3 minWHAT MAKES US STRONGEROf all the aphorisms of Nietzsche, ‘That which does not kill me makes me stronger’, has without doubt become the most quoted nowadays....
3 minFROM BIRTH… OR ALMOSTEverything starts at birth, or almost. Western society cuts the physical connection between mother and child prematurely. The little...
3 minWHAT MAKES YOU STRONGER FOR REALThat which does not kill but destroys does not really make us stronger. But then what does make us stronger for real, for good? In fact,...
2 minLUGNASAD ‘The night of full moon and waning summer’s feast...’Our ancestors marked the seasons in the rhythm of four feasts taking place at the full moons halfway between the equinoxes and solstices....
3 minThe Great Woodwose and the Full MoonIn Europe, the earliest masks that have come to us from a distant past and from isolated valleys represent mostly (male and sometimes...
5 min"Voodoo Death"What lies behind ‘Voodoo Death’? In tribal worlds, breaking a taboo provokes a curse entailing removal from the tribe. Anthropologists...
4 minFROM THE FORESTThe core of ancient seasonal festivals, such as Carnival, is by far older than the settling for instance of the Celtic civilizations,...
5 minFROM HELPLESS TO FREEHuman beings are naturally the most social of animals. This could seem like a paradox when we look at our civilizations, but it is a...
3 minSAMHAIN AND OTHER COLD SEASON FESTIVALSA procession of people donning masks or bodypainting is one of the most common human rituals. This phenomenon is known in Europe mostly...
2 minAUTUMN FESTIVALSAutumn festivals. The bright and warm season ends. The dark and cold season starts. Between the autumn’s equinox and the winter solstice....
4 minPSYCHOLOGY IN QUESTIONIt’s time to abandon this word. It is understandable that some want to narrow the focus in studying certain cerebral activities sited in...
2 minAUTUMN FESTIVALSAutumn festivals. The bright and warm season ends. The dark and cold season starts. Between the autumn’s equinox and the winter solstice....