If you want to see the beginning of everything then you really have to leave out a lot
A new take on the story of creation. 'If God and I are not very much, far less than you think, then he is the most of us two.' Bart Moeyaert | January 2004 issue In the beginning there was nothing. This is hard to imagine. You have to wipe out everything so that it no longer exists. You have to Read More...
Creating coincidence
You can create coincidence. This is Paul Liekens' intriguing message. Anyone can make any wish come true. You just need to understand the laws of the universe. Jurriaan Kamp talked with him about allergies, phobias, rain and ... happiness. Jurriaan Kamp | December 2003 issue Paul Liekens’ life Read More...
Alternatives to war
Peace is possible, but is must be constantly won anew. Anita Roddick's last column for Ode. Anita Roddick | December 2003 issue The way things stand now war is just too easy. It’s too easy to send someone else’s children to fight and die. It is too easy to dehumanise the enemy, making people Read More...
The joy of what's fleeting
Truth and authenticity are relative terms in Japan. Imitation and reality intermingle. Are they in danger of losing sight of 'the truth'? Not as far as Pico Iyer is concerned. In fact, you appreciate your surroundings more once you grasp their transitory nature. Everything changes, except the Read More...
Becoming We
'We'-thinkers maintain their hard-won intellectual and emotional freedoms while connecting with the greater whole. Tijn Touber's column. Tijn Touber | December 2003 issue My friend Jaap has written a book about the transition that we, world citizens, are now facing: the transition to thinking in Read More...
Dare to love
From an evolutionary perspective sex is a relatively new phenomenon, which may be why we haven't quite yet mastered it. But the so loudly applauded advent of free sex appears to be undermining Western society. It is possible to bring together spirituality and love. Ode went in search of the love Read More...
Desire and love
Desire is the wish to consume. To imbibe, devour, ingest and digest -- annihilate. Desire needs no other prompt but the presence of alterity.Zygmunt Bauman | December 2003 issue Desire and love. Siblings. Sometimes born as twins; never, though, as identical (single egg) twins. Desire is the wish to Read More...
Do the test
The following experimental exercises will help you to test your own personal relationship with the field of endless possibilities. Do not be surprised if the results are not what you expected. But you will find that your results will improve with practice. The whole idea is to practice and to Read More...
Quantum leap into adulthood
Physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar predicts that insight into the Zero Point Field could lead to a quantum leap in consciousness. | November 2003 issue In her book ‘The Quantum Society’, the American physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar concludes that the problems facing our society are in Read More...
The field of meditation
When 1% of a city's population engages in meditation the results can be surprising.Tijn Touber | November 2003 issue More than 40 studies over a period of 20 years (at 160 universities and private institutions in 27 countries) have shown that transcendental meditation (TM) not only have a positive Read More...