Humanism and Spirituality

Meet Chris Wells…a songwriter, actor, teacher, and Siloist based in New York City. Since the early 90s, he has been part of the Humanist Movement, an all-volunteer international movement launched by Silo, working for deep social and personal change through…

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern. This revelation was not evident…

At the initiative of the Parc La Belle Idée Commission (France, Paris region), twenty-five people, all members of the commissions of European Parks for Study and Reflection, met at Bassevelle from August 30 to September 01. These Parks of Study…

On August 26, the First Humanist Congress was held in the prisons of Buenos Aires, organized by the Juan Miguel Scatolini University Center, belonging to ward 11 of penitentiary number 31 in the town of Florencio Varela. This event was…

On August 31, 2006, at the Book Fair in the Argentine city of Rosario, Silo presented his work Apuntes de Psicología (Psychology Notes). The material, as the author comments its composition, “is a compilation of four notes taken on dates…

Sunday morning we woke up to music from the Punjab region echoing all over the street. For the past three years, I have lived with my family in the Parc Extension neighborhood in Montreal. In fact, Parc Extension is the…

Some parts of the northern hemisphere are experiencing a particularly hot summer 2024. In cities, it is often not easy to escape the heat unless you have air conditioners, which have a high energy and environmental impact anyway. Those who…

Every year, Jews recite the entire Pentateuch aloud in synagogues. It is divided in weekly portions. Last week’s one (Vaet’hanan, Deuteronomy 3 :23 – 7 :11) contains passages that are central to Jewish liturgy, including the Shema, a declaration of…

I walk among trees that reveal the serene autumn sunset and cover the ground with leaves of bright and warm colours. The environment is inspiring and makes my attention focus on that welcoming landscape, but soon those internal images reappear…

The world is bleeding. Life force is leaking from a thousand wounds, and maybe the most serious hemorrhage is that issuing forth from Gaza. The wound of Gaza festers with hate, despair, and cruelty, leaching those poisons through the body…