Work Experience :

1979 - 1986 : organizer, teacher & lecturer ;
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, bringing together, in concert with others, the first two volumes of a new astrological sum : Wetenschapsfilosofie & Astrologie : theorie, feiten, onderzoek, & Beginselen der Theoretische Astrologie - the project was not completed ;
1986 - 1990 : study of the mystical traditions, courses on philosophy, sabbatical ;
1990 - : founder of and advisor to Taurus Consulting Agency, Ltd. ;
1990 - : working as a philosopher ;
1996 - : publication of independent studies on the internet ;
1995 - 2000 : founder of and advisor to Global (Help) Projects NGO - nurturing a humanitarian project integrating basic human needs, valid global information & philosophy ;
2000 - : advisor ;
2002 - : webmaster sofiatopia.org ;
2005 - : 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 : first major experience with Hindu yoga (Ananda Marga Tantra) ;
1984 : study of Buddhist logic ;
1985 : stumbling over the spirituality of Beatrice of Nazareth ;
1986 : death of my father (°1916) ;
1986 - 1993 : inspired by sister Paule of the Trinity, a Christian mystic ;
1997 : rediscovering the Eucharist thanks to Reverent Father F.Jacobs ;
2006 - : (re)discovering Buddhism.

Publications :

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

From the 9th of April 1996 onward, the written work is offered to the WWW.

In 2002, to independently identify it, sofiatopia.org emerged.

Personals :

Wim van den Dungen

° Antwerp, the 6th of May 1961

living in Antwerp

Languages :
Dutch, French, English

Belgian

Academics :

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

1983 - 1987 : additional courses in Sanskrit (RUG), Middle Egyptian (RUG - De Meulenaere), Middle Dutch (UFSIA), Parapsychology (Van Praag), Depth Psychology of Freud, Jung & Assagioli ;

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 on a project concerning the cognitive aspects of Medieval Dutch love-mysticism, reworked as : Knowledge and Love-Mysticism (1994).

Always Constructing ...
Labore et Constantia !  

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General BIBLIOGRAPHY

"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)