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Wim van den Dungen
philosopher
born in Antwerp
Belgian
philo@sofiatopia.org
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Languages
:
Dutch, French, English,
passive German
Middle Dutch,
Middle Egyptian,
basic Sanskrit
Academics
:
• Bachelor of Applied Economic Sciences
(BA, 1981 - RUCA)
• Bachelor of Philosophy
(BA, 1983 - UFSIA)
•
Master of Philosophy
Departement of Logic & Epistemology
(MA, 1985, RUG)
On the Categories 'Rationality'
& 'Irrationality'
(1985, RUG)
•
Sociology of Music
(1985 - RUG - Sabbe)
•
Esthetics
of Music
(1985 - RUG - Broeckx)
• 1983 - 1987 : courses in
Sanskrit (RUG - Jozef Deleu), Middle Egyptian (RUG - Herman De Meulenaere), Middle Dutch
(UFSIA - Joseph Alaerts)
• 1984 : Hermeneutics of Religious Texts :
Seven Ways of Holy
Love by Beatrice of Nazareth (UFSIA - Alaerts)
• 1986 - 1990 : scientific collaborator RUG
studying
the cognitive aspects of
love-mysticism,
thesis reworked as :
Kennis & Minne Mystiek
(1994, Dutch)
Additional Studies
:
1976 - 1986 : critical study
of Western
Astrology, resulting in :
Wetenschapsfilosofie en Astrologie, Arcturus - Enschede, 1985
1983 - 1987 : Parapsychology (Van Praag), Biofeedback (Maxwell Cade)
and Depth Psychology (Freud, Jung, Assagioli)
Activities
:
• 1982 - : initiated in Yoga
• 1990 - : advisor to Taurus
Consulting Agency
• 2002 - : webmastering www.sofiatopia.org
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2004 - : practicing Buddhist
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2005 - : mentor
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2008 - : practicing Ch'i Kung
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2015 - : Indie Author
As a
starting philosopher practicing a Hindu Yoga system (1982), the transpersonal
experience had to be understood.
Between 1982 and 1992, the provisional
Tractatus Logico Tragi-Comicus (1992) emerged. It integrated the study of
the cognitive processes of Christian mystics, Beatrice of Nazareth in
particular.
The
book prompted a reorganization of themes and called for years of work ahead.
Jewish, Muslim, and other theisms still had to be probed.
From
1993 onward, several
Dutch texts were privately published.
For
more details about this early period, consult the
history of these Studies in Philosophy.
On the
9th of April 1996, the Report on this growing study, exclusively existing
in cyberspace, became freely available on the WWW.
This solved the issue of being read, and interact with a community
of sign-interpreters, reading and reacting.
In 2002,
www.sofiatopia.org was coined.
The logic, epistemology, and method of this effort pay tribute to Criticism, as
found in
Regulae (2016).
Over the years, these various studies called for subdomains covering :
Philosophy,
Ancient Egyptian Sapience,
Neurophilosophy,
Buddhadharma,
Music.
From 2015 onwards, several books were published, finalizing some of the issues
studied and practiced over the last thirty years. Please consult :
books. While
web texts remain provisional, the printed books intent more stability.
My author spotlights :
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sofiatopia
website :
www.sofiatopia.org
e-mail :
philo@sofiatopia.org
LULU hotspot :
www.lulu.com/spotlight/sofiatopia
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