Pari Alexander Schoorel was born in Indonesia. As a child he experienced incredible hardship in Japanese prison camps during WW2. When his family managed to move back to Holland after the war, he felt a calling and became a very well-known actor and later, in his thirties, a classical singer and composer. When he embarked on his inner journey, he became Osho’s sannyasin, which for him was “a matter of life and death.”

Pari explains:

From my very young years I’ve been searching for ...

'The texture of the dark folded around itself and Adelheidstraat number 191 stood to attention in it's avenue under the stars. Emma was alone in the house with all it's familiar sounds but for this one. Cocooned in blankets deliberately not listening to it, she heard the gentle sound of footsteps coming up the stairs, footsteps she recognised.'

Anna wonders why her mother is the way she is, so different from herself and her experience of life. She delves back into her mother's past to unravel...

On love & liberty

- The incredible story of a young veterinarian s life in Liberia

`The night has fallen when we land in Robertsfield International Airport, and as I step out the cabin door the warm humid air hits me unexpectedly in an exciting and sensuous yet strangely comforting way. All around me are foreign sounds and unfamiliar fragrances. I want to stay here, I think. Oh! To live here and always feel this soft warm air around me, on my skin, in my hair, against my eyes.

But for a Dutc...

Existing stereophotographs of the majestic airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg have been made with stereocameras during the time the zeppelins were still in service, forming a finite collection.

However, new three-dimensional images have now been constructed using videos of historical motion-pictures. This technique (“stereo extractions,” as developed by the author) has resulted in a unique set of 70 stereographs of these lighter-than-air passenger liners, including one of airship pione...

In the spring of 1893, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and his younger sister Princess Alix, the future wife of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, went on a holiday to the Italian cities of Florence and Venice. They admired works of art in museums and churches, rode through the parks of Florence and the surrounding hills, and enjoyed gondola rides on the canals and in the lagoon of Venice. They also spent time with relatives, including Queen Victoria, Prince and Princess Henry of Ba...

The Knijpkat. 2019 marks 80 years ago that the dynamo torch from Philips Netherlands was developed. In this booklet you will find the bizarre history of this Knijpkat, its production, technical development, use and variations. Despite its 80 years of age most of these cats are still purring! Within these pages can be found comprehensive information of most malfunctions. If nothing else-the cat can be overhauled. Chances are your refridgerator will probably not live as long as the cat. Much re...

Between 2015 and 2018 the artists Nada Gambier, Mark Etchells and Thomas Kasebacher undertook a series of visits to cities across Europe, spending several weeks in each place in a sustained, playful and intuitively structured investigation. They went to, amongst others, Athens, Mynämäki, Tbilisi, Kortrijk, Lille, Tournai and Zagreb, criss-crossing the continent, in myriad directions, taking notes, taking photographs and making recordings. There was talk in bars and cafés, in private houses...

The European Beta-tradition is the second in the series of five Homeric oral traditions that Ward Blondé discovered in the Iliad. In contrast to the Mykenaian Alpha-tradition, the Beta-tradition has its origins in the proto-Celtic Europe of the Tumulus and Urnfield cultures; it describes a society of clans who fought each other to death on the battlefield. The European Beta-tradition is so realistic and varied in its descriptions that it must have originated in a warrior culture.

Blondé’s...

Frank Libertas was in Kiev during the Maidan-revolte in February 2014 en this inspired him to write down his experiences and personal observations what really happened behind the scene. In this complex geopolitical forcefield the tensions were rising so high that Frank seriously feared for a total escalation between NATO and Russia, which was later confirmed by president Putin. In the summer of 2015 the MH17 airplane of Malaysian Airways was shot down above the Eeastern part of Ukraine and t...

It’s frustration that spawned Murphy’s Law: The plan was good, how could it fail? Indeed you may not like it but our span of control is limited. We don’t control other people’s opinions, or the traffic, or the weather, or the economy. What we can learn to control is the way we deal with it, our attitude. Adopting a creative attitude opens up a world of possibilities. The creative attitude will make you trust that the new path will present itself at the right time. You will be amazed a...