Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
Elemental beings live on the threshold between the sensory and spiritual worlds. They belong to both dimensions, the sensual and...
It starts with me, but it’s not about me. In considering our personal relationship to the world, we usually discover the possibility and perhaps the necessity of qualitative ‹self-optimization›, not only the quantitative increase of our cognitive, emotional, and volitional abilities. On the one hand, this presupposes a certain degree...
Fairy tales are a path of thinking with the heart: living pictures that carry us beyond the sensory world and...
Christopher Bamford, the long-time editor of SteinerBooks, crossed the threshold early in the morning of May 13, 2022. He had...
Jean appears, hand outstretched and a shining hat of light on his head—a special hat that perhaps only I can see. This thought does not console me. For Jean is entirely inside that hat, and his words fall out of it. It’s a very positive impression: this man does not...
Christ appears twice at Easter: first to the dead, then to Mary Magdalene; first at night, then during the day;...
Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance...
Novalis’ poetry and prose reveal a master of inner development. His entire inner life was directed towards the blue flower, Sophia, as the ideal of soul development. Here, we share a special glimpse of the inner journey that Novalis underwent and communicated. The maturity and wisdom found in the writings...
Martina Maria Sam has written seven books on Rudolf Steiner, his art, and his language. Wolfgang Held invited her for...
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum....
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