Many people wish they’d met Rudolf Steiner during his life on Earth. What’s behind this longing? Perhaps there’s a somewhat...
Fiction writers sometimes use a rhetorical device called “free indirect speech.” Andreas Laudert makes use of this technique to get...
When I came into contact with anthroposophy 25 years ago, I was particularly alienated by the cult of personality surrounding Rudolf Steiner. I heard anecdotes of ladies in purple gowns who came to the “initiate” for advice on their inner development. I visited the Memorial Grove in Dornach with a...
It is often said that Rudolf Steiner had an extraordinary capacity for sensing and entering into the soul condition of...
With disciplined observation and patient repetition, we can create space for another living being in our own inner life. This...
Many of us know Rudolf Steiner as a great teacher and spiritual scientist, but do we know him as a humorist? According to several personal reports, the Herr Doctor had a warm and lively sense of humor. Numerous anecdotal histories indicate that he could be a very playful and spontaneous...
In response to the article by Gilda Bartel, “It’s Always Me Who Is Meant—Rudolf Steiner as Questioner” in the Goetheanum...
Drama is a red thread running through Rudolf Steiner’s career. He loved it. After all, drama is all about bringing...
Looking back on Rudolf Steiner’s marriage to the widowed Anna Eunike, it appears to have partly been an attempt to feel more at home in the earthly and social world. Anna became his living companion, without the exuberance of a shared worldview or true togetherness, but more a pragmatic partnership,...
Surprisingly few anthroposophists know of Rudolf Steiner as an economist, let alone as a credible contributor to current monetary affairs....
Now that Rudolf Steiner has been dead for 100 years, we can say: Rudolf Steiner was the last guru! Not...
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