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Role for ritual in entheogen-based religion: lead reliably to key
danger, then enlightenment
Range of Dating in Early Christian Writings
Carol Price's explicit failure to recognize allusions to LSD phenomena
as such in Rush lyrics
Metaphor and ritual: Bridal Chamber, Gnostic Eucharist
News about Gnosis journal and upcoming book
Bart Ehrman lectures on DaVinci Code
Entheogen disparagement and bunk scholarship
How far off are today's books and theories?
Translation and Avoiding Reading Straight
Kingsley: ancient Greco-Roman philosophers as shamanic
Matrix and philosophy/religion (book list)
Visionary plants not mundane; opposite of vulgar
Confluence: Carol Price, Rush, Alex Gray, LSD, Christ myth
Metaphor = myth = mystic experiencing = entheogens
Maximal Entheogen Theory and Mithraism
Mithras' leg portrays an Amanita Cubensis species
Maximal entheogen theory of religion
Myth is metaphor for mystic experiencing, more than metaphor for the
plants themselves
People's complaints about the etymology of "entheogens"
Ego death has nothing to do with egoism, humility in the mundane realm,
self-help, or self-conduct
What Is Enlightenment? magazine mentions LSD without striving to
diminish it
Wilber's 'States vs. Stages' Theory Is Just the Ancient
Initiation-Series
Bickering and posturing among entheogen scholars over particular plants
In Praise of John M. Allegro's pioneering work
Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Hybrids for Christian Origins
Gathered latest commentary on the song "Free Will"
Historical discussion of polit. aspects of Xn origins
The exact sequence of thoughts forming the core of the loose-cognition
labyrinth
The logic of self-control seizure climax (May 11, 2004)
Phrases for Self-Control Seizure
Historical discussion of polit. aspects of Xn origins
Docetism vs. denial of Jesus' historicity
Is Jesus' historicity the traditional view?
The "circular argument" critique of dating scriptures
Assumptions in the Book The Jesus Mysteries
Jesus, Dionysus, Blood as Entheogenic Potion: Mushroom Wine
Crowley and Block-Universe Determinism
Quasi-historical writing style of the Gospels
Re-reading ancient culture as based on psilocybin wine
The Gospels as quasi- or semi-historical-styled literature
Freewillism-assuming vs. Determinism-oriented religion
Dan Merkur's Book on Gnosis Is Transitional toward His Entheogen Theory
of Religion
Constantine's takeover of house-church Christianity
What difference would such a puny Historical Jesus kernel individual
make?
History of the theme 'King of the Jews'
Categories of mystic-state metaphor in religion; mythemes and metaphors
Virgin Mary's breast milk is entheogenic
Countering the scholarly bias against Hellenistic input to Christian
origins
The goal of religion and definition of enlightenment
The no-free-will model as a mere tool to induce the desired peak state of self-control seizure