New perspectives on human evolution
The Significance of Mystical Experience in Understanding Human Evolution
This is likely the first attempt to explain mystical experiences with evolutionary elements. There are two evolutionary elements: genetic mutation and genetic drift. Both OOA models back my view. Morphological changes in the human species also support it. The results of these…
The hard problem
Well, I admit that David Chalmers is right.
There is a hard problem in science, but it is not the object of research, but science itself and researchers with their anthropocentric worldviews and attitudes. Arguments about the mystery of consciousness and the…
The Neanderthals
Quite a few years ago, I accidentally was drawn from philosophy into the sphere of human evolution, mysticism and psychedelics. It all started with a single remark. I was stuck with the psychic world of the Neanderthal man in a science documentary,…
The Stoned Ape hypothesis
The Stoned Ape hypothesis, put forward by ethnologist Terence McKenna, suggests that our ancestors' use of psychedelic mushrooms led to improved cognitive abilities and contributed to the rapid development of modern humans. However, this theory is challenged by the fact that evolutionary…
FAQ
Have we lost our ability to have transcendental experiences as we grow up?
First, transcendental experiences belong only to adulthood, be they spontaneous or psychedelic. Already the young may get some idea of the subconscious, but our bodies naturally do not allow them to experience anything deeper than that. The young grow up as they…
What is being an adult? I don’t think there is an objective definition for this.
I am redefining mental adulthood as a consequence of my hypothesis. The mystical experience can only be understood, in my view, as a lost and suddenly re-appearing adulthood. So it is something very different from the ”social” adulthood we are used to.…
How did you reach your conclusions? Through the psychedelic state?
Not through psychedelics, but through a mystical experience. Mystical experience has been quite well described in Wikipedia, while it is not explained there as I see it. I am referring, in particular, to the rarely manifested version of it which is produced…
Worth watching
The real world by Alan Watts
I respect Alan Watts (1915-73), widely known for his books and speeches on Oriental philosophy. He speaks openly and clearly, always intending to get the listener to understand the heart of his message. And I think he only really had one, but all…
Hofmann’s Potion
The great scientist Albert Hofmann should be taken seriously — much more seriously than is being done today. Hofmann clearly understood that LSD or psychedelics, in general, carry a great mystery. Psychedelics are not just medicine for the mentally anxious and distressed,…
Philosophy
Mysticism and Religion
Richard Dawkins and the nuisance of religion
An evolutionary biologist and a well-known advocate of scientific thinking, Richard Dawkins seems to criticize religion and belief because these are based on mass hysteria and fear as a political tool. However, science works differently. It is contemplating without being subjected to…
Articles from the book
Theses In terms of evolution, modern humans are 1) a bunch of hereditary defective (sick) individuals 2) of the species Homo bodoensis (the Heidelberg man) 3) who survived while the rest of the species became extinct. Their survival was due to a genetic defect.…
Humanity includes the assumption that we would not have developed differently and not even better as human beings. Man is a unique and superior organism created either by nature or by God. We even think of the rest of the world as…