Always Capitalize “Earth” and “Nature” The words “Earth” and “Nature” should always be capitalized… because they deserve to be!  Germans capitali...

Engineering: From Pyramids to Artificial Intelligence! Engineering is our Oldest Forerunner:  From 3000 BCE to 2025 CE Science can create new knowledge, but Applied Science & Engineering are...

Below is My Favorite Love Song. I discuss it in my online Essay, “Love’s Role in Our Lives & Practice.” My Cup Runneth Over   “Sometimes in the mornin’ when shadows are ...

Stoicism, ~171 C.E. to Today In March 2024, The Washington Post reported that Stoicism had become one of the most popular, if not the most popular, non-religious, secular-spiritual, and ethical ...

Quotes from the Wikipedia Article, “God (word)” “The English word god comes from the Old English god, which itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic *ǥuđán. Its cognates in other G...

Quotes about Death! “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.” — Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act...

It is a vital Strength that Hinduism teaches a realistic morality that is situational, as it is in life. Judeo-Christians often believe that God imparted morals and ethics to Moses in the form of the ...

When we look at any religion, spiritual path, or philosophy, we should ask these seven questions: What does it say is the “Source” and “Sustenance” of the universe?  Various appellations for...

Nature’s Spiritual Gatherings “The only good mass gatherings or groups that I know of are for the generally inclusive celebration of life; such as music, dance, the arts, weddings, funerals, e...

The “Cargo Cults” of the South Pacific (1942 to now) During WW2, both the Japanese and the Americans air-dropped and air-delivered vast amounts of military equipment and supplies to islands in ...

Steady Energy Flows Can Create Patterns Meaningful Information consists of items arranged in Patterns. The arranged items can be anything — atoms, molecules, digits, letters, acorns, checkers, speci...

Early Cells Engulfed Tiny Creatures! The progress of Nature’s Continuing Creation depends on the processes of competition and cooperation.  Cooperation in Nature includes colonization and speci...

Meaningful Information consists of items arranged in Patterns. The arranged items can be anything — atoms, molecules, digits, letters, acorns, checkers, species of plants, books of law, or pencil ...

“I Write the Songs” Below are lyrics from one of my favorite songs, plus my commentary at the end:   “I Write the Songs“   (written by Bruce Johnston, recorded by Barry Manilow) &#...

In 2023, a return capsule from the 2016 rocket probe “OSIRIS-REx” landed back on Earth. It carried samples of dust from an asteroid named “Bennu.” This dust contains 16,000 kin...

Fundamentalist Creationists argue that Human Beings, “made in the image of God,” are so complex and advanced that they must have been designed by a “Super-Intelligent Creator.” But Nature is ...

Falling Down into the Grass People experience the types of Natural Spirituality and Wholistic Comprehension in the same ways. They all generate feelings of awe, astonishment, amazement, appreciation, ...

While many parts and events are missing from the Rise of the First Life on Earth (“abiogenesis”), we have a more complete understanding of the Rise of Multicellular Organisms. The Orange-c...

This highly complex Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies underground across the Franco-Swiss border.  This LHC discovered the “Higgs Particle” in 2012. Nature (including humans) Creates Increas...

Love and Nature’s Continuing Creation Love is not unique to human beings. Dogs love, elephants love, whales love. In fact, almost all mammals love their young (at least until they are grown and ...

Patterns In Nature                   — by J.X. Mason Patterns that Repeat in Nature and Science Geometric patterns are often found in nature and science.  Why is this so?  For many re...

Complex “Adaptive” Systems  Complex systems are adaptive when a system changes, mutates, and/or self-organizes in response to an event or collection of events.  Complex Adaptive Systems inc...

Naturalism and Baruch Spinoza In philosophy, Naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe.  Philosophers often treat Natur...

God, or “God,” or the things on my list? I don’t believe in God, because that word is too attached to religious myths, especially within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (The religi...

Natural-Spirituality, or Secular–Spirituality, emphasizes the inner peace of the individual, rather than a relationship with the “divine.” Secular spirituality is often a search for...

Was Evolution on Earth Probable? — J.X. Mason’s Journal Entry of 7-9-24 On Earth, the sense of sight evolved in response to light, particularly to reflected light.  Was (and is) that evol...

Fundamentalist Creationists argue: “Something as complicated as an eye must have been designed and/or made by a super-intelligent Creator.” (This creationist argument is sometimes called “The Ar...

Nature’s Continuing Creation tends to create patterns of increasing complexity, organization, and even beauty over time. Patterns will continue to be created as long as there is an open flow-through...

Millions of Americans don’t attend church, but they do believe in “God.”  If you are one of those people, and if you think of “God” as something like A Higher Power, All Reality...

Millions of Americans don’t attend Church, but they do believe in “God.”  Well, If you think “God” is something like A Higher Power, All Reality, The Force, The Whole of All Who...

The Golden Ratio. Fibonacci, & Nature’s Spirals – 5-28-24 The real world is beautiful to our senses, mathematics is beautiful to our thinking, and each type of apprehension enhances the beauty...

Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation presents a way of living that is based on nature, science, and factual history. Miracles and myths are gone, except for the miracle of ongoing creation itself: s...

Bathtub Whirlpools & Hydroelectric Dams The Third Law of Thermodynamics says that energy seeks to move from areas of high heat to low heat until a calm equilibrium of everything is attained.  Wat...

When biblical creationists criticize biological evolution, they like to point out that placing all the parts of a watch in a vat of water and stirring them up does not make an assembled, working watch...

The Role of Foods in World Religions — A Guest Journal Entry from Laura Emerson            — Laura’s writing is online at  Alaskauu1.substack.com, and also at  Alaskauu1.blog...

Image Above: The James Webb Space Telescope Nature Continues to Create Complex Systems  > The most fundamental process of Nature’s Continuing Creation is this:  When a steady flow of energy en...

Meaningful Information consists of items arranged in Patterns. The arranged items can be anything — atoms, molecules, digits, letters, acorns, checkers, species of plants, books of law, or pencil d...

Why have humans invented anthropomorphic (human-like) Gods? The very concept of “God” is an invented, emergent phenomenon. It emerges from the interaction of human beings with their environment. S...

Mathematicians disagree about whether Math is “discovered” or “created.”  But one thing is sure: Math evolves!  There are many different species of Math, just as there are ma...

The Process of Photosynthesis is Both a Product of Evolution and a Tool of further Evolution   The fundamental process of Nature’s Continuing Creation is this: When a steady flow-through of ene...

I think the Purpose of Life is to Create.  However, I attend a liberal Sunday Congregation (with many agnostic and atheist members) where the Purpose of Life is to Love Others. For me, the Purpose of...

Twelve Assertions About “God:” 1. God is an old, bearded Man who created the World in six days as described in the Bible. 2. No, God can assume any appearance: a man, a burning bush, a fiery finge...

“Frog Church” & “A Wilder Clay” – J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 1/15/24 In 2021, the eco-philosopher and award-winning author Lyanda Lynn Haupt published a wonderful ne...

The Purpose of each capable Human Life Is to Create!  ‘To Create’ includes Discover, Invent, Heal, Design, Engineer, Build, Communicate, Cooperate, Love, Restore, Learn, Teach, Raise Chil...

Here is a quick-but-deep theology that I admire: Reverend Michael Dowd’s Eco-Credo*: “Your God is whatever you put your faith or trust in – i.e., your ultimate concern.”  — Paul Tillich, C...

“Martin Luther gets the credit for incorporating the Christmas tree into our seasonal celebrations. Although the Romans decorated trees for various festivals – such as the May Pole, it is pret...

About the Song, “Blue Boat Home”      — by Peter Mayer* Though below me, I feel no motion Standing on these mountains and plains Far away from the rolling ocean Still my dry land...

Above: The Branch Davidian Complex in Waco, TX, on fire during an attack by the FBI In our Essay, “Smaller Religions & Modern Cults” we discuss movements such as The Branch Davidians, Cargo Cu...

Can secular people (like most people on the Path of Continuing Creation) experience something like religious “grace?” The Christian concept of grace is a spontaneous gift from God to peopl...

                                Our Human bodies have many deficiencies — organs and systems that don’t work very well. That’s because they were evolved, not designe...

The Oak Tree is an Emergent Complex System Let’s consider an oak tree — an example of a complex system where humans are not directing anything. An oak tree emerges from a seed – an acorn.  ...

Some of the Heroines and Heroes of Continuing Creation: …(listed in no particular order) Frank Lloyd Wright – American Architect Susan B. Anthony – Crusader for Womens’ Right t...

Photo:  Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich, Grand Rabbi to thousands of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, NY. Pictured in his traditional fur hat (Shtreimel) Why is Hairstyle So Important in Religions? In Roman Cat...

What Is Nature’s Continuing Creation? Continuing Creation is the set of linked processes that have created everything in the universe and are creating them still. Creation did not happen all at ...

Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability —         Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first...

Eight Ways Humanity Could Become Extinct The Global Challenges Foundation, which works to reduce the global problems that threaten humanity, compiles an annual report on global catastrophic risks. ...

No, I Don’t Worship Nature As a Participant in Nature’s Continuing Creation, many people call me (J.X. Mason) a “Nature worshipper.” No, I am not a Nature worshipper.  I don’t pray to Natur...

Are Humans All That Special? Genesis 1:26 — “Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and o...

Three Ways to Find Life’s Purpose & Meaning — In Nature, Science, & History The First Way is to experience Nature directly, by sitting next to a babbling brook, watching fireflies ...

Christianity’s Denial of Our Climate Crisis I agree with Dr. Timothy Beal (Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University), who has said, “In some circles of Christianity, there is t...

The Online Index to Creationist Claims presents a list of over 580 common objections that Creationists have to the Science of Evolution. The 580 objections are set forth in 10 categories and 53 sub...

Taoist Virtues in Taoism, virtue is expected to arise naturally when a person follows the Tao – The Way. This “natural virtue,” which is also a natural power within a person’s character, is ca...

The Process of Creating by Combining The fundamental process of Continuing Creation is this: When a steady flow of energy encounters a receptive environment, it weaves patterns and creates systems of ...

Emergence in The Biological Hierarchy The Continuing Creation we see all around us is all about the repeated emergence of complexity in Nature, culture, and technology. In philosophy, systems theory...

What to Do About the Suffering in the World Why is there Suffering in the World?  And what do religions say to do about it?  Since blog space is limited, let’s talk about just one of the many ...

Buddhism says that all existence (including human existence) is marked by three conditions: Impermanence (Anicca), Unsatisfactoriness (Dukkha), and Non-selfhood (Anatta). We will discuss each of these...

Biblical Creationists who think the Bible is literally true and 100% correct believe that Earth is about 6,000 years old. Most astronomers, geologists and biologists think the Earth is about 4.54 bill...

Quotations from the Wikipedia article, “Level of Support for Evolution” “The level of support for [biololgical] evolution among scientists, the public, and other groups is a topic t...

What do We Do if Disaster Strikes? The Practice of Continuing Creation says that the purpose of our human lives is to build, discover, and create.  We discover new knowledge, build new structures, cr...

Fundamentalist Religious Creationists often argue: “Something as complicated as an eye must have been designed and/or made by a super-intelligent Creator.” (This argument is sometimes called &#822...

Wikipedia has an excellent article on Abiogenesis (which I support). Here are the first 2 paragraphs of that article, as of 4-24-2023: “In biology, abiogenesis (from a- ‘not’ + Gre...

Continuing Creation: On the Origin of the Universe and The Operation of Its Processes  I maintain that we do not and cannot know if God/Substance/Nature created the universe because we ourselves cann...

NOTE:  I am opposed to religious, biblical, “creationism.” All natural creation, past and present, requires a flow-through of energy: heat, sunlight, kinetic, electric, nuclear, gravitati...

When most people think of Evolution, they think of Biological Evolution, and the evolution of different species in particular.  Biological Evolution is defined as the process by which successive gene...

“Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and ...

Quotations from Dr. Adrian Bejan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke, in his 2012 book…, … Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technol...

“The oldest, easiest-to-swallow idea [about our planet] was that the Earth was man’s personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to b...

Genesis – Two Different Stories What are the differences between the two creation stories in the Book of Genesis, and why are they written this way instead of just one account that’s clearer t...

When an artist paints a picture, or a mason builds a wall, those things are their creations. Thomas Edison (with contributions from other inventors) created the electric light bulb.  Most human creat...

It’s unfortunate that Christians have laid claim to the phrases, “Creationism” and “Continuous Creation.” To them, the labels mean that God is actively causing and sustaining all the Creatio...

Here are some of my “Peak Experiences” in life: Watching my one-year-old daughter giggle when I wiggled my fingers at her.  Holding my wife’s hand while she reads her Kindle before ...

Continuing Creation happens when parts combine to make wholes, and then the wholes combine to make even “greater” Wholes. Thus, over time, single-celled creatures combined to make multi-celled cre...

I have a loving family and close friends.  I don’t need a supernatural savior. I can see tree leaves glowing gold when they are backlit by the sun.  I can hear happy babies laugh.  I don&#821...

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”            — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, #48 “We hear and behold the Processes of Physics, Chemis...

Note:  J.X. Mason’s book, Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation, opposes biblical creationism. We advocate only Natural Continuing Creation, which arises from physics, chemistry, biology, and ...

  Note:  Continuing Creation opposes “Creationism.” Continuing Creation has been accused of being “a warmed-over re-hash of Pantheism.” Is it?   No, it is not. “Pantheism is the ...

Photograph above — A small, natural whirlpool in a stream     Note:  The Book of Continuing Creation opposes biblical and religious “Creationism.”  We advocate Natural Creationis...

I’d like to develop a list of the “Great Theories of History,” and I could use your help! If you know of such a Theory, could you kindly send me its name, its book title, and its aut...

   Note:  The Book of Continuing Creation Opposes Biblical and Religious “Creationism.” In everyday language, “transcendence” means “going beyond,” and “se...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-19-22.  Mason is the author of ContinuingCreation.org Followers of the Abrahamic Religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) believe that suffering is t...

–J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-5-22— J.X. Mason is the author of www.ContinuingCreation.org   The Buddha never saw that one day, science and technology would be able to solve much...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 6-21-2022. — J.X. Mason is the author of ContinuingCreation.org. Historically, populations can become distressed by poverty, disease, oppression, natural ...

“We need the tonic of wildness… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinite...

Last week, I published a Blog Post called “Pros & Cons of Taoism & Zen.”  I compared Taoism and Zen, listing out differences between these two spiritual paths.  As I went along, ...

I have written evaluations of several of the World’s great religions, and I plan to write about more of them.  In the evaluations, I try to list the Strengths & Shortcomings of each religio...

As it grows and organizes, Continuing Creation makes Patterns — branches, networks, parabolas, boundaries, spirals, and hierarchies — to name just as few.    Today, our understanding of ...

  Is Continuing Creation a Spiritual Path?  Yes and no. The word “spiritual” has different meanings to different people.  Conventional or Traditional Spirituality Most people feel that spir...

The Business of Life —Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 63 Act without strife;work without effort. Think of the small as largeand the few as manyConfront the difficultwhile it is still easy...

  Can atheists be spiritual?  Yes, I surely think so.  My brother and I have been vocal atheistic agnostics since we quit going to Sunday school in our young teens.  Yet my brother is an avid ...

I follow a Spiritual Program called Continuing Creation that is based on Nature, Reason, and Science, without any myths or miracle stories.   Continuing Creation is made up of Interlocking Processes....

There are many names for “God.” Many are almost as old as humanity itself, pre-historical names now long forgotten. Note: The word “God” likely derives from pre-German words meaning “pour”...

Humans are not as special as we once thought.  Until about 1960, people living in the Judeo-Christian tradition believed they were the masters of the Earth. Today, most of us realize that we are depe...

                Daydreaming about Waltzing in Old Vienna  Meditation usually involves discipline.  For example, in a Breath Meditation we concentrate on our breaths.  If our mind wanders to...

“Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how ...

J.X. Mason’s Blog of 1-11-22  I try to lead a “Purpose Driven Life,” even though I haven’t read the book of that name written by Rick Warren in 2002.  My purpose-driven life inspires and...

I want to tell you about a book I got for Christmas, one that I can’t put down. The book’s is The Butchering Art, written by Dr. Lindsey FitzHarris.  That title is somewhat unfortunate, b...

J.X. Mason — Blog Post of 12-21-21Below is a little girl’s ‘letter to the editor’ at the New York Sun, and the Editor’s famous response: “Dear Editor—“I am 8 years ...

I did not grow up in the Christian religion and I remain a skeptical agnostic in my late adulthood.  But all my life, I have loved the rich spiritual traditions that my family and I celebrate around ...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 12-6-2021.    — J.X. Mason is the author of  ContinuingCreation.org Throughout the Book of Continuing Creation, we advance the idea that spirituality c...

  Given the severe and immediate dangers of climate change and global warming, we may all need to adopt the mindset that Henry David Thoreau practiced at Walden Pond — — “I went...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 11-2-21 — J.X. Mason is the author of ContinuingCreation.org How can our Spiritual Practice of Nature’s Continuing Creation be based on science, when sc...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog pf 10/25/21— J.X. Mason is the author of ContinuingCreation.org My website, Continuing Creation: A Spiritual Path based on Nature, Reason, and Science, mentions Mothe...

– J.X. Mason’s Blog of 10-15-21— J.X. Mason is the author of ContinuingCreation.org Lovely Everyday Meditations Some years ago, I attended meditation sessions at the Houston Zen Cent...

—  J.X. Mason’s Blog of 10-3-21 —  J.X. Mason is the author of www.ContinuingCreation.org Question:  What’s the difference between Nature’s Continuing Creation and Creationism...

— A Blog Post by J.X. Mason        — J.X. Mason is the author of The Book of Continuing Creation A recovered alcoholic named Wayne M. wrote a short statement that was published in 2014...

                          Black Elk’s Circle Poem “Everything the Power of the World doesIs done in a circle. The sky is round,And I have heard that the earth is roundLike a b...

A Blog Post from J.X. Mason, 8-29-2021  Could Tarot Cards possibly have anything to do with Continuing Creation, the Growing> Organizing> Direction of the Cosmos? At first look it seems that th...

When a deep purple falls Over sleepy garden walls And the stars begin to twinkle in the night In the mist of a memory You wander back to me Breathing my name with a sigh In the still of the night Once...

The Octopus in the photo uses its  suckers to Armor” Itself in old seashellsld  Seashells “My Octopus Teacher” – The Best Nature Film Ever ! —   J.X. Mason’s Bl...

Quick Reads on The Origin of Life                                                                           — J.X. Mason’x Blog of 8-17-20.   &#8212...

Is Donald Trump a good leader? Is Joe Biden a good leader?  — J.X Mason’s Blog of 8-4-20 — J.X. Mason is the Author of The Book of Continuing Creation The ancient book of Taoist wis...

    — The “Tao” of Nature’s Continuing Creation  —  J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-21-2020.         —  J.X. Mason is the Author of The Book of Continuin...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog of 7-6-2020.  To sign up for Our Weekly Blogs, go toSubscribe       — J.X. Mason is the Author of the Book of Continuing Creation Our Book of Continuing Creat...

Mindfulness While Doing Skilled Labor                          — J.X. Mason, Blog of June 30, 2020 We know that meditation and mindfulness help us relax, help us “go deep,&#82...

The film, A Beautiful Mind, tells the real-life story of John Forbes Nash (played by Russell Crowe), a mathematician who was one of the founders of Game Theory and a Nobel Laureate in Economics.  A B...

How Many Missing Links Are ThereNow? – – Blog of 6-16-2020,  by J.X. Mason. When Darwin published Origin of the Species in 1859, he wrote that human were quite likely descended from apes,...

How can a person work hard and achieve much,  without breaking down or burning out?         Listen to the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 63 (translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1988, Harper &am...

— J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 5-27-20 — Mason authored Continuing Creation: A Spiritual Path Based on Nature, Reason, & Science An Anthem for the Path of Continuing Creation What i...

Important antecedents ti The Book of G>O>D> are "Process Theology" and "Process Philosophy," which we discuss in an Essay called "Forerunners to This Book."   But Process theologians and ph...

Many people say that "God is Love." We examine this idea and show that is not true. Love has a evolved as a form of cooperation, allowing human couples to care for each other and their children acro...

Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Vices, is the desire for another person’s traits, status, wealth, abilities, or situation. “Jealousy,” which is akin to Envy, was called “the green-ey’d monster...

Answering the Question -- "What is the Purpose of Life?"

May 11, 2019 I have uploaded a new Essay to The Book of Continuing Creation:  A Spiritual Path Based on Nature, Reason, and Science (and without any myths or miracles).  The new Essay is titled, “...

The best thing to do with Easter is what we do with Christmas: we look at it through the lens of Earth-centered Spirituality. For Easter, Mother Nature gives us bunnies and eggs — symbolizing th...

A new Essay has been posted to the Continuing Creation Website:  Dealing with Death on Our Path of Creating Every religion and every spiritual path provides a way for followers to deal with death –...

Blog of September 6, 2018 — by J.X. Mason Muslims pray five times every day.  Hasidic Jews keep dairy products and meat in separate refrigerators, and on Saturdays refrain from all work.  Most...

Heaven Would Get Boring “Why would I want to go to Heaven?  None of my friends will be there.” — Mark Twain In addition to the big problem Mark Twain has just pointed out, Heaven as it’s ...

Is There a Calling that’s Higher than “Love All Humans”? Christianity says that the highest calling for human beings is to love and help all other human beings. Today, however, The Book of C...

Real strength must be effective strength.  Personal Strength Comes from the Flow of Continuing Creation; the Flow of the Growing, Organizing, Direction, of The Cosmos.  This Flow is the river of the...

Better than Facebook: Informal Remarks on Learning, Mindfulness, & Meditation in the Practice of Continuing Creation. “When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I ...

— A Blog Post by J.X. Mason, 12-29-17 — J.X. Mason is the author of The Book of Continuing Creation Remarks on “Going with the Flow of Continuing Creation” In the PBS mini-seri...