Book of Communion

The Golden Rule and The Hero’s Journey

Introduction

In the vast tapestry of human evolution and cultural development, two guiding principles stand out as transformative forces: the Golden Rule and the Hero’s Journey. While the Golden Rule, with its emphasis on…

Essay Concerning The Evolutionary Future of Humanity: Draft Book Chapter Summaries

The book (name and style TBD) is part science journalism, part new synthesis, part manifesto. Relevant books / authors that you might have read or heard of that are touchstones for this…

Statistics, Rarity, & Social Networks

On why thriving social networks are actually based on rarity.

Consider what a bad job traditional social network thinking does about the value of the rare things we have in common.

State of American Culture 2020

1. Today a fragmented society has locked itself structurally into a nihilistic cycle of social tribal threat, hate, or revenge when trying to pursue happiness.
2. We’re reduced to finding the larger meaning in our lives by dehumanizing social tribes…

Humanity Contra Virus

I was watching The Matrix and pondering the scene where Agent Smith compares humanity to a virus.

Glossary of Moral Concepts

Some core moral concepts interpreted through the lens of Communionist moral philosophy. These are meant to apply irrespective of the diameter of an ingroup’s circle of empathy, be it Beduin or Humanist.

How to Change Righteous Minds

Here are some unorthodox ideas about how to save the world by changing people’s minds (their “righteous beliefs”) to be more open and inclusive. I call this collection of ideas the “Philosophy of Communion”.

Righteous beliefs and social…

1: Genesis

Creation is the emergence of standing waves in the whirlpool of the Universe as it explodes, constrained by cosmological constants, along a…

Communion: An Evolutionary Perspective

Or, Humanist Evolution to Live By

What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing 
under the seas?

Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to 
the globe?