Preliminary Definitions: 'The Ego Death theory' means my theory, which is the theory that religion, mystic experiencing, and transcendent knowledge are ...
In his book The Mythic Image, Joseph Campbell asserts that the snake winding up the vertical obelisk means time's directionfulness, as opposed to cyclic time....
Mythology trumps official doctrinal systems and formal philosophy. The real, source, origin is {dissociation, determinism, cybernetics, metaphor}, projected...
Mythic figures like the Jesus figure on the cross solves a terrifying problem -- wrath directed against oneself as autonomous agent. Assuage enmity/wrath of...
Looking back when killing the bull, other forms of looking back -- was Greek notion / imaging of looking into the future. Perhaps the idea here is that just...
My recent mission and objective is not to improve the Ego Death theory, but rather, to be recognized as the first person to create, announce, and make publicly...
There are several reasons and senses in which I consider it important that I'm recognized as the first to combine {dissociation, determinism, cybernetics,...
Most versions of Buddhism, like in other religions, actually lead people away from, or past, bypassing, the heart of religious experiential insight. American...
... correct, and final, but rather, that it warrants commitment as a research framework. Correction: I strategically need to convince not that the theory is...
Google book search is a highly effective new way to effortlessly do scholarly research in hundreds of books. http://books.google.com/books?q=heimarmene ...
The accusation in France against heretics of trampling the cross and defaming it is not anti-Christian, it's a deliberately negative misportrayal of a rather...
The difference between saying the Ego Death theory is 'based on entheogens' (bad to say) vs. 'based on dissociation' (good to say) is the difference between...
This posting contributes toward the 'Cybernetics' pillar of the Ego Death theory. The Problem of Trust and Psychological Accommodation in Splitting of Control...
... defaming it is not anti-Christian, it's a deliberately negative misportrayal of a rather standard Christian idea. Clarification: The Cathars were accused...
'The Holy Spirit' is a label for the dissociative cognitive state, or ecstasy, the ecstatic state, the altered state of consciousness, which was symbolically...
The theme of "a docetic Christian teacher is an antichrist" fits awkwardly with the mystic metaphors of the overall Bible. Docetic Christianity isn't the same...
... true religion commit some form of a performative self-contradiction -- they are, in some significant sense, asserting, in effect, a definition of the one...
The following is one of the greatest, enlightening, truly peak-psychedelic verses, regarding mental transformation to take into account block-universe...
I don't desire a monopoly on publishing about Ego Death -- I merely want to be credited truly as the first modern systematic theorist to propose in detail that...
I don't want people to have to guess at my position on various matters, so I write some guidance postings such as the following. This way, I make it easy for...
In scholarship, the famous innovator and discoverer is never famous in the world he worked in. By the time he's famous, his contribution has changed the...
The question isn't so much "Does the external world, and other people, and myself-not-now, exist?" Rather, the question is, "These exist in some sense -- in...
While I'm attempting a hiatus, there's a problem and conundrum. What to do when I have significant insights, as the paradigm of Ego Death theory plays out in...
Judging imposter theories and 2nd-rate theories of egodeath or transcendent knowledge I don't want people to be stuck with yet more of the same old ...
The main, central idea here is that in the concept of "famous person", there's a breakdown or deconstruction of that concept when the person in question is a...
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