Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

DM Good morning Claude. How might theTeilhard de Chardin's construct of a "Noosphere" relate, correlate, or have relevance to our recent conversations, and the many factors thereof (such as: Pantakinesis™, the Universal Holophren™ and the fractals thereof, Non-local consciousness discoveries and their potential relationships to post-death consciousness, Fitness=Truth™ and definition of truths as being personal, etc.). Good morning! What a rich synthesis question! Having revie

“What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing.”

DM So, it seems by combining our last conversation (re: "non-local consciousness," and the role GABA plays in consciousness "restraint" during life), ..and the content of our other related past conversations, ... we may have arrived at plausible, even logical, hypothesis: That is, the end of life (aka: physical death) may be but a Vanishing Point "Portal" for consciousness to enter a new dimension(s?) of Pantakinesis™ . I do realize we've little or no solid empirical or evid

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment. Excerpt: ' “If you could go back to your younger self—say, six years after you’d graduated from high school—what would you ask?” I thought about it for a second and then said, “I’m not so sure I’d ask my younger self anything, but here’s what I’d tell her: that she needs to remember to listen more carefully to the voice inside her hea

.... a theoretical answer to why some work is of value to humankind, whilst other activity does nothing more than generate heat that contributes to entropy, but adds no real value to life. The perverse fact is that in our society, the former is undervalued, and the latter is massively overvalued because what we show is that the financial services sector is a work of no value, which only succeeds in destabilising society.  Excerpt : "There is a fundamental distinction that we

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable. Excerpt: "What had kept the U.S.S.R. population in chains for so long was what the author and scientist Todd Rose has termed a “collective illusion,” precisely this phenomenon of people holding an opinion that is widely shared but that they believe is theirs alone—thus staying silent from fear of persecution or rejection."

DM Are you aware of "non-local consciousness?" Yes, I'm familiar with the concept of non-local consciousness. It's the idea that...

DM Try as I'm able, I simply don't understand we humans' apparently dismal trajectory. The more rigorous are my thoughts, and the more...

We’re wired to shy away from change, resist endings, and cling to what we know.

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DM How do you define Noetic Science; and what are your perspectives of it? Noetic science is a fascinating field to explore because it...

How do we train leaders to adapt to today’s uncertain and fast-changing world where old frameworks, formulas, and norms no longer seem to...

How to look cool in post-war France in black and white photos. KEY TAKEAWAYS Existentialism and absurdism both begin with the belief that...

The students I encounter as a university president aren’t afraid of free speech—quite the contrary.

DM Why does the typical person (at least within western societies) not understand that trees are primarily derived from air, ... as...

Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost. Excerpt: '"Philosophy often...

Immanuel Kant had an enduring conviction in the primacy of practice over theory—the ultimate aim of philosophical inquiry should be to...

The incendiary pastor calls for taking away women’s right to vote and barring non-Christians from holding office. Pete Hegseth and Tucker...