Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be able to calculate how much intelligent life there would be in our Milky Way. He ranked seven factors, from the formation rate of new stars to the estimated probability of...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands in November 2015, “One in seven employees suffers from burnout syndrome”, That’s one million Dutch people … When I looked into the topic burnout, two things struck me: firstly, that it is a general trend that is usually treated with...
In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable...
A faith that moves mountains, speaking with the tongues of angels—without love, these are nothing. Paul’s Song of Songs has...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a...
Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
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