Dear Friends, In November 2025 the Anthroposophical Society in America hosted three one-hour sessions on the topic The Community Begins: Rudolf Steiner's "Theosophical" Years, 1900-1914. These presentations were an offering to the ASA from the Section for the...
All Souls Poetry Night / November 2025
"Map Discovered on Cliffs Above the Pacific Ocean" / photo bdonehower Dear Friends, Last year we began what I hope will be a new tradition in our North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities: we celebrated All Souls with readings of original...
An Exciting New Literary Initiative from the North American Youth Section
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Section 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. Update: January...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century
Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953) Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an audience friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society in America. The lecture occurred on April 10, 2025,...
The Literary Arts & Humanities Section in North America / 2000 – 2006
The Literary Arts & Humanities Section in North America An Overview Written in 2006 by Marguerite Miller Editor's Note: This essay is twenty years old . . . and counting. It is offered as an important historical document. Few people know the history...
Presentation by Andrew Linnell / An Intersectional Section Meeting on Nov. 8, 2025
"Writings on a Wall" / photo by bruce donehower Dear Friends: On November 8, 2025 Andrew Linnell from the Natural Sciences Section gave a presentation with the title "What will AI do to Humanity?" Here is a full recording of Andrew's talk. It includes the...
Anthroposophy & Buddhism / A Presentation by Robert McDermott & Bruce Donehower
Photo "Stone & Chronicle" by Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, Robert McDermott and Bruce Donehower collaborated to present an evening of conversation and commentary on the topic "Anthroposophy & Buddhism" for the Faust Branch of the Anthroposophical...
An Interview with Christiane Haid & Ariane Eichenberg / Publisher & Editor of STIL Magazine
Section Leader Christiane Haid & STIL Editor Ariane Eichenberg Dear Friends: STIL magazine is a German-language quarterly publication of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities and the Section for the Visual Arts. Both Sections are under the leadership...
Section Meeting / September 21, 2025
"Cloud HIdden, Whereabouts Unknown" / photo b donehower Dear Friends: The Section’s Northern California group met for a New Moon Salon on September 21. This was a hybrid event: in-person and on Zoom for those far away. We discussed recent events in the Section,...
“The Poet and the Dead” by Albert Steffen
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....
