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What Were Rudolf Steiner’s Sources for the Agriculture Course?
07 February 2024

What Were Rudolf Steiner’s Sources for the Agriculture Course?

Rudolf Steiner was not a farmer. Despite this, he delivered the Agriculture Course—eight lectures in June 1924 that provided the starting point ...

New Video: The Anthroposophical Society’s School of Spiritual Science
29 January 2024

New Video: The Anthroposophical Society’s School of Spiritual Science

The Anthroposophical Society’s School of Spiritual Science in relation to the esoteric groups founded before the Christmas Conference. A lecture ...

Rudolf Steiner’s theory of the senses
28 January 2024

Rudolf Steiner’s theory of the senses

Earthly incarnation is the basis of ‘I’ development. The relationship between the quality of encounter and the higher senses is the subject of the ...

Intuitions based on perception
28 January 2024

Intuitions based on perception

The project ‘Active perception as the basis for free actions in agriculture’ seeks to create a foundation for responsible actions.

Learning to detect qualities in images
28 January 2024

Learning to detect qualities in images

A project on ‘capillary dynamolysis as basic research to promote a better understanding of herbal medicines’ uses artemisia to explore this ...

Weekly verses sculpted
28 January 2024

Weekly verses sculpted

Rik ten Cate created 52 bronze sculptures for the verses of Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical Soul Calendar. They can be seen in an exhibition at ...

The Dramatic Backdrop of the Rising Generation
26 January 2024

The Dramatic Backdrop of the Rising Generation

A particular dynamic that influences countless young people today who are striving spiritually is showing up most strikingly in the use of both ...

The Problem with the Constitution of the Anthroposophical Society
26 January 2024

The Problem with the Constitution of the Anthroposophical Society

In a series of talks about the impulses of the Christmas Conference of 1923/1924, Gerald Häfner opened his lecture (”The Problem with the ...

Technology and Spirituality
09 January 2024

Technology and Spirituality

Through working with young people internationally in recent years, especially after the discussions in the Youth Section staff meeting in June of ...

Sun, Earth, Human Being: 100 Years of the Agricultural Course
01 January 2024

Sun, Earth, Human Being: 100 Years of the Agricultural Course

“From the sun—through the Earth—for the human being, so that humanity may one day become a sun for the earth.” This leading thought is the ...

Cows as carers of land and climate
21 December 2023

Cows as carers of land and climate

Cows emit methane, a gas that affects climate. This effect does not have to be harmful. From the point of view of biodynamic agriculture, what ...

Goetheanum TV as a window into the Goetheanum
19 December 2023

Goetheanum TV as a window into the Goetheanum

In 2023, the communication department at the Goetheanum reached a new dimension with the ‘goetheanum.tv’ portal. Weekly video productions from the ...