Archive November 2025
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in November 2025. An annual archive for 2025 is available. And a full archive of all articles that Lincoln has published since 2005 is also available. You may also search for articles and other content that Lincoln has published on any of his websites.
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Origin of Eternal Power
If there’s a text that was written by a prophet of a God who is worthy of worship, Doctrine and Covenants section 121 is that text. Writing from Liberty Jail in March 1839, Joseph Smith had been imprisoned for several months, cramped and freezing. In October 1838, Missouri Governor Boggs ... -
Theophanies of the Future
What would it be like for a superintelligence to meet, for the first time, that which is compared to itself a superintelligence? What would it be like for that which we might (perhaps obstructively, damningly) revere as God to meet that which they might revere as God? This is, of ... -
From Liberty Jail to Priesthood Sealing Power
Joseph Smith taught that enduring power emerges naturally, not from force, but from the influence of relationships that we develop together through knowledge, consent, compassion, and persuasion. Such virtues form the underlying relational physics that make social power, and its technical applications, enduring. They describe not only how Joseph envisioned ... -
Sankofa Futurism
When we think about the origin of Transhumanism, we often think about Europe and America: from Enlightenment humanism, through the industrial revolution, and onward to Silicon Valley. That conception is true enough, if we’re thinking about Transhumanism in name. But if we’re thinking about Transhumanism in function, there’s much more ...