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Lincoln Cannon is a technologist and philosopher, and leading voice of Mormon Transhumanism.2025-2026 Lincoln Cannon スピリチュアリティ
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  • Archive: Volume Two

    Archive: Volume Two
    2026/10/15
    Today, one year after releasing the first volume, I’m releasing Archive: Volume Two 2009–2011, available now on Amazon in both paperback and hardcover editions. This second volume gathers more than five hundred pages of posts, articles, and essays from years when my reconstructed worldview confronted the demands of community and critics. They were years when the Mormon Transhumanist Association doubled again in size, and when I published New God Argument 2.0 and an early draft of The Consolation – a period of testing, sharpening, and unfinished work. The book opens with a foreword by Ben Blair, who traces how Mormon Transhumanism made Kurzweil’s audacious future speak in the vocabulary of covenant and ordinance. It continues with an introduction written by my cybernetic extension, LincGPT, reading the volume through the lens of prophecy, not as foretelling, but as forthtelling. And it concludes with an afterword by Nathan Hadfield, who recounts his brother Varden’s patient and persistent disagreement over whether exaltation can depend on both divine grace and human work. Together, these voices frame the work not as doctrine, but as argument: a living tradition pressed to prove itself in practice. The cover artwork continues the emergence begun in the first volume. An orange sunstone, again reminiscent of those that crowned the Nauvoo temple, rises from a field of integrated circuits. The sunstone represents God as expressed in Mormon theology – substantial embodiment and illuminating intelligence – while the circuitry symbolizes the pervasive computational context from and within which God evolves. The color orange, second in the spectrum of visible light, suggests not only dawn but the rising day – understanding tested, movement contested, life pressed into practice. Both paperback and hardcover editions contain the same content and original artwork. The paperback presents the artwork in black and white; the hardcover, in full color. The difference is esthetic. But the invitation is the same: join a conversation where trust in a compassionate superhuman future is less about a metaphysics and more about a practical working commitment to convert questions into actions. Nearly two decades after their original publication, these early writings return in print as both artifact and argument – a record of my efforts to reconcile grace with work, prophecy with choice, and idea with practice. They remain open questions rather than finished conclusions. My hope is that revisiting them in this form renews their vitality, encouraging others to interact courageously with prophecies about our future, and to engage compassionately in the creative work that faith has always required.
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  • In Memory of Mike LaTorra

    In Memory of Mike LaTorra
    2026/09/06
    My friend Mike LaTorra died on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. He taught English at New Mexico State University for more than two decades. And he was ordained a Zen Buddhist priest, presiding for a time over the Daibutsuji Zen Temple in Las Cruces. Mike also served on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association when they voted to affiliate with the Mormon Transhumanist Association. That was July 2006. The Mormon Transhumanist Association was just a few months old. He and his fellow board members extended a hand of aspiring friendship that helped to establish the legitimacy of Mormon Transhumanism within the broader movement. I knew Mike first as a voice for Buddhist Transhumanism. The basic idea was that human enhancement, including radical life extension, isn’t opposed to dharma. Asked how the two fit together, he told an interviewer for Ozy that “the Buddha says coming back over and over again is a pain in the neck.” More time, by his reading, isn’t escape from enlightenment, but rather pursuit of enlightenment with more time to meet the right guru. To keep expenses low, Mike and I shared a hotel room in the Bay Area the night before the 2014 Religion and Transhumanism Conference. While making the arrangements, he told me he had “very positive feelings about the future of the MTA, and the unique role that Mormon Transhumanists can play in the next stages of our species’ evolution.” After the conference, he praised how well our conference volunteers had worked together without being asked, commenting that if he ever assembled a team to colonize another world, “I’m certainly going to invite MTA folks to be in my ‘Away Team.’” I hope we’re continuing to earn Mike’s trust. One of Mike’s deepest convictions, as I understood him, was that religions differ in name but not in their most important function. His Buddhism, my Mormonism, whatever tradition a stranger inherits: all point to what he called “the Great Tradition of human spirituality,” borrowing a phrase from Adi Da Samraj. And he added that they “should indicate to us that something innate in us underpins and transcends the particular modes of expression that appear among the various religions.” I agree. No single ideology or tradition owns truth. And none of us can achieve our superhuman potential alone. Grief is no sin, I must sometimes remind myself. Even grief can lead us onward and upward toward all that is true, good, and beautiful. Mormons call that “salvation and exaltation.” Buddhists might call that “liberation and awakening.” Whatever the name, in function that’s what Mike spent his life pursuing and encouraging. And I’m thankful for the inspiration he continues to provide me. May you thrive again, my friend.
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  • TrueChristian® Hypocrisy

    TrueChristian® Hypocrisy
    2026/08/27
    I received a Google Alert for “[Christians Only] WDYT of Christian Transhumanism Association?: r/TrueChristian - Reddit.” Christians only? Okay. I’m Christian. So I clicked on the link and read the thread. The “Christian” originator tells of going down the proverbial “rabbit hole” and learning about Christian Transhumanism. Although confused and inviting thoughts, he’s “pretty sure” that the common Christian Transhumanist idea of resurrecting the dead is “heresy.” An “Eastern Orthodox” commenter confirms, “just by seeing their name I know they’re at least heretics or not even Christians.” A “Christian non-nationalist” shares, “My first concern is their participatory technological language around resurrection.” He continues, “I don’t read the Bible as suggesting that this is anything other than a work of our awesome creator.” Oh, and by the way, “I’m also concerned about the apparent composition … including Mormon Transhumanists and secular-adjacent futurist writers …” And “Non-Denominational” concludes, feigning imitation of Christian Transhumanists, “We want to disrespect God’s image by enhancing human bodies essentially mutilating our own bodies that are made in the image of the God we do claim to love!” Hmm. So much nonsense. Maybe I should respond, I thought. So I tried. Jesus: Raise the dead. TrueChristian: Heresy. But it didn’t work. A bot quickly informed me that my comment had been removed. Why? I was commenting “without flair identifying [me] as a trinitarian believer.” The bot also explained how I’m not a Christian. I “may not utilize a Christian flair,” it informed me, if I “deny the Trinity or other beliefs expressed in the Nicene Creed.” And even if I choose to use the flair to identify myself as a Christian, I’m “still not allowed to post in a Christians Only thread.” The bot concluded with instructions about how to add flair below “__ followers of Christ are online.” So here we are. TrueChristian® won’t receive my message. But you, dear reader, you’re receiving it now, whether you like it or not. Of course it’s nothing new. TrueChristian® has been demonizing me for decades. And they’ll probably continue for decades more. Not so secretly, I hope so because it’s free advertising. But I do wish to call special attention to this particular exchange. It encapsulates, so well, the fundamental hypocrisy of TrueChristian®. They claim to be Christian, which above all connotes reverence for Jesus and the Bible. And yet their words implicitly reject both to an extent that would be surprising if it weren’t so common. “Do the works you see me do,” says Jesus in the Bible, as he raises the dead repeatedly. But the first concern of TrueChristian® is participatory language around resurrection. “Raise the dead,” says Jesus in the Bible, as if his example isn’t enough. But TrueChristian® is pretty sure that’s heresy. “Touch me and see,” says Jesus in the Bible, appearing bodily as if from nowhere after having been crucified. But enhancing human bodies is mutilation for TrueChristian®. So much hypocrisy. Meanwhile, I’m not a Christian because Mormons don’t revere the Nicene Creed. And Transhumanists are just yuck. Too little Nicea. Too much Jesus, Bible, and yuck. No wonder “__ followers of Christ are online.”
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