Dark Green Books have published Luke Andreski’s account of the rise of New Creationism - I’d love you to take a look:
www.nowwearegreen.com
Luke Andreski’s compilations of my work are also now available:
www.agreenphilosophy.net
www.thebookofnewcreation.com
www.lukeandreski.com/greenreligion_greenmessiah.aspx
If you are interested in joining the cloud of Dark Green Books websites visit:
www.darkgreenbooks.com
Let me know what you think of the sites, the insights and the books!
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
"The Book of New Creation" published!
The compilation of my writings made by author and poet Luke Andreski has been published by Dark Green Books under the title "The Book of New Creation". It can be accessed via the website www.darkgreenbooks.com and also via www.thebookofnewcreation.com.
Take a look.
I hope you'll be impressed.
Take a look.
I hope you'll be impressed.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
The tapestry of which we are part
The tapestry of which we are part is part of a tapestry of something far greater. The fabric of space is infinitely large. The distance between us is infinitely small. I cry, and you hear my call. We are so much the same that our differences are impossible to discern.
You deceive yourself if you feel you are immune to my pain. Here is comfort in sorrow – for our pain is shared. Whoever you are, you are never alone. The tapestry of which you are part weaves the whole human race, and our future and our past, into one.
You deceive yourself if you feel you are immune to my pain. Here is comfort in sorrow – for our pain is shared. Whoever you are, you are never alone. The tapestry of which you are part weaves the whole human race, and our future and our past, into one.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Humanism, Sustainability and Service: An Open Letter to Obama - Afghanistan
Humanism, Sustainability and Service: An Open Letter to Obama - Afghanistan: "Dear President Obama,The news in Afghanistan is not good.It is v..."
An Open Letter to Obama - Afghanistan
Dear President Obama,
The news in Afghanistan is not good.
It is very unlikely that the news in this part of the world, under present policies, will ever be good within your term in office.
So perhaps the time has come for lateral thinking.
War is an unintelligent way to resolve international issues. It is almost by definition, whether won or otherwise, an admission of moral and intellectual defeat.
For this reason I urge you to transform your nation's approach – and adopt a policy of close aerial monitoring and decisive encouragement / chastisement in Afghanistan… and bring your troops home.
Yours with considerable respect,
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Open Letter on the Environment to Pope Benedict
To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Your Holiness,
Over the past months your position on the environment appears to have softened, primarily in recognising the connection between conflict and resource scarcity which you emphasised on 2010 Earth Day with the statement, "If we want peace, we must preserve the environment."
To be concerned about the environment and the security and happiness of our children and their children after them is the only humane and responsible position given the scientific understanding of today.
In a recent Catholic Climate Covenant the US Bishops join you in accepting “the scientific consensus that climate change is upon us, that prudence calls us to act now to faithfully care for Creation and avoid more severe consequences in the future.” The Bishops urge Catholics throughout the world to take the St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor.
I greatly welcome Catholicism’s new environmentalism – but I urge you to go further. It is well known, ever since the Lisbon Earthquake in 1755, let alone the many ecological and environmental challenges which we now face, that God does not intervene in natural or man-made disasters. But climate change may well prove the greatest disaster humanity will ever have to face… and all religions, including Catholicism, must adapt and adjust to meet this challenge. And, whatever the Church does, few measures will succeed if we continue to endorse unlimited population growth.
We may indeed live in the best of all possible worlds – a world that is miraculous in its complexity and beauty – but this only serves to heighten the importance of our taking full responsibility for our impact upon it.
Yours with great concern,
William Tarkovsky
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Raj Patel - Messiah
Welcome, Raj Patel, secular messiah!
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. " (Matthew 7).
A complete list of alleged new messiahs of the 20th and 21st Centuries would take days or even weeks to compile, ranging from those who have been highly successful (Moon, Hubbard) to those whose careers have been disastrous (Ratzon and the ridiculous Travesser).
But the craving for a new messiah is not one which is set to diminish. Only recently Raj Patel, a mild mannered UK academic, was named by mystics as the Maitreya (new messiah or even anti-christ), drawing worldwide media attention. I myself have been called a “green messiah” – but my beliefs are entirely secular, rooted in biology and evolution.
The craving for a new messiah is the craving for a fundamental truth, an all-embracing knowledge capable of resolving the uncertainty to which most of us occasionally succumb. As such, it is a very natural human desire.
Raj Patel is a sensible, intelligent and compassionate man who demonstrates in his work a commitment to humanity and a confident and consistent world view… So, one might ask, why shouldn’t our species be allowed a merely human messiah, a person like Raj Patel?
The nature of our minds, of consciousness and self-consciousness, means that free will is inescapable. At some profound level you and you alone are choosing whether to believe, whether to have faith or not to have faith. We may convince ourselves otherwise but in fact we are the authors of God, not the other way around…
So why this compelling need for mysticism and the paranormal when there are wonderful and insightful individuals already in our midst who can guide us towards a sustainable and humane 21st Century? Why not consider instead the notion of a messiah who demands no ‘leap of faith’, for whom there are no fairy tales of immaculate conception or the six day manufacture of our world?
Why not consider an entirely human messiah – and a messiahdom in which all of us can participate?
It is true – a fact rather than faith – that the world is ours to create, that we can choose who our leaders and messiahs should be. We are the engineers of this world and ordinary, unassuming people like us will eventually determine whether it is to be a world of compassion or a world of greed.
For this reason I welcome the messianic calling of Raj Patel. Raj is precisely the type of compassionate and empathic person we should be celebrating, the type of guru humanity needs.
Welcome Raj Patel, 'superstition-free' messiah!
As a footnote, Raj modestly draws comparisons to Brian in the famous Monty Python film. He quotes the catchphrase: "I am not the messiah, I am just a naughty boy."
In my case, sadly, I am not even a naughty boy... so where, I wonder, does that leave me?
William Tarkovsky
wwww.thebookofnewcreation.co.uk
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. " (Matthew 7).
A complete list of alleged new messiahs of the 20th and 21st Centuries would take days or even weeks to compile, ranging from those who have been highly successful (Moon, Hubbard) to those whose careers have been disastrous (Ratzon and the ridiculous Travesser).
But the craving for a new messiah is not one which is set to diminish. Only recently Raj Patel, a mild mannered UK academic, was named by mystics as the Maitreya (new messiah or even anti-christ), drawing worldwide media attention. I myself have been called a “green messiah” – but my beliefs are entirely secular, rooted in biology and evolution.
The craving for a new messiah is the craving for a fundamental truth, an all-embracing knowledge capable of resolving the uncertainty to which most of us occasionally succumb. As such, it is a very natural human desire.
Raj Patel is a sensible, intelligent and compassionate man who demonstrates in his work a commitment to humanity and a confident and consistent world view… So, one might ask, why shouldn’t our species be allowed a merely human messiah, a person like Raj Patel?
The nature of our minds, of consciousness and self-consciousness, means that free will is inescapable. At some profound level you and you alone are choosing whether to believe, whether to have faith or not to have faith. We may convince ourselves otherwise but in fact we are the authors of God, not the other way around…
So why this compelling need for mysticism and the paranormal when there are wonderful and insightful individuals already in our midst who can guide us towards a sustainable and humane 21st Century? Why not consider instead the notion of a messiah who demands no ‘leap of faith’, for whom there are no fairy tales of immaculate conception or the six day manufacture of our world?
Why not consider an entirely human messiah – and a messiahdom in which all of us can participate?
It is true – a fact rather than faith – that the world is ours to create, that we can choose who our leaders and messiahs should be. We are the engineers of this world and ordinary, unassuming people like us will eventually determine whether it is to be a world of compassion or a world of greed.
For this reason I welcome the messianic calling of Raj Patel. Raj is precisely the type of compassionate and empathic person we should be celebrating, the type of guru humanity needs.
Welcome Raj Patel, 'superstition-free' messiah!
As a footnote, Raj modestly draws comparisons to Brian in the famous Monty Python film. He quotes the catchphrase: "I am not the messiah, I am just a naughty boy."
In my case, sadly, I am not even a naughty boy... so where, I wonder, does that leave me?
William Tarkovsky
wwww.thebookofnewcreation.co.uk
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