In the blogtexts that I wrote from may 2014 on, I first try to give my view on the question: What is a human being. There is the view of a primordial man who was perfect already, who stands at the beginning of the evolution of mankind. We find this view throughout the different religions. In the Kabbala that originated... read more...
In the old religions of mankind we find views on the human being that point to the universal human being who was already there in the beginning as a divine concept, but who has to develop into a free, wise, skillful homo universalis who has a realized self-knowledge. In order to come to this realization, evil forces ha... read more...
The human being is a wonderful creature. We are not only able to think, gain knowledge and develop wisdom, but we are also gifted with the possibility to develop skills. In the animal realm we also see skills, they are innate, they are instinctive. A bee has wonderful instinctive skills, bees don't have to learn these, they ... read more...
In the old Indian Hindu-spiritual text The Bhagavad Gita one finds the full realization of the' second sapiens', of the wise sense, in the spiritual force that is - invisible for physical eyes - behind Krishna. Krishna appears as an incorporation, or maybe an incarnation of the fully realized power of wisdom, of human wisdom... read more...
'I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.' Richard Feynman One can imagine that a scientist like Richard Feynman developed this modesty about the knowing-faculties of man, because he honestly experienced the very little growing of knowing in a lifetime. For him, the 'awe and myst... read more...