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Dirck van Bekkum
Dirck van Bekkum Welcome to an Anthropo-Gazing way of being-in-the-world.

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  • About
    • this site
    • me
  • Blog
  • Anthropo-gazing
    • Personal Anthropo-gazing
    • Gender Anthropo-Gazing
    • Family Anthropo-Gazing
    • Ethnicity and Nationality
    • Generational Gazing
  • Art and Crafts
    • Art by Dirck
    • Poems by Dirck
    • Healing Integrating Art
    • Mindish poetry
    • Art by others
  • Mentally Sane Systems
    • Being Whole – Being Sane
    • Becoming & Staying Sane
    • Getting Defragmented
    • Out balance and Being ill/sick
    • Evolutionary elastics
  • Trickster
    • Trickster Connects Multiple Realities
    • Exodus from Paradise
    • Returning Paradise
    • Shamanism
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Author: Dirck van Bekkum

Applying Anthropology, Beauty of Differences and Similarities, First & Second Nations, Practical Mythology, Systematically Getting Lost, Transitional Spaces

GETTING BACK TO WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED

Dirck van Bekkum Jan 4, 2017

Take me back sings Van Morrison (1991) in search for when it felt so right, so …

GETTING BACK TO WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED Read more →

Applied Mythology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Evolutionary Alienation, First & Second Nations, Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems

Discontents of the Nation, Contents of Indigenous Cultures

Dirck van Bekkum Jan 3, 2017

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Applied Mythology, Controlled Folly, Cosmic Jokes, Cultural Selfreflection, Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems, Recoding Songs/Poems, Rituals of Passage and Affliction, Transitional Spaces

Sport, Play and Loteries as As-If Communication Patterns

Dirck van Bekkum Jan 1, 2017 Tagged with fallen from grace, soul maintenance

To stay in touch with our distant animal pasts we, humans,  frequently ‘need to eat humble …

Sport, Play and Loteries as As-If Communication Patterns Read more →

Applied Mythology

FACING TO LOOSE FACE IS GAZING

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 29, 2016

What is there left to tell about being human? After the hundreds books I did not …

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Applied Mythology

ILLITERACY A BLESSING?

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 27, 2016

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Clinical Anthropology, Domestic Harmony & Violence, Family & Community Continuity, Rituals of Passage and Affliction

Stagnated and uncompleted Cycles/Transitions

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 15, 2016

Unattended tensions broulliages, and painful or unbearable losses in Western families (e.g. children or one parent …

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Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Dominating & Subjecting, Epistemology

Comparing Apples with Oranges

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 13, 2016

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Applied Mythology, Recoding Songs/Poems

Graceland SSSWCBS

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 9, 2016 Tagged with Poems/Songs

The song Graceland of Paul Simon, on his album with the same title, is an  example …

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Applied Mythology

WHAT IS THE NAME OF WHAT MAKES FAMILIES TICK?

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 6, 2016

We all live in them, they facilitate our living over generations, we are born, grow old …

WHAT IS THE NAME OF WHAT MAKES FAMILIES TICK? Read more →

Complementary female-male worlds, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Gender Complementarity

If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it, would I?

Dirck van Bekkum Dec 2, 2016

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it” …

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