DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

Expert advice on how to build your strategic muscles

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

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

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained . Thank you Kay! ... "One step at a time!"

What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.

A succession of well-known authors and intellectuals, formerly cold to religion, are turning—or returning—to Christianity. A Related Post

A paradigm shift is coming as evidence emerges that we are more than our brains. Related : Plausibility of consciousness' continuity beyond death (UII w/Claude)

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

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

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity. Excerpt: " His defiance echoed a familiar script in the modern Charismatic Christian playbook: a populist, right-wing persecution complex, where powerful religious leaders take on Jesus’ oppression as their own. Casting themselves as victims of a hosti

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

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."

How a creationist becama an evolutionist, and what it cost her

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

Atdhe Trepca’s videos reach millions of people — and the answers still manage to surprise him.

The Washington Post reviewed leaked audio from four off-the-record lectures the tech investor delivered in San Francisco over the past...

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...