English Issue 11/2024

With one simple and unpretentious statement in Knowledge of Higher Worlds, Rudolf Steiner offers an insight that proves relevant not just to farmers but to all of us: “Our task is the transformation of the earth. Therein lies the only reason for seeking higher knowledge.” In this issue, three speakers from this year’s celebratory Agriculture Conference in Dornach give perspectives on this earthly task, which is also an inner task. Ha Vinh Tho weaves together the practices involved in tending the Earth and the practices in the Foundation Stone Meditation to reveal a way towards transformation, healing, and awakening to spirit. Out of her many years of research, Edith Lammerts van Bueren offers thoughts on the transformative role of Persephone in humanity and in agriculture through her ability to reunite Earth and Cosmos in a rhythmic gesture of death and renewal. And Eduardo Rincon, the new co-leader of the Agriculture Section, opens the vista of transformation from personal work on the land to society, the youth, and the future.