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What are we about as members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association? It is clear from past surveys that we have numerous individual purposes and goals, but here is a short description from the MTA website:

The author made the rounds last month for three Mormon Studies-related functions.

A Prince in Provo

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Historian Greg Prince spoke about Mormon history, research and writing when releasing his new book, “Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.” Prince also has lent his beautiful home to young Washington, D.C. interns. (Benchmark Books)

Wondering if the LDS church has a secret vault in its office building?

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Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God's love be with you

• David Bowie, 1947-2016 (Thanks Major Tom!)

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Exercising Our Critical Thinking Muscles

Online forums and social media are great and terrible places to test your critical thinking. As I've written on Mormonism and Transhumanism on Rational Faiths, Exploring Sainthood, and the Transfigurist for over two years, now, as well as interacting on online LDS faith transition and support groups for this same time, I've experienced warm approval, condescending criticism, and a lot of good (if sometimes intense) dialogue.

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My name is Matt Howe and I am not a scientist. I am, in fact a business man, and other than a few classes in college, my formal training in most scientific disciplines ended either in college or from what I can gather off the internet or have learned from others. Yes, I have a great deal of expertise in the Risk Management sector and being in sales I have probably a better than average gift for communication, but despite all these seeming limitations, I am a Transhumanist, part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, and Transhumanism needs me.

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On May 5, 2016, former MTA President Lincoln Cannon will be presenting remotely at Digital Hollywood in a panel on Transhumanism: science fiction or reality.

For more information, see [http://www.dhsessions3.com/Thursday16Sp31.html]

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The problem of pain is not in its logic. It only defeats false Gods, or Gods unconstrained by the realities of the nature we live daily.

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On April 20, the MTA was featured in an excellent article by Dawn Chan in the New Yorker. Take a look:

[http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/mormon-transhumanism-and-the-immortality-upgrade]

The article asks, "Can the Mormon transhumanist movement reconcile technological progress with religious prophecy?" and includes excerpts from interviews with Christopher Bradford, Lincoln Cannon, and Carl Youngblood.

Join the Association and be part of the world's largest religious transhumanist group!

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The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1833 – 1898

As a transhumanist I am full of hope that one day the knowledge of certain death will no longer be the prime mover of the human heart. Whether by digital or biotechnological means (or both) I believe it is possible that within my lifetime I may witness breakthroughs in science that could extend the life of bodies and brains, and the existence of individual minds well beyond one century. I hope, but humbly so, recognizing that for now and the foreseeable future--what lies beyond the singularity is not foreseeable--we die.

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We share an evolutionary history of language and semiotics as evident in this survey of common symbols found on stone age artifacts which follow patterns of human migration.