By Folke Gravklev
The second world war has loomed over Germany since 1945. Rightly so: The Nazi government inflicted suffering on peoples in eastern Europe, the Jewish population etc. on an unprecedented scale. The criminal regime used the full force of German […]
An increasing body of medical evidence confirms that meditation has a wide range of positive effects for the practitioner. The probably most influential and respected print media in Germany, der […]
He grew up in the countryside, far from any city. Now he lives in the middle of Germany's second largest city, Hamburg, where he is studying to become a coach and a sports salesman. Acem Meditation gives him energy and fresh perspectives.
How old are the practice and ideas of yoga? Hindu traditionalists would say yoga dates back to mythological times and the god Shiva himself. Not quite so, according to the German documentary film "Der atmende Gott".
Alhagy Jagne, local organiser in Acem Gambia, died last October while on a visit to family in Oslo, Norway. He was 63 years old.
Mr Jagne learnt Acem Meditation while studying education in Norway in the 1970s. He returned to his native country with an equivalent to a Master´s degree and made a career in the Trust […]
The movie “A Dangerous Method” describes the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, his then “crown prince” Carl Jung, their famous female patient Sabina Spielrein and the relationship between the three. It […]
This question doesn´t quite leave me after having seen the brilliant movie Winter´s Bone, about a young girl´s predicament in poor and deprived circumstances in a backward community in Missouri, USA. The 17 year old girl, Ree Dolly, carries her whole family. The father has left them to ”cook” metampethamine and hide from the police, […]
Hadrian´s Villa, a gigantic structure of buildings dating back to early 2nd century AD, situated some 28 km north of Rome at the foot of the Appenine mountain range, is in many ways a truly remarkable place. It served as the summer residence for the emperors in this phase of Rome´s history. What struck me […]
I am still somewhat shocked after seeing the movie documentary “Guru – Shree Rajneesh, his bodyguard and his secretary” some days ago. The Indian Shree Rajneesh was […]