Mental Pollution

A great deal of public attention in advanced countries goes to considering how to cope with elimination of wastes from our wasteful way of life. It is toxic waste material that causes most concern in the environment and is now considered unacceptable to the community worldwide.However, we have yet to admit the dangers and destructive effects of mental pollutants that continue to degrade the quality of our mental fitness and undermine the progress of our modern culture towards the ideal of human

Need of Wiser Men

“Our era needs such wisdom more than bygone ages if the discoveries made by man are to be further humanised. For the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming.”

Muslim Values – Contrary to our Own

Not many of us who have no direct link with people of this religion and outlook on life, really understand why there is real need for us to maintain an alert attitude, not only in dealing with militant terrorists, but in warding off aggressive ideas associated with the Muslim ideologies.

Freedom of Choice

Free Will is an exciting human faculty. It allows us to determine choices and how we wish to enjoy and spend our lifetime and in what direction of creativity we wish to exercise our skills..

What Has Happened to Culture

Culture means refinement, appreciation of beauty, truth, knowledge, wisdom and is reflected in an individual’s intelligent expression of these qualities and in society’s advancement in living standards and opportunities for all.

Cultural Diversity in Greeting

We anticipate that there will be many bridges to cross in blending human cultures of the world if, indeed, in the future we choose to strive for a ‘one world’ of perfect harmony and understanding between all peoples of the world. It is dubious, however, whether we would wish to create a sameness and discard the natural diversity of human expression.

Beauty by Design

Whether by design in architecture, colour in painting, costuming and music in opera, ballet, harmony and melody in music, or perfection of form in sculpture, it is the quality of beauty that determines its success and appreciation.

Art: A Plea for Beauty

Art is ideally an expression of upliftment, of nobility of the human spirit over material difficulties. Classical artists, aware of their responsibility enlisted Beauty as their tool. Without it, art is left bereft.

Fine Art – Its Enduring Value

What is your taste in painting and the visual arts?  If art is not dependent upon intellectual appreciation but accepted that it is a means of evoking deeper emotional responses and reactions to life, we will all have an instinctive regard and perception which serves to guide us. Contrary to the common belief that we [...]

Culture

Culture is of extreme importance if we as a people are to advance. Because there are indications of regression instead of general refinement in our cultural values, it becomes necessary to focus upon the cause of this downturn. We must identify the qualities that distinguish the noble human being from the crude.What are the specific [...]