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 […]
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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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Lowest Heaven
Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, the Buddhists and Hindus called it ‘Maya’ and the Quran […]
Kant’s Cave
Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people were sitting down, watching the shadows on the wall created […]
The Good, the Bad & the Bad
In these increasingly surrealistic times, public discourse is highly focused on trying to discern which political leaders, public figures, influencers and billionaires are Good and which ones are Bad. To […]
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. Ten years […]
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to a luxury cruise, the promise […]
Skies and Limits
Among the participants of an international conference in the Belgian city of Ghent in May 2010, it was well known that the modification of cirrus clouds had been ongoing for […]
Old Wild Horses
All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was given to academics, researchers and […]
Building the Non-Lie
It’s harder than it seems to build a truthful venture atop the ruins of a World of Lies. Whoever has had the courage to start such a new venture is […]
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
On Action in the Face of Destruction I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (1963) Is it comforting or worrisome to […]
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on blogging more in the nearby future. I am taking a […]
New Words
The beauty of language is that it can’t be stripped of its human, unpredictable, flawed, emotional, dynamic, local, temporary and irrational elements. Language is always moving, it’s never the same […]