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...
par Matthieu Smyth | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Human Body
Everything starts at birth, or almost. Western society cuts the physical connection between mother and child prematurely. The little human is not constantly in contact with the mother’s body. While he should be sleeping beside the mother, he soon has to go sleep...
par Matthieu Smyth | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Human Body
Of all the aphorisms of Nietzsche, ‘That which does not kill me makes me stronger’, has without doubt become the most quoted nowadays. But if ‘that which does not kill us’ means a traumatic impact on the body or the mind, it makes no sense. To fully appreciate the...
