الإسلام والغرب: نحو عالم أفضل

Islam and the West… for a better world @

brings together elements of contemporary science (quantic physics plus astronomy), religion and mythology (from Mother Nature to the Gaïa hypothesis via theosophy and taoism), sociology (Mother nature tied in to feminism) – and, also poetry, with a spectrum going from the spiritualistic to the populist (one neo-prophetic scientist refers with gratitude for inspiration to Bob Dylan and John Lennon). I am very far from lacking interest in some elements that come into this mix, elements with which I’ve worked myself, it’s the mix I have no time to waste on. Confusionist, and, despite its talk of a paradigm of systemic complexity, all too often simplistic, it lacks the dynamic coherence which alone can be both inspiring and effective. There are no pathways here out of mental pathos and social pathology. This neo-prophetic phenomenon is part and parcel of the much confused contemporary context. Before trying to make headway (Hegel, read along with so many other culture-historians, before started out on my own way, had said it would be extremely difficult), let’s look with a little more detail at that contemporary context. What we’re confronted with, what we’re surrounded by, from whatever particular point of view (physical, biological, moral, intellectual, cultural) is a deteriorating and, here and there, totally degraded environment – with the perspective, if the present general logic is adhered to, more and more degradation to come. Back of it all is the massive, explosive, excessive human population of the planet. Animals not only live with a periodic copulation system, but they have ways of reducing their numbers when food or space runs short. Not so the human being. From first menstruation to menopause, a human female can bear up to thirty offspring – fortunately, not many do, but some have come and still come close, especially when religions encourage people to do so (not so long ago a Pope was mouthing, in AIDs-ridden Africa, the biblical ‘increase and multiply’). To this excessive re-production is allied, at least in the more ‘developed’ precincts,

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