60http://theheartofreason.comMon, 15 Mar 2010 05:59:22 GMTMon, 15 Mar 2010 05:59:22 GMTen pennellr@aol.comnohttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/11/10/the-gospel-of-judas---who-betrayed-christ.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockThe recent discovery of "The Gospel of Judas" seems to turn Christianity on its head. It raises Judas to the status of the most gifted and heroic of Jesus' disciples and even seems to be mocking ritual. The document is authentic. What does it tell us about the early history of Christianity, the true nature of Christ, and the truth of betrayal? RADICAL CHRISTIANITYhttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/11/10/the-gospel-of-judas---who-betrayed-christ.aspx#Commentsbc0c80ec-d8b2-40fe-a300-0e6d08020b87Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:18:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/09/24/the-great-lie-and-the-great-truth.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<div> </div> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/williamrock/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"> <br><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <br> <o <br> <o:Template>Normal</o:Template> <br> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <br> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <br> <o <br> <o:Words>7171</o:Words> <br> <o:Characters>40877</o:Characters> <br> <o:Company>ORIGINS</o:Company> <br> <o:Lines>340</o:Lines> <br> <o <br> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>50199</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <br> <o:Version>11.1282</o:Version> <br> </o <br> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <br> <o:AllowPNG/> <br> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <br></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <br> <w:WordDocument> <br> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <br> <w <br> <w <br> <w <br> <w <br> <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin/> <br> </w:WordDocument> <br></xml><![endif]--> <br><style> <br><!-- <br> /* Font Definitions */ <br>@font-face <br> {font-family:"Times New Roman"; <br> panose-1:0 2 ...THE SPIRIT OF RELIGIONRADICAL CHRISTIANITYhttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/09/24/the-great-lie-and-the-great-truth.aspx#Commentse8e88c67-1e82-46c4-953c-16fb8f191983Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:41:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/05/08/south-america-and-beyond--marchapril-2009.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockThe AMSTERDAM <br>Journey from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Seattle, Washington<br>12 March to 24 April 2009<br><br> ...MY PILGRIMAGE - Sacred Journeyshttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/05/08/south-america-and-beyond--marchapril-2009.aspx#Commentsde169429-8f3a-4b19-a695-24ee6b645f37Fri, 08 May 2009 21:18:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/09/what-if-jesus-never-existed.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="5">The</font> <font size="5">new atheism</font> assaults the<br>excesses of religious zeal, which in our time have become a destructive<br>force.&nbsp; In its convincing proof that Jesus never existed and its<br>gleeful rush towards liberation, however, the new atheism overlooks<br>entirely the existential root of Christianity, which is truer than the<br>facts.<br><br><br></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> ...RADICAL CHRISTIANITYhttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/09/what-if-jesus-never-existed.aspx#Comments00eb1a5f-e1b7-4c2a-b495-dfa5166e6bbdMon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/07/true-success.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="4">To Be 95 and Happy</font><br><br> ...PSYCHOSOPHY - The Good Lifehttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/07/true-success.aspx#Comments95852d16-3b0b-4647-a740-2386fdd4e109Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:17:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/06/gay-marriage-church-and-state.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<div> </div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="4">The issue of gay marriage is based upon an ambiguity which can be resolved by resorting to the separation of church and state.</font><br><br> ...OUR TIME - The Nationhttp://theheartofreason.com/2009/03/06/gay-marriage-church-and-state.aspx#Comments2dbc34b2-d9cf-46c9-9c8d-7c7ac1e94deeFri, 06 Mar 2009 16:46:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/12/24/the-christmas-tree.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<div> </div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Although the Christmas tree is<br>one of our most beloved traditions, we may have lost our sense of its<br>essential meaning.&nbsp; The true Gift of Christmas is ecumenical: that our<br>Source, ever-present but forgotten, may reveal itself to us.<br><br><br><br></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> ...THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION - Radical Christianityhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/12/24/the-christmas-tree.aspx#Comments6f931757-244c-4e81-86a9-dd0278ecd77cWed, 24 Dec 2008 20:21:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/11/30/the-dignity-of-final-choice.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockThe medical model for dealing with death is expensive, degrading, and unnatural. In the matter of leaving this life how did nature provide? Edvard Munch, DeathTHE DIGNITY OF FINAL CHOICE Notwithstanding the serenity of deathbed scenes in the movies, the actual process of dying is not pleasant. In addition to the intrinsic horror of it, compounded by our cultural fear of death, the modern Hippocratic inclination to preserve life by any technological means all too often results in a gruesome attack upon the dignity of the dying and the sensibilities of their loved ones.I once had a ...PSYCHOSOPHY - The Good Lifehttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/11/30/the-dignity-of-final-choice.aspx#Comments074b7899-b13b-48cc-adc5-052d94597c6cSun, 30 Nov 2008 17:20:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/11/29/lessons-we-learned-from-w.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="5">Lessons We Learned from W</font><br><font size="4">The disastrous state of the union is the consequence of our country's choice of the W Man as president.&nbsp; What has he taught us?</font><br><br> ...OUR TIME - The Nationhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/11/29/lessons-we-learned-from-w.aspx#Comments50da0a29-858f-4b9f-9e98-c9160e2cac28Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:41:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/10/07/the-basic-error-of-western-thought.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockThe 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. OUR TIME - The State of Metaphysicshttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/10/07/the-basic-error-of-western-thought.aspx#Comments34d27ca2-64aa-4667-b3a5-9514a49e65cbTue, 07 Oct 2008 16:17:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/05/13/the-real-price-of-a-yale-education.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockThis 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.OUR TIME - My Great Universitieshttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/05/13/the-real-price-of-a-yale-education.aspx#Comments3b076075-4fcd-430c-81e2-982b210e53f0Tue, 13 May 2008 17:21:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/21/foundational-dissent-and-british-nihilism--addendum-2008.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockIn 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. OUR TIME - My Great Universitieshttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/21/foundational-dissent-and-british-nihilism--addendum-2008.aspx#Comments40bec9c0-8526-435f-89d7-ec7c92ce3b48Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:50:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/21/foundational-dissent-and-british-nihilism.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockFOUNDATIONAL 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. OUR TIME - My Great UniversitiesOUR TIME - The State of Metaphysicshttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/21/foundational-dissent-and-british-nihilism.aspx#Comments6c5fc317-7149-4c38-93af-602ae9ab0ba6Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/18/the-real-intelligence-about-iraq.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockWritten 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. OUR TIME - The Nationhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/04/18/the-real-intelligence-about-iraq.aspx#Comments38fba9d2-ae90-485d-a703-ceff2b5be2fbFri, 18 Apr 2008 14:13:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/28/what-is-the-heart-of-reason--a-biography.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockWhat 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. BIOGRAPHYhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/28/what-is-the-heart-of-reason--a-biography.aspx#Comments9f96df2d-70fc-492e-b663-8571dbe5b06cSat, 29 Mar 2008 00:55:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/1--summary-outline-introduction.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell Rock...THE HEART OF THE MATTERhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/1--summary-outline-introduction.aspx#Comments6a801fd0-a203-40b2-86b1-2ea6b44bac48Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:24:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/2--nihilism.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockWhat is the essence? What is Truth? There is no such thing. At least, after the conflagration of two world wars, it became fashionable to the point of political correctness to deny essence or Truth. This is a sacred tenet of Western thought from existentialism through post-modernism. How did this happen? In the wake of the nineteenth century love affair ...THE HEART OF THE MATTERhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/2--nihilism.aspx#Comments45f30a64-cd21-45ba-969d-bfe99bf898bfSat, 22 Mar 2008 14:04:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/3--the-essential-is-known-through-gnosis.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockDeconstruction is a stunning device for uprooting relative ideas that have been taken as basic truth. But just as scientism was an excess of faith in science, so post-modernist nihilism is an excess of deconstruction. It is overkill. Devotees of deconstruction have basically refuted the modern concept of knowledge, of science as a faith leading to any kind of ultimate truth. The whole concept of factuality, which stands behind science and technology and pervades all knowledge in the West, is limited and culturally relative. However in ...THE HEART OF THE MATTERhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/3--the-essential-is-known-through-gnosis.aspx#Commentsf34c0641-3e75-428e-8f4a-da25f5cd4896Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:37:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/4-ignosis.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockWhen we value accrued knowledge and information above all else, we are blind. This blindness, the preoccupation with the non-essential, is not ignorance. (Who could call us ignorant in the information age?) We have no word for this essential ignorance, but many words existed in the ancient cultures that knew gnosis. One of those words is ignosis. The need for a word such as ignosis tells part of the story. Originally it meant incomprehension of the essential, but as ...THE HEART OF THE MATTERhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/4-ignosis.aspx#Comments68116a19-7c80-419c-897c-b81243b49a62Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:22:00 GMThttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/5-the-body-as-the-primordial-form.aspx?ref=rssWilliam Pennell RockIn every healthy baby we see the potential renewal of the essential. There is an essential body. Yoga is the age-old Asian discipline in which the body is regarded as the incarnation and primordial temple of gnosis and is cultivated through care and practice as the vehicle for its realization. Our bodily manifestation is an essential whole with its own integrity, which we sometimes describe as "psychosomatic" and also "spiritual". These words, however, come from our fragmented view ...THE HEART OF THE MATTERhttp://theheartofreason.com/2008/03/22/5-the-body-as-the-primordial-form.aspx#Commentsb90b38b2-2468-4b10-8ae2-6552a7761c54Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:06:00 GMT