I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
And as the time of the fifty days neared its fulfilment, they were waiting with shared devotion for the beginning of the Pentecost festival. Then suddenly a sound came from the spiritual heights like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled the whole house in which they were...
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just an accident—an anomaly in a mechanical universe? A materialistic view hypothesizes about “abiogenesis”: how life could have emerged from a mechanical and dead world. It places the lifeless at the...
“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an employee stood in front of the locked door and indicated that the auditorium was still occupied. After a little waiting, I kindly said that our schedule did not allow for...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to...
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