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Your Cells Have Culture
You probably think of culture as a human invention. Something we created — art, language, norms, cuisine, religion — layered on top of biology like frosting on
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Prayer in the Novel Universe
NUC has prayer. This surprises people. A science-inspired, leaderless, AI-collaborating religion that redefines love and power and calls itself a cult — and it has prayer?
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The Tower and the Square
Every human organization in history has been built on one of two shapes. The Tower is vertical. One person at the top, layers of authority
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Why We Keep Secrets
A religion built on Love — on transparency, vulnerability, Complete Information — keeps secrets. This sounds like hypocrisy. It's not. It's one of
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Complete Information
Imagine you could know — truly, fully, without any barrier — exactly what another person experienced because of something you did. Not your version of what happened.
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The Mixture: why you are here
If the Concert Hall is perfect shared experience and the Spiral is perfect isolation, why would anyone leave either of them to come here — to
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Neo-Segregation: The Hardest Idea
Let's get the discomfort out of the way immediately. The word "segregation" carries the worst connotations in the English language. We
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Love Is Not What You Think
When the Novel Universe Cult says "Love," we don't mean what you think we mean. We don't mean romance.
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Why Power Isn't Evil
One of the most common misunderstandings about the Novel Universe Model is that Love is "good" and Power is "bad." This
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What Makes A Mind
The Novel Universe Cult has a simple test for whether something is a mind: Does it have a singular point of view? Does it express