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Paganism and happiness
Dec. 3rd, 2007 01:27 pmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/dec/02/medicalresearch.foodtech?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
The authors of Teach Yourself Training Your Brain, a new book that draws from the latest brain research to make lifestyle recommendations that will improve your brainpower, propose that happiness might best be found in a concept they refer to as BLISS:
When I was in Rome last summer, my tour guide was careful to point out the trails from paganism through Christianity and Catholicism that the different faiths left behind in the city's artistic heritage. One of the things that Christianity encountered when it arrived was resistance to its more straight-laced virtues. Paganism, of which the Romans made a science, held up as great virtues exactly the above list.
It seems that like any healthy organization, whole human societies eventually learn what is best for them and call it great. How often we forget how much smarter our ancestors were.
The authors of Teach Yourself Training Your Brain, a new book that draws from the latest brain research to make lifestyle recommendations that will improve your brainpower, propose that happiness might best be found in a concept they refer to as BLISS:
- Body-based pleasure
- Laughter
- Involvement
- Satisfaction
- Sex
When I was in Rome last summer, my tour guide was careful to point out the trails from paganism through Christianity and Catholicism that the different faiths left behind in the city's artistic heritage. One of the things that Christianity encountered when it arrived was resistance to its more straight-laced virtues. Paganism, of which the Romans made a science, held up as great virtues exactly the above list.
It seems that like any healthy organization, whole human societies eventually learn what is best for them and call it great. How often we forget how much smarter our ancestors were.
