In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die....
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of C. S. Lewis, «first and last» member of the Inklings—that massively influential, 20th century group of intellectuals and authors which also included J. R. R. Tolkien among its ranks; a...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
Owen Barfield was the first major English translator and interpreter of Steiner – as well as being an incredibly noteworthy...
Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed by a contraction. The shoot’s regression must precede the leaf’s resurrection in the form of the corolla into bract and calyx. The most beautiful flower, on the other hand, would...
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum....
With their upright posture, human beings lose a large part of their outer capacity for movement. At the same time...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns into action through consolidation. Will ‹is› indeed in essence sympathy or – to put it loftily – love of the world. However, not love of the world in order to...
Much of what we encounter in the world is not as it seems. But often, it takes a more extended,...
Every metanoia, i.e., inner transformation, has something paradoxical about it: on the one hand, I want to overcome the old...
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