Overheard at dinner in Afghanistan:
Religion is the space between the dots, science the dots, and philosophy the mind-set that blends the two. Education, intelligence (decision-support) and research are the sources and methods for achieving integral consciousness — godliness in spirt, integrity in fact, and heaven on earth in community.
Religions can be evaluated in relation to their emphasis on dogma over behavior, compliance over innovation, and exclusiveness over inclusiveness.
Religion, along with money, is one of the greatest counter-intelligence threats to the integrity of the US Government.
Community with clarity, dignity, and integrity is displacing organized religion as a foundation for using transparency to find truth and truth to create trust.
The left in America bears as much responsibility for the loss of faith and religion as does the right for its peversion. Religion became corrupt, divorced from any focus on the public interest, and instead a tool for mobilizing political power in support of the few instead of on behalf of the many.
Here are some links that support the above generalizations:
Six-Star:
Review: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil–How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025
Review: Faith-Based Diplomacy–Trumping Realpolitik
Review: God and Science–Coming Full Circle
Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
Review: Reconciliation–Islam, Democracy, and the West
Review: Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft
Review: The Unconquerable World–Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Other:
Review (DVD): The Theory of Everything
Review: American Gospel–God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Hardcover)
Review: Christianity, Evolution and the Breath of Life
Review: Earthspirit–A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity
Review: Founding Faith–Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Review: God’s Politics–Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Hardcover)
Review: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Review: Leadership Lessons of Jesus
Review: Living Beyond Your Lifetime–How to be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave
Review: Never Surrender–A Soldier’s Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom
Review: Piety & Politics–The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom
Review: Questions of Truth–Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security
Review: Religion Gone Bad–The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
Review: Tempting Faith–An Inside Story of Political Seduction
Review: The Beginning of All Things–Science and Religion
Review: The Celestine Prophecy
Review: The End of Faith–Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
Review: The Left Hand of God–Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right (Hardcover)
Random Access:
1993: God, Man, & Information – Comments to Interval In-House (Full Text Online)
Anthony Judge: Is There Never Enough? Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty
Handbook: Religious Affairs in Joint Operations
Michel Bauwens: The Emerging Fourth Sector
Reference: Religion, Science, & Philosophy
Reference: Truth & Nuance as an Information Operations (IO) Mission
Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Douglas Johnston
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dialog for Truth & Reconciliation
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Leadership for Epoch B
Worth a Look: Intelligent Design–Six Star Stuff
Religious Counterintelligence:
Gordon Duff: Are the Mormons in Charge of America’s Drug Empire? Is NSA Part of Their Power Base?
Koko: CIA Bows to Islamic Radicals, with Strong Comment on Need for Religious Counterintelligence
Marcus Aurelius: Death Notice for Counterintelligence
Marcus Aurelius: Politically-Correct Pentagon Gets It Half Right — On Religious Counterintelligence
Mini-Me: Agents of Religion – Religion of Agents
Mini-Me: Is Michael Scheuer A Jesuit Agent of Influence?
SchwartzReport: Religious Treason within US Military
US Counterintelligence in AF: Absent, Dumb, Gone
