Deepenings

Essays

Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Section for Agriculture since the summer of 2024, in conversation with Wolfgang Held about life, Mexico, and becoming human. Do you have a core anthroposophical idea that guides you? I would say: the idea of the human being, as understood in anthroposophy. In light of...
Previously guided by values of ecological and social transformation, a new search for direction within agriculture reveals a bigger change in the times. At the 2026 Agriculture Conference at the Goetheanum, members of the Economic Circle of the Section for Agriculture offered a platform to discuss practice-based research and exchange...
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In September 2025, the World Goetheanum Association (WGA) Forum took place in Sekem, Egypt. It was an attempt to think, feel, and will our narrative of sustainability anew. One hundred...
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Signs of the Times

Spotlights

Signs of the Times

Europe’s agriculture sector is in crisis. In response, we are seeing repeated, large-scale protests by farmers; in France, these often involve roadblocks and dramatic actions. Half-hearted political measures do not make fundamental changes. Winter 2023/24 saw large demonstrations in the Netherlands against new regulations and falling wages spread across Europe....
When sacred sites are given protected status and begin to build fences and charge admission, individual visitors lose their sense of responsibility. On the Calanais Standing Stones, Stonehenge, and the question of free access to sacred sites. I remember a summer solstice at the Calanais Stone Circle (Isle of Lewis,...
The challenges facing biodynamic agriculture are significant, both socio-politically and economically. The Agricultural Section will address this through the theme of “community” at its annual conference, February 4-7, 2026. Wolfgang Held spoke with section leaders Ueli Hurter and Eduardo Rincón. How did you come up with the conference title? It...
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Dialogues · Reviews · Notes

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Quotes · Poetry · Thoughts

Lately, I have been writing more about “we” than about myself. I often replace the words “me” and “my” with “our”—our search, our future, our world, our fear, our hesitation, our powerlessness, our spirits. My “we” is not secluded but airy and warm. I feel contained in it. It is like an inviting space that I both create and enter. Soft as a supplication, something weaves there, like a waiting for solace that cannot be asked for directly. When I write “we,” my heart feels that where others can be, it wants to be too.

Something has become quiet, has sat down, is no longer making a fuss—and suddenly realizes: “we” is a sacred space. Without walls and without oppression. “We” is built on care and the ability to experience others as oneself. “We” contains multitudes and variation. “We” is love that has become conscious, in which all creation is contained. Are we love that has become conscious, in which all creation is contained? That is far too big for me to bear alone.


Translation Laura Liska
Image Group dances at the 2025 Agricultural Conference. Photo: Xue Li

Musings

Dialogues · Reviews · Notes

Inner development as a response to the AI transformation. In light of the unimaginably rapid developments in the field of AI, there is talk of a “transformation of society” just...
In our time, the proliferation of language and messaging in artificial intelligence and social media have separated us from authentic meaning. They have crowded out and contributed to the atrophy...
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Seeds

Quotes · Poetry · Thoughts

Research - Initiatives - Life

Nuremberg, Germany/Tsukuba, Japan/Stockholm, Sweden. International traveling exhibition with students from Alanus University. The exhibition Surface Matter emerged from the work of an international group of painting technique teachers and conservators, presenting works by members of the network as well as their students. The traveling exhibition focuses on different approaches to painting technique as well as the materiality of the surface....
Richmond, USA. Winter Workshops on Parenting Questions. Until March 11, 2026, the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training is...
Istanbul, Turkey. The Friends of Waldorf Education in Istanbul (ESDD) celebrate the completion of the second part-time Waldorf teacher training...
Darmstadt/Giessen/Warsaw. Research on the transformative potential of biodynamics. How can biodynamic agriculture contribute to the sustainable transformation of our food...

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Lima, Peru. A Waldorf education project in Peru. Sonqo Kusichiy is an...
Villa de las Rosas, Argentina. A participatory research project for sustainable communities....

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