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John Vervaeke & Jonathan Pageau: Decoding the Demons

Decoding the Gurus

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Pajoe and the Demons of the Left and Right Hand

Pajoe is explicitly religious right he's a theologian but these guys really are picking up the the project of the medieval scholastics aren't they. The old-fashioned christian would have very much looked down at the kind of primitive concepts about demons and stuff it's all valid, science is validating it and philosophy isvalidating it. But this is actually about psychological collective forces and patterns of behavior that impact human cognition throughout time not just little demons dancing around in hell.

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