The path we are looking for in Eastern religions, is given to us in the Bible in a beautiful mystery language, which we often do not understand because no one has taught us to understand it
Many human beings base their life on pre-established and opposite paradigms. But many also seek to get out of this oscillating game, opening themselves to the renewal of the consciousness.
Not-knowing is the actual, constant fact at the bottom of the human mind. This is quite a simple truth that each one of us can fathom for ourselves. Pure perception, simple awareness, is the door
According to the philosopher Spinoza (1632-1677) there are two sides of Nature. First, there is the active, productive aspect; this is what Spinoza calls Natura naturans, “naturing Nature”. The other
The mind is the great destroyer of the real. Let the disciple destroy the destroyer. Abandon the false, enter the true.
Helena P Blavatsky. The voice of silence
The state of beholding the spirit, but not being able to grasp it, is what Kierkegaard calls a state of ‘nothingness’. One could also call it a state of emptiness or a vacuum that triggers a fear in
Our contemporary world is 'following its fate', progressing more or less on the scientific, technical and genetic levels and in the inevitable disorder of contradictory political issues. It
Pythagoras took up the vegetarianism of the Orphics and developed it into an ethical vegetarianism. For many centuries, people who did not eat meat were not called vegetarians, but ‘Pythagoreans’.
It was an Eastern body of thought that had an impact on the West via the Orphics in Greece. ‘By not killing living beings, one becomes worthy of salvation’ is the statement in one of the original
The Nuptial Thalamus or Bridal Chamber, alludes to the pineal gland, the door through which the Spirit descends into the prepared human personality, in order to celebrate the "wedding" with
An interview with Joost Ritman, Amsterdam (for LOGON: Gunter Friedrich). - Jan van Rijckenborgh's vision of the una sancta, the holy unity, was important for my life.
LOGON (Peri Schmelzer) interviewed Dr. Thomas Steininger, a philosopher and cultural activist from Germany. - The “Whole” becomes a sensual experience. Something lights up that we might call sacred.
LOGON (Peri Schmelzer) interviewed Dr. Thomas Steininger, a philosopher and cultural activist from Germany. - Emergent dialogue is a form of dialogue in which we focus on what happens between us, on
As we are part of a group we’ve identified with, we continue our balancing act between wanting to belong and the desire to be free. A social crisis sharpens this conflict. Walking the spiritual path
Continuously we attempt to interchange part of our autonomy, power and freedom. The relinquished autonomy we use as means of payment, in order to be partially released from the weight of our
An Interview with Prof. Wolfgang Schad (Witten, Germany), for LOGON: Gunter Friedrich – The present is created by the rhythm of past and future, it is rhythmically condensed time.
The ultimate goal of the hermetic teachings is "regeneration", regeneration that provides the consciousness of unity with all creation or, in other words, enlightenment, or the awakening of
"Hermes Trismegistus was seen as the model of the wise man, depositary of an ancestral knowledge (previous to the Universal Flood), leading to the awakening of the true divine essence of the
When a certain part of a plant shows a deviation from the norm, a lack, a “mistake”, it always has the solution for it, since everything in nature strives for balance, for equilibrium, for
The spiritual principle of a plant can be called its archetype or essence. It works on a plant’s body from the outside and expresses itself in the form of the plant. It is its signature. As soon as
"There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond all of us, beyond the highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart." (Upanishad)
An interview with Prof. Wolfgang Schad (Witten, Germany), for LOGON: Gunter Friedrich - The younger we are, the more we are one with the experience of the world. The distance is created by thinking.
After the time of the iconoclasms that raged in Europe in the past, now the time of the flood of images and actual image tsunamis has come upon us. As the stories, images or films capture our
In an increasingly chaotic and crisis-ridden world, we often ask ourselves how we can improve our understanding of circumstances and situations. How do we promote the clarity of knowledge so that we
Spiritual impulses lead us into the crisis, the existential crisis. It cannot be otherwise. Because the once intact field of the soul has largely disappeared.
... this is what echoes to me from a psalm that is one of the few texts preserved from the Persian initiate Mani. Mani was active in the 3rd century, inspired by the desire to free young Christianity
The wisdom of the Dao Te Ching offers the human being a means of insight and a new basis for his heart. When Dao is working in a person things become visible from within. He/She can change
Does it require our thought and will activity to bring healing? What is the origin of the holistic movement of healing, balance and the restoration of harmony?
How can healing take place in emergency situations, without external aids? This article discusses the four options that are available to us and the mechanism of self-healing
The caterpillar turns into a pupa. The person who is no longer willing to live as before is often forced into loneliness, isolation. It is like dying, like entering a dark tunnel. But at the end of
The mythical space is a space of meaning and represents the interspace, the bridge between religious, mythical imaginations and our three-dimensional world of space and time.
'It is not, however, that there is a certain object that must be known, but rather it is about entering a state beyond the rational mind, into a state of contemplation' (Chögyal Namkhai
Spiritual sciences postulate the existence of an eternal principle that, for lack of another name, we can call "I am", "Tao" or simply God or the unmanifest Whole present in the
Biological transmutation means no more and no less than the transformation of certain atoms into others. It happens in nature but is in clear contradiction to the prevailing atomic theory.
The whole Universe can be seen as one buoyant divine organism in which man can progress from an anonymous particle within a collectivity, to achieving his individual self-realization of Life, thereby
The architect has designed a “life machine” for the Dominican order, whose individual parts do not at first appear to form a whole. And yet he shows us the standard for an order that is felt to be in
The duty of art is, according to Beuys, to turn the invisible into the visible. Thereby it is necessary, that at first an inner form takes shape, a form of thinking. This form can then be brought
The human mind knows basically two forms of action. The first form is an action that is born out of the known. The second activity comes from an openness to the unknown.
If you assume that there is a Plan with humanity, that there is an intention behind life on earth, then you start to search for the great stories of history, to understand what that can be.
The cultural mirror of the soul has many shades today. Rarely have individual views of what is beautiful been more complex than in the modern cultural world.
With every new epoch the cultural mirror in which truth is shown changes. While for Plato and Plotinus the eternal spirit, the “One”, showed itself to sensory perception in "the Beautiful
On average twelve times a minute we rebalance our life system. Carbonic acid out, oxygen in. If this goes well, we can live life. If we no longer manage to get oxygen in, because the lung vesicles
When the Light-principle in my being vibrates it can touch and stir the Light-principle in other humans. Therefrom comes into being a collective Artwork-entirety, created by all, for all.
"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another;
we mechanically follow somebody who will assure us a comfortable spiritual life”
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The legend of Saint George and the dragon is well known and celebrated in many countries (Portugal, Georgia, England, for example), and also in regions of Spain (Catalonia and Aragon).
A Talk Between Markus Stockhausen and Gunter Friedrich (LOGON magazine). Markus Stockhausen is a well-known trumpet player and composer, living close to Cologne in Germany. His work is documented on
The work on one’s own Self is mostly work done on one’s own self-image, and here the portrayal of how one is seen by others is sometimes of huge importance. But at some point, we can start working on
Throughout human history, there have been periods when art, science and religion formed a trinity of transcendent character. In others, on the contrary, they not only dissociated but even persecuted
It is the ascent to lighter heights, into the starry spheres – it is a cosmic nirvanic super-world journey through the open gate between the clouds – it is transfiguration.
“The door to soul consciousness remains closed, as long as we live from the known, from the old knowing. Because the ‘known knowledge’ is like a veil, like a door, which hides the unknown from us.”
The year 2020 is the year of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary. He died on 26 March 1827. What the Holy Scripture is for a religious person, Beethoven’s music may be for a humanistic and ethical person.
The teaching of universal consciousness contained in the "Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch" is attributed to Hui-neng. He was the sixth patriarch after Bhodidharma, who brought Buddhism from
The ideas determining vertices of an equilateral triangle are in mutual balance, in full harmony. Such a triangle represents one of the basic principles of the spiritual path
Life is always a journey into yourself. It is an adventure because it always confronts us with the unexpected, the unusual and often the undesired – with challenges that we can only master by
When we observe the dialectical nature, it appears to be a monstrous creator that feeds on and lives from the energies it gets from the death of its creatures. What is at stake in such a macabre
The Renaissance period, born after the cold medieval winter, gave life to a symbolic spring of flowers and spiritual fruits. During that period, the restoration of the authentic Dignity of the human
We would like to contemplate some aspects of the isolation we feel from time to time,
and, now more than ever, is a feature of our everyday life, because, in these times, it is important to
The light-seeker gets to know himself and the ordinary world as it is, with all its shortcomings and contradictions. He courageously faces what he sees.
Our attitude towards life can change when we begin to search for the meaning of life. When one feels that there is a meaning in our existence, the perspective on what happens in everyday life becomes
Christian Rosycross and the other candidates endeavor to purify and transform their own essence under the guidance of the Ancient One (the divine principle present in man).
Deeply lived-through compassion can bring healing into our relationships and from there draw circles. Through intimate dialogue with one’s partner and – to give perspective – with all other creatures
It is no secret that myths from different cultures contain archetypal patterns of human thoughts, feelings, behavior in human relations and reactions to fate events
The law of cause and effect is deeply planted into the activity of our mind as the conception of the past moving through the present into the future. But there is a possibility of unprejudiced
Christian Rosycross is the one who "attaches the eternal rose to the cross of transience". He is the one who has the courage to lose himself in order to find his true self. The Rosicrucian
The struggle enters into broader dimensions, Voldemort spreads into the fields of the conscious and unconscious. So Harry has to go through serious crises, in the course of which his awareness
The extraordinary, that which transcends the limits of the normal, brings to mind the hidden from the border areas of consciousness and unconsciousness within us, and this is especially because the
In the previous article, we have described the life and work of the editor of Kalevala, the physician and botanist Elias Lönnrot. In this part the groundbreaking spiritual interpretation of the
The Iliad as Finnish Kalevala is sometimes called. The epic has a firm place in world literature. More than one hundred years ago, on the 6th of December, 1917, Finland became a sovereign state and
We want directions, accurate hints, and games offer that all. But we never fully realize ourselves in them, for we seek outside ourselves what can only be found within.
Karma is one of the terms commonly used in current esoteric literature, popularized in day-to-day language, where it has replaced the words fate and destiny. Destiny itself has been used for a long
The world of art has its own language. For centuries, especially in the sacred architecture, artists have manifested all their consecration to spirituality depicting or representing scenes coming
The path we are looking for in Eastern religions, is given to us in the Bible in a beautiful mystery language, which we often do not understand because no one has taught us to understand it…