‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made ‹Friday› a slave. He gains a human friend. When a young acquaintance suddenly had a tumor in her head, all our quarrels became null and void. Our trivialities and emotional...
Older Christian tradition considered human beings to be connected to the world in two ways. As ‹creatures of nature›, human...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable success. No god, no spirit has been able to resist it. Mechanical laws are enough to explain everything. The technical achievements resulting from this new worldview have seemed like proof...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a...
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was chaos and confusion. Darkness was upon...
If you ask people what is sacred to them, after some consideration, they’ll offer an answer: family, tranquility, freedom, peace, and many other things—depending on the individual—even “my soccer club” or “the work of Rudolf Steiner.” But what the sacred itself is remains elusive. The Romanian religious philosopher Mircea Eliade...
The days are turbulent. My thoughts are restless and peaceless. Agitated, they’re like birds of prey, circling incessantly around the...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
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