Meeting Summaries

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....

“Eros and Fable” by Novalis

“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...

“The Red Thread”

 Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953)     Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century   Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an...