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Nietzsche read by René Girard: sacrifice, violence and the sacred

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A comparison between «archaic sacrificial wisdom» and «Judaeo-Christian demystification» in Genealogy of morals di Nietzsche in the light of the reading of René Girard, centered on the supposed original sacredness of the so-called «victim mechanism» in archaic societies.

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Towards “TimeWave Zero”: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna

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In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".

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G. de Santillana: “History to be rewritten”. Reflections on "Ancient Fate" and "Modern Affliction"

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(image: Gilbert Bayes, ananke, sculpture)

Extract from the essay by Giorgio de Santillana «History to rewrite", Written in 1968 and published the following year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later (1985) translated and published in Italy by Adelphi in the collection of writings entitled"Ancient fate and modern fate».

Preface and notes by Marco Maculotti. Our italics.

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