Wisdom Cultivation and sensemaking
by Josef Rabenbauer – When I first came to India in the Eighties, I was invited by a doctor colleague. When I visited there for dinner, I was taken aback and amazed by our conversation: he and his family, together…
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Reactivity versus response-ability
In our time of multiple crisis and disruptions and right-wing authoritarian developments, we naturally experience strong emotional responses to them. We feel anxious, insecure, helpless, scared, angry, agitated or depressed. Our naturally occurring, mostly subconscious defense mechanisms against these strong…
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Meta-Crisis and sensemaking
When we watch the podcast of our American friends John Gardner and Harry Segal, called “Shrinking Trump” we are shocked about the overwhelming amount of info about the authoritarian politics in their country, but also impressed about the support, John and Harry offer…
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Lies, bullshit and the love of truth
Some of the greatest dangers our Sense-Making for a healthy society is exposed to: Disinformation, bullshit (according to the famous essay by Harry Frankfurt: “On Bullshit”) and propaganda. It is always shocking how and why people believe what Trump or some far-right-wing politicians in Germany…
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What´s love got to do with it? Why hardening doesn’t protect us
„Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to nuclear war, none is so great as the deadening of our response” Joanna Macy In light of the unprecedented upheavals of our time, we often feel overwhelmed and eventually numb,…
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The art of not knowing (and the work of A.H. Almaas)
„We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.“ Albert Einstein Our current situation is ambivalent – while we are confronted with the meta-crisis and feel anxious about the future, we – mostly –…