How to Prevent a World Wide Disaster by Creating a Collective Infrastructure

By Hans Konstapel September 7th, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

Are you sometimes driving around a in big city without any idea where you are going? Do you experiencing loops when you are using your GPS? The cause of the strange behavior of your GPS could be a Solar Flare. Do you know that a pilot is unable to fly a plane because everything is [...]

About Meta Art

By Hans Konstapel September 5th, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

Since 1915, Marcel Duchamp occasionally bought simple objects in order to exhibit them as art objects. What he wanted to show is that “The Spectator Makes the Picture“. To many people the Art of Duchamp was the End of Art. The end of art was also a new beginning. Many of the artists who rejected [...]

The Act of Creation: About Fusion and ConFusion

By Hans Konstapel September 4th, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

Arthur Koestler lived between 1905 and 1983. The first book I read was “The Roots of Coincidence (1973)”. Its main subject is Synchronicity. In the “Ghost in the Machine (1967)” Koestler argues that the human brain has been built upon earlier more primitive brain structures. When a human is attacked the lower layer is dissociated [...]

The Wordwide Carnival: A Short Introduction into the World of Mikhail Bakhtin

By Hans Konstapel September 2nd, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

The work of Bakhtin was disclosed to me by Will McWhinney. He used Bahktin in one of the many versions of his never published book Grammars of Engagement. The discovery of Bahktin started with a book about Bahktin by Saul Morson & Caryl Emerson. Later I also read many other books and articles like “The [...]

About Mapping

By Hans Konstapel August 31st, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

Many people think I am a very intelligent person. I am able to solve very complex problems in a very short time. In reality I am a normal person. I use a trick. The trick is called Mapping. I map a complex unknown domain to a well known simple domain. I solve the problem in [...]

About the Invisible Fascist State

By Hans Konstapel August 29th, 2007, under Completed, History

My father was born in 1909. He lived in a small village in the centre of the Netherlands. This centre is called the Veluwe (Vale Ouwe, The Sallow Old man). The Veluwe was the place of shifting sand and hei. At that time the people that lived there were poor. They worked as shepherds and [...]

About Paths of Change by Will McWhinney

By Hans Konstapel August 27th, 2007, under Completed, Not Started

“Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path.” About ten years ago I met Will McWhinney. Will became the most influential person in my whole life. He died this year. Will wrote just [...]

Why Psychiatrist are Unable to Cure their own Mental Disease

By Hans Konstapel August 20th, 2007, under Completed, Cycles, Psychology

I have been involved with mental illness all my life.In my fathers family many people were mentally ill.   My grandmother was taken to a mental prison after the birth of her last child and staid there all her life. She died before I was born. My aunt was sexually abused when she was young. [...]