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The Political Value of Psychedelics
By Dr. James Cooke Source: Reality Sandwich Psychedelics and Politics Psychedelics are political. Their use in the 1960s had a political impact that is still being felt today, and their widespread banning was driven by political motives. But how can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, collective trauma, Consciousness, Control, culture, Deep Ecology, Entheogens, fear, LSD, Neurology, Philosophy, politics, Progress, Psychedelics, psychology, society, Sociology
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Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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COVID-19’s Black Swan Timeline
Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence that they were obvious in hindsight.” By Steve Brown Source: The Duran According to Investopedia a Black Swan event “is an unpredictable event that … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Bail-Outs, Black Swan event, civilization, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, geopolitics, Great Recession, Mainstream Media, Oligarchy, Pandemic, police state, propaganda, Saeculum, society
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Coronavirus reminds us we are organisms in an environment
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience A close friend of mine, a professor of English literature, has been researching American philosopher John Dewey, whose book Quest for Certainty captivated me so much many years ago that I read it again right … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, Inequality, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged civilization, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Disease, economic inequality, Economics, environment, Health, Illness, John Dewey, Medicine, microorganisms, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health, Quest for Certainty, science, society
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Epistemological divide: How we live in two different worlds of understanding
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience Epistemology is the study of how we know things. All of us cycle between two main ways of knowing in our modern culture: 1) the rational, reductionist way and 2) the holistic, relational, intuitive way. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, Consciousness, culture, Epistemology, global superorganism, harmony, holism, Mind, nature, ontology, Perception, Philosophy, psychology, Reality, reductionism, society, Sociology, Truth
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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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Why you might consider the Buddha’s proposal
By Jack Balkwill Source: Intrepid Report The Buddha was said to have predicted the day he would die. When that day approached, his followers, weeping, asked him to stay with them. “I’ve told you that life is about suffering,” he … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, History, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged activism, Bodhidharma, Buddha, Buddhism, Cable News, capitalism, civilization, Consciousness, corporate media, Delusion, Economics, elites, Enlightenment, greed, Hatred, Ignorance, Mahayana, Mainstream Media, Meditation, Philosophy, Plutocracy, Plutocrats, psychology, Purpose, spirituality, Suffering, war, Zen
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Survival of the Richest
The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind By Douglas Rushkoff Source: Medium Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Apocalypse, Billionaires, capitalism, civilization, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Environmental Collapse, Futurism, Philosophy, Social Collapse, society, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism
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