Closing the Circle: Pursah's Gospel of Thomas and A Course In Miracles
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Professionally he has been interested in the potential for business process change enabled by information technology, including the potential for creating truly empowered organizations.
Spirituality has been a way of life and a central focus, from a very early time. He does not think most people get it until some living was done, and that usually means it starts in earnest only after a mid-life crisis, as suggested in traditional Hindu lore. Rogier's life was no exception.
The earliest influences were Ms. Margaretha Hofmans, Jan Willem Kaiser, and the Open Field Movement, which drew a wide circle, including everything from Judaism, to Theosophy, Sufi-movement, Anthroposophy, Kabbalah, Jungian psychology, Alchemy, Astrology, and so he continued to work the spiritual buffet line, with some of the enduring favorites being Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Jakob Boehme, Sir John Woodruffe, Arthur Edward Waite, Heinrich Zimmer.
In 1991 he was introduced to A Course In Miracles. Since then the work of Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., and of Gary R. Renard have been his main sources outside the Course material themselves. He attended frequent workshops at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles, when it was located in Roscoe, NY, between 1991-2000.
Presently, outside of his business activities, Rogier teaches a weekly workshop in A Course In Miracles at the NY Theosophical Society.
Presently, Rogier maintains a commentary on the Gospel according to Mark on Facebook.
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Spirituality has been a way of life and a central focus, from a very early time. He does not think most people get it until some living was done, and that usually means it starts in earnest only after a mid-life crisis, as suggested in traditional Hindu lore. Rogier's life was no exception.
The earliest influences were Ms. Margaretha Hofmans, Jan Willem Kaiser, and the Open Field Movement, which drew a wide circle, including everything from Judaism, to Theosophy, Sufi-movement, Anthroposophy, Kabbalah, Jungian psychology, Alchemy, Astrology, and so he continued to work the spiritual buffet line, with some of the enduring favorites being Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Jakob Boehme, Sir John Woodruffe, Arthur Edward Waite, Heinrich Zimmer.
In 1991 he was introduced to A Course In Miracles. Since then the work of Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., and of Gary R. Renard have been his main sources outside the Course material themselves. He attended frequent workshops at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles, when it was located in Roscoe, NY, between 1991-2000.
Presently, outside of his business activities, Rogier teaches a weekly workshop in A Course In Miracles at the NY Theosophical Society.
Presently, Rogier maintains a commentary on the Gospel according to Mark on Facebook.
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Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen was born in Jutphaas, Holland, and grew up mostly in Rotterdam, until moving to the USA in 1979.
- His father was a psychiatrist, with a sincere longing to be a healer, grounded in the notion that really every "disease," is psychosomatic.
- First book published in Holland in 1974, Inleiding tot the astrologische berekeningen.
- Since 1987 the translation of Dutch Spiritual teacher Jan Willem Kaiser has become a guiding interest, leading to the publication of Four Open Field Books, in 1993, and The Gospel as a Spiritual Path in 2003.
- Favorite authors include Gore Vidal, Ken Wapnick, J. H. Oudshoorn, Arthur Japin
- He is currently working on a translation and commentary of the Gospel according to Mark.
- Radio interview in NYC on Kathy Davis's Heart of Mind show on WBAI.
