Ludwig Feuerbach is back on the agenda. Karl Marx’s famous Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach – “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the

point is to change it” – provides the title of Eric Hobsbawm’s magisterial How to Change the World, which joins a series of major works exploiting the recent rise in

Marx’s fortunes, as capitalism’s crisis marks the return of its greatest rival.
This book offers extensive coverage of pre-Marxian sources; meticulous accounts of Marx’s milieu through painstaking excavation of his predecessors, contemporaries and

heirs; strenuous readings of key texts including Friedrich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and Marx’s Communist Manifesto (1848); and

assiduous treatment of the legacy of Marxism as a world-changing philosophy..

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

In my e-book on comparative mysticism is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all religion.”

E=mc², Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (f(x) raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.