Last week I visted the Embassy of the Free Mind. Hidden inside a historic canal house in Amsterdam, this is not a museum in the traditional sense. It feels more like stepping into a world of old ideas, symbols and forgotten ways of looking at life. I came for the Hermetic texts, alchemical drawings and rare books, but what stayed with me most was the feeling of the place. There were diagrams connecting the human body to the cosmos, symbolic drawings of trees and planets, old

I didn’t plan on writing about this book. I had tried to read it before and never really made it through. It felt heavy, layered, something I didn’t quite have the space for at the time. Looking back, that already said enough. When I picked it up again recently, I didn’t start with the intention to finish it. I opened it somewhere in the middle, in a chapter about creativity, and came across a passage that stopped me. Not because it was beautifully written, but because it fel

What I learned from my Human Design reading with Virginia van Dijk Human Design is a modern system for self-understanding, a language that weaves science and spirituality. It combines astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and quantum physics to create an energetic blueprint that reveals how your energy flows and how you are meant to move through the world. Your chart is created using your date, time, and place of birth. From that information, a unique map unfolds, showing you

I recently read The Way of the Bow by Paulo Coelho, which I received from my mom for my 40th birthday. It’s a small book, easy to...