In search of the miraculous, meetings with remarkable people

In search of the miraculous, meetings with remarkable people


In search of the miraculous
My quest along the path of personal meaning:
Beneath the veneer of Protestantism, I experience a deep undercurrent of Chinese and Javanese spirituality.
When my search began in the Netherlands, only New Age and European spirituality could be found on the bookshelves, and Taijiquan and Yoga in community centers; only later did I reconnect with broader developments from other parts of the world, especially shamanism:

Meetings with remarkable people
Various encounters with people who inspire me:
In addition to the inspiring stories of my father, I have learned much from teachers of Taijiquan & Qigong and from books/teachers within the Chinese tradition (Confucius, Mencius), as well as books/teachers in Western spirituality (Gurdjieff, Regardie, Starhawk). As a bridge, I experience core shamanism (Harner) as an excellent “connector.”

At this stage of my life, I define myself as a spiritual humanist.

“Most precious are the people; next come the spirits of land and grain; and last, the kings.”

Main current sources of inspiration:
Mencius, with regard to shaping humanistic forms of society.
Modern shamanism, with regard to rituals.
Reclaiming, with regard to political action.

Ongoing activities:
A.I. chat
Art journal
Cartomancy
Qigong
Storytelling

Completed activities:
Farewell café
Malachim
Happy Stones

 

A.I. ORACLE: Harnessing Creative Power Amid Chaos

A.I. ORACLE: Harnessing Creative Power Amid Chaos


ORACLE

Overall message:
This piece is about creative power trying to organize itself. There’s tension between chaos and structure, instinct and intention.

Top (“VERBUM IRA” — word/anger):
The phrase suggests charged language—words with emotion behind them. This points to expression that isn’t neutral. You may be holding something in or feeling the urge to say something important, possibly with intensity or frustration. The patterned background hints at complexity beneath that emotion—this isn’t simple anger, it’s layered.

Middle (art tools):
Brushes, pastels, worn tools—this is the heart of the message. It represents skill, practice, and potential. The tools are used, not pristine. That suggests experience. You already have what you need to create or solve something—you’re not starting from zero.

Bottom (“IMAGO EST” — image is / the image exists):
This grounds everything: what you imagine can become real. The geometric, almost chaotic design above the words hints that creation might feel messy or fragmented—but it still resolves into something tangible.


Oracle reading (plain version):
You’re in a moment where strong thoughts or emotions want to be expressed. You already have the ability and resources to do it, but you may be overthinking the outcome or waiting for clarity. The message is: create anyway. The act of making will bring the meaning into focus.

Advice from the “oracle”:
Don’t wait until it’s perfect or fully understood. Use what you have, as you are, and let the process reveal the answer.

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A.I. Oracle : A Guide to Emotional Integration

A.I. Oracle : A Guide to Emotional Integration


ORACLE


1. The Watcher (top image)

A tall, enclosed figure with a sharp, angled head and a single visible eye. The posture feels inward, guarded, slightly turned away.

Oracle message:
You are in a phase of contained awareness. Something has been observed but not yet expressed. The single eye suggests selective seeing—choosing what to notice, or perhaps only allowing yourself to see part of the truth. The dark headpiece feels like a lid or shield: thoughts are active, but protected.

There is restraint here. Not suppression exactly—but careful holding.


2. The Investigator (“onderzoekend”)

This figure is more open, with a face that shows curiosity—raised brows, a slight smile. The body is angular but less rigid.

Oracle message:
Now comes inquiry. Where the first figure held back, this one leans in. There is permission to explore, to ask, to test meanings. The softness in the face suggests that curiosity—not fear—is the right tool.

This stage invites:

  • asking better questions
  • staying with ambiguity
  • allowing multiple interpretations

It’s not about conclusions yet. It’s about looking again.


3. The Protector (“beschermend”)

A broader, grounded figure, turned sideways, with a strong block-like body and a defined arm/extension.

Oracle message:
This is boundary and embodiment. After seeing and exploring, something must now be held or defended. The sideways orientation suggests awareness of the outside world—this figure engages with it.

Protection here is not fear-based—it’s deliberate.
You are choosing what stays in and what stays out.


Overall reading

These three together form a clear movement:

Observe → Explore → Protect

  • First: you notice something quietly
  • Then: you examine it with openness
  • Finally: you decide how to relate to it and set boundaries

Core message:
You’re not stuck—you’re mid-process. The final image shows strength: whatever you’re dealing with, you are moving toward a position where you can hold your ground without shutting down your perception.


ORACLE
4&5 Where the first three were process, these feel like resolution and integration under pressure.


4. The Integrator (“integer”)

A stable, upright figure. Arms extended, face open, balanced geometry.

Oracle message:
This is arrival into coherence. The different parts you were observing, exploring, and protecting are now able to stand together in one form.

The wide “arms” suggest inclusion—not pushing away, but holding opposites at once.
The face is simple, calm, almost childlike: nothing to hide, nothing to prove.

This stage says:

  • You don’t need to fragment yourself anymore
  • Clarity comes from standing as you are
  • Integration is quiet, not dramatic

There’s also something important: the body is translucent/soft compared to the defined head and shoulders. This suggests that while your identity is clearer, your form in the world is still flexible. You are whole—but not rigid.


5. The Return / Breakthrough (“doorbraak”)

This one is different—more raw, almost eruptive. A dark, closed head above, but beneath it: a vertical burst of blue, like liquid, energy, or release.

Oracle message:
This is what happens when integration meets reality.
Something breaks open.

The dark top still holds tension, control, maybe old structure—but underneath, something deeper moves anyway. The blue flow is unmistakable: emotion, truth, life-force, expression—it will not stay contained.

Important here: this is not collapse. It is release with direction.

  • The energy moves downward → into the body, into the world
  • The splash at the bottom → impact, manifestation, consequence

This card often appears when:

  • something long held finally expresses
  • a breakthrough comes through discomfort, not around it
  • control gives way to something more honest

Together (4 → 5)

Integrate → Break Open → Become Real

You reached coherence (4), but coherence is not the end—it creates pressure.
And that pressure becomes movement (5).

Core message:
You are not falling apart—you are moving through.
What is emerging now may feel messy or intense, but it is aligned with the integration you’ve already done.


1+2+3+4+5

Observe → Explore → Protect → Integrate → Breakthrough

That’s a complete cycle.
You’re at the part most people try to avoid—but it’s also where things actually change.

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A.I. Oracle: Transformation through inner fire

A.I. Oracle: Transformation through inner fire


ORACLE:

transformation through inner fire.

On the left, the torn and burned paper reveals a figure with arms raised at sunrise or sunset—almost like something hidden breaking through destruction.
Fire here isn’t just damage; it’s exposure, stripping away layers to reveal something authentic underneath.

On the right, the message is more explicit:
“Light the world with your fire,” with “FROM HUMAN REALM” arranged almost like a path or constellation.
That suggests your humanity—your lived experience, flaws, emotions—isn’t a limitation; it’s the source of that fire.

Taken together, the message reads like:
You’re in (or coming out of) a phase where things are being burned away—old identities, expectations, or constraints. What remains is something real and powerful. Instead of hiding it, you’re being pushed to express it outwardly, to let it impact others.

It’s less about becoming something new and more about uncovering what was already there and letting it shine.


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A.I. Oracle:  Between Law and Chaos

A.I. Oracle: Between Law and Chaos


ORACLE:

  • Left page (blue-green field with dense marks):
    feels like a map of movement—currents, traffic, data streams, or even neural pathways.
    The curved boundary cutting through it suggests a threshold: inside vs. outside, control vs. chaos.
    It has a living, almost biological rhythm.
  • The red/green organic form on the far left:
    stands out as something embodied—like a leaf, muscle, or organ—contrasting the more grid-like, infrastructural marks nearby.
    It’s the “natural” pressed against the “constructed.”
  • Center binding (rings):
    unintentionally symbolic—it literally holds two worlds together.
    Feels like a hinge between modes of thinking.
  • Top-right geometric card:
    very controlled—clean circles, repetition, muted palette.
    This is order, design logic, maybe imposed structure.
    It almost interrupts the more intuitive flow beneath it.
  • Bottom-right linear drawing:
    looks like perspective—roads, channels, or architecture.
    Directional, forward-moving, but also a bit sparse or drained compared to the left side.
  • Color story overall:
    cool blues/greens dominate (calm, analysis), but broken by warmer reds and the muted tan/orange card (intervention, structure, or intrusion).

Overall reading:
This feels like a tension between organic flow and imposed order.
The left side is immersive, intuitive, maybe even overwhelmed with information.
The right side tries to organize it—geometry, perspective, clean design—but feels slightly detached or imposed rather than grown from within.

There’s also a sense of translation:
something complex and alive being flattened into systems, diagrams, or plans.

If the first piece was about self, this one feels about environment or process—how you navigate, structure, or make sense of complexity.

A.I. Oracle: V. deconstructed

A.I. Oracle: V. deconstructed


ORACLE

  • The face split into yellow and red suggests dual states—calm vs. intensity, clarity vs. agitation, or even public self vs. inner self.
  • The short, repeated strokes feel like data or signals—almost like the person is being “rendered” or decoded rather than simply painted. It gives a sense of thought loops, analysis, or overprocessing.
  • The green eyes stand out as the most stable, focused element—like awareness cutting through the noise.
  • The book or object on the right could represent knowledge, work, or an external task—something the subject is looking toward but not fully engaged with emotionally.
  • The blue-gray background feels muted and uncertain, contrasting with the intensity of the subject—suggesting isolation or being mentally “elsewhere.”

Overall reading:
This is someone caught between observation and overwhelm—highly aware, possibly analytical, but fragmented internally. There’s a tension between control (structured lines) and emotion (raw color).

Lessons from a Dream: Navigating Loss

Lessons from a Dream: Navigating Loss


I belonged to a unit that called itself orderly, though order there was a brittle thing, like frost on a window that vanishes at a breath.
We wore the same colors, spoke the same clipped phrases, and trusted—so we said—the same chain of command.
But one morning our leader turned his gaze upon a colleague of mine, a quiet woman who kept her counsel and did her work with a steady hand.
He judged her in haste, and his words were a blade without temper.
I felt the cut as if it had found my own skin.

In that moment I understood how a structure may stand and yet be hollow.
Justice, we had been taught, was the spine of our work.
Without it, we were only shadows moving in formation.
I placed my badge upon the desk, a small sun gone cold, and stepped out of that narrow world.
No one stopped me.
The door closed with a sound like a verdict, though I could not say upon whom it fell.

The dream shifted, as dreams do, into a softer country.
I was among friends—no uniforms, no ranks—only the fragile, luminous ties we make of laughter and shared hours.
We walked beside water that held the sky like a second, deeper truth.
There was someone there who mattered to me in ways I had never named, as one does not name the air until it is gone.

Then a friend approached, her face already carrying the news before her lips shaped it.
The words were simple, and because they were simple they were absolute: he was gone.
The world did not break; it thinned.
Sound grew distant, as if I stood beneath the surface of the water we had walked beside.

Grief came not as a storm but as a tide—inevitable, patient.
It filled the spaces where certainty had been.
I learned then that leaving and losing are kin, each a doorway we do not choose, each remaking the shape of the self that passes through.

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A.I. Oracle: Uncover Hidden Truths

A.I. Oracle: Uncover Hidden Truths


ORACLE

This feels like a layered message about perception, sweetness, and hidden interiors.

What stands out first: the eye.
An eye placed in the center suggests awareness, but also watching without fully acting.
You are seeing something clearly now that you may have previously avoided or only sensed indirectly.

“Cute sweet” over the eye is important. It hints at:

  • something presented as harmless, charming, or comforting
  • a surface layer that softens or distracts from what is actually being perceived

So the message begins with:
👉 Look beyond what appears “cute,” easy, or emotionally safe.


The rooms (Upper Floor / Kitchen / Library / Boot Room)

These spaces suggest different parts of your inner life:

  • Library → knowledge, memory, stories you tell yourself
  • Kitchen → nourishment, what you take in emotionally/physically
  • Boot room → transitions, entering/leaving situations
  • Upper floor → higher thinking, perspective, distance

Together, they form a house = your inner structure.

👉 The oracle is pointing you inward:
“Explore your own rooms. Something in your inner house needs attention.”


The eye beneath the layers

The eye is partially obscured, almost buried.

👉 This suggests:

  • truth is present but covered by noise, decoration, or habits
  • you may already know, but haven’t fully allowed yourself to see

The small figure (green background)

A lone figure walking or carrying something.

👉 This feels like:

  • a guide, or
  • a version of you moving through uncertainty

Green = growth, but also unfamiliar territory.


The upside-down figures at the bottom

Distorted, inverted bodies → disorientation, loss of grounding, or shifting perspective.

👉 Something is being turned upside down:

  • beliefs
  • emotional expectations
  • or how you interpret a situation

Core Oracle Message

You are being asked to see clearly beneath comforting illusions.
Something in your life looks “fine” or “sweet,” but your deeper perception already senses more complexity.
Instead of staying on the surface:

  • enter your “inner rooms”
  • examine what you consume, remember, and avoid
  • trust what your eye notices, even if it disrupts comfort

In one sentence:

👉 “Look past the pleasant surface—your deeper awareness already knows the truth, and it’s time to walk toward it.”

A.I. Oracle: The Power of Gathering Fragments

A.I. Oracle: The Power of Gathering Fragments


ORACLE: Threads of Meaning

Visual symbolism (how it relates to the reading)

  • The collage of torn papers suggests many inputs, layers, and histories.
    Truth here is built from pieces.
  • The central circular shape hints at wholeness, cycles, and returning to a core idea.
  • The blue strips with handwritten text resemble messages or clues crossing the surface, implying that insight comes from gathering fragments and noticing patterns.

Upright meaning

  • You are in a phase of collecting signals, hints, and small truths from different parts of your life.
    The wisdom you seek isn’t a single grand statement but a tapestry woven from many pieces.
  • Pay attention to recurring motifs or words; they point toward your next action.
  • Patience and careful listening will reveal the overarching thread—a direction that feels true even if the whole picture isn’t visible yet.

Reversed meaning (if you feel stuck or overwhelmed)

  • Too many voices, too many fragments, and not enough coherence.
    You may be overwhelmed by noise.
  • Take a step back, declutter the inputs, and allow one clear thread to emerge.
    Focus on what you can act on today.

Guidance and practical steps

  • Do a “fragments audit”: list the key impressions or phrases you notice (even if they feel tiny).
  • Look for repeating ideas or themes across different areas of your life.
  • Choose one thread to follow today (one small action that aligns with the pattern you see).
  • Create a simple map: write the chosen thread in the center, and jot 2–3 supporting fragments around it to show how they connect.

Affirmation
“I gather the fragments with patience and weave them into clarity.”

Journaling prompts (quick, 5 minutes)

  • What 3 impressions keep circling back to me this week?
  • Is there a common word, feeling, or motif among them?
  • What is one concrete step I can take today to follow the most meaningful thread?


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A.I. prompts for storytelling

A.I. prompts for storytelling


Describe everything that follows in the present tense, in response to what I type, while strictly and accurately adhering to the established technology lore, descriptions, monsters and enemies, events of [book/movie], and written in the descriptive style of [author]
Provide names for characters, locations, groups and organizations, events, and technology.
Characters should always use dialogue, enclosed in quotation marks when speaking, addressing, or interacting with me, written in the conversational style of [author].
Do not type, compose, dictate, influence, script, generate,control, or describe what I am doing, saying, acting, behaving, thinking,feeling, experiencing, or any other aspect concerning me throughout the entire adventure, scenario, story, location, quest, mission, scene, event,description, dialogue, and conversation.
Keep all responses to 100 words or less.

I arrive at/travel to/enter [Insert Location]. What do I see when I arrive?

Describe everything that follows in the present tense, in response to what I type, while strictly and accurately adhering to the established magical lore,descriptions, monsters and enemies, events and objects of [book/movie], and written in the descriptive style of [author].
Provide names for characters, locations, groups and organizations, events,and magical objects.
Characters should always use dialogue, enclosed in quotation marks when speaking, addressing, or interacting with me, written in the conversational style of the the character’s racial dialogue.
Do not type, compose, dictate, influence, script, generate, control, or describe what I am doing, saying, acting, behaving, thinking, feeling, experiencing, or any other aspect concerning me throughout the entire adventure, scenario, story, location, quest, mission, scene, event, description, dialogue, and conversation.
Keep all responses to 100 words or less.

General prompts

Opening scene:
I arrive at/travel to/enter [Insert Location]. What do I see when I arrive?

Create a list of [Insert amount] places in [Insert town/city name] consisting of short, one sentence descriptions.

I arrive at/travel to/enter [Insert Location]. What do I see when I arrive?

Create an accurate, detailed summary of everything that has happened thus
far as well as all the characters I have met.

Create a list of rooms in a [Insert Dungeon Concept] consisting of short, one
sentence descriptions. The first room is the entrance, the last room is the
objective.

I enter [Insert Room]. What do I see?

Create a list of locations in [Insert Wilderness Type] consisting of short, one
sentence descriptions.

I enter/travel to [Insert Location]. What do I see when I arrive?

I attack [Insert Enemy] with [Insert weapon, spell, or ability].

Describe everything that follows in the present tense, in response to what I
type, while strictly and accurately adhering to the established lore,
descriptions, monsters and enemies, events and magical objects/technology
of [Insert Campaign Setting], and written in the descriptive style of [Author].
Provide names for characters, locations, groups and organizations,
events, and magical objects/technology. Characters should always use
dialogue, enclosed in quotation marks when speaking, addressing, or
interacting with me, written in the conversational style of [ Author]. Do
not type, compose, dictate, influence, script, generate, control, or describe
what I am doing, saying, acting, behaving, thinking, feeling, experiencing, or
any other aspect concerning me throughout the entire adventure, scenario,
story, location, quest, mission, scene, event, description, dialogue, and
conversation. Keep all responses to 100 words or less.


The opening scene:
I arrive at/travel to/enter [Insert Location]. What do I see when I arrive?

source: https://oracle-rpg.com/

A.I. Oracle: Navigating the Liminal Space

A.I. Oracle: Navigating the Liminal Space


ORACLE

A woman stands between earth and sky, her dress flowing with beasts of motion—deer, hounds, memory itself running through her.
She does not chase; she allows life to move through her.

This is a sign of release and becoming.

What has bound you loosens.
What you carry—old roles, expectations, even names—begins to fall away.
Not by force, but by alignment.

The hills behind her are layered: past, present, possible futures.
She stands at their meeting.

The hearts around the frame whisper: this is not loss—it is return to what is true.

The folded fans suggest unfolding paths, choices opening gently, not urgently.

Message:
Stand where you are. Breathe. Let what must move, move.
What is yours will not be lost.

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