by Carter Phipps | Jul 24, 2023 | Library
Does spiritual Illumination create its own intrinsic blindness? This paper, presented at the Harvard Divinity School conference Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities, April 2023, explores that provocative question in an attempt to account for some of...
by Carter Phipps | Jun 3, 2022 | Library
Excerpted from Evolutionaries (Harper Perennial, 2012) “A developing brain is a sort of snowballing cognitive leviathan that adapts to everything and anything close to it. Learning is one aspect of extreme plasticity, and creativity another. Any species...
by Carter Phipps | Oct 20, 2017 | Library
In an age torn apart by the culture wars between science and religion, Catholic theologian John Haught has a better way. This article offers a glimpse inside the prodigious mind and heart of a man who has looked into the future and seen a new face of God. Read the...
by Carter Phipps | Sep 19, 2017 | Library
A review of Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From Originally Published in EnlightenNext Magazine EVERY SO OFTEN I come across a line in a book or an article that hits me so deeply I never forget it. It happened a few years ago while reading From...
by Carter Phipps | Sep 19, 2017 | Library
1. Executive Summary The Institute for Cultural Evolution (“ICE”) seeks to influence American public opinion on the issue of climate change to increase political will and motivation to take action to combat the problem. This Climate Campaign Plan describes...
by Carter Phipps | Sep 13, 2017 | Library
CHAPTER SEVEN Transhumanism: An Exponential Runway The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself—not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief....