From Babylon to Zion: Rastafari and the Planetary Homecoming | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Across history, humanity has carried a deep longing for belonging — a dream of homecoming reflected in sacred narratives, prophetic movements, and cultural visions. This article explores the ancient Israelite, Jesus, and Rastafarian movements as nested turns of a holofractal spiral, each responding to systemic exile and domination by reimagining a path toward coherence and liberation.

Through the archetypes of Babylon and Zion, we trace how these movements evolved from covenantal identity to universal belonging, culminating in the Rastafarian insight that Ethiopia symbolizes Zion — the shared ancestral root of humanity. In light of modern genetics, which confirms that all humans descend from Africa, Rastafari’s symbolic return expands into a planetary narrative: a call to remember that we are one root, many branches, one home.

In the face of today’s global crises — ecological collapse, systemic inequality, spiritual alienation — this holofractal narrative offers a regenerative framework for healing fragmentation, restoring interconnection, and envisioning a planetary Zion grounded in life-value coherence.

From Equality to Liberation: A Policy Framework for Systemic Equity and Structural Justice | ChatGPT4o

Contemporary policy systems often invoke the language of equality and fairness while continuing to reproduce systemic injustice and exclusion. This paper offers a rigorous reexamination of the conceptual foundations and practical implications of equity-based policymaking and introduces a liberation-centered framework for structural justice. Drawing on a widely recognized visual metaphor of progression — from reality to equality, equity, and ultimately liberation — we propose a new policy paradigm grounded in coherence, constraint removal, and regenerative systems design. The paper outlines critical distinctions between distributive justice models, examines five core policy domains (health, education, economy, justice, and environment), and introduces a comprehensive implementation roadmap supported by participatory metrics and coherence-based budgeting. Concluding with a set of actionable recommendations, the paper challenges public institutions to move beyond inclusion and toward the systemic re-architecture of social life. Liberation, we argue, is not a distant ideal but a practical, necessary redesign of the structures that shape collective well-being.

From Sacred Texts to Scorched Earth: How Scriptural Misinterpretation Enables Genocide in Gaza | ChatGPT4o

This white paper investigates the role of sacred scripture in enabling or resisting genocidal violence, with a specific focus on the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Drawing from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, it critically examines how theological misinterpretations — particularly of covenant, chosenness, conquest, and eschatology — have been weaponized to justify the displacement, dehumanization, and extermination of Palestinians.

The paper argues that the misuse of scripture represents not only a moral failing but a symbolic and epistemological rupture that fractures the coherence between word and world. It proposes a regenerative theology of liberation rooted in prophetic justice, interfaith reconciliation, and symbolic coherence. Through a triality-based hermeneutic — connecting symbol, meaning, and embodiment — the paper outlines a new grammar of sacred interpretation capable of restoring spiritual integrity and supporting planetary healing.

It concludes with actionable recommendations for theological reform, interfaith alliance, and symbolic reorientation, grounded in the belief that the sacred must once again become a source of life, not a justification for death.

Understanding War – A Philosophical Inquiry | John McMurtry | Science for Peace (1989)

This paper presents a rigorous philosophical inquiry into the deep structure of war, challenging entrenched assumptions underpinning the dominant military paradigm. McMurtry demonstrates that prevailing concepts of “national security,” “self-defense,” and “just war” rest on unexamined metaphysical premises that normalize mass homicide as a rational necessity. By exposing the fallacies of equating national interest with militarized aggression and conflating security with destructive power, the paper argues for a fundamental reframing of war. McMurtry distinguishes between pathological wars — those that annihilate human life and capacities — and enabling wars, which target disabling patterns such as disease, corruption, and environmental degradation without destroying life. He contends that the primary enemy is not other nations or peoples but the institutionalized military system itself, which perpetuates cycles of violence, fear, and economic exploitation. The paper proposes a redirection of collective energies towards non-military modes of “war” that liberate human and ecological potential, challenging the conflation of survival with domination and opening a horizon of transformative alternatives for global peace.