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...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics for a year 10 class. So the students divided up into six teams and sat around a big table. Each team got 500 grams of raw macaroni noodles and a...
What comes after life? Hundreds of years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in life after death;...
As a musician, I am touched by Steiner’s statement that what is musical is genuinely anthroposophical: the musical, experienced consciously,...
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