Author Archives: Joel Wendt

The Tree as Symbol in the Song of the World musings out of Pagan Anthroposophy Easily the most important way to study is to look at trees themselves. Spiritual literature is full of names given to this expression of the divine in the material world, but words are not the same as seeing, touching, planting, […]

The Judith von Halle Mystique-Mistake. When Rudolf Steiner died, the core folk leading the Anthroposophical Society and Class fell into conflict. Within ten years folks had been booted out of these communities, and National Societies had left/been forced-out of the dying social form. The is no greater fact revealing the failure of the Christmas Conference […]

The addiction to wealth and power leads to madness. To want to travel in those circles is also madness. To be born to wealth and power is a fate worse than death. How do you learn to strive if everything is given? Families swimming in the seas of wealth and power are in shark filled […]

There can be serious misconceptions held by the person whose “feelings” are the core “symptom”. So when someone describes themselves as sad, glad, mad, or bad, what the actual objective state of the psyche is may be infected with how our culture has taught us to see ourselves. Modern folk have – to speak kindly […]

in the way back long ago when before … before when-ago’s longed to run the back way into the infinite … spirals in mobius strip time, flowers in space, and trees made of light, all dancing to the music of existence, the one (Father) and the many (Mother) were always a whole (Child) …. the […]

The Role of Sentiment in Film Arts, a review of Star Wars IX The Rise of Skywalker J. J. Abrams co-wrote and directed this, the last of nine Star Wars films following the basic Saga, which began in 1977, and was labeled Star Wars IV. Star Wars III came out in 2005. The films got […]

so .,.. there is this sort of committee, whose main offices are a very tall castle in Faerie, yet it also has the deepest dungeons …. the chairmanship, as it were, rotates according to the spiritual lunar cycles, which are – being non-material – perfect spacial figures, composed of layers of ellipsoid tori (plural of […]

The Madness of King Trump. It would be nice – for some at any rate – to blame world conditions on America, and on the current occupant of the White House. Such a view, while perhaps emotionally satisfying, will not help anyone find their Way through the dire and dangerous waters we all must sail, […]

This is in response to a New York Times article, where an odd collection of thinkers/movers/shakers/ and other kinds of normal idiots, tell us about the future that is coming. Most of their views are distopian, at best. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/26/opinion/2020s-future-predictions.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage If we add up the whole set of predictions, in a careful Way, we will note […]

There are folk out there today, who are alone, even in a crowd. Christmas, for some, has a minefield of memories in which to get lost.Sorrow and loss we still need though, … to have a special place in our hearts, “I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel” Numb … separated … […]