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Embassy of the Free Mind

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Embassy of the Free Mind

The project is an initiative of The Worldheart Foundation. More info: www.embassyofthefreemind.com

The Embassy of the Free Mind aims to inspire individuals through the exploration of human thought emphasizing the importance of free thinking, the interconnectivity of everything/one, and the cultural and historical significance of the Hermetic tradition. The Embassy of the Free Mind is a new international platform that harnesses spirituality, science, art, culture, music and storytelling to promo

te and share free thought. Located in the majestic 17th-century House with the Heads on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht, the Embassy combines a range of functions: knowledge centre, international meeting place, study room, café and a living room of Amsterdam. The Embassy of the Free Mind is open to the public from Wednesday- Sunday and offers a versatile programme that includes a museum experience tours, talks, lectures, concerts and conferences.

31/05/2026

June at the Embassy of the Free Mind🌞🌕

As May draws to a close beneath a blue full moon, we turn towards our June programme of workshops, lectures, concerts, and more.

This month, we celebrate the beta launch of Source Library (June 4), a new Embassy of the Free Mind initiative set to become the largest freely available collection of translated historical primary sources. RSVP to attend the event or follow the livestream!

Other highlights include the textile workshop Visualizing the Divine Feminine (June 5) with .textiles.artist, The Mysteries of Europe I & II with Jacques Theron (June 10 and June 26), Being Nature with Dr. Thieu Besselink (June 12), a forum on C.G. Jung’s Psychological Types (June 13) with Dr. Barbara Miller, and a lecture on silence, books, and breath with Viviana Czapracka-Gogacz (June 25).

June also marks the final weeks of two exhibitions: Elements Series by Jake Baddeley (until June 15) and An Ode to Wilma Schuhmacher (until June 28). Our grand exhibition The House with the Heads: A Monument to Free Thinking continues through August 30.

As always, we host a lunch concert on the third Friday of the month in collaboration with , this time featuring Cellist Michal Riefeld. Our tours continue, as do our weekly tarot readings Trippy on Fridays and on June 4.

Slide for the full overview & tickets via our website (link in bio). We look forward to welcoming you 🌿

28/05/2026

Being Nature with Dr. Thieu Besselink 🐾

Many people intuitively feel that something essential is missing in how we treat and experience nature, but how do we move forward with hope in times of collapse?

Join us on June 12th for an evening lecture about the ecological collapse, the crisis of being, and how to heal our relationship with the living world - and with ourselves.

From the Book of Nature, Paracelsus and Goethe to contemporary ecological thinkers, Besselink draws on the relational worldview of western hermetic traditions to imagine a path of genuine hope. You will leave with practical ways to locate personal hope in a time of loss, as well as a new understanding of your own place within a living landscape and how the western esoteric traditions give us the ingredients for relating to it.

About the speaker: Dr. Thieu Besselink is a professor at Utrecht University and founder of the Academy of Place, teaching and practicing eco-philosophy and regenerative development of landscapes, community, and society. This lecture offers an entry point into the ideas and practices that Besselink has developed over twenty years.

🗓 Friday, 12 June 2026
🕙 17:30–19:30
📍 Embassy of the Free Mind, Keizersgracht 123

🎟 €20,-
🌍 English

Tickets via link in bio 🔗

26/05/2026

The Source Library | Beta Launch Party

Join us on the evening of June 4th for the Beta launch of Source Library.

An initiative of the Embassy of the Free Mind, Source Library is an open-access digital library: set to be largest freely available collection of translated historical primary sources ever assembled. Using AI-powered translation, it opens texts that have been inaccessible to non-specialists for centuries.

You are invited to come and discover this ground-breaking project and how to get involved.

Limited seating, please RSVP via the link in our bio to secure a spot. The event will also be livestreamed - you can sign up for this using the same RSVP link.

🗓️ June 4th, 2026
🕥 18:00-20:45
📍Embassy of the Free Mind(opens in new tab)
🖥️ Livestream

Event Program:

⌛ 18:00 Doors Open
⌛ 18:30-19:00 - Introduction by Corey Andrews, and Live Demo by Derek Lomas
⌛ 19:00-19:30 - Panel Discussion between Corey and Derek, discussing implications of Source Library for Academia
⌛ 19:30-19:45 - Live Q&A
⌛ 19:45-20:45 - Gathering in the Garden 🌿

25/05/2026

“Spirit and matter are the two poles of the one eternal substance.” - Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888)

Last week we entered Gemini season, historically depicted through twins and conjunctions. Ruled by Mercury, the messenger, trickster, and intermediary between worlds, Gemini forms one expression of the mercurial mind (the other being Virgo). This sign is concerned with correspondence, exchange, duality, and the tension between apparent opposites: wholeness achieved through relation.

In Greek mythology, Gemini is embodied by Castor and Pollux, twin brothers divided between mortality and immortality, later placed among the stars together. The constellation’s two brightest stars still bear their names.

Gemini arrives as the first air sign in the zodiac cycle and brings a light energy of curiosity, movement, and wit. Now is a lovely time for conversation, intellectual pursuits, wandering thoughts, and learning something new. Happy Gemini season👯‍♀️

Slides:

1. May (Gemini), Limbourg Brothers, c. 1412–1416
2. Gemini from Urania’s Mirror, Sidney Hall, 1825
4. Miniatura dal codice De Sphaera raffigurante la simbologia astrologica del pianeta Mercurio — formerly attributed to Cristoforo de Predis, c. 1470
4. Gemini from Uranometria, Johann Bayer, 1603
5. The Swan, No. 12 — Hilma af Klint, 1915

22/05/2026

During the Second World War, Dutch poets, writers and musicians who were part of the resistance movement would write for small audiences, coming together secretly in private living rooms and farm houses to share their art. Writer Jan C. Hoekstra later commented on these gatherings as “little islands of freedom”.

Our new exhibition in the Grote Sael showcases a selection of clandestine printed matter produced during the war, an ode to the late antiquarian Wilma Schuhmacher and her collection. She joined the resistance movement herself at age sixteen, and continued collecting illegal books, leaflets, art and poetry for years to come. We’re proud to be able to put part of this incredible collection on view.

The carefully curated selection of dreamlike poetry is accompanied by beautiful - and often sensual - illustrations; signals of an unbroken spirit.

“An Ode to Wilma Schuhmacher” is accompanied in the hallway by a photo series by who documented the process of moving Schuhmacher’s collection out of her house following her death.

On view until June 28th — come visit🦢

19/05/2026

Our new website is live👁️

You can now explore our events, exhibitions, articles (news, research, the Codex Hermeticus), and improved access to our digital collection - all gathered together in one renewed online space 💫

Have you taken a look yet?

18/05/2026

“The art of healing comes from nature” - Paracelsus (1493-1541)

Wishing you a beautiful week of abundance and renewal following the new moon last weekend. Soak up the last days of grounding and sensual Ta**us season before Gemini season arrives this Wednesday🌀

15/05/2026

Explore Europe’s hidden wisdom traditions through myth, ritual, and conscious breathwork with teacher and artist Jacques Theron 🌬️

During The Mysteries of Europe I at the Embassy of the Free Mind, Jacques guides participants through ancient Mystery traditions, from the Eleusinian Mysteries to mystical Christianity, alongside a transformative conscious breathwork session.

🗓 Wednesday, 10 June 2026
🕙 19:00–21:30
📍 Embassy of the Free Mind, Keizersgracht 123

🎟 €65,-
🌍 English

Tickets via link in bio 🔗

11/05/2026

“You should know that for the great seclusion you stay in the market square;
Why should you keep quiet and stay alone deep in the mountains?”
-ZHANG BODUAN (984 – 1082, Taoist Alchemist)

The Fire Horse in Chinese astrology is associated with strong, active forward momentum, an energy that moves, initiates, and pushes life into motion.

Curious to learn more about the year of the Fire Horse and its meaning within Taoist internal alchemy?

Join us for the lecture: Releasing the Bear and Taming the Fire Horse, Taoist Internal Alchemy (Neidan), with Dr. Dan KJ Vercammen on Saturday, May 30.

🎟️€56 in-person | €24 online

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Keizersgracht 123
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Vrijdag	10:00 - 17:00
Zaterdag	10:00 - 17:00
Zondag	11:00 - 18:00

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