Thought control? Hope springs
The Trump administration released the dire warning of its own climate scientists from 13 agencies during Thanksgiving, hoping it would be buried at a time when most people in the US are spending time with their families and eating Turkey. Trump told reporters that he...
Abundance and gratitude
The rise of extremism in much of the western world comes at a time where there has never before in the history of mankind been so much material abundance which bodes the question why many people remain frustrated and angry. Obviously the comforts of the modern world...
Mastering the Mundane
Sometimes political events starkly reveal the current nature of the collective mind. What is playing out in the current midterm elections in the United States is much related to a deeply suppressed shadow. The nation appears at the edge between two opposites of a...
Climate: No time to lose
Two weeks ago the northeastern part of the Mediterranean island of Majorca was hit by a freak storm. Within a matter of hours the area was hit by so much rainfall that dry streams were soon flooded and a five-meter high wave swept away cars, bridges and buildings....
Who are you?
Emotional and physical exhaustion is one of the scourges of the modern era. Depression is reaching almost epidemic proportions. You could very well say that the Western mind has lost its soul that has been entrapped by the temptations of immediate gratification. We...
Reconnecting with ancestral roots
Our ancestors from centuries ago might be influencing our lives in more ways than we might be aware of.
Gratitude
There is a saying that if you aren’t grateful for the things you have now, you will never be grateful for the things you are wishing for. Being grateful for what you already have is a key aspect of happiness. It is not about mumbling off five daily gratitudes like a...
Go Slow To Go Far
One of the many lessons learned walking the Camino in Spain is that you have to go slow to get far. I must admit that I too get infected at times by the "bug" that bites many hikers on the Camino: Getting up in the early hours of the morning and racing ahead to the...
Finding soul purpose on the Camino
I've just completed my walk on the Camino Portugues from Porto to Santiago, my mind still occupied with the many lasting impressions and chance meetings along the way. The Camino Portugues is one of the less well-known medieval pilgrimage routes that all end in the...
Embrace Your Self
When I watch an animal, like my dog Klara, I cannot but help think that we humans are just about the most disconnected species around. Animals are totally connected to their immediate environment, sniffing, smelling and using all their senses to imbibe the immediate...
Truth recognizes Truth
We all fall for the same trap. You are conversing with someone when you realize that you might as well be talking to a wall. The other person and you are locked in separate belief systems. Communication is impossible when one person believes he is talking about a...
Your very authentic body mind
Imagine your body as a recorder of all the events in your life. It is the most authentic barometer of your emotional state of being and the reason why we still dream of when we stole cookies from grandma's closet as a seven-year-old. What hasn't been dealt with...
States of transition
The public discourse in much of social media currently seems to alternate between two extremes with a fall-back to the nationalist hysteria of the 1930s to views expounding a free-for all liberalism. It is typical of a collective consciousness in transition and...
Taking care of your body is spiritual work
It is a real tragedy that Christian religion has taught us for generations that it is better to live outside the body than within. Eastern religion has taken a different route with the body arts of yoga and tai chi deeply embedded in Buddhism and Hinduism. Early...
On the treshold of a Renaissance
Despite the general despondency over the rise of nationalism, xenophobia and fundamentalism in many countries, we are on the threshold of another Renaissance in raised human consciousness. A new chapter in the evolution of mankind is often preceded by an era where the...
