Dear friends of the Gaia Media Foundation
In front of you is our November newsletter in a new, contemporary design. We are looking forward to your feedback.
I welcome this opportunity to inform you about the innovations at the Gaia Media Foundation. After Dieter Hagenbach’s unexpected death, in August 2016, the foundation board was no longer capable of acting, since the statutes require a minimum of three board members. Dieter was not only the founder and president but also the driving force behind the foundation.
In September 2017, a new foundation board was established. Michael Gasser, the other remaining board member (other than myself), has new plans. We will miss him and thank him for his long-standing service. New additions to the foundation board are jurist Pierre Joset, PhD, founding member along with Dieter and me 24 years ago, who lives part-time in Switzerland again, as well as Swiss artist Kerim Seiler, Dieter Hagenbach’s stepson. I was appointed as President.
We are supported by translator and author Susanne G. Seiler, responsible for the content of our newsletter since last August. She is Kerim’s mother and the former editor of the magazine Sphinx previously published by Dieter Hagenbach. Further, I would like to thank David York Münster for the new design of the newsletter, for the upcoming conversion of the website www.gaiamedia.org and for his technical knowhow. Thank you also Therese Hartmann for faithfully taking care of the mailing of the gaiamedia goodnews and for keeping the foundation organised.
On 19 April 2018, the Gaia Media Foundation, together with Nachtschatten Verlag and the Swiss Medical Association for Psycholytic Therapy (SAEPT) are presenting a one-day symposium in the Hotel Hofmatt in Münchenstein near Basel. The occasion is the 75th anniversary of the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann, who was a board member of the Gaia Media Foundation until his death and who supported its aims. The title of the symposium is 75 Years LSD: Where is the Journey Going? Further information can be found in the December goodnews. Mark the date in your calendars!
We wish you inspiration while reading our newsletter and beautiful fall days.
Warm regards,
Lucius Werthmüller
President of the Gaia Media Foundation
The Tiger and the Deer
Brilliant, crouching, slouching, what crept through the green heart of the forest,
Gleaming eyes and mighty chest and soft soundless paws of grandeur and murder?
The wind slipped through the leaves as if afraid lest its voice and the noise of its steps perturb the pitiless Splendor,
Hardly daring to breathe.But the great beast crouched and crept, and crept and crouched a last time, noiseless, fatal,
Till suddenly death leaped on the beautiful wild deer as it drank
Unsuspecting at the great pool in the forest’s coolness and shadow,
And it fell and, torn, died remembering its mate left sole in the deep woodland,
— Destroyed, the mild harmless beauty by the strong cruel beauty in Nature.
But a day may yet come when the tiger crouches and leaps no more in the dangerous heart of the forest,
As the mammoth shakes no more the plains of Asia;
Still then shall the beautiful wild deer drink from the coolness of great pools in the leaves’ shadow.
The mighty perish in their might;
The slain survive the slayer.
Sri Aurobindo