Every metanoia, i.e., inner transformation, has something paradoxical about it: on the one hand, I want to overcome the old...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the past – these may only live on transformed into free, improvisational abilities. And they must be sacrificed in and through living thought, which has its source in true, always intuitive...
Christopher Bamford, the long-time editor of SteinerBooks, crossed the threshold early in the morning of May 13, 2022. He had...
Shortly after Rudolf Steiner’s death, the art critic Max Osborn recounted an incident during his time as editor of the...
It starts with me, but it’s not about me. In considering our personal relationship to the world, we usually discover the possibility and perhaps the necessity of qualitative ‹self-optimization›, not only the quantitative increase of our cognitive, emotional, and volitional abilities. On the one hand, this presupposes a certain degree...
Elemental beings live on the threshold between the sensory and spiritual worlds. They belong to both dimensions, the sensual and...
Fairy tales are a path of thinking with the heart: living pictures that carry us beyond the sensory world and...
Part I of this essay attempted to follow the soul-spiritual individuality of Owen Barfield to the current period (1923) of his after-life review. Barfield wished that his biography be communicated in the form of ‹psychography› – particularly by distilling the aspects of his personal life that might be most universal...
All that is good, beautiful, and true comes in threes—sweet, salty, and sour; heads, hands, and hearts; darkness, light, and...
Some of its critics dismiss anthroposophical pedagogy as unscientific, e.g., because it attributes pre-existence – reincarnation – to individuals (Prange...
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