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.
Soul-Yanking Rituals: 招魂 Zhāo Hún and Tai-Lao Su Khwan
Ritual - Research Articles
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.