Most people in the Western world, consciously or unconsciously, fluctuate between two polar orientations toward life – a religious vs. a secular outlook, which is driven by people’s perceptions of modern science. On the extreme end, religion tends to be close-minded and promotes an “us and...
the myth of the Flood suggests that psychological renewal can begin only after the ruling conscious position has suffered radical failure and mourning.) Unconscious thought develops internally, within one person, but it also develops through conversation with others. It uses an image from ...
Forget what you’ve heard about human beings having descended from the apes. We didn’t descend from apes. We are apes. Metaphorically and factually, Homo sapiens is one of the five surviving species of great apes, along with chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans (gibbons are conside...
Of course, even if most alien species do expire in this way, isn’t it stretching the limits of conjecture to suppose that all of them do? The Milky Way galaxy alone contains at least 100 billion stable solar systems;1roughly a third of these possess Earth-like planets with oceans.2The...