Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
“As long as one doesn’t see their own part in a wound, the healing power cannot come.” Joachim Eckl said this to me recently in a conversation about the reignited conflict in the Middle East. This is a common wound that Palestine and Israel are inflicting upon one another, and...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir was offered at the local cinema, Stadtkino. I saw Bab’Aziz (2005) as a poem as much as a film. Gentle, unprovocative, deeply sensorial, it’s the story of the present-day...
And these are not things to be ashamed of; they are deeply human. They are a kind of “human condition,”...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a...
This juxtaposition of depth and height, visible at the Externsteine, can be found in practically all forms of initiation because it is essentially a path that leads from the depths to the heights—or, to express it in two concepts used to describe initiation, from catharsis (purification) to photismos (enlightenment). The...
When we meet each other, perhaps for the first time, we look for intersections. What do we have in common—what...
The perception of the other takes place in the tension between self-surrender and self-assertion. When two people meet, we attempt...
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