NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Israel (rogue spoiler), Libya, Cote d’Ivoire (the tsumani spreads). Phi Beta Iota: “Secular youth” is the opposite of Islamic fundamentalist.  Similarly, academics, professionals, and small business managers as well as labor generally our “secular” instead of fundamentalist.  The West appears to be having difficulty with this obvious foundation point, …

Catholic Church Getting Serious About “Truth”

VATICAN-PHILOSOPHY Mar-22-2011 (360 words) With photos. xxxi Vatican says church philosophy studies must combat suspicion of truth Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski talks about new norms for the ecclesiastical studies of philosophy. (CNS/Alessandro Serrano, Catholic Press Photo)          By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When training priests and educating students …

Review (Guest): Principles of Neurotheology

Andrew B. Newberg, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Publisher’s Description: “Neurotheology” has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years. Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly articles have been published on the topic, some in the …

Panarchy-Not Anarchy-Future of Global Governance

Panarchy is “a useful way of thinking about cross-scale dynamics in complex adaptive systems.”  Source Panarchy, in modern terms, is both an emerging theory of local to global relations spanning all current disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, sociology), and a public intelligence concept that posits non-violent collective intelligence, with access to all true cost information, …