…is what makes everything into event; it makes everything new

“To actualize the event means to break out of the habitual, brain-bound thinking, exit the representational Cartesian “self,” enter the non- organic life fields in the open cosmic worlds, build oneself a virtual individuality, brain and body, as a support for further scientific research and creative production out there, and come back safely with transformed capacities and conceptions.”. …read more

• Cognitive Yoga & The Building of a Virtual Body: Preface - Cognitive Yoga

  &

  The Building of a Virtual Body

   

  Preface

  Rudolf Steiner introduced for the first time the concept of a “new Yoga will” in the context of human and cosmic evolution in his lecture cycle on the Mission of Michael (GA 194, 1919):

  From outside, cosmic thoughts work into us, [...]

• From My 2013 Tour Notebook -

  From My 2013 Tour Notebook

  Some programatic notes and reflections on the road during the first part of 2013’s lecture tour (Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, France and the UK, February-May 2013).

  1. Since the middle of the 20th century humanity and the earth are going through radical spiritual, social and physical transformations. At the same time [...]

• Spring 2013: A Seed of New Lifetime -

  Spring 2013: A Seed of New Lifetime

  Below I offer an interpretation of two tweets that express in Tweeter’s cryptic language some experiences that I had during the inner preparations for speaking about the future of Waldorf education last March in Gothenburg, Sweden. When it comes to human and social matters, the challenges that spiritual-scientific [...]

• First Public Workshop of the Global Event College - First Public Workshop of the Global Event College Forum 3 Gymnasiumstrasse 21 70173 Stuttgart Germany

  Invitation to the first public workshop of the Global Event College, October 2nd 19.30 h to October 6th, 16.00 h 2013 Forum 3, Stuttgartwww.forum3.de

  “But what if matter, ground and existence is nothing solid, fixed, dead forever, but a living [...]

• Global School Conference with Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon Gothenburg, Sweden 13-17 of February 2013 -

  Annual Global School Conference The Foundations of the School of Spiritual Science

  Gothenburg, Sweden

  13-17 of February 2013

  INVITATION

  Rudolf Steiner founded the School of Spiritual Science in 1924 during the Christmas Foundation Conference, as a potential seed for a future, free and creative, universal, spiritual and [...]

• WALDORF TEACHERS MEETING IN WEST SWEDEN -

  WALDORF TEACHERS MEETING IN WEST SWEDEN

  With Dr. Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

  15-17 March 2013 at the Rudolf Steiner School in Gothenburg.

   Welcome, all Waldorf teachers and Waldorf pre-school teachers in Sweden to a

  teachers meeting with Dr. Ben-Aharon on the West Coast.

       The fundamental idea of [...]

• On the Way to the North: Field Notes from the Diary of a Global Trotter -

  On the Way to the North: Field Notes from the Diary of a Global Trotter

  Traveling and experiencing so very different peoples and cultures, nature’s moods and landscapes, one desires to open not only the mind to new ideas, but also the heart and the body, to experience also the wholly different, unknown, emotions, feelings [...]

• Christmas Tale: How does a Book Become? -

   

  A Christmas Tale

  How does a Book Become?

   Dedicated with Gratitude to the Being of 2012

   The occasion of working on my new book, Cognitive Yoga & the building of a virtual body, offers me an opportunity to reflect on the process of its becoming. I wish to [...]

• The Event and the Other: The Other as Event -

  Levinas firmly grasps that the ontological ground of subject-ivation is based on the fact that you make me first into a sub-ject at all. It therefore cannot be a subjective experience of an “ego” or “soul,” because it is non-human, pre-individual, and primordial, and it comes before any self-consciousness starts to awaken. It is [...]

• Global Event College -

  I post below an introduction to the Global Event College, written by my friend and colleague, Paul Zachos.

  Please note in your calendars that the first public teaching of the college will take place in Forum-3, Stuttgart,

  October 2-6, 2013

  THE EVENT AND THE GLOBAL EVENT COLLEGE

  By Paul Zachos

  http://www.acase.org

  Colleges [...]

• The Sole Purpose of Anthroposophy is to be Worthy of the Event -

  “The sole purpose of Anthroposophy (that is, any serious modern spiritual striving and research) is to be worthy of the event”- this is today the conviction of all those who strive to become contemporaries in the most esoteric and in the most cultural-social sense. In our time Anthroposophy can have no other positive meaning or [...]

• Surviving fragments from my London’s Diary, Part II -

  Surviving fragments from my London’s Diary, Part II

  In order to help my readers understand how difficult it is to express past events in our present language, think, for example, that it is proven, with equal justification, by contending parties, that Shakespearean theater is “classic” and “fringe”. The reason this could be argued, and well [...]

• Surviving fragments form my London’s Diary, Part I -

  Surviving fragments from my London’s Diary, Part I

  2012 proves to be a very unique year, to which I am very grateful.

  It seems as if, in the various countries and places that I was privileged to visit, the national and local beings were energetically and joyfully forthcoming, inviting me most kindly to take part [...]

• From the Introduction to Cognitive Yoga, Part II -

  This is another part of the review of Seminar with Dr. Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon
Orust, Sweden, 1 – 5 August 2012.

  (Complied by Aron Fabian and Torbjørn Eftestøl, edited by Dr. Ben-Aharon)
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  The whole review will be available to the subscribers of the Global School’s mailing list.

   From the Introduction to Cognitive Yoga, Part II

  Cognitive yoga [...]

• From the Introduction to Cognitive Yoga, Part I: Orust 2012 -

  This is another part of the review of Seminar with Dr. Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon
Orust, Sweden, 1 – 5 August 2012.
(Complied by Aron Fabian and Torbjørn Eftestøl, edited by Dr. Ben-Aharon)
. The whole review will be available to the subscribers of the Global School’s mailing list

  From the Introduction to Cognitive Yoga, Part I

  Following Steiner’s indications concerning [...]

• Opening Words: Orust Summer Seminar, August 1-5, 2012 -

  These opening words are taken from the review of the Orust (Sweden) summer seminar, compiled by Aron Fabian and Torbjørn Eftestøl. The review as a whole encompasses some 20 pages. It will be available for the Global School’s mailing list subscribers.

  The Christ Impulse in the 21st Century and the Tasks of Anthroposophy in the Second [...]

• 2012, inner experiences and perspectives - 2012, inner experiences and perspectives

  In my tours in Scandinavia, Europe, the UK and the US since the beginning of 2012, I have met many diverse people, from different countries and backgrounds. It is an enriching experience for me, to spend such a prolonged period of time abroad, meet and exchange with so many new [...]