Mysticism and Religion Robert Ellwood http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1889119024 2nd ed. 1999 Drury's books on Magic and Shamanism, and this...
Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys John Collins (ed.), Michael Fishbane (ed.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0791423468 Companion volume...
'Martyrdom' in early Christian writings is nothing but fiction -- mystic-state fiction. All ancient writing must be approached first as essentially nothing ...
... You refer to the ego as a controller and the Ground of Being as though they were entities separate from our true selves, or enlightened consciousness. In ...
Here is a preliminary draft of my review, 6.3 times too long. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience Benny Shanon ...
Condensed draft, still 2.5 times too long: Antipodes is a major milestone in the scholarly and scientific theory and methodology of visionary plants,...
I'm aiming for 500 words -- I disagree with Amazon's new guidelines of 75-300 words. This is a thick, milestone book requiring more than 300 words. My latest...
... and especially "cause and effect" as relates to "karma". One has no control of one's actions whatsoever, because they are already laid out in the future....
It is largely a misreading and a failure of comprehension when uruguru wrote that I "insulted" Carol Price, author of an insipid ordinary-state book about Rush...
Answers to questions someone emailed: Salvia Divinorum 10x concentrate is available in some tobacco and pipe stores. I advocate moderate rather than extreme...
In the 3-heavens system mentioned in the Paulines: o The planetary spheres are the first and lower heaven o The sphere of the fixed stars is the second and...
The JesusMysteries discussion group is strictly a 'ancient historical research' forum, which is to be taken in a particular narrow, emphatically and ...
James O. Meara wrote the following. It doesn't necessarily represent my views accurately; ideally I'd respond in detail in this posting, for any clarification...
Books about psychoactives-induced experiential phenomena In addition to Kent and Shanon, what other books are explicitly about the experiential phenomena that...
BBC Radio 4 programme: Beyond Belief, 07 Mar episode: Gnosticism http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/beyond_belief/ The following transcription is by...
The previous posting is available as the webpage http://www.egodeath.com/GnosticismFrekeGoodacreGreen.htm One trivial error is that The Gnostic Gospels is not...
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... The Animatrix http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008LDPU 2003 The Animatrix is an essential part of the Matrix movie series. It contains the...
... The meditation/psychedelic trip scene in the final piece in Animatrix portrays various classic themes: o Solipsism in the golden castle or throne-room o...
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Group membership for this non-promoted Yahoo group plateaued around 210 members, for perhaps a year, then suddenly recently jumped to 300 members. Some are...
There are only 50 pages linking to Egodeath.com. My total lack of deliberate promotion is evident. However, despite this low linking, traffic has apparently...
Cannabis can be an entheogen, depending on how and how much is consumed. A moderate dose, ingested, could be ergonomic toward religious experiencing when...
Peter Kirby in the JesusMysteries discussion group was able to break through to realizing there was no historical Paul, or no evidence for such, *because* he...
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One real part of the ego system is the ego as representation, and another real part of the ego system is the ego as a referent (including one's actual body,...