Introduction to ecopsychology Author: Marc Schmuziger Ecopsychology encompasses and integrates disciplines with each other. From shamanism to philosophy and systems theory to psychology and ecology. In order to dissolve the dualism in the thinking of Western societies and to open the view on the unity of life. This supposed separation led us to alienate ourselves …
The healing knowledge of the Sangoma
The treatment of trauma and psychological crises through spiritual wisdom Author: Gogo Ekhaya Sangoma are African spiritual healers who can communicate with spirit beings. They find solutions to problems in the areas of psyche, health, relationships and everyday life in dream and trance states. Much of what Western medicine consideres mental illness is an initial …
From high sensitivity to quantum physics
The discovery of a new kind of human being Author: Birgit Trappmann The author studied high sensitivity scientifically for many years and associates it with two different modes of perception. There is the analytic-serial and the holistic. She distinguishes two types of people, the sensory and the sensitive, they are as fundamentally different as man …
The ego is not the enemy
A nuanced look into the human psyche Author: Benedict Newton The ego is often seen as an obstacle on a spiritual path. But the problem is rather its disharmonious development, not the ego itself. Benedict Newton shows this by using Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche and Indian yoga teachings. What is the ego …
The ayurvedic way into balance
How to use complementary gunas to create physical and psychological balance Author: Chloe Hünefeld, Maria Blandine Wegener The way to our heart is through inner balance. To establish and maintain balance, it helps to study the teachings of Ayurveda. This teaching shows how harmonization and healing processes can be achieved by balancing the 20 gunas …
How to find your right meditation
Author: Shai Tubali It is not easy to choose a meditation. The chakra meditation “market” offers an overwhelmingly vast array of techniques, all shining brightly and full of great promises for profound experiences and long-term transformations. Yet surely, many of them are not necessarily suitable for us – though who could tell what “suitable” exactly means? …