Parapsychology

Essena O’Neil, 19, was one of many young people profiting off the social media industry. Her rise to fame began when she was 12. Over the course of seven years, she became Internet famous, with all the trimmings involved, including sponsorships, thousands of followers and endless attention. Recently, she deleted her social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Her fame, she says, was a product of the illusion of social media. When approached by Buzzfeed, Essena said “I was addicted to…

Though, when Jose Cordeiro asked Clarke what he thought about religion in general, Clarke replied “Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. I am afraid to be struck by lightning one day while saying this” (Cordeiro). The slight skepticism in this quote is manifested in Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God. In this story, the Dalai Lama calls a man to create a machine that will print out all of the names that describe God in a specific language that the monks had devised…