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Orchestrated Subversion

Subversion, as a concept, involves the deliberate effort to undermine or destabilize established institutions, authorities, or societal structures. It is often carried out through covert or manipulative means, aiming to erode trust in institutions, demoralize populations, and foster discontent. In the context of the Western world, subversion has taken various forms, and its impact on trust in institutions and contempt for established power can be attributed to several key mechanisms....
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Brains in Vats Paradox

Penfield’s classic brain experiments of the 1930s inspired a certain famous riddle, long since dubbed “brains in vats” by philosophy students. It goes like this: You think you’re sitting there reading this post. Actually, you could be a disembodied brain in a laboratory somewhere, soaking in a vat of nutrients. Electrodes are attached to the brain. And a mad scientist feeds it with a stream of electrical impulses that exactly...
Otto Maier Dreams

Dream journeys and the mythical reality

In physics, we speak of energy and its various manifestations, such as electricity, light, heat, etc. The situation in psychology is precisely the same. Here, too, we are dealing primarily with energy . . . with measures of intensity, with greater or lesser quantities. It can appear in various guises. . . . As I worked with my fantasies, I became aware that the unconscious undergoes or produces change. Only after I had familiarized myself with alchemy did I realize […]...

The Mystical Depths of Tristan und Isolde

In the realm of myth and music, the story of Tristan und Isolde holds a profound place, delving into the mystique of love and death. This article explores the deeper, perhaps occult, significance of the Tristan und Isolde myth, using insights from Denis de Rougemont’s “L’amour et l’Occident” and Robert A. Johnson’s “Die Traumvorstellung Liebe – Der Irrtum des Abendlandes.” By examining Richard Wagner’s music drama, we unravel the layers...
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Is this reality?

Otto Maier and his theory about waves, reality and time curves are rooted in the works of the men he looked up to, Leibniz and Descartes. In his “First Meditation” (1641), French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes decided he could not be absolutely sure he wasn’t dreaming. Most people would probably disagree with Descartes. You’re not dreaming right now, and you know it because experiences in dreams are different from...

The Soul and Death: A Journey Through Jung’s Esoteric Lens

Carl Jung, in his chapter “The Soul and Death” from Psychology and the Occult, offers a deeply contemplative examination of the inevitable intersection between life and death, urging us to reconcile these forces as part of a continuous psychological process. Unlike the typical view that death marks a strict endpoint, Jung expands on the notion that death serves a psychological and even transformative role for the human soul, urging us to prepare not only for life but for its cessation […]...

The Hidden War for Your Will

“What if the battlefield was no longer land or ideology — but the human nervous system itself?” When most people hear the term mind control, they envision the tropes of bad thrillers: hypnotic spirals, CIA brainwashing labs, and cult leaders whispering strange mantras. But the true story, as Heiner Gehring presents it in Versklavte Gehirne (“Enslaved Minds”), is far more disquieting — and far more real. In the mid-20th century,...

Hypnosis in Advertising and Politics

Hypnosis, suggestions can drastically alter the way individuals perceive and think about their world. There has always been tension between the rulers and the ruled, the masters and the masses. It is the centrifugal pull of self-desire against the welfare of the larger society, the tether that holds human history together. For much of that history society at large was the concern of a governing class: kings or priests, who...
Contradictions and paradox

Can truth be a liar?

When it is exclaimed that contradictions may very well be true, numerous analytic philosophers will screw up their face into an appearance of discomfort, and say ‘But I just don’t see what it could be for a contradiction to be true’. They could mean numerous things by this. ‘See’ might just mean ‘understand’, by which case they might be complaining that traditional two-valued semantics leaves no room, as it were, for something to be both true and false. Such a […]...

Do Social Psychologists have a Problem with Rebels?

Compared to other social scientists, it appears that social psychologists appear to be especially concerned about the negative effects of rebels in groups. For example, sociologists often point to the important function that deviance plays in group life and the beneficial effects of deviance. Emile Durkheim (1958) highlighted that deviance and crime are important activities within any healthy society. He argued that, in the process of responding to deviance, group...

Jung on Evil – Are we the origin of all coming evil?

The problem of evil is a perennial one. Theodicies abound throughout history, explaining God’s purposes in tolerating evil and allowing it to exist. Mythological and theological dualisms try to explain evil by asserting its metaphysical status and grounding and the eternal conflict between evil and good. More psychological theories locate evil in humanity and in psychopathology. Probably humans have forever wrestled with questions like these: Who is responsible for evil?...

The Intersection of Physics and Psychology: Unraveling the Mysteries of Matter, Energy, and the Mind

In Arthur I. Miller’s Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, we are introduced to a profound and intellectually stimulating discourse that explores the intersection of quantum physics and psychology. Through the lens of Wolfgang Pauli, a pioneering physicist, and Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, Miller delves into the complex relationship between matter, energy, and the psyche. The exploration of these concepts, particularly through the riddle of the electron, offers us a […]...

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