psychology

Shadow Projection and the Collective Unconscious

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / June 2, 2010 /

Found : Shadow Projection and the Collective Unconscious To the extent that we are entranced by our shadow projections as existing outside of ourselves, we are moment to moment hypnotizing or casting a spell on ourselves. Commenting on people who insist on projecting their shadow outside of themselves and refuse to self-reflect, Jung said, “Since…

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Is God schizophrenic?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / May 7, 2010 /

Found : Is God schizophrenic? [S]chizophrenia is where God's game of auto-amnesia is blown prematurely, so that the schizophrenic realizes that he is actually God, but – because the understanding has not unfolded in the proper way – the result of this revelation is confusion, terror and existential isolation. This theory of schizophrenia is in…

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Sex and the single artist

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / May 1, 2010 /

Found : Sex and the single artist Daniel Nettle of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Helen Keenoo of the Open University… asked 425 British people, including artists and poets, on many sexual partners they'd had (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3349) Professional artists and poets averaged 4 to 10 sexual partners,…

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Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 25, 2010 /

Found : Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization According to this theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular "brain type". There are three common brain types: for some individuals, empathising is stronger than systemising. This is called the female brain, or a brain of type E. For other individuals, systemising is…

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Study : Semen 'makes women happy'

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 3, 2010 /

Found : Study : Semen ‘makes women happy’ Women exposed to their partner's semen during sex may find themselves feeling happier than those who use a condom, say scientists. Scientists in the US believe the mood-altering hormones in semen absorbed through the vagina help to boost women's mood. Semen contains a range of hormones, including…

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Study Suggests Difference Between Female And Male Sexuality

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 31, 2010 /

Found : Study Suggests Difference Between Female And Male Sexuality (women naturally bisexual) Three decades of research on men's sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation — gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men's sexual arousal patterns seem obvious.…

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ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF WORLD EVENTS

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 3, 2010 /

Found : ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF WORLD EVENTS Being atemporal, archetypes exist outside of time. They bleed through, irrupt, and unfold into and through time so as to incarnate and reveal themselves. Archetypes become visible by arranging and magnetically attracting events into themselves like atemporal, self-organizing fields. Archetypes synchronistically configure events in the outer world so…

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Human Zoos

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 27, 2010 /

Found : Human Zoos As has been well-documented on this site, America imprisons more people than any other nation. The state takes away inmates' liberty, controlling every moment of their lives, and locking them up in cages. For some reason, we've forgotten that maybe, just maybe, throwing hundreds of thousands of violent people together in…

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Shocking revelation: Santa Clara University professor mirrors famous torture study

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 24, 2010 /

Found : Shocking revelation: Santa Clara University professor mirrors famous torture study Replicating one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a Santa Clara University psychologist has found that people will follow orders from an authority figure to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks. More than two-thirds of volunteers in the research…

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Norman Cohen on the Blood Libel

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 13, 2010 /

Found : Norman Cohen on the Blood Libel In his research on the great witch hunt in Europe from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, historian Norman Cohn discovered a single enduring paranoid theme: that somewhere in the midst of the larger society there lurks another society– small, well-organized, and clandestine– that threatens the existence of…

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