Dictators have a need to be respected, to be loved, to be adored. The great difficulty most of these dictators encounter however has been that many people do not like them, do not support them and disagree with what they want to do and what they represent. So, what is a dictator to [...]
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Hippocrates of Cos (460 BC – c370 BC) was a physician of ancient Greece and is considered the father of western medicine. The ‘oath’ attributed to him was first written in Ionic Greek and elaborates on the duties and responsibilities of doctors both to the practice of medicine as well as to patients. One of the [...]
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Sophia, Greek goddess of wisdom, sought after, prayed for, fought over but never fully attained by the ‘lovers of wisdom’ the philo sophers. In ancient Greece, the goddess was the personification of wisdom. The Goddess Sophia Wisdom is the central theme of many books in the Old Testament as well as [...]
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The term ‘geometry‘ means ‘measure of the earth’, a Greek word inherited from ancient Egypt. The yearly flooding of the Nile caused chaos in the fields and each year, after the waters had receded, ‘geometry’, the redefining and re-establishment of boundaries, was carried out. It was the re-establishment of the principle of order [...]
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Synchronicity, a concept first proposed in the scientific literature by Carl Jung in the 1920s, is the ‘experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance but which are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.’ It is an idea that has been claimed by some [...]
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