Michael was born in an ambulance that had broken down on the way to the hospital. This was in Hamburg, Germany, a month after WW2 had been declared. His father was an aspiring sea captain, away at sea on the famous sailing vessel, the Padua....
TAKING CARE These days when we say ‘take care’ do we really mean ‘beware’? Beware of falling into fanaticism (which would certainly delight Lucifer); or beware of succumbing to fear and lies, thus living in the power of Arhiman? Let’s rather take it as ‘Be aware’ – of how we speak, what we say, how...
I was first introduced to anthroposophy while volunteering at a small Waldorf school initiative, Sisonke School in the village of Port St. John’s, in the Transkei region of South Africa when I was 19 years old. The agricultural lectures were my first Steiner readings as...
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I met a classmate at nursing school in London, England whose education had been very different from mine. I was fascinated and learnt about Waldorf education for the first time. Fast forward 21 years, I was...
An Interview with Adola How did you meet Rudolf Steiner's work? Anthroposophy came with my mother's milk and my father's sunshine; I was surrounded with books by Steiner and Tomberg. My father could have met Steiner and was devastated that he didn't, his friend, Dr. Karl Konig,...
At the Encountering Our Humanity conference in Ottawa in 2016, a small group of members gathered with the intention to share research and experiences from our meditation. Beginning in early 2017, this group of 9 members from across Canada met regularly until August 2021, when...
Dear members, As an infectious disease, Covid-19 is more than a medical phenomenon. Because of its pandemic spread special laws pertaining to pandemics were activated across the world, gradually transferring the power to act to state governments. At the highest level of urgency, the power to...