“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
Georg Unger, former head of the Mathematical-Astronomical Section, was a mathematician with a choleric temperament. This combination made him quite...
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...
Angels always appear when people encounter border or boundary situations. […] At such moments they are most likely to be...
In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc Vereeck describes it in his article “Listening While Acting.” Listening is essential for a play: the transformation of written text into living language and characters. The audience adds something—or, to...
Over on a somewhat isolated shelf in my family’s kitchen, you’ll find the cookbooks. They don’t get much attention, except...
Our life begins in pain and often ends in it. Pain is a faithful companion. It takes hold of our...
A work of art arises as a gift from productive spiritual-cultural activity; surplus capital arises as a gift from productive economic activity. Both are “products” of will activity, of applied intention. Both mark a liberation of human consciousness—something has been freed up from matter to work in the world as...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics...
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