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SOFIATOPIA
A Philosophical Research Corpus


SOFIATOPIA is the public research corpus of Wim van den Dungen

Its central philosophical project articulates epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics as normative philosophy. With assistance from Ancient Egyptian thought, Buddhism, transpersonal psychology, and mysticology, it also develops an immanent metaphysics. The project examines the norms governing thought, feeling, and action, the structure of experience, the metaphysical interpretation of the world, the limits of conceptual cognition, and the possibility of mystical experience beyond the intellect.

The website contains materials from different periods and stages of development ; where later books revise or supersede earlier webpages, the books represent the more mature formulations.

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SOFIATOPIA.ORG is a philosophical research corpus comprising studies in epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and metaphysics. The primary domain also provides access to specialized subdomains devoted to Ancient Egyptian thought and Buddhism. Some website studies are provisional, while others have subsequently been revised and developed in print-on-demand books and PDF e-books.

BODHI.SOFIATOPIA.ORG presents studies in Buddhadharma, covering the principal doctrines, methods, and practices of the Buddhist path. Alongside the foundational teachings of the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and Nirvana, it gives particular attention to Mahayana themes such as emptiness, bodhicitta, the Bodhisattva ideal, Buddha-nature, wisdom, and awakening. It also introduces Dzogchen.

MAAT.SOFIATOPIA.ORG presents studies in Ancient Egyptian philosophy, religion, and wisdom, with particular attention to Ma’at as the principle of truth, justice, order, right measure, and appropriate action. It includes complete translations and commentaries on major wisdom instructions, theological compositions, and funerary texts. The  Pyramid Texts of Unas and the Amduat are examined as distinct expressions of rebirth, regeneration, and the recurrent return to the primordial source of creation.

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Three custom GPTs provide access to the philosophical, Buddhist, and Ancient Egyptian materials published in the books and on SOFIATOPIA and its subdomains. Each is configured for inquiry within its respective corpus and uses selected publications and website texts as knowledge sources.

These GPTs are aids to study and orientation, not authoritative interpreters of the work.

Their answers may be incomplete or mistaken and should always be checked against the original texts.

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PhiloBook Inquirer

BodhiBook Inquirer

Ma'at Inquirer

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