Interviews


Theologian Carine Philipse wrote down an immersive experience in her Mystical diary. “I hope this book helps people to connect with the layer within themselves where they can meet God. ” “I was touched directly by God ” – Interview by Marijke Laurense in Trouw, 4 January 2014 [Dutch daily newspaper] Her real name is Catharina Alexandrina. “After Catherine of Alexandria,” says Carine Philipse....

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She is a contemporary mystic: Carine Philipse (64), former hospital chaplain from The Hague. Last year her remarkable book You sing in me Your name was released. It is the result of the spiritual process that began after a mystical experience she went through more than a decade ago. “On January 1, 2003, I sat in the kitchen to prepare a church service on the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan,” she recalls. “I was...

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In her diary You sing in me Your name Carine Philipse describes the mystical experience she had ten years ago, and the impact this feeling had upon her life. “Dying for me is totally emerging in God as a drop of water in the sea.” By Jurgen Tiekstra. Interview in Friesch Dagblad [daily newspaper], march 1st 2014, by Jurgen Tiekstra When Carine Philipse (1950) goes to sleep, she puts an icon with the image of Jesus next to...

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Carine Philipse from The Hague has published a selection from her diary. The hospital chaplain writes about the mystical experiences that have befallen her. ‘I hope that it brings people into contact with that layer in themselves, where they can meet God’. Kerk in Den Haag, February 2014, volume 17, no. 163, by Robert Reijns What do you mean by mystical experiences? How important have they become for you? “A mystical...

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Complete text of the DVD accompanying this book, recorded on 11 June 2013 in Carine Philipse’s home. Carine sings: All that’s mine is Yours, all that’s mine is Yours, since I am Yours… All that’s mine is Yours, all that’s mine is Yours, since I am Yours… H.     We are here in the house Via Lucis – the Way of Light – in the Hague. Amidst royal palaces, the Peace Palace, government buildings, the Parliament building, the Netherlands...

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