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Old Wild Horses

  • Laura Slot
  • 28 December 2023
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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 […]

Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
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Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled

  • Laura Slot
  • 15 June 2022
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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 […]

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Laura Slot

Laura Slot

Laura is a historian and writer based in The Netherlands, with a focus on outsiders in twentieth century intellectual history. She writes and publishes poetry and books. Old Revolutions is an artistic publishing house focused on history, linguistics, post-materialist science and more. It places the old in a new light, and the new in an old light, through intellect, imagination, inspiration and intuition.

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Against His Time

  • Laura Slot
  • 16 April 2025
  • 1

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

  • Laura Slot
  • 7 January 2025
  • 0

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…

Dunes

Kant’s Cave

  • Laura Slot
  • 18 December 2024
  • 2

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…

Orchard in Winter

The Good, the Bad & the Bad

  • Laura Slot
  • 2 December 2024
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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…

trees behind bars

Isaac

  • Laura Slot
  • 6 November 2024
  • 3

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

  • Laura Slot
  • 14 October 2024
  • 0

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…

Old Wild Horses

  • Laura Slot
  • 28 December 2023
  • 1

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…

chestnut

Building the Non-Lie

  • Laura Slot
  • 25 September 2023
  • 3

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…

no war statue

“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”

  • Laura Slot
  • 25 August 2023
  • 0

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…

glasses

Addiction Cure Suppressed

  • Laura Slot
  • 10 July 2023
  • 0

The strange disappearance of books and articles on baclofen Drinking heavily, you abandon people–and they abandon you–and you abandon yourself–It's a form of partial murder but too sad to go…

Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled

  • Laura Slot
  • 15 June 2022
  • 0

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…

Flower

New Words

  • Laura Slot
  • 6 May 2021
  • 0

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…

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