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Category Archives: Psychology
Our Vanishing World: Wildlife
By Robert J. Burrowes Throughout its history, Earth has experienced five mass extinction events. See, for example, ‘Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth’. It is now experiencing the sixth. The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which occurred about 439 million years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, education, Environment, History, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 6th Extinction, Biodiversity, Biosphere, civilization, co-extinction, Cognitive Revolution, Ecology, environment, Extinction, extinction cascades, habitat destruction, localized extinctions, Mass Extinction, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Sociology, Violence, Yuval Noah Harari
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So, About That Moment Of Clarity You Experienced That One Time…
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com At some point in your life you’ve experienced at least one moment of clarity. Maybe it was just a little bit of clarity, maybe you got reamed up the third eye by The Whole Enchilada, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality
Tagged Awakening, clarity, Consciousness, Meditation, Mind, Philosophy, psychology, Reality, spirituality, Truth
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They Live, We Sleep: Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re living … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Consumerism, Coporate Media, Corporatism, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, fascism, fear, Government, John Carpenter, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, psychology, society, Sociology, They Live, tyranny
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Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives for sociopathy only increase. “Sociopath” is a word we now encounter regularly in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged corporatocracy, culture, Economic Crash, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, IPOs, Netflix, Oliogarchy, Plutocracy, psychology, psychopaths, Sherlock Holmes, society, Sociology, sociopaths, Steve Jobs, WeWork
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Ending Violence, Exploitation, Ecological Destruction and War: Creating a Culture of Peace
By Robert J. Burrowes The date 11 November is well known and commemorated in many parts of the world because it marks the Armistice ending World War I – ‘the Great War’ – in 1918. In the evocative words used … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged cultural violence, culture, Direct violence, Ecological violence, Education, Exploitation, Institutional violence, invisible violence, Johan Galtung, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Parenting, Peace, Philosophy, police state, psychological violence, psychology, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, war
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The Wounded Mind
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times There’s something fundamentally wrong with how the world is right now. Don’t you see it – feel it? We are a species with noble character, with a great spirit, and with a sacred soul. In … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, elites, Health, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Authority, Automatons, Collective Unconscious, conditioning, Consciousness, Consumerism, cultural mind, culture, Gnostics, materialism, media, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Psychosis, society, Sociology, Trauma, Wounded Mind
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Our Vanishing World: Insects
By Robert J. Burrowes About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, elites, Environment, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology
Tagged 5G, Agribusiness, arthropods, Biosphere, bird population, Caspar A. Hallmann, Climate Change, corporatocracy, culture, environment, Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, insect population, Insects, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, psychology, Rachel Carson, Rainforests, society, Sociology, Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
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