Last Saturday (yesterday). I went on a retreat (religious exercise) at the Benedictine monastery St. Ottilien with twenty others men and women looking after their private center and true selves: “Looking for the self” What do we know of the psyche and soul? The discussion was lead by two monks – the longtime Prior Claudius and … Continue reading
In Herman Hesse’s final novel The Glass Bead Game, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, he introduces essentially a hypothetical meta game, which has been compared with a “neural network of cosmic mind”. This gave me the idea to probe today’s social and knowledge networks of the Internet as it were The Glass Bead Game, … Continue reading
Everywhere the symbol of the serpent and dragon is connected with the (d)evil. That does hurt me a little bit, as I am Serpent in the Chinese Zodiac – which is the least favored sign. The snake has a bad rap not only according to my wife, but certainly within Christianity. In defense of myself … Continue reading
Gnosticism can be considered collective name for a large number of greatly varying and pantheistic-dualistic sects, which flourished from some time before the Christian era down to the fifth century. It became a dangerous corruption of Christianity, even or because its first traces can be found some centuries before the Christian era. That Alexandrian thought … Continue reading
Mit Abraxas (griechisch Ἀβρασάξ, Ἀβράξας) bezeichnete der ägyptische Gnostiker Basilides in Alexandria um das 2. Jahrhundert das Symbol des höchsten Urwesens, aus dem die fünf Urkräfte Geist(Nous), Wort ( Logos), Vorsehung (Phronesis), Weisheit(Sophia) und Macht sowie sittliche Vollkommenheit und innerer Friede hervorgingen.Basilides verarbeitete verschiedene christlich-jüdische, persische und neuplatonische Überlieferungen zu einem dualistischen Weltbild. Das frühe Christentum … Continue reading
stOttilien 
You must be logged in to post a comment.