In conversation with a woman from a matrilineal society Author: Illin Masar Illin Masar belongs to the indigenous Khasi people – derived from the proper name Ki Khasi, “Those born of a woman” – who form a matrilineal society. In this society, the clan, one’s own relatives and the relationships among each other are elementary. …
Eastern remedies rediscovered in the West Author: Cordula Elisabeth Linke While industrial pharmacology developed in Europe around 1900, the millennia-old Ayurveda was modernized in India. The author shows how Western and Eastern medicine merge today in what we know as Naturopathy. How today’s scientific technology reinterprets traditional Ayurveda, using the well-known examples of turmeric root …
Sufism in a global world Author: Ingo Taleb Rashid The German-Iraqi master of Sufism talks about renewing the tradition. Opening to other spiritual paths, Sufi dances and chants, God, clarity of direction, the path to inner peace, non-conformist mysticism. The role of the body in spirituality, art, and how to come to oneself through meditation …
