What does the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science, want to be? In January 1924, Rudolf Steiner had something to...
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 free will. The child, on the other hand, is dependent, and its existence is at stake. They can do what we adults have forgotten: they are unconditionally devoted to their...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics...
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, 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,...
I tap, tap, tap an egg with the tip of a pin, slowly, breaking through the hardened shell, creating a...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just...
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...
Çatalhöyük is among the oldest surviving human settlements. The mud brick buildings on the Anatolian plateau date roughly from 7500...
Rudolf Steiner was a great entrepreneur—an entrepreneur of spiritual life. He did not content himself with disseminating wisdom teachings, but...
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