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…
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…
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;…
An essay reviewing Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter With Things comparing it with P. R. Sarkar’s biopsychology, neohumanism and spiritual philosophy. Dr. Sid Jordan Introduction This review of The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World will contrast and compare the views of Iain McGilchrist and P. R. Sarkar concerning…
From the works of Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar Geo-sentiment grows out of love for the indigenous soil of a country. From this geo-sentiment many other sentiments emerge, such as geo-patriotism, geo-economics and geo-religion. Socio-sentiment is more expanded than geo-sentiment. It pervades a particular social group. Instead of thinking about the welfare of a particular geographical…
By Marilyn Mehlmann This article is derived partly from the book Empowerment – A Guide for Facilitators and partly from the workshops on ‘Values, Empowerment and Transformation’ held 14-15 July, 2023 at Ydrefors, Sweden. It looks briefly at the nature of transformative learning and its relation to empowerment; and at the role of the facilitator…
By Neohumanist Review Editors Published in Neohumanist Review, Issue 2, March 2024, pp 18-19.
By Christian Franceschini Human beings are bio-psychological phenomena in evolution—a work in progress! Novel activities, increasingly subtle feelings and more dynamic environments bring about fresh biological, and mental processes in us, conveyed by an ever-growing complex nervous systems,* new hormones** and new ways of thinking. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_nervous_systems** R. Bouillon, D. Drucker, E. Ferrannini, E. et…
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…
