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...
When life becomes uncertain, the ground beneath our feet shakes, and we feel lost, we often look to earlier times in our life for inspiration and support. We leaf through diaries and seek out testimonies from our unique history. The present loses its horror when viewed from broader perspectives. The...
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...
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community on which the Spirit descends, not the individual. Second, they are not gathered in an open field but in a dwelling. Culture created by humanity is what unifies 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...
The deepest insights are often, or perhaps always, the simplest realizations. “The human only becomes human among humans.” A statement of simple words from the philosopher Johann Fichte, and yet it takes a long life to unpack this sentence, to explore it, and to learn to live it. “It may...
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...
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