Surrounded by his family, Pierre Della Negra peacefully departed his earthly life on October 4, 2022. This important figure of...
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The wise men in the Jewish land proper – the Pharisees and scribes that is, had no news of the birth of...
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Some of its critics dismiss anthroposophical pedagogy as unscientific, e.g., because it attributes pre-existence – reincarnation – to individuals (Prange 1985, p. 20 ff.) or because it allegedly drew these views «from the traditions of the religious wisdom of the East […]» (Ulrich 1986, p. 94). However, it is not...
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A look at the connection between humans and architecture illustrated by three buildings in Dornach. Piet Sieperda is in search...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
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Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive those phenomena to which we grant a relationship to space and time – if not entirely transparent, then always in itself ordered. Ortega y Gasset once said: «Life means the...
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In January, the Goetheanum stage plays ‹King Lear›, directed by Andrea Pfaehler. The former director Christopher Marcus visited the actors...
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Part I of this essay attempted to follow the soul-spiritual individuality of Owen Barfield to the current period (1923) of...
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Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment of self-assertion in devotion and sacrifice to people or tasks? Can self-realisation arise at all in one of these directions? Is self-realisation in general a process that only proceeds in...
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In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
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He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die....
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