Apr 24You also have a sense that the days of top-down leadership are numbered?Homaging a rare political inspirer from the 90s A shorter version of this text has formerly featured as a vlog post on my podcast Mind the Shift. This essay is about what kind of leader we are going to need and increasingly seek, and it is also a homage to one of the few awake political leaders we…9 min read
Mar 20The natural immunity cover-upWhy did everybody suddenly stop talking about immunity, the only reasonable goal? This text is based on a vlog posted on my podcast Mind the Shift, January 30. Time seems to accelerate. The world is spinning ever faster. It creaks and squeaks and heels as humanity integrates and the mental image we conjure up of the beautiful planet we inhabit shrinks. The…9 min read
Feb 9This blockbuster movie has one message … and gets it wrong. Here’s whyMy take on Don’t Look Up — A Swedish version of this piece was formerly published in the magazine Fokus. If there was an award for the ability to miss the point, I would nominate the latest blockbuster from Netflix, Don’t Look Up. I found the film shortly after its premiere around Christmas when randomly browsing the…Dont Look Up3 min read
Jan 5Where I fail at living in realityThis is a follow-up of sorts on an earlier essay about what is natural and what is not. In this text I employ the concepts real and reality. There is undoubtedly a difference, but I can’t fully untangle it now. I guess what is natural is always real but what…9 min read
Dec 14, 2021Why do spiritual people dismiss progress?Are they inadvertent mainstreamers or just compassionately cautious? Or am I missing something? I am a person who has always seen the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. I have never understood the point of thinking things could go terribly wrong. I have intuitively sensed that what you focus your attention on is where energy goes and thus what you get. Today I…19 min read
Nov 28, 2021What’s natural? Children (and ETs) get it rightWhat you are about to read may seem incredibly banal and obvious — and it is, on one level. But everything exists on multiple levels. The most trivial aspects of your life, things you normally would not even deem worthy of mentioning, can be deeply revealing. When you step aside…Natural9 min read
Sep 24, 2021Next leap changes everything (2)PART TWO This is the final part of an essay about humankind’s next big evolutionary leap, which will be directed inward: towards the non-physical aspects of our existence. In part one I discussed some of the contemporary findings that begin to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. What is…10 min read
Sep 19, 2021Next leap changes everythingPART ONE This piece is about humankind’s most pivotal revolution in the coming decades and centuries, hands down. It is about meaning, future, consciousness, society and science. Its message is more important than anything I have ever conveyed. …10 min read
Jun 9, 2021The need to keep more than one thought in mind when discussing sexuality and genderThis essay was previously published as episode #61 on Mind the Shift podcast. A protracted, undulating, often difficult and at times surprisingly toxic question is that of possible differences between the sexes. Are there any differences, apart from the obvious? And if so, does it even matter? From a higher…Sexuality12 min read
Apr 15, 2021The constant apocalypse— Ten canceled doomsdays you already forgot This essay was previously published as episode #51 on Mind the Shift podcast One of my pet topics is how we see the world. There are of course as many world views as there are people, but there is also a handful of collective views. …Apocalypse12 min read