 We dedicate this page to honor the many people from antiquity to the present who sacrificed their lives or their livelihoods to tell the truth - and we are all better for it.
 “Hopefully honesty will erupt in a ground-swell of individuals who say 'let's look at what we do and where we are going' the ethics and laws are not appropriate to forge the kind of world we want at all.
Are we willing to give up our sacred cows in pursuit of ecumenical brotherhood? Ignorance IS the 'Original Sin' and we all must accept our ignorance as an opportunity for growth, rather than cling to each other in cults of denial!” - Robert Bruce Baird
Artwork by Vincent van Gogh ~ 'The Sower' and 'Blossomed Gardens'
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Written by Sandra Repash
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 Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher
by John J. Kessler, Ph.D., Ch.E.
It is easy to get an impression of the reputation which Bruno had created by the year 1582 in the minds of the clerical authorities of southern Europe. He had written of an infinite universe which had left no room for that greater infinite conception which is called God. He could not conceive that God and nature could be separate and distinct entities as taught by Genesis, as taught by the Church and as even taught by Aristotle. He preached a philosophy which made the mysteries of the virginity of Mary, of the crucifixion and the mass, meaningless. He was so naive that he could not think of his own mental pictures as being really heresies. He thought of the Bible as a book which only the ignorant could take literally. The Church's methods were, to say the least, unfortunate, and it encouraged ignorance from the instinct of self-preservation.
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Written by Sandra Repash
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This is a classic example of why religious entities should not have power to enforce their beliefs.
In the spring of 1633, Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist, was delivered before the dreaded Roman Inquisition to be tried on charges of heresy. He was denounced, according to a formal statement, "for holding as true the false doctrine . . . that the sun is the center of the world, and immovable, and that the earth moves!" The statement went on to read that "the proposition that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is absurd and... heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture!" Galileo was found guilty and forced to renounce his views. Ill and broken in spirit, he was sentenced to a life of perpetual imprisonment and penance. |
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Written by Sandra Repash
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In 1951 while writing his classic textbook ‘Quantum Theory’, David Bohm came into conflict with McCarthyism. He was called upon to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee in order to testify against colleagues and associates. Ever a man of principle, he refused. The result was that when his contract at Princeton expired, he was unable to obtain a job in the USA. He moved first to Brazil, then to Israel, and finally to Britain in 1957, where he worked first at Bristol University and later as Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, until his retirement in 1987. Bohm will be remembered above all for two radical scientific theories: the causal interpretation of quantum physics, and the theory of the implicate order and undivided wholeness.
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Written by Sandra Repash
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 CATHARS
In west-north-west of Marseilles on Golfe du Lion is the old province of Languedoc where in 1208 the people were condemed to death by catholic pope Innocent 111. In 1209 a papal army of more than 30,000 soldiers descended on the region under the command of Simon de Montfort. The soldiers had been sent to kill and exterminate the Cathar religeon. The papal troops arrived in the foothills of Pyrenees and the savage campaign was called the Albigensian Crusade. The people were murdered in their thousands, including men, women and children. Whole towns were destroyed. The Cathar religeon was completley genicided. |
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Written by Sandra Repash
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 Pythagoras is acknowledged as a one of the greatest sages of all time. However, Plato, Aristotle and Socrates who followed him are just as important. As students of history and man's culture, we must understand the impact these great people had on our current society. Clearly education was a tool of programming or propaganda and Socrates would not 'toe the line'. He probably wasn't the first to drink hemlock or go against the priestly politicos but his story is inspiring to people like me. Socrates experienced something worse than being bought off because he refused to stop telling the truth or leave his country and countrymen. He was branded as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and people could not grasp the possibilities he tried to lead them to question.
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