Both bias and wisdom comes from experience. A balanced diversity of experiences minimizes bias bias to maximize wisdom. My experiences as a multidisciplinary academic with a STEM background and a multilevel educator balance my experiences as a caregiver and long distance journeyer. The result is the philosophy that fuels the Unenlightened Wisdom Project.
“Unenlightened Wisdom” does not contradict spiritual enlightenment, but rather the western Enlightenment also known as the Age of Reason. Much of Enlightenment philosophy uses dialectic reasoning to justify being civilized as a means to prevent humanity from mucking things up. The Unenlightened Wisdom Project relies on wisdom, derived from the experiential virtues that enhance brain health, to prevent civilization from mucking things up.
How about you? Have you ever experienced “helper’s high,” the euphoria from selflessly helping others that enhances your brain health? Have you noticed a difference in how people behave when unstressed and unhurried? Please join me over the course of the next decade, not to save civilization from the vices of humanity, but to save humanity from the physiological and social abnormalities of being civilized.