HeyJaredAcademy of Ideas
We write articles explaining the ideas of history's great thinkers in order to empower the individual and promote freedom.
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Solitude: A Return to the Self – Anthony Storr (opens the original)
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Support our work and access our growing library of great book summaries and subscriber-only videos - packed with timeless ideas.“The best is the deep quiet in which I li
The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck (opens the original)
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Ideas from Great BooksThis is the first post of a new product available to paying subscribers – Ideas from Great Books.Over the past 14 years of creating videos, we’ve read more than 1,000 books. From these, we are selecting the books that have influenced us the most and creating concise summaries that distill their most important ideas and highlight insightful quotes and passages.You can read them on Substack or download them as PDFs (find a download link at the bottom of each post).<a class="i
The Mystery Science Can’t Explain — Near-Death Experiences (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowIt is common to believe that when we die, we cease to exist. Yet some people who have come close to death, or who have been revived following a clinical death, have reported intensely lucid and profound experiences, known as near-death experiences. Near-death experiences, or what are called NDEs, raise the possibility that personal consciousness continues after the expiration of the physical body. In this video, we examine these experiences and explore how they challenge some of the
Man as Machine – The Great Delusion of the Modern World (opens the original)
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“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations)Language shapes our experience and helps create our everyday reality. The words, concepts, and metaphors we use influence what we see, value, and aim for and how we interact with other people and the natural world.In this series of videos, we are going to explore the man as machine metaphor, or more broadly
The Cure for the Sickness of Modern Society – Henry David Thoreau (opens the original)
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“In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would be pale and livid.”Henry David Thoreau, A Natural History of MassachusettsA growing body of research shows that spending time in nature elevates our mood, reduces stress, enhances creativity, restores our powers of attention, and even improves cardiovascular health and the functioning of our immune system.“There is growing . . . empirical evidence to show that exposure
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