The freedom of thinking

In the mantra from the calendar of the soul of this week (push the button ‘calendar of the soul’ in the menu) we experience how the perceiving soul becomes free, being widened to the world-being. This also has a more inner perspective that has to be searched for in the supernatural. I quote from my […]

What is a child?

During this period of many seminars, I am giving short impressions of some of them. In Driebergen we spent five evenings studying the wonderful lectures of Rudolf Steiner about the healthy development of the human being, through a healthy education. This Wednesday we developed thoughts and exercises based on the seventh lecture. Here, the child’s […]

Ave verum corpus – Man between heaven and earth

A week after Easter a group of people came together in the former convent ‘Samaya’ which is situated in the middle of Holland to do inner work on finding a position in the inner-external existence, from which one can work safely with all the modern technology and also remain unbiased in the flow of information […]

Space and time

Our sense-perceptions and our thoughts and concepts are based on the spatial imaginations. When we look at our watch, time is also being visualized in a spatial way – if we use old-fashioned watches, with the twelve hours in a circle… Space has a kind of reality for us; time is much less a reality. […]

Endangered humanity

On Palm Sunday in Bern I have given a lecture and afterwards exercises on the theme ‘endangered humanity’. In the announcement the question was asked what the world wide conflicts have to do with us and what they ask from us individually. On Palm Sunday we remember how Jesus is welcomed as if he is […]

Know yourself!

The human look is always turned outward and when it looks to the inside it is usually to enjoy its own glory, its honor – or to rescue it. One could also formulate it in a different way; one can find beautiful words to describe it. But self-knowledge is normally not objective. That means that […]

Wisdom is a woman

Around the year 2000 I had an intuition for a book, a novel, which would have as basic tone the sensualism. This is a way of thinking, in which the fundament of being is seen, in the knowledge that we can gather through our senses. Rudolf Steiner described twelve ways of thinking, in relation to […]

Spring Bazaar 2

Life goes in contrasts. Just as the Lentebazaar. The preparations started in November already, in consideration with the school in which it would be held. But two weeks before the eventual date, the host – the Rudolf Steiner School in Breda – came to the idea that the bazaar could be a competitor to the […]

Spring Bazaar in Breda

This week and the next one I will give my reflective attention to an event that is being organized by a circle of friends to my work. In 2012 this circle was originated to give financial support to the work I do. 21 years ago I published my first book, ‘Seek the light that rises […]

What is the human being? (2)

The ouverture of these blogposts was the question: What is the human being? At first I reflected on the thoughts of evolution, on the physical revelation of the human being. Now I want to ask the question again, but more in an inner way. Martin Buber (1878 – 1965, Jewish Austrian Philosopher of religion) had […]