After two weeks regarding the positive sides of becoming old, a sense of balance demands the other side of the picture. Because we are regarding the mind here, I will look at this side of becoming older in a more problematic way. In October and November I will have to give two lectures on dementia, one in Amsterdam, the othe... read more...
We sat on a terrace in the sun, with a glass of cool water. A couple entered the terrace. First came the woman, I think she was about 85 years old. She had to do three steps up, and did it perfectly. Behind her was her husband, at first glance he was maybe 95. He had to give much more effort to overcome the three steps. He ... read more...
If we look at the human being as a living being and we look at him as if this being has nothing to do with ourselves, we would see a rather complicated physical organism that seems to be at the top of the evolution of nature. In youth it is beautiful and learns a lot, later it stabilizes and retains its acquired knowledge. T... read more...
For about two years I wrote about Adam Kadmon, and at Pentecost 2015 I gave a seminar in the Berner Oberland with the title: 'Pure thinking and the arisen body'. In this seminar the essence of Adam Kadmon became clear, as his being is understood in anthroposophy. The contents of this seminar are now contained in a book that ... read more...
'We have found the first question, the question with which philosophy begins. The answer to that question we have not found in abstract thinking, not dubious anymore, but as an inevitable fact, founded on experience in internal, supra-subjective and supra-objective thinking. This has given philosophy a solid foundation... read more...