Dwepers en Dromers : tegenculturen in Nederland 1890-1940
Door Jan J.B. Kuipers
238 Pagina’s | 2022 | Softcover | Walburg Pers | ISBN 9789462497948
De Nederlandse samenleving veranderde razendsnel aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw. Sociale conflicten laaiden op, cultuurpessimisme en revolutionair elan streden om voorrang. Oude, vertrouwde waarden wankelden door een stroom van nieuwe ideeën en levensstijlen. Dwepers en dromers. Tegenculturen in Nederland, 1890-1940 belicht de versplintering van het levensbeschouwelijke landschap in een periode die gekenmerkt werd door vaak extreme opvattingen. Alles moest anders: de inrichting van de maatschappij, de omgang met het lichaam, religie en spiritualiteit. Anarchisten, vegetariers, theosofen, spiritisten, utopische kolonisten, feministen, strijders voor homorechten, linkse tot ultrarechtse ’trekvogels en reactionaire cultuurcritici vormden een verwarrend koor. De deelnemers aan dit koor, van Frederik van Eeden tot Erich Wichman en van Aletta Jacobs tot Henriette Roland Hoist, vertegenwoordigden ondanks hun sociale missie een onversneden individualisme: ‘het edelste, het hoogste in de mens’, aldus Domela Nieuwenhuis. Dat ze op hun levensweg vaak van overtuiging tot overtuiging zwierven, bewijst misschien de stelling van Krishnamurti — in Ommen in de jaren twintig even de spil van een internationale beweging — dat de waarheid uiteindelijk een land is zonder paden.
Jan J.B. Kuipers publiceerde circa 8o boeken over veelal historische onderwerpen. Hij won verschillende prijzen en was stadsdichter van Middelburg. Bij Walburg Pers verschenen onder meer boeken over de Beeldenstorm, de VOC, de Franse tijd, de Hanze en de Vikingen.
The Real World of Fairies – A First-Person Account
Door Dora van Gelder (Dora Kunz)
180 Pagina’s | Second Edition Eight Printing 1999 | Softcover | Uitgeverij The Theosophical Publishing House | ISBN 9780835607797
The Real World of Fairies is een bevoorrechte blik in een blijmoedig en geanimeerd universum. Dora van Gelder’s betoverende beeld van haar ontmoetingen met het elfenrijk brengt de magische en mysterieuze wereld van de elfen op een vitale, aansprekende, en oprechte manier tot leven. Haar zachtmoedige verhalen zullen het kind in ons in verrukking brengen, onze volwassen verbeelding prikkelen, onze creativiteit en energie aanwakkeren ons gevoel van verbondenheid met de natuur verdiepen.
Deze nieuwe editie bevat een voorwoord van een expert op het gebied van Keltische folklore, Caitlin Matthews, wiens persoonlijke ervaringen en diepe kennis van de wereld van de elfen een frisse blik bijdragen aan dit opmerkelijke eerstehands verslag.
Als we geduldig en hoffelijk zijn, kunnen ook wij feeënbondgenoten vinden in de wilde plekken in de natuur, op de geheime paden van onze dromen, in de diepe wijsheid van de oude en voorouderlijke tradities van ons land, zoals Dora van Gelder heeft aangetoond.
Caitlin Matthews, uit het voorwoord
Dora van Gelder Kunz werd geboren in 1904 met helderziende vermogens, verder opgeleid tijdens haar samenwerking met C.W. Leadbeater. Ze is al vele jaren verbonden met nieuwe technieken voor genezing, inclusief het ontwikkelen van Therapeutic Touch, samen met Dr. Dolores Krieger. Dora van Gelder Kunz is voormalig voorzitter van The Theosophical Society in America, en auteur van The Chakras and Human Energy Fields (met Dr. Shafica Karagulla), The Personal Aura, en de bloemlezing Spiritual Healing.
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Homo Universalis – Moreel kompas voor een nieuwe Europese Renaissance
Door Klaas van Egmond
236 Pagina’s | 2019 | Uitgeverij De Geus | ISBN 9789044542349
Zorgwekkende ontwikkelingen: klimaatverandering, migratiestromen, populisme, fragmentatie van de nationale, Europese en mondiale politiek, handelsconflicten en een wankel financieel bestel. Deze problemen zijn terug te voeren op de overwaardering van materialistische en individualistische waarden, waardoor de mens een karikatuur van zichzelf geworden is. De menselijke maat is verloren gegaan.
Om die te hervinden kunnen we terugkeren naar het mensbeeld van de Renaissance, zoals dat gestalte kreeg in de door Leonardo da Vinci verbeelde homo universalis. Aan dat mensbeeld kan een moreel kompas worden ontleend, waarmee we een uitweg vinden uit deze zorgwekkende ontwik-kelingen. Wanneer we het evenwicht weten te bewaren tussen de funda-mentele waarden kan er sprake zijn van menselijke waardigheid en duurzaamheid.
Jan Terlouw: ‘Dit boek laat op indrukwekkende wijze zien hoe mens, mensbeeld en moraliteit steeds weer zijn veranderd en welke gevolgen dat heeft gehad. In een tijd waarin individualisme en materialisme dominante factoren zijn, waarin we de aarde verwoesten, waarin het financieel-economische bestel niet meer dienstbaar is aan de samenleving, biedt dit boek hoop op een nieuw moreel kompas.’
Prinses Irene: ‘De homo universalis is deel van een groter geheel. Dat zijn we vergeten en daardoor zijn we de weg kwijt. Alleen door de verbinding te herstellen kunnen wij onze waarlijke menselijkheid hervinden. Daarin is de natuur, waar wij deel van zijn, basis en ijkpunt. Op basis van dat evenwichtige mensbeeld wordt u in dit doordachte boek een moreel kompas aangereikt’.
Laurens Knoop, The School of Life: ‘Klaas van Egmond laat zien hoe we het klassieke beeld van Da Vinci – de homo universalis – kunnen gebruiken om de naderende catastrofes in de Europese samenleving te trotseren: met een aristotelische renaissance van het midden. Dit boek is kraakhelder, intelligent, urgent en constructief.’
Healing Without Medicine – From Pioneers To Modern Practice
By Albert Amao, PhD., Foreword by Mitch Horowitz.
323 Pages | First Quest Edition 2014 | Softcover | Quest Books U.S.A., | ISBN: 9780835609210.
‘How Millions have been healed through the Mind alone’.
The aim of this book is to demonstrate the power of thought to heal the mind and body. Amao examines the rationale behind so-called mind, spiritual, and faith healing and explain why this kind of treatment works where conventional medicine fails. Amao also examines the most prominent leaders of the New Thought movement, who used mental and spiritual means to recover their health from supposedly ‘incurable’ diseases, and he describes the mechanism that triggered their healing. Finally, he explains why some people do not respond to any kind of treatment, with medicine or without it.
Mainstream academia should be made aware that mental and spiritual healing is an authentic, American-made phenomenon, that originated in and has flourished since the nineteenth century, particularly in New England. This phenomenon continues to develop today through the emerging field of energy psychology, which includes Thought Field Therapy and its derivatives, such as the Emotional Freedom Technique and similar practices.
Amao’s main hypothesis is this: All methods of mind and spiritual healing are self-healing. Human beings have an inner capacity to heal themselves. Indeed, conventional medicine can be said to heal, because it removes obstacles so that the body can regain its recuperative capacity.
From Chapter 12 – ‘Thomas Jay Hudson, The Scientific Working Hypothesis’ (p. 114):
” Some student of Occultism approach metaphysical studies with the idea of surrendering their will and conscious mind to the direction of the subconscious. This is dangerous, because the subconscious cannot direct itself. The person, who allows his subconscious to control him runs the risk that dormant, anarchic, and destructive forces in the psyche will express themselves at the least, expected times in devastating ways. When the conscious mind surrenders it dominion over the subconscious, the person becomes at the mercy of untamed primeval instincts, which could result in mental illness. As Hudson wrote, the subconscious cannot direct itself, nor can direct us. Its marvelous powers must always be definitely limited if they are to do us any real good. The unrestrained expression of the subconscious is insanity. “
The Atman Project – A Transpersonal View of Human Development
By Ken Wilber.
240 Pages | First Quest 1980, second edition 1996 | Softcover | Quest Books, U.S.A. | ISBN: 0835607305.
The Atman Project is widely hailed as the first psychology, that succeeds in uniting East and West, conventional and contemplative, orthodox and mystical, into a single, coherent framework. This essential introduction to Ken Wilber’s ideas on the evolution of human consciousness feature a new Foreword linking this work to Wilber’s current thinking.
From Chapter 4 – ‘The Membership Self (p. 29):
” For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only a description. For the sake of validating this premise Don Juan concentrated the best of his efforts into leading me to a genuine conviction that what I held in mind as the world at hand was merely a description of the world; a description that had been pounded into me from the moment I was born. He pointed out that everyone, who comes into contact with a child is a teacher, who incessantly describes the world to him, until the moment when the child is capable of perceiving the world as it is described. According to Don Juan, we have no memory of that portentous moment, simply because none of us could possibly have had any point of reference to compare it to anything else . . . For Don Juan, then, the reality of our day-to-day life consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations which we, the individuals who share a specific membership, have learned to make in common. “
Philosopher Ken Wilber has been mapping the territory of consciousness since the 1970s. His first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, published by Quest Books, launched the transpersonal psychology movement. Wilber’s current best-sellers are Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, and A Brief History of Everything.
The Mystery Of Healing
By anonymous authors.
95 Pages | Published in 1958, First Quest Book revised edition 1968, third Quest printing 1981 | Softcover | Quest Books, U.S.A. | ISBN: 0835601145.
In the last few decades, medicine has made vast strides, although there is still much to be learned about the basic problems of disease. At the same time, public interest in spiritual healing and unorthodox methods has greatly increased, often without critical or intelligent study of their results. Yet the most careful scientific scrutiny shows that in a small number of case quasi-miraculous cures do indeed occur.
In this book, the writers attempt to discuss the conditions, which allow exceptional cures to take place or which seem to prevent them. The fundamental question is: ‘What heals’? This raises further questions: Why does healing not always take place when all the apparently obvious conditions are there for it to do so? Moreover, why is it that sometimes a quite fantastic method will succeed when proved and tried medical treatment has failed?
The group, which produced this small book consists of qualified medical practitioners and psychotherapists, together with others who have had long experience with unorthodox methods of diagnosis and treatment. While acknowledging all that can be and has been done by medical science and psychotherapy to alleviate suffering, the conclusions arrived and emphasise the interior sources of healing that exist deep within each individual.
From Appendix A – ‘Karma and Health’ (p. 87):
” Thus in the case of illness – and for that matter in happy experiences also – the individual, who accepts the idea of karma can ask himself: ‘What am I doing to deserve this? And if he is in pain, ‘What is there in me that perpetuates this misery? In what way is my attitude towards it, or towards life itself, in error?’ And if this leads him to learn the lesson he has to learn, he may find himself quickly and unaccountably free of that situation. “
The Astrology Of Accidents – Investigations and Research
By C.E.O. Carter.
123 Pages | First published in 1932, reprinted in 1978 | Softcover | Theosophical Publishing House, London | ISBN: 722950594.
One of the most important areas in looking at a horoscope is interpreting from the aspects indications of possible accidents; and the subject is made all the more difficult by defining what constitutes an accident. The author defines it as ‘a bodily mishap occasioned without intent either on the part of the sufferer or the agent (if any) inflicting it’. There are various gradations of accidents, and in the research for this book, one of the primary considerations was to discover if possible any factors that are common to all serious accidents. Here with the evidence of statistics are 168 cases from Britain and the United States, which will assist astrologers in examining charts.
From the ‘Preliminary Considerations’ (p. 17):
” Our first investigations must be directed to discover, it possible, any factors that are common to all serious accidents, or at least occur more frequently than mere probability would explain. My total collection, at the time of ‘closing the lists’ for tables, comprised 168 cases. These may be roughly divided as follows: asphyxiation (5), drowning (14), burns (19), scalds (9), gunshots (4), blows (21), crushings (9), wounds and cuts (7), vehicular (22), falls (32), machinery (5), railway (3), poisons (1), explosions (4), miscellaneous (10) and animals (3). Some of this book was written before all of these had come to hand, hence the above figures may not exactly agree with others given in Part Two, which also contains cases that came in after the tables had been finished. “
C.E.O. Carter (1887 – 1968) was the most outstanding British astrologer of the 20th century. After the death of Alan Leo, Carter ran Leo’s Astrological Lodge at the Theosophical Society, from 1920 to the 1952. He was first Principal of the Faculty of Astrological Studies, which he helped found in 1948. He edited The Astrologer’s Quarterly from 1926 until 1959. Carter’s books, penetrating & full of unique insights, are ideal for intermediate & advanced astrologers. They are, in fact, virtually in a class by themselves. Instead of a book on synastry, or forecasting, or horary or elections, Carter’s books are organic wholes. Instead of treating aspects in one chapter, signs in another, and planets in a third, Carter shows how individual astrological factors combine to create living, breathing people. For example, Carter tells us that a cardinal grand cross has one sort of effect if it falls in succedent houses, quite another if it falls angular. It is this constant interplay of factors, and Carter’s brilliant, lucid exposition, that makes his books so precious.
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