His Royal Highness Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII (born Ahnume Guerios) is globally recognized as the legal heir of the Ghassanid Dynasty, an award-winning best-selling author, philosopher, and public intellectual. He is the head of the historic Christian Arab dynasty of the Ghassanids—descendants of pre-Islamic kings and Byzantine imperial nobility. His royal rights are legally recognized under international law and the Government of the Lebanese Republic, and he holds a papal knighthood under the authority of Pope Francis.
With over three decades of interdisciplinary research and public speaking, Prince Gharios is a unique voice bridging ancient wisdom and modern solutions. He is the creator of Skeptical Mysticism—a rational yet transcendent approach to spirituality—and the founder of Neo-Holism (Political Holisticism), a revolutionary political paradigm that unites governance, justice, education, and the common good.
In 1979 with only six years old, Prince Gharios was formally diagnosed with a "zebra brain" — a term used to describe individuals with atypical but highly gifted neurocognitive wiring, often associated with intense intellectual capacity, emotional depth, and multi-domain creativity. His IQ places him in the top 2% of the population, qualifying him as gifted. But beyond raw intelligence, his polymathic mind allows him to fluently operate across disciplines—law, theology, philosophy, geopolitics, mysticism, arts, and martial science—connecting dots where others see boundaries. This unique neurological profile fuels his capacity for radical innovation, systems thinking, and visionary problem-solving, making him one of the rare thinkers capable of formulating original, integrative schools of thought, such as Skeptical Mysticism and Neo-Holism (also known as Political Holisticism).
Author of several peer-reviewed books, including an internationally awarded title in Italy, with SIX works reaching #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list. Since several of his titles achieved #1 across multiple categories, this actually represents TWELVE #1 Best-Seller achievements overall.
His work spans a wide range of disciplines, including international law, geopolitics, world religions, metaphysics, Eastern philosophy, martial arts, and cultural diplomacy.
Geopolitics & Middle Eastern Affairs
Special focus on History, Christian minorities, dynastic continuity, and regional diplomacy.
International Law & Sovereignty
Author of Royal Sovereignty vis-à-vis Contemporary International Law, the only book addressing modern legal developments affecting deposed monarchies post-1970.
Skeptical Mysticism
A groundbreaking spiritual philosophy combining metaphysical inquiry with scientific rigor. Creator of the Essentia–Sapientia–Unitas trilogy.
Neo-Holism (or Political Holisticism)
Visionary architect of a new political model encompassing The Sovereign Perspective, The Fifth Principle, Logos One, Jusvera, and The World Evolution Initiative (WE).
Neo-Equilibrium Law
Creator of the Neo-Equilibrium Law, a groundbreaking universal principle that redefines balance as an operational law applicable to politics, ecology, economics, and governance. Pioneered a diagnostic framework distinguishing real systemic disequilibrium from fabricated crises, offering proportional corrective models with global application. Recognized as an original and visionary contribution to philosophy, science, and policy, establishing a new benchmark for interdisciplinary innovation.
Comparative Religion & Philosophy
Integrating Christianity, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma-pa lineage), Japanese Shinto, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and Vedic wisdom. His approach is to harmonize them with modern science.
Martial Arts & Eastern Culture
Having three black belts since 1992, the founder of Shinken-Ryū Aikibudō was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame and the Martial Arts Grandmasters Hall of Fame.
✔️ Skeptical Mysticism – Merging science with metaphysical insight
✔️ Consciousness Beyond the Brain – Quantum cognition & non-local models
✔️ Neo-Holism (or Political Holisticism) – A new political philosophy for the 21st century
✔️ The Essentia–Sapientia–Unitas Trilogy – Rewriting the spiritual path for the rational mind
✔️ Reincarnation & Near-Death Studies – Scientific evidence and philosophical implications
✔️ Tibetan Buddhism & Modern Physics – A unified theory of awakening
✔️ Logos One – A revolutionary education model based on who you are, not what you know
✔️ Humanitarian Vision – Proposing real solutions for global issues like hunger, injustice, and minority persecution
Head of the Royal House of Ghassan (UN-Recognized since 2016, recognized by the Lebanese Government by Presidential Decree 5800/2019)
Knighted under the authority of Pope Francis
U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service
Honored by The Royal Family of Dubai as "The Middle East Peace Crusader of the year 2015"
Two U.S. Congressional Recognitions
Professionally Certified in Leadership & Communication by Harvard University
Best-selling author of over 16 books, including Essentia, Sapientia, Jusvera, The Fifth Principle, and The Sovereign Perspective
Developed consciousness models & experiments under the Non-Local Interface Model of Consciousness (NLIMC)
The architect of Logos One, a revolutionary new educational system
Founded the World Evolution Initiative to solve major global issues through practical systems
Filmmaker and SAG actor. Wrote, directed, hosted, and produced three documentaries: The Christian Kings of the Middle East (2019), The Project (2019), and The Royal Legacy (2022)
Essentia: The Ultimate Key to God (peer-reviewed)
Sapientia: The Awakening of a New Consciousness
Unitas: The Final Journey Beyond All Illusion
Royal Sovereignty vis-à-vis Contemporary International Law (#1 Amazon Bestseller)
Middle East: The Secret History (peer-reviewed, awarded 2014 by the Italian Republic - History category, also published in Portuguese )
The Sovereign Perspective: Unity Solutions in Times of Unprecedented Division (#1 Amazon Bestseller, also published in Portuguese)
The Fifth Principle: The Soul of the State
Logos One: Redefining Education in the Third Millennium
Jusvera: Real Justice for a New Society (#1 Amazon Bestseller)
The Invisible People: The Tragic Emergency of Christians in the Middle East (peer-reviewed, #1 Amazon Bestseller)
AIKIDO: You're Doing It Wrong! (#1 Amazon Bestseller, also published in Portuguese)
WE - The World Evolution Initiative: The World's Problems Have Possible Solutions Now
Dynastic & Nobility Law - The End of a Myth (out of print)
Magnus Delta: The Future of Higher Education
The Royal Gambit: A Smarter and Cheaper Way to Fight Terror
The Modern Samurai: The New Paradigm for Success, Business, and Self-Improvement
DEMOCRACY: What Went Wrong and How to Make It Right
The Bible of Skeptical Mysticism
The Cobra Effect: Why Economies Fail and How to Fix Them
The Oracle Effect: When Fiction Becomes Reality (#1 on Amazon’s bestseller list in three categories)
The Neo-Equilibrium Law: The Formula of Everything
Neo-Holism: Breaking the Cycle of Power – The End of Polybius’ Dilemma
A Treatise on Critical Thinking: Why It Died and How to Bring It Back
Guest of honor and panelist at major universities, political summits, spiritual forums, and international conferences.
Interviewed by international media in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, German, and Italian.
Frequent podcast and TV guest on topics ranging from spiritual awakening to international law.
Why your audience will love him
Prince Gharios offers the perfect mix of wisdom, humor, depth, and clarity. He doesn’t preach — he illuminates. Whether your listeners are scientists, seekers, skeptics, or spiritual explorers, they’ll find his insights grounded, provocative, and transformative.
He is not selling a product — he’s delivering a paradigm shift.
Languages
Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. Basic knowledge of Arabic, Japanese, and French.
Booking & Contact
To schedule Prince Gharios for speaking engagements, interviews, book signings, or panel discussions:
Dr. Christian Dominic Boyd
grandchancellor@royalghassan.org
+1(618) 292-8583
Based in the U.S. | Available worldwide
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The intellectual corpus of HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan, also known as the Ghassanic School, stands as one of the most original philosophical architectures of the 21st century. It is not a mere commentary on classical philosophy, nor an isolated set of reflections; it is a systematic tradition that deliberately addresses the unresolved absences left by the great canonical thinkers—Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Machiavelli, Grotius, and Kelsen—and proposes coherent solutions capable of guiding politics, law, spirituality, and education today.
Unlike many theorists who remain confined to academia, the originality of Prince Gharios’ work emerges from lived experience: dynastic continuity, international law, humanitarian service, interfaith dialogue, and cultural diplomacy. His intellectual frameworks are not speculative abstractions; they are operational systems tested against the crises of modernity.
Prince Gharios’ Neo-Holism takes as its starting point Aristotle’s doctrine of the mesotēs, or golden mean. Aristotle argued that virtue lies between extremes, but he left this principle largely at the ethical and personal level. Later adaptations—from Aquinas’ theological moderation, to Montesquieu’s separation of powers, to the 20th-century revival of virtue ethics—never codified balance as a systemic law.
Neo-Holism does precisely this. It elevates balance into jurisprudence, treating disequilibrium not as error but as pathology requiring proportional correction. It distinguishes between real disequilibrium, which demands remedy, and fabricated disequilibrium, political manipulations manufactured to destabilize society. In doing so, Neo-Holism moves beyond John Rawls’ distributive fairness and Jürgen Habermas’ procedural legitimacy, offering a diagnostic principle of systemic equilibrium.
This originality lies in turning Aristotle’s ethical insight into a universal political law, extending equilibrium to governance, ecology, law, and economics. Neo-Holism therefore completes Aristotle’s unfinished project, providing a jurisprudence of survival for civilizations rather than only an ethic for individuals.
Modernity has long relied on four political pillars: liberty, equality, fraternity, and sovereignty. Each is noble, yet in isolation each tends toward corruption—liberty into selfishness, equality into tyranny, fraternity into tribalism, sovereignty into authoritarianism.
Prince Gharios introduced the Fifth Principle as the axis that integrates these four into a higher order of governance. It is not an ideology but a metaprinciple that insists governance must serve the flourishing of humanity in balance with future generations. In this way, it provides the moral soul of Neo-Holism, transforming balance from a mechanical law into conscious stewardship.
The Fifth Principle thus does what neither modern liberalism, socialism, nor nationalism could achieve: it reconciles the polarities by insisting on dignity, responsibility, and proportion at the heart of political life.
Perhaps the most daring innovation of the Ghassanic School is Skeptical Mysticism, articulated in the trilogy Essentia, Sapientia, and Unitas.
From Descartes’ rationalism to Hume’s empiricism to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, philosophy inherited a deep rupture: reason on one side, transcendence on the other. Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” left humanity with a paradox—phenomena could be known, but noumena, the ultimate reality, remained inaccessible. This divide birthed centuries of conflict between science and faith.
Prince Gharios’ Skeptical Mysticism resolves this tension. Unlike positivism, it refuses to banish transcendence; unlike dogmatism, it refuses to accept mystical claims without accountability. Instead, it establishes mysticism with critical guardrails: transcendental experiences are acknowledged, but always subject to analysis, coherence, and rational critique.
This framework stands apart from William James’ pragmatism, Rudolf Otto’s theology of the numinous, Aldous Huxley’s perennialism, or Ken Wilber’s integral theory. Where each preserved one side of the tension, Skeptical Mysticism harmonizes both. It is original in presenting a disciplined epistemology of transcendence, one that is simultaneously spiritual and scientific.
Education has always been the foundation of civilization. Plato’s Republic envisioned education as the training of philosopher-kings, but his model was elitist and rigid. Modern schooling, in turn, has often been distorted by industrial standardization and technocratic reductionism.
Prince Gharios’ Logos One reformulates education for the third millennium. It integrates Dewey’s pragmatism, Montessori’s child-centered learning, Freire’s liberation pedagogy, and Piaget’s psychology into a systemic framework of Vocational Identity Tracks (VITs). These align students with their aptitudes and aspirations, supported by psychometric analysis and AI-based equilibrium audits.
Its companion, Magnus Delta, extends this vision into higher education, creating a dynamic system where universities produce not only degrees but vocations, tailored to the needs of society.
In contrast to Plato’s exclusivity, Logos One democratizes philosophy’s educational dream, transforming it into a universal system of vocational dignity. It is thus an original realization of what Plato outlined but never achieved.
International law since Grotius and Kelsen has been overwhelmingly state-centric, ignoring non-state actors, dynasties, or cultural patrimony. Justice systems, meanwhile, have devolved into adversarial contests where truth and rehabilitation are secondary to procedure.
Prince Gharios’ Jusvera philosophy introduces a paradigm shift. Justice, he argues, must be distinguished from law: law is rules, but justice is moral imperative. Jusvera replaces adversarialism with processes centered on truth, repair, and rehabilitation.
Most strikingly, it extends legal protection to dynastic patrimony as intangible cultural heritage. In doing so, it asserts that deposed sovereigns and their heirs retain legal subjectivity in international law, not as rulers of territory but as custodians of cultural and historical continuity. This innovation fills a gap that Grotius and Kelsen left untouched, making Jusvera one of the most original contributions to jurisprudence in decades.
Machiavelli’s Prince canonized power as manipulation, deceit, and expediency. For centuries, politics has followed this cynical blueprint.
Prince Gharios’ Neo-Equilibrium Law is its direct refutation. It establishes proportional correction and diagnostic exposure of fabricated crises as the universal law of governance. Disequilibrium is treated as pathology: real imbalance demands remedy, false imbalance demands unmasking.
Unlike Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel, which remained at the level of moral exhortation, the Neo-Equilibrium Law codifies equilibrium into a systemic jurisprudence. Its universality extends across law, politics, economics, ecology, and even consciousness. In this sense, it is a “formula of everything” for human systems, original in scope and ambition
In works such as The Sovereign Perspective, Prince Gharios advances a framework that integrates meta-constructivism with social consensualism, articulating sovereignty as stewardship of balance rather than domination. Unlike Rousseau’s social contract or Hobbes’ Leviathan, his vision treats sovereignty not as power to command but as responsibility to sustain.
This reframing situates sovereignty in continuity, legitimacy, and service, offering a constructive alternative to the decline of state authority in the era of globalization.
By directly engaging with and completing these thinkers, Prince Gharios’ intellectual work demonstrates originality not in isolation, but through the conscious resolution of what others left incomplete.
In sum, the intellectual originality of Prince Gharios El Chemor is not rhetorical but structural. It lies in his ability to:
The Ghassanic School therefore constitutes a new tradition in philosophy, comparable in scope to Aristotelianism, Kantianism, or Thomism, but rooted in the challenges of the 21st century. Its originality lies in offering equilibrium where there is fragmentation, stewardship where there is exploitation, and integration where there is division.
Prince Gharios’ contribution is thus not only that of a royal heir or humanitarian advocate, but of a founder of schools of thought—a philosopher-king without a throne, whose sovereignty is exercised through ideas and whose legacy will endure in the intellectual architecture he has created. LEARN MORE
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