The WWW’s First Homeschooling Homepage

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The first homeschooling homepage on the World Wide Web was created by an Hermit at Adwaitha Hermitage.  The Hermit was  seventeen (17) years of age at the time and preparing the launch to…

SmartCards

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT During the course of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, three “SmartCards” were produced for use by Coalition Soldiers.  Their purpose was to clarify for…

Religion Parks

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In May of 2006 I looked (again!) at the subject of peace between adherents of religions.  For decades I have maintained that religions per se are peaceful, all of them.  Their…

Window Signs – The 2008 USA National Election And After

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Before and during the 2008 USA national elections, I counted among those observing that evil personalities were lying, stealing and cheating their way into the White…

C O P E

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. During 1994 in the State of Washington, a unique and productive series of meetings occurred involving educators from the homeschool, private school and public school aspects of our system of education. Presented here is the record of those meetings, showing their result as…

Religion Relations And Radical Software

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT For at least thirty (30) years before 11SEP01, the matter of relations between the religions, especially major ones as measured by number of adherents, commanded my penetrating attention.  I always knew…

Breviary And Reminiscences

In 1992, Mary and I selected a set of coloring book pictures she had made for our offspring and named the collection Breviary For A Mountain Stream.  The link goes to a 7MB zip file which contains the pictures to color in PDF format (print and color them, go ahead, it’s fun!) plus descriptions and…

Ritual And Dialectics/Epigrams

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In 1972 an invitation was given by Dr. Mary Catherine “Cat” Bateson to attend a conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation at their property Burg Wartenstein in Austria.  The subject was…

Can Man Save Himself?

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, GRAZIE! Bob Belvedere, for posting this declamation as a Thought For The Day. The question is rarely verbalized and just as rarely considered.  Yet it stands swirling at the center of every person’s every decision. The easiest answer to the question, that…

The Coloring Books Of Adwaitha Hermitage

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Swami Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba The Coloring Books Of Adwaitha Hermitage are ur-iconography for The Sai (Mother) Era. The Coloring Books from Adwaitha Hermitage began as pictures Mary drew for the children to color.  These were duly dolled up, displayed on the wall…

Reminiscences From The North Sea

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Between 1992 and 1994 a book was written to develop fresh exegesis of certain passages from The Bible and to explore the universality of Christianity in particular and religion in general.  The book features colored versions of pictures from coloring books produced by Adwaitha…

Religion Relations

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Between February 2004 and January 2008 essays were written which explored relations between adherents of religions generally and adherents of Christianity and the Caliphist idolatry in particular.  These essays, thirty three in…

“He Ventured Forth To Bring Light To The World”

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Gerard Baker – Times Online He Ventured Forth To Bring Light To The World – Also Here   AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA

E Pluribus Unum

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, From Many, One The phrase is redolent with peace and justice.  It and its fragrance are objects of the deepest hatred in individuals and groups who seek fundamental transformation of the United States.  They are misogynists. E Pluribus Unum is the American exceptionalism…

At The Camp Of The Saints

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Bob Belvedere operates a fine blog he named The Camp Of The Saints. Recently, with war drums beating inside the Middle East’s White House, Bob linked and posted regarding a post about all that on his blog by Jeff Goldstein. On Bob’s…