Sublime

he explores this psychology The True Believer (1951). It might seem from that title that Hoffer is talking about something quite similar, if not identical, to the kind of delusion Marian Keech’s followers suffered from. But it is not so dramatic; it is perhaps even less dramatic than the sort of thing that prompts a South Sea Bubble, most participa

At Ojai, in April, four hour-long discussions took place on ‘The Nature of the Mind’ between K, David Bohm, Dr John Hidley, a psychiatrist in private practice in Ojai, and Rupert Sheldrake, who was at that time a consultant to the International Crops Institute in Hyderabad. These discussions, video taped in colour, had been sponsored by the Robert

It is necessarily elitist in description: dismissive, paternalistic, insulting, sometimes racist. The mass, said Carey, “is a metaphor for the unknowable and invisible. We cannot see the mass. Crowds can be seen; but the mass is the crowd in its metaphysical aspect—the sum of all possible crowds.… It turns other people into a conglomerate. It denie

“Belief in the Law of Small Numbers” teased out the implications of a single mental error that people commonly made—even when those people were trained statisticians. People mistook even a very small part of a thing for the whole. Even statisticians tended to leap to conclusions from inconclusively small amounts of evidence. They did this, Amos and

Annie Collovald a bien montré que, dans le cas français, cette opération n’a visé qu’à épargner au Front national et à son chef historique, Jean-Marie Le Pen, le qualificatif infamant de fascistes. En lui appliquant la dénomination de « populiste », il s’agissait d’en minimiser le danger – le populisme étant censé désigner des mouvements dont la du

Descartes sought sanction directly from the Pope to use human bodies for his dissections, to study anatomy and properly demonstrate his point of view and analysis of function. He argued that human behaviour itself was evidence of the fact that the mind and the body were entirely separate. Thus, when the Pope sanctioned dissection on the grounds tha

who could hold office in local Italian communities (no gravediggers, pimps, actors or auctioneers unless they were retired)