Month: June 2016

History of the Catholic Church

“In the early 8th century, Byzantine iconoclasm became a major source of conflict between the Eastern and Western parts of the Church.  Byzantine emperors forbade the creation and veneration of religious images, as violations of the Ten Commandments.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church

Anamnesis

“And how are you going to search for it when you don’t know at all what it is?  Which of all the things you don’t know will you set up as target for your search? And even if you actually come across it, how will you know that it is that thing which you don’t know?” […]

Genetic Apocalypse

We are in the midst of a genetic apocalypse. Ancient religions saw in the origins of what they could see a pinnacle, a peak, a high point to descend from. The human body and mind were suited to examining this point of origin from its natural vantage point.  But as the genetic apocalypse continued, war, […]

Opium

“Opium addiction in the later 19th century received a hereditary definition. Dr. George Beard in 1869 proposed his theory of neurasthenia, a hereditary nervous system deficiency that could predispose an individual to addiction. Neurasthenia was increasingly tied in medical rhetoric to the “nervous exhaustion” suffered by many a white-collar worker in the increasingly hectic and […]