New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
Texts that critically bid farewell to patterns of thought, habits, illusions, and cultural assumptions.
When I began reading the Upanishads, I realized that the inner path I had embarked upon was leading me into an extraordinarily beautiful inner landscape. Discovering that this inner landscape is connected to cosmic consciousness made me aware of the important work I must undertake—what people often call “inner work.” As I committed myself to this inner work, I focused on how I was feeling, who I am, and what I must face. What are my shadows? My insecurities? My…
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Connection Over the past two years I have immersed myself quite deeply in the Upanishads, practiced some yoga, and engaged a little with the system of yoga. I have immersed myself in my own body, my own senses, my own consciousness. Have seen that there are a great many levels, and that there is no reason at all to assume that still more levels do not exist. Just two years ago I simply denied most of what I am experiencing…
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Learn more about the challenges facing young people in the divided Germany of the 1980s and the philosophical debates that revolved around German guilt.
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This text concerns a change in worldview and the process of letting go of old convictions to make room for new ideas.
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Yesterday I ended the year with a shared meditation. It was beautiful, calm, concentrated. And in a moment I want to go to the sea, swim a little; this seems a good start to me. I let a little of how I have lived over the past years and decades pass before my inner eye. I have lived in different places in different countries. That was exciting: different customs and practices, languages, cultures, different sensory impressions, from nature and food…
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Today I was at a place for village children with special needs (Deepam). Someone from the guesthouse here had invited me to accompany her. It was a kind of ceremony as part of Navarathri in honor of the goddess Saraswathi—she stands for education, prosperity and success. In India today, the objects needed for work were cleaned and consecrated as a kind of thanks. Offerings were brought to them, and there was singing. At the therapy center, alongside figures, books and…
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On a boulevard in Paris, a café and bad music, sun and many people. So many people want to be seen. They present themselves as busy, sexy, cool, knowing, adventurous, athletic, educated, cultivated, or indifferent. Many want the others to take notice. They see this as what they want to be. Perhaps they live their lives in a particular way, happy and content, or controlled by others and bored, cast out or privileged. That is the beautiful thing about Paris…
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I love complexity, but sometimes also radical simplification—to gain a little clarity. For example, the history of ideas in the visual arts. In Europe, after the great migrations, art history can be sketched in broad strokes as a history of ideas: In medieval art, stories were told visually – mainly the stories of the Bible. Most people could not read, after all, certainly not Latin or Greek. The wood-panel painting of the altars is therefore a kind of comic, and…
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