Hoffman's Diamond Hammer of Interpretation:

Any valid system of transcendent knowledge involves Cybernetics as its ultimate
concern, Heimarmene as its main support of that concern, Entheogens as its means
of access, and Analogy as its means of expression.

Any valid system of transcendent knowledge involves:

o Cybernetics as its ultimate concern (because religion is about *you*, what
you experience yourself to be, a control-wielding agent moving yourself though
space and time, deciding which branch of the decision-tree to take; the source
of control-power in the mind, and helpless receiving of all thoughts),

o Heimarmene as its main support of the ultimate concern (way of organizing the
mental model of control and time),

o Entheogens as its means of access (mushrooms make you perceive the
uncontrollable source of thoughts and concomitant personal helpless subjection
to your control-thoughts you are given), and

o Analogy as its means of expression (Metaphor-systems, a language of alluding
to and vividly describing and conveying/communicating and structuring the
above).


Hellenistic style would probably label it as "the Golden Hammer of
Interpretation", rather than 'Diamond', but 'Diamond' expresses the power of
conceptual coherence and completely organized thought.


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