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Update: 23 October 2019

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Two kinds of time for two different worlds

In pre-Columbian Middle America the Indians made use of two different kinds of time, Tonal time and Nagual time.

ZEITGEIST

Old potatoes out

I can’t see them with the naked eye but from early childhood on, I have known that they are there.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Loneliness and the miracle

How long it lasted I do not know.
Time seemed to have fallen apart at the seams.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Realized Spirituality - The Diaries of Dag Hammarskjöld

A book review

SPIRIT & SOUL

The butterfly

It is our task to keep alive for the present the richness and profundity of meaningful images from the past.

LIVING PAST

Chinese cycles of time - In the cycle of silence

A method of looking at time originated in Ancient China. It draws upon the 8 trigrams of the Chinese compass (Ba Gua), from which 9 subsequent and recurring cycles of time are derived.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Simone Weil: Philosopher - Union Worker - Mystic

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

LIVING PAST

Female Initiates of the Christian Era: Madame Blavatsky, the messenger of the masters

She reminded the world of the message that the voice of silence exists within each of us.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Living without problems?

Problems can be of great help. We only need to know how to apply them properly. The common sense of the heart can thereby be of assistance.

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Sparkling together

Bringing in a harvest

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Star Trek: Aspiring Toward the Other - Part 4

Within the human being, the cosmic and the internal meet. Their forces and principles are alive and radiant, belonging to a vast spectrum, influencing the human being so as to be recognized and

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Exit Door

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

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Star Trek: Aspiring Toward the Other Part 3

The fantastic realms, the local or "far, far away" galaxies through which the hero and his fellows travel symbolize the internal realm of the microcosm, the human being in its entirety.

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The sick heart Part 5

The human being carries a double nature: he is a citizen of two worlds. He is an immortal, spiritual son of the Kingdom of Heaven as well as a mortal, material child of this earth. We call him

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Star Trek: Aspiring Toward the Other Part 2

The numerous characters' adventures, the commotion and fighting throughout the galaxy can easily be recognized as metaphoric depictions of a huge clarification and development process taking

LIVING PAST

Externally, internally and the innermost - An illustration

"Some words from the inside" by Karl von Eckartshausen

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North Pole

Our planet earth seems to have completely lost the north recently

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The sick heart Part 4

There are seven energy centres which lie along the spine. As long as the life energy can ascend through these centres unimpeded, there is development.

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The sick heart Part 3

Symptoms are a direct expression of a soul reality. They are not coincidences, but they show relentlessly honestly what the actual causes are.

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The sick heart Part 2

Our heart has a key position as a communication centre of the whole organism. Each body cell “bathes” in the energy of the heart.

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The sick heart Part 1

Our heart contains a „second brain“. Its nerve system consists of approx. 40'000 neurons. Thus we can say it is able to „think“.

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Islam and christianity - where they meet

Universality can be found both in Christianity and in Islam. There they meet - full of force and understanding.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Allowing the Other to be

I started as a Christian, discovered myself as a Hindu, then came back as a Buddhist, and nevertheless I didn't stop being a Christian

LIVING PAST

Encounter with Chidr

A fictitious discourse in Damascus

SPIRIT & SOUL

The two nature orders

"That which was old is past; behold, all things new " 2 Co 5:1

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Encounters

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Alchemy - a path to the gold within Part 3

The Philosopher's Stone is the Spirit of Christ, that must penetrate into the soul of the individual

SPIRIT & SOUL

Alchemy - a path to the gold within Part 2

Seven classical stages of alchemical transformation

SPIRIT & SOUL

Alchemy - a path to the gold within Part 1

To the devoted seeker into the deeper aspects of life, Alchemy offers a detailed description of the path of fundamental change

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Life-waves

Watching the waves

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About the work of the Rosycross Foundation - How the idea of a symposium takes shape

A fruitful exchange has begun, a heart-to-heart cooperation, from consciousness to consciousness.

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Four interviews about the true self Part 4: Peter Herrle (Rosicrucian, Germany)

„The true self is the unfathomable identity of man. For me it is the source of inspiration.“

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Four interviews about the true self Part 3: Peter Hüseyin Cunz (Sufi, Switzerland)

"In our innermost being there is a need for connection with the world beyond in order to become whole, in order to be in unity."

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‘Mind expansion’

In the twentieth century, many efforts were made to expand the mind, often through substances

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Luke Skywalker and Yoda: Meeting the Inner Master

Can we recognize the meeting of Luke and Yoda as a process happening within ourselves?

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Four interviews about the true self Part 2: Abbot Muho (Zen Buddhist, Japan)

„When I ask myself what my true self is, the true self looks itself in the eye.“

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Four interviews about the true self Part 1: Johannes Kiersch (Anthroposophist, Germany)

„I sense a higher 'true self', whose reality can be experienced but not described in words.“

SPIRIT & SOUL

Dream world

Sometimes in your sleep, you may realise that you are dreaming

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The superlative

This is 'amazing', 'awesome', 'mind-blowing'

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High-flyer, part 2

I kept thinking about that sentence about the highest heavens

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High-flyer, part 1

‘Rise above yourself,’ stood in the advertisement of the High-flyers Society

SPIRIT & SOUL

Paradoxes

Everything is important and nothing really matters

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Encounters in the Retirement Home

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

A Time for Souls

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

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Back to school

We dance on the wafer-thin crust of a glowing gas sphere

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Names

The whirligig

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Encounter with the Eternal - Where Rosicrucians and Sufis reach out to each other

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Working with resistance

What a curious phenomenon resistance is

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reflections of the day – about a higher darkness

What is that before the creation? What is this nothing? What is this divine darkness? The original cause of all.

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The mega society

What role does a god play in the process of social development?

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Some thoughts about the history of Japanese painting

The Buddhist pictures should enhance the believers’ veneration by generating feelings of joy and elevation

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Kant and the idea of the organism

Kant opened a new way to see life and the wholeness of organic beings. This is a way that is compatible with scientific thought processes.

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The Portrait

Recognizing the divine twin ...

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Less could be more

If we are privileged not to have to orient our lives solely to work and career how do we use our freedom?

LIVING PAST

The Upanishads and the ancient Teachings about the Self

The self residing within your heart is smaller than a grain of rice – and yet it is greater than the Earth, greater than the heavens, greater than all worlds.

SCIENCE+

The „Primal Experience“ of Robert Reininger

Philosophy on the Foundation of Mystical Experience

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 6

The innermost being shown in the outermost covering

SPIRIT & SOUL

On becoming Nothingness - God’s building material

What did Christ mean by "He, who loses his life, will find it," and Lao Tse by "Only the little one can get the big one”?

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The "Prayer to Time" by Caetano Veloso and the sacred trees

The serpentine fire’s dry trunk can become the cross of victory by the endura, a process that leads to rebirth

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 5

Plato's cave - equipped with screens

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 4

How we left the internal space. About expired visions and ideals

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 3

Beauty can be experienced as force. To achieve harmonic proportions and compositions in sacred buildings the old masters had a rope with twelve knots tied around their belly.

LIVING PAST

The Mystic Dorothee Sölle

Mysticism must not be an ivory-tower inwardness, but it can culminate in an active life. Dorothee Sölle experienced: "My happiness has always started in selflessness."

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Remote Control

There is a real life which urges being lived.

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The Golem - Part Three – The Future

What is the new chapter which today is added to the old book of the ‘golem’? Lemuria repeats itself. We create new robots.

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The Golem - Part Two – The Present

We need to know our origin, to take our destiny into our own hands. What do we know about the microcosm in which we live?

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The Golem - Part One – The Past

What is the common thing between the Golem, Prometheus and the Lemurian man? It seems that we have an inner drive to imitate our Creator.

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There is thinking and thinking

You think too much, they said to me when I was little

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Unexpected

What you see is yourself

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Alpha and Omega

My neighbor does not believe in a life after death - but he cherishes an active veneration for his favorite saint. And in a newspaper, someone stated: 'I do not believe in a god - but I am sure

SPIRIT & SOUL

Youth

When did I grow up? Or am I still waiting for that?

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 2

Polarity must, as a fruitful opposite, be differentiated from antagonistic and destructive dualism

LIVING PAST

Who is Lucifer? Or: Lucifer - the evil one within us?

Is Lucifer the devil and a counterpart to God? Or is he the personification of evil in the world or of our own inner evil part? What is “evil”? Is there such a thing as “evil” or does that which we

SPIRIT & SOUL

How to think God?

We can think of God – provided we become God. That is, when the divine nature has been revivified.

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Art and awareness as a journey into ourselves Part 1

"It is easy to loose the arts, but hard and time-consuming to find them again" (Albrecht Duerer)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Go with the flow

If something happens to us that touches us deeply, we rarely have this enlightening thought that each event carries with it a GIFT.

SCIENCE+

Numbers tell the story of life Part 6

Seven, eight, nine, ten - fulfilment

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Numbers tell the story of life Part 5

The six brings the absolute into the world

LIVING PAST

The Teachings of Hermes and Satori Zen: what passes and what remains

What the Absolute Being does is the full deconstruction of the barriers that crystallize, imprison us and create lenses which distort the Absolute Truth.

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Numbers tell the story of life Part 4

The five

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Inevitable evolution

Is the spiritual fulfillment of man a possibility or an unavoidable process?

LIVING PAST

On human dignity according to Pico della Mirandola - or a call to a new humanness

Human dignity and human rights – who is a human being?

LIVING PAST

The sound of the world-soul

Creation - a symphony

SPIRIT & SOUL

The bee keeper

About the sense of deprivations

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Numbers tell the story of life Part 3

The four - manifestation in the form

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Anxiety, worry, fear…

The intention of this text is to inspire the reader to reflect on the source of his or her anxieties, worries and fears, and perhaps in this way to deepen self-knowledge in the moments when they

LIVING PAST

Psyche and her lover

While the personality suffers from its belief to be an 'I', the Greek myth of Psyche enlightens us how it could be cured of this impossible 'disease', for being inspired by the

SPIRIT & SOUL

The compass and the line of life

In the drawing made by a compass, we can observe a circle, that is, an infinity, and a point - the beginning that brings to mind the Absolute.

SCIENCE+

From the centre of the galaxy to the centre of our heart

Space is the matrix of all possible creations

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Journey to the end of contrasts

“He who thinks that all the good lies on one side and the evil on the other, will simplify his life, but will fool himself.” - Robert Wyatt

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Numbers tell the story of life Part 2

Three important steps

LIVING PAST

Monument of the Finnish identity The epic “Kalevala” unveiled as a road to initiation, part 2

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

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Numbers tell the story of life Part 1

Numbers unveil our development and destiny

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Memory of Quintessentials

SPIRIT & SOUL

Touched by The Spirit?

A single moment inmidst of silence

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Buddha's dance

In the beginning is the dance of Buddha. The end is a time of silence.

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Dialogue, not-knowing and creation

People meet on different occasions to have a dialogue together.

SCIENCE+

The era of Aquarius - One door is opening

A step in our development

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Buddha's Nirvana and Christian Gnosis Part 2

Awakening and Salvation

LIVING PAST

Plato and the reminiscence of the soul

Plato says that knowing is to remember, and that cultivating the "practice of remembering" is the way to reach the essence of everything and return to the original life.

LIVING PAST

An evening in Mostar

An evening in Mostar. But not an evening in our century.

LIVING PAST

The myth of the Pistis Sophia speaks again

The gospel of the Pistis Sophia is one of the few gnostic writings that were available already in the eighteenth century

SCIENCE+

Buddha's Nirvana and Christian Gnosis Part 1

Towards the unity in everything

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Dream

A true experience

ART+

Giving Away

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Precipitation of nature

Don’t torment yourself with questions - whether, why, when, where…

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Star Trek: Aspiring Towards the Other Part 1

Go boldly where no one has gone before

LIVING PAST

Onhemonkandire and Endura: Eternal Life for Guaranis and Cathars

The search for Iwi Maraê, the Earth without Evil, reflects the spiritual journey of the individual on the way back to his original condition.

LIVING PAST

African traditions and religious syncretism: Introduction to the Mvett

Are we able to integrate the African traditions into the corpus of the universal teaching? An overview of the possible religious syncretism might help here. As we decipher the Mvett, we become aware

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Tau cross

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

ART+

A View from a Bridge

I stand on a bridge when the sun is getting pale

SPIRIT & SOUL

Narrator of Heaven

Imagine you are seeing everything you experience as if it were in a film

LIVING PAST

If you were a Guarani

The Guarani people's capacity for abstraction runs counter to the idea of savagery so often attributed to indigenous people.

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Interim manager

There are two people who are incapable of doing things: the one before them and the one after them.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Freedom

‘Freedom’ is the ability of a person to exercise his/her own will. But is our own will independent and unlimited?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Bring out a new reality through meditation

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.

LIVING PAST

From within to the ocean: The Peabiru

The Peabiru is better understood as a symbol of an inner path.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Encounter in different worlds

The eternal can awake in you

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The gaze that reconciles

An exploration of the sight in a non-hierarchical, intuitive way, looking at a female reality. How our senses can give life meaning again.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Who am I?

My face in the mirror won't tell me

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A new clarity

How the look of a child opened my eyes ...

LIVING PAST

"Hardships Are Carpets Full Of Grace"

Hikam - Words of Wisdom by Ibn ’Ata’ Allah

LIVING PAST

Monument of the Finnish identity The epic “Kalevala” unveiled as a road to initiation, part 1

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Inside - A Soul's Lament

Where is my light?

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Between conspirators and volunteers for the Light

Between global conspiracies on the one hand, and the motivation to volunteer for the Light on the other: where do we stand?

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Games and the quest for autonomy

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.

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The difference between the old and the new

The "young consciousness" is above the duality of the new and old.

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Science and Religion: Enemies or Allies?

Anyone who wants to understand such questions needs to reconcile science and religion so that they do not cling to dogmas, have inner autonomy, and use rational understanding in seeking some sort of

SPIRIT & SOUL

On the way to myself

Travelling by night ...

ZEITGEIST

The power of money over the human being

In the contemporary economy the power of the nations is determined by their mastery of money.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Man is what he thinks

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.

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LOGON and the way of the One part 2

A new way of thinking can help us, a way of thinking that is open for the innermost core of being human.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Cords of life

Is there more than one source of life?
Can we find a new source of life?

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Karma and free will

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

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Hilma af Klint: Possible Worlds

It is noticeable that this Swedish painter came into contact with a superior magnetic field, a pure and elevated field.

ZEITGEIST

Money and the Golden Reality

Money is a great servant but a bad master
(Francis Bacon)

LIVING PAST

Heritage, Transmission, Life

We are spiritually both heirs and donors. This is how we are placed in the heart of the impersonal and fraternal life.

LIVING PAST

Easter Island - Mystery center of the South Pacific

The Song of Waitaha

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Hero's Journey: The spiritual path of the human being

A vision of the path through the work of Joseph Campbell "The Hero of a Thousand Faces"

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A Litany of the awakened

Beatitudes of the marginalized
or
Let's walk in the cheerful knowledge

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The return towards the true self

Distinction between the different forms of ‘self’ is crucial

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External and internal hyperconnection: a path inward

With so many connection tools available to us, how do we communicate with ourselves?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Man and Woman – Transmutation Through Devotion

Only a consciousness marked by despair can recognize reality
(J. Krishnamurti)

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Encounter on Shivapuri

You can climb the mountain. The path is within you

LIVING PAST

Native American wisdom

The goal of life for us is not to worship an external god

SPIRIT & SOUL

The alchemy of the soul

Do you know that you are a chemist?

LIVING PAST

Peter Deunov - Wisdommaster of love

‘A man who has understood Love becomes immortal.
A man who has understood wisdom becomes complete.
A man who has grasped Truth becomes free.’

SPIRIT & SOUL

Longing for life and for light

To keep traffic going in the right direction, raised barriers made of concrete elements have been erected at the road side

SPIRIT & SOUL

The way to where

The only thing that really draws my attention in these surroundings is a large species of bird that sits on top of the boulder

SPIRIT & SOUL

New eyes disclose a different world

We perceive according to our thinking. The world is an image and a result of our state of consciousness

LIVING PAST

Symbol - The dragon

Things that do not exist can not fly. Dragons do not exist. Why then a short article about the magic wings of a dragon?

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Sacred Earth

Life is sacred. The human being is sacred. So is the Earth.

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An encounter with silence

A visit to Tibet in 1986

SPIRIT & SOUL

Everything remained in its place

In my inner universe there are constellations which I cannot change

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Fundamental Questions

Live with the question

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The Ways of the World

Which road leads to true liberation?

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Where we are going, you and I

Dialogue

ZEITGEIST

Being responsible for your own time

"I don’t have time! Has anyone stolen it?"

SPIRIT & SOUL

Letter to a young seeker

Oftentimes, young people carry a profound spiritual longing

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Beyond thought

As I sit quietly and observe ...

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LOGON and the way of the One part 1

The Logos follows a path. It fulfills the way of the One. The LOGON magazine illuminates the aspects of this way.

LIVING PAST

Solution of an enigma

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

ART+

Meeting the other in the secret of the mirror

The humanism of Elémire Zolla

ZEITGEIST

What we seek and what we find

We all seek
Seeking is the reason for movement

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Simplicity

A simple idea

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Silence is golden

Mighty is silence

SPIRIT & SOUL

Our lost perfection

SPIRIT & SOUL

Unity and love in partnership?

The Spirit, by his own force, can steer man and woman along the path of harmonious cooperation

SPIRIT & SOUL

Nachiketa and the art of dying

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?

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Perception - What our eyes see

Who is looking at the photograph - you or the photographer?

SPIRIT & SOUL

The way inwards

If you do not see the way - then even if you walk it,
you will not fathom it

NEWS

Mysteries and symbols of the soul - to become a spirit

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SCIENCE+

The return towards the true self

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SPIRIT & SOUL

The alchemy of the soul

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ART+

Meeting the other in the secret of the mirror

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ZEITGEIST

Welcome to LOGON

Welcome to LOGON - the new online magazine of the Golden Rosycross.

ZEITGEIST

Two kinds of time for two different worlds

In pre-Columbian Middle America the Indians made use of two different kinds of time, Tonal time and Nagual time.

ZEITGEIST

Old potatoes out

I can’t see them with the naked eye but from early childhood on, I have known that they are there.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Loneliness and the miracle

How long it lasted I do not know.
Time seemed to have fallen apart at the seams.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Realized Spirituality - The Diaries of Dag Hammarskjöld

A book review

SPIRIT & SOUL

The butterfly

It is our task to keep alive for the present the richness and profundity of meaningful images from the past.

LIVING PAST

Chinese cycles of time - In the cycle of silence

A method of looking at time originated in Ancient China. It draws upon the 8 trigrams of the Chinese compass (Ba Gua), from which 9 subsequent and recurring cycles of time are derived.…