Last year in January I wrote about evil. Now this theme comes up again, through the questions of a good friend. If we watch the events on the world stage and try to feel what people have to suffer who are in less comfortable circumstances than we are in Europe - despite all the problems we also have here - the question could... read more...
I wanted to give my first book, 'Seek the light that rises in the west', to two men. Last time I spoke about the learned doctor, this time I want to describe the other person. I 'met' him first when I was about ten years old, maybe even earlier. Every New Year's Eve we spent with my grandparents who already had a television... read more...
As I was in my twenties and doing the practical years in medical studies, I learned to know a very prominent person. He was professor in internal medicine and was head of the university clinic of the University of Amsterdam. The clinic was situated in the heart of the city - it isn't there now anymore - and as beginnin... read more...
The thirteen holy nights in midwinter. In the ancient Mysteries, before Christ arrived on the earth, there already were feasts celebrated at the four seasonal highpoints of the year: Midwinter, spring, midsummer, autumn. In midwinter the soul is the enlightener of the physical body and because she is very near to the darknes... read more...
The calendar of the soul gives the human soul the opportunity to feel the pure emotions that belong to the changing of the seasons. There are true peaks in it, where the soul can feel deeply the worthiness of the human being and the greatness of living together with nature on earth, with the world of the elements, of the sou... read more...