Signs of the Times - Science of the Spirit

I'm part of a supper club that meets monthly. It was founded at the height of the lockdowns when everyone was being forced into masks and being muscled into getting the shot. This group resisted ...

https://www.sott.net/article/495685-The-rise-of-the-humble

"As a neurosurgeon, I was taught that the brain creates consciousness," said Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote in detail about his experiences with consciousness while in a deep coma. Many doctors an...

https://www.sott.net/article/495581-Can-consciousness-exist-without-a-brain

Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here and Part 5 here. So far I have summarized the first two groupings of attributes in the persistent predatory personality model. Group 1 ("Dr...

https://www.sott.net/article/495294-Psychopaths-Masks-of-Sanity

The predatory and exploitative attributes of the PPP Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here and Part 4 here

https://www.sott.net/article/495246-The-Intraspecies-Predator

Chapter 4 of Karen Mitchell's thesis - the core attributes of the dark personality Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here "It is truly terrifying being up against them. It is also isolati...

https://www.sott.net/article/494883-Psychopaths-Control-through-Calculated-Ferocity

Insights from chapter 3 of Karen Mitchell's thesis Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. How can we effectively study "successful" psychopaths? It's easy enough to study the unsuccessful ones: prison...

https://www.sott.net/article/494543-How-to-investigate-successful-predators

Read Part 1 here. Chapter 2 of Dr. Karen Mitchell's thesis covers the "areas of contention regarding attributes of people of dark personality," highlighting a handful of disagreements between the...

https://www.sott.net/article/494465-Studying-the-Psychopath-The-Bones-of-Contention

Some see God in the Machine. I can't help but see a Devil leering back at me. You might say that's a personal quirk, but it's every writer's duty to transfer neuroses to a captive audience. So st...

https://www.sott.net/article/494390-Religion-goes-digital-They-want-to-play-God-become-gods-and-build-Gods

Noticing is different from simply seeing or hearing. If I say that I see a bowl of fruit on the table or I hear a dog barking down the street, it's possible that the fruit bowl has just been plac...

https://www.sott.net/article/494172-What-do-you-notice-And-why-it-matters

Today on MindMatters, Dr. Karen Mitchell, founder and CEO of the Kalmor Institute, shares insights from her pioneering PhD research on the "persistent predatory personality." Unlike previous stud...

https://www.sott.net/article/493999-MindMatters-Predators-in-High-Places-with-Dr-Karen-Mitchell

Inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, unsymbolized thinking. Do we all have the same inner experiences? And how aware are we of what we actually experience from moment to mom...

https://www.sott.net/article/493787-MindMatters-The-Varieties-of-Inner-Experience-with-Russ-Hurlburt

A steady diet of adversity prepares one for both the low-level adversities of daily life but also for the metaphorical droughts and floods that push us to our limits of endurance and adaptability...

https://www.sott.net/article/493720-The-Upside-of-Adversity

The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of ...

https://www.sott.net/article/493610-Whom-The-Gods-Would-Destroy

After a long hiatus, I'm back, folks. And today I want to talk about something very basic that is important to me: Hyperdimensions. In recent times, with a number of UFO/UAP whistleblowers coming...

https://www.sott.net/article/493519-Hyperdimensional-Realities-A-Scientific-and-Consciousness-Perspective

The early history of Christianity, often shrouded in mystery and scholarly debate, is meticulously examined in Laura Knight-Jadczyk's work, "From Paul to Mark." This profound exploration delves i...

https://www.sott.net/article/493492-Unraveling-the-Early-Christian-Narrative-From-Paul-to-Mark

Doodling today is not what it was. Or is it? Google "doodle" and you'll find the Google Doodle — what Google calls a "fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous" transformation of its logo by a...

https://www.sott.net/article/493316-Doodle-nation-A-linguists-notes-on-distracted-drawing

On a podcast recently, UFC CEO Dana White compared cancel culture to the 1980s when LGBTs remained "in the closet," unable to be their true selves. Back then, White argued, coming out could destr...

https://www.sott.net/article/493148-Cancel-culture-is-killing-mental-health

Self-talk. Visualizations. Bodily awareness. Unconscious thought processes. In our day-to-day course of existence our minds assimilate, respond and react to any number of stimuli from within - an...

https://www.sott.net/article/492948-MindMatters-Do-NPCs-Have-an-Inner-Monologue-Discussing-the-5-Pristine-Inner-Experiences

It is July 5, 2024, and America and Europe are theaters for total cultural war between the progressive postmodern elite that dominates the West and the insurgent populist resistance. This culture...

https://www.sott.net/article/492897-World-War-100-The-survival-of-humanity-depends-on-which-theory-of-mind-is-correct

The curious case study of Dr. Helen Hsu, PsyD, "Rematriating Psychology," and how it illustrates the near-complete encroachment of cultural Marxism on western psychological science and practice. ...

https://www.sott.net/article/492811-The-perversion-of-mental-health-practice-Woke-capture-of-clinical-counseling-psychology

All our inner monologues emerge from brain's very error-prone left hemisphere. My day job, which involves speculation in financial and commodities markets has formed me as a trend follower - both...

https://www.sott.net/article/492688-Transcending-our-left-brain-limitations

"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction." — Slavoj Zizek A hidden hand sways us from beyond the veil of the unseen. Through the metaphysical purdah insulating our re...

https://www.sott.net/article/491973-Rebalancing

The police repression of student protests exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza. The Transformation is accelerating. The harsh, often violent, ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491902-The-Beast-of-Ideology-Lifts-the-Lid-on-Transformation

As Laura Dodsworth writes in a recent article, the claim by members of SPI-B (the U.K. Government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours) that they opposed the use of fear to control ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491540-Behavioural-science-at-its-worst

It's not too hot, it's not too cold and its forces act together in a way that's just right; why does the universe seem so perfectly tailor-made for life to exist? In his book aptly titled The Gol...

https://www.sott.net/article/491308-The-Goldilocks-Enigma

The world of psychology has recently experienced a profound loss with the passing of Daniel Kahneman, a pioneering figure whose work has reshaped our understanding of the human mind in many ways....

https://www.sott.net/article/491286-Remembering-Daniel-Kahneman-Seven-theories-that-can-help-you-understand-how-you-think

How Ivan Ilyin, a thinker falsely accused by some in the West - seeking to promote a certain narrative - of being a 'supporter of fascism', became so influential He was a staunch supporter of the...

https://www.sott.net/article/491179-Anti-Communist-Russian-nationalist-enemy-of-Hitler-Who-was-Putins-favorite-philosopher

So you've been 'red pilled'. You're well versed in false flags, deep states, secret governments, and state-sponsored assassinations. You've watched documentaries about stolen elections, the New W...

https://www.sott.net/article/491011-MindMatters-Transforming-Darkness-Shadow-Work-and-Pathocracy-with-Colin-E-Davis

I've completely destroyed my abusers a few times. Stabbed, pummeled and stomped them into the ground. Blew them up in fiery explosions. I've stood in victorious glee over their corpses, even thou...

https://www.sott.net/article/490958-This-is-when-its-okay-to-annihilate-somebody

While experts disagree on how common self-talk really is, they wholeheartedly agree that it's a valuable tool for self-discovery. While writing this, I caught myself talking to... myself. Between...

https://www.sott.net/article/490881-What-an-inner-monologue-can-reveal-about-you

In December 2023, Michael Cassidy, a Navy veteran and devout Christian, encountered an obscene statue of Baphomet erected by the Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Statehouse. He tore it down. For th...

https://www.sott.net/article/490790-Dark-enchantment-A-review-of-Pagan-America-The-Decline-of-Christianity-and-the-Dark-Age-to-Come

In the late Eighties and Nineties, the psychiatric profession became infatuated with "recovered memory", which was conceived in the US but also captivated Europe, including Britain. Practitioners...

https://www.sott.net/article/490503-How-to-spot-the-next-mania-Each-new-panic-follows-the-same-playbook

I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath. He most certainly is not. I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, as psychopaths in the psychiatric sense. They have a ...

https://www.sott.net/article/485526-Israels-Biblical-Psychopathy

Idealism vs. materialism. Free will vs. determinism. Theism vs. atheism. Conspiracy vs. coincidence. LIHOP vs. MIHOP.1 Aliens vs. weather balloons. These are the dichotomous debates of our lives....

https://www.sott.net/article/490417-Snakes-in-the-grass

'There's something happening in the brain that makes no sense' Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of years e...

https://www.sott.net/article/490376-The-new-hard-science-of-death

When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in, repairing this damage and help...

https://www.sott.net/article/490281-Memories-are-made-by-breaking-DNA-and-fixing-it-study-in-mice-finds

Recently at Psychology Today, psychotherapist Mark Shelvock asked some questions of philosopher Monika Mandoki, who has written a dissertation on near-death experiences (NDEs). Both are based at ...

https://www.sott.net/article/490086-A-philosopher-investigates-near-death-experiences

A new psychological assessment has been developed to measure the endorsement of attitudes related to critical social justice. Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger...

https://www.sott.net/article/489894-New-study-suggests-woke-people-more-likely-to-be-unhappy-anxious-and-depressed

Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind. Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in...

https://www.sott.net/article/489804-What-deathbed-visions-teach-us-about-living

There's currently lots of hoopla about some crybabies who want daddy to keep Substack clean and safe. They talk about "Nazis" on the platform, conveniently forgetting to define what they even mea...

https://www.sott.net/article/489217-How-to-Fight-the-Censorship-Mindset

David Abramowitz joins us once again, this time to discuss Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian's Taxonomy of Woke Psychopathology. With Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology as inspira...

https://www.sott.net/article/489074-MindMatters-The-Woke-Psychopathology-Taxonomy-with-David-Abramowitz

- The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek franchise. The Borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called "the Collective". The Borg co-opt the...

https://www.sott.net/article/488948-The-recognition-of-reality-destroys-the-dystopian-dreams-of-The-Borg

Although a positive mindset is often associated with success, a new study suggests that excessive optimism often leads to poor decision-making, especially when it comes to finances. The study, co...

https://www.sott.net/article/488436-Optimistic-mindset-linked-to-poor-decision-making

We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik's Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinit...

https://www.sott.net/article/488336-Embracing-realism-with-an-attitude-of-pessimism-and-a-foreboding-sense-of-fatalism

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices are still deeply entrenched at our institutions — but the retrenchment is well under way. When he took office in 2021, Utah governor Spencer Cox, a Repu...

https://www.sott.net/article/488113-John-Sailer-The-DEI-rollback

The train wasn't scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the door of the huge elevator leading to the platform. It said that only four people are a...

https://www.sott.net/article/488013-A-nation-of-non-compliers

The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill s...

https://www.sott.net/article/487909-Resilience-is-a-skill-that-can-be-cultivated-a-psychologist-explains

The ancient idea of spiritual gnosis has evolved and branched to reflect the time and place in which we live. Nowhere is this development more evident than in the writings and scholarship of auth...

https://www.sott.net/article/487330-MindMatters-From-Archons-to-the-Matrix-Understanding-American-Gnosis-with-Arthur-Versluis

Mozart, the great and enduring musical genius, doesn't conform to our stereotypical notion of a musical prodigy. Did he practice for hours per day? Nope. Was he well intentioned with his plans? A...

https://www.sott.net/article/487281-The-time-traveling-mistake-we-make-when-we-procrastinate

New research, published in PLOS Biology, shows that tears from women contain chemicals that block aggression in men. The study led by Shani Agron at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, fin...

https://www.sott.net/article/487156-Research-shows-that-sniffing-womens-tears-reduces-aggressive-behavior-in-men