Histomap of World Religions
In 2006, after traveling around the world and engaging with people and different cultures’ traditions and spirituality around the globe, I began creating paintings of the origin of religions 'clustered together' investigating how religion has branched and evolved since deep time and also developed separately. The culmination is this histomap which charts the origin of our ancient hominins with evidence from archeology, philosophy of religion, anthropology and other fields of study. It captures the hundreds of religions that are still with us today and reminds us that thousands have come and gone and there still may be more that evolve.
Histomap of the Study & Theories of Consciousness
Two books (of many) have sparked my interest in Consciousness — Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, and The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers. I organized the map into four ‘theory quadrants’ — ideal, physical, animate and inanimate — to capture the spectrum of ideas from ancient to present.
Histomap of the Cognitive Science of Religion
I have been studying about the Cognitive Science of Religion for the past decade. The new synthesis of paleoarchaeology, neurotheology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology helps tell the story of our human history and the emergence of religion.
Histomap of Morality
The world is a beautiful and ugly place to live. Why are we bad and why are we good? Does Morality come from God or from Nature? I’ve been asking these questions and three books (of many) in the past years inspired me to create this Histomap of Morality–The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal and Dawn of the Neuron by Michael Anctil.
I designed this histomap to present various theories, theology and data to hopefully better understand our different viewpoints on the phenomenon of morality.
Histomap of Yahweh to Jesus
When I read the book, The Evolution of God by Robert Wright in 2009, I learned about the term monolatry. The concept intrigued me and challenged me to learn more about this belief system — worshipping of one god without denial of the existence of other gods.
