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Africa, Land and Bible
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu Continue reading
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Actions speak louder than words
There are umpteen number of minor and major, small and big, overt and covert, domestic and international, religious and other conflicts happening around the world. It is customary for many armchair thinkers and ivory tower intellectuals to relish expressing their… Continue reading
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On spiritual blindness
“As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed” (Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1937) Continue reading
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Science and Religion Relationship
Relationship between Science and Religion or Spirituality is often a deeply contested issue. Popular (mis)perception and (mis)understanding propagated by most of the rationalists, secularists, atheists, agnostics and socialists-communists is that science and religion are diametrically opposed, hostile and at cross… Continue reading
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Christians and Allah
I once heard a Christian friend say, “I believe in God, not in Allah.” I was surprised by this statement, since “Allah” is simply the Arabic word for “God.” However, my friend was even more astonished than I was when,… Continue reading
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Thoughts on “Persuasion through the water metaphor in Dao De Jing”
By Guo‐Ming Chen and Richard Holt I loved this chapter, perhaps because it provided an opportunity to reflect on an important and timely theme—social change as seen through the lens of Dao. A warning in advance, however, is in order.… Continue reading
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Maureen Ellis’ 3 M chapter
As I am neither a semiotician nor a linguist, I confess that I often need a very good dictionary and a history app to glean from Dr. Ellis’s sentences her intended meanings, and yet this effort often yields great treasures. What… Continue reading
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Music and spirituality
Reading through Peter’s chapter on the “Varieties of musical experience,” I found myself wandering off on a tangent to consider spiritual corollaries. While Peter explored the academic trail which unites brain function, social health, and music, I was led by… Continue reading
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Reflections: Myth to Math
In his article “From myth to math: chaos and consciousness” Ralph Abraham champions the view that we would be better off with a society that embraces chaos. He argues that we have an education system that “is producing sickness and… Continue reading
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Elyon, Ineffability, and the Path to Peace
Today is the day!Our collective book Spiritual Consciousness as Evolutionary Learning, edited by Maureen Ellis, has finally been published as of May 16, 2025. In this volume, I contributed two chapters: I’d like to share with you the abstract of… Continue reading
Spiritual Consciousness as Evolutionary Learning 