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 …
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.
How E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins introduced me to the spiritual dimensions of evolution.
A scientific creation myth involving the transformation of dominance and submission into authority and obedience to Morality and Justice (The Holy Spirit).
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 …
The myth begins with the ascension of dominance by means of a natural mechanism whereby He[1] installed Himself as our biological family’s single conscious Being for the six million years of our existence prior to Homo sapiens. For the first three and a half million years, this Being established its foundation in the Rule of …
I had had glimmers of spiritual yearnings with a dreamy schoolboy’s love of Wordsworth and which returned when reading Kierkegaard and Jung that year in the World Trade Center when this all began; but all that had been dormant for years. However, concurrent with my purely intellectual ferment, there were several events that began to …
It has been almost a year since I have been writing this blog. Most of the posts have been stand-alone snippets of my thinking, clustered into various categories. On the occasion of this anniversary, I will run a series of posts that summarize my entire philosophical journey, so that if read in sequence, all elements …
First let’s dispense with the He or She issue as to how to refer to God. In my “mythology,” apes were going extinct six to seven million years ago due to low birth rates partially due to the massive waste of energy in constant male political competition over females in the face of deteriorating climates. …
For six million years, we evolved in small monogamous groups and grew brains that functioned to coordinate these groups as organisms. From the beginning, our language was focused on “reading” each other from minute to minute in order to divine our role in the intentions of our groups to survive. The vast brain growth during …
…Another strand of thought, which I had not yet really connected to others in my thinking over the years, had taken root in my imagination and seeded a religious direction. This line of logic went back to Hamilton and Dawkins’ idea of the selfish gene. It was the concept of a “relational gene.” The phenotype …
In The Social Conquest of Earth, E. O. Wilson soft-pedals and sugarcoats the darkness of his vision of human nature so transparently expressed in his novel, Anthill, as similar to chronically warring colonies of ants – all our virtue derives from the cooperation necessary for groups to successfully wage war. In his ant myth of …
The stagnant myth that has seeped unnoticed down into a pool beneath our current secular philosophy is that, when humans got smart enough to worry about what happened to us after death and to wonder about the cosmos around us, we invented first religion and then God. Freud, the philosopher: we concocted a father who …
All power on this earth derives from 6 million years of evolution in which kinship groups of 20-30 individuals evolved to divide their labor and function as a single organism. The founding mothers of hominid Family domesticated the males into the fecundity of a monogamous mating system in which males had a genetic stake in …
This is a complex FAQ, but a very important one because deep misunderstanding on this issue is a large reason for the hostility against religion. I am going to use E.O.Wilson as my philosophical foil to begin with because there are two important points on which we agree. First is that all human power …
God creates by cohering things together into increasingly more complex forms. 1. God caused cosmic debris to fall together to create the earth (gravity). 2. God caused certain chemicals to be attracted to one another to create life, which is the gift of re-creation. 3. Each in its own time, God brought early forms …
I wish to be clear about the differences between Dr. Wilson’s vision of who we are based on his knowledge of ants and various other insects and my knowledge based on my direct observation of human emotions. First, as far as the “kin selection” debate, he dismisses the importance of William Hughes’ landmark finding …
Was sexual selection enough of an evolutionary force to establish monogamous kinship groups of 20-30 individuals with bonds strong enough to coordinate food gathering and fighting off predators? The answer is a resounding NO. Another evolutionary force emerged in nature 6 million years ago for the first time on this earth. Starting with a …
Theistic God <<Versus>> Deistic God Albert Einstein believed in a deistic God, which …
