«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at the end when Faust ascends, and in the middle when Gretchen calls the heavenly ones to herself in the dungeon. It is the way from the fatherly, ordering heaven to...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface of the water. In 1936, a colleague lent him a pair of underwater goggles, and his fascination became limitless. The colorful life on the seabed, unknown to ordinary mortals, seemed...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983, an art dealer offered a Greek Kouros to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which he dated to the sixth century BC. The museum had art historians and archaeologists examine...
Truth, beauty and goodness—three heavenly promises. Every guiding principle and every good wish, every happy moment and every intention has...
“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart,” writes Michael Ende in the story of Momo. A...
Letzte Kommentare