I follow the “news” because it is the most interesting, intricate, insight inducing, puzzling, etc. NARRATIVE every being “composed”. Often it is Theater of the Absurd, or a nail-biting horror story, or an intriguing mystery, or a report of a new scientific discovery or tale of human awesomeness, etc. Everything we encounter in fiction is…

I have always wondered why, in the abortion debate, it is never pointed out that LIFE IS NOT CREATED either at conception or birth. LIFE CONTINUES AT CONCEPTION, two living cells merge and continue to live.  If we believed that all eggs and sperms hosted souls, then we would have to work hard to preserve…

When we attempt to explore and create in radically new and rapidly changing realities, our top priority must the creation/development/application of new/nu technologies, to assist us in our activities and projects. Today, most human activity directed to everything beyond direct person-to-person interaction must be mediated by technological systems. Long ago humans added the “societal” domain…

Almost 81, and I belatedly discover that Larry has been negligent all his life in learning how to choose. This enabled him to accept the hypothesis that “free will” (from consciousness) was an illusion. This was later a confirmed scientific hypothesis from empirical research. This did not say that humans lacked agency and a degree of…

EVEN IF SCIENTOLOGY IS NOT A HIGH PRIORITY TOPIC FOR YOU, THESE INSIGHTS MAY POINT TO A RELEVANT PROCESS WE NEED TO ATTEND TO. I just finished listening to a CD book expose of The Church of Scientology, which has stimulated interest relevant to UPLIFT. Composing this post has become a learning expedition:::: I started this…