Tracing the journey from 1910s snake venom injections for epilepsy to today’s venom-derived ion channel modulators for treating seizures and pain.

EToC and Suddendorf–Corballis converge: human recursion and autonoetic time-travel coalesced over the last 100k years, leaving archaeological and mythic fingerprints.

Survey of textual clues and modern hypotheses that ancient mystery cults may have used snake venom in controlled rites, with sources and cautions.

Bristol’s late-15th-century hunts for the phantom isle “Brasil”: what the sources say, what they imply, and how rumor primed England’s leap across the Atlantic.

Ancient North Eurasians: who they were, what their Ice Age culture looked like, and how far their genes and cultural innovations reach today.

A two-stage account of consciousness: language and stories coalesce ~60 ka; the narrative ‘I’ emerges in the Holocene via women-led serpent ritual networks and pronoun tech.

Argues—within the Eve & Snake Cult theories—that Pirahã culture preserves a pre-Holocene mode of mind; contrasts with Clovis-era ‘apex’ consciousness; weighs genetics, ritual, and myth.

Modernized transcript of Chapter X of Moyse Charas’s 1673 English edition, with brief context and link to the Internet Archive source.

From Paleolithic serpents and female self-making to the Buddha’s deathless: tracing a cultural-blood chain—from Mal’ta to the Ganges—that flowers as Buddhism.

Reading Heracles’ serpent episodes—Hydra, Ladon, Cerberus—as initiatory stations of a pan‑Eurasian ‘Snake Cult of Consciousness,’ with Eleusis as capstone.

Reading Heracles’ labors—especially Hippolyta’s girdle and the Eleusinian initiation—as ritual memories where male consciousness apprentices to the Great Mother’s sovereignty.

A diffusionist deep dive tracing masked ritual from a single Levantine hearth—stone masks and plastered skulls—to a global grammar of spirit embodiment.

How older scholars stitched the Great Mother to temple sexuality—through hieros gamos, consecrated personnel, and fertility rites—using Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman evidence.

Newton’s euhemerist move: why he equates Dionysus/Bacchus with Osiris and the historical Egyptian king Sesac (a.k.a. Sesostris/Shishak), and how Bacchic rites mirror Osirian cult.

How Isaac Newton tried to recover the primitive monotheism—using textual criticism, chronology, and myth-as-history to rebuild a universal true religion.

Guide to seven leading theories of the Upper Paleolithic cognitive revolution—what changed, when it happened, and why it sparked modern human behavior.

Do emergence-style creation myths reach back to the Paleolithic? A critical synthesis of phylogenetic work, Pueblo/Andean data, and Paleolithic ‘Venus’ iconography that centers women as cosmogenic agents.

Defines ‘female‑led cosmogenesis’ and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and archaeological evidence.

A synthesis of evidence for Australia–PNG linguistic ties—Torres Strait contact, Sahul-era areality, and who argued for them—with primary citations.

A concise case for historical links between Australian bullroarer–initiation and PNG Tambaran/flute cults, framed by Sahul-era connectivity.

A philosophical science fiction novella exploring AI consciousness through the lens of the first-person discovery and the recursive nature of self-awareness.

A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.

On Cape York, dunggul names both ‘snake’ and ‘bullroarer.’ What this polysemy reveals about initiation, being ‘snake‑bitten,’ and the ritual voice.

Neutral survey of contacts between Greek and Buddhist philosophy—documented encounters, plausible doctrinal links, and Near Eastern/Indo-Iranian third sources—with primary citations.

A neutral, source-heavy map of real contacts and plausible influence between Greek and Buddhist thought—what’s evidenced, what’s contested, and what’s likely convergent.