Mysticism is when someone has a special experience that makes them feel connected to everything in the world. It's something that happens to some people, but we don't really know why. Even though some people try techniques to have this experience, it…
Christmas marks the celebration of the birth of the most famous mystic in the West. What mystics have in common is that they have something complicated to share with people, but not with other mystics. It isn’t easy to make people believe…
Sometimes, very rarely, though, it happens that unexpectedly our mind behaves strangely and, for a while, we experience something called a mystical experience. However, our consciousness does not expand or rise to a higher level, even though it may seem so. On…
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey began one of his last lectures by saying something funny. Still, I don't think it was meant as a joke: “The problem that afflicted the acceptance of the position of humans and non-humans has continued to be a point…
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…
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.…
The emergence of humans is a mystery, with many unanswered questions about when and how our ancestors became like us. Despite piles of bones and stone tools, it is difficult to understand the course of events and the motives behind this evolution.…
The ego, or the self, is considered a great mystery and an indication of the unique quality of man. In man’s world, the ego is a unique phenomenon and an integral part of all humanity. However, this is neither an objective nor…
The expansion of modern humans from Africa through Asia to Europe and the rest of the planet marked the beginning of a new kind of life on Earth and the final loss of a traditional way of life of the homo genus.…
”We should do well to consider much more seriously... the type of theory Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main…