“If colleague Z says one thing, I can guarantee that colleague Y will say the opposite in response; and if...
Throughout the Middle Ages, we can find the image of a dove flying into the ear of evangelists to inspire...
Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word Er-innerung reminds us, internalizes; it makes the outward inward. The sentient soul can already effect this to some extent, inasmuch as it retains for a time inward pictures of the...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
Novalis’ poetry and prose reveal a master of inner development. His entire inner life was directed towards the blue flower,...
Elemental beings live on the threshold between the sensory and spiritual worlds. They belong to both dimensions, the sensual and the spiritual, because the sensual world appears through their activity. Entire earthly existence is based on their quiet, uninterrupted, and faithful work. As a large, diverse group of spiritual beings,...
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum....
Our relationship to nature is largely determined by the imaginary world in which we live and by the direction in...
When I make my way through a bewildering landscape, after a long and strenuous effort, and can survey the whole scene from atop a mountain peak, many things become clear—almost as if in one fell swoop. Some things I had to laboriously explore “down below”; others were not even on...
When, in 1924, student Rudolf Hauschka asked Rudolf Steiner his most important question, “Doctor, what is life?”, he did not...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied,...
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