Monthly Archives: November 2010

Emotion and disease

What is the relation between stress, addiction and disease? The question still is why do we cause ourselves harm and we said there are three different kinds of disease – karmic, provoked by external factors and lastly conditions caused by … Continue reading

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Teacher

Do you know the saying: When you are ready the teacher will appear”? That has been certainly true in my case. I met my first spiritual teacher at a time I decided to quit a job I felt I could … Continue reading

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Love yourself and let me be

Brünnhilde teaches Siegfried about the nature of Love, ‘Ewig war ich’ Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Siegfried Bayreuther Festspiele Barenboim Kupfer Evans

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Fear

Siegfried is an innocent young man who grew up in isolation and has never felt fear. When he comes across the sleeping Brünnhilde and discovers his feelings for a woman he experiences a panic attack. To love a woman is … Continue reading

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Living with Loss

    –by Paul Last summer, when I was staying in Germany with Angelika, I had the pleasure to meet a young man, Rouven Bauer, who is a fine musician and composer. He shared a song with me that he … Continue reading

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Question of attitude towards life

Instead of moaning about the scaffold, they made a virtue out of a necessity – how I love these creative young guys !

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Salience & addiction

Once a behaviour is manifested in the mind, it may become the basis for an addiction. There are many models to explain the pathway of an addiction. There are biological, genetic, social, psychological reasons and of course the various combinations. … Continue reading

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On a train

Sitting on a train the landscape flying by Life is there whispers in my ear and fills me with truth and beauty. Mountains capped with snow yellow tops between the firs a bubbly stream flowing round the rocks A bulbous … Continue reading

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Damaging for your health

What is it that drives us to deliberately damage our health is the question at hand. There are 3 kinds of diseases. The first type is karmic and the suffering is an experience we have agreed to before we were … Continue reading

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Arrrghhhh

This is a very funny account of my friend Dora’s first 2 weeks at a new job, after returning to work from a sabbatical. So far I like my new boss and team a great deal and   I’m less enthusiastic … Continue reading

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