| CONTENTS (1) Introduction (2) Nihilism (3) The Essential is Known as Gnosis (4) Ignosis ...<< MORE >> What is the Heart of Reason? A Biography
What is the Heart of Reason? A bio
William Pennell Rock
In 1959, I formally entered Yale with the Matriculation Ceremonies for the class of '63. Among 1000 other classmates in attendance were David Gergen, future media pundit; L Paul Bremer, future Proconsul of Iraq; Lex Hixon, future Brahmin of all true faiths; and Dick Cheney, future fist of American Imperialism. In the matriculation address delivered by then President Griswold, I was astonished to hear that we were to be trained to become prophets…
Here we are half a century later.
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The Real Intelligence about Iraq
Written in 2003, this essay attempts to articulate the real Intelligence that should have prevented the invasion and the reasons we are losing our great war.
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Foundational Dissent and British Nihilism
FOUNDATIONAL DISSENT
The Iconography of Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, the world famous Cambridge cosmologist almost completely incapacitated by severe motor neurone disease, is at once the most courageous, the most vulnerable, and the most brilliant person I have ever encountered, an icon of human aspiration and of Cambridge itself. To me however, he and his condition symbolize the scientific project to penetrate into the mystery of Being, a crumpled and attenuated attempt to understand our universe when we have overlooked the robust nature of our true home.
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Foundational Dissent and British Nihilism - Addendum 2008
In April of 2008, Cambridge in America produced a complementary event in San Francisco, which focused on the humanities. What was demonstrated is that human nature and values can also be treated as an object (the proper study of man) and that no one does it better than Cambridge. << MORE >>
The Real Price of a Yale Education
This article was written shortly after GW Bush became president and before the shock and awe of his administration became apparent. I believe that it describes the underlying flaw in the entire project which has brought America to a nadir of respect in the world.<< MORE >>
The Basic Error of Western Thought
The Basic Error of Western Thought:
Final or absolute reality is conceptually based
The dream of a final, scientifically based explanation of reality and God has displaced and concealed the authentic contemplative means to attain true understanding.
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Lessons We Learned from W
Lessons We Learned from W
The disastrous state of the union is the consequence of our country's choice of the W Man as president. What has he taught us? ...<< MORE >> The Dignity of Final Choice
The medical model for dealing with death is expensive, degrading, and unnatural. In the matter of leaving this life how did nature provide?
...<< MORE >> The Christmas Treeone of our most beloved traditions, we may have lost our sense of its essential meaning. The true Gift of Christmas is ecumenical: that our Source, ever-present but forgotten, may reveal itself to us. ...<< MORE >> Gay Marriage: Church and State...<< MORE >> What If Jesus Never Existed?
The new atheism assaults the
excesses of religious zeal, which in our time have become a destructive force. In its convincing proof that Jesus never existed and its gleeful rush towards liberation, however, the new atheism overlooks entirely the existential root of Christianity, which is truer than the facts. ...<< MORE >> South America and Beyond March-April 2009
The AMSTERDAM
Journey from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Seattle, Washington 12 March to 24 April 2009 ...<< MORE >> |