Some of its critics dismiss anthroposophical pedagogy as unscientific, e.g., because it attributes pre-existence – reincarnation – to individuals (Prange...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
Part I of this essay attempted to follow the soul-spiritual individuality of Owen Barfield to the current period (1923) of his after-life review. Barfield wished that his biography be communicated in the form of ‹psychography› – particularly by distilling the aspects of his personal life that might be most universal...
Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment...
In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die. He just found his big book again, at the age of 71, on November 24, 2022. «He was that discreet being you meet and never forget. This benevolent and deeply...
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
Owen Barfield was the first major English translator and interpreter of Steiner – as well as being an incredibly noteworthy literary figure in his own right. Barfield’s story and thought are interwoven with the lives of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who were all lifelong friends and intellectual interlocutors, meeting...
Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed...
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum....
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