The days are turbulent. My thoughts are restless and peaceless. Agitated, they’re like birds of prey, circling incessantly around the...
August, the month of the lion, where nature celebrates itself in light and power. The lion: what an image in...
Georg Unger, former head of the Mathematical-Astronomical Section, was a mathematician with a choleric temperament. This combination made him quite good with concise formulae, including questions of life. Georg said that we can learn in three ways. The etheric body learns through repetition. You could keep practicing eurythmy’s threefold stepping,...
When life becomes uncertain, the ground beneath our feet shakes, and we feel lost, we often look to earlier times...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to...
Franka Henn begins the conversation with Bart Vanmechelen by asking him about his capacity to be humorously self-deprecating. Bart says that he grew up with the ethos of not taking himself too seriously. Self-deprecation is no doubt part of his expertise in social therapy, the field in which he works....
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community...
We are cloud gazers and want to remain so forever. There is no more heavenly image of the glory of...
What does the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science, want to be? In January 1924, Rudolf Steiner had something to say about this: “Here there must be a place where the strength is found to point to those little traces of the spirit not only in the cleverly put together...
The deepest insights are often, or perhaps always, the simplest realizations. “The human only becomes human among humans.” A statement...
Fragile and needy, a child comes into the world—a world in which we are fond of displaying strength, intelligence, and...


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