Category Archives: The world we live in Now

Observations and reflections of sweeping change

Moving into the unknown

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Michaela

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking the mould, Doing not-doing, Listening to Orpheus, Orpheus, Questions of Life | Tagged A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, awaking, Integral yoga, James Joyce, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, not knowing, Sri Aurobindo, truth | Leave a comment

The kiss

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Michaela

An enchanted guide to a very famous and popular painting… I found the video on http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/, a lovely non-profit organization creating a free, multi-dimensional, multi-medial art history book. Isn’t this the way to go ? Share yourself with the world. Create….and … Continue reading →

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The antidote

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Michaela

Exploring the “negative path” to well-being… Research] points to an alternative approach [to happiness]: a ‘negative path’ to happiness that entails taking a radically different stance towards those things most of us spend our lives trying hard to avoid. This … Continue reading →

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The arrow of time

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Michaela

Why is the past different from the future ?

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Honor the gift

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Michaela

Ian Mc Gilchrist talks about the natural and cultural history of the divided brain and why we tend base everything on what we – believe – to know.

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Breaking the mould, Make new from old, Wisdom & Method | Tagged Brain, Division, Hemisphere, intuitive mind, knowing, rational mind, unknowing | Leave a comment

The American Dream

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Michaela

From a life in middle class to a life in the drain. So can we do something about it ? Yes we can. But its up to us – not to them or Obama. Each and everyone of us has … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged Impoverishment, Insurance, Living Condition, Money, United States, Work | 28 Comments

The world must follow the church

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Michaela

Satire reveals what lies beneath. From prayer to opulence. From serving god to the worship of the golden calf. Human need, human wants. From humility to hubris. The Catholic Church Fashion Show from Federico Fellini’s Roma

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