Atlanta, Georgia. The summer conference of the Christian Community. Earth, community, and sacrament—these are the three guiding themes of the...
The Mysteries of Eleusis, located near Athens, can be thought of as the “Mysteries of Mysteries.” Its cult was based...
Paris, France. A lecture on the relationship between spirituality and secularism. At first glance, secularism and spirituality seem to indicate opposing directions. After all, the basic idea of secularism is that human society is worldly and can do without religious or metaphysical influences. According to this view, religion and the...
Prayers are invisible arrows that we aim directly at God. These arrows do not always reach their target. In times...
Edith Lammerts van Bueren has researched the development over time of the mythological figure Persephone and her significance in Greek...
We pray in danger, because prayer is an endangered language—a language on the verge of extinction. The careless visible words, the resounding letters, all extinguished. Those that remain gather, weakened, for a call that could be the last and therefore is the last. When we pray, we are in danger....
Once a year, often on a day determined by religion and tradition, the community of the living commemorates the community...
Every temple is a bridge, a bridge between the human being and God, humanity and divinity. In the case of...
Anthroposophists have always heard that the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was not the incarnation of the Maitreya Bodhisattva of the twentieth century foretold by Rudolf Steiner, the future Buddha, because Steiner dismissed Krishnamurti as such. Was it otherwise? There are many candidates for Maitreya, but there has never been...
The College of Teachers of Religion at Waldorf Schools addressed an interested general audience during this year’s conference at the...
Our longing for revelation of the universe culminates on St John’s Day, the only Christian festival of the year named...
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