Dear Friends,

As most of you know, central to my life has been Anthroposophy, for various reasons.  When I moved to Fair Oaks, California, in December 2005 I had certain hopes as regards the future.  Some of these were realized and others were not.

As a consequence I am moving back to New Hampshire, a scene of previous activity - the town there is Milton, which is about half way up the State and right on the border with Maine.  I'll have a small studio apartment, which meets my retired on social security requirements.  I'll be able to garden, something long put aside, and the owner of the property also has 4 and a half acres of preserved New England woods to wander in as the mood comes.

This is very important, for as some of you know I had a heart attack in September (I am 67 now).  In fact I died twice (heart stopped completely) in the ER, but my Angel made sure I was in the ER for the heart attacks (plus stents in two different coronary arteries), so I was given a second lease on life.  This has effected me in the sense that I no longer find reasons to delay certain actions, and in particular feel that a certain degree of psychological risk taking is also necessary.

Mainly in Milton I plan to continue my social research, and to be productive in the continuing publication of books ( http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=775446 ), as well as forge new fields in that I am going to take Anthroposophy out into the world of modern culture by creating videos for YouTube and other such recognized modern Media resources.   This will be a fulfillment of a certain insight regarding Media that my research developed almost 16 years ago, and which was published in the essay found here (  http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/thpts.html ).

The next book to be published will be called American Anthroposophy (it should be finished by Easter), and contains several of the deepest aspects of my social research, including its lead essay that points to the fact that Ahriman has already incarnated (he is a well-known public figure), and what this challenge means to Anthroposophy in America.  As many of you can guess, such an assertion will be controversial, but that is something I have never shied away from before.

What is controversial, by the way, is often simply the truth that finds itself at odds with one or more conventional points of view (anthroposophical or not).   As a work in process (2/3rds complete) I do make it available ( http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/AmericanAnthroposophy.html ) as it unfolds, and invite comments of those who are willing to wade through it.

It should also be understood that the video-media work for YouTube will not be "traditional" Anthroposophy by any means, so nothing of Ahriman will be offered there, although anyone who googles me as a result of the YouTube work will find their way to the deepest "traditional"-like  anthroposophical work I can offer.  The YouTube work will concentrate on the results of my social research: the metamorphosis of Western Civilization into something new, and how that already started not to gentle ride through social chaos, can be met by the I through the development of new culture out of the New Mysteries (the reverse cultus) and the New Thinking (cognition) - all of which will be framed in language drawn not from anthroposophical circles but from the very language of Civil Society and the Internet itself.

Just as Rudolf Steiner wove his book The Philosophy of Freedom into the language of late 19th Century philosophical problems, yet following the methods of natural science, so my social research will be presented in small video-talks that serve by providing a mirror to the already present Consciousness Soul developments of which many will be instinctively aware.  There is no need to do more.

My e-mail address and website addresses will remain the same, although from about the 3rd until the 14 or later of January I will be disconnected from the Internet, although my e-mails will of course pile up in the electronic aethers waiting to be called down into the little black box of sub-nature mysteries sitting on my desk.

seasons greetings to all, and best of luck in the coming times - we are all going to need it...

joel a. wendt