How to develop clear and discrete thinking
When we are convinced that thinking has to be spiritualised in modern European culture and we know that without this spiritualised thinking becoming a true cultural factor we will not be able to become aware what angels weave in our souls, the question arises: How can we develop such a kind of thinking? Our modern […]
What do we ‘see’, when we turn our regard to thinking itself?
With what sense can we perceive thinking? Not with eyes or ears, that is clear enough. When we try to grasp thinking for the first time, it is thought what we see: contents. We know what we are thinking when we are healthy persons. It is consciousness that makes us know what we are thinking. […]
The true Self
This weekend we worked during three days with a group in ‘Samaya in Werkhoven’ on ‘Karma and reincarnation. As an exercise to find the true self I gave the following text from Rudolf Steiner, to find this way by doing what is said there. It is a quote from GA 78 (Anthroposophie, ihre Erkenntniswurzel und […]
Rudolf Steiner in Weimar
Of course, Weimar is also a Rudolf Steiner city. The perceptions with the senses and the thoughts of the mind overshadow the impressions that could be received of these times of the past. The writings of Agrippa from Nettesheim about occult philosophy represent very interesting views on this processes. He says that all events, words, […]
From Berlin to Nürnberg
On our way from Berlin to Nürnberg we visited Weimar – not for the first time. About the first thing that cast our eyes on, while walking through the town, was the monument to Goethe and Schiller, in front of the theatre. For me this statue is the image of friendship, a friendship that didn’t […]
The human being and Easter
With Easter we feel as arisen from our unclear physical thoughts. In spring the sun seems to shine very clear and warm and all our senses seem to be cleared and warmed by the spring-sun. She seems to speak from the wideness of the cosmos to all our senses and we feel great joy through […]
How can thinking become an eye to perceive the spirit?
Thinking normally is a mere appearance without any substance. Thinking always has a content – thought – but we grasp through it. We could ‘stumble at’ thoughts, because they are untrue or unsympathetic, but we will not get any bruises from them. Thoughts are without any force or strength; they don’t bear much light either, […]
Artificial Intellect
In 1989 Roger Penrose published a book titled ‘The Emperor’s New Mind’. Although technical developments have progressed enormously, the book is still worth reading. Where can we find information about the processes that are the origin of what is called ‘artificial intelligence’? It would seem that the spirit that has advantages when people become addicted […]
The Foundation Stone
In ‘Truth and knowledge’ Rudolf Steiner said:‘The fact that the I can turn to activity in free-ness, makes it possible, through determination of itself by itself, to realise the category of cognition; in the rest of the world on the other hand, the categories show themselves to be connected to the corresponding given through objective […]
The young Rudolf Steiner
In Antwerp I had the opportunity to work for a whole day on the theme ‘The young Rudolf Steiner’. The starting point was the unpublished article ‘Einzig mögliche Kritik der atomistischen Begriffe’ by the young Rudolf Steiner (1882), written for Friedrich Theodor Vischer. In the RS Archive I could not find the translation of this […]