Renown Ego's   This page is projected for displaying information about my personal idea of renown ego: identifying with the historical personalities of these ego's I dare say: these could have been the lives that led to the life I am living now. This page offers a time-line through human history from a personal point of view: the ego as a time-organizer.   about 7000 B.C. (or more). Sathananda: an ancient vedic priest at the time of the Ramayana, son of guru Gautama Maharishi and his wife Ahalya. He was , in his younger days, criticized by Rama and Laksmana for his lack of continence being overly enthusiastic seeing them. Ultimately he was the one to wed Rama with Sita at the court of King Janaka and the one who inaugurated the worship of God after the defeat of the demon Ravana. FOR LITERATURES: SEE VAISHNAVISM, AND THE CLASSIC EPIC THE RAMAYANA or the RAMKATHA RASAVAHINI CH 7b about 3200 b.c. Emperor Parikchit: The first emperor after the fall of the vedic culture after the great war of the Mahabharat. This Emperor, who as a child was protected by Lord Krishna, set the norms of conduct for Kali-Yuga (modern Time). He alotted Kali, the impersonation of the human weaknesses of eating meat, drinking alcohol, illicit sex and gambling, a separate place in his empire on the condition that he would not propagate the weaknesses outside of his territory. Parikchit lost the throne being cursed by a sages son whom he had insulted for not being hospitable. This led to the realization of a separate spiritual society , where he would die in a week's time receiving the teachings of Lord Krishna from His devotees. This character is descibed in THE CLASSIC EPIC THE BHAGAVAD PURANA (SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM) about 750 B.C. Romulus of Rome: the founder of Rome, who together with his twin-brother Remus according the legend was raised by a she-wolf. They were born the sons of the God Mars and Rhea Silvia daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa. After defeating the tyrant Amulius they restored the honor of the family and built the city of Rome at Palatine hill. He killed Remulus his brother founding Rome due to quarrels and later offered asylum to fugitives and exiles. He settled for the first roman calendar (of 305 days, 10 months) that was later replaced by the Republican calendar that held till the Julian reform. He has also been identified with the roman God Quirinus, a tradition broken by Emperor Augustus who replaced him for Julius Caesar as a God. painting by Ingres : Romulus Conquerer of Acron BRITANNICA | BIOGRAPHY BY PLUTARCH 599-527 B.C. Mahavira ("Great Hero" original name: Vardhamana): the vedic saint who ended the long line of 24 tirthankara's (Jina's -'victors'- or wise men) and founded the modern concept of yoga as practiced by the Jains. He was renown for meditating naked practicing the ultimate of non-violence. He attained enlightenment (kaivalya), and propagated the 'great vow' (mahavrata) of renunciation. The jains disapprove of the inequality of castes and propagate the patronage of women, especially those of royal families. They aquired support from lower caste groups by the borrowing of rituals and practices from popular local cults. BRITTANICA + LINKS | BECK-PAGE about 500 B.C. Trachymachus of Chalcedon: a philosopher in ancient Greece at the time of Plato known for his scepticism. He challenged Socrates to prove that man is innately good. He belonged to the sophists (like Protagoras and Antiphon) who held that what is commonly called good and bad or just and unjust does not reflect any objective fact of nature but is rather a matter of social convention. He can be regarded an early representative of moral skepticism and the primacy of the ego, the view that it is rational and logical to follow one's own interests. IN 'THE REPUBLIC' OF PLATO | BRITANNICA ON SOPHISTS about 82 -30 B.C. Marcus Antonius: The general of Julius Caesar who was initially denied succession after the murder of Ceasar but was given as a co-ruler the eastern half of the roman empire containing Egypt. He propagated a greco-roman policy that only three centuries later was resumed by Constantine. He was in love with Cleopatra (like Caesar was) and alienated from the roman citizens while residing in Egypt. Rome campaigned against him (as did the earlier Cicero against him and Caesar) led by the coldly deliberated Octavian who was once insulted by him and had denied him the allied support in the battles against Parthia. After him the Roman Empire was more of a dictature in worship of Caesar and his calendar in a constant (and corrupt) struggle for the power of rule (as Plato had predicted), than a classical republic. He died of his own hand after being defeated by Actium, by the same Octavian , the later Augustus who thwarted the julian calendar to his own name (hence the month August with 31 days) and abolished the classical roman worship of Quirinus, the God associated with Romulus the founder of Rome who settled for the first (lunar) version of our calendar. BRITANNICA | IDES TO ACTIUM | ARTICLES ON ROMAN CULTURE about 30 B.C- 64 AD The Apostle Peter: (orig. Simeon) A fisherman and the first disciple of Lord Jesus. Of him He said: "that is the rock I will built my church upon". (Cephas or. rock, hence Peter from the latin petra for rock). He was the leader of the followers of Christ after his crucifixion and was crucified himself later on in Rome with his feet upward ( this on his own request out of respect for Lord Jesus). BRITANNICA | THERE ARE TWO LETTERS OF HIM IN THE HOLY BIBLE The Middle Ages: In the Fall of Ancient and unholy Rome I could not find any fame. I think of a traveling quack selling self-made medicines to the people in Europe at the time or of original american Indians before Columbus. about 1120- 1198 A.D King Roderick O'Connor: king of Connaught and the last high king of Ireland. He failed to turn back the Anglo-Norman invasion that led to the conquest of Ireland by England. He was permitted to exercise authority over territories that had not fallen under the Norman rule. Expelled from his kingdom by members of his own family He withdrew in a monastery. BRITANNICA 1222-1282 A.D the monk Zennichi (Zesho-bo Rencho): An ancient buddhist monk from Japan realized as the reincarnation of Bodhisattva Jogyo who established socalled True Buddhism in a reaction to the many sects buddhism was divided in. He renamed himself in "Nichiren", or literally, "Sun Lotus". He was convinced that "only the Lotus Sutra is the true teaching and the only Law of Buddhism that can lead all living beings to enlightenment" and that "Zen is the work of demons" . He was almost murdered for his reforms. His Buddhism is considered typically Japanese in the sense that it can not be confined to mere speculation or even to individual salvation. It is concerned with the salvation of society and its temporal institutions thus giving importance to the right understanding of history and human affairs. There are currently approximately 15 million people worldwide, most of whom are members of the Soka Gakkai lay organisation, who regularly practise the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. Many of his writings are still extant in their original form and have now been translated into many different languages. SELECTED WRITINGS | BIOGRAPHY | BRITANNICA | GLOSSARY OF TERMS OF HIM 1285 -1349 A.D William of Occam ("Venerable Enterpriser" "Invincible Doctor"): the scholastic philosopher, theologian, and political writer who left the franciscan monastery, because the Pope had ordained that each order should take care of its own material affairs. He is known to be the inventor of 'Occams Razor': the philosophical principle of scientific parsimony (do not venture into the plural without necessity). He is regarded as the founder of a form of nominalism - the school of thought that denies that universal concepts such as "time" have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. He maintained correspondence with the aristocracy of his time. He can also be recognized as the father of modern rationality before Descartes. BRITANNICA| WEB-SITE 14 FEB 1367/68 - 9 DEC 1437 Emperor Sigismund: The Holy Roman Emperor during the 100-year war in Europe. He was an expansionist making for a United (catholic) Europe. He fought the Hussites and only after a long struggle won the war against them at the end of his life. He pacted with Henry V to restore christian unity and fought the Turks. He was Holy Roman emperor from 1433, king of Hungary from 1387, German king from 1411, king of Bohemia from 1419, and Lombard king from 1431. He was the last emperor of the House of Luxembourg. It were the people of Holland who resisted his attempts to incorporate them in his unity. BRITANNICA | LINE | BIOGRAPHY.COM 1452-1519 A.D Leonardo Da Vinci : the famous artist/inventor painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer . His genius, perhaps more than that of any figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. He developed his own "theory of knowledge," unique in its kind, in which art and science form a synthesis. He carried with a spiritual force, that generated in him an unlimited desire for knowledge and guided his thinking and behavior. He contributed to the mechanics of solids, military engineering, anatomy, the authority of phenomena, autopsy development, biology, embalming development, geochronology, the helicopter & the history of air transportation, light propagation theory, canal locks and toolmaking. Later in his life he got frustrated because of not being respected for his scientific work in his own time. Only later on in history mankind could appreciate his visionary contributions to the full. He had a peculiarity: he wrote backwards. BRITTANICA| BIOGRAPHY | VASARI-PAGE | LIFE & WORK | GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY | DRAWINGS | PAINTINGS | Nederlandse Pagina 1433-1584 A.D William I ("The Silent"), prince of Orange, Count of Nassau : First of the stadholders (1572-84) in Holland. He was the dutch noble who led the resistence of the christian reformation against catholic Spain during the 80-year war of Holland. Passing his formative years in Breda and Brussels he grew up french speaking with a colloquial command of Dutch. He was one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), which, in ending the prolonged strife between Burgundy-Habsburg and France, released from French occupation his princedom of Orange and made the Netherlands accessible to Calvinist preachers from France. He was originally a catholic, but sided with reformation upon the spanish repression. He was influenced by the humanist views of Desiderius Erasmus. His whole life he tried to pacify the christian fugues, resenting religious persecution. Although remaining a catholic himself later he confessed to have always been a reformist at heart. He was condemned by the pope and assassinated by a fanatic catholic after the liberation of the Netherlands   BRITANNICA | WEBSITE (IN DUTCH)| DUTCH NATIONAL ANTHEM /WILHELMUS-SITE | RVD-PAGINA (DUTCH)| 1596-1650 A.D René Descartes : the famous mathematician, scientist, and philosopher . He founded the modern scientific method of systematic doubt, division, order and completeness and can as such be considered the father of the modern philosophy. He was known for his 'cogito ergo sum', 'I think, therefore I am' with which he founded modern science as a dualistic rational, and spiritual ('mind for the soul') discipline. Metaphysically he was an intuitionist, but in his physics and physiology he was an empiricist and even mechanicist deriving from sensory perception. He inaugurated a critical era of philosophy by stressing the ancient problem of the origin of ideas including the idea of time . He resided in the Netherlands from 1629 to enjoy a greater liberty than was available anyplace else. There he was harassed by the calvinists for preaching religious tolerance stating that all the Christians had the same common ground and heaven for a prospect. At the end of his life he went to Sweden to work for Christina the queen of Sweden, who unsettled his habits of meditation. He cought a cold an died subsequently of a pneumonia.   FACTS | BRITANNICA | PHILOSOPHY | EPISTEMOLOGY | LINKS | E-BOOKS 1678- 1741 A.D Antonio Vivaldi : the famous Italian baroque composer, former priest, who traveled Europe to enlighten the nobles and the people with his sublime culture of vital and imaginative music. He started his carreer in a girls orphanage. His 12 concertos L'estro armonico op.3 (1711), containing some of his finest concertos, were first issued in Amsterdam and widely circulated in northern Europe, which made him renown. His approach to secure a greater thematic unity had a profound influence in musical history. From him the fast-slow-fast structure of movements originated. Vivaldi's importance lies in his concertos, for their central place in the history of the concerto form. Born in Venice, Italy, he stayed some time in 1738 in Amsterdam, and he died in Vienna, Austria.   (conc. two violins) BIOGRAPHY | HOMEPAGE | REPUTATION | SHEETMUSIC | BRITANNICA | MIDI ARCHIVE | LINKS | 1756-1791 A.D Wolfgamg Amadeus Mozart : Born in Vienna, he was the classical composer 'always in love' who was one of the first to experiment for the modern tonality and grand symphonies, opera's and concierto's. He knew Beethoven and was befriended with ' papa' Haydn. With them he was the all-round champion of the classical Viennese school. Hummel was a pupil of Mozart. Envied by Salieri, admired by Goethe and supported by da Ponte he wrote the finest classical opera's. He also traveled Europe frequenting the courts (and stayed and composed in the Netherlands also) and was awarded by the Pope (although fired by arch-bishop Colloredo for his adamancy). He became an independent artist, worked too hard and died prematurely of an epidemic flew, just before the French Revolution.   (pianoconc.21 in C , kv.467a) WEBPROJECT & BIOGRAPHY | COMPOSITIONS (MIDI) | ESSAYS ABOUT HIM | PEOPLE | DIRECTORY | GUIDED TOUR | MIDI ARCHIVE , MIDI-WORLD| BRITANNICA +RESOURCES| LINKS| MOZART LOVER'S PAGE | KOCHELS LIST OF WORKS | DATABASE 1805-1844 A.D Joshua Smith: The founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Mormon denominations in America that endeavoured to make christianity vegetarian. After having visions in seclusion he produced (received) golden tablets with the book of Mormon. It dealt with the history of american Indians as descendants of migrated Hebrews. In his theology he combined elements of jewish and christian mysticism with the goal of the good of all mankind and sought to establish his visions on christianity as a complete way of life. He was a polygamist and died together with his brother a martyr after conficts on his ambition to become the president of the United States. BRITANNICA | BOOK OF MORMON | MORMON : THE STANDARD WORKS 1856-1939 A.D Sigmund Freud: the doctor, psychologist, philosopher (also called an artist), born in Vienna, who analyzed the european hysteria of the 19th century finding cultures of repression and decay ('the tide') that foreboded the second worldwar. He founded the Psychoanalytic Society and was associated with Carl Jung who departed from him in his analytical psychology that was more spiritually oriented. Jung called Freud a neurotic himself. On a congress Freud fainted on the realization of Jungs opposition to the 'father' that he thought to be himself. From Freud humanity realized the existence of the unconscious, the Oudipous complex (the son jealous with the father) and the division of Es, Ego and Superego of which he said: 'where Es is, there will be Ego". He had a special interest in sexual trauma, thought of religious rituals as being regressive, smoked too much cigars and died of cancer of his palate leaving the world the (unfinished) psychoanalytic method that together with Friedrich Nietsche's philosophy founded the modern culture of psychotherapy and self-realization. He died the 23 sept '39, at the onset of the second worldwar; the 'tide' he could not turn (his 'your time is up' was his most frequently heard interpretation). WORKS & SITES | FREUDIAN LINKS | BRITANNICA + RESOURCES | FREUDNET | LONDON FREUD MUSEUM| THE PSYCHOANALYUTIC CONNECTION | AUDIO SAMPLE: " People did not believe in my facts, and thought my theories unsavoury, in the end I succeeded, but the struggle is not yet over." (from TIME) Renatus (René means reborn) , Petrus, Bernardus, Antonius Meijer (b. 9-23-1954 ), born a dutch Catholic, in Breda (the town of William the Silent) but vedically reformed in my lifetime, your host at this site, was born the 23 of sept 1954 (the same date Freud died) as the son of a psychologist and a clockmakers daughter. I have a masters degree in psychology and carry the spiritual name Anand Aadhar which means: the foundation of happiness. Composing (classical as well as popular) music , and artwork is my hobby. I run a Yoga Institute that adapts the original vedic teaching of the different schools to western thought in an alternative consciousness of time called filognosy (love for knowledge). My life is set to take away the psychology of modern time. My medium is the internet and my site is called The Order of Time from which I protect my ego (therefore the 'cakra' star-logo of The Order of Time). I sincerely hope this actual ego will not be in the way of the purport of my mission. Thus the story of the soul of mankind has continued, can continue and does continue as seen through my eyes. Dorian Meditation part 1 EGOPAGES: AUTIOBIOGRAPHICAL INFO| WRITINGS | E-BOOKS | ARTICLES (MARKED *) | MUSIC | ART & SAYINGS. | FILOGNOSY| THE ORDER OF TIME| LINKING LIBRARY |     © the egopages 2000