I'm posting part of a message I sent to the Waldorf Critics list today

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waldorf-critics/message/13363

Since I live in Los Angeles, I hope to meet Norman Finkelstein at the premiere of a movie documentary about his life and work.

here’s the webpage about the premiere:
 “American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein”
http://www.levantinecenter.org/arts/authors/american-radical-trials-norm...

I read this article by Norman on the Counterpunch website, which is about his new book on the new Israeli Holocaust and/or Apartheid against the Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein03032010.html
"This Time We Went Too Far" Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion

Here is Finkelstein’s homepage:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

It’s amazing to watch the recent transformation of public opinion turning bitterly against the Israelis and whether you call it karma, or the more Biblical “eye for eye; tooth for tooth” or simply go with game theory applied to social evolution --- the “tit for tat strategy,” it’s clear that the previously victimized Jews of the Nazi Holocaust have now --- the generation of their grandchildren 60 years later --- moved around the Great Mandala or Vicious Cycle of Abuse, where the previous victims morph into the perpetrators themselves.

Here is quite a telling page on Finkelstein’s site where he documents through side-by-side photos of the Nazis then --- and the Israelis now, putting up fences to keep the sub-humans under control.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/deutschland-uber-alles/
THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY…

Tom Mellett

Van Nuys, Ca

This poem is written by 14 years old girl:

One Desire

I am hugging warm blankets,

While there are people out there, freezing to death

I am resting my head on a soft pillow,

While some lay back on stony-hard rocks, trying to forget

Trying to forget the home they lost

Or the hunger that just won’t leave

Trying to imagine a beautiful world where

They wouldn’t just offer their kindness,

But also receive

And while I press “play”,

While I listen to yet another perfectly toned voice

Somewhere miles away,

Gunshots pierce the silence

And yet another innocent soul leaves their loved ones without a choice

While I talk and laugh and shop

A baby burns in an explosion’s everlasting fire

While I weigh myself critically or brush my hair,

People out there have only one desire:

To live.

Why not let them?

15/01/09

©

Here you can find her book: http://www.allahisone.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14&products_id=60

New book out in German by Russian GA Bondarew called Die "Philosophie der Freiheit" von Rudolf Steiner als Grundlage der Logik des anschauenden Denkens .
Purchase book here.
The Philosophy of Freedom "by Rudolf Steiner as the basis of the logic of intuitive thinking
English translation of above link.

Here are some short title suggestions. A new title for Chapter 7 is an interesting challenge because the chapter examines what we consider to be real or not real.

New Title Suggestions
1. Conscious Human Action
2. The Desire To Know
3. Thinking Serving Knowing
4. Perceiving The World
5. Knowing The World
6. Human Individuality
7. Knowing Reality

This is a revised chapter 1 for the Study Course for reading on the web. It is a different project from the hard copy version, but the extra thought will improve both. The only 1918 Steiner revision kept was in the opening sentence, adding 'natural laws'.  It was edited to simpler American English and for the web reader with more paragraph breaks.

I am finding out that the 1918 revisions are turning out to have been long time stumbling blocks to reading comprehension. This must be because you usually need a belief in theosophy for them to make sense, like adding 'spiritual' freedom to the opening sentence. What is that supposed to be? I will do chapter 2 next.

More of Rob's art in his gallery, Rob's Grail Fantasy Art.

http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/

   The first time I read POF was about 10 years ago. 

More of Rob's art in his gallery, Rob's Grail Fantasy Art.

Amazing website created by Jaap van der Wal - a famous embryologist from Netherlands: