“I cannot tell you how many times in the 6 year period of severe depression I felt hopeless and that there was nothing to live for in this world. I [...]
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Inspirational Quotes
This week, I will present some inspirational quotes again, which will hopefully inspire you, dear reader, to reflect on your life and the relations you have with other people. Often we live one hectic day after the next and forget to sit down and contemplate about what we are doing. Personally, I find it very [...]
Nourishing Food Need Not Be Expensive
I often hear that obtaining a traditional diet is too expensive. People argue that eating a nourishing diet that avoids all industrial foods and that includes some lacto-fermented foods, quality fats, raw dairy, and wild seafood or pasture-raised animals products is simply not financially feasible for the vast majority of the population. In other words, even if people wanted to eat traditionally and had reasonable access to such [...]
How to Catch Wild Pigs
I recently came across the following story about how to catch wild pigs that serves as a commentary on the state of freedom in modern America. A chemistry professor at a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man [...]
Capitalism Revisited
“The world has changed since 2009″. “Greece is bankrupt”. “The economy is in recession for the second time this year”. “Many European countries lost their top ratings last night …”. Headlines such as the above have been in the newspapers for the past two years and one report after another talks about our looming doom [...]
Judgments on Nutrition Can Be Common Sense
The things that I publish can be hard to take in and even harder to defend. They require being open to an entirely different way of looking at our society and culture than that which is presented to us every minute of every day in the media and through our conversations with other people. For [...]
Video: Take a Lesson from Nature … Eat Like a Fungus
Decay and spoilage are necessary and natural parts of life. As an illustration, a tree grows leaves that are healthy and green. Those leaves soon turn brown and fall to the ground. They quickly decay and provide nourishment to the microorganisms in the soil. Such microorganisms feed the tree and allow it to grow more healthy green leaves. All things in [...]
Thoughts on Animal Cruelty
I have read a great book called The Untold Story of Milk, by Ron Schmid, ND and I came upon the following moving story: “Mooing loudly, a cow runs toward a man walking through a field. Alarmed, the man suspects madness, but as she nears him the cow turns and heads back, still looking back over [...]
2013 – How to Manage New Year’s Resolutions
December 31st 2012 – on New Year’s Eve many of us decided on a list of new year’s resolutions, be it to work harder, spend more time with family and friends, loose weight and get fitter and so on. However, after only a few days many of us have forgotten most of these resolutions and [...]
Christmas Thoughts on Society
Christmas is nigh and after the past stressful weeks at work and some frantic shopping sprees, we finally get to sit together with our family and friends, eating copious amounts of turkey, goose or duck, followed by sweet desserts and a plethora of presents. This is the time of year where we talk about peace [...]
Is There an Afterlife?
“That undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns, puzzles the will…” (Hamlet, William Shakespeare) Is there an afterlife? Where do we go when we die, or do we just vanish back into the nothingness from whence we purportedly came? Philosophers for centuries have been exploring these questions, and religions of the world have attempted [...]
Feminism. Yes That’s What I Said!
Feminism is big news again. They’re running articles on it in magazines, Cosmopolitan, Company and Grazia to name only a few have run articles on it in the last few issues. Caitlin Moran has had a best-selling book on ‘How to be a woman’ and the government are discussing how to get more women into [...]
Kundalini Energy
Kundalini energy is a Hindi word for sacred, transformative energy that awakens the consciousness. It literally means coiled. In yoga, a “corporeal energy” – an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti that lies coiled at the base of the spine. The kundalini resides in the sacrum bone in three and a half coils and [...]
Energy: Chi, Prana & the 7 Chakras
“The Body is not what it seems to be with the naked eye. It is not a solid mass. It is actually a system of little particles or points of energy separated from each other by space and held in place through an electrically balanced field.” – David M. Cumes M.D. Energy is our life [...]
Happiness
Happiness is a feeling or emotion that we strive for, more than a measure of success but a deeper emotion that gives life meaning. There are many routes to happiness and many spend a lifetime pursuing it. We can do much to protect it and ensure it remains constant throughout the inevitable ups and downs [...]
The Drama of Karma
According to astrologers worldwide we are in the age of Aquarius – traditionally the Messianic era and as such are experiencing a spiritual shift, with the collective spirit of the world seeking to break free from constricting identification with material reality and in doing so, bravely attempt to retrieve what alchemists referred to as a [...]
Is It Time to Reconnect?
“It’s imperative that we bring children into close contact with the miracle of evolution…and by so doing underline man’s consciousness of being responsible to a unit much greater and more valuable than himself, of which he is part”. (Konrad Lorenz, The Waning of Humaneness) Has the Western world lost its way? This is a question [...]
Lila: an Inquiry into Morals
What is quality and what are values? This is the integral question Robert Pirsig asks in his book “Lila”, which is a sequel to his famous novel “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”. City Connect reported on the latter book previously, and now we will continue the philosophical debate. Just like the prequel, the [...]
Book Review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This week, Sebastian Müller talks about the famous book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” exclusively on City Connect. “We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where [...]
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Who Gets the Armrest on Planes?
Dear Agony Uncle,
I travel quite a lot and I’ve been meaning to ask you: what’s the etiquette of who gets the armrest on a plane? Regardless of whether they are [...]
Style
Hot Fashion Trends for Summer 2012
City Connect welcomes Emily Kissock as our latest Features Writer on Beauty and Fashion. In her first article, Emily – an experienced make-up artist, model and fashion writer – takes [...]
Relationships
Choosing a Guy
Options are always good, right? Having the free will to make informed decisions and make a choice. But how do you choose, how do you know that you have your Louis Vuitton opposed to some [...]
