25th of August 2004

1924: I was born on the 25th of August, 8.24 p.m. in Flushing (province Zealand in the Netherlands). My father was naval officer. My mother came from a family of naval officer's. 1925: baptized in Free Catholic Church in Huizen. 1926: Netherlands Dutch Indies, Batavia. 1927: Ambon. Sister Hilda was born, died after six days. 1928: Batavia. Sister Elsbeth was born. 1930: Amsterdam, Montessori elementary school. 1933: Sister Maria was born. Father left the Navy, became Secretary of Lifeboat Institution. 1936: Aerdenhout. Montessori secondary school. 1937: first visit to mountains of the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. 1938: with guide, ascent of the Jungfrau (4006 m) in Bernese Oberland. 1939: climbing in French Alpes. 1940: German occupation of the Netherlands. 1942: final examination high school. Started study geology at the University of Amsterdam. 1943: refused to sign a loyalty declaration to the University of Amsterdam, obliged to hide from the police. 3 months farmhand. In May 1943 refused to go working in Germany. With 3 students and a Jewish boy hiding in cave in woods of the Veluwe. The boy was later arrested and never returned from Germany. 23 September: I was betrayed and arrested. 2 months in jail. From December 1943 to April 1944 in the concentration camp of Amersfoort. Deported to Germany. Worked as farmhand. Escaped and returned to the Netherlands and joined the Underground Forces till the end of the war in 1945. After the war soldier of the Internal Armed Forces. Arrested a number of collaborators (among others the war criminal Menten). Restarted study in Geology at the University of Bern (Switzerland). 1946: restarted study geology at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 1947: Long distance skating race (200 km) : "Elfstedentocht", stranded in Berlikum. 1947,1948,1949,1951: geological fieldwork in Corsica (France). 1949: mountaineering school of Arnold Glatthard in Swiss Alps. 1950: under the guidance of French guide Lionel Terray, with my colleague Cees Egeler difficult ascents in French Alps. ( Northface Aiguille du Chardonnet, transverse of Aiguille Verte). 1951: Obtained Masters degree in Geology. 1952: Cees Egeler and myself organised a geological-alpine expedition to the southern part of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. Under the guidance of the French mountain guide Lionel Terray, we made the first ascent of the Nevada Huantsán (6395 m) and Nevado Pongos (5700 m). By the first attempt of the Nevado Huantsán I survived a fall of 90 meters. After this expedition a geological expedition to the jungle of the Amazon, along the Urubamba in Southeastern Peru down as far as Pongo the Mainique. 1953 started an invitation course for young Dutch mountain climbers under the guidance of Lionel Terray. 1954: Amsterdam. I married Adrienne Strumphler. I published my thesis on the geology of a part of Corsica (France). 1954: skating race: "Elfstedentocht". With Terray and Egeler: North face of Aiguille du Midi and Brenva route on Mont Blanc in French Alps. 1955: I became scientific functionary of the geological department of the University of Amsterdam. My son Jan Maarten was born. With Lionel Terray North face of Aiguille du Triolet in French Alps. 1956: My daughter Mariette was born. Egeler and myself organized a geological-alpine expedition to the Cordillera Vilcabamba (Peru), first ascents: Nevado Veronica, Nevado Soray and second ascent Nevado Salcantay). 1957 : with Lionel Terray third ascent of North face Grosshorn in Bernese Alps. I participated with the rescue of an Italian mountain climber Claudio Corti from the north face of the Eiger in the Bernese Oberland. 1958: Amstelveen. With Lionel Terray North face of Piz Rosegg in Swiss mountains. I was appointed curator at the Geological Institute of the University of Amsterdam. 1959: geological expedition to Cordillera Vilcabamba in Southeast Peru. 1961: My son Mauk was born. 1962: geological-alpine expedition to the Himalayas of Nepal with Lionel Terray, Egeler , 3 Dutch geologists and 3 Dutch mountain climbers (three brothers van Lookeren Campagne). Under the guidance of Lionel Terray these brothers completed the ascent of the Nilgiri (7004) via the North face. Geological expedition to Mustang (Nepal). 1963: Baarn. Skating race "Elfstedentocht" stranded in Berlikum. Distinction : Knight in order of "Oranje Nassau". 1965: my mountain friend Lionel Terray fell to his death in the French Alps. This ended my alpine aspirations. 1966 –1967: Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Champaign-Urbana (Illinois, USA). Joined marshes for civil rights with Luther King (Chigaco) and against war in Vietnam with Stokeley Carmichael (New York). Back in the Netherlands I became interested in politics. 1968: geological congress in Prague (Czechoslovakia) disturbed by invasion of the Russian troops in August. 1969: 28 April 8.30 a.m. started in my room in the Geological Institute of the University of Amsterdam with an experimental form of geological education (EGO project). The purpose was to teach students the implication of the unequal distribution of the mineral resources on earth on political, economical, and social life. In the same year I assisted the occupation by the students of the Universities of Tilburg and Amsterdam. I was arrested and fined for 500 guilders of 50 days of prison. I took the latter option. 1970: the EGO project organized geological excursions to Germany, Southern France and Corsica. The Board of the University of Amsterdam did not approve my geopolitical approach and I had to leave the University of Amsterdam. 1 December a presented my farewell lecture: "Where is our Earth heading to". I started to publish articles on all sorts of subjects under the name of GEOPOL. The first article was on the relation of the Biafra war and the rich oil deposits in Nigeria. Other articles were on pollution, nuclear energy, the failure of the boycott of South Africa etc. 1971: Fulfilled my 50 days jail sentence in Utrecht. In the seventies I assisted a number of actions against the authorities, especially psychiatric institutions. I succeeded to help three persons who were victimized by these institutions. It took more then three years to achieve justice for them. I was fined several times and spent all together another 50 days in prison. 1973-1974 three trips as tourist guide to mountains of Nepal, Patagonia  and Algeria. 1976: my father died. 1977: together with Dirk de Vroome .and Joost van Steenis we formed a political party against the arbitrariness of the Dutch officials. We participate at the elections for the Dutch "House of Commons" (Tweede Kamer). We got only 4000 votes by largely not enough for a seat. Together with my friend Joost van Steenis we edited in 1978 the journal Power and Elite (the first issues were translated in English). We discovered that in the Netherlands the power elite has not changed much in the last thousand years. Our main theme was: "All ideologies caused again and again the formation of a new political elite". We did not get many subscribers and were forced to stop this journal in 1980. 1978: I started to play golf. Became member of a private Dutch golfclub, but after they read my publications on the power of the Dutch elite, I had to give up my membership.1980: My daughter married Paul Lamme. 1980: I founded the Baarnse Golf Club and started a golfschool on public recreation areas. 1981: I founded two golfclubs on hockeyfields in Hilversum. 1983: my mother died. 1984: I followed a course to become golfprofessional. 1985: skating course "Elfstedentocht". 1986: skating course "Elfstedentocht". First exam to become golfprofessional. During my golf lessons I became interested what happens between the ears during a round of golf. 1987: my daughter Mariette gave birth to a son Joep. I started a study in neurophysiology. This in order to understand what happens in the brain before a golfshot is fired, i.e. during the pre-shot routine. 1988: headprofessional Golfclub Nunspeet. My son Mauk married Carole Cats 1989: My daughter Mariette got birth to a daughter: Sascha . 1990: final exam golf professional. 1993: I published pamphlets on the past, present and future of golf in the Netherlands. I created a foundation: "Democratizing Golfsport". Golf for everybody was the slogan. I gave lessons to people of eighty years and older, and for caravan dwellers. 1996, 1997: people who live in camps for "Reizigers" called me for assistance. The Dutch word "Reizigers" cannot be translated into English. The authorities were planning to deport these camps into smaller camps. If the people don’t want to go, they will use brutal police force. After illegal actions we succeed that deconcentration of the camps was only possible if the people themselves wanted go on a voluntary basis. I published a series of newsletters and also a pamphlet with the history of government planning of the last 150 years regarding these "Reizigers". In the last years I have become more and more interested in the geological and biological development of Homo sapiens, especially having seen so many different aspects in the men’s behavior. 1998: With the help of Internet I was able to assemble a great number of publications of geopolitics. April 8,1999: I started a webpage which will start on Internet a homepage, this on Internet will be a good way to ventilate my different ideas. www.egoproject.nl  21 April - 16 June, I went on a trip around the world to memorize that I started my EGO project 30 years ago. I got very stimulating reaction on my website (see my website for comments) End 1998 I got contact with Peter Delahay an astrologer, who sponsored with his Foundation Vulcanus my research. He introduced me to the secrets of the astrology. In the beginning I was quite skeptical, but the more I studied, the more I became intrigued. I could not understand why it worked, but I could on the other hand not deny the outcome of a horoscope. In February 2000 Peter invited me to go for three weeks to the Easter Island. The 12th of April 2001 I started a foundation with as primary goal to build a bridge between the conventional natural sciences (geology etc) and the astrology.(Stichting Democratisering Wetenschap en Astrologie). 15 th of November 2001 I began the edition of newsletters in the Dutch language: Uranische Vijfster (fivestar) Nieuwsbrieven. www.egoproject.nl/star .The 11th of December 2002  was one of my darkest days in my life. The municipality of The Hague ordered a police force to dismantle a camp for caravan dwellers (In Dutch: Reizigers). They deported 28 big caravan/houses in 10 days to another camp 300 meters away. They needed the ground for building houses. The day before I was already in the camp in order to give my assistance as I already did in 1997. I opened 3th of March 2003 a website to inform the public about the brutality of the government concerning thos group of people in the Netherlands. www.egoproject.nl/woonwagenbeleid . 28 August 2003 I published the results of my study of the brains, especially on the subject " who we see the world around us". www.egoproject.nl/brains. But in the mean time I continued research for my newsletters. I studied especially the transition of the matriarchy to the patriarchy. I published up to now 28 newsletters. The 10th of May 2005 I updated my website egoproject of the 1999. The statement in 1999 of the overstatement of oil reserves (political reserves) proved to be correct. The prediction when de world oil production would peak has to be adjusted. It will be sooner that I thought in 1999. The Republican Roscoe Bartlett said to the US congress on Monday 14 March 2005:" Dear Readers, civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon". (Tuesday 28 july 2005)