Beyond Humanism: A Review of Kathleen Kesson’s Becoming One with the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education Paul Freedman In Kathleen Kesson’s extraordinary new volume, Becoming One with the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education (2024), the author takes us on a beatific journey of discovery. The text spans great distances progressing step by step…
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Dr. Shambhushivananda, the Editor-In-Chief of Neohumanist Review, delivered a session on “Authentic Futures: Crafting Conscious Pathways for the Asia-Pacific” at the 10th Asia Pacific Futures Network Conference held at SASIN Graduate School of Management, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, a celebrated futurist and NR Editorial Board member, emphasized the importance of acknowledging the…
From the Editor-In-Chief
We are happy to present the third issue of Neohumanist Review to our readers with quite a diversity. In this issue, authors from Mexico to Norway and from India to Birmingham have contributed neohumanist perspectives to complex problems plaguing our planet. A young physician, Dr. Rodrigo Bazúa Lobato, provides us an overview of the health…
The Five P Health Model
The Emerging Health Paradigm Dr. Sohail Inayatullah This policy brief was written as part of an international horizon scanning project for an international health organization. Other briefs include the end of meat, the anticipatory city, and the transition from GDP to Wellbeing. The purpose of this and similar briefs is to assist leaders in understanding the changing…
Power and Medicine During Transitional Eras: Microvita As the Bridge
Dr. Sohail Inayatullah Abstract: Beginning with a genealogical gloss of the decline of Ayurvedic system in South Asian history, this essay moves to an alternative vision of the futures of health. It argues for a wholistic health model that includes global health cooperatives and integrates spirit with science. It uses Sarkar’s theory of microvita as…
The Human Right to Health
Dr. Rodrigo Bazúa Lobato Introduction Health systems are at a global crossroads due to significant demographic, epidemiologic, climatic, and technological changes. On the demographic front, the world’s population has doubled over the past 50 years and is expected to double again by 2050 in some regions (World Bank, 2018). The globe has also experienced a…
Global Warming
Michael Towsey, Tasmania, Australia Dear Editor, Congratulations on your second edition of Neohumanist Review that featured articles about climate change. Concerning the article “Climate Change – from the deep past to the 22nd century”, I wrote it in August/September of 2023. Climate change science is a rapidly evolving field with new research papers appearing every…
The CO2 Issue
Edvard Mogstad, Ørje, Norway, June 2024 First, I want to credit Dr. Towsey for his sober paper on the vast history of climate science (NR 2, March 2024). In the original paper, posted on your website, he refers to various astrophysical scientists before he gives his opinion apparently in favour of the current mainstream CO2-hypothesis;…
On Consumption And Profit
Shriraksha Mohan Consumerism-based economies like capitalism view the consumption of commodities as the primary driver of profits. Hence, limitless consumption of goods and services is encouraged, whether one needs them or not. Capitalism encourages a high degree of debt among consumers. According to French philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky, we are at a stage in capitalism marked…