“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,…
Here and in our 6th podcast episode we would like to highlight further aspects of the work of Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Consilience Project – in particular the excellent article on the “Concept of Progress” from summer 2024. As we…
This week’s podcast topic: When the meta-crisis activates our survival mode, we live and act predominantly out of fear. And we forgo the qualities that enable us to live a good life. How can we live well in the face…
A conversation with my dear friend Tiffany Cooper. She lives near New York and since she was campaigning for Kamala Harris before the election, I wanted to know how she feels now about the actual situation in the US. Tiffany…
Facing the daily, ever-unsettling and shocking news, we try to understand the changes and make sense of them. The latest scientistic studies in brain research and the new findings about the different functions of the two hemispheres are a way…
for Matthew Lippman *Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole
“I do not often find myself in the habit of thanking Elon Musk, but I must confess that he has done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that…
One 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 or…
Sebastian Haffner, born in Berlin in 1907, was a war journalist, publicist, historian and writer. During the Second World War he began writing for the “Observer” in British exile. In the 1950s he returned to Germany. His writings on Adolf…