News from the Goetheanum

07 February 2024
Livestreams of the Agriculture Conference in six languages
The Agriculture Conference at the Goetheanum starts today. Many of the lectures and panel discussions will be streamed live on Goetheanum.tv.

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 for a ...

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 by ...

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 ...

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.

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 imaging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 cows ...