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From February 13 to 15, 2026, the Biodynamic Association and the Agricultural Section of North America will host the symposium “Agriculture, Community, Economics: Reimagining the Future of Farming” at Sunrise Ranch in Colorado, USA.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/reimagining-farming/
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2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Van James, artist, art lecturer, and member of the Section for the Fine Arts in North America, gives his answers.
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Tribute to Rudolf Steiner - For All Questions
Honolulu, Hawaii. 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Van James, artist, art lecturer,
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/for-all-questions/
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From October 12 to 14, a group of 30 convened at Bart Eddy’s Brightmoor Maker Space in Detroit, Michigan, to engage in the work of depolarization. Although small, the group included people from all over the U.S. and Canada, and individuals of all ages.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/a-sacred-space/
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In the run-up to Michaelmas 2025, Marion von der Wense presented her idea of the free soul calendar at the Rudolf Steiner House in Hamburg. Here she reports on it.
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General Anthroposophy - Life Takes Me at My Word
In the run-up to Michaelmas 2025, Marion von der Wense presented her idea of the free soul calendarSee “Renewal in the Feminine” in the Goetheanum Weekly,
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/life-takes-me-at-my-word/
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From November 21 to 23, 2025, the Biodynamic Association will host an online conference titled “Sowing Seeds of a Future Agriculture.”
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Agriculture - Sowing the Future
Albany, New York. An online conference on biodynamic agriculture.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/sowing-the-future/
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From November 21 to 23, 2025, the Biodynamic Association will host an online conference titled “Sowing Seeds of a Future Agriculture.”
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Agriculture - Sowing the Future
Albany, New York. An online conference on biodynamic agriculture.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/sowing-the-future/
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Where the American tradition sees control of consciousness, the Chinese tradition sees harmony, and where the Chinese tradition sees the violence of chaos, the American tradition sees freedom.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/usa-china-complementary-humanisms/
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"It’s worth trying to remember the time in your life when you gave your Faustian signature, when you signed the pact with Mephisto. Individually and as a social body, we stand with Faust at the current turning point of modernity."
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/faustian-ascent-from-the-faustian-abyss/
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2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Hande Başaran, musician and Waldorf teacher, gives her answers.
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Tribute to Rudolf Steiner - Meaning to my Wounds
Alanya, Turkey. 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Hande Başaran, musician and Waldorf
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/meaning-to-my-wounds/
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Friends of Waldorf Education in Turkey are honoring Rudolf Steiner’s legacy on the 100th anniversary of his death with the art exhibition “Steiner100.”
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Exhibition - In a Silent Dialogue
Istanbul, Turkey. Friends of Waldorf Education in Turkey are honoring Rudolf Steiner's legacy on the 100th anniversary of his death with the art exhibition
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/in-a-silent-dialogue/
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In his new book, Wolfgang Gädeke shines a light on the origins of the Christian Community. He deconstructs myths, organizes sources, and shows Rudolf Steiner’s formative role beyond mere consultation.
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History - Between Anthroposophy and Church
In his new book, Wolfgang Gädeke shines a light on the origins of the Christian Community. He deconstructs myths, organizes sources, and shows Rudolf
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/between-anthroposophy-and-church/
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Anthroposophy is surprisingly new in Turkey, which has a population of 85.5 million. It needs people who can bring the anthroposophical impulse into Turkish culture. One of these people was Tarhan Onur.
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Obituary - From Seed to Movement
In memory of Tarhan Onur (May 8, 1947–July 27, 2025), the mother of Waldorf education in Turkey.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/from-seed-to-movement/
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Tho developed criteria, standards, and instruments for placing external and internal development, harmony with oneself, with fellow human beings, and with the environment at the center of development.
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Obituary - The East-West Master of Happiness
Ha Vinh Tho, September 27, 1951 – September 26, 2025
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/the-east-west-master-of-happiness/
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Rudolf Steiner described learning to understand time and overcoming the deception we succumb to with regard to temporal relationships as one of the important challenges currently facing humanity.
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Essay - Does Time Exist?
Theoretical physicists have long argued that time is not real—that it is an illusion.Craig Callender, “Is Time an Illusion?,” Scientific American 302, no. 6
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/does-time-exist/
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During Easter, from April 1 to 5, 2026, the Online Academy for Social Art (OASA) is organizing a multigenerational gathering in Cape Town entitled “Remembering Our Shared Future: To Speak from the Stars.”
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Consciousness - From the Stars
Cape Town, South Africa. A gathering for spiritual understanding and imagination.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/from-the-stars/
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The Anthroposophical Prison Outreach (APO) program, based in Michigan, USA, makes Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings accessible to incarcerated people.
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General Anthroposophy - Anthroposophical Prison Outreach Charity Walk
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Anthroposophical study materials for people in prison.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/intl-anthroposophical-prison-outreach-walk-a-thon/
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"According to Sloterdijk, we’ve all been thrown back into the position of sorcerer’s apprentices. Today’s technology can only be understood as a response to the archaic desire for power: conjuring up, spiriting away, wanting to have."
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AI Challenges - Garden or Engine Room of Humanity?
Peter Sloterdijk offers a talk about today's magical will, the Kremlin in the soul, and the path to peace, under the intriguing title: “Garden or engine room
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/garden-or-engine-room-of-humanity/
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The Ambassador Internship for Anthroposophic Medicine is an offering from the Integrative Health Center at Heliopolis University, which was founded by the Egyptian initiative Sekem.
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Medicine - Intern and Ambassador
Cairo, Egypt. A new training opportunity in anthroposophic medicine.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/intern-and-ambassador/
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"There’s a spiritual intention, and then you have to connect that with reality. That’s life. This is repeated in every anthroposophical initiative. There’s an idea, and we want to grasp it. Spirit needs form. But form kills spirit."
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Conversation - When Life and Work Go Hand in Hand
Justus Wittich, Executive Board member and Treasurer of the Goetheanum, celebrates his 70th birthday on September 10, 2025. Enno Schmidt spoke with him about
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/when-life-and-work-go-hand-in-hand/
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The anthroposophical educational initiative Free Columbia is offering a five-week online painting course for anyone interested from September 24 to October 29.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/painting-autumn/
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From September 30 to December 9, 2025, the next digital lecture series of the International Campus Waldorf (ICW) will take place, an online educational program organized by the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences.
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News - Waldorf Qualities
Alfter, Germany. International lectures on the current situation of Waldorf education.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/waldorf-qualities/
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"Light is a sensorial insight into the spiritual innerspace that would otherwise remain dark to us."
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Natural Sciences - Light Is Consciousness
In the Goetheanum Weekly 2/2025, Martin Rozumek and Hans-Christian Zehnter developed their view of how sensory phenomena invite us to read them as a Book of
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/light-is-consciousness/
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This year’s Latin American Biodynamic Conference will take place in Costa Rica from September 21 to 25. The venue is the Cantalagua Tierra Viva biodynamic farm in San Ramón.
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Agriculture - Co-Creating Biodynamics
San Ramón, Costa Rica. A biodynamic conference in Latin America.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/co-creating-biodynamics/
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Nicanor Perlas, an anthroposophical civil rights activist and environmentalist born on January 10, 1950, passed away on August 15, 2025. This review of his last book is a tribute to his work.
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Review - Collective Human Intelligence
Nicanor Perlas, an anthroposophical civil rights activist and environmentalist born on January 10, 1950, passed away on August 15, 2025. This review of his
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/collective-human-intelligence/
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Shannon Boyce, a singer trained in the Werbeck Method and teacher at A Supple Voice Singing School, is offering a free, English-language video series in four parts aimed at parents, teachers, and caregivers of children.
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Education - Singing for Children
New York. An online singing course for parents and educators.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/singing-for-children/
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Michaela Glöckler wrote the introduction for the Critical Edition of Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit. Ten special features of this work.
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Literature - Pooled Knowledge for Understanding Us Human Beings
Michaela Glöckler wrote the introduction for the Critical Edition of Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/pooled-knowledge-for-understanding-us-human-beings/
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Waldorf upper school is a realm of development, because our rapidly changing world is calling for new content and forms of teaching. It is important for upper school teachers to exchange ideas.
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Education - International Waldorf Conference
Kassel, Germany. Waldorf upper school is a realm of development, because our rapidly changing world is calling for new content and forms of teaching. It is
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/international-waldorf-conference/
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Nicanor Perlas crossed many thresholds on behalf of all of us. On August 15, he crossed the threshold into the spiritual world in Bulacan, the Philippines. We thank you, Nicanor, for your earthly work and your earthly being!
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Economics - Nicanor Perlas 1950–2025
A friend and a great advocate of threefolding has crossed the threshold.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/nicanor-perlas-1950-2025/
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2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in individual people? Birgit Philipp, manager of the Rudolf Steiner bookshop in Hamburg, gives her answers.
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Tribute to Rudolf Steiner - The Essential
Hamburg, Germany. 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death. How does he live on in individual people? Birgit Philipp, manager of the Rudolf
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/the-essential/
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The 2025 annual conference of the Medical Section will focus on Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit.
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Conversation - A Book that Grounds You
The 2025 annual conference of the Medical Section will focus on Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/a-book-that-grounds-you/
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The days are turbulent. My thoughts are restless and peaceless. Agitated, they’re like birds of prey, circling incessantly around the word “ineffective.”
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Column - Ineffective
The days are turbulent. My thoughts are restless and peaceless. Agitated, they’re like birds of prey, circling incessantly around the word “ineffective.”
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/ineffective/
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From November 6 to 9, 2025, a Biodynamic Conference of Asian countries will be held in Nepal for the third time.
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Agriculture - Healing Himalayas
Pokhara, Nepal. The Third Asian Biodynamic Conference.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/healing-himalayas/
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A new eurythmy therapy training course was launched in Yokohama on March 22, 2025.
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Education - With the Cherry Blossoms
Yokohama, Japan. A new eurythmy therapy training in Japan.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/with-the-cherry-blossoms/
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This essay hopes to build a bridge between The Philosophy of Freedom and spiritual vision, and at the same time, point out that no scientifically based break can be found between Steiner’s epistemological writings and supersensible knowledge.
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General Anthroposophy - Seed of a Spiritual View
This essay hopes to build a bridge between The Philosophy of Freedom and spiritual vision, and at the same time, point out that no scientifically based break
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/seed-of-a-spiritual-view/
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A transdisciplinary colloquium brought the fields of emergency relief work, emergency pedagogy, and trauma pedagogy together at the Goetheanum.
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Pedagogy - Learning as a Seed in a Time of Crisis
A transdisciplinary colloquium brought the fields of emergency relief work, emergency pedagogy, and trauma pedagogy together at the Goetheanum.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/learning-as-a-seed-in-a-time-of-crisis/
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Starting in the winter semester of 2025, students from Lishui University in China will have the opportunity to take the Bachelor’s double-degree program in Art Education Therapy.
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Education - Art, Pedagogy, and Therapy
Alfter, Germany/Lishui, China. A German-Chinese study cooperation.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/art-pedagogy-and-therapy/
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The apparent similarity between cosmic and neural networks was so striking that astrophysicists from the University of Bologna, in collaboration with neuroscientists, decided to investigate further.
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Natural Sciences - The Common Structure of the Brain and the Cosmos
In February 2025, a remarkable study was published in the renowned journal Nature Astronomy (Glavin et al. 2025).Daniel P. Glavin et al., “Abundant Ammonia
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/the-common-structure-of-the-brain-and-the-cosmos/
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The topic of polarities came up in a conversation with Bodo von Plato on his research into aesthetics. Polarities constitute the world, and aesthetic practice can help raise them to a higher level.
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Artwork - Aesthetics as a Spiritual Path
The topic of polarities came up in a conversation with Bodo von Plato on his research into aesthetics. Polarities constitute the world, and aesthetic practice
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/aesthetics-as-a-spiritual-path/
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Copies of the Paintings of the Masters, often mentioned within the Theosophical Society, can be found today in the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach, Switzerland.
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About Rudolf Steiner - The Painter of the Portraits of the Masters—Rudolf Steiner and Hermann Schmiechen
Copies of the Paintings of the Masters, often mentioned within the Theosophical Society, can be found today in the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach,
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/the-painter-of-the-portraits-of-the-masters-rudolf-steiner-and-hermann-schmiechen/
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In the spirit of the Rosicrucian manifestos, Martin Bernard published Plea for European renewal. He takes a historical look at Europe as a cultural space with materialism as its backbone—and calls for a renewal of science and humanism.
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Conversation - For a Spiritual Renewal of Europe!
In the spirit of the Rosicrucian manifestos published 400 years ago, Swiss journalist Martin Bernard published Plaidoyer pour un renouveau européen in 2024.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/for-a-spiritual-renewal-of-europe/
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Being part of the Youth Section gives me a lot: peace of mind, hope, shared ambition.
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News - The Inherent Good
Philmont, New York. Lucy Nordin is an active member of the North American Youth Section. Here, she talks about what working for the section means to her.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/the-inherent-good/
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Chrysalis was born out of the desire to discover what a new education model could be, to take up the question that led to the formation of the first Waldorf school.
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News - Threads of Potential
Hillsdale, New York. Voices of the North American Youth Section: Berenika Lehrman.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/threads-of-potential/
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Despite serious scientific studies, critics of biodynamics continue to mock it and label it pseudoscience, especially in France. The “materialistic paradigm” cannot find an approach to characterize such practices.
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Agriculture - New Anthropological Perspectives to Extend Science
A study by Jürgen Fritz on the two biodynamic spray preparations takes an important step toward explaining their effects scientifically. New analytical
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/new-anthropological-perspectives-to-extend-science/
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True Search: an open-source project of the North American Youth Section.
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News - Charitable Searching
Philmont, New York. An open-source project of the North American Youth Section.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/charitable-searching/
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Every Autumn, the Goetheanum receives a new cohort of students for the three-trimester Anthroposophy Studies on Campus.
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Education - Schools to Think the World Anew
Every Autumn, the Goetheanum receives a new cohort of students for the three-trimester Anthroposophy Studies on Campus. Central to the learning experience are
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/schools-to-think-the-world-anew/
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Since anthroposophy is neither a system nor a doctrine but a special kind of science, the question of how it is taught is particularly interesting.
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Conversation - How Do You Teach Anthroposophy?
Since anthroposophy is neither a system nor a doctrine but a special kind of science, the question of how it is taught is particularly interesting. Louis
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/how-do-you-teach-anthroposophy/
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The etheric body learns through repetition. You could keep practicing eurythmy’s threefold stepping, lift-carry-place, for a lifetime. The astral body, on the other hand, learns by realizing something once.
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Column - How the ‘I’, Astral and Etheric Bodies Learn
Georg Unger, former head of the Mathematical-Astronomical Section, was a mathematician with a choleric temperament. This combination made him quite good with
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/how-the-i-astral-and-etheric-bodies-learn/
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From October 10 to 12, 2025, the second international Sekem Festival will take place in Graz, Austria.
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News - What Wants to Emerge
Graz, Austria. The second Sekem Festival in Austria.
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/what-wants-to-emerge/
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2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in particular individuals? Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum, gives his answers.
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Agriculture - A Path of Research
Dornach, Switzerland. 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death. How does he live on in particular individuals? Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/a-path-of-research/
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At Pentecost, a conference on the School of Spiritual Science was held at the Goetheanum for the first time. The focus was on the research and cultural work of the Sections.
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Research - Impulses for the School for Spiritual Science
At Pentecost, a conference on the School of Spiritual Science was held at the Goetheanum for the first time. The focus was on the research and cultural work
https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/impulses-for-the-school-for-spiritual-science/
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