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well reading the books and the life of many mystic saints in Spain, they were VERY scared of being seen as heretical. So they, in the level they could, tried to keep quite separated from the standard apparatus of the religion. And the establishment was ever suspicious about them, ever vigilant...

Is there a very powerful reason for the mystics to find that their respective traditions are correct, if they dont say that, they trend to be killed :D

Trivers is considered as a kind of Darwin of the last XX century. The influence on Psichology and in Antrophology are huge. the other study i pointed is: "Shall we serve the dark lords? A meta-analytic review of psychopathy and leadership." from Landay, K., Harms, P. D., & Credé, M. (2019). but...

quite exact...there have been important steps through this direction on science, the most important has been the work of a biologist Robert Trivers that worked on the importance of deceit in biology, naturally soon realized that the capilla sixtina of deceit in biology were humans itself, and...

Maybe i´m over simplifying but think that is simply the distance between mystic and religion, religion as you said is exoteric , is social, and is about building a moral. Mystic is individual and not translatable easily to social and cultural context, the distance between the 2 is huge, and a...

of course this structure works, works on animals and work on humans too...but of course we know the drawbacks of this strategies: from murders to predatory wars, to economic and financial scams and cracks, and of course all the huge amount of resources needed to prevent them. The balance is...

Hi, well i will try to put it all together as simple as i can: There is something that we humans refer as "human nature" that human nature have an important (not all of course) component of evilness. Getting a closer look at how that evilness engine work we see that is rooted on the biology...

No i managed to speak so crappy all by myself ...without any other external help.

Yes i know, talking about anthropology when you are talking about extraterrestrial civilizations is blatantly a inexact term, but don´t having other at all to talk about this things i will use it, cause is quite understandable. We talked on past post and talks about how we, the humankind, are...