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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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   A sizable percentage of my audience happen to be people from Brazil. As is well known there, youtuber Lito Sousa was recently diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a very rare neurodegenerative illness that strikes between 1-2 per 1 million people. This recent event has increased awareness of the disease in Brazil and peaked the public's curiosity about the nature of this illness. While I am not a doctor or neuropathologist, this is a disease that I have studied extensively, and as this blog is educational in nature, it seemed appropriate to provide a post for readers who are curious as to the nature of this disease. With that in mind, this post provides a summary of the illness, its pathology, its signs and symptoms, its cause, its prognosis and other closely related diseases. It should be noted that the purpose of this post is not to direct negative attention to Lito or those associated with him. My heart and sympathies extend to Lito and his family. This post is mere...
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Creating a Trading Card Game!

 I am in the midst of creating a horror-themed trading card game! You can check it out here: https://patreon.com/RealityEncyclopedia?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Also, Reality Encyclopedia is now a Youtube channel. Youtube channel can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/@realityencyclopedia The next post is almost finished and shall be posted shortly. Stay tuned! 
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Youtube is Up!

 Reality Encyclopedia is now officially a Youtube channel, with the first video already uploaded. You can access it here . If you like my content, please consider supporting me on Patreon . This will help me improve the quality of my content and upload on a more consistent basis. Thank you to all my readers.
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Magician vs. Wizard

  This is a response to a question I had received: What is the difference between a Magician and a Wizard? Magicians are classic magic-users in the fantasy setting, encompassing a wide variety of typologies and practice. The form of which they take differs wildly and is highly dependent on the fantasy setting. In contrast, Wizards are more type-specific. They are typically wise old men who study magic as a profession through hard work and discipline. Intellectually oriented, they typically guide the hero through personal development and orienting them to actualize their potential. Wizards are typically old, being that it is sometimes considered that one requires this period of time to be a true wizard. While wizards can be evil, the concept is usually referred to by another name, such as sorcerer or warlock, though this is highly contingent upon fantasy setting. If you enjoy my content, please consider supporting me on Patreon so I can improve my quality and publishing window. Fol...
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Star Wars and Daoism: The Real Life Parallel to The Force

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  Within the modern cultural paradigm, there is perhaps no better allegorical representation of spirituality than the concept of the Force from Star Wars. A series renowned for its representation of spirituality, George Lucas himself states that the point of his anthology was the creation of a modern mythology which demonstrated man's relation with ultimate reality. While the Force does not reflect a deity or religion specifically, it was intended to function as an allegorical substrate for the central metaphysical paradigm common to all religions: man’s relation with the all-pervasive, invisible “something” that permeates all aspects of our lives and existence. Though the Force is not indicative of a specific religion, the analogous nature of the Force is parallel to the cosmologies present in religious schools of Eastern conception. Indeed, it presents an ontology that is particularly indicative of the Dao (Tao) from Chinese schools of spiritual philosophy. In fact, had George Lu...
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