Consciousness - Research Articles

Exploring the hypothesis that the Chinese mother goddess Nüwa preserves a cultural memory of end-Ice Age floods and the dawn of self-aware human consciousness.

Exploring how geneticist David Reich might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness – a bold hypothesis that human self-awareness emerged culturally and only later became encoded in our genes.

A deep exploration of how mystic philosopher Manly P. Hall might interpret the Eve Theory of Consciousness—the notion that human self-awareness (“I am”) arose relatively recently—by examining ancient allegories like Adam and Eve and the esoteric meaning behind humanity’s fall into the conscious mind.

Snake Cult of Consciousness weaves neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and Western mystical symbolism into a hypothesis on the origins of human self-awareness.

Across cultures, the snake coiled at a world‑tree signals an entheogenic passage into self‑aware “I‑am” consciousness—this article explains the motif’s persistence.

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.

Sweep through Yoruba clay-people, Dogon fish-twins, Egyptian ka-snakes, and Lebe’s bullroarer to see how Africa narrates human beginnings.

How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.

Systematic audit of 12 evolutionary, archaeological and mythic puzzles and how the Eve Theory of Consciousness purports to solve them.

From Eden through John’s Logos and Gnostic counter-myths to global ‘hanged-god’ rites, this essay reconstructs how reflexive consciousness emerged, iterated, and finally theorised itself.