Open Dag Academie voor Geesteswetenschappen

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Open Dag in Utrecht op Zaterdag 4 mei 2024

Kees Voorhoeve is studiecoördinator van de Opleiding Spiritualiteit en Zingeving van de Academie voor Geesteswetenschappen en geeft voorlichting over de opleiding. 

Faith, Hope, and Carnage

The Terrible Beauty of Grief

By Nick Cave

Seán O’Hagan: For me, lighting a candle for someone may be more an act of hope than faith. And I tend to think of it as one of the few residual traces of my Catholic upbringing.

Nick Cave: Perhaps, but to go into a church and light a candle is quite a consequential thing to do, when you think about it. It is an act of yearning.

Seán O’Hagan: I guess so. And yet I struggle with what it means exactly. It may be that it just makes me feel better about myself.

Nick Cave: I think at its very least it is a private gesture that signals a willingness to hand a part of oneself over to the mysterious, in the same way that prayer is, or, indeed, the making of music. Prayer to me is about making a space within oneself where we listen to the deeper, more mysterious aspects of our nature. I’m not sure that is such a bad thing to do, right?

Vorm en Leegte

Tijdschrift Vorm en Leegte uit 2010

Het Nederland Boeddhistisch Archief

Met onder andere:

Herman Wijffels over duurzaamheid: 

'Ik ben hoopvol' 

Omgaan met pijn tijdens meditatie 

Dingeman Boot 

Therapie of de Boeddha? 

Paula Borsboom

Knowledge and the Sacred [2]

~Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Consciousness is itself proof of the primacy of the Spirit or Divine Consciousness of which human consciousness is a reflection and echo. 

The very natural propensity of the human intelligence to regard the Spirit as having primacy over the material and of consciousness as being on a higher level of reality than even the largest material object in the universe is itself proof of the primacy of the substance of knowledge over that which it knows, for the raison d’être of intelligence is to know reality objectively, totally, and adequately according to the famous principle of adequation of the medieval Scholastics.

Human consciousness or subjectivity which makes knowledge possible is itself proof that the Spirit is the Substance compared to which all material manifestation, even what appears as the most substantial, is but an accident. It is in the nature and destiny of man to know and ultimately to know the Absolute and the Infinite through an intelligence which is total and objective and which is inseparable from the Sacred that is at once its origin and end. 

Meher Baba [1]

THE LOVER AND THE BLOVED

God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. 

And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.

Beloved and Lover implies separation. And separation creates longing; and longing causes search. 

And the wider and the more intense the search the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.