The seven Hermetic principles, as outlined in the 1908 book The Kybalion by “The Three Initiates”, are foundational concepts for understanding the nature of reality from a Hermetic philosophical perspective. The Principle of Mentalism: “The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.” This principle states that the entire universe is a mental creation of an […]

There are some ways to counter kicks and each of them should be known. They turn each kick into a risk. For the same reason, I often advise against the use of kicks. Yet now I also advise to learn kicks thoroughly! All kinds of kicks. No, this isn’t a contradictory piece of advice. On […]

You could have got the impression that I, after getting bullied even by my sinology professor, would have revealed what is his favorite type of literature for getting back on him. This absolutely isn’t the case. I only revealed it in order to inform you from where I, as his student, got large portions of […]

In the first part of this article series, I mentioned that I’m telling an anecdote from Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital. I in this second part give some necessary background information on Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Slavic languages are divided into a a western branch, an eastern branch, and a southern branch. To the western branch […]

I stumbled upon a blog of Steve Pavlina, who probably writes better stories than I could do. Steve Pavlina also wrote: You might think that I do this to make sure that good ideas don’t slip through the cracks, but that isn’t really an issue. Ideas are so plentiful that there will always be more […]

Some bullies have very special attacks. But kicks and punches are standard. Special attacks may require special defenses. Linear pushes and circular punches can be countered with a standard method. Align with punches from the forehand direction, block punches from the backhand direction hard, and redirect linear pushes, so that you turn (in all three […]

I wrote and published meanwhile already three articles on the Shroud of Turin. I meanwhile did read another blog post about a new examination of samples, which already in 1978 were taken from the Shroud of Turin. That blog post (in German language and hence not linked here) revealed some more fun facts about the […]

On May, 2nd in each year is the USA’s National Truffle Day. Since when and why, like in the cases of many other food holidays too, is unknown. But this fancy holiday is for me the right occasion for figuring some other things out. I love filled chocolate. Including the truffle type. But I occasionally […]

Personal hygiene in terms of washing and bathing already was a topic in this article series. But getting rid of excreta and sewage also is important for hygiene. Romans already had toilets and a sewage system. But previous cultures didn’t! One of the books in my shelves is on the research of medical knowledge in […]

During the coronoia lock-down had many martial arts instructors tried to gather their folks online and do training sessions this way. I from such sources learnt a lot about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu during the last time, so maybe I should count Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu also to the lineages of the martial arts, which I learnt. To my […]