notes on Image Resolution

For Full-Resolution Brown Photos: Download PDF, Fullscreen in Acrobat, Zoom

I’m getting close to that high resolution here at WordPress site, but the PDF isn’t really exporting full resolution when select “Save Picture” or”Copy Image” button in Acrobat.

How to View Brown Image at Highest Possible Upstream Resolution: Download the PDF, view in Acrobat, fullscreen, zoom

Zooming Browns’ PDF fullscreen in Acrobat is probably signif. crisper than this screencap as filtered through WordPress:

best view of my .png: in browser, right-click, copy image address, paste into a new browser window and then go fullscreen; if WordPress UI junk STILL wastes pixels, try again/ try harder until its FULL SCREEN – I MEAN IT!

Here is the URL to open in new window with no WordPress UI wasting half the screen: https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/brown-entry-pdf-fullscreen-screencap-best-res.png – then go full screen using the two keyboard shortcuts in Chrome/Mac.

CONFIRMED: The PDF in Acrobat is crisper (more sharply pixellated, ironically) than my softened (w/ freewill fog) .pdf here.

The upstream downloaded zoomed .pdf is going to be the highest resolution available, and is guaranteed, rather than “maybe” a bitwise-true export.

As far as I can tell, no matter how I extract/create a .png from the .pdf, it’s NOT bitwise-true.

Do not view Browns’ PDF in-browser at academia.edu; very blurry there.

What Part of “Full Screen” Do You Not Understand?
🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Why I have to WASTE my time capturing online art here: Golden Ps. source site when click “full screen” fills 60% of your monitor, and WASTES 40% of the pixels.

So, in 10 simple steps, you can view eg https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/entry-into-jerusalem-golden.png literally actually full screen for non-drug meditation, i mean contemplation, purposes.

“Chrome” is ironically meant name; it REMOVES UI chrome/cruft /pixel waste. GIVE ME MY FULL SCREEN! Not 1 px x 1 px of remaining space for image and the UI geniuses are busy figuring how to cram more UI chrome over that, too.

1. Right-click any image at my WordPress site, and then select Copy Image Address.
2. In a new browser window, paste the .png URL string.
3. If WordPress STILL fills 60% of your monitor with unwanted screen-wasting UI junk (advertising WordPress UI instead of CONTENT, try again in a new window.
4. Finally you have accomplished FULL SCREEN 100%.
5. Mac Chrome keyboard shortcuts: you have to know/use both keyboard shortcuts together:
6. Control+Command+F = full screen, meaning not full screen.
7. Shift+Command+F = toggle menu junk and Address Bar.
   Practice, practice, practice those hand shapes; see:

Muscle-Memory Hand Shapes to Accomplish Actual Full Screen, not “Half-Screen Full Screen” 🍄🖼🔍🔬🧐

Dup copies of images png files:

The above was my non-final attempt at full resolution:
“Brown Entry full photo from pdf Save Picture button.png” [10:11 a.m. February 11, 2023] only 1.4 MB?? dinky. that MIGHT be accurate per provided in .pdf. compare png in https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
The png-in-webpage is very blurry.

Todo

Add my various crops especially Entry.

Link remaining TOC items.

See Also

Decoding Browns’ Saint Martin Fresco: Mushroom Trees, Branches, Tree Shapes, Knives, Donkey, Finger Shapes, Youths, Gated Stone Wall
September 7, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/decoding-browns-saint-martin-fresco-mushroom-trees-branches-knives-donkey-youths-gated-stone-wall/

2016 Book: The Psychedelic Gospels

The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/

2019 Article: Entheogens in Christian art

Page title:
Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works
Section heading:
Entheogens in Christian art (Brown & Brown 2019)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Entheogens-in-Christian-art

Browns’ Works

Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works (The Psychedelic Gospels)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/

Marcia Kupfer

“In Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative, art historian Marcia Kupfer (1993) devotes a chapter [see] to the history and interpretation of the Saint Martin murals.”

Brown 2019 References section lists two Marcia Kupfer books:

Kupfer, M. (1993). Romanesque wall painting in Central France: The politics of narrative. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Romanesque-Wall-Painting-Central-France/dp/0300057202/ –

Kupfer, M. (2003). The art of healing: Painting for the sick and the sinner in a medieval town. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Healing-Painting-Sinner-Medieval/dp/0271023031/ –

Cybermonk, February 10, 2023 – Golden Gallery

Contents:

• Notes for the Golden Munich Psalter Gallery Page

• Notes for Image 21
  • Notes for Image 21 middle left: God Creates Plants
• Notes for Image 22
• Notes for Image 24
  • Notes for Image 24 top: Enoch lifted up
  • Notes for Image 24 bottom: Lamech Shoots Cain, Book of Jasher
• Notes for Image 29 top: Sacrifice of Isaac
• Notes for Image 31
  • Notes for Image 31 details
  • Notes for Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night
• Notes for Image 35
• Notes for Image 39
• Notes for Image 40
• Image 40 top: Baby Moses in River
• Decoding {Barren Gray Branching Trees} in Golden Munich Psalter
• Notes for Image 45
• Notes for Image 46
• Notes for Image 47
• Notes for Image 52
• Notes for Image 54
  • Notes for Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem
  • YII! – Examples of Morphology Contrasting Y vs. II Shapes
  • Dual Motifs: New, 2-in-1 Combined Motif: {lifted mushroom hem} = {celestial erection (lifted garment)} motif + {mushroom hem} motif
  • Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree
• Notes for Image 59
• Notes for Image 62
• Notes for Image 63
• Notes for Image 64
• Notes for Image 65
• Notes for Image 66
• Notes for Image 141
• Notes for Image 146
• Notes for Image 169
• Notes for Image 172

• Analysis, Decoding, & Commentary
  • General Notes About the Psalter and Psychedelic Eternalism Analysis
• Underestimated Golden Munich Psalter During First Skim of PDF on July 23, 2022
• “Evidence Proves Absence”: Stop Putting a Higher Priority on Narrative “Big Bad Church Eliminated Mushrooms”; Simply Inventory the Mushroom Evidence
• Motivation for Creating this Page
• {tall branching tree on left, short non-branching tree on right}
  • The Egodeath Theory Has It All Backwards
• {wings} = {billowing cloth} = {halo} = {lifted garment} = loose cognitive binding
• Branching & Non-Branching ✌️🖖
  • Vulcan Gesture of Non-Branching
• My Great Cross-Decoding Technique
• Spear Breakthrough: {spear} = {non-branching} = eternalism = {death} = {sacrifice son / king / left-hand steersman} = {pass through gate using key}
• “Decoding” Mytheme Motifs Doesn’t Imply Secret Obscurantism Occluded Communication-Blocking Assumption Everyone Unthinkingly Uses
  • Textual Signage, and Scrolls as Speech Bubbles
    • Explicit Signs of Mushroom Eternalism
    • Instance of Signage & Speech Bubbles: Jesus Healing a Leper
    • Instance of Signage & Speech Bubbles: Spear (Hatsis’ Parasol of Defeat)
• Parallel Mushrooms Around Sword Base
• {spear} Is Contrasted Against {branching}
• High-Res Image Tech Notes
• “Snoozing Entheogen Scholars.png”
• Difficult to Implement Two Parallel Pages with Full Cross-Linking
• See Also

/ end of table of contents for Golden Notes page

Notes for the Golden Munich Psalter Gallery Page

The present page is notes about the gallery, which is:

Image gallery:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

Notes for Image 21

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-21

Notes for Image 21 middle left: God Creates Plants

Germinettra Herbs

4 mushroom trees

Aggressive interp via my Diamond Hammer of Interp: the so-called “blessing” right hand two fingers index & middle always means “non-branching” ie transformation from possibilism to eternalism. Underlying reality of non-branching eternalism. [8:38 a.m. February 9, 2023]

test of keyboard shortcut/acronym [DDTS], which stands for “decoded + date/time stamp”:

[decoded by Cybermonk 8:16 a.m. February 9, 2023]

What is decoded here? That right hand two fingers by God or Christ is read by medieval artists as “non-branching; underlying eternalism” against the veiled appearance/cloak garment, of seeming branching; possibilism.

In medieval art, right-hand index finger & middle finger of God and Christ means non-branching, veiled underlying reality; eternalism; transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

transformation from from surface appearance of possibilism to perceiving underlying eternalism like Browns’ bones of Eve in Plainc fresco, book page quote re: interpretation”shamanic death”.

{two fingers together} = non-branching underlying eternalism

Two fingers right hand of God / Christ means non-branching, underlying eternalism; eternalism on the underlying level veiled by appearances of possibilism branching and king steering in branching posssibilities

[decoded by Cybermonk 8:46 a.m. February 9, 2023]; ie, additional network-elaboration.

As re: mystery of how I genuinely announced the very same breakthrough on Thanksgiving week 2011 and 2012 and 2013: it’s a matter of number & structure of network revisions per Paul Thagard’s book Conceptual Revolutions.

Conceptual Revolutions (Thagard)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/conceptual-revolutions/

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21&r=0.017,0.444,0.645,0.338,0

/ Image 21

Notes for Image 22

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-22

Notes for Image 24

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-24

Notes for Image 24 top: Enoch lifted up

Summary of Top Features

• Lifted garment above non-branching tree 2x. [discovered 10:11 p.m. Sunday, February 12, 2023] – experienced as a nice reward at end of weekend of working on the psalter gallery/analysis. Confirmed by virtue of the all-too-familiar feeling “How was I so blind as to not immediately see/notice this?”
• Bent left leg = standing on right leg (“What % weight on right leg?”)
• “arrow mushroom hem” – new term, [7:08 p.m. February 13, 2023].
• Decoded by Cybermonk [2:23 p.m. February 11, 2023] – Enoch has a bent left leg, re: The Standard Question [that I’ve defined], “What percentage of weight on right leg/foot?”
• decoded by Cybermonk [2:23 p.m. February 11, 2023] – Enoch carried to heaven has a bent left leg, re: The Std Question “what % of weight on right leg/foot?” Artist signals “More weight on right than left leg”.

Notes for Image 24 top detail: Lifted Garment Selects Non-Branching Tree

{lifted garment/mushroom hem} affirms {non-branching} tree, not {branching} tree.

Which type of tree is selected/affirmed by the {lifted garment}? (x2)
Answer: non-branching.

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zoom: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.29,0.338,0.558,0.292,0

Arrows in Mushroom Hem Are Identical to Arrows in Lifted Garment, Proving That Mushroom Hem = Lifted Garment = Mushroom Altered State

Q.E.D.: Mushroom Hem = Mushroom = Psilocybin Loose Cognition

Furthermore, these motifs are tied to {handedness} and especially to {non-branching, which = eternalism-thinking, therefore, it is PROVED that mushroom hem and related imagery means mushroom effects ie the ultimate “effect” of Psilocybin = eternalism-thinking = non-branching.

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• Artist signals “More weight on right than left leg”. Also the foot configuration, I concluded around April 2022, is understood by genre’s artists as “sideways right foot, left foot aimed at viewer” means “standing on right foot” as we see in Eustace crossing river:

Eustace Window Lion Pilzbaum Pairs of Branching vs. Non-Branching Mushroom Trees, Y I Morphology Contrast, Branching-Message Clover Pairs
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/05/05/eustace-window-lion-pilzbaum-pairs-of-branching-vs-non-branching-mushroom-trees-y-i-morphology-contrast-branching-message-clover-pairs/ –

• Angels with lifted garment.
• Upside-down mushroom hem(s).
• Enoch,
• lifted garment,
• mushroom hem,
• 4 mushroom trees (2 small ones are like minor non-branching trees motif)
• {tall branching tree on left, short non-branching tree on right} – id’d by Cybermonk 9:41 a.m. February 9, 2023 – I moved my notes about that, from below to the new page: [initially failed to see that the {lifted garment} is over the {non-branching tree}, 2x]
  Golden Munich Psalter Analysis in Terms of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-24-Notes

Examples of {left leg bent}

Image 134 detail: Youth Riding Serpent While Spearing It (Illuminated Initial)

Notes for Image 24 bottom: Lamech Shoots Cain, Book of Jasher

Note February 9, 2023 – I’m moving bulk of notes eg Hatsis’ research to my Golden Notes page.

Lower Panel (1 ct.)

[9:40 p.m. Feb. 3, 2023] lifted garment on right, has John Rush noted that?

There’s probably like 65 of them in the Golden Munich Psalter.

The upper panel one is much better, but proves it’s the same deliberate … technique I id’d called, “subtle motif noting”.

I wrote before, a year ago.

Once you establish your motif, then for fun you do it ultra subtle: mushroom hems especially.

Don’t need full-fledged.

An example I wrote about: liberty-cap caps in Eadwine’s Psalter – if you have a super blurry one and a sharp one, provided by the artist, the hint-blurry one is to be considered as an instance defined by the crisp one.

Don’t need detail, except for 1 time only.

Hatsis’ Info About the Jasher Image

Hatsis’ page title:
The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Section heading:
Mushrooms and Halos
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –
https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –

“We see, also from the Munich Psalter, the same mushroom trees that supposedly gave Jacob his vision.

“The meaning of this picture (Figure 11) was difficult to track down, as this is not a Psalm scene, despite its appearance in a psalter.

“It is a scene from the apocryphal text The Book of Jasher, a work that was apparently excised, as it does not appear in the Bible (though this text is referenced several times therein)¹⁹.

19: Genesis 4: 23 and 5: 25, though it might be referring to two different Lamechs, this one comes from Gen 4.

In this elapsed story, we are given a follow-up of what happened to Cain after killing his brother, Abel.

Lamech, Cain’s great grandson in this story, went hunting one day with his son, Tubal Cain.

“Blinded by old age (though it would seem that Tubal Cain’s vision wasn’t too good either), Lamech accidentally shot Cain with an arrow²⁰.”

20: Mordecai Manuel Noah (trans.) The Book of Jasher: Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel (NY: M . M. Noah and A. S. Gould, 1840) pg. 5.

Hatsis’ folly-acious, low-value, sub-specious argumentation:

• Idea Development page 17
• The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator

Notes for Image 29

Notes for Image 29 top: Sacrifice of Isaac

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=29&r=-0.05,0.113,0.998,0.522,0
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https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-29

☺️ 🎉 😊

I was glad to find 2nd Mushroom Isaac image – helps a lot, redundancy.

The mind is demonstrated to the point so at which to drive and cause yield fruit seeing how the 2nd mental worldmodel of control is makes sense and is needed and the 1st mental worldmodel is able to be made to fail.

New definition: usage shorthand: “model” = “-thinking” = way of thinking = one of the two contrasted ways of thinking; mental worldmodel of time, control, and possibilities branching, and of control dependence/ autonomy/ independence/ levels.

mental worldmodel = for short, “model”.

This could mean “experiential mode” or at least the ord-state memory of the alt-state experiential mode, and eternalism-thinking, and the “eternalism” mental model.

To reach the point at which you are able to demonstrate failure-potential, is to reach the point at which you are ready and able to adopt the 2nd mental worldmodel.

To make the 1st model fail is to learn and adopt the 2nd model.

I remember my picky quibbles w/ Golden Ps:

• these mushroom trees don’t have as many instances of the important {cut branches} motif.
• no {handedness} motif?

/www.bing.com/images/search?q=panaeolus

Image 31 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-31

Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night

Notes for:
Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section:
Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-31-bottom

In my Golden page, Image 31 bottom section, I summarize decoding times and points. There’s not a gap in time from 7:15 pm feb 9 2023 to 8:30 pm b/c of slow discoveries, but b/c I’m busy typing up a log of my process of discovery as I go along.

Branching Pilzbaum on left, non-branching on right. [8:30 p.m. February 9, 2023]: similar to ~Mar-Apr 2022 re: Dancing Man’s tree vs vertical salamander.:

Here is a new point/aspect:

Although the left tree appears branching, both the br-L & non-branching R trees in fact sit on a single, non-branching trunk base.

The underlying basis for the branching (freewill possibilism-thinking) is actually non-branching.

“Image 31 bottom Jacob Wrestles Angel.png” 4.2 MB. Analysis began upon uploading, and instantly in realtime I wrote up: left of tree is branching, right is non-branching.

{right heel} touches {non-branching stable tr… [7:13 p.m. February 9, 2023] that’s a new network-connction live as I type: {stable column base} = {base of tree trunk}; {right heel} should touch that, like in Dancing Man as I announced Mar-Apr 2022.

🍄🔍🔬🧐

Image search: “liberty cap” mushroom
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%22liberty+cap%22+mushroom

[decoded by Cybermonk 7:13 p.m. February 9, 2023] & 7:15 then noticed right foot touching tree base, AFTER started entering that I noticed 7:13 that the tree is branching left, non-branching right. 7:15 – SEPARATE NOTICING (#3): angel right foot down, left foot up. The diligently neat accidental 3 mushroom hems look like the Mystic Y image. 3 distinct features logged realtime discoveries in decoding in realtime.

I just un-stretched the fantastic Mystic Y from John Rush site! Here’s a msh hem crop from the restored aspect ratio:

1. First I noticed tree left = branching, right = non-branching.
2. Minute later as I was typing that up, noticed Jacob right heel touches non-branching trunk of tree.
3. Minute later as I was typing that upp, noticed angel right foot down stand on right foot, left foot up, also
4. Left toes touch, floating.

[done] Let’s do an obscenely hi-res pic of accidental msh hem and sloppy artist that can’t make foot touch the ground:
“Image 31 bottom Angel Wrestle Msh Hem Right Down.png” 5.3 MB, wasteful but a good definitive look at morphology of TOTALLY ACCIDENTAL hem

Mushroom Shapes in Moses’ Hem Only, Consistently

Jeez blurry internet photo, go to Rush site (done; I even fixed / un-stretched Rush’s image next!)

Image 35 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-35

Image 39 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-39

Image 40 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-40

Decoding {Barren Gray Branching Trees} in Golden Munich Psalter

Image 40 top: Baby Moses in River

curious theory-corroborating observations February 16, 2023:

The barren/fruitless branching tree (its branching part) is touching left hand. doesn’t touch water/river.

non-branching trunk of fruiting tree touches (arguably) the right leg & water.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=40&r=0.152,0.175,0.854,0.447,0

“Image 40 top baby.png” stamp: 3:39 PM Feb 11, 2023, 4.4 MB

Image 146 bottom detail: Rich Man Tormented

Non-branching tail of snake is touching non-branching base of tree; compare Dancing Man salamander bestiary image.

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=146&r=0.309,0.736,0.538,0.29,0

Image 303 detail: Branching Orchard

3 fruitless barren trees, 6 fruit trees, 1 flower blossom tree

“Image 303 Branching Orchard.png”

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=303&r=0.372,0.775,0.642,0.336,0

11:30 [ p.m. February 15, 2023] the barren tree in Golden = dark side of Transcendent Knowledge / enlightenment: tree with no fruit.

Golden Psalter has like baby Moses left tree barrenness of possibilism-thinking. False tree that bears no fruit of blossoming into eternalism.

The fruit on msh trees = blossoming into eternalism, Transcendent Knowledge. The dead trees din in Golden (a typical psalter…

Image 45 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-45

Image 46 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-46

Image 47 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-47

Image 52 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-52

Image 54 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-54

Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-54-top

If I had seen this scene with red guy standing on cut branch with right foot, after I finshed Eadwine galleries around March 2022, I would not have been dismissive of Golden Munich Psalter, and I would not have said it mostly lacks {handedness} and {non-branching}.

Top question: are you sure there’s no Entry scene in Eadwine?

After my failed initial mis-assessment & underestimating of Golden, I also cannot trust my take on Eadwine; it all warrants further re-checking.

It’s like a Rock album: sometimes you have to give it a chance, stay open-minded, avoid instant dismissal.

Rider on Donkey with Branching Ears

Which image #’s show {donkey with rider}? Go with Entry into Jerusalem (54?)

[4:40 p.m. February 11, 2023] I just got a {branching donkey ears} read, by building my deepening grasp of {rider on donkey} from the past couple days:

{donkey} = possibilism-thinking = branching premised; thus the branching donkey ears. King Midas has donkey ears, branching.

After enlightenment, you have God-level POV atop the egoic dumb possibilism-thinking donkey that carries and wrongly thinks that it carries by employing autonomous freewill control-steering power into an open, non-existing non-extant future.

Image 54 top (notes)

I think I found where I got this image, from 1964, French tourism site. Find 1964 in my new, thank-goodness, much needed new page: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-%e2%9e%b3%f0%9f%96%96%f0%9f%8c%b4%f0%9f%94%aa%f0%9f%8d%84%f0%9f%96%bc%f0%9f%94%8d%f0%9f%94%ac%f0%9f%a7%90/

These shape-making, morphology/topology images/motifs are to describe; to communicate something basic: the two, state-based world models: transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Topology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

Morphology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_morphology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology

Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control – category: Control Transformation

“Jesus blessing the mushrooms” is a cute heading, but misleading and must be explained; harmful in that it perpetuates a rut of thinking-pattern that prevents comprehension.

If fingers making a branching-related shape is rightly called a “blessing gesture”, that is far less important than the source of meaning, of why such a class of morphology/topology shapes would amount to “blessing”.

Image 54 notes: The Steersman-Sacrificing Branching Mushroom Psychedelic Revelation of Non-Branching

Rider on Donkey: “Entry into Jerusalem – Rider on Donkey.png” 2.4 MB

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

{removed garment} touches {right foot} of {donkey you ride}

touches {left foot} too; room for flexible interp

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

en zoom the display using touchpad or multitouch gesture:

Some cut-square artifact here.

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

Consider the images in this page as reduced-resolution preview.

YII! – Examples of Morphology Contrasting Y vs. II Shapes

Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance: Eustace Crossing River

Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance

[8:49 p.m. February 9, 2023] – I just decoded adequately {sticks}!

Y: feathers
II: sticks (removed branches w/ branching removed, converted into sticks, like a pole – or spear, singce since non-brnching kills the possibilism-thinking steersman)
non-branching sticks branches feathers

[11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023] made 3rd crop from new source:
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Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance: Left Fingers Branching, Right Fingers Together

Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance: Fingers Together vs. Mushrooms Branching Apart

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance: Enoch with Tall Branching Mushroom Tree Left of Short Non-Branching

also [1:57 p.m. February 12, 2023] it strikes me again, stronger now, that WE KNOW MUSHROOM HEM = PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM EXPERIENCE, BECAUSE A MUSHROOM HEM IS USED FOR LIFTED GARMENT.

Didn’t John Rush assert this in 1st Edition of his book? Did he point out that {mushroom hem} is drawn within {lifted garment}? No! He discusses the two togeher but not integrated, just “there’s a celestial erection motif” (John Rush’s term – I don’t think we lose much by my term lifted garment, but how about a compromise: I need to talk about this more heavily, he only mentions celestial erection 5 spots according to the Index – we need to do deep thinking or full … how about hhalf the time, use my term … the flexible -terminology strategy, very practical.

I find I really want to flex terminology – not so far as to seriously employ the yuck term “netfault mode network”. Crap, I have to bend language to translate to a poor lexicon like “hallucinogen”. Risk of Cognitive Neuroreductionism by … keep my own lexicon-range. NETFAULT CRINGE NETWORK/LEXICON.

the default cringe lexicon, perfectly tuned for Pop Cognitive Neuroreductioniasm. throw out a cpl terms ‘default mode network’ and ‘ego death’ and ‘unity ultimate consciousness’ and ‘surrender’/’accept your lack of control over the experience,, submit to the experiences.

I am a bit surprised how much this terminology has stabilized, like the Houot dissertation complains about and tries to do better.

quick grab the two versions of the dionysus pic, where? jeez do i need a page about . I can get from 1 verion from main article… want both, they are in the

Wh WHY DON’T I HAVE A PAGE FOR DIONYSUS VICTORY PROCCESSION?

Dionysus’ procession does this, sloppy instance of Dancing Man vaguely does that.

John Rush calls the art motif {celestial erection}.

The key, connecting proof that every mushroom hem means altered state, is that the ultimate version of {muhsroom hem} is {mushroom hem inside lifted garment}.

Does John Rush point out that?

Evidently, {mushroom hem} = small/petite visual form of {lifted garment}.

To do: gallery of {lifted garment}, refresh it.

See extant page:
Lifted Garment & Mushroom Folds in Christian & Greek Art, Indicating the Ecstatic Holy Spirit Altered State

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.046,0.16,0.919,0.481,0

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From our POV, the left pilzbaum pair fits the pattern: Y/II.

From the POV of Enoch & angels, the right-hand pilzbaum pair fits the pattern: branching on their left, non-branching on their right.

EOD Feb 13 2023 Additional Content Points copied from Idea Dev p. 17:

Dual Motifs: New, 2-in-1 Combined Motif: {lifted mushroom hem} = {celestial erection (lifted garment)} motif + {mushroom hem} motif

zoom gray hem https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.366,0.502,0.344,0.18,0

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“Image 24 red mushroom hem.png” 172 KB [2:09 a.m. February 13, 2023]

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zoom red angel hem https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.262,0.192,0.229,0.12,0

Important b/c it proves and ties together equivalence of … it more effectively bolsters interpretation of both of the overlapped mythemes, bolstering the interp of all 3 elements/ how to interpret the 3 distinct yet overlapping motifs.

mushrooms = celestial erection (lifted garment) = mushroom hem
= no-branching = stand on right leg

lifted garment = mushroom hem = mushrooms
= Psilocybin

Combines overlap of John Rush motifs “celestial erection” and “mushroom hems”.

John Rush always talks about the “celestial erection” and “mushroom hems” motifs as a pair, not an overlap, 5x per Index of book.

The Best Mushroom Hem is the Lifted Garment

All the pics are here:

Mushrooms Hidden and Visible in Fabric Folds: Dionysus’ Triumph
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#mhavif

John Rush has here a double lifted mushroom hem =
John Rush has here a double celestial erection + mushroom hem

Rush never points out that the best msh hem is the lifted garment. msh hem = a mini lifted cloth, and

mushroom hem as mini lifted garment

double celestial erection mushroom hems

Usually the “celestial erection” motif is thought of as distinct from the “mushroom hem” motif.

Only 25% of lifted garments look like mushroom hems or mushrooms.

try to incorp {mushroom hem} art motif.

[12:55 a.m. February 13, 2023] new term per filename: “lifted mushroom hem“

Crops:

“Image 24 blue lifted mushroom hem.png” 491 KB [1:08 a.m. February 13, 2023]

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.377,0.365,0.229,0.12,0

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zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.519,0.366,0.229,0.12,0

todo: add this to Golden Notes where I’m covering Enoch lifted up.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.381,0.34,0.344,0.18,0

“Image 24 Mushroom Hem in Lifted Garment Enoch.png” 3 MB [11:52 p.m. February 12, 2023]

todo: update add Golden Psalter instances of {lifted garment} to the latter motif-page. ank Rank them; best kind of mushroom hem is in {lifted garment} on a {non-branching} msh tree.

Dual motifs eg {lifted garment} on a {non-branching part} of a mushroom tree where the formed by a {mushroom hem}. rank {lifted garment} instances by proximity to other motifs eg {straight right leg} vs {bent left leg}. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-39-top

Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree

pretty psyched, nice corroboration, didn’t see it for a few days! LOOK HARDER!

The analysis of this image is at the two pages:

Page title:
Golden Notes: Golden Munich Psalter per Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
Section heading:
Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#lifted-garment-above-non-branching-pilzbaums

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 24 top: Enoch Carried Up to Heaven
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-24-top

/ end of section to copy to Gallery Notes page

/end of added content from EOD feb 12 or midnight start of feb 13

Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree

Another point decoded by Cybermonk [10:11 p.m. February 12, 2023] — I just noticed that the {lifted garment} instances are over the short, non-branching mushroom trees – in contrast to the tall, branching mushroom trees.

Placement & inclusion of a {lifted garment} is a sign: “this is correct”; “this is inspired”; “this is per Transcendent Knowledge.”

This affirming alignment is substantial further corroboration of the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism/ the mytheme theory, and worth a dedicated crop!

“Image 24 Lifted Garment above Non-Branching Pilzbaum.png” 5.4 MB, stamp: [10:26 p.m. February 12, 2023]

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.186,0.331,0.77,0.403,0

[10:27 p.m. February 12, 2023] and that gives me an idea — for the {lifted garment} that’s on top of overlaid on a {trunk} (non-branching part) of a branching-message mushroom tree in another image — Sacrifice of Isaac (in Golden Ps) – todo: make a note there (golden gallery > Isaac).

At [10:47 p.m. February 12, 2023] I’m getting more info reeiceing muses (weaving a decoding-network of revising / building-up connections), about Isaac’s bent leg in Eadwine’s image:

Abraham’s lifted garment touches Isaac’s left leg (bad; = possibilism-thinking) while Abraham is about to cut off that mode of thinking

The right leg of the youth is bent (bad; ie = relying on possibilism-thinking) and is not touching the lifted garment, in Eadwine’s image.

Golden Munich Psalter’s version of Sacrifice of Isaac:

Abraham’s {lifted garment} is overlaid on a non-branching part of the branching-message mushroom tree:

Eadwine’s version of Sacrifice of Isaac:

Here’s another Golden instance of {lifted garment} overlaid on non-branching trunk of pilzbaum: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-39-top – a copy below:

Note the L/R parallelism – on left, mushroom hem overlaid approx’ly over trunk (nonbranching portion) of left pilzbaum.

Also establishes that M-shape cap of mushroom hem = lifted garment = arrow-shape cap.

Y/II Morphology Contrast Instance

[point decoded by Cybermonk 3:17 p.m. February 9, 2023]:
HOW IS ITEM-PAIR (Y+II) LIKE CONTRASTING POSSIBILISM VS. ETERNALISM ?
Jesus: left fingers splayed vs right fingers together.
Tree guy: feather branching vs. removed stick branches non-branching.

Quote Balaam (find writeup, link),

death angel blocking path = guarded gate

egoic possibilism-thinking is like a donkey, reality is worldline eternalism, but DUMB DONKEY = POSSIBILISM-THINKING

[12:26 a.m. February 8, 2023] DECODED {RIDING THE DONKEY}

donkey = possibilism-thinking

{donkey} = possibilism-thinking

{donkey} = possibilism-thinking

{rider} = eternalism-thinking

to put garment at donkey right foot = to get onto donkey

{donkey right foot} follows path but in donkey thinking = possibilism-thinking

eternalism-thinking carrying child thinking

eternalism-thinking

possibilism-thinking carrying eternalism-thinking

from em eternalism pov , egoic possibilism-thinking = donkey, dumb freewill egoic thinking.

rider on path to a gate or eternalism depiction

Rider on Horse

Image 54 top, crop: Jesus, tree, aiming blade cutting branching at the king to sacrifice

Message

Branching

Youths in Tree,

Donkey Epiphany:

Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem Procession

= Dionysus’ Victory Procession

Like Dionysus victory procession, Dionysus holds non-branching = spear.

Red guy holds blade

blade = non-branching.

The blade is the enemy of the branch.

Blade vs. branch.

Blade = anti-branch. Blades are for cutting branches. Harvesting branches.

You harvest the youth, cut the crop with non-branching blade.

hot fresh new tight crop feb 11 2023:

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

Image 59 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-59

Image 62 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-62

Image 63 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-63

Image 64 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-64

Image 65 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-65

Image 66 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-66

Image 141 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-141

Image 146 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-146

Image 169 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-169

Image 172 Notes

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-172

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Analysis, Decoding, & Commentary

General Notes About the Psalter and Psychedelic Eternalism Analysis

Underestimated Golden Munich Psalter During First Skim of PDF on July 23, 2022

By now, I know of several must-have panels from Golden. My loss. It was my loss, in about March 2022 when I …. is there a date stamp on my Golden PDF?

Yes!

July 23, 2022, on file: “/Users/username/Documents/TK/PDFs/Gold Munich Psalter/service-gdc-gdcwdl-wd-l_-08-93-9-wdl_08939-wdl_08939.pdf”

So evidently, I flipped through the Golden Psalter at breakneck speed x months ago:
2023/02/11
-2022/07/23
=

2023/01/41
-2022/07/23
=

2022/13/41
-2022/07/23
= 6 mo 22 days. 7 months ago.

Math check: july + 7 = feb.

“Evidence Proves Absence”: Stop Putting a Higher Priority on Narrative “Big Bad Church Eliminated Mushrooms”; Simply Inventory the Mushroom Evidence

“Evidence Proves Absence”: Stop Putting Smearing the Church as the Driving Narrative/ Dominant Discourse, Making That a Higher Objective than Simply Inventorying the Mushroom Evidence

The More Evidence You Discover & Provide for Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Culture, Constitutes Even More Proof that There Were No Mushrooms in Real Greek & Christian Culture

Moved content to:
The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator
Section heading:
More Evidence Proves More Absence from the Big Bad Church
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/the-panofsky-hatsis-explain-away-o-matic-mushroom-eliminator/#More-Evidence-Proves-More-Absence

Motivation for Creating this Page

Wrestling all night between adding messy analysis in my main Golden page vs finishing that project of adding captures.

To finish my Golden M.P. survey page, streamline it: move messy notes to here.

I don’t want to move my messy Golden commentary to generic Idea Devmt page 17 more. It’s lost, there.

I do want nutshell summary announcements at Golden page, but probably not open-ended writeups. It needs to be bounded/closed.

So, instead, the present page is open-ended/ unbounded. overflow page.

I created Idea Devmt page 1 for same reason/ strategy specifiaclly for Eadwine Great Mushroom Psalter & created my 4-5 support pages for my Great Mushroom Psalter Nov 2020 article.

Doing same pattern here for Golden M P.

{tall branching tree on left, short non-branching tree on right}

Formal commentary announcement [decoded by Cybermonk 9:41 a.m. February 9, 2023] I have written about this probably as far back as ~October 2020 — a common motif of a tall branching tree next to, on the right, a short, relatively non-branching tree.

Turns out, “decoding” is a matter of degree per network connection revisions; “theory revision” (Thagard).

I could add images:

Hildedegarde’s image, b/w plate in Brinckmann

My angled facsimile color sample photo of most of that image.

Two versions of Montecassino Manuscript scene in Entheos journal (tall & short Eden trees).

Both image sets are here at this site.

Make a page for this trope motif?

If I’m going to seriously announce it and maybe gather more instances.

Could broaden to include: Left tree same height as right.

If I create a new page scoped to {branching left, non-branching right} — that would be quite broad and fit many kinds of images. A subsection in the page would be:

• {tall branching tree on left, short non-branching tree on right}
• {branching tree on left, non-branching tree on right} (same height)

The Egodeath Theory Has It All Backwards

Proving that the Egodeath theory is wrong, Golden scene of Pilzbaum Crop has non-branching red Pilzbaum on left, next to a relatively branching Pilzbaum on right. 😵

From the picture’s point of view, the non-branching red Pilzbaum is on the right. Therefore I am unconquerable by art, and always right, no matter what. 😑

Relatively non-branching; tends to have as Panofsky said — but less — at least traces of branching.

Thanks to Brown 2019 for publishing the Wasson-covered-up, 2nd Panofsky letter.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence –

Panofsky wrote (letter 2, sentence 5):

“But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.”

{wings} = {billowing cloth} = {halo} = {lifted garment} = loose cognitive binding

Lifted garment = billowing cloth = wings = winged eye

Image search: “flying eye”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22flying+eye%22

u https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmousestudios.com%2Fproduct%2Fflying-eye-in-grey-painting%2F&psig=AOvVaw0VFdy1ftA20vmKiSQqQK81&ust=1676050509396000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCNix_4L9iP0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

Everyone knows that {flying eyeball} = altered state.

Flying Eye in Grey- Painting

Everyone in Antiquity knows that {billowing cloth} = altered state.

{halo} is more a permanent consciousness attributed to saints, than transient state.

https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Emerging-Markets–The-Flying-Eye/3A23DE3155E5E77C

Everyone in Medieval Christendom knows that {lifted garment} = altered state.

Everyone in Medieval Christendom knows that {branching-message mushroom tree} means the revelation of eternalism.

Everyone in Medieval Christendom knows that {spear} means non-branching that kills the old, vulnerable-to-collapse mental model.

Branching & Non-Branching ✌️🖖

Vulcan Gesture of Non-Branching

secret meaning of the Vulcan V benediction gesture: branching & non-branching

keeping old notes as breadcrumb trail:

todo:
crisp Entry. done.

done:
Crop Golden Entry to show dagger-branch and Jesus’ side

after that breakthrough – or middle now of it: I am about to post this great profound crop: [which one did i mean, a cpl days ago? likely:]

BALAAM DONKEY ON PATH NO WHERE TO TURN LEFT OR RIGHT

gate

key

donkey and rider

hold cut branch

spear Jesus with cut branch in his vulnerability mortal weakness susceptible to being speared by non-branching.

left hand steers donkey

done:
Crop St Martin Entry to show spear and Jesus’ side

the spear was thought of as “non-branching”; the opposite of the branching model (possibilism);

branch vs spear. spear is the anti-branch.

Guy in tree holds dagger and cut branch.

cut-branch (remove branching) = spear (re: non-branching) —

both “cut branch” and “non-branching spear” assert eternalism.

Jesus is killed by non-branching in the side, the left heel = THE POINT OF VULNERABILITY.

SPEAR is vulnerability to non-branching, sacrificed by non-branching, speared by non-branching, speared by cut branching, by removed branching. to remove branching is to spear the king.

side = vulnerability to non-branching. the non-branching dagger of Mithras is the opposite of branching. knives cut the trees. the branching is susceptible to the the straight blades and…

[12:41 a.m. February 7, 2023]

Careful, PRESERVE THESE MESSY NOTES. MOVE Move them into an archive page, intact.

Or, move them (this section of idea development) to bottom of this page as an archive static section, do not clean the archaeology vessels, keep them dirty to chemistry-test.

Crop St Martin Entry to show spear and Jesus’ side < — SUPER IMPORTANT.

Start a page on spear decoding progress.

In the couple 10 paragraphs below, preserve the sudden jump breakthrough formatting as a record, DO NOT CLEAN UP:

I wrote the blocks below, then came back up to next line:

Crop Golden Entry to show dagger-branch and Jesus’ side [11:54 p.m. February 6, 2023] the spear I GOT IT the spear means non-branching. JESUS Jesus was speared in his side, the vulnerability in the side is non-branching that’s revealed when use the key of non-branching to get through gate shed garment and see mechanisms of control and cognition and model construction.

PROOF: Just as literally directly shown in Dionysus Victory mosaic, he is victorious because he is the power of non-branching to drive mad or threaten and transgress the control barriers of stability, and get a new stability, learn to stand on right foot instead of habitual left foot which the mind is now outside of habitual left-foot thinking, possibilism-thinking.

‘possibilism’ = possibilism-thinking, possibilism experiential mode

transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Dionysus divine garment versus contrasted against her simple draped garment removed. are his garment, hers contrasted, therefor, spear = `branching. Since she CLEARLY holds {branching}, THEREFORE, he holds {non-branching}.

Dionysus’ garment (divine cloak), right arm, non-branching spear. clothedness

spear : branch = divine garment worn : simple garment removed
(clothed : naked)

spear : branch =
right : left =
male vs. female =
divine garment : simple cloth
radiantly clothed : naked revealed exposed
eternalism : possibilism

Jesus is speared by non-branching. The broad non-branching principle. Spear literally the opposite of branch

what is the meaning of spear?

mosaic shows spear is the opposite of branch.

therefore

spear means non-branching

proof: as shown in Dionysus Victory Procession, includes 2-level dependent control, passivity of local control level.

Here are two opposite things:

transformation from possibilism to eternalism

branching is like possibilism

spear is like eternalism

hold out feather and sticks: = branching and non-branching.

[12:18 am February 7, 2023] connect to the spear I’m about to crop – Jesus’ spear is non-branching, the false king is killed by non-branching.

branching and spear

left and right

naked and clothed

ie eternalism

Ariadne’s garment (simple cloth), branch, holding left hand, nakedness

her garment (simple covering) is to his garment (divine cloak)
as
her branch is to his spear
as
her left hand holding is to his right hand holding

As strongly and clear-cut as left hand vs right hand,

as strongly and clear cut as branching vs spear

as strongly and clear cut as his divine cloak worn, vs her simple garment removed

How Jesus is speared to death is non-branching spear, exactly as directly shown in Dionysus’ Victory Procession mosaic. i keep sayin’ – you gotta work on cross-decoding Greek & Christian together.

Given eternalism, it is Dionysus that takes up actively the passive Ariadne.

My Great Cross-Decoding Technique

In the Great Mushroom Psalter, how many key images did I skip by short-sightedly looking only for mushrooms?

Principle: Suppose you have a scene with mushroom imagery and you puzzle how to interp.

Solution: gather 3 versions of the scene that don’t have mushrooms, interpret the 4 scene versions together – CROSS-DECODING.

• Across Greek + Christian.
• Across the 2 versions of Montecassino Ms.’s Eden scene.
• Across mush & mandrake tree.
• Across non-msh and msh versions of Eden tree scene; tree of knowledge.
• Across Pilzbaum-implemented, mushroom imagery versions of a scene & non-msh.
• Across two mushroom-based versions of a scene. eg Mushroom Sacr of Isaac.
• Entry into Jerusalem – St Mart msh version, Golden’s msh version, various non-msh versions of the scene.

Spear Breakthrough: {spear} = {non-branching} = eternalism = {death} = {sacrifice son / king / left-hand steersman} = {pass through gate using key}

“Decoding” Mytheme Motifs Doesn’t Imply Secret Obscurantism Occluded Communication-Blocking Assumption Everyone Unthinkingly Uses

A bad connotation of “decoding” is the huge dominant fallacy of “secrecy”, which is (in some ways) the opposite of the truth.

I operate on the premise that art is designed to communicate explicitly through the language of morphology and mytheme motifs to depict and describe via helpful analogy the main Psilocybin effect, of transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

It is true, that the art does not have bat-cave signs:

“HIS FINGERS MEAN NON-BRANCHING IN CONTRAST TO THE PSYCHOACTIVE BRANCHING MUSHROOM SHAPES“

SO YOU So you can argue defensibly “the artists ..

The artists … the rules of the game: Communicate in an explicit yet subtle and artful way. eg speech bubbles / unrolled scrolls. “This is a spear” in Brown’s 2021 rebuttal – glad i now have my Brown Works page, such a pain it WAS to look up urls, so easy now!

My section is: page section is https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Graham-Hancock-Website-article

which contains link to Hancock:

Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels
Jerry Brown
24th February 2022
https://grahamhancock.com/brownj1/

Textual Signage, and Scrolls as Speech Bubbles

Explicit Signs of Mushroom Eternalism

How Explicit Do You Expect Mushroom-Eternalism Art to Be? It’s Not Like Medieval Artists Put Bat-Cave Signs and Speech Bubbles on Things

Gallery of Bat-Signs

https://batlabels.tumblr.com –

Instance of Signage & Speech Bubbles: Jesus Healing a Leper

Instance of Signage & Speech Bubbles: Spear (Hatsis’ Parasol of Defeat)

Prof. Brown wrote:

“Fact Check: I showed this image to Carl A.P. Ruck, professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, who confirmed that Hatsis’ interpretation is dead wrong.

“According to Ruck, the object is “a lance” not “a parasol.”

“We know this because the Latin text in the image clearly tells us so.”

Prof. Brown wrote at Graham Hancock’s site:

“the object is “a lance” not “a parasol.” We know this because the Latin text in the image clearly tells us so.”

Parallel Mushrooms Around Sword Base

{spear} Is Contrasted Against {branching}

{spear} is opposite of branching; spear is non-branching; spear is eternalism, contrasted vs. branching, which is possibilism

Spear Breakthrough: spear is opposite of branching;

spear is non-branching; spear is eternalism,
contrasted vs.
branching, which is possibilism

Sacificed by non-branching; by the non-branching blade of the cut branch by the guy standing right foot cut.. this also that standing on cut branch helps signifly to bolstre pink dinit initiate in Eadwine tree standing right foot on cut branch.

High-Res Image Tech Notes

How to Get Ultra High Res Image Files

I just found a way to download hi-res and crop a top or bottom panel 4.9MB – BUT, rather too big.

TOO MANY MUSHROOMS,
THE SERVER CANNOT HANDLE IT 😵

Above is the big file: editor options at w.p.: Full Size(?)/display = 100% zoom.

I could do medium-high resolution and then provide link to original site that has zoom.

Right-click the Image view file at the site Library of Congress site, short menu appears, “Save As”.

Result: 11MB png — but I ended up with only the middle part. Not so simple.

Same image pasted below to try different WordPress settings: weirdly stretched vertically in WordPress editor when 100% + Full size.

“Snoozing Entheogen Scholars.png”

“Snoozing Entheogen Scholars.png” 6.2 MB [5:53 p.m. February 13, 2023]

Page using the image: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466371

Image:
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/466371/933027/main-image

Difficult to Implement Two Parallel Pages with Full Cross-Linking

Should I retire this page and revert to a single page w/ inline comments?

I am certainly not going to apply this design to eg other Psalters/ galleries — 100x the effort of a single page, or 1000x.

This “two parallel pages/ TOCs” design constitutes a project that can’t ever be finished; inherently doomed to be perpetually “under construction”.

This design isn’t working. It adds a TON of complexity (time/ energy/ brain cycles/), and it’s not what anyone asked for. I guess I’ll plod along with it, but I don’t see a path to success. It’s the opposite of streamlined.

I have my doubts about the viability of maintaining two parallel pages – huge work, unmaintainable.

But my having moved in that direction, is necessary if I want to keep the Gallery page serving as a gallery and not constantly devolving into chaos.

Chaos is viable – this complicated design is unmaintainable.

It would be MUCH easier/faster to just write notes in the gallery page directly.

It’s 4 (or 8, or 16) times the work (maintaining two TOCs, and two sequences of sections), seems to multiply the work by 4 or 8 times.

See Also

Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

The Psalter (high res.): https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667767/

Psilocybin Is Way Better than Psychedelics, Decoded {spear/blade} as non-branching
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/07/psilocybin-way-better-than-psychedelics-decoded-spear-blade-as-non-branching/

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom & Vine Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/ 
– presented by page/folio, with generally the whole scene.

todo: Move content from:
Idea Development page 17 https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/
to the present Golden Notes page.

Forcing myself to do a quick post exactly like posting to the Egodeath Yahoo Group. I need to do messy now , clean up later.

Contents:

• Decoded {sticks} in St. Martin’s Entry into Jerusalem
• {wing} = perceiving (elevated flying eye) mind’s workings in loosecog state
• A can’t-go-wrong theory-name: The Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism
• Decoded {spear} = non-branching; ie: eliminator of the branching-possibilities mental world model of controller steering in world
  (FINALLY! still in process…)

Decoded {sticks} in St. Martin’s Entry into Jerusalem

Jesus’ Y/II & tree-guy’s Y/II

Decoded these {sticks} finally! Along with the {feathers} from past days.

Next I need to do honorary same crop + image proc of Brown’s and deliver. named it: “/Volumes/One Touch/Pictures/ED/Brown/Brown 2 hands sticks feathers processed.png” size: 138 KB.

I am inspired to start w/ different crop:

“Brown 2 hands sticks feathers processed wide.png” 523 KB = wide

About time!, since been thinking about this during gardening for years now, removing smaller branches to turning a branch into a stick/pole.

[8:49 p.m. February 9, 2023] – I just decoded adequately {sticks}! Been searching for the right angle on these held objects since Brown sent the Marcia Kupfer quote about

Lightened the Non-Brown Nice Crop of 2-hand Jesus and Held-Out Sticks+Feathers in St. Martin’s Entry into Jerusalem Scene

Maybe I need a page about the St. Martin chapel’s scenes Brown covers, and extract more photos from Brown.

Y: feathers
II: sticks
non-branching sticks branches feathers

stick = removed branches w/ branching removed, converted into sticks, like a pole – or spear, since since non-branching kills the possibilism-thinking steersman.

Decoded {wing} = perceiving (elevated flying eye) mind’s workings in loosecog state

Ultra High Resolution To See With Complete Clarity

decoded: {wing} = psilocybin eternalism – but what aspect, specifically?

Broadly , as I voice-recorded today, all art means psilocybin eternalism.

Specifically, {wing} means same as {lifted garment}.

John Rush has a celestial erection
term he loves.

{wing} of {serpent} = {lifted garment} = {billowing cloth} in Hellenistic art.

{wing} = seeing the snake/serpent (non-branching) in the Psilocybin loose cognitive association binding state.

{wing = lifted garment = billowing cloth = mushroom hem}; main referent:
being in loosecog state perceiving mind’s workings clearly, leading to the main “effect” of Psilocybin: transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

2 announcements:

The Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism

Demoted to a minor term, not the official phrase:

the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

I just talked it through and made a big discovery: for a theory of Western religious experience and myth, these words SUCK:

• mushrooms
• psychedelics
• entheogens
• classic psychedelics
• dmt
• ergot / kykeon / eleusis
• visionary plants

Everyone’s main strategy and objective is to get rid of Psilocybin by diluting and replacing it.

I recorded just now a good content for Egodeath Mystery Show, plan to produce/upload. Remarkable unexpected (mostly ) result: it was unexpected during voice recording just now, during my analysis lecture discussion, was unexpected just how much superior the word ‘psilocybin’ is to every other word & scope of focus.

I’ve written and talked at length about how the word Amanita and mushrooms is entirely harmful. Just now I did the same about all of the above words.

GIVEN that everyone’s #1 main objective is to get rid of Psilocybin, that reception-context sets my #1 (complementary) main objective:

My #1 main strategic objective is to prevent everyone from doing what everyone is striving to do as their #1 objective: getting rid of Psilocybin by insulting it, raising junk up to the same level as it, substitution/ diluting/ replacement/ elimination.

The ol’ “accompany/ substitute/ replace/ eliminate” strategy, is their main strategy to try to crowd out, then eliminate Psilocybin.

“Make room on your throne for …. EVERYTHING! Then pls vacate the throne, Psilocybin.”

Protect the single best most profiable investment, THE MOST WORTHWHILE VALUABLE FORTRESS TOWER TO DEFEND, the single most profitable and valuable substance.

Psilocybin is more important than broad greediness (gotta include
Mescaline, “DMT” whatever the f that means, and kykeon!)
(and Amanita and MDMA and cannabis) (and
tobacco strong snuffs, and
stumbling on a rock) —

Psilocybin is more important than meaningless suckers’ “visionary plants” and suckers’ “pharmacopeia” and even suckers’ “classic psychedelics” (yeah you mean worthless and entirely problematic mescaline,
meaningless & complicated word “dmt”(??) and
worthless/harmful focus on kykeon/Eleusis/ ergot/ LSA)…
(almost forgot: and
Scopolamine & opium)

In the field of history of Western religious experiencing & myth, the phrase “classic psychedelics” is a euphemism for a very bad thing, that strives to get rid of psilocybin: “dmt” (very bad), “mescaline” (very bad), and “kykeon/ergot/ eleusis” (very bad).

In this context, the phrase “classic psychedelics” is harmful, worthless, and pointless, and serves everyone’s #1 goal, of eliminiating Psilocybin.

“psilocybin eternalism” , has all advantages, and no disadvantages.

the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism – a phrase that has already been abused and defeated, it has failure baked-in. For reasons I just talked-through. eg psychedelic = mdma, cannabis, scopalamine, non-drug psychedelics (proved by word-root etym.) and king of bunkness, Amanita.

The word ‘psychedelic’ means, see Dale Pendell, an abstract symbol, the most famous plant no one uses and no one wants. Why invite failure and throw open the door for all the frauds, liars, hucksters, phonies, & frauds? siply simply specify ‘psilocybin’ and cause instant-defeat, instant “death”, for the opponents whose mission is get rid of Psilocybin, the Real Deal.

So:

not: the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

but far more defensible and effective and simple and clear and specific:

… changing my acronym abbr. now:

the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism [TTPE]

done. (entered). test:

the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism

the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism

I like the Theory of Psilocybin Eternalism it is very nice and NO 🐮💩!!

Hanegraaff & Chris Bennett and Heinrich (amanita) have NO CHANCE do twist my meaning away from Psilocybin like when Ruck pull-quoted me asserting mixed wine = “mushroom” wine by which *I* meant psil and *he* meant The Mushroom (Amanita).

Sure, I will employ all of the above lexicon of terms, but the defensible main foundation is ‘psilocybin’ not any of those other compromised, compromingin, LOSER terms.

I rattled off a list of fatal weaknesses with every term listed above and Psilocybin word suffers NONE of those weaknesses.

Decoded: {spear/blade} = remover of branching (possibilism-thinking)

Do not overlook GATE, REMOVED GARMENT, KILLED BY BLADE OF BRANCHING-REMOVAL, recognizing “removal of branching” is the {KEY} to go THROUGH GATE.

The direction theme is irrelevant, it’s always transformation from possibilism TO eternalism.

See last night’s Feb 6 into Feb 7 announcements of decoding FINALLY! {spear}. Dionysus mosaic provided to me for main 2006 article by the Egodeath community is key.

in recent pages: Golden Munich Psalter (bottom of page), in Idea Development page 17, find “spear”:

• Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees – especially.
• Superdeterminism Is Eternalism, Not Domino-Chain Determinism (less so, this page)
• Idea Development page 17 – no spear, but solid recent content.
• The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator – great content added, not nece’ly on this topic though (these 2 announcements). Added: Is Brown argument weakened, claiming “Panofsky admitted that Plainc. might mean mushroom”, given their transcription error?
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/the-panofsky-hatsis-explain-away-o-matic-mushroom-eliminator/#Make-of-Letter-2

Always cross-decode Greek + Christian art together. It’s the only way to be successfully decode.

See {spear} decoding — certainly NOT finished/ not fully articulated the network effects of the mytheme decoding netowrk of meanings, of all the ways that SPEAR is like specific central aspects of transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

Last night is first time I succeeded at getting a sure grip on the main essential meaning of “spear” as in, the cut branch / removed branch dagger held by guy in tree in Entry into Jerusalem in Golden Ps.

Covers Browns’ wrongly called “curved sword”, which is actually spear aimed at Jesus (lower false egoic king, to produce Transcendent Knowledge and pass through gate to enter eternalism kingdom).

decode = doing a mytheme-network analysis to identify the main referent of altered-state content; eg:

How is mytheme {X} like (analogous to) specific dynamics of
transformation from possibilism to eternalism?

Victory Processions

Golden Ps. Image 29: Mushroom Isaac

Mushrooms (= Psil, not Aman) are multiplying faster than Panofsky and Hatsis can click on my new [ Easily Explain Away ] button of my Explain-Away-o-Matic technology.
The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator

Wouter Hanegraaff. tries to have Saturn gate lead to possibilism, it actually goes to eternalism/ heimarmene; stars are above (thus after) Saturn if you move upward.

Browns’ curved “sword” misinterp. is wrong as a literal thing but, a very good wrong referent, b/c blade.

Blade = non-branching; that which removes the illusion of branching possibility and the steersman (donkey reins held in left hand, in the rider-and-steed motif). Even Diony. holds tiger mushroom reins in left hand.

Feb 6-into-7 I saw that Entry into Jeru = procession = Dionysus Victory Procession.

THE ENEMY OF TREE BRANCHING = BLADE.

We see this concretely in the Dionysus victory procession mosaic provided by the Egodeath community in 2006 for the 2006 (Sep. 12, 2007 final rev. – adjacent / bracketed by my first 2 posts about eternalism / super determinism )

Browns’ “curved sword” plant = botanically identified by me today feb 7 as Psilocybe Semi-Lance-ata; a spear-tree that’s branching & non-branching

Browns’ “curved sword” plant = botanically identified by me today feb 7 as Psilocybe Semi-Lance-ata; a spear-tree that’s branching & non-branching

Above is a crop by Cybermonk feb 6 into 7, 2023: scope of crop is to include spear on right + Jesus on left.

Jesus is heading toward the {gate} of Jerusalem.

Ppl come {through gate}, regardless of in|out|up|down through the {gate}.

{through gate} always means transformation from possibilism to eternalism. Blade = non-branching, THAT WHICH REMOVES BRANCHING = BLADE = vulnerability and organ through which we shed garment of egoic possibilism possibilism-thinking APPEARANCES and the underlying mind-mechanisms are made perceptible,

[naked/exposed/visible} like Browns’ pretty good points (and effective state-appropriate mindset) in their 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels about Eve’s bones shamanic-state revealed.

Brown had the right direction of analysis there, I was glad to note when book finally shipped.

— Cybermonk, Feb. 6 into Feb. 7, 2023

Cybermonk, 2:59 a.m. February 1, 2023^_(orig) Golden Notes

Contents:

• Golden Mushroom Psalter: Citation and Link
  • About the Psalter
  • Supplemental Notes Page

• Image 21: 6 Days of Creation
  • Image 21 middle left: God Creates Plants
• Image 22: Eden Tree Story in 6 Panels
  • Image 22 row 1 right: Eat Not of this Tree Lest You Die
  • Image 22 row 2 left: Eating from the Tree of Knowledge
• Image 24
  • Image 24 top: Enoch Carried Up to Heaven
  • Image 24 bottom: Lamech Shoots Cain
• Image 29
  • Image 29 top: Mushroom Isaac: Sacrifice of Isaac
  • Deliberate Black-Arrow Mushroom Hems
  • Canterbury Psalter Sacrifice of Isaac
• Image 31
  • Image 31 top: Jacob’s Mushroom Ladder
  • Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night
• Image 35
  • Image 35 top: Mushroom-Based Joseph Interprets for Pharaoh
• Image 39
  • Image 39 top: Blessing Jacob & Joseph
  • Image 39 bottom: Fan Plants
• Image 40
  • Image 40 top: Baby Moses in River
  • Image 40 bottom: Moses Sees a Jew Slain in Egypt
  • Image 40 bottom: Amanita with Traces of Ramification
• Image 45
  • Image 45 top: Water from Rock
  • Image 45 bottom: Serpent on Pole
  • Eadwine Folio f13: Life of Moses
• Image 46 top: Balaam
• Image 47
  • Image 47: Mushroom Crop
• Image 52
  • Image 52 top: Madonna Donkey Lifting Left Leg
  • Image 52 bottom: Child Jesus Teaching
  • Image 52 bottom detail: Child Jesus Teaching
• Image 54
  • Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem
    • Image 54 top right: Gate
    • Image 54 top: Blessing the Branching Mushroom
  • Image 54 bottom: Last Supper (John Magdalene)
• Image 59
  • Image 59 top: Christ Pulling Souls from Jaws of Hell
  • Image 59 bottom: Woman Under Tree
  • Image 59 bottom detail: Tree
• Image 62: RGB Mushroom Rays
  • Image 62 bottom: RGB Mushroom Trees
• Image 63: Kosmokrater Mushroom Floor
  • Image 63 bottom detail: Serpent Under Foot
• Image 64: Kosmokrater Mushroom Hem
• Image 65
  • Image 65 top: Mortified Risen Christ Enthroned
  • Image 65 bottom: Angels Pulling Souls from Hell Cleansed Regenerated
  • Image 65: More Kosmokrater Tons of Mushroom Hems
• Image 66: Hell Torments
  • Image 66 row 1 right: Double Hell Jaws
  • Image 66 row 2 left: Tantalus
• Image 87
  • Image 87 detail: Donkey Playing Harp Illuminated Initial
• Image 95 left: Two Snakes Twined Biting
• Image 98 detail: Serpent-tail body worn by guy (2nd instance)
• Image 101 detail: Serpent Underside dog-face monster squareface
• Image 107
  • Image 107 detail: Chain of Serpents
  • Image 107 detail horiz: Chain of Serpents
• Image 118 detail: Four Licking Dog-Serpents
• Image 134
  • Image 134 detail: Youth Riding Serpent While Spearing It (Illuminated Initial)
• Image 141: Absalom Hanging from Tree
  • Image 141 detail: Absalom’s Tree
• Image 146
  • Image 146 top: The Poor Outside Under Mushroom Tree
  • Image 146 bottom
  • Image 164: Beast head, Serpent body, Vine tail
• Image 169
  • Image 169: Bald Ivy Serpent Man
  • Image 169: Illuminated Initial
• Image 172: Seriously Trippy Illuminated Initials
• Image 175 Dog Monkey
• Image 176: Serpent Man Sticking Out of Initial
• Image 179
  • Image 179 Illuminated Initial
  • Image 179 Bald Fish Man
  • Image 211: Archer Aiming Behind, in Front of Mushroom Tree (Illuminated Initial D)
• Image 223: Tied to the Mushroom Post
• Image 230: Jonah’s Gourd Plant
• Image 259 detail: Three Mushroom Trees with Bird (Illuminated Initial D)
• Image 274: Snake Leg Illuminated Initial
  • Image 282
    • Image 282 detail: Mushroom Tree with Birds (Illuminated Initial O)
    • Image 282 detail: Wingless Lindworm (Illuminated Initial D)
  • Image 294: Jonah/Jason Spewing from Serpent (Illuminated Initial O)
• Image 303
  • Image 303: Branching Orchard
  • Image 303: Dog Serpents
  • Image #: Blue Head Illuminated Initial

• End Notes
• Treasure Freak Out
• Types of Dragons/Serpents
• Todo
• See Also

/ end of table of contents

Golden Mushroom Psalter: Citation and Link

Golden Munich Psalter
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667767/
hi-res

Search web for “Golden Munich Psalter” pages:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Golden+Munich+Psalter%22

Image search: “golden munich psalter”
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22golden+munich+psalter%22&tbm=isch

Image search: golden teacher mushrooms
https://www.google.com/search?q=golden+teacher+mushrooms&tbm=isch

About the Psalter

This psalter was created in an Oxford workshop as a wedding present for Margaret de Briouze, for her marriage to Walter de Lacy II in 1201.

Per an ex libris attachment in the front, this psalter reached the Bavarian State Library by the 1620s. This psalter contains miniatures (Illuminations), prayers, psalms; Old Testament & New Testament scenes.

Public domain.

Supplemental Notes Page

The companion notes page:
Golden Notes: Golden Munich Psalter per Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/
Orig. title per URL:
Golden Munich Psalter Analysis in Terms of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

Ideally, each Image # section in present page would cross-link to a section in the Notes page.

Psychedelic Eternalism Motifs

• Ubiquitous mushroom hems.
• Ubiquitous mixed-cap Pilzbaum. I don’t have an inventory count, not sure if I’ll do that project – would have to inspect all the illuminated initials.
• Enough {handedness} motifs to keep me busy. This art shop is definitely aware of {handedness} as a motif option available.
• I may have underestimated how often {handedness} is depicted compared to Eadwine.

Image 21: 6 Days of Creation

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-21-Notes

Image 21 middle left: God Creates Plants

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21&r=0.111,0.491,0.448,0.235,0

Features:

• Non-branching fingers vs. branching trees [decoded by Cybermonk 8:16 a.m. February 9, 2023].
• Speech bubble: Germinettra Herbs

I have identified these plants, against Bennett, Brown etc., as:
Panaeolus, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita. – Cybermonk ~11/2020

My per-panel page about Great Mushroom Psalter:
Page title:
Canterbury Psalter Mushroom & Vine Inventory
Section heading:
Folio 11 – 4 rows, 3 cols – 13 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/#f11

orig site hi-res:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-21-Notes

Image 22: Eden Tree Story in 6 Panels

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-22-Notes

Image 22 row 1 right: Eat Not of this Tree Lest You Die

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22&r=0.405,0.194,0.534,0.28,0
forbidden to eat from this tree.

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-22-Notes

Image 22 Note: In What Sense Does God “Forbid” Eating from Tree of Knowledge?

Is “forbidden” disputed by some scholars? Check Bible gateway.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

— Genesis 2:16–17

Genesis 2:
url https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202

Genesis 2:16–17 (NIV):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202&version=NIV –

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

“any tree” would include the tree of life.

God is cautioning and reasoning with them; is it true God is commanding – or merely advising?

I’ve written before ( the Egodeath Yahoo Group probably; maybe in 2016) about being kicked out through the guarded gate, as a poetic inversion. Ingesting psychedelic teaches eternalism / comprehending illusory moral culpability, it gets you through the guarded gate after you fully purify away egoic moral culpability thinking, but Genesis flips that so that you go from not thinking in terms of personal autonomous moral control agency, to being ejected from eternalism to think in worldly ordinary-state terms of possibilism, possibilism-thinking.

Image 22 Note: Reverse Motion from Eternalism to Possibilism

We have a Hanegraaff-like reverse trajectory.

Astral descent from eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking (per initial story trajectory in Gnoticism)

Rising through Saturn gate to move from heimarmene eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking (per Hanegraaff book Hermetic Spirituality).

Decoding/Motifs

• God has {lifted garment} (on right) while pointing to this tree of the forbidden fruit. = {flying eyeball}

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-22-Notes

Image 22 row 2 left: Eating from the Tree of Knowledge

Eve’s {right heel} on {stable column base}
zoom crop by Cybermonk [1:07 a.m. February 8, 2023] todo: size/stamp
panel crop & interpretation by Cybermonk [12:41 a.m. February 8, 2023]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22&r=0.202,0.485,0.534,0.28,0

Crop by Cybermonk [12:26 a.m. February 8, 2023]
“Image 22 3 Figures crop.png” 5.3 MB

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-22-Notes

Image 24: Enoch / Lamech

“Image 24.png” 3.9 MB, stamp: [12:11 a.m. February 8, 2023] https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24

Image 24 top: Enoch Carried Up to Heaven

“Image 24 Enoch carried up.png” 4 MB, stamp: [6:57 p.m. February 13, 2023]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.156,0.175,0.855,0.448,0

Features

• Lifted garment above non-branching tree 2x
• Bent left leg = standing on right leg (“What % weight on right leg?”)
• [7:08 p.m. February 13, 2023] new term: “arrow mushroom hem”

Notes for Image 24 top
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-24-top

Arrows in Mushroom Hem Are Identical to Arrows in Lifted Garment, Proving That Mushroom Hem = Lifted Garment = Mushroom Altered State

Image 24 bottom: Lamech Shoots Cain

“Image 24 bottom.png” 4.3 MB
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.158,0.605,0.851,0.446,0

Features

• Left foot floating
• Guy on left: {right leg bent} is bad. decoded by Cybermonk [4:42 p.m. February 12, 2023]

Notes

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Notes-for-Image-24-bottom

Image 29

url: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=29

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-29-Notes

Image 29 top: Mushroom Isaac: Sacrifice of Isaac

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=29&r=-0.05,0.113,0.998,0.522,0
“Sacrifice of Isaac no caption.png” 4.4 MB [8:50 p.m. February 6, 2023]

Deliberate Black-Arrow Mushroom Hems

Crop by Cybermonk
“Golden-image-29-mushroom-hem-proof.jpg” 959 KB [7:00 a.m. March 28, 2023]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=29&r=0.174,0.431,0.502,0.263,0

Canterbury Psalter Sacrifice of Isaac

🖼🔍🔬🧐

Eadwine: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f12.item.zoom

Golden: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=29

Motifs

• Lifted garment
• Mushroom hems.
• turn to look right behind up back.
• Unique: lifted garment mushroom cap on stem/trunk.

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-29-Notes

Image 31

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=31

Notes:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-31-Notes

Image 31 top: Jacob’s Mushroom Ladder

“jacob-4-9mb.png” ie, 4.9MB. While “asleep” on mushrooms, wrestles angel all night, below.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=31&r=0.039,0.175,0.854,0.447,0

Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night

“Image 31 bottom Jacob Wrestles Angel.png” 4.2 MB. 
[decoded by Cybermonk immediately as soon as uploaded and got a good view, 7:13-7:15 p.m. February 9, 2023]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=31&r=-0.005,0.584,0.962,0.504,0

Another totally accidental, neat row of 3 mushroom hems, ONLY on Moses when next to the Pilzbaum. What an unbelievable coincidence!
The Mystic Y
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/the-mystic-y/

Orig. Hi-Res Link for “Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night”

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=31

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_wrestling_with_the_angel

Features in “Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night”

Decoded by Cybermonk immediately as soon as uploaded and got a good view, [7:13-7:15 p.m. February 9, 2023]

• Observation/discovery #1: 7:13 p.m.: Branching Pilzbaum on left, non-branching on right.
• Observation/discovery #2: 7:15 p.m.: Jacob’s right heel touches stable base of tree trunk non-branching.
• Observation/discovery #3: 7:15: Angel stands on right foot.
• Observation/discovery #4: ~7:16: Angel’s left foot lifted, touching Jacob’s left lifted foot.
  • 8:30 pm Both the branching & non-branching trees/sides sit on a single, non-branching trunk base.
• Angel has 3 neat hem mushrooms, just like Moses’ 3 in Mystic Y only when he’s next to Pilzbaum, only Moses — on no other figures.
• Angel makes “non-branching” shape with right hand fingers; teaching non-branching / eternalism — decoded (recognized/ noticed/ comprehended) by Cybermonk [10:30 p.m. February 13, 2023].
• Angel’s left hand messing up Jacob’s left hip. [10:36 p.m. February 13, 2023]

“Jacob wrestling with the angel is described in Genesis (32:22–32; also referenced in Hosea 12:3–5). The “angel” in question is referred to as “man” (אִישׁ) and “God” in Genesis, while Hosea references an “angel” (מַלְאָךְ). The account includes the renaming of Jacob as Israel (etymologized as “contends-with-God”).” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_wrestling_with_the_angel

Genesis 32:22–32
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+32%3A22%E2%80%9332 – NIV:

²⁴ So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 

²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 

²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

²⁸ Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

²⁹ Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” 

Then he blessed him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[c] and he was limping because of his hip. 

³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

blessing gesture = shape of non-branching; {fingers pressed together}

Commentary on “Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night”

Moved my decoding records/notes to:

Page:
Golden Munich Psalter Analysis in Terms of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
Section:
Notes About Golden Psalter Image 31 bottom: Jacob Wrestles Angel Mushroom Tree All Night
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#Image-31-bottom-notes

Image 35

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=35

Image 35 top: Mushroom-Based Joseph Interprets for Pharaoh

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=35&r=0.022,0.183,0.859,0.45,0

Crop by Cybermonk, “Image 35 top Joseph Interp Pharoah.png” 4.2 MB [9:05 p.m. February 10, 2023]

Features

• {Right foot} touches stable non-branching base {trunk of mushroom tree}

Image 39

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=39

“Image 39.png” 2.8 MB

Image 39 top: Blessing Jacob & Joseph

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=39&r=0.027,0.17,0.885,0.463,0

“Image 39 top Jacob 2 arms cross.png” 4.6 MB [9:14 p.m. February 10, 2023]

“Joseph was one of Jacob’s 12 sons.” https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/joseph-old-testament

“Joseph was one of Jacob’s 12 sons.

“His father [Jacob] loved him [Joseph] more than any of the others and gave him a coloured cloak.

“His brothers were jealous of him and sold him into slavery.

“He was taken to Egypt and eventually became steward to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials.

“Potiphar’s wife tried unsuccessfully to seduce him and after false accusations were levelled at Joseph he was imprisoned.

“Due to his ability to interpret Pharaoh’s dream he was made governor of Egypt.

“He wisely rationed the country’s produce in preparation for a time of famine.”

[see bottom cart scene below the pharoah scene where Jacob’s right foot is on base of mushroom tree]

“During the famine Jacob’s sons came to Egypt to plead with Joseph for supplies.

“They did not recognise him but after he was satisfied that they were reformed he identified himself with great joy.

“Joseph invited his father and brothers to come and settle in Egypt.

“The story is recounted in the Old Testament (Genesis 37, 39-45)
Gen 37:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2037
Gen 39:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2039

“Joseph is often seen as an Old Testament equivalent, or prefiguration, of Christ.

“Scenes from Joseph’s story were painted by Pontormo and Bacchiacca for Pierfrancesco Borgherini.”

Features

• Typical of this Psalter, highly mixed caps – fanciful leaves, ivy leaves, mushroom caps, mixed together. More typical of Eadwine is to contrast mushroom trees vs. vine-leaf trees.
• Lifted garment overlaid on Pilzbaum trunk – I don’t think Eadwine overlays lifted garment directly on mushroom stem as this Golden Ps does multiple times.
• Two cut branches on left.
  • Bolsters equating {lifted garment} = mushroom altered-state loose loose cognitive association binding.
  • Usual mushroom hems – do any miniatures in this ps not have mushroom hems?!

To do: reasssess all the ignored scenes in .. the dud scenes in Eadwine ps to see what motifs I missed by overly focusing on mushrooms – is there an Entry Into Jerusalem scene in Eadwine’s Great Mushroom Psalter?

Image 39 bottom: Fan Plants, Two Groups of 6 Sons

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=39&r=0.05,0.61,0.853,0.447,0

“Image 39 bottom Jacob fans.png” 3.9 MB, 3:07 PM Feb. 11, 2023 crop by Cybermonk

Jacob blesses sons including Joseph

One son is Joseph, Jacob’s favorite so the other 11 brothers sell him into slavery in Egypt, where he interprets Pharoah’s dream and so is appointed governor.

Features:

• Two cut branches on left.
• Right feet touch.
• Left feet don’t touch. [3:25 p.m. February 11, 2023] proposal: his left = branching, his right = non-branching, that’s where the cut branches are. ditto upper panel but that has contradictions reaching across etc.
  

Image 40: Mushroom Baby

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Image 40 top: Mushroom Baby

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Baby Moses in river in Egypt.

Features:

• Branching-emphasis tree on left.
• Hurry, tell Ruck there’s The Mushroom (🍄) on the right.

He has to rush to neutralize this narrative-wrecking image and protect Real Christianity from including mushrooms, separating mushrooms from Christianity by force, by shackling this image within his framing-cage by applying his labels of “heretical” and “secret” and “elites” and “hidden” – those (not mushrooms) are what gets him up in the morning.

Scholarship not in mere mushrooms (bore-ing! 😴 who cares), but rather, in “Secret Amanita Heresy Among Elites, Hidden in Art”. 😲 gee, whiz!

Image 40 bottom: Moses Sees a Jew Slain in Egypt

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Hatsis’ PROOF that this CANNOT be mushrooms: The scene has violence.

HOW YOU GONNA EXPLAIN THAT, HUH? So, it can’t be mushrooms! YOU GUYS GOT A BIG PROBLEM!! – Thomas Hatsis

Image 40 bottom tree detail: Amanita with Traces of Ramification

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Image 45: Water from Rock, Serpent on Pole

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Image 45 top: Water from Mushroom Rock

Second Try

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feet zoom mar 27 = https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=45&r=0.118,0.777,0.711,0.372,0

First Try

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{rock} block universe connected with {branching vs. non-branching} mushroom tree; {branching-message mushroom tree}.

Compare Brown asking why a mushroom palm is growing from a rock wall of city tower bricks in Saint Martin fresco. IDEALLY I WOULD HAVE A DEFINITIVE PLACE TO LINK TO:
SAINT MARTIN FRESCO PAGE > SECTION ABOUT BROWN’S CROP that ideally includes his text “why msh growing from stone tower”. attempt at such as link: my new Martin page: problem: page has no link anchors/structure yet. fixing now…

Image 45 bottom: Serpent on Pole

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=45

Image 45 top: Rigid Brass/Bronze/Brazen Serpent-Dragon on Pole

Eadwine Folio f13: Life of Moses

click to zoom

url https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f13.item.zoom

“Folio 2r row4 col2 Moses Snake on Pol.png”

Second Try

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First Try

Feet: Second Try

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Feet: First Try

Image 46

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Image 46 top: Balaam

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Features:

• Angel stands on {right foot}.
• Left foot touches donkey’s feet.
• How about if I only announce when a Golden image doesn’t have mushroom hems?

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Image 47: Mushroom Crop

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Image 52 top: Madonna Donkey Lifting Left Leg

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Image 52 top: Donkey Mary Joseph

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Features:
decoded by Cybermonk [12:36-12:51 a.m. February 12, 2023]

• Child has mushroom hem.
• Child makes a “branching vs. non-branching” fingers-shape.
• Donkey both left legs off ground.
• Donkey right foot on doorway arch exactly like Saint-Martin church Entry scene.
• Joseph’s right foot touches donkey’s right foot, left same.

Image 52 bottom: Child Jesus Teaching

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Image 52 bottom detail: Child Jesus Teaching

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Image 52 bottom detail zoom: Child Jesus Teaching

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Image 53

Image 53 top: Jesus Baptisted

• Empty clothing has msh hem

Image 53 bottom: Transfigured

Image 54

Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem

a redo March 26 2023:

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Image 54 top: Entry into Jerusalem – suspected poor zoom low res

Features:

• Scene: Entry into Jerusalem.
• 2 Youths in Branching Mushroom Tree
• Christ on Donkey Lifting Left Leg
• Standing on Cloak
• Holding Removed Branches
• Blood on held-out branch. Compare St. Martin guy on diamond tree right hand on spear aimed at Jesus.
• Mushroom Hems
• Right leg standing in tree on cut branch
• Peter holds the key to kingdom
• Great Entry into Jerusalem with many of the motifs.  
• Holding out a {removed branch} – not a branching feather – in tree.  
• {standing on right foot} on a {cut branch} – even though {cut branch} & {handedness} is a rare motif in this psalter.

SCORE! Add to list of such images.

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Image 54 top right: Mushroom Gate

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Image 54 top right: Gate

“Image 54 Jerusalem Gate.png” 1.4 MB [2:05 a.m. February 11, 2023]
crop & decoded (past couple days) by Cybermonk [2:05 a.m. February 11, 2023]
new point:

branch he holds touches the branching-message mushroom tree.

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Image 54 top: Blessing the Branching Mushroom

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Image 54 bottom: Last Supper (John Magdalene)

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Image 54 bottom: Last Supper (John Magdalene) low res, don’t use (nuke)

Bottom panel:

• Scene: Last Supper
• Bearded John-MaryM highly nonstandard.
• Mushroom hems tablecloth.
• Rat-demon entering into Judas’ mouth.
• Compare St. Martin chapel’s version from Browns.
• Right hand of Jesus: non-branching fingers gesture as I read it.
• So many mushroom hems in this psalter, hardly warrants mention.

Image 59: Christ Pulling Saints from Jaws of Hell, Mushroom Tree

Image 59 top: Christ Rescuing from Jaws of Hell

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=59

when you go to psychedelic therapy at Compass Pathways clinic and are made to intend to engage “the Shadow”

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Image 59 bottom: Woman Under Tree

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Image 59 bottom detail: Identify This Tree Species

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Image 62: RGB Mushroom Rays

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Image 62 bottom: RGB Mushroom Trees

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Image 63: Kosmokrater Mushroom Floor

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Image 63 bottom detail

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Image 63 bottom detail: Serpent Under Foot

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Image 64: Kosmokrater Mushroom Hem

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Image 65: Risen Christ Enthroned / Angels Pulling Souls from Hell Cleansed Regenerated

• Mushroom Hems

“Christ Enthroned.png” 3.6 MB

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Image 65 top: Mortified Risen Christ Enthroned

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Image 65 bottom: Angels Pulling Souls from Hell Cleansed Regenerated

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Image 66: Hell Torments

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See Also:
The Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ): Characterization of challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms – Omits Category “Threat of Loss of Control”!
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/the-challenging-experience-questionnaire-ceq-characterization-of-challenging-experiences-with-psilocybin-mushrooms-omits-category-threat-of-loss-of-control/

Image 66 row 1 right: Double Hell Jaws

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Image 66 row 2 left: Tantalus

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A demon with binding rope (probably hemp to be so strong) and flames keeps people (rich kings attempting to serve your own son at a feast with the gods from pool of water they’re standing in, or nearby fruit tree.

A demon binds people like Tantalus from ever reaching the fruit nearby or water nearby.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Tantalus/ –

“Tantalus is a figure from Greek mythology who was the rich but wicked king of Sipylus.

“For attempting to serve his own son at a feast with the gods, he was punished by Zeus to forever go thirsty and hungry in Hades despite being stood in a pool of water and almost within reach of a fruit tree.”

“The terrible punishment of Tantalus and others like him was set as a warning for humanity not to cross the line between mortals and gods.”

got it:

do not cross the line between mortals and gods

🚫🚪🐉

do not serve own son at a feast with the gods

Image 18

Image 18 detail: Illuminated Initial Pilzbaum

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Image 87

Image 87 detail: Donkey Playing Harp Illuminated Initial

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Image 95 left: Two Snakes Twined Biting

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Image 97 detail: Bird-serpent has human head in mouth and dog-monkey playing harp

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Image 98 detail: Serpent-tail body worn by guy (2nd instance)

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Image 101 detail: Serpent Underside dog-face monster squareface

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Image 104 detail: Serpent-dogs looking up

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Image 107

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Image 107 detail: Chain of Serpents

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Image 107 detail horiz: Chain of Serpents

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turned horiz’ly

Image 118

Image 118 detail: Four Licking Dog-Serpents

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Image 134

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Image 134 detail: Youth Riding Serpent While Spearing It (Illuminated Initial)

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Features:

• Left leg bent; {standing on right leg}.

Left Leg Bent Like Mithras or Enoch in Golden M.P.

I just noticed: he’s standing with weight on right leg; apply the Standard Test Question I devised/ formulated: What % weight on right leg? decoded by Cybermonk [4:35 p.m. February 12, 2023]

Image 24 top: Enoch Carried Up to Heaven – left leg bent.

Image 141: Absalom Hung from Tree

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Image 141 detail: Absalom’s Tree

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Image 146: Rich Man and Lazarus

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Image 146 top: Lazarus Under Mushroom Tree

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Image 146 top detail: Lazarus Under Amanita Branching Tree

want whole tree too. this is ultra zoomed high res.

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Image 146 top detail: full tree

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Image 146 bottom

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Image 146 bottom detail: Rich Man Tormented

Non-branching tail of snake is touching non-branching base of tree; compare Dancing Man salamander bestiary image.

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Image 146 bottom: Serpent-Bit Rich Man

some hot live serpent-biting-man action

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Image 164: Beast head, Serpent body, Vine tail

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Image 166: Two split-tail serpents

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Image 169

Image 169: Bald Ivy Serpent Man

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Image 169: 6 Lions & 4 Dogs (Illuminated Initial S)

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🤔 🧐

something looks familiar here from 2006

url http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm#_Toc177337630
scroll down to bottom of that section – black & white, left image

wide-jaw lion-beast

Image 172: Seriously Trippy Illuminated Initials

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Image 172 details

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🤨

How many mushrooms did it take to make this psalter? Tripped out art shop.

I read Understanding Comics in 1994, while reading Gnosis issues & decoding Rock lyrics, which is why I was able to decode mushroom art.

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
1994
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ –

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/

Image 175

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Image 175 detail: Dog Monkey

dog looking up, an odd recurring feature of this psalter

Cerberus snake tail

Image 176: Serpent Man Sticking Out of Initial

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Image 179

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Image 179 detail: Illuminated Initial Red Head

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Image 179 detail: Bald Fish Man

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Image 192: red head spiral serpent (Illuminated Initial)

Image 195: Red guy clubbing serpent

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Image 197: Serpent biting man-serpent (short chain)

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Image 198: Hawk-serpents (F letter)

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Image 199: Guy in serpent-body (#3), holding fish behind head

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Image 200: Two Human-Headed Serpents (Illuminated Initial M)

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Image 204: Winged Serpent Arguing with Wingless Lindworm

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Image 206: (Text) “leonem & draconem”

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Image 208: Guy on Serpent Holding a Shield

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Image 210: Beast with Sword Riding a Beast

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Image 211: Archer Aiming Behind, in Front of Mushroom Tree (Illuminated Initial D)

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Image 212: Serpent with Fruit in Mouth, Beast Playing Fiddle (Elaborate Illuminated Initial C)

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Image 215 – Miniatures Range Starts

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Image 227 bedchamber mushroom hem canopy

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Image 223

Image 223 detail: Tied to the Mushroom Tree

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Image 230: Jonah’s Gourd Plant

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Features:

• Worm at bottom.

Image 231: Naked Guy on Serpent Holding a Shield

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Image 235: Square-Face Beast with Two Bodies

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Image 239 sketch: Bird-Head Amphiptere

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Image 240: Youth Riding Bald Serpent

legs tangled, doesn’t make sense

Image 244

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Image 244 detail: Blue Head Illuminated Initial

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v1 low res – todo: delete from server

Image 247 Youth Headed Serpent Holding Sword

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Image 250 Two Facing Serpents with Branching Vine-Tails (Sketch)

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Image 251 Series of Minatures Starts: Genealogy/ Nativity

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A Series of Minatures pages starts here.

Image 259 detail: Three Mushroom Trees with Bird (Illuminated Initial D)

“Initial Mushroom Tree Bird – Save As.png” 4.5 MB

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Image 274

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Image 274 detail: Snake Leg Illuminated Initial

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Image 277 – The Most Artificially Added Mushroom Hem

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Image 279 – Forked Vine-Tongue Snake (Illuminated Initial Q)

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Image 282

Image 282 detail: Mushroom Tree with Birds (Illuminated Initial O)

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Image 282 detail: Wingless Lindworm (Illuminated Initial D)

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Image 284: Red Head Youth in Serpent Body (Illuminated Initial E)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=284

Image 294: Jonah/Jason Spewing from Serpent (Illuminated Initial O)

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=294&r=0.04,0.003,0.716,0.375,0

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Image 300: Serpents with Fruit in Mouths (sketch), 8 Serpents (Illuminated Initial L)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=300

Image 303: Miniatures Pages

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=303

Image 303 detail: Branching Orchard

“Image 303 Branching Orchard.png”

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=303&r=0.372,0.775,0.642,0.336,0

Image 303 detail: Dog Serpents

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=303&r=0.513,0.443,0.446,0.233,0

Image 306 lower right: Elect Lifting Up or Pushing Down into Jaws of Hell

Theologically interesting

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=306

Image 307: Music

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=307

Image 308: Harp and Four Scribes

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=308

Image 309: Wingless Lindworms

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=309

Image 314: Musicians (Illuminated Initial C)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=314

Image 316: Baby Jesus in Manger (Illuminated Initial D)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=316

Image 318: Serpent biting shoulder (Illuminated Initial)

Can’t tell which letter.

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=318

Image 324: Angel Roasting 3 Sages in Flames

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=324

Image 326: Joseph & Youth Jesus Teaching with 2 Fingers & Scroll (Illuminated Initial N)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=326

Image 328: Scribe on Amanita Pillow Two-Finger Shape (Illuminated Initial Q)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=328

Image 336: Pilzbaum (Illuminated Initial P)

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zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=336&r=-0.332,0.84,1.491,0.781,0

Image 337 #5 Youth in serpent body (Illuminated Initial O), man serpent above

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=337

Image 338: Rooster Serpent (Illuminated Initial O)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=338

Image 339: Helmet Lindworm Guy

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=339

Bottommost page with content

End Notes

The companion notes page:
Golden Munich Psalter Analysis in Terms of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/

The caption is extremely volatile – if you click the “caption” icon on the image, it deletes the caption, losing info.

todo: Copy all caption info into regular text paragraphs too, because the caption is quite volatile.

Full page is low priority 👎 🗑 but do click link — instead, make the link prominent in tehe main section, encourage…. make whole page clickable

Treasure Freak Out

The #2 objective is don’t freak out. Remember, safety second.

Whats #1?

GET THE TREASURE.

🐉

Types of Dragons/Serpents

url https://www.dinomake.com/dragon-in-legends-8-wyvern-wyrm-drake-lindworm/

• wings-legs:
• o-o
• 0-1
• 1-0
• 1-1

• 0-0: no wings, no legs: serpent, wyrm
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=serpent&tbm=isch
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=wyrm&tbm=isch

• 0-1: no wings, legs: lindworm
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=lindworm&tbm=isch

• 1-0: wings, no legs: amphiptere
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=amphiptere&tbm=isch

• 1-1: wings, legs: dragon
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dragon&tbm=isch
  image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=drakon&tbm=isch

draft notes:

• Dragon (wings, legs)
• Serpent (no wings, no legs)
• Wyrm (no wings, no legs)
• Amphiptere (wings, no legs)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/ find “dragon”, topic: feathered dragons.

url https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FeatheredDragons

url https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurDragonsAreDifferent –

“Very old (Greco-Roman, and a few medieval cultures such as Germanic-Nordic) dragons are presented as more serpentine than the more recent ones — if winged, the wings are usually their only limbs; and some were totally limbless, just enormous serpents.

“This type of dragon may be referred to as a wyrm (pronounced “worm”).

“Sometimes, however, “wyrm” will simply be a synonym for dragons in general.

“Occasionally, winged but legless dragons may be referred to as amphipteres instead, a name derived from a kind of winged serpents traditionally used in French heraldry.

“The drakons of Ancient Greece were a similar variant that had the body of a snake, the head of a dog (sometimes), and were absolutely gigantic.

“Another variant from heraldry is the lindworm, a two-legged dragon with no other limbs.

“Variants include dragons that are Armless Bipeds or basically snakes with arms.”

x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#Ancient_Greek_and_Roman – nice picture of snake + tree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#/media/File:Kadmos_dragon_Louvre_N3157.jpg

Todo

• Make clicking every picture go to high res site. Announce consistent feature./ policy. Pics can link to where got.

See Also

The companion notes page:
Golden Munich Psalter Analysis in Terms of the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom & Vine Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/
Presented by page/folio, with generally the whole scene.
How many key images did I skip by too much looking only for mushrooms?

Idea Development page 17
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/ – I initially developed a ton of ideas in the present Golden page, then moved it to create the beginning (bottom) of Idea Development page 17. Relevant mytheme decoding is there.

Site Map sections:
Flagship articles: 
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art
Gallery articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#gallery

List of links to Thomas Hatsis’ online articles:
My page title:
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis)
Section heading:
Bibliography > Hatsis
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis

Contents:

• Web Search
• Psychedelic Eternalism Revelation = Ubiquitous Alien Mind-Control
• Superdeterminism: To better understand our Universe, ditch the idea of free will (Hartsfield 2022)
• My First Post on Eternalism: September 12, 2007
• Kabrunebraun Post About Superdeterminism: September 12, 2007
• Kafei Thrown Off by ‘Determinism’ — What If Wrote ‘Superdeterminism’?
• See Also

Web Search

Search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=superdeterminism

Psychedelic Eternalism Revelation = Ubiquitous Alien Mind-Control (Wikipedia)

ubiquitous alien mind-control: Wikipedia

Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism 0

“Wiseman and Cavalcanti argue that any hypothetical superdeterministic theory “would be about as plausible, and appealing, as belief in ubiquitous alien mind-control“” – now that’s what I’m talking about! you’re finally starting to get it! 👍

Superdeterminism: To better understand our Universe, ditch the idea of free will (Hartsfield 2022)

HARD SCIENCE — AUGUST 29, 2022
Tom Hartsfield
Audio spoken available.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/superdeterminism-free-will/#:~:text=Superdeterminism%20is%20a%20technical%20term,it%2C%20and%20the%20particle%20itself. –

Excerpt from article:

“Regular old vanilla determinism is the idea that the universe runs like clockwork, with each event triggering the next in a cascade of perfect predictability.

“If you knew the state of the universe at one instant, you could theoretically predict everything that would ever happen in the future.

“This idea can appeal to some people’s desire for order and certainty.

“For many others, it’s philosophically depressing.”

“Superdeterminism is a technical term for a specific application of determinism, postulating that there is no statistical independence between a measurer, with his detector interacting with the particle to measure it, and the particle itself.

“In other words, the universe is so thoroughly deterministic that it will force any seemingly random, freely made measurement to produce some value correlated to other measurements.”

___

“Applied to the problem of quantum strangeness, superdeterminism says that the state of one particle does not magically control the state of the other from far away.

“Each particle’s state can be given to it via interaction with the detector, coordinated by complete determinism across the Universe.

“Superdeterminism thus saves localism.

“Because superdeterminism dictates the state of each particle, even at great distances, it implies that the Universe “knows” what the states are.

“In this way, it can save realism at the same time.

“The quantum particles had some real state all along that was hidden from quantum mechanics.

“Like many worlds, it is highly speculative and the subject of intense scientific argument and criticism.”

“Giving up the assumption of free will to save our other cherished beliefs about causality and physical realism is a huge price to pay.

“For now, we don’t know how to experimentally test for superdeterminism in a comprehensive way.

“Some partially relevant experiments have not found evidence for it.

“Philosophically it’s still a terrible choice for most of us: give up understanding the world or give up free will.”

Quick, escape into quantum freewill fog of “ineffability”: the mind & language cannot comprehend anything or communicate anything – the mystic meditators are right, thank goodness!

We have engineered the saving of ethics, through magical freewill fog.

Hartsfield continues:

“It’s no wonder that even many professional physicists don’t like to embrace quantum mechanics.

“Its dirtiest trick of all is forcing us to collapse into one of these unfortunate philosophical states.”

/ end of excerpt from article:
HARD SCIENCE — AUGUST 29, 2022
Tom Hartsfield
Audio spoken available.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/superdeterminism-free-will/#:~:text=Superdeterminism%20is%20a%20technical%20term,it%2C%20and%20the%20particle%20itself. –

My First Post on Eternalism: September 12, 2007

Page title:
Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 96 (2007-09-03)
Section heading:
Subject: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unreality of time
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897

That’s the same day I posted the final revision of the 2006 main article, in the very next post.

And guess what the infinitely improbable post was after that: the Egodeath community member Kabrunebraun posted about Superdeterminism.

Kabrunebraun Post About Superdeterminism: September 12, 2007

Wow, really interesting story: the Egodeath community, the very next post after “final revision of 2006 main article”, a member of the Egodeath community points to ‘eternalism’ instead of ‘determinism’.

Subject: Re: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unre
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4900
Sep. 12, 2007

I wrote:

“Kabrunebran pointed out the following theory and interpretation of quantum mechanics, which apparently shares many of my goals. Rietdijk apparently looks for the covert or implicit, non-scientific, ideological motives of Copenhagenism.”

Kafei Thrown Off by ‘Determinism’ — What If Wrote ‘Superdeterminism’?

Kafei took one (only one) look at my main article from 2006/2007 and saw ‘determinism’, ignored “no domino-chain”, and concluded the Egodeath theory is just another freewill-based domino-chain, open-future expression of “determinism”.

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism is/ the Egodeath theory is actually eternalism (with control-dependence explicitly emphasized) — aka, in Physics, ‘superdeterminism’.

Therefore, had I merely written ‘super’ in front of ‘determinism’, that would be prevented Kafei’s false assumption based on my misuse of ‘determinism’.

See Also: Episodes of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast with Guest Kafei

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

The below list of Kafei’s appearances is copied from https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/egodeath-mystery-show-episode-227-leary-designed-mystical-experience-questionnaire-jan-21-2023/ –

Kafei is covered in Max Freakout’s Transcendent Knowledge Podcast episodes:

• 27 (2021-01-31) The Mystic Episode
• 26 (2020-12-06) Kafei (appearance 4), Cyberdisciple
• 16 (2019-11-17) Kafei (appearance 3)
• 14 (2019-06-18) Cyberdisciple re: Kafei
• Other Kafei episodes, appearance 1 & 2: see
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/

See Also

Possibilism vs. Eternalism: Two Models of Time and Control
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/possibilism-vs-eternalism-2-models-of-time-and-control/

3:07 a.m. February 6, 2023, Cybermonk

_{Site Map}

Idea Development page 18

Contents:

• Incoming Ideas
• Where Did I Learn to Pay Attention to Morphology? From a Snake in a Tree
• Todo
• Dual motifs eg {lifted garment} on a {non-branching part} of a mushroom tree where the formed by a {mushroom hem}. rank {lifted garment} instances by proximity to other motifs eg {straight right leg} vs {bent left leg}.
• Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree
• Added “Psychedelics Questionnaires” Site Map Category!
• Application to Manufacture Psilocybin in Oregon State, per Oregon Health Authority per Measure 109
• Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem
• Lightened the Non-Brown Nice Crop of 2-hand Jesus and Held-Out Sticks+Feathers in St. Martin’s Entry into Jerusalem Scene
• Announcement: Un-stretched John Rush’s Mystic Y image! 🎉 😊
• Golden Outtakes
• Meditation = Dry Wells, They Neither {Go in Through the Gate}, Nor Do They Let Anyone Else {Pass Through}
• Announcement: March Is Slag on Meditation Month – Get Your Selves Ready 🎉
• Hatsis Provides Good Images, 50% Valid Info, and Completely Worthless Arguments
• Hilarious – Psychedelic Witch 🍄🧙‍♂️
• Should I Create a New Golden Page with Correct “golden” instead of “gold” in the URL? Done, might remove v1 page as “Draft”.
• Superdeterminism Is Eternalism
• Bizarrest Date Match: The Day I First Posted ‘Eternalism’ (Sep. 12, 2007) Is the Day I Finished the 2006 Main Article, Misusing ‘Determinism’ 🤨 😄
• Experiment with Daily Post, Freeform, to Announce Latest Ideas
• Mythemes: key/ password, in/ out/ up/ down through gate, remove garment, hold removed branch or feather, turn to look right/ behind/ up, left/ right heel, benediction gestures
• Breakthroughs and Solidifying Sureness of Hypotheses
• Subheadings: put here, re-outline. First, just put them here to survey them:
• Confirmed {garment} decoding cloak, several angles coming together
• Remove the virtual possibilism layer {cloak} {OUTER garment} [10:53 a.m. February 4, 2023] your outer garment Confirmed Garment
• Benediction Gestures
  • 1 Hand, Fingers Together
  • 1 Hand, Fingers Splayed
  • 2 Hands, Fingers Together vs. Splayed
  • Outside of Static Images, Could Be a Movement/ Motion
  • Like the Double-Letter Riddle, the Key Is Dirt-Simple: {branching vs. non-branching}, representing possibilism vs. eternalism
• [12:56 a.m. February 5, 2023] {key} {gate} {branching}
• The {key} to get through the {gate} into {Psilocybinland} (Psilocybin-Eternalismland) is {branching} (ie non-branching)
• Psiloosecogbinland
• {removed branch} is the {key} to get through the {gate} into {higher kingdom} {shed cloak; uncloak} reveal underworkings underneath appearances
• Basket = appearance, snake = hidden veiled cloaked reality behind the blocking basket
• {branching} … {cut branching} the {key} = {remove garment} = {remove branching} = {remove feather} Branching
• Which Jesus Is Showing the Wrong Angle of Fingers?
• Efficient Jesus (1 hand, 2 fingers) vs.
  Expressive Jesus (2 hands 5 fingers)
• Correct Fair Comparison of Jesus A Against Jesus B 🤜💥🤛
• Y II Y II Y II Y ✂️ ✄ ✂︎
• 1-Hand Efficient vs. 2-Hand Expressive
• Serpens
• x
• All Imagery in Christian Art Means Psilocybin Experiencing
• Golden Munich Psalter Link
• High Resolution
• The “What % Weight on Right Foot?” Standard Assessment
• Motifs Emphasized by This Art Shop
• Formats: Web, PDF
• Download Psalter as PDF
• Pre-Zoomable URL Pattern for Page Numbers
• Page Ranges Containing Pictures
• Library’s Info
• What the Authorities Say: Mushrooms Never Count
• Preliminary Lead-up to Re-Finding the Golden Munich Psalter
• Motifs Identified and Explained by John Rush

Incoming Ideas

Where Did I Learn to Pay Attention to Morphology? From a Snake in a Tree

Done

Incorp.’d Section into Saint Martin page:
Projecting Too Many Mushrooms, in person!: the “Travel” fallacy

Done; copied section to: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-%e2%9e%b3%f0%9f%96%96%f0%9f%8c%b4%f0%9f%94%aa%f0%9f%8d%84%f0%9f%96%bc%f0%9f%94%8d%f0%9f%94%ac%f0%9f%a7%90/#Travel-Fallacy

Critique the “must travel” fallacy

Critique Browns’ claim that travel makes you see clearly instead of projecting/ reading into “I strictly report what I see: I see caps that have been painted over so are obscured, not visible” –

How is in-person hallucinating/projecting any better than projecting onto blurry internet photos?

Following in the ardent footsteps of advocate John Rush who wrote “This … painting … clearly represents mushrooms (manna) being handed out”,

Julie Brown saw first-hand “that the caps have been made not visible“ –

What kind of Wassonian mealy-mouthed double-talk is this?

Welcome to the wack world of entheogen scholarship.

I had to fight against earlier entheogen scholars’ mis-reading and projection and interpolation into the evidence, to think & see clearly.

Only by examining Browns’ blurry internet photos (eg Acrobat PDF fullscreen, & from Browns’ Word .doc file) along with multiple other ppls’ Blurry Internet Photos (eg 1964 french tourism site) was I able to get a still-hazy look at the STICKS & FEATHERS, which is what’s in fact shown.

Though, I wish to see & photograph Martin myself.

Done

Added Translator Note in “Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed” page

Reply to Brown’s comment, after crediting the translation of Brinckmann’s 1906 book, in page:
Panofsky’s Censored Pair of Letters to Wasson Revealed and Transcribed

Enoch Crop without Distracting Caption

Done: I put the following new, proper Enoch crop (sans distracting margin caption – I blame that for not seeing quicker how {lifted mushroom hem} affirms {non-branching} tree, x2) in the Golden Gallery page, tagged:

PAY ATTENTION FOOLS! LIFTED MUSHROOM HEM GARMENT 2X ABOVE NON-BRANCHING TREE

Clearer now w/o blank page notes off to side.

Bent left leg = {standing on right leg}

Add real feather photo

• Add the feather specimen photo to St Martin page

Copy the gray/red msh hems

• Copy the gray & angels’ red hems (below) to Gallery Notes Golden page, if not done yet.

start of section to copy to Gallery Notes page:

Dual Motifs: the lifted mushroom hem

[do not edit this section, edit Galley Notes instead @ Enoch]

zoom gray hem https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.366,0.502,0.344,0.18,0

“Image 24 gray mushroom hem.png” 156 KB [2:08 a.m. February 13, 2023]

“Image 24 red mushroom hem.png” 172 KB [2:09 a.m. February 13, 2023]

“Image 24 red mushroom hem flip.png” 172 KB [2:09 a.m. February 13, 2023]

zoom red angel hem https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.262,0.192,0.229,0.12,0

Important b/c it proves and ties together equivalence of … it more effectively bolsters interpretation of both of the overlapped mythemes, bolstering the interp of all 3 elements/ how to interpret the 3 distinct yet overlapping motifs.

mushrooms = celestial erection (lifted garment) = mushroom hem
= no-branching = stand on right leg

lifted garment = mushroom hem = mushrooms
= Psilocybin

Combines overlap of John Rush motifs “celestial erection” and “mushroom hems”.

John Rush always talks about the “celestial erection” and “mushroom hems” motifs as a pair, not an overlap, 5x per Index of book.

The Best Mushroom Hem is the Lifted Garment

[do not edit this section, edit Galley Notes instead @ Enoch]

All the pics are here:

Mushrooms Hidden and Visible in Fabric Folds: Dionysus’ Triumph
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#mhavif

John Rush has here a double lifted mushroom hem =
John Rush has here a double celestial erection + mushroom hem

Rush never points out that the best msh hem is the lifted garment. msh hem = a mini lifted cloth, and

mushroom hem as mini lifted garment

double celestial erection mushroom hems

Usually the “celestial erection” motif is thought of as distinct from the “mushroom hem” motif.

Only 25% of lifted garments look like mushroom hems or mushrooms.

try to incorp {mushroom hem} art motif.

[12:55 a.m. February 13, 2023] new term per filename: “lifted mushroom hem“

Crops:

[do not edit this section, edit Galley Notes instead @ Enoch]

“Image 24 blue lifted mushroom hem.png” 491 KB [1:08 a.m. February 13, 2023]

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.377,0.365,0.229,0.12,0

“Image 24 red lifted mushroom hem.png” 573 KB [1:11 a.m. February 13, 2023]

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.519,0.366,0.229,0.12,0

todo [done]: add this to Golden Notes where I’m covering Enoch lifted up.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.381,0.34,0.344,0.18,0

“Image 24 Mushroom Hem in Lifted Garment Enoch.png” 3 MB [11:52 p.m. February 12, 2023]

todo: update add Golden Psalter instances of {lifted garment} to the latter motif-page. ank Rank them; best kind of mushroom hem is in {lifted garment} on a {non-branching} msh tree.

Dual motifs eg {lifted garment} on a {non-branching part} of a mushroom tree where the formed by a {mushroom hem}. rank {lifted garment} instances by proximity to other motifs eg {straight right leg} vs {bent left leg}. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-39-top

omg decoded by Cybermonk [3:29 pm February 13, 2023] – HE’S STANDING ON RIGHT FOOT! NEED CROP

Features: add:

• L foot float, R foot touching ground, = standing on R leg = eternalism/ eternalism-thinking.

BUT feet are problematic: DO A FEET AND HAND INVENTORY

LEFT guy right heel off ground, bad

left guy touched by l hand, bad

r guy touched by R hand, good

r guy left foot touch non-branching trunk, bad.

I’m not getting clear readings, except middle guy R foot touching ground, L foot is not – that is significant.

Here’s something – right hand touches guy who has the lifted garment. left = no lifted.

L guy has mushroom hem, so it’s a wash??

Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree

[do not edit this section, edit Galley Notes instead @ Enoch]

pretty psyched, nice corroboration, didn’t see it for a few days! LOOK HARDER!

The analysis of this image is at the two pages:

Page title:
Golden Notes: Golden Munich Psalter per Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
Section heading:
Score! 2x {lifted garment} above {non-branching} Mushroom Tree — not Above {branching} Tree
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/#lifted-garment-above-non-branching-pilzbaums

Page title:
Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Section heading:
Image 24 top: Enoch Carried Up to Heaven
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-24-top

/ end of section to copy to Gallery Notes page – done.

[do not edit the above section, edit Galley Notes instead @ Enoch]

Heading

I need a page about Star tracks guitar pieces rating taking notes and rating them. Not only to define a 40 minute album but more generally to map out what’s what.

• map out what is what in the Star tracks. Map out the journey / terrain
• pick the best
• note non-top … need tto
• rank passages in all the Star tracks.

Added “Psychedelics Questionnaires” Site Map Category!

Page title:
Site Map
Section title:
Psychedelics Questionnaires
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#Psychedelics-Questionnaires

1 Zillion articles, 2022/12/16-2023/01/15 – exactly 1 month of solid work!

i cant believe i ate the whole thing 🤢

I should add letter to Oregon Psilocybin Authority, b/c that’s kinda started it… actually, Charles Stang challenging Griffiths who then said “we have a Challenging Experiences Questionnaire” CEQ is what started my research, along with my letter to Oregon Psilocybin Authority that I thought put incomplete focus on 1) bad stuff, 2) how fix — I failed to mention/emphasize/ incorp: 3) TO GET THE TREASURE; gnosis; Transcendent Knowledge.

Application to Manufacture Psilocybin in Oregon State, per Oregon Health Authority per Measure 109

pdf summary fact sheet: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Documents/Manufacturer-License-Fact-Sheet.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Email Received Feb 10 2023 from Oregon Psilocybin Authority

From: Oregon Health Authority
email addr: oha — service.govdelivery.com
Subject: Psilocybin Services Update + New Resources
Date: Feb. 10, 2023

Greetings,

Are you planning to apply for a psilocybin facilitator, service center, manufacturer, or testing lab license in Oregon?

Required operational forms and documents are now available on the Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) website.

• Facilitator Operational Forms and Documents
• Service Center Operational Forms and Documents

We also have fact sheets for each of the four license types:

• Psilocybin Services Facilitator License Fact Sheet
  
• Psilocybin Manufacturer License Fact Sheet
  
• Service Center Operator License Fact Sheet
  
• Laboratory License Fact Sheet

We are now one month into accepting applications for licensure. Our team has been working to provide support to those who are working through the application process as well as responding to many questions from future applicants and members of the public.

As of today, we have received the following number of submitted applications in the Training, Licensing, and Compliance (TLC) system: 

Facilitator applications:            0
Service Center applications:    4
Manufacturer applications:     10
Laboratory applications:           2
Worker Permit applications:  116

“We understand it may take time for applicants to work through certain requirements before submitting their applications for OPS review.

“For example, before applying for facilitator licenses, students may still be finishing their psilocybin facilitator training programs.“

“Those who intend to apply for service center and manufacturer licenses may be working with local governments on land use compatibility issues. And those who intend to apply for laboratory licenses may be working through the accreditation process.

Once submitted, applications take time to review and approve. We may be working with applicants on providing additional information or missing documents, waiting for the background check processes to be completed, and conducting site inspections for service center, manufacturer, and testing lab applications.

We want to thank you for bringing questions. We hope to issue our first licenses in the next couple of months and will keep you updated!

With Gratitude,

The Oregon Psilocybin Services Team”
www.oregon.gov/psilocybin

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Page title:
Saint Martin Frescos 

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/saint-martin-frescos-%e2%9e%b3%f0%9f%96%96%f0%9f%8c%b4%f0%9f%94%aa%f0%9f%8d%84%f0%9f%96%bc%f0%9f%94%8d%f0%9f%94%ac%f0%9f%a7%90/#identified-sticks-and-feathers-match-finger-shapes

Brown Feb. 9, 2023: Announce Decoded Items Held Out in St. Martin Entry into Jerusalem

Draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

I decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.

Jesus’ branching, left hand, held-apart fingers contrasted against non-branching, held-together right-hand fingers

matches the contrast:

branching feathers contrasted against non-branching sticks

ultimately describes:

mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism

I finally adequately decoded Browns’ items held out to Jesus — together with Jesus’ finger shapes.  
It took less than a year (2022-03-21 to 2023-02-09).
Or it took 2023-2016 = 7 years.

The key theme to look for is items & imagery that contrasts {branching} vs. {non-branching}. 
= appearance vs. reality.
= the ordinary-state appearance of possibilism vs. altered-state revealed eternalism.

200 KB “Brown 2 hands sticks feathers processed from pdf take2.png”
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https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/agefotostock-com-entry-jeru-recolored-hands-sticks.jpg

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/nonbrown-fingers-splayed-nonbranching-branches-lightened.png

1.8 MB “nonbrown fingers splayed nonbranching branches lightened.png”
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Jesus is similarly here contrasting non-branching fingers vs.branching Pilzbaum.  

A mostly branching Pilzbaum; the youth is standing with {right foot} on a {cut branch}.  

The above crop/scene is from Golden Munich Psalter’s Victory Entry into Jerusalem {gate}: art & analysis:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

_____________________

I report that I see tops that are not visible

Book p 112: “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”

That fails to happen: why are we asserting “whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured”.  

We’re talking about “tops” — that you DON’T SEE.  

This violates the explicit agreement and commitment.  Julie agrees to “just stick with the facts, what you actually see” — yet straightaway is talking about imaginary “tops”, what “tops”?  

“I see invisible tops”??  

“offering Jesus three stems[true?] with his right hand, whose tops[what tops?] have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

Julie violates the request and her commitment to fulfil it, speculating imaginatively about “stems” and “tops”.  

We don’t know that the sticks are “stems” (fair interp.), and especially, where did these hallucinogen “tops that aren’t visible” come from?  

What “tops”?  

The 2-way-confirmed agreement was “only talk about what you SEE in the fresco.”  

There are no tops seen, so what rhetoric-justification is there for claiming we’re only talking about what’s shown, what you SEE, and then proceed to talk about “tops” that are somehow NOT visible – yet still asserted to be there, directly violating the explicit set-up agreement!  😄

The result is a mis-framing rhetoric move: we agree to only report facts, for the purpose of reporting imagined things that aren’t there and then claiming that we are reporting things that ARE there.

What happened is precisely NOT “just stick with the facts, with what you actually see in the fresco.”  “Sure.  … three stems, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

That’s a hallucinogen-based, forced reading of the sticks-and-feathers that ARE visible.

What’s held out is sticks and feathers (that is what’s visible, what is seen), but Brown — under the explicit 2-way agreement to only stick to what IS seen — said “stems and tops”.  

“Stems and tops is an imported interpretation, added TO what’s actually seen, and is NOT sticking to the facts.

We don’t know they’re stems; and, there are no tops seen, despite trying to cover-over that reality by the set-up of “we’re strictly reporting what we actually see.”  

What’s being obscured here is the fact that tops are NOT seen, that there are no tops.

Actually, Jesus displays two hands with finger shapes held toward the youth’s items, and the youth holds out sticks and feathers toward Jesus’ finger shapes.

So, what we are given, that demands interpretation, is sticks and feathers, held toward Jesus’ displayed finger-shapes.

Both figures present branching vs. (ie. contrasted against) non-branching forms to each other’s forms/shapes, matching the contrast presented by the other figure.

________

Where are the gates??

Kupfer: “The second phase of the episode on the west wall isolates the walled city of Jerusalem.  Youths, their mouths open in song, crowd the gates; others within the city drape the walls or cut away at the treetops””

What gates?!  Where?

I need photos of St. Martin: gate?  Isn’t there a gate somewhere?  I found the full curved knife the Browns didn’t show the holder of, upper right of Entry scene.

Browns’ 2019 article’s wording:

“Christ is riding on an ass with his arms outstretched to receive a plant-like gift (of which only the stems are visible), offered by one of the youths who with his other [must say “left”] hand is holding the stem of one of the mushrooms.”

Browns’ 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels p. 112:

“his [Jesus’] arms reaching out toward the youths … One of the youths is leaning forward , holding on to the stem … in his left hand, while offering Jesus three stems with this right hand, whose tops have been painted over or somehow obscured.”

No “feathers” mentioned??

White painted feathers + deterioration + blurry internet photos.

“stems” = sticks; sticks have no branching (after {removing branching twigs}) and not forming a Y shape, but a II or |i| shape.

Y/II

Y contrasted against II

Y vs. I  morphology.  The {king/steersman} {holding the donkey reins} is killed at the {vulnerability} by the {spear} {blade} which {removes branching}.

Book p. 112:

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no, beardless youth] on top of the tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem of a mushroom.”

Article: “Jesus with arms outstretched toward the large psilocybin mushrooms in the Entry“

Not false, but, a motif-driven description must highlight that Jesus is displaying finger shapes, toward something near (b/c distance is important): the sticks and feathers held out toward Jesus’ finger-shapes.

A victory procession train.

What gate? Where?  I don’t see it.  It must be there; {gate} is central.  Why is no gate shown?  Need full 360 photo coverage.  

The donkey’s {right foot} is above a {doorway} = gate.

Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=st.+martin+entry+into+jerusalem+fresco&tbm=isch

* Not plant-like gift.  Sticks & feathers.  Sticks are non-branching or removed branching.  Feathers are branching.

* Not arms receiving; not offering a gift.  Jesus & the youth are holding out matching contrasting pairs of shapes: branching & non-branching.  

Jesus’ left fingers are branching like the feathers, right held together non-branching like the sticks.

* “stem” but it’s a more-branching-tree stem, than the right hand placement & plant.

Branching = possibilism-thinking.  

Non-branching = eternalism.  

The mind in the altered state, the main “effect” of Pilzbaum, is transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism.  

My 1988 article draft contrasted the two mental worldmodels (egoic & transcendent) – here they are depicted, as {branching} contrasted with {non-branching}.

“On the far right of the fresco stands another youth holding the stem of a diamond-shaped frond (possibly a palm frond) in his left hand and a long slightly curved sword in his right hand.”

*  “diamond frond” – I have identified this plant as Psilocybe semi-lance-ata; I have identified this plant and its motif-network usage.

*  Not a curved sword; holding the non-branching middle of a spear aimed at king Jesus’ side.  

A curved lance — or semi-lance, from the relatively non-branching plant held by {right hand}.

“We can only speculate why a mushroom tree is growing on top (or out of) the roof of a stone tower.”

Above the gate.  

Browns wondered about why the plant grows from a “stone tower” – I wrote elsewhere about {rock} before; but now, I note that the tower {guards} the {gate}.

{through the gate} is all-important, and requires a {key/ password/ sacrificial payment} and to {remove outer garment/cloak} of appearances.

_____

Key date: March 21, 2022

I am posting this decoding-announcement in this key thread that contains Professor Brown’s milestone providing of the March 21, 2022 Marcia Kupfer heavily highlighted passage about youths in trees cutting branches.

My March 21, 2022 reply that is the first place I ever wrote the important lexicon-phrase {branching-message mushroom trees}.

1. Browns had to write Kupfer’s passage in their 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels with faint emphasis, and I highlighted it there when the book first shipped.
2. But Browns had to try again and put that Kupfer passage in their 2019 article Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels, with strong emphasis this time.
3. But that didn’t get through to me either, so finally Professor Brown had to personally email me the heavily highlighted version of their passage, to make me finally see the passage in its fullness.

Now, Feb. 9, 2023, I have finally tonight adequately decoded/interpreted the Browns’ tree-guy’s items held out to match Jesus’ finger shapes, together with Jesus’ finger shapes which I don’t think the Browns noted in the book or article.  

For St. Martin frescos, you get 1 point every time you write “left” or “right” re: hand or foot or plant side.  

This genre employs motifs/ depictions/ images of {handedness} + {non-branching}; ie:

{left} contrasted against {right} = 

{branching} contrasted against {non-branching} =

possibilism contrasted against eternalism.

Book p. 112: (the 2nd copy in this message):

“Jesus and his disciples are traveling toward the gates of Jerusalem, where a rotund man [no; a beardless youth] on top of the [gate-guard] tower is using a long knife to cut through the stem …”

p. 112: “Walking directly behind Jesus are two men, possibly disciples, holding their arms up in the gesture of standing in awe.”

Don’t the Entry two guys behind Jesus have halos?  Yes, the near guy has Amanita undercap; gold circle in red band.   So, definitely disciples. (Or, less likely, Old Testament figures.)

Aggh! Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photos.

Not gesture of awe — take greatest note of Jesus’richer gestures/ finger shapes.  Remedied above.

They are — flexibly, one way or another — gestures of non-branching (or, gestures of “contrasting non-branching against branching”), with left hand, displaying finger shapes, like Eadwine’s initiation image classroom testing scene, but with slightly different meaning choices to express the same message of contrast.

Both scenes (Entry & Exam) depict “branching vs. non-branching” shapes in flexible ways. 

Avoid magical thinking, even “left vs. right” isn’t rigidly, statically sancrosanct; isn’t the message of inherent import.

What’s important for you as a mystic artist is to depict that you comprehend that the message is “non-branching contrasted against branching”, referring to possibilism vs. eternalism world models.

Magical rigid thinking won’t do; there is no magical hand gesture that’s the correct answer, statically.  

Instead, you as an artist have to invent your own expression to prove you comprehend the message – not the envelope, not the outer form, but the principle.

Here is Eadwine’s class exam scene with Browns’ “gesture of awe”, but in this meaning-scheme, these failing students indicate (by displaying left hand) “rely on egoic, autonomous control in a branching world” like the left side of the pink key-tree.
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-93.png –

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-93.png

/ end of draft of Brown announcement, Cybermonk, Feb. 9 into 10, 2023

Lightened the Non-Brown Nice Crop of 2-hand Jesus and Held-Out Sticks+Feathers in St. Martin’s Entry into Jerusalem Scene

Jesus’ Y/II & tree-guy’s Y/II

[11:04 p.m. February 9, 2023] made 3rd crop from new source:
“agefotostock-com entry jeru recolored hands sticks.jpg” 17 KB

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Announcement: Un-stretched John Rush’s Mystic Y image! 🎉 😊 Now, with Extra Y-Ness!

The Mystic Y
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/the-mystic-y/

Measured Moses’ halo to be round.

Now the raccoon armadillo sheep look more like real raccoon armadillo sheep.

Brown & Brown warned us about John Rush’s Blurry Internet Photos — but not about them being stretched like the television-overdose boy in the Wonka factory.

Golden Outtakes

Golden Munich Psalter
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667767/

The Gallery view shows thumbnails:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?st=gallery

Many different UI views in the UI.

PDF has lossy images.

Search web for “Golden Munich Psalter”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Golden+Munich+Psalter%22

Printed & bound for $350:
https://www.apmanuscripts.com/religious-texts/golden-munich-psalter-1200-ce

Or print the .pdf to color printer and staple groups of 25 pages in upper left and use pens on that.

Printed & bound for $350:
https://www.apmanuscripts.com/religious-texts/golden-munich-psalter-1200-ce

I’m avoiding this whole-page approach.

March Is Slag on Meditation Month

Announcement: Annual Month of March Is Slag on Meditation Month, Right Back At Ya Even Worse than Meditation Constantly Abuses, Insults, Lies About, and Dishonors Psilocybin

Meditation Advocate = Smug Liar

Advanced Meditator = Advanced Avoider of the Real Deal

fruitless, barren, meditation is a dry well. they– [8:43 p.m. February 6, 2023]: They Neither {Go in Through the Gate}, Nor Do They Let Anyone Else {Pass Through}

Meditation Hucksters: the new Pharisees

They Neither {Go in Through the Gate}, Nor Do They Let Anyone Else {Pass Through}

Announcing upcoming March:

National Slag on Meditation month here at Egodeath Theory, JUST AS MEDITATION HUCKSTERS CONSTANTLY SLAG ON PSILOCYBIN.

Goal: Insult, condemn, and demonize and diminish phony, fraudulent meditation, even much more than meditation smears, slanders, dishonors, robs, and lies about Psilocybin, which is the Real Deal.

You know how everyone is so comfortable getting pleasure out of condemning Western religion?

Do exact same simply, to Eastern phony fraudulent lie-based Mediationanity.

What worth is a tree, without fruit?? It would be like meditation: a worthless tree that bears no fruit.

Fruits Dangling Under Liberty Caps

[8:24 p.m. February 6, 2023] The two fruits under left and right side of liberty cap caps by Eadwine = Transcendent Knowledge; {fruit} = Transcendent Knowledge. A mushroom contains fruit: Transcendent Knowledge.

It’s not tracked here which cap is from which folio. See folio pages such as https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f141.item.zoom

What worth is a tree, without fruit?? It would be like meditation: a worthless tree that bears no fruit.

Hatsis Provides Good Images, 50% Valid Info, and Completely Worthless Arguments

I am not assessing all of his works, nor his potential. re: mushroom imagery in Greek & Christian art, he provides:

Highly valuable images, not sure if credit goes to Irvin, not sure where these images are on the web – Irvin didn’t provide them online? Rush’s gallery has some of them.

It is good that we have Hatsis’ articles, though the reasoning is more a misfire and misleading, than helpful and useful to engage.

Wildly off-base interpretations eg .. [list]

He is the mixedest of bags.

Totally worthless arguments.

Many provided facts are right, and many are wrong.

/www.bing.com/images/search?q=panaeolus

todo: streamline the Golden Ps page

streamline the Explain Away o Matic page – that latter would be a great place to put retorts — but that would wreck the o-matic page design – so keep entries as short skimmable then link to where detail is moved to(?)

Keep Hatsis’ helpful research in Golden page,

done: move out his inane 1-sided arguments that couldn’t possibly convince anyone, that he just broadcasts but never engages with 2-way critical response, so he imagines that his arguments appear solid (they do not at all look solid; they look mentally challenged and ideological, the requisite necessary irrationality that’s a hallmark of the committed skeptic.

Definition of “sub-specious argument”:

Arguments that give the appearance of validity NOT to other people, but ONLY to the one making the argument.

Result: foolish-looking bluster and bravado: the person carries themselves AS IF they made an impressive argument, when in fact, people are ROFL at the person revealing how utterly pinhead-foolish they are.

😑 🤡

The utter, manifest fool who carries himself as the wise authority.

I happen to know the type, thoroughly; it’s a combination formula.

Only the utter, manifest fool carries himself with such perfect, complete self-assurance.

Such a personality type has no need of any error correction mechanism — and so, he goes sailing off by himself into insane outer space, lost all touch with reality, the insane king.

100% confident, and 100% foolish-looking.

This ideal historian, Hatsis, who has replaced Panofsky as “the most influential art historian”, made ME look like a fool by repeating his mistake of mis-calling it “the Gold Munich Psalter“.

Its title is conventionally the Golden Munich Psalter, and so now I have to re-post this page to correct the URL due to his error. Thanks a lot.

Wildly off-the-wall critique. He is a reliable historian, in this way.

Add to my Explain-Away-o-Matic button page:

“This scene can’t be a depiction of The Mushroom (🍄), because this scene is violent. How are you gonna explain that??!! It completely destroys what your guys’s position is! Thus the backstory prevents that meaning of this art image. If you knew anything about how to read and do scholarship, like me, you wouldn’t have committed this FATAL BLUNDER. YOU GUYS GOT A BIG PROBLEM! If you guys keep up this bullsht, I’ll send you crying in a corner. I’m done acting nice, calm, and easygoing. 🤬 😤” – pretty much an exact quote of Hatsis’ online amateur web blogger post.

The Psychedelic Witch 🧙‍♂️🍄 rebranded as “Psychedelic Historian”, but his specialty is Scopolamine plants, so a more precise branding would be “Deliriant Historian”.

My page title:
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis)
Section heading:
Bibliography > Hatsis
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis – lists 5 online articles

Hatsis’ page title:
The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Section heading:
Mushrooms and Halos
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –
https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/

Thomas Hatsis wrote:

His argument, why this mushroom imagery cannot be meant by the artist as mushroom imagery, due to the backstory, and because it’s violence and negative and therefore contradicts our position which Hatsis has assigned to us.

“But this resemblance to that secular genus of text is not the Mushroom Cult theory’s biggest problem;

“the biggest problem is what to do with all the other illuminations that portray mushroom trees (by the theorists’ standards, anyway) when they appear in scenes of violence. “

Hilarious – Psychedelic Witch 🍄🧙‍♂️

url https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/

Should I Create a New Golden Page with Correct “golden” instead of “gold” in the URL?

The ideal historian, Hatsis, who has replaced Panofsky as “the most influential art historian”, made ME look like a fool by repeating his mistake of mis-calling it “the Gold Munich Psalter“.

Its title is conventionally the Golden Munich Psalter, and so now I have to re-post this page to correct the URL due to his error. Thanks a lot.

For SEO.

I would keep old page url w/ date too, as a record.

How many of my pages link to wrong-URL page?

Tent plan: add crops then create new page and “archive” the orig page that has date of 2023/02/01:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/gold-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/
Now is Feb 6. (5 days later)

Put notice at top of v1 page linking to forthc. v2 page.

Golden Ps. Notes/Outtakes

Zoom URLs Work on Mobile Device, Though Laptop Has Caching Issue

Takeaway: I have to test these the zoom-urls on mobile, in order to effectively test on desktop and know what result I should be getting, then try hard-refresh in conjunction with mobile device as a second point of reference.

zoom on red right side lifted garment:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.67,0.843,0.229,0.12,0
not working for me – caching??

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.034,0.594,0.919,0.481,0
Lamech, sharper than at Hatsis article.

trying again: clicked the above link, then zoomed on right side, result: tbd
zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.655,0.836,0.229,0.12,0
Weird, identical result as the link immediately above, wtf.

Superdeterminism Is Eternalism

link to my sep 12 2007 post about block universe

Bizarrest Date Match: The Day I First Posted ‘Eternalism’ (Sep. 12, 2007) Is the Day I Finished the 2006 Main Article, Misusing ‘Determinism’ 🤨 😄

Even weirder, they overlap/bracket/alternate:

The 1st post about eternalism, then the post about the final rev of the main article; then the 2nd post about eternalism.

1. I start an eternalism thread (Post 4897).
2. (Re: Sticking to my guns: why topics require central focus (Post 4898))
3. Next post: I announce final revision of 2006 main article (Post 4899).
4. Next post: I post Kabrunebraun’s (Egodeath community) post about eternalism (Post 4900).

OMG the Egodeath community Rocks Again: Kabrunebran Pointed Out an Eternalism Theory the Same Day

First mention of ‘eternalism’: Post 4897

Page title:
Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 96 (2007-09-03)
Section heading:
Subject: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unrealit[y of time]
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897

Announcement of Final Revision to 2006 Main Article: Post 4899

Page title:
Idea Development page 16
Section heading:
My First Posting of the Word ‘Eternalism’: Sep. 12, 2007
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#First-post-of-eternalism
Leads to the Egodeath Yahoo Group
Page title:
Egodeath Yahoo Group – Digest 96 (2007-09-03)
Section heading:
Subject: Re: Article: The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Post #4899, Sep. 12, 2007:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4899

The Egodeath Community (Kabrunebran) Next Provides Info About Eternalism: Post 4900

Wow, really interesting story: the Egodeath community, the very next post after “finished main article”, some clown (member of the Egodeath community) points to ‘eternalism’ instead of ‘determinism’.
Subject: Re: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unre
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4900
Sep. 12, 2007

I wrote:

“Kabrunebran pointed out the following theory and interpretation of quantum mechanics, which apparently shares many of my goals. Rietdijk apparently looks for the covert or implicit, non-scientific, ideological motives of Copenhagenism.”

A really good post, I’m sad to say; speaking as Evil Future Me, I cannot live up to the high standards of Good Past Me.

Hey kinda-dumb Past Me, don’t you have an important article to revise, hint hint?

Page title:
Idea Development page 16
Section heading:
2006 Main Article Was Finished on September 12, 2007
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/#main-article-published-date

Experiment with Daily Post, Freeform, to Announce Latest Ideas

I’ll have to jump in and try this approach to see what it’s like. Not sure what title, I guess like titling an episode of Egodeath Mystery Show – theme of the day.

This new Idea Development page 17 will serve such an Announcement Email purpose, and will appear at top of “Recent posts” lists at this site.

I need to keep the Gold Ps page streamlined, and either create a companion Gold Dump idea-dev page, or just use this page – d/k if … it’s unlikely I will constrain relevance to Gold Ps. in particular.

My brain storm will be arouund Gold Ps, but, focus won’t remain on that.

So, using present page makes sense, for brain storm that’s largely leveraging my images production work in the Gold Ps page.

Mythemes: key/ password, in/ out/ up/ down through gate, remove garment, hold removed branch or feather, turn to look right/ behind/ up, left/ right heel, benediction gestures

Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/gold-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

I did major work on this mytheme cluster, worked-up messily in the page
Golden Munich Psalter.

Below is the worked-up content, moved to here to streamline the Golden Munich Psalter page.

This is extremely, truly the world’s highest-value content dump below, I’m about to paste below, moved from the Golden Munich Psalter page.

Breakthroughs and Solidifying Sureness of Hypotheses

Confirmed {garment} decoding cloak, several angles coming together

Shed clothing when pass through gate.

Clothing is illusion is possibilism-thinking which covers reality like lid covering snake-basket.

To remove clothes is to lift lid is to make perceptible eternalism-thinking, the experiencital mode, make mind’s functioning explicit and observable and testable. that = remove clothes.

Instead of the layer of virtual possibilism layer

[12:56 a.m. February 5, 2023]

the “possibilism” mental worldmodel = outer garment

the “eternalism” mental worldmodel

Remove the virtual possibilism layer {cloak} {OUTER garment} [10:53 a.m. February 4, 2023] your outer garment Confirmed Garment

Dionysus holds the “eternalism” mental worldmodel in his right hand.

Ariadne holds the “possibilism” mental worldmodel in her right hand.

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Dionysus holds eternalism-thinking in her right hand.

Ariadne holds possibilism-thinking in her right hand.

{garment} = possibilism-thinking

{outer garment} = possibilism-thinking

“outer” is flexible AS LONG AS YOU DEMONSTRATE comprehensino of branching – ironically, simplifying it to the max, you POSITIVELY say “branching” Let me explain Transcendent Knowledge to you fastest: here is BRANCHING.

#1. FIRST OF all, BRANCHING.

Take the idea of branching.

Then invert it.

Presenting the ideas of Transcendent Knowledge to you: Firstly, BRANCHING. Then, contrast against that, “NOT”.

1. Branching.
2. Not.

garment = the “possibilism” mental worldmodel

they wore an undergarment and an overgarment.

Remove overgarment.

Come through gate, requires removing your overgarment of seeming possibilism. reveal eternalism.

the higher controller epiphany reveals Zeus reveals his kingship to Semele, remove layers of clothing to make mind’s functioning perceivable and testable/ trialable.

Put the lower mind on trial testing probing observing its limits and dynamics and seizure potential.

Become adult, transformation from possibilism to eternalism, remove the garment of appearances which is possibilism mental model.’

Benediction Gestures

1 Hand, Fingers Together

1 Hand, Fingers Splayed

2 Hands, Fingers Together vs. Splayed

Outside of Static Images, Could Be a Movement/ Motion

Later comment, [1:20 a.m. February 6, 2023] –

this “motion” idea was transitional, mostly.

Making a scissors motion is good idea, and static images could be said to represent that, but it’s a bit off; a stronger better sounder idea is that the entire class of gestures is fair game for the artists:

the only rule is that you have to consciously represent / depict “branching vs. non-branching”, along with other motifs to depict the revelation of transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

/ end of the later, [1:20 a.m. February 6, 2023] comment.

Abstractly, generally, the family of gesture motions, is “that gesture whichh you convey “branching, or rather non-branching” with. Pls demonstrate now the hand motion to indicate that you know that THE PASSWORD THROUGH THE GATE IS BRANCHING, BRANCHING IS THE KEY {key} for {gate} = {branching} of the {non-branching type}. [12:56 a.m. February 5, 2023]

One word, ironically, to get through the gate into the kingdom of Transcendent Knowledge: the word ironically is “branching”.

[12:56 a.m. February 5, 2023] {key} {gate} {branching}

The {key} to get through the {gate} into {Psilocybinland} (Psilocybin-Eternalismland) is {branching} (ie non-branching)

Psiloosecogbinland

Psiloosecogbinland

So Make Any Gesture of Non-branching: holding a REMOVED branch, hold branch, yes, BUT hold a REMOVED branch, a REMOVED feather. [1:12 a.m. February 5, 2023] LETS DO SOME ART but right heel not left heel.

{heel} {step through gate from left heel to right heel shed garment under higher controller password gate branch that’s cut removed branch.

Holding a non-removed branch (with left hand, as a rule) is bad.

Holding a removed branch (with right hand, as a rule) is good.

{removed branch} is the {key} to get through the {gate} into {higher kingdom} {shed cloak; uncloak} reveal underworkings underneath appearances

Basket = appearance, snake = hidden veiled cloaked reality behind the blocking basket

{branching} … {cut branching} the {key} = {remove garment} = {remove branching} = {remove feather} Branching

The key to get through the: gate shed layer of garment, hold a removed branch and/or plucked feather.

Jesus I DONT’ SEE ANY SIGN OF AWAREness she’s holding a branch, though I prominently noticed snake;

I noticed snake.

I noticed 3-layer branching.

I didn’t write “holding branch”. Why wouldn’t .. why didn’t … Check the Egodeath Yahoo Group , when did I finally mention she holds branch?

Here is the breakthorugh announcement Dec 1, 2013:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-124/#message6340

Found it: a year-long delayed reaction (little posting that year), can’t tell how slow I was… after a year, I casually am familiar of course that she holds branch, by Dec. 15, 2014:
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-125/ –

[a year ago, Nov 2013,] “I turned the page of the Joseph Campbell book and saw in black & white the Eve half of a diptych painting, by Cranach the Younger and/or Elder, buddy of Martin Luther, showing Eve holding branch of tree of knowledge, branching antlers behind her, holding branch in front of her.”

There’s very good content I need to review in those posts, discoveries that Calvin was a hypercalvinist.

Nov 2013, I wrote “snake”

i wrote apple (apple turbo charged the meaning) it says “gnosis is of branching & snake”.

My Nov 29 2013 question:

If Cranach knows that (gnosis is of moving from branching to snake, referring to possibilism vs eternalism), then OMG how many other people were in on it?

What cloak does a bird wear? A bird’s garment is branching feathers. Feathers are bird clothes, the bird’s cloak hiding the underlying workings of the birdt.

[1:18 a.m. February 5, 2023] Remove the barrier to viewing the workings of the mind. Going {up} through {Saturn gate} = going {out} = going {in} = going {down} from possibilism to eternalism (thinking, mental worldmodel).

These are all the same, expressing non-branching ie eternalism, by gestures of contrasting branching vs nonbranching: I am holding out a branch (branching) but it is removed/cut (non-branching). Thus achieved expressing both branching and non-branching.

Ironically, the only thing that Douris and Cranache had to show me: the nonbranching snake + 3 layers of branching at Eve’s legs, stag antlers, plant branch but I am too dumb that day to mark hand (left) holding branch. WHY DID I NOT FLAG THAT SHE’S HOLDING ON TO BRANCH u gotta be shttng me, no f’ing way, DID I NOT MARK THAT SHE HOLDS BRANCH? not sure. test that:

THERE IS NO HOPE, because not the correct static angle.

It has to be exactly 0 degrees or 90 degrees between the two sticks.

And it can’t ever change, OR ELSE THE MAGIC GESTURE FAILS.

At least they are removed branches.

Which Jesus Is Showing the Wrong Angle of Fingers?

Efficient Jesus (1 hand, 2 fingers) vs.
Expressive Jesus (2 hands 5 fingers)

WHAT IS THE SECRET ANGLE THAT’S THE ONE TRUE ANGLE??

Who is the False Jesus: the one holding right fingers together, or the one holding right fingers splayed??

🤔 🤔 🤯 🔥

[3:23 a.m. February 5, 2023] oh wait i just remembered, it’s not fair, one Jesus is more efficient: half-spread two fingers.

Jesus B uses two fingers of right hand plus 3 fingers of left hand: 2 hands and 5 fingers, vs. Efficient Jesus

UNFAIR/invalid/ inconsistent comparison B/C HIS GESTURE IS A 2-HAND DESIGN: IOW YOU CAN’T SEPARATE L & R INTO ISOLATED PICTURES.

1-hand Jesus C:

You must compare BOTH hands at the same time, of every Jesus, if any of them employ left as well.

Correct Fair Comparison of Jesus A Against Jesus B 🤜💥🤛

1-hand Jesus C

1-hand Jesus A

Finger motion: right fingers relatively splayed, more branching.

Semi splayed

ALMOST LIKE HE’S TRYING TO DO BRANCHING AND NON-BRANCHING AT SAME TIME like in a SCISSORS MOTION – cut cut those branches, he’s saying CUT CUT CUT as moves fingers together & apart.
II Y II Y II Y II Y ✂️✄✂︎

[3:40 a.m. February 5, 2023]

Y II Y II Y II Y ✂️ ✄ ✂︎

2-hand Jesus

1-Hand Efficient vs. 2-Hand Expressive

Show that you comprehend branching vs. non-branching, meaning transformation from possibilism to eternalism:

WAIT where’s Jesus C for another, winning, 1 hand/2 finger expression of eternalism consciousness:

St Martin (Jesus B) is the key to decoding the hyper-terse morphology of Jesus A & Jesus C.

You have to compare a decent size set of variants of a motif, to decode it. [3:50 a.m. February 5, 2023]

Handedness Decoding Failure in 2014 😞

todo: trace my history of failure to comprehend/ recognize {handedness} in the midst of decoding art motifs 😵

by dec 2014 (few posts that year) I FINALLY noted that in Cranach Eve Tempted , she is holding branch. WHY IN THE LIVING HELL WOULD I NOT HAVE WRITTEN “HOLD BRANCH” ON PAGE OF CAMPBELL BOOK NOV 29 2013 WHEN I LISTED “ALL” THE BRANCHING ASPECTS OF THE IMAGE?

PAST-ME = DUMB

holding branch

w left hand

Christmas 2015: Figured out tentatively as a question:

🤔 Couldn’t {standing on right leg} mean relying on eternalism for mental worldmodel of control-in-world??

At that point, what I knew and discusseed with Max in effect, was {turn to look to the right} – [11:32 a.m. February 5, 2023] {look right} = perceive eternalism –

todo: get picture of Entry into Jerusalem scene with Jesus turning to look right, behind him. keep an eye out for this image, re-find it.

Progressive Decoding of {handedness} and {non-branching}

mytheme decoded: {turn look right behind}

1) before 12/2015: decoded sort of, {turn to look right, behind you} (but I didn’t have my rich network that I have now, to hook that decoding-element to)

also check concrete instance of a myth: Abraham turned to look right, behind, up and see ram caught helplessly in thicket

[11:56 a.m. February 5, 2023] got confirmation that in both of the mushroom-Isaac pictures, Abraham looks right and up. right AND up!! 🎉 + 🎉

🎉 + 🎉

This is happy because of high degree of closure with the first time that I wrote, discussed with Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple – “turn to look to the right, river lethe”,

{look right} = remember (even after returning to ordinary state of consciousness)

{look left} = forget, upon returning to the ordinary state of consciousness.

mytheme decoded: x

2) 12/2015: I leveraged my (partial) decoding of {turn look right behind} to hypothesize: {stand right leg} = eternalism.

mytheme decoded: x

3) 11/2020: Applied and tested the above hypoth : can it decode John Lash’s Brown-certified Blurry Internet Image of 2/5 of 1/3 = 13.3% of Eadwine’s initiation image (which, 1) I had no idea that there was a surrounding picture – purely in isolation, and 2) didn’t know it was from John Lash, or that 3) it was first uploaded May-Aug 2008)

mytheme decoded: x

4) March 2022: Engage brain, back-apply my eadwine decoding to all my other familiar images eg Eustace crossing river.

{river crossing = gate} as I mentally noted last night, feb 4, 2023.

mytheme decoded: mytheme-complex/cluster/network decoded Feb 4 2023: {key, gate, garment, non-branching}, border-crossing eg

breakthrough last night into this morning, feb 4 into feb 5, the nature of this breakthrough is, I decoded a “mytheme-complex”, centered on the iconic Entry into Jerusalem image/scene and its tropes/ art motifs.

[1:12 a.m. February 5, 2023] : {river crossing = gate}; broadly/abstractly: {boundary crossing = gate} therefore all applies: {key}, {payment}, {removing/ repudiating/ sacrificing}, {remove garment}, {reveal underlying}

{boundary crossing} is a high-level mytheme paradigm that requires expression in some low-level particular form eg {fording river}, {passing in|out|up|down through guarded gate}.

Wherever you have Campbellian {boundary crossing}, that motif/ mytheme connects to the network of mythemes like key, remove garment, repudiate/ sacrifice child-thinking, etc.

key concept: “decoding network”; to decode is NOT to say “X means Y”; to decode is more like whole-network meaning-shifting network.

Serpens

Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=serpens – “The first known use of Serpens was in 1715″

Does serpent express comprehension of [branching vs nonbranching]?

how does it express branching? has legs. and wings = arms, so, HAS 4 LIMBS.

how does it express not-branching? IS A SNAKE.

A SNAKE WITH LIMBS, A SNAKE (= X) & HAS LIMBS (= Y)

A SNAKE WITH LIMBS, A SNAKE (= ETERNALISM ) & HAS LIMBS (= PSM

What is the answer? Something that expresses both branching and non-branching. Hold a removed feather and/or removed branches. Or, best to cover your bets, hold removed branch and hold a plucked (removed) feather.

How is a cut branch like a plucked feather? winged dragon [1:28 a.m. February 5, 2023] dragon has feathers? search: dragon feather

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FeatheredDragons

“Dragons have changed a lot over history.

“From their origins as the giant snakes and serpents that guarded treasures and sacred places in Classical Mythology, they evolved into the monstrous images of Satan of Medieval myth, the fiery Tolkienian engines of destruction and the awe-inspiring godlike beasts of modern fiction.

“In recent fantasy art and fiction, some dragons are undergoing a new evolution — they’re sprouting feathers. [nothing new 😑]

“In terms of physical appearance, such dragons can vary from typical dragons with birdlike wings to ones bearing additional tufts or crests of feathers at various points of their bodies.

“More comprehensive Mix-and-Match Critters may have more even distributions of draconic and avian features, and some may even be primarily avian creatures with secondary dragon traits.

“There are, broadly speaking, three reasons for why a dragon might be depicted in such a manner:

To signal that this is a more benevolent creature than most dragons. This is a direct application of Good Wings, Evil Wings — because people tend to like birds more than they like bats, swapping out a dragon’s chiropteran membranes for avian pinions is a quick and convenient way of making it come across as more beautiful, benevolent and likeable to the audience.

“Even when these creatures are Feathered Fiends, they tend to be so in a Light Is Not Good sense rather than the monstrous evil of traditional dragons.

“To play up an association with Elemental Powers such as air or electricity. It’s popular in modern fiction to have elementally themed or aligned dragons, and depicting dragons tied to sky-themed elements as having physical traits of the animals most strongly associated with air and the sky is a good way to visually reinforce such themes.

“Dragons are reptiles, and sometimes they’re dinosaurs as well, and the scientific consensus that many dinosaurs had feathers is beginning to percolate into popular culture.

“Works tying dragons to the dinosaurs may depict at least some of the wyrms as feathered as part and parcel of the fact that the dinosaurs most likely to be associated with them, the predatory theropods, were primarily feathery animals themselves.

“See also Feathered Serpent, for another sort of feathered, reptilian beasts with their own cultural baggage (specifically, they call back to feathered serpent deities present in many Mesoamerican religions).

“See Dinosaurs Are Dragons for dragons and dinosaurs who are portrayed as related or interchangeable.

“See Catlike Dragons, for another portrayal of dragons with the characteristics of real-life animals.

“See Good Wings, Evil Wings.

“See Dragons Are Divine for dragons who are gods or like gods.”

x https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurDragonsAreDifferent –

x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#Ancient_Greek_and_Roman – nice picture of snake + tree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#/media/File:Kadmos_dragon_Louvre_N3157.jpg

They might say:

“a picture of {snake vs. tree}, a gesture now make, with two fingers, to express your knowledge of getting through the gate shedding garment,

the “knowledge of branching vs non-banching” 2-finger gesture motion. Usually not a vigorous Y, but half between (static single angle fall

the single-angle static fallacy as if a magical angle.

Some Jesuses do Y,

Some Jesuses do a II gesture.

Some Jesuses do two hands gesture,

how can this be? its too hard – its a mystery – we’ll never figure it out, its too hard, it’s not consistent, sometimes he goes “branching” sometimes he goes “nonbranching”. solution: what’s communicated , to be comm’d, is the complex transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

What we really wish to express is mental-worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism – how to express that??

Hold a cut branch to get through the gate – to get out through the gate from p to e, to get in through the gate demanding the princess as payment price, end the false king to get through the gate.

E.Z. There is no one magic gesture. Every variety of expressing branching vs nonbranching is “the” gesture.

Which Jesus is correct, THEY ARE ALL MAKING A CONTRADICTORY DIFFERENT BENEDICTION GESTURE, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SOLVE THE MEANING [UNLESS the meaning is the general abstract concept of branching] but that’s not exactly right, specifically branching regarding control-in-world; eternalism-type of … not purely abstract “branching vs. non-branching”.

The point is not “branching vs. non-branching”; the point is to express moving from transformation from possibilism to eternalism mental worldmodel (and experience.)

It’s just that one efficient way to contrast possibilism vs eternalism is to express as branching/non-.

the “eternalism vs possibilism” gesture b/c IT ONLY REQUIRES TWO FINGERS (especially if moving) to express “branching vs. non-branching”. Guy in tree expresses that “versus” relationship.

EXPRESS “BRANCHING VS NON-BRANCHING” as the key, TO GET THROUGH THE GATE, the psychedelic eternalism gate to remove garment, get Transcendent Knowledge, the key

the Password Gesture to Get through the Gate is the Scissors Gesture with two fingers

[2:12 a.m. February 5, 2023]

the Password Gesture to Get through the Gate is the Scissors Gesture with two fingers

How do you signal via garment?

How do you signal via tree branch (ans: remove it, and then hold it in r hand)

How do you signal (possibilism to eternalism) via legs?

its a bird with 4 limbs and feathers (not {removed feather})

no its a snake

Ways to signal mental worldmodel transformation from possibilism to eternalism; awareness of eternalism:

he’s teaching using the scissors finger-gesture

to contrast branching vs non- which means possibilism vs eternalism.

{fingers together or splayed}

{key}

{gate}

{removed branch}

{two fingers varying pressed together & splayed}

{two fingers pressed/splayed} is the gesture of benediction, THE S the magic golden scissors w/ fingers finger-scissors motion.

Make a scissors , the password is ‘scissors’ and doing that with your fingers.

remove garment and hold removed branch and put garment of possibilism appearance under the right foot of donkey under higher controller.

A submission, remove garment and place under the level of controller.

go down from possibilism to eternalism

go out from possibilism to eternalism: example: Entry into Jerusalem

Example Image of Going Up Through Gate from Possibilism to Eternalism

[1:55 a.m. February 5, 2023]

Saturn gate

Example Image of Going Down Through Gate from Possibilism to Eternalism

underworld gate, the gate way to the underworld, guarded by a dog welcoming , Cerburus, welcome from possibilism to eternalism. You can never leave.

Example Image of Going In Through Gate from Possibilism to Eternalism

Eden, end of bible heavenly gated city

Example Image of Going Out Through Gate from Possibilism to Eternalism

entry into Jerusalem [1:56 a.m. February 5, 2023]

go in from possibilism to eternalism –> Eden and end of Bible

go up from possibilism to eternalism – example: gate at top of Saturn, into fixed stars heimarmeneland.

Be nimble and flexible in thinking about how one could repre WHAT IF YOU WANTED TO INDICATE THAT YOU GRASP THE KEY TO THE GATE INTO PSYCHEDELIC ETERNALISMLAND IS

[12:56 a.m. February 5, 2023] {key} {gate} {branching}; the key to get through the gate into Psilocybinland is ackshually “non-branching”, but, a simple “branching” will get u through 👍 = remove garment possibilism-thinking appearances reveal the mind, psych mechanisms of the psych

Extend the index finger and middle finger. Demonstrate awareness that the morphology is moving from branching to non-branching.

You are Jesus – make any damned gesture motion you want, but the goal is to EXPRESS MOVING FROM BRANCHING TO NON-BRANCHING at least demonstrate that “I know branching is important” eg look what blew me away Nov 29 2013: did Cranach communicate to me “transformation from possibilism to eternalism” literally directly in the art motifs? NO!

Cranach BTFO’d me (with Fritz Graaf Greek Myth book… Douris.

Cranach + Douris BTFO’d me.

or the fact that they were that knowledgeable about the highest things that I know about, through an efficient hint: branching layered 3-levels, so strong a signal of simply “branching”, I didn’t even mark pointing to the huge fact… this is f’d up:

WHY DID I NOT MAKE A MARK AT HER HAND? Past-me kinda DUMB.

HERE The Advanced grader is Grading past-me…

evil future me

vs

dumb past me (despite smart) – the (a bit slow) past-me

Cunning and extreme-reaching past me, vs evil future me, “evil” only means that past me is competing against future me – that they are competing to find gaps the other me failed to stake claim to and Declare victor / mapping-out.

Decoding.

Don’t fail to be extreme radical or else you WILL leave un-owned, unincorporated area / points.

Overshoot.

The whole way to look at the Benediction Gesture benediction gestures –

A lot of the decoding technique of looking is about mentally discarding and abandoning our “knowledge”.

We’re better off saying:

I don’t know what this class of gestures means, therefore I need to DIRECTLY analyze the gestures.

SUPPOSE THAT THE MESSAGE IS SIMPLER, MORE FUNDAMENTAL, MORE DIRECT, the opposite of complicated special backstory. Suppose The Gesture Motion [or: gestures] is the very opposite of esoteric?

Achilles heel

goddess held baby by the ankle to make immortal, ankle is the weak point = possibilism-thinking is weak, control-instability when Psilocybin loosecog changes to eternalism experiential mode, possibilism-thinking isn’t compatible, goes unstable, feasible control system requires mind is made to repudiate possibilism-thinking and rely instead on “trust” in the higher control that it’s revealed personal control is profoundly dependent on.

Relying on {left heel ankle foot leg hip hand} will fail, in Psiloosecog.

The right heel is immortal, stand on use eternalism-thinking when Psilooscog, to have stable control.

Increasingly learn to engage possibilism-thinking to demonstrate its climax-seizure self-transgresssive control vortex whirlwind up to the transcendent realm which means up through the gate of Jerusalem out from town of seeming, stand and pass out the city gate upwards through the control vortex going out through the gate above top of Saturn layer out up to epiphany of the higher controller

mind’s cloak gets removed and see the profound dependence on God eternalism

go up through the Saturn gate to get cloak removed, garment removed when go through each gate. CONNECTION achieved.

esoteric A vs. esoteric B, we agree it’s esoteric

Certainty levels increasing:

Good-esoteric approach to thinking about The Gesture [or, class of gestures] decoding how is the motion gesture LIKE *the* “effect” of Psilocybin loosecog redosing 10 weeks?

Goddess holds baby prince in fire every night holding by the ankle – 12 [12:36 p.m. February 4, 2023] The left ankle.

image search – doesn’t she hold him by the left ankle? search: goddess hold baby fire immortal night

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demophon_of_Eleusis

[10:34 a.m. Feb. 4, 2023] I am now willing to say that largely, it doesn’t matter whether Jesus’ fingers branch or avoid branching (held together); the message coheres either way:
[12:59 a.m. February 6, 2023] the above train or direction led to: gestures in the plural; it is a class of morphology; artist is free to invent any gestures that express comprehension

Like the Double-Letter Riddle, the Key Is Dirt-Simple: {branching vs. non-branching}, representing possibilism vs. eternalism

I keep thinking of the riddle game where the solution is, “any word that contains a doubled letter”.

The moment a player knows the solution, you can instantly tell, they are suddenly switched from clueless and puzzled, to singing in harmony a full adept.

• bubble is correct.
• train is incorrect.
• traffic is correct.
• bike is incorrect.
• leggings is correct.
• rain is incorrect.
• Hanegraaff is correct (this one time only, but doubly so).
• Erik Davis is incorrect.

The message of the revelation of Eternalism when you pass out through the gate of Jerusalem for the epiphany of the sacred ruler:

IT’S ABOUT BRANCHING VS. NON-BRANCHING.

Therefore I win no matter what, and I’m immune to failure; undefeatable/invincible. 😑

Passing Through the Gate of Jerusalem for the Eternalism Non-Branching Epiphany

Mytheme fully decoded Feb. 3 2023. This mytheme angle is particular to the Entry into Jerusalem scene.

Connecting my previous decoding of {gateway passage} from possibilism to eternalism, to the Entry into Jerusalem scene.

image search “triumphal entry into Jerusalem”
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%22triumphal+entry+into+Jerusalem%22
tip: use filter: “omit garbage modern art”

here’s a pretty good one:
https://www.orthodoxgifts.com/christs-triumphal-entry-into-jerusalem-icon/ – Christ’s right two fingers slightl splayed as if in between non branching and branching, as if to contrast branching vs. non-branching.

Interesting idea [10:53 a.m. February 4, 2023] – how to convey “branching vs. nonbranching” by using just two fingers?! Solution: Partly splay the index finger & middle finger. I will grace that wth a screenshot from above url

Crop by Cybermonk [10:59 a.m. February 4, 2023]
From page https://www.orthodoxgifts.com/christs-triumphal-entry-into-jerusalem-icon/
Local file of crop: “orthodoxgifts com – christs-triumphal-entry-into-jerusalem-icon.png”
Purpose of crop: {partly splayed fingers} to express the referent, comprehension of branching vs. non-branching.

Another Entry Scene

wiki has hig-res jpg good format. too big for my server though.

The full image has additional {mushroom hems} and {lifted garment}.

As I announced, credit for John Rush’s analysis of {mushroom hems} and {lifted garment}, globally, I’ve given.

url of picture at wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictional_of_St.%C3%86thelwold#/media/File:The_Entry_into_Jerusalem–Benedictional_of_St._Aethelwold(971-984),f.45v-_BL_Add_MS_49598.jpg

url https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_49598_f045v –

“f. 45v: Full-page miniature of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, preceding the benediction for Palm Sunday.

Search for MS #: https://www.google.com/search?q=ms49598

British Library:
url https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=add_ms_49598 –

“Date: 963-984

“The Benedictional of St Æthelwold

“The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, written by the scribe Godeman for St Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester from 963-984.

“Acquired by the British Museum from Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 1957.

“The Benedictional of St Æthelwold contains pontifical benedictions for a bishop to speak at Mass on different days of the ecclesiastical year, as well as a prayer for blessing candles on the Feast of Purification (f. 33r).

“The Benedictional is preceded by a series of full-page miniatures, and by a poem relating the execution of the manuscript (ff. 4v-5r), written in gold. This poem begins, in translation: ‘A bishop, the great Æthelwold, whom the Lord had made patron of Winchester, ordered a certain monk subject to him to write the present book, and also to be made in this book many arches well adorned and filled with various figures decorated with manifold beautiful colours and with gold […]’.

“The poem also provides the name of the Benedictional’s scribe, Godeman (f. 5r).

“The manuscript is one of the earliest and most significant surviving examples of the Anglo-Saxon Winchester scriptorium.

“The decoration of the manuscript consists of twenty-eight full-page miniatures, … originally contained forty-three full-page miniatures and twenty-one text pages with decorative frames. The subjects of the miniatures are: … [list]”

BritishLibraryWebsite”

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictional_of_St._%C3%86thelwold

has the picture, Entry into Jeru.

Mytheme Decoding Proposal/ Hypothesis: {partly splayed fingers} means comprehension of branching vs. non-branching

context = survey of many versions of iconic image “Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem”.

kinda the definition of the word ‘iconic’ scene

url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_entry_into_Jerusalem –

“In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem took place in the days before the Last Supper, marking the beginning of his Passion, his time of suffering, death, and resurrection celebrated during Holy Week.

“In John 12:9-11, crowds gather around Jesus and believe in him after he has raised Lazarus from the dead, and the next day the multitudes who had gathered for the feast in Jerusalem welcome Jesus as he enters the city [via gate].

“In Matthew 21:1–11, Mark 11:1–11, Luke 19:28–44, and John 12:12–19, Jesus descends from the Mount of Olives towards Jerusalem, and the crowds lay their clothes [cloak, tunic, outer covering] on the ground [under his/donkey’s feet] to welcome him as he triumphantly enters Jerusalem.

“The triumphal entry is traditionally commemorated on Palm Sunday.”

/ end wiki intro

Gates – ARTICULATING THE GATES Feb 3 realization (but last night I saw an early mention of mine; find “gate” at this site re: Entry into Jerusalem somehow involves a {gate} mytheme. But especially during my voice recording evening of Feb 3 2023 yesterday, which I vow to release, I articulate the idea fully, for the first time.

[Feb 4 2023 7:59 a.m.]

1) That Jesus’ two fingers pressed together rather than splayed means non-branching, per eternalism.

2) That St. Martins Entry into Jerusalem, held out to Jesus is two stick branches ({removed branch}) not splayed branching and having no branches off them, held together with branching feathers ({removed feather}), is a way of contrasting non-branching vs. branching.

This held-items realization – the contrast point – was last night during voice recording for Egodeath Mystery Show podcast, there are some timestamps in that recording, late in Feb. 3, 2023.

The St. Martin chapel’s {holding a removed feather and removed sticks} (a “vs.” contrast presented by the artist) glues together successful decoding/interpretation the held-feather Entry into Jerusalem and the held-branch Entry into Jerusalem.

This is why you HAVE to analyze a SET of images and not just look for mushrooms!

Just as I said for having to analyze Hellenistic & Christian art side-by-side, to decode either of them.

What is “mushroom imagery”?

As I wrote around Nov 2022 (see date of my Hatsis podcast recordings reading aloud the articles): as John Rush wrote, and Hatsis criticized Rush for writing, all imagery is mushroom imagery, I wrote and said that on Egodeath Mystery Show while I was reading aloud all of the Hatsis articles.

todo: make a catalog of all the stuff held out to Christ in versions of this scene.

Search “feather”: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=feather – see branching morphology.

[11:46 p.m. February 10, 2023] a feather is delicate like ego collapses, the solid thing is sticks like eve ribs plaincourault fresco. delicate flesh burns off, reveals sticks, burns away feathers but sticks are durable.

possibilism = wimpy feather strands of fake apparent branching. perishes the moment high dose skill is made to self-transgress seeing underlying mechanism

these tracks are infested with snakes i had to work it out – exploring sound

the solid eternalism reality that’s imperisable.

I woulda drawn the cut branch on the right, not left. 😑

[9:16a.m. Feb 4 2023]: left foot floating in space, offering no balance-power. I just got clear on this element.

Standard hands & feet analysis

The standard hands & feet analysis, part of my trademark technique that I developed, analysis of handedness in art.

Pink guy in tree:

• Left hand: holding out cut branch. Wish clearer image. This is on the level of John Lash 2008 row 1 left, Brown-certified Blurry Internet Image.
• Right hand: not visible at least in this blurry image. red guy: holds cut branch.
• Left foot: floating in space, offering no balance-power.
• Right foot: Seems close to the main branching spot, too blurry to be sure – the first time I fell into misinterpretation trap per Brown was Nov. ~15 2020 re: Lash 2008 image left hand pointing at foot, was 100% a lossy artifact, the apparent extended finger is entirely an illusion of that image from Lash.

Fun fact: the very start (post #2) of my Idea Development page 1 at this site, bottom of page, is John Lash 2008 initiation image decoding, Nov. ~15 2020.
Idea Development page 1
Section heading:
My Comment Posted at Cyb’s – People Find My Record of Discoveries/ Process Valuable [manually dated Nov. 18, 2020]
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/realtime-discovery-log/#mcpacp
Initial title when first Published (Nov. 17, 2020 [possibly Nov. 16 my time]):
Realtime Discovery Log

Ha! here is a useful filename and date of mine I found: “danglingFromMshTree.jpg” Nov. 17, 2020. I called it “dangling” instead of “hanging”. Cognitive acrobatics. Cybernetic loose-cognitive acrobatic tests of skill.

🍄🔍🔬🧐⁉️🤷‍♂️

Search “liberty cap”: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22liberty+cap%22&tbm=isch

The so-called “benediction gesture” – don’t let your mind shut off through that Jedi mind trick, where we attach a familiar sounding, reassuringly familiar sounding label to imply that there’s no meaning, it is a meaningless benediction gesture, STOP THINKING; MOVE ALONG.

No, I refuse to “stop thinking” just because YOU labeled-it-away as a Panofsky-like “Yes we know, it’s nothing new, it’s just a BENEDICTION GESTURE”, nothing to see here, move along.”

The mind-bluff of “familiar”.

“We are familiar with this gesture, THEREFORE IT IS MEANINGLESS.”

We art historians are familiar with these mushroom trees, and THEREFORE they are not mushrooms, because you would have to say they are all mushrooms, therefore they cannot be mushrooms. Q.E.D. – Panofsky

(One of the several massive covert assumptions that are implicit and required, for such an “argument” to seem to work:
“And it is simply a given that you don’t want to assert that all mushroom imagery in medieval Christian art intends mushrooms.”)

All Imagery in Christian Art Means Psilocybin Experiencing

If a Christian artist doesn’t mean Psilocybin, then they are wrong. The theory is correct. Thus I am saying that all authentic art means psilocybin. If the artist fails to mean psilocybin, the artist is in error and it’s not authentic art. Therefore I am always right.

My arguments are more solid than the made-up on-the-spot Hatsis (the insanity of the committed skeptic) willy-nilly random arguments, throwing every bizarre vector of argumentation at the wall and acting like it all sticks.

Thomas Hatsis, the anti-mushroom psychedelic witch 🍄🧙‍♂️, has the insanity of the committed skeptic.

I have the divine inspired madness of the committed believer.

I’m a believer, I ain’t no deceiver

Bob Daisley, who had the good taste to have Ozzy sing his lyric

News for you Panofsky: We ARE 100% enthusiastically willing, per my Radical Maximal Entheogen Theory of Religion! In fact, it stands to simple reason, that all mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushroom experiencing, in fact all imagery in Christian art means Psilocybin experiencing.

Take your “benediction gesture” labelling-away and place it in Wouter Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket -> 🗑

🤞 ✌️ 🤟 🖖 y 🌴 🌳 𐂷

Golden Munich Psalter Link

url https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667767/

The Gallery view shows thumbnails:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?st=gallery

oooh there’s mushroom Isaac, a good one, gotta have that!

Oh man it has a color version of one of my 2006 main article’s images! Christ pulling the saints from the jaws of Hell.

This psalter is better than I assessed a year ago after finishing more work on the best, Eadwine psalter’s images –

I think this strongly positive re-assessment proves that I am making progress on various fronts/ topics/ points.

Just like at some point I believe I saw John Lash’s 2008 13% fragment of Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, then much later came back to it big-time in Nov. 2020 to decode that key image, here I’m coming back to the Golden Munich Psalter from flipping through it underwhelmed in 2022, seeing much more value now – can hardly believe it’s the same psalter – entirely different UI, so, disorienting.

The web view’s gallery shows about 5 groups of pages that have pictures, alternating with groups of pages that are text with illuminated initials.

High Resolution

If you really want to see max detail and truest color, click a “zoom” URL in this page.

Wow try this: in a new window, view
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/highest-res-epiphany-tree-extreme-closeup.png
so no UI chrome. Then fullscreen -> EXTREME ZOOM

🖼🔍🔬🧐

OMG that’s not zoomed enough, now click when cursor is a mag glass, it zooms EVEN MORE. Then zoom the display using touchpad or multitouch gesture:

Some cut-square artifact here.

Consider the images in this page as reduced-resolution preview.

technical test/demo: laptop screenshot of zoomed online viewer (not PDF dl, that has shiite fidelity) – expect WordPress to reduce resolution probably:

x

The “What % Weight on Right Foot?” Standard Assessment

Red guy in tree: % right foot: 95%. Left leg is bent, in reality would be for stabilizing but not weight bearing. Get in the head of the figure/artist.

found other crop of that, “splayed nonbranching branches.png”
in /One Touch/Pictures/ED/Brown/

Auto Level quick-n-dirty: “splayed nonbranching branches img-proc.png”:

Limb Inventory Discoveries/ Announcements

[8:02 p.m. Feb. 3, 2023] – discoveries/announcements by Cybermonk: about the technical hi-res zoom crop above:

Red Guy

• Left hand: holding branching spot
• Right hand: holding out trident cut branch with blood like on a dagger
• Left foot: standing on main branch split
• Right foot: standing on cut branch

Blue Guy Coming Through City Gate

• Left hand: fingers straight
• Right hand: holding trident cut branch
• Left foot: standing on left foot of cloak spreader (tunic)
• Right foot: not shown

Blue Tree Guy

• Left hand: holding above branching
• Right hand: holding midpoint branch far from branching
• Left foot: not shown
• Right foot: not shown

Donkey

• Left hoof: up
• Right hoof: down
• Left hoof: up
• Right hoof: down

Donkey Jr

• Left hoof: not shown
• Right hoof: down
• Left hoof: not shown
• Right hoof: not shown

If you right-click my .png image above, the URL here is:
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/highest-res-epiphany-tree-extreme-closeup.png?w=2048

Compare resolution & color to the orig zoom url: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54&st=image&r=0.362,0.236,0.437,0.229,0

Motifs Emphasized by This Art Shop

Heavy use of:

• Mushroom trees with branching.
• Mushroom hems.
• Head of man or animal on serpentine very long tail/neck/body.
• Lifted garment.

Little use of:

• Cut branches.
• Handedness.

Formats: Web, PDF

The gallery can be less flipping through pages than the downloaded PDF in Acrobat.

Around early 2022, I downloaded the PDF, and flipped through it in Acrobat.

The web-based view can be good to link to from this page.

Download Psalter as PDF

url https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcwdl/wd/l_/08/93/9/wdl_08939/wdl_08939.pdf

350 pages, 3.2 MB

Pre-Zoomable URL Pattern for Page Numbers

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=123
opens page 123.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=123&r=0.307,0.282,0.394,0.206,0
vine snake man

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=123&r=0.307,0.806,0.394,0.206,0
vine snake

If I zoom and shift, the URL adds coordinates.

Using these URL patterns, I was able to list all the page numbers of interest from the PDF quickly, then construct the web URL afterwards.

What Does &st=image Do?

&st=image is the default; can omit. Options are Image|PDF.
PDF takes about 45 seconds to load, in too-small/ high-cruft window. Once the PDF loads, you can smooth scroll in the little window in the browser.

Test/compare:

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22

Page Ranges Containing Pictures

• n – Images
• n – Text
• 135 – Images
• n – Text
• 215 – Images
• n – Text
• 251 – Images
• n – Text

The PDF page number matches the webpage “image” number.

Library’s Info

This section: quotes, copy/pasted, broke up para. – Cybermonk

This manuscript is one of the most lavishly illuminated psalters of the Middle Ages.

It includes 91 full-page miniatures, most of which contain gold, in five picture cycles that give an overview of the most important scenes of the Bible, and especially the Old Testament, which is depicted in no fewer than 176 scenes.

Among these, several very unusual motifs concerning heroic women are especially noteworthy.

The style of the illumination is typical for the transition period between late Romanesque and early Gothic art.

With its calendar, the texts of the Psalms, 15 canticles, and ten prayers, this book was intended for the private use and devotion of an important noble lady.

Although its English provenance has long been known, it was only recently that the origin of the manuscript could be determined more precisely.

In view of the close parallels with another dated calendar of known origin, it now seems probable that the book was commissioned in an Oxford workshop as a present for Margaret de Briouze on the occasion of her marriage to the nobleman Walter de Lacy II in the year 1201.

According to an ex libris preserved on the front pastedown, the manuscript must have reached the Bavarian State Library by the 1620s.

Dynastic links between the house of Wittelsbach-Straubing-Holland and members of the English aristocracy in the 13th and early 14th centuries could explain the manuscript’s migration to continental Europe.

Created / Published

• 1200 to 1225

Headings

• –  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland–England–Oxford
• –  1200 to 1225
• –  Bible. Old Testament
• –  Illuminations
• –  Miniatures (Illuminations)
• –  Prayers
• –  Psalms
• –  Psalters

Notes

• –  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• –  “BSB Shelfmark: Clm 835”–Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• –  Original resource extent: 164 sheets, parchment : illustrations ; 27.7 x 19.3 centimeters.
• –  Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
• –  Content in Latin.
• –  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

• 1 online resource.

Digital Id:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.8939

• Library of Congress Control Number: 2021667767
• LCCN Permalink:
  https://lccn.loc.gov/2021667767

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.

Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.

Researchers are encouraged to review the source information attached to each item. For information on contacting WDL partner organizations, see this archived list of partners

The Library asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose lives, ideas, and creativity are documented here.

What the Authorities Say: Mushrooms Never Count

Ignore this page, because Hatsis the authority says the Golden Munich Psalter is not relevant. 🍄🧙‍♂️

It’s not the right kind of devotional Christian text, so it doesn’t count. 😑

Per the Secret Mushroom Cult theory (which is what you care about), these are not depictions of Jesus as a mushroom, therefore, they don’t count.

(Yes, that’s really, actually how Hatsis “reasons”, in his online internet blogger articles. In 2022, I read all of his articles aloud and commented on them, in the Egodeath Mystery Show podcast.)

As typically, as is normally & usually the case with Hatsis, everything about his approach to interpretation is completely wrong and irrelevant.

His argumentation is unprofitable to engage, because it is entirely irrelevant how he sets out to approach analysis.

Against Hatsis, the particular storyline should be kept very distinct from mushroom interpretation or the presence of mushroom imagery vs. the particular storyline for a particular image.

In fact, everything in religion means mushrooms, that is, the Psilocybin state, so it is mostly irrelevant and arbitrary where the artist chooses to put mushroom imagery.

Hatis commits the fallacy that to identify a msurhoom imagery as meaning a mushroom, it’s dependent on the backstory.

Hatsis assumes – without justification – that if you can describe the backstory in a certain way, then, you can dismiss and explain away the mushroom imagery.

Hatsis attempts to leverage a non-mushroom backstory, to explain away the plain use of mushroom imagery: even though the image looks like a mushroom, the “empirical” “naturalistic” backstory (he falsely and irrelevantly argues) NEVER permits us to identify mushroom imagery.

Per Hatsis’ bunk manner of explain-away analysis, only if the backstory were literally “He ingested the psychoactive mushroom”, only then could we grudgingly, reluctantly be forced to concede that there could possibly be mushroid intent by the writer, whose story the artist is conveying.

That’s not even slightly the case. The backstory in fact nearly irrelevant.

Hatsis’ approach is rigidly literalist and reductionist: only if the story is about ingesting mushrooms, and the story is explicitly and directly expressed as “this time, this instance, in this story, there tells an episode of ingesting The Mushroom” – only then could we say that the art imagery used to depict the story means mushrooms.

I take the exact opposite approach.

A story of visionary eating scrolls is not a literal recounting of a particular instance of literally eating ingesting psychedelics.

Rather, even when a mythic story does include direct expression of ingesting mushrooms (“I ate the scroll the angel handed me”), it’s just an abstract literary mode, with motifs in the story and possibly motifs chosen by the artist to decorate the mushroom-type, visionary-type story.

It’s a type, not a literal instance: MYTHIC TALES ARE NOT HISTORICAL REPORTAGE.

“Is it true that Balaam’s donkey walked on a path so narrow, no room to turn left or right?”

The mystic genre or mode of expression is a mythic abstract motif-driven tale, a mode of storytelling.

Hatsis tries to leverage welding the storyline to an instance ingesting “the mushroom” (🍄).

When Hatsis writes “the mushroom” or “mushroom(s)”, in Western entheogen scholarship context, he always, exlusively means Amanita – confirmed by pers. comm. By ‘mushroom’, Hatsis always, exclusively means Amanita.

He wrote me “Liberty caps are anachronistic” (whatever that’s supposed to mean). And that Brown and I are not allowed to assert Psilocybin, because our basis is Allegro.

In fact the Egodeath theory has exactly ZERO influence from Allegro re: entheogen scholarship.

I first heard of ahistoricity through John King’s book reaction to Allegro, around 1999.

In 1999 I read Strange Fruit (published 1994/1995) (a good book that’s exclusively focused on Amanita, not Psilocybin), which made false statements about Allegro: Heinrich said that Allegro said that Jesus led a mushroom cult.

In fact, Allegro said that Jesus was none other than The Mushroom (🍄).

(Meaning, Amanita only, with zilch awareness or thought of Psilocybin coming from Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck/ Irvin/ Rush/ Hatsis.)

I started researching which psychedelic is in Revelation in 1986, with zero influence by or awareness of Wasson or Allegro.

Hatsis goes far beyond strawmanning: he dictates to people what their position that they are defending is, even if the person doesn’t hold that position – Hatsis tells them “you have to hold the particular position that I tell you to hold.”

It is dictatorial, beyond-strawmanning: YOU SHALL HOLD THE BUNK POSITION THAT I HAVE DEFINED FOR YOU.

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HOLD AND DEFEND A POSITION OTHER THAN THE ONE I HAVE ASSIGNED TO YOU.

There’s no profit in debating with an insane person, which is how far gone Hatsis’ manner and strategy of argumentation is.

Preliminary Lead-up to Re-Finding the Golden Munich Psalter

From other, earlier page (John Lash Provided the Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Eadwine Image in 2008), from which I broke out the present page:
todo[done]: unfinished biz: Need direct link to Golden Munich Psalter. I remember flipping through millions of pages of this psalter to find about 10 fair pics of mushrooms.
Web search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gold+Munich+Psalter
– shows mushrooms even in a preview of a book facsimile reprint.
Image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gold+Munich+Psalter&tbm=isch

Two days ago, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, I discovered that the Biblio of Browns’ book cites the John Lash page that’s one of a set of 9 Lash articles that I found about the Great Mushroom Psalter (not the only one; Hatsis and maybe Irvin provided another one, Golden Munich Psalter, I posted a little about it here) and 20th Century psychedelics history & Wasson.

Search:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=Gold+Munich+Psalter

Bizarre coincidence: Christmas 2015: the same day that I figured out and posted about the dancing man salamander bestiary image:
{standing on right leg} = eternalism-thinking,
I also posted about Hatsis’ mention of the Golden Munich Psalter:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/egodeath-yahoo-group-posts-7457-7520/#message7469
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/egodeath-yahoo-group-posts-7457-7520/#message7472 –
“Hatis writes:

“Golden Munich Psalter shows a style of tree that looks very “psychedelic” indeed, but it always ends up the same: when you put the “mushroom tree” in historical context, it never ends up being a mushroom.”

I believe I posted the URL for the Golden Munich Psalter here. It’s good, not as good as Eadwine (I’m hopelessly spoiled).
Found my post! It’s in
Hatsis Gallery of Proof of Massively Overwhelming Buttloads of Psilocybin Mushrooms All Throughout Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/hatsis-gallery-of-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art/
Find: Munich

Oh darn, this isn’t the whole entire Psalter’s URL, only some dumb witch on deliriants:

More Hatsis gallery:

Motifs Identified and Explained by John Rush

Global comment for my writings: I won’t write this everywhere I point out the psychedelic art motifs that John Rush discovered and explained in his books.

• lifted garment, he calls “celestial erection”.
• mushroom hems.

Michael Hoffman, February 5, 2023

This is my original Feb. 2023 page including commentary.
Newer page that’s just the Panofsky transcription, with clean title, for general use (with comment from Brown & Brown):
Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed – 2025/01/07

_{Site Map}

Contents:

• May 2, 1952 Letter 1 from Panofsky to Wasson
  • Photograph of Letter 1
  • Transcription of Letter 1
  • Transcription of Letter 1 Broken Up per Sentence
    • Sentence 1.1 (your words about my talk)
    • Sentence 1.2 (word of warning)
    • Sentence 1.3 (art historian consult: nothing mushrooms)
    • Sentence 1.4 (only one example of pilzbaum)
    • Sentence 1.5 (pine hundreds instances development)
    • Sentence 1.6 (little book by Brinckmann)
    • Sentence 1.7 (enclose specimens pine into mushroom)
    • Sentence 1.8 (prototypes became unrecognizable)
    • Sentence 1.9 (Brinckmann Tree Stylizations)
• May 12, 1952 Letter 2 from Panofsky to Wasson
  • Photograph of Letter 2
  • Transcription of Letter 2
  • Transcription of Letter 2 Broken Up per Sentence
    • Sentence 2.1 (thanks for reply to 1st letter)
    • Sentence 2.2 (induce ecstasy by Amanita)
    • Sentence 2.3 (French witches)
    • Sentence 2.4 (pilzbaum so universal in so many representations)
    • Sentence 2.5 (ignorant misunderstood prototype as mushroom)
    • Sentence 2.6 (would have omitted branches)
    • Sentence 2.7 (religious art little reason to think of mushrooms)
    • Sentence 2.8 (not occur in Bible or Saints)
    • Sentence 2.9 (keep pictures)
    • Sentence 2.10 (recommend Brinckmann)
• Ronald Huggins’ Citation of Panofsky Letters in Drawer Folder
  • Does Drawer W3.2 Folder 20 include two pilzbaum photostats?
  • Huggins’ Failure to Acknowledge the Censorship Situation
• Read the Letters within Brown & Brown’s 2019 Article First
• Background
• Transcription Errors: Back to the Sources!
• Justification for Transcribing these Letters
  • Transcription Error
  • Overstates Panofsky’s Concession
  • Need Maximum Clarity, for Total Rebuttal
  • They’ve Already Been Transcribed and Uploaded Anyway, as Scattered Passages
  • It’s Personal, Since 2006
• Commentary
• Errata
  • The Handwritten Citation of Brinckmann Is Panofsky’s Handwriting
  • “Prototypes”, not “Templates”
• See Also
  • Local Pages
  • Egodeath.com Pages
  • Brown & Brown’s URLs
  • Irvin’s Site

/ end of Contents for present page

Per-sentence sections at page “The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator”

• Letter 1:
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 1 – Too Many Mushrooms
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 2 – Too Many Mushrooms
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 3
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 4
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 5
  • Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 6
• Letter 2:
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 1
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 2
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 3 – Too Many Mushrooms
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 4
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 5 – They Would Have Omitted the Branches
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 6 – Religious Art Has Little Reason to Think of Mushrooms
  • Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 7

/ end of Contents for other page, “The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator”

May 2, 1952 Letter 1 from Panofsky to Wasson

Photograph of Letter 1

Transcription of Letter 1

Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com.

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES

May 2, 1952

Mr. R. Gordon Wasson,
J.P.Morgan & Co.,
23 Wall Street,
New York 8, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Wasson:

Many thanks for your kind words about my little talk and the photostat of the discussion centered around the fresco of Plaincourault. Please let me put in a word of warning. In my opinion — which, I am confident, will be shared by any art historian you may care to consult — the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms (which would indeed be surprising since it was the tree, and not the mushroom, of good and evil which brought about the transgression of the First Parents), and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous.

The Plaincourault fresco is only one example — and, since the style is very provincial, a particularly deceptive one — of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and Early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as “mushroom tree” or, in German writing, Pilzbaum. It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and Early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown, of course, to mycologists. If you are interested, I recommend a little book by A. E. Brinckmann, Die Baumdarstellung im Mittelalter (or something like it), where the process is described in detail. Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown. What the mycologists have overlooked is that the mediaeval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.

With best regards,

Sincerely, Erwin Panofsky

[handwritten]
Albert Erich Brinckmann
Baumstilisierungen in der mittelalterlichen malerei

/ end of transcription of letter 1 from Panofsky 1952, published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019

[10:47 p.m. February 4, 2023] – Realization by Cybermonk: the handwritten “Er” of “Erwin” and “Erich” match, and Panofsky probably hand-wrote the Brinckmann citation on the finished letter before sending it to Wasson.

Typewriter typo fixes:

• Omitted extra space next to punctuation.
• Fixed typo “misuderstood”.
• Corrected “by surprising” to “be surprising”.

The text in my Wasson article doesn’t match the photograph but matches Soma instead; Soma’s copy differs from the photograph in slight details (commas, ‘a’, capitalization of “Early Christian”).

Transcription of Letter 1 Broken Up per Sentence

Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com.

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES

May 2, 1952

Mr. R. Gordon Wasson,
J.P.Morgan & Co.,
23 Wall Street,
New York 8, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Wasson:

Sentence 1.1 (your words about my talk)

Many thanks for your kind words about my little talk and the photostat of the discussion centered around the fresco of Plaincourault.

Sentence 1.2 (word of warning)

Please let me put in a word of warning.

Sentence 1.3 (art historian consult: nothing mushrooms)

In my opinion — which, I am confident, will be shared by any art historian you may care to consult — the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms (which would indeed be surprising since it was the tree, and not the mushroom, of good and evil which brought about the transgression of the First Parents), and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous.

Sentence 1.4 (Only one example of Pilzbaum)

The Plaincourault fresco is only one example — and, since the style is very provincial, a particularly deceptive one — of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and Early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as “mushroom tree” or, in German writing, Pilzbaum.

Sentence 1.5 (Pine Hundreds Instances Development)

It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and Early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown, of course, to mycologists.

Sentence 1.6 (Little Book by Brinckmann)

If you are interested, I recommend a little book by A. E. Brinckmann, Die Baumdarstellung im Mittelalter (or something like it), where the process is described in detail.

Sentence 1.7 (Enclose Specimens Pine into Mushroom)

Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.

Sentence 1.8 (Prototypes Became Unrecognizable)

What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.

With best regards,

Sincerely, Erwin Panofsky

Sentence 1.9 (Brinckmann Tree Stylizations)

[handwritten:]
Albert Erich Brinckmann
Baumstilisierungen in der mittelalterlichen malerei

/ end of transcription of letter 1 from Panofsky 1952, published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019

May 12, 1952 Letter 2 from Panofsky to Wasson

Photograph of Letter 2

Transcription of Letter 2

Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com.

[handwritten upper left:]
David Memling [illegible] 17

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES

May 12, 1952

Mr. R. Gordon Wasson,
23 Wall Street,
New York 8, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Wasson:

Many thanks for your letter of May 7. Unfortunately I know very little of folk lore and witchcraft (though I do know that those people in Kamchatka still induce ecstasy by eating amanita or drinking some sort of decoction thereof). So I have not the slightest idea as to whether the French witches also used the crapaudin (which, incidentally, seems to be fairly generic term originally, like our “toadstool”; I know it, e.g., as denoting a kind of cooking pan shaped like a mushroom, and even another plant, Sideritis) for similar purposes. However, even if so, I should be somewhat skeptical because the development from pine tree to “Pilzbaum” is so universal and takes place in so many representations other than the Fall of Man. The only possibility I should be prepared to admit is that, once the transformation had taken place and was generally accepted in art, some especially ignorant craftsman may have misu[n]derstood the finished product, viz., the “Pilzbaum,” as a real mushroom. But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether. In addition, religious mediaeval art at least had little reason to think of mushrooms at all. They do not occur in the Bible, so far as I know, nor in the legends of the saints.

With all good wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Erwin Panofsky.-

[handwritten]
Please keep my poor little pictures as long as you wish. And I really recommend to look up that little book by A. E. Brinckmann.

/ end of transcription of letter 2 from Panofsky 1952, published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019

Adjustments made:

• Changed “to be fairly generic term” to “to be a fairly generic term”

Transcription of Letter 2 Broken Up per Sentence

Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com.

[handwritten upper left:]
David Memling [illegible] 17

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES

May 12, 1952

Mr. R. Gordon Wasson,
23 Wall Street,
New York 8, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Wasson:

Sentence 2.1 (thanks for reply to 1st letter)

Many thanks for your letter of May 7.

Sentence 2.2 (induce ecstasy by Amanita)

Unfortunately I know very little of folk lore and witchcraft (though I do know that those people in Kamchatka still induce ecstasy by eating amanita or drinking some sort of decoction thereof).

Sentence 2.3 (French witches)

So I have not the slightest idea as to whether the French witches also used the crapaudin (which, incidentally, seems to be fairly generic term originally, like our “toadstool”; I know it, e.g., as denoting a kind of cooking pan shaped like a mushroom, and even another plant, Sideritis) for similar purposes.

Sentence 2.4 (pilzbaum so universal in so many representations)

However, even if so, I should be somewhat skeptical because the development from pine tree to “Pilzbaum” is so universal and takes place in so many representations other than the Fall of Man.

Sentence 2.5 (ignorant misunderstood prototype as mushroom)

The only possibility I should be prepared to admit is that, once the transformation had taken place and was generally accepted in art, some especially ignorant craftsman may have misu[n]derstood the finished product, viz., the “Pilzbaum,” as a real mushroom.

Sentence 2.6 (would Have omitted branches)

But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.

Sentence 2.7 (religious art Little Reason to think of mushrooms)

In addition, religious mediaeval art at least had little reason to think of mushrooms at all.

Sentence 2.8 (not Occur in Bible or Saints)

They do not occur in the Bible, so far as I know, nor in the legends of the saints.

With all good wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Erwin Panofsky.-

Sentence 2.9 (keep pictures)

[handwritten]
Please keep my poor little pictures as long as you wish.

Sentence 2.10 (recommend Brinckmann)

[handwritten]
And I really recommend to look up that little book by A. E. Brinckmann.

/ end of transcription of letter 2 from Panofsky 1952, published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019

Ronald Huggins’ Citation of Panofsky Letters in Drawer Folder

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case
Ronald Huggins, 2024
Die Bibel in der Kunst / Bible in the Arts
Online-Journal 8, 2024
https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case — footnotes on page 13:

Footnote 56. Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson (May 2, 1952), in Tina and R. Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives, ecb00001, Series IV, drawer,[sic?] W3.2, Folder: 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.

Footnote 57. Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson (May 12, 1952), in Tina and R. Gordon Wasson, Ethnomycological Collection Archives, ecb00001, Series IV, drawer,[sic?] W3.2, Folder: 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.

Does Drawer W3.2 Folder 20 include two pilzbaum photostats?

• A 990 miniature showing the start of development from pine to mushroom.
• A 1200s glass painting showing an emphatic mushroom crown/ cap.

Huggins’ Failure to Acknowledge the Censorship Situation

Huggins doesn’t cite the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​ 2019 Brown & Brown.

Huggins writes as if we’ve had both letters in full since 1952, and doesn’t mention whether the two pilzbaum photostats are in the drawer folder with the first letter.

Huggins fails to condemn Wasson for simultaneously commanding mycologists to “consult” art historians, at the very same time that Wasson censors and suppresses the Brinckmann book citation that Panofsky twice strongly urged Wasson to consult, and two pilzbaum pictures from Panofsky.

Huggins fails to credit Brown 2019 for starting a new, post-Wasson, post-Panofsky era of entheogen scholarship by exposing the censored letters that Wasson deceptively tried to suppress and direct attention away from in favor of extremely nonstandard personally contacting art historians, given that these “competent” art scholars published nothing except Brinckmann’s thin, old, German-language book.

Read the Letters within Brown & Brown’s 2019 Article First

First, read Brown & Brown’s 2019 article, and read the letters from Panofsky in the context of that article:

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels
Jerry B . Brown & Julie M. Brown
2019
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
Read the two Panofsky letters within that article, and read Brown & Brown’s commentary about them there.

Then read the present transcriptions as an auxiliary.

Background

I’m going to skip a lot of basic introduction – that’s not what I can uniquely provide.

Read the usual tales and Public Relations folk myths concocted about Panofsky and Wasson.

My 2006 article accused Wasson of withholding citations, which Panofsky certainly must have provided.

We can be sure Panofsky provided citations; as an academic, he would have had to provide them, for such a strong, emphatic claim that we art historians known all about mushroom trees and have fully adequately studied and covered them.

If you have covered mushrooms trees, I asked, where in the hell is the list of publications in which you have covered them? CITATION NEEDED!

The censored-by-Wasson answer is: we art historians have devoted 1 book and 0 articles to covering and investigating this topic.

To this day, February 4, 2023, it remains completely unclear whether Brinckmann’s book says anything at all about mushroom trees. I think I did a Find at archive.org for pilzbaum and found two hits in Brinckmann’s book.

Prof. Jerry Brown had a professional translator translate 1/4 of Brinckmann’s book from German to English:
Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

As a major theme all throughout my 64-page 2006 article, I bitterly condemn the lack of citations from Panofsky through Wasson:
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
My March 2006 article for the Journal of Higher Criticism.
64 pages; 40,000 words, plus image gallery.

I wrote that article to say we need to take a more balanced view of John Allegro, and that we need to leave Allegro behind and leave behind the mind-stunting entrenched questions around Allegro, and instead ask neutrally the basic questions:

To what extent Psilocybin and Amanita mushrooms in Western religious history?

Notice the ten qualifiers that I didn’t tack on there, like everyone else does.

I didn’t ask about “secret mushroom cult” and how it linearly spread through secret transmission.

I don’t understand why anyone would think that way — loading a ton of assumptions imported arbitrarily — instead of simple asking of the bare question: to what extent Psilocybin in Western religion?

People don’t think; they just passively follow conventional ruts and serve as passive vessels for memes to propagate through.

My article reconciled Acharya S (Christ Conspiracy) with Robert M. Price (as Acharya thanked me for), to such an extent that Price recently rewrote and republished her book.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita — March 2006 article for the Journal of Higher Criticism

Christian Mushroom Trees — May 2006 gallery for the Wasson/Allegro article, cited by Brown & Brown’s 2016 book and 2019 article.

Brown & Brown’s 2019 article published the pair of letters from Panofsky.

Wasson pretended that Panofsky only wrote 1 letter to him.

Every time Wasson mentioned Panofsky, he censored any mention that:

• 2 art images accompanied letter 1.
• There was a letter 2.
• The center third of letter 1 was a citation of Brinckmann’s book.

Wasson’s anti-scholarship censorship was not a 1-time act; it was an ongoing way of life.

Transcription Errors: Back to the Sources!

Panofsky wrote “the finished product“, referring to the prototype:

Brown & Brown mis-wrote “the finished project“, misrepresenting Panofsky as if he were referring to the fresco:

The first time I did an intensive deep-reading critique of Panofsky’s argument on Egodeath Mystery Show, I said Panofsky was insane for thinking that the artist was so stupid as to paint the fresco and then when done, step back and say of his own fresco, OMG its a mushroom!

But that’s not what Panofsky’s actual stupid argument is.

Panofsky said that the artist first looked at the finished prototype, after the previous inept, intentionality-lacking, incompetent artists had distorted it out of all recognition, and the artist misunderstood the prototype as a mushroom, and then the artist proceeded to paint the fresco.

This passage is hard enough to read and understand and critique, without mis-transcription and word replacement slipping in!

It is understandable for Brown & Brown to make a typo here, because Panofsky’s grammar is wildly shifting, and the referent keeps flipping all over – as I explained in detail in Egodeath Mystery Show,

• flipping constantly between the fresco vs the prototype vs. Pilzbaum art works in general, and
• flipping between the artists of all art works, vs. the artist who painted this fresco.

Mis-transcription: Panofsky wrote “the finished product”, but Brown & Brown mis-wrote “the finished project”.

I cannot emphasize enough: Panofsky’s wording of arguments is quite obscure and messy, and inconsistent, and so this kind of text demands a 100% deep, detailed, intensive interrogation of the meaning and word choice of each word. We cannot afford one iota of word replacement.

Lack of correction ability on typewriter factors in, here, too.

I know this passage intimately because I got tripped up by Brown & Brown’s error.

I, in embarrassment, had to do a follow-up episode of Egodeath Mystery Show to retract my previous analysis that happened because I read Brown & Brown’s mis-transcription instead of Panofsky’s actual photographed letter.

I posted all about this at the time, in Idea Development page 13 and others:

News Flash – Brown & Brown 2019 Misquoted Panofsky, Made Me Look Unable to Read Consistently

Search:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22the+finished+product%22

I even titled an episode after Brown & Brown’s mistake:

Page title:
Idea Development page 13
Section:
Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 139 – Finished Product Project – May 14 b, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-Episode-139

Search:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22the+finished+project%22

I did a deep playacting recitation of this passage on Egodeath Mystery Show episodes to decode what Panofsky’s arguments actually are.

Brown should have caught Brown’s error, so this counts as double-erroneous.

Panofsky’s 2nd line (in my crop), on the right, says “the finished product“, referring to the (alleged, conjectured) prototype after it had been subjected to distortions by sloppy, incompetent artists that lack intention (but only when it comes to the special topic of mushroom imagery, per the mushroom exception to the rules of art interpretation).

But Brown & Brown mis-transcribed it as “the finished project“, which incorrectly shifts the referent from the (alleged) prototype to the fresco.

I had to resort to image-correction and printout of Panofsky’s letters, after I discovered Brown & Brown’s transcription error that changed the meaning and therefore changed my analysis and critique, sending it in a wrong direction.

Every word is extremely important!, in Panofsky’s garbled, typewriter writing.

Panofsky makes arguments that employ word-choice.

I read aloud Brown & Brown’s 2019 article, without being aware whether I was reading Brown & Brown’s transcription (I was) or Panofsky’s photographed letter (I should have been, and I did so on the next episode of Egodeath Mystery Show).

Justification for Transcribing these Letters

The more light that’s shed on these covered-up, censored-by-Wasson letters, the better.

Wasson had them since May 1952, and Wasson hid them from the public (intentionally, many times) until Brown & Brown published them together in 2019 – that’s 67 years of cover-up of these letters!

The Brown & Brown 2019 article helps, but we need to follow-through by today’s electronic text standards, and make easily copyable, accurate text available, not only the photographs of the letters along with a couple incorrect paragraph transcriptions as is provided by Brown & Brown 2019.

I have a very strong need to have a correct transcription in text form that I can copy/paste and break up.

A Brown & Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photograph is too hard to read, for multiple reasons.

A normal part of traditional scholarship is to manually transcribe previous works into fresh text passages, as separate paragraphs and blocks.

Brown & Brown have not provided an electronic text transcription that I can copy/paste and comment on. I strongly need this.

More than anyone else in the world, I have been doing a full deep dive analysis of Panofsky’s flimsy, underspecified arguments that are summarized informally in shorthand via typewriter, now yellowed, via Brown & Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photograph.

It is well past HIGH TIME to make the pair of Panofsky letters fully available in modern electronic text format so that scholarship is no longer impeded as Wasson sought to do.

I am justified in transcribing these letter for the following reasons (and more).

Transcription Error

Brown & Brown committed a transcription error and I fell into the resulting trap and looked foolish spinning out a mis-based critique in my first Egodeath Mystery Show episode of reading Letter 2. Brown & Brown wrote “the finished project” (the fresco) but Panofsky wrote “the finished product” (the mutating, corrupted prototype that the artist used, according to Panofsky).

Overstates Panofsky’s Concession

Brown & Brown misfired in the critique of identifying the import of letter #2.

They try to make Panofsky’s very slight concession the basis of a greater criticism than it can bear.

Against Brown & Brown, Panofsky only feebly admits that an especially ignorant craftsman, not an artist, could possibly have intended mushroom but Panofsky immediately says he doubts that, and gives his especially ignorant reasoning.

Need Maximum Clarity, for Total Rebuttal

Need Clarity in Support of a Total Rebuttal of All Panofsky’s Arguments, Accurately Read and Critically Comprehended

Right now, the information is stuck trapped in the Brown & Brown-certified Blurry Internet Photos.

To maximally and adequately engage Panofsky’s bunk and flimsy, less-than-specious arguments, we need electronic text, not just a blurry, faded, yellowed photograph of the letters.

Brown & Brown don’t realize the full ramifications of the publishing of the full Letter #1 (along with the secret censored pair of art images that were included with letter 1).

We are able to access the accompanying art – if we can glean what it was.

Given that we had only 2/3 of the two pages of letters (text), and now we have 2 pages, there is hope that we could identify which two art pieces of mushroom trees Panofsky provided with letter 1.

These two letters are 4 sheets (sides) total (Letter 1, art photostat 1, art photostat 2, Letter 2).

Wasson dishonestly sought to deliberately deceive and suppress scholarly coverage of the mushroom question, and worked continuously to mislead everyone into thinking that there was 2/3 of a page from Panofsky, when there were in fact 4 pages (that we know of) of relevant content sent by Panofsky.

I don’t know how many other letters and art images Panofsky sent Wasson — we have to wonder, now, and we have to suspect that there were more.

They’ve Already Been Transcribed and Uploaded Anyway, as Scattered Passages

I have already transcribed much of the letters in my Wasson article and my Hatsis book article.

Here I’m merely gathering the transcription that I’ve already had on the web for years: 2006 for the non-censored part of the 1st letter, and since Oct. 2020 for Letter 2 passages.

It’s Personal, Since 2006

It’s been 13 years since 2006 compared to the 2019 publishing of the letters, and now 17 years, in 2023 as I finally transcribe Wasson’s censored letters into copyable text on the world-wide web.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
My March 2006 article for the Journal of Higher Criticism
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
64 pages; 40,000 words, plus image gallery

I wrote the most intensive article in 2006, accusing Wasson of withholding citations that Panofsky provided, and I wish I had noticed the ellipses so I could have written “right there, at these ellipses, I BET that must be where Panofsky’s censored citations are.”

I have suffered cognitive dissonance because, as I wrote and pointed out in 2006, I knew certainly either:

• Panofsky either provided citations and Wasson censored them.
• There existed no such publications at all, and Panofsky was lying in his claim that art historians have covered Pilzbaum.

I wish I had made that specific charge that the ellipses are probably where the missing citations were provided by Panofsky.

Neither Irvin nor I caught the ellipses, though we were intensively looking for exactly this sort of chicanery and deception from Wasson, as my published accusations throughout the article demonstrate.

Commentary

Panofsky’s phrase “Once the transformation had taken place” means: the development from pine tree to ‘Pilzbaum’ in the alleged “prototypes”.

The 75 Mushroom Trees of the Canterbury Psalter – Outline inventory of which trees have branching.

I ran calculations during my Egodeath Mystery Show episode in 2022, something like 17% lack ramifications.

The point is to contrast some with and some without, eg. Eustace window of crossing the river:

and just today i was examining in the Gold psalter, mushroom field which contrasts having branching & not, in same image.

How true or how false? “Even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification.”

We are, rather, shown a group of plants — presented as a group — that displays an assortment of degrees of having branching (or having cut branches, to complete the analysis beyond Panofsky’s scope of ability).

I can even show you photographs botanical specimens of real mushrooms that have “traces” of ramification, of which Eadwin is aware and plays on, in his gallery of 75 muhsroom plants.

“traces of ramification” takes on irony, when more well-informed than Panofsky.

You want bolder ramifications under the cap/crown? See my 75 gallery.

You want subtler ramifications under the cap/crown? See my 75 gallery.

Same with photographs – you tell me how bold of veil-tear branching you demand — it can be provided.

This is the requisite intelligent handling of ranges of contrast of a motif. We end up with the artist posing the question: how subtle can I represent mushroom hems while it still communicates – the more subtle, the more masterful.

It’s a range, because the contrast is the point, and there are innumerable ways to represent the concept and morphology of “branching vs. non-branching”.

Red plant: no traces of ramification, so Panofsky is proved wrong in his claim that all mushroom trees have traces of ramification.

Dark blue plant: how big a microscope do we need to bust out, how much refereeing, to quibble about the degree of justification for claiming that the blue pilzbaum has traces of ramification?

There’s a light blue trident under the cap, so Panofsky wins — except he loses, because this shows how weak and low-relevance his claim is.

When this level of analysis is needed, the argument essentially fails and we have to switch to a different framework for analysis: that is, the {branching-message mushroom trees} explanatory framework.

We are presented with all assortments of branching and non-branching, in all combinations.

The relevant point and angle of communication here in this genre of motifs and tropes and morphology is not “this individual specimen is tree vs. not”.

The point that’s communicated is “think about branching vs. non-branching.”

On the macro scale, the artist presents us with, in reading order:

1. non-branching
2. branching
3. branching
4. non-branching
5. branching

I remember discussing details: there are two different zoom levels, so we quibble necessarily in this case, inescapably and justifiably, the two different zoom levels that have “traces of ramification”.

The black line below the non-branching Cubensis’ cap is — but in a different sense than Panofsky means – a trace of ramification:

Eustace window, Chartres Cathedral, Placidas/St. Eustace crossing the river, one of his two sons carried off by a lion.

That’s the topmost image used in my 2006 main article, decoded March 2022 re: {handedness} & {non-branching} per the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism:
The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

Errata

Errors of analysis that are in other pages.

The Handwritten Citation of Brinckmann Is Panofsky’s Handwriting

Where I developed the idea of using these crops to prove I f’d up claiming Wasson & co. wrote the citation: See lots of analysis at:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Handwriting-Proof-Panofsky

Crops copied from:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Crops-of-Panofsky-Letters –

Who Hand-Wrote the Citation?

[February 4, 2023]

I just realized that the handwritten author name and title on Letter 1 could be Panofsky’s handwriting; that would make sense. Inspect handwriting compared to signature. Yep the start of “Erlich” matches “Erwin”.

I need to Find words like “handwriting” on my pages at this site and note the above, where I say it’s proof that Wasson went to the trouble to look up Panofsky’s book.

“Prototypes”, not “Templates”

Templates

[February 4, 2023]

In other pages, I wrote ‘templates’, but should have written ‘prototypes’.

See Also

Local Pages

Site Map > Panofsky:
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Panofsky

The present page is my original Feb. 2023 page including commentary.
Newer page that’s just the Panofsky transcription, with clean title, for general use (with comment from Brown & Brown):
Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed – 2025/01/07

Conversely, the present Feb. 2023 page is not really my original page; see May 2022 page:
Erwin Panofsky’s Secret Pair of Letters to Gordon Wasson, Exposed – 2022/05/11

Which Two pilzbaum Art Images Did Panofsky Attach in the First Letter to Wasson? – 2024/12/31

Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice

Artists Omitting Branches from their Mushroom Trees as Panofsky Requested

The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator 

Lots of analysis Feb. 19, 2023:
Image Crops of the 4-5 Handwriting Samples on the Two Panofsky Letters Proves Panofsky (not Wasson) Wrote the Brinckmann Citations/ Recommendations
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/#Handwriting-Proof-Panofsky
Also revises what Wasson is actually guilty of (details of anti-scholarship obstructionism & censorship & deceit) since it’s Panofsky’s handwriting, not Wasson’s.

The Psychedelic Gospels (Brown & Brown 2016)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/

Brown & Brown’s Works
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/

Erwin Panofsky Falsely Says All Mushroom Trees Have at Least Traces of Ramification
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/05/01/erwin-panofsky-falsely-says-all-mushroom-trees-have-at-least-traces-of-ramifications/

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

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

In the Site Map page, Find “Lash” and “Wasson”:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/

Search this site for “John Lash” and “Wasson”. There are many pages here about these topics.

Egodeath.com Pages

For now, I have a good starter section structure for each individual sentence, though 3 sentences cover the Too Many Mushrooms argument:

nice to do: summarize arg of each sentence.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
My March 2006 article for the Journal of Higher Criticism.
64 pages; 40,000 words, plus image gallery.

Christian Mushroom Trees 
http://egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm
My May 2006 gallery for the Wasson/Allegro article, cited by Brown & Brown’s 2016 book and 2019 article.

Brown & Brown’s URLs

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels
Jerry B . Brown, Julie M. Brown
2019
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels
Read the two Panofsky letters within that article, and read Brown & Brown’s commentary about them there.

Irvin’s Site

R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth; Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology, and the Psychedelic Revolution by Jan Irvin – #144
https://logosmedia.com/2012/05/RGordonWasson_The-Man-the-Legend-the-Myth-secret-history-of-magic-mushrooms-by-jan-irvin-144/

Contents:

• The [ Easily Explain Away ] Button
• About this Technology
• Catalog of Incredibly Dumb Arguments, Flimsy Excuses, & Ever-Shifting Bizarre Argumentation Vectors

• There Are Too Many Mushroom Trees for this Instance to Mean Mushrooms
  • The more evidence we find for mushroom imagery in Christian art, the more absolutely certain that they cannot possibly mean mushrooms
• More Evidence Proves More Absence from the Big Bad Church
  • The more evidence we find for mushrooms inside the Church, the more we have proof that the Church completely suppressed and eliminated mushrooms
• This Image Doesn’t Count, Because It’s Not the Plaincourault Fresco, Which Is the Single Image on Which Your Guys’s Entire “Secret Christian Mushroom Cult” Theory Stands or Falls
• This Document Isn’t the Correct Type of Devotional, Orthodox Christian Document
• My Conjectured Prototypes Have Converted All the Mushrooms to Italian Pines
• It Doesn’t Depict Jesus, Therefore It Destroys Your Guys’s Position (You Guys Got a BIG PROBLEM!!)
• If You Would Delve into the Backstory Represented in this Scene, You Would Know that the Storyline Scene Depicted Is Not About the Characters Ingesting Mushrooms
• This Scene Has Violence, Therefore Can’t Be Mushrooms
• Cubensis Grows on Bovine Dung, Around the Entire World — Except for Before 1976 in England and Europe
• The Theology of this Scene Prevents Mushroom Imagery from Being Employed to Illustrate the Scene
• The Text Says Something Other than Mushroom
• It’s Definitely Culturecide to Assert They Used Mushrooms, Instead of Asserting They Did Not Use Mushrooms
• The Only Kind of Evidence Is Literal Recounting
• We Art Historians Have Thoroughly Discussed and Investigated Pilzbaums, and Reached Reasoned, Evidence-Based Conclusions, Which You Mycologists Are of Course Ignorant Of
• Only a Naturalistic (i.e. Ordinary-State Based) Interpretation Is Neutral and Objective
• Accidental, Intentionality-Lacking, Inept, Randomly, Meaninglessly Degenerated Prototypes
• Medieval Artists Have No Control over the Impression that Their Mushroom-Looking Imagery Forces Upon the Viewer 😑
• Branching, Therefore Can’t Mean Mushrooms 😑
• The Shape of the Liberty Cap Is Anachronistic 😑
• You’re Not Allow to Deviate from Allegro, Who Is Your Foundation, Origin, and Boundary of Thought 😑
• It’s a Standard, Commonplace Parasol of Victory 😑
• My Methodology Is Bigger than Yours
• I Have Read All Christian Writings and There Is No Statement that “We Ingested Psychoactive Mushrooms, for the Purpose of Inducing Religious Experiencing”
• I Smash Your Ego Make You Cry in Corner
• Pagans Are Trustworthy Accusers About the Awful, Horrid Mushroom
• My Exemplary Historiographical Methodology Has Proved that No Mushroom Imagery Means Mushrooms — Citation: See Somewhere in my Internet Blogger Articles
• The Fact that You Disagree Proves that You Haven’t Read My Articles, and Are Just Ignorant
• I’m Going to Smash Your Puny Ego
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc. (endless supply)
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 1
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 2: Too Many Mushrooms
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 3: Too Many Mushrooms
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 4
• Handwriting Analysis Proves Panofsky (Not Wasson) Probably Wrote Brinckmann’s Author Name and Book Title on Letter 1
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 5
• Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 6
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 1
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 2
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 3: Too Many Mushrooms
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 4
• Critique of What Brown Attempts to Make of Letter 2
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 5: If meant mushroom, would’ve omitted branches
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 6: Religious mediaeval art had little reason to think of mushrooms
• Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 7

• Gallery: Pilzbaum Artists Omitting Branches
• Tilting at Windmills of Their Own Imagining
• Not Even Specious
• See Also

[ Easily Explain Away ]

Output: One of the following section paragraphs.

Click the button to generate a new mushroom-elimination excuse.

About this Technology

Welcome to the Explain-Away-o-Matic: when you click the [Easily Explain Away] button, it spits out one of a hundred harebrained, off-the-wall, bizarre vectors of argumentation.

Each entry includes the source where Panofsky or Hatsis made each argument, and a 1-2 word hint about my rebuttal/refutation of less-than-specious argument.

This button is to put below every image at this site.

🍄🧙‍♂️

This button will save lots of time for Hatsis so he can be more productive in his wildly wrong misinterpretations – the most productive entheogen scholar, churning out more fourth-rate work than anyone else, re: mushrooms in Western history.

Thomas Hatsis the anti-mushroom Psychedelic Witch
http://psychedelicwitch.com

Catalog of Incredibly Dumb Arguments, Flimsy Excuses, & Ever-Shifting Bizarre Argumentation Vectors

Who are these “arguments” supposed to convince and persuade, except for the person who’s dumb enough to concoct them & put them forward? None of them can stand up to critique for even an instant.

These “arguments” aren’t even specious; they don’t even have the initial surface appearance of being sound. They’re more like just… puzzling.

How is “There are too many mushroom trees for any of them to mean mushrooms” supposed to be an argument? I don’t get it. Do you actually believe your own reasoning, Panofsky?

If you believe your own “reasoning”, what are your presuppositions that are you not stating but are simply assuming are too self-evident & universally agreed on, to be worth mentioning?

For example: I deduce that you are basing your “too many mushrooms” argument on the taken-for-granted premise, your own intensely biased assumption, that “Of course, no one is willing to assert that all mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms.“

— which would be a false and unwarranted assumption.

But in any case, you need to explicitly STATE what your presuppositions and assumptions are.

Lay out your complete argument, explicitly.

And then listen to the contrary replies.

Don’t just articulate and transmit one-tenth of your argument, simply declaring yourself the convincing winner (“YOU GUYS GOT A BIG PROBLEM!!“), and not listen to the pushback – it must be a two-way conversation.

All mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms.

My position is easy to defend; I feel sorry for you, having to defend your hard-to-defend, indefensible position. eg please explain why, per Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 6,

“Religious mediaeval art had little reason to think of mushrooms.“

Psilocybin mushrooms are ubiquitous, and they cause intense religious experiencing more than anything else does.

Therefore, in fact, religious mediaeval art had every reason to think of mushrooms.

The List of Slam-Dunk, Instantly Compelling Reasonings (according to the incredibly dumb asserters of them):

There Are Too Many Mushroom Trees for this Instance to Mean Mushrooms

Citation:

“The Plaincourault fresco is only one example — and, since the style is very provincial, a particularly deceptive one — of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and Early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as “mushroom tree” or, in German writing, Pilzbaum.”

“It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and Early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown, of course, to mycologists.”

— Letter 1 Sentence 1 & 2, Erwin Panofsky, May 2, 1952

“I should be somewhat skeptical because the development from pine tree to “Pilzbaum” is so universal and takes place in so many representations other than the Fall of Man.”

— Letter 2 Sentence 3, Erwin Panofsky, May 12, 1952

Retort/commentary

Panofsky was constrained by typewriter, and paper was expensive, so the most influential art historian at the most prestigious institution was not able to spell out a complete argument, but left 90% of his argument implicit, based on foundations that everyone certainly agrees upon.

His unstated argument is:

We all agree that how we interpret Plaincourault is how we must interpret every mushroom tree.

We all agree that we are not willing to interpret all mushroom imagery in Christian art as mushrooms.

Therefore we all agree on my conclusion, that none of them can be mushrooms, because the other alternative is that they are all mushrooms, and we all agree that we are not willing to assert and defend that all mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms.

The sheer quantity of Pilzbaum prevents any of them from being mushrooms, because they’d all have to be mushrooms, which, obviously, you are not willing to defend.

It goes without saying, that it would be the very definition of a completely untenable position, to assert that all Pilzbaum mean mushrooms.

We’re in a situation of two options, where one option fits all agreed and established knowledge, and the alternative goes against everything we know, like saying either X, or the sun sets in the East.

The latter is known by all experience to be false, and therefore the alternative, X, must be true.

It’s a given that all Pilzbaum cannot mean The Mushroom (🍄).

It’s simply a given that all Pilzbaum cannot mean mushrooms; and we agree to the Proxy/class principle, that we must consistently interpret the class of all instances.

Therefore any given individual instance of mushroom imagery in Christian art cannot refer to The Mushroom (🍄).

Otherwise, they’d all have to so refer, which is known to be impossible and indefensible, like asserting that the sun sets in the East, which is known to be false.

Q.E.D.

Crop by Cybermonk, from: Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Brown 2019: https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

The more evidence we find for mushroom imagery in Christian art, the more absolutely certain that they cannot possibly mean mushrooms

todo: Panofsky’s argument here, or connect to other similar entry.

More Evidence Proves More Absence from the Big Bad Church

The more evidence we turn up for mushrooms inside the Church, the more we have proof that the Church completely suppressed and eliminated mushrooms

I was delighted to find an exact equivalent mushroom Isaac scene in Golden Munich Psalter Feb 2023 yesterday just like Nov 2020 or early 2021 (I wonder what date?) in Great Mushroom Psalter by Eadwine.

But, this evidence just drives home the narrative that we are more fervently committed to pushing, greater than our advocacy of mushrooms:

the #1 most important thing is not mushrooms, but demonizing the Church.

We can use mushrooms to advance that prime objective of demonizing the Church, costing nothing but merely the success of our mushroom advocacy.

Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
Image 29: Mushroom Isaac
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/#Image-29

Panofsky says: “See? Eadwine’s Mushroom Isaac is not the only Mushroom Isaac, so I find it even more difficult to believe it means mushrooms.”

The more evidence we find for mushroom imagery in Christian art, the more absolutely certain that they cannot possibly mean mushrooms.

This is the Carl Ruck “neutralize and invert the evidence” move.

See? Yet more proof of firm suppression of the Secret Amanita was absolute, just like McKenna said:

The Big Bad Church completely eliminated mushrooms, as proved by the John Rush book’s gallery of 350 pictures of mushrooms inside the Church/ cathedrals/ chapels/ manuscripts.

Lack of The Mushroom (🍄) was everywhere!

Buy my 28+ books, a tower growing every year and periodically falling over, for thorough coverage of the complete elimination of mushrooms from Christendom.

And keep putting people in cages, because the U.S. Supreme Court says:

“We learned from Terence McKenna & Carl Ruck & John Rush that your Church tradition utterly lacks mushrooms.”

These “entheogen scholars” who persist in insisting that “Big Bad Church eliminated mushrooms” are utterly self-defeating, absolutely idiotic strategically.

Could you be any more un-strategic?

Entheogen Scholarship: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Web search: “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22snatch+defeat+from+the+jaws+of+victory%22

The Carl Ruck & John Rush school says:

Send me more evidence of absence please, so I can neutralize it and invert it through en-caging each piece of art evidence in a cage of my heavy-handed “Secret Amanita Alchemy” framing, to separate The Mushroom (🍄) from real Christianity.

The more evidence we find for mushrooms inside the Church, the more we have proof that the Church completely suppressed and eliminated mushrooms

Citation:

Ruck’s fixation on writing “secret, suppressed, heretical, elites” constantly and automatically.

His contract requires including the word ‘Secret’ in the title of every book.

Amazon search: Carl Ruck: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=carl+ruck

The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl Amanita Promoter Ruck
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Eleusis-Unveiling-Secret-Mysteries/dp/1556437528/ –

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Eleusis-Unveiling-Secret-Mysteries/dp/1556437528/

This Image Doesn’t Count, Because It’s Not the Plaincourault Fresco, Which Is the Single Image on Which Your Guys’s Entire “Secret Christian Mushroom Cult” Theory Stands or Falls

Citation:

Hatsis’ Brown-attack article at Graham Hancock site.

This Document Isn’t the Correct Type of Devotional, Orthodox Christian Document

Citation:

Hatsis’ article about Dancing Man salamander bestiary.

My Conjectured Prototypes Have Converted All the Mushrooms to Italian Pines

My confabulated “worked from prototypes” concept – I mean, the crude medieval artists’ prototypes converted Italian pines to mushrooms – I mean, my discovery of their use of prototypes converts mushrooms away into Italian pines, of a type found in Jerusalem.

It Doesn’t Depict Jesus, Therefore It Destroys Your Guys’s Position (You Guys Got a BIG PROBLEM!!)

Citation:

One of Hatsis’ online amateur blogger articles.

If You Would Delve into the Backstory Represented in this Scene, You Would Know that the Storyline Scene Depicted Is Not About the Characters Ingesting Mushrooms

Backstory not about eating mushrooms.

Citation:

multiple Hatsis articles

This Scene Has Violence, Therefore Can’t Be Mushrooms

This mushroom imagery cannot be meant by the artist as mushroom imagery, due to the backstory, which has violence and negative and therefore contradicts our position which Hatsis has assigned to us.

“This scene can’t be a depiction of The Mushroom (🍄), because this scene is violent. How are you gonna explain that??!! It completely destroys what your guys’s position is! Thus the backstory prevents that meaning of this art image. If you knew anything about how to read and do scholarship, like me, you wouldn’t have committed this FATAL BLUNDER. YOU GUYS GOT A BIG PROBLEM! If you guys keep up this bullsht, I’ll send you crying in a corner. I’m done acting nice, calm, and easygoing. 🤬 😤” – pretty much an exact quote of Hatsis’ online amateur web blogger post.

Retort

Like Panofsky’s “arguments”, it is curious how Hatsis only spells out part of the argument. As always, the shipwreck happens with all the unstated assumptions that his tip-of-iceberg argument floats upon. When you shine light on the unstated underlying assumptions, the (less-than) specious “argument” collapses.

Where did any entheogen scholar ever say that:

• mushroom depictions always have to mean positive actions
• art imagery is constrained by the textual backstory
• mushroom imagery must always refer to Jesus-as-mushroom (he makes that argument in one of his articles).
• That there exists such a thing as “the Secret Mushroom Cult theorists”, and that any asserter of mushrooms in Christianity is a member of that supposed group.

IOW, straw manning & tilting at windmills of his own creation/ imaginings, along with trying to exactly equate every mushroom scholar as being exactly identical to Irvin’s arguments/position and a simple exact drop-in, 1-for-1 replacement for Hatsis’ greatly missed gf/debate partner, Irvin.

By debating against an alleged “group”, “the X theorists”, Hatsis can more readily straw man any particular scholar – he is under no obligation to treat that scholar’s stated args or position, but can simply delete, get rid of that scholar’s argument, and replace it, by conflating each individual scholar by Hatsis’ fabricated/confabulated class that he constructed to be weak as possible, and then shoot THAT down instead of engaging with the actual arg of any actual scholar.

Abstracting a position is ok and standard practice, but not as a SUBSTITUTE for engaging actual specific args/positions of particular scholars.

We see that massive conflation in the pseudo-“replies” to Sanders & Zijlmans’ article “Moving Past Mysticism”, where the “replies” literally state that they are replying to what that article asserts — yet what the “replies” to Sanders ACTUALLY reply to and argue against is an abstracted, 2-polar-opposite extremist simplified caricature positions:

• The wooly-headedness loving scientists/mystics who correctly INSIST that people have mystical experience, and defend the existence of subjective experiential consciousness. The rock-solid scientific foundation for this Science is the 1960 Stace book Mysticism and Philosophy (out of print and vanishing from Amazon).

• The hard-reductionism materialist scientists who altogether deny the existence of mystical experiencing (and subjective consciousness/ experiencing), and strictly use neuroscience-level analysis.

The Psychedelic Witch 🧙‍♂️🍄 rebranded as “Psychedelic Historian”, but his specialty is Scopolamine plants, so a more precise branding would be “Deliriant Historian”.

Citation:

Hatsis’ page title:
The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Section heading:
Mushrooms and Halos
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –
https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/

Cubensis Grows on Bovine Dung, Around the Entire World — Except for Before 1976 in England and Europe

Canterbury, England artists worked hard to depict southern Italian pines that end up looking exactly like the Cubensis growing on bovine dung outside their window. – Panofsky/Wasson

– except that couldn’t happen until 1976, because per the authority, Paul Stamets, and even greater authorities: Letcher and Hatsis – there were no Psilocybin mushrooms on bovine dung in England before 1976.

The Theology of this Scene Prevents Mushroom Imagery from Being Employed to Illustrate the Scene

Citation: Brown’s list of all the ever-changing angles that Hatsis keeps trying to use for the Eden tree especially Plaincourault.

Some of the turgid, scrambling, ever-shifting theological argumentation from theologian Thomas Hatsis is in his book Psychedelic Mystery Traditions.

The Text Says Something Other than Mushroom

The Text Says The Image Is Something Other than Mushroom – Such as Tree/Arbor, Therefore It Is Not Possible to Knowingly Convey a Mushroom Impression

Citation: See “poison” discussion below.

During a tv show, I asked John Lennon if the 1964 song “Help!” was about ergot, and he said No. So that settles it.

Same with Neil Peart, who additionally called me egotistical for suggesting such a thing:

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, Episode 28 – Basics of Core Egodeath Theory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episode-28/ – find “Peart” –

Scary stuff, these egocentric individuals. 

I assure you, other than perhaps dropping an “and” or a “but,” we take great care to make the lyric sheets accurate.”

Neil Peart of the Rock band Rush

It’s Definitely Culturecide to Assert They Used Mushrooms, Instead of Asserting They Did Not Use Mushrooms

If you assert that a culture used mushrooms, you are definitely guilty of attributing a cultural value that they did not hold, so you are certainly guilty of culturecide.

Citation:

The Hatsis article that contains the word “culturecide”.

beg the question much? he should say that you MIGHT be doing culturecide but that we currently don’t know whether you are or aren’t guilty of that, and that a firm assertion that they didn’t intend mushroom imagery is also at risk of possible culturecide if in fact they did use mushroom imagery. how is this not screamingly obvious?

When it comes to this topic, Hatsis is low-IQ; this is the result of being a committed skeptic, we see the same w/ Panofsky, who uses 50-IQ arguments when it comes to this particular topic.

Robert Price, editor of Journal of Higher Criticism, also reduced himself to a failing 5th-grader level of writing and argumentation, regarding Allegro, and Acharya thanked me to my 2006 article reconciling her with Price — so much, that recently Price republished and rewrote her book, Christ Conspiracy.

citation: C.C. 2nd edition

Selective stupidity to prop up a bunk incoherent prejudiced view based on ideology.

The Only Kind of Evidence Is Literal Recounting

If you knew anything about the theology backstory behind this scene, you’d know that the story contains not a shred of evidence that the story describes a time, an episode, when the figures ingested the mushroom (🍄).

We Art Historians Have Thoroughly Discussed and Investigated Pilzbaums, and Reached Reasoned, Evidence-Based Conclusions, Which You Mycologists Are of Course Ignorant Of

We historians have already read all such manuscripts and art works and have easily explained away all mushroom imagery and mushroom effects imagery (such as transformation to a non-branching mental world model) in all of the hundreds of thousands of works and images.

We’re professionals, so you need to consult our conclusions and not be ignorant.

See the little 1906, 85-page book from Brinckmann for proof of our thorough coverage. (Assuming Wasson doesn’t censor, five times, this pair of letters that gives this super-strong evidence to back up this strong claims.)

Citation:

“Erwin Panofsky.-
Please keep my poor little pictures as long as you wish. And I really recommend to look up that little book by A. E. Brinckmann.”

Wasson’s own hand writing showing that he looked up and researched the exact title and author name.
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Errata

Where did Wasson the unstoppable mushroom scholar publish his commentary about Brinckmann’s book which Panofsky in both letters urged him to consult?

Wasson is the great Father of Ethnomycology, the leading scholar who in effect, is the creator of mushrooms (per John Lash). Wasson is the one who coined the word ‘entheogen’, after all. (again, per Lash, endnotes, Not In His Image, 2nd Edition).

We need a list of the publications in which Wasson cites Brinckmann’s little 1906 book.

End notes show that the Wasson theory is occasionally called “the entheogen theory”, which is unfair to Wasson because it doesn’t give Him all credit for the fullness of His Creation.

Fun etymology fact: another word for Wasson’s entheogens is ‘psychomimetics’, which means “mind-mimicking”, because Wasson’s entheogens mimic the mind. So that’s a good term to use, too.
https://www.google.com/search?q=psychomimetic

It’s great that we can count on John Lash’s solid, insider scholarship to set the record straight on the history of Wasson’s entheogens that He created.

John Lash, p. 220 in Not In His Name, gives us this fact:

Wasson’s thesis is that ingesting sacred plants is the origin of all genuine religious experience.

Quote my 2006 Plainc. article accusing Wasson of withholding Panofsky’s citations that he MUST have provided to back up his strong claim that art historians have discussed/ studied/ treated/ written about mushroom trees. copy the set of excerpts from my wordpress page.

John Lash is planning to write a devotional book about Wasson — I mean, a book devoted to Wasson.

The 9 archived John Lash articles:

Wise as Serpents: Entheogenic Religion and the Paris Eadwine Psalter (John Lash)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/wise-as-serpents-entheogenic-religion-and-the-paris-eadwine-psalter-john-lash/#Eadwine-Folder –

“my proposed book on the Wasson theory of the origin of religion (working title “Paradise Denied’), a project that did not get sold. It relates the Eadwine psalter to the Mysteries”

Only a Naturalistic (i.e. Ordinary-State Based) Interpretation Is Neutral and Objective

Citation:

Hatsis online blogger articles.

Accidental, Intentionality-Lacking, Inept, Randomly, Meaninglessly Degenerated Prototypes

Medieval Artists Have No Control over the Impression that Their Mushroom-Looking Imagery Forces Upon the Viewer 😑

Medieval artists worked from prototypes and had no intentionality and would be shocked, SHOCKED, that their mushroom imagery that we say looks like mushrooms, gives any viewers the impression of mushrooms.

Citation:

Transcribed:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/

Photos of Panofsky’s two letters to Wasson, published by Brown 2019: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Crops-of-Panofsky-Letters

Branching, Therefore Can’t Mean Mushrooms 😑

If the mushroom-tree artists had wanted to depict images that give us the impression of mushroom trees (for what we describe as looking like mushroom trees), they would have omitted the branches.

The mushroom-tree artists didn’t omit the branches, therefore their mushroom trees are not intended as mushrooms, but must be intended as trees instead.

“some especially ignorant craftsman may have misunderstood the finished product, viz., the “Pilzbaum”, as a real mushroom.

“But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show at least some trace of ramification;

“if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.”

– The most influential art historian, Erwin Panofsky.

Panofsky is someone for the great historian Thomas Hatsis to look up to and aspire to be able to provide as good of explaining-away as Panofsky conducted.

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/

That will be very useful and powerful for critical analysis and shredding his incredibly weak “arguments” that are guaranteed to convince every committed skeptic. They stand up to critique — until the moment you critique them, then they instantly collapse into rubble.

In Egodeath Mystery Show 2021- especially in 2022 i talked-through all of Panofsky’s arguments, about 6 arguments, to list here.

The Shape of the Liberty Cap Is Anachronistic 😑

The shape of the liberty cap is anachronistic.

Citation:

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/idea-development-page-12/#Tom-Hatsis-Reply-to-Me

Rebuttal:

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/liberty-caps-and-panaeolus-caps-in-the-canterbury-psalter/#Liberty-Caps

For additional commentary, Search this site: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=The+shape+of+the+liberty+cap+is+anachronistic

You’re Not Allow to Deviate from Allegro, Who Is Your Foundation, Origin, and Boundary of Thought 😑

You guys are not allowed to speculate on Psilocybin, because you are committed to limiting yourself to Allegro.

Citation:

can’t make this shiite up; see:

url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/idea-development-page-12/#Tom-Hatsis-Reply-to-Me

I have done intensive intellectual autobiography and have determined that my Core theory (the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence) and the mytheme theory are 0% influenced by Allegro.

In no sense whatsoever did I “come from” or “depart from” Allegro — or from Wasson for that matter, as John Lash would just as falsely proclaim in the exact same wrong manner as Hatsis’ mis-conception of the field.

Don’t project YOUR lame, gullible influences and trajectory of error (or YOUR boundaries of YOUR thinking) onto me.

You are describing yourself, not describing me.

As far as I know, still as of February 13, 2023, Thomas Hatsis still knows absolutely nothing at all about the Egodeath theory or its origin of development, and is in no position at all to make claims about its relation to Allegro.

Page title:
Site Map
Section heading:
John Lash
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#John-Lash

Hatsis should blame his buddy Carl Ruck for feverishly pushing his Secret Amanita primacy fallacy.

Page title:
Scholarly Fail-Quotes Hall of Shame
Section heading:
John Lash: “Variations of the Wasson theory, including considerable departures from it”
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/scholarly-fail-quotes-hall-of-shame/#John-Lash-Variations-including-considerable-departures

I worked up some points here, moved that to Idea Development page 18, about John Lash. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/idea-development-page-18/

It’s a Standard, Commonplace Parasol of Victory 😑

It’s a parasol of victory. 😑 It’s a super common, standard trope/motif, don’t you know anything? You should be a superior Historian applying professional methodology like me, [etc etc]

Citation:

Brown article at Hancock site:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Graham-Hancock-Website-article

My Methodology Is Bigger than Yours

Have I told you about my superior historiographical methodology? Blah blah I’m great, you suck. Blah blah, you ought to use Sound, Tried and True Methodology(TM) like me, blah blah…

Citation:
The Thomas Hatsis Guide to Exemplary Historiographical Methodology

Cyberdisciple critique of Hatsis’ grandstanding and interpersonal posturing that tries to stand in for substance.
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-hatsis/

url https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2022/02/25/mushrooms-in-christian-art-discussed-by-tom-hatsis-and-jerry-brown-at-graham-hancocks-site/

I Have Read All Christian Writings and There Is No Statement that “We Ingested Psychoactive Mushrooms, for the Purpose of Inducing Religious Experiencing”

I have read all of the Christian writings, never do they report a literal trip report that says “I ingested The Mushroom (🍄), and I mean specifically psychoactive, and for religious experiencing purpose.” Therefore, no Christian has ever ingested The Mushroom (🍄).

Citation:

Cyberdisciple site & Brown article at Hancock, find “bluff”.

I Smash Your Ego Make You Cry in Corner

I am going to smash your puny ego so hard, you’ll be crying in the corner.

Exact excerpts:

“I am going to unload on this entire nonsensical idea in a way that will have those who believe this bullshit crying in a corner. I’ve been too generous and nice, and I will NOT be walked over or insulted again.”

Citation:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Hatsis-Email-to-Brown

Pagans Are Trustworthy Accusers About the Awful, Horrid Mushroom

The pagan critics never accused Christians of eating the abominable (shudder) mushroom (🍄), therefore, we know Christians are innocent of this awful, worst of crimes.

Citation:

[again, can’t make this shiite up – i read aloud all his articles – this “argument” is from his first article, published in UK journal] – the article is listed at:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis

url https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-dogmatists-debacle/ –

Hatsis wrote:

“And the problems mount: even pagan detractors of Christianity never once addressed the “supreme secret” that would have brought the whole institution crumbling, all the while slandering Christians for far greater crimes than eating fungi: cannibalism, infanticide, and insecticide!

“Indeed, some pagan authors like Celsus and Julian the Apostate wrote entire treatises against Christianity that never reference the sacred mushroom.”

Rebuttal:

First, note how Letcher Hatsis makes the ‘secrecy’ premise his assumed, taken-for-granted, entire foundation of his argument.

What position does he assume that he’s debunking?

Why latch onto that position as the thing to attack, and tilt at that windmill of his own choosing?

Secondly, if their enemies accuse Christians of everything bad they can muster, and don’t accuse Christians of mushrooms, that doesn’t prove Christians are innocent of mushrooms — rather, it proves that pagans didn’t include the accusation of mushrooms in their catalog of offenses.

Suppose that everyone in Antiquity venerated Psilocybin mushrooms (and possibly Amanita).

This would perfectly explain why the litanies of accusations of everything that everyone considered heinous, didn’t include mushrooms — because no one considered mushrooms heinous.

Bunk arguments characteristically fail at the level of their unstated, covert, unthinking presuppositions.

For the argument to seem and appear as if convincing, requieres that you buy into the same presuppositions that covertly prop up the appearance of persuasiveness.

The moment you shine light on these covert presuppositions, the bunk arguments collapse.

The presuppositions are mortal: they endure only until they are revealed, then they straightaway fail and collapse.

My Exemplary Historiographical Methodology Has Proved that No Mushroom Imagery Means Mushrooms — Citation: See Somewhere in my Internet Blogger Articles

I already firmly disproved this. See my online blogger articles somewhere.

Citation:

Where he argued that: Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis)

The Fact that You Disagree Proves that You Haven’t Read My Articles, and Are Just Ignorant

You just have an opposing view because you have not read my article. The fact that you hold your view proves that you are ignorant of my article. I won’t summarize my proof here in this $15 book about that very topic.

Citation:

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis) 

I’m Going to Smash Your Puny Ego

I’m going to smash your puny ego

Citation:

[copy Hatsis wording to me]

He demonstrates zilch comprehension that I am the theorist of meanings of ‘ego death’ and related terms.

Etc.

Etc.

Etc. (endless supply)

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 1

“In my opinion — which, I am confident, will be shared by any art historian you may care to consult — the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms (which would indeed be surprising since it was the tree, and not the mushroom, of good and evil which brought about the transgression of the First Parents), and the similarity with Amanita muscaria is purely fortuitous.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 2: Too Many Mushrooms

“The Plaincourault fresco is only one example — and, since the style is very provincial, a particularly deceptive one — of a conventionalized tree type, prevalent in Romanesque and Early Gothic art, which art historians actually refer to as “mushroom tree” or, in German writing, Pilzbaum.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 3: Too Many Mushrooms

“It comes about by the gradual schematization of the impressionistically rendered Italian pine tree in Roman and Early Christian painting, and there are hundreds of instances exemplifying this development – unknown, of course, to mycologists.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 4

“If you are interested, I recommend a little book by A. E. Brinckmann, Die Baumdarstellung im Mittelalter (or something like it), where the process is described in detail.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Considered as part of this sentence: I now believe, since the day or day after I published this page, it was not Wasson, but rather Panofsky who hand-wrote the author name & title on the letter.

Handwriting Analysis Proves Panofsky (Not Wasson) Probably Wrote Brinckmann’s Author Name and Book Title on Letter 1

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/prof-jerry-browns-works-psychedelic-gospels/#Crops-of-Panofsky-Letters –

Compare handwriting of “Ehich” to the “Erwin” signature – they match.

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 5

“Just to show what I mean, I enclose two specimens: a miniature of ca. 990 which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape, and a glass painting of the thirteenth century, that is to say about a century later than your fresco, which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 1 Sentence 6

“What the mycologists have overlooked is that the medieval artists hardly ever worked from nature but from classical prototypes which in the course of repeated copying became quite unrecognizable.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 2, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-1-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 1

“Unfortunately I know very little of folk lore and witchcraft (though I do know that those people in Kamchatka still induce ecstasy by eating amanita or drinking some sort of decoction thereof).”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 2

“So I have not the slightest idea as to whether the French witches also used the crapaudin (which, incidentally, seems to be fairly generic term originally, like our “toadstool”; I know it, e.g., as denoting a kind of cooking pan shaped like a mushroom, and even another plant, Sideritis) for similar purposes.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 3: Too Many Mushrooms

“However, even if so, I should be somewhat skeptical because the development from pine tree to “Pilzbaum” is so universal and takes place in so many representations other than the Fall of Man.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 4

“The only possibility I should be prepared to admit is that, once the transformation had taken place and was generally accepted in art, some especially ignorant craftsman may have misunderstood the finished product, viz., the “Pilzbaum,” as a real mushroom.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Critique of What Brown Attempts to Make of Letter 2

Feb. 7, 2023 — I just realized that Browns’ weak / dubious assertion/ argument that Panofsky admitted/recanted maybe Plainc. means mushrooms, is further weakened or called into question by the fact that the Browns were working with their mis-transcription of Panofsky’s word “product” (ie prototype) as “project”[sic] (ie fresco).

Do Browns think Panofsky is admitting something about the “project” (fresco), where Panofsky actually wrote “product” (prototype)?

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 5: If meant mushroom, would’ve omitted branches

“But even that is not very probable because even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if the artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Rebuttal:

Massive and profound.

Search this site for: “branching-message mushroom trees”:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=%22branching-message+mushroom+trees%22

What if the artists’ main message to depict was a message about branching, revealed by mushrooms?

Did you even TRY to think of reasons for this morphology?

Why maybe artists specifically were trying to communicate both mushrooms and branches (not to mention cut or removed branches — or cut trunk).

THE BRANCHING IS THE WHOLE ENTIRE DAMN POINT; the whole message (referring to transformation from possibilism to eternalism), the very purpose of Pilzbaum.

Plus, Panofsky contradicts himself like crazy. “These look like mushrooms. These are not mushrooms, because to make them look like mushrooms, the artists would need to omit the branches.”

(And cut branches, your forgot that point by the same bunk and clueless token.)

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 6: Religious mediaeval art had little reason to think of mushrooms

“In addition, religious mediaeval art at least had little reason to think of mushrooms at all.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

“Religious mediaeval art had little reason to think of mushrooms at all.”

“Religious art has little reason to think of mushrooms.”

Rebuttal:

Religious art, in fact, has EVERY reason to think of mushrooms, because mushrooms are the source, origin, and ongoing wellspring of religion and religious experiencing.

YOUR CLUELESSNESS RUNS UNFATHOMABLY DEEP, “the most influential art historian”

Panofsky Letter 2 Sentence 7

“They do not occur in the Bible, so far as I know, nor in the legends of the saints.”

— Letter of Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson, May 12, 1952. Wasson Archives, Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Published by Jerry B. Brown & Julie M. Brown 2019: 
https://www.academia.edu/40412411/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels, transcribed by Cybermonk, February 4, 2023,
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/panofskys-censored-pair-of-letters-to-wasson-revealed/#Letter-2-per-Sentence

Rebuttal:

Wrong and wrong.

“Mushrooms do not occur in the Bible.” FALSE.

“Mushrooms do not occur in the legends of the saints.” FALSE.

I was too dumb and mentally childish to figure out and think to analyze the branching morphology and handedness motifs in this image, all the way from publishing this image at the top of my main, flagship article in October 2006, mentally snoozing all the way to March 21, 2022.

It would be easy to find exact date/time stamp at the present site. Look at posts that have a URL between March 21 – April 13, 2022, in Site Map page, maybe bottom.

todo: memorize dates:

In a March 21, 2022 10-day rush period, I took Brown’s Marcia Kupfer quote about youths in trees cutting branches:

I, this time (after 2016 book and 2019 articl), finally recognized the themes, and I then worked that into my decoding of mushroom trees’ branching features, along with incorp’g …

As I result, I gained (coinciding w/ Brown conversation) comprehension of branching-message mushroom trees — rather than my under-clued “problematic-branching mushroom trees” prior to that.

I then finally thought of applying my Nov. 2020 decoding of the Eadwine initiation image back to my familiar catalog of esoteric mystical art images, including:

• Dionysus Victory Procession
• Brinckmann plate (Victorious Entry into Jerusalem [procession])
• Dancing Man salamander bestiary covered in sequence by:
• 1) Bennett 1995
• 2) Samorini 1998 (who said dancing man was poisoned — Samorini? Hatsis article says who??) no “poison” in Samo:
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/
• 3) Irvin 2008
• 4) John Rush?
• 4) Hatsis ~2014
  Find “poison” in Articles 2-5 at https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis – FOUND HATSIS’ PARAGRAPH, TH SAYS poison
• 5) Cybermonk 12/25/2015 (stand right leg aspect)
• Tauroctony detailed
• Plainc.
• Eustace window (crossing river)

https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/ –

“Figure 1 (above) is the image in question.

“As should be demonstrably clear, the supposed “red cap spotted white” mushroom that Ruck describes isn’t that at all.”

– a huge fail by Ruck, probably he was & Samorini was guessing from b/w.

“The cap is unmistakably blue; the trunk inarguably green (amanita stems are white). “

oh here goes Hatsis building his house on sand, WHO CARES what the alleged text caption backstory is.

KEY PRINCIPLE: INTERPRET ART BY MORPHOLOGY FIRST, NOT STUPIDLY LEAVING THE ART AND TRAVELLING TO TEXT BACKSTORY. READ IMAGE *BEFORE* READ TEXT, AND DISTINCTLY FROM TEXT.

Mystic Art Interpretation in an Illiterate Era: You MUST Utilize A Morphology-First, Not a Text-First Reading

I f’d up and fell into this pit of mistake in 2006, blocking myself from simply reading the morphology of the Eustace window & of the Dionysus mosaic, “because I lack the backstory” – massive error!

In this mystic-form art genre, you are supposed to read the morphology; it is assumed you are unable to read the text.

Hatsis takes a text-first approach to reading visual art – contradicting himself. Requires prioritizing visual elements OVER text.

I speak as THE MOST successful decoder of this genre, this art form.

Hatsis continues:

“As for the inscription, the man in the image is hardly “dancing” or experiencing “intense revelations”. He has, in fact, been poisoned and is dying. “

How clueless of esotericism could a “Psychedelic Witch” be?
Answer: 100%: Never heard of mystic-state ego death.

The most clueless of literalists. Failed witch.

Hatsis’ logic continues:

“Irvin contends: “the salamander is a symbol of the Amanita muscaria”[Irvin (2008), pg. 115], but that is emphatically not what the artist meant to represent.

“The author of MS. Bodl. 602 wrote rather clearly that the poison from salamanders was so strong that if it crept into a fruit-bearing tree, the once-palatable fruit turned poisonous. “

Says the anti-mushroom Psychedelic Witch 🍄🧙‍♂️ regarding those horrid, purtrid, awful, abominable mushrooms (shudder):

“Since mushrooms were known poisons in antiquity, requiring no infiltration by salamander venom, the tree in folio 027v most emphatically cannot be a mushroom; the text even calls the plant a “tree” (arbor).”

/ end of logic from Hatsis

My brilliant leading-edge analysis PROVES that this Placidas/ St. Eustace window depicts the highest, ultimate Psilocybin effects, expressed eg by the CONTRAST of branching Cubensis vs. non-branching, on the left.

The distinctive effect of Psilocybin is transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

This picture of St. Eustace fording the river depicts transformation from possibilism to eternalism, expressed elegantly and fittingly via Cubensis imagery.

Ezekiel & Revelation: See Strange Fruit or later edition of that book, by Heinrich.

Plus at a high level, all authentic religion is about Psilocybin and the effects, especially transformation from possibilism to eternalism.

The word ‘Eucharist’ or Lord’s Supper mainly refers to Psilocybin.

Tilting at Windmills of Their Own Imagining

https://grammarist.com/idiom/tilting-at-windmills/ –

“Tilting at windmills means fighting imaginary enemies.

“The idiom tilting at windmills is first seen in the English language in the 1640s as “…fight with the windmills…”

“The verb tilting was soon substituted for the word fight.

“The term is taken from the classic Spanish novel, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

“In the novel, the main character becomes enamored with the idea of chivalry, and spends his time fighting with windmills that he imagines to be giants.

“Tilting is the medieval sport of jousting with a lance.

“Of course, the windmills are not enemies but are simply inanimate objects, and Quixote’s tilting at windmills was an exercise in futility.”

Who does Panofsky, or Letcher Hatsis, imagine he’s arguing against?

Who does he imagine he has engaged with?

What does he imagine “winning” his debate would amount to?

How these “arguments” from Hatsis and Panofsky imagined by them to have any compelling power.

Not Even Specious

They are not even specious arguments; that is, these things which are delivered grandly as if they are arguments, don’t even initially seem convincing on the surface.

Define ‘specious’:
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+specious
“Superficially plausble, but — ” — hold on!

The quasi-“arguments” transmitted 1-way by Hatsis & Panofsky are NOT plausible, whether deeply or superficially or initially or momentarily — their quasi-“arguments” are just weird, bizarre, and arbitrary – practically random.

How are these “arguments” supposed to convince anyone? eg:

“Plaincourault cannot refer to mushrooms, because there are too many mushroom trees – and even worse, they are not just limited to Eden/Genesis!”

I haven’t even finished recovering from the strangeness of the first statement, before Panosfky levels-up and hits me with the second.

Panofsky transmits arguments of form:

“Not only is coffee on tap, but apples take on rainbows, making that problem even worse!”

Huh? Huh? and Huh, regarding the connection? You have COMPLETELY lost me.

How would that… “argument”(?) convince anyone?

Panofsky (or Hatsis) strikes a tone of voice as if he’s putting forth a coherent, compelling argument, but in fact leaves everyone just scratching their head:

“I don’t follow; I don’t see how this point would even constitute an argument, much less be compelling to anyone.”

That explains why Wasson censored Panofsky’s second letter: because the “arguments” in it are not even arguments, despite Panofsky’s confident rambling like he’s articulated a case.

Wasson knew that the mushroom-denial position is guaranteed to lose, if he were to invite people to actually engage in debate.

I wrote here about these points already, in October 2020. Check my page, Psychedelic Mystery Traditions.

Especially, I spoke about this, talked it through, in episodes of Egodeath Mystery Show:

Wasson looked at Panofsky’s thoroughly weak “arguments” and sensibly said:

“No way can we present these Panofsky “arguments” to people; we would certainly raise questions, cause people to engage in actual critical thinking, and we are guaranteed to lose and fail to bluff people.”

Don’t cause a Streisand effect! Do not invite actual critical engagement! We will completely lose, and everyone (“The Public”) will say:

YES WE ARE EAGER TO AGREE TO YOUR PROXY DEAL: THAT THIS IS ALL-OR-NOTHING, THAT WE MUST INTERPRET ALL PILZBAUM CONSISTENTLY: AND WE ARE EAGER TO ASSERT AND DEFEND THAT ALL OF THEM MEAN MUSHROOMS.

This is why Panofsky is only permitted to give 10% of what his argument is: “too many mushrooms”. 😑

Everyone, in reply: “What? I don’t understand how you think “too many Pilzbaum” — along with “Even beyond Eden!!” — is supposed to amount to an “argument”.

I’m just puzzled. Maybe I’m not following what your argument is — could you please explicitly state your complete argument?

90% of your argument seems to be covert, hiding under the surface – or nonexistent.

So (Wasson rightly reasoned), we must restrict ourselves to shutting down, steering away from any critical engagement — not invite such engagement, as Panofsky’s 2nd letter does, foolishly, in a way that would ensure our lie’s defeat; the failure of our cover-up attempt, and worse:

The inevitable result will be a massive backfiring, when instead of agreeing that “therefore, no mushroom-tree imagery can mean mushroom”, our pseudo-argument will massively backfire, and “The Public” will reach the true, and therefore wrong/antithetical conclusion:

“Therefore all mushroom trees mean mushrooms.“

___

continuing from above:

Could you please ARTICULATE your COMPLETE argument?

I just don’t follow how point 1 is relevant, or how point 2 is relevant, or how point 2 is relevant to point 1.

Every one of these flimsy arguments seems to share this quality: 1-directional tilting at windmills, and strawmanning or worse; strawmanning on steroids.

“I dictate that you hold the position which I have assigned to you; and whether or not you hold it, that’s the position I’m committed to defeating, gloriously.”

“I have destroyed you Secret Christian Mushroom (🍄) Cult, Allegro-type thinkers!”

Ironically, the #1 most Allegro-type thinker is Hatsis, who has Allegro define the boundaries of this thought.

Hatsis can’t handle it when you pay no attention to Allegro, or Plaincourault, or Secret Amanita Cult – Hatsis commands the ocean of scholarship to stay within the bounds that Hatsis has erected, all defined by and limited to Allegro — or to Allegro the Myth as Hatsis imagines “Allegro” and “the Allegro theory”.

Hatsis keeps declaring victory against positions that no one holds, but he acts like “you guys” hold those positions.

Hatsis is thus out of touch with reality of what people’s positions are; his blows (in debate) are all landing in thin air, yet he shouts “Bam! I got you again — your argument is so defeated!

My argument is nowhere near where Letcher Hatsis is deliriously imagining and demanding that it be.

All during reading Letcher Hatsis’ 2007 book Shroom, the whole time, I kept wondering:

Who exactly, and what position exactly, does he think he’s arguing against? “The Secret Amanita Cult theory”? “The Secret Christian Holy Mushroom Cult theory? Where the hell is Hatsis getting these theory-labels?

I haven’t read Jan Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom, so I can only guess that maybe Hatisis is picking up these phrases from Jan Irvin’s book.

I, for one, have never thought in terms even remotely like:

• The Secret Amanita Cult theory
• The Holy Mushroom theory
• The Secret Christian Mushroom Cult theory

Even if you look only at the entheogen history portion of the Egodeath theory, — consider my Plainc article: I repeatedly say we need to weigh what’s wrong and right with Allegro’s position-elements, and, finally, we need to abandon this mythic Allegro figure, and SIMPLY and DIRECTLY ask,

To what extent Psilocybin in Western history?

(And maybe Amanita — if considered as nothing more than just a colorful symbol/ billboard that refers mainly to Psilocybin, as Dale Pendell asserts.)

WHO is asserting a “Secret Amanita Cult”, or any of those other concepts that are created by Letcher Hatsis — other than Hatsis’ buddy, Carl Ruck?

I guess Jan Irvin (2008) asserts some sort of “the Holy mushroom” concept, as such, but I don’t know, I haven’t looked at his book, just the title.

Panofsky and Hatsis publish their arguments, and then carry and present themselves as if they’ve accomplished something that has compelling force.

But their transmitted messages are not having the persuasive effect that they imagine.

Panofsky and Hatsis aren’t asking people:

“What is your position?”

“Does my argument have any relevance to your views?”

“What is your counter or rebuttal to my slam-dunk argument?”

“Do you find that argument to have merit?”

Their arguments have no relevance, no persuasive power, and no merit – they are really a waste of time to engage.

They are off-base, misconstrued arguments, directed to no real, actual person and that person’s actual position.

Their argumentation is a purely 1-way transmission, that fails to hit any actual target. Panofsky and Hatsis are just talking to themselves, or to an imagined foe, but there’s no one there.

Letcher Hatsis takes aim at an airy abstraction, “Those pop people who assert The Holy Secret Mushroom Cult” — but there’s no one there; he’s tilting at windmills.

See Also

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis)
url https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/

List of Hatsis’ amateur online blogger articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis

Find “Panofsky” in list of page titles at site map: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/

The Letcher-Panofsky Intelligence Test

The Old, “Secret Entheogen” Paradigm vs. the New, “Explicit Psychedelic” Paradigm

Prof. Jerry Brown’s Works (The Psychedelic Gospels)

url https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-hatsis/

url https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2022/02/25/mushrooms-in-christian-art-discussed-by-tom-hatsis-and-jerry-brown-at-graham-hancocks-site/

Noon, February 4, 2023, Cybermonk

See https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/ instead.

The present page is superseded, because it copied Hatsis’ error into the URL, which here says “gold”, but should be “golden”.

2:59 a.m. February 1, 2023, Cybermonk

Contents:

SUPERSEDED PAGE

• Citation and Link
• Image 21: Generator of Herbs (4 ct.)
• Image 22: Eden Mushroom Tree (2 ct.)
• Image 24: Lamech Shoots Cain (5 ct.)
• Image 29: Mushroom Isaac
• Image 31: Jacob’s Mushroom Ladder, Wrestle All Night with Angel
• Image 35: Mushroom King
• Image 39: Mushroom Fans
• Image 40: Mushroom Baby
• Image 45: Water from Rock, Rigid Brass Serpent-Dragon on Pole
• Image 47: Mushroom Crop
• Image 52: Madonna Donkey Lifting Left Leg
• Image 54: Youths in Tree, Donkey Epiphany
• Image 59: Christ Pulling Saints from Jaws of Hell, Mushroom Tree
• Image 62: RGB Mushroom Rays
• Image 63: Kosmokrater Mushroom Floor
• Image 64: Kosmokrater Mushroom Hem
• Image 65: More Kosmokrater Tons of Mushroom Hems
• Image 66: Hell Torments: Mushroom Tree Out of Reach
• Image 141: Absolom Hanging from Tree
• Image 146: The Poor Outside Under Mushroom Tree
• Image 172: Seriously Trippy Illuminated Initials
• Image 179: Illuminated Initial: Blue Headed Dragon Guy
• Image 223: Tied to the Mushroom Post
• Image 230: Droopy Tree
• Image 259: Illuminated Initial: Mushroom Trees
• Image 274: Snake Leg Capital Letter
• Image 303: Branching Orchard
• See Also

Citation and Link

Golden Munich Psalter
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667767/

The Gallery view shows thumbnails:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?st=gallery

There are many views. I downloaded the PDF but it is blurry copy not the full-res orig; go ahead and DL, but realize that.

Image 21: Generator of Herbs (4 ct.)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=21&r=0.017,0.444,0.645,0.338,0

4 mushroom trees

Image 22: Eden Mushroom Tree (2 ct.)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22&r=0.405,0.194,0.534,0.28,0
forbidden to eat from this tree.
God has lifted garment while pointing to this tree of the forbidden fruit.

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=22&r=0.202,0.485,0.534,0.28,0
eating forbidden tree serpent Adam Eve in Eden

Image 24: Lamech Shoots Cain (5 ct.)

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24

Upper Panel (4 ct.)

zoom upper panel https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=24&r=0.046,0.16,0.919,0.481,0
Enoch, lifted garment, mushroom hem, 4 mushroom trees (2 small ones are like minor non-branching trees motif)

Lower Panel (1 ct.)

[9:40 p.m. Feb. 3, 2023] – hardly worth pointing out, but anyway:
lifted garment on right, has John Rush noted that?

there’s probably like 65 of them in the Golden Munich Psalter.

Might as well try easy zoom url: … the upper panel one is much better, but proves it’s the same deliberate … technique i id’d called, “subtle motif noting”.

I wrote before, a year ago.

Once you estab ur motif then for fun u do it ultra subtle: msh hems especially.

dont need full-fledged.

An example I wrote about: liberty-cap caps in Eadwine’s Psalter – if you have a super blurry one and a sharp one, provided by the artist, the hint-blurry one is to be considered as an instance defined by the crisp one.

Don’t need detail, except for 1 time only.

Hatsis’ Info About the Jasher Image

Hatsis’ page title:
The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Section heading:
Mushrooms and Halos
https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –
https://psychedelicwitch.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/ –

“We see, also from the Munich Psalter, the same mushroom trees that supposedly gave Jacob his vision.

“The meaning of this picture (Figure 11) was difficult to track down, as this is not a Psalm scene, despite its appearance in a psalter.

“It is a scene from the apocryphal text The Book of Jasher, a work that was apparently excised, as it does not appear in the Bible (though this text is referenced several times therein)¹⁹.

19: Genesis 4: 23 and 5: 25, though it might be referring to two different Lamechs, this one comes from Gen 4.

In this elapsed story, we are given a follow-up of what happened to Cain after killing his brother, Abel.

Lamech, Cain’s great grandson in this story, went hunting one day with his son, Tubal Cain.

“Blinded by old age (though it would seem that Tubal Cain’s vision wasn’t too good either), Lamech accidentally shot Cain with an arrow²⁰.”

20: Mordecai Manuel Noah (trans.) The Book of Jasher: Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel (NY: M . M. Noah and A. S. Gould, 1840) pg. 5.

Keep Hatsis’ research facts here, I put his argumentation elsewhere – I moved that to Idea Development page 17 and to the Explain Away o Matic page.

• Idea Development page 17
• The Panofsky/Hatsis Explain-Away-o-Matic Mushroom Eliminator

Image 29: Mushroom Isaac

☺️ 🎉 😊

Motifs:

• Lifted garment, and John Rush mushroom hems.

I remember my picky quibbles:

• these mushroom trees don’t have as many instances of the important {cut branches} motif.
• no {handedness} motif?

Image 31: Jacob’s Mushroom Ladder, Wrestle All Night with Angel

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=31

Image 35: Mushroom King

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=35

Image 39: Mushroom Fans

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=39

Image 40: Mushroom Baby

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=40

Image 45: Water from Rock, Rigid Brass Serpent-Dragon on Pole

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=45

Image 47: Mushroom Crop

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=47

Image 52: Madonna Donkey Lifting Left Leg

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=52

Image 54: Youths in Tree, Donkey Epiphany

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=54

todo: redo hi res:

Top panel:

• 2 Youths in Branching Mushroom Tree
• Christ on Donkey Lifting Left Leg
• Standing on Cloak
• Holding Removed Branches
• Mushroom Hems
• Right leg standing in tree on cut branch
• Peter holds the key to kingdom
• It’s heretical to me to have bearded John/MaryM.  Easy mushroom hems tablecloth.
• Great Entry into Jerusalem with many of the motifs.  
• Holding out a {removed branch} – not a branching feather – in tree.  
• {standing on right foot} on a {cut branch} – even though {cut branch} & {handedness} is a rare motif in this psalter.

SCORE! Add to list of such images.

Bottom panel:

• Last Supper
• Mushroom Hems
• Bearded John-MaryM? highly nonstandard.
• Rat-demon entering into Judas’ mouth.
• Compare St. Martin chapel’s version from Browns.
• Right hand of Jesus: non-branching fingers gesture as I read it.
• So many mushroom hems in this psalter, hardly warrants mention.

Image 59: Christ Pulling Saints from Jaws of Hell, Mushroom Tree

todo: add to gallery next to my b/w image from 2006 main article

when you go to psychedelic therapy at Compass Pathways clinic and are made to intend to engage “the Shadow”

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=59

Image 62: RGB Mushroom Rays

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=62

Image 63: Kosmokrater Mushroom Floor

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=63

zoomed: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=63&st=image&r=-0.281,0.305,1.601,0.838,0

Image 64: Kosmokrater Mushroom Hem

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=64

zoomed https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=64&st=image&r=-0.257,0.088,1.585,0.83,0

Image 65: More Kosmokrater Tons of Mushroom Hems

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=65

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=65&st=image&r=-0.404,-0.032,1.768,0.926,0

Image 66: Hell Torments: Mushroom Tree Out of Reach

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=66

zoom https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=66&st=image&r=0.21,0.754,0.641,0.336,0

Image 141: Absolom Hanging from Tree

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=141

Image 146: The Poor Outside Under Mushroom Tree

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=146

Image 172: Seriously Trippy Illuminated Initials

How many mushrooms did it take to make this psalter? Tripped out art shop.

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=172

🤨

Image 179: Illuminated Initial: Blue Headed Dragon Guy

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=176

One of the tamer ones, more pedestrian:

Image 223: Tied to the Mushroom Post

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=223

Image 230: Droopy Tree

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=230

Image 259: Illuminated Initial: Mushroom Trees

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=259

Image 274: Snake Leg Capital Letter

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=274

Image 303: Branching Orchard

url https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_08939/?sp=303

See Also

Idea Development page 17
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/idea-development-page-17/ – I initially developed a ton of ideas in the present Golden page, then moved it to create the beginning (bottom) of Idea Development page 17. Relevant mytheme decoding is there.

Site Map sections:
Flagship articles: 
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art
Gallery articles:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#gallery

List of links to Thomas Hatsis’ online articles:
My page title:
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Hatsis)
Section heading:
Bibliography > Hatsis
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#Hatsis