<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312">Adrian wrote:</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So, out of curiosity, would anyone else like to speak up, and tell us</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">how y'all interpet transhumanism and what you're doing to make it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">happen?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Transhumanism to me is an extension and continuation of the upward movement in humanity toward fulfillment, in the direction of increasing perfection, abilities and choices and overcome various types of limitation and suffering. What attracted me originally and still most lights me up is the real possibility of Abundance, on all levels and for everyone. But it goes deepen than that. It connects up to all those personal and global circuits that usually get channeled into spirituality and religion. Except that I see that most of the things most religions promise in heaven or in another life can be ours here, on this world, and in whatever other types of habitats that may someday be ours. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So what am I doing. I have been kicking something around for a long time. I am done kicking it around. I will found a strongly transhumanist religion. Ah. I can hear the groaning already. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think that there is room and good reason to take the best of human spirituality and its tools and deep yearnings and wed that with science and especially with transhumanism/futurism/extropian memes. A Vision that knits hearts and minds together toward its manifestation could be planted all across many spiritual communities, in transhumanist circles and pull in many others from their cynicism or experience of lack of meaning. When such a Vision takes hold the chances of arriving at a future that sings the best in us into manifestation will be greatly increased. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is a religion because it will teach that we need much more than technology to truly create a relative paradise on this earth. It will take a lot of in depth psychological and spiritual work to become our best selves and free our energies for the Work. It is quite a shift of consciousness to really get Abundance. This religion is not exclusive and certainly doesn't have a corner on Truth. It is simply the best and widest net for moving forward that I can presently conceive of weaving and casting. You don't have to believe everything I believe. Take what works for where you are. It will work for some and not for others. It is not my job to figure it all out. I hope enough others are drawn to the basic idea that we together can flesh out the organization and create, ever sharpen and spread the Vision. I hope it infects a lot of people in various other religions. I hope it infects and inflames a lot of people who think that to create, claim and be claimed by a Vision is somehow intellectually uncool.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is very early in the formation phase of this new religion. The name I am considering is "Church of the Fulfillment". The idea being that we, all of humanity, can now get on with fulfilling all those age-old dreams of humanity and more for real, here and now, in this world. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV></BODY></HTML>