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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
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    • Art by Dirck
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    • 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
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    • Trickster Connects Multiple Realities
    • Exodus from Paradise
    • Returning Paradise
    • Shamanism
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Applied Mythology

Practical mythology is not studying some exotic event/phenomenon but a rather useful way to re-order your/our daily realities to changed environments. We humans need rituals to transform these realities.

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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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 …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Evolutionary Alienation, Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems, Rituals of Passage and Affliction, Systemtheory

What is a (cybernetic) system?

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 29, 2016

What does Gregory Bateson means in his analysis with a ‘cybernetics system’ ….Morris Berman in his …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Practical Mythology, Systemtheory

From Linear to Circular to Rhizomic Thinking and back

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 27, 2016

Practioners in systemtheory and system (family) therapy are familiar with thinking in linear and circular (communication) …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Dominating & Subjecting, Epistemology

(Nederlands) OLIFANTEN IN KAMERS VAN PUBLIEKE OPINIES

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 21, 2016

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Applied Mythology, Complementary female-male worlds, Evolutionary Alienation, Gender Complementarity

MASCULINITIES & FEMININITIES IN RUNAWAY STATE

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 13, 2016

   

Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology

Does indeed repeats history itself?

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 3, 2016

De Spaanse filosoof George Santayana meende dat ‘wie zijn geschiedenis niet kent is gedoemd ze te …

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