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 Rituals:

Spiritual rituals are rituals that serve special religious or spiritual purposes by making their participants feel like they’re doing something spiritually meaningful.  Spiritual rituals can serve as social rituals by making the participants feel like they’re working together and engaging in a special activity to serve a special purpose.    They are different from social rituals, however, in that they can also be performed alone, and that they have the effect of making the person feel connected to their religion/spirituality in the same way social rituals make individuals feel connected to each other.

To use the example of the marriage from before, it makes the couple, the other participants in the wedding, and the audience feel like they’ve all come together to achieve the same goal and consequently that they all have a connection to each other.  In addition, it makes all the participants feel like they’re engaging in an event of special importance— which they are.  The same legal effect could be accomplished by the couple going to city hall to sign a marriage license.  All the people who would’ve attended the wedding could maybe squeeze into the licensing office to watch the couple officiate their holy matrimony by signing their names to the holy governmental document, so why bother with the wedding?  Weddings are a lot of work to plan, after all!

The answer is:  The couple has reached an important landmark in their lives by deciding to officiate their partnership as life-long or eternal, and stronger and more important than their relationships to anyone else in the world.  To help mark this important occasion and forge this bond which is greater than the power of the people who are forging it, what better force to call upon than the religious/spiritual higher powers the participants follow?

In other words, rather than officiating the marriage with the government by signing a document, the participants are officiating the marriage with a much higher authority than mortal humans.  Depending on the people involved in the wedding ritual, they call upon gods, deities, spirits, or whoever else to bear witness to their union.  If you’re going to call upon powers like that to bear witness to this decision you and your partner are making, it better  be an important decision, and you better  be serious about it!

Does that make the marriage ritual more powerful than it would be if the couple had just signed a license at city hall?  It does if the participants in the ritual feel   like it does.  Why would it make them feel that way?  Because they feel that the presence of these higher forces they’ve called upon makes the ritual more powerful.  Because the people feel like the ritual is more powerful than the city hall marriage would’ve been, they are going to take the marriage more seriously.  Because the people take the wedding ritual more seriously, the marriage will be stronger.

Were the powerful spirits really there?  Who knows?  Does it really matter?  The marriage is stronger than it would’ve been otherwise, so whether the spirits were really there or not, the effects their presences were supposed bring about have still been brought about.  The objective that everyone was trying to accomplish by calling upon the spirits has been accomplished.  Even if the religion of the participants is pure superstition and the spirits they called upon don’t exist within the realm of objective science, the fact that the people believed in the spirits made the marriage stronger, and theoretically that could be measured by objective science.  (I’ve never seen or heard of such an experiment, but I’m sure somebody could compare divorce rates to spiritual satisfaction the couple felt with their marriage and the consequent seriousness with which the couple approached the marriage after that or something.  I’m sure the science to measure something like that objectively and conclusively doesn’t exist at this point in time, but you get the idea.)

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