There is a new poem with this title in German here in my German blog.
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Connecting my Blogs
As you may know, I like beautiful names and domain names. This may also be one reason for having more than one blog. Yet, for my readers, it might be inconvenient having to follow all of them – so I wondered whether to either create a new one and post in various language there (I thought of http://travels.jewel-of-light.org), an idea that came to me while walking through Perth (speaking of names – one beautiful aspect of Waldorf schools, at least in Australia, is that many children have got very beautiful names). However, for now, it seemed I should keep my separate blogs for English (this one) and German (over here).
To yet make it easier for the reader, I will connect both blogs by posting a link to each article I have posted in the other language, that is here a link to my German articles, and over there to my English articles published here.
I will keep my third blog and my special interest blog’s separate as well, but might also include links to these on my German and English main blogs.
This will not be the case vice versa, however, so best you follow either this blog or my German blog, then you should find all or most of my articles.
For older articles, i. e. articles before today, nevertheless, you will still have to browse through the other blogs.
This means:
- From now on, follow me either here or on http://blog.pfade-durch-das-netz.de.
- For articles before the date of this blog entry, please see the individual blogs. These include:
- http://interplanetar.com (English and German mixed)
- https://lovinglyhappy.wordpress.com/ (English and German mixed)
- https://moeglichkeitskurs.de/ (German, go to the articles and news section)
- http://www.interessantenachrichten.com (English)
- http://investigator-of-truth.com/ (see articles / news / blog section)
- http://prosperitycontacts.com/Articles/Articles.html (English)
- http://lernhinweisedeutsch.blogspot.com (German language related)
- The blog or news sections at http://esoterische-beratung.org and http://ichcoachedich.de.
Enjoy reading!
A. M.
May you Break the Rule?
I have been recently telling to some students an old story, which I embellished a bit.
The content of that addition led to the question (which, then, if I reflect upon it, could be a call for me to consider whether I should rather not have added that part….), whether that was my permission to “break the rules”.
That depends, of course, on the nature of the rule or rules to which you are referring, and, possibly, on your aims or motives (which, at this stage, does not imply that the ends justify the means).
There are quite a few systems of rules. As I have shown in detail in my book “Menschenwürde und Völkerrecht. Mensch, Gerechtigkeit, Frieden“, law, as well as all the other subsystems of rules, like moral, ethics etc., can be considered an (n-minus-x-dimensional) subsystem in an n-dimensional co-ordinate system. The subsystems may overlap.
Thus, the origin, the core and the source of each system’s rules is derived (finds its own source) in the n-dimensional system’s origin.
Therefore, the subsystems will be in harmony with the original system, and, ultimately, with each other.
Yet, if we look into the world, it seems there is a lot of disharmony, both in people’s actions, as well as between various systems.
So either the above is not true, or something else is not true. Either we believe in a world (the term being used here in its broadest, a higher sense, not only and specifically not mainly referring to the “material” world) of disharmony, or in a common / widespread distorted perception.
From all l believe and from what seems more probable to me, the latter, at the time of writing this, is the case. People do not really see reality, as it is, they see subjective versions, conditioned, programmed, by their education, their surroundings and their own beliefs which are connected to and derived from that. This was, what I had intended by telling the story in the first place (for the story see here and here, another good story as to this is Plato’s Cave Allegory). (For how to get rid of this distorted perception, feel free to have a look at the books I have suggested here [English, less extensive draft version here.].)
Thus, we can assume that the systems as such are perfectly in harmony, it is only what people create from their distorted ideas, i.e. how they put the ideas of these systems into (then distorted by their minds and in a non-complying) manifestation. There is a beautiful wording by, possibly, I think, Heraclitos: The Law as hidden Order (in German: das Recht als verhüllte Ordnung),
This means, that, if we are in harmony with All That There [Truely] IS [again, see here for how to BE THAT], we simply will not break any rules, for our actions are in harmony with the systems, in the systems, and our [true!] being is actually the source of all of these [I believe – but at the very least it is in harmony, like the rays of the sun are in harmony with the sun].
The “rules” we might break, though, sometimes, by following the true Rules, are the rules formed by a distorted mind – and quite a few “worldly” rules in quite a few countries may be amongst them.
So, how should we deal with these “rules”, though rules they may be called and in the written laws they may stand? There are a few sayings in tradition which can indicate a way, for example: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s” or – if properly understood (see my book mentioned above for an explanation)! – “suum cuique”
In fact, if we would like to go through live true to what we believe or feel and yet not land in jail (or, my dear language students, with extra homework or avisos), a certain “pragmaticism” might be prudent: If following the man-made rules does not harm your integrity, why not do it? Before breaking any rule, you should always be aware of the risks and potential consequences. We should also be aware of whether a man-made rule might not actually still be an acceptable or binding reflection or manifestation of a true rule. The Categorical Imperative by Kant and the “Golden Rule” might be ideas to consider in reflecting upon that. Furthermore: living harmoniuosly in society does mean we need to give the others space. While in us there may be such joy or sadness that we feel we need to express them now, or while in us may be the urge just to tell our neighbour this or that, others might not feel the same atthat time. Each of our actions has an impact on those around us, whether seen or unseen. Each of our actions can give them more space, respect there space or – infringe upon it.
True harmony lets us always be in harmony with our surroundings as much as possible. True harmony will even take us, ultimately, out of harmonious or distorted situations, because they simply will not be a “fitting match”, so to speak, I believe. Being in the flow, there should be no obstacles (or at least no permanent ones, perhaps interesting in this context this page).
“A lot to think about before ‘rule-breaking'”, you might say. Well – yes, but… only as long as you are still on your way to [the Realisation of] your True Self. Once you [realise you] are what you are, your actions, I believe, shall flow effortlessly, and there will be no question at all whether to do this or that, break man-made rules or comply, because everything you do or say is an expression of harmony itself.
Until then, for the question of whether to break a distorted rule (or not), one will have to think, reflect upon potential consequences, both for oneself and others, and (!) listen to one’s intuition (some aspects of decision-making through intuition I have discussed here).
Version 1.2, November 2017
Source of All Wisdom
Bluest sky,
source of all wisdom;
deep in my heart
my longing is true.
Deep in my soul
my spirit is loving,
deep in my heart
my spirit is whole.
(Actually, the poem has no title, I just chose a line as a title for this blog for technical reasons.)
How to Make Decisions and Dissolve Fear
In case someone is reading my English, but not my German blog: I have written an article about how to make decisions, dissolve or transcend fear on my German blog here. If you cannot read German, maybe a few of the links might be interesting – or to try an online translation tool?
Protected: Some Recent Travels
A Visit to the Steve Irwin of Sea Shepherd
After having noticed at the Seminar where I am currently enrolled in a part-time course in Steiner (Waldorf-) education for the high school, that a few people were wearing shirts or caps with the Sea Shepherd Logo, it turned out that three of the four current ships of the Sea Shepherd are anchoring in Williamstown, rather close to where I live. Interestingly, it is possible to visit them (still through the entire November, on the weekends). So today, I stood on the bridge of the Steve Irwin.
It is impressive to see these ships and meet the people and get an insight into their courage – particularly a video that is being shown in the mass conveys how ruthless the Japanese whalers follow their cruel path. They rammed the Steve Irwin in such a way that the captain had to send Mayday, and it was reported that they threw an explosive onto the tank ship next to the Steve Irwin. A tank (!) ship…
While I may yet be undecided what to think about ramming those ships which breach international law, and throwing stink bombs, I wonder – without actually having looked it up, my books of International Law being all in Germany – whether it could be considered a case of necessity as excuse or justification (in German: rechtfertigender or entschuldigender Notstand), or of an application of natural law.
In any case, one has to be impressed with what the people of Sea Shepherd, most being volunteers, and even the specialists sometimes volunteering, as I have heard, do and dare.
I wish them well, and that dolphins, whales and sharks may be protected from human hunters.
When in Japan – let us all hope that the massacres at Taiji (see here for a film [I have not watched it]) shall find an end soon; the good thing is, that, when some years ago I asked some of my Japanese students what they thought about the killing of whales, they found it a bad thing, so even there, consciousness is awake, and there appear to be crew members from Japan –, I made a point of donating with my Japanese credit card… When thinking about the legal aspects, I am not clear whether I may officially recommend it, in any case, buying some food (for or from the crew), going to their shop and buy a cap or sweater, or just donating (fortunately, they are living totally vegan when on board) would certainly help those whom they have decided to protect and serve.
Please do help to protect the whales, dolphins, sharks and seals. Look around – there are ample opportunities to donate or help in various ways. And alert your politicians. They fear the voters, so if we urge them to do what is right, and to stand up to those who kill, then, too, help shall come.
Hints as to Health
A. Preliminary Remark
A while ago, I wrote this article in German. The article you are reading now is a free translation of it, which I make available here as I needed to translate it anyhow. While many of the links may lead to German websites, you may be able to understand their content by using e.g. Google Translate.
The article discusses some questions of health, for which the right diet is something to be considered.
Important Remark: I am a vegetarian and would like to ask you to definitely observe that, as far as the books and links mentioned below contain dietary information, I do not at all wish to cause any animal loose its life because of that, even if certain foods derived from animals should be discussed or propagated in these books or links. On the contrary, I would like to specifically point to the terms of use of my websites, a part of which is this disclaimer. I am definitely of the opinion that everyone should be at least a vegetarian, better still something even more advanced (for details and alternatives see here) and would like to state that I do not share any recommendations which, directly or indirectly, lead to the killing of animals or other individualised beings. If you read on, you accept full responsibility for all your deeds which follow from reading this article – in any case, you indemnify me from any karmic responsibility for that.
B. In Detail
Here you can find some hints to certain specific questions of health and diet. For a general overview over books and methods which might contribute to health, please see int. al. my (draft) comments here (healing), here (health) and here (diet), which I might still expand and update. Even more rudimentary hints in English (draft state) can be found here (health) and here (diet), but please check the German versions, too, as they may be more complete at the moment.
I. Health and Diet
When still in Germany and visiting my dentist, who has an extensive knowledge in the fields of health and healing in general, for teeth cleaning, we were also talking about the question of dementia in Germany. She mentioned there would certainly be fewer people suffering from it e.g. in Malaysia at the time of our conversation, and that her professors, even in old age, had retained military snappishness and power (she comes from another country). She related it to “Bewegung” [movement – excercise?] (or, I am not sure, did she say that in relation to cardiac health?) and diet.
Additionally she gave me the hints and named the titles (I have left the German titles, I am sure some of them will be available in English, if you cannot figure out the English titles, please feel free to ask me for help) below of which it is my impression that it might be good, to present them here to a still broader audience:
• The “GREEn Smoothies” [which one can prepare oneself and which also help against feeling tired]
Christian Guth und Burkhardt Hickisch: Grüne Smoothies. Here
Victoria Boutenko: Grüne Smoothies. Here
Victoria Boutenko: Green for Life. Here
Here is also a contribution in Dreamhealer’s Blog as to the subject.
If buying smoothies in a shop, please make sure that they are at least vegetarian. At the time of writing this (October 2013), I had just noticed that e.g. the Boost-smoothies are not necessarily vegetarian. The yoghurt contains gelatine. When I enquired back why and mentioned that it ought to be easy to use cruelty free yoghurt, I did not receive a further response.
• Additionally the books named below for diet and “brain Fitness”:
Alberto Villoldo and David Perlmutter: Das erleuchtete Gehirn. Here
For those who are critical as to esoterism (as the book was labelled as “esoteric” by its German publisher): The english original title is “Power up your Brain” and the Czech one is (in Czech) “Fitness for the Brain” or something similar. The authors are working strictly scientifically, therefore please do not let yourself be deterred from the term “esoteric” (which would be quite unwise anyway, because true esoterism is, of course,something positive – things that would have to be criticised would not unlikely be distortions).
Christian Opitz: Befreite Ernährung. Here
Bruce Fife: Stopp Alzheimer! Here
Joachim Mutter: Lass dich nicht vergiften. Here
Norman Doidge: Neustart im Kopf: Wie sich unser Gehirn selbst repariert. Here
Burkhard Sieper / Michael Eisenmann: Fit in die Kiste. Here
• It could also be quite recommendable to undergo a nutritonal analysis:
To visit Dr. Runow (http://www.umweltmedizin.org/, also see. http://fmed.de/) and read his books, e.g. “Nervenschutz durch Entgiftung” (affiliate-link here
• And as to Coconut Oil:
Finally, she also pointed me to the coconut oil offered by Dr. Goerg also see http://www.virgin-coconut-oil.de/. I am not entirely sure about the context, but it was at least also in the context of the question whether this could be better suited for the “oil pulling” (which could be done in the mornings and evenings) then the sesame oil recommended in Ayurveda. By using the oil, one can not only detox, but also remove the “bad” bacteria from inside of the mouth. It appears that this coconut oil, which is not [this is what the German text said, I hope I am got it correctly there?] the oil which is won from the green coco nuts still on the tree, from nuts “with which the monkeys play football”, so from the respective quality…
II. Diaphragm cramps – Magnesiumchlorid (also read in general, i.e. if not concerned by the problem)
We also talked about diaphragm cramps. For legal reasons, of course, we cannot give recommendations, but to consider would certainly be, whether not, after thorough examinations whether not physical causes are given (perforations, other problems) it could be sensible to write meticulously into a diary what one has eaten or drunk [I am not sure whether I added the “drunk” myself, might not be recalled correctly] before the phenomenon occurs. One could also and especially research, whether one would take magnesium chloride (maybe one would also wish to have a look if one is not affected by the phenomenon?) or, if adequate, magnesium phosphoricum (also see here) of the Schuessler salts (Schüßler Salze). Furthermore, one could certainly consider the idea to visit someone able in visceral osteopathy.
III. Further Links
http://www.garten-treffpunkt.de/ (if one would like, for example, to read about ingredients for the green smoothies)
http://www.palaeo-power.de/ I have not looked into yet, I suspect it could be found helpful, but of course, I definitely ask you not to eat or drink anything for which animals die. Please observe my disclaimer.
http://www.cognifit.com/, especially http://www.cognifit.com/de/gehirnplastizität (in this context, I also had to think of kinesiology, especially BrainGym (as my respective specific English page is not yet ready, you could look for a few kinesiology related books also here, for now).
As an authority of dental medicine, by the way, my dentist often referred to Prof. Dr. Einwag.
Remark: I might or might not update this article. The current version is version 1.1 (English; April 2014), corresponding to the German version 1.3.
Yeah!
I just read that J. K. Rowling is writing the script for a new film in the Harry Potter world 
, although playing 70 years before Harry. Still good to know…
Australia: Information and Links
If you are interested in Information about Australia, you might be interested in a new webpage I have created. It can serve especially those who wish to emigrate, who want to work or live in Australia or simply stay for longer, but I believe it can also be helpful to the traveller.
It is in German, but just use Google Translate, especially, as many linked websites will be in English.
Have a look at my new information page.