Connecting with the world around us – wherever we are

Dear members,This issue will reach you just before – or possibly not until after – the Annual General Meeting of the General Anthroposophical Society on 27 March. It looks likely that members will not be (or have been) able to take part in-person at the Goetheanum.

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Again, contact with members all over the world will be via livestream – a format that has become routine for many of us and that can make us aware of how intensely the place where we meet is part of the encounter and how much we miss not being able to meet, not only in time but also in a location. New ways of coming together are being tested that demand their own forms and need us to explore their possibilities and limitations.

Enveloping awareness

The conference Breathing with the Climate Crisis in mid-February, which was organized by both the Section for Agriculture and the Youth Section, connected people from more than 60 countries and enveloped the earth with the awareness that the bated breath is asking for ecological, social and spiritual change. The young people and farmers met against the background of this shared task: for and with the earth, and around the earth. Can this layer of awareness contribute to easing the breathing?

The Goetheanum was not able to perform its usual task as local host. Instead it was a guest itself on numerous farms, in houses and homes where people were coming together depending on the given circumstances.

We are asked to take hold of the reality of our localization in a new way, by connecting with the world around us where we are and shaping the way we participate in life on the basis of that. This requires the courage of knowledge, individual responsibility and ever new affirmation of the world – three requirements that will accompany our work this year at the Goetheanum, too, and that we intend to carry into and out of the AGM.

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