As philosopher and founder of the research institute, Institute for Research
on the Existence (IRE), and as an artist, I try to create more and more harmony
in the world. The Institute for Research on the Existence was founded in 1976
and first registered in Stuttgart, Germany, then in San Francisco, California,
in Paris, France, and later in New York City.
I had felt at home in India during my first research trip, and was shaken by the experiences which I had made during the first 6 months time while I was traveling throughout the large subcontinent. It has changed me forever. I studied philosophy at the University in Tubingen at that specific point in time and brought back the acquired knowledge which was very appreciated by my teachers, who were amazed by these new books and scripts, which I had expedited by ship from Bombay back home to the South of Germany. All this was in 1977. Sometimes we have to wait for the right moment to come to be able to materialize certain things.
International travels throughout Asia, Europe, and America:
Within the past twenty five years, I traveled in Asia to India, Burma, Nepal, Thailand, and Japan. In India alone I have traveled 60,000 miles all over the subcontinent, mostly by bus and train. The duration of my first stay was 6 months, and traveling then was much more difficult than today.
All over India, I visited renowned ashrams:
- Gandhi's
ashram in Wardha
- Sri Ramana Maharshi's ashram in Tiruvannamalai
- Sri Aurobindo's ashram in Pondicherry
- Satya Sai Baba's ashram in Puttaparti
- Babaji in the Himalayas
- Shanti Niketan, the World University of Rabindranath Tagore
- The World Headquarter of the Theosophical Society of Anne Blavatsky in Madras
- Bede Griffith in Shantivanam (Saccidananda Ashram)
and many more spiritual places throughout India.
I went to holy places like Rishikesh, Hardwar, Varanasi, Bodhgaya, and to temples all over India. I prayed in the temple of Madurai to Ganesha and gave offerings to the other deities since I understood that we all are relating to different forms of the same principle....the HARMONY PRINCIPLE, as I defined it as a philosopher at this time. My first trip to India brought me in touch with the philosophies of saints who described the existence the same way I had already defined it within my studies in the western civilization during my studies at the University of Stuttgart and Tubingen in Germany.
Texts about my international Travels: