What kind of people are they, that stretches all the way to the east, and with whom we have no connection? Of course they are also a head and torso and arms and legs, but the inner world in which they live is really oriental. And Eastern is really something different from Western. And we cannot continue to level and globalize if... read more...
The human being is not only constantly developing in outer appearance, but also in his inner being. This crisis offers a special opportunity to look at this developing inner self. Questions about what is good or right, what is truth, what is truthfulness, what is the value of human beings and what is morality are questions that ... read more...
Truth only becomes valuable when there is wisdom in our activity. Indeed, our certainty with regard to the truthful standpoint is found only when we have had the courage to also take other standpoints and actually consider them. To take only our own standpoint, without honestly assessing the value of those of our fellow creature... read more...
There are, of course, many different ways of trying to counteract, deflect, transform and so on certain tendencies in the world.We can take to the streets, we can start a revolution, we can wave flags, we can do all sorts of things, but who will give us insi... read more...
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 life, we have formed opinions and judgements and we think that we have formed them ourselves, so we have the feeling tha... read more...
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 in the East, for example in China. There, it is a very popular field of study, and the... read more...
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 and that, according to Rudolf... read more...
As a European, you feel that from all sides, efforts are being made not to give Europe that wide view and not to give it the opportunity to seek the light in the Occident, but to overshadow it and push it away, and to ensure that Europe, at the most, still trades a little, and that it no longer takes care of itself at all with i... read more...
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 number of episodes. This is the first ... read more...
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 proved impossible to combine both be... read more...