Michael Hoffman 12:04 a.m. Feb. 14, 2026

Contents:

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• Intro: Time of Discovery
• 5.25 Years to Solve “Why Does Her Wrong, {Left foot} touch {stable column base}?”
• An Acronym to Define the Set of Shape-Names: Y, I, & YI (or Y’I): [YIYI]
• The Mind End Ups with a Compound Mental Model: Two Complementary, Opposite, “Incompatible” Mental Models, Harmonized
• Intermediate Work on the Acronym
• Context (Situation) of Discovery
• Her Upper Thumb Is Not Considered {visually cut} by the {balance scale} String, Which Would Form the Worst Form, YI’
• von Trimberg, Upper Part of Figures 3 & 4: the Mind’s Final State after Psilocybin Transformation Is Depicted as Both Y’I and YI
• Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the I-Shaped Mental Model without the Y- or Y’-Shaped Mental Model
• Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the Non-Branching Eternalism Mental Model without the Branching-Possibilism Mental Model
• Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the Eternalism Mental Model without the Possibilism Mental Model
• Bird’s Nest Mushroom
• Happiness Is: A Parallel Set of Keyboard Shortcuts (Acronyms): [PMM], [EMM], & [PEMM]
• To Be Alive, Before & After Psilocybin Transformation, Is to Use Possibilism-Thinking: Never Devalue It; Redeem It
• Avoid Scare-Quotes on “eternalism”
• Revised Acronyms (Keyboard Shortcuts) to have: [PT] = possibilism-thinking & [ET] = eternalism-thinking
• What Is “the Eternalism theory”?
• Two Hands, Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album
• The Month-Long “Medieval YI Hand-Shape Theory” Jackpot Week Continues
• Confirmed the Master Shape for Hand Pairs is {lower hand Y’, upper hand YI}
• Decoded {lower hand Y’, upper hand YI} = Initial Mental Model = Possibilism, Final Mental Model = Revised Possibilism + Eternalism
• Intro
• A Standard Hand Pair Shape: Lower Hand Y’, Upper Hand YI
• Decoded {both feet down} at {stable column base}
• Interpretation/Decoding Strategy: Finger Shape = Tree Branching Feature = YI Branching-Forms
• The Term finger shape Means the YI form of {fingers vs. thumb}, or {3 fingers vs. slightly splayed-apart Index finger}, Across the Sequence of Two Hands
• Row 2 middle: Scale Balance & Closed Scroll
  • f134: {balance scale}
  • Row 2 Middle: Self-Threatening Psalter Reader
• Finger Height = Loss of Control, with Egodeath Theory Picture Vortex
• {fire light circle sun} motif: Lighting of Chamber of Self-Threatening Psalter Reader
• See Also

Intro: Time of Discovery

She holds {balance scale}, which maps to psalter-reader’s relative finger-height:

• {Left finger lower} = bad = ordinary-state possibilism
• {Right finger lower} = good = altered-state eternalism

Per her upper hand, and both of her feet on ground at {stable column base}, the result is NOT I (the Eternalism mental model); the result is compound mental model: YI (specifically, Y’I; modify Y + add I)

Tjhis This discovery and page today is a SIGNIFICANT advance in interpreting her; compare my confusion and puzzling over “her L foot is wrong foot touching {stable column base}!” in Nov. 2020. if were Feb 2021, that’s 5 years ago.

2026/02
-2020/11
=

2025/14
-2020/11
= 5 years 3 months = 5.25 years ago.

5.25

5.25 Years to Solve “Why Does Her Wrong, {Left foot} touch {stable column base}?”

Actually her L AND R feet BOTH touch {stable column base}. Upper hand asserts not only I, but also Y. (read that Y shape as, specifically, modified-Y).

Showing YI is approx showing, accurately, Y’I.

1. Y = the Possibilism mental model
   ypmm
2. I = the Eternalism mental model
   iemm is taken: the integrated “eternalism” mental model (dubious value phrase)
   todo: reassign keyboard shortcuts to use here “iemm”
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (speaking simply/roughly)
   yipemm
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (speaking accurately/ more precisely)
   y’impemm

or change strategy: a single keyboard shortcut to define the 3 forms.

An Acronym to Define the Set of Shape-Names: Y, I, & YI (or Y’I): [YIYI]

Alt: [YIYIB]
The ‘B’ acro-suffix inserts “branching” or “non-branching”.

Y = the Possibilism mental model. I = the Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model. Or, more precisely: Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
yiyi

Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model. I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model. Or, more precisely: Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
yiyib

Those keyboard shortcuts are designed to lend well to formatting as a list, after expansion:

1. Y = the Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   Or, more precisely:
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

1. Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   Or, more precisely:
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

The Mind End Ups with a Compound Mental Model: Two Complementary, Opposite, “Incompatible” Mental Models, Harmonized

2002 Core Theory Revision to “Transcend Determinism”,

+ 2025 Core Theory Revision to Harmonize possibilism & eternalism possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking, by abandoning Epistemology, Metaphysics, & Ontololgy, and Using Instead, Pure Cognitive Phenomenology.

The result is a compound mental model like chariot containing both Dionysus & Ariadne:

todo: image

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)

Figure 1. Triumph of Dionysus on a Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum).

Ariadne holds branch in

at first, around 2022-2023, i focused on OMG holds branch L hand, non-branching spear R hand

now since April 2025 different takeaway hi-value point: Dio doesn’t kill and repudiate Ariadne (branching thinking​); he WEDS her.

Isaac is repudiated and is affirmed and loved, by Abraham.

Abraham returned to his servants (did Isaac also return, or toasted on rock cut-branching fire altar?? bible is silent loudly on that point;

“BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS THING AND NOT WITHHELD YOUR SON”

The maiden Persephone dies and does not die. like (analogy) every year Persepho

• Every year, the maiden Persephone dies.
• Every year, the maiden Persephone is again alive.

Does the mind still “have” or “use” possibilism-thinking after psilocybin transformation?

Yes in a way, no in a way.

End up with a modified/ transformed Possibilism mental model.

Y’I ~= YI

Thus the mushroom-tree artists tell us BOTH together, that you end up with Y’I and that you end up with YI.

eg von Trimberg

• von Trimberg’s upper hand’s shape is YI.
  That hand is displayed together with this other hand that points to it, connecting them:
• student’s upper hand’s shape is IY’

12:32 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026 why point to Trim’s fingers instead of elsewhere? why avoid pointing to his thumb? because the point being comm’d here is,

negation of fingers on left (student’s IY’ hand-shape)
=
presence of fingers on right (von’s YI hand-shape)

Intermediate Work on the Acronym

outdated: semicolons are poor for formatting result as list:

Y = the Possibilism mental model; I = the Eternalism mental model; YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (more precisely, Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model)
yiyi; [YIYI]

Nice. Need alt to shoehorn-in branching vs. non-branching:

Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model; I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model; YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (more precisely, Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model)
yiyib; [YIYIB]

now use those keyboard shortcuts and then add formatting:

1. Y = the Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   More precisely, Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

to assist that post-expansion reformatting that’s needed, maybe replace ; by .

Y = the Possibilism mental model. I = the Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (more precisely, Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model).
yiyi

Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model. I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (more precisely, Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model).
yiyib

test: expand then reformat:

1. Y = the Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   Or, more precisely:
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

exposed problem; further revise needed, of final sent:

convert to concat string:

Y = the Possibilism mental model. I = the Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model. Or, more precisely: Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
yiyi

now try again: expand then reformat:

1. Y = the Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   Or, more precisely:
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

It is good. yiyi finalized. do same w/ yiyib:

Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model. I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model. Or, more precisely: Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
yiyib

final test: expand yiyib then format it:

1. Y = the branching-Possibilism mental model.
2. I = the non-branching Eternalism mental model.
3. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.
   Or, more precisely:
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

It is good.

Review the component keyboard shortcuts: [never def’d above]
exist with “branching”?? [no form or variant form were def’d above]

Review w/o “branching vs. non-branching” inserted:

ybpmm – above i never impl’d the 3 term-expanders.
ypmm
the integrated “eternalism” mental model;
iemm didn’t expand to “I = the Eternalism mental model”, but to some other, lower-value phrase.
yipemm – didn’t define above. would expand to:
YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

iemm is taken: the integrated “eternalism” mental model (dubious value phrase)
todo: reassign keyboard shortcuts to use here “iemm”

1. YI = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (speaking simply/roughly)
   yipemm
   Y’I = the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model (speaking accurately/ more precisely)
   y’impemm

It is perfectly valid (at a basic level) to say the mind ends up with the YI mental model. integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.

It is valid and more accurate/precise, to say the mind ends up with Y’I mental model.

modified Possibilism/ Eternalism thinking
mpet

the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model
mpemm

do i need keyboard shortcuts for the YI = equation?

*

Modify the Possibilism mental model and add the Eternalism mental model.

Modify the Possibilism mental model BY/WHEN ADDING the Eternalism mental model.

Michael Hoffman 12:04 a.m. Feb. 14, 2026 – the exact time at which I discovered this new reading of her feet and hands and {balance scale} mapped to en-LIGHT-ened Psalter Reader’s relative finger height/which foot down/ whether he’s threatened or not.

YI’ is the worst YI variant, because don’t want to demote I (the Eternalism mental model) to below Y (the Possibilism mental model).

Manesse Codex YI Hand-Fest
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/10/manesse-codex-yi-hand-fest/#the-two-hands-in-holding-hands —

Context (Situation) of Discovery

I was looking at the collection of 9 {balance scale} instances in my new page:

{blessing} Hand-Shapes
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/13/blessing-hand-shapes/

When I noticed that her hand shape pair is the classic master Reference combination:

• Upper hand YI
• Lower

Her Upper Thumb Is Not Considered {visually cut} by the {balance scale} String, Which Would Form the Worst Form, YI’

Out of the 4 permutation combinations, YI’ is the worst.

YI’ is the most misrepresentative form of representing how the mind is transformed by altered-state eternalism experiencing.

• YI – basic simple, but inaccurate, imprecise.
• Y’I – accurate. end up with modified possibilism-thinking, + the Eternalism theory added.
• YI’ – the worst form, it elevates Y over I; possibilism over eternalism.
• Y’I’ – eg hold shovel w/ fingertips at viewer, todo: show example.

the mushroom-tree artists grappled with this problem:

• YI – we COULD depict final state as YI. AS IF possibilism-thinking is wholly unchanged by ego death and rebirth! YI is true but only at a rough zoom out level first order of approx model like modelling a transistor or diode in a simplistic way:
  “A diode lets electric current flow one way but not the other.”
  (Ignoring the 0.7 V cutoff point; that complicating detail is covered in the 2nd-order model of a diode or transistor.)
• Y’I – Or, we could more accurately depict the final state as MODIFIED branching thinking​, plus the new, the “eternalism” mental model.

Sometimes the mushroom-tree artists solve this representation problem by depicting the final state as BOTH via YI and via Y’I, eg von Trimberg + the student.

von Trimberg, Upper Part of Figures 3 & 4: the Mind’s Final State after Psilocybin Transformation Is Depicted as Both Y’I and YI

todo: draw white box around both of these upper hands, and around both of these lower hands.

• Upper hands: Y’I & YI
• Lower hands: YI’ & Y (ignore lower thumb; transitional state; his hands depict 3-stage progresssion:

1. the ordinary-state possibilism mental model
   ospmm
2. the altered-state eternalism mental model
   asemm
3. the integrated possibilism/eternalism compound mental model
   ipecmm
   the integrated possibilism/eternalism mental model
   iepmm

Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the I-Shaped Mental Model without the Y- or Y’-Shaped Mental Model

Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the Non-Branching Eternalism Mental Model without the Branching-Possibilism Mental Model

Wrongly, Immaturely Expecting that the Final State Is Simply the Eternalism Mental Model without the Possibilism Mental Model

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

to keep part 3 clean, omit “qualified/modified/revised/transformed” Possibilism. imagine:

the Possibilism’/ Eternalism mental model

the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model
mpemm

The resulting progression is then:

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

• YI implies the Possibilism experiential model
• Y’I implies the modified-Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

todo next: add white boxes to figure 3+4 of von Trimberg: …

file name on drive is like https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_9055.jpg – crap, mobile. must re-do from scratch on desktop now.

Bird’s Nest Mushroom

Happiness Is: A Parallel Set of Keyboard Shortcuts (Acronyms): [PMM], [EMM], & [PEMM]

I quickly solved this erroneous thinking in just 2025-1995 = 30 years.

The 2000 correction from Coraxo in Gnosticism Yahoo Group, should’ve been indicator:
not change from possibilism to eternalism;
change from possibilism to modified-possibilism + eternalism
= transcend heimarmene / fatedness/ no-free-will / the frozen 4-D block universe.

Then again April/Aug 2025 I had to do same fix again essentially same:

Stop putting down possibilism-thinking. Stop devaluing possibilism-thinking, we use it ALWAYS, it is going away the day you literally bodily die, only then.

TO BE ALIVE IS TO EMPLOY POSSIBILISM-THINKING

To Be Alive, Before & After Psilocybin Transformation, Is to Use Possibilism-Thinking: Never Devalue It; Redeem It

I had to accomplish this REVISION OF MY CORE THEORY twice, in two major revisions!

• in 2000 to handle Late Antiquity instead of merely Classical Antiquity; to handle a 3-level model. 1988-1997 I barely had any concept or hooks, toward a 3-phase model.

1. possibilism-thinking
2. eternalism-thinking
3. integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

or term’y “mental model”:

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. the integrated possibilism/eternalism mental model
   ipemm

todo: make capzn consis across that set of 3 keyboard shortcuts:

the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model
ipemm
the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

try again w/ revised keyboard shortcut:

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

consider the word “compound”:

the integrated possibilism/eternalism compound mental model

todo: cap’z that expansion:

the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism, compound mental model
ipecmm

DONE. now try 1-3:

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism, compound mental model

too verbose 3rd step. shorter keyboard shortcut is:

the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

clarity accuracy would be:

the integrated QUALIFIED Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

qualified, revised, transformed, modified

Challenge: CLARITY & ACCURACY & SHORT; pick any 2 of the 3.

1. the Possibilism mental model
2. the Eternalism mental model
3. expansion conflict:
   pemm = the possibilism experiential mental model
   i wanted:
   pemm = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model
   which really means:
   pemm = the [MODIFIED-]Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model
   PROS/CONS of saying you end up with “one” “single” mental model, called possibilism/etm, as if Dionysus and Ariadne are FUSED in marriage , losing their opposite complementary relationship, bad. ok for shorthand elegance tho.

can we redef “pemm” to expand not to “the possibilism experiential mental model”? todo: uppercase possibilism there?

i REALLY want pemm to expand to “the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model”

emergency redef from:
pemm = the possibilism experiential mental model
to:
tpemm = the possibilism experiential mental model

to free up the keyboard shortcut to be instead:
pemm = the Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model

exists:

pem = the Possibilism experiential mode
eem = the Eternalism mental model

aghh inconsis. fix later. Address one need at a time! Hard work.

High tech that I invented when father died April 1987.

I am the inventor of what I call the “acronym“.

Y’ means the modified/ revised/ transformed/ reconstructed Possibilism mental model.

As if the Enlightened Mind Exclusively Uses the Eternalism Mental Model, without Anymore Using the Possibilism Mental Model

As if the the Possibilism mental model Has Been Gotten Rid Of and Is No Longer to Be Used

Avoid Scare-Quotes on “eternalism”

Revise the pair of keyboard shortcuts. Presently, bad:

• emm = the “eternalism” mental model
• pmm = the “possibilism” mental model

Use instead:

• emm = the Eternalism mental model
• pmm = the Possibilism mental model

DONE.

This related pair of keyboard shortcuts is similar; consistent:

• emmtsc = the Eternalism mental model of time, self, and control
• pmmtsc = the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control

Scare quotes are NOT usable, bc implies negation/ doubt/ skepticism.

Revised Acronyms (Keyboard Shortcuts) to have: [PT] = possibilism-thinking & [ET] = eternalism-thinking

problem w/ keyboard shortcuts, no eternalism-thinking though have a possibilism-thinking keyboard shortcut

pt = possibilism-thinking

??? = eternalism-thinking
e-t = ego transcendence – kinda retire this phrase? demote? reassign keyboard shortcut?
et = the Eternalism theory – don’t like this phrase much? what is the Eternalism theory?
yet
pt is not parallel to that:
pt = possibilism-thinking

new assigns:

• the Eternalism theory
  tet = transcendent eternalism-thinking
  try using:
  etmt but taken!! FIRST TIME MAJOR CONFLICT OF KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
  etmt = eternalism theory of mental transformation – verdict: low value prhase

for gods sake can’t we have parallel?: ffs!

• pt = possibilism-thinking
• et = eternalism-thinking

currently the et keyboard shortcut is lame, et = the Eternalism theory , poor phrase, low value. NUKE this keyboard shortcut entirely. overwrite it w et.

DONE.

What Is “the Eternalism theory”?

Do I Own that Theory-Name? I do “the theory of eternalism” Low-Value Phrase, demote its keyboard shortcut

WRONGLY EXPECTING & CLAIMING THAT THE FINAL STATE IS SIMPLY ‘I’ INSTEAD OF (Y + I) OR (QUALIFIED-Y + I)

The problem with YI instead of Y’I or worst,
WRONGLY EXPECTING & CLAIMING THAT THE FINAL STATE IS SIMPLY ‘I’ INSTEAD OF (Y + I) OR (QUALIFIED-Y + I).

Overly basic, crude, isolated altered-state eternalism is the crude mis-expectation, “must get rid of, divorce, cast-away, abandon Ariadne/Isaac; eliminate erroneous possibilism-thinking!” – an immature, awkward, typical, half-baked attitude.

Two Hands, Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album

Two Hands
Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XxludpcH8 —

The Month-Long “Medieval YI Hand-Shape Theory” Jackpot Week Continues

I was pleased (not surprised) to notice at start of Val Day 2026 today, confirming my Science Hypoth Prediction, thus THE EGODEATH THEORY IS PROVED TO BE CORRECT, that her hands form the CLASSIC MEDIEVAL HAND PAIR SHAPE: {Lower hand Y’, upper hand YI}.

Confirmed the Master Shape for Hand Pairs is {lower hand Y’, upper hand YI}

you might say this is part of:

Decoded {lower hand Y’, upper hand YI} = Initial Mental Model = Possibilism, Final Mental Model = Revised Possibilism + Eternalism

{balance scale} adjacent to CUBENSIS [we must be specific in this panel: oxen hooved dung mushroom specifically is useful for safe ID’n of CUBENSIS to safely ingest.

Safe id’n of Liberty Caps / non-Cubensis, or Panaeolus: Fake Liberty Caps or fake Panaeolus have orange rust.

See Stamets 1996 book.

• Dark purple-black spores are good.
• Orange rust spores are bodily fatal death poisonous.

Intro

Val Day 2004: All Egodeath Yahoo Group posts from June 2001 start to Val Day 2004, got copied to Egodeath.com, but without dates – big mistake.

Yahoo Groups was terminated 2019 by Yahoo. I posted 2001-2019, I only copied 2001-Feb 2004, to Egodeath.com. Feb 2004-2019 posts at Egodeath Yahoo Group were NOT copied to Egodeath.com. The Max Freakout archive of Egodeath Yahoo Group is at:

Egodeath Yahoo Group: Max Freakout Archive
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com.

This page delivers, from last night or this morning, a fresh reading of f134 row 2 middle woman {balance scale} pair of hands

Where I saw the picture: in new page __, I made a fresh, expanded, cleaner gallery of all {balance scale} motifs in Great Canterbury Psalter BUT TODO: MAKE a page just for the {balance scale} motif, because I have been sluggish in showcasing {balance scale} motif and counting, bumped count last night from 8 to 9 not bc I discovered another instance, but bc my counting was sloppy, halfassing it on this important motif.

what’s in the pans: possibilism vs. eternalism balanced relationship mushroom and the ordinary-state possibilism experiential mode

• Upper hand
• Lower hand: Y’, hold closed scroll, 4 partial fingers = 4 scroll segments

Read fingers same as read mushroom-trees, for a good helpful take.

• the Cybernetic theory
• the Mytheme theory

[CT]
[MT]

• the Core theory, within the Egodeath theory
• the Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory

• the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
  p1t
• the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
  p2t

A Standard Hand Pair Shape: Lower Hand Y’, Upper Hand YI

another innovation tonight from 12:04 a.m. Feb. 14, 2026:

Decoded {both feet down} at {stable column base}

I misread as {stand on left foot}. wrong, bc

Right foot is NOT LIFTED; no gap between Right foot and ground.

Right foot is equated with Left foot, which touches {stable column base}.

{balance scale} mirrors his fingers height. which controls

his relative finger height maps corresponds to his feet height.

Balance integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

balance possibilism-thinking & the e

balance:

• the “possibilism” mental model branching possibilities
• the “eternalism” mental model non-branching possibilities like thumb {cut right trunk}

Interpretation/Decoding Strategy: Finger Shape = Tree Branching Feature = YI Branching-Forms

How is this finger shape like mushroom-tree features?

The Term finger shape Means the YI form of {fingers vs. thumb}, or {3 fingers vs. slightly splayed-apart Index finger}, Across the Sequence of Two Hands

The shorthand term finger shape means the YI form of {fingers vs. thumb} (or {3 fingers vs. slightly splayed-apart Index finger}).

Use Formula: Finger Shape = Tree Branching Feature = YI Branching-Forms

upper hand:

• {fingers} = possibilism
  balanced with
• {thumb} = eternalism

her scroll is open to the Egodeath theory reading

Row 2 middle: Scale Balance & Closed Scroll

ordinary-state possibilism no mushroom

balanced with

altered-state eternalism mushroom

f134: {balance scale}

• f134: Hanging Upside Down, {balance scale}

Dedicated page about f1

Row 2 Middle: Self-Threatening Psalter Reader

Finger Height = Loss of Control, with Egodeath Theory Picture Vortex

{fire light circle sun} motif: Lighting of Chamber of Self-Threatening Psalter Reader

See Also

Canterbury f134: Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree
Row 2 Middle: Self-Threatening Psalter Reader
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/#Self-Threatening-Psalter-Reader – f134 row 2 middle, {balance scale} woman, fingertip

Michael Hoffman Noon Feb. 14, 2026, Valentine’s Day

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Possibilism ❤️ Eternalism
• Nike or Ariadne? (They Can’t Even Get Right Who Holds the Branch)
• A Mixed-up Path to the Best, Ideal Conclusion and Mindset
• Approaches I’m Against
• Approaches I Advocate
• Web Search: dionysus ariadne
• AI Summary
• Article Links: Ariadne
• Dionysus the God of Loose Cognitive Science
• Change of Emphasis for this Image in 2023 (Branch Held in Left Hand) vs. 2025 (Wed Ariadne, Not Abandon Her)
  • Emails with Wrmspirit
• The 10 Mushrooms in the Mosaic
• The Victorious Chariot Contains both Dionysus and Ariadne
• Pale High-Res Image Cut Off
• Yellow Blurry Image Complete (Except Bottom Cut Off)
• My Photographic Proof of Leopard Amanita Fountain
  • Identifying the Leopard-watering Bowl as Amanita
• Contributions by the Egodeath Community
• Todo
• The Brown Database of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art = EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com
• Medieval Artists Simultaneously Depict the Final, Mature, Wisdom Mental Model (Post- Psilocybin Transformation), as Y’I (Accurate) & YI (Simple)
• Physics Firmly Asserts Non-Branching Eternalism as Its Foundation, and Offers No Support for Branching Possibilism
• List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism
• List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism (Verbose)
• Rebis Holding a Y by Using Fingers & (Opposable/ Opposite) Thumb Together
• Proof that in Day 1 (Creation of Light), the {balance scale} Pans Contain Panaeolus & Amanita Mushrooms
• The Hundreds of Mushroom-Trees in Christian Art, That We Deniers Assert Look Like Mushrooms, Are Not Mushrooms
• Huggins’ “Still Foraging Wrong” Article Published 3.5 Months Ago
• Citation-Type Keyboard Shortcut for “Still Foraging Wrong” (Huggins) [RH25]
• In April 2025, the Dionysus and Rebis Images Corrected and Revised the 1997 Egodeath Core Theory’s “Repudiate” View of Branching Possibility Thinking
• The Pythagorean Y
• Whether to put Braces Notation Around {branching} & {non-branching}
• Motivation for this Page
• The Problem for Artists, Same as for Me
  • Non-Branching Thinking​ Includes Branching Thinking,​ and Is the Exclusive Opposite (Complement) of Branching Thinking​
• Audiobook of Zep 4 (Eric Davis) Is Released Today [Apr. 29, 2025]
• p. 118, Zep 4 (Davis) on Astral Ascent Mysticism
• p. 122, Zep 4 (Davis), About the Egodeath Theory as Pure, Exclusive Eternalism, as if Get Rid of Possibilism
• The Dominant Christian Interpretation Is by Psilocybin-Initiated, Transformed Artists Spotlighted in the Greatest, Most-Mainstream Cathedrals and Illuminated Manuscripts
• See Also

Possibilism ❤️ Eternalism

Nike or Ariadne? (They Can’t Even Get Right Who Holds the Branch)

The ultimate, paradigmatic victory is:

Understanding and harmonizing branching vs. non-branching.

Wisdom, Transcendent Knowledge, is the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

I was steered by Michael Archangel and by Dionysus for decades, under a strong, guiding idea, that’s not in the source, reaching Wisdom successfully.

I’m keeping the victory trophy. 🐉🚪💎🏆

Thank you Michael & Dionysus, since 1986.

A Mixed-up Path to the Best, Ideal Conclusion and Mindset

I reached the best conclusion, through a partly confused path.

The motifs are the thing (ignored wings: Ariadne is a mortal then an immortal).

Shut off your academic text mind, and open your eyes and truly look at the art: shapes.

Bring expertise in branching vs. non-branching motifs, not expertise in mind-closing textual constraints that blind.

My reconciling and harmonizing of branching vs. non-branching, guided under an incorrect and superior reading of the mosaic, was life-changing, and theory-fixing.

Approaches I’m Against

I’m against:

• text around art
• Ronald Huggins & Thomas Hatsis claims that the text drives the art.
• over-education about texts and stories
• backstories behind art
• Cog Neurobaloney
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Epistemology, Ontology, Metaphysics

Approaches I Advocate

I advocate:

• Phenomenology.
• Medieval artists DGAF about the text around the art, or the stories; the art totally dominates over those.
• The Artists Mainstream Psilocybin Initiation Guild brings their own internal dominant concern.
• Medieval artists do not “illustrate the text” bowing down in subservience; artists have their own “talking points”. Artists use this particular job as an opportunity to deliver their own, extant message.
• A pure psychedelic cognitive Phenomenology approach.
• A pure cognitive phenomenology approach.
• Psychedelics in Western religious history, as the source, origin, Reference point, and ongoing inspiration.
• Psychedelics in Asian religious history, as the source, origin, Reference point, and ongoing inspiration. Per the Asian Studies expert AM, who quickly surpassed Mike Crowley’s book.

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z12.3.html

“Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) and the winged goddess Nike (Roman Victoria) ride a chariot drawn by four tigers.

“The god is crowned with a fruiting grapevine and holds a pine branch in his hand.”

No, the female figure holds a branch, not the male figure.
My uncertainty about Ariadne vs. Nike is excusable, this is not.

No mention of spear (non-branching).

“To his left stands a Satyr cloaked in a leopard-skin cape, bearing a wine-amphora on his shoulder.

“A Maenad strides before the god beating a tambourine.”

“Below, a leopard sips from a cup of wine and a Satyriscus (child Satyr) rides a lion.”

Leopard drinks from Amanita in Holy Grail upturned formation, as my 2010 specimen photos proved in 2020. Not literally “a cup of wine”.

Web Search: dionysus ariadne

https://www.google.com/search?q=dionysus+ariadne

AI Summary

“Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry, married Ariadne, the abandoned Cretan princess, after finding her weeping on Naxos, where Theseus had left her.

“Smitten by her, Dionysus married her, bringing her to Olympus and making her immortal with a crown created by Hephaestus, which became the Corona Borealis constellation. 

[the soul rises to sphere of the fixed stars/ heimarmene; the spirit goes outside of that, per David Ulansey + Wouter Hanegraaff -mh]

Key Aspects of the Myth:

• Meeting on Naxos: After helping Theseus defeat the Minotaur, Ariadne was abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Dionysus found her, comforted her, and they fell in love.
• The Marriage: They were married, and the wedding gift, a crown from Aphrodite or Hephaestus, was placed in the stars as the constellation Corona.
• Children: They had several children together, often cited as including Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus, and others.
• Immortality: Dionysus (or Zeus at his request) made Ariadne immortal, and she lived with him on Mount Olympus.
• Relationship Dynamic: They are often seen as a powerful, devoted couple, with Ariadne representing the intuitive “powerhouse” to Dionysus’s “rebel god” persona. 

Ariadne is sometimes referred to as the “Mistress of the Labyrinth,” while Dionysus is the “Great Loosener,” often portraying a dynamic of transformation and devotion in mythology.”

Article Links: Ariadne

From the search above.

https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/ariadne.html

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

Dionysus the God of Loose Cognitive Science

loose cognitive association binding [LCAB]

The god of loose cognition; Loose Cognitive Science.

Maenad with unbound hair loosened mind control transformation.

Change of Emphasis for this Image in 2023 (Branch Held in Left Hand) vs. 2025 (Wed Ariadne, Not Abandon Her)

King Theseus abandons wife Ariadne.

Dionysus is better: he WEDS Ariadne.

When the mind adds eternalism-thinking, the mind does not destroy possibilism-thinking; modify possibilism-thinking.

“Embrace and include” possibilism-thinking, upon adding eternalism-thinking, per Ken Wilber.

Emails with Wrmspirit

I developed the huge “wed possibilism-thinking” solution in emails with Wrmspirit in April 2025.

todo: did I copy the emails to this site? likely.

The 10 Mushrooms in the Mosaic

• 4x – mushroom-shaped grape-baskets
• 1x – Amanita leopard dog-watering bowl fountain
• 4x – Maenad’s 4-tiger {mushroom hem}
• 1x – {mushroom hem} Dionysus

Total mushroom count: 10.

The Victorious Chariot Contains both Dionysus and Ariadne

Pale High-Res Image Cut Off

Yellow Blurry Image Complete (Except Bottom Cut Off)

among mytheme-shapes, in Mythemeland.

http://www.egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/DionysusVictoryChariot_HiRes.jpg

There is 1 mushroom above each tiger’s head/neck (in the Maenad’s garment), and 1 mushroom above the left tiger’s tail (in Dionysus’ cloak).
5 instances in 1 art work is evidence of deliberate repetition — mushrooms hidden & revealed in garment folds.

The upturned Amanita leopard-watering bowl is mushroom #6, not to mention the mushroom-shaped grape-baskets above and to the right (see the below copy of the image).

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)-SCEPTER

My Photographic Proof of Leopard Amanita Fountain

Identifying the Leopard-watering Bowl as Amanita

From article Nov. 2020 wrote for Brown:
https://egodeaththeory.org/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Identifying-the-Leopard-watering-Bowl-as-Amanita

The best photos ever taken of Amanita, for multiple reasons, including this proof utility.

Contributions by the Egodeath Community

Image provided to Michael Hoffman by the Egodeath community in 2005 for my 2007 main article.

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)

Figure 1. Triumph of Dionysus on a Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum).

Todo

todo: copy any other crops to here

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I NEED DEDICATED GALLERY PAGE:

I CAN’T READILY FIND MY METADATA-ANNOTATED OFFICIAL UPLOADS OF ALL MY CROPS OF THIS IMAGE.

The present, new page fixes that problem of image database management of the Brown database of mushroom imagery in Christian art at this site. = “gallery”, “categlor

• database
• gallery
• catalog

brown db includes analyusis BUT CERTAINLY EMPHATICALLY NOT JUST ISOLATED “MUSHROOM” IMAGERY:

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

The Brown Database of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art = EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com

mushroom imagery in Western, Greco/Roman, Jewish/Christian mythic religious art

mushroom imagery in Western art
miwa

mushroom imagery in Greco/ Roman/ Jewish/ Christian art
migrjca

Medieval Artists Simultaneously Depict the Final, Mature, Wisdom Mental Model (Post- Psilocybin Transformation), as Y’I (Accurate) & YI (Simple)

Y’I = IY’

Physics Firmly Asserts Non-Branching Eternalism as Its Foundation, and Offers No Support for Branching Possibilism

Mushroom expert RL assisted me a couple weeks ago in web research to answer this pair of questions:

• Is block-universe eternalism accepted in Physics?
  Answer: YES, to the extreme. 4D block spacetime is SO well accepted, there isn’t even any justifiction; it’s treated as extremely foundational.

• Is branching Everett manyworlds accepted in Physics?
  Answer: NO, it’s merely an idea, with no evidence.

Michael Hoffman since 1988: VINDICATED by that research, that extreme lopsided finding.

Physics firmly asserts Eternalism, and offers no support for Possibilism.

Petkov intro of book says Minkowski had real comprehension of mind-blowing Eternalism, but Ein only had hazy understanding.

See what I wrote in 1997/2001 re: branching vs. non-branching in Physics (not yet in myth & mythic art):
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-1/ – find “branch”

It took me from 1998 to around 2010 to start connecting that with branching vs. non-branching in myth & mythic art.

Great new keyboard shortcuts to list the key contrasts, describe the phrase:
list of contrasts of possibilism vs possibilism vs. eternalism
l c p e [LCPE]:

List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism

Possibilism vs. Eternalism =

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

[LCPE]

List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism (Verbose)

Ordinary-state Possibilism vs. altered-state Eternalism =

• Possibilism vs. Eternalism (technical)
• {branching} vs. {non-branching} (everyday analogy)
• {tree} vs. {snake} (analogy)
• {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger} (analogy)
• Y vs. I (notation)
• many worlds vs. single block-universe (technical analogy)

[LCPEL]

3 types of lexicon language:

• technical language: possibilism vs. eternalism; many worlds vs. single block universe
• everyday language: branching vs. non-branching
• analogy: {tree} vs. {snake} {fingers} vs. {thumb} {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger}

Overlaps:

• many worlds vs. single block universe — technical language, and analogy
• branching vs. non-branching — everyday language, and analogy

Rebis:

Rebis Holding a Y by Using Fingers & (Opposable/ Opposite) Thumb Together

The base of the Y is the non-branching region of that “tree”.

The top part of the Y is a V (branching); compare two mushrooms in Day 4 pointing to the V- or A-shaped compass God holds while also holds {balance scale} filled with Panaeolus & Amanita:

Proof that in Day 1 (Creation of Light), the {balance scale} Pans Contain Panaeolus & Amanita Mushrooms

Crop and Annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025
Day 1: Compass and {balance scale}
Day 4: Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita

Four mushrooms- which Ronald Huggins WRONGLY calls “trees” as he rushes past this panel to deflect and divert attention magician-like.

Huggins the bad phony stage-magician diverts your attention by saying “Around the trees are smaller plants”.

Do I need to screenshot Huggins’ INSANITY propaganda?

Trees?!

HOW CAN RONALD HUGGINS CALL THESE 4 SIMPLE MUSHROOMS, “TREES”?

THEY HAVE NO BRANCHES, AND THAT IS REALLY THE ENTIRETY OF Huggins’ argument of objection to saying that:

The Hundreds of Mushroom-Trees in Christian Art, That We Deniers Assert Look Like Mushrooms, Are Not Mushrooms

The hundreds of mushroom-trees are not mushrooms.

The art academics themselves dubbed this class of trees “pilzbaum / mushroom-trees”, because the art academics said these mushroom-trees look like mushrooms.

THEY SAID SO THEMSELVES, and now that crowd of anything-but-drugs academics is trying to walk back THEIR OWN ASSERTION THAT THESE TREES LOOK LIKE MUSHROOMS.

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

Huggins’ “Still Foraging Wrong” Article Published 3.5 Months Ago

2026/02/14
-2025/10/29
=
2025/14/14
-2025/10/29
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2025/13/44
-2025/10/29
= 3 mo 15 days =

published 3.5 months ago

Citation-Type Keyboard Shortcut for “Still Foraging Wrong” (Huggins) [RH25]

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

What a great invention: the citation-type keyboard shortcut.

In April 2025, the Dionysus and Rebis Images Corrected and Revised the 1997 Egodeath Core Theory’s “Repudiate” View of Branching Possibility Thinking

You repudiate the original mental model in a way: you revise and retain it.

April 2025, fundamental correction of my 1988/1997 core model, or of my undestanding of the final state in relation to the two systems where you “move from A to B” as if to eliminate A, which is not the case.

That correction was driven by two images:

• “Rebis holding a Y” image which RL helped me re-find after repeated failure.
• Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic.

Those two artists instructed me how to solve this difficult problem I worked on for months trying to rightly articulate attitude and revision of the orig mental model.

The Pythagorean Y

• Left = possibilism-thinking = process more with altered-state fire
• Right = eternalism-thinking = victory

Beware of “get rid of possibilism-thinking”.

Simple vs. accurate models.

• Simplified, 1st-order model:
  Switch from Possibilism to Eternalism.
• Accurate, 2nd-order model:
  Switch from Possibilism, to modified Possibilism along with Eternalism.

The mind retains possibilism-thinking in a modified form, upon adding eternalism-thinking.

The broad, inclusive sense of the word “eternalism-thinking”:

Eternalism-thinking includes modified/ qualified/ transformed/ transfigured/ revised possibilism-thinking.

Whether to put Braces Notation Around {branching} & {non-branching}

The terms branching vs. non-branching are BOTH direct lang (referent domain) AND analogy-domain.

It’s arbitrary whether to put braces around “branching” and “non-branching”, as do for analogies in myth & mythic art.

On the spectrum from direct lang to analogy, branching vs. non-branching sits in the middle.

Motivation for this Page

I am CONSTANTLY needing this mosaic because EXTREMELY profound lesson, not foolish notion 1995-2025 of “get rid of possibilism-thinking and change to eternalism-thinking”.

I had to find the most clear & effective way of framing / defining “eternalism-thinking” – vex Q:

• eternalism-thinking = not possibilism-thinking; purely basic eternalism-thinking.
  vs.
• eternalism-thinking = includes transformed possibilism-thinking.

The Problem for Artists, Same as for Me

Non-Branching Thinking​ Includes Branching Thinking,​ and Is the Exclusive Opposite (Complement) of Branching Thinking​

It’s largely a termy-defn problem, for effective lexicon definition.

My 1988, 1997, 2024 connection implication tones where gave the impression – proof: Erik Davis page on the Egodeath theory in Zep IV book climax.

how the hell can i instantly make page photos appear here? went to site map, find davis, found it
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/30/techgnosis-myth-magic-and-mysticism-in-the-age-of-information-davis-1998/ —

Audiobook of Zep 4 (Eric Davis) Is Released Today [Apr. 29, 2025]

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV
Erik Davis, Feb. 18, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586/

I wrote at other page
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/30/techgnosis-myth-magic-and-mysticism-in-the-age-of-information-davis-1998/ —

Tomorrow, April 29, 2025, audiobook is released, of book Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586 —

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• I-shaped.
  End up with eternalism-thinking “instead of” possibilism-thinking.
  If define eternalism to include modded possibilism.

• I-shaped & Y-shaped.
  End up with both possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking.
  A simplified explanation that we end up with (for the most part) the original world model, with the eternalism model added to it.

• I-shaped & Y’-shaped.
  End up with modified possibilism-thinking, + eternalism-thinking.
  That’s accurate: the new I model + the modded Y model.

Depending how you think about it and define terms:

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

See Also

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

To make this list of recent pages, I copypasted from bottom of an article, then quickly elim’d some links.

I kept the below links from that list, for various reasons.

Today’s new articles:

• YI Hand Shapes of Woman Holding {balance scale} with Both Feet Touching {stable column base} – today’s other article.
• Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism – the present article.

Recent pages that are relevant to either of those two articles:

• YI Hand Shapes of Woman Holding {balance scale} with Both Feet Touching {stable column base}
• Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism
• {blessing} Hand-Shapes
• The Wasson/Panofsky/Huggins Cover-up Operation to Obstruct Research in Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
• On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins, 2025)
• Entheogenics: Psychedelic Experiences as Revelatory Events in the History of Western Esotericism (Mosurinjohn, 2026)
• Manesse Codex YI Hand-Fest
• Otto Gospel: Mushroom-Trees, Branching, and YI Hand Shapes
• The Mushroom-Tree Religion in the Mainstream Medieval Art World: Psychedelic Non-Branching & Ordinary-State Branching of Possibilities
• Solved Eustace Foot Angles {Left Toes + Side of Right Big Toe}
• YI Hand-Shapes Breakthrough Confirms Simple Possibilism/ Eternalism Theory
• Solved von Trimberg’s Fingers on Left Arm, Thumb on Right Arm
• The Mushroom-Tree Religion in Mainstream Christianity
• Medieval YI Hand-Shape Theory
• The Egodeath Theory Corroborates Carl Ruck’s Psychedelic Mysteries Paradigm
• “Perception of Eternalism” Page at Effect Index (Josie Kins)
• How Psychedelic Block Universe Eternalism Transforms Personal Control Agency
• Toward a Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology: An Exploration of Fear, Otherness, and Control (Houot, 2019)
• f107 Great Canterbury Psalter: God’s Hand from Heimarmene-Stars Cloud Directing Jesus Lifting from Ossuary, Escaping Demon
• The Egodeath Community
• 2 POVs Married: End Up Permanently Having Two Vantage Points of View, Across Both States of Consciousness
• Entry into Jerusalem: Two Sets of Eyes, Left Hoof Lifted, Heimarmene Gate
• The Spectrum of Determinism Positions: from Free Will to Determinism to Eternalism with Control Aspects
• 1987 Notebooks: Way of Zen + Block-Universe No-Free-Will = Ego Death Theory
• God’s Promise to Abraham Is to Many Nations, not Just to One Nation (Gen 17)
• Recognizing Mushroom Imagery in Medieval Art
• The Sacrifice of Isaac
• Mithraism and the Tauroctony Bull-Sacrifice Scene​
• Reversible Tauroctony Mithraism Bull-Sacrifice Scene​
• TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Davis, 1998)
• Qualified Eternalism-Thinking: Integrated, Balanced Possibilism- & Eternalism-Thinking
• How Branching and Non-Branching Represent Two Mental Models of Control-in-World
• The “All At Once” Universe Shatters Our View of Time (Emily Adlam)
• Psychedelic 4D Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism
• The Dilemma of Determinism (James, 1897) Is Against Eternalism, Not Causal-Chain Determinism
• Astral Ascent Mysticism: Standard Basic Model for Transcending Eternalism
• Poimandres Hermetic Text Is the Source of Scholars Thinking the Ogdoad Is Above Fate (Sam Block Transcript)
• Key Cosmology Questions: Does Cosmos Include Fixed Stars?
• Justin Sledge (Esoterica) Conversation with Wouter Hanegraaff about Entheogens in Western Esotericism
• Cognitive Phenomenology of Mind Manifestation
• What Did I Discover? Can We Have Stable Control in the Psychedelic State? Dionysus and the Pirates
• The Official Brown Database of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
• Transcending Heimarmene in Mithraism (David Ulansey)
• Books and Citations for the Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
• Fallacious Argumentation about Mushroom-Trees in Huggins’ “Foraging Wrong” Article
• Hanegraaff’s Inability to Place Fixed Stars in Sphere 8 Proves Rebirth above Saturn Is into Fate, before Freedom
• What is Hermeticism? (Paul Davidson) Can’t Place Fixed Stars
• Justin Sledge of Esoterica Confirms All Brands of Religion in Late Antiquity Transcended No-Free-Will (Fatedness, Heimarmene, Eternalism)
• 3-Phase “Transcendent Possibilism” vs. 2-Phase “Eternalism” (Transcendent Egoic Thinking)
• Egodeath Theory as Compatibilism Instead of No-Free-Will
• Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art (Huggins, 2022)
• Egodeath Mystery Show, Ep262: Transcending Eternalism (Nov. 22, 2024)
• Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Huggins, 2024)
• Block Universe vs. Quantum Physics = Virtual Free Will vs. Naive Free Will; Leaving the Heimarmene Cosmos
• Splendor Solis: Philosophers Beside the Tree

Michael Hoffman 10:30 p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

Contents:

links work in desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Intro
• Email from RL to MH, Feb. 5, 2026
• Hand Gestures in Medieval Art
• Predictions About the Summary
• Awesome List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism [LCPE] [LCPEL]
• 🕺
• “ONE INSTANCE IS A FLUKE; TWO’S A PATTERN”
• The Mainstream Artists Initiation Guild with Psilocybin Mushroom Lockbox; motif-education, and {balance scale}
• Hand Shape Emojis
• Decoded {splayed fingers touching head} = asleep in ordinary-state possibilism
• Jonah Asleep vs. Awake at the Gourd Plant: How Fingers Touch Head (Golden Psalter)
• DIDNT U HEAR ALLEGROS BEEN DEBUNKED
• My Motivation for Finding Tons of Mushroom Imagery in Greco/ Roman/ Jewish/ Christian Art
• So, No Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
• Selection Bias: The Only Kind of Evidence That Counts, Is Whatever Kind Has the Least Evidence for Mushrooms (Because We Anything-But-Drugs Academics Say So)
• Ranked Emojis for medieval YI hand shapes:
• Close Match / HiSemi-Match / MedClose Enough / LowUseless / None
• Grouped by Hand Types
• Hand PointTwo Hands
• 900 AD – 1300 AD was the Heyday of the mushroom-tree religion
• I Don’t Know
• 1000 BC to 1687 AD {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} Motifs
• txt msg 1 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026
• von Trimberg, 4 Pairs of Hands
• Medieval Artists’ Game: Paint Initial- and Final-State YI Hand Shapes
• Emojis: ‘Y’ Fingers, vs. ‘I’ Thumb or Splayed Index Finger
• txt msg 2 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026
• The Available Emojis partly overlap with the language of medieval YI hand shapes
• The Artists Initiation Guild Lockboxes Blue Fruit Ordered Trade by King, Weighing the Blue Dried Fruit with a {balance scale}
• Instances of the {psilocybin mushroom lockbox} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter
• 9 Instances of the {balance scale} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter
• f11: {balance scale} 1
• f40: {balance scale} 2
• f47: {balance scale} 3
• f55: {balance scale} 4
• f60: {balance scale} 5
• f134: {balance scale} 6
• f145: {balance scale} 7
• f177: {balance scale} 8
• f221: {balance scale} 9
• The Hand-Shape Theory Game
  • Rules of the Medieval Artists’ Game
• Two Hands, Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album
• Medieval YI hand-shape theory
• txt msg 3 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026
• The Mainstreamest Religion Is the Mushroom-Tree Religion that’s Within the Heart & Spotlight of Christian History
• 900 AD – 1300 AD: The Heyday of the Mushroom-Tree Religion
• 1000 BC – 1687 AD: The Art Lifetime of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
• txt msg 4 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026
• Conceptual Revolutions (Thagard, 1992): from earth-centric to sun-centric cosmos model: took 177 years
• 💎
  • Hanging Upside Down by Right Knee/Leg
• txt msg 1 to RL 10:37 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026
• txt msg 2 to RL 10:57 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026
• Ridiculous Reasoning from the Anything-But-Drugs Academics Panofsky 1952 & Wasson 1968
• txt msg 3 to RL, 4:52 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026
• txt msg 4 to RL, 5:05 pm Feb. 14, 2026
• Jonah and the Gourd Plant (Golden Psalter)
• txt msg 5 to RL, 5:09 pm Feb. 14, 2026
• Bodleian Library Bestiary: Mother with {sleeping} Baby, {branching fingers touch face} = Asleep
• Bodleian Library Bestiary
• Bodleian Bestiary: Hand-Shapes
• Bodleian Bestiary: holds snake in L hand, debranched branch in R hand
• Bodleian Bestiary: nice mushroom-tree art
• Bodleian Bestiary: Christ
• Bodleian Bestiary: Cybermonk at Work
• Bodleian Bestiary: branching antlers vs. no antlers
• Bodleian Bestiary: Fighting centaurs, guy in mushroom-tree
• Bodleian Bestiary: {cut right trunk} of mushroom-tree with 4 branch arms under cap
• Bodleian Bestiary: {phallic garment mushroom-hem}
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Intro

RL emailed this text to me.
d/k how it was produced by a query.

search this site for blessing
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=blessing

Email from RL to MH, Feb. 5, 2026

RL wrote:

“Hey dude, I found this in a rudimentary search (not verified yet) and just wanted to bounce it off to see how it jibes with your notes.”

Hand Gestures in Medieval Art

A search-result summary.

“Hand gestures in medieval art served as a “graphic shorthand” to convey complex theological, emotional, and social meanings, functioning as a silent language for viewers.

“Common symbolic gestures included raised hands for blessing, hand-on-chest for devotion, and specific finger positions to represent the Trinity.

“These postures bridged religious narratives with the viewer and, in secular art, signified authority, legal, or romantic commitments. 

Key Religious and Spiritual Gestures

• Benediction/Blessing: Christ often raises his right hand with the thumb, index, and middle fingers extended (representing the Trinity) while the ring and little finger touch (representing the dual nature of Christ).
  [no branching analysis? fail, QUALITY OF INTERP = POOR; THOSE ON THE OUTSIDE the city gates wailing]
• Hand of God: A divine hand reaching from a cloud [tons of God-clouds in Great Canterbury Psalter] signifies God’s intervention, authorization, or approval, often appearing in scenes like the baptism of Christ or coronation of rulers.
• Prayer/Adoration: Hands raised with palms open (orans) or pressed together (later medieval period) demonstrate supplication or devotion.
• Modesty/Submission: A hand placed on the chest or covering the womb was used to denote purity and modesty, commonly seen in depictions of the Virgin Mary. 

Secular and Social Gestures

• Handfasting/Binding: Clasped hands signified legal contracts, such as marriage or feudal loyalty.
• Silence/Contemplation: A finger placed to the lips or a hand resting under the chin (thoughtful pose) indicated silence, often in monastic contexts.
• Despair/Grief: Outstretched arms and hands raised high, often with fingers splayed, were used to depict extreme sorrow or emotional anguish, such as in crucifixion scenes. 

Directional and Expressive Functions

• Pointing: Figures often point to direct the viewer’s attention to crucial narratives or figures within a scene.
• Hand-to-Body Contact: Gestures were used to humanize sacred figures, making their divinity accessible to the viewer.
• Right vs. Left Hand: Traditionally, the
  right hand signified active, divine, or male power,
  while the
  left hand was associated with the passive or, in some contexts, the deceptivTHE END

/ end of email

Predictions About the Summary

This was written before i read the email summary of hand shapes that doesn’t mention YI, branching vs. non-branching, YI hand shapes:

IM SURE THEY’LL DISCUSS SHAPES BASIC BRANCHING VS. NON-BRANCHING SHAPES VIA FINGER CONTRASTS (OR NO FKKING CHANCE)

Bet: zero relevance below:

no shape YI analysis so trashcan/reject the below poor-quality analysis pie-sky invention

blind to YI contrast shapes message

ordinary-state possibilism vs. psychedelic eternalism
ospvase

most basic message:

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism
if omit ‘s’ (-state) in the acro:
opae < — new

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism
opvae

Awesome List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism [LCPE] [LCPEL]

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

ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism = possibilism vs. eternalism (technical) = branching vs. non-branching (everyday); {tree} vs. {snake} (analogy); {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger} (analogy); Y vs. I (notation); many worlds vs. single block-universe (technical)

nicer formatted at
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/31/hand-shape-theory/#list-of-contrasts-of-possibilism-vs.-eternalism-concise

“many worlds vs. single block universe”

i figured some my first decoding hand shape was Mar. 21, 2022 email to Brow F aggggh no

the other date in the Disco Log:

🕺🏐

Feb. 9, 2023: Emailed Brown:
Entry into Jerusalem
Martin Church fresco
Jesus’ finger shapes using TWO hands NOT interp like as if 1 hand.
L hand extremely splayed 5 fingers
R hand Index+Middle extended held firmly together,
hand-shapes contrasted

AND guy in tree holding out sticks and feathers

IT WOULD BE NICE IF JULIE BROWN GIVE ME ULTRA RES OF FINGERS & STICKS FEATHERS

“ONE INSTANCE IS A FLUKE; TWO’S A PATTERN”

That use of finger shapes (dup’d in the miniature, God in bush finger shapes) is artistically creative.

And Christ’s finger-shapes in Entry into Jerusalem in Martin Church exactly matched in a miniature i was glad to find, big confirmation.

The Mainstream Artists Initiation Guild with Psilocybin Mushroom Lockbox; motif-education, and {balance scale}

Ruck forces me to specify “psilocybin”, to keep out 3rd-rate Amanita that the Allegro/ Ruck/ Irvin crowd, 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm), are pushing.

As a mainstream artists initiation guild member, you paint shapes guided by branching vs. non-branching basic concepts.

Use a shared, taught, developed, hand-shape theory language that
the psilocybin initiation lockbox guild of artists developed between 1000 BC and 1687 AD.

mainstream artists initiation motif-education guild with psilocybin mushroom lockbox and {balance scale}
aig

Hand Shape Emojis

They overlap the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} motifs’ use of YI hand shapes.

I didn’t even classify my hand-shape theory breakthrough into which cat. yet?

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

which cat is yi hand shapes?

• mushroom {mushroom }
• {mushroom}
• ,
• {branching},
• {handedness} – yes (10% chance as always, FLEXY! FLEXY! no rigid Panofsky photocopy crafstman robot (when it comes to TABOO SPECIAL TOPIC of mushroom-trees, only).
• {stability} – no

Features:

hand seq:

1. lower hand: Y’ = qualified possibilism-thinking
2. upper hand: IY = integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

{splayed fingers touching head} = asleep in ordinary-state possibilism

im gonna make sure announced, now:

Decoded {splayed fingers touching head} = asleep in ordinary-state possibilism

12:52 a.m. Feb. 13, 2026

Mobile device has screenshots to maybe upload.

A common theme.

Sleeping baby, mother’s branched fingers against sleep baby head.

Jonah Asleep vs. Awake at the Gourd Plant: How Fingers Touch Head (Golden Psalter)

DIDNT U HEAR ALLEGROS BEEN DEBUNKED

DIDNT U HEAR ALLEGROS BEEN DEBUNKED

SO, NO MUSHROOMS IN WESTERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY.

The weopanized by anything-but-drugs academics , Allegro & Rogan & Muraresku and any pop-facing, even Ruck: make em look silly, beat entheogen scholars over the head w em –

you are a follower of Joe Rogan if you believe Secret Christian Amanita Cult. which is same as Eleusis Kykeon washed-out vessels.

NO EVIDENCE!

… joke part 1 here, todo.

1. There is no evidence to support “the psychedelic mysteries hypothesis”.
   Magically, “possibility” becomes “fact” (just like Mosurinjohn & Ascough make a big, overblown (misrep.) stink against Ruck for doing):
2. We debunked Ruck and proved there definitely were no psychedelics in mystery religions or Christian origins.

We’ve read entire 2 publications in this newbie field of Psychedelic Science Professional Critic & Self Promoter by attacking founders of field blanket sweeping DISRESPECT.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s disrespect for entheogen scholars is as bad as my intense disrespect of Popebanker Wasson the cover-up operator lifetime actor active deceiver lying to everyone.

Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson tried to bluff “the mycologists”; that is, Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

But the top mycologist, John Ramsbottom, exposed Wasson who wrote to Ramsbottom:

Rightly or wrongly, committed skeptics WE ARE GOING TO ASSERT AND PROPAGANDIZE THAT Plaincourault fresco IS NOT Amanita MUSHROOMS and give up bcTOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES IN Christian ART FOR Plaincourault fresco TO BE MUSHROOM.

NO EVIDENCE!

TOO MANY MUSHROOM-TREES!

Oon only the specific type of evidence in this magic specfic eleusis site vessels that us Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art carefullly washed the dirt out of –> 🗑

No evidence! of this specific type we only care about, because.

Only text counts, not art.

Only chemical evidence in our cleaned-out by us vessels counts, so, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough, typical anything-but-drugs academics, Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, show zero interest in constructing the case; no steelmanning.

They broadcast, in authoritarian fashion, 1-way bad argumentation, broadcast with ears covered.

“Give up and shut up. You are stupid blundering ignorant mycologists.”

The epithet ‘blundering’ is Wasson-speak.

TRUST ME BRO I’M THE POPES BANKER: THERES NO MUSHROOMS IN THE HUNDREDS OF MUSHROOM-TREES WE ART AUTHORITIES DUBBED MUSHROOM-TREES bc they look so goddamn mushroid.

The art authorities who were Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art kinda lost the battle right from the start,

Bluff harder!

“STOP LOOKING, RUSTIC BUFFOONS, WE PROFESSIONAL ACADEMICS ARE SHUTTING YOU DOWN , FANTASIZING YOUR HALLUCINATED PATHETIC justification of your New Religious Movement (NRM).”

“We understand your sad and pathetic attempt to justify your New Religious Movement (NRM)”

My Motivation for Finding Tons of Mushroom Imagery in Greco/ Roman/ Jewish/ Christian Art

In 1997, I summarized my 1988 core theory, the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

In 1998, I wanted Mr. Historical Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul to corroborate the Egodeath theory of Psychedelic Eternalism; the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence.

I met with Freke & Gandy in an underground coffeehouse – authors of a top 10 bestseller book – and immediately realized that I would probably be successful in getting Mythic Analogy to corroborate the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, including the ahistoricity of religious founder figures.

Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy’s book The Jesus Mysteries, 1999, https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mysteries-Was-Original-Pagan/dp/0609807986/

To Corroborate the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough make a crude, sweeping, overconfident, broad-brush dismissal of all entheogen scholarship, that the motivation driving entheogen scholarship is to fabricate Pathetic Justification for Our New Religious Movement (NRM).

But Ruck does no Drug Policy Reform activism, and his angle on Amanita Gnosis is designed to condone and conform to permanent Prohibition, reified by his group’s publications.

Ruck reifies and perpetuates perma Prohibition, his whole narrative depends on eternal Prohibition.

Ruck’s efforts to keep Amanita Prohibition & Suppression permanently in place (which doesn’t make any sense; no one GAF about Amanita, and it is not Prohibited), disprove Mosurinjohn & Ascough’s claim that the motive for entheogen scholarship is to repeal psilocybin Prohibition.

I did not find tons of mushroom imagery in Christian art in order to fabricate Pathetic Justification for Our New Religious Movement (NRM), as Sharday Mosurinjohn Accuses Mosurinjohn & Ascough Accuse.

The Egodeath theory = New Religious Movement (NRM) based on 1200 heyday the mushroom-tree religion & Mithraism cosmos , Classical Antiquity 2-level myth, Late Antiquity 3-level myth cosmos model

So, No Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

There’s no evidence for psychedelics in mystery religions. That is, there’s no chemical evidence in Eleusis vessels that we anything-but-drugs academics carefully washed out.

Only text evidence counts, unless someone finds text evidence supporting psychedelics in mystery religions such as every instance of the word ‘Eucharist’ – in that case, textual evidence does NOT count.

The only evidence type of evidence that counts (bc we arb’ly say so), is the kind that we carefully washed away.

Selection Bias: The Only Kind of Evidence That Counts, Is Whatever Kind Has the Least Evidence for Mushrooms (Because We Anything-But-Drugs Academics Say So)

If text evidence for mushrooms is strong, and art evidence for mushrooms is weak, then the only kind of evidence that counts is art evidence, not text evidence, because we say so.

If text evidence for mushrooms is weak, and art evidence for mushrooms is strong, then the only kind of evidence that counts is text evidence, not art evidence, because we say so.

SO, NO mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Ranked Emojis for medieval YI hand shapes:

todo: nuke dups

how close match / how useful

Close Match / Hi
👈👉☝️✋🤚🤝✌️👈🖐
Semi-Match / Med
🤘🤞🤲👐🤝👆👋
Close Enough / Low
🤟🖖👏✊👇🖖🤙
Useless / None
👍🙌👎🤛🤜

Grouped by Hand Types

Hand
✋🤚🖐👋🖖🤙
🤟🤘🤞✌️✊
🤜 🤛
Point
👈👉👆👇☝️👍👎
Two Hands
🤲👐🤝🙌👏

900 AD – 1300 AD was the Heyday of the mushroom-tree religion

OFFICIAL Egodeath theory STATEMENT:

I DON’T KNOW if 900 AD – 1300 AD was the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion.

How can the time range be assessed? The motifs are all throughout history.

🎸🦇 I Don’t Know 🦇🎙

Sorted emojis into good/ medium/ bad to match the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

1000 BC to 1687 AD {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} Motifs

txt msg 1 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

von Trimberg, 4 Pairs of Hands

Oh joy, another article by the newbie Denier of mushroom imagery in Christian art, Ronald Huggins, who is expecting to score easy points without any opposition.

Your terms are acceptable.

Because I already won, several years ago.

Be prepared to be spiritually DEBRANCHED, Huggins.

I get to sentence-by-sentence make fun of Huggins’ fallacious arguments.

Huggins’ gang of newbie anything-but-drugs academics invading Psychedelc Studies, expecting Easy-Mode “victories” against Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

• Ronald Huggins
• Christian Greer
• Sharday Mosurinjohn
• Richard Ascough

The newbie anything-but-drugs academics are citing my 64-page, 2006 article with Jan Irvin’s research input.

Medieval Artists’ Game: Paint Initial- and Final-State YI Hand Shapes

🖼️👉✋🧙‍♂️👷‍♂️📡

Emojis are mostly not the same shapes as in medieval art , but what a workout it would be, a joke analysis of Hand emojis; great exercise.

I teach you the artists’ game.

1. Start with the lower hand. Make a Y branching shape  with fingers, creatively.
2. End with the upper hand. Make I and Y (or cut Y; Y’) branching shapes with fingers. Can use thumb, or Index finger splayed, to form the I.

For the 2nd hand, do not let Y dominate over I; eg usually avoid YI’ (or I’Y). If I is cut, Y should be cut too: I’Y’

No copycatting.

Artists played this initiation profound, mainstreamest game, during the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion within mainstreamest Christianity.

Heyday of this game: ~900 AD – 1300 AD (estim.)

Emojis: ‘Y’ Fingers, vs. ‘I’ Thumb or Splayed Index Finger

👐🤞✌️🤟🤘

🤏👆👇

☝️✋🤚🖐️

🖖

good: 👋🤙🫲

🦶🦵

txt msg 2 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

medieval YI hand shapes
myhs

The Available Emojis partly overlap with the language of medieval YI hand shapes

The available emojis partly overlap with the language of hand shapes.

Paint branching vs. non-branching shapes via fingers and thumbs.

Don’t be uncreative, or you lose your artistic license.

The Artists Initiation Guild Lockboxes Blue Fruit Ordered Trade by King, Weighing the Blue Dried Fruit with a {balance scale}

The artists initiation lockboxes blue fruit ordered trade by the king, weighing the blue dried fruit with a {balance scale}.

That’s all shown plainly in the medieval art genre of {mush-trees} that forest that Huggins walked into <emoji: leafless tree> 🪾🐍

Huggins’ fallacious arguments are being debranched.

Instances of the {psilocybin mushroom lockbox} Motif in Great Canterbury Psalter

There are other mushroom containers shown, such as:

• sphere-jars
• blue vase f134 row 3 middle.

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

todo: delete section after make sure no data lost in new page

this section is superseded by new page
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/15/balance-scale-mushroom-lockbox-bin-and-mushroom-sack-motifs-in-canterbury-psalter/

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

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

Meaning of the {balance scale} motif:

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

f11: {balance scale} 1

f40: {balance scale} 2

f47: {balance scale} 3

f55: {balance scale} 4

f60: {balance scale} 5

f134: {balance scale} 6

f145: {balance scale} 7

f177: {balance scale} 8

f221: {balance scale} 9

The Hand-Shape Theory Game

Rules of the Medieval Artists’ Game

Rules of the artists’ game, the hand-shape theory game:

• The first hand (the starting state): Paint a Y or Y’ shape for one hand.
• The second hand (the ending state): Paint the other hand’s shape, as an I shape and also a (qualified/transformed) Y shape (Y or Y’).

The resulting Y model is not the same as the original Y-shaped thinking.

The mind ends up with a Y’ & I pair of married mental models of time, self, and control:

• Altered-state eternalism (I)
• Ordinary-state possibilism (Y or Y’)

As an artist in the mainstream artists mushroom initiation guild with psilocybin mushroom lockboxes, you are trained to paint pairs of hands that have creative variants of:

• The first hand shows Y or Y’ shapes.
• The second hand shows I & Y shapes (or possibly variants such as: from best to worst:
  • IY – simplified, as if after ego death & rebirth, your original Y-shaped mental model is unchanged.
  • IY’ – accurate; the mind ends up with qualified Y (Y’), not simply the original Y-shaped mental model.
  • I’Y’ – eg holding a shovel with fingertips facing viewer.
  • I’Y – worst variant, b/c don’t want to demote I to below Y.

Two Hands, Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album

Two Hands
Song by King Crimson, from Beat Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XxludpcH8 —

Medieval YI hand-shape theory

• The first hand: Y or Y’ shape
• The second hand: I shape and optional Y or Y’ shape

A Y’ shape, eg. fingers folded, hidden.

Often the starting hand (usually a Y hand shape variant) has no thumb shown.

That shape is compared to a {cut right branch} on a tree, in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

It represents the mental model progression before & after mushroom initiation, moving from the first hand-shape to the second hand-shape.

Mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism: the mind keeps possibilism, loves it (“embrace and include” per Ken Wilber), but the mind’s “possibilism” mental model is transformed now.

First, a Y shape, then, a Y-qualified + I shape.

The ‘I’ shape means the non-branching, snake shape; that is, the block-universe worldline of one’s whole life frozen in rock forever.

In the artists initiation education guild with psilocybin mushroom lockbox as shown in Great Canterbury Psalter multiple times.

The mushroom-tree religion is common in cathedrals, illuminated manuscripts; prominent, commonplace.

txt msg 3 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

The Mainstreamest Religion Is the Mushroom-Tree Religion that’s Within the Heart & Spotlight of Christian History 

The mainstreamest religion is the mushroom-tree religion that’s within the heart & spotlight of Christian history.

900 AD – 1300 AD: The Heyday of the Mushroom-Tree Religion

Maybe those years.

1000 BC – 1687 AD: The Art Lifetime of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

If the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion was 900 AD – 1300 AD, when was the BROAD period of these 4 art motifs individually?

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

Provably, various elements/ motifs of the mush-tree religion lasted from 800 BC – 1687 AD.

In 1687, Newton + sun-centric modernity trashcanned my astral ascent mysticism cosmos model 🌌–>🗑️😭

At least it took them 177 years(!) to switch from earth- to sun-centric: 1510-1687. 

I will just take it ALL, the entire timeline, TYVM.

Some variant motif forms go way back:

the {tree} vs. {snake} motif is a zillion years old

The earliest intense mystic altered state art.

txt msg 4 to CF p.m. Feb. 12, 2026

Conceptual Revolutions (Thagard, 1992): from earth-centric to sun-centric cosmos model: took 177 years

Conceptual Revolutions 
Paul Thagard
March 10, 1992
http://amzn.com/0691087458 – Hardcover
http://amzn.com/B07DN3H37Z – Kindle ebook with “Look inside”

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/15/conceptual-revolutions/#Book-Link

the main example of paradigm shift is earth-centric to sun-centric cosmos model

BUT

that overnight revolution took 177 years! 🤯

1510-1687 

💎

Hanging Upside Down by Right Knee/Leg 🙃

txt msg 1 to RL 10:37 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026

finally complete gallery of all NINE {balance scale} along with 

6(?) {mushrm lockbox bin} 

{sack} = mushrm blue/brown fruit traded and stored in 

THE ARTISTS INITIATION GUILD HOUSE 

 training in the visual language of {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs 

the mushroom-tree religion main theme: 

branching vs. non-branching

(everyday lang)

their theology, 2-level, dependent control 

in the intense mystic altered state 

possibilism vs. eternalism

(tech term)

{tree} vs. {snake}

(analogy)

many worlds vs. single block-universe

(technical analogy)

we know a lot about 

the ultra MAINSTREAM 

psilo peak religious experience depiction

religion among artists

the mushroom-tree religion

mushroom-tree art within the heart of Christianity, 

the best cathedrals, 

the best ill. manu’s, 

mushroom-tree art serves the art initiates’ mushroid concerns 

more than it bows in submission to the mere text 

against academics who say only text counts, who cares about art even Thomas Hatsis writes :

none of his gallery of mush-tree art means mushrm

then he took down his articles crazy 

articles were protesteth too much, “too many mushrm!”

none of tbese 100 mushroom-trees that academics designated as looking like mushroo

on central display

2nd-generation entheogen scholarship

 (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm)

txt msg 2 to RL 10:57 p.m. Feb. 13, 2026

Ridiculous Reasoning from the Anything-But-Drugs Academics Panofsky 1952 & Wasson 1968

Anything-but-drugs academics, 
Deniers of mushrm imagery in Christian art, reason:

Panofsky 1952:

“none of this gallery of 100 trees 
that we academics designated as “mushrm-trees” 
because they look like mushrooms,
means mushrms”

Wasson 1968 p. 180: 

You ignorant, blundering mycologists,
Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, 

You must obey the anything-but-drugs academics.

Trust me bro, I’m the banker for the Pope.

Panofsky 1952:

“There’s way too many mushroom-trees for them to mean mushroom, so the notion that Plaincourault fresco is Amanita is just mycologists’ ignorance of the hundreds of other mushroom-trees that are too numerous to mean mushroom

Wasson 1968 p. 180:

I’ll just censor what Panofsky strongly urged to consult, the one book by academics that ever mentioned the hundreds of mushroom-trees:

Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906)
German only, only says pilzbaum 5x.

Certainly don’t mention the two art pieces Panofsky mailed Wasson, showing “emphatic mushroom features”.

• Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed
• Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
• Wasson the Academic Fraud Berates Mycologists for Not “Consulting” Art Historians, While at the Same Time Censoring Brinckmann’s Citation Urged by Panofsky Twice

txt msg 3 to RL, 4:52 p.m. Feb. 14, 2026

I FINALLY made a page listing the {balance scale} motif, 9x, in Great Canterbury Psalter.

It was a nice last-minute decision to pair {balance scale} with {lockbox} & {sack} motifs in the new page.

todo: I need to add some crops to highlight the {balance scale} in the big images.

txt msg 4 to RL, 5:05 pm Feb. 14, 2026

Huggins’ rehashed, “Still Foraging Wrong” article was published just 3.5 months ago.

So im not very snoozing in my field.

Huggins cites my 2006 article w Jan Irvin.

I gotta read/ demolish/ rebut Huggins’ rehashed article now.

If I were snoozing, my fingers would be splayed touching side of head, like Jonah Gourd plant in Golden psalter,
which also contrasts awake’s finger shapes.

round vine trees (90% non-branching)

Jonah and the Gourd Plant (Golden Psalter)

Features:

• awake Jonah: lower hand Y’, upper hand Y’I.

3-phase analysis of Jonah’s THREE! hands:

1. right jonah: fingers splayed. Y, no I.
2. left jonah > lower hand: 4 fingers together: Y, no I
   [this is not working as planned]
3. left jonah > upper hand: bottom up: Pinkie & Ring together, folded, Middle (w/ Index) extended, displayed fully.

1. starting state: 

spiritually asleep, 

only know Y-shaped, branching possibilism-thinking 

2. final state: 

awake;

know both:

the Y-shaped, branching mode (pinkie & ring fingers, folded to partly negate them)

&

the added, I-shaped

Middle/Index finger splayed, extended, displayed = 

the non-branching, eternalism experiential model/ mode

these great art finds keep paying out more & more

txt msg 5 to RL, 5:09 pm Feb. 14, 2026

Bodleian Library Bestiary: Mother with {sleeping} Baby, {branching fingers touch face} = Asleep

Sleep, branching-thinking,​ immature baby;
don’t awaken to non-branching, I-shaped experiencing yet.

Bodleian Library Bestiary

todo: Create Bodleian Library Page, Lots of Images to Analyze (Dancing Man)

Bodleian Bestiary: Hand-Shapes

Hand shapes:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/ec9dede2-11e5-4ca0-af43-138a88359979/

Bodleian Bestiary: holds snake in L hand, debranched branch in R hand

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/1ac18e4c-1b51-43b0-abcf-b715ec186519/
holds snake in L hand, debranched branch in R hand

Bodleian Bestiary: nice mushroom-tree art

nice mushroom-tree art
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/bb47412a-eb78-4fde-b42a-30daef173af4/

Bodleian Bestiary: Christ

Thomas Hatsis: “Dancing man doesn’t count, for mushroom imagery in Christian art, because a bestiary is not religious book.”
Christ in Dancing Man bestiary: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/de5abb1a-ece1-473b-88b4-53c9a46788d5/

Bodleian Bestiary: Cybermonk at Work

Cybermonk at work:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/22b8dc16-dc05-47ab-a71d-7348873f3e05/

Features:

• right foot down, no left foot.
• pay no attn to his YI finger shapes
• Liberty Cap roof-toppers

Bodleian Bestiary: branching antlers vs. no antlers

branching antlers vs. no antlers: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/d5b8861f-e31d-40b6-a11f-fd1a26dd4f60/

Bodleian Bestiary: Fighting centaurs, guy in mushroom-tree

Fighting centaurs, guy in mushroom-tree:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/1a35ab25-cdec-4b3f-a6c7-d082c6fff06d/

Bodleian Bestiary: {cut right trunk} of mushroom-tree with 4 branch arms under cap

{cut right trunk} of mushroom-tree: 4 branch arms under cap:
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/63a6b99f-b7f6-49ae-8e62-3c975c2b5204/

Bodleian Bestiary: {phallic garment mushroom-hem}

{phallic garment mushroom hem} https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/05f663d9-1fcb-4750-9ce3-03d0eb687648/surfaces/0bc8a9fe-4a9b-4eac-a6c0-bd0193afc58e/

Motivation for this Page

RL asked my view re: the emailed summary he emailed me.

I need to engage with that content, to answer; thus this page.

See Also

• Medieval YI Hand-Shape Theory
• Manesse Codex YI Hand-Fest
• Otto Gospel: Mushroom-Trees, Branching, and YI Hand Shapes
• YI Hand-Shapes Breakthrough Confirms Simple Possibilism/ Eternalism Theory
• Solved Eustace Foot Angles {Left Toes + Side of Right Big Toe}
• Solved von Trimberg’s Fingers on Left Arm, Thumb on Right Arm
• The Mushroom-Tree Religion in the Mainstream Medieval Art World: Psychedelic Non-Branching & Ordinary-State Branching of Possibilities

• Names of the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism Theory & the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy Theory, within the Egodeath Theory

Michael Hoffman, 5:54 p.m. Feb. 12, 2026
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – orig.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/18/wasson-and-allegro-on-the-tree-of-knowledge-as-amanita/ – local WordPress copy.

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Backstory of this Article
• The Journal of Higher Criticism (Robert M. Price)
• Will I Ask Price to Publish the Article, as Planned in 2006?
• The 64-Page Article is EXTREMELY Good, has Tons of Juicy Quotes
• Motivation for this Page
• Brown Falsely Says Heinrich & Irvin Say Jesus Didn’t Exist
• Cybermonk Is a Mythicist & Is Flexible
• Heinrich Is not a Mythicist; Is Literalist
• Irvin Is not a Mythicist; Is Flexible
• Irvin the Ambiguous, In-between Paradigms
• Post-Ahistoricity
• Earl Doherty’s Concept of “Positive Silence” of Paul About Earthly Jesus
• Takeaway: Wasson Censored Feeble Citations Panofsky Had to Have Provided to Back Up His Aggressive Claim of Thorough Familiarity of Mushroom-Trees
• Conflict of Interest: 💯🥇
• Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤨 Wasson
• 🤥👖🔥🤞 –> 🤑💰
• Motivation for this Page
• Some Books and Articles that Cite the Article
  • The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008)
  • John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough, 2025)
  • On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins, 2025)
  • The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Brown & Brown, 2016)
  • Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Brown & Brown, 2019)
• See Also

Backstory of this Article

The article is SO good, TOO good, it suffered an author-line dispute.

1. Acharya S wrote something favorable about Sacred Mushroom & The Cross.
2. Robert M. Price mocked her in writing, but he royally f’d up every aspect of his scholarship.
3. Michael Hoffman emailed Robert Price pointing out the many horrible errors, because anything-but-drugs academics always go insane on this taboo topic.
4. Robert Price invited Michael Hoffman to write an article on this topic.
5. Michael Hoffman started writing the article.
6. Jan Irvin heard about the article.
7. Jan Irvin asked Michael Hoffman for Jan Irvin to participate in article.
8. Lesson learned: There was no discussion of the Author line.
9. Jan Irvin provided tons of substantive research findings in series of emails and phone calls with Michael Hoffman.
10. Emails between Michael Hoffman & Robert Price about the article design.
11. Michael Hoffman did 100% of the writing & article design & publication planning.
12. Article finished.
13. Michael Hoffman submitted the finished article to Robert M. Price for publishing.
14. Jan Irvin wanted to be added on the Author line.
15. Hoffman credited Irvin not by listing him on Author line, but by top-of-page credit, terse but accurate. http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm – below the TOC, before the start of the article body:
    “Acknowledgements – Thank you to Judith Brown and the Allegro Estate for the letters, and to Jan Irvin for helping with much of the research for this article.”
16. Robert Price terminated the journal of Higher Criticism.
17. Acharya S emailed Michael Hoffman thanking Michael Hoffman for fully reconciling Acharya S with Robert Price.
18. Acharya S died.
19. The Journal of Higher Criticism resumed in 2018.
20. Robert Price massively improved Acharya S’ book, in Nov. 2024.
    An extremely good outcome, that Michael Hoffman was instrumental in.
    The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
    https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story-Sold_Revised/dp/1948803224/

The Journal of Higher Criticism (Robert M. Price)

search web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22journal+of+higher+criticism%22

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

Will I Ask Price to Publish the Article, as Planned in 2006?

Michael Hoffman did 100% of the planning of the article, 100% of the arranging the publishing, & 100% of the writing.

There’s a dispute about whether Irvin’s name is on the author line.

The 64-Page Article is EXTREMELY Good, has Tons of Juicy Quotes

I read-aloud the article on Egodeath Mystery Show podcast.

Found two screwups where I didn’t say where the quoted passage is from.

Motivation for this Page

This WordPress site’s copy of the article is a backup at WordPress.com of the excellent 10/10, field-leading article from Egodeath.com.

This article is a rich motherlode gold mine of quotations and citations and arguments/ critical analyses. Centrally relevant and essential for mushroom imagery in Christian art.

A scholar cannot write about mushroom imagery in Christian art w/o citing this article, as Brown does.

Motivation for this page: My article w/ Irvin input 2006 is EXCELLENT, 10/10, needs more attention.

If, like Ronald Huggins, you haven’t read this article, you are not equipped to write about the mushroom imagery in Christian art debate.

I should have bought Irvin’s book The Holy Mushroom immediately; it has various topics. I was on hiatus 2008-Sep. 2011 when the book came out.

I was so sick of this topic by 2008: MOVE FORWARD PPL!

I read aloud this article in Egodeath Mystery Show. To research which episode, to see show notes:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/31/egodeath-mystery-show-podcast-episodes/

Brown error 158: Do not ever say “the Wasson & Allegro DEBATE”. There was no debate, as proved below. Say “dispute”.

Main/orig page: http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm

todo:

• Reformat like the original.
• Move out the ideas now added at top.
• Errata: Note the couple of quotes/passages that fail to have a citation of where Irvin & I got them.
• Errata; my only regret about how I wrote the article: In the Takeaways list at top, make the observation and accusation – like my ~5 scattered paragraphs in article body: Wasson has certainly censored and withheld scholarly publication citations that Erwin Panofsky must have provided, and it’s intuitively immediately obvious that art historians have never written anything of any substance, so they must be feeble citations.

Brown 2019 publishing the Erwin Panofsky letters proved my 2006 accusations & assessment.

I WANTED to see and read the citations of art historians publications (pathetic, we can be sure – or entirely non-existent) on the subject of “hundreds of mushroom-trees” in Christian art.

I directly perceived Wasson holding back Pan’s citation(s) from us.

HOW I WISH I HAD PUT 2+2 TOGETHER AND POINTED TO THE . . . . ELLIPSES in the exact spot where Erwin Panofsky must have provided citations/ evidence to back up his BIG-TALKING claims of familiarity w/ mushroom-trees.

I did not see the ellipses until probably after Brown 2019 Panofsky letters, which shows what was censored by ellipses: Brinck cit + 2 art pieces showing mushroom-trees.

Not to mention, Pan’s branches arg.

WHAT IF I HAD SEEN THE BRANCHES ARG IN 2006, wouldn’t that have led me in 2007 to my 2020 breakthrough in Great Canterbury Psalter so that I would have comprehended the pictures in my 2007 main article?

Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter wasn’t uploaded by John Lash til May 2008 per Archive site.

It’s good to see that Brown 2016 cited “Discovery of a Lifetime” by John Lash, that article uploaded that image to the web ~May 2008, which I re-saw in Nov 2020, leading to massive breakthrough by confirming my Xmas 2015 hypothesis about the Dancing Man salamander bestiary’s mushroom-tree hi-res image provided by Thomas Hatsis:

“Stand on right foot = relying on eternalism-thinking instead of possibilism-thinking??” Dec. 25, 2015

Extremely confirmed in Nov. 2020, by Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter.

My Discovery of a Lifetime receiving Eadwine’s Psilocybin cybernetic message of {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs — incredibly perfect, ideal proof of fully developed use of Psilocybin in Christian history 900-1400 AD.

My received transmission of proof of fully developed use of Psilocybin in Medieval Europe & England flies in the face of everyone in the world, who are all wrong and prejudiced, led astray by Wasson, and by Allegro and then Ruck building on Allegro:

1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) – full of baloney; vs. 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) where Brown 2019 lists me first in section Ardent Advocates.

Brown Falsely Says Heinrich & Irvin Say Jesus Didn’t Exist

Brown error YET ANOTHER lol –

It is hard to talk about multiple writers at same time accurately, Brown fell into this pit.

Cybermonk Is a Mythicist & Is Flexible

Brown 2016 is correct that I say Jesus didn’t exist.

Heinrich Is not a Mythicist; Is Literalist

Brown 2016 falsely says Heinrich says Jesus didn’t exist.

Strange Fruit 1995 says rather, Allegro says Jesus was leader of a mushroom cult.

Clark Heinrich knows nothing about ahistoricity; Brown is in error.

Unless Heinrich actually wrote, somewhere else, on the topic of ahistoricity.

Irvin Is not a Mythicist; Is Flexible

Same w/ the other guy (Irvin) Brown vaguely names as “other writers”, “some writers”.

Brown falsely says Irvin asserts ahistoricity of Jesus.

Jan Irvin & Andrew Rutajit AstroSham 1 & 2 2006 & 2009 is agnostic, against Brown; says “if Jesus existed” “we are right, either way.”

I don’t think Irvin ever wrote that Jesus didn’t exist.

Irvin only wrote maybe Jesus didn’t exist, apathetic/ agnostic/ doesn’t matter.

Irvin the Ambiguous, In-between Paradigms

Now that Irvin has become a Christian of a type that he only knows, The Ambiguous Irvin is unclear re: his system of religion & myth.

I doubt Irvin has a view, he doesn’t have all the answers.

I do not put any pressure on Irvin. I must identify pros and cons of every scholar.

Irvin lately tries to play the part of holy Psilocybin demonizer while saying silent on his anti-God idol worship of Amanita book sales. Irvin lately tries to be some certain type of Christian while not necessarily believing in Mr. Historical Jesus – the undigested Irvin.

Irvin in half-digested fashion demonizes Psilocybin:

• his new book God’s Flesh;
• his 2014-era article series SHMM at his site has 0 hits on Amanita, million demonizing Psilocybin

That’s consistent w/ his straddling awkwardly 1st & 2nd Gen entheogen scholarship.

Irvin would have just just been just a 1st-gen entheogen scholar, except that in 2006, I pulled him forward halfway toward 2nd-gen entheogen scholarship.

Irvin was pulled forward by my being essentially rooted in – my defining of — 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) in 2006.

Irvin rejected, 2008-2009, the 1st-gen characteristic (fundamental basis of their whole paradigm & motivation) attempt to limit The Mushroom to:

• only the suppressed counterculture (Ruck 2001); social drama narrative, ritual storytelling, of made-up fantasy fairytale.
• or 1-2 elites (Ruck 2002: Eflluents of Deity)
• or to all elites (Irvin 2006 in AstroSham 1 > Conclusion section > 1st sentence.

Irvin 2008 remained stuck in 1st-gen-type dishonoring of Psilocybin to force it to serve the false master Amanita the phony, fantasy, fairytale super-psychedelic.

When I went to Mr. Jesus & Paul 1998, instantly it was revealed – huge credit to The Jesus Mysteries, I met literally underground w/ Freke & Gandy — that there’s no strategy there to corroborate the Egodeath theory of 1997, but, that instead, there would be corrob of the Egodeath theory via Christianity as myth + world religious myth.

Post-Ahistoricity

I’m post ahistoricity: I’m past saying that I’m past thinking about ahistoricity. 

Remarkable to recall: in 1998 I turned to Mr. Historical Jesus & Mr. Historical Paul to confirm my theory of mystic-state mental transformation.

I immediately saw that due to genre, corroboration of my theory would not be forthcoming via that direction but would come via myth genre, so within half an hour I switched to ahistoricity, got the promised successful corroboration and by 2007 had been working with other scholars on myth interpretation, like Earl Doherty & Robert Price. 

I met with Freke & Gandy ~2001 discussing entheogen history.

Now I’m surprised when a colleague spends any time on teaching others about ahistoricity. 

Mythicist channels seem directionless: negative mythicism. 

I’m a positive mythicist, working productively with myth as analogy.

Earl Doherty’s Concept of “Positive Silence” of Paul About Earthly Jesus

Earl Doherty book 1st & 2nd Ed is quite good, lots of positive myth coverage.

Doherty explains the “positive silence of Paul” & “negative silence of Paul”.

Start with Paul’s cosmic christ, zero awareness of Mr. Jesus life of a human walking around teaching and healing – there’s no trace of that man in Paul writings.

Paul’s Christ is 100% cosmic vision only.

There’s no mention of Mr. Jesus on earth in Paul’s letters; no trace of any awareness of such a man.

Paul evidently never heard of such an idea.

That is I think called “negative silence”. But positive silence is:

If you take visionary cosmic Christ per Paul, and then attempt to add mundane Mr. Jesus, earthly teacher/ healer, that causes insoluble problems and contradictions.

Before adding Mr. Jesus, no problem; consistent – Hellenistic mythic figure. Then add Mr. Jesus, and nothing coheres – it doesn’t work.

Mr. Jesus is incompatible with Paul’s mythic visionary Christ.

Takeaway: Wasson Censored Feeble Citations Panofsky Had to Have Provided to Back Up His Aggressive Claim of Thorough Familiarity of Mushroom-Trees

Michael Hoffman 2025

1) Erwin Panofsky MUST HAVE provided citations to Wasson, given the aggressive ultra-confident claim of familiarity w/ mushroom-trees.

2) I doubt art experts ever wrote anything much about mushroom-trees; they are probably feeble citations/ treatments of mushroom-trees – by art historians who are SO thoroughly familiar w/ mushroom-trees, they wrote 1 or 2 paragraphs – exhaustive!

This is why we must instantly halt any notion of mushroom-trees mean mushroom, b/c [super feeble] citations, proving art historians know NOTHING about mushroom-trees and have no more credibility than any random (ignorant, prejudiced) person.

Eager sucker MICA Deniers like Letcher, Hatsis, and Huggins lap up the manifest bullsh!t served by Wasson about Erwin Panofsky’s “conclusion”. Wasson is obviously pulling a stunt, given that Wasson would fully disrespect & ignore, NOT cowtow & cave w/o any resistance, to any authority making empty arg from authority re: mushroom ethnomycology – on any aspect OTHER than mushrooms specifically in Christianity.

As Samorini 1997 & Brown 2016/2019 pointed out, a huge contradiction in attitude by Wasson, totally SUS a.f.: bold and independent thinker, yet eager to halt & cave to know-nothing Erwin Panofsky & unnamed, faceless art “authorities”.

Who’s paying you to lie, Wasson? Easy question: Wasson the banker for the Pope.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: 100%.

Conflict of Interest: 💯🥇

Irvin re: agent Wasson.
https://www.gnosticmedia.com/SecretHistoryMagicMushroomsProject

Letcher 2006 in Shroom is dishonorable, play-acting like Wasson has any credibility here.

The quality of arg’n by MICA Deniers is wretched, based on lies, coverup, pretext, dissimulation, duplicity.

MORAL ROT! is the basis for MICA Deniers.

Wasson’s writing style on p 108 SOMA is that of a sneering, pompous con artist. Totally un-believable and not credible.

See how Wasson – below – tears apart the credibility of Eliade – and then one-ups Eliade, pulling the same move – as ONE CON ARTIST CRITIQUING THE TECHNIQUE OF ANOTHER.

Pay attention to Wasson’s tone – that of a sleazebag manipulator & bullsh!tter, at top of p. 180.

Wasson wrote to Allegro — maddening! — in 1970, “I gather the mycologist Ramsbottom was duly impressed [🤬👆pompous @ss, gtfo, fraud!] by Panofsky’s conclusion that anyone saying the Plaincourault fresco is Amanita is a blundering ignoramus.”

And Huggins remarks “Those terrible MICA Affirmers show no concern with the conclusions of the art authorities.”

Get the hell out of here, Huggins, playing defense for the Devil.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/02/03/conceptual-errors-misinterpretations-and-bad-argumentation-from-entheogen-scholars/

The art experts deserve a kick in the rear, as the appropriate level of respect you’ve earned.

Allegro’s answer to Wasson 1970 letter [below] would be: Yes, Ramsbottom exposed your lying azz in the body of his page as a full Addendum, NOT as a mere hidden footnote, 17 years ago;

Yes WE’RE “DULY IMPRESSED” BY WHAT A LYING SCUMBAG YOU ARE, using idiot Panofsky’s sheer argument from authority and non-sequitur circular argument from prejudice,

“The Plaincourault fresco cannot possibly mean mushrooms, because there are hundreds of other mushroom-trees like it.”

Is that supposed to be an argument?

Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤨 Wasson

🤥👖🔥🤞 –> 🤑💰

• Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/
• Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
  https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/11/brinckmann-mushroom-trees-asymmetrical-branching/
• By Writing “Wasson’s Conclusion”, Ruck Leaked that Wasson Knew that Mushroom Trees Mean Mushrooms
  https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/16/wasson-told-ruck-he-knows-that-mushroom-imagery-in-christian-art-means-mushrooms/

Huggins 2024 is dishonorable, play-acting like Wasson has any credibility here. Ronald Huggins’ 2024 article “Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case”.

Anyone who PRETENDS Wass has credibility in putting forth Erwin Panofsky as definitive, is obviously biased. Citation proving my point: read Wasson’s expose of Eliade, in the present article. Wasson recognizes the baloney fake denial by Eliade that he turns around and brings to perfection, himself. Wasson is perfectly intelligent, and entirely morally compromised.

3) I bet Wasson in 1968 SOMA withheld (censored) the citations that Erwin Panofsky must have provided. Find “withhold” below, twice in 1 sentence.

What else is Wasson withholding from Erwin Panofsky? Answer from Brown 2019 publishing the two Erwin Panofsky letters: the fact of 2 not 1 letters; the 2nd letter; 2 art pieces showing mushroom-trees; double, strong recommendation of Albert Brinckmann‘s 1906 86-page book in German, Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings.

— Michael Hoffman Mar. 18, 2025

Motivation for this Page

Feb. 12, 2026

Clean up the horribly messy local copy of Egodeath.com article page.

Easy, b/c the article is long and totally separate from any addl junk i added.

Some Books and Articles that Cite the Article

The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008)

The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439215170

Site Map > Jan Irvin
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Jan-Irvin

John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis (Ascough, 2025)

John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis
Richard Ascough
2025/08/08
School of Religion, Queen’s University at Kingston, Kingston, ON, Canada
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/1029
John_Allegro_and_the_Psychedelic_Mysteries_Hypothe.pdf

• Richard Ascough on Psychedelics in Western Religious History
  My local page.

https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+ascough+the+psychedelic+mysteries+hypothesis
There are reviews of the article.

On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins, 2025)

• On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins, 2025) – special issue of Religions edited by Mosurinjohn & Ascough, including Christian Greer article.

The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Brown & Brown, 2016)

The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2016), https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/ & https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620555026

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Brown & Brown, 2019)

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019)
https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019

See Also

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
The main, original copy of the article.

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/03/18/wasson-and-allegro-on-the-tree-of-knowledge-as-amanita/#see-also
The local, WordPress site copy of the article.

Site Map > Jan Irvin
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Jan-Irvin

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

Site Map > Scholars
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Various-Entheogen-Scholars

Michael Hoffman 7:00 p.m. Feb. 11, 2026

_{Site Map > Podcast}

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• List of Topics within the Mytheme Theory
• Phenomenology: The Pure Cognitive Phenomenology Approach to Psychedelics
  • List of Branching vs. Non-Branching Contrasts
  • Decoded {blessing} Hand Shape (Index & Middle Extended, Ring & Pinkie Folded)
  • A Podcast about Transcendent Knowledge
  • Beware: The Mis-Loaded Word ‘Mysticism’ Means “Positive Unitive” Experience, Exclusively
  • The CEQ is the Broken Wastebasket for the Failures of the MEQ
  • Keyboard Shortcuts for the OAV 1994 Questionnaire by Dittrich, Derived from His 1975 APZ Questionnaire
  • The Mysticism Wars
  • Preparing for Podcasts in 2007
  • Outline of Topics for the Pure Cognitive Phenomenology Approach
  • Rejecting “Cognitive Neuroscience”, as Eliminative Reductionism
  • The “Positive Unitive” Model of “Mystical Experience” vs. the “Control Transformation” Model
• Analogy: Analogies in Myth & Mythic Art Describe Mental Model Transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism
  • Hold Hands at Bell Tower: YI Hand Shapes (Manesse Codex)
  • YI Branching-Form Theory; YI Hand-Shape Theory & YI Tree-Shape Theory
  • 5 Fingers Instead of 4
  • Outline of Topics for the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme Theory
  • Sections of the Key Mythemes Catalog
  • Outline of Topics in the Episode on the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core Theory, Within the Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
  • Searched for Recent Copy of List of Topics Defining the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory
  • Article: Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability (Journal of Psychedelic Studies​)
• STEM: The Egodeath Theory Is the Paradigmatic STEM/ Science Explorer/Discoverer Approach to Psychedelics
  • I’ve Read & Listened to Alan Houot’s Dissertation, Articles, and Book, 3 Times in Detail
  • New Religious Movements (NRMs)
• ABD Newbies
  • Ronald Huggins
  • Day 4: Four Simple Mushrooms that Have No Branches
  • Ignorant Newbie Invaders of Psychedelic Studies Expecting an Easy-Mode Win
  • Citation Keyboard Shortcuts for Pollan 2018
  • Awesome Acronyms (Keyboard Shortcuts) for Citations
• Travis Kitchens, Psychedelic Science Journalism
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

List of Topics within the Mytheme Theory

• rock lyrics
• ahistoricity
• entheogen history
• mytheme decoding
• YI Tree and Hand Shape Theory; YI hand shapes
• astral ascent mysticism
• visual art analogies, motifs, into their direct referents
• Model-Based Science: science uses analogies; a model is like an analogy
• in Science/STEM communications, the role of analogies
• Bad use of myth and analogies, never resolves to the direct referent
• Analogy (used in Science) vs. Metaphor (used in Literature)
• Saturn gate, threaten the child
• {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs = {branching-message mushroom trees}, achieves: recognizing and explaining the theology of the mushroom-tree religion, a mainstream (at least among artists) religion within Christianity Christian. c’y c’n Christianity Christian
• The Egodeath Core Concepts catalog & the Key Mythemes catalog
• Usefulness of the Key Mythemes catalog
• Entheogen, Altered State, {Holy Spirit}, {fire}
• Awareness, Perceiving, {seeing}
• Control Agency, {king}
• Thought Injector, Thought-Receiver; {phallus}, {cup}, {wound}
• Instability, Stability, {seizure}
• Maturing, {family} Relationships
• Mortal/Immortal Relations, {sacrifice}
• Possibility Branching, {tree}
• Block Universe, {rock}
• Worldline, Non-branching, {snake}
• Search, {hunt}; Bring Back, {treasure}, {prize}
• Ascent
• Gate
• Transformation
• Escape, Release, Rescue

y} Relationships

Mortal/Immortal Relations, {sacrifice}

Possibility Branching, {tree}

Block Universe, {rock}

Worldline, Non-branching, {snake}

Search, {hunt}; Bring Back, {treasure}, {prize}

Ascent

Gate

Transformation

Escape, Release, Rescue

Phenomenology: The Pure Cognitive Phenomenology Approach to Psychedelics

List of Branching vs. Non-Branching Contrasts

A gem. Gotta know this.

• possibilism vs. eternalism (the “ordinary-state possibilism” experiential mental model, vs. the “altered-state eternalism” experiential mental model)
  That’s the referent, figured as these analogies, in mythic art & in myth:
• Y vs. I
• tree vs. snake
• branching vs. non-branching
• fingers vs. thumb
  • index finger vs. 3 fingers
• grid cap vs. plain cap (Great Canterbury Psalter convention)
• manyworlds vs. block, in Physics

Decoded {blessing} Hand Shape (Index & Middle Extended, Ring & Pinkie Folded)

todo: move to hand-shape theory page

10:38 p.m. Feb. 11, 2026 – “blessing” hand shape:

• worked on since Mar. 21, 2022 (if not earlier).
• been working on this decoding during past few weeks, during the Great 2026 Hand-Fest breakthrough week(s).
• Came down to the question/test:
• Try assigning {branching} to Index & Middle, and assigning {non-branching} to Ring & Pinkie.
• Try assigning {branching} to Ring & Pinkie, and assigning {non-branching} to Index & Middle.
• Which is the more natural, easy assignment? Martin is special-case w/ TWO hands, remember. Can’t use same logic for a SEQUENCE of two hands, or for a PAIR of hands, as for a SINGLE, ISOLATED hand.

If back of hand facing the viewer:

• no thumb. only have to account for pair of folded fingers & pair of non-folded fingers.

If palm of hand facing the viewer:

• folded fingers = Y’ = non-branching.
• straight fingers (index & middle) = Y = branching. In the standard form, held slightly apart.
• Exception (eg the 2-hands exception): If the extended Index and Middle finger are pressed tightly together, and no other fingers are shown, or if other hand emphatically splayed (Y), the Index & Middle held extended together can mean non-branching, eg Saint Martin Church > Entry into Jerusalem > Jesus’ finger-shapes.
• thumb = I, especially if full thumb is displayed, w/o visual cuts.
• if thumb is visual-cut, I’. eg hold shovel w/ fingertips toward viewer. usu comes w/ Y’ in that case, rarely form a YI’.

Watch out for fingers or thumb visually cutting other fingers. That can change Y to Y’.

A Podcast about Transcendent Knowledge

Prepare to discuss in panel of 4 ppl, Transcendent Knowledge: Primarily:

• Define the “pure cognitive phenomenology approach”.
  • Reject ordinary-state based Epistemology.
  • Reject ordinary-state based Ontology.
  • Reject ordinary-state based Metaphysics.
  • … like presented by lame outsiders Chris Letheby and crew, who are so Phil Dept Armchair, that not even blotter can unseat them.
• Outline and summarize the Mytheme theory.
• Newbies in the field of Psychedelic Studies:
• Sharday Mosurinjohn
• Richard Ascough
• Christian Greer
• Ronald Huggins

Beware: The Mis-Loaded Word ‘Mysticism’ Means “Positive Unitive” Experience, Exclusively

Warning about everything written about “mysticism” since 1893:

Read the word ‘mysticism’ as, narrowly and in an eliminative way:
the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”.

Hindu Indian Swami Vivekananda – why the F are we paying any attention to this recent, alien, bad… see book How the Swans Came to the Lake, inspired the McRae article exposing the 1893 sausage-making.

Where our model of “mystical experience” came from; when it was fabricated and constructed by creating a new Academia Dept.

The phony, fake, Pop-driven invention of “Buddhism” as an Academic Dept. field.

The CEQ is the Broken Wastebasket for the Failures of the MEQ

Any experience that fails to match “positive unitive” is considered junk to be ignored, rejected, and discarded.

Or, dump the failed experience into the the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ), where, if the experience doesn’t match ordinary-state Grief therapy, the experience is considered junk to be ignored, rejected, and discarded.

… as were discarded, by Roland Griffiths’ team at Johns Hopkins Dept. of Psychedelic Pseudo Science, 18 of 21 = 86% of the “Angst/Dread/DED” effects from OAV 1994.

Keyboard Shortcuts for the OAV 1994 Questionnaire by Dittrich, Derived from His 1975 APZ Questionnaire

OAV 1994 (Oceanic/Angst/Visionary, Dittrich 1994 questionnaire)
oavs

OAV 1994 (Oceanic Boundlessness, Angst of/ Dread of Ego Dissolution, Visionary Restructuralization) psychedelic psychometrics effects questionnaire by Adolph Dittrich
oav

OAV 1994 (Oceanic Boundlessness, Angst of/ Dread of Ego Dissolution, Visionary Restructuralization) psychedelic psychometrics effects questionnaire by Adolph Dittrich, https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/oav-questionnaire-1994-oceanic-boundlessness-angst-of-dread-of-ego-dissolution-visionary-restructuralization-dittrich/
oavl

References: OAV 1994:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/01/17/references-for-psychedelic-psychometrics-questionnaires/#OAV-1994-Dittrich-1994-German

The Mysticism Wars

Search web for: “Mysticism Wars”
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mysticism+Wars%22

Ai summary:

The “Mysticism Wars” refer to an ongoing, high-stakes debate within contemporary psychedelic science regarding the use of mystical concepts to explain, measure, and validate the therapeutic effects of psychedelic experiences. 

Key aspects of this debate, often discussed by [the Armchair Phil Dept, despite blotter] philosophers and scientists like Chris Letheby, Jaipreet Mattu, and Eric Hochstein, include: 

• The Core Conflict: The “war” is fought between researchers who believe “mystical-type” experiences (e.g., feelings of unity, sacredness, noetic quality) are central to the therapeutic benefits of substances like psilocybin, and those who argue that such language is unscientific, outdated, or potentially harmful to the legitimacy of the field.
• The Pro-Mystical View: Supporters argue that mystical concepts are useful, valid, and that there is no good reason to abandon them, as they have consistently correlated with positive clinical outcomes.
• The Anti-Mystical View: Critics often include neuroscientists or cognitive scientists who find these frameworks underdeveloped, preferring more traditional, mechanistic, or computational, neurological explanations.
• Proposed Resolution: Letheby, Mattu, and Hochstein argue that the “war” is often based on misunderstandings and that the two sides can be reconciled by better defining terms and separating the scientific study of these experiences from the personal metaphysical beliefs of the researchers.
• Context: This debate takes place within the broader context of the “psychedelic renaissance,” where researchers are trying to define the mechanisms behind treatments for depression, addiction, and end-of-life distress. 

This, and related topics, are discussed in works such as How to End the Mysticism Wars in Psychedelic Science (2024/2025). 

/ end of ai summary

Chapter/Article:
How to End the Mysticism Wars in Psychedelic Science
Oct. 15, 2024
Springer Nature Linkhttps://link.springer.com › chapter
Abstract (condensed by Michael Hoffman):

“Chris Letheby, Jaipreet Mattu, and Eric Hochstein try to put an end to the “mysticism wars,” by which they mean the battle between psychedelic researchers who hold that:

“Mystical concepts ought to be employed in attempts to describe and understand psychedelic experiences

“and those who do not hold this.

“Letheby, Mattu, and Hochstein side with the former, and do so on the grounds that there are no good reasons to abandon mystical concepts in psychedelic science, and plenty of good reasons to keep them.

“Critiques of the pro-mystical-concepts view can be solved via clarifying concepts and recognizing distinctions.

“Mystical concepts may one day be superseded in the science of psychedelics.

“This should not occur on the basis of a misplaced conceptual critique: the present-day critique of the pro-mystical-concepts view.”

n, add link at top.

My great resource page:
Moving Past Mysticism in Psychedelic Science (Article Debate Series

Preparing for Podcasts in 2007

From Egodeath.com home page, July 16, 2007:

Interview with Max Freakout at Psychonautica — Aug. 10, 2007. List of Psychonautica podcasts — listen to episodes such as 11-17, covering the Egodeath theory.

Discussion of questions in preparation for my interview on the Psychonautica podcast. August 1, 2007.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Max’s questions:

• How did I first begin to formulate the Egodeath theory?
• How important are the various domains for the Egodeath theory? Is the Theory a form of Eastern, Western, or Shamanistic religion?
• Is the issue of freewill of central importance to ego death?
• How did I get the idea that the issue of freewill is of such central importance to ego death?
• Explain the ordinary understanding of autonomous control which the ego-death experience proves to be illusory.
• What does the ‘transcendence of no freewill’ mean and involve?
• Explain the concept of block-universe determinism and time as a spacelike dimension.
• How does Egodeath theory relate to the shamanic ability to heal?
• Does saying that drug-free meditation is ‘bunk’ mean that there is no value to the practice of meditating?
• Explain the idea that ‘drug-policy reform’ is conceptually brainwashed.
• What should pro-justice activists focus their efforts on doing, to be most effective?
• What are the vulnerabilities of the Wasson-Allegro-McKenna theories of the origin of religion?
• What is my take on McKenna’s idea of the ‘stoned ape’?
• What is the relevance of the ahistoricity of Jesus to the Egodeath theory?
• How do I envision the future for the development of the Egodeath theory?
• What is the relationship between the disappearance of the separate-self sense, the experience of nonduality, the intense mystic altered state, meditation, and the problematization of personal control-power in light of the part/whole (self/Ground) relationship in the dissociative cognitive state?

Discussion of various questions — Oct. 6, 2007.
Questions covered:

• Why bother spreading the truth about the nature of religion and religious origins?
• How does the Establishment treatment of topics shut-out coverage of entheogens in religious history?
• What is the way forward so that the mainstream culture integrates the maximal entheogen theory of religion?
• What evidence and arguments are there that the original Christians used drugs?
• Discuss the assertion “There’s no need to assume drugs in primitive Christianity.”
• To what extent were drugs used in the history of Christian practice?
• Is New Testament Christianity more important than purely mystical Christianity, because of including a political vector on the mystical insights?
• Are John Pilch, Jonanda Groenewald, Marcus Borg, John Ashton, and Stevan Davies on the right track? Can they be converted from their standard academic “alien social-psychology” theory of “alternate states of consciousness” to the simpler drug-use theory?
• How was Wasson (or Allegro) great? How did he limit or cripple the field?
• What will be retained of Wasson (or Allegro)? What will be rejected?
• Why bother setting the record straight on the errors of Wasson and the merit of some of Allegro’s ideas?

Outline of Topics for the Pure Cognitive Phenomenology Approach

Psychedelic Cognitive Phenomenology

Loose Cognitive Phenomenology

Psychedelic pseudo science doesn’t use a a pure cognitive phenomenology approach; uses typical Cog Neuroreductionism. bunk lexicon loaded with confused terms and framing.

Rejecting “Cognitive Neuroscience”, as Eliminative Reductionism

The bunk, marketing term “cognitive neuroscience” actually means, Immediately Discard & ignore the cognitive phenomenology dimension

Eliminate that and reduce it to Phrenology, orange-colored areas of the brain, that either corresponds to:

• mystical experience (ie, the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”)
  Or, a failure of that, ie,
• “ego dissolution”, “dread of ego dissolution”, & separation, & negative experience of Unitive suspension of the mind’s construction of the experience of the self/other boundary.

Misguided Pop-driven, Popular Neo-Advaita holds:

Suspension of the mind’s construction of the experience of the self/other boundary, is the essence of Transcendent Knowledge.

When you successfully destroy the mind, and get rid of and eliminate the experience of the self/other boundary, you then have received the fullness of Transcendent Knowledge.

Ken Wilber calls for a balanced, fleshed-out understanding of Advaita, against Pop insanity of lopsided extremist takes, on Advaita/ nondual.

Ken Wilber’s system is built around this same poor, low-quality, Pop junk model, the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”.

The “Positive Unitive” Model of “Mystical Experience” vs. the “Control Transformation” Model

The “Positive Unitive” Model of “Mystical Experience” (from Westernized, modern, Swami Vivekananda & Pop Crowds in 1893).

vs.

The “Control Transformation” Model (from the Egodeath Theory).

Eternalism-driven control-transformation.

The result of eternalism-driven control-transformation:
The psychedelic-matured mind has two mental models:
(qualified) ordinary-state possibilism, &
altered-state eternalism, functionally or practically harmonized; integrated.

integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.

I don’t like the word “thinking”; I picked that word b/c it is daily 8th grade lang/ vocab.

more like:

the integrated possibilism/eternalism mental model
ipemm

The integrated possibilism/eternalism mental model is depicted in medieval art by (variants of) the YI hand shape.

Analogy: Analogies in Myth & Mythic Art Describe Mental Model Transformation from Possibilism to Eternalism

Hold Hands at Bell Tower: YI Hand Shapes (Manesse Codex)

YI Branching-Form Theory; YI Hand-Shape Theory & YI Tree-Shape Theory

YI tree-shape theory
ytst

YI hand-shape theory
yhst

• YI Tree Branching Morphology: Formal Theory of Fractal YI Scope of Analysis of Branching-Message Mushroom Trees
• Medieval Hand-Shapes Theory

• Y = branching = the “ordinary-state possibilism” experiential mental model.
  ospemm
• I = non-branching = the “altered-state eternalism” experiential mental model.
  aseemm

Upper hand: IY (= the integrated possibilism/eternalism mental model)
Lower hand: Y’I (= qualified possibilism-thinking, + eternalism-thinking)

Lacking I would be problematic.

Having I’ would be semi problematic, but not too bad if Y’I’. eg hold shovel w/ fingertips at viewer.
Principle: Don’t want Y to dominate over I, or negate I (non-branching).

Hand-shape theory: Valid end-states:

• YI – most typically displayed; the boring default regular vanilla version.
• Y’I – common, to say: qualified possibilism-thinking + eternalism-thinking.
• YI’ – rare; countervailing.
• Y’I’ – eg. hand holding a shovel, fingertips facing viewer.

5 Fingers Instead of 4

The 5-finger woman’s hand is an error, or a joke, or blurry like the John Lash low-res crop of f134 row 1 Left: the balancing-in-tree guy w/ fist apparently “pointing” in mushroom-tree.

Does she really make a peace sign w/ two fingers?

Is half her pinkie actually shown, on left, or supposed to be painted yellow for hair tuft?

Fill her apparent pinkie segment w/ yellow to get rid of it, to have 4 fingers not 5.

A YI hand shape w/ 5 fingers is a potential dealbreaker.

Outline of Topics for the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme Theory

the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory
p1cct
the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory
p2amt

the Cybernetic Core theory
cct

‘Core’ is a wasted word.

Nothing central would be lost of omitted.

This wordcount — compet against the Analogy Mytheme theory — could be a describptive word instead of describing the

“core” is meaningful only when next to “mythem” + konwledge o…

Connotations of “Core” are unclear. Why important? What other, competing words could go in that semi-wasted slot? Naming is everything.

Core is totally non-descriptive of

WTF IS THE CONTENT OF THE CORE, DUMBAZZ!

syn of “core” theory:
the theory of psychedelic cybernetic eternalism; analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control

the cybernetic eternalism theory
the Cybernetic eternalism theory
the Cybernetic Eternalism theory
cet

the Cybernetic Eternalism theory

the Egodeath theory is the Cybernetic Eternalism theory – from cybernetic’ & ‘eternalism’ you can if add mushroom , reconstruct entire theory would take 1 more word

literalist ordinary-state possibilism

analogical psychedelic eternalism

literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control

analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

literalist ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control

analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control – no word “cybernetic”

a name of a theory not same as deciding descriptor words (4; analogical psychedelic eternalism… vri virtly 4; 4 terms.

analogical psychedelic eternalism – 3 terms, descriptors

Egodeath.com – the theory in 2 words: EGO + DEATH

PSYCHEDELIC ETERNALISM

EGO DEATH

CYBERNETIC ETERNALISM

PSYCHEDELIC PCE pce

psychedelic cybernetic eternalism

but “cybernetic” abstract

not abstract:

ac a-c au monolithic control-agent
mca

mental construct
mc

mental construct processing
mcp

psychedelic eternalism

if “eternalism” includes (which it doesn’t in Armchair Phil Dept that invented/ fabricated Popular Neo-Advaita & “Buddhism” in 1893. so beyond redemp, these airchair warriors can’t even receive inspiration through blotter (Chris Letheby: be Phil Student, have Dumb Metaphy ideas,

pataphysical

brand name != descriptive technical name

Saying that the core theory is the “core” theory is useful only when in contrast to the IDEA of the 4-layer onion:

1. inner core
2. outer core
3. inner periphery
4. outer periphery

outer periphery: eg the Indigenous Shams (a front for the Anything-But-Drugs Academics derby team)

inner core:

• there are 2 mental models, 2 states, 2 experiential modes: the ordinary-state experiential mode, altered-state experiential mode.
• altered-state eternalism (non-branching, I, snake, thumb, simple)
• , ordinary-state possibilism (branching, Y, tree, fingers, compound)
• the ordinary-state experiential mode
  

” NOTHING CENTRAL IS LOST … COULD BE DDESCRIPTIVE INSTEAD.
cct

the Analogy Mytheme theory
amt

the Analogy Mytheme theory within the Egodeath theory
amte

the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

Sections of the Key Mythemes Catalog

• Entheogen, Altered State, {Holy Spirit}, {fire}
• Awareness, Perceiving, {seeing}
• Control Agency, {king}
• Thought Injector, Thought-Receiver; {phallus}, {cup}, {wound}
• Instability, Stability, {seizure}
• Maturing, {family} Relationships
• Mortal/Immortal Relations, {sacrifice}
• Possibility Branching, {tree}
• Block Universe, {rock}
• Worldline, Non-branching, {snake}
• Search, {hunt}; Bring Back, {treasure}, {prize}
• Ascent
• Gate
• Transformation
• Escape, Release, Rescue

Outline of Topics in the Episode on the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core Theory, Within the Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

• Mental modelling
• The egoic and transcendent mental worldmodels
• States of consciousness, ordinary and altered
• Stages of psychospiritual development
• Tight and loose cognitive association binding, dissociation
• Mental representations and their referents
• Metaperception, explicit representationalism
• Conceptions of person-hood
• Cybernetic homunculus, control agency
• Time as the 4th spatial dimension, time-slices and timelessness
• Popular attitudes and misperceptions about ego death
• Cybernetic instability, control-death
• Fatedness and its transcendence
• The will to exist in Schopenhauer’s philosophy
• Postulating higher control, humble prayer
• Helpless dependence on higher control, Schleiermacher’s theology
• Struggling to control the future, panic-attack freakout
• Physical metabolism and thought-processes

Searched for Recent Copy of List of Topics Defining the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory

Done: copypaste my recent extraction of the list. Strategy:

1. Go to my section about the video:
   https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/#Episode-28
2. Copy a string from the list of topics:
   “States of consciousness, ordinary and altered”
3. Search this site. Found the section that contains my recent copy of the list:
   https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/10/names-of-the-phase-1-cybernetic-core-theory-the-phase-2-analogy-mytheme-theory-within-the-egodeath-theory/#transcendent-knowledge-podcast-about-the-phase-1-cybernetic-core-theory-within-the-egodeath-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism

Article: Branching-message mushroom trees: Psychedelic eternalism depicted in medieval art as mushrooms, branching, handedness, and stability (Journal of Psychedelic Studies​)

Prepare article for {branching-message mushroom trees} for the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

STEM: The Egodeath Theory Is the Paradigmatic STEM/ Science Explorer/Discoverer Approach to Psychedelics

Alan Houot’s book calls for a Science Explorer Discoverer approach to psychedelics, rather than only a Spirituality or Therapy Healing approach to psychedelics.

Rise of the Psychonaut: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery (Houot, 2025) https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/24/rise-of-the-psychonaut-houot-2025/ & https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSJGMFR

Four met to discuss the Egodeath theory:
Egodeath Mystery Show, episode: Ep264b No Such Episode 🤷‍♂️.

I’ve Read & Listened to Alan Houot’s Dissertation, Articles, and Book, 3 Times in Detail

Does Alan Houot know anything about the Egodeath theory? the Egodeath theory is not a NRM.

New Religious Movements (NRMs)

The term New Religious Movements (NRMs)” is an alien lexicon; not allowed in the Egodeath theory lexicon.

The Egodeath theory must pay the price: must map between the Egodeath theory’s lexicon & the common, low-quality, mis-loaded lexicon of those on the outside.

Search web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22new+religious+movements+(NRM)%22

New Religious Movements (NRMs)
nrms

New Religious Movement (NRM)
nrm

AI summary:

New Religious Movements (NRMs) are, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, a wide range of:

New, often non-mainstream religious or spiritual groups that have emerged globally, particularly since the mid-20th century.

Frequently referred to as “cults” or “sects” in popular discourse, NRMs are typically characterized by

• charismatic, often authoritarian leadership, [= Cybermonk]
• eclectic doctrines, [= we must use YI hand shapes & hang from Right knee in a mushroom-tree]
• and countercultural, innovative responses to modern life. [= theorize, against Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art; against both sides in the Mysticism Wars]

Examples include Scientology, Wicca, the Baha’i Faith, and Falun Gong. 

Key Characteristics and Context

• Definition & Origin: NRMs are religious groups with modern origins, usually peripheral to a society’s dominant religious culture.
• Structure: They are often tightly organized, though they can vary from loose, decentralized movements to structured, communal ones.
• Leadership: Often founded by a single, charismatic leader considered to possess extraordinary, divine, or unique insights.
• Beliefs: They are often eclectic, blending elements from diverse traditions, and may be syncretic.
• Social Context: Many NRMs emerge as reactions to rapid change, globalization, or secularization. 

Controversy and Sociology

• Labeling: While academics prefer “NRM” to avoid bias, these groups are often viewed with suspicion or labeled as “cults” by mainstream society, note researchers from Brill Reference Works.
• Social Impact: Some critics argue that certain NRMs use, for instance, high-pressure techniques for, say, controlling members.
• Evolution: Some NRMs are short-lived, while others, like Scientology, may gain enough stability to last, suggest flashcards on Quizlet. 

Examples of NRMs

• Scientology: A major 20th-century movement.
• Falun Gong: A spiritual movement founded in 1992.
• Wicca: A contemporary pagan movement.
• The Family International (Children of God): Known for changing mainstream views on gender.
• Hare Krishna (ISKCON): A prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava new religious movement. 

Research into NRMs often focuses on why they form, why they attract members, and their, perhaps, often complex relationship with the, maybe, wider community, according to the University of Pennsylvania. 

/end of AI summary

ABD Newbies

anything-but-drugs

the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia

Newbies in the field of Psychedelic Studies:

• Sharday Mosurinjohn
• Richard Ascough
• Christian Greer
• Ronald Huggins

Ronald Huggins

I am able to formulate a rule: 1+1=3.

Ronald Huggins, using Panofsky, is able to formulate a Rule, to “Rule Out” mushroom-trees:

Any mushroom-trees that have mushroom features (which is to covertly say (hope no one notices), ALL mushroom-trees, by definition), we are to IGNORE the mushroom features, because mushrooms don’t have branches.

Either the inept, intention-free artists (broken human copy-machines) were attempting and failing to depict “A TREE” or “A MUSHROOM”, those are the two options we are debating.

Mushroom-trees have branches, such as Great Canterbury Psalter, f11: Day 4’s four trees [which have NO branches], therefore, they can’t mean A MUSHROOM, and must mean A TREE.

These mushroom-trees have branches, and therefore, they cannot mean A MUSHROOM, and must mean A TREE:

Day 4: Four Simple Mushrooms that Have No Branches

Crop by Michael Hoffman.

• Liberty Cap (with grid cap of Liberty Caps)
• Cubensis (with grid cap of Liberty Caps)
• Panaeolus
• Amanita

Ignorant Newbie Invaders of Psychedelic Studies Expecting an Easy-Mode Win

Joe Rogan’s already BEEN DEBUNKED, so this should be a piece of cake, to reveal the foolishness of Muraresku, Ruck, Allegro, and entheogen scholarship re: psychedelics in Eleusis and Christian origins.

Newbie hostile toxic parasitical self-serving invaders of the field of Psychedelic Studies, are looking for and expecting and counting on an Easy-Mode, apparent victory against entheogen scholarship chumps, such as Muraresku & Ruck, to pad-out their cv.

Newbie hostile invaders of the field, unread and cheap, post-Pollan 2018; post-Muraresku 2020, Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Letcher-Hatsis wasn’t enough lameness heaping bizarrely off-the-wall, ad-hoc, trash-quality fallacious arg’s on the field.

Letcher’s botched endnote 31 falsely attributes the (bad, toxic, harmful) “Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in” paradigm.

Letcher: Shroom (2006) falsely attributed 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) to Stamets 1996 & Gartz 1996, who are essentially 2nd-generation entheogen scholars (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

psychedelic cognitive phenomenology
pcp

a pure cognitive phenomenology approach
pcpa

Summarize the Mytheme theory

It makes sense for me to handle outlining & summarizing the Mytheme theory.

I would love to see how Max Freakout + Cyberdisciple would outline and summarize the Mytheme theory.

Citation Keyboard Shortcuts for Pollan 2018

How to Change Your Mind (Pollan 2018)
mp18s

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Michael Pollan, 2018)
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan, May 2018, https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225/
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Awesome Acronyms (Keyboard Shortcuts) for Citations

Half the fun of keyboard shortcuts is accidentally triggering expansion of a random core concept of the Egodeath theory:

covert neo-Advaita
cna

the mushroom-tree artists
mta

Not “Michael the Archangel”, per 1986-1998? fixed:
Michael the Archangel
mtaa

Travis Kitchens, Psychedelic Science Journalism

Travis Kitchens’ Journalism on Psychedelic Pseudo Science to Create a New Religion Based on Hindu Indian Swami Vivekananda Westernized Narrow Particular School of Academic Armchair “Philosophy of Religion” Dept. Newly Invented, Artificially Driven by Popular Demand

Prepare for convo w/ Kitchens per emails.

Kit is not a debunker.

Kitchens is an authentic journalist, recording the goings-on in the fields of:

• psychedelic (pseudo) science
• the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”
• pop reception of The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku
• pop reception of How to Change Your Mind (Pollan 2018)
• Review emails to see what topics.
• Busy reading Mosurinjohn, Ascough, Greer, & Huggins; the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”; my articles-reading stack.

Motivation for this Page

I have scattered todo notes in email; in idea development pages, etc.

Having a WordPress page to focus on prepping for podcast shows, works well for me.

See Also

Page title:
Names of Component Theories of Egodeath Theory
Section title:
the Mytheme theory
https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/08/names-of-component-theories-of-egodeath-theory/#the-Mytheme-theory – lists:

• rock lyrics
• ahistoricity
• entheogen history
• mytheme decoding
• YI Tree and Hand Shape Theory

Site Map > Podcast
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#podcast

Michael Hoffman Feb. 11, 2026

Contents:

• The World’s Record Conflict of Interest: The Banker for the Pope Says There’s No Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
• The Different Roles of Wasson, Panofsky, and Huggins in the Anything-But-Drugs Academia Cover-Up
• The Accidental Contributions to Entheogen Scholarship from Deniers, Despite Themselves
• Proof that Entheogen Scholars Have Not Even Vigorously Begun to Try to Recognize Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art
  • Day 1: Creation of Light: {balance scale} Pans Are Indicated as Containing Panaeolus & Amanita Mushrooms
  • Cubensis Harvest Cycle
  • The Blue Krater Harvest Collector Looks Up at the Mushroom Dispensary Bins
• Motivation for this Page
• Huggins Is Extremely Suspect in Not Citing Brown & Brown 2019, which Reveals the Panofsky Letters & Brinckmann Citation (& Two Mushroom-Trees) That Were Dishonestly Censored by Wasson
• Photos of SOMA p. 180 with Annotations
  • SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)
  • SOMA, p. 180 (Less Cussing, More Annotations, Jan. 8, 2025)
• Irvin Exposed Popebanker Wasson
• Irvin in Hoffman 2006 Exposed Popebanker Wasson
• Brown 2019 Exposed Popebanker Wasson
• See Also

The World’s Record Conflict of Interest: The Banker for the Pope Says There’s No Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

Conveniently (suspiciously) not addressed by propagandist Huggins.

The Different Roles of Wasson, Panofsky, and Huggins in the Anything-But-Drugs Academia Cover-Up

Wasson = evil; Panofsky = stupid.

Huggins facilitates Wasson’s con-artistry:

• by not citing Browns 2019;
• by pulling Panofsky letters out of thin air in 2024 & 2025 (“drawer”?!, get out of here);
• by pulling the Brinckmann citation out of thin air.
• by not asking what the 2 “emphatic mushroom shape” mushroom-trees images that Panofsky sent Wasson in 1952.

Huggins tries to ally with the academic criminal Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson, so, Huggins doesn’t want it revealed, Popebanker Wasson’s deceitful chicanery; his academic obstructionism and pressure tactics.

Popebanker Wasson dishonestly and manipulatively censored the Panofsky letters, on p. 180 of Wasson’s 1968 book SOMA.

If Wasson were honest, in 1952 & in 1968, he would’ve helped investigation of mushroom-trees move forward, by showing the two letters, the Brin. citation, and the two mushroom-trees images, sent to Wasson in 1952.

As I deduced in 2006, confirmed by Brown 2019, Panofsky MUST have provided (weak) citations to Wasson in 1952. In 2006 I was cussing,

“Give me the goddamn citations that Panofsky MUST have provided to you!

“I WANT to “consult” the academics, as Wasson chastises (unconstructively) the “mycologists” ie Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, for having failed (in the past) to do.”

By replacing the Brinckmann citation and two art pieces by ellipses (. . . .), Wasson the liar & con artist ENSURED that Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are unable to check what Brinckmann wrote, showing that Wasson is insincere and dishonest, a sleazebag, deliberately deceiving and misleading people, while insulting and attacking mycologists, and misrepresenting what Panofsky sent to Wasson.

The Accidental Contributions to Entheogen Scholarship from Deniers, Despite Themselves

Hatsis’ articles WERE useful for me to construct the Hatsis Gallery of mushroom imagery in Christian art, until he deleted his articles, crazily. Hatsis’ providing hi-res Dancing Man was useful to me on Christmas 2015.

Hatsis provided the first hi-res, color image of Dancing Man, provided by an entheogen scholar, in his article for a UK zine.

We beggars can’t be choosers. Too few people work in entheogen scholarship.

Hatsis & Huggins while writing articles debunking mushroom imagery in Christian art, provide for the wrong reasons, benefits for entheogen scholarship.

Their project is futile, like defenders of the geocentric model 1510-1687, 177 years from proposal to widespread, dominant acceptance.

We’re in such a period now, despite some denier-morons claiming that we can draw negative conclusions now.

Proof that Entheogen Scholars Have Not Even Vigorously Begun to Try to Recognize Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art

I proved that we have not even STARTED looking.

Proof that entheogen scholars have not even STARTED looking, and are missing the most major mushroom recognition, even in the Great Canterbury Psalter folio page f11 images that they have been publishing since 2000, discovered by Paul Lindgren:

On Jan 13, 2025, I discovered proof that God in f11 Day 1 of Creation holds mushroom-filled {balance scale} pans, in Great Canterbury Psalter.

No entheogen scholar has even tried to imagine what’s in the pans.

If entheogen scholars are looking at f11, they have been looking with eyes squeezed tightly shut, until my eyes were finally opened Jan. 13, 2025, per Day 4’s {open book with God’s thumb over it} motif.

Day 1: Creation of Light: {balance scale} Pans Are Indicated as Containing Panaeolus & Amanita Mushrooms

Before that, I proved that the blue vase in f134 row 3 middle contains psilocybin mushrooms.

Like f11 (Day 1 & 4), I similarly first “jokingly” asserted that the item contains mushrooms, but I was in error (defeatist attitude) in ASSUMING that the artist failed to indicate this.

Months later, I finally opened my eyes and actually looked for indicators, and found that the artist provided clear indicators.

Cubensis Harvest Cycle

The Blue Krater Harvest Collector Looks Up at the Mushroom Dispensary Bins

Entheogen scholars have not even started to look for evidence of psychedelics in Western religious history – yet deniers want to declare the field closed and finished, drawing extremely premature negative conclusions.

2012 or 2014: “No one has even TRIED to claim psychedelics in Buddhist religious history” – Patrick Lundborg’s book’s endnotes.
2016: Mike Crowley book comes out, making hash out of Lund premature closing and “conclusions”.
2026: AM, an Asian Studies scholar, finds more evidence than Crowley.

• An Aztec Narcotic (Safford 1915) – extremely premature negative conclusion, Wasson 1957 points out was disproved entirely.
• Wasson 1968 draws the same, prejudiced, way-premature negative conclusion, falling into his own pit of mockery that Wasson set up in 1957 for himself to fall into.

Motivation for this Page

A “cover-up” framing is useful for analysis.

Who is behind the cover-up operation? Why?

Getting a clear big-picture view on the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia, popebanker Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson’s cover-up operation & censorship of the two Panofsky letters including the Brin. citation.

Huggins Is Extremely Suspect in Not Citing Brown & Brown 2019, which Reveals the Panofsky Letters & Brinckmann Citation (& Two Mushroom-Trees) That Were Dishonestly Censored by Wasson

Huggins 2024 & 2025 articles fail to cite or address the args in Browns 2019.

Check:
Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art (Huggins 2022)

Photos of SOMA p. 180 with Annotations

SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)

Hey Wasson, you phony; SELLOUT!:
Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann, 1906)
as Panofsky extremely strongly urged mycologists to read – no thanks to your duplicitous censorship and going OUT OF YOUR WAY to fraudulently attack affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, while you fakely chide them for failing to consult the IGNORAMUS art “authorities”.

The below sound like pompous, insincere, con-artist horse sh!t, because that’s exactly what it is:

SOMA, p. 180 (Less Cussing, More Annotations, Jan. 8, 2025)

Irvin Exposed Popebanker Wasson

The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439215170

Irvin in Hoffman 2006 Exposed Popebanker Wasson

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm exposed Popebanker Wasson.

And accused Wasson of withholding citations (weak ones) that Panofsky MUST have provided to substantiate the claim that art historians are familiar with mushroom-trees and have “considered”(?) them. CITATIONS NEEDED.

My accusations were confirmed by Browns 2019 exposing the two Panofsky letters.

Huggins points you to “drawer” (Jan Irvin is not permitted to enter the room at Harvard) instead of citing Browns 2019.

Why is scholar Huggins ignorant of Browns 2019, which is the ONLY place to publish Panofsky’s letters (sans 2 attached “emphatic” mushroom-trees)?

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Huggins doesn’t cite Browns 2019 so that people other than Huggins can read the Panofsky letters, including Brin. citation, that were censored by Popebanker Wasson in SOMA on p. 180 top (1968) in order to prevent and obstruct research in mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are shady, suspect, and have a conflict of interest, in the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia.

Brown 2019 Exposed Popebanker Wasson

Did The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf expose popebanker Wasson?

See Also

https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/26/the-egodeath-theory-corroborates-carl-rucks-psychedelic-mysteries-paradigm/

Site Map sections:

• Jerry Brown
• Cyberdisciple
• Thomas Hatsis
• Ronald Huggins
• John Lash
• Andy Letcher
• Sharday Mosurinjohn
• Erwin Panofsky
• Carl Ruck

Michael Hoffman Feb. 11, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Citation & Link
• The Plaincourault Fresco
• Abstract
• Field of Entheogen Scholarship Forced to Handle Allegro, Who Is Not an Entheogen Scholar
• Religions Special Issue: On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (2025)
  • Religions Special Issue: How to Cover-Up Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art (2025)
  • Exact Botanical Mushroom Explained Away as a “Tree Branch” that “Rules Out” the Tree Meaning a Mushroom
  • Exact Botanical Mushroom Explained Away as a “Tree”
• Mosurinjohn’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Psychedelic Evidence, of Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State
  • Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching
  • Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes
  • The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth
• Citing Hoffman & Cyberdisciple on Allegro Is Required
• Did Huggins Read the Most Important 7 Publications in the Field?
• Huggins Continues to Fail to Cite Browns 2019 which Published the Wasson-Censored, Covered-up, Panofsky Letters
• I Criticize 1st-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm, by Allegro then Ruck)
• I Advocate 2nd-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin Paradigm, by Samorini)
• Huggins Is a Fraud Until He Cites the Article by Brown & Brown 2019 that Published the Two Panofsky Letters & Brinckmann Citation that Were Censored by Popebanker Wasson in SOMA p. 180
• Mentions of “Branch” in the Article
• On Day 4, God Created the Sun, Moon, & Stars – Not Trees, Plants, or Herbs
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 16 bottom
• Ruck is 5 of 10, Hug is 3 of 10: Poor vs. junk irrelev args and concerns and errors by both of them, a new field, the Egodeath theory is LIGHT YEARS ahead of Ruck and Huggins; they are trapped eternity by their own Allegro Trap, limited to 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm)
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 top
• Huggins Relies on Inappropriate Literalist Reading of Mythic Art, to Dismiss and Ignorae the Emphatic Mushroom Imagery
  • Entry: Left Tree: Left & Right Fruit Arms
• In the art scene “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem”, why are branches important?
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 middle
• The Purpose of Mushroom-Trees Is to Deliver a Message about Experiencing Ordinary-State, Branching Possibilism, Alternating with Experiencing Altered-State, Non-Branching Eternalism
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 middle, con’t
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on pp. 21-22
• Mosurinjohn & Ascough Treat (Alleged) Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence
• Mosurinjohn & Ascough Hypocritically Shift from Possibility, to As-if Fact, While Criticizing Ruck for Shifting from Possibility, to As-if Fact
• Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 22
• Mentions of ‘branch’ in End Note 23
• Mentions of ‘branch’ in End Note 24
• Guy in Tree with YI Hand-Shapes Cited By Huggins End Notes
• Reichenau Gospel Book fol. 184v. Has guys on left of tree
• Pericopies Book of Henry II, fol. 200r. No guys on left of tree
• Plaincourault Fresco Is YI
• Web Image Search: Plaincourault Fresco
• YI Branching, {stand on right foot} Motif, Four Amanita Branches Point to Four Pairs of Arms & Legs
• Professional Propagandist Wasson Substitutes a Degraded, Copied Painting that Deletes the YI Branching Form and the {stand on right foot} Motif, Withholding the Actual Fresco Image
  • Double Fail, Illiterate/Blind to Motifs: Michelle Bory’s Painting of Plaincourault
  • Michelle Bory Paints Trident, Should be YI
  • Michelle Bourey Paints 1-Foot Eve, Should {stand right foot}
• New, Hand Pair Notation: In Plaincourault Fresco, Eve’s Hand-Pair: [YI, IY]
• Email Sent 11:55 p.m. Feb. 18, 2026
• Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: Entheogen scholarship Has so few researchers, need at least some bad articles contributed by Deniers
• See Also

Citation & Link

On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom
Ronald V Huggins, Oct. 29, 2025
Journal: Religions, Issue: 11, Volume: 16, Page numbers: 1-30
https://doi.org/10.3390/REL16111374 https://www.academia.edu/144814668/On_John_M_Allegros_Suggestion_That_the_Tree_of_the_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil_in_the_12th_Century_Plaincourault_Chapel_Depicts_an_Amanita_muscaria_Mushroom

key words:
Religion,
New Religious Movements,
Art History,
Media Studies,
Psychedelics,
Medieval illuminated manuscripts,
Mystery Cults,
Entheogens and Religion,
Ottonian Art,
Art Historical Methodology,
Ancient Near Eastern Studies,
Amanita Muscaria,
Medieval Art, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History,
Early Christian Art and Iconography,
Medieval Frescoes,
Medieval and Early Christian Art,
Early Christian and Byzantine Iconography,
John M. Allegro,
Psychedelics and Mysticism

“This article is part of a special issue of the journal Religions, entitled
On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
The volume is edited by J. Christian Greer and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn.”

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

I’m tired of looking up this link for the letters that were censored by Wasson-Huggins, so I pinned the link in every section.

What’s wrong with Huggins, that he fails to cite Browns 2019, where other people besides Huggins are privileged to access and leverage the two, Popebanker Wasson-censored Panofsky letters?

The Plaincourault Fresco

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Abstract

“In his book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970), John Marco Allegro claimed that an obscure, 12th century CE fresco of the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Plaincourault Chapel in Mérigny, France, provided evidence of the persistence in Christian Europe of an underground sacred mushroom sect that had survived since New Testament times.

“At the heart of Allegro’s claim is the mushroom-like appearance of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the picture.

“Following up on Allegro’s claim, a small group of writers, led by Boston University’s Carl A. P. Ruck, spent decades seeking to validate Allegro’s theory by seeking out other examples of psychedelic mushrooms hidden in early Christian and Medieval art.

“The present article centers its discussion on the claims put forward by Allegro and his followers about the Plaincourault tree, but also about other images concerning which they have made similar claims.

“It concludes that the claims of Allegro and his followers concerning the Plaincourault tree fail due to their tendency to overpress similarities while ignoring differences.”

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Field of Entheogen Scholarship Forced to Handle Allegro, Who Is Not an Entheogen Scholar

Often, the needed scholarship is criticism.

I read people’s criticisms of these topics.

In 2006, I reluctantly wrote the “final article” on Allegro, calling for retiring and sidelining him, yet:

• Allegro’s book Sacred Mushroom & The Cross sells many copies, with Irvin & Ruck involved.
• Ruck loves Allegro – I don’t. Ruck carries forward the social drama narrative from Allegro.

I have lately formed my equivalent of a social drama narrative: Evidently there was a mainstream mushroom-tree religion within Christianity, among (at least) artists.

Theologically, the mushroom-tree religion is couched or expressed in terms of alternating between ordinary-state possibilism (figured as branching) & altered-state eternalism (figured as non-branching).

I have specific criticisms of:

• Pop Sike Cult
• Allegro
• entheogen scholarship
• Ruck
• Irvin
• Wasson
• Letcher
• Huggins
• Hatsis
• Psychedelic pseudo science, the positive unitive model of “mystical experience”.

Conceptual Errors, Misinterpretations, and Bad Argumentation from Entheogen Scholars

I reject 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

I advocate 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm).

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Religions Special Issue: On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (2025)

Special issue of the journal Religions:
On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Edited by J. Christian Greer and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/5IX8MH3S36

Religions Special Issue: How to Cover-Up Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art (2025)

So far, Greer is less annoying than Mosurinjohn & Ascough, because Greer says, assume some people in Christendom used psychedelics sometimes. With Chs Stang. The real question is: To what extent psychedelics in Western religious history?

Greer is not clumsy, attacking people, flailing like Shardog on a short leash held by the anything-but-drugs academic Ascough.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Exact Botanical Mushroom Explained Away as a “Tree Branch” that “Rules Out” the Tree Meaning a Mushroom

GCP Day 3 Plant 2 Right Branch

Sharday Mosurinjohn Gang: THIS IS A TREE BRANCH, that “rules out” the plant from meaning “a mushroom”:

• Ronald Huggins on Day 3 of Creation Panel in Great Canterbury Psalter

todo: image: photo of mushroom cluster with a big mushroom bracketed at the base by two smaller, attached mushrooms – quick fallback workaround:
Image search: mushroom cluster:
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=mushroom+cluster

Exact Botanical Mushroom Explained Away as a “Tree”

GCP Day 4 Plant 3

Sharday Mosurinjohn Gang: THIS IS A TREE:

• Ronald Huggins on Day 1 & 4 of Creation Panel in Great Canterbury Psalter

below is copy 3, of 4 images: Sharday Mosurinjohn lecturing, dog-asp, {hand mushroom-tree}, asp, but this version has my added text at top:

Mosurinjohn’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Psychedelic Evidence, of Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State

Sharday Mosurinjohn (the religious fundamentalist denier of mushrooms in mystery religions and Christianity, and perpetrator of colonialist violence who is overlooking Indigenous Shams by erroneously trying to write a book on psychedelics in Western Esotericism, instead) wrote and spoke on:

“We then explore how the dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages contributes to the [pathetic, invalid, illegitimate, in-vain] project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs and revitalize experiential religion.

“Although the desire for [fake] legitimacy and meaning is understandable [though foolish, erroneous, hopeless, and futile], the strategies used by the writers [not scholars or researchers] of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism [“and colonialist violence“].” PROJECTION MUCH?!

Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching

Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes

The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth

“The Asp, or “aspido,” is a mythical creature in medieval bestiaries described as a snake that stops up its ears to avoid being enchanted by the music of snake charmers. It presses one ear against the ground and covers the other with its tail to ignore the charming, symbolizing a refusal to hear wisdom or divine truth.”

Web search: Asp blocks ear avoid musical enchantment

Citing Hoffman & Cyberdisciple on Allegro Is Required

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

Unlike Ascough, has Huggins actually read my book-length, overwhelming article?

The journal’s article by Ascough cites Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm.
Ascough duplicates the articles ending’s call to retire and sideline Allegro, in entheogen scholarship.

Cyberdisciple not using real name impedes him from being cited.

Scholarship under Prohibition has Pros and Cons for the indiv contributor.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Did Huggins Read the Most Important 7 Publications in the Field?

• The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf
• “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Giorgio Samorini, 1998) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam-alberifungo-1998.pdf & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/
• Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
• The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/
• The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2016), https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/ & https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620555026
• NO – Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Huggins Continues to Fail to Cite Browns 2019 which Published the Wasson-Censored, Covered-up, Panofsky Letters

Huggins again looks Suspicious, failing to cite brown 2019 article that published Panofsky’s 2 censored-by-Wasson letters.

Huggins is allied with Popebanker Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson & dumb Panofsky, the top anything-but-drugs art historian.

Huggins doesn’t want to give Brown 2019 credit for publishing the censored articles.

Huggins doesn’t want to acknowledge that his ally, Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson, censored the Panofsky letters.

Popebanker Wasson is guilty of dishonest censorship of the Panofsky letters, p. 180 of SOMA 1968.

Wasson and Panofsky is adopted by Huggins as an ally because Popebanker Wasson aggressively rejects mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Wasson’s fraudulent academic censorship discredits the deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

I Criticize 1st-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm, by Allegro then Ruck)

I Advocate 2nd-Generation Entheogen Scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin Paradigm, by Samorini)

Huggins Is a Fraud Until He Cites the Article by Brown & Brown 2019 that Published the Two Panofsky Letters & Brinckmann Citation that Were Censored by Popebanker Wasson in SOMA p. 180

Panofsky’s drawers are mentioned in Notes section of Huggins 2025:

“9 Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson (2 May 1952). See, Panofsky, Erwin, 1950–1953. Tina and R. Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives, ecb00001, Series IV, drawer: W3.2, Folder: 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.”

“21 Erwin Panofsky to R. Gordon Wasson (2 May 1952), 1, in the Tina and R. Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives,
ecb00001, Series IV, drawer, W3.2, Folder: 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.”

Browns 2019 is not listed in Huggins References section, to avoid revealing that Wasson is a fraud trying as hard as possible to prevent scholarly investigation of the mushroom-tree religion.

Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019

What’s wrong with Huggins that he repeatedly, in multiple articles in 2024 & 2025, doesn’t cite Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019?

Huggins continues referencing the GODDAMNED DRAWER AT HARVARD, greedily trying to leverage Panofsky against Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art, while not letting or helping other scholars access the Panofsky arguments.

Jan Irvin is not allowed to access the drawer at Harvard. See his writeup probably in The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity (Jan Irvin, 2008) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439215170

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

There’s a cover-up operation Huggins is participating in.

Wasson lost credibility in 2019 b/c of the Browns’ article, but Huggins tries to ally with Popebanker Wasson.

What’s wrong with Huggins, that he doesn’t say Wasson was banker for the pope, as pointed out in Browns 2019? Because Wasson’s credibility is tanking, on mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Huggins has no credibility. Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art have no credibility.

All that the Deniers have is bad, arbitrary arg’n based on prejudice and silent presupposition, like Panofsky saying:

The Plaincourault fresco can’t mean mushroom, because there are hundreds of mushroom-trees.

The OBVIOUS response is, all mushroom imagery in Christian art means mushrooms (giving a non-branching eternalism experience) – including Plaincourault fresco, with Eve {stand on right foot}.

Samorini finally made good on that 1952/1968 tip from Panofsky, in 1997/1998: let’s (obviously) cover the “disqualifying” hundreds of pilzbaum, by covering all pilzbaum as meaning mushrooms.

Shamelessly poor, 1-way arg’n is characteristic of Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

• Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art DGAF about the surrounding text.
  • Neither did the mainstream, mushroom-tree artists, in the artists initiation guild with psilocybin lockboxes.
• Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art DGAF about valid arg’n that can withstand pushback.
  • The Deniers broadcast the propaganda, 1-way, ears closed.

But Wasson/Pan isn’t looking for a response to their poor arg’n.

It’s a Pope-funded cover-up operation, designed not to assist scholarly research and arg’n, but to SHUT IT DOWN.

Mentions of “Branch” in the Article

Huggins cites his 2024 fabricated, arb’y “rules” that are worth nothing and are sheer DECREE that we are able to use Panofsky branch arg to make a “rule” to “rule out” mushrooms.

An expression of a prejudice is not a compelling “rule” that anyone is compelled to agree to.

Rule: Ignore Huggins.
By decree of Michael Hoffman, the Egodeath theory.
Therefore, HUGGINS HAS BEEN “RULED OUT”.
Such is the compelling force of Huggins’ “rules” in his misnamed Conclusion (Final Decrees) section.

Huggins uses a Begging the Question fallacy. Given the category: mushroom-trees are those trees that include mushroom elements/ features/ motifs. Then he args: IF one of those mushroom-trees has mushroom elements/ features/ motifs, ignore them.

This is a dishonest rhetoric move, where Huggins simply decrees that for ALL members of the class “mushroom-trees”, to ignore the mushroom elements, but misleadingly couched as “If a given mushroom-tree has any mushroom elements, ignore the mushroom elements, because I arb’ly decree so.”

Huggins’ “rule” carries no arg’n validity.

Huggins arg’s:

If a mushroom-tree has branching features, ignore the mushroom features; only respect the tree feature elements.

The “if” is stupid (it is hiding that this is a blanket an arb’y blanket dismissal of all the entire category, invented by art historians, of “mushroom-trees” meaning mushrooms.

BY DEFINITION the category in question, “mushroom-trees”, is PROPERLY defined as:

All trees that have mushroom features/ elements/ motifs — regardless of whether on the scale of a single, whole mushroom, or fragments of multiple mushrooms.

For example, Day 4’s 4 plants are NOT mushroom-trees, b/c they have no branches.

Yet, Huggins ’24 hastily rushes past these 4 (relatively) plain mushrooms, that have no branches, calling them “trees” for NO REASON, giving no justification for calling them “trees”. Day 4, God doees not create trees.

The ONLY reason Huggins lyingly dubs these 4 simple mushrooms as “trees” is to worship the anything-but-drugs academia agenda.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

On Day 4, God Created the Sun, Moon, & Stars – Not Trees, Plants, or Herbs

Query: What did God create on Day 4 of Creation?
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+did+God+create+on+Day+4+of+Creation%3F —

AI Ans:

“On the fourth day of creation, God created the sun, moon, and stars, placing them in the sky to give light to the Earth, separate day from night, and serve as signs for seasons, days, and years, according to the Book of Genesis, 1:14-19.”

Day 4 only has encoded branching, not explicit direct branching motif.

The coded grid-cap of plant 1 & 2 in Day 4: Great Canterbury Psalter establishes grid-caps as indicating {branching}; that is, the Possibilism mental model of time, self, and control.

The term mushroom-trees was coined by art historians themselves, admitting their defeat right from day 1 of considering mushroom-trees.

I’m generalizing here that anything-but-drugs academics = art historians = Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Panofsky/Wasson generalizes:

• “Art historians” = Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.
• “Mycologists” = Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

“Mycologists” meaning Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art:
eg John Ramsbottom who majorly busted Wasson admitting he’s a committed skeptic:

“Rightly or wrongly, we are going to reject the Plaincourault fresco [a proxy for all mushroom-trees] as representing a mushroom.”

http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm —

Rightly or wrongly, we are going to reject the Plaincourault fresco as representing a mushroom. This fresco gives us a stylized motif in Byzantine and Romanesque art of which hundreds of examples are well known to art historians, and on which the German art historians bestow, for convenience in discussion, the name Pilzbaum. It is an iconograph representing the Palestinian tree that was supposed to bear the fruit that tempted Eve, whose hands are held in the posture of modesty traditional for the occasion. For almost a half century mycologists have been under a misapprehension on this matter. We studied the fresco in situ in 1952.

Wasson, private letter of December 21, 1953, quoted in Ramsbottom, Mushrooms & Toadstools, post-1953 printing, p. 48

Mushroom-trees (a term coined by art historians themselves, admitting their defeat right from day 1 of considering mushroom-trees) are those trees in art that have both tree features & mushroom features; that have mushroom features/ elements/ motifs as well as tree features/ elements/ motifs.

The “whole image = mushroom” fallacy. Huggins frames “does the tree match A MUSHROOM?” Error. We must instead ask: Does the tree have MUSHROOM ELEMENTS/FEATURES.

Brown’s phrase (expansion of ‘MICA’) is incorrect/ imprecise: mushrooms in Christian art.

The correct, precise phrase: mushroom imagery/features/elements in Christian art.

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 16 bottom

“An ongoing impediment to accepting the validity of the PMTs’ [Psychedelic Mushroom Theorists’] claims is their tendency to over press similarities while ignoring differences.”

todo: by “differences”, does he mean specifically, branching motifs?

todo: Does he perceive or mention the non-branching motif?
He discusses Bern Door prominent cut branch.

“In response to this I have elsewhere suggested three cautionary rules of thumb when considering whether a given medieval image might represent a mushroom: “

“suggested” = By arbitrary decree of Panofsky/ Huggins, WE ARE ABLE TO (WE MUST) “RULE OUT” THE MUSHROOM ELEMENTS IMAGERY, BECAUSE I SAY SO:

“(1) If it has branches, or multiple crowns, or a crown supported by multiple branches, it is a tree not a mushroom;”

“(2) If it has indications of layers of foliage [or, for that matter, of foliage period] in the crown, it is a tree not a mushroom;”

ie, we firmly commit to literalist ordinary-state possibilism

those on the outside

Ruck understanding of the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees} is poor, mistakes, limited, shallow, concretistic, reifies Prohibition perma, conforms to Suppression Prohib

Ruck focses on Amanita which isn’t even prohibited, wtf. anti-activist. a proxy?

1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) = graves wasson allegro ruck

Watch the trajectory context – hard to write …. the topic of mushroom imagery in Christian art became taboo, and forget ahistoricity – the Allegro violation , sirens go off. DISAVOW FOLLOW ALLEGRO, “follower of allegro” weaponized bunk arg rehe rhetoric

Ruck is 5 of 10, Hug is 3 of 10: Poor vs. junk irrelev args and concerns and errors by both of them, a new field, the Egodeath theory is LIGHT YEARS ahead of Ruck and Huggins; they are trapped eternity by their own Allegro Trap, limited to 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm)

i define … honor to Samorini lindgren arthur heinrich in elements here but everyone starts w/ Plaincourault fresco bc Amanita Kiddie Amanita mythic fantasy realm

Huggins says: We inappropriately commit to reading non-realistic religious mythic art in a literalistic way, to prop up and adhere to the the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia.

Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 top

“and

“(3) If it has fruit, it is a tree not a mushroom, since mushrooms, being cryptogams, have neither fruit nor seeds” (Huggins 2024, p. 24).

Huggins Relies on Inappropriate Literalist Reading of Mythic Art, to Dismiss and Ignorae the Emphatic Mushroom Imagery

“emphatic” is Panofsky’s word in his first Aasson-censored letter, re the two censored-by-Wasson mushroom-trees images that Panofsky sent.

Huggins’ WORTHLESS, ARBITRARY, PREJUDICED DECREE, AKA “THE TEST”:

“The Reichenau trees fail the test because they have both branches and multiple crowns, several of which display fruit.

“In one case we even see birds eating the fruit (Figure 17).”

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

I cropped that the other day, by coincidence, almost indistiguishable from Huggins’ crop:
Otto Gospel: Mushroom-Trees, Branching, and YI Hand Shapes
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/10/otto-gospel-mushroom-trees-branching-and-yi-hand-shapes/#Entry-Left-Tree-Left-and-Right-Fruit-Arms —

Entry: Left Tree: Left & Right Fruit Arms

p. 16 con’t:

“The trees of the triumphal entry scene from Saint-Martin, Nohant-Vic, similarly would seem to fail because of the multiple branches and crowns (Figure 15)

“although I will say that the crowns on these trees look more like mushrooms than any I have seen elsewhere in Early or Medieval Christian art,

“apart from a mosaic of a basket of mushrooms in the Basilica of Aquileia in Italy (c. 330),

“and in medieval herbals where mushrooms along with other plants are depicted and described (see, e.g., MS M.652 fol. 316v (10th century) and BnF Latin 6823, fol. 68r (1301–1350).”

In the art scene “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem”, why are branches important?

https://www.google.com/search?q=In+the+art+scene+%22Christ%27s+Entry+into+Jerusalem%22%2C+why+are+branches+important%3F

ai ans

In art, palm branches in “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem” scenes symbolize victory, triumph, and peace,

marking Jesus’s arrival as the promised King and Messiah.

Waved and laid by crowds, they [branches] signify

the triumphal entrance into Jerusalem, representing a “welcome” while foreshadowing both his spiritual triumph over death and his coming sacrifice. 

Key reasons for the importance of branches in this scene include:

• Symbol of Victory: Historically, in the ancient Near East and Roman world, [cut, removed from tree] palm branches were used to honor victory.
• Fulfillment of Prophecy: They mark the fulfillment of biblical prophecy regarding the Messiah’s entry.
• Sign of Kingship: By waving them, the crowd recognized Jesus as a King, even though he entered humbly on a donkey rather than a warhorse.
• Context of Holy Week: They represent the start of Passion Week, connecting the joyful welcome to the impending crucifixion.
• Juxtaposition with Passion: They often highlight the fickleness of the crowd, who lauded him with branches on Sunday and called for his crucifixion days later. 

In artistic compositions, these branches often highlight the crowd’s adoration and create a narrative focus on the procession toward the city. 

end of ai ans

Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 middle

“The Plaincourault tree likewise fails the test by having branches, four of which have single crowns, with the largest crown being supported by a central trunk and two branches.”

I solved this problem in a published email to Jerry Brown on March 21, 2022:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/04/log-of-discoveries-achievements/#branching-message-mushroom-trees

The Purpose of Mushroom-Trees Is to Deliver a Message about Experiencing Ordinary-State, Branching Possibilism, Alternating with Experiencing Altered-State, Non-Branching Eternalism

The purpose of mushroom-trees is to deliver a message about branching vs. non-branching;

Ordinary-state possibilism vs. altered-state eternalism.

Not literalist ordinary-state possibilism with autonomous control, but analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control.

• Not literalist ordinary-state possibilism with monolithic, autonomous control.
  
• But analogical psychedelic eternalism with 2-level, dependent control.
  
• Final form: Integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking; integrated branching & non-branching mental models.
• = the YI hand-shape in medieval art.

the YI hand-shape in medieval art
yhsma

integrated branching & non-branching mental models
ibnmm

integrated branching & non-branching mental models =
2POV =
two different points of view, two different mental models

Integrated branching & non-branching mental models is depicted by the YI hand shape, over more broad a range of era than just during the heyday of the mushroom-tree religion, 900-1300 AD.

Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 17 middle, con’t

“Especially problematic for the PMTs’ [Psychedelic Mushroom Theorists’] identification is the three branches supporting the top-most crown.

“This would not be the case if the artist had intended to depict an Amanita
muscaria mushroom and “nada mas [nothing more].”

“The cap of Amanita muscaria is supported by one central stipe.

“PMT [Psychedelic Mushroom Theorist] Samorini sought a way around this problem by suggesting that

“these ramifications [branches] might represent the membrane enveloping mushrooms of the family of the Amanitaceae at the early stages of development.”

[that clarifying note, “[branches]”, is from Huggins’ article]

“This membrane then breaks when the cap broadens out and separates from the stalk” (Samorini 1998, p. 89; 2001, p. 268).

“The same argument was in fact already put forward by Émile Boudier (Marchand and Boudier 1911, p. 32).

“Both however anachronistically project a greater interest in botanical accuracy than is justified for the artists of the period.8.”

Mentions of ‘branch’ on pp. 21-22

“This scene has been of particular interest to the PMTs [Psychedelic Mushroom Theorists] since they became aware of it via the English translation of Jochen Gartz’s Narrenschwämme: Psychotrope Pilze in Europa (1993, Fig. 1, cf. 1996, Fig. 6).

“Giorgio Samorini is very definitive on the identity of the tree in the picture:

“The mushroom-tree [between Adam and Eve] is realistically rendered with a precision not far short of anatomic accuracy and can be identified as one of the most common Germanic and European psilocybin mushroom, P. Semilanceata. . .” (Samorini 1998, p. 103).

Mosurinjohn & Ascough are very hypocritical in shifting, themselves, from possibility:

Maybe there were no psychedelics in mystery religions; there is no chemical evidence at Eleusis, because we academics/Deniers washed away the “dirt” in the Eleusis vessels.

to as-if-fact:

There were no psychedelics in mystery religions. Ruck’s been debunked.

I’m finding all over the place, lots of places where Mosurinjohn & Ascough assert outright, “There were no psychedelics in mystery religions”, as if fact.

They hide their dirty arg’n and hypocrisy by saying “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”, then immediately they do exactly that:

Mosurinjohn & Ascough Treat (Alleged) Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence

Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are shameless in identifying themselves with the poorest quality of arg’n, that cannot endure any pushback.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough treat absence of evidence (because the anything-but-drugs academics washed out the cups, getting rid of the LSA from ergot) as evidence of absence.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough Hypocritically Shift from Possibility, to As-if Fact, While Criticizing Ruck for Shifting from Possibility, to As-if Fact

Deniers of mushroom imagery in Christian art are shameless in identifying themselves with the poorest quality of arg’n, that cannot endure any pushback.

Hypocrites: Mosurinjohn & Ascough make it a major objection to Ruck, that they have detected him shifting from possibility to as-if fact.

Mosurinjohn & Ascough shift from possibility to as-if fact, themselves, just in the opposite direction of Joe Rogan (or Brian Muraresku). (Almost forgot: or Ruck.)

“Samorini goes on to identify the tree as a “‘Saint-Savin’ type of mushroom (three striated mushrooms),” arguing that “the third mushroom has been consumed by Adam and Eve, as revealed by the broken branch springing from the lower part of the tree trunk” (ibid.).

“Hoffman, Ruck, and Staples follow Samorini, repeating his claim that the tree “is here represented as the ‘mushroom tree,’ usually shown with a triple branching, but in this version one branch is missing, the one that has been eaten” (Hoffman et al. 2001, p. 29).”

Mentions of ‘branch’ on p. 22

“But several missteps have been made here.”

[missteps, according to Huggins; that does NOT make them missteps. -mh]

“It is true that the crowns of mushroom trees, as well as those of other kinds of stylized trees, often appeared in groups of three. . .,

“but this does not occur regularly enough to be in any sense normative, such that we can assume that when there are two crowns one is missing, much less that it has been eaten!

“Indeed a previous panel on the same door showed two mushroom trees each with five foliage heads.

“Furthermore, although one of the broken-off branches is prominent, more are indicated.

“We also know from the previous scene on the door that what Adam and Eve
ate was a small, round fruit from a different tree, not a foliage head from the one shown.

“What does appear to be the case is that Adam and Eve are depicted covering themselves with foliage heads of the same sort as those on the tree they are standing beside.”

Mentions of ‘branch’ in End Note 23

… 1, Series IV, drawer, W3.2, Folder: 20. Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.

“22 I have discussed this at length elsewhere. See (Huggins 2024, pp. 14–19).

“23 The Latin Vulgate edition of John informs us that the boughs were palm branches (ramos palmarum). Neither Matthew nor Mark identify a particular species of tree.”

Mentions of ‘branch’ in End Note 24

“24 See Reichenau Gospel Book (BSB Clm 23338), fol. 184v; The Pericopes Book of Henry II (Clm. 4452) fols. 131v, 200r (1007–1012);

“The Bamberg Apocalypse (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc. Bibl. 140) fol. 57r (c. 1010);

“Gospel Book of Otto III (BSB Clm 4453) fol. 34v (c. 1010 AD).

“The similarity in style could point to one miniature artist or group of artists.

[I conjectured in Feb. 2026: There was a mainstream initiation artists guild with psilocybin lockboxes, for many centuries.

These artists do not bow down to mere texts, but bring their own, driving concern:
experiencing the two states and the two mental models: possibilism vs. eternalism.
-mh]

“See, for example, the nearly identical depictions of Zachaeus in a multi-branched tree with a mushroom-like top in the Reichenau Gospel Book fol. 184v and the Pericopies Book of Henry II, fol. 200r.” See below.

Guy in Tree with YI Hand-Shapes Cited By Huggins End Notes

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00095112?page=372

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_14712/?sp=403&r=0.037,0.181,0.833,0.515,0

Huggins end notes:

“24 – See Reichenau Gospel Book (BSB Clm 23338), fol. 184v; The Pericopes Book of Henry II (Clm. 4452) fols. 131v, 200r (1007–1012);
The Bamberg Apocalypse (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc. Bibl. 140) fol. 57r (c. 1010); Gospel Book of Otto III (BSB Clm 4453)
fol. 34v (c. 1010 AD). The similarity in style could point to one miniature artist or group of artists. See, for example, the nearly
identical depictions of Zachaeus in a multi-branchedtree with a mushroom-like top in the Reichenau Gospel Book fol. 184v and
the Pericopies Book of Henry II, fol. 200r.”

Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed

Reichenau Gospel Book fol. 184v. Has guys on left of tree

Pericopies Book of Henry II, fol. 200r. No guys on left of tree

Plaincourault Fresco Is YI

Michael Hoffman, discovered at [6:45 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026].
Now 8:55 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026.

The Plaincourault Fresco Has {branching-message mushroom tree} Features, Depicting Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/the-plaincourault-fresco-has-branching-message-mushroom-tree-features-depicting-psychedelic-eternalism/

Web Image Search: Plaincourault Fresco

Search web for Plaincourault fresco:
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=Plaincourault+Fresco

Possibilism vs. Eternalism =

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

[LCPE]
List of Contrasts between Possibilism vs. Eternalism

Rabbit hole:

{fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger} or…. point got lost: MAIN REFERENCE FORM IS SUFFICIENT: SAY JUST {FINGERS} VS. {THUMB}

Analysis Procedure:

1. Sweep up from bottom
2. first hit R branch, where R branch goes right, and the main trunk goes up…
3. then hit L branch.

todo: add white lines crop

Tree has Y on L, I on R – relative to the point where the R breaks off.

YI Branching, {stand on right foot} Motif, Four Amanita Branches Point to Four Pairs of Arms & Legs

Section added Feb. 18, 2026, copied from page created that day (today).

Professional Propagandist Wasson Substitutes a Degraded, Copied Painting that Deletes the YI Branching Form and the {stand on right foot} Motif, Withholding the Actual Fresco Image

Section added Feb. 18, 2026, copied from page created that day (today).

Double Fail, Illiterate/Blind to Motifs: Michelle Bory’s Painting of Plaincourault

Bory is grossly inaccurate & motif-illiterate by standards of the mushroom-tree artists.

Huggins p. 5:

“In 1959 he [Aasson] arranged to have Michelle Bory of Paris’ Muséum
national d’Histoire naturelle visit the chapel and make a reproduction,8 which he published in his 1968 book Soma (Pl. XXI, between pp. 180–81).

“Bory’s painting is truer to the original than the earlier published picture.

“For one thing it correctly depicts not only the caps but the entire tree as red. It still naturally fell short as an alternative to a good photograph of the image, inevitably leaving out important details.”

Bory deleted the YI message of this branching-message mushroom tree.

Bory:

• Moved Adam far away, for legs to not be touched by branch.
• Deleted the offset of L vs R beam forming the YI.

The YI is centrally important in the medieval art genre of {branching-message mushroom trees}.

From the Esoteric Branching Language POV, Bory’s version is MUCH LESS accurate than the color-added photo in the 1911 Bulletin.

esoteric branching lang

Warning: ‘esoteric’ sounds like “hidden, secret, suppressed”; avoid the Secret Amanita paradigm.

Mr. “dont give a shit about compelling arg’n” hypocr writes:

“My own view is that the images turned up by the PMTs since have done little to
undermine the validity of Panofsky’s* assessment of the Plaincourault fresco.”

*90% CENSORED BY WASSON, WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY FOR YOUR COMPANY YOU KEEP, Huggins? WASSON A SLEAZY LIAR, EXTREME CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST, NO-CREDIBILITY, PROFESSIONAL PROPAGANDIST CON ARTIST, DECEIVER trying to get rid of standard scholarly practices re: this “special”, taboo topic:

Wasson deletes scholarly writing, publishing, and citation (replaced by the . . . . ellipses of the censor), telling Affirmers they need to abandon standard academic practice and instead, “consult” the art authorities personally, with stopwatch in hand, to test and confirm (predictably and meaninglessly) that all “certified competent” indoctrinated anything-but-drugs academics, art history operatives are trained like dogs (on condition of employment) to blurt and disavow mushrooms promptly.

Logical Fallacy: Scholarly Assessment Not via Writing, Publishing, & Citation (Normal, Standard Scholarly Methods), but Instead, by Measuring the Personal Emotional Reaction Degree, Only on this “Special”, Exceptional, Taboo-Charged Topic

Name of Fallacy: Argument by Degree of Personal Emotional Reaction (by Conditionally Employed Art Doctrine Operatives, the Mandated Doctrine Being Anything-But-Drugs)

Allegro made everything more complicated by abusing Amanita to smear Christianity with a disgusting sex-cult fungus.

Why is Jan Irvin’s/ Rucks’ book 2009 so popular?

BECAUSE SMEARING Christianity IS POPULAR, along w/ psychedelics being popular.

Amanita is barely “psychedelics”.

It’s all proxy concerns.

I’m now creating a J I 09 page…

Jan Irvin & Carl Ruck, The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross, 40th Annual Edition, 2009,

Allegro impeded scholarship by charging-up the topic of entheogen scholarship.

Much of this compromised academic/scholarly situation is Allegro’s fault.

How to do scholarship: Measure the emotional reaction degree when probe an art history flunky who has been propagandized – ESPECIALLY in the post-1970, after Allegro’s smear-Christianity abuse of Amanita and the provoked reaction: anything-but-drugs academia forbade THE ALLEGRO VIOLATION of asserting that Christianity came from mushrooms + ahistoricity of Jesus.

BECAUSE THEY KNOW AND WROTE NOTHING, Brinc exception proves rules per Huggins “notable” [ie, cit. censored by Wasson] Brinc book.

“A key reason for this, I believe, is a casualness among PMT writers in the manner in which they handle evidence, which often displays a tendency toward ignoring obvious explanations in favor of rather tendentious, often overly ingenious and esoteric ones garnered from sources very remote to the images they are attempting to describe.”

Mushrooms Were Suppressed by Church Society Only to a Degree: Mushrooms Were Not Allowed in Writing, Were Allowed in Art, Because Sensitive Theology: Everything Is Ultimately God’s Fault; God Made Eve Eat

The Middle Ages Were MORE Literate than the Age of Literacy, in the Visual Language Genre of {branching-message mushroom trees}; {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} Motifs

Scholars in the Age of Textual Literacy after 1687 (Newton & heliocentric) are illiterate at the visual art language of {mushroom-trees}, including {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

the visual art language of {mushroom-trees}, including {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs
valm

the visual art language of {mushroom-trees}, including {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs [VALM]

No one could read textual writing.

The Middle Ages were MORE literate than the age Age of Literacy; literate VISUALLY IN A SPECIALIZED GENRE, the medieval art genre of {branching-message mushroom trees}.

Mushroom was forbidden in writing AND allowed in art.

b m m = the branching mental model

todo: fill in more:
How Branching and Non-Branching Represent Two Mental Models of Control-in-World

the medieval art genre of {branching-message mushroom trees}
magbmmt

Color photos were not popular avail 1952; not until 60s or 1970s really.

Michelle Bory Paints Trident, Should be YI

Bory LOSES the {YI} MOTIF under cap.

Michelle Bourey Paints 1-Foot Eve, Should {stand right foot}

Bory LOSES the {stand on right foot} MOTIF.

https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/04/29/eve-is-standing-on-right-foot-in-plaincourault-fresco-corroborating-mushroom-induced-non-branching-experiencing/ —

Cybermonk, April 28, 2022 – This may be my “pay dirt” crop. stand right foot.
[yeah but that page fails to say it’s a YI under the cap – Michael Hoffman 6:45 & 8:43 p.m. Feb. 15, 2026]
The Question that I ID’d:
What % of weight on R foot?
Ans: 100%.
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_8713.jpg

Dec. 13, 2020: Michelle Bourey’s painting that’s a copy. https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-77.png

It’s possible I might have analyzed this before.

Feels like a new insight but can’t trust that intuition.

Plaincourault fresco follows standard patterns for {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs, in the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}:

• {stand on right foot}
• YI mushroom-tree the primary Reference branching form; more branching on L than R. Elaborated and violated creatively; only a starting pattern.
• Eve’s YI hand-shape ​pair is a pair of YI hand shapes: [YI, IY]

New, Hand Pair Notation: In Plaincourault Fresco, Eve’s Hand-Pair: [YI, IY]

The Plaincourault Fresco Has {branching-message mushroom tree} Features, Depicting Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/the-plaincourault-fresco-has-branching-message-mushroom-tree-features-depicting-psychedelic-eternalism/

Email Sent 11:55 p.m. Feb. 18, 2026

Before midnight, a complementary copy of today’s breakthrough announcement (so far).

The Plaincourault Fresco Has {branching-message mushroom tree} Features, Depicting Psychedelic Eternalism

https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/the-plaincourault-fresco-has-branching-message-mushroom-tree-features-depicting-psychedelic-eternalism/

The earth-shattering, history-making event of the day, or at least of the morning.

_________________

Texted to lawyer for psychedelic churches:

this is a big fkkn deal

just in time for the Oct 2025 special issue of _Religions_ journal, which cites my 2006 mega article about Plaincourault fresco

That special issue tries to destroy, invalidate, & discredit entheogen scholarship

glad u can be with me on this journey

tagline of my Egodeath Mystery Show podcast:

You are on the leading edge of altered-state theory.

which in 2022, required standing w my Left foot on top of my Right foot,
 to gauge the weight distribution at bottom of each foot

confirmed my full weight then is on bottom of R foot,
but less on L foot

________________________________

On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom (Huggins, 2025)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/11/on-john-m-allegros-suggestion-that-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-in-the-12th-century-plaincourault-chapel-depicts-an-amanita-muscaria-mushroom-huggins-2025/

Cites: Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm&nbsp;

That Huggins article is in:

Special issue of the journal Religions:
On the Origins of Western Psychedelia: Exploring Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Edited by J. Christian Greer and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/5IX8MH3S36

Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: Entheogen scholarship Has so few researchers, need at least some bad articles contributed by Deniers

Overlapping jackpots come in clusters (the Plaincourault fresco & medieval YI hand-shape theory, this time)

Example of how, bad articles accidentally contribute to progress, despite fallacy-fest, addled-mind writers like Thomas Hatsis:

Huggins’ focus on the trident branches of Plaincourault fresco made me bothered by the weird trident that fails to conform to my correct theory.

Then Sunday, I recognized that only by having the offset does the “trident” become the correct, YI form, 

proving this means Amanita, because this image fits the patterns of the medieval art genre of {mushroom-trees}.

Michelle Bory’s fake copy of the painting omits many of the key indicators, in Soma 1968 p. 181

with a confusing caption that falsely says that this painting by Bory is the Plaincourault fresco.

Bory moves Adam far to the left, so that the Amanita branch* no longer touches his left leg.

*Panofsky: “an Italian pine, meaninglessly corrupted by inept artist craftsmen who have no intentionality”; 

yet Wasson, later: “an A.N.E. tree species”.

Panofsky:

“The fact that pine steadily changed to mushroom shape, proves that the mushroom shape was accidental and meaningless.”

Retort: That’s arg’n from bias.

The fact that pine steadily changed to mushroom shape, proves that the mushroom shape was deliberate and meaningful.

Panofsky:

If mycologists (Affirmers) weren’t ignorant about the hundreds of mushroom-trees, they would not have made the mistake of saying Plaincourault fresco means mushrooms.

Plaincourault fresco can’t mean mushroom, because there are hundreds of other mushroom-trees.

[arg. from silent presupposition, of a shared presupposition]

The Samorini Retort:

The Plaincourault fresco means mushroom, consistent with all of the hundreds of mushroom-trees meaning mushrooms.

— Michael Hoffman, B.S.E.E., the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

/ end of email

Carl Ruck in “Daturas for the Virgin” p. 56 falsely credits Wasson with asserting (publicly) that mushroom-trees (as a class) mean mushroom.

In retaliation, Jan Irvin in The Holy Mushroom falsely credits Allegro with asserting that mushroom-trees (as a class) mean mushroom. Irvin’s lack of a quote is bankable proof that Allegro never wrote that.

Clearly, Samorini 1997 & 1998 is the scholar who asserted that mushroom-trees (as a class) mean mushroom.

Amazingly, Huggins not only AGAIN omits to cite Browns 2019; he also fails to cite Samorini 1997: The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf

See Also

Site Map > Plaincourault Fresco
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Plaincourault-Fresco

Site Map > Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Gordon-Wasson

The Plaincourault Fresco Has {branching-message mushroom tree} Features, Depicting Psychedelic Eternalism
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/the-plaincourault-fresco-has-branching-message-mushroom-tree-features-depicting-psychedelic-eternalism/

• Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed
• Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)

• Teams in the Interpretation Derby

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

Cyberdisciple site > Search Allegro:
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/?s=Allegro

• Richard Ascough on Psychedelics in Western Religious History
• Video: The Sweetest Taboo: Psychedelics and the Invention of Religious Experiences (Mosurinjohn, Sep. 2025)
• Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience (Mosurinjohn & Ascough, 2025)

Michael Hoffman Feb. 10, 2026

Contents:

• Entheogenics: Psychedelic Experiences as Revelatory Events in the History of Western Esotericism (Mosurinjohn, Forthcoming)
• Citation, Title, Link to Book
• Got No Direction? No Ideas? Read The Immortality Key and Become an Entheogen Scholarship Critic
• Search Web: Sharday Mosurinjohn
• The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom (Mosurinjohn, 2022)
• Intro
• Sharday Mosurinjohn Retracted Her Bullsh!t Smears, Defamation, & Smug Discrediting & Insulting of Her Betters
• More Lazy, Opportunist, Toxic-Parasitical, Self-Serving Scumbags Entering the Field to Make a Name for Themselves by Simply Reading One Book: The Immortality Key
• Mosurinjohn’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Psychedelic Evidence, of Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State
  • Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching (f109)
  • Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes (f109)
  • The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth
• Motive
• See Also

Entheogenics: Psychedelic Experiences as Revelatory Events in the History of Western Esotericism (Mosurinjohn, Forthcoming)

Search web: Entheogenics Mosurinjohn
https://www.google.com/search?q=Entheogenics+Mosurinjohn

Citation, Title, Link to Book

“There’s no evidence of LSA in kykeon vessels at Eleusis” – after we Deniers washed all the “dirt” away – and no other type of evidence “counts”, because we (Deniers) Say So

What a strong case the Deniers have!

When Shardog insults the pathetic imaginers of psychedelics in Western religious history (while working on her own book asserting the same), she just makes HERSELF look the fool.

Yes, there is pathetic foolishness in the field: pointing at YOU Sharday.

Her: Smug, condescending: “Can you believe Rogan/ Muraresku so pathetically ignorant and fantasy based. There’s no evidence after we washed it away, and so, we know there was definitely no psychedelics in Western religious history.”

Who is made to look foolish here?

Shardog’s attack and discrediting-attempt backfires and reveals HER to be ignorant, converting possibility to fact, projecting, namecalling, self-contradicting.

We agree that the field needs corrections. See Cyberdisciple for constructive approach to that.

Got No Direction? No Ideas? Read The Immortality Key and Become an Entheogen Scholarship Critic

Search Web: Sharday Mosurinjohn

https://www.google.com/search?q=sharday+mosurinjohn

The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom (Mosurinjohn, 2022)

The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom
Sharday Mosurinjohn, August 15, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Significance-Overload-Boredom/dp/0228011531/

Intro

See 4 pictures at https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/26/the-egodeath-theory-corroborates-carl-rucks-psychedelic-mysteries-paradigm/#Mosurinjohns-Dogged-Avoidance-of-Perceiving-Psychedelic-Evidence

1. photo of Shardog chastising and finger waving her betters at Harvard, who created BOTH the field of Indigenous Shams Studies that she fakely glorifies to beat entheogen scholars with a blunt club make from the field that THEY created. The audacity! the ignorance!
2. asp-dog from f109 Great Canterbury Psalter
3. {hand mushroom-tree} from f109
4. bestiary asp

Sharday Mosurinjohn Retracted Her Bullsh!t Smears, Defamation, & Smug Discrediting & Insulting of Her Betters

See in the 10-minute video how she desperately walks back her rude ignorant namecalling and “analysis” and “corrections” of the field:

“DONT MISHEAR ME AS IF I’M CALLING ALL OF YOU COLONIALIST VIOLENCE & RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM;

“It is kinda “good” for you PATHETIC, retarded, DELUSIONAL, thoroughly misguided fantasizers to hallucinate psychedelics in Western religious history.”

“NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE I WORK ON MY BOOK about psychedelics in Western religious history in Western Esotericism.”

Contradict yourself much?

Shardog vs. Shardog, who wins? Both lose.

More Lazy, Opportunist, Toxic-Parasitical, Self-Serving Scumbags Entering the Field to Make a Name for Themselves by Simply Reading One Book: The Immortality Key

What opportunist scumbags, anything-but-drugs academics this Popular field of Pollan/Mura 2018/2020 has attracted.

Makes Hatsis’ args look intelligent (but not really).

See my 5* book review of Thomas Hatsis’ 2025 book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634312783 & https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/08/17/psychedelic-injustice-how-identity-politics-poisons-the-psychedelic-renaissance-hatsis-2025/
re: his garbage take on “mushrooms in western religious history = Secret Christian Amanita Cult = BEEN DEBUNKED!”, which directly contradicts his main strategic counter-message.

Self contradict much?

You can rely on the entheogen scholarship field for examples of self-contradiction and conflict of interest, and generating logical fallacies.

This field (entheogen scholarship) is where log-falls are spawned from, thanks to Popebanker Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson, who was PAID TO LIE and cover-up the mushroom-tree religion and obstruct & harass & pressure & yell at anyone trying to pursue research in mushrooms in Western religious history.

Wasson was working AS HARD AS POSSIBLE to obstruct and impede and shut down academic scholarly research in mushrooms in western religious history. For decades! Never retracted!

Gordon Aasson was a lifetime actor, fake con artist put-on to deceive ppl. re: Xn history.

While at same time wasson brags to the skies “we are the first to cover psychedelics in OUR OWN (fkking Hindu, Indian, WTF!) religious history.”

And fanboi Lash says any idea AT ALL re: entheogen scholarship is “Wasson’s theory”.

F*ck Wasson!

Slightly redeeming himself at last hour, disgusting Wasson-fanboi John Lash says on tape, “but, it’s suspected that Wasson was a double/Rushin agent.”

Below is a copypaste of those 4 pics, from https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/26/the-egodeath-theory-corroborates-carl-rucks-psychedelic-mysteries-paradigm/#Mosurinjohns-Dogged-Avoidance-of-Perceiving-Psychedelic-Evidence —

Mosurinjohn’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Psychedelic Evidence, of Non-Branching in the Eternalism Experiential State

“We then explore how the dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages contributes to the project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs and revitalize experiential religion. Although the desire for legitimacy and meaning is understandable, the strategies used by the writers of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism.”

Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching (f109)

Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes (f109)

The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth

Search – “The Asp, or “aspido,” is a mythical creature in medieval bestiaries described as a snake that stops up its ears to avoid being enchanted by the music of snake charmers. It presses one ear against the ground and covers the other with its tail to ignore the charming, symbolizing a refusal to hear wisdom or divine truth.”

Motive

The present page is a placeholder page for my joke book review of forthcoming book by the #1 hypocrite and rudest, meanest, most ignorant person to enter entheogen scholarship. Sharday Mosurinjohn

Who pulls her chain is anything-but-drugs academic Richard Asscough. She needs to ditch him.

But they are caught in the Sharborg borg, the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia.

What she’s trying to do is impossible, so, she’s mean, and contradictory of herself.

Shardog is hopelessly waffling, trying to appease both, warring parties:

• entheogen scholarship (ie, Affirmers of mushroom imagery in Christian art)
• the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia — Deniers

Deniers = eg, newcomers pumping out cheap, ignorant, self-congratulatory articles to easily pad out their cv, like Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024)

Huggins’ Conclusion section’s arg’n is junk; nothing but “We should ignore mushroom imagery, because we can – by citing the [Wasson -censored] Panofsky arg about branches.”

Trash-quality arg’n from Huggins, cited favorably by Shardog:

• “Day 3 plant 2 is a tree, b/c has branches” (that look exact mushroom).
• “Day 4 plant 3 is a tree.” (tho the 4 plants have no branches; they’re plain mushrooms).

See Also

• Richard Ascough on Psychedelics in Western Religious History
• Video: The Sweetest Taboo: Psychedelics and the Invention of Religious Experiences (Mosurinjohn, Sep. 2025)
• Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience (Mosurinjohn & Ascough, 2025)

Michael Hoffman 11:40 Feb. 10, 2026

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy
• I Am a Follower of Minkowski, Not a Follower of Einstein
• Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
• The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
• The Psychedelic Eternalism Theory
• The Theory of Mytheme Analogy
• The Mytheme Analogy Theory
• The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy
• The Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy
• Summary: Names of the Component Halves of the Egodeath Theory
• Resolved: Notation Goes in “Technical-type Language”
• The Nesting Problem: The Core Half of the Theory Has Same Name as the Entire Theory (a Natural Shared Emphasis)
• Vague “Core Concepts” Page (Originally a “Glossary”)
• Notes
• Try Switching from “Analogy Mytheme” to “Mytheme Analogy”
• The Name Nesting Problem
• 4 Sections: Headings Have 1 Descriptive Word (‘Eternalism’ or ‘Mytheme’)
  • 1-Word Name of the Eternalism (Core) Theory
  • 1-Word Name of the Mytheme Theory
  • 2-Word Name of the Eternalism (Core) Theory
  • 2-Word Name of the Mytheme Theory
• 4 Sections: Headings Have 0 Descriptive Words (‘Core’ or ‘Myth’)
  • 1-Word Name of Core Theory
  • 1-Word Name of Myth Theory
  • 2-Word Name of Core Theory
  • 2-Word Name of Myth Theory
• New Names of “the Core theory” & “the Mytheme theory” [those are 1-word names]: the Psychedelic Eternalism theory & the Analogy Mytheme theory”
• New 1-Word Name for “the Core theory”: “the Eternalism theory”
• New 1-Word Name for “the Mytheme theory”: “the Analogy theory”
• Hierarchy of Theory Components Names
• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory [TPET]
• the Analogy Mytheme theory [TAMT]
• New Name for the Egodeath Core Theory: the Psychedelic Eternalism theory (Excludes Analogy/ Mythemes)
• The Added-on, Mytheme Analogy Theory Forced Improvement of the Core Theory
• Need Better Name than “the Cybernetic Core theory”
  • ‘Cybernetic’ Is Too Technical
  • the “Psychedelic Eternalism with Dependent Control” theory
  • ‘Core’ Is Too Vague
• Title’s Names of the Two Theories
• Longer Names from Expanded Title
• Short Names of the Two Theories
• Medium-Length Names of the Two Theories
• Long Names of the Two Theories
• The Two Halves of the Egodeath theory Mutually Corroborate and Confirm Each Other (“It’s Circular! ” )
• Rude AF Newcomer Shardog Mosurinjohn, Enters the Field We Created, Fists Randomly Swinging – and a Train of Morons Following Behind Her
• Rude, Mean & Ignorant HYPOCRITE Shardog Is Writing a Book Asserting Psychedelics in Western Religious History (Western Esotericism)
• The Most Important Documents in Entheogen Scholarship about Mushroom Imagery in Christian art
• Intro
• In 2000, Myth (Gnosticism) Revised the Core Theory: 2-Phase vs. 3-Phase Models of Psychedelic Transformation
• In 2025, Myth Revised the Core Theory: Embrace and Include Possibilism-Thinking; Marry the 2POV Like Dionysus Weds Ariadne
• Possessed by My Patron God Dionysus in 1987
• Notes
• The Core Theory vs. the Mytheme Theory: Need Better Concept-Labels, Core Concept Keyboard Shortcuts/ Acronyms – done
• Short Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Cybernetic theory & the Mytheme theory
• Medium-length Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Egodeath Cybernetic theory & the Egodeath Mytheme theory
• Long Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Cybernetic theory blah blah & the Mytheme theory blah blah
• Notes about the Need to redo keyboard shortcuts
  • Notes re: short terms the Cybernetic theory / the Mytheme theory
  • Notes Developing Long Expansions of Core / Myth theory names
  • Developing Short Terms for “the Cybernetic theory” (or, “the Core theory”, vaguely) & “the Mytheme theory”
  • Long Terms for “the Cybernetic theory” (or, “the Core theory”, vaguely) & “the Mytheme theory”‘
• How the Mytheme theory Finally Caused Revision (Reshaping) of the Core theory
  • Mythic Art Made Me Stop Trying to Abandon and Disparage as “Childish Delusion to Sacrifice”
• The “Mytheme” Conception in Strauss’ Structuralism Is Inferior to the Mytheme Theory within the Egodeath theory
• social drama narrative wags entheogen scholarship dog
• Ruck’s Perverse, defeatist, Prohibition-compliant, social drama narrative Constructs the Moderate (= Minimal) entheogen theory of religion
• Allegro-Ruck-Rush Fears Finding “Too Many Mushrooms” in Christian art
  • How I Found My Photos of Letcher’s Book Shroom
• Ruck: “Thank you for yet more evidence of mushroom imagery in HERETICAL Christian art, proving that Christianity 100% eliminated mushrooms”
• The Allegro-Ruck Foregrounding of their social drama narrative wags the entheogen scholarship dog, causing blindness to evidence and failure to perceive the mushroom-tree religion within MAINSTREAM Christianity
• Their Alien Lexicon Would Be OK If Done the Right Way
  • Related core concepts
• Short version of “the Core theory” (or, “the Cybernetic theory”) concept-label
• Long version of “the Core theory” (or, “the Cybernetic theory”) concept-label
• Short version of “the Mytheme theory” concept-label
• Long version of “the Mytheme theory” concept-label
• Wiki Crazy Person Said “Ego death” is not a proper encylopedia entry, should be [stupid term everyone rejected] – but Canterbury Says {death} Is the Right Motif
• AI Accidental Query: “define Core Theory vs. Mytheme Theory”
• Core vs. Mytheme Theory: Names of Sub-Theories; Theory-Portions; Component Theories
• Motive
• Transcendent Knowledge Podcast About the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
• Next Episode of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: cognitive phenomenology, & the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
• Titles of this Page
• See Also

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy

The Egodeath theory is the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy.

The Marketing brand name of this brand of Transcendent Knowledge: the Egodeath theory.

Compare the names of the two theory-halves within so-called “relativity” theory:

• the theory of Relativity (Petkov: yuck, no!)
• special relativity (Petkov: yuck, no!)
• Ein. 1907: “Minkowski math is TOO HARD! 😭”
• Ein. 1908: “Minkowski math is CRUCIAL for gen rel”
• 1908: Minkowski dies (bad strategy to become famous).
• general relativity (Petkov: yuck, no!)

By my stds for theory-naming, these are poor names like my poor name “the Core theory”, non-descriptive

• Describing my 1997 theory as Core is a vague, low-value descriptor (even if phase-by-year-cutoff is seemingly clean and useful (fact: i
• In 1997, though i PUBLISHED strictly the core theory spec, I also knew a lot about esotericism analogy eg Rock Lyrics mapping to psychedelic eternalism; eg I was reading all issues of
• Smoley’s Gnosis journalzine (probably no coverage there of mystery religions).
• No Newage bookstore has any mystery religion books.
• The Theosophy bookshop hasn’t any mystery-religion books.
• Describing my 1997 as the Psychedelic Eternalism theory is high-value descriptors.

The theory of Relativity (Petkov hates this and retitled his book to avoid “relative” and advocate “absolute four-dimensional spacetime​”; ABSOLUTE is a rebuttal to RELATIVITY.

As I observed and experienced in the university Modern Physics course, Minkowski is badass and knew that Block-Universe Mysticism is total mind blowing revolutionary.

I Am a Follower of Minkowski, Not a Follower of Einstein

(or Allegro)

Einstein DID NOT inspire me in Jan. 1988. Minkowski inspired me in Jan. 1988. the Egodeath theory does not thank Einstein.

The Egodeath theory thanks Minkowski, in accordance with Petkov’s Intro chapter in Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021).

https://www.amazon.com/Spacetime-Minkowskis-Papers-Physics/dp/1989970435/
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/

Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)

Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics
Vesselin Petkov, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Spacetime-Minkowskis-Papers-Physics/dp/1989970435/ —

Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021), https://www.amazon.com/Spacetime-Minkowskis-Papers-Physics/dp/1989970435/ & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/minkowskis-block-universe-computational-framework/
vp21

• Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Petkov, 2021)
• Announcement: The No-Free-Will Theory of Puppethood Revealed by Psychedelics — whoa, pre April 2025 revision? sarcastic title? check on this page, todo
• The “All At Once” Universe Shatters Our View of Time (Emily Adlam)

Minkowski’s Block Universe: Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics

I am NOT a follower of Einstein.

But then we studied Einstein, and he didn’t grok ramifs of non-branching Block-Universe Mysticism.

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy [TPEMA]

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism

The Psychedelic Eternalism Theory

The Theory of Mytheme Analogy

The Mytheme Analogy Theory

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy

VERY CLEAN!! 🏆

The Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy

Includes my brand name of a brand of Transcendent Knowledge: “the Egodeath theory”.

The Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy [EPM]

Summary: Names of the Component Halves of the Egodeath Theory

the Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy
epm

the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy
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• the Eternalism theory
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• the Mytheme theory
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• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
  tpet
• the Mytheme Analogy theory
  tmat

• the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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• the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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• the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory
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• the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy theory
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• psychedelic eternalism
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• mytheme analogy
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• the theory of psychedelic eternalism
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• the theory of mytheme analogy
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Resolved: Notation Goes in “Technical-type Language”

Assessed/decided:

I had:

• tech
• everyday
• analogy
• [oddball: notation]

Solution:

• Does Notation fit in Everyday Lang? No.

• Does Notation fit in Analogy Lang? Maybe.
  Define “analogy”. broad flexible – can it not include notation? Science uses analogy always and notation always, separating is unreal.

• Does Notation fit in Technical Lang? Yes.

If the 3 buckets are everyday, analogy, & technical, CLEARLY notation fits well as a special thing within Technical Lang.

branching vs. non-branching fits all 3.

The Nesting Problem: The Core Half of the Theory Has Same Name as the Entire Theory (a Natural Shared Emphasis)

• the theory of psychedelic eternalism
  ambig.
  This term 2/3 connotes the entire Egodeath theory.
  This term 1/3 connotes just the core half of the Egodeath theory.
• the theory of mytheme analogy

Simple formatting to show the nesting problem:

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory_{[broad sense]} includes two component theories:
…… the Psychedelic Eternalism theory_{[narrow sense]} – poor at communicating.
…… the Mytheme Analogy theory – good at communicating.

The entire Egodeath theory (“the theory of psychedelic eternalism”) mainly means just one, privileged half: the core half: ie, the theory of psychedelic eternalism, ie, “the Psychedelic Eternalism theory”.

The Mytheme theory brings a LOT of knowledge too; the Core ain’t worth much, without the P R Marketing Communication that’s acccomplished by the Mytheme Analogy theory, as seen so well in 2007 main article interweaving direct terms with analogies from myth:

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/

This is the nesting problem. Naturally, the total entire overall Egodeath theory MOSTLY means the Core theory, which call “the theory of psychedelic eternalism” or “the Psychedelic Eternalism theory”.

The broad term “the theory of psychedelic eternalism” also means / includes the other half: the Mytheme Analogy theory.

The broad term “the Psychedelic Eternalism theory” also means/ includes the other half: “the Mytheme Analogy theory”.

Vague “Core Concepts” Page (Originally a “Glossary”)

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/17/glossary-for-the-egodeath-theory/

Has no Intro.

which Core Concepts? ans:

the core concepts of the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

the core concepts of the Egodeath theory

the core concepts of the theory of psychedelic eternalism
the core concepts of the theory of mytheme analogy
the c c’s of tma ttma ttma the theory of analogy mythemes
ttam – need revsersed, todo:

• the theory of mytheme analogy
  ttma

the core concepts of the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
the core concepts of the Mytheme Analogy theory

• the Mytheme Analogy theory
  tmat

Notes

A myth is an analogy.
Thus the order: Mytheme Analogy, not Analogy Mytheme.

“Analogy Mytheme” reads nonsensically.
“Mytheme Analogy” reads sensibly, b/c a myth is an analogy.

Try Switching from “Analogy Mytheme” to “Mytheme Analogy”

strategy: DONE:

1. find old term “Analogy Mytheme” below. only 2 hits!
2. copy main keyboard shortcuts to here.
3. swap order of words,
4. create new keyboard shortcuts.

• the Mytheme Analogy theory
  the Mytheme Analogy theory

Analogy Mytheme

the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory
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the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy theory
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The Name Nesting Problem

It kind of makes sense (even if awkward) that the name of the overall theory is same as the name of the Core theory: “psychedelic eternalism”.

The complete Egodeath theory, which is the Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism, consists of two sub-theories:

• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
• the Analogy Mytheme theory

The Egodeath theory includes the Psychedelic Eternalism theory & the Analogy Mytheme theory.

Repeat that, now using 1-word terms:

The complete Egodeath theory, which is the Theory of Eternalism, consists of two sub-theories:

• the Eternalism theory
• the Mytheme theory

The Egodeath theory includes the Eternalism theory & the Mytheme theory.

4 Sections: Headings Have 1 Descriptive Word (‘Eternalism’ or ‘Mytheme’)

1-Word Name of the Eternalism (Core) Theory

the Eternalism theory
et

1-Word Name of the Mytheme Theory

the Mytheme theory
mt

2-Word Name of the Eternalism (Core) Theory

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
tpet

2-Word Name of the Mytheme Theory

the Analogy Mytheme theory
tamt

4 Sections: Headings Have 0 Descriptive Words (‘Core’ or ‘Myth’)

1-Word Name of Core Theory

the Eternalism theory
et

1-Word Name of Myth Theory

the Mytheme theory
mt

2-Word Name of Core Theory

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
tpet

2-Word Name of Myth Theory

the Analogy Mytheme theory
tamt

New Names of “the Core theory” & “the Mytheme theory” [those are 1-word names]: the Psychedelic Eternalism theory & the Analogy Mytheme theory”

New Names of “the Core theory” & “the Mytheme theory” [those are 1-word names]: the Psychedelic Eternalism theory & the Analogy Mytheme theory” [those are 2-word names; thus this is CHEATING]

Those are history-focused, history-derived terms, not descriptive of the content.

IS THERE a good 1-word name for the core theory and the myth theory? resort to bad word “cybernetic”?

New 1-Word Name for “the Core theory”: “the Eternalism theory”

New 1-Word Name for “the Mytheme theory”: “the Analogy theory”

• the Eternalism theory
• the Analogy theory

The Egodeath theory consists of the Core theory and the Mytheme theory.

The Egodeath theory consists of the Eternalism theory and the Analogy theory.

the phase 1,

the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

notice the last part says that the entire Egodeath theory = psychedelic eternalism.

but i’m now saying half the Egodeath theory is psychedelic eternalism,
the other half of the Egodeath theory is analogy mytheme.

Hierarchy of Theory Components Names

the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism , contains:

• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
• the Analogy Mytheme theory

awk, often need 1-word names of the two halves of the Egodeath theory:

• the Eternalism theory
  eternalism-thinking ego transcendence cybernetic eternalism
• the cybernetic eternalism theory

I like these 1-word theory-half names:

• the Eternalism theory
  et
• the Mytheme theory
  mt – good, already def’d

todo: define keyboard shortcuts for those 2.

eternalism-thinking
et – current def.
e t h – new def.

possibilism-thinking
pt
pth – defined now

eternalism-thinking

now do pair:

• possibilism-thinking [PTH]
• eternalism-thinking [ETH]

that frees up the new pair of keyboard shortcuts/ acros:

• the Eternalism theory
  [ET]
  = the Core theory 1988/1997 + the 2000/2025, 3-level correction.
• the Mytheme theory
  [MT]

• the Eternalism theory
• the Mytheme theory

starate: strate: 1: define desired new hi-pri keyboard shortcut

2. change the adjacent old keyboard shortcut

• the Eternalism theory (Core)
• the Mytheme theory (Mytheme)

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory [TPET]

tmat

the Analogy Mytheme theory [TAMT]

the Analogy Mytheme theory
a m t

the Analogy Mytheme theory
t a m t

Alas, “pet” is no good of an acro. so, it is T-PET;
so, this acro is T-AMT, to match that.

• tpet
• tamt

or just:
amt

but not:
pet

psychedelic eternalism
pe

analogy mytheme
anmy

• psychedelic eternalism
• analogy mytheme

New Name for the Egodeath Core Theory: the Psychedelic Eternalism theory (Excludes Analogy/ Mythemes)

I often said, the past 2 years:
the Egodeath theory is the theory of psychedelic eternalism
I didn’t dwell, there, on whether Analogy/Myth is included

Analogy/Myth is included in the theory of psychedelic eternalism, as a separate add-on.

Analogy/Myth is included in the Psychedelic Eternalism theory, as a separate add-on

Analogy Mytheme theory is NOT in the core of the Psychedelic Eternalism theory.

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory VERSUS the add-on, [which caused a maturing of the Core]

The Added-on, Mytheme Analogy Theory Forced Improvement of the Core Theory

The Analogy Mytheme theory forced correction of the psychedelic eternalism theory

the theory of psychedelic eternalism

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory

not loving thse new keyboard shortcuts, two

do better parallelism of these 2 keyboard shortcuts

• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
  tpet – curr def’d
  
• the Analogy Mytheme theory
  tamt – added.
  amt

test of [TPET] & [TAMT]:

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory

the Analogy Mytheme theory

• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory (“the Core theory”)
• the Analogy Mytheme theory (“the Mytheme theory)

That’s a better set of 2 keyboard shortcuts. Parallel now, even though longer acro.

The phrase “the Core theory” omits the important, load-carrying words ‘psychedelic eternalism’.

The phrase “the Mytheme theory” omits the important, load-carrying explanatory word ‘analogy’.

Myth is analogy.

Mythic art motifs are analogies describing control transformation etc.

The mere add-on, analogy mytheme, the Analogy Mytheme theory, caused revision of the Egodeath Core theory: the core theory had to stop the “from possibilism to eternalism; get rid of possibilism-thinking ” huge long-lasting error like 1994-2025. Even after Coraxo corrected me from 2- to 3-level to “transcend fate”, I waited to 2025 to stop in any way disparaging possibilism-thinking.

the theory of psychedelic eternalism
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transformation from possibilism to eternalism
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t p e t

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
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Precedent: I’ve already characterized the entire Egodeath theory (but mainly the Core) as “psychedelic eternalism” theory.

i wrote like:

the Egodeath theory (psychedelic eternalism)

When i wrote that, i was thinking, of myth/analogy as an outer layer of that, a distinct outer layer, tacked-on as a sep. thing.

the theory of psychedelic eternalism
tope

• the Egodeath Core theory is the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
• the Egodeath Mytheme theory is the Analogy Mytheme theory

the price to pay for the marketing word “Egodeath” — doesn’t carry much load of descritpive meaning. or explayanatory meaning.

eras:

1985[start], 1988 [core theory born]-1997 [core theory outlined], plus in 2000 & 2025 the 3-phase correction (integrated possibilism/eternalism).

for History purpose, “core” works great. BUT, for content-description purpose, “core” says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Abandon, move away from history focus; it’s confusing, vague, a lost opport, and there are BETTER WORDS WATING WAITING TO COMPETE & DEMONSTRATE THEIR SUPERIOR LOAD-CARRYING STRENGTH.

the Egodeath Mytheme theory
BUT LATELY I EMPHASIZE ANALOGY, NOT MYTHTHEME;
i emph myth AS analogy.
thus the two words: Analogy Mytheme;

analogy mytheme
anmy

the Analogy Mytheme theory
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the theory of analogy mythemes
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the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory
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• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
  tpet
• the Analogy Mytheme theory
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so:

• the Psychedelic Eternalism theory
• the Analogy Mytheme theory

i often lately say the Egodeath theory = the theory of psychedelic eternalism – when i say that, i’m thinking of mytheme analogies too.

define:

The Egodeath Core theory (1988/1997) is psychedelic eternalism without analogy/ myth/ mythic art.

(Core had some adjustments, really 1 adjustment w/ 2 examples:

• 2000: Coraxo corrected my core theory:
  Classical Antiquity = 2-level change from possibilism to eternalism [handled by my 1997 core theory outline; BUT:
  Late Antiquity = 3-level: from basic possibilism, to basic eternalism; to integrated possibilism/eternalism (= “transcend no-free-will/ heimarmene“).
• 2025/04: 2POV; marry don’t kill branching thinking​.

The 2000 correction and the 2025 correction BOTH are the same fix of same flaw: in both cases, I tried to do a binary toggle, from possibilism to eternalism as if exclusive and not summed/ cumulative.

The mind is actually cumulative:

Adding Eternalism causes qualifying of Possibilism – NOT “getting rid of” Possibilism!

• End up with not just eternalism (I shape).
• End up not just same possibilism now w/ eternalism added (YI shape).
• End up actually with eternalism added and with possibilism QUALIFIED
  (Y’I shape).

the Analogy Mytheme theory (1998-2026)

Need Better Name than “the Cybernetic Core theory”

the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism Theory
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the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory
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‘Cybernetic’ Is Too Technical

non-analogy.

direct modelling.

control transformation.

psychedelic

eternalism

not:

• analogical psychedelic eternalism
• analogical psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

rather:

• psychedelic eternalism
• psychedelic eternalism with dependent control

the theory of psychedelic eternalism
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theory of psychedelic eternalism

rename

within the Egodeath theory, rename the main sub-theory (1988/1997) from

the Cybernetic Core theory

to:

the theory of psychedelic eternalism

the Psychedelic Eternalism theory

the “Psychedelic Eternalism with Dependent Control” theory

omits 2-level, dependent control – ok, we already estab’d that:

when only have 1 word, use ‘eternalism’

when 2 words, use eternalism + “control”:

• eternalism with dependent control
• eternalism & 2-level, dependent control
• eternalism & dependent control

omits analogy (good)

‘Core’ Is Too Vague

Looking for More Load-Carrying, Descriptor Term than “Core”; eg. “eternalism”, “psychedelic””

“cybernetic” sucks: Need better term than “the Cybernetic Core theory”: ‘cybernetic’ is too technical, & ‘Core’ is too vauge

Title’s Names of the Two Theories

the Cybernetic Core theory within the Egodeath theory
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the Analogy Mytheme theory within the Egodeath theory
keyboard shortcut
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Great Terms Derived from Titling this Page in Summary.

Longer Names from Expanded Title

the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism
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Longer expansions are easy to truncate case-by-case.

If too often truncating the expansion, then define a shorter version, and revise keyboard shortcuts (acroynms) as needed.

Short Names of the Two Theories

the Cybernetic theory
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the Mytheme theory
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Medium-Length Names of the Two Theories

the Egodeath Cybernetic theory
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the Egodeath Mytheme theory
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Long Names of the Two Theories

the Cybernetic, Core theory portion of the Egodeath theory; direct model of eternalism-driven control-transformation
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the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies describing eternalism-driven control-transformation
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The Two Halves of the Egodeath theory Mutually Corroborate and Confirm Each Other (“It’s Circular! 😭” )

Sharday Mosurinjohn is wrong if she attributes (she’s so briffilaint, attachking their motivations, presentsed as her big-brain much-needed analysis that is SO helpful to the field of entheogen scholarship

She claims that the bunk motives are to try to find psychedelics in Western religious history in order to bolster brand new NRMs by FANTASIZING psychedelics in Western religious history, which this PUNK Shardog in 7th grade GIRLISH namecalling fashion, SMEARS Rogan/ Ruck/ Muraresku as “colonialist violence” and “religious fundamentalism”.

Rude AF Newcomer Shardog 🤬🖕🐶 Mosurinjohn, Enters the Field We Created, Fists Randomly Swinging – and a Train of Morons Following Behind Her

& Huggins whose POS Article She Mutely Cites as if Substantive Arg’n

Richard Asscough Misreps my 2006 Plaincourault fresco article to accommplish his preset goal of Discrediting entheogen scholarship via Allegro’s Linguistic Basis.

First of all, a general F*CK YOU SHARDOG 🤬🖕🐶 from every journal that trashcanned this smear piece hit job by Mosurinjohn & Ascough opportunitist self-promotoer butthead anything-but-drugs academics

Rude, Mean & Ignorant HYPOCRITE Shardog Is Writing a Book Asserting Psychedelics in Western Religious History (Western Esotericism)

but YOU Are Doing “Colonialist Violence” and “Religious Fundamentalism” When You Did That, Long Before Her

Incoherent Kettle Logic & Self-Contradiction from anything-but-drugs academics Buffoons Mosurinjohn & Ascough

Meanwhile, HYPOCRITE Shardog proceeds to write HER book asserting psychedelics in Western religious history.

SOMEHOW SHE IS EXEMPT from her CHEAP and anti-shcolarly, punk namecalling.

The most opposite of academic scholarship is found and is genereated from within the field of entheogen scholarship.

How did these CHURLISH, CRUDE anything-but-drugs academics get into the door? Rude! Stupid, wrong, faceplant is the result.

Will she retract her IGNORANT BILE? Did she read the 7 most important documents in the field?

1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm):

The Most Important Documents in Entheogen Scholarship about Mushroom Imagery in Christian art

• The mushroom-tree of Plaincourault (Giorgio Samorini, 1997) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam%20plaincourault.pdf
• “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Giorgio Samorini, 1998) https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam-alberifungo-1998.pdf & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/
• Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise (Hoffman, Ruck & Staples, Entheos 1, 2001), https://entheomedia.net/Issue%20one.htm, https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-Issue-1
• The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2016), https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/01/22/the-psychedelic-gospels-brown-2016/ & https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620555026
• Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels (Jerry Brown & Julie Brown, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.019
• Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita (Hoffman, 2006), http://egodeath.com/WassonEdenTree.htm
• The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/

Intro

NOT that:

• Dionysus = the Mytheme theory
• Ariadne = the Cybernetic theory (Core theory)

Rather, the image is proof of Myth forcing me to revise Core theory.

Two instances where Myth (my work developing the Mytheme theory) caused me to revise the Core theory:

In 2000, Myth (Gnosticism) Revised the Core Theory: 2-Phase vs. 3-Phase Models of Psychedelic Transformation

2000

in Gnosticism Yahoo Group, Coraxo found error in my simple 2-phase model, “desire to end up w/ Fate/ eternalism”.

That’s true of Classical Antiquity but false of Late Antiquity.

Thanks Cyberdisciple for help on the periodization name-pair, “Classical Antiquity vs. Late Antiquity”.

• Classical Antiquity = 2-phase: mental model transformation from possibilism to eternalism.
• Late Antiquity = 3-phase: transcend heimarmene, ie do sequence: possibilism-thinking; then eternalism-thinking; then integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking. Y, then I, then YI. Lower hand: Y-then-I; upper hand of a medieval hand-pair: YI, or Y’I. per von Trimberg scanned bottom to top, by the Manesse Codex artist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Manesse –

Late Antiquity moved to a 3-phase model: possibilism-thinking; eternalism-thinking; integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking =

integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking = “transcend heimarmene”.

In 2025, Myth Revised the Core Theory: Embrace and Include Possibilism-Thinking; Marry the 2POV Like Dionysus Weds Ariadne

2025 – Stop disparaging possibilism-thinking!

I keep being shown by the gods, by the muses, by Saraswati, that the mind ALWAYS includes using possibilism-thinking , but, now have a higher vantage point in altered-state, to SEE the possibilism-thinking (Isaac) going on.

Do not “get rid of” Isaac; qualify him.

Then my church founder Aug 2025 gave sermon on Alan Moore block-universe eternalism comic book novels, which pushed me over hump to finish my church Reader article

Though bizarrely I have to add “block” (somehow missing?!)

Now with that article, finally I have presented a BALANCED HARMONIZED view.

You shoulda been there when I told Debunker Rick that I am harmonizing branching multiverse physics with Minkowski absolute four-dimensional spacetime​ / “relativity”.

Rick misread momentarily me and thought I was advocating branching Quantum Mysticism against non-branching Block-Universe Mysticism.

He showed me internet research which 100%, more than expected, corrob’d

• my hatred for branching Quantum Mysticism since 1988, &
• my 1997/2001 first posts at Egodeath Yahoo Group talking about stupid branching vs smart non-branching IN PHYSICS (but failed yet to connect branching vs. non-branching IN MYTH/ mythic art: that started w/ snake then tree around 2002-2004).

The Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic, provided by the Egodeath community ~2005, made me revise my 1988-1997 Core Cybernetic theory in 2025, to stop my long-standing since 1995 mistaken expectation of “get rid of possibilism-thinking”.

Per emails with wrmspirit in April 2025. To solve big problem, How am I going to sell “no-free-will” to my church?

Ans: Do not get rid of freewill thinking. egoic freewill thinking (albeit qualified) is standard for the possibilism state of consciousness and is used 24 x 7 x 365 even during peak state of loose cognition.

Possessed by My Patron God Dionysus in 1987

Besides Michael the Archangel, my patron god is Dionysus b/c in Fall 1986-Spring 1987 dorm room of awesomeness, I felt as if possessed by eg Dionysus.

Notes

the Core, Cybernetic theory
ccct – a ‘c’ for comma

I have had to get fast at swapping and redefining the acronyms / keyboard shortcuts. = core concepts.

the Egodeath Core Concepts catalog
ccc

next episode of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast by Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple & Alan Houot & Michael Hoffman promises to cover:

• the Mytheme theory
  • psychedelic cognitive phenomenology done right

cognitive phenomenology
cp

psychedelic cognitive phenomenology
pcp

Alan Houot
ah

The Core Theory vs. the Mytheme Theory: Need Better Concept-Labels, Core Concept Keyboard Shortcuts/ Acronyms – done 😓

Finished, at 10:50 Feb. 10, 2026.

I now have updated, useful short/med/long terms for “the Core theory” (ie the Cybernetic theory, which is more directly descriptive & less relational-contrast dependent) & “the Mytheme theory”.

Short Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Cybernetic theory & the Mytheme theory

the Cybernetic theory
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the Mytheme theory
mt

Medium-length Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Egodeath Cybernetic theory & the Egodeath Mytheme theory

the Egodeath Cybernetic theory
ect

the Egodeath Mytheme theory
emt

Long Core-Concept Labels/Acronyms: the Cybernetic theory blah blah & the Mytheme theory blah blah

the Cybernetic, Core theory portion of the Egodeath theory; lacking analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
ctl

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

Notes about the Need to redo keyboard shortcuts

Fallback: verbose/clumsy articulate phrases for the Egodeath Core theory (defined by Feb. 1997 outline) vs. the Egodeath Mytheme theory (well-articulated in Sep. 2007 main article, but, lacking: YI/ handedness/ branching vs. non-branching).

When did “the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation” become mature?

I still need my personally meaningful phrases:

• the Core theory
• the Mytheme theory

or maybe:

• the Egodeath Core theory
  the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
• the Egodeath Mytheme theory

Notes re: short terms the Cybernetic theory / the Mytheme theory

the Cybernetic theory
ct

= phase 1 1985-1997 = the Core theory of the Egodeath theory

The CORE did change due to mytheme research: eg in mid 2025, when I stopped “get rid of possibilism-thinking”, and changed to integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking. two different points of view, two different mental models = 2POV.

like Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dionysusmosaichires-branch.jpg

the Mytheme theory
mt

= phase 2 1998-2026

Notes Developing Long Expansions of Core / Myth theory names

the Cybernetic theory blah blah blah
ctl
todo: build out expansion, with points eg:

• core theory (not analogies/ peripheral/ myth/ art)
• phase 1; 1985-1997
• lacks analogy/ myth/ history eg the ahistoricity of religious founder figures
• That period includes Rock lyrics, as first decoded (mapped as analogies describing psychedelic eternalism) in 1989-1992.

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

straegy to construct long version of the Cybernetic theory phrase:

copy/paste/modify the long mytheme phrase:

the Cybernetic, Core theory portion of the Egodeath theory; lacking analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
c t l

Developing Short Terms for “the Cybernetic theory” (or, “the Core theory”, vaguely) & “the Mytheme theory”

the Cybernetic theory
ct

the Mytheme theory
mt

Long Terms for “the Cybernetic theory” (or, “the Core theory”, vaguely) & “the Mytheme theory”‘

the Cybernetic theory blah blah blah
ctl

old:
the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
ctet

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

the Egodeath Core theory
ect

the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
ectl

ctl -wtf no expand??

the Mytheme theory

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
m t l

eternalism theory of mental transformation
e m t – inconsis w/: e c t or e c t l

expect shortcuts:

e c t = egodeath core theory
the Egodeath Core theory
ect

the Egodeath community
edcy

the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
e c t l

e m t =
the Egodeath Mytheme theory
emt

eternalism theory of mental transformation
etmt

the Egodeath Mytheme theory
emtl

and:

the Mytheme theory
mt

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

c t – core theory — c t now = the Cybernetic theory
the Cybernetic theory

c t l – core theory long
the Cybernetic Core theory
the Core, Cybernetic theory
c t l = ctl

“core” is an indirect descriptor. Core vs Mytheme (pereiph)

bad as bad term would:

the Peripheral theory
vs.
the Core theory

the Egodeath Peripheral theory – true but dumb.
= the Mytheme theory; the Egodeath Mytheme theory

want both with and w/o “egodeath”:

the Egodeath Core theory – bad: “Core” vague (only make sense when list both of the two theories: Direct Core & Analogy Periphery; the word “Cybernetic” is better than “Core” if only have 1 word.
ect = the Egodeath Core theory = bad, change to “Cybernetic”

the Egodeath Cybernetic theory [core; phase 1, non-analogy]
ect

the Egodeath Mytheme theory
emt

the Cybernetic theory
ct

tcct

the Core, Cybernetic theory
cct

the Cybernetic theory blah blah blah
ctl avail
i reserved the keyboard shortcut / acro this way

• psychedelic
• altered-state
• eternalism
• cybernetic
• monolithic, autonomous control
• 2-level, dependent control
• analogical vs. literalism; mytheme = analogy

The Core, Cybernetic theory omits analogy/ mythemes.

The Mytheme theory covers analogy/ mythemes; it’s built on and cross-reifying the Core, Cybernetic theory.

the Core theory | the Cybernetic theory | the Cybernetic Core theory, Phase 1 1985-1997

the Mytheme theory , Phase 2 1998-2026

How the Mytheme theory Finally Caused Revision (Reshaping) of the Core theory

Mythic Art Made Me Stop Trying to Abandon and Disparage as “Childish Delusion to Sacrifice”

keyboard shortcut redo:
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/dionysus-ariadne-chariot.jpg

Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/dionysus-ariadne-chariot.jpg
dvp

copied new crop to:
Ariadne Holds Branching Branch in Left Hand, Dionysus Holds Non-Branching Spear in Right Hand – OFFICIAL PAGE FOR DIONYSUS pics

Thank You King Theseus, the God Dionysus, and the Mortal Heroine Ariadne

See also:

• 2 POVs Married: End Up Permanently Having Two Vantage Points of View, Across Both States of Consciousness

Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic
dvp

the orig d v p keyboard shortcut sucked: the jpg url image cut off to only bottom of spear; redid keyboard shortcut to include jpg url for bigger crop [done, Feb. 10, 2026]

https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dionysusmosaichires-branch.jpg

Harmonizing/integration of possibilism & eternalism thinking

Affirming YI (two states = two models).

The mind learns and retains the 24 x 7 x 365 use of both ordinary-state possibilism & altered-state eternalism, conjoined in one mind.

The completed initiated mind ends up with two different states (experiential modes) & world models of time, possibility, & control.

This means you can shake fist at God and confidently enter high dose.

NO.

Learn the fear of God, profound implic that God can make you do anything as God is making ppl want all kinds of terrible things.

This is the psychotomimetic revelation: the more inspired your thinking, the more unstable and vulnerable. Why did the mushroom-tree religion decline in 1300?

Why does Manesse ditch {mushroom} motif and go nuts with the {YI hand shape} motif instead?

b/c mushroom revelation is: full enlightenment = full unstable vulnerability.

That’s not my final idea; it’s tentative/recent. Past 4 months. Now Feb. 10, 2026.

YI hand shapes
yhs

The “Mytheme” Conception in Strauss’ Structuralism Is Inferior to the Mytheme Theory within the Egodeath theory

My Mytheme theory: I do NOT mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytheme

My usage fits ok w/ that, but, just as several writers have their own brand of “mytheme theory”, i mean, the EGODEATH THEORY’s version of the Mytheme theory, NOT Strauss’s network of meanings.

Even stupid ideas like “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” would be ok concept if done right, per the Egodeath theory.

Blame for that stupid Pop idea of “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” originates with Wasson/ Allegro/ Ruck.

Weed out this god-forsaken stupid fkking idea, “Secret Christian Amanita Cult”, from infesting the field of entheogen scholarship.

social drama narrative wags entheogen scholarship dog

“The big bad church got rid of entheogens, as proved by all the entheogen mushroom imagery in Christian art”.

I give Ruck yet more evidence of mushroom imagery in Christian art BUT he responds as always:

Thank you for yet more evidence of mushrooms in HERETICAL Christianity.

thus Ruck NEUTRALIZES the evidence at the same time as delivering it.

Ruck shows that the mushrooms in mushroom imagery in Christian art DOESN’T COUNT, because it was “HERETICAL” and “Suppressed”; it’s merely an ALIEN INFILTRATION into the very heart of Christianity.

By Ruck’s perverse attitude and framing: (the minimal/moderate entheogen theory of religion)

keyboard shortcut

the minimal/moderate entheogen theory of religion
below is better:

the Moderate (= Minimal) entheogen theory of religion
mmetr

Ruck’s Perverse, defeatist, Prohibition-compliant, social drama narrative Constructs the Moderate (= Minimal) entheogen theory of religion

Shardog Mosurinjohn gets it all wrong. “entheogen scholars try to validate their NRM via hallucinated history doggedly pursued in vain”

No, Ruck does NOT have that motive. Ruck’s mission (following Allegro) is to defame Christianity, through abusing the field of entheogen scholarship: convert each mushroom imagery in Christian art into “Christianity sucks because it got rid of this mushroom imagery in Christian art”

Ruck OUGHT to say, with maximal entheogen theory of religion:

“Christianity is cool, b/c it contains all this mushroom imagery in Christian art.” Like 2nd-generation entheogen scholarship (the Explicit Psilocybin paradigm) (

• Samorini
• Ruck – momentary half-right attitude in Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise
• Michael Hoffman,
• Jerry Brown.

Ruck – momentary Ruck sometimes in Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise

But then in Apples of Apollo book, they reverted back to the main narrative: suppression & titillation, Amanita is the engine of all Mystery Religions

At which point in 2002/2003 I posted F this S, I part with this LAME trajectory, I take the [2016 Brown] approach:

The maximal entheogen theory of religion.

The copious mushroom imagery in Christian art does NOT “neutralize” mushroom imagery within Christianity; it BOLSTERS it.

See John Rush’s intense contradiction on back of book cover. I color-hilited his contradictions, at this site. Conflict of interest within 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm) causes the misguided, 1st-gen entheogen scholars to not want to find “TOO MUCH mushroom imagery” in Christian art in Great Canterbury Psalter.

Allegro-Ruck-Rush Fears Finding “Too Many Mushrooms” in Christian art

Allegro-Ruck-Rush has a restrictive conflict of interest, because for him, holding up the social drama narrative takes precedence (wrong priorities mixed up) over the presence of mushroom imagery in Christian art.

Ruck BOTH wants to find mushroom imagery in Christian art, AND, BUT, intensely desires what Andy Letcher mocks on p. 35 of Shroom:

“Various writers have suggested cult, secretly, oppression, hidden, secret cult, surreptitiously slipped in”
vws

Photos of my Shroom book:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/11/letchers-false-citation-various-writers-have-suggested-cult-secretly-oppression-hidden-secret-cult-for-example-stamets-gartz/#Page-35

How I Found My Photos of Letcher’s Book Shroom

What page at this site has book pics? See new Letcher section in site map:
https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Andy-Letcher

Search for: “Various writers have suggested”
https://egodeaththeory.org/?s=%22Various+writers+have+suggested%22

Letcher book photos are probably in:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/11/letchers-false-citation-various-writers-have-suggested-cult-secretly-oppression-hidden-secret-cult-for-example-stamets-gartz/

Ruck: “Thank you for yet more evidence of mushroom imagery in HERETICAL Christian art, proving that Christianity 100% eliminated mushrooms”

The Allegro-Ruck Foregrounding of their social drama narrative wags the entheogen scholarship dog, causing blindness to evidence and failure to perceive the mushroom-tree religion within MAINSTREAM Christianity

See end of Brown 2016 book & 2019 article, emph’g Mainstream Christianity having mushrooms – and trashcanning the Allegro/Ruck 1st-generation entheogen scholarship (the Secret Amanita paradigm).

The fact that mushroom heresy penetrated into the heart of Christianity, shows the total removal and compelte absense of mushrooms from mainstream normal proper actual Christianity.

Over-emph on conjectured social drama narrative prevents recognizing add’l mushroom imagery.

The Egodeath theory’s equiv of social drama narrative: the artists initiation guild w/ psilocybin lockbox teaching {mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs.

the “Secret Christian Amanita Cult” idea, including “the big bad church got rid of entheogens, as proved by all the entheogen mushroom imagery in Christian art”) social drama narrative, is poison ergot contaminating the field of entheogen scholarship.

THE PROBLEM OF ALIEN LEXICON, “MYTHEME”. Myth theme. Tainted, LOADED with HIS network of meanings not MINE.

Structuralism is stupid. If done wrong.

Their Alien Lexicon Would Be OK If Done the Right Way

I DO STRUCTURALISM THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO MYTHEME THEORY THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO COMMON-CORE MYSTICISM AND PERENNIALISM THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO EGO DISSOLUTION THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO DMN THE CORRECT WAY.

I DO RELIGIOUS MYTH INTERP THE CORRECT WAY.

Related core concepts

core concept
c-c

control cancellation
cc

the Core, Cybernetic theory
cct

cybernetic control transformation
ccx

Short version of “the Core theory” (or, “the Cybernetic theory”) concept-label

the Egodeath Core theory
ect

the Cybernetic eternalism theory
cet

the Cybernetic theory
ct

the Mytheme theory
mt

Long version of “the Core theory” (or, “the Cybernetic theory”) concept-label

the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
ectl

problem: lately I re-emphasize:

“eternalism” (as an experiential mode) is specifically, emphatically psychedelic eternalism; altered-state eternalism; loose cognition.

“possibilism” (as an experiential mode) is specifically, emphatically ordinary-state possibilism; tight cognition.

Short version of “the Mytheme theory” concept-label

the Mytheme theory
mt

Long version of “the Mytheme theory” concept-label

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

Wiki Crazy Person Said “Ego death” is not a proper encylopedia entry, should be [stupid term everyone rejected] – but Canterbury Says {death} Is the Right Motif

The person used the phrase “ego dissolution” way back in 2005?

Great Canterbury Psalter Vindicates the Ego “Death” Ossuary Motif Analogy.

“Ego death” is too colloquial and debatable and arbitrary – says 1 of 100 ppl, against the other 99 ppl.

Great Canterbury Psalter says u r full of it. Great Canterbury Psalter is packed with the “psilocybin = ego DEATH” motif. eg

• {rock ossuary} motif.
• Threatened by blades of DEATH.
• Lifted up from passive DEAD state.
• Resurrected from a DEATH state.

Proving us 99% of wikipedians correct, against the fool who pooh-poohed the term “ego death”.

I can provide wiki url where some fool tried to nuke the wiki title “Ego death” – did he try to rename the article to “Ego dissolution” way back in 2005?

AI Accidental Query: “define Core Theory vs. Mytheme Theory”

“define Core Theory vs. Mytheme Theory”

AI ans:

“Mytheme Theory (specifically structuralist) and various “core” approaches to myth analysis (like functionalism or archetypal analysis) differ primarily in their focus on structure vs. content, and universal cognitive patterns vs. universal social functions. 

Mytheme Theory (developed by Claude Lévi-Strauss) treats myths as language, breaking them down into minimal, irreducible units of meaning (mythemes) that are organized into binary oppositions to reveal universal structures of human thought. 

Core Theories (often referring to functionalism, archetype, or thematic analysis) focus on identifying the “core” message, social purpose, or recurring, universal motifs that satisfy human psychological or social needs.”

Core vs. Mytheme Theory: Names of Sub-Theories; Theory-Portions; Component Theories

the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
ectl

the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
mtl

Those are temp placeholders, haven’t figured the best concept-labels yet.

Related lexicon terms:

the Cybernetic theory
ct

the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
ctet

Motive

Transcendent Knowledge Podcast About the Phase 1, Cybernetic Core theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

Max Freakout & Cyberdisciple etc need useful standard terms

soon episode Transcendent Knowledge Podcast on summarizing the Mytheme theory. need straight out concept-labels/ names of the 2 parts of the theory.

They covered summary of https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/#Episode-28
Episode 28, March 29, 2021 – Basics of Phase 1, Core Egodeath Theory (Psychedelic Eternalism & Control Transformation)
Video title:
Transcendent Knowledge Podcast Episode 28
Ch:max freakout
Uploaded: Mar 29, 2021

“In this episode, Max and Cyber explain the core, phase 1 part of the ego death theory. [good: today’s work fits w/ that]

“Topics covered include:

• Mental modelling
• The egoic and transcendent mental worldmodels
• States of consciousness, ordinary and altered
• Stages of psychospiritual development
• Tight and loose cognitive association binding, dissociation
• Mental representations and their referents
• Metaperception, explicit representationalism
• Conceptions of person-hood
• Cybernetic homunculus, control agency
• Time as the 4th spatial dimension, time-slices and timelessness
• Popular attitudes and misperceptions about ego death
• Cybernetic instability, control-death
• Fatedness and its transcendence
• The will to exist in Schopenhauer’s philosophy
• Postulating higher control, humble prayer
• Helpless dependence on higher control, Schleiermacher’s theology
• Struggling to control the future, panic-attack freakout
• Physical metabolism and thought-processes

Next Episode of Transcendent Knowledge Podcast: cognitive phenomenology, & the Phase 2, Analogy Mytheme theory, within the Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism

Planned panelists:

• Alan Houot
• Max Freakout
• Cyberdisciple
• Michael Hoffman

Titles of this Page

Page title was:

Names of the Phase 1, Psychedelic Eternalism Theory & the Phase 2, Mytheme Analogy Theory, within the Egodeath Theory

then was:

The Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy

latest:

The Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy

See Also

https://egodeaththeory.org/2020/11/07/transcendent-knowledge-podcast-episodes/#Episode-28

• 2 POVs Married: End Up Permanently Having Two Vantage Points of View, Across Both States of Consciousness
• Names of Component Theories of Egodeath Theory
  https://egodeaththeory.org/2021/01/08/names-of-component-theories-of-egodeath-theory/
• Theory Names: The Egodeath Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism & Mytheme Analogy (the present page)
  https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/10/names-of-the-phase-1-cybernetic-core-theory-the-phase-2-analogy-mytheme-theory-within-the-egodeath-theory/

Michael Hoffman 11:00 p.m. Feb. 9, 2026

Contents:

some links work on mobile; links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Scope of Page: Manesse Codex Images and Detail Crops
• Complete Book
  • Pictures of Poets
  • Wikipedia Article
• The Codex Manesse (YI Hand-Shape Fest) Was Painted by “the Master of the Codex Manesse”; “the Foundation Master”; “the anonymous artists of the Codex Manesse”
  • Query: Who painted the Codex Manesse? Will I need to say “the Codex Manesse painter” or can I give a person’s name?
• Hold Hands at Bell Tower, folio 371r
  • The Two Hands in Holding Hands
  • Hold Hands at Bell Tower: YI Hand Shapes
  • Hand with 5 Fingers
• von Trimberg, folio 355r
• von Trimberg, Complete Image, Linked Embed
• von Trimberg, Head and Jewish Handle Hat
• von Trimberg: Four Figures
  • von Trimberg Figure
• von Trimberg Torso
• von Trimberg Torso Tight Crop
• von Trimberg, Upper Part of Figures 3 & 4
• von Trimberg, 4 Pairs of Hands
  • von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 1
  • von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 2
  • von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 3
  • von Trimberg Figure 3’s Hands-Pair: Lower Hand and Upper Hand Are Inverse: YI’ vs. Y’I
  • von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 4
• von Trimberg: Each Hand Isolated
  • Person 1, Upper Hand: IY
  • Person 1, Lower Hand: IY
  • Person 2, Upper Hand: Y’I
  • Person 2, Lower Hand: Y
  • Person 3, Upper Hand: IY’
  • Person 3, Lower Hand: YI’
  • Person 4, Upper Hand: YI
  • Person 4, Lower Hand: YI
• Motivation for this Page
• Rule: The Integrated Sequence from Lower to Upper Hand Is More Important than Isolated YI Shape of Lower or Upper Hand
• See Also

Scope of Page: Manesse Codex Images and Detail Crops

Complete Book

https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848

Pictures of Poets

• Besitzeintrag
• 4v Register
• 6r Kaiser Heinrich
• 7r König Konrad der Junge
• 8r König Tyro von Schotten
• 10r König Wenzel von Böhmen
• 11v Herzog Heinrich von Breslau
• 13r Markgraf Otto von Brandenburg
• 14v Markgraf Heinrich von Meißen
• 17r Der Herzog von Anhalt
• 18r Herzog Johann von Brabant
• 20r Graf Rudolf von Neuenburg
• 22v Graf Kraft von Toggenburg
• 24r Graf Konrad von Kirchberg
• 26r Graf Friedrich von Leiningen
• 27r Graf Otto von Botenlauben
• 29r Der Markgraf von Hohenburg
• 30r Herr Heinrich von Veldeke
• 32v Herr Gottfried von Neifen
• 42r Graf Albrecht von Heigerloch
• 43v Graf Wernher von Homberg
• 46v Herr Jakob von Warte
• 48v Bruder Eberhard von Sax
• 52r Herr Walther von Klingen
• 54r Herr Rudolf von Rotenburg
• 59v Herr Heinrich von Sax
• 61v Herr Heinrich von Frauenberg
• 63r Der von Kürenberg
• 64r Herr Dietmar von Ast
• 66v Der von Gliers
• 69r Herr Wernher von Teufen
• 70v Herr Heinrich von Stretlingen
• 71v Herr Kristan von Hamle
• 73r Herr Ulrich von Gutenburg
• 75v Herr Heinrich von der Mure
• 76v Herr Heinrich von Morungen
• 82v Der Schenk von Limpurg
• 84v Schenk Ulrich von Winterstetten
• 98r Herr Reinmar der Alte
• 110r Herr Birkart von Hohenfels
• 113v Herr Hesso von Reinach
• 115r Der Burggraf von Lienz
• 116v Herr Friedrich von Hausen
• 119v Der Burggraf von Rietenburg
• 120v Herr Meinloh von Sevelingen
• 122r Herr Heinrich von Rugge
• 124r Herr Walther von der Vogelweide
• 146r Herr Hiltbold von Schwangau
• 149v Herr Wolfram von Eschenbach
• 151r Von Singenberg, Truchseß zu St. Gallen
• 158r Der von Sachsendorf
• 160v Wachsmut von Künzingen
• 162v Herr Wilhelm von Heinzenburg
• 164v Herr Leuthold von Seven
• 166v Herr Walther von Metze
• 169v Herr Rubin
• 178r Herr Bernger von Horheim
• 179v Der von Johansdorf
• 181v Herr Engelhardt von Adelnburg
• 182v Herr Bligger von Steinach
• 183v Herr Wachsmut von Mühlhausen
• 184v Herr Hartmann von Aue
• 188r Herr Reinmar von Brennenberg
• 190v Johann von Ringgenberg
• 192v Albrecht Marschall von Rapperswil
• 194r Herr Otto vom Turne
• 196r ohne Namen
• 197v Herr Goesli von Ehenhein
• 201r Der von Wildonie
• 202v Von Suonegge
• 204r Von Scharpfenberg
• 205r Herr Konrad, der Schenk von Landeck
• 213r Der Winsbeke
• 217r Die Winsbekin
• 219v Klingsor von Ungarland
• 226v Kristan von Luppin, eine Thüring
• 228r Herr Heinrich Hetzbold von Weißensee
• 229v Der Düring
• 231r Winli
• 237r Herr Ulrich von Lichtenstein
• 247v Von Munegiur
• 248v Von Raute
• 249v Herr Konrad von Altstetten
• 251r Herr Bruno von Hornberg
• 252r Herr Hug von Werbenwag
• 253v Der Püller
• 255r Von Trostberg
• 256v Hartmann von Starkenberg
• 257v Von Stadegge
• 258v Herr Brunwart von Augheim
• 261r Von Stamheim
• 262v Herr Goeli
• 264r Der Tannhäuser
• 271r Von Buchheim
• 273r Herr Neidhart
• 281v Meister Heinrich Teschler
• 285r Rost, Kirchherr zu Sarnen
• 290r Der Hardegger
• 292v Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen
• 295r Walther von Breisach
• 299r Von Wissenlo
• 300r Von Wengen
• 302r Herr Pfeffel
• 303r Der Taler
• 305r Der tugendhafte Schreiber
• 308v Steinmar
• 311r Herr Alram von Gresten
• 312r Herr Reinmar der Fiedler
• 313r Herr Hawart
• 314v Herr Günther von dem Vorste
• 316v Herr Friedrich der Knecht
• 318r Der Burggraf von Regensburg
• 319r Herr Niune
• 320v Herr Geltar
• 321v Herr Dietmar der Setzer
• 323r Herr Reinmar von Zweter
• 339r Der Junge Meißner
• 342r Der Alte Meißner
• 342v Von Obernburg
• 344v Bruder Wernher
• 349r Der Marner
• 355r Süßkind, der Jude von Trimberg <– von Trimberg, 355r
• 358r Gast
• 359r Von Buwenburg
• 361r Heinrich von Tettingen
• 362r Rudolf der Schreiber
• 364r Meister Gottfried von Straßburg
• 371r Meister Johannes Hadlaub <– Hadlaub, 371r
• 381r Regenbogen
• 383r Meister Konrad von Würzburg
• 394r Kunz von Rosenheim
• 395r Rubin von Rüdeger
• 396r Der Kol von Nüssen
• 397v Der Dürner
• 399r Meister Heinrich Frauenlob
• 407r Meister Friedrich von Sonnenburg
• 410r Meister Sigeher
• 412r Der wilde Alexander
• 413v Meister Rumslant
• 415v Spervogel
• 418r Boppe
• 422r Der Litschauer
• 423v Der Kanzler
• Neuzeitliches Register
• Einband
• Maßstab/Farbkeil

Wikipedia Article

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Manesse#External_links

The Codex Manesse (YI Hand-Shape Fest) Was Painted by “the Master of the Codex Manesse”; “the Foundation Master”; “the anonymous artists of the Codex Manesse”

Query: Who painted the Codex Manesse? Will I need to say “the Codex Manesse painter” or can I give a person’s name?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Who+painted+the+Codex+Manesse%3F+Will+I+need+to+say+%22the+Codex+Manesse+painter%22+or+can+I+give+a+person%27s+name%3F&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS780US780&oq=Who+painted+the+Codex+Manesse%3F++Will+I+need+to+say+%22the+Codex+Manesse+painter%22+or+can+I+give+a+person%27s+name%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57.26559j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

AI Ans:

“he Codex Manesse (also known as the Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift) was not painted by a single, named individual.

“It was illustrated by at least four anonymous artists in Zurich between approximately 1305 and 1340.

“Because the artists are unknown, you should refer to them as “the Master of the Codex Manesse” or “the Foundation Master”.

“The Foundation Master (Grundstockmaler): This primary artist is credited with 110 of the 137 full-page illuminations.

“Additional Painters: The remaining portraits were created by at least three other, later artists.

“How to Refer to the Artist:

“You should not give a specific personal name (like a single painter’s proper name), as the artists are only known by their stylistic, descriptive names (e.g., “The Master of the Codex Manesse” or “The Foundation Master”).

“Best terminology: “The Master of the Codex Manesse” or “The anonymous artists of the Codex Manesse.”

“Context: The manuscript was commissioned by the Manesse family of Zurich, and the paintings depict 140 different poets.”

Hold Hands at Bell Tower, folio 371r

Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 371r, bottom panel shows Meister Johannes Hadlaub handing a Liederhandschrift to Elisabeth of Wetzikon

The Two Hands in Holding Hands

Features:

• upper hand: IY
• lower hand: Y’I

Meaning:

• The mind starts with Y, ends up with Y & I [the upper hand];
• or, more actually/ accurately,
  end up with Y’ & I [the lower hand];
  end up with the I-shaped model & the qualified Y-shaped model.

Hold Hands at Bell Tower: YI Hand Shapes

Hand with 5 Fingers

von Trimberg, folio 355r

von Trimberg, Complete Image, Linked Embed

this is an embed of the above link, not a local copy:

todo: crop each pair of hands, each person

von Trimberg, Head and Jewish Handle Hat

von Trimberg: Four Figures

The Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg (on the right) wearing a Jewish hat (Codex Manesse, fourteenth century)

von Trimberg Figure

von Trimberg Torso

von Trimberg Torso Tight Crop

Less space on top & left.

von Trimberg, Upper Part of Figures 3 & 4

von Trimberg, 4 Pairs of Hands

von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 1

Features:

von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 2

von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 3

von Trimberg Figure 3’s Hands-Pair: Lower Hand and Upper Hand Are Inverse: YI’ vs. Y’I

von Trimberg: Pair of Hands of Figure 4

von Trimberg: Each Hand Isolated

Person 1, Upper Hand: IY

Person 1, Lower Hand: IY

Person 2, Upper Hand: Y’I

Person 2, Lower Hand: Y

Person 3, Upper Hand: IY’

Person 3, Lower Hand: YI’

Person 4, Upper Hand: YI

Person 4, Lower Hand: YI

Motivation for this Page

I wanted more from vonTrimberg’s painter.

• Existing problem was: I had lots of crops of the von Trimberg foliio image, but, they were in a page that’s not specialized as a gallery of von Trimberg image or artist other images.
• The von Trimble painter provides clearly important evidence for understanding the shared lang of medieval hand shapes.
• Not surprising that a few seconds inspecting another picture from same book, all the hand activity starts yelling signals.
• My project now is not only read Great Canterbury Psalter, but, describe the mushroom-tree religion.

medieval YI hand shapes
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An hour ago, 10:03 p.m. Feb. 9, 2026, I again went to wiki > jewish hat article, to try to find more images from this artist b/c Trimberg is so excellent and handy for YI hand shapes establishment of standard patterns / sequences of two hands, holding hands.

bias: bottom-up reading, end up with 2POV. Different pov when analyze 1 hand scope, vs. sequence of lower hand (1`-2 phases)

then higher hand: read upper fingers & thumb together.

eg higher hand read as:

• YI – entire fingers
• Y’I – partial fingers
• I’Y – won’t see {cut thumb}
• I’Y’ – won’t see {cut thumb}

Rule: The Integrated Sequence from Lower to Upper Hand Is More Important than Isolated YI Shape of Lower or Upper Hand

When deciding how to classify the YI branching form of a given hand in medieval art, the dominant context is the pair of hands, it should tell a coherent story:

1. You begin in ordinary-state possibilism (Y), ignorant of altered-state eternalism (I).
2. Changes occur. Add I, qualify Y. Add altered-state eternalism (I), qualify or partly repudiate relying only on ordinary-state possibilism (Y).
3. You end with having two different points of view, two different mental models: I has been added to Y, and Y has been qualified.

Per my …. said before: I long have waited for the day when my work on the Mytheme theory affects

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the Egodeath Core theory
ect – expands to egoic control thinking

egoic control thinking
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the Mytheme theory
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I don’t like my concept-labels (~= keyboard shortcuts; acronyms) for

• the Egodeath Core theory (sans history/ myth/ analogies)
  • the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
  • the general theory of psychedelic eternalism / altered-state eternalism
• the Mytheme theory includes history/ myth/ analogies/ Rock lyrics.
  • analogy/ myth is the promised theme for the next episode of the Transcendent Knowledge Podcast, tho Max Freakout is currently focused on altered-state cognitive phenomenology.

eternalism-driven control-transformation
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the Egodeath Core theory of cybernetic psychedelic eternalism; eternalism-driven control-transformation
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the Mytheme theory portion of the Egodeath theory; analogies for eternalism-driven control-transformation
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egoic control thinking
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See Also

Medieval Hand-Shapes Theory
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/01/31/hand-shape-theory/

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