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Summer Vibes in the Lake Constance Area

Friday, July 17th, 2026

Last week I spent a one more beautiful time with my friends Manfred and Sabine at their home in Heiligenberg in the north of Lake Constance. A relaxing little group life time filled with exchanges, excursions and meeting friends who came for a visit. Manfred and Sabine are very hospitable, and it’s always a deep pleasure to be able to spend a few days with them.

I arrived from Switzerland just at noon time for the Thursday World Health and Healing prayer together with Manfred, joining the zoom group meditation transmission. Manfred later took me to the Keller-Werft, a little wharf with an Italian restaurant directly at the lake in Überlingen. Sabine joined us coming from her job at a social care organisation, and later two more friends came, living in the surrounding. We were sitting in the open huge hall of the restaurant directly next to the lake – a holiday feeling start. Later in the afternoon, we took a refreshing bath in the lake.

The next morning, before the heat of the day set in, I went for a walk up to Heiligenberg, along a small road. Through the bushes, there was a sweeping view across the countryside and Lake Constance.

In a small grotto, fresh water flowed from the mountain. At the edge stood a painting of a woman with long hair, depicted as the ‘goddess of the spring’, alongside a few painted wooden eggs. A blue wooden banner expressed gratitude for the water of Heiligenberg.

Later, Manfred and I picked a large potful of redcurrants in the garden, and I learnt ‘fish yoga’ – watching the goldfish in the pond, and giving them water and food. A net over the little pond keeps the herons away.

A red kite would often circle above us, using the updraft from the mountain to carry itself upwards.

Friday afternoon, I went to Mettnau with Sabine, where we went for a swim in the beach park. For our evening meditation, we found a shady spot by a seesaw. When we opened our eyes after a quarter of an hour, two girls were looking at us as they waited to jump on the seesaw.

Later, we went to an open-air concert venue, where the Bremen-based band Skupa was playing energetic “Flamenco-Balkan-Fusion” songs (Insta) – music from Eastern Europe and Spain – a thrilling ambiance under the beginning night sky. Here’s an audio clip from another concert.

Another sunset, in Überlingen

Sabine and Manfred had organised a summer party in the garden for their group on Saturday afternoon – but many cancelled because of the intense heat. To our great delight, however, a dear old friend of us all arrived by taxi from Munich for two days. We made preparations in the morning, and a few people turned up in the afternoon. With a group meditation and lively conversations with friends and new acquaintances, the party was a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

On Sunday morning, Sabine and I drove to Überlingen. We managed to catch part of the ‘Swedish Procession’. It is a tradition celebrated since centuries still in three towns, commemorating the successful defence against sieges by the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War. The procession route was beautifully decorated with flowers and small altars, on which prayers for peace had been arranged in the flowers.

Altar with flower decorations in the old town
The ‘Swedish Madonna’ and other valuable artefacts are carried by altar servers and Scouts from Überlingen.
Flower decorations at the beach promenade in Überlingen
A couple taking a selfie

Afterwards, Sabine and I strolled along the lake and a park, and I could see where she worked.

A Roman fountain in the park

In the evening, when the heat of the day had cooled down a bit, we had a second stroll along the lake together with Manfred and our friend from Munich.

Monday, the visit slowly came to close. Before leaving, Sabine wanted to show us an old chapel by the lake, whose murals were only uncovered at the start of the 20th century. We had to walk quite a distance from the car park to the church, but it was a real gem.

The Sylvester Chapel near Goldbach, a district of Überlingen, is a small pre-Romanesque church on the shores of Lake Constance. The chapel is one of the oldest churches in southern Germany.

The altar with part of the murals

Of particular significance are its 9th/10th-century wall paintings – an Ottonian pictorial cycle depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and other scenes, created by painters from Reichenau Abbey.

Two saints

Windows of the chapel with pieces of the murals

Saying good-bye, starting the way home – up a hill along narrow country lanes, onto the motorway. The heat and heavy traffic transported me back to another world, with a treasure wealth of profound impressions in my heart.

CVV Sharing Group Living 2026

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

For the past 16 years, the CVV Sharing gatherings held on the equinoxes have provided a space for experimental forms of group exchange regarding experiences and a deeper connection with the ONE Master Energy.

Morning awakening at the rotunda of the seminar centre
Inside the seminar hall

As in previous years, this year’s spring equinox gathering was once again held in the rotunda of the Seminarhof Drawehn in the Wendland region of northern Germany. Twenty-six people attended from various parts of Germany and Switzerland.

Sunrise around Spring Equinox 2026
Observing the sunrise after morning meditation
Seminarhof Drawehn

This year, the organising group had chosen the theme ‘Transformation through Conflict’. The individual sub-themes were decided during the meeting itself through proposals from group members using a consensus-building method.

Members had brought some objects for the group meeting.

There were also short talks on the Aries myth from the Odyssey, on dissonance, consonance and resonance in music, on Narada, the cosmic Mercury, and more. There was also an experiment with music combined with movements relating to the seven rays.

Also a member of the animal kingdom participated
An exchange in the dining hall

During the equinox, we met outdoors for a fire ritual. Every three hours, we turned our attention inwards through longer and shorter meditations.

Fire ritual at spring equinox
Benjamin speaking about the quality of the time

In the mornings there was an opportunity for yoga and movement exercises; in the afternoons, walks in nature and in-depth discussions. In the feedback session at the end of the gathering, joy was expressed about the inspiring group experience.

Journey to India 2025-26, Part 5: Visakhapatnam – End of Seminar, Excursions, Guru Pujas

Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Back from Rajahmundry and Bhadrachalam, the lectures with videos of Master KPK and with Guru Prasad continued.

Guru Prasad giving a lecture

Thursday, 8 January, the group visited the Balabhanu Vidyalayam school of WTT in an urban area of Visakhapatnam. It imparts spiritual, moral, and social values besides the normal education to  transforms the children into responsible youth, with a sense of direction and constructive contribution to society. It is always inspiring to see the great work which had been started by Master EK in 1977.

Visit to the Bala Bhanu Vidyalayam school

A dance presentation of children of the 1st standard

Afterwards, the group went to Master EK Samskruthi Sadan,  a service Center for training women in tailoring and other activities to empower them for various kinds of professional activity. During the visit, tailoring machines and certificates were distributed to the women and the accomplishments honored.

Visit to Master EK Samskruthi Sadan service center – presenting sewing machines to women having complete formation

9 January was the last lecture of the seminar and, like every year – part of the annual ritual – the group went to the Simhachalam temple outside Vishakhapatnam. Guru Prasad and a priest from the temple explained to us the Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple.

Visit to Simhachalam temple (no photos inside allowed)

In the evening, there was the valedictory celebration in RadhaMadhavam, thanking the Indian brothers for the great organisation and work done for this beautiful group living.

Valedictory function – close of the seminar celebration

On 10 January afternoon there was the beginning of the 3.5 days Master CVV Guru Puja, this year being dedicated to the Master EK Centenary Celebrations. It is always a time of intense diving into the energies of the huge group while not understanding much – although Guru Prasad partly translated, we were absorbed into the sounds of Telugu language, and the mind has not much to understand. However, some followed a little the talks with Google translator – it worked fairly well with some mobiles, not mine. Must have been a blessing to remain more in the subtler planes of sound immersion. However, there were also many exchanges with group members.

Entrance to the Master CVV Guru Puja celebration compound
Group of members from the west, morning prayer on 12 Jan. 2026

Monday, 12 January, the group of westerners came for meditation on the stage, while the prayer was conducted with an audio-recording of Master KPK – his presence, as well as that of the Masters was strongly felt in this sublime surrounding. At noon time, there was the “Fusion of East and West” session. A German member, together with me, were invited by Guru Prasad to give a talk. I spoke about what had surprised me in Vizag this year – there were many flags and slogans of the communist party around in various parts of the city – and about Master EK’s books Music of the Soul, Man Sacrifice and The World Teacher. Advent of Lord Krishna, where the Master depicts the work of the Hierarchy in against society-undermining ideologies and intrusions and preparing the stronghold of wisdom to stand through the approaching dark age, which today is rampant – you find there a lot of keys for a spiritual understanding of today’s global situation, keys however, which need to be unveiled. We also unpacked the newly released Telugu book of the life of Master Jesus, which Master Kumar had dictated over years to his wife and which had been published in the Navani magazine. The English translation is partly published in the monthly Vaisakh News Letters in a raw translation and is work in progress – a great work, in a way a continuation of the above mentioned books of Master EK.

Video lecture of Master KPK – Guru Prasad and Dona translating

At the close of the Guru Pujas, there was a beautiful candle ceremony where all the other lights were switched off – the light of wisdom, of the Great Ones, keeps on shining in the darkness.

Closing ceremony at the Guru Puja celebration

The next day, many of the Western group members already started their journey back home. We went with a group of 9 to the Planetary Healing Center, which Master Kumar had drafted and inspired in the mid-1990s. He had the vision of a network of planetary healing centers which was inspired by sages in the past, especially the great Greek Master Asclepius. Together with the Master, we had been at the sanctuary of Epidaurus with a statue of Asclepius and a staff, symbolising the ascending kundalini energy. Now, there was a picture of this statue inside the Planetary Healing Center together with a brochure about the structure and meaning of the center, a teaching given by Master KPK, mentioning it without any reference to him. The owner’s ideas went in a little different direction than those of the Master. I had mentioned about some ritualistic revitalisation work we had done during our last visits to the center. Reyes, a ritualist “magician” from Spain, wanted to do some energizing work.

Visit to the Planetary Healing Center near Visakhapatnam

Then he started implanting 12 dynamised crystals in the ground around the Maitreya statue, which he called the spiritual center of the place. He placed a special energy stick directly into a hole at the statue – invisible from the outside, working like an antenna to the planetary network of healing centers.

We sat around the old Maitreya statue and observed.

When he began with a series of invocations, two gardeners approached and watched what we did. We welcomed them, they took photos and later went away again. I had the feeling of the energy of the place linking to the network of planetary healing energy – the purpose of Planetary Healing Center strengthened.

Afterward, we went to the ocean and enjoyed the waves and the vastness of space.

In the evening, we were brought to the new center of the Circle of Good Will India, a multy-storey-building at the place of the former Krishna ashram service center. The house was built by a property developer who uses the lower storeys. In the 4th floor of the future service center, celebrating the first birthday of Murali Nandana, the son of Jayadev and his wife, was the first activity related to WTT, and many group members, family and friends participated. It was celebrated in a grand style – a joyful close of our stay in India.

The next day my German friends and me returned via Hyderabad and Abu Dhabi to Europe.

Journey to India 2025-26, Part 4: Rajahmundry, Bhadrachalam

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

On 4 January early morning there was a fire ritual in the basement of Radhamadhavam.

Later, our group travelled to Rajahmundry, about 4 hours drive. I had been there several times in the past but not the last 10 years. There is a beautiful center of WTT on the banks of the Godavari River. The government of Rajahmundry had given land to the WTT and other spiritual organisation for free who are doing substantial service during the big pilgrimage gatherings – the WTT is proving meals for thousands of pilgrims during the Kumbha Melas which take place each time when Jupiter passes through Leo / Virgo.

On the top of the house there is a huge statue of Master CVV and you have a beautiful view over the entire area.

View from the top to the Godavari River

In preparation to our journey to the temple town of Bhadrachalam the next day, we had seen a 2006 Telugu video on Ramadasu, “Sri Ramadasu“, which Guru Prasad had explained to us in detail.

Guru Prasad addressing the group in Rajahmundry

Next morning, two busses brought us to the embarkment place, about an hour ride.

Preparing for a group photo before departure

For a long time, we drove through settlement areas, then came desert-like areas with big excavators and mountains of stones – we asked ourselves where we were. A group member searched via mobile and informed that a huge construction project is building a connection between the Krishna River, which suffers from draughts, and the Godavari River, which has enough water. Suddenly the scenery changed and we arrived at the landing place and boarded.

A beautiful boat ride started.

We had already done part of the journey in 2009, and we made again a stop at an hermitage of the Ramakrishna movement (Perantapalli Sivalayam, see photos). However, the tourism there had largely increased. Many visitors from other ships came to the temple and a number of shops with handicraft work and kiosks were along the short footpath. A little brook was flowing close the temple – I took a footpath – the ground was very slippery and some Indians helped me not to fall into the water.

The temple. Inside, there was a lingam with a continuous “water ritual” of drops falling out of a receptacle.

Afterwards, our boat ride continued. Later our busses picked us up at a landing place in a forest area and brought us to a site where Rama and Sita are said to have lived at the times of the Ramayana – according to Master EK, this was more than a million years ago – the great epos Ramayana being written by Valmiki by way of inner impression.

Guru Prasad explaining the meaning of the place.

Nearby was a temple site where it says that the Rakshasa (demon) Ravana had abducted Sita, the wife of Rama. (The same is told about a place some hundred kilometres further up the Godavari River – mysteries of the past.

Later we continued to the temple town of Bhadrachalam where we stayed overnight in the hotel Nandini. In the evening, we went for the first time to the temple (no photos allowed now, at our visit with Master KPK in 2013 it was still possible). For the visit of the inner of the temple, the men now also had to wear a lungi which we did not have. Guru Prasad went to a nearby shop and bought a “quick-dress one” for all the male members and helped us dress.

Next morning, we went again to the temple. Inside, we had a detailed explanation of the temple. Later, we drove back to Rajahmundry and returned then to Visakhapatnam the next day.

You can see here a short video clip of the Bhadrachalam temple, and about Rama and Sri Ramadasu.

Journey to India 2025-26, Part 3: Visakhapatnam 1

Saturday, January 24th, 2026

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

In Visakhapatnam, some members picked us up from the airport in a bus. Soon the luggage was in the bus and we drove through the city to the WTT retreat centre. It almost felt like coming home – it was my 25th trip to WTT meetings in Visakhapatnam (and my 30th trip to India).

The retreat center of WTT in Vizag

This year there were some changes. Guru Prasad, the son of Master KPK, informed us that we would be staying at the retreat centre and that meals would be served on the third floor of Radhamadhavam, place of the WTT-temple. This meant that we were right next to the temple on the first floor, where the meditations and meetings took place, and we were able to spend more time together as a group.

Early morning in Radhamadhavam

There was a warm and familiar atmosphere, and the meals, prepared by his wife Gayatri and her sister Purnima, as well as other helpers, were very good.

Breakfast

Early in the morning on the first of January, there was the traditional meeting at the Master EK statue on the beach road, with morning prayers, a water ritual and breakfast together with members of the Indian brotherhood.

Celebration at the Master EK statue

Afterwards, we drove to Andari Talli Nitya Annadanam (video clip), an innovative project for the large-scale preparation and distribution of food to the needy in Visakhapatnam. Every day, volunteers prepare free meals and distribute them at several hotspots. This centre now also houses the book warehouse and shipping centre.

The cooking machine developed for mass cooking during covid times
Spanish translation of Guru Prasad’s presentation of the work of the center.

In the afternoon started the seminar with videos of Master Kumar’s 2015 seminar on “The Energy of Synthesis” in Cordoba, Spain – profound teachings. During the seminar we also had talks of Guru Prasad on aspects of the wisdom teachings – one very interesting talk was about the importance of right pronunciation of mantrams.

On 2 January the group went to Ramadri, an environmental development project of WTT at the coast road about 18 km away from Visakhapatnam. The women empowerment projects had been shifted from there to the new centre of Master EK Samskriti Sadan in Vizag but other projects are going on in Ramadri. We had a walk around the compound and visited various little shrined and the cow protection project.

At the entrance of Ramadri
The huge Hanuman statue
The priest welcoming the group at the Ganesha temple
A new shrine in development dedicated to Kumara
A bull at the cow protection project

At dusk, we sat in the little amphitheater overlooking the place for evening prayer. Later, we returned to the retreat center.

Journey to India 2025-26, Part 2: December Call

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The Master CVV December Call celebrations were introduced by Master CVV in 1910 to give the followers an extra-push for ascent on the path of Yoga. It is important to observe and recollect the steps that we have executed, to adjust and to prepare for the next steps. The members who come to a celebration like December Call or May Call are called from within. There is a call from the Master, and often many difficulties have to be overcome to be able to participate.

Entrance to the Wisdom temple where the celebration took place

The December Call celebrations in Sadguru Tapovana are spiritually intense meetings and wonderful occasions to gather with group members from different parts of India and the West. Some friends coming from Argentina and Spain joined. We all stayed in the house of two Indian group members and their families about 10 minutes’ walk from the main habitation of the group, in another quarter with many trees. We were given a very warm reception and “camped” on different floors of the building.
The meals were now in the main habitation, in the open ground floor of a building where other families of group members lived – the place for the meals of the many guru puja participants. The catering is quite a big work all done by volunteers of the Tapovana group.

Sand artwork in front of the podium of the assembly hall
Entrance of the main habitation of Sadguru Tapovana

Before the beginning of the celebration, I went through the nearby beautiful park dedicated to Lord Maitreya, taking some pictures, and had a consultation with Dr Murthy, a very experienced Ayurveda and naturopathy doctor.

A group of young members singing Vedic hymns at the opening of the December Call celebration
Guru Prasad giving the opening discourse
Sri Joshi conducting the evening prayer

The December Call celebration started in the afternoon of 28 December and ended 30 December after breakfast. 29 December, the main day of December Call, the program started early morning. There ere prayers, talks by group members, a fire ritual, and book releases.

Guru Prasad with his wife Gayatri conducting the fire ritual
Reflections of the fire on the image of Rishi Agastya

There was the release of the English book “Whispering of Light” (PDF), containing a collection of the thoughts and quotes on Shambala given out by Master Kumar on the Facebook portal WTT-Shambala in 2022, together with pictures, especially from paintings of Nicholas Roerich. These enlightening statements are inspiring for meditational work.

Presentations of Indian dance
The members involved in the cultural program.

In the afternoon, there was a cultural program followed by a Veda recital.

Closing ceremony, view of part of the participants
Celebration of the Master EK Centenary (1926-2026): Quotes from the teachings of Master EK decorated the compound.

On 30 December, the program ended after prayer, a question-answer session and the closing ceremony. Later, a bus brought us to the airport for the flight to Visakhapatnam.

Journey to India 2025-26, Part 1: Nilagiris

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

December 22, our little travel group – 2 friends from Germany and me coming from Switzerland – met at Abu Dhabi airport to continue together our journey to India.

Crossing the Alps

We were very warmly received at the WTT center Sadguru Tapovana in Bengaluru and stayed in their guest rooms.

Sadguru Tapovana – quotes from the teachings of Master DK at the entrance road
The pyramidal stone in front of the Wisdom Temple

We relaxed a bit, had some exchanges with group members. Sri Joshi, the head of the centre, showed us the rooms in his house where Master Kumar and his wife Kumari garu used to stay, and we saw his spiritual library with many precious gems of wisdom. In the evening and the following morning, we joined the group prayers.

For the journey, Sri Joshi gave us a book about Rishi Agastya and his wife Lopamudra.

Next morning after prayer and breakfast, the taxi picked us up from the journey to the Master Mountain Retreat of WTT in the Nilagiris near Kodanadu viewpoint.

Starting to the Nilagiris in the morning of 25 December

There had just ended a group gathering for Winter Solstice celebration. The journey took about 8 hours, with only a short pause. This year, the vegetation was lush green – there had been plenty of rain. Partly there was intense traffic, especially on the passes with many hairpin bents, where truck drivers from both directions were manoeuvring to get through and bike and car drivers using the occasion to press forward.

Short before Kotagiri in the Nilagiris there were police controls asking were we were going and if we were tourists. “No, they are going to an ashram”, the driver replied, and the police let us pass. I smiled. We are in India – no one in the West would have expected such an exchange at a police control.

A little roadside temple near Kotagiri

At the retreat centre, Ramakrishna, the manager of the house, a very committed and helpful person, came out, together with Reyes from Spain, who had already participated in the winter solstice meeting at the ashram, welcoming us. It was so beautiful to be again at this magic place and experience the energy and the view of the mount.

Master KPK recommended to do the morning meditations at the Mount with open eyes, observing the sublime beauty of the rise of the day – from darkness to first colours at the horizon, then the array of intense dawn colours, from dark blue, violet, orange, yellow and then the “explosion of the sunrise – having a fantastic view.

At the lower part of the scene, fog / clouds covered the valleys but above the ocean of clouds, there happened the beauty of the creation of a new day. Reyes sat outside in front of the window – the next days also the other friends joined in the freshness of the morning, at a height of about 1700m – I preferred to stay inside, in the vibrant energy of the prayer room.

After the meditation, we went to the nearby viewpoint. Only a few people were already out. During the day, many day-tourists from various Indian states were now, at Christmas time, coming to the viewpoint.

13 years ago, during my first visit, there was nearly no tourism and also also no ashram building. Master Kumar had spotted the place a little earlier, following some hints and indications – in 2009, during the activities of the 100th Master CVV May Call celebrations, there had been a first group life at the place, which, some years later, the WTT could receive for the construction of the Master Mountain ashram building. It was inaugurated in 2016, and end of 2016, we were a first group from the West coming for a small group live there. It was now my 5th visit to the mount, and the 6th to the Nilagiris, and the stay was very profound.

During our stay, we had group exchanges about the meeting of Master EK and Albert Sassi which built the bridge for Master EK and the Aquarian wisdom coming to the West, and we also read the text from the book “Man Sacrifice” about the flight of Master Djwhal Khul and the sage Jaimini for the visit to the ashram of Rishi Agastya in the Nilagiris.

In the morning of 26 December, after the meditation, we did a fire ritual at the basement of the retreat center.


When we were about to leave the basement, I noticed a bright light in the previously dark neighbour room. There was a tube of light falling into the room through a ventilator hole. Within this tube, you could see fluctuations between the light rays and the denser remains of smoke from the ritual.

It was a mystic experience. I called the others to come back into this “initiation chamber” in the basement of Master Mountain.

It immediately reminded me of the ancient initiation chamber at the top of the Extern Stones in North Germany, where the candidates received the Light on summer solstice only. The chamber was later destroyed by Christians wanting to eliminate heathens’ sacred places.

This “initiation chamber” at Master Mountain is probably only “open” during the time around winter solstice, and we happened to witness it because we were there at this time of the morning, at around 7:50 am, after the fire ritual.

Soon afterwards, the pillar divided into two, because of the ventilator hole. The sun moved away from this position and the pillar disappeared. It was a group experience, which we shared all together as a gift of the Sun.

On the terrace

Hibiscus flowers

In the afternoon, we went for a walk through the nearby tea plantations. There was a big wave of clouds coming, covering the Mount, and later also the retreat centre for a moment. When looking at the mount, it appeared as if seeing the great Rishi Agastya, regarded as an expression of Shiva, facing north-east, looking at a Shiva lingam.

Visit to the Emma Kunz Grotto and Museum

Monday, October 20th, 2025

We were a little group of 7 members from Austria, South Germany and Switzerland who met at the ancient Roman Quarries of Würenlos in northern Switzerland on 12 October 25. It is the place of a huge limestone grotto where Emma Kunz (1893-1962) had discovered the healing qualities of the rock. It is available in Switzerland under the name of AION A (read more about it). Emma Kunz was a clairvoyant Swiss healer, researcher and artist. Since 1986, there exists the Emma Kunz Centre with a museum near the cave to preserve the collection of her artwork and the results of her research for posterity.

Emma Kunz, 1912, (c) Emma Kunz Center

We first walked to a grill cabin in the nearby forest for our Sunday healing meditation. Afterwards, we visited the cave, for which we had a 30 minutes time-slot (you have to book in advance, see the regulations to keep the purity of the cave and allow experiencing the energy of the place).

The group at the museum, in front of the cave
A memorial stone
On the way to the cave entry
The entry
The limestone rocks at the cave entry. There had been a quarry in the past. Now, the healing rock powder is extracted at another nearby place
The mouth of the cave is a huge hole
Light reflections through a little second window – like showing the presence of healing devas
Reflections on the rocks
Experiencing the energy of the grotto
Way to the Emma Kunz Centre / Museum
A room of the exposition. Emma Kunz created mainly geometrical structures with the help of a pendulum.
Her instruments, with the pendulum

Reflections of the hall on an image while taking a photo

A structure like opening the space in pyramidal forms
Artwork which is also used for the design of the AION-A wrapping
Photo of Emma Kunz (c) Emma Kunz Centre, at her workplace in later years

For many years, the work of Emma Kunz was not recognized by the contemporaries. She did not intend for her works to be seen in a fine arts context, instead she recorded the medical meanings of her works in books. She stated that her work will be more understood in the 21st century. In the last decades, there were great international expositions showcasing her work.

In summer 2024, my friend Joan from Barcelona, from the Anima Channel, visited the Emma Kunz grotto and did a video presenting Emma Kunz, in English.

Kind of a Pilgrimage to the Lake Constance Area

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

My annual visits at the beginning of July to my friends in Heiligenberg in the Lake Constance area are more than just warm visits for me. Spending time together with meditations, exchanges and excursions, relaxing and “bathing” in the beauty of the lush nature of the area and especially in the little “paradise garden” cultivated by Manfred, speaking about spiritual topics and experiences, meeting with other group members of the surrounding – this is for me a time of retreat and kind of a pilgrimage.
Meaning – readjusting by being in a different surrounding and on perceiving afresh the subtle worlds and the divine through beauty and in exchanges/encounters.

On the day of my arrival, they took me to a farmhouse transformed into a theatre, the “Hoftheater” for a presentation of cabaret artist Stephan Bauer about “Married couples go to heaven – they’ve already been to hell”… It was very humorous. At the entrance to the farm parking there was a beautiful old statue of Christ blessing:

Statues of sacredness had been part of everyday life in the past but have largely disappeared in today’s outer life, esp. beyond the religious. However, they serve as signposts to orient within and vertically to the Light.

Sunset over the countryside at the farmhouse – rays of light divine showering down in a grand, hardly observed show

I passed some time of the days in the beautiful garden in Heiligenberg, reading, resting, and contemplating.

Friends in the garden in Heiligenberg, picking raspberries

Two friends / group members joined us in evening for meditating and dinner – a group life.

The next day, I went with Victoria to a pilgrimage place of worship of St Mary at a rock wall in a forest near a brook.

The little chapel at a rock wall

People come here for praying to St Mary, some have hung up prayers or votive images with thanks for healing.
A view from Heiligenberg to the Lake Constance area during a morning walk
Wisdom books in the home of Manfred and Sabine

We exchanged about the wisdom teachings and teaching them to co-students and interested persons. Manfred has a website (German) called ‘Yoga of Synthesis‘ where he presents introductions to many facets of the wisdom teachings and talks he had given, and he organises group meetings. To kindle the inner fire of students is mostly a long path, and there are many directions people can turn their focus of life …

A statue of Lord Krishna given to a German couple by Master Kumar 28 years ago, now in the home at Heiligenberg

Manfred has another website on the healing powers of plants, and with a group, they have worked out existing knowledge about herbs to make it available in an understandable way. He has a great knowledge of and dedication to cultivating flowers and plants.

Very near to the place where they are living, there is a big nursery with a plant shop and plenty of statues for sale called Bamboo Forest. It is in a valley along a brook at the place of an old mill. A beautiful place where they have plenty of replicas of Buddha and Ganesha statues and other objects of garden art. Even as decorative garden objects, they bring in a silent, meditative orientation to the place.

Ganesha statue and sphinx at the parking
One of the many exquisite Buddha statues radiating meditative serenity

By chance, we met the owner of the “Bamboo Forest”, a good acquaintance of Manfred who had built up the entire area from bottom up within 20 years. He had radiant eyes and you could feel his enthusiasm. In his youth, he wanted to become an archeologist but now he travels around the world, especially to the East and Far East, to find places where such artworks are created for importing them. It was fascinating to listen to him.

He told us that he also go the rights from museums to reproduce artwork of Leonardo da Vinci and other classics which he displays over the brook, in trees and at little lakes. A masterly visualisation of sublime presence.

Face of Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci in the Bamboo Forest over the brook
Christ as Salvator Mundi, probably by Leonardo, in the trees

We also went to two Peace Forests (FriedWald) in Heiligenberg, where urns can be buried next to trees. (In Germany, you cannot just poor ashes into forests, there are reserved places.) Many people have reserved places at registered trees where they plan to have their urns placed or where urns are already place. It was a beautiful and somehow sacred ambiance, with people sitting near trees, probably to feel close to the remains of loved ones. And for pondering on the eternal Presence beyond the physical, expressed through the “trees of life”.

Towards the end of my stay, we went to the Langenargen Festival located directly at the Lake Constance and with the Montfort Castle in the background.

That evening, they performed Romeo and Juliet on the open-air stage. Due to my hearing impairment, we received places at the first row. The weather was very warm, and while the performance was going on, there was a gorgeous sunset over the lake. The tragic love story by William Shakespeare was a bit modernised and the artists played captivatingly. Shakespeare was teaching people through the play the fatal impact of letting lower emotions (of servants, soldiers and rulers) cause fights which finally bring about the death of the couple in love, but not of love itself. Through the enactments of the plays the love and teaching goes on.
I felt it to be a divine blessing to witness all the beauty and wisdom experienced during these days.

The stage with the lake in the background

Facets of a Journey to the May Call Celebration 2025 in Spain

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025

This year, the European Master CVV May Call Day celebration took place in Platja D’Aro, a coastal town in the province of Girona at the Costa Brava, Spain, from 27 – 31 May 2025. I travelled with a small group of friends, flying from Memmingen near Munich to Girona.

We flew one day earlier and stayed a few days afterwards. I share here some impressions from the journey. Note the observations at the end of the blogpost.

Rainy early morning start in Memmingen

Some more members from Germany arrived in Girona around the same time. We rent cars for the group journeys and drove to Platja D’Aro. The huge hotel was located in a shopping area near a little marina. Boats in the harbour sleeping, many houses around nearly empty – pre-season time.

Stairway to Girona Cathedral

Next morning, our little group went to Girona for visiting the Cathedral, the Basilica San Feliu and the old town. Plenty of tourists were already filling the streets and parkings – and we among them. I had visited Girona and the cathedral on a group journey and with family. There is a magic of profound spiritual aspiration crystallised to stones and sacred art of earlier centuries, captured in huge church halls with coloured windows, altars and angels. Nature, the river, and the buildings around reflected a long history.

Golden Angels silently trumpeting in a side aisle
Inside the Basilica of Sant Feliu next to the cathedral

A huge cosmological painting of the biblical creation

Tuesday afternoon, the May Call celebration started. There were over 180 members mainly from Spain but also from different European countries and from North and South America. A travel group of 16 members, together with Guru Prasad and his wife, had come from India, and they had visited several spiritually important places in Europe. The program of the group life had a good rhythm of meditations, lectures, and leisure time for exchanges and rest.

The dais with the little altar
Group meditation

There were videos of Master KPK teaching and series of lectures by Guru Prasad on “The Yoga of Master CVV and its Practice” – all talks were with physical and zoom translation teams of members.

Wednesday evening, we had the meeting of the Executive and Advisory groups of WTT-Global, physical and via zoom – a technical challenge.

Besides the morning and evening meditations & noon alignments, there was a Water Ritual and a Fire Ritual with a marriage ceremony.

Fire ritual on the huge terrace of the hotel

There were exchanges of gifts and presentations of books and of the Annual Report 2025 of WTT-Global.

Presenting the Annual Report

There were several speeches by group members (here the text of the talk on “Brotherhood“). And, above all, there were many exchanges with other members during the whole group life, and very intense networking in a spirit of synthesis.

At a little beach in Platja D’Aro

Soon the May Call time was already over and saying good-bye to the friends from the bigger group.
Our small travel group stayed together for a few more days in a nice apartment at Calella de Palafrugell at the Costa Brava. It was a beautiful little group life, after the bigger May Call group life, travelling, meditating, cooking, experiencing the surroundings together.

Early morning before sunrise in Calella – the beach being still empty

On 2 June, we made an excursion to the monastery of Montserrat. Many tourists were around. We tried to stay aligned to the sublime energy of the place.

Photo shooting – the entrance to the cathedral as a décor for social media influencers?
Inside the cathedral with the Black Madonna at the centre
The Madonna and the Child
At the bottom of the Black Madonna you see two pine cones – I once read that occultly these are not decorative elements but hint at the highest in the human being, the pineal gland of the head center.
In between in the middle, at the feet of the Madonna, there is a silver sea shell – symbol of the Star of the Sea, the World Mother.
The Child is also holding a pine-cone like ball in his left hand.

Very early morning on the 4th, we returned via Girona back to Germany – jumping back into cold weather and another ambiance. At evening prayer time at the home of friends in the Lake Constance area, we saw a big wall of black clouds approaching. A dangerous thunderstorm was announced. Will it destroy the fruits and flowers in the garden and in the surroundings?

Two of us instinctively asked the Devas during meditation to let their energy come down in a soft way. Torrential rains came but nothing in the garden was destroyed – accidentally?
At the end of the meditation a bright ray of sunshine lightened the room – a sharp contrast to the nearby area of dark weather. We felt thankful for the blessing and protection during the journey.

Next day in the news, there was a report about the thunderstorm hitting the Allgäu and an emergency landing at the same airport where we had returned, with several persons hurt.