Michael Towsey, Hobart, Tasmania, November 2023 Ravi Batra’s fascinating article (NHR, September 2023) on the 30-year inflation cycle suggests that the cycle can be explained by the following causal sequence: Social crisis → Government deficit spending →Increased money supply → Inflation.(Each arrow to be read as “causes”.) This sequence requires serious social crises to arise…
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Enabling Transformative Learning
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…
Nurturing the Village: The Future of Education through Holistic Relationships
By Dr. Carlos Torre Education, in its essence, is an interconnected web of relationships. It is within this web that “Nurturing the Village: The Future of Education through Holistic Relationships” situates its discourse. This article serves as an introductory overview of the foundational elements required to cultivate a relational model of education, deeply rooted in…
Holistic Solutions
By Neohumanist Review Editors Published in Neohumanist Review, Issue 2, March 2024, pp 18-19.
Reconceptualizing the Origin of Life and the Universe
By Dr. Richard Gauthier What if atoms are alive? Abiogenesis, the origin of life from atoms and molecules, is the current scientific hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth. This may change soon. In 1986, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar proposed that billions of subatomic living entities called microvita compose atoms. Microvita may have been emanated…
Vital Airs and the Flow of Cognition
Introduction In 1985, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1922-1990) began an extraordinary series of discourses that would eventually fill a total of 26 volumes over the next five years. He named the series Shabda Cayaniká, which translates into English as “A Collection of Words”. Each discourse dwells on certain root words and different meanings associated with…
Shukra, The Totipotent Sap
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…
Watershed Worlds: Returning to Planetary Survival and Resilience Through Indigenous Ways
By Matt Oppenheim It was Spring of 2017 and I had broken down crying upon learning that over 2,000 refugees had drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean for the fourth year in a row. Then I thought about the ecological causes: desertification and drought, rising heat, deforestation, polluted waters, flooding, fires, and rising sea levels….
From the Editor-In-Chief
We are happy to present the second issue of Neohumanist Review to our readers. The prime focus of this issue is on climate challenges. The very fabric of the web of life today is at risk. Unless we realize the interdependent nature of the ecosystem of planet Earth and beyond, we may not be able…
Climate Change … from the deep past to the 22nd century
Abstract: What we learn from Earth’s deep past is that its climate never stops changing. Tropical alternates with arid over multiple time scales. Major ice ages cycle over millions of years. Glacial eras cycle over thousands of years—down to El Niño cycles of a few years. The evolution of life on Earth has been shaped,…