Mindfulness, Chaos Magic, and Non-Exotic Non-Theists
Mindfulness is for everybody. It’s scientific. It’s non-sectarian. It’s approved by Silicon Valley. Nearly everyone in American culture knows it: Mindfulness is just plain good for you
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David’s manuscript on humanist liturgy is available here: “Congregating for Secular People: Theory and Practice”
Infinite Commodities and the Spiritual Life
Where would the art reside when people stopped attending churches? How would people find art? How would artists share their work?
On the True Self
It’s clear, from a scientific viewpoint, that there is no such thing as a true self; yet, in our folk psychology, the self looms large, especially the “true” one, whatever that is.
Kosmocentrism
Over the years, we have been called freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, secularists, heretics, infidels, naturalists, and I’m sure I’m leaving out a few.
I sometimes facetiously say that our movement should be called Everything-ism. That term comes with its own challenges, no doubt. I do want to make a case for a new term: Kosmocentrism.
Change: One Reason I am a Humanist
A naturalistic view of of reality.
Misinformation Has Got You By . . . the Gut
There is a science to misinformation.
Governing Ourselves: a Challenge to . . . Problem-Solve
The practice of democracy is about problem-solving.
Defining Liberalism, part two
So. What is liberalism? The Online Etymology Dictionary tells us this: Latin liberalis “noble, gracious, munificent, generous,” literally “of freedom, pertaining to or befitting a free person,” from liber “free, unrestricted, unimpeded; unbridled, unchecked, licentious.” mid-14c., “generous,” also “nobly born, noble, free;” from late 14c. as “selfless, magnanimous, admirable.” Liberal was used 16c.-17c. as a term of reproach with the… Read More »Defining Liberalism, part two
Defining Liberalism, part one
There’s a lot of debate about where the idea of liberalism comes from.
Painting the Walls
Suppose for a moment that every human being is an artist. For the sake of argument, let’s be specific — a visual artist painting on a cave wall, as our human ancestors did forty and fifty thousand years ago.