Category Archives: Psychology

Before and After Human Consciousness, or The Voice of God vs. Auditory Hallucinations

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ron Pavellas

Psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920 – 1997) asserted that humans were not fully conscious until around 4,000 or 3,000 years ago, the time when the two hemispheres of the cerebrum of our brain (left and right, physically connected by the Corpus Callosum) were unified … Continue reading →

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Charity

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Ron Pavellas

There are two teachings which deserve a reading in high school, perhaps, but certainly in one’s young adulthood:  The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley, and The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James. I did not read these until I was … Continue reading →

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