Every metanoia, i.e., inner transformation, has something paradoxical about it: on the one hand, I want to overcome the old...
The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the...
Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance fighter in occupied Paris and a concentration camp prisoner in Buchenwald, he became a light for many during the darkest of times. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birthday,...
«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space...
The American poet Robert Frost (1874–1963), revered and celebrated in his homeland, would have been 150 years old on March...
Michaela Glöckler wrote the introduction for the Critical Edition of Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit. Here she describes ten special features of this work. The anthroposophical spiritual science developed by Rudolf Steiner over a period of forty years hasn’t just...
Rudolf Steiner sharply distinguishes the spiritual meaning of the term ‘intuition’ from its everyday usage. If one generally associates the...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
In June 2024, there was a staged reading of Jacques Lusseyran’s Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard Schnell, Fritz Nagel, and a sculpture by Barbara Schnetzler. One member of the audience, Aina Bergsma, left the six-hour program feeling “ge-ich-tet” [‘I’-ed] and offers her reflection. In a time...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns...
Has Big Tech replaced capitalism with a new, even more exploitative system, “cloudalism”? That’s what former Greek finance minister Yanis...
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