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The site is gradually being "reconstructed" so some links below may not yet be active. Please bear with us.  

Book, music and T - Shirt offers

"I think, therefore I jam" (ITTIJ) T-shirt

Sophisticated simplicity of style and a profound message.This reinterpretation of Rene DeCartes'philosophical formula links deep thought with dance. It thus proposes a Carnivalesque, convention trampling equality of the most elevated and basic modes of cultural expression.

I started an ITTIJ "rational revelry" campaign some years ago in response to connections that were being made between Caribbean people's risky sexual behaviour during Carnival and other regional festivals (Barbados' "Crop Over", and so on) and apparent peaks in the transmission of HIV/AIDS. More information here

Obscenity (music)

My song Obscenity, from the album "Lewed Logic" - my first major foray into the music world -    
is now available on iTunes. 
I shared the "Lewd Logic" message of cultural tolerance at a 2005 University of Miami (and Historical Museum of Southern Florida) literary conference entitled "Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination". The album was also a significant component in the ITTIJ, "rational revelry" campaign (see above) I conceptualised but, unfortunately failed to get off the ground. I am now re-viving that campaign. Details here

Click here to purchase Obscenity

The Bible: Beauty and Terror Reconciled (TBBTR)

Next to parenthood, the writing of this book is the achievement of which I am proudest and for which I am most grateful. The intellectual and emotional processes that brought TBBTR into being have defined who I am in ways I can hardly explain.

TBBTR outlines the main features of the evolution of my faith from a brand of escapist evangelical fundamentalism, into the more balanced, reality engaging, authentic, reformational quality of faith I enjoy today. The writing of TBBTR was a labour of love and liberation, that deeply taxed my reserves of patience, perseverance and courage - not to mention the scholarship that went into it.

Now, after a delay of about sixteen years, TBBTR finally becomes available this year! For just £12, you can have an electronic copy of the book that I believe has made a catalytic contribution to the global renaissance of religion we have been witnessing for the last decade and a half.

Better yet, by signing up for Intelek International's Creole Complementarity Interactive Technology (CCIT) project, you can help to spread the message of holistic (faith and reason reconciling) education that has been quietly transforming our world. Click here for details about CCIT. To purchase a copy of TBBTR on Amazon, click here.

 

 

The Word Becomes Flesh (TWBF)

I published TWBF in 2001 as part of a broader initiative commemorating Barbados' contribution to the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related forms of Intolerance (WCAR). That Conference was held in Durban, South Africa and a review took place in Geneva in April 2009.

As with TBBTR, a key concern of TWBF is to address the issue of academic prejudice: that is, "the ignorance, fear, self-interest and/or self-delusion of both 'religious' and 'secular' thinkers and educators". I have long held that this kind of prejudice is responsible for the gap between conventional concepts of "faith" and "knowledge" and, as such, is one of the greatest challenges humanity faces. The current, escalating debate between atheists and religious persons in the UK and elsewhere today (I had the 2009 atheist bus advertizing campaign and Christian response in mind) confirms this.

Unfortunately, the TWBF project did not acheive its full potential in 2001, as I became distracted by the tragic events of 9/11.

However, I initiated a revival of the publication in 2008, even before I had heard of the UN review Conference planned for this year. Providentially, one might say miraculously, this revival coincided with the historic activation in 2008, of the European Organization For Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment: the so-called "Big Bang" experiment that is reportedly seeking to uncover the origins of the universe.

The link between this speculative, so-called "blue skies" research and Intelek's TWBF initiative is obvious to me, not least of all because I had used a cross-sectional diagram of an anti-matter machine - which is what the LHC is, roughly - on the cover of TWBF in 2001.

TWBF also features a number of other graphic illustrations or "visual aids" that I experimentally fused, with the prose and poetry of that text, in an effort to give its title a physical efficacy - you could say, fleshing out my ideas in a one dimensional context - and simultaneously advancing, in a limited way, my substantial visual arts ambitions.

TWBF is currently featuring prominently in "Rupert Murdoch's Pi in the Sky" a series of articles I have been publishing on Allvoices.com (click here for the the most relevant article in the series)

In these articles I revisit the faith-knowledge arguments I addressed in TWBF as I analyze the ongoing phone hacking scandal and related issues engulfing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's global news interests.

Rather unexpectedly, this series of articles has given new impetus to my visual art agenda. I think a first Intelek International art exhibition of some sort, in the near future, is now a real prospect.

Of course, the TWBF commeorative booklet is still available for sale. Interested persons can purchase a signed copy for £3.40, including packaging and postage (£2.40 without postage).