Nearly 240 participants, for the most part from Canada and the USA, gathered at the Cité Collégiale in Ottawa to take part in the weeklong Encountering our Humanity conference, which was held from August 7th to 14th, 2016. The impressive array of activities was designed...
Dear Friends, Our conference held in Ottawa from August 7th to 14th was able to bring together people from different parts of the globe and of varying perspectives: young and old, Americans, Canadians and Europeans. Michel Dongois has provided us with an extensive article describing this important...
Meditation – An Introduction to the Anthroposophical Practice of Meditation by Heinz Zimmermann and Robin Schmidt has recently been published in English and French translation (from original German) by Editions Perceval, Quebec. This edition features a foreword by Virginia Sease. English translation by Maria-Theresia Roemmelt,...
The books written by Dr. Rudolf Steiner are not books in the usual sense. Works like The Philosophy of Freedom, Theosophy, Occult Science: An Outline, and Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment are nothing less than evolutionary opportunities waiting for humanity to take...
I would like to introduce you to a project that has been underway for just over a year. Its aim is it to make available, and promote study of Goethe's Theory of Colour. To this end, we have started a website which has provided some real accomplishments...
This is the title of a new book by Ernst Katz – with a foreword by Virginia Sease –that has been published by Steiner Books in June 2016 – almost exactly seven years after his passing in 2009. Many of us have known Ernst Katz...
Robert: Could you share a sketch of your childhood and youth? Were there any events in particular that prepared you to meet anthroposophy? Bert: I was born in the United States, in a small Missouri town. When I was quite young my family moved to Peru,...
Dear Friends, In preparation for our Encountering our Humanity conference, I have been meeting with the various artists and performers who will be taking part in the event. While en route for the North American Collegium meeting in Kimberton, I made a stop in Spring Valley...
A scientist says to a so-called spiritualist: "Someday science will explain everything in the world.” The spiritualist may then ask: "What about human feeling, human thinking? What about life?" “Those too!" is the scientist's response. The spiritualist walks away in disagreement. This brief conversation hopefully characterizes...
The North American Youth Section (NAYS) would like to offer a new monthly newsletter full of constructive insight on the topic of Love in its highest form, or "Agape" to affirm positive action in 2016. While some of us contributing writers are located here in Chestnut...
