1981 - 1990 : practice of yoga, introduction to the Western  Tradition and Qabalah ;
1990 - : advisor to Taurus Consulting Agency, Ltd.
1990 - : at work as a philosopher ;
1996 - : philosophical studies on the internet ;
1995 - 2000 : advisor to Global (Help) Projects NGO - nurturing a humanitarian project integrating basic human needs, valid global information & postmodern philosophy ;
2002 - : creating sofiatopia.org ;
2005 - : urban recluse, private teacher & mentor ;

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 : practice of Ch'i Kung ;

Publications :

Between 1982 and 1994, a number of Dutch studies on astrology were finalized :
Astrologische Studies, 1982, 3 vol. ;
Wetenschapsfilosofie & Astrologie, 1985.
Beginselen der Theoretische Astrologie, 1985.
Synopsis, 1994.

My first philosophical text, written in Dutch in 1981, was entitled : Schetsen van een Absurde Wereldbeschouwing (Sketches of an Absurd World View). 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, my Proto-Tractatus Logico-Comicus emerged. This English text sketched the contours of this system-to-be.  In 1992, integrating mysticology, the Tractatus Logico Trago-Comicus was written. Besides a considerable reorganization of themes, this text pointed to decennia of study ahead. In both works, the principle of the non-reduciblility of the cosmic operators matter, information & consciousness pertains. From 1993 onward, the Dutch texts were privately published in book-format (a total of 2064 pages).

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

In 2002, www.sofiatopia.org was coined. Over the years, my 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
6th of May 1961
Belgian
born, living & working in Antwerp

Languages :

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

Ideas :

Eco-Socialist - Vajrayâna Buddhist

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 - aborted Ph.D project on the cognitive aspects of Flemish love-mysticism, unpublished & reworked as : Knowledge and Love-Mysticism (1994, in Dutch).

Work Experience :

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 ;

►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