Connected Minds

Question: Do we have the right to choose how we identify with our thoughts or are our instant thoughts the truth to who we are? Answer: It is easier if we imagine ourselves not as “power sources”, “creators” of something, but as observers, like “computer displays”. Our thoughts, desires are not our own, they are … More Connected Minds

Human Mosaic

Question: What if everyone disappeared except for you, but you somehow possessed the ability to clone yourself? Answer: That would not be good. It would become similar to Agent Smith cloning himself on the whole of the Matrix in the third film. In a way we are trying to achieve something similar today, when we … More Human Mosaic

Hard Pill To Swallow

Question: What are some hard pills to swallow in life? Answer: The hardest pill is – as they so beautifully expressed in the movie “Cloud Atlas” – that our lives are not our own. We are all but individual cogwheels, individual cells in a vast, cosmic natural system, organism. Thus contrary to our default, proud, … More Hard Pill To Swallow

Fulfilling Dreams

Question: How can I live a happy life with truly unreachable dreams? Answer: You have two options: either you adjust your dreams to be more realistic or you try to improve your abilities so you can reach what at present seems unreachable. For both you need the right, purposeful environment. It is the environment we … More Fulfilling Dreams

Cooperative Study

Question: How can one remain motivated and focused in studies? Answer: I think the best way to remain motivated and focused in study is to become part of a mutually supportive and mutually complementing study group. There are recent scientific studies proving that “cooperative study” offers great advantages over individual and competitive study methods, while … More Cooperative Study