“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: Tracks to New Mythologies" A Conference for Friends & Members of the North American Section for the...
An Exciting New Literary Initiative from the North American Youth Section
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Group of an exciting new literary initiative: Futuring Now. Editor Adeline Lyons shared this link to the online magazine, and I told her I would let the friends and members know. Click this sentence...
The Poet Friedrich Hölderlin
Sketch of "mad poet" Hölderlin “Night, the astonishing, there, the stranger to all that is human, Over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, from Bread and Wine Dear Friends, At our meeting on February 8, we spent the...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of “Novalis”
John the Baptist Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised these lectures for distribution to a wider public, especially for the...
Poetry Night / October 12, 2024
"Planning Ahead" Photo by Elliot Tripp October 14, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night at which friends and members of the Section read original poetry. Poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems, if there is...
“Owen Barfield & the ‘Meaning’ Crisis” / Jeffrey Hipolito
"Palimpsest" / photo bruce donehower Dear Friends, Part One / Jeffrey Hipolito gave a presentation with this title "Owen Barfield and the 'Meaning' Crisis" at our Section meeting on December 7, 2024. Jeff is a member of the Section leadership team, and, as noted...
Anthroposophy? Buddhism? Worlds Apart?
"Stone Soup" / photo bruce donehower Dear Friends, This is an edited abridgment of the commentary on Lecture Nine from the lecture cycle "According to Luke" that I gave during the Faust Branch Holy Night celebrations on January 4, 2025 on Zoom. This night was also a...
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...
Section Meeting Schedule / Winter & Spring 2025
School for Spiritual Science / Goetheanum Dear Friends, Welcome to the beginning of the second quarter of our 21st century! Here is the Schedule for the Section Zoom meetings that originate in Northern California, Fair Oaks. Meetings start at 7 pm Pacific --...
“Atlantis” by Novalis
"Atlantis" / Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Purchase or Preview On May 21, 2022, friends and members of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America continued their...