GYesterday I had a long conversation about the origin of thought. Which comes first, the words or the thoughts. There are of course very different forms of thinking. Visual, musical, analytical, synthetic, performative thinking etc... There is thinking on the level of intuition, there is thinking in memory, there is vision [...]
Poetry and the impossibility of talking about highways
Aber Hitler built the autobahn! I've been hearing that more and more often lately. It's difficult to continue here because a certain argument, which I find very important, is quite complex and is rejected by people who want to relativize fascism and the Holocaust. The argument, which was suggested by Adorno, is: After Ausschwitzt can [...]
Jumping fish
Als Teenager bzw. Schüler habe ich angefangen zu meditieren, ich erinnere mich noch vage an meine ersten Meditationen aus der Zeit. Kraft und Ruhe, Konzentration – meist nachts. Es waren ganz besondere Momente. Ich tat das nicht oft. Als Student habe ich weiter sehr unregelmäßig meditiert. An einige dieser vorwiegend 1–2-stündigen Meditationen erinnere ich mich, […]
Elements - Fire
II remember always staring into the fire since I was a child. I think a lot of people do that. There is something fascinating about fire. In the Vedas, Agni is the god of fire, one of the five elements alongside water, air, earth and ether. The Greeks also have these elements. I didn't realize this for a very long time [...]