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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
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    • Healing Integrating Art
    • Mindish poetry
    • Art by others
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    • Being Whole – Being Sane
    • Becoming & Staying Sane
    • Getting Defragmented
    • Out balance and Being ill/sick
    • Evolutionary elastics
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    • Shamanism
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Systematically Getting Lost

the way to get to know life in its depths, lengths and widths is to get, regularly and systematically, lost ….. and travel inward without losing touch with daily life.

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 …

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Applied Mythology, Controlled Folly, Improvising Systematically, Systematically Getting Lost, Vision Quest

The Art of Getting Lost

Dirck van Bekkum Sep 25, 2016

My teacher, and mental-spiritual-martial art mentor, dr. Ronald ‘Back Horse’ Chavers taught me, between 1980 and …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Clinical Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems, Practical Mythology, Research Practices, Systematically Getting Lost

Cirkelend ‘terugploegend’ leren

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 15, 2016

‘JE ZIET HET PAS ALS JE HET DOOR HEBT’ (Johan Cruijff; voetballer en artiest) Onlangs (mei …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Practical Mythology, Research Practices, Systematically Getting Lost

Beyond Ethnography lies Thick Rhyzomatic Thinking

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 5, 2016

Ethnography & Thick Description are two major shibboleths in contemporary anthropology. In hundreds of publications we …

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Cosmic Jokes, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Learning is Breathing, Systematically Getting Lost

The Map is not the Territory

Dirck van Bekkum Feb 16, 2015

A massive modern human misbelieve (doxa) is that words and concepts are reality. Already Alfred Whitehead …

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(Dis)Claimer, Cosmic Jokes, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Learning is Breathing, Systematically Getting Lost

Tao Has No Language

Dirck van Bekkum Feb 8, 2015 Tagged with Epistemology, Grace

(Dis)claimer If this site becomes of any serious value to you, leave it, and do not …

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Controlled Folly, Cosmic Jokes, Systematically Getting Lost

Cosmic Jokes

Dirck van Bekkum Feb 1, 2015

Making and laughing about cosmic jokes is a form of ultimate wisom. If we are able …

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