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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Very basically/generally, the subject feels as if everything that he was familiar with has come to an end, the world has finished, time has come to an end, everything dramatically falls apart. The belief in reality is disproved resulting in sheer insanity the entire website is about this...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    ALL experience is subjective! ie the term 'objective experience' is a blatant self-contradiction, experiences are private, mental phenomena there is not really such a thing as 'the religious experience' (implying only one experience), because religious experiencing encompasses a range of...
  3. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Solipsism is one totally simple idea, other minds don't exist except as indirect representations, i see my own mental contents, but i dont see other people's, that is solipsism that's an arbitrary psychiatric label and has no connection with ontic solipsism If other people's feelings dont...
  4. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    ego death is the most INTENSE and PROFOUND experience the human mind can undergo, it's a 'mystical orgasm', but it doesnt have to have anyhting to do with Hoffman's theory, i experienced it long before i understood the theory, but the theory makes it transparent exactly how it works and what happens
  5. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Solispsism isnt any kind of 'belief system', it is one simple idea, that other people's minds dont exist Believing this idea follows very naturally from adopting a philosophical 'hyper-reflexive' view of reality, because whereas your own mental contents are presented directly to consciousness...
  6. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    but if solipsism is true, then there is no 'suffering of the world', so killing yourself wont make any difference to anyone except yourself, since noone but yourself even exists
  7. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    This is missing the point of solipsism, if solpsism is true, then there is NOONE to pick up the pieces, there are NO family and friends solpsism is a perfectly coherent philosophical position, impossible to disprove
  8. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    yes the inquisitions were all about plants
  9. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    No im just saying that the video of Susan Greenfield is about the brain (she is a neuroscientist, who by the way thinks that all drug users should be in prison) ego death theory is about the mind, not the brain this issue is of no importance to ego death theory, because as i said earlier the...
  10. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    that video isn't about computational theory of mind, so largely irrelevant to what is being discussed here, that video doesnt mention 'minds' once it is a related, but entirely distict claim to say that 'brains' are computers
  11. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It isnt a 'teaching' of all religions (that is a category error, ego death is an 'experience' not a 'teaching'), rather all religions arise from the ego death experience, the experience is at the core of all religions. Hoffman said on one of his podcasts something like "religion started the day...
  12. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It isnt the same as religions, it is more accurate to call it a 'systematisation of religion' rather than a new religion. All religions are essentially the same at the core, they all consist of collections of allegorical descriptions of transformative religious experience and perennial...
  13. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    As in Asimov's short-story 'the last question' But they are ALL 'entheogenic' or 'psychedelic', ie they all fall under a common label, you wouldnt put alcohol or cocaine under the label 'entheogenic', because the effect of cocaine (on consciousness) is not entheogenic, you dont 'trip' when you...
  14. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    ah thanx for that i am not very familiar with her work, that is a very good idea :)
  15. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Simplicity and generality are some of Hoffman's central aims in theorising about ego death on the first place, he makes the theory as simple and as general as possible so that it can function as a general model/approximation of psychedelic mental transformation "Simplicity of the model is a...
  16. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It isnt the point that me or Hoffman states/thinks that we are computers ego death theory is a modern theory, it is a product of the modern era of academic understanding, and the computational analogy for minds is vastly dominant within modern-era academia, there are no competing theories afaik...
  17. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I think maybe there are 2 senses of 'ego death' - one sense is the trip itself where you die, that can happen more than once and it can happen to different degrees, if you trip hard enough you can always start to 'worry' to some extent whether you will be able to maintain your egoic stability...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    The naive, uninitiated ego is like a computer with a logical paradox programmed right at the core of its operating system, the ego believes that it is *literally* an independant control-agent wielding power over the immediate future. When the ego undergoes psychedelic ego-death, the ego...
  19. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    the relevant point about the past regarding determinism isnt how real or unreal it is, it is rather the fact that the immediate future seems to be more or less under my control, whereas the past is completely beyond my control. I can decide for example to go and get a drink of water in the next...
  20. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    the core of the ignorance and stupidity in modern religion and popular spirituality is the lack of awareness of entheogens entheogen-free religion is apostasy
  21. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    nobody is trying to 'convince' anyone, im just talking about ego death theory, lots of people find it difficult to understand the theory, so i am explaining it clearly and clarifying people's misunderstandings about it there is no "meditation vs medication debate", there is simply the fact...
  22. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    the 'past' refers to anything before the present moment, things that have ALREADY happened, are in the past, for example, yesterday is in the past, tomorrow is in the future in tis context, 'frozen' means the same as 'unchangeable', you cannot change an event in the past because it has already...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    You can know this by using basic logical deduction: once an event has happened and is in the past, it cant be changed without travelling backwards in time. Travelling backwards in time is impossible because nobody has yet invented a working time machine. Therefore, events in the past are...
  24. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    MANY people have said exactly that, or that if you meditate for long enough you can eventually achieve mystical enlightenment Because modern popular spirituality and religion strictly forbids drugs and only advocates drug-free meditation/prayer/contemplation, so the modern 'official' world has...
  25. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    The point is you THINK you have died, the ego is the thinker, hence the term 'ego death' Everybody thinks meditation is something different, there is no consensus about what it is, or what it is supposed to deliver, so it is arbitrary and pointless to argue over definitions, I was using the...
  26. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It isnt a 'set' that you can 'choose', it is a theory about the mind. the mind receives inputs, processes them and generates outputs, that is exactly what a computer does, therefore the mind is a computer the mind is not a biological organism, dont confuse the human body with the human mind...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    This ^ is the classic model of ego death and rebirth/transcendence, the basic experience is something like "i took drugs, and what i saw forever changed the way i think about life/the world" It is important to realise that he isnt stating the timeless determinism idea as a 'fact' about...
  28. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    it is only the lower, non-transcendent version of religion that requires 'rules to follow', whereas from the point of entheogen-inspired higher/transcendent religion, the very notion of 'having to follow rules' is logically self-defeating (ie it contradicts the principle of timeless determinism...
  29. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    why not? It does exactly the same thing that a computer does (it processes information) To put the point more directly, meditation doesnt allow you to access intense mystical/religious states of consciousness repetably and reliably, whereas entheogens do. It is very important to compare...
  30. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    it isnt mine or Hoffman's assertion, it is rather the prevailing modern psychological understanding of the mind (computationalism), it is almost universally assented to within academic psychology and philosophy (and other fields that deal with the mind) but i agree with what you are saying...
  31. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    it isnt based on either opinion or knowledge, it is based on explanatory cohesion, the concept of timeless determinism comprehensively explains why time seems to stop flowing in the ego death experience I know for sure that this ^ is NOT the case, some people (who have abnormal brain-chemistry...
  32. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    No that isnt what the theory is saying, ego death theory isnt a treatise of metaphysics, it is primarily a cognitive phenomenological model of the ego death experience. So it isnt saying which dimensions exist or dont exist, rather it is saying what happens on the cognitive level in the deep...
  33. M

    An Alternate Theory on Bicycle Day.

    ive read about this before, it certainly seems like something a bit strange was going on here, acid trips are never that shortlasting However, spontaneous religious experiences are rarely that long lasting
  34. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    egodeath.com is probably the most advanced piece of writing in the world, it is years ahead of the rest of psychedelic academia, it is the start of a 'conceptual revolution'
  35. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Thanx! :) Ive been thinking maybe i should ask him to do another interview for Psychonautica, it would be an excuse to find out exactly what he is up to, if anyone can suggest some questions i could put to him that would be much appreciated
  36. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    he isnt trying to be poetic, he is trying to be absolutely precise, clear, explicit honest etc and i dont think there are any psychedelic writers who have explained the psychedelic experience as clearly as him what do you mean 'doesnt appeal'? the model of timeless determinism (which isnt...
  37. M

    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Hoffman has been on sabbatical since 2007, i vaguely remember him saying he would return to work on ego death theory in 2009 but it hasnt happened yet, hopefully some time soon he will start posting the ego death yahoo group (which is well worth reading as well as his main website, lots of...
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    Xmas special Psychonautica 82 - final part of Grof seminar

    In the Christmas day special episode of Psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the final installment of Stanislav Grof's seminar 'Psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey' from the World Psychedelic forum. Grof talks about Einstein's astrological transits and how they correspond to...
  39. M

    Psychonautica 79 - Stan Grof seminar pt.6

    im totally obsessed with entheogens, not Grof though ive only read 2 of his books, he is definitly one of the better entheogen-scholars but he isnt the best. im only dedicating so much podcast time to him because there is a large amount of his material from the WPF to podcast (this seminar was...
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    Psychonautica 79 - Stan Grof seminar pt.6

    In this fortnight's installment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout first talks about the recent health scare over a toxic batch of 2cb, and talks about the natural/synthetic distinction. Next Max plays the 6th part of the Stanislav Grof seminar 'psychospiritual death and rebirth: a visionary...
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    Horrible problem(s)

    oh shit this is really sad :cry: im sure he's in a better place now, he was obviously having a really fucking hard time here....
  42. M

    English Defence League

    looks like a pointless BNP spin-off :roll:
  43. M

    GODbye

    then why havent you actually said goodbye? :?: :roll: did you start this thread so you could talk about yourself and get everyone else talking about you? Because that is what has actually happened, the actual outcome of this thread, this is a thread about you it is very sad that such a...
  44. M

    GODbye

    so why exactly was this thread started in the first place? :?: :roll:
  45. M

    Psychonautica 77 - Stan Grof seminar pt.4

    In this week's installment of Psychonautica, Grof talks about verifiably authentic experiences of identifying with animals during LSD trips, the importance of accelerating through psychotic experiences instead of administering tranquilisers to suppress them, telepathic experiences in trip...
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    Insight into non-being from enthogens - stuns me!

    more specifically they are 'powerful and rapid' (and reliably repeatable) means of accessing intense transcendental states of consciousness. ie if you take a big dose of LSD, and a few hours later you are *guaranteed* to be having a powerfully intense magical experience. There is no other...
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    Insight into non-being from enthogens - stuns me!

    which discussion forum was this? I would love to have a discussion about non-being and entheogens with religious people! :lol: Heidegger said the cental problem for philosophy is how does something come from nothing? entheogens are not 'cheats', they are the most efficient, safe and reliable...
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    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    thankyou very much for doing that for me! But it is very dissapointing :cry: it's exactly the opposite, the first date was my first 'life-changing' satori experience and it was a totally blissful ecstatic trip to magnificent heaven, and then set me on a new adventure in life afterwards. The...
  49. M

    Horrible problem(s)

    i dont think it's a 'disease' at all
  50. M

    Horrible problem(s)

    Mckenna characterised shamans as 'recovered schizophrenics', they have been to the schizophrenic wonderland and returned in one piece, and this experience gives them the understanding of the mental healing process that is necessary to be a shaman
  51. M

    A very deep insight.

    ah thanx i didnt know Krishna was associated with time, it's a very powerful concept
  52. M

    Horrible problem(s)

    Huxley was totally spot on in most of what he said about these experiences, his words are just as relevant now as they were when he was alive :D
  53. M

    A very deep insight.

    but for the purposes of this thread, Kali is explicitly meant to be the goddess of time and change
  54. M

    A very deep insight.

    what do you mean 'what about the war dance'? The war dance symbolises the frenzied psychotic chaos and mayhem of ego-fragmentation she was dancing so crazily, that the whole world was falling apart, her frenzied excitement as she slaughtered the army of demons (ego) was threatening the...
  55. M

    A very deep insight.

    she is a MYTH, myths are not meant to 'exist', they are meant to symbolise and Kali symbolises the experience of cognitive fragmentation/ego death, this experience does exist, it is commonly encountered on entheogens so the experience exists, and the story of Kali's frenzied war dance is a big...
  56. M

    A very deep insight.

    if youre interested you should read about Kali this is one of my favourite images ever: this is Kali doing an insane war-dance, as she does so, the whole earth shakes, and ego falls apart in destructive chaos the necklace of heads represents ego, Kali kills ego by splitting it apart along...
  57. M

    A very deep insight.

    this is the meaning of the Hindu myth of the goddess Kali, the devouring mother goddess, she is meant to represent time
  58. M

    Horrible problem(s)

    wow that's DARK! :shock:
  59. M

    Theorys on Purpose and Creation

    i had to give up reading process and reality i found it just too complicated, but your post has inspired me to dig it out and try again :D
  60. M

    Horrible problem(s)

    speak for yourself, not for other people vlad isnt saying something that needs to be agreed with or disagreed with, he is just describing his experiences
  61. M

    Theorys on Purpose and Creation

    what you experience, is a series of separate events, cup drops, cup smashes, coffee spills, etc. But you do not experience the actual connection between these events, and in that sense time doesnt exist
  62. M

    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    i would be very grateful for that, does this involve knowing my birthdate also?
  63. M

    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    no my podcast comes out on www.dopefiend.co.uk and i have a forum at www.thegrowreport.com
  64. M

    Theorys on Purpose and Creation

    This is a really deep subject, it was discussed before on this thread: http://www.psychonaut.com/index.php?opt ... t=&lang=en the creation of the universe is a 'first cause', but a first cause is a logical paradox, the paradox of the self-mover/uncaused cause So the universe comes into...
  65. M

    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    i hadnt seen that thanx! :D
  66. M

    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    yes that's right it's the seminar from the Monday, i had no idea there was a holotropic breathing workshop though, this is a seminar, it goes on for hours so this will take a while to fully podcast
  67. M

    Psychonautica 74 - Stan Grof - psychospiritual death/rebirth

    In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the first part of a day-long seminar by Stanislav Grof, from the world psychedelic forum, entitled 'psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey'. Grof talks about the meaning of the categories 'non-ordinary' and 'holotropic' states...
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    universe

    how does time change?
  69. M

    universe

    right but nothing ever changes
  70. M

    universe

    yes totally, time is an illusion, there is only one eternal moment which is NOW
  71. M

    Psychonautica 73 - Interview with Christian Rätsch

    does the 'scatology' joke work in German? :?:
  72. M

    Gnosis, but is that not what we experience on psychedelics?

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    Gnosis, but is that not what we experience on psychedelics?

    i dont think drugs are a 'path', they are a tool, you can be on any path and use drugs but taking entheogens in a responsible way with a serious intent is a pretty much guaranteed way of experiencing gnosis, unlike meditation which rarely works to the full extent that entheogens do
  74. M

    Gnosis, but is that not what we experience on psychedelics?

    what about on psychonaut.com? There's plenty of valuable teachings here. And erowid? if this site is claiming to be about 'gnosis' surely it should mention the fact that psychedelic drugs routinely cause experiences of gnosis, consciousness expansion and enlightenment like what?
  75. M

    Gnosis, but is that not what we experience on psychedelics?

    i take back what i said, i had a closer look and the website DOES mention drugs, but only in a purely negative, derogatory and totally BULLSHIT way: in the section about Dionysos
  76. M

    Psychonautica 73 - Interview with Christian Rätsch

    in was more worried about the passing aeroplanes than the chirping birds... it's interesting what you say about the santo daime/UDV comment, because ive had some critical feedback about that on other forums, it does seem pretty extreme to call it 'drugs abuse' i have to reserve judgement myself...
  77. M

    Gnosis, but is that not what we experience on psychedelics?

    there's no mention of drugs anywhere in that website :cry:
  78. M

    Psychonautica 73 - Interview with Christian Rätsch

    In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout interviews author, anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Rätsch, they talk about mythology, religion and altered state experiences, myth as a tool for understanding reality, the role of belief and the literal interpretation of Christian...
  79. M

    Hello internet castrati

    the internet is the brain of the human oversoul, forming in the womb of the Earth :)
  80. M

    Why are psychedelics so two sided?

    it's not just a case of 'going insane', rather it is experiencing insanity alongside sanity, and being able to integrate and understand BOTH states of consciousness in terms of each other. The kind of delusional, Julius Caesar state results from having too much of the insane state and not being...
  81. M

    Why are psychedelics so two sided?

    yes i totally agree there's a wonderful quote by Jan Svankmajer at the beginning of the film 'lunacy' which says something like: there are two ways to run a lunatic asylum, each equally extreme. One encourages absolute freedom. The other, the old-fashioned, world tried method consists of...
  82. M

    Why are psychedelics so two sided?

    i think that these ^ are actually one and the same thing, to go insane IS to become enlightened the two-sidedness is more in the fact that you can have a glowing blissful good trip, or a hellish traumatic bad trip
  83. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    where is this from?
  84. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    yes it's only a problem of language that people tend to make distinctions between psychological issues and spiritual issues, they are both exactly the same thing really, because they are both, at the centre, concerned with THE MIND this is reflected in Abraham Maslow's terminology to describe...
  85. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    yeah i totally agree with this too, that is exactly what a psychedelic experience is, the drugs are the ultimate psychotherapists
  86. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    ive come to think that shamanic ceremonies are the best environment to trip in, if you are lucky enough to be able to attend one, then there are sitters on hand to help you, but in general you can have your own intense trip where you dont have to stay grounded in reality
  87. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    yes i totally agree, there are 2 distinct things that are required for ego death, the experience itself, and the subsequent mental work to integrate the experience. If you dont have BOTH these things, then the full enlightenment/ego-transcendence will not happen so there are 2 ways of...
  88. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    it has a religious AND a psychological emphasis in Hoffman's theory (and also a phenomenological emphasis). Nothing Hoffman says really contradicts anything Grof said, but Hoffman goes a lot deeper into the specific experience of ego death. Whereas Grof was focused on people with overt...
  89. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    but there is also dreaming which is arguably a separate experience from life (Jung focused a lot on this realm of experience)
  90. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    ego death is the main aim of psychedelic psychotherapy, which was Grof's speciality but Grof only ever conceived of ego death striclty from within the psychology paradigm, which is arguably a flawed paradigm (as Sartre argued, the whole conceot of an 'unconscious', which is at the heart of...
  91. M

    What can we do?

    you cannot 'do' anything except wait and see what life is for
  92. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    being 'important' is relative, it is important to the person who has experienced it, because it entirely transforms the way that life is understood the ego is forced to adopt an entirely new worldmodel, the enlightened/transcendent model, whichj no longer takes the ego-illusion for granted ego...
  93. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    because at the end of the experience, a true miracle happens, something that seems completely impossible, happens nonetheless, which is that the trip ends, and the ego discovers that it was, after all, just a trip (during the experience, the ego stops believing that it is a drug-trip, and...
  94. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    the higher self is the mind (the mental model of the world) which is actually everything that exists (the concept 'Brahman' in Hindu philosophy), so it is a 'bigger box' in a sense, but it is infinitely big, it has no boundaries (it is literally EVERYTHING) the ego by contrast is a mental...
  95. M

    Stan Grof's LSD Psychotherapy

    there is no dispute about 'believing in' ego death or not, because it is a fairly common experience among psychonauts there isnt 'often' a ressurection, there is ALWAYS a ressurection, really 'ego death' is only the first part of what happens, the full process is more accurately termed 'ego...
  96. M

    Sex with animals

    a psychiatrist would diagnose you with 'paraphilia' and give you medication to combat it but as far as i can see it is a perfectly normal, natural fetish that some people have, that does no harm to anything, most dogs/horses etc are very enthusiastic at the opportunity to fuck a human. and im...
  97. M

    Video: Christian Rätsch on the proper use of magic mushroom

    that's great thanx and more from Ratsch coming very soon........
  98. M

    Terrorist McKenna

    there is no point in trying to convince the brainwashed 'masses' that they havent got a clue about what religion is, that is an impossible task, but it is important to recognise it and agree amongst ourselves, the insiders, that the essence of true religion is religious experience
  99. M

    Terrorist McKenna

    i very much disagree with this, modern-era churches have lost all connection with the true meaning of religion, so it is completely false to connect them, churches have NOTHING TO DO with religion whatsoever religion is about religious experience (which involves the body), churches actively...
  100. M

    Terrorist McKenna

    im not 'pretending' anything :roll: nothing IS real!!!

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