Simply asking, 'Who was Shakespeare?', this book comes up with surprising conclusions. It offers a trail that leads to a very different person from the Stratford actor. It contains insights into the plays and poems, and into the English Renaissance that followed the final break with Rome.
Zoence, a term coined by Peter Dawkins, literally means science of life. Like China's Feng Shui or India's Vastuvida, Zoence is a comprehensive philosophy that provides practical ways to increase our ways to be loving, sensitive and aware in our relationships, homes and surroundings. It helps you to know the right thing to do, in the right place, at the right time and with the right orientation. When was the last time you went on a pilgrimage? The last time you travelled? Peter Dawkins shows how the ancient art of pilgrimage can be applied to almost any travel, whether for business or pleasure. At the philosophical base of this particular prescription is Dawkins pioneering rediscovery of the chakra energy systems as they exist outside the human form - in the natural environment and our buildings and temples. He provides a practical discussion on how to experience transformation through the sanctity of the pilgrimage. This is just one example of the philosophical and practical approach to life that is Zoence. Serve the planet by celebrating your life. Use Zoence to bring health, happiness, prosperity and balance to your life, to the environment and the cosmos
Join a cast of characters, with different perspectives, thinking through some of the biggest questions in life, as they discuss atheist Richard Dawkins's book Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide. Written in the form of a dialogue between members of a student book club, Outgrowing God? A Beginner's Guide to Richard Dawkins and the God Debate encourages critical thinking about Professor Dawkins's arguments concerning God, Jesus, and the Bible.
This third Journal looks at the Bardic tradition and the role it played in the English Renaissance and Reformation. It also includes evidence for the secret marriage of Elizabeth I to Robert Dudley and the birth of a son who was fostered by the Lord Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon. The qualities of Sir Nicholas Bacon and his country house are discussed, including his crucial role in establishing a College of Learning and Temple of Initiation on Platonic lines.
This volume looks at the Great Vision that Christianity gives us and its interpretation by Francis Bacon. The book looks at how the birth of the new Rosicrucianism was influenced by Bacon's study of the Judaic-Christian mysteries and how he sought to understand these in order to achieve what Jesus had demonstrated.
Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of Twelfth Night, this thought provoking work takes the reader into the fascinating world of Alchemy and Cabala that underlies the Shakespeare play. The author shows not only how the play is based on a profound understanding of the biblical Genesis and Revelation but also of the mystery of initiation path that lies between. The story takes on another depth of meaning when we realise that the characters represent aspects of our own psyche and spirit as well as of society generally, and that the play is an allegory of a possible path to our own and humanity's future happiness.
The future of Australia as a post-industrial economy depends on how knowledge, skills and capabilities are learned and fostered. Every Australian will need to engage with the tertiary education system, both to acquire an initial qualification and to up-skill or re-skill over the course of their lives. The time has come to address the divide between vocational and higher education and implement a reform agenda that has been in development over the last decade. This will involve reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework to give greater recognition to skills alongside knowledge, and enable the vocational and higher education sectors to design fit-for-purpose courses. It will also require reform of the pathways, partnerships, curriculum, funding and regulation and to provide the coherence, quality, navigability and relevance needed for students, providers and industry. The central figure in the development of this policy agenda was Peter Noonan, professor of Tertiary Education at Victoria University, who sadly passed away in 2022 after forty years as Australia’s leading tertiary education policy thinker and adviser to both sides of government.
This study provides an introduction to the life and work of Sir Francis Bacon and seeks to show the relevance he has for the modern age. It also illustrates the scope of his philanthropic works.
This title profiles the work of Francis Bacon - the Master of Wisdom who was the Elijah or herald of the Aquarian Age that we are now entering, the Apollo of the Rosicrucians, and the founder and first Grand Master of modern Freemasonry.
Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of As You Like It, this work allows the reader to understand the philosophical and spiritual traditions of Shakespeare's age.
The book will counter the 'new atheist' movement using the arguments of C.S. Lewis, thereby appealing to readers interested in both loci and showing that there is nothing especially 'new' about the new atheism. How might C.S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, respond to the twenty-first century 'new atheism' of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and company? Might Lewis' own journey from atheism to Christian belief illuminate and undercut the objections of the new atheists? Christian philosopher Peter S. Williams takes us on an intellectual journey through Lewis' conversion in conversation with today's anti-theists. 'This book shows the breadth, depth, and durability of Lewis's Christian apologetics.' Michael Ward, chaplain at St Peter's College, Oxford
Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of The Tempest this work allows the reader to understand the philosophical and spiritual traditions of Shakespeare's age.
It was time to end the disconnect in Australian politics: the disconnect between our political dialogue and our real needs. Too much of the public debate was about gesture rather than answers. The challenge was to identify broadly agreed principles for a new and different reform agenda. In April 2002 the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, at the University of Melbourne, and The Australian rose to this challenge. The upshot was a national conversation, Towards Opportunity and Prosperity, between leading thinkers from academia, politics, public service, business, unions and community groups. Topics covered included: * Unemployment, Joblessness and Welfare Reform * Education and Innovation * Population Policy * Work and Family * Ageing and Retirement * Health Policy * The Environment and the Kyoto Protocol * Are We Becoming a Branch Office Economy? * Microeconomic Reform Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly, two of Australia s leading policy analysts and commentators, draw out the main threads of the policy debates in these areas, and plot the outlines of the new reform agenda which emerged from this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation. , but placing more emphasis on the human dimension-a 'hard heads, soft hearts' approach.
Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of The Merchant of Venice, this work allows the reader to understand the philosophical and spiritual traditions of Shakespeare's age.
This is an accessible response to the contemporary anti-God arguments of the 'new atheists' (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, Grayling, etc). Atheism has become militant in the past few years, with its own popular mass media evangelists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. In this readable book, Christian philosopher Peter S. Williams considers the arguments of the 'new atheists' and finds them wanting. Williams explains the history of atheism and responds to the claims that: 'belief in God causes more harm than good'; 'religion is about blind faith and science is the only way to know things'; 'science can explain religion away'; 'there is not enough evidence for God'; 'the arguments for God's existence do not work'. Williams argues that belief in God is more intellectually plausible than atheism.
This work introduces the Ideal of the Virgin Goddess and the personification of the goddess by Queen Elizabeth I, allowing the importance of this view to Francis Bacon and the poets of the English Renaissance to be placed in context.
As with the other titles in The Wisdom of Shakespeare series, this work has been written to complement the Globe Theatre production of this Shakespeare play.
This book is a study of the essential pattern of the laws of nature and initiation in the evolution of human cosciousness. Using examples from various cultural traditions, including Classical Greece and Ancient Egypt, the reader is introduced to the Rosicrucian philosophy of Francis Bacon which encompassed these ideas as well as the ideals of Humanism and Platonic-Orphic-Christian Love. The book acts as an introduction to later volumes which cover the subject in greater detail.
Todd argues for the integration of science and religion to form a new paradigm for the third millennium. He counters both the arguments made by fundamentalist Christians against science and the rejection of religion by the New Atheists, in particular Richard Dawkins and his followers. Drawing on the work of scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians, Todd challenges the materialistic reductionism of our age and offers an alternative grounded in the visionary work taking place in a wide array of disciplines.
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