Christopher 'Sigmond

The ape cannot let go of the banana. What about you? Dear friend,   Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that man is a rope between beast and superman. I understand this metaphor as a bridge between an ape and a fully realised human. And that bridge I call Phi or Dynamic Balance. For sometimes we are more apelike and in other situations we are more elevated. Thus play our lives out.   One way to catch an ape (or perhaps a monkey) is supposedly to present them with a banana that is inside a cage. The...

Opening Up Space – Welcoming In Impulses – Allowing Creation to Happen Dear friend,   Last week I gave a philosophical concert at the legendary Café Ariman in Lund, as seen in the image above.   Ariman is one of the names of the god of disorder, contrasted with Ormuz, the god of order. And just across the street lies the cathedral, and on the other side of a grove is the university building, both of which could certainly be seen as representatives of order.   When I moved to Lund to study law...

Surrendering the struggle – Giving way to acceptance – Relaxing into peacefulness – The void holds us – no matter what – if we let it   Dear friend,   A couple of weeks ago, I posted about going through the darkness again. If I consider my life from a certain perspective, there has been much more darkness than light.   And still, the light has been there all along. Even when I couldn't see it. Like stars shining in the night.   I can choose where to direct my attention.    I watched the movie...