In June 2024, there was a staged reading of Jacques Lusseyran’s Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard...
Jean appears, hand outstretched and a shining hat of light on his head—a special hat that perhaps only I can...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied, “God’s eye view” of the universe. In their recent book, The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson offer a philosophical intervention into modern...
New Year’s Eve is not just a matter of the date in an externally conceived calendar. It is the middle...
Has Big Tech replaced capitalism with a new, even more exploitative system, “cloudalism”? That’s what former Greek finance minister Yanis...
All that is good, beautiful, and true comes in threes—sweet, salty, and sour; heads, hands, and hearts; darkness, light, and color. And stories, so they say, do too. One—the Beginning: Setting the Stage Once upon a time, there was a village built on a long-forgotten sacred site, surrounded by a...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance...
Kafka and the Anti-Semitism of 2024. On the 100th Anniversary of the Writer’s Death. I have no mandate and am not a moral authority. I am just a citizen who is amazed at how we have left Jews, our fellow human beings, alone since October 7, because that is how...
San Francisco/Toronto. Conferences on Spiritual Science in North America. In September, the Literary Arts and Humanities Section of the School...
Cigarette manufacturer Emil Molt and writer Hermann Hesse were friends during their school days and became close again later in...
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