Dear members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association,

It's time for the association's annual member survey. We hope to hear from you! Your feedback helps association leadership better represent and serve you. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete, and the goal is 100% participation. Click here to access the survey:

The University of California at Riverside, with the help of a very generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation and under the direction of John Martin Fischer, welcomes proposals to investigate via empirical means questions that concern personal immortality. Such questions are central existential concerns that know no geographical or cultural bounds. They include questions about the possibility and plausibility of post-mortem survival; questions about the influence of beliefs about immortality on behavior, attitudes, and character; questions as to why and how persons are (at least pre-reflectively) disposed to believe in post-mortem survival; and more besides. The goal of this RFP is to make progress on these questions through empirical research. Read more.

Sponsored by Franklin & Marshall College Department of Religious Studies

Lancaster PA USA Saturday, October 27, 2012 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

The Internet has given rise to much religious imagery. Both dreams of utopia and nightmares of apocalypse abound. It has also shaken up some of our certitudes about the human. Is there even such a thing or are we just underdeveloped machines? What does the expansion of internet technology mean for our experience of time, of space, and of the body? What kind of ethical conundrums arise from our computer-driven technology?

1st - 2nd of Dec Pacific Time Zone (PST)

Revolving around the theme “Writing the Future”, the conference will explore the world of media and communicating Transhumanism.

What excites you about the future? What frightens you? How might the future change the way we live? And how might we change the way we live in the future?

We cordially invite you to submit papers to the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on Friday, April 5th, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Ut. The aim of this conference is to address the many issues and topics that lie at the intersection of technology and religion, their impacts on each other, and on society in general. These papers need not focus only on specifically Mormon religious issues.

Register today for the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on 5 April 2013 from 9am to 6pm in Salt Lake City, Utah. Speakers will address the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with particular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion. Previous conferences sponsored by the Mormon Transhumanist Association include the 2012 conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the 2010 Transhumanism and Spirituality conference, and the 2009 Mormonism and Engineering conference. The conference is open to the public.

As of September 17th, 2012, the MTA has $5,264 total cash on hand with $706 in the endowment.

The full report can be found at [http://transfigurism.org/pages/about/finances/]

Karl Hale CFO

The Mormon Transhumanist Association has added several member blogs to those aggregated on our website home page and blog page, as well as to our feeds and social network broadcasts -- reaching nearly 20,000 persons per week!

Here are the newest additions:

Carl Youngblood, CIO and founding member of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, will be presenting at the Annual Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City at 9:45am on Thursday, July 26th. The title of his talk is "Compassionate Obsolescence: Coping with Technological Change." Additional information and registration instructions can be found at Sunstone's web site.

The fifth issue of the Transfigurist Quarterly, highlighting news and events related to the Mormon Transhumanist Association, is now available. You're invited to download and share it.

Transfigurist Quarterly Issue 5

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