Brock A. Shaver
Brock Shaver is a former manager in a major corporation, holding a degree in history. He writes about our struggle between the environment and the human spirit within a business culture. Author of 'The Creation in Time', his current writing projects include 'Naked Civilization, Nude Christianity,' examining the taboos we thought we dealt with; and 'Fear, Seduction and the Soul,' lessons from the biggest juggernaut in business history.
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Articles by Brock A. Shaver
December 07, 2007
If we are rational, then we can see reality clearly. Reality is rational.
Science taught us this. It looks at reality objectively, converts reality into a mathematical equation, and then tests its observation to see if the observation is ‘real,’ or faulty. Reality is what you see, feel and ult...
December 04, 2007
Jerry Falwell had a 'revelation' that racism was against Christ, and changed. Then he went on to form the Moral Majority.
Ego and pride, power and prejudice, so many of the bad and good things in us can be sparked by 'contact' with the Divine. It is interesting what it does to different people....
August 04, 2007
If you've received any real wisdom from God, you know that the Divine always speaks very simply. If you pray on it, meditate on it, see where its implications lead and unfold, the wisdom balloons... from one short, simple statement from the Creator.
One of the things the Great Mystery told me was...
February 07, 2007
Richard Dawkins is having a field day using science to criticize the existence of God. Of course, science owes its existence to Christianity for wiping out society's spiritual sensibility outside the concept of one God. Turned into an idea, science made short work of God Himself.
It is intere...
February 03, 2007
The market is a magical thing. It is a living, breathing organism, that, left to its own devices will naturally provide for all our needs if not interfered with by government.
It is 'natural' and 'alive.' It is the magic of the marketplace. The price of gas, food, and iPods will settle on a price...
December 25, 2006
Perhaps the most disturbing detail from Al Gore's global warming documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' is the amount of time we have to save the planet for humans.
The movie was released in 2005. Is 2015 our 'drop dead' date? Or from when the DVD was released, 2016?
The Kyoto Accord set CO2 ...
December 25, 2006
Since the Second World War, U.S. military doctrine has dictated that the Pentagon maintain a capability to conduct two-and-a-half wars simultaneously.
The White House sent in approximately 150,000 troops into Iraq. Those numbers should have been higher, experts say. Now, with numbers down signi...
December 12, 2006
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Jack Van Impe follow in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, and Jesus Christ.
Quite the contrast. Within twelve years from the death of the African American preacher in 1968, the Moral Majority was born and its legacy has politically dominated the Uni...
December 05, 2006
Power and creativity, they go hand-in-hand.
The modern symbol of economic creativity is the skyscraper. It is a monument to numbers. An office tower. Dedicated to creating the life of business, numbers. This was the power of the image of the World Trade Center.
Work is supposed to be an act of...
December 04, 2006
News sources report that a male contraceptive pill is in the works. U.K. scientists believe they can stop sperm from being ejaculated if this new chemical is taken a couple hours before sex.
Slowly but surely the penis is emerging from its lonely position of being the last great taboo.
And we'...
November 18, 2006
A follow-up on the earlier article about the Gospel's repeated references to Jesus' 'beloved,' John. Was Jesus gay?
It is amazing what blocks the progress of ideas. Why is the gay movement so 'conservative?'
They want to be accepted by the mainstream. They don't want to be scorned. They want t...
November 17, 2006
The number of upright Republican and Evangelical leaders being ‘outed’ as closet gays has been quite the spectacle. It has gone a long way to bring down the neo-conservative ascendancy of the last quarter century.
I have been reading a wonderful book called ‘Northrop Frye Unbuttoned.’ The great...
November 16, 2006
Do we ever stop to realize that the only regular contact we have with non-human life is our dog? Living in the urban, concrete jungle, we see the world from our cars, work in office cubicle factories, get our food packaged in supermarkets, and 99% of our possessions are purchased. We cannot exist wi...
November 12, 2006
Language is what sets humans apart from the rest of Creation. Our sophistication has enabled us to transform our lives and the world into any artificial form that we like. Modern life is so artificial now, that we have little real contact with nature for our daily survival.
The computer revolut...
October 26, 2006
News reports say that terrorists are starting to use the Internet in more sophisticated ways to get their message out. Not only is it a communication network between the ringleaders, but also it is now being used to instruct jihadists in bomb making, with surprisingly sophisticated graphics, and tr...
October 09, 2006
Past lives, or the lack of experience with it, is bound up in our theology of death. Christianity is in opposition to death. But death occurs all the time. As humans, we live off death. The plants we eat, the cows we kill, the forests we slaughter for post-it notes and toilet paper. You cannot live...
October 05, 2006
The South learned a lot of lessons from the American Civil War. I suspect they knew that carpetbagging Americans in Iraq would have the same effect as Northerners did in the old Confederacy after 1865.
Southerners got a big chuckle when Reconstruction failed after two terms of President U.S. Gra...
October 04, 2006
Voyeurism is one of the most amazing control mechanisms that we have as a society. What truly made us voyeurs was television. It played nicely into the migration from living with the land to the sterile suburbs, where we have little connection with the real world. It has been converted into busin...
September 28, 2006
Isn’t it amazing how restricted we are from the spirit world. First God gave the Commandment to have no other God but He. So we shut down all spiritual knowledge outside of the specific consciousness of God. Then we were given access to one soul as proof that both God exists and souls enter an after...
September 25, 2006
It is time to really look at what faces the human race, the whole picture, not the broken up concepts that make us feel like we are actually in control of our fate.
We are an incredibly positive, optimistic culture. It is not fashionable to sound negative, but sometimes reality is like that. Th...
September 02, 2006
For the last two weeks I’ve been floating around different faith houses. It has become apparent how taboo spirituality is in religion. These places are institutions used by civilization to control spirituality. It is surprising how little spirituality is actually allowed.
Pick your religion...
August 19, 2006
It’s pretty obvious that George Bush is a victim of America’s Achilles Heel. The United States is not an ‘organic’ country, as most historians point out, but an idea. It is based on the concepts of the documents that came out of the War of Independence. Part of the President’s assumptions going i...