Dornach, Switzerland. 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Sonja Zausch, member of the leadership team of the Section for Inclusive Social Development, gives her answers.
How do people in your field recognize that you are interested in Rudolf Steiner?
I like to ask “Why?” i.e., what is the origin of something, when something upsets me, until I get to the bottom of the matter. That can be very fulfilling in human encounters and also in objective situations. People sometimes find it unusual and relate it to my engagement with Steiner.
Where does anthroposophy irritate you?
Anthroposophy gives me the personal research task of dealing with myself and the world, and I appreciate the confrontation with Steiner’s impulses as an extension of my possible perception and thinking. So it’s a positive irritation!
For which questions of life is anthroposophy particularly important to you?
Where does the soul live? Where does it come from? Why do I react emotionally and psychologically to something? I can explain this psychologically and also expand it karmically—and thus learn to understand myself and others biographically.
What ideas would you like to add to anthroposophy?
To make the spiritual path of anthroposophy open and inclusive—in my field, that means accessibility for people with cognitive limitations—as one more offering among many. That’s what I would wish for.
Where has anthroposophy changed your life?
Always and every day—there’s not a day without a connection.
If anthroposophy were a mythical creature, what would it look like?
A two-headed flame being, not very big—cat-sized, so that I can meet it—where you find enthusiasm in the flame and ambivalence and polarity in its double nature. They dance together, united, from one source of existence.
Contact sonja.zausch@goetheanum.ch
Translation Charles Cross
Photo Alexandra Zoffmann
