The Net of Heaven
The work of American archaeologist Mary Settegast (1934-2020) shows how many of the contradictions and controversies that arise from archaeological findings become harmonized as soon as the findings are placed within the historical account offered by Greek thinkers like Plato – an account radically different…
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…