Fiction Instinct https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar12_Post.mp4 Movies are fantastic. Books are fantastic. Stories are fantastic. Ever since the dawn of time, we’ve been telling each other stories. This clearly is a instinct. Whenever you can find something that exists in all cultures now, and has existed in all cultures before, chances are it’s […]
Structural Permutations
Pasta Machine I have a friend that just bought a pretty cool pasta machine. It comes without about 50 different attachments, so all you need to do is put dough in, and whatever pasta you want will come out the front. She said it’s cool to use, but really difficult to clean. […]
Jesus Origin Story
A Walk In The Park I just moved to a new neighborhood. There are lots of parks, and there’s this one walking path that kind of snakes it way through all of them. It’s a cement path for both walking and biking. Most of the parks are long and narrow. They are kind of […]
Global Hive Mind
Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
Divine Child Origins
Called Me In A Panic A friend of mine called me a couple of weeks ago and absolute panic. She told me she was pregnant. She said a whole bunch of other stuff, terrible was happening, but she couldn’t really calm herself down enough to explain exactly what was happening. So, I went over to […]
Are You Driven By Instincts Or Choice?
Many people don’t think they have goals. But if you’re reading this, then you are alive, and likely a human, which means you’ve got goals. Now, you may not have consciously created them, nor may even know what they are, but you’ve got them. Long time ago there was this guy named Joseph Campbell. He […]
How To Use Hypnosis To Create A Huge Army Of Loyal Supporters
The other day I was at a friends house, and I noticed she had one of the Harry Potter books on the bookshelf. I remember when those first came out, I was one of those guys who got them as soon as they were released, and read them within a few days. They follow the […]
Superman Is You
I saw the new trailer for the new Superman movie yesterday, and a couple of quotes jumped out. One was the voice of Superman, saying, “I’m afraid if the world knows who I truly am, they’ll reject me.” The other voice was from Superman’s father, saying, “Your life’s mission is to discovery who you truly […]
Follow Your Bliss
Joseph Campbell, the studier of mythology from around the world, had this to say when asked what the best life strategy is: “Follow your bliss.” See, he had studied mythology and discovered that pretty much all stories from all cultures followed the same basic premise. The “reluctant hero” would be living a pretty boring life, […]