Human psyche – Homo reliquiae

Reason and the paradoxical passion of understanding

Explaining things is undoubtedly innate to modern man and therefore nearly all key issues of humanity are related to explaining one way or another. Maybe that is why various ethical and philosophical groups, non-profit organizations, churches and scientific communities have tried to…

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Problems caused by the mental disorder in an adult individual

I'll describe here shortly the problems that an unsuccessful transformation related to mental aging causes in an adult individual. The source of the problem is almost impossible to spot precisely because nothing happens in our minds as we move from adolescence to…

Human psyche by Jukka 3.5.2021

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The hoax of adulthood

One of mankind's strangest tacit agreements is that grown-up people call themselves "adults". In fact, they are not adults and they know it for themselves. They are overage teenagers in adult bodies. That is why people tend to speak of constant development…

Human psyche by Jukka 20.9.2020

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Heaven is a metaphor for the lost human mind

The price of our innate tendency to resist change is that we will never feel cohesion with nature. We will always be strangers there. Sadly enough, we will carry the arrogance of a teenager within us forever. Our own mental world will…

Documentaries etc Human psyche by Jukka 20.9.2020

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The real world by Alan Watts

I have great respect for Alan Watts (1915-73), who is widely known for his books and speeches on Oriental philosophy. He speaks simply and clearly always with the goal of getting the listener to understand the essence of his message. And I think he…

Human psyche by Jukka 16.9.2020

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Mystical experience is a remnant of an ancient mental metamorphosis

Sometimes, very rarely though, it happens that unexpectedly our mind behaves strangely and, for a while, we experience something that is called a mystical experience. However, our consciousness does not expand or rise to a higher level even though it may seem so.…

Human psyche by Jukka 16.9.2020

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What is consciousness?

Certain peculiarities in our personal growth and development offer an interesting opportunity for the interpretation of consciousness. It is worth noting that unlike psychedelic experiences, the spontaneous changes in the state of consciousness provide us with the key to the causes of…

Human psyche by Jukka 23.6.2020

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What is understanding and what is experiencing?

The figure above ("Les Voyageurs" by Bruno Catalano) confirmed my idea that there is some mechanism in our human psyche that must limit and modify our sensory perceptions so that they can be handled with very simple and idiot-proof tools. These idiot-proof…

Human psyche by Jukka 2.6.2020

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Origin of facial recognition

Pareidolia is the tendency to recognise faces all around us. But what causes it? And where does the phenomenon come from? Science considers facial recognition to be a cognitive bias. It means we therefore tend to emphasise our observations, interpretations, and information…

Human psyche by Jukka 28.5.2019

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Why do we suffer?

The evolution of modern man is studied in paleoanthropology. Bone fossils tell of structural changes in species, but not of mental development. The mind is not retained in the soil sediments. There is still a road to the ancient mental landscape. From…