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William James’s most direct and significant contributions to philosophy of religion come from his “The Will to Believe” and The Varieties of Religious Experience – the second of which having the greater influence on the development of religious pluralism during the twentieth century. The few speculations James offers about the nature of ultimate reality toward which religious experiences point suggest a relatively pluralist attitude toward the diversity of religions, according to which none could claim a monopoly on genuine experience of the divine nor be excluded from it. Together with his later writings on pragmatism and pluralistic metaphysics, James serves as important touchstone for later theories of religious pluralism. This religious pluralism is a form of religious anarchism.  Christianity began primarily as a pacifist and anarchist movement. Jesus introduces anarchism to the kingdom of God. Jesus is said, in this view, to have come to empower individuals and fr...

Marx and Burke: New Humanity  New Humanity is a utopian concept that involves the creation of a new ideal human being or citizen. The meaning of a New Humanity has widely varied and various alternatives have been suggested by a variety of religions and political ideologies, including Christianity, communism, and conservatism.  Marx and New Humanity  Marxism postulates the development of a New Humanity in a communist society following the values of a non-essential nature of the state and the importance of freely associated work for the affirmation of a person's humanity. Marxism does not see the New Humanity as a goal or prerequisite for achieving full communism, but rather as a product of the social conditions of pure communism which is a stateless classless society.  Marx wrote of a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ but his class analysis was truly bottom up in organization. In order to critique Marx we must question his strategy of destro...

Saint-Simon and Hayek: New Humanity New Humanity is an utopian concept that involves the creation of a new ideal human being or citizen replacing un-ideal human beings or citizens. The meaning of a New Humanity has widely varied and various alternatives have been suggested by a variety of religions and political ideologies, including Christianity, technocracy, and libertarianism. Saint-Simon and New Humanity In Henri de Saint-Simon there was always a double tendency: his positivist and scientific studies impelled him to found a purely practical and demonstrable moral code, while his sentimental and mystical tendencies led him to desire a religion. He believed that Christianity had greatly forwarded morality, but he declared that its reign was at an end. His religious tendency grew by degrees; he declared that the crisis was reached which had been predicted by the Old Testament, prepared for by the Biblical societies, and expected by the Jews fo...

"...anarchists also are people and, as such, contain the billion-faceted varieties of human reference. Some are anarchists who march, voluntarily, to the Cross of Christ. Some are anarchists who flock, voluntarily, to the communities of beloved, inspirational father figures. Some are anarchists who seek to establish the syndics of voluntary industrial production. Some are anarchists who voluntarily seek to establish the rural production of the kibbutzim. Some are anarchists who, voluntarily, seek to disestablish everything including their own association with other people, the hermits. Some are anarchists who deal, voluntarily, only in gold, will never co-operate, and swirl their capes. Some are anarchists who, voluntarily, worship the sun and its energy, build domes, eat only vegetables, and play the dulcimer. Some are anarchists who worship the power of algorithms, play strange games, and infiltrate strange temples. Some are anarchists who only see the stars. Some are anarc...

While Morwenna remains captured by her own Prophet faction, Loren and Morulan return to the Moon. They hide away from Balkov in the underground Moon temples, no longer in use by the enslaved Magi. There Loren discovers the lost Magi's staff. Legend holds that it is powered by four glomes representing earth, water, air and fire. From the Prophets came earth and water. From the Wizards came air and fire. Loren must explore the labyrinth of the Moon temple network to find the scattered crystals hidden away by the First Magician generations ago. Loren collects the elemental power glomes after solving a series of puzzles. He finds within the final chamber the original ancient agreement between the Wizards and the Prophets called the Covenant of the Future Seers. The pact foretold that one day the Magi class would be misguided by a cruel and selfish leader who would try to be the Last Magician by turning the Wizards and Prophets against one another. But the hologram foretells that t...

Future Seers  An Utopian Science-Fiction Plot R. C. Brooking "The Last Magician" "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke "...it is demanded of all of us. Without it there can be no survival of mankind, for man himself must be his last magician." - Loren Eiseley Generations ago the Future Seers once lived in peace. The Prophets and the Wizards were united by the First Magician who centered the competing consciousness between the two classes in the founding of the Covenant of the Future Seers. This put an end to the strife but that era has long ended. While the Prophets of the Terrestrial Ecotopia have developed the physical geosciences, the Wizards of the Celestial Technotopia have been developing astronomical and space sciences. Each has been developing their own use of psychic sciences. Their technologies have advanced to the point to be indistinguishable from magic.  In the year 4055, ...