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
"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)
... 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?
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
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.
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
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
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
During the 12th and 13th century the Cathars’ and Albigenses’ “heretic” deviation from official dogma led to the cruelest religiously-motivated genocide in European history.
On Sunday, October
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 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
When we are confronted with the mystery of death, at once our existence seems unreal. Who am I?
Where does this life lead me?
Is everything transitory?
In a chaotic world we often ask ourselves how to make our understanding become effective. Too often goodwill and zeal do not find any space.
How to apply the real in-formation, the
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
John the Baptist knows, inwardly, that it is not the mere initial transformation of his self-consciousness that must be the final product of the transformation, and so he announces that something
From the moment the universal Light has the possibility of being born within the human being, he celebrates his Christmas party for the first and only time.
For Simone Weil (1909-1943), a French philosopher and mystic of Jewish descent, life is the search for the Absolute. She says: "It is not important to make people happy, but to find meaning for
Every moment of mindfulness, awareness of what are my thoughts and feelings and whether they belong to Chronos or Poseidon brings me closer to the Source
Besides all the happiness they may bring, encounters also lead to different kinds of pain. If we accept this and search for its causes, the underlying oneness can shine through, and can show us the
Eternity can radiate through man.
It can become more intensive when de-mentia, the state of the not understanding mind appears in the place of the understanding mind.
When falling in love we're gifted with the brightening of the souls, hardly perceived yet naturally there. During the years together the soul never imposes. Is forgotten, obscured by all those
There is an inner relationship between the various mystical paths. This is not surprising, because it is about the dimensions of man. And these are in their depth independent of the nature of
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) paints Christ’s cross generally as a tau (T). In the development of this symbol, we see reflected several stages of consciousness, in connection with the vibration of the
A true meditation would be to take into account the triple dimension of the human being (body, soul and spirit), allowing to connect to the purest core of our being: the Rose of the Heart.
Of all the existing creatures, only the human being is capable of reason. He must be conscious of his presence and the unity which exists between himself and the others.
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…
"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)…