“The Red Thread”

 Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953)     Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century   Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an...

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Goethe’s Fairy Tale

Green Snake Discovered in the Bushes at the Goetheanum; November 2024     "In my end is my beginning . . ." The Fairytale that Inspired Anthroposophy   Dear Friends, This is an unabridged version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom at the Front Range...

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“Art Opens Our Eyes to the Spiritual World”

"Temple Veil" by Marion Donehower   An Interview with Artist Marion Donehower from Stil Magazine   Dear Friends, Marion Donehower is a member of the leadership group of the North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for...

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“Hymns to the Night” / 2025 Conference Texts

Canadian virtuoso, Emmanuel Vukovich   Hymns to the Night The Fairytale of Eros and Fable Celebrating the Mountain / 2025 Edition     Hymns to the Night by Novalis is "the most important poem of early [German] romanticism and a work that finds its rank...

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Section Meetings & Events / Autumn 2025

"Dance of the Spirits" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section)   Dear Friends, Once again . . . Welcome! . . . as we progress into the second quarter of our 21st century, more than 100 years after the death of Rudolf Steiner in March, 1925.  Here is a "work in...

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“The Poet & the Painter” / by Albert Steffen

"Practice Spirit Beholding!" Artwork: Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section)     Rainer Maria Rilke / Paul Cézanne   Dear Friends, One of the unique aspects of our Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities is its very close connection to the visual...

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“100 Years Rudolf Steiner” Conference / Harvard

Goetheanum   Dear Friends, Several Section friends and members have asked me for information on the Harvard Divinity School "100 Years Rudolf Steiner" Conference in December 2025. To answer some questions, I made this very brief video (5 minutes).    ...

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2025 Section Conference / Keynote Lecture by Christiane Haid

May 10, 2025, San Francisco   2025 Section Conference, San Francisco Keynote Lecture Two “The Crucial Importance of Art and Beauty to the Practice of Anthroposophy” by Christiane Haid (Translated & Edited by Claudia Fontana / Performing Arts Section)  ...

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2025 Section Conference / Keynote Lectures

"Enso" by Paul Reps Lectures By Bruce Donehower & Christiane Haid       Keynote Lecture One "The Unmapped Land" by Bruce Donehower   Dear Friends, Good morning! Welcome! I won’t do my conference announcements now. I’ll do those at the end of my...

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