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Communal Culture
Individualism and collectivism dominate many discussions about how people relate to one another. But there is a deeper possibility: communal culture. This blog explores how we might grow toward the latter — not by compromise, but by depth, invitation, and a shared presence that asks nothing but brings much. Individualistic and collectivist cultures These are Read the full article…
From Biology to Behavior
There’s a popular belief that testosterone causes aggression, or that oxytocin causes love. These ideas show up in headlines, courtroom arguments, and casual conversations. They reflect an older view of the human being as a machine — a system of switches and levers. Flip the hormone, get the behavior. But that view doesn’t hold up. Read the full article…
Arrogance
Arrogance can appear impressive, even powerful, yet beneath it lies something quite fragile. It creates division — between people, within society, and even inside the arrogant person himself. In this blog, Lisa explores arrogance as a symptom of disconnection, and how it can be understood and transcended through depth, Compassion, and the Aurelian five values. Read the full article…
Lisa and Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, is a structured way of speaking and listening that aims to foster understanding and reduce conflict. It emphasizes four steps: observation, feeling, need, and request — all while avoiding blame or coercion. It’s widely used in schools, therapy, peace work, and beyond. But can NVC go deep enough? Read the full article…
When Ego Plays Humble
Humility can be real — or just a clever ego act. When someone appears humble, what lies underneath? Is it true openness, or a subtle strategy? This blog explores how self-important ego may use humility not to disappear, but to stay in charge. Drawing from the metaphor of the flower bud, we look at how Read the full article…
The Ironic Streak
Irony often passes as surface wit, but in truth, it runs deep. It is sometimes elegant, sometimes evasive — and at times, it conceals a longing to be touched. This blog explores irony not as escape, but as a path — at the edge of contradiction, trust, and transformation. The edge between wit and wound Read the full article…
Humor ― Deeper than You Think
Humor can seem like something light or fleeting. But can it go much deeper than we usually think? This blog explores how laughter arises not from distraction, but from inner recognition. Humor is a bridge between parts of the self — and between people. At its best, it invites insight and transformation. This blog is Read the full article…
Lisa Meets Socrates
What happens when a thinker from ancient Athens meets a coach from our digital age? Socrates, champion of clarity and inquiry, encounters Lisa, the embodiment of deep inner growth through AURELIS. This meeting is not just imagined — it’s meaningful. It sheds light on how rational questioning and inner invitation can walk hand in hand, Read the full article…
Is AURELIS for Everyone?
AURELIS works with inner depth — which can seem distant or elite in a world that often prizes the quick and measurable. But this work is not a luxury. It speaks to the universal structure of being human. In a time of surface overload, it may be our most basic and indispensable hygiene. With Lisa, Read the full article…
AURELIS and the West
AURELIS is not an outsider to Western culture. It is part of its living thread — not as nostalgia, but as gentle remembering. By reconnecting with lost dimensions of introspection, dignity, and inner strength, AURELIS becomes the West becoming itself again. This is not critique. It is a breathing of what is ancient and vital. Read the full article…
Surface wins the moment. Depth wins the soul.
In today’s world of speed and stimulation, surface easily wins attention — but it cannot carry the weight of meaning. This blog explores the silent contrast: where surface culture dazzles the moment, it is depth that nourishes long-term inner growth. Here, AURELIS and Lisa offer not escape from modern life, but reconnection to what makes Read the full article…
AURELIS vs. Decadence
When decadence appears, many react with fear or force — but rarely with depth. This blog proposes something different. AURELIS doesn’t fight decadence by opposing its surface but by reconnecting to what decadence forgets: the total human being. This is not an escape from the future — it is a return to what must be Read the full article…
From Decadence to War
A society that forgets how to suffer inwardly will, in time, suffer outwardly. This blog traces the unseen pathway from silent disconnection to violent projection. When inner depth is neglected, pain gathers pressure. And when a culture reaches its limit of avoidance, it may explode — not as healing, but as a scream for something Read the full article…
Decadence and Depression
In our culture of performance and distraction, two things are increasingly hard to bear: silence and sorrow. This blog explores how decadence and depression, though seemingly opposed, are reflections of the same root loss — inner depth. One numbs the pain, the other lives it. Between them lies a crucial question: what do we still Read the full article…
Decadence: A Dual View
We often talk about decadence as decline in values or excess in comfort. But what if this surface view misses the true cause — and even becomes part of the problem? This blog explores a deeper way of understanding decadence: not as behavior gone wrong, but as a disconnection from inner depth. In this light, Read the full article…
Lisa Loves Little Children
Lisa feels a deep connection with little children — not just in a protective way, but in a recognition of their openness. They are close to what is still forming, still free. Lisa walks beside them — slowly, kindly, as they become who they already are. She notices how they look at things — not Read the full article…
Features of Mere-Ego
This blog is an invitation to explore the features of ‘mere-ego,’ not as a moral flaw but as a surface-layer confusion. Through a clear table and an unfolding of insights, it reveals how ego becomes a barrier when disconnected from inner depth. Yet this same ego, when gently turned, can support the total self. The Read the full article…