The number

In the spring of 2019 I published a booklet, only in Dutch, The Secret of Number. In it, I took considerable trouble to immerse myself in the essence of number. I had to study Pythagoras, Plato and Boethius. And again I felt strongly how powerless our intellect is when compared to the insight of these […]

Faith

An elderly gentleman came to the surgery in The Hague more often, and we had the opportunity to have reflections on life. He was a real estate agent by profession, was a lot older than I was, and he said: The world has become a warehouse without an emergency exit. He probably found that emergency […]

Experience

In times of crisis, one must ask oneself, at least daily, what is actually happening to oneself. I mean that a lot is happening in the world, that’s obvious, but one would also like to find a relationship to it. That’s why one has to pay attention to the changes that happen to one’s perceptions: […]

The first question

For the time being, the fundamental right to freedom of expression still exists and has not yet reached the point where it is forbidden to question certain corona ideas on public health grounds — although warnings may appear on the Internet when visiting certain websites  that the information may be based on fake news, or […]

Numbers and figures

In this week, while preparing ourselves for Eastern, I want to forget Corona for a little while. I will return to the subject next week. As a summary however there is the poem of Novalis, from his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Novalis was a scientist. Wenn nicht mehr Zahlen und FigurenSind Schlüssel aller KreaturenWenn die, […]

Public opinion – 2

When Rudolf Steiner was still a young man, he received two tasks from a great initiate: The first was to assume the role of the dragon of natural science — that is, to get to know natural science from within and then find spirituality there. The second was to fathom the bull of public opinion […]

Autonomy

So now we have assumed that there really is a pandemic. Whatever you want to call it, there is a type of flu worldwide, a viral infection caused by a corona virus, which can lead to serious complications, namely double pneumonia, which is a threat especially to old and already sick people. Now the question […]

Why does this happen to us?

Just as the diseased person, who is familiar with spirituality, tends to blame society or people for the disease (evil forces) and to forget that he or she must seek the blame on himself, this state of corona-affairs can very easily be thought of – by means of spiritual science – in the hand of […]

Virus

Because the development of public opinion does not provide sufficient knowledge about the pathogen and the test used, I would like to say something about this. I have written before that I experience again and again that my understanding does not want to go along with the facts. This also has to do with the […]

Corona 2

If we now disregard all numerical ratios and only follow what ‘the authorities’ impose on us, we must believe that we are at the mercy of a very strong danger. (We have been given the wrong justification data anyway, only we do not know exactly which are right and which are wrong – for this […]