Often, even just a few days after September 29, we forget about Michaelmas. But the deeper atmosphere of this festival...
Through his experience of the sentient- and intellectual-soul dispositions of the northern and southern streams of medieval Europe, as expressed...
Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word Er-innerung reminds us, internalizes; it makes the outward inward. The sentient soul can already effect this to some extent, inasmuch as it retains for a time inward pictures of the...
In this summer’s globally successful film productions, Barbie and Oppenheimer, darkness and brightness, depth and surface confront each other. It...
Why were Steiner’s ideas for the visual arts so relevant for early twentieth-century artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian,...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir was offered at the local cinema, Stadtkino. I saw Bab’Aziz (2005) as a poem as much as a film. Gentle, unprovocative, deeply sensorial, it’s the story of the present-day...
The Sahara is particularly well-suited to questioning our ideas of boundaries and transitions, of the future, of freedom, and of...
Novalis’ poetry and prose reveal a master of inner development. His entire inner life was directed towards the blue flower,...
One hundred years ago, in August 1923, Rudolf Steiner held the lecture cycle “Initiation Knowledge” in the Welsh coastal town of Penmaenmawr as part of a Summer School organized by Daniel Nicol Dunlop. While there, he visited the megalithic stone circles located in the mountains above the conference site. This...
Fairy tales are a path of thinking with the heart: living pictures that carry us beyond the sensory world and...
True art surprises us, calls on us to set ourselves in motion, takes us to the limits of the familiar,...
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