Zarathustra

In the old religions of mankind we find views on the human being that point to the universal human being who was already there in the beginning as a divine concept, but who has to develop into a free, wise, skillful homo universalis who has a realized self-knowledge. In order to come to this realization,  […]

Wisdom and Craftsmanship

The human being is a wonderful creature. We are not only able to think, gain knowledge and develop wisdom, but we are also gifted with the possibility to develop skills. In the animal realm we also see skills, they are innate, they are instinctive. A bee has wonderful instinctive skills, bees don’t have to learn […]

Creative power of wisdom

In the old Indian Hindu-spiritual text The Bhagavad Gita one finds the full realization of the’ second sapiens’, of the wise sense, in the spiritual force that is – invisible for physical eyes – behind Krishna. Krishna appears as an incorporation, or maybe an incarnation of the fully realized power of wisdom, of human wisdom […]

Intellectual modesty

‘I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.’ Richard Feynman One can imagine that a scientist like Richard Feynman developed this modesty about the knowing-faculties of man, because he honestly experienced the very little growing of knowing in a lifetime. For him, the ‘awe and […]

Belief

In English there are two words for what we call ‘geloof’, ‘Glaube’ in Dutch and German. I think that ‘faith’ is more the trustful religious belief, and ‘belief’ can be used also for meaning something without knowing for sure. Faith is independent of the content of our mind; belief is the major content of our […]

Fear and fright and the media

Before I give a more philosophical reflection on belief, I want to write about a very concrete belief or rather about faith. Let us admit for a while that everything we get to see, hear and read through the media is true. I questioned the truth before, but I want to point to something else […]

Homo sapiens sapiens

It is a fascinating term: Homo sapiens sapiens. It points to the self-consciousness of the human being. Man is not only born to become wise, there is a wisdom that makes this ‘sapiens’ more and more perfect: that is the wisdom with which one can know oneself. In  daily life we have a natural self-consciousness […]

What is truth?

With regard to the disaster that happened above the Ukraine, and the social and political events that are the result of this disaster, I want to ask all of us this basic human question . We see lots of images on TV, hear lots of words from all sides, but do we really know what […]

Prometheus

In search for the truth midway between contradictions I continue my questioning: What is that proud feeling of being unique, of being an individual in mankind – that is a developing whole for certain – of which one is a part, based on? I consult Greek mythology again, this time the Prometheus-Saga. In the Prometheus-Saga […]

Creationism or evolutionism?

In an image such as the one from Persephone and Eros we can observe what is impossible to put into words in one glance, even when we use many words. The effort to think evolution in a reversed way made me  look at the origin of species not as a development from the most simple  […]