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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Blowing off steam increases aggression
It’s a myth that releasing emotions makes everything better (that blowing your top will defuse your anger, for example). “Better out than in,” the saying goes. Almost half a century’s worth of research shows that “blowing off steam” usually increases aggression. The only time…
Jesus Myth Theory
Myth
Remsburg then went further using David Strauss and John Fiske to explain that there were three kinds of myths: Historical, Philosophical, and Poetical. A Historical myth is "a real event colored by the light of antiquity, which confounded the human and divine, the natural and…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
L'imperatore discendente degli dèi
Il nesso tra Amaterasu e la stirpe di Yamato è ancora più stretto. La dea, cui non era più precluso il dominio della terra, vi mandò il nipote Ninigi a governare il Paese favorito. Questi scese dal cielo, atterrando su Kyushu, una delle isole dell’arcipelago nipponico. Gli dèi…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
The myth of a pagan sexual golden age
Our own culture has its myths about the remote past, and one myth that dies hard is that the "invention" of sexual guilt, shame and fear by the christians destroyed a golden age of free, fearless and pagan sexuality. ....linguistic inhibition, then, was observably strengthened…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Four levels of the psychedelic experience
Masters and Houston start by asking the basic question facing anyone who becomes involved with LSD—how can individual trips differ so wildly from one person to the next?—and drawing on several years of research, they speak of “four levels of the drug experience hypothesized as…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Disciples invent the master they want
Sadly, it is now almost universally assumed by classical scholars that Pythagoras never existed. It seems that there was a group of people in southern Italy called Pythagoreans who invented a ‘Founder’ for their beliefs who, accordingly, lived and died in a manner consistent…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Cosmic Idiot replaces God
Those who continued to believe in Someone-Up-There-Who-Cares were ridiculed as woolly-minded wishful thinkers, poor weaklings unable to face man’s grim predicament in a heartless universe where survival is the sole privilege of the tough guys. If the all-too-intelligent God was…
The Myth Of Apollo -- Did The Usa Really Go To The Moon?
Apollo landing on the moon a hoax?
Despite this, I have nonetheless come to the conclusion that the Moon landings were most probably a hoax and the photographs and video footage faked. I am satisfied that the whole enterprise was not an exercise in scientific endeavour but in myth-making. The myth of Apollo was…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
The myth of spoiling babies
In every child development course I’ve ever taught, someone has asked about “spoiling” children by responding to them when they cry. Once an infant teacher rolled her eyes at me as she walked with a screaming baby and said, “This child is just too attached to her parents! I’m…