’Madness without delirium‘, ‘moral insanity‘ – these are just two of the terms that had been used until the late 1800s to describe the personality without a conscience, the personality with a lack of social responsiveness. The term ‘psychopath‘ was first coined by a German clinician and since then has been used as [...]
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Supernatural beings, therianthropes (see post: What Did They See?), alien abduction, kidnapping by fairies…Are these beings and events real or they just due to very vivid imaginations? If they are not real, why is it that the ‘theme’ of other-worldly beings and kidnappings (whether in the modern world, by aliens or, [...]
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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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Whether because of politics, ethnic or nationalist preferences or really because of religious reasons, the papacy, based in the city of Rome since the Christian church was established as the religion of the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine, moved to Avignon, France in 1305 (see post: The Palace of the Popes). [...]
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The cross, as a symbol of Christianity, is pervasive in western society. But the cross, in many different forms and variations, has been a symbol with different meanings probably since neolithic times (the stone age). The cross is so common that, across all cultures, crosses are one of the first symbols (along with [...]
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