Tag: modern society
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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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God is Dead. Along with some babies. The era of Enlightenment as an Era of Evil.
‘We promised our little boy every single day that we would take him home’, said the mother of little Charlie. We want to give him a bath at home, put him in a cot which he has never slept in but we are now being denied that. We know what day our son is going…
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Decline in religion, decline in morality.
Religious decline does not equal moral decline, says researcher. [1] How original. Stupid prejudiced science reaches to stupid prejudiced conclusions. We must be careful to compare things with the same standards. Morality has not declined based on our standards now, because our standards have demised into a pulp of liberalism. But morality and ethics is…
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Philosophy is AGAINST democracy. By default!
All great philosophers have in one way or the other been against democracy. And this is something we must always have into account. From Socrates and his “who will rule the boat” question, to Nietzsche, Plato and Heidegger, all great philosophers have been away from the masses. It could not be the other way around anyway.…
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Judge the tree by its fruits…
You will judge them by their fruits (Gr. Από τους καρπούς τους και μόνο μπορείτε να τους κρίνετε), said once upon a time a wise man… And how true is this in todays society. Modern people are full with distrust, with hate, with love for all the wrong things, with greed, with impatience, with lack…
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