Welcome. We have crossed a threshold. This is a place of peace, of silence, of being. The heart beats steadily...
Hope is deeply connected with Christmas. For the week of Christmas, the 38th verse in Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar says,...
You stillness, you tenderness, you who have no place except within us, somewhere in the chambers behind our countenances. You, invisible and remote from all senses. You, who have the power to be more real in an individual than any universally known fact. You, who shelters the truly deepest desires...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to...
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...
Especially with regards to the will, it is important to see to exactly what extent the will can be educated...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made ‹Friday› a slave. He gains a human friend. When a young acquaintance suddenly had a tumor in her head, all our quarrels became null and void. Our trivialities and emotional...
As part of its series on Humanity, Development and the Future, the Mahle Foundation invited the philosopher and journalist Alexander...
On the Body, Trauma, and Anthroposophy. A Travelogue. I’m driving through the Harz Mountains in Germany. The first snow of...









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