by Michiel Koperdraat | May 24, 2019 | Articles
Like a fish in water If you could ask a fish, ‘do you know you live in water?’, it might not understand what you’re talking about. If a fish were to embark on a voyage of discovery, the very last thing it might recognize is the water in which it...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Aug 20, 2018 | Articles
The Philosopher’s Stone as a Metaphor The legendary Philosopher’s Stone was said to be able to transform base metals into noble metals, like lead into gold. People searched for it for eternity, but it was impossible to achieve such an atomic transformation...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Jul 31, 2018 | Articles
Blood Moon, a metaphor On July 27, 2018, there was a total lunar eclipse, and again on January 21, 2019, and it was a prolonged one! There was also an almost complete (penumbral) blood moon on May 16th. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth stands between the sun and the...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Mar 8, 2018 | Articles
The shredder in our mind Everyone must have heard of the Stichting Skepsis at some point. This is a group of people who relegate everything that cannot be proven in material terms to the realm of myths. But not only that, because even things that have been proven but...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles
Our Inner Director Although we often think we are at the mercy of the machinations of existence and that they are uncontrollable, we indeed have control over our own inner world, if we truly decide to do so. We have control over our own inner state of mind. We have...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Dec 20, 2017 | Articles
Anthropocentrism is a limiting inner attitude Many texts promoting spiritual growth are anthropocentric in design. This means that reality is determined from a limited human perspective. Stopping anthropocentric thinking is a difficult and actually almost impossible...
