Great spiritual teachers are often described as mirrors that enable people around them to become aware of patterns, believes and other unconscious bits.
I argue that Socrates was precisely this in its purest form to the Athenian people: he was a spiritual teacher guiding them from ignorance to truth and virtue. Socrates’ method was questioning others to mirror their behavior, values, beliefs, and thought process and make them aware of their own unconscious patterns and blind spots has become his trademark. It was famous in Athens at the time and it still is today. His goal was for everyone to reach excellency and to truly know-themselves.

I shed light on many facets of the controversial term “drugs”. Pharmaceuticals are drugs, so are beer and coffee. Here, I aim to replace stigma and misinformation with knowledge and understanding.
Most people habitually connect “drugs” to things like hedonism, harm, abuse, addiction, and so on. And while this is not entirely wrong, the same is true about food as people are using and abusing it in similar ways.
It is only that we cannot live without food and we need it on a daily basis why we would never deny the necessity to consume food. 
Yet, as food is entirely natural to us humans, so are “drugs”.
If you think this sounds unreasonable or outrageous, please bear with me and let me explain. You may be surprised how much this is true.

If you follow a predetermined path, you won’t be making your own experiences. You won’t make your own mistakes, therefore you won’t learn what really drives you. 
If you start walking in a direction and adjust your course when clues appear like breadcrumbs, you’ll create your own path. 
But most importantly: You’ll learn to listen and trust your own voice.

Most of our problems stem from just that, from following rules.
-Paulo Coelh

Evolution is not always right in the sense that what worked at one time is not necessarily the best solution at a later stage of development. And evolution is not finished.
Instead, those who adapt in the right way and fast enough when conditions change, are those who are able to make it. We can easily see how our primal desires drive us to make questionable assumptions and decisions, eat sweets, seek instant gratification, keep unhealthy habits, believe in populists or opportunists, or be suspicious of strangers/foreigners. Although these drives have been important in the past, now they are hindering us, individually and collectively.

Awe and wonder are not about what we perceive, but how we perceive it. We see the infinite beauty and complexity of things, we see the vastness of life in a grain of sand or find the funniest little detail in the strangest of clouds.
Awe and wonder are some of the most amazing states of mind we can cultivate during the day by reminding us what a mystery this life truly is and how little we really now about it.

I’m a philosophy student who just finished his Master’s in Berlin, Germany. Over the last five years I got sucked more and more into many fascinating topics that did not fit into the usual curriculum.
For some time, I had an insatiable hunger for knowledge and insight from all domains.
I kept researching, reading, and writing on different topics, spanning from Jungian Psychology to Transpersonal Psychology, from Cognitive Science to Spirituality, from Mysticism to Psychedelic Therapy, and from Mythology to Metaphysics.
What I was doing felt so intimately connected to what I considered to be the essence of philosophy and at the same time, it seemed entirely separate from the philosophy I was studying. There was effectively no place for it in the academic world.
This is why I began writing online to share my inspiration and knowledge with the hope to inspire and find community. Over the last 4 years I’ve also been walking the path, practicing Breathwork, meditation and Yoga to not just talk about a spiritual philosophy, but trying to live it as fully as possible.