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By Craig Runde Introduction At first blush, it may seem strange to have a chapter on global constitutional principles in a book on macroeconomics. In a traditional macroeconomics text, that might be true, but this book concerns a new macroeconomic model, which encompasses values that depend on reforms embodied in a new framework provided by…
Keynote address at the international NHE Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, April 2014, by Dr. Shambhushivananda Looking back, about 8000 million years ago (mya), this Earth was only a blazing ball of fire; 4000 mya, it consisted of molten lava and volcanoes; 340 mya life existed only in water; 223 mya land appeared as Gondwanaland; 70 mya…
By Marcus Bussey Simple ideas are often the most powerful. This is certainly the case with Neohumanism. Rooted in the ancient yogic perception that all existence is bound together, that we are all interconnected, Neohumanism transcends a limited and deeply wounded humanism with an holistic reconceptualisation of what it is to be human. Neohumanism is…
By Marcus Bussey Neohumanism honors the multiplicity that is the sum of human consciousness. This has important implications for the way classrooms can be structured and curricula constructed. Traditional education has involved an attempt to strip learning down to its discrete parts and demystify knowledge. Neohumanism seeks to put the mystery back into learning by…
By Professor Kathleen Kesson When the underlying spirit of humanism is extended to everything, animate and inanimate, in this universe – I have designated this as Neohumanism. This Neohumanism will elevate humanism to universalism, the cult of love for all created beings of this universe. ~ P.R. Sarkar (1982) I am writing this article from…
Book review by G Padmanabhan, Honorary Professor, Department of Biochemistry, former Director Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru I have a deep interest in Advaidic Philosophy, although I cannot claim to be a practitioner. It enunciates the principle of Self as the ultimate. The Bhagavad Gita also projects intellect above the mind, and Self above the…
Image above: Tantra diagram showing seed-sounds for control of the flow of forces in the subtle veins. Yadupati on Flickr By Ramesh Bjonnes Tantra has received increasing interest among scholars and the public in recent years. Its historical origins and practices, however, are not so well understood. Sometimes misinterpreted or misrepresented, traditional Tantra is often…
Interview with Dr. Ravi Batra What is the nature of inflation? Inflation affects the poor badly and also hurts the middle-class. The global response to the pandemic was that governments increased their budget deficits sharply to ward off negative effects on production, employment and poverty, etc. The pandemic played out against a backdrop of years…
By Professor Ravi Batra There is a well-known Chinese proverb: May you live in interesting times. With the onslaught of coronavirus in 2019, and its continuation in some form as late as 2023, our times are indeed interesting, nay nerve racking. Add to the mayhem of the virus, the unprecedented war between Russia and Ukraine,…
On the 8th of September, 1985, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, began an extraordinary series of Sunday lectures in his native Bengali that would eventually fill a total of twenty-six volumes over the next five years. The title he gave to this series was Shabda Cayaniká, which translates into English as “A Collection of Words”. The…