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May 29, 2004. 3

Role for ritual in entheogen-based religion: lead reliably to key danger, then enlightenment 3

May 28, 2004. 5

Range of Dating in Early Christian Writings. 5

Carol Price's explicit failure to recognize allusions to LSD phenomena as such in Rush lyrics. 6

Metaphor and ritual: Bridal Chamber, Gnostic Eucharist 6

News about Gnosis journal and upcoming book. 8

May 27, 2004. 10

Bart Ehrman lectures on DaVinci Code. 10

Apocalypticism Books. 11

May 26, 2004. 12

Talos the mortal robot 12

Entheogen disparagement and bunk scholarship. 13

May 25, 2004. 13

How far off are today's books and theories?. 13

No good books on ego death. 15

Translation and Avoiding Reading Straight 16

May 23, 2004. 17

Kingsley: ancient Greco-Roman philosophers as shamanic. 17

Matrix and philosophy/religion (book list) 18

May 22, 2004. 19

Visionary plants not mundane; opposite of vulgar. 19

Confluence: Carol Price, Rush, Alex Gray, LSD, Christ myth. 19

Metaphor = myth = mystic experiencing = entheogens. 21

May 21, 2004. 23

Maximal Entheogen Theory and Mithraism.. 23

May 18, 2004. 24

Mithras' leg portrays an Amanita Cubensis species. 24

Monoplant fallacy. 25

John M. Allegro. 25

Maximal entheogen theory of religion. 25

Myth is metaphor for mystic experiencing, more than metaphor for the plants themselves. 26

People's complaints about the etymology of "entheogens". 26

Ego death has nothing to do with egoism, humility in the mundane realm, self-help, or self-conduct 26

Scholarship; On research. 27

May 17, 2004. 27

What Is Enlightenment? magazine mentions LSD without striving to diminish it 27

Wilber's 'States vs. Stages' Theory Is Just the Ancient Initiation-Series. 28

Bickering and posturing among entheogen scholars over particular plants. 28

In Praise of John M. Allegro's pioneering work. 29

Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Hybrids for Christian Origins. 30

May 16. 30

Gathered latest commentary on the song "Free Will". 30

Historical discussion of polit. aspects of Xn origins. 31

About the term 'Radical' 31

About the relevance of historical investigation of certain political and socio-political aspects of Christian origins  32

May 15, 2004. 34

The exact sequence of thoughts forming the core of the loose-cognition labyrinth. 34

The logic of self-control seizure climax  (May 11, 2004) 36

Phrases for Self-Control Seizure. 38

Historical discussion of polit. aspects of Xn origins. 38

Docetism vs. denial of Jesus' historicity. 39

Is Jesus' historicity the traditional view?. 39

The "circular argument" critique of dating scriptures. 41

May 14, 2004. 44

The docetism heresy. 44

Assumptions in the Book The Jesus Mysteries. 44

May 13, 2004. 45

Jesus, Dionysus, Blood as Entheogenic Potion: Mushroom Wine. 45

Jesus in the Flesh. 46

May 12, 2004. 48

Crowley and Block-Universe Determinism.. 48

Whether God Has Free Will 49

Quasi-historical writing style of the Gospels. 49

Re-reading ancient culture as based on psilocybin wine. 50

May 11, 2004. 51

The tiniest Historical Jesus kernel makes the huge difference between the opposite Big Bang versus Big Crunch models of Christian origin. 51

May 8, 2004. 53

The Gospels as quasi- or semi-historical-styled literature. 53

Freewillism-assuming vs. Determinism-oriented religion. 55

Hellenic Mythicist Karl Kerenyi Was Early Advocate of Entheogen Theory of Greek Myth and Mystery-Religion  55

Dan Merkur's Book on Gnosis Is Transitional toward His Entheogen Theory of Religion. 55

Constantine's takeover of house-church Christianity. 55

What difference would such a puny Historical Jesus kernel individual make?. 59

May 7, 2004. 61

History of the theme 'King of the Jews' 61

May 6, 2004. 62

Categories of mystic-state metaphor in religion; mythemes and metaphors. 62

Virgin Mary's breast milk is entheogenic. 63

Countering the scholarly bias against Hellenistic input to Christian origins. 63

The goal of religion and definition of enlightenment 64

May 4, 2004. 66

The no-free-will model as a mere tool to induce the desired peak state of self-control seizure.