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How do you recognize your destiny?

I don't know about you, but when I hear the word 'Destiny', it completely intimidates me. What? Am I supposed to save the world or sacrifice myself? I remember as a small child in Sunday school being totally freaked out by the minister. He said 'God has already ordained your destiny and when he calls you, you must answer, because not answering will render your life useless! You will never succeed at anything else but God's will.' Hectic! This had a profound impact...

September 11, 2011

By Anja van KralingenIndividuation, Practicallydestiny, individuation2 Comments

Eric the Vampire Viking: Man or Mouse?

Ok, I confess! Stephen and I love True Blood. (it is very psychological, OK!!!) We are currently watching Season 4; and oh what a disappointment! Eric, Vampire, Viking….. hot, hot, HOT! Or rather he used to be… . For those of you unfamiliar with 'True Blood' and the various characters, let me explain. Eric is over 1000 years old. He is a Viking made Vampire and he is BAD! Hot but BAD! And if your thing is bad boys, he is it. But...

August 28, 2011

By Anja van KralingenPersona, Practicallyconsciousness, persona0 Comments

Unfortunately…it seems We Will Have to Kill the Child

I don't know about you, but I truly love children. Of course I love my own children, but beyond them I love children generally. Children possess a humanity which is absent in most adults. They know how to love, how to laugh, how to cry, and perhaps most importantly how to play. What is life, after all, if we're not at play. Sometimes I encounter kids who seem like little adults, embedded in reality; or as Freud would put it, living...

August 22, 2011

By Stephen FarahArchetypes, Practicallyarchetypes, child3 Comments

Why Dont You Act like Youve Got a Pair: or, How to Find Your Inner Cowboy.

Once a long, long time ago in a land far, far away there was a particular type of man. A man who lived life as if he had a pair. This truly was an exotic creature, not to be confused with your garden variety metro-sexual. I speak of a man that is not some lily livered, hormonally imbalanced, girl man. A man who measured himself by how he crushed his enemies underfoot, how many women he had taken to his bed,...

August 8, 2011

By Stephen FarahArchetypes, Practicallyarchetypes, cowboy0 Comments

Comfort Junkies beware! : The 30 day challenge

According to Rudolf Steiner the greatest obstacle modern man faces is the love of ease, or in modern terms, being a comfort junkie. Now this really rang true for me because I am the ultimate comfort junkie. Don't ask me to do anything out of my comfort zone, I will sulk. Of course this is really limiting, because I hardly ever challenge myself to do anything that lies outside my comfort and capability range. Not to say that I don't do...

August 1, 2011

By Anja van KralingenPractically0 Comments

Do you know Right from Wrong?

During my anthroposophy class we discussed the concept of personal ethics. In Anthroposophy it is quite specific, in the sense that you need to act out of a position of love, which is selfless and has the other's best interest at heart. Ok, this is an ideal that is obviously REALLY hard to achieve, but the bottom line is that your personal ethics have to act as the foundation of your psyche. Your intentions and decisions need to be rooted...

June 6, 2011

By Anja van KralingenConsciousness, Practically0 Comments

Limitless: How Far, How Fast, and How Much, can You Achieve?

This post is inspired by the movie Limitless. If you haven't seen it yet, go and see it tonight- trust me, it's that good. The plot is fairly simple. The main character Eddie Morra is a down and out writer, late twenties, whose life is going nowhere fast. When, through a series of circumstances, he comes into possession of a drug, NZT-47 which increases his cognitive abilities beyond belief. He goes from Mr. Dopey to a Albert Einstein/John F. Kennedy hybrid...

May 30, 2011

By Stephen FarahBook and Movie Reviews, Practicallyconsciousness, Limitless, themes0 Comments

5 Lessons from a 5 Year Old

I have heard it said that our children are our greatest teachers. I'm not sure if that's always true, I would like to believe I know more now than I did as a kid- so doesn't that make me the teacher, rather than the student? Still, I have to concede, sometimes the exceptional happens, and a child comes along that does teach you. And when that happens it is both humbling and inspiring. Ruarc Alexander Farah, 5 years old, and my son,...

May 17, 2011

By Stephen FarahPractically0 Comments

The Problem with the Payoff

A few weeks ago, I was driving listening to Doctor Eve on Redi's show. I just caught a bit of the show, and I think it was about alcoholism linked to sex addiction. A woman had phoned in to complain about her friend who constantly embarrasses her when they go out on the weekend, because she gets totally pissed and then flirts with strangers and would go with them if the caller did not stop her. The caller said that the...

May 12, 2011

By Anja van KralingenComplexes, Practically0 Comments

The Great Security Hoax

How secure do you think you and your loved are? Absolutely, 100% secure- free from any risk of harm or misfortune. As secure as one can reasonably be (which is pretty secure really), secure from anything bar an act of God (which is unlikely because I'm a clean living person and right with the Big Guy). Not all that secure, I recognise the potential for disaster is ever present. Which one of these three options, or some gradient between them, do you believe? I'm...

May 9, 2011

By Stephen FarahPractically0 Comments