An Invitation to an Alchemical Wedding. The Anthroposophical Society is a community, which has many ideas of how the world would be a better place if Steiner was more known. There is a difficulty in taking such a stance, however, if your own house is not in order. His work output was massive, yet this …
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Songs of Shame and Failure
Songs of Shame and Failure This morning, when I was setting out to finish this whatever it is, I had the idea to do a tarot reading for the World. Ordinarily I don’t do predictive readings, Tarot being the most ancient book of wisdom. While I do have a special living-book in my “spirit bag”, …
Artist’s Studio
A hermit’s heart and mind reflected in the sense world of “matter” … chronic knee pain, among a few other gifts of aging, confined me to my home – going for a walk in the woods not possible. Much work and play had to have its temple … Each corner of the “square” room, from …
The Third Shaking of the Earth
Recently discovered the above (2023) Early research on Hopi Prophecy (1996) http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/eldbr.html A view of this material ten years later. http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/twbhp.html Includes a link to 35 videos on Youtube, the same material as above with additional thoughts and connections to our times. https://www.youtube.com/user/joel232001#p/c/83FB144A08E3E617/0/iKLFQYhbE8 Some artwork by yours truly: I went to visit the Hopi mesas …
The Mood of Easter, in the Light of Our Individual Logos Nature
The Mood of Easter, in the Light of Our Individual Logos Nature Over the course of my adult life, I began to notice a remarkable inner phenomena. As the Season of Easter came and went there arose a kind of dying and becoming in my soul. Aspects of my soul life seemed no longer necessary, …
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Bragging Rites
Bragging Rites My eldest son, Marc A. Wendt, is turning sixty on the seventh of March. I’ll try not to be too embarrassing … in what I share. I knocked his mother (Tina) up, when I was in the USAF Academy. She was 17, and gorgeous. Yet, DNA is not the heart of who we …
A Song of the Entombment … in the Key of Lent
A Song of the Entombment, … in the Key of Lent. Whether we know this – or not – our biographies share common trials and experiences. In the wider cultures of the world there are different maps to the same territory. Here, I will use Christian Iconography, which is based on the Seven Stages of …
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Some reflections on the Truth Value of Modern Theoretical Physics
Some reflections on the Truth Value of Modern Theoretical Physics The use of the term “Ideal” below is modeled after this formulation: first: Phenomena. second: Concept. third Idea; and fourth Ideal, from Tomberg’s “The Art of the Good – On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice”. I have been doing spiritual (Ideal) physics for almost three …
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The Case of Sergei Prokofieff in the Case of Valentine Tomberg
The Case of Sergei Prokofieff in the Case of Valentine Tomberg I would like to take an unusual tack in commenting on Sergei Prokoffief’s recent book The Case of Valentine Tomberg – Anthroposophy or Jesuitism? 1 I will concede, initially, for the sake of argument and to limit the scope of discussion, that SP is …
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Prokofieff on Sophia and Anthroposophia
Prokofieff on Sophia and Anthroposophia I feel that the review (published in a recent issue of The Journal for Anthroposophy, c. 1998, of Sergei Prokoffief’s book on Sophia and Anthroposophia1 invites further discussion – here is the critical review, not press release as previously appearing, that I have written for myself and share with you. …