Facing the Fear of Death
Engaging with worldviews beyond our own is one way of confronting death in order to transform our fear of it. Other people have faced their fear of death and shifted it to life-affirming values through their direct personal experience, their spiritual beliefs and practices, and their philosophy of life.
Third Giant Megalith, Weighing 1,650 Tons, Confirmed At Baalbek
I believe these huge megaliths long predate the construction of the Temple of Jupiter and are likely to be 12,000 or more years old — contemporaneous with the megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.
Global Brains & Singularities: Cadell Last & Michael Garfield Debate The Technopocalypse
Cadell Last is an evolutionary anthropologist at the Global Brain Institute and producer of the PBS Digital Studios series The Advanced Apes. We discussed the possibility that our entire planet is waking up as a single super-intelligent organism, and the consequences – both light and dark – for both humankind and the whole biosphere…
Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture, Stanford anthropologist says
Steve Fyffe People suffering from schizophrenia may hear “voices” – auditory hallucinations – differently depending on their cultural context, according to new Stanford research.
William Irwin Thompson on the Horizons of Planetary Culture
My second rap with poet-philosopher William Irwin Thompson, on the transformations of self and society in an age of collapse and emergence – of cyborgs, surveillance, and psychedelics, paranoid apocalypticism and inspired new visions for our species…
Karahan Tepe
I’m in Turkey on another research trip for “Magicians of the Gods”, the sequel to “Fingerprints of the Gods” that I’m working on for publication in 2015.
Why Did Our Brains Stop Expanding?
In the forest the human brain was expanding at a phenomenal rate. Around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, this process came to an end. The brain stopped expanding and started to shrink. Brain shrinkage appears to coincide with major dietary change.
Mystery of the Human Intelligence Explosion
How did we start the intelligence explosion that anthropologists call the “human revolution”?
Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World – A Review
Subversive Spiritualities is the fruit of many years of anthropological fieldwork and meditations upon the “cosmocentric economy” of indigenous peoples and the “Modern Constitution” of the West. In it Apffel-Marglin weaves a fugue.
Graham Hancock at the National Arts Club: Exploring Consciousness
Graham Hancock gives a lecture for the historic National Arts Club- Art and Technology Committee to a capacity audience. The title of the lecture is “Exploring Consciousness: Upper Paleolithic Cave Art to Modern Day Shamanism”. He covers his views on cons…
