Being Humans Together
Ian Christopher Wendt
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25 The Transformational Love of God
God knows you fully, and God loves you completely. Consider what it would be like to be in the presence of God. You would feel known, understood and seen. You’d feel loved. You would have a profound…
24 Ways of Knowing God Part 2
For thousands of years cultures, societies and communities have developed many ways to know god-- Animism or spirits in nature, including ancestors, Polytheism in its multiplicity of expressions,…
23 Ways of Knowing God Part 1
Cultures and societies have approached God in many ways. On Being Humans Together we emphasize that knowing God is personal, relational, and present. What matters most is that you know God and strive…
22 Know Yourself
“Know yourself” was inscribed in Greek ‘gnothi seauton’ on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Knowing yourself has been a fundamental quest for every human being for thousands of years. Who am I? Who…
21 Escaping Isolation and Loneliness
“Leave me alone!” This is the curse we cast on ourselves. Solitary confinement is the greatest punishment we enforce in many of our societies. We did away with torture and most capital punishment. So…
20 Negotiating Yes & No in Relationships
We can mean more than one thing when we say yes, or when we say no. There are situations, actions, and people for whom we feel, say and perform solid yeses — strong and spontaneous affirmation.…
19 Resonating Together with Our People
Resonating together with our people and relationships How do we connect, resonate together, and form relational bonds? How do we improve our relationships to bring more meaningful connections,…
18 Know Your People
Know who your people are. I recognize how challenging relationships are for all of us. Understand how your relationships fit into your circles of relations, including intimate relations, core family…
17 Relational Knowledge Is the Most Valuable Knowledge
Paradigm shift: We should value knowing our people more highly than professional knowledge, technical knowledge, or political knowledge, even though those domains are often connected with increased…
16 Civil Society and the Tyranny of Experts
We need experts to accomplish many of our advanced goals. To gather, sift and organize new knowledge; to apply basic research in order to engineer new possibilities; to better understand the…
15 Balancing Science and Religion - Galileo, Darwin and more
Gathering knowledge from diverse perspectives and sources enriches our minds and hearts, gives us more complex tools to understand our modern and increasingly global societies, and provides us with…
14 Responding to the Mysterious Universe
Contemporary physics theory is fascinating, productive, often useful, and sometimes truly mysterious, speculative, and often not applicable to the physical universe. In the face of such mystery and…
13 Life is Rare and Beautiful
Life is rare, beautiful, and precious. Human conscious life is even more rare, beautiful, and precious. Many humans in our society have adopted a fundamentally misanthropic or antihumanist…
12 We Are 99% Binding Energy
In this third series of episodes we’re going delve into physics to demonstrate that the architecture of the visible universe and all life is based on bonds and binding energy. This reality can help…
11 Increasing Our Consciousness and Agency
We conclude our second set of episodes by considering how we can grow our awareness, our consciousness, and our agency to live more empowered, meaningful, purposeful lives each day. Surely we can…
10 Historical Development of Consciousness
Human consciousness developed over thousands of generations as women and men chose one another, as families made long term marriage bonds and build communities. Our awareness and consciousness is…
09 Exercising Agency and Will
In this episode of Being Humans Together we explore the paradigm shift from the widespread acceptance of determinism to human agency or the ability to choose. We discuss both theological and…
08 Meaning, Purpose, and Presentness
Meaning and Purpose are Operationalized Consciousness. Meaning is (shared) understanding or interpretation of the past.The negation of meaning is isolation or nihilism. Meaning is narrative, order,…
07 Consciousness: There Are No Feral Humans
There are no feral humans. While a fish or a reptile can hatch, grow, and reproduce without complex training, human children do not and cannot develop consciousness, language, healthy emotions, or…
06 Consciousness Emerges from Human Networks
Two paradigm shifts help us understand what human consciousness is and how it arises. First, a lot of the smart kids, the ones with the doctorate degrees, think that consciousness is largely an…
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Being Humans Together has published 25 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Relationships, Society & Culture.
Being Humans Together is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 19m.
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