Wim van den Dungen

philosopher

born in Antwerp
Belgian

philo@sofiatopia.org

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Languages :

Dutch, French, English, passive German
Middle Dutch, Middle Egyptian, basic Sanskrit

Academics :

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

• 1983 - 1987 : courses in Sanskrit (RUG - Jozef Deleu), Middle Egyptian (RUG - Herman De Meulenaere), Middle Dutch (UFSIA - Joseph Alaerts)
• 1984 : Hermeneutics of Religious Texts : Seven Ways of Holy Love by Beatrice of Nazareth (UFSIA - Alaerts)
• 1986 - 1990 : scientific collaborator RUG studying the cognitive aspects of love-mysticism, thesis reworked as : Kennis & Minne Mystiek (1994, Dutch)

Additional Studies :

1976 - 1986 : critical study of Western Astrology, resulting in : Wetenschapsfilosofie en Astrologie, Arcturus - Enschede, 1985
1983 - 1987 : Parapsychology (Van Praag), Biofeedback (Maxwell Cade) and Depth Psychology (Freud, Jung, Assagioli)

Activities :

• 1982 - : initiated in Yoga
• 1990 - : advisor to Taurus Consulting Agency
• 2002 - : webmastering www.sofiatopia.org
• 2004 - : practicing Buddhist
• 2005 - : mentor
• 2008 - : practicing Ch'i Kung
• 2015 - : Indie Author

As a starting philosopher practicing a Hindu Yoga system (1982), the transpersonal experience had to be understood.

Between 1982 and 1992, the provisional Tractatus Logico Tragi-Comicus (1992) emerged. It integrated the study of the cognitive processes of Christian mystics, Beatrice of Nazareth in particular.

The book prompted a reorganization of themes and called for years of work ahead. Jewish, Muslim, and other theisms still had to be probed.

From 1993 onward, several Dutch texts were privately published.

For more details about this early period, consult the history of these Studies in Philosophy.

On the 9th of April 1996, the Report on this growing study, exclusively existing in cyberspace, became freely available on the WWW.

This solved the issue of being read, and interact with a community of sign-interpreters, reading and reacting.

In 2002, www.sofiatopia.org was coined.

The logic, epistemology, and method of this effort pay tribute to Criticism, as found in Regulae (2016).

Over the years, these various studies called for subdomains covering : Philosophy, Ancient Egyptian Sapience, Neurophilosophy, Buddhadharma, Music.

From 2015 onwards, several books were published, finalizing some of the issues studied and practiced over the last thirty years. Please consult : books. While web texts remain provisional, the printed books intent more stability.

My author spotlights :

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sofiatopia

freedom of speech l liberty l democracy l solidarity l spirituality

Escaping the dogmas and directives of any organized religion, church, lodge, temple, cult, sect, lineage, spiritual school or sectarian organization, and avoiding commercial and political pressures, my aim is free study tributing ongoing renewal. This intellectual freedom also implies using the academia to be informed, not to be restricted or entrapped by it. These 30 years of study have been privately funded.

2 extremes : to exclude reason, to admit reason only. - Pascal

PNEUMA

potent synthesis of the CORPUS

accommodating the view of totality and infinity
aimed at by SPIRA

Criticosynthesis (2008)

first schoolday

Antwerp
1966

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them : the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Kant, I. : Critique of Practical Reason, conclusion, on his tombstone.

Thought is the enemy of compassion, obviously ! - Krishnamurti

All I do is put in motion the heavenly mechanism in me, I'm not aware of how the thing works. - Chuang tzu

No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.
Sakyong Mipham, in : Chögyam Trungpa : Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

Work diligently on your salvation. - Buddha Shakyamuni

Be empty, that is all. - Chuang tzu

website : www.sofiatopia.org
e-mail : philo@sofiatopia.org
LULU hotspot : www.lulu.com/spotlight/sofiatopia

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