The fairy tale in this issue speaks of three brothers: “Faith,” “Love,” and “Hope.” Where do these names come from?...
“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
Karma is about shifting responsibility from heaven to yourself. In this, you become the very maker of your own destiny. Sadhguru Karma gives freedom! This is the first and most intimate message I learned from Sadhguru, who became world-famous with his Isha Foundation. In many other contexts, I have heard...
The puppet that Christopher Marcus put on stage for the production of ‹Kaspar Hauser› at the Goetheanum almost 20 years...
The other day, we were looking at photos from our vacation, and one had slipped in of grandma and grandpa...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The clown Nögge caricatured this authoritarian principle of leadership with a choleric expression: «I’ll tell you what to do – and if you won’t, I’ll tell you what you’ll do instead»...
«What’s new?» Frederick the Great asked his court astronomer, who, according to tradition, replied: «Do you already know the old,...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years ago. The philosopher replied that a story had to be told in which the insecure could find themselves. This narrative must reach as far as the French Revolution because, since...
When speaking of Africa, it’s not uncommon to speak of ‹Mother Africa› or the ‹motherland›, which corresponds to the Egyptian...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a...
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