Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box

The Human Self in Literature and Science: Reviewing Eric Hoel’s ‘The World Behind the World’

It’s an intriguing fact that humans come into the world without the tools to explain it, or for that matter our own experience of it. We have to develop those tools. The record of our attempts persist in the ochre shapes of hands, hunters, and animals on ancient cave walls, liturgical objects and activities from sacred sites, and myths and legends passe…