“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age”
– the wonderful Dylan Thomas…
What more need be said?
Posts Tagged ‘religion’
The Green Fuse
November 29, 2014Brooding, Purposeful, Provocative, Important
February 7, 2014The cult you would like your sister to join….
December 7, 2013The cult I would like my entire extended family to join!
http://www.captivatingcult.com
How to be happy – a revelation!
August 9, 2013I have just read my biographer Luke Andreski’s latest book – and it’s a revelation!
It’s called How To Be Happy – The Maxus Irie Book of Happiness and is available on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ECECL84 or http://www.amazon.co.uk/happy-Maxus-Irie-Happiness-ebook/dp/B00ECECL84.
Luke Andreski writes:
Hear the songs of the dear, sweet children, near and far, near and far
Hear the laughter of the sweet, lovely children, unto the stars, unto the stars
Remember the playing, far-ranging, far-seeing, of the children we were, of the
children we were
Deep in our hearts remember the laughter, of the children we are, of the
children we are
This is part of a hymn called The Children’s Song – just one of dozens of hymns, prayers and rituals celebrating, about or conducive to happiness.
The subtitle of the book is ‘Rediscovering the power of ritual and prayer’.
I think Luke manages to do that admirably!
The point of life
October 19, 2011The point of life is life itself. Our urgent duty is to be alive. Protecting and preserving life we repay the gift of life. We are evolution’s wardens and the biosphere’s guardians: habitat protectors, preservers of our species. Nurturers and sustainers: supporting life’s diversifying growth…
William Tarkovsky – www.williamtarkovsky.com
Raj Patel – secular messiah
April 25, 2010Welcome, 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 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?
Because it is true – a fact rather than an article of 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 people like us will determine whether it is a world of compassion or 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, 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 does that leave me?
William Tarkovsky
www.thebookofnewcreation.co.uk
April 25 2010
Adversity
January 8, 2010Where should we turn when faced with overwhelming loss?
We should turn to gaze into the mirror.
Our faces express a genetic truth.
We arise from one source.
Evolution has made us.
Biology unites us.
In Celebration
January 8, 2010I celebrate the beauty of existence. Each inhalation. Each exhalation. Carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen – that wonderful, heady mix!
I celebrate your beauty. Each inhalation. Each exhalation. Your breath misting in the freezing air.
I celebrate your beauty, your energy, your intelligence, your triumphal cresting of evolution’s wave…
William Tarkovsky: Who I am
August 15, 2009I am founder of New Creationism, an eco-philosophy that argues that we should care for the environment and for human happiness, hand-in-hand.
I’m also part of a group interested in literature and fiction writing.
I regularly update my facebook status with musings and speculations on our relationship with the biological world and on our obligations to our species and to all life.
William Tarkovsky 