Staircase Inside Hawk Tower, built by poet Robinson Jeffers by hand stone by stone for his wife Una Dear Friends, As part of the 2024 eight-day North American Section Conference, an intrepid band of literary explorers trekked to Big Sur to visit the...
“Jeffrey Hipolito has produced a meticulous analysis of the creative oeuvre of Owen Barfield, the man known as ‘the first and last Inkling.’ While I was familiar with Barfield’s philosophy, I knew little about his extensive creative output; Hipolito has...
Easter, 2024 Dear Friends, On May 2, 2021, Section friends and members celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the poet Novalis, by taking a virtual tour of the Castle Siebeneichen. A Journey to Dresden The...
Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower “Is The Fairytale is Mightier Than Philosophy?” "Once upon a time there was a king who had three sons, two of whom were clever and intelligent, but the third one did not talk very much. He was slow...
"Basel Fastnacht" / Photo by Bertram Mouton "Along with the feeling of dread for the advent of modernity . . . another important aspect of the modernist attitude -- perhaps the most important aspect for our purposes – is a turn to mythology and the deep past...
"Still Warm but Rain" / Artwork by Diane Lockett March 22, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of the Section read original poetry and in which poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems,...
"Tools of the Trade" / Photograph taken in Robinson Jeffers "Hawk Tower" / Big Sur / Northern California, North America / Photo: Bruce Donehower March 10, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of...
"Persona" / photo by Bruce Donehower "The Mystery of Plato & Aristotle" " . . .the importance of the friendship . . . cannot be overestimated . . . " -- Christoph Lindenberg, from Rudolf Steiner, Eine Biographie, vol. 1, chapter 3 Easter, 2024 Dear...
Artwork: "Monolith X" by Marion Donehower At the Section meeting on February 24, 2024, we discussed the topic of Literary Modernism in respect to Threshold Experiences and Soul Loss. A variety of twentieth-century modernist poets and novelists were mentioned....
Woodcut by Arvia MacKaye Ege As a university department in the School for Spiritual Science, the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne Wissenschaften, as the name appears in German) sponsors a variety of research initiatives that focus on core...
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