The Egodeath Yahoo group is a Weblog sent out by Michael Hoffman, covering the cybernetic theory of ego death and ego transcendence, including: o...
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A new set of podcasts is available. Preliminary discussion of 15 questions in preparation for an episode of the Psychonautica podcast. August 1, 2007....
In the dissociative state, the mind's mental model regarding personal control is revised, into a two-aspect or two-scale or two-component scheme, with the...
At first I looked to a wheel/car relationship as analogy for the so-called "oneness" of the individual personal control-agent (local locus of control-power)...
Posts *have* been helpful, even the cheap-shot oversimplification posts that are common, but I get weary of the work, often singlehanded work, of setting ...
One can perceive that this control-loss-feedback loop is the path to heaven through hell or a flirtation with psychotic transcendence of one's personal moral...
The Egodeath theory has no direct competitors. It needs to be refined and developed, and fleshed-in as an explanatory framework and a paradigmatic general,...
The Egodeath theory is not so much a particular narrow philosophy-proposition that could be "accepted" or "rejected", or "believed" or "refuted", as a general...
The topical focus labeled 'determinism' actually functions as the simplest possible mental model which prods and prompts and supports thinking about the...
Mystic-state 'wrath' and 'compassion' are packaged together as a pair; they are adjacent, albeit each with distinct role when seen via a control-systems ...
Voice training, together with working on microphone & equipment technique, was invaluable for a successful podcast interview as the guest; the vocalization and...
The dissociative cognitive state -- Mental constructs are dynamic association matrixes of mental representations, held together by some degree of binding...
A vulnerability of the Wasson/Allegro/McKenna model of visionary plant use in religion is that it omits a major type of evidence: mythic description of ...
A full enjoyment of nondual unity consciousness ('beatification', 'compassion', "the Heaven realm") inherently requires and is associated with a full...
Grappling with the control-instability vortex in the intense mystic dissociative altered state is associated with "hell", panic attack, and freakout. However,...
Ken Wilber has cautioned against both sides of the error that's made about the relationship of self and World when we say "self is the World". One side of the...
Ultimately, after control-grappling has escalated to the peak over the course of several dissociative-state sessions, the committed rational mind is *forced*...
"What's the role of no-free-will in the Egodeath theory? Is that a required doctrine that must be accepted and by which the Theory stands or falls?" The...
It's easy to agree that one's control emanates from outside one's domain of control, but it's hard to rely on that mysterious uncontrollable-by-me source to...
For all practical purposes, the individual after initiation thinks of themselves as a co-ruler with God or with the Ground of Being. In some practical sense,...
Any time religious myth and experience has the theme of feeling imprisoned, trapped, and locked-in, and then set free (or escaping that peril or discomfort),...
A metaphor describing this reconciliation is that the god (puppetmaster) avoids doing the person (puppet) harm, in exchange for the person acknowledging the...
The theme of "release from the chains of the cycle of karmic rebirth" can be read both as a reflection of the idea of transcending the assumption of naive...
Song: Fire Poem Artist: Arthur Brown Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Transcription: Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com; posted for scholarly analysis only. ...
Psychonautica episode 13 Friday, August 10, 2007 http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=Psychonautica ... Michael Hoffman, author of the egodeath...
Click or right-click the POD icon. Playlist: Rush - Free Will The Beatles - Help! Those are excellent choices, as far as mainstream songs. We did not discuss ...
Mushrooms should be integrated into culture, including training and education, not "banned". http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/497/dutch_magic_mushroom_ban ...
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