"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...
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) ...
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...
"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...
"Mountain Musing" / photo Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, The trail to our very successful 2025 North American Section Conference had many zigs and zags and fierce entanglements along the way . . . as I discussed in the Conference summary chronology. Our "Return...
A dedicated group of Poets, Musicians, Artist-Scholars, and Coyotes met on the last day of the Conference on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The skies opened; the sun shone brightly! The Mountain sang! A Conference Summary & Chronology...
"Build it! But will they come?" / 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...
“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde "Frühling ist wiedergekommen" "Spring has returned!" Sonnets to Orpheus / Part 1, Sonnet 21 / by Rainer Maria Rilke English Translation by Bruce Donehower. “Spring has returned! The earth is like a...
Dear Friends, At our recent Section meeting on March 29, 2025, San Francisco High School humanities teacher Joan Caldarera shared essays and poems from her students that arose from their work with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Joan's meeting presentation had the title...
"Suddenly Novalis was completely transparent to me . . . " -- Marie Steiner-von Sivers Dear Friends, Here is the Zoom recording of the lecture given on Thursday, April 10, 2025 as the final lecture in the Zoom lecture series hosted by the Anthroposophical...
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