Proposition 1: Science applied to humanity is pseudo science.
Examples: Phrenology, social Darwinism, eugenics, evolutionary psychology, Utilitarianism, behaviourism, logical positivism, biological determinism, genetic reductionism, scientific materialism, eliminativism, transhumanism.
Proposition 2: Socio-Political theories claiming scientific legitimacy are pseudo-scientific theories.
Examples: Secular humanism, fascism, Nazism, Marxism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Neo-Liberalism.
Proposition 3: Cultural theories claiming scientific legitimacy are pseudo-scientific theories.
Examples: Postmodernism, Critical Theories (Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, etc.)
Proposition 4: Modernity is characterised by the colonisation of the humanities and liberal arts by pseudo-scientific theories.
Proposition 5: The great works of the human imagination in philosophy, art and literature are being progressively marginalised in academia and in the wider culture, and the self-knowledge and wisdom they represent is being progressively jettisoned in favour of pseudo-scientific theories.
Proposition 6: This development is welcomed by techno-utopians who envisage a future human society run according to purely scientific and technological principles.
Proposition 7: This pseudo-scientific vision of hyper-Modernity is the epitome of a “Babyon system” of totalitarian social control of deracinated individuals.
Proposition 8: A plausible (though speculative) hypothesis is that we are experiencing a collective drift towards left hemisphere dominance of the brain, which accounts for the desire for objective systems and control and dissociation from subjective, lived experience.
Proposition 9: Psychedelics are a powerful way to disrupt this process, although they too are vulnerable to colonisation and control by both science and pseudo-science.
Proposition 10: The responsible use of psychedelics in the context of the liberal arts and religion represent our best chance of reversing the tide of dehumanisation sweeping across the human world.
the way of the holy mushroom 