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Every year, thousands of Japanese people take a drastic step: they leave their families, their jobs and start a new life in a different place under a different name. This phenomenon has been uniquely named "johatsu", which can be interpreted as an escape from societal pressures and personal problems. There are even specialized agencies in the country called overnight...

Optimizing personalized learning is a challenge in today's educational systems. It is critical to identify instructional strategies that match the inherent qualities of learners. There is a common strategy of dividing students based on subject preferences, which is predominantly seen in advanced stages of learning. However, even at the beginning levels, students show distinct internal orientations that become more pronounced...

There is an emerging spiritual desire for mankind today. It indicates the pursuit of a higher state - altruism and interconnectedness. Because of the novelty of this desire and the inability to understand its realization, humanity feels disoriented. Unlike previously developed materialistic desires-such as the desire for sustenance, reproduction, family ties, financial success, recognition, domination, and intellectual achievement-this emergent desire...

We are living in a new transitional era. Over the generations, the human ego - the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature - has evolved to the point where we can no longer satisfy ourselves and reach a state of helplessness as we continue to try to realize ourselves at the expense of selfishness. Humanity is...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer, about whose life a new feature film has been made and released, was an American physicist who headed a nuclear development project during World War II. He believed that the world needed a new weapon to end war and thought it would be of great benefit to humanity. But the first test of the atomic bomb...

The evolution of humanity, which is ongoing, is designed to bring people to a state of harmonious connection - as in one organism that functions as a single system. Civilization exists in a holistic system, its parts are interconnected and interdependent. In the process of development, people need to experience, experience being enslaved to our own selfish nature that makes...

There is a common force of nature, and from it come two opposing forces - giving and receiving. Humans exist between these forces, and both affect us. The question then arises: how does humanity evolve under the influence of these forces? Where does it work? In what is it free? How do we accumulate and relate these two forces in...

Numerous accounts of cohesion and generosity during the Titanic wreck show us how crises allow people to support and care for one another. For example, while the Titanic was sinking, while some were being put into boats and others were panicking on board, its orchestra played until the very end. There is also the story of the billionaire who decided...

In the Western world, almost everyone is connected to sources of information that report on what's going on in the world and help make sense of it. Television, radio, and newspapers used to be such sources. However, in the age of the Internet and the dominant social media, things look very different. A new Gallup and Knight Foundation study found...

In the future, we won't have the need for an Internet connection. It will be replaced by internal sensory communication. At some point in our development, we will feel the need to move from a virtual to a more internal connection with each other. When we feel a deep desire to be in a closer connection with each other-not virtually,...