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An intimate connection between ‘belief’ and (human) biology?

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 2 March 20143 March 2014

Have you ever heard of a biologist (more precisely a cell-biologist) called Bruce Lipton, who is a bestselling author as well, and an internationally known keynote speaker on what is known as the “new biology”? You will find him through several links on YouTube. It is worth reading his books, The Biology of Belief and […]

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The fundamental contradiction in society — conventional vs critical thinking

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 25 November 2011

I wonder if it has always been the case that there is a fundamental tension in society, or societies, between a kind of conventional, mainstream opinion (what the ancient Greek philosophers derogatorily called “doxa”), on the one hand, and a countervailing, critical thread of thinking, on the other. Moreover, in addition to this tension, there […]

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