Holocene Selection on Human Intelligence: A 50,000-Year Reality Check
Ancient DNA and quantitative-genetic models reveal ongoing selection on human cognitive traits throughout the Holocene.
Ancient DNA and quantitative-genetic models reveal ongoing selection on human cognitive traits throughout the Holocene.
Our minds evolved for a world that no longer exists. Embryo selection offers a way forward.
From Egyptian Coffin-Texts to Greek philosophy, why serpents swallow chaos and why Eros is the duct-tape of the universe.
A long-form comparative study of dismemberment-cosmogonies, snake-ash anthropogenies, esoteric water-mirrors, and the solar Herakles of the Orphic hymns.
How Kunapipi and other Dreamtime beings swallowed novices, digested their boy-souls, and spat out initiated adults—plus parallel spirit-child myths.
What Newton copied, translated, and annotated from the alchemical–Hermetic corpus, why he did it, and how faithful his versions are.
An in-depth exploration of the serpent in Hermeticism—from caduceus to ouroboros—unpacking its role in polarity, cosmic knowledge, and the path to gnosis.
How the Mother of the Gods, her roaring rhombos, and a dying youth became the soundtrack and syllabus of Greek, Phrygian, and Roman civilization.
A turbo-charged rundown of the 15 most influential Christian writers ever—complete with shock upsets, savage hot-takes, and receipts.
An exhaustive survey of global bullroarer initiation cults and their teachings about creation and civilization.