English Issue 25-26/2024

Over the past two years, Christine Gruwez and I have been working on a series of articles for the annual festivals. It has been a fruitful game of finding questions and looking for answers, always leaving something open. This has resulted in eight articles on the four major festivals and their intervening periods. We complete the circle with the article in this issue, which reflects on Ascension and Pentecost. It is a rounding off that leads us through powerlessness and grace, vulnerability, ecstasy and asceticism, the sacred and the human into a possible future: from our loneliness to a real union with the earth, and to bliss with it.