Douglas Rushkoff – Survival of the Richest Douglas Rushkoff wrote his book “Survival of the Richest” back in 2022. The book has just been published in German, and we are taking the opportunity to revisit our article on it from 2022. Now that the power of the super-rich has grown even further, it is more […]
Month: February 2025
Viktor Frankl – and the last remaining freedom
He experienced hell. But in the midst of it all, he also began to ask himself why some people do not give up even under the most terrible circumstances, while others collapse. Viktor Frankl wrote: “Who among those who experienced the concentration camp would not be able to tell of those human figures who walked […]
Meta-Crisis and Sense-Making
When I watch the podcast of our American friends John Gardner and Harry Segal, called “Shrinking Trump” I am shocked about the overwhelming amount of info about the authoritarian politics in their country, but also impressed about the support, John and Harry offer to us. When I get these latest news about America but also German news about the […]
Resources and Recommendations
Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger, three leading thinkers and visionaries had a very inspiring conversation on the metacrisis and crisis of meaning. Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the most progressive thinkers and visionaries of our time. The Consilience Project was cofounded by him in order to explore and address some of the profound challenges facing […]
About the stoic planting of trees
“The man who planted trees” (L’homme qui plantait des arbres) is a parable for our time – and it is a story that I have been thinking about more often recently. Jean Giono wrote this short story in 1953: The shepherd Elzéard Bouffier lives in the barren, dry mountain region of Provence, where, as the […]
Aspects of the metacrisis
What do we mean when we talk about “metacrisis”? The metacrisis is a multiple overlapping and interconnected global crisis. Terry Patten described it like that: The metacrisis is a single phenomenon.We may be thinking of it as an ecological crisis. We may be thinking of it as a psychological or spiritual crisis.We may be thinking of […]
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 emotions try to regulate our nerve-system, try to mitigate these intense feelings: We might deny […]
Terry Patten: Metacrisis – the Titanic on a collision course
Terry Patten was a philosopher, activist, scientific and spiritual author, including “A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries”. We recommend his lecture Confronting The Meta-Crisis: Criteria for Turning The Titanic , in which he describes the meta-crisis as a convergence of problems that threaten civilization – in other words, as a convergence […]
Erich Kästner: “The Blue Book” 1941-1945
… and the “Lyrical Medicine Cabinet” In 1936, Erich Kästner published a volume of poetry that he humorously called “The Lyrical Medicine Cabinet”. In it, he writes: “It feels good when someone else expresses your own sorrow. It is also pleasant to learn that others are no different and no better off than we are.” Kästner […]
Erich Kästner and our “Therapeutic Medicine Cabinet”
First episode – Simone From February 2025 onwards, we will be launching our podcast “Metameaning”, where we´ll inquire into the topics that we also address here on the website. A few weeks earlier we were invited to “Shrinking Trump”, the podcast of our wonderful friends Dr. Harry Segal and Dr. John Gardner. The exchange was […]