That our world is out of balance has been known for a long time, but up until the emergence of the Corona crisis many of us could still afford to be in denial. Now everyone – and each country all over the world – is confronted with the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. We count … [Read more…]
When you are interested in the art of painting and like to visit museums, you may become aware that also in the arts there is a search for meaning for that which lies beyond the visible world. The impressionists wanted to leave the naturalists behind and express the feelings which the outer world evoked in … [Read more…]
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Georg Hegel, 1821 Are we still aware of our birthright that an individual is a sovereign over himself, over his own body and mind, as John Stuart Mill proclaimed in his philosophical work “On Liberty “? Or are we … [Read more…]
“Beauty is God’s handwriting” is a line I happen to have read somewhere and it keeps staying in my mind…. Doesn’t it seem as if beauty is disappearing out of our world? Ugliness is taking over more and more: through the industrialisation of the countries, the multiplication of the malls and settlements on the outskirts … [Read more…]
The scientific dogma which still exists that our reality doesn’t require consciousness was shared by Einstein. He stated: ” Nature exists regardless of consciousness and material objects have their own properties”. Is there any proof for this statement? Why is -according to what we know today- this statement wrong? It is wrong because every perception … [Read more…]
Albert Einstein was much criticized after the Second World War because of his attitude towards the atomic bomb. Many years after his death a letter was found which obviously was written by Einstein to his missing daughter. “When I introduced the relativity theory only few were able to understand me; and what I’m now going … [Read more…]
following an intuition I picked up two books from Teilhard de Chardin which I had studied long time ago. Today I understand how much this undogmatic, most unconventional and original prophet of the evolution of consciousness has to be named together with all the other pioneers like Hegel, Gebser, Bergson, Johannes Heinrich, Aurobindo, Lama Govinda, … [Read more…]
To follow the INNER COMMISSION that points to the spiritual Gebser says: “He who has the courage, or who has been graced, to gain the necessary openness for perceiving the invisible, will at first become aware of the truth of simultaneity and then also of the invisible origin. Of course, for this to be the … [Read more…]
whichever way you live and which path you may follow, whether you know it or not, you follow an inner commission, that points beyond you – to the spiritual. It is a crucially decisive question in anyone`s life. How a person responds to the arational reality determines his or her entire adventure in the body. … [Read more…]
If we can reconcile ourselves with the mysterious truth that spirit is the living body seen from within and the body the outer manifestation of the living spirit – the two being really one – then we can understand why it is that the attempt to transcend the present mental-rational level of consciousness must give … [Read more…]