Persephone and Eros

On what is that proud feeling of the individual based? Science reduces that uniqueness to a complex whole of genetic information, the living human being however feels a need of self-development and self-experience. When one reaches that point with independent thinking one gets the impression that one has come to a limit in thinking. Evolution […]

Uniqueness and genius versus harmony and brotherhood

Whenever we bring our thoughts in the direction of thinking about mankind as a whole, we feel that we are overlooking a very important fact in humanity. It is the fact that every living human being  experiences his being as an individual, as separated from other individuals, as a kind of independent bastion – in […]

Mankind as a whole is a developing organism

The theory of evolution as we know it, thinks about earth with all its living beings and the infinite cosmos as happening within time. The simple organisms develop to more and more complicated ones. A further state of development is always in a way more complete than the former one. When we look at it […]

About writing. From perfection to restriction

When one writes a book, as I often do, one also has an ideal image in ones/his mind. I can’t say that I have this image in my head; I would rather say that I carry it in my heart. This ideal image wants to be described. The difficulty is though, that the theme is […]

Evolution and involution

Let’s continue this art of thinking for a while. Just like seeing the technical  mind, our technical intellect as the foundation of our ability to find causes and effects, we can consider the creative artistic ability as a human ability to have an image of something perfect or ideal, and try to approach this ideal […]

Reason: Causal principles and the universal unity of concepts

Reason is the human ability to think in universal principles, in how they cohere, how they form a coherent unity. Reason goes beyond the intellect, it can reason in causality, but also in other categories. It also operates in thinking about meaningful acting. Let’s think in a new way. We don’t proceed from the simplest […]

The concept of development in our mind: Cause and effect?

“Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drop from her arms. She is ever shaping new forms: what is, has never […]

The venture of independent thinking

Science is the source from which we take our insights in our first and last questions. We find our question ‘What is a human being’ extensively thought over in the theory of evolution. We accept the contents of this theory – it all has been scientifically proven, so we think. But why wouldn’t we make […]

Why start a blog?

Several friends have been asking me to start a blog on internet. At first I didn’t think about it. I am an author of books, a few articles in magazines and I give lectures and workshops in many countries in Europe. I am not a blogger… But after some time I began to think about […]