President Obama said we’re going to restore science to its rightful place and transform our schools and universities to meet the demands of a new age. Scientists have been hard at work on that for 40 years. It doesn’t mean longer school days and more homework; it means a whole new approach to science and education. Find out how to get that education yourself with high school level books that are available at mainstream bookstores. This is an introduction to every other book on this site. Available in booklet and audio CD.


Evolutionary psychology is a biological approach to psychology that starts with human evolution. It’s the study of universal traits of humanity and of the origins of differences among groups. This is the most direct route to Peace on Earth. By discouraging people from learning about evolution, Christian fundamentalists are preventing Peace on Earth from happening. Available in book and two audio CD set.


The anti-globalization revolution is a struggle against the globalization of Capitalism. No matter what name it goes by, the concentration of resources among a small group of people results in a concentration of decision-making power. People are inherently self-interested, which means centralized decision making power can never be trusted. These and all the other main points of the anti-Capitalist revolution have been proven scientifically, while the idea that Capitalism can ever lead to a just or sustainable society is founded on lies and superstitions. Available in book and free audio download, and in condensed form in booklet and audio CD.


In the evolution versus intelligent design debate, the Christian fundamentalists had an advantage in that the Bible is a story of the world and a reference book to life, while the scientists don’t have anything similar. So this three-volume set is a scientific story of the world and reference book to life. Volume 1 is a philosophical approach to evolution and human psychology, which brings together major discoveries scientists have made into the origins of religion, the history of world civilization, the origins of emotions, social organization, learning, child development, and male/female relations. That scientific foundation creates a solid foundation for a humanistic philosophy of life, death, metaphysics, and choices we have for the future. Available in book and free audio book.


The philosophical foundation of Volume 1 is so solid that by changing a few words I switch to a scientific approach in Volume 2. That’s an easier foundation to use to build up to complicated forms of human behavior, like political, economic, and environmental systems. Available in book and free audio download.


Now that I’ve shown how the psychology of individual people turns into political, economic, and environmental systems, in Volume 3 I use that as a common ground to fit together the goals of progressive movements and ideologies. That includes the anti-Capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-border, anti-nuclear, peace, environmental, animal rights, and feminist movements, Atheism, progressive religion, Indigenous Decolonization, Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism. Available in book and free audio download.


The content of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution has been established so thoroughly that you can learn how the global environment and evolutionary psychology work with cycles you can see happening in a garden. That means all the third-world farmers who are being driven off their land by globalization can learn planetary biology as easily as anyone else. And that means they can prove that college educated politicians have no excuse for not knowing that Capitalism isn’t environmentally sustainable and will lead to people fighting over resources. The global educational feudal system ends here. Available in book and free audio download, and the text is posted in its entirety on this site.


This is a rigorous academic version of the connections between evolutionary psychology and the theatrical directing style developed by Constatin Stanislavski, and how I have used them to draw connections among the observations about life different groups of people have made. That is followed by a working class activist perspective on science and the education system in America. Beware, because this is college level evolutionary psychology, followed by my first hand account of what it’s like to have been condemned by the education system to live in a neighborhood where racial hate crimes are a fact of life. Available in book only.


This is an expanded version of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution, with 10 additional chapters on topics specific to the Anarchist movement. That includes classist attitudes by the middle class majority, and the misguided rejection of science. This is written for Anarchists specifically, so if you don’t have any experience in the Anarchist movement, you won’t be able to keep up with the terminology and obscure references. If you are an Anarchist, beware, because I grew up in Down East Maine, and I wrote this in my native dialect. If you middle class radicals can’t wrap your brains around the fact that the speaking habits of sailors and lumberjacks aren’t part of the system of oppression like you accuse them of being, you don’t have a global working class revolution. Available in book only until I can find time to finish the audio recording.

Spiritual Enlightenment or Discrimination?

I must warn you that talking about biology requires me to make big definitive statements about life.  Biology and other life sciences are the study of life, and some people are a lot better at them than most people.

A lot of progressive activists have the completely paradoxical and counterproductive goals of saving the environment like biologists say we need to do, and proving that it isn’t possible for anyone to make big definitive statements about life.

I know everyone has their reasons for believing that what they’re doing is right.  You probably feel that someone making big definitive statements about life is a warning sign that he’s trying to be the next Josef Stalin.

But look at what you’re doing.  You’re trying to prove simultaneously that people both can and can’t make big definitive statements about life.  If that’s your grand strategy for your revolution, don’t be surprised if it doesn’t work.  Don’t be surprised if you end up working against yourselves, don’t be surprised if you end up with a lot of conflict within your movement, don’t be surprised if a lot of people think you don’t know what you’re doing, and don’t be surprised if your opponents turn all that against you.

It’s easy to say that people should talk definitively about things we do know, and shouldn’t talk definitively about things we don’t know.  That’s reasonable enough.  But that means you’re drawing the line between things you think we know and things you think we don’t know.   That’s the best you know how to do, but as far as the pursuit of science and the realm of human knowledge are concerned, the line you’ve drawn is completely arbitrary.

Physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and every other branch of science are all points along the same spectrum.  Biology is not a separate thing from chemistry, and psychology is not a separate thing from biology.  Those different fields of study are only divided by people’s ability to study them.  Biology is the study of life; psychology is the study of how people think; sociology is the study of how people interact in groups.  Focusing on specific topics makes it easier to gather and organize information.  But that doesn’t change the fact that people think the way they think because of the way their brains work, and their brains are biological organs; and people interact with each other in groups the way they do because of the way their brains work while in groups.  That means that psychology is really just a specialized field of biology, and sociology is just a specialized field of psychology.  Ultimately, every field of science is just a specialized field of physics.

Some fields of science are easier to connect to neighboring fields of science than others are.  Atomic physics and chemistry are both the study of atoms, just on two different scales.  Studying them on different scales lets scientists study them differently, and lets them gather information that’s useful in different ways.

Making the connection between chemistry and biology has been much more difficult, because biology is made up of so many chemical reactions it’s hard for people to keep track of them all.  Making the connection between biology and psychology has been even harder, because that depends on figuring out how a biological organ creates our ideas and feelings.  That doesn’t prove it isn’t possible to do those things, but that does mean that doing them depends on exceptional talents and skills.  That means most people can’t do them, nor can they imagine how it’s possible for anyone to do them.

This means that learning about science requires you to keep an open mind to the fact that some people are a lot better at figuring certain things out than you are.

Not to put too fine a point on it, if you accuse Whites in your neighborhood of discrimination because they don’t want Blacks or Mexicans to move in next door to them, and then you turn around and say that no one can discover the origins of human consciousness just because you don’t know how to do it, you’re a hypocrite.

Your neighbors are trying to keep themselves safe from people they don’t trust.  But as you’re well aware, if they would just get to know the other people they would find that the other people aren’t villains after all.  When they do it to someone else you call it discrimination.  But when you do the exact same thing to scientists you call it spiritual enlightenment.

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