Astrology

I’ve noticed two types of people. Those who are inclined to believe that there must be something to astrology, and expend enormous amounts of energy trying to figure out what. And those whose starting point is innately skeptical. When the two types try to converse, there is often not a meeting of minds. I’ve skimmed through several books of what I would call “post hoc rationalizations” that uses...

What did people in the 1920’s mean by Bolshe...

“Bolshevism” as understood in Steiner’s time would have been state control over the individual in order to force society into “the future”. Marx had predicted an inevitable outcome to capitalism. Lenin had to rework the “inevitable” piece because it did not fit the circumstances in Russia. But in action the Bolsheviks were ruthless and relentless and unashamed in their striving to...