Axiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jul 7, 2012 in miscellaneous, most recent | 0 comments This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century        The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century  has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the...
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The Roots of the New World Order – the development of the Anglo-American Imperial Idea 1900 – 2008

Posted by on Jul 5, 2012 in most recent, nwo | 0 comments     A lecture given at a conference of the Free Anthroposophical Association, Pforzheim  13-14 Nov. 2008 © Terry Boardman In my lecture today, I would like to address three points: I would like first to review certain historical phenomena prior to the 20th century in relation to the question why was the USA founded, why did it emerge out of Great Britain ? Then I shall turn to the...
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The Balance of Spiritual Combat – China’s Cultural Challenge to the West in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments © Terry Boardman   This essay appeared as an article in “New View” magazine Winter 2005/6     The Crucible of the 13th Century Many have recognised the great debt owed by western natural science to the spiritual stream of what has been called Islam, but which in fact is far broader than that of just the 7th century Arab conquerors of the Middle East, since it includes the...
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The 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments   © Terry Boardman  September 1997   The recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales has led many in the media to claim that ‘a quiet revolution’ has been taking place in Britain, and that Diana was a symbol of this. We now have a chance to consider Britain’s identity, they say, where we want to go as a people in the 21st century, and they reflect on how we are becoming...
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“Independence Day” – Who are the Aliens at the Millennium Threshold?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments © Terry Boardman         This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in October 1996     The Hollywood summer blockbuster movie “Independence Day” begins with a shot of the American flag and plaque left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the surface of the Moon (“we came in peace for all mankind”). They are soon covered by the vast shadow of...
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Must The Great Game Be Replayed?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments   ©Terry Boardman   Nov. 1997   This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3  in January 1998 When I was a small boy, two board games were very popular in our family, indeed in families throughout the country: “Monopoly” and “Risk”. In “Monopoly” one sought to buy up famous London streets, build hotels on them and charge the highest rents...
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