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	Laurens van der Post
		From the 1950s, van der Post was known for his advocacy of the Kalahari Desert and the culture of the Bushmen.
		Van der Post sent her love letters and poems, and it was a shock to Fleur, when van der Post decided to leave her.
		Van der Post met Carl Jung in 1949 in Zurich and lectured at the Zurich Institute two years later, and again in 1954.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /laurens.htm (2222 words)

	Laurens Van Der Post
		Laurens van der Post, born in Africa in 1906, grew up in one of the last large pristine natural environs on earth, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
		Parallel with his writings, van der Post has been an active conservationist and explorer, a confidant and advisor to Britain's royal family (he was knighted in 1981), a member of several international councils, a friend and follower of Carl Jung, and a traveling spokesman for humanitarian projects of all kinds.
		Van der Post wisely avoids any direct advice-giving or "summing up," but, as we have seen, he does come down quite firmly en the side of individual development, in the sense of "becoming more and more obedient" to a refined awareness.
	www.eurekaeditions.com /VanDerPost.htm (1190 words)

	Van der Post
		Laurens van der Post was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1947 for service in the field and in 1981 he was awarded a knighthood.
		In the words of Laurens van der Post “Birth, as it were, seen from without, was an exit, and death.
		Laurens van der Post believed that “… all stories in the short run may have to go through darkness and death …’ but in the end’ … will be joined inevitably with the last great story of all, and its happy ending.
	www.philippolis.org.za /vanderpost.htm (997 words)

	The Admiral's Baby (Laurens van der Post) - book review
		Written fifty years later, The Admiral's Baby is van der Post's account of his life from the Japanese surrender to his departure from Java in 1947; a quarter of it is taken up by the official report on the British occupation which he wrote in November 1946.
		And there are some thought-provoking vignettes: to illustrate the sympathy of the British rank-and-file for the Indonesians, van der Post describes how, on their way to the docks on departure, they raised their clenched hands and shouted 'Merdeka' (the nationalist cry 'Freedom') at the incoming Dutch troops.
		Van der Post is self-centred, in places self-indulgent, but he is a skilled story-teller and easy to read.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Admirals_Baby.html (523 words)

	"OUR MOTHER WHICH ART IN EARTH" - Sir Laurens van der Post
		Eminent conservationist, author, and explorer, van der Post has made it his life's work to bring together a deep love for the and natural world with an equally deep love for the importance of the inner world and the work of individuation.
		One of C. Jung's close friends, van der Post has carried his profound understanding of Jung's work to audiences all over the world through such means as his successful BBC film, The Story of C. Jung, and his many lectures and presentations.
		Laurens van der Post: When I was a boy, I was already passionately interested in conservation.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /~sotillos/ourmotherlvdp.html (4263 words)

	Laurens van der Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laurens was born in the small town of Philippolis in the Orange River Colony, a British colony in what is today South Africa.
		His father, Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post (1856–1914), of Dutch origin, had arrived in South Africa at the age of three and later married Laurens's mother in 1889.
		In May 1940 Laurens volunteered for the British Army and upon completion of officer training in January 1941 he was sent to east Africa in the Intelligence Corps as a Captain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laurens_van_der_Post (2494 words)

	FHA - Sir Laurens van der Post - Small lies and the greater truth Christopher Booker
		When Laurens set up as a Cotswold dairy farmer in the Thirties, Jones tries to allege he was a hopeless farmer who saw little of his cows because he spent all his time in London trying to get work as a freelance journalist.
		Yet when Laurens eventually succeeded as a writer, no one expressed more surprise than someone who stayed with him in those days, because this did not fit with her memory of him as a dedicated farmer who did little more than stomp about in mud, milking cows.
		I suspect the potential readers of a life of van der Post would prefer rather more than this as an explanation for why he left such a mark on the world, which is why the publishers may be disappointed by the book’s sales.
	www.humancondition.info /Articles/BookerSirLaurens.html (1473 words)

	BJ38 Laurens Van der Post, Yet Being Someone Other
		The final chapters 4-7 of Van der Post’s long and lyrical autobiography are preoccupied with his relation with Japan, and focus often and lovingly on Plomer and details of his reaction to the country and the people.
		Van der Post’s keen memory and sense of detail after more than half a century are remarkable.
		Van der Post’s memory of the parting characterises both the tone of the work and its treatment of Plomer: ‘William had never lacked courage, but he had never possessed it in greater measure than in that autumnal sunset moment of farewell.
	themargins.net /bib/B/BJ/bj38.html (468 words)

	van der Post, Laurens - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		VAN DER POST, (Sir) Laurens (Jan) (1906-97), South African novelist and travel writer, was born at Philippolis, Orange Free State, into a distinguished Afrikaans family.
		On his family's farms, van der Post got to know and admire the Khoisan people; he was subsequently to claim them as one of the dominant influences in his life.
		Van der Post made a number of trips to Africa during the 1950s, several of which resulted in books, notably Venture to the Interior (1951), an account of an expedition to East Africa, and The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), describing his encounter with the Bushmen of what is now Botswana.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/16166.html (509 words)

	Laurens van der Post
		Van der Post dedicated his life to teaching the meaning and value of indigenous cultures in the modern world, a world he felt is in danger of losing its spiritual identity to technology, prejudice, empty values, and a lack of understanding of the interconnectedness of all life on earth.
		He had a stack of both books of Laurens' on a bureau and before i left gave one of each to me. It was clear this story was very significant for him and i was grateful for his generosity in giving me a set.
		One says greater because the self realised thereby is more than the sum of the opposites, because in the process of their resolution the capacity of the individual to join in the universal and continuing act of creation wherein his own life participates enables him to add something which was not there before.
	www.ratical.org /many_worlds/LvdP (1833 words)

	Published Works by (and about) Sir Laurens van der Post
		Laurens van der Post, a British citizen who was born in South Africa, knows the terrain and soul of Africa as well as any writer alive.
		Laurens van der Post is not afflicted by that `certain cowardice' he writes of `in the face of the inexpressible.' Hence he follows a chain of coincidences of a nature far beyond the haphazard arithmetic of chance.
		Laurens van der Post was born in South Africa in 1906, the thirteenth of fifteen children in a family of Dutch and French Huguenot origins.
	www.ratical.org /many_worlds/LvdP/works.html (7654 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Lost World of the Kalahari (Vintage Classics): Books: Laurens Van Der Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Van der Post is truly - not arguably - one of the greatest author's of the 20th century.
		Laurens van der Post's classic tale of his expedition to find and understand the San bushmen of the Kalahari takes the reader on a mystical journey into a different world.
		In a time when the subjugation of fls was still the norm, Van Der Post's open-minded admiration of the bushmen, and his willingness to accept their rather less explainable talents (an apparent ability to communicate from miles apart with no obvious means of doing so) are refreshing and admirable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lost-World-Kalahari-Vintage-Classics/dp/009942875X (918 words)

	English Titles by Laurens van der Post
		Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of worldwide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist...
		A true man of his time, Sir Laurens was born in 1906 in the interior of South Africa, served in the British forces during World War II, including three-and-a-half years in Japanese captivity, and lived and worked since that time in London, where he died just after celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 1996.
		Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of worldwide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist the list goes on and on.
	www.daimon.ch /vanderPost4.htm (330 words)

	The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow; by Laurens van der Post - Excerpt
		Laurens van der Post, then a young journalist, had witnessed this incident and had very kindly taken their side.
		Van der Post seemed to really appreciate this invitation, and talked it over with his friend, William Plomer, trying to persuade him to join him on a trip to Japan.
		As for the Japanese, they are particularly grateful to Laurens van der Post, because, thanks to his personal action and his articles, they have been able to defeat discrimination and racial prejudice.
	www.daimon.ch /3856305122_1E.htm (1008 words)

	Van der Post Sir Laurens - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Van der Post, Sir Laurens (1906-1996), South African writer, best known for his books of personal reflection on travel and anthropology, and whose...
		van der Stel, Simon (1639-1712), Dutch commander and governor of the Cape Colony, in what is now South Africa, from 1679 to 1699.
		Van Loan School of Graduate and Professional Studies
	encarta.msn.com /Van_der_Post_Sir_Laurens.html (164 words)

	Dxui: Myths Passed Down by the Bushmen - Laurens van der Post
		Born in South Africa in 1906 to parents of Dutch and French Huguenot descent, Laurens van der Post is best known for his passionate love of Africa, particularly its aboriginal people.
		In 1975 van der Post began a journey through the Kalahari Desert to search for remnants of the legendary hunters and rock- painters, a journey he later immortalized in film and literature.
		But since the Bushman's images and idioms would be utterly incomprehensible to a modern audience, van der Post draws deeply on his experiences and provides interpretations.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/december/Sa12069.htm (360 words)

	43 Special Mission - Synopsis
		And Van der Post surrenders, alone, to the Japanese, leaving hundreds of sick and wounded to die in the tropical jungle of South Bantam.
		Van der Post, adviser to Mountbatten, claims it is not up to the British to fight a colonial war on behalf of the Dutch, and the horror continues, until Sukarno is given power and the Europeans get out.
		Almost all the tales Van der Post related throughout his life, and which he claimed were personally told him by a Bushman, were in fact drawn from the research of a 19th-century German scholar, Dr Wilhelm Bleek.
	www.dolphinsands.co.za /miss00.html (798 words)

	Mies van der Rohe Ludwig - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969), German-American architect, the leading and most influential exponent of the glass and steel architecture of...
		Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (quotations): Architecture: Less is more.
		In 1930 the Bauhaus came under the direction of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who moved it to Berlin in 1932.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Mies_van_der_Rohe_Ludwig.html (150 words)

	How to Save the World
		It quotes Laurens van der Post extensively, and in trying to learn more about his work and beliefs I stumbled upon this post by David T. Ratcliffe called Planting Seeds of Transformation.
		Ratcliffe's paper also quotes van der Post extensively, and speaks a lot about humanity's separation from nature, the grief it causes, and the fact that those of us who are still somewhat connected (or trying to reconnect) to all life on Earth are increasingly found at our society's edges, surviving on our wiles and instincts.
		On always analyzing instead of accepting: [quoting van der Post] `Why' in any case is a severely limited question as the child discovers from the moment it begins to talk.
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/2006/04/02.html (2385 words)

	For a Change Magazine: Jung, according to van der Post
		The Jungian scholar may be impatient with a book in which van der Post, himself a dreamer, philosopher and adventurer, regurgitates his understanding of the thought and experience of Jung, the 'father of modern psychology'.
		Van der Post then adds, 'In our own Western history we have betrayed the vital honouring, in equal proportions, of the masculine and feminine in being.' He continues, 'History remains unilluminated by any realization that just as man has a feminine self through which he creates, woman has this masculine self...
		Van der Post had been introduced to Jung by his wife, Ingaret Giffard, soon after the war, when he was struggling with a sense of 'isolation and loneliness...
	www.forachange.co.uk /index.php?stoid=93 (1371 words)

	IFP - Speeches - 4 April 1998 - In Memory of Sir Laurens van der Post
		Sir Laurens was entirely Afrikaner, entirely South African, entirely a citizen of the world and entirely a creature participating in the harmonious universe of nature, and felt or experienced no contradiction between these different facets of his rich persona.
		Because of the sensibility we have learned from Sir Laurens, we remain spiritually inspired as well as spiritually tortured by the quest for that feeling of belonging and re-union with the natural harmony to which we, as homines sapientes, have perhaps never fully belonged.
		Sir Laurens recognised that the time has come in which individuals may become their own leaders and draw on the strengths of human nature as never before.
	www.ifp.org.za /Archive/Speeches/040498sp.htm (2603 words)

	IFP Speeches - 19 January 2002
		I thank Sir Laurens van der Post's daughter, Lucia, for having invited me again to come to Philippolis with her to pay tribute to my beloved friend and sage that he was to me and to many people in the world.
		The creative spirit of my dear and long time friend, Sir Laurens van der Post, continues its dance through South Africa, cajoling talented men and women to take up the pen, the brush and the chisel to express our world as it is seen by few visionaries who truly see the details.
		Sir Laurens van der Post was indeed the quintessential artist and the quintessential South African.
	www.ifp.org.za /Archive/Speeches/190102sp.htm (1559 words)

	Glass Bead Game: Requiem: Sir Laurens van der Post
		The Narrator has the freedom to present information about van der Post, his writings, and such other people as Carl Jung who figure in the liturgy, thus giving context to the texts and making links between them: the narration is unscripted and the tone informal and informative.
		Mentions that this remark was made to van der Post by a Bushman, "one of the first men of life" in van der Post's words.
		The intended effect of holding, for example, van der Post's account of an African sunset with Jung's account of an African sunrise together in the mind's eye, is to bring about an equivalent of stereoscopic vision or stereophonic sound, in which both images fuse into a greater whole.
	home.earthlink.net /~hipbone/IDTWeb/LvdPReq.html (1542 words)

	Review, buy Biography: Never Give Up : 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper, The Ralph Stanley Story, CHINA, THE BIG ...
		As a young journalist Van der Post chafed at the system of apartheid and went on to unsuccessfully fight for the preservation of the bushman culture through a BBC film he made in the Kalahari Desert.
		Van der Post also recollects his time as a soldier when he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Java.
		Van der Post's eloquent observations on human nature in both situations make this 62-minute film worthwhile.
	bestvhs.com /biography1/3.html (2140 words)

	ECOPSYCHOLOGY ON-LINE: Nancy Ryley
		Ryley and Sir Laurens van der Post, the well-known South African author and philosopher, discuss the modern relevance of the Grail myth and reverence towards nature as part of the change of consciousness necessary to reverse our suicidal exploitation of the Earth.
		Laurens van der Post: Well, the great Quest for the Grail, which transformed the Middle Ages, was the discovery of the importance of the feminine.
		LvdP: Well, I can't tell, but obviously we're going to run out of air to breathe and water to drink, because the air is already polluted, the water is poisoned, and the earth is being washed away and won't grow things.
	ecopsychology.athabascau.ca /Final/garden.htm (2078 words)

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