Miscellaneous
'More people should go barefoot'
George Kerkhoven is a runner and walks on bare feet. That's something more people should do. 'It's an absolute thrill!' Marco Visscher | March 2004 Read More...
The business of business is... leadership
The business community is on the threshold of a new role in society. Jurriaan Kamp | March 2004 Read More...
Wise lessons
Four stories from Zen buddhism, by our columnist Paulo Coelho. Paulo Coelho | March 2004 Read More...
Writing: the interpreter of desires
At a university in Egypt an American guest lecturer discovers a submission to and love of God that is unknown in the West. Robert Eddy | March 2004 Read More...
Free Africa
Foreign aid and debts have shifted attention from the native population to donors and banksMarco Visscher | January 2004 issue ‘The talk of aid is a lot of hot air. Aid has never developed a single African country to the stage of social transformation.’ Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni tells Read More...
Plan B
We are witnessing a global bubble economy of dot-cosmic proportions. We are destroying natural resources at an alarming rate, and robbing futureLester Brown | January 2004 issue First the bad news: China’s economic boom could well lead to a global disaster. A human population of 1.3 billion and Read More...
The death of a democracy
A stunning documentary reveals how the 2000 American presidential election was stolen.Luke Disney | January 2004 issue ‘It can’t be true!’ was the incredulous reaction that stayed with me throughout ‘Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election’, a documentary from Richard Ray Pérez and Read More...
Zilu's bold step to self-reliance
Decades of development work has made Bangladesh the world's begging bowl; a land of desperation and dependence with no future. But even in the face of such misery one person can make a difference; without help from the outside. A new dream and a new vision are bringing new life to the North of Read More...
Man is not an isolated creature on a lonely planet
Our November cover story on the Zero Point Field roused a wide range of comments and questions from our readers. For many the promise of a new way of looking at the world and our place in it came as a revelation, for others it was confirmation of what they had long suspected or believed. A month Read More...
A necessary luxury
Is it selfish to spend time and energy on self-development while three-quarters of the world's population goes hungry? Tijn Touber asks and answers a painful question.Tijn Touber | January 2004 issue Is meditation a luxury? Is it a luxury to take time for yourself, to take yoga lessons and read Read More...