Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2012; 2: 54. Published online 2012 May 1. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00054 PMCID: PMC3417387 Selfishness, warfare, and economics; or integration, cooperation, and biology Reproduced from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417387/ This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Emiliano Salvucci* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Abstract The acceptance of Darwin’s… Read More
Published on Jan 9, 2013 https://www.thersa.org/events/2012/12/antifragile Radical philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a blueprint for how to live – and thrive – in a world we don’t understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to predict. RSA Keynote Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of ‘The Black Swan’ and one of… Read More
Explaining Altruism: A New Defence of Group Selection By Keyana C. Sapp MScR Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 1. Abstract When providing explanations of cooperation in nature, evolutionary biologists draw upon three distinct selective pressures. They are direct benefits, reciprocal altruism and kin selection. They are useful for the explanation of both human and… Read More
Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary scientists, psychologists and philosophers have agreed that we have far less free will than we think, and yet most of society’s systems are structured around the opposite principle – that we are all on a level playing field, and we all get what we deserve.
We think, we feel and we act. These are the fields of life of being, becoming and doing. As of late, my appreciation, awareness and consciousness of all that is around me underwent a major phase transformation from one of eternal chaos to one of infinite ordering. And that which was good, beautiful and true… Read More
The interview (transcript below) from questions with Prof. John McMurtry was conducted for the 15th Anniversary of “Geopolitika” a journal of geopolitical and cultural analysis in Belgrade which was broadcast on Radio Belgrade by the weekly show “Silen” on February 12 from questions posed by Biljana Đorović.
Livity is the Rastafarian concept of righteous, everliving living. Its essence is the realization that an energy or life-force, conferred by Almighty Jah (God), exists within, and flows through, all people and all living things. This energy is the presence of Jah living within us, and is often expressed in Rastafarian vocabulary as “I and I”, where the first “I” refers to the Almighty, the second “I” for oneself. A primary goal in Rastafarian meditation is maintaining awareness of I and I. Read More
cosmos – https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cosmos the universe seen as a well-ordered whole a system of thought Origin Middle English: from Greek kosmos ‘order or world’. syntropy – http://www.dictionary.com/browse/syntropy The occasional tendency of two diseases to coalesce into one. The psychological state of wholesome association with others. A number of similar structures inclined in one general direction, such as the ribs. “In… Read More
Understanding the ruling group-mind behind the war without end: In response to the extreme pressures of forcing reality to conform to manufactured delusions, the group and its members become increasingly submerged within a pre-conscious field of hysteria, denials and projections. In the case of 9-11 and the 9-11 Wars, the shadow subject of the ruling group-mind and its executive vector propelled two war criminal invasions of other societies and police-state laws across the world in under three years.
Insight into the ruling group-mind is reflected by David Rockefeller at a Bilderberg session in 1991:
“A supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
Their program is being played out in Iraq against heroic resistance, while elsewhere in the empire the regulating group-mind (what Julian Jaynes calls the collective cognitive imperative; and Leon Festinger, in his manual on cognitive dissonance, calls cognition.) demands complicity with its fundamental assumptions, e.g. that 9-11 was an attack from the outside and that the Earth and its creatures are not sacred.
Definition of syndrome
– https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syndrome
In my attempt to understand the root cause of the causes of life destabilisations, several articles synchronistically and serendipitously provided definitive answers yesterday that is consistent with the assertion that violence is an acquired syndrome rather that a congenital defect of our human nature. (Please see: US Defence Secretary Calls on Military to be “Ready” for War Against North Korea. “There are No Risk Free Options”, Army is accepting more low-quality recruits, giving waivers for marijuana to hit targets, War Culture – Gun Culture: They’re Related, and The Psychology of Mass Killers: What Causes It? How Can You Prevent It?.)
The last article was seminal for me in connecting different ideas I have come across over the years in my search for meaning and understanding of the underlying method of this violent madness that pervades every aspect of our society today. What I propose to do is summarise as best as I can in the author’s own words the ideas presented and how they are intimately connected to each other and to provide a neurobiological framework that connects the best neuroscience with the deepest analytical psychology in our toolkits of life appreciation.
