Essays

Education in the AI age needs an analog basis before the tool can become a tool. A manifesto against digital front-loading — and for a sequence that puts AI to work only after a trained mind is in place.

The father-daughter relationship shapes how a woman later comes to see men, authority, and her own strength — regardless of whether the father was present, absent, silent, or has long since died. What a disturbed father-daughter relationship reveals, and what family constellation work uncovers about the effect of a father who never said much.

A difficult mother-daughter relationship is rarely just a problem between two people — it often continues what the mother was never able to resolve with her own mother. What family constellation work shows, and why recognition carries further than reconciliation.

Estrangement from parents can be the right and necessary decision — but it only ends outward contact, not the bond itself. What family constellation work shows about what remains, and how to work with it without restoring contact.

Consulting the I Ging is more than tossing coins. The inner attitude, the formulation of the question, and the willingness to receive an answer you cannot control make up the actual practice. A philosophical guide.

The I Ging describes a leadership model centred on the figure of the Noble (Junzi) that overturns Western assumptions about strength. Yielding at the right moment, acting at the right moment — this is not weakness but the highest form of leadership.

C.G. Jung's concept of synchronicity and Richard Wilhelm's I Ging translation opened a bridge between Western psychology and Eastern wisdom. This essay shows why their encounter was more than a cultural coincidence — and what it means for natural philosophy.

Language works not just to communicate, but to conjure. AI chatbots industrialize this old function — and produce a new diagnostic term: AI psychosis.

Existential loneliness is often read as an unbridgeable separateness. Philosopher Gwendolin Kirchhoff sees a loss of contact first. Why you can feel lonely around people, how loneliness differs from being alone, and what actually helps.

The right decision does not come from weighing pros and cons for longer, but from how much of the whole situation you perceive. What decision quality is, why deciding is so hard, and which voice your feelings should have.

How do you know what to do with your life when you don't know what you want? Philosopher Gwendolin Kirchhoff turns the question around: clarity comes from the need of whatever you serve. With Mencius on following the greater part of yourself, and on how people find their place.