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…
Terence McKenna, (1946–2000) was an American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist and the older brother of ethnopharmacologist DennisMcKenna, founder of the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. Psychedelic substances have an incredibly long but primarily ignored history. In that history, it has been noted…
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 real murder mystery. The date, the course of events, and the motives are missing. Yet, we have a pile of bones and lots of stone tools, but they can't lead us to understand when and how…
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…
About 20 years ago, I was fascinated by Neanderthal man and how it differed from modern man. I then wrote the text below to describe the speciality of our kindred species. Despite the poetic tone of the text, I find it beneficial…
”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…
Many projects that seek to understand human activity have in common that they try to build a unified theory that includes both the bizarre experiences and the mundane world we usually perceive. They do not see these two worlds as separate but…
One of the most significant stumbling blocks in almost all explanations of consciousness is that they focus on the wrong thing. The consciousness we most often talk about is trivial in terms of understanding the facility of the mind. In addition to…