Call me a romantic, but it is my personal belief that ‘in the old days’, when we were living in tribes; sharing the results of the hunt, weaving baskets with each other for the same purpose; gathering berries and roots to make community meals – we were in a way better off than we are …
Do you have that sometimes when you find an old diary and read something you totally forgot about and yet what you wrote tells you that in a way you understood more of life and what goes on in it than you do now? ‘Forgotten Wisdom” so to speak. Things you used to abide by …
In a consumer’s society people have grown used to getting their demands met the moment the need occurs. When I want new jeans, I open my laptop and can have my pick from countless different models and brands. With the festive season closing in, I can do the same for my Christmas presents, mostly delivered …
With Christmas luring around the corner, pressure is building up again. What are we going to eat? What presents will I buy and get? What am I going to wear? ‘What will we ‘do’ with the parents?’ the latter sounding a bit like the title of a home-alone-type-of-movie, which by the way, we will probably …
While we live in the 21st century, the human body is in fact still designed to survive conditions of over 5000 years ago. The fight, flight or freeze response for instance, the body’s defense mechanism to immediate danger. It was designed to protect your self and ignite the right decision when you met a sabertooth …
I’m a bit at a loss today as to what to say in my weekly blog. I had negotiated with myself to be a bit more lighthearted. To put some more humor into, making personal development a bit lighter, making it more of an agreeable point of interest. Yet so much is going on in …
On youtube I saw an intriguing piece of storytelling recently about a teacher who one morning in high school gave all her pupils an unexpected test to make. She placed the exam forms face down in front of the students on their tables, just as she would always do, and once everybody had received their …
Throughout life I’ve met quite some teachers to whom I owe a lot; but then we all do. Even when we are not aware of it we encounter people along the way who supply us with bits and pieces that shape us into who we are. Sometimes it is that one book, that one brief …
Ever since I started up as an entrepreneur in spiritual land in the mid nineties, I have been noticing how spirituality can be big business. Having been fortunate enough to have mostly found teachers with integrity on my path, which is not always a given, I’m a lucky camper on the spiritual market. Some might …
It might take while, but when I look at the accelerated speed with which we have evolved over the past 2 centuries, I hope and pray that the insight over who we really are meant to be, will coming sooner than we think; and that our children’s children will no longer be living in a …
