There have always been dark times in human history. There has never been only peace, love, and joy on earth....
The Raunächte or the twelve Holy Nights between Christmas and Epiphany reflect the twelve signs of the zodiac—twelve inspirations for...
How can we establish universal values when power itself has become an ideology? On the Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower, mothers who don’t want to sacrifice their children to big business, and a prime minister who spoke angelic words. Over dinner one night, after the U.S. president landed in Davos,...
The clay came from the earth. Its story is long. The story of the clay is the story of the...
I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany....
On October 25th, the World Social Initiative Forum (WSIF) launched the Leadership in Transformation (LiT) Forums, an online program investigating Leaderful Practices for Societal Metamorphosis. The following text is taken from Orland Bishop’s opening invocation entitled ‹Sacred Hospitality›. Willingness I am inspired by this theme of what gives our Will...
King Lear is not an ordinary royal drama but—like Hamlet and Macbeth—a tragedy with archetypal images. Behind these images, historical...
“Dreaming” is the bridge between sleeping and waking, a magical place full of colour. We are not attached, we do...
If you ask people what is sacred to them, after some consideration, they’ll offer an answer: family, tranquility, freedom, peace, and many other things—depending on the individual—even “my soccer club” or “the work of Rudolf Steiner.” But what the sacred itself is remains elusive. The Romanian religious philosopher Mircea Eliade...
Being able to let go means being able to resist the will, being able to expose oneself to the unknown....
What is the significance of tears today? Does what brings us to cry, bring us to our ‘I’? How do...






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