World’s party was stopped quickly and effectively in 2008 – Banks and companies cracked as if a lightning strike had hit the entire financial sector, with the domino effect’s strong scattering.

Many rushed to wash their hands after the motto – I have not done anything wrong. Slowly but surely, many are now on trial, and there will be even more in the coming yeqrs. Greater parts of the world’s population is now affected by the crises in s many different aspects and I fear it will be much worse.

The world is currently having too many hot spots and it may be hard to grasp for ordinary people. It’s actually even begun to be hard for politicians to handle in a world where each day brings on new challenges and surprises.

This moment is most focused on the Middle East and Europe, where Greece in particular has the dubious pleasure of being proclaimed as the great sins of the economy’s management of what we might call disposable money that has not existed for many years.

Corruption has historically always existed and we need only a look back to ancient times when kings, princes and businessmen made ​​fortunes with a population that was totally unaware of the actual facts.

And it’s actually the same today, whether it happens in democratic or closed dictatorial countries. The only consolation is the tight grip around the assessment and the curiosity by the press for “good stories” that progressively expose corruption’s altar, and the many mazes, which on the road includes everything from banks, government offices to private individuals and religious organizations.

Greece has in fact been insolvent for more than 5 years, so it may surprise many when it first was discovered a year ago. Well, we know it now with the serious consequences followed by a bill, that is so big and nobody believes it will ever be possible to repay just a fraction of the amount due.

Hippies had in the happy ’60s a special perspective on life – we should all have little or no responsibility for our own dispositions – smoking marijuana and crack the capitalist system completely. Many former hippies are now in senior positions and even political top posts, so it is unlikely from this category we can count on a helping hand.

The human prospect in force for the next 10 years looks spotted out and only the man’s creative and logical thinking can turn things around if otherwise we will make efforts to do it worldwide.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Ambassador, Lecturer and Writer

Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France

Man is a complex combined living individual, and we have already from birth been given a brilliant, almost artistic multi-tool for the continued stay in life’s many aspects.

But life will always unfold differently, since the opportunities for development are unevenly distributed in relation to the social upbringing, in which part of the world, and what political regime or opposed religion, which is either a tradition or even a law.

I chose ‘freedom’ in my early youth after serious and profound reflections which I learned through my friends, acquaintances and the world’s signals. I went against the flow in a time when prejudices were more than my “custodial beating heart” could accept – I cut the umbilical cord over and quit the established norms to embark on the adventure “s and virtue’s narrow path.

Everything was tested and the first act was taken when I after a long military training in the Danish Special Task Force went to northern Greenland in the special forces “Sirius Patrol” under the security service’s most lonely and sometimes dangerous work, where nature’s raw forces was one of the greatest enemies.

After this hard work not far from the North Pole, I continued the journey to New York, Toronto, New Orleqns, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, London and back to the main office in Denmark – The East Asiatic Company – 12 years working abroad was over and life’s all-new challenges could be commenced.

In short, the next several years was a period where I got my wanderlust saturated up to the neck and after 25 years of work with shipping, development and marketing, and a period as general manager of a part of our fleet, I quit my career in EAC after consultation with my soul, body and mind.

What I would do, I did not really know, but after a short meditation and thoughts I chose to change from the worn hemisphere to the other and unused but still active creative part which I left in the very young years as a musician, artist and entertainer.

I was lucky – my exit from the business world’s busy life was welcomed by many friends in the musical, artistic, and this universal and perhaps more intellectual universe, where I felt a difference, but not unproblematic part of a community, that was usually manned by solo individualists with widely different views on all of life’s long road.

But before I had even managed to digest the 25 year’s work in my former multinational corporation – The East Asiatic Company – well, then I was already busy with my own company, where it gradually turned into many different tasks such as concerts, musicals, exhibitions, CDs and DVD recordings.

Of course is it many people you meet and become friends with during such a 50 year journey like was it a boiling pot of all the spices found in different types of taste buds. I admire the many who were gradually realizing the importance of collaboration’s tools regardless of race, religion, social status and political hangout.

A part of the humanity including some of the person’s I met are unfortunately also suffering from either physical or mental illness and I have become acquainted with the whole repertoire from psychopaths to common mental illnesses and they exist in both business life as well as the creative universe.

The very last one I see as one of humanity’s greater danger signals, since the groups of mentally ill people gets bigger and bigger and in many countries, the aid is zero or very little, but debilitating for both themselves and their surroundings.

Generally, there have been many technological advances over the past 50 years – but man’s soul and body is stagnated without being really visible. The views and opinions are in the business-taking and creative universe far different and the gap seems to get bigger and bigger, perhaps because of the present bad economic odds.

My own attitude to life’s present situation has therefore been adjusted many times – but with the meanings of the bold attitudes and senses, I consider my soul, body and mind to be in line with current trends – but in faith and lifestyle based on discoveries, challenges and experiences just as my mind and body accepted or discarded it.

Last but not least – “Your life is your own responsibility – never return to a burned empty ash heap – but live your life forwards with experience from both the ash and fire.”

………..Epilogue from my book “DAX”………..I wonder if we have seen it all Dax……..?

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador; Lecturer and Writer

An Adventurer and Globetrotter will often go to the border line, but also a bit longer with everything that implies.

Excerpt from my book “DAX” – A true depiction of life `s many controversial and bizarre experiences.
The Internet `s options are a more recent revolution where communication` s best tools have made it easier to both speak and write with other people around the world. A push on some buttons and we are sitting on opposite sides but a screen in between like a “security glass in a bank”
We feel as if a reality comes true and become almost high with the idea of this screen to screen dialogue.

But there is a hidden deception in this very emotional and technical marvel. In a period of my life where I had been divorced and maybe a little tired of the “single role`s” monotonous everyday life – I met a woman through the Internet, where the entire repertoire was used by Skype to many mails – just as an ordinary” dating ” concept.

The woman I met “live” later on appeared to be a business owner and well educated.. My own logical and emotional senses were internally in a struggle, but the “neglected” spring was the winner in the first phase and the logic went on holiday.

In the first phase, we talked about possible new business initiatives – I was introduced to the building of a new website portal, which my “partner do partner” should make and prepare a template, which should be new and unique. I didn`t know a lot about her skills in this field but as an owner of a marketing and development company I sensed it should be in good hands. I was quite surprised when I was presented for a request of quite a big payment in advance, even though I was aware of this so called normal way starting out a new project in the creative universe.
The amount was paid, but it was my biggest destiny till date. The money was used to cover a one million debt after a bankruptcy of a company she owned together with her ex-husband who turned out not to be ex but still spouse.

OK, I said to myself – other forces had dominated my gray cells and after conversations with my lawyer, I decided to let “the partnership” continue a little longer – we lived, after all, in two different countries in the EU.

I rarely cry over spilled milk caused by my own stupidity – I can always forgive, but not forget and continued working as if it was not the greatest disaster in life `s many aspects. Since it is impossible to cut the hair of a bald person, we made a deal where my partner had to help with my daily tasks.

However, it should prove to be even worse – not because of money `s power, but the person I slowly learned to know was very difficult to understand and handle from time to time, and it was my biggest task in human insight of circumstances, where life `s core is invisible and incredibly difficult to open unless it is done by professionals.

I had arranged many different kinds of events and exhibitions for many years and was now presented with a new project by my party people bananas – a major event with many people involved. I was really excited about the project, because it spoke to my already large emotions of people in need.

But arrangements of that kind can be compared with “charity” events and will always involve ordinary business terms – receipts and expenditures of all the administration work, which always involves a lot of manpower.

This project combined with the slightly odd partner relationship proved to be a nightmare both commercially and personally. Halfway `s started, I realized that the project could not” bear “all the way home and my intuition told me, that something was not as it should be. Intuition is obviously only a warning sign or the opposite, but in this case I felt like I was warned by an invisible element with one or another kind of voice. Unusually, I thought for a few seconds, but everything was suddenly wrapped in cotton wool by my partner’s voice, almost shouting, and said “The project MUST be implemented” – otherwise your reputation will be ruined forever. Actually I already felt that it was ruined, as several people warned me against this odd and strange partnership.

…to be continued in my book ….”I wonder if we have seen it all Dax…….. (My dog)” Link:

I wonder if we have seen it all Dax……..?

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador, Lecturer and Writer

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, Ambassador, Lecturer and Writer

I’ve been privileged to meet so many people on this our wonderful planet. People I’ve met face to face and sometimes lived or worked with over longer periods will obviously always be shining bright and clear in my memories `s memory` s brain cells.

But it’s very rare I sense to know a friend based solely on the Internet `s many possibilities, but one of the few is Alasdair Urquhart where communikation` s important tools have been extensively used online as well as private mails in content and expression involved both the professional and private aspects of life `s motley universe.

We have spent many hours in communicating `s wonderful opportunities through scripture` s magical expression although we are very different in some perceptions and attitudes to life `s realities and sometimes harsh experiences. This very often gives rise to a long lasting friendship based on the human acceptance and respect we all ought to follow through thick and thin without losing our own identity and opinions of courage.
I looked for a while ago on Alasdair `s new website and thought – what an explosion of developments and knowledge that man has gone through over the last few years – a true explosion has expanded from the smaller rockets` s simple yet sleek design for the big fireworks as we see it at the gala performances `s lavish events.

… And right now I’m sitting in my retirement `s lovely cave in France where the doors are looked up to the pensioner` s free choice to either relax in the sun `s magical rays or write books, shoot, give lectures and go to the café where life `s realities will be served on a platter without packing it into the vat.

If you are interested in art, poetry and other creative work from Alasdair `s sprawling universe, you can follow this link:

Alasdair Urquhart

Alasdair has been an inspiration to my gray cells otherwise colorful and vivid presentation of life `s diverse universe and I hope and afflict myself a creative and nature-friendly cave in the area of Europe we both like.

Together with my dear Catherine, it is our goal to make this place into our own little artistic cave – only imagination may set limits on the potential of the creative universe.

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France

Europe `s maps are still intact, of course, with the exceptions that exist for EU membership and the so-called euro zone countries.

The eyes have long been directed towards EU countries during the Euro crisis – still alive, and obviously on a fragile foundation.

The question, however – Is it now so fragile, that the media often expressed in large headlines. The euro `s conservation is obviously important as incredibly many countries, banks, organizations with more are deeply engaged in the euro` s value with the many loans or investments amounting to many trillions in this currency.

However, efforts are in top gear both in front and behind the scenes to get a stable EU to work and even the countries of the southern Europe have established new “bridge connections” to Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and others, and Israel announced lately, that they are interested in possible investments in the otherwise hard-hit Greece.

New opportunities and trends in the Mediterranean region are already visible and feasible is it that the countries under the EU `s wings are able to be creative outside the EU community as well. The EU countries thinking of jumping out of the European Community will have a difficult time, if the present talks and goals will succeed in the Mediterranean countries to reach agreement on a closer cooperation in many different levels.
There are many “players” in this puzzle, and no one will after the expensive doctrines of investing in risky businesses, or just support if something looks like a card house that is about to collapse. The culture should be able to participate as bridge builders, but initially only as a spiritual community, that over time could be more straightforward and direct, if the financial situation improves through trade and production, which is absolutely necessary before service areas can be merged into all economic interests.

All of Europe should have an interest in protecting both the cultural values and peace we have had since World War II – Europe has been divided into two halves for many years, where the east was heavily influenced in high favor of the communist mindset, while the western part had both democratic rights and freedom to express themselves in speech and writing.

Important is it to remain calm and have an overview – We are all people of good and evil, but ultimately it is usually the visionaries and the positive who wins, regardless of the people that might continue into fanaticism `s thinking in terms of race, religion or political dogmatic aggressive act.
If it all fails, my most conservative prediction and intuition tells me, that the Third World War may quickly become actualized started by the most aggressive forces, knowing that Europe is on the heels both economically and militarily.

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador, Lecturer and Author

Nobody knows the future `s prospects, but what I perceive and see here is both a struggle but also a voracious appetite for life` s many opportunities. In the art `s universe I have seen really many galleries, solely owned by the artists and apparently with a positive sales. The artists are represented by many different countries and I have not heard a single one who complains about the “hard times”.

Nature is well protected by the Frenchmen end has some strict rules for both buildings and large protected areas where it is otherwise more practical to drive on a discovery by a jeep or moped – The small winding roads are apparently protected from any kind of repairs ..:-)

The small wine farms is a whole chapter in itself, and I have gradually become aware that much of the wine we do not see from France on the shelves in other countries remains here because of a capacity issue, but the wines are “second-to-none”.

I have been regularly in France the last 10 years, and not at one single time been in doubt that my retirement’s remaining years of life `s many aspects had to be spent in southern France` s wonderful vegetation, magic nature and of course the Mediterranean `s always azure blue color.

At first I was skeptical in relation to the French people `s attitudes and openness. Well, it takes time before it is possible to simply know a fraction of a another person, but with time comes advice, and teachings is an eternal development, which teaches us to deal with any situation and a little intuition to move on.

…. And just that is what I have learned from the French, what can be healthy after the motto “I do not know you, but show me what you include behind the facade` s many masks. ” …and we can continue the talk.

The French people rarely use jungle-law `s dirty way of talking about other people behind their backs. They are direct, polite and do not envy  attitudes about social or successful people. Humans are regarded as equal partners, irrespective of social aspects.

Tourism plays a major role in the south of France, and the service industries benefit from the many guests – while others could easily do without a 10-fold increase of people in the summer period.

There are of course many other wonderful places on earth that is either as attractive or maybe better, depending on the needs and temperament, but to be rootless is one of danger signals, which I must admit has been a part of my lifestyle – I prefer to call the “Life` s countless challenges and adventure `s infinite possibilities.”

…. That is why I am now in my last dream in life `s many opportunities and together with my dear Catharina we will also work with art, exhibitions and music` s `s countless opportunities on this exciting platform.

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador, Lecturer and Author

Changes in the world are still inscrutable.                        by Kurt Lykke Lindved

Artists, poets and spiritual people are talking much about the “oneness” as an option in future attempts to unite the world’s population under the same roof.

There are however some weaknesses in this kind of thinking, since this formula assumes that all churches, synagogues, etc. should be removed from the earth’s surface.

We are planted here on earth with very individual and different ethnic genes including a very intense childhood affecting us much in the first couple of years and locked into our subconscious as though it was a “must”. Nobody wants to be dictated a change which conflicts with their “roots”, and that is exactly what happens inside our body and soul – “pressure begets counter-pressure” – precisely what we have seen in the construction phase of a “European Union”- Culture and habits are so ingrained in people that they will not give an inch of their own small territory.

All we can hope for is a “surface cooperate” without touching the man’s “roots”.!!! .. And so are both the Vikings and Greeks so different in thinking and action …:-))

Additional Information !

Be careful if you make so-called “loose” business deals via the Internet. French TV has just shown a documentary where thousands of people lost a lot of money through smart and creative methods by money hunters. I have even tried to lose money on an ordered new Web portal, that never saw the daylight with a single letter, comma or sentence ……. And it is almost impossible to recover the money back without an arrest warrant from the police.

All the best from

Kurt Lykke Lindved

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, Author, Lecturer and Ambassador

The world today is an unsafe place to live, and has actually always been. If I see it from my eye level is a key reason for the senseless violence, terror and destructive revolutions we see today – Most of the so-called civilized world has had enough of the individual, intellectuals and ordinary people are not interested in politics and the people who have power as they heed.

People in the Arab countries have said “enough is enough” and now fighting a bloody struggle for democracy and freedom. The Western world is struggling with economy and high unemployment everywhere and much of the developing countries are fighting with famine disasters, refugees and corrupt generals who only see man as a number. In addition all the many natural disasters, among other things have hit nations such as Japan and Haiti especially hard.

The rich world is more concerned with the welfare problem which has been built over the past 50 years. Diseases such as stress, diabetes and depression have never been as widespread as it is now. Many are confused about what they have worked for – to become happy, healthy people who could look forward to enjoying life in life’s manifold universe.

When I ask the ordinary family doctor, so the waiting room is always filled to bursting point, the answer is “80% of these patients are here by mental causes.”

Well, now I begin to understand some of the situations that plague the western world for the individual ego and insecurity in their own situation which is really just a matter of “live and breathe as we are made” without fear for the “now” and the future as no earthly soul knows anyway.

The age-old culture known as “business” is based on man’s creative ability to survive in even the most hopeless situations. Some are successful others not, but man has actually learned to “make money at others’ expense” and I’m not surprised when I see all the offers that are popping up like mushrooms based on the word “alternative” – medicin, religion, therapy, counseling, spiritual dimensions and even an “alternative life” where bidders in my opinion can often be equated with ordinary hucksters.

Right now the world seems to be ruled by a handful of people who can be defined under the term “conspiracy” and before these people are removed from their posts, the world will stand still in any kind of development towards humanity and work for coexistence between the approximately 4,000 different ethnic cultures that exist in the world today.

There is something called “priority” and the first priority should be a cleanup in the world’s many backyards before we fly to Mars to see if there is little water on this planet as we here on earth has plenty to do with keeping the house in our own garden.

We should therefore focus attention much more towards the people we elect as politicians and especially those who choose to take power without asking the people and the people who work as invisible but dangerous advisers and greedy in their approaches to manage both politicians and consequently in the whole world `s population.

It is time that the rich world wakes up and understands that our lives are dependent on the world `s well being. After that we can begin to look forward toward the many perspectives, such as exploration of the universe and spiritual visions that might help all of humanity to a greater understanding of our mission here on earth.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Author, Lecturer and Ambassador

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, Author, Lecturer and Ambassador

The scorching situation in the Arab countries could end in chaos, anarchy and some new leaders who are merely “new wine in old bottles.” And it may even be worse than we think and when we see it. Religious forces as we have seen it in Iran are always looking for the possibility of taking power and that’s not exactly all religious rulers, who are interested in democracy `s freedom to live as you wish.

Have we been asleep for years or just directed a blind eye toward the real world? I have, and wonder why – I did not have ears and eyes on the atrocities that occurred in these countries when I was there -
However, it is not so strange when I now think how “protected” I was during my stays including how “protected” tourists was, but under completely different conditions than we thought and was told.

Dictators, monarchs and presidents in these areas were busy to screening off the international democratic part of the world, knowing that their leadership was neither democratic nor in line with the most elementary rules as described by the Human Rights Commission.

And now what? – How many bodies may we see on the table before the madness will come to an end. It is obvious to Western democratic principles that people have the right to demonstrate under the rules applicable to this area. Almost the whole of North Africa is in the middle of hurricane revolution `s eye and can evolve into anything in the next few months. The rest of the world is now holding the breath, knowing that it can tip over into an international war. It has always been the case that the Middle East and especially the countries that have oil are treated as one may stroke a cat with the hair and not against it by the Western World. We are greatly accomplices and exciting is it to see, which leg the western world are now opting to stand on.

We cannot ignore an important issue – the gap between the many ethnic cultures and rituals are so large, that it becomes difficult to reconcile all parties in a short time. Getting beyond the railing barrier requires courageous people, who have courage and motivation to free us from a conservative mindset, where the many religious and spiritual boxes have blocked and confused people toward new progressive and better living conditions for the world’s population. We still have the “hope” and “life spirit” to move on, but it requires better social and living standards across the globe as the first step toward the second or third step, where humans can live side by side without the many prejudices that today almost are a worldwide disease.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, Author, Lecturer and Ambassador

We are all born somewhere on this earth with the same senses and bodily functions, but not under the same conditions to live a life in dignity and security.

Our differences are quickly cemented after birth, depending on where we live on earth where the natural environment has some influence on daily life `s way of life. But the “unnatural” ways of life are indoctrinated by learning just a few years after birth, where the habits and rituals quickly becomes part of everyday life. A few of the main areas are religion, spirituality, and now the technology `s fair universe based on scientific inventions.

Religion and spirituality are both salable, but also a “hold point” for many people in everyday `s life needs both support and a platform in a world, where conflicts and violence continues in infinity of death and devastating effect.

But both religion and spirituality have a rear side of the coin. Man should be born with the same conditions and opportunities, but this is unfortunately not the case. Why this is so no one knows, but most wars are caused by religious conflict or spiritually fanatical leaders.

Scientists are working on as they always do it and we enjoy all the benefits of various inventions that have helped us in our daily life `s hectic work. We never really asked if we also wanted all their modern hardware, ranging from electric toothbrushes to satellites being sent into orbit around the Earth to the Moon or Mars.

As I see it from my little eye level, we have some key elements to consider and it is about our faith. Most people in the world believe in God, but God has become divided into many categories according to religious or spiritual affiliations. If we all just believed in God without actually belonging to specific communities with the beliefs and rules that have been founded over the years, it would actually be easier to communicate across different cultures. The same applies to spiritual and cult-like organizations, which usually exploit human weaknesses in order to maintain the members in an embrace of formidable rules and laws.

Well, dreams are of course tax free and I have not mentioned what many in the spiritual world either think or dream about. But the word “energy” is often used in connection with the future “evolution” and for this I can only say, that it is always wise to use own energy wisely whatever is available. We do know the existence of unsuspected energies and if we take a look back towards the creation of the universe, it is obvious that incredible energy bursts have been in play to form what we know as our universe today.

Whatever we believe in the invisible universe, the world will of course continue to exist for good and evil. Humanity has actually had the most difficult conditions to become established in this world – everything has a price as long as the majority of human life is based on the great diversity we have created via one of man’s weaknesses – Greed!

I have no doubt about “God` s” existence, but not as a human-like person in control of every single grain of sand in the world – but the abstract and invisible, who with incredible energy bursts have been able to create our universe.

The work to unite humanity in the “oneness” is entirely up to man to complete – otherwise I would say, that God might have slept too long.!

Kurt Lykke Lindved

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, France

I am together with Catherina getting a fairly good overview of what we will do in this lovely area of France – Cavalaire-sur-Mer – a small town with about 6,000 inhabitants who reportedly extended to 60,000 people each summer.

The last year has been marked by hectic travel activities and we will look back to October 2010. I started with a trip to Ecuador, where the artist Alegria Cordovez was my “body guard and host” through the 10 days I stayed in the country. An exciting encounter with both Alegria, her three daughters and a representative from the Shiwiar tribe in the rainforest. After Ecuador, I went to New York to visit the United Nations and my daughter, who was born there and lives in the metropolis that never “sleeps” but the pulse beats constantly 24 hours a day.

New York was inhabited by lenape Indians when it was discovered in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer who was employed by the French crown. He named it “Nouvelle Angoulême” (New Angoulême). The Europeans took the country in use with the creation of a Dutch fur station that later became known as New Amsterdam.

I have always admired this metropolis and its inhabitants. The entire world population is represented on those rocks, where every millimeter is utilized to the utmost to make the entire machine to operating without major complications.

It was a relatively short visit, as I was going to Denmark again where more duties called me in both entertainment and lecture contexts. After New Year I had a trip to Gran Canarias at the event “Symphony of Human Unity” which later would prove to be a true nightmare. Arrangements were made in collaboration with representatives from the organization “Cultural Creative” where I actually had to look far for “culture” but the “creative” was top notch, if otherwise it is a creatively experiment with unfair methods of money hunters with culture `s arms as the spearhead.

Well, I could easily be without this adventure in Gran Canarias, where I finally was awarded an “overcoat” which was the Spanish Police, who were afraid that I was not in safety after a detailed study done about the persons representing “Cultural Creative Europe” inclusive another individual person from Italy.

Under the circumstances, we had some great experiences with, among other things the concerts in a small town called Guia, where Sabrina Lanzi and Stella Ahangi appeared in the city’s main church. The audience was thrilled and it warmed in the middle of a “cauldron”.

Next trip went to the little fishing village Nazaré, Portugal where I had to prepare a cultural festival for three weeks with exhibitions, concerts, dances and social events. Maria José Anastacio was the coordinator on site with The Municipality as a focal point in almost everything we did. Many public employees and private people were somehow involved, but also here appeared people who had “misunderstood” our concept and left us either in anger or frustration not being able to wedge their own ideas and methods into the “system”.

Overall, it was some great events – outdoor and inside among other things, the ancient theater “Pinheiro”, where musicians, singers and dancers from the Academy in Leira showed great class and talents on stage. The Danish sponsors were unfortunately not satisfied with either the episodes on Gran Canarias or the feedback they wanted and stopped immediately for further action in the “Culture unites Cultures for Humanity”.

I was really tired of people constantly trying to latch onto the CCH organization to their own advantage, which I was fully aware about, but trivial is it constantly having to be the “watchdog” against human greed. Meanwhile I had met Catherina from Holland and she was with me in Nazaré, Portugal and could with her own ears and eyes see what it takes to bring people together and organize such events. She experienced the adverse and challenging artists even they get everything made available without paying a penny and how individual people can wrap themselves around a totem pole for attention and profit.

So I decided to quit any task where I was the organizer and coordinator – turned the page and was now the actor, where organizers could offer me a job as a lecturer, writer and consultant. This, I have not regretted, now where I’m retired and moved to France together with Catharina.

At first we went on a vacation in Europe to find a good place to live in the “third age” and the choice was Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France at the Mediterranean Sea and not far from St. Tropez and Toulon. And precisely here we are now going to organize the future life as retirees and freelance workers including some studio facilities, where both Catherine and I can showcase our own art and music.

Finally, I have been honored by the United Nations as a lecturer and ambassador for their cultural extensions and events.

I wish all a wonderful Christmas time, when preparations for December month are visible for anyone, who is looking forward to Christmas `s quietness and hopefully peaceful days.

Special greetings also to the many who helped us with both practical activities and financial support:

Marina Mar ¤ Lego ¤ Nordea ¤ Nazaré Municipality ¤ Guia Municipality ¤ Pako Taxi ¤ SAS ¤ Las Palmas Tuorist Office ¤ Pascual Kunchicuy ¤ Silvino Pais da Silva ¤ Scandia ¤ Wendy Rodriquez Lindved ¤ Catharina Van Leeuwen ¤ Danish Chamber of Commerce ¤ Birgit Gerlach ¤ KLM ¤ Rural Las Longueras Hotel ¤ The Danish Cultural Institute ¤ Bent Haller ¤ Sonja Oppenhagen ¤ United Nations ¤ Red Cross ¤ Save the Child ¤ Doctors without Borders ¤ Rotary ¤ Lions and more …

May your God be with you wherever you are in the world and I wish you all the best from

Kurt Lykke Lindved

by Kurt Lykke Lindved
Lecturer, Author and Ambassador UN

When the Society `s Locomotive and Wagons must be Pulled!

Every community today can be compared with a train set with few or many units.

The locomotive that pulls all these devices can be described as the productive part of society `s conditions to live and work in a variety of different types of service – both private and public.

We are so dependent on the engine can only pull the many vehicles if the boiler gets enough food so that it can smoke from the chimney – a sign of strength and determination to carry the torch.

Naturally, it is therefore, a train comes to a halt if the whole train set is too heavy or locomotive just losing capacity due to shortage of food.

… And as described above, I see the world `s current crises. The spiral has been broken – private and public service units are not productive has become too heavy to pull the locomotive and several carriages are now being left behind with unemployment, poverty and depression caused by this overheating of the locomotive’s energy resources.

“A new world order” there are some who say, but a clear definition of this is not yet possible to see – yet others speak of an “evolution” – Well, it has surely been a great and long evolution since the earth was created.

Together we must recognize that the current and “skewed” distribution of resources have been destroyed by a mess of ingredients that includes IT `s brave new world, corruption, greed, too many passive investments, expensive, wars and conflicts as well as a massive control of everything and everyone. Overall costs to be paid with the surplus of energy locomotive should have to pull the entire train set.

The question now is whether the locomotive must be retired, scrapped and a new can be built from scratch
to a well-run unit. Of course I have not the magic bullet in the hand, but in light of the many cultures, habits and rituals we have in the whole world will be a need for common ground in the overall goals and this can only be done if possible to remove any weeds that block growth from the roots to the crown of the tree – and it will be difficult as the core of all this is “egoism opaque brutal existence” as all people are familiar with – without always knowing it because of denial `s innate or acquired properties.

I just watched the video “Peter Economides – Rebranding Greece.” Peter Economides is seen with professional eyes and ears of a very savvy marketing man. The presentation of a “re-branding” of Greece contains many true and good tools, but UPS – he uses many methods that can only be used when a product or country has already created a positive image to the world – it’s impossible to “brand” a society who must clean up the backyard before it is possible to decorate the front yard.

My own heart has always had great sympathy for Greece and the Greek people, but Peter Economides `s demo presentation is in my eyes one of the many typical” private service “which in this case is being exploited on the basis of a fate which has unfortunately been assigned to the Greek people.

Judge for yourself:

After another couple of years have passed as “Time After Time” the current situation would have gone into oblivion `s archives and perhaps rewritten to history. Nothing moves, however, by itself, and the locomotive, which will carry the torch either having injected new energy or upgraded at the time `s requirements – and it can be anything from a new museum for the locomotive to the preparations for fitting or removing a ticking bomb – World biggest challenge – Climate change `s man-made destruction of the man`s best resources – the earth.!

Editor: Kurt Lykke Lindved

Lecturer, Author and Ambassador UN

by Kurt Lykke Lindved, Lecturer, Author and Ambassador UN

TTT – things take time, but occasionally there are people who manage to work at high pressure and swing things around in a lightning pace, where everyone else look like extras at ringside to a boxing match.

Many were about to be thoroughly tired of hearing and seeing in Greece `s major financial problems and I think actually, that the boxing rings otherwise staunch problem now strengthened by the EuroZone`s member countries might avoid a nervous breakdown of the European population.

It is now decided as many otherwise wanted it – a tighter financial control and politic, which would ensure the EU countries against similar situations in the future. People have a tendency to turn on a dime if selfishness `s benefits are not visible or understandable, why the situation is far away from a final solution about the continuing EU existence as intended.

And while the first part of the train ran off with 200 km per hour from the remainder of the waiting passengers, who could only say “maybe” and wait until they had spoken with their “family” at home. One passenger refused to fully pay for a first or second class ticket and went home with the head under the arm in frustration of “What was it really that happened during this meeting.”

.. So what? – Well, 17 countries in the so-called “euro zone” found each other in a new and updated version of the EU Treaty, which otherwise would have given an apparent collapse hovering like dark clouds over the heads of the euro `s existence and subsequent problems worldwide. Financial constraints and a better control was the outcome of this marathon session…. And it was not really the EU `s citizens that were previously interested in the” discovery “of Greece` s seemingly insatiable empty treasury, where a mixture of corruption and lack of financial control forced the blood boil over into the rest of the EU population `s hearts – No, the dime turned around again – Why a new treaty and more financial control now!!!!

The EU is composed as prescribed by 27 countries, of which 17 are suddenly drove in first class, leaving 10 countries in confusion about the status quo – Shall we say yes or no? Britain got off the train immediately and many will probably ask how on earth Mr. David Cameroon turned this around with or without a mandate to force this through. In my opinion, Mr. Cameroon violated all democratic rules – both towards the EU and his own people.

The EU is a giant with feet of clay and it requires both time and insight into this still relatively new form of “unity” in the 27 countries before, but now divided into 3 parts. Logically, the euro zone rescued the euro `s existence on a short term lane, in which only time will tell whether it can carry the water all the way to the final line. It looks like the whole world is happy with the new initiatives – the question today is whether the remaining 9 EU countries will pay a transfer ticket from second to first class in the train, which now seems to be on track to drive fast and without asking the passengers on the second and third class, if they would like to be upgraded to first class passangers. Actually, I think that the euro zone `s participants can be without the 9 countries if necessary, but maybe it will be difficult for the 9 countries to be without the EU on the longer term lane.

There are two possibilities for all sorts of countries to choose from – the patriotic attitude after the motto “we can easily handle ourselves,” or the evolving mindset and attitude that sees the future as a greater unity, regardless of nationality, ethnicity or cultural differences.

Visionary people will usually die in patriotism `s narrow limits, but a world of unity and peaceful existence will undoubtedly get the whole process on track towards more balance and social justice to all.

Well, just now the world has no money for the big and wild investments – money disappeared unfortunately like dew in the sun helped by the world `s biggest conspiracy club – The passive investors’ paradise that made man` s consumption to rise to a sumptuous feast that now’s the end of the world `s hardest headache so far.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Lecturer, Author and Ambassador UN

Cavalaire-sur-Mer

We know it all – the mind has a great influence on our mood rolling, and we can actually even detect it, and often without knowing why!

Man is a complex but wonderful created living individual with a myriad of possibilities in the senses `s diverse universe. We do not perceive it in our daily life `s deeds, as we are quickly brought up to use the most elementary functions through training and education.

But why do we run around with all sorts of problems and short circuits in the mind `s universe.? Is man today degenerate or overloaded beyond the energy the body has available.? Maybe a little of everything, but if we take the wider view and look a little on the entire universe from above, it gives a mixed picture of our planet in a 3 dimensional sense.

The globe today is composed of three essential elements of oak Geographical, political and religious divisions. Overall, it is historically a natural consequence of the earth `s strife, wars and manipulations. Much of the world today is more general-oriented thanks to the media universe and the Internet `s. opportunities. The world is for some easier to grasp and still others find it difficult to keep up with this variegated landscape of many different information and opinion formations.

All these three main areas, as mentioned above, are in flux – also called a new evolution in the way we live and perceive things. Maybe a question of belief in a better future for all or a dream that slowly becomes a reality.

It will of course always affect our minds when the lesions `s entry comes flying like lightning from a clear sky. We are both confused and uncertain of the future `s new features and begin to question ourselves and others. There is really nothing wrong with this – a natural process due to new ways of living and thinking.

But where I see a danger in all this is the fact that more and more people are mentally affected by these numerous and sometimes messy details and manipulations we are fed into the everyday life. Depression is becoming an epidemic throughout the world, like the many in development; They cannot manage to get in the express train to the evolutionary goal incumbent intellectual world wants.

The goal is of course “oneness” in the whole world – a long process when we again look at the world from above and must note, that there are people living on earth that still must be considered as primeval instinct `s individuals and the entire way up to what we call civilization `s highest and most intelligent creatures.

Via the internet, I have often seen people’s profile descriptions and was some time ago surprised when I saw the description – “Religion: Spiritual”. I perceive myself as being very spiritual in many of the things I do, but if it becomes a new form of religion, which is pulled over the face of the man `s head, it will be like the prophets in ancient times wandering around as missionaries persuading people to repentance, or follow their advice and believe in eternity.

We are all saddled with a 3m zone e.g. if someone gets too close to our own domain – then we kick just like the horse, that rejects going into the barn.

Prejudice will always be there even if we fight for or against – a struggle that may become larger and larger as measured in the mind `s universe of chaos and conflicts. Man `s choice is limited to areas where others have already determined and decided to follow their agenda …… And so it has been since the earth was created.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France

Man has for thousands of years created a wealth of traditions that are either for holidays or special events and created as per the current culture of variations and policy decisions.

From my own eye level, there are many positive signs of development and processes in man `s way of thinking and reacting to the many atrocities we have committed over the past several years, and the conflicts and revolutions which historically seems necessary to return “power to heed.”

IT generation `s last century seems to have” forgotten “spirituality` s necessary tools for man `s balance and health in general, but the generation that follows on the heels of amongst other things my generation has seen through the skewed power distribution in the world` s political, financial and materialism `s dominant factor in all aspects of life.

The world today lacks money everywhere – or does it? – We have already seen that money is silent, but speak in confined spaces – there are only few of these rooms, but they exist with the oval tables and plush-covered floors to reduce noise to a minimum.

I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year 2012 with the hope of peace, development and understanding of mankind `s most important and future goals – climate improvements coexistence across all cultures, as well as eyes and ears directed at the world` s tormentors, whether it is political or financial monstrosities.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

The world is not like before and evolution `s development has so far created a” vacuum ” for performers in almost all categories of artistic expressions.

Evolution is neither planned nor started after a tailored agenda. The financial downturn has hardly been on the evolutionary honorary wish list and in many cases directly damaged thoughts about the future `s brave world.

Artists have for years run their own small universe with no real rules for marketing of their products or services. It is expensive both to perform with art exhibit and act in concerts and events, since everything requires materials, management and rental of premises.

Sponsors are not on trees anymore and in many cases a necessity to make the economy work complete. Top professional artists, that have a known “name” but also an attraction to match the audience `s taste can still get agreements in the house with the larger and more robust organizers. The latter will no longer play on a “chance” as a Russian roulette, but would rather go with belt and braces in everything they do.

… And then what? There are today millions of artists around the world where everyone has a dream about just a little success and, consequently, earnings on the product or stage performance they want to sell. In the sport `s world, both players and organizers recognized the importance of a sponsor` s exposure whether it is a private or public organization. This leads naturally to many, a trip on the course to learn the exposure `s different phases. People who are interested in sports can see that everyone involved takes every opportunity to show a sponsor’s name or logo and include the sponsor `s names during any interview.

The sport `s practitioners are often trained to work as a cooperative, where performance is enough individual, but all are aware of the need to pull together if everything should work into a higher unity.

The artists `s dilemma is precisely this, that too many are walking around in their own universe without any real sense of a belonging to other artists – except perhaps a membership in a union or workshop, which creates nothing compared to the core – to sell their art or stage performances.

Seen from my eye level artists should always be aware of all cost factors, which are necessary to organize and display exhibitions and stage performances. Problems around the sponsors can be resolved only through a long haul, where each individual artist must find a personal sponsor, if they are unknown where they want to exhibit or perform. Entrepreneurs today have no sponsors remained in storage for art’s many practitioners and grants from public bodies will certainly be pruned much in the coming years.

… “To Be or Not to Be” is the hardest art of all – self-knowledge `s disciplines is not found in reference books, but is a balancing act in the mind` s motley universe.

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Kurt Lykke Lindved                                                                                                                              Culture and Development, United Nations

New Year’s Eve, where “auld acquaintance” be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.!!

A big thank you to everyone who followed this weblog and now that the year 2011 is coming to an end, I wish all a happy and prosperous New Year 2012.

The most important thing to learn in communication `s brave world is to read what is written between the lines … And remember that
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge – Argument an exchange of ignorance.!!

All the best from

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Kurt Lykke Lindved, Cavakaire-sur-Mer, France

Simply put, it is a shadowy collection of elite bankers, politicians and military leaders who want to control the whole world with a single dictatorial government – the New World Order.

Wikipedia:

¤ New world order (politics), any period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power.

¤ New World Order (conspiracy theory), a conspiracy theory in which a secret elite is conspiring to rule the world via world government and globalization.

¤ New world order (Bahá’í), a body of teachings of the Bahá’í Faith.

During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term “new world order” to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic proposals for global governance in the sense of new collective efforts to address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve, while always respecting the right of nations to self-determination. These proposals led to the creation of international organizations, such as the United Nations and NATO, and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a balance of power in favor of the United States as well as regularize cooperation between nations, in order to achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism. These creations in particular and liberal internationalism in general, however, would always be criticized and opposed by American ultraconservative business nationalists from the 1930s and onwards.

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Well, is it obfuscation, fantasies, the media `s quest for” hot “substance or is the reality behind this conspiracy` s theory. We can conclude that there are plenty of people with conspiracy `s thoughts and actual groups pursuing thoughts about one government for the whole world ruled by an elite with knowledge of both policy, religious and economical areas.

Many, both religious, political, military and organizational forces are already used to latch onto this with their own strategies for the idea of a New World Order based on one government and one religion – all under the name “Oneness”.

The above is obviously one of many processes in the scope `s next decades, but until then we will surely experience a world of confusion and chaos while the conspiracy` s “heroes” is waiting for a possible attack on man `s former ways of living e.g. to choose their own political, economic and religious ideals.

Kurt Lykke Lindved

Ambassador, Lecturer and Author

Interesting is it to observe here that the number of people on an individual’s friend list with whom he or she frequently interacts is remarkably small and stable. For example, an average facebook user….one with 120 friend…generally trades emails or responds to the postings of only 7 close friends. But, as  Facebook’s team reveals, social network interactions as taken at Facebook brings users to passively engage with 2-2.5 times more people in ones network (passive friends with whom a Facebook user maintains either ‘one-way relationship’ or ‘just barely in touch.

The Internet has dramatically changed our ability to communicate. It’s easier today than it’s ever been to e-mail, or IM friends, colleagues and family on the other side of the planet. For this reason, we’re often told that the world is shrinking and that the Internet has created a borderless, global village in which geographical proximity is playing an increasingly smaller role.
But this received wisdom is wrong; say Jacob Goldenberg and Moshe Levy at the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem. “We argue that the opposite is the case: in our contemporary IT-intensive world, geographical proximity has become an even stronger force than ever before, they say.
They studied the messaging habits of 100,000 Facebook users by zip code and say that the volume of e-mail traffic as a function of geographical distance follows an inverse power law. They collected data on the location of the receivers of more than 4,500 e-mail messages, finding a similar distribution.
Their conclusion is that far from reducing the importance of geographical location, electronic communication appears to have increased it, probably because people swap more messages with those they have personal interaction with.
If that’s true, why have we gone so wrong in thinking that the world is getting smaller? One source of confusion, argue Goldenberg and Levy, is the famous six-degrees-of-separation experiments originally performed by Stanley Milgram with letters, and later by Steve Strogatz and Duncan Watts using e-mail. These seem to indicate that a “small world” effect is at work in social networks.
But Goldenberg and Levy point out that most of Milgram’s letters were lost; only a dozen or so reached their targets. And in Strogatz and Watts’s experiment, they say, only 384 out of 24,163 e-mail chains were completed. That suggests that there may be more barriers to communication than we thought.
Businesses are jumping on the Facebook bandwagon:
A lot of thoughts about economics and numerous business plans are based on the idea that society has become a “small world.” There may be needed some fast rethinking if that premise turns out to be wrong.
The fact is, that many businesses are jumping on the facebook bandwagon. I’m not talking about th huge Fortune 500 companies — I’m talking about small businesses.
The problem is, however, that most of these businesses have no idea what to do with facebook. I do believe, that they’re only on it for the ride. Everyone else is doing it, right?
This is why I`m sometimes asking myself: What is facebook good for in business life? What uses and applications does it have for small business? How can it benefit small business?
Several universities have investigated the reality about the effectiveness of business contracts via facebook, and it turns out, that previously it was 8% who had some kind of success – now it is 3% since LinkedIn has managed to attract more users, after a long and maybe wasted time search on facebook.

Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador, Lecturer and Author

I am using “elite” here deliberately and “power elite,” the term of social critic, specifically. And, that essay discusses two sorts of elitism — power and cultural — and how they have come into conflict, and it argues that culture is the only sphere that the power elites don’t control completely.

For the past few years, we have watched the people of Tunisia and then Egypt revolt against the power elites that govern them. It has been thrilling, speaking as someone who is not a member of a power elite. It reminds me of the dock strikes in Poland before the collapse of the USSR or the massive rallies in Prague that culminated in the Velvet Revolution. The big rallies against the War in Vietnam are nearest equivalent to these events in my own life, but we were attempting to overturn a policy of the government, not the power elite itself.

The language of Egypt right now is familiar to us — democracy, human rights, representative government, self-determination, equality before the law. We may be skeptical that Egypt ultimately will act on those ideas, create a society that attempts to live by them. It’s a big place with lots of competing ideologies, religious and otherwise, that aren’t very democratic.  But the purity of the language now is almost as thrilling as the video of the rallies in Tahrir Square.  Here is what Mohammad Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood said: “We aim to remove all forms of injustice, tyranny, autocracy and dictatorship, and we call for the implementation of a democratic multiparty all-inclusive political system that excludes no one.”

Where did that language originate? From the cultural elites of the 17th and 18th century, who argued against the Divine Right of Kings and for the essential dignity of the individual? I could name a few — Locke, Hume, Montesquieu. And I can point to the Americans who took those ideas and made them real — Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton and Franklin, our own cultural elite — in a functioning Constitution.

Who, then, is guilty of elitism, if not the elatedly educated in general? The main culprits turn out to be people for whom a moneyed and therefore educated background lies behind the adoption of aesthetic, intellectual, or political values that demur from the money-making mandate that otherwise dominates society.

I could just as easily talk about the history I learned in college, the philosophy, the Shakespeare. Almost anything. It all led to the same place ultimately, a place that resisted control by power elites and sought to replace it with systems built on power sharing by individuals imbued with the same dignity.

I tend to divide artists into two kinds: the elitist artists who make art with other artists in mind and the popular artists who make art for a wider community.
Art allows the artist to enjoy the satisfaction of creating something.

And the artists are very “artist-centric” and “unfortunate* ways of looking at art.  But, again, there’s a state change from unsatisfied to satisfied, so it’s still about revolution, self-absorbed and a sometimes unique.

Art will NEVER be about causing change.  The “artist as social critic” concept failed in 1937, when Picasso painted Guernica.  Neither Guernica nor a million Guernica-like paintings have ever even slowed down a war for a second or stopped one.

The art will always be there regardless of political norms, wars or revolutions, but the elite `s artists thrive in quiet waters, where art is enjoyed and respected as a part of society` s spiritual needs – but until then it will always be the world’s many cultures, who must join forces for the great common tasks – Being able to speak, live and respect the differences `s diverse political attitudes as well as religious beliefs.
Kurt Lykke Lindved
Ambassador, Lecturer and Author