Gandhi on self-purification

From here:Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.But the path of self-purification ...

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The cultural morphology of fire

It is thought that humans/humanoids have had the capacity to control fire for at least 230,000 years, possibly more.It is also thought that fire - which would have been useful for scaring away predators - enabled early humanoids to move down from trees and onto the flat earth.I have wanted to blog about fire for a while and recently came across this paper, The Civilizing Process and the ...

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