Pivotal spiritual events :

1969 : first lucid dream ;
1975 : delineation of birth chart ;
1978 : reading La Divina Comedia ;
1982 : death of mother (°1925) ;
1983 : study of Kant's philosophy ;
1983 : initiated in Ananda Marga Tantra ;
1984 : study of Buddhist logic (Nâgârjuna) ;
1985 : stumbling over Beatrice of Nazareth ;
1986 : death of my father (°1916) ;
1988 : Qabalistic path-working ;
1993 : death of my niece, Paule of the Trinity ;
2006 : taking refuge in the Three Jewels ;
2008 : start practicing Qi Gong ;

Religion :

Buddhist

Publications :

Between 1982 and 1994, a number of Dutch studies on astrology were finalized :

Astrological Courses, 1982, 3 vol. ;
Epistemology & Astrologie, 1985.
Principles of Theoretical Astrology, 1985.
Synopsis, 1994.

My first philosophical text was entitled : Schetsen van een Absurde Wereldbeschouwing (Sketches of an Absurd World View, 1981). It was rather absurdist & nihilist. At that time, studying Applied Economics, I got taken by this love of wisdom.

In 1984, just before receiving my second bachelor's degree, College Tractaat (College Tractate) was written. The nihilist view was out and the urge to manifest a philosophical system poignant.

In 1987, the Proto-Tractatus Logico-Comicus emerged. This English text sketched the contours of a system-to-be.  In 1992, integrating mysticology (the study of the epistemological features of mystical experience), the Tractatus Logico Tragi-Comicus was written. Besides a considerable reorganization of themes, this text again invited decennia of study ahead.

In both works, the principle of the non-reduciblility of the cosmic operators matter, information & consciousness pertains. It still does. From 1993 onward, the Dutch texts were privately published.

Around 1996, the WWW solved the issue of being read, and therefore interact with a community of sign-interpreters. From the 9th of April 1996 onward, my ongoing Philosophical Studies were and have continued to be freely available on the internet. They are only available in cyberspace.

In 2002, www.sofiatopia.org was coined. Over the years, these various studies called for subdomains covering :

Philosophy, Philosophical Practice, Ancient Egyptian Sapience, Neurophilosophy, Hermeticism & Buddhadharma.

At present, this corpus consists of ca.7.672 PDF pages (106.354 KB - webstatistics).

"Be empty, that is all."
(Chuang tzu)

Personals :

Wim van den Dungen
Belgian
born, living & working in Antwerp

Languages :

Dutch, French, English
German (passive)
Middle Dutch, Middle Egyptian
notions of Sanskrit

Academics :

Bachelor of Applied Economic Sciences
(BA, 1981 - RUCA) ;
Bachelor of Philosophy
(BA, 1983 - UFSIA, MCL) ;
Master of Philosophy
Departement of Logic & Epistemology
(MA, 1985, RUG, CL)
Thesis : On the Categories 'Rationality' & 'Irrationality' (1985, RUG, CL) ;
Sociology of Music
(1985 - RUG - Sabbe) ;
Esthetics of Music
(1985 - RUG - Broeckx) ;

• 1983 - 1987 : courses in Sanskrit (RUG), Middle Egyptian (RUG - Herman De Meulenaere), Middle Dutch (UFSIA - Joseph Alaerts) and the practice of Biofeedback (Maxwell Cade) ;
• 1989 - 1990 : courses in Hermeneutics of Religious Texts : Seven Ways of Holy Love by Beatrice of Nazareth with (UFSIA - Alaerts) ;
• 1986 - 1990 : scientific collaborator RUG - project on the cognitive aspects of Flemish love-mysticism, reworked as : Knowledge and Love-Mysticism (1994, in Dutch).

Work :

• 1981 - 1986 : chairman of the V.A.G., Vlaams Astrologisch Genootschap, initiating a standard course on Western Astrology and a moral code covering its consult-context ;
• 1984 - 1986 : vice-chairman of the F.A.G., Federatie van Astrologische Groeperingen in het Nederlands Taalgebied ;
• 1990 - today : advisor to Taurus Consulting Agency, Ltd.
• 1996 - today : publishing on the WWW ;
• 1995 - 2000 : co-founder of and advisor to Global (Help) Projects NGO ;
2002 : initiating "sofiatopia.org" ;
2005 - today : advisor, private teacher, mentor ;

►CORPUS is the set of all available text ;
►PNEUMA is the synthesis of the corpus accommodating the view of totality and infinity aimed at by :
►SPIRA, the view on conventional & ultimate reality and their dual-unity.

CORPUS

PNEUMA

Criticosynthesis (2008, English) - in PDF format : Criticosynthesis (587p)

SPIRA

Critique of a Metaphysics of Process

"Work diligently on your salvation." - Buddha Sakyamuni
"All I do is put in motion the heavenly mechanism in me, I'm not aware of how the thing works." - Chuang tzu

"Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened." - Churchill
"Experience is not what happens to You ; it's what You do with what happens to You." - Huxley
"Believe me, I only see a fragment of the Infinite." - Krishnamurti

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