As the crisis lingers on that started 2008, a crisis the world economy didn’t really recover from – a crisis that now explodes into a European Debt-Crisis and so endlessly on… As the Occupy movement picked up and made a movement famous that started with the “Arab Spring” and came via the Spanish “Indignados” to … Read more
A Way Out of Economic Disaster
November 22nd, 2011 | Posted by in crisis | imagination | open source economy - (1 Comments)
Most mornings I sit for 10+ minutes and, for lack of a better, not so charged, word, meditate. It was a strong desire to regularly celebrate being present that started this originally. During this time once in a while I ask myself, “What am I doing here?” A question that doesn’t call for an explanation, … Read more
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It’s been a long time since last I wrote a blog. Not because I’ve run out of topics. Rather Facebook has taken it’s toll as I enjoy the short conversational style very much, and there have been quite a few interesting topics to go on about there. Yet, sitting here and focusing on one theme … Read more
I’m in culture-shock. Well, okay, I’m exaggerating. The type of spirituality – I call it Californianism – that I meet here wherever I go is a mixture of New Age, Buddhist and positivist, basically Christian ideas (actually easily traceable to “Christian Science“); stirred well in a melting pot of activists, artists, hippies, healers and entrepreneurs. It’s almost as … Read more
How To Create A Thriving Economy
September 25th, 2010 | Posted by in between-us | community | integral culture - (1 Comments)This is the storyboard of what I presented at theCOREconference.com on Sept. 24 2010 in Richmond, California. You might enjoy how I envision the move from the present economy 2.0 to economy 3.0 – a necessary and major upgrade of our Human Operating System to creatively and intelligently turn the challenge we all face into … Read more
An Anthropologists Take on New Media and YouTube
September 23rd, 2010 | Posted by in general - (0 Comments)This is one of the rare gems that come out of universities that is actually fun to learn from. Full of examples he takes us on a ride through the short history of YouTube and what it’s effects on our self-reflection and reflections are – also looking at the emerging values in this culture that, … Read more
They’ve done it again: produced an animation to elucidate some great thoughts of wehre we want to go… enjoy.
Breaking Up, Breaking Down and a Total Mutual Embrace
July 13th, 2010 | Posted by in Personal story | psychology - (14 Comments)Let me give you some context first: Exactly 6 weeks ago I traveled to Basel and my girl-friend (we were a couple for 7 years) had made me some slices of bread for on the road. When I opened the bread box in the train there, on top, was a letter that said, “Read only … Read more
The Truth about what Really Motivates People to Work
June 1st, 2010 | Posted by in general - (1 Comments)A really cool movie that shows scientific proof of what people are motivated by. I love working in and with companies that are taking this lesson by heart.
A very interesting slideshow that helped me see a couple of aspects of the deep patterns at work in our cultural development. Thank you, Tim Stock for this work. Best viewed whole-screen Culture Networks 2010 View more presentations from Tim Stock.
A wonderfully illustrated talk – or better, fragment of a talk – by Jeremy Rifkin that I would love all my friends “world-change agents” to see and contemplate. A good question to go with this is: “What is the most strategic contribution I can make?”
Just testing this – it’s not really life yet, I think, as I’m not having my iPhone camera on all the time; but I could more or less… So let’s see, where this takes us. (It even has sound; it’s strange that I can only use this functionality on my GS by using this app.)
I’m in an epiphanic mood today – matter of fact, whenever I truly appreciate you being you, a flower being a flower and the house being the house, I’m in such a mood… only I didn’t know until today. Becoming conscious of anything means, “There is something ‘out there’, independent of me, that alights in … Read more
Can God Live alongside Chocolate Icecream?
April 7th, 2010 | Posted by in spirituality - (1 Comments)‘GOD & THE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM’ | FILM FROM NIC’S MONDAY9AM SERIES [2005/7] ‘… so many of the things people think they want, they want because they think they can’t have. And as soon as they find out they can have it, the want goes away.’ Starring MICHAEL NEILL | Comments on FACEBOOK MORE ‘MORE’ from Nic Askew … Read more
These days a large part of the world is celebrating the death and resurrection of God’s Only Begotten Son – an incarnation of Himself. And this year, on Good Friday, when listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the St. Matthäus Church in Berlin, for the first time I could feel what this … Read more
I’ve had the great honor to contribute to Jean Russell’s initiative to create a book on thrivability in a collective booklet. The result is linked below. Enjoy! (By the way, you can see the ‘slideshow’ by clicking on “Full” in the navigationbar at the bottom) Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch There is a pdf version, which you … Read more
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