According to the life mission theory, the essence of man is his purpose of life, which comes into existence at conception. This first purpose is always positive and in support of life. This is not in accordance with the everyday experience that man also engages in evil enterprises born out of destructive intentions. This paper presents a theory about the evil side of man, called the "anti-self"...

The Exorcist (1971; “E”) by William Peter Blatty, one of horror’s all time greatest bestsellers, starts off with three quotations and three names. The first quotation is from the Bible, from the famous possession narrative in the gospel of Luke (8:27-30). The second is an excerpt from a FBI recording of two Mafia killers laughing and discussing how they had hung their victim on a meat hook and ...

Random context picture grammars are used to generate pictures through successive refinement. There are three important subclasses of random context picture grammars, namely random permitting context picture grammars, random forbidding context picture grammars and table-driven context-free picture grammars. These grammars generate the random permitting context picture languages, random forbiddin...

How large can a family A ⊂ P[n] be if it does not contain A,B with |A \ B| = 1? Our aim in this paper is to show that any such family has size at most 2+o(1) n ( n bn/2c ) . This is tight up to a multiplicative constant of 2. We also obtain similar results for families A ⊂ P[n] with |A\B| 6 = k, showing that they satisfy |A| ≤ Ck nk ( n bn/2c ) , where Ck is a constant depending only on k.

It may legitimately be asked, “What is a psychiatrist doing delving into the longstanding philosophical question about the nature of evil?” As we know, finding meaning and redefining reality to incorporate the experience of trauma is a fundamental task for the survivor of overwhelming life experiences (Herman, 1992; McCann and Pearlman, 1990; Janoff-Bulman, 1992). So too, is it one of the funda...

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...