Over the last months I have regularly been baffled by what I saw happening around me. As more and more data became available, it also became clear that the coronavirus wasn't as dangerous as we first feared. It certainly didn't warrant the tremendous damage the corona...
This week I finally did it: I cancelled my Facebook account. I was very late in joining the FB legion, but - once in - I was in completely. I collected friends, groups, pages and events. I was fully enjoying virtual life. But somewhere deep inside it didn’t feel...
When I was about 18, a family member who was at my birthday commented on the appearance of one of the other guests. I remember the exact words, but they don't translate well, so the gist will have to do. She basically said, loudly, that the person in question had the...
The above proverb is meant to instil fear into people's heart, fear of doing nothing. Sounds scary enough, so it would work for me, if I would believe in a devil, which I don't. Who needs a devil when taking into consideration what some people are capable of? But...
Lately some heavy-duty decision making has come my way. And with it a truckload of 'what ifs' have entered my head. Needless to say, being as highly developed as I am spiritually this doesn't faze me at all. I just sit, meditate for a bit and, lo and behold, the...
On this website you will find a holistic way of looking at life in general and humans in particular. But what is holistic? Webster defines it as following: holistic: relating to holism; holism: a theory that the universe and especially living nature is correctly seen...
I mentioned it earlier in my blog about stress: fear is in my opinion the ultimate source of the most debilitating stress. Fear to lose, fear to get hurt, fear to not be able to pay your dues, fear to be laughed at, fear to die, fear to live. Fear is evolutionary a...
Talking about stress! The other day I read an article about suicide clusters that have been occurring amongst high school students in Palo Alto over the last years. The gist of it was that, although the establishment denies it fervently, the suicides have been the...
In an earlier blog I told you about the detours I took in coming to where I am now. I don't know whether you noticed, but I choose my words carefully. The following words just about sum it up: I was on the path that I thought my parents, siblings, friends,...
We have discussed the incompatibility of our genes with our current living environment in general, we have discussed food in general and exercise in general. So what more is there? Another matter that definitely deserves attention in this series is the effect of...
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