Born in Los Angeles, California, Paul Cornell du Houx grew up among several Western countries. Graduating from Winchester College in the UK, he attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he majored separately in economics and French.
His honors thesis identified the aesthetic mysticism in the works of Gustave Flaubert. This led to his early attempts to bring cross-cultural insights to clarify a crisis some economists saw in the utilitarian way mainstream theory was moving. He decided to investigate the marketplace firsthand, rather than take the well-worn academic path that one day would lead the world economy into the Great Recession and largely unprepared into the 2020 pandemic. Clearly, capitalism had long gone begging for something more than money.
While looking for answers, Cornell du Houx wrote currency reports for the MSA consultancy newsletter in the London Square Mile, audited companies for PwC, studied law at the Inns of Court, sold computers to a wide variety of companies, and with his patented improvements on an electrical connector got involved in a start-up. The author’s first gathering of sutras under the Yoganomics portmanteau was in 1979.
Eventually, Cornell du Houx developed a math that lets us read the ethics of natural law within the environment, described with illustrative stories and essays in Unicycle, the Book of Fictitious Symmetry and Nonrandom Truth, or the Panpsychist Asymmetry of Nature’s Democratic Pi.
In 2019 he rewrote Yoganomics, retaining the ancient and succinct style of the sutra, to further apply the new ideas of the Transformation Proof found in Unicycle.
Somewhere along the line, he wrote What the Farmer Told the Bard, a Novel of Erotic Panpsychism (2020), involving runes encoded in a Shakespeare monument and some pagan deities from the Bard’s comedies.
In 1991 Ramona and Paul settled with their children in Maine. The publication of books, art, and the news magazine Maine Insights led to founding the Solon Center for Research and Publishing (501c3) and EOPA Code Blue Water Solutions (501c4).
The Solon Center’s Gallery Fukurou, at 20 Main Street, Rockland, Maine, opened to the public in 2018 (GalleryFukurou.com).
The independently founded project Elected Officials to Protect America (ProtectingAmerica.net) joined with the Solon Center to combat climate change, with the help and leadership of military veterans.
It is the author’s hope that the sense of a deep democracy in nature, which inspired Native American communities and merged with the U.S. Founders’ Enlightenment vision of natural law, will help bring hearts and minds together in time.
Paul’s blog, River of Asymmetry: From Nature’s Asymmetry to the Ethics of Liberal Democracy, a New Panpsychist Philosophy
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