instead of changing the subject, are you able to actually answer my question? As i said, i am an avid follower of Jan (i was one of the first 5 people to read his second book) and i can say withy certainty that he is totally clueless about psychedelic cognitive dynamics. However if i am wrong...

There is an ontological distinction between a physical mushroom, and an altered-state experience that is induced by eating a physical mushroom. Jan Irvin correctly identifies hidden images of the mushrooms in chrisitan artwork, but he never identifies allegorical descriptions of mushroom...

can you give an example? It would be great if Jan has recently developed his understanding in this area, but nothing ive ever read of his would indicate that he has, and i am an avid follower of his work. The recent work that this thread concerns, Jan's conspiracy theories about Gordon Wasson...

that's an understatement, he named his son 'John Marco' in honour of Allegro Irvin makes the same fundamental error as John Rush does, by putting all the focus on the physical mushrooms, and none on the mushroom experience. He looks for evidence of mushrooms in christian artwork, but he doesnt...

Welcome to the wonderful world of psychedelic mental transformation :D

Michael Hoffman has resumed his prolific daily posting in the ego death group at yahoo after several years absence: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/messages

i might take nassim, or his followers, a bit seriously if only they would stop lying about his achievements, if a person has to make up lies about being published in a peer review journal just to convince people to listen to him, then he probably isnt saying anything worth listening to, Haramein...

how do you measure validity in the first place?

your having this discussion about illegal substances in a SCHOOL???? Wow i wish i went to your school! you should definitely read the essay: 'The Bubble of Simulation: Subjective Experience as a Virtual Environment', it's here: http://egodeath.com/BubbleOfSimulation.htm Psychedelic drugs dont...

Freud would come in his pants if he could read that trip report

Science is never about getting things 'right' (ie making true statements), rather science is all about continuously increasing the accuracy (= predictive power) of the model, scientists make bold conjectures/hypotheses, then subject them to rigorous testing to try to falsify them, that is how...

The basic problem with this guy is that he falsely advertises himself as a 'physicist', when in fact he barely grasps elementary textbook physics. He is not a physicist, he is just one spiritualist teacher/guru among many others (Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra etc etc), what he is doing in all...

To be absolutely specific, he has not been published in a peer reviewed academic journal, ie a journal where every article is carefully scrutinised by a team of top-level academics, and he never will be, because none of his work comes anywhere near to academic standards of rigour and accuracy...

You provided a link to a review of a conference at a Beligian university (the conference took place at the university, but it was not affiliated with or organised by the university, anyone can hire a room at a university for a conference), this is not a 'peer reviewed journal', since the people...

im not a physicist, i didnt mention which 'model of the proton' i accept or dont accept im talking about this man's "theory", not about my own beliefs. The theory does not reflect reality, when protons are measured, they are found to weigh about 1.67 trillionths of a trillionth of a gram...