Brendan Bombaci- Master of Arts
- Alumni at Colorado State University
Brendan Bombaci
- Master of Arts
- Alumni at Colorado State University
Currently: horned and serpentine gods in myths and religions as both benevolent/inspiring and malevolent tricksters.
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Introduction
An M.A. alumnus of the CSU Anthropology Department, I have self-published many articles written during my cultural anthropology degree program & thereafter. I also did avocational study of the Vedic Institute of North America program. The confluence of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics intrigues me. I have done archaeology with the federal B.L.M., and ENC cartography at CACI International, and as of April 2025, I am seeking work elsewhere.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
August 2015 - December 2015
Position
- Teacher's Assistant
Description
- I worked for my advisor, Jeffrey Snodgrass, in his Anthropology 444 course ("Cultures of Virtual Worlds - Research Methods").
January 2014 - May 2014
Position
- Teacher's Assistant
Description
- I worked for Tim Vowles in his Geography 100 course.
August 2013 - December 2013
Position
- Teacher's Assistant
Description
- I worked for my advisor, Jeffrey Snodgrass, in his Anthropology 423 course ("Ethnopsychiatry and Spiritual Healing").
Education
August 2013 - May 2016
August 2007 - May 2012
Publications
Publications (17)
Overwatch 2, a prominent team-based hero shooter, relies on its competitive mode to foster player engagement and longevity. A cornerstone of this experience is fair matchmaking, which ideally aims to create balanced matches where both teams have an approximately equal chance of victory. The game's rank calibration system, implemented most heavily d...
In the evolving landscape of online multiplayer gaming, the design and implementation of matchmaking algorithms and code-of-conduct enforcement systems significantly influence player experience, potentially extending beyond in-game performance to affect psychological well-being and the health of the community. Overwatch 2, a prominent hero shooter,...
This paper first concisely introduces the philosophical rebuttal of the Combination “Problem” as ignorant of nature, in a short assertion that physicality itself is premised upon the combination of multiple molecular systems, organisms, organs, and species, and yet we have no experience of or control over their operation, revealing that we therefor...
(Please download the chapter-bookmarked PDF). The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution both stemmed from processual self-exile from the dominion of fundamentalist religious dogma and superstition, but not without extraction of certain scientific truths embedded in it all. The stepwise progression of philosophy towards the scientific method is root...
This exegetical treatise explores the actually rich though shrouded historical accounts of the priesthood behind Jesus Christ's holiness. Delving into passages in both the Biblical canon and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as Nag Hammadi Texts, it becomes evident that the "immortality" and "resurrection" of Jesus and of the priesthood (the Order of M...
Current trends in quantum physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence all point towards a startling likelihood of universal mechanics: that consciousness is co-fundamental with matter itself - that the universe is indeed imbued with consciousness. This corroborates the ~2500 year old, though now well-evolved philosophy of Panpsychism. In thi...
The current trends in quantum physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence all point towards a startling likelihood of universal mechanics: that as Max Planck himself said, consciousness is co-fundamental with matter itself - that the universe is indeed an entity imbued with consciousness. In this position paper, I provide a metasynthesis of...
Although most people will subscribe to the brain disease model of
schizophrenia because of its unearthly qualities, many believe that depression is
caused solely by psychosocial stress (Angermeyer and Dietrich 2006:165). To a
large extent, it seems they may be right (Bracken et al. 2012:431, Kohrt et al. 2014,
Lee et al. 2007). This makes Bipolar D...
This senior seminar thesis was presented at the 31st annual Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference and was published on the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies website in 2012 (https://maps.org/take-action/resources/freebooks/) where it has since received millions of views. Abstract: Cognitively monophasic cultur...
~~~ Published at the Morgan Library of Colorado State University, @ https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/173464. ~~~ Emotional tone in Western languages (i.e., the Germanic and Romance group) is influenced by the Western musical scale. Studies have shown that as differences increase between Western and non-Western languages, overall comprehensi...
This position paper written towards the end of my graduate program in psychological anthropology regards the nature of neuro-normative states and altered states, how the biochemical processes involved in each can inform us about how empathy and delusion are on a spectrum of perception and feeling, and how certain related chemicals derived from comm...
The “Sothic Cycle” is the name given to the astrophysical discrepancy between the 365-day ancient Egyptian solar year and the heliacal rising of Sirius. An estimated duration of the cycle (1,461 years) has been used to more accurately date events in ancient Egyptian historical records, but fails to account for (1) the 400-year leap cycles which sub...
This is a short article written to copyright a pioneering idea in the realm of music theory. The problem with the concert pitch debate is that most every proposition has been subjectively reasoned, with no logical justification as to why any pitch makes more sense than any other. I note the origins of the second-hand in timekeeping and how they mos...
It is curious that the Trinity doctrine, implying the human divinity of Jesus (i.e., being God in flesh), came to dominate Christianity. Christ himself said in Revelations 22:16 “I am the source of David and heir to his throne. I am the bright and morning star.” This seems to imply that he was physically related to David. How could Jesus be the “so...
It can be surmised that a fair amount of Western stigma towards mental illness can be dissolved by: (A) the key understanding that all such afflictions are related to the archetype laden collective unconscious – that we are all on the spectrum – and then by (B) formally instituted (1) K-12 education in psychology that regards this, (2) holistic sel...
There has long been a debate as to whether Neandertals have had modern human culture, and thereby symbolic thought. They are said by many to have shared only the pre-Aurignacian, Mousterian tool industry with Homo sapiens. The Aurignacian has been considered a more advanced industry with specialized blades, and, found with Homo sapiens, representat...
Susto is a both a culture bound syndrome and an idiom of distress with many variations around a consensus fundamental core set of symptoms – mostly somatic but some psychological – caused mostly by fright and stress. It is found mostly in Central and South America, but also among Mexican American populations, and to a lesser degree in Spain; it doe...
