Lectures

The Dark Forest: A Fairytale

  In Search of Ars Poetica. Does the work of our Section really matter? What do we do? Why do we do it?       470. ARS LITTERARIA. The Literary Arts. Everything that a scholar does, says, speaks, suffers, and hears, etc. must be an artistic,...

Sovereigns of the Grail

This is an abridged English-language version of the lecture given in German in Dornach at Pentecost 2023 when Marion and I attended the International Grail Conference. I shortened this lecture and changed a few things for a North American audience in order to fit it...

Parzival’s Quest / Poetry by Section Poets & Friends

  A video made to celebrate the May 2023 Grail Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The video includes photos of the Arlesheim grottoes  and poems by Section Poets and poet-friends of the Section. The poems were taken to the Grail Conference...

Spiritual Friendship

Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Goethe's Fairytale "The Green Snake and Beautiful Lily." An introductory video made for the Anthroposophical Society in America.     A brief introduction to a text that Rudolf Steiner hailed as the "germinal...