The Great Recession: Catalyst for Psychological Growth
In light of last month’s tragedy in Japan, I addressed natural disasters in the first installment of… [more]
Behind Annual Catastrophe: A Push to Elevate Values?
As our hearts ache watching the images of Japan’s Eastern Shores and our anger stirred by another nature-spawned… [more]
Liberation, Part I
The idea of spiritual or human liberation is a good indicator to show how followers of certain perspectives… [more]
The Great Recession: Catalyst for Psychological Growth
In light of last month’s tragedy in Japan, I addressed natural disasters in the first installment of this tw0 part article that searches for deeper meaning behind global catastrophe. Here, I continue to explore the positive side of tragedy by shedding light on our recent wake-up call now known to many as the Great Recession. Economics is the longest of threads that intertwine the cultures,... [Read more about this topic]
Behind Annual Catastrophe: A Push to Elevate Values?
As our hearts ache watching the images of Japan’s Eastern Shores and our anger stirred by another nature-spawned catastrophe worsened by human imperfection, many of us pray for those affected by the tsunami and radiation fall-out in the Pacific. In this two part article, I will discuss global crises within a larger discussion about humanity’s need to grow and change. Natural disasters are highlighted... [Read more about this topic]
Liberation, Part I
The idea of spiritual or human liberation is a good indicator to show how followers of certain perspectives aim to live on this planet. Let us first take a gander through some traditional views. Please note that these are very general interpretations; significant variability exists within such views. Orthodox Christians have tended to seek liberation—or more aptly, salvation—via forgiveness from... [Read more about this topic]
A Changing Worldview and its Relationship with Space/Time Expansion
Major institutions, such as medicine, economics, politics, and science in the West have arisen out of modernity’s dominant reductionistic paradigm. Although the modern worldview is dying, if not dead, institutions are now struggling to find an identity untied to the assumptions of Newton, Descartes, Darwin, Freud, Skinner, and so on. Traditional psychiatry and psychology, for instance, have viewed... [Read more about this topic]
