If we are all islands, it is the water that connects us. To get to you, I have to move,...
«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space...
What dying tells us about life: The last leaves, already pale on the graphic undergrowth, and the moment of finding in them a gateway to the essence of the world. In the cloud-shrouded silence under the Ettersberg, silence is the gateway to matter and to inner images. As the snow...
When speaking of Africa, it’s not uncommon to speak of ‹Mother Africa› or the ‹motherland›, which corresponds to the Egyptian...
Morning break at the World Teacher’s Conference at the Goetheanum: In the packed foyer of the Goetheanum I meet Peter...
When one sprains their ankle or has an aching knee, they might rub a pain gel on the swollen joint – probably diclofenac (Voltaren) – one of the world’s best-selling painkillers. It takes a few years before some of the substance of this gel can be measured in a penguin’s...
«What’s new?» Frederick the Great asked his court astronomer, who, according to tradition, replied: «Do you already know the old,...
The puppet that Christopher Marcus put on stage for the production of ‹Kaspar Hauser› at the Goetheanum almost 20 years...
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats, so illuminated in the vault of wholeness that the Roman soldiers turn away, blinded. I used to wonder if you could still be physically intimate with such a being. Actually,...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
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