Blog Posts

  • An Understanding Light of Welcome

    News headlines have recently been shouting about the refugee crisis and Germany’s prominent role in welcoming them. Estimates are that more than 1.5 million refugees will enter the country by the end of the year, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Since I live in a small town in Germany, I thought I might share…

  • Tasty Bites of Wisdom

    Roberto Assagioli, the visionary founder of psychosynthesis, left a treasure trove of thoughts when he died in 1974 at the age of 86. A great scholar, linguist, educator, and philosopher, Assagioli’s creative ideas compelled him to handwrite his reflections onto small pieces of paper which he would then assemble under subjects just as Joy, Compassion,…

  • When Spider Webs Combine

    One of my favorite Assagioli quotes, which I actually have printed on my business card, is as follows: “When spiritual light is focused on the most complex of individual or collective problems, it produces solutions…and spares us much suffering.” These words resonate with the news that the UN is now actively inviting spiritual leaders to…

  • Visions of God, the Cosmos and Humanity

    Recently I found myself with a group of pilgrims in the Land of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), near the Middle Rheine in Germany. Most of travelers were transpersonal and/or Jungian psychologists who had traveled all the way from South Korea in search of the wisdom of this saint, prophet, poet, dramatist, physician, abbess, preacher and…

  • The Healing Paradox

    Ava came to see me because she had been suffering with extreme vertigo for the past three years. Uncompensated labyrintis occurs when the inner ear becomes damaged and does not heal after eight weeks. Basically, the brain must then relearn how to correct the faulty signals that are coming from the sufferer’s damaged inner ear.…