Originally posed in German on 22nd October 2024.
Guest contribution by Martin Sinzinger 1)Martin Sinzinger has 25 years of experience as a tour guide and travel planner “Encountering Nature Walking Tours”.
Photos: Tatjana Mazover
Photo: Bernd Lindner
Reflections on a trip to Georgia with Heinz Grill from 27th September to 1st October 2024.
It is my personal wish when travelling to a country to contribute to positive and peaceful development, which is perhaps something you also share? In this context, through an invitation from Heinz Grill to travel to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, I was given the opportunity to learn about, study and contribute to new, practical and forward-looking perspectives.
The wish for development, peace and the person Heinz Grill.
I have often observed and experienced that Heinz Grill is able to create a particular atmosphere that enables the participants of study courses to make progress, raise relationships with each other to a more balanced and better level and open up more ideal life perspectives and goals. The spiritual dimension that is connected with his person unfolds in the concrete engagement with thoughts, physical exercises and also in every simple activity.
How would a visit to and work in Georgia effect our hosts and the country?
On the one hand, by observing the change in light, I have seen and experienced phenomena that would not have come into effect without Heinz Grill himself. On the other hand, by describing our trip, I would also like to outline simple and concrete steps that can be followed and applied independently.
Creating a foundation: objectively observing the host country.
Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are three small countries that lie in the Caucasus Region between the Black and the Caspian Seas. The geographical location alone seems significant. Georgia also boarders Russia and Turkey; Iran is another neighbour country to the south of the Caucasus. Not only geographically, but also historically, culturally and politically, we are looking at a region that is influenced by different spheres. Within the USSR, Georgia was known above all for its wine and also for its fruit production, the abundance of which, from pomegranates to walnuts, from figs to berries, also amazed us at the local markets.
Georgia today is reliant on good economic relations with all its neighbours for its development. At the same time, it is under particular scrutiny by the EU, the USA and NATO, which are pursuing their own geopolitical interests in the country. The political situation appears to be extremely sensitive, in a fragile balance and a peaceful, prosperous development of the country does not seem to be a foregone conclusion.
Developing perspectives – fundamental values
How to think of a future vision for the Georgia? What does an ideal picture for the country look like? This way of working does not involve creating fanciful daydreams about the country but to find and work with the right, objectifying questions.
What can a country contribute into the world as a whole? What values can the country build on?
There is an indication that the value of independence could play a role, so the autonomy of the Georgian language and writings will be looked at.
Georgian, spoken by around four million people, belongs to the South Caucasian language family and has its own alphabet. The language developed as one – but the most widely spoken – of the 40 Caucasian languages still spoken today and has very ancient origins with the first written records dating back to the 5th century. It developed independently before the immigration of Indo-Germanic, Turkic or Semitic population groups.
Without a definitive answer, this question can continue to accompany us.
Shaping encounters with others
Whether it is a visit to a local vegetable market or to the city centre, a meal in a restaurant, a conversation with a street vendor, a taxi driver or the cook in the hotel – every encounter with another person has a potential, to be more ideally formed.
During Heinz Grill’s table tennis match with Georgian first division player Grigoli Badunashvili, we experienced how relationships can develop in a very short space of time. It only took three afternoons to go from getting to know each other in a hospitable manner to an interested dialogue-based game that aimed to better understand and encourage the partner.
Developing perspectives – what is lacking?
Reflecting on the sphere of light, and also the after-effects of our encounters, led to the impression of a dignified work and honesty, a rather neutral but not uninteresting attitude towards our foreign guests. Is it possible with these observations to approach the question of what the country is lacking and what it needs in an ideal sense?
Heinz Grill explains that there is an absence of the cosmic touch, there is a lack of spirituality.
This impression of the present time could be a lasting influence from the communist era, perhaps characterised by a lack of beauty, elegance, grace, both in the modern architecture and the way the people interact with each other.
This is also a question that we can continue to work with.
Photo: Martin Sinzinger
Photo: Bernd Lindner
Photo: Martin Sinzinger
Foto: Bernd Lindner
Photos: Bernd Lindner
Ordering the atmosphere: practicing exercises
Heinz Grill emphasised that practicing exercises would have the effect of improving and building-up the sphere of light. By concentrating on the content of an exercise, emotions come to calm. Awareness that is steered by an appropriate thought and an alert consciousness will in general order the atmosphere.
Consequently, but without force, we practiced asana and pranayama or diving in the pool in the hotel garden. All these forms of exercise require a certain overcoming of the self and discipline.
One’s own sacrifice: what do I leave behind?
The question of which attachments are let go of for your own development adds a completely new and exciting element.
Normally it would be difficult to see a direct connection between another, foreign country – or even another person – and one’s own striving for development and commitment to development.
Nevertheless, this increasingly emerged as a central element. This question inevitably stood before those who has joined the trip and required an individual answer in all sincerity, determination, resolution and consequence.
It became obvious to me that through this trip an indissoluble connection to the country had developed and its fate is interwoven with my own progress. Seen in the light, this is probably true of every encounter, we probably are not conscious enough of this.
Conclusion: What has been achieved?
With regard to the light, it was perceivable that it had changed during the course of our stay from a rather flat, matt light to a rich, more colour intensive, radiating and at the same time centring fullness. Heinz Grill spoke of the light being more ‘ensouled’. A cosmic element was added to the sphere, which was initially perceived as being mainly ‘physical’, representational and material.
Finally, those who were present wanted to know Heinz Grill’s assessment of the work and objectives of the trip. He stated that ether was created, visible for example in the light quality, a building up that would remain noticeable for about a week. However, what was created spiritually for the country, would be of lasting value.
The aim of the trip was to strengthen and build up the forces that carry life, the ‘ether’ forces. By introducing a cosmic element into the earth, the building-up of ether has a balancing, regenerating, pacifying and uplifting effect.
This trip also gave me an ideal of where my own work can start, how perception and criteria for assessing this work can be developed and how the synergy of Heinz Grill’s spiritual capacity with the small group of eight travellers can lead to a common goal.
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| ⇑1 | Martin Sinzinger has 25 years of experience as a tour guide and travel planner “Encountering Nature Walking Tours”. |
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