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Can’t Place That Smell? You Must Be American – How Culture Shapes Our Senses

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Cool article from the New York Times – an added layer of evidence for the theory that much of our reality is socially and culturally constructed. Can’t Place That Smell? You Must Be American How Culture Shapes Our Senses T. M. Luhrmann SEPT. 5, 2014 Credit Marion FayolleFLORENCE, Italy — WE think of our senses … Read more

Sharon K. Farber – Cults and the Mind-Body Connection

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We tend to think of cults as exerting mind control over their members, a kind of psychological enslavement, and this is partially true. However, as Dr. Farber argues, the way to obtain control of the mind is through the senses – music, incense, chanting, drumming, dancing, touch. Mind control, as she shows below, can often … Read more