Recently at Psychology Today, psychotherapist Mark Shelvock asked some questions of philosopher Monika Mandoki, who has written a dissertation on near-death experiences (NDEs). Both are based at ...
https://www.sott.net/article/490086-A-philosopher-investigates-near-death-experiences
A new psychological assessment has been developed to measure the endorsement of attitudes related to critical social justice. Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger...
Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind. Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in...
https://www.sott.net/article/489804-What-deathbed-visions-teach-us-about-living
There's currently lots of hoopla about some crybabies who want daddy to keep Substack clean and safe. They talk about "Nazis" on the platform, conveniently forgetting to define what they even mea...
https://www.sott.net/article/489217-How-to-Fight-the-Censorship-Mindset
David Abramowitz joins us once again, this time to discuss Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian's Taxonomy of Woke Psychopathology. With Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology as inspira...
- The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek franchise. The Borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called "the Collective". The Borg co-opt the...
Although a positive mindset is often associated with success, a new study suggests that excessive optimism often leads to poor decision-making, especially when it comes to finances. The study, co...
https://www.sott.net/article/488436-Optimistic-mindset-linked-to-poor-decision-making
We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik's Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinit...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices are still deeply entrenched at our institutions — but the retrenchment is well under way. When he took office in 2021, Utah governor Spencer Cox, a Repu...
https://www.sott.net/article/488113-John-Sailer-The-DEI-rollback
The train wasn't scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the door of the huge elevator leading to the platform. It said that only four people are a...
https://www.sott.net/article/488013-A-nation-of-non-compliers
The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill s...
The ancient idea of spiritual gnosis has evolved and branched to reflect the time and place in which we live. Nowhere is this development more evident than in the writings and scholarship of auth...
Mozart, the great and enduring musical genius, doesn't conform to our stereotypical notion of a musical prodigy. Did he practice for hours per day? Nope. Was he well intentioned with his plans? A...
https://www.sott.net/article/487281-The-time-traveling-mistake-we-make-when-we-procrastinate
New research, published in PLOS Biology, shows that tears from women contain chemicals that block aggression in men. The study led by Shani Agron at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, fin...
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. �...
https://www.sott.net/article/487130-Gladness-and-silence-amid-chaos-and-violence
Last week, I received the following email from the National Association of Scholars (NAS): Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, December 8, at 3 pm ET for "Restoring the Sciences:...
https://www.sott.net/article/486799-How-scientific-materialism-begot-woke-ideology
Have you ever felt you were being watched? Almost everybody has. It's a scientific phenomenon that is universal. More than 80 per cent of women, and nearly three-quarters of men, questioned in Br...
Truth-speaking (or truth-telling) is not the same as truth. At least not in the familiar sense of a correspondence between what is stated and the state of affairs to which it corresponds - the so...
https://www.sott.net/article/486689-Truth-speaking-and-the-technocratic-cabal
In a compelling revival of a classic social psychology experiment, a new study has found that group pressure significantly influences individual decisions, not just in simple tasks but also in ex...
I went to the local mall this weekend and seeing all the pseudo-men and pseudo-women walking around and seeing all the glittering products attempting to appeal to these people, I thought that I h...
https://www.sott.net/article/486668-The-attack-of-the-pseudo-men
The glue of expertise that held our complicated social machinery together is coming apart, yet we continue to shift more and more responsibility to failing institutions. The outcome won't be pret...
https://www.sott.net/article/486478-The-competency-crisis-is-upon-us
Several months back, someone emailed me the following: I nominate Sam Harris for YouTube's prize for "Person with the Best One-Liner Joke except for the fact that he was being serious," for his r...
https://www.sott.net/article/486245-On-free-will-ChatGPT4-blows-away-atheist-Sam-Harris
What do altered states tell us about the nature of consciousness? And what can philosophy tell us about altered states? John Buchanan has spent his life trying to find the answers. His book, Proc...
The childcare system of a contemporary hunter-gatherer community suggests a major pitfall of the nuclear family, and it could hint at why so many parents in wealthy, Western nations feel burned o...
How Walter Kirn's encounter with psychopathy changed his worldview For twenty years German immigrant Christian Gerhartsreiter pretended to be a Rockefeller. He befriended novelist and essayist Wa...
https://www.sott.net/article/485875-An-Initiation-into-the-Reality-of-Evil
Are all psychopaths serial killers? Is authoritarianism only found on the political right? Are we all equally capable of evil? Does power really corrupt absolutely? And is evil really "banal"? Jo...
I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath. He most certainly is not. I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, as psychopaths in the psychiatric sense. They have a ...
https://www.sott.net/article/485526-Israels-Biblical-Psychopathy
When you act like a psychopath, you clear the way for actual psychopaths. Too many people believe in a cookie-cutter account of human nature, that everyone is basically the same, basically good u...
"We are at an inflection point, a threshold, where weak, brittle, effete personality structures are a threat to human civilization." — JD Haltigan on X You might have noticed that the massive i...
à bientôt We are deeply sad to announce that a core member of the Sott.net and Cassiopaea.org team, Pierre Lescaudron, has passed from this life, leaving us, and all of you who knew and loved h...
https://www.sott.net/article/485265-In-Memoriam-Pierre-Lescaudron
On doomers, bloomers, brain hemispheres, and fixing stuff Black-pilled doomer. Or white-pilled bloomer. Is trying to fix things pointless, or the point? Is progress an illusion? I've been asking ...
https://www.sott.net/article/485050-Progress-is-a-myth-but-its-also-real
Many thanks to Occupy Schagen --Sander--for his personal messages on autism research. Some of it I was familiar with; some not -- and it led a a whole new understanding. Occupy Schagen has a dese...
https://www.sott.net/article/484948-Is-Putin-autistic-Or-just-gifted
My cosmopolitan-minded wife forced me to visit an old colonial-era Catholic hospice/orphanage in the center of Guadalajara, Mexico recently. The aged murals depicting hell and redemption and such...
https://www.sott.net/article/484890-Modern-art-is-the-resentful-destruction-of-beauty
This is a lightly adapted extract from Self and Unself, The Meaning of Everything.1 You can listen to a discussion around some of the themes of this book with James de Lys of the Hermitix podcast...
https://www.sott.net/article/484850-The-illusions-of-abstract-philosophy-Thought-is-never-deep
Right and left as neural net There's been a lot of discussion recently over the principle of NETTR - No Enemies To The Right. This is an idea that has been kicking around in right wing circles fo...
https://www.sott.net/article/484702-The-Internet-is-a-brain-with-schizophrenia
The poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling has always been a subject of intense scrutiny, debate, and criticism. Crafted at the threshold of the twentieth century, it extols the Western...
https://www.sott.net/article/484647-The-White-Mans-Burden-Western-liberalism-as-the-new-imperialism
Bringing order to the cognitive biases of the natural worldview Ponerology is about how human nature goes wrong. As rough categories, Lobaczewski divides humanity into two broad groups: normal (a...
https://www.sott.net/article/484634-To-err-Is-human-but-not-for-me
We are making terrible sacrifices in a futile attempt to safeguard every characteristic under the sun... Christianity is under attack, from China to Pakistan, but I want to consider a case closer...
https://www.sott.net/article/484235-Its-time-the-West-admitted-free-speech-is-dead
Growing up in LaSalle, Colorado, I learned lessons that seem to be universally taught to those raised in America's small towns. My tough single mom made sure I knew the commonsense concepts of de...
https://www.sott.net/article/484044-Cancel-culture-is-losing-to-small-town-values
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeffrey Long. It has been edited for length and clarity. Thirty-seven years ago I was an oncologist resident, learning about how best to trea...
An awakening Whether religious or not, I think many readers here will relate to some of these experiences. In 2014 I was working for a UK organization which adjudicates financial disputes. The wo...
https://www.sott.net/article/484009-My-Journey-From-Illness-And-Despair-Towards-Truth-And-God
Religious liberty is among the very foundations of American freedom, and our government must not target or discriminate against religious faiths or those who practice them. No freedom may be more...
https://www.sott.net/article/483934-Religious-liberty-in-the-United-States-An-inalienable-right
Its liberal Maid programme has been turned into a political weapon... With uncharacteristic humility, I would concede that a few positions I've argued fiercely in print might be viable on paper, ...
https://www.sott.net/article/483744-The-cruelty-of-Canadas-euthanasia-policy
And so will be our way out When looking at history to understand its lessons and discern where we are coming from, there are, broadly speaking, two competing schools of thought: one sees history ...
https://www.sott.net/article/483667-The-collapse-will-be-mental
Modern science is founded upon a materialistic paradigm that rejects anything which suggests there is more to each human being than just our flesh and bones. Yet, as medical science finds more an...
https://www.sott.net/article/483497-Do-organs-have-a-mind-of-their-own
The following is a transcript of this video. "Human predators populate our society." Stefan Verstappen, Defense Against the Psychopath Psychopaths are human predators. They coerce, manipulate, li...
https://www.sott.net/article/483172-The-psychology-of-psychopaths-Predators-who-walk-among-us
Do human beings have 'higher bodies'? Is there an essence or essential part of one's being that individuals can consciously help to grow? And what does the development of the personality have to ...
The future of humanity is becoming ever less human. The astounding capabilities of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence have triggered fears about the coming age of machines leaving...
https://www.sott.net/article/482857-Woe-the-humanity-How-AI-fits-into-broadly-rising-anti-humanism
For a country to succeed, it needs citizens that have some sort of civic pride, not only in its past accomplishments, but for the here and now. Countries not only pride themselves on providing th...
J.D. Haltigan is a developmental and evolutionary psychologist who writes the Multilevel Mailer on Substack. His research and writing focuses on psychopathology, social media-induced mental illne...