King Lear is not an ordinary royal drama but—like Hamlet and Macbeth—a tragedy with archetypal images. Behind these images, historical...
To become friends, we need to get to know each other. This is the point invoked in the famous scene...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or, the same thing, it must reconnect with the human being. For it is a split-off piece of our being that we must reintegrate before we return to the Creator. That...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
Michael fights with the Dragon in the Revelation of John, like Apollo defeating Pythia, like the Mithras Sun God overcoming...
We began with ‹thinking› and ended with ‹thanking›. Whether or not there is an etymological relationship between these two words, there is a connection between the two actions. We can be grateful to the extent that we become aware of what is being given to us – to the extent...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a...
The spirit is an event. Through the spirit, the I takes hold of itself. ‘Spirit’ is such a big word...
What is bright yellow, eats oats as its favourite food, does not like coffee, learns without a brain – even composes music , feels without nerves, moves without legs, heals itself, has 719 sexual partners with whom it can mate , can share its knowledge with others of its kind,...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to...
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
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