We all have experienced a dark night of the soul. Hitting rock bottom and shattering to pieces, sitting there, sifting through the pieces, discard some, dust and reuse the others, […]
Parental Helplessness
Eve wipes the sweat that is pearling on Sarah’s forehead. Her six-year-old daughter is mumbling in her sleep and her eyes jerk left and right under closed eyelids. Eve checks […]
Ikigai
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means a reason for being. Ikigai signifies a purpose in life, something that makes life worthwhile. Ikigai makes you get out of your bed […]
The Power of Narrative
A Time to Kill is an American courtroom drama whose climax carved itself into my memory twenty-four years ago. The story: Two white men raped a black girl. The police […]
Emotional Intelligence and the Difference Between Emotions and Feelings
Emotional Intelligence What is emotional intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to discern and make use of discernment. Emotional intelligence is the ability to discern emotions and feelings and make use […]
The Aquarian Age
Every 2,160 years, Planet Earth enters a new astrological age. Around two thousand years ago, it moved from the Age of Aries, the Age of Empires, into the Piscean Age, […]
The Big Five
Recently, the Big Five made some noise because they were used on social media to profile people and target them for advertising and political campaigns. In this Youtube video, I […]
The Inner Sanctuary
We need a sanctuary, a place where we can recover from external and internal stress. A place of rejuvenation, solace, peace of mind, and inspiration. It could be an actual […]
The Planetary Boot Camp
Planetary life is like an RPG game. Body-mind = spacesuit Ego = avatar Soul = cosmic avatar Planet Earth has the feel of a boot camp game to […]
Secrets to the Secret
In a nutshell, the Secret is the conscious management of the law of attraction. The law of attraction is simple: As we sow, so we reap. What we reap we […]
The Axial Age – The Time Enlightenment Emancipated
550 B.C. is the midpoint of the great Mayan calendar cycle that began August 11, 3114 B.C. and ended on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012 A.D. It is also […]
The Reconciliation Game (An Enlightenment Game)
Hot and cold are the polarities of temperature. Easy. But what is the value that polarizes into love and hate? Life and death, anyone? Polarities are all around us. Every […]
Lotus Meditation
The other week, I came across this phrase: The higher self blossoms with the ego. The instance I read it, a meditation suggested itself, which I want to share with […]
Father and Son and How the Oedipus Complex Goes Both Ways
Freud coined the Oedipus complex. Wikipedia: The positive Oedipus complex refers to a child’s unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent. I beg to […]
How to Make Enlightened Decisions?
Shall I stay in my current job or accept the one in New York with a double salary? Shall I marry my C.E.O. or my high school love? Shall I […]
Why Saints Are Losers
Did you pursue your enlightenment career, and after some time, turned into a loser? You’re not the only one. It happened to me too. Don’t worry, there is nothing wrong […]
The Call of the Void
It was a wintry night when I crossed that bridge in Koblenz thirty-four years ago. I stopped in the middle of the bridge and looked down into the dark. A […]
Telepathic Noise
Have you ever thought of killing someone? Scary, isn’t it? I have good news: It was not really you who thought that. The Collective Matrix Below the surface of our […]
The Rubik’s Cube – An Enlightenment Allegory
Once in a while, we cross chaotic, unchartered lands while walking the path of enlightenment. To explain the technicality of this alternation of order and chaos, I’d like to compare […]
Angst
Immigrants, epidemics, global warming, corruption, aliens, conspiracies, water shortage, death, lack of money, medical bills. Fears, anxiety, and worries are self-fulfilling prophecies. Why? Because of the law of attraction. Worries […]
Playtivism – An Antidote to Depression
Andrew Solomon tells us that the opposite of depression is vitality, not happiness. According to Yana Buhrer Tavanier, we can overcome depression by playing. How are vitality and playfulness connected? […]
The Art of Experiencing
Why does the world exist? So that souls can experience. We are immortal souls having planetary experiences. Over time, even the most beautiful experience gets boring. That is the reason […]
The Chained Soul – The Secret of the Secret
It is easy to grasp The Secret intellectually: The law of attraction attracts experiences according to the way we think and feel. Positive thoughts and feelings invite happiness, health, and […]
The Proof of God
According to Webster, a proof is a process of establishing the validity of a statement, especially by derivation from other statements, in accordance with principles of reasoning. God is ineffable; […]
Janus – the Two-faced God
The Roman god Janus is a mysterious fellow and it doesn’t come as a surprise that experts debate his role in the divine scheme. The main consensus: He presides over […]
The Karmic Spring
Manipulations produce karmic imbalances. Karmic forces push back. We answer with more manipulations. Karma pushes harder. That’s how we wind up the karmic spring. An example: Lies breed lies. The […]
The Soul and the Golden Proportion
We, self-conscious souls, mediate between the higher self and our body/nature. We are a channel for the higher self’s influence and inspirations that extend – through us – all the […]
Why the Forty Percent Rule of the Navy Seals Is Dangerous
Have you heard of the forty percent rule? It goes something like this: When you feel that you reached your physical or mental limits, you’ve actually reached only forty percent. […]
Objective Proof vs. Subjective Verification
We live in two worlds, the external-objective and the internal-subjective world, the world of proof and the world of faith. Psychology has struggled to establish itself as a science because […]
Modern, Positive, and Enlightenment Psychology
Modern psychology emancipated itself from philosophy in the second half of the 19th century to find more effective ways of dealing with mental abnormalities. It made its first public appearance […]
The Soul, the Heart’s Desire, the Gift, the Personal Legend, and the Flaw
We are immortal souls. We are on this planet to have experiences. The most important experience in this incarnation is our heart’s desire, the one thing we want to be […]
Track Your Energies
We are energetic beings that interact with an energetic universe. That is our reality, not our body and the things we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. These are (beautiful) […]
Why Suicide Doesn’t Work
The very few who jumped off the bridge, and lived, and can talk about it, those one to two percent, most of those folks have said that the second they let […]
Depression, the Secret We Share
This video addresses the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge: depression. We live in a competitive and vibrant society and we don’t want to admit that anxiety […]
The Secret of Love
The ultimate experience is not excitement, wealth, power, or fame. It is love. Now, love has a secret. The secret it this: We want to be loved, but much more […]
The Kaleidoscope Allegory
An Allegory of Reality, Truth, Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom We don’t have direct access to reality. We look at it through a kaleidoscope – a confused, fragmented mind. Our big picture of […]
The Four Intangible Soul Values
Human existence is intangible. Like ghosts, we show up, haunt the planet for a lifetime and disappear again. All we leave behind are fading memories in those who knew us. […]