Quest Articles

There resides in all of us a still, small voice that mourns the demise of Chivalry.

It may have been that quiet voice that led you here.

The following articles will help you on your personal quest.

See also see Readers' Comments.

Quest Articles — Archive

• Complete Archive

Topics

• Gender Issues
• Introductory Articles
• Politics
• Social Topics
• Spirituality
• Miscellaneous

Introductory Articles:

• Chivalry? Really?
• Introduction, by founder D. Joseph Jacques
• Chivarly-Now - How it Works
• Change
• The Dream
• Modern Chivalry?
• Chivalry-Now, An Overview
• The Secret of Today's Knighthood
• An Exceptional Approach
• Are You Worthy?
• Is Chivalry Innate?
• The Twelve Trusts
• The Quest
• Today's Challenges
• Survey Results
• Today's Challenges
• To be a Knight  
• Today's Knight
• Knighthood of Chivalry-Now
• Percival's Worthy Approach
• Reason
• Scientific Basis for CN
• Grail Consciousness
• Want to be a Knight?
• What is a Knight?
• Confidence in Human Nature
• Shadow-side of Male Virtue

Complete Archive:

• A Better Way
• A Bright Alternative
• Advice on Dating
• Adopting a New Perspective
• A Life Worth Living
• Am I Worthy?
• An Exceptional Approach
• A New America
• The Accolade
  
• Age of Distraction?
• Applying Chivalry to Politics
• Armed Courtesy?
• Aspiring Knights
• Author's Personal Quest
• Autonomy
• "Be Thou Knight" 
• Beautiful
• Becoming a Knight
• Becoming a Knight Requires Change
• Benevolent or Hostile Sexism
• Beyond Reason 
• Beyond the Golden Rule
• Blessings of Knighthood
• Building Bridges 
• Camelot?
• Camelot—for the Taking!  
• Century of Self
• Challenge of Relativism
• Change   NEW
• Change the Way We Think   NEW
• Character
• Chivalry Comes from Within
• Is Chivalry Compatible with Freedom?
• Chivalry and Politics
• Chivalry's Lament
• Chivalry-Now, An Overview
• Chivalry "Now"
• The Chivalry-Now Answer
• Chivalry-Now's Curriculum
• Chivarly-Now - How it Works 
• Chivalry? Really?
• CN Christmas Message
• CN & Climate Change
• CN—For the West Only?
• CN—Rooted in the Past
• Choices
• Civility 
• Climate Change? 
• Communicating as a Knight
• Communication
   
• Concepts: (aka Esoterica, the foundational concepts of CN)
  • Concepts Intro
• Concept 1: The Nudge of Telos 
• Concept 2: The Personal Goal of Areté 
• Concept 3: Aletheia, A More Comprehensive Understanding of Truth  
• Concept 4: The Personal Transformation of Anagnorisis 
• Concept 5: Nature’s Law, our Source of Autonomy
• Concept 6: Ordo Mundi
• Concept 7: Reason
• Concept 8: Freedom & Responsibility
• Concept 9: Kairos - Time for Change
• Concept 10: Grail Consciousness
• Concept 11: Metanoia
   
• Confidence in Human Nature
• Conquering Ourselves  
• Contemplation
• Courage  
• Courage - An Act of Will
• Courage to Be
• Courtesy & Honor
• Courting Disaster
• COVID-19 Christmas
• Creating a Plan
• The Culture of CN  
• Destiny & Freedom 
• Disparity of Wealth
• The Dream
• Drunk with Deception
• Equality
• The Epictetus Challenge
• Esoteric Power   NEW
• The Real Essence of Freedom 
• Evolution to Consider 
• Existentialism
• Extraordinary Deeds
• Facing the Challenges of the Coming Age
• Facing the Future
• Fact? Or Fiction?
• False Conclusions
• Family Values
• Fantasy vs. Imagination 
• Feminine Side to Chivalry?
• Feminism & Chivalry-Now
• Fighting for What is Right
• The Final Quest   NEW
• Flower of Chivalry
• For Real  NEW
• Four Steps to Recovery
• A Fourth Alternative 
• Freedom & the Search for Truth
• Freedom Derived from Natural Law
• The Freedom that is Chivalry-Now
• Freeing Ourselves from the Quagmire of Prejudice  
• From "A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry"
• Gawain & Gender Relationships
• Getting Started  
• The Gettysburg Address
• The Gift that Heals all Ills  
• The Glory of Knighthood
• Goal & Challenge
• The Good Fight
• Good News!
• Good or Evil?
• Grail Articles
  • The Grail
  • Grail Awakening
  • Grail Consciousness
  • The Secret of the Grail
  • Today's Grail
  • Secret Legend of the Grail  
    
    
• Grail Consciousness & Reason
• Having Purpose in Life (The Knightly Path)
• Honor
• Honor? Or Brutality toward Women?
• How You can Help!
• How will I Know?
• Human Nature. Good? Or Bad?
• If Arthur were here today
• In Response to Rush Limbaugh
• Introduction, by co-founder D. Joseph Jacques
• The Importance of King Arthur
• The Importance of Humility 
• The Impossible Dream
• Impulse to be Cruel
• Infamous Agitation
• The Insidious Wound
• Introductory Message
• Is Chivalry Dead?
• Is Chivalry Innate?
• ISIL Threat - A Different Perspective
• A Kairos Event, Maybe?
• A Kairos in the Making?
  
• The Kingdom We Inherit
• Knighthood of Chivalry-Now
• Knightly Glory?
• Let's Catch Up
• Liberate yourself from the Tyranny of "isms"
• Lincoln's Legacy for Us
• Logic & Rhetoric
• Looking Out for Number One
• Martial Art - Intro  NEW
• Martial Artists
• The Meaning of Commitment
• The Message is Clear — What's the Solution?
• Metanoia    NEW
• Modern Chivalry?
• The Moral Impostors
• More Consciousness    NEW
• Natural Law
  • Nature's Law
  • Freedom Derived from Natural Law
  • Challenge of Relativism
• A New Chivalry
  
• A New form of Democrac
• A New Reality 
• A New State of Being    NEW
• New Year Wish
• Nobility 
• Now is our Time!
• On Truth
• One Knight's Take on ISIL
• One out of Ten
• Only You Can Do It 
• The Opposite of what Jesus Said
• Opening Our Eyes
• Our Fight Continues
• Our Greatest Hope: Defining Who We Are
• Our Inner Knight
• Our Rationale
• People
• Percival's Worthy Approach
• Permanence is an Illusion 
• Personal Transformation
• Perennial Disappointment
• Pitfalls of Chivalry
• Poetry of the Soul
• Political Inspiration
• Political Manifesto
• Post New Year's Reflection
• The Problem
• The Power of Aletheia
• The Power of Thought
• The Quest
  • The CN Quest
  • The Quest
  • The Quest as Your Personal Story
  • The Quest - Your Path to Western Enlightenment
  • The Quest Beckons
  • Speeding up your Quest
  • Personal Quests
• Reaching Back for Enlightenment
• Racism
• The Real Essence of Freedom
• Realism & Idealism
• Reason
• Responding to Feminist Criticism
• Religion
• Religion as a Scapegoat  
• Requirements of a Democratic-Republic
• Revolution
• Ripples 
• Rising Above Partisan Politics
• Romantic Love
• Romantic Love Achieved 
• Scandals on the News
• Scientific Basis for Chivalry-Now
• Secret Legend of the Grail  
• The Secret of Today's Knighthood
• Seeds   NEW
• Seeing Things as They Are
• Serving your Country
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Seventh Seal
• Sexism
• Sexual Harassment
• Shadow-side of Male Virtue
• Sins of Omission  NEW
• Sir Lancelot's Path to Self-Discovery
• Social Dragons
• Social Problems are People Problems
• Spirituality of Chivalry-Now
• Spiritual Quest  
• Stance toward Politics 
• Start Your Own Round Table
• Stop the Killing
• Stoicism & Marcus Aurelius
• Strong Moral Principles  
• Such Words!!! 
• Talking Heads and Propaganda
• Thinking Anew 
• Today's Accolade
• To be a Knight
• Today's Knight
• Today's Knight - Citizen Soldier in the War on Terror
• Today's Knight - A View on Politics
• Today's Knighthood 
• The Answer to Violence
• The Trap, Greed Vs. Freedom
• The Trap of Nihilism
• Thomas Hobbes vs. Sir Mallard the Duck
• Thoughtless, Ideological Zealotry
• Thoughts on the Newtown Massacre
• Time for Courtesy
• The Time is Now!
• Timely Advice from President Lincoln 
• To Be a Man
• Today's Knight
• Today's Political Arena
• Today's Challenges
• Transitions
• True Heroism  
• Truth, the Greatest Quality
• Tyranny of the Mind
• Our Treasure Trove
• Trend toward Failure
• Truth Matters
• Twelve Trusts
• 12 Trusts - the Extended Version
• 12 Trusts & Politics
• Two Visions, One Reality
• Understanding CN
• Unity
• Wages of War
• Warrior Ethic vs. Fear 
• The Warrior Spirit
• The Way of Chivalry-Now
• Virtue & Democracy
• Want to be a Knight? 
• Warrior & Poet  
• Wasting Freedom?
• Western Enlightenment & Chivalry-Now
• What if Chivalry Never Happened?
• What Jesus Never Said
• When Nature Grabs Us 
• Who is to Blame?
• Who We Are
• Winning the War of Ideologies
• What about Unity?
• What is a Knight?
• What makes you a Superhero?
• Where Comes this War on Science?
• Winter Magic
• Women
• Women of Chivalry-Now
• The World is Waiting   NEW
• Wrong Conclusions 

Gender Issues:

• Benevolent or Hostile Sexism
• Feminism & Chivalry-Now
• Gawain & Gender Relationships
• Gender Problems & Romantic Love
• Honor? Or Brutality toward Women?
• In Response to Rush Limbaugh
• Romantic Love
  Is romantic love possible? The world of chivalry created it. Learn what it has to say.
• Sexism
  Is Chivalry-Now sexist?
• Women
  What does Chivalry-Now say about men's relationships with women.
• Women of Chivalry-Now

Politics

• A Better Way
• A New form of Democracy
• Chivalry and Politics
  Chivalry-Now offers a whole new approach to politics—and never was the time for change more needed
• A New America
• Applying Chivalry to Politics
• Edmund Burke's Conservatism
• Equality
• The Gettysburg Address
• Political Inspiration
• Political Manifesto
• Requirements of a Democratic-Republic
• Rising Above Partisan Politics
• Scandals on the News
• $700 Billion, for What?
• The Power of Thought
• Talking Heads and Propaganda
• Today's Knight - A View on Politics
• Today's Political Arena 
• Trend toward Failure
• Tyranny of the Mind
• Two Visions, One Reality
• The 12 Trusts & Politics
• Virtue & Democracy

Social Topics:

• A New America
  What should be our goals in America today.
• Age of Distraction?
  A lot of things try to distract us from truth. Learn what some of them are.
  
• Camelot?
  Do you believe in the dream of Camelot?
• Century of Self
  Understanding the real threats imposed upon us by consumerism.
• If Arthur Were Here Today
  What would it be like if King Arthur were elected President of the United States?
• Racism
  Tackling one of our worst social problems.
• 6th Year Anniversary of 9-11
  Lessons we need to learn about the post 9-11 world.
• Social Dragons
  Learn about the real dragons we need to face and conquer.
• Social Problems are People Problems
  Most world problems are not insurmountable. They start with us, and can be remedied with us.
• The Answer to Violence
  How Chivalry-Now offers the answer to violence that politicians overlook.
• Who is to Blame?
  Exploring the senseless violence of mass killings.
• Winning the War of Ideologies
  Now is the time for each of us to fight a different kind of war.

Spirituality:

• Building Bridges
• The Grail
• Grail Consciousness
• The Insidious Wound
• Spirituality of Chivalry-Now
• The Warrior Spirit

Miscellaneous:

• The Seventh Seal
  A written excerpt from this movie classic, illustrating the existential quality of the knightly quest.
• The Author's Personal Quest
  How Chivalry-Now pulled me out of complacency into new hope.
• Survey Results
  Find out what people are saying about Chivalry.

Speeches:

• Harmony House Speech, 1-5-07
• Presentation, 2-14-10
• Rotary Club Speech, 1-30-13

Special Features:

Survey Results

On the Road to Knighthood, by Steven Forgette, KCN