We grow out of this world like mushrooms grow out of a mycelium. In case you haven’t heard that word: there is little known about mushrooms – it might surprise you that biologists categorize them in between plants and animals. Even though we believe mushrooms only “appear” during rainy seasons and then die, the underlying…
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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…
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Every individual, every material being dies at some point and joins the non-physical part of existence. Just as we live life, we live death. We re-join the infinite pool of information that people call the big spirit, God, Allah or their divine identity. On this side of the invisible veil, there is a heated debate about whether…
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In the news I heard today about the loss of “innocent life”. It made me think: what is innocence? Are trees innocent that we cut down? Is a cow innocent that we slaughter for food? Are children innocent by their very design, even if they kill classmates? Is there really virtue in innocence (which stems from…
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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…
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In the moment I’m editing a book of a man who has done horrible things in his life: he probably killed a few people, raped women, hurt and stole from hundreds. He is now off drugs and says he’s come “clean” since a few years. He sits in front of me, smiling at me with friendly…
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A friend recently told me that she is the last one of her kind – all her relatives are dead and she feels lonely. Left behind in this world. I told her about what my grandma had said long time ago: Families fluctuate from the side of the living to the side of the dead…
DetailsIf 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…
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Our world seems in the grips of a strange personality cult: it used to be kings and queens – now it’s all about movie and rock stars called “celebrities”. We constantly hear of their escapades and are supposed to care about their daily drama. While in previous decades there were at least some iconic personalities in…
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