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How cult leaders brainwash followers for total control - Aeon
WEBJun 20, 2017 · The first of these characteristics is that the leader is both charismatic and authoritarian. Without charisma, the leader would be unable to draw people to him or herself. Without authoritarianism, leaders would lack the internal motivation and the ability to bully and control followers. ‘Yeah, somebody taught him how to abuse people,’ a ...
The Indian epic Mahabharata imparts a dark, nuanced moral vision …
WEBNov 6, 2020 · The Mahabharata is a tale for our times. The plot of the ancient Indian epic centres around corrupt politics, ill-behaved men and warfare. In this dark tale, things get worse and worse, until an era of unprecedented depravity, the Kali Yuga, dawns. According to the Mahabharata, we’re still living in the horrific Kali era, which will unleash ...
Tools for thinking: Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of freedom
WEBFeb 11, 2019 · The 20th-century political philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) thought that the answer to both these questions was ‘Yes’, and in his essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (1958) he distinguished two kinds of freedom (or liberty; Berlin used the words interchangeably), which he called negative freedom and positive freedom.
The Gospels of Paul don’t say what you think they say - Aeon
WEBJan 8, 2018 · But Paul is quite explicit: ‘Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom.’. Neither can psychē, ‘soul’, the life-principle or anima that gives life to perishable flesh. In the age to come, the ‘psychical body’, the ‘ensouled’ or ‘animal’ way of life, will be replaced by a ‘spiritual body’, beyond the reach of death ...
A quantitative theory unlocks the mysteries of why we sleep - Aeon
WEBSep 17, 2021 · One intuitive explanation for sleep that’s easy to reject is that it’s needed to conserve energy, to rest and restore our bodies. We do lower our average metabolic rate while asleep but only by about 15 per cent – a measly 100 food calories a night, the equivalent of a slice of bread and butter.