I contend that compassion is an automatic byproduct of having shut out the outside world for a time to experience transcendence in its relig...

The Saundarya Lahari characterizes the Hindu goddess, Devi, as being the power behind the proverbial throne—meaning the thrones of the thre...

I contend that the ideological war being waged in the United States by the 2010s over whether October 12 th   should be “Indigenous People’s...

Even though more than 500 Starbucks shops had unionized by the end of 2024, it seems that the company’s management did not respect the new ...

By the 2020s, the Chinese government had made significant advances in applying computer technology to garden-variety surveillance. To do so,...

Over 90% of Turkey is not located in Europe, and yet for years the sovereign state has sought accession in the E.U. in spite of Turkey’s non...

Even as much as divine entities reveal themselves to particular human beings, our finiteness cannot completely perceive or know such an enti...

I contend that the more courses that are heavily ideological and biased in advocating a particular ideology that a university has, the highe...

If America can be said to have violent cultures, relatively speaking and especially in countries such as Honduras but also in some U.S. stat...

On October 3, 2024, The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, filed a legal complaint against the E.U. state of Hungary with the...

In The Natural History of Religion , David Hume claims that the human mind has difficulty holding on to the pure (i.e., unencumbered) idea o...

A basic tenet of the Advaita (non-dualist) Hindu philosophy of Shankara holds, “If saguna points to brahman’s immanence, nirguna points to ...

Speaking at Harvard in late September, 2024, Noeleen Heyzer, a former undersecretary and later a special envoy of the UN, related the need f...

On September 20, 2024, it was announced that the E.U. would “raise a €35 billion loan to support the Ukrainian economy and military.” [1] A...

I contend that the core of religion is its quality of transcendence beyond the limits of human thought, perception, and emotion. This is not...