Recent content by Stoppelmann

Above all, he is saying that many doctors are themselves traumatised people, but have no way of addressing the influence this has on their lives. One of my friends is a retired GP who started out as a surgeon. He said that he went into general practice because he saw so many of his colleagues...

This is an incredibly important video:

I was across the pond in Germany and saw the pictures and thought, Oh no, this will be the Pearl Harbour of our day. Fortunately, it didn't quite have the repercussions I feared, but it was a tragic loss of life and led to more loss of life. It is also traumatic for the people of New York, who...

It was when I realised that the white head, the droopy eyes and the wrinkles were actually me, and getting out of bed took longer, and I needed to stretch myself before I could do anything else.

In his books The Sane Society (1955) and Escape from Freedom (1941), Erich Fromm argued that society itself can be 'sick', becoming destructive and alienating and estranging people from their true humanity. In such a case, a person who cannot adapt to the society and develops neuroses or...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in patients who have been close to death, sometimes during periods of low oxygen. However, the preservation or restoration of brain activity is essential for generating and retaining NDE memories. While the occurrence of complex conscious experiences (such as...

What Writing Means to Me I started writing 'seriously' relatively late in life, but not for money. I publish on Substack. I now have time to do something I enjoyed as a child, even though it was ignored at the time. However, I was passionate about it despite my childish naivety. When I started...

A wonderful weekend in Giethoorn, the Netherlands ...

@all Thank you for the birthday greetings. I was so overwhelmed for a week by the number of guests, calls, and the day itself that I wasn't here to receive the greetings.

The fluffy coils of feathers twist— aerial dancers in sunlight's kiss— doing aerobatics through our garden air, throwing us into conundrum, for who among us could mimic such tricks, even in the mind’s vast theatre? If we are quiet— watchful, still— they flit about their business with wary...

I have also come to the conclusion that compassionate love is the answer and that we must serve truth, unity, beauty and goodness in the interest of a common good. Only when religions follow that path do they achieve what we know to be divine wisdom.

A fantastic diary with fantastic pictures. It truly is a paradise of plants that you have co-created there.

On a different note, I am a traveller and writer, a photographer and a painter (sometimes), here a few of my pictures:

Having been inspired by my friend MarkD, I will herewith keep a diary and post some of my impressions from Europe, and hopefully, it will interest some of you. Otherwise, I will at least have a space where I know I left some thoughts. My first thought: There are a lot of deniers here saying...