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…
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.…
Mysticism and Philosophy is a book on mystical experience published by Walter Terence Stace in 1960. Stace's work is, as its name implies, a philosophical work. It is not about life skills or an ethical guide but a clarification of concepts (mostly…
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…
The article argues that consciousness is an intermediary stage between childhood and adulthood, meant to protect and guide our growth but should eventually disappear. However, due to the rebellion of our defective ancestors against their extinction, consciousness remains and prevents us from…
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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.…
We can discuss psychedelics in two different ways, either distorting or revealing reality. If we treat them as distorting or hallucinogens, there is no point in looking for their logic because substances that distort reality have nothing to do with understanding reality.…
Paleoanthropology explores modern human evolution. Bone fossils speak of structural changes in species but not of mental development. Unfortunately, the mind is not retained in the soil sediments. There is still a path to the ancient mental landscape. From time to time,…