“I can – whilst facing thee – but weep – and cry –.” These are words spoken by Strader, the...
Climate chaos is apparent in more and more parts of the world today, but our disconnection from nature reveals itself...
Intellectual materialism denies intuition and its connection to spirit, but by asking questions of “why” rather than just “what” or “how”, we can start to spiritualize science. The final part of a four-part series. Here are the links to parts one, two, and three. The Threshold that Keeps the Spirit...
When, in 1924, student Rudolf Hauschka asked Rudolf Steiner his most important question, “Doctor, what is life?”, he did not...
The third of this four-part series further explores a resolution to the paradox of intellectual materialism. It leads to a...
Modern science has taken on such a stature that it is rare to seriously question its fundamental assumptions. Here, Matthew Kenyon, a senior technologist at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime student of anthroposophy, explicates the core, untenable paradox of modern science: that it doesn’t understand its primary tool, thought. This...
Self-education is a recurring theme in Goethe’s work, for example in his Bildungsromane and plays. However, this dimension of inner...
The fact that all living beings, from humans to single-celled organisms, share not only the earth but also its life...
Children love to play the game of asking «Why?» without end. Perhaps this is the beginning of the scientific mind. Certain questions have ceased to be asked, though, because they no longer fit within the framework of contemporary science or philosophy. In the first part of this multi-part essay, Matthew...
The leadership of the Natural Science Section changed in the new year. Johannes Wirz handed along his position to Vesna...
For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his...
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