Om in eenheid te verkeer: Neale Donald Walsch Onderhoud met Gil Dekel, PhD (Deel 1 van 3).
Gil Dekel: Baie mense lees jou boeke en gaan doen dan iets positiefs … mense sit nie eenvoudig net die boeke terug op die rak nie. Hoe voel dit om ‘n man te wees wat miljoene inspireer tot aksie? Neale Donald Walsch: Ek voel nie dat ek dit gedoen het nie, ek voel dat God dit gedoen het … Ek is nie oormatig beskeie nie, en ek probeer nie om myself aan te bied op ‘n...
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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...
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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 MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 3 of 3).
« Back to part 2… « Back to part 1… Gil: What about the drama of life? It is an illusion, yet we live within it to the extend that it becomes true to us; the illusion becomes a reality. In that respect it is not illusion at all… Neale: That’s right; and free will is the act of choosing what we wish to call illusion and what we wish to call real. You’re...
Read MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 2 of 3).
« Back to part 1… Gil: If we look at the level of the soul who chooses pain or violence – can the soul know what pain means to the physical body? Can it understand what it is like to be in pain? Neale: I think the soul understands everything. The soul understands every aspect of the human experience. It does not feel pain but it knows what pain is about. Just as if you would watch a...
Read MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 1 of 3).
Gil Dekel: Many people read your books and then go and do something positive… people don’t just put the books back on the shelf. How does it feel to be a man who inspires millions into action? Neale Donald Walsch: I don’t feel that I have done that, I feel that God has done that… I’m not being overly modest and I’m not trying to present myself in some kind of artificially...
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…...
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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. 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. Marbach: Yes, I believe that being aware of...
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....
Read MoreSuddenly Awakened.
Author Colin Wilson interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How would you define your sense of artistry? Would you consider yourself a writer, philosopher, mystic, or perhaps a critic? [1] Colin Wilson: Well, as an artist/philosopher, I would say. You see, when I was in my early teens I was deeply impressed by Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, which still strikes me as the most exhilarating play...
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