Dear Friends,

Many greetings from the valley of Eftalou on Lesvos, where Spring is in full bloom with flowers and buds unfolding by the day!

Sun, showers, light wind and sometimes a storm clear the air … leaving hope and gratitude for the year ahead.

I trust you are all in good health and finding harmony within your lives.

We shall be back soon in the Zoom studio for more exciting explorations and unwinding….this time on Tuesdays and Sundays, April 14 - 30.

Many years ago when I was a guest of the Indian ambassador in den Haag, the Netherlands, she told me that Jesus was seen as one of their holy saints! And then she added : “ But please Mr van Kooten, do away with your church”! And I still remember her, a strong older woman, the coffee after a rich dinner and this discussion we had as if it happened yesterday evening…

And the philosophy shifts to unity, but NOT into One World Government, but into excepting each other’s personal freedom of expression and dreams and beliefs.

All we need is being as open to our internal life force as we are able to!

Did I believe in black magic? Yes but white magic is connected and being born out of darkness

Make the experience as fully accessible as you are possibly able to do and explore your world with curious intent

At 18, a longing to find out from where this confrontation with my religious feelings came from, put me into a vision as I woke up one morning in bed….. “GOD became visible through creation and has not one visible face, but the many faces belonging to those who connected with this energetic Being! Faces of sheep, of cats, or humans, we are all part of this creative energy and all have religious souls even if we live in total denial. For that soul energy has given us this magic life.”

Today there is yet another war similar to the second world war in which I spend the first five years of my life under German occupation of Holland with lack of food and sitting in darkness with cooking pots on our heads on our cellar’s staircase as the whistling sounds of bombs flying over our house direction England.

The blinding light of freedom can be too much to handle and equally does darkness of the future become frightening, destroying the capability to stay calm and present living in the moment!

Settling in our birthplace and getting educated, we meet a whole arrange of influences. As we pick up some experiences more than others, depending on them fitting in with our inner strength of attraction from all our possible different internal physical and emotional or mental levels. We will have to protect ourselves from this multitude of impressions of whatever we can’t handle at times, but never closing off from looking openly into what is reflected upon the mirror of our life.