Book of Human Experience

A History of Our Being

• The rise of the human race
• A return journey (preview) *
• A return journey (via landmarks) **

Human Procreation

• Part 1: The Right Conditions
  • Love
  • Marriage
• Part 2: Genetic Predisposition
  • Biological control and personal choice *
  • Sexual union and reproduction *
• Part 3: The Human Factor
  • Sex and the individual *
  • Sex and industry
• Part 4: From Birth into Institutionalisation **

Cultural Indoctrination

Introduction: The Fantasy of Reality

• Part 1: Regional Evolutionary Growth
  • From ape to man
  • Human diversity
  • The rise of Europe
  • The effects of cultural dominance
• Part 2: Nationalism and Unity
  • From communal reality to national identity *
  • From social unity to utopian folly *
  • The British model
• Part 3: Cultural Innovation and its Effects
  • The value of human resources ***
  • Social and artistic merits ***
• Part 4: The Conditioning of Education
  • The basis of modern education
  • Lingual and cultural roots
  • Instinctive learning
  • The mechanics of the mind

Domination and Power

• Civilised Progression and Revolution **
• Institution and Corruption *

Greed and Morality

• Part 1: The Lure of Temptation
• Part 2: The Excesses of Human Greed
  • A sixth mass extinction
  • The human effect
• Part 3: Morality (Spiritual, Religious & Political)
  • Male authority and the warping of morality
  • A struggle with ‘evil’
  • Philosophical enlightenment
  • Philosophical realities
  • Science of the self
• Part 4: The Dustbin of Human Life
  • Lessons to be learned
  • From the depths of depravity
  • A world of Western moralities
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Part 5: Corporate Power and its Global Influence
  • Agricultural immorality
  • Antibiotic misuse
  • Human health and capital venture
  • Experimenting on the innocent
  • Sildenafil and tobacco
  • Man and modern society

Religion and Control

Prologue

• Part 1: Empires of Religious Ideology
  • Introduction
  • A false standard
  • Ancient Egypt to modern conflict
• Part 2: The Greed of Christian Institution
  • The growth of Christianity
  • Early days
  • A Bible to suit
  • Dominance and dispersal
• Part 3: The Emergence of Pseudo-Christian Cults
• Part 4: Islam and Resistance to Open Culture
  • A profession of faith
  • Islamic history
  • Infidels and fundamentalists
• Part 5: Major Alternative Doctrines
  • Judaism
  • Primal religions
  • Hinduism
  • The Buddhist perspective
  • Rejecting the caste
  • Japanese religion
  • A question of soul
• Part 6: Philosophies of Ancient China
• Part 7: The Birth and Death of Religion
  • The female divine and its secular antithesis
  • Sexual disparity
  • From male dominance to the occult
• Part 8: The Path of Intellectual Enlightenment
  • Enlightenment and philosophy
  • The deviant religious arguments
  • The universe explained
  • True philosophy
• Conclusion

Political Stability

• Part 1: The Heart of Civilisation
  • From oppression to democracy *
  • Democratic maturity
  • A model shared
• Part 2: The Fragility of Western Democracy
  • The stain of extremism
  • The exploitation of fear
  • American neo-fascism
  • The rise and fall (& rise) of communism

The Human Mind

• Part 1: The Web of Life
  • From cell to atom
  • Organic physics
  • Biochemical awareness
  • Losing consciousness
  • Spiritual perspectives
  • Dreams: the meeting of minds
  • Animal instinct
  • Human awareness
  • Geographical sensitivity
  • Consciousness and the physical world
  • Thought energy
• Part 2: Sensory Perception
  • Recall
  • Exteroceptive balance
  • Our shared sanity
  • Our collective perception of reality
• Part 3: Imagination and Reason
  • Thoughts, dreams and physical reality
  • A state of alert
• Part 4: Mental Disorders (Psychological & Organic)
  • A history of Western perspectives
  • Psychology as a modern science
  • Psychiatry et al.
  • Parapsychology and sensory inhibition
  • The brain itself
  • Depression
  • Death of the brain
• Part 5: States of Waking Consciousness
  • A matter of consciousness
  • Stress
  • A very human experience
  • Emotional stability
  • Perceptions of love and hate
  • Animal emotions
  • Curious attributes of the human mind
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution of the mind
• Part 6: Sleep and the Realms of the Unconscious
  • Psychological aspects
  • Dreaming to live
  • Our dreamed connection
  • Dream meetings
  • A foray into lucidity
  • The birth, life and death of reality
  • Altering realities
  • Parasomnia
  • Sleep and the paranormal
  • Insomnia
• Part 7: Lucid Dreams
  • Mastery of dreams
  • The intuitive study of dreams
  • Lucid regularity
  • Mixed reality
  • The art of falling asleep
  • A question of consciousness
  • Ancient dreamscapes
  • Opening up
• Part 8: Sexual Intuition and Social Imbalance
  • New life
  • Cerebral dominance
  • (Male) sexual energy
  • The depth of (female) sexual influence
  • Male insecurity and female stability
  • Power and sufferance
  • An open destiny
  • Cultural indoctrination in action
  • Social conformity and self-advancement
• Part 9: Intellectual Evolution
  • The minds of animals, men and machines
  • A class apart
  • Focusing human reality from a Western perspective
  • Science and imagination
  • Ancestral roots
  • Predicament and self-belief
  • The power of positivity
  • From the minds of children
  • Social maladjustment
  • To be awake
  • Quantum imagination
  • Universe of illusion
  • Perception and sanity
  • Only the here and now
  • Quantum immortality

Discovery and Invention

• Part 1: The Historic Passage of Human Innovation
• Part 2: An International Perspective
• Part 3: Transport and Navigation
  • The birth of automotive technology
  • Maritime advances *
  • Efficient engines and dynamic designs
  • Conquering the skies **
  • Navigation
• Part 4: Weapons of War
  • The evolution of firearms
  • Lethal ingenuity
  • Explosives
• Part 5: The Physical Sciences (of elements & atoms)
  • Elementary breakthroughs
  • Exposing the forces of nature
  • From matter to energy
• Part 6: The Physical Sciences (of electricity & light)
  • Primal energy
  • Electrical communications
  • Optical studies and the manipulation of light
  • The capture of light **
• Part 7: Other Practical Inventions
  • Industrial synthesis
  • Civil adaptations
• Part 8: Of Life Itself **

Drugs: The Chemical Influence

• Part 1: Overview – Drugs and Society
  • The ever-changing brain
  • The social impact
  • Dependence
  • A brief history of Western drug culture – the failure of prohibition
• Part 2: The Analgesics
  • Aspirin and other non-opiates
  • Heroin and other narcotics
• Part 3: The Depressants
  • Alcohol
  • Barbiturates and benzodiazepines
  • GHB
  • Ketamine * Solvents & glue
• Part 4: The Stimulants
  • Caffeine * Cocoa
  • Nicotine
  • Anabolic steroids * Nitrites
  • Amphetamines
  • Cocaine
  • Ecstasy – the ‘stimulogen’
  • PCP – the disruptive combination
• Part 5: The Hallucinogens
  • A psychedelic account
  • A psychedelic background
  • The psychedelic reality
  • Mescaline
  • Magic mushrooms / psychedelic fungi
  • LSD ***
  • Cannabis (biological effects)
  • Cannabis (history)
  • Cannabis (the experience)
  • …to a concluding scenario *

The Media Culture

• Part 1: A Creation of Social Circumstance *
• Part 2: The Tabloid Dominion
  • The power of the press
  • Media portrayals vs. real life
  • Role model and celebrity
• Part 3: Popular Culture
  • Music as a focus of modern culture
  • Cultural maturity and the influence of technology
  • Musical expression and capitalist venture *
• Part 4: The Legacies of Censorship
  • Censorship and public opinion
  • Censorship and the freedom of expression
  • Censorship and the state
  • The philosophy of censorship
  • Censorship and music
  • Censorship and film
  • Censorship and comedy **
  • Censorship and the Internet
  • Cultural and societal influences

Fiction: The Realities of Fantasy

• Part 1: A Historical Perspective
  • Literary creation: Poetic beginnings
  • A novel study of literary perceptions
  • Literary creation: New realities *
  • The art of fiction
• Part 2: Breaking Literary Preconceptions
  • 20th-century fiction: In an age of radical change *
  • Disconnection and reassessment
  • 20th-century fiction: From the deepest recesses of the mind
  • Emancipation of the Western mind
• Part 3: Popular Fiction (the early years)
  • The growth of popular fiction *
  • Popular fiction and the realms of fantasy *
  • Mystery and the influence of crime *
  • The artistic origins of the bestseller **
• Part 4: Popular Fiction (the pulp era)
  • 20th-century fiction: The domain of cheap literature *
  • Hard-boiled and masculine ***
  • The weird world of “Mythos”
  • Scientific fantasies
  • Heroic exploits
• Part 5: A Comic Interlude
  • Syndicated beginnings
  • The ‘Golden Age’ *
  • From war to the ‘Comics Code’ *
  • A lighter perspective?
  • The ‘Silver Age’ *
  • The ‘post-Silver Age’ **
  • World comics **
  • An adult perspective
• Part 6: Popular Fiction (beyond the pulps)
  • The end of an era *
  • A truly international language
  • Romantic notions and erotic indiscretion *
  • A pastiche of fantasy
• Part 7: Variations on a Theme
  • 20th-century fiction: The religious, the spiritual, and the experimental
  • From the wondrous imagination of children **
  • Literary creation: From the darkest corners of the mind **

  The Child of Imagination (from science fiction…)

  • Part 1: Literary Dynamics
    • Birth of a genre
    • A journey through the creative mind (from Plato to Asimov) *
    • The evolution of modern sci-fi (a certain mass appeal) ***
  • Part 2: Audio-Visual Dynamics I
    • Sci-fi across the airwaves
    • Sci-fi and the motion picture *******
  • Part 3: Audio-Visual Dynamics II
    • Televisual sci-fi *******
    • Musical sci-fi *****
    • Interactive Escapism
  • Part 4: Emotional and Intellectual Dynamics
    • Fandom and appreciation
    • At the boundary between science and fiction
    • The creation of collective realities *
    • A cultured conscience **

  Humankind: The Generic Conclusion

  • One small step for evolution… *
  • Humankind: The sexual animal *
  • Humankind: The social animal *
  • Language and perception *
  • Offence and crime: Innovation
  • Offence and crime: Abortion
  • Offence and crime: Aesthetic moral perception
  • Offence and crime: Slang
  • Offence and crime: Social crime
  • Offence and crime: The immoral and the superficial
  • Our maturing perceptions and values *
  • The human finale
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