Trump designated his inauguration to be a “day of liberation.” It is worth clarifying what “freedom” actually is and means....
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns...
In the morning, I was asked to contribute something on “hope,” and in the evening, I attended a lecture, never imagining that the two could have something to do with each other. The speaker, Matthäus Weiss, is the regional chairman of the Verband Deutscher Sinti und Roma [Association of German...
A deepening respect and awe for the human being come about on the path to self-knowledge. The regular, the day-to-day,...
Since 2013, “gender dysphoria” has been the official diagnostic term for people who experience their gender identity differently from what...
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...
“Today’s entrepreneurs are the initiates of earlier times,” explained Jörgen Smit, anthroposophist and educator, during a working group of the...
Images from the James Webb telescope show mature galaxies in the earliest moments of the universe. Is everything already there...
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...
The spirit doesn’t reside in the head, nor does it do so in the pineal gland, or in the neocortex....
In the 70s, alternative forms of spirituality were once associated with a rose-colored glasses worldview. Today, it’s the opposite –...
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