42. Not yet Out of the Woods!
The SARS-CoV-2 virus keeps changing, finding new ways for viral success. We’re relatively lucky with Omicron. What with the next variant(s)? January 28, 2022 Daily Total Cases worldwide 3.479.527 370.273.350 Deaths worldwide 10.595 5.667.742 Curves and numbers (from Worldometers) The present week-average mortality lies at 8.732 per day globally. This is higher than the Read the full article…
Ego Bubble
Being stuck in an ego bubble doesn’t make one a wrong person. However, it hinders any personal growth. Growing the bubble is just aggrandizement of ego. A starters From the start of a new bubble, there is competition in the attention this little one gets from the mother figure. At first, the competition is vague. Read the full article…
Do not Thought-Control the Children
Molding children to the image of (molded) adults should be something from the past by now. Especially in an ever more complex society, children need much Inner Strength, which they can only grow by themselves. Another brick in the wall This 1979 Pink Floyd song was written as a protest against overly rigid schooling that Read the full article…
Growth versus Repair in Therapy
The confusion between growth and repair is rampant in therapy of all sorts. Generally, there is too much emphasis on repair. Medicine fundamentally wants to repair In the wake of the physical model, this is logical. For instance, if your car breaks down, please don’t wait until it grows towards a solution. Likewise, if you Read the full article…
Is Meditation Selfish?
Meditation is the opposite of ego-selfishness. Even more, they are incompatible. Theravada, Mahayana These are the two biggest strands in worldwide Buddhism. Mahayana may have been mainly developed historically as a reaction to what people saw as the Theravada monk’s ‘selfish’ attitude: the arhat who meditates especially to reach Nirvana for himself. Of course, this Read the full article…
A Divided World Will be Conquered by A.I.
Seriously. People fighting each other at a geopolitical level will, through competition and strife, build a world in which A.I. follows suit. There is no doubt about this: IF… THEN. As I write in my book ‘The Journey towards Compassionate A.I.,’ we are entitled to be anxious about A.I. – the real one, soon to Read the full article…
What do People Seek in Magick?
People seek pleasure and happiness. For this, they seek a fulfilling life. For this, they seek meaningfulness. Where do they find it? Magick = very broadly, the use of ritual actions with the aim to manipulate supernatural forces. For instance, psychic healing. Magick is frequently opposed to organized religion as well as science, while at Read the full article…
Beyond Grand Narratives
Since immemorable times, people have been going from one grand narrative towards another. Now we are losing them entirely, opening the path towards ‘beyond.’ (Level of difficulty of this text: 3.5/5) A grand narrative is a bunch of stories that fit into a grand scheme. It brings an ideal, a shared purpose ― a comfortable Read the full article…
Ethical Leadership is Open
Openness to the full human being is the one characteristic that makes leadership transcend management or bossiness. It is ethical to the core. Full human being At any time, an individual is consciously aware of a tiny part of what meaningfully goes on in his mind/brain at the mental-neuronal pattern level. Meanwhile, the other – immensely Read the full article…
Gender Equivalidity
People can be deemed equal in worth without any bit of need to adhere to one mold. Crucial is value, not sameness. Gender equality? Men and women are not equal at the outside, nor at the inside ― least of all at the mental side. Therefore, the term gender equality sounds forced. The more one Read the full article…
Sea of Faith
It’s an excellent idea, all religions coming together in a sea of faith. For someone outside of any organized religion, this may feel like coming home for oneself and everyone else. It didn’t work out in the past. On several occasions, in places as remote from each other as the Netherlands and India, attempts have Read the full article…
Unity, Globally
L’union fait la force ― Unity brings power. ‘Strong Together’ or ‘America First’? There is a challenge in the concept of unity that doesn’t speak directly from such slogans, yet this challenge is crucial to our future (together). Global unity grows at the individual level. In unity we thrive. The human being is a social Read the full article…
AURELIS Syllabus
This category contains blog texts that form one part of the AURELIS course towards becoming an AURELIS coach. You find all of them also under other categories. This is necessary background information. Please read (some of) them if you are interested in becoming an AURELIS coach. There will be more in due time. A certified Read the full article…
AURELIS Coaching for Coaches
Please read this before going to any AURELIS coaching techniques. These are poetic rather than prosaic. Therefore, if you read them in two dimensions, you may be left empty-handed. By clicking here, you find an increasing number of ►►► AURELIS coaching techniques. Of course, you may use these techniques as you like. However, to really Read the full article…
Depth by Invitation
Indeed, by invitation only. One cannot coerce depth as one can superficiality. What is ‘depth’? One can invite, and invite, and invite. Eventually, a genuine invitation is always at first an invitation of the self, a self-invitation, like giving a suggestion to yourself ― an auto-suggestion, of course. That didn’t take long, did it? Even Read the full article…
Putting Yourself inside the Coachee
It is not the intention that anyone is or will become an expert in this in the short term. It is, however, a kind of objective that one can and should keep before oneself, with every consultation anew. ►►► AURELIS Coaching for Coaches (read this first) What is it not about? It is not about Read the full article…
Whose Identity are You?
Who needs to gain an identity by being identical? I guess nobody should. No group deserves respect if that respect is not passed on to individuals. Identity politics “A political approach wherein people of a particular gender, religion, race, social background, social class or other identifying factors, develop political agendas that are based upon these Read the full article…