Age Difference in Couples

Its interesting how we still grow up with the belief that in couples, women should preferably be younger than their male partners – but definitely should NOT be older. One of the reason for this assumption comes from earlier times, when women’s work was unpaid and they therefore had no independent income. Their sole purpose…

Lasting Relationships

Growing up with one main caregiver (mostly a mother), we humans are early on conditioned to believe in the exclusivity of the one-on-one love relationship. The values of loyalty, morality and responsibility depend on it, we are told. Still, as people today enjoy unparallelled freedom of physical and virtual travel and variety in experience, the…

What is Reality Really?

Do you always remember your dreams? Do you have premonitions of what’s to come and wonder how this is possible? Have you experienced Deja Vues? Have you been advised to “Fake It Till You Make It”? How much of our life experiences are REAL? How much can we possibly KNOW? What can we ever be…

Emotions and their Evolutionary Purpose

If our minds are supposedly so superior in processing and navigating our world, then what greater purpose do feelings serve? If all learning experiences can be made outside the material world, on a virtual reality level – why even bother with our physical plain of reality? Why not short-circuit the potentially painful processes of material…

Tolerance

The other day a friend talked to me about her believes. She compared Jesus to Mohammed and to L. Ron Hubbard and said they all had been geniuses in their own ways, and all have had beautiful thoughts – it was the church institutions that “messed it up”, by creating sick hierarchies for power struggles…

Networks

The concept of individual identity – as separated from a “God-consciousness” outside of us – has never made sense to me. Nature teaches us that everything exists in networks: all material existence, be it organic (humans, animals, plants) or inorganic (minerals, energies like fire, water, etc) consist of networks of particles or waves. All changes…

Giving and Gifting

The other day, I invited a friend to lunch. She felt uncomfortable and said: I don’t have anything to give back to you, I’m pretty broke. It hit me that the way we grew up, GIVING is not GIFTING. Giving is mostly offering a deal: you exchange favors, services and goods. This is not giving. When…

Basic Thoughts

-All material life forms on earth are created by a cosmic consciousness as a physical mirror of itself in order to gain a sensual, emotional consciousness of itself. -No experience/knowledge collected by any existent entity on earth, be it human, animal, plant life or any mineral existence during any life time is ever lost or…

Thoughts about Numbers

Humans always seem to need “reference points”: the year in which they were born, and their height and weight. They want to know where it all starts and ends. To define the point “zero” in year, temperature, longitude, etc… But how do you determine the beginning of a circle? Where is the point zero on…