“WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?” These were the first words sent over the newly invented electric telegraph machine in May 1844. This message proved to be … Read More › The post Social Media – Why it Sickens the Self and Divides Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

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Social Media – Why it Sickens the Self and Divides Society

“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its … Read More › The post The Big Lie – How to Enslave the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

The Big Lie – How to Enslave the World

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could have been done to prevent it, wrote the following:  “If…if… We didn’t love … Read More › The post How to Escape from a Sick Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

How to Escape from a Sick Society

In 1940 George Orwell wrote:  “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will … Read More › The post Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? – George Orwell’s Warning to the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? – George Orwell’s Warning to the World

“Condition for being a hero. If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his … Read More › The post Why an Obsession with Safety creates Sick Minds and a Sick Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Why an Obsession with Safety creates Sick Minds and a Sick Society

In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following:  “If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the … Read More › The post Do We Live in a Brave New World? – Aldous Huxley’s Warning to the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Do We Live in a Brave New World? – Aldous Huxley’s Warning to the World

Referring to the individual who descends into the depths of the mind, Nietzsche wrote:  “He enters a labyrinth, and multiplies a thousandfold the dangers that life in … Read More › The post Is Madness Always a Mental Illness? – Nietzsche and the Divine Mania first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Is Madness Always a Mental Illness? – Nietzsche and the Divine Mania

In January of 1889, the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche went mad. One year later, Nietzsche’s friend Peter Gast visited him in a mental asylum in … Read More › The post Nietzsche and Madness – A Descent into the Depths first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Nietzsche and Madness – A Descent into the Depths

“. . .when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis.”   Carl Jung, … Read More › The post Carl Jung’s Method of Self-Development – The Path of Individuation first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Carl Jung’s Method of Self-Development – The Path of Individuation

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce … Read More › The post The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?

“Man does not make his ideas; we could say that man’s ideas make him.” (Jung, CW Vol. 4)  Carl Jung, Freud and Psychoanalysis Ideas are the … Read More › The post Can Ideas Induce a Mass Psychosis? – Demons and Social Control first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Can Ideas Induce a Mass Psychosis? – Demons and Social Control

Find the video and full script to this podcast here: https://academyofideas.com/2017/01/nietzsche-and-morality/ The post Nietzsche and Morality: The Higher Man and the Herd first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Nietzsche and Morality: The Higher Man and the Herd

“All one’s neighbours are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear. . . In lunatic asylums it is a well-known fact that patients … Read More › The post Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?

“Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.”   … Read More › The post Why Caring What Others Think Breeds Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

Why Caring What Others Think Breeds Mental Illness

A man can’t go out the way he came in…a man has got to add up to something! Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman In … Read More › The post Why are So Many Men Psychologically Infantile? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

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