I had a vision: thousands of people tore down a border fence in front of confused soldiers Canva The headline of an op-ed I saw the other day read: ”Every second of this repulsive tragedy is the result of wrong policy”. Many formulate their disgust for the renewed war in the Middle East in terms like these. I agree, but it is a scratch on the surface. What this never ending conflict really is, in its essence, is an extreme expression of the illusion of separation and a rejection of the force that makes it possible for us to even be here and create earthly lives for ourselves: uncondi ..read more

Photos from Canva If you are a person with a spiritual outlook on life and engage in a conversation about the big questions with someone who has a more materialistic mindset, there is one notion that is particularly difficult to convey: the meaningfulness of life. Not just the good parts, but all of it. Most people, regardless of their degree of spirituality, will happily acknowledge a sense of meaning and purpose when they fall in love, become parents or have a blissful experience in nature. Most would probably say the same thing about events outside of their own lives that are perc ..read more

Canva We are entering a time when the baby that was thrown out with the bathwater 400 years ago — when science split from religion and spirituality — will be put back into the tub again. How can I say that? Aren’t we in the midst of the most science-revering era ever, you might object. And you would be right. But the implications are perhaps not quite what you would expect. Science is advancing so fast into the cosmos, the quantum world and the inner mechanisms of our DNA and our psyche that the borderline to spirituality is getting blurred. Wonderfully blurred. This may scare some p ..read more

Thoughts on conspiracy, reality and harmony Canva Taking care of and venerating Gaia, the planet we live on, is arguably the wisest thing we can do, but we must not forget to embrace our own wellbeing, sanity and clarity. Indeed, the former isn’t possible in a meaningful way without the latter. Humans are not just any other animal. I am convinced we have a different role to play. Spiritual guide Matías De Stefano calls humans the neurons of Gaia. I think it may be an apt description. We need Gaia, but to evolve she also needs us to evolve. So the body, mind and spirit of those neuron ..read more

Canva I have written before about the unwarrantedly deep reverence our culture shows the brain. It is an immensely important organ, no doubt, but it is a bodily organ, not an ersatz God. I have used different analogies. In my essay Are We Living in an Approximation, I described the internet as an approximation for what is often referred to as the Akashic records. But I forgot to employ the obvious analogy of the brain as a computer. So I want to talk a bit about that. This is how I would describe the computer metaphor. To begin with, it is important to realize that the analogy is a bit la ..read more

CanvaIs a 19th century mindset finally being challenged? When the jab rollout was in full swing in 2021, the ruling elite noted with annoyance that a small but significant minority of the population was skeptical about taking the prophylactic drug for various reasons, for example that they already had a robust natural immunity. In France, president Emmanuel Macron bombastically stated that those who refused to roll up their sleeves ”weren’t proper French citizens” and should be banned from public places. In Canada, prime minister Justin Trudeau made the jaw-dropping claim that the people who p ..read more

Is A.I. merely the next layer in an already ”artificial” reality? Illustration: Canva Everybody and their aunt takes on the A.I. issue these days. I don’t know if I am everybody or their aunt, but here is my contribution, anyway. I will examine the phenomenon from a more philosophical-spiritual viewpoint than most do. I will not dwell in detail on neither the wonderful nor the scary things A.I. can do, and I will not land in any clear-cut conclusion about the pros and cons. I have touched on the topic before, briefly: I made a couple of short videos, where I claimed that we probably don’t ..read more

Photos from Canva If you are a person with a spiritual outlook on life and engage in a conversation about the big questions with someone who has a more materialistic mindset, there is one notion that is particularly difficult to convey: the meaningfulness of life. Not just the good parts, but all of it. Most people, regardless of their degree of spirituality, will happily acknowledge a sense of meaning and purpose when they fall in love, become parents or have a blissful experience in nature. Most would probably say the same thing about events outside of their own lives that are perc ..read more

Wikimedia Commons I recently read George Orwell’s groundbreaking book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Late, I know. I should have read it when I was 20 or thereabouts, like everybody else. But I didn’t, and then the years went by, I read all kinds of other books, and as for Nineteen Eighty-Four, it was of course referenced to in all sorts of contexts, which made it feel as if I had actually read it. An article in The Guardian puts this well: ”… it has infiltrated the consciousness of countless people who have never read it. The phrases and concepts that Orwell minted have become essential fixtures ..read more

I had a vision: thousands of people tore down a border fence in front of confused soldiers Canva The headline of an op-ed I saw the other day read: ”Every second of this repulsive tragedy is the result of wrong policy”. Many formulate their disgust for the renewed war in the Middle East in terms like these. I agree, but it is a scratch on the surface. What this never ending conflict really is, in its essence, is an extreme expression of the illusion of separation and a rejection of the force that makes it possible for us to even be here and create earthly lives for ourselves: uncondi ..read more