During these winter evenings, the zodiac sign of Aries rises in the east—three stars in the shape of a flattened...
Michael is on his way. He now understands that drug counseling doesn’t mean that, instead of the drugs, now I...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
“As long as one doesn’t see their own part in a wound, the healing power cannot come.” Joachim Eckl said this to me recently in a conversation about the reignited conflict in the Middle East. This is a common wound that Palestine and Israel are inflicting upon one another, and...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir was offered at the local cinema, Stadtkino. I saw Bab’Aziz (2005) as a poem as much as a film. Gentle, unprovocative, deeply sensorial, it’s the story of the present-day...
And these are not things to be ashamed of; they are deeply human. They are a kind of “human condition,”...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a...
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