Category: Western civilization
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Ayahuasca for the many…
From Brooklyn to Australia, there is a growing demand for ayahuasca, a tribal, hallucinogenic tea said to have both spiritual and curative properties. But, like any globalization fairy tale, the world’s embrace is threatening to suffocate the tradition at its source. The herbal tea, made by combining a rare vine and shrub found in the…
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“Freedom” & Marxism: The threat to our civilization. Christianity: The cure.
Neo marxist ideology has for a long time conquered the West. Even though we believe we won the Cold War, ideologically we lost. The materialistic ideology of the atheistic USSR, based in part on the revolutionary liberal rhetoric of the age of revolutions which started with the French Revolution, has appealed to many people. More and…
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Odysseus and the fear of “Nobody”… [OR: The primitive against the new, OR: The fear of the abyss]
Do you fear being nobody? Odysseus (the “new”, the “logical”) once fooled Cyclops (the “primitive”, the “irrational”) by being “nobody”. But upon escaping he felt the need to say to cyclops his name. He was too afraid of nothingness, too afraid that he would actually be engulfed by the primitive he so easily fooled. [Carl…
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Babies, genome and the urge to “control” things…
Babies’ genomes hold clues that can save their lives, but that same information could be used in far less noble ways. Where should we draw the line? wanders the Popular Science article. (1) Let me spare you the excitement. Nothing can be manipulated as you believe it can. We do not know what life is.…
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