Wise as Serpents: Entheogenic Religion and the Paris Eadwine Psalter (John Lash)

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  • Show URLs for each article link. Try to provide a metahistory.org for each of the 9 articles, above the Archive.org links

Book: Wise as Serpents: Entheogenic Religion and the Paris Eadwine Psalter

John Lash wants to produce a book with the above title, as stated at his new web domain: https://nemeta.org/course/projects/

briefly available 3.5-hour reading/ critique: Egodeath Mystery Show episode 181 – Psychonaut Wasson Tax (July 8, 2022)

Archived John Lash Psychonautics Articles

5 John Lash Psychonautics Webpage Articles on Mushroom Imagery in Psalter, 3 Wasson Articles, & 1 on Entheogen Scholar Pioneers to 1964

Lash’s archived Site Guide page’s Psychonautics section has 9 working links to articles, including 5 Paris Eadwine Psalter articles & 3 Wasson articles:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111019195903/http://www.metahistory.org/sitemap.php#psychonautics – Psychonautics section

Psychonautics Articles Section of Metahistory Site

site map, broken links?
https://www.metahistory.org/sitemap.php
https://www.metahistory.org/sitemap.php#psychonautics
the Discovery article link at that site map tries to go to:
https://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/Discovery.php
but wrmspirit found working URL:
http://metahistory.org/Discovery.php
So try deleting www, /psychonautics/ , /Wasson/ from 404 URLs.
https://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/ 404
https://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/ 404
https://www.metahistory.org

Old Lash Site Map Archive of Lash Site Map of Metahistory.org with Working Archive Links

Backup Copy of Psychonautics Section of Archive of Lash Site Map of Metahistory.org with Working Archive Links

Audio Tour of Metahistory Site Map

Lash voice recording mentioning secrit agent man Aasson:

the SPOKEN TOUR (part 2)

Very minor formatting of Lash’s Site Map added by Cybermonk:

PSYCHONAUTICS – 1 History Article

“Originally conceived in three parts, but only:

1) Part 1, covering the years 1935 – 1965, has been completed so far:
The Psychonautic Adventure

https://web.archive.org/web/20111019195903/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Psychonautics1.php

Right now I can’t say if or when I will complete the two remaining parts,

2) generation two 1965 – 1995, and

3) the current generation, 1995 – current [2008, 2011].

The remainder of this classroom consists of two folders:

/Eadwine Folder – 5 Articles

The Discovery of a Lifetime
John Lash
2008, with 2016 addendum, has latest edits:
http://metahistory.org/Discovery.php

The Discovery of a Lifetime – describes how I found in the National Library in Paris a medieval ms. of the 13th Century, the Paris Eadwine Psalter, the only copy in existence, lavishly illustrated with Daliesque images of psychoactive mushrooms.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111019195903/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Wasson/Discovery.php – lacks edits/content.

Entheogenic Revelation: The Paris Eadwine Psalter – outlines my proposed book on the Wasson theory of the origin of religion (working title “Paradise Denied’), a project that did not get sold. It relates the Eadwine psalter to the Mysteries, in particular to perception of the molecular structure of DNA in a heightened state induced by psychoactive plants.
try: http://metahistory.org/EadwinePsalter.php – result: 404.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111019195903/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/EadwinePsalter.php
todo: put latest Archive.org link, not 2011.

Illuminated Heresy – presents further commentary with illustrations from the Eadwine psalter, including one image of Christ tempted by an antlered shaman-devil in a mushroom grove.
todo: try: http://metahistory.org/IlluminatedHeresy.php – 404
https://web.archive.org/web/20111019195903/http://www.metahistory.org/psychonautics/Eadwine/IlluminatedHeresy.php
Search: Lash “Illuminated Heresy”

Mystic Jesus: Hanged Man and Dancer – offers yet more jaw-dropping images from the Eadwine psalter, included Christ inverted and an explicit cameo of Jesus dancing with Mary Magdalene. All in all, extraordinary evidence for Gnostic heresy and entheogenic mysticism preserved in this unique medieval text.

Forbidden Fruit: The Psalter of Saint Louis – compares images of another psalter containing entheogenic imagery with the Eadwine illustrations.”

/Wasson Folder – 3 Articles

The Entheogenic Theory of Religion – sets out my strong objections to the trendy notion (coming from Benny Shannnon, John Rush, and others) that patriarchal figures like Moses and Jesus, iconic proponents of salvationist religion, acquired their message by inspiration from sacred teacher plants.

The Oldest Taboo in the World – Introduction to Wasson Book (incomplete and unpublished). Considers the taboo encoded in the Old Testament myth of the Temptation of Adam and Eve, forbidding the eating of sacred plants that give wisdom or a divine or god-like nature.

The Banker and the Bruja – Chapter One of Wasson Book – describes the meeting between R. Gordon Wasson and the Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina, resulting in the handover of psychoactive plant mysticism by its indigenous practitioners, making it known to the world at large.”

Lash’s Counterproductive and Bizarre Idol Worship of Wasson

the Lash archive site map Psychonautics section includes Lash’s voice recording, in which Lash describes Wasson as “a double agent of the nu whirl odor” – and yet Lash’s new book edition preserves his obsequious, fawning Wasson idolizing/ worship, grotesquely and needlessly and repulsively calling entheogen = exact synonym of ‘Wasson’ – this is a major self-contradiction of Lash.

It is highly unproductive/ counterproductive to go out of his way to drag Wasson’s name in, every single time Lash mentions entheogens/ the entheogen theory; this is an ERROR, a very bad idea, by one measure or another. Awful theorizing.

Genuflecting to Wasson at every opportunity, striving and straining to put more emphasis on Wasson than on entheogens,

like Ruck loves Secret more than Amanita, Lash loves Wasson more than entheogens.

Lash goes out of his way to insert Wasson as the intermediary between people and entheogens. Even though Lash admits in his voice recording commentary at his site map page Psychonaut section that Wasson is radioactive AF.

Lash is conducting a project for the purpose of giving as much glory to Wasson as possible at every opportunity.

Fortunately, Lash has no takers, just like Hanegraaff will find that no one else on Earth will employ Hanegraaff’s monstrously ill-advised and counterproductive construction from Hell, “entheogens in the broad sense” – ie non-drug entheogens.

No one other than Lash hastens to (pointlessly & needlessly) call the entheogen theory “the Wasson theory” at every single opportunity.

Lash’s Two Forms of “The Wasson[SIC! 🤢😡] Theory”

Finding during the July 7 [8] show in which I read all 9 Lash Psychonaut articles: Lash defines TWO forms of “the Wasson[sic!] theory”:

“the Wasson thesis in the general sense” (non-idiots call it as Lash does when Lash is not compromised & insane: the entheogen theory of religion)

“the Wasson thesis in the specific sense” = the idiotic terrible dumb idea than Letcher wrote an entire book mocking, Hatsis cashing in on copying Letcher’s move, that all religion came from an Amanita cult in the Ural mountains.

Then Letcher Hatsis conflates the broad vs narrow sense of “the Wasson theory”, in the Christian context. And calls that like Lash calls Allegro’s theory “a spinoff of the Wasson thesis” –

Lash’s handling of framing of theory formation & naming is atrocious!

Lash employs the term “the entheogenic theory of religion fine, but then every time he does, he then RUINS it by dubbing it an exact synonym of “the Wasson theory”, which no one else does, because such a bad and weird idea/framing.

Entheogen scholars are in a heated competition for which scholar can construct the worst idea ever.

i already have a quite good page on Lash and the Allegro Thesis and “the Wasson thesis”[SIC!!] 🤢😡 which i will read aloud on Egodeath Mystery Show

No one ever reads my webpages 😭 especially me 🙃

from backup page:

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_84.htm

Lash’s page title from the John Lash page “Psychedelic Bible – The Discovery of a Lifetime”

NOV 2006 Lash viewed the psalter/ mushrooms. just after orig edition of Not in His Image. and my pair of articles at egodeath.com – main article & plaincourault article.

my page title needs improvement like title/URL of present page. weak title:

John Lash – The Discovery of a Lifetime

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/john-lash-the-discovery-of-a-lifetime/

Lash very astutely points out that Ruck et al’s Amanita Madness is countered by Psalter’s non Amanita mushrooms!

very good content, does it have the hall of shame quote “versions of Wasson’s theory including considerable departures from it”?

aka the universal set of all theories about entheogens incl Lash and Allegro and Hatsis and Graves 1957 –

arbitrary handing all credit to Wasson – very poor theorizing and highly offensive and belittling of everyone ; highly insulting, rob Peter to pay Paul

all ideas about entheogens belong to Wasson. excuse me?!

HOW DARE you, john lash – WE BEG TO DIFFER!!

The most insulting and rude theorizing in order to fawningly WORSHIP Wasson as our savior;

Wasson literally IS entheogens, per last nights Egodeath Mystery Show ep 180 july 6 2022 https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-episode-180

when you ingest entheogens, you ingest Wasson, the flesh of Wasson our savior who existed with God from before the creation of the world.

Wasson is even bigger than the Beatles! 🤢 obseqious and fawning

Lash is more offensive than Hatsis here

😍 WASSON IS BIGGER THAN GOD 🙌 🤢

Peak Mushroom, the Christianity Gap, the Great Conspiracy to Deny Mushrooms inside Our Own Tradition in Church History

https://www.academia.edu/5374453/Entheogens_Sacramentals_or_Sacrilege_A_Working_Draft?email_work_card=view-paper

https://www.academia.edu/5374453/Entheogens_Sacramentals_or_Sacrilege_A_Working_Draft?email_work_card=view-paper, 2014 included in 2014 book:


Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances: Chemical Paths to Spirituality and to God

J. Harold Ellens, 2014

Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances [2 volumes]: Chemical Paths to Spirituality and to God (Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality)

“The first of its kind, this intriguing two-volume set objectively reports on and assesses this modern psycho-social movement in world culture: the constructive medical use of entheogens and related mind-altering substances.

“Covering the use of substances such as ayahuasca, cannabis, LSD, peyote, and psilocybin,

the work seeks to illuminate the topic in a scholarly and scientific fashion so as to lift the typical division between:

those who are supporters of research and exploration of entheogens,

and those who are strongly opposed to any such experimentation altogether.

The volumes address the history and use of mind-altering drugs in medical research and religious practice

in the endeavor to expand and heighten spirituality and the sense of the divine,

providing unbiased coverage of the relevant arguments and controversies regarding the subject matter.

Chapters include:

examinations of how psychoactive agents are used to achieve altered states in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism as well as in the rituals of shamanism and other less widely known faiths.

This highly readable work will appeal to everyone from high school students to seasoned professors, in both the secular world and in devoted church groups and religious colleges.”

trying to capture an excessive number of potential discussion points

in the middle ages-

when was peak mushroom?

when was the fall off

when did we forget and why

spoke with an expert who was specifically mad that Christianity had 100% forgotten and he was exclaiming on the totalNess of this forgetting and

we discussed a little bit but not enough whether modernity- or there was a conspiracy so to speak of both religion and modernity , they both suppressed mushrooms [psilocybin] for their own different reasons

both parties allied

religion allied with early modern science around 1700 to kill off mushrooms [psilocybin]

how did this work

do we put all blame on the church in the middle ages of 1200 ,or do we put all blame on nascent maternity maternity Modern stupid voice transcription MODERNITY robbed us of msh Hanegraaff re throwing esotericism in trashcan

Thomas Roberts counsel for spiritual practices Article at Academia.edu mentions Ken Wilber at the bottom seems to be from around 2011 course guidelines syllabus program and

I don’t like roberts’ typical framing of the question “are visionary plants an authentic fake simulation of the authentic methods of the mystics?”

the very way that he expresses the questions already has baked into it a negative verdict!!

It’s the sort of do you still beat your wife type of the question has a falsehood in a presupposition baked into the very question itself

like a game that has losing already woven into it

it is a game that is designed for you to lose

the very way that the question is posed already contains the negative bias against the visionary plants

the false presuppositions are already integrated into the very formulation of the question

John Lash very much bothers me the way that he keeps far too much credit to Wasson and

both Wasson and John lash they both know in fact they both know the fact of the matter

they both know perfectly well that there are mushrooms in Christianity and both of them sensor with the total information blackout

the great information blackout

the Christianity gap

John Lash and Wasson the great Christianity gap and blackout

in fact it’s a blackout and

we have different flavor of motives:

the church has one reason to suppress and deny mushrooms

butt Wasson has a different reason to suppress and deny Mushrooms in Christianity

and John lash has a different reason to suppress and deny Christians Mushrooms

and science Modern 1700 enlightenment science has a different reason to deny and suppress Mushrooms

and goddamnit everybody every idiot every clown every stupid bunk field

everybody has their own unique reason for suppressing and denying Mushrooms in Christianity

the great massive bias and huge conspiracy by everybody

and John Rush has his reasons to deny and suppress Mushrooms in Christianity

and Jan irvin has his own reasons to deny and suppress the Central presence of mushrooms within Christianity

and everybody has their reasons to deny and suppress Mushrooms in Christianity

and Dr. Secret Amanita Carl Ruck has his own reasons to try to minimize and sideline and emphasize the absence rather than the presence presence of mushrooms in Christianity

everybody is all conspiring to minimize and suppress and deny and delete mushrooms from Christianity

idiots!

and they are all directly causing the prohibition of psilocybin !

the great self defeat

Everybody is conspiring to be self-defeating and to establish and set up and justify and propagate and perpetuate psilocybin Prohibition

John Lash tries to perpetuate Prohibition and Wasson tries and strive and Irvin and Rush and ruck and everybody and all of the entheogen scholars except for Samorini and brown, they all conspire

and organized religion conspires

and modern enlightenment science conspires

and everybody conspires to tell the false narrative and to tell the courts the lie, that our own religious tradition has no mushrooms, or has very few, and

we want to emphasize that our own religion history is founded on the denial and suppression and deletion of mushrooms from Christianity

and everybody wants to emphasize the lack, the absence rather than the presence of mushrooms, of psilocybin with in the tradition

THE POISON NARRATIVE THAT PROPS UP PSILOCYBIN PROHIBITION

and they even use evidence and mushroom art to prop up and perpetuate this narrative which is self-defeating and harmful and perpetuates the prohibition scam sham Prohibition of Psilocybin by all conspiring to agree and

everybody tells the same false narrative

everybody is committed to the story that Christianity is all about removing and deleting Mushrooms

this is the great Christianity gap or the great conspiracy to misrepresent – and a commitment to not seeing and not Recognizing the central Presence of Mushrooms – *Psilocybin* Mushrooms because

if I don’t say psilocybin, then you will be forced to picture amanit emoji

“mushroom” = 🍄 , So you force me to say Psilocybin, because if I don’t , you will absolutely say/hear Amanita a million times

I see the word mushroom, you hear the word Amanita

and that’s why I cannot say mushroom; I have to say Psilocybin, to break your stupid ruts of thinking, your Dr. Rut’s rut of thinking

As surely as a mushroom-tree artist forces you to think mushrooms, and they must take responsibility for that, similarly, when I say the word ‘mushroom’, that will force you to wrongly think of the word ‘Amanita’ and to definitely not think at all of psilocybin type mushrooms

I want to read John lash book pages about the lion headed serpent monster which Sophia creates when not factoring in the Higher source of control thoughts

and also read Metzner but really I’ve been wanting more books by Ralph Metzner and two or three books by him are strongly recommended by John Lash

a big topic of conversation is : do we have to think of Wasson as evil per Irvin?

and what do we do with this problem of John lash trying to give an insane amount of credit and credit the entire entheogen theory 100% to Wasson ,

At the overall narrative level john lash literally calls via entheogen theory he literally calls it “the wasson theory” – that bugs the hell out of me, that really is grating. it would take a while to work out the ideas of why why it is so wrong the way that John lash so absolutely labels and equates the Theory and gives entire credit to the very guy well a big question is did Wassen he is so evasive on this did Wason explicitly deny so put the question to him the question the question is the question of all questions is:

Wasson & Lash, please answer The Question:

To what extent Psilocybin and Muscimol mushrooms within the church throughout Christian history?

please do not employ the word ‘secret’ or ‘cult’ in your answer

Wasson Was the First to Assert the Entheogenic Theory of Religion, Which Is that Ingesting Sacred Plants Is the Origin of All Genuine Religious Experience

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The ingestion of sacred plants is the origin of all genuine religious experience.

R. Gordon Wasson, presenting the Wasson thesis, in Lash 2nd Ed. p. 220

That is the Wasson thesis, as reported by John Lash.

The Wasson thesis is actually, in fact, the entheogenic theory of religion except Christianity.

That is the Lash/Wasson standard “entheogen theory of religion except Christianity”.

hey wasson

i have a question

… for you to be given the extreme massive (yet vague & silent re: Christianity) credit that John Lash gives you as the creator of the entheogenic theory of religion, which asserts all genuine religious experience is by ingesting entheogens:

What specifically is the Wasson thesis?

What specifically is the entheogenic theory of religion?

… Especially regarding medieval Christianity, hellenistic symposia mixed wine, mystery religion sacred meals (not focusing on Eleusis/ kykeon, please), and mushroom trees in Christian art.

What is your definition of “the entheogenic theory of religion”?

What is your definition of “the entheogenic theory of Christianity”?

Does the medieval church contain genuine religious experiencing that’s not from ingesting entheogens?

Are entheogens the origin of all genuine Christian religious experiencing in the middle ages?

Did Christians in the middle ages know that all genuine religious experiencing is from ingesting visionary plants?

Is your theory the entheogenic theory of religion?

Are you the creator of the entheogenic theory of religion, like you wrote in Soma that you were the first person since pre-history to associate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with amanita (other than the mycologists, that said that the tree in the fresco is amanita, and other than the mushroom tree artists and their viewers)?

Given that the Eden trees are Amanita as you wrote, then is the tree of life at the other end of the bible Amanita?

Is the entheogenic theory of religion the theory that “the … ingestion of sacred plants … is the origin of all genuine religious experience” (Lash p.220), or is John Lash misattributing that innovation and that theory to you?

Are you the creator of the word ‘entheogen’, or is Ruck?

Do you agree with the maximal entheogen theory of religion, that visionary plants are by far the main way that Christians, and others, accessed the intense mystic altered state throughout history?

Are the hundreds of mushroom trees in Christian art (aside from the Plaincourault fresco) depictions of mushroom imagery?

Are the 75 mushroom plants in the Canterbury Psalter representations of mushrooms, given that (as Lash says that you were the first to assert) all genuine religious experience is from ingesting entheogens?

Are Panofsky’s two “little pictures” that he attached to one of his May 1952 pair of letters to you paintings of mushroom imagery, given that “the … ingestion of sacred plants … is the origin of all genuine religious experience”?

Do you agree with Albert Brinckmann 1906 per Panofsky, that mushroom trees are random accidental sloppy distortions of Italian umbrella pines?

Why did the art world accept the outcome of the pine tree template development into mushroom evoking imagery, given that they knew would cause viewers to describe them as mushroom trees?

Were artists unaware that their pilzbaum force a mushroom impression on the viewer?

If mushroom tree artists did not want to cause the impression of mushrooms on the viewer, then why did they go ahead and depict mushroom imagery in a way that they knew would force a mushroom impression on their viewers?

Why exactly did the mushroom-tree artists consider causing this mushroom impression to be acceptable?

Why did the art world accept this particular specific outcome, which is to say, a mushroom-looking outcome?

What is your theory of individual artist intention re: mushroom trees?

Did you obtain & read Brinckmann’s book which Panofsky’s pair of May 1952 letters strongly urged you to read, and which author name & accurate title you wrote on his letter that you partly republished?

Did Panofsky give you permission to publically publish his two letters to you? were they intended for public consumption, unlike your “rightly or wrongly we are committed skeptics” letter to lead mycologist John Ramsbottom?

How did you decide which portions of Panofsky’s pair of letters to publish, and which parts to keep secret and hidden from the public?

Why didn’t you pass on Panofsky’s double recommendation of Brinckmann’s book to the mycologists; John Ramsbottom, and the public?

A genuine authentic maximal entheogen theorist and a real scholar would have provided citations, not hid them away, like Lash’s deleted articles about the Canterbury Psalter’s many mushroom trees.

Why did you publish a couple of Panofsky’s arguments from the first letter, but you didnt publish any of his arguments from his second letter, such as:

There are too many mushroom-trees for them to represent mushrooms.

and that:

The mushroom-tree artists would have had to omit the branching features, if they had wanted to give the viewer the impression of mushrooms, such that art historians would call them pilzbaum.

Original art motif decoding & discovery by Cybermonk nov 2020-apr 2022. the ACTUAL template for mushroom trees, against Panofsky’s confabulation of his process that “develops” the given art imagery of branching-themed mushrooms into pine trees

Were you telling mycologists that they had to go consult the art historians merely to get the dogmatic conclusion according to the art historian authorities?

Or were you telling mycologists that they need to have a two-way discussion and debate and investigation to open up like Panofsky’s citing Brinckmann’s’s book and including attached paintings, like an actual honest and curious scholar would do?

john lash, Not in His Name, 2nd ed. p 220, 377, 392

add links to lash’s deleted, covered-up articles about his discovery of some of the 75 mushroom trees in canterbury psalter as “the discovery of a lifetime”, which he hides and omits from his book Not in His Name because they make Christianity look good, against his narrative agenda of “the big bad church eliminated all entheogens” – same false narrative most entheogen scholars are committed to;

entheogen scholars would rather remove mushrooms from Christianity than admit mushrooms are within Christianity.

add links to Idea Development page 13 here, voice – Egodeath Mystery Show reading Lash book

Egodeath Mystery Show episode 179 – Graves Wasson Thesis (July Fourth, 2022

Hatsis Gallery of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

Contents:

  • Intro
  • My Links to Hatsis’ Articles & Books
  • Psychedelichistorian.com site down, 2024
  • A Brief Introduction to Holy Mushroom Theory
  • Roasting Jan Irvin
  • The Dogmatist’s Debacle
  • The Christian Radish Cult
  • The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
  • Notes
  • Ezekiel’s Scroll Has Writing on Both Sides, So, Not Mushroom, in Ezek 2 & Rev 10
  • See Also

Intro

My Links to Hatsis’ Articles & Books

My main place as of Jan. 2025 where I have links to Hatsis’ set of articles:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/psychedelic-mystery-traditions-hatsis/#biblio

Psychedelichistorian.com site down, 2024

Feb. 1 2025 Hatsis site remains down. articles 1 archive avail 2023 – be sure to back up b/c few snapshots.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228072821/https://psychedelichistorian.com/tag/holy-mushroom-theory/

ArticlesFeatured

A Brief Introduction to Holy Mushroom Theory

A Brief Introduction to Holy Mushroom Theory
Thomas Hatsis, December 7, 2017 [2013?]
The Holy Mushroom theory presents a challenge to social scientists interested in entheogenic and psychedelic history.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228072821/https://psychedelichistorian.com/a-brief-introduction-to-holy-mushroom-theory/

Get pictures from there.

Roasting Jan Irvin

Roasting Jan Irvin
There is a better title and more complete article than this later copy from arspsychedelia.com orig site
Thomas Hatsis, November 7, 2017 [2013]
If there is a Christian mushroom cult, it won’t be found without critical historical inquiry.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228072821/https://psychedelichistorian.com/roasting-jan-irvin/

Get pictures from there.

The Dogmatist’s Debacle

The Dogmatist’s Debacle
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228072821/https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-dogmatists-debacle/
Thomas Hatsis, September 12, 2017 [2013?]
Lacking real evidence, Jan Irvin shows that he is not a historian, but an ideologue.

Get pictures from there.

The Christian Radish Cult

The Christian Radish Cult
Thomas Hatsis, September 11, 2017 [2013?]
The evidence touted by Christian mushroom-cult theorists reads more like an opinion column than real historical inquiry.

The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival

The Mushroom in Mommy Fortuna’s Midnight Carnival
Thomas Hatsis, August 24, 2017 [2013?]
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228072821/https://psychedelichistorian.com/the-mushroom-in-mommy-fortunas-midnight-carnival/
If Jan Irvin doesn’t investigate his hypotheses, how seriously can we take his conclusions?

Get pictures from there.

Notes

wtf, Irvin 2008 book THM slams Ruck for limiting – Irvin is busting open access to The Mushroom , amanita. Opposite of Hatsis’ claim about Irvin’s position.

Amanita continues to have powerful psychedelic effects proved by hopkins with psil, so therefore Amanita is king of all psychedelics.

Amanita is traditional wishful thinking, traditional popular mushroom lore.

Psil Manna is better than Amanita scroll Eze Rev 10.

Sart https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%202&version=NIV

 Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

Ezekiel’s Scroll Has Writing on Both Sides, So, Not Mushroom, in Ezek 2 & Rev 10

Ezekiel Scroll Disproves Heinrich & Rules Out The Mushroom: Has Writing on Both Sides, when Unrolled, plus, Amanita doesn’t roll up – So, Not Mushroom, in Ezekiel 2-3 or Revelation 10

Gen 2-3 Kicked out of Eden/ Rev 22 Return to Eden

Eze 2-3 eat scroll / Rev 10 eat scroll that cannot be Amanita, ruled out b/c Amanita only has writing on one side, not both sides when unrolled.

Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll10 which he unrolled before me. On both [AMANITA RULED OUT] sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%203&version=NIV

And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them,

Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.”

12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the Lord rose from the place where it was standing.[a] 13 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound. 14 The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord on me15 … deeply distressed.

Ezekiel’s Task as Watchman

16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[b] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.

20 “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 21 But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

22 The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.” 23 So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.

24 Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25 And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people. 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people. 27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.”

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Helios vs. Mithras = Basic Eternalism vs. Qualified Possibilism as Higher Eternalism

i could make a really good episode of Egodeath Mystery Show by including only my June 18 discussion of correlating 3 things:

* basic eternalism as lower layer of eternalism, vs qualified possibilism-thinking as higher portion of eternalism

* Helios vs Mithras as mentioned in section “The Question of the Eucharist” in book by Earl Doherty Jesus: Neither God Nor Man (minus decrypting Doherty’s writing)

* Analysis of Row 2 Right: the two pairs of guys, in f134 comic panel of Canterbury Psalter

see sections below https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-Episode-Ep165R

June 19 -20 2022 im still getting a vibe like last month that both twins are positively valued so :

map Cautes to qualified possibilism-thinking = higher layer of eternalism ,

map Cautopates to basic eternalism-thinking = lower layer of eternalism

another real good segm was June 19 reading of 1887 Greek Myth book – Semele and Bacchus w ego death the Egodeath theory commentary

transcending basic eternalism-thinking (Helios) by qualified possibilism-thinking (Mithras) who moves the Draco constellation pole-star causing precession of equinoxes – the Egodeath theory transcends (incorporates and integrates and surpasses per ken wilber) David Ulansey’s expl of Mithraism

4:42 am june 20 2022 i noticed Mithras weight on R leg in middle – another instance of the important motif: {Left Heel Up} while right foot down

left heel up
Eustace window reversed
– an amazing image

Eustace window reversed – an amazing image, dumb luck its in my main article stupidly only bc 1 msh but no conincidence it carries w it incredibly profound msg beyond what main article mapped out by 2006,

same w handedness = branching in Dionysus mosaic – twice-dumb luck.

i came for “The 🍄”, i stayed & grew into the profound 2020 formula, blossomed a few days ago in Spring 2022 = March-early May 2022

reversed like Entheos Journal’s tauroctony cover 😵 huge mistake; the worst error you could possibly make, instantly showing utter lack of comprehension of left = branching (possibilism-thinking), right = non-branching (eternalism-thinking including qualified possibilism-thinking)

left = branching, right = non-branching

reversed like Entheos Journal’s tauroctony cover 😵 huge mistake; the worst error you could possibly make, instantly showing utter lack of comprehension of left = branching (possibilism-thinking), right = non-branching (eternalism-thinking including qualified possibilism-thinking)

left = branching (possibilism-thinking), right = non-branching (eternalism-thinking including qualified possibilism-thinking)

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a quirk of psalter f134 comic panel is the breakout of enlightenment into multiple stages, to differentiate basic eternalism eternalism-thinking vs qualified possibilism-thinking as the higher layer of eternalism-thinking:

beardless foolish left foot (row 1 left, 2 R, 3R)

beardless enlightened right foot (1L, 1M x2, 2R, 2M, 3L)

bearded no-hat has-limbs (1L)

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bearded funnel-hat has-limbs (2M, 2R)

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Generic Post About Ultimate Knowledge

Voice miss transcription

Value of Transcendent Knowledge

Discuss what value is transcendent knowledge; why is transcendent knowledge the most valuable thing?

Newbie Summaries Podcasts

Self-contained newbies summary podcast: Vialgate; summary of the Brown book’s and article’s inconsistent Interpretation of Walburga tapestry Vial

read the two passages

bad influence of Hatsis, does Irvin Rush see too many msh? yes & no.

criteria of proof & compelling evidence. browns proposed committee.

did church assert or deny msh? what does Rush 2nd Ed say?

Self-contained podcast summary reading the pair of Panofsky letters to Wasson

introduction to the subject of assessing Mushrooms in Medieval Church

What is the relationship between this topic and ahistoricity

multiple senses of “the Allegro theory” – Valentinian Gnostics believed Allegro’s theory per Pagels – sets of views per Freke & Pagels, the exoteric vs esoteric systems of thinking; world models

explain for newbies what the importance and relevance of this subject is regarding the full repeal of prohibition of psilocybin and the need to prepare session guides with the suitable required knowledge about passing through the door of control transformation or to snatch and {steal} sacred fire gnosis like a thief, experiencing & probing/ experimenting with the loss of control, without experiencing actual loss of control.

I am well prepared, having treated the subject many times, having spoken about this and written about it and this would be good practice for making an episode that would be aimed at people who didn’t know anything about the ego death Theory or about entheogen scholarship, or about who Wasson is, or who Panofsky is, or who John Allegro is

I would assume no knowledge of the field or the debate or the stupid silly slap-fight that’s well below any kind of a scholarly exchange.

stomach reading jan irvin book’s The Holy Mushroom exhaustive detail about the stupid non-exchange between allegro and Wasson, the utter failure of scholarly engagement, a gigantic scholarly fail.

I am obliged to get the color expensive version of Irvin’s book

, and I don’t know… I can’t deal with it 😞

who wants to go into exhausting detail on that 😵

but I have been willing to read brown

I have yet to really subject Brown to criticism on his reading of the second Panofsky letter , but in any case there is a lot to say about Panofsky’s newly published Exposed second letter ( including a critique of brown trying to read it as asserting Amanita).

I am more interested in the 100% thorough deconstruction of the two Panofsky letters that is my specialty I really doubt I am interested in Young irvin exhausting detail on further back-and-forth analysis between Wasson versus Allegro who cares but I don’t know I haven’t really seen what-all Irvin covers there.

I wrote a five star recommendation of Irvin’s book, the least I could do would be to get a copy of it

I am interested in Brown’s publishing of the second Panofsky letter and doing a summarizing of my deep Critique of Panofsky’s two letters and how Wasson abused them and tried to deceive everyone about them and tried to actually avoid people seeing and following through on the scholarly direction that,

as bad as Panofsky’s arguments are, he at least points us towards scholarly engagement, and Wasson didn’t want that

As banker for the Pope, and as PR engineer/ propagandist for the bank, Wasson couldn’t allow that, and so Wasson had to steer us away from Panofskys letters, (including two attached Mushroom tree pictures and two citations of Brinckmann’s book) because as bad as Panofsky’s scholarly letters’ arguments are, they point everyone towards critical scholarly engagement, and Wasson had to prevent such an investigation & engaging of the questions, not engage and try to win (impossible; certain failure/ losing).

especially because of the newly available second letter from Panofsky to Wasson and because the material is freshly treated by me in voice podcasts, I would like to try to make a self-contained newbie summary discussion and introduction to Allegro Wasson Panofsky retrospective summary, including both of Panofsky’s letters

and reading this would be a Prof. Jerry Brown 2019 response/ retrospective summary incorporating Brown’s latest work regarding Wasson and Allegro Panofsky this would be a summary of my 2006 Plaincourault article, updated to cover and summarize and introduce the pair of Panofsky letters

I would read aloud and discuss the entirety of both of been of his letters, including his two attached mushroom tree pictures and including his citation of Brinkman’s book;

I would describe exactly what you are supposed to look for in Brinkman’s book

you are supposed to look for compelling evidence that if you lay out the Mushroom Trees in chronological order, you find a definite tangible development from Italian pine tree to mushroom shape, expressed in terms of the development of templates

it’s all about the templates, and their development from Pine tree

be sure to say The word “pine tree” 10 times as much as you say the word Mushroom tree.

whenever any normal person would say mushroom tree, you must be sure to instead say “the development of the pine tree”.

and never focus on the finished artwork, which is clearly Mushroom Trees

instead, you have to always obsess and turn the spotlight on to the alleged hypothetical templates

it’s all about the templates

please ignore the mushroom tree artwork, and instead fill your head with the development of templates, specifically from pine trees <– look here

these are pine tree templates

☑️🌲🎄👍

do not think of mushroom Trees

🚫🍄🌳

You must instead think of pine tree templates

it’s all about the templates

it’s all about the pine trees

it has nothing whatsoever to do with the art products which we are given, which are mushroom trees

You must participate in the Panofsky project of converting Mushroom trees into pine trees

the input is mushroom trees, and the output of the process is pine trees

you must speak about “the development process of templates” for the purpose of setting up an actual present-day (1952) development process to develop mushroom trees (not pine tree templates), to explain away our problematic mushroom trees, by “developing” them into Italian pine trees, instead.

you have to use wording about “pine tree template development” in order to accomplish, in actuality, developing mushroom trees– thus forming a process in order to develop mushroom trees into pine trees, thus explaining them away.

what we have in actuality as far as a development process is not in fact the development process of pine tree templates for which the “finished product” is templates that look like mushrooms

but rather what Panofsky is doing in fact is to engineer and construct and set up a process a development process which can successfully take as input finished artwork mushroom tree products and then at the end of his development process which Panofsky (the most influential art historian) has fabricated and engineered.

the output of the Panofsky development process is to develop mushroom tree artwork into pine trees, or pine tree templates that look like Italian pine trees:

mushroom in, pine tree out

that is the actual “development process” which we have – or which Panofsky has sneakily created, rather.

Egodeath Yahoo Group posts vs WordPress weblog

I need to experiment at the ego death Yahoo Group WordPress weblog including bridging some of the mobile posting technique of voice transcription that I used then

that format was a “cast in stone” format, and then I could post follow up clarifications, but I could not edit, so any sloppy writing or experiments were permanent so that encouraged clean writing writing

but there are always pros and cons because I can edit some thing that I have already posted here that encourages leading edge experimentation and being freed from the burden / restriction of having to only post cleaned-up material.

Also consider that WordPress has a mobile app and there is sufficient support for voice dictation so this gives a lot of different ways and flexibility for contributing

I think I have now figured out how to avoid losing data when switching between WordPress mobile app versus desktop, what sync-states to check for and beware of.

I miss the threading of Egodeath Yahoo Group, not sure how to carry those threads forward, would require some experimenting.

Both platforms have pretty serious challenge with discoverability of excellent content; drinking the ocean through a straw. It is hard to remember that all Egodeath Yahoo Group postings to February 14, 2004 (start = June 2001) are duplicated at Egodeath.com, rearranged optimized for thread per page, and unfortunately lacking date stamps.

As far as mytheme History of mythemes Decoding, entheogen history scholarship, Transcendent Knowledge development in that transitional period from Core theory to myth & history, it’s good that that is double-posted at the Max Freakout archive of Egodeath Yahoo Group plus egodeath.com –

One place ( the Egodeath Yahoo Group / wordpress site ) has valuable timestamps date stamps; and the egodeath.com website has threading per subject, one thread per webpage

I could certainly add a degree of cross-linking between those two perspectives; that would probably be valuable and useful.

later Egodeath Yahoo Group posts after Feb 14 2004 – 2019(?) were very low discoverability at Yahoo Groups website; now they are probably higher discoverability and readability and linkability than ever, now that they are at wordpress, though it does have its issues of some formatting glitch with the > greater than sign, indicating a previous person’s post embedded in a reply post.

Newbie Introduction Summaries

as Max Freakout has said and like Cyberdisciple described upon viewing egodeath.com prior to the main article, comic book summaries are always needed, and someone suggests that for the Egodeath Mystery Show voice podcast, like episode 28 of the Transcendent Knowledge podcast covering the basics of the core Egodeath Theory:

1985-1997 [analogical but not mythological] psychedelic eternalism with dependent control, switching to that in the loose cognitive association state from the initial mental model of literalist ordinary-state possibilism with presumed autonomous control.

Intellectual autobiography, history of Egodeath Theory Development

Core theory 1985-1998, Mytheme theory 1999-2022

The best I can figure, most likely, in 1998 I did a significant 3/4 of it working on publishing the phase 1, Core theory, and only 1/4 of 1998 working with the very beginnings of my phase 2, Mytheme theory.

in 1999 in my new study/library I definitely 100% had the tangible experience of working in new topics.

even if I can now perceive the roots of Hellenistic mysteries study and he historicity in 1998, I was not experiencing those as massive new areas of research in 1998, but probably what I was experiencing was intensive publishing work on the core theory at the website.

1998 was a year of not having a study/library (= new research), but entirely working on the website, to publish the existing material, not investigating new horizons of research at that time.

you might imagine that I was doing leading edge research on the web (in Phase 2 topics: myth, ahistoricity, entheogen scholarship) in 1998 – but that is unrealistic, because the web had poor content at that time; it was nowhere near as good as the librarys and bookstores.

my website which i was building out in 1998 was the only decent thing on the web related to such topics but it had only technical, Philosophy, Core, phase 1 content then. in contrast, my involvement in these phase 2 topics was really puny compared to my massive publishing of my core one phase 1 material in 1998

it’s only a 1999 when my phase 2 work really obviously surrounded me in a physical tangible way with my new study/library and definitely accumulating and reading new kinds of books on new subjects.

here’s a really good way to think of it:

1995-1996: Phase 1, Core theory development

1997-1998: Phase 1, Core theory publishing

1999-2005: Phase 2, Mytheme theory debelopment

2006-2007: Phase 2, Mytheme theory publishing

That way of treating 1998 together with 1997 really works very well, because I do not think of those years as developing either phase 1 or phase 2 theory – but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t doing anything, just because I wasn’t developing theory; I was actually publishing theory in 1998 ( and very tangibly in 1997 ie summary outline at P Cyb’a)

The problem/ the reason why I have had difficulty in assigning 1998 is because I’ve had too narrow of the concept of the word ‘developing’; I probably did a huge amount of Core, phase 1 theory “development” in 1998, in the sense of publishing; the website.

hell , everything i did from feb 1988 through like 1998 could be called “mere publishing” of my oct 1985-1987 breakthrough of jan 1988.

compare the year 1988 (starting after January 11 ) compared to the year 1998:

you could equally treat those years, all those years after the breakthrough, as mere “publishing”, as merely writing up the breakthrough insight and change of perspective or formation of the mental model with its basic pieces that I pieced together in the first days of the year waiting for the quarter to begin, jan 11, 1988.

given that I published the outline summary of the core theory in February 1997 well you know I felt like I was still trying to write my article even into the year 2001 I still felt that I was trying to write my core theory article I was not yet trying to incorporate Mythology so an interesting question is when did I first start thinking in terms of incorporating Mythology into my article for the journal of transpersonal psychology

when did I shift my vision for my Jan 1988 article for the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology so as to incorp religious mythology?

the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence: the actual nature of ego transcendence is block univ no-free-will cybernetic noncontrol w mental model transformation in the loose cog assn state

I was working on that article ever since January 1998 trying to make it converge instead of blow up.

incorporating religious mythology was the key that enabled me to have a direction that would converge rather than just a giant pile of writing, kind of an unconstrained and kind of undirected pile of writing, all about the core theory with its 12 principles – instead of my later, successful 4 principles or four quadrants.

when did I finally allow in mythology

maybe The same time as I announced the maximal entheogen theory of religion: 2002.

Maybe my anger at the failure of the Ruck Committee to deliver any useful goods other than the worthless bottom of the barrel Amanita undesirable Mushroom Gave me the direction to forcefully embrace Mythology and show you you idiots here’s what you need to be doing with this religious mythology and the good kind of mushrooms and the ego death Theory ; let me show you how to put the pieces together, you fools

in any case I became genuinely hopeful and interested in mythology and enthusiastic about identifying how religious mythology describes and depicts and the artwork depicts my ego death core theory and corroborates and confirms it because since there’s no historical Jesus to confirm and approve my theory now I need religious mythology to do that instead and so that is how my scope and vision

for my 1988 January article changed from the core theory only to open up and finally be able to reach a closure and start finally converging towards a directed fulfillment and completion of initiation by explaining Religious Mythology and Mystery religions and not just being a modern science directionless explanation of the true nature of ego Transcendence in terms of block universe experiencing

I do think I could have done that and written my main article about that without any religious Mythology , but in 2002 adding in the whole field of psychedelic myth,

I felt like by including religious mythology in my article, I could include a proof that my core theory is correct and true and is supported, given that Mr. Historical Jesus ain’t there to give a stamp of approval, I’m going to have to take another approach at getting the New Testament to corroborate my core theory since …

1998 if anything was the year of discovering no Mr Paul/Mr Peter/Mr Jesus, or maybe the year of trying to get the new testament to corroborate my core theory, and starting to realize that wasn’t going to work, and I had to better understand the genre and nature of the New Testament, ie in terms of religious Mythology.

And I felt like I had failed I was never able –

in 2002 , I was still trying and failing to write my original article as planned (lacking religious mythology)

The climactic book that came out then was the Jesus Mysteries particularly noting its attempt its wish and it’s unfulfilled wish to cover visionary plants which was not permitted by the publisher but clearly it fit very well and I’m trying to remember why I met with Freke & Gandy but I’d imagine that it had much to do with this question:

I was highly interested in asking Freke & Gandy about this passage on entheogens, and they were highly interested in discussing what happened with that and how they were blocked by the publisher.

Thanks to my 1998 website work, they were able to read my theory and my postings at the Jesus Mysteries discussion group around that time.

after that, I read Elaine Pagles first two books as well as her Gnostic gospels book which I learned about because of freaking Gandys book the Jesus Mysteries is based on Pagels’ book The Gnostic Gospels. You could say that I got from the book the Jesus Mysteries and Elaine an Pagels first three books in 2002 successfully gave me the confirmation that I wanted that I had assumed I would get from the New Testament from Mr. Jesus and Mr. Paul

but I essentially got that confirmation of my Core theory from Timothy Freke & Elaine Pagels instead of from Mr Jesus & Mr Paul.

and that really effectively explains why I changed my concept of my article for the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology so as to incorporate and integrate this other leg , so that the two legs cross-correlate each other

my core theory side-by-side with religious Mythology and the whole set of ideas which Elaine Pagels Called Gnostics Against Orthodox, and wjich Freke & Gandy relabeled as esoteric versus exoteric – Two contrasted entire sets of views, regarding no free will and mythology and personal control agency and visionary plants.

my core theory can explain all this stuff and that’s very interesting, a lot of interesting material, a lot of interesting purpose and application

so I discovered through Freke & Gandy I discovered the application of my core theory, and thus I discovered a distinction between my core theory, and that’s how my core theory (perceived as such) was born, and how my treatment of myth Theme theory was born.

answers the excellent question:

when was the distinction between my Core theory versus Mytheme theory first perceptible? Creating the myth Theme theory was born out of it was an outcome following the aftermath of my failure to get Mr. Jesus and Mr. Paul and that sort of a conception of the New Testament to corroborate my core theory which was not called the core theory in 1998;

my Phase 1, Core theory at that time 1998-2002 (prior to discovering and constructing my distinct, subsequent Phase 2, Mytheme theory), was called the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, with no mytheme theory on the horizon in mind yet (except for Gnosis magazine & interpreting rock lyrics to map them as descriptions of this theory domain).

now, in 2002, by adding Freke & Pagels, & Heinrich & Entheos Journal, I was able to reach closure and make my core theory accomplish something definite that proves the merit of my theory, because of its ability to make sense out of and serve as an explanatory framework to explain successfully Religious Mythology.

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I keep debating & flipping back-and-forth on where to assign 1998, a transitional year, and the equally strong third argument is to split 1998 in half and include it in both phases.

there are several moderate reasons arguing for phase 1, and several moderate reasons for phase 2 assignment of 1998. I don’t think I did substantial work on the theory that year or so there’s not much to work with in trying to assign that year – though I may have done a lot of website work, of publishing my phase 1 theory that year

periodization debate: is 1998 The end of publishing the phase 1 Core theory or is it the beginning of turning attention to the myth Theme theory?

in 1998, did I do more work on the Phase 1, Core theory, or more work on the Phase 2, Mytheme theory??

I speculate and conjecture that I did more work writing up my website of the core theory including rock lyrics mapping to the altered state mental model transformation, And I was only just starting to turn my attention more to Hellenistic Mysteries and ahistoricity – but I don’t know that I had any entheogen scholarship books that year yet.

1997 is definitely part of my Core theory era , because February, I published the summary of the core, – though I probably had my vision of non-Branching labyrinth that year, which is phase 2

Similarly I feel confident about 1999 it definitely was not core theory and it definitely was phase 2 Mytheme theory.

So I have a solid argument for assigning 1997 to phase 1 , and assigning 1999 to phase 2.

most debatable and unclear and hazy is the year 1998 , transitional year:

on what basis do I assign 1998 to phase 1 versus phase 2 , when I can’t really remember and would have to investigate that year as part of my “intellectual autobiography” project i’ve been doing ever since hiatus starting 2008

the first quarter of 2008 , I realized I had severe amnesia : how the hell did I get here??

My intensive work of the period 1988 through 1997 and then 1999 through 2007 meant that when I switched gears in 2008 January, I had lost all track of how I had gotten here.

so 2008 was largely occupied with reconstructing my history and timeline.

my hiatus from posting the Egodeath Yahoo Group was jan 2008- ~Sep 2011.

One cheat that I sometimes do is I just omit 1998 from my periodization. Or equivalently, include the year in both phases.

I wish I could treat the year 1998 as more of a positive, productive, determinate thing instead of treating it like a null point, a turning point, nothing but a transition an empty nowhere, neither here nor there

really that’s probably doing a great disservice to that important year of 1998

subtracting 1998 from my life regarding Egodeath Theory Development would probably be a massive huge loss

I should really learn to treat 1998 (re: Egodeath theory devmt) as a positive thing.

what if I could have a summary of what I accomplished each month of 1998?

I would probably be singing a different tune.

and I think that that’s really the strongest argument for actually omitting 1998 from my periodization. It feels kind of dishonest including this year where as far as I know I didn’t really I was on hiatus I think it was more hiatus year but I

I have no qualms about including the (public) hiatus years of 2008 through 2010 in Phase 2 , And the content of those years is about as equally under-mapped as the year 1998.

I was not doing very much Egodeath Theory work during 1998 compared to other years as far as I can recollect – Maybe drug policy reform that year, not certain.

1998 was a huge bridge-crossing year. it feels like neither work on my phase 1, Core theory, nor work on my phase 2, Mytheme theory.

As if it was a year in which I detached from phase 1 in order to subsequently attach to phase 2.

But since I am not certain, I think it is very wise to assume that I was doing massive very important work on my egodeath site publishing my core theory that year, which would make 1998 a core theory year, not a phase 2, Mytheme theory year.

I should probably just split the difference and say and make the claim as if June 1998 equals phase 1 and July 1998 equals phase 2 🥴

an argument for ending the “Core theory” development at 1997, and beginning the metaphor mytheme Entheogens Theory in 1998

it seems a no-brainer even though you can complicate things by tracing lyric Decoding since 1991 or even 1988

and you can place the reading of gnosis magazine in the 1990s and reading the fundamentalist Dave Hunt books which veer into the mythological around 1994

And a vision of the labyrinth non-branching, in that important transition year academic year 1996 to 1997

in February 1997 posted the summary outline of the core theory, leaving the rest of 1997 unclear, but trying to remember which small few books- maybe tech gnosis by Erik Davis, and continuing to struggle to write the main article, which was finally accomplished in 2006 due to adding Mythology Religious Mythology

so in a way, I never wrote my article as conceptualized for Journal of Transpersonal Psychology as intended since January 1988. I hadn’t added Freke & Pagels, & Heinrich & Entheos journal, yet, To serve as some thing to be explained successfully by my core theory and thus serving as the confirmation that I had expected to get from Mr. Jesus and Mr. Paul

this really can be seen as the form in which I finally got that confirmation that I was looking for in 1998.

you could fairly say that 1998 was the year in which I set about to get confirmation of the Core theory, which I had summarized successfully in a complete core way outline in 1997

given that I published my successful core outline of the theory in 1997, now in 1998, I need to get the New Testament or religious mythology or something to corroborate my theory

and here is how you would put the year 1998 into the phase 2 era rather than the phase 1 core era, because in 1998, my main need or pursuit, as far as pursuing something new (while at the same time continuing to publish what I had achieved, my core theory) , my main pursuit was to go about finding confirmation in the mystery religions, and finding confirmation of the …

my main experience I remember of 1998 is not the experience of publishing (even if that’s literally what I did ) but rather, it was the experience of looking for the New Testament /Mr. Jesus/ Mr. Paul to corroborate this distinct thing, the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence.

so look very closely at the two things here: on the one hand, you have my theory (the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence ) ; and on the other hand, you have my looking for {a way to corroborate my theory}

and here you have the seed or root or beginnings of the distinction between my “phase 1, Core theory” versus my “phase 2, Mytheme theory”.

phase 2 would be the corroboration of my core theory, by virtue of the successful ability of my cybernetic theory of ego transcendence to explain this other, distinct thing; the New Testament, which is Mr. Jesus, which is Mr. Paul, which is: esoteric Religious Mythology.

My 1997 summary outline at Principia Cybernetica website was a stopgap, since every time I tried to write the main article for JTP, it blew up too big; expanding instead of converging.

like when you know that your efforts are taking you in a direction that’s, the harder you try, the more you fail.

I probably created my more real websites in 1997, containing the core theory so I should not only think of February 1997 posting at the cybernetics website but also creating my real website which would become egodeath.com containing the core theory is what I was doing through 1997.

then as I see it with the big change of context in 1998 I went to get Jesus to sign off on my cybernetic theory of ego transcendence so in the graduate library I looked up Christian Mushroom and found John King’s book commentary on John Allegro

And I’m trying to remember the context of finding entheogen scholarship about 1998, but I’m sure it must have to do with Amazon: the improving selection at Amazon and improving content there and more books being written and becoming available there.

1998 was a transitional year, and I was focused on putting together my knowledge at my websites so far – but also very much I felt that I had because I had finished the technical content of my core theory which I simply called “my theory” (the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence) (not yet “the core theory”), it’s true that I was still doing my project of writing my article stating what that technical theory is, but also, I was looking for how to have religion prove or confirm my theory (the cybernetic theory of ego transcendence; “the Core theory”, as I now distinguish Versus the ability of that theory to successfully explain something else, the domain of religious Mythology so as to cross-correlate and cross-corroborate the two distinct parts or legs.

My 1997 theory, and distinctly my 1998 effort to corroborate my 1997 theory, eventually became:

my phase 1, Core theory, and my phase 2, Mytheme theory.

my leading edge pursuit of looking in new directions my actual research beginnings of a kind of a research in 1998 genuinely genuinely the start of my phase 2, Mytheme theory research & development.

1998 was the year when I tangibly converted my knowledge into websites more than doing new research and development.

I really think it was 1999 when I settled in and reassembled my library and my study yes it seems that 1997 and 1998 we’re heavy website years while not having a personal study library and at the start of those years I published the summary of the core theory and then die then I spent much of those two years making more bigger major websites summarizing my knowledge so far rather than yeah

Rather than yet beginning a new phase of idea development in myth Theme religious Mythology and History and entheogen scholarship. & ahistoricity – 1999 seems to be the year for that when I reassembled my a study and library and then my first memories of that sweet fresh clean set up was full-fledged beginning reading entheogens scholarship books.

And then I recall doing more ahistoricity work in my subsequent library study 2003 through 2007. What I remember in my 1999 through 2003 study/ library is entheogen scholarship then religious mythology.

then in my next study/library, 2003-2007, I did some more work reading Mythology and confirming that the books of church fathers and Astrotheology and Esotericism contain the same themes of visionary plants and altered state and mythology and no free will , but my focus was a little on more ahistoricity and reformed theology and philosophy of science then, more than on entheogen scholarship & mythology. it’s hard to say because I had I was sweeping across 20 different subjects during all 3 periods:

1988 through sep 1996

1999 through mid-2003

mid-2003 through 2007

I should be posting this discussion at the Egodeath Yahoo Group thread called intellectual autobiography history or history of my intellectual biography

it’s one of those things where if you look too closely at it, the simplistic, artificially clarifying narrative falls apart and becomes problematic, and I start to see more mythology (supposedly characterizing my later, Phase 2 work) within my earlier, Phase 1 “Core theory” period.

And then if you say that description of mental models in terms of possibility Branching is core theory you could claim that I did development of the Core theory core theory in Nov 2020 – March 2021, pull along by my work in mythology, Mapping Mythology back to the Core egodeath theory and then adjusting the core theory to make it fit that mapping better

Phase 1/ Core theory=

psychedelic eternalism (incl “noncontrol”)

= 1985-1998

Phase 2/ Mytheme theory =

analogical psychedelic eternalism

= 1999-2007-2022

I am inclined to see the two years after posting my outline summary of core theory in February 1997 framing the remainder of 1997 and the year 1998 were sort of writing up my core theory in the form of a (bigger) website. I feel that I was writing my core theory still into 1998 and I strongly picture of the books strange fruit and the long trip and ahistoricity I do remember in the 1999 or 2000 period, My first spate of finding such books and scrambling to adjust my thinking, well before 2006. when I picture my 1999 study/library I am thinking of full on entheogens scholarship which contains Mythology very much the Jesus Mysteries book and strange fruit would be two very good representative books to represent the 1999 through 2001 and Ruck book textbook on Greek Mythology.

I definitely was reading entheogen books and ahistoricity in 1999, and that makes 1999 definitely phase 2 Mytheme theory era , not the phase 1 Core theory era.

in contrast I know that I was more publishing and writing up my existing core theory knowledge in 1997 and 1998 as far as I know and as far as I can remember and deduce since I don’t have

I only have one definite memory of I definitely was given a book on the Hellenistic Mysteries in 1998, and by that token (by an art history person), and based on that, you could claim that I started my phase 2 in 1998

and in 1998 I believe I was still trying to get Jesus to confirm my cybernetic theory of ego Transcendence which is core theory phase 1.

So there is not very much material to work with in trying to assign 1998 to fit within the end of phase 1 core theory publishing, versus the beginning of phase 2 Mytheme theory.

I would have to investigate some dates to really prove but I think that the strongest case is that:

in 1999, my phase 2 was very tangibly very definitely started, whereas 1998 is kind of a question mark, with just the beginnings of questioning historicity and Hellenistic mystery religions which, strangely, are not actually covered within Gnosis magazine/ theosophy worldview.

Jesus from Outer Space – Carrier 2020

voice recordings briefly available my readaloud with side discussions: find “carrier” near https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-episode-162

Carrier built on Doherty:

x https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/06/05/earl-doherty-jesus-puzzle-neither-god-nor-man-ahistoricity-myth/

Here’s the Deal: Tell the Story of “The Church Contains Psilocybin”, to Get Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition

Voice Recording Based on this Posting

June 6, 2022 note – voice recording based on reading this page turned out great. Added history of the Egodeath theory in relation to the field of entheogen scholarship. Tight 45:00 episode. Download for 1 week (or listen in browser using “preview” feature) from:
Page: Idea Development page 13, section:
Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 157 – Message to Entheogen Scholars – recorded June 6, 2022
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-Episode-157

“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
Figure 20: Column 1: Amanita Mushroom Trees, Column 2: Psilocybin Mushroom Trees
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/#Figure-20

Figure 20 from article ““Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art” by Giorgio Samorini
Journal issue: Eleusis, n.s., 1:87-108, 1998
The source file, original article:
https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam-alberifungo-1998.pdf

Dear entheogen scholars,

Heres The Deal: Tell Story of “the Church Contains Psilocybin mushrooms”, to Get the full Repeal of Psilocybin Prohibition.

as long as you hang onto your addiction to the self-defeating story that the Church denies and excludes mushrooms, as long as you keep telling that story, you’ll never get psilocybin Prohibition repealed

and so here’s the deal:

You guys, you scholars need to change your stupid tune and sing a different tune and start singing the same tune as Brown and I lead, follow the songleaders

you need to tell the positive, Church-positive story, that the mainstream middle ages Church normal practice was heavily Psilocybin Mushrooms and then when you do that then the way is finally cleared to get truth and spiritual truth and get full repeal of Psilocybe in Prohibition

that’s the deal

you cannot continue your addiction to this negative story

You cannot continue to demonize the Church and tell the false lying story claiming that the church’s history has no mushrooms

because as long as you tell that false story, you are supporting and advocating the prohibition of Psilocybin mushrooms

and nobody gives a 💩 about amanita

so stop paying attention to amanita; it’s the weed of entheogen scholarship ; the common reject worthless weed that is just part of the problem

GROW UP and stop concretistic fixation on 🍄 and stop telling the infantile childish self-defeating negativism about the church

stop demonizing the church

break your addiction to that story

stop telling that story and start telling the exact opposite story, of the church contained and embraced and affirmed Psilocybin Mushrooms in the middle ages

Stop telling the story about only the early sects before the Church had “Amanita”

Stop telling a story that is centered on and limited to amanita

you should switch to telling the story that is centered on psilocybin, that treats Amanita as a curiosity, of a jumbo gigantic thousand times the mass and 1000 times the size of a 1 inch Cubensis

Stop your amanita addiction

and stop your addiction to early Christianity before the church

stop your addiction to ignoring Psilocybin

stop your addiction to denying the prominent presence of psilocybin in the middle ages church, inside of the church, within the church

And start being strategic about full repeal of psilocybin Prohibition

your dumb stupid story about, your false story you would be-

you’re more interested in demonizing the Church, than repealing Psilocybin!!

that’s my most cutting and scathing accusation of you guys and your self-defeating addiction to a false narrative that you’re idiotically telling

– Cybermonk & Eadwine

Mushrooms in Art https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#flagship-Mushrooms-Greek-Christian-Art

Earl Doherty’s Book Jesus Puzzle/ Neither God Nor Man, About Ahistoricity (Jesus Myth Theory)

Jesus: Neither God Nor Man:
The Case for a Mythical Jesus

Earl Doherty’s 2009 book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man: The Case for a Mythical Jesus, an expanded, 800-page edition of the 1999 book The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus

x https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Neither-God-Case-Mythical-ebook/dp/B00772ZH8Y

june 5, pm note:

fwiw, ep153 parts a-c have lots of entheogen scholarship instead of ahistoricity 🥺 – great progress, solid commentary analysis (improved, useful, clarified critiques) fwiw. remainder has (will contain) mostly Doherty book readings im sure, parts d-i def ghi.

parts a & b & c all are 50% my usual devmt / restatements about entheogen scholarship, vialgate ramifs, Ruck school as functionally pushing the Minimal (not Moderate) entheogen theory of religion.

mobile app picks up edits made on desktop (instead of evil data-loss) IF you back out of site & restart app 🤨 (that wasnt the bug today)

Original posting, 2:32 a.m. June 5, 2022

Earl Doherty’s website equivalent of the Jesus Puzzle book, has summaries & articles:
http://www.jesuspuzzle.com/jesuspuzzle/index.htm

About the 2nd Edition of his book, and about entheogen scholarship, the first 3 of my .mp3 file voice recordings out of ~10 are available to download, from Idea Development page 13. The remaining ~7 .mp3 files are close to ready for exporting/uploading, as of Noon June 5, 2022.

Page: Idea Development page 13
Section in page: Egodeath Mystery Show Episode 153 – Unsystematic Theology (Earl Doherty book Neither God Nor Man) – June 5, 2022 (first 3 .mps’s are available)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-Episode-153

In this set of recordings, I discuss Earl Doherty’s (2005 &) 2009 book about Paul’s complete and self-sufficient high Christ shutting out Mr. Historical Jesus.

Episode 153 part a = Ep153a Unsystematic Theology – the 2nd half of this mp3 file is entheogen scholarship (Spot the Secret 🍄 Alchemy) critique.

Doherty tells us what Mr. Historical Authentic Paul actually conceptualized about Christ that has no place for Mr. Mundane Jesus.

Esoteric Christianity Books: Pagels; Freke & Gandy
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/esoteric-christianity-books-pagels-freke-gandy/

Not a direct link, but easy to remember:
http://jesuspuzzle.com

Update, 9 a.m. June 5 2022

Parts 1 & 3 (a & c) of my mp3s have more entheogen scholarship than realized.

like with my recent feb-may 2022 art analysis, this recording commentary from 7 days ago feels already outdated! superseded.

I’ve made such rapidly significant development the past few days of idea development, these recent statements have already been surpassed. eg my analysis of John Rush 2nd edition book’s blurb of February 22, 2022 – my commentary in part c mp3 is BEFORE my Idea Development page 13‘s color highlighting analysis which PROVED 2 things:

1) John Rush has grotesquely lopsided emphasis of Amanita single-plant fallacy at the direct expense of Psilocybin.

2) John Rush has grotesquely lopsided emphasis of early pre-Church Christian sects at the direct expense of any true narrative (per Brown) of the heavy PRESENCE Psilocybin (and Amanita) mushrooms WITHIN the mainstream Church in the middle ages.

My vocal discussion here is the direct source that blossomed into my color highlighting PROOF at my Idea Development page 13 the following day. so this recording part C demonstrates successful breakthrough idea development.

Ep153c Unsystematic Theology – Per parts a & c of Episode 153, so far Episode 153 seems solidly 50% about leading edge entheogen scholarship critique and leading edge field development, in addition to Jesus Myth Theory (Ahistoricity) per Earl Doherty’s spiritual-Christ replacement for / shutout of historical gospel lifestory Jesus.

Allegro’s theory in Sacred Mushroom book is that Christianity started from The Mushroom rather than was started by Mr. Historical Jesus.

Most Importantly, What Does Thomas Hatsis Say About Doherty’s Historical Research?

We need the verdict from a Real Historian:

What does Thomas Hatsis say about Earl Doherty’s historical research, since Hatsis has become the #1 follower of John Allegro now that Jan Irvin has exited this field of research?

Surely the great, exemplary historian Hatsis must have an opinion on this central Allegro-related question & field.

Brown disagrees with Allegro re: ahistoricity, what does Brown’s rival Hatsis say on this matter?

Ruck Hoffman Winkelman Articles

Someone oughtta look into Psilocybin mushrooms in ancient mystery religions.

M. Hoffman, editor for three decades, Ruck 🍄 scholars committee & Entheos Journal of Spot the 🍄, in his article/chapter Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) in Ancient Mystery Religions, 2015/2018

voice recording thats commentary on articles this evening – at idea devmt pg 13: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/idea-development-page-13/#Egodeath-Mystery-Show-Episode-156

Ep156b Errata: 35:00 – I say twice “i saw online the first Entheos article, Effluents of Deity“, i meant Conjuring Eden (link below)

The present webpage/ posting summarizes, afterwards, the points discussed/ developed in the voice recordings. Text summary should be able to replace listening.

i developed interesting and more effective critiques of the aggressive “secret suppressed Amanita alchemy paradigm” that’s dogmatically pushed simultaneously with Ruck school presenting (silently) psilocybin art.

M Hoffman – https://www.academia.edu/44235520/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_the_Ancient_Mystery_Religions_Mark_A_Hoffman

2004 v1 of same?? https://www.academia.edu/31667047/Entheogens_Psychedelic_Drugs_and_Shamanism

Totally bizarre situation: I rail against M Hoffman for writing in his 2015/2018 toxicology article “no one has looked into psilocybin in ancient mystery cults, but I argue that they should.” eg Ep156b 40:00

WHAT HAVE YOU AND RUCK BEEN DOING FOR 47 YEARS SINCE 1975?

file in the irvin Brain database under “sh!t that doesnt add up

why doesnt the entheos ruck school acknowledge the psilocybin mushroom in Mithras’ leg, but twists this tauroctony into serving as Amanita evidence instead??

something seems oddly backwards in Ruck school’s extreme pushing of The Mushroom 🍄 at the expense of never acknowledging Psilocybin in their text narrative

Sharply differentiate between an entheogen scholar’s art evidence base vs their narrative about the 99.99%-100% absence of mushroom knowledge within the normal Church.

I proved John Rush = single plant 🍄 fallacy narrative book blurb second edition, regardless of whether his art data base includes some % psilocybin. regardless of if he writes, one measly time, “plants & fungi” – in between his relentless hammering on, all the time, asserting “The Holy Mushroom 🍄 Amanita“.

see my idea devmt pg 13 re: 2nd edition Feb 2022 John Rush my blue vs pink highlighting of key words of his book blurb.

I just found two days ago that Irvin’s book Astrotheology and Shamanism is explicitly to broaden Allegro’s theory.

Why Hatsis mistakes Brown & Cybermonk as striving to follow and broaden Allegro’s theory: bc Hatsis is only aware of the Irvin/Rush framework aka “the Holy Mushroom 🍄 theory”.

Hatsis needs to address Ruck school pushing a framework that’s almost the same as Irvin Rush.

Hatsis needs to realize that Samorini/ Cybermonk/ Brown are against the Rush & Ruck “suppressed 🍄” school(s).

The Ruck school’s narrative never mentions Psilocybin. It’s always Amanita, re Christianity. When you show them Psilocybin art, they write “mushroom” or stay silent. See Conjuring Eden article, it never mentions Psilocybin, even for Canterbury Psalter images.

Its not Hatsis’ fault for confusion re The Holy Mushroom 🍄 Theory; the Ruck school and the Allegro/ Irvin/ Rush school all have Amanita madness, seeing Amanita everywhere and seeing Psilocybin nowhere.

Brown actually sees more mushrooms than the Irvin/Rush narrowing, mushroom-excluding framework allows. Brown is a more ardent advocate than them. Irvin excludes Psilocybin and excludes The Mushroom 🍄 from the Church.

Irvin/Rush’s art evidence database contradicts their scorched-earth narrative.

Ruck at least covers this by his story that The Mushroom 🍄 was secretly encoded in alchemical encryption by 1-2 people in the eccelesiastical elite; The Holy Mushroom 🍄 was present within the Church, Ruck says: 1 or 2 elites, once, used it, one time. “Dont be so stingy”, Ruck tells Rush.

The Holy Mushroom 🍄 was only MOSTLY suppressed and forgotten within the Church, Ruck corrects Rush. This is the stingy, mushroom-minimizing “Moderate” (~= Minimal) entheogen theory of religion.

The LAME and self-defeating field of entheogen scholarship amounts to a pathetic argument over whether The Mushroom 🍄 was 99.99% absent from within the Church, per Ruck; or 100% absent, per Rush.

THESE ARE THE 💩”OPTIONS” that are presented to us by the Ruck Hoffman Heinrich school & the Allegro Irvin Rush school. F that!! says my 2002 Maximal entheogen theory of religion & Brown 2016/2019.

“Which shade of Moderate (aka Minimal) narrative /theory of presence of mushrooms in Christianity do you hold?” asks the God-forsaken field of entheogen scholarship.

the field of entheogen scholarship is wildly lopsided and EVERYONE (as i noted and rebelled agaunst in 2002) shares the field’s master paradigm of:

The entire field of entheogen scholarship = the assumption of suppression / Forgot / secret/ absence / 99.99-100% suppression of msh inside the Church,

yet in 2001 Conjuring Eden article in Entheos joural of psychedelic spirituality, I noticed that their own art evidence base – and all world religious mythology art – tells the opposite story, contradicting their “mushrooms (🍄) were Forgotten & Suppressed within the Church” narrative.

The Ruck school and the Allegro school force all mushrooms to be Amanita as The Mushroom 🍄, in a strong narrative that effectively shuts out Psilocybin.

Ruck allows The Mushroom (🍄) in the eccelesiastical elite only.

Rush’s textual narrative per his 2022 book 2nd edition blurb is that only in sects before the Church, only Amanita, and no mushrooms within the Church.

Conclusions section: Brown 2019

Brown’s 2019 article, following Samorini 1998 & Egodeath.com 2007 Cybermonk, counter-asserts in the Conclusions section, “mushrooms were not suppressed”, and explicitly includes Psilocybin, on par with Amanita.

Brown 2019: https://www.academia.edu/40312824/Entheogens_in_Christian_art_Wasson_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Gospels

… Wasson’s views stymied research on entheogens in Christianity for decades after the publication of Soma in 1968,

a new generation of 21st century researchers has documented growing evidence of psychedelic A. muscaria and a variety of species of psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Christian art, consistent with Samorini’s typology of “mushroom-trees.”

The Psychedelic Gospels [2016 book] contributes to these entheogenic studies:

(a) by providing original photographs and analysis of psychoactive mushroom images in several churches and cathedrals in Europe and the Middle East;

(b) by arguing that based on the presence of these images in the high holy places of Christianity,

these psychedelic traditions were not suppressed by the Church, but were rather maintained for

the secret instruction of initiates

and possibly for

the education of the illiterate masses; and

(c) by proposing a psychedelic gospels theory, which hypothesizes that

these images represent an alternative history of Christianity, suggesting that

early and medieval Christians experienced healing, divinity, and immortality by ingesting sacred psychoactive sacraments.” [Psilocybin; also Amanita]

– Brown 2019, read rest of Conclusions too

Heading

… Just like the article Conjuring Eden points out a little, Allegro’s jarring, actually self-contradictory including of Plaincourault fresco.

Their textual narrative is disproved by their art evidence base that’s used to supposedly support the infantile childish crybaby narrative that “the Church suppressed & forgot The Mushroom 🍄”.

I look at religious church mythology art and I see tons of loosecog mushroom altered-state description heavy reflection everywhere, through the Renaissance era.

… until Modernity trashcanned Esotericism, and THEN finally I agree that mushrooms (Psilocybin, also Amanita) were forgotten – due to/ discarded by the Modern movement’s rationalism posture, not suppressed by the Church. As Brown 2019 article conclusion perceives, “NOT SUPPRESSED!”

Against the Suppression Assumption narrative that entheogen scholarship pushes, the art evidence shows that mushrooms (Psilocybin and also amanita) were densely throughout/within the medieval mainstream Church.

Cyberdisciple.wordpress.com webpage: “Against the assumption of suppression of psychedelics in pre-modernity”

M Hoffman says we have proved that The Mushroom 🍄 is the engine of mystery religions & mixed wine. Just as surely as kykeon has been identified as an extinct strain of ergot!

Ruck says the fact that Amanita doesnt work is proof that its use is appealingly secret, requiring elaborate processing, and the ancients fixed Amanita’s failure to work by adding Hatsis’ random toxic non-targeted witches brew of random substances eg special ivy

Conjuring Eden shows this Liberty Caps cap 3 times and never says psilocybin! 🤯 wtff?! yet he says “Amanita” every other paragraph, as often as possible.

Ruck doesn’t mention what type of mushrooms, he stays silent. Hey Ruck school, is this The Mushroom 🍄 like your narrative is always pushing? Why don’t you comment on what kind of mushrooms here? A Psilocybin cat got your tongue???

Ruck fails to try to identify the 3 Psilocybin plants in Psalter – God creates the sacred plants.

why “dogmatism” is a poor idea that made Brown make a major error. I speak at length on this. Egodeath Mystery Show Ep156a covers that.

i derived the orders that the Ruck school is subject to:

Never write “psilocybin” when discussing Europe or Meditteranean.

You may present psilocybin images in Greek or Christian art, but your text must always only say “the mushroom” or Amanita.

https://www.academia.edu/44299202/Conjuring_Eden_Art_and_the_Entheogenic_Vision_of_Paradise

“you can eat from all trees seed … including from the tree of life… now that you ate from tree of knowledge, kick you out lest you eat of the tree of life https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+3&version=NIV

online gallery for the Conjuring Eden article:

https://entheomedia.net/eden1.htm

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/

https://www.academia.edu/44299129/Entheogens_in_Ancient_Times_Wine_and_the_Rituals_of_Dionysus

https://www.academia.edu/31550754/Hallucinogens_and_Entheogens – Winkelman and Hoffman ency entry in book Vocabulary for the Study of Religion – why do entheogen scholars permit & condone the word “hallucinogen”?

hallucinogen is a broken, false word. the more you use it, the more you spread confusion.

i have 3 hours of voice recordings from now; pm June 1 2022, to produce & upload as an episode of the Egodeath Mystery Show.

Shure SM57 miking 0 0 -10dB around 9-16″ first recording to R-07 deck til storage full , lost unknown minutes – lesson: always place “tape is rolling ” indicator right in front of you to continuously monitor it.

Ruck says msh in medieval church is 99.9 suppressed & forgotten

Irvin/Rush says msh in medieval church is 99.99 suppressed

Hatsis says 100% ;= 0 %. The early sects cults had no use of The Mushroom 🍄

But their art evidence says 100%; self-contradicts their narrative, in the same way as Allegro does.

Irvin multiplies the self-contradiction of Allegro’s use of Plaincourault. Rush follows him.

“These 1000 msh art images throughout Christian history prove that only the pre-Church Christian sects knew & used The Mushroom 🍄; the remembered forgotten “old tradition” was still present in 1300, proved by this art.”

the “Moderate” entheogen theory of religion is about as stingey as the “Minimal” theory.

Robert Graves says msh in medieval church is 99.99 suppressed.

only Samorini, Cybermonk, & Brown mention Psilocybin in medieval normal Church.

Allegro Irvin Rush & Rush show Psilocybin art but their text narrative is “Forgot & Suppressed & Absent is The Mushroom 🍄”