Joel's journal

Easter Saturday

Submitted by Joel on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 5:12pm.

changes and new years greetings

Submitted by Joel on Mon, 12/31/2007 - 10:24am.

effortless anthroposophy

Submitted by Joel on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 12:58pm.

the contemporary essence of PoF

Submitted by Joel on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:05pm.

Monism and the Secret of The Philosophy of Freedom

Submitted by Joel on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 10:38pm.

Dear Friends,
One definition of monism: "the view that reality is one unitary organic whole with no independent parts".

December Montana Blues - travelling up and down the vertical axis of the Cross.

Submitted by Joel on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 1:15pm.
My younger brother set his fingers to his guitar and started singing. Not good to die alone, except we all do in a way.

Emotives redux (a comment made into a journal entry as well)

Submitted by Joel on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 12:41pm.

Looking for some sanity about pornography (Redemption of Eros Part III)

Submitted by Joel on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:05pm.
At my Social Science Section of Northern California meeting yesterday, there was a brief discussion of pornography, and like a lot of what anthroposophists casually discuss, there was more heat than light.  Similar to weakly thought out views of the Internet, the discussion of pornography was basically superficial.

The Redemption of Eros - Part Two - Adult Intimate Play

Submitted by Joel on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 11:43am.
The following is a very frank discussion, and while not particularly x-rated, the reader should expect to possibly be a bit shocked, and perhaps on occasion amused.

the Crisis in Finance, and the Evolution of Consciousness

Submitted by Joel on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 3:37pm.
Everyone is aware of the present financial crisis, seemingly born in the so-called "housing bubble" in the United States and then spreading outward into the financial markets where new kinds of financial instruments were being bought and sold that we are now learning had no real value.  What stands behind this sequence of events, what can it tell us about the present, and perhaps the future?

for Carl

Submitted by Joel on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 1:14pm.

Dear Carl,

PoF vs. KoHW

Submitted by Joel on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 10:23am.

The essential point to me is to realize that Steiner did not himself achieve his adult initiation (as against the atavistic clairvoyance of his childhood) on the path described in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. If we wish to follow Steiner's steps, we follow The Philosophy of Freedom.

Spiritual, or Inner, Freedom

Submitted by Joel on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 5:38am.
It is not my outer world actions that are crucial, but those actions that take place inwardly in my soul life, thus Steiner's indication that for English speakers, the book should be called: "The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity".

choice as to incarnation is NOT like earthly choices

Submitted by Joel on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 12:38pm.