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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CHAPTER SEVEN Transhumanism: An Exponential Runway The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself—not just sporadically, an individual here in one way,...

A paper published by the Institute for Cultural Evolution.

Guest article published on Metanexus.org. 

Over the last eight months, I’ve been traveling a great deal. In the context of a recent book tour, I’ve had the chance to speak to many different groups of...