Author Archives: Joel Wendt

source of first image: http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/moon~%21~earth.html Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts for the Next One Hundred YearsIt is a Question of Scale, and How the Part can Serve the Whole. The Dying and Becoming ofWestern Civilization – Chaos precedes New Life.She has the Whole World in His Hands (from His Birth to His Death – see Raphael’s “Madonna …

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Dear Elana Freeland [https://www.elanafreeland.com/] An open letter, that will be on my blog [http://thecollectiveimagination.com] and I hope it becomes known to you. I am currently reading your: “Geoengineered Trans-humanism: How the environment has been weaponized by chemicals, electromagnetism and nanotechnology for synthetic biology” An offering, and introduction to an additional (not contrary) point of view …

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I am 82. About a decade ago I began to realize the potential of “second childhood”. During the early years of this natural transformation I had the idea to pick an age from my youth, as a kind of model for my own inner life as that process unfolded. This engendered some reflection, and after …

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In Rudolf Steiner’s Lecture given in St. Gallen, on November 15, 1917, and published by Mercury Press in the booklet Geographic Medicine, we find a long discussion of various matters, including a number of statements about illness and the Double. I will next quote a few … “Anyone born physically in Europe cannot see America …

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Drowning in Trivia – an encounter with the latest book by the prolific writer Luigi Morelli: “Searching for the Spirit of the West” – This work is extraordinary, and one must complement the author on his efforts in this regard. The “problem”, such as it is, has to do what he didn’t know and thus …

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Artificial Intelligence in the Light of uniting Hermetic Science with Spiritual Science. It was recently announced on the Anthroposophy Facebook page that Andrew Linnell was going to give a presentation on “Artificial Intelligence” and the meaning of this phenomena for the future. Certainly a worthy task, but I am not sure how close to the …

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… musings on the Steiner Ideas of the Eighth Sphere and the Third Force by Joel A. Wendt It is unfortunate, yet necessary, to admit that Rudolf Steiner did not know everything, and on occasion sometimes was completely wrong. If we do not do this, we are trapped in a Cave of our own limits …

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Years ago I wrote a book: “The Art of God – an actual theory of Everything” In it I took religions ideas, cast them into theories, and set those theories against the ideas of the Big Bang and Neo-Darwinian Evolution, … as a better explanation of the meaning of human existence on the Earth. The …

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Stillborn – a review of the book “Fire Borne – Anthroposophy in America” [Sometimes, to go into the Future we must understand the Past. For the Rudolf Steiner work to properly Live into Tomorrow, anthroposophists must accept a new influx of Spiritual Inspiration … for this Inspiration flows from the Source in a never ending …

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Passing through the Student Debt Crisis with some Sanity Modern life has problems … one of which is student debt. There is a lie hidden there, which is that if you go into great debt, you will get a good “education”, and become better equipped for a “job”. Meanwhile, you really are not educated, just …

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