“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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‘Return to the Mountain”

"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...

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2025 Section Conference Highlights

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...

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“Who is Rudolf Steiner . . . for our 21st Century?”

"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...

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