Below is a good alternative mapping, representing how I've always skeptically treated Wilber's system as faux splitting of transcendent thinking into separate...
Wilber says Integral Psychology, as part of Integral Theory (of Science, Religion, and Psychology) is the only school of Psychology that has a future, that has...
Wilber depicts sitting meditation as the normal historical global model of religious practice beyond ego. I depict entheogens as the normal historical global...
The next posting is the valuable final draft of my 1997-era summary of my Core theory for the Principia Cybernetica site, never before available. February 2,...
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics Michael S. Hoffman This Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence is designed as a simple cybernetic device to trigger the...
On January 11, 1988, 24 years ago, I had my main breakthrough, in the computer lab, on a Mac: the frozen-time Crystalline Ground of Being (CGoB) or Tao-block...
80% of the words in the main article are for the Core theory; 20% of the words are for Periphery topics. Core topics: o Loose cognition, mental model...
Dedicated to the late Satan the Devil whom we loved so much and hated so much. -- Written on draft 2 printout, August or September 1988, in my classic Hand:...
Irrelevance of the "meditation, producing altered daily consciousness" enlightenment-model The entheogen vs. meditation models of enlightenment-results A. The...
Why desire enlightenment? Why desire mushroom-wine banqueting? Why desire loose cognition? The mind has innate drives and configurations, including the...
The Egodeath theory serves to make mystic-state climax readily available to everyone as ergonomically as possible, providing the most elementary, easily...
Classes are starting. I will post infrequently. I need to do some experiments in information structuring, along the lines I've been writing about at least...
The 1988 outer-Core idea of sudden collective transcendence, like a collective revolution of consciousness, or apocalyptic millennialism, is covered by the...
When writing about mystic religion and religious mythic metaphor, writers must assume that the educated audience of writers and readers all agree and...
I'm specifically interested in one conceptualization of what meditation is: the version constructed and converged upon by triangulating the following: o Ken...
The postmodernist, politically hypercorrect, oppression-hypersensitive view asserts: Any version of religion, any conceptualization of what it involves, what...
In loose cognition, the usual sensation of being a solid mental self dis-integrates and is largely suspended. The sense of personal control power is...
Self-contradictory entheogen books and writings due to Prohibitionist censorship and taboo: a model of how to critically read writings about entheogen history ...
Hallucinogenic Plants Richard Evans Schultes 1976 http://amazon.com/dp/030764362X Effectively an early edition of Plants of the Gods Front cover, clockwise...
This is my collected commentary that was interspersed with condensed excerpts from Schultes' book, with some expansions. Hallucinogenic Plants Richard Evans...
By no means have I done a complete deconstruction to tear to shreds Schulte's loaded, manipulative rhetoric, like I recently finished with my late 2011...
There are a few obvious, trivial typos in the last posts, eg remove 'anti': They use 'drunk' to misrepresent tripping, and then point out the entheogen users...
Updated details of Schultes book editions Hallucinogenic Plants Richard Evans Schultes 1976 http://amazon.com/dp/030764362X Early edition of Plants of the...
Orthodox, Prohibition-compliant scholars feel safe in bandying-about the magically safe term "ethnobotany" in this superstitiously taboo-charged field. You...
Prohibition-driven censorship gives the false appearance that the entheogen-diminishing view is popular -- and, gives the false appearance that religion only...
