Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish” – Jean de La Fontaine Part and parcel …
Tag Archives: Psychology
The Bottle Smashing Ghost of Via Bava No. 6
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine” – Eduardo Galeano The problem with …
I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety
“Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright” – Alice Thomas Ellis …
Clowning Around: At Play in the Uncanny Valley
“I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one …
Everyone’s a Little Bit Crazy: Schizotypy and Strange Phenomena
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “We’re …
The Devil and Doctor Freud: Satan and the Suspended Superego
“Do you not know that I am the Devil? All my life I have had to play the Devil, in …
Transcendental Tongue Twisting: Mantras and Semantic Satiation
“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols” – Ralph Waldo Emerson You my friend are a mammal. This may be presumptuous …
The Four World Theory: Not to Alarm You, but You’re Going to Die
“In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness” – Samuel Beckett As humans have only been around for …
Resistive Monsters: Voter Anger and the Herd Instinct
“The wolf is united for attack, the sheep is united for defense, but the bee is united for all the …
Where the Rubber Hits the Road: The Intersection of Anomalies and Beliefs
“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests” – John Stuart Mill Listening closely to …
The Superstitious Pigeon: Magical Thinking, Skepticism, and Anomalistics
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt” – Eric …
How to Feel Normal in an Anomalistic Universe
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist” – Jean-Paul Sartre When you are as …
The Digital Crowd: Making a Modern Monster?
“It is crowds that have furnished the torrents of blood requisite for the triumph of every belief” – Gustave Le …
Shouldering the Moral Burden: An Anatomy of Acephalous Cryptids
“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot …
You Are What Eats You: Phagophobia and the Primal Monster
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.” –Thomas …
