PinnedMember-onlyScientists: We Have Some Very Bad News For YouYou might want to sit down — Join Medium with my referral link — Clem Samson As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…clemsamson.medium.com Here are the articles in the Scientists: series so far: Scientists: There is No Life After Death Nor is there a God. There also is no other intelligent life in the universe. We are utterly alone, on a journey with…medium.comHumor7 min read
Published in The Haven·1 day agoMember-onlyScientists: Thank You For Your Interest In Starting A Post Ego ClubThe movement is spreading! — People all over the world are joining you in hosting meetings of their friends in celebration of the post ego way. Post Ego is simply a statement of universally held values. Three principles are the core beliefs of post ego, and I did not make them up and I do not own a copyright on them. — Us is more…Clem Samson11 min read
Published in The Haven·Aug 2Member-onlyScientists: Without This One Key Insight, You Cannot Live A Full LifeBecause We Are Still Recovering From The Dark Ages — We learned in school that the Dark Ages ended with the Renaissance and the Age of Reason and the Englightenment and all that, when people started relying on their reason instead of God’s word. But you don’t recover from being in a weird cult all that easily. I mean, it…Humor12 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 30Member-onlyScientists: Conflict Is The Result Of Fundamental Delusions Of EgoYou’re both right! (And you’re both wrong) — This is the fourth in my series of applying the concepts of post ego to everyday life. Today I am going to discuss conflict, and how we can use post ego to navigate our conflicts more peacefully. In fact, a conflict is no longer a problem to the post-ego practitioner…Humor10 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 23Member-onlyScientists: The Ego At WorkThe first setting where human beings sought transcendence of their individual struggle was the workplace — All forms of work in the ancient world led to song. Song led to religion. First came agriculture, it seems, then music. For instance, the activity of washing wool has been linguistically linked to the invention of iambic meter. Harvest songs were integrated into one of the first works of…Science10 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 17Member-onlyScientists: We Don’t Dance At Work Because We Are Suppressed, Oppressed and DepressedThis is the second part of my new series about applying the concepts of post ego to our life. Today we look at applying post ego to work. I was in Tuscany, touring a vineyard where the family still prepared the grapes in the old fashioned way — they stepped…Science9 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 10Member-onlyScientists: How To Live A Post Ego Life In A World Full Of Egos On MaxWitness the miracle! — So now we have established well enough the dubiousness of this thing we call the ego. If you still have any faith in the ego as a thing to invest yourself in, well, go ahead and review the Scientists Series. …Humor7 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 7Member-onlyScientists: Tiny Monsters Are Having Sex On Your FaceExpanding the view of the human self to include the human microbiome — At night, these 0.3mm long arthropods called mites leave the pores to find a new skin follicle, meet a partner and mate. That’s right. On your face as we speak, there is a microscopic monster that looks like that. …Biology7 min read
Published in The Haven·Jul 4Member-onlyScientists: You’re Living In The PastWhat you think is the present moment is already old news. — So much for the power of now! Eckhard Tolle should rename his self-help best seller The Power Of 120 Milliseconds Ago. We as human beings have absolutely ZERO access to “now”. That much is obvious. I mean, of course it takes some moments for the light off an object to…Clem Samson6 min read
Published in The Haven·Jun 12Member-onlyScientists: You Are Utterly AloneThe human ego is the loneliest structure in the entire universe — Several people have approached me at post ego events and asked me to clarify what I mean by these terms that I sometimes use: The ego. The self. The inner self. The person within the person. The psyche. The mind. The you. The me. The moi. Because they cannot imagine…Self27 min read