Enoch, Hermes Trismegistus, and Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses
Comparative analysis of Joseph Smith's Enoch revelations and the Hermetic Poimandres vision, exploring the Enoch-Hermes tradition.
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Shared Etymology of Jñāna, Know, and Gnosis
Tracing the Proto‑Indo‑European root *ǵneh₃‑ that links Sanskrit *jñā‑*, English *know*, and Greek *gnō‑/gnosis*.
Knower Self And The Gn Erosion Hypotheses
A deep dive into two speculative etymologies linking the global N-pronoun to 'knowing'—either semantically (knower = self) or phonetically (ǵn- > n-).
How The Self Went Viral: Eve Theory, Snake Cults, And The Late-Pleistocene Explosion Of Consciousness
A long-form exploration of how the discovery of reflective selfhood radiated through late-Ice-Age cultures, with the Eve Theory of Consciousness and the Snake Cult hypothesis as the most coherent …
Authenticity Of Doctrine And Covenants Section 132
Comprehensive investigation into the provenance, authenticity, and contested origins of Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 across LDS traditions.
Global Epidemiology of Schizophrenia (2025 Update)
Comprehensive deep dive into the global incidence, prevalence, disparities, and trends of schizophrenia.
Eve Theory of Consciousness v4
A comprehensive interdisciplinary theory proposing that human consciousness originated as a cultural invention in prehistoric times, likely pioneered by women and spread through ritual and language.
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.
Global Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Incidence & Prevalence by Sex and Ethnicity
The best-available numbers on how schizophrenia strikes men vs women and different ethnic groups, with full tables and primary citations.
Embryo Selection and Our Stone-Age Psychology
Our minds evolved for a world that no longer exists. Embryo selection offers a way forward.
Chaos Contained: Nehebkau, the Ogdoad, Greek Primordials & the Cosmic Bond
From Egyptian Coffin-Texts to Greek philosophy, why serpents swallow chaos and why Eros is the duct-tape of the universe.
Upper Paleolithic Gender Imbalance In Human Depictions
New counts show that roughly four out of five Ice-Age human images are female, overturning ideas that "Venus" figurines were an isolated fertility cult.
Titan Ash & Serpent Spark — Dismembered Cosmos, Water-Mirrors, and the Ophidian Core of Creation
A long-form comparative study of dismemberment-cosmogonies, snake-ash anthropogenies, esoteric water-mirrors, and the solar Herakles of the Orphic hymns.
When Heaven Had No Name
A philological and comparative deep dive into the famous opening of the Babylonian *Enūma Eliš* and its theology of naming.
Snakes That Bestow Beast‑Speech in World Mythology
From Greek shepherd‑seers to Kurdish snake‑queens, cultures worldwide claim a serpent's bite, lick, or brew lets humans talk to animals.
Serpents And Women In Emergence Myths Across The Americas
How water-serpents and founding women co-star in Navajo, Zuni, Taíno, K'iche', and Inka origin stories and what that pairing reveals about birth, chaos, and order.
The Serpent-Mother Who Swallows Souls
How Kunapipi and other Dreamtime beings swallowed novices, digested their boy-souls, and spat out initiated adults—plus parallel spirit-child myths.
Pleiades And The Bullroarer Meme-Plex
How a naked-eye star cluster and a whirring plank became entangled in creation lore, initiation rites, and weather magic from Arnhem Land to Arizona.
Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Translations and Esoteric Sources
What Newton copied, translated, and annotated from the alchemical–Hermetic corpus, why he did it, and how faithful his versions are.
Hermes and the Serpent Symbol
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.