Innehållsförteckning för May 2018 från PEARL

Ours is a high-tech age. There seems to be no end to man’s capacity to discover new truths about himself and the world he lives in. Scientific knowledge has sky-rocketed and technological progress is breathtaking. No other creature has the urge or the ability to plumb the deepest mysteries of the universe in this way, nor this insatiable thirst for knowledge. Paradoxically, the more we get to know the smaller we seem to get and the vaster still the unknown appears. This is also a time of pressing social and environmental problems and severe identity crises of the human experience. We are no nearer to managing to live in peace and harmony in this world. With tragic irony we wage self-damaging warfare as vandals against the natural environment that is…

Do not deem yourselves higher than all other created things. Plants and animals have kept themselves purer than you. Do not forget this. You are to protect and care for them; in return they will help you. Do not forget that this small visible world which is given to you is but an infinitesimal part of that great invisible world which you can only divine. Remember that each step of yours also leads through the invisible world, and take it in such a way that you can pass.Zoroaster) Chapter One Wanderers Time is journey into eternity. Every creature lives in and is a part of this vitality of nature. In the cosmic sense, time actually stands still while we move into time. In the process the brain hatches the surface…

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Created by God the Lord more delicately and finely than man, woman was placed into life to serve this life as an ornament, like the flower in the garden. Man should look up to women with reverence.Mohammed The traditional gender roles that began changing during the 19th century have altered with dizzying speed in recent years. Not only are more women today in the workplace and away from home than in their parents’ generation, many women are also actively engaged in the world of arts, business, science and politics – and through indications of where things may be heading as the home and workplace register the cultural shifts, women are also at a crossroads in rethinking their authenticity and embodiment of self-respect. I am walking through the departure area of…

 ‘Last week I again failed to accomplish anything, was just tired and run down!’ An orchid does not lose its fragrance just because no one smells it.Wenzi ‘Since the breakup with his girlfriend my son lies about depressed and complains that he is unable to study!’ ‘Everything is pointless, empty and grey; the best thing would be to end it all.’ Each of these statements suggests a phase in a human life that tells of dejection, heaviness, fatigue, pessimism and perceived futility – thus a state of depression. The concept of depression is used, on the one hand, to account for unproductive phases or to explain negative sensations, and on the other hand, also to describe severe mental suffering. In fact, these symptoms are so common that they seem to…

In this day and age there is often much talk about responsibility, usually without anything more behind the torrent of words than the use of noble and exemplary, even if often hackneyed, concepts, the meaning and content of which have long since departed from mankind. In adolescence, a period in the course of life of increasing physical maturity, the youth is standing before early manhood and womanhood. It is the phase during which the emerging individual personality begins to manifest with full vigour to the outer world, and the young person also becomes liable before the law for his or her deeds. Yet, even in adulthood, we shift, reject and struggle to get away from responsibility, so that it does not get too close. We want to command others, to…