Warm greetings and Happy New Year! 2016 promises to be a big year for the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. The website for the Society will be launched shortly. We have the North American conference Encountering Our Humanity in Ottawa in August, with its wealth...
“What is really at the core of Hesperus' mission is to explore, develop and support what is truly human. It's like the snowflake. Each snowflake is the same - and different. And that's also the case with human beings. Each of us has our own...
A major conference entitled Encountering our Humanity: From Knowledge to Conscious Action will be held in Ottawa from August 7th to 14th, 2016. This conference is the initiative of Arie van Ameringen, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. The following is an interview...
Warm greetings to all the members. From October 10th to October 12th, the Council had the opportunity to meet and work together in Ottawa. We stayed at the residence on the campus of La Cité collégiale, which is the location...
Friday evening 24 July 2015, I was at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Vancouver, Canada. I had come to listen to Bodo von Plato lecture on “Philosophy, Anthroposophy and Everyday Life.” The following morning we were asked to give a free interpretation of what the...
Some background:In 2014, the Thornhill Group hosted a number of events relating to social art. (See: Resilience and Renewal Through Social Sculpture) The “social sculpture” workshop with Deborah Ravetz was a big highlight. Here is a comment from one of the participants: “As...
Duncan and Maggie Keppie, Jennifer Greene and Jonathan Swan This unique conference brought water and rocks together as subjects of Goethean observation of the processes common to water and the earth as a step towards a deepening understanding of the “Living Water and Earth or...
On Saturday 31 October, Christian Community Priest Daniel Hafner will deliver an introductory lecture on the Portal of Initiation. Then, TQuest Productions of Toronto will perform the first third of the Portal of Initiation. 17 of us have been working for over a year now...
by Robert McKayIn a conversation with Rudolf Steiner that took place in April 1922 in The Hague, Walter Johannes Stein asked Rudolf Steiner, “What will remain of your work in thousands of years? Rudolf Steiner replied: “Nothing but The Philosophy of Freedom,” and then...
Join us for a conference exploring the path of knowledge implicit in the Philosophy of Freedom, from Friday 23 October to Sunday 25 October, 2015 at the Christian Community Church in Thornhill, Ontario. Don’t worry if you have found the book challenging to read –...