Party enlightenment
Tijn Touber | April 2004 issue Jacques Lusseyran was one of the greatest heroes of the French Resistance. He survived the concentration camp at Buchenwald because one day he decided to get up off his stretcher. The man who lay dying next to him looked at Lusseyran and called out, ‘You don’t Read More...
In search of Atlantis
Graham Hancock on his way to Atlantis. The British author is seeking -- and finding? -- proof of the myth that is handed down in many cultures: there was once a 'super culture' that may well have equalled that of modern man. Hancock's quest shines a different light on the gradual progress of humans Read More...
Music in the favela
Nanko van Buuren has become an 'uncle' to the underprivileged in RioEva Bomans | March 2004 issue Pot-holes, sand and stones. Most of the streets in Vigário Geral are simply dirt tracks. Although there are very few cars to be seen, there are plenty of people: 7,500 packed into an area of three Read More...
Finally, a good talk
My father, free from the constraints of all those titles and roles. Tijn Touber | March 2004 issue I heard the news of your death in the dressing room of a television studio. The programme was over and I switched on my mobile telephone. Three messages. The first – and the last one recorded – 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...
If you want to see the beginning of everything then you really have to leave out a lot
A new take on the story of creation. 'If God and I are not very much, far less than you think, then he is the most of us two.' Bart Moeyaert | January 2004 issue In the beginning there was nothing. This is hard to imagine. You have to wipe out everything so that it no longer exists. You have to Read More...
Creating coincidence
You can create coincidence. This is Paul Liekens' intriguing message. Anyone can make any wish come true. You just need to understand the laws of the universe. Jurriaan Kamp talked with him about allergies, phobias, rain and ... happiness. Jurriaan Kamp | December 2003 issue Paul Liekens’ life Read More...
Alternatives to war
Peace is possible, but is must be constantly won anew. Anita Roddick's last column for Ode. Anita Roddick | December 2003 issue The way things stand now war is just too easy. It’s too easy to send someone else’s children to fight and die. It is too easy to dehumanise the enemy, making people Read More...
The joy of what's fleeting
Truth and authenticity are relative terms in Japan. Imitation and reality intermingle. Are they in danger of losing sight of 'the truth'? Not as far as Pico Iyer is concerned. In fact, you appreciate your surroundings more once you grasp their transitory nature. Everything changes, except the Read More...
Becoming We
'We'-thinkers maintain their hard-won intellectual and emotional freedoms while connecting with the greater whole. Tijn Touber's column. Tijn Touber | December 2003 issue My friend Jaap has written a book about the transition that we, world citizens, are now facing: the transition to thinking in Read More...