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“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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“Who is Rudolf Steiner . . . for Our 21st Century?”
"On the Job" / Photo from Rudolf Steiner: Eine Bildbiografie (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2021) Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference that will occur May 9-12 in San Francisco, I gave this lecture to a mixed audience on March 30, 2025 -- the 100th anniversary day of Rudolf Steiner's death in Dornach, Switzerland. I especially wanted to speak to a mixed audience -- some were intimately familiar with Rudolf Steiner, some only casually familiar, and some had researched Rudolf Steiner and were critical for a variety of well reasoned...
“Where are the Youth?” / Joan Caldarera
Dear Friends, At our recent Section meeting on March 29, 2025, San Francisco High School humanities teacher Joan...
ASA Easter Festival Lecture
"Suddenly Novalis was completely transparent to me . . . " -- Marie Steiner-von Sivers Dear Friends, Here is the...
“The Fairy Tale” of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
". . . the germinal seed of the anthroposophical movement" -- Rudolf Steiner Click Cover Photo to Preview or Purchase "For those whose...
2025 Section Conference / San Francisco / Registration Link & Detailed Information
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Point Reyes Artist: Unknown. Lyrics: Leonard Cohen. "Return to the Mountain:...
Why Can’t Henry Sit Still? The Moral Challenge of Faust
“Iron Hans in the Cage” by Gordon Browne, 1894 By Bruce Donehower, Ph.D. This essay originally appeared in 2017 in the Newsletter of the Section for the...
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