Becoming Human

Who is the Poetry Peddler, and why is poetry so important today?

Alexandra Barylski is an award winning poet, editor, and entrepreneur, and longtime producer for the Becoming Human Project. She is la…

This is a fifteen minute excerpt from my live Becoming Human Academy course, "The Sacred World: An introduction to Religion."

In the lecture, I explain why the academic study of religion is important…

What are rituals, and what makes something sacred? Mircea Eliade was a historian of religion, philosopher, and author widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the 20th c…

How did the most famous philosopher of his time, a darling of the Parisian salons and an internationally renowned philosopher of science, disappear from memory?

Dr. Emily Herring, author of Herald of…

Rabbi Adam Yitzchak Polinovskiy is a well-established coach, specializing in the art of personal and professional transformation. His expertise spans a wide range of areas, including mindset mastery,…

According to Rabbi Simon Jacobson of The Meaningful Life Center, technology is catalyzing a spiritual awakening, making spiritual knowledge the “key commodity of the future.”

Rabbi Jacobson is a best…

Has AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) already arrived?

As the race for Superintelligent machines changes the world, how can humans prepare to thrive? Ancient spiritual traditions reveal surprisin…

How do we reimagine education for a world of AI? What skills do people need, and why? How can philosophy as a way of life create a shared vision of human flourishing? 

Instructor: Samuel Loncar, Ph.D…

Fate is the power of the unchosen to determine your life. It is real and we all know it, or we would never be frustrated. The key question is: can we overcome our fate? Is fate compatible with freedo…

What happens when AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, appears and solves all the problems in science? Can we know the future of science? Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapt…

Three Theses about the Future of Science

1. We are living through the greatest scientific revolution in over two millennia.
2. 2. A new revolution in biology connects to the AI revolution, and a scientif…

The Tao Te Ching teaches that the Way offers infinite utility, seeming to promise unending energy and life. Is this possible and what, scientifically, might it mean?

Exploring Chapter 4 of the Tao Te…

The simulation theory is all around us, putting somehow the meaning of our very existence into question. Do we really exist?

What does it mean that we question our own existence? A true philosophy of…

If you can get one thing you want, what is the one thing that will give you everything else? Is it power, wealth, or wisdom?

Philosophy as a spiritual way of life teaches us how to develop our human …

We all want to do good, but we rarely think about how we can know what the good is.

In this video, I discuss Verse 8 of the Tao and its highly logical and practical insights into what is good in any …

Tolkien’s works have sold over 100 Million copies worldwide because they address the deepest questions humans can ask: Why is there evil and death in the world?

Would Immorality be a good thing? Wher…

The topic of UAP (UFOs) is important yet difficult to discuss coherently. Why?

Because the topic requires the best tools of science and scholarship but does not agree on what those are or how they sh…

Did you know Hanukkah and Christmas encode deep philosophical ideas about Enlightenment, becoming Superhuman, and the Future of Humanity?

The stars and the gods once governed the night sky and the dr…

Can yielding and flowing really be the Way to attain the good?

Bruce Lee thought so. “Be Water,” he famously said, channeling a central insight of the Tao Te Ching, one of great works of Chinese Phil…

The idea of Angels, whether we believe in them or not, reveals secrets about human consciousness and how to transform it.

In this episode, I use the German poet Rilke to connect deep patterns across …