So the Soul Can Shine.
Spiritual Activist Gabriel Avruj interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Why do you want to help motivate people? Gabriel Avruj: From personal experience I know that the biggest barriers are mental. The mind is a double-edged sword if we do not train it. Our thoughts are powerful and have the ability to create reality. The outside reality is just a projection of what we think and of our...
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Duysal Aşkun Celik, PhD. interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: What do you think happens to the Soul after we die?… Duysal Aşkun: For me, the soul continues his or her journey, albeit in a different form. The physical body is left behind, and the soul searches to find ways to express him or her in the grander version at that moment. What is emotion? How would you define...
Read MoreThe Woman Who Has Changed.
Debbie Wiltshire interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: what is this change that we are talking about? Debbie Wiltshire: This change, for me, is a process of waking up to and acknowledging our true selves. I have come to understand that I have been sleepwalking through life, and creating many difficulties for myself through my lack of awareness. I have been living the life that people...
Read MoreLife Is Not A Popularity Contest.
Interview with Steve Farrell, Worldwide Coordinating Director and co-founder of Humanity’s Team. Gil Dekel: The ides for ‘Humanity’s Team’ came to Neale Donald Walsch in a dream? Steve Farrell: Yes, and I had a chance to listen to Neale describing his dream, and to be part of it from the start in March 2003. Neale wanted to start a movement that will focus on one thing and one thing...
Read MoreExpressive Typography.
Graphic Designer Alberto Hernández interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How do images and type relate to each other? How do you connect the two? Alberto Hernández: The relation between images and type is determined by the content and the needs of the project. It might be that a project doesn’t need to have any imagery at all, as it can rely completely on type. And a different project...
Read Moreבכל חוף, החול הוא אחר
נטלי דקל – ציירת דיוקנאות אקריליק, ואומנות מופשטת בטכניקת שעווה נוזלית (Encaustic Wax) – בראיון עם גיל דקל. [English Version] גיל דקל: מתי התחלת לצייר? נטלי דקל: נולדתי שמאלית ואמא שלי חששה שלא אוכל להשתמש ביד ימין. היכן שנולדתי...
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מלאני צ’אן (Melanie Chan) ציירת בצבעי מים, בראיון עם גיל דקל. גיל דקל: את מתמחה בציורי פרחים בצבעי מים. מה את רואה בפרחים? [1] מלאני צ’אן: אני רואה את היופי של הטבע בפרחים, ואני נדהמת משלמותם ומהסימטריה שלהם. כשאני מתחילה...
Read Moreלהדליק את האור מבלי לבחור לאיזה כוון הוא יתפשט
ה’עצמי הסמכותי’ (‘מוזה’ לכתיבת שירים), בראיון עם גיל דקל. גיל דקל: אני שמח להציג את ה’עצמי הסמכותי’, שהוא מקור היצירה שלי, ולראיין אותו על תהליכי ההשראה בכתיבת שירה. אני רוצה להודות לך, ה’עצמי...
Read Moreשדות צורניים חופפים – Overlapping Morphic Fields
ד”ר רופרט שלדרייק (Dr. Rupert Sheldrake), ביולוג וסופר, בראיון עם גיל דקל. [לגרסה באנגלית English] גיל דקל: אם התודעה האנושית היא ‘מורחבת’, כפי שאתה טוען, איך אתה רואה את בני-האדם בכלל? כפרטים המחוברים ביניהם, או אולי כישות אחת...
Read MoreWe All Want The Same Things.
Steve Minchin, co-founder of The Global Conversation, interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Do you feel spirituality can operate with business? Steve Minchin: The message coming from the ‘Conversations with God’ books (by Neale Donald Walsch) is that our Politics is our Spirituality demonstrated, because we act according to our beliefs. So I guess our way of doing Business is likewise...
Read MoreA Strong Desire Shared By Many People.
Artist David Brooke interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How would you define your artistic style? David Brooke: I used to describe my artwork as Symbolist in style, but nowadays I prefer not to categorize my work in any way as I believe it becomes a barrier to viewing the paintings. I would prefer that people come to the paintings without any preconceived ideas. Do you consider yourself a...
Read MoreAn Art Called ‘Kindness’.
Dr. Loykie Lominé Interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil: What is a ‘random act of kindness’? Loykie: It is a ‘random’ act that you do not plan in advance. You do not know what you will do, nor who will benefit from it, and you just do something good. Let me give you an example: after walking your daughter to school in the morning, you pass by some cars parked on the side of the road;...
Read MoreVisions of Peace
Artist Katherine Josten (founder/director of The Global Art Project for Peace) interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: You have inspired more than 100,000 participants to take part in your project since 1994; how did you do that?… Katherine Josten: I believe that everything takes place first on an inner level and then it manifests on an outer physical level – so I began by...
Read MoreBeyond The Point of Who We Are (part 2 of 2)
Larry Dossey, MD, interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD (part 2 of 2) « Back to part 1… Gil Dekel: What is the experience of premonition? Larry Dossey: When people access information from the future, it can manifest and be experienced in different ways. People have a sense of information through a dream; this can occur also in the waking state in which case we might call it intuition or just a gut...
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Larry Dossey, MD, interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: You seem to think that research can combine both scientific and spiritual views. Larry Dossey: Yes. I used to believe that you had to make a choice in your profession and personal life. There’s science, technology, analysis, intellect and logic on one hand, and spirituality which is said to be irrational and intuitive on the other...
Read MoreUnweave A Rainbow
Visionary painter Brigid Marlin interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: I understand that life has not been easy for you. Perhaps your painting has been akin to personal salvation or healing. Is that how you see it? Brigid: No. The situation is that the spiritual journey comes first. Suffering causes one to search for a deeper meaning in life, when this is found and one sets out on a...
Read MoreListening To The Heart of The Universe Through Colours and Shapes.
Argentinean painter Camilo Villanueva interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: Can you please share with us events that have influenced your decision to become a painter and your artwork? Camilo Villanueva: One day my acquaintance who was a music teacher and a very spiritual person asked me if I still kept my paintings from my school days. I have managed to find some that survived during...
Read MoreFinding My Voice.
Singer Tony Kaldas interviewed by Natalie Dekel. ‘What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.’ The Buddha. Natalie Dekel: Do you feel your work with music as part of yourself or is it more like a ‘work’? Tony Kaldas: Music is an expression to the outer world as well as a part of...
Read MoreThe Energy Behind the Sound.
Spiritual chanting artist, Russell Jenkins, interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How did you develop your chanting abilities? [1] Russell Jenkins: I have a hearing of an Aum. It is like you look at it and you think, ‘Oh, it’s a star that I can pluck out of the sky.’ But it is so far beyond from what I can produce with my voice through chanting. Sometimes I feel that I am really...
Read MoreCreating the Right Conditions for Music to Come.
Yoram Markreich (musician, lyricist and author) in an interview with Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: They say that there were so many wild stories around the expressionist painter Kirchner (born 1880) that it is hard to know what is true and what is fiction… How much of what was written about you and your band is true? [1] Yoram Markreich: About half of what is written about us is false…...
Read MoreFinding a Voice.
Short interview with academic and painter Barbara Howey. Natalie Dekel: I know from reading your PhD thesis that your mother’s passing led you to start painting. Do you still feel that painful moments from the past lead you to create your current works? [1] Barbara Howey: The death of my mother did act as a catalyst for going to art school initially. The work I did based on old...
Read MoreThe Search for Explicit Self.
Dr. Iain Biggs interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: I get the feeling that your paintings suggest a sense of environment, a sense of “earthiness”… Is this correct? [1] Iain Biggs: “Earthiness” means such different things to different people… but I can say that I am concerned with making images that in part – and only in part – grow out of my response to particular...
Read MoreListening to Yourself.
Dr. Amikam Marbach interviewed by Gil Dekel (discussing how to structure a PhD thesis). Gil Dekel: You have developed a method that employs words to help people become aware of their prior knowledge, or inner insights. With your method people can articulate these insights in a way that can help to express them, to make a good use of them, rather than keeping them locked inside. [1] Dr....
Read MoreInsight into the Personal.
Curator Karen Robson interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: How can one curate an exhibition on something so intangible, such as memories? [1] Karen Robson: We started originally with the idea of just doing diaries – and it expanded as we explored the material across the whole range of our collections. [2] When people think of diaries, they immediately think of personal ...
Read MoreWhere the Unthinkable can be Expressed.
Short interview with Patricia Bickers, art historian, editor and critic. Gil Dekel: What motivates you to speak about art and explore it? In what way art touches you? [1] Patricia Bickers: I like the fact that while you may learn a great deal about art through experience as well as research, you can never, in the true sense, be an expert because the field is so subjective and ill-defined....
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