The Age of Ignorabimus: Its Humble Beginning and Chaotic End
A renewal is taking place in science, an untelevised one. Tension has been building in recent years regarding the 'puzzle' that is scientific knowledge: most puzzle pieces are to be found outside the visible material realm; outside the laws of spacetime. Immaterial, uncrystallized worlds have…
The Fearless Bookseller
Three centuries ago, in 1721, a 21-year-old young man named Johannes van Septeren established a publishing house and bookselling business in Amsterdam. He published high volumes of books on religion, spirituality, history and science as well as etches, drawings, maps, poetry and art pieces that…
Dylan’s Realm
True art brings people on a level of reality that, in our modern world, is often forgotten exists. There is more truth, harmony and intensity of feeling on this level. It puts common reality to shame. It is the Archangelic state of consciousness. This level…
The Hungry Post-Materialist
After approximately five centuries of materialist science, post-materialist scientists are coming of age. Scientific impulses have gradually moved from observing nature with microscopes and telescopes to experimenting with nature to a favorite pastime nowadays: recreating nature – this last phase is now coming to an…
The Future Critic
Future Critics do not exist yet. They arrive at doorsteps, email inboxes or soapboxes at very specific moments. Those moments always have something in common: they are tipping points. The drops that make the bucket run over. Tipping points happen quite suddenly but still they…
Against His Time
There exists an English 1960 translation of Rudolf Steiner's 1895 book about Friedrich Nietzsche called 'Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom'. This title was translated from German, Friedrich Nietzsche, ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit; A Fighter Against His Time. But in 1960 A Fighter Against His…