The cult of excessive individualism threatens the survival of our species — “The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.” — (Gleanings from the writings of Baha’u’llah CXXXI) A few years ago I wrote an article on the The fetish of exaggerated individualism and the danger it poses to the survival of…

Structuralism and the Semantic Universe — Structuralism and Semantics In the early part of the 20th century the lecture notes of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, were published under the unassuming title “Course in General Linguistics”. The ideas in this book would profoundly affect the course of philosophy and sociology giving rise to what is known as Structuralism. Saussure…

In a previous article we argued that the order generating processes of nature can be said to define the act of ‘creation’ thus there is no difference between the concept of natural selection and creation. Yet what remains perhaps an unsolvable mystery, is if there exists a quality of ‘being’…

Is there a real difference? We are all of course very familiar with the debates and arguments between traditional Theists who believe that a deity created our universe and the naturalists who claim that our universe, it’s apparent order and structure are a product of natural laws and processes. But…

Through the Lens of Renormalization Group Theory — In June of 1947 a group of eminent physicists gathered together on Shelter Island in Long Island New York. The group included the likes of Richard Feynman, Oppenheimer, Von Neumann and Teller. The godlike and terrible power unleashed by the collective efforts of many of these physicists was still fresh…

How the growth of materialistic philosophy was due to materialistic religious theology. — The decline of belief in the 19th century was not just due to the growth of scientific knowledge, but more importantly was driven by latent religious materialism. I believe It is actually religious materialism which took root centuries earlier that has fostered this hard split between science and religion. As…

The rise of expectations and challenges to religious belief. — What Emerson was probably sensitive to but is little known today, was that in the late 18th and early 19th century, this expectation grew very acute when a renaissance of messianic expectations erupted all over the Christian and Islamic world. In the Christian world these expectations were known as the…

Something which unleashed terrible and wonderful powers occurred in the 19th Century — “The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order.” — ‘Baha’u’llah’ Something truly momentous happened in the 19th century, something, which changed every aspect of life on the planet, something, which unleashed wonderful and terrible powers. These powers have allowed humans…

Introduction to a video series on the connections between Platonic Idealism, Religion and Science. — On the second day of Genesis God created the expanse (rāqîaʿ). This Hebrew word rāqîaʿ, is translated as “firmament” by the authors of the King James Bible. Rāqîaʿ is a luminous, firmament or interworld linking “heaven” and “earth”. This firmament which spans the gulf of the heavens was identified as…