http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/ Ego Death Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:43:57 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5120 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5120 Yahoo, Don't delete this group. I am on hiatus and will be posting to this popular scholarly group in a year or two. This is an important archival weblog and Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:19:31 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5119 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5119 ... basis of a religion in Late Antiquity, some of Allegro's bold postulates will remain standing, even while his premise of an anti-drug Roman culture rested Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:14:03 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5118 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5118 In my book review of David Hillman's The Chemical Muse, for altered-state experiential phenomenology, I cited Benny Shanon's book Antipodes. I could also Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:57:15 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5117 I wrote and posted this review today. The ASIN book links resolve when reading the review at Amazon. Review title: Maximal entheogen theory of religion in Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:12:43 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5116 The Church of Christ quasi-denomination is based on the principle of exactly modelling today's church worship activity on the model that is specified in the Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:43:07 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5115 I might read-aloud various decent past postings. I want to refine my spoken-word recording skills, including the vocalization (clean, natural, and flowing), Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:22:27 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5114 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5114 I re-recorded my reading of the post "Emergent missional post-church practice, entheogen house-church movement", and uploaded it. Signal/noise ratio: This Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:00:27 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5113 This recording doesn't have the signal-noise ratio I hoped for. I need to put a real sound-card in this computer. Probably all the still-substantial noise in Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:47 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5112 On my latest spoken-word file, reading the posting "Emergent missional post-church practice, entheogen house-church movement", I spoke louder (at Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:10 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5111 Podcast of this posting: 7 minutes, 5 MB One way to download the file: at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5111 (intended to be the number of the Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:56:10 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5110 I often puzzle over what role or practice I could possibly do to be a meaningful part of Christianity and Christian practice. I researched "missional", Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:21:11 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5109 In terms of social groups, I also have a degree of feeling I'm a "Great American", "Great Californian", "Great Engineer", and "Great Alumni". I'm not only a Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:19:52 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5108 I'm ready to relatively turn my attention back to my Phase 1 topic of cognitive science/ cognitive phenomenology, rather than my more recent Phase 2 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:57:31 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5107 ... experience, to help take the reader closer to the state of dissociation. Help people relate to the words, 'dissociative state' or 'loose cognition,' by Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:37:51 GMT Michael Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/5106 Shorter URL: Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060859490/