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ES A Journal & Newsletter for Friends & Members of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities in North America of the School for Spiritual Science.
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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Section Conferences / 2024 & 2025
Save the Date! 2025 North American Section Conference May 9-12, 2025 / San Francisco In September 2024 the Literary Arts and Humanities Section in North America of the School for Spiritual Science sponsored an eight-day Section Conference that anchored itself in two North American cities: San Francisco and Toronto. Between these two events in San Francisco and Toronto, a dedicated group of conference participants made a multi-day literary field trip to Big Sur in Northern California where we visited poet Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel and the Henry Miller Library in Big...
Anthroposophy? Buddhism? / Worlds Apart?
Dear Friends, This is an edited abridgment of the commentary on Lecture Nine from the lecture cycle "According to Luke"...
Section Meeting Schedule / Winter & Spring 2025
School for Spiritual Science / Goetheanum Dear Friends, Welcome to the beginning of the second quarter of our 21st...
“The Dawn of the Beautiful” / Morning Lectures from Day One of the 2024 North American Section Conference
Dear Friends, While a full report and a "Proceedings of the Conference" lie yet ahead, here are recordings of the two lectures that began our eight-day 2024...
Literature as a Path to Being Human
Woodcut by Arvia MacKaye Ege As a university department in the School for Spiritual Science, the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne...
“The Literary Arts and Humanities Section in North America” by Marguerite Miller
Marguerite Miller was the North American representative to the Goetheanum for the Section of the Literary Arts and Humanities in the North American Collegium...
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