I can’t find the article about the accomplished recent repeal of Psilocybin prohibition, will have to re-search for it.

Bipartisan support:

US DEA Facing Fresh Lawsuits After Denying Psilocybin Waiver, Rescheduling Request

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Short-form postings instead of long-form neat articles with polished, researched content

WordPress supports a short tweet format, which I need to use more.

Low-overhead incremental contributions is supported by WordPress “weblog” design, intended for daily posting, with the date added in the URL.

WordPress also has a distinct design for so-called “pages” instead of so-called weblog “posts”.

That’s long-form content creation, comparable in the direction of writing a book, instead of writing a comment thread posting, at the other extreme.

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I need a short-form forum to develop ideas about the two political parties both supporting drug prohibition and repeal of it.

To develop ideas, I need short form posting and I miss discussion thread conversations like Max Freakout used, like Yahoo Groups in 2000, where I could develop ideas with other people about this question of:

Both of the two political parties in the United States are both very drug-prohibition upholding, and yet they both also have a lot of repealing Drug Prohibition.

For example, the Libertarian party has strong, vigorous support for repealing drug prohibition, which feeds into the so-called conservative party.

I am not eager to publish long form weblog articles without first developing ideas in conversation with others, would be an easier forum for me to develop ideas

this is part of the challenge (& opportunity) of content creation everybody Work… [LOST TEXT]

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The bug is in the voice transcription software, not in the WordPress app.

Voice dictation just had a failure in this simple text app, where it started rapidly deleting all of the transcription that I had just done.

This proves that the bug is not in the WordPress app, but the bug is on this platform; the bug is a voice transcription bug in the voice transcription software, not in the WordPress app.

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Nested list item support is still missing or removed

A WordPress bug, yet another obstacle to content creation: they removed support for nested list items, which is very basic requirement.

I continue to need to research documentation on WordPress authoring because nested bullets, nested list items still don’t work anymore, which is a huge impediment to my maintaining my WordPress site.

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Voice dictation to produce text posting content

Voice dictation works fairly well [no, failed later] except when done within the WordPress app where I tried to make it work and it failed

and then I tried again and it failed, lost my attempted improved summary articulation.

and then I tried again to summarize and develop an idea (“freedom” as a key word giveaway revealing ego-premised notions of what enlightenment is), and again it failed and lost my data.

many of the ideas that I develop are sensitive, and the last thing I need is buggy software preventing me from developing these ideas and trying to articulate them.

instead, use voice dictation within the Notes app which is a simpler app and then paste into the complex WordPress app [no, that might possibly reduce the amount of data lost, but it malfunctioned a minute ago here in this simple app]

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Mobile voice recording podcast contact and idea development

as an alternative to backstabbing recorders which is not as bad of a problem as flaky buggy voice dictation,

the voice recording app on mobile device works extremely well, although it does definitely require post- production attenuating the treble , because the microphone is extremely bright, too bright for playback on the bright mobile small speakers, causing hearing damage

There are three formats or types of platforms to develop content:

laptop computer

mobile device

dedicated audio or video equipment

in some departments the mobile device is surprisingly much better than the computer such as built-in microphone voice content because of the form factor

I have tested and developed a way of using the built-in laptop microphone for high Fidelity voice recording requiring holding the entire damn laptop in position – the microphone is in the middle of the right side of the keyboard, and a microphone needs to be kept away from the wall and surfaces and corners (or accept a boxy sound)

After I updated the mobile operating system, my voice dictation app went completely blank.

but now it has come back

so the problem of loss of data runs throughout the different technologies.

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Vote – Election 2022

Voting Day November 8, 2022

hold your nose and vote for devil A or for devil B

both of them devoted to upholding drug prohibition, but both parties also have potential to Repeal Drug Prohibition.

68% of Americans support cannabis decrim , so it is supported by many ppl in both parties.

within so-called conservative discussion forums there is a striking lack of consensus

an extreme lack of consensus this is even in within the edgy you might say youth filled conservative forums

it is very striking :

2 things that there is zero sign of any reconciliation between two opposing views

half of ppl in these forums are pro Christianity, and half of them are anti-Christianity.

there is a vigorously entrenched three-way standoff between advocates of:

atheism vs.

European paganism vs.

Christianity

all of them at each other’s throats, all trying to convert each other to “the solution”.

similarly, half of them are calling to ramp up Drug Prohibition (A brilliant idea that no one has ever thought of or tried before! I’m sure it would work; we should try Prohibition and see if it works or not), and half of them are calling to repeal drug prohibition, with no sign of any agreement at all

it is easy to observe that the conservatives who advocate drug prohibition are ignorant suckers doing empty virtue posturing who have no idea what they’re talking about yet and end it is that very ignorance that enables them to speak very vigorously

and I’m talking about supposedly edgy supposedly perspicacious youth conservatives eager to get on their soapbox and reveal themselves to be utter ignorant fools

their complete ignorance is what enables them to go on their soapbox and spout off asserting we ought to give it a try , of drug prohibition because – I have an idea that no one ever thought of before! – or that no one ever tried: we need to increase drug prohibition!

Big brain, there, edgy young conservative independent thinker; what a great alternative perspective you bring.

these edgy young conservatives, heads filled with an empty vacuum, revealing their complete ignorance.

they ought to try to read a few articles before they go spouting off and regurgitating unthinking prohibitionist notions,

it is empty ignorant virtue signaling: “we need to crack down!”, these edgy innovative alternative thinkers say; “instead of the status quo”, they say, “we need to crack down on drugs” , say these young, edgy, innovative, independent thinkers.

and then the other half of these so-called conservatives is at least a little bit informed about what they’re talking about.

the ones who have read about the subject and who have informed themselves about the subject, they call for the repeal of Drug Prohibition.

there is , as of one year ago, a gigantic rift, with all ignorance on one side with conservative virtue posturing, and with all the informedness on the other side.

The conservatives who call for a crackdown on drugs are the ones who reveal that they have read absolutely nothing on the subject, which is how they are able to so self confidently posture and assert that we need to ramp up and increase drug prohibition – that’ll solve it!

Sort of like the ego death loss of control experience spiraling out of control by trying harder the same thing:

my attempt to gain control is failing, so I better increase my attempt of that very same nature of attempt

oh no , now that there’s even more loss of control – better double down again the same type of effort that failed!

When drug prohibition doesn’t work, the right thing to do, they say, is the increase the same strategy that’s failed.

But a real problem with that line of critique is there are some bad values mixed in with that.

The blanket condemnation of the altered state is part of the problem.

It is not the case that all drug use is bad and therefore we all just have a disagreement about how to get rid of this bad problem.

We have actually a deeper disagreement about whether the drug use is inherently and necessarily bad.

Even fundamentalist Dave Hunt book author around 1999 wrote a page or two arguing that psychedelics are not necessarily against spirituality.

He just cautioned that they could possibly be misused in spirituality. he reserved judgment – a wise man.

it is a complete standoff , last I saw a year ago

But things have rapidly changed, ppl have seen through illusions and deceit, and so I don’t know if these so-called conservatives and young conservatives have now gotten a clue that drug prohibition is 100% sham.

and not only is there a disagreement within conservatives about how to end “the drugs problem”, there is also a deeper disagreement about the value of drugs.

That remains the best future podcast topic, for transcendent knowledge podcast and Egodeath Mystery show, is the subject of:

what is the value, and on what basis do we hold that the highest value is psychedelic religious revelation?

we can see this grappling and debating about the value of psychedelics in Jan Irvin, who converted from gnostic media brand to Logos Media brand, converted to some version of Christianity.

Last I heard, he was reduced to condemning psychedelics with faint praise and admitting that possibly perhaps they’re not entirely bad.

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earlier –

damn! This dictation just now went into rapidly deleting as fast as it can — delete delete delete — all of the voice transcription that it just did

BUGGY bleeding edge

that’s it

I need to research , I need to get and buy a voice transcription mobile app that’s not a buggy piece of —-

I will post these notes as a weblog posting and then I will perhaps use the mobile device microphone to make a voice recording podcast by reading aloud and verbally commenting on the web blog posting

I had an extremely elaborate set up at six microphones but that’s mostly broken down and put away at the moment

it was really nice (putting aside the electric guitar miking which I am pretty happy about ) – Regarding microphone voice recording,

it was really nice to have a microphone and recorder all set up and ready to record at any time by just pushing a single button at any time

This mobile device, used for voice recording, is incredibly easy to use and foolproof, and really has been more reliable than dedicated audio equipment that always thinks of two or three excuses to lose data.

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VOTE 2022

in November 2022, 5 states have cannabis repeal of prohibition on the ballot, and I guess that is independent of which political party.

David Borden implemented the idea that I proposed to him around maybe 2005: at that time all drug policy news was always exclusively negative: this bad thing happened then this bad thing happened

it was 100% setbacks

they were not interested at all in reporting news about progress in drug policy reform and the repeal of Drug Prohibition

I told Borden you need to have a strong emphasis and webpages about the many many successes and victories.

the fruit of that meeting:

https://drugpolicy.org/about-us#victories

https://drugpolicy.org/search/node?keys=victories

https://stopthedrugwar.org – David Borden site

http://drugnews.org

https://drugpolicy.org/news

http://www.mapinc.org/dpr.htm

url: https://youtu.be/W39kfrxOSHg

10:48 Penrose: “quantum mechanics needs help from Relativity [read ‘block universe’]: and the help it needs is to get rid of all these different alternatives.” [it needs to be de-branched] “One thing happens, not the superposition of all the different things.” … “Really we want a theory that has one alternative.”

Penrose does not want to bring airy fairy quantum mechanics (read “possibilism”) into general relativity (read “block universe”), rather, he wants to repair the flaw in quantum mechanics to make it comply with general relativity.

Penrose says this is the great problem of physics, needs to be corrected …

(I think voice dictation was deleting my text when I wasn’t looking, as fast as it could. )

url https://youtu.be/QHa1vbwVaNU –

The illusion of possibilism needs to be explained and modeled properly by theory to bring it into conformity with the revealed underlying situation hidden by the cloak the reality of non-branching eternalism.

We should not correct our broken flawed model of eternalism, in order to make it comply with possibilism, but the reverse.

The problem is not to correct general relativity to make it comply with quantum mechanics, but rather to repair a broken theory of quantum mechanics to make it comply with general relativity, Penrose argues.

Penrose and Sabine do lots of contrarian takedown & critique of Quantum Physics interpretations, like James T. Cushing.

Glib pushing of conventional QM gee whiz storytime doctrine by Kaku.

Sabine says it’s nice to think there’s another version of me in another universe. Ego multiplication.

Penrose & Sabine say the multiverse idea is fit for comic book plots but is not science.

Don’t know if panel says multiverse is for the purpose of restoring egoic steering freewill control power in a branching-premised world after the iron block universe determinism model of around 1905.

Flatland equated spiritual revelation with space-like time in late 1800s.

The interest in physics models is a project motivated by revealing and defensively holding at bay the threat of eternalism causing ego death.

Shoring up the illusion of ego power by asserting the multiverse, against the block universe.

possibilism = multiverse

eternalism = block universe

in another universe, the artist wasn’t a dimwit, and drew a tree – instead of stump

Physicists forcing their Philosophy

We have to accept the Copenhagenism interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, because otherwise there wouldn’t be free will.

No-free-will is not allowable, therefore we must hold the Copengagenist interpretation and reject superdeterminism: https://youtu.be/ytyjgIyegDI

Quantum Physics is a project of shoring up egoic freewill thinking, against Einstein/ Minkowsky block universe determinism.

https://youtu.be/zpU_e3jh_FY –

https://youtu.be/RY7hjt5Gi-E –

https://youtu.be/JnKzt6Xq-w4 – to preserve a rational model, must sacrifice first child, er freewill thinking:

Contents:

• Intro
• Jordan Peterson Roland Griffiths Interview (March 2, 2021)
• Peterson Busts Griffiths for Self-Contradiction – BEST QUOTES
• Maybe There Can/ Might/ Could/ May Be Some Way to Avoid Awful Crutch of Psilocybin
• Other Methods Can/ Could/ Might/ May Produce Exact Same Effects as Psilocybin
• Video: Parallels of long-term meditation and psilocybin use | Roland Griffiths (Jan. 19, 2017)
• Article “Transcending and Transforming Psychedelics” About Harvard Webinar Series
• Griffithsism, Reduction of Altered State to Social Domain, Ineffabilism Mysticism, New Age Meditationism – Hallmarks of Boomerism
• Defining ‘Boomerism’ as a Noxious Dead-End Set of Narratives
• See Also

Intro

One of the most worthwhile videos. Around 2:10:00 JBP instantly slams Griiffiths’ canard “other methods can/ could/ might/ may simulate psilocybin”, why is everyone so eager to make this empty “pigs can fly” assertion?

The data indicates that nothing comes close, JBP rightly points out.

So why does everyone hasten to emphasize that maybe pigs can fly?

Sheer conjecture is not science, and is countered by the evidence.

I’m against Griffiths’ defense of meditation; JBP emphasizes Griffiths’ data that experienced meditators’ experience is totally overwhemed by intensity and reliability of psilocybin.

Jordan Peterson Roland Griffiths Interview (March 2, 2021)

February 22, 2023 – I copied my transcription from Idea Development page 15 (that link is in See Also) to the below sections.

The Psychology of Psychedelics | Roland Griffiths | EP 167
Recorded March 2nd, 2021
Uploaded May 10, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIP-3Q-p_s&t=2635s –

When I advised Oregon Psilocybin board, communicating with them, this was a turning point because I failed to connect the goal, the treasure, the appeal, the completion – with the threat and appeasing the threat.

Always put the dragon threat in the context of the treasure pursued.

The experience of the threat of loss of control isn’t isolated; it is packaged together with pursuing Transcendent Knowledge treasure.

treasure pursuit: “Finally found a way of thinking” – Bob Daisley, album Diary of a Madman.

44:00 – Griffiths or Peterson compares the bad trip to the dragon:
“faced the dragon, faced the greatest terror“

45:43 Peterson – “What they learn is that they can withstand the fear [after they sacrifice -cm], that’s what generalizes. …

“You’re not counter-conditioning the fear, what you’re doing is showing the person that there’s more to them than they thought.

“There isn’t anything more salutary than that.

[46:08]

“That’s specifically why you’re encouraged in mythological stories to confront the dragon and get the gold, that’s the basic story

“and it’s very interesting how that becomes portrayed in a psychedelic experience.“

No, that’s backwards. The {dragon threat when getting the treasure} comes FROM psychedelics.

Griffiths 57:40 – “we have developed a mystical questionnaire that’s very good”

No, the MEQ sucks, bad.

The Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) disowns negative experiences, which are caught by the mockup half-baked CEQ, which removes all specific effects of control transformation, replacing them by ordinary-state conceived “Grief” instead.

Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)
Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ)

“The key features of this are

• sense of unity; interconnectedness of all people and all things, introvertively or extravertively, the literature on mystical experiences outside of drugs [how do you know??] …
• sense of sacredness or reverence, precious about it.
• the Noetic sense that it’s true, more real than everyday waking consciousness.
• Subfactors:
• positive mood,
• transcendence of time and space, and
• ineffability. I ask them ‘tell me about your experience.’

[a prompting framing question, what a surprise that they give the answer they are prompted and set up to give:].

“They say ‘I can’t even put this into words’ – that’s one of the 6 criteria of a mystic experience.”

Ask a newbie to describe their high-dose Psilocybin experience, they say “that’s hard”, therefore, we should label this as “MYSTICAL INEFFABILITY”, referencing heavy-handed scholarly theology of Christian mysticism tradition.

Here we get Roland Griffiths’ boomer personal invented conception of mystic experience and glorified Meditation and Stace’s 1960 Ineffabilism mysticism.

Griffiths is telling falsehoods here about the nature of mystic experiencing. This misconception is baked into the so-called “scientific” basis of Hopkins’ Psychedelic Science.

1:02:00 RG: “You’re rewriting the underlying operating system.”

2:01:30 RG: “meditation … none of them [advanced meditators in our current psilocybin research] would say that psychedelics are a substitute for what the meditation practice is, because meditation results in the stability of awareness, that psychedelics certainly do not.”

“so then the next step was religious professionals and we are uh collecting the last data on that.

“it was a study that was run jointly at Hopkins and NYU. [todo: article URL]

search Hopkins Griffiths NYU meditation

search Hopkins Griffiths NYU meditate

search Hopkins Griffiths NYU meditator

“and we’ve made a pact in the study team not to talk about any results until we’re ready to uh publish but but i can tell you i can give you a broad brush stroke of what we’re thinking there uh of course and and hoping perhaps maybe because we we

“maybe we can close this off with a little bit of discussion about you know the potential impact of this

“i mean i’m very interested for example in the decline of religious belief across the west and there’s a there’s a necessity for revitalization and

and well back to back to the religious leaders

yeah so that’s the question what so among people who have made career commitments to uh to ministry and and and to supporting people’s spiritual growth

“what what happens with them with a with a psychedelic experience and and how does that fit with their ministry uh their engagement in that and uh and their belief – 

“do you plan to do long-term efficacy studies like i’d be really curious if your your psychedelic enhanced ministers let’s say were then more credible proponents for their community and their congregations were disproportionately for example or perhaps not likely to grow

“we probably don’t have the power to uh address that question.

“we’ll certainly follow these people up and the initial study we have follow up to uh 12 months and and uh and

“we’re doing a lot of qualitative uh work on this

um i think i think

what i can say without without saying anything specific about the data is uh uh that

the results are not inconsistent with that that we have seen in healthy volunteers and beginning meditators and long-term meditators uh that that is there’s something astonishing about these experiences

“and i’ll i’ll have to uh leave it at that but but i think

“the implications are are are important

“i mean so the question is yeah

“how does this interact with faith traditions?

“that’s going to be an interesting story to tell and and to have unfold.

“but i don’t think i can say anything further about it.”

JP: “yeah well yeah fair enough fair enough

um i guess i’m i’m sorry i can backing off the study per se i mean you know”

2:04:00 Griffiths confirms my claim that he’s making a religion out of Ineffability in particular.

Machine transcription of JP/RG interview:

“there’s something about these experiences that speak to the ineffable uh and uh and and this whole project of organizing community [‘community’ is a giveaway tip-off word- beware of reductionism of the altered state to the ordinary-state social domain] around um around investigation and cultivation of [mushrooms?] of the um fruits [fruiting bodies] of those kinds of experiences and

“i think that’s hugely consequential so

“one of the one of the features of the you know that i’ve already discussed of the primary mystical experience [as Griffithsism is defined above: ineffability, positive mood, unity, sense of truth]

is this sense of the interconnectedness of all people [red flag: reductionism to the social realm] and it’s sacred and it’s true and and and from that arises this sense of a pro-social [the main, popular bad move: reductionism of ASC to the ordinary-state social realm] sense of altruism

a sense that we’re all in this together[reductionism to social]

“well if that isn’t the golden rule [social reduc’m] and if that doesn’t you know speak to the nature of you know most ethical and moral[social reduc’m] traditions.

JP: “okay so i want to unpack that for a minute because it’s so surprising like you can go over that quickly and it doesn’t sound surprising it’s

“so the drugs are producing an expansion of human experience that’s meaningful and positive”

…

2:07:55: “hard to see how all that couldn’t be of significance to religious communities

“and then the question is well what should be what do you talk how do you talk to religious people about this especially if they’re more on the conservative end of things because a less conservative hypothesis could hardly be imagined

“right it’s the psychedelic origin of the deep judeo-christian ethic

“that’s that’s a radical idea and it it brings up this question well we lost this technology essentially something like 2 000 years ago in the west except in underground places“

False. The Middle Ages has explicit psilocybin branching-message mushroom trees or other psilocybin (and Amanita) imagery in mainstream cathedrals, chapels, and illuminated manuscripts.

“do we reincorporate it?

“how do we reincorporate it?“

“and what does that mean on the religious front, like the conservative religious front with regards to say practice”

Peterson Busts Griffiths for Self-Contradiction

128 m 41 s = 128 *60 + 41 = 7721s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIP-3Q-p_s&t=7721s

2:08:41 “well but again i would say it doesn’t have to be psychedelics. [<– UNSCIENTIFIC BULLSHIITE]

PIGS DON’T HAVE TO BE NON-FLYING

“we’re gonna we’re gonna learn more about the nature of these experiences and who knows, i mean there may be a way [don’t forget “can”, “might”, and “could”] to do this with uh you know electro uh cranial stimulation you know, or or you know, other kinds of manipulations.”

JP: “I’m going to object to that just for a second, well, and I have a specific reason you know because i i think that’s uh uh a careful argument and an appropriate one, but i don’t think your data support it

[compare Charles Stang’s quote to RG that the mystics writings archive of experiences doesn’t support RG’s positive-only misconception of “mysticism”]

JP: “because you just told me that even the experienced meditators, for them it’s a qualitative transformation.

“and so you think i’m and so you

“you’ve already got a population [experienced meditators] that have been using disciplined technology, right, and good and good for them, you know

“Eliade believed that the shamanic transformation in its pure form wasn’t drug-mediated

“but i think it looks to me like,

“i have great respect for Eliade

“i learned a tremendous amount from him i think i don’t think the evidence supports that claim [the Great, Non-Drug Shamans of Yore]”

JP continues:

“i think the psychedelics are doing something that is in addition to what disciplined practice can–

“i mean who knows what happens if you practice for 35 years let’s say and that’s all you do

“but, but i’m–

[2:10:00]

“It isn’t obvious to me that this can be duplicated on the non-chemical front.”

RG:

“Oh let’s see , i i don’t disagree agree with you, I mean,

“This is the most powerful intervention we have for uh, for creating at high probability these kinds of ex– experiences; we don’t– nothing comes close to it.

JP:

“Well and there’s an intensity issue too, right; it’s not just probability, but also intensity.

RG:

“Yeah no absolutely, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not going to refine this further, and that there might not be another way to do it.

JP:

“Right, it also doesn’t mean that disciplined practice is not advisable and that caution isn’t the appropriate byword.”

Maybe There Can/ Might/ Could/ May Be Some Way to Avoid Awful Crutch of Psilocybin

Griffiths: Science Says Maybe Might Pigs Can Fly and Maybe There Can/ Might/ Could/ May Be Some Way to Avoid Awful Crutch of Psilocybin

My condemnation here is THIS IS NOT SCIENCE, the sheer conjecture that there is conceivable some unknown HYPOTHETICAL replacement for psychedelics.

SHEER CONJECTURE IS NOT SCIENCE. And the statement “Maybe non-drug psychedelics exist”, coming from a scientist, does not make that a scientific statement; it is merely a conjecture that anyone could make, same as saying:

“As a scientist, I’m pointing out that maybe pigs can/might/could/can fly, and maybe the sun will rise in the west”.

See Sabine Hossenfelder on such hollow pseudoscience conjecture, which is what passes for “Science” today.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sabine+hossenfelder
She’s a superdeterminist (= eternalism).

Other Methods Can/ Could/ Might/ May Produce Exact Same Effects as Psilocybin

con’t from above:

[2:10:40]

RG:

“yeah yeah but there you know there could be other physiological interventions you know that aren’t aren’t psychedelic uh drugs aren’t you know serotonin 2a uh agonists so all i’m all i’m scoping out is that this is going to continue to unfold uh scientifically

“just but to to get back to the the implications so so these experiences are…”

Video: Parallels of long-term meditation and psilocybin use | Roland Griffiths (Jan. 19, 2017)

Griffiths is an absolutely dedicated advocate and cheerleader of meditation. Non-drug meditation is Griffiths’ god, his standard of truth.

It is simply a given for Griffiths that non-drug meditation is the gold standard of reference.

He also takes a conventional narrative-driven view on non-drug mysticism.

Mysticism and meditation are Griffiths’ New Age religion, and after this Dec 2016 vid, 4 years later, his partner Matthew Johnson said this brand of spirituality has gone unchecked too long, and Johnson repudiated his partner’s brand of spirituality, in the Dec. 2020 article Consciousness, Religion, and Gurus: Pitfalls of Psychedelic Medicine, against the new religion of Griffithsism.

The religion of Griffithism is hardly “psychedelic spirituality”, given the way Griffiths in inverted fashion makes his notion and assumption-set about non-drug mysticism and non-drug meditation his false standard by which to “justify” and “praise” Psilocybin in a way that’s an insult to Psilocybin.

Griffiths diminishes Psilocybin while acting as if he’s elevating it almost up to the lofty standard set by his fantasized non-drug mysticism and non-drug meditation as if those had any authenticity — as if Psilocybin weren’t the source and the measure of authenticity by which non-drug mysticism and non-drug meditation should be found to be fake and fraudulent, usurpers of the throne that rightfully is Psilocybin’s.

When Griffiths praises or defends Psilocybin, he attempts to make Meditation the foundation for authenticity of Psilocybin – getting their relationship upside down.

Meditation’s respectability comes from its derivation from Psilocybin.

Parallels of long-term meditation and psilocybin use | Roland Griffiths
Jan. 19, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS54HMaQSGg –

1:50 “We think of meditation as the tried and true path of exploration of the nature of the mind, it’s this methodology that’s been developed over thousands of years to turn the attention inwards and watch one’s own mental processes”

– as if meditation didn’t come from psilocybin. Fake meditation is non-drug.

Authentic meditation, the gold standard reference that’s definitive of what authentic meditation is, is psilocybin-based meditation, that recognizes that the origin of meditation is psilocybin.

Machine transcription:

“A lot of it is mindfulness.

“We have overrepresentation from Buddhist traditions and vipassana could be one of those traditions.

“And so during that study, people come into our session room.

“We have them do series of meditations throughout the day.

“And when they get psilocybin, so we’re very interested in how the phenomenology of those experiences change.

“We’re comparing it to placebo.

“We’re looking at pre and post neuroimaging to see…looking for brain changes, and preliminarily, we’re seeing day-after changes which is exciting and gets to this whole issue of neuroplasticity.

“And we also have a condition in which we actually administer psilocybin to people in the scanner.

“So we’re looking at meditation when people are on, in this case, a pretty low dose of psilocybin.

“And our interest there in meditation is that we think of meditation as kind of the tried-and-true path for exploration of the nature of mind.

“I mean, that’s really what it is, is that this is methodology that’s been developed over thousands of years to turn the attention inward and watch one’s own mental processes and become familiar with the way mind works, how it’s constructed, and then through that process, very often, people… I hesitate to say gain control, but in effect, they can change the repertoire with which the brain is activated.

“They can watch thoughts come up.

“They can release thoughts in a way that someone who’s unpracticed with meditation is much…”

“So it’s an investigation of the nature of mind.”

[“mind”: Griffiths’ research partner Matthew Johnson wrote against that word usage, Johnson declared a breakaway from Griffiths’ spirituality:]
Consciousness, Religion, and Gurus: Pitfalls of Psychedelic Medicine
Matthew Johnson
Dec. 2020 (when I was finishing the main part of decoding the Eadwine image)
The “Parallels” video is Dec 2016 – 4 years later, Johnson wrote against Giffiths’ spirituality.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33860187/
ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci.
2020 Dec 16; 4(2):578-581.

“And similarly, I’ve come to think of psilocybin as also [only if combined with meditation] a convergent methodology for investigation of the nature of mind.

“It’s the meditation on steroids, if you will because there’s such abrupt shift of the nature of consciousness that it wakes people up to the extent to which kind of their normative cognitive processes or the normative way they hold reality is just one way of holding reality.

“And so there can be something shockingly interesting about that.

“However, psilocybin is not a substitution for meditation because it doesn’t lead to any stability of the awareness state.”

MEDITATION IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PSILOCYBIN

“So we would say that meditation is kind of the tried-and-true way of stabilizing the nature of awareness and coming to understand mind, and psilocybin might be the crash course in that.”

My posting:
Roland Griffiths and Jordan Peterson – Psychology of Psychedelics
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/roland-griffiths-and-jordan-peterson-psychology-of-psychedelics/

Article “Transcending and Transforming Psychedelics” About Harvard Webinar Series

https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2021/11/04/transcending-and-transforming-psychedelics

“In the first event of the series, Charles M. Stang, CSWR Director and Professor of Early Christian Thought, hosted Dr. Roland Griffiths of John Hopkins University, perhaps the leading researcher into the healing possibilities of psilocybin.

“Stang pushed Griffiths on how his studies seem to sanitize mystical experiences by defining them as profoundly moving encounters with a loving, transcendent source, and sidelining harrowing experiences of the divine as abysmal, dark, and even terrifying.

“Stang remarks: “This is where the history of religion is important, because it is shot through with the full archive of experiences. Religions know how to deal with harrowing experiences of God as an abyss because, guess what, people regularly have experiences of God as an abyss. And communities have to hold that, have to help people work with those experiences.”

And no, the bunk and half-assed, half-baked CEQ does not cover these actual altered state experiences, but replaces them by ordinary-state “Grief”, a reductionism, a category error.

Griffithsism, Reduction of Altered State to Social Domain, Ineffabilism Mysticism, New Age Meditationism – Hallmarks of Boomerism

Defining ‘Boomerism’ as a Noxious Dead-End Set of Narratives

I need to develop what “Boomerism” means to me or could mean.

(Bracket aside objections about generation-premised criticisms.)

Boomerism: Weakly informed by Psychedelics; thoroughly compromised to insult Psychedelics, constantly damning psychedelics with self-defeating faint praise.

The Boomer paradigm of comparing psychedelics to their precious god meditation is based on Boomers’ ludicrous levels of self-certainty about their god, which is non-drug meditation.

If anyone pays any attention to mysticism, it’s taken as a law of the universe given directly from God to you that of course no mystic ever used Psilocybin; the idea is literally unthinkable, except to Dan Merkur, but even Merkur’s thinking is limited and self-limiting here.

See Also

Meditation Is Bunk – It Is Pushed Solely to Eliminate Psychedelics
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/meditation-is-bunk-and-is-pushed-solely-to-eliminate-psychedelics/

Best section/quotes:
Idea Development page 15
Section heading:
Peterson Busts Griffiths for Self-Contradiction
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15/#Peterson-Busts-Griffiths-for-Self-Contradiction
Section copied to the present page February 22, 2023.

Above that is a related section:
Idea Development page 15
Section heading:
Jordan Peterson Roland Griffiths Interview
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15/#Peterson-Griffiths-Interview
Section copied to the present page February 22, 2023.

I found additional Sep 13-14 content (tracks 4066-4069) i added & lengthened this episode, added separate guitar download link including song Star 4065, which was the original intention in September.

Egodeath Mystery Show episode 222: Return of the Fixed Stars (malformed link, can’t fix in app)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15 – October 17, 2022 (recorded Sep. 8/13/14 & Oct. 16 2022). Download from there for 1 week – or from this copy of the two links:

Today’s pointed summary voice recording.

Carries forward some theme of the False Freedom framing of Transcendent Knowledge. That’s the new element/emphasis of this review/ re-articulation.

After last episode, had tech issues with voice transcription & mic failures/unreliability.

I’m skipping over some recordings made after Rebirth into the Shattered Sphere of Fixed Stars. Need to inventory/assess those. Update: I got through production of tracks through 4069 (Sep. 14 2022), plus today’s 4148-4151 Oct 16.

Voice Miking

mic distortion in first minutes, but good stereo sm57 voice miking 2′ after that, used (0 0 -13dB) eq so expect not too bright on bright speakers.

That’s a lot of treble rolloff, yet still sounds good and intelligible even in dark headphones, like an SM7b mic.

Guitar Cab Far Miking

Lots of R&D progress reflected here.

outro guitar: new mic for far miking on Right guitar speaker cab: Audio-Technica AT2020 medium-diaphragm condenser with directional (cardioid) polar pattern. Used CAD e100 medium diaphragm mic on Left cab 6′, though this mic is failing, becoming noisy but seems ok here.

Guitar Cab Close Miking

L: Electro-Voice 635A omni dynamic, 2″ distance.

R: CAD M39 large dia. condenser failing, becoming unreliable, but seems ok here.

Variation of eq, but no wah.

I had huge problems with voice dictation here this morning. I’ll clean up the page later. I have to commit to a rule of never use voice dictation within the WordPress app; always use it within the notes app and then copy paste it into the app.

https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religion/dp/1451636024 – psychedelics-positive but zero integration of his no-free-will assertion

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Will-Deckle-Edge-Harris/dp/1451683405/ –

Harris book blurb:

“A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value.

“It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions.

“And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion.

“In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.”

Adding quotes from Hanegraaff, Brown, & Davis taking for granted that the goal of life & enlightenment is personal freedom a la egoic premises, which includes per today’s raw voice recording VOX_TK_4117.wav) two distinct components interlocked:

• personal freedom/choice/control/steering power, the “personal control” aspect …
• within a context of branching possibility/ tree/ world/ time. the “eternalism” aspect.

Egoic Assumptions & Attitudes Toward Personal Control Freedom and Presumed Branching Possibilities: The Assumed Selling Point that Transcendent Knowledge Gives You Control Power and Freedom in an Open Future

Eve is not a weak-willed woman … she is a courageous spiritual guide who leads humanity to exercise free will and achieve higher consciousness.

Brown & Brown. Page 7 of 2019 article. Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Special Issue on Psychedelics in History
and World Religions, re: Plaincourault

[in Late Antiquity, the spirituality industry’s “I Hate Fate” theme of hermetic spirituality & of Late Antiquity – find ‘free’, “liberty”, “liberate”, “the Ogdoad, above the heimarmene”[sic!]]

Wouter Hanegraaff, page n, Hermetic Spirituality, 2022

[Davis’ framing and narrative, assuming a selling point, that the purpose and end-goal project and objective of the Egodeath theory is to provide transcendental freedom and “a way out of the matrix” of block-universe determinism ]

Erik Davis, page 122, Led Zeppelin IV, 2005

2-level model of mental model development when alternating 2 states of consciousness:

• 2) eternalism-thinking
• 1) possibilism-thinking

I don’t believe that in 2005 I ever said that it’s a concern of the Egodeath theory to “solve the problem” of block-universe determinism.

I did strive to explain and model the 3-level model of:

• 3) qualified possibilism-thinking based on eternalism-thinking – not throwing eternalism-thinking into Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket demonized as “infection, contamination, impurity, negative psychological traits”. Specifically not possibilism-thinking that’s separate from and opposed to eternalism-thinking, as if to venerate Mithras (hypercosmic; cosmos model levels 9 & 10) separated from Helios (heimarmene, level 8, fixed stars, cosmos highest level /boundary).
• 2) basic eternalism-thinking (cosmos level 8; fixed stars)
• 1) naive possibilism-thinking (cosmos level 1; Earth)

Per a 4-level “states & stages” model:

• 4) eternalism-based possibilism experiencing (ie tightcog state)
• 3) eternalism-based eternalism experiencing (ie loosecog state)
• 2) possibilism-premised eternalism experiencing (ie loosecog state) [“unstable!” 😨 😱]
• 1) possibilism-premised possibilism experiencing (ie tightcog state)

loosecog = loose mental construct association binding (ie the altered state from 2 bowls of cubensis 1.5 hours apart x 10 weeks, or from exactly equivalent plants)

tightcog = tight mental construct association binding

Beware of the pre/trans fallacy cautioned by Wilber: naive possibilism-thinking is very different than eternalism-based possibilism experiencing – a different basis relied on; possibilism “based” (ie possibilism premised), vs. eternalism based.

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Egodeath Mystery Show discussion yesterday (see date in url and in UI, was Sep 17 2022 date of voice recording) & recorded today so far, Sep 18 2022.

Interesting and surprising critical critique of Erik Davis page 122 of Led Zep 4, he claims that the Egodeath Theory is about engineering a solution to the “problem” of the Transcendent Knowledge experiential revelation of block universe determinism.

Look how naturally – he cannot just stop and halt at saying that transcendent knowledge is of block-universe determinism.

[voice dict’n deleted the main text here, and multiple attempts at summarizing]

what Erik Davis expresses may be a half truth , that we do end up in a return to baseline consciousness, which has the experiencing of, in which we experience in the form of branching possibility and the power of steering with freedom power.

We freely steer among the branching possibilities.

But when we return to baseline state (tightcog), eventually the mind remembers the metaphysical enlightenment experienced and perceived in the altered state (loosecog).

Erik Davis claims that the end goal of Transcendent Knowledge according to the Egodeath theory is an increase of free will power freedom and liberty. Davis says the Egodeath theory presents and discovers a problem of block universe determinism.

And then Davis emphasizes out of seemingly out of nowhere, and he projects on to the theory of Transcendent Knowledge, he takes it for granted that it must end up and we need to end up in the state of increased liberty and freedom in free will, that we’ve got to engineer a restoring of liberty and freedom after the revelation of block-universe determinism.

I critiqued, I criticized and discovered that Davis frames — he accurately describes the Egodeath theory — but then he frames it with an emphasis and a marketing spin a framing by adding onto the end of it that the Egodeath theory presents a solution to this “problem” of block-universe determinism, in order to return our precious presumed premise of liberty being the goal of revelation.

And look how naturally it comes to our constitutional instinctive premises that we need to end up in a state of increased personal liberty — that’s a taken for granted goal.

Now look at that, stop and consider that, & leverage that – but look how these words are loaded with value premises.

… it that’s … branching possibilism-thinking , naive possibilism-thinking,

and the main idea of this posting and have … yesterday’s strategic insight

[voice dictation deleted my summarizations]

This instinctive assumption that of course the goal of revelation, metaphysical enlightenment, must be an increase of my power, and an increase of my power to steer among the open branching possibilities —

The fact that the most offensive idea in the world would be to assert that transcendent knowledge reveals the lack of freedom provides an important and valuable clue to the nature of naive possibilism-thinking & the substitution project, and avoidance project, of delusion-based enlightenment.

Delusion-based enlightenment takes it for granted the whole goal of the game — as Erik Davis incorrectly describes a Egodeath Theory — he assumes that the whole goal of the game must be to return to freedom, and the increase of our personal freedom of branching steering.

It occurred to me yesterday talking through the show …

[summary was auto deleted here]

The main idea is some thing about leveraging the fact that it is maximum maximally offensive to our instinctive premises to suggest that revelation of Transcendent Knowledge is not about an increase of your personal agency power of steering among open future branching possibilities but rather the opposite, that the revelation — the unthinkable and completely shocking to death.

____

I’m noticing a pattern across authors that the malformed assumptions about gnosis provided by Wouter Hanegraaff and provided by Erik Davis and other authors — Brown in 2019 article says that the Plaincourault fresco with Eve, he says that the whole idea there is that Eve represents the wise wisdom assertion of free will.

Notice how it would be unthinkable unthinkable for Brown to say that wisdom is the revelation of no free will.

Notice how instinctively naturally how naturally it comes to him to just take it for granted that of course gnosis must be associated with the assertion of free will.

I can leverage that instinctive avoidance of the truth to accomplish a maximum condensed summary and I can follow that as a negative guiding star.

Look for the ideas-expression that’s maximally offensive to egoic instinctive premises of fetishizing “I demand that ego transcendence must, of course, be about increasing my freedom power of branching-steering in an open future world” — when gnosis is a revelation of two-level control where local personal control agency does not control its source of control-thoughts, but rather the opposite revelation that kills ego and cancels it altogether, as I realized January 1988.

Block-universe determinism 100% instantly totally annihilates the basis, premises foundation of the egoic thinking worldmodel constitution.

Block-universe determinism kicks the entire foundation right out from egoic illusion based thinking, mental worldmodel undermined at its foundation.

No wonder egoic thinking recoils in terror and invents instead a thousand Atman project fabrications, inventing phony substitution avoidance projects versions of fake religion and fake esotericism fantasized enlightenment projects instead of the one that actually threatens the very foundation of delusion.

With regard once more to mushroom-tree representations, we cannot be sure that the artists wished to represent psychoactive mushrooms; indeed, it is unlikely that this was the case.

Samorini the leading entheogen scholar & asserter, 1998

Samorini https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-7 page 100: 1998 article.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/scholarly-fail-quotes-hall-of-shame/ –

Hall of Shame page quote incoming: entheogen scholarship consistently pretends to moderately assert, while in practice, they DELETE DELETE DELETE mushrooms from art.

Entheogen scholarship is hopelessly compromised.

To show how reasonable, trustworthy, and compromised they are, Brown & Brown make a show of throwing the Saint Walburga tapestry into the river, on the basis of the Mushroom Exception to art interpretation: in the case of mushrooms only, an item in art can only represent one thing.

The tapestry represents a vial, “therefore”, it cannot represent amanita (though we’re going to inconsistently nevertheless prominently display the tapestry in our 2016 book gallery & 2019 article collection of amanita images in Christian art).

Carl Ruck asserts that there were one or two people in the Church who used mushrooms (by which he exclusively means secret Amanita alchemy).

Brown multiple times writes that mushrooms were secret back then in the church (despite claiming his subtitle means it’s just a secret to us now).

I agree with Muraresku against Brown’s article book review of Muraresku: the only means of enlightenment, Transcendent Knowledge, is psilocybin (and exact equivalent plants).

I am as far ahead of the Ardent Advocates as they are ahead of Brown and all the other cheerleaders for “non-drug traditional methods of the mystics” and the phony entheogen scholars whose brand posture is to remove mushrooms from the Peak Mushroom middle ages while pretending to assert their presence.

never trust an entheogen scholar

{feather} decoded 5 a.m. September 15, 2022 by Cybermonk. eg in Browns’ Church of Saint Martin mural.

question answered 5:00 am Sep 15 2022 Cybermonk

question raised when examining Brown Church of Saint Martin image eg when Brown emailed bold ital cut treetops branches quote from 2019 article with Browns’ emphasis added ~March 2022.

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/horse-with-rider-approaching-branching-message-tree/

– removed branching, underneath higher controller, cloak of appearances mental model underneath rider carried on path founded/based on right leg non-branching model not left leg branching model. rider image provided by Cyberdisciple.

like I asserted around 2002 for why snake: not venom, not shedding skin but BECAUSE MORPHOLOGY

People Don’t Want Transcendent Knowledge as Revelation of Eternalism Which Neutralizes Egoic Power

Shocking Breakthrough Realization Why People Don’t Have or Want Transcendent Knowledge as Revelation of Eternalism Which Absolutely Disempowers and Neutralizes Egoic Control Power

From yesterday, Sunday, Sep. 11, 2022, my Comment on page https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/producing-last-third-of-egodeath-mystery-show-ep219-rebirth-into-the-sphere-of-shattered-stars-and-reading-pattison-theurgy-thesis/ –

It’s funny how John Lash blanket-accuses the entire Newage of being a giant ego inflation project.

Ken Wilber seems to accuse the entire Boomer generation of that too, and my kind of breakthrough today is realizing that most all intellectual striving is the egoic substitute Atman project as described by Ken Wilber.

This explains the motivation for so many efforts against eternalism.

This is why we don’t have simple Transcendent Knowledge – because people don’t want eternalism.

When Jesus told the truth to his followers, of the narrow non-branching way, they no longer followed him.

Freewill power is the Atman project.

I want enlightenment and freewill egoic empowerment.

King Ego

Shocking Breakthrough Realization Why People Don’t Have or Want Transcendent Knowledge as Eternalism Revelation

It is helpful that people emphasize that it’s shocking, if my latest speculations are sound.  

I didn’t want to speak too lightly when describing my latest idea as a “breakthrough” – from tail end of Parts A-N of Episode 219 and especially from yesterday’s Episode 220 such as near 20:00, but this idea, of why people construct other versions of religion, really could be kind of a game-changer that answers my long-standing question of:

“Why did it wait until 1988 / 2006 to plainly explain Transcendent Knowledge?”  

Answer: Because people don’t like Transcendent Knowledge, given that it does what it claims: Transcendent Knowledge totally disempowers & cancels egoic thinking, as I claimed in January 1988 about block-universe determinism in the loose cognitive state from entheogens.  

Ken Wilber’s idea of the Atman project, as I was reading around 1986, seems more relevant than ever: pursuing enlightenment by means that prevent it; a million substitute “projects” holding Transcendent Knowledge at bay.

All the various quirks and errors of Wouter Hanegraaff’s book Hermetic Spirituality come together and fit in a single pattern: he makes the set of mistakes he does, because he is trying to avoid eternalism and replace that disliked revelation by a false, inverted story of “rescue from eternalism into possibilism”; from the revelation of disempowered ego, to a pseudo-revelation, a substitute to block Transcendent Knowledge, as if a revelation of empowered ego.

Imagine ego death and rebirth being from eternalism-thinking to possibilism-thinking – which would amount to changing from naive possibilism-thinking to naive possibilism-thinking.

Egoic freewill power SAVED! Saving egoic “freedom” only required removing all the stars from the sky to move them to below/before the rebirth gate at level 7 Saturn, and moving cosmic slot 8 up to fasten it to the actually hypercosmic sphere/slot 9.

That was a close call! Our freewill-premised egoic freedom power of autonomous control almost got undermined by Transcendent Knowledge of “transformative rebirth from possibilism into eternalism”.

I usually avoid the word ‘ego’ and disparaging “ego”, but, it’s useful and maybe I should “demonize” ‘ego’ this way; ego = egoic thinking = naive possibilism-thinking.

The unregenerate mental worldmodel is, specifically & technically, literalist ordinary-state possibilism, falsely & unstably premised on autonomous control.

As opposed to analogical psychedelic eternalism recognized as dependent control.

Thank you, Egodeath community, for suggesting, like Max Freakout & Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV p. 118 & 122, emphasizing the two-level model: the mind switches from possibilism to eternalism, as an experiential mode and mental worldmodel in the loose cognitive association state that comes only from psilocybin and exactly equivalent plants.

That seems to work well as per my latest, Episode 220, explaining the reason why people run to a 3-level system: same reason that Quantum Newage is popular: 

to construct an ego-empowering (ie naive possibilism-thinking premised) substitute, neutralized version of Transcendent Knowledge that just serves to avoid and substitute for actual Transcendent Knowledge, which is “bad” because that’s what actually undermines & cancels ego.  

Ego also favors approaches that do not threaten its reign: favor cave meditation imagination exercises because they don’t work and do not threaten naive possibilism-thinking.

I worry about making cheap claims about making “breakthroughs” all the time, but given my context/situation, it makes sense to kind of “expect” frequent major breakthroughs.  

The world is that far from our culture’s possessing Transcendent Knowledge.  That’s how big the gap is, between Transcendent Knowledge vs. current culture’s way of thinking: 10 major breakthroughs away, they’ve left it for me to close that gap.

If I had received Muraresku’s September 2020 invitation to review his galleys, at the time, I fear I wouldn’t have discovered in Nov 2020 Eadwine’s image of nonbranching initiation. 

I still haven’t read his book The Immortality Key, though people are asking me to review it.

The image from Brinckmann’s book is important because the tree that the guy is in, is purely composed of branches and he clearly holds a branch, as such – no leaves or caps. 

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Art – 1906, Brinckmann.

The tree on the right is stylized as {branches}, only.

“… the Church of Saint Martin (Figure 8). According to Kupfer (1993):

as Christ rides the ass followed by his disciples “several youths excitedly clamor up trees to break off branches, while others unfurl their mantels at his feet. 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” [emphasis added] (p. 122).

Emphasis added by Brown in 2019 article but not as much in 2016 book.

Prof. Brown happened to copy from the article into email to us, with little context, thus extra-highlighting “cut … branches” to make me see and realize and perceive what I missed in the softer presentation in the 2016 book, and failed to perceive despite the book shipping a full 3 years after my “{tree vs snake} = possibilism vs eternalism”, top-2 breakthrough in November 2013.

Brown & Cyberdisciple provided materials for my Brinckmann page/posting including a guy holding a branch, as if the art historian writing:

“A youth excitedly clamors up a tree to break off a branch, while others unfurl their mantels at Jesus’ feet.”

Levels of Donkey Consciousness, 2-level control system

See the levels: Jesus the higher-awareness perception of the higher control level, carried by the donkey without steering. The donkey follows the narrow non-branching path [… alongside the vinyard, with no room to turn to the left or to the right, when the donkey sat down and halted at the angel blocking the path… the donkey could see the angel of death, but Balaam couldn’t], right hoof down, left hoof lifted without weight on it.

Need images of rider horse donkey path to tree snake trunk debranched.

Need images of visual mythemes: rider horse donkey on path to see tree snake cut trunk debranched.

{snake w/ branching legs} = salamander or lizard.

There are funerary bas reliefs.

Is the “Achaean Rider/horseman” a standard image?

Rider on horse or donkey on a path walking on cloaks, with right foot & hoof down & shown, represents perceiving the 2-level model of control in the psilocybin-induced loose cognitive association state: local personal control agency vs. higher transpersonal controller.

Why always travelling left to right? To show right hoof/foot (down), representing the eternalism basis/foundation of control, not possibilism as the basis as experienced in the ordinary, tight-binding state of consciousness.

Underneath the donkey layer in fact is positioned the mental worldmodel, the false naive possibilism-thinking worldmodel, the mind’s cloak cloaking the veiled reality of non-branching eternalism.

Ariadne is shown holding the egoic possibilism possibilism-thinking mental worldmodel garment on left arm, and holding a branch in left hand.

Wouter Hanegraaff wants to take off Dionysus’ sacred divine garment and put on Ariadne’s cloak instead and call that “rebirth into the Ogdoad above the heimarmene”.

That image is used on the cover according to the copy of the book that Cyberdisciple found at Archive.org.  Probably not on the cover of the 1906 printing.  Plate 7 at end of short 80 page book, recommended emphatically by Panofsky to Wasson in May 1952.  

No whisper of the book from Wasson, who would rather harangue and belittle mycologists (John Ramsbottom) for not asking art historians their “conclusions” from their “great familiarity” with such msh tree images in Christian art. 

Brown blew up this cover-up operation, without even realizing that particular expose by publishing the pair of letters in their 2019 article.  

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

Browns’ 2019 article also adds more highlighting at Saint Martin Church’s frescoes where art historian wrote “youths … cut branches from trees”  (bold italic in article, merely italic in Browns’ 2016 book).

My Reply to Brown Sep 13 2022

I confirmed that I read your review of Muraresku’s book, based on your coverage of academic suppression of Ruck.  

No wonder academics are such total chickens and they put the task onto me to speak truth.  

They don’t allow themselves to speak truth, and I am scathingly condemning them for that – they are failures!  

They hobble and mentally handicap themselves by their superstitious backwards anti-intellectual taboos. 

https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/5/1/article-p5.xml

I have 3 huge objections to just this one paragraph from Muraresku that instantly leap to mind:

Per Brown’s review article:

Muraresku purports to explain: “How psychedelics were the shortcut to enlightenment that founded Western civilization: first in the Eleusinian Mysteries, then in the Dionysian Mysteries. How paleo-Christianity inherited this tradition from the Ancient Greeks, later passing it to the witches of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. And how the Vatican would repeatedly suppress the original, psychedelic Eucharist to rob Christians of the beatific vision–first in Europe, and then around the world after the Catholic colonization of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A truly global conspiracy.”

Objection 1:

Against a crude “propagation” model; for a “cognitive nature of how the mind works” explanation instead: Transcendent Knowledge is discovered and rooted anew, born anew, in every generation because that’s how the mind works.  

Then after that new fresh discovery, the person checks against tradition and other contemporaries:

“Did you experience the same revelation (ie of nonbranching, eternalism-thinking instead of branching, possibilism-thinking)?”

Objection 2:

This unthinking meme is infuriating, it needs to die: “psychedelics were the shortcut to enlightenment” – no!  Entheogens are the *only* way to enlightenment.  

The alleged “other, traditional methods” are nothing but a lie; a substitution & avoidance project.  They DO NOT work at all.  

The entire reason the fake non-drug methods are popular is precisely BECAUSE they don’t work, because they support egoic delusion and avoid threatening it.  

The “other, non-drug methods” serve the purpose of avoiding Transcendent Knowledge, which kills egoic thinking and the egoic self-identity as autonomous control-agent.

Objection 3:

Per one point in your 2019 article Conclusions section, we need a non-crude model of “secret” use of psilocybin mushrooms within the normal mainstream Church.  

But entheogen scholars are guilty of the massive error: entheogen scholars would rather tell their immature sob-story & fake/forced framing about the “big bad church” that was so evil, they entirely eliminated all entheogens (and here are thousands of images of mushrooms inside the mainstream church, to prove it).  

Entheogen scholars don’t care that they are directly self-contradictory; the only thing they care about is telling their false, immature sob-story narrative framing of “look how awful the church is”. 

Entheogen scholars are willing to delete all mushroom imagery from Christian art, in order to prop up their false anti-Church narrative.

Ruck limits entheogens in the church to 1-2 people, elite ecclesiastics only, at any point in time.  The “moderate” entheogen theory of Christianity is actually extremely minimal & stingy, robbing Christianity of 99% of its entheogens.

Contents:

• Developed Voice Skills for Egodeath Mystery Show
• Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/idea-development-page-15/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-episode-219 – after I finish producing last week’s recordings, I plan to group the mp3s together as fresh uploads, as several sets of mp3s instead of one download per mp3 file.

Developed Voice Skills

In theory, no one needs to listen to my voice recordings (except me for my benefit) because any important points are sure to come out in my text postings.

A lot has to do with time of day and speaking volume. 

But even in the worst-case scenario now – speaking quietly at end of day – my voice is indeed in better shape in many ways, and my skills better than the recording series that started Jan 20 2021 and became the Egodeath Mystery Show. 

For example, I know not to be too close to a cardioid-pattern mic when quiet, to avoid murky mud.  

Feb. 2021, my voice had unknowingly (low self-awareness) become degraded for multiple reasons, including overconfidence and therefore lack of effortful practice, and also due to limited experience with various mics and speakers. 

Doing the show has certainly given me a stronger voice, broadly/ in many ways.  I didn’t know how much I needed to learn and work on.

My 1988 party speech intro might sound like good vocalizing, but it’s is a bit unfair comparison because that 1988 speech was speaking loudly (and standing) which gives different results than under the constraint of speaking quietly at night. 

I now know that speaking quietly at night at end of day is bound to give worst results, so I can “play” that knowledge and deliver better results.  I know how to pull it off now, but that’s a worst-case situation, an uphill battle – it’s better to do production work of previous recordings instead, late at night.

My 1988 party announcement speech has major problems – I wasn’t prepared nearly enough, and the audience/friends’ questions were way too personal; out of control presentation.

Speaking quietly in the morning is different still; that’s a strong/power scenario (strength) for me.

By April 2021 when I paused the initial batch of show episodes, I had fixed most of the problems (technology, voice, and content) but still needed practice and refinement, and needed keeping up making an effort. 

I “died” when I heard how extremely bad my voice was around Feb. 2021, I thought my equipment was broken!  Including unsteady shakiness of voice. 

I couldn’t believe how extremely awful some results were with certain gear, time of day, and speaking volume.

Daily practice has helped in too many ways to list.  One goal is consistency; never having awful voicing for a given 1.5-hour episode, like happened often in March 2021 when I was hit or miss – hadn’t really mastered it to the needed threshold of reliable adeptness.

• Daily practice and intensive troubleshooting and developement of the show, first set of episodes, was February-March 2021.
• Skipped April 2021-February 2022.
• Daily practice for set 2 of the show: From March 7, 2022 to present (September 11, 2022).

Now I have to finish producing last week’s intensive scholarship reading of Hanegraaff’s book (keywords search).  I spent entire Monday holiday producing about 2/3 of recordings range Ep219 = VOX_TK_3949.wav-VOX_TK_4033.wav. 

I’m wanting to separate the creation of the raw tracking recordings, from packaging them as episodes, on a sort of rolling basis with each episode 1.5 hours worth of content, not as parts a-k.  Lots of decisions to make, and experimentation as always.

I definitely have crossed a critical, required threshold, where vocal skill is no longer a major concern, and am enjoying my skills that feel easy/natural now – but I won’t ever rest on my laurels and stop trying, due to overconfidence, again.  

Much of my voice recordings content will be tedious scholarship, and repetitive. 

People are asking me to do introductory-level summary shows; true, but also, these are idea development leading-edge shows  – that can include experimenting with summarizing the basics, as I’ve done a lot of, even as the essence of my thought-style. 

Idea development is developing simpler clearer more efficient summarizing.

Egodeath Mystery Show –  re: the show format or rather content, the problem of having content for the show, I really struck gold with the formula of reading aloud both others’ writings and my own postings and writings – as I initially surmised, there’s an endless source of content for the show, a cornucopia/ plethora, including voice dictation then reading aloud, a loop that’s proven to work.  

Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/ideas-of-spiritual-ascent-and-theurgy-kirsty-pattison-2020/

Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)

I might read aloud from a woman’s thesis Oct 2020 about Theurgy.

Pattison says Christianity – pseudo-Dionysius – in fact uses the word ‘theurgy’ in the original Greek, and that fact was, even into 1987, covered-up by mistranslating from Greek ‘theurgy’ into Latin as some misleading Christian posturing substitute label for the mystical ascent practice as in the Poimandres text; she covers several “brands” of same thing, theurgic ascent to nondual unity with God and then return to baseline ordinary state.  

What a bunch of phony cover-up operations!  A bunch of deceptive posturing and distancing to “protect the brand”, as if Christian “mysticism” is hermetically isolated from “demonic pagan practices”. 

Demons all around… have to wonder if the demons are actually on the Christian side, since early Christians are constantly accusing pagans of demons.  

Wouter Hanegraaff reveals this too, that Catholic brand religion artificially pretends that “mysticism” is their unique brand name that is totally unique and isolated from “pagan” altered state practices, when it’s really the same thing.

The new 2016 Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (an organized set of articles by Western Esotericism scholars) innovatively tells Catholic to take a hike and they tell the truth, that “Mysticism” is nothing but the Catholic-styled brand for standard esoteric (psilocybin-produced) altered-state mystic experiencing.

https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Handbook-Western-Mysticism-Esotericism/dp/0521734916 – see Table of Contents:

What you do is demon worship and forcing God (“pagan magic”); what we do is pious and humble. 

Liars; how can we get to heaven by lying, like that? 

But academic scholarship is building a non-apologetics-based foundation now at last.  

Apologetics = lying & phony posturing for God, and defamatory accusations against the competing brands.  Kind of a self-contradiction, & puerile.

The Politics of brands of experiential Transcendent Knowledge!  More about posturing & dissimulation than pursuit of truth.

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