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What is the Soul? Within a lifetime, it's common at some point for a human being to ask: "Who am I?" and "What am I?" If we're lucky, our core needs are met, and we have the luxury of asking such existential questions.  If we're extremely lucky, we also have the maps...

Salutogenesis The Salutogenic Framework focuses on resources which help individuals cope with stress and return to health and wellbeing. According to "The Handbook of Salutogenesis" (Antonovsky, 1996): In contrast to the dichotomous classification of pathogenesis into...

Metamodern Mystery School The Metamodern Mystery School teaches students a path of waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up.  On the waking up path, students learn to activate a latent Inner Organic Technology within the body and awaken higher-brain...

The Nature of Time Time is a unique dimension of spacetime. It doesn't behave quite like the three dimensions of space.  Or, from another perspective, human consciousness doesn't interact with time in the same way that it does with three-dimensional space. Our brain...

Knowledge is Power The more one knows, the better one can navigate the world. Right? If you have an accurate map of reality which depicts how everything is connected -- or disconnected -- then you can take the fastest, most efficient, paths to get where you want to go...

STARS Conference STARS is the "Society for Theory And Research on Salutogenesis."  The mission of STARS is to advance and promote the science of Salutogenesis. According to their website, STARS provides a transdisciplinary platform for scientific exchange between...

The Class of 2021 On February 1st, 2021, The New Human University (NHU) launched PraxisAletheia: The Metamodern Mystery School, a one-year transformational journey into the teachings, techniques, and trainings at the leading edge of evolution. As a school,...

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” -- Nikola Tesla Resonant Frequency Resonance is the degree to which one system vibrates with another system to become part of a whole. Resonance can refer to a...

When we wake from a dream, we realize it wasn't real. If we examine the dream, with a little insight and a little luck the message can be received. If the dream were a nightmare, then we're not left bereft, confused, or traumatized by it ... if we got the message....

Emergence, forever Once in a great while, humanity experiences a breakthrough, whether technological, scientific, social, or spiritual. The organizing force of evolution and the tendency toward greater complexity organically produces emergent properties. Occasionally,...

Mystery of the Trinity Trinity refers to a mysterious concept of three aspects of one essence and is found often in religious and mythological descriptions of deities or Gods. The trinity is so prevalent that the renowned psychologist Carl Jung considered the...

"The 'design' of plants and animals and traditional artifacts did not just happen. As a rule, both the shape and materials of any structure which has evolved over a long period of time in a competitive world represents an optimization..." -- "Structures: or why things...

Evolve, or die. Viruses compete with humans for survival in the arena of evolution. A virus survives by evolving new infection mechanisms, while a human survives viral attacks by evolving new immunities. Viruses are agile and mutate to survive. Humans are agile, too,...

It's a Trap! Humans confuse words with the things they represent. It's easy to forget, for example, that "money" represents something else. In the same way that the word "money" is not money, a picture of a dollar bill is not a dollar bill, and a wheel barrel full of...

A journey into life's mystery has begun ... The Metamodern Mystery School opened its doors on February 1st, 2021.  Together, we began a year-long training within The New Human University to become The New Human. The goal of the journey can be framed in several ways:...

What's this "New Human?" A New Human.  Is that a strange concept?  Within an individual lifetime, it's not completely obvious that the history of the human species extends for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years into the past.  But, according to...

In a previous post, we explored the connection between metamorphosis and enlightenment. Several great spiritual realizers have associated "The Great Liberation" -- whether it's called Moksha, Kensho, or Salvation -- with a metamorphosis. The word metamorphosis means...

Spiritual realizers have taught the path to "The Great Liberation," and they've called it by different names. You may be familiar with some, or all, of these terms: Enlightenment or Awakening Moksha, Kensho, or Satori Emancipation or Salvation But have you ever heard...

Singularities break the laws of physics. While the search for understanding of singularities continues, we can still leverage our incomplete understandings to our advantage.  If you understand at least some of the mind-bending, mysterious phenomenon out there, then...

    The Finale In this 3-part follow up to "What is The Matrix?", we continue to explore the stunning...