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Aho Mitakuye Oyasin

Prologue Last days in Israel before flying back to Europe and starting a new life in Berlin. The Covid situation there is dire, with many...

A Night at the Police Station

As the general elections here in Israel are up and coming and the climate and ecological crisis is not really on the agenda of any of the...

The Three Gifts of Ayahuasca

A week after the Ayahuasca ceremony it is time to try to put that experience in words. I feel a bit intimidated to do so because there's...

Dear Mother

Nourish me with the fruit of your Earth, so I can grow my roots together with yours Give me of your water, so that my tears dissolve all...

Reflections of a Rebel – A day at Hambacher Forst

Wednesday morning. Waking up in Cologne. The bed and duvet feel so comfortable is the first thought on my mind. The second one is how...

New Relationships

Relationships of Sounds Some nights ago I was watching a performance of Pink Floyd from 1995. I could hardly listen to the music and was...

Reflections of a Rebel – Revolution of Love

Last night I was listening to Yanis Varoufakis interviewing Roger Waters for DiEM25. Content wise everything seemed to make sense: the...

Reflections of Light

Prologue On the flight back to Europe I stop to reflect on my time in Israel. Being there, in an environment so different from the one I...

An open letter to Hannah Arendt

Dear Hannah, Fifty nine years ago you visited this country for the Eichmann trial and the events that you witnessed shaped the course of...

Reflections of a Rebel – Planting Hope instead of Trees

This morning I went with my family to plant tress in the West Bank. We joined a movement called Zazim who organized this event together...

Spirits At Work

It was my last day in Dornach after the Bound To Earth conference in the Goetheanum. I had a few more hours to spend before my train was...

Reflections of a Rebel – The Representative of Humanity

“Does anyone know what's happening about arrestee support for the Shell Action this afternoon?” Confusion. Was there an action? Did...

A tale of two sisters

Being and becoming were born to an upper middle class family somewhere in Europe. They were very much alike in terms of their beliefs,...

Reflections of a Rebel – Love & Rage

“Tell me what democracy looks like!”, she shouted over the megaphone as we were marching. A nasty question. For most it means going to...

Reflections of a Rebel – Hope in Colours

January 18, 2020. Another Extinction Rebellion protest as part of the Amsterdam Lights Festival. The Red Rebels were accompanied by the...

Reflections of a Rebel

Yesterday I joined Extinction Rebellion for a protest in front of the Australian embassy in The Hague. It was a wonderful experience,...

On Outer and Inner Fires

Reading the news about the fires in Australia: 15 million acres burnt to the ground, half a billion native animals killed, at least 24...

On Pop Culture

In a recent Email from a good friend he wrote that “the world of high art seems to be linked to pop culture in a really enriching...

ROCAVIVA

Second day in the mountains of Catalonia. Today we visited an amazing labyrinth of rock sculptures called ROCAVIVA near the town of...

What do I really want?

In reply to Young Omer’s question “what do you really want?” Old Omer said: I want to live in a fantasy world. A world not governed by...

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