A Different Game
Sometimes. Some people may have their game. I play a different one. You might have read a different story. [see: “Minding Covid: a Different Story“] It is not needed for this blog. But if you have read it, you may notice that it is closely related to this much broader ‘different game.’ There are different Read the full article…
The Invisible (Wo)Man
What is invisible is invisible. Therefore, it’s invisible. Let me start with a hallucination Or whatever you want to call it. I like ‘vision’ more. Years ago, I was at a meditation retreat for several days. At the end of the third day – always a more decisive one – I kept sitting a while Read the full article…
The Future is Open
Open as in Open Mindfulness, Open Religion, Open Leadership. Open as in open-complex. Open to inside as well as outside. Positively Open Openness with a capital O is about overlap. I see this as a positive characteristic in many ways. Internally, it is about the overlap of concepts, leading to a much-enhanced capacity to make Read the full article…
Minding COVID: a Different Story – The Untold Story of Mind and Corona
The human mind is missing in the causal story of Covid. Putting it in place makes a Different Story. This is a story about a virus, but even more is it a story about humankind. NOTE: If you are searching for the ‘AURELIS Acute Stress app,’ you can click on this link towards ‘an app Read the full article…
9. Worst Case COVID
May 2, 2020 Right Is this worst case the future? I would go as far as saying that it is not an impossibility. Please don’t read this text if you are weak at heart. Numbers Vaccination is still far away. Experts talk about at least a year before the population can be vaccinated in Read the full article…
8 COVID-Whirlpool – In Which Virus AND Mind Play Substantial Roles
April 27, 2020 I expand upon an idea about what happens to a person getting more and more COVID symptoms towards a whirlpool that may become fatal. A whirlpool scenario probably happens in many cases of illness. It corresponds with complexity and multi-causal thinking. In crash-course: put many elements together, add more and more Read the full article…
Can We Always Turn the Switch Off if A.I. Turns Rogue?
In theory, this existential issue is as simple as it can get. In practice, it’s problematic. [This is an excerpt from my book ‘The Journey towards Compassionate A.I.’] Many questions prevent a straightforward answer to the question in the title. For starters, who will turn the switch off? Let me divide the issues into 1) Read the full article…
7. COVID Crash
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. A virus is the smallest living thing on earth. And in a way, it’s not even living. It doesn’t replicate. It lets itself be multiplied. A virus is like a string of information caught in some genetic Read the full article…
Lonely Poem – In Times of Corona
Just let me have a bleeding heart For those who die alone In times of corona. I would like to be with each of them To die with each of them So they are not alone. ** For what is and should not be Is not one’s pain Is not one’s dying But one’s abandonment Read the full article…
6. Rethinking Covid
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. April 12, 2020 Kindly follow this trail: Covid-19: Pandemia or Global Hysteria? Mind and Corona The Message in the Virus Covid and Attention What To Do in Times of Covid A ‘stress’ primer The concept of Read the full article…
Anxiety
People who apparently feel little anxiety, quite often turn out to harbor a lot, arguably more so in Western cultures. The latter may seem so because it strikes me more. [See in AurelisOnLine: Anxiety] Anxiety, not fear Fear is conceptual. The object of fear is mostly well delineated. One can say: It is mechanical, directly Read the full article…
AURELIS Quick-Course
This text is for you if you have never heard of AURELIS. Many blog texts You can find many blog texts about AURELIS here. The present text is stand-alone. Mental patterns Look at a painting. What do you see? One can say ‘a Madonna with child.’ Another one can say ‘many paint molecules that are organized Read the full article…
Lisa in Corona Times
This is about what Lisa [see: “Lisa”] can accomplish in ‘corona times,’ now and in the future. Let’s hope to get her ‘live’ as soon as possible. Two ways Lisa can provide immediate help and relief of suffering through her full coaching including her guidance to AURELIS mental exercises. Lisa is also about pattern recognition Read the full article…
Mind over Covid – 12 Points
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. The basic ‘Mind over Covid’ hypothesis: In Covid-19 – the disease progression, not the infection – the mind may be more important than the virus in cause as well as proper management. This text is, in Read the full article…
5. What To Do in Times of Covid
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. March 30, 2020 This article can be read on its own. For more background, kindly follow this trail: Covid-19: Pandemia or Global Hysteria? Mind and Corona The Message in the Virus Covid and Attention [Recommendation: if Read the full article…
4. Covid and Attention
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. March 28, 2020 This article can be read on its own. For more background, kindly follow this trail: Covid-19: Pandemia or Global Hysteria? Mind and Corona The Message in the Virus Covid and Attention MULTICAUSALITY Read the full article…
3. The Message in the Virus
Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Please, take every measure of precaution. Then, read on. March 22, 2020 Kindly follow this trail: Covid-19: Pandemia or Global Hysteria? Mind and Corona The Message in the Virus OK. I’ve asked myself: Why not wait to bring this message until the worst part of Read the full article…