Learn to Think! and how to begin
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. Because we have thoughts and because we can learn we think that we can think. We can absorb a great deal and put it into our memory and perhaps reproduce it, so we think: Yes, I can think! And in the course of […]
Intellectuality
Lecture Arnhem 19-11-2019, part 4. You can already see a lot of that happening. In Europe, we think we are lagging behind in the development of artificial intelligence. America is very advanced in that field. But the Americans complain that there are fewer and fewer students who want to study that subject. It is different […]
What is the identity of Europe?
Within Europe itself, of course, we also have to deal with groups who want to form order in Europe and then also maintain it. There was an article in the Europäer, (The present age) a magazine that spends a lot of effort on behalf of Europe, about two well-known groups that are active in Europe […]
Europe between East and West – part 2
Arnhem, 19-11-2019, Part 2 It is always very difficult if you want to talk about this in a group of people who are not involved in anthroposophy, because before you even start you hear that people are going to say: Well, these are conspiracy theories and we don’t believe in them, we think they are […]
Europe between East and West
Arnhem, 19 November 2019 On that evening, I gave a lecture entitled: Europe between East and West. On that evening, I poured out my heart in a way, still completely ignorant of what awaited us in 2020. Because the call I made there is now more urgent than ever, I am publishing it in a […]
Michael 2021
Dear readers, I may say that with a certain fidelity and persistence I have written a text every week since 2014, which was then published on this website in Dutch, German and English, and I kept this up for years until August last year, when I started recording videos, and in the long run it […]
Crisis habituation: getting used to it?
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. After a year of social restrictions due to the corona measures and political turmoil due to affairs, you find that you need about a year to get used to a crisis. That can mean giving up and just resigning yourself to everything. But […]
Human experience of nature during Easter
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. During the Easter season, when nature germinates from winter into a blossoming spring, and we turn our eye outward through the impulse of the self, we as humans feel strengthened and carried by the power that comes to us from nature. And just […]
Future predictions abound, but the past seems to have to be swept away
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. Because of everything that has happened in the past year, we seem to lose our attention to the daily figures and measures that the state imposes on us. Alongside the multitude of predictions for the future, it sometimes seems that our traditions from […]
It is not left or right, but make or break!
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. In today’s political landscape, the classic qualification of left or right no longer serves much purpose for a voter. Whereas left-wing parties were usually socially oriented and right-wing parties more businesslike, in the current corona crisis parties are more distinguished by qualifications such […]