«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...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture›. Shiva can speak authoritatively about the ‹sacred› in part due to her experience of the ‹profane›. She has seen the ‹Green Revolution› – and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
Two years ago, at the beginning of December, there was a spectacular solar eclipse at Tierra del Fuego in Southern Argentina. A study trip to the Black Sun, as well as the penguins and the largest glaciers on earth, was planned and booked by enough fellow travellers. The Covid pandemic...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
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