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Mateusz Zalewski-Grzelak

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Background: I was Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1986. I studied in Wales, UK. In the remote past, I was planning for a diplomatic career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but personal issues prevented me from pursuing this path. Perhaps fortunately, due to the current ugly setting of politeia turned into a populist sewage. I had IT-related and translation careers for most of my adult life with random posts at different places — I worked as a bartender, a stable boy , a waiter etc. Thus far, I visited 39 countries on 4 different continents, out of which my favorite cities are Edinburgh in Scotland and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina (bleeding soul of that city appealed to me immediately). The furthest East I travelled was the Teredj Park ne Background: I was Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1986. I studied in Wales, UK. In the remote past, I was planning for a diplomatic career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but personal issues prevented me from pursuing this path. Perhaps fortunately, due to the current ugly setting of politeia turned into a populist sewage. I had IT-related and translation careers for most of my adult life with random posts at different places — I worked as a bartender, a stable boy , a waiter etc. Thus far, I visited 39 countries on 4 different continents, out of which my favorite cities are Edinburgh in Scotland and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina (bleeding soul of that city appealed to me immediately). The furthest East I travelled was the Teredj Park near Ulaanbaator in Mongolia (2007), the furthest West I travelled was Petoskey in MI, US (2004), the furthest North I travelled was Hagesund in Norway (2016), the furthest Sounth I travelled was Muscat in Oman (1992). The longest uniterrupted journey I took was on a train from Moscow to Ulaanbaator, and Ulaanbaator to Moscow, a total of circa 200 hours on the Trans-Siberian train.

Personal Motto: Overcome to excel, excel to overcome, omnia mea mecum porto (everything I have, I carry with me). Reveal only what is necessary.

Interests: Academic interdisciplinary interests, bridging them in new configurations that illumine one science with another. I’ve spent tons of hours in the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba) and the National Library of Poland.

Preferred themes: History of ideas, history of belief-systems vis a vis the societal transformations, evolutionary approaches, metaphysics and ethics, grand narratives and discourse. Ancient mystery-schools, wisdom literature of various cultures and civiliations.

Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse was a great inspiration in my early years as a hermetic law akin to Platonizing-Pythagorean paths:

Citation: “The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual property — on all this immense body of intellectual values the Glass Bead Game player plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe.” ...more

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