Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in...
“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space here.» In this time that has become space, Richard Wagner opens a variety of windows on the Grail quest throughout his opera. Without revealing himself on the way, Gurnemanz leads...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983, an art dealer offered a Greek Kouros to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which he dated to the sixth century BC. The museum had art historians and archaeologists examine...
Truth, beauty and goodness—three heavenly promises. Every guiding principle and every good wish, every happy moment and every intention has...
Utopia was the daughter of love and freedom. She was a beautiful child, gentle and strong at the same time....
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