The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany....
As the November elections in the US draw near, John Bloom examines the culture of untruth that has increasingly become the norm. Making sense of national politics in the United States has been crazy-making and compelling at the same time. There are so many layers of fact and fiction. The...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
In the morning, I was asked to contribute something on “hope,” and in the evening, I attended a lecture, never...
An agreement by the UN community of states on a new treaty aims to protect the world’s oceans. The world’s oceans cover about seventy percent of our planet’s surface and include inshore and offshore areas, the high seas. It is the largest fairly uniform habitat in the biosphere, extending from...
Our eyes can adapt to darkness. At first, when we walk out of the sunlight into a dark cave or...
My social identity is a sheath, within which my “I” can be effective. My affiliation with the Western world determines...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world is entirely a part of theirs. For most of us, though, the latter is not a perceived reality. This is because, in everyday life, we do not normally experience that...
To become friends, we need to get to know each other. This is the point invoked in the famous scene...
What does it take to find the strength within, in a moment of complete and total despair? It is our...
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