This is a great post. Even though I have come to embrace all of these ideals, I never knew that they existed under the name "Secular Humanism". Thank you, juliokirk, for adding to my being.

WARNING - A little off-topic:

I would also like to provide a newer perspective. My path of self-discovery has led me unto the "undiscovered country", to borrow the euphemism from our beloved movie. Although I wholeheartedly agree and embrace 99.99% of these principles, I have come to discover the importance of consciousness and the contradictions it imposes thereof. I believe that the path of scientific discovery of humanity took a wrong turn starting with Descartes.

Descartes, called the father of philosophy by many, started us on a "disconnected worldview" that supports the notion that the universe and all the material objects within it behave like a machine, the analysis of which is through successive reduction of its components into smaller and smaller parts, that there is no underlying organizing framework which eliminates the need to consider one within the fundamental model of physics; AS OPPOSED TO a "connected worldview" where the universe and all the matter/energy it is comprised of behave as a unified whole system, the analysis of which is through understanding the fundamental patterns of wholeness that are synergetically expressed in fractal repetition at all scales.

Consciousness lies at the core of this worldview and unfortunately the disconnected worldview that is inherent to our current prevalent understanding of our reality profoundly obstructs the exploration of consciousness by conveniently labeling any such endeavour as "pseudoscience". I am proud, however, to see that there is an exponential growth in the number of people who are questioning the status quo.

TL:DR I have reservations against the carelessly used label "pseudoscience" and the confines of what we currently describe as science with regards to our flawed worldview.