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Update: 19 June 2021

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 5

The Spiritual DNA of the Native American Hopi Tribe.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality - An Interview with the philosopher and consciousness researcher Jochen Kirchhoff (Berlin) - Part 2

The contemplation of the starry sky evokes a deep feeling: there is something else here than what physics, astrophysics, wants to present to us. There is something that touches us elementally. We

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality - An Interview with the philosopher and consciousness researcher Jochen Kirchhoff (Berlin) - Part 1

For LOGON: Gunter Friedrich - There are many indications that there is a second world level, a second level of being, behind the physical-sensual world. Our world can only be understood if one takes

LIVING PAST

A different look at Adam’s apple – Part 2

Elaine Pagels call to reconsideration

LIVING PAST

A different look at Adam’s apple - Part 1

“He who has learned to view this world as a shadow of the spiritual world is not able to restrict his consciousness to the realm of shadows.”

LIVING PAST

Catharism, the religion of Love - Part IV

For the Cathars, the true Church was not an external space, consecrated to prayer, but was to be sought in the innermost part of the human being.

LIVING PAST

Catharism, the religion of Love - Part III

For the Cathars, the true Church was not an external space, consecrated to prayer, but was to be sought in the innermost part of the human being.

LIVING PAST

Catharism, the religion of Love - Part II

Catharism was first and foremost a Christian religion that claimed to be the mouthpiece of the authentic message of Christ.

LIVING PAST

Catharism, the religion of Love - Part I

The baptism of fire, or of the Light, was the principal Cathar sacrament, and, according to their conceptions, the true baptism of Christ.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Courage for the present

What wants to become can only ever begin in the present. If the eternal One and the individual are to meet, then this can only happen in the present, in the moment, free from book knowledge and

SPIRIT & SOUL

I'm just passing through

Everything in life would be much easier if I thought: "I'm just passing through".

ZEITGEIST

The myth as a means to access the world – Part 2

We are completely out of balance. If we do not allow the “both-as well” of myth, we will not survive. Man needs both perspectives on the world – the ratio of enlightenment as well as the mystery in

ZEITGEIST

The myth as a means to access the world – Part 1

"Oh, that's just a myth!" This pejorative statement means in our everyday language that it is a lie, a fake, a false idea or illusion. Yet this ancient Greek term for ‘word, speech,

SPIRIT & SOUL

Empty your suitcase for the biggest trip of your life

And it can be done now!

ZEITGEIST

About the integral differentiation of levels and states of consciousness - Part 2

How is it possible that Saint Bernard de Clairvaux, a brilliant medieval theologian and a representative of an intimate Christ mysticism, acted as a flaming whip for the Second Crusade? How is it

ZEITGEIST

About the integral differentiation of levels and states of consciousness - Part 1

Our historical evolution of consciousness can be marked in levels. They are created worldwide one after the other in an ever-increasing sequence as more and more complex systems of human cooperation

ZEITGEIST

Don Quixote, the metaphor of the path.

"Wayfarer, there is no path, the path is made by walking". (A. Machado)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Inner harmony - victory over yourself

Harmony is a struggle! Fight against every manifestation of self-centeredness, all self-preservation in the strength of the Spark of the Spirit that is in us.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Into the Open – Part 2

One night I woke up and had a very special experience.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Into the Open – Part 1

In a spiritual group subtle structures are erected as forms so that the inner being can take shape and express itself. One day, as if out of the blue, the thought came to me that I, that we as a

SPIRIT & SOUL

On dying at the edge of time – Part 4

My life continually leads me across thresholds – and finally we cross the very last one. I can take this last step with complete confidence, knowing that we are safe and protected as part of the

SPIRIT & SOUL

On dying at the edge of time – Part 3

The American neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander became acquainted with the reality of a world of consciousness that exists completely free of the limitations of the physical brain. The spiritual

ZEITGEIST

Vanity

One selfie is not enough, at least ten are taken, in various poses.

SPIRIT & SOUL

On dying at the edge of time – Part 2

There are forces inherent in our very own being which initiate dying processes, which lead us into these processes and accompany us all the way through them. Two planets stand for processes of death

SPIRIT & SOUL

On Dying at the Edge of Time – Part 1

Death has always been one of the problems, perhaps the biggest problem in human life.
Not love, not fear, not relationships, but this question, this secret, this feeling of coming to an end is

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Looking Within

Inner and outer silence.

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Oneness

Never to be forgotten.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Abstract or concrete

About working hard and working miracles.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Angelic Dialogue - Part 2

Are you the one from whom I hope to get answers to my most pressing questions about the current crisis?

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Angelic Dialogue - Part 1

An unnamed angel entered into a dialogue with a mortal after the Great and Generic Rehearsal of the Eternal Angelic Choir. The theme: the corona crisis.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Seeking

What Are We Seeking as Human beings?

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Fate of Everett Climb

Is my life a series of events with no other link between each other than some probability?

LIVING PAST

At the sources of the Grail

Few stories have left such a deep impression as the Grail myth.
Rewritten, expanded, commented on an incredible number of times, taken up in all the arts, diverted in every possible way, the

SPIRIT & SOUL

Seven levels of soul awareness – Part 2

How spirit and world take shape in man. Steps towards fulfilment

SPIRIT & SOUL

Seven levels of soul awareness – Part 1

How spirit and world take shape in man

ZEITGEIST

The Breath of Life – Part 2

„One ring to rule them all,
one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”

ZEITGEIST

The Breath of Life – Part 1

The concept of “breathing” is closely related to life itself. The element “air” is one of the four primary elements and sustains life by the rhythmic exchange of substances and forces.

ZEITGEIST

Living with the question: Does evolution have a goal?

Countless attempts have been made by brilliant researchers to find answers to the pressing, fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of creation.
The higher levels of information

SPIRIT & SOUL

Are we puppets?

Is there a creative plan to which we are subject?

LIVING PAST

Sarah and Tobit - Part 2

In order to be able to accept a death sentence with peace, one must first die internally

LIVING PAST

Sarah and Tobit - Part 1

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

ZEITGEIST

Fundamental Questions

Live with the question

ZEITGEIST

It's Time We Remind Ourselves of Who We Are and Where We Come From

Our world is a school. At the moment the school year is drawing to a close, and we are being prepared to enter a new, higher level

SPIRIT & SOUL

From inside

Recognizing one's own being by becoming more permeable

ZEITGEIST

What wants to become? What becomes. What is.

On the journey to the center of one’s own being three qualities of time can be experienced

LIVING PAST

Ray has a double center

“Every ray has a double center. […] Similarly, every human being has a double center.“ (Comenius: Centrum securitatis)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Paradigms of consciousness: renewal or stagnation?

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

What we think what we are, we are not

The nature of “what is” can only be experienced in a state of mind that is in direct relationship with what is, in pure awareness. Not-knowing is the actual, constant fact at the bottom of the human

SCIENCE+

The Flow of Emerging Reality

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

ZEITGEIST

The knot of things

The adventure of the change of consciousness is that it has an immediate consequence on the life you live and its perceptions.

ZEITGEIST

The Paradox of the Mind

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

ZEITGEIST

Infinity into the Lungs

What term best describes our highest desires ?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Kierkegaard – Fear in relation to the divine spirit

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Aspects of the Spiritual Path

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

ZEITGEIST

Vegetarianism and its Origins – Part 2: From the Pythagoreans to Today

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’.

ZEITGEIST

Vegetarianism and its Origins – Part 1: the Orphics

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality perceived – Part 2

The spiral staircase to the royal wedding hall' depicts a connection between the heart chakra and the supreme chakra in the head.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Mystery of the Bridal Thalamus

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality perceived – Part 1

Everything is happening in my brain. And I, I am aware of that.

LIVING PAST

About the emptiness that comes from silence

An imaginary conversation between Lao Tzu, J. van Rijckenborgh, Blavatsky and Krishnamurti.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The soul in question

The Soul has its own future, at the heart of my life. Born as a biological soul, it heads toward being a conscious and living soul.

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 4

‘Ancestry’ and Immunity.

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Wall of Taps

'Come to the source of the eternal fullness'

ZEITGEIST

A book for everyone

How was this possible, that those people had been reading a totally different book than she had?

ZEITGEIST

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the future

The whole universal developmental process has a direction. It moves towards an unimaginable, highly conscious and complex unity.

ZEITGEIST

Inertia or the memory effect

"When the tram shakes it is the stars that make you fall"

SPIRIT & SOUL

Death: a choice for Life

A book that helps to not die silly!

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The Star of David

Like every symbol, the Hexagram, in its graphic expression, contains multiple meanings

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Hyper-Dimensional Space

A great part of what we call "human being", exists "hidden" to our perception, in other dimensions.

LIVING PAST

Illustration of strength and power

A sketch based on Tarot card XI.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Breaking the walls of the heart

“Your task is not to seek Love, but simply to seek and find within yourself all the barriers you have built against it”.
(Rumi)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Communication

Communication is everything and everything is communication

ZEITGEIST

Every Person carries a Star within him

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Operation: rescue - A parable on joy and freedom of simply being

Our theme, Operation Rescue, highlights the first step on the spiritual path: self-knowledge through liberating discernment.

SCIENCE+

Facing the black mirror of my soul

Social networks and the New Era

ZEITGEIST

Layers

What soon becomes very clear is that it was a mask.

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The supreme Art

"I'll open a school of inner life, and I'll write on the door: art school"
Max Jacob

ZEITGEIST

Power

The principle of power is actually based on oppression and submission.

ZEITGEIST

The Emergence of the Sacred – Part 2

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.

ZEITGEIST

The Emergence of the Sacred – Part 1

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The worst...

'OK, your will be done'.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The devastating responsibility of being God - Seen from the viewpoint of a mortal being - Part 2

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reason and Power – Part 2

"He who attaches no value to power has attained supreme wisdom."

SPIRIT & SOUL

The devastating responsibility of being God - Seen from the viewpoint of a mortal being - Part 1

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

ZEITGEIST

Reason and Power - Part 1

Do we still know the original ability of power?

SCIENCE+

Experiencing the world as an interior – Part 4

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.

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Experiencing the world as an interior – Part 3

An interview with Prof. Wolfgang Schad (Witten, Germany), for LOGON: Gunter Friedrich - How cognition arises. Understanding can be an act of healing.

LIVING PAST

Gnosis Knows No Babel – Part 4

Speaking about primordial language - an esoteric approach

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J – A Mosaic of a Cellist - Part 2

An article about J.

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J – A Mosaic of a Cellist - Part 1

The intimate and complex textures of her life, form a myriad of colored, light filled images.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Three wondrous abilities - Part 2

Gaining and looking up first-hand experiences.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Three wondrous abilities - Part 1

What are your main abilities, what are you good at?

LIVING PAST

The wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus II - The path of enlightenment

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

LIVING PAST

The wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus I - The "Hermetics"

"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

LIVING PAST

Gnosis Knows No Babel – Part 3

About the power and powerlessness of language.

LIVING PAST

Gnosis Knows No Babel – Part 2

About the power and powerlessness of language.

LIVING PAST

Gnosis Knows No Babel – Part 1

About the power and powerlessness of language.

ZEITGEIST

Who do we think we are?

Would all men automatically become brothers?

SCIENCE+

Digilog

Analog versus digital; a quandry that intrigues me.

SCIENCE+

Essence and Signature of the Medicinal Plants – Part 2

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

SCIENCE+

Essence and Signature of the Medicinal Plants – Part 1

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The parable of the two disciples

Great and unknown are the paths of Tao, and countless are the ways leading to It

SPIRIT & SOUL

Illumination

"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)

ZEITGEIST

Charlie

For some reason he always just hit a sensitive point with his questions.

ZEITGEIST

Crisis in the rift between two eras

Under the basic conditions of our time two ways open up

ZEITGEIST

Radiating Healing

Resonating with someone whose system is in a state of harmonious vibration can have a beneficial healing affect.

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation – Part 3

A crisis is an intensified form of obtaining personal, or rather collective, consciousness

ART+

Restless temple

At first you think, "No, impossible, it's an optical illusion."

ZEITGEIST

Emissions of the forms and architecture

The shapes generate vibratory fields related to their configuration, proportion and color, which cause different actions on our cellular system

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Translating the Teaching

How grateful one feels for those texts that provide relief in the quest to find meaning in life!

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The Radiance of the Light

Poetry

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Art and Conscience

Science, Religion and Art, must form a unity, must grow and develop in the same direction: to create consciousness

ZEITGEIST

Experiencing the world as an interior – Part 2

An interview with Prof. Wolfgang Schad (Witten, Germany), for LOGON: Gunter Friedrich - We are more than our conscious everyday selves.

ZEITGEIST

Experiencing the world as an interior – Part 1

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Life - an account of an initiatic journey

That was how I started my life as a “free wisdom” researcher.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The prison of the self in the heart

There is an essential, absolute reality - the Whole, which embraces everything in serenity, and which is asleep within us.

SCIENCE+

Spontaneous healing - how is it possible?

There is a certain state of being that plays a role in all cases of spontaneous healing studied

ZEITGEIST

No anxiety, worry and fear

What is required from us to feed the new soul, to help it grow?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Christmas as an inner celebration – a response to Corona (Part 2)

The virus that makes us physically ill today is a reflection of the illness of our inner being.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Christmas as an inner celebration – a response to Corona (Part 1)

We can experience Christmas as the rising of an inner star.

ZEITGEIST

The magic of images – Part 2

There are images that can help us, images that correspond to inner liberating forces.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Shining Darkness

What I Experienced in a Sleepless Night

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Power of Tiny Little Seed

The tiny little thing, which is invisible, is the driving force of everything

ZEITGEIST

The magic of images – Part 1

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

ZEITGEIST

Wanting to understand

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Look at the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave

"Not even Solomon in all his splendor dressed as one of them"

SPIRIT & SOUL

Ralph and the journey through Communication Land

What people, young or old, all believed and said, was clearly absurd!

ZEITGEIST

The crisis of the I

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

"The Great Healer Has Come!"

... 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

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Something Along Those Lines

A Poem

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 2

Jan Amos Comenius experienced a turbulent life

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 1

'About Fortitude in General Disaster ' by Justus Lipsius

LIVING PAST

Is it possible to understand the Bible rationally? - part 2

The wedding at Cana in Galilee

LIVING PAST

Is it possible to understand the Bible rationally? - part 1

La parabola dei talenti

SPIRIT & SOUL

Self (un)awareness

A dark, silent and empty space ...

SPIRIT & SOUL

Turning towards Destiny

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

LIVING PAST

Initiates of the Christian Era: The Princess of Foix

A true Esclar Mond, “clarity for the world”, and one of the most prominent female figures of the Middle Ages.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Healing and inner Dying

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?

SCIENCE+

The miracle in your own self. Thoughts on natural and cultural medicine - Part 2

Using the power of our mind and consciousness. Impelling self-efficacy and self-healing

SPIRIT & SOUL

Dissatisfaction

The pendulum of our life oscillates between
satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

SCIENCE+

The miracle in your own self. Thoughts on natural and cultural medicine - Part 1

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Inspiration - the violin - the sound-post

Music can help awaken the longing for a higher reality

SPIRIT & SOUL

Two Worlds. …. Where am I Today?

It was so confusing living in two bodies

SPIRIT & SOUL

Survival, moral rules, and the sacred

Different levels of consciousness in each and all of us lead to the path of spiritual search and transfiguration.

ZEITGEIST

From the caterpillar to the butterfly. Illness - a healing process

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

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Beyond thought

As I sit quietly and observe ...

LIVING PAST

The Mythical Space

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.

ART+

The Little Prince – the tale of returning - Part 4

'To the unspoiled, even a snakebite is a loving kiss. But to the spoiled even a loving kiss is a snakebite' - Mikhail Naimy

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The Little Prince – the tale of returning - Part 3

“What is most important is invisible...”

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The Little Prince – the tale of returning - Part 2

"If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom"

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The Little Prince – the tale of returning - Part 1

“You are responsible for your rose...”

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Art – a touch of another reality

'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

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Scarborough fair - Part 2

To one who lives there, for she once was a true love of mine.

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Scarborough fair - Part 1

This song appears to have been sung for ages

ZEITGEIST

Unity - Duality

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

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Poetry and Spirituality

Poetry is, like all the arts, one of the great manifestations of the human spirit.

SCIENCE+

Give me a point of support...

... And I will move the world?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Human relations in the coming Aquarius age, part 2

Self-realization of the 'observer’

SPIRIT & SOUL

Human relations in the coming Aquarius age, part 1

Is there a place for 'Aquarius values' in life on earth?

SCIENCE+

"There is no matter in itself" – Some thoughts about biological transmutation – Part 2

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.

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"There is no matter in itself" - Some thoughts about biological transmutation - Part 1

Atoms consist of vibration, indeed are vibration. Matter can be seen as a manifestation of spirit.

LIVING PAST

‘Free is the realm of the soul’, part 2

Etty Hillesum and Rilke saw Russia as their second homeland

LIVING PAST

‘Free is the realm of the soul’, part 1

Diary of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)

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Friedrich Hölderlin: Half of Life

The brief poem, "Half of Life", is close to the truth of the poet’s life

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Fear

It is important to have fear. And it is good to overcome it.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Healing - Holy - Health: The Path towards true Health of Humanity

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

ZEITGEIST

Fear, Corona and me

The abyss that is within us hurls itself now and then outwards. Therein lies an opportunity for transformation

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Zeitgeist, World Order, Silence. A tour of Le Corbusier's monastery La Tourette in Eveux (1957-1960)

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The voice from within

Be silent.

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Joseph Beuys: “He who refuses to think, gets tossed out”

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

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Wu Wei in Chinese painting

Who is leading the brush?

SPIRIT & SOUL

The work of art that the earth demands

Everyone works on his own inner form which is invisible, transparent, and yet decisive for his life

ZEITGEIST

The Art of Learning

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Biblical plagues and their intent

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.

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Staying in the not-knowing

Interview with Merlijn Twaalfhoven, cultural entrepreneur and composer

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The greatness of small things

The painter Dick Ket (1902 - 1940) had a special eye for the unsightly

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Art and Truth - Part 2

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.

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Art and Truth - Part 1

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

LIVING PAST

Comforting words

If you are not able to save yourself, abandon yourself, only taking care that you do not lose God – Jan Amos Komenský

ZEITGEIST

The truth and its versions: how to act in the midst of so many certainties?

"Is there not a lie in my right hand?" (Isaiah 44:20)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Breathing and balance

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

ZEITGEIST

The Life-Artist: or the Royal Art of Building

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.

ZEITGEIST

About Creation

"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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Journal Proof Questions

Nothing works at the moment

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Perhaps also, a man

SOME POETRY

LIVING PAST

The esoteric meaning of St. George and the dragon

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).

ZEITGEIST

Are we gods?

From the full awareness that one day or another we will die, it seems almost a joke to ask the question whether we are gods and therefore immortal.

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How a film is born - Part 2

Interview with the filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner, Berlin (for LOGON: Angela Paap)

ZEITGEIST

Learning on expedition

What is learning? And how and when does a person learn?

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About the spirit of music

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

ZEITGEIST

A crack in heaven

What could germinate through that crack in heaven?

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How a film is born - Part 1

Interview with the filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner, Berlin (for LOGON: Angela Paap)

SPIRIT & SOUL

The rip in the curtain - About being the princess and about God who is no longer the dear God

There are other spaces and there is a greater being which, however, cannot be experienced with normal senses.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Me, time and time again

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Goddess

The search for "the female archetypes"

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Art, Science, Religion

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

LIVING PAST

Andersen and the "fairy tales"

Among the most universal and well-known authors of children's literature is the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875).

ZEITGEIST

Do what you love. Love what you do

These brief principles connect us, on the one hand, with ancient wisdom and, on the other hand, with the general feeling of daily experiences.

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Ludwig van Beethoven’s late years. About the duty of being „ME“ - Part 2

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.

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Apprentice

Poem

LIVING PAST

The beheading of John in the vision of Oscar Wilde

“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.”

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Ludwig van Beethoven’s late years. About the duty of being „ME“ - Part 1

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The doctrine of Universal Consciousness of the sixth patriarch Hui-neng

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

SCIENCE+

What Does The Equilateral Triangle Tell Us?

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Eartha, Soulomon and Sirit

How a simple outing can change your life

LIVING PAST

Born by the ear of Mary

The unique receptivity of our primal organ the ear for the inner and the outer message

SPIRIT & SOUL

Only the source of everything leads to original life

Interview with the Rosicrucian Ide Meeter about knowing and not knowing

SPIRIT & SOUL

My spiritual journey

Interview with the Anthroposoph Alfred Kon about knowing and not knowing

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Religious Art at the Vishnu Temple Changu Narayan, Nepal – Part 2

Two sculptures show the divine help that a person can receive

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Religious Art at the Vishnu Temple Changu Narayan, Nepal – Part 1

Two sculptures show the divine help that a person can receive

SPIRIT & SOUL

Female References

The Beginning of the Initiation Journey: A Descent into Darkness

ZEITGEIST

The context of the initiatory work today - Part 2

The recovery of a concept of the human being, the world and life

ZEITGEIST

The context of the initiatory work today – Part 1

What is the Rosycross and what can it give to the world today?

ZEITGEIST

The Journey of the Immortal

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Asking the books and the stars?

I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
- Rumi

SPIRIT & SOUL

From the exploitation of ethers to the offering of the self

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

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Where we are going, you and I

Dialogue

LIVING PAST

Sleeping Knights - Part 2

When the time comes, the sleeping knights will wake up, get on their steeds and free the mountains and the land

LIVING PAST

Sleeping Knights - Part 1

“The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale”

ZEITGEIST

Crisis and Conscious Evolution

Knowing that each one of us will make the difference, that each one of us is so unique, we must take the biggest possible intention.

LIVING PAST

Ma’at alias the cosmic order

The Goddess of Truth, Equilibrium and Order

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Divine Reflection between Love, Truth, and God

Among all kinds of relations, love is the one implying Truth.

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The authentic rebirth

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Inner Battle

Silence is the manifestation of consciousness itself in its purest form.

LIVING PAST

Looking at Hieronymus Bosch is looking at yourself – Part 1

Hieronymus, isn't this about me?

ZEITGEIST

Cheers!

Quarantine is a great opportunity to get out. Yes! We get out of our self-centeredness and go into the depths of our being.

ZEITGEIST

From Self-Isolation to Self-Liberation

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

ZEITGEIST

Having confidence (in the present circumstances)

Crisis and new order - What I experienced in my small personal space is something that might be happening at the moment on a bigger scale.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The spiritual path as an inner adventure

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.

ZEITGEIST

Corona and Tao

A Chinese poem in connection with Coronavirus

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Yes, but ....

It's said quite often. Is that a problem? What's wrong with it?

ZEITGEIST

Coronavirus – friend and foe

Something minuscule has changed society

ZEITGEIST

The Universal Myth of Humanity As Depicted In The Original Star Wars Trilogy

The countless, universally uniform narrations of the Hero’s Journey can, in fact, be seen as metaphorical representations of an intrapersonal process.

SPIRIT & SOUL

A special experience Part 2: What came after the crisis

It hurt a lot. The mental pain shocked me deeply. But this greatest crisis in my life led to a lasting transformation.

ZEITGEIST

The crisis

The great crisis can actually help us to have the greatest inner experience possible.

LIVING PAST

Looking at Hieronymus Bosch is looking at yourself – Part 2

What path of self-redemption from this demonic world would Hieronymus Bosch have envisioned?

SPIRIT & SOUL

A special experience Part 1: An exceptional encounter

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

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Prisoners of time: is there a way out?

Prisoners of time: we are born, we grow and we die and the question that remains is “what is the meaning of our existence?"

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.’

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Everything vibrates - Part 2

What does modern science say about this?

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Everything vibrates - Part 1

The high frequency of Love transforms the low frequency of fear

ZEITGEIST

Creation myth 2020

The creative force floats over the waters of the quantum field

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Path of Christian Rosycross - Part 2

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).

SPIRIT & SOUL

The mind lies

One thousand voices.... millions of questions. Without ever getting nowhere!

SPIRIT & SOUL

Risk and Adventure of Intimacy

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

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Time travel and parallel worlds

The difference between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
(Albert Einstein)

SPIRIT & SOUL

Hermes and the Grail and Christian Rosycross

We can experience great consolation, for there is still an energetic focal point, to where the ripe souls can uplift themselves or even delve

SPIRIT & SOUL

Don’t walk the path – be the path Part 2

"The universe is wider than our views of it”

SPIRIT & SOUL

Don’t walk the path – be the path Part 1

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The heart and the HEART

The heart has reasons that our reasoning mind cannot follow

ZEITGEIST

Can Karma come to an end?

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

The Path of Christian Rosycross - Part 1

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

ZEITGEIST

Harry Potter and the Encounter with Evil - Part 2

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

ZEITGEIST

Harry Potter and the Encounter with Evil - Part 1

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

ZEITGEIST

Fire

If we create our own reality, could we have collectively created the fires? How?

SPIRIT & SOUL

Night of the soul

What for heaven’s sake I am supposed to do?

ZEITGEIST

To be a pilgrim

Tomorrow never came for today stood in its way

SPIRIT & SOUL

Acceptance

In order to be able to truly accept something, the necessary element of Inner Stillness must be present.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Happiness

An essential feature of happiness is that those who have it cannot lose it.

ZEITGEIST

Longing for Freedom

We can enter into our own inner Freedom; yes, in fact, an inner bliss.

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

The butterfly

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

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.

SPIRIT & SOUL

The two nature orders

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

ZEITGEIST

Luke Skywalker and Yoda: Meeting the Inner Master

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

ZEITGEIST

High-flyer, part 2

I kept thinking about that sentence about the highest heavens

ZEITGEIST

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

ZEITGEIST

There is thinking and thinking

You think too much ...

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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

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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Buddha's dance

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

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Precipitation of nature

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

Encounter in different worlds

The eternal can awake in you

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

ZEITGEIST

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.

ZEITGEIST

The difference between the old and the new

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

SPIRIT & SOUL

On the way to myself

Travelling by night ...

ZEITGEIST

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?

ZEITGEIST

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

ZEITGEIST

Money and the Golden Reality

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

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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Sacred Earth

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

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

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

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Meeting the other in the secret of the mirror

The humanism of Elémire Zolla

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What we seek and what we find

We all seek
Seeking is the reason for movement

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

Seeking

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The Breath of Life – Part 1

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The Breath of Life – Part 2

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LIVING PAST

Sarah and Tobit - Part 1

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Welcome to LOGON

Welcome to LOGON, the online magazine of the Golden Rosycross

LIVING PAST

Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 5

The Spiritual DNA of the Native American Hopi Tribe.

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality - An Interview with the philosopher and consciousness researcher Jochen Kirchhoff (Berlin) - Part 2

The contemplation of the starry sky evokes a deep feeling: there is something else here than what physics, astrophysics, wants to present to us. There is something that touches us elementally. We…

SPIRIT & SOUL

Reality - An Interview with the philosopher and consciousness researcher Jochen Kirchhoff (Berlin) - Part 1

For LOGON: Gunter Friedrich - There are many indications that there is a second world level, a second level of being, behind the physical-sensual world. Our world can only be understood if one takes…

LIVING PAST

A different look at Adam’s apple – Part 2

Elaine Pagels call to reconsideration

LIVING PAST

A different look at Adam’s apple - Part 1

“He who has learned to view this world as a shadow of the spiritual world is not able to restrict his consciousness to the realm of shadows.”…

LIVING PAST

Catharism, the religion of Love - Part IV

For the Cathars, the true Church was not an external space, consecrated to prayer, but was to be sought in the innermost part of the human being.…