Mysteries Of History Research Articles

Psychedelics and schizophrenia: A mystery in history

AbstractThis analysis of current and historical research and clinical reports observes that the relationship between psychedelics and schizophrenia is complex and there are reports of psychedelics benefiting this population. Specifically, lower doses of psychedelics (mostly LSD) appear to have a potential beneficial impact on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

The Mystery of History: To Say Nothing of the Dog as Neo-Victorian Fiction

The Mystery of History: To Say Nothing of the Dog as Neo-Victorian Fiction

Paradoxes of Historical Memory in A. Tvardovsky’s Post-War Poems

The article deals with the modern interpretation of four post-war poems by A.T. Tvardovsky: House by the Road, Beyond Distance, Tyorkin in the Other World, By Right of Memory , which were insufficiently studied in the previous research works. The main idea is focused on the artistic embodiment of historical thinking in these works. The main feature of these works is a contradictory combination of utopian consciousness and the dystopian mood of the lyric hero, who is pondering over personal and historical memory. The author concludes that Tvardovskys post-war poems capture the paradoxes of the historical thinking of a personality who, on the one hand, gets out of the influence of the dominant ideology, and on the other hand, demonstrates an apologetic attitude towards the key concepts and mythologems of totalitarian discourse. The hero of Tvardovskys later poems appears as a front-line soldier, an artist, a publicist, an analyst of modern times, a prescient; he wanders the roads of the past and present, at the crossroads of personal and historical memory, gets even to death, goes on believing in the mission of the political leaders, the a priori truth of the Country and the People inspired by dystopian impulses and sees mysteries of history through his destiny.

Исторический процесс в свете христианской антропологии Ф. М. Достоевского

Based on the fundamental concepts of the "mystery of man" and Christian realism, the "law of the Ego" and the "law of love" for Dostoevsky's creative consciousness, the article examines the one-sidedness of biologizing and socializing concepts of human nature since the Enlightenment and their connection with entropic processes in the spiritual and moral world of people and declining trends in the course of history. It is shown how the spiritual laws of life, which are leaving the field of view of rationalistic and pragmatic consciousness, transform social-progressive design and planning, and introduce nihilistic elements into them. It is emphasized that the methodology of Christian realism is universal, that it connects the "mystery of man" with the mystery of history, and becomes one of the main principles for assessing the hierarchy of values in various ideological and social systems.

Luther v. Borden: A Taney Court Mystery Solved

It has not been generally remarked that Chief Justice Taney wrote surprisingly few of the Taney Court’s major opinions—those cases that tend to be anthologized and remembered by generalists. Those major cases which Taney did write are consistently about slavery (or states’ rights or state powers, which in Taney’s mind may have amounted to the same thing). There is a notable exception: Luther v. Borden—a case about the Guarantee Clause. This raises a question. Setting aside his opinions on slavery or states’ rights, what could have moved the author of Dred Scott, by consensus the worst Supreme Court opinion in history, to choose Luther v. Borden as one of the few remembered major opinions he did write? To begin to unravel this little mystery of history, a glimpse into the character and judgment of Roger Brooke Taney is offered, with an amusing parallel drawn between the respective nominations to the Supreme Court of Taney and Robert Bork. Luther is reconsidered in light of the Transcripts of Record, and with an unembarrassed presentism rather than historicism. In view of Chief Justice Warren’s thinking in Powell v. McCormack, much of Chief Justice Taney’s reasoning in Luther is shown not only to be evasive, illogical and unconvincing, but also intellectually dishonest, if he is to be credited with the understandings of law and its processes reasonably attributable to a former Attorney General of the United States. Even more disturbingly, Luther v. Borden can plausibly be read as having a darker side than is conventionally understood, with an impact of surprising magnitude and hurtfulness, placing it well within the ambitions of the author of Dred Scott.

Towards an Abrahamic Ecumenism? The Search for the Universality of the Divine Mystery

This contribution explores the notion of an Abrahamic ecumenism as proposed by Hans Kung and others in search for a way in which Islam, Judaism and Christianity can live peacefully together. It is argued, however, that to pursue a viable political pluralism, it is more promising for Christian theology to take into account the historical development of the image of God instead of an orientation on a common historical origin in Abraham. The elaboration of the universality of the divine mystery in history does not have to be won by going back to Abraham, but by going forward to Jesus Christ and by thinking of and living out of Him.

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599 (review)

Shapiro, James. 2005. A Year in Life of William 1599. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $27.95 he. 394 pp.Perhaps greatest biographer of has observed that public nature of facts known about poet afford no insight into interior life of artist, wherein resides chief fascination of literary biography. It is ironic that these words of Samuel Schoenbaum (1971, 1) find their echo in last sentence of Shapiro's sterling book, clearly most important work on Shakespeare's life among many since Schoenbaum's A Documentary Life (1975). Though able to open the hearts and minds of others, Shapiro concludes, kept lock on what he revealed about himself (333). Still, Shapiro's deft ability to zoom in and out on Shakespeare's life in English society in 1599 does seem to make bard take on flesh and blood especially in silences that Shapiro allows us to hear in form of what did not-or dare not-write. Despite beautifully written thick description that Shapiro offers of one year in Shakespeare's life unfolding season to season, we still do not know how he felt about basic public issues that faced English culture that year. To oversimplify these, we still can ask, was he Catholic or Protestant, Monarchist or Republican or Monarchical Republican? His personal life seems even more remote, paradoxically, in face of this most diligent, lucid book, mustread for all who study Shakespeare. How did he feel about his marriage or his family, who probably never saw single play by their most eminent member (240)? Such mysteries of history and life deepen, not recede, as Shapiro makes us peer across centuries dividing post-modern from early modern and beyond, to chivalric world recognized in Hamlet to be dead but not yet buried (276).Herein lies great value of Shapiro's work. It shows us how, through dark glass of history, we can vividly make out form and pressure of times on four plays worked on in year 1599, Henry V, As You Like It, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. Against and within massive forces that made the death of chivalry coincide with the birth of empire (274), English man both disappears and emerges. Zooming out on grave problems of enclosure and vagabondage particularly acute in Arden (233), Shapiro shows immortal poet as just one more rich man among an uneasy multitude, having already stuffed his barns in 1597 with 80 bushels of malt, not ignorant of consequences upon poor of Warwickshire (241). Through Shapiro's other lens, we see Protean pleaser-and reader-of great crowds, with over third of London's adult population likely to attend play each month (9). On stage at least, was able to make them think he had heard and seen their very voice and image, showing true sympathy for those hurt by the personal and social cost of enclosure, for example, in figure of indigent shepherd Corin in As You Like It (243). In so hurtling and maintaining obstacles of social class, emerges in Shapiro's richly detailed portrait of late Elizabethan culture like character of Henry V, a man who mingles easily with princes and paupers but who deep down is fundamentally private and inscrutable (92).Indeed, Shapiro tellingly demonstrates how fact that Shakespeare played vasdy different roles in London and in Stratford (240) fully situates his life and career in growing divide of city and country, center and margin, lords and commoners in early modern British culture overall. For example, he convincingly detects in nationalist rhetoric of Henry V futility and desperation of English crown's attempt to colonize Ireland in view of 1598 massacre of English troops at Blackwater by Earl of Tyrone. By presenting the fantasy of English and Irish fighting by side so soon after Blackwater (95), Henry V displays shallow hopes of conquest that rested now on Essex, leaving for Ireland in spring of 1 599. …

Teaching U.S. History as Mystery

Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 Mystery in History: Defining as Mystery, Defining Levels of Investigation 2 From Vietnam to Iraq and Back: Vietnam, Iraq, and the Lessons of History 3 A Medium Vietnam Mystery: Was the War Constitutional? 4 There Are Still Mysteries Out There: Investigating the Mound-Builder Peoples of North America 5 Truer Than True: Looking at Women in the Old West 6 Solved Mysteries? The Case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings 7 Beyond the Bare Facts: Exploring Race and Through Jefferson and Hemings 8 What Caused ? The Origins of Slavery in the Chesapeake 9 Conclusion: Teaching As Mystery

Who killed Napoleon? An historic murder solved

The cause of Napoleon's death has always been the subject of speculation. Because he died under suspicious circumstances many scholars have, doubted that the declared cause of death, cancer, was the actual cause. Colonel Hughes‐Wilson is convinced that Napoleon was murdered—poisoned by one of his carers at Longwood House on the island of St. Helena where Napoleon spent the last years of his life. There are several convincing factors which lead to this conclusion, suck as the results from analyses of samples of Napoleon's hair, carried out by the FBI, and reports on his health by people who examined his body at the time. In this article Colonel Hughes Wilson examines the evidence in this fascinating mystery of history and ventures to answer the question as to who committed the crime and his reasons for doing so.

Marxism and Deconstruction

Summary In this paper some similarities and differences between Marxism and deconstruction are explored. This is done by looking at the different ways terms such as text, history, politics and revolution are used within these two paradigms. In all these cases it is shown that deconstruction succeeds in producing a broader frame of reference. The crucial differences between these paradigms are the following: the method of explanation differs from the strategy of irony; totalisation (based on the assumption that the key to the mystery of history has been discovered) differs from pluralisation (based on the assumption that a variety of approaches to a text is possible); and the program of revolutionary action differs from a transformative strategy which succeeds to transform revolutionary thinking into a continuous activity and which can therefore never claim finality.

History's Mysteries in Arkansas

through manuscripts, diaries, correspondence in search of a point of detail which he needs to complete his story? Is there one who has not been frustrated by what has not been recorded by our forefathers? How does one go about reconstructing every-day-life in Arkansas before the Civil War? What were the amenities of life, the struggles and joys of those early pioneers who came to this new country after the Louisiana Purchase? Or before? The further back one goes, of course, the greater the gap in our knowledge outside of what was reported by government and/or military officials. Will it ever be possible to squeeze more knowledge from the sources left us by the early inhabitants of Arkansas, before facilities for reproducing and distributing the written word proliferated? One source of such knowledge has barely been touched, much less squeezed. Archeologists are generally thought of as those who dig up the remains of pre-historic peoples -those who lived before the time of written records. A more