Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Pacifica Journal turns thirty.
It was in the mid-1990s that the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i transformed its small local quarterly newsletter into a journal for communicating news, events, and ideas concerning Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophically extended medicine, and a wide range of spiritual-scientific interests within the Pacific to a larger readership. Following a successful Pacific Rim Conference in Hawaiʻi and at the request of the newly formed Asia-Pacific Initiative Group (APIG), which met in 1996 in the Philippines, Pacifica Journal was initiated and mailed out as a hard-copy publication and as an email PDF.
For many years, this subscription quarterly grew as the APIG organized conferences together with local friends in India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Many of the growing initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region were announced and then reported on in the journal. Independent research and thoughtful opinions were shared. Pacifica Journal eventually evolved into a biannual, downloadable PDF-only periodical, with free subscriptions. The hundreds of subscribers now are not just in the Asia-Pacific region but all over the world. As many of us wonder at the fate of the world today, there is a special interest in the different regions of the world influenced by ever-changing factors such as healthcare and education, climate and natural resources, social crises, and conflict.
Too often, news of the world is “bad news,” how things are going in one extreme direction or another. It is important that we also hear the truly good news, the spiritual striving of humanity. From the central Pacific archipelago of Hawai’i, and from all of the Asia-Pacific region, Pacifica Journal attempts to bring some of this positive news and information about anthroposophy in the world.
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