Column Tijn Touber
Finding wholeness at 30,000 feet Tijn Touber| March 2007 issue A friend who was juggling a myriad of personal problems had to take a long overseas flight for business. Rigid with tension, she was desperate for a couple of hours’ sleep but was wedged into a middle seat between two large men. She Read More...
Is God a delusion?
Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, responds to biologist Richard Dawkins' assertion that God does not exist in any form. Neale Donald Walsch| March 2007 issue English scientist Richard Dawkins ignited a fierce debate with his book The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) - Read More...
The power of intention
A lesson from sports champions: The power of intention changes reality. Your health. Your career. Your world. Lynne McTaggart | Jan/Feb 2007 issue Seven weeks before Muhammad Ali met World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman for their “rumble in the jungle” at Kinshasa in 1975, Ali practised Read More...
Paradise reclaimed
Seoul, South Korea, puts a new spin on progress by bulldozing a highway to build a park. John Vidal| March 2007 issue A year ago, several million people headed to a spot in the centre of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, to celebrate the opening of a new park. This was obviously not your ordinary Read More...
Laughing at Osama
Muslim stand-up comic Shazia Mirza shatters taboos all around. Tijn Touber| Jan/Feb 2007 issue My name is Shazia Mirza; at least that’s what it says on my pilot’s licence.” This is how Muslim stand-up comedienne Shazia Mirza opened her routine after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It had taken Read More...
The Golden Inferno
Ben Okri offers a message from the house that was a country. Ben Okri and Cynthia Jones| Jan/Feb 2007 issue That country was a house with a gutter of earth in front of it. And the shallow gutter was clogged with things that made the air foul and terrible to breathe. There was a dead cow upended Read More...
Healing the Africa within us
"Africa has been waiting to be discovered with the eyes of a lover." Ben Okri declares his love to Africa. Ben Okri | September 2004 issue Heart-shaped Africa is the feeling centre of the world. Continents are metaphors as much as they are places. And a people are spiritual states of humanity as Read More...
The power of conflict
Want to boost creativity in you workplace? Start some fights. Craig Cox | September 2004 issue Years ago, I worked for a fellow who was fond of stirring up resentments between people as a way of demonstrating his personal power. The result was a morbidly fascinating workplace, in which ferocious Read More...
We are here
The success of self-help books has led to a supersaturated 'I'. It's time for the next spiritual step, a leap in human consciousness: the leap to we. In our modern society, we're all linked to one other. And the answer to our political, economic and spiritual challenges lies in co-operation, in a Read More...
Hero of our times
Tony Blair, Bono, Bill Clinon, Muhammad Ali and Kofi Annan about the man who represents justice and reconciliation. Tijn Touber| November 2006 issue Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 in Mvezo, a town in southeast South Africa, the son of a prominent adviser to the king of the Thembu tribe. As a Read More...