What ”Inventing Anna” (possibly) can teach us I suspect the following musing could easily be misunderstood if read carelessly, so please try to catch my core message. A few weeks ago, I watched the drama miniseries ”Inventing Anna” on one of the big movie streaming platforms. If you haven’t seen it, here’s Wikipedia’s summary: Under the assumed…

On reasoning vs experience; conversations with Bernardo Kastrup and Angelo DiLullo I re-listened to my almost 90-minute long Mind the Shift conversation with philosopher and former CERN scientist Bernardo Kastrup. It became even more obvious to me than it already was what a brilliant mind Kastrup is and why he enjoys such a high reputation in spiritual circles. …

Homage to 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…

Why 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…

My 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…

This 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…

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. …

What 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…

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…