Artwork: "Marusia in the Library" by David Burliuk The San Francisco campus of the 2024 Section has closed to new registrations. But there's a reasonable chance space will open in August. If you want to be on a Waiting List, contact me at...
Fairytale Group / Summer 2024
Back Porch Sculpture "Sacramento Summer" by Judith Spivak The Section sponsors an ongoing Fairytale Group that meets twice a month (weather permitting) on the back porch overlooking the garden. Section member Marion Donehower, who is also a member of the...
Poetry Night / June 22, 2024
"Poetry Nite" Artwork by Marion Donehower June 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, if...
Poetry Reading by Nicholas Morrow
Cover Artwork: "The Watershed Angel" by Ami Spangler Section poet Nicholas Morrow read from his newly published collection of poems, The Mirror and the Muse, at our Section meeting on April 16, 2024. THE MIRROR AND THE MUSE is a collection of 130 poems...
“Reset or Renaissance” by Daniel Polikoff
Available from Steinerbooks Reset or Renaissance Life, Liberty, and the Quest for Enlightenment in a Post-Covid World Reset or Renaissance offers a real-time chronicle of events unfolding during the heated core of the Covid pandemic: the latter half of 2021, shortly...
Poetry Reading by Una Kobrin
Artwork:by Diane Lockett Poet Una Kobrin reads from her recently published collection of poetry: Words Between Darkness & Light Here is a recording of the reading the occurred at our Section meeting. April 6, 2024. Poem Titles in the Order of...
“Why Should I Care About Novalis?”
"He hovered. like a cloud . . . like an element of nature, active in rain and sunshine." -- Rudolf Steiner, describing the Prophet Elijah; September 17, 1912 Easter - Pentecost 2024 Dear Friends, This page began as a resource page for students in the...
“Ghost Modernism” / Initiation, Shamanism, & Soul Recovery
"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...
The Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities / by Christiane Haid
History of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science by Christiane Haid, Ph.D. (Goetheanum; Dornach, Switzerland) Dr. Haid is the present leader of the Section at the Goetheanum. Her biography is discussed in this...
“The Bloody Sire” by Robinson Jeffers
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...