Editorial

The Joy of Conversation

The saloons, bars, tea shops, places of work etc were social gathering places of the joy of conversation. The joy of communication, of understanding as well as misunderstandings and the lack of communication are discovered in these places where conversation happens. They bring to life the Enlightenment of humanism. The world of man, the overall […]

Prayer the First Occupation

“I wish to encourage you all, in as much as you are pastors of the Holy People of God, to have this primary concern in all your activities: prayer, spiritual life. It is the first occupation, no other goes before it.” These are words of Pope Francis to the members of the Permanent Synod of […]

What is a Good news?

The Gospel is first bad news and then good news. The Gospel contains murderous facts full of animosity and pharisaic religiosity. The Old Testament is full of violent and scandalous events. The adultery of David the king is narrated by Nathan, who transformed it into a story of repentance and salvation. Abimalek killed 70 members […]

Machine for the Making of Gods

Ecological restoration provides practices and challenges to thought that may bring us into a new type of knowledge. Ecological restoration is an expression not of humanity’s desire to conquer and finally control nature. Ecological restoration expresses the human not by considering man as the king of creation but as an eternal custodian of the machine […]

The Fascism in Us All

Michel Foucault wrote: “I would say that Anti-Oedipus is a book of ethics… How does one keep from being fascist, even (especially) when one believes oneself to be a revolutionary militant? How do we rid our speech and our acts, our hearts and our pleasures, of fascism? How do we ferret out the fascism that […]

The Requirement of Moral Perspective

The eyes of nature may not see good and evil. Moral outlook requires ethical perspective. The Indian epics Mahabharata, Ramayana, the world classics like King Lear, and the poems of eminent poets, the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and far better still, the Iliad, the book of Job and certain folk poems and far beyond […]

Art and the Fat Ego

The great enemy of moral or spiritual life is the fat relentless ego within. “What is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him.” Says Simon Weil: “Everything which is impersonal in man is sacred, and nothing else.” The dispassionate look is inevitable to see reality. She has often said that attention is […]

Everybody Wants To Be a Fascist

“The action of the play (Oedipus the King) consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ever-mounting excitement — a process that can be likened to the work of psychoanalysis… His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours— because the oracle laid the same curse upon us […]

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