The Timeless Beauty of Asia

The Author was born 1960 in Germany. With nearly 18 years he went to India and visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, where the root of spiritual yearning was planted in his heart. All seed need time to increase and to mount, in modern times most of all a spiritual seed. So, he first studied economics but changed after the intermediate Diploma to sociology. After the degree he received a training as systemic therapist and worked in an addiction clinic and for a welfare association. After the doctorate as Ph.D., he went freelance in Düsseldorf with legal guardian-ship, life counselling and motivational training. A heavy burnout with severe depressions and lots of failed therapies led finally to an occupational disability. On the basis of his diaries, he recapitulated his life and started to travel to Asia. Meanwhile he is married with his Thai-wife, lives in a farmer village und writes about the stony and thorny way from the tree of knowledge to the tree of life. This involves the whole life and leads to a fundamental different paradigm whereby the identification with thinking ("cogito ergo sum") ceases and in place of thinking and word the inner silence has priority. But with that also our identity is changing. The silence led to the heart as the new centre of identity. Here, the people are connected with the whole, whereas the thinking identity is separating itself from all. And still more, we find back from thinking our life to experience our life - a fundamental change! So, this spiritual revolution is not a singular event but the paradigm of the future. The last culture representing this heart-centered identity was the high culture of the Native Americans. All the troubles, the world is now facing, will lead to an overcome of the mind-centered ego to the benefit of the Divine self, or in Buddhist language, to a non-ego and the freedom of duality. All books of the author are circling around this fundamental and evolutionary step forward to a higher species, the