Albert’s first track in life is Spirituality.
This track opened after reading the book Siddhartha, at age 14.
Albert has had a lifelong interest in the 8th and 9th house themes of the 12 astrological houses.
The 8th astrological-house themes are: tantra, renewal, sex, death, rebirth, transformation, deeply felt peak experiences, depth interactions with others, growth & change (the Scorpio values).
The 9th astrological-house themes are: religion, spirituality, philosophies of life, higher education, mind expansion, meanings behind the form and traveling (the Sagittarius values).
At the age of 18 Albert went to India where he spent 6 months with Osho. During his life, Albert has been in India eight times and has always pursued to deepen his insights, practice and experiences of the 8th- and 9th-house themes of astrology.
His two favorite OSHO books are:
1. Moral, Immoral, Amoral, What is Right and What is Wrong ? and
2. OSHO on the Basic Human Rights.
These two books will definitely open up a rich field of new conversations with yourself.
His favorite spiritual path is Kashmir Shaivism, with its concept of Sri Vidya (Supreme Knowledge).
Albert Eussen studied Economics (International Finance) at the University of Amsterdam (degree cum laude). After his management traineeship (best of class) he worked for over 10 years in several positions in the Investment Banking Division of ABN AMRO Bank. Albert’s last position (1995) at ABN AMRO Bank was Vice President & Senior Advisor Structured Finance.
From 1996 till 2010 Albert worked as an independent consultant for high profile clients in the financial services industry through his consulting firm Albert Eussen BV. The last 8 years of this period his clients were all in the area of the Private Equity Business. His main expertise was in structuring and establishing Carried Interest schemes (reward structures) for the Private Equity Business.
In 2010 Albert attended an Executive Course at Singularity University (https://www.su.org) and a Conference at the Seasteading Institute (https://www.seasteading.org), both in Silicon Valley.
This opened up whole new perspectives on society. For me, the two most interesting perspectives are:
One, we are possibly moving into a world in which abundance for everyone will be possible in the foreseeable future (next 50 to 100 years ?).
It seems that we are moving into a Zero Marginal Cost society, a world in which marginal costs are zero for an ever growing amount of sectors, and its products and services. This is the result of the supply of the goods and services in this sector, growing exponentially faster, than an exponential growth of demand for those goods and services in that sector.
Eventually, as more sectors have moved into that zero marginal cost phenomenon, the result will be the destruction of capitalism, by capitalism itself. This is so, because if marginal costs are zero, then prices are zero, and then there is no market for that product or service. If there is no market for an ever growing number of products and services, then that is the end of capitalism. This leads to a world of unlimited abundance.
The second perspective, is based on the assumption of a world of unlimited abundance.
Assuming a world of unlimited abundance, the thought experiment goes, the biggest obstacle to a world of prosperity for all, is that we live in a world with only 200 sovereign states. These sovereign states are either autocratic or democratic.
Even in Democracies, however, prosperity for all is not created, as democracies end up in ever greater polarisation. The rule of law, which states that the laws of a country apply to all its citizens equally, is working against us.
How come ?
The diversity of values, ideologies, preferred lifestyles and preferred morality, is too big to be accommodated by laws that apply to all citizens of one country. The rule of law is working against prosperity for all, when there is a such an immense diversity in values.
We therefore need much more sovereign habitats to accommodate all the diversity in values, ideologies, preferred lifestyles and preferred morality .” Let a million sovereign habitats bloom”.
Having a lot of sovereign habitats will allow for trial and error and therefore innovation in Governance system. This will allow humanity to find something that works better than autocracies and democracies.
The Seasteading Institute proposes to create a large amount of floating cities, which can be located outside of sovereign state jurisdictions. That will allow them to experiment with new forms Self Governance.
The clusters of floating cities that are managed well will grow. Those clusters that are mismanaged, will shrink. This will eventually lead to the highest amount of prosperous communities, where the largest amount of people will live their lives in prosperity.
During the 15 year period from 1996-2010, Albert conducted a three-day course, twice a year, called Strengths of Highly Effective People (SOHEP). The purpose of SOHEP was the improvement of Management and Leadership Skills for bank professionals. Albert trained over 1000 bank professionals with a wide variety in educational background (from secretaries to management teams and highly professional Private Equity staff) and with very diverse national and cultural background (professionals from Europe, Asia, the US and South America).
SOHEP was structured around four themes: (1) communication with self, (2) communication with others, (3) tools for effectiveness and (4) the high performance mind.
Techniques were presented from fields like Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and concepts were covered like Flow and Synchronicity
In 2018 Albert lived in Bali for 8 months.
He lived with a group of people in a valley called Les Valley.
He learnt a lot about community living.
The central question which was addressed, was: “Which principles enhance a Harmonic Resonant
Field or Coherent Holding Field, and what prevents it from appearing ?”
He can truly say, there is a life before knowing about these principles, and a life after.
That life after is much richer in self care, choice, peace of mind and emptiness/spaciousness in his mind.
For Albert, Beauty, Imagery and Fine Arts are almost like a culmination of everything he has learnt so far in his life.
At the moment, what is opening up and starting to flower in his own mind, is a transformation of all his frameworks and principles into art.
In Albert’s case, these internal art-representations are mainly spiritual in character.
Balinese art and Nepalese art contribute most to these representations.
They definitely enhance his inner well being.