Michael Hoffman 7:53 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Citation and Link: Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Davis, 2005)
• Page 118: Astral Ascent Mysticism
  • Page 118 Transcribed
• Page 122: The Egodeath Theory
  • Page 122 Transcribed
  • Michael Hoffman, Contemporary Mystic
• Search this Website for Davis’ Book
• From Page: idea development 28
• Audiobook: Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)
• From Page: thrice ninth
• Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) Audiobook Format (Erik Davis, 2005) Forthcoming April 29, 2025
• From Page:
• In 2005, Erik Davis and I Were Both Fumbling Between 2-Level vs. 3-Level Model: Enlightenment = Determinism vs. Transcending Determinism
• From Page: Against Freedom, Liberty, & Freewill: Leveraging the Clue of Maximum Offense Against Egoic Premises of Value
• YI hand-shape pair analysis [YHSPA]
• YI hand-shape analysis [YHSA]
• the medieval YI hand-pair language [MYHPL]
• 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
• From Page: People Want a Substitute Instead of Transcendent Knowledge as the Revelation of Eternalism, Which Threatens and Neutralizes Egoic Power
• From Page: Progress on the Hanegraaff Front
• From Page: Late Antiquity Confusingly Transposed Valuation onto the Move from Eternalism to Post-Eternalism
• From Page: Late Antiquity Transition from Worshipping Heimarmene to Worshipping Transcending Heimarmene
  • Erik Davis: Stairway to Heaven, per the Egodeath Theory & 2-Level Geocentric Cosmology
  • David Ulansey – The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World
• From Page: Hanegraaff’s Gnostic Anti-cosmic Negative Repression Attitude against Fate/Heimarmene Going so Far as to Remove the Very Stars from the Heavens
• From Page: Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)
• From page: Hanegraff Book Review Notes, “Fixed Stars Climax of Spiritual Cosmology”
  • Davis Led Zep IV Book Is Eternalism-Only Cosmology
• From my Hanegraaff Book Page
• From page: Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism
• p. 118, Zep 4 (Davis) on Astral Ascent Mysticism
• p. 122, Zep 4 (Davis), About the Egodeath Theory as Pure, Exclusive Eternalism, as if Get Rid of Possibilism
• The Dominant Christian Interpretation Is by Psilocybin-Initiated, Transformed Artists Spotlighted in the Greatest, Most-Mainstream Cathedrals and Illuminated Manuscripts
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Citation and Link: Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33⅓) (Davis, 2005)

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3)
Erik Davis, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826416586/ —

Blurb:

“In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music’s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album.

Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader to decide whether [FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album.”

Excerpt:

“Stripping Led Zeppelin’s famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet.

But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world.

This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum.

Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame.

All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame:

• Led Zeppelin IV,
• [Untitled],
• Runes,
• Zoso,
• Four Symbols.

In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna.

And yet this uncanny fetish was easy to buy.”

Page 118: Astral Ascent Mysticism

Page 118 Transcribed

todo. search this site for key phrases from photo

I probably already transcribed the paragraph(s).

Page 122: The Egodeath Theory

Page 122 Transcribed

todo. search this site for key phrases from photo

Michael Hoffman, Contemporary Mystic

I probably already transcribed the paragraph(s).

Search this Website for Davis’ Book

https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=%22Erik+Davis%22+%22Led+Zeppelin%22
3 pages of results.

Page 2 of results:
https://egodeaththeory.org/page/2/?s=%22Erik+Davis%22+%22Led+Zeppelin%22

Page 3 of results:
https://egodeaththeory.org/page/3/?s=%22Erik+Davis%22+%22Led+Zeppelin%22

From Page: idea development 28

the copypaste below:

Audiobook: Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)

Released today Apr. 29, 2025

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3)
Erik Davis, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586 – print
https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/B0DY2YDF88/ – audiobook

From Page: thrice ninth

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) Audiobook Format (Erik Davis, 2005) Forthcoming April 29, 2025

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/04/idea-development-page-27/#led-zeppelins-led-zeppelin-iv-33-13-audiobook-format-erik-davis-2005-forthcoming-april-29-2025

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586
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“Thank you for choosing this title.
Your pre-order title will be available upon release.
Thank you for choosing Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV: 33 1/3.
Your audio book will be available for download on April 29, 2025.“

From Page:

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/02/25/idea-development-page-25/

good page eg excerpt, see more:

As Erik Davis says [Led Zeppelin IV, 2005, p. 118], there are variants of astral ascent mysticism.

The best variant of astral ascent mysticism is that which starts by assigning fixed stars = heimarmene.

If Late Antiquity switches that mapping all up (as in Hermeticism per the book Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, by Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022), I resent and reject that perversion and destruction of astral ascent mysticism.

A parasitic, destructive revision of astral ascent mysticism in 150 AD to change it to “fate fate fate fate fate fate fate fate then transcend fate”, divorces astral ascent mysticism from its proper helpful useful role as analogy helping to clarify and explain how the mind transforms from Psilocybin.

History of the earth-centered cosmos model: 310 BC Greek guy, then another guy, then latecomer Ptolemy who is given too much credit for inventing scientific (not mystical) astral ascent mysticism model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model –  Aristarchus (c. 310 – c. 230 BC) developed a heliocentric model placing all of the then-known planets in their correct order around the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus discovered precession 162 – 127 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

1.  310–230 BC Aristarchus – spheres cosmos model – no precession of equinoxes.
2. 162-127 BC Hipparchus – adds precession.
3. 150 AD Ptolemy — adds precision.

Early systems enable astral ascent mysticism – they had the simple concept “beyond the stars”, 

In 2005, Erik Davis and I Were Both Fumbling Between 2-Level vs. 3-Level Model: Enlightenment = Determinism vs. Transcending Determinism

Error in Davis p. 118: “Beyond these seven heavens lay the empyrean [sic], the eighth “rung” of the fixed stars.”

NO! If any system says empyrean = eighth (fixed stars), it’s a bad system & a failed use of analogy.

‘Empyrean’ needs to be reserved for the 9th level, higher than 8th/ fixed stars.

Empyrean is per Ulansey hypercosmic which should mean beyond fixed stars boundary of fate-ruled cosmos. ‘pyre’ means hypercosmic fires above fixed stars zodiac constellations.

“This model was interpreted in different ways [yeah some shtty failed bad harmful ways], but for many gnostics, the planetary [1-7] rulers were essentially demonic: they imprisoned the soul through the machinery of fate, an oppressive system of astral control …”

That is bad to equate level 1-7 = fate.

Yes, fate underlies all Psilocybin-driven developmental levels, but we need to be discussing mental models and their transformation, from possibilism-thinking to finally, after great effort, retaining grasp of eternalism-thinking, then transcending the revealed fact of eternalism.

Not simply saying “every level less than 9 = 100% fate” – that is not helpful & is a WASTE, a failure to helpfully explain mental model transformation starting from, in fact, possibilism-thinking – never mind that naive possibilism-thinking has hidden, not-yet-revealed fate underlying it under the hood.

What are we trying to accomplish via analogy?

Just complaining about fate?

Or helping map the move from thinking in terms of childish possibilism-thinking, to reveal fate, and then t’d fate in some way?

I’m sure I posted about this book before; search site for: davis “led zeppelin”
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=davis+%22led+zeppelin%22

From Page: Against Freedom, Liberty, & Freewill: Leveraging the Clue of Maximum Offense Against Egoic Premises of Value

Against Freedom, Liberty, & Freewill: Leveraging the Clue of Maximum Offense Against Egoic Premises of Value
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/09/18/against-freedom-liberty-freewill-leveraging-the-clue-of-maximum-offense-against-egoic-premises-of-value/

8:35 Feb. 17, 2026 – YI hand-shape analysis:

YI hand-shape pair analysis [YHSPA]

YI hand-shape analysis [YHSA]

• king L hand: IY
• king R hand: IY’
• king hands pair: [IY’, IY]

• L woman: L hand: IY
• L woman: R hand: Y’
• L woman hands pair: [Y’, IY]

• R woman: L hand: Y’I’
• R woman: R hand: Y’I
• R woman hands pair: [Y’I’, Y’I]

This is significant: Seeing again this pic today, but THIS TIME, THE HANDS LEAPED OUT COHERENTLY, UNLIKE BEFORE. Feb. 17, 2026

To me, this proves how TOTALLY STANDARD AND UNIVERSAL the hand-shape language was.

the medieval YI hand-pair language [MYHPL]

Con of making headings for keyboard shortcut/ acronym/ concept-label/ concept/ lexicon term: lowercase vs uppercase.

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

From Page: People Want a Substitute Instead of Transcendent Knowledge as the Revelation of Eternalism, Which Threatens and Neutralizes Egoic Power

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/09/13/people-want-a-substitute-instead-of-transcendent-knowledge-as-the-revelation-of-eternalism-which-threatens-and-neutralizes-egoic-power/

Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV p. 118 & 122 emphasizes 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.

Added Feb. 17, 2026:

Caution in wording:

The mind changes from possibilism to eternalism – as a state.

BUT by the end of the initiation series, the mental model changes from possibilism to modified possibilism + eternalism.

The mind does not change “from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking” permanently.

From Page: Progress on the Hanegraaff Front

Progress on the Hanegraaff Front
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/09/04/progress-on-the-hanegraaff-front/

As any Erik Davis type of explorer in the late 20th century knows, the true actual mental developmental trajectory is from Free Will possibilism to frozen-in-rock eternalism, as he accurately and clearly writes in page 118 and 122 in the book Led Zeppelin IV, 2005.

From Page: Late Antiquity Confusingly Transposed Valuation onto the Move from Eternalism to Post-Eternalism

Late Antiquity Confusingly Transposed Valuation onto the Move from Eternalism to Post-Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/08/28/late-antiquity-confusingly-transposed-valuation-onto-the-move-from-eternalism-to-post-eternalism/

Revealed in the altered state is that we are imprisoned in no-free-will prison iron block rock king turned to stone helplessly per Erik Davis page 118 122 in book Led Zeppelin IV book re Stairway song.

From Page: Late Antiquity Transition from Worshipping Heimarmene to Worshipping Transcending Heimarmene

Late Antiquity Transition from Worshipping Heimarmene to Worshipping Transcending Heimarmene
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/08/18/late-antiquity-transition-from-worshipping-heimarmene-to-worshipping-transcending-heimarmene/

Erik Davis: Stairway to Heaven, per the Egodeath Theory & 2-Level Geocentric Cosmology

Book:
Led Zeppelin IV
Erik Davis
2005
http://amzn.com/dp/0826416586/ –

https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?preview=inline&linkCode=kpd&ref_=k4w_oembed_3cT71OZgeHbgym&asin=0826416586&tag=kpembed-20

Astral ascent 2-level possibilism to eternalism per the Egodeath theory – pp. 118-119 & 122 are regarding the song Stairway to Heaven.

David Ulansey – The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World

This is a science book more than a spirituality book – provides a trustworthy foundation unlike the “scientific historian” Wouter Hanegraaff who struggles to prevent the fixed stars from being in the Ogdoad (8th sphere).

As Luther H. Martin’s 2018 book (Studies in Hellenistic Religions) writes, scholars have disrespected Hellenistic-era religion and have been blind to astral ascent mysticism; spiritual ascent cosmology.

https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Mithraic-Mysteries-Cosmology-Salvation/dp/0195067886 –

https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?preview=inline&linkCode=kpd&ref_=k4w_oembed_eUmJoOczyVCgXF&asin=0195067886&tag=kpembed-20

From Page: Hanegraaff’s Gnostic Anti-cosmic Negative Repression Attitude against Fate/Heimarmene Going so Far as to Remove the Very Stars from the Heavens

Hanegraaff’s Gnostic Anti-cosmic Negative Repression Attitude against Fate/Heimarmene Going so Far as to Remove the Very Stars from the Heavens
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/08/15/hanegraaffs-gnostic-anti-cosmic-negative-repression-attitude-against-fate-heimarmene-going-so-far-as-to-remove-the-very-stars-from-the-heavens/

Egodeath Mystery Show Ep211 start, I give a really great analysis of how we need to embrace, include, and THEN transcend no free will, fatedness, heimarmene, that which Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV reports on page 118-119 & 122.

Enlightenment is of no free will personal noncontrol or helpless dependence on the uncontrollable source of our control thinking.

From Page: Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)

Ideas of Spiritual Ascent and Theurgy (Kirsty Pattison 2020)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/08/07/ideas-of-spiritual-ascent-and-theurgy-kirsty-pattison-2020/

That particular passage, in isolation, partly appears to support Erik Davis’ Led Zeppelin IV book page 118 about spiritual ascent cosmology levels.

Davis’ 2005 book lowers the Empyrean down from level 10 to level 8 (fixed stars/ eternalism) and halts, with (like my 1997 Core theory) no level transcending no-free-will. His concept of the Emperian is a block universe no-free-will model, not transcending that to reach (we can say) qualified possibilism-thinking; “transcending eternalism”. The spirit transcends Heimarmene, where the soul remains.

From page: Hanegraff Book Review Notes, “Fixed Stars Climax of Spiritual Cosmology”

Davis Led Zep IV Book Is Eternalism-Only Cosmology

Erik Davis cites my “no-free-will transformation then full transcendence” theory and misstates: “level the 8 fixed stars is called the Empyrium , where the Elect reside”- writers crash and burn at the transcendent levels, need to go back to school.

no-free-will is not highest cosmological spiritual level.

From my Hanegraaff Book Page

At the climax of Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV, he discusses astral ascent mysticism (p. 118), relevant to Hanegraaff’s chapter The Source, complementing Hanegraaff’s coverage, though you really have to read Ulansey’s hypercosmic cosmology too. 

On page 122, Davis discusses the Stairway to Heaven (cosmology levels 1-8), heroic doses’ experience of absolute determinism, illusion of autonomous personal control agency, the divine will controlling the block universe, the peak intense altered-state experiencing of block-universe Eternalism, and pre-existing control thoughts.

Hanegraaff twice (pp. 4, 139) recommends Erik Davis’ concept of “high weirdness”; see Davis’ book High Weirdness[https://www.amazon.com/High-Weirdness-Esoterica-Visionary-Experience/dp/1907222871]. 

Hanegraaff agrees with Davis’ call for something between crude materialist or social scientism reductionism, and vague abstact idealist mystical haze.

The section (p. 140) with the nested egg diagram of levels of spiritual importance of the various Hermetic texts is titled “Weirdness at the Center”, referencing Davis’ idea.  When discussing the climactic song Stairway to Heaven, Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV [https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586] (pp. 118-199 & 122) presents the geocentric mystic cosmology together with the heimarmene-focused Egodeath theory.

Except for the phrase “transcendental freedom” tacked-on from out of the blue, Davis’ model lacks levels that represent transcending block-universe Eternalism (heimarmene, no-free-will; fatedness).

From the perspective of a heimarmene-centered 3-level model of mental development pictured as cosmology:

o  Erik Davis’ model covers levels 1 & 2 (culminating in the heimarmene revelation, which is the central level 8 in the standard model).

o  Hanegraaff’s model covers levels 1 & 3 (skipping level 2, the heimarmene-reconciling level).  Hanegraaff removes the distinct heimarmene level of the fixed stars (level 8 in the standard cosmology) and leaps up to present only the transcendent levels above heimarmene. 

o  David Ulansey’s model covers all three levels: 1, 2, and 3 (numbered as 0, 8, and 9 in the standard model).

copypaste:

At the climax of Erik Davis’ book Led Zeppelin IV, he discusses astral ascent mysticism (page 118) and then page 122, Davis discusses the Stairway to Heaven, heroic doses’ experience of absolute determinism, illusion of autonomous personal control agency, the divine will controlling the block universe, spends a page discussing the peak intense altered-state experiencing of block-universe Eternalism, pre-existing control thoughts,

This book approves and cites Erik Davis. Davis’ Led Zeppelin IV book’s climax, about Stairway to Heaven, discusses the Egodeath theory: eternalism no-free-will peak experience like Heimarmene gate.

Hanegraaff expresses uncertainty of Saturn gate vs fixed stars as the gate – mental model transformation gate re no-free-will & learning how to be Reverent fear respect for the Source of All Control Thoughts.

Davis’ Led Zeppelin IV book mis-calls the sphere of the fixed stars the Empyrean. But the sphere of the fixed stars is the realm of fate/Heimarmene (the non-control gate where Saturnus or Time sacrifices the youthful thinking). The level above no-free-will and eternalism and Heimarmene is where God and the elect reside, the empyrean.

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From page: Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism

The woman is supposedly Nike w/ wings, but my interpretation of her as Ariadne is better and paid off.

Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/14/dionysus-ariadne-victory-parade-mosaic-the-marriage-wedding-of-possibilism-eternalism/

p. 118, Zep 4 (Davis) on Astral Ascent Mysticism

Davis’ treatment, Not Reaching Resolution; Failing to Reach Late Antiquity’s “Transcend Heimarmene” Level of Comprehension.

When Davis read Egodeath.com in 2004, I had only started to theorize in terms of 2- vs 3-level model.

It took me until Apr.-Aug. 2025, to really grasp the mind’s actual, final, mature relation between harmonizing in some way, possibilism alongside eternalism as two complementary opposites.

Intense mystic altered state visionary inspiration around that time: voice recording:

I tried to advice ppl how to think, but my speech is polluted:

How can I tell you “you should think about it this way”, when how you think about it is frozen in rock for eternity?

That’s when I realized, WE ALWAYS DO AND ALWAYS WILL employ possibilism-thinking.

It’s nonsense and unreal to think that possibilism-thinking goes away when add eternalism-thinking.

(Which similar Acid Metal album Diary of a Madman lyrics about changing thinking?)

p. 122, Zep 4 (Davis), About the Egodeath Theory as Pure, Exclusive Eternalism, as if Get Rid of Possibilism

The Dominant Christian Interpretation Is by Psilocybin-Initiated, Transformed Artists Spotlighted in the Greatest, Most-Mainstream Cathedrals and Illuminated Manuscripts

Davis does NOT reflect my latest nascent idea of 2004, from Coraxo 2000 Gnosticism Yahoo Group:

In some sense, transcend block-universe determinism (eternalism; heimarmene, fatedness).

The mind learns eternalism-thinking and then in a sense transcends eternalism-thinking, in that the mind retains possibilism-thinking (modified) alongside eternalism-thinking.

Happily for my struggle to articulate this around April 2025, the medieval artists are working hard to communicate the same, specific, sophisticated, mature point:

The mind’s mature end-state after psilocybin transformation (eternalism-driven control-transformation), can be described in multiple ways:

• I-shaped.
  End up with eternalism-thinking “instead of” possibilism-thinking.
  If define eternalism to include modded possibilism.
• I-shaped & Y-shaped.
  End up with both possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking.
  A simplified explanation that we end up with (for the most part) the original world model, with the eternalism model added to it.
• I-shaped & Y’-shaped.
  End up with modified possibilism-thinking, + eternalism-thinking.
  That’s accurate: the new I model + the modded Y model.

Depending how you think about it and define terms:

Shall we say I-thinking (non-branching thinking), INCLUDES branching thinking​?!

Motivation for this Page

I was updating Biblio of article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​

the entry for this book has Amazon url but no local page existed to link to

I am always needing to find this content.

See Also

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/30/techgnosis-myth-magic-and-mysticism-in-the-age-of-information-davis-1998/

Michael Hoffman, 1:35 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026 – draft article for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies​

Contents:

• The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
• Rules of the Hand-Shape Game
• Branching: A Powerful Concept, Analogy, tech term, everyday term, and notation, to represent and relate ordinary-state possibilism & altered-state eternalism
• {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
• Mushroom motifs
• Branching motifs
• Handedness motifs
• Stability motifs
• Gallery
• See Also

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/02/idea-development-page-33/#email-to-cyberdisciple-106-a.m.-feb.-17-2026

An interesting IDEA for the title: add “and mytheme analogy”:

Branching-message mushroom trees: The theory of psychedelic eternalism and mytheme analogy represented in medieval art

Branching-message mushroom trees: The Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism and mytheme analogy represented in medieval art

The phrase “and mytheme analogy” is not needed in the title, because it’s redundant with the words:

• trees
• represented in
• medieval art

No net gain by adding more words.

Rules of the Hand-Shape Game

Branching: A Powerful Concept, Analogy, tech term, everyday term, and notation, to represent and relate ordinary-state possibilism & altered-state eternalism

https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#YI-Shapes-Hands-Trees

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

Mushroom motifs

copy from church article

Branching motifs

copy from church article

Handedness motifs

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Stability motifs

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Gallery

All images are from Great Canterbury Psalter; EASIER, justified. My life is dedic to maximizing my experties on expertise on Great Canterbury Psalter suppl’d w/ other images.

best thing inane Huggins did was not his garbage throwawy arg’n not worth taking seiously – Day 4 = trees WTF this is B S! Day 3 not mushroom because branches which look exact mushroom? INANE ARG! or, an inane SILENCE A SUSPCIOUS BIASED SILENCE. How can Hug say day 3 has branches yet fail to point out OBVIOUS objection that each of 2 branch exact match arg? I DON’T WAST TIME ON BAD FAITH OBVIOUS STUPID ARGS OBV FALLACIOUS.

I WILL INDIRECTLY rebut Huggins by simply writin, ‘each branch mateches mushroom”; “day 4 plants lack branches and are exact mushroom” — no Denier has mentioned this! so, ignore deniers, and imp simply mention this, shutting Deniers down.

Lame Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art

Lame Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art

Waste of time. Teach, instead.

copy from church article

some of my annotated images, like day 1+4; day 3 markup; {hand mushroom-tree} 107 & 109

body of article has crops with markup annot

Gallery at end has full pics: like church article, top half page + bottom half page.

References

Journal of Psychedelic Studies​
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/journal-of-psychedelic-studies/ – todo: assess

Barrett, Frederick; Bradstreet, Matthew; Leoutsakos, Jeannie-Marie; Johnson, Matthew; Griffiths, Roland. (2016). The Challenging Experience Questionnaire: Characterization of challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms. https://www.academia.edu/33760114/The_Challenging_Experience_Questionnaire_Characterization_of_challenging_experiences_with_psilocybin_mushrooms

Bricklin, Jonathan. (2016). The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James’s Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment. SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology. https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Will-Self-Time-Enlightenment/dp/143845628X/

Brinckmann, Albert. (1906). Baumstilisierungen in der mittelalterlichen Malerei (Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings).
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8AgwAAAAYAAJ/ Partial translation to English: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/

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7: Huggins, Ronald (2022). Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art. FRAGMENTS Journal 1.1: 1-25. https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_

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See Also

• Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art

• Supplementary Page for: Branching-message mushroom trees: The theory of psychedelic eternalism represented in medieval art (Hoffman, 2026)
• Cyberdisciple on Designing the Branching-Message Mushroom Trees Article

Michael Hoffman 1:00 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026

Contents:

• Intro
• Breakthroughs
• See Also

Intro

Breakthroughs

None 😞

See Also

an empty sheet of paper

Michael Hoffman 1:44 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026

Contents:

• Overambition
• Slagging on Huggins; worth listing 3 LUDICROUS arg vectors, ONLY
• Cyberdisciple con’t
• IGNORE DENIERS
• IGNORE AFFIRMERS
• Expend All Wordcount on Wonderful ME
• MAIN OVERALL REACTION TO Cyberdisciple: “time-wasting exercise”; ie waste of precious wordcount; spill ink on foolishness, or spend/conserve ink on the top-value explanatory words?
• Conclusion
• Hoffman Communication: Summary-First
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Overambition

The present page is two emails from Cyberdisciple to Cybermonk

Edited by Cybermonk for format & clarity.

Email title: Fw: Cubensis-driven overflow
Dec. 5, 2024
The email title is from my page title:
Cubensis-driven overflow

Cyberdisciple wrote:

“You are in a tough position to fit everything needed into one article (even two articles).

You are doing all of the following:

• Showing more mushroom trees than most readers have considered.
• Arguing that the deliberate portrayal of mushrooms with branches is the way to solve the pilzbaum dilemma.
• Why do the trees look like mushrooms with branches and debranched stubs?
• Pointing out motifs of branching, handedness, and stability in images that aren’t mushroom-trees
• Arguing for cubensis over amanita.
• That Christian mushrooms were not “secret” and “suppressed”
• That the true highest most important meaning of cubensis experiencing is about branching
• How bad the deniers are
• 25 other topics.

It seems to me that what is specifically tricky for you is that your method of solving the pilzbaum dilemma also requires accepting your theory about branching, handedness, stability –

in short, the theory of psychedelic eternalism – and its representation in art.

You could easily write a long article about what the problems are with enth scholarship and the deniers without even advancing
analogy for psychedelic eternalism as a better approach.

But we need to get psychedelic eternalism into the discussion.

It’s not the habit in enth scholarship to talk about psychedelic eternalism in conjunction with entheogens.

Because it’s not the habit, you have a rhetorical problem with just starting to use branching, handness, stability motifs without first justifying why you are using those motifs.

People are going to say, “What’s with this branching stuff? I thought I was reading an article about mushrooms in Christian art.

What’s branching got to do with it?”

They have to be walked through the arguments to get there.

Possible approach (use what you find useful):

Starting point of article is mushrooms in Christian art.

First, lay out the current state of the discussion. [NO, waste of wordcount. use wordcount to preseent and summarize the new paradigm, not waste on old paradigm headed for garbage]

Even doing this is groundbreaking because I don’t think anyone has ever brought together all the scholars.

Huggins sounds like he is closest to having done so, though I haven’t look at the article yet.

/ end passage by Cyberdisciple

Slagging on Huggins; worth listing 3 LUDICROUS arg vectors, ONLY

Michael Hoffman 2:20 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026

Huggins?!

Hugs fixes tiny insignificant errors, and then decrees that for all mushroom-trees, follow Panofsky & just ignore the mushroom imagery, it doesn’t count, bc mushroom-trees have branches, cancelling the possibility of the image meaning “a mushroom”.

So crude, Huggins is beneath me.

I don’t reply to inane args like:

• the mushroom-tree artists are either trying to paint a tree, or a mushroom. [NO; completely disagree by any measure. IF they wanted to draw a straight tree, they would have painted that. mushroom, same. What they drew and wanted to, was a tree w/ mushroom features – WHY? Huggins tries to drive the car into ditch IMMEDIATELY: “did artist try to draw tree, but accidentally mushroom instead?” Absurd, TOTAL WASTE OF TIME IMBECILIC. call it “the false dilemma fallacy”, kick out Huggins, and move on. Ain’t no one got wordcount for that.
• Day 4 = trees.
• Day 3 has branches, so not a mushroom.
• We can articulate using Panofsky, a test, of an individual mushroom-tree to test whether it has any tree elements; if so, no mushroom imagery in Christian art.

The class definition has already taken care of that “test”!

Huggins’ whole charade is ridiculous and pointless.

It’s all acting, for show; playacting “academic arg’n”.

Huggins is taking the category or class “mushroom-trees”, examining an indiv instance to see if the instance has tree features — OF COURSE IT DOES, by definition. DUMBASS.
THAT’S WHY THIS TREE IS INCLUDED IN THE SET FOR CONSIDERATION! TOTAL ILLOGIC – fundamentally incapable of reasoning meaningfully.

Huggins is not worth any wordcount, for these 3 reasons, which I could list in my article.

WHY THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT BOTHER ENGAGING WITH HUGGINS:

• “Day 3 has branches, so, not mushroom.” LUDICROUS ARG! The branches, L one & R one, look exact mushroom. That fact that Huggins doesn’t address that OBVIOUS objection, shows, this article nothing but propaganda, not real arg’n.
• “Day 4 is trees.” LUDICROUS ARG! These exact mushrooms have no branches, making hash out of various statements & args in his article. That fact that Huggins doesn’t address that OBVIOUS objection, shows this article is nothing but propaganda, not real arg’n.
• “Test each mushroom-tree to see if it has any tree elements; if so, cannot mean mushroom.” LUDICROUS ARG! It’s a sweeping blanket PRETENDING to be case-by-case test. This reasoning is so godawful, I REFUSE to waste wordcount on it.

I might list those 3 reasons:

Why the existing literature by Affirmers & Deneirs is not worth engaging. It is too poor, on BOTH SIDEs.

“TRYING TO DEPICT A MUSHROOM” – “IF ARTIST WERE TRYING TO … OMIT Branches”

Huggins’ FALSE DILEMMA: it is a tree or it is a mushroom.

The artist either was trying to depict a tree, or a mushroom.

Totally false. Artist depicted mushroom AND tree for purpose of communicating the theory of psychedelic eternalism.

The artist is NOT depicting trees.
The artist is NOT depicting mushrooms.
The artist IS depicting psychedelic eternalism.

The artist is, in an intermediate way only, depicting tree elements and mushroom elements, in order to depict what the artist actually wants to depict utlimately: and depict using tree & mushroom to depict psychedelic eternalism.

The artist is depicting psychedelic eternalism, not tree, not mushroom.

What is depicted ultimately is not tree, not mushroom, but psychedelic eternalism.

-mh]

Cyberdisciple con’t

Then, Review deniers to show that their arguments fail on their own terms, stuffed with bad argumentation, flimsy, their wild assumptions about the topic. Purely negative tear down.

The audience will enjoy how you eviscerate the deniers and will be prepared to receive positive version of argument

Next, show how the affirmers go wrong. [ahshit, i already have a page LAUNDRY LIST OF LIMITATIONS AND ERRORS BY entheogen scholarship in reaction to Huggins doing exactly that TIME-WASTING EXERCISE.

The Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art go wrong in playing infantile shallow concretistic “spot the mushroom”; “mummy there’s a mushroom!”

academics, or preschoolers?

Deniers SAY that Rogan, Muraresku, also Ruck tags along behind them: they are ridiculous pathetic Pop Cult.

Deniers are right i agree. SO HTERE THEREFORE LETS GROW UP AND IGNORANT IGNORE INFANTILE PEURILE ARGN FROM DENIERS, AND FROM AFFIRMERS BOTH!

IGNORE DENIERS

IGNORE AFFIRMERS

Expend All Wordcount on Wonderful ME

1 ecept exception: the censored “branch” arg from Panofsky, I like that, THAT IS ALL I NEED. I DO NOT NEED HUGGINS’ HYPOING OF THIS Panofsky ARG; ALL I NEED IS BROWNS LETTER EXPOSING Panofsky’S ARGN LIKE:

I WOULD be amane amenable to attacking some Panofsky sentences:

• Plaincourault fresco can’t mean mushroom, because there are too many other mushroom-trees. (arg from silent presupposition) only because you myc’ists are ignorant, stupid, unread, blundering fools, too ignorant of the hundreds of mushroom-trees. (arg from distracting insults)
• Eitehr the artist thought the prototype told him draw a tree, or, the prototype told him, draw a mushroom.

It woudl be Nice to add NICE to address some Panofsky args… It would be VALUABLE to summarize my analysis of Panofsky. NOT Huggins htough though. Huggins threw down his Drawer challenege, to explicitly push the Panofsky branching arg in the “concl” section. This is a reason to ignore Huggins and focus only on Panofsky instead.

MAIN OVERALL REACTION TO Cyberdisciple: “time-wasting exercise”; ie waste of precious wordcount; spill ink on foolishness, or spend/conserve ink on the top-value explanatory words?

Cyberdisciple con’t:

This concedes something to doubters.

Some people doubt mushrooms in christian art because they confuse where the affirms go wrong with the topic of mushrooms in Christian art.

They see something wrong in an affirmer and think that this means that the case for mushrooms in christian art is wrong.

You show that problems with the affirmers are often problems of definitions and aims, especially secrecy and suppression assumption, but also space for smaller corrections of errors like Brown on Walpurga vial etc.

End this section by stating the pilzbaum dilemma that your approach solves (e.g.

affirmers say they are mushrooms, not trees;

deniers say they are trees because they have branches, and artists stupid to make them look like mushrooms;

YOU will say that the perfectly elegant solution is that the mushroom shape and the branches naturally go together to communicate a message about branching, which is the highest message of cubensis experiencing).

This section sets the stage for your key new contributions to correct field.

Lastly, your key additions:

• focus on cubensis (and liberty cap and panaeolus), which everyone should care about because of effects

• dethrone amanita (which no one should care about because of effects)

• Move beyond mere presence of mushroom shape to mushroom effects AND to more sophisticated approach to shape that integrates mushroom effects into depiction of mushrooms

• This requires introducing theory of psychedelic eternalism, in order to make motifs of branching, handedness, and stability significant

• solve the pilzbaum dilemma (why do those trees look like mushrooms with branches and debranched stubs) via branching motifs representing experience of psychedelic eternalism

• incidentally branching, handedness, and stability are chief concerns throughout the psalter and other images (but I don’t think this should be a main focus of an article on Mushrooms in Christian art; it’s more like a topic for people who have already accepted mushrooms in Christianity and your theory of psychedelic eternalism and its representation in art)

Conclusion

Cyberdisciple con’t:

Cubensis and the theory of psychedelic eternalism are the highest and most significant theme.

They are well represented in Christian art.

This is powerful proof of advanced mushroom experiencing in Christianity.

Hoffman Communication: Summary-First

Cyberdisciple con’t:

An argument against my suggested ordering is that the flow of argument runs counter to your distinctive style of putting your summaries at the forefront.

My suggestion follows more conventional style, laying groundwork, demolishing opponents, culminate in your distinctive contribution.

Yet your style is distinctive and important, a challenge to current conventions.

My suggestion also spends a lot of time on the deniers, giving them more space than they deserve.

There’s also an argument that you don’t need to spend much time [wordcount] on the deniers because your article on Wasson and Allegro already covered them, as does Brown in e.g. article demolishing Hatsis at Hancock site.

Another issue:

My suggestion is [too] modest in scope.

This is to deal with problem of overflow of too many [FORMER] goals, but has the disadvantage of not pushing multiple fields forward.

[current feel: just nothing but a straight-up article teaching about how the theory of psychedelic eternalism appears in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}, WITHOUT buncha junk, would accomplish MORE revolution, than smaller article w/ buncha low-value follow-on implications. ONLY HAVE ROOM FOR THE 10/10 POINTS]

Cyberdisciple con’t:

Scholarly journals have this problem: what is prioritized is usually “normal science” small-scale studies, not large-scale paradigm establishing articles.

Your work seems to me to always move towards the large scale paradigm establishment because everything you do works to reinforce your field-spanning theory,

any specific topic you discuss is connected to other parts of your theory and is strengthened by reference to the rest of the theory.

/ end of emails from Cyberdisciple

Motivation for this Page

1:52 a.m. Feb. 17, 2026

I need to reference two emails from Cyberdisciple, and enable reworking & analyzing them.

I was inspired tonight by Cyberdisciple’s discussion of the theory of psychedelic eternalism, as the central focus. Instead of old title that laundry-listed {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

See Also

old title, overambitious article scope:

Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

Michael Hoffman 4:20 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Intro
• Photo: Zoom Out
• Photo 2: Guy in Tree, 1
• Photo 3: Guy in Tree, 2
• Photo 4: Guy Behind Christ
• Photo: YI Hand-Pair Analysis of Guy Behind Christ: [Y, IY]
• Motivation for this Page
• Artists Obeying Panofsky’s Expectation: Omit the Branches Altogether
  • Illus: Michael Hoffman omitting the branches from mushroom-trees, to fulfill the expectations of the top Anything-But-Drugs art historian, Erwin Panofsky
• See Also

Intro

Thank you Julie Brown, provided hi-res images to Michael Hoffman a few days ago. Now [5:11 p.m. Feb. 16, 2026].

The Church of Saint-Martin, in Nohant-Vicq, France.

1135-1140 AD

Or Vic-sur-Saint-Chartier, France.

Photo: Zoom Out

Photo 2: Guy in Tree, 1

Photo 3: Guy in Tree, 2

Photo 4: Guy Behind Christ

Photo: YI Hand-Pair Analysis of Guy Behind Christ: [Y, IY]

YI hand-pair analysis
yhpa

• hand one: R hand: Y.
• hand two: IY.
• pair sequence of hands: [Y, IY]

Motivation for this Page

I should simply post these 4 pics to my oft-visited, St-Martin page, but want to prominent thank Julie Brown via new page announce.

Artists Obeying Panofsky’s Expectation: Omit the Branches Altogether

https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-2-6 —

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.

Panofsky’s letter 2 to Wasson, 1952

Panofsky letter 2 to Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson 1952 was censored by Popebanker Wasson.

Popebanker Wasson is an academic obstructionist & professional cover-up propagandist for hire, re: mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Panofsky’s arg was censored by Popebanker Wasson, with no mention of that censorship by Huggins.

Panofsky’s arg is favorably cited and asserted by the Denier of mushroom imagery in Christian art, Ronald Huggins 2024 & 2025 articles.

Illus: Michael Hoffman omitting the branches from mushroom-trees, to fulfill the expectations of the top Anything-But-Drugs art historian, Erwin Panofsky

This joke partly relies on fact of Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art being blind to the non-branching motif and only fixating on:

“This mushroom-tree can’t mean mushroom, because HAS BRANCHES”.

… making the Deniers blind to the more important motif & message of the mushroom-tree artists:

Our tree “HAS NON-BRANCHING” ie negation of branches/ branching.

How the mind transforms from psilocybin experiencing:

Not simply “branching is not the case”.

The mind ends up w/ qualified possibilism-thinking.

The mind’s experience is of branching, only during ordinary-state.

During the altered state, the mind’s experience is of non-branching:
“Perception of Eternalism” Page at Effect Index (Josie Kins)

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism

See Also

Site Map: Brown > Saint Martin Church
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#brown-saint-martin-church

• Saint Martin Frescos 
• Decoded Brown’s Question Why a Mushroom Tree (when Cutting Branches) Grows on a Stone Tower
• Decoding Browns’ Saint Martin Fresco: Mushroom Trees, Branches, Tree Shapes, Knives, Donkey, Finger Shapes, Youths, Gated Stone Wall
• Brinckmann and Brown Book Plates Handedness Branching Youth in Tree Jesus Riding Donkey

Michael Hoffman 11:11 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026

Contents:

• Intro
  • f134 Row 1 Left: Class and Trees
• Confused Huggins Pretends to Be Too Dense to Understand the Concept of a Class Definition
• “IF a Mushroom-Tree has any Tree Features, the mushroom features DON’T COUNT”
• Your Mushroom-Trees Fail My Worthless, Illegitimate, Fake “Test” That I Made-Up Out of Incomprehension, Which Feigns Evaluating Each Instance but Is Actually a Prejudiced, Biased, Unjustified, Sweeping, Blanket Dismissal of the Entire Class as a Whole
• I will believe mushroom-trees mean mushrooms, if someone explain branch motif
• Gallery
• f107 tree touch arm, {hand mushroom-tree} shows that branching is the main message, thus explaining mushroom-trees mean mushroom mental model transformation
• White Boxes on Guy’s Hands and Tree’s Hands
• f109 {hand mushroom-tree} shows that branching is the main message, thus explaining mushroom-trees mean mushroom mental model transformation
• txt msg to ES, AM, RL, CF Noon Feb. 16, 2026
• Back to Adding YI Hand-Shape Indicators on Medieval Art, Higher Pri than Huggins’ 2025 Rehash Article
• See Also

Intro

f134 Row 1 Left: Class and Trees

Confused Huggins Pretends to Be Too Dense to Understand the Concept of a Class Definition

Art historians define the class mushroom-trees: the criteria for inclusion is: tree that has mushroom elements/ features and looks like mushroom strikingly in some way, despite the tree features.

By definition, as a GIVEN, EVERY instance of mushroom-tree has some tree elements and some mushroom elements.

in mushroom-trees, the tree elements/features are especially, {branches}.

But don’t be blind to the {non-branching} motif, like outsider Huggins.

The tree elements might be branches … it seems “tree features” really means specifically, branches.

“IF a Mushroom-Tree has any Tree Features, the mushroom features DON’T COUNT”

Hugs uses covert arg’n.

Huggins’ “Conclusion” section (actually, a Sweeping, Blanket, Arbitrary Decree) is a a tactic to covertly dismiss the entire class of mushroom-trees from meaning mushrooms, while falsely pretending to only evaluate each mushroom-tree indivdidually.

Huggins has the nerve in 2025 article to crudely claim “every mushroom-tree FAILS THE TEST” –

Your Mushroom-Trees Fail My Worthless, Illegitimate, Fake “Test” That I Made-Up Out of Incomprehension, Which Feigns Evaluating Each Instance but Is Actually a Prejudiced, Biased, Unjustified, Sweeping, Blanket Dismissal of the Entire Class as a Whole

This Huggins “test” is more worthless than sh!t; at least sh!t grows mushrooms.

100% of mushroom-trees have branches or other tree features, BY DEFINITION of the Class of trees in question.

It is a GIVEN, not an “IF”, that any mushroom-tree has branches (or some other tree feature). By definition of the class. eg Day 4 four plants do NOT have ANY branches, therefore, they are NOT members of the class, mushroom-trees – yet, for NO REASON other than magician’s indirection & propaganda, Huggins refers to these hastily-skipped-by, exact mushrooms, as “trees”, while urging you to look at the “smaller plants” rather than stopping as Huggins was required and failed to do, to discuss these for non- mushroom-trees; these four exact botanical mushrooms that have NO branches and no tree features.

Day 4 plant 1 & 2 have Liberty Cap grid-cap, indicated as multiple (vs. single); considered equivalent to branching (vs. non-branching).

No branches are shown in the four Day 4 plants, destroying several arguments and claims in his 2024 article.

Huggins writes “IF” the mushroom-tree has any branching, we must ignore the mushroom features.

ARE YOU A DOLT? HOW CAN YOU WRITE “IF”?! Confused arg’n.

It is a simple given; by definition, ALL members of the class have tree features, eg. branches (or cut branches).

There is no room for “if”, unless you mean WHICH tree features or mushroom features a given member of the class has: if you are focused on the “branch” tree feature.

It’s all pretend-arg’n.

Putting aside Huggins’ Conclusion (Decree of Dismissal) section, the section is a celebration of begging-the-question fallacy, and a blanket, sweeping, cheap rhetoric-based dismissal tactic.

Translating Huggins’ insane arg’n (ie, prejudiced decree):

Huggins’s 2024 article & “Conclusion” section is, in effect, arguing:

I will believe mushroom-trees mean mushrooms, if someone explain branch motif

I will believe mushroom-trees mean mushrooms, if someone explain branch motif.

Done, Michael Hoffman, Mar 21 2022: emailed brown re Kupfer and St-Martin Entry into Jerusalem or Tower scene: {branching-message mushroom trees}.

The branching is NOT whimsical; it IS the message, about non-branching; altered-state eternalism.

Gallery

f107 tree touch arm, {hand mushroom-tree} shows that branching is the main message, thus explaining mushroom-trees mean mushroom mental model transformation

White Boxes on Guy’s Hands and Tree’s Hands

Canterbury f107: Lifted from Ossuary by Right Arm
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/16/canterbury-f107-lifted-up-from-ossuary-by-right-arm/

f109 {hand mushroom-tree} shows that branching is the main message, thus explaining mushroom-trees mean mushroom mental model transformation

Canterbury f109: Hand Mushroom-Tree, Hell-Mouth, Net Rescue, Right-Limb Ossuary, Clean Temple, Cut-Branch Dog
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f109-great-canterbury-psalter-hellmouth-net-ossuary-cloth-looking-out-from-temple/

txt msg to ES, AM, RL, CF Noon Feb. 16, 2026

On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom, Ronald Huggins, Oct. 29, 2025, Religions journal, Issue: 11, Volume: 16, 30 pages, https://www.academia.edu/144814668/On_John_M_Allegros_Suggestion_That_the_Tree_of_the_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil_in_the_12th_Century_Plaincourault_Chapel_Depicts_an_Amanita_muscaria_Mushroom & https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/11/on-john-m-allegros-suggestion-that-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-in-the-12th-century-plaincourault-chapel-depicts-an-amanita-muscaria-mushroom-huggins-2025/

Ronald Huggins new Oct article (a Denier of mushroom imagery in Christian art) is even more of a rehash than i thought.  

There’s nothing new for me to rebut.  

Huggins surprisingly fails to cite The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf 
A directly scope-relevant, predecessor article. 

Huggins fails to cite Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019 
Published the two 1952 Panofsky letters that Popebanker Wasson censored in 1968.

Huggins cites my Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Michael Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm 

Back to Adding YI Hand-Shape Indicators on Medieval Art, Higher Pri than Huggins’ 2025 Rehash Article

Back to adding YI hand shape indicators on medieval art.  

And working on the draft article (like for our psychedelic church Reader) for Journal of Psychedelic Studies.​

The mushroom-tree artists’ favorite hand-shape pair, in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}:

[Y’, YI]

ie: lower hand: 
Y’ 
via: no thumb; fingers folded.  
Means: I used to naively use branching thinking; now I use qualified branching thinking. ​ 

Upper hand: 
YI (often Y’I, more accurately):
via: 

• display fingers extended held together (= branching) 
• thumb displayed w no visual cuts (= non-branching block-universe eternalism frozen pre-existing worldline)

YI hand-shape ​pairs relate mind’s progression from A to B (from A, to A-modified + B):
from:
the original, branching mental model:
Y = branching possibilism-thinking; ordinary-state possibilism (gets modified as Y’, NOT discarded)
to:
the modified orig model + the added, ‘I’-shaped, non-branching model:
non-branching eternalism-thinking; altered-state eternalism.

• f109 {hand mushroom-tree}:

• f134 woman hold {balance scale}:

See Also

Site Map > Ronald Huggins
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Ronald-Huggins

Michael Hoffman 10:50 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Sections Copied from f11 Page > Day 1 Section
• Row 1 Left & Row 2 Left; Day 1 and Day 4 of Creation
  • Proof that Day 1 Creation of Light Scale Balance Bowls Contain Mushrooms
• f11 row 1: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
• f11 row 1 left: Day 1 of Creation: Alpha/ compass, Omega/ {scale balance} with Cubensis (Bible: Light)
  • Row 1 Left: {balance scale} containing Cubensis [2023/06/07; proved on 2025/01/13]
• f11 row 1 middle: Day 2 of Creation (Bible: Atmosphere/ Firmament)
• Sections Copied from f11 Page > Day 4 Section
• f11 row 2 left: Day 4 of Creation: four pilzbaum without branches, & plants (Bible: Sun, moon, & stars)
  • Fourth Day of Creation, Plants
• Finally looked at Day 1 & Day 4 together, to directly fill the pans with mushrooms
• Plant 1 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Liberty Cap with “branching” grid of Liberty Caps pointing at left tine of branching V-shaped compass
  * Mushroom tree #5 of Psalter (Plant 1 in Day 4): liberty caps, non-branching [half-truth; grid cap = branching]
• Plant 2 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Cubensis with “branching” grid of Liberty Caps pointing at right tine of branching V-shaped compass
  * Mushroom tree #6 of Psalter (Plant 2 in Day 4): blue liberty caps, non-branching [half-truth; grid cap = branching]
• Plant 3 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Panaeolus pointing at left pan of balance scale
  * Mushroom tree #7 of Psalter (Plant 3 in Day 4): panaeolus, non-branching
• Plant 4 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Amanita pointing at right pan of balance scale
  * Mushroom tree #8 of Psalter (Plant 4 in Day 4): white on red, non-branching
• Intro
• New Notation in Development! YI hand-shape ​pairs notation, general flexible formula notation potential: [Y’, YI | Y’I]; what is artists fav start shape is Y’; artists fav end shape is IY’
• First Hand’s Shapes: Y, Y’, YI’, I’
• Second Hand’s Shapes: I, YI, Y’I, Y’I’
• Motivation for this Page
• King Mushroom Demon, f145
• See Also

Sections Copied from f11 Page > Day 1 Section

todo: clean up / trim the below sections copied from

Row 1 Left & Row 2 Left; Day 1 and Day 4 of Creation

Proof that Day 1 Creation of Light Scale Balance Bowls Contain Mushrooms

f11 row 1: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3

f11 row 1 left: Day 1 of Creation: Alpha/ compass, Omega/ {scale balance} with Cubensis (Bible: Light)

Row 1 Left: {balance scale} containing Cubensis [2023/06/07; proved on 2025/01/13]

[1:50 a.m. June 7, 2023] God holds a {balance scale} containing Golden Teacher:

Crop by Cybermonk
“Canterbury-f11-balance-scale.jpg” 159 KB [1:07 June 8, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom

Proved (unexpectedly! didn’t think possible!) on 2025/01/13 by Day 4 below it has 4 mushrooms pointing up in a symmetrical way including grid branching caps on left attracted to the branching shaped compass.

f11 row 1 middle: Day 2 of Creation (Bible: Atmosphere/ Firmament)

/ end of Day 1 copied sections

Sections Copied from f11 Page > Day 4 Section

todo: trim the below

f11 row 2 left: Day 4 of Creation: four pilzbaum without branches, & plants (Bible: Sun, moon, & stars)

Features:

• 10:18 Jan. 29, 2026: non-branching thumb against open book, recog a couple days ago

Fourth Day of Creation, Plants

Finally looked at Day 1 & Day 4 together, to directly fill the pans with mushrooms

At end of day Jan. 12, 2025, I finally brought together my analysis of Day 1 & Day 4 panels, informed by Day 3 panel, producing a huge double-breakthrough – at the same time as figuring out the smooth stepped progression of branching form in Day 3: III, IYI, YI, IY/YI (two breakthroughs interleaved & co-supporting; so, Day 1 + 3 + 4 worked together to co-decode, the co-signalling that Eadwine provided.

Jan. 17, 2025: My error until end of day Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 was to only look at this panel in isolation, or only compare it to Day 3.

THE REASON THIS DAY HAS PLANTS, WHICH IT SHOULD NOT, IS BC EADWINE WANTS TO DEPICT MORE MUSHROOMS, AND WANTS TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT DAY 1’S BALANCE SCALE CONTAINS MUSHROOMS.

Ronald Huggins’ “Foraging Wrong” article asks / discusses tradition of incongruity about what items are depicted in which day.

Liberty cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita

Features:

• Here the sun represents the planetary stars (other than the moon) & the fixed stars.
• Liberty cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita

Jan. 4, 2025: I probably announced this id’n Dec 13, 2020, following on from Third Day of Creation:

Liberty cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita
Liberty cap; Cubensis; Panaeolus; Amanita
Liberty cap/ Cubensis/ Panaeolus/ Amanita

Lib, Cub, Pan, Ama
Lib; Cub; Pan; Ama

Liberty cap, Cubensis, Panaeolina, Amanita
Liberty cap; Cubensis; Panaeolina; Amanita
Liberty cap/ Cubensis/ Panaeolina/ Amanita

Wrap those lines with quotes and search present site – somewhere I listed those re: this picture.

That day’s unique spelling from the specimen photo helps to find: Panaeolina. https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/?s=Panaeolina

Plant 1 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Liberty Cap with “branching” grid of Liberty Caps pointing at left tine of branching V-shaped compass

Copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#5 – heading there is:

Mushroom tree #5 of Psalter (Plant 1 in Day 4): liberty caps, non-branching [half-truth; grid cap = branching]

Plant 2 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Cubensis with “branching” grid of Liberty Caps pointing at right tine of branching V-shaped compass

Copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#6 – heading there is:

Mushroom tree #6 of Psalter (Plant 2 in Day 4): blue liberty caps, non-branching [half-truth; grid cap = branching]

Plant 3 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Panaeolus pointing at left pan of balance scale

Copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#7 b/c that’s slightly less hi-res than Jan 2025 redo. – heading there is:

Mushroom tree #7 of Psalter (Plant 3 in Day 4): panaeolus, non-branching

Plant 4 in f11 row 2 left (Day 4): Amanita pointing at right pan of balance scale

Copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#8 – heading there is:

Mushroom tree #8 of Psalter (Plant 4 in Day 4): white on red, non-branching

/ end of copied sections from f11 page

Intro

I am skipping populating this starter-page now, to get on with the interesting 3rd new Huggins page on his Conclusion section which REALLY, PRACTICALLY, comes down to,

“I will accept mushroom-trees mean mushrooms if branches are explained.”

THEREFORE Therefore my top priority is continue explanaing branches whcih right now means YI YI hand shapes indicators and sequences eg [Y’, YI | Y’I] –

New Notation in Development! YI hand-shape ​pairs notation, general flexible formula notation potential: [Y’, YI | Y’I]; what is artists fav start shape is Y’; artists fav end shape is IY’

Common Reference starting hand shapes:

Start shape: Y

Start shape: Y’

Start shape: YI’

Common Reference starting hand shapes:

End shape: YI (simplified)

End shape: Y’I (accurate)

Genized notation for YI hand-shape ​pairs:

[list of standard start shapes, list of standard end shapes]

start shape = first hand

end shape = second / other hand

[Y | Y’ | I’Y, ]

try nested sq brk

[[Y, Y’, I’Y], [YI, Y’I, I]]

list all simple 2-part YI shapes, and whether that shape would be first hand or the 2nd hand:

• Y ~= I’ (first hand)
• Y’ ~= I (first hand)
• I ~+ Y’ (second hand)
• I’ ~= Y (first hand)
• YI = IY (2nd hand)
• YI’ = I’Y (first hand)
• Y’I = IY’ (2nd hand)
• Y’I’ = I’Y’ – eg: hand not displayed, i guess: (2nd hand)

good, next, sort those by 1st vs 2nd hand:

First Hand’s Shapes: Y, Y’, YI’, I’

represents What Happened to the Pre-Initiation Possibilism Mental Model.

• Y ~= I’ (first hand)
• Y’ ~= I (first hand)
• YI’ = I’Y (first hand) – eg: von Trimberg: figure 3’s lower hand: 3 exten fingers, Index finger cut
• I’ ~= Y (first hand) – how depict? rare?

Second Hand’s Shapes: I, YI, Y’I, Y’I’

I is always present, never cut/primed

• I ~+ Y’ (second hand)
• YI = IY (2nd hand)
• Y’I = IY’ (2nd hand)
• Y’I’ = I’Y’ – 2nd hand

if both hands affirm I, both hands are equiv ways of indic the END state.

what if one hand indir affirms I via Y’?

Motivation for this Page

the other night, days beofore Feb. 15, 2026, I discovered that
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024)
refers to day 4’s four plants (exact mushrooms with NO branching) as “trees”.

I possibly noted that a year ago but seems not.

Creating 3 new topical pages to focus on the top 3 points worth addressing and rebutting:
Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024).

See Day 3 page prior to this, or p.m. Feb. 15, 2026 entry in idea development page 33.

King Mushroom Demon, f145

See Also

Site Map > Ronald Huggins
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Ronald-Huggins

Michael Hoffman 9:56 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Citation of Huggins’ Foraging Wrong Article 2024
• Intro: The Panel
• f11 row 1 Right: Day 3 of Creation: Four pilzbaum with branches (Bible: Dry ground & plants)
  • f11: Day 3: Creation of Plants, with Lines and Annotations
  • f11 row 1 right – “Creation of Plants”/”third day”
    • Huggins 2024: These pilzbaum have branches, which make these not look like mushrooms at all; Just look at these branches that disqualify these pilzbaum from looking anything like mushrooms
• “Creation of Plants” Branching Form Develops from III, IYI, YI, IY/YI
• The 4 plants of Day 3 of Creation
  • pilzbaum 1 & 2 in 3rd Day / Creation of Plants
  • pilzbaum 3 & 4 in 3rd Day / Creation of Plants
    • Plant 1 Left Branch
    • Plant 1 Right Branch
• Day 3 Plant 2
  * Plant 2 Left Branch
  * Plant 2 Right Branch
  * Plant 3 Left Branch [none]
  * Plant 3 Right Branch
  * Plant 4 Left Branch
  * Plant 4 Right Branch
• Plant 2 & 3: Branching vs. Non-branching
  • Huggins’ article “Foraging Wrong”, re: Creation of Plants
• The L & R Branch Exact Match Mushroom: Huggins FAILS to Point Out this CRUCIAL Point
• Motivation for this Starter Page
• To supplement Day 3 panel, compare eat tree of knowledge panel, cap details apply to all Liberty Cap grid-cap instances
• f11 row 3 right: Eat from Tree of Knowledge
• f11 row 3 middle and right
• f11 row 3 right: Adam & Eve Looking at L & R Arms of Liberty Cap mushroom-tree in cap of tree of knowledge, while holding fruit in L & R hands
• f11 Row 3 R: Top of Tree of Knowledge
• f11 row 3 right cap and a little of the stem
• f11 row 3 right cap and none of the stem
• See Also

Citation of Huggins’ Foraging Wrong Article 2024

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024), https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/ & https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case

Intro: The Panel

f11 row 1 Right: Day 3 of Creation: Four pilzbaum with branches (Bible: Dry ground & plants)

The below sections were copied and trimmed from the gallery page for f11, Day 3 panel:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f11-great-canterbury-psalter-6-days-of-creation-eden/#day-3

f11: Day 3: Creation of Plants, with Lines and Annotations

f11 row 1 right – “Creation of Plants”/”third day”

Huggins 2024: These pilzbaum have branches, which make these not look like mushrooms at all; Just look at these branches that disqualify these pilzbaum from looking anything like mushrooms

“Creation of Plants” Branching Form Develops from III, IYI, YI, IY/YI

Day 3: Branching Form Develops toward Increasing Comprehension from Left to Right: III, IYI, YI, IY/YI.

The 4 plants of Day 3 of Creation

pilzbaum 1 & 2 in 3rd Day / Creation of Plants

KEEP: Idea Development page 23 https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/idea-development-23/ has details, see “Day 3” sections there.

pilzbaum 3 & 4 in 3rd Day / Creation of Plants

Plant 1 Left Branch

Plant 1 Right Branch

Day 3 Plant 2

Plant 2 Left Branch

Plant 2 Right Branch

Plant 3 Left Branch [none]

Hi-res cut branch/ non-branching.

Plant 3 Right Branch

Plant 4 Left Branch

Plant 4 Right Branch

Plant 2 & 3: Branching vs. Non-branching

Huggins’ article “Foraging Wrong”, re: Creation of Plants

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

Each of the plants in the third-day scene also has branches. The mushrooms the PMTs wish to identify them with, however, do not.Ronald Huggins, “Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case”, p. 17

/ end of sections copied and trimmed, from https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f11-great-canterbury-psalter-6-days-of-creation-eden/#day-3

The L & R Branch Exact Match Mushroom: Huggins FAILS to Point Out this CRUCIAL Point

Motivation for this Starter Page

Experiment: 3 new starter pages. One per Achilles Heel of Ronald Huggins 2024 article:

PROOF THAT HUGS IS BIASED PROPAGANDA, NOT SCHOLARSHIP, HE’S TRYING TO AVOID THE TRUTH, NOT PURSUE THE TRUTH.

HE STRAWMANS, HE DOES NOT STEELMAN.

• PROPAGAFatal Error: 2024 & 2025 article fails to cite 2019 brown, not even samo97
• Oct 2025 article fails to cite Samorini 1997: The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf
• Fatal Error: Day 3 “has branches, so can’t mean mushroom”
  [L & R branch exact mushroom shape
  Huggins OMITS THIS fact/objection, therefore Huggins is anything-but-drugs academics PROPAGANDA bad faith arg’n.
• Fatal Error: Day 4 “trees”
  but they are plain mushrooms, diversion tactic = liar with no credy, ; propagandist, not one seeking truth or else he would have STOPPED to ANALYZE the “trees”.
• Fatal Error: Conclusion section: “Branches prevent EVERY mushroom-tree from meaning mushrooms.”

I keep habitually re-writing the point. Personally I need to prominent page about this point that destroys Huggins’ argments.

related starter pages:

• Day 3
• Day 4
• Conclusion Section’s Branches Objection

The Conclusion section Branches Objection of Huggins GCP article 2024: It all comes down to the Panofsky / Huggins “Branches” Objection

His decree softened to “suggestion” in 2025 Huggins article.

Huggins Has Only 1 Legit Objection : Explain Branches.

To supplement Day 3 panel, compare eat tree of knowledge panel, cap details apply to all Liberty Cap grid-cap instances

todo: move/copy to Huggins Day 3 page

f11 row 3 right: Eat from Tree of Knowledge

The detail in this master mushroom-tree applies to all Liberty Cap grid-caps throughout Great Canterbury Psalter including two panels above: Day 3, Plant 2.

The arms/fruit on each Liberty Cap mushroom-tree in the grid cap of “eat from tree of knowledge” are indicated as being present in Day 3 Plant 2, and all Liberty Cap grid-caps.

todo: crop of entire f11, showing cross-mapping among the 12 panels. i did a little like that so far:

• 1 crop shows “don’t eat” panel & “eat” panel.
• 1 crop shows Day 1 + Day 4.
• 4 crops show a row, each of 4 rows of f11.
• in entire f11:
• todo: line from Day 3 to Eat tree of knowledge.
• todo: line from Day 4 to Day 1.
• todo: line from Day 3 to Day 4.

f11 row 3 middle and right

f11 row 3 right: Adam & Eve Looking at L & R Arms of Liberty Cap mushroom-tree in cap of tree of knowledge, while holding fruit in L & R hands

f11 Row 3 R: Top of Tree of Knowledge

In this panel, all 3 trees’ branches under cap (= gills + veil, to depict block time non-branching) have Right branch cross-behind; visually {cut right branch}. Like Dancing Man (Salamander, Bodleian).

f11 row 3 right cap and a little of the stem

f11 row 3 right cap and none of the stem

Canterbury f11: 6 Days of Creation, Eden > f11 row 3 right: Eat from Tree of Knowledge
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f11-great-canterbury-psalter-6-days-of-creation-eden/#f11-row-3-right-Eat-from-Tree

See Also

pending

Michael Hoffman, started on mobile 9:30 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026

Contents:

• Canterbury f145: Blue Fruit Trade, Stored in Lockboxes
• Main Page about f145
• King Mushroom Demon
• Indicated YI Hand Shapes and Sequences
• New Fallacies Generated Faster, the More Deniers Lose
• You Blundering, Ignorant Mycologists, John Ramsbottom, Failed to Consult the Art Dictator Authorities – Popebanker Wasson
• Trust Gordon Wasson , Professional Cover-Up Propagandist and Criminally Obstructionist
• Panofsky Letter 2 2nd half
• Panofsky Acts Can’t Comprehend the Class “mushroom-trees”
• These Day 4 Trees Look Only Like Mushrooms and Not Even Slightly Like Trees: They Are not in mushroom-trees, nor trees, but, pure plain mushroom
• LOOK OVER THERE!! –>there are 5 smaller branching plants among the 4 trees, i call them trees because we are discussing mushroom-trees and i’m saying they are trees and heres some more trees oh lookit the smaller plants over there among the trees shown here:
• Conflict of Interest in Day 4 by Huggins: He Must Play Dumb that He “Doesn’t Notice” these Are OBVIOUSLY Mushrooms w No Branching – Not Trees oops FAKE ACCIDIENTALLY DECEPTION HE DOESN’T NOTICE, he lies and pretends to not notice, this is PROPAGANDA
• BIG ACADEMIA PROPAGANDA and Dissimulation, Intensely, Actively Biased to “Not Notice” 4 Plants in Day 4 Have No Branches and Are Exact match w/ mushroom
  • Fourth Day of Creation (ie Sun Moon Stars): Detail: 5 + 4 Plants, the 4 have no ramif
• multiple vs. single = grid-cap vs. simple cappossibilism vs. eternalism branching vs. non-branching {fingers} vs. {thumb} {fingers} vs. {index finger} {tree} vs. {snake} Y vs. Imany worlds vs. single block universe
• multiple-vs.-single ~= Y vs. I
• Heading
• Huggins Still Foraging Wrong
• First Hand / One Hand
• Second Hand / Other Hand
• Avoid Saying “from possibilism to eternalism
• Say “Add Eternalism to Possibilism”
• embrace and include the initial mental model
• Powerful King Pointing Hand-Shape
• 🔵🍄‍🟫 👈 🫅 👉 🍄‍🟫🔵
• See Also

Indicated YI Hand Shapes and Sequences

The Reference Hand-Pair Shape Is Given by God’s Hands: Y’ one hand, YI other hand

The problem of Extracting the Puzzle Statement

challenges:

1. Comprehending and recognizing THAT this is a puzzle.
2. Reading/understanding what the puzzle statement is.
3. Solving the puzzle ie explaining deviations from God’s Reference hand-pair shape.
4. Understand why initiated artists so much like and respect God’s Reference hand-pair shape: Y’ & YI.

The Profound Meaning of God’s Reference Hand-Pair Shape: Y’ & YI

• Y’ within the context of this pair of hand shapes, means:
• YI within the context of this pair of hand shapes, means:

todo: crop God upper right hands.

Use God’s Hand-Pair as the Reference Shape to Compare All Hand-Pairs To

A puzzle statement:

A huge part of the puzzle challenge is to read and recognize the puzzle challenge.

First hurdle: recognize that the hand-pair that God displays, is given to the viewer as the

The viewer is an honorary artist, and certainly includes as the primary audeince, other trained initiated artists initiated in the … keyboard shortcut???

keyboard shortcut: Artists Initiation Guild Mainstream Psilocybin Lockbox Education-Training in Motifs

Pretty sure i def’d a keyboard shortcut but really hard to deduce it.

What do I wish for in a keyboard shortcut for this?

That’s how to proceed in this situation: I wish to recall a keyboard shortcut acro that has the following attributes I desire I’m looking wishing for:…

key words for such a wished-for keyboard shortcut:

• guild
• initiation
• psilocybin
• mushroom
• lockbox
• {balance scale}
• mushroom sack
• artists
• mainstream
• training, education in motifs
• medieval
• {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

Next, try arrange the key words gramm’ly w/ right emph:

• mainstream – MAINSTREAM!!!
• medieval
• artists – “artists initiation guild”
• initiation
• guild – “guild with mushroom…..”
• psilocybin
• mushroom
• lockbox – “lockbox, {balance scale}, & mushroom sack”
• {balance scale}
• mushroom sack – … “training & education in xyz motifs”
• training, education in motifs
• {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

Artists Communicated the Motifs Language to Other Artists and Displayed to All People

Explicit Educational Aids for Purpose of Communicating via This System of Motifs

An Articulate, Purpose-Built Communication Language

Decoded YII Pair of King’s Hands Double Pointing: {Y fingers cut}, {I Index finger shown}, {I thumb shown}

Puzzle: Not Fitting God’s Reference Hands-Pair Shape: Confused Guy Standing on Two Demon Legs

{stand on right foot} vs. {stand on left foot}

The following figures stand on one foot w/ other foot lifted.

{stand on right foot} = have Transcendent Knowledge

{stand on left foot} = lack Transcendent Knowledge, unbalanced

two senses of balance: have stable control; combine and rely on a combining of mature combining of {stand on left foot} & {stand on right foot} like f134 woman hold {balance scale} forming same as God hand pair shape:

Y’ one hand, YI other hand.

Canterbury f145: Blue Fruit Trade, Stored in Lockboxes

Main Page about f145

https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/03/17/canterbury-f145-king-orders-shipments-of-blue-fruit-to-storage-lockboxes-with-blue-stemmed-mushroom-tree/

King Mushroom Demon

Powerful King Pointing Hand-Shape

king pointing is powerful:

Y’I&I

🔵🍄‍🟫 👈 🫅 👉 🍄‍🟫🔵

hand emojis i underestimated u

+1 for hand emojis

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and equivalences and ranking and exceptions

trust the black line. white string doesn’t count as on her finger {balance scale} thumb cut by white thread but no black line so DOESN’T COUNT

joke re: doesn’t count:

… just like each isolated instance of mushroom mushroom imagery in Christian art ,

Thomas Hatsis pulls out of his nowhere an on-the-spot made-up, off-the-wall arg,

buncha noise and confusion about Secret Christian Amanita Cult

and he wonders why we are so adamant advocates of

the Secret Amanita paradigm
which is the same thing as
mushrooms in western religious history

“the topic of mushrooms in western religious history consists of nothing other than the Secret Amanita paradigm” – Thomas Hatsis

amazing nonsense he wrote us: u r not allowed to care about psilocybin, because you are faithful to your orgins [Hatsis projecting] in Deep Allegroism. [total projection]

d/k about Brown, Allegro had no influence on my scholarship entheogen scholarship just on the ahistoricity of religious founder figures. whw… Actually Allegro for me was the education along w/ Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries, 1999, https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mysteries-Was-Original-Pagan/dp/0609807986/

ABOUT THE AHISTORICITY OF RELIGIOUS FOUNDER FIGURES not about entheogen scholarship

Hatsis uninterested in ahistoricity !

if you advocate the topic of mushrooms in western religious history
that means,
you are pushing the the Secret Amanita paradigm, which IS the topic of mushrooms in western religious history ,

Proxy war: Everything stands or falls with the isolated Amanita mushroom-tree in Plaincourault fresco.

Huggins: Everything stands or falls with Day 3 panel Great Canterbury Psalter. They have branches [exact mushroom] so cannot mean mushroom that we have dubbed mushroom-trees because they look so very much like mushroom , per Panofsky 52,

“attached is a mushroom-like tree, & an even more emphatic mushroom shape”

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-7 —

exact quote:

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.

condensed copy:

I enclose two specimens:

A miniature painting 990 AD which shows the inception of the process, viz., the gradual

[“GRADUAL” therefore, sloppy accident unintentional by inept copyist-craftsmen, the art world came to accept the ever-more-mushroom like sloppy accident degradation TRUST WASSON BRO HES THE BANKER FOR THE POPE , ] 

New Fallacies Generated Faster, the More Deniers Lose

If I move from A to B gradually, that proves that I didn’t intend to end up at B; a meaningless accident with no import; degradation; fault of inept too dumb to read a prototype and figure if its a tree of it is or if it is a mushroom

Panofsky is comical in his slop letter to fraud propagandist PROFESSIONAL PROPAGANDIST AND POPEBANKER Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson THE C censor out 1 side mouth

You Blundering, Ignorant Mycologists, John Ramsbottom, Failed to Consult the Art Dictator Authorities – Popebanker Wasson 🤥👖🔥🤞

liemoji
🤥👖🔥🤞

Trust Gordon 🤥👖🔥🤞 Wasson , Professional Cover-Up Propagandist and Criminally Obstructionist

World’s Record Conflict of Interest Reddest of Flags

the Standard Smug, Condenscending Insults, Trademark of Deniers

“Doesn’t count, b/c Wasson didn’t Stop Irvin 2005 or Samorini 1993 from Publishing”

Typical Dumb Take by Huggies

Irvin is a radical exception, he is THE expert on Allegro Wasson, that shows how effetive t….

Elephant in room: Allegro attacked x’y Christianity

1. 1952 Erwin Panofsky writes two letters (including 2 mushroom-tree arts) to Wasson. Incl. branching arg which Huggins carries forward as their ultimate objection to mushroom-trees = mushrooms. The branches, which are an exact mushroom shape, prevent these mushroom-trees from meaning mushroom. Day 4 four mushrooms lack branches, I shall refer to them as ‘tree’, make sure picture is on diff page out of sight, though they — inconsis Huggins here — these look like a simple, whole-form match with mushrooms, not at all any branch or tree features AT ALL; these are easily stylized near-botanical exact mushroom Day 4 plant 3 is exact Panaeolus, by medieval or by any standards — pointing at… bending itself in order to point to L Pan of {balance scale} held by God, vaguely Omega {balance scale}, vs. A compass branching on left. grid-caps o lcgc lgc lc Liberty Cap grid-cap
2. 1968 – Popebanker Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Aasson book SOMA p. 180: you dumbazzes failed to “CONSULT” the art authorities [same paragraph: censors mention of 2 arts + Bin citation strongly urged by Panofsky twice, went out of his way to provide the must-see citation, which evil liar Wasson fakely suppressed IT WAS HIS MANDATORY ACADEMIC DUTY TO PUBLISH THE BRINC CIT.
3. 1970 – John Allegro attacks and smears Christianity by mis-using mushroom, anthropology, & linguistics to fuse defamatory sex cult with the super-psychedelic mythiclevel fly aga Amanita , i mean, magical primivie lurid sex cult drug smear pop attack on Christianity via a tale of Secret Christian Amanita Cult which Ruck loved and it
4. 1976 – Carl Ruck: Allegro’s book’s motive inspired Ruck to create the field of entheogen scholarship.

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-1-7

Liberty Cap grid-cap
lcgc
Liberty Cap grid-cap. the master model defining all of them is Eat From tree of knowledge etok eftok

eat from tree of knowledge f11 row 3 col 3 2 rows below Day 3’s four mushroom-trees #2 of 4 has Liberty Cap grid-cap defined in detail by panel
Liberty Cap grid-cap, of eat from tree of knowledge

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

Panofsky Letter 2 2nd half

x https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/#Sentence-2-4 —

nks for your letter of May 7. Unfortunately

I know very little of folk lore and witchcraft

… induce ecstasy by eating amanita or drinking some sort of decoction thereof

I have not the slightest idea as to whether the French witches also used … [Amanita].

However, even if so [even if witches use Amanita], I should be somewhat skeptical [that Plaincourault fresco = Amanita] because

the development from pine tree to “Pilzbaum” is so universal

[TOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES! SO, IMPOSSIBLE TO MEAN MUSHROOM]

and takes place in so many representations other than the Fall of Man.

[Eden eat]

The only possibility I should be prepared to admit is that,

once the transformation [from pine to mushroom shape] had taken place [passive] and was generally accepted [passive] in art,

[switch to insult mode, de-personalization of artists]

some especially ignorant craftsman may have misu[n]derstood the finished product [mushroom shape eg in “the prototypes”], 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;

Panofsky Acts Can’t Comprehend the Class “mushroom-trees”

“even the most x instance still has teeny bit of …”

obv’ly, stupid Panofsky, BY DEFINITION, if tree has even a trace of ramif, it’s classed by you art historicans in the class “mushroom-tree”

so YES

duh

by defin,

EVERY AND ONLY ITEMS IN CLASS MUSHROOM-TREE HAVE AT LEAST TRACE OF RAMIF BRANCHING

If tree has trace of branching, or more, it’s classed by art hists as a mushroom-tree. IF IT DIDN’T IT WOULDN’T BE IN THE CLASS and gee we are given by the artist Day 4 plant 3: NO TRACE OF branching

(unless u r genius re grid-cap equiv’c to branching the equivalence to the grid cap motif is used as equivalent of branching )

Broadly: analogy scale:

single ~= non-branching = I
multiple ~= branching = Y

pattern is set in Day 3 progression/mapping

cross-map Day 1+4, Day 3, eat from tree of knowledge panel

eat from tree of knowledge panel
etk

the repeat the definition fallacy by Panofsky ?

[WAIT – CIRCULAR LOGIC TAUTOLOGY: ART HISTS DESIGNATE THE CLASS “MUSHROOM-TREE”,

“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. “

u mean like four exact mushrooms in Day 4 panel? that Huggins refers to while rushing past diverting attn to the little plants among them,

Don’t notice that “trees” in Day 4 have abs NO branching so are NOT mushroom lokin trees, but

These Day 4 Trees Look Only Like Mushrooms and Not Even Slightly Like Trees: They Are not in mushroom-trees, nor trees, but, pure plain mushroom

which p. _ Huggins says is never the case in Great Canterbury Psalter , but Day 4 PLAIN AS THE SUN AND MOON HUGGINS, THESE ARE MUSHROOMS NOT AT ALL IN THE CLASS MUSHROOM-TREES but what are you suddently so focused

LOOK OVER THERE!! 🎩🐰 🤥👖🔥🤞 –>
there are 5 smaller branching plants among the 4 trees, i call them trees because we are discussing mushroom-trees and i’m saying they are trees and heres some more trees oh lookit the smaller plants over there among the trees shown here:

Julie Brown “I solemnly swear will only report what i see. i see the mushroom caps have been painted over and somehow made invisible”

I solemnly swear will only report what I see. I see the mushroom caps have been painted over and somehow made invisible.

Rush John:

Jesus is clearly passing out mushrooms, in Entry into Jerusalem in Martin Church. [no mushrooms]

God in Day 3 holds something maybe a mushroom in his hand. [no mushroom]

see my “errors of entheogen scholars” page

Michael Hoffman I see Ariadne in the chariot with Dionysus

The woman has wings (Nike).

Ariadne is a mortal, until Dionysus puts her immortal in the heimarmene-ruled fixed stars.

the heimarmene-ruled fixed stars
hrfs

Trees in Day 4, that have NO tree features but ONLY mushroom features

Day 4 doesn’t create plants, just sun moon stars.

Huggins, give me ONE REASON to refer to these, rushing past diverting attn, as “trees” in Day 4 Great Canterbury Psalter f11 row 2 left. Magic diversion trick BECAUSE IT DOEESN’T HELP Huggins’ CASE TO BE TRUTHFUL and careful – he is not steelmanning!

Conflict of Interest in Day 4 by Huggins: He Must Play Dumb that He “Doesn’t Notice” these Are OBVIOUSLY Mushrooms w No Branching – Not Trees oops FAKE ACCIDIENTALLY DECEPTION HE DOESN’T NOTICE, he lies and pretends to not notice, this is PROPAGANDA

BIG ACADEMIA PROPAGANDA and Dissimulation, Intensely, Actively Biased to “Not Notice” 4 Plants in Day 4 Have No Branches and Are Exact match w/ mushroom

THIS IS A BIG DEAL HUGE WRENCH IN MIDDLE OF 10 OF HIS ARGS

This DESTROYS 10 of Huggins’ statements and args. Day 4’s plain mushrooms contradicts all kinds of args by Huggins.

Suspicious AF. Huggins deliberately OOPS hastens by and is INTENSELY INTERESTED IN THE 5 SMALLER PLANTS among the four “trees” – IS THIS ALL THE ANALYSIS HE CAN MUSTER, OF DAY 4?

Fourth Day of Creation (ie Sun Moon Stars): Detail: 5 + 4 Plants, the 4 have no ramif

No ramif except equiv Liberty Cap grid-cap

multiple vs. single =
grid-cap vs. simple cap
possibilism vs. eternalism
branching vs. non-branching
{fingers} vs. {thumb}
{fingers} vs. {index finger}
{tree} vs. {snake}
Y vs. I
many worlds vs. single block universe

the acro key words:
list of contrasts of possibilism vs. eternalism [LCPE]
lcpe

Possibilism vs. Eternalism =

• {branching} vs. {non-branching}
• {tree} vs. {snake}
• {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger}
• Y vs. I
• many worlds vs. single block-universe

multiple-vs.-single ~= Y vs. I

, a subtle, indirect indicator, not “branching”]

smaller plants among the trees [that have NO ramif’n]

mushroom lookin mushrooms.

since we’re talking about consecutive Day 3 panel and should be looking for contrasts and mappings among all 12 panels.

“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.”

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while lecture u for having failed to consult

the Art Dictator Authorities, trained dogs who bark “NO!” immediately.

when probed by the committee of academic faith belief statement proclamation of ideological committment to the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia

hardening of the pine into a mushroom-like shape.

A glass painting of the thirteenth century which shows an even more emphatic schematization of the mushroom-like crown.

a century after Plaincourault fresco

Huggins Still Foraging Wrong

Ronald Huggins’ Still Foraging Wrong article is my lowest pri

f145 a roaring success for hand-shape theory

mobile

roaring success looking at f145

image grin lion claws on face

really f’in in

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f145.image

medieval YI hand shapes is an extremely interesting purpose-built profound basic pattern language to represent psilocybin transformation mental model control transformation

from Y

to Y&I; Y’I

First Hand / One Hand

Y or Y’ or YI’

not: I

y dominates i

Second Hand / Other Hand

YI or Y’I

i dominates y

Y’I’ – holding spear w fingertips to viewer
todo: rare? keep eye out while add YIs to the images

YI form of each hand

sequence of two hands

equivalence of describing (simply, in diagrammatic art) the end state:

YI shape, or Y’I shape more specifically

Avoid Saying “from possibilism to eternalism

as if “get rid of” possibilism-thinking

highly Misrep’ve

Say “Add Eternalism to Possibilism”

Embrace and include the initial mental model (possibilism-thinking)

I never thought the Ken Wilber engine in the middle of his grand Integral Theory system was worth anything. Ironically I only thought his all-encompassing system was useful to plunder piecemeal like I DON’T want ppl to do with the Egodeath theory – my system is a swallow-entire, package deal, ACTUALLY integrated. This airplane actually gets off the ground.

Ken Wilber Transcendent Knowledge GOES NOWHERE, it never is able to deliver the promised goods. You’ll get some good useful ideas from Ken Wilber but you will NOT get what matters, eternalism-driven control-transformation.

Ken Wilber’s Popular Neo-Advaita Engine in Integral Theory Delivers a Low-Quality Altered State, Not the Classic, Best, Top-Grade Transcendent Knowledge: Eternalism-Driven Control-Transformation

I always held my nose and rejected his Advaita engine of integral theory 28-stage over-explanation that misses the transformative point.

Astral ascent mysticism has too many srages, at 8 but rly its 3:

1. planets
2. stars
3. beyond the stars*

*Above the planets (Saturn) is NOT “Beyond the Stars” like Hanegraaff’s terrible, INSANE heading in his Altered States book.

The Most Insane Heading in Western Esotericism: Hanegraaff’s “Beyond the Stars” Meaning Above the Planets, so the Fixed Stars are “Beyond the Stars”?! Model-Gibberish

The Fixed Stars Are then “Beyond the Stars”: MAKES ZERO SENSE!

Beyond the stars means precession; outside the cosmos.

The cosmos is not sphere 7 Saturn.

The cosmos is sphere 8 fixed stars. OBVIOUSLY

Hanegraaff f’d this up and caused all Western Esotericism scholars to duplicate his garbled confusion and self-contradiction incoherent.

Ken Wilber Popular Neo-Advaita

the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”

todo: keyboard shortcut for:
nondual unity boundary-lift

separate self, non-rational , ineffable, neg explanation inarticulate

elim separation separare self skinrncapsulated ego watts

boundary-change over-focus

WHAT SIZE IS YOUR EGO BOUNDARY

Transcendent Knowledge = stop mind constructing fake self other boundary

p u n b

BEWARE saying ever the misleading framing, carefull, bad connot : “

“mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism”

beware misleading implicn u “get rid of” possibilism-thinking

you 100% retain possibilism-thinking used always.

simple: YI (one hand)

accurate: Y’I (other hand)

pairing of equiv end states

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Medieval YI Hand-Shape Theory – example of adding 1 word adds N amount of clarifn + N amount of unclarity; NO NET GAIN BY ADDING a “CLARIFYING” WORD.

My skill technique of Lexicon Design.

YI hand-shape theory [YHST]

See Also

Site Map > YI Shapes of Hands & Trees
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#YI-Shapes-Hands-Trees

Michael Hoffman 4:00 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026, dedicated to the pioneering Science explorer-discoverers Paul Lindgren in 1999 & John Lash in 2007

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Intro
• 9 Instances of the {balance scale} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter
  • f11: {balance scale} 1
  • f40: {balance scale} 2
  • f47: {balance scale} 3
  • f55: {balance scale} 4
  • f60: {balance scale} 5
  • f134: {balance scale} 6
  • f145: {balance scale} 7
  • f177: {balance scale} 8
  • f221: {balance scale} 9
• {lockbox} = Blue/Brown Fruit Psilocybin Mushroom Secure Storage
  • f12 row 4 col 3: Door {key} for Grain Storage Next to col 2 {sack of blue fruit}
  • f15 row 3: Four Cities Storing Mushroom Jars
  • f134: {lockbox} (Mushroom Dispensary Cases/Bins) Next to {balance scale}
  • f145: King Ordering Cubensis Collection, {balance scale}, {lockbox}
  • f154: Opened Box in Rock, {mushroom bin}
  • f177: 4 Horses, {stand right foot}, {balance scale}, {lockbox}
  • f221: {lockbox}
• Inventory of {mushroom sack} Motif
• Too Many Mushrooms (So, No Mushrooms in Christian Art)
• Mainstream Artists’ Initiation Motif-Education Guild with Psilocybin {mushroom lockbox bins} and {balance scale}
• Paul Lindgren Discovered the Hundreds of Mushroom Images in Great Canterbury Psalter, Around 1999
• The Discovery of a Lifetime
• See Also

Intro

copypasted from recent, {blessing hand shape page:

9 Instances of the {balance scale} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter

At last count, updated from 8 to 9 today a.m. Feb. 13, 2026, there are 9 instances of {balance scale} in Great Canterbury Psalter, shown below.

The below 8 images are copied from https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#balance-scale —

Meaning of the {balance scale} motif:

1. Use a {balance scale} to weigh a consistent amount to target medium loosecog; the optimal degree level of loose loose mental functioning binding.
2. balance = viable control that’s usable, stable, effective, doesn’t fall over.

f11: {balance scale} 1

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/05/25/f11-great-canterbury-psalter-6-days-of-creation-eden/

f40: {balance scale} 2

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f40

f47: {balance scale} 3

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f47

f55: {balance scale} 4

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f55

f60: {balance scale} 5

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f60

f134: {balance scale} 6

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/

f145: {balance scale} 7

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/canterbury-f145-king-orders-shipments-of-blue-fruit-to-storage-lockboxes-with-blue-stemmed-mushroom-tree/

f177: {balance scale} 8

Page about the entire image:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/4-horses-mushroom-tree-right-foot-balancing-great-canterbury-psalter-f177/

f221: {balance scale} 9

f221: Cubensis Traders Weighing, Storing, Ingesting, {balance scale}, {lockbox}

Gallery (full image):
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/#f221

{lockbox} = Blue/Brown Fruit Psilocybin Mushroom Secure Storage

copypasted from
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/11/eadwine-images-in-great-canterbury-psalter-commentary-interpretation/#lockbox-bluebrown-fruit-psilocybin-mushroom-secure-storage —

f12 row 4 col 3: Door {key} for Grain Storage Next to col 2 {sack of blue fruit}

f15 row 3: Four Cities Storing Mushroom Jars

f134: {lockbox} (Mushroom Dispensary Cases/Bins) Next to {balance scale}

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

f154: Opened Box in Rock, {mushroom bin}

f177: 4 Horses, {stand right foot}, {balance scale}, {lockbox}

f221: {lockbox}

• f221: Cubensis Traders Weighing, Storing, Ingesting, {balance scale}

Inventory of {mushroom sack} Motif

Like Chris Bennett whines about evidence for mushroom imagery in Christian art, compared to evidence for cannabis:

It’s too hard! 😭😭

Too Many Mushrooms (So, No Mushrooms in Christian Art)

The top anything-but-drugs art historian, Erwin Panofsky, argues based on imagined-shared, silent presupposition & prejudice:

The Plaincourault fresco cannot mean mushrooms, because there are too many mushrooms in Christian art.

Not to mention other mushroom motifs:

• mushroom roof topper
• round mushroom vessel
• cap pieces and stem pieces on table
• etc.

Mainstream Artists’ Initiation Motif-Education Guild with Psilocybin {mushroom lockbox bins} and {balance scale}

Images of {balance scale} near mushroom lockbox bins & sacks of mushrooms, are the mainstream artists showing their initiation guild’s approach.

We have the receipts; artists communicated the evidence to us.

Perish the thought, “hidden”, I can’t stand that way of thinking, that self-defeating framing.

The goal of artists is to communicate, not to prevent communication.

mainstream artists initiation motif-education guild with psilocybin mushroom lockbox and {balance scale}
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Paul Lindgren Discovered the Hundreds of Mushroom Images in Great Canterbury Psalter, Around 1999

This page is dedicated to Paul Lindgren, who discovered and announced tons of mushrooms in Great Canterbury Psalter around 1999; he discussed with my collegauge James Arthur 2000, and then with Carl Ruck & Mark Hoffman 2001.

Dedicated to the pioneering Science explorer-discoverers Paul Lindgren 1999 & John Lash 2007.

The Discovery of a Lifetime

John Lash went out of his way around 2007, and uploaded Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter, which I re-found in Nov. 2020, to decode the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

See Also

• The Seven Liberty Cap Mushroom-Trees of the Bernward Doors and Column