This is a review of the book on visual intelligence written by Prof. Donald D. Hoffman. This review questions the view that we create what we see. It is argued that we rather create a representation of reality. This view is peddled using a discussion around frames of reference.

This post is a philosophical musing. My main point in this article is about our routine decision making processes are largely governed by ‘rule-of-thumb logic’. This logical process may be far more pervasive than meets eye and may even be embedded in our biology.

This post discusses the hypothesis that the Venus figurines from prehistory represents the bodies of women who created them. It looks at some considerations that make this hypothesis more complex than it seems.

The possible nexus between the girls’ puberty rites, the origin of Venus figurines, the witch cult in Western Europe and shamanism in Eastern Europe and Asia is discussed. It is a possibility that the Venus figurines can be associated with both the girl’s puberty rites and the hunting magic. In many recorded accounts from the modern times, the…[Read more]

The following article describes a new opinion on explaining the Prehistoric Venus figurines. Main idea behind
the document was to stir some discussion on looking at those figurines from a very different point of view.
The author genuinely believes that this view represents a very strong contender for a highly plausible explanation.

Since…[Read more]

It is not a stretch of imagination to link seclusion of girls at puberty with the Palaeolithic cave art. The widely accepted view about cave art suggests that the cave artists had been shamans. This shamanic origin can imply that the religion emerged in the times when the cave artists were active. It has already been posited in the relevant…[Read more]