Michael Rinella commits the fallacy of presentism -- projecting Modern-era criteria and expectations back into Antiquity -- in imagining that it's possible and...
Astrotheology, snakes shedding skin, euhemerism, social theories of religion, impressive ceremony, fertility magic... These are trivially, incidentally true...
"Psychedelic Shamanism is being reissued ... because its insights into shamanic hyperspace are as credible as ever and, much to my disappointment, didn't...
o The Arch of Titus "proves" Jews occupied the temple in Jerusalem in antiquity. o Carbon dating "proves" that the silver-on-purple Codex Argenteus bible is...
At an Esoteric Books expo recently, a leading publisher of entheogenic religion books told me that most publishers are afraid to publish books on the subject,...
Robert Graves wrote 81 pages about Amanita and psilocybe mushrooms in Greek myth/religion & Judeo-Christianity 1956-1973. Impressively solid, he recognized...
Judas hung from mushroom tree. Wine-mixing krater showing the Abduction of Chrysippus. Laius drives/steers/controls a 4-horse chariot carrying off the youthful...
Graves' 3 books deserve 5 of 5 stars because they constitute a breakthrough of maximum breadth and depth of ramifications, recognition, and opening up entry...
The final chapter of Guerber's book Myths of Greece and Rome (1893?), "Analysis of Myths" reads: "The philologists' interpretation of myths is ... the most...
The astrotheology or nature-element theory of religious myth is false because those themes are non-essential. What is the essential, central, driving, master...
What manner of thinking or explanation is myth? Myth is metaphor -- not principally fantasy storytelling or primitive explanation in the thinking of savages....
Clar'n: "This is a doorway into the subject of myth." At minimum, change that to "the doorway". Entheogens are merely the doorway into, or the means of...
Carl Ruck's book about myth flags [key themes] with brackets. The book would be more correct if it flagged the themes of entheogens/loosecog, heimarmene, and...
We are subject to, subjects of, dominated by, controlled by, overpowered by,... the gods and fatedness ('Fate'). Which is to say, we cannot control the source...
The idea of ego-killing Fatedness envisioned as snake-shaped worldline in a block universe with time as spacelike dimension is, in effect, the main, true,...
The effort to form a mental model that is empowering, clear, coherent, and stable naturally leads to finding and testing the idea of frozen block universe...
Minimalist, narrowly scoped transcendence is more relevant than overbroad dissipation of focus in scope-greedy Integral Theory. Ken Wilber is so greedy in the...
To have any chance of providing something better than ever before, I had to not entirely respect any previous manner of thought, such as Hellenistic religious...
Robert Graves wrote 83 pages, within 4 books, on the Entheogen solution to interpreting religious myth. This includes 2 pages from the Foreward of the 1960...
It's considered gauche to be forthright. Roundabout, ornate, indirect wording is considered tasteful and polite, muted and tamed, couched, softened, civilized...
Wilber and I are intent on creating two different theories for quite different purposes, to solve different kinds of problems. Wilber's main character as a...
The Egodeath theory has its own inherent system of judging what any given ancient religion would have been in its best implementation. Did late Neoplatonism,...
Abraham Maslow gets the final word in Seth Kunin's compilation of types of theories, rightly, including psychedelics as a portentous breakthrough that can...
A useful means to discern, judge, assess, critique, or rate: original vs. derivative. Entheogenic discovery of personal non-control is original, authentic,...
Each era's scholarship brings new insight leading toward transcendent knowledge, and new nonsense leading away from transcendent knowledge. The late 1800s...
To disarm critics, a main strategy and ideal is to present a comically *tiny* and *elementary*, brutally simple, trivial, miniscule, diminutive theory of...
