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
Revisioning Reality: The Soul of Body and Spirit
January 11th, 2010 | Posted by in general - (3 Comments)I’m starting to leave the idea of oneness behind in favor of a kind of pluralistic, polytheistic, polycentric inner/outer reality. I’m starting to contemplate that monotheism, oneness, big bang, verticality, all-pervading consciousness, etc. are part of a perspective that is always playing for dominance (and obviously is not; but downplaying what … Read morehinders it … Read more
Body, Soul and Spirit 2: The Way of the Soul
November 21st, 2009 | Posted by in Alan Watts | character | death | enlightenment | evolution | Ian Stevenson | Life after death | limits | music | onenness | Psyche | reincarnation | Robert Almeder | soul - (6 Comments)In my second posting (1st here) on this beginning exploration and reassessment of what I’ve come to see as true, beautiful and good I’m going to look more into what Soul is and does. And again, I’m just going to go with my meanderings and contemplations; I’m not trying to be comprehensive and go through … Read more
Body, Soul and Spirit 1: Modes of being alive
November 15th, 2009 | Posted by in awareness | collective consciousness | consciousness | enlightenment | flow | psychology | reflection | soul | spirituality | we-fullness | witnessing - (4 Comments)This is the very first installment of what I hope will become a Body, Soul and Spirit series of posts that will meander around most of the topics that keep fascinating me since a while. Starting with a meeting with a great and lovely man in Basel, Switzerland who remembers a long line of incarnations … Read more
Into the Polyverse
May 27th, 2009 | Posted by in co-evolution | enlightenment | general | imaginal cells | interconnectedness | oneness | self | transcendence | transpersonal psychology | vertical spirituality - (2 Comments)My twitter-stream has many tweets like these: ColinUdeLewis “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.” James Allen WilliamHarryman “95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself.” — Brian Tracy bfederman A man’s own self is his friend. A man’s own self is his foe. Gita Good advise, … Read more

