Equal Time For Freethought

Metawareness

When our understanding of the world is based on evidence and reason it is obvious that the way each moment unfolds is the inexorable result of all that precedes it. In Naturalistic Humanism this idea is called metawareness.

Applied to humans, the implications of metawareness are revolutionary requiring, among other things, that we reconsider the way we credit, blame, punish, reward, and apportion resources.

Metawareness helps us deal more effectively with everything we encounter supporting equanimity and a sense of serenity.

Listen to show #93 below!

The Experimental Mindset- A Heritage We All Share III

When we adopt an experimental mindset or participate in experimental activities we are connecting to a significant part of our heritage- the one that everybody shares.

Our universal legacy is the recognition that our perception is easily flawed by bias. It took hundreds of thousands of years, but ultimately humankind became the one species who figured out that by applying a methodology designed to defeat bias we can attain knowledge that frees and empowers us – a breakthrough transcending ethnicity, race, religion, nationalism, and almost every other category by which humans identify.

The result of this shared human legacy has been so potent and influential that it completely transformed our human experience and produced a rapidity of change to which we are barely able to adjust.

Listen to show #92 below!

The Experimental Mindset- A Heritage We All Share II

When we adopt an experimental mindset or participate in experimental activities we are connecting to a significant part of our heritage- the one that everybody shares.

Our universal legacy is the recognition that our perception is easily flawed by bias. It took hundreds of thousands of years, but ultimately humankind became the one species who figured out that by applying a methodology designed to defeat bias we can attain knowledge that frees and empowers us – a breakthrough transcending ethnicity, race, religion, nationalism, and almost every other category by which humans identify.

The result of this shared human legacy has been so potent and influential that it completely transformed our human experience and produced a rapidity of change to which we are barely able to adjust.

Listen to show #91 below!

The Experimental Mindset- A Heritage We All Share

When we adopt an experimental mindset or participate in experimental activities we are connecting to a significant part of our heritage- the one that everybody shares.

Our universal legacy is the recognition that our perception is easily flawed by bias. It took hundreds of thousands of years, but ultimately humankind became the one species who figured out that by applying a methodology designed to defeat bias we can attain knowledge that frees and empowers us – a breakthrough transcending ethnicity, race, religion, nationalism, and almost every other category by which humans identify.

The result of this shared human legacy has been so potent and influential that it completely transformed our human experience and produced a rapidity of change to which we are barely able to adjust.

Listen to show #90 below!

Should we Listen to our Elders II

There are some things we can learn from our elders and some things that we cannot.  Join us to explore how to connect with seniors in ways that are satisfying and rewarding.

Listen to show #89 below!

Should we Listen to our Elders

There are some things we can learn from our elders and some things that we cannot.  Join us to explore how to connect with seniors in ways that are satisfying and rewarding.

Listen to show #88 below!

Heroism and Virtue

Celebrating those who have acted heroically may seem logical, but identifying some people as heroes raises issues that are often overlooked.

Listen to show #87 below!

The Challenge of Identity II

Our personal identity can be based on a wide range of characteristics including race, ethnicity, religion, skin color, sexuality, gender, neighborhood, and beliefs.

There is also a transcendent, universal, human identity which all of us share.

The way we balance our tribal and human identities may determine the future of humankind.

Listen to show #86 below!

The Challenge of Identity

Our personal identity can be based on a wide range of characteristics including race, ethnicity, religion, skin color, sexuality, gender, neighborhood, and beliefs.

There is also a transcendent, universal, human identity which all of us share.

The way we balance our tribal and human identities may determine the future of humankind.

Listen to show #85 below!

Harmonizing with Nature II

We continue our consideration of humanity’s role in the destruction and, hopefully, the preservation of life.

We frequently regard humankind as being in perpetual conflict with nature.  And while no other animals have transformed the earth so profoundly, humans are also life’s best hope.

Only humans can transform life so that sentience, experience, and cognition will continue to flourish even when the home of its origination becomes uninhabitable.

Pursuing this quixotic endeavor may become humanity’s highest purpose.

Listen to show #84 below!