The Mormon Transhumanist Association Has a New Home
Carl Youngblood co-founded the MTA in 2006 and has served as its President and CEO since 2021. He is engaged with the Association’s efforts to explore the intersection of Mormon theology and transhumanist philosophy. Among the many initiatives that Carl has been involved with, he has designed and built the Association's current website, which unifies all prior content in a single location using inspiring visuals and animations. ¶ Youngblood’s professional career spans more than two decades of full-stack software development at the intersection of Silicon Slopes and Silicon Valley. He was an early employee at Omniture (acquired by Adobe), a founding engineering leader at Divvy (a Utah-based unicorn startup), co-founder of Blockscale LLC (a blockchain services firm eventually contracted into Coinbase), and Senior Solutions Architect for Amazon Managed Blockchain at AWS. His technical fluency ranges from scalable web architecture to blockchain infrastructure—the kind of deep engineering experience that grounds his theological speculation in working knowledge of the systems he writes about. ¶ Under his leadership, the Association has developed its mission of promoting abundant human flourishing through the compassionate use of science and technology, fostering dialogue across secular and religious audiences and arguing that each has something essential to learn from the other. His writing, collected on his blog From the Depths, spans over a decade of conference presentations and theological essays: meditations on participatory resurrection, the alignment of artificial intelligence read through the Grand Council narrative, intelligence as eternal and multifaceted, and religion as social technology. He writes, as a colleague has observed, with warmth and accessibility on questions of momentous practical consequence—how to navigate faith crisis without losing faith’s power, how to think about resurrection as something we actively participate in rather than passively receive. ¶ Youngblood’s distinctive contribution to transhumanism is the integration of serious technical expertise with serious theological reflection. He embodies the Mormon transhumanist conviction that scientific and spiritual development are not parallel tracks but a single path—that the learning required to build better systems is continuous with the exaltation Mormon theology envisions, and that human ingenuity, rightly oriented, is itself a divine imperative.
A rebuilt transfigurism.org: more content, more ways to connect, and a foundation for the next chapter of the Association’s work.
There’s a question this Association has always confronted: what does it mean to take both faith and the future seriously, at the same time, without flinching from either? The new transfigurism.org is built around that question. It is a rebuilt, expanded home for the ideas, people, and projects that make Mormon transhumanism a living tradition rather than a passing curiosity.
This is not a fresh coat of paint. The site has been rebuilt from the ground up, consolidating years of published content into a single organized library, adding new resources for learning and conversation, and creating real infrastructure for community. Whether you’ve been part of this community for years or just found your way here, the new site offers more to explore and more ways to participate than anything the Association has published before.
A Deeper Library
The most substantial change is the breadth and coherence of the content. Articles published across years of the Association’s life now live in one place, organized and searchable alongside a growing set of new resources.
The Topical Guide is new and worth your time. It covers nearly 300 subjects, moving between the theological vocabulary of the Restoration and the technical vocabulary of the futures the Association cares about. Entries on theosis sit beside entries on AGI. Resurrection is in there alongside cryonics, gene therapy, and longevity escape velocity. The point is not to flatten the differences between these ideas but to take seriously that they are in genuine conversation with each other.
The quotations collection gathers voices from scripture, Latter-day Saint leaders, philosophers, scientists, and transhumanist thinkers. Author biographies situate those voices in context. A video library of talks, podcasts, and conference recordings offers hours of substantive engagement with the ideas at the heart of the Association’s work.
New pages include a detailed FAQ, a Resources hub, News & Podcasts, and a What We’re Building section introducing active Association projects, including Project Lazarus and the State of Deseret, each of which will receive dedicated follow-up coverage.
A Homepage Worth Returning To
The redesigned homepage introduces two complete 24-hour animated themes: Western and Alpine, each unfolding across the day with changing light, atmosphere, motion, and small discoveries. Visitors may want to come back at different hours just to see what has changed: what appears in the distance, what moves through the landscape, what new detail suggests itself after a second or third look.
Together, the animations offer a glimpse of a possible bright future for humanity: one in which technology has become more humane, more beautiful, and more deeply integrated with the natural world. On the primer pages, vintage foreground illustrations add another layer to that vision. Historical figures and older visual forms stand before animated scenes of future possibility, creating a playful anachronism that invites reflection on deep time: where we have been, where we are going, and how much of human potential still waits ahead.
New Ways to Ask and Explore
The site now includes several chat agents for those who want to engage with Mormon transhumanist ideas conversationally rather than through browsing alone. MTABot handles broad questions about the Association and its ideas. A multiple-perspectives council mode brings several distinct viewpoints to bear on a single question at once. And a voice agent patterned on the works of Parley P. Pratt offers something genuinely different: a speech-based conversation rooted in the theological imagination of one of the Restoration’s most forward-looking early thinkers.
Community Infrastructure
The platform now supports the practical work of gathering. Members can find regional chapters, browse upcoming events, RSVP, and receive reminders by email or text. The Association’s membership has always been more geographically spread than a Utah-centric map would suggest, and the site is now built to honor that.
Store and Artwork
The new store opens with apparel, accessories, collectibles, and artwork, including the Transfigurist Artwork Series: original designs that give visual form to themes at the heart of Mormon transhumanism. Members can also apply eligible store proceeds toward membership dues.
A Foundation for What Comes Next
The site also lays groundwork for growth that won’t be immediately visible but matters for the long run: multilingual support, improved search and discovery, RSS feeds, structured sharing, and a public content service that allows other applications and AI systems to access the Association’s published resources.
This is the overview. Follow-up posts will go deeper on the homepage design, the chat agents, Project Lazarus, the State of Deseret, and the Transfigurist Artwork Series.
For now, the invitation is simple: visit transfigurism.org, spend some time, and let us know what you find. The site is new, and your feedback will help shape what it becomes.
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- Meetup Jan - The Past and Distant Future of Humanity
- Meetup Feb - Mormon Transhumanism and Practicing Atonement
- Nectome Announcement - Project Lazarus
- Meetup March - Jeff Burningham
- April MTAConf 2026 - Signs and Wonders
- Meetup May - Jon Cheney
- Meetup June - Jordan Miller
- Meetup July - Trent Larson
- New Website
- Special Projects