I have been running this blog since 2012 with one blog/week until last Spring when I took a “leave of absence” to complete the final summary of the blog’s thinking in a short book, which is to bepublished soon. The central thesis is that justice is a collective human instinct that has evolved over the …
From Wikipedia: The Pledge of Allegiance was originally composed by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army Officer during the Civil War and later a teacher of patriotism in New York City schools.[6][7] The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892, and formally adopted by Congress as the …
At the beginning of April, Pope Francis issued an “Apostolic Exhortation” on the subject of “Love in the Family,” which addresses the issue of divorce. Of great interest to the Blog is that the Pope has reintroduced conscience into Catholic dialogue. The Blog holds that the introduction of a collective conscience right at the beginning …
Pope John Paul II issued and Encyclical that stated that the Holy Spirit has been a force in human evolution.
Ben Carson can be understood as an archetype of our “old-mind” in which dominance and submission in apes evolved into obedience to the sacred authority of justice that has sustained our bounty and fertility. When our own species arose 200,000 years ago, superimposed upon our six million year evolution since apes, we evolved the passionate desire to attain social admiration, traditionally known as vanity. No one—no one—is going to make the claim that Trump is not vain.
Religions are cultural embodiments of the very part of all of us that has rendered us human through the eons and out into the future:
Note the blog’s new logo: This blog is a response to this quotation: For centuries the writ of empiricism [science] has been spreading into the ancient domain of transcendentalist belief, slowly at the start but quickening in the scientific age. The spirits our ancestors knew intimately fled first the rocks and trees and then the …
in the 21st Century, the secularist view that religion is a Darwinian side-effect, or an emotional “complex” of childlike Freudian defenses that should/will go away, has become an alarmingly dangerous abdication—nay, an abject surrendering—of the received power of the collective being that is the very heart of who we are.
How E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins introduced me to the spiritual dimensions of evolution.
A summery of the last chapter of book which chronicles the the deep evolution of the human spirit whose justice is in the process of reassuming the authority of human power.
Thoughts about the Native American Hopewell Culture, Stonehenge, modern religion and the fear of death.
How E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins introduced me to the spiritual dimensions of evolution.
The communication in the old mind is through the conservative process of identification, whereas communication in the new mind is through imitation and “mirroring,” in which information goes “viral.”
An optimist takes the long view that the atrocities of history represent a painful transitional phase of history that is eventually headed towards a brighter future.
Pope John Paul II issued and Encyclical that stated that the Holy Spirit has been a force in human evolution.
A scientific creation myth involving the transformation of dominance and submission into authority and obedience to Morality and Justice (The Holy Spirit).
Dalai Lama’s views on Buddhism are compared to author’s evolutionary views on the collective unconscious and the concept of creation.
The big news in the world of paleoanthropology this week was the publishing in Science (340:163-5) of six articles specifying aspects of the two million year old hominid, Australopithecus sediba, found in South Africa in 2008. Studies of this hominid, who lived after our own Homo genus appeared about 2.4 million years ago, show a …
Religion is present in two of the illnesses I treated and studied. I am fairly certain that, in both of these mental conditions, it had to do with the patients’ belief system prior to the illness—with whether the individual was primarily motivated by money and status or by religion and morality. In a small number …
