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Sohail Inayatullah Abstract: This essay explores the transformative potential of macrohistory by engaging three Asia based civilizational thinkers—Sima Qian, Ibn Khaldun, and P.R. Sarkar—in a comparative dialogue on historical cycles and the role of leadership in creating significant change. Drawing from Chinese, Islamic, and Indic traditions, it examines how virtue (te), social cohesion (asabiyya), and…
Aslı Şimşek Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) remains at an early stage of integration into organizational life. Yet even in this formative period, it is already shaping imaginaries, influencing strategies, and amplifying emerging systemic dynamics. One of these is what scholars describe as technofeudalism (Durand, 2023) an evolving political-economic order where digital platforms consolidate control, extract…
Ralph Mercer Context: The use of a perspective piece provides the narrative flexibility to open a dialogue on how the Sadvipra functions as a philosophical allegory within Neohumanist thought, and why that positioning exposes a pathway for the Sadvipra to adapt to the accelerating entanglement of social, ecological, and technological systems that demand continuous reinterpretation….
Ralph Mercer, Guest Editor: Welcome to this edition of Neohumanist Review on the emergence of enlightened leadership In this special issue, the selected authors take us on a journey beyond traditional political discourse to explore the concept of the Sadvipra. Through a diverse collection of essays, our contributors examine how this ancient ideal can be…
Book review by Aaron Frank In his book Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature, physicist and inventor Federico Faggin exposes the limits of the reductionist materialism which has guided western thinking for centuries When future historians look back to analyze our current moment, it’s likely the invention of modern computers will stand out as…
Book review by Sid Jordan In The Fallacy of Materialism, chemist and spiritual researcher Steve Richheimer contrasts the worldviews of “materialism” and “spirituality” that challenges readers to eschew religious and scientific dogma, “always this and never that”. He not only accomplishes a searing critique of a materialist science but offers an alternative spiritual upliftment of…
Journey Through Neohumanism, Grace, and Transformation Book review by Shermon Cruz If there is one resounding message in Marcus Bussey’s Neohumanism, Yearning and Becoming, it is that we stand at a pivotal moment of transformation—a threshold where old worlds are crumbling, and new rhythms of life are calling us forward. Past, present, and future are…
By Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar According to many scholars, the first expression of creation took place not on land but in water. Living protoplasm, thoroughly drenched in carbon materials, appeared as a unicellular entity, as kaoshikii sattá, for the first time in water. It is in water that the unicellular entity or elementary cell evolved…
Tao and Tantra By Taraka Ghista, May 2025 Regarding your article on Tantra and I-Ching (Tao and Tantra; A New Translation and Interpretation of I-Jing, Neohumanist Review 4, March 2025), I would like to draw your attention to Acarya Bhaskarananda’s chapter on Shavisim in Chinese Civilization from his book Social Dynamics and Social Movements (Psychospiritual…
By Avtk. Anandarama Ac. The above picture shows the Aletsch Glacier viewed from Eggishorn at Fiesch, Valais, Switzerland. The Alps are formed by the African and Eurasian plates which have been moving towards each other since 700 million years. The continental plates pushed to mountain heights and enclosed the Tethys Sea. The position of the…