All Speeches

Welcomes

• Bound and Consecrate by Daniel Speyer
• Solstice in 2022 (DC) by Maia Werbos
• Boston 2016 Opening Speech by Jim Babcock
• Introduction Speech in Frankfurt Main 2018 by Martin Sawitzki
• Introduction Speech in Frankfurt Main 2019 by Martin Sawitzki
• Introduction (Bay 2022)
• Introduction (Bay 2023) by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Intro to a small DC Solstice for 2020 by Maia Werbos
• Technical Note 2020 by Alex Altair
• We Are Gathered by Daniel Speyer
• We Are Gathered 2019 by Daniel Speyer
• We Are Gathered 2022 by Daniel Speyer
• Welcome -- Are We All Here? by Daniel Speyer
• Welcome To New Years by Skyler Crossman
• Welcome to Secular Solstice 2020 by Raymond Arnold, Alex Altair and Laura Vaughan
• What Exactly Are We Doing Here? by Taymon Beal
• Why Solstice? Why Failed Experiments? by Maia Werbos
• Why Solstice? Why Lovecraft? by James Babcock

To Bring on the Night

• Attempts Were Made by Daniel Speyer
• Beyond the Reach of God by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Raymond Arnold
• A Bottomless Pit of Suffering by Raymond Arnold
• A Bottomless Pit of Suffering (Bay Edition) by Raymond Arnold
• d6 Activity by Cy Carson
• Dying Outside, Part 1 by Hal Finney and Scott Alexander
• Dying Outside, Part 2 by Hal Finney, Max More and Scott Alexander
• For every ailment under the sun by Gretta Duleba
• Grief Comes in Many Forms by Cody Wild
• High Stakes by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Laika
• No Royal Road to Knowledge; No Mercy for Ignorance by Daniel Speyer
• On Wanting Things by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Orders of Magnitude by Alex Altair
• You Can't Save Them All by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

With a Single Candle

• Enabling Potential by Elizabeth Van Nostrand
• Eternal Winter, Endless Light by Raymond Arnold
• Fire Has No Voice by J. Bryce Hidysmith
• 500 Million, But Not a Single One More by Jai Dhyani
• 500 Million: 2020 Addendum by Maia Werbos
• The Gift We Give Tomorrow by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Raymond Arnold
• I Don't Know by Raymond Arnold
• Invincible Winter by Georgia Ray
• The Last Victim (Of Smallpox) by Glen Raphael
• Life Death and Love by Raymond Arnold
• The Man Who Lived by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
• Moment of Resolution by Skyler Crossman
• The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
• Probability by Taymon Beal
• Radical Acceptance Practice by Ozymandias (Adapted by others)
• Something Possible by Raymond Arnold
• Story from Bergamo by Daniele Macchini, translated by Silvia Stringhini, adapted by Maia Werbos
• This Is a Dawn by Nate Soares
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• World on the Brink by Raymond Arnold

Grand Narratives

• An Alien God (Abridged)
• The Goddess of Everything Else by Scott Alexander
• The Goddess of Everything Else (Abridged) by Scott Alexander
• The Goddess of Everything Else (First Person Version) by Scott Alexander
• Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander
• Monastery and Throne by Jacob Falkovich, adapted as a speech by Daniel Speyer
• Origin of Stories by Raymond Arnold
• Origin of Stories, Twilight Edition by Raymond Arnold and Daniel Speyer
• The Scientific Frontier / Truth and Beauty by Chelsea Voss
• The Virtues of Solstice by Cody Wild and Raymond Arnold

Speeches Across Time

• Brighter Futures by Laura Vaughan
• The Children of 4.3 Billion Years of Evolution by Georgia Ray
• The First Victims (Of Smallpox)
• Don't Shoot the Messenger by Sarah Constantin, adapted for speech by Daniel Speyer
• A Future That's Worth It by Jefferey Ladish
• Half Monkey, Half God by Nate Soares (abridged)
• How We Remember and What by Sideria and Taymon Beal
• Lost Knowledge probably by Chelsea Voss or Jim Babcock
• Meditation on the Future by Raymond Arnold and Nate Soares
• Meditation on the Past by Raymond Arnold
• Meditation on the Present: Remember to Breathe by Raymond Arnold
• Only Human by Jai Dhyani
• Stories Untold by Jai Dhyani
• The Story of Winter by Raymond Arnold
• Stonehenge Story by Raymond Arnold
• We will not die of this! by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Specific Events

• As Slow As Possible
• Breaking Your Hand Punching Moloch by Taymon Beal or James Babcock (plus Allen Ginsberg)
• COVID: We Lost by Rivka Fleischman
• Fritz Haber by Daniel Speyer
• Henry Williamson on Christmas Aftermath
• Henry Williamson's Letter Home
• Intelligent Machinery: A Heretical Theory by Alan Turing (Abridged by Skyler Crossman)
• Cycles of Scurvy by Philo, Anton Howes, Idlewords and SMTM, edited together by Daniel Speyer
• I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read
• John Snow and the Broad Street Pump by Kathleen Tuthill and Daniel Speyer
• Joseph Rotblat on the Development of Nuclear Weapons
• Keeping Your Eyes Open by Jeffrey Ladish
• Letting Go Without Giving Up by Jeffrey Ladish
• Literally Moving the World by Daniel Speyer
• Meselson and Bioweapons by Kelsey Piper
• One Song, Many Tyrants by Daniel Speyer
• Prediction: Artificial Intelligence
• Prediction: Invent It
• Prediction: Ozone
• Prediction: Phenotypes
• Prediction: WWII
• The Replication Crisis by Rivka Fleischman
• Space Fails – Stories of Human Experiences by Moya Schiller, Secular Solstice Frankfurt 2019
• The Fragility of Progress by Alex Altair
• The Inevitable Speech About Crypto by Scott Alexander
• An Unexpected Victory by Zvi Mowshowitz
• What's Left to Save by Maia Werbos
• Vadim Orlov on How Close We Came to Nuclear War
• The Virtue of Ash by Cody Wild

Specific Fiction

• Das Photonenraumschiff by Dimitar Peew, translated to German by ???
• The Demiurge's Older Brother by Scott Alexander
• Epsilon Eridani by Adrien Pfeuffer
• How Mikromil and Gigatian Provoked the Runaway of Nebulae by Stanislaw Lem
• The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good by Stanislaw Lem
• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Unsong Prologue (German Translation) by Scott Alexander, Translated by Adrien Pfeuffer

Visions

• A Day in My Utopia by Ozy Brennan
• Disneyland with No Children by Nick Bostrom, Scott Alexander and Daniel Speyer
• 500 Years From Today
• Saving the Spark by Daniel Speyer
• Worlds That Never Were by Claire Wang
• Letter from Utopia by Nick Bostrom, excerpted by Daniel Speyer

Explanations

• A Changing Mythology by Raymond Arnold
• Interlude: Building The Future by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Interlude: Night by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Interlude: No One Survives by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Interlude: Song Nitpicking by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Interlude: We Have Already Won by Anna Tchetchetkine
• Interlude: What Future Do You Want? by Anna Tchetchetkine, with edits by Raymond Arnold
• Intro to Demon Sultan Azathoth by Jim Babcock
• Intro: Night Section
• The Fae by James Babcock
• Mistakes were Made by Raymond Arnold
• What Does It Mean To Be Forever Young? by Daniel Speyer
• Well, Will Somebody? by Daniel Speyer
• X Days of X-Risk Intro by Raymond Arnold

Snippets

• Litany of Gendlin by Eugene Gendlin
• Litany of Tarski by Alfred Tarski (?)
• Nihil Supernum by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Nothing is Mere by John Keats and Richard Feynman
• Not Today by G.R.R. Martin
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein
• Serenity Meditation
• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 1) by Dynomight
• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 2) by Dynomight
• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 3) by Dynomight
• Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful (Part 4) by Dynomight
• What Resembles The Grave But Isn't by Anne Boyer

Other

• Finding Beauty After Trauma by Rivka Fleischman
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)
• Costs of Progress by Luna
• Have an Plan, Write it Down by Patrick MacKenzie
• Meditation: Holding On and Letting Go by Rivka Fleischman
• Holding On and Letting Go by Rivka Fleischman
• How to Be Happy Based on an essay by Luke Muehlhauser
• How We Will Be Measured by Nate Soares
• How We Will Be Measured (abridged) by Nate Soares
• How Will The Bomb Find You? by C.S. Lewis
• Interlude: Part Of The Project by Anna Tchetchetkine
• First Step by Sir Terry Pratchett
• The Starfish and the Net First two paragraphs by Scott Alexander, remainder by Skyler Crossman
• The Ten Offers of Evolutionary Humanism by Michael Schmidt-Salomon
• Tortoise Skills by AgentyDuck, adapted by Skyler Crossman
• Tsuyoku Naritai by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Abridged by Skyler Crossman)
• Metta Meditation by Cassandra McClure
• What I Learned About Risk from Parenting by Julia Wise
• Zettai Tsuyoku Narimasu: You will definitely become stronger by Tilia Bell

Poetry

• Atoms with Consciousness, Matter with Curiousity by Richard Feynman
• Autumn by John Keats
• Dim Lake by Moore
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
• The First Winter by Raymond Arnold
• Der Gewitterabend by Georg Trakl
• High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
• Loss and Gain
• Matches by Sifu Hotman
• Ms. Poppins
• The Shield of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
• The Aim Was Song by Robert Frost
• The End and The Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska; translated by Joanna Trzeciak
• The Next War by Willfred Owen
• The Orange by Wendy Cope
• Travelers
• Villanelle by Danielle Blau
• Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Alexis C. Madrigal