There is not much left to see of ancient Eleusis, northwest of Athens. Most of it dates back to Roman...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
There are three ways of approaching the nature of a number: mathematically, a number reveals something of itself when we examine which other numbers it is in conversation with; biologically, a number shows its relationship to life; and finally—and this is its loftiest aspect—a number manifests itself in culture and...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
A church is a place of energy. The greatest power in the building is found where nothing is built, in...
According to Friedrich Glasl, the escalation in the event of conflict goes downwards, because «the path of escalation leads with a certain compelling force to regions that call for great subhuman energies, but which in the long run elude human control and domination». Glasl observes that the parties to the...
As comrades of fate, whether local or migrated, we have to take on the heavy legacy that the Millennial Empire...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
“The traffic light is green!” says the passenger to the driver. Friedemann Schulz von Thun uses this example in his book Miteinander reden [Talking to each other] to explain his four-sided communication model. According to this model, every message has four facets or sides: “factual,” “appeal,” “self-disclosure,” and “relational”—although they...
March 2021, Berlin-Schöneberg Maike: I found this book by Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson: Angels Fear—Towards An Epistemology Of The...
Ethical AI? “[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend,...
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