The experience of powerlessness is part of inner transformation. Some thoughts on encountering the spirit of the times. Every day,...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
Car, motorcycle, electric bike, and on foot – these are the different methods of transport available to me for my three-kilometre trip to the Goetheanum. Four ways of moving at four different speeds, four different relationships to the environment, four forms of experience, four ways of arriving, with four different...
Fractured agreements, an uncertain social ethic, divided communities, and compromised trust permeate our social field and take social leadership to...
Trump designated his inauguration to be a “day of liberation.” It is worth clarifying what “freedom” actually is and means....
What else does it take to escape the trap of stereotype? A critical extension to the article Hypermoralism Kills Freedom, also published today. In the previous article, Alexander Grau asked whether we are dominated today by a collective, freedom-restricting moralism and whether all this political correctness means that we are...
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
The weekly staff meeting at the Goetheanum has recently featured individual coworkers speaking about what the spiritual world means to...
The spirit doesn’t reside in the head, nor does it do so in the pineal gland, or in the neocortex. In the latter, only the consciously appearing, poor copy of the spirit is delivered in the form of conceptions, systems, models, diagrams, constructions, etc. The real, effective spirit, lies in...
The clay came from the earth. Its story is long. The story of the clay is the story of the...
“Today’s entrepreneurs are the initiates of earlier times,” explained Jörgen Smit, anthroposophist and educator, during a working group of the...








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