The wise men in the Jewish land proper – the Pharisees and scribes that is, had no news of the birth of...
Some of its critics dismiss anthroposophical pedagogy as unscientific, e.g., because it attributes pre-existence – reincarnation – to individuals (Prange...
A look at the connection between humans and architecture illustrated by three buildings in Dornach. Piet Sieperda is in search of Rudolf Steiner’s concept of architecture. We come to know what we might describe as the outermost part of our being, that which proceeds through the action of our etheric...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
In January, the Goetheanum stage plays ‹King Lear›, directed by Andrea Pfaehler. The former director Christopher Marcus visited the actors for a meditation workshop. One plays different roles and identities on stage and therefore has to be all the more confident of one’s own identity. The emotions that one unfolds...
Part I of this essay attempted to follow the soul-spiritual individuality of Owen Barfield to the current period (1923) of...
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 interconnected yet distinct cycles, the time horizon expands: what was before the beginning, and what will be after the end? This brings into view an intermediate period between two epochs...
He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die....
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of...
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