Someone wrote vaguely that my block universe concept is merely reinvention of the wheel, of some Buddhist concept. I must forcefully convey what I wrote in...
Ken Wilber and Manly Hall: representatives of failure to provide relevant focus Only the Egodeath theory contributes an effectively balanced, coherent, viable,...
There are two possible ways to proceed that could potentially produce the true scientific model of basic transcendent knowledge: o Compile and reduce/condense...
A 'scientific theory' means clear, compact, and useful, not that it is based on reductionist math. Requirements a scientific theory of transcendent knowledge...
The Core theory is elegantly compact, therefore authentic, scientific transcendent knowledge must be presented elegantly compactly. I discovered and formulated...
Messy expansive systems of transcendent knowledge hide their failure to deliver a coherent revelation by bluffing through sheer quantity and obscurity....
Is Egodeath a new theory? Or is it merely a version of Wilber and Watts? In 1986-1987, to form the Egodeath theory, I drew from Ken Wilber's early books and...
I wrote my first drafts of the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence in August to October 1988, into 1989. I continued writing, thinking, and reading (idea...
This is Summary day. I posted the summary of my Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence (the Core theory) to the Principia Cybernetica website 15 years ago,...
Finished sentence: Be discerning about this bait-and-switch, this distinction between what Wilber seems to try to deliver, versus what he actually tries to...
Strike the stray "gathering" paragraph below the paragraph "Discover and develop anew from scratch." The resulting section, after other improvements, reads: ...
(completed paragraph:) American pragmatism, can-do scientific/engineering mentality: we are good at figuring sh*t out, which includes, making useful, practical...
The best, latest draft of this Summary might not be the one at the start of this thread or at the Principia Cybernetica site or currently at Egodeath.com. My...
The Paradigm of Cognitive Transcendence November 3, 1989 Hardcopy draft of the Theory, as rough fragments. I read it fully and marked it up, around 1990. 16...
Wilber's Integral Theory -- Hoffman's Egodeath theory Integral Theory as 3-stage system, Egodeath theory as 2-stage system: Transpersonal -- Transcendent...
'Core' vs. 'Periphery' is too binary, in some ways. A simple binary scheme has pro's and con's. It is possible to use a simple binary distinction between...
Signature themes run throughout my writings over time. I found a 1995 printout of mine mentioning myth interpretation, and the book Road to Eleusis. That...
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...
