The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
An interview about the ‹Parsifal› production at the Goetheanum at Easter, 2023, with Jasmin Solfaghari, the Lead Director, and Stefan...
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of C. S. Lewis, «first and last» member of the Inklings—that massively influential, 20th century group of intellectuals and authors which also included J. R. R. Tolkien among its ranks; a...
He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die....
In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment of self-assertion in devotion and sacrifice to people or tasks? Can self-realisation arise at all in one of these directions? Is self-realisation in general a process that only proceeds in...
Part I of this essay attempted to follow the soul-spiritual individuality of Owen Barfield to the current period (1923) of...
In January, the Goetheanum stage plays ‹King Lear›, directed by Andrea Pfaehler. The former director Christopher Marcus visited the actors...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive those phenomena to which we grant a relationship to space and time – if not entirely transparent, then always in itself ordered. Ortega y Gasset once said: «Life means the...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
A look at the connection between humans and architecture illustrated by three buildings in Dornach. Piet Sieperda is in search...
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