Ayahuasca brewing | Indigenous peoples always knew that the problem of our mind— or sickness, as they called it—can be treated with plants. That is done, for example, by the ayahuasca of the Amazonian people. Religions also talk about hereditary human sickness,…
The human species was born as stripped-down from standard features of homo heidelbergensis, not as supplemented. When ruthless nature in Africa exterminated the adult phenotype, it could not kill out the few members of the adolescent phenotype. They escaped extinction by using…
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The power of psychedelics is gaining increasing interest in several fields of science. Some professional philosophers are attracted to the impact of psychedelics on philosophical thinking, particularly on metaphysics, which is the science of the most fundamental questions of knowledge. In…
How similar were Alan Watts and Ludwig Wittgenstein?
Alan Watts (1915-73) was an Americanised British disseminator of Oriental thinking in the West. In a film shot in 1971, he discusses things that my book deals with and seeks to open up. Watts localises the problem to man’s particular urge to…
Stone tool making tells quite directly about a very old, more than two million-year-old transmitted defect that became much later the core of all humanity.
The pivotal point in interpreting the early human evolution in my hypothesis is to understand how…
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…
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…
The psychic peculiarity of modern man can be explained by two significant transitions shown in the figure above:
Genetic error, or mental growth disorder
The bottleneck effect, caused by harsh environmental conditions.
The mental growth disorder
The gradual spread of the mental…
The figure above (“Les Voyageurs” by Bruno Catalano) confirmed my idea that some mechanism in our human psyche must limit and modify our sensory perceptions so that our body can handle them with straightforward and idiot-proof tools. These idiot-proof instruments, like cognition,…