Articles by Paul Von Ward
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FRONTIER SCIENCE/SOCIAL CHANGE SERIES
Paul writes occasional articles and book reviews on new developments in frontier science and research relating to the emerging new view of human history. He provides analysis of their implications for individuals and social institutions. They are published by newspapers and other periodicals in the US and internationally. A selected list follows.
Editors and publishers may receive e-mail distribution of such articles free of charge by sending an email request to paul@vonward.com. A copy of such publications mailed to Paul Von Ward, P.O. Box 1776, Dahlonega, GA 30533 would be appreciated. Any article may be published, circulated, or reproduced by individuals
without advance permission for any educational purpose as long as it is
used in its entirety and contains the credits at the end of the article.
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September 11, 2001 - Personal Notes Written During and Immediately After Attacks
Paul Von Ward, a former U.S. naval officer and U.S. diplomat, was receiving Happy Birthday calls from family and friends when television and radio announced an airplane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City. His day of joy and celebration swirled into one of anguish for the dying and concern for friends and colleagues possibly caught in the Twin Towers. Recognizing the tragedy and threat for its Earth-reshaping power, but with a military and foreign affairs perspective, Paul foresaw the event's challenges to American leadership. Based on 30 years of international experience, Paul cautioned Americans from the President on down to carefully craft a nation's response.
In another article, five years later, he assessed the nation's inappropriate resort to war against Iraq which had nothing to do with the attack. The Adminstration's shunting aside of nations who could have brought successful experience fighting terrorism to America's aid was described as an unnecessary mistake that would set back international peace and prosperity for decades.
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September 11, 2006 - 9/11 Plus 5 Birthdays
Written for world-wide circulation on Paul's birthday (9/11) as a
critical five-year retrospective on the piece he wrote for global
distribution as the events of 9/11/01 were unfolding in New York and
Washington.
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February 2009 - Living as Self-Conscious, Self-Learning Souls
Written by Paul for Curt Butz’s book The World I See — A Foundation for the Co-Creation of Our Future, this article suggests the processes studied in quantum physics, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience, and consciousness studies converge in research on the phenomenon of reincarnation. Life and death, mind and matter, past and present, and potential and manifest merge in this apparent spiral of the universe's evolution of consciousness.
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November 2008 - World Views, Consciousness and Human Development
This article, published in the Association for Humanistic Psychology's monthly Perspective magazine, examines the impact of unquestioned assumptions that comprise the individual's mode of consciousness or worldview. It illustrates how these unexamined belief systems shape our thinking and behavior.
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June 2008 - Jungian Analyst and Reincarnation
This book review by Paul Von Ward of the book Past Life Dreamwork by Sabine Lucas, Ph.D., connects the end-of-life reflections by Carl Jung on the possible role of past lives in the dreams of his young patients and in his own sense of life purpose and tasks to be done. Lucas's well-developed case studies makes the case for use of dreams as clues to previous lives that can then be corroborated and enable one to take conscious control of his or her self-actualization.
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March 2008 - IONS Preview of The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation
This preview of Paul's 2008 book The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation describes the pilot study approach used to develop the cases and their implications reported in the book. It also summarizes some of the most important ramifications for individual and scientific exploration of possible past-life legacies.
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February 2008 - What Is Sexual Energy?
Paul Von Ward responds to a query from William Van Vechten, a leader in honoring the human body in the ancient tantric tradition of yogic science.
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January 2008 Book Review - Life and Mind: In Search of the Physical Basis
Published in the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP)
Perspective. Edited by Savely Savva, it introduces the work of 15 international scientists
studying the internal, informational and energetic patterns that enable
organic entities to develop, maintain themselves, reproduce, and die.
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October 2007 - ET's as Sources of Human Knowledge
A brief musing about the many reports, historical and contemporary, from humans (including the founders of various religions) who claim their inspiration came from discussions or meeting with more advanced beings (ABs). How should we evaluate such Biblical, Koran, Book of Mormon, channeled material and ET experiencer reports?
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November 5, 2006 - Challenges Beyond the Election
A description of the four greatest challenges facing the democratic republic of the United States of America after the 2006 mid-term elections. They are the four "Horsemen of the Apocalypse:" war, famine, pestilence, and death.
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September 25, 2006 - When War Is Not War
A discussion of use of the "war metaphor" in political manipulations and the misuse of preemptive war to cover another agenda. It suggests the "false pretenses" of various administrations in the U.S Government's "wars on terrorism, cancer, poverty and drugs".
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September 11, 2006 - "9/11" Plus Five Birthdays
Written for world-wide circulation on Paul's birthday (9/11) as a critical five-year retrospective on the piece he wrote for global distribution as the events of 9/11/01 were unfolding in New York and Washington.
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November 2005 - Why Do We think We're Always Right?
An analysis of worldviews, religious and secular, that account for the current fragmentation of human consciousness and lead to the conflicts manifested in today's wars and acts of terrorism.
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April 2005 - Tyranny of a Majority: A Madisonian View
Discussion of the Founding Fathers' notion that minority groups need
constitutional, and the public's, protection from a majority that might
wish to deprive any minority of its rights.
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April 2005 - Tyranny of a Majority: A Madisonian View
Discussion of the Founding Fathers' notion that minority groups need constitutional, and the public's, protection from a majority that might wish to deprive any minority of its rights.
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May 2000 (Re-posted January 2008) - A 2000 Perspective on Reincarnation
Reviews some of the evidence for reincarnation, places it in the context of the Hermetic Principles, and suggests how it fits into a fully alive universe.
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