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The Internet archives and early postings in this discussion group clearly prove beyond any possible doubt that entheogen determinism is *my* theory; *I* discovered it and own it; it's my original idea and idea-combination. No one else to this day has coherently asserted this essential theory in any book or article. There is no theory of religion that can incorporate my theory and somehow go beyond it: mine is the final stop; this is the only entheogen determinism theory of religion; it is incompatible with any other person's theory which would presume to subsume and incorporate it.
Mine is the biggest and most encompassing; otherwise this theory self-destructs if absconded and incorporated into someone else's. My theory is final and complete and ultimate, and I marry and stand by it and have much evidential ammunition and many witnesses to defend my claim to it. The entheogen determinism theory is ultimate and final and it is my discovery and creation, copyrighted and patented; I own it, invented it, discovered it, and published it publically to the world for several years.
Below are previous postings linking to further evidence of scholarly priority.
-- Michael Hoffman
http://www.egodeath.com -- the only simple and comprehensible theory of the ego-death and rebirth experience. The only essence, paradigm, origin, core, fountainhead, and ultimate goal of religion is the use of visionary plants to routinely trigger the intense mystic altered state, producing loose cognitive association binding, which then produces an experience of frozen block-universe determinism with a single, pre-existing, ever-existing future. The return of the ordinary state of consciousness is allegorized as a transcendence of Necessity or cosmic determinism. Myth describes this mystic-state experience. Initiation is classically a series of some 8 visionary-plant sessions, interspersed with study of perennial philosophy. Most religion is a distortion, corruption, literalization, cooptation, and missing-the-point overcomplication of this simple, standard initiation system.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/38
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Hoffman [mail to mhoffman egodeath com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:55 AM
>To: Ego Death
>Subject: [egodeath] Newsgroups as record of publishing
>
>
>
>I posted the below material to various newsgroups last night (with the
>exception of the Yahoo Groups footer at the bottom). This posting serves to
>gather the evidence of my previous work on the egodeath theory, and takes
>advantage of the newsgroup archival ability which was recently
>brought to life
>again by the new Google Groups Web-based newsgroup participation and
>archiving
>tool. Some well-designed URLs at my site, pointing to the newsgroups via the
>Google Groups web site, should enable me to participate more conveniently in
>the newsgroups, wherever I am -- comparable to this wonderful Yahoo Groups
>environment.
>
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>The Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
>
>This core theory [attached below, in the newsgroup version of this posting]
>has been stable for several years, though it may be time to rewrite
>and update
>this compact introduction to the core concepts. My recent work has focused on
>mapping the mystery-religions and Hellenistic myths onto this core theory.
>
>In October 1985, I started investigating self-control, transcendent
>knowledge,
>ego death and ego transcendence, and the mystic state of cognition. In
>December 1987 and January 1988, the core theory crystallized, especially
>block-universe determinism. 1988-2001 I worked on expressing the core theory,
>catching up in the relevant scholarly fields, and a general interpretation of
>mystery-religion allegories in terms of self-control cybernetics.
>
>I started the cybtrans.com (Cybernetic Transcendence) domain name in March
>1995, which I retain as a legacy domain name. I am glad to see that
>http://groups.google.com has made available the newsgroup archives
>since 1995.
>You can find my previous newsgroup postings by searching on "cybtrans",
>"cybernetic theory of ego transcendence" (best), or "cybermonk".
>
>By continuing to make newsgroup postings available from 1995, the
>start of the
>Web era, Google Groups has renewed my confidence in the WELL philosophy that
>"posting is publishing".
>
>It is ironic that I have so infrequently posted about this theory in the
>newsgroups, although I have been a regular post'er in alt.guitar.amps.
>However, the few postings about this theory (in this public newsgroups) do
>provide definite evidence that this core theory has been complete, and
>available through searching, since the beginning of the Web era.
>
>Two things happened almost simultaneously: Google.com took over the web-based
>interface to the newsgroups (Google Groups) from Deja.com (formerly
>Dejanews.com), and Yahoo took over the combined email/Web-based
>discussion-list interface from egroups.com. Google Groups provides an
>excellent newsgroup interface, and Yahoo Groups provides an
>excellent listserv
>interface.
>
>These two interfaces are still new and are just beginning to become
>established. Yahoo Groups provides such a perfect interface, I almost
>abandoned the newsgroups, though in principle I am a major advocate of the
>potential of the newsgroups. Participating in, and searching in the
>newsgroups
>was essential for constructing my popular Amptone.com site about guitar gear,
>but my efforts to use the newsgroups for philosophy have been more halting
>(due to my own choice of involvements, not due to the potential of the
>newsgroups).
>
>With Google Groups and Yahoo Groups now providing a better interface to the
>newgroups and email discussion lists, I hope to coordinate use of the two,
>with Yahoo Groups leading the way with the most ideal interface. (I should
>consider alt.philosophy.egodeath.) I have mixed feelings about living solely
>in cyberspace -- on the Net. I take to it so much more naturally than to
>writing printed articles and books.
>
>I like the idea of not making a printed version of the theory
>available. Maybe
>that is just silly techno-geekdom, the starry-eyed view of the Net. After the
>tech stock crash, how can we still treat the Net as possessing some
>TechGnostic mystic? I treasure books, but when it comes to writing, I love
>posting to the Net. The Google Groups and Yahoo Groups interfaces are great
>and practical because I can post from any Web terminal.
>
>I posted parts of the theory on the WELL.com bulletin board, in the
>Mondo 2000
>forum, around 1989-1994.
>
>This core theory has resided at the Philosophy Introduction page of the
>Principia Cybernetica website http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PHILOSI.html since
>January 2, 1997, as http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html (and
>http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.0.html ) by Mark Hofmann (pen
>name).
>
>-- Michael Hoffman ( Cybermonk ) June 23, 2001
>http://www.egodeath.com -- designing the most convenient path to an intense
>peak experience of control-cancellation and religious self-control seizure
>
>http://www.cybtrans.com -- legacy domain
>
>
>Seaspray blurs my vision
>The waves roll by so fast
>Save my ship of freedom
>I'm lashed, helpless, to the mast
>
>
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>Introduction to the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence
>
>Copyright 1997, Michael Hoffman
>
>
>[in the newsgroup version of this posting, placed here was a copy of the text
>that is in
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/1 ]
>...
>
>
>-- Michael Hoffman ( Cybermonk )
>http://www.egodeath.com -- designing the most convenient path to an intense
>peak experience of control-cancellation
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath -- discussion group/listserv
>
>
>http://www.cybtrans.com -- legacy domain
>
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>
>Memory banks unloading
>Bytes break into bits
>Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits
>
>Guidance systems break down
>A struggle to exist -- to resist
>A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist
>
>
>-- Michael Hoffman
>http://www.egodeath.com -- simple theory of the ego-death and rebirth
>experience
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/45
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:mhoffman egodeath com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:03 PM
>To: egodeath@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [egodeath] Newsgroups as record of publishing
>
>
>
>>I want to review the core concepts of your ego-death theory. What
>is the URL
>for your article "Introduction to the Cybernetic Theory of Ego
>Transcendence"?
>
>Best paragraph breaks:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/1
>
>Official URL at my site:
>http://www.egodeath.com/intro.htm
>
>Oldest copy with a continuously working URL, at Principia Cybernetica:
>January 2, 1997, as http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.html
>(continued at
>http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Annotations/PHILOSI.0.0.html ) by Mark Hofmann (pen
>name).
>
>Oldest copy in the newsgroups (January 1, 1997):
>
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>
>Oldest detailed newsgroup thread of mine about the Cybernetic Theory of Ego
>Death found in the Google Newsgroup archives (December 27, 1995):
>The email address shown there still works. I don't know why the
>thread has no
>URL pointing to my domain, which I've owned since March 27, 1995.
>
>
>-- Michael Hoffman
>http://www.egodeath.com/ -- simple theory of the ego-death and rebirth
>experience
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