Plenty of mystics, saints, and religious thinkers have deeply examined unconditional love, but only recently have scientists begun studying it. I’m one of them, and I’ve been wondering lately what gets in the way of more research into this profoundly transformative, self-transcendent, and motivating human experience. …

A playfully serious guide to surviving time travel technology in the coming era It was 1979, I was a precocious 10 year-old, and I was in love with Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic; a purple-and-green paperback my parents had left lying around. These were actually two…

Turns out science is getting boring. Less innovative. Fewer disruptions in our understanding of the universe. Russell Funk and Michael Park at University of Minnesota and Erin Leahey at University of Arizona studied this problem and were able to get their results published in Nature — the upshot is that…

Over the last 23 years or so I’ve had an active project of trying to develop an embodied general intelligence (EGI). In case you haven’t heard about EGI, an embodied general intelligence is a form of intelligence that behaves exactly like a human adult intelligence — it’s both rational and…

Let’s say you’re a talented engineer, a credentialed scientist, or a skilled pilot and you’ve just seen a disk in the sky, with little portholes for windows and some kind of intelligent-looking creature apparently operating equipment inside. What do you do? First, you check to see if you’re both sober…

Time travel and the desire to control There is a place in Italy you might have heard of — the underground caves at the community of Damanhur — caves that the Damanhurians call “The Temple of Humankind.” The caves took 15 years to build, and according to several YouTube videos…

Last installment I proposed that healing with practical time travel requires unconditional love. What is unconditional love? In short, it’s a compassionate connection with the awareness that nothing need be changed in order to feel loved. The one who is receiving the love can be you or someone else. But…

And I love you in a place where there’s no space or time I’ve loved you for my life, you are a friend of mine And when my life is over, remember when we were together We were alone and I was singin’ my song for you — Leon Russell…

(read installment 1 and installment 2) Messages from the future Bruno Silva, a twenty-nine-year old Brazilian man, was still working out how to understand his experience when he emailed me about six weeks following a dream about a car accident. “I woke up at 9 am from a dream that I was walking in…