Chet Shupe

A Note for the Reader: Some people will reject this thesis, and I appreciate why.

For most of our species' history, all social primates, including human beings, lived in informal, interdependent family relationships. These families were not held together by rules, contracts, or legal arrangements.

I want to take a few moments to offer an overview of where I believe we stand as a species. We live in a world with a great deal of trouble, sadness, and pain.

Evolution's Masterpiece The human spirit born of emotional intelligence is evolution's masterpiece, designed to guide us into serving the life of our species, through interdependent living.

The Long Walk Back to Sanity If the cover of Robert K. Bosscha's Leaving La-La Land is any indication, reality isn't exactly a neon-lit party. It looks more like a single, flickering flashlight beam in a very dark, very messy basement.

Echoes of the Carboniferous: The Lost World of the Appalachians Long before the first dinosaur shook the earth, a different kind of titan ruled the planet. To open Thomas F.

When I watched Dr. Tyson's conversation with Dr. Sapolsky on The Case Against Free Will, their discussion reinforced a concern that has long bothered me. If free will doesn't exist, then legal systems have no rational foundation.

Unaware that the wisdom needed to govern a species' life must come from the real-life experiences of countless generations before us, our intellectual minds presume that reason is both the origin and the endpoint of understanding.

When I watched Dr. Tyson's conversation with Dr. Sapolsky on The Case Against Free Will, their discussion reinforced a concern that has long bothered me. If free will doesn't exist, then legal systems have no rational foundation.

To understand how humans once built communities but now build only cities, we must first understand the instruments of awareness we carry inside our skulls. Emotional intelligence is not sentimentality it is the operating system of our species.