The late Alan Watts on personal identity and understanding our place in the Universe:
Artist’s Statement I wish to bridge the perceived gap between logical, materialistic analysis and intuitive, mystical experience. My directive as an artist is to engage and communicate the meaning that lies before our eyes, and yet we do not see. I attempt to point to the ‘numinous’, which is characterized by the quintessential qualities of…
Science is getting in on the crowdfunding trend in a big way. Over the past few years, organizations like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the fundraising process for small businesses and entrepreneurs by bypassing traditional funders.
In May of this year Billy Grassie published a three-part series on the subject of “Human Creativity: Expanding Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuities.” He gave a version of this paper at the beginning of June of this year at a Templeton-sponsored workshop at Haverford College in Philadelphia, and by his invitation I was the respondent. Again,…
Everything we value is possible only because of death. The ancients couldn’t have known this truth revealed by science. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high.
Science writer Connie Barlow provides insightful resources for ritually celebrating Big History.
1. No: Counter examples to this thesis include Isaac Newton: the initiator of modern science: Laws of Motion, Theory of Gravity John Dalton: developed Atomic Theory: chemist James Clerk Maxwell: the fore-runner of present day physics: the Unification of electricity and magnetism Georges Lemaitre: developed Physical theory of the expanding universe: “the primeval atom” Arthur…