For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied,...
Rather unplanned, as life often is, I end up in the “bee house” of a long-time friend and her Goldmund...
Recently the scientific character of Anthroposophy has been often publically questioned or denied in principle. The Goetheanum and other Anthroposophical institutions have attempted to respond to this, knowing full well that the accusations are part of an overall social context and are often more an instrument and method of deflection...
Self-education is a recurring theme in Goethe’s work, for example in his Bildungsromane and plays. However, this dimension of inner...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just an accident—an anomaly in a mechanical universe? A materialistic view hypothesizes about “abiogenesis”: how life could have emerged from a mechanical and dead world. It places the lifeless at the...
Five thousand years ago, the soul directed divine or royal will – feeling and thinking were determined from the periphery....
The Spiral Farm House is a biodynamic farm and teaching center in southern Nepal. The Terai plains in Southern Nepal...
The spirit is an event. Through the spirit, the I takes hold of itself. ‘Spirit’ is such a big word that it all too easily remains rather abstract: spiritual world, world spirit, the spirit in all things, the spirit of the times—all this denotes something that is not properly tangible...
Edith Lammerts van Bueren has researched the development over time of the mythological figure Persephone and her significance in Greek...
On Christmas Eve, a child is born into the world. Not only that—a star rises. He is the star that...
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