Tim recently posted this extract from Occult Science – an Outline: Chapter 1.
In the spirit and true sense of the word, no real scientist will be able to find a contradiction between his science built upon the facts of the sense world and the method by which the supersensible world is investigated. The scientist makes use of certain instruments and methods. He produces his instruments by transforming what “nature” offers him. The supersensible method of knowledge also makes use of an instrument. This instrument is man himself. This instrument, too, must first be made ready for higher research. The capacities and forces given to man by nature, without his assistance, must be transformed into higher capacities and powers. Man is thereby able to make himself the instrument for research in the supersensible world.
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA013/English/AP1972/GA013_c01.html
I have come to ‘know’ Rudolf Steiner from reading his writings and lectures that have been translated into English. I have never met him face to face although I have seen photographs. He died before I was born. Do I really have any knowledge of the good doctor?
Schiller, with his thinking, grasped the idea of a way forward. Goethe transformed it through phantasy into the feeling life of pictorial imagination. Rudolf Steiner transforming the Fairy Tale into a Mystery Drama, performed on the stage; he brought it into the will."
Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is a traditional African idea that means rather more than humanity toward others and I am because you are also the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.
This 6 minute video shows the 2005 World Wisdom Council gathering of 5000 in The Great Tokyo Hall in Japan. It speaks clearly of our need for collective wisdom as a worldwide community.
Today I was asked to contribute to a conversation in a couple of weeks on the theme How can anthroposophy be effectively communicated to non-anthroposophists?
What are our expectations of a fellow who strives to be an ethical individual in freedom? Monday is traditionally fireworks night as Britain tries to remember the historical terrorist, Guy Fawkes.