Amanita muscaria is the most famous entheogen in the world that nobody uses.
Dale Pendell
The first real book about Amanita?
Not just sky-castle conjecture & childish fantasizing & conflation with Psilocybin, but actual information about effects, more than Heinrich’s 1994 book Strange Fruit.
However, only microdosing, so still, in 2022, after churning out piles of baseless popular books since 1957, we have no proper book directly about Amanita.
“shares some Amanita large-dose trip reports, cautioning against this practice because of the mushroom’s strong dissociative properties, including amnesia.”
“Shares the results of a more-than-3,000 participant study on the medicinal effects of Amanita muscaria microdoses.
Examining the findings from the first international study on the medicinal effects of microdosing with Amanita muscaria, the psychoactive fly agaric mushroom, Baba Masha, M.D., documents how more than 3,000 volunteers experienced positive outcomes for a broad range of health conditions as well as enhanced creativity and sports performance.
• Shows how Amanita microdoses offered help and healing for a broad range of conditions, including hormonal dysfunction, allergies, gingivitis, heartburn, eczema, psoriasis, depression, epilepsy, hypertension, insomnia, and migraine
• Reveals how Amanita microdoses are effective for pain relief and for interrupting addictions to alcohol, opiates, nicotine, caffeine, and other narcotics
• Details how to safely identify, prepare, and preserve Amanita muscaria, including recipes for tincture, tea, oil, and ointment as well as proper microdose amounts
Exploring the results of the first international study on the medicinal effects of microdosing with Amanita muscaria, the psychoactive fly agaric mushroom, Baba Masha, M.D., documents how more than 3,000 volunteers experienced positive outcomes for a broad range of health conditions as well as enhanced creativity and sports performance.
Masha discovered that Amanita microdoses offered help and healing for hormonal dysfunction, low libido, allergies, asthma, swelling, gingivitis, nail fungus, digestive issues, and skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis as well as recovery from stroke and cardiac arrest.
She found beneficial effects on depression, epilepsy, hypertension, insomnia, and low appetite and shows how Amanita microdoses are quite effective for pain relief, including in cases of rheumatoid arthritis, menstrual pain, and migraine.
The author also reveals how Amanita microdoses can interrupt addictions to alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, opiates, and other narcotics.
The author details how to safely identify, harvest, prepare, and preserve Amanita muscaria, and she includes recipes for tincture, tea, oil, and ointment as well as proper microdose amounts.
She shares more than 780 personal Amanita microdose reports from study participants, detailing the positive, negative, and neutral effects they experienced, and she also shares some Amanita large-dose trip reports, cautioning against this practice because of the mushroom’s strong dissociative properties, including amnesia.
Revealing the vast healing potential of this ancient mushroom ally, Masha’s study shows not only how Amanita can help with many health conditions but also how it activates the ability to feel the value and the significance of your own life experience.
A new type of definition for compatibilism of freewill and eternalism.
To debate religion or religious philosophy theology is to debate free will.
Religion comes from the altered state.
The no-free-will experience comes from the altered state.
This explains why debates about religion are the same thing as debates about freewill.
Low-IQ people reduce the entire subject of religion to “Does God exist, yes or no?”
In contrast, I approach the topic of religious theory in terms of no-free-will, or the transformative altered experience of control, as the central driving topic.
Phenomenologically, in the ordinary state, which is the possibilism experiential state, freewill is true or functionally true, experientially the case and is the form of the mental model.
Experiencing is in the form of freewill branching.
Autonomous monolithic control steering in branching possibilities.
The No-free-will State of Consciousness
Phenomenologically, in the altered state, which is the eternalism experiential state, no-free-will is true or functionally true, experientially is the case and is the form of the mental model.
Experiencing is in the form of no-free-will/ non-branching.
Dependent 2-level pre-existing control-thoughts frozen worldline in block universe.
Control Compatibilism
A fully formed mind can handle stable control in the possibilism state of consciousness and the eternalism state of consciousness.
4D
Breadth, Width, Depth, & Height
William James vs. experiencing block-universe eternalism
Psilocybin Eternalism is the one thing that effectively threatens ego steering power.
Science models mental model transformation: of time, control levels, and possibilities.
Unable to Avoid Seeing the Dread Theory
The attractive dread theory: In the eternalism state of consciousness, egoic possibilism thinking is drawn into the control vortex climax.
When the context of reception is so totally, absolutely biased against Psilocybin Eternalism, delivering a true theory – a true, simple, successful theory – is like trying to force-feed a baby who refuses to eat, and looks away to other, non-threatening theories that function to substitute and eliminate the one effective theory that threatens to undermine egoic freewill power.
left = ordinary-state free-will branching-possibilities (open future) experiencing and thinking. right = altered-state psilocybin no-free-will non-branching (closed future) experiencing and thinking.
A theory that’s too open, too greedily broad and diffuse, that focuses on the all-inclusive outer boundary perimeter (eg vaguely asserting “psychoactives” or “states of consciousness” or “entheogenic in the wide sense” or “transcendental freedom”) instead of tethering attention narrowly to the central focus (Psilocybin eternalism) is effectively no distinct theory at all, and is useless and unhelpful.
A theory must be narrow and specific and must pointedly exclude competing theories.
The Egodeath theory agrees with all points that other people assert (such as you must submit & surrender, in the hero’s journey), except that only the Egodeath theory has a successful coherent integrated arrangement.
All other writers’ treatment of myth and mysticism fail because they reduce the altered state no-free-will experiencing descriptions to freewill ordinary state, or at best like Ruck/ Irvin, freewill Amanita.
The Exoteric Esotericism approach commits the category error of saying myth describes things of the possibilism-premised ordinary state.
Only the Egodeath theory asserts and recognizes that myth describes experiencing in the psilocybin altered state no-free-will eternalism.
Myth describes how the mind is forced to switch to the no-free-will mental model when exposed temporarily to the altered state from Psilocybin.
hydra serpent has branching heads, but only one is immortal
Why there cannot be a specific theory of Amanita at this time
The proposal that I also co-emphasize Amanita, elevating it to the grand lofty level of Psilocybin – that is impossible, because I have no fcking idea, and nobody in the field of entheogen scholarship has any idea, what the effects of Amanita are.
The Egodeath theory is not and cannot be about Amanita, because – like everyone else – I have no idea the effects of Amanita.
The Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck/ Irvin/ Rush Amanita Primacy axiom rests on pure conjecture and conflation, as if Amanita is known to have Psilocybin (classic psychedelic) effects, when in fact the only thing we know about Amanita is that it does not produce classic psychedelic effects.
None of these guys even tried Amanita, except Heinrich one or two times.
What I can do though and what I have done is to make a determinate, definite, specific axiom:
Amanita is the billboard for Psilocybin.
A coherent, defensible, specific theory results from that axiom.
It’s impossible for me to say that my theory is one of Amanita, because I have no idea whatsoever what the effects of Amanita are.
So it is out of the question to say the word ‘mushrooms’ so as to assert statements about Amanita – for which I have no evidence.
I only know about Psilocybin, and that’s what I know about, and I can make determinate, fully defensible statements there.
Psilocybin Eternalism
No other theory recognizes that myth is description of Psilocybin eternalism experiencing, so they all go barking up the completely wrong tree, the wrong state of consciousness; or they look to the wrong types of psychoactives, all premised in egoic freewill branching thinking, which is based in the ordinary state.
It is practically necessary to FORCE not avoiding and substituting for Psilocybin, and to force making people unable to avoid head-on direct grappling with no-free-will eternalism-thinking; non-branching block universe with dependent control and pre-existing control-thoughts.
If I don’t force people to look straight at this monster, that would guarantee that they will perpetually drag their feet and put it off and substitute some BS for this theory instead.
Everyone is constitutionally fervently committed to the ABD theory, the Anything But Drugs axiom, specifically and especially the Anything But Psilocybin a priori commitment, along with the Anything But Eternalism commitment (a priori commitment to propping up egoic “freedom” and “empowerment” and the open future); preserve at all costs naive possibilism-thinking; “I am a king steering in a tree into an open future”.
“Please give me enlightenment, but for God’s sake, do not take away my power of being a king steering in a tree into an open future.”
“Whatever enlightenment is, it cannot be that, but it has to be something that amplifies my egoic freedom empowerment power.”
The specific problem is to prevent that specific pair of a priori commitments.
There is an extremely, intensely biased context of reception.
A neutral framing of the theory will definitely instantly fail, and will certainly and definitely be substituted by something else, anything else, as a defensive avoidance/ substitution strategy: the Atman project; pretending to pursue enlightenment, by means which prevent Enlightenment – which is to say, by any strategy other than Psilocybin Eternalism.
If I don’t specifically and pointedly emphasize Psilocybin Eternalism, it is absolutely guaranteed that people will strategically substitute anything else other than that, because this – Psilocybin Eternalism – is the one thing that effectively threatens ego steering power.
There is a very all-dominant falsehood that’s ruining the entire field of entheogen scholarship right now: everybody is intensely committed to denying and covering up Psilocybin in Western Religion.
Eleusis Kykeon is abused for the purpose of people denying and suppressing and ignoring psilocybin sacred meals, and Psilocybin symposium banqueting parties, and ignoring (normally psilocybin) branching-message mushroom trees; denying and ignoring and suppressing and deleting Psilocybin from Christian history – and from Greek history too.
That’s another reason why it is strategically mandatory to vigorously and pointedly assert and press the issue specifically asserting Psilocybin, to prevent everybody from substituting, ignoring, and shutting out Psilocybin by replacing it by scopolamine and cannabis and Amanita and everything and anything other than psilocybin, in order to rob our history of the main, primary substance and put people in cages “because Christianity’s historical practice has no Psilocybin”.
Instead of permitting the vigorous, committed, active suppression of Psilocybin and of no-free-will, it is necessary to put forth a theory in a 100% vigorous assertive, point-blank, unavoidable tethering to the main point: Psilocybin Eternalism.
Firm Assertion of High Dose Redosing 10-Session Psilocybin Altered State
If not forced to confront specifically Psilocybin Eternalism, everyone will substitute the stupid Amanita or substitute the stupid cannabis (like mis-calling MDMA a “psychedelic”) or substitute some assumption of free will possibility thinking.
With Hanegraaff, they will broaden definitions, as an evasion tactic and avoidance strategy, to get rid of ego death by getting rid of Psilocybin by falsely dubbing non-drug meditation as “entheogenic in the wide sense”.
I am DONE with the excuses to substitute anything and everything except the thing that matters, which is psilocybin.
Stop evading, stop avoiding, stop changing the subject and replacing and substituting the real deal.
For the purpose of theory construction, there is only one substance that we need to talk about and that is all self-sufficient and fully adequate: Psilocybin.
No other single substance is fully adequate and self-sufficient to construct a successful explanatory theory of myth and ego transcendence.
Firm Assertion of Eternalism Model of Mental Development
For the purpose of theory construction, there is only one model of mental development in the Psilocybin state, and that is this three-phase model:
1. The ordinary state, which is the possibilism experiential mode, which produces naive possibilism-thinking.
2. The altered state from Psilocybin, which is the eternalism experiential mode, which produces eternalism-thinking. Eternalism-thinking includes and subsumes possibilism-thinking, as qualified possibilism-thinking.
3. The ordinary state, which is the possibilism experiential mode, now retaining/ remembering eternalism-thinking.
{weight on left leg} = naive possibilism-thinking.
{weight on right leg} = eternalism-thinking.
{weight on no legs (or both legs), carrying limbless youth} = eternalism-thinking (which includes qualified possibilism-thinking).
All authors or theories will assume the ordinary state, or they will assume some garbled ordinary-state based conception of the altered state, unless I specifically force the point and force people to specifically weld their thinking and tie and tether their thinking specifically:
You can’t, you’re not permitted or allowed to substitute, avoid, or evade ego death: specifically focus on Psilocybin, specifically focus on no-free-will/ eternalism-thinking – because that’s specifically what you are intent on suppressing and replacing and substituting for.
That is the core strategy of ego delusion avoidance strategy, is specifically to steer away from Psilocybin Eternalism and replace it by anything at all other than that, because that is the one thing that’s actually a threat to egoic freedom power delusion.
Psilocybin Eternalism is the right way to read art/mythemes – as against reading all the wrong, category-error driven writings about myth and mysticism.
The mytheme {sacrifice the youth/ maiden} means Psilocybin eternalism.
My Key Mythemes catalog is the explanation of how myth describes, specifically, psilocybin eternalism.
This is a specific, narrow, particular interpretation theory, forcefully and pointedly casting all mythemes as refering to and describing experiencing psilocybin eternalism.
The mytheme {passing through the dragon-guarded gate to get the treasure} means Psilocybin eternalism; the {dragon-guarded death gate} is actually transformation to no-free-will from Psilocybin.
Any move other than forcing and pressing the point and shoving people’s face in this point – if I don’t do that, then we will continue and perpetuate the ordinary state reduction category error of trying to interpret myth from the wrong point of view, of the freewill ordinary state.
Art mytheme images must be interpreted per the right genre: how does this image describe by analogy, Psilocybin no-free-will?
The {adbucted maiden} or {sacrificed child} to {become adult-form} must be recognized specifically as description of no-free-will Psilocybin – against all avoidance/ substitution theories, which all wish to misread myth as referring to freewill ordinary-state referents.
The theme of {maturation} specifically describes Psilocybin no-free-will experiencing.
Any qualifiers are subsumed under that main point; if you want to also talk about some stupid other scopolamine, or Amanita conjecture, or some stupid overemphasized return to free-will experiencing in the ordinary state afterwards, fine, but the main point is Psilocybin eternalism, not scopalamine freewill.
On one side of the battle, we have the Egodeath theory, and the evidence-base of myth, and we have the very scattered assertions that everybody makes, which I individually agree with (such as: submit, surrender, & higher consciousness).
On the other side of the battle is every writer other than me, both ancient and modern, who makes isolated true statements that are not integrated structurally, and they are not organized, and myth disagrees with their writings, and they know that they have no successful explanation for myth.
Reduction of Psilocybin Eternalism to the External Material Realm
The ~1887 book Classical Mythology by Helene Guerber makes this universal category error clearly visible by its rank, crude, clumsy, clear-cut assertion that myth describes the literal physical sun and weather, per the totally off-base notion that myth is primitive science explanation of the physical mundane world.
Older, sparser headings, b/w statues, more body text sections:
Really, I can redeem the grain of truth here: {wild vs. cultivated} is like:
{wild} = chaotically entering the psilocybin loose cognitive association binding mode while relying on naive possibilism-thinking: unstable, collapses, a foundation of sand.
{cultivated} = refining the mental model to be able to rely on eternalism-thinking, which is coherent, reliable, stable, imperishable, non-collapsing, and viable, a foundation of rock.
cultivated vs. wild; bound hair vs. unbound
See Cyberdisciple’s critique of Ruck’s (& Allegro’s) derailing his entheogen theory by delivering instead, half-baked 1880-era sky-castle anthropology theory.
We came here expecting to read about Entheogens, but instead, it’s a bait-and-switch.
We are instead fed a truckload of dubious, arbitrary, shot-in-the-dark, clueless Structuralism theory sky-castles, speculative theory-weaving instead.
We’re fed an arbitrary theory that Amanita myth describes the contrast of the Wild vs. the Cultivated – or per Allegro, a fertility totem, Amanita.
There is no consciousness, no phenomenology, no psilocybin altered state phenomenology in Carl Ruck’s book with “consciousness” in the title.
He tries, but it is just a mess, a bunch of random New Age garble, it’s not even clear that he’s talking about consciousness – no one can make any sense of what he’s talking about.
But no one talks substantively and clearly about loosecog Transcendent Knowledge. Dissolution of the ego = orange area.
Even Albert Hofmann’s weak book about spirituality was more articulate, and definitely is speaking about consciousness, but I can’t tell what Ruck’s book is talking about; it’s a bunch of vague poetry spew.
There is no altered state phenomenology in John Allegro’s book The sacred mushroom and the cross; it is all Amanita solely as fertility talisman, with no sense whatsoever of the visionary altered state, and myth as description of that experiencing domain.
This is not entheogen theory; this is retrograde, reject, dud failure academic theories, confabulations that came from the Anthropology department.
Martin Arnold’s book The Dragon: Fear and Power states that we cannot understand why the serpent dragon is the number one world mytheme.
The book tries to present an ordinary state based explanation that the dragon myth means fear in the ordinary state, and survival in the ordinary state from predators.
Reduction of Psilocybin Eternalism to the Ordinary-State Mental Realm
Campbell and Jung replaced that embarrassingly facile external-world, materialist reductionism by a more subtle reductionism: “archetypes of the unconscious” (in the freewill ordinary state of consciousness).
Joseph Campbell commits the standard massive universal category error of describing, he thinks that the hero’s journey describes the ordinary state – when in fact, it describes the no-free-will transformation in the Psilocybin altered state.
Reduction of Psilocybin Eternalism to the Altered-State Freewill Experiencing Mental Realm
Getting closer; less cold; you’re getting warmer, not so wildly off-base now:
Irvin & Rutajit in Astrotheology & Shamanism reduce psilocybin eternalism to a mishmash of freewill Amanita and external materialist world (“myth refers to the literal physical sun”).
None of the reductionist theories are based in no-free-will psilocybin experiencing; they don’t see that the referent of myth is psilocybin eternalism experiencing.
Semi-specifically, myth describes things experienced in the Psilocybin altered state in the psyche, as Robert Graves discovered in 1957.
(But fails to perceive the no-free-will revelation experience, which myth strives to describe by analogies.)
Wouter Hanegraaff’s book Hermetic Spirituality and the Historians’ Imagination: Altered Knowledge as if Freewill Revelation From Non-Drug Imagination Exercises is typical, not unique, in that he misreads altered state myth as if it’s describing ordinary-state free will experiencing – or, contradictory altered-state ordinary-state-type freewill experiential mode.
To accomplish this, he has to remove all of the stars from the sky, because he cannot permit the ego death & rebirth gate to lead to an outcome of heimarmene eternalism experiencing, no-free-will eternalism-thinking.
You will never be able to follow and comprehend that {sacrificing to the fate-ruling planetary archons in honor of them} is the same thing as {surrendering to the fate-ruler planetary archons} and {escaping the turmoil from the fate-archons} – you will never understand the altered-state referent of those descriptors as long as you commit the category error of interpreting myth as if description of ordinary-state free will experiencing.
You will never be able to follow and comprehend that {killing the dragon} is the same thing as {surrendering to the dragon} and {riding/ being carried by the dragon} – you will never understand the altered-state referent of those descriptors as long as you commit the category error of interpreting myth as if description of ordinary-state free will experiencing.
Non-Reductionist Recognizing Psilocybin Eternalism No-free-will in the Altered-State Experiencing Mental Realm
Most specifically & really, myth describes eternalism no-free-will non-branching experiences in the Psilocybin altered state in the psyche.
Catholic No-free-will Mysticism
Priests, Gnostics and Magicians: European Roots of Esoteric Independent Catholicism
A god-forsaken pathetic joke of a field, so-called CSR, ie ord state cog sci o junk religion. Useless!
The way to correct this error this omitting of 100% of your content from the field is to directly force the matter:
Dammit, address psychedelics, above all else, you buttheads.
Luther H. Martin the ringleader of BUNK Cog Sci o Relig, despite colleague of David Ulansey being from CIIS Cosmology & Consciousness Studies, the kind that 1995 Wouter Hanegraaff walks by in the Newage bookstore without taking any notice because he knows that the new age does not come from psychedelics, they said so themselves; they only use “power plants”. 😑
The ordinary-state cognitive science of ordinary-state religion – who cares?!
I read all of the Amazon series descriptions of these books including Luther H. Martin’s new book on Mithraism – not one word about psychedelics in the entire book series, not one word!
It is an information blackout, and the field that they are inventing is boring as fck.
My three-star condemnation of the dictionary of gnosis so called by Wouter Hanegraaff proved to be just what the doctor ordered, my saying where the hell is the engine to propel this car forward, this car has no engine, where is the damn drugs, where is the Psychedelics.
Subtract two stars.
The same for the entire series of books on the falsely so-called “cognitive science of religion”.
Totally uninspired ordinary state cognitive science of totally uninspired ordinary state what passes for religion.
Boring and irrelevant.
A junk “cognitive science” study of junk “religion”.
Luther H. Martin managed to turn this field into a breathtakingly boring sawdust, wheelbarrows full of pointless books – a study of this and a study of that, going nowhere.
“Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs.
This approach to publication has given him the opportunity to experiment with different methodological approaches to an academic study of religion, with updates to and different interpretations of his field of historical specialization, namely Hellenistic religions, the subject of his only monograph (1987).
The contents of this collected volume represent Martin’s shift from comparative studies, to socio-political studies, to scientific studies of religion, and especially to the [ordinary state] cognitive science of religion.
He currently considers the latter to be the most viable approach for a scientific study of religion within the academic context of a modern research university.
The twenty-five contributions collected in this volume are selected from over one hundred essays, articles, and book chapters published over a long and industrious career and are representative of Martin’s work over the past two decades.”
2006, the year of the main article at Egodeath.com.
As soon as I wrote that article and the (odd de facto) companion article on Wasson/ Allegro/ Plaincourault, immediately the next thing that happened was the 2006 article by Roland Griffiths, redux return of the Good Friday Experiment.
Finding: mushrooms give mystic experience – to the surprise of zero people.
The cognitive science of psilocybin eternalism experiencing: how to pass in and out through the gate guarded by no-free-will conditional entry.
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no childish freewill branching possibilism-thinking is allowed to pass
leave “king steering in tree” behind
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snake frozen in rock
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eternalism dragon (the no-free-will dragon gate of non-branching) guarding the pearl treasure gate of the garden of the fruit of the immortals that grows on the branching-message tree
See rock birth image elements in terms of the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence.
Rock-born Mithras holds the cybernetic control transgression blade and holds the light torch flame fire of perceiving the mechanism of control thoughts as local control that’s dependent on uncontrollable and pre-existing higher-level control, instead of a monolithic autonmous experiential model of control.
Secret History of Secret Western Secret Esotericism Secret Podcast
adult thinking and child thinkingDionysus (non-branching thinking/ experiencing) victory wedding procession with Ariadne (branching-thinking/ experiencing)two mental states and mental models – Ariadne bound hair & unbound hair mushroom-hem tigers-carried maenadpossibilism-thinking childish garment cloak on left arm branching-thinking
what’s hidden in the lid covered basket? 🐍 seeing the veiled serpent mechanism causes control-death and immortality non-dying a-thanatos
Photo credit: Cybermonk 10/10/2010 10:10 a.m.This book has three sections: environment, health, and spirituality. it’s also a documentary movie or series.non-branching cap above branching veil right limb affirms non-branching part of the branching-message mushroom treeweight relying consciously on right leg adult thinking not left leg child thinkingleft branching right non branching basis of control in world; no-free-will is made to steer in non-branching worldcarried off child thinking to gain non dying immortality in psilocybin gated guarded garden
the serpent-guarded gate
to get through, to be brought through the no-free-will gate, the eternalism gate, you are made to sacrifice child thinking: free-will branching possibilities
Our adult knowledge of how to make control seize and climax and violate/ transgress the limits, by looking at the source of control thoughts.
You don’t control the source of your control thoughts.
For the mind to learn how to do this cybernetic maneuver is for the mind to learn how to control-loss climax in adult fashion, to become a completed mental development, according to the value system of Psilocybin eternalism.
Being given the cancellation of control brings new birth as adult form
i’m thinking of a certain picture of a scrawny tree in the garden of the hesperides with a serpent guarding it – not sure if I have that picture
child-thinking was made to fail, bringing immortal non-dying life
The serpent brings the fruit of immortality from the non-branching tree.
text: Carpenter, see body text also, for plate 153
It is possible to be brought to self control transgression demonstration experiment judging courtroom of putting to trial and putting to test and demonstrating running tests experiments on the personal control system brings it to climax transformation pulled into its new configurations in the higher altered state superior in some ways state, clearly perceiving the underlying mechanism of the personal control system and seeing its vulnerability in the side at the fountain of the source of thoughts
anti-tree artist believes non-branching stump
The inferior incompletely developed mind has not yet been brought to this major mental model addition and transformation, objectively less mature and less developed and has not yet been transformed and is a virgin in a sense not the adult form by definition objectively because this is the ultimate importance of a mental model change therefore it is necessary to have this changed to be an adult completely formed a Transcendent Knowledge compatible mind, Is objectively and is experienced as being more valuable than anything else for mental fullness of development exploring the field of loose cognitive science going in and out through the guard gate the monster garden gate guarded by the no free will non-branching monster which makes you remove the youth thinking garment
to get past the saturn gate no-free-will / non-branching possibilities gate to get the developmental treasure, of accessing the psilocybin state stably, pay 1 youth or maiden thinking
madness of Heracles because didn’t honor divinity god mode thinking at banquet
garment on Ariadne’s left arm, freewill autonomous monolithic control, next to eternalism-thinking 2-level control aware, able to stably control in loosecog
brings you to sacrifice, it pulls you through the gate and strips away child thinking, like Persephone’s winnowing basket, Ganymede youth abdcted by the god, Kore = Maiden, Persephone – this transformation is the rite of passage to adult form eternalism-compatible so immortal so non-dying seizure instability when freely passing through the serpent monster guarded gate where altered state treasure of ability for stable control in alt state because you removed the possibilism egoic illusion non-seeing tight cog binding mode default mode of mental construct processing
eternalism-thinking burns away egoic thinking, childish naive possibilism-thinking – must sacrifice that to be able to cybernetic climax in the loose cog state, for eternalismnauts, to be able to go in to the garden freely, having your eternalism Egodeath club password card, non-branching, serpent-compatible, was made to surrender to one’s own uncontrollable future given thoughts frozen in rock, the king turn to stone to be allowed past the cybernetic seizure gate to get the treasure which is gnosis Transcendent Knowledge eternalism-thinking and state-compatibility, taught the new mental model adult completed, to be able to go in and out of the gate and eat of the tree of life in the hesperides garden guarded by serpent monster with too many eyes seeing to clearly the underlying, 2-level control system; your operating system was a mere overlay on the real serpent lid lifted basket, the youth fell off the rock death seeing the revealed serpent non-branching path frozen king of rock eternalism mechanism the frozen dependency of local control vs autonomy monolithic branch-steering cloak overlay now seen by the elevated, pulled-out level of awareness vantage point as local personal level along with transpersonal level: the block rock universe creation with snake-shaped threads cloaked as if steering in an open future branching possibilities mode of experiencing autonomous monolithic control, overlaid on underlying eternalism and two distinct levels of control, the local portion of the control system is taught to trust the now perceived thought injector rail creator
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paid the adult price to be able to go in to the garden of the fruit of immortality through the gate guarded by the no-free-will, block universe pre-existing control thoughts serpent monster demanding sacrifice of the initial undeveloped immature mental world model that can’t stand up in the altered state but must be jettisoned the god removes the youth in the divine union youth cannot see the divine and live to be able to play at the fountain of clear light of seeing the eternalism control levels dependency mechanism relationship
able to be made to seize control
the wedding chamber of ascent where the climax occurs where the divine is taking up the maiden youth repeatably seizing and being brought the fruit of immortality that undermines the egoic possibilism-thinking overlay you have become non-dying in the altered state loose cog the psilocybin eternalism state of consciousness
Photo: Julie M. Brown, crop by Cybermonk
weight on right foot, snake basket cista mystica lid lifted, reality perceived of 2-level dependent control higher than cloaks of egoic eternalism autonomous control appearance left branching right non-branching
“The experience of the real is a mental fact, a change in our perception.
Gilberto Camilla is a master in telling this mutation of the reality plan: for years he has been dealing with psychotropic plants and their interaction within the most varied cultures, from the ancient world to contemporary times.
To the term ‘psychedelic’, a word coined in 1956 by a friend of Aldous Huxley, today we prefer that of ‘enogenic’, which refers to a dimension in which the psychoactive substance ‘creates the divine in us’.
In nature there are little-known or completely unexplored entheogenic varieties.
This is the case with many mushrooms.
Amanita muscaria is one of them: harvested in certain regions or seasons of the year, it can produce psychotropic effects.
It is known that the esoteric conventue to which Hieronymus Bosch belonged made widespread use of it, and from its effects the great Flemish master drew inspiration for his paintings.
Just as the psychoactive properties of Psilocybe-type fungi are well known: many leave for Mesoamerica in their search, forgetting that in certain areas of our country they grow lush.
Gilberto Camilla leads us on a journey through the continents and peoples who have most used psychoactive fungi to reach the divine, with the knowledge that these, far from being the only cause of the mystical and visionary experience, often lead to a secret and unknowable inner world.”
“In this second volume of “Alluvinogens and Christianity” Gilberto Camilla and Fulvio Gosso, they continue their research on the fungal presence in Christian sacred art and propose some of their further “discoveries”.
If in the first volume the Amanita muscaria had a particular attention,
in this [edition] the authors also identify the presence, in some proposed representations, of the Psilocybe semilanceata.
In both works the evidence of the presence of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Christian iconography becomes numerous and it seems obvious that they are only a small part of those that exist or existed.
It can therefore be assumed that such a phenomenon, geographically and historically vast and widespread, cannot only be limited to religious representations.
Apart from the American “school”, some German authors and a few Italian friends who have expressed interest in the topics covered in these volumes, silence reigns supreme in the academic field.”
Brown’s Citation
Prof. Jerry Brown wrote at Hancock site:
“by Fulvio Gosso and Gilberto Camilla, who in 2007 and 2016, respectively, published volumes one and two of Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo: Evidenze nell’arte sacre (Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art).
“The two volumes describe fifty-two color plates showing psychedelic mushrooms, both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe-varieties, mainly in medieval Christian artworks from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Holland, and Russia.”
“The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age.
Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock art and other ancient materials provide a glimpse of the fundamental role played by nonordinary states of consciousness in our social and evolutionary prehistory.
Ultimately, the authors offer a comprehensive exploration of shamanism, religion, and the origins of human consciousness, along with evidence that hallucinogenic plants may have played a key role in this process.”
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
translation 🤖
“There are those who have noticed that of the almost 500 human groups studied during the ‘900 by ethno-anthropologists, only a few do not currently have, to have suppressed them, systems to produce non-ordinarinous states of consciousness controlled, ritualized, group.
Everyone else does.
The question is: why have all human groups in their evolution felt the need to equip themselves with containers of meaning and ritualized devices for producing non-ordinary states of consciousness?
For at least three reasons.
Meanwhile, because it is part of the specific characteristic of humans never to be satisfied with being where they are.
As ants they work incessantly to explore their environment; and when they reach the limit of the exploitable with their senses and intellectual faculties, and encounter mystery, they do not give up, but seek tools to cross the border, and go beyond.
Then, because from that knowledge the experts report in the ordinary dimension indications and skills on how to work the dimension of the invisible and the immaterial; finally, because a group of humans who together experience the transit and travel in the other part of the world, or who rely on one among them capable of doing so, condenses into a cohesive, supportive, strong.
A us in which many surpluses, emergencies and needs find a ready, shared, controlled path in which to express themselves.”
“The theme of consciousness analyzed and eviscerated in its variations, in its historical conceptions and in its definitions is inspired by the conscious need to constitute a new scientific discipline dedicated to the study of states of consciousness.
From empirical and structural definitions to epistemological issues, from the bibliographic analysis of the main contemporary authors and gender literature to the psychological, cultural and social definition of the concept of consciousness, the author offers us an engaging and fascinating essay that drags the reader thanks to the pressing tone of his investigation.”
“Do Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (SNOC) concern only phenomena such as trance?
Are they confined to the use of hallucinogenic substances or oriental meditation techniques?
Is the majority of the population therefore foreign to this cultural specificity?
This essay shows us how the exact opposite turns out to be true.
We change our basic and waking consciousness daily with sleep and dreams, we “lose” our head in falling in love, in sexuality, in the “vertines” stimulated by extreme activities and we incibly on the perceptual and emotional level with multiple psychoactive substances.
From the analysis of the concept of “reality” to the transcendent and religious dimension as a natural change, from the anthropological study of hemp and its interactions with creativity and spirituality to the analysis of the dream as an object of social interaction, from Christian mysticism to the phenomenon of non-pathological and ritual dissociation, the volume drags the reader page after page on a journey to discover the daily life of consciousness transformations.”
This blurry & heavily cropped image-fragment from John Lash proved plenty to kick off 48 hours of decoding success by applying the Entheogen Mytheme theory from the Egodeath theory, so Cyberdisciple provided the URL for the entire row and 3 rows and psalter, world’s greatest mushroom crop; world’s greatest image.
The only thing as impossibly amazing, unexpected, & surprising as Eadwine’s ability to encode Psilocybin Eternalism in an image is the ability of the Egodeath theory in 2020 to receive and decode this the greatest cybernetic message transmission of all time, and decode the mytheme {branching-message mushroom tree} in 2022.
Eadwine used the era’s {branching-message mushroom tree} symbol-technology – highly efficient.
2006 juvenile immature entheogen scholarship sees “look mommy, theres a mushroom” (picture: kiddie amanita 🍄 )
2022 mature reading of the message:
left = branching-possibilities illusion, right = non-branching reality
In 2020, I wrote here at EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com a couple pages about the process of writing the article about criteria of proof and defining compelling evidence for mushroom imagery and Christian art.
Cyberdisciple saved the day to meet the specifications for the article by formulating the categorization scheme idea, which I then refined and wrote up.
I initially titled the article to deliver an abstracted-out theoretical description of what such criteria of proof “would be” and what such compelling evidence “would be”.
Photo: Julie M. Brown, crop & image processing by Cybermonk Photo: Julie M. Brown, crop & image processing by Cybermonk
Left = branching illusion cloak, right = non-branching unveiled reality.
The youth holds a curved sword in his right hand 😑 – it says so right in Brown’s book, next to the tapestry rejection page because real Amanita specimens lack serrations on the base.
Do not mention the curved pruning knife in the upper right. If an entheogen scholar doesn’t mention it, it must not be there.
(Brown needs to lay off his heroic doses of Wouter Hanegraaff’s non-drug entheogens.)
Meta-Theory Title, Exhibit-Driven Content
The intent and title of the article was a dry neutral abstract theory of laying out the theoretical “criteria of proof”, and what would hypothetically constitute “compelling evidence”, for general-purpose use for communal judging and interpreting (translation: thumb angle = 👍 vs. 👎 ) the Brown mushroom imagery art database.
The art evidence database/ catalog is proposed at the end of the 2016 book The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Secret Hallucinogens in Secret Christianity.
The present site is that evidence catalog, including links to Irvin’s Holy Mushroom, John Rush, & Fulvio Gosso’s pair of books in Italian – search present site or Brown Hancock site article:
“by Fulvio Gosso and Gilberto Camilla, who in 2007 and 2016, respectively, published volumes one and two of Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo: Evidenze nell’arte sacre (Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art).
“The two volumes describe fifty-two color plates showing psychedelic mushrooms, both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe-varieties, mainly in medieval Christian artworks from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Holland, and Russia.”
But the actual content of the article was a huge jackpot-fest of presenting a rapidly expanding gallery and exhibits of smoking-gun art examples with successful theoretical interpretation.
That success bred even more success, leading to re-finding the image of the two guys in the Cubensis tree – blurry and cropped severely with no consciousness of the existence of the surrounding 90% of the image – the greatest image ever.
That treatment section quickly mushroomed overnight into 11 pages, so I broke it out into a separate article about the Eadwine Mushroom Psalter’s crowning image (which led to my gallery articles of all 75 mushroom plants of the psalter, with morphology inventoried).
When I later tried to read aloud the original article, I detected two problems:
The actual content of the article was all examples of breakthroughs.
Only one page delivered the abstract theory, a Radical Maximal, expansive and requisitely greedy classification scheme, of assessing mushroom imagery – against the stingy Moderate/Minimal bias, which removes 5/6 of the evidence types and narrows the radar to only attempt to see Amanita, in text, explicitly – and only “devotional” texts count.
Also the title would instantly lose, because it was neutral, in an intensely biased reception context.
The long article delivered a 1-page compact classification scheme for types of evidence, overwhelmed by massive evidential instances including the spinoff articles that its successful method spawned.
The classification scheme is extracted or abstracted from the method I developed through decades of research & theory-construction about mytheme interpretation referring to the temporary experience of no-free-will/ block-universe eternalism in the loose cognitive association binding state from psychedelics.
The psilocybin eternalism experience leaves the mind with an additional mental worldmodel of time, control, and possibilities after returning to the ordinary state which is tight cognitive association binding which gives the freewill, branching possibility model of control-in-world.
I retitled the article more vigorously, announcing that here is compelling evidence demonstrating the criteria.
It remains an exercise for the Brown Evidence Database Committee to reverse-derive a mind-dulling 20-page theoretical hypothetical description of how one would have to go about assessing mushroom imagery if we didn’t already have the completed conclusions and evidence at this site and Egodeath.com.
We have that conclusive evidence along with the complete successful interpretive framework and Radical Maximal strategy that is required, to make perceivable the clear and obvious conclusive evidence.
I never dreamed that it was possible to have the perfect evidence for the Egodeath theory in an image, though my 2006 main article already had the Eustace cathedral and Dionysus/Ariadne branching-message images at start and end, which I didn’t recognize until Brown in March 2022 sent me the 2019 article’s version of the “youths in trees cutting branches” passage.
My 2006 main article was at the start of the Psychedelic Renaissance, according to the book How to Change Your Mind – like my breakthrough Core theory was in 1988, the Second Summer of Love in the Psychedelic 80s.
A proper full article about “The Criteria Would Be”? Such an article, at this late date after the breakthrough dust has already settled, seems like a counter-indicated scenario, acting AS IF the breakthrough hadn’t already happened.
While writing the article, the situation blossomed, obviating the article as it was initially framed.
The latter is not only now irrelevant, but inappropriate, given the new situation.
The new question for the new reality, the new, changed situation, is:
What criteria and meta-theory of evidence can we derive & back-extract from the done deal of the Egodeath theory breakthrough (the Entheogen Eternalism Mytheme theory)?
What other, competing theory and evidence database is there? Parasols of victory?
Convert those parasols of victory into switching from the Ergot/Amanita Primacy axiom to the Psilocybin Primacy axiom, arrived along with the Psilocybin Eternalism theory; the Egodeath theory.
The biggest impediment to entheogen scholarship is entheogen scholars.
Brown’s Hancock site article broadens out from the Amanita Primacy dead-end and disproves Hatsis’ delusional false wishful fantasy that Plaincourault (which is abnormal and deviant in being an Amanita-styled branching-message mushroom tree) is “the linchpin”.
The opposite is the case – as Panofsky said, the Plaincourault fresco is merely one of thousands of instances, the opposite of a special linchpin.
Brown’s Comment
December 8, 2022
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the mention in your recent Wasson post. I think you saw this below in my reply to Hatsis on Graham Hancock’s website last year – a reply which benefited greatly from David’s input.
But just in case, I am sending you the relevant section of this article – available at:
Christianity’s Psychedelic History: Reply to Thomas Hatsis’ Review of The Psychedelic Gospels
Mushroom images in art: The field is also in need of robust categories for classifying depictions of mushrooms in art.
For example, Samorini proposes a two-fold typology of mushroom trees, using the Plaincourault Amanita muscaria and the Saint Savin psilocybin mushroom as ideal types.
Researcher Michael Hoffman defines three categories for classifying mushroom images: literal depictions of mushrooms, stylized depictions of mushrooms, and depictions of mushroom effects which suggest altered states of consciousness.
I find Hoffman’s categories useful for classifying the two varieties of MICA [Mushrooms in Christian Art] that we photographed at the following religious sites. The text in parentheses indicates the black and white Figure (Fig.) or color Plate (P) in The Psychedelic Gospels that displays our photographs of these images.
_____ ASC – images suggesting altered states of consciousness:
Chapel of Plaincourault, France (P5)
Chartres Cathedral, France (P18)
/ end of article excerpt from Comment
Mushroom Kingdom
Super Mario Mushroom Kingdom movie
Ardent Advocates commit the historiography methodological error of seeing mushrooms everywhere.
Brown warns us not to be ardent advocates, and he vows and swears that he is not, and has never been, an ardent advocate of mushrooms in Christian art, and has proved his cred by throwing a sacred tapestry in the river, to the smirking applause of the anti-mushroom Psychedelic Witch.
That’s how he got Thomas Hatsis (the definitive great Historian) to approve of him 👍
Wasson, whose 1957 article in Life magazine describing the first psilocybin journey ever taken by a Westerner — his own —
p 103, Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind
Eadwine and the genre of branching-message mushroom trees discovered and fully explained by Cybermonk Nov 2020 & Mar 2022
Are we really to assume (not just as hyperbole) as I’ve been saying, that the entire field of entheogen scholarship has literally asserted and taken for granted that there were no Psilocybin but that all 100% of “mushrooms” in Western religious history were exclusivrly Amanita?
Entheogen scholars are literally asserting this massive, extremely harmful, fallacious assumption, taken for granted uncritically.
I thought that I was merely being hyperbolical and I was saying it’s almost as if Ruck is asserting no psilocybin – but now I’m starting to think that Ruck and everyone literally explicitly are asserting that.
In his recent article about Entheogens in Antiquity, Mark Hoffman says the field of entheogen scholarship ought to look into psilocybin in western religion.
That proves my assertion that they have failed utterly to do this.
what the hell is wrong with them?! they are addicted to their substitute ergot and Amanita.
Robert Graves asserted in 1957 that cubensis is the source of Greek myth & religion, that Greek religious myth is description of Psilocybin experiencing.
It is really Robert Graves’ fault that it is so difficult to fact-check him: he has re-titled his article about food for centaurs, and re-published it in different years, and then quoted it in the 1960 book on mythology second edition and maybe 1964, so nobody can keep track. 🤷♂️
We can’t blame Graves or Samorini for the Ergot/ Amanita shutout of Psilocybin.
Michael Pollan’s book fallaciously says that Wasson discovered psilocybin mushrooms, in Mexico.
That’s what the #1 best journalist asserts in his groundbreking influential book, How to Change Your Mind Without Thinking.
But it was two at least two or three guys before Wasson; eg Reko told Schultes, then Schultes told Graves, then Graves told Wasson.
John Lash credits all mushroom entheogen scholarship to Wasson.
John Lash trumpets to the skies in giant billboards that Wasson created the word ‘entheogen’, that Wasson discovered entheogens, that Wasson invented mushrooms in religion, that he’s the first one to study it, and that all entheogen theories come from Wasson
– including theories that are “considerable departures from” Wasson’s theory – see my hall of shame quotes page for that comical use of the universal set.
Then buried in Lash’s footnotes is a tiny escape clause that there were discoverers before Wasson.
Wasson was the first ever to study entheogens in our own history. He says so in his book SOMA – the same book in which he censors the 1906 Brinckmann book from, strongly recommended by both Panofsky letters: Tree stylizations in medieval paintings. See my page here.
It is becoming clear to me (and in line with the complaint of Letcher Hatsis) just how malformed this field of entheogen scholarship is. Including Paul Stamets.
Graves and Samorini and Browns excepted. And the recent Italian pairs of books by Fulvio Gossi.
Entheogen scholarship is driven by people copy-paste propagating the same claims, the same tropes, the same folklore foundation myths, the same blind spots, the same biases, the same extreme over-exaggeration of Eleusis, the same extreme over-exaggeration of Amanita and Plaincourault and Allegro.
Michael Pollan’s 2018 book How to Change Your Mind:
Did you know that Wasson was the first person ever to think of the idea that the tree of knowledge is Amanita?
That’s right, that’s what he asserts in his book Soma, after spending decades haranguing and insulting mycologists for asserting that the tree of knowledge in Plaincourault Fresco is Amanita, as he does a few pages later in the very same book. See my Wasson article at Egodeath.com for the passages.
Pollan’s journalist coverage includes Paul Stamets, who explains to us in his book Psilocybin mushrooms of the world: an identification guide (1998), that when a Cubensis goes to sprout on a cow pie, it first asks itself: am I in Europe or the Americas? and then it asks itself: is the year number 1976, or less?
Then the Cubensis reasons to itself: if I am not in Europe, or the year is greater than or equal to 1976, then I will sprout; otherwise I won’t.
This is how, as Paul Stamets and Letcher Hatsis explain to us, that there was no psilocybin in England before 1976.
– even though Paul Stamets’ book states that psilocybin is everywhere around the world and it grows on bovine dung.
