Pink Milk

Can you catch a dream? Can you distill an emotion? And how about drinking an elixir that is drenched with the collective state-of-mind of unknown strangers? 

All of the above is presented to you like pink mother-milk on Pink Ribbon night in Bergen-op-Zoom. Meike Ziegler demonstrates that a Creatual; creative ritual can help people to give painful memories a resting place, and create hope for the future.

A table full of old-fashioned milk bottles set the stage for the ritual. The bottles are labeled with i.e. love, respect, dream, hope, inspiration, future. In the middle of the table lies a pile of strokes of transparent paper. All participants are invited to write down a wish, an emotion, or something that simply strike them at that moment. Afterwards they immerse their stroke of paper in the milk, and they slowly see the letters, their dreams and emotions dissolve into the milk. As if their feelings had been condensed into this one statement and then unleashed and transformed into milk by emotional alchemy.

After everybody have done their confessions and have seen these transform into pink mother-milk, the collected mental revelations are served as a drink that literally contains emotions. Some people chose to drink hope, others to drink inspiration and yet others take a nip of the future.

This creatual is part of a series of emotional interventions that Meike has created at several occasions. The Creatual is always in the form of interactive artistic installations, the audience is invited to participate in a ritual that transforms their emotional state. For some this might be experienced as slightly provocative, and that is also part of the intention, because to open up it is necessary to break down barriers.

I think events like these are a sign of New Spirituality, we need to give meaning to the events that happen to us in life. In the recent past the church helped us with that, but with the increase in atheism people are looking for new ways to get to terms with life-changing events and find strength and hope to get on with their life.

Explosive growth in New Age Religions

New research shows that new age religions have grown explosively over the last 15 years. Today every fourth of Denmarks 130 new religious groups is inspired by new age, that among others is recognized by the belief in karma, re-incarnation and eternal development of the soul. New age is by far the largest group of new religions in Denmark.


Religion researcher Rene Dybdal Pedersen, who is affiliated with the Danish Pluralism-project at Aarhus University, has just counted the new religious groups and according to him, there is a boom in the loosely organized small groups and networks within new age, where the members can freely choose to join or leave.

First published on the web 8. marts 2006 kl. 00:00 by Kristeligt Dagblad, Anne Korsholm.

Thor, Odin and Freja thundering forwards

First published on the web 21. januar 2006 kl. 00:00, by Kristeligt Dagblad, Anne Korsholm


It all started with 3 worshippers of Odin and Thor that found each other on Amager (Island on which parts of Copenhagen lies, red). And the last 15 years the practitioning of the asa-faith has grown significantly, so today there are 30-40 groups of “heatners” as the asa-believers call themselves.


In a couple of years more than 30 new groups of asa-believers have appeared, shows new research from Aarhus University. “New groups are created all the time and I don’t think the heatheners have reached the top yet in Denmark says Rene Dybdal Pedersen, PhD Aarhus University DK and author of a new book. “ In service of the light – new religious and spiritual groups in Denmark”.

(asa is the old Scandinavian word for god, red.)