Many years ago, I seem to remember reading in a book that in Tibetan medicine, it was traditionally believed that cancer was caused by extremely small parasites. I believe that book was "Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine".
I asked my friend from Mexico about this statue and received the following response:
"The giant alebrijes placed in the Rockefeller Center in New York are the work of Oaxacan artisans Jacobo and María Ángeles, from the municipality of San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca Mexico. The Workshop of Mexican artists Jacobo and María Ángeles created two "Guardians" to live in New York City, as part of a series called "Nomads." "The jaguar is cautious and strategic, fighting for its herd during the day and watchful at night. " The eagle, with its force of flight, keeps its sight on the horizon towards the future, safeguarding the future of the tribe.
The mission of both sculptures is "to accompany and protect all Latin American, Mexican and Oaxacan migrants who live or are about to arrive in the United States seeking a better future for their tribes." The figures "keep everything that the tribe considers valuable: its traditions, customs and cultural identity." They offer "security in all wars and adversities that nomads go through on their journey" and protect "the essence" of each traveler. These guardians, an Eagle and a Jaguar, protect travelers on earth and in the skies, since "they are hybrid beings, very resistant and strong." It should be noted that the presence of Oaxacan alebrijes in New York City is possible thanks to the event "Mexico Week: Day of the Dead at Rockefeller Center" promoted by the Consulate General of Mexico in New York, through its cultural institute."
SOCRATES: You do, then, mean, as I was saying, to come forward in a little while in the character of an adviser of the Athenians? And suppose that when you are ascending the bema, I pull you by the sleeve and say, Alcibiades, you are getting up to advise the Athenians—do you know the matter about which they are going to deliberate, better than they?—How would you answer?
ALCIBIADES: I should reply, that I was going to advise them about a matter which I do know better than they.
SOCRATES: Then you are a good adviser about the things which you know?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: And do you know anything but what you have learned of others, or found out yourself?
ALCIBIADES: That is all.
SOCRATES: And would you have ever learned or discovered anything, if you had not been willing either to learn of others or to examine yourself?
ALCIBIADES: I should not.
SOCRATES: And would you have been willing to learn or to examine what you supposed that you knew?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: Then there was a time when you thought that you did not know what you are now supposed to know?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: I think that I know tolerably well the extent of your acquirements; and you must tell me if I forget any of them: according to my recollection, you learned the arts of writing, of playing on the lyre, and of wrestling; the flute you never would learn; this is the sum of your accomplishments, unless there were some which you acquired in secret; and I think that secrecy was hardly possible, as you could not have come out of your door, either by day or night, without my seeing you.
ALCIBIADES: Yes, that was the whole of my schooling.
SOCRATES: And are you going to get up in the Athenian assembly, and give them advice about writing?
ALCIBIADES: No, indeed.
SOCRATES: Or about the touch of the lyre?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: And they are not in the habit of deliberating about wrestling, in the assembly?
ALCIBIADES: Hardly.
SOCRATES: Then what are the deliberations in which you propose to advise them? Surely not about building?
ALCIBIADES: No.
SOCRATES: For the builder will advise better than you will about that?
ALCIBIADES: He will.
SOCRATES: Nor about divination?
ALCIBIADES: No.
SOCRATES: About that again the diviner will advise better than you will?
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: Whether he be little or great, good or ill-looking, noble or ignoble—makes no difference.
ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: A man is a good adviser about anything, not because he has riches, but because he has knowledge?
ALCIBIADES: Assuredly.
SOCRATES: Whether their counsellor is rich or poor, is not a matter which will make any difference to the Athenians when they are deliberating about the health of the citizens; they only require that he should be a physician.
ALCIBIADES: Of course.
SOCRATES: Then what will be the subject of deliberation about which you will be justified in getting up and advising them?
ALCIBIADES: About their own concerns, Socrates.
SOCRATES: You mean about shipbuilding, for example, when the question is what sort of ships they ought to build?
ALCIBIADES: No, I should not advise them about that.
SOCRATES: I suppose, because you do not understand shipbuilding:—is that the reason?
ALCIBIADES: It is.
- Alcibiades I by Plato
Nuclear has been proposed as a solution by the author of "Apocalypse Never".
Per Forbes, if we use brine mining, we would theoretically have enough uranium to last until the sun dies.
Per wikipedia, the Traveling Wave Reactor design could provide power for millions of years by using depleted nuclear fuel as a source of fuel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
Small modular reactors being built by companies like NuScale and GE are looking to make the price of nuclear competitive.
https://nuclear.gepower.com/build-a-plant/products/nuclear-power-plants-overview/bwrx-300
I don't know if many people know this, but even Jordan Peterson has done 3 separate high doses of mushrooms. He talks about it in this clip from an interview.
https://youtu.be/E-fo-BEkXGs
Also, an interesting article about the effects of psychedelics on the nervous system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522265/