“Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.” Decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael and his workshop. Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of...
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Point Reyes Artist: Unknown. Lyrics: Leonard Cohen. San Francisco: May 9-12, 2025 OPEN CONFERENCE Conference Preview Video Click Here to Register for Entire Conference OR Choose your...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
"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...
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...
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 --...
"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...
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