“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. …

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” John Lennon

Another morning. What is the weather…

I was about sixteen years old and I was staying at a High School in Texas. Foreign Student Exchange. My subject was U.S. History, which was a required course for which I had been registered. And the topic of this class fit me just perfect, as the German exchange student: “Second World War, Holocaust.” Today before the lesson the teacher told me that I could skip class if I wanted to. Because they were going to watch a movie about the concentration camp in Auschwitz. I smiled at him. Why would I not want to take part, I asked myself…

Welcome to 2021 — welcome to the realization that it only needs the glimpse of an eye (in terms of continual awareness, self-discipline, and embodiment) to change as humankind and as planet earth. Welcome to lived Neuroplasticity. Welcome to the collective transformation from victims to co-creators. Welcome to new values, new ideas and the opportunity for new schools that serve us as human beings and the planet earth, our home.

From a superficial perspective, humankind has not changed much, since more than two thousand years. Our character traits, which make us human, are compatible with all we know from Aristotle…

When the world goes crazy, we have the choice to play along or not. Every day. Do we want to be the victims of our thoughts and feelings? The victims of life’s circumstances? Or do we want to be the co-creators of a beautiful, peaceful and joyful world? Do we want to see the problem or the solution? Do we want to feel the suffering or the joy? Do we want to perceive worry or trust? Do we want to grumble or to love? Do we want to make ourselves crazy noisily or do we want to wait in silence…

Dear human friend,

From the 16th to the 20th of December, I spent my time in a dark room retreat, Kayakalpa. When I shared my experiences with my close friends, they encouraged me to publish some of what I went through on my blog. Now that I try, I have a feeling, that most of it would be much too private for me to tell everyone. Instead, I would want to use this post to encourage all of you to try something alike. Going into the void. Emptiness. Silence. Retreat. Listening to the stillness. And of course, the “how” is…

Dear human friend.

This is a story for you, before I will go into the darkness for some days — Kaya Kalpa — and encounter the void.

If you need to know more about Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijananamaya and Anandamaya, please read the article about the Koshas.

Imagine you are the parent of five children. Your five bodies. They are called Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya and Anandamaya.

And they are all beautiful, they all need the attention from you that children need from their parents. And, in another way, they are parts of you. …

Ahead of us lies an outstanding cosmic event, that happens every 6000 years. That means that this year’s December 21st is not only the day of Winter solstice with its “classical” behaviors.

This year, in 2020, it has much more to offer. It will be accompanied by a great new galactic alignment, in which all the planets and moons are in line, with Mercury in the middle. Followed by three days of a Sun that stands still before resuming its journey.

Some speak of the “three days of darkness” others call them “three days in the green nebula”. And many…