par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 4, 2024 | Blog, Human Body
WHAT SHOULD WE DO? Certainly, wanting to lose weight or benefit from better muscle tone, all these are desirable. It’s not a crime to wish to be in good health, and overweight can be a serious problem; dysregulating one’s insulin metabolism can be dangerous. Remedying...
par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 4, 2024 | Blog, Human Body
It’s time to abandon this word. It is understandable that some want to narrow the focus in studying certain cerebral activities sited in the frontal cortex, such as reasoning, anticipation, decision, language, conscious memory … Everything which we call ‘mind’...
par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 3, 2024 | Blog, Carnival, Ritual
The core of ancient seasonal festivals, such as Carnival, is by far older than the settling for instance of the Celtic civilizations, that of the Roman Empire or that of medieval Christianity. It is indeed older than the Bronze Age, and even agriculture. It is a...
par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 3, 2024 | Blog, Ritual
‘The night of full moon and waning summer’s feast…’ Our ancestors marked the seasons in the rhythm of four feasts taking place at the full moons halfway between the equinoxes and solstices. These rituals are often connected with Celtic tradition, but their...
par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 3, 2024 | Blog, Ritual
What lies behind ‘Voodoo Death’? In tribal worlds, breaking a taboo provokes a curse entailing removal from the tribe. Anthropologists have been interested in the invariable consequences: the guilty party falls into a state of prostration and soon dies. This is the...
par Matthieu Smyth | Oct 3, 2024 | Blog, Human Body
Human beings are naturally the most social of animals. This could seem like a paradox when we look at our civilizations, but it is a biological reality, inscribed on the very heart of our organism, particularly the autonomous nervous system, that which governs our...
