In our modern, secular society, the word ‘ritual’ can at times come across as antiquated. Many of us are divorced from religion in our daily lives, and ritual certainly smacks of a certain religiosity. In fact, a google search on the definition of ritual returns this: “Ritual – noun – a religious or solemn ceremony […]
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It’s easy to take for granted that we have a time machine in our brain. We humans, as a species, are uniquely capable of looking forward into the future and predicting potential outcomes, as well as reflecting on the past and extrapolating it. The world is chaotic, of course, and our powers of prediction are
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In 1976 the biologist Richard Dawkins published a seminal book on evolutionary gene-theory, the Selfish Gene. Now a household name, Dawkins explored how our DNA’s ultimate drive is to replicate itself, and sometimes this drive for replication outweighs the desires of the ‘vehicle’ – us. Many of us intuitively understand now that some of our
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