How a simple whirled instrument traces the spread of male secret societies and ritual culture from the Late Paleolithic to the present.
Ritual - Research Articles
Soul-Yanking Rituals: 招魂 Zhāo Hún and Tai-Lao Su Khwan
Explains the shared Chinese 招魂 and Tai-Lao su khwan rites that summon a runaway soul back into the body and why they persist across cultures.
Heroic Draughts and the Snake Cult of Consciousness
Why the legendary drink quaffed by Indo‑European dragon‑slayers is best read as a fossilised antivenom rite preserved by the Snake Cult of Consciousness.
Maximilian Müller on Serpent Worship: Indo-European Roots and Global Parallels
Analyzing Max Müller’s 19th-century work on serpent worship, focusing on his identification of serpent symbolism in Vedic and Indo-European traditions and comparing his findings with global serpent myths relevant to the Snake Cult hypothesis.
The Bullroarer: A Worldwide Ritual Instrument and the Case for Ancient Cultural Diffusion
An anthropological examination of the bullroarer, arguing its global distribution and consistent ritual functions point to cultural diffusion from a common prehistoric origin.
From Ritual to Recursion: Integrating Froese’s Ritualised-Mind Hypothesis with the Eve Theory of Consciousness
Integrating Thomas Froese’s insights on intersubjectivity and enactivism with the Eve Theory of Consciousness to provide a novel perspective on the Hard Problem of consciousness and the evolution of subjective experience.
The Ritualised Mind and the Eve Theory of Consciousness: A Convergent Account of Human Cognitive Evolution
Deep synthesis of Tom Froese’s Ritualised-Mind Hypothesis and Andrew Cutler’s Eve/Snake-Cult Theory, resolving the Sapient Paradox through ritual-mediated recursion, female agency, and gene–culture sweeps.