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We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time.

We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time

Article: Jean Houstons Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self: Sacred Psychology in Western History - Can we draw any meaningful connection between the macro world of the evolution of societies & the micro world of individual development? Jean Houston argues that both macro and micro-worlds go through crisis and pathology that can be overcome through group rituals as they have existed throughout Western history.

Orientation How I came across Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

“It is surprising,” Marnie Holborow writes, “how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked.” In responding to this gap in…

Digs in a cave in Catalonia have unearthed human remains alongside ornamental artifacts and animal bones left over a period of 4,000 years.

It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated in ostensible ‘democracies’. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored. After all, as Noam Chomsky has said, real ‘democracy is

The cave appears to have served as a burial ground for prehistoric humans between around 7,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace?

One of the nations that I follow most closely, and have felt most affection for, has been the United Kingdom (or Great Britain, or England).