the delicate art of noise pollution

I am reading a biography about Carl Gustav Jung. Together with Freud the trailblazers for psychoanalysis. While walking the dogs just now and thinking about the book I suddenly realised that in medical science, discovery of how humans work also always brings the need to cure. Of course for many people this is a good …

It has begun. It has truly begun! The mind is set to weigh every word, every sentence. “Labor omnia vicit improbus,” let that be said of me. Melancholy, anger, ignorance, madness. “Labor omnia vicit improbus.”

Life is full of distractions. For many people this is not a problem. Many even welcome or promote the distractions making them the goal of their lives. As such they are no longer distractions and become a reason for existing. It makes life shallower but by no means unhappier and it can be argued that …

In the nineteenth century spiritualism was ‘en vogue’. People who had the time sat around tables in darkened rooms moving upturned glasses around and listening spellbound to the medium in their midst who vocalised the dead. There used to be a sharp distinction between spiritualism and materialism. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and …