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Quick Reads on The Origin of Life

J.X. Mason August 17, 2020 No Comments

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

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Part One: Intros and Guides

Table of Contents

The Principles We Hold True

Introduction to the Book of Continuing Creation

Overview of Continuing Creation

Is Continuing Creation a "Spiritual" Path?

Is This Book for You?

How to Read this Book of Essays

Part Two: Patterns and Complexity

Information Patterns — How Creating Works

Mathematics and Continuing Creation

Complexity and Continuing Creation

Part Three: Evolution

The Processes of Evolution & Their Meaning

Answering Evolution's Critics

Part Four: Creating First Life ("Abiogenesis")

Energy Flows, Membranes, Carbon-based Life

Proteins, DNA, Life in the Laboratory

Pools, Rock Pockets, Deep-Sea Vents

Part Five: Evaluating Other Spiritual Paths

Forerunners to Our Path & Practice

Evaluating Taoism and Zen

Evaluating Hinduism

Evaluating Buddhism

Evaluating Jesus’ Teaching

Early Christianity: From Jesus’ Death To 312 C.E.

Medieval Roman Catholicism to the Protestant Reformation

Evaluating Islam

Smaller Religions & Modern Cults

Part Six: Love and Sharing

Is God Love? Is Creating Love?

Radical Sharing & Universal Love Don’t Work

Love’s Role in Our Lives and Practice

Part Seven: Suffering, Evil, & Death

Suffering and Evil - Causes & Responses

Dealing with Death on Our Path of Creating

Part Eight: About Our Future

Cyborgs, Transhumanism, & Immortality

Overpopulation Threatens Continuing Creation

Part Nine: Life Guidance: Ethics, Virtues, and Fulfillment

Leading an Ethical, Moral Life

Leading a Virtuous & Honorable Life

Leading a Fulfilled and Happy Life

Meditations for Co-Creators

Part Ten: Continuing Creation's Celebrations

Winter Solstice, to Christmas, & Back

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Characteristics of Modern Cults
What’s the Secular Equivalent of “Grace”?
Humans Were Not Designed by God
The Oak Tree is an Emergent Complex System
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What Is Continuing Creation?
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Human Beings Were Not Designed
Meditations for Co-Creators
Eight Ways Humanity Could Become Extinct
No, I Don’t Worship Nature
Are Humans All That Special?
3 Ways to Find Meaning & Purpose in Life
Christianity’s Denial of Our Climate Crisis
580 Creationist Claims – All Refuted
Taoist Virtues
Creating by Combining
Emergence in Biological Levels
What to Do About Suffering
Buddhism’s Condition of Impermanence
How Old Is Planet Earth?
Level of Support for Evolution
What Do We Do If Disaster Strikes !?
Evolution and the Complexity of the Eye
Abiogenesis – From Lifeless Molecules to the First Living Organism
The Universe and its Processes
Evolution is Part of Nature’s Continuing Creation
A Broader View of Evolution
“All Things Are Cooperating Causes”
Professor Bejan’s Constructal Law
From “Lives of a Cell”
Genesis – Two Different Stories
God or Natural Continuing Creation?
The Processes of Continuing Creation
Peak Experiences
When Wholes Are Greater than the Sum of their Parts
Constructive Living Is My Spiritual Path
A Riff on Walt Whitman
Do I Believe in God?
Warmed-over Pantheism ?
From Whirlpools to a Galactic Mind
Great Theories of History
From a Tree to Transcendence
Why Is There Suffering?
Buddhism vs. Transcendentalism
Why New Religions Arise
Beyond the Tonic of Wildness
The “One” versus The “-isms”
Pros & Cons of Taoism & Zen
The Patterns of Continuing Creation
Earth-centered Spirituality
On the Business of Life
Can Atheists Be Spiritual?
What Are Creation’s PROCESSES ?
The Many Names for God
Humans Are Not So Special
Daydreaming vs. Meditation
Primal Reverence
Modern Eco-quote from Ancient Rome
The Craft of Creating
My Personal Purpose Driven Life
Surgery Learns to Use Antiseptics
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus!
Christmas / Winter Solstice
Poetic Science Writing
Spiritual Living in Nature
Mantras for Creative People
Spirituality… based on Science??
Mother Nature – Yes or No?
The Washing Machine Meditation
Continuing Creation vs. “Creationism”
Higher Power or Higher Purpose?
Black Elk’s Circle Poem
Tarot Cards? In Continuing Creation?
People Live On In Our Memories
“My Octopus Teacher” – Best Nature Film EVER
Quick Reads on The Origin of Life
Was Trump a Good Leader? Is Biden?
The “Tao” of Continuing Creation
What Is Spirituality?
Mindfulness While Doing Skilled Labor
Get Her Phone Number! – A Lesson in Cooperation
How Many “Missing Links” Are There Now?
Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching
Song of the Open Road
The Processes of Continuing Creation and Their Meaning
Is Continuing Creation “Pure Love”?
What Virtue Opposes the Vice of Envy?
Hitchens Swings… and Strikes Out
We Posted A New Essay — on Fulfillment
Mother Nature’s Easter
How to Deal with Death
Open the Shutters & Throw Up the Sash
Heaven and Nirvana Don’t Make Any Sense
Is There a Calling Higher than “Love All Humans”?
Strength from the Flow of Our Practice
Better than Facebook
Hold Your Honor and Make a “Good Showing.”

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