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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?

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Dissatisfaction

The pendulum of our life oscillates between
satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

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Inspiration - the violin - the sound-post

Music can help awaken the longing for a higher reality

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Two Worlds. …. Where am I Today?

It was so confusing living in two bodies

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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.

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Human relations in the coming Aquarius age, part 2

Self-realization of the 'observer’

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Human relations in the coming Aquarius age, part 1

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

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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

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The voice from within

Be silent.

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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

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The Goddess

The search for "the female archetypes"

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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

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The way inwards

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

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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

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Everything remained in its place

In my inner universe there are constellations which I cannot change

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Letter to a young seeker

Oftentimes, young people carry a profound spiritual longing

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Parents of the new soul

We are all parents of the new soul. Once your new soul is born, it will revolutionize your world.

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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

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Eartha, Soulomon and Sirit

How a simple outing can change your life

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Only the source of everything leads to original life

Interview with the Rosicrucian Ide Meeter about knowing and not knowing

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My spiritual journey

Interview with the Anthroposoph Alfred Kon about knowing and not knowing

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Female References

The Beginning of the Initiation Journey: A Descent into Darkness

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The Journey to the Divine Beloved

Interview with the Sufi teacher Hamdi Alkonavi about knowing and not knowing

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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

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Catharic Heritage Part 3: “The Cathars were Christians too”. Montségur, October 2016

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

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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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We Live Two Lives

Can I choose between two realities?

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Heritage

About seven years ago a letter popped on the doormat

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The Divine Reflection between Love, Truth, and God

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

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Inner Battle

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

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IT

“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”

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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.

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A special Experience Part 3: My Organs and I – a joint Adventure

The Healing of an Illness that the doctors could not cure.

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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.

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The Sword of the Hero - The Sword of Peace

The sword of Peace struck this human being seven times. Each time came as a complete surprise, a complete mystery.

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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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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).

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The mind lies

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

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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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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

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

"The universe is wider than our views of it”

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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

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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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The magic of the heart: from consciousness to deeds

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

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The gentle stranger

My 'own' bench was occupied, to my surprise

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The heart and the HEART

The heart has reasons that our reasoning mind cannot follow

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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

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God’s smile

It almost seems as if people have ended up in a "place of exile"

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Night of the soul

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

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Christmas and Spirituality - Part 3: The New Human Being

The limit of the human consciousness is overcome by the unification of the universal and the human, the spirit and the soul.

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Christmas and Spirituality - Part 2: The Limit of Human Consciousness

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

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Christmas and Spirituality - Part 1: The Secret of Inner Alchemy

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.

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Acceptance

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

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The Interconnectedness of all Things – in one single, all embracing Life

We can recognize that the one life radiates through all shapes and forms.

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Happiness

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

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Loneliness and the miracle

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

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Realized Spirituality - The Diaries of Dag Hammarskjöld

A book review

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The butterfly

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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Alchemy - a path to the gold within Part 2

Seven classical stages of alchemical transformation

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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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Dream world

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

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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.

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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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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

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Working with resistance

What a curious phenomenon resistance is

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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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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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Youth

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

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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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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.

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The bee keeper

About the sense of deprivations

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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.

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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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Touched by The Spirit?

A single moment inmidst of silence

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The Dream

A true experience

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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

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Narrator of Heaven

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

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Freedom

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

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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.

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Encounter in different worlds

The eternal can awake in you

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Who am I?

My face in the mirror won't tell me

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Inside - A Soul's Lament

Where is my light?

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On the way to myself

Travelling by night ...

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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.