This staggering book is an archaeologist's view of religion throughout prehistory. Flooded with recent discoveries (2003), the inner and outer of the beginnings of human consciousness can be read in 450 pages. Below: A face-like rock collected by an early hominid some 4.5 million years ago in South Africa. Far Below: A Maori chiefly-feast scaffold, erected to hold food and gifts on its various levels. Evidence exists of similar scaffold structures at Stonehenge. Parallels with the west's Christmas Tree cannot be ignored.

the kite seems to be my destiny, because in the first recollection of my infancy it seemed to me that, while I was in my cradle a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips

Unlike Karl Mannheim, who saw ideology through a generalized lens, Bruehl viewed ideoloy as a window into archetypes, neurosis and personality; in effect, she saw the breaking down of racism/sexism/ethnicism as a struggle for psychonanlysis to bear. More 20th century front-loading, but still an involving read. There are fairy-tale abstractions in Bruehl's approach to psychonanlysis.

Societies must deal with anxieties to transform. What do you think would have happened if Ambien were sold during the United States's first depression?

This CDC's new data regarding antidepressants is the true national horror for the United States. 22% of females 40-59 under their spell, only one-third of the severely-depressed actually take these drugs (inferring a majority of users are addicted to the meds), less than a third of single-users have seen a mental-health specialist in over a year. The battle back from the financial depression of the thirties was difficult. How does a nation unaddict itself from a dependence that feeds the Dow directly? This century's depression is like the earlier one, partly mental and partly shared-value. Only this time the mental one is partially anesthetized and growing. Imagine histories they will write of our age. The dulled.

An example in original language (and Spanish subtitles), Episode 35. Anime's full flucuation is in effect here, follow the battle to the Aztec plaza.

An Anthro-Bio-Chemist, Ott has botanically observed hundreds, perhaps thousands of plants that yield varying amounts of altered states, from a library and research lab in Mexico, recently damaged by arson. For proof of his studies, check out Pharmacotheon. He analyzes many chemical forms, shows inferior paths, and discusses policy and history. Footnotes tell the real story, and are half the size of each chapter. Continuing Gordon Wasson's unusual and maybe ground-breaking constructions of ancient ceremonies utilizing medicinal tools that altered users, Ott writes the only ethnopharmacogosy of entheogenic drugs. A chemical zoom lens into the brain. Volume 2 is delayed, but Volume 1 is a must have.

Zenon Pylyshyn, Cognitive Scientist, who's discovered rotational aspects of memory.

Why is this important? It may be a key to building the first conscious language, which may in-turn unlock the brain's full capabilities.

See: Seeing and Visualizing, It's Not What You Think. Winner, Best ABA Scholarly Book, 2006

Below: Gobors have dual rotational lines, column a are snapshots every 250ms. They illustrate human objectification in motion and space.

Some think 300ms is the human 'shutter' rate.