You may have already begun to Reflect; that is, if the wish in your mind is to reflect as opposed to just wanting to find out what this institute is about. If so, just swizzle away with the cursor and click on the mouse for the smorgasbord about Reflection laid out here for your delectation. Did you realise that you had an appetite for it?
Reflection has been there all the time. You have indulged in it and it is easy to reflect. The trick to make it a habit, to do it well, and bring ...
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate
Truth is buoyant – it will surface at some point and become obvious to all.
Chinese proverb
For Aristotle, there was a wisdom that brought people closer to divine rationality, ‘sophia’. This wisdom was for thinking about questions such as the nature of the divine, ethics or the function of the state.
William Bates
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its ...
The spending bill is actually the creation of a national debt so massive that it has the means to destabilize a democracy dependent on a functioning economy.
- Lawrence Kadish
The above quotation arrests attention, as do thousands and thousands like it. Serious commentators commenting on serious issues - some doomsayers, some constructive analysts - are everywhere, urging on readers attention and, on policy makers, action. Which men of vision have it in them, or does fate intend, to be ...
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in traditional Chinese medical literature dating from the Zhou Dynasty. Three thousand years ago Zhou Lia published his findings. Youyou Tu took from them what she found relevant for a cure in the twentieth century. And if ‘Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold’ was published more recently in the Tang Dynasty of 618–907 A.D., Youyou Tu was not fussed
A trove of ...
Why should a virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation be useful?
An oriental lady on being told about the subtitle in the strap line of this virtual institute exclaimed ‘Ah! Accidental meditation!’. She was too polite to query what might have seemed to her an oxymoron. Reflection however is something that we all do so why not do it in an updated 'Agora' – a public square in ancient Greece where thinkers among others congregated and exchanged ideas?
The VAOM is about ideas ...
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
This section considers specific experiments and theses that point up aspects of how belief-systems should be modified as a result of the recent findings in science. There is a huge reservoir of information about the latest scientific developments with more coming in all the time and it is not possible to do more than touch the surface of what is available.
Introduction:
The advance of science shows us that the seat of some emotions and thinking processes are circumscribed in their ...
MEDICINE
Lourdes
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in traditional Chinese medical literature dating from the Zhou Dynasty. Three thousand years ago Zhou Lia published his findings. Youyou Tu took from them what she found relevant for a cure in the twentieth century. And if ‘Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold’ was published more recently in the Tang Dynasty of 618–907 A.D., Youyou Tu ...
In the 1970s a popular card that was often perched on office manager’s desks read: ‘LOOK ALIVE! YOU CAN BE REPLACED BY A MACHINE!’ It may have been ahead of its time.
I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffee houses
- Joseph Addison 1672-1719
To say that you love wisdom is to say that you value acquiring certain deep insights into certain abstract (and important) questions. One might, if one is lucky, just happen to acquire such insights without much effort. However, if you claim to love wisdom, then you ...
THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
Much of what is below is commonly accepted; little enough substantively speaking is done about it save in some individual cases. An overall picture of what many of us may think idly about English Law may serve to file some teeth of legal watchdogs?
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is an ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish ...
