So far there isnt much substance to your criticism, please could you spell out exactly what you find objectionable about the aspects of the ego death theory that you mention? like Hoffman's theory of Rock song lyrics, or the maximal entheogen theory of religion? Hoffman's central point about...

Your criticisms seem to be more about Michael Hoffman himself and his attitude and writing style, and not about the details of the actual ego death theory. You dont say anything particularly strong against the theory, but you say plenty against the man and his style. I personally dont share...

I came across Michael Hoffman's writings about 2 years ago, and i must say it has very much changed the way i think about psychedelics even though im not sure i fully understand it, so it is interesting to see a thread here about it i look forward to reading through it and catching up. But...

Exactly, a nonexistent prediction turned out to be nonexistent, nothing happened and nobody ever said that anything in particular was going to happen. A nonsense misunderstanding of a simple theory turned out to be a nonsense misunderstanding. Finally you get it right... Just like every other...

and nobody had ever said that anything would happen, so the fact that nothing happened isnt particularly suprising, unless you had misunderstood the ideas and thought that something was going to happen, in which case you must now be feeling pretty stupid.

This ^ is correct, but this is a completely different claim to the one you made earlier that Dennis had had "a big influence on Terence". Dennis had no influence on Terence whatsoever, Dennis was completely bereft of any original ideas and he contributed very little to any of Terence's ideas...

Now you are prevaricating. Although this ^ is true, it is not the same claim that you were making before. You were saying before that Mckenna was "predicting that something would happen in 2012", but that is a major misunderstanding of what the novelty theory is all about. Perhaps now you have...

Terence never once said (or "admitted"), in any of his books or lectures, that Dennis had had "a big influence on his work". Dennis had no part in writing true hallucinations either. Again you provide no quotes to support your false claims.

Exactly, some people seem to have failed to realise this... So you don't have any actual quotes from the people who you have misread and failed to understand. You are just arbitrarily inventing strawmen, putting false words into other people's mouths that they never said. That is a typical...

I agree, but that is a separate issue from claiming that Mckenna said that "something would change in 2012" when he didn't. According to Mckenna's theory, the "singularity at the end of time" is not an event that occurs in history, rather it is a transcendental object that exists beyond...

Pinchbeck also never predicted that anything would "change in 2012", he just jumped on the bandwagon that Terence Mckenna started. So you are just attacking strawman arguments that noone ever made. Mckenna's "timewave" theory was strained and artificial, by contrast the "novelty theory" was a...

“People have predicted change on this specific date 21 dec 2012.” Really? Who are these people? Can you give specific examples of people who “predicted change” on 21/12/2012? There are several different people and ideas/theories that relate to the 2012 date, but I...