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 ;
1986 - 1990 : study of the mystical traditions, Qabalah, Western Tradition, sabbatical ;

1990 - : founder of and advisor to Taurus Consulting Agency, Ltd. ;
1990 - : at work 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 - : philosophical advisor ;
2002 - : webmaster of 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 : initiated in Ananda Marga Tantra ;
1984 : study of Buddhist logic (Nāgārjuna) ;
1985 : stumbling over the spirituality of Beatrice of Nazareth ;
1986 : death of my father (°1916) ;
1986 - 1993 : inspired by sister Paule of the Trinity ;
1988 : introduced to the Qabalah ;
2006- : taking refuge in the Three Jewels ;
2008- : integrating biofeedback ;
2008- : assimilating Taoism & Ch'i Kung ;

Publications :

My first philosophical text, written in 1981, was entitled : Schetsen van een Absurde Wereldbeschouwing (Sketches of an Absurd World View). It was rather absurdist & nihilist.

Between 1982 and 1994, a number of Dutch studies on Astrology & Cosmobiology emerged :

In 1992, I started to publish my Dutch work on philosophy in book-format, but from the 9th of April 1996 onward, my publications were offered for free to the WWW.

In 2002, to independently identify this work, sofiatopia.org emerged. In the following years a series of subdomains were created, covering Ancient Egypt, Philosophical Practice, Neurophilosophy, Occult Studies and the Buddhadharma.

At present, this corpus consists of ca. 7500 pages (A4, Text, 12p), or ca. 28.400KB in HTML (without images). Every day, the whole work is downloaded once.

You are welcome to visit the available webstatistics.

Personals :

Wim van den Dungen
° 6th of May '61 - Leo Ascending

Belgian - born, living & working in Antwerp

Languages :

Dutch, French, English, German

Middle Dutch, Sanskrit, Middle Egyptian

Social Anarchist - Christian Buddhist

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 - Alaerts), Parapsychology (Van Praag), Biofeedback (Cade), 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 - Ph.D project on the cognitive aspects of Flemish love-mysticism, unpublished & reworked as : Knowledge and Love-Mysticism (1994).

Panta Rhei !

Heracleitus

Towards a Moderate Postmodernism

Mysticism & Spirituality

Neurophilosophical Inquiries

Studies in Ancient Egyptian Philosophy

Studies in Buddhadharma

All Texts Thematic l Synopsis

"Be empty, that is all."
(Chuang tzu)

"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)

website :
www.sofiatopia.org

e-mail :
philo@sofiatopia.org

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