METAMODE INSTITUTE ON PUBLIC POLICY AAn electronic time capsule Advancing a forward thinking approach to public policy and governance for a rapidly changing world since 1997

Legacy Series

TIMELY  WORDS

Profile of Albert Fiorino - Updated Metamode Institue Profile - Updated Electronic Publications Titles The following electronic publications in our Legacy Series have been uploaded for the required legal deposit to the National Library of Canada. They will have restricted access. They are now at Amazon's Kindle Store   Shifting Gears:Transforming Public Policy  Cut to the Chase: Reinventing Public Education Voice of One Democracy and Capitalism Revisisted                                                       Rationality Papers: Redirecting rational choice               Heading for a crossroads named New Beginnings A personal journey into the world of Islam                                         Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An actual 'never-ending story'  Body Politic Reset Tweaking our social and cultural dynamics for a more peaceful world order Special Releases Holiness for a 'religionless world' A Byzantine-Catholic Perspective on the Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church and in the Modern World Flipping the anthropic principle on its head: To get another view of 'everything' The cosmos, the law of rules, the ideal state and beyond the middle-class constitution A True Disciple in Our Times -- 2006 Eulogy to Rev. Dr. Archie deSouza Special reissue   Gun Control in America: Steering debate to vital issues Special reissue Options to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Special release Experimental versus field and qualitative methods in organization behaviour. A discussion article      A Call for Paradigm Change in World Religions   On the Way Toward The Crossroads Called New Beginnings Is an Extrication from a Web of Needs, Interests, Greed, Hatred, and Recurring Violence Possible? Excerpt from book, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 2018

"The responsibility for change lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds... "...to avoid violent upheaval we must begin now to focus on the problem of structural, political absolescence around the world... before the further disintegration of existing political systems sends the forces of tyranny jackbooting through the streets, and makes impossible a peaceful transition to twenty-first-century democracy. "If we begin now, we and our children can take part in the exciting reconstitution not merely of our obsolete political structures but of civilization itself. "Like the generation of the revolutionary dead, we have a destiny to create." Excerpt from Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Creating a New Civilization, Preface, pp. 106-108. "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sunburst unfiltered Call for an unfiltered dialogue...

In an article entitled, “The true genius of the Jewish mind distilled”, Dr. Albert Fiorino puts forward forceful and urgent reasons for a resumption of the proposed dialogue. The dialogue is necessary for a resolution of the most serious predicaments in which humanity finds itself in these early years of the 21st century. He maintains that only those transcendent elements within each one of us can provide the driving forces and can help us forge the required existential attitude by which to deal effectively with the critical problems facing us. As was the case at the first awakening of the Jewish mind when the Lord of all creation extended an invitation to come and reason with Him, we too must be willing now to respond anew to this ever beckoning call. He writes: “Centuries have gone by, and the Lord of all creation has stirred up those transcendent elements once more in the human spirit and is again issuing the same invitation, ‘Come now, let us reason together....’ He is doing this not because He is lonely and is in dire need of social companionship. He is doing it because He knows that we are in great need of His assistance. For quite some time now He has watched the socio-cultural dynamics of the entire planet become infested with very threatening pressure points. These pressure points are rapidly approaching their critical mass and are ready to wreak havoc on humanity, unless we quickly find new ways by which to diffuse them and restore some state of equilibrium to these same dynamics. “We believe that a reopening of a dialogue with the Lord of all creation, responding anew to His call to come and reason with Him about the critical problems which presently beset us is imperative. Why? It is the only way by which to tap those transcendent elements within us and which offer the only viable and sustainable solutions to our present, dangerous human crisis.”

About Us                                                                        Terms & Conditions

Source of Earth image: NASA                                        © Metamode Institute (1997-2024)