Living to Be: A Podcast by Reino Gevers

The pressure to be happy is making us unhappy

During times of rapid economic and social change we need to be aware and vigilant. A dark destructive force seems to awaken in the large human group when the individual mind succumbs to the herd-mind. Education in the Western world emphasizes individual...

For many people the year 2020 turned life upside down. But life is never a one-way street. How we look at things is a matter of mindset and perspective. How about looking back at the beginning of last year and what thoughts you had then. Did you have...

Some people walk the Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain as a "once-in-a-lifetime" experience.  When Kevin Considine from Chicago walked his first Camino it changed his life. He has not stopped walking the Camino paths since.  Kevin has walked in...

Early in the last century the northeastern Italian town of Gubbio was once terrorized by a wolf. It waited outside the city gates waiting to feast on anyone foolish enough to venture outside. Saint Francis, who had lived in the city at the time, then...

Many people will tell you that the pandemic is the most anxious and fearful period in their life. Some people have even lost loved ones or all their material resources. So how can a crisis be a blessing?Any type of personal tragedy is always followed by...

There seems to be a lot of confusion at the moment on truth and reality. Friedrich Nietzsche once said:  "Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”When Christopher Columbus arrived on the shores of...

When the external world appears to crash down all around you it is crucial how you react. What do you do in that moment of loss and despair? The first step is the acceptance that external circumstances are at times out of your control. Stress always...

During times of crisis the fear demon gets stoked by the professional deceivers. The divisions along cultural, racial, gender, and religious friction points become particularly pronounced. We are all susceptible to burying parts of our character that we...

Our societies are gripped by a fear pandemic rather than a coronavirus epidemic