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,...
I tap, tap, tap an egg with the tip of a pin, slowly, breaking through the hardened shell, creating a tiny hole at the top and bottom. I press my lips to the top of the egg, covering the opening, and blow until my face is red, until the sturdy...
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...
Çatalhöyük is among the oldest surviving human settlements. The mud brick buildings on the Anatolian plateau date roughly from 7500 to 5600 B.C. Individual dwellings are tightly clustered together, almost as if to form one large house in which up to 8,000 people lived. Flat roofs provide access to each...
Rudolf Steiner was a great entrepreneur—an entrepreneur of spiritual life. He did not content himself with disseminating wisdom teachings, but...
We all know it, mostly from our social relationships: the deep ache of not being able to make ourselves understood....
I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany. The painting depicts Christ and Mary against an indistinct dark background, as if emerged from the ether. Just their head and shoulders are painted, with garments as soft and dark...
Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions—you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance,...
A church is a place of energy. The greatest power in the building is found where nothing is built, in...


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