Geheimes

If we do not succeed in giving Europe a soul in the next ten years, in imbuing it with spirituality and deeper meaning, then the game will be over, warned Jacques Delors, former President of the EU Commission. Filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner has been searching for the spiritual traditions of Europe for three decades. In his book, he recounts encounters with important role models and sources of inspiration. He explores the spiritual visions of Romanticism, the misuse of myths by the Nazis, the peace missions of the Swede Dag Hammarskjöld, the depth psychology of the Swiss C. G. Jung, the anthroposophy of the Austrian Rudolf Steiner, the mysticism of Dorothee Sölle, the shaman Joseph Beuys, and the Romanian poet Paul Celan. Mysticism and mythology, the traditions of Gnosis, Kabbalah, alchemy, the world.