{"id":4565,"date":"2021-03-02T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:40:08","slug":"speech-for-the-humanist-society-7-22-70-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Speech for the Humanist Society, 7\/22\/70 (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
 John gave this speech on July 22, 1970. He used parts of it in the last chapter (&#8220;The Revolution of the Mind&#8221;) of <em>Our Haunted Planet<\/em>, where he noted that he gave it to the Humanist Society. There have been a number of Humanist societies; I think this one was the First Humanist Society of New York, founded by Charles Francis Potter in 1929.<\/p>\n<p>The material is certainly more trenchant and personal in this earlier, longer version; among other things, he mentions some of his own psychic experiences, particularly at the death of Mary Hyre, his correspondent in Point Pleasant. The speech is 16 pages, so I&#8217;ll break it up into sections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4566\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4566\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS1-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS1-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4567\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS2-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS2-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS3.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS3-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS3-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4569\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4569\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS4.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS4-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS4-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HUMANISTS4-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John gave this speech on July 22, 1970. He used parts of it in the last chapter (&#8220;The Revolution of the Mind&#8221;) of Our Haunted Planet, where he noted that he gave it to the Humanist Society. There have been a number of Humanist societies; I think this one was the First Humanist Society of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}