Hello, my name is Salamah. This first version of my Philopsychy Society Member's Profile was submitted on 10 October 2001. I am Director of the International Foundation for Human Values and Culture. My main interests are ethics, human values, and what it means to be authentically 'human'. Other interests include cultural anthropology, symbolism (especially of transformation), and metaphysics (cosmology). You can contact me by e-mail at vatican@ozemail.com.au, or by conventional post at:
3 Outtrim Road
Glen Forrest
W.A. 6071
Australia
My WWW home page is located at: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vatican.
Something I've written that might be of some interest to you is called Antidote: Experience of a Spiritual Energy. A collection of Essays. It is self-published (printed and softbound). Subud Publishers International 1988. It is not available in computerize form.
The titles of some of my published papers are on my web-site: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vatican
Other Society members are invited to contact me if they are interested in trading their writings for any of the above.
Finally, just so you can get to know me a little, here's something special I'd like you to know:
I became an anthropologist because I wanted to know what it meant to be 'human'. The discipline could not tell me - but years later I found a methodology which allows you to arrive at a satisfactory description. This is in E.F. Schumacher's second book (his first one was the famous "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if people Mattered").
I also discovered a traditional cosmology which functions as a General System, a conceptual framework, a universal pattern of process, that could - I think - become the Theory of Everything that could bring the world into a more harmonious and sustainable mode or paradigm.
My first book is about some of the results of following the Subud spiritual training, which I have done for many years now and found remarkably valuable.
I am working on another book called "Four: the World Pattern of Process", which I want to self-publish. It is nearly finished and at present is being edited by two colleagues.
If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff, please have a look at my web-site: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vatican and e-mail me if you wish.
The web-site of the organisation of which I am director, the International Foundation for Human Values and Culture, Inc., is being worked on right now (10/10/01) but should be accessible soon: http://www.communityzero/ifhvc.