Four hundred years ago, Rene Descartes (1596-1650) laid the philosophical foundation for the scientific era with his famous declaration: Cogito Ergo Sum! “I think therefore I am.” ChatGPT is its most recent manifestation within a broadened Cartesian dictum that governs much of modern science today: “I compute, algorithmically, therefore I think,…[Read more]

This book is a collection of impressions gathered during an extended journey through the Indian subcontinent during the early nineteen-eighties. The narrative is philosophical and poetic in spirit and perhaps is best characterized as a sequence of verbal photographs, projected onto the printed page, that capture the thoughts and feelings evoked in…[Read more]

This is a collection of twenty-one poems on a variety of topics, ranging from the spiritual to the everyday. The booklet takes its title, “Three Faces of God and Other Poems,” from the symbolic conception of the Godhead known as the Trimurti—Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer—and they, in turn, lend their names…[Read more]

The drama in “The Tease Spoons” proceeds on two levels. On one level, it portrays the comedic interaction—verbal banter, innuendo, wordplay—between two seemingly mismatched couples whose friendship is threatened by an impulsive act of betrayal by one of its principals. On the second level, it is a philosophical discourse conveyed through a…[Read more]

This e-book, a collection of ten vignettes, is intended to serve as an addendum, or appendix, to my earlier book, “A Passage to Kenya: A Historical Collage of a Unique Time and Place,” CreateSpace, North Carolina, 2017 (ISBN: 9781542732109). The latter is a literary journey through the complex, inter-related colonial past of the region bordering…[Read more]

This book lies at the intersection of religion, science, and philosophy. It builds a bridge between the “perennial philosophy” of the past, which has inspired and provides the foundation for the world’s major religions, and the “natural philosophy of organism” of four great philosopher-scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries—Gustav Theodor…[Read more]