Dear Members, The meeting of the Goetheanum Executive Committee with the General Secretaries and Section Leaders was held in Dornach from November 1st to 4th. Among the points on the agenda: a) a review of the Michaelmas Conference and b) looking ahead to the 100th anniversary...
Dear members, Warm greetings! On Thanksgiving weekend, we had the annual meeting of the Council and Class Holders in Toronto. This meeting, which is supported in the budget of the Society, provides an opportunity for us to come together around a common research topic. It also gives...
(all poems are in his volume, “Under the Almond Tree”) Yaqoob was born on February 9th, 1942 in Kanpur, India. Yaqoob was born into a loving, large and vibrant family. And even though he had a particularly close relationship with his older brother, grandmother and with...
I am happy to be able to speak to you today of my sweetheart, my life companion, Léon. He left us peacefully and serenely, as he had wished, at home, surrounded by his loved ones, on Friday, June 3rd, 2016. It is impossible to speak of...
John Bach, at the August 2016 Encountering Our Humanity conference in Ottawa you gave a workshop about your research on biodynamic beekeeping. What is your background and how did you become interested in bees? I have been studying Anthroposophy for 25 years, gardening biodynamically for 15...
"I would like to acknowledge with gratitude how I felt accommodated by the ethos of the conference Encountering Our Humanity. The Ottawa event really spoke to the spirit of the Cambridge Music Conference. I really valued the autonomy I was granted. I felt the true...
At Encountering our Humanity's plenum participants were asked to share something small enough to carry with them, take care of it and make it grow. Here are some seeds. À la plénière nous avons demandé aux participants de partager quelque chose d’assez petit pour qu’ils puissent...
To experience the others, and to experience myself, amongst us. The Youth Section shared a rolling stream of meals, words, melodies, meetings, in Ottawa, Canada this August. The Anthroposophical Society of Canada hosted us at their conference "Encountering Our Humanity". Humanity did show up, and so...
This man, Doug Cass, in 1981 asked himself, "Should I do it?" "Yes," I said, and so Tri-Fold Books came into being In 2008, Doug left for important work over the threshold and I carried on as the caretaker. Starting July 1st, Gabriele Freydank-Edelstein has taken charge...
Michael! You cast the dragon down to earth, So man, on earth, can look up to heaven and witness pure light. The dragon fell into abyss of matter. There in darkness, pure light of redemption reaches it not, For from above, in humanity, divine light becomes lost. Depth of the abyss...