On the Identity of Steiner’s Teacher “...

The True Identity of Steiner’s Rosicrucian Master ‘the M’ Revealed For the past 100 years, biographers of Steiner have puzzled over the identity of “M” an early teacher of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner acknowledges M as an important early teacher, but say almost nothing about him. Now a researcher has presented evidence that M is Alois Mailander. You can read the full claim in the article above. The...

What to make of Göbekli Tepe from an Anthroposophi...

Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site in central Turkey with stone structures and carvings at least 11,000 years old. Mapping Steiner’s timeline to external history, to say nothing of geology, proves quite challenging. Everything back to the end of the 3rd post-atlantean epoch works quite well. Earlier than that gets progressively more challenging. The Theosophical tradition was quite big on exact dates and patterns,...

Steiner and Music

A question on an online forum: Are there any anthroposophic music composers or any composers that Rudolf Steiner found to have very spiritual music? My response: Those are two separate questions. Steiner himself spoke very favorable of Bruckner in particular, and was a fan of the comic operas of Johann Strauss II. He had a few admiring things to say about Wagner (though if you parse it carefully, he narrowly praises some of...

Lying by Omission (Fox New Edition)

The headline reads: A new supervolcano is brewing under Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire Clearly this is aimed to alarm the typical midwestern viewer to seed a vague sense of unease and distrust even in the foundations of physical reality. It is a very transparent playbook. So what are the facts behind the imminent doom of a major portion of the US? A Supervolcano In New England? Here Are The Facts “Eventually,...

Life Without Consciousness Soul

Rudolf Steiner described how, over the past millennia, human beings have developed capacities of thinking in a series of stages he calls Sentient Soul, Intellectual Soul, and Consciousness Soul. Sentient Soul corresponds with the way people in civilizations like Ancient Egypt tended to think, Intellectual Soul to the Greco-Roman and Medieval periods (in both Easter and Western civilizations, though Steiner focused only on...