Author Archives: Joel Wendt

The Michael School and the End of Western Civilization The Michael School also could be called: “mystery science”. Students of Rudolf Steiner do not own this School. The Countenance of Christ is touching all true faces … all hearts that seek – as best they are able – to do the good, and think with […]

Rhubarb’s Dilemma Rhubarb had a not so odd – or uncommon – parentage. To Americans, most anyway, it might seem strange, … foreign at least. His mother was the child of a French officer and a Vietnamese whore. His father was the get of an American black soldier, and a different Vietnamese whore. Rhubarb was […]

A Song of the Ancestors – a tale of loss and wonder Ralph looked up from the pots he was washing, in the kitchen of the homeless shelter. The weather outside was playing with rain and thunder, and some bits of lightening thrown about for good measure. Ralph heard the door to the outside open […]

The Barbarians are Inside the Gate (“Barbarians” in ancient times meant) a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian). “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo. There is a joke about a guy who wakes up several centuries in the […]

I’ve been trying to figure out – if I get to be 100 – how I would describe these daze of trump&gang to the young naifs that live in the debris of the collapse of civilization, an event that some of us have come to sarcastically call: the Punch Line. After I explain to them […]

Fate, Fortune, and Politricks… There’s a lesson in the Trump election that goes unnoticed … a game changer as it were. Neither he, nor his gang of moral children, expected the win. There was no transition team, not even at least small and ready. There was no organized venue for a victory celebration. No sense […]

I would like some help, for which I have no money to offer in exchange … What I want is to have a small selection of my recent work translated into German and made available to German readers, either on the Internet, or through magazines and such. What follows is what I want translated, which […]

Helping Boys Become Men, as Civilization Evolves. Women (the feminine principle, specific types of equipment not always necessary) need to help men (or the masculine principle) grow up. The masculine principle – in politics and religion – being out of balance with reality, for the reason of the loss of wisdom in our understanding of […]

Pain, Pleasure, Consciousness In the Light of the Eight Gates to Faerie We see. We hear. We touch. We smell. We taste. We balance. We think. We move. Our senses are open wounds of the soul. What seems to not be us, invades our consciousness. Light hurts when we move from darkness into the light. […]

Reality’s Open Secret The Labyrinth of the Day and the Maze of the Spirit We associate the idea of a labyrinth as something that is walked, and can be walked again, and each time is its own teaching. We associate the idea of a maze with the solving of puzzles. There are what might be […]