Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions—you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance,...
I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany....
We all know it, mostly from our social relationships: the deep ache of not being able to make ourselves understood. It feels powerless to have become speechless, at a loss for words, inaudible, having not yet found the sheltering blackness of the blackbird’s feathers in the twilight of a winter’s...
Rudolf Steiner was a great entrepreneur—an entrepreneur of spiritual life. He did not content himself with disseminating wisdom teachings, but...
Çatalhöyük is among the oldest surviving human settlements. The mud brick buildings on the Anatolian plateau date roughly from 7500...
I remember clearly the first page of the first lecture series by Rudolf Steiner that I ever read. I was astonished. Steiner writes what an imaginary ancient oriental sage, in contemplating modern Western civilization, would say: “You are living entirely in fear; your whole mood of soul is governed by...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just...
I tap, tap, tap an egg with the tip of a pin, slowly, breaking through the hardened shell, creating a...
As a musician, I am touched by Steiner’s statement that what is musical is genuinely anthroposophical: the musical, experienced consciously, is experienced anthroposophically. The “musical” means the essence of music, in contrast to the materialistic nature of our times. If musical content is forced too rigidly into earthly, materialistic conditions,...
What comes after life? Hundreds of years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in life after death;...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics...
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